In case you haven't figured it out yet, the people of the US have ceased to be represented in any meaningful way by their country's public policy, or media, or anything. Don't pretend to know what real people think. Most of them are more reasonable. Unwilling to try to improve their situation, I'll grant you, but not actively trying to be the kind of dickwad that the country as a whole appears as.
It might be irrelevant to people with Nokia thingies, but if it means that some nice changes can get merged back to Konqueror/Embedded and make my Zaurus more useful, I'm all for it!
No, it doesn't have a different ring. Why should the school have any more right to do anything about it than you or I do? There's no reason; it's just accepted that schools should be a cross between jails and indoctrination camps.
To clarify a bit further: ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment, the only parts of the Constitution that has any real bearing on the actions of state or lower governments, are the parts that say "the states may not X" (where X is something like "enter into a treaty"), and the part that says that any rights or powers not specifically mentioned devolve to the states or to the people. (This bit is frequently overridden by "practical" concerns, but that's a story for another day.)
Now suppose we have a police department who receives no federal funds, do you then believe they don't have to adhere to the constitution?
That's a pretty ignorant question. What part of a directive like "Congress shall make no law" does a local police department have to "adhere to"? They aren't Congress and they don't make any laws. What part of "The Judicial power of the United States shall be vested in" does a local police department have to adhere to? You should try thinking about what the Constitution actually means one of these days.
However, there is a complicating factor, which has been brought up elsewhere: the Fourteenth Amendment, which has been interpreted in various ways as saying that insofar as the constitution protects certain rights of the people from the federal government, those protections should also be held against the state and local governments as well. What effect it actually has is sort of questionable, due to muddled interpretations, and arguments that one of the primary pieces of language in the amendment should be held ineffective because the writers "didn't really mean it" -- but be that as it may, the amendment exists.
Better better, ditch the search bar and start using keywords. No hunting through bookmarks, trying to remember site names, or mousing through annoying dropdowns. Instead:
Uh, except that's not what would happen. At least, not in a non-broken system. The patent simply wouldn't be granted to anyone, and it would be an open market -- the same as it is with most of the goods ever created. And there's nothing wrong with that, because nobody needs or deserves the monopoly protection that a patent grants in that case.
And the best bit is that MediaWiki isn't the best choice for much of anything. People use it because it's popular and because the installation instructions fit on half a page, but it's really one of the crappiest pieces of software you'll find. I've been through the source -- believe me. Or if you don't, at least consider yourself warned. You'll find some scary stuff, and you'll be amazed at how far the definition of the word "parser" can be stretched.
Perhaps you missed this part of the article: Users in demanding fields such as biosciences or meteorology do hack OS kernels to slim them down, alter the balance between throughput and computing, and to open them to the resources of a massive grid.
Sounds pretty useful to sophisticated OS X users to me!
Why were they running things on OS X again? I've run some heavy compute tasks on OS X, and darwin is just not meant for this crap. IPC is slooow, and fork takes ages compared to other systems. Why not choose one of the BSDs or Linux? Is it because these scientific apps won't work without Aqua?;)
"Open Source" doesn't conflict with "name protection".
See for example the GFDL and the Artistic License for clauses restricting the naming of derivative works, and the BSD license for a clause restricting "endorsement".
Besides which, unless a license specifically makes itself "incompatible" with trademarking, then the following case will generally hold: if the license would grant you the right to distribute a modified version, but a trademark prevents you from distributing it under a given name, then the license doesn't permit you from distributing a modified version under that name. See for example Section 7 of the GPL.
In short, Java can be released in an "open source" manner without necessarily loosening Sun's hold on the name "Java", or the Java standards or certification.
Royal Order of the Moose lodge, the school principle, or any other entity
Schools don't have "principles". I mean, just take a look at the things that public school administrations do these days. Instead they have "principals", a word that shares its derivation with "prince".
You're having a serious problem with Firefox that the vast majority of Firefox users aren't seeing. I recommend completely uninstalling Firefox, reinstalling it, and creating a new profile. That will likely fix the problem.
Er... Everyone I've ever talked to who runs Firefox on linux has told me that they've got creeping memory leaks that will eat all of their RAM given time. None of them have been able to fix it through reinstallation shenanigans. Maybe the people you've been talking to just close their browser every half-hour so they never have a chance to run into problems? There's a memory leak, and it sucks. Badly.
Other posters have noted that this is already possible, but I still think it could use improvement. I want to see "January 11th" for something that happened four months ago, but "May 11th 2002" for something that happened four years ago. Anyway, personally I think the Ladd design is the most interesting.
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While everyone wants to see China improving its enforcement of IP rights, is this a step too far?
No, I'm sure that the average John Chinaman is truly in love with the prospect of a government-run IP crackdown!
In case you haven't figured it out yet, the people of the US have ceased to be represented in any meaningful way by their country's public policy, or media, or anything. Don't pretend to know what real people think. Most of them are more reasonable. Unwilling to try to improve their situation, I'll grant you, but not actively trying to be the kind of dickwad that the country as a whole appears as.
Actually it's because the article itself is based entirely on "common misunderstandings about Unix"
If you refuse to edit incoherent rambling submissions, at least have the decency to refrain from posting them.
It might be irrelevant to people with Nokia thingies, but if it means that some nice changes can get merged back to Konqueror/Embedded and make my Zaurus more useful, I'm all for it!
No, it doesn't have a different ring. Why should the school have any more right to do anything about it than you or I do? There's no reason; it's just accepted that schools should be a cross between jails and indoctrination camps.
To clarify a bit further: ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment, the only parts of the Constitution that has any real bearing on the actions of state or lower governments, are the parts that say "the states may not X" (where X is something like "enter into a treaty"), and the part that says that any rights or powers not specifically mentioned devolve to the states or to the people. (This bit is frequently overridden by "practical" concerns, but that's a story for another day.)
Now suppose we have a police department who receives no federal funds, do you then believe they don't have to adhere to the constitution?
That's a pretty ignorant question. What part of a directive like "Congress shall make no law" does a local police department have to "adhere to"? They aren't Congress and they don't make any laws. What part of "The Judicial power of the United States shall be vested in" does a local police department have to adhere to? You should try thinking about what the Constitution actually means one of these days.
However, there is a complicating factor, which has been brought up elsewhere: the Fourteenth Amendment, which has been interpreted in various ways as saying that insofar as the constitution protects certain rights of the people from the federal government, those protections should also be held against the state and local governments as well. What effect it actually has is sort of questionable, due to muddled interpretations, and arguments that one of the primary pieces of language in the amendment should be held ineffective because the writers "didn't really mean it" -- but be that as it may, the amendment exists.
Better better, ditch the search bar and start using keywords. No hunting through bookmarks, trying to remember site names, or mousing through annoying dropdowns. Instead:
gg:search engine
wp:Slashdot
imdb:Pulp Fiction
tv:House
leo:Wienerschnitzel
cpan:WWW::Search
Think I'm exaggerating? Why do you think I don't have those jobs anymore?
;)
Maybe it was because you're prone to exaggeration and it was interfering with your job performance
Uh, except that's not what would happen. At least, not in a non-broken system. The patent simply wouldn't be granted to anyone, and it would be an open market -- the same as it is with most of the goods ever created. And there's nothing wrong with that, because nobody needs or deserves the monopoly protection that a patent grants in that case.
Oh, and "exhorbinant"? Stop making words up.
And the best bit is that MediaWiki isn't the best choice for much of anything. People use it because it's popular and because the installation instructions fit on half a page, but it's really one of the crappiest pieces of software you'll find. I've been through the source -- believe me. Or if you don't, at least consider yourself warned. You'll find some scary stuff, and you'll be amazed at how far the definition of the word "parser" can be stretched.
It would make it meaningless in terms of the tone that the article was written in, which is "what a bunch of idiots Sony are!"
Why were they running things on OS X again? I've run some heavy compute tasks on OS X, and darwin is just not meant for this crap. IPC is slooow, and fork takes ages compared to other systems. Why not choose one of the BSDs or Linux? Is it because these scientific apps won't work without Aqua?
"Open Source" doesn't conflict with "name protection".
See for example the GFDL and the Artistic License for clauses restricting the naming of derivative works, and the BSD license for a clause restricting "endorsement".
Besides which, unless a license specifically makes itself "incompatible" with trademarking, then the following case will generally hold: if the license would grant you the right to distribute a modified version, but a trademark prevents you from distributing it under a given name, then the license doesn't permit you from distributing a modified version under that name. See for example Section 7 of the GPL.
In short, Java can be released in an "open source" manner without necessarily loosening Sun's hold on the name "Java", or the Java standards or certification.
Royal Order of the Moose lodge, the school principle, or any other entity
Schools don't have "principles". I mean, just take a look at the things that public school administrations do these days. Instead they have "principals", a word that shares its derivation with "prince".
You're having a serious problem with Firefox that the vast majority of Firefox users aren't seeing. I recommend completely uninstalling Firefox, reinstalling it, and creating a new profile. That will likely fix the problem.
Er... Everyone I've ever talked to who runs Firefox on linux has told me that they've got creeping memory leaks that will eat all of their RAM given time. None of them have been able to fix it through reinstallation shenanigans. Maybe the people you've been talking to just close their browser every half-hour so they never have a chance to run into problems? There's a memory leak, and it sucks. Badly.
The secret sauce is "Hype". And if you lift the bun, you find that there's more secret sauce than meat.
I think you mean, GPS, a compass, and a gyrocompass.
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Other posters have noted that this is already possible, but I still think it could use improvement. I want to see "January 11th" for something that happened four months ago, but "May 11th 2002" for something that happened four years ago. Anyway, personally I think the Ladd design is the most interesting.
Interpol makes you disappear.
Actually, come to think of it -- better make that millizerth. You didn't capitalize either.
What are these Megazerth you speak of?
On a related note, what the hack does "clinically proven" mean?
It means "clinically tested". For more information, consult the nearest dictionary.