I've often heard it said that open source experience is useless on resumes, because then employers of developers for closed source projects (regrettably the majority of software jobs) will think you are so kind of hippie rebel and they won't trust you keeping their code under wraps.
I write technical articles about, among other things, using and modifying Open Source Projects on my website, and I was just hired by a closed-source house. Part of the reason they hired me is because of those articles. My articles demonstrated that I could read, understand, modify and improve someone else's code. Seriously, if you like working with open source and a potential employer has a problem with that, don't work for them. In fact if you do enough work on a OSS project, make sure to give back your code and (even better) support and documentation, you will quickly get a reputation and can probably get enough work as a consultant to keep you busy for the rest of your life.
I am not suggesting that MySQL FULLTEXT is the end all, be all of indexes. I just pointed out that it existed.
Here is the missing link to tsearch2. It looks interesting.
Just so you know, you can override the > 50% stopwords. From the documentation:
Users who need to bypass the 50% limitation can use the boolean search mode;
And MySQL 5.1 has made it more flexible:
In MySQL 5.1, it is possible to write a plugin that
replaces the built-in full-text parser. For details, see
Section 28.2, "The MySQL Plugin Interface". For example parser plugin source
code, see the plugin/fulltext directory of a
MySQL source distribution.
As several people who RTFA pointed out. The complaint is not about if the sponsored links were labeled properly. The plaintiffs complain that the advertisers used their competitors' trademarks to drive traffic to their sites, and that Google did nothing to stop this.
Google's policy is that is up to the advertisers to make sure that their keywords aren't trademarks:
However, I really had to work to find the link above, and although they claim that the limitations on trademarks is in the Terms and Conditions, it really isn't. Instead they link to a page that talks exclusively about Google trademarks:
I can see what you are trying to get at, but I have never seen putative used in this way before. Unless there is a specific legal meaning of the word that is not in the link I provided, then the sentence still seems awkward to me. I understand putative to be defined as questioning whether or not a condition exists, not the definition of the condition. Look at the examples from the link: the putative boss of the mob, a putative marriage, the putative father.
To illustrate, let's look at some of the synonyms, and see if they make sense in the sentence:
purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds;
Final Judgments were never designed to reduce Microsoft's share in any purported market.
thought, assumed, or alleged to be such or to exist
Final Judgments were never designed to reduce Microsoft's share in any alleged market.
commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed:
Final Judgments were never designed to reduce Microsoft's share in any supposed market.
In each of these, it sounds like they are questioning the existence of the market, not the definition, and to me the sentences make as much sense as, "Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury."
A better policy would just be to ignore the nutjob. Any time anyone says anything against him his name is back in the headlines, which is exactly what he doesn't deserve.
Yes, but 2K games doesn't mind being back in the headlines. If I didn't know better, I would think that Thompson was being paid to stir up such publicity.
and the lack of communication caused the company to start two more Sno-Cats and a helicopter in that direction.
They probably figured that the winter caretaker had turned into an axe wielding maniac, who had killed your tech and was now chasing his family around a hedge maze or topiary.
Because we can't find people to train employees in SO8, which means our training funds from the state are wasted and because we are completely unsupported.
you can tell an answer person for real when an answer person asks a question, gets no reply, and then answers their own post with the solution a few days later.
Of course, there is the other type who posts two days later and says, "Never mind, I figured it out myself." but doesn't post the solution.
Before you argue that these patents are for the physical parts of the game, read some of the patents and you will see that a description of how the parts are used (i.e. rules) is in there as well.
However, you are partly correct. I did some research and there are lots of Monopoly clones out there that do not appear to be sanctioned by Parker Brothers. So without the patent you could clone a game.
After all the years that it has been discussed on/. you would think that people would understand more about Intellectual Property (IP).
In the United States IP is generally divided into three categories: copyright, trademarks, and patents. In a very broad, and potentially misleading sense, copyright covers creative works (art), trademarks covers a business brand image (name, product names, logo, slogans, etc.), and patents cover the physical implementation of an idea (inventions).
Again, these definitions are overly broad. Obviously there can be a great deal of overlap between the categories, and recent law and court decisions have completely muddied the waters (software patents, DRM, DMCA, etc.)
So technically you are correct that the copyright office has said that games can not be copyrighted, but the rest of your assertion is incorrect because you are only considering one branch of IP. The name Bejeweled can be trademarked, and it almost definitely is, and theoretically you could even patent the rules of a game.
Based on your assertion, I could make a board game called "Monopoly", with the same rules as Monopoly and all I would have to do is change the artwork. Do you honestly think that Parker Brothers would let me do that?
There is no good central calendar sharing server software in the OSS world that can do what Exchange can and integrates everything together with email. It simply doesn't exist, so folks won't migrate for that reason.
Although you are technically correct, apparently this version of Sunbird has Google Calendar sync support, and Google Calendar does have calendar sharing integrated with email.
I looked at a previous version of Sunbird and I was not impressed, but maybe it is time to look again. I use Google for Your Domain for my personal domain, and I am trying to convince my company to look into it. I am willing to help write some conversion scripts if it means I might be able to sync across several different servers/clients.
That's not the only place that they are trying to change the language. If you have a machine that has been identified as not genuine, every time you boot up you get this message:
You may be a victim of software counterfeiting.
Um no, the person running Windows is not the victim. Microsoft is the victim. Imagine if they said this:
Your computer has the same serial number as a computer stolen from us. You may be the victim of theft.
Um, because a lot of use it to code things other than command line executables. For instance, I do web development, and it is really great to have the development and staging sites in the repository, including images, SWFs, etc. That way everyone on the team can fiddle on their computer all the want, but when they are done they commit, and I know that I am looking at the same thing they are.
Also, it protects against screw-ups. Imagine that I open the only copy that we have of a high quality photo, crop, resize, and compress it, and then hit "Save" instead of "Save As". Let me tell you, that's a nice time to have options like "Revert" and "Save Revision As".
If a Gmail account is tied to ispname.com.au, it suddenly becomes a lot less appealing, because, like any other ISP email address, changing ISP means having to tell everyone you know about your new email address.
Does anyone know if this is actually going to be the naming convention that they offer? Right now, I use GMail for Your Domain, and I receive email at me@mydomain.com. Google just hosts the mail server. I still have complete control over my domain, and I can change my MX record any time. Isn't possible that they will offer the same setup to the ISPs?
Also, people who use an ISP-based email address are going to discover they can't take it with them sooner or later. Anyone who wants a permanent address should really invest in their own domain.
explanations in Danish, but easily comprehensible from context
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So... it's mad cow disease? I thought that was caused by prions, not a virus.
Now replace the word Chinese, with the name of your country.
There, fixed that for you.
Hans, is that you?
I write technical articles about, among other things, using and modifying Open Source Projects on my website, and I was just hired by a closed-source house. Part of the reason they hired me is because of those articles. My articles demonstrated that I could read, understand, modify and improve someone else's code. Seriously, if you like working with open source and a potential employer has a problem with that, don't work for them. In fact if you do enough work on a OSS project, make sure to give back your code and (even better) support and documentation, you will quickly get a reputation and can probably get enough work as a consultant to keep you busy for the rest of your life.
For more detail, read The Victorian Internet. It is an awesome book.
I am not suggesting that MySQL FULLTEXT is the end all, be all of indexes. I just pointed out that it existed.
Here is the missing link to tsearch2. It looks interesting.
Just so you know, you can override the > 50% stopwords. From the documentation:
And MySQL 5.1 has made it more flexible:
Your welcome. I'm glad I could help. With FULLTEXT I was able to write small custom search engine in just a few days.
I know your just trying to be funny, but what you are describing already exists in MySQL. It's called FULLTEXT.
I'm sorry, that violates my patent of putting characters in an ordered sequence. It's called an ALPHA-BET.
As several people who RTFA pointed out. The complaint is not about if the sponsored links were labeled properly. The plaintiffs complain that the advertisers used their competitors' trademarks to drive traffic to their sites, and that Google did nothing to stop this.
Google's policy is that is up to the advertisers to make sure that their keywords aren't trademarks:
http://www.google.com/tm_complaint_adwords.html
However, I really had to work to find the link above, and although they claim that the limitations on trademarks is in the Terms and Conditions, it really isn't. Instead they link to a page that talks exclusively about Google trademarks:
https://adwords.google.com/select/TsAndCsFinder?country=AU
I can see what you are trying to get at, but I have never seen putative used in this way before. Unless there is a specific legal meaning of the word that is not in the link I provided, then the sentence still seems awkward to me. I understand putative to be defined as questioning whether or not a condition exists, not the definition of the condition. Look at the examples from the link: the putative boss of the mob, a putative marriage, the putative father.
To illustrate, let's look at some of the synonyms, and see if they make sense in the sentence:
Final Judgments were never designed to reduce Microsoft's share in any purported market.
Final Judgments were never designed to reduce Microsoft's share in any alleged market.
Final Judgments were never designed to reduce Microsoft's share in any supposed market.
In each of these, it sounds like they are questioning the existence of the market, not the definition, and to me the sentences make as much sense as, "Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury."
Yes, but 2K games doesn't mind being back in the headlines. If I didn't know better, I would think that Thompson was being paid to stir up such publicity.
putative
You keep using that word. I don't think that word means what you think it means.
They probably figured that the winter caretaker had turned into an axe wielding maniac, who had killed your tech and was now chasing his family around a hedge maze or topiary.
Sun gives away Star Office to educational institutions. Start here: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/soluti ons/staroffice.html i ons/staroffice/support.html
There is online training and unlimited support is practically free: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/solut
I've also heard good things about these people: http://www.getopenoffice.org/.
Canada does have people "who believe that half the population is the enemy." They're called secessionists.
Of course, there is the other type who posts two days later and says, "Never mind, I figured it out myself." but doesn't post the solution.
Oh really?/ 1226253
http://www.abstractstrategy.com/game-patents.html
or
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05
Before you argue that these patents are for the physical parts of the game, read some of the patents and you will see that a description of how the parts are used (i.e. rules) is in there as well.
However, you are partly correct. I did some research and there are lots of Monopoly clones out there that do not appear to be sanctioned by Parker Brothers. So without the patent you could clone a game.
After all the years that it has been discussed on /. you would think that people would understand more about Intellectual Property (IP).
In the United States IP is generally divided into three categories: copyright, trademarks, and patents. In a very broad, and potentially misleading sense, copyright covers creative works (art), trademarks covers a business brand image (name, product names, logo, slogans, etc.), and patents cover the physical implementation of an idea (inventions).
Again, these definitions are overly broad. Obviously there can be a great deal of overlap between the categories, and recent law and court decisions have completely muddied the waters (software patents, DRM, DMCA, etc.)
So technically you are correct that the copyright office has said that games can not be copyrighted, but the rest of your assertion is incorrect because you are only considering one branch of IP. The name Bejeweled can be trademarked, and it almost definitely is, and theoretically you could even patent the rules of a game.
Based on your assertion, I could make a board game called "Monopoly", with the same rules as Monopoly and all I would have to do is change the artwork. Do you honestly think that Parker Brothers would let me do that?
Although you are technically correct, apparently this version of Sunbird has Google Calendar sync support, and Google Calendar does have calendar sharing integrated with email.
I looked at a previous version of Sunbird and I was not impressed, but maybe it is time to look again. I use Google for Your Domain for my personal domain, and I am trying to convince my company to look into it. I am willing to help write some conversion scripts if it means I might be able to sync across several different servers/clients.
Um, because a lot of use it to code things other than command line executables. For instance, I do web development, and it is really great to have the development and staging sites in the repository, including images, SWFs, etc. That way everyone on the team can fiddle on their computer all the want, but when they are done they commit, and I know that I am looking at the same thing they are.
Also, it protects against screw-ups. Imagine that I open the only copy that we have of a high quality photo, crop, resize, and compress it, and then hit "Save" instead of "Save As". Let me tell you, that's a nice time to have options like "Revert" and "Save Revision As".
Does anyone know if this is actually going to be the naming convention that they offer? Right now, I use GMail for Your Domain, and I receive email at me@mydomain.com. Google just hosts the mail server. I still have complete control over my domain, and I can change my MX record any time. Isn't possible that they will offer the same setup to the ISPs?
Also, people who use an ISP-based email address are going to discover they can't take it with them sooner or later. Anyone who wants a permanent address should really invest in their own domain.
Das machine is nicht fur gerfingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der Springengwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit Spitzensparken. Ist nicht fur gewerken by das Dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken Sightseeren keepen Hands in das Pockets, relaxen und watchen das Blinkenlights...