The trick is to not only trademark a simple name like Firefox, where you may run into problems when you have to deal with a global naming space, but also go for something more specific, such as Mozilla Firefox. You have a much bigger chance of being successful.
I think all the Swedish banks have it too, or one use passwords. I know for a fact at least one Dutch bank use it as well. Several UK banks use multiple passwords which doesn't change...
Actually, switching computers is even more of a pain (for me) than dual booting. I envisage having a good Intel Mac with Windows on it for gaming. But then.... maybe I get infected by a virus and it hoses the Mac drive too.... maybe not.:)
When you use Google's services you are also exposing yourself to Googles future owners, whoever they may be. Ok so Google "isnt doing anything bad now", but who knows who has control of that data in the future.
When you sign a contract (or enter a deal, as you sort of do when you use Googles systems), you should never think that you are signing with the guy who is in charge now. Think of it as signing a contract with the next guy to own the contract. What is he going to do with the information... ?
But they are both running a huge water defecit. This is well documented and will lead to serious water shortages in 10-20 years. Then we have a problem...
Who founded Bloor Research? Who funds them? Who owns stock in them? Who are the members of their executive board and what are their social connections?
Bloor Research International Ltd was formed after a staff buyout of Bloor Research Ltd. The new company, still to be known as Bloor Research, has undergone a massive restructuring programme culminating in a new management team, fresh products and a clearer vision"
"In 2004, as a result of the prolonged downturn in the IT industry and the reduction in budgets for research and analysis, Bloor Research entered voluntary administration. The company restructured its finances and re-emerged with a stronger management team, a new streamlined set of products and services, and a commitment to honour its existing contracts with both suppliers and customers."
M$, IBM, Oracle, HP are among the claimed customers.
The same people flailing about global warming are also flailing that our oil reserves will be gone in a week. If they're right about both things, who cares, right? If fossil fuels go away, global warming won't be a problem, right?
Actually, no. The reserves of coal are more than an order of magnitude more than the oil reserves. Burning that coal will really put a dent in the CO2 curve. And the worry is that the same shortsighted approach which have landed us with significantly increased CO2 values would have us use the coal to make fossile fuel for vehicles when the oil runs out. Check out the Coal Reserves Information Sheet. Where they say that Estimates of the world's total recoverable reserves of coal in 2002 were about 1,081 billionshort tons.
Also, you are totally wrong about "every shred of evidence...". Well, not totally wrong -- because I'm assuming that you're saying that every shred of evidence points to global warming...caused by humans. You made this statement without actually objectively looking at the data.
Well, others have looked at it objectively. Say for example: A position paper of the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London where it says We urge serious, and immediate, consideration of these issues. The dangers posed by climate change are no longer merely possible and long-term. They are probable, imminent, and global in scope.
The fact is that if you look at climate changes over geologic time, the climate change that we have witnessed is not even a blip on the radar screen. In fact, the climate change we've seen doesn't look like anything that falls outside of normal long-term climate trending.
Well the people at the Geological Society in London agree with you there. They say
It is also undoubted that levels of CO2 are now some 30% higher than at any time over the past 750 000 years, (with levels of methane having more than doubled). CO2 levels are now increasing, seemingly inexorably, by nearly 1% a year, and the trend is accelerating. It is also beyond doubt that these increases are due to human activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels, rather than being due to, say, volcanic activity. Levels of human-sourced emission dwarf anything produced by even the largest recent eruptions (e.g. Krakatoa) and the ice-core record shows that, while records of past massive eruptions are preserved as layers rich in volcanic dust and sulphur dioxide, there are no CO2 'spikes' of eruptive origin.
You may at this point argue and say that is what I said "within normal long term climactic change". Well, so it is. Now look at what comes tied in with CO2 levels.
in the Cretaceous Period, some 80 million years ago, when CO2 levels were considerably higher than at present, and ice-caps were virtually absent from the earth. Then, sea level stood at least 200 metres higher than today, with most of the UK being submerged.
Sounds promising, doesn't it?
Read that article from the Geological Society. It isn't exactly like they are a bunch of tree hugging hippies...
Where I live the local council provides several infrastructure services, one of them is a fibre backbone. They also provide local roads, water supply, sewage treatment, electricity backbone among other things.
The fibrebackbone is just that, a backbone, an infrastructure component. It is built and maintained by the local councils power company.
On the fibre I can order IP services from 5 different ISPs, from 128 kbps to 10 mbps. I can also get Voice over IP from several providers as well as cable TV from two providers. Some of the ISPs are also in the ADSL/VDSL business going via the country's largest telecom's network.
So I can choose from a number of different internet infrastructure services: telephone lines for modem, telephone lines with ADSL (2.5 mbps, soon 8 mbps) or fibre (128 kbps to 10 mbps).
The fact that the local council (in extension I am a co-owner of that as I live here and the council belong to the population) does own the local gigabit fibre backbone does not cut into competition but actually creates more competition. I have more choice of ISPs than nearly anyone else in the country I live in.
Many adverts aren't rendering correctly on firefox, including some flash/dhtml combos and some dhtml ads.
Many advertising agencies seem to not have a clue about how to write HTML code which should render in a standards compliant browser. I have seem some real horrors out there. The strategy of IE to render nearly any junk you can imaging doesn't help to teach people to write good HTML, but you would have thought that would bother to test in more than one browser. I suppose with the Gecko engine taking up to 10% in the near future that will change.
I have it in London (0.5/0.25 Mbit/s), but I expect to be in Sweden soon where I will be using this instead (8/1 Mbit/s to 26/26 Mbit/s). All for a paltry $40/month.
What do I use it for? Mainly always-on internet access, FTP server, always-on Evercrack, etc. But this is the most fun actually: video telephone. I just hang up on a call to a friend in San Francisco, 30 minutes, not a penny spent.:)
If you have someone who seriously needs one of these to be able to work, then it is a good investment for society to give them outright to the person. You will easily make back that money in tax revenue from the person as well as increase the person's self esteem enough that social problems in the family etc. induced by depression are much less likely to happen.
Corruption is almost unknown in the US Government. You mean "direct corruption" such as money paid under the table to some anonymous official to get something passed through the a legal process. That is probably because the people who really need to corrupt the government in the US has invested in the highest level of government instead. They own the president and the congress, legally. Why would they bother with bribing people then? Much better to fire of another million to the appropriate lobbyist.
Watch the results: Clinton's public health care bill killed in the cradle, gas guzzler tax on SUVs abandoned, healthy eating habits information from the government suppressed. The list goes on.
Online voting systems are very hot at the moment (as in one can potentially make some good money from it). The companies involved with this are trying to get the "first mover" advantage. They want to look good and appear successful in a very immature market.
They are scared of people who have been thinking about this a long time, like Open Source advocates. Someone like Shaum is able to make them look bad with a couple of quick quotes to the local news paper. Something which can potentially make or break a company which is early in its VC funding process. They really don't want that to happen. They think a good way of avoiding it is to keep Open Source advocates out of the process, such as a conference.
According to the RIAA's own figures, over the last two years the US music industry has produced 25% fewer CDs.
Of course, the fact that thousands of tech people are out of jobs still and the market is in the dump has nothing to do with it. Right. Look at the most of the tech industry and it is a dire picture. Why wouldn't this hit the recording industry? A a lot of us who are directly affected by the slump in the market buy music. I have a lot less money to spend on music today compared to a couple of years ago.
If you are in to electronic democracy I presume you have looked at the e-democracy project. If not then check out some interesting thoughts about it from the founder at:
12 year old's Terrorist Mustard Gas factory...
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My old chemistry set quickly fell into dissuse, unless I took it out to make mustard gas (or whatever it really was, but that was what they said in the manual). Imagine the headlines:
"12 year old's Terrorist Mustard Gas factory discovered".
There are certainly ways to produce hydrogen without resorting to burning fossile fules. The US Governement has spent close to $800 million over the years to prove that Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) works. This is a non-polluting, sustainable way to produce energy which can be used to extract hydrogen from water.
As it isn't using oil or nuclear power, it is currently out of favour with the US Department of Energy, but you should certainly learn more about it. A good overview can be found at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the latest news can be found at OTECnews.
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Maybe a direct neural interface...
I think you forget, as most people seem to, that all learning takes effort. Even when your gear is hooked straight into your brain do you have to spend substantial time to learn how to use it. Learning to walk takes time, watch a child. Learning a new human language takes years, not only for a grown up person. Learning any new skill takes time. I think that nearly anything which does not involve learning probably isn't worth doing in the end.
One of the most effective computer interfaces I have ever used was a document publishing system interface. It took time to learn how to use it, but boy was it powerful once you new how to use it. I think it is time to get away from the notion of the user interface with no learning curve. That user interface is the user interface which doesn't have any power. The trick is a user interface which grows in power as you learn how to use it, that is the real challenge.
I come from a SunOS background and have increasingly found myself having to use Windows computers for the desktop. These days nearly everything is Windows, on the servers and on the desktop.
I work for a small company that distributes Windows web server applications software, but we are quite a relaxed bunch of people so we can select our own desktop computers. One collegue has been running a Mac as his main machine for several years, although his main job is supporting and consulting on Windows based software. He has been running Windows NT on Virtual PC all this time and his Windows installation has been the least problematic we have in the office.
I have now also switched. I am using a PowerBook G4 with OS X 10.2 with Virtual PC for the odd application which doesn't run on OS X that I need. But mainly I use Office, Macromedia Studio and Mozilla for my work, so the Virtual PC doesn't get fired up very often.
I am very happy with this setup and I am also running OS X on a Cube at home, as well as an OS X FTP server.
That is quite a funny statement. 99% of all email is being sent in clear text, often passing through gateways which have permanent wiretaps installed. Phone tapping is at an all time high in the west and there are cameras on nearly every street corner around where I live.
Privacy.... I had a lot more privacy 20 years ago, that is for certain.
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The trick is to not only trademark a simple name like Firefox, where you may run into problems when you have to deal with a global naming space, but also go for something more specific, such as Mozilla Firefox. You have a much bigger chance of being successful.
I think all the Swedish banks have it too, or one use passwords. I know for a fact at least one Dutch bank use it as well. Several UK banks use multiple passwords which doesn't change...
Actually, switching computers is even more of a pain (for me) than dual booting. I envisage having a good Intel Mac with Windows on it for gaming. But then.... maybe I get infected by a virus and it hoses the Mac drive too.... maybe not. :)
When you use Google's services you are also exposing yourself to Googles future owners, whoever they may be. Ok so Google "isnt doing anything bad now", but who knows who has control of that data in the future.
When you sign a contract (or enter a deal, as you sort of do when you use Googles systems), you should never think that you are signing with the guy who is in charge now. Think of it as signing a contract with the next guy to own the contract. What is he going to do with the information... ?
But they are both running a huge water defecit. This is well documented and will lead to serious water shortages in 10-20 years. Then we have a problem...
You haven't been to NY recently I see.... :b
"Staff Buyout (SBO)
Bloor Research International Ltd was formed after a staff buyout of Bloor Research Ltd. The new company, still to be known as Bloor Research, has undergone a massive restructuring programme culminating in a new management team, fresh products and a clearer vision"
"In 2004, as a result of the prolonged downturn in the IT industry and the reduction in budgets for research and analysis, Bloor Research entered voluntary administration. The company restructured its finances and re-emerged with a stronger management team, a new streamlined set of products and services, and a commitment to honour its existing contracts with both suppliers and customers."
M$, IBM, Oracle, HP are among the claimed customers.
It is also undoubted that levels of CO2 are now some 30% higher than at any time over the past 750 000 years, (with levels of methane having more than doubled). CO2 levels are now increasing, seemingly inexorably, by nearly 1% a year, and the trend is accelerating. It is also beyond doubt that these increases are due to human activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels, rather than being due to, say, volcanic activity. Levels of human-sourced emission dwarf anything produced by even the largest recent eruptions (e.g. Krakatoa) and the ice-core record shows that, while records of past massive eruptions are preserved as layers rich in volcanic dust and sulphur dioxide, there are no CO2 'spikes' of eruptive origin.
You may at this point argue and say that is what I said "within normal long term climactic change". Well, so it is. Now look at what comes tied in with CO2 levels. in the Cretaceous Period, some 80 million years ago, when CO2 levels were considerably higher than at present, and ice-caps were virtually absent from the earth. Then, sea level stood at least 200 metres higher than today, with most of the UK being submerged.
Sounds promising, doesn't it? Read that article from the Geological Society. It isn't exactly like they are a bunch of tree hugging hippies...
Where I live the local council provides several infrastructure services, one of them is a fibre backbone. They also provide local roads, water supply, sewage treatment, electricity backbone among other things.
The fibrebackbone is just that, a backbone, an infrastructure component. It is built and maintained by the local councils power company.
On the fibre I can order IP services from 5 different ISPs, from 128 kbps to 10 mbps. I can also get Voice over IP from several providers as well as cable TV from two providers. Some of the ISPs are also in the ADSL/VDSL business going via the country's largest telecom's network.
So I can choose from a number of different internet infrastructure services: telephone lines for modem, telephone lines with ADSL (2.5 mbps, soon 8 mbps) or fibre (128 kbps to 10 mbps).
The fact that the local council (in extension I am a co-owner of that as I live here and the council belong to the population) does own the local gigabit fibre backbone does not cut into competition but actually creates more competition. I have more choice of ISPs than nearly anyone else in the country I live in.
I see that you have come across Mr Zubrin IRL too. :) That is just the type of comment I imagine him making.
Hmm, so the only thing you need to do is package your explosives like a DSL shippment for it to survive the "water bullet"? 0.o
Has any of our European readers managed to check out this supposedly silent machine which was written about at The Register?
I have it in London (0.5/0.25 Mbit/s), but I expect to be in Sweden soon where I will be using this instead (8/1 Mbit/s to 26/26 Mbit/s). All for a paltry $40/month.
:)
What do I use it for? Mainly always-on internet access, FTP server, always-on Evercrack, etc. But this is the most fun actually: video telephone. I just hang up on a call to a friend in San Francisco, 30 minutes, not a penny spent.
If you have someone who seriously needs one of these to be able to work, then it is a good investment for society to give them outright to the person. You will easily make back that money in tax revenue from the person as well as increase the person's self esteem enough that social problems in the family etc. induced by depression are much less likely to happen.
Corruption is almost unknown in the US Government.
:) )
You mean "direct corruption" such as money paid under the table to some anonymous official to get something passed through the a legal process. That is probably because the people who really need to corrupt the government in the US has invested in the highest level of government instead. They own the president and the congress, legally. Why would they bother with bribing people then? Much better to fire of another million to the appropriate lobbyist.
Watch the results: Clinton's public health care bill killed in the cradle, gas guzzler tax on SUVs abandoned, healthy eating habits information from the government suppressed. The list goes on.
It's institutionalised corruption.
(And yes, it is off-topic.
Online voting systems are very hot at the moment (as in one can potentially make some good money from it). The companies involved with this are trying to get the "first mover" advantage. They want to look good and appear successful in a very immature market.
They are scared of people who have been thinking about this a long time, like Open Source advocates. Someone like Shaum is able to make them look bad with a couple of quick quotes to the local news paper. Something which can potentially make or break a company which is early in its VC funding process. They really don't want that to happen. They think a good way of avoiding it is to keep Open Source advocates out of the process, such as a conference.
Quite simple really.
According to the RIAA's own figures, over the last two years the US music industry has produced 25% fewer CDs.
Of course, the fact that thousands of tech people are out of jobs still and the market is in the dump has nothing to do with it. Right. Look at the most of the tech industry and it is a dire picture. Why wouldn't this hit the recording industry? A a lot of us who are directly affected by the slump in the market buy music. I have a lot less money to spend on music today compared to a couple of years ago.
Low consumer demand hits Sony profit
Tougher time for techies
These days RIAA is all about miss-information to serve their own purpose. Nothing else.
I had been looking for that too.... Thanks MrPuffypants. :)
If you are in to electronic democracy I presume you have looked at the e-democracy project. If not then check out some interesting thoughts about it from the founder at:
Linux User pdf article in Google cache
My old chemistry set quickly fell into dissuse, unless I took it out to make mustard gas (or whatever it really was, but that was what they said in the manual). Imagine the headlines:
"12 year old's Terrorist Mustard Gas factory discovered".
There are certainly ways to produce hydrogen without resorting to burning fossile fules. The US Governement has spent close to $800 million over the years to prove that Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) works. This is a non-polluting, sustainable way to produce energy which can be used to extract hydrogen from water.
As it isn't using oil or nuclear power, it is currently out of favour with the US Department of Energy, but you should certainly learn more about it. A good overview can be found at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the latest news can be found at OTECnews.
Maybe a direct neural interface...
I think you forget, as most people seem to, that all learning takes effort. Even when your gear is hooked straight into your brain do you have to spend substantial time to learn how to use it. Learning to walk takes time, watch a child. Learning a new human language takes years, not only for a grown up person. Learning any new skill takes time. I think that nearly anything which does not involve learning probably isn't worth doing in the end.
One of the most effective computer interfaces I have ever used was a document publishing system interface. It took time to learn how to use it, but boy was it powerful once you new how to use it. I think it is time to get away from the notion of the user interface with no learning curve. That user interface is the user interface which doesn't have any power. The trick is a user interface which grows in power as you learn how to use it, that is the real challenge.
I come from a SunOS background and have increasingly found myself having to use Windows computers for the desktop. These days nearly everything is Windows, on the servers and on the desktop.
I work for a small company that distributes Windows web server applications software, but we are quite a relaxed bunch of people so we can select our own desktop computers. One collegue has been running a Mac as his main machine for several years, although his main job is supporting and consulting on Windows based software. He has been running Windows NT on Virtual PC all this time and his Windows installation has been the least problematic we have in the office.
I have now also switched. I am using a PowerBook G4 with OS X 10.2 with Virtual PC for the odd application which doesn't run on OS X that I need. But mainly I use Office, Macromedia Studio and Mozilla for my work, so the Virtual PC doesn't get fired up very often.
I am very happy with this setup and I am also running OS X on a Cube at home, as well as an OS X FTP server.
on the golden age of privacy
That is quite a funny statement. 99% of all email is being sent in clear text, often passing through gateways which have permanent wiretaps installed. Phone tapping is at an all time high in the west and there are cameras on nearly every street corner around where I live.
Privacy.... I had a lot more privacy 20 years ago, that is for certain.