It's nice to see sites such as fool.com actually recgonizing that Linux is really attacking Microsoft. Not to mention the entire open source model as a viable option to the current software development model. I love hearing things such as "212% annual growth" and "will eventually surpass windows about three years". There are only two places I actually deal with Windows one is a terminal at work (the one I write this comment from) and the other an NT server at another ISP I help maintain -- just fyi Linux has all but replaced NT since I got there. Microsofts garbage about TCO and crap is summarized by the "Windows NT Hique"
..."Free plus free equals more than NT"
Interesting note: www.fool.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4 or Windows 98
lol - I don't know, buying clothes online still scares me... the emails that the complaint dept may get:
To: complaints@shop.com Subject: hair? Body: I got my new pair of Levis today and before putting them on I found a hair in a rather unsightly area -- mind explaining?
But honestly I love online shopping for CDs etc. I work in Seattle -- which is a larger city then where I live -- Port Orchard... Let's just say that I can't generally find little things like the newest DJ remix cd at Wal*Mart;-) -- but Amazon has an okay selection.
Well I'm impressed with him. He may be weird but then again to the common computer user a common geek - or even Linux user is downright fishy.
He's an odd one, that's for sure. But he said it right on the Jay Lenno show (how cool is that? - a governor that goes on Lenno heh) - this was regarding a group of unwed mothers that were protesting at the capital saying that they were not getting enough money from the government - "I went out to the lawn and asked the leader of the rather large group 'Who's choice was it to have that child out of wedlock?'" -- needless to say that did not make him very popular with the group but with the general populous it sure did -- he then went on to say on Lenno "The government is not your Mom or your Dad, and it ain't your big brother"... Hell Jesse even cut taxes and gave a *gasp* refund to the people! Isn't that just nuts.. government being representative of the people.
Where as I live in Washington State where I-695 just passed, a wonderful bill that gives the taxpayers the ability to shoot down a bill that would increase taxes, not to mention it cut the car tabs to 30 dollars instead of hundreds -- even thousands in the case of many new cars. What does the government do... Governor Locke said -- "It would appear that the people have spoken, we will begin cutting the transportation, and health care budget in January" -- what the hell was this? We cut their 48 billion dollar budget bu 125 Million dollars (and that 48 billion is only a third of the overall budget) -- and then they turn around and punish us because we were "bad" oh screw off - I would rather have a governor that would be representative of what *WE* want not what *THEY* want. Are they forgetting that we as voters have the ability and right to FIRE them at will?
That's why I like Jessee;-) -- he understands that and does exactally what the people want him to do...
My understanding of law in the UK is unfortunately limited. The problem is that the United States has baised their legal system on this also - and most other modern democracies have as well. Is it at all possible that the governments could be conspiring to rob the citizen of our rights, probably - will the people allow it, hell no. Yet another law to fuel the fire and piss the people off.
I find it so funny that all the democracies, or otherwise similar government types were all interlocked into this 30 - 40 or more year 'cold war' because the 'enemy' was supressing the individual rights and choices in that country. As scary as it may be we have entered the flipside of that argument... look at the signs, guns are more moderated then ever thought possible - your first ammendment rights can be waved by the NSA or FBI, not to mention your right to a fair trial is out the door. Instead the government spends the enormous amount of money it collects on taxes on special interest programs and bullshit that nobody cares about one bit.
Isn't it wonderful living in a Socialist country? Wanna change it? Start by electing more people like Jesse Ventura - someone who is not afriad to tell the little groups off, someone who doesn't believe that government is big brother - and shouldn't take a ton of taxes from you. He's a social liberal, so he has no hesitation doing what he believes good for the people.
Well I love shopping online for some things, but for instance the other day I went to the Kitsap Mall - local -- I went in and saw the new bed I am buying for us this Christmas, I went to Sears, paid my sears card bill. I then went to Zales and bought new 'wedding' bands... I was able to see the merchandise. Not to mention a cinnabon was conviently inbetween the Zales and Sears *yum*. Some little things like CD's, books, or otherwise noncritical purchases I can see eventually migrating to the web. But not totally. Let's be honest - how many people really want to go buying clothes online (As I think about the "don't get e-screwed" commercials).
Mauls suck, Malls are okay... plus it gives jobs to young people.
Well Malls are eventually "On their way out" -- that's what people keep saying... "In the future we are all going to shop online"... It's obvious that a little bit of this over and over would definately inspire some FUD to a Mall... they are just trying to make certian that they don't get pushed out of business...
But lets be honest. Shopping is a social activity. What would the world be like if you didn't have to go running through screaming people to get your furby? Hell if your shipping on that Tickle me elmo you bought for christmas was late people would sue a webshop.
The difference is that Brick and Mortar shopping has 6 thousand years or so of experience... I don't think it's going away any time soon. Malls will always stand - they are actually a monument to how wonderfully commercial everything is - which if you read some of my other comments you will find out I am all for (bitter sarcasm).
There are possible legal issues, does this fall under freedom of speech? Does this fall under something the mall can regulate due to an advertisment clause in thier lease agreement? Or more than that... Does the mall really have the right to regulate how these people are going to conduct their business.
I think that the mall was having problems and got scared and now will have so much bad PR that they will reverse their decision because of public and shopowner heat.
At any rate, this is as always my opinion - what's yours?
What do they do? attrition.org has some interesting ideas, not to mention a few facts. One thing is for certian hey sure spend a lot of money and generate a lot of international bad press.
Who do they protect? Do they protect the people, or the government? If they protect the government and that's it then they are unethical, immoral, and most importantly illegal. This puts the government in a dictatory position over the people. According to the US Constution we are to have a "representative " and "republican" form of government.
Getting back to the money: Echelon, which Australia supposedly says exsists - the EU and China sure hate the NSA - gee that's most of the world. The United States is gaining a lot of enemies because of the NSA - I wonder why... Essentially constutional rights can be usurped if the NSA says it is to "protect national security" or in laymans terms "usurp the governments power over the people". This is utter bullshit.
The US Fed. Government is crap in my opinion. They have alienated the states, and local governments. Tied up the busines owner and tax the hell out of the end person. For instance if my friend Mark was to make 2 thousand dollars more a YEAR he would be pushed into such a high tax bracket that he would _literally_ be paying 43 percent of his income to the IRS alone.
Are we going to let the Government be seperate of the people forever? Career politicians that make deals with commercial lobbists in order to have the funds for their next campaign? Hell everything is so commercialized anymore it's disgusting. The problem here is that the government does not need to make a profit, or spend money on crap programs such as "The study of the flow rate of Catsup" OR the NSA.
But then again, that's my opinion... what's yours?
Regardless of where they may stand right now, the truth is that to the public sector SGI has always ment design quality and superiority. SGI has a relatively small market cap - 1.49 billion. Regardless of that a billion dollars is a billion dollars. What happens if SGI makes smart investments - what happens if the company downsizes, what happens if the company does this or that. There are so many possibilities it's frightening. This has partially their problem - they have so many possible outcomes and variations to what they currently do that they could go one of a number of different ways. Unfortunately they do not have the fanaticism that the average Mac user has. SGI has the right idea though. Embrace a fanatical group of people - Linux geeks. Now we have another company trying to make a buck off Linux - giving Linux commercial support (which is important for enterprise and end user systems) -- the only difference here is that SGI is trying to save their ass w/ Linux. If they pull it off they will definately come out better in at least the server market then the Windows NT sellers will. Hell look at Sun Microsystems and what happened to them over the past few years -- SGI may not be a bad investment once they start honing what they want to do...
Hopefully with the developments in the free and commercial sector to make Linux more 'user friendly' we will see Linux replace NT as an Enterprise Network OS.
If you wouldn't mind - please explain your comment. Most people that I know are of my similar generation, and granted not everyone thinks as I do but most people are fed up with government overtaxation, and complete bullshit threats from the government. I don't agree with piracy - the problem here is that there are no very well defined guidelines for software piracy - hell the BSA invaded Cornell and threatened to sue the school and have govt funding cut if they did not allow them to search student computers.
If the government listens to big business we will loose out - my opinion.
Regardless of who did what - and what company or person is exactally at fault is going to be fuzzy. Whoever pushes the date that a product releases is probably who is really at fault. Look at John Carmack's log:
"11/18/99 -------- Linux version isn't going to make it tonight. We got too busy with other things. Sorry. Tomorrow. ..."
Sounds fishy to me, I'm not flaming I am making a connection - someone was pushed to release this game while it is fresh in people's minds - next week would be to long. We were already promised by the company that it would ship this product on the CD. My problem is this: Is it my responsibility to download a copy of the game, burn it to a disk and then what if they go under, get bought out etc. I don't think that I am ever going to get application support for this game. Here's another problem: businesses have been touting that that they will support Linux and support it in a substandard measure is completely unacceptable - please would a Windows user buy a game that was really really cool? Only that they would have to download the executable? Bah, I doubt it... the company would get major flames, class action lawsuits, or otherwise. I'm simply saying that when someone says that they are going to support a platform, or when they say they will do something - don't pull a microsoft and give substandard application support.
Here's the problem with that: As a customer, when I pay 50 or more bucks dollars for a game - should I have to go and waste my time downloading a binary of it that they will provide on their site? Hell no. What happens if I uninstall it - are they going to keep this binary on their server forever? I doubt it. Not to mention is it MY responsibility to burn a copy of the binary? No it is not. The problem here is that they want the game to ship now now now and they are, regardless of/who/ are going back on an earlier announcement. It's a bad business move - not to mention they have lost faith in the populous that they were supposed to support. And why is the windows version not good enough for me? Well it's quite simple - I don't run it, I haven't for a long time and I won't just for a stupid video game.
Unfortunately it would seem that you have underestimated the Linux populous. To code a game, or at least partially so for an operating system and then to turn around and simply "not ship" it is just horrid business practices. I am greatly saddened that it would seem your company is no longer driven by success in the market place through a positive end user experience - but your company has turned into one where by you have many deadlines and make exceptions for those who are interested in helping to fund your company.
On a related gripe, I work in the World Trade center in Seattle - there are supposed to be 50 thousand people protesting that day...
I have this funny feeling that it is going to be difficult for me to get in that week.
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But, don't you need to 'protect the people'? Isn't there some sort of 'morality' to this? Bah, lock him up and put him next to Buba... he will stop being an idiot online real quick.
Agreed, but politicians are no longer representative of the public - it is not by the people for the people it's so the politician can have a career. In other words, they want to make everyone feel good... warm and fuzzy. Dumb idiot voters in the US of A don't seem to care about the obvious.
And when the people do speak out the government punishes us, an example would be I-695 the government looses control of a relatively small amount of money - the end driver is positively effected BUT the government is forced to cut idiotic programs instituted so that the politicians get votes...
Unfortunately they won't do that - they are in the business of staying in office, I mean hell they can make Millions by listening to lobbists and the like.
So what do they do? Punish the individual - the voter has spoken, and there will be repructions. The voter has elected not to protect programs such as transportation, education, Ferry service, [which is a very important form of mass transit in Western WA] and state funded bus systems.
They forget that we elect them, and theat when the people have spoken they have spoken... deal with it and do what the hell we say.
Human rights are another issue - people, private citizens can be killed by the federal govt to protect "National Security" - have you ever thought about that? Half of us Linux geeks run ssh - which can be "detremental to national security"...
I am about pissed off with Big Brother, they have no right to be doing what they are - I always thought we lived in a government structured to represent the people at large - not special interests or large fat cat company interests. But then again, I'm just a punk to these elitist pigs, and I don't know anything about what it 'really means'.
What it really means is that the government needs to stay out of our business, and we need to remember to not ask them to step into them.
This patent would never hold up in court. All that someone would have to prove is that it was a widespread concept prior to the patent (or invention by said company). People have been serving up dynamic pages since before Yahoo! -- since the dawn of port 80. The thing is that unlike Unisys who actually does own a part of the gif "technology" Yahoo is implementing a "method for" a broad range of technology. When you implement a method you are supposed to protect the idea before the actual product ships. Just patenting ideas is stupid... you used to not be able to do that without an impending commercial product.
At any rate, Yahoo! made a bad PR & legal move - practically anyone could sue them right now for "immeasurable" damages.
Well, "online romances" as they are defined by the media - by having 'cyber sex' and doing all sorts of stupid typing shit doesn't work. But I found my husband online, met him in real life and I couldn't get enough of him.
Coupla years later, our relationship is stronger than when we met and I'm seriously happy:).
What doesn't work however is getting online to get sexed w/o any relationship. Duh - suprise. People in bars have been trying to figure this one out for ages.
Slashdot Mirror
Not quite ....
It's the same ole ethic - no matter what field you are in - hard work and quality pay off at any price.
It's nice to see sites such as fool.com actually recgonizing that Linux is really attacking Microsoft. Not to mention the entire open source model as a viable option to the current software development model. I love hearing things such as "212% annual growth" and "will eventually surpass windows about three years". There are only two places I actually deal with Windows one is a terminal at work (the one I write this comment from) and the other an NT server at another ISP I help maintain -- just fyi Linux has all but replaced NT since I got there. Microsofts garbage about TCO and crap is summarized by the "Windows NT Hique"
..."Free plus free
equals more than
NT"
Interesting note: www.fool.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4 or Windows 98
lol - I don't know, buying clothes online still scares me ... the emails that the complaint dept may get:
;-) -- but Amazon has an okay selection.
To: complaints@shop.com
Subject: hair?
Body:
I got my new pair of Levis today and before putting them on I found a hair in a rather unsightly area -- mind explaining?
But honestly I love online shopping for CDs etc. I work in Seattle -- which is a larger city then where I live -- Port Orchard... Let's just say that I can't generally find little things like the newest DJ remix cd at Wal*Mart
At any rate, l8rz
Well I'm impressed with him. He may be weird but then again to the common computer user a common geek - or even Linux user is downright fishy.
;-) -- he understands that and does exactally what the people want him to do...
He's an odd one, that's for sure. But he said it right on the Jay Lenno show (how cool is that? - a governor that goes on Lenno heh) - this was regarding a group of unwed mothers that were protesting at the capital saying that they were not getting enough money from the government - "I went out to the lawn and asked the leader of the rather large group 'Who's choice was it to have that child out of wedlock?'" -- needless to say that did not make him very popular with the group but with the general populous it sure did -- he then went on to say on Lenno "The government is not your Mom or your Dad, and it ain't your big brother"... Hell Jesse even cut taxes and gave a *gasp* refund to the people! Isn't that just nuts.. government being representative of the people.
Where as I live in Washington State where I-695 just passed, a wonderful bill that gives the taxpayers the ability to shoot down a bill that would increase taxes, not to mention it cut the car tabs to 30 dollars instead of hundreds -- even thousands in the case of many new cars. What does the government do... Governor Locke said -- "It would appear that the people have spoken, we will begin cutting the transportation, and health care budget in January" -- what the hell was this? We cut their 48 billion dollar budget bu 125 Million dollars (and that 48 billion is only a third of the overall budget) -- and then they turn around and punish us because we were "bad" oh screw off - I would rather have a governor that would be representative of what *WE* want not what *THEY* want. Are they forgetting that we as voters have the ability and right to FIRE them at will?
That's why I like Jessee
Just what I think
My understanding of law in the UK is unfortunately limited. The problem is that the United States has baised their legal system on this also - and most other modern democracies have as well. Is it at all possible that the governments could be conspiring to rob the citizen of our rights, probably - will the people allow it, hell no. Yet another law to fuel the fire and piss the people off.
I find it so funny that all the democracies, or otherwise similar government types were all interlocked into this 30 - 40 or more year 'cold war' because the 'enemy' was supressing the individual rights and choices in that country. As scary as it may be we have entered the flipside of that argument... look at the signs, guns are more moderated then ever thought possible - your first ammendment rights can be waved by the NSA or FBI, not to mention your right to a fair trial is out the door. Instead the government spends the enormous amount of money it collects on taxes on special interest programs and bullshit that nobody cares about one bit.
Isn't it wonderful living in a Socialist country? Wanna change it? Start by electing more people like Jesse Ventura - someone who is not afriad to tell the little groups off, someone who doesn't believe that government is big brother - and shouldn't take a ton of taxes from you. He's a social liberal, so he has no hesitation doing what he believes good for the people.
I will now get off of my soapbox.
Well I love shopping online for some things, but for instance the other day I went to the Kitsap Mall - local -- I went in and saw the new bed I am buying for us this Christmas, I went to Sears, paid my sears card bill. I then went to Zales and bought new 'wedding' bands... I was able to see the merchandise. Not to mention a cinnabon was conviently inbetween the Zales and Sears *yum*. Some little things like CD's, books, or otherwise noncritical purchases I can see eventually migrating to the web. But not totally. Let's be honest - how many people really want to go buying clothes online (As I think about the "don't get e-screwed" commercials).
... plus it gives jobs to young people.
Mauls suck, Malls are okay
Well Malls are eventually "On their way out" -- that's what people keep saying... "In the future we are all going to shop online" ... It's obvious that a little bit of this over and over would definately inspire some FUD to a Mall... they are just trying to make certian that they don't get pushed out of business...
... I don't think it's going away any time soon. Malls will always stand - they are actually a monument to how wonderfully commercial everything is - which if you read some of my other comments you will find out I am all for (bitter sarcasm).
... Does the mall really have the right to regulate how these people are going to conduct their business.
But lets be honest. Shopping is a social activity. What would the world be like if you didn't have to go running through screaming people to get your furby? Hell if your shipping on that Tickle me elmo you bought for christmas was late people would sue a webshop.
The difference is that Brick and Mortar shopping has 6 thousand years or so of experience
There are possible legal issues, does this fall under freedom of speech? Does this fall under something the mall can regulate due to an advertisment clause in thier lease agreement? Or more than that
I think that the mall was having problems and got scared and now will have so much bad PR that they will reverse their decision because of public and shopowner heat.
At any rate, this is as always my opinion - what's yours?
Here's the problem with the NSA:
What do they do? attrition.org has some interesting ideas, not to mention a few facts. One thing is for certian hey sure spend a lot of money and generate a lot of international bad press.
Who do they protect? Do they protect the people, or the government? If they protect the government and that's it then they are unethical, immoral, and most importantly illegal. This puts the government in a dictatory position over the people. According to the US Constution we are to have a "representative " and "republican" form of government.
Getting back to the money: Echelon, which Australia supposedly says exsists - the EU and China sure hate the NSA - gee that's most of the world. The United States is gaining a lot of enemies because of the NSA - I wonder why... Essentially constutional rights can be usurped if the NSA says it is to "protect national security" or in laymans terms "usurp the governments power over the people". This is utter bullshit.
The US Fed. Government is crap in my opinion. They have alienated the states, and local governments. Tied up the busines owner and tax the hell out of the end person. For instance if my friend Mark was to make 2 thousand dollars more a YEAR he would be pushed into such a high tax bracket that he would _literally_ be paying 43 percent of his income to the IRS alone.
Are we going to let the Government be seperate of the people forever? Career politicians that make deals with commercial lobbists in order to have the funds for their next campaign? Hell everything is so commercialized anymore it's disgusting. The problem here is that the government does not need to make a profit, or spend money on crap programs such as "The study of the flow rate of Catsup" OR the NSA.
But then again, that's my opinion... what's yours?
Regardless of where they may stand right now, the truth is that to the public sector SGI has always ment design quality and superiority. SGI has a relatively small market cap - 1.49 billion. Regardless of that a billion dollars is a billion dollars. What happens if SGI makes smart investments - what happens if the company downsizes, what happens if the company does this or that. There are so many possibilities it's frightening. This has partially their problem - they have so many possible outcomes and variations to what they currently do that they could go one of a number of different ways. Unfortunately they do not have the fanaticism that the average Mac user has. SGI has the right idea though. Embrace a fanatical group of people - Linux geeks. Now we have another company trying to make a buck off Linux - giving Linux commercial support (which is important for enterprise and end user systems) -- the only difference here is that SGI is trying to save their ass w/ Linux. If they pull it off they will definately come out better in at least the server market then the Windows NT sellers will. Hell look at Sun Microsystems and what happened to them over the past few years -- SGI may not be a bad investment once they start honing what they want to do...
*SOB* Oh the pain, yes ... I'm sorry -- ROSEBUD!
Hopefully with the developments in the free and commercial sector to make Linux more 'user friendly' we will see Linux replace NT as an Enterprise Network OS.
Yet another example that in the future that the way business grow in the technology sector will not be in products but in education in services.
If you wouldn't mind - please explain your comment. Most people that I know are of my similar generation, and granted not everyone thinks as I do but most people are fed up with government overtaxation, and complete bullshit threats from the government. I don't agree with piracy - the problem here is that there are no very well defined guidelines for software piracy - hell the BSA invaded Cornell and threatened to sue the school and have govt funding cut if they did not allow them to search student computers.
If the government listens to big business we will loose out - my opinion.
Not republican -- even worse Libertarian.
Regardless of who did what - and what company or person is exactally at fault is going to be fuzzy. Whoever pushes the date that a product releases is probably who is really at fault. Look at John Carmack's log:
... the company would get major flames, class action lawsuits, or otherwise. I'm simply saying that when someone says that they are going to support a platform, or when they say they will do something - don't pull a microsoft and give substandard application support.
"11/18/99
--------
Linux version isn't going to make it tonight. We got too busy with other things. Sorry. Tomorrow.
..."
Sounds fishy to me, I'm not flaming I am making a connection - someone was pushed to release this game while it is fresh in people's minds - next week would be to long. We were already promised by the company that it would ship this product on the CD. My problem is this: Is it my responsibility to download a copy of the game, burn it to a disk and then what if they go under, get bought out etc. I don't think that I am ever going to get application support for this game. Here's another problem: businesses have been touting that that they will support Linux and support it in a substandard measure is completely unacceptable - please would a Windows user buy a game that was really really cool? Only that they would have to download the executable? Bah, I doubt it
da
Here's the problem with that: /who/ are going back on an earlier announcement. It's a bad business move - not to mention they have lost faith in the populous that they were supposed to support. And why is the windows version not good enough for me? Well it's quite simple - I don't run it, I haven't for a long time and I won't just for a stupid video game.
As a customer, when I pay 50 or more bucks dollars for a game - should I have to go and waste my time downloading a binary of it that they will provide on their site? Hell no. What happens if I uninstall it - are they going to keep this binary on their server forever? I doubt it. Not to mention is it MY responsibility to burn a copy of the binary? No it is not. The problem here is that they want the game to ship now now now and they are, regardless of
I think that my point is totally valid.
Unfortunately it would seem that you have underestimated the Linux populous. To code a game, or at least partially so for an operating system and then to turn around and simply "not ship" it is just horrid business practices. I am greatly saddened that it would seem your company is no longer driven by success in the market place through a positive end user experience - but your company has turned into one where by you have many deadlines and make exceptions for those who are interested in helping to fund your company.
On a related gripe, I work in the World Trade center in Seattle - there are supposed to be 50 thousand people protesting that day...
I have this funny feeling that it is going to be difficult for me to get in that week.
But, don't you need to 'protect the people'? Isn't there some sort of 'morality' to this? Bah, lock him up and put him next to Buba... he will stop being an idiot online real quick.
Patronizing my generation with rhetoric by a condensending tone will only help fuel the demise of medicare in the future.
The point here is not that you are right and we are wrong - the point is the inverse of that.
Agreed, but politicians are no longer representative of the public - it is not by the people for the people it's so the politician can have a career. In other words, they want to make everyone feel good... warm and fuzzy. Dumb idiot voters in the US of A don't seem to care about the obvious.
... deal with it and do what the hell we say.
...
And when the people do speak out the government punishes us, an example would be I-695 the government looses control of a relatively small amount of money - the end driver is positively effected BUT the government is forced to cut idiotic programs instituted so that the politicians get votes...
Unfortunately they won't do that - they are in the business of staying in office, I mean hell they can make Millions by listening to lobbists and the like.
So what do they do? Punish the individual - the voter has spoken, and there will be repructions. The voter has elected not to protect programs such as transportation, education, Ferry service, [which is a very important form of mass transit in Western WA] and state funded bus systems.
They forget that we elect them, and theat when the people have spoken they have spoken
Human rights are another issue - people, private citizens can be killed by the federal govt to protect "National Security" - have you ever thought about that? Half of us Linux geeks run ssh - which can be "detremental to national security"
I am about pissed off with Big Brother, they have no right to be doing what they are - I always thought we lived in a government structured to represent the people at large - not special interests or large fat cat company interests. But then again, I'm just a punk to these elitist pigs, and I don't know anything about what it 'really means'.
What it really means is that the government needs to stay out of our business, and we need to remember to not ask them to step into them.
Stupid Boy Scouts shouldn't be getting into this anyways ;p
This patent would never hold up in court. All that someone would have to prove is that it was a widespread concept prior to the patent (or invention by said
company). People have been serving up dynamic pages since before Yahoo! -- since the dawn of port 80. The thing is that unlike Unisys who actually does own a
part of the gif "technology" Yahoo is implementing a "method for" a broad range of technology. When you implement a method you are supposed to protect the idea
before the actual product ships. Just patenting ideas is stupid... you used to not be able to do that without an impending commercial product.
At any rate, Yahoo! made a bad PR & legal move - practically anyone could sue them right now for "immeasurable" damages.
But such is life.
Well, "online romances" as they are defined by the media - by having 'cyber sex' and doing all sorts of stupid typing shit doesn't work. But I found my husband online, met him in real life and I couldn't get enough of him.
:).
Coupla years later, our relationship is stronger than when we met and I'm seriously happy
What doesn't work however is getting online to get sexed w/o any relationship. Duh - suprise. People in bars have been trying to figure this one out for ages.
At any rate toodlez