I'm pretty sure they can only mandate it if you SELL the software. Besides, I can see everyone just making a "well, it installed didn't it?" version and the linux/mac versions being UTTERLY useless.
Think ie6 for mac. Not that we ever really wanted that anyways...
True, but I've yet to meat a software company that has limited itself to 1 country without going bankrupt rather quickly. In that case, the only thing you can do is make damn sure your software is publicly published so it can clearly be used as prior art less an American company get wind of it and steal it.
Agreed. In fact, communism is actually very popular among some farming communities. The idea of communism is simply "sharing", so one farmer will buy a tracter, another buys a homogeniser, etc. and they simply share them with each other instead of everyone needing to get one of each.
Actually, the place I see communist ideology implemented the most (for me anyways) is OpenSource Software. Read some of the original comunist books (not china/ussr) and you will quickly see that it's basically the same thing.
Now if only the cellphone companies would catch on and share towers instead of setting up 3 times as many as we need and STILL not getting proper coverage:(
Doesn't a patent need to be very explicit in how something is performed? Last I checked, the browser technology (specifically Javascript) available now wasn't even conseived in 1944.
Try living in Canada. Canada ruled a long time ago that software patents are not allowed. However due to the patent treaty we signed with the US and half of Europe, now they are.
If you are confused, this means that Canadians are not allowed to be awarded software patents (good), but still need to abide by software patents awarded to Americans and Europeans or be SUED (very bad).
You sir have a very warped idea of Communism. Just because every person who has attempted to implement it on a large scale has been either a complete douche or dumbass, does not mean that the whole idea is flawed. There are MANY small-scale communist groups that work very well and have been doing so for decades without problem.
Didn't the OLPC people promise us that like 3 YEARS AGO?!? Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't every single laptop ever made that didn't support windows magically get some "Microsoft Funding" in order to allow the machines to run windows..?
As someone with moderate OCD, I can tell you that silence is one of the most disrupting things I can endure.
Moderate silence, such as you would find in an empty office building, is full of small, repetitive noises and visuals such as fans, air conditioning, blinking router lights, analog (face) clocks ticking, etc. To this day I am unable to work, concentrate, watch television or even sleep in the same room as an analog clock that ticks. Even if the ticking is so faint you can barely hear it.
Complete silence (isolation room quiet) is a little better, but at that volume I start counting my own hearbeats, breathing, the number of times my teeth touch each other. As many people here can probably contest, the smallest things can cause the biggest distraction. I can hear a CRT television (as rare as they may be now-a-days) turn on through 3 walls and a server clicking from a floor away.
I have found that some music, particularly "house" or "trance" music (without vocals) to be very calming by covering up those subtle distractions while not supplying a new one. The only thing I have EVER found to be more effective than music is a real water fountain. I have tried simulated and even recorded water, but only real water (my previous workplace co-worker had a real miniature one on a table) will work.
Not everyone fits the general results of a widespread "experimental study" and the sooner people start to both understand their own bodies and more importantly the fact that not everyone's is equal, the sooner we can get some real work done.
If a boss ever told me to not use my headphones because they distract me, I would ask him to first turn off the AC, heating and the noisy computer next door that is clicking.
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I'm pretty sure they can only mandate it if you SELL the software. Besides, I can see everyone just making a "well, it installed didn't it?" version and the linux/mac versions being UTTERLY useless. Think ie6 for mac. Not that we ever really wanted that anyways...
I sure hope so, impregnating the 3-year-old would be a medical breakthrough!
If it was recorded by a voting machine, I wouldn't worry about it.
Have you never heard of the RIAA???
I'm guessing his primary motivation was not money...
Communism is a genuine way of seeing your fellow man. Religion is believing that you should do so out of fear of a higher power after you die.
Why not?
get a list of email addresses
If they had that, they wouldn't need to do anything now would they?
Security through Obscurity is a reference to the METHOD being obscure. Your encryption codes and salts are SUPPOSED to be obscure!!!
True, but I've yet to meat a software company that has limited itself to 1 country without going bankrupt rather quickly. In that case, the only thing you can do is make damn sure your software is publicly published so it can clearly be used as prior art less an American company get wind of it and steal it.
Yes, they probably went to the US to get them (USPTO being American and all...)
I am aware that you don't need a working prototype, but with javascript not even designed yet, there would be no way to detail the "J" part of "AJAX".
I am not a religious person in slightest. In fact I am very much against religion.
I am curious however about your perceived link between religion and consistency in own's views...
That was kind of my point....
Agreed. In fact, communism is actually very popular among some farming communities. The idea of communism is simply "sharing", so one farmer will buy a tracter, another buys a homogeniser, etc. and they simply share them with each other instead of everyone needing to get one of each.
:(
Actually, the place I see communist ideology implemented the most (for me anyways) is OpenSource Software. Read some of the original comunist books (not china/ussr) and you will quickly see that it's basically the same thing.
Now if only the cellphone companies would catch on and share towers instead of setting up 3 times as many as we need and STILL not getting proper coverage
Unless Microsoft pays them to change the chip to x86.
For $50, I'd probably opt for something along these lines:
-Fountain1
-Fountain2
-Fountain3
You are the dog, prepare to get sued.
Doesn't a patent need to be very explicit in how something is performed? Last I checked, the browser technology (specifically Javascript) available now wasn't even conseived in 1944.
Try living in Canada. Canada ruled a long time ago that software patents are not allowed. However due to the patent treaty we signed with the US and half of Europe, now they are.
:(
If you are confused, this means that Canadians are not allowed to be awarded software patents (good), but still need to abide by software patents awarded to Americans and Europeans or be SUED (very bad).
If you are STILL confused, welcome to the club
You sir have a very warped idea of Communism. Just because every person who has attempted to implement it on a large scale has been either a complete douche or dumbass, does not mean that the whole idea is flawed. There are MANY small-scale communist groups that work very well and have been doing so for decades without problem.
Did you seriously just point out minor flaws in linux, then flaunt windows as a shined and polished alternative???
Didn't the OLPC people promise us that like 3 YEARS AGO?!? Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't every single laptop ever made that didn't support windows magically get some "Microsoft Funding" in order to allow the machines to run windows..?
... it can be necessary when you hit the zone.
Yep! It never ceases to amaze me how the upper echelons of management can be so utterly clueless about how their companies work!
Well, that's what happens when they have their own hermidically sealed office to work in...
As someone with moderate OCD, I can tell you that silence is one of the most disrupting things I can endure.
Moderate silence, such as you would find in an empty office building, is full of small, repetitive noises and visuals such as fans, air conditioning, blinking router lights, analog (face) clocks ticking, etc. To this day I am unable to work, concentrate, watch television or even sleep in the same room as an analog clock that ticks. Even if the ticking is so faint you can barely hear it.
Complete silence (isolation room quiet) is a little better, but at that volume I start counting my own hearbeats, breathing, the number of times my teeth touch each other. As many people here can probably contest, the smallest things can cause the biggest distraction. I can hear a CRT television (as rare as they may be now-a-days) turn on through 3 walls and a server clicking from a floor away.
I have found that some music, particularly "house" or "trance" music (without vocals) to be very calming by covering up those subtle distractions while not supplying a new one. The only thing I have EVER found to be more effective than music is a real water fountain. I have tried simulated and even recorded water, but only real water (my previous workplace co-worker had a real miniature one on a table) will work.
Not everyone fits the general results of a widespread "experimental study" and the sooner people start to both understand their own bodies and more importantly the fact that not everyone's is equal, the sooner we can get some real work done.
If a boss ever told me to not use my headphones because they distract me, I would ask him to first turn off the AC, heating and the noisy computer next door that is clicking.