they did invent the browser. after all, internet explorer is based on mosaic...
most people think of innovation as starting at a point and then continuing forward in time. but i think microsoft thinks of it as a point that then goes forwards and backwards in time. so, since all their programs use boolean logic and numbers and run on electricity, microsoft innovated logic, math and physics. continuing far enough back they innovated the wheel.
however, they're a very modest company so they don't really brag about *all* of that. they just pick things that are marketable or politically important to hilite...
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yes, but isn't nt the next generation of vms? (in case a moderator looks this deep in the comment tree, it's the +1 funny setting, not -1 troll. not exactly correct as +i alternative comedy reality would be more accurate. and yes, i just now realised the parenthetical meta-comment is longer then the actual comment...)
i pay for books because i get a book i can take off the shelf at any time and read. i pay for cable and movies to be entertained for a certain amount of time. but web content is more like a book. to take/. as an example, i would pay a monthly subscription. i would also pay for printed content that came from it (like the hellmouth book, or if there was a companion magazine). but most web content is more like a book, and i'm not all that inclined to pay for something just to view it for a few minutes (particularly when i might not be sure if it solves a problem i'm working on).
uh, no. the pharmacutical companies hated clinton - in part because of his health care plan. lawyers, insurance companies and a host of other groups hated his program. why? they'd lose money.
the question i've always had was: if private industry is so much more efficient, then who was going to be raking in all the money?
of course now i don't care - i live in a country that has "socialised medicine" (shock! horror!) and all my health care needs are taken care of, and my taxes aren't much higher then when i lived in the states.
i remember reading about this. it was a huge array of sgi boxes with a fiber ring connecting them. people would request a movie and one box in the cluster would stream it to them. in addition you could fast forward it, rewind, etc. it was available in orlando, florida. here's a link to a news letter that has a blurb on it.
the year? why it was 1994 (and i think i heard about it in 1993, but i'm not certain).
granted what the/. story covers is more than movies, but the principle is the same.
i know they're useless! but i want to see them anyway. google gives no (relevant) hits. please don't make me buy a dreamcast, keyboard, cd burner, ethernet card, etc just to find this out...
ok, let's say "aryan cracker" codes up a virus to add links to his hate/violence/porn filled site (www.racist.net) keyed on the words "white," "jewish," and "kumquat." now let's say he sends it out via email from a forged address: joe@site1.com. let's say a user at site2.fr and another at site3.com (located some place in the usa where www.racist.net is considered to violate some local standard or another).
now alice@site2.fr browses www.kumquats.com with xp-ie. the racist.net link has nazi literature on it, so violates french law. who does she sue? perhaps she never browses the site with another browser - perhaps her solicitor has gotten the same virus - the owner of www.kumquats.com will have to defend themselves.
this also applies to bob@site3.com browsing www.paint.com. the porn on www.racist.net violates local obscenity standards. who does he sue? how does he know, and must the operators of www.paint.com come and defend themselves for something they never did?
and if those sites - kumquat and paint - have to defend themselves, do they have recourse against microsoft?
sorry, the "theo's being mean to me" defence is old, boring and lame. the license as i read it isn't very acceptable to a project that does security audits and, if worse comes to worse, aims to fix security holes in short order.
i don't run any servers that need openbsd's level of security, but if i did it would make me happy that a hardass like theo was running it.
actually leonardo da vinci sketched out the first designs for aircraft of various forms. he didn't implement them, but this is a discussion about "intellectual property," not manufacturing.
that's an expense incurred by the farmer due to negligence by montasano. fields don't just till themeselves and plants don't get destroyed by magic. it takes time, money and work. all montasano has to do is drive past farms spewing seeds on their way to delivering to their customers and then offering to let farmers buy the seeds at a slightly lower rate then it would cost to destroy the crops.
fascinating. i was actually trying your literary equation with x=free speech, y=abortion and w=freedom. looks to me like "freedom" took a loss there. try taking your head out of your pompous and preachy little ass. this case wasn't simple.
a fun, yet hard, program to write is one that outputs itself. so let's say there's a divine being out there that created all the life in the universe. it wouldn't be that surprising if that being were a programmer.
so, maybe we're the first successful such project of this being?
along those lines perhaps this could be one of those babyl fish type proofs...
is the ferry operator shooting anyone else trying to start a ferry and random passengers? if so (and it must be for the analogy to match), then i'd build the bridge - out of site from the ferry operator.
bush doesn't use computers because he hates things that count. see, he's a lot smarter then people give him credit for. he might not know what counting is, or how it's done but he knows it's bad.
and to think, he's the guy that gets final approval over the federal budget.
damn glad i emmigrated (1998). i knew the average american was getting dumb when i left but they've help more valid elections in tinpot dictatorships. dead people voting, dead people winning elections, invalid counting in a state controlled by the brother and party of the guy who "won."
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they did invent the browser. after all, internet explorer is based on mosaic...
most people think of innovation as starting at a point and then continuing forward in time. but i think microsoft thinks of it as a point that then goes forwards and backwards in time. so, since all their programs use boolean logic and numbers and run on electricity, microsoft innovated logic, math and physics. continuing far enough back they innovated the wheel.
however, they're a very modest company so they don't really brag about *all* of that. they just pick things that are marketable or politically important to hilite...
yes, but isn't nt the next generation of vms? (in case a moderator looks this deep in the comment tree, it's the +1 funny setting, not -1 troll. not exactly correct as +i alternative comedy reality would be more accurate. and yes, i just now realised the parenthetical meta-comment is longer then the actual comment...)
i pay for books because i get a book i can take off the shelf at any time and read. i pay for cable and movies to be entertained for a certain amount of time. but web content is more like a book. to take /. as an example, i would pay a monthly subscription. i would also pay for printed content that came from it (like the hellmouth book, or if there was a companion magazine). but most web content is more like a book, and i'm not all that inclined to pay for something just to view it for a few minutes (particularly when i might not be sure if it solves a problem i'm working on).
uh, no. the pharmacutical companies hated clinton - in part because of his health care plan. lawyers, insurance companies and a host of other groups hated his program. why? they'd lose money.
the question i've always had was: if private industry is so much more efficient, then who was going to be raking in all the money?
of course now i don't care - i live in a country that has "socialised medicine" (shock! horror!) and all my health care needs are taken care of, and my taxes aren't much higher then when i lived in the states.
i remember reading about this. it was a huge array of sgi boxes with a fiber ring connecting them. people would request a movie and one box in the cluster would stream it to them. in addition you could fast forward it, rewind, etc. it was available in orlando, florida. here's a link to a news letter that has a blurb on it.
/. story covers is more than movies, but the principle is the same.
the year? why it was 1994 (and i think i heard about it in 1993, but i'm not certain).
granted what the
i know they're useless! but i want to see them anyway. google gives no (relevant) hits. please don't make me buy a dreamcast, keyboard, cd burner, ethernet card, etc just to find this out...
ok, let's say "aryan cracker" codes up a virus to add links to his hate/violence/porn filled site (www.racist.net) keyed on the words "white," "jewish," and "kumquat." now let's say he sends it out via email from a forged address: joe@site1.com. let's say a user at site2.fr and another at site3.com (located some place in the usa where www.racist.net is considered to violate some local standard or another).
now alice@site2.fr browses www.kumquats.com with xp-ie. the racist.net link has nazi literature on it, so violates french law. who does she sue? perhaps she never browses the site with another browser - perhaps her solicitor has gotten the same virus - the owner of www.kumquats.com will have to defend themselves.
this also applies to bob@site3.com browsing www.paint.com. the porn on www.racist.net violates local obscenity standards. who does he sue? how does he know, and must the operators of www.paint.com come and defend themselves for something they never did?
and if those sites - kumquat and paint - have to defend themselves, do they have recourse against microsoft?
sorry, the "theo's being mean to me" defence is old, boring and lame. the license as i read it isn't very acceptable to a project that does security audits and, if worse comes to worse, aims to fix security holes in short order.
i don't run any servers that need openbsd's level of security, but if i did it would make me happy that a hardass like theo was running it.
wasn't linus's post to comp.os.minix in september?
actually leonardo da vinci sketched out the first designs for aircraft of various forms. he didn't implement them, but this is a discussion about "intellectual property," not manufacturing.
date of the /. story: 3 may 2001
/.: 30
date of the web page reporting the gpl violation: 5 feb 2001
esitmated date of the notice of infringment: mid-jan 2001
estimated iq of the poster who implies that poor sony wasn't given a chance to respond before being hammered on
i think the court in question is here. perhaps people should get an idea of what sort of justice they might receive.
so i can sue conservatives if i'm the victim of a crime committed by a person in an impoverished and crime ridden area? excellent!
that's an expense incurred by the farmer due to negligence by montasano. fields don't just till themeselves and plants don't get destroyed by magic. it takes time, money and work. all montasano has to do is drive past farms spewing seeds on their way to delivering to their customers and then offering to let farmers buy the seeds at a slightly lower rate then it would cost to destroy the crops.
fascinating. i was actually trying your literary equation with x=free speech, y=abortion and w=freedom. looks to me like "freedom" took a loss there. try taking your head out of your pompous and preachy little ass. this case wasn't simple.
well gee, maybe unions aren't the terrible monsters people thought they were.
god i hope not. i'd hate to take a huge step backwards.
actually you can give a little credit to his teacher who did the research to see if it was novel or not.
since gracenote got all that free data entry i guess i would have just assumed the data would remain free.
or is it ok for corporations to expect things for free?
date of the patent: 8 may 1998.
date of themes.org domain registration: 25 april 1998.
a fun, yet hard, program to write is one that outputs itself. so let's say there's a divine being out there that created all the life in the universe. it wouldn't be that surprising if that being were a programmer.
so, maybe we're the first successful such project of this being?
along those lines perhaps this could be one of those babyl fish type proofs...
is the ferry operator shooting anyone else trying to start a ferry and random passengers? if so (and it must be for the analogy to match), then i'd build the bridge - out of site from the ferry operator.
bush doesn't use computers because he hates things that count. see, he's a lot smarter then people give him credit for. he might not know what counting is, or how it's done but he knows it's bad.
and to think, he's the guy that gets final approval over the federal budget.
damn glad i emmigrated (1998). i knew the average american was getting dumb when i left but they've help more valid elections in tinpot dictatorships. dead people voting, dead people winning elections, invalid counting in a state controlled by the brother and party of the guy who "won."
impressive.
just buy a wood burning stove, and subscribe to as many junk mail lists as possible. then heat your house with it. simple.