According to Groklaw they were originally in HTML, but converted to.doc before publishing:
The comments have been officially published, although as.doc files, sigh. Here's the zip file to download. But I thought I'd make them available to you as HTML also, which is how the members got them to make sure everyone has access and because of my idea. I gather someone had to process all the comments to put them into doc format, so one help would be to make sure nothing was overlooked. Other tasks might be to see that duplicates are noted, that they are sorted into various categories, like tech or not, and then subcategorized, etc. I think that might prove helpful too in making sure everything is addressed.
Anybody want to maybe start by confirming the count?
MicroSoft's Patent: Consent-or-Die
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 11 2007 @ 01:00 PM EDT
theodp writes on Slashdot:
"Maybe you shouldn't get too attached to those new Windows Live services. On Tuesday, the USPTO granted Microsoft a patent for privacy policy change notification, which describes how to threaten users with the loss of their accounts and access to web sites and services should they refuse to consent to changes in a privacy policy. This includes the case where a user might object to allowing personal information, collected earlier with a promise of confidentiality, to be shared in the future with third parties. Also described is a 'Never Notify Me' option so you won't have to 'worry' over privacy policy changes."
JAVASCRIPT
Netscape originally called their creation LiveScript. They had a tight partnership with Sun at the time, who had just generated a lot of marketing buzz around Java. Netscape piggy-backed on the buzz by changing the name to JavaScript. However JavaScript is not Java, not at all. But the naming confusion carries on to this very day!
jscript
Microsoft created their own version of the scripting language, which they call jscript. They made it "roughly" the same so that basic features would be supported cross-browser.
ecmascript
ECMA is the European Computer Manfacturers Association. Netscape offered JavaScript to the ECMA for standardization in 1996. Netscape and Microsoft then both agreed to support the standards ECMA developed.
But that's nothing compared to the 3,522 comments that Microsoft's Office Open XML document format attracted from the national standards bodies that participated last summer in balloting that at least temporarily derailed the effort to certify the format as an ISO standard.
So perhaps the total was 10,000 recieved, but only 3,522 via ECMA?
MFTFA: "...Ecma International, a Geneva-based standards body that already ratified Open XML and is shepherding the format through ISO's more exacting process..."
YMFTFA: "Under ISO rules, only members of national standards bodies are allowed to view the various comments and TC45's responses via a Web portal that Ecma has set up."
I think perhaps you are missing a key point. I appreciate your arguements re: the appropriateness of opening publication (especially now that peer review could be made inexpensive).
However, "free as in beer" indicates to me a mistaken concept. The argument, as I perceive it, is on the "free as in speech" side of that semantic fence. If Wolfram gave away copies of Mathematica, but didn't provide the source, it would be "free as in beer" and wouldn't matter to the discussion at hand.
Using your analogy (which I liked, by the way) it would be more appropriate to say that NMR equipment (rather it be given away, or expensive) that seems to work is based on a theory that has never been published. It would literally be a magic black box. If aliens from a distant place (or time) arrived, say, in 1000 BC and made X-Ray equipment available without providing any theory, then the analogy would be more appropriate. To the people using it, it would remain MAGIC until they managed to reverse engineer not only the technology to duplicate the equipment, but theory sufficient to allow them to at least pretend an understanding of its internal workings.
I was told that floating point rounding was not deterministic. A given CPU should do the same rounding both times, but two implementations of the IEEE standard could consistently give different results. Is this incorrect?
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"syntactically very close to mathematical notation", but notations come and go...
I suggest that what you want is something very close to mathematical structure, which of course brings us back to Lisp:-)
Offtopic, but "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." That was one of the funniest moments in broadcast history! Brought tears to my eyes.
I don't think there is anything wrong with people in the USA calling themselves Americans, so long as they realize Canadians are also Americans, as are Mexicans, and Venezuelans...
There are people who do want to limit "American" to mean not just "North American" but "Citizen of the United States of America", which is wrong.
"Each radiated pulse lasts about 50 nanoseconds." So we have 50 * 10^-9 seconds/cycle, reciprocating gives 20,000,000 cycles/second = 20Mhz, which is less than 300Mhz bottom of the microwave range. Wouldn't this be HF, not even VHF? Google says: the speed of light * 50 nanoseconds = 14.9896229 meters
The federal Administrative Procedure Act (APA) of 1946 governs the way in which administrative agencies of the United States federal government may propose and establish regulations. The APA also sets up a process for federal courts to directly review agency decisions. As such, it is an important source of authority within federal American administrative law. The APA applies to both independent agencies and executive department agencies, and their subdivisions.
The power of the Supreme Court of the United States to issue a writ of mandamus outside its appellate jurisdiction was the controversy that led the Court to delve into the much more significant issue of judicial review in the famed case of Marbury v. Madison. In modern practice, the Court has effectively abolished the issuance of mandamus and other prerogative writs although it theoretically retains the power to do so.
"WASHINGTON - An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was "covert" when her name became public in July 2003."
There is an extremely effective propaganda machine churning out misinformation. It, too, should be investigated.
Actually, the Motto on the title page of An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania is available here. It looks pretty obviously to be just a one-liner. This is supposed to be an except from
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
If this is what you refer to, I can't seem to find it online, but the crux of the matter seems to be relating to whether Colonists should be allowed to arm themselves or depend on the government for protection. It is hard to fit your quote into this context. Perhaps you are joking?
Actually Marbury v. Madison has to do with establishing Judicial Review. The Act of Congress which extended the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to include writs of mandamus was declared unconstitutional. This only means that the method in which the case was brought before the court was deemed illegal. Marbury v. Madison says nothing about denying the Supreme Court's authority to holding the Executive Branch accountable to the rule of law.
"Initially icedtea was built with ecj as the compiler running on gij (a close relative of gcj and often packaged with it which may be where the idea that it was built with gcj came from)."
Isn't it "a part of", rather than "a close relative to"?
GNU Interpreter for Java (GIJ) is a Java bytecode interpreter for the Java programming language. It is part of the free software GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ). GCJ is the compiler counterpart to GIJ.
And in fact, to make it really confusing, since the GCJ is part of GCC...
The GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ) is a free software compiler for the Java programming language that is part of the GNU Compiler Collection. It can compile Java source code to either Java Virtual Machine bytecode, or directly to machine code for any of a number of CPU architectures. It can also compile class files containing bytecode or entire JARs containing such files into machine code. Almost all of the runtime libraries used by GCJ come from the GNU Classpath project. Since gcj 4.3 (currently alpha), it is integrated with ecj, the Eclipse Compiler for Java.
...then we could accurately, but with loss of detail say, "its all really just GCC".
June 6, 2006
RMS approved the plan to use the Eclipse compiler as the new gcj front end. Work is being done on the gcj-eclipse branch; it can already build libgcj. This project will allow us to ship a 1.5 compiler in the relatively near future. The old gcjx branch and project is now dead.
From MSDN:
Deployment in Visual Studio
Deploying Prerequisites (Visual Studio)
In order to successfully deploy an application, you must also deploy all components referenced by the application. For example, most applications created with Visual Studio 2005 have a dependency on the.NET Framework; a required version of the common language runtime must be present on the target computer before the application is installed. The deployment tools in Visual Studio 2005 enable you to install the.NET Framework and other components as a part of your installation -- a practice known as bootstrapping.
The following components are included in Visual Studio 2005:
Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0
Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0 Language packs
Windows Installer 2.0
Microsoft Visual J#.NET Redistributable Package 2.0
Microsoft Visual J#.NET Redistributable Package 2.0 Language packs
Microsoft Data Access Components 9.0
Microsoft SQL Express 1.0
Crystal Reports for.NET
Microsoft Data Access Components 2.8
For both Windows Installer and ClickOnce deployment, bootstrapping of the.NET Framework is enabled by default. You can disable bootstrapping for the.NET Framework, but you should only do so if you are sure that the correct version of the Framework is already installed on all target computers or if your application does not require the Framework.
Additional components should be bootstrapped only if your application has a dependency on them.
"Download the final release of the.NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components" results in a 50.3 MB executable being downloaded. Surely this is compressed. Does anyone know if JRE is as large as the.NET "RE"?
Actually, instead of the end, this is just the official beginning:
From the intro at http://gcc.gnu.org/java/
Compiled applications are linked with the GCJ runtime, libgcj, which provides the core class libraries, a garbage collector, and a bytecode interpreter. libgcj can dynamically load and interpret class files, resulting in mixed compiled/interpreted applications. It has been merged with GNU Classpath and supports most of the 1.4 libraries plus some 1.5 additions.
From TFA:
Red Hat has signed Sun's OpenJDK contributor agreement and will now align the work its done on its IcedTea project, which was its own implementation of some parts of the Java SE JDK, with OpenSDK, said Shaun Connolly, vice president of product management for JBoss.
IcedTea brought together the Fedora project with key Java technologies in a Linux environment, and currently provides open-source alternatives for the few remaining proprietary sections in the OpenJDK project, he said.
Red Hat has launched the IcedTea project, with the goal of creating a hybrid fully free Java implementation based on OpenJDK and GNU Classpath. The project replaces binary plugs that are still non-free with code from GNU Classpath
"We have been working within Red Hat to replace these binary plugs with free software based on GNU Classpath and to remove the need for bootstrapping with unfree software. This is important for a number of reasons, the most pressing being that only free software may be used to build operating systems like Fedora", said Andrew Haily on an OpenJDK newsgroup.
IcedTea replaces the binary plugins with the equivalent GNU Classpath code, compiles it all using GCJ and optionally bootstraps itself using the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine and the javac Java compiler it just built.
So again, this is not the end of end of GCJ but part of its validation.
Could it be as simple as this: there is a correlation between increased P2P and increased purchase; perhaps when Napster was driven down, P2P usage decreased, and therefor so did CD sells.
"My point was that some people used to buy more music by taking risks in buying things they had no idea if they liked or not."
But that isn't a point, it is a proposal. There is no data that backs up such a scenario. It fits your model, but your model doesn't fit the data. And that is my point:-)
"But does that mean that the act of P2P downloading causes, or enables, buying more CDs? NO! The data does NOT show this at all." You appear quite animated by this strategy (like the tobacco industry) of stressing the obvious fact that correlation doesn't imply causation. I think we all know this. I suspect that the majority of slashdot readers have been exposed to probability theory in college, or at least statistics, and scientific methodology, too.
"What the data does show is that there is a relationship between those who do downloading and those who buy CDs. It also shows that those who download more also buy more."
Which is exactly the point! Yes!
An interesting experiment would be to select groups of people who don't buy or download music and then expose them to P2P in order to determine if they then would begin to purchase music. Also of interest would be people who used to buy music in their 20s and 30s, who stopped buying music in their 40s or 50s or so. Would exposure rekindle their interest in music?
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No schema will work if your XML has lots of binary blobs.
You confuse de facto with de jure.
YMFTFA: "Under ISO rules, only members of national standards bodies are allowed to view the various comments and TC45's responses via a Web portal that Ecma has set up."
I think perhaps you are missing a key point. I appreciate your arguements re: the appropriateness of opening publication (especially now that peer review could be made inexpensive).
However, "free as in beer" indicates to me a mistaken concept. The argument, as I perceive it, is on the "free as in speech" side of that semantic fence. If Wolfram gave away copies of Mathematica, but didn't provide the source, it would be "free as in beer" and wouldn't matter to the discussion at hand.
Using your analogy (which I liked, by the way) it would be more appropriate to say that NMR equipment (rather it be given away, or expensive) that seems to work is based on a theory that has never been published. It would literally be a magic black box. If aliens from a distant place (or time) arrived, say, in 1000 BC and made X-Ray equipment available without providing any theory, then the analogy would be more appropriate. To the people using it, it would remain MAGIC until they managed to reverse engineer not only the technology to duplicate the equipment, but theory sufficient to allow them to at least pretend an understanding of its internal workings.
I was told that floating point rounding was not deterministic. A given CPU should do the same rounding both times, but two implementations of the IEEE standard could consistently give different results. Is this incorrect?
"syntactically very close to mathematical notation", but notations come and go...
:-)
I suggest that what you want is something very close to mathematical structure, which of course brings us back to Lisp
Offtopic, but "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." That was one of the funniest moments in broadcast history! Brought tears to my eyes.
I don't think there is anything wrong with people in the USA calling themselves Americans, so long as they realize Canadians are also Americans, as are Mexicans, and Venezuelans...
There are people who do want to limit "American" to mean not just "North American" but "Citizen of the United States of America", which is wrong.
"Each radiated pulse lasts about 50 nanoseconds." So we have 50 * 10^-9 seconds/cycle, reciprocating gives 20,000,000 cycles/second = 20Mhz, which is less than 300Mhz bottom of the microwave range. Wouldn't this be HF, not even VHF? Google says: the speed of light * 50 nanoseconds = 14.9896229 meters
Actually, the Motto on the title page of An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania is available here. It looks pretty obviously to be just a one-liner. This is supposed to be an except from
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
If this is what you refer to, I can't seem to find it online, but the crux of the matter seems to be relating to whether Colonists should be allowed to arm themselves or depend on the government for protection. It is hard to fit your quote into this context. Perhaps you are joking?
Actually Marbury v. Madison has to do with establishing Judicial Review. The Act of Congress which extended the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to include writs of mandamus was declared unconstitutional. This only means that the method in which the case was brought before the court was deemed illegal. Marbury v. Madison says nothing about denying the Supreme Court's authority to holding the Executive Branch accountable to the rule of law.
The parent isn't offtopic. The analogy is direct, although explicit. Moderators please take note!
So then everyone just starts using google cache and avoid the original website?
Isn't it "a part of", rather than "a close relative to"? And in fact, to make it really confusing, since the GCJ is part of GCC...
In terms of this Eclipse Compiler for Java, it is perhaps worth noting:
From MSDN: .NET Framework; a required version of the common language runtime must be present on the target computer before the application is installed. The deployment tools in Visual Studio 2005 enable you to install the .NET Framework and other components as a part of your installation -- a practice known as bootstrapping.
.NET Framework 2.0
.NET Framework 2.0 Language packs
.NET Redistributable Package 2.0
.NET Redistributable Package 2.0 Language packs
.NET
.NET Framework is enabled by default. You can disable bootstrapping for the .NET Framework, but you should only do so if you are sure that the correct version of the Framework is already installed on all target computers or if your application does not require the Framework.
Additional components should be bootstrapped only if your application has a dependency on them.
Deployment in Visual Studio
Deploying Prerequisites (Visual Studio)
In order to successfully deploy an application, you must also deploy all components referenced by the application. For example, most applications created with Visual Studio 2005 have a dependency on the
The following components are included in Visual Studio 2005:
Microsoft
Microsoft
Windows Installer 2.0
Microsoft Visual J#
Microsoft Visual J#
Microsoft Data Access Components 9.0
Microsoft SQL Express 1.0
Crystal Reports for
Microsoft Data Access Components 2.8
For both Windows Installer and ClickOnce deployment, bootstrapping of the
"Download the final release of the .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components" results in a 50.3 MB executable being downloaded. Surely this is compressed. Does anyone know if JRE is as large as the .NET "RE"?
Could it be as simple as this: there is a correlation between increased P2P and increased purchase; perhaps when Napster was driven down, P2P usage decreased, and therefor so did CD sells.
:-)
"My point was that some people used to buy more music by taking risks in buying things they had no idea if they liked or not."
But that isn't a point, it is a proposal. There is no data that backs up such a scenario. It fits your model, but your model doesn't fit the data. And that is my point
"But does that mean that the act of P2P downloading causes, or enables, buying more CDs? NO! The data does NOT show this at all." You appear quite animated by this strategy (like the tobacco industry) of stressing the obvious fact that correlation doesn't imply causation. I think we all know this. I suspect that the majority of slashdot readers have been exposed to probability theory in college, or at least statistics, and scientific methodology, too.
"What the data does show is that there is a relationship between those who do downloading and those who buy CDs. It also shows that those who download more also buy more."
Which is exactly the point! Yes!
An interesting experiment would be to select groups of people who don't buy or download music and then expose them to P2P in order to determine if they then would begin to purchase music. Also of interest would be people who used to buy music in their 20s and 30s, who stopped buying music in their 40s or 50s or so. Would exposure rekindle their interest in music?