It may work in the hobbyist world but not in the business world, with suppliers and customers sending (and expecting to receive) files in Office format.
Those who see.NET as simply "web services" have missed the point. The greatest benefits with.NET are an excellent language (C#), a well-performing virtual machine (CLR) and -- perhaps most of all -- the.NET class framework, which is very well suited for developing desktop applications and a worthy successor to the Win32/MFC junk.
As a kid in the late eightees to mid ninetees I built a LEGO cannon, which had a clip from which it would load (using the LEGO motor) small 6x1 pieces. Hitting the FIRE button would propel the object at least a few meters and sometimes a significantly greater distance, if there was no friction (like if you shot straight into the air). I used it to shoot down LEGO men. It was fairly big and used one of those relatively large thick green 34x20 or so bottom pieces and super-cool, and it used only LEGO parts except for two rubber bands. For a while I experimented with hooking it (and other creations) up to my Amiga 500 (using the Tekno Amiga set). I built quite many fairly complex devices like this and it's a big part of the reason I got interested in technology and engineering. Sigh, those were the days...
A doctor (for practical reasons) or a lawyer (because of only being licensed in one state or country) can not easily work "remotely" as programmers can (after being given specs). That's the main reason, not that programming "never became a profession".
Sweden participates in almost all major peace keeping missions under the UN and has for a long time -- it is in line with the country's strong beliefs in the UN and international cooperation in general. It even had special forces in Afghanistan, despite the dubious international legality of the invasion.
In any case, Gripen and previous projects are the result of a desire to maintain a self-sufficient military (although that is probably no longer possible). It was believed that this was important for Sweden to be able to remain neutral (that is, be able to decide on a case-by-case basis who to support).
It's not likely that Swedish companies will produce another fighter like the Gripen. The European defence industry in general is in the process or merging together more and more, it's becoming the only way to make it work financially with the ever-increasing costs of R&D (British Aerospace has put substantial money into marketing the Gripen in recent years).
A lot of people in this discussion are analyzing the consequences for KISS following a potential court defeat. However, are any of the people contributing to that discussion taking into consideration that KISS is a Danish company, not American, and that Danish law applies? Furthermore, MPlayer is also not American.
"...and a lot of older Slashdot reader's first on-line experiences were with them."
So at age 25, I'm supposed to be all ancient now? Wow. Anyway, I have very fond memories of the BBSes I used to dial with my 2400 bps modem. Unfortunately no local ones were available and I had to dial long-distance. My favourite BBS, particularly at first, was that owned by a great geek C64/Amiga magazine called Datormagazin (legendary in Scandinavia in the late eightees and early to mid ninetees). It had debates better than those typically found on usenet, and there were excellent programming related discussion groups, and lots of freeware or public domain software to download (often with source code, long before the terms "open source" or "free software" were coined).
Yes, I remember it very well and I used it for a period. Mostly though I used Spot by Nico Francois, which was a FidoNet reader. (I was also the author o f an offline reader myself for hooking up to NiKom based BBSes.)
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It's amazing to me that the US in this modern age still does not seem to offer a decent safety net (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). Here in Sweden, for example, people making a small (around $14 or so) monthly payment to the unemployment insurance typically connected to their union (which nearly everyone are a member of) entitles them to 80 % of their salary if they should lose their job, capped at a certain level. Some unions have additional insurances that raise that cap. While unemployment could still be financially unpleasant, it does not need to result in disaster. My perception of the US, which may be correct or incorrect, is that a certain category of the population lives exceptionally well (with terrific living standards and salaries hard to match in other industrialized countries), while another category can not even get healthcare coverage -- and sometimes, due to unexpected events like unemployment, members of the first category end up in the second after a period.
This is not a troll, I am genuinely curious about whether my perception is accurate -- and if it is, why people are not pressuring their politicians into addressing this issue. Anyone can become unemployed, just like anyone can become the victim of a crime or a health problem, or a fire. It makes sense to organize proper, wide-covering insurances for these problems.
This is one of the best suggestions I have heard thus far. Assigning a random number to each vote and later posting the info on the internet is a natural extension to the "paper trail" ideas.
I have to agree with you. That's how we do it in Sweden as well (however, we can also vote at the post office if we want, making it possible to vote from other places). I'm puzzled by this American tendendy towards high-tech elections for little gain and enormous risk.
The European Commisison can barely do a thing without the consent of the member states. Go read up on the decision making process at www.europa.eu.int.
I wrote my first programs on the C64 and I enjoyed it a lot. In many ways, I think it was more fun back then as we didn't have all of these high-level libraries to rely on for everything from displaying graphics to making toast. Because the BASIC was relatively primitive, one had to rely on the infamous POKE (modify data at a memory location) and SYS (call machine language routine) statements for doing anything worthwhile. The memory was completely filled with fun stuff and unlike today's platforms, most stuff was at the same location in memory every time you powered on. The terrific sprite tutorial in the handbook taught me binary. All in all, I'm thankful I was "raised" on the C64 and I'd like to think I learned a lot from it.
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Microsoft (and any other "victim") can appeal the European Commision decision. The independant courts have the final say in the matter.
Mr. Hiser seems to have a rather poor grasp of the US legal and patent system. No doubt he knows how it is supposed to work.
Microsoft did not file this patent under US juristiction, only in New Zealand and the European Union.
It may work in the hobbyist world but not in the business world, with suppliers and customers sending (and expecting to receive) files in Office format.
Those who see .NET as simply "web services" have missed the point. The greatest benefits with .NET are an excellent language (C#), a well-performing virtual machine (CLR) and -- perhaps most of all -- the .NET class framework, which is very well suited for developing desktop applications and a worthy successor to the Win32/MFC junk.
I believe the prosecution did not file an appeal to the supreme court within the deadline, which would mean that the case is settled once and for all.
As a kid in the late eightees to mid ninetees I built a LEGO cannon, which had a clip from which it would load (using the LEGO motor) small 6x1 pieces. Hitting the FIRE button would propel the object at least a few meters and sometimes a significantly greater distance, if there was no friction (like if you shot straight into the air). I used it to shoot down LEGO men. It was fairly big and used one of those relatively large thick green 34x20 or so bottom pieces and super-cool, and it used only LEGO parts except for two rubber bands. For a while I experimented with hooking it (and other creations) up to my Amiga 500 (using the Tekno Amiga set). I built quite many fairly complex devices like this and it's a big part of the reason I got interested in technology and engineering. Sigh, those were the days...
Denmark does not have the euro.
VERY well said!
In addition, I think he is based in Germany and English wouldn't be his mother language. That makes it even more impressive.
Unfortunately, a 10 % tax cut isn't going to offset the lower salary costs with outsourcing -- not by a long shot.
A doctor (for practical reasons) or a lawyer (because of only being licensed in one state or country) can not easily work "remotely" as programmers can (after being given specs). That's the main reason, not that programming "never became a profession".
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Sweden participates in almost all major peace keeping missions under the UN and has for a long time -- it is in line with the country's strong beliefs in the UN and international cooperation in general. It even had special forces in Afghanistan, despite the dubious international legality of the invasion.
In any case, Gripen and previous projects are the result of a desire to maintain a self-sufficient military (although that is probably no longer possible). It was believed that this was important for Sweden to be able to remain neutral (that is, be able to decide on a case-by-case basis who to support). It's not likely that Swedish companies will produce another fighter like the Gripen. The European defence industry in general is in the process or merging together more and more, it's becoming the only way to make it work financially with the ever-increasing costs of R&D (British Aerospace has put substantial money into marketing the Gripen in recent years).
"It remains to be seen if the Norwegian Supreme Court will have the opportunity to decide whether the prosecution's interpretation of the law was correct, the Motion Picture Associaton says. "If the present decision is the courts' final word on the matter, we hope that Norwegian legislature will move quickly to implement the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) Copyright Treaty to correct this apparent weakness in Norwegian law."
A lot of people in this discussion are analyzing the consequences for KISS following a potential court defeat. However, are any of the people contributing to that discussion taking into consideration that KISS is a Danish company, not American, and that Danish law applies? Furthermore, MPlayer is also not American.
"...and a lot of older Slashdot reader's first on-line experiences were with them."
So at age 25, I'm supposed to be all ancient now? Wow. Anyway, I have very fond memories of the BBSes I used to dial with my 2400 bps modem. Unfortunately no local ones were available and I had to dial long-distance. My favourite BBS, particularly at first, was that owned by a great geek C64/Amiga magazine called Datormagazin (legendary in Scandinavia in the late eightees and early to mid ninetees). It had debates better than those typically found on usenet, and there were excellent programming related discussion groups, and lots of freeware or public domain software to download (often with source code, long before the terms "open source" or "free software" were coined).
Yes, I remember it very well and I used it for a period. Mostly though I used Spot by Nico Francois, which was a FidoNet reader. (I was also the author o f an offline reader myself for hooking up to NiKom based BBSes.)
It's amazing to me that the US in this modern age still does not seem to offer a decent safety net (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). Here in Sweden, for example, people making a small (around $14 or so) monthly payment to the unemployment insurance typically connected to their union (which nearly everyone are a member of) entitles them to 80 % of their salary if they should lose their job, capped at a certain level. Some unions have additional insurances that raise that cap. While unemployment could still be financially unpleasant, it does not need to result in disaster. My perception of the US, which may be correct or incorrect, is that a certain category of the population lives exceptionally well (with terrific living standards and salaries hard to match in other industrialized countries), while another category can not even get healthcare coverage -- and sometimes, due to unexpected events like unemployment, members of the first category end up in the second after a period.
This is not a troll, I am genuinely curious about whether my perception is accurate -- and if it is, why people are not pressuring their politicians into addressing this issue. Anyone can become unemployed, just like anyone can become the victim of a crime or a health problem, or a fire. It makes sense to organize proper, wide-covering insurances for these problems.
Judges != government.
This is one of the best suggestions I have heard thus far. Assigning a random number to each vote and later posting the info on the internet is a natural extension to the "paper trail" ideas.
There already is -- that's why the DMCA and EUCD were constructed. They are both based on the WIPO (a UN agency) copyright directive.
Some figures would indeed be nice.
I have to agree with you. That's how we do it in Sweden as well (however, we can also vote at the post office if we want, making it possible to vote from other places). I'm puzzled by this American tendendy towards high-tech elections for little gain and enormous risk.
The European Commisison can barely do a thing without the consent of the member states. Go read up on the decision making process at www.europa.eu.int.
I wrote my first programs on the C64 and I enjoyed it a lot. In many ways, I think it was more fun back then as we didn't have all of these high-level libraries to rely on for everything from displaying graphics to making toast. Because the BASIC was relatively primitive, one had to rely on the infamous POKE (modify data at a memory location) and SYS (call machine language routine) statements for doing anything worthwhile. The memory was completely filled with fun stuff and unlike today's platforms, most stuff was at the same location in memory every time you powered on. The terrific sprite tutorial in the handbook taught me binary. All in all, I'm thankful I was "raised" on the C64 and I'd like to think I learned a lot from it.