Maybe is just me, but looking that page thumbnails I will tend to force my eyes to get more details of what I viewing, this could cause more visual fatigue?
Also in the scheme where you go a -> b -> c -> d <- c <- b and then the browser history state results of [a, d, c, b] could lead to some non clear transitions (i.e. the back page of d is a) if I don't misunderstood, that can be more confusing.
Anyway, middle mouse button + browser tabs + maybe mouse gestures + a bit of common sense seems to improve a lot the defects of poor back button design.
- Microsoft sells Unix Services for NT or something like that, that is licenced under GPL
- Open Source as a trademark or open source because is "open" in some subjetive way? They could think that shared source is in some way open, because you can look at it under some circunstances (at least, open the file that contain the source)
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NCR Patents the Internet
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But there is not punishment to the one that patented the wrong thing?
Lets assume that I patent something very used but not patented, and start asking licences to everyone. Until someone decide to lose more money than my licence and get me to the courts, I only win, and after that (if a prior art or in the court emerges that my patent or claims are unreasonables) I only stop wining, nothing more, but don't lose a penny in all of this.
I wonder why all "make rich fast!" schemes don't include patenting common sense or widely used ideas and technologies, you can't lose with that.
Last friday here Microsoft had a meeting about Shared Source. I had the funny idea about going with the printed version of shared-source.com to give them a bit of work, but found that the domain was down, and even if I could make my own points against shared source, between not having something with stronger basis and that was early in the morning, well, I missed it.
Maybe an evolution of what was covered in
this previous slashdot story would be the right thing. Is anonymous, requires not so high tech, and in the current form is in use in several countries. To be more practical maybe it should be not so "dumb" as actual smart cards, maybe providing a way to transfer money from card to card directly and safely (PDAs?)
But still will be based in the way we see money today, even if exist better conceptual ways to give value to work, ideas, etc, the actual economy is very based in the money per se, not in actual value of things.
The other thing I believe that could change (maybe in more than 25 year) is some way of unified money and values around the world, that the same product cost the same anywhere (in similar amount of hours of work or something like that, no mean US dollars)
If you have several authors then each one could focus in what is more specialized. Open Source as a philosophy could have one author if you want, but the use of open source in several fields have to be several, unless you have a good writer specialized in each one of possible fields.
In the other hand, an evolutive work could be better than the work of a single person... think in open source software, and the strenght of being developed by a large community.
Maybe for this they need encryption, they found something weird in orbit, and intead to yelling this to the world, causing chaos, they tell what they found only to authorized officials.
Or maybe what they are looking for is not the encryption device, but what they found out there. What if it's a pocket sized monolith full of stars? or a sign saying "Kilroy was here"? or a dinosaur/alien egg?
Hardcoded serial number, the data could be encripted with it. Then without the same phisical card, you can't decript the info.
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Do you really think that any bank in the world would be using this technology if they weren't reasonably certain of it's security? Is the system hack-proof? Almost certainly not
That remembers me looking at bank's desktop computers and see them all running Outlook, where security and hack-proof are only words without concepts behind.
This could be very unfair, how that be controlled? By monitoring access to software vendor's ftp servers? sourceforge? This will mean once and for all the rise of p2p protocols, for a good reason now.
Or counting bandwidth used? This will cause problem with any piece of software that check for updates (antivirus, "smart" operating systems, advertising software/spyware, etc).
At least if they return taxes on received spam some people will not be so angry, in fact, could mean finally that "get rich fast" schemes work at last.
Remember that Simpsons episode where you have to choose between one alien or another, or else vote for someone that you don't know or something like that?
I can understand using a related technology to answer questions like what is the closest restaurant or bus stop or which path I must take to reach some point.
But having a "graffiti wall" at every place could be seriusly misused... even if is easier to clean than the phisical ones. Maybe every note will be associated with the data/phone number/whatever of the one that wrote it, but that could have other problems (privacy, wanting to be an anonymous coward, whatever).
Maybe is because I like a lot science fiction, but the two individual episodes that I most remember is the one where Homer go to the past and kill all dinosaurs (like in the sound of thunder, by Bradbury) and the one where Homer goes 4^H3D.
Unless some genius take that choice for you and integrate the browser with a gui that you can't avoid to load, or integrated browser DLLs with the web server.
There you must redefine critical or ban certain commonly used operating systems from critical systems (I like the second choice:)
Slashdot Mirror
With the actual problem in Middle East (and possible consequences) maybe the next war will be really a Junkyard war.
Maybe is just me, but looking that page thumbnails I will tend to force my eyes to get more details of what I viewing, this could cause more visual fatigue?
Also in the scheme where you go a -> b -> c -> d <- c <- b and then the browser history state results of [a, d, c, b] could lead to some non clear transitions (i.e. the back page of d is a) if I don't misunderstood, that can be more confusing.
Anyway, middle mouse button + browser tabs + maybe mouse gestures + a bit of common sense seems to improve a lot the defects of poor back button design.
- Microsoft sells Unix Services for NT or something like that, that is licenced under GPL
- Open Source as a trademark or open source because is "open" in some subjetive way? They could think that shared source is in some way open, because you can look at it under some circunstances (at least, open the file that contain the source)
But there is not punishment to the one that patented the wrong thing?
Lets assume that I patent something very used but not patented, and start asking licences to everyone. Until someone decide to lose more money than my licence and get me to the courts, I only win, and after that (if a prior art or in the court emerges that my patent or claims are unreasonables) I only stop wining, nothing more, but don't lose a penny in all of this.
I wonder why all "make rich fast!" schemes don't include patenting common sense or widely used ideas and technologies, you can't lose with that.
that was the way my teachers described my mind, especially during exams.
1. Patent patents
2. Sue USPTO
3. All your patents are belong to us
4. Profit!
by the time the universe is dying of cold, something called AC could say
"Let there be light!"
And there will be light
Last friday here Microsoft had a meeting about Shared Source. I had the funny idea about going with the printed version of shared-source.com to give them a bit of work, but found that the domain was down, and even if I could make my own points against shared source, between not having something with stronger basis and that was early in the morning, well, I missed it.
But still will be based in the way we see money today, even if exist better conceptual ways to give value to work, ideas, etc, the actual economy is very based in the money per se, not in actual value of things.
The other thing I believe that could change (maybe in more than 25 year) is some way of unified money and values around the world, that the same product cost the same anywhere (in similar amount of hours of work or something like that, no mean US dollars)
If you have several authors then each one could focus in what is more specialized. Open Source as a philosophy could have one author if you want, but the use of open source in several fields have to be several, unless you have a good writer specialized in each one of possible fields.
In the other hand, an evolutive work could be better than the work of a single person... think in open source software, and the strenght of being developed by a large community.
Maybe for this they need encryption, they found something weird in orbit, and intead to yelling this to the world, causing chaos, they tell what they found only to authorized officials.
Or maybe what they are looking for is not the encryption device, but what they found out there. What if it's a pocket sized monolith full of stars? or a sign saying "Kilroy was here"? or a dinosaur/alien egg?
Hardcoded serial number, the data could be encripted with it. Then without the same phisical card, you can't decript the info.
That remembers me looking at bank's desktop computers and see them all running Outlook, where security and hack-proof are only words without concepts behind.
Maybe within IBM talking about OS/2? Is nice to hire people to dig our own grave.
This could be very unfair, how that be controlled? By monitoring access to software vendor's ftp servers? sourceforge? This will mean once and for all the rise of p2p protocols, for a good reason now.
Or counting bandwidth used? This will cause problem with any piece of software that check for updates (antivirus, "smart" operating systems, advertising software/spyware, etc).
At least if they return taxes on received spam some people will not be so angry, in fact, could mean finally that "get rich fast" schemes work at last.
Constitution 2.0
We the Government...
Remember that Simpsons episode where you have to choose between one alien or another, or else vote for someone that you don't know or something like that?
... a Beowulf cluster of wasHIC!ng machines...
Please, don't give iraquis mail addresses to all spammers around the world, that will hurt them badly, but will be very cruel.
I can understand using a related technology to answer questions like what is the closest restaurant or bus stop or which path I must take to reach some point.
But having a "graffiti wall" at every place could be seriusly misused... even if is easier to clean than the phisical ones. Maybe every note will be associated with the data/phone number/whatever of the one that wrote it, but that could have other problems (privacy, wanting to be an anonymous coward, whatever).
Maybe is because I like a lot science fiction, but the two individual episodes that I most remember is the one where Homer go to the past and kill all dinosaurs (like in the sound of thunder, by Bradbury) and the one where Homer goes 4^H3D.
This kind of things could decrease utility, or make possible uses more difficult?
Bathroom
Unless some genius take that choice for you and integrate the browser with a gui that you can't avoid to load, or integrated browser DLLs with the web server.
:)
There you must redefine critical or ban certain commonly used operating systems from critical systems (I like the second choice
Filtering based in very common words has proved dangerous. Some of the problems of this (for http proxies) has been covered here