Hmm or does it; sure ClearType would need to be modified heavily to be used with this interesting new arrangement; whether it still hits the ClearType patent is more interesting. If the ClearType patent is written generally enough then this probably almost requires hitting the patent to use it sensibly.
Well hell this is depressing. I hope he now knows where his towel is.
So long, and thanks for all the books.
(P.S. You can buy the original HHGttG radio series from the BBC on CD)
To quote from the conclusion:
19. The Government's conclusion is thus to reaffirm the principle that patents are for technological innovations. Software should not be patentable where there is no technological innovation, and technological innovations should not cease to be patentable
merely because the innovation lies in software.
So they are saying that if you can claim technological innovation then you can patent software.
Damn.
If all the root domain name servers go out/get corrupted then the net will effectivly be down with about a dozen machines.
We saw this only a few years ago when some of the domain files got corrupted.
Also if we loose a couple of large links then many places become very-unusable - you may have connectivity but the load on the remaining links is so high that nothing will get anywhere.
I believe a good knowledge of computer history could be vital to fighting patents.
Soon there will be technologies that were developed so long ago no one remebmers them and patents will be created for them when people reinvent them. A knowledge of the history would fight these.
As an example; a couple of years ago I went to a computer history lecture where someone described how babbages difference engine had a mechanism for breaking the carry chain part way down to allow it do multiple calculations simultaneously. This isn't that far away from what MMX (and its precursors) do. That technology is 150 years old!
Oh please do - StarOffice is half way there to being a great app; but its big, slow and a little buggy. Let us at the source and let us make it kick ass.
My understanding of the Free software cause is to make software free - not only monetarily but as in freeing software authors from constraints. Patenting software and allowing it to be free for only free software only makes it monetarily free; it doesn't help in the goal of making authors lifes easier. This is also why I believe in the LGPL for libraries; this helps make the life of authors writing both free and none free applications easier. You take away freedom when you descriminate against the commercial software writer.
This problem isn't new. I heard a story a few years ago about the problem of finding data from the moon landings. Not only did they find it difficult to find where the data was archived, but found it was on a recording format which wasn't used any more and they had to find the one remaining compatible tape reader which was about to get chucked. But actual media decay? Well punch cards - people already have stacks of punch cards which have lasted 30 years+ - so they are known and tested for long term reliablity
Well if you solar or wind powered this reaction it would seem like a fairly nice idea; the question is how much would be needed to make any noticeable difference?
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Hmm or does it; sure ClearType would need to be modified heavily to be used with this interesting new arrangement; whether it still hits the ClearType patent is more interesting. If the ClearType patent is written generally enough then this probably almost requires hitting the patent to use it sensibly.
Hmm - so we are going to have to pay for Ximian Connector (and by the way its in 10 packs I guess per seat?). That isn't going to help is it.
Well hell this is depressing. I hope he now knows where his towel is. So long, and thanks for all the books. (P.S. You can buy the original HHGttG radio series from the BBC on CD)
To quote from the conclusion: 19. The Government's conclusion is thus to reaffirm the principle that patents are for technological innovations. Software should not be patentable where there is no technological innovation, and technological innovations should not cease to be patentable merely because the innovation lies in software. So they are saying that if you can claim technological innovation then you can patent software. Damn.
If all the root domain name servers go out/get corrupted then the net will effectivly be down with about a dozen machines. We saw this only a few years ago when some of the domain files got corrupted. Also if we loose a couple of large links then many places become very-unusable - you may have connectivity but the load on the remaining links is so high that nothing will get anywhere.
I believe a good knowledge of computer history could be vital to fighting patents. Soon there will be technologies that were developed so long ago no one remebmers them and patents will be created for them when people reinvent them. A knowledge of the history would fight these. As an example; a couple of years ago I went to a computer history lecture where someone described how babbages difference engine had a mechanism for breaking the carry chain part way down to allow it do multiple calculations simultaneously. This isn't that far away from what MMX (and its precursors) do. That technology is 150 years old!
Oh please do - StarOffice is half way there to being a great app; but its big, slow and a little buggy. Let us at the source and let us make it kick ass.
I'd love to see a picture of their machine room! (What do they use in terms of networking kit?)
My understanding of the Free software cause is to make software free - not only monetarily but as in freeing software authors from constraints. Patenting software and allowing it to be free for only free software only makes it monetarily free; it doesn't help in the goal of making authors lifes easier. This is also why I believe in the LGPL for libraries; this helps make the life of authors writing both free and none free applications easier. You take away freedom when you descriminate against the commercial software writer.
I just love the concept of calling the KDE unstable development version should be called KRASH.
This problem isn't new. I heard a story a few years ago about the problem of finding data from the moon landings. Not only did they find it difficult to find where the data was archived, but found it was on a recording format which wasn't used any more and they had to find the one remaining compatible tape reader which was about to get chucked. But actual media decay? Well punch cards - people already have stacks of punch cards which have lasted 30 years+ - so they are known and tested for long term reliablity
Well if you solar or wind powered this reaction it would seem like a fairly nice idea; the question is how much would be needed to make any noticeable difference?