There's no serious doubt that anti-dumping laws were widely abused by US companies. Frequently the whole aim of pleas was to obtain `short-term' injunctions, and then attempted to drag out for as long as possible a case they couldn't win. Whatever your take on GATT and the WTO, they have at least cleaned up international trade law a great deal.
The W3C developed Amaya as a reference browser, using Motif/Lesstif. Not beautiful, but usable, under (IIRC) a BSD-style license, and currently the best way to render MathML (though Mozilla is working on it).
I have several times looked at the Mozilla site to try to find out when the last milestones are scheduled to occur, but with no success. Where does one find it?
Not quite true, you don't need to be a monopoly to run into `competition protecting' legislation: the notorious `anti-dumping' legislation of the 80s was directed at foreign manufacturers who were alleged to be selling their product at less than cost. One of its Keffects were that companies used it to gain injunctions stopping imports, saying `well, *we* can't make it that cheaply'.
Still I think the story you give is how it *should* work: if you aren't a monopoly, you should be free to set your prices however you like, for whatever reason you like. If you are a monopoly... tread lightly.
The article was kind of one-sided. The claim that the guy was squatting was due to the fact at the time that the complaint was made, no use was being made of the domain name. Whaile I think it is a bad decisions, I think that the article should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Actually it isn't that serious a charge: the woner may have had plans to develop the site that were taken out of limbo when the notice received.
Is there any actual evidence that the guy was domain squatting in the normal sense of the word (ie. keeping a domain name for purely speculative purposes)?
I don't think so. Major design issues are going to be Sun's call even after it has gone GPL, and delaying the release until after the changes are made prevents fatigue from code readers who learn the code one way then have to figure out how it works another way.
I guess you could argue by not making the source available now, they are missing feedback from the community on how the redesign should go. But I don't think they are going to get much intelleigent feedback from the community in just a few months.
I think you are being quick to condemn this work based on treating some rules of thumb as carved in stone. There was a nice article a while back in the CACM The Anti-Mac which was about what a user interface would be like if we threw out the desktop metaphor, one of whose assumptions is this idea of the passive interface. Think how useful non-passive intefaces are, like xbiff...
I'm really interested in new work on user interfaces. I don't like the idea of hiding what programs are doing that comes with the desktop metaphor, and by extension to almost all GUIs, but on the other hand, I wouldn't go back to text-only, mouse-free, console experience. So I use my machine in an unprincipled mess of GUI and CLI. Consistency isn't so important, but surely there has to be a better way...
Logic programming languages based on Horn clause resolution (ie. all of them) are restricted to finding solutions to formulae of very low logical complexity. Whilst logic programmers have been ingenious in working within this universe, I think its no accident that researchers working in applications of computation to logic have overwhelmingly preferred functional to logic languages, the big exception being algebraic specification (unsurprising, since algebraic systems have axioms of low logical complexity). Also functional languages have some nice correlations with linguistic entities.
I think the `relations are more general than functions' is a red herring, since it is easy to translate between programs coded in a pure (ie. the minimal heart) functional and pure logical language. Logic languages are nice, but in my opinion they are the best tool for a restricted set of problems, whilst functional languages are useful over a much wider domain.
How odd. `or it can act as a switch' were the last words appearing in the article as I downloaded it, which struck me as a strange ending for the artice... http error I guess.
Do we know the design of these boxes? For surveillance it is enough to send the packets to the box, which does nothing to affect the performance of the routers.
The size of fuel cells is coming down drastically. A great advantage to using electicity-based power is that if a much better battery medium comes along, you don't have the infrastructure problems to switching over that you do now switching from petrol to electricty. People just switch over on a car-by-car basis.
On the plus side, you wouldn't need to live next to 10 million polluting cars, producing a far higher level of emissions and with poorer control of toxic elements.
Typically only about 20-25% of the energy from an internal combustion engine goes into use, the rest is dissipated as heat. With fuel cells you make use of pretty much all of the energy available overhead, so the comparable overhead is that of your power station, which is much much better, typically about 70%.
Is there any evidence other than campaign donations and vague remarks to suggest that Bush will intervene in the MS trial? Raegan was widely predicted to favour letting AT&T off the hook, but in the event he left the anti-trust suit alone.
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There's no serious doubt that anti-dumping laws were widely abused by
US companies. Frequently the whole aim of pleas was to obtain
`short-term' injunctions, and then attempted to drag out for as long as
possible a case they couldn't win. Whatever your take on GATT and the
WTO, they have at least cleaned up international trade law a great
deal.
Not beautiful, but usable, under (IIRC) a BSD-style license, and
currently the best way to render MathML (though Mozilla is working on
it).
There is a homepage for it at
www.w3c.org.
I have several times looked at the Mozilla site to try to find out
when the last milestones are scheduled to occur, but with no success.
Where does one find it?
Agreed. I stopped using Netscape regularly a long time ago, because
there was no way I could coax it to use emacs as its editor.
`competition protecting' legislation: the notorious `anti-dumping'
legislation of the 80s was directed at foreign manufacturers who were
alleged to be selling their product at less than cost. One of its
Keffects were that companies used it to gain injunctions stopping
imports, saying `well, *we* can't make it that cheaply'.
Still I think the story you give is how it *should* work: if you
aren't a monopoly, you should be free to set your prices however you
like, for whatever reason you like. If you are a monopoly
lightly.
The study attempts to isolate this. The question they ask targets how
that persons relative music spending changed since using onlune music
sites.
The article was kind of one-sided. The claim that the guy was
squatting was due to the fact at the time that the complaint was made,
no use was being made of the domain name. Whaile I think it is a bad
decisions, I think that the article should be taken with a pinch of
salt.
to develop the site that were taken out of limbo when the notice
received.
Is there any actual evidence that the guy was domain squatting in
the normal sense of the word (ie. keeping a domain name for purely
speculative purposes)?
No, but it's more important...
It would be sufficient that trademarks couldn't be enforced under such a TLD.
Quite so. I should have said: countless remote root exploits, all of which could be used to create worms.
You'd be guilty of perjury if they did catch you out.
You could say the same about sendmail.
This has nothing to do with by design security flaws. It's a worm that propagates using a buffer overflow: just like the countless UNIX worms.
CDs killed the fine art of the sleeve note, and doing whacky things with grooves.
after it has gone GPL, and delaying the release until after the
changes are made prevents fatigue from code readers who learn the code
one way then have to figure out how it works another way.
I guess you could argue by not making the source available now, they
are missing feedback from the community on how the redesign should
go. But I don't think they are going to get much intelleigent
feedback from the community in just a few months.
Loop without recursion? You can use a lambda calculus trick:
\def\loop#1{#1#1}
\message{begin loop}
\loop\loop
\message{end loop}
some rules of thumb as carved in stone. There was a nice article a
while back in the CACM The Anti-Mac
which was about what a user interface would be like if we threw out
the desktop metaphor, one of whose assumptions is this idea of the
passive interface. Think how useful non-passive intefaces are, like
xbiff...
I'm really interested in new work on user interfaces. I don't
like the idea of hiding what programs are doing that comes with the
desktop metaphor, and by extension to almost all GUIs, but on the
other hand, I wouldn't go back to text-only, mouse-free, console
experience. So I use my machine in an unprincipled mess of GUI and
CLI. Consistency isn't so important, but surely there has to be a
better way...
What is surveyability?
of them) are restricted to finding solutions to formulae of very low
logical complexity. Whilst logic programmers have been ingenious in
working within this universe, I think its no accident that researchers
working in applications of computation to logic have overwhelmingly
preferred functional to logic languages, the big exception being
algebraic specification (unsurprising, since algebraic systems have
axioms of low logical complexity). Also functional languages have
some nice correlations with linguistic entities.
I think the `relations are more general than functions' is a red
herring, since it is easy to translate between programs coded in a
pure (ie. the minimal heart) functional and pure logical language.
Logic languages are nice, but in my opinion they are the best tool for
a restricted set of problems, whilst functional languages are useful
over a much wider domain.
the article as I downloaded it, which struck me as a strange ending
for the artice... http error I guess.
Do we know the design of these boxes? For surveillance it is enough
to send the packets to the box, which does nothing to affect the
performance of the routers.
The size of fuel cells is coming down drastically. A great advantage
to using electicity-based power is that if a much better battery
medium comes along, you don't have the infrastructure problems to
switching over that you do now switching from petrol to electricty.
People just switch over on a car-by-car basis.
On the plus side, you wouldn't need to live next to 10 million polluting cars, producing a far higher level of emissions and with poorer control of toxic elements.
Typically only about 20-25% of the energy from an internal combustion
engine goes into use, the rest is dissipated as heat. With fuel
cells you make use of pretty much all of the energy available
overhead, so the comparable overhead is that of your power station,
which is much much better, typically about 70%.
Is there any evidence other than campaign donations and vague remarks
to suggest that Bush will intervene in the MS trial? Raegan was
widely predicted to favour letting AT&T off the hook, but in the event
he left the anti-trust suit alone.