Eh... It's one of the planet of the apes movies,,, I think it's return to the planet of the apes. (I think). Anyhow it is the scene where the mutants are praying to the antiquated nuclear missile.
What bull! You're completely invalidating my personal experience simply because it suits your worldview ( Christian right... am I correct? ).
What the AC above is actually saying is that a single point of data is anecdotal. it is not possible to extrapolate (or intrerpolate) a trend without (at least) 2 points of data. The more data points you have the more accurately new data can be infered. The AC never said anything that you should have taken as "right wing", unless you consider empirical(sp?) evidence "Right Wing".
Diamonds are a luxury. Practical industrial uses for them are uncommon
actually diamonds are a requirement for the drilling needed to aquire oil. the drill bits used on drilling rigs (for oil or _anything_ else that reqires drilling through rock) are tipped with industrial diamonds. granted these diamonds are a bit different than the less practical jewelry quality diamonds in that they do not usally have the clarity or the color. but simply the need for diamonds in oil production places them in the same commodity class as oil or rail.
Obiously you are confusing communism with a brutal dictatorship. communism is an economic system comparable to capitalism. Communism is not a political or idealogical system like democracy or socialism. you cannot call all communists brutal, just as you cannot call all republicans neo-cons.
If you are speaking of IBM, then there were never any "good ole' days". because IBM never sold _anything_ until the 80's (give or take a couple of years). IBM only leased. this meant that IBM peoples would be scheduled for regular maintnance, as the equipment still belongs to IBM.
I can't believe I'm actually replying to an AC, but here goes.
I can only speak for the US, and this only applies to research that is not Black or Grey (secret or top secret status). But any publicly funded research requires the results to be public. If the research is privately funded then the results of the research is property of the private company that funded it. Private companies do not make it policy to share research. This means that _only_ publicly funded research is available for others to follow without having to pay for a patent or trademark.
I guess my point here is that Human intellectual advancement is hampered by private research. only because the results of that research are not always made public unless the private entity sees a way of turning a buck off of it.
I use an old gateway PII-333 running mpd with apache/php and phpMp. it has nfs access to my (about) 60 gig of music on the file server. and plays through a cambridge soundworks Desktop theater system. way more than enough to fill my living room with plesant noise. plus you can change the playlist from any browser in the house. and finally my non technical wife (just enough computer skill to surf ebay) has no problem setting up playlists. Total cost: about $50 for the gateway and about 4 hours playing with mpd and apache.
You've never been in an HOA with a couple of asshole control freaks? Not pleasant. No mater what you do, they will be pissed off at something.
I have wired about 5 homes in my neiborhood... soon to be 15. I have used cat5e and 802.11b I own everything. All the wire, all the switches, all the routers. I am the _only_ asshole control freak allowed on MY network. Any other asshole control freaks popping up on my net will be tolerated with wire cutters.
to tell the truth however... I have relatively little money in the whole arrangement... maybe $800.
anyone else notice the markedly high signal to noise ratio with this topic? Any else notice the lack troll material to be modded down? I really believe this will be one of the most "up" moderated topics I have seen here on slashdot.
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For the record, CBS's reason for not accepting that ad is because they don't accept any debatable political issue issue ads. They would have accepted ads from candidates because they have to, but none came forward with the money to do so.
If that was true then CBS certainly would not run the white house ad that connects marijuana users to terrorism. but that is exactly that they are doing.
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Quoted from moveon.org
The CBS networks still refuses to run our winning ad in the Bush in 30 Seconds ad contest during the Super Bowl. The MoveOn.org non-partisan campaign to get CBS to air issue ads continues, but we're not going to let CBS's censorship stop us in the mean time. That's why we're spending over $1 million to air the ad in our swing states and nation-wide on other channels -- starting with two spots on CNN that will air during the Super Bowl half time.
This Sunday, during the Super Bowl half time show, join us in changing channels on CBS. At 8:10pm and 8:35pm EST, switch over to CNN to watch "Child's Pay" on a channel which doesn't censor its ads. We'd like to keep a tally of the number of people who participate -- you can sign up here: http://www.moveonvoterfund.org/boycott/?id= 2293-33 48214-6QjmVnR6_TwkZW4t8xOELQ
The number of groups, individuals, and newspapers that have called on CBS to run our ad is remarkable. The National Organization for Women and the American Civil Liberties Union have asked their own members to call CBS. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) gave a powerful speech about CBS on the floor of the Senate, saying, "Maybe network executives at CBS are so afraid of political pressure from the right wing and their business advertisers who are in league with the right wing politics of America that they are afraid to put anything on the air that might in fact make things uncomfortable. If that is the case, it is time for CBS to announce the name of their network is the 'Conservative Broadcasting System' and come clean with American viewers."
28 members of the House of Representatives wrote a letter to CBS which stated, "The choice not to run this paid advertisement appears to be part of a disturbing pattern on CBS's part to bow to the wishes of the Republican National Committee. We remember well CBS's remarkable decision this fall to self-censor at the direction of GOP pressure. The network shamefully cancelled a broadcast about former President Ronald Reagan which Republican partisans considered insufficiently flattering." Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) wrote a separate letter to CBS urging them to reconsider their decision.
Today, the L.A. Times printed an Op-Ed piece of ours which lays out the case against CBS's censorship. That's attached below. But the editorial pages of the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other papers came out in our favor as well. As the Globe wrote, "MoveOn.org's 30-second ad, which has aired on CNN, is a gentle yet powerful depiction of how hard today's children will have to work to pay off the country's mounting deficit. That's a vital message that might get lost in a year of campaign rhetoric, and it deserves a response from the White House in its own 30 seconds of imagery. America, sitting on the couch, junk food in hand, just might sit up and want to know more."
Luckily, there are still some networks that do allow the free exchange of ideas. Please join the one-minute boycott: at Super Bowl halftime, switch to CNN and watch "Child's Pay," and let us know at: http://www.moveonvoterfund.org/boycott/?id=22 93-33 48214-6QjmVnR6_TwkZW4t8xOELQ
I think you will find that it will be easier to grind a spherical primary mirror rather than a parabolic one. Look here for implementation instructions. there will neet to be a resulting adjustment to the secondary optics to compensate for the difference in shape. but the grinding process will be much simpler.
The game shouldn't "elminate" players slowly. Yes, I know monopoly does this, but...
Actually if you RTFR(read the frigging rules) to monopoly you will discover that the game is supposed to end when the first player goes bankrupt, and all players count up total values and compare peni^H^H^H^H bankrolls. many many people drag Monopoly out to the bitter end, I know. however you will find that there are more "house rules" for monopoly than actual printed rules.
personally the only house rules I use are cash for free parking and $400 for landing on go.
I respectfully suggest to Open Source developers that this is a far better use of your collective resources and abilities than to defend and justify flawed intellectual property policies that are out of sync with the needs of enterprise computing customers.
Doesn't that say it all? We need to pander the the enterprise computing customer. Hobbyists need not apply.
I don't see anything in the article saying that either sector is going to be collecting MORE data, it's just tying the two together so we can all do a better job at tracking down the true criminals.
True criminals... you mean like Enron? or Worldbank? or Bush? What gives corporations the moral authority to decide what information is relevant? From my perspective the telivision media are the true terrorists.
He went to IBM to sell them DOS and then told them he wouldn't sell it to them, he would LICENCE it to them, one copy at a time. The look on the IBM people's faces must have been classic, to them this was something totally new.
Actually... this was not new to IBM at all. You see When IBM aggreed to use liscened copies of MSDOS on the IBM PC, IBM never intended to sell PC's. In Fact IBM never sold anything until the late 80's. They leased stuff only. all those IBM selectric typewriters in every high rise office in america, and all of them were owned by IBM. So the concept of "letting you use it" without "letting you own it" was old hat for IBM.
about a half a century ago a real smart chemical engineer got fed up with inefficient carburetors and built a carb that works. It was called the fish carburetor (the man's last name was fish I believe). The Fish carb was so outstanding because it was so simple(it has only three moving parts), so efficient, and because it could be easily adjusted to run on a variety of fuels. About ten years ago a machinist in Salt Lake City was making side drafted Fish Carbs for Hardly Davidsons. The result was Harleys that would run on anything. I watched a panhead running on used deep fryer oil. It smoked hard but it ran. Many people claim that Fish carbs will give you 100mpg+ but that is just untrue.
Does this mean my old (not intentionally crippled) JVC machine might be worth some money some day? I paid $250 for the damn thing _Just_ before DVD was released and 4head HiFi VCR's plummeted to $100. Maybe now I can sell it to someone who cannot buy a new uncrippled VCR. Way to legislate obsolesance, just like they did to scanners that could reach into cell ranges.
Paul Ramsey (Formerly Jah Paul Jones of Dread Zeppelin) runs Bird Cage Records. Some of thier stuff gets distributed through IRS (Which _is_ a member of the RIAA) but mostly not. Also check out Del-Fi for that grooving surf sound.
There are _alot_ of non RIAA labels, it's just a matter of finding them.
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Eh... It's one of the planet of the apes movies,,, I think it's return to the planet of the apes. (I think). Anyhow it is the scene where the mutants are praying to the antiquated nuclear missile.
What bull! You're completely invalidating my personal experience simply because it suits your worldview ( Christian right ... am I correct? ).
What the AC above is actually saying is that a single point of data is anecdotal. it is not possible to extrapolate (or intrerpolate) a trend without (at least) 2 points of data. The more data points you have the more accurately new data can be infered. The AC never said anything that you should have taken as "right wing", unless you consider empirical(sp?) evidence "Right Wing".
Diamonds are a luxury. Practical industrial uses for them are uncommon
actually diamonds are a requirement for the drilling needed to aquire oil. the drill bits used on drilling rigs (for oil or _anything_ else that reqires drilling through rock) are tipped with industrial diamonds. granted these diamonds are a bit different than the less practical jewelry quality diamonds in that they do not usally have the clarity or the color. but simply the need for diamonds in oil production places them in the same commodity class as oil or rail.
Obiously you are confusing communism with a brutal dictatorship. communism is an economic system comparable to capitalism. Communism is not a political or idealogical system like democracy or socialism. you cannot call all communists brutal, just as you cannot call all republicans neo-cons.
If you are speaking of IBM, then there were never any "good ole' days". because IBM never sold _anything_ until the 80's (give or take a couple of years). IBM only leased. this meant that IBM peoples would be scheduled for regular maintnance, as the equipment still belongs to IBM.
I can't believe I'm actually replying to an AC, but here goes.
I can only speak for the US, and this only applies to research that is not Black or Grey (secret or top secret status). But any publicly funded research requires the results to be public. If the research is privately funded then the results of the research is property of the private company that funded it. Private companies do not make it policy to share research. This means that _only_ publicly funded research is available for others to follow without having to pay for a patent or trademark.
I guess my point here is that Human intellectual advancement is hampered by private research. only because the results of that research are not always made public unless the private entity sees a way of turning a buck off of it.
Netcaft Confirms it! The server that served up those vitriolic words is apache running on linux boxen.
I use an old gateway PII-333 running mpd with apache/php and phpMp. it has nfs access to my (about) 60 gig of music on the file server. and plays through a cambridge soundworks Desktop theater system. way more than enough to fill my living room with plesant noise. plus you can change the playlist from any browser in the house. and finally my non technical wife (just enough computer skill to surf ebay) has no problem setting up playlists. Total cost: about $50 for the gateway and about 4 hours playing with mpd and apache.
no mod points today.
You've never been in an HOA with a couple of asshole control freaks? Not pleasant. No mater what you do, they will be pissed off at something.
I have wired about 5 homes in my neiborhood... soon to be 15. I have used cat5e and 802.11b I own everything. All the wire, all the switches, all the routers. I am the _only_ asshole control freak allowed on MY network. Any other asshole control freaks popping up on my net will be tolerated with wire cutters.
to tell the truth however... I have relatively little money in the whole arrangement... maybe $800.
anyone else notice the markedly high signal to noise ratio with this topic? Any else notice the lack troll material to be modded down? I really believe this will be one of the most "up" moderated topics I have seen here on slashdot. -- Subvert the dominant paradigm
If that was true then CBS certainly would not run the white house ad that connects marijuana users to terrorism. but that is exactly that they are doing.
Quoted from moveon.org
= 2293-33 48214-6QjmVnR6_TwkZW4t8xOELQ
2 93-33 48214-6QjmVnR6_TwkZW4t8xOELQ
The CBS networks still refuses to run our winning ad in the Bush in 30 Seconds ad contest during the Super Bowl. The
MoveOn.org non-partisan campaign to get CBS to air issue ads continues, but we're not going to let CBS's censorship stop us
in the mean time. That's why we're spending over $1 million to air the ad in our swing states and nation-wide on other
channels -- starting with two spots on CNN that will air during the Super Bowl half time.
This Sunday, during the Super Bowl half time show, join us in changing channels on CBS. At 8:10pm and 8:35pm EST, switch
over to CNN to watch "Child's Pay" on a channel which doesn't censor its ads. We'd like to keep a tally of the number of
people who participate -- you can sign up here:
http://www.moveonvoterfund.org/boycott/?id
The number of groups, individuals, and newspapers that have called on CBS to run our ad is remarkable. The National
Organization for Women and the American Civil Liberties Union have asked their own members to call CBS. Senator Dick Durbin
(D-IL) gave a powerful speech about CBS on the floor of the Senate, saying, "Maybe network executives at CBS are so afraid
of political pressure from the right wing and their business advertisers who are in league with the right wing politics of
America that they are afraid to put anything on the air that might in fact make things uncomfortable. If that is the case,
it is time for CBS to announce the name of their network is the 'Conservative Broadcasting System' and come clean with
American viewers."
28 members of the House of Representatives wrote a letter to CBS which stated, "The choice not to run this paid
advertisement appears to be part of a disturbing pattern on CBS's part to bow to the wishes of the Republican National
Committee. We remember well CBS's remarkable decision this fall to self-censor at the direction of GOP pressure. The network
shamefully cancelled a broadcast about former President Ronald Reagan which Republican partisans considered insufficiently
flattering." Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) wrote a separate letter to CBS urging them to reconsider their decision.
Today, the L.A. Times printed an Op-Ed piece of ours which lays out the case against CBS's censorship. That's attached
below. But the editorial pages of the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other papers came out in our favor as
well. As the Globe wrote, "MoveOn.org's 30-second ad, which has aired on CNN, is a gentle yet powerful depiction of how hard
today's children will have to work to pay off the country's mounting deficit. That's a vital message that might get lost in
a year of campaign rhetoric, and it deserves a response from the White House in its own 30 seconds of imagery. America,
sitting on the couch, junk food in hand, just might sit up and want to know more."
Luckily, there are still some networks that do allow the free exchange of ideas. Please join the one-minute boycott: at
Super Bowl halftime, switch to CNN and watch "Child's Pay," and let us know at:
http://www.moveonvoterfund.org/boycott/?id=2
I think you will find that it will be easier to grind a spherical primary mirror rather than a parabolic one. Look here for implementation instructions. there will neet to be a resulting adjustment to the secondary optics to compensate for the difference in shape. but the grinding process will be much simpler.
The game shouldn't "elminate" players slowly. Yes, I know monopoly does this, but...
Actually if you RTFR(read the frigging rules) to monopoly you will discover that the game is supposed to end when the first player goes bankrupt, and all players count up total values and compare peni^H^H^H^H bankrolls. many many people drag Monopoly out to the bitter end, I know. however you will find that there are more "house rules" for monopoly than actual printed rules.
personally the only house rules I use are cash for free parking and $400 for landing on go.
I respectfully suggest to Open Source developers that this is a far better use of your collective resources and abilities than to defend and justify flawed intellectual property policies that are out of sync with the needs of enterprise computing customers.
Doesn't that say it all? We need to pander the the enterprise computing customer. Hobbyists need not apply.
Mathmatical modeling of human relationships?
I thought that was the Sims!
He went to IBM to sell them DOS and then told them he wouldn't sell it to them, he would LICENCE it to them, one copy at a time. The look on the IBM people's faces must have been classic, to them this was something totally new.
Actually... this was not new to IBM at all. You see When IBM aggreed to use liscened copies of MSDOS on the IBM PC, IBM never intended to sell PC's. In Fact IBM never sold anything until the late 80's. They leased stuff only. all those IBM selectric typewriters in every high rise office in america, and all of them were owned by IBM. So the concept of "letting you use it" without "letting you own it" was old hat for IBM.
On a long enough timeline everyones survival rate drops to 0%. The first rule of Fujistu is... you do not talk about Fujitsu.
A tooth for a tooth!! sounds like we will all be blindly gumming our food soon.
about a half a century ago a real smart chemical engineer got fed up with inefficient carburetors and built a carb that works. It was called the fish carburetor (the man's last name was fish I believe). The Fish carb was so outstanding because it was so simple(it has only three moving parts), so efficient, and because it could be easily adjusted to run on a variety of fuels. About ten years ago a machinist in Salt Lake City was making side drafted Fish Carbs for Hardly Davidsons. The result was Harleys that would run on anything. I watched a panhead running on used deep fryer oil. It smoked hard but it ran. Many people claim that Fish carbs will give you 100mpg+ but that is just untrue.
Does this mean my old (not intentionally crippled) JVC machine might be worth some money some day? I paid $250 for the damn thing _Just_ before DVD was released and 4head HiFi VCR's plummeted to $100. Maybe now I can sell it to someone who cannot buy a new uncrippled VCR. Way to legislate obsolesance, just like they did to scanners that could reach into cell ranges.
Paul Ramsey (Formerly Jah Paul Jones of Dread Zeppelin) runs Bird Cage Records. Some of thier stuff gets distributed through IRS (Which _is_ a member of the RIAA) but mostly not. Also check out Del-Fi for that grooving surf sound.
There are _alot_ of non RIAA labels, it's just a matter of finding them.
I think you're confusing 'average' with 'median'.
That's a "mean" thing to say!
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There is no soup either.