My uncle, a lawyer, owns a person plane (propeller, though) that he uses for getting to his clients quickly. He's very busy, so he doesn't have much time to waste. He works on many cases of oil companies polluting people's properties, so he needs to get to places that are often geographically remote.
As for Google's supposed lack of morals, imagine how long it will take for the Chinese people to find the "subversive" web sites that the Chinese government doesn't want them to see through Google? The Internet is much harder to control than the Chinese government realizes. Perhaps this will get the Chinese one step closer to bucking their abusive, authoritarian government.
Something tells me that any large corporation that has a PC in their buildings (aka every large corporation) has a significant percentage of their IT budget go towards helping workers fix their computers. I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few prominant companies quietly became involved in this legal action. Just a guess.
Oh, dear. All of those brilliant people over at www.iqsociety.com have not grasped a big Don't of web design: no "mystery meat navigation". Mystery meat navigation is when a navigational link is represented by a completely irrelevant picture, at least until the cursor is over the link. Maybe a genius thinks differently, but I've never associated lightning strikes with contact information. Apparently these geniuses missed out on some skills, including user friendly web design. But worse, they used
Think of what touches a toilet seat. Unless you have a taste for sitting in crap or never taking a shower, your butt is going to be pretty clean. That's about all that touches a toilet seat, so the seat is going to be fairly clean. Now think of all of the things that humans touch with their hands: doorknobs, floors, shoes, and all of the things that other people have gotten dirty with their hands. Then take a look at one of those beige keyboards that's been used for a couple of years. Surprise!
Nice ideals, but I doubt they work to stem the flood of spam in the real world. Why? 1. Whitelists restrict normal email communication as well as inappropriate/spam emails. 2. Parents can't monitor spam. It comes to their children's email box no matter what the parents do. Theoretically they could look through every email their child gets, but few parents have the time and energy to do that. 3. All of your suggestions are instrumental to go parenting, but they really have nothing to do with pornographic spam.
I think this law is a bad idea for another reason. The spammers simply do not care. It's almost impossible locate and destroy the source of spam emails. Putting emails on a "no email" list is like trying to hold back a flood by nicely asking it to go away. Worse, the spammers could just take a look at the list so they can send spam to those emails as well.
And for the people who say anti-spam laws restrict freedoms, I remind you that these emails cause significant economic harm to the companies who must deal with the extra volume of emails and pay for anti-spam software. Spam is not a matter of free speech: the emails almost universally scams. The last time I checked, robbing innocent people of their money had nothing to do with free speech.
Because very few people want to go to the trouble hunting down a bunch of add-ons for getting feature that should be built into the product. In that case, Google Talk would fail because of a difficult setup.
This is a fairly innovative system that Google has actually built and is (very) actively using, but the patent is mainly a defensive patent. The companies that only do business by litigating to get patent royalties are doing the exact opposite thing; they never build a system based on their patent, just using it as an "offensive" patent. Though I don't support software patents, it isn't hard for me to see that Google is vastly different from Rates Technology.
Just better? I like both Opera and Firefox a lot, but they both have their strengths and weaknesses. "Just better" is not a true statement for any comparisons between the two browsers.
The only people I see making money WITH copyright are the publishing cartels, never the artists (except in extremely rare cases).
From your use of cartel here, I would say that you have no idea what a cartel is. According to Wikipedia, "a cartel is a group of legally independent producers whose goal it is to fix prices, to limit supply and to limit competition." Whatever you think of copyright laws, the publishing houses aren't doing anything of that sort. And how do you think the model of getting money mostly through services and performances would scale well? Writing Harry Potter wouldn't be much of a career for J.K. Rowling if there were exact copies of the books and movies travelling all over the Internet within a day of it being published.
Do the astute readers remember what happened to Netscape Communicator once the Mozilla people got ahold of it? For those who don't, the people over at the Mozilla Foundation realized that Netscape was a disaster area. It was so bad that they rewrote it from scratch. Something tells me that IE for Mac would go the same way; its organization probably is incapable of supporting modern features, so it would be rewritten. There's already one rewritten browser; Macs don't need another.
Outlook = Calendaring, tasks management, and email
"Outlook" could be taken as being what it looks like the new day will bring. E-mail is just a part of what the program can do. To reflect that, the icon for Outlook has a clock with a piece of mail behind it. Of course, the only reason why Outlook Express has Outlook in its name is to signify that it's relation to Outlook. To stop confusing customers, Microsoft is renaming Outlook Express to Windows Mail in Windows Vista. Even if that's the most boring name possible, that does help usability a bit.
Though I have used Yahoo!'s email interface, I've heard glowing reviews. I think it would be safe to say that all three services have excellent, well thought-out interfaces. Nothing abysmal about that.
Attorney General Ashcroft once said that librarians concerned about the privacy rights of their patrons were "hysterical."
Those nice, quiet librarians can be fierce when it comes to protecting the rights of book readers. Believe me, you don't want to see Nancy Pearl wielding a battle axe.
The polish of Opera isn't something you can just transfer from one browser to another. The Opera user interface has been designed by some very talented people. The Opera user interface can't be donated any more than a beautiful person's face can be donated. A polished user interface can only come about through skill.
You forgot another difference in Wikipedia as compared to Britannica. Wikipedia has a large amount of stubs, the articles or sections of articles that don't go into enough detail on a subject. I'm pretty sure Britannica requires all articles to not just be clear and concise, but also to be complete. Though Wikipedia has a system for tracking stubs, there are still many articles in the wiki that won't be completed because no one has interest or knowledge in the subject.
When you look at a crappy Chinese product, you can tell exactly what it is: a crappy Chinese product. The Chinese government isn't implanting special devices in exported products so they can cause all of the brooms in the United States to fall apart in the event of a war over Taiwan. In contrast, making the required change in Windows would be trivial and the consequences much greater.
Since when has the federal income tax been oppressive? Does it infringe on your civil rights? No, it funds the programs of the US government. After all, money doesn't grow on trees. Regardless of your dislike of some federal programs (everyone hates one program or another), there are many other programs that directly or indirectly benefit you. None of this is oppressive.
Apparently you think that schools are evil institutions that plot against you. Let me inform you that schools (or at least the vast majority of schools) are not plotting to cover up the sinister federal income tax. My parents are both teachers, and their main concern is with teaching writing, math, culture information, reading, and the like. Notice that I never said anything about obscuring the evils of the federal income tax.
If you, the Anonymous Coward, can not think of something that has backing, I suggest you don't say it at all. That's not stiffling your free speech rights; it's common sense.
I beg to differ. I have a close friend who is a former state senator. He is a respectable, responsible person who relied both on what he thought his constituants really wanted (as opposed to how they vote, there is difference) and what was the right thing to do. Compare that to many dictatorships, which are usually extremely corrupt and basically steal the people's money.
Sometimes people vote stupidly. Here in Oregon, we have an "initiative" process where people can put "measures", potential laws, on the ballot to go directly to the voters. There have been several extremely dumb measures passed because the title of the initiative looked good. However, the price of occasional stupidity is worth not having most of the people in the government shamelessly embezzling.
Oops, I didn't read my post through. That's two dollars a day. There really aren't that many people living their entire lives on a grand total of under two dollars.:-)
Wow there, I don't think the approximately three billion people who live their lives on under 2 dollars would agree with you on that. I do think that people who are living in extreme poverty should receive education, information, and the technology associated with them to permanently lift them out of poverty. Food and medicine alone can't do it. However, those three billion people really couldn't care less about surfing the 'net
These people really need such things as:
Literacy
Clean water
Good governments - Many of the poorest countries have corrupt governments that do little but provide wealth for the rich and the military
Women's rights - Women are often unable to say no to their husbands on sex. Among other things, that means more children and an increasing amount of overpopulation.
Medicine & disease reduction - Yep, those are important too. It's really hard to get a job when you wasting away from AIDS or another one of those many pathogens out there.
That's only a short list of what needs must be met. More information is available at Poverty Facts and Stats.
The last time I tried using X11 over the Internet, I had the inefficient experience of having to wait a few seconds every time the program decided to refresh. After that, I suddenly discovered that TightVNC is really, really nice....
Slashdot Mirror
My uncle, a lawyer, owns a person plane (propeller, though) that he uses for getting to his clients quickly. He's very busy, so he doesn't have much time to waste. He works on many cases of oil companies polluting people's properties, so he needs to get to places that are often geographically remote.
As for Google's supposed lack of morals, imagine how long it will take for the Chinese people to find the "subversive" web sites that the Chinese government doesn't want them to see through Google? The Internet is much harder to control than the Chinese government realizes. Perhaps this will get the Chinese one step closer to bucking their abusive, authoritarian government.
Something tells me that any large corporation that has a PC in their buildings (aka every large corporation) has a significant percentage of their IT budget go towards helping workers fix their computers. I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few prominant companies quietly became involved in this legal action. Just a guess.
Oh, dear. All of those brilliant people over at www.iqsociety.com have not grasped a big Don't of web design: no "mystery meat navigation". Mystery meat navigation is when a navigational link is represented by a completely irrelevant picture, at least until the cursor is over the link. Maybe a genius thinks differently, but I've never associated lightning strikes with contact information. Apparently these geniuses missed out on some skills, including user friendly web design. But worse, they used
Microsoft FrontPage
Think of what touches a toilet seat. Unless you have a taste for sitting in crap or never taking a shower, your butt is going to be pretty clean. That's about all that touches a toilet seat, so the seat is going to be fairly clean. Now think of all of the things that humans touch with their hands: doorknobs, floors, shoes, and all of the things that other people have gotten dirty with their hands. Then take a look at one of those beige keyboards that's been used for a couple of years. Surprise!
Information on it is posted on Slashdot. Not exactly "under the table". It doesn't look like it's beta ready, though.
Nice ideals, but I doubt they work to stem the flood of spam in the real world. Why?
1. Whitelists restrict normal email communication as well as inappropriate/spam emails.
2. Parents can't monitor spam. It comes to their children's email box no matter what the parents do. Theoretically they could look through every email their child gets, but few parents have the time and energy to do that.
3. All of your suggestions are instrumental to go parenting, but they really have nothing to do with pornographic spam.
I think this law is a bad idea for another reason. The spammers simply do not care. It's almost impossible locate and destroy the source of spam emails. Putting emails on a "no email" list is like trying to hold back a flood by nicely asking it to go away. Worse, the spammers could just take a look at the list so they can send spam to those emails as well.
And for the people who say anti-spam laws restrict freedoms, I remind you that these emails cause significant economic harm to the companies who must deal with the extra volume of emails and pay for anti-spam software. Spam is not a matter of free speech: the emails almost universally scams. The last time I checked, robbing innocent people of their money had nothing to do with free speech.
- Address God; say a prayer.
- call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!"
I'd guess that the "legalese" version that is used in the SCO document is probably the second definition.The shorter the index finger is compared to the ring finger, the more boisterous he will be, University of Alberta researchers said.
So if my index finger is longer than my ring finger, does that make me a wuss?
Because very few people want to go to the trouble hunting down a bunch of add-ons for getting feature that should be built into the product. In that case, Google Talk would fail because of a difficult setup.
This is a fairly innovative system that Google has actually built and is (very) actively using, but the patent is mainly a defensive patent. The companies that only do business by litigating to get patent royalties are doing the exact opposite thing; they never build a system based on their patent, just using it as an "offensive" patent. Though I don't support software patents, it isn't hard for me to see that Google is vastly different from Rates Technology.
Just better? I like both Opera and Firefox a lot, but they both have their strengths and weaknesses. "Just better" is not a true statement for any comparisons between the two browsers.
The only people I see making money WITH copyright are the publishing cartels, never the artists (except in extremely rare cases).
From your use of cartel here, I would say that you have no idea what a cartel is. According to Wikipedia, "a cartel is a group of legally independent producers whose goal it is to fix prices, to limit supply and to limit competition." Whatever you think of copyright laws, the publishing houses aren't doing anything of that sort. And how do you think the model of getting money mostly through services and performances would scale well? Writing Harry Potter wouldn't be much of a career for J.K. Rowling if there were exact copies of the books and movies travelling all over the Internet within a day of it being published.
Do the astute readers remember what happened to Netscape Communicator once the Mozilla people got ahold of it? For those who don't, the people over at the Mozilla Foundation realized that Netscape was a disaster area. It was so bad that they rewrote it from scratch. Something tells me that IE for Mac would go the same way; its organization probably is incapable of supporting modern features, so it would be rewritten. There's already one rewritten browser; Macs don't need another.
Outlook = Calendaring, tasks management, and email
"Outlook" could be taken as being what it looks like the new day will bring. E-mail is just a part of what the program can do. To reflect that, the icon for Outlook has a clock with a piece of mail behind it. Of course, the only reason why Outlook Express has Outlook in its name is to signify that it's relation to Outlook. To stop confusing customers, Microsoft is renaming Outlook Express to Windows Mail in Windows Vista. Even if that's the most boring name possible, that does help usability a bit.
Though I have used Yahoo!'s email interface, I've heard glowing reviews. I think it would be safe to say that all three services have excellent, well thought-out interfaces. Nothing abysmal about that.
Attorney General Ashcroft once said that librarians concerned about the privacy rights of their patrons were "hysterical."
Those nice, quiet librarians can be fierce when it comes to protecting the rights of book readers. Believe me, you don't want to see Nancy Pearl wielding a battle axe.
The polish of Opera isn't something you can just transfer from one browser to another. The Opera user interface has been designed by some very talented people. The Opera user interface can't be donated any more than a beautiful person's face can be donated. A polished user interface can only come about through skill.
You forgot another difference in Wikipedia as compared to Britannica. Wikipedia has a large amount of stubs, the articles or sections of articles that don't go into enough detail on a subject. I'm pretty sure Britannica requires all articles to not just be clear and concise, but also to be complete. Though Wikipedia has a system for tracking stubs, there are still many articles in the wiki that won't be completed because no one has interest or knowledge in the subject.
When you look at a crappy Chinese product, you can tell exactly what it is: a crappy Chinese product. The Chinese government isn't implanting special devices in exported products so they can cause all of the brooms in the United States to fall apart in the event of a war over Taiwan. In contrast, making the required change in Windows would be trivial and the consequences much greater.
They're monitoring the dead, too.
Since when has the federal income tax been oppressive? Does it infringe on your civil rights? No, it funds the programs of the US government. After all, money doesn't grow on trees. Regardless of your dislike of some federal programs (everyone hates one program or another), there are many other programs that directly or indirectly benefit you. None of this is oppressive.
Apparently you think that schools are evil institutions that plot against you. Let me inform you that schools (or at least the vast majority of schools) are not plotting to cover up the sinister federal income tax. My parents are both teachers, and their main concern is with teaching writing, math, culture information, reading, and the like. Notice that I never said anything about obscuring the evils of the federal income tax.
If you, the Anonymous Coward, can not think of something that has backing, I suggest you don't say it at all. That's not stiffling your free speech rights; it's common sense.
I beg to differ. I have a close friend who is a former state senator. He is a respectable, responsible person who relied both on what he thought his constituants really wanted (as opposed to how they vote, there is difference) and what was the right thing to do. Compare that to many dictatorships, which are usually extremely corrupt and basically steal the people's money.
Sometimes people vote stupidly. Here in Oregon, we have an "initiative" process where people can put "measures", potential laws, on the ballot to go directly to the voters. There have been several extremely dumb measures passed because the title of the initiative looked good. However, the price of occasional stupidity is worth not having most of the people in the government shamelessly embezzling.
Oops, I didn't read my post through. That's two dollars a day. There really aren't that many people living their entire lives on a grand total of under two dollars. :-)
Wow there, I don't think the approximately three billion people who live their lives on under 2 dollars would agree with you on that. I do think that people who are living in extreme poverty should receive education, information, and the technology associated with them to permanently lift them out of poverty. Food and medicine alone can't do it. However, those three billion people really couldn't care less about surfing the 'net
These people really need such things as:
That's only a short list of what needs must be met. More information is available at Poverty Facts and Stats.
The last time I tried using X11 over the Internet, I had the inefficient experience of having to wait a few seconds every time the program decided to refresh. After that, I suddenly discovered that TightVNC is really, really nice....