I think they want to check to see if the CLR is based on the "illegal" Java VM they sued to have MS stop developing. I'd be surprised if the CLR and their JVM *didn't* share some code.
After reading the ".NET Portion" of the complaint, it occured to me that Sun may be implying that the new CLR (MS's Common Language Runtime) is based on the MS Java VM that Sun originally sued to keep from being used. From Section 184 of the complaint document:
184. Microsoft's products in the middleware runtime market include Microsoft's implementation of the Java Runtime Environment and Microsoft's.NET Framework - the Common Language Runtime and.NET Framework classes. Sun competes in the market by offering its implementation of the Java Runtime Environment.
IANAL, but it looks as if they are alledging that Microsoft built the CLR off of their "illegal" Java VM. I have to say, it *was* the first thing that entered my mind when I heard how the CLR functioned. Proving that they are one and the same (with many many many additions and modifications along the way) could be the thrust of this whole lawsuit - carefully buried in item #184 all the way at the end of the document.
I "tipped" the maximum amount I would pay to receive Slashdot for a year (if it was a strictly subscription service). I'll see how long I can go ad-free with that amount, it ought to be a very, very, very long time.
This is one of the reasons why I am reluctant to buy AMD processors, although I have not heard if people experience similar problems with boards built upon the AMD 761 chipset, etc.
I have an Asus board with an AMD 761 North Bridge, and a VIA South Bridge (for ATA-100). It works *flawlessly*. VIA has always had issues, especially in their early years.
You should have seen the looks on all those vendors' faces @ the computer show when I kept specifically asking for the AMD 761 chipset boards. Get it for the same reason you buy an Intel chipset for an Intel processor: keeps your monitor from turning blue!
From the paper: /*
// sl.c -- a covert channel using the Caps Lock LED.
//
// For Solaris 2.x on SPARC; compile with ${CC} sl.c -lposix4
*/
*THAT* is cool. Bundle it w/ a screensaver that makes the other two lights blink randomly and you're set!
Office dweeb: "Look at this neat screensaver, it makes my keyboard lights blink! Wheee!" Uber-Geek: *jots down keystroke log from caps-lock LED* 47-46-58-82-85-76-69-83......
This is kinda funny, actually. Ballmer used "foo" as a miscellaneous identifier for a Sun product because he couldn't remember the name and it turned into:
15 Q. What is Foo? You mentioned Foo 1 a
16 moment ago and I --
17 A. Hmm?
18 Q. Foo, F-o-o. Are you familiar with
19 that name, code name, label, whatever it might be?
20 A. Used a hundred times a day around
21 Microsoft. If I just used it you'd have to read
22 back the quote to tell me Foo is --
23 It's kind of like a variable to the
24 mathematician. Instead of -- when something -- you
25 know --
0315
1 Q. Let me --
2 A. You'd need to read it back to me. I
3 use the word Foo quite a bit.
4 Q. Okay.
From the Wired article:
"I believe the concerns of content providers are justified," said Arizona's John McCain, the panel's top Republican. "They invest creativity, effort, and capital into producing high quality films and programming and should be able, adequately, to protect their investments. I am apprehensive, however, of proposals that select technological winners and losers and mandate government intervention in the marketplace."
Geez, he makes an excellent point here!
Will someone explain to me why he backed out of the 2000 Republican Primaries?!
I would know if I was backpedalling - I was not. I have never backpedalled once in my entire life, but today some AC on/. informs me I just did. Marvellous.
Explain to me how eBay is shopping, I thought it was an auction.
Effectively, we're looking at a reshuffle of business models, of companies and businesses looking at how they make money and deciding that perhaps advertising doesn't cut it. The rest of the media industries are doing it, why can't the web?
My point was that those business models that are "reshuffling" probably shouldn't be on the 'net in the first place. I don't know about you, but I sure as hell don't log on so I can get the latest information about whatever the media conglomerates are repackaging and shoving down people's throats *this* week. That's what TV is for.
I also don't surf retail websites a whole lot; I can live without the convenience of overpaying for the same merchandise easily found anywhere, from the comfort of my home. Overpaying for non-necessity items is what the mall is for.
At least there you get to see other humans engaged in the same mind-on-automatic consumer behavior.
I used slashdot as an example of a successful venture that provided people with information they otherwise wouldn't have. I say successful because of the quarter-million hits a day it gets
And sure, eBay and pr0n count as information too. eBay provides people with information about items other people want to sell - sounds like it fits my description pretty well.
You get laid off, but still expect to live the same lifestyle?!
I seem to remember doing just fine supporting myself through college. No my apartment wan't that great. No my car wasn't that great. But I had friends who were all in the same boat so we didn't care - plus: college chicks! Besides, with what is left after the market collpasing, you're not missing anything special at all.
I heard a commercial on the radio the other day for some beer company's winter party in Miami. The whole crux of the commercial was that they were going to air the "censored version, too hot for tv" over the radio.
Yes it's stupid. But it does illustrate the fact that apparently the American public sees such censorship as commonplace and therefore completely acceptable - acceptable enough to use it in a sales pitch for lousy beer.
That would be broadband capability in all COs within 5 years. The coverage at that point would be assumed to be at 100% for whoever is in range for DSL.
Slashdot Mirror
Looks neat!
The grim era before Google, when searching was a spew of boolean mumbo-jumbo, NEAR this, NOT that, AND the other?
I kind of liked the "NEAR" operator - wish google had it!
I think they want to check to see if the CLR is based on the "illegal" Java VM they sued to have MS stop developing. I'd be surprised if the CLR and their JVM *didn't* share some code.
IANAL, but it looks as if they are alledging that Microsoft built the CLR off of their "illegal" Java VM. I have to say, it *was* the first thing that entered my mind when I heard how the CLR functioned. Proving that they are one and the same (with many many many additions and modifications along the way) could be the thrust of this whole lawsuit - carefully buried in item #184 all the way at the end of the document.
I went to that MSNBC link, and IE crashed - no joke.
I "tipped" the maximum amount I would pay to receive Slashdot for a year (if it was a strictly subscription service). I'll see how long I can go ad-free with that amount, it ought to be a very, very, very long time.
Why don't you do the same?
Yeah! Just like PBS. They could team up w/ ThinkGeek and hold a pledge drive. Gotta get rid of those thousands of "Got Root?" t-shirts somehow...
I saw an Isobar power strip that had the "Windows 95 Compatible" sticker on it back in the day. I don't think it really means anything.
This is one of the reasons why I am reluctant to buy AMD processors, although I have not heard if people experience similar problems with boards built upon the AMD 761 chipset, etc.
I have an Asus board with an AMD 761 North Bridge, and a VIA South Bridge (for ATA-100). It works *flawlessly*.
VIA has always had issues, especially in their early years.
You should have seen the looks on all those vendors' faces @ the computer show when I kept specifically asking for the AMD 761 chipset boards. Get it for the same reason you buy an Intel chipset for an Intel processor: keeps your monitor from turning blue!
From the paper:
/*
// sl.c -- a covert channel using the Caps Lock LED.
//
// For Solaris 2.x on SPARC; compile with ${CC} sl.c -lposix4
*/
*THAT* is cool. Bundle it w/ a screensaver that makes the other two lights blink randomly and you're set!
Office dweeb: "Look at this neat screensaver, it makes my keyboard lights blink! Wheee!"
Uber-Geek: *jots down keystroke log from caps-lock LED* 47-46-58-82-85-76-69-83......
Just put a tiny capacitor on your Tx and Rx LEDs.
It's a hoax anyway...
Any plans to adjust moderation?
Can only paying members moderate?
Do I get paid to moderate?
This is kinda funny, actually. Ballmer used "foo" as a miscellaneous identifier for a Sun product because he couldn't remember the name and it turned into:
15 Q. What is Foo? You mentioned Foo 1 a
16 moment ago and I --
17 A. Hmm?
18 Q. Foo, F-o-o. Are you familiar with
19 that name, code name, label, whatever it might be?
20 A. Used a hundred times a day around
21 Microsoft. If I just used it you'd have to read
22 back the quote to tell me Foo is --
23 It's kind of like a variable to the
24 mathematician. Instead of -- when something -- you
25 know --
0315
1 Q. Let me --
2 A. You'd need to read it back to me. I
3 use the word Foo quite a bit.
4 Q. Okay.
(my gf is a TA, so I've seen it in action)
I'd like to see your girlfriend's TA action.
I was scratching my head at that headline for awhile...
One obvious solution to the whole thing would be - don't plaigarise and you won't need to bother checking with that website!
Or does that make too much sense?
I prefer to take action that use these TOOLS for bad purposes.
Eisner is a tool with a bad purpose.
From the Wired article:
"I believe the concerns of content providers are justified," said Arizona's John McCain, the panel's top Republican. "They invest creativity, effort, and capital into producing high quality films and programming and should be able, adequately, to protect their investments. I am apprehensive, however, of proposals that select technological winners and losers and mandate government intervention in the marketplace."
Geez, he makes an excellent point here!
Will someone explain to me why he backed out of the 2000 Republican Primaries?!
I would know if I was backpedalling - I was not. I have never backpedalled once in my entire life, but today some AC on /. informs me I just did. Marvellous.
Explain to me how eBay is shopping, I thought it was an auction.
Watch how you throw around words like "dumbass".
Effectively, we're looking at a reshuffle of business models, of companies and businesses looking at how they make money and deciding that perhaps advertising doesn't cut it. The rest of the media industries are doing it, why can't the web?
My point was that those business models that are "reshuffling" probably shouldn't be on the 'net in the first place. I don't know about you, but I sure as hell don't log on so I can get the latest information about whatever the media conglomerates are repackaging and shoving down people's throats *this* week. That's what TV is for.
I also don't surf retail websites a whole lot; I can live without the convenience of overpaying for the same merchandise easily found anywhere, from the comfort of my home. Overpaying for non-necessity items is what the mall is for. At least there you get to see other humans engaged in the same mind-on-automatic consumer behavior.
I took a lot of CS classes, not just one.
I used slashdot as an example of a successful venture that provided people with information they otherwise wouldn't have. I say successful because of the quarter-million hits a day it gets
And sure, eBay and pr0n count as information too. eBay provides people with information about items other people want to sell - sounds like it fits my description pretty well.
I still don't get it.
You get laid off, but still expect to live the same lifestyle?!
I seem to remember doing just fine supporting myself through college. No my apartment wan't that great. No my car wasn't that great.
But I had friends who were all in the same boat so we didn't care - plus: college chicks!
Besides, with what is left after the market collpasing, you're not missing anything special at all.
Like a liquid that doesn't conduct electricity, isn't caustic, and isn't extremely sticky when dried?
You mean like....water?
The Internet should be renamed InformationNet and we can get this all over with quickly.
The best online ventures are the ones which provide end users access to information they didn't have anymore.
Slashdot, for example.
See, it was *built* to provide easy access to information. It's what the Internet is good at.
The Internet was *not* built to replace the shopping mall - a place which is usually entirely void of any useful information about anything.
See? It's all very simple.
I heard a commercial on the radio the other day for some beer company's winter party in Miami. The whole crux of the commercial was that they were going to air the "censored version, too hot for tv" over the radio.
Yes it's stupid. But it does illustrate the fact that apparently the American public sees such censorship as commonplace and therefore completely acceptable - acceptable enough to use it in a sales pitch for lousy beer.
That would be broadband capability in all COs within 5 years. The coverage at that point would be assumed to be at 100% for whoever is in range for DSL.