I look forward when the erstwhile manufacturers of toilet bowls, Armitage Shanks, takes over as parent company of Alcatel-Lucent - just imagine the possibilities!
What a strange turn - the radio show's presenters are entitled to their free speech, however objectionable to most, yet the reviewer was slapped down - Disney's logic behind this escapes me.
Because it seems curious that the MPAA et al are persuing search engines - if, hypothetically speaking, they are successful, that means Google and related sites will get major headaches due to copyright, then M$ and their ilk can move in.
This is another weapon in the OO programmer's arsenal to bore the living daylights talking about it to any hapless individual who had the misfortune to ask what they do. Why wasn't this release checked by the UN? We should be told.
Were I just wrapped up in Apple World, I would miss noticing the Tablet PC, which is basically a more versatile (if slower, CPU-wise) concept than the G5 iMac. Nice to see Apple fitting a G5 into a smaller form factor though, which implies imminent laptop use, although portable PC's now have leapfrogged any current and possible future Apple laptops in terms of speed with battery life.
Just goes to show what happens when record companies spend most of their resources on litigating against piracy rather than empowering listeners to fairly purchase music. Go Apple!
I take a bow to the report and the author. Being a computer programmer, I wouldn't call myself a 'Software Engineer' due to the appalling state of writing software in its current state. There has been for quite some time this in-bred mentality of Versions, that nothing is ever finished, mostly driven by commercial greed - despite the huge advances in computer power, our OS'es and their applications are still struggling to keep up with an Amiga, for chrissake. Moreover, it can have lethal consequences; for example, radiation treatment, or airplane control. Deaths ensued. "Sorry that your college outing ended in all their deaths, we were running 1.1.3 of the aileron system." Sure, even mechanical engineers get it wrong, but their main onus is to make something that will work, not, as in the software case, 'get it out now, fix it later'. So, if someone says they are a 'Software Engineer', ask them, what is it they do that merits the 'Engineer' tag - would they build a bridge that lasts? Nope.
Keep in mind that Apple is a business first and foremost; if it is convenient and *profitable* (less development time, bugs are not in their hands as much) for them to use open source then they will. If they were totally altruistic then the open source community would have access to sourcecode for the Finder, Spotlight and other Apple technologies which would benefit those who wish to improve their OS systems. But no, it's a business, and what works for them doesn't necessarily mean they should fully reverse the process. And, when they introduce bugs in system updates that cripple (fully compliant) applications, one gets to wonder what their goal is. (fyi, I am an Apple Mac user)
1. There is NO copy controlled software on US or UK releases of Beastie Boys' "To the 5 Boroughs."
2. The disk *IS* copy controlled in Europe - which is standard policy for all
Capitol/EMI titles (and a policy used by ALL major labels in Europe).
Standard policy - looks like racist monopolies to me.
Some households have a mix of computers and one can begin to see the benefits - for example, to halve the video compression time of iMovie when making a DVD. Considering Apple's ease-of-use for heavyweight *NIX apps this would empower more people to have more computing resources available rather than the big fish out there - schools with low budgets would be able to stretch their capabilities that bit further. And so on.
Bless the USPTO - I can see that, in a handful of years time, while we are on the bridge of a sub-light-speed cruiser slipping along to some galaxy, that the only reason we're on the ship is that everyone has evacuated a patent-ridden earth, where only patent attorneys and IP accountants remain.
And we will say to our children when we arrive on a new planet: "free! You're free to swing on a swing!" (US Patent: 6,368,227) Although, of course, not all would be peachy on the voyage there - thanks to IBM, people will be shitting themselves in the aisle because the starship company wouldn't pay the license (US Patent: 6,329,919) and there would be too many people crowding the toilets.
If the EU grants patents, why, wouldn't it be just peachy for free/open source projects to patent all their techniques and plough the revenue from commercial licensing into anti-corporate organisations and charities? Now that's Irony.
Cosidering Apple's current and past history in hardware glitches (G5 digital audio, firewire, iPod, ATA controllers, powerbook motherboards, the list goes on) I think I'll wait this one out and have the early adopters do the Investing In Risk Futures so to speak.
To quote from the NATS (National Air Traffic Services) press release:
"The FDP was being tested overnight for a future upgrade. The system was successfully returned to service but at 06.03 errors were detected in the distribution of flight data between Centres. As a precaution, we decided to restart the FDP (known as a cold restart) causing an interruption to full service. The data processing system was restored at 06.42 and declared fully operational at 07.03. Flight capacity restrictions were lifted at 08.05. The system is now fully operational and we are confident that it is stable.
Through the response team at West Drayton, we have been working with airports and airlines to clear the delayed departures, and expect the backlog to be cleared quickly.
Our investigation into the cause of the problem is continuing."
Let me get this straight: they ran a test on the FDP. The FDP glitched. They rebooted the FDP. They are still investigating the problem. Now, unless I am mistaken, I can only infer from their statement above that they are now running the FDP which is still susceptible to the problems highlighted by the test.
I have just successfully embedded the HTML into Apple Mail (using Mozilla's HTML mail editor) and sent myself a mail with a link which once clicked runs the code. Here is the HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <a
href="help:runscript=MacHelp.help/Contents/Resourc es/English.lproj/shrd/OpnApp.scpt%20string=%27usr: bin:du%27">Click to go to your next message</a><br> </body> </html>
It will display 'Click to go to your next message' and run the code (without visiting a web page).
MR: *blip* SCANNING AREA Houston: Receiving data. MR: *beep* FOUND SCATTERED ARTIFACTS Houston: (operators go quiet) Zoom in on the artifacts, Mars Rover. MR: *bzt* REGULAR GEOMETRIC FORMS FOUND. SIZE NO LARGER THAN 5" RESEMBLING FRAGMENTS OF METALS Houston: Ah, that's the Beagle, Mars Rover, continue. MR: *bip*
Way of the stockmarket. Look at it this way: SCO has mucho dinero to pay top-dollar for legal counsel. They find a way to make a buck - sue big companies: Shares are bought in those big companies by offshore trusts, friends and relatives of SCO employees and directors; those stocks are bought at a lower price due to the pending lawsuits. SCO loses - directors / employees lose their jobs/resign with a golden handshake. Shares in the big companies shoot up. Former directors / employees of SCO make big dinero. So what if they're out of a job - they're now rich. Rinse and repeat.
Great, with this patent that will give me chance to patent embedding code in.doc files, or any open format for that matter:
"Hi Bob, thanks for coming over this summer, we really found that
-= printf("you raided our fridge too often"); =-
you are very outgoing. When we went to..."
Ironic after they were hammered my the Eolas patent. Still, at least the USPTO gives convicts a chance to work since they seem to ignore priors.
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I look forward when the erstwhile manufacturers of toilet bowls, Armitage Shanks, takes over as parent company of Alcatel-Lucent - just imagine the possibilities!
What a strange turn - the radio show's presenters are entitled to their free speech, however objectionable to most, yet the reviewer was slapped down - Disney's logic behind this escapes me.
Because it seems curious that the MPAA et al are persuing search engines - if, hypothetically speaking, they are successful, that means Google and related sites will get major headaches due to copyright, then M$ and their ilk can move in.
Nice to see a desktop OS built mostly on Open Source use DRM to protect its code.
Those Intel chips are great for virus writers to obfuscate then execute code. Superb! I can now have the full Macindows experience!
Well, seeing as most of their software exhibits 'prior art'.
This is another weapon in the OO programmer's arsenal to bore the living daylights talking about it to any hapless individual who had the misfortune to ask what they do. Why wasn't this release checked by the UN? We should be told.
Were I just wrapped up in Apple World, I would miss noticing the Tablet PC, which is basically a more versatile (if slower, CPU-wise) concept than the G5 iMac.
Nice to see Apple fitting a G5 into a smaller form factor though, which implies imminent laptop use, although portable PC's now have leapfrogged any current and possible future Apple laptops in terms of speed with battery life.
Big company uses open source = big company gets cheap labour fixing bugs.
Prior art? Check out the Apple OpenGL mailing list in a post dated Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Subject: OpenGL for audiophiles.
Just goes to show what happens when record companies spend most of their resources on litigating against piracy rather than empowering listeners to fairly purchase music. Go Apple!
I take a bow to the report and the author.
Being a computer programmer, I wouldn't call myself a 'Software Engineer' due to the appalling state of writing software in its current state. There has been for quite some time this in-bred mentality of Versions, that nothing is ever finished, mostly driven by commercial greed - despite the huge advances in computer power, our OS'es and their applications are still struggling to keep up with an Amiga, for chrissake.
Moreover, it can have lethal consequences; for example, radiation treatment, or airplane control. Deaths ensued. "Sorry that your college outing ended in all their deaths, we were running 1.1.3 of the aileron system."
Sure, even mechanical engineers get it wrong, but their main onus is to make something that will work, not, as in the software case, 'get it out now, fix it later'.
So, if someone says they are a 'Software Engineer', ask them, what is it they do that merits the 'Engineer' tag - would they build a bridge that lasts? Nope.
See, I said that not upgrading my Apple Lisa would pay off in the end.
Keep in mind that Apple is a business first and foremost; if it is convenient and *profitable* (less development time, bugs are not in their hands as much) for them to use open source then they will.
If they were totally altruistic then the open source community would have access to sourcecode for the Finder, Spotlight and other Apple technologies which would benefit those who wish to improve their OS systems. But no, it's a business, and what works for them doesn't necessarily mean they should fully reverse the process.
And, when they introduce bugs in system updates that cripple (fully compliant) applications, one gets to wonder what their goal is.
(fyi, I am an Apple Mac user)
Microsoft will do anything to get in the news :oP
To quote from their reply:
1. There is NO copy controlled software on US or UK releases of Beastie Boys' "To the 5 Boroughs."
2. The disk *IS* copy controlled in Europe - which is standard policy for all Capitol/EMI titles (and a policy used by ALL major labels in Europe).
Standard policy - looks like racist monopolies to me.
Some households have a mix of computers and one can begin to see the benefits - for example, to halve the video compression time of iMovie when making a DVD.
Considering Apple's ease-of-use for heavyweight *NIX apps this would empower more people to have more computing resources available rather than the big fish out there - schools with low budgets would be able to stretch their capabilities that bit further. And so on.
From the European Patent Office, this one by Pioneer does basically the same thing (no mention of VCR recording):
3 26 437&CY=gb&LG=en&DB=EPD
http://l2.espacenet.com/espacenet/viewer?PN=EP1
Bless the USPTO - I can see that, in a handful of years time, while we are on the bridge of a sub-light-speed cruiser slipping along to some galaxy, that the only reason we're on the ship is that everyone has evacuated a patent-ridden earth, where only patent attorneys and IP accountants remain.
And we will say to our children when we arrive on a new planet: "free! You're free to swing on a swing!" (US Patent: 6,368,227)
Although, of course, not all would be peachy on the voyage there - thanks to IBM, people will be shitting themselves in the aisle because the starship company wouldn't pay the license (US Patent: 6,329,919) and there would be too many people crowding the toilets.
If the EU grants patents, why, wouldn't it be just peachy for free/open source projects to patent all their techniques and plough the revenue from commercial licensing into anti-corporate organisations and charities?
Now that's Irony.
Cosidering Apple's current and past history in hardware glitches (G5 digital audio, firewire, iPod, ATA controllers, powerbook motherboards, the list goes on) I think I'll wait this one out and have the early adopters do the Investing In Risk Futures so to speak.
Good point - their press stament is rather unclear as to what happened, so we are left speculating (A Good Thing in this case!).
To quote from the NATS (National Air Traffic Services) press release:
"The FDP was being tested overnight for a future upgrade. The system was successfully returned to service but at 06.03 errors were detected in the distribution of flight data between Centres. As a precaution, we decided to restart the FDP (known as a cold restart) causing an interruption to full service. The data processing system was restored at 06.42 and declared fully operational at 07.03. Flight capacity restrictions were lifted at 08.05. The system is now fully operational and we are confident that it is stable.
Through the response team at West Drayton, we have been working with airports and airlines to clear the delayed departures, and expect the backlog to be cleared quickly.
Our investigation into the cause of the problem is continuing."
Let me get this straight: they ran a test on the FDP. The FDP glitched. They rebooted the FDP. They are still investigating the problem.
Now, unless I am mistaken, I can only infer from their statement above that they are now running the FDP which is still susceptible to the problems highlighted by the test.
I have just successfully embedded the HTML into Apple Mail (using Mozilla's HTML mail editor) and sent myself a mail with a link which once clicked runs the code. Here is the HTML:
c es/English.lproj/shrd/OpnApp.scpt%20string=%27usr: bin:du%27">Click to go to your next message</a><br>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<a
href="help:runscript=MacHelp.help/Contents/Resour
</body>
</html>
It will display 'Click to go to your next message' and run the code (without visiting a web page).
MR: *blip* SCANNING AREA
Houston: Receiving data.
MR: *beep* FOUND SCATTERED ARTIFACTS
Houston: (operators go quiet) Zoom in on the artifacts, Mars Rover.
MR: *bzt* REGULAR GEOMETRIC FORMS FOUND. SIZE NO LARGER THAN 5" RESEMBLING FRAGMENTS OF METALS
Houston: Ah, that's the Beagle, Mars Rover, continue.
MR: *bip*
Way of the stockmarket. Look at it this way: SCO has mucho dinero to pay top-dollar for legal counsel. They find a way to make a buck - sue big companies:
Shares are bought in those big companies by offshore trusts, friends and relatives of SCO employees and directors; those stocks are bought at a lower price due to the pending lawsuits.
SCO loses - directors / employees lose their jobs/resign with a golden handshake. Shares in the big companies shoot up. Former directors / employees of SCO make big dinero. So what if they're out of a job - they're now rich.
Rinse and repeat.
Great, with this patent that will give me chance to patent embedding code in .doc files, or any open format for that matter:
"Hi Bob, thanks for coming over this summer, we really found that
-= printf("you raided our fridge too often"); =- you are very outgoing. When we went to..."
Ironic after they were hammered my the Eolas patent. Still, at least the USPTO gives convicts a chance to work since they seem to ignore priors.