How is this insightful? 99% of the time patents are not easy to work around simply because they aren't specific and/or are too specific. That or the work around is so inefficient that it makes no sense to knowingly degrade product performance. With that, how do you get around tabbed browsing? Documentation generation based on macros (I can think about prior art for this back in the 70's and I wasn't even born yet).
A patent is fair when the technology is new and or is so specific that it should be patented. Even then, one must be able to afford the lawyers and have time to push the paper work through. All this, for a patent (which is not cheap). This is why most patents today are through business and corporations.
Essentially for Computer Science and Engineering we need more skilled people in this field working at the USPTO. These area in specific definitely need to be overhauled or the system will stop working. For instance, Tabbed Browsing, should not have been granted a patent. Most of these items patented by others have years of prior art in open source.
So it's ok to say "Fuck you man", it's ok to be upset. Just make sure your gun is pointed in the right direction.
He has shown nothing that is sensitive at all. Nothing; not even a FM manual or something that might be detrimental.
Fire, police, a roster with phone numbers and addresses. Seriously, waste of time. Terrorist can't look into a phone book? A semi-naked chick smiling into the camera? Blah.
The fix for this problem is simple.. Reboot your tivo. I've been having this problem whenever the weather gets bad (ie: it's about to storm). I turn off my tivo, unplug it. Plug it back in, start it up and it's fixed. I was considering calling DirecTV if it became a serious issue and I found myself doing it often. I've only gone through this process about three times and it only happens when the weather is exceptionally bad. Losing 2 days worth of programming is a problem, but the same thing happened last year around this time in the North East and I got my bill credited. If it's of any help to anyone I have a sony unit.
Hopefully, this problem is fixed. I've got lifetime service and simply don't see the point in upgrading to series 2. Those units do not offer me anything I really want; dual recording I already have, turbonet lets me get updates without using the phone. My shows are recorded and I watch them when I want. Everything else is icing, and I don't like too much icing on my cake.
People should also be aware that Postal Inspectors pack a heavy amount of fire power. I used to be in a MP Battalion and we got to check out the Postal Inspectors daily routine. At first I thought it would be a joke.. I thought the whole thing was a joke until I saw the amount of weapons and dilligence these guys have. Ever since that day everytime I see a postal inspectors blue/white trailing some truck or person. Instead of laughing thinking "Ohh look at the little girlie-man". I move to the right and slow down.
If you wanna die real quick.. try stealing a mail truck.
Reading your comments remind me of someone who is so blinded by what they believe is right, that they can't see they aren't being rational.
If the legal system was black and white, right and wrong, then your rally for the right thing would be rational. However, that is not the case and sadly that is not how our legal system works. Legalese and slimy lawyers and judges will bend definitions of what one would consider to be either right or wrong.
In such an environment it pays to be smart and not stupid. So, Robertson, regardless of his motives. Whether he be a slimebag in it for the money or genuinely wanting justice has emptied the pockets of Microsoft; again. What has he done with the money? It's questionable, but Lindows/Linspire is a linux company and Microsoft is 20 million lighter.
I'm sure he could of been stupid and dragged the case on and wasted millions all to keep the name. In your eyes it would of been the right thing to do; but it would not have gained you or anyone else anything. At the expense of a small company against Microsoft, it was a smart.
Also as someone else said I wouldn't be surprised to see Robertson at it again. He clearly wants to be a thorn in someones side.
Jill Scott/Musiq/Amel Larrieux (girl from Groove Theory)/The Roots as was already posted/Black Eyed Peas/Dead Prez etc etc etc.
Also there are cases where you won't see a rapper playing an instrument on stage but it doesn't mean they can't play a musical instrument. A very good example of this are The Neptunes (they just don't do hiphop) and other producers in the music industry that also release albums. As for track laying, it has always been computer generated.
It's a shame that you speak on something with authority; yet do not know what you speak of. If you don't know just say so and inquire. You might learn something new without someone having to end with a wise ass remark as such.
Simply because most applications will be using the native Microsoft forms and extensions. Mono has yet to support any of them natively without problems. It's forseeable into the future that they will never be able to fully adopt or engineer such compatibility without help from Microsoft themelves and/or an open spec. That is why.
A good rule of thumb; never try to implement a system on top of another one. Especially when you're speaking about what exactly takes place now. You don't speak about HOW im packets are going to be transported etc etc. This is like saying "Yeah, we can use ipv4/ipv6 for im!!" "Yeah... cool man.. cool." "Ownage".
Gimp - not a gnome application Glade - not a gnome application GNUCash - not a gnome application Galeon - not a gnome application Gabby/Gabber/Gaim - not a gnome application Ghemical,GsmartCard,Gswitch - not a gnome aplication
How is Konfabulator a new idea? Deskspace applets are an old thing man.
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Oh I apologize, you've taken that word to mean YOUR connotation of it's definition. Sadly, my connotation is a noun; used to describe a group of individuals. I don't normally use it in this forum, as I expect responses as such. However, I simply don't care. Don't like it, don't use the word. Don't bother me about it's usage however, especially since it was used by a majority of people to demean a people and culture which I happen to be apart of. If anyone is going to determine it's usage and context when it's used; it'll be me. Good day.
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This seems like a legitimate set of concerns, but I think the ability of Microsoft to change the game at this point is severely limited.
The reason why Microsoft can't radically alter.NET is because of the existance of legacy apps. The company I work for has thousands of man-hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars into our ASP.NET applications. Microsoft can't break these applications. The.NET API has to remain consistant or they'll lose that legacy application support and lose customers. The fastest way to piss off an IT department is to make a change that breaks their apps. Believe me, I know...
This is business.. You think the niggers at Microsoft actually care if you can maintain legacy apps if it means they can wring another licensing fee out of your IT dept? Heh, you need to wakeup to the realities of everyday business. If they can break it and offer you a "better" solution in order to keep your wallet clean; that's what they will do. That's business. This is also why Microsoft doesn't like opensource/gpl/standards etc, it fucks with their money.
So, if Mono can get the.NET 1.1 standards done, they can support all those legacy apps with few changes. Even if/when Microsoft introduces some spiffy new libraries with.NET 2.0, businesses can still say "it's cheaper for us to get off the forced upgrade wagon and move to Mono as a platform for.NET and we can keep our legacy applications." Unless.NET 2.0 comes up with some massively useful new system, there isn't that strong a reason to upgrade.
Doesn't matter to them; less support and more money from the people that do switch. Since this is business they'll just do the normal song and dance, advertising, blowing on horns about how their shit is the best etc etc. If not enough people switch, backport some crack, get people like you hooked and you'll find 100 new reasons Mono sucks. This is not technical for Microsoft, so that massively useful brand new system they recycle from someones old idea will seem real useful to you.
Granted, Microsoft can still pull out a patent and try to shut Mono down, which remains a threat, but I don't see them as doing that. All Mono has to do is use that as a talking point - don't develop for.NET because of patent issues. This hurts Microsoft by slowing the adoption of.NET. The worst that happens is that Mono has to fall back on its own libraries, and given that things like Gtk# are useful on their own they still have something to show for their work.
That's true but will be pointless in the grand scheme of things. Mono needs to stop following Microsoft spec and make Linux the better development platform. Use some of that brain power to forge a new path so we can start doing cool shit. Developers will come if it's better, if it isn't why bother? It's not like they have to write anything for Linux to begin with. So work isn't going to make it a requirement. Outside the scope of work where else is it going to take hold?
The more I think about it, the more I think Mono is in a strong position. I'd be more worried about Microsoft unleashing a patent infringement case than I would about them changing the APIs to shut out Mono. If they did that, they'd be shooting themselves in the foot.
I've gone over this for a while myself, I even gave mono a whirl. The simple fact is this, Microsoft doesn't give a shit if it doesn't affect bottom line. When it does and they start seeing Mono in places they feel they should be. They will find all ways to sue Mono into the ground. So they'll keep a lazy eye on it, if it becomes an issue, make sure Mono has a hard time. Right now, Mono isn't even a threat; they haven't said a thing about it.
It's as if Linux were able to run all Win95 applications just as Windows 2000 was coming around. Yes, Windows 2000 was infinitely better than 95, but if you're a P
The problem with Usability or taking suggestions from users is that they typically do not know what they need and/or want until they need and/or want it. This goes for everything, when someone buys a new car, how often do they read the documentation? When someone gets a new gift, how often do they read the documentation. They can't make any suggestions to usability if they themselves don't know how to use the system. So; you get your typical response.
"Make it easier, make everything easier, make everything do everything by itself so I don't have to worry about anything. When I turn on my computer it should know that I'm hungry and offer me something to eat. All this stuff is hard to install and use."
"Well, did you read the easy 10 steps to get it working".
"I shouldn't need to read that stuff is what I'm saying."
No matter what you do you'll always get something along those lines. Documentation doesn't make usability better when it's not read. Personally I believe the best way to make a usable interface would be to incorporate neural network like functionality into the interface and the way it operates. This way, the interface accomodates the user based on the usability guidelines provided by the programmer and will compensate for a specific users behavior.
I'm sick of you slashdot astroturfers. You have some knowledge internally of sales figures? EV1 is doing so well, fine. His motivations remain the same, business. It was business to pay SCO license money for other peoples code that they do not own. In other words he thought it was a good business decision to throw money away, turn around and use the same code, utils and programs that are open to make money off of them at the expense of every programmer, documentor and user in this community and that's ok?
A victim of a crime doesn't sit and negotiate with the criminal. It's like sitting down with a burgular and giving him a gun before the robbery. Then walking into some place and announcing the fact that you had no choice and are doing this to make sure no one in the store gets hurt. Does that make sense to you?
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How is this insightful? 99% of the time patents are not easy to work around simply because they aren't specific and/or are too specific. That or the work around is so inefficient that it makes no sense to knowingly degrade product performance. With that, how do you get around tabbed browsing? Documentation generation based on macros (I can think about prior art for this back in the 70's and I wasn't even born yet).
A patent is fair when the technology is new and or is so specific that it should be patented. Even then, one must be able to afford the lawyers and have time to push the paper work through. All this, for a patent (which is not cheap). This is why most patents today are through business and corporations.
Essentially for Computer Science and Engineering we need more skilled people in this field working at the USPTO. These area in specific definitely need to be overhauled or the system will stop working. For instance, Tabbed Browsing, should not have been granted a patent. Most of these items patented by others have years of prior art in open source.
So it's ok to say "Fuck you man", it's ok to be upset. Just make sure your gun is pointed in the right direction.
Retarded idea. How about Software company X implements it the way they want. Software company Y implements it the way they want. No patents.
He has shown nothing that is sensitive at all. Nothing; not even a FM manual or something that might be detrimental.
Fire, police, a roster with phone numbers and addresses. Seriously, waste of time. Terrorist can't look into a phone book? A semi-naked chick smiling into the camera? Blah.
The fix for this problem is simple.. Reboot your tivo. I've been having this problem whenever the weather gets bad (ie: it's about to storm). I turn off my tivo, unplug it. Plug it back in, start it up and it's fixed. I was considering calling DirecTV if it became a serious issue and I found myself doing it often. I've only gone through this process about three times and it only happens when the weather is exceptionally bad. Losing 2 days worth of programming is a problem, but the same thing happened last year around this time in the North East and I got my bill credited. If it's of any help to anyone I have a sony unit.
Hopefully, this problem is fixed. I've got lifetime service and simply don't see the point in upgrading to series 2. Those units do not offer me anything I really want; dual recording I already have, turbonet lets me get updates without using the phone. My shows are recorded and I watch them when I want. Everything else is icing, and I don't like too much icing on my cake.
People should also be aware that Postal Inspectors pack a heavy amount of fire power. I used to be in a MP Battalion and we got to check out the Postal Inspectors daily routine. At first I thought it would be a joke.. I thought the whole thing was a joke until I saw the amount of weapons and dilligence these guys have. Ever since that day everytime I see a postal inspectors blue/white trailing some truck or person. Instead of laughing thinking "Ohh look at the little girlie-man". I move to the right and slow down.
If you wanna die real quick.. try stealing a mail truck.
Reading your comments remind me of someone who is so blinded by what they believe is right, that they can't see they aren't being rational.
If the legal system was black and white, right and wrong, then your rally for the right thing would be rational. However, that is not the case and sadly that is not how our legal system works. Legalese and slimy lawyers and judges will bend definitions of what one would consider to be either right or wrong.
In such an environment it pays to be smart and not stupid. So, Robertson, regardless of his motives. Whether he be a slimebag in it for the money or genuinely wanting justice has emptied the pockets of Microsoft; again. What has he done with the money? It's questionable, but Lindows/Linspire is a linux company and Microsoft is 20 million lighter.
I'm sure he could of been stupid and dragged the case on and wasted millions all to keep the name. In your eyes it would of been the right thing to do; but it would not have gained you or anyone else anything. At the expense of a small company against Microsoft, it was a smart.
Also as someone else said I wouldn't be surprised to see Robertson at it again. He clearly wants to be a thorn in someones side.
A Tribe Called Quest will be dropping a CD in 2004.. Stay tuned for it.
Naaaamean??
Jill Scott/Musiq/Amel Larrieux (girl from Groove Theory)/The Roots as was already posted/Black Eyed Peas/Dead Prez etc etc etc.
Also there are cases where you won't see a rapper playing an instrument on stage but it doesn't mean they can't play a musical instrument. A very good example of this are The Neptunes (they just don't do hiphop) and other producers in the music industry that also release albums. As for track laying, it has always been computer generated.
It's a shame that you speak on something with authority; yet do not know what you speak of. If you don't know just say so and inquire. You might learn something new without someone having to end with a wise ass remark as such.
Simply because most applications will be using the native Microsoft forms and extensions. Mono has yet to support any of them natively without problems. It's forseeable into the future that they will never be able to fully adopt or engineer such compatibility without help from Microsoft themelves and/or an open spec. That is why.
Except that isn't the way it works, you won't be able to just easily compile your application on Linux.
In the general theoretical sense, there isn't much difference between Java and .NET. The success of each will depend on the implementation.
.NET is officially supported on I believe two platforms.
And the fact that
You might understand, I read it. Again, that makes no sense.. thats why there is a TCP slash IP.
Good day.
A good rule of thumb; never try to implement a system on top of another one. Especially when you're speaking about what exactly takes place now. You don't speak about HOW im packets are going to be transported etc etc. This is like saying "Yeah, we can use ipv4/ipv6 for im!!" "Yeah... cool man.. cool." "Ownage".
We already do that.
Gimp - not a gnome application
Glade - not a gnome application
GNUCash - not a gnome application
Galeon - not a gnome application
Gabby/Gabber/Gaim - not a gnome application
Ghemical,GsmartCard,Gswitch - not a gnome aplication
And I Don't even use Gnome as a primary desktop
Really?
Sounds like a dns server problem, IPv6 shouldn't make lookups slower. You should probably also stop using nslookup.
+1 True.. true.
How is Konfabulator a new idea? Deskspace applets are an old thing man.
Oh I apologize, you've taken that word to mean YOUR connotation of it's definition. Sadly, my connotation is a noun; used to describe a group of individuals. I don't normally use it in this forum, as I expect responses as such. However, I simply don't care. Don't like it, don't use the word. Don't bother me about it's usage however, especially since it was used by a majority of people to demean a people and culture which I happen to be apart of. If anyone is going to determine it's usage and context when it's used; it'll be me. Good day.
This seems like a legitimate set of concerns, but I think the ability of Microsoft to change the game at this point is severely limited.
.NET is because of the existance of legacy apps. The company I work for has thousands of man-hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars into our ASP.NET applications. Microsoft can't break these applications. The .NET API has to remain consistant or they'll lose that legacy application support and lose customers. The fastest way to piss off an IT department is to make a change that breaks their apps. Believe me, I know...
.NET 1.1 standards done, they can support all those legacy apps with few changes. Even if/when Microsoft introduces some spiffy new libraries with .NET 2.0, businesses can still say "it's cheaper for us to get off the forced upgrade wagon and move to Mono as a platform for .NET and we can keep our legacy applications." Unless .NET 2.0 comes up with some massively useful new system, there isn't that strong a reason to upgrade.
.NET because of patent issues. This hurts Microsoft by slowing the adoption of .NET. The worst that happens is that Mono has to fall back on its own libraries, and given that things like Gtk# are useful on their own they still have something to show for their work.
The reason why Microsoft can't radically alter
This is business.. You think the niggers at Microsoft actually care if you can maintain legacy apps if it means they can wring another licensing fee out of your IT dept? Heh, you need to wakeup to the realities of everyday business. If they can break it and offer you a "better" solution in order to keep your wallet clean; that's what they will do. That's business. This is also why Microsoft doesn't like opensource/gpl/standards etc, it fucks with their money.
So, if Mono can get the
Doesn't matter to them; less support and more money from the people that do switch. Since this is business they'll just do the normal song and dance, advertising, blowing on horns about how their shit is the best etc etc. If not enough people switch, backport some crack, get people like you hooked and you'll find 100 new reasons Mono sucks. This is not technical for Microsoft, so that massively useful brand new system they recycle from someones old idea will seem real useful to you.
Granted, Microsoft can still pull out a patent and try to shut Mono down, which remains a threat, but I don't see them as doing that. All Mono has to do is use that as a talking point - don't develop for
That's true but will be pointless in the grand scheme of things. Mono needs to stop following Microsoft spec and make Linux the better development platform. Use some of that brain power to forge a new path so we can start doing cool shit. Developers will come if it's better, if it isn't why bother? It's not like they have to write anything for Linux to begin with. So work isn't going to make it a requirement. Outside the scope of work where else is it going to take hold?
The more I think about it, the more I think Mono is in a strong position. I'd be more worried about Microsoft unleashing a patent infringement case than I would about them changing the APIs to shut out Mono. If they did that, they'd be shooting themselves in the foot.
I've gone over this for a while myself, I even gave mono a whirl. The simple fact is this, Microsoft doesn't give a shit if it doesn't affect bottom line. When it does and they start seeing Mono in places they feel they should be. They will find all ways to sue Mono into the ground. So they'll keep a lazy eye on it, if it becomes an issue, make sure Mono has a hard time. Right now, Mono isn't even a threat; they haven't said a thing about it.
It's as if Linux were able to run all Win95 applications just as Windows 2000 was coming around. Yes, Windows 2000 was infinitely better than 95, but if you're a P
Actually I'd like to see the evidence as well regarding Saddam and Hezbola or any terrorist organization for that matter. Thanks ..
The problem with Usability or taking suggestions from users is that they typically do not know what they need and/or want until they need and/or want it. This goes for everything, when someone buys a new car, how often do they read the documentation? When someone gets a new gift, how often do they read the documentation. They can't make any suggestions to usability if they themselves don't know how to use the system. So; you get your typical response.
"Make it easier, make everything easier, make everything do everything by itself so I don't have to worry about anything. When I turn on my computer it should know that I'm hungry and offer me something to eat. All this stuff is hard to install and use."
"Well, did you read the easy 10 steps to get it working".
"I shouldn't need to read that stuff is what I'm saying."
No matter what you do you'll always get something along those lines. Documentation doesn't make usability better when it's not read. Personally I believe the best way to make a usable interface would be to incorporate neural network like functionality into the interface and the way it operates. This way, the interface accomodates the user based on the usability guidelines provided by the programmer and will compensate for a specific users behavior.
I'm sick of you slashdot astroturfers. You have some knowledge internally of sales figures? EV1 is doing so well, fine. His motivations remain the same, business. It was business to pay SCO license money for other peoples code that they do not own. In other words he thought it was a good business decision to throw money away, turn around and use the same code, utils and programs that are open to make money off of them at the expense of every programmer, documentor and user in this community and that's ok?
Heh.. sorry.. EV1 can fly a fucking kite.
A victim of a crime doesn't sit and negotiate with the criminal. It's like sitting down with a burgular and giving him a gun before the robbery. Then walking into some place and announcing the fact that you had no choice and are doing this to make sure no one in the store gets hurt. Does that make sense to you?
Are you serious? You just can't be serious.