I'm a staunch supporter of the First Amendment as well. And students in public schools are afforded those protections.
My response is to those who say "You can't take off for l33t speak because that's violating their rights." Which is bullcrap. There is a distinction between standards and free expression. In fact, I think we agree on everything. But I could be wrong.
(My example was that a student should be able to write a critical essay but not write that Hitler was an assfuck.)
There's a difference between mandating standards ("Hitler, the goddamned assfuck, invaded Poland on September 1, 1939") and stifling First Amendment liberties.
"I do not think that netspeak should be allowed in assignments,"
Crap! Does anyone think it should be allowed? It's fine to use if you're constructing vernacular dialog (just like slang, creole, or Portuguese are all appropriate if employed in the proper situations) but if anybody thinks that people should be allowed to say "The @rabs r not evil just 'cause u don't 1ike them" in a social studies assignment, well, I'll just be packing up and moving to my bunker on the island now, thank-you-very-much.
If we're going to stop state sponsorship of terrorism, we're attacking the wrong oil dictatorship. Face the truth: our administration can't deal with the glare of public opinion unless they have someone to bomb. Today it's Iraq.
If your idea isn't worth $4000 (i.e., you can't save and borrow $4k), then you probably shouldn't bother patenting it. Like I said, is $4000 savings now worth $20,000 a year later? I certainly don't think so and would in every case go the extra mile for the (good) lawyer. There are lots of bad lawyers out there, too. Make sure you have a lawyer who has patent experience.
My understanding is that you can do it, and you can do it right. I, for one, would spend the money to protect myself now and not have to worry about thousands and thousands of dollars of legal fees when there's actually something at stake. Always put the money into the lawyers at the beginning. My dad taught me that and its served me very well since then.
What a terrible idea! When you have no money $4000 is a lot. When you're looking at making $200,000 a year from your patent, $4000 is nothing, but 10% of your profits sure is. Terrible idea!
Yep. (You're probably the only one reading this reply...)
Tempo was the first system where the appearance themes worked. They were nifty. I never used anything other than Platinum, but it was great fun to show people hi-tech and gadget just to see their faces. Ah, what a pleasant period. Apple was blithely fiddling while the rest of the place burned and producing some irrelevant, but damned-fun stuff on the way.
If Apple would throw some weight behind Services, they'd show everyone what the ADD people were going for. Services, as implemented in NEXTSTEP, are possibly the coolest OS feature ever. Select a URL in Edit.app, open it with OmniWeb. Drag a PNG file into PasteUp.app and it displays properly because I have an image viewer program somewhere that knows how to display a PNG and chips in to help. Really amazing.
Oy, it wasn't quick! It was simple and slow and spewed out about ten pages a minute of debugging code to your convenient serial-connected debugging Mac. Argh, it was a beastie to use.
7.7 was Tempo. It was pretty cool. It used the Copland finder, which was a _much_ more fragile version of the Finder that showed up in Mac OS 8. Ah, those were the days. All the coolest stuff was on Hotline and the IRC. You're right, though: 7.7 did crash a lot. Mac OS 8, though, was very cool and very stable. I used one of the beta builds long after the final was released, I was so happy with it on my PowerBook Duo 2300c.
How come for me, the titles are sitting directly on top of the navigation bar? The site isn't complicated. I could hand-code that in five minutes. There's no excuse for it not working on any browser that wants to view it.
If you're going to put quotes around it, at least get the sentence right.
Ben Franklin said in 1784, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (That's the most reliable one I can get out of Google.
On my PowerBook, I can simply boot and go. No limitations whatsoever. When I first got on the wireless network in the '98/'99 year, I had to register my MAC. When I got my Mac, though, it just worked and I never bothered registering.
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You've clearly never used a sophisticated subwoofer with an LCD display.
How is what you said inconsistent with what he said?
The best review I ever read of that book was by archconservative icon Whittaker Chambers, http://www.potomac-inc.org/aynrand.html
I'm a staunch supporter of the First Amendment as well. And students in public schools are afforded those protections.
My response is to those who say "You can't take off for l33t speak because that's violating their rights." Which is bullcrap. There is a distinction between standards and free expression. In fact, I think we agree on everything. But I could be wrong.
(My example was that a student should be able to write a critical essay but not write that Hitler was an assfuck.)
There's a difference between mandating standards ("Hitler, the goddamned assfuck, invaded Poland on September 1, 1939") and stifling First Amendment liberties.
"I do not think that netspeak should be allowed in assignments,"
Crap! Does anyone think it should be allowed? It's fine to use if you're constructing vernacular dialog (just like slang, creole, or Portuguese are all appropriate if employed in the proper situations) but if anybody thinks that people should be allowed to say "The @rabs r not evil just 'cause u don't 1ike them" in a social studies assignment, well, I'll just be packing up and moving to my bunker on the island now, thank-you-very-much.
Ahem Saudi Arabia, ahem.
If we're going to stop state sponsorship of terrorism, we're attacking the wrong oil dictatorship. Face the truth: our administration can't deal with the glare of public opinion unless they have someone to bomb. Today it's Iraq.
Is it connected to the Internet?
If your idea isn't worth $4000 (i.e., you can't save and borrow $4k), then you probably shouldn't bother patenting it. Like I said, is $4000 savings now worth $20,000 a year later? I certainly don't think so and would in every case go the extra mile for the (good) lawyer. There are lots of bad lawyers out there, too. Make sure you have a lawyer who has patent experience.
My understanding is that you can do it, and you can do it right. I, for one, would spend the money to protect myself now and not have to worry about thousands and thousands of dollars of legal fees when there's actually something at stake. Always put the money into the lawyers at the beginning. My dad taught me that and its served me very well since then.
What a terrible idea! When you have no money $4000 is a lot. When you're looking at making $200,000 a year from your patent, $4000 is nothing, but 10% of your profits sure is. Terrible idea!
What is a deltic?
And when it comes time to make a resume, they can host the thing, but they can't get the tabs to align in the document :-)
Then how can it do presentations? I wanted to make PowerPoint presentations. I was told Linux could do that. How do I make it print envelopes?
How about Jimmy Hoffa? Of course everyone really knows that he was taken up by the aliens that deposited him on Earth in the first place.
Yep. (You're probably the only one reading this reply...)
Tempo was the first system where the appearance themes worked. They were nifty. I never used anything other than Platinum, but it was great fun to show people hi-tech and gadget just to see their faces. Ah, what a pleasant period. Apple was blithely fiddling while the rest of the place burned and producing some irrelevant, but damned-fun stuff on the way.
If Apple would throw some weight behind Services, they'd show everyone what the ADD people were going for. Services, as implemented in NEXTSTEP, are possibly the coolest OS feature ever. Select a URL in Edit.app, open it with OmniWeb. Drag a PNG file into PasteUp.app and it displays properly because I have an image viewer program somewhere that knows how to display a PNG and chips in to help. Really amazing.
Oy, it wasn't quick! It was simple and slow and spewed out about ten pages a minute of debugging code to your convenient serial-connected debugging Mac. Argh, it was a beastie to use.
7.7 was Tempo. It was pretty cool. It used the Copland finder, which was a _much_ more fragile version of the Finder that showed up in Mac OS 8. Ah, those were the days. All the coolest stuff was on Hotline and the IRC. You're right, though: 7.7 did crash a lot. Mac OS 8, though, was very cool and very stable. I used one of the beta builds long after the final was released, I was so happy with it on my PowerBook Duo 2300c.
Newton AppleTalk and Hypercard? I use AppleTalk over an AirPort to snyc my Newton to my G4 every day!
And I'm pretty sure OpenDoc containers run in Classic, though I haven't dug up my CyberDog CD yet.
How come for me, the titles are sitting directly on top of the navigation bar? The site isn't complicated. I could hand-code that in five minutes. There's no excuse for it not working on any browser that wants to view it.
Are you sure it isn't 1.75 times as functional?
If you're going to put quotes around it, at least get the sentence right.
Ben Franklin said in 1784, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (That's the most reliable one I can get out of Google.
You said it yourself. It's newsworthy because "it's still growing; a lot of people still haven't patched their servers."
On my PowerBook, I can simply boot and go. No limitations whatsoever. When I first got on the wireless network in the '98/'99 year, I had to register my MAC. When I got my Mac, though, it just worked and I never bothered registering.