It would be capitalism if Eolas was slugging it out with Microsoft in the marketplace. For now, this is subject to a court room.
My emphasis on "for now" relies on this going back to court where prior art once again demonstrates that much of the foundations of browsers and the Internet pre-date either. We really have to fix the patent examination and approval process. There are a number of areas (software being one and human genes another), where patents are ridiculous.
Being for the teachers is not the same as for the kids. The teachers' unions are for the former. That does not automatically make them for the latter. Their foremost objective is more teachers. A close second is more union members. Certainly the first is worthwhile goal, but notice that I didn't say anything about quality.
Around here there's a debate swirling over school vouchers to support sending underpriveleged kids to private schools. The union is against the notion entirely. The union frames the issue as taking money away from public schools. Perhaps, but they deny the proposition that vouchers mean that you don't have to be rich to attend a good school, and that kids shouldn't be forced to attend what may be a sucky local school. If they were truly for the kids, wouldn't they at least consider such measures plausible?
Then again, why should I be surprised that the union is against students and money going to largely non-union institutions? If you vehemently rule out any proposition that is not union-controlled regardless of the potential benefit to the kids, does that make you pro-kids? I don't think so.
Do we know that MS will spend any actual cash, or is this $x worth (full retail value) of MS products?
Seems more like fining a drug dealer to pay the victims of their trade, and they give away more drugs as penance thereby actually building a bigger market down the road.
The fact is that part of being a journalist is having integrity. It's part of the job description, just like being a cop or a fireman. The thing is, we lost the war with cops a long time ago, and we no longer expect them to have any. We still have high standards for journalists, and I want to maintain them.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears you've made the blanket statement that all cops lack integrity while at the same time insinuating that all journalists have it. If that is your premise, then I think your assumption is false on both counts. That would be nearly as fallacious as saying all politicians are corrupt regardless of their party affiliation.
Dont think taxi, think 747 vs Freight train. When a freight train crashes, it usually doesnt make the news unless there was something toxic on board or somone gets hurt.
Anything bigger that a sub-compact re-entering the atmosphere makesthenews. Over the last 20+ years, if it's been big and on its way down (Mir, SkyLab, Compton, Cosmos-954, etc) it sure as hell generated a lot of publicity.
What makes the news: Space shuttle blowing up or unmanned rocket blowing up?
Again, any time something CATOs on the pad it makes the news. For one thing, there really aren't that many launches. For another, rocket fuel tends to explode in dramatic fashion. Do manned launch failures stay in the news longer? Yes. But anything that goes ka-boom with a display on par with Vesuvius will grab the headlines.
1) This input design is primarily for a phone handset. What instance do you think that it's a good idea to insist on two hands and a pen (one hand to hold the phone, one to write hieroglyphics) to enter data? There are those chuckleheads who are attempting to dial by searching through the contacts on their phone, whilst driving on the freeway in a 2 ton SUV. Whoops! I just dropped my pen. Now where did that sucker go?
2) What about those instances where we don't have two hands available or can't devote the concentration required to ensure that the handwriting recognition is working?
The future does NOT lie in hand-writing recognition for all applications.
Europeans settlers came to america searching for gold, what they got was tobacco, timber and furs, and ultimately made alot more money that way.
Well, thank goodness someone was able to exploit North America! At the risk of sounding like an Enviro-Nazi, I'm not sure that everyone would agree in hindsight that cutting all the virgin timber, unfettered mining, hunting thousands of species to extinction or nearly so was such a good idea.
It may have turned out well for those who came, but we certainly didn't do right by what was already here. I think we can say that Native Americans are not entirely glad that they welcomed the first settlers. And while I'm wondering, why must space be the salvation of humanity? Why not fix the planet we're on? Man exists on this planet by design (creationists and evolutionists can read that however they like). Why does anyone assume that there is some nearby planet/moon/whatever where man can exist without resorting to ultra-extraordinary measures?
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I'm sorry, come again? HP and Sony don't perform R&D? You're myopic, right?
Dell may just be a product shop turning out commondities, but I think you're way off base about HP and Sony. Either that or these links are just a figment of my imagination.
MS does caching now. If I take my laptop home from work, I can still logon to the laptop even though I have no net connection. I suspect that it's comparing a hash of the password from a previously successful net connection. It allows me to access the local version of my network profile.
While I am in the P2P system it is pure hunting and gathering with no concern about cost. When I am in the CD store it is about deciding which of the CDs are worthy my hard earned money (and let's not forget the space they take up in my CD rack).
Would that have anything to do with whether or not you pay for P2P-source MP3s? If you're ripping your own stuff, cool. It seems to drive RIAA nuts, but I think that case falls into fair use. If you're talking about a pay service like Apple's iTunes, that's fine too. You're still paying for what you use. If you're grabbing copyrighted MP3s without paying for the artist's work in some fashion, then your argument doesn't work. It's like saying "I like stealing cars to joy ride rather than having to take the bus".
We hope, but then there's always the possibility of something not going exactly according to.plan.
he's only going for 100km (which means going straight-up very fast).
And then he's going to come down. I suspect the where component of down lies on some parabola the base of which could well be fairly wide if there is some kind of mishap (not that I'm hoping he crashes). Another reason why any launch site should be a quite some distance from anything of value.
I have to agree with the parent to your post. I was concerned, not with the fact that ESR wrote that missive, but because of some of the actual content:
I'm in at least semi-regular communication with most of the people and organizations who are causing you problems right now.
That one could be construed as involvement, participation, encouragement of such things as... say a DOS attack on SCO's website.
That's not freedom of speech. It's a question of being party to a criminal act. I think you read the parent post's concern incorrectly which of course led to the kind of off-kilter spirals that this forum is famous for.
No, I think the parent to your post got right. MS was able to get a much better deal ($) from ATI. And they could exert much greater control in formulating the deal. Sticking it to nVidia is probably viewed as a bonus.
Nothing from the MS PR machine is what it seems at face value (that's why it's PR). That's why I don't think this has anything to do with technical criteria. This is cost combined with "good enough" capability to improve Microsoft's prospects for profit in XBox2.
The answer is to discover which frequencies this interferes with and move the hams off of those frequencies.
1) Ham has been around a hell of a lot longer than the internet 2) HF isn't used for emrgency services? Since when? 3) Ham is an international, low cost, grass roots communications system. But you think we should junk it because utilities companies in the US want to make money as ISPs? 4) Even if many hams are old timers (as you put it) does that make it okay to take away their hobby? That's a piss poor justification for giving you what you want. "Screw them. They're old and can't do anything about it anyway." Instead, I suggest we remove your access to the internet since you seem to be just another script-kiddie haxor dood (getting trillions of dollars worth of p0rn).
If you extrapolated that to "if you don't like the US, leave" the locals (Americans) here on Slashdot would have you burned at the stake.
The situation with DC is patently absurd. There are third world countries that fare better at the hands of Congress than the citizens of DC. As to your "non-resident resident" note, at the very least those who live in DC should be considered part of Maryland or Virginia for the purposes of anything larger than a citywide function and be able to act accordingly (eg. voting). But that isn't an available option. And really neither is your suggestion to move out.
Fortunately that won't happen in DC, afterall it's not a state you know. Which means it isn't able to provide it's residents the same rights and privleges that real states can... like real representation in the House and Senate. 'Course, its not like we had a war over things like taxation without representation.
Someone PLEASE mod the parent up as major league insightful. I agree that lawyers should be paid commensurate with the work they put into the case. You can't expect the experience of a law degree for free. But Triv's point is right on. Why should the lawyer's get cash on the barrel, when the wronged party gets a voucher for a spare set of batteries?
Where are my freakin' mod points when I need them?
The real problem is that the bench doesn't know jack about software, let alone an OS kernel. So it comes down to who can convince the judge. IBM has done nothing thus far to establish their position. Our opinions of SCO aside, our hopes are unfortunately dependent on IBM and their response seems to be relative silence.
There are now so many claims and counter-claims that it would be helpful to have some sort of comparison of who claims to own what (name, source code, etc). My $.02.
Do you think we'd all start using the arabic word? Ignore the fact that there are different alphabets. Just think of the way the arabic word sounds. Again, do you think we'd use the word? Hell, no. Americans wouldn't stand for it.
Hmm... You mean a word like "Algebra"? Nah, we'd never do anything like THAT. Then again, there was the book "Al Gebr We'l Mukabala" by Al Khwarismi. You can find a reference here or here.
Now as for the French, who are you calling naive? If this was America pulling this stunt (can you say "Freedom Fries") we wouldn't hear some lame ass crap about messing up the language. This is just more anti-Anglo behavior from France. Or do you consider it conicidence that they also have restraints on how much American music can be played on radio stations? That's been around for ages.
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It would be capitalism if Eolas was slugging it out with Microsoft in the marketplace. For now, this is subject to a court room.
My emphasis on "for now" relies on this going back to court where prior art once again demonstrates that much of the foundations of browsers and the Internet pre-date either. We really have to fix the patent examination and approval process. There are a number of areas (software being one and human genes another), where patents are ridiculous.
Being for the teachers is not the same as for the kids. The teachers' unions are for the former. That does not automatically make them for the latter. Their foremost objective is more teachers. A close second is more union members. Certainly the first is worthwhile goal, but notice that I didn't say anything about quality.
Around here there's a debate swirling over school vouchers to support sending underpriveleged kids to private schools. The union is against the notion entirely. The union frames the issue as taking money away from public schools. Perhaps, but they deny the proposition that vouchers mean that you don't have to be rich to attend a good school, and that kids shouldn't be forced to attend what may be a sucky local school. If they were truly for the kids, wouldn't they at least consider such measures plausible?
Then again, why should I be surprised that the union is against students and money going to largely non-union institutions? If you vehemently rule out any proposition that is not union-controlled regardless of the potential benefit to the kids, does that make you pro-kids? I don't think so.
You mean like this one from Casio, or this unit from Timex (Warning: annoying flash)?
Do we know that MS will spend any actual cash, or is this $x worth (full retail value) of MS products?
Seems more like fining a drug dealer to pay the victims of their trade, and they give away more drugs as penance thereby actually building a bigger market down the road.
The fact is that part of being a journalist is having integrity. It's part of the job description, just like being a cop or a fireman. The thing is, we lost the war with cops a long time ago, and we no longer expect them to have any. We still have high standards for journalists, and I want to maintain them.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears you've made the blanket statement that all cops lack integrity while at the same time insinuating that all journalists have it. If that is your premise, then I think your assumption is false on both counts. That would be nearly as fallacious as saying all politicians are corrupt regardless of their party affiliation.
Dont think taxi, think 747 vs Freight train. When a freight train crashes, it usually doesnt make the news unless there was something toxic on board or somone gets hurt.
Anything bigger that a sub-compact re-entering the atmosphere makes the news. Over the last 20+ years, if it's been big and on its way down (Mir, SkyLab, Compton, Cosmos-954, etc) it sure as hell generated a lot of publicity.
What makes the news: Space shuttle blowing up or unmanned rocket blowing up?
Again, any time something CATOs on the pad it makes the news. For one thing, there really aren't that many launches. For another, rocket fuel tends to explode in dramatic fashion. Do manned launch failures stay in the news longer? Yes. But anything that goes ka-boom with a display on par with Vesuvius will grab the headlines.
Let's break this into two problems:
1) This input design is primarily for a phone handset. What instance do you think that it's a good idea to insist on two hands and a pen (one hand to hold the phone, one to write hieroglyphics) to enter data? There are those chuckleheads who are attempting to dial by searching through the contacts on their phone, whilst driving on the freeway in a 2 ton SUV. Whoops! I just dropped my pen. Now where did that sucker go?
2) What about those instances where we don't have two hands available or can't devote the concentration required to ensure that the handwriting recognition is working?
The future does NOT lie in hand-writing recognition for all applications.
Europeans settlers came to america searching for gold, what they got was tobacco, timber and furs, and ultimately made alot more money that way.
Well, thank goodness someone was able to exploit North America! At the risk of sounding like an Enviro-Nazi, I'm not sure that everyone would agree in hindsight that cutting all the virgin timber, unfettered mining, hunting thousands of species to extinction or nearly so was such a good idea.
It may have turned out well for those who came, but we certainly didn't do right by what was already here. I think we can say that Native Americans are not entirely glad that they welcomed the first settlers. And while I'm wondering, why must space be the salvation of humanity? Why not fix the planet we're on? Man exists on this planet by design (creationists and evolutionists can read that however they like). Why does anyone assume that there is some nearby planet/moon/whatever where man can exist without resorting to ultra-extraordinary measures?
Darl also does interviews.
But does he do Bar Mitzvah's and mall openinings?
I'm sorry, come again? HP and Sony don't perform R&D? You're myopic, right?
Dell may just be a product shop turning out commondities, but I think you're way off base about HP and Sony. Either that or these links are just a figment of my imagination.
... or how women don't shave their legs in Germany
They don't? When did this start? I GOTTA start paying attention to the news more.
MS does caching now. If I take my laptop home from work, I can still logon to the laptop even though I have no net connection. I suspect that it's comparing a hash of the password from a previously successful net connection. It allows me to access the local version of my network profile.
While I am in the P2P system it is pure hunting and gathering with no concern about cost. When I am in the CD store it is about deciding which of the CDs are worthy my hard earned money (and let's not forget the space they take up in my CD rack).
Would that have anything to do with whether or not you pay for P2P-source MP3s? If you're ripping your own stuff, cool. It seems to drive RIAA nuts, but I think that case falls into fair use. If you're talking about a pay service like Apple's iTunes, that's fine too. You're still paying for what you use. If you're grabbing copyrighted MP3s without paying for the artist's work in some fashion, then your argument doesn't work. It's like saying "I like stealing cars to joy ride rather than having to take the bus".
... or your so-called data points! This is just an opinion forum. Informed opinions have no place here.
John will be launching pretty much vertically
.plan.
We hope, but then there's always the possibility of something not going exactly according to
he's only going for 100km (which means going straight-up very fast).
And then he's going to come down. I suspect the where component of down lies on some parabola the base of which could well be fairly wide if there is some kind of mishap (not that I'm hoping he crashes). Another reason why any launch site should be a quite some distance from anything of value.
I have to agree with the parent to your post. I was concerned, not with the fact that ESR wrote that missive, but because of some of the actual content:
... say a DOS attack on SCO's website.
I'm in at least semi-regular communication with most of the people and organizations who are causing you problems right now.
That one could be construed as involvement, participation, encouragement of such things as
That's not freedom of speech. It's a question of being party to a criminal act. I think you read the parent post's concern incorrectly which of course led to the kind of off-kilter spirals that this forum is famous for.
Can't remember if it happens elsewhere (Bond is frequently shown playing cards), but at least in GoldenEye Bond is playing Baccarat.
Dear Darl,
Thanks, I needed that. Can't remember when I heard something so goddamn funny. I nearly blew Mountain Dew through my nose on that one.
What, you're serious?! Ssnnnorrkkk!!! Damn, that's even funnier! Have you guys thought about doing a stand-up routine somewhere?
Really. Just too f'ing funny. Pardon me while I wipe the tears out of my eyes.
You're the best,
Bill Gates
No, I think the parent to your post got right. MS was able to get a much better deal ($) from ATI. And they could exert much greater control in formulating the deal. Sticking it to nVidia is probably viewed as a bonus.
Nothing from the MS PR machine is what it seems at face value (that's why it's PR). That's why I don't think this has anything to do with technical criteria. This is cost combined with "good enough" capability to improve Microsoft's prospects for profit in XBox2.
The answer is to discover which frequencies this interferes with and move the hams off of those frequencies.
1) Ham has been around a hell of a lot longer than the internet
2) HF isn't used for emrgency services? Since when?
3) Ham is an international, low cost, grass roots communications system. But you think we should junk it because utilities companies in the US want to make money as ISPs?
4) Even if many hams are old timers (as you put it) does that make it okay to take away their hobby? That's a piss poor justification for giving you what you want. "Screw them. They're old and can't do anything about it anyway." Instead, I suggest we remove your access to the internet since you seem to be just another script-kiddie haxor dood (getting trillions of dollars worth of p0rn).
If you extrapolated that to "if you don't like the US, leave" the locals (Americans) here on Slashdot would have you burned at the stake.
The situation with DC is patently absurd. There are third world countries that fare better at the hands of Congress than the citizens of DC. As to your "non-resident resident" note, at the very least those who live in DC should be considered part of Maryland or Virginia for the purposes of anything larger than a citywide function and be able to act accordingly (eg. voting). But that isn't an available option. And really neither is your suggestion to move out.
Fortunately that won't happen in DC, afterall it's not a state you know. Which means it isn't able to provide it's residents the same rights and privleges that real states can ... like real representation in the House and Senate. 'Course, its not like we had a war over things like taxation without representation.
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Oh wait, we did
Someone PLEASE mod the parent up as major league insightful. I agree that lawyers should be paid commensurate with the work they put into the case. You can't expect the experience of a law degree for free. But Triv's point is right on. Why should the lawyer's get cash on the barrel, when the wronged party gets a voucher for a spare set of batteries?
Where are my freakin' mod points when I need them?
The real problem is that the bench doesn't know jack about software, let alone an OS kernel. So it comes down to who can convince the judge. IBM has done nothing thus far to establish their position. Our opinions of SCO aside, our hopes are unfortunately dependent on IBM and their response seems to be relative silence.
There are now so many claims and counter-claims that it would be helpful to have some sort of comparison of who claims to own what (name, source code, etc). My $.02.
Do you think we'd all start using the arabic word? Ignore the fact that there are different alphabets. Just think of the way the arabic word sounds. Again, do you think we'd use the word? Hell, no. Americans wouldn't stand for it.
Hmm... You mean a word like "Algebra"? Nah, we'd never do anything like THAT. Then again, there was the book "Al Gebr We'l Mukabala" by Al Khwarismi. You can find a reference here or here.
Now as for the French, who are you calling naive? If this was America pulling this stunt (can you say "Freedom Fries") we wouldn't hear some lame ass crap about messing up the language. This is just more anti-Anglo behavior from France. Or do you consider it conicidence that they also have restraints on how much American music can be played on radio stations? That's been around for ages.
Wow, talk about naive.