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The first time a user uses GNOME, it defaults to Sawfish. E is too bloated (it tries to be both a desktop environment and a wm) to be GNOME's default wm.
We've been waiting for a public journal of this type; search Slashdot for "patents" stories and read through the comments. Antipatents is this journal. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
According to United States law, a patent may not be granted unless the invention is new, non-obvious given prior art, and useful; however, the Patent Office tends to ignore the "non-obvious" part, so here's my definition of "bad patent":
bad patentn. a patent on an invention that is obvious, given prior art, at the time the patent was applied for.
antipatents is trying to collect obvious information into a prior-art database that is easy to search when a Bad Patent is being overturned.
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Without patents, there would be no incentive to create new synthetic pharmaceuticals. Without new drugs, new diseases will run rampant, and only the cutest humans will survive.
[Missing symlinks] are causing far more difficulty than the fact that X and Win32 GDI are completely different.
Tiddly-day, especially when one considers that the GIMP toolkit (GTK+ & Co.), allows one application to be written for X and Win32 with minimal OS-specific code.
In the case of EverQuest, I really don't see what the problem is. People still buy your game, and they still use your game. They just aren't connecting to your server. Boo hoo.
It's like the consoles. Console makers take a loss on the console sale and make it up licensing the patent rights to produce software for the console. Likewise, MMORPG makers take a loss on client software development and make it up selling time on their servers.
In my experience, a 56K-class dialup connection is not very full-duplex. When I'm sending large amounts of data (web site updates through FTP or my band's music through Napster), I have terrible pings and transfer rates to web sites. This half-duplicity makes it more efficient for dialup users to freeload. This phenomenon also affects any asymmetric connection (for example, DSL upload speeds can be as low as one-fifth of download speeds). <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
English copyright was perpetual, and only publishers were granted copyright -- not authors.
American copyright is perpetual under a loophole in the Constitution: copyright is supposed to last "for limited times" but nothing in the Constitution takes away Congress's right to extend the terms of those rights retroactively whenever they are about to expire <cough>Sonny Bono Act</cough>. And a large fraction of contracts require the authors to sign over all rights to the publisher (often an RIAA/MPAA/etc. member).
until the last Elves and Dwarves had been abducted by UFO's, in a secret plot by the US government, in a deal with the aliens, to remove the Elves and Dwarves from Earth, and provide the Aliens with fresh meat.
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I'm suprised no-one else mentioned this
You mean like #10?
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while the collaboration software enforces the rules to keep the whole thing consistent.
What is required to be consistent, in this case, is the writing style. Collaboration software makes no pretense of being able to fix writing style.
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VA Linux Systems pays Malda and Hemos. VA Linux also runs SourceForge.
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But use Cygwin if you're really that enamored with the Win32 subsystem.
Especially when you're porting Win32 apps such as GIMP from *n?x to Wintendo 9x.
And it's Certified POSIX compliant, not wannabe.
All Red Hat needs to do for Cygwin is get UNIFIX's help like it did for GNU/Linux (glibc + GNU *utils + Linux kernel).
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Microsoft can't say "Java" anymore because its "J++" language was found not to be 100% compatible with Java® technology. In IE, you can turn off J?v?Script by turning off "Active Scripting" in the Internet security zone.
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Let [GNOME users] default to E or whatever
The first time a user uses GNOME, it defaults to Sawfish. E is too bloated (it tries to be both a desktop environment and a wm) to be GNOME's default wm.
(A Sawfish is not a penis fish. And this is not a penis bird.)<O
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We've been waiting for a public journal of this type; search Slashdot for "patents" stories and read through the comments. Antipatents is this journal.
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According to United States law, a patent may not be granted unless the invention is new, non-obvious given prior art, and useful; however, the Patent Office tends to ignore the "non-obvious" part, so here's my definition of "bad patent":
bad patent n. a patent on an invention that is obvious, given prior art, at the time the patent was applied for.
antipatents is trying to collect obvious information into a prior-art database that is easy to search when a Bad Patent is being overturned.
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Already patent holders are reluctant to do a comprehensive prior-art search - why should the presence of the "anti-patent" database change things?
antipatents will become a large prior-art database for patent holders to search.
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If you really want to share your invention, and ensure that nobody can patent it, release it in such a way that it can be shown to be prior art.
That's what antipatents is. It's a prior art database.
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In order to create a good general-knowledge database such as Everything2 or Mindpixel, a ton of common-sense knowledge has to be entered in. Think of antipatents as being a "common sense for engineers" database.
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Without patents, there would be no incentive to create new synthetic pharmaceuticals. Without new drugs, new diseases will run rampant, and only the cutest humans will survive.
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[Missing symlinks] are causing far more difficulty than the fact that X and Win32 GDI are completely different.
Tiddly-day, especially when one considers that the GIMP toolkit (GTK+ & Co.), allows one application to be written for X and Win32 with minimal OS-specific code.
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So you're saying "no self-respecting programmer would use" Cygwin, the POSIX layer for Win32?
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Since NT is not UNIX and compatibility is not expected, POSIX is irrelevant.
GNU's Not UNIX® either, which makes this whole article moot according to your logic.
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In the case of EverQuest, I really don't see what the problem is. People still buy your game, and they still use your game. They just aren't connecting to your server. Boo hoo.
It's like the consoles. Console makers take a loss on the console sale and make it up licensing the patent rights to produce software for the console. Likewise, MMORPG makers take a loss on client software development and make it up selling time on their servers.
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In my experience, a 56K-class dialup connection is not very full-duplex. When I'm sending large amounts of data (web site updates through FTP or my band's music through Napster), I have terrible pings and transfer rates to web sites. This half-duplicity makes it more efficient for dialup users to freeload. This phenomenon also affects any asymmetric connection (for example, DSL upload speeds can be as low as one-fifth of download speeds).
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English copyright was perpetual, and only publishers were granted copyright -- not authors.
American copyright is perpetual under a loophole in the Constitution: copyright is supposed to last "for limited times" but nothing in the Constitution takes away Congress's right to extend the terms of those rights retroactively whenever they are about to expire <cough>Sonny Bono Act</cough>. And a large fraction of contracts require the authors to sign over all rights to the publisher (often an RIAA/MPAA/etc. member).
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The RIAA has no case, because they hold no relevant copyrights.
But the labels have given the RIAA what is called "power of attorney" over the copyrights.
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or rather let the artists and the open source community work together to create a an electronic marketplace that does not involve the riaa.
MP3.com fits every aspect of your comment except the "open source" aspect, which cannot be filled legally until one of these happens:
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Your "little tiny brownies" might be related to the Jawas from the first parts of Star Wars 4.
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until the last Elves and Dwarves had been abducted by UFO's, in a secret plot by the US government, in a deal with the aliens, to remove the Elves and Dwarves from Earth, and provide the Aliens with fresh meat.
They could have provided the aliens with fresh meat, slash dot, source forge, and think geek without killing any elves or dwarves.
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...what is the Matrix?
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Should have read the RFCs first.
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ARIN is no longer giving out IPs for individual subdomains, and the mail protocols don't work with name-based virtual hosting. How would this be implemented?
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