I just sign my evaluations. My regular readers can get used to my way of doing things, and benchmark me:) Like, if this idiot (me) finds it easy to use, it's probably underfeatured...
Apart from that remark, I think the linked articel is well-meaning but total BS.
Canon and Nikon have a Mac-like following in the photography field. Their buyers like them. In particular, support is incredibly good compared to computers.
An expensive set of brakes will be needed to stop this. Hmmm, a visit by the US trade secretary ? Buying up all the CDs ? I think this is more of a ploy by the policticans to squeeze money out of MS than a real attempt to push the software out there.
Dont't worry, the US will never send data to the UK. As for data from the UK sent to the US, UK citizens don't have rights as known in the US anyway, so the government is free to do what it wants.
I'd be quite happy if the UK turned into the 51st state. Certainly a better fate than being half in and half out of europe, and at least getting some benefit from our participation in the Bush wars.
I find it strange that our soldiers can get killed in Irak, but our detainees in Guantanamo get no lawyers whike US detainees do - hmmm. If we're in, why don't we get treated the same ?
I must have done about 50 Linux installs and used Unix workstations in various forms intensively to get my Comp Sci Ph.D. But my notebook to go these days is a Mac - I did have Linux on a thinkpad before, it always had small niggling hardware issues eg. sound and suspend, and minor PCMCIA support issues that make life hell in practice.
The Powerbooks have all the nice integrated features that Linux on a notebook should have, if it were done right. Apple has done the job which a distribution of Linux should do, but they've done it right, so you don't have to spend months tinkering with the kernel.
It's not technological superiority - if Dell or HP had real laptop support for Linux then theirs would probably be great too.
Look at the standing joke that IBM, Dell, and Telstra technical support have become as a direct and specific result of their corporate decision to outsource to India. Then come back here again and explain to us how exactly OSDN opening an office in darkest India would be a good thing.
The argument made for outsourcing to India or China is that you can usually get access to a better class of programmer there than at home. And in fact a lot of stuff is now very well made in India and China. The issues with tech support may be more due to Dell, HP etc going for the lowest bidder and using untrained personnel. After all, most companies view tech support exclusively as a tech center.
Last not least, I believe parent may have forgotten that the Linux kernel came from some forlorn country that most US schoolchildren couldn't find on a map. And was written by a member of the swedish minority there, people who get are viewed by the locals with the same benvolence extended to puerto-ricans in the US.
Well, I signed up to a PSP site. They asked for my qualifications, I said PhD. Never heard from them again.
Handwrting recognition is actually pretty easy if you can coerce the alphabet like Graffiti, I think the code for a couple of recognisers is buried somewhere inside Squeak - anyway, if I had to do it I would just use the Graffiti alphapbet, coz everybody knows it, don't think it would take more than a couple of days to make it work.
I don't live in the US and I'm not a techie any more - by MY standards, this post qualifies as abuse. Are there not gentler ways to educate the unknowing ?
Yes it is simpler. Whether it is actually a good design will only be seen if and when it gets ported to linux or bsd as the Mac crowd doesn't really hack enough to test something like this.
I don't know what it's good for, but given the clear stance, and the seniority of the author, it would seem that the EU is now planning to eviscerate not only software patents but also "patent locks" once and for all.
It would seem that after its brush with MS, the EU executive have done some learning: Quite obviously, none of the patents surrounding multi-media formats or rights management would hold against the prescription of interoperability, nor would patents surrounding networking be enforceable against interoperating software producers.
In this way, the EU, faced with MS non-compliance regarding interoperability and licensing of protocols is turning the tables on MS, by planning to make it impossible in the future to enforce IP rights in Europe against erstwhile patent infringers in these areas:)
to assure interoperability... when the use of a patented technique is necessary only to achieve interoperability between two systems, such use should not be considered as patent infringement.
I think MS (XML Word files etc) and HP, Lexmark et co (printer cartridges) and lotsa other people who want you to put Ford Petrol in Ford cars are not going to like this:)
BTW, the summary is concise and extremely clear - I wonder why the parent talked about bureaucratic jargon ?
(pour assurer l'interopérabilité, renforcement de la confirmation des droits découlant des articles 5 et 6 de la directive 91/250, par le fait que lorsque le recours à une technique brevetée est nécessaire à la seule fin d'assurer l'interopérabilité entre deux systèmes, ce recours ne soit pas considéré comme une contrefaçon de brevet.)
Platform is the new brand buzzword. Windows is a Platform. Anything that does not have rock-firm foundations is a platform - ie what used to be called middleware before. By that standard, the GNU utilities are a platform, Linux is not.
apparently they need a special antenna to do this docking, costing a small amount of money to be paid to Ukraine, and at that time they didn't have the money to purchase this.
You cannot blame MS for playing according to the rules; nor can one blame the policticians for being accomodating and writing the rules to benefit such a generous contributor. Anyone here say vicious circle ?
Microsoft wants a system that says "All patents are belong to us".
Americans wants a system that says "All patents are belong to US"
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I just sign my evaluations. My regular readers can get used to my way of doing things, and benchmark me :) Like, if this idiot (me) finds it easy to use, it's probably underfeatured ...
Apart from that remark, I think the linked articel is well-meaning but total BS.
Canon and Nikon have a Mac-like following in the photography field. Their buyers like them. In particular, support is incredibly good compared to computers.
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An expensive set of brakes will be needed to stop this. Hmmm, a visit by the US trade secretary ? Buying up all the CDs ? I think this is more of a ploy by the policticans to squeeze money out of MS than a real attempt to push the software out there.
Dont't worry, the US will never send data to the UK. As for data from the UK sent to the US, UK citizens don't have rights as known in the US anyway, so the government is free to do what it wants.
I'd be quite happy if the UK turned into the 51st state. Certainly a better fate than being half in and half out of europe, and at least getting some benefit from our participation in the Bush wars.
I find it strange that our soldiers can get killed in Irak, but our detainees in Guantanamo get no lawyers whike US detainees do - hmmm. If we're in, why don't we get treated the same ?
I must have done about 50 Linux installs and used Unix workstations in various forms intensively to get my Comp Sci Ph.D. But my notebook to go these days is a Mac - I did have Linux on a thinkpad before, it always had small niggling hardware issues eg. sound and suspend, and minor PCMCIA support issues that make life hell in practice.
The Powerbooks have all the nice integrated features that Linux on a notebook should have, if it were done right. Apple has done the job which a distribution of Linux should do, but they've done it right, so you don't have to spend months tinkering with the kernel.
It's not technological superiority - if Dell or HP had real laptop support for Linux then theirs would probably be great too.
sorry, first para above is quote from parent. Also s/tech center/cost center/ , I will proofread next time.
Too cheap, hence too little pork to slice.
Won't fly.
Well, I signed up to a PSP site. They asked for my qualifications, I said PhD. Never heard from them again.
Handwrting recognition is actually pretty easy if you can coerce the alphabet like Graffiti, I think the code for a couple of recognisers is buried somewhere inside Squeak - anyway, if I had to do it I would just use the Graffiti alphapbet, coz everybody knows it, don't think it would take more than a couple of days to make it work.
I don't live in the US and I'm not a techie any more - by MY standards, this post qualifies as abuse.
Are there not gentler ways to educate the unknowing ?
Thank you for the summary.
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Yes it is simpler. Whether it is actually a good design will only be seen if and when it gets ported to linux or bsd as the Mac crowd doesn't really hack enough to test something like this.
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I don't know what it's good for, but given the clear stance, and the seniority of the author, it would seem that the EU is now planning to eviscerate not only software patents but also "patent locks" once and for all.
:)
It would seem that after its brush with MS, the EU executive have done some learning: Quite obviously, none of the patents surrounding multi-media formats or rights management would hold against the prescription of interoperability, nor would patents surrounding networking be enforceable against interoperating software producers.
In this way, the EU, faced with MS non-compliance regarding interoperability and licensing of protocols is turning the tables on MS, by planning to make it impossible in the future to enforce IP rights in Europe against erstwhile patent infringers in these areas
The last line of the summary is the deadliest:
... when the use of a patented technique is necessary only to achieve interoperability between two systems, such use should not be considered as patent infringement.
:)
to assure interoperability
I think MS (XML Word files etc) and HP, Lexmark et co (printer cartridges) and lotsa other people who want you to put Ford Petrol in Ford cars are not going to like this
BTW, the summary is concise and extremely clear - I wonder why the parent talked about bureaucratic jargon ?
(pour assurer l'interopérabilité, renforcement de la confirmation des droits découlant des articles 5 et 6 de la directive 91/250, par le fait que lorsque le recours à une technique brevetée est nécessaire à la seule fin d'assurer l'interopérabilité entre deux systèmes, ce recours ne soit pas considéré comme une contrefaçon de brevet.)
Platform is the new brand buzzword. Windows is a Platform. Anything that does not have rock-firm foundations is a platform - ie what used to be called middleware before. By that standard, the GNU utilities are a platform, Linux is not.
apparently they need a special antenna to do this docking, costing a small amount of money to be paid to Ukraine, and at that time they didn't have the money to purchase this.
A hidden killer app for the DS for adults might be the wifi chatting - I can imafine interesting uses for this in public places :)
I know what they'll do - have a front button and a back button - what could be more politically correct ?
I am serious - of course, in th US all lawmakers are honest, and US companies are not buying politicians, they are just "lobbying".
You cannot blame MS for playing according to the rules; nor can one blame the policticians for being accomodating and writing the rules to benefit such a generous contributor. Anyone here say vicious circle ?
Microsoft wants a system that says "All patents are belong to us".
Americans wants a system that says "All patents are belong to US"
The women have walked out because IT is mostly a rapid-obsolescing underpaid career path these days. The women have gone to greener pastures, because they could afford to be choosy.
Even my PocketC on the Palm had a small GUI builder someone had hacked up in a couple of hundred lines !