It's never run slashcode. It ran Squishdot, which was a Slash look-alike, but that was a long time ago. The most recent version of the site (the last few years) ran on Ruby code that Bruce wrote himself. He even had the source available for download.
Worse, establishing the term has moved into a generic term for a whole class of computers would void their trademark.
Not only will they lose the lawsuit (assuming the site can afford to defend itself) but they will lose the trademark as well.
First, if you would read the article, you would see that there is no lawsuit. All that has happened is that Psion has asked web site owners to stop using their trademark.
Second, both outcomes that you state above are highly unlikely. The term has hardly been in use for any length of time and cannot be genericized so easily. Klennex is still a trademark even though many people use it as a generic term for and brand of tissue paper.
When do they start suing the Intel Corporation or Acer (one of whom had coined the term IIRC), and not the penny-ante hobbyist sites?
No one has been sued. All that's happened is a few web sites have received a letter that asks them to stop using the company's trademarked term. They also gave them one-fourth of a year to make the necessary changes. That's pretty generous.
if she wants large fonts, she can adjust the font size in the display properties to be whatever she wants.
I have vision problems that even glasses cannot correct and I can assure you that just setting the font size larger in the OS doesn't fix the problem. The biggest problem is using web sites. I set the font size in my browser to 20 points and set the minimum font size to 14 but I am constantly having to zoom in on pages. Most web sites are not designed to handle larger fonts and fall apart when a larger font is used. CSS is to blame. With tables, at least the cells would expand to accommodate the data inside. With all the CSS design I see today, there is text that will spill out of a box and overlap other text or get hidden behind other elements when the font is too large.
I found that it was much easier to buy a large monitor and set the resolution to 800x600 so that everything rendered at the designer's desired font size and still was big enough to view for me, the user. Your mom might be in the same boat.
We cant completely synthesize realistic voice from scratch yet.
We're as close with that as we are with digital actors. See http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/. It's pretty good without any editing. Some tweaking with how it provides the inflections when speaking would make it sound real. The problem is that it's all patented out the wazoo. There is a commercial offering here: http://www.wizzardsoftware.com/att_server.php.
Sound Forge and a dialogue editor. There is enough of her computer dialog from all the trek episodes and movies that an editor could splice together a variety of sentences without much effort.
Traveling moderately with laptops, mine have had a life expectancy of about 1 year. I've been lucky with my current one (a HP zv6000) which has passed about 3 years or so. I always treat my laptops moderately well (carried carefully, avoided dropping them), yet something fails.
I bought a new Thinkpad T30 in 2002. I use it daily and take it everywhere with me. To work, to friends houses, and even on trips out of town. So far the screen and the CPU fan died. One was a $140 fix and the other was $30. Other than that it's still working well. Tonight I just upgraded the CPU from 2 to 2.4 GHz. I'm really surprised that it's lasted as well as it has for this long.
Didn't you get the memo? Being patriotic today means wearing flag pins; hating those that aren't like you, particularity if the government tells you they are bad; not questioning anything the government does, vilifying those who would dare to question authority (how dare they!); and parroting anything that right-wing liberals like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh say. Any deviation from this means you are a terrorist, don't believe in god, and hate America.
Get with the program guy, and don't be late to the Two Minutes' Hate.
Getting Wine to run on a processor architecture not native to Windows would require emulating an x86 processor.
No it wouldn't. Wine is open source and has already been ported to PowerPC and SPARC. If you have the source to a windows program you could compile it with the wine libraries on your target architecture and use it.
XP would cost them something to keep on producing and supporting, it's not zero like Coke.
your argument doesn't make sense. The cost of producing XP is next to zero. Computer manufacturers do not ship boxed copies of XP. They are images that they load onto their computers. Microsoft only has to provide the licenses and charge the manufacturer. As for support, Microsoft is already committed to supporting XP through April 2014.
Honestly, I don't know what all the resistance to Vista is all about.
I never understood the resistance to New Coke. It tasted fine to me and I drank it with no problem. But apparently many people didn't like it and complained. They wanted the old Coke. Fortunately, The Coca-Cola Company listened to their customers and gave them what they wanted. They returned to the old formula with Coke Classic and customers returned to buying their products. Nothing leads to success like listening to the customer and selling them the product that they want.
As far as operating systems are concerned, I think this basic principle of marketing is still true. If people want XP and are willing to pay for it, then why not continue to sell it? Microsoft is continuing to support it for another four years. It costs little to continue to manufacture it. That way the people who want XP can get it and the people who want Vista, or don't care, can get it. Everyone wins.
Just as a single example, what kind of scalability do most people need beyond Facebook and Wikipedia.
Those only represent a single type of database need. There are other uses for databases that don't represent serving up small amounts of web data. I'd be very curious to hear about people using MySQL successfully with huge datasets, such as multi-terabyte ERP and data warehousing applications, or using it for banking and financial transactions. That's where the real action is. I'm sure people are using MySQL for these functions but they probably don't announce it as publicly as most web-based companies.
Remember, too, that for all the attention Linux gets in its little part of the world (people interested in tech), it remains almost unknown elsewhere. This teacher clearly has never heard of it.
You didn't read the article. The teacher said that she used Linux in college.
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then why is there a law the prohibiting Fedex/UPS from charging below a certain amount?)
Oh come on! When you make such an outrageous claim like this, back it up with a reference please.
''(b) A letter may also be carried out of the mails when-- ''(1) the amount paid for the private carriage of the letter is at least the amount equal to 6 times the rate then currently charged for the 1st ounce of a single-piece first class letter;
You can google for "USPS monopoly privilege" and "USPS monopoly law" and get quite a screenful on the subject.
How can you blindly file lawsuits against people you know nothing about?
They do it because it's the easy way out. To properly investigate to see who is infringing upon their copyright would take real work. It's cheaper, and therefore more profitable, to just sue without doing their homework. Hopefully a judge will soon come down hard on the RIAA for their tactics. The RIAA certainly has not been acting in good faith.
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It's never run slashcode. It ran Squishdot, which was a Slash look-alike, but that was a long time ago. The most recent version of the site (the last few years) ran on Ruby code that Bruce wrote himself. He even had the source available for download.
First, if you would read the article, you would see that there is no lawsuit. All that has happened is that Psion has asked web site owners to stop using their trademark.
Second, both outcomes that you state above are highly unlikely. The term has hardly been in use for any length of time and cannot be genericized so easily. Klennex is still a trademark even though many people use it as a generic term for and brand of tissue paper.
Yep, Psion made one and called it the NetBook. Here's a review of one of them from March 2000.
No one has been sued. All that's happened is a few web sites have received a letter that asks them to stop using the company's trademarked term. They also gave them one-fourth of a year to make the necessary changes. That's pretty generous.
Why is this tagged "court"? No court is involved here. Wouldn't it be more accurate to tag it law or legal?
I have vision problems that even glasses cannot correct and I can assure you that just setting the font size larger in the OS doesn't fix the problem. The biggest problem is using web sites. I set the font size in my browser to 20 points and set the minimum font size to 14 but I am constantly having to zoom in on pages. Most web sites are not designed to handle larger fonts and fall apart when a larger font is used. CSS is to blame. With tables, at least the cells would expand to accommodate the data inside. With all the CSS design I see today, there is text that will spill out of a box and overlap other text or get hidden behind other elements when the font is too large.
I found that it was much easier to buy a large monitor and set the resolution to 800x600 so that everything rendered at the designer's desired font size and still was big enough to view for me, the user. Your mom might be in the same boat.
Who decides what is a positive manner or not?
It's not a problem. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Oct04/articles/qa1004-7.htm.
We're as close with that as we are with digital actors. See http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/. It's pretty good without any editing. Some tweaking with how it provides the inflections when speaking would make it sound real. The problem is that it's all patented out the wazoo. There is a commercial offering here: http://www.wizzardsoftware.com/att_server.php.
Sound Forge and a dialogue editor. There is enough of her computer dialog from all the trek episodes and movies that an editor could splice together a variety of sentences without much effort.
I bought a new Thinkpad T30 in 2002. I use it daily and take it everywhere with me. To work, to friends houses, and even on trips out of town. So far the screen and the CPU fan died. One was a $140 fix and the other was $30. Other than that it's still working well. Tonight I just upgraded the CPU from 2 to 2.4 GHz. I'm really surprised that it's lasted as well as it has for this long.
Didn't you get the memo? Being patriotic today means wearing flag pins; hating those that aren't like you, particularity if the government tells you they are bad; not questioning anything the government does, vilifying those who would dare to question authority (how dare they!); and parroting anything that right-wing liberals like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh say. Any deviation from this means you are a terrorist, don't believe in god, and hate America.
Get with the program guy, and don't be late to the Two Minutes' Hate.
Don't forget the two version numbers for the same product.
No it wouldn't. Wine is open source and has already been ported to PowerPC and SPARC. If you have the source to a windows program you could compile it with the wine libraries on your target architecture and use it.
You're looking for the Darwine project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwine/
your argument doesn't make sense. The cost of producing XP is next to zero. Computer manufacturers do not ship boxed copies of XP. They are images that they load onto their computers. Microsoft only has to provide the licenses and charge the manufacturer. As for support, Microsoft is already committed to supporting XP through April 2014.
I never understood the resistance to New Coke. It tasted fine to me and I drank it with no problem. But apparently many people didn't like it and complained. They wanted the old Coke. Fortunately, The Coca-Cola Company listened to their customers and gave them what they wanted. They returned to the old formula with Coke Classic and customers returned to buying their products. Nothing leads to success like listening to the customer and selling them the product that they want.
As far as operating systems are concerned, I think this basic principle of marketing is still true. If people want XP and are willing to pay for it, then why not continue to sell it? Microsoft is continuing to support it for another four years. It costs little to continue to manufacture it. That way the people who want XP can get it and the people who want Vista, or don't care, can get it. Everyone wins.
Are you posting from the past?
Nonetheless, they won't run under Chrome.
No problem. Laptops are worth more when you sell the parts individually rather than the whole thing.
Does it support popular applications like Adblock, Zotero, and Greasemonkey?
Those only represent a single type of database need. There are other uses for databases that don't represent serving up small amounts of web data. I'd be very curious to hear about people using MySQL successfully with huge datasets, such as multi-terabyte ERP and data warehousing applications, or using it for banking and financial transactions. That's where the real action is. I'm sure people are using MySQL for these functions but they probably don't announce it as publicly as most web-based companies.
You didn't read the article. The teacher said that she used Linux in college.
Here you go. From HR 6407 - Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006, section 503 "PRIVATE CARRIAGE OF LETTERS" :
You can google for "USPS monopoly privilege" and "USPS monopoly law" and get quite a screenful on the subject.
They do it because it's the easy way out. To properly investigate to see who is infringing upon their copyright would take real work. It's cheaper, and therefore more profitable, to just sue without doing their homework. Hopefully a judge will soon come down hard on the RIAA for their tactics. The RIAA certainly has not been acting in good faith.