There's an even larger group of people that get a BS in mechanical or electrical engineering, then go to law school to become patent attorneys. In recent years, computer engineering & CS are becoming more commonplace as well.
I've heard that IBM has hundreds of patent attorneys. They've been awarded the most patents of any company for several years running.
This bill was authored by & co-sponsored mostly by Republicans. It will easily get approved by the chairman. Let's hope the commitee democrats can't kill it. The entertainment industry is one of the democrats' biggest supporters.
I've been using Nedit for a little over a year now. I really like it, but have one issue. I usually compile everything from source, but Nedit doesn't want to compile, even with the latest version of Lesstif. I ended up having to download & use a statically linked binary.
My question is this: Are there any plans to port Nedit to a more modern toolkit, like GTK or QT?
There are/. readers are from every political persuasion. Most of the/. readers (excluding trolls) are intelligent, free-thinking individuals that will decide who to vote for based on their own values and philosophy. They aren't going to blindly vote for whoever CmdrTaco endorses.
This is what is really needed to battle corporations that get out of hand. Individuals are sentenced to death, why shouldn't corporations for sereious offenses.
First of all, the Brazilian soccer team doesn't even have "Corinthians" trademarked at all. It's merely an English translation of their trademark, "Corinthiao."
The word Corinthians has been in general use for almost 1950 years, since Paul wrote the books. Also, Corinth is still a city in Turkey.
What authority does a WIPO judge have? I'm not too familiar with international IP treaties. Does the registrar have to comply with this?
I agree that it was a mostly political race to go to the moon, but it was just as much a technological race too. They had to research & invent everything along the way, which is probably the greatest single, focused engineering feat ever.
The ISS is just as much of a political race. It's been scaled down dramatically, $billions over-budget, almost 10 years behind schedule, and most experiments (not all) that'll be performed on it could be performed just as easy, and less expensive, on the shuttle or a satelite. The only reason we're still involving Russia is to infuse needed cash into their defense industry so they don't start selling nukes instead. The technology involved in the ISS is mostly from the 80's, far from cutting edge.
1.Corporations (and everyone) should be required to release the modifications to their source code every six months to a year, if the modified versions are shared with more than, say, three people.
If a corporation releases a binary to 1 person outside the corporation, they must include the source with it.
You might want to include more information on the games. The screenshots look good, but I couldn't tell what platform it was for until I looked at the demo download page. Also, are all those libs req'd for the Linux version, or just to enable sound, etc?
I don't want advertisers to track my location. Will their privacy policy allow them to sell this info to anyone? the government?
If I ever buy a wireless PDA, I'd gladly pay extra to disable GPS-tracking/advertising. If I opt out of this feature, how will they guarantee it's disabled?
I agree! JavaScript would be a great first language. Here are some reasons:
Easy to learn (the basics)
Cross platform (start on Win98, graduate to Linux/BSD when they're hooked)
Immediate feedback
Easy to show their friends on a website
C-like syntax, OO concepts
Wide range of programming areas (GUI, graphics, network, etc.)
Makes me wish I was 12 again. I started learning BASIC on an Apple II+ in 4th grade. If I'd had all the resources available online today, things would've turned out a lot different.
I'm not sure about the crashes. They don't release many details about the F-22 yet.
AFAIK the F-16 is the only production fighter incapable of being piloted w/o computer assistance (besides fly by wire). The F/A-18 (at least the older models) can still be flown w/o a flight computer.
I hadn't heard about using cat-5 on the Super Hornet. I know the C-130J replaced lots of cable w/fiber optic, which reduced the weight by a few 1000 lbs.
The F-16's COG (ctr of gravity) is so far back on the fuselage it is an inherently unstable aircraft. So unstable, in fact, that w/o the computer adjusting 2 control surfaces on the underside of the fuselage 60 times/sec, it would pitch up & down continuously. That's just one reason why the F-16 is a piece of junk, IMHO.
The B-2 couldn't fly at all w/o computer assisted flight controls.
AutoCAD does this rather well. Since its DOS days in the mid 80s, thru the Unix versions (which they unfortunately killed off with R14), and now the Windoze versions, AutoCAD has used several different interfaces:
Command line - a command shell with a history and built in AutoLisp (AutoCAD's Lisp) interpreter.
Screen menu - a sidebar of commands, accessable using key combinations or the pointer.
Tablet menu - areas on a digitizer table with associated commands.
Pull-down menus - including a floating menu using the middle mouse button.
Modal dialog boxes.
Toolbars - including fly-out toolbars like wharf.
Non-modal dialog boxes - in the latest version.
All these interfaces are *still* available (although screen and tablet menus are now turned off by default). Like Perl, there's more than one way to do things. Out of the box, it's fine for casual or new users, and power users can customize or create their own menus, mouse or digitizer button mappings, aliases, linetypes, hatch patterns, fonts, etc. to their hearts content.
I've used AutoCAD for over the 10 years, starting with R9. Personally, I cut the screen and tablet parts out of the menu, modify the pull-downs to my liking, and make 1-3 letter aliases for the commands I use frequently. My left hand doesn't leave the keyboard and right doesn't leave the mouse.
It's also highly programmable. There are multiple languages available for development:
Scripts - very simple shell scripting.
AutoLisp - their version of Lisp with added AutoCAD expressions.
DIESEL - a simple macro language used in menus.
ADS - a C API.
DCL - basically a GUI toolkit for AutoLisp.
Object ArX - a C++ API that lets developers create their own entity types.
VBA - the MS macro language.
Visual Lisp - compiled AutoLisp and an IDE.
Now, you can even license the core AutoCAD engine, and build your own standalone app.
As they've added options, they left the old ones there for backward compatibility. (Though I can't say that about the dwg file format.) I have a collection of AutoLisp routines I've coded over the years that I still use almost every day.
<SLIGHTLY OFF-TOPIC> It does have its drawbacks though. It's prohibitively expensive for average users and it only runs on Windoze. That's why I use it at work, but not at home. I was hoping Visio's IntelliCAD would put some pressure on them (before MS bought them), but even at 1/10 the price and most of the functionality (even AutoLisp, AutoCAD LT can't even do that!) it basically flopped. OTOH, the IntelliCAD source code is available for free (beer, not speech; non-open source license), and there's been talk on the IntelliCAD Forum of porting it to Linux.
Copying somebody else's material is copyright infringement, plain and simple. On the other hand, linking should be kept legal and mostly unrestricted. The only exception being that you can't deliberately mislead people to believe the link is your material, i.e. when linking another page in a frame on your site.
If they used QNX for the OS, then they could just as easily use Linux. That would eliminate license fees and spur development by the Linux community. It would be a mutually beneficial relationship. Sell the present version to consumers, and a higher-end model w/o ISP to hackers. I've seen a few marketable ideas in comments in the I-Opener articles. Outfit them with ethernet as x-terminals and they'd be attractive to corporate IT depts. They could also make cheap kiosks. IMHO they should hire the guy that came up with this hack.
B&N are widely seen as the real enemy - they are the ones going around and causing all the independents to close down.
This is inevitable in a free market economy. That's why you don't see too many mom & pop grocery stores around today.
Unless a store can find a niche, or offer something superior to the big stores, it's not going to last. My dad had a used bookstore for a few years, but he never made any money off books.
What I like about small/specialty shops is that they *know* the subject matter at hand, and can recommend a book for my particular situation. Also, I'd rather buy a used book and save some money if I don't know exactly which one I want to buy.
If there's a specific book I want, I'll look in used bookstores. If I can't find it, then I'll probably order it thru Amazon. (They've successfully found 2 out of print books for me.)
Did you actually read the letter? He doesn't expect Amazon to give up their patents, just assure that they won't use them offensively. I agree that sometimes RMS has some radical ideas, but this is a realistic, level-headed solution to end the boycott.
Market capitalization is how much capital the corporation has raised by selling stock. This doesn't usually equate to a corporation's worth. In Amazon's case (who has yet to post a quarter with a net profit), they have to use the capital for operating expenses and to cover their losses.
In order to "buy" a company, there are a couple ways. The first (and friendliest) way would be to negotiate with the company to buy them or merge with them and offer a bid, which the board and shareholders must accept. The second way is a hostile takeover, which means buying at least 51% of the company's stock (51% of market cap).
To find out how much the big corporations are really worth, check out the Fortune 500. It's updated annually, and based only on annual revenue.
From the 1999 Fortune 500: GE #5 Revenue: $100.5B Profit: $9.3B Assets: $355.9B MS #109 Revenue: $14.5B Profit: $4.5B Assets: $22.4B Cisco #192 Revenue: $8.5B Profit: $1.4B Assets: $8.9B
Amazon's revenue and profit from their 1999 Income Statement, assets from their Balance Sheet: Amazon (not in the Fortune 500) Revenue: $133.8M Profit: -$124.5M Assets: $1.8B
Maybe you should do a little more research next time.
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There's an even larger group of people that get a BS in mechanical or electrical engineering, then go to law school to become patent attorneys. In recent years, computer engineering & CS are becoming more commonplace as well.
I've heard that IBM has hundreds of patent attorneys. They've been awarded the most patents of any company for several years running.
This bill was authored by & co-sponsored mostly by Republicans. It will easily get approved by the chairman. Let's hope the commitee democrats can't kill it. The entertainment industry is one of the democrats' biggest supporters.
I've been using Nedit for a little over a year now. I really like it, but have one issue. I usually compile everything from source, but Nedit doesn't want to compile, even with the latest version of Lesstif. I ended up having to download & use a statically linked binary.
My question is this: Are there any plans to port Nedit to a more modern toolkit, like GTK or QT?
There are /. readers are from every political persuasion. Most of the /. readers (excluding trolls) are intelligent, free-thinking individuals that will decide who to vote for based on their own values and philosophy. They aren't going to blindly vote for whoever CmdrTaco endorses.
This is what is really needed to battle corporations that get out of hand. Individuals are sentenced to death, why shouldn't corporations for sereious offenses.
First of all, the Brazilian soccer team doesn't even have "Corinthians" trademarked at all. It's merely an English translation of their trademark, "Corinthiao."
The word Corinthians has been in general use for almost 1950 years, since Paul wrote the books. Also, Corinth is still a city in Turkey.
What authority does a WIPO judge have? I'm not too familiar with international IP treaties. Does the registrar have to comply with this?
I agree that it was a mostly political race to go to the moon, but it was just as much a technological race too. They had to research & invent everything along the way, which is probably the greatest single, focused engineering feat ever.
The ISS is just as much of a political race. It's been scaled down dramatically, $billions over-budget, almost 10 years behind schedule, and most experiments (not all) that'll be performed on it could be performed just as easy, and less expensive, on the shuttle or a satelite. The only reason we're still involving Russia is to infuse needed cash into their defense industry so they don't start selling nukes instead. The technology involved in the ISS is mostly from the 80's, far from cutting edge.
If a corporation releases a binary to 1 person outside the corporation, they must include the source with it.
As much as Windoze crashes, the $10 restarts would become MS's primary source of revenue.
You might want to include more information on the games. The screenshots look good, but I couldn't tell what platform it was for until I looked at the demo download page. Also, are all those libs req'd for the Linux version, or just to enable sound, etc?
Hope that helps. Good luck!
I don't want advertisers to track my location. Will their privacy policy allow them to sell this info to anyone? the government?
If I ever buy a wireless PDA, I'd gladly pay extra to disable GPS-tracking/advertising. If I opt out of this feature, how will they guarantee it's disabled?
Makes me wish I was 12 again. I started learning BASIC on an Apple II+ in 4th grade. If I'd had all the resources available online today, things would've turned out a lot different.
This should be moderated up.
Actually, they just announced SOI on PowerPC today. ZDNet has the arti cle.
Basically, it'll debut in AS400 systems in Aug, RS/6000 later this year, and eventually in consumer PPC devices.
You're right, they designed it to be unstable.
I'm not sure about the crashes. They don't release many details about the F-22 yet.
AFAIK the F-16 is the only production fighter incapable of being piloted w/o computer assistance (besides fly by wire). The F/A-18 (at least the older models) can still be flown w/o a flight computer.
I hadn't heard about using cat-5 on the Super Hornet. I know the C-130J replaced lots of cable w/fiber optic, which reduced the weight by a few 1000 lbs.
I don't know about that.
The F-16's COG (ctr of gravity) is so far back on the fuselage it is an inherently unstable aircraft. So unstable, in fact, that w/o the computer adjusting 2 control surfaces on the underside of the fuselage 60 times/sec, it would pitch up & down continuously. That's just one reason why the F-16 is a piece of junk, IMHO.
The B-2 couldn't fly at all w/o computer assisted flight controls.
- Command line - a command shell with a history and built in AutoLisp (AutoCAD's Lisp) interpreter.
- Screen menu - a sidebar of commands, accessable using key combinations or the pointer.
- Tablet menu - areas on a digitizer table with associated commands.
- Pull-down menus - including a floating menu using the middle mouse button.
- Modal dialog boxes.
- Toolbars - including fly-out toolbars like wharf.
- Non-modal dialog boxes - in the latest version.
All these interfaces are *still* available (although screen and tablet menus are now turned off by default). Like Perl, there's more than one way to do things. Out of the box, it's fine for casual or new users, and power users can customize or create their own menus, mouse or digitizer button mappings, aliases, linetypes, hatch patterns, fonts, etc. to their hearts content.I've used AutoCAD for over the 10 years, starting with R9. Personally, I cut the screen and tablet parts out of the menu, modify the pull-downs to my liking, and make 1-3 letter aliases for the commands I use frequently. My left hand doesn't leave the keyboard and right doesn't leave the mouse.
It's also highly programmable. There are multiple languages available for development:
- Scripts - very simple shell scripting.
- AutoLisp - their version of Lisp with added AutoCAD expressions.
- DIESEL - a simple macro language used in menus.
- ADS - a C API.
- DCL - basically a GUI toolkit for AutoLisp.
- Object ArX - a C++ API that lets developers create their own entity types.
- VBA - the MS macro language.
- Visual Lisp - compiled AutoLisp and an IDE.
Now, you can even license the core AutoCAD engine, and build your own standalone app.As they've added options, they left the old ones there for backward compatibility. (Though I can't say that about the dwg file format.) I have a collection of AutoLisp routines I've coded over the years that I still use almost every day.
<SLIGHTLY OFF-TOPIC>
It does have its drawbacks though. It's prohibitively expensive for average users and it only runs on Windoze. That's why I use it at work, but not at home. I was hoping Visio's IntelliCAD would put some pressure on them (before MS bought them), but even at 1/10 the price and most of the functionality (even AutoLisp, AutoCAD LT can't even do that!) it basically flopped. OTOH, the IntelliCAD source code is available for free (beer, not speech; non-open source license), and there's been talk on the IntelliCAD Forum of porting it to Linux.
They should post a request for charities, and the top ~10 moderated ones (just like interview questions) get voted on in the poll.
Copying somebody else's material is copyright infringement, plain and simple. On the other hand, linking should be kept legal and mostly unrestricted. The only exception being that you can't deliberately mislead people to believe the link is your material, i.e. when linking another page in a frame on your site.
If they used QNX for the OS, then they could just as easily use Linux. That would eliminate license fees and spur development by the Linux community. It would be a mutually beneficial relationship. Sell the present version to consumers, and a higher-end model w/o ISP to hackers. I've seen a few marketable ideas in comments in the I-Opener articles. Outfit them with ethernet as x-terminals and they'd be attractive to corporate IT depts. They could also make cheap kiosks. IMHO they should hire the guy that came up with this hack.
Unless a store can find a niche, or offer something superior to the big stores, it's not going to last. My dad had a used bookstore for a few years, but he never made any money off books.
What I like about small/specialty shops is that they *know* the subject matter at hand, and can recommend a book for my particular situation. Also, I'd rather buy a used book and save some money if I don't know exactly which one I want to buy.
If there's a specific book I want, I'll look in used bookstores. If I can't find it, then I'll probably order it thru Amazon. (They've successfully found 2 out of print books for me.)
Did you actually read the letter? He doesn't expect Amazon to give up their patents, just assure that they won't use them offensively. I agree that sometimes RMS has some radical ideas, but this is a realistic, level-headed solution to end the boycott.
See this post.
According to this guy, it can use iMac DIMMs, but the BIOS is limited to 64MB.
Market capitalization is how much capital the corporation has raised by selling stock. This doesn't usually equate to a corporation's worth. In Amazon's case (who has yet to post a quarter with a net profit), they have to use the capital for operating expenses and to cover their losses.
In order to "buy" a company, there are a couple ways. The first (and friendliest) way would be to negotiate with the company to buy them or merge with them and offer a bid, which the board and shareholders must accept. The second way is a hostile takeover, which means buying at least 51% of the company's stock (51% of market cap).
To find out how much the big corporations are really worth, check out the Fortune 500. It's updated annually, and based only on annual revenue.
From the 1999 Fortune 500:
GE #5 Revenue: $100.5B Profit: $9.3B Assets: $355.9B
MS #109 Revenue: $14.5B Profit: $4.5B Assets: $22.4B
Cisco #192 Revenue: $8.5B Profit: $1.4B Assets: $8.9B
Amazon's revenue and profit from their 1999 Income Statement, assets from their Balance Sheet:
Amazon (not in the Fortune 500) Revenue: $133.8M Profit: -$124.5M Assets: $1.8B
Maybe you should do a little more research next time.