So without a pack of patents so one can use MAD as a defense you can not innovate in the consumer electronics and software space. If you do too well someone will come after you. Can someone please just kill software patents today. Of course this could be good for FOSS but probably terrible for everybody else. Notice that Apple now is claiming a patient on rectangles with rounded corners if they happen to be cell phones.
"The only NK I remember who was morally amiguous was a North Korean woman who attempted to kill US patients after Hawkeye had stuck up for her. She was turned over to a South Korean officer who was portrayed as a monster, and we saw that she was being patriotic to her side." Funny but I do not see how killing a helpless patient as morally ambiguous. I also didn't see as being patriotic for the act. I just saw two monsters instead of one. If it had been an American solder that tried to murder a helpless patient I doubt that anybody would say that he was being patriotic no matter how terrible the enemy was. Any way my MASH comment was meant to be a joke but your comment so creeped me out that I just had to reply. Just what??? You have a very odd view of the world is all I can say.
I guess that I find this level of paranoia to be over the top at best. News Flash Dropbox will comply not break the law to protect your data. If we are talking about business data I really do not see the problem with this at all. Just in case you don't know the law in the US if there is a court order the government can force you to turn over data. If you do not you can go to jail. Most Businesses are REQUIRED to store some data by law the reason is so that the government can request it. If you don't have it your in trouble. Businesses keep data to show the government or the courts. That is the whole point of keeping things like contracts.
And just what are you people using Dropbox for? I keep pictures some music I have bought from Amazon or have ripped from my own CDs, copies of my source code plus some odds and ends. Really just what do you guys expect? The Constitution protects you from illegal search but not from a court ordered one. While I do think that laws that allow a search without a court order are wrong it is silly to expect any company to not follow the law.
If you want super security then encrypt the files before you upload. Then you can be the one to face the legal problems of not turning over the password for you data.
Actually they do not since they signed those rights away when they signed the none proliferation treaty. And they are not making weapons just ask them.
Yes it is the old they are so brilliant but made one stupid error trick that is so popular on TV shows and bad spy novels. In Texas it was sent to the one eye man stroking the his pet armadillo that has a laser mounted on his head. And it was both the US and Israel at fault. What they don't know is that it was Canada, Sweden, and Ireland that pulled this off.
Yes but they are responsible for that service. I will give a trivial sample of how this can cause a problem. One of the techs at our office wanted to write some utilities. Fine we told him that he had to follow just a few rules. 1. It had to be in PERL, C++, or Java. 2. If it was a Database app it had to use Postgres as the back end. 3. We had to test the program before it was deployed.
The reason for number one was that those are the languages we use for development in house so we could fix and update his apps when he left if they where useful. The reason for number two was that we already had a Postgres database that we used for in house systems. We didn't want to deal an extra server. Well he refused to abide by rules. He wrote a silly little app that interfaced with our CMS and gave it to some of the other techs to try out. All of a sudden things started to fail. The programing staff was trying to figure out why our in house apps where throwing errors all over the place. It took us a while to find out that he had give out his little app and after looking at the problem we found it had left locks all over the place. Oh and he wrote it in Foxpro! After we told him to pull the utility he got indignant over the fact that we insisted on him not using FoxPro. We even relented and said fine as long as you use Postgres as the backend. When he couldn't figure out how ODBC worked he got mad at how unfair we all where. He didn't last long. And all that trouble was caused on a small 50 user network at a software development firm. Imagine the problems of a network with hundreds if not thousands of systems that is being used in a hospital! Of course you just do not throw up a new service just because someone wants it. If you have the resources to start with you must test it and make sure that it is al HIPPA approved. Yes it is a service and it is to serve the hospital not some doctor that wants to use his iPhone for his calendar!
Also why would you need a machine to run an iCal server? Maybe if he showed the IT department how well it was working on a test network they would then just move it to a VM on one of their boxes and manage it. Doctors shouldn't run servers as part of their job any more than IT people should be prescribing drugs.
Exactly correct. I am shocked that this is allowed. I am not an expert on HIPAA but just in any IT system someone wanting to just throw a server on and open a port throws up all sorts of red flags. The fact that the person putting up the server doesn't get it makes me even more worried about the security of the server. Just think of the harm somebody could do with a server with an open port could do. Yes give them an account and frankly anything else they want. Even better would be to get them to put your server on a VM on their hardware and start to manage it for you. You know keep the security updated and everything else. Take your box home and use it for something else. an ICal server shouldn't need it's own box anyway.
All those CNC machines and such are fine but there still isn't a good 3D FOSS cad system yet. Nothing that can Rival Solidworks, ProE, or AutoCad. Blender sure doesn't cut it. The closest is BRL CAD is still ins't in the same class as Solidworks. I would be happy with one that was as good as TurboCAD 3D. Getting the design tools into peoples hands would be a big help IMHO and it is software for goodness sakes. BTW I have used Solidworks and it is very very good and I have tried Blender and BRL.
And how much impact did those CE phones have? The Treo was really the first mass market Smartphone in the US. Nokia probably has that title in Europe with one of their phones. But what it all comes down to is Microsoft did not pioneer the smartphone space as the person I was replying to said they did. It was in fact IBM and later others. They didn't pioneer the tablet space. You could say that Gene Roddenberry did, or Alan Kay at Xerox PARC with the DynaBook concept. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dynabook Or even GRID systems with the GRIDPad https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/GRiDPad did. And as for the MP3 market well not even close. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Digital_audio_player#History The on I remember is the RIO but event that wasn't the first it is probably just the first that was popular. Microsoft outside of Windows. Office, and XBox really does have a really bad history at innovation and bringing new tech to the market. The fact that Apple could walk away with the smart phone market and the Tablet market when Microsoft has been in both those markets for years should say it all. I fear Microsoft lacks passion for anything but market share and because of that they are no excelling at new markets.
Thanks for the Kudos but the simple truth is that if you HTML and don't use Flash making a website that is screen reader friendly is just not that hard to do.
Add in all the problems that the networks are throwing at Boxee and the other network devices and they have a big fight in their hands. I do find this flame post most amusing because he is screaming about a lack of openness as well as the lack of DRM filled streaming services. Odds are very high that the media companies are requiring the locks for security as well as the causing the delay of services!
In other words just get a Roku box. Mine works great.
There where? Wow they where so bad that even I didn't notice them? I did look it up just now on Wikipedia and that source says that you are incorrect. They list the first smartphone as the IBM Simon from 1992 followed by the Nokia N9000 communicator from 1996 they actually have Microsoft as not shipping until 2002 after the Palm powered Kyocera 6035 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyocera_6035. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#History So it would seem that from that history that IBM, PALM, and Nokia with different partners where yeas ahead of Microsoft in the smartphone market. . It also didn't have the first tablet. I am very sure that Grid beat them to that with the GridPad.
I guess I feel that it odd that people have such an odd sense of entitlement. A law suit? Over a video game? Just don't play the ones that use in game purchases. I mean really it is a game which is something one doesn't really need. If enough people don't play them then they fail. If enough people do buy and play them then they will keep making them. A class action lawsuit? Yea that is great it will make a lot of money for the lawyers.
"This is a common difference between countries that have equatorial regions and none. The US can launch its spacecraft from Florida (or in the alternative Edwards AFB). " What? Edwards? We don't launch any large boosters from Edwards and never have and probably never will . They would have to launch over land which the US just doesn't do for safety reasons. So what are you talking about? We do launch from Vandenberg in California but those are polar shots We also launch off of Hawaii using SeaLaunch and from Wallops Island in Virginia but not Edwards. So huhh????
I disagree. The moral implications of ignoring the sight impaired market just to make a pretty picture and it is easy I feel are self evident. They company I work for will not do that and I will not do that.
The business model is far from stupid. It is in fact brillant. It is the exact same model as Magic the Gathering used and many other games and products. It is in fact the old give away the razor and sell the blades model, or the cheap printer and expensive ink model. It makes lots of money and provides a reoccurring revenue stream. As business models go it is great and very successful. As a consumer I have no interest in a video game where I winning will come down to how much I am willing to spend. But that is just me. I also didn't buy into the whole Magic the Gathering thing. Now buying expansions and extra levels isn't that bad of deal if you really enjoy the game.
I am well aware of why airliners are slower. It was the move to Hi-Bypass turbofans which burn less fuel, make less noise but produce a higher mass but lower velocity exauste. And if you think a 707 is bad just get near a T-37 sometime. It will make you sick to your stomach from the sound. I disagree on the the shuttle. Frankly I feel that going back to capsules is a step back. The X-33 development should not have been stopped. BTW that was to be an optionally manned craft. I will even agree with you in that I never understood why they didn't build an unmanned version of the shuttle as well as the manned version. For some of the missions it would have works just as well. The XB-70 should have been produced. It would saved many crews in Vietnam if it had been used instead of the B-52. It would still be extremely useful today as a weapons carrier. So many really good projects have been stopped while so many really iffy ones are kept going that it makes my head hurt.
What I did leave out was that the military is back into the speed game. The F-22 is the first real increase in US fighter aircraft speed we have seen in a long time. Not in top speed but in cruise speed where it really counts. That and they are now looking into hypersonic aircraft again.
It doesn't just fail for mobile it just fails. Screen readers for the sight impaired can not read the page, You can not enlarge the fonts to make it easier to read, it is just a mess from start to finish. I agree with you that is what should happen but I still believe that the real problem is a failure to embrace the medium.
Well KSC has to have one. That is just a given. It is the real home of the manned space program. And one needed to go to NASM I mean it is the National Air and Space Museum even if it is going to an annex. It does seem to be a lot for NYC to get on as well. But just bring your kids to Florida if they want to see space stuff. You can go to KSC and see not only the Shuttle but the Saturn V, a TitanII Gemini, Mercury Atlas, Mercury Redstone, Apollo Saturn Ib and the Shuttle. But you can also take them Disney, SeaWorld, and some nice beaches.
Dayton would have been a good place for one as well but I have a feeling that they only reason that Florida got one is that they had to put one there.
And wanna be graphic designers. They tired to make the medium of the Web look and works just like the medium of prints. So now we have have to move our mouse over an item to see if it is a link or not. Or my pet peeve websites that have a fixed width or work best at one resolution. Really? I worked with one idiot once that gave me web pages to put up that where nothing but a matrix of GIF files! The web is fighting a real fight with the from over function people. I agree with you on the mouse overs not showing you where a link will take you. If it is javascript then they should had a mouse over to the javascript that will tell you where the link is going. If it is flash then they should just be shot. While I would like to see Flash be removed from the face of the earth I can live it being used for some applications like games and other actual programs that run in a browser and Video playback until the whole HTML 5 video standard thing settles down if that ever happens. But for Navigation! NEVER.
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So without a pack of patents so one can use MAD as a defense you can not innovate in the consumer electronics and software space. If you do too well someone will come after you. Can someone please just kill software patents today. Of course this could be good for FOSS but probably terrible for everybody else. Notice that Apple now is claiming a patient on rectangles with rounded corners if they happen to be cell phones.
"The only NK I remember who was morally amiguous was a North Korean woman who attempted to kill US patients after Hawkeye had stuck up for her. She was turned over to a South Korean officer who was portrayed as a monster, and we saw that she was being patriotic to her side."
Funny but I do not see how killing a helpless patient as morally ambiguous. I also didn't see as being patriotic for the act. I just saw two monsters instead of one.
If it had been an American solder that tried to murder a helpless patient I doubt that anybody would say that he was being patriotic no matter how terrible the enemy was.
Any way my MASH comment was meant to be a joke but your comment so creeped me out that I just had to reply. Just what??? You have a very odd view of the world is all I can say.
I guess that I find this level of paranoia to be over the top at best. News Flash Dropbox will comply not break the law to protect your data. If we are talking about business data I really do not see the problem with this at all. Just in case you don't know the law in the US if there is a court order the government can force you to turn over data. If you do not you can go to jail. Most Businesses are REQUIRED to store some data by law the reason is so that the government can request it. If you don't have it your in trouble. Businesses keep data to show the government or the courts. That is the whole point of keeping things like contracts.
And just what are you people using Dropbox for? I keep pictures some music I have bought from Amazon or have ripped from my own CDs, copies of my source code plus some odds and ends.
Really just what do you guys expect? The Constitution protects you from illegal search but not from a court ordered one. While I do think that laws that allow a search without a court order are wrong it is silly to expect any company to not follow the law.
If you want super security then encrypt the files before you upload. Then you can be the one to face the legal problems of not turning over the password for you data.
Hey if it didn't happen after MASH why worry now?
Yes WWI flight sims could be very enjoyable.
Actually they do not since they signed those rights away when they signed the none proliferation treaty. And they are not making weapons just ask them.
Yes it is the old they are so brilliant but made one stupid error trick that is so popular on TV shows and bad spy novels. In Texas it was sent to the one eye man stroking the his pet armadillo that has a laser mounted on his head.
And it was both the US and Israel at fault.
What they don't know is that it was Canada, Sweden, and Ireland that pulled this off.
Yes but they are responsible for that service. I will give a trivial sample of how this can cause a problem. One of the techs at our office wanted to write some utilities. Fine we told him that he had to follow just a few rules.
1. It had to be in PERL, C++, or Java.
2. If it was a Database app it had to use Postgres as the back end.
3. We had to test the program before it was deployed.
The reason for number one was that those are the languages we use for development in house so we could fix and update his apps when he left if they where useful. The reason for number two was that we already had a Postgres database that we used for in house systems. We didn't want to deal an extra server.
Well he refused to abide by rules. He wrote a silly little app that interfaced with our CMS and gave it to some of the other techs to try out. All of a sudden things started to fail. The programing staff was trying to figure out why our in house apps where throwing errors all over the place. It took us a while to find out that he had give out his little app and after looking at the problem we found it had left locks all over the place.
Oh and he wrote it in Foxpro!
After we told him to pull the utility he got indignant over the fact that we insisted on him not using FoxPro. We even relented and said fine as long as you use Postgres as the backend. When he couldn't figure out how ODBC worked he got mad at how unfair we all where.
He didn't last long.
And all that trouble was caused on a small 50 user network at a software development firm. Imagine the problems of a network with hundreds if not thousands of systems that is being used in a hospital! Of course you just do not throw up a new service just because someone wants it. If you have the resources to start with you must test it and make sure that it is al HIPPA approved. Yes it is a service and it is to serve the hospital not some doctor that wants to use his iPhone for his calendar!
AntiVirus? On a sever? Oh you must be one of those people. It is a BSD server we are talking about. The rest of you comment I agree with completely.
Also why would you need a machine to run an iCal server? Maybe if he showed the IT department how well it was working on a test network they would then just move it to a VM on one of their boxes and manage it. Doctors shouldn't run servers as part of their job any more than IT people should be prescribing drugs.
Exactly correct. I am shocked that this is allowed. I am not an expert on HIPAA but just in any IT system someone wanting to just throw a server on and open a port throws up all sorts of red flags.
The fact that the person putting up the server doesn't get it makes me even more worried about the security of the server. Just think of the harm somebody could do with a server with an open port could do. Yes give them an account and frankly anything else they want. Even better would be to get them to put your server on a VM on their hardware and start to manage it for you. You know keep the security updated and everything else. Take your box home and use it for something else. an ICal server shouldn't need it's own box anyway.
All those CNC machines and such are fine but there still isn't a good 3D FOSS cad system yet. Nothing that can Rival Solidworks, ProE, or AutoCad. Blender sure doesn't cut it. The closest is BRL CAD is still ins't in the same class as Solidworks. I would be happy with one that was as good as TurboCAD 3D.
Getting the design tools into peoples hands would be a big help IMHO and it is software for goodness sakes.
BTW I have used Solidworks and it is very very good and I have tried Blender and BRL.
And how much impact did those CE phones have? The Treo was really the first mass market Smartphone in the US. Nokia probably has that title in Europe with one of their phones. But what it all comes down to is Microsoft did not pioneer the smartphone space as the person I was replying to said they did. It was in fact IBM and later others. They didn't pioneer the tablet space. You could say that Gene Roddenberry did, or Alan Kay at Xerox PARC with the DynaBook concept. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dynabook
Or even GRID systems with the GRIDPad https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/GRiDPad did. And as for the MP3 market well not even close. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Digital_audio_player#History The on I remember is the RIO but event that wasn't the first it is probably just the first that was popular.
Microsoft outside of Windows. Office, and XBox really does have a really bad history at innovation and bringing new tech to the market. The fact that Apple could walk away with the smart phone market and the Tablet market when Microsoft has been in both those markets for years should say it all. I fear Microsoft lacks passion for anything but market share and because of that they are no excelling at new markets.
Thanks for the Kudos but the simple truth is that if you HTML and don't use Flash making a website that is screen reader friendly is just not that hard to do.
Add in all the problems that the networks are throwing at Boxee and the other network devices and they have a big fight in their hands. I do find this flame post most amusing because he is screaming about a lack of openness as well as the lack of DRM filled streaming services. Odds are very high that the media companies are requiring the locks for security as well as the causing the delay of services!
In other words just get a Roku box. Mine works great.
There where? Wow they where so bad that even I didn't notice them?
I did look it up just now on Wikipedia and that source says that you are incorrect.
They list the first smartphone as the IBM Simon from 1992 followed by the Nokia N9000 communicator from 1996 they actually have Microsoft as not shipping until 2002 after the Palm powered Kyocera 6035 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyocera_6035.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#History
So it would seem that from that history that IBM, PALM, and Nokia with different partners where yeas ahead of Microsoft in the smartphone market. .
It also didn't have the first tablet. I am very sure that Grid beat them to that with the GridPad.
I guess I feel that it odd that people have such an odd sense of entitlement. A law suit? Over a video game? Just don't play the ones that use in game purchases. I mean really it is a game which is something one doesn't really need. If enough people don't play them then they fail. If enough people do buy and play them then they will keep making them.
A class action lawsuit? Yea that is great it will make a lot of money for the lawyers.
"This is a common difference between countries that have equatorial regions and none. The US can launch its spacecraft from Florida (or in the alternative Edwards AFB). "
What? Edwards? We don't launch any large boosters from Edwards and never have and probably never will . They would have to launch over land which the US just doesn't do for safety reasons. So what are you talking about?
We do launch from Vandenberg in California but those are polar shots We also launch off of Hawaii using SeaLaunch and from Wallops Island in Virginia but not Edwards. So huhh????
First? Smartphones? You mean after palm? MP3 players? Really? Before apple maybe but not first.
I disagree. The moral implications of ignoring the sight impaired market just to make a pretty picture and it is easy I feel are self evident. They company I work for will not do that and I will not do that.
The business model is far from stupid. It is in fact brillant. It is the exact same model as Magic the Gathering used and many other games and products. It is in fact the old give away the razor and sell the blades model, or the cheap printer and expensive ink model. It makes lots of money and provides a reoccurring revenue stream. As business models go it is great and very successful.
As a consumer I have no interest in a video game where I winning will come down to how much I am willing to spend. But that is just me. I also didn't buy into the whole Magic the Gathering thing. Now buying expansions and extra levels isn't that bad of deal if you really enjoy the game.
I am well aware of why airliners are slower. It was the move to Hi-Bypass turbofans which burn less fuel, make less noise but produce a higher mass but lower velocity exauste. And if you think a 707 is bad just get near a T-37 sometime. It will make you sick to your stomach from the sound.
I disagree on the the shuttle. Frankly I feel that going back to capsules is a step back. The X-33 development should not have been stopped. BTW that was to be an optionally manned craft. I will even agree with you in that I never understood why they didn't build an unmanned version of the shuttle as well as the manned version. For some of the missions it would have works just as well. The XB-70 should have been produced. It would saved many crews in Vietnam if it had been used instead of the B-52. It would still be extremely useful today as a weapons carrier. So many really good projects have been stopped while so many really iffy ones are kept going that it makes my head hurt.
What I did leave out was that the military is back into the speed game. The F-22 is the first real increase in US fighter aircraft speed we have seen in a long time. Not in top speed but in cruise speed where it really counts. That and they are now looking into hypersonic aircraft again.
It doesn't just fail for mobile it just fails. Screen readers for the sight impaired can not read the page, You can not enlarge the fonts to make it easier to read, it is just a mess from start to finish. I agree with you that is what should happen but I still believe that the real problem is a failure to embrace the medium.
Well KSC has to have one. That is just a given. It is the real home of the manned space program. And one needed to go to NASM I mean it is the National Air and Space Museum even if it is going to an annex. It does seem to be a lot for NYC to get on as well. But just bring your kids to Florida if they want to see space stuff. You can go to KSC and see not only the Shuttle but the Saturn V, a TitanII Gemini, Mercury Atlas, Mercury Redstone, Apollo Saturn Ib and the Shuttle. But you can also take them Disney, SeaWorld, and some nice beaches.
Dayton would have been a good place for one as well but I have a feeling that they only reason that Florida got one is that they had to put one there.
And wanna be graphic designers. They tired to make the medium of the Web look and works just like the medium of prints. So now we have have to move our mouse over an item to see if it is a link or not. Or my pet peeve websites that have a fixed width or work best at one resolution. Really? I worked with one idiot once that gave me web pages to put up that where nothing but a matrix of GIF files! The web is fighting a real fight with the from over function people.
I agree with you on the mouse overs not showing you where a link will take you. If it is javascript then they should had a mouse over to the javascript that will tell you where the link is going. If it is flash then they should just be shot. While I would like to see Flash be removed from the face of the earth I can live it being used for some applications like games and other actual programs that run in a browser and Video playback until the whole HTML 5 video standard thing settles down if that ever happens.
But for Navigation! NEVER.