With a sufficient amount of time and circulation of an idea, it has the opportunity to gain momentum to the point where it can force change. Ok, in theory this sounds wonderful, but this takes me back to my original question. Cite an example of an instance in which an online petition has directly caused substantive change.
According to the link to the patent it was actually filed on April 7, 1995. It's not exactly like they just decided to file this one yesterday. It appears that they are only now choosing to try to enforce their patent claim.
Microsoft would in effect be trying to compete with a legal monopoly.
Basically yes, but at the same time this can be compared to a company--in this case their government--deciding that they are going to develop a product in-house instead of purchasing one. This product would then be made available to all of its customers (citizens).
I mean, you said you have a mix of servers and workstations at home. Do you really need to hear the Windows bell or chime sounds on your servers (or if you're running linux servers...why do you have them configured to make sounds?)?
Did you read the question? He said that he wanted the audio to run through the KVM switch too. This would imply that the only sounds that he'd be hearing would be coming from the one machine that he's switched to currently--just like the only video that he sees is the video from the current machine.
How is this impacted by Sun's choice to drop it's linux distro? I assume not at all, but I'm not sure. Can the project stay afloat without Sun's support?
i wonder if it would be possible to use some the other satelites that us earthlings have out the the solar system to contact these probes when they get farther and farther away.
Imagine a chain of probes sent out in the same direction, all relaying information back to earth via one another. I wonder if any research has been done on the feasibility of such an approach...
I think you're missing the point. The TLDs were setup to delimit different kinds of organizations. For this reason educational, government, organizational, and commercial institutions are given seperate namespaces.
Consider an relating it to the way phone books are organized. There is a white pages, yellow pages, and that little section of blue pages for government offices. Imagine not having color coding on the pages anymore and ALL organizations in one big book. You are right, the internet would still work; however, it's much easier to find things if they are organized appropriately.
Public source code for software that is designed to protect isn't a great idea IMO. Would you want your home security system, complete with sensor locations, schematics, etc. posted in a book on your front porch?
instead you would rather have a security system that you didn't know how to use? It was installed while without your input and you recieved little documentation about the manner in which the system functioned. Moreover you don't even know where the sensors/detectors of the system are in your house. geee....sounds fun to me.
First, MS does not produce thousands of products. If you consider Office to be one product (although it actually consists of more than ten different apps) then by this logic the number is way less than one hundred.
it is ONE product...most of the time it's bundled wiht the computer anyway. I doubt that a large quantity of their sales come from individual sales of the apps. (i don't even know if you can get them individually anymore) Second, Windows servers (quite different from your home windows) are profitable.
SQL Server is profitable.
Exchange server is profitable.
Most of the other server apps (Biztalk, SharePoint etc.) are also profitable.
no they're not lying....the data clearly shows that they are making a profit in these areas. Look at the 10-Q and you can see that. PC Games are profitable.
Again the 10-Q seems to indicate otherwise
Furthermore, when I lived in Spain the mobile phones there allowed users to recieve calls for free. Only the person who initiated the call was charged.
Now that's something that I'd like to see make it's way to America.
Just try asking Microsoft for a copy of a EULA before purchasing the software. They will contend that you must purchase the software before seeing the EULA. And this wasn't just little joe computer-user asking to see a EULA; this was our company wishing to see it prior to purchase.
If you are going to be be bound to the agreement, you should at least be able to see it prior to purchase.
Slashdot Mirror
Did anyone else shudder when they read that someone employed by one of the Microsoft companies was allowed to view that site?
It instantly became less secure.
With a sufficient amount of time and circulation of an idea, it has the opportunity to gain momentum to the point where it can force change.
Ok, in theory this sounds wonderful, but this takes me back to my original question. Cite an example of an instance in which an online petition has directly caused substantive change.
If you can cite an instance where an online petition led to a substantive change taking place I would greatly appreciate it.
As wonderful as the concept seems in the grand scheme of things online petitions are worthless
According to the link to the patent it was actually filed on April 7, 1995. It's not exactly like they just decided to file this one yesterday. It appears that they are only now choosing to try to enforce their patent claim.
National Geographic
Sydney Morning Herald
Google News
It hasn't even been a month since this was last posted here
Too bad that they didn't just point people to google....now that would be useful.
Basically yes, but at the same time this can be compared to a company--in this case their government--deciding that they are going to develop a product in-house instead of purchasing one. This product would then be made available to all of its customers (citizens).
I mean, you said you have a mix of servers and workstations at home. Do you really need to hear the Windows bell or chime sounds on your servers (or if you're running linux servers...why do you have them configured to make sounds?)?
Did you read the question? He said that he wanted the audio to run through the KVM switch too. This would imply that the only sounds that he'd be hearing would be coming from the one machine that he's switched to currently--just like the only video that he sees is the video from the current machine.
How is this impacted by Sun's choice to drop it's linux distro? I assume not at all, but I'm not sure. Can the project stay afloat without Sun's support?
i wonder if it would be possible to use some the other satelites that us earthlings have out the the solar system to contact these probes when they get farther and farther away.
Imagine a chain of probes sent out in the same direction, all relaying information back to earth via one another. I wonder if any research has been done on the feasibility of such an approach...
Why should I care about this?
I think you're missing the point. The TLDs were setup to delimit different kinds of organizations. For this reason educational, government, organizational, and commercial institutions are given seperate namespaces.
Consider an relating it to the way phone books are organized. There is a white pages, yellow pages, and that little section of blue pages for government offices. Imagine not having color coding on the pages anymore and ALL organizations in one big book. You are right, the internet would still work; however, it's much easier to find things if they are organized appropriately.
Public source code for software that is designed to protect isn't a great idea IMO. Would you want your home security system, complete with sensor locations, schematics, etc. posted in a book on your front porch?
instead you would rather have a security system that you didn't know how to use? It was installed while without your input and you recieved little documentation about the manner in which the system functioned. Moreover you don't even know where the sensors/detectors of the system are in your house. geee....sounds fun to me.
....that is until somebody crafts an exploit for PostgreSQL. As much as it would be nice to blame MS SQL server for this, the problem is
1. sys admins that don't install security fixes when need (for windows programs, linux programs, et al) and
2. network admins that leave a database server out there unprotected for the free world to see.
First, MS does not produce thousands of products. If you consider Office to be one product (although it actually consists of more than ten different apps) then by this logic the number is way less than one hundred.
it is ONE product...most of the time it's bundled wiht the computer anyway. I doubt that a large quantity of their sales come from individual sales of the apps. (i don't even know if you can get them individually anymore)
Second, Windows servers (quite different from your home windows) are profitable. SQL Server is profitable. Exchange server is profitable. Most of the other server apps (Biztalk, SharePoint etc.) are also profitable. no they're not lying....the data clearly shows that they are making a profit in these areas. Look at the 10-Q and you can see that.
PC Games are profitable.
Again the 10-Q seems to indicate otherwise
Furthermore, when I lived in Spain the mobile phones there allowed users to recieve calls for free. Only the person who initiated the call was charged.
Now that's something that I'd like to see make it's way to America.
Just try asking Microsoft for a copy of a EULA before purchasing the software. They will contend that you must purchase the software before seeing the EULA. And this wasn't just little joe computer-user asking to see a EULA; this was our company wishing to see it prior to purchase.
If you are going to be be bound to the agreement, you should at least be able to see it prior to purchase.