Actually, I'm now forcing Firefox down end users' throats quite easily.
Something along the lines of "If you want me to fix your computer for free, you need to have this browser installed and be using it, or I will start charging you." Most users migrate without a fight.
Nicest part is that they all like Firefox, and are actually telling all their friends about it.
Users somewhat have a choice; you just need to educate them about the choices they have.
Very nice point, I recall a UI that also allowed you to control the depth of each window as well - made it a little more 3d, instad of just stacking paper on top of each other, you now can have some distance between the pieces of paper.
What makes you think Bush will be in power by the time the EU launches galileo? Four years is pretty quick time to get a satellite from spec to space IMO.
Actually, a US-China war is definately on the horizon if China ever decides to invade Taiwan. IMO it would cripple the world semi-conductor market, and most electronic manufacturing would be brought to a standstill. The US would never allow that to happen - too many politicians owned by the tech industry.
I'd argue that Greece was never really on the verge of poverty. I was there in 1988 and it wasn't on the verge of poverty. The best thing the EU did was rein in Greece's spending and bring them down to earth - make them good for themselves.
Yeah, but the wonderful thing about wind power is that you can re-use existing agriculture land to also generate power. You're adding extra use to existing land. Not really that bad IMO.
So you're saying the ecological damage in British Columbia, where 90% of the power is hydro, has been irepairably damaged? I don't buy it.
I drove through Northern Nevada by the prison where the Coal Power plant is. An entire valley had a cloud of black smoke over top of it. It was utterly disgusting.
I'd say British Columbia, Canada is proof of how much impact Hydro has on the environment. We provide something like 90% of all power from Hydro plants here. I'd say we're a lot better off than we'd have been with Coal plants.
Unsightly compared to what? Solar is unsightly, as is Coal, Nuculer...
Hydro isn't bad - it creates nice looking lakes with pretty rivers behind it. As long as there's steps and some form of a bypass beside the dam for migratory fish species to make their way into spawning grounds, I'm okay with that...
Yes, but you're paid by the university. Would we have this many companies looking for a cure for HIV simply out of goodwill? In a capitalist economy such as america, money is the incentive, not goodwill.
Sounds about right, but it's purpose is good, lawyers have bastardized it to "HA! In your face..."
Is there a better way to protect innovation? I mean, the patent system needs to be refined to remove patent squating and to disallow law firms from holding patents. IMO the commoditization of patents is part of the problem.
Uhm, your employer probably doesn't patent your code, they just claim ownership based on your employment contract.
And the idea of a patent is so that you, as an entrepreneurial inventor, have incentive to invent. If you lack capital to bring your invention to market, you can patent your invention, and then you can show it around without fear of being ripped off by the company you've shown it to.
The problem is that the process is flawed because law firms can purchase patents and sue for themselves. And also a patent holder can wait for a patent to become mainstream before he goes around and claims ownership. Both of those should be made illegal.
I believe Patents were created to aid innovation not aid comptetition. They exist to protect the inventor. The idea is that if you create something, and don't have the money to bring it to market, someone with money shouldn't have the right to come along, skate your idea, and elave you uncompensated for your invention.
In fact, it's been proven that patents hinder competition, but they don't hinder innovation.
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Well I didn't post as an AC...
Been still trying to figure out hockey in Phoenix, Dallas, and Nasville.
They'll all fold anyway in the next five years.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't AAC a form of DRM, just Apple's form of it?
Apple's just locking out Real's form of DRM so that you're forced to buy from iTunes.
Let's not paint this a different picture than it is; Apple's trying to put fend off competition.
And Trillian reverse engineered YIM... What's the difference?
We bitched profusely when Yahoo blocked Trillian. We praise Apple for doing the exact same thing Yahoo did.
At least with windows media, they aren't trying to get me to install a bunch of other crap with it.
;)
That's only if you don't consider windows XP "a bunch of other crap"
Exactly. We all bitched when Yahoo! locked out Trillian...
/. - where Apple can do no wrong.
Welcome to
(I will get modded as a troll for this by Apple zealots -you watch)
Actually, I'm now forcing Firefox down end users' throats quite easily.
Something along the lines of "If you want me to fix your computer for free, you need to have this browser installed and be using it, or I will start charging you." Most users migrate without a fight.
Nicest part is that they all like Firefox, and are actually telling all their friends about it.
Users somewhat have a choice; you just need to educate them about the choices they have.
Very nice point, I recall a UI that also allowed you to control the depth of each window as well - made it a little more 3d, instad of just stacking paper on top of each other, you now can have some distance between the pieces of paper.
Gotta admit I kinda digged the UI in Swordfish though - IIRC he had like a dozen monitors going.
Don't understand quite why the cracker had to clap his hands all the time - I thought that was kinda lame...
Why is that scarier? One of two things can happen:
a) American Beer stops tasting like donkey piss.
or
b) Canadian Beer starts tasting like donkey piss.
Given that Labatts is still Canadian, and makes a pretty good beer, I'd wager that a is more likely than b, however anything's possible I suppose.
Just saying that given the other solutions, I'd say Hydro is much more green than the alternatives.
Nucular power - were do you store the waste? There is no waste in Hydro...
What makes you think Bush will be in power by the time the EU launches galileo? Four years is pretty quick time to get a satellite from spec to space IMO.
Actually, a US-China war is definately on the horizon if China ever decides to invade Taiwan. IMO it would cripple the world semi-conductor market, and most electronic manufacturing would be brought to a standstill. The US would never allow that to happen - too many politicians owned by the tech industry.
I'd argue that Greece was never really on the verge of poverty. I was there in 1988 and it wasn't on the verge of poverty. The best thing the EU did was rein in Greece's spending and bring them down to earth - make them good for themselves.
Yeah, but the wonderful thing about wind power is that you can re-use existing agriculture land to also generate power. You're adding extra use to existing land. Not really that bad IMO.
or caldera dos installed.
:-)
So you're saying India supports SCO? That's just sick...
So you're saying the ecological damage in British Columbia, where 90% of the power is hydro, has been irepairably damaged? I don't buy it.
I drove through Northern Nevada by the prison where the Coal Power plant is. An entire valley had a cloud of black smoke over top of it. It was utterly disgusting.
I'd say British Columbia, Canada is proof of how much impact Hydro has on the environment. We provide something like 90% of all power from Hydro plants here. I'd say we're a lot better off than we'd have been with Coal plants.
Unsightly compared to what? Solar is unsightly, as is Coal, Nuculer... Hydro isn't bad - it creates nice looking lakes with pretty rivers behind it. As long as there's steps and some form of a bypass beside the dam for migratory fish species to make their way into spawning grounds, I'm okay with that...
Yes, but you're paid by the university. Would we have this many companies looking for a cure for HIV simply out of goodwill? In a capitalist economy such as america, money is the incentive, not goodwill.
What if you had a neet invention that could benefit space tavel, but lacked the capital to implement it?
You know as well as I do that it's he with the better lawyers who wins, not the one with the right idea.
Too bad - you guys had a fantastic media player - I knew a lot of people who were using it.
;)
Hope you get modded up - that was neet to know... Seen the beta? Looks like they might actually have a media player in the next six months
This thing's taken almost as long as the phantom console lol...
Sounds about right, but it's purpose is good, lawyers have bastardized it to "HA! In your face..."
Is there a better way to protect innovation? I mean, the patent system needs to be refined to remove patent squating and to disallow law firms from holding patents. IMO the commoditization of patents is part of the problem.
Uhm, your employer probably doesn't patent your code, they just claim ownership based on your employment contract.
And the idea of a patent is so that you, as an entrepreneurial inventor, have incentive to invent. If you lack capital to bring your invention to market, you can patent your invention, and then you can show it around without fear of being ripped off by the company you've shown it to.
The problem is that the process is flawed because law firms can purchase patents and sue for themselves. And also a patent holder can wait for a patent to become mainstream before he goes around and claims ownership. Both of those should be made illegal.
I believe Patents were created to aid innovation not aid comptetition. They exist to protect the inventor. The idea is that if you create something, and don't have the money to bring it to market, someone with money shouldn't have the right to come along, skate your idea, and elave you uncompensated for your invention.
In fact, it's been proven that patents hinder competition, but they don't hinder innovation.