I thought you were joking at first, but now i'm starting to think you were actually serious.
Saying that these patent holding companies are more likely to licence the patents to anyone is a bit far fetched, and certainly not based on their past track record.
Based on patent holding companies track records over the past few years, especially with software patents what has happened is:
1. Patent holding companies buy up any and all patents as cheaply as possible, usually from failing companies for pennies. 2. Then they keep quite and lay low, not actively looking to licence the technology... 3. Watch the respective market their patent applies to. 4. Wait...and research ways in which they can stretch the limits of this patent to cover as many products as possible. 5. When a sufficient number of lawsuits are possible run as many companies and people through the meat grinder and bleed them dry before anyone with some money decides to stand up and fight. 6. Laugh all the way to the bank with someone elses hard earned money. 7. Start all over again.
This is the life cycle of patents at the patent holding companies. Anything else is just a sugar coated dream....
While this is technically true TM law is notorious for being abused. McD's stomped out anyone using a double arch in anyway shape or form, and Toy's R' Us did the same with anything that ended with R' Us.
Quite frequently these larger rule-the-world corporations will take their trademark and create what is effectivly vapor-ware, i.e. a paper trail showing their TM being in or heading towards every imaginable market/industry so they can mud stomp anyone, anywhere that uses something similar.
"Governments should be open to both [Open XML and OpenDocument] and whatever else is rolling down the street. Choosing both is really wise."
Yea and smoking crack is wise too!
So if the government chooses both then how do they implement that? Do they create each and every document in both formats, and the when a new one come "rolling down the street" produce everything in three different formats and four, five, and so on?
Or maybe they could put some documents in one format, and others in another format.
What a fucking idiot!
*sings* "Hold ya head up high and blow your brains out!" *sings*
I completely agree with you except on your "is it massive yet" comment. The Massive in MMO refers to the gaming style of allowing Massive amounts of people to play, and is not a reference to how many people actually play at any given time or how many people subscribe to it at any given time.
lets say that some malicious code gets "injected" into memory when Firefox crashes. What are the dangers? If Firefox crashes then its not going to attempt to use that memory for anything...because...ummm....it's not running! If it's not running then it can't be tricked into doing something with this malicious chunk of memory. The only other thing that is going to be looking at that memory space is the OS, and that would likely only be concerned with reclaiming those blocks of memory for use by other processes once the Firefox process exits.
Just because you can make a program crash, doesn't mean you can exploit it. As a matter of fact Firefox would be more dangerous if it didn't crash and kept on chuging along using corrupt data in the history.dat.
But when something as memorable as rat brains flying planes is posted 3 or 4 times something is wrong. Either the people behind the selection process are caving to ad revenues and posting things they know will generate lots of traffic, or they are really stupid.
"This covenant shall not apply with respect to any person or entity that asserts, threatens or seeks at any time to enforce a patent right or rights against Microsoft or any of its affiliates relating to any conforming implementation of the Specifications."
So ummmm...if Microsoft infringes on your patents in the specification or implementation of it, and you attempt to say anything or do anything about it, then you are no longer covered by the covenant. Hmmm...sounds to my like they are trying to hook everyone into the format and they they can just walk all over everyone else's patents almost with out worry.
"This statement is not an assurance either (i) that any of Microsoft's issued patent claims cover a conforming implementation of the Specifications or are enforceable, or (ii) that such an implementation would not infringe patents or other intellectual property rights of any third party."
So they are saying that they are not going to tell you if any part of the specification or implementation of the specification are covered by their patents so you can't possibly know if you are infriging on their patents. Sure...you could just read their patents and compare them to the specification and your implementation but really...who has the time or resources to read all of those?
This is a well known standard that has been around for quite some time. Most distros that I see have finally made the move to this structure. This was the primary driving force behind the/media and/srv additions you see in distros now days.
Pointers are for programmers silly rabbit!!
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Pointers are for programmers, not for speed. A particular compilers implementation of the C specification may produce better or more efficient code when using pointers, but i seriously doubt that every implementation would work the same or even across different architectures.
Not everything has to be practical. Not that I think this project is anything special. Its been done again and again for many years. As far back as 98 when I started actively participating in the Cloud9ine community there were 3d desktop shells on both Linux and Windows.
Just try to remember how impractical all those great inventions were. The plane, car, even the wheel i'm sure were not too pratical when they first came about. However people take ideas like this and eventually find a practical application for them.
I think that if anyone could make a solid 3d desktop environment a gaming company could. They would however have to find a new metaphor to replace the desktop. The desktop idea lends itself well to 2d but not 3d.
Yea, the tool bar is spy ware. If they put it in the IE tool bar I wouldn't be at all suprised to find it tucked away in the application. Very disappointing coming from the people who gave us suprnova... *sign*
About 75% of those that signed up for those various blogging services have never actually posted a single entry in their blog. So the actual numbers is more like 2.2 million of so. Even with a devistating hit like that it's still 10 times more that the number stated in the article though....lol...and its still just the bloggers alone.
Garcia is a perfectly feasible name for someone of Native American decent to have. Esspecially in the South West US. In addition South American Indians migrated to this continent with the Indians who ultimately made their home here. They simply decided to go a little further to warmer climates. They were then raped, pillaged, and pludered by the Spaniards losing their identity much like the other European did to the North America Indians.
My last name is Greek, doesn't make me any less Cherokee than if my last name was Sikwayi or Da'si giya'gi. All of that is besides the point though. Are you suggesting that as a person of Native American decent I am more deserving of jobs than other Americans? You are obviously arguing against that, so why do you use that comment as supporting evidence for your argument?
I for one am tired of my tax dollars being funneled into stuff that is not in my interest. Like for example H1B visa program, which doesn't benifit me, and can only harm me.
I support job for Americans in America, but for all citizens. Not just born/raised ones. If you obtain your citizenship then you should have all the same rights that other Americans have. Big corporations play the "woe is me" game so they can save a few bucks, and where do the savings go? Not to the customer, not to the employees, but directly into managments pockets. They consistantly layoff, lower wages, cut cost, all the while giving themselves huge pay hikes. Why do they get these pay hikes? Not because they the created a new innovative way of saving the company money, but because they simply stole it from its employees, and share holders. And now with the Repulicans controlling most of the government their track record of pampering corporations that consistantly screw the general public.
And as for your last comment: So your saying that your wife like "so many [other] American women" left the country hunting for a good man? I doubt that. I also doubt that many women are activly seeking foriegn husbands intentionally. Men all around the world are idiots, it has nothing to do with what country your from. If she's a highly trained research scientist then i'm sure she is more than capable of find one right here in the US. The fact of the matter is, she happened to meet you, and you guys hit it off, and happened to be from different countries. If she actually went to another to activly look for a husband than she's much more ignorant than your letting on.
Lastly...why are you so defensive? Sounds like guilt to me. I'm pretty sure garcia made it clear that he _didn't_ know what your situation was, but that the apparent "marriage of convenience" that you seems to be suggesting in your original post was a bad thing. Why did you ASSume he was referring to you, when he clearly opened with a statement to the contrary?
garcia: That whole "...jobs that born/raised Americans need." was pretty dumb. There is no born, raised, or immigrant American distinction. There are just American citizens and they should all have equal rights. If you were in fact referring to non-citizens and illegal immigrants then you should have been stated so, more clearly.
I don't like Republicans or Democrates, but its definately fair use. So long as he is not making a genuine attempt to make it look like an official site belonging to the person in question.
Regardless of the mechnical aspects of those components You statement "If the first one fails, the engine dies. If the second 2 fail, you die." holds true. Of course that argument is NULL anyway, since a faulty throttle (regardless of the system used) is just as dangerous.
In fact it can be more dangerous. After failure of brakes or steering, you will (in most cases) impact something at your current speed or less. With throttle failure you could possibly reach 120MPH before running into something.;)
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I thought you were joking at first, but now i'm starting to think you were actually serious.
Saying that these patent holding companies are more likely to licence the patents to anyone is a bit far fetched, and certainly not based on their past track record.
Based on patent holding companies track records over the past few years, especially with software patents what has happened is:
1. Patent holding companies buy up any and all patents as cheaply as possible, usually from failing companies for pennies.
2. Then they keep quite and lay low, not actively looking to licence the technology...
3. Watch the respective market their patent applies to.
4. Wait...and research ways in which they can stretch the limits of this patent to cover as many products as possible.
5. When a sufficient number of lawsuits are possible run as many companies and people through the meat grinder and bleed them dry before anyone with some money decides to stand up and fight.
6. Laugh all the way to the bank with someone elses hard earned money.
7. Start all over again.
This is the life cycle of patents at the patent holding companies. Anything else is just a sugar coated dream....
While this is technically true TM law is notorious for being abused. McD's stomped out anyone using a double arch in anyway shape or form, and Toy's R' Us did the same with anything that ended with R' Us.
Quite frequently these larger rule-the-world corporations will take their trademark and create what is effectivly vapor-ware, i.e. a paper trail showing their TM being in or heading towards every imaginable market/industry so they can mud stomp anyone, anywhere that uses something similar.
Another one?! Bush is already wearing two....
Don't you mean _before_?
I think the applies to every link posted on /.
You know that 99% of the time the page that the link refers to and the first 10 mirrors posted will go down.
"Governments should be open to both [Open XML and OpenDocument] and whatever else is rolling down the street. Choosing both is really wise."
Yea and smoking crack is wise too!
So if the government chooses both then how do they implement that?
Do they create each and every document in both formats, and the when a new one come "rolling down the street" produce everything in three different formats and four, five, and so on?
Or maybe they could put some documents in one format, and others in another format.
What a fucking idiot!
*sings* "Hold ya head up high and blow your brains out!" *sings*
If a tree falls in the wood...and no one is there to hear it, does it make a noise?
(The answer is yes BTW)
I completely agree with you except on your "is it massive yet" comment. The Massive in MMO refers to the gaming style of allowing Massive amounts of people to play, and is not a reference to how many people actually play at any given time or how many people subscribe to it at any given time.
Better hire some peep-show mop-boys. There's gonna be jiz all over the place once these two get finished jerking off their egos...
lets say that some malicious code gets "injected" into memory when Firefox crashes. What are the dangers? If Firefox crashes then its not going to attempt to use that memory for anything...because...ummm....it's not running! If it's not running then it can't be tricked into doing something with this malicious chunk of memory. The only other thing that is going to be looking at that memory space is the OS, and that would likely only be concerned with reclaiming those blocks of memory for use by other processes once the Firefox process exits.
Just because you can make a program crash, doesn't mean you can exploit it. As a matter of fact Firefox would be more dangerous if it didn't crash and kept on chuging along using corrupt data in the history.dat.
It's always sad to see old new posted on /.
But when something as memorable as rat brains flying planes is posted 3 or 4 times something is wrong. Either the people behind the selection process are caving to ad revenues and posting things they know will generate lots of traffic, or they are really stupid.
"This covenant shall not apply with respect to any person or entity that asserts, threatens or seeks at any time to enforce a patent right or rights against Microsoft or any of its affiliates relating to any conforming implementation of the Specifications."
So ummmm...if Microsoft infringes on your patents in the specification or implementation of it, and you attempt to say anything or do anything about it, then you are no longer covered by the covenant. Hmmm...sounds to my like they are trying to hook everyone into the format and they they can just walk all over everyone else's patents almost with out worry.
"This statement is not an assurance either (i) that any of Microsoft's issued patent claims cover a conforming implementation of the Specifications or are enforceable, or (ii) that such an implementation would not infringe patents or other intellectual property rights of any third party."
So they are saying that they are not going to tell you if any part of the specification or implementation of the specification are covered by their patents so you can't possibly know if you are infriging on their patents. Sure...you could just read their patents and compare them to the specification and your implementation but really...who has the time or resources to read all of those?
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
/media and /srv additions you see in distros now days.
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
This is a well known standard that has been around for quite some time. Most distros that I see have finally made the move to this structure. This was the primary driving force behind the
Pointers are for programmers, not for speed. A particular compilers implementation of the C specification may produce better or more efficient code when using pointers, but i seriously doubt that every implementation would work the same or even across different architectures.
Not everything has to be practical. Not that I think this project is anything special. Its been done again and again for many years. As far back as 98 when I started actively participating in the Cloud9ine community there were 3d desktop shells on both Linux and Windows.
Just try to remember how impractical all those great inventions were. The plane, car, even the wheel i'm sure were not too pratical when they first came about. However people take ideas like this and eventually find a practical application for them.
I think that if anyone could make a solid 3d desktop environment a gaming company could. They would however have to find a new metaphor to replace the desktop. The desktop idea lends itself well to 2d but not 3d.
The docs are freely downloadable by anyone. However since its an .msi installer its only useful for those MS Windows users.
If you can download it and install it, then you can find a link to the online version of the doc...but good luck doing that on a non-Windows OS...lol
*sigh* too... :P
Yea, the tool bar is spy ware. If they put it in the IE tool bar I wouldn't be at all suprised to find it tucked away in the application. Very disappointing coming from the people who gave us suprnova... *sign*
About 75% of those that signed up for those various blogging services have never actually posted a single entry in their blog. So the actual numbers is more like 2.2 million of so. Even with a devistating hit like that it's still 10 times more that the number stated in the article though....lol...and its still just the bloggers alone.
Correctios:
consistantly screw the general public [will continue].
ahhh..screw it...i'm was much to lazy to make the corrections the first time, i'm not even gonna bother now...
jee jah lah gey ah gee guh ha tle
Garcia is a perfectly feasible name for someone of Native American decent to have. Esspecially in the South West US. In addition South American Indians migrated to this continent with the Indians who ultimately made their home here. They simply decided to go a little further to warmer climates. They were then raped, pillaged, and pludered by the Spaniards losing their identity much like the other European did to the North America Indians.
My last name is Greek, doesn't make me any less Cherokee than if my last name was Sikwayi or Da'si giya'gi. All of that is besides the point though. Are you suggesting that as a person of Native American decent I am more deserving of jobs than other Americans? You are obviously arguing against that, so why do you use that comment as supporting evidence for your argument?
I for one am tired of my tax dollars being funneled into stuff that is not in my interest. Like for example H1B visa program, which doesn't benifit me, and can only harm me.
I support job for Americans in America, but for all citizens. Not just born/raised ones. If you obtain your citizenship then you should have all the same rights that other Americans have. Big corporations play the "woe is me" game so they can save a few bucks, and where do the savings go? Not to the customer, not to the employees, but directly into managments pockets. They consistantly layoff, lower wages, cut cost, all the while giving themselves huge pay hikes. Why do they get these pay hikes? Not because they the created a new innovative way of saving the company money, but because they simply stole it from its employees, and share holders. And now with the Repulicans controlling most of the government their track record of pampering corporations that consistantly screw the general public.
And as for your last comment:
So your saying that your wife like "so many [other] American women" left the country hunting for a good man? I doubt that. I also doubt that many women are activly seeking foriegn husbands intentionally. Men all around the world are idiots, it has nothing to do with what country your from. If she's a highly trained research scientist then i'm sure she is more than capable of find one right here in the US. The fact of the matter is, she happened to meet you, and you guys hit it off, and happened to be from different countries. If she actually went to another to activly look for a husband than she's much more ignorant than your letting on.
Lastly...why are you so defensive? Sounds like guilt to me. I'm pretty sure garcia made it clear that he _didn't_ know what your situation was, but that the apparent "marriage of convenience" that you seems to be suggesting in your original post was a bad thing. Why did you ASSume he was referring to you, when he clearly opened with a statement to the contrary?
garcia:
That whole "...jobs that born/raised Americans need." was pretty dumb. There is no born, raised, or immigrant American distinction. There are just American citizens and they should all have equal rights. If you were in fact referring to non-citizens and illegal immigrants then you should have been stated so, more clearly.
That was a commercial for the Canadian Army. :P
Fair use of free speech...
I don't like Republicans or Democrates, but its definately fair use. So long as he is not making a genuine attempt to make it look like an official site belonging to the person in question.
Regardless of the mechnical aspects of those components You statement "If the first one fails, the engine dies. If the second 2 fail, you die." holds true. Of course that argument is NULL anyway, since a faulty throttle (regardless of the system used) is just as dangerous.
;)
In fact it can be more dangerous. After failure of brakes or steering, you will (in most cases) impact something at your current speed or less. With throttle failure you could possibly reach 120MPH before running into something.
Apple has an image browser called gBrowser. Wonder if that will cause problems with the naming of a google browser...
http://homepage.mac.com/schwarz/gbrowser.html