I agree, if Google wants to be superior they need to take measures to clip the useless link farms from the top results. The search engine is the easiest to manipulate and everyone is doing it. They should take steps to not count links in comment spam, etc.
The real unfortunate issue with Patents are that they are useless. This should be a clear infringment case, but RIM's money has kept it delayed too long, and now the wrath of slashdotters comes down on NTP who is attempting to recover the inventor's deserved monies! It's really too bad that it takes a company with investors to afford to take on a thief.
Ideas are property.
They need to be protected.
Although I've never experienced the theft of a patented process or product, someone (link witheld to ensure pagerank not increased for the theives) is currently violating my trademark and it is very frustrating.
Unlike physical theft, where a tangible item is stolen, IP law is harder to prove.
If the above post is bs . . . well, I really don't want that to be here for posterity.
Let's get real here. You don't own the backbone, you don't own the lines. You lease them. Other companies have come and went offering alternatives, but the people of the USA decided to take up the cheapest corporate offering possible for the most part.
There was (is) a wireless broadband movement, I sold thousand of converted routers for wifi wans back in 2001 and 2002 only to see the company that I was selling them to flop due to lack of new subscribers.
We all signed up for the uber-fast high speed connection and we handed our money to Cable and the Telephone industry. Now they will bend us over and do what they wish with us, but it's what we asked for.
Not all is lost, this presents a unique opportunity for companies like Level3 (LVLT) to jump in and start offering competing products. If another large backbone provider sweeps in and captures the business of companies like Real Networks and future IPTV without overcharging them for "polished" connections they'll keep the loyalty of these customers.
Why would anyone pay extra for "polished" product. If your product isn't production ready it shouldn't be shipped. Surely these content providers pay one hell of a bill already on their upstream content - why in the hell should they be charged for the downstream? Let corporate greed go on, just move your business to a better model - it's called innovation and it's how you get rid of these dinosaurs.
In 1986, Middle Tennessee State University established the "John Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies," honoring Seigenthaler's "lifelong commitment to free expression values". He founded the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in 1991, and in 2001 he was appointed to the National Commission on Federal Election Reform that followed the 2000 Presidential election. He is also a member of the Constitution Project on Liberty and Security. In 2002, Vanderbilt renamed the 57,000 square foot (5,300 m) building that houses the Freedom Forum, First Amendment Center, and the Diversity Institute the "John Seigenthaler Center".
What the hell are "free expression values"?
It's insane to hold a site like wikipedia liable for libel by their users. That would be like holding the City of New York liable for murder's committed on its streets, or paper manufacturers liable for libel printed on their paper.
Is this just a case of another old man who doesn't understand what the internet is? How can one that supported a free speech center rant about wikipedia - the result of free speech.
Next time, perhaps he should think about logging onto wikipedia and editing his page if he doesn't like it. After all, that's how the damn thing operates.
I'm sure he'll look back and remember that he may have held the cure for the world's deadliest disease and didn't share it, can't imagine that feeling is very normal. Given the press coverage already already received, this will guarantee he's more hated than Jack Thompson!
It looks like Apple's new product is lame compared with today's announcement of a Mini Media Player that interfaces with your PVR to download television! I wonder why that didn't get covered? No Slashdot mods own Dish Network stock?
If this were ever enacted as a law or requirement, developers would just mark everything Beta. Software is never finished, it can always be improved. Gone are the days when you could know exactly what was going to happen with your code. As soon as hardware is free from defects and hardware manufacturers are liable for defects that cause software developers to lose since they would be liable for defects, then it would be fair. Can anyone say Pentium? Remember the divide by zero? Recommending drinking sulfuric acid is like that one auto racing game where the company put porn in their game, stupid. Rockstar lost the battle on that one, so if you're an idiot and intentially do something then you're agreement doesn't release you from liability.
So you're saying that programmings isn't art. I'm a 3D graphics software engineer and I have to disagree with you. My brush is C++, OpenGL and The OpenGL Shading Language. My monitor is my paper. My paint is my compiler.
WoW would be great with this! Chuckled a bit when I saw the "Quake" idea, first thing I thought of was binding the keys to macros on World of Warcraft, this would just be so much better than an action bar and/or remembering what you mapped all your keys to.
I'd definitely pay for this keyboard, even if it were $200+
Since a cop can walk in your front door if it's open, with no warrant on the grounds that an open door is an open invitation to enter for anyone, how is this analogy correct? It is in fact legal to walk into someone open front door, this is my understanding at least in what I've experienced previously . . .
oh yeah, and if you're a girl who is going to cheat on a nerd, you're going to get caught. Especially if you use any form of electronic communication in your filandering, duh. Honestly though, if you marry someone with incredibly strong analytical skills and you try to sneak things by them they will quietly figure it out. So if you're going to be a cheating bitch, perhaps you should marry some asshole player or just hang out at the clubs, get wasted and rub up against the other amazingly successful cooks and drunks out there. Do I sound bitter? Hope all is well in Tucson Sandra! Bitch.
that you don't find someone who appreciates your nerdy qualities, and you fall in love with all your heart, and then marry them after 5 years and then a year later have them cheat on you with the salad maker illegal mexican immigrant from her work. That sucks - so be careful.
The two types of monitors have vastly different strengths and weaknesses.
CRT
-------------------
1.)Highly sensitive to EMF
2.)Very high vertical refresh frequency
3.)Much higher color depth and quality
4.)Take up too much room on a desk
5.)Heavy
6.)The better the quality, the more lead in the glass, the more lead in the glass the more toxic it is to recycle.
7.)The only way to go for stereoscopic viewing using glasses, the LCD monitors are definitely not prime time yet wrt autostereoscopic display, and the quality of the LC shutter glasses is way above that of the autostereoscopic displays that I saw at SIGGRAPH last year.
--------------------
LCD
--------------------
1.)Thin and light
2.)Not influenced at all by EMF
3.)Easy on the eyes for text reading
4.)Much nicer on the environment
5.)Take far less power consumption
6.)Require less real estate
I certainly think given the different strengths and weeknesses, we'll see both stick around for quite a while. Last time I checked, you could still purchase an old fashioned CRT projector;-/
Oh . . . I lied. First, they started out with 25 shills, but that wasn't enough. Shortly thereafter, the number of shills went to 400 - but many shills weren't doing their jobs, so they had to get more shills to watch over the other shills. Which brings us to today, there are officially 31337 shills on/.!
Slashdot Mirror
More data, white paper, video, source code, etc. located here: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/mlaa/
Donald Rumsfeld Resigns!!! It's true!
I agree, if Google wants to be superior they need to take measures to clip the useless link farms from the top results. The search engine is the easiest to manipulate and everyone is doing it. They should take steps to not count links in comment spam, etc.
The real unfortunate issue with Patents are that they are useless. This should be a clear infringment case, but RIM's money has kept it delayed too long, and now the wrath of slashdotters comes down on NTP who is attempting to recover the inventor's deserved monies! It's really too bad that it takes a company with investors to afford to take on a thief.
Ideas are property.
They need to be protected.
Although I've never experienced the theft of a patented process or product, someone (link witheld to ensure pagerank not increased for the theives) is currently violating my trademark and it is very frustrating.
Unlike physical theft, where a tangible item is stolen, IP law is harder to prove.
If the above post is bs . . . well, I really don't want that to be here for posterity.
There was (is) a wireless broadband movement, I sold thousand of converted routers for wifi wans back in 2001 and 2002 only to see the company that I was selling them to flop due to lack of new subscribers.
We all signed up for the uber-fast high speed connection and we handed our money to Cable and the Telephone industry. Now they will bend us over and do what they wish with us, but it's what we asked for.
Not all is lost, this presents a unique opportunity for companies like Level3 (LVLT) to jump in and start offering competing products. If another large backbone provider sweeps in and captures the business of companies like Real Networks and future IPTV without overcharging them for "polished" connections they'll keep the loyalty of these customers.
Why would anyone pay extra for "polished" product. If your product isn't production ready it shouldn't be shipped. Surely these content providers pay one hell of a bill already on their upstream content - why in the hell should they be charged for the downstream? Let corporate greed go on, just move your business to a better model - it's called innovation and it's how you get rid of these dinosaurs.
What the hell are "free expression values"?
It's insane to hold a site like wikipedia liable for libel by their users. That would be like holding the City of New York liable for murder's committed on its streets, or paper manufacturers liable for libel printed on their paper.
Is this just a case of another old man who doesn't understand what the internet is? How can one that supported a free speech center rant about wikipedia - the result of free speech.
Next time, perhaps he should think about logging onto wikipedia and editing his page if he doesn't like it. After all, that's how the damn thing operates.
I'm sure he'll look back and remember that he may have held the cure for the world's deadliest disease and didn't share it, can't imagine that feeling is very normal. Given the press coverage already already received, this will guarantee he's more hated than Jack Thompson!
It looks like Apple's new product is lame compared with today's announcement of a Mini Media Player that interfaces with your PVR to download television! I wonder why that didn't get covered? No Slashdot mods own Dish Network stock?
If this were ever enacted as a law or requirement, developers would just mark everything Beta. Software is never finished, it can always be improved. Gone are the days when you could know exactly what was going to happen with your code. As soon as hardware is free from defects and hardware manufacturers are liable for defects that cause software developers to lose since they would be liable for defects, then it would be fair. Can anyone say Pentium? Remember the divide by zero? Recommending drinking sulfuric acid is like that one auto racing game where the company put porn in their game, stupid. Rockstar lost the battle on that one, so if you're an idiot and intentially do something then you're agreement doesn't release you from liability.
Hmmm . . .
So you're saying that programmings isn't art. I'm a 3D graphics software engineer and I have to disagree with you. My brush is C++, OpenGL and The OpenGL Shading Language. My monitor is my paper. My paint is my compiler.
WoW would be great with this! Chuckled a bit when I saw the "Quake" idea, first thing I thought of was binding the keys to macros on World of Warcraft, this would just be so much better than an action bar and/or remembering what you mapped all your keys to.
I'd definitely pay for this keyboard, even if it were $200+
Since a cop can walk in your front door if it's open, with no warrant on the grounds that an open door is an open invitation to enter for anyone, how is this analogy correct? It is in fact legal to walk into someone open front door, this is my understanding at least in what I've experienced previously . . .
gotta love the "redundant" mod when I was the 8th comment poster . . . if you're gonna moderate pay attention
Well, at least you've got it all figured out :-)
If Opera is identifying itself as IE, isn't IE getting overcounted and Opera undercounted?
oh yeah, and if you're a girl who is going to cheat on a nerd, you're going to get caught. Especially if you use any form of electronic communication in your filandering, duh. Honestly though, if you marry someone with incredibly strong analytical skills and you try to sneak things by them they will quietly figure it out. So if you're going to be a cheating bitch, perhaps you should marry some asshole player or just hang out at the clubs, get wasted and rub up against the other amazingly successful cooks and drunks out there. Do I sound bitter? Hope all is well in Tucson Sandra! Bitch.
that you don't find someone who appreciates your nerdy qualities, and you fall in love with all your heart, and then marry them after 5 years and then a year later have them cheat on you with the salad maker illegal mexican immigrant from her work. That sucks - so be careful.
The two types of monitors have vastly different strengths and weaknesses.
CRT
-------------------
1.)Highly sensitive to EMF
2.)Very high vertical refresh frequency
3.)Much higher color depth and quality
4.)Take up too much room on a desk
5.)Heavy
6.)The better the quality, the more lead in the glass, the more lead in the glass the more toxic it is to recycle.
7.)The only way to go for stereoscopic viewing using glasses, the LCD monitors are definitely not prime time yet wrt autostereoscopic display, and the quality of the LC shutter glasses is way above that of the autostereoscopic displays that I saw at SIGGRAPH last year.
--------------------
LCD
--------------------
1.)Thin and light
2.)Not influenced at all by EMF
3.)Easy on the eyes for text reading
4.)Much nicer on the environment
5.)Take far less power consumption
6.)Require less real estate
I certainly think given the different strengths and weeknesses, we'll see both stick around for quite a while. Last time I checked, you could still purchase an old fashioned CRT projector ;-/
And what, then, exactly are we to use it with?
So now they'll have to outsource spyware writers to third world countries? AND move the company's there?
Look at this cached search I found.
That's about ten minutes from my place . . . haha, I will win w00t!
Oh . . . I lied. First, they started out with 25 shills, but that wasn't enough. Shortly thereafter, the number of shills went to 400 - but many shills weren't doing their jobs, so they had to get more shills to watch over the other shills. Which brings us to today, there are officially 31337 shills on /.!
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