Making the patent-submission process an electronic one removes one more barrier, but that's a good thing: it helps the little citizen compete on the same
playing field that the corporations have historically reserved for themselves.
This is nonsense, it does this no more than electronic trading relieves the small investor from their perenial role as victim of the profession trader. So far, patents have proved to be the most successful line of attack against open source. Easier filing just makes it easier to attack.
Equality has been the rallying point of the modern enlightened state, and we should achieve it wherever and whenever possible.
Good, then you must agree completely with the proposition that we all deserve equal access to ideas, regardless of who won the race to the patent office --
Smaller planets, such as Mars, have less mass and a weaker gravitational field, reducing the escape velocity. This allows gases to escape the planet's
atmosphere into outer space.
Especially when given a switch kick in the Keister by a high energy particle, something our ozone layer would normally block. Would normally. --
One trick I started using whin I got tired of logging into root to install an RPM was to open a filemanager in superuser mode (on my system (man 7.1,
KDE), [main menu icon] -> Applications -> File Tools -> Filemanager (Mode Super User)), and then click on the RPM to install it for there. I haven't tried
it, but you may be able to accoumplish the same thing by setting Kpackage as SUID root.
This trick works, but what I'd like to see is Kpackage (or whatever interface to RPM you use) ask you for your the root password when it's about to do
someting that requires root access, or, even better, ACLs fully implimented in Linux.
Or use sudo. Sudo configuration is geeky in the extreme, not to mention somewhat anal, but it's just great to use. You use the command 'sudo kpackage', and sudo will either prompt you for root's password or will remember it for a period of 5 minutes or so, or however you configure it. --
My next processor is likely to be something arround a 1GHz P3, perhaps in a years time, however I wont be buying another intel motherboard at this rate, with Athlon outperforming on price and performance.
Sheesh. Life in the slow lane, huh? I'll settle for nothing less that dual 1.5 Gig Athlons; and we're not talking anything exotic here. --
3. After careful analysis of logs, including the version control management logs it turns out that no modification took place and only a minor future product has been downloaded.
Give me a break. A guy goes undetected on MS's network for 3 months and he can't modify a versioning log? --
Yes, despite the fact that the article states that it doesn't run MS Windows yet, and that nearly everyone who runs VMware on Linux uses it to run MS
Windows
There's an important category of users that doesn't use it to run Windows: kernel hackers. VMWare lets you run the kernel under normal gdb. --
Pardon me, but why do they "deserve my dollars"? Their software is quite expensive (about the same price as a low-end PC), and they got started with
the Bochs software Kevin wrote and let them have for free.
Wow! Is that true? This changes my perception of them entirely. --
I have to disagree with some of your analysis of OS/2 and its demise at the hands of MicroShaft. Quite frankly, the IBM hardware sales machine were
staffed by folks that seemed to have less than no interest in moving OS/2 - they sold lots of boxes with Windoze on them, but OS/2 wasn't commonly
available.
This shows that you haven't read the findings of fact in the microsoft trial. Microsoft forced IBM not to ship OS/2 by cranking Windows licencing charges up to 5 times what everybody else was paying. --
4 weeks ago Alan Cox spend a weekend i Denmark and Sweden giving talks in Stockholm and Lund to the local LUG
he speeks very well!
Absolutely. He's brilliant. In fact, it seems like all the top people in Linux are brilliant speakers. Which came first, the brilliant speaking or the high position in the meritocracy? --
XPCOM is completely independant from Windows' COM. the reason for the file size difference is the compilers. Part of this is that Microsoft simply makes
a better compiler on Windows than gcc is on Linux.
But don't be too hard on poor gcc - it alone supports the entire non-windows open source movement. It's a good think WATCOM C is getting free huh? With gcc's front end and Watcom's back end we will run the world. Err, we will rule the world *sooner*. --
Somehow I don't think this is the best thing Netscape should be doing.
Remember that Netscape is AOL and AOL is by nature evil. AOL needs to have a proprietary, closed browser, so they *have* to fork Mozilla. No way around that one. That's the bad news, the good news is that right now we have our own Mozilla, it's a damn good browser, and we can use it to hit AOL over the head with standards compliance. Don't freak out about this too much, because right now AOL's interests are running in parallel with ours, and they will until Microsoft is beaten. It's our job to take Mozilla, now GPL, and make it *better* than AOL's closed version. Damn, all we ever needed out of this deal is a replacement for Netscape that is open source and can handle all the current standards. We're actually getting a good deal more: we've got an 800 pound gorilla for a friend that is intent on busting up Microsoft's attempt to corner the web server market.
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And by the way, if you are in the midst of applying for Canadian permanent residency, you have to get permission to leave Canada, just like the US. My
experience is that there isn't much difference between the actual rules in the two countries. (Unless you are very rich: Canada has some rules that make
permanent residency very easy and quick to get if you bring enough money along.) Canada is, however, a lot quicker about processing things.
In Canada you are not made to feel like an animal or a criminal by the border guards, um, I meant INS officers. IMHO, that's worth something. --
Uh.. dude, it's free. Totally. Check the site for details. Free rules the world, especially when you're a student on a grant.. But hey, you can always buy an
official Parsec-coffee mug.:)
Uh... dude, get a clue. I want to buy this game even though I know it's free. What part of that do you not understand? --
I can't believe that the US congress is buying the bill of goods the tech industry is feeding them. H1-B visas are a liscence to import economic slaves -
specifically for their natural talent - sounds a little like prostitution, no?
Six years is a _long_ time in the technical fields. These people can't advance very far in their careers, because after the six years are up, adios, nice
seein' ya, don't let the door hit you on the ass, etc.
The most alarming thing I've heard about this is that you actually have to apply to leave the country. It's called a 'parole' and if you don't do it or forget to do it even for an hour, you can be barred from ever entering the U.S. ever again like a common criminal.
If you want a programming job, come to Canada - the pay is almost as good and you will be treated like a human being. You will have a real chance to become a citizen if you want to, and believe me, you will want to. No offense, my American friends, but your INS is killing your karma around the world.
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"The bill would also establish an "opposition procedure" at the conclusion of the process, "so that the public at large would have one additional
opportunity to challenge the award of a business method patent short of having to file a lawsuit," said Boucher.
It's a transparent attempt to legitimize the patenting of business procedures. Think about this: soon the USPTO will allow the patenting of movie plots. Yes they will. It's not good enough to improve this offensive procedure, it has to be killed. --
"Boucher also said that the bill could amend application procedures by adding "new protections to the beginning and end of the current process,"
allowing the public to submit "evidence that the claimed invention is already in use."
This just creates more great jobs for lawyers and raises the barrier for the (already pretty much extinct) lone inventor. Is Boucher a lawyer?
Don't add new searches and procedures. Disallow the patenting of algorithms the way it was before. --
This bill is just trying to quiet down the critism. Don't buy it. The rot is deeper than you think. We have to roll things back to a state better than it was before the USTPO decides to legalize the patenting of ideas.
I'm not kidding. This is professional quality stuff (probably because a lot of the people working on it *are* professionals). I want to pay money for it, get it in a box. How can I do that? Loki are you listening?
And when I do pay for it I'd like most of that money to go into the game team's party fund, so they can fly around the world and have conferences and parties, and attract more of the kind of first-rate engine hackers, artists and story writers who can take this thing all the way to the top.
Why be a dick about it? "It embarasses me"? No, your Mom dressing you like that embarasses you. Duplicate stories on slashdot do not embarass you.
Hooboy: this makes a lot of sense. Insult the people who do the talking and supply the good technical content on your site. Proofread your damm stories, check your facts, and remember this simple rule of capitalism: the customer is always right. You piss me off. You don't want to be known as a slashdot editor who pisses off customers, I can tell you that right now.
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Who thinks that Corel's new 'strategic partner' in Redmond will let Corel proceed with any kind of effective deployment of Linux on the desktop? This stinks to heaven.
No, they won't outright cancel it, that would be too obvious. They'll just get a little - defocussed. Yeah. That's it. Defocus them.
We can kiss Corel goodbye as far as Linux goes, and that's one big victory for the evil empire. OK, who's going to step up to the plate now, with a new distro to go head-to-head with Microsoft? Oh yeah. Sun. OK, Scott, your turn... fire two. --
Maybe we can have some constructive discussion instead of the regular round of "slashdot's gone downhill" talk. To CmdrTaco and the rest: We know
you're all busy. But can you work this out?
You put it so nicely. Let me put it more bluntly: Rob Maldo, your success has gone to your head. Yes, we still like come to your party, but don't count on that forever. Your lack of attention to detail is embarrassing. It embarrasses me. Get your act together. --
This is not a joke. I saw it at Linux Kongress in Germany last week. Emacs runs. XBill doesn't run. It's being worked on.
Well, hmmm, what does it mean? I guess it means Sega should stop being so anal and start looking for new friends in our part of the universe, because nothing on god's green earth will stop us from forcing open whatever technology tries to stay closed.
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No babe wants to bother you by breaking up the greak conversation you're having with your laptop. This is not the same as being repelled. Just don't ask anyone to join in, I mean, is that different from inviting them to read your book with you?
But I have personal experience that tech toys attract attention, what's more, from the kind of girl I'm interested in. Go sit in a cafe with a laptop, or what the heck, with cyber glasses. Be completely into yourself for a while, have fun. *Everbody* will notice. Nobody will think 'what a geek'. Then put the damm thing down. After a while somebody will start a conversation about the tech toy, guaranteed, either that or you didn't brush your teeth.
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This is nonsense, it does this no more than electronic trading relieves the small investor from their perenial role as victim of the profession trader. So far, patents have proved to be the most successful line of attack against open source. Easier filing just makes it easier to attack.
Equality has been the rallying point of the modern enlightened state, and we should achieve it wherever and whenever possible.
Good, then you must agree completely with the proposition that we all deserve equal access to ideas, regardless of who won the race to the patent office
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Especially when given a switch kick in the Keister by a high energy particle, something our ozone layer would normally block. Would normally.
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This trick works, but what I'd like to see is Kpackage (or whatever interface to RPM you use) ask you for your the root password when it's about to do someting that requires root access, or, even better, ACLs fully implimented in Linux.
Or use sudo. Sudo configuration is geeky in the extreme, not to mention somewhat anal, but it's just great to use. You use the command 'sudo kpackage', and sudo will either prompt you for root's password or will remember it for a period of 5 minutes or so, or however you configure it.
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Sheesh. Life in the slow lane, huh? I'll settle for nothing less that dual 1.5 Gig Athlons; and we're not talking anything exotic here.
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Give me a break. A guy goes undetected on MS's network for 3 months and he can't modify a versioning log?
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There's an important category of users that doesn't use it to run Windows: kernel hackers. VMWare lets you run the kernel under normal gdb.
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Wow! Is that true? This changes my perception of them entirely.
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This shows that you haven't read the findings of fact in the microsoft trial. Microsoft forced IBM not to ship OS/2 by cranking Windows licencing charges up to 5 times what everybody else was paying.
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Absolutely. He's brilliant. In fact, it seems like all the top people in Linux are brilliant speakers. Which came first, the brilliant speaking or the high position in the meritocracy?
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XPCOM is completely independant from Windows' COM. the reason for the file size difference is the compilers. Part of this is that Microsoft simply makes a better compiler on Windows than gcc is on Linux.
But don't be too hard on poor gcc - it alone supports the entire non-windows open source movement. It's a good think WATCOM C is getting free huh? With gcc's front end and Watcom's back end we will run the world. Err, we will rule the world *sooner*.
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Somehow I don't think this is the best thing Netscape should be doing.
Remember that Netscape is AOL and AOL is by nature evil. AOL needs to have a proprietary, closed browser, so they *have* to fork Mozilla. No way around that one. That's the bad news, the good news is that right now we have our own Mozilla, it's a damn good browser, and we can use it to hit AOL over the head with standards compliance. Don't freak out about this too much, because right now AOL's interests are running in parallel with ours, and they will until Microsoft is beaten. It's our job to take Mozilla, now GPL, and make it *better* than AOL's closed version. Damn, all we ever needed out of this deal is a replacement for Netscape that is open source and can handle all the current standards. We're actually getting a good deal more: we've got an 800 pound gorilla for a friend that is intent on busting up Microsoft's attempt to corner the web server market.
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..Microsoft will use Word to produce it's briefs...
They might as well give up on that and use Wordperfect, now that they own Corel.
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And by the way, if you are in the midst of applying for Canadian permanent residency, you have to get permission to leave Canada, just like the US. My experience is that there isn't much difference between the actual rules in the two countries. (Unless you are very rich: Canada has some rules that make permanent residency very easy and quick to get if you bring enough money along.) Canada is, however, a lot quicker about processing things.
In Canada you are not made to feel like an animal or a criminal by the border guards, um, I meant INS officers. IMHO, that's worth something.
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Uh.. dude, it's free. Totally. Check the site for details. Free rules the world, especially when you're a student on a grant.. But hey, you can always buy an official Parsec-coffee mug. :)
Uh... dude, get a clue. I want to buy this game even though I know it's free. What part of that do you not understand?
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I can't believe that the US congress is buying the bill of goods the tech industry is feeding them. H1-B visas are a liscence to import economic slaves - specifically for their natural talent - sounds a little like prostitution, no? Six years is a _long_ time in the technical fields. These people can't advance very far in their careers, because after the six years are up, adios, nice seein' ya, don't let the door hit you on the ass, etc.
The most alarming thing I've heard about this is that you actually have to apply to leave the country. It's called a 'parole' and if you don't do it or forget to do it even for an hour, you can be barred from ever entering the U.S. ever again like a common criminal.
If you want a programming job, come to Canada - the pay is almost as good and you will be treated like a human being. You will have a real chance to become a citizen if you want to, and believe me, you will want to. No offense, my American friends, but your INS is killing your karma around the world.
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"The bill would also establish an "opposition procedure" at the conclusion of the process, "so that the public at large would have one additional opportunity to challenge the award of a business method patent short of having to file a lawsuit," said Boucher.
It's a transparent attempt to legitimize the patenting of business procedures. Think about this: soon the USPTO will allow the patenting of movie plots. Yes they will. It's not good enough to improve this offensive procedure, it has to be killed.
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"Boucher also said that the bill could amend application procedures by adding "new protections to the beginning and end of the current process," allowing the public to submit "evidence that the claimed invention is already in use."
This just creates more great jobs for lawyers and raises the barrier for the (already pretty much extinct) lone inventor. Is Boucher a lawyer?
Don't add new searches and procedures. Disallow the patenting of algorithms the way it was before.
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This bill is just trying to quiet down the critism. Don't buy it. The rot is deeper than you think. We have to roll things back to a state better than it was before the USTPO decides to legalize the patenting of ideas.
Refuse to support this. It's not good enough.
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I'm not kidding. This is professional quality stuff (probably because a lot of the people working on it *are* professionals). I want to pay money for it, get it in a box. How can I do that? Loki are you listening?
And when I do pay for it I'd like most of that money to go into the game team's party fund, so they can fly around the world and have conferences and parties, and attract more of the kind of first-rate engine hackers, artists and story writers who can take this thing all the way to the top.
I played it, it's good. It's slick.
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Why be a dick about it? "It embarasses me"? No, your Mom dressing you like that embarasses you. Duplicate stories on slashdot do not embarass you.
Hooboy: this makes a lot of sense. Insult the people who do the talking and supply the good technical content on your site. Proofread your damm stories, check your facts, and remember this simple rule of capitalism: the customer is always right. You piss me off. You don't want to be known as a slashdot editor who pisses off customers, I can tell you that right now.
--
Who thinks that Corel's new 'strategic partner' in Redmond will let Corel proceed with any kind of effective deployment of Linux on the desktop? This stinks to heaven.
No, they won't outright cancel it, that would be too obvious. They'll just get a little - defocussed. Yeah. That's it. Defocus them.
We can kiss Corel goodbye as far as Linux goes, and that's one big victory for the evil empire. OK, who's going to step up to the plate now, with a new distro to go head-to-head with Microsoft? Oh yeah. Sun. OK, Scott, your turn... fire two.
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Maybe we can have some constructive discussion instead of the regular round of "slashdot's gone downhill" talk. To CmdrTaco and the rest: We know you're all busy. But can you work this out?
You put it so nicely. Let me put it more bluntly: Rob Maldo, your success has gone to your head. Yes, we still like come to your party, but don't count on that forever. Your lack of attention to detail is embarrassing. It embarrasses me. Get your act together.
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This is not a joke. I saw it at Linux Kongress in Germany last week. Emacs runs. XBill doesn't run. It's being worked on.
Well, hmmm, what does it mean? I guess it means Sega should stop being so anal and start looking for new friends in our part of the universe, because nothing on god's green earth will stop us from forcing open whatever technology tries to stay closed.
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Anyone who used DCs CueCat software has had their software has had their information stolen from the DC servers!
Humble suggestion: make it a policy that Slashdot editors should preview their posts, and even consider doing this yourself.
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No babe wants to bother you by breaking up the greak conversation you're having with your laptop. This is not the same as being repelled. Just don't ask anyone to join in, I mean, is that different from inviting them to read your book with you?
But I have personal experience that tech toys attract attention, what's more, from the kind of girl I'm interested in. Go sit in a cafe with a laptop, or what the heck, with cyber glasses. Be completely into yourself for a while, have fun. *Everbody* will notice. Nobody will think 'what a geek'. Then put the damm thing down. After a while somebody will start a conversation about the tech toy, guaranteed, either that or you didn't brush your teeth.
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