I don't believe the people who make the "Gaim instant messenger client" can reasonably claim that their mark is distinct from AOL's "AIM instant messenger client."
And here we have all sorts of interesting questions. For example, the very term "AIM instant messenger client" gives me headaches. Why, because when you expand it, it is "AOL instant Messenger instant messenger client" (sort of like when people say ATM Machine... Automatic Teller Machine Machine? but I diverge.) AIM is an acronym (which in and of itself contains AOL, another acronym).
So, you end up with AIM or AOL instant messenger (etc) vs Gaim instant messenger client.
Oh, and AOL instant messenger isn't a trademark, it's a service mark, who knows how that changes everything...
X/X/ n.
2. [after the name of an earlier window system called `W'] An over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered and incredibly over-complicated window system developed at MIT and widely used on Unix systems.
I would think that it would be more likely that M$ could have been sued years ago, but nobody was going to do that. Those little things were called Windows, everyone called them Windows, what was the problem, we don't need to sue everyone for every little name issue...
Other names which also adds up to 666: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and The Pope.
I've heard these before, but never seen them writenout (and the one that I've seen about the Pope involved using a title similar to, but different from, one of his actual titles, so is completely bogus.).
If I buy a book, underline some words and scribble on the side of the page references and comments, would this be illegal? Am I modifying the original content of the author?
If you go into a store and highlight and underline certain passages, and then pass it off to a clueless (l)user who doesn't know the difference between your highlighting and the author's writing, then yes. There is a reason why if I quote something in my writing and add italics or underlining or something I have to say "emphasis mine" or "emphasis added."
Napster has been totally abandoned once the heavy duty filtering was in place.
I own a lot of CDs. I have an old computer (pent 100) that can't Rip and encode MP3s very well at all, so I download songs that I own from Napster. I can then listen to the songs that I own in the medium I want to listen to them. Nothing illegal about that, but I can't do it if Napster is filtered. So, I abandon Napster for something else.
having IE as part of the OS makes it a better product for users!
No, it doesn't.
If they installed IE as a web browser, an application that can be started, then they wouldn't have gotten in trouble (probably) and everyone could just use it or download whatever other browser they wanted. But, they integrated it into the UI, a whole different thing.
So, now when you click on a link that has a million pop-ups and you decide that you don't want to look at all that crap and just shut down your browser... oh no! You can't, because it's also your entire UI.
Linking to a site that tells what a company has planned doesn't mean much.
Unless you're responding to someone who says that said company has no plans to do that very thing. The original article said "ms has no plans to develop for this hardware at this time." and t this person said "umm.. yea they do."
do you people actually USE some of Microsoft products?
Yes, and I have to support people using Micro$oft products.
Their office suite cannot be matched by anything available for Linux in stability, user-friendliness, and many other factors.
I use WordPerfect Office for Windows when I'm at work, and on my Windows box at home. I am very happy with it, and in fact curse it every time I have to help some poor person who has a MSWord problem. MSWord is the worst offender of the group, by far.
stop bashing and start using Microsoft software because believe me, they are NOT going away anytime soon.
Why should I use Micro$oft software anymore than I do now? I, for various reasons, have a Windows box at home and at work, but I use other people's applications, because they're better... and cheaper (my educational version of WordPerfect suite cost me $45).
In the unlikely event that life currently existed on Mars in the past million or so years, such debris would have likely transported microbial organizisms here. Many forms of microbial life would be able to survive such a journey.
Ummm... last I checked IRON burns up in our atmosphere. If chuncks of Iron are burning up, then how could anything living survive. Even if it was inside something and not directly in contact with the atmosphere, and that object was large enough to hit the ground and not completely burn up, anything inside would be cooked to an enormous temperature. Any biologists around here know of anything that could survive that? Wouldn't it have problems with it's base chemistry?
I actually think they make a great idea, because one of the main things I would use them for is to sit in my nice chair and use my trackball, and I wouldn't have to worry about finding a flat surface to move a mouse around on.
Is this really "drop in security?" Can securing a box really be this easy? Does anyone have experience with this program that can talk about how secure it is? Should I switch from OpenBSD?
I could write a program that did this for those too dumb to do their own global search and replace
Umm.. why would you need to write a program, when whatever they're using to edit the program the little bit that they are will have global search and replace already? I could teach them how to do it in vi in about 1 min.
I used them so that students could teach each other. I wanted the strong students to help the weak, simply because you don't really understand something until you have to teach it to someone else.
Please, I'm sorry, but I've had to deal with group projects enough to see that this doesn't really work. I've had to try to teach someone what was going on, only to have to give up and tell them to go to office hours. Between my own group work, my job, and the 2 degrees that I'm working on concurrently, I don't have time to teach someone something on the side. You end up giving them the job of binding the report or something and writing 10% on the evaluation of how much each person put into it.
The other problem is related to above, and that is meeting as a group. The last time I was in a group project, we got one day in class to talk, and we divided everything into info-gathering and one collector, that way we could just e-mail everything to the one person who was the collector and not have to meet face-to-face, because we all have such busy schedules that are all over the place. We literaly did not have an hour of the day that we could all meet (unlike the business world where you have 9-5 together).
I'm just happy that this was in one class that I went outside my major for (although in my new minor, I hear group projects are looming). In my major (well, for my 1st BA) we never had group projects, but the students with the best grades were the one who got togther with people of their choosing to study for tests. There is a difference, and it's choosing for a one-time meeting of about an hour.
In short, group projects in the Univesrity setting have never worked for me... I don't know how you get around these difficulties (especially the time one) but if you can, then more power to you, if you can't, then I bet students are cursing your class.
2) The individual trip costs less than gas
3) mass transit supplemented with taxi and/or car rental costs less than the total cost of car ownership.
Here, our local Mass Transit system charges $65 for a 3-month pass, or $260/year. That's less than my insurance for my car for 6 months. In addition, all faculty and staff at the local college can ride for free (for the students it comes out of our student fees, a few bucks a term). A lot of local companies also pay a small amount per person and all their workers can ride for free.
My dad rides the bus every day in Portland ($595/year for a pass see www.tri-met.org) even though he owns a car. Why? because it's cheaper than paying for parking in downtown portland.
Just because you own a car doesn't mean it's best to use it for commuting, etc. But sometimes it does make the most sense. I do believe a lot more people should ride mass transit, but they're too lazy (I am often in this category, of course, I walk to work now).
the radioactivity of the waste drops below the natural ore after 5000 years, not the "millions" usually claimed
Oh, that makes me feel so much more comfortable, only well over a hundred generations of people are going to have to deal with this, not thousands of generations.
The first time I rode the train, I was on the very early morning Eugene-Portland that leaves at 6am, not many people there. Several people got on the train, payed cash to the conductor, and rode the train. In fact, last time I read the little thing they give you, they still say that you can buy on-train for something like 10% more. What drug dealer wouldn't find little-used routes and do this?
Someone being able to "go out to Toys'R'Us and buy the ROM cart" period is kinda funny. I'd love to be able to find old NES carts at used game stores, let alone new ones.
I won't mentin the 7100/66s we're just now getting rid of in the computer lab I work at for (still old) G3s (the ones still in the gray boxes, not the newer ones) OSX, not likely... (and I won't even begin with the 5400/120 I'm writing this on).
Well, I don't even have a TV, and I've seen OnStar and BASF commercials in my short time watching TV at friends houses... I usually think I'm living under a rock commercial-wise.
So now Time Magazine is the authority on official titles for Vatican officials. Thanks, I didn't know that.:-)
And I find the 'position statement' as you call it very 'delightful' as a Catholic Theologian. After all, since women can't be ordained and abortion is a positive moral evil (murder) should people who say such things be condemned?
Oh, and it's not 'his' but that of the congregation (signed by him as Prefect and Archbishop Alberto Bovone as the Secretary.
Anyway, this isn't the place for such arguments, my e-mail should be above, use it if you want to discuss this more.
I am a computer tech-type at a High School. I am writing this on the Mac they gave me to do my job. The only *nix system in the school is the RH system I installed on a 486 that was sitting in a closet. Every time a teacher deletes something from the Mac in their classroom that is used for e-mail, web use, and grades; I think "this could be solved with X-terminals." and here it is!
Now, if I were in charge of setting up computers from scratch in this school (or any other) I would have X-terminals in each classroom for the teachers (and teach them basics, which is all they know about their Macs now), and then put in *nix boxen, PCs and Macs in Labs for other uses. Yes, I would still have non-unix boxern there, because then we could say "Look, our students get exposed to M$, *nix, and Macs!" which would do several things:
Students would learn computer concepts by working with different UIs, thus not just learning one system (M$ Office of AppleWorks, or even StarOffice)
The day-to day stuff would be on a secure system, and 5 min. of "Unix File Permissions" would be easy, especialy if the default setting was "only I can read."
Students see Open Source work
Good PR to parents about being "wired" and "high-tech" without "but that's all useless!"
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And here we have all sorts of interesting questions. For example, the very term "AIM instant messenger client" gives me headaches. Why, because when you expand it, it is "AOL instant Messenger instant messenger client" (sort of like when people say ATM Machine... Automatic Teller Machine Machine? but I diverge.) AIM is an acronym (which in and of itself contains AOL, another acronym).
So, you end up with AIM or AOL instant messenger (etc) vs Gaim instant messenger client. Oh, and AOL instant messenger isn't a trademark, it's a service mark, who knows how that changes everything...
Of course, the dictioary tells us more.
I would think that it would be more likely that M$ could have been sued years ago, but nobody was going to do that. Those little things were called Windows, everyone called them Windows, what was the problem, we don't need to sue everyone for every little name issue...I was going to install a bunch of that type of clients in a computer lab at a university. This seems a tad excessive, doesn't it?
I've heard these before, but never seen them writenout (and the one that I've seen about the Pope involved using a title similar to, but different from, one of his actual titles, so is completely bogus.).
If you go into a store and highlight and underline certain passages, and then pass it off to a clueless (l)user who doesn't know the difference between your highlighting and the author's writing, then yes. There is a reason why if I quote something in my writing and add italics or underlining or something I have to say "emphasis mine" or "emphasis added."
I own a lot of CDs. I have an old computer (pent 100) that can't Rip and encode MP3s very well at all, so I download songs that I own from Napster. I can then listen to the songs that I own in the medium I want to listen to them. Nothing illegal about that, but I can't do it if Napster is filtered. So, I abandon Napster for something else.
And how do they determine which is which? When I buy a spindle of CD-R's, I can use them for data or audio.
No, it doesn't.
If they installed IE as a web browser, an application that can be started, then they wouldn't have gotten in trouble (probably) and everyone could just use it or download whatever other browser they wanted. But, they integrated it into the UI, a whole different thing.
So, now when you click on a link that has a million pop-ups and you decide that you don't want to look at all that crap and just shut down your browser... oh no! You can't, because it's also your entire UI.
Yeah, a much better product...
Linking to a site that tells what a company has planned doesn't mean much.
Unless you're responding to someone who says that said company has no plans to do that very thing. The original article said "ms has no plans to develop for this hardware at this time." and t this person said "umm.. yea they do."
Yes, and I have to support people using Micro$oft products.
Their office suite cannot be matched by anything available for Linux in stability, user-friendliness, and many other factors.
I use WordPerfect Office for Windows when I'm at work, and on my Windows box at home. I am very happy with it, and in fact curse it every time I have to help some poor person who has a MSWord problem. MSWord is the worst offender of the group, by far.
stop bashing and start using Microsoft software because believe me, they are NOT going away anytime soon.
Why should I use Micro$oft software anymore than I do now? I, for various reasons, have a Windows box at home and at work, but I use other people's applications, because they're better... and cheaper (my educational version of WordPerfect suite cost me $45).
Ummm... last I checked IRON burns up in our atmosphere. If chuncks of Iron are burning up, then how could anything living survive. Even if it was inside something and not directly in contact with the atmosphere, and that object was large enough to hit the ground and not completely burn up, anything inside would be cooked to an enormous temperature. Any biologists around here know of anything that could survive that? Wouldn't it have problems with it's base chemistry?
I actually think they make a great idea, because one of the main things I would use them for is to sit in my nice chair and use my trackball, and I wouldn't have to worry about finding a flat surface to move a mouse around on.
(oh, and I think fp, but I'm not sure)
(note: I got this information from the Oregon Daily Emerald Newspaper, gotta give references).
Umm.. why would you need to write a program, when whatever they're using to edit the program the little bit that they are will have global search and replace already? I could teach them how to do it in vi in about 1 min.
Please, I'm sorry, but I've had to deal with group projects enough to see that this doesn't really work. I've had to try to teach someone what was going on, only to have to give up and tell them to go to office hours. Between my own group work, my job, and the 2 degrees that I'm working on concurrently, I don't have time to teach someone something on the side. You end up giving them the job of binding the report or something and writing 10% on the evaluation of how much each person put into it.
The other problem is related to above, and that is meeting as a group. The last time I was in a group project, we got one day in class to talk, and we divided everything into info-gathering and one collector, that way we could just e-mail everything to the one person who was the collector and not have to meet face-to-face, because we all have such busy schedules that are all over the place. We literaly did not have an hour of the day that we could all meet (unlike the business world where you have 9-5 together).
I'm just happy that this was in one class that I went outside my major for (although in my new minor, I hear group projects are looming). In my major (well, for my 1st BA) we never had group projects, but the students with the best grades were the one who got togther with people of their choosing to study for tests. There is a difference, and it's choosing for a one-time meeting of about an hour.
In short, group projects in the Univesrity setting have never worked for me... I don't know how you get around these difficulties (especially the time one) but if you can, then more power to you, if you can't, then I bet students are cursing your class.
3) mass transit supplemented with taxi and/or car rental costs less than the total cost of car ownership.
Here, our local Mass Transit system charges $65 for a 3-month pass, or $260/year. That's less than my insurance for my car for 6 months. In addition, all faculty and staff at the local college can ride for free (for the students it comes out of our student fees, a few bucks a term). A lot of local companies also pay a small amount per person and all their workers can ride for free.
My dad rides the bus every day in Portland ($595/year for a pass see www.tri-met.org) even though he owns a car. Why? because it's cheaper than paying for parking in downtown portland.
Just because you own a car doesn't mean it's best to use it for commuting, etc. But sometimes it does make the most sense. I do believe a lot more people should ride mass transit, but they're too lazy (I am often in this category, of course, I walk to work now).
Oh, that makes me feel so much more comfortable, only well over a hundred generations of people are going to have to deal with this, not thousands of generations.
The first time I rode the train, I was on the very early morning Eugene-Portland that leaves at 6am, not many people there. Several people got on the train, payed cash to the conductor, and rode the train. In fact, last time I read the little thing they give you, they still say that you can buy on-train for something like 10% more. What drug dealer wouldn't find little-used routes and do this?
Someone being able to "go out to Toys'R'Us and buy the ROM cart" period is kinda funny. I'd love to be able to find old NES carts at used game stores, let alone new ones.
I have to put the manditory internet != web here... The Web Does need http and html, but the internet does not.
I won't mentin the 7100/66s we're just now getting rid of in the computer lab I work at for (still old) G3s (the ones still in the gray boxes, not the newer ones) OSX, not likely... (and I won't even begin with the 5400/120 I'm writing this on).
Well, I don't even have a TV, and I've seen OnStar and BASF commercials in my short time watching TV at friends houses... I usually think I'm living under a rock commercial-wise.
And I find the 'position statement' as you call it very 'delightful' as a Catholic Theologian. After all, since women can't be ordained and abortion is a positive moral evil (murder) should people who say such things be condemned? Oh, and it's not 'his' but that of the congregation (signed by him as Prefect and Archbishop Alberto Bovone as the Secretary. Anyway, this isn't the place for such arguments, my e-mail should be above, use it if you want to discuss this more.
Now, if I were in charge of setting up computers from scratch in this school (or any other) I would have X-terminals in each classroom for the teachers (and teach them basics, which is all they know about their Macs now), and then put in *nix boxen, PCs and Macs in Labs for other uses. Yes, I would still have non-unix boxern there, because then we could say "Look, our students get exposed to M$, *nix, and Macs!" which would do several things:
- Students would learn computer concepts by working with different UIs, thus not just learning one system (M$ Office of AppleWorks, or even StarOffice)
- The day-to day stuff would be on a secure system, and 5 min. of "Unix File Permissions" would be easy, especialy if the default setting was "only I can read."
- Students see Open Source work
- Good PR to parents about being "wired" and "high-tech" without "but that's all useless!"
I honestly think this could be a good set-up.