I might just be confused, but aren't laws supposed to be not supposed to be about intent? Say they loose the case on those grounds, then I create a product called Lindows (stupid, stupid name btw), but my intent isn't to profit off MS's pupularity, but just to name it that because I like the name, should I be able to keep it then?
In any case, this whole naming debacle is just confusing, in terms of figuring out where I stand on the issue - I dislike Lindows (both the product concept and execution and the way the company is trying to do things), I obviously dislike MS a bit and while Lindows is clearly in the wrong here as far as their intentions go, they just might be in the right, technically, and in either case it's because MS's trademark is bogus in the first place.
I used Opera when I was still using Windows, and it kicked ass. In fact when I was switching to Linux I thought "hey, in any case I'm all set for a web browser!" unfortunately that wasn't the case - Opera on Linux turned out to be slow, ugly and just didn't "feel" right. Oh well, Galeon is everything I wan't in a browser (ok so it and Evolution are spoiling my otherwise beautiful KDE, but features before looks, I suppose) and more - even uses my general JDK for applets, does ANY other browser do that on Linux yet?
OMG, you are right! I'll stop using now, thanks for telling me. Whew!
misapplication of technology?
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What's wrong with just smacking your opponent immediately after the game? It's worked for centuries!
Ok so in a few months or years...
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...I am surfing for the regular, not German-style pr0n, when half a dozen ads for "Ilsa's Dungeon" pop up and.... I don't think I like this new technology.
One does not go against the other - most likely your "email/internet machine" and your "digital hub" will be in different rooms, the latter connected to your "entertainment center" (wait, I think that doesn't need quotes). They'll probably be able to talk to each other and will share the same internet connection (if by that time there aren't cat5 - 6, , 17 whatever! - drops to every room from the broadband router in most homes, I'll be pissed)
Oh well, desktop "average user" debates are all nice and dandy, but the important part is that I just installed the Mosfet liquid theme on KDE 2.2.2 and now my Penguin box is far prettier than any XP one I've ever seen (faster too, despite what most people seem to think - go figure)!:)
I thought I'd help out the/. community by providing a little practice for those people who are not interested in reading kernel release announcements but seem to still have trouble not clicking on the links.
Below are four links - three are of interest to most people here, one probably is not. Try going through the list and ONLY following the links you like (repeat until you can do it almost every time), have fun!
Reading it I, as most people here, realized it was absurd, the reason for that is pretty obvious: his "predictions" have to correlate pretty closely to popular scince fiction, otherwise his books won't sell and his timelines won't be published by such upstanding "news outlets" as Yahoo. Having picked a nonexistent job as a career, the guy has to eat, right?
People expect to see these "words of warning" about AI, robots, space travel, genetic engeneering, etc. etc. in this sort of "prediction" just like Psychic "prediction" lists have to be full of natural disasters and famous people getting killed and/or knocked up. I bet it just doesn't sell otherwise.
Ok, someone really should watch less movies during the summer. The fact remains that we know next to nothing about human intelligence and all our great advancements in so called "AI" have been aimed at mimicking human behaviour, not replicating it. So in 28 years we will succeed in creating an artificial life form whose intelligence surpasses something that at the moment we haven't the faintest clue about - our own? Right. Of course this guy knows exactly what he's talking about because he predicted robotic pets (real stretch of the popular concept of "robotic", btw... or of "pet" for that matter) and driverless public transportation; he must be some sort of genius!
I feel dirty, I feel dirty because I spent time replying to this and I feel dirty because/. posted this piece of crap from Yahoo that is obviously aimed at that "futuristic technological dystopia" hysteria that is so popular nowadays.
Even if the vast software is generated by other software (it won't be "written" by other software unless you take the rest of his Terminator/Matrix crap seriously), you'll have people writing the software that generates the other software. And even that small percentage of "all software" will be orders of magnitude more work that is needed to write software today, so don't worry about your job.
eh, it's their products - shouldn't they be the ones to decide what to do with them? if you don't like their license, don't buy the product. Hell, if they can dictate what content you can or cannot create with their products (eg FrontPage) certainly they can dictate what you are allowed to do with the products themselves?
There's a reason so many people hate their guts (and, incidently, not always their products) and it's not because we are bored and need to bitch about something.
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I might just be confused, but aren't laws supposed to be not supposed to be about intent? Say they loose the case on those grounds, then I create a product called Lindows (stupid, stupid name btw), but my intent isn't to profit off MS's pupularity, but just to name it that because I like the name, should I be able to keep it then?
anyone's right to create a new OS
It's GNU/Linux running WINE, how's that a new OS?
In any case, this whole naming debacle is just confusing, in terms of figuring out where I stand on the issue - I dislike Lindows (both the product concept and execution and the way the company is trying to do things), I obviously dislike MS a bit and while Lindows is clearly in the wrong here as far as their intentions go, they just might be in the right, technically, and in either case it's because MS's trademark is bogus in the first place.
I think the parody defense would hold up really well if any issues came up with regards to GNU/Linux and related trademarks (slim as that chance is).
... implement some sort of "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy for this whole "Open in the military" issue.
I used Opera when I was still using Windows, and it kicked ass. In fact when I was switching to Linux I thought "hey, in any case I'm all set for a web browser!" unfortunately that wasn't the case - Opera on Linux turned out to be slow, ugly and just didn't "feel" right. Oh well, Galeon is everything I wan't in a browser (ok so it and Evolution are spoiling my otherwise beautiful KDE, but features before looks, I suppose) and more - even uses my general JDK for applets, does ANY other browser do that on Linux yet?
OMG, you are right! I'll stop using now, thanks for telling me. Whew!
What's wrong with just smacking your opponent immediately after the game? It's worked for centuries!
...I am surfing for the regular, not German-style pr0n, when half a dozen ads for "Ilsa's Dungeon" pop up and.... I don't think I like this new technology.
One does not go against the other - most likely your "email/internet machine" and your "digital hub" will be in different rooms, the latter connected to your "entertainment center" (wait, I think that doesn't need quotes). They'll probably be able to talk to each other and will share the same internet connection (if by that time there aren't cat5 - 6, , 17 whatever! - drops to every room from the broadband router in most homes, I'll be pissed) Oh well, desktop "average user" debates are all nice and dandy, but the important part is that I just installed the Mosfet liquid theme on KDE 2.2.2 and now my Penguin box is far prettier than any XP one I've ever seen (faster too, despite what most people seem to think - go figure)! :)
Below are four links - three are of interest to most people here, one probably is not. Try going through the list and ONLY following the links you like (repeat until you can do it almost every time), have fun!
How did you do? Just keep practicing with this list, and you'll be able to enjoy slashdot to the fullest in no time at all!
From my own experience (not at MS, btw) I'd say it's more likely to be the other way around - happy workers are a symptom of success.
(i.e. click the monkey - win cash!, if this is flashing you won $100,000, etc etc etc).
awww... it's not flashing! :(
well, maybe next time...
(yeah, yeah - "off topic" - blow me!)
People expect to see these "words of warning" about AI, robots, space travel, genetic engeneering, etc. etc. in this sort of "prediction" just like Psychic "prediction" lists have to be full of natural disasters and famous people getting killed and/or knocked up. I bet it just doesn't sell otherwise.
I feel dirty, I feel dirty because I spent time replying to this and I feel dirty because /. posted this piece of crap from Yahoo that is obviously aimed at that "futuristic technological dystopia" hysteria that is so popular nowadays.
Can Mr. Pearson please get a real job?
Even if the vast software is generated by other software (it won't be "written" by other software unless you take the rest of his Terminator/Matrix crap seriously), you'll have people writing the software that generates the other software. And even that small percentage of "all software" will be orders of magnitude more work that is needed to write software today, so don't worry about your job.
A pinch of popular science fiction cliches, a dash of luddite hysteria and a spoonful of the fucking obvious - and voila, we have a timeline!
I beg your pardon? Does someone hold the patent to "computer system that uses objects" too?
A wild guess here, but maybe because it is under the Java section?
always thought it was amok - fair enough though, it's not like I procreate, so the demand still stands.
No, it's my product. I paid for the CD. I own the CD
Yeah, just keep telling yourself that.
Some people like Linux, some people like Macs, apparently the two groups intersect, at least a little.
eh, it's their products - shouldn't they be the ones to decide what to do with them? if you don't like their license, don't buy the product. Hell, if they can dictate what content you can or cannot create with their products (eg FrontPage) certainly they can dictate what you are allowed to do with the products themselves?
There's a reason so many people hate their guts (and, incidently, not always their products) and it's not because we are bored and need to bitch about something.
Of course if we had a Beowulf cluster of these, hmm...
what's an "amuck"? I demand that people who cannot spell stop procreating!