I don't know about the law but it sure says something about Bush when he actually arrests people for wearing a T-Shirt with a message he does not like on it.
In contrast Kerry was taking hard hitting questions from ordinary citizens in Ohio. People asked him about the war, flip flopping, his senate record etc. Nothing was off the table.
Let's start with this one. Bill boards and other advertisements are commercial speech. They do not fall under the first amendment and therefore can be regulated up the wazoo. So you hanging a billboard saying to kill all the hippies can indeed be regulated.
Secondly this idea that just because you don't have the right o pick up a megaphone and start yelling at everyone that comes by restricts your speech is just stupid. When you buy a billboard or an ad that's exactly what you are doing. You are yelling at people at the top of your lungs using the megaphone. If I take away your megaphone you can still speak right? Just not as loudly.
Finally all of the upper class in this country has a tremendoud sense of entitlement. In fact most of the money spent by this govt is spent giving handouts to people who are in the upper class.
In apples case there is no need to integrate it with any legacy code base. It's just a simple plug in into the filesystem. Maybe AFS is more modular then NTFS and this kind of thing can be easily plugged in.
I disagree. The reason we put things into hierarchies is because it's easier for us to deal with them that way. I scanned through you web site and I think I understand where you are coming from but as I said I disagree.
Have you ever heard of Ecco Pro? If not I urge you to download it and use it for a month or two.
As for Apple vs MS. It looks like apple will beat them to the punch with a very flexible system. Any software vendor (even open source ones) will be able to write metadata extractors and plug them right into the OS. There is no requirement to do so however. I don't know what the MS system will look like but I doubt it will be as open. Ms just doesn't think and work that way. I think they will dictate the "one true way and metadata" and everyone will simply use what they dictate.
Clearly this is in reaction to spotlight which was in reaction to the "filesystem is a database" mumbling from MS.
It will be truly ironic if both Apple and KDE beat MS to this punch. For the first time MS vaporware announcements will have caused actual products from competitiors before the vapor even settled.
Sorry but minority report sucked ass. It does not belong on any list of great movies. Half of the movie existed solely to provide scenery for the video game they were planning.
I would have voted the other way around. 2001 was a work of pure genious. Blade runner was great but to me it was "just a movie". 2001 was an epic and a revelation.
That's one thing that always bothered me about star wars. In a universe where you can make even the smallest things hover and move using anti gravity why would you build robots with tiny wheels or legs? Worse yet why would you build huge lumbering war machines with 4 legs?
It must have bothered you enough to put it in your signature. I find your claims that it does not bother you to be disingenous. It clearly bothers you enough for you to lash out against it in your signature.
Wow God spoke to you? Awsome. According to the bible he has only spoken a handful of people in the entire history of the world. You must be super special to him.
You should have recorded him though. That would have been super awsome. Then everybody could have heard what God sounds like. Not only that but then you could have proven once and for all that he does exist. It looks like you missed a golden opportunity there.
SCO has already pulled their copyright claim from the case. This case is no longer about copyrights. Now IBM is asking to judge to assert that there is no copyright violation which is outside the scope of this case.
SCO is claiming publicly in the press that IBM is violating their copyright but not charging them with that offence in court.
I think legally SCO might win this since the question of copyright is not in front of this judge. They can lie to the press all they want. It's not illegal to lie to the press and this judge can't do anything to stop them.
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I don't know about the law but it sure says something about Bush when he actually arrests people for wearing a T-Shirt with a message he does not like on it.
In contrast Kerry was taking hard hitting questions from ordinary citizens in Ohio. People asked him about the war, flip flopping, his senate record etc. Nothing was off the table.
That shows me that kerry has balls.
Most of the protesters were white. The NY police dept is not known for shooting wildly at white people.
If he had written a pro bush message he would not have been arrested. That's the key here.
Whew I don't know where to start.
Let's start with this one. Bill boards and other advertisements are commercial speech. They do not fall under the first amendment and therefore can be regulated up the wazoo. So you hanging a billboard saying to kill all the hippies can indeed be regulated.
Secondly this idea that just because you don't have the right o pick up a megaphone and start yelling at everyone that comes by restricts your speech is just stupid. When you buy a billboard or an ad that's exactly what you are doing. You are yelling at people at the top of your lungs using the megaphone. If I take away your megaphone you can still speak right? Just not as loudly.
Finally all of the upper class in this country has a tremendoud sense of entitlement. In fact most of the money spent by this govt is spent giving handouts to people who are in the upper class.
I'll summarize the PC mag review for you.
"It sucks".
Well said, too bad I have no mod points.
In apples case there is no need to integrate it with any legacy code base. It's just a simple plug in into the filesystem. Maybe AFS is more modular then NTFS and this kind of thing can be easily plugged in.
Then why the fuck is it taking so long? I mean reiser 4 was written in less time by just a few people.
Are you a member or ADC? If so you could download the SDK anytime you want.
Wow. Apple has already done this. I have a beta of Tiger I got at WWDC and it's really slick. It will go into production within six months.
I still don't get why it's so revolutionary or difficult. Apple did it under a year.
I disagree. The reason we put things into hierarchies is because it's easier for us to deal with them that way. I scanned through you web site and I think I understand where you are coming from but as I said I disagree.
Have you ever heard of Ecco Pro? If not I urge you to download it and use it for a month or two.
As for Apple vs MS. It looks like apple will beat them to the punch with a very flexible system. Any software vendor (even open source ones) will be able to write metadata extractors and plug them right into the OS. There is no requirement to do so however. I don't know what the MS system will look like but I doubt it will be as open. Ms just doesn't think and work that way. I think they will dictate the "one true way and metadata" and everyone will simply use what they dictate.
I don't think you will ever lose the hierarchy. People think in hierarchies. They will always exist.
What apple has done with spotlight is to let you build virtual hierarchies using queries.
It's brilliant.
Apple did it by putting into place an extremely clever and elegant hack. MS is attempting to do it by rewriting the entire filesystem.
It's the classic agile and fast mindset vs the monolithic authotarian mindset.
Clearly this is in reaction to spotlight which was in reaction to the "filesystem is a database" mumbling from MS.
It will be truly ironic if both Apple and KDE beat MS to this punch. For the first time MS vaporware announcements will have caused actual products from competitiors before the vapor even settled.
You missed it completely didn't you?
Sorry but minority report sucked ass. It does not belong on any list of great movies. Half of the movie existed solely to provide scenery for the video game they were planning.
I would have voted the other way around. 2001 was a work of pure genious. Blade runner was great but to me it was "just a movie". 2001 was an epic and a revelation.
That's one thing that always bothered me about star wars. In a universe where you can make even the smallest things hover and move using anti gravity why would you build robots with tiny wheels or legs? Worse yet why would you build huge lumbering war machines with 4 legs?
" but such a thing cannot be conclusively proven in the negative with 100% certainty"
You can't prove a negative. Back to school for you.
"P.S. Thanks for stomping on a good joke."
HAR HAR HAR. Wow that was a zinger of a joke. When I heard it 20 years ago. It didn't get any funnier the next 5000 times I heard it though.
It must have bothered you enough to put it in your signature. I find your claims that it does not bother you to be disingenous. It clearly bothers you enough for you to lash out against it in your signature.
Once again trade libel has nothing to do with this case. IBMs counterclaim is about patents.
Wow God spoke to you? Awsome. According to the bible he has only spoken a handful of people in the entire history of the world. You must be super special to him.
You should have recorded him though. That would have been super awsome. Then everybody could have heard what God sounds like. Not only that but then you could have proven once and for all that he does exist. It looks like you missed a golden opportunity there.
" Nietzsche: God is dead ..a bit later:
..
..a bit later:
God: Nietzsche is dead"
This should be
"Nietzsche: God is dead
Nietzsche is dead"
God has never spoken to anybody about Nietzsche or anybody else for that matter. He may very well be dead too.
Here is the thing.
SCO has already pulled their copyright claim from the case. This case is no longer about copyrights. Now IBM is asking to judge to assert that there is no copyright violation which is outside the scope of this case.
SCO is claiming publicly in the press that IBM is violating their copyright but not charging them with that offence in court.
I think legally SCO might win this since the question of copyright is not in front of this judge. They can lie to the press all they want. It's not illegal to lie to the press and this judge can't do anything to stop them.