And the legal precedent that the settlement established has led to things like Linux Window Managers and widget sets that simulate the Windows desktop and widgets.
Microsoft didn't 'lose' in the settlement, and frankly, we all won. If Apple had prevailed there wouldn't be an X Window System.
Apple lost the notorious touch-n-feel lawsuit over a decade ago. Thank goodness, or we'd all be licencees of Apple right now, instead of just some of us.
BTW ALBERT EINSTEIN and THOMAS EDISON, both had aspergers and they are kind of the uber geeks.
That sounds a little like somebody has done an 'after-the-fact' analysis and 'decided' that Einstein and Edison had aspergers. Was an actual proper diagnosis done on them? Nobody gets away with 'labeling' someone today without a proper diagnosis, neither should people in history be misdiagnosed.
Articles are required to be written in a neutral tone. Articles that aren't are either written or deleted. Crack edits are quashed pretty quickly.
Well, there's the flipside issue as well. Namely, an 'orthodoxy' or 'hierarchy' of people who quash 'crack edits' and content not written in a politically correct 'neutral tone.'
Granted, you're not gonna find rebellion or radical new ideas in print reference works, either.
It's a real problem keeping 'information' up to date. Particularly when there's all that messy paper out there that's so hard to revise. Clearly we need to hire a crew of people with the skills that Winston Smith had. Before he 'went bad' that is....
And when Television came out, people read fewer books.
And look at all the quality television that is produced now. Virtually all of it is far superior to the novels that were being written before them.
And don't get me started on the quality of the programming on the Discovery Channel, and how it's enhanced our understanding of scientific topics like the Occult and UFO phenomena. There's virtually no need anymore for non-fiction books to be published.
"Technology Will Make Us Free" (hung over the entry gate of Camp Propellerhead)
That's a rather repulsive stereotype. I have multiple sets of encyclopedias, and while some of them have leather bindings that are failing, the pages inside are as crisp and readable as the day they were printed.
99% of the info in encyclopedia sets is not obsolete in a year. I think you're thinking of Almanacs.
Actually, the best CD-ROM encyclopedia that I have is an Encyclopedia Britannica 'no frills' edition that I bought a few years back. It's a single CD and it has all the text contents of the printed EB in it. And it was about $40 cheaper than the flouncy 'multimedia' version which is crammed full of distractions and idiot-shows.
That said, my print edition of Encyclopedia Britannica will be around in ten years and still have a lot of worth. I don't know if my Windows-based CD will even load on a PC that I still own then. I have two encyclopedia sets that are 19th century. They're both still worth using for a number of topics.
One of the scarier, more negative things about online reference works is the inherent 'memory hole' nature of them (reference: Ministry of Truth in Orwell's novel '1984'). I know my shelves of print encyclopedias will have the same info in them in twenty years as they have today. And I know that I'll have them, without paying a bill to an ISP to access them.
I can't even begin to imagine how many man-hours have been blown obsessing about, discussing, worrying, or protesting SCO's latest actions. It really is appalling.
The amount of time a bunch of noisy slashbots spend sputtering in fury about SCO really doesn't have that much impact. In fact, if it keeps them flaming one another on slashdot, and out of the way of the developers on their mailing lists, so much better.
Actually, developers perfer BSD, noisy zealots prefer the GPL.
But you don't hear that much about it. The BSD code is built into all kinds of projects and projects. They're busy doing stuff, not ballyhooing about it on forums like Slashdot.
but does anyone else think its dangerous to send shocks into nerves? Wouldent the heart be impacted etc?
You mean, the way that shocks are sent into nerves by pacemakers? Or the way shocks are sent into nerves by TENS devices (FDA regulated) and 'muscle development devices? (same thing unregulated sold in snake oil muscle magazine ads)
A fork can kill a person. A bomb can kill a person.
Don't you think that such concerns are more warranted when someone builds a new kind of bomb than when they build a new kind of fork?
No. Not at all. It just means that software licenses should be rigorously reviewed and rewritten to prevent code forks. It's the software equivalent of a bomb, after all.
When I worked in the medical device field awhile back, we were putting 1% tolerance reisistors on the logic pullups to the Microprocessor.
(this might seem to make little or no sense at all, there are a few reasons it's not that idiotic, mainly having to do with knowing to a very close tolerance how much current a device will consume. Plus the cost of including both 5% and 1% resistors of a similar value in inventory is more expensive than just using 1% parts everywhere.)
What choice do I have if I want to buy a hand carved walking stick that the craftsman down in that stall in the city square has for sale? I can buy it from him, or I can not buy it at all.
In the eyes of regulators, each 'distro' of Linux should be classified as a seperate OS. So there is a 'constellation' of Linux-based Operating Systems, but each 'owns' a miniscule share of the market.
That's just how it works. Not saying it's good or bad.
BeOS used to be written to run on Apple computers, until Apple decided to refuse to provide Be with the info needed to run on modern G3 processor machines.
I don't think you want to herald Apple as an 'open to competitors' platform.
Oh, let's see. So now you're claiming that mere copyright itself (a 'government granted monopoly') makes Microsoft monopoly enough to do the anti-trust nasties to them.
Hmmm. I guess any content provider or patent holder deserves severe punishment in your world.
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A multitude of Word versions?
Let's see. There's Word 6.0 (2.0, 1.1, and 1.0 before it), then Word 95, Then Word 98, then Word 2000, then Word XP.
That's not really a 'multitude' and those version upgrades mostly were to syncronize to new Operating System features.
It's a stretch to claim that the new versions only came out to 'break file format compatability.'
That would be really cool. So cool, in fact, that Apple would be forced to shut down the iTunes music service by the music publishers.
And the legal precedent that the settlement established has led to things like Linux Window Managers and widget sets that simulate the Windows desktop and widgets.
Microsoft didn't 'lose' in the settlement, and frankly, we all won. If Apple had prevailed there wouldn't be an X Window System.
wireless iPod to iPod syncing would be a cool thing.
Apple would be forced to prohibit it, of course. And we'd be forced (compelled, actually) to implement it.
Apple lost the notorious touch-n-feel lawsuit over a decade ago. Thank goodness, or we'd all be licencees of Apple right now, instead of just some of us.
BTW ALBERT EINSTEIN and THOMAS EDISON, both had aspergers and they are kind of the uber geeks.
That sounds a little like somebody has done an 'after-the-fact' analysis and 'decided' that Einstein and Edison had aspergers. Was an actual proper diagnosis done on them? Nobody gets away with 'labeling' someone today without a proper diagnosis, neither should people in history be misdiagnosed.
Articles are required to be written in a neutral tone. Articles that aren't are either written or deleted. Crack edits are quashed pretty quickly.
Well, there's the flipside issue as well. Namely, an 'orthodoxy' or 'hierarchy' of people who quash 'crack edits' and content not written in a politically correct 'neutral tone.'
Granted, you're not gonna find rebellion or radical new ideas in print reference works, either.
If there hasn't been any innovation, why are you running win2k and not Windows 95 on those machines?
I'm just asking because you're claiming there isn't any difference.
It's a real problem keeping 'information' up to date. Particularly when there's all that messy paper out there that's so hard to revise. Clearly we need to hire a crew of people with the skills that Winston Smith had. Before he 'went bad' that is....
And when Television came out, people read fewer books.
And look at all the quality television that is produced now. Virtually all of it is far superior to the novels that were being written before them.
And don't get me started on the quality of the programming on the Discovery Channel, and how it's enhanced our understanding of scientific topics like the Occult and UFO phenomena. There's virtually no need anymore for non-fiction books to be published.
"Technology Will Make Us Free" (hung over the entry gate of Camp Propellerhead)
No $3000 sale of rotting books,
That's a rather repulsive stereotype. I have multiple sets of encyclopedias, and while some of them have leather bindings that are failing, the pages inside are as crisp and readable as the day they were printed.
99% of the info in encyclopedia sets is not obsolete in a year. I think you're thinking of Almanacs.
Actually, the best CD-ROM encyclopedia that I have is an Encyclopedia Britannica 'no frills' edition that I bought a few years back. It's a single CD and it has all the text contents of the printed EB in it. And it was about $40 cheaper than the flouncy 'multimedia' version which is crammed full of distractions and idiot-shows.
That said, my print edition of Encyclopedia Britannica will be around in ten years and still have a lot of worth. I don't know if my Windows-based CD will even load on a PC that I still own then. I have two encyclopedia sets that are 19th century. They're both still worth using for a number of topics.
One of the scarier, more negative things about online reference works is the inherent 'memory hole' nature of them (reference: Ministry of Truth in Orwell's novel '1984'). I know my shelves of print encyclopedias will have the same info in them in twenty years as they have today. And I know that I'll have them, without paying a bill to an ISP to access them.
People tend to stick with what they have strong opinions on. Therefore, articles are sometimes written by cranks and zealots.
You'd think that /. would be the last place you'd find stereotyping of geeks.
Oh, come on. Slashdot is literally packed with noisy do-nothings these days with opinions to match.
I can't even begin to imagine how many man-hours have been blown obsessing about, discussing, worrying, or protesting SCO's latest actions. It really is appalling.
The amount of time a bunch of noisy slashbots spend sputtering in fury about SCO really doesn't have that much impact. In fact, if it keeps them flaming one another on slashdot, and out of the way of the developers on their mailing lists, so much better.
Actually, developers perfer BSD, noisy zealots prefer the GPL.
But you don't hear that much about it. The BSD code is built into all kinds of projects and projects. They're busy doing stuff, not ballyhooing about it on forums like Slashdot.
but does anyone else think its dangerous to send shocks into nerves? Wouldent the heart be impacted etc?
You mean, the way that shocks are sent into nerves by pacemakers? Or the way shocks are sent into nerves by TENS devices (FDA regulated) and 'muscle development devices? (same thing unregulated sold in snake oil muscle magazine ads)
It would definitely be microamperes, not 'milliamps.' mA currents would likely cause tissue damage.
No. Not at all. It just means that software licenses should be rigorously reviewed and rewritten to prevent code forks. It's the software equivalent of a bomb, after all.
When I worked in the medical device field awhile back, we were putting 1% tolerance reisistors on the logic pullups to the Microprocessor.
(this might seem to make little or no sense at all, there are a few reasons it's not that idiotic, mainly having to do with knowing to a very close tolerance how much current a device will consume. Plus the cost of including both 5% and 1% resistors of a similar value in inventory is more expensive than just using 1% parts everywhere.)
What choice do I have if I want to buy a hand carved walking stick that the craftsman down in that stall in the city square has for sale? I can buy it from him, or I can not buy it at all.
Does that make him a monopoly?
In the eyes of regulators, each 'distro' of Linux should be classified as a seperate OS. So there is a 'constellation' of Linux-based Operating Systems, but each 'owns' a miniscule share of the market.
That's just how it works. Not saying it's good or bad.
BeOS used to be written to run on Apple computers, until Apple decided to refuse to provide Be with the info needed to run on modern G3 processor machines .
I don't think you want to herald Apple as an 'open to competitors' platform.
Oh, let's see. So now you're claiming that mere copyright itself (a 'government granted monopoly') makes Microsoft monopoly enough to do the anti-trust nasties to them.
Hmmm. I guess any content provider or patent holder deserves severe punishment in your world.
Yes, but in F34nor's alternative universe, the role of goverment is to subvert the will of the majority.