Thats not true. Every patent application is checked for "prior art". If the idea was already demonstrably in use in a form very similiar to the patent application, then the patent is supposed to be rejected.
Thats, of course if the patent lawyers do know how to use google.
In the article he pulls out of nowhere this sentence: . Interestingly, "e-mail addresses registered at e-commerce sites, posted to online discussions on Web sites, or listed as the contact for domains in the WHOIS database generated little spam."
This is utter nonsense. I have been using dynamic email addresses and I think I have given out atleast 50-100 different email addresses to different businesses. The *only* ones that got spammed and I repeat the *only* ones were 3:
1. The address used to register my domain with yahoo. 2. An address used to post on online discussion group at www.designcommunity.com 3. This address was never given out. This is my real ISP address which I havent given out to anybody. Infact this address gets spammed atleast 20 times a day. Not a lot, but considering I never gave out... Anyway, whenever this address gets spammed I see a whole bunch of email addresses in the same domain.
So its quite obvious who the real culprit are and that these statistics are pulled out of thin air.
I believe XBOX is highly under-priced and hence the best power for price bargain.
Hence the whole motivation of porting OS to XBOX.
Believe me, a project as huge as linux-on-xbox and the developers as dedicated
as these people dont just do it for the itch of it
FBI is bound to see this and finally arrest Cringley. I hope they dont let him write his
stupid column from the prison, saving $16 billion in emotional trauma to the readers:)
You get a soceity thats as good as its people. People will never get a
soceity that they do not deserve. Its a simple fact in life: You want to get
screwed there will always be people who are glad to do it for you.
After a lot of vareity of putting stuff in folders I realised that my mind does not think the same way while organising, as while looking for something. I never seem to find the right folder when I want it.
So now I am using evolution, put all mails (except SPAM, CVS, Bug reports etc) in INBOX folder and create virtual folders based on keywords. But most of my successful hits are when I filter for keywords over this INBOX folder as I need info. Its works 90% of the time.
Infact another rule in conjunction to this: Never delete anything
I am next going to break my INBOX into separate folder for each 3-months and try doing the filters over the whole set of inboxes.
> I tried reading it while replacing each instance of "software" with "invention", and it makes almost as much > sense.
Thats exactly the point. I just cannot convince myself that "software" is always synonymous to "invention". A progress bar, a scroll bar, using your browser to purchase items... how are these inventions ?
Going a bit further... an "invention" is something that is hard to come up with and unless the citizens have good enough motivation to put in the effort to invent the soceity will never benefit. Hence the patents.
Some things are not hard to invent. The only reason why we did not have them before was the lack of context. Without a computer no one would think of progress bars, but the moment computers and GUI becomes common, progress bars are not uniquely inventive. You do not need to provide motivation to people to invent this, since everyone will come up with it in some form or other. So there is no need for a "protection: to this idea.
Of course the whole arguement is subjective. Thats the curse of free soceity, nothing is objective and people tend to look at each individual item from their vantage point rather than from the ideology. When we provide patents for things that need no motivation to invent, we stifle competition which is a very important balancing factor for a free soceity.
Ultimately it boils down to this: Motivating the inventers to invent. Motivating the soceity to consume. When the right balance is not stuck economy suffers.
Exactly my sentiments, after I moved a bunch of my colleages off of OE to evolution , MS office to crossover office which pretty much unblocked their laptops to get ready for linux instead of windows!
Well, I hope the market takes care of this. Remember this is exactly
why MS became so huge in the first place... their compitetors trying
to "embrace and own"...
Someways the more MS does these things blatantly, the more the transition
from MS -> open systems can be easy.
I have a sony vaio laptop which after a year and a half is playing up. Hard drive seems to be fine when I boot it but after a while I start getting I/O errors. The drive makes a LOT of clickaty clackaty noises as if its trying to tear itself apart. When I run badblocks I usually see different sectors reported bad. Of course when I called the warranty, they want me to download 6 disk recovery set and reinstall everything on the laptop. When I run badblocks after shutting the laptop down for a few hours it usually find very few bad sectors and they are not consistent too.
Before I pack this off for warranty (and google knows what other stupid hoops to jump through) was wondering if anyone else has seem something like this, and got clues ?
Effectively SCO is saying "We are doing what IBM is accusing us of but we dont think its wrong because GPL is nebulous and we suggest IBM to drop GLP license"
So they are saying that if GPL turns out to be enforcable in a court of law they are effectively guilty.
Its same as saying : Yes I took the cookie from my neighbours house but I dont think the laws protecting cookies are valid.
So because you dont like free software and itching to pay to someone for the software you use, will you pay it to the next guy who asks ?
Why SCO? Why not pay Linus, or any of the umpteen linux developers ?
BTW, if you did not realise, these people ARE getting paid and probably far more than what your day job pays you. If you are sending a check to SCO why not send one to me too ? That way you can be free of free-guilt
Instead of breaking your head over wine, just download the crossover version of wine.
Its perfect. It installs like a charm. It costs only $58 and you can install office, photoshop,
and lots and lots of other windows apps etc. from their easy setup.
You can checkout the screenshot of
photoshop here.
Can you please comment on your views of how the open source movement will look like in long term (10, 20 years later) and what role it might play as a factor in economics ?
Thanks. Turns out that if you are editing HTML there is no way to save as Word.
However exporting to OpenOffice format and reopening provides a save as Word.
Quite Cool !
Slashdot Mirror
Thats not true. Every patent application is checked for "prior art". If the idea
was already demonstrably in use in a form very similiar to the patent application,
then the patent is supposed to be rejected.
Thats, of course if the patent lawyers do know how to use google.
In the article he pulls out of nowhere this sentence:
...
. Interestingly, "e-mail addresses registered at e-commerce sites, posted to online discussions on Web sites, or listed as the contact for domains in the WHOIS database generated little spam."
This is utter nonsense. I have been using dynamic email addresses and I think I have given out atleast 50-100 different email addresses to different businesses. The *only* ones that got spammed and I repeat
the *only* ones were 3:
1. The address used to register my domain with yahoo.
2. An address used to post on online discussion group at www.designcommunity.com
3. This address was never given out. This is my real ISP address which I havent given out to anybody.
Infact this address gets spammed atleast 20 times a day. Not a lot, but considering I never gave out
Anyway, whenever this address gets spammed I see a whole bunch of email addresses in the same domain.
So its quite obvious who the real culprit are and that these statistics are pulled out of thin air.
This article is just bitching about people who bitch about SPAM.
I didnt see a single new, practical suggestion to people for reducing SPAM.
Not really worth the read.
I believe XBOX is highly under-priced and hence the best power for price bargain. Hence the whole motivation of porting OS to XBOX. Believe me, a project as huge as linux-on-xbox and the developers as dedicated as these people dont just do it for the itch of it
FBI is bound to see this and finally arrest Cringley. I hope they dont let him write his stupid column from the prison, saving $16 billion in emotional trauma to the readers :)
You get a soceity thats as good as its people. People will never get a soceity that they do not deserve. Its a simple fact in life: You want to get screwed there will always be people who are glad to do it for you.
Not bad for 3 pounds Eh ?
After a lot of vareity of putting stuff in folders I realised that my mind does not think
the same way while organising, as while looking for something. I never seem to find
the right folder when I want it.
So now I am using evolution, put all mails (except SPAM, CVS, Bug reports etc) in INBOX
folder and create virtual folders based on keywords. But most of my successful hits are
when I filter for keywords over this INBOX folder as I need info. Its works 90% of the time.
Infact another rule in conjunction to this: Never delete anything
I am next going to break my INBOX into separate folder for each 3-months and try doing the
filters over the whole set of inboxes.
Bringing the entire MS portion of internet to a halt: 10 years + $250000
Not being imaginative enough AND getting caught: What a loser
Being the real author of MS blaster and laughing at the entire world: Priceless
> I tried reading it while replacing each instance of "software" with "invention", and it makes almost as much
... how are these inventions ?
... an "invention" is something that is hard to come up with
> sense.
Thats exactly the point. I just cannot convince myself that "software" is always
synonymous to "invention". A progress bar, a scroll bar, using your browser to purchase
items
Going a bit further
and unless the citizens have good enough motivation to put in the effort to invent
the soceity will never benefit. Hence the patents.
Some things are not hard to invent. The only reason why we did not have them before
was the lack of context. Without a computer no one would think of progress bars,
but the moment computers and GUI becomes common, progress bars are not
uniquely inventive. You do not need to provide motivation to people to invent this, since
everyone will come up with it in some form or other. So there is no need for a "protection: to
this idea.
Of course the whole arguement is subjective. Thats the curse of free soceity, nothing
is objective and people tend to look at each individual item from their vantage point
rather than from the ideology. When we provide patents for things that need no motivation
to invent, we stifle competition which is a very important balancing factor for a free soceity.
Ultimately it boils down to this: Motivating the inventers to invent. Motivating the soceity
to consume. When the right balance is not stuck economy suffers.
Just google for "closed because of software patents" and there are so many
companies doing the same.
> I haven't see a single computer that runs Linux or any other alternative
> at any of my friends house.
I havent seen a single black man at any of my friends house. So they simply do not
exist.
MSN/Hotmail -> 100 - 150 spams per day
OE -> Discontinued
Outlook -> $$$$$$
Good strategy bill.
North Korea decided to stop developing their nuclear bomb.
Exactly my sentiments, after I moved a bunch of my colleages
off of OE to evolution , MS office to crossover office which
pretty much unblocked their laptops to get ready for linux
instead of windows!
Well, I hope the market takes care of this. Remember this is exactly why MS became so huge in the first place ... their compitetors trying
to "embrace and own" ...
Someways the more MS does these things blatantly, the more the transition
from MS -> open systems can be easy.
... pardon me!
Novell's letters to SCO
Thanks. I am hoping to get back a bigger drive too :)
I have a sony vaio laptop which after a year and a half is playing up. Hard drive
seems to be fine when I boot it but after a while I start getting I/O errors. The drive
makes a LOT of clickaty clackaty noises as if its trying to tear itself apart.
When I run badblocks I usually see different sectors reported bad. Of course
when I called the warranty, they want me to download 6 disk recovery set and
reinstall everything on the laptop. When I run badblocks after shutting the laptop down for
a few hours it usually find very few bad sectors and they are not consistent too.
Before I pack this off for warranty (and google knows what other stupid hoops to
jump through) was wondering if anyone else has seem something like this, and got clues ?
Effectively SCO is saying "We are doing what IBM is accusing us of but we dont think
its wrong because GPL is nebulous and we suggest IBM to drop GLP license"
So they are saying that if GPL turns out to be enforcable in a court of law
they are effectively guilty.
Its same as saying : Yes I took the cookie from my neighbours house but I dont think
the laws protecting cookies are valid.
So because you dont like free software and itching to pay to someone for
the software you use, will you pay it to the next guy who asks ?
Why SCO? Why not pay Linus, or any of the umpteen linux developers ?
BTW, if you did not realise, these people ARE getting paid and probably far more
than what your day job pays you. If you are sending a check to SCO why not
send one to me too ?
That way you can be free of free-guilt
Instead of breaking your head over wine, just download the crossover version of wine. Its perfect. It installs like a charm. It costs only $58 and you can install office, photoshop, and lots and lots of other windows apps etc. from their easy setup.
You can checkout the screenshot of photoshop here.
Here is the chart in good ol' HTML format (I hope I am not violating any copyrights by reproducing this ;) )
Can you please comment on your views of how the open source movement will
look like in long term (10, 20 years later) and what role it might play as a factor
in economics ?
Thanks.
Thanks. Turns out that if you are editing HTML there is no way to save as Word. However exporting to OpenOffice format and reopening provides a save as Word. Quite Cool !