If you want proven and reliable, why not go with Judaism instead. It has those extra three and a half thousand years of field-testing and extensive bug-reports (talmud).
Of course they're both plagued with a monolithic kernel design....;)
Actually, you probably read it as he intended it to be read. But technically, and following correct rules of grammar, you have to interpret "Unless surrounded by a steel case, anyone with tools can modify this oh-so-cool appliance" as "Unless the user is himself put into a steel case, he can modify the appliance". Of course once in the steel cage, he might be able to use his tools to get out, but that's a different problem.
Funny thing, that grammar is. Anyone remember when JFK called himself a jelly donut instead of a native of Berlin? Anyone?
In other news, Miguel and I [Havoc] presented the new development roadmap; the steering committee will be fleshing out some of the details and monitoring progress[.]
Actually, if this project really demands a committee (and how else would they get the various companies to cooperate?...), this is the way to do it -- have the design declared by one or two people, and have the committee apportion the gritty-details work and make sure it goes according to schedule. We all know about how the camel is said to be a horse designed by committee, and I'd hate to see what a committee could come up with in trying to be the next MS killer. Something tells me it would look too much like USB[2] -- too much for its original purpose, and like the camel, quite cranky.
You forgot c) when there's an enormous spectacle to be had. Landing on the moon didn't make any money and it didn't have any direct benefit for mankind (albeit plenty of indirect benefits), but like with the Mars rover, the American public sat up and took notice when NASA sent home some really pretty pictures. If NASA were to contrive some mission where they wanted to detect the effects of nuclear explosions in zero-g, as long as they took appropriate photos and silenced a few environmentalists, the masses would have their bread and circus and be happy about it. If you just think of how many millions of dollars are spent on fireworks displays annually....
Especially when you consider that Jupiter and Saturn are still cooling off (emitting more energy than they absorb from solar radiation) after however many billion years....
Now can someone with a greater knowledge of PC hardware than myself explain how a change in OS can cause changes to the power levels provided by the PSU? Damned if I know.
Simple, actually. Win2k has an unpublished "feature" wherein the OS commandeers your Irda port, converts electrical energy into IR energy, and transmits it to Redmond, WA (think microwave powerstation) where it is captured, converted back into electrical energy, and sold at a hefty profit (especially with recent crude oil prices at their recent highs).
When Microsoft first saw its profit projections slumping, they began to seek alternate sources for economic growth, and this is what they came up with. (It narrowly beat out the idea of extracting spittle from registration-card envelopes and selling genetic profiles of all registered MS software users to direct marketers.)
(And anyone who marks this post as "troll" or "flamebait" is a bigger joke than this post is.)
It has to lose its distinctiveness AND there can't be an alternate word in order for it to lose its status as a trademark. People can call it xeroxing for all they want, but as long as "photocopying" still exists, Xerox Corp doesn't have to worry about losing its trademark. Needless to say, this sort of thing only rarely happens.
Heck, the pundits have been saying Apple will die for the last ten years, and all it's done is make them more profitable. Maybe this is exactly the sort of fool-the-evil-eye promoting that Amazon needs to make it big.
Not Peapod! Why, if we didn't have Peapod, then where would we get our groceries online? Oh, wait a second, we still have Webvan, Streamline, and countless other local companies. So there'll be a lot of shakeout among the various online companies, and the less successful ones will die or be bought out buy the more successful ones, but that's the market cycle as it's always been.
Even Ponzi's ventures eventually ran out of money and collapsed. This internet bubble is no different.
Review of Gnutella.50c by GritsTroll on March 20th, 2000 11:31 PM ***** Gnutella just helped me pour a hot bowl of grits down my pants!
I'm saddened to see slashdot trolls branching out into the rest of the web, but I suppose it had to happen, since plenty of the slashdot trolls were probably originally usenet ones.
How can you distinguish between "We at Mattel want to suppress criticism of Mattel" and "We at Mattel want to make sure that anyone who has this software installed won't find his child downloading the unblocking software and defeating the software he purchased no matter what level of blocking he has enabled"?
The proper thing would be to have the next version contain a label for "This page links to software that defeats CyberPatrol", which most people would promptly enable. Actually the proper thing would be not to install censorware, but you can't expect people to behave rationally.
For those keeping score at home, there's at least one: rmager@vgkk.co.jp. I fail to see what you're responding to, however -- the summary didn't contain the word "us".
Ditch the country codes. All of them. The whole point of the Net is that physical location isn't supposed to matter.
We can ditch country codes exactly when "countries" become obsolete--when the governments that define those countries stop trying to pass different laws governing how things work..AU domains have different legal restrictions than do.DE and.US ones.
(Unfortunately all the problems won't keep a policy like this from being implemented.)
Unless the domain names allow for the type of detail necessary to distinguish between trademark uses -- is this domain for a company that sells detergent or operating systems? -- it will continue to completely undermine the very notion that trademarks are assigned for specific uses and don't automatically remove normal words from everyday language. Nevermind complications from considering multiple languages
What is to be done about various international trademark disputes? In some countries, "aspirin" is a trademark owned by Bayer Aspirin, but not in the US where it's considered the generic name for acetylsalicylic acid. Is it just that US policy will continue to dictate how the internet functions on a global basis?
A single entity to control: more than 50% of all certificates. Actually, about 90% if their pending merger with forgot the name will not bite the dust. It is under investigation at the moment
The company is Thawte, and unless I'm mistaken, the combined company would control something more like 98% or 99% of the market. The scary thing is, I know some of the folks at various securities corporations down near wallstreet who are in favor of the merger, since having no choice means less hassle for them. I hate that mindset.
Hardware manufacturers should not create their own PROPRIETARY distributions. Hardware manufacturers should not create their own PROPRIETARY distributions. If the modifications are appropriately gpled, and later merged into other distributions, then great! Motorola, however, can't wait around while other companies (which may have interests opposed to Motorola's -- these things happen) kowtow to Motorola's demands and release what Motorola wants to exist right now. Hopefully these modifications will make it into the general kernel, but one of the chief (for businesses) benefits of GPLed software is they don't have to wait around for the OS manufacturer (*cough* Microsoft *cough*) to do what needs to be done now.
You make it seem like managing one's own distro is harder than trying to manage someone else's distro. You also make it seem like achieving these levels of uptime is just a matter of inserting a new driver. I'd suggest otherwise in this particular case.
And using reverse psychology like yours on moderators, while effective, is beneath my contempt. No need (+1 Insightful) to insert (+1 Informative) subliminal messages (+1 Funny) in my posts. No sir-ee.
Every schoolchild recognizes Neil Armstrong as the first man to walk on the moon.... Nobody remembers who got there second...
Every schoolchild knows that Bull Aldrin got there second, if not because they actually care about learning such things then because they watch tv and have seen the NASA commemorative coin commercials he did a few years back. Celebrities are notorious for extending their face-time with endorsements -- how many people do you suppose only recognize Shatner as the Priceline guy?...
If only it were that easy. You may not be viewing the banner ads themselves, but you're contributing to the total number of hits the main site gets, which makes it more desirable to advertisers. You're still indirectly increasing their profitability.
There are countless ways of finding books' isbns online, so if you're going to act on pure principle then there's no reason to compromise it. If you're only acting on an approximation of pure principle ("I will not give Amazon.com $20, but I will encourage someone else to give them $0.000000001 if I have to."), then go ahead and continue to use their site without buying anything. Personally, I find that site slow and bloated, even in the text-only version.
Actually, a lot of it is due to good oldfashioned engineering decisions: cartriges, while smaller and more expensive than cds, are frankly still much faster. To compensate, you can put more ram in the cd-based console, but that translates into more expensive consoles. Obviously the market has declared Sony the victor for the time being, however....
What's more, Jeff went on, small inventions can often seem extremely obvious in retrospect. The patent literature is full of this kind of thing. The significance of an invention isn't how hard it is to copy, but how it reframes the problem in a new way.
Clearly the reason why no one ever patented 1-click before was that they simply hadn't reframed the problem in the correct way. Apparently the correct way to reframe it is to ask "How can Amazon.com patent a simple idea and thereby squash competition and discourage innovation." It took a brilliant man like Jeff Bezos to reframe it this way, and we should be proud of his profound insight and dedication.
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If you want proven and reliable, why not go with Judaism instead. It has those extra three and a half thousand years of field-testing and extensive bug-reports (talmud).
;)
Of course they're both plagued with a monolithic kernel design....
Actually, you probably read it as he intended it to be read. But technically, and following correct rules of grammar, you have to interpret "Unless surrounded by a steel case, anyone with tools can modify this oh-so-cool appliance" as "Unless the user is himself put into a steel case, he can modify the appliance". Of course once in the steel cage, he might be able to use his tools to get out, but that's a different problem.
Funny thing, that grammar is. Anyone remember when JFK called himself a jelly donut instead of a native of Berlin? Anyone?
In other news, Miguel and I [Havoc] presented the new development roadmap; the steering committee will be fleshing out some of the details and monitoring progress[.]
Actually, if this project really demands a committee (and how else would they get the various companies to cooperate?...), this is the way to do it -- have the design declared by one or two people, and have the committee apportion the gritty-details work and make sure it goes according to schedule. We all know about how the camel is said to be a horse designed by committee, and I'd hate to see what a committee could come up with in trying to be the next MS killer. Something tells me it would look too much like USB[2] -- too much for its original purpose, and like the camel, quite cranky.
You forgot c) when there's an enormous spectacle to be had. Landing on the moon didn't make any money and it didn't have any direct benefit for mankind (albeit plenty of indirect benefits), but like with the Mars rover, the American public sat up and took notice when NASA sent home some really pretty pictures. If NASA were to contrive some mission where they wanted to detect the effects of nuclear explosions in zero-g, as long as they took appropriate photos and silenced a few environmentalists, the masses would have their bread and circus and be happy about it. If you just think of how many millions of dollars are spent on fireworks displays annually....
Especially when you consider that Jupiter and Saturn are still cooling off (emitting more energy than they absorb from solar radiation) after however many billion years....
It automagically removes any sorts of defects that are common to CCD observations
You mean like images of little green men waving at the telescope like a bunch of morons standing outside a morning-show studio?
Now can someone with a greater knowledge of PC hardware than myself explain how a change in OS can cause changes to the power levels provided by the PSU? Damned if I know.
Simple, actually. Win2k has an unpublished "feature" wherein the OS commandeers your Irda port, converts electrical energy into IR energy, and transmits it to Redmond, WA (think microwave powerstation) where it is captured, converted back into electrical energy, and sold at a hefty profit (especially with recent crude oil prices at their recent highs).
When Microsoft first saw its profit projections slumping, they began to seek alternate sources for economic growth, and this is what they came up with. (It narrowly beat out the idea of extracting spittle from registration-card envelopes and selling genetic profiles of all registered MS software users to direct marketers.)
(And anyone who marks this post as "troll" or "flamebait" is a bigger joke than this post is.)
'What Do You Care What Other People Think?' : Further Adventures of a Curious Character
(they want you to buy the PHB)
But what if he's not for sale? Oh wait, he is.
(And yes, I know all about the Player's Handbook.)
Am I being wrongfully arrogant here?
No.
It has to lose its distinctiveness AND there can't be an alternate word in order for it to lose its status as a trademark. People can call it xeroxing for all they want, but as long as "photocopying" still exists, Xerox Corp doesn't have to worry about losing its trademark. Needless to say, this sort of thing only rarely happens.
Heck, the pundits have been saying Apple will die for the last ten years, and all it's done is make them more profitable. Maybe this is exactly the sort of fool-the-evil-eye promoting that Amazon needs to make it big.
Not Peapod! Why, if we didn't have Peapod, then where would we get our groceries online? Oh, wait a second, we still have Webvan, Streamline, and countless other local companies. So there'll be a lot of shakeout among the various online companies, and the less successful ones will die or be bought out buy the more successful ones, but that's the market cycle as it's always been.
Even Ponzi's ventures eventually ran out of money and collapsed. This internet bubble is no different.
I'm saddened to see slashdot trolls branching out into the rest of the web, but I suppose it had to happen, since plenty of the slashdot trolls were probably originally usenet ones.
How can you distinguish between "We at Mattel want to suppress criticism of Mattel" and "We at Mattel want to make sure that anyone who has this software installed won't find his child downloading the unblocking software and defeating the software he purchased no matter what level of blocking he has enabled"?
The proper thing would be to have the next version contain a label for "This page links to software that defeats CyberPatrol", which most people would promptly enable. Actually the proper thing would be not to install censorware, but you can't expect people to behave rationally.
For those keeping score at home, there's at least one: rmager@vgkk.co.jp. I fail to see what you're responding to, however -- the summary didn't contain the word "us".
Daily Radar's take. They don't give too many details, but few details is likely to satisfy a rumor-hungry horde where no details has failed.
Ditch the country codes. All of them. The whole point of the Net is that physical location isn't supposed to matter.
.AU domains have different legal restrictions than do .DE and .US ones.
We can ditch country codes exactly when "countries" become obsolete--when the governments that define those countries stop trying to pass different laws governing how things work.
Unless the domain names allow for the type of detail necessary to distinguish between trademark uses -- is this domain for a company that sells detergent or operating systems? -- it will continue to completely undermine the very notion that trademarks are assigned for specific uses and don't automatically remove normal words from everyday language. Nevermind complications from considering multiple languages
What is to be done about various international trademark disputes? In some countries, "aspirin" is a trademark owned by Bayer Aspirin, but not in the US where it's considered the generic name for acetylsalicylic acid. Is it just that US policy will continue to dictate how the internet functions on a global basis?
A single entity to control: more than 50% of all certificates. Actually, about 90% if their pending merger with forgot the name will not bite the dust. It is under investigation at the moment
The company is Thawte, and unless I'm mistaken, the combined company would control something more like 98% or 99% of the market. The scary thing is, I know some of the folks at various securities corporations down near wallstreet who are in favor of the merger, since having no choice means less hassle for them. I hate that mindset.
Hardware manufacturers should not create their own PROPRIETARY distributions. Hardware manufacturers should not create their own PROPRIETARY distributions. If the modifications are appropriately gpled, and later merged into other distributions, then great! Motorola, however, can't wait around while other companies (which may have interests opposed to Motorola's -- these things happen) kowtow to Motorola's demands and release what Motorola wants to exist right now. Hopefully these modifications will make it into the general kernel, but one of the chief (for businesses) benefits of GPLed software is they don't have to wait around for the OS manufacturer (*cough* Microsoft *cough*) to do what needs to be done now.
You make it seem like managing one's own distro is harder than trying to manage someone else's distro. You also make it seem like achieving these levels of uptime is just a matter of inserting a new driver. I'd suggest otherwise in this particular case.
And using reverse psychology like yours on moderators, while effective, is beneath my contempt. No need (+1 Insightful) to insert (+1 Informative) subliminal messages (+1 Funny) in my posts. No sir-ee.
Every schoolchild recognizes Neil Armstrong as the first man to walk on the moon.... Nobody remembers who got there second...
Every schoolchild knows that Bull Aldrin got there second, if not because they actually care about learning such things then because they watch tv and have seen the NASA commemorative coin commercials he did a few years back. Celebrities are notorious for extending their face-time with endorsements -- how many people do you suppose only recognize Shatner as the Priceline guy?...
If only it were that easy. You may not be viewing the banner ads themselves, but you're contributing to the total number of hits the main site gets, which makes it more desirable to advertisers. You're still indirectly increasing their profitability.
There are countless ways of finding books' isbns online, so if you're going to act on pure principle then there's no reason to compromise it. If you're only acting on an approximation of pure principle ("I will not give Amazon.com $20, but I will encourage someone else to give them $0.000000001 if I have to."), then go ahead and continue to use their site without buying anything. Personally, I find that site slow and bloated, even in the text-only version.
(wonder why N64 is cartridge)
Actually, a lot of it is due to good oldfashioned engineering decisions: cartriges, while smaller and more expensive than cds, are frankly still much faster. To compensate, you can put more ram in the cd-based console, but that translates into more expensive consoles. Obviously the market has declared Sony the victor for the time being, however....
Clearly the reason why no one ever patented 1-click before was that they simply hadn't reframed the problem in the correct way. Apparently the correct way to reframe it is to ask "How can Amazon.com patent a simple idea and thereby squash competition and discourage innovation." It took a brilliant man like Jeff Bezos to reframe it this way, and we should be proud of his profound insight and dedication.