IDK, but I think of windows as a type of environment... not microsoft's operating system... the way I think about it, you can open a window using Windows XP, KDE running on Linux, MAC, and other operating systems/GUI's...
just because somebody wanted to name their operating system after the type of interface they use, doesn't give them a right to patent it... that would be like me calling my operating system "menus" and having a completely menu-driven interface, then claiming that the name is my idea and I should have sole rights to it...
now watch microsoft come out with Microsoft Menus Server 2096... hey, rolls off the toung better than Microsoft Windows...
IDK, but I think of windows as a type of environment... not microsoft's operating system... the way I think about it, you can open a window using Windows XP, KDE running on Linux, MAC, and other operating systems/GUI's...
just because somebody wanted to name their operating system after the type of interface they use, doesn't give them a right to patent it... that would be like me calling my operating system "menus" and having a completely menu-driven interface, then claiming that the name is my idea and I should have sole rights to it...
now watch microsoft come out with Microsoft Menus Server 2096... hey, rolls off the toung better than Microsoft Windows...
when I was reading the article, this thought came to mind: is there any way to append the hubble space telescope to the ISS? that way the astronauts can have a 'safe' place to stay if the shuttle is damaged, and the telescope can be fixed as soon as there's a problem...
what's so bad about learning C++ as a first language?
if you start with C++, you can stay casual and do console input/output/math, or you can go a little more into it and get into functions/pointers/casts... and if you wanted to keep going, C++ could take you as in depth as you could possibly want to go...
I learned a little bit of VB first, and then went to C++... one thing that annoyed me about learning VB was that the instructor didn't tell us what all the code was actually doing... we just wrote what we wanted where the IDE told us to... and we had to deal with casting and pointers... I don't see how you could introduce programming without the two...
The way I see it, C++ gives you a much better background in comp sci than some of the other languages, and IMO, a good understanding of computer science is more important than the language your writing using it with...
Questions: Should Google ask permission before potentially sending huge traffic loads to a single page/server?
how about this: Questions: Did all those unique hits originate directly from Google (or/.) in a planned DDoS attack? Should the webmaster be happy that their site was popular and relevant enough to be at the top of Google's ranking system?
sh*t happens, get over it... in a few days it'll be over and you can go back to your regularly scheduled programming...
I didn't say agent orange, did I? I was thinking more about starting fires around the perimiter and letting them burn inwards until there's nothing left.
either way, it's going to be faster than sending soldiers out there with metal detectors searching small areas at a time...
beating out other plants in the area might not be so hard... they could torch the area if it already has plantlife there and drop these seeds as soon as the flames die out...
I think this is a great idea, and could be very beneficial... for example, they drop the seeds, and then a little while later fly over the field, and if there's no colored flowers, they do a quick scan on foot and then they're done... if they see alot of colored flowers, they know something's down there, so they focus their search in that area for a while. this way they're not wasting all their resources combing the first field with nothing in it...
didn't he also get an MSDN subscription? That sounds like a pretty good deal for both parties...
IMO, microsoft was offering too little and mike rowe was asking too much at first, but at least things got settled out of court and peacefully... mike rowe gets a ton of good stuff, and microsoft gains control over a potential parody domain name...
Additionally, many of the claims of the Goldberg Patents are not limited to games. For example, some claims of the Goldberg Patents are broadly directed to network-based persentations, i.e. changing advertising such as pop-up advertising or rotating banners, in connection with network services. Thus, in addition to starchamber.net many other aspects of the Internet-based services provided by Nayantara Studios, particularly those services employing advertising presentations via pop-ups, banners, etc., may be of interest.
so in other words, pop-ups and spinny things are now illegal unless this guy says you can... hmm... maybe he has a patent on stuff showing up on your screen over a network...
where did the misspellings come from, anyway? I'm guessing they're just comming from somebody retyping the letter...
...that two big tech groups decide to work together... pretty much all you hear about is how x is sueing y because y took z's code, which was bought from n, who outsourced it from x...
even though they won't decide on a single standard, at least they'll meet halfway...
I don't find this surprising at all... think about it... most people probably have 1-2 AIM windows open for each browser window, and sometimes have an internet radio or something else running at the same time.
once again the supreme court says the constitution isn't what it is... IMO, if our government is going to be based on the constitution, we should have a court that respects it most of the time, and only uses the "times have changed" BS when something really has changed. just because some people are offended, the court shouldn't fold and create a new law throwing a few more of our rights out the window...
first off, this article is kinda dumb... of course the internet is going to fail without power... there's not much that can survive without power now... that's like saying television or radio can't support a strong infastructure because there may be a solar flair that will blacken all communications.
Yes, ideally everyone would have backup power (and enough of it). If power outages were common, it might be a good selling point for ISPs, but they aren't so not many people want to may more $ per month just to have battery backup. (Especially residential customers who won't have it at home anyway).
for an outage of this size, people would most likely need a generator or something larger than a battery backup... don't forget, they need to keep their homes running as well...
I don't like big government either, but an FTC law (or whatever) mandating backup power for ISPs/backbones of sufficient size or type of service (business vs residenial) might be what's needed.
what the government needs to do is put more money into researching fuel cells. that way every house can power itself and feed electricity back into the grid, dampening the effects of an outage like this one.
it's tested because there are still some things to be fixed... read this post about the first stage of testing... and if your so sure about it, why don't you go help out the world by voulenteering?
and how much of this 'inactive' virus is the right dosage? that's what this stage of testing is for... they keep upping the dosage until they OD some people and then figure out the right dosage from there... then there are two (I think) more stages of testing...
well.. luckily not everyone think of it that way or we would NEVER HAVE ANY NEW MEDICATION TESTED.
don't get me wrong... I would be a lab rat for a less dangerous vaccine, but right now my life is actually pretty good and I have too much to lose... if they had asked me 2 years ago, then I would probably have done it...
here's another question: are people not voulenteering because they're scared, or are they not voulenteering because they just don't know about it?
eh, maybe when I know it works, but seeing as it's still in the experimental stage, I think I'll pass on that for now... the article describes it best... it kinda freaks me out to know I'm voulentarily getting this lethal virus...
even though there does seem to be a large trend moving toward open-source OS's, microsoft still holds a huge majority of the market... it will take a long time to take them out of the top spot, even with big deals like the one IBM just hammered out with Linux.
will you be able to then charge for everything you make? or is it going to be a license where everything you make must be free for everybody?
i can't wait until people start trading real money if they can... i can see some name brand clothing retailers buying accounts and creating officially licensed clothing for the game...
I think the wonder of any scientific advance should be tempered by a clear-headed analysis of the dangers it might create.
so your saying we shouldn't go forward with science at all? apply that term to the renaissance where if people asked that, we would all still think god did everything for us.
Imagine a scenario where terrorists could alter a disease or organic biological weapon gene by gene to make it immune to current antidotes. Beyond that, I worry that the US itself might use it for its own cache of new-age weapons.
and what makes you think they're not already doing that?
If WE convert it to a weapon, what's the difference?
just because it's a virus doesn't mean it's deadly... a cold is a virus... read this from the article:
Venter cautioned that the creation of artificial human or animal life is a long way off because the synthetic bacteriophage -- the virus that was created -- is a much simpler life form. Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria.
The project was funded in part by the Department of Energy, which hopes to create microbes that would capture carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, produce hydrogen or clean the environment.
but I dont' think it will be replacing CD's in even 20 years... CD's are definately going to be around for quite a while... then again people said that about vinyl...
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just because somebody wanted to name their operating system after the type of interface they use, doesn't give them a right to patent it... that would be like me calling my operating system "menus" and having a completely menu-driven interface, then claiming that the name is my idea and I should have sole rights to it...
now watch microsoft come out with Microsoft Menus Server 2096... hey, rolls off the toung better than Microsoft Windows...
this was supposed to go in the lindows vs. microsoft thread... don't know how I got here...
just because somebody wanted to name their operating system after the type of interface they use, doesn't give them a right to patent it... that would be like me calling my operating system "menus" and having a completely menu-driven interface, then claiming that the name is my idea and I should have sole rights to it...
now watch microsoft come out with Microsoft Menus Server 2096... hey, rolls off the toung better than Microsoft Windows...
I have them on LD... along with pretty much every other version they released...
when I was reading the article, this thought came to mind: is there any way to append the hubble space telescope to the ISS? that way the astronauts can have a 'safe' place to stay if the shuttle is damaged, and the telescope can be fixed as soon as there's a problem...
if you start with C++, you can stay casual and do console input/output/math, or you can go a little more into it and get into functions/pointers/casts... and if you wanted to keep going, C++ could take you as in depth as you could possibly want to go...
I learned a little bit of VB first, and then went to C++... one thing that annoyed me about learning VB was that the instructor didn't tell us what all the code was actually doing... we just wrote what we wanted where the IDE told us to... and we had to deal with casting and pointers... I don't see how you could introduce programming without the two...
The way I see it, C++ gives you a much better background in comp sci than some of the other languages, and IMO, a good understanding of computer science is more important than the language your writing using it with...
how about this: Questions: Did all those unique hits originate directly from Google (or /.) in a planned DDoS attack? Should the webmaster be happy that their site was popular and relevant enough to be at the top of Google's ranking system?
sh*t happens, get over it... in a few days it'll be over and you can go back to your regularly scheduled programming...
I didn't say agent orange, did I? I was thinking more about starting fires around the perimiter and letting them burn inwards until there's nothing left.
beating out other plants in the area might not be so hard... they could torch the area if it already has plantlife there and drop these seeds as soon as the flames die out...
I think this is a great idea, and could be very beneficial... for example, they drop the seeds, and then a little while later fly over the field, and if there's no colored flowers, they do a quick scan on foot and then they're done... if they see alot of colored flowers, they know something's down there, so they focus their search in that area for a while. this way they're not wasting all their resources combing the first field with nothing in it...
IMO, microsoft was offering too little and mike rowe was asking too much at first, but at least things got settled out of court and peacefully... mike rowe gets a ton of good stuff, and microsoft gains control over a potential parody domain name...
so in other words, pop-ups and spinny things are now illegal unless this guy says you can... hmm... maybe he has a patent on stuff showing up on your screen over a network...
where did the misspellings come from, anyway? I'm guessing they're just comming from somebody retyping the letter...
even though they won't decide on a single standard, at least they'll meet halfway...
I don't find this surprising at all... think about it... most people probably have 1-2 AIM windows open for each browser window, and sometimes have an internet radio or something else running at the same time.
once again the supreme court says the constitution isn't what it is... IMO, if our government is going to be based on the constitution, we should have a court that respects it most of the time, and only uses the "times have changed" BS when something really has changed. just because some people are offended, the court shouldn't fold and create a new law throwing a few more of our rights out the window...
for an outage of this size, people would most likely need a generator or something larger than a battery backup... don't forget, they need to keep their homes running as well...
I don't like big government either, but an FTC law (or whatever) mandating backup power for ISPs/backbones of sufficient size or type of service (business vs residenial) might be what's needed.
what the government needs to do is put more money into researching fuel cells. that way every house can power itself and feed electricity back into the grid, dampening the effects of an outage like this one.
it's tested because there are still some things to be fixed... read this post about the first stage of testing... and if your so sure about it, why don't you go help out the world by voulenteering?
and how much of this 'inactive' virus is the right dosage? that's what this stage of testing is for... they keep upping the dosage until they OD some people and then figure out the right dosage from there... then there are two (I think) more stages of testing...
don't get me wrong... I would be a lab rat for a less dangerous vaccine, but right now my life is actually pretty good and I have too much to lose... if they had asked me 2 years ago, then I would probably have done it...
here's another question: are people not voulenteering because they're scared, or are they not voulenteering because they just don't know about it?
apparently you didn't read the article... it's still in the testing stage (read: they're not sure exactly what it will do to a human, it may kill you)
eh, maybe when I know it works, but seeing as it's still in the experimental stage, I think I'll pass on that for now... the article describes it best... it kinda freaks me out to know I'm voulentarily getting this lethal virus...
even though there does seem to be a large trend moving toward open-source OS's, microsoft still holds a huge majority of the market... it will take a long time to take them out of the top spot, even with big deals like the one IBM just hammered out with Linux.
i can't wait until people start trading real money if they can... i can see some name brand clothing retailers buying accounts and creating officially licensed clothing for the game...
so your saying we shouldn't go forward with science at all? apply that term to the renaissance where if people asked that, we would all still think god did everything for us.
Imagine a scenario where terrorists could alter a disease or organic biological weapon gene by gene to make it immune to current antidotes. Beyond that, I worry that the US itself might use it for its own cache of new-age weapons.
and what makes you think they're not already doing that?
If WE convert it to a weapon, what's the difference?
just because it's a virus doesn't mean it's deadly... a cold is a virus... read this from the article:
it always seems as if that will happen, but people really do pay for open-source...
but I dont' think it will be replacing CD's in even 20 years... CD's are definately going to be around for quite a while... then again people said that about vinyl...