I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but alot of members of the OpenGL consortium sold their IP rights to Microsoft.
The origin of Microsoft's patents is unclear, but the company has acquired intellectual property from SGI, Nvidia, ATI Technologies, Intel and others, according to industry observers. "They've just been picking it up everywhere," said Jon Peddie, head of consulting firm Jon Peddie Research. "They have a huge library of intellectual property."
They did so knowingly these IP rights were part of an open standard which they were using themselves. Did they think they were ripping Microsoft off by selling them these IP rights thinking these IP rights could never be enforced? How stupid, I say let Microsoft corner them and take the industry. They asked for it.
The really regretful thing is the consumer is the one who takes in the rear all the time.
Are you saying that if I had my own store. I would be forced to carry what ever you tell me carry/sell?
Because this is a free country, Wal-Mart, or whoever else, can request whatever they want. If you are an artist and Wal-Mart ask you change the title of a song to something less graphic (see Nirvana's Rape Me which was changed to Waif Me on In Utero) then you are FREE to either change it or not. You can circumvent Wal-Mart and try to sell your album without them. Wal-Mart is FREE to carry your album or not. That is why they are a private business.
Tell me, do you always speak your mind? Or do you CENSOR your thoughts to make them appropriate for the situation you are in?
Don't worry about spelling. Although emacs (or vi) does not have a builtin spellchecker as a programmer you could work on that. Maybe build a spell checker plugin for your favorite editor.
Is it just me or has anyone noticed that anything positive about/. has gotten at least a 2 score. Does this mean that with this new setup/. bashing will discontinue?
/. is really lagging behind on their news. I saw this at http://www.hardware.mp3.com about two months ago. This is not news. What/. should be concerned about is how it is possible for the JPL to lose the Mars Orbiter if supposedly they test all their equipment millions of times to find bugs.??
also for those that have read the news about microsoft donating money to UCLA. the ucla lug site www.linux.ucla.edu was unwittingly hacked by micorsoft. or was it USC a trojan is only good once!!!!!
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Would this have anything to do with Stephen Wolfram's announcement that the world is a computer program?
Can you imagine God getting a BSOD?
I hope at least it's not made by Microsoft.
The origin of Microsoft's patents is unclear, but the company has acquired intellectual property from SGI, Nvidia, ATI Technologies, Intel and others, according to industry observers. "They've just been picking it up everywhere," said Jon Peddie, head of consulting firm Jon Peddie Research. "They have a huge library of intellectual property."
They did so knowingly these IP rights were part of an open standard which they were using themselves. Did they think they were ripping Microsoft off by selling them these IP rights thinking these IP rights could never be enforced? How stupid, I say let Microsoft corner them and take the industry. They asked for it.
The really regretful thing is the consumer is the one who takes in the rear all the time.
WE ARE GETTING SCREWED, YET AGAIN.
For a second I thought they were planning another sequel to this crappy film.
Are you saying that if I had my own store. I would be forced to carry what ever you tell me carry/sell?
Because this is a free country, Wal-Mart, or whoever else, can request whatever they want. If you are an artist and Wal-Mart ask you change the title of a song to something less graphic (see Nirvana's Rape Me which was changed to Waif Me on In Utero) then you are FREE to either change it or not. You can circumvent Wal-Mart and try to sell your album without them. Wal-Mart is FREE to carry your album or not. That is why they are a private business.
Tell me, do you always speak your mind? Or do you CENSOR your thoughts to make them appropriate for the situation you are in?
That is freedom my friend. Look it up.
There's more than one way to do it!!!
So everybody start coding to replace those modules.
Dude.
Don't worry about spelling.
Although emacs (or vi) does not have a builtin spellchecker as a programmer you could work on that. Maybe build a spell checker plugin for your favorite editor.
I thought KDE is already available?
The article says it won't be released 'till the spring.
Do they mean release 3.0?
Also KDE is not the only desktop environment available. There is gnome, blackbox...etc.
How is Gnome pronounced?
Nome with the G silent, or Gu-nome?
It's like I said before.
Slashdot is becoming a sensationalistic tabloid.
The way Miguel has been getting a lot of flak reminds me of the Apple billboards "Think Different".
It seems people with a vision sometimes are unfairly critized.
Miguel has a vision and is more than a step ahead of the crowd.
Lets cut him some slack and wait to see if he is a genius or an idiot, NO?
that guy who came out on something about mary?
I guess open source software is useful enought for these Hollywood types.
man slashdot is becoming a sensationalistic tabloid.
First of all alan never said he would leave, he only said he is insulted anyone would think he would stay. .
Stop jumping to conclusions.!!
I'm sure Dr. Evil is filing a suit, since it was his idea to do this for. We must rasie a million dollars quick to stop him.
The post says this is the "kind of crack" the
science communitty has been looking for to help
complete the universe's physics.
hmm.I need some of that crack to get me through school. The shit I get in my neighborhood no longer gets me amped up.
The table of Contents(TOC) lists 84 pages.
That link only has 41.
Where are the other 43?
Damned gov't censorship.
I have learned from my political science course that SiG's get things done in this country for the following reasons:
1) Volunteers get politicians elected and
2) Campaign fundraisers.
So where can i join the Anti-DMCA Sig?
Maybe then we wouldn't have to deal with crap like this.
Maybe boeing & lockheed can use this "technology" to build their hover planes
Since the core of the OS X is unix. Does this mean that quicktime will be ported to other *nix systems?(i.e. linux)
I discovered the following link to the darwin kernel. Why is it that this kernel is so huge compared to the linux kernel?
Darw in
true. My mistake. correction may he fry in hell. Apologies to anyone to all the homosexuals for my previous comment.
Is it just me or has anyone noticed that anything positive about /. has gotten at least a 2 score. Does this mean that with this new setup /. bashing will discontinue?
I can't believe this previous comment wasn't moderated down. Your a fucking fag.
/. is really lagging behind on their news. I saw this at http://www.hardware.mp3.com about two months ago. This is not news. What /. should be concerned about is how it is possible for the JPL to lose the Mars Orbiter if supposedly they test all their equipment millions of times to find bugs.??
also for those that have read the news about microsoft donating money to UCLA. the ucla lug site www.linux.ucla.edu was unwittingly hacked by micorsoft. or was it USC a trojan is only good once!!!!!
I can bet she is not a product of the U.S. Public Education System.