What happens when the {some trademak} is no longer a name but a symbol and only a symbol? That is going to be a interesting long term question and there are several cases that show you can protect your self aginst bad publiscity by using just a symbol. I wonder how long it will be before McDonalds drops the name and just goes with the arches.
"X Windows" is slang. Thats the stupididity that caused this mess in the 1st place. Had the X Consortium added "X winodws" to their list of trademarks, Microsoft would be telling the world "please don't use Windows now, use $MARKETERRING_NAME"
I'm not sure the X Consortium is clear on the legal issues.
The mandrakes and red hats provide a useful service to thouse without broadband. How long does it take to get mandrake 9 over a dialup?
Now look at where broadband is going. I have to pay extra if I want a package that gives me enough downloads to get more than one ISO. There is quite a bit of pressure on broadband compaines to limit download to only "approved" things. There are ways they can slow down the "revolt"
If you average many of the quarts (all based on 1/4 of a gallon where the gallon varies by region and industry), you get 1 liter.
At one point in the US there were over 20 different "miles" in use. Bridge builders had their own as did railroads when they wern't building bridges.
One thing that I have noticed is that people who are used to feet can guess at the sizes of rooms and offices more accuraturately than thouse used to the metric system. Both groups of people tend to be within 2 units of the correct number so the imperialist seem to have 3 times the precision.
I was talking to a cop who claimed that people giving heights in feet and inches were more accurate than those offering descriptions of crooks in meters or cm. This is a country where most women under 25 can't tell you what an inch is but still can describe some one as being 6 ft 4 and their description will still be within about 2 inches. I find it quite strange.
Remember the Brits used a base 10 measuring system long before they switched to a base 12 system. Outside of the US most home construction is in units of 30 cm with newer items being in 1/2 or 1/4 meter units.
1/4 isn't the problem. 1/3 is. Most angles in construction are 4:3 or 3:4 and a 12 minor units to a major one helps that out. The squares are all easy, its the angles that aren't. Here in Australia, roofers are still using the old imperial tools for their work but they are no longer using nice round numbers. I'm not sure why someone hasn't started selling materials by the "metric foot" which would be 30cm.
There was a spamer in town and it was clear where he lived. The story I've heard is a few people did show up and explain that they guy had two choices, one involved him not spaming and the other involved cricket bats. As far as I know he never spamed again.
I've never seen an elm vs pine flame war. Most of us that have been using elm, look at all pine users as newbies and just ignore them.
I 1st got pine from mod.sources in 1986 and I've been using it ever since. (newbies can group google for v06i031). Its open source thanks to HP.
Anyone else remember the early exploits where people would email vt100 sequences to reprogram the keys so the next time you hit F1 it would "own" your system? Elm was one of the 1st programs to attempt to fix that.
But moving 64 bits of data when your only going to use 16 isn't a help and that tends to be a large chunck of instructions most compilers generate. Look at the power pc, it takes 5 instructions to load a 64 bit value. It takes one for a 16 bit value. With sparcs, most programs run faster when running in 32 bit mode than 64. There isn't a single 64 bit program running on the 64 bit Nintendo 64 because the 32 bit ops are faster. A 32 bit cpu with a 64 bit memory managment (like early sparcs) give the same advantage you talk about without the mess of moving around an extra 32 bits for ever context change. Going to 64 bits doen't get you the increase that the 16->32 bit change did unless your running lots of calculations with very large numbers.
Geostationary sats are over the equator. At the equator you point the dish directly up. At 30 degrees north or south you point the dishes at 60 degrees. At the poles you point the dishes at the horizon. The lower you point the dish, the more air it has to go through and there are more things that can be in the way and there will be more local weather effects.
If you go look at the sat tv dishes, you will see they are all pointed at 90 degrees - your latitude except the focalpoint isn't in the middle of most of the dishes so they look like they are pointed at the wrong angle.
How did all 4 major compaines (that are competeing with each other) all know to use DMCA agisnt one company at the same time?
Here in OZ, K-mart and Target are the same company (coles-meyer) . They compete with Big-W which is owned by the only other company that does large retail stores (owned by woolworths). Big-W in the UK is owned in part by Wal-Mart. They look like Wal-marts, they even smell like wal-marts and if you put Sam Walton in one he would say it was a wal-mart (if he wasn't dead).I've been told the locals (K-mart, Big-W, Target) are all locally owened even though they have the same trademark.
These compaines are all very well connected to each other if you look at the members of the board and they appear to be selling legal info now.
Thats just like the postfix situation. No one has reported bugs.... however if you look at most of the sendmail "bugs" over the last 5 years, you will find they workaround bugs in standard libraries and operating systems, not the main program code. If you look at the patches to sendmail and see if they have are need and applied to other packages, you will find they were needed but aren't applied. None of the people paying for bug reports will pay for bugs in the OS.
I worked for a goverment manager that got an aword because she had the most increased MIPS per square foot. I found a unused sun 690 (new in the box) and we set it up to make sure they hadn't busted it before its warranty expired. Its 216 mips in one rack upped her average which was being held down by an almost one mip ibm 3081 that took 1/4 of the data center.
Theoretical physics theorys are the current alchemy or like the early "real science" theorys of the orbits of the planets. In both of thouse cases, some of the smartest humans alive at the time felt they were going down the right path. In once case Keppler came up with something simple and wiped out a huge mess of compex things (that fit the math) and most of the early dye industry was based on alchemy and some of the early compaines basing their dye science on alchemey are still the largest chemical supply compaines. Many of modern chemstry terms still come from that "science".
Modern gravity research shows the current stuff is wrong. This is why gravity probe B is going to be launched but its set up to do some very specific expierments and doesn't do a few key ones. Answer why the GPS sats are slowing down and why voyager is slowing down and why pendulums swing funny during an eclipse and theres a Nobel prize waiting for you.
Richard Feynman said that physics is simple and if its not, the theory headed in the wrong direction.
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Its not at all critical and there is a reason its called a "hint" file.
When you start up bind, it will loads the hints file. when you do a dns query where it has to go to the root, it grabs one out of the hints and does a lookup while timimg how long that server took. Its then continues through the list using the one with the lowest time and it increments a running average so that it will retry all the roots over time. At some point during this process it will find out the serail number of the root zone isn't quite what it expected and then will ask the a root server for the list of root servers. If your bind has been running for weeks, months or years, it already has the new data. Its just the startup data that has one wrong entry -- if you've been running a recent zone file, I've seen servers that runing hint files that are close to a decade old.
If you don't want to/. the ftp server, $ dig @a.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . ns > root.hints
This would only be an urgent issue if they address of one of the root servers was assigned to a different group.
What would happen if there was a class action suit aginst one of their popular aritist directly. I'm thinking of some group that none of us would ever buy from (Boybands, sexy chick of the week, other artifical band). This would get major press infront of thouse people that the record compaines like and all of a sudden the "artist" would start to understand that the big lables aren't good for them either. As long as its just the consumers aginst the record compaines, there is no way to win. If its the artists and consumers, then maybe something will break. With a bit more press, maybe people would start to understand that their local radiostations aren't so local. But maybe its just too hard to convince the sheep there are wolves in their midst.
I don't think Apple will ever understand the mouse. I've been using mice since before the Lisa came out and I've always felt the need for several buttons. The early mac dealers would all say, you don't need more buttons, just do this... and I would say that another button on the mouse would prevent 3 to 10 extra mouse movments. I've only bought two macs so far and they were only $400. After cussing at mac os X last night, I don't think I'll be in the mac buying mood ever again but had they had mac os x 5 years ago, I would be promoting the silly things now.
I think they already lost the plot. Years ago they were working on good user interfaces and were much better than everyone else. It took Motorola years to get away from their "it started out as a "8 digit 7 segment display" mentality.
Last year I bought the top of the line Nokia phone (8310). Its only slightly better than the older phones and its got lots of nasty bugs and stupid interface issues. For example if you send an SMS, the display mode goes back into editor. If you get distracted and don't know if you sent the message or not (or of the cell site rejected it for some reason), you can't tell if it was sent.
You can't hook a data cable up to the phone. You have to use IRDA. When was the last time any computer except a laptop had IRDA? The last time I saw a new one was over 5 years ago.
The problem this week is there is no local time offset. My phone company hasn't figured out day light savings started so my phone has the wrong time and keeps asking to update it. The problem is the message pops up at the wrong time and gets acked while I'm tring to make a call.
No POP3 mailer with gprs? what were they thinking? I want my phone to always be connected using GPRS and check for new mail ever 30 minutes or so. It can't do that...
You can't get to the main menu while on a call. Also some of the options hang up the call if your tring to get someone else number out of the phone while on a call.
No call timers or call cost calulators. The phone has it but they allow the phone company to turn them off. Whats the reason for this? So I can't tell how much I use so I get a supprise bill? The next guy at work who delivers a supprise bill is going to find themself with no phone.
You can't get a Nokai phone fixed. If there is any water damage, the local Nokia repair shop will charge you to say they can't fix it. Every other place will drop the board in a cleaning solution, replace the mics and speaker and send you out the door with a working phone. The local shop also said they would take "all care" to preserve the data in the phone and promply wiped it. That was a pain since the only way to back it up is with a PC that talks IRDA which I don't have.
Nokia knows its money comes from the cell phone compaines and they've castrated my phone's features to sell out to Vodafone and the like. This is the last Nokia phone I'll buy for a long time. At work we've been getting Sony/Erricsons where are 1/2 the price with better features and they are better phones.
Nokia hasn't been the leader in the market for at least a year and now it looks like they are tring to catch up.
Its not like its a problem. It wasn't for the US justice department. They had the best monopoly case since Standard oil and they just bent over for Microsoft. While we don't know who is in that gotese.cx picture, I'm sure they work for Ashcroft.
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What happens when the {some trademak} is no longer a name but a symbol and only a symbol? That is going to be a interesting long term question and there are several cases that show you can protect your self aginst bad publiscity by using just a symbol. I wonder how long it will be before McDonalds drops the name and just goes with the arches.
"X Windows" is slang.
Thats the stupididity that caused this mess in the 1st place. Had the X Consortium added "X winodws" to their list of trademarks, Microsoft would be telling the world "please don't use Windows now, use $MARKETERRING_NAME"
I'm not sure the X Consortium is clear on the legal issues.
The mandrakes and red hats provide a useful service to thouse without broadband. How long does it take to get mandrake 9 over a dialup?
Now look at where broadband is going. I have to pay extra if I want a package that gives me enough downloads to get more than one ISO. There is quite a bit of pressure on broadband compaines to limit download to only "approved" things. There are ways they can slow down the "revolt"
If you average many of the quarts (all based on 1/4 of a gallon where the gallon varies by region and industry), you get 1 liter.
At one point in the US there were over 20 different "miles" in use. Bridge builders had their own as did railroads when they wern't building bridges.
One thing that I have noticed is that people who are used to feet can guess at the sizes of rooms and offices more accuraturately than thouse used to the metric system. Both groups of people tend to be within 2 units of the correct number so the imperialist seem to have 3 times the precision.
I was talking to a cop who claimed that people giving heights in feet and inches were more accurate than those offering descriptions of crooks in meters or cm. This is a country where most women under 25 can't tell you what an inch is but still can describe some one as being 6 ft 4 and their description will still be within about 2 inches. I find it quite strange.
the 60 bitness helped with their floating point and vector units
Remember the Brits used a base 10 measuring system long before they switched to a base 12 system. Outside of the US most home construction is in units of 30 cm with newer items being in 1/2 or 1/4 meter units.
1/4 isn't the problem. 1/3 is. Most angles in construction are 4:3 or 3:4 and a 12 minor units to a major one helps that out. The squares are all easy, its the angles that aren't. Here in Australia, roofers are still using the old imperial tools for their work but they are no longer using nice round numbers. I'm not sure why someone hasn't started selling materials by the "metric foot" which would be 30cm.
So other than the gui, what useful feature does word perfect 5 not have that ms word xp does?
Remember WP5 had a gui on most platforms other than x86 ones...
the Onion has details on the 10th circle...
hyjacking other servers is not allowed in any TOS any more than spaming is.
There was a spamer in town and it was clear where he lived. The story I've heard is a few people did show up and explain that they guy had two choices, one involved him not spaming and the other involved cricket bats. As far as I know he never spamed again.
I've never seen an elm vs pine flame war. Most of us that have been using elm, look at all pine users as newbies and just ignore them.
I 1st got pine from mod.sources in 1986 and I've been using it ever since. (newbies can group google for v06i031). Its open source thanks to HP.
Anyone else remember the early exploits where people would email vt100 sequences to reprogram the keys so the next time you hit F1 it would "own" your system? Elm was one of the 1st programs to attempt to fix that.
But moving 64 bits of data when your only going to use 16 isn't a help and that tends to be a large chunck of instructions most compilers generate. Look at the power pc, it takes 5 instructions to load a 64 bit value. It takes one for a 16 bit value. With sparcs, most programs run faster when running in 32 bit mode than 64. There isn't a single 64 bit program running on the 64 bit Nintendo 64 because the 32 bit ops are faster. A 32 bit cpu with a 64 bit memory managment (like early sparcs) give the same advantage you talk about without the mess of moving around an extra 32 bits for ever context change. Going to 64 bits doen't get you the increase that the 16->32 bit change did unless your running lots of calculations with very large numbers.
Geostationary sats are over the equator. At the equator you point the dish directly up. At 30 degrees north or south you point the dishes at 60 degrees. At the poles you point the dishes at the horizon. The lower you point the dish, the more air it has to go through and there are more things that can be in the way and there will be more local weather effects.
If you go look at the sat tv dishes, you will see they are all pointed at 90 degrees - your latitude except the focalpoint isn't in the middle of most of the dishes so they look like they are pointed at the wrong angle.
How did all 4 major compaines (that are competeing with each other) all know to use DMCA agisnt one company at the same time?
.I've been told the locals (K-mart, Big-W, Target) are all locally owened even though they have the same trademark.
Here in OZ, K-mart and Target are the same company (coles-meyer) . They compete with Big-W which is owned by the only other company that does large retail stores (owned by woolworths). Big-W in the UK is owned in part by Wal-Mart. They look like Wal-marts, they even smell like wal-marts and if you put Sam Walton in one he would say it was a wal-mart (if he wasn't dead)
These compaines are all very well connected to each other if you look at the members of the board and they appear to be selling legal info now.
Thats just like the postfix situation. No one has reported bugs.... however if you look at most of the sendmail "bugs" over the last 5 years, you will find they workaround bugs in standard libraries and operating systems, not the main program code. If you look at the patches to sendmail and see if they have are need and applied to other packages, you will find they were needed but aren't applied. None of the people paying for bug reports will pay for bugs in the OS.
I worked for a goverment manager that got an aword because she had the most increased MIPS per square foot. I found a unused sun 690 (new in the box) and we set it up to make sure they hadn't busted it before its warranty expired. Its 216 mips in one rack upped her average which was being held down by an almost one mip ibm 3081 that took 1/4 of the data center.
Theoretical physics theorys are the current alchemy or like the early "real science" theorys of the orbits of the planets. In both of thouse cases, some of the smartest humans alive at the time felt they were going down the right path. In once case Keppler came up with something simple and wiped out a huge mess of compex things (that fit the math) and most of the early dye industry was based on alchemy and some of the early compaines basing their dye science on alchemey are still the largest chemical supply compaines. Many of modern chemstry terms still come from that "science".
Modern gravity research shows the current stuff is wrong. This is why gravity probe B is going to be launched but its set up to do some very specific expierments and doesn't do a few key ones. Answer why the GPS sats are slowing down and why voyager is slowing down and why pendulums swing funny during an eclipse and theres a Nobel prize waiting for you.
Richard Feynman said that physics is simple and if its not, the theory headed in the wrong direction.
Its not at all critical and there is a reason its called a "hint" file.
/. the ftp server,
When you start up bind, it will loads the hints file. when you do a dns query where it has to go to the root, it grabs one out of the hints and does a lookup while timimg how long that server took. Its then continues through the list using the one with the lowest time and it increments a running average so that it will retry all the roots over time. At some point during this process it will find out the serail number of the root zone isn't quite what it expected and then will ask the a root server for the list of root servers. If your bind has been running for weeks, months or years, it already has the new data. Its just the startup data that has one wrong entry -- if you've been running a recent zone file, I've seen servers that runing hint files that are close to a decade old.
If you don't want to
$ dig @a.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . ns > root.hints
This would only be an urgent issue if they address of one of the root servers was assigned to a different group.
What would happen if there was a class action suit aginst one of their popular aritist directly. I'm thinking of some group that none of us would ever buy from (Boybands, sexy chick of the week, other artifical band). This would get major press infront of thouse people that the record compaines like and all of a sudden the "artist" would start to understand that the big lables aren't good for them either. As long as its just the consumers aginst the record compaines, there is no way to win. If its the artists and consumers, then maybe something will break. With a bit more press, maybe people would start to understand that their local radiostations aren't so local. But maybe its just too hard to convince the sheep there are wolves in their midst.
RICO also can allow for jail time for company officers. This is a very good option.
I don't think Apple will ever understand the mouse. I've been using mice since before the Lisa came out and I've always felt the need for several buttons. The early mac dealers would all say, you don't need more buttons, just do this... and I would say that another button on the mouse would prevent 3 to 10 extra mouse movments. I've only bought two macs so far and they were only $400. After cussing at mac os X last night, I don't think I'll be in the mac buying mood ever again but had they had mac os x 5 years ago, I would be promoting the silly things now.
I think they already lost the plot. Years ago they were working on good user interfaces and were much better than everyone else. It took Motorola years to get away from their "it started out as a "8 digit 7 segment display" mentality.
Last year I bought the top of the line Nokia phone (8310). Its only slightly better than the older phones and its got lots of nasty bugs and stupid interface issues. For example if you send an SMS, the display mode goes back into editor. If you get distracted and don't know if you sent the message or not (or of the cell site rejected it for some reason), you can't tell if it was sent.
You can't hook a data cable up to the phone. You have to use IRDA. When was the last time any computer except a laptop had IRDA? The last time I saw a new one was over 5 years ago.
The problem this week is there is no local time offset. My phone company hasn't figured out day light savings started so my phone has the wrong time and keeps asking to update it. The problem is the message pops up at the wrong time and gets acked while I'm tring to make a call.
No POP3 mailer with gprs? what were they thinking? I want my phone to always be connected using GPRS and check for new mail ever 30 minutes or so. It can't do that...
You can't get to the main menu while on a call. Also some of the options hang up the call if your tring to get someone else number out of the phone while on a call.
No call timers or call cost calulators. The phone has it but they allow the phone company to turn them off. Whats the reason for this? So I can't tell how much I use so I get a supprise bill? The next guy at work who delivers a supprise bill is going to find themself with no phone.
You can't get a Nokai phone fixed. If there is any water damage, the local Nokia repair shop will charge you to say they can't fix it. Every other place will drop the board in a cleaning solution, replace the mics and speaker and send you out the door with a working phone. The local shop also said they would take "all care" to preserve the data in the phone and promply wiped it. That was a pain since the only way to back it up is with a PC that talks IRDA which I don't have.
Nokia knows its money comes from the cell phone compaines and they've castrated my phone's features to sell out to Vodafone and the like. This is the last Nokia phone I'll buy for a long time. At work we've been getting Sony/Erricsons where are 1/2 the price with better features and they are better phones.
Nokia hasn't been the leader in the market for at least a year and now it looks like they are tring to catch up.
Its problems are listed here.
Its got all the problems that show up when someone tries to invent something without doing the research 1st.
Its not like its a problem. It wasn't for the US justice department. They had the best monopoly case since Standard oil and they just bent over for Microsoft. While we don't know who is in that gotese.cx picture, I'm sure they work for Ashcroft.