If you're a Mac geek, I wish you'd chosen a spelling that ctrl-command-d would work on!
"Schadenfreude" works, and the dictionary defines it as "pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune."
I understand, but they'll just sell the old consoles on eBay. With a console, you're wasting more money on the games than the unit, so I guess that's where the real tax is.
Many Slashdotters (hence moderators) probably would agree with you there, but when it comes to gaming consoles, they don't seem to care. Principles take a back seat to games!
I *think* the whole thing means that you can call your web site:
"KangarooInstallations.com.au - we do Linux installs on your PC"
but not:
"LinuxKangaroo.com.au - open source installations that hop to your door"
because the latter includes the trademarked word in your company/web site name, unless of course you contribute some payola.
If I understand correctly, Linus first set up "Linux" as a trademark so that he could stop a site called "linuxchix.com."
I'm curious if a company like Apple would be able to stop an (as yet non-existent) site named "ipodchix.com" given that there are a ton of "iPod" sites that use the iPod trademark: "ipodhacks.com", "ipodsync.com", "ipod-fun.de", "ipod-dj.com", "ipod-shop.co.uk", "ipod-warehouse.com.au", "ipod-conga.com", etc, etc. And if they can, would they?
Does this mean that the open source movement is actually more protective of its associations and (as the story article suggests) litigious when it comes to this matter than a corporation?
(By the way, if anyone is thinking of setting up ipodchix.com just to see what happens, here are some (mostly work safe) pictures to get started. Purely in the interests of trademark research of course!)
Interesting, thanks for posting the link. It made me think maybe he should also have been mentioned in the previous article about people mixing reality and MMORPGs:
The manor's medieval design reflects Garriott's interest in the era. The house is adorned with various medieval items such as crossbows, swords, and armour. It features traps and a network of secret passages and rooms. A secret room in the basement contains some of Garriott's most treasured artifacts, including dinosaur fossils, a coffin with a human skeleton inside it, and an authentic 16th century vampire hunting kit.
Scrub that, I assumed from the (arguably misleading) "Google vs Microsoft" in the intro that it was search in the web context. RTFA showed it's about corporate data searching, so my "net trawling" comment makes no sense. Sorry. Wishful thinking I guess. Gotta learn not to RTFIntros.
The key to search engines, whatever their underlying ranking algorithm, is trawling through the couple of billion pages on the net to generate the data to be be searched.
Obviously most of us simply don't have the bandwidth or the computing power & storage to do that.
So are IBM treating the search engine source release as a hypothetical interest for people who can't actually make practical use of it, or are they going to give access to their own trawled data?
The only downside I can think of right now is that the effort needed to scrape off the coating and later reseal the tube might exceed that of just making a vacuum tube designed for the task in the first place.
But I love this kind of grass roots recycling thinking!
I say, keep Pluto as a planet, and just add new planets to the solar system as they pop up. It's good for the memory: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Sedna, Persephone (possible name for 2003 UB313).
And it reminds us that there's still so much to learn about our our solar system, let alone the universe beyond.
I'm in Australia and still waiting for somewhere to pay for a stack of tracks that have somehow made it onto my iPod unawares.
Perhaps compile a list of the pirated tracks and send it (anonymously) to Sony BMG with a brief note saying:
"By blocking the iTMS Australia, you are losing money from me.
"Multiply my case by the hundreds of thousands of other frustrated consumers in the same situation and see if your accountants think that makes financial sense."
Well, if Apple didn't make it damn-near impossible for C and C++ apps to use Aqua, then maybe more cross-platform apps would use it.
This is a nonsensical statement. Photoshop, and most other cross-platform apps are written in C/C++, use Aqua (of course), and have no code at all in Objective-C.
Mac OS X has two main APIs: Carbon (C/C++) and Cocoa (Objective-C). Both have full access to the GUI.
I use screen corners exclusively and don't want any time delay.
However, you've got a slight point in that the top two corners are much less suitable than the bottom corners. I use bottom-left corner for "Show Desktop" and bottom-right corner for "All Windows." The top corners are frequently overshot to when going for the menubar or Spotlight icon and in my opinion shouldn't be used.
I miss Exposé *so* much when I'm on other platforms. I even bought WinPlosion for XP hoping to replicate the experience, but Windows' non buffered windows just don't cut it.
Personally, I wish the computer cognoscenti *would* give more emphasis to truly graphical computing.
The fact that the keyboard is more efficient for interacting with the majority of computer operations that people do really just goes to show that our culture hasn't advanced from thinking in pipelineable data chunks to true objects.
For much software, config files, switches, and option params still dominate over graphical dialogs, and even those that do exist in polished software are still just checkbox and radio equivalents of config settings, not real objects in the sense of "chopsticks interacting with noodles" (associating entities with containers).
Even most GUIs are simply visual equivalents of the same verb-noun operations that CLIs have always used, eg, graphically foo.txt dragging up a level is the same as mv foo.txt../ Of course the latter is faster if that's all you're doing.
I think the future is somewhere in the way non-linear video editing suites and graphical art programs work, but more consistent.
Hopefully now that OSes are moving to 3rd gen windowing architectures that allow much more complex visual depictions (OS X a few years ago, Longhorn next year, Linux real soon), more experiments like this will be tried, and new interactions will emerge.
Although this post has made no sense, here's to truly graphical computing!
Did you notice that Kai-Fu has worked at a number of tech companies in succession:
Silicon Graphics
Apple Computer
Microsoft
and now Google
A pattern that occurs to me is that he is a knack of leaving sinking ships... (I know Apple is no longer sinking, but it was until Steve Jobs came back and refloated it.)
Could this mean that Microsoft is taking on water?
Cool, so will all The Planet of the Apes movies be available, or just the ones with a big sweaty gorilla bossing people around?
Slashdot effect to combat global warming?
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Here's an idea: as there are clearly an enormous number of people accessible via the internet, if we could all be coordinated to use our weight by jumping up and down at a notified time, we may be able influence the rotational orbit of the Earth.
We could have time zone +0 GMT start jumping at one part of the day, then time zone +12 GMT do it twelve hours later.
The cumulative effect might be enough to push the Earth into a longer orbit, thus moving us further away from the sun and cooling the planet.
(Of course, it's not solely proximity to the sun that determines global temperature, and Newton's Third Law + the weight of the planet vs the weight of humans might have something to say about whether jumping would actually work, but don't let that spoil some silly science!)
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Oh man, it looks like George Lucas joined the board of directors.
If you're a Mac geek, I wish you'd chosen a spelling that ctrl-command-d would work on!
"Schadenfreude" works, and the dictionary defines it as "pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune."
I understand, but they'll just sell the old consoles on eBay. With a console, you're wasting more money on the games than the unit, so I guess that's where the real tax is.
Many Slashdotters (hence moderators) probably would agree with you there, but when it comes to gaming consoles, they don't seem to care. Principles take a back seat to games!
Then they'd be chasing their own tail.
May buy one. Then get bored of it and sell it on eBay a few months later and buy a PlayStation 3, which I think will be a superior console.
Or may just stick with the PSP and be less of a couch potato about gaming - gaming on the move is hip!
I *think* the whole thing means that you can call your web site:
"KangarooInstallations.com.au - we do Linux installs on your PC"
but not:
"LinuxKangaroo.com.au - open source installations that hop to your door" because the latter includes the trademarked word in your company/web site name, unless of course you contribute some payola.
If I understand correctly, Linus first set up "Linux" as a trademark so that he could stop a site called "linuxchix.com."
I'm curious if a company like Apple would be able to stop an (as yet non-existent) site named "ipodchix.com" given that there are a ton of "iPod" sites that use the iPod trademark: "ipodhacks.com", "ipodsync.com", "ipod-fun.de", "ipod-dj.com", "ipod-shop.co.uk", "ipod-warehouse.com.au", "ipod-conga.com", etc, etc. And if they can, would they?
Does this mean that the open source movement is actually more protective of its associations and (as the story article suggests) litigious when it comes to this matter than a corporation?
(By the way, if anyone is thinking of setting up ipodchix.com just to see what happens, here are some (mostly work safe) pictures to get started. Purely in the interests of trademark research of course!)
http://www.eluid.org/images/misc/iPod1.jpg
http://www.eluid.org/images/misc/iPod2.jpg
Interesting, thanks for posting the link. It made me think maybe he should also have been mentioned in the previous article about people mixing reality and MMORPGs:
Very cool house!
Scrub that, I assumed from the (arguably misleading) "Google vs Microsoft" in the intro that it was search in the web context. RTFA showed it's about corporate data searching, so my "net trawling" comment makes no sense. Sorry. Wishful thinking I guess. Gotta learn not to RTFIntros.
Yeah, but if you're Burger King and are looking at opening new stores on the same block, the clown isn't looking too happy.
The key to search engines, whatever their underlying ranking algorithm, is trawling through the couple of billion pages on the net to generate the data to be be searched.
Obviously most of us simply don't have the bandwidth or the computing power & storage to do that.
So are IBM treating the search engine source release as a hypothetical interest for people who can't actually make practical use of it, or are they going to give access to their own trawled data?
If the latter, then this is very significant.
The only downside I can think of right now is that the effort needed to scrape off the coating and later reseal the tube might exceed that of just making a vacuum tube designed for the task in the first place.
But I love this kind of grass roots recycling thinking!
Sensible forms of heating aside, the conclusion seems to be this is an expensive, geeky art piece to wow your millionaire friends with.
So how about turning the concept into an inexpensive, geeky imitation art piece to wow your Slashdot friends with...?
The principles seem quite understandable with high school science. Any pointers on where to get started?
How many asteroids have their own moons?
I say, keep Pluto as a planet, and just add new planets to the solar system as they pop up. It's good for the memory: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Sedna, Persephone (possible name for 2003 UB313).
And it reminds us that there's still so much to learn about our our solar system, let alone the universe beyond.
Well, since he was handed the election by the religious right, you probably have a good point.
Would a mail campaign be any help...?
If there were enough Aussie iPod'ers to bombard Sony/BMG with the petition, it might help sway their stubborn heads?
Perhaps compile a list of the pirated tracks and send it (anonymously) to Sony BMG with a brief note saying:
"By blocking the iTMS Australia, you are losing money from me.
"Multiply my case by the hundreds of thousands of other frustrated consumers in the same situation and see if your accountants think that makes financial sense."
Strange, how many years ago? On the documentary extras of various Pixar DVDs, you can see them dotted around.
This is a nonsensical statement. Photoshop, and most other cross-platform apps are written in C/C++, use Aqua (of course), and have no code at all in Objective-C.
Mac OS X has two main APIs: Carbon (C/C++) and Cocoa (Objective-C). Both have full access to the GUI.
I use screen corners exclusively and don't want any time delay.
However, you've got a slight point in that the top two corners are much less suitable than the bottom corners. I use bottom-left corner for "Show Desktop" and bottom-right corner for "All Windows." The top corners are frequently overshot to when going for the menubar or Spotlight icon and in my opinion shouldn't be used.
I miss Exposé *so* much when I'm on other platforms. I even bought WinPlosion for XP hoping to replicate the experience, but Windows' non buffered windows just don't cut it.
The first post still wants to use his keyboard.
../ Of course the latter is faster if that's all you're doing.
Personally, I wish the computer cognoscenti *would* give more emphasis to truly graphical computing.
The fact that the keyboard is more efficient for interacting with the majority of computer operations that people do really just goes to show that our culture hasn't advanced from thinking in pipelineable data chunks to true objects.
For much software, config files, switches, and option params still dominate over graphical dialogs, and even those that do exist in polished software are still just checkbox and radio equivalents of config settings, not real objects in the sense of "chopsticks interacting with noodles" (associating entities with containers).
Even most GUIs are simply visual equivalents of the same verb-noun operations that CLIs have always used, eg, graphically foo.txt dragging up a level is the same as mv foo.txt
I think the future is somewhere in the way non-linear video editing suites and graphical art programs work, but more consistent.
Hopefully now that OSes are moving to 3rd gen windowing architectures that allow much more complex visual depictions (OS X a few years ago, Longhorn next year, Linux real soon), more experiments like this will be tried, and new interactions will emerge.
Although this post has made no sense, here's to truly graphical computing!
Did you notice that Kai-Fu has worked at a number of tech companies in succession:
A pattern that occurs to me is that he is a knack of leaving sinking ships... (I know Apple is no longer sinking, but it was until Steve Jobs came back and refloated it.)
Could this mean that Microsoft is taking on water?
Cool, so will all The Planet of the Apes movies be available, or just the ones with a big sweaty gorilla bossing people around?
Here's an idea: as there are clearly an enormous number of people accessible via the internet, if we could all be coordinated to use our weight by jumping up and down at a notified time, we may be able influence the rotational orbit of the Earth.
We could have time zone +0 GMT start jumping at one part of the day, then time zone +12 GMT do it twelve hours later.
The cumulative effect might be enough to push the Earth into a longer orbit, thus moving us further away from the sun and cooling the planet.
(Of course, it's not solely proximity to the sun that determines global temperature, and Newton's Third Law + the weight of the planet vs the weight of humans might have something to say about whether jumping would actually work, but don't let that spoil some silly science!)
I don't know about the publishers, but if he takes on the kids then he's a dead man!
Clearly RMS does not have children.