People that drive significantly over the speed limit often cause dangerous conditions on the roads, no matter how "well" they are driving themselves. Other drivers don't expect someone to blow by at high speed. Drivers that are speeding usually have to make more lane changes, and lots of lane changes causes dangerous road conditions and can hurt traffic flow during rush hour.
I've never understood the "joy" of driving. Driving is absolute drudgery, and it's only made worse by all those people that have fun driving by going way over the speed limit. We constrain the ways you can legally drive, yes, and maybe fir very good drivers it's a pain. But lots of people without driving limitations would simply make roads needlessly dangerous for those that are just trying to get somewhere.
Microsoft digitally signs their updates, so it can be verified that way, in this case. I don't know quite what that though, and unless/until I do I wouldn't trust that on its own (though I'm sure if/once I do figure out what it means then I will trust it).
I'm sure Movie Maker is great, but that doesn't mean I have any use for it and doesn't mean I have any use for WMP 9. Or, frankly,.NET 1.1 at this point.
Is it possible to do the update without installing these things? If so, then I'm not bitching. If not, then, yes, this is a bitchy post.
There are some things that are kinda tricky to get working in Lynx, but when you have them working, you often have a page that is better thought-out, and where the markup makes more sense for what you're trying to do.
I remember using HyperCard on my old Macintosh. I can believe that it inspired HTML. I don't think it could have *been* HTML. Correct me if my rememberance of HyperCard is wrong, but HyperCard stacks were big, too big to transfer at a reasonable speed over a modem. And they didn't run very quickly. And it was tied to specific platforms both for viewing and development, and tied to graphical rendering, whereas reasonably-written HTML can be human-read and written raw on any system that can convey text to the user.
Before I knew what the WWW was, and before I had learned any real programming concepts, I heard of the Internet and one of the things I first thought of was developing web applications using HyperCard (at about 11 years of age, when my family got a modem). I conceived in my mind HyperCard-based messaging system for my friends, for one thing, and started to build it (none of 'em had Macs, and I didn't know how to share stuff on the web, and it was a total mess because I didn't know how to do it properly, so I abandoned it). But looking back, I don't think that would have flown on the kind of computers we were using at that point.
I'm a student at a 4-year college right now, and I think there are good things about it.
I also think that there's way too much bullshit that people do, having the "time of their lives" just drinking their asses off and not taking any responsibility while blowing their parents' money.
I try not to let those people bother me, but I know plenty of people that just can't deal with it and don't want to be in that kind of atmosphere. And for many people a two-year mostly-technical program is a good change. For a lot of people, a career is just a way to make money; if that means they're not perfectly well-rounded computer scientists, that might not be important to them as long as they can get paid and enjoy the rest of their lives.
There are many valid things that young adults can do to get educated, and this is one of them.
I've been studying CompE at U of Illinois for 2 years (and have many CS friends), and I have to agree with you on the construction stuff. Tuition has been way up lately (don't know if it's tripled in the last decade but there've been several recent increases) and we're putting up lots of new buildings in Engineering (as well as a new indoor gym on top of the field where I used to play frisbee and run sprints) while the old historic buildings on the main quad are falling apart.
However, we haven't been bought out by Microsoft, and I've never seen or heard of a CS class here taught in Visual Basic except for the ones for business majors that teach them how to make nifty buttons and stuff in Excel spreadsheets (an application for which it makes sense).
And you're setting up a straw man. I don't think anyone here is saying that corporations shouldn't exist.
You take "corporations are destroying personal rights" to mean that the existence of a single corporation is harmful to the individual, which very few people agree. A more common and reasonable position is that because of the expanded rights of corporations without expanded responsibility, and their strong influence on government and the courts, the actions of some corporations destroy personal rights.
I agree that this story probably doesn't belong in YRO... I'm kind of a n00b here, I don't pay much attention to what topic a story pops up in, there's probably a business-related topic it's better suited for, oh well. That doesn't make Slashdot the USSR.
Yeah, pretty much... even the Soviets had the government owning all their land and policing it like crazy.
Now I won't say that everything in pre-westernized America was wine and roses, there were battles, and of course there were also many different tribes that I would guess had very different philosophies.
There are also things that I perceive as good that have arisen from land ownership and the idea of governments ruling over land. And furthermore right now that system is inescapable. It progressed not really on the full set of its merits, but because its proponents were good fighters. I think that such a system encourages its proponents to be good fighters, and ensures its survival, which is a merit itself.
It's been said that were it not for a few key battles likely the entire of Europe would have at one point long ago been conquered by Muslims and "we'd all be speaking Arabic right now". And for some reason most people (in American suburbia) are glad it didn't turn out that way. They like the way their life is now and the possibility of change is most likely that of change for the worst. I am neutral to this. I know that nobody resembling the current "me" would exist in a world of a drastically different past. The present would be different, not better or worse.
It takes a fuckin' long time to *finish* a suit that goes to court. Which is why most reasonable people try to settle, because it's usually best for both sides. However, in these cases there are things that nobody's willing to budge on, so the cases go to court.
hah... my dad (who's an environmental lawyer) frequently tries to convince me that law would be a good thing to do.
Now I'm currently pursuing CompE, but there's apparently lots of opportunity for people with technical knowledge, good logical skills (they say that computer people often do well in law because of the type of logic involved), and good writing skills.
However, lawyers work their asses off, have to deal with other lawyers, and typically only get big money for representing morally bankrupt assholes.
geez... maybe I forgot to adjust my tinfoil hat properly for today's particular alignment of the sun and planets but I would never have thought to question that e-mails said to have been given during discovery were indeed given during discovery.
Well we can squabble all we want about which lawyer owns the sun and which multinational corporation owns XYZ region of Mars...
But we all know that this entire solar system is owned by those little green men out by Alpha Centauri. And they'll send a bit worse than lawyers to solve their property disputes...
Now I'm not a fan of software patents (which is why I think patent pools for Free Software is a bad idea, sure you don't bring a knife to a gunfight but if you're not a very good shot in the first place it's probably better to turn gunfights into something different)...
but I think that if the idea of software patents is alive, then asking a company to give up all its rights to protect their patents on any future version of a "project" (which might be forked by anyone) is not fair, and could prevent companies from contributing.
IBM does currently have a business model that involves the success of Linux. They aren't supporting Linux right now because they believe in the ideas of Richard Stallman and the FSF, they're doing it because it makes sense for them commercially. Because of that, if their business needs change they could turn in an instant.
What's really the difference between owning the Sun and owning land on Earth? Well, other than that people live on Earth and do useful things with it. But people squat on Earth property for future development, and it's certainly possible that future commercial or industrial development on the sun could make this guy rich.
I'm not a huge fan of land ownership in the first place... yes, I know it's the basis of society and whatnot, but I think we could be living just as happily without it, just differently.f
Well Katie Jones and Penguin are both in the UK, which is halfway to commie-nism as it is...
But if this was a-happenin' in the good-ol' US of A Katie Jones would be in jail for failing to capitalize on the extra traffic to her website to $$$GET$RICH$QUICK$$$!!!111!
That's the real crime here. I wouldn't be complaining if Katie did her patriotic duty to Free Market Capitalism and milked this cash cow for all it's worth!
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Katie J should be compensated for her domain name, which she owned before the book had any idea to use that title. Regardless of the experiences of Katie T, sympathy for her doesn't make Penguin's actions fair.
(on the other hand, I don't believe parent to be a troll, as parent has been modded)
I do think that this situation brings a question about the implications of registering a domain name on trademarks.
I'd say that a similar idea centers around Microsoft's ".net" framework. They've taken an existing top-level domain thingy that they were in no way associated with and colored it with their own shade of light blue. Now Microsoft didn't sue for ownership of all ".net" domains, but it's impossible now to call up a domain like "www.php.net" or "sourceforge.net" without thinking of Microsoft.
*begin old man voice* THERE OUGHTTA BE A LAW!!! *end old man voice*
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People that drive significantly over the speed limit often cause dangerous conditions on the roads, no matter how "well" they are driving themselves. Other drivers don't expect someone to blow by at high speed. Drivers that are speeding usually have to make more lane changes, and lots of lane changes causes dangerous road conditions and can hurt traffic flow during rush hour.
I've never understood the "joy" of driving. Driving is absolute drudgery, and it's only made worse by all those people that have fun driving by going way over the speed limit. We constrain the ways you can legally drive, yes, and maybe fir very good drivers it's a pain. But lots of people without driving limitations would simply make roads needlessly dangerous for those that are just trying to get somewhere.
Microsoft digitally signs their updates, so it can be verified that way, in this case. I don't know quite what that though, and unless/until I do I wouldn't trust that on its own (though I'm sure if/once I do figure out what it means then I will trust it).
I'm sure Movie Maker is great, but that doesn't mean I have any use for it and doesn't mean I have any use for WMP 9. Or, frankly, .NET 1.1 at this point.
Is it possible to do the update without installing these things? If so, then I'm not bitching. If not, then, yes, this is a bitchy post.
The first patent probably reads something like:
Frist Patent
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i got teh frist patnet. i w00t lolz.
[insert gnaa troll here]
You're confusing copyrights with patents.
Software patents are bad IMHO and it would be bad for Mozilla to get and enforce software patents.
Just about every piece of software that anyone uses has tons of "stolen ideas", particularly in user-interface areas. It's part of life.
amen, brother!
There are some things that are kinda tricky to get working in Lynx, but when you have them working, you often have a page that is better thought-out, and where the markup makes more sense for what you're trying to do.
I remember using HyperCard on my old Macintosh. I can believe that it inspired HTML. I don't think it could have *been* HTML. Correct me if my rememberance of HyperCard is wrong, but HyperCard stacks were big, too big to transfer at a reasonable speed over a modem. And they didn't run very quickly. And it was tied to specific platforms both for viewing and development, and tied to graphical rendering, whereas reasonably-written HTML can be human-read and written raw on any system that can convey text to the user.
Before I knew what the WWW was, and before I had learned any real programming concepts, I heard of the Internet and one of the things I first thought of was developing web applications using HyperCard (at about 11 years of age, when my family got a modem). I conceived in my mind HyperCard-based messaging system for my friends, for one thing, and started to build it (none of 'em had Macs, and I didn't know how to share stuff on the web, and it was a total mess because I didn't know how to do it properly, so I abandoned it). But looking back, I don't think that would have flown on the kind of computers we were using at that point.
So it's you that's behind my computer screen watching my every action!
Is there something stuck in my teeth?
Is this site slashdotted or do I not know how to click with my left mouse button?
I'm a student at a 4-year college right now, and I think there are good things about it.
I also think that there's way too much bullshit that people do, having the "time of their lives" just drinking their asses off and not taking any responsibility while blowing their parents' money.
I try not to let those people bother me, but I know plenty of people that just can't deal with it and don't want to be in that kind of atmosphere. And for many people a two-year mostly-technical program is a good change. For a lot of people, a career is just a way to make money; if that means they're not perfectly well-rounded computer scientists, that might not be important to them as long as they can get paid and enjoy the rest of their lives.
There are many valid things that young adults can do to get educated, and this is one of them.
I've been studying CompE at U of Illinois for 2 years (and have many CS friends), and I have to agree with you on the construction stuff. Tuition has been way up lately (don't know if it's tripled in the last decade but there've been several recent increases) and we're putting up lots of new buildings in Engineering (as well as a new indoor gym on top of the field where I used to play frisbee and run sprints) while the old historic buildings on the main quad are falling apart.
However, we haven't been bought out by Microsoft, and I've never seen or heard of a CS class here taught in Visual Basic except for the ones for business majors that teach them how to make nifty buttons and stuff in Excel spreadsheets (an application for which it makes sense).
Why, why, why, why, why do people think that the share price has anything to do with the expense of an investment?
Buying 5 shares at $650 is the same as buying 50 shares of a $13 stock at $650. And $650 is not really much of an investment in the first place.
Now if you mean that it's overvalued for itself (based on P/E and other pertinent statistics) that's another story...
And you're setting up a straw man. I don't think anyone here is saying that corporations shouldn't exist.
You take "corporations are destroying personal rights" to mean that the existence of a single corporation is harmful to the individual, which very few people agree. A more common and reasonable position is that because of the expanded rights of corporations without expanded responsibility, and their strong influence on government and the courts, the actions of some corporations destroy personal rights.
I agree that this story probably doesn't belong in YRO... I'm kind of a n00b here, I don't pay much attention to what topic a story pops up in, there's probably a business-related topic it's better suited for, oh well. That doesn't make Slashdot the USSR.
Yeah, pretty much... even the Soviets had the government owning all their land and policing it like crazy.
Now I won't say that everything in pre-westernized America was wine and roses, there were battles, and of course there were also many different tribes that I would guess had very different philosophies.
There are also things that I perceive as good that have arisen from land ownership and the idea of governments ruling over land. And furthermore right now that system is inescapable. It progressed not really on the full set of its merits, but because its proponents were good fighters. I think that such a system encourages its proponents to be good fighters, and ensures its survival, which is a merit itself.
It's been said that were it not for a few key battles likely the entire of Europe would have at one point long ago been conquered by Muslims and "we'd all be speaking Arabic right now". And for some reason most people (in American suburbia) are glad it didn't turn out that way. They like the way their life is now and the possibility of change is most likely that of change for the worst. I am neutral to this. I know that nobody resembling the current "me" would exist in a world of a drastically different past. The present would be different, not better or worse.
It takes a fuckin' long time to *finish* a suit that goes to court. Which is why most reasonable people try to settle, because it's usually best for both sides. However, in these cases there are things that nobody's willing to budge on, so the cases go to court.
hah... my dad (who's an environmental lawyer) frequently tries to convince me that law would be a good thing to do.
Now I'm currently pursuing CompE, but there's apparently lots of opportunity for people with technical knowledge, good logical skills (they say that computer people often do well in law because of the type of logic involved), and good writing skills.
However, lawyers work their asses off, have to deal with other lawyers, and typically only get big money for representing morally bankrupt assholes.
geez... maybe I forgot to adjust my tinfoil hat properly for today's particular alignment of the sun and planets but I would never have thought to question that e-mails said to have been given during discovery were indeed given during discovery.
Well we can squabble all we want about which lawyer owns the sun and which multinational corporation owns XYZ region of Mars...
But we all know that this entire solar system is owned by those little green men out by Alpha Centauri. And they'll send a bit worse than lawyers to solve their property disputes...
Now I'm not a fan of software patents (which is why I think patent pools for Free Software is a bad idea, sure you don't bring a knife to a gunfight but if you're not a very good shot in the first place it's probably better to turn gunfights into something different)...
but I think that if the idea of software patents is alive, then asking a company to give up all its rights to protect their patents on any future version of a "project" (which might be forked by anyone) is not fair, and could prevent companies from contributing.
IBM does currently have a business model that involves the success of Linux. They aren't supporting Linux right now because they believe in the ideas of Richard Stallman and the FSF, they're doing it because it makes sense for them commercially. Because of that, if their business needs change they could turn in an instant.
$167,456? That barely covers lunch!
(which is, of course, a vital part of our work)
What's really the difference between owning the Sun and owning land on Earth? Well, other than that people live on Earth and do useful things with it. But people squat on Earth property for future development, and it's certainly possible that future commercial or industrial development on the sun could make this guy rich.
I'm not a huge fan of land ownership in the first place... yes, I know it's the basis of society and whatnot, but I think we could be living just as happily without it, just differently.f
Well Katie Jones and Penguin are both in the UK, which is halfway to commie-nism as it is...
But if this was a-happenin' in the good-ol' US of A Katie Jones would be in jail for failing to capitalize on the extra traffic to her website to $$$GET$RICH$QUICK$$$!!!111!
That's the real crime here. I wouldn't be complaining if Katie did her patriotic duty to Free Market Capitalism and milked this cash cow for all it's worth!
Katie J should be compensated for her domain name, which she owned before the book had any idea to use that title. Regardless of the experiences of Katie T, sympathy for her doesn't make Penguin's actions fair.
(on the other hand, I don't believe parent to be a troll, as parent has been modded)
I do think that this situation brings a question about the implications of registering a domain name on trademarks.
I'd say that a similar idea centers around Microsoft's ".net" framework. They've taken an existing top-level domain thingy that they were in no way associated with and colored it with their own shade of light blue. Now Microsoft didn't sue for ownership of all ".net" domains, but it's impossible now to call up a domain like "www.php.net" or "sourceforge.net" without thinking of Microsoft.
*begin old man voice* THERE OUGHTTA BE A LAW!!! *end old man voice*