This so-called "hack" was really just a frustrated MS user who finally decided to get in there and fix the bugs himself.
Of course MS considers the bugs their intellectual property and wants them back.
The name "English" is an outdated term for the language we currently speak. While it is true that the language originated in England, it has been a long, long time since a majority of it's speakers lived there, and for the last hundred years at least almost all innovations in the language have originated elsewhere. Its about time the name of the language be changed to reflect the contributions that non-English citizens have made. I personally think a good name would be "MS Talk", but others might have different opinions.
If things weren't exactly as they are, things would be different. Since things are not different than they are, they are exactly as they are. Quod erat demonstrandum.
Great, accuse Gore of fostering administrative bloat, the put in a plug for SDI, a pork-barrel black hole which is considered a running joke among scientists. Geniuses like you make america grate.
Of all the great fortunes that have been created in the last ten years, how many would still exist if the government hadn't started plowing money into the development of computer networks 30 years ago? How many of these businesses could have taken off without an available pool of talented engineers educated largely at public expense? How many tech fortunes rely on the government's enforcement of intellectual property law?
The attacks on Brin's letter posted here invariably refuse to acknowledge these facts. The wealthy in this country aquired their wealth not only because of their own hard work, but also because they live in a unique system which has allowed their work to be rewarded more than they could have ever dreamed of in any other time/place in history. They owe a cut of their newfound wealth to the maintenance of the society which has allowed them to prosper, and they shouldn't whine about it.
I've heard of alot of academics trying to posture themselves as nanotech players in the last couple years, with alot of rosy talk about what they're going to do but little by way of concrete results. Seems like we've seen this before with past fads such as chaos/complex systems and string theory. I'm a little skeptical of scientists who spend all their time publicity seeking and little of it in the lab. When Einstein was developing his theory of relativity, he didn't prance around crowing about all the things he was going to do and how great they'd be, he just sat inside his room and worked things out. I'm not saying I have anything against nanotech, I'm saying do something significant, then come talk to us.
I've designed a fully optical switch which utilizes micro-diffraction gratings combined with optical shift registers. It will use constructive interference combined with pulse coding to route the packets, a technology similar to CDMA used in wireless. I'll tell you more after I get my patent.
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Time to move on to the 21st century. The future lies in self-organizing microeconomic structures utilizing real-time dynamic equity financing.
Why bother working with unix? Unix is just a cheap knockoff of DOS anyways. They changed the back slash to a forward slash, changed dir to ls, and a few other superficial changes, just so it would look different. Who do they think they're fooling? Microsoft should have patented the command line interface, it's one of their greatest innovations.
This just goes to show once again that Bezos is and idiot. Where's the guy who patented using a laser pointer to play with a cat? I'm gonna try to get one for using one to play with a dog, then claim that my patent is completely different because I use a cookie to make the dog bark.
Okay, "the meaning of life" is a significant question, and I acknowledge Douglas Adams has done mankind a service for answering it. But, there is another question which is far deeper and which has been nagging mankind for years on end, which Douglas Adams has so far completely failed to address. That question is: "Who da man?"
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This so-called "hack" was really just a frustrated MS user who finally decided to get in there and fix the bugs himself. Of course MS considers the bugs their intellectual property and wants them back.
The name "English" is an outdated term for the language we currently speak. While it is true that the language originated in England, it has been a long, long time since a majority of it's speakers lived there, and for the last hundred years at least almost all innovations in the language have originated elsewhere. Its about time the name of the language be changed to reflect the contributions that non-English citizens have made. I personally think a good name would be "MS Talk", but others might have different opinions.
My goal in life is to someday run Excel on Wine running on a Linux emulator running on Windows 2000.
If things weren't exactly as they are, things would be different. Since things are not different than they are, they are exactly as they are. Quod erat demonstrandum.
This piece of Republican spam has been making the rounds. I guess he chopped off the part where he asks you to email it to your friends.
Dubya couldn't even spell "OS".
I'd hate to be the one who's gonna have to tell this bacterium that all his friends and relative have been dead for 250 million years.
Great, accuse Gore of fostering administrative bloat, the put in a plug for SDI, a pork-barrel black hole which is considered a running joke among scientists. Geniuses like you make america grate.
Some day something like this will happen, and that day will mark the end of the electoral college.
No, I think Quayle would simply run after hearing the word "science", afraid someone would make him do some math.
Of all the great fortunes that have been created in the last ten years, how many would still exist if the government hadn't started plowing money into the development of computer networks 30 years ago? How many of these businesses could have taken off without an available pool of talented engineers educated largely at public expense? How many tech fortunes rely on the government's enforcement of intellectual property law? The attacks on Brin's letter posted here invariably refuse to acknowledge these facts. The wealthy in this country aquired their wealth not only because of their own hard work, but also because they live in a unique system which has allowed their work to be rewarded more than they could have ever dreamed of in any other time/place in history. They owe a cut of their newfound wealth to the maintenance of the society which has allowed them to prosper, and they shouldn't whine about it.
Please, try not to cloud the issue with facts and reason! We want our tax cut dammit and we'll use whatever logical gymnastics we can to get it.
Maybe. Who's asking?
This is old hat. Hasn't anybody ever heard of the wake-sleep algorithm?
You want distributed computing? Just sit back, relax, and wait for .Net to appear.
It's gonna blow you away.
I've heard of alot of academics trying to posture themselves as nanotech players in the last couple years, with alot of rosy talk about what they're going to do but little by way of concrete results. Seems like we've seen this before with past fads such as chaos/complex systems and string theory. I'm a little skeptical of scientists who spend all their time publicity seeking and little of it in the lab. When Einstein was developing his theory of relativity, he didn't prance around crowing about all the things he was going to do and how great they'd be, he just sat inside his room and worked things out. I'm not saying I have anything against nanotech, I'm saying do something significant, then come talk to us.
Is anyone trying to use solitons in nonlinear optical media to implement packet switching?
I've designed a fully optical switch which utilizes micro-diffraction gratings combined with optical shift registers. It will use constructive interference combined with pulse coding to route the packets, a technology similar to CDMA used in wireless. I'll tell you more after I get my patent.
I'm gonna patent it, both for entertainment purposes and for reproductive purposes (biotech is hot!)
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Time to move on to the 21st century. The future lies in self-organizing microeconomic structures utilizing real-time dynamic equity financing.
Why bother working with unix? Unix is just a cheap knockoff of DOS anyways. They changed the back slash to a forward slash, changed dir to ls, and a few other superficial changes, just so it would look different. Who do they think they're fooling? Microsoft should have patented the command line interface, it's one of their greatest innovations.
This just goes to show once again that Bezos is and idiot. Where's the guy who patented using a laser pointer to play with a cat? I'm gonna try to get one for using one to play with a dog, then claim that my patent is completely different because I use a cookie to make the dog bark.
This is old hat. Smart money these days is on quantum teleportation an neutrino masers. NASA is about fifteen years behind the times.
Okay, "the meaning of life" is a significant question, and I acknowledge Douglas Adams has done mankind a service for answering it. But, there is another question which is far deeper and which has been nagging mankind for years on end, which Douglas Adams has so far completely failed to address. That question is: "Who da man?"