Those who would preserve GPL software from the end of copyrights for software need to realize that the end of copyright preserves the four freedoms (Yes, it's a FSF reference, no, I didn't link it wrong).
Look, if it's secret, one copy is too many. For everything else, gmail it to five separate recipients. It's not like Google has ever lost any of the millions of emails I've received to date. (This is not a complaint -- they don't show me the spam unless I ask for it).
And if they ever did lose an email, well, to paraphrase an old Doritos commercial, "They'll make more."
Seriously, personally I view the the persistence of data as a problem. It's harder to let go of than it is to keep.
Did anyone expect anything other than spin from MS with regards to Open Source Software? Hmmm.
No.
Ok, one word posts can get good moderation but I'm willing to expand on this.
Microsoft's innovation is to sell the ideas of others as organic product. This is not really a new idea. See "Kufu: Expansions on the Art of Building Pyramids." (not cited)
I'm currently working my way through Cashman & Shelly's "Introduction to Computer Programming IBM/360 Assembler Language" (c)1969, Anaheim Publishing Company.
Familiar terms there include "DOS", "Work Areas" and "Control Macros"
I'm willing to bet there are a couple dozen ideas in this book that invalidate Microsoft patents.
For prior art on the rest of them you need only read Communications of the ACM, origin through 1981.
Look, Tim. I know it's Saturday but I need you to get to the switching center and shut down project ticktock right away. We're about to have some serious liability issues with it.
I hope you guys can get the good result that you really want.
But that is only a debug version BIOS which focus on this issue, later we will release Production BIOS for it ASAP.
Not only on this motherboard, but also on all the other motherboards which got the same issue.
So not just in this one high publicity case, but on all of their motherboards.
And also as our plan, we will take more time on Linux OS testing.
And I am sure Linux is becoming more popular and great OS.
I would say you got what you want here. Time will tell.
If possible, you can inform this message to any people as many as you can.
I'd say they got this one done too. That's pretty public.
Yes, it's lame that it was broken but now it's fixed. One week is pretty quick for a BIOS revision spin. Maybe it's OK to cut them some slack on this one now.
It's pretty clear that you don't get it and you aren't going to. The people who owned those resources once resent your use of them, as they do your use of the coal that drives your electric lights. They resent it because they were promised with "the full faith and confidence of these United States" that the promises offered to them had some basis in fact. Other people around the world today are wondering about the value of that phrase and finding it not reassuring for this reason among many others. This doesn't serve your interests at all. You would probably prefer that we kept our promises in the long run.
The first thing you need to know is that all of the major interests have blog centers where they monitor/. all day. Posts like yours that involve actual people involved with the issues at hand get modded down as a matter of course. That means you lose Karma, and your subsequent posts matter less as a matter of course.
Don't give up. It's a useful forum.
That said, give it up. Unless you live within a reasonable distance from a peering point you're not going to get a fair price for good bandwidth in Seattle. If you are lucky enough to be within line-of-sight I might be able to help you hook up a wireless connect. It'll cost you too, but it'll be worth it in the long run.
The 1990 experiment involved rural counties, and that's going well. As I mentioned, this law now involves hypothetical counties that don't exist within Washington state (although the original bill was immediate and involved all counties). As the law sits within Washington state you can get up to a symmetrical 100Mbps for $50 a month if you live in Grant county. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo are all building datacenters there now so (according to state legislators) it seems to not be working out. God help you if you pay property taxes in those areas though - real-estate prices are up on an average of >100% per year. Districts served by Comcast and USWorst? Call them and ask what you can get. They bought your state senator so they should know how much you need to pay to compensate them for that service.
Move to Tacoma. They get a symmetrical 10Mbps with Click! and I hear the service is great. Me, I'm moving to Shelton.
Comcast and Qwest own Seattle. It will not get better there. Ever.
Ok, so I get how some people have an axe to grind. Partisan politics and all that. I get that. Look, though. Moderation is supposed to be fair. The Navajo Nation is at mostly in Arizona. I have friends on the reservation there. John McCain is the Senator from Arizona. How in the world (to use a nice word) is the parent off topic? I've been to the Navajo Nation. I've been to the Apache Nation. They could both use his help, and all the other help they can get. Does the fact that he's currently a candidate for President eliminate all of the good he could do for these people? They need his help and he has it to give. Let's encourage him to give it.
Somebody doesn't want you to read the parent and has modded it down. I can afford a few comments worth of Karma burn so read it and decide for yourself.
Think to the future. 8 strands per house should be the minimum. I think Ma Bell proved sometime in the 60's that that was the optimum balance of cost per line. Remember that your development may be "played monopoly with" in the future. The cost of the media is nothing compared with the cost of the trench. When they buried the backbone along I-5 in the '90s I went out and watched. I couldn't get them to install me a tap. It's as big as your leg. Thousands of strands, mostly dark for now. There's lots of that stuff buried all over the country. They use a few for traffic cams. Bandwidth per strand is increasing exponentially. And yet the providers are trying to say Bandwidth is a precious limited resource. It's a scam.
I often wonder... is it a zero sum game? Is it possible to uplift the minimum to the point where eating bark (or pets, or God forbid, humans) is not a consideration even for the least advantaged among us? And if we do that, will we breed ourselves to extinction? Are the divisions better than the unity? Anyone who seeks power will tell you so, but are power seekers to be trusted?
Certainly improving access to information goes a good distance. People living in remote areas can learn that there is within a month's walk a place where food is more plentiful, where their children could have hope of survival. A month's walk is at least 300 miles. That's far enough to improve your fate. The realist in me understands that most of them, given the choice, will stay where they are because the familiar terror of rape and mutilation seems less risk than the terror of the unknown fate. Some few might escape the tragedy in the worst corners of the globe. The Darwinist in me accepts that that's the way it is and those that escape earn the survival of their progeny for the improvement of the genome. It's still sad.
Univerally, though, I have to say that warring factions are where it's at. I know enough of human nature to know that when there is one system under one government then the living conditions will be universally miserable before long, and that condition will persist until the demise of the species.
Forcing our civilized culture on others is wrong. It's bad. It's assimilation. Since this is a geek site, it's a violation of the prime directive. If some individuals reach escape velocity, that's not the same thing as poisoning their culture with our presupposed notions of propriety.
Lawyers in these cases have argued that "making available is the same as distributing," that a single shared song is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and a great many things that are far more absurd than my statement. The law is an ass and the lawyers in these cases are abusing the ignorance of the courts and the rights of the people.
It's time to take back ownership of our network, our computers, our rights to fair use and our right to "progress of science and useful arts" by taking back ownership of the related symbols. All of them. Where the constitution reads "securing for limited times" the framers did not intend for it to extend to over 100 years. 3 years is more like it. I could go with 30 days, or none.
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Those who would preserve GPL software from the end of copyrights for software need to realize that the end of copyright preserves the four freedoms (Yes, it's a FSF reference, no, I didn't link it wrong).
Be careful what you wish for.
Yeah, I can spell it. Get a libe.
Look, if it's secret, one copy is too many. For everything else, gmail it to five separate recipients. It's not like Google has ever lost any of the millions of emails I've received to date. (This is not a complaint -- they don't show me the spam unless I ask for it).
And if they ever did lose an email, well, to paraphrase an old Doritos commercial, "They'll make more."
Seriously, personally I view the the persistence of data as a problem. It's harder to let go of than it is to keep.
We need a ruling that software patents are void. We're well on the way. Recent Supreme Court rulings are indicative of a climate change in the Court.
People need to get behind the idea that software patents and copyrights serve to prevent "the progress of science and useful arts."
Progress is the goal. If the tool no longer serves it, it needs to be abandoned.
No.
Ok, one word posts can get good moderation but I'm willing to expand on this.
Microsoft's innovation is to sell the ideas of others as organic product. This is not really a new idea. See "Kufu: Expansions on the Art of Building Pyramids." (not cited)
I'm currently working my way through Cashman & Shelly's "Introduction to Computer Programming IBM/360 Assembler Language" (c)1969, Anaheim Publishing Company.
Familiar terms there include "DOS", "Work Areas" and "Control Macros"
I'm willing to bet there are a couple dozen ideas in this book that invalidate Microsoft patents.
For prior art on the rest of them you need only read Communications of the ACM, origin through 1981.
At least they intended it to be I'm sure.
Was either Thomas Jefferson or Lazarus Long. Both of them were well worth listening to.
A dozen Blackberrys are ringing.
Look, Tim. I know it's Saturday but I need you to get to the switching center and shut down project ticktock right away. We're about to have some serious liability issues with it.
After the weekend we can start on a workaround.
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So not just in this one high publicity case, but on all of their motherboards.
I would say you got what you want here. Time will tell.
I'd say they got this one done too. That's pretty public.
Yes, it's lame that it was broken but now it's fixed. One week is pretty quick for a BIOS revision spin. Maybe it's OK to cut them some slack on this one now.
It's pretty clear that you don't get it and you aren't going to. The people who owned those resources once resent your use of them, as they do your use of the coal that drives your electric lights. They resent it because they were promised with "the full faith and confidence of these United States" that the promises offered to them had some basis in fact. Other people around the world today are wondering about the value of that phrase and finding it not reassuring for this reason among many others. This doesn't serve your interests at all. You would probably prefer that we kept our promises in the long run.
Do you know the difference between all the heinous offenses you listed and the Trail of Tears?
You're still heating your house with the natural gas that yields from under the homes they were driven off of.
Do you get it now?
It seems that in the new Slashdot regime the default is to not show sigs. It surprised me, too.
The first thing you need to know is that all of the major interests have blog centers where they monitor /. all day. Posts like yours that involve actual people involved with the issues at hand get modded down as a matter of course. That means you lose Karma, and your subsequent posts matter less as a matter of course.
Don't give up. It's a useful forum.
That said, give it up. Unless you live within a reasonable distance from a peering point you're not going to get a fair price for good bandwidth in Seattle. If you are lucky enough to be within line-of-sight I might be able to help you hook up a wireless connect. It'll cost you too, but it'll be worth it in the long run.
The 1990 experiment involved rural counties, and that's going well. As I mentioned, this law now involves hypothetical counties that don't exist within Washington state (although the original bill was immediate and involved all counties). As the law sits within Washington state you can get up to a symmetrical 100Mbps for $50 a month if you live in Grant county. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo are all building datacenters there now so (according to state legislators) it seems to not be working out. God help you if you pay property taxes in those areas though - real-estate prices are up on an average of >100% per year. Districts served by Comcast and USWorst? Call them and ask what you can get. They bought your state senator so they should know how much you need to pay to compensate them for that service.
Move to Tacoma. They get a symmetrical 10Mbps with Click! and I hear the service is great. Me, I'm moving to Shelton.
Comcast and Qwest own Seattle. It will not get better there. Ever.
If you enjoy some benefit from the resources that were gained from the trail of tears then you are at least a little at fault, even today.
No matter how little, if you would venture an opinion, do try to know something about the matter. OK?
Ok, so I get how some people have an axe to grind. Partisan politics and all that. I get that. Look, though. Moderation is supposed to be fair. The Navajo Nation is at mostly in Arizona. I have friends on the reservation there. John McCain is the Senator from Arizona. How in the world (to use a nice word) is the parent off topic? I've been to the Navajo Nation. I've been to the Apache Nation. They could both use his help, and all the other help they can get. Does the fact that he's currently a candidate for President eliminate all of the good he could do for these people? They need his help and he has it to give. Let's encourage him to give it.
Somebody doesn't want you to read the parent and has modded it down. I can afford a few comments worth of Karma burn so read it and decide for yourself.
Think to the future. 8 strands per house should be the minimum. I think Ma Bell proved sometime in the 60's that that was the optimum balance of cost per line. Remember that your development may be "played monopoly with" in the future. The cost of the media is nothing compared with the cost of the trench. When they buried the backbone along I-5 in the '90s I went out and watched. I couldn't get them to install me a tap. It's as big as your leg. Thousands of strands, mostly dark for now. There's lots of that stuff buried all over the country. They use a few for traffic cams. Bandwidth per strand is increasing exponentially. And yet the providers are trying to say Bandwidth is a precious limited resource. It's a scam.
I often wonder... is it a zero sum game? Is it possible to uplift the minimum to the point where eating bark (or pets, or God forbid, humans) is not a consideration even for the least advantaged among us? And if we do that, will we breed ourselves to extinction? Are the divisions better than the unity? Anyone who seeks power will tell you so, but are power seekers to be trusted?
Certainly improving access to information goes a good distance. People living in remote areas can learn that there is within a month's walk a place where food is more plentiful, where their children could have hope of survival. A month's walk is at least 300 miles. That's far enough to improve your fate. The realist in me understands that most of them, given the choice, will stay where they are because the familiar terror of rape and mutilation seems less risk than the terror of the unknown fate. Some few might escape the tragedy in the worst corners of the globe. The Darwinist in me accepts that that's the way it is and those that escape earn the survival of their progeny for the improvement of the genome. It's still sad.
Univerally, though, I have to say that warring factions are where it's at. I know enough of human nature to know that when there is one system under one government then the living conditions will be universally miserable before long, and that condition will persist until the demise of the species.
Forcing our civilized culture on others is wrong. It's bad. It's assimilation. Since this is a geek site, it's a violation of the prime directive. If some individuals reach escape velocity, that's not the same thing as poisoning their culture with our presupposed notions of propriety.
John McCain to the rescue.
Seriously. He's the man for this job. It's in his domain. It'll be a good test of his influence and his geek credibility.
And he's advertising on slashdot now. That's so cool.
We are still waiting for that WAP wizard I wrote of long ago. Go to school. Be the WAP mesh wizard for the rest of us. I don't have time.
And we wore an onion on our belt, as was the fashion of the day.
Lawyers in these cases have argued that "making available is the same as distributing," that a single shared song is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and a great many things that are far more absurd than my statement. The law is an ass and the lawyers in these cases are abusing the ignorance of the courts and the rights of the people.
It's time to take back ownership of our network, our computers, our rights to fair use and our right to "progress of science and useful arts" by taking back ownership of the related symbols. All of them. Where the constitution reads "securing for limited times" the framers did not intend for it to extend to over 100 years. 3 years is more like it. I could go with 30 days, or none.
I'll listen to Ray. You - I don't know what side you're on. Listening to an opposing lawyer is dangerous and dumb.
Copyrights and software patents are headed for the ash heap of history. Maybe you should consider a new specialty.