The whole issue with trademarks is whether a name is confusingly similar. Seems pretty clear to me that certain parties are trying to leech off a valid trademark holders name by registering common misspellings which would certainly meet the "confusingly similar" test.
There is no equivalence between your example of common name domains JohnDoe.com and a real trademark CocaCola.com, or freecreditreport.com in this case.
Are the headers really that big? You can compress the content with gzip automatically - I'm surprised that header compression makes a difference. Generally, the header is a small fraction of the size of the response.
Did you RTFA?
"Header compression resulted in an ~88% reduction in the size of request headers and an ~85% reduction in the size of response headers. On the lower-bandwidth DSL link, in which the upload link is only 375 Kbps, request header compression in particular, led to significant page load time improvements..."
Actually, it's the screen that is the biggest drain on the battery. A more efficient processor will help with battery longevity, I'm just skeptical about the use of the word "massively."
Consider the network effect - the more users there are in the network, the more valuable the network becomes, and alternatives become less valueable. Same thing here. If all the users are using the solution that is most convenient for them, regardless of license, that's the most valuable place for the publishers to be.
While you certainly raise a valid point that publishers can choose alternative formats, it's certainly cheaper for them, but then so is the reward. Any publisher who is in a real business will go where the users are. Those who publish for fun or hobby (i.e. not concerned with real, paying customers) will be drawn to the alternatives.
Discussing their opinion is pointless.
Strong disagree. At the end of the day, it's all about the customer.
Given a choice between a better user experience or a better license *most* users will choose experience.
Wish I had mod points for a +1 Insightful. Can we just end the thread here? This pretty much sums it up. The only change I might suggest is to change the word "most" to "the overwhelming majority."
Can't tell if you are being serious or not, so I'll assume you are.
Next time you are doing well in a job interview, preferably with a small company, mention that you have some chronic condition that is really expensive to manage. Do this regardless whether you actually have the condition or not.
What do you think your chances are that you'll be getting an offer as compared to if you'd not mentioned it at all? Does your opinion change?
People simply use their PCs (and Macs) as appliances, with no thought whatsoever of using it *properly*
I wonder why people would use a computer as an appliance.
I would turn the question around. Why shouldn't people expect their computer to be a reliable and secure appliance?
If we, the technorati, keep insisting that computers and networks are somehow special and require special handling, then all we are doing is turning a blind eye to avoid seeing our own failures. Notice the trend to more appliance-like devices in both the desktop and mobile realms that run their OS out of firmware.
Customers are trying to tell us something. Are we listening?
Facebook, MySpace, and virtually all websites lack any real rigor in their sign-up process. With the exception perhaps of a CAPTCHA, it's designed to be as streamlined as possible, because most websites are focused on creating value by quickly growing their user base. Drawn out identity verification doesn't fit with this model.
What's to stop someone from signing up under someone else's name, generating a PGP key, and then using it as you have described? I don't see how the situation is changed in any way.
The old PGP argument is to do the whole web-of-trust thing, with people signing each others' keys, but in the end it just becomes confusing and too hard to use for the overwhelming majority of users.
no legal issue with car companies issuing GPS-enabled remote engine locks
Even though you are likely going for a +1 Funny mod, I'll take a swing anyway.
The obvious difference here would be that the customer would have signed a contract that would specifically allow the auto dealer to remote-disable the car in the event of non payment. Just plain old contractual law between two private parties, no constitutional issues here.
Newspapers are too heavy, low value, and time sensitive to be shipped across the country. Most national papers are actually printed and distributed in each locality. Most national papers don't own a printing press.
Let me first state that I certainly agree with the sentiments already expressed here about the kind-of sneaky way it installs a permanently running process, doesn't appear to provide adequate notification, and which reinstalls itself when Google Earth is run. Fair criticisims, and they apply to a lot of other software out there.
My question to all of you is, "What exactly does Google owe us?" I sense an entitlement mentality that somehow because they have decided to do things this way that we have been grievously injured.
Several previous posters correctly observed that if you don't like it, uninstall it completely and don't run it anymore. I mean it's a free (as in free beer) program that they provide in hopes that you'll like it enough to use it and see the ads.
However, may others here, instead of exercising some discretion and backbone to uninstall it and walk away, want to play like they are victims and that they are somehow powerless to stop using Google Earth.
In order to help increase lift based on pressure (active pressure differences), I'd place the propeller centers below the wing, rather than above the wing.
Could you explain this one? I would expect that you would have more lift by pushing the higher-speed air behind a propeller (higher speed = lower pressure by Bernoulli's equation) - one example of which was the Boeing YC-14.
I would expect that the only time you would have a lift benefit with the propeller centers below the wing would be when the aircraft is very close to the ground. Early versions of the 737 had problems with their thrust reversers because they were blowing too much air under the wing and it was difficult to get the aircraft to compress the landing gear enough to trigger the "squat switch" which allows the spoilers to deploy. That's why the thrust reverser blocker doors are canted at an odd angle on 737s, but now I am way off in the weeds.
I think your premise is faulty. It has been my experience that commercial products become unsupported far faster than open source projects.
Premise check. As part of the sales contract on a commercial product you typically negotiate a certain minimum length of time that support, patches, updates will be available. With Open source, you're on your own. So I don't see how you are in any way safer banking on Open Source support. The same? Possibly. Safer? No way.
That's why you see Open Source projects flourish in the infrastructure area - operating systems, programming languages, web servers and tools - and less so in vertical applications or apps that require a high degree of fit-and-finish. Yes projects like Firefox and Open Office have good fit and finish, but they are more run like a commercial development, and are not the norm for Open Source projects.
To your points:
Support in Open source is uneven, and frequently self-help support on various discussion forums.
Code may be available, but for most end users never actually look at it, and those that do would have to... (see next item)
You can pay someone to support you - if you can find a suitable person.
Doing a regex to match a phone number is a question that I have often asked interview candidates who claim to be perl experts.
Mostly I get blank stares, but I would consider the phone regex a good first cut. It gets the general format right, but matches certain nonsensical patterns (e.g. 000-000-0000).
If only there was another phrase that meant something along the lines of 'Open Source' we could use to avoid that ambiguity.
Good point you raise. Often when the free software people are doing their hand waving, they'll say that, unlike English, other languages have separate words to differentiate between free ("gratis") and freedom ("libre"). In my opinion, it would be an easier to convince others about the value of "software libre," or perhaps "liberated software," than to have to go down the rat-hole of free speech versus free beer.
Sorry I don't have mod points today, I'd mod you up.
Twenty-four years have passed since the GNU project began, and still it is extremely difficult to explain one of its fundamental tenets because of the poor choice of terminology. You have to convince someone that free doesn't mean what everyone else understands it to be.
Sometimes there is great value in standing your ground, insisting that the rest of the world change to fit your vision of things. This is not one of those instances.
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I call BS.
The whole issue with trademarks is whether a name is confusingly similar. Seems pretty clear to me that certain parties are trying to leech off a valid trademark holders name by registering common misspellings which would certainly meet the "confusingly similar" test.
There is no equivalence between your example of common name domains JohnDoe.com and a real trademark CocaCola.com, or freecreditreport.com in this case.
Are the headers really that big? You can compress the content with gzip automatically - I'm surprised that header compression makes a difference. Generally, the header is a small fraction of the size of the response.
Did you RTFA?
"Header compression resulted in an ~88% reduction in the size of request headers and an ~85% reduction in the size of response headers. On the lower-bandwidth DSL link, in which the upload link is only 375 Kbps, request header compression in particular, led to significant page load time improvements..."
Actually, it's the screen that is the biggest drain on the battery. A more efficient processor will help with battery longevity, I'm just skeptical about the use of the word "massively."
Wish I had mod points for you today.
Sadly, this is the norm as organizations get large.
Remember this, as the largest and most dysfunctional organization of them all is about to be in charge of your health care. Good times!
But publishers are nothing without customers, no?
Consider the network effect - the more users there are in the network, the more valuable the network becomes, and alternatives become less valueable. Same thing here. If all the users are using the solution that is most convenient for them, regardless of license, that's the most valuable place for the publishers to be.
While you certainly raise a valid point that publishers can choose alternative formats, it's certainly cheaper for them, but then so is the reward. Any publisher who is in a real business will go where the users are. Those who publish for fun or hobby (i.e. not concerned with real, paying customers) will be drawn to the alternatives.
Discussing their opinion is pointless.
Strong disagree. At the end of the day, it's all about the customer.
Given a choice between a better user experience or a better license *most* users will choose experience.
Wish I had mod points for a +1 Insightful. Can we just end the thread here? This pretty much sums it up. The only change I might suggest is to change the word "most" to "the overwhelming majority."
Can't tell if you are being serious or not, so I'll assume you are.
Next time you are doing well in a job interview, preferably with a small company, mention that you have some chronic condition that is really expensive to manage. Do this regardless whether you actually have the condition or not.
What do you think your chances are that you'll be getting an offer as compared to if you'd not mentioned it at all? Does your opinion change?
I wonder why people would use a computer as an appliance.
I would turn the question around. Why shouldn't people expect their computer to be a reliable and secure appliance?
If we, the technorati, keep insisting that computers and networks are somehow special and require special handling, then all we are doing is turning a blind eye to avoid seeing our own failures. Notice the trend to more appliance-like devices in both the desktop and mobile realms that run their OS out of firmware.
Customers are trying to tell us something. Are we listening?
The date on the patent application is 2005. Vista was released November 8, 2006.
Facebook, MySpace, and virtually all websites lack any real rigor in their sign-up process. With the exception perhaps of a CAPTCHA, it's designed to be as streamlined as possible, because most websites are focused on creating value by quickly growing their user base. Drawn out identity verification doesn't fit with this model.
What's to stop someone from signing up under someone else's name, generating a PGP key, and then using it as you have described? I don't see how the situation is changed in any way.
The old PGP argument is to do the whole web-of-trust thing, with people signing each others' keys, but in the end it just becomes confusing and too hard to use for the overwhelming majority of users.
no legal issue with car companies issuing GPS-enabled remote engine locks
Even though you are likely going for a +1 Funny mod, I'll take a swing anyway.
The obvious difference here would be that the customer would have signed a contract that would specifically allow the auto dealer to remote-disable the car in the event of non payment. Just plain old contractual law between two private parties, no constitutional issues here.
So far, all the evidence presented indicates that the FBI obtained court authorization as required by law.
So what is your point, exactly?
Isn't Centrino the Intel-branded Wifi chip, not the CPU?
Newspapers are too heavy, low value, and time sensitive to be shipped across the country. Most national papers are actually printed and distributed in each locality. Most national papers don't own a printing press.
My question to all of you is, "What exactly does Google owe us?" I sense an entitlement mentality that somehow because they have decided to do things this way that we have been grievously injured.
Several previous posters correctly observed that if you don't like it, uninstall it completely and don't run it anymore. I mean it's a free (as in free beer) program that they provide in hopes that you'll like it enough to use it and see the ads.
However, may others here, instead of exercising some discretion and backbone to uninstall it and walk away, want to play like they are victims and that they are somehow powerless to stop using Google Earth.
Discuss. :)
Not just for cars, pimp out your bike wheels...
In order to help increase lift based on pressure (active pressure differences), I'd place the propeller centers below the wing, rather than above the wing.
Could you explain this one? I would expect that you would have more lift by pushing the higher-speed air behind a propeller (higher speed = lower pressure by Bernoulli's equation) - one example of which was the Boeing YC-14.
I would expect that the only time you would have a lift benefit with the propeller centers below the wing would be when the aircraft is very close to the ground. Early versions of the 737 had problems with their thrust reversers because they were blowing too much air under the wing and it was difficult to get the aircraft to compress the landing gear enough to trigger the "squat switch" which allows the spoilers to deploy. That's why the thrust reverser blocker doors are canted at an odd angle on 737s, but now I am way off in the weeds.
Of those three, I'd say investors are the least necessary, since a company could grow (however slowly) without borrowing.
Is it possible to pack more fundamental misunderstanding into a single sentence? I will leave it to others to point out what needs pointing out.
Wow, just wow.
I think your premise is faulty. It has been my experience that commercial products become unsupported far faster than open source projects.
Premise check. As part of the sales contract on a commercial product you typically negotiate a certain minimum length of time that support, patches, updates will be available. With Open source, you're on your own. So I don't see how you are in any way safer banking on Open Source support. The same? Possibly. Safer? No way.
That's why you see Open Source projects flourish in the infrastructure area - operating systems, programming languages, web servers and tools - and less so in vertical applications or apps that require a high degree of fit-and-finish. Yes projects like Firefox and Open Office have good fit and finish, but they are more run like a commercial development, and are not the norm for Open Source projects.
To your points:
Mostly I get blank stares, but I would consider the phone regex a good first cut. It gets the general format right, but matches certain nonsensical patterns (e.g. 000-000-0000).
Absolutely. Over the next 80 years, experts predict that with near certainty over 6 billion deaths!
If not why have the genus bar?
That's just to handle the overflow from the phylum lounge.
If only there was another phrase that meant something along the lines of 'Open Source' we could use to avoid that ambiguity.
Good point you raise. Often when the free software people are doing their hand waving, they'll say that, unlike English, other languages have separate words to differentiate between free ("gratis") and freedom ("libre"). In my opinion, it would be an easier to convince others about the value of "software libre," or perhaps "liberated software," than to have to go down the rat-hole of free speech versus free beer.
Twenty-four years have passed since the GNU project began, and still it is extremely difficult to explain one of its fundamental tenets because of the poor choice of terminology. You have to convince someone that free doesn't mean what everyone else understands it to be.
Sometimes there is great value in standing your ground, insisting that the rest of the world change to fit your vision of things. This is not one of those instances.