I submit that the first "look and feel" lawsuits that Apple started were naught but an extension of this, given that the look and feel that apple was litigating was actually developed by Xerox at PARC, which both Microsoft and Apple liberally ripped off.
I don't think "ripping off Xerox", legally or not, was ever mentioned in the lawsuit. That didn't stop many from repeating how important it was. The real failure on Apple's part was signing a contract allowing Microsoft to use their look-and-feel without clearly wording which use was allowed. Microsoft being so good at weaseling with words, that was a perfect example of Apple steamrolling into a wall.
I wouldn't say that I am anti-nuclear, but I do think it can be dangerous. Especially with the corner cutting that a lot of corporations try to use to save money.
Well, when there are coal mining accidents at least it does not affect the public at large, otherwise it's the same corporate behavior whatever the energy source.
Many people were saying how it was an amazing triumph of engineering that it could withstand the quake that was ten times what it was designed for.
That still leaves 3 more reactors on the "triumph" side. And I wonder how no.1 would have fared if the valve hadn't been close, if it was human error. There's not enough information to form an educated opinion yet.
But you end up losing some credibility and start to look like a fool when it turns out you were completely wrong because you didn't yet have all the facts.
Then again, the previous stories were filled with rabid anti-nuke (or trolls, same thing) who said things semantically equivalent to "OMG! He smokes a pack a day!", "OMG! He eats bananas!" or "OMG! He's an commercial pilot!"
Frankly, the Air France black box they finally found is way more interesting than all this noise and speculation. We're close to having fact there, compared to the year of milking sensationalism left at Fukushima.
Considering it'd take 5-10 years before the case runs through, a company would have time to complete all the surgery it needs. And nobody would bet their lives on a single company unless they had alternatives.
Could you at least think it through before replying?
I know that it is a very hard concept to understand, but maybe one day you will realize that you can walk to the grocery store, that you can buy your vegetables from a local farmer instead of letting a multinational suck your blood dry. Even a dumbass can evolve if the stick in painful enough.
No, it's not, because then the cost of every goddamn thing you buy will increase dramatically. We already saw prices increase a few years ago when gas was only $4 a gallon due to higher costs of manufacturing and transporting goods. Your ignorance is a shining example for why Economics (and common fucking sense) needs to be part of the required curriculum in all schools.
This is why everything in Europe costs twice as much.
The successful hack came in spite of a large security patch, Safari 5.0.4, that Apple released ahead of the competition, patching some 60 security holes in the browser. As well as Safari, Apple also patched iOS to version 4.3. This is because, in a change to historic competition rules, the system configuration was frozen last week, so the last-minute fix hasn't prevented exploitation.
But as I understand Net Neutrality, the groups that support it don't want ISP to be able to charge higher fees for faster/better access to their networks, right? If so, how does that make other connections slower? It's like arguing that Priority Mail service makes First Class mail slower.
If you want to pay the USPS extra for priority mail to Britain, go ahead. This is between you and your postal office. If I want have mail delivered to me hourly, that's between me and my postal office. I shouldn't have to deal with your postal service, nor should you have to deal with mine. There should be no preferred service for Japan. That's what Net Neutrality is about.
So yes, the only ISP allowed to sell faster service to Google is Google's ISP. Not mine, nor yours. If my ISP wants extra money to improve my QOS for streaming, they have to ask me for money. My ISP should give the same QOS to all my streaming requests, whether they come from Netflix or YouTube. That's what Net Neutrality is about.
What is a big no-no is my ISP holding my streaming requests hostage until Netflix pays them extra money.
I hope this is enough for you to stop misunderstanding the issue.
I want prices to fall, I want deflation. I want deflation. Deflation. Deflation of money supply - that's what I want. I want money to become more and more expensive and more and more scarce.
This is the proof that you don't understand anything. Inflation is good when you have debt, deflation is good when you have money in the bank.
Lets say during the next 40 years deflation will cancel the last 40 years of inflation.
Since I have an extra million dollars in bank, I can keep a 50k secretary on payroll just on interests. After those 40 years of deflation, I can pay that same secretary 10k and that's a hefty raise. I have 40k more to spend. Thank you for helping the rich.
That secretary bought a house for 200k and paid, with interest, 300k for a house worth 20k now. Thank you for screwing up the poor.
My state paved some road, that's an 100M debt on which they spend 1% of the income tax to pay for the interests. Well, they haven't paid the principal in 40 years and now it represents 10% of the income tax. Thanks for letting the government screw us.
Now, my country put some Treasury bonds on the international markets. Hey if you buy my 10k bond, in 40 years I'll pay you back 10k. That a pretty good deal, normally you'd have to pay a 5% interest rate for the privilege of owning such a bond!
I know that on slashdot insane rantings frothing at the mouth passes for insightful but this doesn't even comes close.
I have found THE truth. Others have found falsehood if they don't recognize the only truth. It is not my own to claim, it is but what it is, and that is reality and not lies and make believe.
How minute a difference in two things must there be for one to be false, or even heresy?
There must only be a difference, as small as you would like. If it is not the same as truth, then it is not truth. Don't you see?
How arrogant!
Listen to the following parable:
Your next-door neighbor had found THE truth. Nobody agreed with him. They say: "He was 6' tall." "No, he is 5' 11" and a quarter." "He had brown eyes." "No, they were dark brown." "Heresy!" Still, they all had found THE truth but missed the forest for the trees. And they all lost THE truth.
Only an omniscient being can know the truth, anyone else just gets approximations. By refusing tolerance, minute errors, you are gripping THE truth so hard that it will escape you.
31To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Ah! You have found your truth. But others have found a different truth. How minute must the difference be for yours/theirs be false truth, heresy?
As the dictum went, "Confucius say: successful troll is master baiter";)
Not every "master baiter" is a successful troll. Some only surf the Internet to master their "art". Even coming to/. could be seen as mental preparation. Now that I think about it, I have prepared long enough...
I looked up the phrase three edged sword, and it seems to mean your side, their side, and the truth. Are you implying I have my own side, which isn't the truth?
Truth is a wave function, you never know how it will collapse. There are as many truths as there are observers and if you think you've collapsed it you haven't dug enough. Unless you are omniscient, but then you can force it to collapse to your truth using omnipotence.
We have two choices, THE right way (and there is only one when it comes to freedom and openness, with honesty and well, openness), or the wrong way. Compromises are like bad apples, they spoil the whole barrel.
Aside from that they were both ruthless regimes with a distinct lack of humanity and decency, the East German government under Honecker and the Nazis had nothing in common. Invoking East Germany does not invoke Godwin's law.
English is a spoken language. There's no latin declension or other complications that forces you to think before you talk. Sadly, written English is a different dialect that many natives fail to master.
Whatever they write made sense to them because they read it back aloud. When you truly master reading, you never hear the words but directly capture their meaning from the shape of the letters. The effect of these misspellings are the same as a terrible foreign accent to the literate reader.
I second Scheme. Not very likely you'll use it for work, but it's such a mind-bender that it'll keep your mind from scleroses, as any excess of Java/C++ will cause in the long run.
the opposite, is aristocracy, elitism. it doesnt matter how it happens ; whether a minority owns more than the majority, and/or rules them, it ends up as being feudalism.
Actually feudalism is anti-capitalist. Squatters had rights on whatever they maintained and it had this crazy idea about markets: you displayed all your wares in your stall before the market opened, and you could not bring them back with you. The last hour of the market wasn't called "the poor's hour" for nothing.
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I submit that the first "look and feel" lawsuits that Apple started were naught but an extension of this, given that the look and feel that apple was litigating was actually developed by Xerox at PARC, which both Microsoft and Apple liberally ripped off.
I don't think "ripping off Xerox", legally or not, was ever mentioned in the lawsuit. That didn't stop many from repeating how important it was. The real failure on Apple's part was signing a contract allowing Microsoft to use their look-and-feel without clearly wording which use was allowed. Microsoft being so good at weaseling with words, that was a perfect example of Apple steamrolling into a wall.
I wouldn't say that I am anti-nuclear, but I do think it can be dangerous. Especially with the corner cutting that a lot of corporations try to use to save money.
Well, when there are coal mining accidents at least it does not affect the public at large, otherwise it's the same corporate behavior whatever the energy source.
Many people were saying how it was an amazing triumph of engineering that it could withstand the quake that was ten times what it was designed for.
That still leaves 3 more reactors on the "triumph" side. And I wonder how no.1 would have fared if the valve hadn't been close, if it was human error. There's not enough information to form an educated opinion yet.
But you end up losing some credibility and start to look like a fool when it turns out you were completely wrong because you didn't yet have all the facts.
Then again, the previous stories were filled with rabid anti-nuke (or trolls, same thing) who said things semantically equivalent to "OMG! He smokes a pack a day!", "OMG! He eats bananas!" or "OMG! He's an commercial pilot!"
Frankly, the Air France black box they finally found is way more interesting than all this noise and speculation. We're close to having fact there, compared to the year of milking sensationalism left at Fukushima.
Agreed. Also not all of Canada is based up English Common Law. Quebec's laws are derived from Napoleonic Law.
IIRC, Criminal Law is Common Law, Civil Law is French pre-Napoleonic Law.
Why not use the direct link as nothing was added and some was cut?
bricks -> alphabet
walls -> words
If it wasn't for Reverend Dodgson and other innovators, literature would be nothing but copying words and letters.
Considering it'd take 5-10 years before the case runs through, a company would have time to complete all the surgery it needs. And nobody would bet their lives on a single company unless they had alternatives.
Could you at least think it through before replying?
What if the company provides a vital service to its customers?
What if I provide a vital service to my customers? Should I not be jailed too?
It's the same problem with the same solutions: I will find someone else to cover my liability or I will have to reimburse my customers.
Why is that such a hard concept to understand?
I know that it is a very hard concept to understand, but maybe one day you will realize that you can walk to the grocery store, that you can buy your vegetables from a local farmer instead of letting a multinational suck your blood dry. Even a dumbass can evolve if the stick in painful enough.
No, it's not, because then the cost of every goddamn thing you buy will increase dramatically. We already saw prices increase a few years ago when gas was only $4 a gallon due to higher costs of manufacturing and transporting goods. Your ignorance is a shining example for why Economics (and common fucking sense) needs to be part of the required curriculum in all schools.
This is why everything in Europe costs twice as much.
The successful hack came in spite of a large security patch, Safari 5.0.4, that Apple released ahead of the competition, patching some 60 security holes in the browser. As well as Safari, Apple also patched iOS to version 4.3. This is because, in a change to historic competition rules, the system configuration was frozen last week, so the last-minute fix hasn't prevented exploitation.
How to make the truth a lie.
But as I understand Net Neutrality, the groups that support it don't want ISP to be able to charge higher fees for faster/better access to their networks, right? If so, how does that make other connections slower? It's like arguing that Priority Mail service makes First Class mail slower.
If you want to pay the USPS extra for priority mail to Britain, go ahead. This is between you and your postal office. If I want have mail delivered to me hourly, that's between me and my postal office. I shouldn't have to deal with your postal service, nor should you have to deal with mine. There should be no preferred service for Japan. That's what Net Neutrality is about.
So yes, the only ISP allowed to sell faster service to Google is Google's ISP. Not mine, nor yours. If my ISP wants extra money to improve my QOS for streaming, they have to ask me for money. My ISP should give the same QOS to all my streaming requests, whether they come from Netflix or YouTube. That's what Net Neutrality is about.
What is a big no-no is my ISP holding my streaming requests hostage until Netflix pays them extra money.
I hope this is enough for you to stop misunderstanding the issue.
+1
The comment filter did the same shit, but at least you could hide it.
I want prices to fall, I want deflation. I want deflation. Deflation. Deflation of money supply - that's what I want. I want money to become more and more expensive and more and more scarce.
This is the proof that you don't understand anything. Inflation is good when you have debt, deflation is good when you have money in the bank.
Lets say during the next 40 years deflation will cancel the last 40 years of inflation.
Since I have an extra million dollars in bank, I can keep a 50k secretary on payroll just on interests. After those 40 years of deflation, I can pay that same secretary 10k and that's a hefty raise. I have 40k more to spend. Thank you for helping the rich.
That secretary bought a house for 200k and paid, with interest, 300k for a house worth 20k now. Thank you for screwing up the poor.
My state paved some road, that's an 100M debt on which they spend 1% of the income tax to pay for the interests. Well, they haven't paid the principal in 40 years and now it represents 10% of the income tax. Thanks for letting the government screw us.
Now, my country put some Treasury bonds on the international markets. Hey if you buy my 10k bond, in 40 years I'll pay you back 10k. That a pretty good deal, normally you'd have to pay a 5% interest rate for the privilege of owning such a bond!
I know that on slashdot insane rantings frothing at the mouth passes for insightful but this doesn't even comes close.
I have found THE truth. Others have found falsehood if they don't recognize the only truth. It is not my own to claim, it is but what it is, and that is reality and not lies and make believe.
How minute a difference in two things must there be for one to be false, or even heresy?
There must only be a difference, as small as you would like. If it is not the same as truth, then it is not truth. Don't you see?
How arrogant!
Listen to the following parable:
Your next-door neighbor had found THE truth. Nobody agreed with him. They say: "He was 6' tall." "No, he is 5' 11" and a quarter." "He had brown eyes." "No, they were dark brown." "Heresy!" Still, they all had found THE truth but missed the forest for the trees. And they all lost THE truth.
Only an omniscient being can know the truth, anyone else just gets approximations. By refusing tolerance, minute errors, you are gripping THE truth so hard that it will escape you.
31To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Ah! You have found your truth. But others have found a different truth. How minute must the difference be for yours/theirs be false truth, heresy?
Truth is a three-edged sword.
As the dictum went, "Confucius say: successful troll is master baiter" ;)
Not every "master baiter" is a successful troll. Some only surf the Internet to master their "art". Even coming to /. could be seen as mental preparation. Now that I think about it, I have prepared long enough...
I looked up the phrase three edged sword, and it seems to mean your side, their side, and the truth. Are you implying I have my own side, which isn't the truth?
Mu.
Because, that is the only side I am on. In fact, that was that I was saying, there is only the truth, and anything else is not the truth, i.e. wrong.
False dichotomy.
Truth is a wave function, you never know how it will collapse. There are as many truths as there are observers and if you think you've collapsed it you haven't dug enough. Unless you are omniscient, but then you can force it to collapse to your truth using omnipotence.
We have two choices, THE right way (and there is only one when it comes to freedom and openness, with honesty and well, openness), or the wrong way. Compromises are like bad apples, they spoil the whole barrel.
Truth is a three-edged sword.
Or are you saying you are part of the problem?
Aside from that they were both ruthless regimes with a distinct lack of humanity and decency, the East German government under Honecker and the Nazis had nothing in common. Invoking East Germany does not invoke Godwin's law.
Nice brainfart. The Gestapo is not the Stasi.
The effect of these misspellings is the same as a terrible foreign accent to the literate reader.
Lol, thx. This is what happens when you rearrange your sentences a few times.
English is a spoken language. There's no latin declension or other complications that forces you to think before you talk. Sadly, written English is a different dialect that many natives fail to master.
Whatever they write made sense to them because they read it back aloud. When you truly master reading, you never hear the words but directly capture their meaning from the shape of the letters. The effect of these misspellings are the same as a terrible foreign accent to the literate reader.
No need to visit China - just to Appalachia (like west virginia).
your example is way too specific. it sounds like a first hand experience.
Right hand or left hand?
Lisp already exists.
If Lisp did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.
I second Scheme. Not very likely you'll use it for work, but it's such a mind-bender that it'll keep your mind from scleroses, as any excess of Java/C++ will cause in the long run.
the opposite, is aristocracy, elitism. it doesnt matter how it happens ; whether a minority owns more than the majority, and/or rules them, it ends up as being feudalism.
Actually feudalism is anti-capitalist. Squatters had rights on whatever they maintained and it had this crazy idea about markets: you displayed all your wares in your stall before the market opened, and you could not bring them back with you. The last hour of the market wasn't called "the poor's hour" for nothing.