Considering that the original concept of a GUI comes from Xerox Parc, I fail to see how Microsoft or Apple either one can hold patents on that.
Nobody said Microsoft had patented the Graphical User Interface. Microsoft have patents on aspects of GUIs. It's perfectctly normal for patents to be granted on further innovations on a basic design. For example, James Dyson did not invent the vaccum cleaner, but he has hundreds of patents for specific innovations in vacuum cleaner design. Similarly, Microsoft or Apple can patent and have patented specific innovations in GUI design.
So, you're saying that you wouldn't have clicked the ads anyway, so eBay don't lose anything. That sounds a lot like the "I wouldn't have bought it anyway" justification for illegally copying music, video and software. I think the DMCA, product activation, Sony rootkits, Vista Content Protection etc. do hurt people. The similar mechanisms which will become part of the web in an effort to enforce ad viewing will hurt people too.
IBM embracing FOSS was part of their transformation, but I think moving further towards being a services company is what really transformed the company.
You appear to want to make it impossible for all but the largest corportations (those with the resources to check every single piece of 'public knowledge') to protect thair patents? That sounds like an awful idea to me. At least today an independent inventor has half a chance of defending their patent against a big corporation; with your scheme they would have zero chance.
I've been saying for years that security certificates are a scam. Everybody knows it's a meaningless number. You can write your own security certificates. With the choice between paying $100s to some shady "security company" or generating your own for free what would you choose?
Everybody knows it's a meaningless number? Your grandma knows that, does she? Very few people know anything about certificates at all. All they know is that if they go to Amazon's secure pages, a little padlock appears and they've previously been told that this means it's secure. If they go to your site with your self-signed cert, it asks them whether they want to trust you. If this is for e-commerce, you've just lost most of your customers. Normal people trust their computer, they trust their web browser. If Microsoft or Mozilla say they trust Thwaite and Thwaite say they trust Amazon, the user trusts Amazon. If Microsoft or Mozilla don't trust you, the user is much less likely to trust you.
So, if you want anybody but the most technically knowledgeable to trust your certificate, you pay a couple of hundred bucks to the "shady" security company. I trust Thwaite a whole lot more than I trust an Anonymous Coward on Slashdot.
Everyone I know either uses the internet, or at least knows what it is, and this isn't just geeks or nerds, it's 75-year-old retired people, disabled people, and assorted other totally non-technical people.
What does being disabled have to do with the price of fish? With the possible exceptions of those whose disabilities hamper their use of a computer (impaired sight or mental faculties spring to mind), I can think of no reason why the proportion of geeks and technical people shouldn't be the same among disabled people as it is among able-bodied people.
When you come right down to it you could eliminate every site that carries advertising on the web and I wouldn't notice. And hate-speech sites aren't exactly in my bookmark list either. I think the web would be a better place without advertising of any kind. Hence, my complete lack of remorse for any site that closes down because their ad revenue isn't making the nut. Too bad. I will continue to block all ads that I can.
So who's going to pay for all the stuff you read? Who do you think pays for Slashdot? I doubt subscriber income covers the costs. Who do you think pays for Google and Yahoo? You do realise that without advertising all you'd have would be shitty homepages, shopping and advertising sites from corporations, yes? Any site which became popular wouldn't be able to be supported by its originators unless they were unusually wealthy and philanthropic and would thus have to turn to a subscription model, limit traffic or shut down. I'm guessing you don't want to pay a subscription either, because if you did you'd be a Slashdot subscriber. So you don't want to pay and you don't want to see ads. But I guess you still want Google to build billion dollar server farms to let you search the net.
People like you blocking ads increases the numebr of ads for the rest of us (as they need more ads to get the same return from a smaller number of viewers). Ad-blocking will also hasten the advent of DRM on the web. Sites need advertising revenue to survive. They will look for mechanisms to ensure you see those ads, because without them the sites will cease to exist. So thanks a fucking bunch for hastening the end of free, unrestricted content on the web you selfish cunt.
Face it, this crappy web forum is about seven or eight years past its prime, back before people stopped caring what Slashdot thought because everyone realized it was such an entirely predictable minority opinion.
I mean this in all seriousness and as a non-rhetorical question. If that's how you really feel, why don't you just stop reading?
Drive starred Nathan Fillion, who also starred in Serenity, which Fox also fucked in the ass and canned early. Methinks someone at Fox doesn't like Nathan Fillion at all.
I do actually use --deep, I just did't think I had to reproduce my entire command line to point out the problem with portage's dependancy handling, though "--deep" is relevant so perhaps I shouldn't have snipped that. I actually typically use "emerge --update --deep --newuse --ask world" then "revdep-rebuild" and "dispatch-conf".
I don't follow. None of that changes the requirement for managing physical keys, which is exactly what the questioner is trying to get away from. If managing the keys wasn't a problem, they wouldn't have asked the question, would they?
But I have to ask, while AMD were on top with the Athlon for several years - were they just sitting on their laurels?
Do you mean the 32-bit Athlon? Around that time, AMD were developing x86-64 while Intel were developing Itanium/Itanic. AMD were first to market with a 64-bit CPU normal people actually wanted; Intel's 64-bit offering was a hideous beast and they sold exactly twenty-nine of them. The P4s of the time were hot and slow, the Athlon-64s and Opterons were much nicer. But Intel came back strongly, improving the P4, adopting x86-64 and getting ahead in the multi-core race. AMD just couldn't keep up.
Even when the Athlon was on top in terms of performance, they didn't sell nearly as many as Intel sold P3s and P4s.
That would maximise the response time (keys would have to be found) for the most critical incidents (network failure), which doesn't sound like a great idea to me.
The GP and Phil harrison were talking globally. For billions of people, the cost of a PS3 represents what they have to live on for an entire year. What you call "middle income" is actually "very fucking rich indeed".
(2) If the software/code, or any derived software/code is not being provided for a fee (even a cost of distribution fee), or associated to a fee (i.e. distributed for free, but pay for support), there are no other terms or conditions for use, but also no warantee/gurantee
In my experience, updating a gentoo box infrequently is a bad idea. You should either update every week/month or not at all. The way I look at it, you either want a system with the latest everything, or you want a system which works. If you want the first, you should expect to spend a bit of time working on it. If you want the second - why on earth are you updating every four months.
The box was previously updated frequently precisely because falling behind causes grief, but had lain unused for four months. Updating rarely is fine if you rarely install new packages, but I use the box in question for all sorts of things so fairly often install new stuff. Installng new stuff against old libraries etc. involves finding the old version of the ebuild which works with your install and using that. Keeping up to date means "emerge package" is much more likely to work without much hassle when you want it to. The fact that the choices are update frequently or fall behind and have serious pain when you do finally update or install something new really does indicate that portage isn't doing a very good job.
Assuming it ever gets above the horizon in your location it's the same local time everywhere, isn't it? Meteor showers are caused by the Earth passing through a trail of dust left by a comet. The side of the Earth which is at the "front" and hitting the dust as we fly through space changes at exactly the same rate as the sun moves across the sky, because both are the result of the rotaion of the Earth. At least, that holds true for periods of a few days when we can ignore the effects of our orbit around the sun.
Here's a radical idea: if you don't want your web site to be the full width of your 19" monitor, don't restrict your entire readership to your preference, which may not translate to their display device well anyway. Instead don't make your fucking browser window full-screen.
Gentoo breaks as often as it does because portage's handling of dependancies is a bad joke. Actually, I don't know if it's portage itself or poor quality ebuilds, but "emerge --update world" breaks for me about 40% of the time (no, I'm not running the unstable ~x86). I'm not shitting you when I say it took me three days to bring a box which hadn't been updated for four months up to date. That wasn't all compile time, the damn thing just kept stopping. Portage apparently didn't know it would break before it started, despite the problems all being related to dependancies.
When it breaks, portage doesn't tell you why, you basically have to search the Gentoo forums for an answer. In the inevitable thread(s) related to the problem I often find a response from a dev which says that you need to update X and Y together, so both X and Y block each other. Having the package management system manage packages for you is evidently too much to ask.
I do like Gentoo's arrangement of config files etc. though. It's nice to work with, just shitty to update.
You'd don't need this techniology for that, a regular password will do the job perfectly well. You just need to lock your computer when you're not using it. Every decent OS lets you do this with minimal fuss.
I work support for an ISP; our billing page is IE-only. How many complaints do you think we have on file regarding not being able to use Firefox or Safari or another alternative? 2 complaints for the last year.
Do you have to use the billing page to set up an account? If so, that could explain a lack of Firefox/Opera/Safari/... users:)
If I were a customer of your ISP I wouldn't complain, I'd just leave. I complain to companies I like, not ones I don't like. The ones I don't like I waste as little of my time with as possible; I certainly don't help them out with feedback. Have you ever correlated requests for the billing page from non-IE browsers with cancelled acounts? It shouldn't be too hard to work out retention of customers who use IE compared to those who use other browsers.
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Nobody said Microsoft had patented the Graphical User Interface. Microsoft have patents on aspects of GUIs. It's perfectctly normal for patents to be granted on further innovations on a basic design. For example, James Dyson did not invent the vaccum cleaner, but he has hundreds of patents for specific innovations in vacuum cleaner design. Similarly, Microsoft or Apple can patent and have patented specific innovations in GUI design.
So, you're saying that you wouldn't have clicked the ads anyway, so eBay don't lose anything. That sounds a lot like the "I wouldn't have bought it anyway" justification for illegally copying music, video and software. I think the DMCA, product activation, Sony rootkits, Vista Content Protection etc. do hurt people. The similar mechanisms which will become part of the web in an effort to enforce ad viewing will hurt people too.
IBM embracing FOSS was part of their transformation, but I think moving further towards being a services company is what really transformed the company.
You appear to want to make it impossible for all but the largest corportations (those with the resources to check every single piece of 'public knowledge') to protect thair patents? That sounds like an awful idea to me. At least today an independent inventor has half a chance of defending their patent against a big corporation; with your scheme they would have zero chance.
I try to educate my girlfriend with videos from the internet too.
Everybody knows it's a meaningless number? Your grandma knows that, does she? Very few people know anything about certificates at all. All they know is that if they go to Amazon's secure pages, a little padlock appears and they've previously been told that this means it's secure. If they go to your site with your self-signed cert, it asks them whether they want to trust you. If this is for e-commerce, you've just lost most of your customers. Normal people trust their computer, they trust their web browser. If Microsoft or Mozilla say they trust Thwaite and Thwaite say they trust Amazon, the user trusts Amazon. If Microsoft or Mozilla don't trust you, the user is much less likely to trust you.
So, if you want anybody but the most technically knowledgeable to trust your certificate, you pay a couple of hundred bucks to the "shady" security company. I trust Thwaite a whole lot more than I trust an Anonymous Coward on Slashdot.
What does being disabled have to do with the price of fish? With the possible exceptions of those whose disabilities hamper their use of a computer (impaired sight or mental faculties spring to mind), I can think of no reason why the proportion of geeks and technical people shouldn't be the same among disabled people as it is among able-bodied people.
So who's going to pay for all the stuff you read? Who do you think pays for Slashdot? I doubt subscriber income covers the costs. Who do you think pays for Google and Yahoo? You do realise that without advertising all you'd have would be shitty homepages, shopping and advertising sites from corporations, yes? Any site which became popular wouldn't be able to be supported by its originators unless they were unusually wealthy and philanthropic and would thus have to turn to a subscription model, limit traffic or shut down. I'm guessing you don't want to pay a subscription either, because if you did you'd be a Slashdot subscriber. So you don't want to pay and you don't want to see ads. But I guess you still want Google to build billion dollar server farms to let you search the net.
People like you blocking ads increases the numebr of ads for the rest of us (as they need more ads to get the same return from a smaller number of viewers). Ad-blocking will also hasten the advent of DRM on the web. Sites need advertising revenue to survive. They will look for mechanisms to ensure you see those ads, because without them the sites will cease to exist. So thanks a fucking bunch for hastening the end of free, unrestricted content on the web you selfish cunt.
I mean this in all seriousness and as a non-rhetorical question. If that's how you really feel, why don't you just stop reading?
Drive starred Nathan Fillion, who also starred in Serenity, which Fox also fucked in the ass and canned early. Methinks someone at Fox doesn't like Nathan Fillion at all.
Where do you drink? :)
I do actually use --deep, I just did't think I had to reproduce my entire command line to point out the problem with portage's dependancy handling, though "--deep" is relevant so perhaps I shouldn't have snipped that. I actually typically use "emerge --update --deep --newuse --ask world" then "revdep-rebuild" and "dispatch-conf".
Being remotely programmable doesn't necesarrily mean the lock needs to be connected to the network just to operate.
I don't follow. None of that changes the requirement for managing physical keys, which is exactly what the questioner is trying to get away from. If managing the keys wasn't a problem, they wouldn't have asked the question, would they?
Do you mean the 32-bit Athlon? Around that time, AMD were developing x86-64 while Intel were developing Itanium/Itanic. AMD were first to market with a 64-bit CPU normal people actually wanted; Intel's 64-bit offering was a hideous beast and they sold exactly twenty-nine of them. The P4s of the time were hot and slow, the Athlon-64s and Opterons were much nicer. But Intel came back strongly, improving the P4, adopting x86-64 and getting ahead in the multi-core race. AMD just couldn't keep up.
Even when the Athlon was on top in terms of performance, they didn't sell nearly as many as Intel sold P3s and P4s.
That would maximise the response time (keys would have to be found) for the most critical incidents (network failure), which doesn't sound like a great idea to me.
The GP and Phil harrison were talking globally. For billions of people, the cost of a PS3 represents what they have to live on for an entire year. What you call "middle income" is actually "very fucking rich indeed".
The word you are looking for is "warranty".
The box was previously updated frequently precisely because falling behind causes grief, but had lain unused for four months. Updating rarely is fine if you rarely install new packages, but I use the box in question for all sorts of things so fairly often install new stuff. Installng new stuff against old libraries etc. involves finding the old version of the ebuild which works with your install and using that. Keeping up to date means "emerge package" is much more likely to work without much hassle when you want it to. The fact that the choices are update frequently or fall behind and have serious pain when you do finally update or install something new really does indicate that portage isn't doing a very good job.
Assuming it ever gets above the horizon in your location it's the same local time everywhere, isn't it? Meteor showers are caused by the Earth passing through a trail of dust left by a comet. The side of the Earth which is at the "front" and hitting the dust as we fly through space changes at exactly the same rate as the sun moves across the sky, because both are the result of the rotaion of the Earth. At least, that holds true for periods of a few days when we can ignore the effects of our orbit around the sun.
Here's a radical idea: if you don't want your web site to be the full width of your 19" monitor, don't restrict your entire readership to your preference, which may not translate to their display device well anyway. Instead don't make your fucking browser window full-screen.
Gentoo breaks as often as it does because portage's handling of dependancies is a bad joke. Actually, I don't know if it's portage itself or poor quality ebuilds, but "emerge --update world" breaks for me about 40% of the time (no, I'm not running the unstable ~x86). I'm not shitting you when I say it took me three days to bring a box which hadn't been updated for four months up to date. That wasn't all compile time, the damn thing just kept stopping. Portage apparently didn't know it would break before it started, despite the problems all being related to dependancies.
When it breaks, portage doesn't tell you why, you basically have to search the Gentoo forums for an answer. In the inevitable thread(s) related to the problem I often find a response from a dev which says that you need to update X and Y together, so both X and Y block each other. Having the package management system manage packages for you is evidently too much to ask.
I do like Gentoo's arrangement of config files etc. though. It's nice to work with, just shitty to update.
You'd don't need this techniology for that, a regular password will do the job perfectly well. You just need to lock your computer when you're not using it. Every decent OS lets you do this with minimal fuss.
Do you have to use the billing page to set up an account? If so, that could explain a lack of Firefox/Opera/Safari/... users :)
If I were a customer of your ISP I wouldn't complain, I'd just leave. I complain to companies I like, not ones I don't like. The ones I don't like I waste as little of my time with as possible; I certainly don't help them out with feedback. Have you ever correlated requests for the billing page from non-IE browsers with cancelled acounts? It shouldn't be too hard to work out retention of customers who use IE compared to those who use other browsers.
There are frameworks for session management which will fall-back to URL session-ids if cookies fail. They're just as easy to work with as cookies.