RE:"If you own a trademark you have to actively defend it, lest it become a standard term for the product type. Shouldn't technology and patents be the same way? If you allow entire industries to adopt your patented method without defending it you should lose the patent. Coming in after the fact just so you can grab your competitors by the balls is just crooked."
Funny how this comes out a day or 2 AFTER the US Supreme Court let Rambus get away with stuffing secretly-patented technology into a industry-wide standard and then demanding license fees for it?
Lets face it, the SCotUS must have gotten $omething from MS, Rambus or both.
"Meanwhile Vista/Win7 will still run a lot of DOS6 apps? Not all of them. Probably not anywhere near 99% of them, but an awful LOT of them."
You are right there my friend. This is my bread and butter. Some of them you can even move to the "C:\program Files" folder unless they are hard coded in their EXE/COM.
I'd share my secrets but I can't get cut-n-paste to work in OpenOffice Macros to update my web site. 200+ pages exported into one very long web page doesn't go over well with web browsers...
"The Guild has recommended that local conventional stations get a portion of satellite and cable fees from subscribers in their area to pay for local programming, including news. It has also urged the CRTC to reintroduce a policy requiring local news from local broadcasters. "
You will not get good suggestions until people see some ideas put into play and getting recognition for it.
I've been at this place for 3 years and have been spewing out ideas to make things better. Sometimes I get shot down but many times I get the "that a great idea" kudo. But guess what: NOTHING HAPPENS from it.
Now I just don't bother suggesting anything and I'm planning to move on before I go postal. If upper MGMT doesn't give a damn, why should I?
This is useless if the install program sets up ONLY the profile of the user that installed it. Any other user account could get Admin credentials but the registry tweaks and Application data folder changes would not magically appear unless the package uses Active Setup or have MSI do a CPU-intensive Per-user self-heal.
Most of the time you don't need (or want) to give the user Admin credentials. They could do things like launch explorer.exe with those Admin credentials and your workstation security goes out the window.
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Most cameras not have a feature where you can press the shutter button half-way so that it can take instantaneous shots when you press down fully.
Like you I wish the whole shutter-lag thing would be something to tell your kids about.
Why don't they just do the pre-processing the instant the finger *touches* the shutter button?
FYI: They are only used by Windows 3.1 apps running on XP/Vista/Windows7
and by virus/Trojan writers.
Soon well see people holding up music stores instead of file sharing because the punishment would be less harsh.
http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml#cm2500
Sorry the subject header was supposed to be:
It doesn't matter..
hydrogen powered cars look good until you discover that hydrogen gas is corrosive to most metals.
The Union is *currently* unwilling to cut back wages or benefits which is a requirement for GM to even get access to ANY of the "stimulus" money.
Only when GM goes into bankruptcy protection (chapter 11) will GM have more of a free hand to cut what needs to be cut.
Until one of the 2 happen, the Volt won't see light of day at a dealership.
Yup. Just like the Shamwow(tm) can pick up spilled pop through a carpet. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyjLx2rdNMA
RE:"If you own a trademark you have to actively defend it, lest it become a standard term for the product type. Shouldn't technology and patents be the same way? If you allow entire industries to adopt your patented method without defending it you should lose the patent. Coming in after the fact just so you can grab your competitors by the balls is just crooked."
Funny how this comes out a day or 2 AFTER the US Supreme Court let Rambus get away with stuffing secretly-patented technology into a industry-wide standard and then demanding license fees for it?
Lets face it, the SCotUS must have gotten $omething from MS, Rambus or both.
"Meanwhile Vista/Win7 will still run a lot of DOS6 apps? Not all of them. Probably not anywhere near 99% of them, but an awful LOT of them."
You are right there my friend. This is my bread and butter. Some of them you can even move to the "C:\program Files" folder unless they are hard coded in their EXE/COM.
I'd share my secrets but I can't get cut-n-paste to work in OpenOffice Macros to update my web site. 200+ pages exported into one very long web page doesn't go over well with web browsers...
Title says it all
Maybe we should have a poll?
Control=$
That's why DRM exists.
That's why "fair use" is "bad".
and by a stretch, that why we have the war on drugs. You wouldn't want cheap antidepressants or cancer drugs (like Cannabis), now would you ?
The CRTC are a bunch of hypocrites:
"The Guild has recommended that local conventional stations get a portion of satellite and cable fees from subscribers in their area to pay for local programming, including news. It has also urged the CRTC to reintroduce a policy requiring local news from local broadcasters. "
http://www.cmg.ca/newsresults.asp?ID=1177&BranchID=10&SubjectID=12
Rogers (cable) said this would add cost to consumers. In the end, Rogers upped their rates anyhow.
I did this with my KRZR K1m and it recognized it as a KRZR and about 1 minute later it started to charge.
No Data, though. (Another battle for later...)
You will not get good suggestions until people see some ideas put into play and getting recognition for it.
I've been at this place for 3 years and have been spewing out ideas to make things better. Sometimes I get shot down but many times I get the "that a great idea" kudo. But guess what: NOTHING HAPPENS from it.
Now I just don't bother suggesting anything and I'm planning to move on before I go postal. If upper MGMT doesn't give a damn, why should I?
Probably this:
BeOS Lives: Haiku Impresses
http://osnews.com/story/20951/BeOS_Lives_Haiku_Impresses
The REAL issue is that "default browser" setting is ignored:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22default+browser%22+setting+ignored&btnG=Search&meta=
The way you are going, theft would also be remembering a movie or a tune after you've seen or heard it.
You probably have "phantom" ownership of the OS so I would assume you can just get a license. ;)
It might be if you receive a BJ from a woman in a blue dress and lie about it.
FYI to readers: The program *and* the source code are free.
True open source.
FYI to readers: The program is free, the code is not.
I guest you must be doing the probing then...
Did you hear "Back to you cage, lab rat." after each dream?
This is useless if the install program sets up ONLY the profile of the user that installed it. Any other user account could get Admin credentials but the registry tweaks and Application data folder changes would not magically appear unless the package uses Active Setup or have MSI do a CPU-intensive Per-user self-heal.
Most of the time you don't need (or want) to give the user Admin credentials. They could do things like launch explorer.exe with those Admin credentials and your workstation security goes out the window.