After considerable expense, and a gift of considerable legal resources and time by the law firm of Davis & Schroeder in Monterey, California in recovering the U.S. registered trademarks for Linux, Linus and his advisors concluded that the only way to protect the mark was to actively pursue the registration of it in a number of countries around the world and to maintain the U.S. mark in his name. To do so has required that we aggressively prosecute people who tried to register the name for their exclusive use in the U.S. and other countries, which we have successfully done in five countries. Should you become aware of other people claiming the exclusive use of the mark in other countries, please contact us at the address below.
So you could say it is a protected trademark in most countries. If someone else tries to trademark it, they will protect it aggressively.
Heh, they handle the legal issues in a very "pro" way:
Xbox is either a trademark or a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Mandrake might be some kind of trademark of MandrakeSoft. Linux definitely
is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. GNU is cool, but I don't think it's a
trademark.
In OSS, we've got the committee in the form of the userbase / hobbyist coder. What a successful project needs is a dictator, to get the impressive ideas down.
Than me:
Also, why on earth do you mix coherent design philosophy and open source? Make a soup one day. You design the soup, not the carrots.
Yoy say:
1) But over the years, I moved more and more towards the study of cognition, and how people do things, and the errors and accidents that people make.
2) On the other hand you say: You don't do good software design by committee. You do it best by having a dictator. From the user's point of view, you must have a coherent design philosophy, and I don't see how that could come about from open source software.
Which logic led you from the 1) to 2) - the fact that you believe that one clever mind makes the best design - do you mean like Hitle, Mussolini or Stalin ? It would seem more logical to go into the conclusion that a larger open mass evolves and fixes problems, instead of getting stuck into one fixed way of thinking. Also, why on earth do you mix coherent design philosophy and open source? Make a soup one day. You design the soup, not the carrots.
Hello, Bob, long time no see. *shake hands*. Welcome, Klez. Jeff too! Slapper, remember to behave yourself. As it seems everyone is here, could you please give the opening speech, Alex.
how long does it take before someone starts shooting Wifi access points in the sky, with free guest logins for any martians passing by. Anyway, does someone know how much is a launch going to cost? With all these odd things sold at ebay nowadays - you might actually make a fortune by selling virtual hosts hosted in the space.
To me it seems really odd that a specific product of a specific company is marketed so openly without any critic on a.gov website. Is that a common practise there in the US?
"The IntelliPipe is one of the most remarkable advances in drilling technology in the last 25 years," Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said. "President Bush, in the National Energy Policy, directed me to pursue advanced technology in energy production. I think the IntelliPipe is exactly the type of technology we need to move our domestic production capabilities into the next century."
Studies using random graphs had shown that changing the software on more and more machines had a cumulative effect. That is not true in a scale-free setting. There, most software changes make no difference to the rate at which a virus spreads (although they obviously protect the machines in question). However, treating a relatively small number of hubs in a scale-free system can stamp viruses out completely.
What phenomena did this columnist exactly try to explain? I quess there must be some sense in this. But it does not ehmm.. really open to me. Does he want to stay that the spreading of viruses could be stopped by fixing the aortas (of the net)... or something else.
I quess you already have a valid requirement basis for selecting the requirements management system. I might be perverted, but I would not even install a separate requirements management system before seeing who i will have working, what will they be doing, and how they will be doing it. You must be building a seriously complex software product, otherwise I do not really see your way of prioritizing things - or have you gone through this process before and already know exactly how you want things done?
From here:
3.There was a contract in 1992 (when McFarlane promised that he would treat Gaiman "better than the big guys").
4.McFarlane breached the 1992 contract.
5.There was a contract in 1997 (this was the rights swap of Gaiman's interests in Medieval Spawn and Cagliostro for McFarlane's interest in Miracleman, plus setting royalty percentages for all uses of Angela and allowing "one-off" projects using the characters).
If he treats the "big guys" worse than he treated Gaiman... we might see a couple of another cases enter court as well.
the open sourcing appears to refer to the hardware compatibility testing suite - not Solaris
Yes, this seems to be the case in this article. However, I found this maybe more interesting one (Making Solaris open source)
Clip (Sun chief engineer Rob Gingell, August 28, 2002 ):
The really valuable thing to us is this community. Not all predecessor communities have agreed to operate on the same IP principle that the Linux community operates on. Getting by that is a real impediment to throwing open the kimono and saying, "Here, Solaris is now open sourced." So, some of it has happened, and we are working on the rest of it. We may never be able to do it all because we may never be able to reach an agreement with the originators of the stuff. In short, the answer is that we're just sort of chipping away at it
This might be worth submitting to/. as a separate story if it has not already been here.
> 3G phones don't use up significantly more energy
Yea, there is nothing in 3G that inheritantly sucks vast amounts of power. However, atleast these 2.5G phones seem to have a gazillion of bells and whistles configured "on" by default - and atleast the current code for these bells seems not very optimized. On certain devices for example, if you play a few minutes of polyphonic ringing tones, you can just hear how it sucks out the power. Imagine what happens when the CPU needs to process realtime multimedia.
Sun will also probably open source this product sometime in the future. As such, it will work with the community to put together a hardware compatibility list that expand the range of systems known to work on Solaris on x86.
Interesting, maybe. But nowadays, open sourcing seems to mean everything between giving a quick peek into the sourcecode and releasing it under a license which poses no restrictions at all. Anyway, is there some pieces in the codebase that are especially worth waiting for - if the license would allow utilizing them for other purposes?
a new open source graphical windowing environment for small devices.
This might not make sense, but I have been thinking about a windowing environment as a far larger concept. I thought the environment consist of all of these for example: X-Windows, Window Manager, and a GUI Toolkit (like wxembedded) --> wxembedded is NOT a windowing environment according to this description. I am asking this because it is about time for me to finally start using correct terms, if this is wrong:)
effectiviness their investment tends to depend more on the share of the IT budget than the absolute amount
Without reading the article in detail (will do it after posting, how clever;)) that conclusion seems utterly logic. Higher share probably reflects the fact that the company management has understood the importance of IT security. And this probably shows everywhere else in the organisation.
Here's good stuff about source based distributions, and comparisons to binary based. Basicly, if you install your operating system "once" and use it for say atleast 12 months, the cycles used during setup are not "wasted" - the bonus you get from it during the lifetime of your setup is significant.
...why photo and color science are as important as clock speeds and data rates in this expanding market
Because otherwise Kodak's business would suck. With this magical message, they can make use of this (System and method for generating a universal palette) (and the other 13696 Kodak patents ?
Here's a scenario: Once the xboxes have populated the homes, in no time at all Microsoft will start shipping Microsoft XB to run in the device. This will happen especially if they notice that a competing open source OS has already penetrated their territory. This is just what Microsoft needs to overcome legal battles related to doing it (combining hardware and operating system) and selling it to large public and to win monopoly accusations related to doing it.
The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico receives information from about one third of the sky, all in the northern celestial hemisphere. But what if ET is lurking in the southern skies? The Parkes telescope in Australia is the largest radio telescope in the southern hemisphere and can observe all of the southern sky. Fortunately, SETI colleagues in Australia have agreed to colloborate with SETI@home and host a new data recorder at Parkes.
Work on this new SETI@home data recorder is well under way. The new instrument will record data from 13 places on the sky simultaneously, observing 13 "beams" at a time compared to the 1 "beam" at Arecibo.
We are trying to raise funds to conduct these southern hemisphere observations for SETI@home. Funding permitting, we expect the new data recorder to be installed and operational at Parkes in early 2003. For more information on the Southern Hemisphere SETI@home plans, see "SETI@home Gearing to Expand the Search" at the Planetary Society
They also name "AstroPulse - the search for pulsars, ET, and black holes" and "To support future projects we are developing the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)"
There is also the planned project time line until 2005.
Earth, 1956 AC, IBM 305 RAMAC:
The 350 Disk File consisted of a stack of fifty 24" discs that can be seen to the left of the operator in the above picture. The capacity of the entire disk file was 5 million 7-bit characters, which works out to about 4.4 MB in modern parlance. This is about the same capacity as the first personal computer hard drives that appeared in the early 1980's, but was an enormous capacity for 1956. IBM leased the 350 Disk File for a $35,000 annual fee.
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Yes, I quess. I tend to quess guess wrongly atleast 42 times a day, I quess.
After considerable expense, and a gift of considerable legal resources and time by the law firm of Davis & Schroeder in Monterey, California in recovering the U.S. registered trademarks for Linux, Linus and his advisors concluded that the only way to protect the mark was to actively pursue the registration of it in a number of countries around the world and to maintain the U.S. mark in his name. To do so has required that we aggressively prosecute people who tried to register the name for their exclusive use in the U.S. and other countries, which we have successfully done in five countries. Should you become aware of other people claiming the exclusive use of the mark in other countries, please contact us at the address below.
So you could say it is a protected trademark in most countries. If someone else tries to trademark it, they will protect it aggressively.
Xbox is either a trademark or a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Mandrake might be some kind of trademark of MandrakeSoft. Linux definitely is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. GNU is cool, but I don't think it's a trademark.
The company will release more details at the Japan Robot Conference, which opens on 12 October at Osaka University.
So, I quess more info will be available here in a couple of days.
In OSS, we've got the committee in the form of the userbase / hobbyist coder. What a successful project needs is a dictator, to get the impressive ideas down.
Than me :
Also, why on earth do you mix coherent design philosophy and open source? Make a soup one day. You design the soup, not the carrots.
1) But over the years, I moved more and more towards the study of cognition, and how people do things, and the errors and accidents that people make.
2) On the other hand you say: You don't do good software design by committee. You do it best by having a dictator. From the user's point of view, you must have a coherent design philosophy, and I don't see how that could come about from open source software.
Which logic led you from the 1) to 2) - the fact that you believe that one clever mind makes the best design - do you mean like Hitle, Mussolini or Stalin ? It would seem more logical to go into the conclusion that a larger open mass evolves and fixes problems, instead of getting stuck into one fixed way of thinking. Also, why on earth do you mix coherent design philosophy and open source? Make a soup one day. You design the soup, not the carrots.
Hello, Bob, long time no see. *shake hands*. Welcome, Klez. Jeff too! Slapper, remember to behave yourself. As it seems everyone is here, could you please give the opening speech, Alex.
how long does it take before someone starts shooting Wifi access points in the sky, with free guest logins for any martians passing by. Anyway, does someone know how much is a launch going to cost? With all these odd things sold at ebay nowadays - you might actually make a fortune by selling virtual hosts hosted in the space.
"The IntelliPipe is one of the most remarkable advances in drilling technology in the last 25 years," Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said. "President Bush, in the National Energy Policy, directed me to pursue advanced technology in energy production. I think the IntelliPipe is exactly the type of technology we need to move our domestic production capabilities into the next century."
That sounds like it's fresh out from the TV shop.
> Here it is simplified:
> [PC] -> [porn]
Evolution tends simplify things until they cannot be simplified: { [porn] }
What phenomena did this columnist exactly try to explain? I quess there must be some sense in this. But it does not ehmm.. really open to me. Does he want to stay that the spreading of viruses could be stopped by fixing the aortas (of the net)... or something else.
I quess you already have a valid requirement basis for selecting the requirements management system. I might be perverted, but I would not even install a separate requirements management system before seeing who i will have working, what will they be doing, and how they will be doing it. You must be building a seriously complex software product, otherwise I do not really see your way of prioritizing things - or have you gone through this process before and already know exactly how you want things done?
IMHO Bugbear's spreading relies solely on social engineer. Labs have nothing to do with social-anything. That's why you can reproduce it in there :))
3.There was a contract in 1992 (when McFarlane promised that he would treat Gaiman "better than the big guys").
4.McFarlane breached the 1992 contract.
5.There was a contract in 1997 (this was the rights swap of Gaiman's interests in Medieval Spawn and Cagliostro for McFarlane's interest in Miracleman, plus setting royalty percentages for all uses of Angela and allowing "one-off" projects using the characters).
If he treats the "big guys" worse than he treated Gaiman... we might see a couple of another cases enter court as well.
Yes, this seems to be the case in this article. However, I found this maybe more interesting one (Making Solaris open source)
Clip (Sun chief engineer Rob Gingell, August 28, 2002 ):
The really valuable thing to us is this community. Not all predecessor communities have agreed to operate on the same IP principle that the Linux community operates on. Getting by that is a real impediment to throwing open the kimono and saying, "Here, Solaris is now open sourced." So, some of it has happened, and we are working on the rest of it. We may never be able to do it all because we may never be able to reach an agreement with the originators of the stuff. In short, the answer is that we're just sort of chipping away at it
This might be worth submitting to /. as a separate story if it has not already been here.
Yea, there is nothing in 3G that inheritantly sucks vast amounts of power. However, atleast these 2.5G phones seem to have a gazillion of bells and whistles configured "on" by default - and atleast the current code for these bells seems not very optimized. On certain devices for example, if you play a few minutes of polyphonic ringing tones, you can just hear how it sucks out the power. Imagine what happens when the CPU needs to process realtime multimedia.
Interesting, maybe. But nowadays, open sourcing seems to mean everything between giving a quick peek into the sourcecode and releasing it under a license which poses no restrictions at all. Anyway, is there some pieces in the codebase that are especially worth waiting for - if the license would allow utilizing them for other purposes?
- Current capacity, Voltage: 88 Ah, 3.75V
- Amount of energy/Voltage: 55 kWh / 315 V
- Batteries weight 600 kg
Aha! So now I know what the mobile phone manufacturers use as the reference when announcing the battery lifetime of these cool new 3G phones :)
This might not make sense, but I have been thinking about a windowing environment as a far larger concept. I thought the environment consist of all of these for example: X-Windows, Window Manager, and a GUI Toolkit (like wxembedded) --> wxembedded is NOT a windowing environment according to this description. I am asking this because it is about time for me to finally start using correct terms, if this is wrong :)
Without reading the article in detail (will do it after posting, how clever ;)) that conclusion seems utterly logic. Higher share probably reflects the fact that the company management has understood the importance of IT security. And this probably shows everywhere else in the organisation.
Here's good stuff about source based distributions, and comparisons to binary based. Basicly, if you install your operating system "once" and use it for say atleast 12 months, the cycles used during setup are not "wasted" - the bonus you get from it during the lifetime of your setup is significant.
Because otherwise Kodak's business would suck. With this magical message, they can make use of this (System and method for generating a universal palette) (and the other 13696 Kodak patents ?
Here's a scenario: Once the xboxes have populated the homes, in no time at all Microsoft will start shipping Microsoft XB to run in the device. This will happen especially if they notice that a competing open source OS has already penetrated their territory. This is just what Microsoft needs to overcome legal battles related to doing it (combining hardware and operating system) and selling it to large public and to win monopoly accusations related to doing it.
The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico receives information from about one third of the sky, all in the northern celestial hemisphere. But what if ET is lurking in the southern skies? The Parkes telescope in Australia is the largest radio telescope in the southern hemisphere and can observe all of the southern sky. Fortunately, SETI colleagues in Australia have agreed to colloborate with SETI@home and host a new data recorder at Parkes. Work on this new SETI@home data recorder is well under way. The new instrument will record data from 13 places on the sky simultaneously, observing 13 "beams" at a time compared to the 1 "beam" at Arecibo. We are trying to raise funds to conduct these southern hemisphere observations for SETI@home. Funding permitting, we expect the new data recorder to be installed and operational at Parkes in early 2003. For more information on the Southern Hemisphere SETI@home plans, see "SETI@home Gearing to Expand the Search" at the Planetary Society
They also name "AstroPulse - the search for pulsars, ET, and black holes" and "To support future projects we are developing the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)"
There is also the planned project time line until 2005.
Earth, 1956 AC, IBM 305 RAMAC:
The 350 Disk File consisted of a stack of fifty 24" discs that can be seen to the left of the operator in the above picture. The capacity of the entire disk file was 5 million 7-bit characters, which works out to about 4.4 MB in modern parlance. This is about the same capacity as the first personal computer hard drives that appeared in the early 1980's, but was an enormous capacity for 1956. IBM leased the 350 Disk File for a $35,000 annual fee.