It doesn't matter if the patent covers anything, just that you have patent of something that others might do something similiar. After that, it's just about the money that you can spend on layers after suing somebody for that patent.
Can you think of any company that could go to legal battle against MS, no matter about the issue. Most of the MS patens could be ruled out as non-patentable ideas, but the company starting the battle would go broke before court decision. Not that the IBM would be any better, they just do more work on the hardware side, where it doesnät matter that much.
That really depends on the field that you are working on. I've been working with customers that have a database server with 50 to 200 MB of data and few desktop terminals and for those any cheap alternatives are good news.
Customer:"you want us to upgrade our server 'again'" You:'I just need to buy this hardware so that we can install new SP's. Or we can use your old hardware and forget that next planned software upgrade of new MS something. And we can cut our monthly service hours from 10 to 5 hours." Customer:"And all this with Linux and this Big Company database server?'
Sometimes the alternative Microsoft products do more good on marketing side than the Linux only solutions.
It seems like a massive opportunism when you read post on/. , but seriously, we are not the only ones being targeted as potential customers. If half of/. intends to do something it doesn't mean that half of rest of the people would act the same.
I would assume that cost of making the camera unhackable would be a lot greater than the lost amount of cameras being used by hackers for their own purposes. They are planning to sell 500.000 units this year(they propably counted also the resells of returned ones), so loosing few thousend units is not that much.
t I am wary of them turning around someday with their huge patent portfolio.
If they beat the SCO with this GPL being valid, I found it hard that they could go back to court someday and say that the court was wrong and they don't have to follow rules of GPL.
About only thing they can do is drop their support for their products.
Finland is not a NATO state and is not going to be one. We know for beeter that being a NATO member doesn't protect us at all. US dind't help us during WWII, they joined our enemies against the only ally we had, Germany. Nobody else cared about what would happen to us. Just look at the Baltic.
It is a very shot trip to Germany from St. Peterburh, if you dont have to figth your way through the baltic sea. Even if the Baltic countries have joined NATO, I doubt that the US would help them a bit when it would be needed, just look at the past(Greece and Turkey).
What comes to nuclear weapons, a lot of the USSR missiles are now located in other countries than russia(Georgia...).
To understand the mandatory of Finnish army you would have to konw the history of Finland. Finland has been a battleground of Sweden and Russia for past(almost) thousend years. We konw that we have enemies and we know what we might lose by not having an army. Most of the finnish males are glad to join the army and do their part to support the independancy that we have now.
I used my time there to join telecommunications sections of army and learned a lot of what I think is important. These game/interned addicts really don't have anything in common with a geek, they are just lazy ass, want it all for free freeks, who know nothing.
Few years back Amnesty made a report that Finland was using children as soldiers, but it seems that the now you have to be 18 to join army(used to be 17). Now it is pretty much 'optional' to join the army, but anyone who knows who we have as our neighbour knows what needs to be done to have country called Finland.
Lack of D-vitamin, because it is mainly given from the sun (which no geek ever sees;)
We a re talking about Finland, there is no sunshine in here. So no matter if you are a geek or not, going out will not help you with seeing sun more than once a year
Do you think that there will be any future goverments to do any apologising? All other goverments seem to have something wrong on their acting whenever there is a domisctic problem. A good warstory sells a lot better than an poor economiccs situation.
You know the drill: They have a bunch of felons at large. Rather than try to serve warrants on them singly, they just send out a mailer. "Congratulations! You'vewon tickets to the Superbowl! Now all you have to do to claim your prize is show up at the stadium on such and such a date and get your picture taken!" And the dumb 'cons' fall for it every time... So go ahead, send them your resumes. Then they'll know where you live and can drag you in for questioning any time they want
No, it's more like the pre-WWII era of Nazi goverment, where they first registerred everybody(jews) and after a while when the time and 'laws' were right, they went after them.
I assume there is a nuclear powerplant around a big city.
Even if nuclear plants are not near by any big cities, it's not only the nuclear explosion that happens, problem is also all the toxic waste that gets in the air and then it is up to the wind directions what is going to happen.
What happens if someone throw a plane to this nuclear power plant ?
All nuclear plants outer structures have been designed to hold for a missile attack.
Difference with missile and jumbo jet 'attack' is that missile causes explosion outside of outer walls and those should hol, but crashing jumbo might do some damage to outer walls because of impact of weight and speed it has. Explosion caused then by jet fuel shouldn't be enough to break the inner defensive walls.
1. Defenetely, these attacks were counterstrikes to US politics in Middle East and Europe.
True, small attacks against military targets in Middle east have left trail of innocent victims there also and those were revenged now
3. Targets are defenetly symbolic - world's economy center, "world's" military center. Both destroyed within one day, showing that US is not actually such a strong giant as many may think.
These were my thoughts also, and I third target that I was waiting to be hit was Statue of Liberty. Economy, military and freedom.
6. Counterstrike from US will cause only more attacks. US is still too powerfull to fight in open space, especially by small countries
This attack was not propably made by some individual country, at least not directly. So, by going to open war, you'll end up killing a lot of innocent people in those countries, which will then be revenged(again). Only way for US to show it's might is to find the people who were responsible and get them to face trial without killing anybody while doing so. Any military act made now will only lead to more attacks like these.
I think that people who do believe in God have to opinions about this:
a) This doesn't prove anything, we are still created by God and it's just some crap flying around space
b) Finally scientist have found proof that God does exist. These compounds are building material of God's "body" witch we haven't been able to see earlier, but who has been watching for us above.
Most of the stuff scientist found are so complicated and quite impossible to actually show to be true. This founding is quite important for creating new theories about possibilities of life in other planets, but won't mean anything for a common man, less if he takes bible seriously.
Firstly there is absolutely nothing stopping any of you from recording your own CD and sticking it on an FTP server. Note that I'm talking about an original work of art created by YOU with your banjo and Casio SK-1 keyboard, not ripped from your Kid Rock collection. Easy and free distribution! There is nothing stopping you from burning it on CDs and giving it away at the local homeless shelter. There is nothing
stopping you from taking a DV camera and recording your own movie, mixing it down on your iMac, and cranking it to MPEG and putting it
on your FTP server. NOTHING. Create all you want and you have to right to do whatever you want with it.
You are right that there is nothing that stops me for doing it now, but the issue is that record/movie companies are doing their best to take this possibility away from me. We need to fight for our rights before they are taken away from us because we "didn't need them". Now I'm able to copy my work to VHS and send it to my friends, but if most of my friends move from VHS to DVD and DVD recorders get outlawed because those can be used to copy copyrighted work, what can I do then? Even if Macs with DVD burners are legal at the moment it doesn't mean that this would be case tomorrow. Now we have regional codes on DVD, what about next medium that we are going to have? Next "DVD2" would play only on player that it was first played on, or something similiar for case of stopping piracy, even if pirates are able to burn these same "DVD2" and sell them.
Artist aren't losing money because of people copying CD's from friends. Original creator of this CD only get small percentage of the price consumer have to pay, rest goes for outdated retail channels and music companys. This money then will be used to prevent me from viewing a copy of movie that I payed for. From article:EFF spent more than a million dollars last year in defending the publisher of a security magazine,
and a Norwegian teenager, from movie industry attempts to have them censored and jailed, respectively, for publishing and writing competing software that lets
DVDs be played or copied but does not follow the restrictive contracts that the movie studios imposed on most players. The movie studios spent $4 million on
prosecuting the New York case alone. These kind os cases and army of lie^H^Hayers they have on they payroll are we paying for at moment.
I'd love to download music directly from net and pay to artist the amount he/she/it get's from record company at the moment, if that downloaded copy would be legaly mine to do whatever I want to do with. This is not possible at the moment and record companies are trying to get systems like Napster closed instead of building up their own network where I would able to download those songs that I want(not the whole CD full of crap) and pay with my creditcard.
I know they are trying to do this, but why do they have to piss off everybody while doing so? All industrial revolutions have taken time, why should digital have happened in one night. In the process people lose money and jobs, but new ones will eventually come up. The problem is, that this time the ones losing money are too powerfull at the moment and don't like to think about doing some real work instead of ripping of artist.
I did this for a while, but then you have your own phoneline busy for the time it takes them to figure out you are not there(no surfing meanwhile). One thing that got my number blocked from telemarketers as "lost case" was first talking them for a minute then saying that you were busy and asked for their number so that you could call them back. Usually the answer was like
Them:"Sorry, can't do that".
Me:"Why not?"
Them:"We don't want to be disturbed on our home numbers"
Me:"That's amazing, neither do I!"
Finally they realised that I was playing with them and didn't want to be diturbed anymore.
It appears that they do have list of bad customers witch they wan't be calling and was lucky enough to get into one.
Looking at the first 16 posts I am not convinced there is any intelligent life out there.
But if there is alien life, it must be intelligent, because they haven't contacted us.
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Actually, open-sourcing a novel (I don't think it's been done yet?)
Don't think that it has been done like open-source code, but I do remember some novels to be written online(one chapter at time) on my BBS times. Or one project where you could join and only received the last chapter and then wrote your own witch you sented to sysop and next writer. When last person finished his/her chapter, the novel was published on-line. Now that was a storyline you couldn't guess.
Does anybody know if these kind a projects can be found from the net?
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Why would chinese goverment want to push free secure software to it's citicens when it can make them use 'free' insecure MS-software?
It would be a lot easier for the goverment to control and monitor people with Windows. And they don't care about the pirace or patens or coprights.
It doesn't matter if the patent covers anything, just that you have patent of something that others might do something similiar. After that, it's just about the money that you can spend on layers after suing somebody for that patent.
Can you think of any company that could go to legal battle against MS, no matter about the issue. Most of the MS patens could be ruled out as non-patentable ideas, but the company starting the battle would go broke before court decision.
Not that the IBM would be any better, they just do more work on the hardware side, where it doesnät matter that much.
You really should get rid of those Nazies while it's still time.
You have to wait 4 more years to do that.
That really depends on the field that you are working on. I've been working with customers that have a database server with 50 to 200 MB of data and few desktop terminals and for those any cheap alternatives are good news.
Customer:"you want us to upgrade our server 'again'"
You:'I just need to buy this hardware so that we can install new SP's. Or we can use your old hardware and forget that next planned software upgrade of new MS something. And we can cut our monthly service hours from 10 to 5 hours."
Customer:"And all this with Linux and this Big Company database server?'
Sometimes the alternative Microsoft products do more good on marketing side than the Linux only solutions.
On the web, you leave traces, unless your REALLY know what you're doing.
Now the nerds are bullying the football players or cheerleaders.
And they usually know how to cover their traces.
If a nerd gets bullyed by the internet, you can do something about it(or your friends at other nerd club).
Sorry my friend, you are not allowed to enter this flight, you are on the list.
Georges face as he realises what hes done.
What makes you think that he would?
I don't see what's so horrible about requiring children to have their own.
Becaused you would need to buy a new passport every six months, just to keep photo on it up to date.
but I had to have a passport in order to leave.
In a lot of countries you have to be added to your parents passport before you are allowed to leave country.
It seems like a massive opportunism when you read post on /. , but seriously, we are not the only ones being targeted as potential customers. /. intends to do something it doesn't mean that half of rest of the people would act the same.
If half of
I would assume that cost of making the camera unhackable would be a lot greater than the lost amount of cameras being used by hackers for their own purposes. They are planning to sell 500.000 units this year(they propably counted also the resells of returned ones), so loosing few thousend units is not that much.
t I am wary of them turning around someday with their huge patent portfolio.
If they beat the SCO with this GPL being valid, I found it hard that they could go back to court someday and say that the court was wrong and they don't have to follow rules of GPL.
About only thing they can do is drop their support for their products.
Imagine the field day Microsoft will have if the project goes over budget or outright fails!
Then it would look like any normal Windows project. And that would upset them more.
Finland is not a NATO state and is not going to be one. We know for beeter that being a NATO member doesn't protect us at all. US dind't help us during WWII, they joined our enemies against the only ally we had, Germany. Nobody else cared about what would happen to us. Just look at the Baltic.
It is a very shot trip to Germany from St. Peterburh, if you dont have to figth your way through the baltic sea. Even if the Baltic countries have joined NATO, I doubt that the US would help them a bit when it would be needed, just look at the past(Greece and Turkey).
What comes to nuclear weapons, a lot of the USSR missiles are now located in other countries than russia(Georgia...).
To understand the mandatory of Finnish army you would have to konw the history of Finland. Finland has been a battleground of Sweden and Russia for past(almost) thousend years. We konw that we have enemies and we know what we might lose by not having an army. Most of the finnish males are glad to join the army and do their part to support the independancy that we have now.
I used my time there to join telecommunications sections of army and learned a lot of what I think is important. These game/interned addicts really don't have anything in common with a geek, they are just lazy ass, want it all for free freeks, who know nothing.
Few years back Amnesty made a report that Finland was using children as soldiers, but it seems that the now you have to be 18 to join army(used to be 17). Now it is pretty much 'optional' to join the army, but anyone who knows who we have as our neighbour knows what needs to be done to have country called Finland.
Lack of D-vitamin, because it is mainly given from the sun (which no geek ever sees ;)
We a re talking about Finland, there is no sunshine in here. So no matter if you are a geek or not, going out will not help you with seeing sun more than once a year
they don't do you any good unless you have a way to immunize your own guys.
What's the use, most of the own guys didn't vote you anyway
Do you think that there will be any future goverments to do any apologising?
All other goverments seem to have something wrong on their acting whenever there is a domisctic problem. A good warstory sells a lot better than an poor economiccs situation.
You know the drill: They have a bunch of felons at large. Rather than try to serve warrants on them singly, they just send out a mailer. "Congratulations! You'vewon tickets to the Superbowl! Now all you have to do to claim your prize is show up at the stadium on such and such a date and get your picture taken!" And the dumb 'cons' fall for it every time... So go ahead, send them your resumes. Then they'll know where you live and can drag you in for questioning any time they want
No, it's more like the pre-WWII era of Nazi goverment, where they first registerred everybody(jews) and after a while when the time and 'laws' were right, they went after them.
I assume there is a nuclear powerplant around a big city.
Even if nuclear plants are not near by any big cities, it's not only the nuclear explosion that happens, problem is also all the toxic waste that gets in the air and then it is up to the wind directions what is going to happen.
What happens if someone throw a plane to this nuclear power plant ?
All nuclear plants outer structures have been designed to hold for a missile attack.
Difference with missile and jumbo jet 'attack' is that missile causes explosion outside of outer walls and those should hol, but crashing jumbo might do some damage to outer walls because of impact of weight and speed it has. Explosion caused then by jet fuel shouldn't be enough to break the inner defensive walls.
1. Defenetely, these attacks were counterstrikes to US politics in Middle East and Europe.
True, small attacks against military targets in Middle east have left trail of innocent victims there also and those were revenged now
3. Targets are defenetly symbolic - world's economy center, "world's" military center. Both destroyed within one day, showing that US is not actually such a strong giant as many may think.
These were my thoughts also, and I third target that I was waiting to be hit was Statue of Liberty. Economy, military and freedom.
6. Counterstrike from US will cause only more attacks. US is still too powerfull to fight in open space, especially by small countries
This attack was not propably made by some individual country, at least not directly. So, by going to open war, you'll end up killing a lot of innocent people in those countries, which will then be revenged(again). Only way for US to show it's might is to find the people who were responsible and get them to face trial without killing anybody while doing so. Any military act made now will only lead to more attacks like these.
x-box (as they typically have been) than they don't have trouble with someone calling themselves xbox (no hyphen).
Well, howabout etoy and Etoys, almost the same situation
I think that people who do believe in God have to opinions about this:
a) This doesn't prove anything, we are still created by God and it's just some crap flying around space
b) Finally scientist have found proof that God does exist. These compounds are building material of God's "body" witch we haven't been able to see earlier, but who has been watching for us above.
Most of the stuff scientist found are so complicated and quite impossible to actually show to be true. This founding is quite important for creating new theories about possibilities of life in other planets, but won't mean anything for a common man, less if he takes bible seriously.
Firstly there is absolutely nothing stopping any of you from recording your own CD and sticking it on an FTP server. Note that I'm talking about an original work of art created by YOU with your banjo and Casio SK-1 keyboard, not ripped from your Kid Rock collection. Easy and free distribution! There is nothing stopping you from burning it on CDs and giving it away at the local homeless shelter. There is nothing stopping you from taking a DV camera and recording your own movie, mixing it down on your iMac, and cranking it to MPEG and putting it on your FTP server. NOTHING. Create all you want and you have to right to do whatever you want with it.
You are right that there is nothing that stops me for doing it now, but the issue is that record/movie companies are doing their best to take this possibility away from me. We need to fight for our rights before they are taken away from us because we "didn't need them". Now I'm able to copy my work to VHS and send it to my friends, but if most of my friends move from VHS to DVD and DVD recorders get outlawed because those can be used to copy copyrighted work, what can I do then? Even if Macs with DVD burners are legal at the moment it doesn't mean that this would be case tomorrow. Now we have regional codes on DVD, what about next medium that we are going to have? Next "DVD2" would play only on player that it was first played on, or something similiar for case of stopping piracy, even if pirates are able to burn these same "DVD2" and sell them.
Artist aren't losing money because of people copying CD's from friends. Original creator of this CD only get small percentage of the price consumer have to pay, rest goes for outdated retail channels and music companys. This money then will be used to prevent me from viewing a copy of movie that I payed for. From article:EFF spent more than a million dollars last year in defending the publisher of a security magazine, and a Norwegian teenager, from movie industry attempts to have them censored and jailed, respectively, for publishing and writing competing software that lets DVDs be played or copied but does not follow the restrictive contracts that the movie studios imposed on most players. The movie studios spent $4 million on prosecuting the New York case alone. These kind os cases and army of lie^H^Hayers they have on they payroll are we paying for at moment.
I'd love to download music directly from net and pay to artist the amount he/she/it get's from record company at the moment, if that downloaded copy would be legaly mine to do whatever I want to do with. This is not possible at the moment and record companies are trying to get systems like Napster closed instead of building up their own network where I would able to download those songs that I want(not the whole CD full of crap) and pay with my creditcard.
I know they are trying to do this, but why do they have to piss off everybody while doing so? All industrial revolutions have taken time, why should digital have happened in one night. In the process people lose money and jobs, but new ones will eventually come up. The problem is, that this time the ones losing money are too powerfull at the moment and don't like to think about doing some real work instead of ripping of artist.
I did this for a while, but then you have your own phoneline busy for the time it takes them to figure out you are not there(no surfing meanwhile). One thing that got my number blocked from telemarketers as "lost case" was first talking them for a minute then saying that you were busy and asked for their number so that you could call them back. Usually the answer was like
Them:"Sorry, can't do that".
Me:"Why not?"
Them:"We don't want to be disturbed on our home numbers"
Me:"That's amazing, neither do I!"
Finally they realised that I was playing with them and didn't want to be diturbed anymore.
It appears that they do have list of bad customers witch they wan't be calling and was lucky enough to get into one.
Looking at the first 16 posts I am not convinced there is any intelligent life out there.
But if there is alien life, it must be intelligent, because they haven't contacted us.
Actually, open-sourcing a novel (I don't think it's been done yet?)
Don't think that it has been done like open-source code, but I do remember some novels to be written online(one chapter at time) on my BBS times. Or one project where you could join and only received the last chapter and then wrote your own witch you sented to sysop and next writer. When last person finished his/her chapter, the novel was published on-line. Now that was a storyline you couldn't guess.
Does anybody know if these kind a projects can be found from the net?