Correct. It's not a patent troll. It's a company with working product who attempted a partnership, got rebuffed by Microsoft after they jumped through hoops and Microsoft went ahead and used their technology anyway.
It's typical Microsoft. If they can hold off payment of the lawsuit long enough, they get the IP they stole for free.
As you move into the top tiers of schools, the ratio of duds to doers declines.
Actually, that's a non sequitur. President Bush graduated from Yale; many people called him a dud, but hey, he got the top job the country has to offer and he got to spend the legal limit of 8 years at it.
My personal opinion regarding Stanford, Yale, Harvard, etc. is that their graduates have rich parents or rich financial backers (including special scholarships).
It isn't for profit. When I entered Caltech in 1980, endowment was approximately $1M per student. They didn't have any need to charge us any tuition at all.
I was told point blank by the financial aid person that tuition rates were set to keep pace with Stanford and Harvard so parents wouldn't think it was a two-bit school.
I think the average college education nowadays has much less of this quality than it used to, since a lot of them are morphing into degree mills at varying rates.
You're right, I think.
I wish I could think of a decent car analogy, but how about a WoW analogy? Think of the off-major required courses as daily quests, except that the college uses them to collect money from you.
witness many/.ers bitching about how they had to take english lit classes when they just wanted to be engineers
My beef with lit classes in college is that they are all about kissing the professor's ass. If that's the direction you want to go, more power to you. I love Shakespeare and one of the worst mistakes I ever made in college was taking a Shakespeare class.
Disclaimer: My favorite class in High School was an American lit class with a teacher who loved to teach and inspire students. He certainly inspired me.
More like lies and FUD. The sample size is high enough to get very good statistics if it's a random sample.
The issue is that are all people who use file sharing software doing it illegally? Everyone who subscribes to World of Warcraft uses file sharing software. That's certainly not an illegal use.
It's a horrible article, written by an idiot and I would have more expected this coming from kdawson rather than from soulskill who usually has a clue.
All uses of file sharing software are not "illegal".
I have a very hard time believing that the vast majority of people that use any filesharing application do so exclusivley for legit and non-copyright infringing purposes.
It is a mistake to claim to that *everyone* who uses file sharing software does so for nefarious purposes. I do not claim to be in the majority, but I can state with certainty that such people exist. I have only to look in the mirror.
So could someone please explain *why* is it a questionable research.
It's not, or at least not explained in TFA. The sample size, if it is random should provide pretty reliable statistics, but... I use file sharing software to download Linux ISOs and with World of Warcraft, never music or movies, so they probably asked the wrong question. In which case, the number is totally meaningless.
In terms of a car analogy, it's like asking if you ever killed something while driving and not distinguishing between road kill and your neighbor's children and deciding that everyone who ever drove a car and admitted to killing something was involved in a hit & run.
It's more realistic than the articles I read in PC Journal when they were spinning off a sister magazine for the ill-fated PC Junior.
Every person with industry experience, including knowledgeable writers knew that the PC Junior was going to lose. Those that didn't jumped on board the PC Journal's PC Junior edition and wrote glowing articles about how HAPPY they were to be moving to the new publication and how much they liked the PC Junior. Maybe they got good severance benefits?
Trust me elder slashdotter, most of us can spot a tech writer fake a mile away and bad copy does not pay.
Limiting the scope to launches, I would be happy if one of these new private enterprise launch outfits was able to handle everything and send NASA an invoice, and I think NASA should be, too. If what you're saying about outfits in the 80's being squashed is true, then that's awful and shouldn't have happened.
The aforementioned coworker is this guy http://www.planetpuna.com/siriusa/HysonBio.htm by the way. Make of it what you will, but absolutely one of the brightest people I've ever met and called "friend".
Unmanned deep space probes (ie JPL) is probably OK to leave government funded, but that leaves open the issue of who owns the stuff the probes find. Manned stuff ought to be left to for profit organizations. There's limitless wealth out there, if we can only get to it. And, in my opinion, getting people permanently off earth is way too important to leave to an election or politicians.
I guess you were right. I am religious on the subject. I want manned space travel and I wanted it 4 decades ago when it became feasible.
Apollo did so well they ended up being bought out by HP and disappearing. DEC did so well with Vaxen and Alpha they ended up being bought out by Compaq and disappearing. Sun, with the lead in Unix workstations did so well they ended up being bought out by Oracle.
I had one of the earliest Sun 3s on my desk at TRW. Nice box, nice GUI, but waaaaaaay too expensive. The year of the Unix desktop was 1987 and Sun blew it. I had two Alpha workstations in Japan, one running Tru64, the other running my port of Turbolinux. Nice boxes, but already getting somewhat long in the tooth. I've seen a NeXT, but never used one.
I get the feeling that this might be a religious issue for you. If so, no response requested. Not interested in digressions into debates about free market orthodoxy, though I respect your religious beliefs.
It's religious only in the sense that I had contact with would-be free market to earth orbit folks in the 1980s. They were squashed and I thought it was very unfair.
I got infected by a coworker who was very much into private enterprise launches and the people behind them. He convinced me that that was The Right Way To Go. Sorry.
Selling out to EA just made it official. They either lost the magic the had back in the BG days or simply don't give a shit anymore.
It sounds like a cool game and I might buy it if it were available on a Mac even if it is EA. I've had too many bad experiences with EA titles to really trust them.
The 6502 was succeeded by the 65816 (a commercial failure) as was pointed out by camperdave, and was made by MOS Technology. The 8 bit Motorola CPU was the 6800.
Motorola 68k boxes were the first viable commercial Unix machines, not that anyone marketed them particularly well.
Seriously, what it is with the insane, ingorant NASA hate around here these days. No exploration? What about spirit and opprtunity?
Children...
NASA should never have been a government agency. That was President Eisenhower's doing and aren't all Republicans evil?
The moon missions were done as stupidly as they possibly could be. The mathematics of space, delta-V is everything and once you're in Earth orbit you're half way to anywhere, dictated the establishment of a space station that could be used to launch further flights outward. This was debated before they chose the throw-everything-away-along-the-way design they ended up using.
So after all the money spent on R & D we ended up with less than two dozen men walking on the moon and nothing to show for it afterwards except that a follow on space shuttle that occasionally blows up and kills everyone on board.
Or, let me put it another way, we could have had colonies established on the moon and probably Mars by now if we had pursued space exploration sanely. A space station with a hostile environment outside isn't any more difficult than the world outside Mom's basement.
Ah, it's Slashdot let me try a car analogy. What good is it to drive a car if it could only remain within 1 mile of your house?
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Molnar unnecessarily wrote a replacement using his ideas and got credit for it,
The initial versions printed "Ingo Molnar" in the boot time logs. He only removed his name later.
it's suing to protect its business
Correct. It's not a patent troll. It's a company with working product who attempted a partnership, got rebuffed by Microsoft after they jumped through hoops and Microsoft went ahead and used their technology anyway.
It's typical Microsoft. If they can hold off payment of the lawsuit long enough, they get the IP they stole for free.
As you move into the top tiers of schools, the ratio of duds to doers declines.
Actually, that's a non sequitur. President Bush graduated from Yale; many people called him a dud, but hey, he got the top job the country has to offer and he got to spend the legal limit of 8 years at it.
My personal opinion regarding Stanford, Yale, Harvard, etc. is that their graduates have rich parents or rich financial backers (including special scholarships).
It isn't for profit. When I entered Caltech in 1980, endowment was approximately $1M per student. They didn't have any need to charge us any tuition at all.
I was told point blank by the financial aid person that tuition rates were set to keep pace with Stanford and Harvard so parents wouldn't think it was a two-bit school.
How many of us have spent hours on Wikipedia finding out random things they never would have looked at before?
I have a investment grade bridge in Yokohama I need to sell. I can give you a really great deal!
Does it matter that I've just edited the Wikipedia entry?
I think the average college education nowadays has much less of this quality than it used to, since a lot of them are morphing into degree mills at varying rates.
You're right, I think.
I wish I could think of a decent car analogy, but how about a WoW analogy? Think of the off-major required courses as daily quests, except that the college uses them to collect money from you.
witness many /.ers bitching about how they had to take english lit classes when they just wanted to be engineers
My beef with lit classes in college is that they are all about kissing the professor's ass. If that's the direction you want to go, more power to you. I love Shakespeare and one of the worst mistakes I ever made in college was taking a Shakespeare class.
Disclaimer: My favorite class in High School was an American lit class with a teacher who loved to teach and inspire students. He certainly inspired me.
More like lies and FUD. The sample size is high enough to get very good statistics if it's a random sample.
The issue is that are all people who use file sharing software doing it illegally? Everyone who subscribes to World of Warcraft uses file sharing software. That's certainly not an illegal use.
It's a horrible article, written by an idiot and I would have more expected this coming from kdawson rather than from soulskill who usually has a clue.
All uses of file sharing software are not "illegal".
I have a very hard time believing that the vast majority of people that use any filesharing application do so exclusivley for legit and non-copyright infringing purposes.
It is a mistake to claim to that *everyone* who uses file sharing software does so for nefarious purposes. I do not claim to be in the majority, but I can state with certainty that such people exist. I have only to look in the mirror.
So could someone please explain *why* is it a questionable research.
It's not, or at least not explained in TFA. The sample size, if it is random should provide pretty reliable statistics, but ... I use file sharing software to download Linux ISOs and with World of Warcraft, never music or movies, so they probably asked the wrong question. In which case, the number is totally meaningless.
In terms of a car analogy, it's like asking if you ever killed something while driving and not distinguishing between road kill and your neighbor's children and deciding that everyone who ever drove a car and admitted to killing something was involved in a hit & run.
It's just you. The thing to consider is that just about every one of those women has an ex-husband.
Besides, I like dogs and poodles have more personality than the average celebrity, you insensitive clod!
Well there is this big space goat you see....
My WoW main is a space goat/Draenei you insensitive clod!
I feel a little strange about it...
It's more realistic than the articles I read in PC Journal when they were spinning off a sister magazine for the ill-fated PC Junior.
Every person with industry experience, including knowledgeable writers knew that the PC Junior was going to lose. Those that didn't jumped on board the PC Journal's PC Junior edition and wrote glowing articles about how HAPPY they were to be moving to the new publication and how much they liked the PC Junior. Maybe they got good severance benefits?
Trust me elder slashdotter, most of us can spot a tech writer fake a mile away and bad copy does not pay.
Limiting the scope to launches, I would be happy if one of these new private enterprise launch outfits was able to handle everything and send NASA an invoice, and I think NASA should be, too. If what you're saying about outfits in the 80's being squashed is true, then that's awful and shouldn't have happened.
The aforementioned coworker is this guy http://www.planetpuna.com/siriusa/HysonBio.htm by the way. Make of it what you will, but absolutely one of the brightest people I've ever met and called "friend".
Unmanned deep space probes (ie JPL) is probably OK to leave government funded, but that leaves open the issue of who owns the stuff the probes find. Manned stuff ought to be left to for profit organizations. There's limitless wealth out there, if we can only get to it. And, in my opinion, getting people permanently off earth is way too important to leave to an election or politicians.
I guess you were right. I am religious on the subject. I want manned space travel and I wanted it 4 decades ago when it became feasible.
Btw, respect for XEmacs :).
Thanks. :-)
Apollo did so well they ended up being bought out by HP and disappearing. DEC did so well with Vaxen and Alpha they ended up being bought out by Compaq and disappearing. Sun, with the lead in Unix workstations did so well they ended up being bought out by Oracle.
I had one of the earliest Sun 3s on my desk at TRW. Nice box, nice GUI, but waaaaaaay too expensive. The year of the Unix desktop was 1987 and Sun blew it. I had two Alpha workstations in Japan, one running Tru64, the other running my port of Turbolinux. Nice boxes, but already getting somewhat long in the tooth. I've seen a NeXT, but never used one.
I get the feeling that this might be a religious issue for you. If so, no response requested. Not interested in digressions into debates about free market orthodoxy, though I respect your religious beliefs.
It's religious only in the sense that I had contact with would-be free market to earth orbit folks in the 1980s. They were squashed and I thought it was very unfair.
I got infected by a coworker who was very much into private enterprise launches and the people behind them. He convinced me that that was The Right Way To Go. Sorry.
Selling out to EA just made it official. They either lost the magic the had back in the BG days or simply don't give a shit anymore.
It sounds like a cool game and I might buy it if it were available on a Mac even if it is EA. I've had too many bad experiences with EA titles to really trust them.
Oh wait, it's published by EA and sure to suck. Never mind.
In fact, private programs would suck for all of the coolest projects. What would the incentive be for a corporation to put up something like Hubble?
Getting paid for it?
I used to work for NASA/JPL. Whatever.
I think microvaxen came out later, but they were also marketed badly. I never got to try one.
Yeah, I remember reading about that, but I can't recall a single machine that ever used it.
The 6502 was succeeded by the 65816 (a commercial failure) as was pointed out by camperdave, and was made by MOS Technology. The 8 bit Motorola CPU was the 6800.
Motorola 68k boxes were the first viable commercial Unix machines, not that anyone marketed them particularly well.
So, innovation in space just stopped in 1970? I don't think so. I think they just classified it.
I think you have a mistaken view of what "classified" means. It's info that spies get to see first before citizens do.
Innovation in space has stopped. It's about time it started up again.
So, imagine living in the 1400s. They want to sent a ship full of people
Exploration ships in those days were mostly filled with convicted criminals.
Seriously, what it is with the insane, ingorant NASA hate around here these days. No exploration? What about spirit and opprtunity?
Children ...
NASA should never have been a government agency. That was President Eisenhower's doing and aren't all Republicans evil?
The moon missions were done as stupidly as they possibly could be. The mathematics of space, delta-V is everything and once you're in Earth orbit you're half way to anywhere, dictated the establishment of a space station that could be used to launch further flights outward. This was debated before they chose the throw-everything-away-along-the-way design they ended up using.
So after all the money spent on R & D we ended up with less than two dozen men walking on the moon and nothing to show for it afterwards except that a follow on space shuttle that occasionally blows up and kills everyone on board.
Or, let me put it another way, we could have had colonies established on the moon and probably Mars by now if we had pursued space exploration sanely. A space station with a hostile environment outside isn't any more difficult than the world outside Mom's basement.
Ah, it's Slashdot let me try a car analogy. What good is it to drive a car if it could only remain within 1 mile of your house?
Now, get off my lawn.