I don't fix my Linux problems either, I wait for the next upgrade
A corporate entity can hire a team of consultants to fix your problems. For free software such as FreeBSD or Linux, this includes modifying the source code. Though you claim that only 0.01% of computer users can appreciate this, I'd guess that 0.01% of computer users (i.e. mid to large cap corporations) control 90+% of the money in banks.
it's nice that you can still get i386 rpms, but if I can get better performance out of my kit with i686 rpms, I'm going to do so.
By some estimates, i686 RPMs provide about a 10% improvement over i386 RPMs. Big whoop. It still won't make you read the screen faster or type faster.
it just shows that [the OpenOffice.org suite] is designed for more recent hardware.
A major advantage of free software solutions over Microsoft proprietary solutions is that free software solutions designed for hardware with less MIPS (mostly older machines and battery-powered machines) are still maintained. Microsoft, on the other hand, EOLs the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system without introducing a compatible alternative that runs on the same (486 class PC) hardware.
Even the consoles have expansion
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One advantage of the PC has been that it has always been possible to add stuff to it later.
It's possible to add things even to the consoles. Just plug stuff into the High Speed Port (GCN), Ethernet port (Xbox), or FireWire port (PS2). Of course, the hardware has to come with a driver disc with the console maker's magic boot code, but that doesn't make it any less possible to (say) add Game Boy Advance software compatibility to the GCN.
Consumer priced for only ONE year
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But it's only been around for NINE YEARS so perhaps it's too soon for you to have heard about that.
Windows NT has been marketed at home users for only ONE year, since the fall 2001 release of Windows XP. Besides, doesn't its add user tool create an administrator by default?
I've only got 56k and left it downloading Moz 1.2 last night
A Mozilla web browser release for Windows is 10 MB. A V.90 modem can typically download that much data from mozilla.org in about 40 minutes. Many of us spend more than that on Slashdot every day. Just put it in the background and surf with IE or play a video game or something.
In fact only sites that have any problems are sites that refuse to code to standards.
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a W3C standard. Support for SVG hasn't been turned on by default in Mozilla binaries because 1. only half of SVG works yet, and 2. LGPL licensed support libraries such as libart don't work well on embedded systems where it's often not possible to replace the library with an updated version as required in the LGPL. There aren't enough frozen interfaces in Mozilla for Adobe to port its NS4.x plug-in to Mozilla.
Of course if the webmasters there don't respond to my email to fix there site then screw em, I'll take my business elsewhere thank you.
What if the web site that works only with IE is the web site of the only consumer broadband Internet access provider in your area, or of some other local monopoly?
what exactly do you use on linux
Some Linux users browse the Web with a proprietary ad-supported user agent called "Opera".
For all practical purposes ".NET" is basically the name that Microsoft is now associating with every latest version of most of its products, so it means nothing. (Yes, there is a very nice JVM ripoff in there somewhere...)
This JVM-inspired environment is called.NET Framework. Look for the word "Framework" in Microsoft.NET product literature to find references to what most Slashdot users seem to associate with ".NET".
C# fails
Some critics have described the Java language as "C++ done right". The C# language is Microsoft's re-hash of the Java language. Now if you stick two ++'s on top of each other, you get something that looks like a hash sign; thus, (C++)++ is C#.
Re:Movies aren't hypertext
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See Bitzi.com
Which is vulnerable to lawsuit.
P2P files turned into hashes, then in turn into links.
You wanted "something like Google". Sure, Bitzi links to files on Gnutella, but without hypertext links from one document to another document, there's no way to assign a PageRank(tm) value to a document.
If you have a design for a lawsuit-resistant distributed search engine that reliably maps titles of works to hashes of good quality digital encodings of those works, feel free to post a summary of your architecture here.
fuck
It's possible to express a point without obscenity.
Rental is generally not banned in the USA
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I believe that with the exception of Blockbuster which makes license agreements with the studios, most movie rentals are no differert than the above poster's actions.
I don't know about the EU or Japan, but in the United States of America, the owner of a copy of any work other than sound recordings or some computer programs has the right to rent or lease that copy.
Routers that drop packets with forged headers, all that good stuff.
If a DDOS tool forges valid HTTP connections from valid, unforged IP addresses, downloading pages in the manner of a normal web user, it becomes exceedingly difficult to distinguish DDOS traffic from legitimate traffic in an automated manner.
Slashdot is an example of such a DDOS tool.
And with authenticated packets, or with authenticated anything, there will still have to be a way to introduce clients to servers. DDOS may exploit that.
A weaker form of the defend-or-lose rule for trademarks applies to patents as well, in the form of "laches". If a patent holder is shown to harm an alleged infringer by delaying legal action, or a patent holder delays legal action by at least six years, then laches kickes in, diluting the patent holder's ability to enforce the patent on alleged infringements that occurred before the filing of a lawsuit. Once laches has kicked in, a patent holder can get an injunction, and that's about it.
My point was that even though you can't see it in the strip, Dilbert does have a mouth. I offered the animated series as evidence. You don't have to use obscene language to make a point.
Can something like Google be employed in search for media content. AFAIK, Google engine is distributed AND scalable.
Google finds content using hypertext links. Sound recordings and audiovisual works, unlike HTML documents, do not generally contain hypertext links. Besides, it's a lot easier for a provider to take down a hosted web site than a P2P node.
In short, [Movix is] a small (~5MB) linux distribution designed to be booted from a CD
However, last time I checked (April 2002), XFree86 didn't fully support my laptop's video chip. It's a NeoMagic MagicGraph on an Acer TravelMate 721TX (standard laptop for Rose-Hulman class of 2003), and I've only got its TV output to work in Windows. If I were to use Movix, I would have to buy an expensive VGA to NTSC down-converter or watch video on an LCD panel the same size as a US Letter size sheet of paper, which is microscopic by home theater standards. Do you know of any cheaper workarounds?
TESS links expire. TARR links don't. Each TESS page has a link to a TARR page with the same information. When linking to a USPTO trademark record, link to the TARR page.
Take Dilbert, for example. I'm sure that most of the Slashdot audience is familiar with Dilbert. He's the downtrodden cubicle dweller/engineer who is constantly doomed to failure and has no mouth.
Dilbert has a mouth. You can see it open in the animated cartoon. The strip, on the other hand, shows it closed all the time, and you can't see it because the lips are so thin.
Was there an animated Hello Kitty series? If so, did some characters talk like Garfield, Noddy, and Solid Snake (i.e. no mouth movement)?
That's a later step nowadays. Google is still step 1 because it's easiest. In general, trademark searches proceed as follows, with the most effective sieves (in rejections per unit effort) listed first:
Search Google.
Search Whois.
Search TESS, the USPTO's trademark search engine.
Hire one of the major trademark search companies to do a worldwide search including common variants.
On the one hand, you have PhoenixBIOS and Award Modular BIOS, both products of Phoenix Technologies. Phoenix sells BIOS products that contain a ROM based web browser, designed for use in Web access terminals.
On the other hand, you have LinuxBIOS plus a ROM filesystem containing an X server and a web browser based on Mozilla code. This could possibly work in a Web access terminal.
So which is a "Phoenix BIOS"?
Now do you see why Phoenix Technologies is getting so upset?
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I don't fix my Linux problems either, I wait for the next upgrade
A corporate entity can hire a team of consultants to fix your problems. For free software such as FreeBSD or Linux, this includes modifying the source code. Though you claim that only 0.01% of computer users can appreciate this, I'd guess that 0.01% of computer users (i.e. mid to large cap corporations) control 90+% of the money in banks.
it's nice that you can still get i386 rpms, but if I can get better performance out of my kit with i686 rpms, I'm going to do so.
By some estimates, i686 RPMs provide about a 10% improvement over i386 RPMs. Big whoop. It still won't make you read the screen faster or type faster.
it just shows that [the OpenOffice.org suite] is designed for more recent hardware.
A major advantage of free software solutions over Microsoft proprietary solutions is that free software solutions designed for hardware with less MIPS (mostly older machines and battery-powered machines) are still maintained. Microsoft, on the other hand, EOLs the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system without introducing a compatible alternative that runs on the same (486 class PC) hardware.
One advantage of the PC has been that it has always been possible to add stuff to it later.
It's possible to add things even to the consoles. Just plug stuff into the High Speed Port (GCN), Ethernet port (Xbox), or FireWire port (PS2). Of course, the hardware has to come with a driver disc with the console maker's magic boot code, but that doesn't make it any less possible to (say) add Game Boy Advance software compatibility to the GCN.
But it's only been around for NINE YEARS so perhaps it's too soon for you to have heard about that.
Windows NT has been marketed at home users for only ONE year, since the fall 2001 release of Windows XP. Besides, doesn't its add user tool create an administrator by default?
I've only got 56k and left it downloading Moz 1.2 last night
A Mozilla web browser release for Windows is 10 MB. A V.90 modem can typically download that much data from mozilla.org in about 40 minutes. Many of us spend more than that on Slashdot every day. Just put it in the background and surf with IE or play a video game or something.
In fact only sites that have any problems are sites that refuse to code to standards.
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a W3C standard. Support for SVG hasn't been turned on by default in Mozilla binaries because 1. only half of SVG works yet, and 2. LGPL licensed support libraries such as libart don't work well on embedded systems where it's often not possible to replace the library with an updated version as required in the LGPL. There aren't enough frozen interfaces in Mozilla for Adobe to port its NS4.x plug-in to Mozilla.
Of course if the webmasters there don't respond to my email to fix there site then screw em, I'll take my business elsewhere thank you.
What if the web site that works only with IE is the web site of the only consumer broadband Internet access provider in your area, or of some other local monopoly?
what exactly do you use on linux
Some Linux users browse the Web with a proprietary ad-supported user agent called "Opera".
For all practical purposes ".NET" is basically the name that Microsoft is now associating with every latest version of most of its products, so it means nothing. (Yes, there is a very nice JVM ripoff in there somewhere...)
This JVM-inspired environment is called .NET Framework. Look for the word "Framework" in Microsoft .NET product literature to find references to what most Slashdot users seem to associate with ".NET".
C# fails
Some critics have described the Java language as "C++ done right". The C# language is Microsoft's re-hash of the Java language. Now if you stick two ++'s on top of each other, you get something that looks like a hash sign; thus, (C++)++ is C#.
See Bitzi.com
Which is vulnerable to lawsuit.
P2P files turned into hashes, then in turn into links.
You wanted "something like Google". Sure, Bitzi links to files on Gnutella, but without hypertext links from one document to another document, there's no way to assign a PageRank(tm) value to a document.
If you have a design for a lawsuit-resistant distributed search engine that reliably maps titles of works to hashes of good quality digital encodings of those works, feel free to post a summary of your architecture here.
fuck
It's possible to express a point without obscenity.
I believe that with the exception of Blockbuster which makes license agreements with the studios, most movie rentals are no differert than the above poster's actions.
I don't know about the EU or Japan, but in the United States of America, the owner of a copy of any work other than sound recordings or some computer programs has the right to rent or lease that copy.
Routers that drop packets with forged headers, all that good stuff.
If a DDOS tool forges valid HTTP connections from valid, unforged IP addresses, downloading pages in the manner of a normal web user, it becomes exceedingly difficult to distinguish DDOS traffic from legitimate traffic in an automated manner.
Slashdot is an example of such a DDOS tool.
And with authenticated packets, or with authenticated anything, there will still have to be a way to introduce clients to servers. DDOS may exploit that.
It's not your right to say the preview should be free.
But it is grandparent's right to refuse to buy Robert Jordan's new book if there is no free chapter.
Some Australian has patented the wheel.
Sorry. You're thinking trademark.
A weaker form of the defend-or-lose rule for trademarks applies to patents as well, in the form of "laches". If a patent holder is shown to harm an alleged infringer by delaying legal action, or a patent holder delays legal action by at least six years, then laches kickes in, diluting the patent holder's ability to enforce the patent on alleged infringements that occurred before the filing of a lawsuit. Once laches has kicked in, a patent holder can get an injunction, and that's about it.
HE DOESN'T HAVE A MOUTH, DIPSHIT.
My point was that even though you can't see it in the strip, Dilbert does have a mouth. I offered the animated series as evidence. You don't have to use obscene language to make a point.
Can something like Google be employed in search for media content. AFAIK, Google engine is distributed AND scalable.
Google finds content using hypertext links. Sound recordings and audiovisual works, unlike HTML documents, do not generally contain hypertext links. Besides, it's a lot easier for a provider to take down a hosted web site than a P2P node.
In short, [Movix is] a small (~5MB) linux distribution designed to be booted from a CD
However, last time I checked (April 2002), XFree86 didn't fully support my laptop's video chip. It's a NeoMagic MagicGraph on an Acer TravelMate 721TX (standard laptop for Rose-Hulman class of 2003), and I've only got its TV output to work in Windows. If I were to use Movix, I would have to buy an expensive VGA to NTSC down-converter or watch video on an LCD panel the same size as a US Letter size sheet of paper, which is microscopic by home theater standards. Do you know of any cheaper workarounds?
Deep links that expire
TESS links expire. TARR links don't. Each TESS page has a link to a TARR page with the same information. When linking to a USPTO trademark record, link to the TARR page.
Anyone remember what AOL looked like as they changed from Quantum Link (C64/128 only) to a mass market business? It sucked.
And it doesn't now?
Take Dilbert, for example. I'm sure that most of the Slashdot audience is familiar with Dilbert. He's the downtrodden cubicle dweller/engineer who is constantly doomed to failure and has no mouth.
Dilbert has a mouth. You can see it open in the animated cartoon. The strip, on the other hand, shows it closed all the time, and you can't see it because the lips are so thin.
Was there an animated Hello Kitty series? If so, did some characters talk like Garfield, Noddy, and Solid Snake (i.e. no mouth movement)?
We WERE talking about Open Source, not Free software.
In practice, they're the same thing. The Open Source Definition is almost word-for-word identical with the Debian Free Software Guidelines because the former was based on the latter.
does "prior art" refer to before the patent or before the invented device?
In the United States, "prior art" refers to anything that was sold or otherwised disclosed:
how about a real trademark search [uspto.gov]?
That's a later step nowadays. Google is still step 1 because it's easiest. In general, trademark searches proceed as follows, with the most effective sieves (in rejections per unit effort) listed first:
What are the Feenicksian lawyers lake?
Pretty tough, given that they have the full backing of Lucasfilm and News Corporation.
Could we take them?
Given that both those who are Fox and those who aren't Fox are out to get us, I don't think we have much of a chance against a movie studio.
Phoenix *BIOS* has nothing to do with Phoenix *browser*. The two names do not create confusion
My other comment gives a situation in which the names could conceivably confuse.
The fact that they are different products
On the one hand, you have PhoenixBIOS and Award Modular BIOS, both products of Phoenix Technologies. Phoenix sells BIOS products that contain a ROM based web browser, designed for use in Web access terminals.
On the other hand, you have LinuxBIOS plus a ROM filesystem containing an X server and a web browser based on Mozilla code. This could possibly work in a Web access terminal.
So which is a "Phoenix BIOS"?
Now do you see why Phoenix Technologies is getting so upset?
What about Mozilla Lite?
No. Read the release notes to see why not.