the completely broken patent and copyright system in the U.S. that allows such ridiculous lawsuits to happen in the first place, which encourages companies like Microsoft to file thousands of "defensive" patents per year, exacerbating the problem.
But nobody can figure out what stifles innovation....hmm.
SCO sues Kodak for stealing their business model...
Sigh. The only thing that stifles innovation is friviolous lawsuits over "intellectual property" and moronic patents.
This is capitalism, it's about "what the market will bear"... Is a baseball card worth $10,000? To some people, sometimes. The problem isn't innovation and judging value based on that, it's about lack of competition, lack of standards that *everyone* agrees to follow. There's a TON of reasons for saying Windows isn't worth what Microsoft changes for it, but innovation has the least to do with it.
The motherboard seems to be geared toward people wanted to create a multimedia center...I guess the real question is when does a collection of electronic parts become a computer and when is it a vcr, dvd, tivo, etc...:-)
society in the U.S. has been going the past 20-30 years...away from any conception of personal accountability or responsibility. We look for someone or something to blame society's ills on, when WE'RE the problem. Frivilous lawsuits related to lack of common sense, warnings on music and video games, "outrage" over the tiniest slights or perceived lack of "political correctness" in word or deed... Maybe getting offtopic a bit, but video game controvery is just one example. An interesting read, kinda sad though.
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Similar to the RIAA blaming Napster for their poor sales, Real just assumes their business is going doen the toilet because of something MS did (they must have done SOMETHING evil, right?). I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that their product is just bloated spyware, or poor corporate leadership, or the "bunker mentality" at Real that the article mentions...
It will be interesting to see if this continues. The reformist government is getting clobbered, and the hard-line clerics are prepping to take over in the next presidential election. Sad to see, but Iran may be getting ready to take a step backward. What will be interesting is to see what affect the internet does in fact have on this threat to their recent "freedoms".
Whose time may eventually come. Part of the problems is, as the article mentions, the "Bugtraq" mentality - people are only interested in the flashy big bugs, not the little ones that "only" increase stability. The other problem seems to simply be one of logistics, which the web site apparently didn't sort out. People are already doing this, on a smaller scale. How to get it into a single group under this Sardonix name without duplicating effort? Still difficult. I'd look for it again, in another form, in a few years:)
You have a bunch of techie geek engineers who know their shit, and could probably succeed 10x beyond what they do now if just left alone to do it. But they're hampered and held back by moronic bueracratic managers. Throw in the fact that it's a government agency and underfunded and well, you get fireworks and 7 dead astronauts. It amazing they manage to have succeses like the Mars probes in spite of this. The saddest story I ever read regardign Columbia was about the engineer that tried in vain to get his manager to ask the DOD to use one of their satellites to image Columbia's wind, and was turned down repeatedly. PHB to the max, only not quite so funny in the end.
This is like the 3rd time we've heard this, and again the article says "pending verification" from other labs' experiment. I wish they'd hold off on the story until it really is verified independently, and we can all bask in the glory of the new elements...:)
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You mean turning it into the same sterile medium that television is? When do the commercials start?
the completely broken patent and copyright system in the U.S. that allows such ridiculous lawsuits to happen in the first place, which encourages companies like Microsoft to file thousands of "defensive" patents per year, exacerbating the problem. But nobody can figure out what stifles innovation....hmm.
I for one welcome our new one-time overlords...
Well, why not?....It's as good as anything else....and better than cillia, or the eyeball, or whatever else....
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BEHOLD! I GIVE YOU.....42!
Nice title for the book... So the author's implication is that open source is also communist?
Yeah, because doing something for the betterment of society without wanting to get rich off of it is just un-American...
Yeah, like less advertising rammed down our throats...less spam, less spyware?
From communism to advertisements in space :) Still a sad commentary on capitalism and society, when not even space is safe from advertisers.
Let's see, the list of companies not to patronize continues to grow...SCO, Kodak, Real...
SCO sues Kodak for stealing their business model... Sigh. The only thing that stifles innovation is friviolous lawsuits over "intellectual property" and moronic patents.
This is capitalism, it's about "what the market will bear"... Is a baseball card worth $10,000? To some people, sometimes. The problem isn't innovation and judging value based on that, it's about lack of competition, lack of standards that *everyone* agrees to follow. There's a TON of reasons for saying Windows isn't worth what Microsoft changes for it, but innovation has the least to do with it.
The motherboard seems to be geared toward people wanted to create a multimedia center...I guess the real question is when does a collection of electronic parts become a computer and when is it a vcr, dvd, tivo, etc... :-)
society in the U.S. has been going the past 20-30 years...away from any conception of personal accountability or responsibility. We look for someone or something to blame society's ills on, when WE'RE the problem. Frivilous lawsuits related to lack of common sense, warnings on music and video games, "outrage" over the tiniest slights or perceived lack of "political correctness" in word or deed... Maybe getting offtopic a bit, but video game controvery is just one example. An interesting read, kinda sad though.
Similar to the RIAA blaming Napster for their poor sales, Real just assumes their business is going doen the toilet because of something MS did (they must have done SOMETHING evil, right?). I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that their product is just bloated spyware, or poor corporate leadership, or the "bunker mentality" at Real that the article mentions...
Of course it's a resource hog, they probably have every debugging feature turned on in it. Is there a point to "reviewing" this build?
RFID!!! See, you knew you could find a reason to love it... :-)
Would be "Hey we'll protect against the most common Windows exploits!"...
It will be interesting to see if this continues. The reformist government is getting clobbered, and the hard-line clerics are prepping to take over in the next presidential election. Sad to see, but Iran may be getting ready to take a step backward. What will be interesting is to see what affect the internet does in fact have on this threat to their recent "freedoms".
Whose time may eventually come. Part of the problems is, as the article mentions, the "Bugtraq" mentality - people are only interested in the flashy big bugs, not the little ones that "only" increase stability. The other problem seems to simply be one of logistics, which the web site apparently didn't sort out. People are already doing this, on a smaller scale. How to get it into a single group under this Sardonix name without duplicating effort? Still difficult. I'd look for it again, in another form, in a few years :)
You have a bunch of techie geek engineers who know their shit, and could probably succeed 10x beyond what they do now if just left alone to do it. But they're hampered and held back by moronic bueracratic managers. Throw in the fact that it's a government agency and underfunded and well, you get fireworks and 7 dead astronauts. It amazing they manage to have succeses like the Mars probes in spite of this. The saddest story I ever read regardign Columbia was about the engineer that tried in vain to get his manager to ask the DOD to use one of their satellites to image Columbia's wind, and was turned down repeatedly. PHB to the max, only not quite so funny in the end.
This is like the 3rd time we've heard this, and again the article says "pending verification" from other labs' experiment. I wish they'd hold off on the story until it really is verified independently, and we can all bask in the glory of the new elements... :)
For 1K I can get a SunFire V100 server...