Damn good point - there are no line breaks, which PGP for Windows usually inserts (I don't know about other versions) - has anyone tried copying the text from a browser and verifying it? I don't have PGP on this machine.
I'm getting the feeling from reading it that he's concerned about the direction that NAI is going in, and no longer approves. Has he resigned because they're not releasing the source? Or am I reading too much into this?
Okay, I don't know whether M$ have trademarked "Windows" or not, or whether X-Windows pre-dates MS Windows, or whether they're just being nice and not enforcing their trademark, but the point stands - Referee magazine have a trademark on the term "Referee" when in the context of a sports magazine, and they are pursuing the enforcement of that trademark. Microsoft's inability or inaction in that regard does not weaken Referee's rights.
In relation to computer operating systems, yes they do. "Referee" own their trademark in relation to publications, which includes news and opinion websites like eReferee.
The Wisconsin judiciary have jurisdiction over the inhabitants of Wisconsin, though. If set up a web sire selling beverage recipies through cocacola.tv, then I have broken UK trademark law, and can be forced to stop by the UK courts. Fair enough. The problem is in the USPTO (yes, them again) allowing "referee" as a trademark.
As I understand it, adultery traditionally was sexual relations (which could be just lustful feelings) of a man towards another man's wife. So a married man could have his way with an unmarried woman, or a woman (married or not) could have sex with a man, and neither would be committing adultery.
The nestle thing isn't just business practice - wat I heard (and this is a totally unsubstantiated rumour) is that Nestle make 3rd world hospitals sign a contract saying that their doctors will recommend to mothers that milk powder is better for the baby than the mother's milk. That goes beyond business practice - and if it's true, it's being perpretrated now by people who are, unlike the IBM chiefs of the day, not dead.
BTW, which idiot modded me up? I'm completely offtopic here! Don't do it again!
Like me, some nerds know that we aren't always in full posession of the facts, and therefore choose not to come down on one side or the other based on some artice that someone wrote, that got referred to on slashdot. Do you boycott Bertelsmann? Nestle? Shell? Glaxo? Monsanto? All of these companies have been the subject of serious accusations regarding their ethics, but I simply don't have the time to investigate them all in order to make a fair and informed decision. Sometimes, if I see a story that sounds credible, and it comes from a reputable source, then I might stop buying their product. That isn't the sort of news that I, or I would guess most of the readers, come to slashdot for. There are other places to get that kind of news.
I got really freaked when playing a downloaded Descent level - there was a big cave with a tunnel running right through it (according to the map) but there was no tunnel there. I think it stores the tunnels as a kind of linked list of explicitly joined-up sections.
I'm looking forward to the day that source code is stored in XML.
Traditional programming languages are heavily tied to their representation as textual source code, which is unfortunate -- text is a very poor notation system for the concepts of a high-level language
I agree - there's little point in a human attempting to encode consepts in plain text, then expecting the compiler to deduce that context from the code. One simple way of working would be for the IDE to store the syntax highlighting in the code, so the programmer can instyantly see any mistakes on the screen and alter the automatically-generated markup.
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Since when do patents lead to state ownership of the means of production?
Damn good point - there are no line breaks, which PGP for Windows usually inserts (I don't know about other versions) - has anyone tried copying the text from a browser and verifying it? I don't have PGP on this machine.
adj.
- Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous.
- Needlessly repetitive; verbose.
Seems to fit the first definition nicely.Come off it, I don't think he's the sort of person that would forge a message from himself.
I'm getting the feeling from reading it that he's concerned about the direction that NAI is going in, and no longer approves. Has he resigned because they're not releasing the source? Or am I reading too much into this?
He's got a 5-digit slashdot id, how long ago did they run out?
Okay, I don't know whether M$ have trademarked "Windows" or not, or whether X-Windows pre-dates MS Windows, or whether they're just being nice and not enforcing their trademark, but the point stands - Referee magazine have a trademark on the term "Referee" when in the context of a sports magazine, and they are pursuing the enforcement of that trademark. Microsoft's inability or inaction in that regard does not weaken Referee's rights.
In relation to computer operating systems, yes they do. "Referee" own their trademark in relation to publications, which includes news and opinion websites like eReferee.
The Wisconsin judiciary have jurisdiction over the inhabitants of Wisconsin, though. If set up a web sire selling beverage recipies through cocacola.tv, then I have broken UK trademark law, and can be forced to stop by the UK courts. Fair enough. The problem is in the USPTO (yes, them again) allowing "referee" as a trademark.
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That's SSH, remember!
As I understand it, adultery traditionally was sexual relations (which could be just lustful feelings) of a man towards another man's wife. So a married man could have his way with an unmarried woman, or a woman (married or not) could have sex with a man, and neither would be committing adultery.
BTW, which idiot modded me up? I'm completely offtopic here! Don't do it again!
The problem is, once Mars lost it's magnetic field, the solar wind just blew away most of it's atmosphere.
As no money changes hands with a GPL licence grant, it can be revoked by the copyright holder. That would be interesting.
I got really freaked when playing a downloaded Descent level - there was a big cave with a tunnel running right through it (according to the map) but there was no tunnel there. I think it stores the tunnels as a kind of linked list of explicitly joined-up sections.
They've put a tag halkf way through the document.