Actually, as somebody who has written a software driver that emulates a piece of hardware, and had the driver pass the HCT, and got a signature from MS, I can say that it will make it harder for the average nitwit to produce a distributable driver, but is that really a bad thing?
If you've looked into the HCT requirements, the essentially include a set of automated tests that the driver and hardware must be able to complete without a) crashing the system, b) making inappropriate calls to the OS (bad parameters, unsafe calls for context, etc) or c) interfering with other installed signed drivers.
Once we figured out what testing we needed to do for our software emuation, the testing on a fresh Windows install wasn't very involved.
This is not a valid argument. It's all about target market, opportunity cost, and diminishing returns.
It's like saying an underwear manufacturer is stupid for eliminating 40% of their market by making underwear that is designed for women. My god! No fetish free men will buy it!
If your target market is 'technically savvy and up to date', then supporting anything prior to IE6/FF/Safari is an absolute waste of effort, and you may even want to target Opera.
If the site is a Windows 95 user forum, on the other hand, you'd better support the browsers that those people run.
This is why kids' software is still designed to run on pre-cambrian computers...They and the schools usuall have some crappy old hand-me-down from a couple of generations ago, so a significant fraction of the target market would be eliminated if it required a 128meg 3D card. In comparison, WOW seems to have done quite well requiring hardware 512MB of RAM and 3D acceleration.
Another 'trend' in US property crime statistics is that often unless the victim can prove that the property was intentionally stolen, the police are systematically and fraudulently classifying the thefts instead as 'lost property' to reduce their reported crime rates.
I am not a physicist, but it appears that Hawking has changed his tune on "nothing comes out of a black hole". He now agrees with Preskill that information can come out of a black hole, riding as a signal on the Hawking radiation. In fact, he paid up a bet he made back in the late 90s.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Please read the above text, and tell me how this university violated it.
The university is not congress. This law specifically and exclusively controls federal laws as enacted by our congress. A private institution is not bound by the same restrictions, especially since they are not Congress.
To test this theory, walk into a biker bar, announce you are going to exercise your first amendment rights, and then start insulting them.
However, I'm certain that this would not prove sufficient prior art in today's patent climate.
I highly recommend this book, as an amazing glimpse into the prescience of this man's predictions about the kinds of technologies and conveniences we would have in his future, and our today, and how they would be (mis)used.
The article says the Chinese are producing and distributing their own porno. Is it true they produce it? I would figure they'd just copy western porn -- why spend money to produce porn when you can just get it from the gweilo for free?
Perhaps because they have different ideas about what makes good porn, and they want to have something that looks authentically familiar? Just imagine a world in which all the porn was just bukkake or hentai?
most people would value having a keyboard that actually produces keypresses in accordance with what's printed on the keys
Then perhaps they can pluck the keys off and rearrange them for free, as well? My keyboards have removable keytops that are all the same size/shape, except for the non alphanumerics like shift, enter, spacebar, etc. Okay, the function keys are half-height, too...
No Really, no PDA is as good at being a music player as an iPod, and it's not going to be as good at video, they certainly are too big to be my phone, and compared to a GameboySP, it can kiss my ass, much less the PSP...
decreases the amount of (potentially disruptive) competition for females
You're making the assumption that only males are homosexual. These penguins happen to be male, but lemme tell ya...I live in San Francisco, and there are plenty of female homosexuals here.
The point of this phrase is not "you can do everything without trying", but "you are capable of achieving any (one) thing, if you focus on succeeding"
I've seen enough talentless but driven people succeed to realize that talent and skills are gifts, but you gotta use 'em properly to get maximum benefit from them.
This whole stem cell research thing is nothing more or less than California very directly and publicly giving Bush and the Neocons the finger.
If the current federal mandates didn't place severe restrictions on what sorts of stem cell research could be done with federal funds, this wouldn't have been proposed, and certainly wouldn't have passed, given California's current significant financial issues.
I hope something useful comes from it, but don't kid yourself...this was and is primarily California posturing itself. (I'm allowed to say that because I live here)
What about those in some BSD camps that don't have full chinese support?
Fuck 'em and tell them to join the modern world, perhaps? Sorry, but I hardly think that China gives a rats ass about people who choose to use an OS that doesn't support their language. And by the way, that group includes unicode, in case you were wondering.
Especially when you consider that with a real train wreck, there is always the hope that there are a few fortunate survivors like yourself. With the coming wreck, there will be nothing but victims, both inside and outside the Beast of Puget Sound.
If the mac users are really that picky about the UI why don't they pay for the development of a mac version of OO or lobby apple for a real office suite or just say fuck it and buy msoffice?
They are doing exactly what you're so eloquently suggesting.
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Actually, as somebody who has written a software driver that emulates a piece of hardware, and had the driver pass the HCT, and got a signature from MS, I can say that it will make it harder for the average nitwit to produce a distributable driver, but is that really a bad thing?
If you've looked into the HCT requirements, the essentially include a set of automated tests that the driver and hardware must be able to complete without a) crashing the system, b) making inappropriate calls to the OS (bad parameters, unsafe calls for context, etc) or c) interfering with other installed signed drivers.
Once we figured out what testing we needed to do for our software emuation, the testing on a fresh Windows install wasn't very involved.
This is not a valid argument. It's all about target market, opportunity cost, and diminishing returns.
It's like saying an underwear manufacturer is stupid for eliminating 40% of their market by making underwear that is designed for women. My god! No fetish free men will buy it!
If your target market is 'technically savvy and up to date', then supporting anything prior to IE6/FF/Safari is an absolute waste of effort, and you may even want to target Opera.
If the site is a Windows 95 user forum, on the other hand, you'd better support the browsers that those people run.
This is why kids' software is still designed to run on pre-cambrian computers...They and the schools usuall have some crappy old hand-me-down from a couple of generations ago, so a significant fraction of the target market would be eliminated if it required a 128meg 3D card. In comparison, WOW seems to have done quite well requiring hardware 512MB of RAM and 3D acceleration.
Correct. Systematic is not grass-roots. I'm not one, but I don't imagine that a beat cop gives a crap about statistics.
Another 'trend' in US property crime statistics is that often unless the victim can prove that the property was intentionally stolen, the police are systematically and fraudulently classifying the thefts instead as 'lost property' to reduce their reported crime rates.
I am not a physicist, but it appears that Hawking has changed his tune on "nothing comes out of a black hole". He now agrees with Preskill that information can come out of a black hole, riding as a signal on the Hawking radiation. In fact, he paid up a bet he made back in the late 90s.
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The parent post I was responding to said Marquette was obligated to make amends, because they are bound by the first amendment...
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Please read the above text, and tell me how this university violated it.
The university is not congress. This law specifically and exclusively controls federal laws as enacted by our congress. A private institution is not bound by the same restrictions, especially since they are not Congress.
To test this theory, walk into a biker bar, announce you are going to exercise your first amendment rights, and then start insulting them.
Sorry, HG Wells beat you to this invention by about 110 years. Yes, back in the 1890s he postulated a Babble Machine in When The Sleeper Wakesk _files=37759&pageno=86
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?f
However, I'm certain that this would not prove sufficient prior art in today's patent climate.
I highly recommend this book, as an amazing glimpse into the prescience of this man's predictions about the kinds of technologies and conveniences we would have in his future, and our today, and how they would be (mis)used.
The article says the Chinese are producing and distributing their own porno. Is it true they produce it? I would figure they'd just copy western porn -- why spend money to produce porn when you can just get it from the gweilo for free?
Perhaps because they have different ideas about what makes good porn, and they want to have something that looks authentically familiar? Just imagine a world in which all the porn was just bukkake or hentai?
California has different sales taxes per municipality.
Would the taxes be paid to the city where the actual server is located, where the management headquarters is, or the goods are shipped from?
Pick one of them, and I guarantee that I can change it trivially and continue to do business without paying the taxes!
Do a GIS with this query string: "site:babes.bomis.com"
Looks like some quality soft-core boobies to me!
most people would value having a keyboard that actually produces keypresses in accordance with what's printed on the keys
Then perhaps they can pluck the keys off and rearrange them for free, as well? My keyboards have removable keytops that are all the same size/shape, except for the non alphanumerics like shift, enter, spacebar, etc. Okay, the function keys are half-height, too...
I have a bug report logged against my product saying that Mac IE 4.5 doesn't render one of our pages correctly because of the CSS on it.
I don't think I'll be trying to make it compatible now.
And watching porn does?
What's a sea hen? I read that link, and the question was never answered!
No Really, no PDA is as good at being a music player as an iPod, and it's not going to be as good at video, they certainly are too big to be my phone, and compared to a GameboySP, it can kiss my ass, much less the PSP...
Eeeeeewwwww
decreases the amount of (potentially disruptive) competition for females
You're making the assumption that only males are homosexual. These penguins happen to be male, but lemme tell ya...I live in San Francisco, and there are plenty of female homosexuals here.
In Texas, our office AC went out one weekend, but the ice machine down the hall was still working.
I didn't care how hot the place near the Ice machine got, but damn if I was going to live with 100F+ temperatures at my desk.
Bucket + extremely powerful fan + towel + ice == 20 degree drop in temp. However, when the Ice machine was empty, we were screwed.
The point of this phrase is not "you can do everything without trying", but "you are capable of achieving any (one) thing, if you focus on succeeding"
I've seen enough talentless but driven people succeed to realize that talent and skills are gifts, but you gotta use 'em properly to get maximum benefit from them.
This whole stem cell research thing is nothing more or less than California very directly and publicly giving Bush and the Neocons the finger.
If the current federal mandates didn't place severe restrictions on what sorts of stem cell research could be done with federal funds, this wouldn't have been proposed, and certainly wouldn't have passed, given California's current significant financial issues.
I hope something useful comes from it, but don't kid yourself...this was and is primarily California posturing itself. (I'm allowed to say that because I live here)
It's in the spec you linked to...It's called the Redistribution Control (RC) Descriptor.
What about those in some BSD camps that don't have full chinese support?
Fuck 'em and tell them to join the modern world, perhaps? Sorry, but I hardly think that China gives a rats ass about people who choose to use an OS that doesn't support their language. And by the way, that group includes unicode, in case you were wondering.
Especially when you consider that with a real train wreck, there is always the hope that there are a few fortunate survivors like yourself. With the coming wreck, there will be nothing but victims, both inside and outside the Beast of Puget Sound.
If the mac users are really that picky about the UI why don't they pay for the development of a mac version of OO or lobby apple for a real office suite or just say fuck it and buy msoffice?
They are doing exactly what you're so eloquently suggesting.
MS Office is a top selling OSX application (likely *the* top selling app), and Apple has just announced their iWork suite.