I would like an email account where senders not on my whitelist need to pay something (e.g. thirty-seven cents), or at least risk paying something, to put a message in my inbox. Two businesses that have been mentioned on slashdot before are Vanquish.com (has a bonding system) and internetstamps.net (sells stamps).
Are you thinking of providing a pay-for-attention email service through your business?
so should I hire a patent lawyer to research the relevent patents of every single piece of software I purchase?
No, read the article, or hire someone to read it to you:
... those Microsoft customers who relied on Microsoft's assurances, failed to investigate them thoroughly, and knowingly continued to provide material steps in an Infringing Combination.[Emphasis added]
So if you are know that a patent holder claims you are infringing, you become responsible for damages to that patent holder if, in fact, you were infringing and continued to infringe anyway.
The desired-end-result is adequate-quality software.
Non-proprietary means the network-effect will tend benefit all those who choose to participate in the network equally.
Open source means that inadequate software can be enhanced until no-one thinks further enhancements worthwhile.
The problem is not with Microsoft's size, greed, arrogance, maliciousness and criminality; the problem is that their products stink, and they must resort to maliciousness and criminality in order to be able to pay their employees with stock options.
Opera's browser doesn't stink; in fact, it doesn't even suck.
It's authors make a genuine effort to comply with the standards that maximize the worldwide web network benefit.
They have a good track record for taking the risk of being the first to implement in a web browser useful UI elements seen elsewhere
The ability to open the same n pages every time you start
Mouse gestures
The M2 Mail Client folder-filters
Home-page per window rather than per system
Scroll-wheel zoom
Good minority-language support (Catalan, Cymraeg/Welsh, etc.)
Microsoft says, ad nauseam, that they want to make "great" software, as in Alexander the Great, Ivan the Great, and The Great War. It is a fool's quest. Software cannot be "great." It can never be more than "worthy." Microsoft attempts to make itself appear "great" by suppressing others, resorting to stunts like feeding competitive browsers junk.
Microsoft deliberately sends Opera junk even if it identifies itself as IE6. It's a deliberate bit of nastiness, and it's the second time it has happened. Read the articles.
I wonder... could the Lebanese Postal Authority be persuaded to (act as) issuer of these stamps? That could mean that anyone trying to crack the encryption would be violating counterfeiting laws, perhaps bringing in Interpol. With all the factionalism in Lebanon, I imagine that the career beaureaucrats are the among the most discreet on the planet.
What is osCommerce? Yes, I can guess, but I would like to be told definitively.
Hmm, the osCommerce is an Anchor tag, with a URI. Clicking on it leads to what appears to be the osCommerce website. There's a forum section with (apparently) a few thousand posts.
"Adonis the faker"? Is this an elaborate joke?
Anything's possible in the world wide web, but I note that three of the nine "people" stamps are Lebanese celebrities, and the U.S. celebrity stamp is J.F.Kennedy, one of our less obnoxious presidents. My Arabic is skimpy, but Google has 1,500 hits for the surname "el Fakih."
Since Microsoft is nearly always part of the problem, I suspect it will be faster (and easier) to modify the Mozilla engine to cope with Microsoft's blunders than it ever would be to get bare adequacy from Microsoft. What obstacles would the original poster face in circulating a new version of Mozilla?
Thank you for posting this correction just eighteen minutes and twelve seconds after the original error. I presume you listened to the Cage four times through, to verify?
Hmm, the part where the Vandals went through Rome and put sticky "Ostentatious Display" labels on various ostentatious displays was somehow edited from my edition of Gibbon.
... or drive a car. As Brad Wardell has pointed out, the idea is to provide a lightweight alternative to automobiles for short trips that will appeal to those who would otherwise use a car. Walkers and cyclists are not the problem for which Segway is a solution.
bicycles... cohabitate pretty well with "elderly people" in cities all around the world
Those bicycles are ridden on the streets, not on the sidewalks. Do not ban Segways, simply classify them as motor vehicles, or limit them to the speed of an electric wheelchair.
A friend would like to switch to Mac, but not if it means losing WordPerfect (and WordPerfect for Mac is no longer available). Do you think Virtual PC 6 can run Windows 98 adequately on any Apple laptops?
Although I have not been able to find John Searle's original paper online (copyright issues?), I remember him writing that "of course" human beings are examples of biochemical machines.
I was able to find this, a link to a review of his article, where we read...
He asserts explicitly that human beings are simply thinking (biological) machines.
That appears to qualify as an acknowledgment that "the brain is just a bunch of biological switches."
It looks like the hardware people use the phrase "Network Attached Storage" for devices that are dedicated to serving files. LinkSys calls theirs EFG80 (such poetry), but you need a Windows PC to run setup. Sun has a whitepaper.
A Google search on "Network Attached Storage" turn up mostly hardware turnkey solutions.
You can type 80 words a minute walking on the sidewalk? Amazing! I have to be sitting at my desk to get anywhere near that fast.
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There's a Cheapass Game (tm) named US Patent Number 1. Players race to be the first to register a time machine at the US Patent Office -- on the day it opens. http://www.cheapass.com, look for "Board Games."
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I would like an email account where senders not on my whitelist need to pay something (e.g. thirty-seven cents), or at least risk paying something, to put a message in my inbox. Two businesses that have been mentioned on slashdot before are Vanquish.com (has a bonding system) and internetstamps.net (sells stamps).
Are you thinking of providing a pay-for-attention email service through your business?
So if you are know that a patent holder claims you are infringing, you become responsible for damages to that patent holder if, in fact, you were infringing and continued to infringe anyway.
The desired-end-result is adequate-quality software.
Opera's browser doesn't stink; in fact, it doesn't even suck.
Microsoft says, ad nauseam, that they want to make "great" software, as in Alexander the Great, Ivan the Great, and The Great War. It is a fool's quest. Software cannot be "great." It can never be more than "worthy." Microsoft attempts to make itself appear "great" by suppressing others, resorting to stunts like feeding competitive browsers junk.
It is pathetic.
Microsoft deliberately sends Opera junk even if it identifies itself as IE6. It's a deliberate bit of nastiness, and it's the second time it has happened. Read the articles.
I wonder ... could the Lebanese Postal Authority be persuaded to (act as) issuer of these stamps? That could mean that anyone trying to crack the encryption would be violating counterfeiting laws, perhaps bringing in Interpol. With all the factionalism in Lebanon, I imagine that the career beaureaucrats are the among the most discreet on the planet.
Google has over a thousand hits for "Adonis el Fakih" ranging from his winning the silver medal in a Lebanese internet design contest to being credited for a suggestion for cacheing in ZBabel. Far away places with strange sounding names? Please do not be so ... parochial.
Hmm, the osCommerce is an Anchor tag, with a URI. Clicking on it leads to what appears to be the osCommerce website. There's a forum section with (apparently) a few thousand posts.
Anything's possible in the world wide web, but I note that three of the nine "people" stamps are Lebanese celebrities, and the U.S. celebrity stamp is J.F.Kennedy, one of our less obnoxious presidents. My Arabic is skimpy, but Google has 1,500 hits for the surname "el Fakih."
Since Microsoft is nearly always part of the problem, I suspect it will be faster (and easier) to modify the Mozilla engine to cope with Microsoft's blunders than it ever would be to get bare adequacy from Microsoft. What obstacles would the original poster face in circulating a new version of Mozilla?
Thank you for posting this correction just eighteen minutes and twelve seconds after the original error. I presume you listened to the Cage four times through, to verify?
Those bicycles are ridden on the streets, not on the sidewalks. Do not ban Segways, simply classify them as motor vehicles, or limit them to the speed of an electric wheelchair.
The exposure is no less of a theory than the other statements you qualified. Have some trollfood.
You omitted the final (in theory). Troll.
Can you get adequate performance out of Virtual PC and Win XP (home) on any of the current Apple notebooks? How much RAM?
A friend would like to switch to Mac, but not if it means losing WordPerfect (and WordPerfect for Mac is no longer available). Do you think Virtual PC 6 can run Windows 98 adequately on any Apple laptops?
Since (I believe) the objection is to ESR's comments in toto, perhaps "fucking comment on everything" ?
It looks like the hardware people use the phrase "Network Attached Storage" for devices that are dedicated to serving files. LinkSys calls theirs EFG80 (such poetry), but you need a Windows PC to run setup. Sun has a whitepaper. A Google search on "Network Attached Storage" turn up mostly hardware turnkey solutions.
Awww, poor little A.C. doesn't know how to write a one line stylesheet. RTFM.
ESR marked all his comments with div.c1.comment. If you don't want to see them, just change the color to transparent. Get a clue.
The position of the fingers in this invention differs significantly from the position in the Twiddler.
You can type 80 words a minute walking on the sidewalk? Amazing! I have to be sitting at my desk to get anywhere near that fast.
There's a Cheapass Game (tm) named US Patent Number 1. Players race to be the first to register a time machine at the US Patent Office -- on the day it opens. http://www.cheapass.com, look for "Board Games."