I think that only applies to trademarks. Patents remain valid even if you don't pursue every infringement, however you can only sue for damages after the point where you notified the infringing party, and not informing a party promptly upon discovering the infringement hurts your case in court.
The fact that Redhat Linux has been freely available for like a decade now makes it a tough sell that IP Innovation LLC just happened to notice it now that they're a big company with deep pockets.
Hmm, an interesting twist on the Microsoft conspiracy. If we assume that Microsoft is not licensing this patent at the moment, and also assume that Windows would infringe on this patent, then either outcome helps Microsoft:
1.) Redhat loses the case, pays big money, Microsoft loses a competitor 2.) Redhat wins the case, patent is invalidated, one less Eolas type threat to Microsoft's bottom line.
Not necessarily. You can have functions that are a change in x over a corresponding change in y, even if both are space-like, so why would a space-like t dimension be any different.
Yeah, because iMac, iPod, iPhone and iLife all equate to mediocre products in people's minds. Or do you just have something against the letter 'K' specifically?
It wouldn't have to be motion-less, in fact I don't see why anything would have to change, you can still measure change in x in reference to a change in t, even when t becomes space-like.
nope, once t goes space-like, you can travel back and forth as far as you want. Going back to t=0 just gets you at space-like t=0, it doesn't make t time-like again.
Sun demo'd Looking Glass in 2003 also, Metacity had compositing ability in 2004 and Fvwm in 2005. Luminocity was sometime in late-2005 early-2006, and Xfwm also had compositing abilities sometime in 2006. Even MacOSX didn't have much in the way of desktop effects until 2003. They were all developed in parallel when the technology became available to make them feasible.
Compiz Fusion seems to be stable enough (been using it since it dropped into Ubuntu 7.10 alphas), the only problems with it I have experienced have been bugs in my proprietary nVidia driver. I used Beryl before that, which was also quite stable (and has some features I'm missing in Fusion). I must say that even with my antique GeForce 3 card, it is a more responsive window manager than unaccelerated Metacity (and I've seen less CPU usage). Which says something since even after requiring more powerful hardware, people say that Vista's Aero runs slower and consumes more CPU time.
Look at it this way. We live in a 4 dimensional space, x, y, z and t are our 4 dimensions. x, y and z are space-like, while t is (currently) time-like. You steps go like this:
t=0: Universe has time and is normal
t=1: Universe suddenly flips, dimension t is now space-like
t=2: You now life in a 4d universe with 4 space-like dimensions, and you are at point 2 on the 't' dimension, which you can freely travel on in the positive or negative directions (time travel becomes possible)
What is the deal with every single large distro out there incorporating 3d acelerated desktops and shining bells and whistles as the main features in all new releases? Well the article summary mentioned updates of KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice.org and Firefox, plus the part about a new kernel with CFS. But I guess you just saw "compiz" and decided to post your opinion straight away.
Family Tree Maker -> Gramps: It doesn't have the capability to download info from the internet, but has better graphs than the standard copy of FTM. Can import FTM files as well.
Paintshop Pro -> Krita Krita is still fairly young and missing a lot of tools and features, but it's coming along fast and is easier to learn than Gimp (which I assume you've already tried).
Quickbooks Pro -> Gnucash? I haven't used Quickbooks in years, and then only for personal finance tracking, so Gnucash did what I needed. I'm not sure what the Pro version of Quickbooks has over the standard version. It can import Quickbooks data files.
Turbo Tax -> Turbo Tax They have a web-based version that I think is operating system independent.
iTunes (for music downloaded from Apple) -> SOL Nothing here because only Apple can make software to work with iTunes store, and they're not interested in supporting Linux. For everything else that iTunes does try Songbird, Rhythmbox or Amarok.
Websphere Studio -> Eclipse Isn't Websphere Studio based on Eclipse anyway? Shouldn't it already work on Linux?
Lotus Notes Client -> Lotus Notes 8 Version 8 is written in Java and runs on Linux
Cisco VPN -> vpnc As far as I know the Cisco VPN is supported by vpnc, the new Gnome NetworkManager makes vpnc easy to configure and activate.
Pick a program that isn't native to Windows or Linux default installations. Then try to type in the instructions for installing such a program in both windows and linux. How would the average user install the program on their machine? Could you document the steps for Linux? How would those steps compare to a windows installation? Funny you should ask, I ran into this scenario not too long ago. My favorite editor, on any platform, is JEdit, almost always my first install. Here is the steps to install:
Windows: 1) Download the "Windows Installer", save to disk 2) Run Windows installer, realize that Java 1.5 or later is required 3) Download Java SE 1.5 or later from Sun's website 4) Install Java (click lots of "next" buttons) 5) Re-run JEdit installer (click lots of "next" buttons)
Ubuntu: 1) Download the "Debian Installer", automatically opens in GDebi 2) GDebi informs me that I need Sun Java 1.5, and asks me if I want to download and install that to 3) Click "Yes, download and install Java 1.5", watch the progress for a few minutes, and you're done.
Any.DEB or.RPM package is easier to install on Linux than a.EXE or.MSI package on Windows.
But it was likely not until the reconquest of Spain by Europeans that the knowledge was brought into European culture, so there was plenty of time for original Muslim knowledge to make its way there.
The fact that the Islamic world was ahead of the west for quite some time isn't a refutation of the original argument (that Islam ended up hampering scientific progress).
What, pray tell, do you believe led to the decline of scientific progress in that part of the world, if not oppressive religion in the form of (in this case) Islam? You can pretty well track the decline of science in the Islamic world with the decline of the Ottoman empire. The Ottoman empire stagnated in all aspects of culture, and so as a result did science throughout their empire, religion wasn't the problem.
it has a short halflife, so assuming that the batteries manage to hold together for the supposed 30 years, the amount of radioactive material available to leak out into the environment will have already dropped by more than 200%. The amount would have dropped by ~75%, not 200% (you can't lose twice as much as you started with).
Godwin's law doesn't say anything about the quality or accuracy of anything, so your proposed law wouldn't be comparable. Also, I think that referencing E=mc^2 when discussing the conversion of matter into energy isn't just appropriate, but should be standard procedure.
I don't see why under the proper geological conditions that might not get converted to longer chain hydrocarbons. Well yes, but the only "right condition" currently know to happen is "life", which we haven't seen any evidence for, I'm going to assume there is either none, or so very little to be essentially none in a usefulness aspect. Uranium, however, should be well distributed throughout the solar system.
Question is, what does that really get you, if you're Microsoft?
It doesn't make Linux in general go away. It will make a competitor go away. Not just an OS competitor either, just about everything Novell sells is in competition with something Microsoft sells. If Microsoft can get Novell to bet the bank on MS-backed Suse, then pull the plug, it would seriously undermine Novell's business strength, and getting business going again around another product will take years.
Even if we take as granted the idea that Microsoft is evil and focused on the utter destruction of all that is free, this isn't a smart way to do it. They're in a better position to influence the community and drive business their way by supporting Suse than by crushing it. It is in angler's best interest to let the fish eat the bait, but only for a time. For now Microsoft is backing Suse, because it gets them the market position they want to be in, but eventually it will be more advantageous for Microsoft to pull the line and hook the fish.
SUSE will loose market share, and may even go to the Linux-distro graveyard. But remember, while SUSE is Linux, Linux is not SUSE. My post and, I suspect, the original post that started all of this, are talking about Suse, not Linux in general (since Linux in general hasn't signed a co-op agreement with Microsoft).
Linux has a lot more loyalty than some of your examples True, but Suse really doesn't. Linux may have nothing to worry about, but Novell sure enough does.
If MS is trying an E^3 with this, they might as well try putting their guns to their collective feet, because, they aren't going to decrease the popularity of Linux below what it would have been without their intervention. They may raise it above that level however... If Microsoft can kill off Novell, and Linspire and Xandros just for fun, I think they will be pleased with the result of their deal. Probably they would have liked to hook Red Hat as well to kill the top 2 commercial providers, but even Microsoft can't fool everyone.
Wow, talk about OT. Really, you think so? If Novell is banking their business on selling their Microsoft relationship, what do you think is going to happen to that business when Microsoft backs out of their deal, and start publicly denouncing Suse's inability to remain compatible?
This really is classic Microsoft strategy, make your competitor's success dependent on your compliance to something (HTML, Java, CIFS, OS/2), then stop complying with it. Microsoft's market weight guarantees that customers will follow them, and not their competitor. If tomorrow Suse Linux stops working well in a Windows network, which do you think businesses are going to dump?
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I think that only applies to trademarks. Patents remain valid even if you don't pursue every infringement, however you can only sue for damages after the point where you notified the infringing party, and not informing a party promptly upon discovering the infringement hurts your case in court.
The fact that Redhat Linux has been freely available for like a decade now makes it a tough sell that IP Innovation LLC just happened to notice it now that they're a big company with deep pockets.
Hmm, an interesting twist on the Microsoft conspiracy. If we assume that Microsoft is not licensing this patent at the moment, and also assume that Windows would infringe on this patent, then either outcome helps Microsoft:
1.) Redhat loses the case, pays big money, Microsoft loses a competitor
2.) Redhat wins the case, patent is invalidated, one less Eolas type threat to Microsoft's bottom line.
Not necessarily. You can have functions that are a change in x over a corresponding change in y, even if both are space-like, so why would a space-like t dimension be any different.
Yeah, because iMac, iPod, iPhone and iLife all equate to mediocre products in people's minds. Or do you just have something against the letter 'K' specifically?
Did the FSF's lawyers side with Theo on the whole Atheros driver issue?
It wouldn't have to be motion-less, in fact I don't see why anything would have to change, you can still measure change in x in reference to a change in t, even when t becomes space-like.
nope, once t goes space-like, you can travel back and forth as far as you want. Going back to t=0 just gets you at space-like t=0, it doesn't make t time-like again.
Sun demo'd Looking Glass in 2003 also, Metacity had compositing ability in 2004 and Fvwm in 2005. Luminocity was sometime in late-2005 early-2006, and Xfwm also had compositing abilities sometime in 2006. Even MacOSX didn't have much in the way of desktop effects until 2003. They were all developed in parallel when the technology became available to make them feasible.
Compiz Fusion seems to be stable enough (been using it since it dropped into Ubuntu 7.10 alphas), the only problems with it I have experienced have been bugs in my proprietary nVidia driver. I used Beryl before that, which was also quite stable (and has some features I'm missing in Fusion). I must say that even with my antique GeForce 3 card, it is a more responsive window manager than unaccelerated Metacity (and I've seen less CPU usage). Which says something since even after requiring more powerful hardware, people say that Vista's Aero runs slower and consumes more CPU time.
Does that help?
Mandriva already had shiney window manager effects didn't they? Have they dropped Matisse in favor of Compiz?
Here are my recommendations based on my own uses:
Family Tree Maker -> Gramps:
It doesn't have the capability to download info from the internet, but has better graphs than the standard copy of FTM. Can import FTM files as well.
Paintshop Pro -> Krita
Krita is still fairly young and missing a lot of tools and features, but it's coming along fast and is easier to learn than Gimp (which I assume you've already tried).
Quickbooks Pro -> Gnucash?
I haven't used Quickbooks in years, and then only for personal finance tracking, so Gnucash did what I needed. I'm not sure what the Pro version of Quickbooks has over the standard version. It can import Quickbooks data files.
Turbo Tax -> Turbo Tax
They have a web-based version that I think is operating system independent.
iTunes (for music downloaded from Apple) -> SOL
Nothing here because only Apple can make software to work with iTunes store, and they're not interested in supporting Linux. For everything else that iTunes does try Songbird, Rhythmbox or Amarok.
Websphere Studio -> Eclipse
Isn't Websphere Studio based on Eclipse anyway? Shouldn't it already work on Linux?
Lotus Notes Client -> Lotus Notes 8
Version 8 is written in Java and runs on Linux
Cisco VPN -> vpnc
As far as I know the Cisco VPN is supported by vpnc, the new Gnome NetworkManager makes vpnc easy to configure and activate.
Windows:
1) Download the "Windows Installer", save to disk
2) Run Windows installer, realize that Java 1.5 or later is required
3) Download Java SE 1.5 or later from Sun's website
4) Install Java (click lots of "next" buttons)
5) Re-run JEdit installer (click lots of "next" buttons)
Ubuntu:
1) Download the "Debian Installer", automatically opens in GDebi
2) GDebi informs me that I need Sun Java 1.5, and asks me if I want to download and install that to
3) Click "Yes, download and install Java 1.5", watch the progress for a few minutes, and you're done.
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But it was likely not until the reconquest of Spain by Europeans that the knowledge was brought into European culture, so there was plenty of time for original Muslim knowledge to make its way there.
What, pray tell, do you believe led to the decline of scientific progress in that part of the world, if not oppressive religion in the form of (in this case) Islam? You can pretty well track the decline of science in the Islamic world with the decline of the Ottoman empire. The Ottoman empire stagnated in all aspects of culture, and so as a result did science throughout their empire, religion wasn't the problem.
Godwin's law doesn't say anything about the quality or accuracy of anything, so your proposed law wouldn't be comparable. Also, I think that referencing E=mc^2 when discussing the conversion of matter into energy isn't just appropriate, but should be standard procedure.
It doesn't make Linux in general go away. It will make a competitor go away. Not just an OS competitor either, just about everything Novell sells is in competition with something Microsoft sells. If Microsoft can get Novell to bet the bank on MS-backed Suse, then pull the plug, it would seriously undermine Novell's business strength, and getting business going again around another product will take years. Even if we take as granted the idea that Microsoft is evil and focused on the utter destruction of all that is free, this isn't a smart way to do it. They're in a better position to influence the community and drive business their way by supporting Suse than by crushing it. It is in angler's best interest to let the fish eat the bait, but only for a time. For now Microsoft is backing Suse, because it gets them the market position they want to be in, but eventually it will be more advantageous for Microsoft to pull the line and hook the fish.
It never was a big deal, we're just mocking Novell for making "less than brilliant decisions".
I would also note that Earth is the only place in our solar system that has oil, but many others, like Mars, will have uranium.
This really is classic Microsoft strategy, make your competitor's success dependent on your compliance to something (HTML, Java, CIFS, OS/2), then stop complying with it. Microsoft's market weight guarantees that customers will follow them, and not their competitor. If tomorrow Suse Linux stops working well in a Windows network, which do you think businesses are going to dump?
I think that CDMA is possible in the future, but since it is rarely used outside of the USA, they are focusing on GSM only at the moment.