The term robot actually comes from a 1920's play by Karel Capek called "RUR, Rossum's Universal Robots" and is a derivitive of the Slavic word for "work". Therefore Asimov simply popularized the term. Asimov would have been about 3 when the phrase Robot was first used and 7 I believe when 'Metropolis' came to the screen. So these may have had more of an influence on his writing than anything else.
People keep brining up Jules Verne and the Nautilus but debunking the 'nuclear' aspect because the engine burned salt. What people fail to mention is the process it used to 'burn' the salt could it have been a nuclear reaction. Additionally noone mentions that the ship gets the salt from the surrounding water through either some desalinization process (too long) or a shorter electrochemical process like a catalytic converter. Parrallels to these processes would be the ramjet/scramjet that collects it's fuel from the surrounding atmosphere and current fuel cell and hybrid engines that are designed to convert simple water into base elements for consumption.
There also has been no mention of the "fulgurator" which holds more than a passing resemblance to a nuclear missile/atom bomb.
"Water is the coal of the future. The energy of tomorrow is water broken down into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity. These elements will secure the earth's power supply for an indefinite period."
Jules Verne -- 1874
Please anyone correct me if I'm wrong on any of these points
Last I saw XBox would play DVD's and CD's and a little hacking and emulator love and you could play PC, PS1, SNES, SEGA, ATARI, and probably eventually PS2 games on the unit. Sorry but as far as PS2 blowing it away I've yet to any games on the PS2 that are as good as the games I've seen for XBox.
This subject touches on something that I saw at a local restaurant the other night. As my wife and I sat and ate the wait station was just behind us. Hanging on the wall at about average human eye height were two touch screens. One touch screen managed clock in and the other tables and orders (from what I could see). Throughout the course of the evening we saw waiters and waitresses wander by the station (had a prominent SQUIRREL logo on the display) and interact with the touch sensitive screens. The interesting part to see is how adept they were at navigating with either a pencil or their finger.
Personally I own and have used an ePods webpad for about a year now. It's not the top of technology and so the screens can be a little slow and response to commands lags. The one thing I have found though is that repetitive tasks are a breeze because I know exactly where the button is going to be before it shows up on the screen. This allows me to quickly touch through a series of commands without really needing to wait on the display to refresh. I thought that it would be skill only a tech head would pick up on. I was wrong.
Watching the wait staff that night I noticed about 6 of them, some taller and some shorter than the average height the screen was set to, breeze through screens just like I did. One very impressive girl spoke to another waiter while punching in her information. Most transactions were done and the wait staffer had walked away before the screens could go all the way through. That night I only saw one guy fumble on the screen and have to back step to hit the correct button.
My point is that there are all of these people here on the site bemoaning the fact that they learned to type by touch, and how do I remember where the special keys are, and what happens if I scratch my ass, and all of the other bullshit scenarios for why this tech will not work. I say it will work, I've seen similar things working already, I've used something similar myself. I also say it won't be the ULTIMATE solution. Just like QWERTY isn't to everyones taste and some people still have this bad habbit of liking Windows. Voice recognition is great but it's obtrusive in a meeting and non-functional in loud environments, Graffiti makes you relearn writing (shouldn't have to do), gestures are great but limited in use, and mind reading is still a ways away. So there are going to be times when voice is usable, and handwriting recognition is a good option, and times when a "virtual keyboard" is going to be much more than adequate.
Without the pioneering consumer the pioneering product will never be
many Project Managers/Analysts when designing an app create documentation that is unreadable to the people actually writing the code. The design is often either too abstract or missing needed details. Project Managers have a tendency towards nice pretty design docs that look nice in a slide presentation or work well with marketing materials.
many projects are started at the marketing end of the business. This causes problems because often marketing assumes what the customer wants and requests it's building before specifically being asked by the customer. Some call this being "pro-active" but it often results in features that the customer rarely if ever uses, while the customer ends up waiting for that not-so-flashy feature that they asked for a year ago. Additionally the marketing people have a tendency to sell an idea or premise that may not be easy to implement or require rewriting significant portions of an application in order to function correctly. Lastly the marketing team typically decides what the release cycle should be based on their own voodoo mathematics (sales figures, implementation dates, contract renewals, etc.) In the end there's very little room for push back or date correction from the Project Manager or the Coder due to the fact that customers have already "been sold on the timeline". This push then usually results in one of two things a) a buggy product b) a reduction of the features (sorry we had to skip something to get it in by the date you asked for)
most projects are miscommunicated. Sometimes this is referred to as "the customer not knowing what they want", but often it ends up the person taking the request has misinterpreted the customers wants and not clarified it. There can also be semantic issues between the customer and the designer causing features to be designed in that are not correct and at testing time will be called out by the customer and cause a redesign or rewrite of the code. Another problem closely linked is the failure of some companies to follow procedure in the hopes of "expediting" an implementation. EX: Business documents are created but some last minute touches are missing that the customer must give before the project can be started. Since the information is "non-critical" the customer is given some time to gather the information. In the mean time the docs are shipped off to the designer/coder without having been signed off on by the customer. Coding begins and at the last phase of coding the information that was needed from the customer is still absent. When asked the information will be available two days before roll out. Twenty-four hours before roll out the customer forwards the information to the designers. The information is either inaccurate, the wrong information, or does not fit within the original design framework. When pressed for the correct information and shown how it fits in the application the customer balks and says that's not what they requested and cites the UNSIGNED business requirements as "We didn't sign off on that yet."
many projects are handled by multitaskers. These people are programmers/analyst/project manager/technical support/business liaisons. Their actual job title often has nothing to do with their actual role in the company. Because of this they often get left out of important meetings or invited to ones that have no bearing on their actual duties. This and supporting the customer often takes up a significant, and difficult to estimate, amount of time. Often when supporting a customer the task falls outside of their area of duty and given the fact that many others are in the same "mismatched" job descriptions then the person in need of support gets bumped around to four different departments tying up their time also. This mismatch job description problem also causes problems when attempting to schedule resources for projects because the project manager will need to know (and never does) all of the persons duties in order to correctly identify the persons availability for the project. Additionally the project manager will need to know the skill set of the person being scheduled. The person being scheduled will often have a title or be in an area of the company that would suggest a certain skill set and this is very often inaccurate. This problem often leads to the wrong person being scheduled into the project and then that person needing to learn a skill or fudge their way through to get the project done.
Contract work and documentation: I've seen many many contractors brought in to work on "last minute" projects. One particular contractor was very good about documenting his code and very methodical in his design work. Unfortunately he had a flair for the obtuse. Every object and piece of code he created was abstracted so that it "might be" "someday" used differently. This created problems when other people attempted to use that code or when standards changed. Whole structures of code had been built and used to hold the simplest pieces of data (I.E. Monetary values). When those structures became deprecated it became harder to switch to the new code because we could not go back and rewrite the old because of time issues and casting/converting from the old structure to the new structure was difficult or a lengthy process. Additional problems arose from the use of bleeding edge code and items that were still on some ways theory. Many of the less adept coders simply choked on figuring out the code and had to spend extra time deciphering it into something they could easily understand. Other contractors also came on and like some full time employees these contractors didn't have the training or time for proper documentation. This often meant that once they left and someone had to go back and "fix" any of their code it would take extra time to decipher it.
Many projects have problems with abstraction and modularity. Within a large project a person might be given a task that seems fairly simple and straitforward. They complete their task in the time allotted, unfortunately because they did not know where the object would attach in the grand scheme of things they failed to format some value correctly, or pass some object or catch some exception. Or because they did not know the audience the product would be used by they did the interface improperly they then have to go back and in some way redesign or recode. While this might be less frequent another common result is the duplication of effort. One project is started to fulfill a need that another party has already fulfilled for someone else. For example: the company that I work for decided to create an intranet application to provide internal users the ability to check on customer information. The decision was made that web applications would be the way to reduce support needs and consolidate functions. The problem being that after creating our intranet application another team was set up to duplicate many of the features for the internet. The structure was already there, services already in place to get the same customer information that would be needed externally. It was presumed that since they were dumbing down the interface/front-end that the services would like wise need to be dumbed down. This was all done not understanding that our core components were already designed with this in mind. Once it did come to light it was decided because of the amount of money already spent that the duplicate project would proceed. Because of the way people are given projects in the company and basically told they don't need to know about other projects the "internet group" was doomed not only to create a duplicate product but also to repeat many of the mistakes and replicate many of the problems that the intranet group had already run into. Not having the knowledge ended up costing the company millions and drained off resources from other projects pushing them behind also.
why fake one when it's easy enough to steal. If the quick check criteria is visual appearance you simply find someone who has the same general appearance as you and steal their ID. The majority of the time you won't even be asked for any proof of your existence and it will be business as usual. IE when was the last time someone checked your signature or ID when you used a credit card.
I want to rename these type of patents the "Jules Vernes" or the "Leonardo DaVinci" patents. Can you imagine how rich either of those mens ancestors would be today if they had patented their ideas. Think of it helicoptors, tanks, nuclear power, nuclear subs, space travel, machine guns. Even though they were the "inventors" of such concepts the machines themselves were not feasable during their lifetime. So is it feasable to think that a company can patent a process or invention that they cannot feasably prototype or produce and then wait around for someone else to do all of the work to actually create the item and then swoop in and rake in the reward.
One company might do all of the real work in producing the product thinking that they have an obvious process that's not patentable, therefore they never do the patent search, therefore they never know there is a patent or a licensing issue. I guess it comes down to intent in both cases. Did TiVO or any of the others know of the patent and attempt to avoid licensing? Did the patent holder attempt to avoid enforcement until the patented product became widely used? I think this goes back to that issue of British Telecom trying to rake in royalties over the hyperlink. Scary stuff.
I do believe in the original intent of patent and trademark law. I just wish these companies did also.
No to most of us the problem isn't the patent in and of itself but in the timing of it's enforcement. Tivo and the concept of pausing live TV has now been around for a couple of years at least not to mention the time it took to develop and that the information would have been in the marketing material and press. So why is it that a company that creates a concept 1) never develops it 2) waits 9 years to begin to enforce it's patent after the technology has already been adopted by multiple vendors.
My personal belief is that if you don't defend that patent from day 1 then you are not entitled to any reimbursement whatsoever. This would stop all of these holding companies and patent vultures from waiting for tech to be incorporated into everyday life and then trying to step in to reap all of the benefits by screwing everyone.
Well according to the russians it collided with an American sub. So where is the American sub? Limped home? Does this mean American subs have a sturdier construction? Unlikely. Most like what happened is a miss fire of a torpedo which tore a whole in the front end of sub sending it to the bottom of the ocean along with it's trainee crew. It would of course look better for the Russians if they had someone to blame it on:)
MS is working to market itself and it's format to the Music and Movie industry. They can't very well market themselves as a product that dis-allows "PIRACY" if their product allows other products to circumvent a "secure" format. The use of "secure" in this case is a wide open word that reduces the need to constantly redefine the EULA every time a new format pops up or MS rebrands one of their products. MS is also attempting to fall into the Napster-microscope-in-the-ass-lawsuit-fiasco. Think about if MS allowed for the playing of "secured formats" that someone didn't have a license for despite the fact that they had technology to stop this. The music and movie industry would be all over them trying to sway judges to get 100% compliance or shut the company down. Again this goes right back to the CYOA policy that most companies keep, because there are other companies out there gunning for any chance to take them out (AOL/TW, Oracle, Sun) digging through trash, scouring EULA's, decompiling code hoping to find some little "Sun sux!" or "if(appName.equals("AOL")){BSOD();}".
I love it. See Star Trek in all it's forms is really a peice of art. Normal shows aren't because at the end of the show everyone talks and they've basically all see the same movie. The interpretation will be identical. True art gets interpreted differently by each individual viewer based on something inside the viewer that the piece of art speaks to. I've heard the interpretation of Star Trek described as "Self, EGO, ID (Freud)", "the three stooges", "racism", "team work (the three muskateers)", "hero worship", "morality play", "wwf".... I think it's hilarious how many different ways people can interpret and read things into the Star Trek franchise. Of course there are the people who can't just leave things at entertainment value and who must always search for "the deeper meaning". And of course sometimes there is a purposeful "deeper meaning".
The misinformed article is probably talking about either a specific componenent and content or about the logo program. I dislike reporters who report "a reader informed me" as FACT. If a reader informs you then research it and post it as fact and not as rumor. MS is just protecting it's rights of trademark and copyright, and while most people here don't agree that anyone should have those rights they do still exist. Note that there are laws that allow criticism and sarcasm about a company, person, government, or product. This allows for reviews and parody, which differ from disparagement. Disparage is primarily to lower in rank or character using words that cause harm or resentment. Therefore MS is attempting to reduce the number of people using it's logo/content/product to spread discontent about it's product.
I don't see any harm done.
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"Next week you will be able to buy commemoritive $5 coins minted by The American Mint which will be leagal tender in Libiria."
It's actually America's Mint not the American Mint that mints these particular coins. And next time you want to post something you might run it through a spell checker because you just made yourself sound like a complete and utter moron ----"freedomes striped down to fight a nonvisable enamy" --- run Forest, run!
A> Commercial availability does not equate to being legal. Many items are "commercially available" but have restrictions on them as to be warranted illegal (IE radar detectors, beer, etc.) Linux for quite some time was not a commercially available product... does that make it illegal and since it has the original code that was available during this non-commercial period is that illegal also?
B> Can you prove what you say about hex edited code. I have seen several people make this claim and not one has been able to substantiate it with code, proof, a site, or a lawsuit from Microsoft to back up the claim. If DivX were in fact "stolen" pirate ware MS would be all over DIVX.COM.
C>And since when does anyone (especially on Slashdot) consider Microsoft or Intel either trustworthy or respectable?
And exactly what freedoms are we talking about giving up? Right to privacy - you'll still have it, when your at home... in private. Right to free speech, you'll still have it. Right to congregate, right to bare arms, right to freedom of religion... exactly which right is it that you think you might lose from this? No matter what laws they pass I don't believe that I'm losing any rights afforded to me by the current constitution so what constitution are you going by? Are you afraid that you might be detained at an airport for a more thorough search, would that be an inconvenience? Yes. But there is no greater inconvenience than death.
This is a false quote this is not an original quatraine from Nostredamas it is a made up quatrane that was used to prove a point about how easily Nostredamas and predictions could be applied. Search the net again or the newsgroups and you'll find this out.
Understand that now with our large cities we are at 88 people per square mile. That's 7 acres per person. Which in theory sounds fine until you attempt to understand how much biomass would need to be cleared to provide that space, housing, infrastructure, power, water, waste, etc. Then you have to take into account how much biomass is needed for food production and you will quickly see that 7 acres per person dwindle. This planet can only continue to support us if we consolidate our cities and encorporate nature into them. Archology. Sprawl is not the answer and is not rosie at all. We'd be signing our own death warrant it would just be a slower death with less fanfair.
Only problem I see is that he did come back at 4:45pm or so and post again, so all his prophecy is shit. He didn't go away like he said and now he's gonna get his poop inspected with a microscope and some small tweezers because people in the newsgroup have already turned his ass in.
Well not exactly. See while we in the US do not consider this a military issue but a terrorist issue. The terrorist, whether US or abroad, see this very much as a military action against military targets. They see every victim not as innocent but as guilty as sin otherwise they would not have been in the place that they are. Additionally they look at the death of children as payment for the "sins of the father". Terrorists, military, killers, murderers, whatever must justify every action, they must seperate themselves from the task at hand. They must dehumanize the person to be killed, create the target in their mind as an object not as living, breathing, loving, - human. Do not think that someone does not consider this a military action just because we don't define it as one.
Everyone is talking about monopoly, monopoly, monopoly. What I want to understand is why we don't have laws that limit a company from competing in too many markets. IE: what happens when the entity that provides a significant portion of your TV schedule also controls a significant portion of your magazine content, newspaper, internet media, home video, movies, radio, music, games, sports, books, cartoons, theme parks, trade publications. Let's say that then that same company begins to control the pipes through which you get most of the above and that they own the majority of the pipe that feeds all information out, even competitors information. Websites, IM, e-mail, cable outlets, ISP access, etc. Does anyone seriously think that they will not use all of those resources in unison to leverage their own agenda? What would be the effect, given the ease of swaying people's opinions, if they implemented such a task? The majority of people might easily be swayed to think like that entity because they were bombarded with "evidence" that it's the right thing to do. Then we get into people making excuses for that entity saying things like "they are only doing what the market will support", "they are very customer focused", "if it weren't for them we wouldn't have 'X'", "why can't everyone leave them alone, they're not killing anyone", etc. etc. Sentiment turns into votes and pressure on the government. Tie that pressure to the amount of palms being greased throughout the government and you can see that a company like this might be able to easily survive and pursue whatever agenda they choose.
Unfortunately we've allowed such companies to exist by doing things backwards. The government allow the AOL/TW merger on the stipulation that they would enact certain remedies. Most of which have not come to fruition.If they should not or should the new company decide to circumvent those remedies it will be very difficult for the government to push back and fix the problem without millions of dollars of investigations and court costs. So why didn't the government say "before you merge you have to do A. B. C.". I mean before I let my kid play games he has to have his room in order. Why didn't the government hold the companies to the same premise, "get your business in order and then we'll talk". Because AOL/TW fastracked the issue through "experts" and lobbying. By showing that a delay would be "detrimental to the economy" and "fiscally damaging".
So what's the best rule of thumb that we can go by. How many markets should one company be allowed to compete in before it's considered "anti-comptetive"?
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The term robot actually comes from a 1920's play by Karel Capek called "RUR, Rossum's Universal Robots" and is a derivitive of the Slavic word for "work". Therefore Asimov simply popularized the term. Asimov would have been about 3 when the phrase Robot was first used and 7 I believe when 'Metropolis' came to the screen. So these may have had more of an influence on his writing than anything else.
People keep brining up Jules Verne and the Nautilus but debunking the 'nuclear' aspect because the engine burned salt. What people fail to mention is the process it used to 'burn' the salt could it have been a nuclear reaction. Additionally noone mentions that the ship gets the salt from the surrounding water through either some desalinization process (too long) or a shorter electrochemical process like a catalytic converter. Parrallels to these processes would be the ramjet/scramjet that collects it's fuel from the surrounding atmosphere and current fuel cell and hybrid engines that are designed to convert simple water into base elements for consumption.
There also has been no mention of the "fulgurator" which holds more than a passing resemblance to a nuclear missile/atom bomb.
"Water is the coal of the future. The energy of tomorrow is water broken down into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity. These elements will secure the earth's power supply for an indefinite period."
Jules Verne -- 1874
Please anyone correct me if I'm wrong on any of these points
Last I saw XBox would play DVD's and CD's and a little hacking and emulator love and you could play PC, PS1, SNES, SEGA, ATARI, and probably eventually PS2 games on the unit. Sorry but as far as PS2 blowing it away I've yet to any games on the PS2 that are as good as the games I've seen for XBox.
This subject touches on something that I saw at a local restaurant the other night. As my wife and I sat and ate the wait station was just behind us. Hanging on the wall at about average human eye height were two touch screens. One touch screen managed clock in and the other tables and orders (from what I could see). Throughout the course of the evening we saw waiters and waitresses wander by the station (had a prominent SQUIRREL logo on the display) and interact with the touch sensitive screens. The interesting part to see is how adept they were at navigating with either a pencil or their finger.
Personally I own and have used an ePods webpad for about a year now. It's not the top of technology and so the screens can be a little slow and response to commands lags. The one thing I have found though is that repetitive tasks are a breeze because I know exactly where the button is going to be before it shows up on the screen. This allows me to quickly touch through a series of commands without really needing to wait on the display to refresh. I thought that it would be skill only a tech head would pick up on. I was wrong.
Watching the wait staff that night I noticed about 6 of them, some taller and some shorter than the average height the screen was set to, breeze through screens just like I did. One very impressive girl spoke to another waiter while punching in her information. Most transactions were done and the wait staffer had walked away before the screens could go all the way through. That night I only saw one guy fumble on the screen and have to back step to hit the correct button.
My point is that there are all of these people here on the site bemoaning the fact that they learned to type by touch, and how do I remember where the special keys are, and what happens if I scratch my ass, and all of the other bullshit scenarios for why this tech will not work. I say it will work, I've seen similar things working already, I've used something similar myself. I also say it won't be the ULTIMATE solution. Just like QWERTY isn't to everyones taste and some people still have this bad habbit of liking Windows. Voice recognition is great but it's obtrusive in a meeting and non-functional in loud environments, Graffiti makes you relearn writing (shouldn't have to do), gestures are great but limited in use, and mind reading is still a ways away. So there are going to be times when voice is usable, and handwriting recognition is a good option, and times when a "virtual keyboard" is going to be much more than adequate.
Without the pioneering consumer the pioneering product will never be
I'd like to add a few items to the list.
why fake one when it's easy enough to steal. If the quick check criteria is visual appearance you simply find someone who has the same general appearance as you and steal their ID. The majority of the time you won't even be asked for any proof of your existence and it will be business as usual. IE when was the last time someone checked your signature or ID when you used a credit card.
hmmmm... doesn't mozilla to this too. I guess two can play at that game eh?
Great. We're on the same page then.
I want to rename these type of patents the "Jules Vernes" or the "Leonardo DaVinci" patents. Can you imagine how rich either of those mens ancestors would be today if they had patented their ideas. Think of it helicoptors, tanks, nuclear power, nuclear subs, space travel, machine guns. Even though they were the "inventors" of such concepts the machines themselves were not feasable during their lifetime. So is it feasable to think that a company can patent a process or invention that they cannot feasably prototype or produce and then wait around for someone else to do all of the work to actually create the item and then swoop in and rake in the reward.
One company might do all of the real work in producing the product thinking that they have an obvious process that's not patentable, therefore they never do the patent search, therefore they never know there is a patent or a licensing issue. I guess it comes down to intent in both cases. Did TiVO or any of the others know of the patent and attempt to avoid licensing? Did the patent holder attempt to avoid enforcement until the patented product became widely used? I think this goes back to that issue of British Telecom trying to rake in royalties over the hyperlink. Scary stuff.
I do believe in the original intent of patent and trademark law. I just wish these companies did also.
My personal belief is that if you don't defend that patent from day 1 then you are not entitled to any reimbursement whatsoever. This would stop all of these holding companies and patent vultures from waiting for tech to be incorporated into everyday life and then trying to step in to reap all of the benefits by screwing everyone.
actually it does use the disk.
Well according to the russians it collided with an American sub. So where is the American sub? Limped home? Does this mean American subs have a sturdier construction? Unlikely. Most like what happened is a miss fire of a torpedo which tore a whole in the front end of sub sending it to the bottom of the ocean along with it's trainee crew. It would of course look better for the Russians if they had someone to blame it on :)
MS is working to market itself and it's format to the Music and Movie industry. They can't very well market themselves as a product that dis-allows "PIRACY" if their product allows other products to circumvent a "secure" format. The use of "secure" in this case is a wide open word that reduces the need to constantly redefine the EULA every time a new format pops up or MS rebrands one of their products. MS is also attempting to fall into the Napster-microscope-in-the-ass-lawsuit-fiasco. Think about if MS allowed for the playing of "secured formats" that someone didn't have a license for despite the fact that they had technology to stop this. The music and movie industry would be all over them trying to sway judges to get 100% compliance or shut the company down. Again this goes right back to the CYOA policy that most companies keep, because there are other companies out there gunning for any chance to take them out (AOL/TW, Oracle, Sun) digging through trash, scouring EULA's, decompiling code hoping to find some little "Sun sux!" or "if(appName.equals("AOL")){BSOD();}".
Kinda like the "Bathroom Monkey" (SNL). It's even disposable and comes in a variety of colors and sizes.
I love it. See Star Trek in all it's forms is really a peice of art. Normal shows aren't because at the end of the show everyone talks and they've basically all see the same movie. The interpretation will be identical. True art gets interpreted differently by each individual viewer based on something inside the viewer that the piece of art speaks to. I've heard the interpretation of Star Trek described as "Self, EGO, ID (Freud)", "the three stooges", "racism", "team work (the three muskateers)", "hero worship", "morality play", "wwf".... I think it's hilarious how many different ways people can interpret and read things into the Star Trek franchise. Of course there are the people who can't just leave things at entertainment value and who must always search for "the deeper meaning". And of course sometimes there is a purposeful "deeper meaning".
You need to be watching cartoon network then. Repleat with fun for kids and over-the-head sexual inuendo (Power Puff Girls)
The misinformed article is probably talking about either a specific componenent and content or about the logo program. I dislike reporters who report "a reader informed me" as FACT. If a reader informs you then research it and post it as fact and not as rumor. MS is just protecting it's rights of trademark and copyright, and while most people here don't agree that anyone should have those rights they do still exist. Note that there are laws that allow criticism and sarcasm about a company, person, government, or product. This allows for reviews and parody, which differ from disparagement. Disparage is primarily to lower in rank or character using words that cause harm or resentment. Therefore MS is attempting to reduce the number of people using it's logo/content/product to spread discontent about it's product.
I don't see any harm done.
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It's actually America's Mint not the American Mint that mints these particular coins. And next time you want to post something you might run it through a spell checker because you just made yourself sound like a complete and utter moron ----"freedomes striped down to fight a nonvisable enamy" --- run Forest, run!
A> Commercial availability does not equate to being legal. Many items are "commercially available" but have restrictions on them as to be warranted illegal (IE radar detectors, beer, etc.) Linux for quite some time was not a commercially available product... does that make it illegal and since it has the original code that was available during this non-commercial period is that illegal also?
B> Can you prove what you say about hex edited code. I have seen several people make this claim and not one has been able to substantiate it with code, proof, a site, or a lawsuit from Microsoft to back up the claim. If DivX were in fact "stolen" pirate ware MS would be all over DIVX.COM.
C>And since when does anyone (especially on Slashdot) consider Microsoft or Intel either trustworthy or respectable?
And exactly what freedoms are we talking about giving up? Right to privacy - you'll still have it, when your at home... in private. Right to free speech, you'll still have it. Right to congregate, right to bare arms, right to freedom of religion... exactly which right is it that you think you might lose from this? No matter what laws they pass I don't believe that I'm losing any rights afforded to me by the current constitution so what constitution are you going by? Are you afraid that you might be detained at an airport for a more thorough search, would that be an inconvenience? Yes. But there is no greater inconvenience than death.
This is a false quote this is not an original quatraine from Nostredamas it is a made up quatrane that was used to prove a point about how easily Nostredamas and predictions could be applied. Search the net again or the newsgroups and you'll find this out.
please say your just being an ass here and trying (not succeeding) to make a joke.
Understand that now with our large cities we are at 88 people per square mile. That's 7 acres per person. Which in theory sounds fine until you attempt to understand how much biomass would need to be cleared to provide that space, housing, infrastructure, power, water, waste, etc. Then you have to take into account how much biomass is needed for food production and you will quickly see that 7 acres per person dwindle. This planet can only continue to support us if we consolidate our cities and encorporate nature into them. Archology. Sprawl is not the answer and is not rosie at all. We'd be signing our own death warrant it would just be a slower death with less fanfair.
Only problem I see is that he did come back at 4:45pm or so and post again, so all his prophecy is shit. He didn't go away like he said and now he's gonna get his poop inspected with a microscope and some small tweezers because people in the newsgroup have already turned his ass in.
Well not exactly. See while we in the US do not consider this a military issue but a terrorist issue. The terrorist, whether US or abroad, see this very much as a military action against military targets. They see every victim not as innocent but as guilty as sin otherwise they would not have been in the place that they are. Additionally they look at the death of children as payment for the "sins of the father". Terrorists, military, killers, murderers, whatever must justify every action, they must seperate themselves from the task at hand. They must dehumanize the person to be killed, create the target in their mind as an object not as living, breathing, loving, - human. Do not think that someone does not consider this a military action just because we don't define it as one.
Unfortunately we've allowed such companies to exist by doing things backwards. The government allow the AOL/TW merger on the stipulation that they would enact certain remedies. Most of which have not come to fruition.If they should not or should the new company decide to circumvent those remedies it will be very difficult for the government to push back and fix the problem without millions of dollars of investigations and court costs. So why didn't the government say "before you merge you have to do A. B. C.". I mean before I let my kid play games he has to have his room in order. Why didn't the government hold the companies to the same premise, "get your business in order and then we'll talk". Because AOL/TW fastracked the issue through "experts" and lobbying. By showing that a delay would be "detrimental to the economy" and "fiscally damaging".
So what's the best rule of thumb that we can go by. How many markets should one company be allowed to compete in before it's considered "anti-comptetive"?