The OP was moderated as Funny, but it raises an interesting point. If Google can index millions of documents, included some in Word, PDF, etc., why can't the FBI?
Perhaps the FBI should buy one of those Google applicances!
More importantly, owners do IPO's in order to diversify their holdings. While Craig might be making $25 mil per year in profit now, if the market changes, his company will no longer be profitable, and Craig goes broke. By selling, say, 75% of the company, Craig can use the proceeds to invest in other business, stocks, bonds, etc., so that if craigslist's business falters, his personal wealth will not be in danger.
Think of it this way. You could have IBM apply for this patent, or you could have some less scrupulous company. For all intents and purposes, IBM will never make a penny from this patent. Moreover, IBM is more likely to allow others to use this technology without filing patent infringement suits than some other company like amazon.com with its one-click shopping.
Said another way, IBM having the patent just prevents some VC-backed cyber squatter patent the idea and then demand royalties from everyone under the sun.
There's just one flaw in your analogy. You wrote, "Guys, there's a ride in your park that's based on one of our designs. We didn't say it could be a part of your little hostel."
Your analogy seems to imply that the "infringing code" is in fact based on SCO's own design. B. Perens and others have argued within the past few days that is clearly not the case.
A better analogy would be "The ride in your park is like the ride in our park, and even though we have no claim on the design of that ride, we insist you get rid of that ride because it is hurting our business.
If you want to gain a solid foundation in mathematics, study introductory graduate-level economics texts. Mathematics is much easier to appreciate when you know why you are learning it. Learning optimal control theory would probably be dry and boring on its own, but by studying modern macroeconomics, you will learn optimal control theory as well as a solid grasp of typical applications.
I would recommend Mas-Colell, Whinston, and Green's "Microeconomic Theory" and Obstfeld and Rogoff's "Foundations of International Macroeconomics" Both presume only a limited background in mathematics (and economics) and have generous explanations of the mathematical tools being used.
I have an SMTP server running on my cable modem, too, with a dynamic address. For the most part, it does work flawlessly.
However, some ISP's, notably AOL, no longer accept mail from dynamic IP addresses. Whenever I try and send email to an AOL address, it gets bounced back to me.
Of course, I could just relay my mail through my cable company's SMTP server, but this is a good excuse for me to not send email to AOL users.
In all seriousness, what was I supposed to notice in those screenshots? I just checked, and they don't look any different than the menus in phoenix (v. 0.5).
No, seriously.
Does she have a Yahoo email address, or is she willing to get a new email address from Yahoo?
They have a spam filtering algorithm, and it does work rather effectively. I'm not sure what they charger per month, but they do offer POP service; using Outlook won't be a problem.
I use their domain hosting service, and I very rarely get spam mail. At least 99% of it is quarantined in a folder that I might check once a month or just allow to get purged automatically.
How well does Bochs compare to other emulators such as Wine? Is there still an advantage to paying $250 for VMWare, or are these emulators "good enough for what you'd do with it" (as my father used to say)?
Speaking of commercial office suites being hammered by free alternatives, does anyone know what the future of ApplixWare is? Has Vitasoft or whoever owns them said much lately?
Completely erase the java subdirectories in/usr/local/mozilla and then install a fresh version of java. I had the same problem with games.yahoo.com, but reinstalling java fixed it.
Imagine an American scientist bringing a closed, proprietary encryption program or statistical package to political activists in a foreign country and saying, "Just use this; take my word that it works right."
As someone who works for a company that produces statistical software I found this comment to be rather close-minded and wrong. My company, along with most others, goes through extensive certification testing to make sure that our software produces correct results. Our software is used by a broad range of academics, private sector researchers, government workers, and not-for-profit groups; and not once have I ever heard anyone even suggest that our program produces purposefully inaccurate results.
Quite honestly, there are no open-source statistical software packages that even come close to offering the benefits of our package. Although R has shown some promise, the documentation that comes with our software alone is worth the price. I have yet to see an open-source package that comes with the same in-depth encyclopedic reference documentation that we produce.
Just because it's closed-source doesn't mean we're evil.
Aside from forcing stupid copy-protection schemes from us, the biggest hurdle to widespread HDTV usage is the cable industry. AFAIK, the cable industry still has done nothing toward upgrading their systems or even determining a standard to push HDTV signals through the cable system. Since roughly 70 percent of American households have cable, this seems to me to be the biggest problem.
As an American, the answers to your questions are yes and yes. Saddam is a terrible menace, and he must be dealt with in a forceful manner. I'm sick and tired of the UN's and Europe's complete lack of courage to stand up for democracy and human rights.
Ask your question here, and just read comments at a threshold of +2 or greater. In other words, just ignore the immature "ask google" responses. If an intelligent person has a good answer or advice he will post it; if not, he will keep his mouth shut. The "ask google" people just have WAY too much time on their hands.
Seriously, what's wrong with typing "make menuconfig" now? To me at least, an ncurses-based menu system is just as easy to use as a GUI (yuk).
Moreover, it's not like complete newbies are going to be doing kernel compiles. For anyone with enough experience to recompile the kernel, an ncurses-based system is adequate IMHO.
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Perhaps the FBI should buy one of those Google applicances!
Don't get me wrong, the OSX interface is very easy to use, even for complete novices.
I just happen to like a very basic, clean interface that allows me to have a few xterms, applixware, and firefox up and running.
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More importantly, owners do IPO's in order to diversify their holdings. While Craig might be making $25 mil per year in profit now, if the market changes, his company will no longer be profitable, and Craig goes broke. By selling, say, 75% of the company, Craig can use the proceeds to invest in other business, stocks, bonds, etc., so that if craigslist's business falters, his personal wealth will not be in danger.
I probably would have finished my PhD thesis a year earlier if I didn't find this damn game on the sun workstations. Fricking addictive.
The Blade 2000 and Blade 2500 workstations have SCSI drives, better graphics, and much faster USparc III Cu processors with 8 MB cache, etc.
Said another way, IBM having the patent just prevents some VC-backed cyber squatter patent the idea and then demand royalties from everyone under the sun.
Your analogy seems to imply that the "infringing code" is in fact based on SCO's own design. B. Perens and others have argued within the past few days that is clearly not the case.
A better analogy would be "The ride in your park is like the ride in our park, and even though we have no claim on the design of that ride, we insist you get rid of that ride because it is hurting our business.
I would recommend Mas-Colell, Whinston, and Green's "Microeconomic Theory" and Obstfeld and Rogoff's "Foundations of International Macroeconomics" Both presume only a limited background in mathematics (and economics) and have generous explanations of the mathematical tools being used.
However, some ISP's, notably AOL, no longer accept mail from dynamic IP addresses. Whenever I try and send email to an AOL address, it gets bounced back to me.
Of course, I could just relay my mail through my cable company's SMTP server, but this is a good excuse for me to not send email to AOL users.
Is it obvious? Am I just dense?
They have a spam filtering algorithm, and it does work rather effectively. I'm not sure what they charger per month, but they do offer POP service; using Outlook won't be a problem.
I use their domain hosting service, and I very rarely get spam mail. At least 99% of it is quarantined in a folder that I might check once a month or just allow to get purged automatically.
Imagine an American scientist bringing a closed, proprietary encryption program or statistical package to political activists in a foreign country and saying, "Just use this; take my word that it works right."
As someone who works for a company that produces statistical software I found this comment to be rather close-minded and wrong. My company, along with most others, goes through extensive certification testing to make sure that our software produces correct results. Our software is used by a broad range of academics, private sector researchers, government workers, and not-for-profit groups; and not once have I ever heard anyone even suggest that our program produces purposefully inaccurate results.
Quite honestly, there are no open-source statistical software packages that even come close to offering the benefits of our package. Although R has shown some promise, the documentation that comes with our software alone is worth the price. I have yet to see an open-source package that comes with the same in-depth encyclopedic reference documentation that we produce.
Just because it's closed-source doesn't mean we're evil.
Moreover, it's not like complete newbies are going to be doing kernel compiles. For anyone with enough experience to recompile the kernel, an ncurses-based system is adequate IMHO.