The problem isn't software patents. The problem is that some software patents are just rediculous and they should be given to someone that at least tries to implement the idea.
I strongly disagree. The problems is that software patents are fundamentally wrong. The best and clearest reasoning about sofware patents that I've read is Donald Knuth's letter to the patent office.
I haven't checked the numbers, but I'd guess that's more people than in an american presidential election.
The number I've heard is 350 million. I guess that is the total number of people within the EU and not the number of eligible voters. Still, you are right, since it is larger that the US population.
There was never any dispute over whether Sadam once had WMDs. The motivation for the Iraq War was that Sadam still was a viable nuclear, chemical and biological threat possibly supplying terrorist. Whether the sarin shell found represents a large hidden cache or just some residual weapons missed by a destruction program is currently unknown. One interesting fact is that the chemical weapons Iraq was known to once have possessed have a shelf life of about 5 year (a bit more for VX). Also note that the chemical weapons found during the first Gulf War were, according to the pentagon, already badly deteriorating.
It's good to see Jeffrey Ford get some more recognition. I really enjoyed his novels; The Well Built City Trilogy (consisting of The Physiognomy, Memoranda, and The Beyond) and The Portrait of Mrs. Charburque. All of which are bizarre surreal fantasies. Don't expect anything like Tolkien. I think a link to Empire of Ice Cream may have been posted on slashdot before, but here it is again. He also has an excellent short story collection, The Fantasy Writers Assistant and Other Stories. And a few of the stories are actually SF.:-)
Oh, and naturally Gaiman is terrific a writer as well.
Yeah, thanks for the reply. I was referring to popup windows opened from an existing browser window, often done with JavaScript. Not that it matters that much to me since I prefer Mozilla or even Opera to IE. My point was that cookies as implemented by IE can present a problem if every window is a separate process, thats all. But then again, why shouldn't the Mozilla developers be able to a better job?
Some of us wish that Firebird had multiple processes so that a crash in one window wouldn't wipe out the other 4 windows with half a dozen tabs each....
Yes that is annoying when it happens even if is relativity seldom, at least for me. IE however does start multiple process (at least occasionally) and it can have some negative consequences. If a webpage opens another windows cookies are not propagated to the new window. A consequence of this is a popup window might not be logged in to a site, while the original window is. This doesn't always happen with IE though, only sometimes.
Yeah, and boy am I envious.:) For those who can't wait an excerpt has been published in Conjunctions 39. What is believe is the first chapter is available online here.
I don't know if Microsoft ever did anything for these platforms
You are right, Microsoft never supported SourceSafe for OS/2, Mac and Unix. But SourceSafe was originally developed by an independent company called Lifetree or something similar. I'm not sure about the Unix support, but as I recall some version of Unix was supported. Microsoft after having failed miserably with a product called Delta bought Lifetree (or whatever the company's name was) and SourceSafe. Existing boxes of SourceSafe were shipped with a sticker stating that support for other platforms was discontinued.
This list was then forwarded to each county where the County Election Supervisors were required to verify the names before they took any action against the voters.
One county, Leon, did. And in Leon, of 694 names only 34 were ineligible voters.
After being sued by NAACP, ChoicePoint's DBT agreed to settle and thus avoid class-action claims. DBT removed 50 000 names from the list. However Harris has refused to return their civil rights. Oh, and here is an interesting statement. ChoicePoint's vice president James Lee called the BBC in February 2000 and said, that the state "wanted there to be more names than were actually verified as being a convicted felon."
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I think you can argue that all the authors you mentioned are SF authors. It will of cause depend on you definition of SF, something which there is little consensus about. Clarke, Niven, Bear, I think, are what is often referred to as hard SF writers, and Vonnegut, Bester, Orwell etc are not. To quote Allen Steele in the New York Review of Science Fiction: "Hard sf is the form of imaginative literature that uses either established or carefully extrapolated science as its backbone."
My recollection is that voters who had been crossed off the list (because they had the same names as felons), had been informed of the error and told they could, in fact, vote.
I believe that felons who supposedly committed their crime in Texas (none were actually guilty) were crossed of the list and allowed to vote. You have to be convicted in Florida to lose your right to vote in Florida. But this is a rather long and complex story. If you wish to know all the details I suggest you read http://www.gregpalast.com. After the election the NAACP asked the state to return the voting writes to those who where wrongly accused of being felons. DBT removed 50000 names from their list to avoid a class-action lawsuit. DBT was the company contracted for the job of making the list of felons. This for a price several thousand percent over the competition! So all is well then? Not quite. Harris has refused to return the 50000 their civil rights, despite the fact that they are no longer on the list.
Sadly, I can't find the sources for that (maybe if I dug harder in my browser cache, but I'm not at home). Perhaps others could find it, if anyone is still reading.
Probably not many, but I would be genuinely interested in more infomation.
My recollection is that voters who had been crossed off the list (because they had the same names as felons), had been informed of the error and told they could, in fact, vote.
I believe that felons who supposedly committed their crime in Texas (none were actually guilty) were crossed of the list and allowed to vote. You have to be convicted in Florida to lose your right to vote in Florida. But this is a rather long and complex story. If you wish to know all the details I suggest you read http://www.gregpalast.com. After the election the NAACP asked the state to return the voting writes to those who where wrongly accused of being felons. DBT removed 50000 names from their list to avoid a class-action lawsuit. DBT was the company contracted for the job of making the list of felons. This for a price several thousand percent over the competition! So all is well then? Not quite. Harris has refused to return the 50 000 their civil rights, despite the fact that they are no longer on the list.
Sadly, I can't find the sources for that (maybe if I dug harder in my browser cache, but I'm not at home). Perhaps others could find it, if anyone is still reading.
Probably not many, but I would be genuinely interested for more infomation.
Sources? Well the scandal was uncovered by the Pulitzer Prize nominated BBC and Guardian reporter Greg Palast. The story was also reported by the Washington Post, the Nation and Salon though I haven't seen those articles. Here is a link to a BBC article.
According to The Register you will be able to download Opera for the P800 on Monday. Sounds cool, but I wonder about how the web will look on such a small screen?
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It is interesting that Clarke worked on A.I. since he was apparently replaced by Ian Watson. Watson is credited for the screen story of A.I. and worked with Kubrick. His early novels have, in my mind, some similarity in their treatment of transcendence, to Clarke's best moments.
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A.I. was not largely developed by Kubrick.
Kubrick had been working on A.I. for a long time before his discussion with began with Spielberg. The following is from the IMDB triva page:
"Stanley Kubrick worked on the project for 12 years before his death, but along the way decided to let Steven Spielberg direct saying it was "closer to his sensibilities". The two collaborated for years, resulting in Kubrick giving Spielberg a complete treatment and lots of conceptual art for the film prior to his death."
The idea for the film originated with discussions between Spielberg and Kubrick,...
A.I. is based on a Brian Aldiss short story, Supertoys Last All Summer Long.
If you want a zip utility with good encryption now, UltimateZip is a pretty good WinZip
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And the chairman of IBM acutally did say that there wouldn't ever be a world market for more than a few hundered (I forget the precise number) computers.
The quote you are thinking of is:
"I think there is a world market for about five computers." -- Thomas J.Watson (1945)
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believed Iraq to be in possession of significant quantities of WMD.
Emphasis is mine.
France had the best human intelligence sources in pre-war Iraq.
President Jacques Chirac warned Bush and Blair there were no such weapons, and rightly refused to join their illegal invasion of Iraq.
-- The Toronto Sun June 8 2003
Sigh. Here is a better link.
I strongly disagree. The problems is that software patents are fundamentally wrong. The best and clearest reasoning about sofware patents that I've read is Donald Knuth's letter to the patent office.
Ok, then the 350 million figure is the number people who were eligible to vote. Of cause this just emphasizes Troed's point.
The number I've heard is 350 million. I guess that is the total number of people within the EU and not the number of eligible voters. Still, you are right, since it is larger that the US population.
There was never any dispute over whether Sadam once had WMDs. The motivation for the Iraq War was that Sadam still was a viable nuclear, chemical and biological threat possibly supplying terrorist. Whether the sarin shell found represents a large hidden cache or just some residual weapons missed by a destruction program is currently unknown. One interesting fact is that the chemical weapons Iraq was known to once have possessed have a shelf life of about 5 year (a bit more for VX). Also note that the chemical weapons found during the first Gulf War were, according to the pentagon, already badly deteriorating.
Oh, and naturally Gaiman is terrific a writer as well.
Yeah, thanks for the reply. I was referring to popup windows opened from an existing browser window, often done with JavaScript. Not that it matters that much to me since I prefer Mozilla or even Opera to IE. My point was that cookies as implemented by IE can present a problem if every window is a separate process, thats all. But then again, why shouldn't the Mozilla developers be able to a better job?
Yes that is annoying when it happens even if is relativity seldom, at least for me. IE however does start multiple process (at least occasionally) and it can have some negative consequences. If a webpage opens another windows cookies are not propagated to the new window. A consequence of this is a popup window might not be logged in to a site, while the original window is. This doesn't always happen with IE though, only sometimes.
Yeah, and boy am I envious. :) For those who can't wait an excerpt has been published in Conjunctions 39. What is believe is the first chapter is available online here.
You are right, Microsoft never supported SourceSafe for OS/2, Mac and Unix. But SourceSafe was originally developed by an independent company called Lifetree or something similar. I'm not sure about the Unix support, but as I recall some version of Unix was supported. Microsoft after having failed miserably with a product called Delta bought Lifetree (or whatever the company's name was) and SourceSafe. Existing boxes of SourceSafe were shipped with a sticker stating that support for other platforms was discontinued.
Thanks for the link to SourceGear.
I seem to remember that there was also a Mac and Unix version.
There is also Intel's rumored Yamhill 64-bit technology, which is supposed to be a more direct answer to the Athon64. Se The Register.
One county, Leon, did. And in Leon, of 694 names only 34 were ineligible voters.
After being sued by NAACP, ChoicePoint's DBT agreed to settle and thus avoid class-action claims. DBT removed 50 000 names from the list. However Harris has refused to return their civil rights. Oh, and here is an interesting statement. ChoicePoint's vice president James Lee called the BBC in February 2000 and said, that the state "wanted there to be more names than were actually verified as being a convicted felon." .
Yes it is. The quotation is on page 25 chapter three in my copy.
I think you can argue that all the authors you mentioned are SF authors. It will of cause depend on you definition of SF, something which there is little consensus about. Clarke, Niven, Bear, I think, are what is often referred to as hard SF writers, and Vonnegut, Bester, Orwell etc are not. To quote Allen Steele in the New York Review of Science Fiction: "Hard sf is the form of imaginative literature that uses either established or carefully extrapolated science as its backbone."
My recollection is that voters who had been crossed off the list (because they had the same names as felons), had been informed of the error and told they could, in fact, vote.
I believe that felons who supposedly committed their crime in Texas (none were actually guilty) were crossed of the list and allowed to vote. You have to be convicted in Florida to lose your right to vote in Florida. But this is a rather long and complex story. If you wish to know all the details I suggest you read http://www.gregpalast.com. After the election the NAACP asked the state to return the voting writes to those who where wrongly accused of being felons. DBT removed 50000 names from their list to avoid a class-action lawsuit. DBT was the company contracted for the job of making the list of felons. This for a price several thousand percent over the competition! So all is well then? Not quite. Harris has refused to return the 50000 their civil rights, despite the fact that they are no longer on the list.
Sadly, I can't find the sources for that (maybe if I dug harder in my browser cache, but I'm not at home). Perhaps others could find it, if anyone is still reading.
Probably not many, but I would be genuinely interested in more infomation.
My recollection is that voters who had been crossed off the list (because they had the same names as felons), had been informed of the error and told they could, in fact, vote. I believe that felons who supposedly committed their crime in Texas (none were actually guilty) were crossed of the list and allowed to vote. You have to be convicted in Florida to lose your right to vote in Florida. But this is a rather long and complex story. If you wish to know all the details I suggest you read http://www.gregpalast.com. After the election the NAACP asked the state to return the voting writes to those who where wrongly accused of being felons. DBT removed 50000 names from their list to avoid a class-action lawsuit. DBT was the company contracted for the job of making the list of felons. This for a price several thousand percent over the competition! So all is well then? Not quite. Harris has refused to return the 50 000 their civil rights, despite the fact that they are no longer on the list. Sadly, I can't find the sources for that (maybe if I dug harder in my browser cache, but I'm not at home). Perhaps others could find it, if anyone is still reading. Probably not many, but I would be genuinely interested for more infomation.
Sources? Well the scandal was uncovered by the Pulitzer Prize nominated BBC and Guardian reporter Greg Palast. The story was also reported by the Washington Post, the Nation and Salon though I haven't seen those articles. Here is a link to a BBC article.
Well Sony Ericsson also just presented two CDMA-telephones, the T606 and the T608, and a model called A1301S for the japanese market.
According to The Register you will be able to download Opera for the P800 on Monday. Sounds cool, but I wonder about how the web will look on such a small screen?
It is interesting that Clarke worked on A.I. since he was apparently replaced by Ian Watson. Watson is credited for the screen story of A.I. and worked with Kubrick. His early novels have, in my mind, some similarity in their treatment of transcendence, to Clarke's best moments.
Kubrick had been working on A.I. for a long time before his discussion with began with Spielberg. The following is from the IMDB triva page:
"Stanley Kubrick worked on the project for 12 years before his death, but along the way decided to let Steven Spielberg direct saying it was "closer to his sensibilities". The two collaborated for years, resulting in Kubrick giving Spielberg a complete treatment and lots of conceptual art for the film prior to his death."
The idea for the film originated with discussions between Spielberg and Kubrick, ...
A.I. is based on a Brian Aldiss short story, Supertoys Last All Summer Long.
If you want a zip utility with good encryption now, UltimateZip is a pretty good WinZip clone. It is free (as in gratis) for private and commercial use and has an extra meny command that can encrypt/decrypt with AES Cipher Rijndael. It's only for Windows though.
The quote you are thinking of is: "I think there is a world market for about five computers." -- Thomas J.Watson (1945)