The *specification* is under the CC licence. So you're talking bollocks:) The kicker:
"As to software implementations, Microsoft is not aware of any patent claims it owns or controls that would be necessarily infringed by a software implementation that conforms to the specification's extensions."
I think this means that it's already patented the implementations it already has. Nice.
What I've seen from the various comments is that Socialism == Bad. I think this is more a problem with the ideology of the observer rather than the observed.
"This is supposedly a true story from a recent Defence Science Lectures Series, as related by the head of the Australian DSTO's Land Operations/Simulation division."
"They've been working on some really nifty virtual reality simulators, the case in point being to incorporate Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters into exercises (from the data fusion point of view). Most of the people they employ on this sort of thing are ex- (or future) computer game programmers. Anyway, as part of the reality parameters, they include things like trees and animals. For the Australian simulation they included kangaroos. In particular, they had to model kangaroo movements and reactions to helicopters (since hordes of disturbed kangaroos might well give away a helicopter's position)."
"Being good programmers, they just stole some code (which was originally used to model infantry detachments reactions under the same stimuli), and changed the mapped icon, the speed parameters, etc. The first time they've gone to demonstrate this to some visiting Americans, the hotshot pilots have decided to get "down and dirty" with the virtual kangaroos. So, they buzz them, and watch them scatter. The visiting Americans nod appreciatively... then gape as the kangaroos duck around a hill, and launch about two dozen Stinger missiles at the hapless helicopter. Programmers look rather embarrassed at forgetting to remove *that* part of the infantry coding... and Americans leave muttering comments about not wanting to mess with the Aussie wildlife..."
"As an addendum, simulator pilots from that point onwards avoided kangaroos like the plague, just like they were meant to do in the first place... "
Sheer fud. All the terrorists in 9/11, London and Pakistan have been caught via mobile phones. That's the terrorist communication vehicle of choice. That's "mobile phone". Not IRC, IM, websites or FTP. Now the scary bit is that we nothing about Black ops concerning themselves with the telephone network probably because they do it already, as other posters will no doubt testify.
Most schools in the UK have a religious education strand. This is where ID belongs, along with scientific philosophy.
Science teaching is about science - and science that has come through a rigorous work-out. You don't teach unproven and new theory in science classes. F=MA maybe. String theory, no.
The kansas decision is pure ideology, nothing less nothing more. It harks back to Lysenkoism, even to Galileo. We seem to be heading into the middle ages at a great rate. Heh, the future was great, I'll be able to tell my grandchildren.
The blog can run without the protections of the fourth estate - which bloggers haven't proven yet they are a part of btw - however I'm thinking this is a dual-edged sword. OTOH, blodgers skirt the fourth estate with the coarsening of debate that entails - OTOH, they bring a healthy disrespect to the debate. huh. Video won't kill the radio star,it will boost some people but it's not the society-changing weapon it's boosted to be; pace livejournal 14 year old bloggers. Look at video these days. Everybody is into MySpace - now *that's* the new video. Look at the telephone, the ultimate "social software" with it's books of numbers. WTF did that change? It certainly made wars more efficient.
No matter how you frame it, when you port something to MS, you're making something which makes it easier for people to work on windows, which is, after all, the ideological opponent to what you're doing. You're making it easier for people to stay on windows, to help them stick to that platform, a platform whose makers would rather have you go away and die if not for this very fact. You're just handing them users and profit, and why should we do that?
More likely if they fixed the function, then they would have had to produce patches for all the affected packages. Lots more time, energy and money. The pressure from sales and marketing would have been quite hard.
The missing part of this story is that, yes, it's OK to fix the function with a wrapper or a rush-release. However, they must have known that there was a long-term problem so MS should have procedures which can handle the tracking of problems like this. In the company I work for, we have just such a system, and we're just small-fry. If MS haven't got these procedures then, whoops, their bad. Their request-management must be chaotic to say the least. Anyone know how MS handle their request-to-release management? It can't be a state secret surely.
"preaching" openness. That's just it. There's no substance. If they really wanted to be open MS would go to Sony et al, and start doing partner deals as in MS-Jboss. This is just spin. Ignore it.
Now that MS have declared an interest in the donkey (JBOSS and MS), will they go ahead and "introduce" all the OS frameworks to MS server to try and woo away hosters from linux? Nice time to be a light-weight framework provider.
...that nobody needs free software. Free software is way too expensive for anyone, and we all need MSCE training courses, the latest versions of Windows, that, really, we should all be good little consumers and buy Windows and STFU.
It seems a little out-of-band for the Central Intelligence Agency, or for any Intelligence agency. Shouldn't their focus be on humint? The corporations that these agencies use are usually cover for skullduggery not for basic research. Isnt "basic research" the remit of DARPA?
It does some all of a piece with hiring security contractors in Iraq, and wouldn't surprise me if it was part of an "out-sourcing" effort.
Duh, they can self-train, like I've done. Most companies I've worked for don't provide training either. Internet access and that's about it. Self-motivated training is often way more effective than bought training.
The primary barrier in Africa is poverty. The areas that have overcome poverty, the next barrier is access to computers and networks. Give them that and the rest will follow. I'm sure they can read computer manuals and articles as well as, if not better, than me.
What Microsfot want is that huge siphon of money, money which most Africans don't have. Bring on one Linux distrib source and Google. I guess that about covers it.
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The *specification* is under the CC licence. So you're talking bollocks :) The kicker:
"As to software implementations, Microsoft is not aware of any patent claims it owns or controls that would be necessarily infringed by a software implementation that conforms to the specification's extensions."
I think this means that it's already patented the implementations it already has. Nice.
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as we all know, "Open Source" isn't reasonable to The Man
lots of dead mice.
All companies act in the moral climate of the time. Otherwise there would still be a market for slaves.
It's doing just fine, thankyou OECD and Consumer confidence rises
What I've seen from the various comments is that Socialism == Bad. I think this is more a problem with the ideology of the observer rather than the observed.
It's ironic, then, that SAP is from Germany. Germany is also doing rather nicely, thankyou, even after absorbing East Germany.
No. Not Australia.
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"This is supposedly a true story from a recent Defence Science Lectures Series, as related by the head of the Australian DSTO's Land Operations/Simulation division."
"They've been working on some really nifty virtual reality simulators, the case in point being to incorporate Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters into exercises (from the data fusion point of view). Most of the people they employ on this sort of thing are ex- (or future) computer game programmers. Anyway, as part of the reality parameters, they include things like trees and animals. For the Australian simulation they included kangaroos. In particular, they had to model kangaroo movements and reactions to helicopters (since hordes of disturbed kangaroos might well give away a helicopter's position)."
"Being good programmers, they just stole some code (which was originally used to model infantry detachments reactions under the same stimuli), and changed the mapped icon, the speed parameters, etc. The first time they've gone to demonstrate this to some visiting Americans, the hotshot pilots have decided to get "down and dirty" with the virtual kangaroos. So, they buzz them, and watch them scatter. The visiting Americans nod appreciatively... then gape as the kangaroos duck around a hill, and launch about two dozen Stinger missiles at the hapless helicopter. Programmers look rather embarrassed at forgetting to remove *that* part of the infantry coding... and Americans leave muttering comments about not wanting to mess with the Aussie wildlife..."
"As an addendum, simulator pilots from that point onwards avoided kangaroos like the plague, just like they were meant to do in the first place... "
http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/aussie
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p.s. I *know* this story is apocryphal...
Sheer fud. All the terrorists in 9/11, London and Pakistan have been caught via mobile phones. That's the terrorist communication vehicle of choice. That's "mobile phone". Not IRC, IM, websites or FTP. Now the scary bit is that we nothing about Black ops concerning themselves with the telephone network probably because they do it already, as other posters will no doubt testify.
Is it penguin bowling? Geddit?
BillG started in his mom's basement
"goram alliance technology"
Most schools in the UK have a religious education strand. This is where ID belongs, along with scientific philosophy.
Science teaching is about science - and science that has come through a rigorous work-out. You don't teach unproven and new theory in science classes. F=MA maybe. String theory, no.
The kansas decision is pure ideology, nothing less nothing more. It harks back to Lysenkoism, even to Galileo. We seem to be heading into the middle ages at a great rate. Heh, the future was great, I'll be able to tell my grandchildren.
h.
The blog can run without the protections of the fourth estate - which bloggers haven't proven yet they are a part of btw - however I'm thinking this is a dual-edged sword. OTOH, blodgers skirt the fourth estate with the coarsening of debate that entails - OTOH, they bring a healthy disrespect to the debate. huh. Video won't kill the radio star,it will boost some people but it's not the society-changing weapon it's boosted to be; pace livejournal 14 year old bloggers. Look at video these days. Everybody is into MySpace - now *that's* the new video. Look at the telephone, the ultimate "social software" with it's books of numbers. WTF did that change? It certainly made wars more efficient.
No matter how you frame it, when you port something to MS, you're making something which makes it easier for people to work on windows, which is, after all, the ideological opponent to what you're doing. You're making it easier for people to stay on windows, to help them stick to that platform, a platform whose makers would rather have you go away and die if not for this very fact. You're just handing them users and profit, and why should we do that?
If management do *just* that, then they deserve to go the way of the dinosaurs.
More likely if they fixed the function, then they would have had to produce patches for all the affected packages. Lots more time, energy and money. The pressure from sales and marketing would have been quite hard.
The missing part of this story is that, yes, it's OK to fix the function with a wrapper or a rush-release. However, they must have known that there was a long-term problem so MS should have procedures which can handle the tracking of problems like this. In the company I work for, we have just such a system, and we're just small-fry. If MS haven't got these procedures then, whoops, their bad. Their request-management must be chaotic to say the least. Anyone know how MS handle their request-to-release management? It can't be a state secret surely.
"preaching" openness. That's just it. There's no substance. If they really wanted to be open MS would go to Sony et al, and start doing partner deals as in MS-Jboss. This is just spin. Ignore it.
sod the oscars. Let the people decide! This is America aint it?
I had visions of Cheyenne Mountain AFS for a second. Doubtless MS is in there *somewhere* but I'd rather not think about it...
Now that MS have declared an interest in the donkey (JBOSS and MS), will they go ahead and "introduce" all the OS frameworks to MS server to try and woo away hosters from linux? Nice time to be a light-weight framework provider.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/27/213 209&tid=109&tid=218
or, jboss sells out linux, gets own3d
...that nobody needs free software. Free software is way too expensive for anyone, and we all need MSCE training courses, the latest versions of Windows, that, really, we should all be good little consumers and buy Windows and STFU.
It seems a little out-of-band for the Central Intelligence Agency, or for any Intelligence agency. Shouldn't their focus be on humint? The corporations that these agencies use are usually cover for skullduggery not for basic research. Isnt "basic research" the remit of DARPA?
It does some all of a piece with hiring security contractors in Iraq, and wouldn't surprise me if it was part of an "out-sourcing" effort.
Duh, they can self-train, like I've done. Most companies I've worked for don't provide training either. Internet access and that's about it. Self-motivated training is often way more effective than bought training.
The primary barrier in Africa is poverty. The areas that have overcome poverty, the next barrier is access to computers and networks. Give them that and the rest will follow. I'm sure they can read computer manuals and articles as well as, if not better, than me.
What Microsfot want is that huge siphon of money, money which most Africans don't have. Bring on one Linux distrib source and Google. I guess that about covers it.
h
...what it said