J.K. Rowling over Shakespere, get real. You should have added a fad filter. Not knocking his work personally, but he only struck a nerve with kids and became famous over it.
the hardware enforces a mechanism which *must* be implemented in software
No, read the Reg articles more closely. This is part of the ATA spec to be implemented in hardware. The new media block on the HD would prevent any copying unless allowed, period. This is "law-making" by Mega-Corps, and our legal protection against the Gov't doesn't apply, of course.
. . . Because the stupid Windows software (Office, et al) doesn't know what LaTeX is, and most (99.9%) of the users don't know enough to scream for better.
1Alpha7
Unnamed sources said negotiators for both sides have been unable to reach a deal over how the merged company would ensure that rival Internet service providers would have access to its high-speed cable network.
They're not likely to actually stop it. This is just a standard negotiationg tactic. Whenever negotiations break down, a few "strategic leaks" combined with a threat of actual gov't action (perish the thought) are pretty much standard procedure.
UW will be host to the first nanotech degree program in the US.
What a sleazy grab for headlines. Unless one works in an advanced IBM lab or the like, such a degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on. No one is currently in a position to "teach" nano-tech. It's like teaching warp-drive at this point. Okay, so I exaggerate. Not by much.
I'm not sure how commercially viable a switch the size of a refrigerator can be . ..
The need to be first to market is likely the major reason for the size. Comments like
"For the last six to eight months, this has been an industry of warning shots by all sorts of optical-equipment companies,"
and
At least one Corvis rival takes issue with the company's first-to-market claims. Lucent Technologies Inc. said it delivered a similar all-optical technology for commercial use last month to Global Crossing Ltd
make it clear that first to market was first on their minds. The size wil probably drop by half every 8-12 months.
"All linux Devices.com is running a pretty cool article about an X86 chip running on 1 AA battery.
Finally. Maybe I'll get a laptop that can actually last from Atlanta to SeaTac on one battery pack, and not even sear my crotch in the process. And a bonus, running Linux
There's 225 million American, 5.8 billion other people on this planet, most whom don't speak English and don't write in modified, vowel poor, aplhabets.
My goodness, where to start? Well, first, the US has a population of about 276 million, and Earth about 6,098 million. Second, about 4,500 million don't speak English, hardly most. Then English is not a "modified . . . aplhabet" (sic). Next, it's spelt "alphabet". Last, the original ASCII has been long supplanted by ISO-8859, etc., but the name has stuck. Flaming a post because that name is technically obsolete is like flaming someone for referring to "General Motors" cars, since "just a motor manufacturer" isn't a real car maker.
I have worked with people on H1 visas. Thanks to them we were able to get extraordinary talent, which we couldn't otherwise get at any price. They are still crap. There is no reason to withold real green cards from these people. The company held their visas over their heads like some ComBlock country from decades ago. I was ashamed to be an American and face these people.
What would other folks do if faced with this situation?
Get a lawyer. Not to attack them, just to insure you (and they) are acting prudently. Lawyers are only a "Bad Thing"(tm)(c), when they aren't yours. I read every day in the WSJ, Forbes, etc. about crap some fools fell for because they believed the marketing/sales hype or whatever instead of getting solid legal counsel.
WAP has taken a lot of (deserved) heat, but this is a good argument on the other side.
WAP is a crappy protocol that will be mutilated beyond recognition to make it (slightly) less crappy before it is popular. So any work done on it's current incarnation will need to be redone within a year.
. . . that seems to be quite a task to properly create and implement. Why don't you get on it and create such a system in a feasible manner and come back then?
Although you are just whining, actually, through my employer, I am working on it.
Lends more credibility to the disposable credit card concept.
Please. It lends more credibilty to the concept that big corps still don't have a clue. Technology security (unlike physical) is nota place to save a few buck by hiring a few minimum security wanna-be rent-a-drunks. Plus it lends more strength to the idea that money cards, anonymous, variable in value, and secure, desperately need to be implemented, whether Big Brother likes it or not.
Unfortunately, overclocking is not restricted to a few hobbyists. I remember taking a huge heat sink off a Micron 166, rubbing off the compound and see a clear "Intel 133" mark on it. Manufacturers have been playing fast and loose with us for years, and when they screw with the CPU, it's just asking for Intel or AMD to come up looking bad. The average user will never know that it was overclocked (or even what that is), just that, "AMD makes junk!".
legislate everything and let no informal "rules" be established
Strong-arming many large chains (yes, not just Kmart) into following along is not "informal rules". Ed Meese started this under Reagan's first term, which is when 7-11 stopped carrying porn, but it fizzled out on that try This is not about one retailer choosing to be uptight. If it were, I would also simply take my business elsewhere. This is an attempt to end-run around the system by the right-wing.
I suspect you must be some kind of lawyer to want legislation on this subject.
You coudn't be more wrong. This is/., so of course I'm a software developer and Libertarian. More importantly, I don't "want legislation" on this subject; you missed the point entirely. The right-wing doesn't want to try for legislation; too hard.
which mainstream retailers follow as if they were law seem better than actual laws doing the same
Sure, pressure the companies to do the job w/o laws. Avoid all that "public view/debate" nonsense. End runs around the system beats formal review any day, especially if the goal is something sleazy and underhanded, like this.
I guess you don't have a clue that Doug Davis from Digital Convergance is lying through his teeth. His legalistic jargon is not closely related to reality.
Pathetic. They don't have a legal leg to stand on, so they muddy the waters with crap like this. No, they aren't just trying to make a living. They are trying to salvage a badly screwed up business model by re-inventing the laws to support their position, to the detriment of all of us who are fond of computer freedom. Their hardware rights have little bearing on their software rights and that nonsense they wrote above reads like the worst FUD M$ ever wrote. Please, sue me. My attorneys will happily crucify this joke.
These guys don't seem to be patenting anything really important.
That's okay, this Patent Office would grant a patent to a opossum for the prehensile tail. No doubt, barring sudden intelligent input (must be from the outside), they'll get their patent.
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J.K. Rowling over Shakespere, get real. You should have added a fad filter. Not knocking his work personally, but he only struck a nerve with kids and became famous over it.
She. J. K. Rowling is a woman.
1Alpha7
. . . you are trying to tell me that certain books (the bible for instance) have not had a greater impact on world civilization . . .
The contest was books written in this millennium, not "impact on world civilization". The Bible wasn't written in the last thousand years.
1Alpha7
Take for example some Greek/Roman epic's.
Unfortunately, they weren't written in the last millennium, either.
1Alpha7
the hardware enforces a mechanism which *must* be implemented in software
No, read the Reg articles more closely. This is part of the ATA spec to be implemented in hardware. The new media block on the HD would prevent any copying unless allowed, period. This is "law-making" by Mega-Corps, and our legal protection against the Gov't doesn't apply, of course.
1Alpha7
QWERTY keyboards were expressly designed to be inferior
Mostly an urban myth popularized by Dvorak.
Reason.com
UT Dallas
1Alpha7
. . . Because the stupid Windows software (Office, et al) doesn't know what LaTeX is, and most (99.9%) of the users don't know enough to scream for better. 1Alpha7
free reg. req
The other (non-reg) NYT link
1Alpha7
Unnamed sources said negotiators for both sides have been unable to reach a deal over how the merged company would ensure that rival Internet service providers would have access to its high-speed cable network.
They're not likely to actually stop it. This is just a standard negotiationg tactic. Whenever negotiations break down, a few "strategic leaks" combined with a threat of actual gov't action (perish the thought) are pretty much standard procedure.
1Alpha7
UW will be host to the first nanotech degree program in the US.
What a sleazy grab for headlines. Unless one works in an advanced IBM lab or the like, such a degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on. No one is currently in a position to "teach" nano-tech. It's like teaching warp-drive at this point. Okay, so I exaggerate. Not by much.
1Alpha7
I'm not sure how commercially viable a switch the size of a refrigerator can be . . .
The need to be first to market is likely the major reason for the size. Comments like
"For the last six to eight months, this has been an industry of warning shots by all sorts of optical-equipment companies,"
and
At least one Corvis rival takes issue with the company's first-to-market claims. Lucent Technologies Inc. said it delivered a similar all-optical technology for commercial use last month to Global Crossing Ltd
make it clear that first to market was first on their minds. The size wil probably drop by half every 8-12 months.
1Alpha7
"All linux Devices.com is running a pretty cool article about an X86 chip running on 1 AA battery.
Finally. Maybe I'll get a laptop that can actually last from Atlanta to SeaTac on one battery pack, and not even sear my crotch in the process. And a bonus, running Linux
1Alpha7
. . . you should at least change your password
Oh well, I'd been meaning to change my password anyway. Just hadn't gotten around to it. Now I have.
There's 225 million American, 5.8 billion other people on this planet, most whom don't speak English and don't write in modified, vowel poor, aplhabets.
My goodness, where to start? Well, first, the US has a population of about 276 million, and Earth about 6,098 million. Second, about 4,500 million don't speak English, hardly most. Then English is not a "modified . . . aplhabet" (sic). Next, it's spelt "alphabet". Last, the original ASCII has been long supplanted by ISO-8859, etc., but the name has stuck. Flaming a post because that name is technically obsolete is like flaming someone for referring to "General Motors" cars, since "just a motor manufacturer" isn't a real car maker.
1Alpha7
I have worked with people on H1 visas. Thanks to them we were able to get extraordinary talent, which we couldn't otherwise get at any price. They are still crap. There is no reason to withold real green cards from these people. The company held their visas over their heads like some ComBlock country from decades ago. I was ashamed to be an American and face these people.
1Alpha7
Hmmm, maybe my old 4/75 will run it. :)
1Alpha7
What would other folks do if faced with this situation?
Get a lawyer. Not to attack them, just to insure you (and they) are acting prudently. Lawyers are only a "Bad Thing"(tm)(c), when they aren't yours. I read every day in the WSJ, Forbes, etc. about crap some fools fell for because they believed the marketing/sales hype or whatever instead of getting solid legal counsel.
1Alpha7
WAP has taken a lot of (deserved) heat, but this is a good argument on the other side.
WAP is a crappy protocol that will be mutilated beyond recognition to make it (slightly) less crappy before it is popular. So any work done on it's current incarnation will need to be redone within a year.
1 Alpha7
. . . that seems to be quite a task to properly create and implement. Why don't you get on it and create such a system in a feasible manner and come back then?
Although you are just whining, actually, through my employer, I am working on it.
1Alpha7
Lends more credibility to the disposable credit card concept.
Please. It lends more credibilty to the concept that big corps still don't have a clue. Technology security (unlike physical) is not a place to save a few buck by hiring a few minimum security wanna-be rent-a-drunks. Plus it lends more strength to the idea that money cards, anonymous, variable in value, and secure, desperately need to be implemented, whether Big Brother likes it or not.
1Alpha7
How does this help AMD?
Unfortunately, overclocking is not restricted to a few hobbyists. I remember taking a huge heat sink off a Micron 166, rubbing off the compound and see a clear "Intel 133" mark on it. Manufacturers have been playing fast and loose with us for years, and when they screw with the CPU, it's just asking for Intel or AMD to come up looking bad. The average user will never know that it was overclocked (or even what that is), just that, "AMD makes junk!".
1Alpha7
legislate everything and let no informal "rules" be established
Strong-arming many large chains (yes, not just Kmart) into following along is not "informal rules". Ed Meese started this under Reagan's first term, which is when 7-11 stopped carrying porn, but it fizzled out on that try This is not about one retailer choosing to be uptight. If it were, I would also simply take my business elsewhere. This is an attempt to end-run around the system by the right-wing.
I suspect you must be some kind of lawyer to want legislation on this subject.
You coudn't be more wrong. This is /., so of course I'm a software developer and Libertarian. More importantly, I don't "want legislation" on this subject; you missed the point entirely. The right-wing doesn't want to try for legislation; too hard.
1Alpha7
which mainstream retailers follow as if they were law seem better than actual laws doing the same
Sure, pressure the companies to do the job w/o laws. Avoid all that "public view/debate" nonsense. End runs around the system beats formal review any day, especially if the goal is something sleazy and underhanded, like this.
I guess you don't have a clue that Doug Davis from Digital Convergance is lying through his teeth. His legalistic jargon is not closely related to reality.
Pathetic. They don't have a legal leg to stand on, so they muddy the waters with crap like this. No, they aren't just trying to make a living. They are trying to salvage a badly screwed up business model by re-inventing the laws to support their position, to the detriment of all of us who are fond of computer freedom. Their hardware rights have little bearing on their software rights and that nonsense they wrote above reads like the worst FUD M$ ever wrote. Please, sue me. My attorneys will happily crucify this joke.
1Alpha7
These guys don't seem to be patenting anything really important.
That's okay, this Patent Office would grant a patent to a opossum for the prehensile tail. No doubt, barring sudden intelligent input (must be from the outside), they'll get their patent.
1Alpha7