the decision to integrate IE into things like windows, visual studio, and especially office was a brilliant move on their part.. think about it: their latest policy move means making a net-centric OS, which is basically tied in to ASPs for usefulness.. but wait--what if the DOJ is successful in breaking them into an OS company and an application company? what if suddenly people have wider choices in the OS dept? simple--IE is the tool for using.NET, and it's integrated into their major products, OS and apps. so M$ still wins. i hate it, but everytime i turn around, they have another incredible strategy to hold on to market dominance. that's where their only innovation is.
this is great. according to Dickinson, metaphors (as part of a lawyers argument) are patentable.. too bad nobody patented "step up to the plate..." they could have made a fortune in royalties.. if he'd said that one more time i think i would have puked.
btw, for anyone who only read the interview, i recommend you listen to the real audio stream--you can't appreciate the full humor of Dickinson's arguments without hearing his tone of voice..
the best part is when tim points out that very new subjects are being raised that need to be dealt with and Dickinson responds "Bah!" (unfortunately translated to "Nah." in the text version..)
but what does everyone think about patenting a lawyer's argument? could a defense lawyer patent the (albeit obvious) argument that the prosecution is going to make, and thereby the prosecution couldn't make that argument? of course, patents take a while to go through the system, but what about a situation where a trial was being delayed greatly (to go to the supreme court or whatever)--could one side in the intervening time patent the other side's argument? --
i went expecting this to be an action movie--and spent the first hour giggling with my girlfriend about how "action-packed" the close-ups were...
[interior, evil headquarters]
[close-up of cigar]
--expository dia/monologue--
--snip--
[EXT. RACETRACK]
AUDIENCE: OH NO! IS SHE GOING TO DROP THE ENVELOPE?!!
[close-up: her not dropping envelope]
AUDIENCE [snoring]:
seriously, the poster above who said it went bad after tom cruise stopped climbing the mountain was pretty accurate. there was some action at the end, but it was way overdone and would've been better if it had been spread throughout the movie a little bit. no kidding, the the guy next to us was asleep, and you could hear several other people in the theatre snoring during the middle 45 minutes of the movie.... --
movies use macs a lot because it's relatively trivial on a mac to start a quicktime capture of whatever is onscreen--and has been for many years. computer screens on movies are always animations (for various production reasons; it makes sense if you think about it--do you really want the ultra sleek computer on the big screen to perform as erratically as the one on your desk??) and it's easy to make these animations on a mac
if you're interested in making cool fake OSes on a mac, check out kaleidoscope.net or on windows, check out litestep.net. these are both really nifty theming engines for their various platforms. of course, if you're lucky enough to be running X, just go to themes.org and take it away...
the bottom line is that most modern OSes can be customized much more than is first apparent, so if you want more little bells and whistles and neat stuff, you can probably get it with a little tinkering...
Usage Note: Affect1 and effect have no senses in common. As a verb affect1 is most commonly used in the sense of "to influence" (how smoking affects health). Effect means "to bring about or execute": layoffs designed to effect savings. Thus the sentence These measures may affect savings could imply that the measures may reduce savings that have already been realized, whereas These measures may effect savings implies that the measures will cause new savings to come about.
maybe you should double-check yourself before being snide to others? --
you can actually run more than one coldfusion process to serve different sites, but you wouldn't want to.. a couple of the smaller european sites of my company are currently served off one machine in the UK (one of the sun ultras, i forget which) and it can barely handle the little traffic.. the problem is that coldfusion for UNIX is basically a recompile of the NT product--the damn thing (for *each* process!) runs a virtual NT registry... it's a tremendous resource hog.. i don't recommend it unless you like restarting your application once or twice a day...... --
no.. since you release your code, that is not your "confidential information." your confidential information probably includes things like your important passwords
remember, though, that it's not illegal to download mp3s that you own in some other format... and, it's been said before (and IANAL), but me offering copyrighted material for download from my hard drive is not illegal--it's people downloading copies of music they don't own that's illegal.. i just assume that you own the music you're downloading from me... --
of course digitising the books doesn't mean you have to arrogantly read them on your lonely screen.. if they're tagged intelligently (some SGML variant) they can be read on any electronic device or printed out in any format.. then they'd be searchable, indexable, crossreferencable (those indexes in the back could be linked, &tc.), but also, you could print them out or whatever
2) let's not miss the fact that his point seems to be that there is a whole lot of stuff in the LoC that he's placing priority on in terms of getting it online.. and the harshness of his description of online reading could have been the article writer's slant--most of those quotes are completely out of context....
it's only a good idea if you update the software once every several years. look at postgres95 which was changed to PostgreSQL v6.0 (postgres95 would've been v5) when they decided that good software gets updated more than once a year...
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maybe they should start by getting rid of some of those nasty noninformative modal pop-up windows in Word..
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the decision to integrate IE into things like windows, visual studio, and especially office was a brilliant move on their part.. think about it: their latest policy move means making a net-centric OS, which is basically tied in to ASPs for usefulness.. but wait--what if the DOJ is successful in breaking them into an OS company and an application company? what if suddenly people have wider choices in the OS dept? simple--IE is the tool for using .NET, and it's integrated into their major products, OS and apps. so M$ still wins.
i hate it, but everytime i turn around, they have another incredible strategy to hold on to market dominance. that's where their only innovation is.
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btw, for anyone who only read the interview, i recommend you listen to the real audio stream--you can't appreciate the full humor of Dickinson's arguments without hearing his tone of voice..
high bandwidth real audio stream
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mp3 of interview
the best part is when tim points out that very new subjects are being raised that need to be dealt with and Dickinson responds "Bah!" (unfortunately translated to "Nah." in the text version..)
but what does everyone think about patenting a lawyer's argument? could a defense lawyer patent the (albeit obvious) argument that the prosecution is going to make, and thereby the prosecution couldn't make that argument? of course, patents take a while to go through the system, but what about a situation where a trial was being delayed greatly (to go to the supreme court or whatever)--could one side in the intervening time patent the other side's argument?
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seriously, the poster above who said it went bad after tom cruise stopped climbing the mountain was pretty accurate. there was some action at the end, but it was way overdone and would've been better if it had been spread throughout the movie a little bit. no kidding, the the guy next to us was asleep, and you could hear several other people in the theatre snoring during the middle 45 minutes of the movie....
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if you're interested in making cool fake OSes on a mac, check out kaleidoscope.net or on windows, check out litestep.net. these are both really nifty theming engines for their various platforms. of course, if you're lucky enough to be running X, just go to themes.org and take it away...
the bottom line is that most modern OSes can be customized much more than is first apparent, so if you want more little bells and whistles and neat stuff, you can probably get it with a little tinkering...
Enjoy!
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the /. story is here.
the conjecture itself (for the link-following-impaired) is:
Enjoy!
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99.99% is almost an hour of downtime a year..
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maybe you should double-check yourself before being snide to others?
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check out slashcode.org and repeat to yourself "free software is nifty.. free software is nifty..."
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you can actually run more than one coldfusion process to serve different sites, but you wouldn't want to.. a couple of the smaller european sites of my company are currently served off one machine in the UK (one of the sun ultras, i forget which) and it can barely handle the little traffic.. the problem is that coldfusion for UNIX is basically a recompile of the NT product--the damn thing (for *each* process!) runs a virtual NT registry... it's a tremendous resource hog.. i don't recommend it unless you like restarting your application once or twice a day......
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but IANAL
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remember, though, that it's not illegal to download mp3s that you own in some other format... and, it's been said before (and IANAL), but me offering copyrighted material for download from my hard drive is not illegal--it's people downloading copies of music they don't own that's illegal.. i just assume that you own the music you're downloading from me...
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of course digitising the books doesn't mean you have to arrogantly read them on your lonely screen .. if they're tagged intelligently (some SGML variant) they can be read on any electronic device or printed out in any format.. then they'd be searchable, indexable, crossreferencable (those indexes in the back could be linked, &tc.), but also, you could print them out or whatever
2) let's not miss the fact that his point seems to be that there is a whole lot of stuff in the LoC that he's placing priority on in terms of getting it online.. and the harshness of his description of online reading could have been the article writer's slant--most of those quotes are completely out of context....
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it's only a good idea if you update the software once every several years. look at postgres95 which was changed to PostgreSQL v6.0 (postgres95 would've been v5) when they decided that good software gets updated more than once a year...