The patents at issue in the Yahoo case cover "ordering and downloading resources from computerized repositories;" a "computer system for management of resources;" and a "mechanism for dependably managing Web synchronization and tracking operations among multiple browsers," among other claims.
Great. Just great. So now ordering stuff over the Internet is patented. Fine for Yahoo, Amazon or other large companies who can afford to license this crap, but what about smaller businesses?
Just one more step towards making the Internet a worldwide version of the Shopping Channel. Thanks, NCR. I'll remember you in my prayers tonight.
What's the problem? When he gets back to the hotel at night, he wants to watch a movie. Big deal. Doesn't mean he didn't have a good time during the day.
Of course, I'm sure all YOUR vacations are adventure-packed climbs up Everest or big-spending gambling trips to Monaco.</SARCASM>
...though you then have/usr/local/etc to be concerned about./usr/local is normally created as a separate partition from/usr; it helps with backups, among other things.
They have a concept of multiple filesystems being mounted at the one point.
Al Viro's union mount/"stacked" filesystems implementation is intended to do something similar.
Average it out - as it said in the story, if senior management gets a bee in their bonnet about spam they received, you could have several guys spending an hour or two doing whatever it takes to placate them.
Well, how about if you want to mount/usr readonly? If you've got files that could change during operation on that partition, you're stuffed.
BTW, installation/uninstallation of an app is the job of the package manager, not the user. If the PM knows what files belong to what package, what real advantage is there to having everything for that app under on directory?
Don't let yourself be bugged by the trolls - no matter what you say or do, there'll always be someone here who will figure out a way to distort and misrepresent it.
Person outside the States? Check. Credit card registered outside the States? Check. PowerBook outside the States? Check. Music bought from iTMS on that PowerBook? Check.
Sorry, but it looks like he was trying to do exactly what Apple said they can't allow you to do - in the first paragraph of their terms of use. Tough.
When the SEC talk about "Internet frauds", they probably actually mean pump-and-dump spammers - you know, those mails saying "The Buy of the Year!!!!" or something similar, urging you to buy a particular stock. Those are illegal under current trading laws.
Unfortunately, while SCO may well be pulling a pump-and-dump, it'll be quite hard to prove at the moment. Wait and see if good ol' Darl sells some of his SCO stock - if he does, there might be a case.
You mean, they can check-out the file via CVS, make their enhancement, and then submit their changes to Linus ?
You know we're talking about secretaries, don't you ?
*sigh*... That's what a supplier is for.
For example, if Ms. Plunkett the secretary at AcmeCorp realises that the wordprocessor she's using doesn't handle mailmerge, she can call up her organisation's support section. If the support section thinks it's a feature that will be widely needed, they can talk to their supplier (say, IBM) and ask for this feature to be included in the next upgrade. IBM can see if that feature has been implemented in a later version and upgrade AcmeCorp to that version or backport it to AcmeCorp's current version, or they can add it themselves and supply AcmeCorp with that version, or they can farm it out to a third party, or they can finance the original developers to add that feature, or they can tell AcmeCorp that it's not worth their time to add such a feature, in which case AcmeCorp can do the same thing IBM did - add the feature themselves, backport it, pay a third party to implement it, or pay the original developers to include it.
It's so much easier when everybody has equal access to the source, isn't it?
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...you can already buy a suitable mouse (well, at least if you're in Japan).
From this week's Akiba PC Hotline: the fan mouse.
Well, she'd be over 50 now, I guess... but if that's your thing, I say go for it.
"Logins and passwords" + "Database backend" is my guess.
From the law.com article:
The patents at issue in the Yahoo case cover "ordering and downloading resources from computerized repositories;" a "computer system for management of resources;" and a "mechanism for dependably managing Web synchronization and tracking operations among multiple browsers," among other claims.
Great. Just great. So now ordering stuff over the Internet is patented. Fine for Yahoo, Amazon or other large companies who can afford to license this crap, but what about smaller businesses?
Just one more step towards making the Internet a worldwide version of the Shopping Channel. Thanks, NCR. I'll remember you in my prayers tonight.
Aaah... OK.
What's the problem? When he gets back to the hotel at night, he wants to watch a movie. Big deal.
Doesn't mean he didn't have a good time during the day.
Of course, I'm sure all YOUR vacations are adventure-packed climbs up Everest or big-spending gambling trips to Monaco.</SARCASM>
Actually, Linux does support Bluetooth, and quite well, thank you very much.
Perhaps you meant to say, "the Zaurus version of Linux does not support Bluetooth". Although I wouldn't be surprised to find it actually does.
Another good thing about the scheme would be a reduction in the number of small children accidentally baked to death by absent-minded guardians.
Absent-minded? I think the word you're looking for is 'negligent'.
...though you then have /usr/local/etc to be concerned about. /usr/local is normally created as a separate partition from /usr; it helps with backups, among other things.
They have a concept of multiple filesystems being mounted at the one point.
Al Viro's union mount/"stacked" filesystems implementation is intended to do something similar.
Average it out - as it said in the story, if senior management gets a bee in their bonnet about spam they received, you could have several guys spending an hour or two doing whatever it takes to placate them.
Why not?
/usr readonly? If you've got files that could change during operation on that partition, you're stuffed.
Well, how about if you want to mount
BTW, installation/uninstallation of an app is the job of the package manager, not the user. If the PM knows what files belong to what package, what real advantage is there to having everything for that app under on directory?
Actually, the equivalent of union mount is available on Linux, implemented by Al Viro IIRC.
Blackadder? ;)
They chose not to implement POSIX because of things like this:
/etc rather than /usr/lib/cron
/usr/lib/cron, of all places?!
259 The files at.allow and at.deny reside in
260 on LSB implementations.
Why, for the love of God, would you want them under
Face it, POSIX is just broken in some areas.
Miguel,
Don't let yourself be bugged by the trolls - no matter what you say or do, there'll always be someone here who will figure out a way to distort and misrepresent it.
What's a "false positive" about it?
Person outside the States? Check.
Credit card registered outside the States? Check.
PowerBook outside the States? Check.
Music bought from iTMS on that PowerBook? Check.
Sorry, but it looks like he was trying to do exactly what Apple said they can't allow you to do - in the first paragraph of their terms of use. Tough.
Hardly the 'fine print'. It was the first item on the Terms of Use page.
Sorry, but this guy made his choice - tough for him if he didn't read the EULA before plonking down the cash.
One problem would be that the songs would need to be purchased separately, can't delete them from the original CD.
Destroy the CD after ripping it.
Maybe not in the US - they have them all over Japan. Yes, you can rent CDs.
Yeah! Screw the environment! What did it ever do for us, huh?
Ummm...
When the SEC talk about "Internet frauds", they probably actually mean pump-and-dump spammers - you know, those mails saying "The Buy of the Year!!!!" or something similar, urging you to buy a particular stock. Those are illegal under current trading laws.
Unfortunately, while SCO may well be pulling a pump-and-dump, it'll be quite hard to prove at the moment. Wait and see if good ol' Darl sells some of his SCO stock - if he does, there might be a case.
Quake IV, dude...
The other thing is that several of the utilities (or at least 90% of their functionality) can be implemented in 1-2 lines of sh or awk.
Really, if you're shooting to be included in a distribution, make it for something worthwhile.
You mean, they can check-out the file via CVS, make their enhancement, and then submit their changes to Linus ?
You know we're talking about secretaries, don't you ?
*sigh*... That's what a supplier is for.
For example, if Ms. Plunkett the secretary at AcmeCorp realises that the wordprocessor she's using doesn't handle mailmerge, she can call up her organisation's support section. If the support section thinks it's a feature that will be widely needed, they can talk to their supplier (say, IBM) and ask for this feature to be included in the next upgrade. IBM can see if that feature has been implemented in a later version and upgrade AcmeCorp to that version or backport it to AcmeCorp's current version, or they can add it themselves and supply AcmeCorp with that version, or they can farm it out to a third party, or they can finance the original developers to add that feature, or they can tell AcmeCorp that it's not worth their time to add such a feature, in which case AcmeCorp can do the same thing IBM did - add the feature themselves, backport it, pay a third party to implement it, or pay the original developers to include it.
It's so much easier when everybody has equal access to the source, isn't it?
No, someone was shown two pieces of similar code with no way to verfiy the origin of either.
Next objection?