Didn't Microsoft withhold the undocumented interfaces they used for Word for WIndows from other companies, thus disadvantaging Word Perfect?
And isn't that one of the reasons MS felt it economically sensible to pay half a billion (10e9) dollars to Novell rather than defend one of their several legal claims?
I tend to regard this end of Europe as the first world, first and third is orthogonal to old and new, and capacity to do damage may not be the best decider.
I recall a description of the USA as "not a first world country, more like a very rich third world one" and while it is as wrong as most capsule descriptions and soundbites, there is a grain of truth there.
As well as the environmental issue, which we should all keep chipping away at but is not a large issue here, there is the problem of finding things.
If information is in large pieces then it is hard to find exactly what you search for. If it is in small pieces, but linked to others, then search engines can help us to search very specifically.
So slice articles finely, a page on a screen is about right.
Wikipedia's action seems sensible, proportional, measured and helpful to me. (I have edited a few articles, started a couple, been irritated by a couple of strangely driven anonymous editors.
A group of medical practitioners are establishing the ganfyd (it is full of notes from/for your doctor(s)) medical reference wiki (URL:http://www.ganfyd.org).
We aimed from the start at an effect distinct from those of The Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) and the medical encyclopedia at URL:http://www.wikimd.org/ in two ways:-
We aim more at textbook than encyclopedia;
the content is to be qualified - our current restriction is that content may be edited in place or otherwise, only by registered medical practitioners ( URL:http://ganfyd.org/index.php?title=Registered_m edical_practitioners ).
Other small differences include scope - ours is of and for doctors of the UK, Australia and Canada reflecting the membership of the forum in which the project was sparked (URL:http://www.doctors.netuk/ (closed forum)) and the licence required to enforce the restriction of qualification - I wrote a modification of one of the stock Creative Commons licences for this URL:http:/osborne.defoam.net/~akm/ - rather than the GFDL.
We hope, and expect, that these design differences will produce the effect desired, although we will undoubtedly modify them as time and events indicate.
"From its humble origins in the 'hacker' culture of US computer science laboratories in the 1970s, open source software (OSS)"
That'd be the humblness of the groups of people who regarded themselves as the smartest computer scientists in the world and probably thought their universities were pretty good...
And regardless of the merits of the argument, if one was pointing back to then, calling it Free Software would be more historically accurate.
but doctors are not free to blog their side of the story.
Hipocrates put it quite well, and although there are constant efforts to erode confidentiality, the one area it has not been eroded in, at least round here, is in presenting an account of events relating to a patient's condition and management.
I'm not an expert on birds, or wind power for that matter. We do have some turbines not a huge distance away, and it looks to me as though a smart bird won't have that much difficulty avoiding them.
"The World Wide Fund for Nature Conservation (WWF) has also published a policy statement on renewable energy in the UK, which outlines that there is no evidence that wind turbines have a measurable effect on bird mortality. The statement concludes that: "It has been shown that strikes are highly unlikely to occur during good visibility conditions and in poor visibility birds are less likely to be in the vicinity of turbines. Further it has been found that most birds tend to fly over or around the turbines"." http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/code/popup_faq_3.html
I don't think we are going to devastate the biome with windmills. It is worth looking at what actually happens, and I think the basic science continues, but it is also worth considering what the effect of coal and oil have been on birds - not good I think.
while waiting for fusion (which the reactor in France is likely going to demonstrate) the UK needs to build some more fission reactors (preferably AGRs rather than PWRs becuase they work better, are safer and burn more fissile material).
But.
We use power all over the place, a little bit at each spot. It is not obvious that generating it all in one place and then moving it is the only way to handle it, and it may not be the best way to handle some of the load.
That was one of his techniques for putting the reader in a different world.
Taken a while to catch up in real life, I'm still waiting for the reader control that slows as you relax, and then saves your place when you go to sleep.
Rather than being something that you expect people not to enter, and regret having to lock, is not internetwork access now like the use of a road, which is paid for by people who lived there a long time ago and who live there now, but which other people are expected to use, on the basis that they provide similar access elsewhere, or are using it for purpsoes that are on average beneficial to the providers of whatever public good it is.
Expecting a visitor not to get water from the well or to keep his horse from drinking out of the Corporation trough seems mean and in the end adverse to all our interests.
Some time ago I saw the remark that the only part of the cost of a telephone call that could be directly assigned to an individual (user and) call was the cost of the ink for that line on the itemised bill.
That seems like a silly case to bring, and I hope that nobody who has a choice will be buying service form the company involved, now.
The Tungsten T5 syncs to the family Palm desktop diary etc at home, on an Apple Mac Mini, and to teh a Windows 2000 machine on the front desk at work.
I'd as soon sync it to one of the Linux boxes at each end, but have not currently found something simple and easy and good enough to be worth the change.
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Didn't Microsoft withhold the undocumented interfaces they used for Word for WIndows from other companies, thus disadvantaging Word Perfect?
And isn't that one of the reasons MS felt it economically sensible to pay half a billion (10e9) dollars to Novell rather than defend one of their several legal claims?
There is a pattern of behaviour.
A nice definition, but where did it come from?
I tend to regard this end of Europe as the first world, first and third is orthogonal to old and new, and capacity to do damage may not be the best decider.
I recall a description of the USA as "not a first world country, more like a very rich third world one" and while it is as wrong as most capsule descriptions and soundbites, there is a grain of truth there.
I don't think we should be encouraging printing.
As well as the environmental issue, which we should all keep chipping away at but is not a large issue here, there is the problem of finding things.
If information is in large pieces then it is hard to find exactly what you search for. If it is in small pieces, but linked to others, then search engines can help us to search very specifically.
So slice articles finely, a page on a screen is about right.
"A method of eliminating soluble waste products". From here the US patent system looks likely to accept an application for it.
Well, I've not visited, although it appears to be a perfectly pleasant place to visit, so I think I must leave any other matters to others.
But I'm pleased to have caused mirth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwabisch_Hall
It seemed worth commenting on in the article, also.
Louisiana, following French tradition, is different I understand. But your federal system goes with the majority.
But we will all survive it.
It will be interesting to see what happens if David Linhardt visits Europe.
it is trilateration, using time of flight which is distance rather than angle.
(And it might use more than three, but since 3 is the minimum, tri seems reasonable).
you cease to enforce their copyright. (Which they regard as "property rights", but isn't.)
sun, it does, once upon a time.
A group of medical practitioners are establishing the ganfyd (it is full of notes from/for your doctor(s)) medical reference wiki (URL:http://www.ganfyd.org).
We aimed from the start at an effect distinct from those of The Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) and the medical encyclopedia at URL:http://www.wikimd.org/ in two ways:-
Other small differences include scope - ours is of and for doctors of the UK, Australia and Canada reflecting the membership of the forum in which the project was sparked (URL:http://www.doctors.netuk/ (closed forum)) and the licence required to enforce the restriction of qualification - I wrote a modification of one of the stock Creative Commons licences for this URL:http:/osborne.defoam.net/~akm/ - rather than the GFDL.
We hope, and expect, that these design differences will produce the effect desired, although we will undoubtedly modify them as time and events indicate.
Roget's Thesaurus.
The comment would make some sense, if PGP and GNU PG were not free.
Care to reconsider that argument on that basis?
Mine have been reliable and simple and done everything I want done.
They allow my staff to share my diary and reduce double bookings.
I don't need other stuff from them, although making notes that go straight into a database or email has been useful.
As far as phones go, the only thing that makes SMS anything I want to use is the Bluetooth link from my Palm to my phone. ANd I don't use that much.
"From its humble origins in the 'hacker' culture of US computer science laboratories in the 1970s, open source software (OSS)"
That'd be the humblness of the groups of people who regarded themselves as the smartest computer scientists in the world and probably thought their universities were pretty good...
And regardless of the merits of the argument, if one was pointing back to then, calling it Free Software would be more historically accurate.
but doctors are not free to blog their side of the story.
Hipocrates put it quite well, and although there are constant efforts to erode confidentiality, the one area it has not been eroded in, at least round here, is in presenting an account of events relating to a patient's condition and management.
"The World Wide Fund for Nature Conservation (WWF) has also published a policy statement on renewable energy in the UK, which outlines that there is no evidence that wind turbines have a measurable effect on bird mortality. The statement concludes that: "It has been shown that strikes are highly unlikely to occur during good visibility conditions and in poor visibility birds are less likely to be in the vicinity of turbines. Further it has been found that most birds tend to fly over or around the turbines"."
http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/code/popup_faq_3.html
Comparison of fatal bird injuries from collisions with towers and windows Issn: 0273-8570 Journal: Journal of Field Ornithology Volume: 76 Issue: 2 Pages: 127-133 Authors: Veltri, Carl J., Klem, Daniel Birds do fly into things...t &issn=0273-8570&volume=076&issue=02&page=0127
http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-documen
I don't think we are going to devastate the biome with windmills. It is worth looking at what actually happens, and I think the basic science continues, but it is also worth considering what the effect of coal and oil have been on birds - not good I think.
while waiting for fusion (which the reactor in France is likely going to demonstrate) the UK needs to build some more fission reactors (preferably AGRs rather than PWRs becuase they work better, are safer and burn more fissile material).
But.
We use power all over the place, a little bit at each spot. It is not obvious that generating it all in one place and then moving it is the only way to handle it, and it may not be the best way to handle some of the load.
And windmills are fun.
That was one of his techniques for putting the reader in a different world.
Taken a while to catch up in real life, I'm still waiting for the reader control that slows as you relax, and then saves your place when you go to sleep.
Look up OpenVista, and build it on GT.M both are GPL.
I hope.
Rather than being something that you expect people not to enter, and regret having to lock, is not internetwork access now like the use of a road, which is paid for by people who lived there a long time ago and who live there now, but which other people are expected to use, on the basis that they provide similar access elsewhere, or are using it for purpsoes that are on average beneficial to the providers of whatever public good it is.
Expecting a visitor not to get water from the well or to keep his horse from drinking out of the Corporation trough seems mean and in the end adverse to all our interests.
Some time ago I saw the remark that the only part of the cost of a telephone call that could be directly assigned to an individual (user and) call was the cost of the ink for that line on the itemised bill.
That seems like a silly case to bring, and I hope that nobody who has a choice will be buying service form the company involved, now.
The Tungsten T5 syncs to the family Palm desktop diary etc at home, on an Apple Mac Mini, and to teh a Windows 2000 machine on the front desk at work. I'd as soon sync it to one of the Linux boxes at each end, but have not currently found something simple and easy and good enough to be worth the change.