the patent office has an extremely high profit percentage... As officers of the US govt the have the duty to do their jobs properly.
Yes, I'd agree they're overworked...but if you put the examiner's ass in a sling for not properly investigating when the suspect purgry then maybe they will force the change on the management!!! It's a bit cruel to do to some poor sap, but you gotta fight the apathy in the system somewhere.
Personally, I think the system should be reformed to allow a limited number of patent grants per year...should have been done long ago! They should look at the numbers they granted for each subject for say 10 years, take an average, and knock half off that number. Then they could put more examiners from different fields on the patents and they would be a big deal again. Also, it would make the number managable for the citizens to "police" because there would be a limited number and times for awards...also there should be a challange period of 1 year after granting that any citizen with evidence can challange a granted patent. In addition, a company would be able to file in multiple years... i.e. 3 chances to apply, no amendments, additions, or clairifications!...then don't bother.
J2EE is exactly the motivation for building a new application standard! I'm primarily an AS400 RPG programmer and the interface is wonderful! Most RPG programs are comparible to PHP scripts...really simple ones. The underlying engine supports all of the client-server interactions the programmer writes screens and the client runs them. Of course there are extentions to add client side processing and use of client devices like printers... the key is that writing the app is no more complicated than writing a basic web page right now.
Sometimes you have to stop trying and rebuild the right tool for the job!
As far as Java, if it was done right up front by MS it wouldn't be an issue. Your comment is EXACTLY why MS broke the JVM just enough to be a hassle!!! Of course you'll expect IE users to download the XXXMB SP2 pack to make their machines "safe" for the internet...why is it unfair to expect them to have other up-to-date tools!
A more clever idea would be to brand Firefox as a plugin to IE when unsupported pages were called up! That way pages broken in IE would default to Firefox!!!
The stateless nature of HTTP is exactly the problem right now because every body is trying to either shoe-horn states in [i.e PHP] or rebuild their own state keeping thru some other port [i.e. j2ee &.net] What's needed is an Open alternative that bundles all those specs up and makes it easy. I brought up IBM 3730 & 5250 in another post because they are oldie-but-goodie specs that do exactly what everybody is looking for...server-client & client-server interactions, data integrity, ability to pass information to devices, etc... nothing in the base 5250 spec requires them to output ONLY to an ugly green screen. There's plenty of OSS implenemations of clients out there to start building from!
There really should be a community effort to take the best of what's available OSS...BitTorrent, Jabber, Mozilla, RSS, etc. And wrap up some truely new protcols to implement...Write the RFC's and put it in production via Mozilla, Apache, and PHP...don't wait to beg permission because the corps will stall with their own adgendas untill it's old and stale. If it was included in major browsers like Mozilla and Knoquerer, and pushed for big sites like slashdot we could do it almost overnight!
HTTP's fundamental flaw for web applilcations is that it doesn't have concurrent sessions like telnet. That means no matter what you do, in the end all the things like Javascript, XML, Sessions and the such will never be more than ugly hacks around the basic problem that HTTP doesn't keep track of the state of what's going on between machines.
For a web applications solution [HTTP is a great protocol that should't go anywhere!], I'd propose a new protocol much like IBM's 3730 or 5250 terminal sessions... as a starting point. The idea is that the machines should negotiate a connection and then maintain it's integrity while the app is running. Nowdays, most people have reliable enough connections to support this and having a persistant client-server connection would solve many of the programming issues involved. I'd add a laundry list of new features starting with the ability to peer-to-peer browsers, co-browsing, as well as all the latest security implentations. The main difference is that the machines have to have some element of trust between them...you would be cedeing control of your "browser" to whatever server you were on...that would require heavy-duty java-style sandboxing of your system and between systems you might be linked to.
The only way to get a good version would be to start as OSS...otherwise it would be immediately hijacked in any "committee". Like I said, a starting point would be the old terminal sessions..perhaps bring them up-to-date by allowing the stream to include XHTML markup and a DOM instead of strict screen coordinates! Ideally, it'd be "just a plugin" for mozilla or firefox. One key point I would try to make is to make it as radically different from HTTP/HTML we have now as possible! because it would start out OSS It should be "hobbled" in some respect to force people not to use it for general browsing purposes. That way we could start to push multi-protocol sites rather than just shoving everything into HTTP or it's successor.
The super large Geforces fit in almost all of the shuttle's [and such] now...that problem was solved last year! Personally I'm waiting for that dual Opteron from Iwill. It looks to be awsome!
There's too much emphisis on performance, recordings, and such nowdays. If a motion picture company wants to be the sole proprieter of a movie then don't sell DVDs...make people go to the theater or show it broadcast only. The whole problem lately is Corps trying to publish media "like a book" then use the law to regulate what you do with it after the fact because other people find new and inventive ways to use their media.
It's all Arse-backwards nowdays. So what it means a lot of people in CA don't get millions of dollars to make "yet another friday nite movie" the markets are so fat and bloated, somebody has to go belly up...all the laws are doing is proping up the dying business. we need to expect corps to live with the concequences of their business decisions instead of punishing the rest of us by changing the laws!!
seriously, cops are WAY to high strung nowdays. That said, I think a cop who doesn't make sure that a real gun in a kid's hand fires first is a coward to the position. It goes right up there with the "law enforcement workers" calling their fellow CITIZENS "civillians". Cops don't live in the beats they work anymore....enforcing the law is just a game..or a hassle... especially in the cities...nowdays they're trained to lie, cheat, & steal to enforce the law so as a Citzen you can't even converse with them without giving up your rights!
heard all those...
Those still going to school can stop reading now...
Also "joy to the world"
joy to the world the school burnt down
and all..the teachers..died!
They were looking for the principle
who was hanging from the flag pole
with a rope around his neck
with a rope around his neck
with a rooop a rooope around his neck.
All the people posting these have to be at least 30 years old...it was shortly after we were in school that all the psyco..scared "school violence" crap started. By today's standards we were sick little kids....but we still ain't killed anybody!!!! I remember that guns were still OK for show-n-tell, but pocket knives were confiscated, but nobody got expelled.
Disclaimer: I've got a 5,7, & 10 year old and REFUSE to repeat any of this in front of them...If they repeated that at school, the cops WILL be called! it's really THAT bad now!!!!
That's exactly why RMS is so pushy about needing offical copyright and needing to "only" use the GPL. He's not stupid. He sat down with an IP lawyer 10 years ago and worked out a contract to handle stuff just like this! The 1976 copyright law made nothing you write "free". ever.
I think it's better to err on the side of free speech than not! Should the Koran be allowed in the USA because it's Islams that are the latest round of terrorists? Of course that's preposterous because the Koran is a valid religous book, but who gets to draw the line? The lines right now are clearly drawn by the most religous class in America...make no questions about it...that's wrong! Now that Bush is in the White House they're making a very public effort to "fix" the "free speech" of the last 30 years. In the Internet age that's just not possible with out lots of Witch Hunting...and that will be a bloodbath.
right..sort of. The people he gets OFFICAL permission from are the suits at whatever company holds the rights to the song he wants. Being as Al makes some money for his label off the parodies I'm sure it's no big deal....and the other side's suits get a royalty cut for the song out of the deal. What the ARTIST of the original song wants or likes really has nothing to do with it...they sold their soul to a corporation that uses it to make $$$!
Actually, there doesn't need to be 50% to win an election...just the most votes.
It's too bad we didn't look to the proper process to handle the 2000 election. The proper forum for that debate was the electoral college not CNN. Perhaps some other elector would have changed their vote...It's happened before [but I can't remember who] when the electors had to revote several times from a field of a half dozen valid canidates [most of whom became presidents later! Just had to wait their turn ha,ha] Shortly after that mess was when they changed the voting to be seperate for Prez & VP because names came up for votes on both lists and it was messy to reconcile.
In short, their was no "rigged" election in Florida [it was just shamefully sloppy] but rather the American media didn't want to wait and follow the "rulebook" they wanted an immediate winner for their ratings...
Frankly it bashed both sides equally...often with their own words. In the end the message was that it's stupid & we should all get along! that point seems to be missed!
It would seem that copyright is extending to become a "title of nobility" of sorts. That's prohibited from being allowed in the US...to the point that we kick out people who marry into royal families! When something exists for more than 3 generations, it's a title, not an award... Especially when it goes to something as undemocratic and undying as a corporation. It's too bad Lessing didn't argue that point to the Supreme Court...they might have listened to that.
but comming out 6 month+! later isn't a linux release...who's gonna buy ANOTHER copy of a bargin bin game at FULL price just to support Linux?
The better approach is to be like ID...they keep content seperate from the executable...so porting games is JUST the engine...many budget games are too tightly tied to windows to even port w/o rewriting stuff.
Another cool thing I thing I think people should try is getting budget program and game developers to shift developement to SDL & [Free] Wine as an intrum to full linux development. If you could get budget titles to at least debug their game for wine you'd have a lot of progress! Remember, 75% of the titles on the shelf are cheap 20$ stuff... The other thing would be to get "budget" titles to shift to a GUI tools like GTK+..again, most of them are non-integrated "desktop toys" that don't really conncect to anything...
Sounds like a job for someone like that Lindows guy...
The fundamental problem is people trying to use the wrong tool for the job...or at least trying to hide the tool you're using. If your going to use a web browser for an app then you've simply gotta have the menu/icon/status bars that using a browser entails! That it was ever a "great" idea to have "chrome-less" browser windows with the scripting controlling the Application formatting (i.e. menubar, status bar, window title) in the first place was the fundamental flaw. I would suppose that chrome-less windows that were permenantly bound to the parent window...(like old school Win3.1 MDI apps) would be OK, but there still needs to be a better way.
First they should put some sort of permanent "chrome" warning on the window...perhaps use a colored boarder...green for the base window, and yellow, orange, red, blue...to denote wether you are at the same page, domain, local site, or redirected to somewhere else entirely. Also, there should be the full-qualified ACTUAL unclipped URL at the top or bottom of the window of ALL chromless windows...that would also help prevent spoofing.
True for PCs, but an IBM server isn't anything close to a PC. considering almost all IBM i & p series servers are shipped with multiple deactivated processors as well as seperate processor cards to handle raw IO processing this is more of a RAID type thing. The purpose of RAID isn't to prevent the drive from failing but allow you to limp along until you can swap the drive. Also, remember that the IBM "big iron" has hot-spare, hot-swappable EVERYTHING...CPU, RAM, PCI cards, controllers, disks...
It looks like the cheif usage would be stuff like car door locks and such. Now that everybody has OnStar or such, this would eliminate the ability to EVER use a slim jim to open your car door! I'm sure many Luxury car driver MUST have this...ha, ha.
It's not about being a Luddite, it's because most of the time these new things are only used by marketing to add a stupid bell or whistle that goes bad after 3-4 years! Cars in particular are one of those things best left alone. Most "geeks" would prefer a 10K$ car with stick shift and no air to these electronic messes they're building now...It's an allocation of resources issue...it's a waste to keep building things so compex they don't last 10 years. Geek rule #1: When in doubt, Simplicty is best!
More than that, it's usually the marketdroids who decide to "weld" the hood shut before they come up with anything really interesting. You and I will never get our hands on these for reasonable prices anyway..."in the name of security" and all that stuff.
these would be great for robotic applications or other industrial apps because they would allow machinery to be "self" adjusting. Tractor-trailers that attach/detach w/o the operator getting out, easily replaceable heavy machinery parts on an assembly line...the key being applications where there are innacessable screws needed or many many screws needed to make a proper removable connection
and OF Course! easily interchangable Giant Killer Robot parts!!!
The other part is still the hold-over dot bomb thinking that "the next big thing" will make the company super rich overnight. The stockholders down on their money are still biting those lines while marketing throws away truely profitable business [i.e. selling simple phones at reasonable prices with sane contracts and longer life] away while betting the farm on selling "toy" phones below cost and tricking the customer into paying wildly more to actually use all the gadgets. After the first mega-bill people get, they spend 6 months paying off a phone they can't even use anymore...and moving to a different company!
It's a trend that died long ago in "real" businesses like appliance stores and car dealerships...but seems to have found new life in banking and finance operations and "new business" thinking. You end up with an "Enron" not because they necessarily tried to bilk the investors, but because "moving the ball" to show profits & future profits to investors while showing the tax guy you're poor only goes so far untill you REALLY ARE POOR and don't know it! All these schemes are symptoms of the same problem.
The cig company owns so much other "honest" food business now that they are probably working on a cigerarette exit strategy to insulate the other business from all the tabacco lawsuits...they they can just kill it when popular opinion gets too bad...
It's a smart and honest business move. Seriously, I'm from Michigan who wants to raise cig taxes AGAIN to the highest in the country...think it would be a great move on PM's part to stop selling cigs [thru legal channels..state's gotta have their fingers in it!] due to the high taxes. The loss of tax income and party store closures would wreak havoc for years to come. What would the Govener do? Sue them to sell smokes? Ha...she personally sued them for medical "damages" how funny would that be!
The issue with the Napster name is exactly the opposite...they're being sued because the original investors wanted to buy the name back in bankrupcy court...then some how managed to get it thru an aquisition. Now the RIAA wants to sue the new owners for "profiting" from the name they bankrupted previously because it's synonomious with online music trading.
It's the opposite of this...the RIAA wants to sue anybody that even uses or sells the Napster name simply as a pissing match.
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Yes, I'd agree they're overworked...but if you put the examiner's ass in a sling for not properly investigating when the suspect purgry then maybe they will force the change on the management!!! It's a bit cruel to do to some poor sap, but you gotta fight the apathy in the system somewhere.
Personally, I think the system should be reformed to allow a limited number of patent grants per year...should have been done long ago! They should look at the numbers they granted for each subject for say 10 years, take an average, and knock half off that number. Then they could put more examiners from different fields on the patents and they would be a big deal again. Also, it would make the number managable for the citizens to "police" because there would be a limited number and times for awards...also there should be a challange period of 1 year after granting that any citizen with evidence can challange a granted patent. In addition, a company would be able to file in multiple years... i.e. 3 chances to apply, no amendments, additions, or clairifications!...then don't bother.
Sometimes you have to stop trying and rebuild the right tool for the job!
As far as Java, if it was done right up front by MS it wouldn't be an issue. Your comment is EXACTLY why MS broke the JVM just enough to be a hassle!!! Of course you'll expect IE users to download the XXXMB SP2 pack to make their machines "safe" for the internet...why is it unfair to expect them to have other up-to-date tools!
A more clever idea would be to brand Firefox as a plugin to IE when unsupported pages were called up! That way pages broken in IE would default to Firefox!!!
There really should be a community effort to take the best of what's available OSS...BitTorrent, Jabber, Mozilla, RSS, etc. And wrap up some truely new protcols to implement...Write the RFC's and put it in production via Mozilla, Apache, and PHP...don't wait to beg permission because the corps will stall with their own adgendas untill it's old and stale. If it was included in major browsers like Mozilla and Knoquerer, and pushed for big sites like slashdot we could do it almost overnight!
For a web applications solution [HTTP is a great protocol that should't go anywhere!], I'd propose a new protocol much like IBM's 3730 or 5250 terminal sessions... as a starting point. The idea is that the machines should negotiate a connection and then maintain it's integrity while the app is running. Nowdays, most people have reliable enough connections to support this and having a persistant client-server connection would solve many of the programming issues involved. I'd add a laundry list of new features starting with the ability to peer-to-peer browsers, co-browsing, as well as all the latest security implentations. The main difference is that the machines have to have some element of trust between them...you would be cedeing control of your "browser" to whatever server you were on ...that would require heavy-duty java-style sandboxing of your system and between systems you might be linked to.
The only way to get a good version would be to start as OSS...otherwise it would be immediately hijacked in any "committee". Like I said, a starting point would be the old terminal sessions..perhaps bring them up-to-date by allowing the stream to include XHTML markup and a DOM instead of strict screen coordinates! Ideally, it'd be "just a plugin" for mozilla or firefox. One key point I would try to make is to make it as radically different from HTTP/HTML we have now as possible! because it would start out OSS It should be "hobbled" in some respect to force people not to use it for general browsing purposes. That way we could start to push multi-protocol sites rather than just shoving everything into HTTP or it's successor.
The super large Geforces fit in almost all of the shuttle's [and such] now...that problem was solved last year! Personally I'm waiting for that dual Opteron from Iwill. It looks to be awsome!
It's all Arse-backwards nowdays. So what it means a lot of people in CA don't get millions of dollars to make "yet another friday nite movie" the markets are so fat and bloated, somebody has to go belly up...all the laws are doing is proping up the dying business. we need to expect corps to live with the concequences of their business decisions instead of punishing the rest of us by changing the laws!!
seriously, cops are WAY to high strung nowdays. That said, I think a cop who doesn't make sure that a real gun in a kid's hand fires first is a coward to the position. It goes right up there with the "law enforcement workers" calling their fellow CITIZENS "civillians". Cops don't live in the beats they work anymore....enforcing the law is just a game..or a hassle... especially in the cities...nowdays they're trained to lie, cheat, & steal to enforce the law so as a Citzen you can't even converse with them without giving up your rights!
Also "joy to the world" joy to the world
the school burnt down
and all..the teachers..died!
They were looking for the principle
who was hanging from the flag pole
with a rope around his neck
with a rope around his neck
with a rooop a rooope around his neck.
All the people posting these have to be at least 30 years old...it was shortly after we were in school that all the psyco..scared "school violence" crap started. By today's standards we were sick little kids....but we still ain't killed anybody!!!! I remember that guns were still OK for show-n-tell, but pocket knives were confiscated, but nobody got expelled.
Disclaimer: I've got a 5,7, & 10 year old and REFUSE to repeat any of this in front of them...If they repeated that at school, the cops WILL be called! it's really THAT bad now!!!!
That's exactly why RMS is so pushy about needing offical copyright and needing to "only" use the GPL. He's not stupid. He sat down with an IP lawyer 10 years ago and worked out a contract to handle stuff just like this! The 1976 copyright law made nothing you write "free". ever.
I think it's better to err on the side of free speech than not! Should the Koran be allowed in the USA because it's Islams that are the latest round of terrorists? Of course that's preposterous because the Koran is a valid religous book, but who gets to draw the line? The lines right now are clearly drawn by the most religous class in America...make no questions about it...that's wrong! Now that Bush is in the White House they're making a very public effort to "fix" the "free speech" of the last 30 years. In the Internet age that's just not possible with out lots of Witch Hunting...and that will be a bloodbath.
right..sort of. The people he gets OFFICAL permission from are the suits at whatever company holds the rights to the song he wants. Being as Al makes some money for his label off the parodies I'm sure it's no big deal....and the other side's suits get a royalty cut for the song out of the deal. What the ARTIST of the original song wants or likes really has nothing to do with it...they sold their soul to a corporation that uses it to make $$$!
It's too bad we didn't look to the proper process to handle the 2000 election. The proper forum for that debate was the electoral college not CNN. Perhaps some other elector would have changed their vote...It's happened before [but I can't remember who] when the electors had to revote several times from a field of a half dozen valid canidates [most of whom became presidents later! Just had to wait their turn ha,ha] Shortly after that mess was when they changed the voting to be seperate for Prez & VP because names came up for votes on both lists and it was messy to reconcile.
In short, their was no "rigged" election in Florida [it was just shamefully sloppy] but rather the American media didn't want to wait and follow the "rulebook" they wanted an immediate winner for their ratings...
Frankly it bashed both sides equally...often with their own words. In the end the message was that it's stupid & we should all get along! that point seems to be missed!
It would seem that copyright is extending to become a "title of nobility" of sorts. That's prohibited from being allowed in the US...to the point that we kick out people who marry into royal families! When something exists for more than 3 generations, it's a title, not an award... Especially when it goes to something as undemocratic and undying as a corporation. It's too bad Lessing didn't argue that point to the Supreme Court...they might have listened to that.
Of course I didn't tattle on the guys...just did my job of taking off the games.
The better approach is to be like ID...they keep content seperate from the executable...so porting games is JUST the engine...many budget games are too tightly tied to windows to even port w/o rewriting stuff.
Another cool thing I thing I think people should try is getting budget program and game developers to shift developement to SDL & [Free] Wine as an intrum to full linux development. If you could get budget titles to at least debug their game for wine you'd have a lot of progress! Remember, 75% of the titles on the shelf are cheap 20$ stuff... The other thing would be to get "budget" titles to shift to a GUI tools like GTK+..again, most of them are non-integrated "desktop toys" that don't really conncect to anything...
Sounds like a job for someone like that Lindows guy...
First they should put some sort of permanent "chrome" warning on the window...perhaps use a colored boarder...green for the base window, and yellow, orange, red, blue...to denote wether you are at the same page, domain, local site, or redirected to somewhere else entirely. Also, there should be the full-qualified ACTUAL unclipped URL at the top or bottom of the window of ALL chromless windows...that would also help prevent spoofing.
True for PCs, but an IBM server isn't anything close to a PC. considering almost all IBM i & p series servers are shipped with multiple deactivated processors as well as seperate processor cards to handle raw IO processing this is more of a RAID type thing. The purpose of RAID isn't to prevent the drive from failing but allow you to limp along until you can swap the drive. Also, remember that the IBM "big iron" has hot-spare, hot-swappable EVERYTHING...CPU, RAM, PCI cards, controllers, disks...
It looks like the cheif usage would be stuff like car door locks and such. Now that everybody has OnStar or such, this would eliminate the ability to EVER use a slim jim to open your car door! I'm sure many Luxury car driver MUST have this...ha, ha.
More than that, it's usually the marketdroids who decide to "weld" the hood shut before they come up with anything really interesting. You and I will never get our hands on these for reasonable prices anyway..."in the name of security" and all that stuff.
and OF Course! easily interchangable Giant Killer Robot parts!!!
It's a trend that died long ago in "real" businesses like appliance stores and car dealerships...but seems to have found new life in banking and finance operations and "new business" thinking. You end up with an "Enron" not because they necessarily tried to bilk the investors, but because "moving the ball" to show profits & future profits to investors while showing the tax guy you're poor only goes so far untill you REALLY ARE POOR and don't know it! All these schemes are symptoms of the same problem.
It's a smart and honest business move. Seriously, I'm from Michigan who wants to raise cig taxes AGAIN to the highest in the country...think it would be a great move on PM's part to stop selling cigs [thru legal channels..state's gotta have their fingers in it!] due to the high taxes. The loss of tax income and party store closures would wreak havoc for years to come. What would the Govener do? Sue them to sell smokes? Ha...she personally sued them for medical "damages" how funny would that be!
It's the opposite of this...the RIAA wants to sue anybody that even uses or sells the Napster name simply as a pissing match.