Your argument is extremely weak. In Canada we have provinces and sometimes you'll see some of our provincial flags being waved around a Olympic events. I would be quite offended if the IOC forcibly removed someone for displaying one of our provincial flags. Why should it be any different for someone from a pseudo-country like Taiwan? If Kaiwen is right about this policy, then this is indeed quite disturbing behaviour by the IOC.
Just a thought, but maybe its because they don't use aspartame as much as we do? The Japanese use Stevia . Aspartame is linked to Brain diseases and should have been banned years ago.
Stevia, a natural herb which is sweeter than sugar and almost calorie-free, is banned in Europe and North America.
Still wouldn't be a totally fair comparison, you'd have to adjust numbers due to population growth, and also take into account new technology (VCRs, DVDs).
Then building the chip is another beast requiring a fab facility in the order of $1 billion for any process with feature sizes smaller than 0.5.
You don't need to build your own fab, there are fabs out there that will gladly build your IC for you, the most popular being TSMC. Many companies use external fabs (so called "fabless" semiconductor companies), including house hold names like Nvidia or ATI.
Mind you its still expensive as hell (0.25 ~ 1million US$ for your own mask set for an advanced process) which is why many amatures use FPGAs instead.
Sigh, this is the sort of socially responsible project that so many aerospace companies were to turn to after the cold war ended.
Bombardier is the family name of the company founder, it has nothing to do with bombs. The company started in the snowmobile (aka 'skidoo') business and later forked out into other forms of ground transportation. They only got into the aerospace industry when the aquired Canadair, in the mid 80's.
This proposal sounds to me like proposing Ford Motors be liable for Fords crashing
If the car crash is determined to be caused by a design flaw, ford IS liable. The classic case is the ford/firestone fiasco of a couple years ago.
Software manufacturers should held to the same standards as every other company out there. If a design flaw is present which could produce problems to the customers (i.e. cost them money, productivity, damage equipment, injury, death, etc) they risk getting their ass sued. However, miss-use by the user (ex: typing 'rm -rf/' and losing all their work) does not make the manufacturer liable.
State 5 a : a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory; especially : one that is sovereign
So Tivo would possibly gain another state's worth of market
California is one of the larger US states (in terms of population), most have much less people so it isn't a really fair comparison. I doubt we'll ever see tivo in Canada, I have a feeling the cable companies will soon follow Bell's lead (one of the statellite providers) and have their own PVRs. Tivo could be shut out of this market.
A few ideas they should consider: each time you use a +1 point, your karma goes down by 1. And each time a +1 bonused post gets modded down you lose 2 karma points. Hopefully this would deter people from wasting them.
Except it's not as easy as just feeding in the file and saying "find it", partly because google only allows you to feed in a few search terms and partly because it sounds like the files have been modified from their origional form.
Assuming the code hasn't been too modified, he can try searching for function or variable names.
Another problem is that it's very likely that the source files will only be stored within tarballs,
True but many opensource projects have html front ends to their cvs trees, google sometimes index these. Same for mailing list archives, they'll sometimes contain patches or discussions of the code which include parts of the code.
There are a lot of stories that never make it to the front page. You either need to visit the sections to see them, or you can select "Collapse sections" in your options to see them all on your front page.
Some of these people seem to have played very minor roles ("Minor wording improvements", "Added gcc check for -pthreads if -pthread check fails."...), are they still considered copyright holders?
Secondly, if all best attempts are made to contact the people on the list but they are not found, is that good enough in the eye of the law to go ahead without their permission? Perhaps in the next mozilla build they should show the list the first time mozilla starts up after install, chances are the people who contributed still use mozilla.
Power management, docking station support, and Plug and Play capabilities for mobiles must be wholly ACPI-based, as APM support has been removed from Windows XP. [A3.4.7]
Desktop system support required for S3 and Fast Boot capabilities, based on Windows XP advances for ACPI-compliant power management. [A1.4.2]
Desktop and server systems must implement ACPI-based APIC support, because of how Windows NT®-based operating systems process interrupts. [A1.4.11]
ACPI-based support for multiprocessor systems, based on Windows XP/Windows Whistler Server support. [A1.4.12]
PCI-based network adapters for desktop systems must support wake from D3 cold, to ensure correct system-wide support for wake from sleep states supported under Windows XP. [B7.1.4.4]
I've said this before, but what the fuck, here it is again.
Gandhi had it backwards:
-First We Won (the right to use an alternative to MS).
-Then we fought the hardware manufacturers (to release specs so we can get hardware support ).
-Then we laughed at Microsoft (for running around spreading FUD, pissing their pants scared).
-Next we'll ignore them.
Something strange about this patent, its assigned to IBM, not microsoft. Looks like the link in the original slashdot story changed.
According to a comment in the original story, the MS patent was applied for in January 1999, but was just granted when the story appeared (December 2001).
Slashdot Mirror
Your argument is extremely weak. In Canada we have provinces and sometimes you'll see some of our provincial flags being waved around a Olympic events. I would be quite offended if the IOC forcibly removed someone for displaying one of our provincial flags. Why should it be any different for someone from a pseudo-country like Taiwan? If Kaiwen is right about this policy, then this is indeed quite disturbing behaviour by the IOC.
Stevia, a natural herb which is sweeter than sugar and almost calorie-free, is banned in Europe and North America.
Watts/hr????? (= Joules/sec/hr) What is that unit, the acceleration of energy consumption? What a bunch of retards.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=AKLM
James Scoroposki, 55 Co-Chairman, Sr. Exec. VP, Treasurer, Sec. $ 312.00K
Gregory Fischbach, 61 Co-Chairman $ 479.00K
Rodney Cousens, 52 CEO $ 1.30M
Gerard Agoglia, 52 CFO, Exec. VP $ 28.00K
The CEO of a company heading to bankruptcy makes 1.3M per year!!! Holy crap, I chose the wrong career.
hehe, someone at espn has a sense of humour, Satan's "statsID" in that link is 666
is not French
That's why he said "French-Canadian" :=)
You should install "plugger", it allows a great deal of apps to act as pluggins for Mozilla.
Or on Redhat (take out the extra spaces):
f onts-1-3.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/contrib/noarch/noarch/web
Uh, if this internal tool is better, why don't they sell this instead of SourceUnSafe? Could it be they use a 3rd party tool instead?
Still wouldn't be a totally fair comparison, you'd have to adjust numbers due to population growth, and also take into account new technology (VCRs, DVDs).
You don't need to build your own fab, there are fabs out there that will gladly build your IC for you, the most popular being TSMC. Many companies use external fabs (so called "fabless" semiconductor companies), including house hold names like Nvidia or ATI.
Mind you its still expensive as hell (0.25 ~ 1million US$ for your own mask set for an advanced process) which is why many amatures use FPGAs instead.
Bombardier is the family name of the company founder, it has nothing to do with bombs. The company started in the snowmobile (aka 'skidoo') business and later forked out into other forms of ground transportation. They only got into the aerospace industry when the aquired Canadair, in the mid 80's.
See their company history section
If the car crash is determined to be caused by a design flaw, ford IS liable. The classic case is the ford/firestone fiasco of a couple years ago.
Software manufacturers should held to the same standards as every other company out there. If a design flaw is present which could produce problems to the customers (i.e. cost them money, productivity, damage equipment, injury, death, etc) they risk getting their ass sued. However, miss-use by the user (ex: typing 'rm -rf /' and losing all their work) does not make the manufacturer liable.
From webster.com:
So Tivo would possibly gain another state's worth of market
California is one of the larger US states (in terms of population), most have much less people so it isn't a really fair comparison. I doubt we'll ever see tivo in Canada, I have a feeling the cable companies will soon follow Bell's lead (one of the statellite providers) and have their own PVRs. Tivo could be shut out of this market.
The Hellish Markup Language? :-)
Cnet: High-profile anti-Unix site runs Unix
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-872266.html
Make sure to check out netcraft too, they seem to be in on it.
A few ideas they should consider: each time you use a +1 point, your karma goes down by 1. And each time a +1 bonused post gets modded down you lose 2 karma points. Hopefully this would deter people from wasting them.
Assuming the code hasn't been too modified, he can try searching for function or variable names.
Another problem is that it's very likely that the source files will only be stored within tarballs,
True but many opensource projects have html front ends to their cvs trees, google sometimes index these. Same for mailing list archives, they'll sometimes contain patches or discussions of the code which include parts of the code.
There are a lot of stories that never make it to the front page. You either need to visit the sections to see them, or you can select "Collapse sections" in your options to see them all on your front page.
I can't even get to that feedback page to tell them they're blocking me cause they are blocking me! Oh well, who cares.
Secondly, if all best attempts are made to contact the people on the list but they are not found, is that good enough in the eye of the law to go ahead without their permission? Perhaps in the next mozilla build they should show the list the first time mozilla starts up after install, chances are the people who contributed still use mozilla.
From the link which your were too lazy to read:
OnNow and ACPI Requirements
Power management, docking station support, and Plug and Play capabilities for mobiles must be wholly ACPI-based, as APM support has been removed from Windows XP. [A3.4.7]
Desktop system support required for S3 and Fast Boot capabilities, based on Windows XP advances for ACPI-compliant power management. [A1.4.2]
Desktop and server systems must implement ACPI-based APIC support, because of how Windows NT®-based operating systems process interrupts. [A1.4.11]
ACPI-based support for multiprocessor systems, based on Windows XP/Windows Whistler Server support. [A1.4.12]
PCI-based network adapters for desktop systems must support wake from D3 cold, to ensure correct system-wide support for wake from sleep states supported under Windows XP. [B7.1.4.4]
Gandhi had it backwards:
-First We Won (the right to use an alternative to MS).
-Then we fought the hardware manufacturers (to release specs so we can get hardware support ).
-Then we laughed at Microsoft (for running around spreading FUD, pissing their pants scared).
-Next we'll ignore them.
According to a comment in the original story, the MS patent was applied for in January 1999, but was just granted when the story appeared (December 2001).
wait, the slashdot story was in december, I'm confused. Isn't the "filed" date is the date the application was filed.