but... em' have you bothered to read the document[PDF]?
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EXHIBIT A: TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION
The Licensed Technical Documentation for Licensed Protocol(s) that Licensee has chosen to license for implementation under this Agreement are indicated by check(s) in the box(es) on the left.
Implementation of these Protocols and, to the extent Microsoft is not the owner or sole owner of the Technical Documentation for these Protocols, use of this Technical Documentation may require securing additional rights from third parties. Licensee is responsible for contacting such third parties directly to discuss licensing details.
Is Microsoft Ready to Assert IP Rights over the Internet?
November 5, 2004
Has Microsoft been trying to retroactively claim IP (intellectual property) rights over many of the Internet's basic protocols? Larry J. Blunk, senior engineer for networking research and development at Merit Network Inc., believes that might be the case.
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I am not found of M$ like the next slashdotter, but, before 'we' start bashing M$... lets do it after we know the _facts_:)
I mean,
Microsoft Offers to License the Internet
vs
Is Microsoft Ready to Assert IP Rights over the Internet?
is a big difference, that awards 'caution, biased story alert'.
... while I understand fully what you meant and your intention ; I think there's a little option you are overlooking in your assessment - which leads you to make the same misstake(s) as everyone else (I have seen/read/use(d)) does.
I suspect the answer is "no". They don't make any money when you watch a download. If you pay for it on DVD, or watch a sponsored TV station, then they get money and they're happy.
Way, they make money - didn't killjoe just say he follows the series? (on the TV) - So from that one can conclude he pays he's monthly (or quarterly, how ever they do it in the USofA..) (cable-) TV fee?
They've 'printed' 20 times over the same area, each time with a different pattern. *right?!
Of course, they've used some other special 'ink' then the regular printer-ink; a conductive/non-conductive -ink to 'print' the PCB. *neat'o*
As, Avian visitor (257765), (#10684903) said " it is relatively cheaper to produce a small quantity of boards" thus "Most of the money today is made with consumer electronics where there is a requirement of large series of identical boards so this is no longer such an advantage" - So the prominent GeeK who etched his or her own (one or two-sided) PCB(s), this method of 'printing' a PCB will be a great leap forward for 'small(er) actors' of somehow beeing able to compet in a greather way with 'large(r) actors' at beeing able to produce PCBs at low(er)-costs.
As Insane as we Humans (the Human Species as a whole) are... I wouldn't bet against Us from one day doing/achieving the unthinkable:-)
I mean, if an alien race came by 2.5-2.0 Million years ago and saw us then, 'Stupidest Humans that we think has ever lived(Homo habilis)'. Who of them would have thought the unthinkable that we would evolve to 'Insane Rocket scientists(Homo sapiens)' that one day would have the capacity to shoot one of em' down? =)
You do know, 'The rock' will play 'Sarge' (Master Sergeant Thomas Kelly), while 'Karl Urban' will play 'John Grimm' (our Hero - the UAC marine)... Right?!
I'd certainly bet that if NASA wanted to, they could build another Biosphere project on a much smaller scale that would last much longer as a closed environment before becoming unsuitable for humans.
I guess they could, but then again one would have to account for 'space travel' + 'other planets G-force' for life (the whole eco-system) to survive. And as life needs an eco-system, that accounts for quite a lot of 'life' that's needed to survive to sustain human life.
And I'd ask myself if this wouldn't be more practical to achieve via some equipment(s)... as one wouldn't be as dependent on one of the 'links' in the eco-system chain to come to failure.
Mmmm... yes. Because I would love to not eat when I'm millions of miles from home. And of course I wouldn't want things that actually *taste like stuff.* And to do that for 2 years is exactly my idea of a good time.
all people *here* who would willingly give up the luxury of 'human life style' for 'pills and some patches' for the next 2-3 years, to travel to Mars, please raise up your Paws!
This would be a 'once in a lifetime' experince, and I wouldn't let an overrated sensation like 'eating' and 'taste of stuff' stand in my way of engaging in such a expedition. And I imagne no real explorer would either!/* sure, if you wouldn't, step aside, and lets us thru - no one is forcing anyone here to do anything... */
*raises up all of his four paws*.../* Yes, I'm lying on my back, with all my four limbs up in the air =) */
We can grow things in greenhouses on mars in martian soil. And we won't have to bring as many CO2 scrubbers. And we'll have an earth-like situation for the astronauts so they won't get too homesick staring at a red Arizona for a year and a half.
Plant's are plenty compact to ship. What's more compact than a seed? A few seed packets are about the same size as a pill bottle
Yeah, thats actually true from one POV... why I also would have taken with me seeds to Mars to plant vegetation... etc... but I think you are not seeing the whole picture. As a there is a whole lot more of space need for the plant life a seed creates then it's initial size. And that takes up a lot of space... so the 'space ship' would have to allot for this space.
>Plants do an incredible job of purifying and recycling both air and water [...]
I do hope you are aware of biosphere 2... I mean just look at the size of that 'mammoth'... and it was a total failure, as it couldn't sustain life... human life, unless you are a lifeform like the likes of a cockroach:)... they had to pump X amount of oxygen in as 70% (or so) of the life started to die out... and you (and NASA) want to make me/us think that they can do A better job in a much smaller 'space ship' and simultaneous sustain I don't know how many humans.
and btw, slashdot ran a couple of days ago an article about a water-treatment system, looking at the size of it its way smaller then the alloted plant life needed to do the same job (to sustain the X no. of human crew). And if I'd get of my sorry little ass off this chair and google, I'd bet I would find you a *way* small(er) sized/more compact solution of recycling CO_2 --> H2O then the alloted plantlife needed to do the same job.
... and all of a suddon 2 out of the 3 alloted tasks (you brought up) of brining along the garden... stirked out. And including my 1st thought, all of the 3 tasks for using plantlife got tossed out the window...:-)
PS. I'm not against 'plant life', I actually do prefer plant life over 'latest scientific'--what ever--solution. But, I also got to open my eyes and say ~hey, it doesn't make sense~ for us to carry 'the garden' to Mars. I like the next 'scifi' slashdot user would like for us to get to Mars as soon as possible... and doing so look at the practical/doable solutions, not try to opt for some TV-SciFi-solution(s)!
PPS. If I where to choose the planlife that produces most of our Oxygen... I'd pick the algae of the seas:-)
.. thinking of 'bring the garden along'... and start thinking of improving their 'dry food'-method more to a 'all energy needed for a person for a day in a pill-size capsule, or smaller' basis - for these initial triess toward Mars.
heck, I even recall there was a slashdot article about the military researching a 'patch' that could sustain a soldier for a week (IIRC) or so.
Think of it - plants aren't compact enough, compared to a 'patch' / 'pill'... and seems like a waste of space to launch into space.
Though, plants are needed in the longrun, like when we have some sort of structure _on_ Mars, and we are starting to make it habitable. Yes, then I'd take with me a 'seed(s)' and start planting vegetation (and sure, 1st I'd make sure it would be possible to grow stuff...but that's besides my point...)... but I wouldn't take with me vegetation from HERE to THERE. *doesn't make my sense*
say, their latest MS Office cost them: $1 Billion; to develop (That's ALL COSTS INCLUDED - EVERYTHING!)
and say, about ~400 Million users are going to somehow use it - either pay to upgrade, or it comes with their next PC... etc... but about ~400 Million users in total will use it...
that comes around to, $2.5/copy... to pay for the initial development cost... so say me, what those $133.99-$429.99 prizes are... if note OVERPRIZED! - I'd say a fair rate would be anything from '2-10 x ${DEVELOPMENT-COSTS}'... but '53.596-171.996 X ${DEVELOPMENT-COSTS}' is starting to look a bit ridiculous *IMHO*
The vendor reports that the vulnerability has been fixed in KDE 3.3.1.
*NoooooooooooooHHHH!... SHIT, SCHEISE, SKIT, GREY PUPON *or what ever they say in french* , SAR, RAHAT!... *etc etc etc*..., why musta've be running KDE 3.3.1!... ooohwhy, why, why can't our great überlord(s) grant one they wish to experince IE-*like*-vulnerability(ies)?! whyy, ooh you cruel überlord(s)!!*... *goes crying on his pillow*
I'd be using the names in the text I'd like to promote.
/* Think, using fairly large letters. then use the names (of course, tiny-tiny font'd...) to 'construct' up the letters. Fairly easy to do, in a DP suit... say, scribus.... */
Heck, to come to think of it, if they'd use somethnig like AAlib... they could even use 'letters' to construct up images =)
/* Think, a modified AAlib to use 'full names'' and in association with 'colours' build up a 'visible' picture/image... doable 'hack' in the timeframe that's allotted... */
I hit me to what one can/could associate 'gnuStep/OpenStep' to/with. Hurd.
And I want to make (perfectly) clear! - I'm not implying anything else then ' They didn't make/haven't made it, not even after 10+ years '.
Let me elaborate; They, gnuStep/OpenStep and Hurd, choose to go about a different path then any of their competitors - Whoose to say whom made the wisest choice? We don't know xor can't say - Though, what we can conclude is that most users (not developers) have choosen and choose to use not-them/their solution; for reason A-Z.
So, 10+ years have passed - It seems resonable/logical to, is in-order to, ask oneself three questions after such a long while:
Why do users choose to travel not-our path?
Haven't you ever wondered, all these years, why they turn(ed) you down? Why they opt(ed) the other path(s)? etc..
What do I think our/my path should be? keep current heading, change,...etc?
I mean it's your, the developer(s), prerogative to choose what your projects mission should be - and noone can ask/demand anything more from yourself(s) then what you are willing (choose) to do.
and finally (the Freud-question), Do you care what their choice is?
*picks up a flower, and starts to sing* Have ego/seek attention, the 'size of':
Ayers Rock, regular rock, moon, RMS,... <Insert a few more objects/things>... and repeat untill you pick the last petal =)
There's a quote " One in a million " - and I think its imply is sound, not every one/project makes it; some are bound to fail. " Que sera sera "
Slashdot Mirror
but... em' have you bothered to read the document[PDF]?
EXHIBIT A: TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION
The Licensed Technical Documentation for Licensed Protocol(s) that Licensee has chosen to license for implementation under this Agreement are indicated by check(s) in the box(es) on the left.
Implementation of these Protocols and, to the extent Microsoft is not the owner or sole owner of the Technical Documentation for these Protocols, use of this Technical Documentation may require securing additional rights from third parties. Licensee is responsible for contacting such third parties directly to discuss licensing details.
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especially the 2nd sentence (I quote)?
maybe I ought to have 'hold my horses' too a little bit before pressing the submit-button :-)
November 5, 2004
Has Microsoft been trying to retroactively claim IP (intellectual property) rights over many of the Internet's basic protocols? Larry J. Blunk, senior engineer for networking research and development at Merit Network Inc., believes that might be the case.
[...]
I am not found of M$ like the next slashdotter, but, before 'we' start bashing M$ ... lets do it after we know the _facts_ :)
I mean,
Microsoft Offers to License the Internet
- vs
Is Microsoft Ready to Assert IP Rights over the Internet?is a big difference, that awards 'caution, biased story alert'.
A really nice comment to read :-)
That you('vs), try do define a 'fix' standard.
*goes back to his 'drawing board'*
*main site got slashdotted prior someone might have noticed*
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I suspect the answer is "no". They don't make any money when you watch a download. If you pay for it on DVD, or watch a sponsored TV station, then they get money and they're happy.
Way, they make money - didn't killjoe just say he follows the series? (on the TV) - So from that one can conclude he pays he's monthly (or quarterly, how ever they do it in the USofA..) (cable-) TV fee?So he has allready payed for the *damn* thing.
I mean! :)
Of course, they've used some other special 'ink' then the regular printer-ink; a conductive /non-conductive -ink to 'print' the PCB. *neat'o*
As, Avian visitor (257765), (#10684903) said " it is relatively cheaper to produce a small quantity of boards" thus "Most of the money today is made with consumer electronics where there is a requirement of large series of identical boards so this is no longer such an advantage" - So the prominent GeeK who etched his or her own (one or two-sided) PCB(s), this method of 'printing' a PCB will be a great leap forward for 'small(er) actors' of somehow beeing able to compet in a greather way with 'large(r) actors' at beeing able to produce PCBs at low(er)-costs.
Buuuttt, if one revises one POV to account for 'Quarks (subatomic particles)' and/or 'String Theory (that there is something beyond atoms and quarks....)' ... the unthinkable just got a nudge toward the thinkable
As Insane as we Humans (the Human Species as a whole) are ... I wouldn't bet against Us from one day doing/achieving the unthinkable :-)
I mean, if an alien race came by 2.5-2.0 Million years ago and saw us then, 'Stupidest Humans that we think has ever lived(Homo habilis)'. Who of them would have thought the unthinkable that we would evolve to 'Insane Rocket scientists(Homo sapiens)' that one day would have the capacity to shoot one of em' down? =)
here is a slashdot user who has translated it.
minor correction
- I'd certainly bet that if NASA wanted to, they could build another Biosphere project on a much smaller scale that would last much longer as a closed environment before becoming unsuitable for humans.
I guess they could, but then again one would have to account for 'space travel' + 'other planets G-force' for life (the whole eco-system) to survive. And as life needs an eco-system, that accounts for quite a lot of 'life' that's needed to survive to sustain human life.And I'd ask myself if this wouldn't be more practical to achieve via some equipment(s) ... as one wouldn't be as dependent on one of the 'links' in the eco-system chain to come to failure.
- Mmmm... yes. Because I would love to not eat when I'm millions of miles from home. And of course I wouldn't want things that actually *taste like stuff.* And to do that for 2 years is exactly my idea of a good time.
all people *here* who would willingly give up the luxury of 'human life style' for 'pills and some patches' for the next 2-3 years, to travel to Mars, please raise up your Paws!This would be a 'once in a lifetime' experince, and I wouldn't let an overrated sensation like 'eating' and 'taste of stuff' stand in my way of engaging in such a expedition. And I imagne no real explorer would either! /* sure, if you wouldn't, step aside, and lets us thru - no one is forcing anyone here to do anything ... */
*raises up all of his four paws* ... /* Yes, I'm lying on my back, with all my four limbs up in the air =) */
- Plant's are plenty compact to ship. What's more compact than a seed? A few seed packets are about the same size as a pill bottle
Yeah, thats actually true from one POV2nd of all, read the linked rely, I linked to.
- >Plants do an incredible job of purifying and recycling both air and water [...]
I do hope you are aware of biosphere 2and btw, slashdot ran a couple of days ago an article about a water-treatment system, looking at the size of it its way smaller then the alloted plant life needed to do the same job (to sustain the X no. of human crew). And if I'd get of my sorry little ass off this chair and google, I'd bet I would find you a *way* small(er) sized/more compact solution of recycling CO_2 --> H2O then the alloted plantlife needed to do the same job.
PS. I'm not against 'plant life', I actually do prefer plant life over 'latest scientific'--what ever--solution. But, I also got to open my eyes and say ~hey, it doesn't make sense~ for us to carry 'the garden' to Mars. I like the next 'scifi' slashdot user would like for us to get to Mars as soon as possible
PPS. If I where to choose the planlife that produces most of our Oxygen ... I'd pick the algae of the seas :-)
heck, I even recall there was a slashdot article about the military researching a 'patch' that could sustain a soldier for a week (IIRC) or so.
Think of it - plants aren't compact enough, compared to a 'patch' / 'pill' ... and seems like a waste of space to launch into space.
Though, plants are needed in the longrun, like when we have some sort of structure _on_ Mars, and we are starting to make it habitable. Yes, then I'd take with me a 'seed(s)' and start planting vegetation (and sure, 1st I'd make sure it would be possible to grow stuff...but that's besides my point...)... but I wouldn't take with me vegetation from HERE to THERE. *doesn't make my sense*
and one ponders upon of why one hasn't seen their " Prescott cooling? - See the latest commercial? "
LFS'er can conjure up some weird 'batches' *indeed* :)
but ... I found it *verry* odd that an LFS'er doesn't know about the `uname -r`--thingie ... unless he's a wannabe-LFS'er :-)
Go to the Correct Url
say, their latest MS Office cost them: $1 Billion; to develop (That's ALL COSTS INCLUDED - EVERYTHING!)
and say, about ~400 Million users are going to somehow use it - either pay to upgrade, or it comes with their next PC ... etc ... but about ~400 Million users in total will use it...
that comes around to, $2.5/copy ... to pay for the initial development cost ... so say me, what those $133.99-$429.99 prizes are ... if note OVERPRIZED! - I'd say a fair rate would be anything from '2-10 x ${DEVELOPMENT-COSTS}' ... but '53.596-171.996 X ${DEVELOPMENT-COSTS}' is starting to look a bit ridiculous *IMHO*
He has posted a good link, worthy to get attention!
OOOhhhoo, finally my wish will be granted *ooooohhooo, bounces around out of happiness*
*fast reading*
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Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Konqueror... [blah blah blah]...
...
*NoooooooooooooHHHH!Inactive tabs can launch dialog boxes.... [blah balh blah] ...
Successful exploitation would normally require that a user is tricked... [blah blah blah]...
*Oohhh*A test is available * ooh ooh, does one dare ...*
The vendor reports that the vulnerability has been fixed in KDE 3.3.1.
</sarcasm>
*Konqi User goes back to Yawning*
Heck, to come to think of it, if they'd use somethnig like AAlib ... they could even use 'letters' to construct up images =)
But I got somethin to say, never the less :)
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I hit me to what one can/could associate 'gnuStep/OpenStep' to/with. Hurd.
And I want to make (perfectly) clear! - I'm not implying anything else then ' They didn't make/haven't made it, not even after 10+ years '.
Let me elaborate; They, gnuStep/OpenStep and Hurd, choose to go about a different path then any of their competitors - Whoose to say whom made the wisest choice? We don't know xor can't say - Though, what we can conclude is that most users (not developers) have choosen and choose to use not-them/their solution; for reason A-Z.
So, 10+ years have passed - It seems resonable/logical to, is in-order to, ask oneself three questions after such a long while:
There's a quote " One in a million " - and I think its imply is sound, not every one/project makes it; some are bound to fail. " Que sera sera "