that is actually a good idea, i think. a 'frivolous' patent like that would truly point out the problems with the current patent system, most of which just involved under-educated and probably underpaid workers. a very solvable problem i think. and if you are against capital punishment, then you could at least maybe delay some executions, possibly for a very long time.
there have been a few times that i bought my first book by an author used, to try them out. if i liked them, i continued buying their books, new. robert aspirin, clive barker, and several other authors mainly owe my loyalty to that first cheap used book i bought. if the author is good, i honestly think they have little to fear from used books.
so if someone wants to shoot another person, you think because they have to get a key and unlock their gun, they will change their mind? most shootings involve people illegally carrying firearms, not law abiding citizens. if someone wants to go shoot the guy that has been screwing his wife, not having a permit to carry a concealed handgun isnt going to stop him. Not having any firearms available in the country would stop him, but if you look at the problem from that point of view, you are about 200 years too late. guns are here in the US, and here to stay. no way you could get rid of them now.
also, just as you shouldnt get a pool installed at your home without teaching your kid to swim, you also shouldnt own a firearm without teaching them to haver proper respect for it, I.E. treat a firearm as tho it is always loaded, even if you 'know' it isnt. if you teach a kid proper respect for firearms, and he still kills himself, well, then something else prolly would have gotten him at some point. its called natural selection. not everyone dies of old age.
yes, the MBU is almost a like a different company within MS. They really do get to make their own decisions, as is shown by the fact they write their mac apps from scratch, rather than roughly porting over their pc counterparts. This results in real mac apps that quite often end up putting their PC counterparts to shame.
My point exactly. For generic office work a mac is just as good as a pc, and generally has the same apps available. When it comes to word processing, excel, powerpoint, and the rest of the office apps, the main difference at this point is the mac versions are slightly more polished. Part of the problem probably comes from in-house visual basic apps. While there is no way to natively run these apps, virtual pc can always be employed, even tho it is a kludge. Or you could use Real Basic which is great for producing the same types of apps as visualbasic, but has the bonus of being able to compile for mac and windows.
"Of course, even so, Macs are not suitable for Serious Business Use."
well, I guess that would depend on your business now, wouldnt it? I currently work for a hardware company which deals mainly in hp and sun servers. our office is windows only, except me. I do all the web work and perl programming, but i also do support for all of the office PCs. As far as pure usage goes, I have no problems communicating with anyone in the office, with the sole exception of access, which has no mac client/solution at this point. Hopefully the MBU will get to work on that. Anyway, my point is, if you are running a wintel workplace, it really isnt that hard to integrate macs into the workplace. if you run an all *nix office, it might be even easier, although i havent had the pleasure of finding out yet.
You touched on a valid point. The mac versions of MS apps are usually nicer, and sometimes more feature laden than their windows counterparts. The MBU (Mac Business Unit) at MS are some of the best mac programmers around, truly. They are honest macheads trying and succeeding at making quality software. Too bad that their contracts probably prevent them from leaving en masse and forming their own company to compete in the Mac software market.
mozilla is still in beta. maybe they should have been charging $99 all this time to try the beta, and not release any of the source code till 1.0 after all, what is the big deal about waiting 3 or 4 years for the source code to a 1.0 release, right? I hope you can see how this is a bad precedent.
how about the fact they are charging 99 bucks? that make it distribution in your eyes? if you modified an app for use by employees at work, you wouldnt charge them 99 bucks a pop to use it would you?
im pretty sure that the FSF knows how the GPL works, and knows what they would need to do to be entitled to a copy of the source under the GPL. I think you are trusting the wrong party to know how the GPL works
if you ask me, if people are paying 99 bucks for it, its being distributed externally... NDA or not. If you modify a program for use in your company, but then charge employees 99 bucks to use it, you dont consider that selling/distribution? if they were paying people $99 to beta test it instead of the other way around then i could agree with you. think of it this way, what if the only way to try the mozilla beta was to pay for it, and the code was never released till it was 1.0 Hmm, how many years would we have been waiting on a code release now?
Yes, but a *lot* of game designers start out as lowly QA game testers, and work their way up to the point where they can help design projects and eventually do their own. Very few people start as a game designer. It is a destination, not a launching point.
A dance hall makes money off the music they play. Not much of a dance hall with no music. The music brings in the customers. Local sports bars make money off of the pay per views they show. They bring in a lot more customers. IIS on the other hand did not use the music to make money, to bring in new customers, etc. The music server was there for employees only. No 'Public Broadcast' ever occurred, unlike the case in dance halls and sports bars. I think if IIS is going to pay the fine, then they should hook up some huge loudspeakers to the outside of their building, and crank it up to concert level. Then they will be giving a public performance
if they get access to 1, 10, 15, or 20 kazaa clients for hijacking, why couldnt they get the other millions that are out there. i would be willing to bet that someone from almost every isp on earth has downloaded kazaa... at least one of their customers has it... so when it starts going into ddos mode, you going to ban everyone's isp out there? or just a few million IPs? neither one sounds workable to me. if someone actually pulls this off, they more than likely wont attack individual websites, they will attack major providers, with millions of attacks, from IPs scattered around the globe, and more than likely from many many many ISPs
kazaa is on *millions* of computers. that is infinitely more bandwidth and computing power than most script kiddies ever get access to with their ddos attacks. if someone executes a successful hijack of all those machines, they arent going to be taking down an irc network... they are going to go from backbone to backbone, and more than likely, successfully flood them
i think.jpg2 would be much clearer than.jp2. most files that start with a.j and arent a.jpg are java or javascript files up till now, at least in webwork. for someone not in the industry it can get confusing fast. why not make use of one more character, and make it completely clear to everyone what it is? anyone that knows what a jpg is will know what a jpg2 is, but they may not know what a jp2 is. just a thought
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that is actually a good idea, i think. a 'frivolous' patent like that would truly point out the problems with the current patent system, most of which just involved under-educated and probably underpaid workers. a very solvable problem i think. and if you are against capital punishment, then you could at least maybe delay some executions, possibly for a very long time.
maybe we should start typing WINDOWS, LINUX, and bsd
i think he wants a native version of VPC for linux so he can host other OSs (be, windows, bsd, whatever) from his linux machine
there have been a few times that i bought my first book by an author used, to try them out. if i liked them, i continued buying their books, new. robert aspirin, clive barker, and several other authors mainly owe my loyalty to that first cheap used book i bought. if the author is good, i honestly think they have little to fear from used books.
so if someone wants to shoot another person, you think because they have to get a key and unlock their gun, they will change their mind? most shootings involve people illegally carrying firearms, not law abiding citizens. if someone wants to go shoot the guy that has been screwing his wife, not having a permit to carry a concealed handgun isnt going to stop him. Not having any firearms available in the country would stop him, but if you look at the problem from that point of view, you are about 200 years too late. guns are here in the US, and here to stay. no way you could get rid of them now.
also, just as you shouldnt get a pool installed at your home without teaching your kid to swim, you also shouldnt own a firearm without teaching them to haver proper respect for it, I.E. treat a firearm as tho it is always loaded, even if you 'know' it isnt. if you teach a kid proper respect for firearms, and he still kills himself, well, then something else prolly would have gotten him at some point. its called natural selection. not everyone dies of old age.
sorry buddy. misread your humor. /me laffs and slaps himself
sorry... i seem to have left my humor hat at home today. i will do penance later. :\
yes, the MBU is almost a like a different company within MS. They really do get to make their own decisions, as is shown by the fact they write their mac apps from scratch, rather than roughly porting over their pc counterparts. This results in real mac apps that quite often end up putting their PC counterparts to shame.
My point exactly. For generic office work a mac is just as good as a pc, and generally has the same apps available. When it comes to word processing, excel, powerpoint, and the rest of the office apps, the main difference at this point is the mac versions are slightly more polished. Part of the problem probably comes from in-house visual basic apps. While there is no way to natively run these apps, virtual pc can always be employed, even tho it is a kludge. Or you could use Real Basic which is great for producing the same types of apps as visualbasic, but has the bonus of being able to compile for mac and windows.
"Of course, even so, Macs are not suitable for Serious Business Use."
well, I guess that would depend on your business now, wouldnt it? I currently work for a hardware company which deals mainly in hp and sun servers. our office is windows only, except me. I do all the web work and perl programming, but i also do support for all of the office PCs. As far as pure usage goes, I have no problems communicating with anyone in the office, with the sole exception of access, which has no mac client/solution at this point. Hopefully the MBU will get to work on that. Anyway, my point is, if you are running a wintel workplace, it really isnt that hard to integrate macs into the workplace. if you run an all *nix office, it might be even easier, although i havent had the pleasure of finding out yet.
You touched on a valid point. The mac versions of MS apps are usually nicer, and sometimes more feature laden than their windows counterparts. The MBU (Mac Business Unit) at MS are some of the best mac programmers around, truly. They are honest macheads trying and succeeding at making quality software. Too bad that their contracts probably prevent them from leaving en masse and forming their own company to compete in the Mac software market.
if you can buy it for $99 i would call it released, even if they dont want it to be considered released.
did you as the CEO of LinFlows Inc charge your employees $99 each to do beta testing? I thought employees were paid, not the other way around
mozilla is still in beta. maybe they should have been charging $99 all this time to try the beta, and not release any of the source code till 1.0 after all, what is the big deal about waiting 3 or 4 years for the source code to a 1.0 release, right? I hope you can see how this is a bad precedent.
how about the fact they are charging 99 bucks? that make it distribution in your eyes? if you modified an app for use by employees at work, you wouldnt charge them 99 bucks a pop to use it would you?
im pretty sure that the FSF knows how the GPL works, and knows what they would need to do to be entitled to a copy of the source under the GPL. I think you are trusting the wrong party to know how the GPL works
sounds like he would have changed the artist names to his if he thought he could get away with it
if you ask me, if people are paying 99 bucks for it, its being distributed externally... NDA or not. If you modify a program for use in your company, but then charge employees 99 bucks to use it, you dont consider that selling/distribution? if they were paying people $99 to beta test it instead of the other way around then i could agree with you. think of it this way, what if the only way to try the mozilla beta was to pay for it, and the code was never released till it was 1.0 Hmm, how many years would we have been waiting on a code release now?
there is no reason the installer couldn't prevent someone from doing this very thing, as well as take care of many other potential security problems
Yes, but a *lot* of game designers start out as lowly QA game testers, and work their way up to the point where they can help design projects and eventually do their own. Very few people start as a game designer. It is a destination, not a launching point.
A dance hall makes money off the music they play. Not much of a dance hall with no music. The music brings in the customers. Local sports bars make money off of the pay per views they show. They bring in a lot more customers. IIS on the other hand did not use the music to make money, to bring in new customers, etc. The music server was there for employees only. No 'Public Broadcast' ever occurred, unlike the case in dance halls and sports bars. I think if IIS is going to pay the fine, then they should hook up some huge loudspeakers to the outside of their building, and crank it up to concert level. Then they will be giving a public performance
dammit, i have mod points, and if you weren't replying to my post, i would give you a funny boost :)
if they get access to 1, 10, 15, or 20 kazaa clients for hijacking, why couldnt they get the other millions that are out there. i would be willing to bet that someone from almost every isp on earth has downloaded kazaa... at least one of their customers has it... so when it starts going into ddos mode, you going to ban everyone's isp out there? or just a few million IPs? neither one sounds workable to me.
if someone actually pulls this off, they more than likely wont attack individual websites, they will attack major providers, with millions of attacks, from IPs scattered around the globe, and more than likely from many many many ISPs
kazaa is on *millions* of computers. that is infinitely more bandwidth and computing power than most script kiddies ever get access to with their ddos attacks. if someone executes a successful hijack of all those machines, they arent going to be taking down an irc network... they are going to go from backbone to backbone, and more than likely, successfully flood them
i think .jpg2 would be much clearer than .jp2. most files that start with a .j and arent a .jpg are java or javascript files up till now, at least in webwork. for someone not in the industry it can get confusing fast. why not make use of one more character, and make it completely clear to everyone what it is? anyone that knows what a jpg is will know what a jpg2 is, but they may not know what a jp2 is. just a thought