true, but one day, we will have a room temp SC [...]
One day we *might*. But that statement is kinda like: one day we'll have time travel and FTL spacecraft. Sure, we *might* have room-temp superconductors, but it's also possible that no such material exists.
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I don't get why people are so excited about non-ECC memory these days. It's almost impossible now to buy a low-cost system that supports ECC, which I find quite peculiar. Sure, I understand that many people don't care if their computer crashes every now and then due to a random bitflip error, but it seems like there'd be enough applications where cheap-but-trustworthy-results are important to make a market....
Who would instinctively associate "Cairo" with "vector graphics for XFree86"? Why not name it something sensible, like "XVector" (if that's not already taken)?
Well, exactly -- it's a cross-platform library not necessarily tied to X at all. That's why the name was changed *away* from "Xr".
There's an RFE for that, too. Bugzilla #13474. I agree that it'd be *nice* to not reinvent the wheel, but you have to balance that against the desirability of in-place editing. That whole user-pluggable-components thing never did take off, and until we've got that, having to pop up a separate window to enter text in a textarea would be annoying.
Check Bugzilla #85799 (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85799 -- direct bugzilla links from/. not allowed), a RFE to make form textareas able to act like more powerful text editors. A spellchecker could definitely be part of that.
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Here I go, feeding the trolls again.... Perhaps this brings many real opportunities, such as remote logins where X forwarding is not possible, or remote logins over very slow modem lines.
Not long before, SCO offered their own version of Linux and Linux services i believe, it is those services and distributions that could qualify for Trademark infringement.
Not likely, because those things were directly referring to actual Linux. If they used the term to refer to a different OS, then there would be trouble. But that's not the case here.
Unfortunately - they have removed every trace of the Linux name from their site. Quite probably becuase they could be sued for infringement.
Is there a polite way to phrase "what are you smoking"? The name Linux is all over the SCO site, both in their new silliness and in older links referring to their Linux products. And if you look in their Legal section, you'll see that they correctly attribute ownership of the trademark to Linus Torvalds.
Trademark law does not have a "fair use" doctrine.
That's not true. It does. Here's a quick link from google for example. Or another.
If you think about it, a trademark would have no value whatsoever if Joe Gucci can sell watches down at the corner and call them "Gucci", and the Gucci company couldn't do anything to stop it.
If they are Gucci watches, the Gucci Company indeed can't do anything to stop it. Likewise, SCO can keep calling Linux "Linux". It feels bizarre to be defending SCO here, but c'mon.
In a non commercial context yes. However if a company such as say, ABC Bank wanted to use the "Boston Marathon" in an advertising campaign they could be sued by the Athletic association becuase it is a trademark, and they would first need to obtain the right to use "Boston Marathon".
This is not so. If you're directly comparing your product to a competitors, for example, you're allowed to refer to them by name -- again, descriptive use of the trademark is fine.
You can't copyright names. They're covered by trademarks. And it is totally within the bounds of fair use to call something by its name. The canonical example: I don't have to call it "that long race we have in Boston on Patriots' Day every year" just because the Boston Athletic Association owns the trademark "Boston Marathon". Likewise, if SCO is actually referring to Linux, they can call it that.
This is a good thing.
And this comes up on/. so often that it occurs to me that I've probably just been trolled, hard. Oh well.
Everything else that's wrong with this idea aside, it would set a terrible precedent, and the next company wanting to extort money would ask for even more.
The much more plausible computational network explanation is still perfectly consistant with the movies. In fact, it's *more* consistant than the silly battery one -- it goes a long way towards explaining why the matrix works as it does. (In a hand-waving sci-fi fan sort of way, you understand.)
The thing is, the free-world Zion humans either don't understand this, or else the ones that do don't necessarily share that information -- preferring to give the battery story to new recruits.
Show me a Linux replacement for Adobe FrameMaker (or better yet, a port) [...]
Several years ago, Adobe actually released a beta version of a port, but then decided not to release a final product based on it. Check out this page for more info. There's even a specific e-mail address for comments.
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true, but one day, we will have a room temp SC [...]
One day we *might*. But that statement is kinda like: one day we'll have time travel and FTL spacecraft. Sure, we *might* have room-temp superconductors, but it's also possible that no such material exists.
I don't get why people are so excited about non-ECC memory these days. It's almost impossible now to buy a low-cost system that supports ECC, which I find quite peculiar. Sure, I understand that many people don't care if their computer crashes every now and then due to a random bitflip error, but it seems like there'd be enough applications where cheap-but-trustworthy-results are important to make a market....
Yeah, just like "poppy" is the derogatory term the US gover'ment uses to refer to what we all really know as the Papaver.
I'm not sure I would call the failure of big-brother tech "disappointing".
And which they continue to "forget"....
Who would instinctively associate "Cairo" with "vector graphics for XFree86"? Why not name it something sensible, like "XVector" (if that's not already taken)?
Well, exactly -- it's a cross-platform library not necessarily tied to X at all. That's why the name was changed *away* from "Xr".
There's an RFE for that, too. Bugzilla #13474. I agree that it'd be *nice* to not reinvent the wheel, but you have to balance that against the desirability of in-place editing. That whole user-pluggable-components thing never did take off, and until we've got that, having to pop up a separate window to enter text in a textarea would be annoying.
Check Bugzilla #85799 (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85799 -- direct bugzilla links from /. not allowed), a RFE to make form textareas able to act like more powerful text editors. A spellchecker could definitely be part of that.
Here I go, feeding the trolls again.... Perhaps this brings many real opportunities, such as remote logins where X forwarding is not possible, or remote logins over very slow modem lines.
Not long before, SCO offered their own version of Linux and Linux services i believe, it is those services and distributions that could qualify for Trademark infringement.
Not likely, because those things were directly referring to actual Linux. If they used the term to refer to a different OS, then there would be trouble. But that's not the case here.
Unfortunately - they have removed every trace of the Linux name from their site. Quite probably becuase they could be sued for infringement.
Is there a polite way to phrase "what are you smoking"? The name Linux is all over the SCO site, both in their new silliness and in older links referring to their Linux products. And if you look in their Legal section, you'll see that they correctly attribute ownership of the trademark to Linus Torvalds.
Trademark law does not have a "fair use" doctrine.
That's not true. It does. Here's a quick link from google for example. Or another.
If you think about it, a trademark would have no value whatsoever if Joe Gucci can sell watches down at the corner and call them "Gucci", and the Gucci company couldn't do anything to stop it.
If they are Gucci watches, the Gucci Company indeed can't do anything to stop it. Likewise, SCO can keep calling Linux "Linux". It feels bizarre to be defending SCO here, but c'mon.
In a non commercial context yes. However if a company such as say, ABC Bank wanted to use the "Boston Marathon" in an advertising campaign they could be sued by the Athletic association becuase it is a trademark, and they would first need to obtain the right to use "Boston Marathon".
This is not so. If you're directly comparing your product to a competitors, for example, you're allowed to refer to them by name -- again, descriptive use of the trademark is fine.
You can't copyright names. They're covered by trademarks. And it is totally within the bounds of fair use to call something by its name. The canonical example: I don't have to call it "that long race we have in Boston on Patriots' Day every year" just because the Boston Athletic Association owns the trademark "Boston Marathon". Likewise, if SCO is actually referring to Linux, they can call it that.
/. so often that it occurs to me that I've probably just been trolled, hard. Oh well.
This is a good thing.
And this comes up on
Bite my shiny metal... OH NOOO!
Heh. Looks like someone's seen the episode already.
Could I please see this proof?
Sure -- it's right there next to the weapons of mass destruction. See?
Everything else that's wrong with this idea aside, it would set a terrible precedent, and the next company wanting to extort money would ask for even more.
read the *subject* of this story on slashdot.
That's nice and all, but it's also exactly the point of the post you're replying to.
And the one in Canada has endangered loggerhead shrike.
I think the Hyperion connection is more likely, though.
The much more plausible computational network explanation is still perfectly consistant with the movies. In fact, it's *more* consistant than the silly battery one -- it goes a long way towards explaining why the matrix works as it does. (In a hand-waving sci-fi fan sort of way, you understand.)
The thing is, the free-world Zion humans either don't understand this, or else the ones that do don't necessarily share that information -- preferring to give the battery story to new recruits.
The B programming language stemmed from one called BCPL. Therefore, the logical successor is P, not D.
Have you heard the original version? Or the metal version linked to above? Trust me, there's nowhere to go but up.
Sure, if you could make perfect mirrors. And if you only cared about the motion of light itself.
Sure. Got a quarter?
Show me a Linux replacement for Adobe FrameMaker (or better yet, a port) [...]
Several years ago, Adobe actually released a beta version of a port, but then decided not to release a final product based on it. Check out this page for more info. There's even a specific e-mail address for comments.