The Commerce Department has objected to the amendment, including in a letter last week to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), the Judiciary Committee chairman. "Limiting patent holders' rights and remedies in this instance could reduce innovation in this technology area," wrote Assistant Secretary Nathaniel F. Wienecke. "The Administration does not support exceptions to patent protection based on a particular technology."
This just continues a pattern we have come to expect from the Bush administration. Needless to say, a costly pattern for US society, except for a select few who have befriended Bush's inner circle.
Tom, if you happen to read Slashdot, just how many of Novell's 30 pieces of silver do you get? Actually, I'm not unhappy Microsoft got Tom, he was a largely ineffectual paper pusher at OSDL, with little community contact, empathy. I don't doubt that Microsoft's real agenda is to find new ways to inhibit Linux interoperability, and Tom is just the man to fail at that.
"Novell employs more Gtk/Mono hackers than anyone else. Miquel De Icaza the founder of the Gnome project and Mono is pretty much the honcho over there."
Yes, and Miguel is kind of an idiot in a lot of ways. Under his direction it took an unbelievable number of years to achieve even basic stability so the the panel wouldn't keep crashing. Let alone usability while always seems to get ignored in favor of the latest cool and more bloated tech bandwagon to jump on. I mean, corba, give me a break, it got eaten by its own mother and Miguel still didn't take the hint. Mono... what can I say, blech and double blech. Gconf... cripes.
Miguel's main talent is self promotion, pure and simple.
"...But it gets better. To attract current iPod users Microsoft is going to let you download for free any songs you've already bought from the iTunes Music Store. They'll actually scan iTunes for purchased tracks and then automatically add those to your account....[MS has to pay rights-holders...they'll lose money to win converts]"
And how will that not lead straight back into anti-trust court?
There is a danger that a rich person won't care one bit, no matter how many speeding tickets he gets. That's why it good that it's more expensive for him: the point is that it should sting the same amount for everyone.
Honest question, not trolling... I'm wondering what they should really be doing, besides forcing Microsoft to stop doing business in member states as long as they remain noncompliant, perhaps.
Easy. Make the fine ten to twenty times bigger so that compliance becomes non-optional. Which is exactly what the EU has in mind.
Royal Bank is particularly incompetent in the IT department, I wonder how Microsoft came to hire somebody from such a famously inept organization. Birds of a feather perhaps?
it's hard to believe that the timing is entirely coincidental... especially since Bill said he'd be leaving Microsoft over the next two years
Buffet stated that Gates leaving Microsoft had nothing to do with his decision, but it is more than far fetched to think Gates did not know about Buffer's plans, or that he had no influence over them. I see Gates jumping at the chance to control Berkshire, nothing more noble than that, unless future deeds prove otherwise.
Maybe he's referring to the BSD network code they used. I know that it was used in 95/98, but I haven't done enough research into how 2000/XP works to know if it's still present.
The current code is almost certainly a derivative of the original BSD code, meaning Microsoft still doesn't own the copyright. Only a clean, ground up re-implementation would gaurantee that, and Microsoft will never take such a risk with a complex subsystem like the network stack.
Dapper is lame. Looked at the ubuntu forums lately? It's full of cries for help. DHCP broken (though to be fair, it's broken in Debian/Testing too), ATI/Nvidia/Mesa broken (what dev moron decided to include hot off the press ATI/Nvidia drivers 3 days before release?), Sound support broken (until you fiddle with it); I hardly think RH has much to worry about with this lame duck.
I am running Dapper, have been for more than a month, it's not broken, dhcp works fine, sound works fine, 3D accelerated graphics (i915) works fine. Red Hat employee by any chance?
"All modern cpus have bugs. It is common practice to work around them in the compiler rather than retape the chip, an expensive and time consuming process."
Nonsense. For compilers do not work around bugs in general purpose chips. If a chip bug can't be worked around by microcode or bios settings, or (in rare circumstances) the operating system, the chip will be binned. Compatibility is king in the general purpose CPU market. Nobody can sell a CPU that crashes on some programs that used to run perfectly well.
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Let's all just give a big shout-out to Apple and Linux for helping make this the year of No Windows on the Tablet!
FTFY.
Let's all just give a big shout-out to Apple for helping make this the year of Linux on the Tablet!
...it's also an interesting service that many geeks would probably be quite interested in.
Sorry, if you use Apple you have to turn your geek card.
Is there an app for wiping?
"Tim Cook was a disappointment and lackluster". There. What you know I meant, and what you know is true.
Macjobs. And Apple best not forget to install the usual safety nets.
I'm not sure your assertion that the new iPad is a let down is correct.
Tim Cook definitely did not pull off the black turtleneck thing.
You first say you picked all three "quiet, "powerful", "cheap". Then you say you dropped the powerful to get the cheap. I'm confused.
Do not be confused, gentle reader. You may understand that as "powerful enough; very powerful indeed". And please do not put words in my mouth.
What was not accurate about that?
Mod points do not equal reasoning.
These days, it's a better value for me to spend the big bucks on Intel workstations and ride them out for an extra year.
Your strategy confuses me. In the "extra" year you will lose big.
Huh, overrated? Tonight we are infested with Intel fanbois?
You need some upmod lovin, Mr anon-who-gets-it. But note: Google is just lining up right behind Apple.
The Commerce Department has objected to the amendment, including in a letter last week to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), the Judiciary Committee chairman. "Limiting patent holders' rights and remedies in this instance could reduce innovation in this technology area," wrote Assistant Secretary Nathaniel F. Wienecke. "The Administration does not support exceptions to patent protection based on a particular technology."
This just continues a pattern we have come to expect from the Bush administration. Needless to say, a costly pattern for US society, except for a select few who have befriended Bush's inner circle.
"Novell employs more Gtk/Mono hackers than anyone else. Miquel De Icaza the founder of the Gnome project and Mono is pretty much the honcho over there."
Yes, and Miguel is kind of an idiot in a lot of ways. Under his direction it took an unbelievable number of years to achieve even basic stability so the the panel wouldn't keep crashing. Let alone usability while always seems to get ignored in favor of the latest cool and more bloated tech bandwagon to jump on. I mean, corba, give me a break, it got eaten by its own mother and Miguel still didn't take the hint. Mono... what can I say, blech and double blech. Gconf... cripes.
Miguel's main talent is self promotion, pure and simple.
"...But it gets better. To attract current iPod users Microsoft is going to let you download for free any songs you've already bought from the iTunes Music Store. They'll actually scan iTunes for purchased tracks and then automatically add those to your account....[MS has to pay rights-holders...they'll lose money to win converts]"
And how will that not lead straight back into anti-trust court?
The fine is backdated to Dec 15 2004
No it isn't.
There is a danger that a rich person won't care one bit, no matter how many speeding tickets he gets. That's why it good that it's more expensive for him: the point is that it should sting the same amount for everyone.
Yes, and stupid grin aside, here is exactly how to go about that.
Honest question, not trolling... I'm wondering what they should really be doing, besides forcing Microsoft to stop doing business in member states as long as they remain noncompliant, perhaps.
Easy. Make the fine ten to twenty times bigger so that compliance becomes non-optional. Which is exactly what the EU has in mind.
Royal Bank is particularly incompetent in the IT department, I wonder how Microsoft came to hire somebody from such a famously inept organization. Birds of a feather perhaps?
Bios upgrades typically require booting to DoS.
it's hard to believe that the timing is entirely coincidental... especially since Bill said he'd be leaving Microsoft over the next two years
Buffet stated that Gates leaving Microsoft had nothing to do with his decision, but it is more than far fetched to think Gates did not know about Buffer's plans, or that he had no influence over them. I see Gates jumping at the chance to control Berkshire, nothing more noble than that, unless future deeds prove otherwise.
Maybe he's referring to the BSD network code they used. I know that it was used in 95/98, but I haven't done enough research into how 2000/XP works to know if it's still present.
The current code is almost certainly a derivative of the original BSD code, meaning Microsoft still doesn't own the copyright. Only a clean, ground up re-implementation would gaurantee that, and Microsoft will never take such a risk with a complex subsystem like the network stack.
Fuck them. Any company in Microsoft's position would have done the same.
Something about you makes me shudder. I sincerely hope you are still with Microsoft.
Dapper is lame. Looked at the ubuntu forums lately? It's full of cries for help. DHCP broken (though to be fair, it's broken in Debian/Testing too), ATI/Nvidia/Mesa broken (what dev moron decided to include hot off the press ATI/Nvidia drivers 3 days before release?), Sound support broken (until you fiddle with it); I hardly think RH has much to worry about with this lame duck.
I am running Dapper, have been for more than a month, it's not broken, dhcp works fine, sound works fine, 3D accelerated graphics (i915) works fine. Red Hat employee by any chance?
The subject says it all. It's getting really tedious.
/. is bashing Sony so much because /. is infested with Microsoft astroturfers. Which is, incidentally, good for /. traffic.
Simple:
"All modern cpus have bugs. It is common practice to work around them in the compiler rather than retape the chip, an expensive and time consuming process."
Nonsense. For compilers do not work around bugs in general purpose chips. If a chip bug can't be worked around by microcode or bios settings, or (in rare circumstances) the operating system, the chip will be binned. Compatibility is king in the general purpose CPU market. Nobody can sell a CPU that crashes on some programs that used to run perfectly well.