Foxconn competitors such as pcchips, biostar, and Asrock all produce low cost motherboards that work fine with linux and have for years. In particular pcchips has been a linux ally for almost a decade, they were shipping linux cd's with their motherboards back in the 20th century(remember corel linux).
Now the validity of these patents may be called into question. Looking at the patents it doesnt bring to mind submarine patents as much as the question...shouldnt the person who patents something actually be able to demonstrate a working prototype before a final patent is issued not just a paper invention?
Its 20 light years away, which if you could get a probe up to say.5 c could be done in 40 years. Thats sounds like a long time until you realize Voyager probes have been in space for about 30 years.
If an OEM has purchased a pile of Windows 3.11 licenses from microsoft they can continue to sell it indefinitely...under the doctrine of first sale. So people who want windows 3.11 can license it until November 1st.
Admittedly Microsoft may stop the sale of NEW licenses which is what they are apparently are doing.
I suspect win 3.11 is licensed for POS devices and legacy applications. I guess all those people licensing that stuff will have to go to windows 95/98 embedded???
By bringing it to his attention 1) You save the company a competent employee 2) Discourage him from doing it again 3) You demonstrate your personal loyalty to an up and coming executive.
The question you have to answer, is did the employees actions harm the company in a non-trivial manner? I assume the answer is no. There are many things users do that waste time, most of which are trivial and do not actively cost the company money. If the cost of stopping these trivial things exceeds the benefits then you tolerate it and move on.
I would be more concerned about the use of a "firewall/lan bypass device" than the content itself.
Putting the quote in context(which is allowed under fair use)
"Unfortunately for us, that wasn't meant to be. The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial development tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source tools. With UNA Collaborative Edition, we have that--there's nothing for real-time collaborative development that even comes close, whether commercial or open source. But UNA Personal Edition is more of an incremental improvement on what's out there in the editing world. "
So commercial software has to be a LOT better than opensource to survive not merely a little better. So whats the problem with that??? If you want to make lots of money...quit your bellyaching and INVENT,INNOVATE and INSPIRE!
Yahoo is not the #1 search engine and even if microsoft took it over they still wouldnt be.
Whatever you think of microsoft as a company doesnt matter.
The yahoo board is supposed to represent its shareholders, if I hold stock in a company and someone offers 72% more than the shares are worth, and the company wont even let me consider the offer id be pissed too!
Icahn doesnt have a duty to yahoo, yahoo has a duty to its shareholder to act in their best interests even if it means selling out to microsoft and losing their cushy jobs.
My point is customizing the OS is easier than customizing the hardware, thats why dell will keep linux as a customization option. How this got modded off topic is moderator schenanigans
Actually the supreme court ruling makes a LOT of sense.
What the court ruled...correctly is that the President cant just order state courts to do something. If President Bush wants a state court to do something, he needs to go down to a federal court to get a federal court order directing the state court to do it.
I am not a troll, I am not making this up, I am not making comments just to piss people off.
Last week I bought an Inspiron 1501 laptop from dell outlet. It came with Vista home Premium. The thing was nothing but sluggish. I use vista premium on my desktop at home, it works okay because I have a dual core with 2gb of ram and an 8600 graphics card.
On my laptop which comes with a sempron 3600 processor and a gig of ram I figured I could run WOW at low resolution 800x600, I was averaging 17 frames per second! That is unusable.
Its so bloated that even though I got it for free on the laptop I just bought...I switched to ubuntu not because Im a linux fanboy but because even with a gig of ram Vista was too damn slow to run world of warcraft even at 800x600 resolution. If I cant play WOW on my laptop theres no reason to tolerate Vistas restrictions and sloth. Vista is Microsoft's way of promoting linux for laptops!
Blu-ray will start to pickup when blu-ray players get under $100.
Most people do not have $2000 hdtvs, they might get the $500-$600 hdtv with the 27-32 inch screen. Many people still have tube hdtv ready rvs. I have a 30 inch hd ready tube tv, im waiting for blu-ray to drop in price under $200 myself.
The difference between vhs and dvd is obvious and dramatic. the difference between an upscaled widescreen dvd and blu-ray on a 32 inch or less screen not so much.
1) There are 500 million dvd players versus maybe 12-15 million blu-ray of which 10 million are ps3 2) For most people for the time being, DVD is "cheap and good enough" 3) Cheapest blu-ray $250, cheapest dvd player $18
If electronics companies are paying off companies to not support their competitors products and selling their products below cost isnt there an antitrust issue???
The concept is called adverse possession. In real property someone can aquire possesion of abandoned property by open and continous use. Now you wouldnt want someone becoming the new patent/copyright holder but the negative part "extinguishing the rights of the prior holder" would make perfect sense and help deal with both the problems of patent trolls and abandoned copyrights as well as legalizing abandonware.
If a reasonable person knows or should have known their patent or copyright was being infringed on and takes no action within say 3 years, their patent or copyright becomes null and void. Also a system could be set up to allow "notices of intended infringement" to be filed with the copyright office, if the copyright or patent holder does not respond within the required time then the copyright or patent would lapse and the work would go into the public domain.
The problem with simple math solutions like this one is that they make assumptions such as all else being equal. In the real world it doesnt function like that. A mathematically optimal route may not work because of real world conditions(traffic, construction, everybody else trying that same route) or it may work somedays but not others or some times of the day but not others.
1) $30 million dollars is pocket change to bill gates 2) An asteroid hitting the earth would kill billions of potential microsoft customers 3) The idea of bill gates saving the world would drive linux users nuts. 4) Its tax deductible 5) Its good PR 6) The data accumulated can be used in a future Microsoft Encarta Universe program.
A lot of us learned to experiment and use our minds as kids on fisher-price stuff. However that being said censoring adults is no substitute for supervising children.
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Now we know linux has hit the big time when its supporters have to spread FUD about rival open-source licenses in order to keep market share. ;-)
Im not a microsoft fanboy btw. Im typing this on my dell laptop with ubuntu 8.04
Its called baby benadryl, perhaps we should mandate its use on board planes. ;-)
but me calling my loved ones isnt?
The proposed law proposed still allows talking on a phone installed on an aircraft.
You can be loud and obnoxious on the phone in the air all you want as long as your willing to pay $6 a minute!
White guys need to start hooking up
with more asian girls....hmmm
Assuming we do this , 20 years from now :)
our country will have plenty of really hot
nerdy eurasian girls that are math geniuses
All in favor?
Foxconn competitors such as pcchips, biostar, and Asrock all produce low cost motherboards that work fine with linux and have for years. In particular pcchips has been a linux ally for almost a decade, they were shipping linux cd's with their motherboards back in the 20th century(remember corel linux).
Anascape may be an IP company, but it doesnt mean Brand Armstrongs patents are invalid.
This guy has 32 patents issued to his name.
http://globaldevices.com/
Now the validity of these patents may be called into question. Looking at the patents it doesnt bring to mind submarine patents as much as the question...shouldnt the person who patents something actually be able to demonstrate a working prototype before a final patent is issued not just a paper invention?
Its 20 light years away, which if you could get a probe up to say .5 c could be done in 40 years. Thats sounds like a long time until you realize Voyager probes have been in space for about 30 years.
If an OEM has purchased a pile of Windows 3.11 licenses from microsoft they can continue to sell it indefinitely...under the doctrine of first sale. So people who want windows 3.11 can license it until November 1st.
Admittedly Microsoft may stop the sale of NEW licenses which is what they are apparently are doing.
I suspect win 3.11 is licensed for POS devices and legacy applications. I guess all those people licensing that stuff will have to go to windows 95/98 embedded???
As long hes a decent guy...
By bringing it to his attention
1) You save the company a competent employee
2) Discourage him from doing it again
3) You demonstrate your personal loyalty to an up and coming executive.
The question you have to answer, is did the employees actions harm the company
in a non-trivial manner? I assume the answer is no. There are many things users
do that waste time, most of which are trivial and do not actively cost the company money.
If the cost of stopping these trivial things exceeds the benefits then you tolerate it and move on.
I would be more concerned about the use of a "firewall/lan bypass device" than the content itself.
http://www.thementoringctr.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.Digital&
Im sure you could donate the hard drives to them and get a tax writeoff...or
find something similar in your community
Putting the quote in context(which is allowed under fair use)
"Unfortunately for us, that wasn't meant to be. The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial development tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source tools. With UNA Collaborative Edition, we have that--there's nothing for real-time collaborative development that even comes close, whether commercial or open source. But UNA Personal Edition is more of an incremental improvement on what's out there in the editing world. "
So commercial software has to be a LOT better than opensource to survive not merely a little better.
So whats the problem with that??? If you want to make lots of money...quit your bellyaching and INVENT,INNOVATE and INSPIRE!
Yahoo is not the #1 search engine and even if microsoft took it over they still wouldnt be.
Whatever you think of microsoft as a company doesnt matter.
The yahoo board is supposed to represent its shareholders, if I hold stock in a company and someone offers 72% more than the shares are worth, and the company wont even let me consider the offer id be pissed too!
Icahn doesnt have a duty to yahoo, yahoo has a duty to its shareholder to act in their best interests
even if it means selling out to microsoft and losing their cushy jobs.
Sometimes not everything is black and white.
One thing they would need to do is put a time
limit for making a compensation claim
My point is customizing the OS is easier than customizing the hardware, thats why dell will keep linux as a customization option. How this got modded off topic is moderator schenanigans
Ubuntu is just another disk image like windows xp, or vista.
Actually the supreme court ruling makes a LOT of sense.
What the court ruled...correctly is that the President cant just order state courts to do something.
If President Bush wants a state court to do something, he needs to go down
to a federal court to get a federal court order directing the state court to do it.
Treaties do not trump the US constitution.
I am not a troll, I am not making this up, I am not making comments just to piss people off.
Last week I bought an Inspiron 1501 laptop from dell outlet. It came with Vista home Premium.
The thing was nothing but sluggish. I use vista premium on my desktop at home, it works okay because
I have a dual core with 2gb of ram and an 8600 graphics card.
On my laptop which comes with a sempron 3600 processor and a gig of ram I figured I could run WOW at low resolution 800x600,
I was averaging 17 frames per second! That is unusable.
Its so bloated that even though I got it for free on the laptop I just bought...I switched to ubuntu
not because Im a linux fanboy but because even with a gig of ram Vista was too damn slow to run world of warcraft
even at 800x600 resolution. If I cant play WOW on my laptop theres no reason to tolerate Vistas restrictions and
sloth. Vista is Microsoft's way of promoting linux for laptops!
Blu-ray will start to pickup when blu-ray players get under $100.
Most people do not have $2000 hdtvs, they might get the $500-$600 hdtv with the 27-32 inch screen.
Many people still have tube hdtv ready rvs. I have a 30 inch hd ready tube tv, im waiting for blu-ray to drop in price under
$200 myself.
The difference between vhs and dvd is obvious and dramatic. the difference between an upscaled widescreen dvd and blu-ray on
a 32 inch or less screen not so much.
Reasons for DVD staying around for a long time...
1) There are 500 million dvd players versus maybe 12-15 million blu-ray of which 10 million are ps3
2) For most people for the time being, DVD is "cheap and good enough"
3) Cheapest blu-ray $250, cheapest dvd player $18
Doesnt this seem like payola to anyone here?
If electronics companies are paying off companies to not support their competitors products and selling their
products below cost isnt there an antitrust issue???
The concept is called adverse possession. In real property someone can aquire possesion of abandoned property
by open and continous use. Now you wouldnt want someone becoming the new patent/copyright holder but the negative part
"extinguishing the rights of the prior holder" would make perfect sense and help deal with both the problems
of patent trolls and abandoned copyrights as well as legalizing abandonware.
If a reasonable person knows or should have known their patent or copyright was being infringed on and takes
no action within say 3 years, their patent or copyright becomes null and void. Also a system could be set up
to allow "notices of intended infringement" to be filed with the copyright office, if the copyright or patent
holder does not respond within the required time then the copyright or patent would lapse and the work
would go into the public domain.
The problem with simple math solutions like this one is that they make assumptions such as all else being equal.
In the real world it doesnt function like that. A mathematically optimal route may not work because of real world
conditions(traffic, construction, everybody else trying that same route) or it may work somedays but not others
or some times of the day but not others.
1) $30 million dollars is pocket change to bill gates
2) An asteroid hitting the earth would kill billions of potential microsoft customers
3) The idea of bill gates saving the world would drive linux users nuts.
4) Its tax deductible
5) Its good PR
6) The data accumulated can be used in a future Microsoft Encarta Universe program.
A lot of us learned to experiment and use our minds as kids on fisher-price stuff.
However that being said censoring adults is no substitute for supervising children.
Just in case you did want a fisher-price internet for your 3 year old slashdotter-in-training.
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5788078
Fisher-Price Easy-Link Internet Launch Pad, Elmo and Dragon Tales