Future histories will record that American civilization collapsed under the weight of barbarian hordes.
I am, of course, refering to liability lawyers.
Just before civil collapse you won't be able to buy a ladder less than ten feet tall, to make room for all the required and liability suit prophylactic warning stickers.
Assuming that nothing went wrong at just the right time to remove just the right amount of momentum. Like bumping into a Nerf(tm) meteoroid or something.
In any case my joke had a serious side, as they sometimes do, and that was to point out that the legal jurisdiction for any liablility suit would be Russia.
. ..basically "designed by proxy" from Steve Jobs yelling at people.
You could pretty much substitute William Lear or Enzo Ferrari for Steve's name in that sentence. It's not an umcommon way of going about things for the smaller, elite company founded by a charismatic leader.
A good many of Woody's songs were modifications of other songs. It's called "The Folk Process."
Roll on Columbia and Ramblin' Round were both to the tune of Goodnight Irene by Huddie Ledbetter (that's Leadbelly to you and me).
Woody was not a particular fan of the idea of "Intellectual Property" and violated it regularly and without compunction. All he really cared about was some sort of credit for what he himself had written. Folk music is the original "Open Source."
This Land is Your Land he clearly intended by his own words to dedicate to the public domain.
We controlled for a lot, but not all, contravening variables. . .
Was the monitor held in the same manner a book is held, or was the book placed in a rigid stand? People with learning disabilities often have trouble making rotational translations, thus an "upright" letter "T" looks different to them than a "T" rotated several degrees.
I suspect you tested for stability of the text platform, not whether the light was direct or reflected (and I'd like to know what physical mechanism would lead you to think this makes a difference).
I've never done such research myself, but spent a couple of years as a subject.
The Wright Bros. sued nearly everyone in sight for patent infringement, which is the main reason the center of aero-technology moved from America to Europe in less than a decade.
By the time of WWI America was put in the position of having to license aeroplane and engine technologies from England and France.
I think you should find a better example.
KFG
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Dumb people are really boring.
This is our front line of defense against Echelon and Carnivore.
It sounds an awful lot like you're complaining, but you have absolutely no idea how to solve the problem you've raised. This is not constructive...it is merely whining.
I'll bet your auto mechanic just loves it when you refuse to tell him what's wrong, but tell him how to fix it.
When storing files in a database retrieval is dependant on metadata. That metadata is not derived by magic, it requires human input. You may automagically determine that a file is a jpeg, but classification as a jpeg of a bird is a cognative decision. Maybe you aren't even interested in the bird at all, but in the hemlock limb the bird is sitting on. Unless someone has supplied that metadata you just as lost finding the jpeg of the hemlock branch as you are in finding randomly named jpeg of a bird.
Filenames are metadata and are just as much under user control as database metadata, no more, no less.
Users often demand and think they need all sorts of pointless, worthless, daft shit. Commercial companies, of course, have to cater to this, and the less ethical directly exploit it ( I'll sell you speaker cables that I've meditated over while sitting under a mystical waterfall to infuse them with energy and align their molecules, only $2000 a set. If you can't hear the difference it's because your chakras are blocked, but don't worry, I've developed a homeopathic remedy, only $20 a bottle. Oh, they only work while listening to my taped lecture series though, just $499. Remember to sit on my special magnetic pad at the same time (available to members only)).
How's about this for a better idea, instead of trying to keep with Microsoft try to keep up with sound software engineering principles in designing our file systems?
There may even come a time when the required action to impliment this idea is to do nothing.
I knew you were going to show up, because we're both right. The color is not truly olive drab, nor truly khaki (khaki is a very specific hue, moreso even than olive drab), it is tan mixed with green giving various hues of tanish olive, depending on the mix.
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Future histories will record that American civilization collapsed under the weight of barbarian hordes.
I am, of course, refering to liability lawyers.
Just before civil collapse you won't be able to buy a ladder less than ten feet tall, to make room for all the required and liability suit prophylactic warning stickers.
KFG
If Microsoft was going to pull some patent-issue on free software. . .
it would pay SCO to do it for them.
KFG
Assuming that nothing went wrong at just the right time to remove just the right amount of momentum. Like bumping into a Nerf(tm) meteoroid or something.
In any case my joke had a serious side, as they sometimes do, and that was to point out that the legal jurisdiction for any liablility suit would be Russia.
KFG
Sarcasm? But I saw it at the movies!
KFG
America did not win the 'first' race.
Ok, yeah, but at least we did win the Battle of Pearl Harbor and capture the Enigma machine.
KFG
If you're stuck in lunar orbit how are you going to file in a Russian court?
KFG
I play it on the bus, walking to the office, in the office, at lunch and on the way home again.
The great thing about birds is that they don't take batteries and come in all sorts of pretty colors.
KFG
Draw whatever conclusions you wish about my argumental prowess
I'd guess that you tend to prefer being right, rather than winning.
Either that or you're just wishy-washy.
I'll flip a coin.
KFG
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
The honorable Mr. Rothbard never examined the music industry, did he?
Or even just read Terry Pratchett.
KFG
. . .basically "designed by proxy" from Steve Jobs yelling at people.
You could pretty much substitute William Lear or Enzo Ferrari for Steve's name in that sentence. It's not an umcommon way of going about things for the smaller, elite company founded by a charismatic leader.
KFG
I heard they finally shipped the T-Shirt.
Bearing in mind that it's still version 0.1, so it's still feature incomplete.
For version 0.2 the roadmap plans on adding holes for head and arms.
KFG
A good many of Woody's songs were modifications of other songs. It's called "The Folk Process."
Roll on Columbia and Ramblin' Round were both to the tune of Goodnight Irene by Huddie Ledbetter (that's Leadbelly to you and me).
Woody was not a particular fan of the idea of "Intellectual Property" and violated it regularly and without compunction. All he really cared about was some sort of credit for what he himself had written. Folk music is the original "Open Source."
This Land is Your Land he clearly intended by his own words to dedicate to the public domain.
KFG
Is that clear enough for ya ?
Yes, but it leaves me even fuzzier about your original post.
KFG
You already have the freedom, silly.
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Are you suggesting that your freedom is limited to picking between the projects of others?
Um, am I missing the point. .
It has that appearance, yes.
KFG
it's pretty difficult to make money developing Linux =P
As there is more money to be made overall and more positions to be had in carpentry than there is in designing hammers.
The primary point of tools being their use.
KFG
You should see the thong he got to keep...
Sorry, not into fanny floss myself, but hey, whatever rows your respective boats.
KFG
Why am I now expecting to see a string of, "what's your number?" posts?
733967, of course. Can't you read?
KFG
We controlled for a lot, but not all, contravening variables. . .
Was the monitor held in the same manner a book is held, or was the book placed in a rigid stand? People with learning disabilities often have trouble making rotational translations, thus an "upright" letter "T" looks different to them than a "T" rotated several degrees.
I suspect you tested for stability of the text platform, not whether the light was direct or reflected (and I'd like to know what physical mechanism would lead you to think this makes a difference).
I've never done such research myself, but spent a couple of years as a subject.
KFG
They are launching a probe INTO the astroid?
.more asteroid.
I predict they'll find. .
Unless they get lucky and find the one with caramel in the center on the first try.
KFG
The Wright Bros. sued nearly everyone in sight for patent infringement, which is the main reason the center of aero-technology moved from America to Europe in less than a decade.
By the time of WWI America was put in the position of having to license aeroplane and engine technologies from England and France.
I think you should find a better example.
KFG
Dumb people are really boring.
This is our front line of defense against Echelon and Carnivore.
KFG
It sounds an awful lot like you're complaining, but you have absolutely no idea how to solve the problem you've raised. This is not constructive...it is merely whining.
I'll bet your auto mechanic just loves it when you refuse to tell him what's wrong, but tell him how to fix it.
KFG
When storing files in a database retrieval is dependant on metadata. That metadata is not derived by magic, it requires human input. You may automagically determine that a file is a jpeg, but classification as a jpeg of a bird is a cognative decision. Maybe you aren't even interested in the bird at all, but in the hemlock limb the bird is sitting on. Unless someone has supplied that metadata you just as lost finding the jpeg of the hemlock branch as you are in finding randomly named jpeg of a bird.
Filenames are metadata and are just as much under user control as database metadata, no more, no less.
KFG
Users often demand and think they need all sorts of pointless, worthless, daft shit. Commercial companies, of course, have to cater to this, and the less ethical directly exploit it ( I'll sell you speaker cables that I've meditated over while sitting under a mystical waterfall to infuse them with energy and align their molecules, only $2000 a set. If you can't hear the difference it's because your chakras are blocked, but don't worry, I've developed a homeopathic remedy, only $20 a bottle. Oh, they only work while listening to my taped lecture series though, just $499. Remember to sit on my special magnetic pad at the same time (available to members only)).
How's about this for a better idea, instead of trying to keep with Microsoft try to keep up with sound software engineering principles in designing our file systems?
There may even come a time when the required action to impliment this idea is to do nothing.
KFG
I knew you were going to show up, because we're both right. The color is not truly olive drab, nor truly khaki (khaki is a very specific hue, moreso even than olive drab), it is tan mixed with green giving various hues of tanish olive, depending on the mix.
Call it desert olive.
KFG