That sounds about right - a lawsuit in absentia... Thing is there's a statute of limitations on those I believe...
Still, the more likely scenario is they get a Canadian or International patent to nail you with. I don't believe US Patents are enforceable outside the US Borders.
Actually, here in Vancouver, bus drivers are told to let people on if they refuse to pay because it reduces the violence towards bus drivers. Just an fyi...
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Since when does illegal = wrong? I don't understand that way of thinking. Yet many people have that attitude.
In some us states, pounding your wife in the ass is illegal. In some us states getting a blowjob is illegal.
You can't turn and say because something is illegal, it's wrong. Take alcohol prohibition in the 1920's for example. Some hard liners in Congress felt that drinking was wrong and made it illegal. Many disagreed. After some civil disobedience, the prohibition was lifted.
It's really easy to disallow you to skip commercials. During commercial time they lock out all control to your TV, and TV makers are forced to proved battery backup:)
But where's the long-term focus? Don't you want leaders who focus more on the long term? The debt has really spiraled out of control in America. America needs leadership with a focus on the long term.
For sure, the arguments for the 22nd amendment are as strong as those against it. 20 years of Reagan would have been a bad thing, but 20 years of Clinton would have been pretty good.
I mean, a president with a 20 year plan wouldn't ever see reelection for a second term. Given the rising debt, someone with a long-term focus wouldn't be a bad idea.
lol I've heard more good than bad. Usually it's computers infected with spyware that really break down when you update to SP2. There was a poster above that pointed that out.
Had a friend's computer that was just covered in spyware. He did a system restore on his pc after installing sp2 because he said stuff didn't work.
After running adaware, and reinstalling sp2, everything seemed to work fine. The poster above totally got it right. It's the spyware that hootches the upgrades.
Firewall's way more advanced in SP2. What I believe you're referring to is TCP port filtering. The firewall in SP2 is at the application level, not the just the port level. The difference is quite major.
The TCP port filtering still exists in SP2 as well.
OT, but admittedly, the 22nd amendment is flawed. True that fresh blood in the Whitehouse is a good idea, it's a bad idea to have Presidents who are only focused on an 8 year term.
Dubya doesn't care about the budget defecits because he's not going to have to be the one to deal with them down the road. Kinda sad, but there's a disincentive to be long term focused.
In a really sad way, I kinda agree with you. Too many stupid end users out there who need to get their head out of the sand and need to learn these lessons, rather than rely on us techies to fix their computer every time.
$10 gets you a USB to PS2 adapter. At least USB mice have been around forever. Keyboards are bit more flaky, but if the BIOS handles it correctly you shouldn't have a problem.
Admittedly, it's an easy pitch for me. All I say is "I will not come to your house and clean up spyware again unless you switch to this browser from now on".
SQL Server is a very nice tool, especially the UI on things like its Query Builder, which IMHO is a work of genius. It supports the needs of expert users while simultanously training newbie developers.
Uhm, just to point out that SQL Server was a joint venture between Microsoft and Sybase. I'm going out on a limb here to say that Microsoft hasn't invented that in the last five years. SQL Server 2000 is nice, but it's just an expansion on SQL Server 7... 7 was revolutionary (compared to 6.5 which sucked ass). 2000 was just an evolution... Hardly something new.
Visual Studio / the free "Visual Web Express" or whatever it's called (have you tried it?)
Visual Stuio has been around for a very long time. 5.0 was around more than five years ago IIRC.
Yeah, and when looking up info for pretty much any web development problem I have, the first 40 or so hits I get usually require registration to see the solution.
Google groups has proven much better for research than the google web search now.
It's sad that google-spamming has become a busienss model. It doesn't cost too much to copy usenet content and post it on a site, and watch the search results come rolling in.
I actually like/.'s method of moderating content up and down. I think it would benefit the web greatly. Someone searches for Canon EOS reviews for example, and the modded up results get to the top of the list.
Maybe Google's the search King in terms of Volume, but the quality of the results is turning to shit real fast.
I find much better results with alltheweb now than Google.
Google needs to find a way to filter out shit content - content that just takes usenet stuff and posts as html; content that just is a set of hyperlinks to other content and has nothing else to contribute.
Right now, it's hard to find relevant web content through google because of google-spammers. If google isn't careful, people will start switching away from it, as easily as people switched to it.
Like a tank of gasoline isn't anymore explosive than hydrogen?
No, it isn't. In order for gasoline to ignite, you need a correct air/fuel mixture. Same goes for Propane. In fact propane is less flammable than gasoline. It has a tighter air / fuel ratio required to ignite. That means propane's less flammable than gas. There's been cases where a propane fueling station has had its tank ablaze, and it's only burned on the outside, and the contents never exploded.
I'm not 100% that any air / fuel ratio works with H, but I'm pretty sure it's broader than the other two and is likely way more explosive than the other two.
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That sounds about right - a lawsuit in absentia... Thing is there's a statute of limitations on those I believe...
Still, the more likely scenario is they get a Canadian or International patent to nail you with. I don't believe US Patents are enforceable outside the US Borders.
Patent law is pretty fickle though...
Just move to another country like Canada and sell your product from there. They can't screw you in another country, however they can block export.
Actually, here in Vancouver, bus drivers are told to let people on if they refuse to pay because it reduces the violence towards bus drivers. Just an fyi...
Since when does illegal = wrong? I don't understand that way of thinking. Yet many people have that attitude.
In some us states, pounding your wife in the ass is illegal. In some us states getting a blowjob is illegal.
You can't turn and say because something is illegal, it's wrong. Take alcohol prohibition in the 1920's for example. Some hard liners in Congress felt that drinking was wrong and made it illegal. Many disagreed. After some civil disobedience, the prohibition was lifted.
In the words of Charleton Heston, from my cold, dead hands.
They can make it illegal, but they will not be able to stop me.
Well I'm in Canada anyway...
=D
If the law passes Bush is at fault too for signing it AFAIK... I know a third reading in Congress can bypass him though....
Bush can sway Congress - he's the most powerful lobby group in America next to the RIAA / MPAA.
It's really easy to disallow you to skip commercials. During commercial time they lock out all control to your TV, and TV makers are forced to proved battery backup :)
But where's the long-term focus? Don't you want leaders who focus more on the long term? The debt has really spiraled out of control in America. America needs leadership with a focus on the long term.
For sure, the arguments for the 22nd amendment are as strong as those against it. 20 years of Reagan would have been a bad thing, but 20 years of Clinton would have been pretty good.
I mean, a president with a 20 year plan wouldn't ever see reelection for a second term. Given the rising debt, someone with a long-term focus wouldn't be a bad idea.
lol I've heard more good than bad. Usually it's computers infected with spyware that really break down when you update to SP2. There was a poster above that pointed that out.
Had a friend's computer that was just covered in spyware. He did a system restore on his pc after installing sp2 because he said stuff didn't work.
After running adaware, and reinstalling sp2, everything seemed to work fine. The poster above totally got it right. It's the spyware that hootches the upgrades.
Firewall's way more advanced in SP2. What I believe you're referring to is TCP port filtering. The firewall in SP2 is at the application level, not the just the port level. The difference is quite major.
The TCP port filtering still exists in SP2 as well.
OT, but admittedly, the 22nd amendment is flawed. True that fresh blood in the Whitehouse is a good idea, it's a bad idea to have Presidents who are only focused on an 8 year term.
Dubya doesn't care about the budget defecits because he's not going to have to be the one to deal with them down the road. Kinda sad, but there's a disincentive to be long term focused.
IMHO, the 22nd amendment should be repealed.
In a really sad way, I kinda agree with you. Too many stupid end users out there who need to get their head out of the sand and need to learn these lessons, rather than rely on us techies to fix their computer every time.
$10 gets you a USB to PS2 adapter. At least USB mice have been around forever. Keyboards are bit more flaky, but if the BIOS handles it correctly you shouldn't have a problem.
Admittedly as a web developer, I find writing for FF and then fixing to support IE is much easier than the other way around.
Admittedly, it's an easy pitch for me. All I say is "I will not come to your house and clean up spyware again unless you switch to this browser from now on".
They make the switch. It's great.
SQL Server is a very nice tool, especially the UI on things like its Query Builder, which IMHO is a work of genius. It supports the needs of expert users while simultanously training newbie developers.
Uhm, just to point out that SQL Server was a joint venture between Microsoft and Sybase. I'm going out on a limb here to say that Microsoft hasn't invented that in the last five years. SQL Server 2000 is nice, but it's just an expansion on SQL Server 7... 7 was revolutionary (compared to 6.5 which sucked ass). 2000 was just an evolution... Hardly something new.
Visual Studio / the free "Visual Web Express" or whatever it's called (have you tried it?)
Visual Stuio has been around for a very long time. 5.0 was around more than five years ago IIRC.
Under that premise, worms and exploits that take advantage of xp because of it's market share... Same thing IMO...
No excuese for Google, just like there's no excuse for Microsoft.
Yeah, and when looking up info for pretty much any web development problem I have, the first 40 or so hits I get usually require registration to see the solution.
Google groups has proven much better for research than the google web search now.
lol true enough....
/.'s method of moderating content up and down. I think it would benefit the web greatly. Someone searches for Canon EOS reviews for example, and the modded up results get to the top of the list.
It's sad that google-spamming has become a busienss model. It doesn't cost too much to copy usenet content and post it on a site, and watch the search results come rolling in.
I actually like
I thought Caldera was one of the driving forces behind United Linux...
As we all know Google uses a farm of Linux boxes. MSN can't do that. The NY Times says they built their own hardware for it. A Windows farm! - yuck.
Some MSN sites are driven by Soliaris, like www.nhl.com for example. I wouldn't be so sure...
Google is now too deeply embedded into most web users vocabulary to be knocked off the #1 spot
Kinda like for many americans AOL = Internet?
Things have a funny way of creeping up on you when you least expect them.
If Google continues to become more and more useless in the results it brings up, it provides incentive to move to a different search engine.
Maybe Google's the search King in terms of Volume, but the quality of the results is turning to shit real fast.
I find much better results with alltheweb now than Google.
Google needs to find a way to filter out shit content - content that just takes usenet stuff and posts as html; content that just is a set of hyperlinks to other content and has nothing else to contribute.
Right now, it's hard to find relevant web content through google because of google-spammers. If google isn't careful, people will start switching away from it, as easily as people switched to it.
Like a tank of gasoline isn't anymore explosive than hydrogen?
No, it isn't. In order for gasoline to ignite, you need a correct air/fuel mixture. Same goes for Propane. In fact propane is less flammable than gasoline. It has a tighter air / fuel ratio required to ignite. That means propane's less flammable than gas. There's been cases where a propane fueling station has had its tank ablaze, and it's only burned on the outside, and the contents never exploded.
I'm not 100% that any air / fuel ratio works with H, but I'm pretty sure it's broader than the other two and is likely way more explosive than the other two.