It is important not to confuse one's personal beliefs regarding to patents with the fact that they are legal and the employer has the legitimate right to apply for one and the guy has the obligation to pursue it as part of his duties. So, the only honest thing this guy can do is to express his concerns to his boss and, if he still wants to apply for the patent, resign.
You guys there in the US have considered seriously what is happening with your civil rights? If I were you, I would be very, very afraid. And also very, very mad.
running both unix on windows xp and the other way around, with just minor problems. The support forum has helped me in a very timely way. The performance is quite good. My windows xp runs on ubuntu almost at 1:1 performance ratio, except when there is a heavy disk access. I hope that in the new version the raw disk partitions finally work well to improve this performance.
What really surprises me (and maybe shouldn't) is how so many people in the forum makes a judgment on this product because has read "sun microsystems" somewhere in the post (and obviously have not read the article).
As some has suggested in the comments, what you are asking for is a type settig tool, not a document processor. I don't have personal experience on any but latex (and I'm very happy with it) but I think that the only true alternatives are either proprietary solutions (which will lock you in a particular product for ages) or using an Xml based open standard, like Docbook (a derivative of SGML, the precursor of all Xml stuff).
No, no because of this minor issue, but because it is getting absurdly difficult to make business in USA. Now days, with all those "security" regulations and patent issues, it it easier and less risky to introduce prohibited item in a federal jail than do a legal business in the USA. Now, figure out were investors are heading to for new business.
It is curious, but I thought that the real problem we all have with naming in the internet was not a short supply of names, but to the contrary, the ever growing number of fake names with slightly changed names (like http://slashdot.net/) used to catch click. I sometimes wonder if the guys at the ICANN ever use the internet of are still stuck with fax based communications!
Besides the time you've wasted thinking about it, there are 160+ comments on this story resulting in probably near $10k in lost engineering person-hours.
Lost engineering person-hours? How do you think we engineers learn? Just playing with problems like this. I've learned some interesting things in the 30 minutes I've been reading this thread.
and what does it have to do with may comment about the utterly flawed user interface of OpenOffice?
That was my point. OpenOffice is not a great piece of software. Is is not even better than MS Office. People uses it because is free.
And by "annonimous posting" what you mean? I use my slashdog user name wich by the way is my real name. Unless you are called "rtb61", what is beyond silly is to criticize other for what you are doing!
What is clear is that you don't have any point and then proceeds to attack the person instead of the arguments!
"To be blunt, people who can't get open office to do the simplest task are either idiots or liars"
Here we go again . . . sometimes I don't know what I hate the most, if MS trying to suck all the money they can't while killing competitor or this elitist attitude of open source advocates.
By the way, I'm neither a lair (what I reported in my previous post is factually true) nor stupid (man, I'm doing a PhD thesis in computer science) i just have more important things to do than waste time with unintuitive user interfaces.
"Really, what's the point of being a software developer if all you ever aspire to do is put out crappy software that people will only use because it is free?"
Good question. Just before making this post, I was working with openoffice and wondering about exactly that!
I think that most people in this forum uses OpenOffice not because it is a better software but
mostly because it IS NOT Microsoft Office.
Let's face it, OpenOffice is not a good software. Its interface is difficult to understand (putting the language settings under character format is anything but intuitive) and sometimes is really annoying. A brief example: hiding columns/rows in Calc. If you select an area with hidden columns/rows and copy it, the content of those columns/rows is not copied, but if you erase the area, the content is erased! Looks like something logical?
Now, go and try to convince openoffice developers that besides them, nobody else in the world understand that as an expected behavior. Most likely than not, they will take the usual open source developer attitude: if you don't understand that, then you are stupid and don't deserve to use our program.
I've been giving a change to OpenOffice for 5 years by now and still have to use MS Office a lot even for the simplest tasks.
Maybe he is missing the whole point: the security in the fax comes not from the printed paper you are sending, BUT from the fact that they can check the origin of the fax transmission.
Faxes are point-to-point communication channels, so it is VERY difficult to intercept them or the impersonate other's people fax number.
I'm afraid that this hardly will hurt ISO too much. They have some of the most important and widely used certification standards like ISO1400 (environmental management ) and ISO900 (quality management systems). Sorry, but they will be up and running for a long time.
I think that this is a false dilemma: the wikepedia should remain open to any content, but provide a trust verification mechanism that allows readers to determine the quality of a given content. Nobody knows neither how such content will evolve in the future nor how our perception about it will change over the time.
Actually, the very idea of collect any sort of content, most of them initially superfluous or with a low quality, will eventually feed more interesting content and allow a whole new kind of social experiments. For example, articles about celebrities could be used to track the public perception of those celebrities and science related articles with poor quality might be a good indicator of what is the actual understanding of the general public about some scientific concepts.
So, just let's keep tracking everything and let's start tagging it with the appropriate trustworthiness indicators.
I wish people would stop posting comments about New Scientist not been a credible source of news. WE ALREADY KNOW THAT. And, even if you don't believe this, WE CAN DISCERN, WITHOUT YOUR HELP, about the credibility of the ULTIMATE source New Scientist is citing. Haven't you notice that some news refers to articles in credible sources?
I'm quoting Sean Carrol, a theoretical physicist at Cal Tech, who recently explained why he changed his mind about been "heretic" with respect of well stablished scientific laws. As he puts it very clearly "in science, no orthodoxy is sacred, or above question -- there should always be a healthy exploration of alternatives", but he makes clear that such exploration MUST come from evidence, no simple ignorance of the facts behind established theories.
Been a scientist myself, as I mature in my research field, I tend to agree with him. However, at the same time I still remember the advice of a senior scientific and professor: "making relevant scientific advances requires a lot of arrogance to deny the common wisdom". So I suppose there must be a balance: neither blind reluctance to consider challenges, nor blind faith on "counter examples".
More importantly for shooting down the 'perpetual motion' crap Who called it perpetual motion? I read an interview with the guy and he never called it that way.
Sorry, but we are not talking about desktops . . .
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As far as I know, the N700/N800/N810 are not, by any means, desktops. They are internet devices. And this move makes clear that Nokia in betting very hard on this. After all, they are very well positioned, have a decent software stack and an active community. Now they have a key component.
Something I don't understand from the article is that it seams they experiment supposes that both the X-way burst and the gravitational waves should come on time. But what if the gravitational waves had passed before the X-rays? Is there something in the physics theory that predicts this?
I'm not even a physicist, but I can recall someone arguing that gravity has the estrange property of been instantaneous. Is this is true, the even that generated the x-rays happened many years ago, right? why shouldn't we be able to detect any gravitational waves now?
Didn't these guys see (or better, read the book) Jurasic Park? This is a pandemia awaiting to hapen. As Dr. Malco said, "Nature always find its way". I'm booking for the first comercial flight to another planet, just in case.
or, in other words, how do I put a P2P network to connect the branch offices.
I you don't know how a P2P network works, let me know, it's been wondering me for a while.
Yes, Microsoft is a large member of W3C as almost any body else is the industry like IBM, SUN, HP and som 400 (four hundred) other companies. Please, give me a break, stop thinking that if some one doesn't agree with an open source project and prises that big pile of crap called Open Office, then is been paid by Microsoft.
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It is important not to confuse one's personal beliefs regarding to patents with the fact that they are legal and the employer has the legitimate right to apply for one and the guy has the obligation to pursue it as part of his duties. So, the only honest thing this guy can do is to express his concerns to his boss and, if he still wants to apply for the patent, resign.
You guys there in the US have considered seriously what is happening with your civil rights? If I were you, I would be very, very afraid. And also very, very mad.
What really surprises me (and maybe shouldn't) is how so many people in the forum makes a judgment on this product because has read "sun microsystems" somewhere in the post (and obviously have not read the article).
As some has suggested in the comments, what you are asking for is a type settig tool, not a document processor. I don't have personal experience on any but latex (and I'm very happy with it) but I think that the only true alternatives are either proprietary solutions (which will lock you in a particular product for ages) or using an Xml based open standard, like Docbook (a derivative of SGML, the precursor of all Xml stuff).
No, no because of this minor issue, but because it is getting absurdly difficult to make business in USA. Now days, with all those "security" regulations and patent issues, it it easier and less risky to introduce prohibited item in a federal jail than do a legal business in the USA. Now, figure out were investors are heading to for new business.
It is curious, but I thought that the real problem we all have with naming in the internet was not a short supply of names, but to the contrary, the ever growing number of fake names with slightly changed names (like http://slashdot.net/) used to catch click. I sometimes wonder if the guys at the ICANN ever use the internet of are still stuck with fax based communications!
Lost engineering person-hours? How do you think we engineers learn? Just playing with problems like this. I've learned some interesting things in the 30 minutes I've been reading this thread.
and what does it have to do with may comment about the utterly flawed user interface of OpenOffice? That was my point. OpenOffice is not a great piece of software. Is is not even better than MS Office. People uses it because is free.
And by "annonimous posting" what you mean? I use my slashdog user name wich by the way is my real name. Unless you are called "rtb61", what is beyond silly is to criticize other for what you are doing!
What is clear is that you don't have any point and then proceeds to attack the person instead of the arguments!
"To be blunt, people who can't get open office to do the simplest task are either idiots or liars"
Here we go again . . . sometimes I don't know what I hate the most, if MS trying to suck all the money they can't while killing competitor or this elitist attitude of open source advocates.
By the way, I'm neither a lair (what I reported in my previous post is factually true) nor stupid (man, I'm doing a PhD thesis in computer science) i just have more important things to do than waste time with unintuitive user interfaces.
"Really, what's the point of being a software developer if all you ever aspire to do is put out crappy software that people will only use because it is free?"
Good question. Just before making this post, I was working with openoffice and wondering about exactly that!
I think that most people in this forum uses OpenOffice not because it is a better software but mostly because it IS NOT Microsoft Office.
Let's face it, OpenOffice is not a good software. Its interface is difficult to understand (putting the language settings under character format is anything but intuitive) and sometimes is really annoying. A brief example: hiding columns/rows in Calc. If you select an area with hidden columns/rows and copy it, the content of those columns/rows is not copied, but if you erase the area, the content is erased! Looks like something logical?
Now, go and try to convince openoffice developers that besides them, nobody else in the world understand that as an expected behavior. Most likely than not, they will take the usual open source developer attitude: if you don't understand that, then you are stupid and don't deserve to use our program.
I've been giving a change to OpenOffice for 5 years by now and still have to use MS Office a lot even for the simplest tasks.
Maybe he is missing the whole point: the security in the fax comes not from the printed paper you are sending, BUT from the fact that they can check the origin of the fax transmission. Faxes are point-to-point communication channels, so it is VERY difficult to intercept them or the impersonate other's people fax number.
I Never said I hold one :-D
I'm afraid that this hardly will hurt ISO too much. They have some of the most important and widely used certification standards like ISO1400 (environmental management ) and ISO900 (quality management systems). Sorry, but they will be up and running for a long time.
Actually, the very idea of collect any sort of content, most of them initially superfluous or with a low quality, will eventually feed more interesting content and allow a whole new kind of social experiments. For example, articles about celebrities could be used to track the public perception of those celebrities and science related articles with poor quality might be a good indicator of what is the actual understanding of the general public about some scientific concepts.
So, just let's keep tracking everything and let's start tagging it with the appropriate trustworthiness indicators.
I wish people would stop posting comments about New Scientist not been a credible source of news. WE ALREADY KNOW THAT. And, even if you don't believe this, WE CAN DISCERN, WITHOUT YOUR HELP, about the credibility of the ULTIMATE source New Scientist is citing. Haven't you notice that some news refers to articles in credible sources?
Been a scientist myself, as I mature in my research field, I tend to agree with him. However, at the same time I still remember the advice of a senior scientific and professor: "making relevant scientific advances requires a lot of arrogance to deny the common wisdom". So I suppose there must be a balance: neither blind reluctance to consider challenges, nor blind faith on "counter examples".
As far as I know, the N700/N800/N810 are not, by any means, desktops. They are internet devices. And this move makes clear that Nokia in betting very hard on this. After all, they are very well positioned, have a decent software stack and an active community. Now they have a key component.
Sorry, I kept saying X-rays in my previous post when I should had say gamma rays.
Something I don't understand from the article is that it seams they experiment supposes that both the X-way burst and the gravitational waves should come on time. But what if the gravitational waves had passed before the X-rays? Is there something in the physics theory that predicts this?
I'm not even a physicist, but I can recall someone arguing that gravity has the estrange property of been instantaneous. Is this is true, the even that generated the x-rays happened many years ago, right? why shouldn't we be able to detect any gravitational waves now?
Didn't these guys see (or better, read the book) Jurasic Park? This is a pandemia awaiting to hapen. As Dr. Malco said, "Nature always find its way". I'm booking for the first comercial flight to another planet, just in case.
or, in other words, how do I put a P2P network to connect the branch offices. I you don't know how a P2P network works, let me know, it's been wondering me for a while.
Oh, wait he isn't, is Borat, sorry . . . No, seriously, please stop giving any attention to this looser. It is as relevant today as an 8086!
this discovery is making its way directly to Guantanamo Bay . . .
Yes, Microsoft is a large member of W3C as almost any body else is the industry like IBM, SUN, HP and som 400 (four hundred) other companies. Please, give me a break, stop thinking that if some one doesn't agree with an open source project and prises that big pile of crap called Open Office, then is been paid by Microsoft.