Ridley Scott has rejected the idea in the past. If he is now willing to make a Blade Runner sequel IMO that is good news. It would be too much, I guess, to hope seeing Harrison Ford or Sean Young play in the sequel but I keep my fingers crossed. Blade Runner was and is my favorite movie.
the issue is not the web browsing feature budled in windows. the issue is microsoft's setting the internet standards on their own and making sure everyone can follow with minimal effort, of being forced to follow those standards or risk being unable to market your products on the web. the issue is having to play (and pay) by ms rules to stay in business.
well, i guess the solution is now obvious: ms will have to ship windows with a stripped-down version of ie that is only enabled to browse www.microsoft.com for updates and www.opera.com for "a better browser". how about that?
...and they will suffer "serious consequences" if they don;t think before they buy. a few days ago there was an article about this woman who bought a ubuntu computer hoping to run ms office on it.
if successful, this action will only complicate matters for end users. a manual windows update requires internet explorer. many web sites are still compatible with ie only. bottom line, users will have to install ie themselves. all this just so a e.u. company can make an extra buck.
She is right in the sense that regular users make a lot of assumptions (some unwarranted) regarding what they can (or should be able to) do with a computer. That is why most people don't even read the requirements printed on the installation disks. But the issue is more complex than that. The issue is about why consumers buy computers in the first place. It's not for Windows or Ubuntu or MacOSX, but for the software that runs on these OSes.
"Just like a job, if someone is paying you to do work, or come up with ideas then they have rights to them. Typically it's spelled out clearly in your contract."
That can be discussed -- what exectly are they paying you for? If they pay you to have ideas then yes, you are right. But a contract should not be about "maybes", it should be very clear in terms of conditions to be met for the employee or contractor to get paid. If you are paid to complete a project then its about specifications, schedule, time, and cost, not about ideas. On the other hand, if it's about ideas then it's clearly a risk the employer decided to take. You may not come up with any useful ideas at all; then, the employer will have lost their investment. But the problem is, usually you don't have the leverage, they do, so you will agree with whetever they ask and they know it.
Intellectual Property is hot stuff these days and has been so for the last two decades or more. Everyone who has the leverage will try to rip you off, and will use all legal means available to that end. It all begins with a contract, or an agreement, that you sign. Universities claim ownership over your ideas and (publicly funded) research results as a student or postdoc. Industry employers will make you sign off to them from start any invention/innovation/idea that you might come up with, no matter if you have have your eureka moment while at work or while taking your shower at home. Some of these agreements extend for more than a year after you quit that job. More or less the same applies to public service employees. In Canada, if is a federal offence for a public servant to start up a business without first getting approval from your supervisor.
It seems to me that only way to own your idea is to be self-employed for at least two years and then invest 100K in patenting it. How about that?
Sounds like a Berkun quote... Anyway, I think the future will prove that the rumors regarding the end of individual genius had been greatly exagerated.
Even if OSes are generally designed to swap when the physical amount of memory is not enough there still must be some way to detect the maximum amount of memory available, that is, RAM + VM. So why not set that limit to the amount of RAM available? That should avoid VM usage. It seems to boil down to a design issue: if the OS expects the VM to be greater than zero then some VM is required; if not then setting VM = 0 should not be a problem. The way you put it looks like a theoretical limitation.
As long as ownership/copyright can be negotiated and terms set forth in a contract I would assume there is no law to forbid copyright ownership by the creator, and even less moral grounds against it. It's all a matter of leverage and it happens all the time in IT where a company/contractor will get paid develop a product for a client and then will sell it to many other clients with minimal or no changes.
On the contrary, I think the argument in "Foundation" is that future can not be entirely predicted and humans must intervene to avoid catastrophes in the evolution of the human species.
I loved Asimov's Foundation series. Actually, the "Foundation Universe" encompasses much more than the Foundation novels. But, as critics say, it more or less a vision of the United States of the Galaxy.
I use Firefox 3.x all the time and it seems to me the FF folks are so eager to get a grip on the market that they decided that some annoyances are acceptable. Such as, the Bookmarks click right after starting FF that shows the "Edit this bookmark" dialog instead of the actual bookmark list, an effect similar to the result of clicking on the star icon in the location bar (1, 3, ).
I always prefer the x.3 release of a software product. However, I believe that numbering releases misleads customers into believing that higher numbers mean more features and better quality. Take Microsoft Word, for example -- what "special" feature that one can't do without is included in version 11 that was not available in say, version 8?
okay, so if if i wanted to setup my laptop to be able to do what he did, where do i start?
on standard windows, remote desktop login only allows one user to be logged on at any time, so i suppose it was win pro or vnc. on linux it would have to be vnc but my guess is, that laptop was running windows.
assuming the windows firewall is configured to allow remote desktop access from any external machine, and that the thief is not behind a nat/firewall, how do i find the ip of my stolen laptop on the internet?
2: I can only see one reason why programmers may want to learn Java -- they are weary of C and so are their employers are. On the desktop, Java is still slower than native code; in a client-server configuration, you still need a Java client. Server side, I see no reason to favor Java over PHP or Perl, both of which can be easily converted to byte code, like Java is, and are simpler and more intuitive than Java. It's true that one can write Java code once and than easily adapt it for multiple platforms. Speaking of which, Java has limitations on MS Windows imposed by MS. So if your are a Java programmer you are probably developping small to medium size applications for the enterprise, most of which would be probably easier to create in Perl. Am I wrong?
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It would be great if in the future such articles were written in "plain English" rather than in "technicalese", thank you.
I think that's precisely what he meant.
Ridley Scott has rejected the idea in the past. If he is now willing to make a Blade Runner sequel IMO that is good news. It would be too much, I guess, to hope seeing Harrison Ford or Sean Young play in the sequel but I keep my fingers crossed. Blade Runner was and is my favorite movie.
the issue is not the web browsing feature budled in windows. the issue is microsoft's setting the internet standards on their own and making sure everyone can follow with minimal effort, of being forced to follow those standards or risk being unable to market your products on the web. the issue is having to play (and pay) by ms rules to stay in business.
well, i guess the solution is now obvious: ms will have to ship windows with a stripped-down version of ie that is only enabled to browse www.microsoft.com for updates and www.opera.com for "a better browser". how about that?
...and they will suffer "serious consequences" if they don;t think before they buy. a few days ago there was an article about this woman who bought a ubuntu computer hoping to run ms office on it.
if successful, this action will only complicate matters for end users. a manual windows update requires internet explorer. many web sites are still compatible with ie only. bottom line, users will have to install ie themselves. all this just so a e.u. company can make an extra buck.
I agree with you. But, as you can see, they already gave you a 0 score. That's what happens when you criticize Linux on a pro-Linux board. ;)
She is right in the sense that regular users make a lot of assumptions (some unwarranted) regarding what they can (or should be able to) do with a computer. That is why most people don't even read the requirements printed on the installation disks. But the issue is more complex than that. The issue is about why consumers buy computers in the first place. It's not for Windows or Ubuntu or MacOSX, but for the software that runs on these OSes.
I doubt spending more money on high tech gear for classrooms will increase interest for understanding science among students.
"Just like a job, if someone is paying you to do work, or come up with ideas then they have rights to them. Typically it's spelled out clearly in your contract." That can be discussed -- what exectly are they paying you for? If they pay you to have ideas then yes, you are right. But a contract should not be about "maybes", it should be very clear in terms of conditions to be met for the employee or contractor to get paid. If you are paid to complete a project then its about specifications, schedule, time, and cost, not about ideas. On the other hand, if it's about ideas then it's clearly a risk the employer decided to take. You may not come up with any useful ideas at all; then, the employer will have lost their investment. But the problem is, usually you don't have the leverage, they do, so you will agree with whetever they ask and they know it.
Intellectual Property is hot stuff these days and has been so for the last two decades or more. Everyone who has the leverage will try to rip you off, and will use all legal means available to that end. It all begins with a contract, or an agreement, that you sign. Universities claim ownership over your ideas and (publicly funded) research results as a student or postdoc. Industry employers will make you sign off to them from start any invention/innovation/idea that you might come up with, no matter if you have have your eureka moment while at work or while taking your shower at home. Some of these agreements extend for more than a year after you quit that job. More or less the same applies to public service employees. In Canada, if is a federal offence for a public servant to start up a business without first getting approval from your supervisor. It seems to me that only way to own your idea is to be self-employed for at least two years and then invest 100K in patenting it. How about that?
Sounds like a Berkun quote... Anyway, I think the future will prove that the rumors regarding the end of individual genius had been greatly exagerated.
Give this a try: http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/
Even if OSes are generally designed to swap when the physical amount of memory is not enough there still must be some way to detect the maximum amount of memory available, that is, RAM + VM. So why not set that limit to the amount of RAM available? That should avoid VM usage. It seems to boil down to a design issue: if the OS expects the VM to be greater than zero then some VM is required; if not then setting VM = 0 should not be a problem. The way you put it looks like a theoretical limitation.
As long as ownership/copyright can be negotiated and terms set forth in a contract I would assume there is no law to forbid copyright ownership by the creator, and even less moral grounds against it. It's all a matter of leverage and it happens all the time in IT where a company/contractor will get paid develop a product for a client and then will sell it to many other clients with minimal or no changes.
On the contrary, I think the argument in "Foundation" is that future can not be entirely predicted and humans must intervene to avoid catastrophes in the evolution of the human species.
I loved Asimov's Foundation series. Actually, the "Foundation Universe" encompasses much more than the Foundation novels. But, as critics say, it more or less a vision of the United States of the Galaxy.
"Pick 100K per year for young people" Those were the times, my friend...
I use Firefox 3.x all the time and it seems to me the FF folks are so eager to get a grip on the market that they decided that some annoyances are acceptable. Such as, the Bookmarks click right after starting FF that shows the "Edit this bookmark" dialog instead of the actual bookmark list, an effect similar to the result of clicking on the star icon in the location bar (1, 3, ).
I always prefer the x.3 release of a software product. However, I believe that numbering releases misleads customers into believing that higher numbers mean more features and better quality. Take Microsoft Word, for example -- what "special" feature that one can't do without is included in version 11 that was not available in say, version 8?
I have just disabled it from the very beginning.
okay, so if if i wanted to setup my laptop to be able to do what he did, where do i start? on standard windows, remote desktop login only allows one user to be logged on at any time, so i suppose it was win pro or vnc. on linux it would have to be vnc but my guess is, that laptop was running windows. assuming the windows firewall is configured to allow remote desktop access from any external machine, and that the thief is not behind a nat/firewall, how do i find the ip of my stolen laptop on the internet?
2: I can only see one reason why programmers may want to learn Java -- they are weary of C and so are their employers are. On the desktop, Java is still slower than native code; in a client-server configuration, you still need a Java client. Server side, I see no reason to favor Java over PHP or Perl, both of which can be easily converted to byte code, like Java is, and are simpler and more intuitive than Java. It's true that one can write Java code once and than easily adapt it for multiple platforms. Speaking of which, Java has limitations on MS Windows imposed by MS. So if your are a Java programmer you are probably developping small to medium size applications for the enterprise, most of which would be probably easier to create in Perl. Am I wrong?
they should send a probe carrying extremophiles to titan then come back in 1000 years to see how it panned out.