Microsoft go one better and patent network topographies, frames and packets, then follow up by having a scottish-sounding trademark missappropriated to them by 'accident'.
Apple come out and patent multi-coloured cabling and cable ends.
IBM come out and patent the all metals in the periodic table, including TCP - twisted copper pair, and new element.
SCO claim that Adams signed over the rights to Eden, and start suing all carbon based lifeforms.
A small new zealand company finds that it invented fiber optics, and sold them to amazon.
Google threatens all above companies with having this gmail accouts revoked if they dont play nicely.
Penny Arcade run a strip about how annoying it is when your girlfriend is better at a game than you are.
Funny thing was, last night I wondered, at which level do firewalls work? at the level of the system library? the rawest sockets? sockets == software, nothing more special than that...
Perhaps Windows itself screws over this patent... McAffffe33es (however you spell it!) bosses when the phone rings... sir, its that monkey boy, and he doesn't sound happy...
I didn't make a point in saying that linux users should donate, I was saying the costs taken from mom and pop for microsoft are far more than people would donate.
Microsoft gave a tiny (well gates puts his name on all the benevolent work) splice of its money to charity, which was a huge ammount.
I donated a tiny slice of mine, which probably paid for the stamps to send the thank you letter to Bill.
;-) I saw my torrent of typos throughout my post, but I was actually hoping to do some work today, not faff around on/. until I can no longer afford my dsl line, then slowly die...
It is using real content in the stream, the subtitles.
Do adverts show up? I hope not! Else adverts will fill thier captions with keywords.
This isn't mime type searching, this is true searching inside video content, video.search.yahoo.com is a mime based keywords within page/filename search as far as I can tell (also link names).
This is a true video search, not network moderators can see how many of certain words (swear) get aired on thier channel perhaps... or Bush can use it to find shows talking about him...
Well, about 1/7 of the worlds population would have to give a dollar. Only counting working people, that goes way up.
Just think, to amass this much 'generosity' how much the world must have already paid to him (including developing countries).
Money fades, Linux stays forever. Of course, if everyone who uses Linux were to donate the cost of a winXP home license to a needy cause, that would be sensational.
Good pulicity for them though. In other news SCO donate free 'SCOnix' (?) licenses to hungry children.
I am not sure about that. They add weight to each others arguments. Sun certainly is like an unstylish Apple.
The Apple of large corps. I say Sun will start clawing back, foxes and rabbits.
I think Sun should diversify and be market leader in its API technologies, it has spend long enough giving start other vendors footholds (deliberately generating a competative market for J2EE containers and vedor addons).
Oracle as well has a huge support for Java... which pits them against the IBM DB products I guess.
Sun is a middle player in many areas, don't discount them to unleash Apple like products in a few years, that make the most of their own innovations (I hope! I designed a sun smart phone about 4 years ago... nothing has come out, although sun has backing the zaurus in development and the Java platform is great... lets hope sun goes this direction)
actually, they found this out, during the indutrial revolution, particle pollution (smog) increased the ammount of nucleating material required to form rain drops, and caused clouds that reflected more of the suns energy.
There was even cloud seeding, in which one incident of early experimentation in the UK caused a clear sky to go to a tormented green cloud, then actually killed a few people in the flash flooding. It was all hushed up and only speculation.
Anyway, from this we moved onto greenhouse gas, which is warm pollution, this keeps the heat in.
I have noticed that el-nino and other weather effects are starting to look like the first 20 minutes of the day after tomorrow.
This is the world we live in, for about 20 years this was all kept quite by the oil companies, and even now there is a war on oil, and it will all get washed away (literally!)
Amazon, virgin, and ebay dude have invested in space programs, which sounds like a last ditch effort to save some people!:-)
I would invest in some shoreline property that is above the 20 meter height, could be worth some money in 10 years!:0)
How will they compensate the inevitable loss of properties? It is coming, when is the question.
The recent tsunami means this is a great time for the green parties to warn about global flooding (even though it is unrelated).
The whole issue of desalinisation if scary, although in the (distant) past the Thames has been driven across for days at a time.
A cycle? or we really screwed up? (by we I mean everyone else of course, I always turn off the lights!)
I agree with parent, it is a little much to ask sun to fund the development and support for java on many OS's, IBM themselves have recouped much much more than thier outlay on Java.
Thier products have easy Java based API's, Java has been kind to IBM!
While I am not happy with Johnny-boy-schwartz, the whole point of this exercise is to to maintain thier position in solaris.
If you don't know, solaris is actually (10 anyway) a great OS for many things, such as running large data apps.
I also agree with grandparent, that the pot/kettle remark was absurd, and not even grounded in the comment. If you are going to write something, at least make sure it is clear why you said it!
Look at another issue. Solaris is aimed at different markets - I am not an expert in thier software, but it is fine having certain built in systems, this is not akin to the miccysoft bundling (and how that bundling came about).
All the message is saying is, IBM should give a commitment on this support. IBM has put money into, and made plenty of money from Java.
IBM and Sun are symbiotic companies, they need their mutual support and slight overlaps, each do thier own thing really.
Anyway, if you agree, mod up grandparent, mod down parent:-)
oh and I dont think he was talking shit, I do despise the use of a blog in this instance. IBM has done many rather public nudges at sun (over their JVM etc)
My worst failing with sun is paying those FSSSSSSSCKS at kodak over than not legit lawsuit. Could they counter sue now for slander? After all, placing a legal cloud over a product without warrant shouldn't be allowed?
OK they can call it a standard, but this is just the implementation of a design, that doesn't make it a standard!:-) adoption does. I want to play with it today! I am doing some web stuff... thinking how it will integreate with strust and jsp... hope ok, I am starting to hate struts!
Is spring easy enough to learn without too many 5 hour sessions followed by kicking yoruself and going, oh, I should do that FIRST!!?? (a struts thing..)
But it is great to see it.
In other news msn search B3tA announced it had develped a 'kewl' better than google technology that shows suggested search keywords. Microsoft deny copying google, or reading JSON spec.
The API will be aimed at reducing ad-sense-fraud. Giving people the option to opt-out of bad performing sites. In addition the webmasters will be able to maximise thier effectiveness in good advertising, to climb up the earnings ranks quicker.
Has java/linux/gimp/gnu/kde/openoffice/firefox/thunder bird:
a: lowered prices b: caused a quick price gouge and longer term tie in (tick) c: caused innovation (look at microsofts efforts now -.net was a direct response to java) d: caused lots of law suites (that is SCO true!)
Microsoft do not cause lower prices in markets they go into. They go in and try and choke the competition, running at a near loss if they have to (or a loss!) until they can bully other companies out, and then sit on their fat sluggish ass and absorb the market wealth.
So in one sense, Microsoft entering a new market does cause competition, the kind of competition Microsoft doens't like when other companies step on thier turf.
but it is speech to text that is interesting... in the VOiP world will they slowly trawl our conversations, find our interests (perhaps not in real time!) and then start serving us ads based no what we say?
Of course, the gov. is supposed to be able (are they? or is this another urban myth? to real time search for conversations in US phone lines containing terms certain terms... or is that madness?
So perhaps google can give ads on a display, but I think charging companies to use thier API to allow people to 0800 them (0800 numbers are big business for telcos!).
I am just watching for some google barcode/rfid stunt...:-/ anyone know of any plans?
Thank you for the best reply on/. so far, and you completely found the answer I was looking for:
Presumably you believe God said that homosexuality is wrong. But did God ever say that enforcing a prohibition on homosexuality is right? Those are two very different proclaimations. Frankly, I think Jesus would say that the "right" thing to do is to let those people be.
This is 100% correct, God does set moral standards, our conscience does exist, there is right and wrong (not just laws and happiness!). On the same hand, sites that proclaim God hates gay people are wrong, they reference texts that state God loves everyone, but twists passages that say homosexuality is wrong (in the same way coveting an OX is wrong, and also killing someone, but we do not punish people for coveting Oxen...), and as you say, Jesus taught that noone can throw the first stone, and we should never condemn anyones actions (although it is right for us to protect people where protection is needed, such as preventative measures to murder (punishment)).
Anyway, your reply was fantastic, and I bookmarked it. It should be +5 insightful. Made my monday more bearable!
But I think google will not even have ads on thier VoIP, they are thinking bigger:
Companies pay for a 'click to call' link on the web? Perhaps they have this idea...
Just to make this a well rounded/. response, what is the state of free VoIP sex lines, and when will we have star wars type communications on earth? Holographics-over-ip anyone?
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well, I hope it isn't "news for people who don't actually read parent posts". I was merely stating there was no NEWS, not no GEEK stuff.
it was just a link to a page, with no news.
Like saying, planets are like, geeky and sciency, so FRONT PAGE, here is jupiter... erm.. yeah, still there, thank goodness...
next day, here is a link to pluto, have anice one... see not really news.
OK, you are merely re-describing the act of harm and the interpretation of murder, but not saying if it is a moral or legal condition (the definition of murder) and why.
Murder causes direct physical harm to the victim.
So is physical harm to victims a moral or legal issue?
Adultry causes emotional harm, and is considered immoral
so adultery isn't illegal, but is immoral (so the grounds that morality exists is clear form this?) so is murder immoral, illegal or both?
Interesting what you say about emotional harm, this perhaps is a greay way of saying that quantifiably damaging things (physical, financial) can be easily classed as illegal, without talking about morality ('emotional') aspects of crime.
so does this mean morality has no place in society? What are the laws based on?
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Microsoft go one better and patent network topographies, frames and packets, then follow up by having a scottish-sounding trademark missappropriated to them by 'accident'.
Apple come out and patent multi-coloured cabling and cable ends.
IBM come out and patent the all metals in the periodic table, including TCP - twisted copper pair, and new element.
SCO claim that Adams signed over the rights to Eden, and start suing all carbon based lifeforms.
A small new zealand company finds that it invented fiber optics, and sold them to amazon.
Google threatens all above companies with having this gmail accouts revoked if they dont play nicely.
Penny Arcade run a strip about how annoying it is when your girlfriend is better at a game than you are.
Funny thing was, last night I wondered, at which level do firewalls work? at the level of the system library? the rawest sockets? sockets == software, nothing more special than that...
Perhaps Windows itself screws over this patent... McAffffe33es (however you spell it!) bosses when the phone rings... sir, its that monkey boy, and he doesn't sound happy...
There was an asteroid already incidentally called '2001 DA42' and they are using this asteroid to be named after Douglas Adams.
Which means the asteroid name is/maybe Douglas Adams, or they may keep the original incidental naming.
Either way, I know where my towel is.
``Six pints of bitter, and quickly please, the world's about to end.''
True, I hope they make a slight correction - he was born DNA at the same time and place (roughly) and they realised what DNA was.
I still this his birth (and DNA) has had a greater impact in most peoples lives than the discovery DNA itself.
Laughter is the best medicine, also you might try talking to a matress. I hear that can be quite depressing.
For the guy who made me first laugh, then cry. It would be nice to see 2001 DA42 in the night sky, but I will be inside re-reading his books.
I hope he found some peace, and that his publicist hasn't found a way to contact him about his deadlines yet.
The ultimate dreamer, genius, slacker, geek and philanthropist. I hope his works continue to reach people and make laugh and sigh as much I as did.
Was this a special delivery from Magrathea?
I didn't make a point in saying that linux users should donate, I was saying the costs taken from mom and pop for microsoft are far more than people would donate.
Microsoft gave a tiny (well gates puts his name on all the benevolent work) splice of its money to charity, which was a huge ammount.
I donated a tiny slice of mine, which probably paid for the stamps to send the thank you letter to Bill.
Thanks Bill.
;-) I saw my torrent of typos throughout my post, but I was actually hoping to do some work today, not faff around on /. until I can no longer afford my dsl line, then slowly die...
Thanks for highlighting them.
Thanks for the kudos!
It is using real content in the stream, the subtitles.
Do adverts show up? I hope not! Else adverts will fill thier captions with keywords.
This isn't mime type searching, this is true searching inside video content, video.search.yahoo.com is a mime based keywords within page/filename search as far as I can tell (also link names).
This is a true video search, not network moderators can see how many of certain words (swear) get aired on thier channel perhaps... or Bush can use it to find shows talking about him...
fun.
It was done by my 4 year old nephew and an etch a sketch!
if any of these lines appear in missiles, airoplanes, or cars, big bucks!
yeah I know patens and ocpyright are sep, but paptent portfolio sounded good!
Well, about 1/7 of the worlds population would have to give a dollar. Only counting working people, that goes way up.
Just think, to amass this much 'generosity' how much the world must have already paid to him (including developing countries).
Money fades, Linux stays forever. Of course, if everyone who uses Linux were to donate the cost of a winXP home license to a needy cause, that would be sensational.
Good pulicity for them though. In other news SCO donate free 'SCOnix' (?) licenses to hungry children.
I am not sure about that. They add weight to each others arguments. Sun certainly is like an unstylish Apple.
The Apple of large corps. I say Sun will start clawing back, foxes and rabbits.
I think Sun should diversify and be market leader in its API technologies, it has spend long enough giving start other vendors footholds (deliberately generating a competative market for J2EE containers and vedor addons).
Oracle as well has a huge support for Java... which pits them against the IBM DB products I guess.
Sun is a middle player in many areas, don't discount them to unleash Apple like products in a few years, that make the most of their own innovations (I hope! I designed a sun smart phone about 4 years ago... nothing has come out, although sun has backing the zaurus in development and the Java platform is great... lets hope sun goes this direction)
actually, they found this out, during the indutrial revolution, particle pollution (smog) increased the ammount of nucleating material required to form rain drops, and caused clouds that reflected more of the suns energy.
:-)
:0)
There was even cloud seeding, in which one incident of early experimentation in the UK caused a clear sky to go to a tormented green cloud, then actually killed a few people in the flash flooding. It was all hushed up and only speculation.
look here for an ace hold in the sky image
Anyway, from this we moved onto greenhouse gas, which is warm pollution, this keeps the heat in.
I have noticed that el-nino and other weather effects are starting to look like the first 20 minutes of the day after tomorrow.
This is the world we live in, for about 20 years this was all kept quite by the oil companies, and even now there is a war on oil, and it will all get washed away (literally!)
Amazon, virgin, and ebay dude have invested in space programs, which sounds like a last ditch effort to save some people!
I would invest in some shoreline property that is above the 20 meter height, could be worth some money in 10 years!
How will they compensate the inevitable loss of properties? It is coming, when is the question.
The recent tsunami means this is a great time for the green parties to warn about global flooding (even though it is unrelated).
The whole issue of desalinisation if scary, although in the (distant) past the Thames has been driven across for days at a time.
A cycle? or we really screwed up? (by we I mean everyone else of course, I always turn off the lights!)
baseball games are easy to make. You hit a damn ball. How many new golf games are released?
What next? SSSSSSX Tricky Baseball pro underground 2?
Mod up your bat, and do break dance moves while hitting home runs into crowd of oiled up lesbians.
Get extra points for inventive sliding moves...
lets face it, baseball sucks.
Does baseball even have cheerleaders? (sorry I know nothing about american sports, so feel free to mod me down!)
so true! I really wouldn't mind never playing a mario/zelda game ever again!
Stick GTA:SA on there (or pay them a cool million or so to make it exclusive to your new console... hello sales!)
That is what I would do. But even if every single GTA ever released in the future was only on XBOX, I still wouldn't buy one.
Bah.
A light weight headset for VR?
nothing really new... not really applied to gaming.. REVOLUTION (ie full freedom of movement) GYROSCOPES...
hello?
That is my thinking.
I agree with parent, it is a little much to ask sun to fund the development and support for java on many OS's, IBM themselves have recouped much much more than thier outlay on Java.
Thier products have easy Java based API's, Java has been kind to IBM!
mod up parent
I say parent needs troll/flamebait mod.
:-)
While I am not happy with Johnny-boy-schwartz, the whole point of this exercise is to to maintain thier position in solaris.
If you don't know, solaris is actually (10 anyway) a great OS for many things, such as running large data apps.
I also agree with grandparent, that the pot/kettle remark was absurd, and not even grounded in the comment. If you are going to write something, at least make sure it is clear why you said it!
Look at another issue. Solaris is aimed at different markets - I am not an expert in thier software, but it is fine having certain built in systems, this is not akin to the miccysoft bundling (and how that bundling came about).
All the message is saying is, IBM should give a commitment on this support. IBM has put money into, and made plenty of money from Java.
IBM and Sun are symbiotic companies, they need their mutual support and slight overlaps, each do thier own thing really.
Anyway, if you agree, mod up grandparent, mod down parent
oh and I dont think he was talking shit, I do despise the use of a blog in this instance. IBM has done many rather public nudges at sun (over their JVM etc)
My worst failing with sun is paying those FSSSSSSSCKS at kodak over than not legit lawsuit. Could they counter sue now for slander? After all, placing a legal cloud over a product without warrant shouldn't be allowed?
OK they can call it a standard, but this is just the implementation of a design, that doesn't make it a standard! :-) adoption does. I want to play with it today! I am doing some web stuff... thinking how it will integreate with strust and jsp... hope ok, I am starting to hate struts!
Is spring easy enough to learn without too many 5 hour sessions followed by kicking yoruself and going, oh, I should do that FIRST!!?? (a struts thing..)
But it is great to see it.
In other news msn search B3tA announced it had develped a 'kewl' better than google technology that shows suggested search keywords. Microsoft deny copying google, or reading JSON spec.
The API will be aimed at reducing ad-sense-fraud. Giving people the option to opt-out of bad performing sites. In addition the webmasters will be able to maximise thier effectiveness in good advertising, to climb up the earnings ranks quicker.
Google is clever!
Has java/linux/gimp/gnu/kde/openoffice/firefox/thunder bird :
.net was a direct response to java)
a: lowered prices
b: caused a quick price gouge and longer term tie in (tick)
c: caused innovation (look at microsofts efforts now -
d: caused lots of law suites (that is SCO true!)
Microsoft do not cause lower prices in markets they go into. They go in and try and choke the competition, running at a near loss if they have to (or a loss!) until they can bully other companies out, and then sit on their fat sluggish ass and absorb the market wealth.
So in one sense, Microsoft entering a new market does cause competition, the kind of competition Microsoft doens't like when other companies step on thier turf.
but it is speech to text that is interesting... in the VOiP world will they slowly trawl our conversations, find our interests (perhaps not in real time!) and then start serving us ads based no what we say?
:-/ anyone know of any plans?
Of course, the gov. is supposed to be able (are they? or is this another urban myth? to real time search for conversations in US phone lines containing terms certain terms... or is that madness?
So perhaps google can give ads on a display, but I think charging companies to use thier API to allow people to 0800 them (0800 numbers are big business for telcos!).
I am just watching for some google barcode/rfid stunt...
Thank you for the best reply on /. so far, and you completely found the answer I was looking for:
Presumably you believe God said that homosexuality is wrong. But did God ever say that enforcing a prohibition on homosexuality is right? Those are two very different proclaimations. Frankly, I think Jesus would say that the "right" thing to do is to let those people be.
This is 100% correct, God does set moral standards, our conscience does exist, there is right and wrong (not just laws and happiness!). On the same hand, sites that proclaim God hates gay people are wrong, they reference texts that state God loves everyone, but twists passages that say homosexuality is wrong (in the same way coveting an OX is wrong, and also killing someone, but we do not punish people for coveting Oxen...), and as you say, Jesus taught that noone can throw the first stone, and we should never condemn anyones actions (although it is right for us to protect people where protection is needed, such as preventative measures to murder (punishment)).
Anyway, your reply was fantastic, and I bookmarked it. It should be +5 insightful. Made my monday more bearable!
I agree, I know there is advertising in this...
/. response, what is the state of free VoIP sex lines, and when will we have star wars type communications on earth? Holographics-over-ip anyone?
But I think google will not even have ads on thier VoIP, they are thinking bigger:
Companies pay for a 'click to call' link on the web? Perhaps they have this idea...
Just to make this a well rounded
well, I hope it isn't "news for people who don't actually read parent posts". I was merely stating there was no NEWS, not no GEEK stuff.
it was just a link to a page, with no news.
Like saying, planets are like, geeky and sciency, so FRONT PAGE, here is jupiter... erm.. yeah, still there, thank goodness...
next day, here is a link to pluto, have anice one... see not really news.
OK, you are merely re-describing the act of harm and the interpretation of murder, but not saying if it is a moral or legal condition (the definition of murder) and why.
Murder causes direct physical harm to the victim.
So is physical harm to victims a moral or legal issue?
Adultry causes emotional harm, and is considered immoral
so adultery isn't illegal, but is immoral (so the grounds that morality exists is clear form this?) so is murder immoral, illegal or both?
Interesting what you say about emotional harm, this perhaps is a greay way of saying that quantifiably damaging things (physical, financial) can be easily classed as illegal, without talking about morality ('emotional') aspects of crime.
so does this mean morality has no place in society? What are the laws based on?