If they're going to just "give the money to charity", what's their reasoning for applying for this patent? Patents are used to protect property and ideas, and in a lot of cases (in my opinion) to keep money flowing in when it shouldn't, and to stifle competition. Can any of these companies provide a valid justification of getting software/algorithm/LICENSING patents?
Is nothing sacred anymore?
What is your stance on the DMCA and surrounding issues (upcoming acts like the INDUCE act)? Should legislation like this be curbed, watered down, or tightened?
Here's a better link (note: there's a click-counting system in effect, if you really don't want to give me any clicks, go to www.mozilla.org/products/firefox)
Unsurprisingly, 95% of the clients surveyed use some version of Windows, Windows 2000 being the most prevalent in a company setting. In 42% of these environments, Windows 2000 has replaced NT 4 (which now only takes about 16% of Windows installations). As for Windows XP, its trying to find a way into the markey, notably in industrial environments, where Windows 2000 makes up 83%. Only 5% of the service industries use Windows XP, while the general public uses about 2%.
I expect "Searching for Bobby Fischer II: Bobby Fischer strikes back" and "Searching for Bobby Fischer III: Return of Bobby Fischer" to follow - it makes sense here too, since II would be about his comments and random antagonization, and III would continue from today. Unless they'd rename the first one to #4, then continue with 5 and 6, and have the first three be about his childhood....
Ah yes, good times... 486SX/33, I always thought that the DX would give me some HUGE increase in power - shows how much I knew when I was....Jesus, 7? Wow, I'm getting old. I still remember my old Epson 8086...
Anyway, 500mb hard drive, CD-rom drive (for Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, a game I still play with ScummVM:-)), ghetto soundcard, and a whole bunch of random apps....The best was a morphing program. When was the last time someone used one of THOSE?
Oh, it was made by Hyundai. I said "Daddy, don't they make cars?" and he said yes...confused me for quite a while, actually.
Ahh the ramblings of a 7-year old. What memories. Too bad I used the chip as a comb a year or two ago, otherwise I'd fire it up. Oh right, and the hard drive's dead, and the graphics card burned up, and the motherboard, oh let's just not talk about it...
Fully agreed. I've found Gnome to do everything I want to - perhaps it's not as blazing fast as other things, but it is friendly, and if a co-worker, friend, or family member sits down, they're not confused by accidently clicking on the desktop and seeing a menu appear, then disappear. It's a comprehensible solution.
Granted, I do have a nice machine:-D It is true that these projects do lag on slower machines. I agree with the article's point, saying that we should lean them down so they can run on slower, older machines - otherwise we'll lose that soon-to-be-emerging ex-98/NT market.
I set up this NT-based network (yes, i'm sorry Linus) for the CAD computers in Junior year....my teacher was getting annoyed that he couldn't have them all print to the plotter, nor feed the licenses, nor share files. Being that I'd had considerable experience recently, I made a nice little network, print sharing, etc...all that nice stuff.
End of the marking period comes, and because of this project I hadn't done two drawings, nor finished my CO2 car on time...I go up to him and say "soo....when should I make those up"....He just looks at the glorious NT box and its NT workstation minions and says "Let's just....oops! A+"
'Twas a great marking period for drafting. And it: A) got me a great recommendation for college, and B) got me a fair bit of fame for being the computer guy. It worked in so many ways...:-D
Yes. That's true, there will always be file-sharing. This doesn't mean we need to pollute the Internet2 with such things.
You may not realize that there ARE things that require huge bandwidth. Going to a research University (especially one attached to one of the top Medical schools in the country - Johns Hopkins) means that I've seen a LOT of data going back and forth. When our link to Internet2 went down last month, everyone noticed it because every campus connection suddenly got MUCH slower. Resnet, library connections, faculty connections, etc...Everyone noticed a change. So there is a lot of bandwidth that is necessary for research at i2 universities.
No, I don't know any specific research because I'm only a Freshman here, but (from working on Resnet, and knowing what I do about the bandwidth requirements, hardware, etc) I know that the Internet2 is used a whole lot here (as well as anywhere else), as can be proven by my previous utterance about the molasses-like slowdown.
Of course students aren't complaining - they don't care, so long as they get their sacred files.
I'm not debating any legality at all - that's immaterial. What I am saying is that this could eventually ruin the i2, if it gets out of hand.
Sure, one spam message doesn't hurt....so why not two, or four, or....etc. Spam has gotten out of hand and now permeates every corner of the Internet.
Slashdot Mirror
...the final battle. Cue the (pirated) battle tunes! Start playing (pirated) Braveheart!
welll.....hit up a *nix box, ./ = /. ...so this site could really be called "dotslash.org"...
which doesn't really have the same ring to it.
If they're going to just "give the money to charity", what's their reasoning for applying for this patent? Patents are used to protect property and ideas, and in a lot of cases (in my opinion) to keep money flowing in when it shouldn't, and to stifle competition. Can any of these companies provide a valid justification of getting software/algorithm/LICENSING patents? Is nothing sacred anymore?
What is your stance on the DMCA and surrounding issues (upcoming acts like the INDUCE act)? Should legislation like this be curbed, watered down, or tightened?
Here's a better link (note: there's a click-counting system in effect, if you really don't want to give me any clicks, go to www.mozilla.org/products/firefox)
Unsurprisingly, 95% of the clients surveyed use some version of Windows, Windows 2000 being the most prevalent in a company setting. In 42% of these environments, Windows 2000 has replaced NT 4 (which now only takes about 16% of Windows installations). As for Windows XP, its trying to find a way into the markey, notably in industrial environments, where Windows 2000 makes up 83%. Only 5% of the service industries use Windows XP, while the general public uses about 2%.
Oh you and your puny 3 dimensions. Yes, on the moon, we have 5. ....thousand. Yes, 5 thousand.
*obligatory aqua teen reference*
Now I don't have to use that pesky, non-intrusive, non-commerical, non-irritating, non-email-address-asking Xine!
He'd like to be our sledgehammer... wait, that joke was already made....dagnabit...
is slashdot getting slashdotted? it's hard to get here sometimes....
most excellent response =)
I say he uses a pringles can with a GPS that tracks him and points the pringles can in the right direction.
I expect "Searching for Bobby Fischer II: Bobby Fischer strikes back" and "Searching for Bobby Fischer III: Return of Bobby Fischer" to follow - it makes sense here too, since II would be about his comments and random antagonization, and III would continue from today.
Unless they'd rename the first one to #4, then continue with 5 and 6, and have the first three be about his childhood....
The possibilities are endless!!!
Remember the "searching for XFree86" adult content thing?
Here's something funny and sick.
Search for "anus fist" (no quotes)
For some reason it's not adult content...hummm....
And now http://isc.incidents.org/ isn't working either :-P
I see two problems with the internet today: Akamai and the Slashdot effect.
Ah yes, good times...
:-)), ghetto soundcard, and a whole bunch of random apps....The best was a morphing program. When was the last time someone used one of THOSE?
486SX/33, I always thought that the DX would give me some HUGE increase in power - shows how much I knew when I was....Jesus, 7? Wow, I'm getting old. I still remember my old Epson 8086...
Anyway, 500mb hard drive, CD-rom drive (for Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, a game I still play with ScummVM
Oh, it was made by Hyundai. I said "Daddy, don't they make cars?" and he said yes...confused me for quite a while, actually.
Ahh the ramblings of a 7-year old. What memories. Too bad I used the chip as a comb a year or two ago, otherwise I'd fire it up. Oh right, and the hard drive's dead, and the graphics card burned up, and the motherboard, oh let's just not talk about it...
Fully agreed. I've found Gnome to do everything I want to - perhaps it's not as blazing fast as other things, but it is friendly, and if a co-worker, friend, or family member sits down, they're not confused by accidently clicking on the desktop and seeing a menu appear, then disappear. It's a comprehensible solution.
:-D It is true that these projects do lag on slower machines. I agree with the article's point, saying that we should lean them down so they can run on slower, older machines - otherwise we'll lose that soon-to-be-emerging ex-98/NT market.
Granted, I do have a nice machine
~hoborocks
I set up this NT-based network (yes, i'm sorry Linus) for the CAD computers in Junior year....my teacher was getting annoyed that he couldn't have them all print to the plotter, nor feed the licenses, nor share files. Being that I'd had considerable experience recently, I made a nice little network, print sharing, etc...all that nice stuff.
End of the marking period comes, and because of this project I hadn't done two drawings, nor finished my CO2 car on time...I go up to him and say "soo....when should I make those up"....He just looks at the glorious NT box and its NT workstation minions and says "Let's just....oops! A+"
'Twas a great marking period for drafting. And it: A) got me a great recommendation for college, and B) got me a fair bit of fame for being the computer guy. It worked in so many ways...:-D
What's to stop those people using it for research from using it for filesharing too?
Yes. That's true, there will always be file-sharing. This doesn't mean we need to pollute the Internet2 with such things.
You may not realize that there ARE things that require huge bandwidth. Going to a research University (especially one attached to one of the top Medical schools in the country - Johns Hopkins) means that I've seen a LOT of data going back and forth. When our link to Internet2 went down last month, everyone noticed it because every campus connection suddenly got MUCH slower. Resnet, library connections, faculty connections, etc...Everyone noticed a change. So there is a lot of bandwidth that is necessary for research at i2 universities.
No, I don't know any specific research because I'm only a Freshman here, but (from working on Resnet, and knowing what I do about the bandwidth requirements, hardware, etc) I know that the Internet2 is used a whole lot here (as well as anywhere else), as can be proven by my previous utterance about the molasses-like slowdown.
Of course students aren't complaining - they don't care, so long as they get their sacred files.
I'm not debating any legality at all - that's immaterial. What I am saying is that this could eventually ruin the i2, if it gets out of hand.
Sure, one spam message doesn't hurt....so why not two, or four, or....etc. Spam has gotten out of hand and now permeates every corner of the Internet.