I can't take credit. It's from a Robert Heinlein book. Except he was talking about property tax as opposed to IP tax. I'm pretty sure the book was _Number of the Beast_, but it's been a good 15 years since I've read it.:-)
Simple: The creator/owner sets a price for the intellectual property, and is taxed based on that price. If they want to change the price, they have to back-date taxes for 3 years.
If a person wants to buy the intellectual property, it must be up for grabs for a certain multiple of the price the creator sets.
Okay. I've donated a couple hundred dollars to wikipedia. Maybe they can ear mark that towards the steak dinner. Should we open up a separate donation for his breakfast?
Yeah. I wish he made the sequel: _The Neighbor Of The Beast_.
By the way, what exactly is the idea that the publisher is testing? Are they expecting people to buy other Gaiman material in electric form, or more orders for other books at amazon?
(American Gods was very nice, by the way. However, I'll always keep Sandman, Books Of Magic, and The High Cost Of Living as my favorite Gaiman works.)
There is a demographic factor going on as well. A lot of we formerly reliable Windows zealots are now in our 30s and 40s, and suddenly money that would be spent on graphics cards and Windows upgrades is now getting plowed into our over-priced houses and our children. It's like, I would have stayed up in line to get Vista Ultimate the day it came out, but instead, I bought diapers, soy milk and a thomas the tank engine train set for my son. Having jonesed for some sort of an upgrade to my PC, I went with Ubuntu instead, and its pretty satisfying. I didn't realize, but this is true for me as well. I don't have the time or patience to deal with MSWindows installations for relatives anymore. Ubuntu may not be ready for my family (or maybe it is), but Mac OSX certainly is.
As a plus, a fresh Ubuntu installation for me is a lot less painless than the last time I installed WinXP.
Yeah. I really can't see the entire EU giving in to extortion, even if it is from MSFT.
Whether it is voiding all MSFT copyrights in the EU or simply a mandate that MSFT offices be kicked out of western Europe (and not be used in government offices), something is going to give.
While that sounds dandy from a I-want-to-do-the-least-work-possible approach (which I am not necessarily condemning), the consequences of another "moon" may not be all that apparent up front. Tides would certainly change, possibly affecting coastlines. Whales and such would get confused. It would start raining cats and dogs. MASS HYSTERIA! Okay. But is there any downside?
Have her get metal braces. You may never see the outside of prison again.
As a side note. My 36 year old wife just got metal braces and it really does make her look 10-15 years younger. I've got to ask her to put her hair in pigtails and wear a short skirt.... Yum!
IAAP (I am a physician), and I can tell you that I *never* hesitate in giving patients their lab results, etc. I will even give them a copy of recent tests, etc. I only make a not of it in the official chart if the patient asks for copies of their entire record (but even then don't delay). Physicians are part of the service industry. If we don't serve, there are plenty of alternatives.
That being said, I've seen other medical offices in which their general policy is to avoid giving official documents to patients, in fear of litigation. My thought on the subject: A happy patient is less likely to sue, even if a mistake is made.
"Ballmer has his panties in a bunch. He said we're going to fucking kill Google, and he gets a little attached sometimes, you know? So now we've got to figure a way to f'ing kill Google."
Is it really that expensive to buy a few assassinations? My guess it would be much cheaper to just outright kill the top 100 people that work at google.
Instead of long passwords, how about random user names. Not usernames based on their real names or on a simple sequential number.
If they cannot figure out a person's user name, password cracking is pretty hard.
...of oil. The point is to start using clean "something". Let's use some clean coal. And maybe a few windmills. And build some solar panels and tidal force power plants. And some nuclear power plants. And cultivate the seas for algae, while growing various biofuels on the earth. Let's do it all, and let market forces decide which ones stick (hint: it'll probably be a combination of some of the above).
That's what nushoin uses, after all.
Yeah, it's flamebait. The whole freaking summary is flamebait as well. Just because someone that writes code likes some stuff that MSFT makes doesn't mean that we should abandon ship. If proprietary code is found in the codebase, it should be easy to remove.
So far it hasn't shown up, which is pretty amazing since it's all opensource.
I suggest you try wifi on Ubuntu 7.10. Don't even install the OS. Just boot the CD and try it from their. (Firefox via a liveCD is somewhat slow, but functional.)
Wireless was seamless for me. It just works, to steal a phrase from Apple. It connects to a wireless connection. Click once on the connection icon and get a list of all the wireless networks the computer can detect, including icons for which require a password and bars to show the signal strength. It's fun to hop from network to network.:-)
...employ creative accounting.
Is that where they draw little faces out of the 0's and make 8's into eyes?? Why, yes. Yes it is. As a matter of fact, I make a pretty nice looking decimal point.
It's interesting that Microsoft is willing to use up almost all of it's cash reserves for this takeover, largely sacrificing it's flexibility to make strategic investments in the future. Maybe they'll buy the shares using software licenses?
Two things to look at in 2008: Wine and ReactOS.
The latest version of Wine allows installation of the MSWindows version of Adobe Photoshop CS2 under Linux. Also, there are packages available to run many MSWindows applications under different versions of Wine, each version emulating a different version of MSWindows all on the same Linux machine.
ReactOS is an entirely new OS that is trying to emulate Win2K/XP. The Beta version (which should run all versions of MSOffice out-of-the-box) is supposed to come out this year.
If either of the above come true, MSVista may not be the most compatible OS to run MSWindows software anymore.
This is going to be an interesting year.:-)
I'm sorry for you. I bought a Dell laptop for my father-in-law last Summer. They do offer laptops and desktops with WinXP pre-installed.
The selection wasn't as good as Vista machines, but I chose the Dell WinXP laptop since I didn't want to be supporting this thing over the phone indefinitely.
(I would have chosen Ubuntu but I have no idea what sort of software he was going to install:-) )
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I can't take credit. It's from a Robert Heinlein book. Except he was talking about property tax as opposed to IP tax. I'm pretty sure the book was _Number of the Beast_, but it's been a good 15 years since I've read it. :-)
Simple: The creator/owner sets a price for the intellectual property, and is taxed based on that price. If they want to change the price, they have to back-date taxes for 3 years. If a person wants to buy the intellectual property, it must be up for grabs for a certain multiple of the price the creator sets.
Okay. I've donated a couple hundred dollars to wikipedia. Maybe they can ear mark that towards the steak dinner. Should we open up a separate donation for his breakfast?
Thank god no one else is allowed to yell police during a home invasion.
Yeah. I wish he made the sequel: _The Neighbor Of The Beast_. By the way, what exactly is the idea that the publisher is testing? Are they expecting people to buy other Gaiman material in electric form, or more orders for other books at amazon? (American Gods was very nice, by the way. However, I'll always keep Sandman, Books Of Magic, and The High Cost Of Living as my favorite Gaiman works.)
I didn't realize, but this is true for me as well. I don't have the time or patience to deal with MSWindows installations for relatives anymore. Ubuntu may not be ready for my family (or maybe it is), but Mac OSX certainly is.
As a plus, a fresh Ubuntu installation for me is a lot less painless than the last time I installed WinXP.
Yeah. I really can't see the entire EU giving in to extortion, even if it is from MSFT. Whether it is voiding all MSFT copyrights in the EU or simply a mandate that MSFT offices be kicked out of western Europe (and not be used in government offices), something is going to give.
Have her get metal braces. You may never see the outside of prison again.
As a side note. My 36 year old wife just got metal braces and it really does make her look 10-15 years younger. I've got to ask her to put her hair in pigtails and wear a short skirt.... Yum!
Tell me about it. I lived with a Korean guy for a couple years and couldn't stand the smell of Kimchi. Eventually I tasted it and it was quite nice.
:-)
That being said, Korean Bar-B-Q is excellent.
IAAP (I am a physician), and I can tell you that I *never* hesitate in giving patients their lab results, etc. I will even give them a copy of recent tests, etc. I only make a not of it in the official chart if the patient asks for copies of their entire record (but even then don't delay). Physicians are part of the service industry. If we don't serve, there are plenty of alternatives.
That being said, I've seen other medical offices in which their general policy is to avoid giving official documents to patients, in fear of litigation. My thought on the subject: A happy patient is less likely to sue, even if a mistake is made.
The promise is to not litigate if you use their patents/documents for non-commercial applications.
The problem is that GPL software cannot have this limitation.
Is it really that expensive to buy a few assassinations? My guess it would be much cheaper to just outright kill the top 100 people that work at google.
Instead of long passwords, how about random user names. Not usernames based on their real names or on a simple sequential number. If they cannot figure out a person's user name, password cracking is pretty hard.
...please only discuss the viable republican candidates in this story.
...of oil. The point is to start using clean "something". Let's use some clean coal. And maybe a few windmills. And build some solar panels and tidal force power plants. And some nuclear power plants. And cultivate the seas for algae, while growing various biofuels on the earth. Let's do it all, and let market forces decide which ones stick (hint: it'll probably be a combination of some of the above).
That's what nushoin uses, after all. Yeah, it's flamebait. The whole freaking summary is flamebait as well. Just because someone that writes code likes some stuff that MSFT makes doesn't mean that we should abandon ship. If proprietary code is found in the codebase, it should be easy to remove. So far it hasn't shown up, which is pretty amazing since it's all opensource.
I suggest you try wifi on Ubuntu 7.10. Don't even install the OS. Just boot the CD and try it from their. (Firefox via a liveCD is somewhat slow, but functional.) Wireless was seamless for me. It just works, to steal a phrase from Apple. It connects to a wireless connection. Click once on the connection icon and get a list of all the wireless networks the computer can detect, including icons for which require a password and bars to show the signal strength. It's fun to hop from network to network. :-)
Yeah, right. You connect via dialup to /. and managed to get a +5 Insightful 4 sentence long first post.
...employ creative accounting.Is that where they draw little faces out of the 0's and make 8's into eyes??
Why, yes. Yes it is. As a matter of fact, I make a pretty nice looking decimal point.
Maybe they'll buy the shares using software licenses?
There are only two main search engines now.
Do people really use Windows Live Search or MSN search?
On purpose?
Two things to look at in 2008: Wine and ReactOS. The latest version of Wine allows installation of the MSWindows version of Adobe Photoshop CS2 under Linux. Also, there are packages available to run many MSWindows applications under different versions of Wine, each version emulating a different version of MSWindows all on the same Linux machine. ReactOS is an entirely new OS that is trying to emulate Win2K/XP. The Beta version (which should run all versions of MSOffice out-of-the-box) is supposed to come out this year. If either of the above come true, MSVista may not be the most compatible OS to run MSWindows software anymore. This is going to be an interesting year. :-)
I'm sorry for you. I bought a Dell laptop for my father-in-law last Summer. They do offer laptops and desktops with WinXP pre-installed. The selection wasn't as good as Vista machines, but I chose the Dell WinXP laptop since I didn't want to be supporting this thing over the phone indefinitely. (I would have chosen Ubuntu but I have no idea what sort of software he was going to install :-) )