They DO enforce them... they just don't enforce them in things that we see... IBM doesn't care if joe blow writes and OS (or Richard Stallman) and uses some of their ideas... but if HyperGlobalMegaTech uses their 'inventions', and they get patents, IBM cross-licences with them to get access to their 'inventions'.. so IBM enforces patents selectivly.. mostly for cross licencing.
Google already has presearch words like "link:" and "site:", what about adding more?
shop:
history:
research:
linux help:
etc, make a few hundred pre search words that people can easily look up EXACTALLY what they want... it's possible that they are working away at this at google labs.. it'd make sense to me for this to be the next logical step.
It's a total rip off of google, so i see no reason to use it... but when I first went to check it out, i noticed 1 story at the top of technology, with the headline:
"Tapping into the growing interest to Wintel computers"
At least they're not censoring the news.... yet =)
Fuck, this is bad.. stallman in court.. jesus christ.. i can't imagine what it'll be like... i feel bad for the lawyers questioning him, it'll be worse than questioning the soup nazi on the last episode of sienfeld.
sounds like a fun wardriving project... redirect all traffic to goatse.cx of all the wireless belkin router users in Toronto that leave their router passwords as defaults (you'd be surprised how many are left default).
How do you guys think rackmount affects price/size of this unit?
It's no secret that rackmount components cost substantially more than tower components... my question is: does rackmount really save the space?
The G5 creates an insane amount of heat, and would require 3U and at the very least 2U... If you took a G5 and turned it on it's side, that'd be the equivilent of 3U.
They seemed to have packed these G5s in special racks (Wider than normal), to allow 3 of them stacked side by side. There also appears to be little to no room between them vertically, making them nearly as small as 3U cases, and saving the price of rails, rackmount case/psu. Also allowing easier changing of broken ones (just buy a standard one and insert), no taking off rails, making sure cases are the same, etc... saving time in the long run I think.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of rackmount, but what do y'all think?
I use the TI89 from Texas Instruments (obviously), and It's served me quite well, the solve() function is fantastic... there's nothing I've come across that it can't do.
I remember this.... But this doesn't appear on their revenue..
The best conclusion that I can come to is that Fortune 500 Company was Microsoft... which they publicized twice!! hahahaha. i hope that's actually what happened!.
My company runs Windows 98 clients and NT4 server atm, and I figured it was time to upgrade. I looked into Microsoft, with Office/WinXP and server 2003, and the cost was about $40k. That seemed insane, so I decided to try Linux.
I've been running Linux at home now for a few years, and am quite competitent running it. My first step was to replace the slackware/wmaker combination that I was happy with on my laptop to Redhat/Gnome/Bluecurve, and I was immidetely impressed with how far linux has come on the desktop, I figured this wouldn't be a problem.
I showed the owners of my company Linux, and they said they were fine with it on every machine... now the tricky part, application compatability.
Under Wine I was able to get my payroll software and estimating software running, but the accounting software proved impossible. Using older style database clients and VBA, I was totally unable to get it working.
I came to the conclusion that while I can use Linux on the desktop, application support from large corporate vendors need to be there before Linux can run on the desktop. I also came up with: "in 3 years, if we want to run a different accounting/estimating/etc package, will linux work for us?".. That question is unanswered atm, and therefore using Linux in a corporate enviroment seems to be a gamble right now, a gamble that I am not willing to wager on for my company. Another issue is support from our existing vendors... they supported running their software on Windows and 2 of them *REQUIRED* PCAnywhere to be available whenever needed... this was not possible with Linux.
Linux on the home desktop seems more than ready, but enterprise/corporate enviroments seem to need better application support before it's possible... while I do belive that the application support will be there in 3 years, I don't think it's a risk work taking atm.
Mayor of NYC decided to publicly blame Canada for this before any facts surfaced.. while Lastman, the mayor of Toronto said something along the lines of "Do you expect the US to take blame for anything?", after *some* facts surfaced
Neither responses were politically acceptable, however the media coverage of the blame game seemed to evaporate as soon as it was clear that it wasn't Canada's fault.
I found that more than a little interesting.
the 401 is a massive highway, as many as 9 lanes in each direction at times. And for 22 hours a day, it's packed. The 100km/h speed limit was put on that highway in the 60s, when a car's breaks were no where near as sofisticated as they are today. There were no airbags, and pretty much no seatbelts. Now with traction control, better tires, more safety features, the 100km/h speed limit is ridicolous... it should be at minimum 120, I'd like to see something more like 140.
As for speed causing accidents, it's been proven incorrect (the autobahn in the 90s was a good test, the safest highway in the world)... Why was it the safest? Because the people going 200 were in the left lane, the people going 150 were in the middle lane, and the people going 100 were in the right lane. This is what we need. Minimum and Maximum speed limits per lane.
Accidents happen when people are going different speeds in the same direction... if everyone went 200, (and stayed a safe distance back), there wouldn't be an issue, in the exact same fashion if everyone went 100.
Instead of stupid speed limits, driver education is required, I don't know how many people I've seen going 95 in the left lane, it's so annoying, cause then I have to pass them on the right, and that's dangerous for everyone else (especially in the 4-5 express lane areas.
Trapping software:
Depends on what you need: do you need in-workflow fullpage vector/raster trapping, or do you need area based manual trapping?
if you need the former, can't help ya, we're a large format company, with most jobs 6 colour, and no film, all ctp, and we've had bad luck with automatic trapping.
If you need manual trapping, I recommend PCC ArtPro, with Artworks/Nexus RIP. The RIP runs on windows 2k server, and ArtPro works OS9/X, at about $20k/seat.
ez.
umm... they look nothing like C... when I first started with pl/sql (and plpgsql for that matter), my first thought was "wow, pascal"... after a bit of reading, I found out that both languages came from ADA... not C.
ez.
IBM is a member of the group, they could have simply been out voted in the group, and the news site is putting IBM's name on it to make the group look more influencial than it really is.
Before the Cuban missile crisis, the US was bombing Cuba day and night, trying to undermine their economy by destroying sugar fields, trying to start an uprising against Fidel. Was the covered in the news? no.
... that's just one example, there are thousands that are known, and probably 10 times more that aren't.
The US is just as guilty as China is, the USSR was, and any other country out there is... you just don't hear about it =)
Sounds like what I said when I started here in November, cept our accounting software was written in basic, and ran in dos only, using direct betrieve database queries (not sql), and required batch files to be run from "z:" Drive, and everyone to have the same account on our NT 4 domain.
That solution was fine when we had 1 or two office staff, now at 50 staff, we required something a little better.
EZ>
They write excellent books, sell them at an excellent price (relativly), have a massive website with tons of free information. Publish many of thier titles as cheap Ebooks, and now volunatily shorten their copyright length
I dunno about you guys, but all these things make me look at Oreilly books before any other.
Does anyone else see flash as possibly a competetor to Java? I mean it started as an vector-animation tool, and now it's already got scripting, database support, and now offline capabilities..
I interned at Microsoft up in Canada for high school, then they invited me back when I was in University. I got a job working for one of Microsoft's partners part-time while I was attending school, and during summer.
It was an amazing place to work, and I'd say as many as 20% of the employees there were interns (In MSFT Canada HQ).
The everyday perks were incredible, free drinks, 1/2 subsidized lunch room, laptop, iPAQ, yearly budget to purchase anything you want (that will help the company)... It was really amazing.
mixed feelings here, I'm sure for everyone. No one is happy when ridicolous patents are filed, but is this a ridicolous patent?
An invention is something new, or an improvement on an existing invention. Google's algorithm is an improvement on an existing invention. However in order to obtain a patent, there must be no prior art and it must be non-obvious. I don't necessarily beleive that the later two fit in this case.
The description of this patent seems more general than it needs to be, so I'm sure prior art can be found to fit the general description of this patent.
Slashdot Mirror
I suggest checking out: IBM and the Holocaust... Shows another side to IBM's beginnings, and also their involvment in WW2... great book.
thanks a lot!!! this is how I used to get free stuff, and now the world knows... there goes my ebay scam =(
They DO enforce them... they just don't enforce them in things that we see... IBM doesn't care if joe blow writes and OS (or Richard Stallman) and uses some of their ideas... but if HyperGlobalMegaTech uses their 'inventions', and they get patents, IBM cross-licences with them to get access to their 'inventions'.. so IBM enforces patents selectivly.. mostly for cross licencing.
Google already has presearch words like "link:" and "site:", what about adding more?
shop:
history:
research:
linux help:
etc, make a few hundred pre search words that people can easily look up EXACTALLY what they want... it's possible that they are working away at this at google labs.. it'd make sense to me for this to be the next logical step.
It's a total rip off of google, so i see no reason to use it... but when I first went to check it out, i noticed 1 story at the top of technology, with the headline:
"Tapping into the growing interest to Wintel computers"
At least they're not censoring the news.... yet =)
Fuck, this is bad.. stallman in court.. jesus christ.. i can't imagine what it'll be like... i feel bad for the lawyers questioning him, it'll be worse than questioning the soup nazi on the last episode of sienfeld.
sounds like a fun wardriving project... redirect all traffic to goatse.cx of all the wireless belkin router users in Toronto that leave their router passwords as defaults (you'd be surprised how many are left default).
How do you guys think rackmount affects price/size of this unit?
It's no secret that rackmount components cost substantially more than tower components... my question is: does rackmount really save the space?
The G5 creates an insane amount of heat, and would require 3U and at the very least 2U... If you took a G5 and turned it on it's side, that'd be the equivilent of 3U.
They seemed to have packed these G5s in special racks (Wider than normal), to allow 3 of them stacked side by side. There also appears to be little to no room between them vertically, making them nearly as small as 3U cases, and saving the price of rails, rackmount case/psu. Also allowing easier changing of broken ones (just buy a standard one and insert), no taking off rails, making sure cases are the same, etc... saving time in the long run I think.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of rackmount, but what do y'all think?
I use the TI89 from Texas Instruments (obviously), and It's served me quite well, the solve() function is fantastic... there's nothing I've come across that it can't do.
I remember this.... But this doesn't appear on their revenue..
The best conclusion that I can come to is that Fortune 500 Company was Microsoft... which they publicized twice!! hahahaha. i hope that's actually what happened!.
My company runs Windows 98 clients and NT4 server atm, and I figured it was time to upgrade. I looked into Microsoft, with Office/WinXP and server 2003, and the cost was about $40k. That seemed insane, so I decided to try Linux.
I've been running Linux at home now for a few years, and am quite competitent running it. My first step was to replace the slackware/wmaker combination that I was happy with on my laptop to Redhat/Gnome/Bluecurve, and I was immidetely impressed with how far linux has come on the desktop, I figured this wouldn't be a problem.
I showed the owners of my company Linux, and they said they were fine with it on every machine... now the tricky part, application compatability.
Under Wine I was able to get my payroll software and estimating software running, but the accounting software proved impossible. Using older style database clients and VBA, I was totally unable to get it working.
I came to the conclusion that while I can use Linux on the desktop, application support from large corporate vendors need to be there before Linux can run on the desktop. I also came up with: "in 3 years, if we want to run a different accounting/estimating/etc package, will linux work for us?".. That question is unanswered atm, and therefore using Linux in a corporate enviroment seems to be a gamble right now, a gamble that I am not willing to wager on for my company. Another issue is support from our existing vendors... they supported running their software on Windows and 2 of them *REQUIRED* PCAnywhere to be available whenever needed... this was not possible with Linux.
Linux on the home desktop seems more than ready, but enterprise/corporate enviroments seem to need better application support before it's possible... while I do belive that the application support will be there in 3 years, I don't think it's a risk work taking atm.
Mayor of NYC decided to publicly blame Canada for this before any facts surfaced.. while Lastman, the mayor of Toronto said something along the lines of "Do you expect the US to take blame for anything?", after *some* facts surfaced
Neither responses were politically acceptable, however the media coverage of the blame game seemed to evaporate as soon as it was clear that it wasn't Canada's fault.
I found that more than a little interesting.
emacs sheemacs, it comes with vi, and that's all that matters
:wq
the 401 is a massive highway, as many as 9 lanes in each direction at times. And for 22 hours a day, it's packed. The 100km/h speed limit was put on that highway in the 60s, when a car's breaks were no where near as sofisticated as they are today. There were no airbags, and pretty much no seatbelts.
Now with traction control, better tires, more safety features, the 100km/h speed limit is ridicolous... it should be at minimum 120, I'd like to see something more like 140.
As for speed causing accidents, it's been proven incorrect (the autobahn in the 90s was a good test, the safest highway in the world)... Why was it the safest? Because the people going 200 were in the left lane, the people going 150 were in the middle lane, and the people going 100 were in the right lane.
This is what we need. Minimum and Maximum speed limits per lane.
Accidents happen when people are going different speeds in the same direction... if everyone went 200, (and stayed a safe distance back), there wouldn't be an issue, in the exact same fashion if everyone went 100.
Instead of stupid speed limits, driver education is required, I don't know how many people I've seen going 95 in the left lane, it's so annoying, cause then I have to pass them on the right, and that's dangerous for everyone else (especially in the 4-5 express lane areas.
Trapping software:
Depends on what you need: do you need in-workflow fullpage vector/raster trapping, or do you need area based manual trapping?
if you need the former, can't help ya, we're a large format company, with most jobs 6 colour, and no film, all ctp, and we've had bad luck with automatic trapping.
If you need manual trapping, I recommend PCC ArtPro, with Artworks/Nexus RIP. The RIP runs on windows 2k server, and ArtPro works OS9/X, at about $20k/seat. ez.
Flip a coin
heads = SCO
tails = Microsoft
umm... they look nothing like C... when I first started with pl/sql (and plpgsql for that matter), my first thought was "wow, pascal"... after a bit of reading, I found out that both languages came from ADA... not C. ez.
IBM is a member of the group, they could have simply been out voted in the group, and the news site is putting IBM's name on it to make the group look more influencial than it really is.
US covers up just as much, maybe more.
Before the Cuban missile crisis, the US was bombing Cuba day and night, trying to undermine their economy by destroying sugar fields, trying to start an uprising against Fidel. Was the covered in the news? no.
... that's just one example, there are thousands that are known, and probably 10 times more that aren't.
The US is just as guilty as China is, the USSR was, and any other country out there is... you just don't hear about it =)
Sounds like what I said when I started here in November, cept our accounting software was written in basic, and ran in dos only, using direct betrieve database queries (not sql), and required batch files to be run from "z:" Drive, and everyone to have the same account on our NT 4 domain.
That solution was fine when we had 1 or two office staff, now at 50 staff, we required something a little better.
EZ>
They write excellent books, sell them at an excellent price (relativly), have a massive website with tons of free information. Publish many of thier titles as cheap Ebooks, and now volunatily shorten their copyright length
I dunno about you guys, but all these things make me look at Oreilly books before any other.
Thanks again Oreilly!
Does anyone else see flash as possibly a competetor to Java? I mean it started as an vector-animation tool, and now it's already got scripting, database support, and now offline capabilities..
I wonder where MM decides to go with this..
I interned at Microsoft up in Canada for high school, then they invited me back when I was in University. I got a job working for one of Microsoft's partners part-time while I was attending school, and during summer.
It was an amazing place to work, and I'd say as many as 20% of the employees there were interns (In MSFT Canada HQ).
The everyday perks were incredible, free drinks, 1/2 subsidized lunch room, laptop, iPAQ, yearly budget to purchase anything you want (that will help the company)... It was really amazing.
Until Trustix 2.0 comes out, I'll be using 2.2.. it's fast, secure and stable, why bother upgrading?
mixed feelings here, I'm sure for everyone. No one is happy when ridicolous patents are filed, but is this a ridicolous patent?
An invention is something new, or an improvement on an existing invention. Google's algorithm is an improvement on an existing invention. However in order to obtain a patent, there must be no prior art and it must be non-obvious. I don't necessarily beleive that the later two fit in this case.
The description of this patent seems more general than it needs to be, so I'm sure prior art can be found to fit the general description of this patent.