not an exact comparison. The RIAA and music biz have been shoveling garbage at consumers for years. I dont see a single band out today that does anything interesting except for walk around naked (not that that is quite so bad).
Plus, I have nothing wrong with trying to make a buck, but ya, this patent stuff is getting way out of hand.
1. I really hate this arguement. Just because the source is available doesnt mean that a) it will be better, or b) it will be more secure, or even c) if it is unsecure someone will hack it.
Why? Because SUCH a small percentage of people honestly work with the source. Im sure that less than 1% of linux users know how to do anything more than run the code thru the compiler, and the majority cant even do that.
As I constantly point out, every slashdot user is not helping write the kernel of Linux.
The reason MS is getting probed is twofold. 1) Hackers have a bug up their ass about MS (no pun intended), and 2) Security firms are hunting for obsure exploits due to the notariety they get in being credited with finding the bug/exploit. If you are a security firm and can tell your clients you found five exploits in the last year, that equates to money.
And dont believe that Linux users are any more computer savy than Mac users. Thats like saying brown eyed people are smarter than blue eyed people. A lot of people learned Unix while they were in college. Those skills can easily transfer over to Linux. Thus, its mearly a comfort thing than a tech savy thing.
Also, the Apache vs. IIS thing. I would account for the market share and the security issues just by maturity of the product. How long was Apache web server out before IIS came out? Quite a while. Unless MS sawed down and copied Apache, it would be hard to make a product w/o making a few mistakes. NOTHING is perfect the first time. How secure was the first version of Linux?
Also, Im sorry, but Apache still gets hacked. I remember before IIS was out pages were getting hacked all over the place. Free Kevin, anyone?
Im not slamming what you are saying, really, because I dont get the feeling you are one way or the other on this. I am just expressing a point of view. But there is definitely a lot of anti-MS FUD expressed here, and strangely enough, MS got quite a bit of/. lovin today.
Hopefully this will be the start of a trend. Not pro-MS, but pro-rational article.
to give props, Amazon has definitely the best designed commercial site on the net. Sadly, I usually use them to search for good books, then take the ISBN number and plug it into Dealtime or Half.com so I can get it for cheaper.
I have purchased a lot of things from Amazon, however. They are well organized, have a lot of good features. The user reviews are great (but hardly something they can patent), and the wish list is nice for keeping track of items you want to buy later. They also have a really good purchase-interest prediction based on past purchases, wish list items, and whatever else they use.
They have a lot of free shipping now, and their prices are getting very close to the lowest on a lot of things.
Once they patent accepting money in exchange for goods, they can rule the world.
thanks man! I actaully end up on their sourceforge page about twice a year, but never see any new developments, unfortunately.
I had once considered getting CodeWarrior just to make porting Omega to the Palm a learning project. Unfortunately, things at work keep coming up, and my brain cycles are needed elsewhere. I need to upgrade my brain!
Also, this hardly comes as a surprise from a technical standpoint. How will MS be able to diagnose and correct a software conflict unless they can analyse all the data regarding your computer?
I think the real thing the researchers should be looking at is if there is any kind of uniqueness identifyer that will allow them to tie the data back to a specific PC
I have noticed that when opinions are polarized regarding a work, ie some love it, some hate it, it is generally very good.
I noticed some of my favorite movies were like this. If it applies to this game, it is quite possible a very deep game.
From what I have read, however, the learning curve is really very high, which may be what is putting off many early adopters who havent had time to work through the curve.
I think the real test of this game will be the review it gets in one or two months, and then if it has enough to keep people playing it a few years from now, pushing it into "classic" statis. From what beta testers have said, however, it sounds like they may have a classic.
Hopefully the complexity will not prevent it from selling well.
Well, I guess since it appears suing Microsoft wasnt as lucrative as Sun's lawyers had imagined, and even their own people dont want to use Java, they need to make cash somehow.
Hey, computer executives need mansions and yatchs too.
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But what happens to privacy when everything you buy can be tracked from store floor to door?
We MUST defend the great American right to shoplift! It is tanamount that we never lose the ability to get a free case of soda becauuse the cashier never looks underneath your cart.
Ya, they legally have to try. If you look at what happened with Xerox, they didnt try, and now any current action by them will run the risk of invalidating ANY rights to their name. And it was their own fault, as they allowed it to become synonymous with photocopying.
So on one hand its good to be in the popular lexicon, but on the other its bad due to control over your company's name.
Lets just kill all the lawyers, like Shakespeare said.
I dont think so. With the recent purchase of AltaVista (aka hasta la vista. ok, old joke...), Overture probably thought this market was just ripe full of opportunities.
No money spends sweeter than VC money, apparently.
All right! Welcome back to the days of cloning! Its amazing- I may as well dust off my old motorola brick phone.
I guess the good thing is that not many phones are 802.11 capable. The amazing thing is that with 802.11 being so insecure that anyone would think adding this feature would be a good idea.
Very Nice!!!!! I really hate junk mail, and have been complaining for a long time about the failure to enforce the junk fax laws. In my case I guess its "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it".
Very nice to see someone take action on this. Now, if there is a lawyer out there who wants to get an uber-class action together, tie this law in with the info on at the Spam Haus Project (http://www.spamhaus.org), and you could net yourself a really big fish, and hopefully take them down as well.
Too bad spam isnt criminal; I would love to see the Spam King in jail, gettin the "Oz" treatment. Well, I wouldnt really want to *see* it...
I think he is refering to people who are supposedly experts doing amateur work. In enterprise computing, people should not get paid to learn new things at work under the guise of completing a project.
That is generally where knowledge meets BS. There is nothing wrong with not knowing, but covering up a lack of knowledge is a big problem if you have non-technical people making technical decisions.
What do you see being done on the legislative front, and is there anything more that should have been done by lawmakers?
Quite some time ago, lawyers attempted stopping spam by making the old 'junk fax' laws apply to email, but the courts and legislators have treated email and the internet as a completely separate body. Could/should this have been handled differently?
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If a processor isnt cheaper than, doesnt perform faster or use less power than, Intel's lineup, how is it even news?
Unfortunately, this will not be readable by some older CD-ROMS, but what else is new.
CDR-ROM. How silly. Is it just me, or is "Ask Slashdot" getting more and more inane?
If their business is worth $5m USD I think they can afford a few hundy for a Win2k server license.
Plus, I have nothing wrong with trying to make a buck, but ya, this patent stuff is getting way out of hand.
Why? Because SUCH a small percentage of people honestly work with the source. Im sure that less than 1% of linux users know how to do anything more than run the code thru the compiler, and the majority cant even do that.
As I constantly point out, every slashdot user is not helping write the kernel of Linux.
The reason MS is getting probed is twofold. 1) Hackers have a bug up their ass about MS (no pun intended), and 2) Security firms are hunting for obsure exploits due to the notariety they get in being credited with finding the bug/exploit. If you are a security firm and can tell your clients you found five exploits in the last year, that equates to money.
And dont believe that Linux users are any more computer savy than Mac users. Thats like saying brown eyed people are smarter than blue eyed people. A lot of people learned Unix while they were in college. Those skills can easily transfer over to Linux. Thus, its mearly a comfort thing than a tech savy thing.
Also, the Apache vs. IIS thing. I would account for the market share and the security issues just by maturity of the product. How long was Apache web server out before IIS came out? Quite a while. Unless MS sawed down and copied Apache, it would be hard to make a product w/o making a few mistakes. NOTHING is perfect the first time. How secure was the first version of Linux?
Also, Im sorry, but Apache still gets hacked. I remember before IIS was out pages were getting hacked all over the place. Free Kevin, anyone?
Im not slamming what you are saying, really, because I dont get the feeling you are one way or the other on this. I am just expressing a point of view. But there is definitely a lot of anti-MS FUD expressed here, and strangely enough, MS got quite a bit of /. lovin today.
Hopefully this will be the start of a trend. Not pro-MS, but pro-rational article.
If you look in their message base, this prank has happened in the past.
I have purchased a lot of things from Amazon, however. They are well organized, have a lot of good features. The user reviews are great (but hardly something they can patent), and the wish list is nice for keeping track of items you want to buy later. They also have a really good purchase-interest prediction based on past purchases, wish list items, and whatever else they use.
They have a lot of free shipping now, and their prices are getting very close to the lowest on a lot of things.
Once they patent accepting money in exchange for goods, they can rule the world.
I had once considered getting CodeWarrior just to make porting Omega to the Palm a learning project. Unfortunately, things at work keep coming up, and my brain cycles are needed elsewhere. I need to upgrade my brain!
ya, but you arent forced to spend months separated from members of the opposite sex! Beer is the only form of stress relief they have available...
ya, there is nothing those military boys like more than free beer. They may even like it more than the college kids!
I think the real thing the researchers should be looking at is if there is any kind of uniqueness identifyer that will allow them to tie the data back to a specific PC
I noticed some of my favorite movies were like this. If it applies to this game, it is quite possible a very deep game.
From what I have read, however, the learning curve is really very high, which may be what is putting off many early adopters who havent had time to work through the curve.
I think the real test of this game will be the review it gets in one or two months, and then if it has enough to keep people playing it a few years from now, pushing it into "classic" statis. From what beta testers have said, however, it sounds like they may have a classic.
Hopefully the complexity will not prevent it from selling well.
Criminy! A new Lord of Chaos!
That was the best...
Hey, computer executives need mansions and yatchs too.
All your (message) base are belong to us!!!
We MUST defend the great American right to shoplift! It is tanamount that we never lose the ability to get a free case of soda becauuse the cashier never looks underneath your cart.
Winona Ryders of the world, UNITE!
So on one hand its good to be in the popular lexicon, but on the other its bad due to control over your company's name.
Lets just kill all the lawyers, like Shakespeare said.
No money spends sweeter than VC money, apparently.
I guess the good thing is that not many phones are 802.11 capable. The amazing thing is that with 802.11 being so insecure that anyone would think adding this feature would be a good idea.
If you get, for example, a 64 bit AMD processor, do you need to run softare compiled for that processor?
So, when one of these catches a virus, it REALLY catches a virus. Better stock up on PC-cillin.
Very nice to see someone take action on this. Now, if there is a lawyer out there who wants to get an uber-class action together, tie this law in with the info on at the Spam Haus Project (http://www.spamhaus.org), and you could net yourself a really big fish, and hopefully take them down as well.
Too bad spam isnt criminal; I would love to see the Spam King in jail, gettin the "Oz" treatment. Well, I wouldnt really want to *see* it...
That is generally where knowledge meets BS. There is nothing wrong with not knowing, but covering up a lack of knowledge is a big problem if you have non-technical people making technical decisions.
Quite some time ago, lawyers attempted stopping spam by making the old 'junk fax' laws apply to email, but the courts and legislators have treated email and the internet as a completely separate body. Could/should this have been handled differently?