Robertson is also back in court. This time Microsoft has launched the lawyers, claiming that the name ``Lindows'' might be confused with Windows and thereby violate Microsoft's trademark.
Robertson has one word for the claim: ``absurd.''
There are thousands of computer-related products with ``Windows'' in their names, he says. Yet Microsoft has left those products unmolested.
Come on, Lindows, Windows. They are obviously trying to use the Windows name to generate intrest (and the lawsuit as well). While I don't think MS can make him change it, I do think there's not much point in denying that the name is purposly similar.
And 1000s of applications with the name "windows"??? I can't think of any, help me out??
And programming the HP was indeed quite a chore, only did it once, and it was not fun. Lucky for us, it already does almost everything you can imagine.
I heard once of the lead designer of the 48 series at a conference was once asked if the calculator could do some sort of calculation. He responded, "Beats me, lets find out..." and sure enough, it did.
I still have my HP 48G that I bought in calculus class in high school. I love that thing and still use it to this day. I spent some time getting used to it, sure, and now I wouldn't do it any other way.
I bought it in 94, and all throughout college (grad in Dec 99) I was able to perform any calculation on it that was required while TI users had to get programs. Of course, I'm sure the 92 and the new one can do all that too, they just weren't around too much at the time, mostly TI 85s.
Agreed. There is too much emphasis on teaching how to do something on the calculator. Once you are in college, and you understand the concepts and how to perform the mathematical calculations then it's ok to use a calculator to save you from doing an hour long calculation, however, that's as good as magic if you don't know how it worked!
It's funny to see the comments written by people with a "self-taught" CS degree. Just because you know how to write code, doesn't mean you are a software engineer, a programmer perhaps, but not a software engineer, regardless of what your title is. And you are right, the business world is starting to understand this.
And another thing, MIS != CS, no matter how much some of you like to delude yourselves!
If we considered spamming to be an act of terror (I don't know about you, but I am often terrorified by large ammounts of spam) then it would be perfectly fine to send some B-52s over there and blow the living daylights out of them!
Does anyone have any information on how to persue payment from spammers in states other than Washington? Do any other states have similar laws? I live in Oklahoma and as far as I know, we don't have any such law.
I finally have a job where I can use Linux on my desktop, it's quite nice but ironicly, my cube is on the inside of the building and I have no windows.
I normally use vi, but in the past I have used both Visual Age and Netbeans, both of which I really liked. Visual Age has a high cost and thus when I use an IDE I use netbeans which is free and open source. Check it out, it is very nice and does all the things your standard IDE does.
This is stupid. People bypass commercials all the time with their VCRs. Now the networks are mad because people think highly enough of their TV shows to show a friend? This is the same thing as saying "This is a good show, here's the tape" Plus you can only distribute a show 15 times.
Besides, if you want to download practically any show on TV, go to efnet or something.
I use Southwestern Hell for my DSL. I was getting line noise errors in my router log so I called them and told them they needed to turn down the noise margin ration on my line. They told me...
Them: let's go clear out your cookies
Me: What? Why? I want to keep some of them?
Them: Well, sometimes if your browser gets too full of cookies, the whole internet stops working...
Me: No, I won't delete my cookies, fix the noise margin ratio...
Took about 2 weeks to resolve the problem and about 5 hours total of "on hold" time waiting to speak to morons.
TRoy
Why use Netscape anyway?
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There are plenty of great browsers out there, Mozilla, Konquerer, IE, Opera, and sever others. Why would anyone stop using their browser of choice and use Netscape? I mean, it's not really that good anyway.
Yea, I used to work for a software company, these guys wrote the most bloated code I have ever seen, when clients complained about speed, they told them to go buy more RAM cause it was cheap! What a bunch of Morons.
I think this is funny. There is no mention of a Tumor in the article or the submitters comments, yet it appears as a headline. A gall bladder is an organ, not a tumor.
How do YOU know it's good code? Your opinion means nothing to me. You are probably misintreperting something you do not understand. In fact, your post is a perfect example of the bullshit I was talking about in the original post.
A good CS major does not just sit there and code to the specs a suit type hands them, they learn the industry so that they can write better code. Now perhaps you have dealt with shitty CS majors, but talk to any CS professor and they will tell you that nobody should be developing applications without proper training.
And proper training is not joe blow who once wrote a program to keep track of his baseball cards then majored in biology.
Yea but that says nothing about how much a company is willing to teach you. In most cases the other guys who never learned in the first place are the ones doing the teaching. In that case it's a blind leading the blind situation.
It's because managers seem to think that any computer related degree means you can design and write software. I'm not being mean here, but if you have a degree in maintaining networks or creating circuit boards, that does not mean you can design software.
I would hate to buy a cpu designed by a software engineer. But apparently buying software built by non-software engineers is ok.
I have found that very few software companys hire only CS majors for software jobs, you look on monster and it says, "Computer related degree required". That's bullshit people.
Hey-
I just need to speak up, I have no idea about the missing data thing, but as far as "a new security flaw that could give unauthorized people easy access"... that's bunk!
The system password by default on install is blank, Oracle has a default password too, I think it is "CHANGE_ON_INSTALL". So if you happen to install SQL Server and not have the brains to change the default password, then you deserve everything you are about to get. Now I hate M$ just as much as the next guy, but it's a shame that these dorks have to go blaming their incompetence on other people.
Troy
ORBS == tool, not violation of freedon of speech
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I don't see this as being a freedom of speech case at all. ORBS was mearly a tool to help you identify open relays on your network, and an extreemly valuable tool at that.
I used to work for a Univeristy and we used it to identify ORs on our network so we could take care of the problem (You wouldn't believe the number of bumbling Professors who set up linux boxes which are open relays). We got an email every once in a while that said, "Hey, OR on your network". Then we'd hunt them down and say, "Secure your box or turn off sendmail" to which the normal reply was, "Ok, I downloaded the latest version of pine!"
I hate to see it when big companies try to do a lot of stuff, rather than sticking to what they are good at. Take Oracle for example, excellent DB, all their other products are total CRAP! (besides their app server, it was crap until they licensed Orion)
Besides, don't we already have enough databases? Now if they made an OODBMS, that might be cool. But for the most part I would rather they stick to making a good Linux distribution.
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I love my DL number, had it changed to Pi. Hope they won't make me change it!!!
Yea, but I think it's officially called Xfree86 and XWindows is a generic term. But let's count that anyway, thats 1.
Robertson is also back in court. This time Microsoft has launched the lawyers, claiming that the name ``Lindows'' might be confused with Windows and thereby violate Microsoft's trademark.
Robertson has one word for the claim: ``absurd.''
There are thousands of computer-related products with ``Windows'' in their names, he says. Yet Microsoft has left those products unmolested.
Come on, Lindows, Windows. They are obviously trying to use the Windows name to generate intrest (and the lawsuit as well). While I don't think MS can make him change it, I do think there's not much point in denying that the name is purposly similar.
And 1000s of applications with the name "windows"??? I can't think of any, help me out??
TRoy
Don't know how many class hours I lost to joust!
And programming the HP was indeed quite a chore, only did it once, and it was not fun. Lucky for us, it already does almost everything you can imagine.
I heard once of the lead designer of the 48 series at a conference was once asked if the calculator could do some sort of calculation. He responded, "Beats me, lets find out..." and sure enough, it did.
TRoy
I still have my HP 48G that I bought in calculus class in high school. I love that thing and still use it to this day. I spent some time getting used to it, sure, and now I wouldn't do it any other way.
I bought it in 94, and all throughout college (grad in Dec 99) I was able to perform any calculation on it that was required while TI users had to get programs. Of course, I'm sure the 92 and the new one can do all that too, they just weren't around too much at the time, mostly TI 85s.
Agreed. There is too much emphasis on teaching how to do something on the calculator. Once you are in college, and you understand the concepts and how to perform the mathematical calculations then it's ok to use a calculator to save you from doing an hour long calculation, however, that's as good as magic if you don't know how it worked!
Troy
I second that...
It's funny to see the comments written by people with a "self-taught" CS degree. Just because you know how to write code, doesn't mean you are a software engineer, a programmer perhaps, but not a software engineer, regardless of what your title is. And you are right, the business world is starting to understand this.
And another thing, MIS != CS, no matter how much some of you like to delude yourselves!
Boy, there are a lot of Clark W. Griswalds out there!
If we considered spamming to be an act of terror (I don't know about you, but I am often terrorified by large ammounts of spam) then it would be perfectly fine to send some B-52s over there and blow the living daylights out of them!
Does anyone have any information on how to persue payment from spammers in states other than Washington? Do any other states have similar laws? I live in Oklahoma and as far as I know, we don't have any such law.
Thanks,
Troy
I finally have a job where I can use Linux on my desktop, it's quite nice but ironicly, my cube is on the inside of the building and I have no windows.
I normally use vi, but in the past I have used both Visual Age and Netbeans, both of which I really liked. Visual Age has a high cost and thus when I use an IDE I use netbeans which is free and open source. Check it out, it is very nice and does all the things your standard IDE does.
Troy
This is stupid. People bypass commercials all the time with their VCRs. Now the networks are mad because people think highly enough of their TV shows to show a friend? This is the same thing as saying "This is a good show, here's the tape" Plus you can only distribute a show 15 times.
Besides, if you want to download practically any show on TV, go to efnet or something.
Troy
Funny...
I use Southwestern Hell for my DSL. I was getting line noise errors in my router log so I called them and told them they needed to turn down the noise margin ration on my line. They told me...
Them: let's go clear out your cookies
Me: What? Why? I want to keep some of them?
Them: Well, sometimes if your browser gets too full of cookies, the whole internet stops working...
Me: No, I won't delete my cookies, fix the noise margin ratio...
Took about 2 weeks to resolve the problem and about 5 hours total of "on hold" time waiting to speak to morons.
TRoy
There are plenty of great browsers out there, Mozilla, Konquerer, IE, Opera, and sever others. Why would anyone stop using their browser of choice and use Netscape? I mean, it's not really that good anyway.
Yea, I used to work for a software company, these guys wrote the most bloated code I have ever seen, when clients complained about speed, they told them to go buy more RAM cause it was cheap! What a bunch of Morons.
I think this is funny. There is no mention of a Tumor in the article or the submitters comments, yet it appears as a headline. A gall bladder is an organ, not a tumor.
Woah, Stanford. Well since you went ahead and tossed that big name college out there, I will have to concede my point. You must be right.
How do YOU know it's good code? Your opinion means nothing to me. You are probably misintreperting something you do not understand. In fact, your post is a perfect example of the bullshit I was talking about in the original post.
A good CS major does not just sit there and code to the specs a suit type hands them, they learn the industry so that they can write better code. Now perhaps you have dealt with shitty CS majors, but talk to any CS professor and they will tell you that nobody should be developing applications without proper training.
And proper training is not joe blow who once wrote a program to keep track of his baseball cards then majored in biology.
Yea but that says nothing about how much a company is willing to teach you. In most cases the other guys who never learned in the first place are the ones doing the teaching. In that case it's a blind leading the blind situation.
It's because managers seem to think that any computer related degree means you can design and write software. I'm not being mean here, but if you have a degree in maintaining networks or creating circuit boards, that does not mean you can design software.
I would hate to buy a cpu designed by a software engineer. But apparently buying software built by non-software engineers is ok.
I have found that very few software companys hire only CS majors for software jobs, you look on monster and it says, "Computer related degree required". That's bullshit people.
My friend once told me...
"Dual booting is like having a mistress, it's all great till they find out about one another."
My experience (in dual booting, not mistress having) tends to agree with this.
troy
Hey- I just need to speak up, I have no idea about the missing data thing, but as far as "a new security flaw that could give unauthorized people easy access"... that's bunk!
The system password by default on install is blank, Oracle has a default password too, I think it is "CHANGE_ON_INSTALL". So if you happen to install SQL Server and not have the brains to change the default password, then you deserve everything you are about to get. Now I hate M$ just as much as the next guy, but it's a shame that these dorks have to go blaming their incompetence on other people.
Troy
I don't see this as being a freedom of speech case at all. ORBS was mearly a tool to help you identify open relays on your network, and an extreemly valuable tool at that.
I used to work for a Univeristy and we used it to identify ORs on our network so we could take care of the problem (You wouldn't believe the number of bumbling Professors who set up linux boxes which are open relays). We got an email every once in a while that said, "Hey, OR on your network". Then we'd hunt them down and say, "Secure your box or turn off sendmail" to which the normal reply was, "Ok, I downloaded the latest version of pine!"
Oh well, at elast alternatives exist.
I hate to see it when big companies try to do a lot of stuff, rather than sticking to what they are good at. Take Oracle for example, excellent DB, all their other products are total CRAP! (besides their app server, it was crap until they licensed Orion)
Besides, don't we already have enough databases? Now if they made an OODBMS, that might be cool. But for the most part I would rather they stick to making a good Linux distribution.
Troy