I was specifically responding the GP's claim that his sig was added as part of the standard post body, and not part of the meta data. That claim is factually incorrect.
Most email clients insert the sig, when mailed, as part of the standard post body, so I would have no reason to believe that those were other than a valid, legal signature. Some email clients do otherwise, and some people choose to instead email a JPG with their "signature" in it; in those cases the additional content is not viewable as part of the document, and I would have little reason to believe it was valid.
In fact, the value of the information that they are being assessed $900 million in taxes for is $0 to me. In fact, on average, it's likely to be $0 for most people (outside of the possibility that you're bound to find some idiot that will pay gobs of money for it).
I dunno, that seems like a large possibility to just discount. If the IRS thinks it's worth $10Billion or whatever (and hence worth a $900M tax bill), I'll up your $0 bid to at least $10. $10 isn't much money lose, and I could maybe resell it for a lot more.
(500 people outbid me, and now someone's offering $9 Billion for it. For a company their size, that's not much to lose, and it could generate them some nice short-term profits.)
In short, the market can and will determine the value of intangible assets, just as it can for physical ones.
This is why agile, modern SBC Communications purchased aging, failing-in-the-marketplace AT&T, then proceeded to rename themselves. They think the name clout is worth the effort, even if it takes a few years to shed AT&T's recent reputation as a has-been. Even I think that bringing back the old "T" stock ticker was a cool thing to do.
As I've posted before on Slashdot (I'd link if I was a paying subscriber), I've been unhappy that GoDaddy put ads up on my parked domain since I moved one to them in October. Register.com never did that in the 7 years I parked the domain with them. (I know, I'm paying much less with GoDaddy, yes. But it's still my domain as long as I'm paying for it.)
I just moved it to OpenSourceParking.com. It's basically a "free" way for me to help counter the anti-open-source lobby.*
* Free in that I don't have the desire, time, or traffic to really earn money myself from my parked domain, but every little bit can help OSP.com.
The fact that 'Bogtha' appears at the bottom, as part of the comment and not part of the meta-data, means that I've "signed" the "contract".
Err... but I don't view signatures.
"Disable Sigs - Strip sig quotes from comments" is a Slashdot user setting.
In short, the only way for Slashdot to strip sigs is because they are flagged as special meta-data, not as part of the comment.
By your own argument, Slashdot sigs cannot count as "signing" the "contract" - it has to be written into the body. Email works differently because the sig becomes part of the body when sent. Unless, of course, your email client attaches your sig as a second part of the email, in which case my email client doesn't display it, and again it cannot count.
1. Eliminate the system that mails a cheque to every person every month. 1000% prone to abuse.
2. The arguments that interest rates will fall by 0.25%, and that the costs of all retail goods and services will fall by 20-25% are really, really tenuous, at best, and they are integral into the supposedly neutral effects of the change.
3. The issue with new homes versus existing homes seems fishy, at best. The market doesn't work that way.
The algorithm is a problem-solving computational procedure and is the building block for all search engines like those operated by Google and Yahoo.
No it's not. Otherwise they would've implemented it already. How can something be a building block if the thing they're referring to isn't built on it?
I read that as An algorithm and treated it as a definition of algorithm for their less-attuned audience.
Maybe I just don't get it, but mortage.com is a completely different word than mortgage.com. Neither word is a trademark.
How is it illegal to buy and use mortage.com? Perhaps an argument could be made if the page was serving pornography without warning, but otherwise I see nothing necessarily wrong with this. What if the guy's name is John Mortage, and he bought the domain to use for his family's email? Is it awful if he puts ads on the web site he doesn't use for his domain?
At the same time, I think Microsoft would end up paying far more than $242,000 to someone if their browser automatically redirected all traffic away from that person's website. This is especially true if that person could in any way claim that Microsoft was using their web browser near-monopoly to fight off competition for their anti-virus software, search bars, etc.
(All that said, I visit www.cn.com far more than I wish to. But I just don't see how anyone could make owning www.cn.com illegal or even immoral, just because I meant to type www.cnn.com. I typed it in; it's my fault I went to the wrong place.)
If you are speaking in terms of unliving things, then natural has a very clear meaning - untouched by humans. No other living thing can have a significant effect on the planet and environment.
If you are speaking in terms of animal behavior, then natural is the incorrect word to use. Instead, use instinctual. The instinctual behavior of non-sentient beings is part of life, and cannot be changed without the extiction of the beings or their prey. This happens periodically, and might be regrettable but is "natural".
Are you calling the human drive to destroy the land on which it lives, to pollute the air, and to upset the balance in native wildlife that came about by way of "natural" behavior to be an an instinctual part of human nature?? If so, then you postulate that humanity is in an inevitable track to self destruction, and those of us that want to live might as well use our survival instincts and kill of the rest of you now.
Not that any one piece is bad on it's own - there is just no single entity accountable for getting them all together and thoroughly tested as a whole. Simple QA at best is all you can hope for, not a year of open beta.
Maybe it's just me, but it sounds like you should stop using a Red Hat-based distribution and switch to a Debian-based distribution. Debian takes on the accountability for thorough testing and package integration, and they have years worth of experience with open betas.;p
Sorry, I'm trying now, having just received an email while I was clicking between mail folders. Nothing, nada. Nor does F9 do anything at all, despite there being a new message waiting for me, somewhere...
Well, and IBM purchased Notes when they acquired Lotus; perhaps they didn't know how bad the code base was before they bought it. Microsoft married Bob after it was a bomb. (That was Bill Gates' wife's project before they were married.)
I'm not sure how this applies, but if we're comparing Microsoft and IBM based on their worst products then the product history likely applies.
As a current user of Lotus Notes (it's up now on my other monitor), I have to agree that it sucks. There are so many features - hundreds and hundreds of them. What do any of them do? Why do I need them? And with all those features, why do basic things like having emails show up in my inbox when I receive them not work?* Why is it so hard to copy and paste things? Why is are the databases so slow and prone to crash?
I've never used Outlook, so I cannot really compare. I just know that there has to be something better than Lotus Notes.
*(If you are actively doing something in Lotus Notes when an email arrives, such as clicking somewhere - even on the inbox refresh button - then you get the audible alert and the "You have new mail" notice on the status bar. However, you don't actually get the email, and the refresh button does not work. I have only found success by putting it to the side and waiting for the next auto refresh, usually a few minutes later. This is with Lotus Notes 6.5.3, the latest version I'm allowed to use.)
I dunno, my DVR was free with a 2-year satellite committment, which has since run out, so it's all mine.
And if I wished to torture myself with last night's episode of American Idol, and for some reason I hadn't programmed my own DVR (or told my cable company to record it for me), I'd look for it on iTunes for just $2 once, not pay $10 a month.
I built my first Linux machine with Xandros a few years ago, and I've used it as my home server ever since.
Now, I'm looking to upgrade, and I was planning to use the next version of Kubuntu when it released next month. I have used KDE for some time and I think I prefer its interface to that of Gnome.
My question is, if I choose Kubuntu, would I get anything at all out of this book? Or is it so different as to be not worth the purchase?
I'm an electrical engineer, but I do hardware design. I have little interest in being an expert in operating system configuration. I like the concept of Linux, but I want easy-to-follow instructions to set up what I need, with a minimal amount of fiddling in.conf files and other settings.
It's funny how the PS3 being delayed until 2007 is a huge opportunity to Microsoft (so says Microsoft), but the delay of Windows and Office until 2007 (a significantly larger portion of their revenue model) is just glossed over.
Any chance that we could, as an option, replace this with "Reply to Selected Text in a New Tab"?
I prefer to have my existing tab unchanged when creating replies, so I can browse back and forth through my whole browsing history while crafting my reply.
Does this technical committee require full patent disclosure by all members? If so, might this help ODF by forcing Microsoft to state now if they have any patent claims on anything that makes it into the final standard?
I'd hate to see Microsoft secretly steer the committee towards something that, five years later, they would shut down as a patent violation. It wouldn't be the first time this has happened *cough*Rambus*cough*.
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I was specifically responding the GP's claim that his sig was added as part of the standard post body, and not part of the meta data. That claim is factually incorrect.
Most email clients insert the sig, when mailed, as part of the standard post body, so I would have no reason to believe that those were other than a valid, legal signature. Some email clients do otherwise, and some people choose to instead email a JPG with their "signature" in it; in those cases the additional content is not viewable as part of the document, and I would have little reason to believe it was valid.
Sorry, nothing published by the CATO institute is worth reading, much less unbiased research.
Maybe he found a slashdot interface similar to this one for google?
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http://fury.com/images/weblog/google_circa_1960.j
In fact, the value of the information that they are being assessed $900 million in taxes for is $0 to me. In fact, on average, it's likely to be $0 for most people (outside of the possibility that you're bound to find some idiot that will pay gobs of money for it).
I dunno, that seems like a large possibility to just discount. If the IRS thinks it's worth $10Billion or whatever (and hence worth a $900M tax bill), I'll up your $0 bid to at least $10. $10 isn't much money lose, and I could maybe resell it for a lot more.
(500 people outbid me, and now someone's offering $9 Billion for it. For a company their size, that's not much to lose, and it could generate them some nice short-term profits.)
In short, the market can and will determine the value of intangible assets, just as it can for physical ones.
This is why agile, modern SBC Communications purchased aging, failing-in-the-marketplace AT&T, then proceeded to rename themselves. They think the name clout is worth the effort, even if it takes a few years to shed AT&T's recent reputation as a has-been. Even I think that bringing back the old "T" stock ticker was a cool thing to do.
As I've posted before on Slashdot (I'd link if I was a paying subscriber), I've been unhappy that GoDaddy put ads up on my parked domain since I moved one to them in October. Register.com never did that in the 7 years I parked the domain with them. (I know, I'm paying much less with GoDaddy, yes. But it's still my domain as long as I'm paying for it.)
I just moved it to OpenSourceParking.com. It's basically a "free" way for me to help counter the anti-open-source lobby.*
* Free in that I don't have the desire, time, or traffic to really earn money myself from my parked domain, but every little bit can help OSP.com.
The fact that 'Bogtha' appears at the bottom, as part of the comment and not part of the meta-data, means that I've "signed" the "contract".
Err... but I don't view signatures.
"Disable Sigs - Strip sig quotes from comments" is a Slashdot user setting.
In short, the only way for Slashdot to strip sigs is because they are flagged as special meta-data, not as part of the comment.
By your own argument, Slashdot sigs cannot count as "signing" the "contract" - it has to be written into the body. Email works differently because the sig becomes part of the body when sent. Unless, of course, your email client attaches your sig as a second part of the email, in which case my email client doesn't display it, and again it cannot count.
1. Eliminate the system that mails a cheque to every person every month. 1000% prone to abuse.
2. The arguments that interest rates will fall by 0.25%, and that the costs of all retail goods and services will fall by 20-25% are really, really tenuous, at best, and they are integral into the supposedly neutral effects of the change.
3. The issue with new homes versus existing homes seems fishy, at best. The market doesn't work that way.
The algorithm is a problem-solving computational procedure and is the building block for all search engines like those operated by Google and Yahoo.
No it's not. Otherwise they would've implemented it already. How can something be a building block if the thing they're referring to isn't built on it?
I read that as An algorithm and treated it as a definition of algorithm for their less-attuned audience.
Maybe I just don't get it, but mortage.com is a completely different word than mortgage.com. Neither word is a trademark.
How is it illegal to buy and use mortage.com? Perhaps an argument could be made if the page was serving pornography without warning, but otherwise I see nothing necessarily wrong with this. What if the guy's name is John Mortage, and he bought the domain to use for his family's email? Is it awful if he puts ads on the web site he doesn't use for his domain?
At the same time, I think Microsoft would end up paying far more than $242,000 to someone if their browser automatically redirected all traffic away from that person's website. This is especially true if that person could in any way claim that Microsoft was using their web browser near-monopoly to fight off competition for their anti-virus software, search bars, etc.
(All that said, I visit www.cn.com far more than I wish to. But I just don't see how anyone could make owning www.cn.com illegal or even immoral, just because I meant to type www.cnn.com. I typed it in; it's my fault I went to the wrong place.)
If you are speaking in terms of unliving things, then natural has a very clear meaning - untouched by humans. No other living thing can have a significant effect on the planet and environment.
If you are speaking in terms of animal behavior, then natural is the incorrect word to use. Instead, use instinctual. The instinctual behavior of non-sentient beings is part of life, and cannot be changed without the extiction of the beings or their prey. This happens periodically, and might be regrettable but is "natural".
Are you calling the human drive to destroy the land on which it lives, to pollute the air, and to upset the balance in native wildlife that came about by way of "natural" behavior to be an an instinctual part of human nature?? If so, then you postulate that humanity is in an inevitable track to self destruction, and those of us that want to live might as well use our survival instincts and kill of the rest of you now.
Next time any of us is in a situation where we're dancing around playing "air lightsaber" (or even just air guitar)
US Air Guitar Championships
Go see Good Night, and Good Luck if you can find it in a theatre, or buy it on DVD.
Not that any one piece is bad on it's own - there is just no single entity accountable for getting them all together and thoroughly tested as a whole. Simple QA at best is all you can hope for, not a year of open beta.
;p
Maybe it's just me, but it sounds like you should stop using a Red Hat-based distribution and switch to a Debian-based distribution. Debian takes on the accountability for thorough testing and package integration, and they have years worth of experience with open betas.
Sorry, I'm trying now, having just received an email while I was clicking between mail folders. Nothing, nada. Nor does F9 do anything at all, despite there being a new message waiting for me, somewhere...
Well, and IBM purchased Notes when they acquired Lotus; perhaps they didn't know how bad the code base was before they bought it. Microsoft married Bob after it was a bomb. (That was Bill Gates' wife's project before they were married.)
I'm not sure how this applies, but if we're comparing Microsoft and IBM based on their worst products then the product history likely applies.
Much thanks! This was the reply I was seeking.
(To most of the other replies, yes I know Kubuntu = Ubuntu - Gnome + KDE. That wasn't my question.)
I do not think there was a single device with single media that allowed you to do this until tivo.
The hard drive in my DVR is not a single media. It has multiple platters, and a read/write head for each platter.
As a current user of Lotus Notes (it's up now on my other monitor), I have to agree that it sucks. There are so many features - hundreds and hundreds of them. What do any of them do? Why do I need them? And with all those features, why do basic things like having emails show up in my inbox when I receive them not work?* Why is it so hard to copy and paste things? Why is are the databases so slow and prone to crash?
I've never used Outlook, so I cannot really compare. I just know that there has to be something better than Lotus Notes.
*(If you are actively doing something in Lotus Notes when an email arrives, such as clicking somewhere - even on the inbox refresh button - then you get the audible alert and the "You have new mail" notice on the status bar. However, you don't actually get the email, and the refresh button does not work. I have only found success by putting it to the side and waiting for the next auto refresh, usually a few minutes later. This is with Lotus Notes 6.5.3, the latest version I'm allowed to use.)
I dunno, my DVR was free with a 2-year satellite committment, which has since run out, so it's all mine.
And if I wished to torture myself with last night's episode of American Idol, and for some reason I hadn't programmed my own DVR (or told my cable company to record it for me), I'd look for it on iTunes for just $2 once, not pay $10 a month.
A) How kludgy is the interface between this and your satellite or cable TV receiver - or do you just get the over-the-air stations?
B) How well do you support HD? Or do you only do so with over-the-air stations again?
I built my first Linux machine with Xandros a few years ago, and I've used it as my home server ever since.
.conf files and other settings.
Now, I'm looking to upgrade, and I was planning to use the next version of Kubuntu when it released next month. I have used KDE for some time and I think I prefer its interface to that of Gnome.
My question is, if I choose Kubuntu, would I get anything at all out of this book? Or is it so different as to be not worth the purchase?
I'm an electrical engineer, but I do hardware design. I have little interest in being an expert in operating system configuration. I like the concept of Linux, but I want easy-to-follow instructions to set up what I need, with a minimal amount of fiddling in
It's funny how the PS3 being delayed until 2007 is a huge opportunity to Microsoft (so says Microsoft), but the delay of Windows and Office until 2007 (a significantly larger portion of their revenue model) is just glossed over.
Any chance that we could, as an option, replace this with "Reply to Selected Text in a New Tab"?
I prefer to have my existing tab unchanged when creating replies, so I can browse back and forth through my whole browsing history while crafting my reply.
Does this technical committee require full patent disclosure by all members? If so, might this help ODF by forcing Microsoft to state now if they have any patent claims on anything that makes it into the final standard?
I'd hate to see Microsoft secretly steer the committee towards something that, five years later, they would shut down as a patent violation. It wouldn't be the first time this has happened *cough*Rambus*cough*.