Prudence suggests that since it's our money funding the research, we ought to make sure the public gets some return from the endeavor.
Not just flawed, but deeply so. "Our money" funds a lot of things that we don't have direct access too--many things that we SHOULD not have access to. Lets face it, some government software, regardless of who writes it, should not be open sourced.
I, for one, would like to take a ride in a spy plane that I'm sure some of my money went for.
...because the language market is not only j2ee and.net. I mean, come on: these are server-based technologies. What makes them useful for the average (read: non-connected) desktop application? Ok, I need to edit a text file, but before I can do that, I need to fire up my own personal.net server or bea server or whatever. right...
That is like saying computers are only for the internet.
I know this is the case with trademarks, but I don't know what happens in the case of patents.
But if a company does not defend their trademark vigorously, after time they risk loosing it. Good cases are with drugs (tylenol, aspirin), and lots of very common consumer products (kleenex comes to mind, almost happened to coca-cola IIRC).
I think the same thing should hold true with patents: If they're prosecuting Prodigy for hyperlinking in the 80's, good hell, they've waited too long.
The article failed to mention the cost of support to Linux platforms. Heck, I'd like to see windows replaced in the work place myself. But the fact remains--windows based sysadmins are a dime a dozen, and most of the sharp linux/unix admins don't want to be resetting passwords for morons.
It would be hard to find enough linux admins willing to do this kind of work.
I really liked the idea of learning a plethora of languages while in school. Some schools do a good job, but others are rather pathetic.
I remember when I was in school, taking a databases class where one of the requirements for the last project of the semester was to program it in a language/system we had never used before. It was actually kind of fun (I chose PHP).
I have seen way too many recent college grads who are proficient in little more than VB. I'm sure they were exposed to C/Java/What-have-you, but man, to say all they needed to do was "brush up" would have been a long stretch.
So to any professors out there, encourage your students to get some breadth when it comes to languages. The experience will prove invaluable.
This is causing me to have "far-side-comic" images of people with their sleeves rolled up in their offices, peeking under the "hood" of their desktop machines, with steam bellowing out of them.
"Just let it cool down for a few minutes, and start her up again."
My father-in-law bought a brand new gigahertz desktop from CompUSA about 3 months ago. When he had it for a month, it started acting up.
He had a virus. I removed it for him and every thing was fine.
A few days later it started acting up again. He called HP customer support who told him it was the virus and that he had to use the restored CD (lose all data, etc.).
That didn't work.
He took it back to CompUSA. They told him it NEEDED A CLEANING! So for $10 they cleaned it.
That didn't work. He took it back. They looked at it again and realized there were hardware problems. They wanted to charge him over $100 to look at it and about $200 to fix it even though he paid for a 3-year service warranty on it. He pitched a fit and they decided to only charge him $35.
It sat at the CompUSA store for about a month before they finally decided to ship it to HP. And that's where the situation sits now.
I don't know what HP will do, but it will be very hard for them top the service offered by CompUSA.
(By the way, I tried to convince him not to buy a computer there, but to no avail.)
Maybe we'll see something like this in the next Internet Explorer EULA:
You may not use this software to view websites that disparage Microsoft or any of its entities. If you do, we'll hunt you down, take your computer, your mother's computer, and add you to our general shitlist.
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60 billion dollars will not buy the hate out of anyone.
Translate "a new kind of war" to "a war with significant American casualties." I think they are trying to test the water to see if Americans can accept a war in which many American soldiers (and possibly) civilians may die.
They had to use this [stronger] kind of language because, let's face it: Desert Storm was a walk in the park for the American military. Little more than an extended field trip.
At this point, I think the public is generally accepting what is about to happen (a full-scale and sustained assault on terrorism).
I have to disagree. Isolationism is what kept certain European countries safe in WWII, and up to this day.
There are problems enough in America (we can't seem to agree about religion and race either). I feel that picking sides in what is essentially a religious war has been the Wrong Thing to do.
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By allowing this agency to send out bills, the Danish courts have legalized P2P in their country.
Thus, it is apparently legal to have a pre-release version of the next Star Wars/Harry Potter/etc. movie as long as you have paid your $26.70.
but with the TiBooks and Linux working on laptops, how much do people need Solaris laptops?
Because you need that kind of firepower to adequately run StarOffice(TM).
Prudence suggests that since it's our money funding the research, we ought to make sure the public gets some return from the endeavor.
Not just flawed, but deeply so. "Our money" funds a lot of things that we don't have direct access too--many things that we SHOULD not have access to. Lets face it, some government software, regardless of who writes it, should not be open sourced.
I, for one, would like to take a ride in a spy plane that I'm sure some of my money went for.
As a Picturebook owner, I can't imagine how a keyboard any smaller can still be usable
The Japanese, on average being smaller than Americans, would likely have smaller hands and fingers and could tolerate a smallker keyboard.
Mac OS X bundles A LOT of the GNU software mentioned in that FAQ into their operating system.
Apple probably should have gone with the moniker "GNU OS X" to be politically correct.
The web page with the press release contained only one JPEG, but many GIFs.
I'm sure there's a plant-to-fuel combination thats a winner
A horse with a saddle.
Did IBMs embrace for Java spawn the emphasis on Linux, or was it the other way around.
Or are the two entirely unrelated?
...because the language market is not only j2ee and .net. I mean, come on: these are server-based technologies. What makes them useful for the average (read: non-connected) desktop application? Ok, I need to edit a text file, but before I can do that, I need to fire up my own personal .net server or bea server or whatever. right...
That is like saying computers are only for the internet.
I know this is the case with trademarks, but I don't know what happens in the case of patents.
But if a company does not defend their trademark vigorously, after time they risk loosing it. Good cases are with drugs (tylenol, aspirin), and lots of very common consumer products (kleenex comes to mind, almost happened to coca-cola IIRC).
I think the same thing should hold true with patents: If they're prosecuting Prodigy for hyperlinking in the 80's, good hell, they've waited too long.
It attempts to make humor.
The gut of a whale or other plankton-eating creature.
The whole point of the initial cam was to let others know whether or not there was coffee already brewed.
Due to their poor lighting/camera/whatever, it is impossible to tell whether or not there is coffee in the coffeemaker.
LDAP and IMAP come to mind.
The article failed to mention the cost of support to Linux platforms. Heck, I'd like to see windows replaced in the work place myself. But the fact remains--windows based sysadmins are a dime a dozen, and most of the sharp linux/unix admins don't want to be resetting passwords for morons.
It would be hard to find enough linux admins willing to do this kind of work.
I really liked the idea of learning a plethora of languages while in school. Some schools do a good job, but others are rather pathetic.
I remember when I was in school, taking a databases class where one of the requirements for the last project of the semester was to program it in a language/system we had never used before. It was actually kind of fun (I chose PHP).
I have seen way too many recent college grads who are proficient in little more than VB. I'm sure they were exposed to C/Java/What-have-you, but man, to say all they needed to do was "brush up" would have been a long stretch.
So to any professors out there, encourage your students to get some breadth when it comes to languages. The experience will prove invaluable.
This is causing me to have "far-side-comic" images of people with their sleeves rolled up in their offices, peeking under the "hood" of their desktop machines, with steam bellowing out of them.
"Just let it cool down for a few minutes, and start her up again."
Ever driven through the desert.
Does anyone doubt that, say, Word 95 installed on Windows 95 would run circles around Word XP on Windows XP (on the same hardware)?
That's not the argument they're making. According to what the article suggests, Word95 would run slower on WindowsXP than on Windows95.
That should't be the case.
Sometimes I wonder what we'd all think of Sun if they were in the dominant position that Microsoft is currently in.
Even more interesting, I wonder how they would treat their competitors (and competitors ideas). It would be a different Sun, that's for sure.
My father-in-law bought a brand new gigahertz desktop from CompUSA about 3 months ago. When he had it for a month, it started acting up.
He had a virus. I removed it for him and every thing was fine.
A few days later it started acting up again. He called HP customer support who told him it was the virus and that he had to use the restored CD (lose all data, etc.).
That didn't work.
He took it back to CompUSA. They told him it NEEDED A CLEANING! So for $10 they cleaned it.
That didn't work. He took it back. They looked at it again and realized there were hardware problems. They wanted to charge him over $100 to look at it and about $200 to fix it even though he paid for a 3-year service warranty on it. He pitched a fit and they decided to only charge him $35.
It sat at the CompUSA store for about a month before they finally decided to ship it to HP. And that's where the situation sits now.
I don't know what HP will do, but it will be very hard for them top the service offered by CompUSA.
(By the way, I tried to convince him not to buy a computer there, but to no avail.)
'any interactive digital device that does not include and utilize certified security technologies' is a little too broad for me.
I would be sent to prison for using my digital wristwatch to tell time.
This bill will never see the light of day.
Maybe we'll see something like this in the next Internet Explorer EULA:
You may not use this software to view websites that disparage Microsoft or any of its entities. If you do, we'll hunt you down, take your computer, your mother's computer, and add you to our general shitlist.
60 billion dollars will not buy the hate out of anyone.
Translate "a new kind of war" to "a war with significant American casualties." I think they are trying to test the water to see if Americans can accept a war in which many American soldiers (and possibly) civilians may die.
They had to use this [stronger] kind of language because, let's face it: Desert Storm was a walk in the park for the American military. Little more than an extended field trip.
At this point, I think the public is generally accepting what is about to happen (a full-scale and sustained assault on terrorism).
I have to disagree. Isolationism is what kept certain European countries safe in WWII, and up to this day.
There are problems enough in America (we can't seem to agree about religion and race either). I feel that picking sides in what is essentially a religious war has been the Wrong Thing to do.