Registering a trademark is done in an effort to justify the enforcement of two important points.
- Preventing competitors from misleading customers by using your brand for their product or service. - Preventing your brand from becoming generic and therefore losing it's uniqueness.
This guy really wasn't thinking when he did this. Why on earth would Google want their name used in a manner which would allow their competitors to use the term? If everyone uses it generally to mean 'to search', that sets a precedence usable in court. If Google doesn't counter each attempt to use its name improperly, an argument can then be made that anyone can use it.
It's not a parody, and it's not freedom of speech. He's microsofting Google's brand.
So what do you think about the hypothesis that dark matter is the matter in an adjacent universe who's properties cause side affects in our own. This would imply that gravity is not constrained to one space-time, but also affects those universes around our own.
I can't help but think something like this, in combination with the theory that black holes in one universe are the points of origin for adjacent universes. I've heard it said before that most galaxies have a black hole at the center at the least?
That might account for both of your points, along with the observation that the universe is constantly expanding (matter continuously arriving through the black hole in another universe).
I wonder how he dealt with the carraige return being too far and stopping the typing. Each key you press shifts the carraige over. After a certain point, the bell goes off and you can only type a few more characters before it stops you cold. So does his wife have to send email/write letters with forced 80 column width?
I actually bought a typewriter like this to do the same mod, so I could bring it to work at a client's office and drive them nuts. But I didn't feel like messing with the carraige problem. What can I say, I'm an electrical engineer, not mechanical.;)
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Have you actually tried to do this? LDAP is a nifty idea on paper, but implementing it is a royal waste of time, when a normal rdbms will do just fine. And believe me, I was on my way to the Utopia you described until I went to implement it.
True, the namespace has a lot of potential, and some apps support it quite well. But the schema and lack of tools put LDAP on my blacklist until further notice, at least for a small co'.
As for easiest and thriftiest groupware impl using the protocols you mentioned, try James (jakarta.apache.org) instead. It implements IMAP, SMTP and NNTP. And if you really are a glutten for punishment, it has an LDAP connector as well.
Plus there are PAM solutions which will use a database. These, I have not tried (yet).
Here is one that I find myself turning over in my head alot these days. Any feedback would be appreciated (I say, gripping the arms on my chair). (btw I'm thinking in terms of the US government, but perhaps it can be applied elsewhere.
The hypothesis is that the feedback system between people and politicians is broken. People don't have time to keep up with the convoluted mess that legislation can be (kids, jobs, bills). Corporations and the wealthy take advantage of this with an alternate feedback system: Money.
The idea I have (and I can't be the only one) is to make a computer game/app which presents a simplified list of the legislation on at least the State and Federal levels. You can see your representatives, the bills they are reviewing, the one's they sponser, notification of riders, etc.
You can then record your opinions about bills you care about, along with how important they are to you, and compare your choices to the ones your rep's make.
More significantly, the game can then submit your opinion back to a server which tallies everyone's choices and notifies the representative in an email with the statistics. I figure one email per person is going to get ignored, but one email with data for an entire group of people will get some attention.
I've named the game Politico! and submitted the project to Sourceforge tonight. Fix the feedback system, which is essentially what the parent post is saying, and you diminish the need for money.
Anyone else catch the Blue Screen of Death in their industrial photo? Seems someone doing commercial print for Coleman's has a geek-friendly sense of humor.
You just need to write an obfuscator then, something that takes the inhouse code and changes variable names and adds bogus modules and subroutines.
And I suppose you bill the client for the time it takes to obfuscate and confuse the code? Or you eat the cost?
Trusted relationships are enforced by contracts all of the time. Comfort yourself with some analogies from other industries, then define the terms of the contract and call your lawyer.
That reduces your problem to catching them if they break ranks with the agreement. Rich comments and the occasional random readme in the source tree (e.g., Java package.html files, copyright headers/footers) help give your code a signature.
Something else just came to mind here. What about splitting the code into libraries versus their proprietary code (unique to their project) and only give the source to the latter? It doesn't sound applicable for your current project, but you may find yourself with an opportunity to reduce your risk later by doing this.
But you obviously don't post much to newsgroups and expect the occasional response via email from someone interested in the topic do you? Because once the spam on a temp address gets bad enough, and you delete it, bye bye to the time-independent direct responses that were part of the internet before.
And coding an email form as oppose to a simple mailto tag? Why are you willing to settle with accomodations like this?
And spam filters? Half of the comments I've about these mention inadvertantly losing legitimate message in the noise.
Make no mistake about it. The more you have to dodge unsolicited crap, the less open you are to geniune open communication. And that, my friend, is plenty cause for frustration.
Email me directly if you disagree. Oh, wait, nevermind....
Okay, you're not fooling anyone here. I for one am onto your plot to get a "prescription" for this vibrating shoe from your doc just so you can stick it down your pants.
How did I catch on so fast, you ask? You admitted being an engineer, in a fraternity, playing sports, and you're reading Slashdot. Clearly a real world impossibility... And your doc will figure it out just as quickly, especially when you ask for just one shoe. So get a backup, preferably for the other foot the throw him off...
Your point is noted, but the author is speaking of the collective crappiness and the fallout that will occur.
I just spent the last 3 weeks cleaning up crappy programming from one of my project-mates. Pick something - not closing db connections, 18 points where infinite loops could occur (!), 48 cases where error points are ignored they didn't exist, and the program continues. In a program that is 60Kb of bytecode! I'm already rewriting code, and this is the first release!
This is not a low budget, miniscule project. But still, one bad grape and the whole bunch goes. Time and time again.
So for everyone chanting "hire experts!", count the number of truly solid programmers you know, and drum up a percentage against those you know that suck. For a while there, the industry was stretched across ALL of those people, good and bad, and dying for more techies. Do you really think that the good developers (i.e., the ones who know to slow down and get it write the first time) can take up the entire load? Do you think industry is gonna wait for these experts? Now how about CMM level 4+ rated groups versus all those developing code. Rinse repeat.
On a more humorous note, the budget problems would probably all disappear if it weren't for Slashdot, but I'm not exactly out to kick my habit...
I'd put some time into an open source app to take advantage of your web service. Something that would take the shipper/receiver zips and total and compute the tax for the transaction? Then a periodic report for the total amount to pay to each state... As if I need another project, but oh well - it's not like I'm going on dates or something...
Navigation and communication satellites, Earth's eyes and ears, would be destroyed and migrating animals left unable to navigate.
Well then, that explains the geese I saw the other day, all pissed off and standing around the one I figure was leading the flock. He was hissing and kicking his garmon gps around in the dirt.
Whew! Thought I was losing my mind for a second. They usually make good products.
Excuse me, I... I believe you have my design patterns book... i'll burn down the website.
500 Internal Server Error/b2c/ourproducts/OurProductsStaples.jsp:
null java.lang.NullPointerException at jrun__ourproducts__OurProductsStaples2ejsp23._jspS ervice(jrun__ourproducts__OurProductsStaples2ejsp2 3.java:1978) at yada yada yada....
You're watching too much TV yourself.
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uh no. The CIA are almost always bad guys. Corps are all bad. Most US movies are about our own inner demons. A little self-absorbed yes. But less so now than ever. Besides, everyone in the US knows LA is full of weirdos with bad perceptions of reality, trying to make a buck. (Sorry Cali)
There is usually only one person or a handful that are heroes. Who are the heroes in your country's stories? Are they from your country usually?
BHD, which you are clearly eluding to, was about a massive disaster. Most Americans understand that. The one's that don't don't usually get out of the country so they don't concern you anyway. Probably have a few of those where you live as well, hmmm?
Too much media. You are clearly taking in too much media. I tossed my TV about a year ago, and have been feeling great ever since! Try it!
Perception is a tricky thing. As a result you shouldn't believe *anything* you read from *any* news agency.
I was 10 meters from a shooting in my home town, where a man stopped his car in the road, pulled out a.45 and shot another man at point blank range who had just pulled his car into an apartment parking lot.
The press got everything from the number of people involved to the condition of the victim (he survived, a very lucky guy) wrong. They even reported that the victim was "on a leisurely stroll" when he was shot. I was the one on the stroll, I even helped him stop the bleeding, while he smoked a cigarette. Pretty strange experience.
It's all a lie. Don't let it get you worked up. Don't believe the US, UK or anyone, and you might keep your sanity after all.
action:Leaps behind the nearest dune and holds head low in the sand:action
Just let it go! You've laid down your mine field (developed) and activated the detinators (deployed). Don't go walking back through and "sweeping" anything!
Kaaaabooooooommmmmmm! I expect to come back to your page to see camel parts everywhere and your little Nomad guy hanging from the cool purple font!
Slashdot Mirror
My vote's with Google.
Registering a trademark is done in an effort to justify the enforcement of two important points.
- Preventing competitors from misleading customers by using your brand for their product or service.
- Preventing your brand from becoming generic and therefore losing it's uniqueness.
This guy really wasn't thinking when he did this. Why on earth would Google want their name used in a manner which would allow their competitors to use the term? If everyone uses it generally to mean 'to search', that sets a precedence usable in court. If Google doesn't counter each attempt to use its name improperly, an argument can then be made that anyone can use it.
It's not a parody, and it's not freedom of speech. He's microsofting Google's brand.
Still base 4.
You are forgetting that the order matters:
AT
CG
GC
TA
So what do you think about the hypothesis that dark matter is the matter in an adjacent universe who's properties cause side affects in our own. This would imply that gravity is not constrained to one space-time, but also affects those universes around our own.
I can't help but think something like this, in combination with the theory that black holes in one universe are the points of origin for adjacent universes. I've heard it said before that most galaxies have a black hole at the center at the least?
That might account for both of your points, along with the observation that the universe is constantly expanding (matter continuously arriving through the black hole in another universe).
I wonder how he dealt with the carraige return being too far and stopping the typing. Each key you press shifts the carraige over. After a certain point, the bell goes off and you can only type a few more characters before it stops you cold. So does his wife have to send email/write letters with forced 80 column width?
;)
I actually bought a typewriter like this to do the same mod, so I could bring it to work at a client's office and drive them nuts. But I didn't feel like messing with the carraige problem. What can I say, I'm an electrical engineer, not mechanical.
Fee Waivers
We understand that there are many scientists who might wish to publish in our journals but do not have to access grant funds or institutional support to allow them to pay publication fees, and we will substantially reduce or waive the publication fees for any authors for whom they would be a burden. We never want our publication charges to be a barrier to publication, and will publish any paper that our editors and reviewers deem to be appropriate for the journals, and will treat the costs of handling these papers as a fundamental expense of running a high-quality journal.
Nothing more to add, really.
Already done:
user: Slashdotdotorg
pass: same, spelled backwards
Have you actually tried to do this? LDAP is a nifty idea on paper, but implementing it is a royal waste of time, when a normal rdbms will do just fine. And believe me, I was on my way to the Utopia you described until I went to implement it.
True, the namespace has a lot of potential, and some apps support it quite well. But the schema and lack of tools put LDAP on my blacklist until further notice, at least for a small co'.
As for easiest and thriftiest groupware impl using the protocols you mentioned, try James (jakarta.apache.org) instead. It implements IMAP, SMTP and NNTP. And if you really are a glutten for punishment, it has an LDAP connector as well.
Plus there are PAM solutions which will use a database. These, I have not tried (yet).
Here is one that I find myself turning over in my head alot these days. Any feedback would be appreciated (I say, gripping the arms on my chair). (btw I'm thinking in terms of the US government, but perhaps it can be applied elsewhere.
The hypothesis is that the feedback system between people and politicians is broken. People don't have time to keep up with the convoluted mess that legislation can be (kids, jobs, bills). Corporations and the wealthy take advantage of this with an alternate feedback system: Money.
The idea I have (and I can't be the only one) is to make a computer game/app which presents a simplified list of the legislation on at least the State and Federal levels. You can see your representatives, the bills they are reviewing, the one's they sponser, notification of riders, etc.
You can then record your opinions about bills you care about, along with how important they are to you, and compare your choices to the ones your rep's make.
More significantly, the game can then submit your opinion back to a server which tallies everyone's choices and notifies the representative in an email with the statistics. I figure one email per person is going to get ignored, but one email with data for an entire group of people will get some attention.
I've named the game Politico! and submitted the project to Sourceforge tonight. Fix the feedback system, which is essentially what the parent post is saying, and you diminish the need for money.
So, feedback?
Anyone else catch the Blue Screen of Death in their industrial photo? Seems someone doing commercial print for Coleman's has a geek-friendly sense of humor.
You just need to write an obfuscator then, something that takes the inhouse code and changes variable names and adds bogus modules and subroutines.
And I suppose you bill the client for the time it takes to obfuscate and confuse the code? Or you eat the cost?
Trusted relationships are enforced by contracts all of the time. Comfort yourself with some analogies from other industries, then define the terms of the contract and call your lawyer.
That reduces your problem to catching them if they break ranks with the agreement. Rich comments and the occasional random readme in the source tree (e.g., Java package.html files, copyright headers/footers) help give your code a signature.
Something else just came to mind here. What about splitting the code into libraries versus their proprietary code (unique to their project) and only give the source to the latter? It doesn't sound applicable for your current project, but you may find yourself with an opportunity to reduce your risk later by doing this.
But you obviously don't post much to newsgroups and expect the occasional response via email from someone interested in the topic do you? Because once the spam on a temp address gets bad enough, and you delete it, bye bye to the time-independent direct responses that were part of the internet before.
And coding an email form as oppose to a simple mailto tag? Why are you willing to settle with accomodations like this?
And spam filters? Half of the comments I've about these mention inadvertantly losing legitimate message in the noise.
Make no mistake about it. The more you have to dodge unsolicited crap, the less open you are to geniune open communication. And that, my friend, is plenty cause for frustration.
Email me directly if you disagree. Oh, wait, nevermind....
Okay, you're not fooling anyone here. I for one am onto your plot to get a "prescription" for this vibrating shoe from your doc just so you can stick it down your pants.
How did I catch on so fast, you ask? You admitted being an engineer, in a fraternity, playing sports, and you're reading Slashdot. Clearly a real world impossibility... And your doc will figure it out just as quickly, especially when you ask for just one shoe. So get a backup, preferably for the other foot the throw him off...
If all of you are so interested in finding out who this guy is, read here. There was an article written about him.
heh
Your point is noted, but the author is speaking of the collective crappiness and the fallout that will occur.
I just spent the last 3 weeks cleaning up crappy programming from one of my project-mates. Pick something - not closing db connections, 18 points where infinite loops could occur (!), 48 cases where error points are ignored they didn't exist, and the program continues. In a program that is 60Kb of bytecode! I'm already rewriting code, and this is the first release!
This is not a low budget, miniscule project. But still, one bad grape and the whole bunch goes. Time and time again.
So for everyone chanting "hire experts!", count the number of truly solid programmers you know, and drum up a percentage against those you know that suck. For a while there, the industry was stretched across ALL of those people, good and bad, and dying for more techies. Do you really think that the good developers (i.e., the ones who know to slow down and get it write the first time) can take up the entire load? Do you think industry is gonna wait for these experts? Now how about CMM level 4+ rated groups versus all those developing code. Rinse repeat.
On a more humorous note, the budget problems would probably all disappear if it weren't for Slashdot, but I'm not exactly out to kick my habit...
So I assume someone has done there duty and that Laura Betterly and Chris Connell are signed up for the Kite Photography mailing list? :)
I'd put some time into an open source app to take advantage of your web service. Something that would take the shipper/receiver zips and total and compute the tax for the transaction? Then a periodic report for the total amount to pay to each state...
As if I need another project, but oh well - it's not like I'm going on dates or something...
Where in Florida can I get a decent broadband connection?
:)
Which one of the 3 (countem 3) major cities in Canada has the most direct route to Florida?
What is the best city in Florida to get my winter home in?
Depending on the answers to these questions, you may actually decide to live in Canada.
- A Floridian
Navigation and communication satellites, Earth's eyes and ears, would be destroyed and migrating animals left unable to navigate.
Well then, that explains the geese I saw the other day, all pissed off and standing around the one I figure was leading the flock. He was hissing and kicking his garmon gps around in the dirt.
Whew! Thought I was losing my mind for a second. They usually make good products.
Yah, you say it isn't a problem, until you realize it IS a mobile home. Forgetting for a second that it's a 747...
-It's a tin can.
-It has wheels.
-It's not on them and never will be again.
-The dates you'll get by living there are nothing to brag about.
That, my friend, is a mobile home. The twister's acomin' son, and you're next!
I'm confused. If open source is so good, then why does it have to be "hacked-to-hell" ?
He said he works for the DoD. All really good software must be hacked and trashed a bit do be acceptable in that environment.
Therefore, open source - scramble it using the DIICOE process.
Anything Microsoft - Pre trashed, no changes necessary.
So, what's a dildo anyway? And a woman's clitoris? Is that like a purse or something?
:)
And I really didn't follow your next paragraph, something about s-e-x and orgasm? What's orgasm?
I'm sooo confused!
Wow so much for Object Oriented Programming!
/b2c/ourproducts/OurProductsStaples.jsp:
S ervice(jrun__ourproducts__OurProductsStaples2ejsp2 3.java:1978)
Excuse me, I... I believe you have my design patterns book... i'll burn down the website.
500 Internal Server Error
null java.lang.NullPointerException at jrun__ourproducts__OurProductsStaples2ejsp23._jsp
at yada yada yada....
uh no. The CIA are almost always bad guys. Corps are all bad. Most US movies are about our own inner demons. A little self-absorbed yes. But less so now than ever. Besides, everyone in the US knows LA is full of weirdos with bad perceptions of reality, trying to make a buck. (Sorry Cali)
There is usually only one person or a handful that are heroes. Who are the heroes in your country's stories? Are they from your country usually?
BHD, which you are clearly eluding to, was about a massive disaster. Most Americans understand that. The one's that don't don't usually get out of the country so they don't concern you anyway. Probably have a few of those where you live as well, hmmm?
Too much media. You are clearly taking in too much media. I tossed my TV about a year ago, and have been feeling great ever since! Try it!
Perception is a tricky thing. As a result you shouldn't believe *anything* you read from *any* news agency.
.45 and shot another man at point blank range who had just pulled his car into an apartment parking lot.
I was 10 meters from a shooting in my home town, where a man stopped his car in the road, pulled out a
The press got everything from the number of people involved to the condition of the victim (he survived, a very lucky guy) wrong. They even reported that the victim was "on a leisurely stroll" when he was shot. I was the one on the stroll, I even helped him stop the bleeding, while he smoked a cigarette. Pretty strange experience.
It's all a lie. Don't let it get you worked up. Don't believe the US, UK or anyone, and you might keep your sanity after all.
Don't do it Man!
action:Leaps behind the nearest dune and holds head low in the sand:action
Just let it go! You've laid down your mine field (developed) and activated the detinators (deployed). Don't go walking back through and "sweeping" anything!
Kaaaabooooooommmmmmm! I expect to come back to your page to see camel parts everywhere and your little Nomad guy hanging from the cool purple font!