Or maybe it's because of the exact same reason that "saved passwords" are not cleared.. so people don't have to log back into websites that have given them a cookie to cache their login.
Grey out the search box until the user chooses the search engine they want to use. Randomly choose the order of the search engines in the drop down box (once). Replace the home page with a selection page, and include a type-in box.
That way Mozilla won't be giving Google any special treatment and when the users choose Google to be the preferred search and home page anyway you can claim that you weren't doing anything wrong in the first place.
Ever notice how the vending machines in women's bathrooms have one kind of condom, hair brushes, deodorant, lipstick, etc, but the vending machines in men's bathrooms have 8 different kinds of condom? I'm sure there's some market research going on there.
Yes, but it takes thousands of years for the solar wind to blow away the atmosphere. If we one day have the ability to make the atmosphere of Mars suitable for human habitation then surely we will also have the ability to maintain the atmosphere over such a long time period.
So what's you're saying is that this conversation is no longer fiction:
Radio Operator: Sir! I can't get through to base! Officer: damn, they must be jamming our transmissions! Try inverting the phase polarity! Radio Operator: That did it! I have communications.. here.. Officer: General, the enemy is capable.
royalty program? Ha! Best you'll get is a filing bonus.. and maybe when the patent is granted you'll get a jacket with your name on it and get invited to a boring ass party where they try to encourage you to think up more pointless shit for them to patent.
That's some twisted logic that I doubt would work in a court of law. In any case, who gives a shit, they can't prove when you had thoughts.. unless you're stupid enough to talk about it on Slashdot or something.
My exact same argument applies to if you asked your mother if she would like a copy of her favorite song from a p2p file sharing program or not. Compare it to if you asked her if she would like a stolen CD from the local music store. One will get you a slap about the ear, the other will won't. That's the point.. the average person is not morally outraged by illicit copying. The average person has no interest in these laws. They exist for industry at the expense of the public. And no, you're absolutely wrong in the belief that IP is anything but a minor industry. Weapons and agriculture are big sectors. Books, movies, music and software, are nothing.
Yes, a few hundred years ago they used to hang the hungry peasants for hunting game on the Landlords Estate. Yeah, cause stalking around on someone else's land with a gun won't get you killed these days.
I've signed all sorts of stuff like that. Never had a problem. As for the 6 months bit, it's not like you can get a patent in under 3 years.. so I don't see the point of it. Generally, leave the lawyering to the lawyers.. if they're going to sue you, they will, no matter what your contract says.
Ask you mother if she's ok with you copying one of her CDs. If she says no, that would be against the law and she thought she raised you better than that then the law is just. Otherwise, if, say, she says "sure, whatever you like son", then the law is neither wanted nor needed by society. The music industry makes less money than the self storage industry.. I don't see why we need special laws to protect their broken business practices.
now remove and reinsert the USB device. Hmm.. nothing happens.. how strange. Go to My Computer and double click on I: (or whatever your drive is mapped to) and what happens? Yeah, calc.exe is run. Thanks Microsoft.
1. insert a usb drive, let's say it is mounted to I: 2. edit I:\autorun.inf with a text editor (for example, notepad) and put:
[autorun] open=calc.exe action=Run Calculator
3. copy c:\windows\system32\calc.exe to I: 4. remove the usb drive 5. reinsert the usb drive
Windows will pop up a dialog that says:
Windows can perform the same action each time you insert a disk or connect a device with this kind of file:
Program
What do you want Windows to do?
Run Calculator using the program on the device
Open folder to view files using Windows Explorer
Take no action
[] Always do the selected action You can make the action say "Open folder to view files" and you can even make the icon look similar, but Windows will always say that helpful "using the program on the device" and it will never run the exe automatically. So you might be able to trick some people into running your program instead of running Windows Explorer but they would have to be not paying a whole lot of attention.. fair enough, that's not all that uncommon, but I think Microsoft have put some effort into making this both safe as well as useful, so don't come down on them quite so fast.
Alternatively, does there *need* to be a hierarchy? Can't *everyone* take responsibility? A commercial venture seems like the perfect place for constitutional direct democracy as anyone who isn't taking responsibility can simply be ejected by popular vote.
But yes, so long as responsibility is handled by hierarchical management structures the person at the top will always be disproportionately compensated to the many people at the bottom.. otherwise, as you say, no-one will take the job.
sounds about right.. it costs about the same amount in support (things like IT, accountants, lawyers, office rental, etc) that it does in salary.. so an average salary of $76k is about average.
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Sure, if you don't like it, don't use it.
Then they don't get any money from you.
Or maybe it's because of the exact same reason that "saved passwords" are not cleared.. so people don't have to log back into websites that have given them a cookie to cache their login.
Grey out the search box until the user chooses the search engine they want to use. Randomly choose the order of the search engines in the drop down box (once). Replace the home page with a selection page, and include a type-in box.
That way Mozilla won't be giving Google any special treatment and when the users choose Google to be the preferred search and home page anyway you can claim that you weren't doing anything wrong in the first place.
and being a resident of slashdot you have no female friends.
Ever notice how the vending machines in women's bathrooms have one kind of condom, hair brushes, deodorant, lipstick, etc, but the vending machines in men's bathrooms have 8 different kinds of condom? I'm sure there's some market research going on there.
That does sound a lot more sensible.
I guess you haven't figured out how to think like the Japanese yet.
Protectionism.. welcome to the 80s.
Silly me, assumed smaller LCD would be cheaper.. 15" is hard to get these days.
An 15" LCD monitor will cost you about $200.. so, what, $30 for a keyboard and mouse.. $430 for a computer, not bad.
Yes, but it takes thousands of years for the solar wind to blow away the atmosphere. If we one day have the ability to make the atmosphere of Mars suitable for human habitation then surely we will also have the ability to maintain the atmosphere over such a long time period.
So what's you're saying is that this conversation is no longer fiction:
Radio Operator: Sir! I can't get through to base!
Officer: damn, they must be jamming our transmissions! Try inverting the phase polarity!
Radio Operator: That did it! I have communications.. here..
Officer: General, the enemy is capable.
royalty program? Ha! Best you'll get is a filing bonus.. and maybe when the patent is granted you'll get a jacket with your name on it and get invited to a boring ass party where they try to encourage you to think up more pointless shit for them to patent.
That's some twisted logic that I doubt would work in a court of law. In any case, who gives a shit, they can't prove when you had thoughts.. unless you're stupid enough to talk about it on Slashdot or something.
My exact same argument applies to if you asked your mother if she would like a copy of her favorite song from a p2p file sharing program or not. Compare it to if you asked her if she would like a stolen CD from the local music store. One will get you a slap about the ear, the other will won't. That's the point.. the average person is not morally outraged by illicit copying. The average person has no interest in these laws. They exist for industry at the expense of the public. And no, you're absolutely wrong in the belief that IP is anything but a minor industry. Weapons and agriculture are big sectors. Books, movies, music and software, are nothing.
I've signed all sorts of stuff like that. Never had a problem. As for the 6 months bit, it's not like you can get a patent in under 3 years.. so I don't see the point of it. Generally, leave the lawyering to the lawyers.. if they're going to sue you, they will, no matter what your contract says.
Ask you mother if she's ok with you copying one of her CDs. If she says no, that would be against the law and she thought she raised you better than that then the law is just. Otherwise, if, say, she says "sure, whatever you like son", then the law is neither wanted nor needed by society. The music industry makes less money than the self storage industry.. I don't see why we need special laws to protect their broken business practices.
Try putting this in your autorun.inf:
[autorun]
shell\silly=You're silly
shell\silly\command=calc.exe
shell=silly
now remove and reinsert the USB device. Hmm.. nothing happens.. how strange. Go to My Computer and double click on I: (or whatever your drive is mapped to) and what happens? Yeah, calc.exe is run. Thanks Microsoft.
You may now flame away.
1. insert a usb drive, let's say it is mounted to I:
2. edit I:\autorun.inf with a text editor (for example, notepad) and put:
[autorun]
open=calc.exe
action=Run Calculator
3. copy c:\windows\system32\calc.exe to I:
4. remove the usb drive
5. reinsert the usb drive
Windows will pop up a dialog that says: Windows can perform the same action each time you insert a disk or connect a device with this kind of file:
Program
What do you want Windows to do?
Run Calculator
using the program on the device
Open folder to view files
using Windows Explorer
Take no action
[] Always do the selected action You can make the action say "Open folder to view files" and you can even make the icon look similar, but Windows will always say that helpful "using the program on the device" and it will never run the exe automatically. So you might be able to trick some people into running your program instead of running Windows Explorer but they would have to be not paying a whole lot of attention.. fair enough, that's not all that uncommon, but I think Microsoft have put some effort into making this both safe as well as useful, so don't come down on them quite so fast.
Meh, GNU is a whole lot of really small projects. Mozilla is a small number of medium sized projects. I think you're comparing apples and oranges.
Alternatively, does there *need* to be a hierarchy? Can't *everyone* take responsibility? A commercial venture seems like the perfect place for constitutional direct democracy as anyone who isn't taking responsibility can simply be ejected by popular vote.
But yes, so long as responsibility is handled by hierarchical management structures the person at the top will always be disproportionately compensated to the many people at the bottom.. otherwise, as you say, no-one will take the job.
Not only is Camino based on the Mozilla code base, it is also developed by people who are paid by the Mozilla foundation.
sounds about right.. it costs about the same amount in support (things like IT, accountants, lawyers, office rental, etc) that it does in salary.. so an average salary of $76k is about average.
to work on open source.. that's pretty damn good.
is wrong with that?