Either you are an MS Shill, or you are totally ignorant of the fact that FireFox is FREE, or you are both ignorant AND an MS Shill. No one can be that dumb as to not know that FF is free, so you must be an MS Shill/fanboi.
In order to sell worthless mines some unscrupulous agents would put gold dust into a shotgun shell and shoot it at the wall of a mine. It doesn't take much dust to sparkle a lot and fool some folks into believing that the mine is more valuable than it really is.
Symantec is doing much the same thing, for the same purpose, which is to encourage Linux/FireFox/FOSS users to buy their worthless anti-virus software.
The "study" they cite conveniently forgets that the ONLY security holes that IE users KNOW about are the ones that MICROSOFT TELLS THEM ABOUT. History has taught us that many holes were known by Micosoft for months, and in some situations years, before they were publically revealed, and many times NOT by Microsoft! The other thing that IE users DON'T KNOW is HOW LONG they have been vulnerable to those holes that Microsoft announces a patch for. FOSS applications, on the other hand, encourage PUBLIC annoucements of any security discoveries, along with any proof of concept code that can be used to test the patch. Those that use FOSS applications can then take timely and appropriate measures to protect their PCs and their data until the patch is released, which is usually within a day or two. Windows users hang, twising in the winds of vulnerability for months at a time or longer. In fact, some security holes are never patched and Microsoft serves its own bottom line by telling victims of their software to "upgrade", as if that would protect them. P.T. Barnum was right, you CAN fool some of the people ALL of the time.
To use your lighted candle to light the candle of another takes NOTHING from you or your candle, but it pushes back the darkness for both of you.
In order to make money on candle light the Capitalist has to make candles illegal to own without a "license" -- imposing ARTIFICAL scarcity. That requires buying off politicians to get the law passed. Then someone lights a toothpick and used it to light someone elses candle, circumventing the law. Being the consumate Capitalist, you lobby Congress for another law (the Darkness Moving Candle Act) making it illegal manufacture candles without including an ingrediant which extinguishes the candle after a period of time, requiring a "license upgrade", or to use the candle for any other purpose except to illuminate YOUR vacinity, and requiring that no one else be in your vicinity who could benefit from your light without paying the "license" fee.
Thus, the Capitalist, because of their greed and by virtue of corrupt politicians puts a tollbooth on Light and keeps everyone who cannot afford their license in the dark. Humanity suffers but what do they care, living the luxury life in a half-dozen mansions scattered around the globe.
The core of this "strategy" is as old as prostitution: Pay of politicians and judges, directly or indirectly. Giant Multi-National corporations have the money to corrupt those individuals, FOSS projects to not. Only a grassroots groundswell of massive protest can fight the money.
That means exposing every person associated with the "judical system" in question to see what their connection is to Microsoft.
Does anybody know what the terms of the closed license actually are?
Our commercial license cost about $3,300 US for one developer and includes one year of email support and acess to the latest updates and releases at no charge. Which, I should add, is very good. With that license you get connectivity to all the major databases, and a license to distribute binaries of your app for either Windows or Linux. In my experience QT is an excellent development library.
I've seen you post this question on QtCentre, too.
Use QFileInfo::isFile to determine if the file exists, then QFileInfo::size returns the file size in bytes, or 0 or if the size is 0 or if the size cannot be fetched.
What's so hard about that? You've never run into tri-states before?
As such, you don't want to be saddled ith a language which requires you to think about every malloc(), to manipulate strings of characters as bytes, to set up event handler callback routines, or to call methods on layout-bag-grid-column junk.
It's obvious you've never used QT4.1.x/C++, or you wouldn't be mentioning malloc(), etc.
If I were to compare coding with the QT4 API to anything it would be Java on steroids. QT uses MOC, a meta-object compiler, to convert gui/api dependent coded to pure C++. Classes with the QOBJECT in it have automatic access to automatic memory management and garbage collection. Of course, if you use NEW its up to you to use DELETE before your method goes out of scope.
What is really nice is that I have written an app using Microsoft VC++ 2003/Qt on Windows against Oracle and compiled it on Linux against PostgreSQL with no code changes, using compiler defines to switch in and out the proper syntax at the appropriate places. It's an in-house app currently used in production. Saying it is lightening fast is an under statement.
For many of them, paying someone to be accountable is worth the rather small licensing fees.
Who's accountable?
Not Microsoft. Not any of the PC OEMs that include Windows on the products. Not Novell. Not any Linux distro I am aware of.
EVERY ONE OF THEM have disclaimers the limit their liability to $5 or less and put the entire onus on the user. No one has successfully sued Microsoft because they lost data or revenue when their Windows servers or desktops crashed. I am not aware of RH or any FOSS project losing a lawsuit filed by a user because of any problems they had using the OS or software.
So, exactly what accountability is someone buying when they pay for a subscription or a License?
Essentially, they are paying for a skilled voice at the other end of a phone line, or a reasonably timed professional response to an email asking for help. That service can be purchased independently of an OS or application, but even then those services have contractual escapes from "accountability" for any problems caused by using their service, or any software or hardware they support.
Having previously purchased a RHELS 3.0 one year subscription for $750, I can say that my experience with their support was not even as good as doing a google search for an answer to the questions I had. In fact, when RH support came back with an answer three business days later their solution was contained in two URLs, both of which I had located on my own within 20 minutes and before I posted my request for RH support. My son, the Oracle DBA, says that in his experience paid Oracle support is an oxymoron. He regularly uses Google and free, user maintained Oracle forums to solve problems.
Other organizations may give better support. I've found that Trolltech, for example, gives excellent support for their commerical QT products. But, YMMV.
All in all, the best and fastest support are the user forums and Google.
Thus, I do believe the 97% of the land mass statement you mentioned is a vast overstatement.
Actually, it is a GROSS understatement. http://healthandenergy.com/ethanol.htm Pimentel, who chaired a U.S. Department of Energy panel that investigated the energetics, economics and environmental aspects of ethanol production several years ago, subsequently conducted a detailed analysis of the corn-to-car fuel process.... Adding up the energy costs of corn production and its conversion to ethanol, 131,000 BTUs are needed to make 1 gallon of ethanol. One gallon of ethanol has an energy value of only 77,000 BTU.
"Put another way," Pimentel says, "about 70 percent more energy is required to produce ethanol than the energy that actually is in ethanol. Every time you make 1 gallon of ethanol, there is a net energy loss of 54,000 BTU."
Ethanol from corn costs about $1.74 per gallon to produce, compared with about 95 cents to produce a gallon of gasoline.
The Ethanol industry, mainly those companies whose main business is the making and running the Ethanol plants (17 have or are being built in Nebraska alone) has a counter argument: http://www.ncga.com/ethanol/pdfs/ShapouriEnergyBal ance2004.pdf The net energy balance of corn ethanol adjusted for byproduct credits is 27,729 and 33,196 Btu per gallon for wet- and dry-milling,
Now, considering that gasoline supplies 125,000 Btu's per gallon, it will take between 3.5 to 4.5 gallons of Ethanol to replace each gallon of gasoline, (using PRO Ehtanol figures) IF Ethanol is to be self-sustaining. When you compute the total gallons of gasoline the US burns every year and multiply that by 4, then divide by the average US Corn yield, you'll learn that it will take 50% MORE land than the total arable land in the US. You can't grow Corn on rocks or mountian slopes, or in deserts. In fact, it is becoming difficult to grow corn here in the Platte Valley of Nebraska because the Ogalala aquifer is getting low and the Neb Nat Resource district is strictly controlling the pumping of water. You may see a LARGE drop in Corn production to do the extended drought in the Midwest. So much for Corn as a dependable fuel source.
Corn is NOT a renewable resource. It isn't even a fuel. It's a food source. Would you rather someone starve so you can drive your SUV?
And once you've given your key to one other person you might as well remove the WEP or WPA. There will be people you never met using your wireless to do what ever they want, regardless of your wishes.
Seriously, let me be the first to say: I smell a Nobel prize for this one.
That was my first thought after reading the article!
But, at the speed at which Nobel winners are chosen probably 10-20 years will pass before they are so honored. Assuming, of course, that the research is proven correct.
Founded in 1969 as a computer time-sharing service, Columbus, Ohio-based CompuServe drove the initial emergence of the online service industry. In 1979, CompuServe became the first service to offer electronic mail capabilities and technical support to personal computer users. CompuServe broke new ground again in 1980 as the first online service to offer real-time chat online with its CB Simulator. By 1982, the company had formed its Network Services Division to provide wide-area networking capabilities to corporate clients.
CompuServe also led the interactive services industry overseas, entering the international arena in Japan in 1986 with Fujitsu and Nisso Iwai, developing a Japanese-language version of CompuServe called NIFTYSERVE. In 1989, the company expanded into Europe where it grew to be a leading Internet service provider.
A Key Brand
Since February 1998, CompuServe has been a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc. As part of the AOL Web Properties group, CompuServe plays an important role by providing Internet connectivity for value-minded consumers seeking both a dependable connection to the Internet and all the features and power of an online service. "
The original CompuServe was in competition with hundres of local Bulletin Board Systems. I was a user/member of several of them between 1979 until I connected to the Internet via dialup in the mid 90's. Some were social and some were professional BBSs.
All of them predate this "Intellectual Property".
When will the patent office award a patent for breathing? The way the USTPO agents work, or don't work, it won't be long now.
I tend to suspect that the oh-so-clever accounting techniques and special purpose entities Andrew Fastow cooked up to keep Enron's debts off their books was far more complicated than Ken could understand. (They're certainly too much for my little brain.) But instead of asking tough questions, Ken just shrugged and signed off on them.
Not so clever. Fastow merely copied Microsoft's accounting techniques, as several other companies have, but he over-used them. For example: getting a certain sleezbag NC politician to add a sneaky addemdum to an omnibus bill that would require the IRS to "refund" Microsoft every time an employee cashed in stock options given them to them by Microsoft in liou of cash. http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rule maker000217.htm Corporations pay taxes on their own income (generally 35%), but money they pay out in salaries to employees is deductible from the corporation's income. Since granting options to employees results in taxable income to those employees, Microsoft gets to deduct that taxable employee income from its own taxable corporate income, and that's where Microsoft got a tax-free $3.1 billion in cash in fiscal 1999: "Stock option income tax benefits."
Net result: The EMPLOYEE was TAXED when they exercised the option and YOU ended up paying for the development of Microsoft's applications, and Microsoft didn't have payroll deductions, state or federal income tax payments, or FICA shares. Pure profit, against which HONESTLY run companies had to unfairly compete.
IMHO, if I see a company that has a legit product being harmed by real patent infringement, it does make sense for them to sue the offender. However in this case, there is no product to talk off, nor does it seem like there is going to be a competing product from them.
The fault is, again, with the USTPO allowing a patent that had YEARS of prior art.
But, FireStar's "product" is/was called ObjectSpark. Then they changed it to "End-node" and finally "EdgeNode", which they "Introduce" on their website as if it is "new" technology. One of the three "customers" is S.W.I.F.T, an "Industry Owned" product written by HP to connect financial institutions via the internet.
Essentially they've done nothing with ObjectSpark and have hyped it in so many ways that no one can really say, from the archive of their website since Jan 2002, what ObjectSpark is, exactly. Probably the majority of their income stream has come from S.W.I.F.T, to which they act in a "support and maintainence" role. Four years elapsed between the time they recieved their patent and they offered "ObjectSpark" on their website. Their first public application was in 1998 and it was modified a few months later, then granted two years later. It is my suspecion that they cherry-picked the market during that period and that their patent is what Paul Graham calls a "Submarine Patent".
I believe that by the time the smoke clears RH will prevail.
I increased the number of people I call friends immeasurably because of the Internet. I may never meet them face to face, but we communicate directly and via forums almost on a daily basis.
And, thanks to the Internet, I keep closer contact with family members living else where. Also, thanks to the Internet, I have reestablished connnections with folks whom I haven't heard from in more than 30 years,or longer.
If anything, the Internet has brought the world closer together and we are all finding out that there is more that unites us than divides us.
where the Western Wiki presents the Western cultural view of things and events, and the Chinese Wike presents what the Communist Dictators dictate.
The usual route from academia to the market place
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will be followed by this technology, no doubt.
With University and Government funding the researchers will solve the technical problems but not publish the pivital ones. Then they will resign/retire from the University and start their own corporation, using the give-away program Congress has established whereby information that was discovered/learned/developed using public tax monies, and should remain in the public domain, is given to corporations for next to nothing, and some "campaign contributions".
Then, the principal researcher, formerly an academic but now a businessman, will file patents on the key technologies that he discovered while being funded by tax monies. With ethics and morals like that it's no wonder that American corporations are pocketing BILLIONS in excess oil profits during times of scarcity, while defunding retirement accounts and abandoning health insurance programs.
The public, as usual, begins getting billed continually for technology that they payed for in the beginning. Because of this scam we're now paying 10 times or more what we should be paying for medical diagnostics or treatment. Even as I write the cable weather companies are working feverishly behind your backs, bribing politicians and spreading disinformation, in order to gain SOLE control of your taxpayer funded data streaming from weather satellites and NexRad radar data. When you go to a gas/convenience store and pay for gas at the pump using your bank debit card, the store takes 4 or 5 times the value of the gas you pumped and keeps it, interest free, for 3 or 4 days before returning the difference back to your account. For one midwest chain that has 952 outlets I computed that the owners are pocketing over 4 MILLION/year in unearned interest on our money. Meanwhile, those living on a tight budget and unaware that their checking account is being ripped off, pay the bank $35-50 per bounced check, written on money that SHOULD HAVE BEEN in their account.
I installed PCLinuxOS.p92 for ATI8500+ and got curious as to how it would compare with Mandriva 2006, so I installed it too.
IMO, PCLinuxOS has better eye candy and is cleaner than Mandriva.
I also liked the fact that after I added a certain single app ALL video files, including the CNN videos, ran faultlessly. Every 3D app (foobilliard, csmash, crace, tuxracer, etc.) worked faultlessly. In my opinion, PCLinuxOS would make a perfect distro for Windows refugees.
But, I returned to MEPIS and installed MEPIS-6.0 beta2 because the repository has more apps, and it is more friendly to a developing environment than PCLinuxOS is. PCLinuxOS is based on rpm files and when I couldn't find an app (like Maxima or QT4) in their meager repository I had to resort to using RPMBone. There, I discovered that the only RPMs that were compatible with PCLinuxOS were the aging Mandrake 9.2 RPMs, and when trying to install some development tools I encountered that thing that caused me to leave Mandrake in the first place: discrepency hell.
I encounter very view discrepencies in MEPIS, but MEPIS still has menu structure awkwardness, and is not very eye appealing. PCLinuxOS has a MUCH better admin application than MEPIS, but MEPIS autoloads and configures so much stuff that going to the MEPIS OS Center is done primarily, for me, to turn wirelss connections on and off. I prefer MEPIS to Kubuntu because KDE is better supported in MEPIS, IMO, than in Kubuntu, which seems to be treated like a ztepchild to Ubuntu.
and they used it to communicate their activities to each other. It could reach for miles and had the police confused since they couldn't figure out how the radicals were communicating.
It was easy. They took high powered audio amplifiers and connected the wires which would have gone to speakers to steel rods driven into the ground several feet apart. I don't remember exactly how far apart they were. One could recieve the signals by attaching a sensitive audio applifier to a similar set of rods. IIRC, with 250 watts of output power they were able to communicate 10-15 miles "underground".
The workstation I am using to write this message is a Dell Optiplex GX260.
SimplyMEPIS-6.0 fits onto it like a silk glove, with all peripherals automatically recognized and installed, including accelerated video. If I didn't know better I'd swear Dell made this box especially for a debian-based distro.
Microsoft's own Encarta defines Fascism as: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761568245/Fasc ism.html "Fascism rejects liberal ideas such as freedom and individual rights, and often presses for the destruction of elections, legislatures, and other elements of democracy.", which is an uncited excerpt from the writings of Oxford professor Roger Griffin.
Another website defined Fascism as: "Mussolini said that fascism should more properly be called "corporatism" since it was, under Mussolini, a blending of state and corporate power. Mussolini ought to know; he was the first fascist leader."
But, I like what Henery A Wallace said, in 1944: http://www.furnitureforthepeople.com/danger.htm " If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful....
American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information,...
Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion. American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned with their German counterparts before the war, and are even now preparing to resume where they left off, after "the present unpleasantness" ceases: The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. "
That last sentence defines what is now called 'FUD'. The Germans are no longer the threat they once were, but Microsoft has seen no problem helping the Communist in China round up dissidents and jail them, or worse.
Now, Microsoft is calling in its chips, all those "campaign contributions" it has flooded the Congress and the Senate with.
Do you NOW see what happens when Justice is thwarted and the guilty are given mere slaps on the wrist and with a wink and a nod told they can continue with "business as usual"?
From early reports the odds are that they are right. Now they won't have to manufacture phoney Linux bugs in their lab in a vain attempt to generate revenue from Linux users.
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Either you are an MS Shill, or you are totally ignorant of the fact that FireFox is FREE, or you are both ignorant AND an MS Shill. No one can be that dumb as to not know that FF is free, so you must be an MS Shill/fanboi.
In order to sell worthless mines some unscrupulous agents would put gold dust into a shotgun shell and shoot it at the wall of a mine. It doesn't take much dust to sparkle a lot and fool some folks into believing that the mine is more valuable than it really is.
Symantec is doing much the same thing, for the same purpose, which is to encourage Linux/FireFox/FOSS users to buy their worthless anti-virus software.
The "study" they cite conveniently forgets that the ONLY security holes that IE users KNOW about are the ones that MICROSOFT TELLS THEM ABOUT. History has taught us that many holes were known by Micosoft for months, and in some situations years, before they were publically revealed, and many times NOT by Microsoft! The other thing that IE users DON'T KNOW is HOW LONG they have been vulnerable to those holes that Microsoft announces a patch for. FOSS applications, on the other hand, encourage PUBLIC annoucements of any security discoveries, along with any proof of concept code that can be used to test the patch. Those that use FOSS applications can then take timely and appropriate measures to protect their PCs and their data until the patch is released, which is usually within a day or two. Windows users hang, twising in the winds of vulnerability for months at a time or longer. In fact, some security holes are never patched and Microsoft serves its own bottom line by telling victims of their software to "upgrade", as if that would protect them. P.T. Barnum was right, you CAN fool some of the people ALL of the time.
to paraphrase a Founding Father.
To use your lighted candle to light the candle of another takes NOTHING from you or your candle, but it pushes back the darkness for both of you.
In order to make money on candle light the Capitalist has to make candles illegal to own without a "license" -- imposing ARTIFICAL scarcity. That requires buying off politicians to get the law passed. Then someone lights a toothpick and used it to light someone elses candle, circumventing the law. Being the consumate Capitalist, you lobby Congress for another law (the Darkness Moving Candle Act) making it illegal manufacture candles without including an ingrediant which extinguishes the candle after a period of time, requiring a "license upgrade", or to use the candle for any other purpose except to illuminate YOUR vacinity, and requiring that no one else be in your vicinity who could benefit from your light without paying the "license" fee.
Thus, the Capitalist, because of their greed and by virtue of corrupt politicians puts a tollbooth on Light and keeps everyone who cannot afford their license in the dark. Humanity suffers but what do they care, living the luxury life in a half-dozen mansions scattered around the globe.
Not really.
The core of this "strategy" is as old as prostitution: Pay of politicians and judges, directly or indirectly. Giant Multi-National corporations have the money to corrupt those individuals, FOSS projects to not. Only a grassroots groundswell of massive protest can fight the money.
That means exposing every person associated with the "judical system" in question to see what their connection is to Microsoft.
Our commercial license cost about $3,300 US for one developer and includes one year of email support and acess to the latest updates and releases at no charge. Which, I should add, is very good.
With that license you get connectivity to all the major databases, and a license to distribute binaries of your app for either Windows or Linux. In my experience QT is an excellent development library.
I've seen you post this question on QtCentre, too.
Use QFileInfo::isFile to determine if the file exists, then QFileInfo::size returns the file size in bytes, or 0 or if the size is 0 or if the size cannot be fetched.
What's so hard about that? You've never run into tri-states before?
It's obvious you've never used QT4.1.x/C++, or you wouldn't be mentioning malloc(), etc.
If I were to compare coding with the QT4 API to anything it would be Java on steroids. QT uses MOC, a meta-object compiler, to convert gui/api dependent coded to pure C++. Classes with the QOBJECT in it have automatic access to automatic memory management and garbage collection. Of course, if you use NEW its up to you to use DELETE before your method goes out of scope.
What is really nice is that I have written an app using Microsoft VC++ 2003/Qt on Windows against Oracle and compiled it on Linux against PostgreSQL with no code changes, using compiler defines to switch in and out the proper syntax at the appropriate places. It's an in-house app currently used in production. Saying it is lightening fast is an under statement.
Who's accountable?
Not Microsoft. Not any of the PC OEMs that include Windows on the products. Not Novell. Not any Linux distro I am aware of.
EVERY ONE OF THEM have disclaimers the limit their liability to $5 or less and put the entire onus on the user. No one has successfully sued Microsoft because they lost data or revenue when their Windows servers or desktops crashed. I am not aware of RH or any FOSS project losing a lawsuit filed by a user because of any problems they had using the OS or software.
So, exactly what accountability is someone buying when they pay for a subscription or a License?
Essentially, they are paying for a skilled voice at the other end of a phone line, or a reasonably timed professional response to an email asking for help. That service can be purchased independently of an OS or application, but even then those services have contractual escapes from "accountability" for any problems caused by using their service, or any software or hardware they support.
Having previously purchased a RHELS 3.0 one year subscription for $750, I can say that my experience with their support was not even as good as doing a google search for an answer to the questions I had. In fact, when RH support came back with an answer three business days later their solution was contained in two URLs, both of which I had located on my own within 20 minutes and before I posted my request for RH support. My son, the Oracle DBA, says that in his experience paid Oracle support is an oxymoron. He regularly uses Google and free, user maintained Oracle forums to solve problems.
Other organizations may give better support. I've found that Trolltech, for example, gives excellent support for their commerical QT products. But, YMMV.
All in all, the best and fastest support are the user forums and Google.
Actually, it is a GROSS understatement.
http://healthandenergy.com/ethanol.htm
Pimentel, who chaired a U.S. Department of Energy panel that investigated the energetics, economics and environmental aspects of ethanol production several years ago, subsequently conducted a detailed analysis of the corn-to-car fuel process.
Adding up the energy costs of corn production and its conversion to ethanol, 131,000 BTUs are needed to make 1 gallon of ethanol. One gallon of ethanol has an energy value of only 77,000 BTU.
"Put another way," Pimentel says, "about 70 percent more energy is required to produce ethanol than the energy that actually is in ethanol. Every time you make 1 gallon of ethanol, there is a net energy loss of 54,000 BTU."
Ethanol from corn costs about $1.74 per gallon to produce, compared with about 95 cents to produce a gallon of gasoline.
The Ethanol industry, mainly those companies whose main business is the making and running the Ethanol plants (17 have or are being built in Nebraska alone) has a counter argument:
http://www.ncga.com/ethanol/pdfs/ShapouriEnergyBa
The net energy balance of corn ethanol adjusted for byproduct credits is 27,729 and 33,196 Btu per gallon for wet- and dry-milling,
Now, considering that gasoline supplies 125,000 Btu's per gallon, it will take between 3.5 to 4.5 gallons of Ethanol to replace each gallon of gasoline, (using PRO Ehtanol figures) IF Ethanol is to be self-sustaining. When you compute the total gallons of gasoline the US burns every year and multiply that by 4, then divide by the average US Corn yield, you'll learn that it will take 50% MORE land than the total arable land in the US. You can't grow Corn on rocks or mountian slopes, or in deserts. In fact, it is becoming difficult to grow corn here in the Platte Valley of Nebraska because the Ogalala aquifer is getting low and the Neb Nat Resource district is strictly controlling the pumping of water. You may see a LARGE drop in Corn production to do the extended drought in the Midwest. So much for Corn as a dependable fuel source.
Corn is NOT a renewable resource. It isn't even a fuel. It's a food source. Would you rather someone starve so you can drive your SUV?
And once you've given your key to one other person you might as well remove the WEP or WPA. There will be people you never met using your wireless to do what ever they want, regardless of your wishes.
That was my first thought after reading the article!
But, at the speed at which Nobel winners are chosen probably 10-20 years will pass before they are so honored. Assuming, of course, that the research is proven correct.
"An Internet Pioneer
Founded in 1969 as a computer time-sharing service, Columbus, Ohio-based CompuServe drove the initial emergence of the online service industry. In 1979, CompuServe became the first service to offer electronic mail capabilities and technical support to personal computer users. CompuServe broke new ground again in 1980 as the first online service to offer real-time chat online with its CB Simulator. By 1982, the company had formed its Network Services Division to provide wide-area networking capabilities to corporate clients.
CompuServe also led the interactive services industry overseas, entering the international arena in Japan in 1986 with Fujitsu and Nisso Iwai, developing a Japanese-language version of CompuServe called NIFTYSERVE. In 1989, the company expanded into Europe where it grew to be a leading Internet service provider.
A Key Brand
Since February 1998, CompuServe has been a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc. As part of the AOL Web Properties group, CompuServe plays an important role by providing Internet connectivity for value-minded consumers seeking both a dependable connection to the Internet and all the features and power of an online service. "
The original CompuServe was in competition with hundres of local Bulletin Board Systems. I was a user/member of several of them between 1979 until I connected to the Internet via dialup in the mid 90's. Some were social and some were professional BBSs.
All of them predate this "Intellectual Property".
When will the patent office award a patent for breathing? The way the USTPO agents work, or don't work, it won't be long now.
Not so clever. Fastow merely copied Microsoft's accounting techniques, as several other companies have, but he over-used them. For example: getting a certain sleezbag NC politician to add a sneaky addemdum to an omnibus bill that would require the IRS to "refund" Microsoft every time an employee cashed in stock options given them to them by Microsoft in liou of cash.
http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rul
Corporations pay taxes on their own income (generally 35%), but money they pay out in salaries to employees is deductible from the corporation's income. Since granting options to employees results in taxable income to those employees, Microsoft gets to deduct that taxable employee income from its own taxable corporate income, and that's where Microsoft got a tax-free $3.1 billion in cash in fiscal 1999: "Stock option income tax benefits."
Net result: The EMPLOYEE was TAXED when they exercised the option and YOU ended up paying for the development of Microsoft's applications, and Microsoft didn't have payroll deductions, state or federal income tax payments, or FICA shares. Pure profit, against which HONESTLY run companies had to unfairly compete.
The fault is, again, with the USTPO allowing a patent that had YEARS of prior art.
But, FireStar's "product" is/was called ObjectSpark. Then they changed it to "End-node" and finally "EdgeNode", which they "Introduce" on their website as if it is "new" technology. One of the three "customers" is S.W.I.F.T, an "Industry Owned" product written by HP to connect financial institutions via the internet.
Essentially they've done nothing with ObjectSpark and have hyped it in so many ways that no one can really say, from the archive of their website since Jan 2002, what ObjectSpark is, exactly. Probably the majority of their income stream has come from S.W.I.F.T, to which they act in a "support and maintainence" role. Four years elapsed between the time they recieved their patent and they offered "ObjectSpark" on their website. Their first public application was in 1998 and it was modified a few months later, then granted two years later. It is my suspecion that they cherry-picked the market during that period and that their patent is what Paul Graham calls a "Submarine Patent".
I believe that by the time the smoke clears RH will prevail.
I increased the number of people I call friends immeasurably because of the Internet. I may never meet them face to face, but we communicate directly and via forums almost on a daily basis.
And, thanks to the Internet, I keep closer contact with family members living else where. Also, thanks to the Internet, I have reestablished connnections with folks whom I haven't heard from in more than 30 years,or longer.
If anything, the Internet has brought the world closer together and we are all finding out that there is more that unites us than divides us.
That about sums it up.
I would guess that within a month or two of VISTA's final release this SCO lawsuit will go away.
where the Western Wiki presents the Western cultural view of things and events, and the Chinese Wike presents what the Communist Dictators dictate.
will be followed by this technology, no doubt.
With University and Government funding the researchers will solve the technical problems but not publish the pivital ones. Then they will resign/retire from the University and start their own corporation, using the give-away program Congress has established whereby information that was discovered/learned/developed using public tax monies, and should remain in the public domain, is given to corporations for next to nothing, and some "campaign contributions".
Then, the principal researcher, formerly an academic but now a businessman, will file patents on the key technologies that he discovered while being funded by tax monies. With ethics and morals like that it's no wonder that American corporations are pocketing BILLIONS in excess oil profits during times of scarcity, while defunding retirement accounts and abandoning health insurance programs.
The public, as usual, begins getting billed continually for technology that they payed for in the beginning. Because of this scam we're now paying 10 times or more what we should be paying for medical diagnostics or treatment. Even as I write the cable weather companies are working feverishly behind your backs, bribing politicians and spreading disinformation, in order to gain SOLE control of your taxpayer funded data streaming from weather satellites and NexRad radar data. When you go to a gas/convenience store and pay for gas at the pump using your bank debit card, the store takes 4 or 5 times the value of the gas you pumped and keeps it, interest free, for 3 or 4 days before returning the difference back to your account. For one midwest chain that has 952 outlets I computed that the owners are pocketing over 4 MILLION/year in unearned interest on our money. Meanwhile, those living on a tight budget and unaware that their checking account is being ripped off, pay the bank $35-50 per bounced check, written on money that SHOULD HAVE BEEN in their account.
Evil scams.
I installed PCLinuxOS.p92 for ATI8500+ and got curious as to how it would compare with Mandriva 2006, so I installed it too.
IMO, PCLinuxOS has better eye candy and is cleaner than Mandriva.
I also liked the fact that after I added a certain single app ALL video files, including the CNN videos, ran faultlessly. Every 3D app (foobilliard, csmash, crace, tuxracer, etc.) worked faultlessly. In my opinion, PCLinuxOS would make a perfect distro for Windows refugees.
But, I returned to MEPIS and installed MEPIS-6.0 beta2 because the repository has more apps, and it is more friendly to a developing environment than PCLinuxOS is. PCLinuxOS is based on rpm files and when I couldn't find an app (like Maxima or QT4) in their meager repository I had to resort to using RPMBone. There, I discovered that the only RPMs that were compatible with PCLinuxOS were the aging Mandrake 9.2 RPMs, and when trying to install some development tools I encountered that thing that caused me to leave Mandrake in the first place: discrepency hell.
I encounter very view discrepencies in MEPIS, but MEPIS still has menu structure awkwardness, and is not very eye appealing. PCLinuxOS has a MUCH better admin application than MEPIS, but MEPIS autoloads and configures so much stuff that going to the MEPIS OS Center is done primarily, for me, to turn wirelss connections on and off. I prefer MEPIS to Kubuntu because KDE is better supported in MEPIS, IMO, than in Kubuntu, which seems to be treated like a ztepchild to Ubuntu.
and they used it to communicate their activities to each other. It could reach for miles and had the police confused since they couldn't figure out how the radicals were communicating.
It was easy. They took high powered audio amplifiers and connected the wires which would have gone to speakers to steel rods driven into the ground several feet apart. I don't remember exactly how far apart they were. One could recieve the signals by attaching a sensitive audio applifier to a similar set of rods. IIRC, with 250 watts of output power they were able to communicate 10-15 miles "underground".
The workstation I am using to write this message is a Dell Optiplex GX260.
SimplyMEPIS-6.0 fits onto it like a silk glove, with all peripherals automatically recognized and installed, including accelerated video. If I didn't know better I'd swear Dell made this box especially for a debian-based distro.
it can supply an infinate amount of power!!!
So, all of you using Cold Fusion can now make the switch to an Environmentaly Safe source of power!
or something like that.
As much as I dislike Microsoft I am glad they told those patent lizards to take a hike.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761568245/Fas
"Fascism rejects liberal ideas such as freedom and individual rights, and often presses for the destruction of elections, legislatures, and other elements of democracy.", which is an uncited excerpt from the writings of Oxford professor Roger Griffin.
Another website defined Fascism as: "Mussolini said that fascism should more properly be called "corporatism" since it was, under Mussolini, a blending of state and corporate power. Mussolini ought to know; he was the first fascist leader."
But, I like what Henery A Wallace said, in 1944:
http://www.furnitureforthepeople.com/danger.htm
" If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information,
Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion. American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned with their German counterparts before the war, and are even now preparing to resume where they left off, after "the present unpleasantness" ceases: The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
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That last sentence defines what is now called 'FUD'. The Germans are no longer the threat they once were, but Microsoft has seen no problem helping the Communist in China round up dissidents and jail them, or worse.
Now, Microsoft is calling in its chips, all those "campaign contributions" it has flooded the Congress and the Senate with.
Do you NOW see what happens when Justice is thwarted and the guilty are given mere slaps on the wrist and with a wink and a nod told they can continue with "business as usual"?
XP and its predecessors.
From early reports the odds are that they are right. Now they won't have to manufacture phoney Linux bugs in their lab in a vain attempt to generate revenue from Linux users.