Wow! Only Americans are disabled! if that isnt good news... The guy I saw in a wheelchair over here must have been an illusion.
But besides that, of course you can sell something that codes information entirely in colors, when it's just a recoding of some other information channel used as additional information channel.
Check the survey that asks how mans % think that MS is doing enough to enhance WinLin interoperability. I think it's 12% or 13%... so there is an overwhelming majority that wishes MS would say:
"Hmm... how can we make Office emulate OpenOffice? How can we make our desktop look like KDE? How can we share files with SMB?".
I managed to plug in a harddrive on which someone had put a jumper onto the alternate 3.5'' style power connector. Guess he didn't see that the _real_ jumpers were down on the circuit board of the drive and not on the back as usual.
I totally agree to LuYu answer. Freedom of speech is something you should always preserve, with no exception. Are you living in a democratic country or what?
Obviosly in a country where you can spy at someones screen and instead of getting sued for that sue his pants of.
I think people saying stuff to promote censoreship are spoiled brat.
this is not censorship. your company is not your ISP who you could expect unrestricted access from.
Go to China, go to Iran and you'll enjoy a good censoreship state... That is ridiculous. People in America and in every free countries had to fight hard, had to give their life to support freedom of speech. You are just insulting them.
Oh this was in America? I would have expected some such court decisions in a country that doesnt claim to respect freedom of thought and freedom of speech... Like let's say Iraq or China...
When decisions like that are made in a conutry thats proud of freedom, then something went wrong in the first place. This verdict is a slap into the face of everyone who fights for freedom. And if you support that, you should go to China.
Neither me nor that other poster support that silliness. And don't blame him when crap like that forced his company to choose between a webfilter or more of those frivoulous lawsuits. Blame the jurisdiction, the system or the country that supports it.
Now mod me down.... at least I'm not writing as AC.
Not exactly. Your friend might do a quick sanity check on your advice, opposing to a computer system. Like: "Don't go drinking with the pope/your mum/local priest/. He's a troublemaker when pissed and picks up fights"
And it's not like you're telling it to every guy in town.
Well if you've been in brawls or done damage to other bars then I for one really wouldn't want you at my bar. I tend to think of it as one bar tender calling me and telling me "Watch out for this punk.
And what if that bartender calles the other bartender "Watch out for that punk Talez" and you never have actually been in some kind of brawl? Someone might spread rumours without that system too, but that wouldnt result in an "easy and automatic" ban in all bars across town.
What if for some reason a bar decides you have a 500$-tab? (we all know about computer bugs...) They would have to go to court if they want that money from you. But not anymore. they just can blacklist you for all pubs nationwide and wait till you saved enough money to pay a lawyer to sue them. Thats quite close to blackmail.
no. GUI are about beeing used to some or some other kind of logic.
I think GIMP pute the things where you might expect them you you wouldn't be used to them beeing somwehere completle else - where they might or might not belong.
It's easy to make a better user interface, that no one can work with cause the commands are where they belong and not where MS put them.
If I want to play... let's say "Dark Age of Camelot" and it (may or may not) needs admin rights to run, I just should play Sim City instead?
If CD from Artist X isn't playing on my home stereo thanks to some "copy"-protection, just buy CD from ARtist Y instead?
Thats rightout stupid. Even though it's exactly the way I do... my choices are beeing stuck to playing KDE-solitaire and nethack or install Windows on my machine...:-)
hey certainly can't trademark the system at all, because the system itself is based on numbers, and you can't trademark numbers. As Intel found out, hence the "Pentium" rather than the "80586"
I always thought that was cause they did 486+100 on the first prototype and couldn't fitt all the decimals onto the chip case:-)
Finally, what really surprises me is how many people weren't aware that Dewey Decimal was a brand name.
I'm surprised to find that it's a product at all. I mean, it's 'just' an ordered list, a sequence, like 1 to 9 or the scheme letters are ordered to form the alphabet.
I think no one ever had the idea of inventing (and making a trademark out of it) an alternative alphabet. I know I learned that back when I was a kid, but then again I was always one of those strange creatures who actually read all the trivial fine print crammed into the front and back books and leaflets, and just had to find out what all those obscure disclaimers and printer's marks meant.
Hey, we're reading/. we're the people who have been called strange:-)
How many mp3 are in your collection labeled as "The Beatles" and how many are labled "Beatles"? And while you're at it... count the ones labled "Beatles, The" too.
Let some typos come into it and see how usefull the system might be in the end.
IIRC book in the French national library are shelved by size.
The backdraw of course is that browsing is impossible. The shelves aren't accessible by public anyways. You give the catalog numbers at the desk and get the books one hour later...
Seems the need to save space got more pressing than the need for public browsing.
>> Transposing letters is not (and never has been) the 'Slashdot effect'.
>Exactly. The correct term for this is Sldahost efcfet
Thats what he wanted to type. But then the Sldahost efcfet kicked in....
Slashdot Mirror
No no... you're confusing that......
Iranians will be arrested cause they have orange status and *not* because of their iranian papers....
Biiig difference....
Oh you already figured out how this will work....
gentoo's emerge -U world comes pretty close to an automatic update
And in Soviet Russia the cars steal you?
Wow! Only Americans are disabled! if that isnt good news... The guy I saw in a wheelchair over here must have been an illusion.
But besides that, of course you can sell something that codes information entirely in colors, when it's just a recoding of some other information channel used as additional information channel.
None of those websites mentioned will ever come near my computer!
Wasnt AOL on the list too?
>For the life of me I can't figure out where people believe they should get TV for free
.. .. ..
What makes you think you can get insightful and entertaining thoughts like the one in my postin for free?
So send me a $1 money order for reading this post or i'll have to force you to read the commercial at the end of this posting.
I SAID READ THE COMMERCIAL OR I HAVE TO FORCE YOU TO READ.
What do you mean, I cant force you to read it? Oh yes... you're right... I cant force you....
bickerdyke
P.S: Just imagine ANY commercial you like here
Might take a while depending from your recording format, but why not use VCD made from your recordings for portability?
Does anyone happen to know how long converting material from a VDR (for DVB-Broadcasts) takes?
not Troll. Just a RTFA.
Check the survey that asks how mans % think that MS is doing enough to enhance WinLin interoperability. I think it's 12% or 13%... so there is an overwhelming majority that wishes MS would say:
"Hmm... how can we make Office emulate OpenOffice? How can we make our desktop look like KDE? How can we share files with SMB?".
Harmless....
I managed to plug in a harddrive on which someone had put a jumper onto the alternate 3.5'' style power connector. Guess he didn't see that the _real_ jumpers were down on the circuit board of the drive and not on the back as usual.
Fried the power supply, but the drive survived.
I totally agree to LuYu answer. Freedom of speech is something you should always preserve, with no exception. Are you living in a democratic country or what?
Obviosly in a country where you can spy at someones screen and instead of getting sued for that sue his pants of.
I think people saying stuff to promote censoreship are spoiled brat.
this is not censorship. your company is not your ISP who you could expect unrestricted access from.
Go to China, go to Iran and you'll enjoy a good censoreship state... That is ridiculous. People in America and in every free countries had to fight hard, had to give their life to support freedom of speech. You are just insulting them.
Oh this was in America? I would have expected some such court decisions in a country that doesnt claim to respect freedom of thought and freedom of speech... Like let's say Iraq or China...
When decisions like that are made in a conutry thats proud of freedom, then something went wrong in the first place. This verdict is a slap into the face of everyone who fights for freedom. And if you support that, you should go to China.
Neither me nor that other poster support that silliness. And don't blame him when crap like that forced his company to choose between a webfilter or more of those frivoulous lawsuits. Blame the jurisdiction, the system or the country that supports it.
Now mod me down.... at least I'm not writing as AC.Not exactly. Your friend might do a quick sanity check on your advice, opposing to a computer system. Like: "Don't go drinking with the pope/your mum/local priest/. He's a troublemaker when pissed and picks up fights" And it's not like you're telling it to every guy in town.
Well if you've been in brawls or done damage to other bars then I for one really wouldn't want you at my bar. I tend to think of it as one bar tender calling me and telling me "Watch out for this punk.
And what if that bartender calles the other bartender "Watch out for that punk Talez" and you never have actually been in some kind of brawl?
Someone might spread rumours without that system too, but that wouldnt result in an "easy and automatic" ban in all bars across town.
What if for some reason a bar decides you have a 500$-tab? (we all know about computer bugs...) They would have to go to court if they want that money from you. But not anymore. they just can blacklist you for all pubs nationwide and wait till you saved enough money to pay a lawyer to sue them. Thats quite close to blackmail.
...guess why it's called a BAR-code :-)
anyone ever saw a pub-code?
no. GUI are about beeing used to some or some other kind of logic. I think GIMP pute the things where you might expect them you you wouldn't be used to them beeing somwehere completle else - where they might or might not belong. It's easy to make a better user interface, that no one can work with cause the commands are where they belong and not where MS put them.
Everybody repeat: Daniel Kbelbck :-)
(German "Pop-Idol" runnerup)
Wow! what kind of logic is THAT?
:-)
If I want to play... let's say "Dark Age of Camelot" and it (may or may not) needs admin rights to run, I just should play Sim City instead?
If CD from Artist X isn't playing on my home stereo thanks to some "copy"-protection, just buy CD from ARtist Y instead?
Thats rightout stupid. Even though it's exactly the way I do... my choices are beeing stuck to playing KDE-solitaire and nethack or install Windows on my machine...
Espescially intresting: That law only referrs to the circumvention of _effective_ copy protections.
I wonder if that paper would count as an expert witness in court...
RTA and look at the creation day of the FAQ entry..... back in 2001.
BTW: Wasn't compaq the first company to replace the "press any key" with "press enter" just to avoid that question?
hey certainly can't trademark the system at all, because the system itself is based on numbers, and you can't trademark numbers. As Intel found out, hence the "Pentium" rather than the "80586"
I always thought that was cause they did 486+100 on the first prototype and couldn't fitt all the decimals onto the chip case :-)
numbering hotel rooms according to a library indexing system.... thats not infringement, thats a tribute!
Finally, what really surprises me is how many people weren't aware that Dewey Decimal was a brand name. /. we're the people who have been called strange :-)
I'm surprised to find that it's a product at all. I mean, it's 'just' an ordered list, a sequence, like 1 to 9 or the scheme letters are ordered to form the alphabet. I think no one ever had the idea of inventing (and making a trademark out of it) an alternative alphabet.
I know I learned that back when I was a kid, but then again I was always one of those strange creatures who actually read all the trivial fine print crammed into the front and back books and leaflets, and just had to find out what all those obscure disclaimers and printer's marks meant.
Hey, we're reading
How many mp3 are in your collection labeled as "The Beatles" and how many are labled "Beatles"? And while you're at it... count the ones labled "Beatles, The" too. Let some typos come into it and see how usefull the system might be in the end.
IIRC book in the French national library are shelved by size. The backdraw of course is that browsing is impossible. The shelves aren't accessible by public anyways. You give the catalog numbers at the desk and get the books one hour later... Seems the need to save space got more pressing than the need for public browsing.
>> Transposing letters is not (and never has been) the 'Slashdot effect'. >Exactly. The correct term for this is Sldahost efcfet Thats what he wanted to type. But then the Sldahost efcfet kicked in....
So why are they open by default?
THATS the cause. The need to block them is only curing the symptom.