Ironic thing is, Steve Wozniak would probably get a kick out of this, and if he were still working at Apple, would probably put the kibosh on all this lawyer BS.
"Hacker tactics" are what put Apple on the map, not intellectual property maximalism (i.e., greed). I guess Apple really has made the crossover into "big company status".
One of my criteria for sporthood:
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Is Math A Sport?
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If you practice it, do you still get wedgies from the jocks?
If so, it's probably not a sport.
Math doesn't pass muster. Speaking as a former high school math team member.
If your mind is not constantly groveling in little details, it has the ability to go up a couple of meta-levels and employ new problem-solving strategies in the large, letting the computer worry about stuff in the small.
Word processors enabled new forms of novel-writing by allowing the writer to move and manipulate text easily and experiment much more than he could with a typewriter. Similarly, powerful dynamic languages like Smalltalk enable new methods of programming by putting new approaches to problem-solving and experimentation within the grasp of the individual programmer.
If you're sending stuff to press, chances are you're not using GIMP, you're using Adobe Photoshop. Adobe is a licensee of all the relevant patents, not that it's necessary since most houses will simply accept your PSD's (which format is doubtless protected by a suite of patents of its own).
Actually, according to a Yale study, "Although Fox News emerges as conservative, it is not nearly as far to the right as many outlets are to the left."
It's just that amongst American journalists and intellectuals, the political spectrum has been re-scaled so that the left is now considered "moderate", centrism is "right wing" and the somewhat conservative Fox news is a "Nazi propaganda network".
There was a manga Spidey not too long ago. It dealt with a student named Komori Yu who gets bitten by a spider and yada yada. Some things are similar to the American comic; others are not.
In the 70s there was a tokusatsu program starring Spidey. Again, he was Japanese. This version was given his costume and powers by aliens, I think, and drove a giant robot. Weird.
This goes not just for Microsoft, but for any other software company.
According to this definition, statements like "Microsoft makes the best software in the world" are 100% true, because they have been the most successful at marketing and selling it.
Engineers have a completely different sense of "goodness" than marketers do. Most hackers appreciate goodness in the engineering sense rather than the marketing sense, hence the expected Slashdot backlash against this blog post.
We *are* talking about Microsoft here, a company that can not only afford plenty of screw-ups, but also has the resources and capacity to brute-force things into their favor if they should screw up.
I was a little off on the date, but my prediction that Microsoft will have the dominant gaming platform still stands.
When it comes to specs like this "open" generally means "very heavily patented". "Open" in the vendor sense is way different from "open" in the Linux sense because the point of developing technology at a place like Microsoft is to make money on each use of it so your choices are to patent it or make it proprietary, or both.
In the interest of equal time, the above will be restated, run through the Scott McCollum filter:
In the spirit of American innovators for two centuries, Microsoft patented the codec that will be used in future DVD players and released it as an open standard. However, that's not enough for the communist Linux community, who advocate stealing copyrighted content and ripping off true innovators like Microsoft and believe that all information must be free.
I seem to recall some pretty slick Amiga utilities that also used a two-column interface. The best thing going in visual file management is now sort of a footnote because everyone feels you have to look like Mac or Windows in order to be "easy to use"...
A statement can be either true or false. If it's true, it's true all the time. Otherwise, it's false.
There are more complex and nuanced logics which enable you to say "not necessarily true" or "possibly true", but in the land of PL and FOL, statements come in only those two colors.
I certainly agree that such unilateral action as blocking all port 25 traffic is not necessary to stop zombies. Everybody knows it takes only two things to stop them:
A boom stick in one hand, and a chainsaw on the stump of the other arm.
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
My laptop has 64 MB RAM!
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I know, it's old; it's a 1998-vintage Dell that wears like iron and currently I wouldn't trade it for anything ('cept maybe a new Powerbook).
Getting a decent web experience on the thing is a pain; even Firefox skirts the edge of usability. Dillo is ok for vieweing software docs but is hit-or-miss on the "real" intarweb.
Something like Minimo would be nice for those of us who're still a little behind the times, portable-wise.
It's only trendy to do this if you're a European making fun of an American. If you're an American making fun of the way Europeans write dates, then that just confirms what everybody knew all along: that Americans are bigoted, culturally ignorant buffoons.
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Ironic thing is, Steve Wozniak would probably get a kick out of this, and if he were still working at Apple, would probably put the kibosh on all this lawyer BS.
"Hacker tactics" are what put Apple on the map, not intellectual property maximalism (i.e., greed). I guess Apple really has made the crossover into "big company status".
If you practice it, do you still get wedgies from the jocks?
If so, it's probably not a sport.
Math doesn't pass muster. Speaking as a former high school math team member.
http://www.ldolphin.org/vanFlandern/gravityspeed.h tml
If these hypothetical advanced civilization manages to find a way to communicate with gravity waves, then there you go; problem solved.
"And now the Soviet Union's answer to Itchy and Scratchy: Worker and Parasite!"
If your mind is not constantly groveling in little details, it has the ability to go up a couple of meta-levels and employ new problem-solving strategies in the large, letting the computer worry about stuff in the small.
Word processors enabled new forms of novel-writing by allowing the writer to move and manipulate text easily and experiment much more than he could with a typewriter. Similarly, powerful dynamic languages like Smalltalk enable new methods of programming by putting new approaches to problem-solving and experimentation within the grasp of the individual programmer.
Unfortunately, GST has nowhere near the depth, power, or enthusiastic user base of Squeak.
He'll be finished when he stops in the Starbucks that happens to be Dr. Evil's lair.
Then he'll be finished. *pinky to corner of mouth* MUAHAHAHA! MUAHAHAHAHA! MUAHAHAHAHAHA! MUAHAHAHA! (*keep laughing until scene fade out*)
If you're sending stuff to press, chances are you're not using GIMP, you're using Adobe Photoshop. Adobe is a licensee of all the relevant patents, not that it's necessary since most houses will simply accept your PSD's (which format is doubtless protected by a suite of patents of its own).
Either way, you're safe.
They're not developing IE because they're developing Windows.
XAML will be built into Windows, not part of something separate called IE.
Factual error. The study was conducted by a UCLA professor and a U of Chicago professor.
Actually, according to a Yale study, "Although Fox News emerges as conservative, it is not nearly as far to the right as many outlets are to the left."
It's just that amongst American journalists and intellectuals, the political spectrum has been re-scaled so that the left is now considered "moderate", centrism is "right wing" and the somewhat conservative Fox news is a "Nazi propaganda network".
There was a manga Spidey not too long ago. It dealt with a student named Komori Yu who gets bitten by a spider and yada yada. Some things are similar to the American comic; others are not.
In the 70s there was a tokusatsu program starring Spidey. Again, he was Japanese. This version was given his costume and powers by aliens, I think, and drove a giant robot. Weird.
So... it's been done before.
This goes not just for Microsoft, but for any other software company.
According to this definition, statements like "Microsoft makes the best software in the world" are 100% true, because they have been the most successful at marketing and selling it.
Engineers have a completely different sense of "goodness" than marketers do. Most hackers appreciate goodness in the engineering sense rather than the marketing sense, hence the expected Slashdot backlash against this blog post.
And lemme guess... you're this close to setting the building on fire, right?
We *are* talking about Microsoft here, a company that can not only afford plenty of screw-ups, but also has the resources and capacity to brute-force things into their favor if they should screw up.
I was a little off on the date, but my prediction that Microsoft will have the dominant gaming platform still stands.
Now that the french have got their mitts on it... I propose we rename it to "Freedom Source"! ... What? Too Stallman-esque?
When it comes to specs like this "open" generally means "very heavily patented". "Open" in the vendor sense is way different from "open" in the Linux sense because the point of developing technology at a place like Microsoft is to make money on each use of it so your choices are to patent it or make it proprietary, or both.
In the interest of equal time, the above will be restated, run through the Scott McCollum filter:
In the spirit of American innovators for two centuries, Microsoft patented the codec that will be used in future DVD players and released it as an open standard. However, that's not enough for the communist Linux community, who advocate stealing copyrighted content and ripping off true innovators like Microsoft and believe that all information must be free.
MC forever, baby!
I seem to recall some pretty slick Amiga utilities that also used a two-column interface. The best thing going in visual file management is now sort of a footnote because everyone feels you have to look like Mac or Windows in order to be "easy to use"...
A statement can be either true or false. If it's true, it's true all the time. Otherwise, it's false.
There are more complex and nuanced logics which enable you to say "not necessarily true" or "possibly true", but in the land of PL and FOL, statements come in only those two colors.
I certainly agree that such unilateral action as blocking all port 25 traffic is not necessary to stop zombies. Everybody knows it takes only two things to stop them:
A boom stick in one hand, and a chainsaw on the stump of the other arm.
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
I know, it's old; it's a 1998-vintage Dell that wears like iron and currently I wouldn't trade it for anything ('cept maybe a new Powerbook).
Getting a decent web experience on the thing is a pain; even Firefox skirts the edge of usability. Dillo is ok for vieweing software docs but is hit-or-miss on the "real" intarweb.
Something like Minimo would be nice for those of us who're still a little behind the times, portable-wise.
This is the sexiest game peripheral since that vibrator thingy for Rez.
It's only trendy to do this if you're a European making fun of an American. If you're an American making fun of the way Europeans write dates, then that just confirms what everybody knew all along: that Americans are bigoted, culturally ignorant buffoons.
I seem to recall that in that SGI FF6 demo you cast spells and summoned monsters by drawing shapes with the mouse.
Hmmm... I see potential for a Nintendo DS FF game!
... only to come back one day and merge with the Creator!