Microsoft has previously stated that this lawsuit represents an isolated issue and that the company does not intend to broadly sue Linux users.
I remember when the news of the dispute first became known, it was widely speculated that TomTom threatened Microsoft with some possible patent infringements made by Microsoft Streets, and Microsoft threaten to defend itself by making enforcing a patent claim on FAT.
In other words, TomTom tried to get a better deal, Microsoft called their bluff, and TomTom folded their hand.
Well that bug was resolved and it was a cosmetic issue involving a false-positive when the IDE parsed for errors. Not that this didn't make the error nerve racking.
When it comes to IDEs and everything else for that matter, we all pick our own poison.
#1, Your reply to the OP implied that Mississippi politicians had more to fear wrt mistresses and the like. I replied to that, and you ignored that essential part of my reply, obviously because I made the point effectively.
What point? That there are other states with politicians? Mississippi passed this bill, therefore this applies to Mississippi politicians.
As for Privacy, what privacy? Your in a car being photographed running a red light. If you want privacy, run a red light inside your own home...
#2, The politicians are the ones who put the lights into effect in the first place. It was the groundswell of resistance that brought them down.
Yea this is a case of the state government over ruling the workings of local government.
#3, Where the invasion of privacy is concerned was not an original argument of mine and I never cared about that, but it's obviously ridiculous to say that there is "NO INVASION OF PRIVACY" when the camera can put you at a particular spot at a particular time, and can photograph who you're with at the time. That could be a problem for other reasons than mistresses. And lastly,
What? You were the one singing the praises of "...vast hoards complaining for the last several years about invasion of privacy by the government and Mississippi takes a small step against it...".
#4, Your reply to the OP had nothing to do with Barbour. From my perspective, it was making a statement at best about the morality of the politicians in this state, and at worst about the people in general. Looking at the politicians from other states, I see no basis for that. It's just your baseless attack on a state that doesn't deserve it. I'm not a fan of Barbour in particular.
I'm sorry my memory was sketchy. Governor Kirk Fordice was the one rumored to having an affair which led to his divorce while in office. Hally Barbour is currently rumored to have personally profitted from the Katrina recovery efforts, and he's certainly no choir boy. But you are right this this has more to do with Fordice than Barbour.
As for the people of Mississippi, they are of fine stock, but the politicians are despicable. I know I have a lot of family in Mississippi, and I live near the state line in Alabama which has it's own problems with sleezy politicians. But I gripe about how a state that gets a lot of federal earmarks, still require someone in my family to drive 2.5 hours into Mississippi and bring a sick relative to a hospital in Alabama because the hospital system in Mississippi sucks.
NetBeans/Eclipse would unify IBM's front against Visual Studio.
I hope Netbeans don't become the mess that Eclipse is threatening to become. The multiple distributions, the commercial only plugins, UI inconsistencies, and instability.
I know the Eclipse fanboys will object, but I've used both IDEs and Eclipse has its issues and feels like it was built by a committee consisting of competitors.
With Netbeans, I don't have to worry about CDT not meshing with the current patched version of the platform, or having to choose between Subclipse or Subversive and trying to get past that stupid Java HL issue with Ubuntu. Netbeans just works.
Nothing against Eclipse, I just don't want any of that crap to migrate over to Netbeans.
Then there's IBM history other editors like XyWrite...
I've been hearing the vast hoards complaining for the last several years about invasion of privacy by the government and Mississippi takes a small step against it, and this changes the validity of the argument somehow?
Considering the fact that there is NO INVASION OF PRIVACY, nope doesn't change the validity of the argument.
The OP was shocked that an elected official would consider the wishes of the electorate, and I gave him a possible reason why...
As for the rest of argument, talk radio doesn't seem like the best source for statistics.
"It's Mississippi" indeed
No offense intended but it is the state that Halley Barbour governs, and Mississippians voted him in.
The fact he didn't makes it even more suspicious that he had something else in mind, perhaps selling to someone prepared to pay more.
Or maybe he wanted to win Pwn2Own? I mean it is a sport right?
He didn't release his vulnerability, TipPoint secured the rights to the exploit, and a Apple representative was there to witness the exploit and to get the details.
I am not a lawyer, but the TOS you linked says (emphasis mine):
In the section on technical restrictions, it says the you are not allowed to:
use or run programs from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises LAN, except for personal and non-commercial residential use;
So it appears that using TightVNC for your own personal use is allowed by this clause.
It's Mississippi. The elected government didn't want to get caught running a red light and MORE IMPORTANTLY didn't want to have a snapshot of their mistress in the car with them. Hence "the invasion of privacy" part of the reasoning.
I purposely block the intersection each every time, I need to make a left turn onto my street. I'll gladly stop when the city installs a left arrow signal.
Apple is expected to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008. Meanwhile, Research In Motion has 12 million subscribers, and its iconic BlackBerry is selling at a clip of about 4 million units a quarter...
Target markets for the iPhone and BlackBerry are starting to overlap as well. The iPhone is a media consumer's dream, playing movies and music with ease. But it's not as finely tuned for the corporate user...
The BlackBerry has long been the staple of corporate users who focused mostly on e-mail and calendar features, but Research In Motion has recently been aiming for high-end consumers who might buy the device for play as much as for work.
So from your source, Apple has more than 10 million media consumer's (a.k.a. High data volume), while RIM has more than 12 million email and calendar consumers (a.k.a. Low data volume). From the same article, RIM has just started aiming for the "high-end consumers".
Again this has more to do with market share (of the targeted demographic), since Apple has a much higher share of the high volume data consumers.
Handling mostly email and calendar data may make the Blackberry more network friendly, but not from any technical innovations ("superior" or otherwise).
The reason blackberrys are more attractive to networks than the iPhone is because they have compression, on-demand loading and data-chunking abilities.
I believe the reasons behind blackberry's "network friendly" appearance has more to do with market share than technical achievement. It was the iPhone (not the blackberry) that made wireless data marketable to the tech-savvy consumer (and the rest of the masses).
I don't think there is any controversy over the design goals of the "F/OSS thing". However certain implementations of the "F/OSS thing" have stirred some controversy between the pragmatists and the zealots.
Actually, it's more accurate to say that kdawson has liberal leanings, pro-democratic, or whatever you want to call it. He's the submitter.
I'm sure a conservate, pro-republican, or whatever would write his/her summary with their own personal viewpoint too.
As for the media:
Unfortunately, most news sources in the US are biased, and the number of mainstream media outlets with liberal leanings appear to outnumber the conservative ones.
But local demographics has a lot to do with the bias than some unseen national conspiracy. Take public radio for example. While NPR is well balanced in their reporting and programming, the local program director of the college radio station usually isn't. They can choose which NPR programs are aligned with the political leanings of their target demographics.
Most of the public stations in my area do "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" which are NPR, "Market Place" which isn't, and some classical music which shouldn't ruffle too many feathers.
Then there are the others nearby that, in addition to the above, have liberal leaning and empowerment based talk shows. Thus coloring their content to their more liberal or minority listeners.
On the national level: CNN, which has lost all credibility as a news source, is mostly iReporters and Hollywood gossip, so they have a liberal leaning. While Fox News, which never had any credibility, have a conservative viewpoint. They both regurgitate everything that comes off the AP wire and add their political leanings to it (mostly by cherry picking the stories favorable to their bias).
My point being if you're a liberal in the conservative south, you'll probably complain about the conservative media. If you're a conservative in California, you'll probably complain about the liberal media. So do yourself a favor, and find a news source you can live with.
Complain about inaccurate news, or out right lies to keep us from seeing something bad taking place, but try to tolerate any perceive political bias (it's human nature) and quit complaining about them.
I'm wondering where you got the 15 year life span for the Prius? You also failed to mention the battery replacement cost.
I wanted to buy a hybrid, but my driving pattern made hybrids a money sink. Almost 95% of my driving involves over 300 miles at a time at Interstate speeds. I would never make up the cost difference between the Prius and the Honda CRV that I purchased. In addition, since my driving pattern is not favorable to taking the full advantage of the battery, I would never make up for the large carbon footprint created during the production of the hybrid.
Does VirtualBox allow you to run your BootCamp partition in a virtual machine? Last time I check it didn't. Otherwise, it is a fine product.
I must the admit that the number of times I actually boot into windows has diminished drastically (As well as using windows period), but it is nice to be able to have Windows run natively when you have to play a Windows only game and still be able to bring it up on within a virtual machine when you need to use Windows to run some old piece of software.
I've known people in their late 20's die from an unknown heart condition. Not to mention, we had a high school student die during a basketball game from some undiagnosed heart defect.
I think it's best to be safe and get that heart checked out. Don't die from self-diagnosed heart burn.
Now having a useless CT scan while I'm trying to pass a kidney stone is a whole different matter. Especially when they were so concerned about ordering the tests, they didn't bother to give me the drug that was suppose to help me until after I passed the stone myself...
I see where you are coming from, but I still can't agree that people should eat food and drive cars that they can't afford. I don't to see how health care should be any different.
But we're not getting something from nothing. We are paying insurance for the privilege of receiving medical care.
I remember in my younger days, my wife and I didn't have much money so the only thing we could afford was hospitalization insurance. This insurance was cheaper because it only covered medical care provided in the hospital (eg. Medical emergencies).
It was the biggest waste of money I ever had. The premiums kept increasing and the benefits kept shrinking. Eventually they defined eligible hospital expenses as requiring overnight stay. Unfortunately the hospitals were performing more outpatient care that didn't require over night stays. So the few times I really needed to file a claim, my insurance didn't cover a single dime of the expense.
Don't let the insurance companies fool you. The system we have now, is the system they designed and wanted. The medical establishment thought they would benefit from the insurance sector taking some of the financial risks out of performing the service. They just didn't know how big a faustian deal they had made with the insurance companies.
Let's not forget the trial lawyers role in this mess. In the old days doctors were considered to give us a second chance to survive an illness. By that I mean, if someone had an injury or heart attack that has no chance of survival without medical care, and because a doctor intervened the slim chance he provided was enough for him to live another day.. Hurray good job doctor! If the patient died.. The doctor tried the best he could. Fast forward to the present day and let's say the patients number was up, and nothing the doctor could do would save him.. A wrongful death suit is in the doctor's future.
Thanks to trial lawyers, doctors must now pay malpractice insurance and perform extra tests to mitigate any potential liability. So now the medical expenses includes a portion of the doctor's malpractice insurance and the required extra examinations. The patient would need to have medical insurance to afford the doctor visit.
The only clear winner of today's medical system is the insurance companies. They call the shots. They decide what they will pay a doctor. They decide what illnesses they will cover. They decide how much of a premium you will pay. They decide which doctor you will use. They get regular payments from you, your employer, and your doctor.
Out of the patent, insurer, and doctor relationship it's the insurer making the really big profits.
That explains why you can't get good net access in Jerkwater, Wyoming. It does not explain why you can't get good access in San Francisco or Manhattan.
I was under the impression that there WAS good access in San Francisco and Manhattan. You have WiFi in most coffee shops, and restaurants. You have the first roll out of G3 wireless.
In fact, when a major telecommunication company wants to introduce the next best thing to the national market, they start with San Francisco and Manhattan first.
Sure, but that doesn't explain why we can't have high speed rail service from NYC to D.C.
The rest of the country considers that pork barrel spending. So politics is a factor. Remember point #1 (Geography)?
Because we do need more money for schools: higher salaries for higher teacher standards, smaller classrooms, replace school books held together with duck tape since 1974, and replace old buildings in need of repair.
My point was that the US isn't the only one with these issues. In fact, I've seen great students come out of countries with WORSE facilities available to them. The dirty little secret that the teachers union don't want everyone to know is that TEACHERS provide the quality education, not the buildings.
US is huge compared to Japan. So in Japan it's significantly easier to implement a high speed wireless network. This makes Japan the perfect test bed for new wireless technologies. Teenagers (regardless of the country) will buy anything trendy or gives the appearance that they are more advanced than their peers. Japanese teenagers in urban areas appear to have a large disposable income and the willingness to purchase the new "in" thing en masse. If I wanted to thoroughly test something wireless and high-tech I would introduce it in Japan first.
The US has it's technological hotspots too. But it is only a small percentage of the US continent. So cool devices don't normally find it's way in the US market for mass consumption. However if you know where to look, you will find pretty nifty uses of technology but it's mostly in the business technologies instead of consumer tech.
Age:
The New York subway is considerably older than the Shanghai MagLev, and it would be costly and produce too much downtime to replace it with something that only gave a marginal ROI.
Image:
Don't forget some countries put a lot of money into "showcase technologies" (eg. very small bullet train lines, world's tallest skyscraper, etc.) to give the appearance that somehow their country is more "advance" than its neighbors. Unfortunately some of the countries that build these "showcases" have very oppressive governments.
Perspective:
When you live in the US, you are able to see the "warts". Bad news sells more papers. Teacher unions make it a point to always show need for more money. blah.. blah.. So you compare what you see while vacationing in other countries (which is always just the tip of the iceberg) with what you live in at home.
Reality:
We live in a global society. One day soon, political boundaries will become nothing more than regulation zones. I think this happened already, but for political reasons no one wants to admit this. I work and live with friends of different nationalities. I'll travel and work at locations outside the US. I chat and play with people from around the world thanks to the internet.
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The article states:
I remember when the news of the dispute first became known, it was widely speculated that TomTom threatened Microsoft with some possible patent infringements made by Microsoft Streets, and Microsoft threaten to defend itself by making enforcing a patent claim on FAT.
In other words, TomTom tried to get a better deal, Microsoft called their bluff, and TomTom folded their hand.
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and asks "Does this meat taste funny to you?"
Well that bug was resolved and it was a cosmetic issue involving a false-positive when the IDE parsed for errors. Not that this didn't make the error nerve racking.
When it comes to IDEs and everything else for that matter, we all pick our own poison.
well...
I was thinking that a compromise would be to allow separate but equal parking spaces....
An even better idea would be to only allow attractive women to ride bikes, that way you will always see them ;-)
XyWrite
Oh and Lotus products seem to be doing well too...
What point? That there are other states with politicians? Mississippi passed this bill, therefore this applies to Mississippi politicians.
As for Privacy, what privacy? Your in a car being photographed running a red light. If you want privacy, run a red light inside your own home...
Yea this is a case of the state government over ruling the workings of local government.
What? You were the one singing the praises of "...vast hoards complaining for the last several years about invasion of privacy by the government and Mississippi takes a small step against it ...".
I'm sorry my memory was sketchy. Governor Kirk Fordice was the one rumored to having an affair which led to his divorce while in office. Hally Barbour is currently rumored to have personally profitted from the Katrina recovery efforts, and he's certainly no choir boy. But you are right this this has more to do with Fordice than Barbour.
As for the people of Mississippi, they are of fine stock, but the politicians are despicable. I know I have a lot of family in Mississippi, and I live near the state line in Alabama which has it's own problems with sleezy politicians. But I gripe about how a state that gets a lot of federal earmarks, still require someone in my family to drive 2.5 hours into Mississippi and bring a sick relative to a hospital in Alabama because the hospital system in Mississippi sucks.
I hope Netbeans don't become the mess that Eclipse is threatening to become. The multiple distributions, the commercial only plugins, UI inconsistencies, and instability.
I know the Eclipse fanboys will object, but I've used both IDEs and Eclipse has its issues and feels like it was built by a committee consisting of competitors.
With Netbeans, I don't have to worry about CDT not meshing with the current patched version of the platform, or having to choose between Subclipse or Subversive and trying to get past that stupid Java HL issue with Ubuntu. Netbeans just works.
Nothing against Eclipse, I just don't want any of that crap to migrate over to Netbeans.
Then there's IBM history other editors like XyWrite...
Yep.
Considering the fact that there is NO INVASION OF PRIVACY, nope doesn't change the validity of the argument.
The OP was shocked that an elected official would consider the wishes of the electorate, and I gave him a possible reason why...
As for the rest of argument, talk radio doesn't seem like the best source for statistics.
No offense intended but it is the state that Halley Barbour governs, and Mississippians voted him in.
Or maybe he wanted to win Pwn2Own? I mean it is a sport right?
He didn't release his vulnerability, TipPoint secured the rights to the exploit, and a Apple representative was there to witness the exploit and to get the details.
So where is the conspiracy?
I am not a lawyer, but the TOS you linked says (emphasis mine):
In the section on technical restrictions, it says the you are not allowed to:
So it appears that using TightVNC for your own personal use is allowed by this clause.
It's Mississippi. The elected government didn't want to get caught running a red light and MORE IMPORTANTLY didn't want to have a snapshot of their mistress in the car with them. Hence "the invasion of privacy" part of the reasoning.
I purposely block the intersection each every time, I need to make a left turn onto my street. I'll gladly stop when the city installs a left arrow signal.
So from your source, Apple has more than 10 million media consumer's (a.k.a. High data volume), while RIM has more than 12 million email and calendar consumers (a.k.a. Low data volume). From the same article, RIM has just started aiming for the "high-end consumers".
Again this has more to do with market share (of the targeted demographic), since Apple has a much higher share of the high volume data consumers.
Handling mostly email and calendar data may make the Blackberry more network friendly, but not from any technical innovations ("superior" or otherwise).
I believe the reasons behind blackberry's "network friendly" appearance has more to do with market share than technical achievement. It was the iPhone (not the blackberry) that made wireless data marketable to the tech-savvy consumer (and the rest of the masses).
Personally, I'm waiting for Delorme to step into the fight. At the very least, I see them watching intently and weighing their options...
I don't think there is any controversy over the design goals of the "F/OSS thing". However certain implementations of the "F/OSS thing" have stirred some controversy between the pragmatists and the zealots.
Actually, it's more accurate to say that kdawson has liberal leanings, pro-democratic, or whatever you want to call it. He's the submitter.
I'm sure a conservate, pro-republican, or whatever would write his/her summary with their own personal viewpoint too.
As for the media:
Unfortunately, most news sources in the US are biased, and the number of mainstream media outlets with liberal leanings appear to outnumber the conservative ones.
But local demographics has a lot to do with the bias than some unseen national conspiracy. Take public radio for example. While NPR is well balanced in their reporting and programming, the local program director of the college radio station usually isn't. They can choose which NPR programs are aligned with the political leanings of their target demographics.
Most of the public stations in my area do "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" which are NPR, "Market Place" which isn't, and some classical music which shouldn't ruffle too many feathers.
Then there are the others nearby that, in addition to the above, have liberal leaning and empowerment based talk shows. Thus coloring their content to their more liberal or minority listeners.
On the national level: CNN, which has lost all credibility as a news source, is mostly iReporters and Hollywood gossip, so they have a liberal leaning. While Fox News, which never had any credibility, have a conservative viewpoint. They both regurgitate everything that comes off the AP wire and add their political leanings to it (mostly by cherry picking the stories favorable to their bias).
My point being if you're a liberal in the conservative south, you'll probably complain about the conservative media. If you're a conservative in California, you'll probably complain about the liberal media. So do yourself a favor, and find a news source you can live with.
Complain about inaccurate news, or out right lies to keep us from seeing something bad taking place, but try to tolerate any perceive political bias (it's human nature) and quit complaining about them.
Do you have a contract with O2? Just disregard the AT&T part of the parent post, and insert your local iPhone provider.
I'm wondering where you got the 15 year life span for the Prius? You also failed to mention the battery replacement cost.
I wanted to buy a hybrid, but my driving pattern made hybrids a money sink. Almost 95% of my driving involves over 300 miles at a time at Interstate speeds. I would never make up the cost difference between the Prius and the Honda CRV that I purchased. In addition, since my driving pattern is not favorable to taking the full advantage of the battery, I would never make up for the large carbon footprint created during the production of the hybrid.
I guess it's true that your mileage may vary...
Does VirtualBox allow you to run your BootCamp partition in a virtual machine? Last time I check it didn't. Otherwise, it is a fine product.
I must the admit that the number of times I actually boot into windows has diminished drastically (As well as using windows period), but it is nice to be able to have Windows run natively when you have to play a Windows only game and still be able to bring it up on within a virtual machine when you need to use Windows to run some old piece of software.
Not to take away from a very fine example, but:
I've known people in their late 20's die from an unknown heart condition. Not to mention, we had a high school student die during a basketball game from some undiagnosed heart defect.
I think it's best to be safe and get that heart checked out. Don't die from self-diagnosed heart burn.
Now having a useless CT scan while I'm trying to pass a kidney stone is a whole different matter. Especially when they were so concerned about ordering the tests, they didn't bother to give me the drug that was suppose to help me until after I passed the stone myself...
But we're not getting something from nothing. We are paying insurance for the privilege of receiving medical care.
I remember in my younger days, my wife and I didn't have much money so the only thing we could afford was hospitalization insurance. This insurance was cheaper because it only covered medical care provided in the hospital (eg. Medical emergencies).
It was the biggest waste of money I ever had. The premiums kept increasing and the benefits kept shrinking. Eventually they defined eligible hospital expenses as requiring overnight stay. Unfortunately the hospitals were performing more outpatient care that didn't require over night stays. So the few times I really needed to file a claim, my insurance didn't cover a single dime of the expense.
Don't let the insurance companies fool you. The system we have now, is the system they designed and wanted. The medical establishment thought they would benefit from the insurance sector taking some of the financial risks out of performing the service. They just didn't know how big a faustian deal they had made with the insurance companies.
Let's not forget the trial lawyers role in this mess. In the old days doctors were considered to give us a second chance to survive an illness. By that I mean, if someone had an injury or heart attack that has no chance of survival without medical care, and because a doctor intervened the slim chance he provided was enough for him to live another day.. Hurray good job doctor! If the patient died.. The doctor tried the best he could. Fast forward to the present day and let's say the patients number was up, and nothing the doctor could do would save him.. A wrongful death suit is in the doctor's future.
Thanks to trial lawyers, doctors must now pay malpractice insurance and perform extra tests to mitigate any potential liability. So now the medical expenses includes a portion of the doctor's malpractice insurance and the required extra examinations. The patient would need to have medical insurance to afford the doctor visit.
The only clear winner of today's medical system is the insurance companies. They call the shots. They decide what they will pay a doctor. They decide what illnesses they will cover. They decide how much of a premium you will pay. They decide which doctor you will use. They get regular payments from you, your employer, and your doctor.
Out of the patent, insurer, and doctor relationship it's the insurer making the really big profits.
I was under the impression that there WAS good access in San Francisco and Manhattan. You have WiFi in most coffee shops, and restaurants. You have the first roll out of G3 wireless.
In fact, when a major telecommunication company wants to introduce the next best thing to the national market, they start with San Francisco and Manhattan first.
The rest of the country considers that pork barrel spending. So politics is a factor. Remember point #1 (Geography)?
My point was that the US isn't the only one with these issues. In fact, I've seen great students come out of countries with WORSE facilities available to them. The dirty little secret that the teachers union don't want everyone to know is that TEACHERS provide the quality education, not the buildings.
Geography:
US is huge compared to Japan. So in Japan it's significantly easier to implement a high speed wireless network. This makes Japan the perfect test bed for new wireless technologies. Teenagers (regardless of the country) will buy anything trendy or gives the appearance that they are more advanced than their peers. Japanese teenagers in urban areas appear to have a large disposable income and the willingness to purchase the new "in" thing en masse. If I wanted to thoroughly test something wireless and high-tech I would introduce it in Japan first.
The US has it's technological hotspots too. But it is only a small percentage of the US continent. So cool devices don't normally find it's way in the US market for mass consumption. However if you know where to look, you will find pretty nifty uses of technology but it's mostly in the business technologies instead of consumer tech.
Age:
The New York subway is considerably older than the Shanghai MagLev, and it would be costly and produce too much downtime to replace it with something that only gave a marginal ROI.
Image:
Don't forget some countries put a lot of money into "showcase technologies" (eg. very small bullet train lines, world's tallest skyscraper, etc.) to give the appearance that somehow their country is more "advance" than its neighbors. Unfortunately some of the countries that build these "showcases" have very oppressive governments.
Perspective:
When you live in the US, you are able to see the "warts". Bad news sells more papers. Teacher unions make it a point to always show need for more money. blah.. blah.. So you compare what you see while vacationing in other countries (which is always just the tip of the iceberg) with what you live in at home.
Reality:
We live in a global society. One day soon, political boundaries will become nothing more than regulation zones. I think this happened already, but for political reasons no one wants to admit this. I work and live with friends of different nationalities. I'll travel and work at locations outside the US. I chat and play with people from around the world thanks to the internet.