if you don't enjoy running enough without all that crap strapped onto your body, you certainly won't do it consistently enough to get much long-term benefit. all the real runners i know (multiple marathons, triathlons, etc.) wouldn't even consider donning 90% of this junk during a serious run.
As part of the settlement or reparations, the EU should force Microsoft to pay for extensive ad campaigns and re-education initiatives targeted at providing users alternatives to Microsoft's own products (Linux, Mozilla, Real, etc.) -- that way, you not only get them to hand over cash (short-term pain), you also actually start fixing the whole monopoly problem to begin with.
I mean, what more blatant of a rip-off is Quaker Chewy Granola Bars - http://quakerchewy.com/
No wonder Chewbacca is so bitchy all the time if this is all he has to eat. At least Scooby snacks had a touch o' the wacky weed.
To some firms, their software development capability is a strategic asset, a "core competency" if you will. Other firms, even though they may be generally categorized as software firms, may not rely that much on actual software development as a source of competive advantage.
So, it really does depend on the situation -- generalizing to all "software companies" is a dangerous practice, for one approach (either outsourcing/offshoring or not) doesn't work for everyone.
In case anyone was worried about DRM dragging down consumers' ability to enjoy their content, the sheer number of "universal" DRM systems being proposed should effectively castrate their effectiveness.
As a kid, I was addicted to all 24 episodes of the original series (1978-1979), so I was really excited when I heard that SciFi would be putting this new mini-series on.
All in all, I was pretty impressed. For "made for TV," this is about as good as it gets, folks, and I'd definitely watch it if it were a series.
Verdict: Definitely TiVo-worthy
Tracy Reed did this last year (I think) -- Check this out. [ultraviolet.org]
Definitely makes you wonder how soon it will be before someone comes up with a way of intelligently integrating all these isolated WLANs to form a really nice mesh of urban connectivity.
I can't imagine America imposing its will on European nations and letting the US military push other countries around just out of convenience and without much regard for individual liberties or national sovereignty -- that's just not like the US that I know and love. Oh, wait a minute, it has been for the past 3 years now. D'oh!
The article doesn't mention how fast this thing is meant to go -- maybe it's no faster than the Segway (what, 12 mph?) -- at that speed, would this really be all that dangerous?
With that said, I would hope it could go 25-30 mph...any slower and I might as well just ride my bike.
Overall, I think it's a damn fine concept and shows that there's always room for creative thinking. But why do images of Tron keep flashing in my mind when I look at this thing??
...this is pretty scary. It seems like it covers about 80% of the functionality of your typical login/ID system implemented widely across the web.
It will be interesting to see if/how Microsoft pursues and protects this patent.
I really feel like owners of patents should be required to sue *everyone* that infringes, not just cherry-pick the richest few. That way, it would make overly broad patents potentially too expensive to enforce.
The PDA is fast and powerful (400 MHz ARM + 64 MB RAM) and NetChaser (http://www.bitsnbolts.com/netchaser.html) is cheap ($10), robust, and under active development.
I warwalk/wardrive with this combo all the time and it works like a champ.
I want the laptop to sense when I've dropped it and deploy *external* airbags to absorb the impact. Now that would be cool. Plus, you could use it as a pillow the next time your flight is delayed for 17 hours.
As someone who has gone through a lengthy, and ultimately unsuccessful, trademark application process, I don't understand how something as obvious as this gets approved.
When I was trying to obtain a service mark, the reviewing clerk denied my claim by coming up with several really thinly linked prior trademarks. None of them were anything even close to the services I provided, and the naming elements were all rather generic. My guess is that if I had gotten a different clerk, the outcome would have been quite different.
Amazing how poorly managed and regulated the most important governmental functions are. Sad, too.
If MS is forced to make changes to IE that will harm the user experience, but Eolas doesn't see any money in going after open-source browsers like Mozilla, perhaps this opens up a door for Mozilla (and other alternative independent browsers) to gain some momentum.
Lord knows I'd love to see the return of some diversity in the browsers that visit my site, and maybe then webmasters would stop ignoring HTML standards by developing sites that work correctly only in IE (man, am I sick of those).
Optimism may equate to naivete in this case, but I'm hoping this might help the online community in the long run (not that I agree with how Eolas is going about it).
...that a lot of companies will end up paying the invoices simply through bureaucratic inertia.
A bill comes in, it gets routed to A/P, it comes from someone the company has paid before, and it ends up getting payed.
SCO will make some money off this. Whether it's money they get to keep, and whether it's money they'll be fined on top of having to pay it back, are questions that will have to be answered by the courts. Makes you wanna throw up, doesn't it?
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What the hell?!? This idea sucks nearly as much as the idiotic escapades of those monkey-humping retards over at SCO. Maybe some of those insider-stock-selling, lying-through-their-teeth, can't-make-money-unless-I-sue-somebody fat old senior SCO managers are doing some freelance consulting on this thing.
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if you don't enjoy running enough without all that crap strapped onto your body, you certainly won't do it consistently enough to get much long-term benefit. all the real runners i know (multiple marathons, triathlons, etc.) wouldn't even consider donning 90% of this junk during a serious run.
No, wait, that's what the RNC is calling this year's election campaign.
That's what SCO's stock price would be in US$ were it not for unfounded litigation and rampant FUD.
Mario Monti: "...one hundred MILLION dollars...muhahahaha..."
Bill Gates: [yawn]
As part of the settlement or reparations, the EU should force Microsoft to pay for extensive ad campaigns and re-education initiatives targeted at providing users alternatives to Microsoft's own products (Linux, Mozilla, Real, etc.) -- that way, you not only get them to hand over cash (short-term pain), you also actually start fixing the whole monopoly problem to begin with.
"hmm...kiddie porn...kiddie porn...kiddie porn...dang, nothing here at all."
I mean, what more blatant of a rip-off is Quaker Chewy Granola Bars - http://quakerchewy.com/ No wonder Chewbacca is so bitchy all the time if this is all he has to eat. At least Scooby snacks had a touch o' the wacky weed.
...where all the file downloads are legal and everyone's bandwidth usage is below average.
Of course, I've read only this one.
So, it really does depend on the situation -- generalizing to all "software companies" is a dangerous practice, for one approach (either outsourcing/offshoring or not) doesn't work for everyone.
See http://www.gearbits.com/archives/000430.html for a respectable overview of why Microsoft might be at its zenith (ha ha) right now.
At least for a while...
As a kid, I was addicted to all 24 episodes of the original series (1978-1979), so I was really excited when I heard that SciFi would be putting this new mini-series on. All in all, I was pretty impressed. For "made for TV," this is about as good as it gets, folks, and I'd definitely watch it if it were a series. Verdict: Definitely TiVo-worthy
Tracy Reed did this last year (I think) -- Check this out. [ultraviolet.org] Definitely makes you wonder how soon it will be before someone comes up with a way of intelligently integrating all these isolated WLANs to form a really nice mesh of urban connectivity.
I can't imagine America imposing its will on European nations and letting the US military push other countries around just out of convenience and without much regard for individual liberties or national sovereignty -- that's just not like the US that I know and love. Oh, wait a minute, it has been for the past 3 years now. D'oh!
With that said, I would hope it could go 25-30 mph...any slower and I might as well just ride my bike.
Overall, I think it's a damn fine concept and shows that there's always room for creative thinking. But why do images of Tron keep flashing in my mind when I look at this thing??
of the AI's install software violate US cloning laws?
...this is pretty scary. It seems like it covers about 80% of the functionality of your typical login/ID system implemented widely across the web. It will be interesting to see if/how Microsoft pursues and protects this patent. I really feel like owners of patents should be required to sue *everyone* that infringes, not just cherry-pick the richest few. That way, it would make overly broad patents potentially too expensive to enforce.
The PDA is fast and powerful (400 MHz ARM + 64 MB RAM) and NetChaser (http://www.bitsnbolts.com/netchaser.html) is cheap ($10), robust, and under active development. I warwalk/wardrive with this combo all the time and it works like a champ.
I want the laptop to sense when I've dropped it and deploy *external* airbags to absorb the impact. Now that would be cool. Plus, you could use it as a pillow the next time your flight is delayed for 17 hours.
As someone who has gone through a lengthy, and ultimately unsuccessful, trademark application process, I don't understand how something as obvious as this gets approved. When I was trying to obtain a service mark, the reviewing clerk denied my claim by coming up with several really thinly linked prior trademarks. None of them were anything even close to the services I provided, and the naming elements were all rather generic. My guess is that if I had gotten a different clerk, the outcome would have been quite different. Amazing how poorly managed and regulated the most important governmental functions are. Sad, too.
Lord knows I'd love to see the return of some diversity in the browsers that visit my site, and maybe then webmasters would stop ignoring HTML standards by developing sites that work correctly only in IE (man, am I sick of those).
Optimism may equate to naivete in this case, but I'm hoping this might help the online community in the long run (not that I agree with how Eolas is going about it).
A bill comes in, it gets routed to A/P, it comes from someone the company has paid before, and it ends up getting payed.
SCO will make some money off this. Whether it's money they get to keep, and whether it's money they'll be fined on top of having to pay it back, are questions that will have to be answered by the courts. Makes you wanna throw up, doesn't it?
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- English#
- Basketweaving.net
Now, if it were open source...