*sigh* And just today I was looking at my college's career site and noticed several internships with no pay. I guess that's good experience when you are in school, but these are summert 40hr/week internships.
This sounds exactly like what happened to me at my University (UT Austin). I went to our Campus Computer store and bought the latest version of Office. I noticed that they made me sign an agreement that essentially said that I needed a separate license from MS once I graduate, and that I could get it from the place I bought the CDs. So, I asked the guys working at the store about getting this license, and after 10 minutes of talking and looking at stuff they just told me that I didn't actually need one.
So, go figure. I have a signed agreement sayign that I need a license key and that Campus Computers would provide, and they said they didn't have to. I guess I am legit.
The only problem with just making a small addition and then claiming a new patent is that your addition has to be NON-OBVIOUS. And it's already established that something done offline, but moved online, is obvious and is not grounds for a patent.
I've never even heard of a mousepad that might be required for an optical mouse.
I've used my optical mouse on 2 different plain old desktop surfaces (one wasa bit glossy, and sometimes the mouse pointer would jerk on-screen) and on several different plain old mousepads, with no trouble.
I figure being older is better, since its glossiness that creates trouble.
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You say that we can't feel like we need a trial version of Xandros because MacOS X doesn't have a trial version?
The difference between the two is that I can go to any local computer store and play with a laptop running MacOS X, or try OS X on a friend's computer who's been using it for quite some time. Xandros has neither of those 2 benefits (they don't have lots of established users, and they don't have computers running it in many computer stores).
MacOS X was a sucessor of a previous OS version, and thus was "familiar" to many Mac users. Xandros.... nothing.
So, the question is "how do you start an OS off from scratch?" I'd say the same way I got hooked on linux - give it away for free (even if its just a time-limited version).
Do you have any sources with info about HURD? The main links are slashdotted and you seem to have strong opinions... so hopefully you've got some good sources of info you could share with us.
Don't bring more than 4 AA's on an airplane trip. I did that on a trip recently and one of the security personell mentioned that looked supsicious and recommended I carry no more than 4.
Eh? I just flew roundtrip across the country with 30 or so AA's in my carry-on and had no trouble at all in the airport.
Well, you got the concept right and all the facts wrong...
The fellow was Brian West, who worked for an ISP, and he did a little more than just "discover" the security hole in the Poteau Daily News website. A link to more info..
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Do you know what is a laughable sum? $0.00.
*sigh* And just today I was looking at my college's career site and noticed several internships with no pay. I guess that's good experience when you are in school, but these are summert 40hr/week internships.
This sounds exactly like what happened to me at my University (UT Austin). I went to our Campus Computer store and bought the latest version of Office. I noticed that they made me sign an agreement that essentially said that I needed a separate license from MS once I graduate, and that I could get it from the place I bought the CDs. So, I asked the guys working at the store about getting this license, and after 10 minutes of talking and looking at stuff they just told me that I didn't actually need one. So, go figure. I have a signed agreement sayign that I need a license key and that Campus Computers would provide, and they said they didn't have to. I guess I am legit.
Sony doesn't lose money on the ps2, and never did, according to good ol' Gord (article here)
The miltiary has alreayd issued a correction, saying that they were likely the Al-samoud (spelling?) missles.
The only problem with just making a small addition and then claiming a new patent is that your addition has to be NON-OBVIOUS. And it's already established that something done offline, but moved online, is obvious and is not grounds for a patent.
They already made a phone that played MP3's according to this article (linked to in a previous comment). And that phone failed.
It doesn't say if it was 128MB or not, but the idea isn't completely ignored... although it might be for a while now after one failure.
I've never even heard of a mousepad that might be required for an optical mouse.
I've used my optical mouse on 2 different plain old desktop surfaces (one wasa bit glossy, and sometimes the mouse pointer would jerk on-screen) and on several different plain old mousepads, with no trouble.
I figure being older is better, since its glossiness that creates trouble.
You say that we can't feel like we need a trial version of Xandros because MacOS X doesn't have a trial version?
The difference between the two is that I can go to any local computer store and play with a laptop running MacOS X, or try OS X on a friend's computer who's been using it for quite some time. Xandros has neither of those 2 benefits (they don't have lots of established users, and they don't have computers running it in many computer stores).
MacOS X was a sucessor of a previous OS version, and thus was "familiar" to many Mac users. Xandros.... nothing.
So, the question is "how do you start an OS off from scratch?" I'd say the same way I got hooked on linux - give it away for free (even if its just a time-limited version).
Do you have any sources with info about HURD? The main links are slashdotted and you seem to have strong opinions... so hopefully you've got some good sources of info you could share with us.
Eh? I just flew roundtrip across the country with 30 or so AA's in my carry-on and had no trouble at all in the airport.
The fellow was Brian West, who worked for an ISP, and he did a little more than just "discover" the security hole in the Poteau Daily News website. A link to more info..
The problem isn't linking.. it's deep-linking for profit.