That's actually a really profound statement. Prior Art can stop a patent application dead in its tracks. Prior art can include cartoons (the Jetson's cartoon killed several patent apps), books (fiction and non-fiction), and even movies!
I tend to think this is a horrible idea because of its "future" impact on independent/small entity inventors.
IANAL, however, I work in a law firm full of them; and IP is a frequently discussed topic (one of the attys is a Patent atty).
I've contacted my local lug (Atlanta, GA - ALE.org) and raised the "Batsignal".
I tend to think that we'll rattle _just a few_ cages on the 23rd. Several of our members have projects that have been featured on Slashdot (myself included), and we're known to be a feisty bunch. I'm sure we're not the only LUGs that have an impact.
No way man - if anyone is safe in this economy, it's the net/sys admins. There are always machines that need care and feeding; and more poignantly, these tasks CAN'T get sent overseas as easily as similar IT jobs (i.e. programming). Granted, I can do the vast majority of my job from home, but when it's time to change a tape or physically be on-site there is no substitute to actually "being there". As such, I'm confident that my job won't be sent to India (I hope).
For what it's worth, I've been hearing a lot of horror stories from companies that have outsourced critical coding overseas (to second-world countries [non-English speaking]) and gotten a dead-ended deal. They can't get support and many of the coders just disappear after they get their checks (Accenture anyone?). I'm confident (and hopeful) that the civilized first world companies will learn quickly from this mistake and re-plant a lot of the IT jobs back into countries (US/UK/NZ/AU/etc) where the language differences can't be abused as an "easy way out"...
Waitaminute - Couldn't it be proved that NT4 can be patched and that the architecture isn't that different by showing how "integral" applications can run on both NT4 _and_ Win2k equally (with regard to this bug)? As such, doesn't this contradict Microsoft's arguement?
This move is nothing short of irresponsible on their part. They have vested interest in proving that their software is "Trustworthy". If they can't live up to past promises, how can consumers/businesses be expected to trust them on their "future promises"?
It's not exactly cheap, but the PCWeasel 2000 will let you even see your PC's BIOS (and allow you to get into it) over serial, so you can run almost completely headless over serial. There's a cool demo of it over there as well.
Does CMM take into account support? I've been hearing _many_ horror stories of companies outsourcing code to overseas (mostly Indian) programming firms (accenture comes to mind). If you're at a company and you hear a name like accenture, run like hell or obfuscate your code has quickly as possible!
More to the point: These companies are providing "cheap programming"; but their customers are realizing very rapidly that "cheap programming" is shoddily documented (if at all), and the likelihood of getting decent support on it is a crap-shoot at best. This is just "what I've been hearing" type stuff, but I think there is some credence to be lent here.
Didn't Information Society (Kurt Harland, et al) get them signed? I saw them open up for IS back in the mid 90's; and they were a really great band/show.
Haven't heard anything from InSoc in the past few years, but I'm glad that there are still some 80's synth-pop-pro-techno's still around making good music and advancing the music industry with advanced distribution methods....
Not sure if you guys are familiar with picoGUI, but it's goal is to fix all of the current problems with XFree86. I think the url is: www.picogui.org. They have some nice screenshots too.
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And the reason the Nazi's needed to be defeated was the fact that they attacked and invaded other countries, just as the US is now doing.
So you're implying that the Americans and the VAST MAJORITY of the United Nations are "invading" Iraq? You should probably tune in to the reality that is the world around you.
Let me brief you: a) Iraq has been found to be in BREACH of resolution 1441 which was passed UNANIMOUSLY a few months ago by ALL 15 UN permanent members. b) France has disrupted the UN coalition becausethey have a multi-billion dollar stake in Iraqi oil. c) They (the UN [with the exception of the few cowardly countries that France has "jaded" by their biased beligerence]) have decided to "remove a rapist/killler/torturer" dictator from power, and demonstrate that the UN is more than just a typical debate society which accomplishes nothing, but talks about "a lot".
If you're convinced that Saddam is a good guy, or that he should stay in power, or that the UN is in the wrong, perhaps you should move to Iraq.
Of course by doing so, you'd only end up being "liberated" by the majority of the UN nations as they free Iraq from it's tyranny.
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defeat Nazism, Communism, and [hopefully] Terrorism.
May God Bless our/the US troops. Right or wrong, I'm behind our "troops" 100%.
I'm going to have to affirm this. I do the same thing, and I don't even _have_ a land line. I use my cell for everything. I've been called maybe 3 times _total_ since I've had the phone (about 2 years). When it is someone soliciting, I indicate that it's a cell phone and request that they take me off of their mailing list. I think the legal implications of calling a cell phone are significantly more severe (they can probably get sued, etc), since my number hasn't "made the rounds" like land lines tend to; and I put it on _everything_ as my home phone number.
Uhm, I'm not sure how old your laptop is, but 2.4 has some MAJOR enhancements suited for portables - most notably APM/ACPI power features.
Also, one of the great new features of the 2.5 development tree (soon to be 2.6 [or 3.0]) kernel is ACPI suspend-to-disk/hibernate. I'm ueber excited about this feature!
Anyway, back to the point. New kernels to tend to add new features to the core; however, unless I'm mistaken, most of the unwanted features don't get "built" into the kernel if they're not optioned. As such, your kernel size still remains reasonable, and you effectively just end up with more "options" with newer kernels.
If they can make these beauties with a serial-ATA interface, I AM SOLD!
Although, somewhere, I read that the RPMs are not directly related to the speed of the drive (I'm assuming seek rates/access times). Is this true? Obviously faster drives are louder and run hotter, but do they "by definition" outperform slower RPM drives?
Ironically, Satan has since evolved into Saint. I have little doubt that it's due to corporate 'concerns' over the name......of course, the white hats could have named it that just to play "devil's advocate" (pun intended) and play the opposite card/name.
Bayesian filtering is a great technology, but the OSS movement really needs to tread-lightly or get some legal beagles to help us analyze the implications of inherently using it, because MSFT has a patent on it. We (the OSS community) need to make sure that we can easily and indisputably prove "prior-art" in the event that MSFT tries to overwhelm some of our best projects with _expensive_ legal tactics.
I can't help but think that we need to _really_ be on our guard with regard to things like this, becuase I wouldn't put it past MSFT, et al. to soak up much of the good IP (Intellectual Property) and then try to "drop the hammer" on us down the road.
Actually, the Russia of today is _nothing_ like the cold-war Russia propaganda that many have come to see as the norm. Every Russian (and Georgian) that I've met (here in the US) is extremely hard-working and good-hearted.
I've never even been to Russia, but I really think that the cold-war Russian image is obsolete and we should give it a rest.
If I'm not mistaken, Russia is one of the fastest growing technology countries.
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Mike Wendland - public enemy number 1.
Now where do I pick up that check...?
until someone figures out a way to compromize their local client's results and "escalate" their fave URLS.
It still sounds like a really cool idea though.
Without our complex Amerian taxation system, companies like Microsoft would actually have to give money to the government every year.
That's actually a really profound statement. Prior Art can stop a patent application dead in its tracks. Prior art can include cartoons (the Jetson's cartoon killed several patent apps), books (fiction and non-fiction), and even movies!
I tend to think this is a horrible idea because of its "future" impact on independent/small entity inventors.
IANAL, however, I work in a law firm full of them; and IP is a frequently discussed topic (one of the attys is a Patent atty).
I've contacted my local lug (Atlanta, GA - ALE.org) and raised the "Batsignal".
I tend to think that we'll rattle _just a few_ cages on the 23rd. Several of our members have projects that have been featured on Slashdot (myself included), and we're known to be a feisty bunch. I'm sure we're not the only LUGs that have an impact.
Contact your local LUGs and help spread the word!
Anyone care to throw up a quick site?
No way man - if anyone is safe in this economy, it's the net/sys admins. There are always machines that need care and feeding; and more poignantly, these tasks CAN'T get sent overseas as easily as similar IT jobs (i.e. programming). Granted, I can do the vast majority of my job from home, but when it's time to change a tape or physically be on-site there is no substitute to actually "being there". As such, I'm confident that my job won't be sent to India (I hope).
For what it's worth, I've been hearing a lot of horror stories from companies that have outsourced critical coding overseas (to second-world countries [non-English speaking]) and gotten a dead-ended deal. They can't get support and many of the coders just disappear after they get their checks (Accenture anyone?). I'm confident (and hopeful) that the civilized first world companies will learn quickly from this mistake and re-plant a lot of the IT jobs back into countries (US/UK/NZ/AU/etc) where the language differences can't be abused as an "easy way out"...
Waitaminute - Couldn't it be proved that NT4 can be patched and that the architecture isn't that different by showing how "integral" applications can run on both NT4 _and_ Win2k equally (with regard to this bug)? As such, doesn't this contradict Microsoft's arguement?
This move is nothing short of irresponsible on their part. They have vested interest in proving that their software is "Trustworthy". If they can't live up to past promises, how can consumers/businesses be expected to trust them on their "future promises"?
Let's not forget that Macromedia is already in Microsofts shopping cart. Time will tell if they take it to the checkout-counter though. This is a strategic move on Macromedia's part.
It's not exactly cheap, but the PCWeasel 2000 will let you even see your PC's BIOS (and allow you to get into it) over serial, so you can run almost completely headless over serial. There's a cool demo of it over there as well.
... to shower daily!
Does CMM take into account support? I've been hearing _many_ horror stories of companies outsourcing code to overseas (mostly Indian) programming firms (accenture comes to mind). If you're at a company and you hear a name like accenture, run like hell or obfuscate your code has quickly as possible!
More to the point: These companies are providing "cheap programming"; but their customers are realizing very rapidly that "cheap programming" is shoddily documented (if at all), and the likelihood of getting decent support on it is a crap-shoot at best. This is just "what I've been hearing" type stuff, but I think there is some credence to be lent here.
Didn't Information Society (Kurt Harland, et al) get them signed? I saw them open up for IS back in the mid 90's; and they were a really great band/show.
Haven't heard anything from InSoc in the past few years, but I'm glad that there are still some 80's synth-pop-pro-techno's still around making good music and advancing the music industry with advanced distribution methods....
Not sure if you guys are familiar with picoGUI, but it's goal is to fix all of the current problems with XFree86. I think the url is: www.picogui.org. They have some nice screenshots too.
And the reason the Nazi's needed to be defeated was the fact that they attacked and invaded other countries, just as the US is now doing.
So you're implying that the Americans and the VAST MAJORITY of the United Nations are "invading" Iraq? You should probably tune in to the reality that is the world around you.
Let me brief you:
a) Iraq has been found to be in BREACH of resolution 1441 which was passed UNANIMOUSLY a few months ago by ALL 15 UN permanent members.
b) France has disrupted the UN coalition because they have a multi-billion dollar stake in Iraqi oil.
c) They (the UN [with the exception of the few cowardly countries that France has "jaded" by their biased beligerence]) have decided to "remove a rapist/killler/torturer" dictator from power, and demonstrate that the UN is more than just a typical debate society which accomplishes nothing, but talks about "a lot".
If you're convinced that Saddam is a good guy, or that he should stay in power, or that the UN is in the wrong, perhaps you should move to Iraq.
Of course by doing so, you'd only end up being "liberated" by the majority of the UN nations as they free Iraq from it's tyranny.
defeat Nazism, Communism, and [hopefully] Terrorism.
May God Bless our/the US troops. Right or wrong, I'm behind our "troops" 100%.
Let's all hope for minimal casualties...
I'm going to have to affirm this. I do the same thing, and I don't even _have_ a land line. I use my cell for everything. I've been called maybe 3 times _total_ since I've had the phone (about 2 years). When it is someone soliciting, I indicate that it's a cell phone and request that they take me off of their mailing list. I think the legal implications of calling a cell phone are significantly more severe (they can probably get sued, etc), since my number hasn't "made the rounds" like land lines tend to; and I put it on _everything_ as my home phone number.
Uhm, I'm not sure how old your laptop is, but 2.4 has some MAJOR enhancements suited for portables - most notably APM/ACPI power features.
Also, one of the great new features of the 2.5 development tree (soon to be 2.6 [or 3.0]) kernel is ACPI suspend-to-disk/hibernate. I'm ueber excited about this feature!
Anyway, back to the point. New kernels to tend to add new features to the core; however, unless I'm mistaken, most of the unwanted features don't get "built" into the kernel if they're not optioned. As such, your kernel size still remains reasonable, and you effectively just end up with more "options" with newer kernels.
If they can make these beauties with a serial-ATA interface, I AM SOLD!
Although, somewhere, I read that the RPMs are not directly related to the speed of the drive (I'm assuming seek rates/access times). Is this true? Obviously faster drives are louder and run hotter, but do they "by definition" outperform slower RPM drives?
Doh! And all this time I thought it was SLAC K.
I subscribed just so I can see this magical "red" titlebar...
Now where can I find one?!?
And what is "Fark" ?
Ironically, Satan has since evolved into Saint. I have little doubt that it's due to corporate 'concerns' over the name... ...of course, the white hats could have named it that just to play "devil's advocate" (pun intended) and play the opposite card/name.
Bayesian filtering is a great technology, but the OSS movement really needs to tread-lightly or get some legal beagles to help us analyze the implications of inherently using it, because MSFT has a patent on it. We (the OSS community) need to make sure that we can easily and indisputably prove "prior-art" in the event that MSFT tries to overwhelm some of our best projects with _expensive_ legal tactics.
.02 cents...
I can't help but think that we need to _really_ be on our guard with regard to things like this, becuase I wouldn't put it past MSFT, et al. to soak up much of the good IP (Intellectual Property) and then try to "drop the hammer" on us down the road.
Just my
Actually, the Russia of today is _nothing_ like the cold-war Russia propaganda that many have come to see as the norm. Every Russian (and Georgian) that I've met (here in the US) is extremely hard-working and good-hearted.
I've never even been to Russia, but I really think that the cold-war Russian image is obsolete and we should give it a rest.
If I'm not mistaken, Russia is one of the fastest growing technology countries.
You can also find a ton of "proven in vehicle" products at dashwerks.com.
DISCLAIMER: I own above named website.
I'm suprised that the dashpc prototype linux vehicle didn't make the cut.
Oh well, maybe next year...