Paramount's press release did not officially confirm the next series' setting, but this news makes it all but certain that the series will indeed be set aboard a 22nd-Century Enterprise.
Does this mean it will be pre- Kirk's Enterprise? According to the Stardate FAQ, TOS started in 2266 which would be the 23rd century.
Bus drivers know how to drive, lumberjacks can operate chainsaws, but our business culture is jam-packed with office secretaries that can't even do a simple "mail merge" with MS-Office.
I noticed that you didn't put "simple" in quotes. I have never done a mail-merge in Word so I can't testify as to how easy it is. I will try and limit my comments to the general case.
Alan Cooper wrote a good book called The Inmates Are Running the Asylum and it is about how poorly most softare is designed these days. Software is designed by programmers and it is designed for how a programmer would like to use it. It has numerous powerful features that most users don't need or want but are cool to the programmer. All that Joe/Jane user wants to do is get their work done and they don't particularily like being called stupid because some programmer who was brought up on Zork thinks they are.
That's a distinction without a difference. If Microsoft's monopoly collapses, then so does Microsoft.
Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop and I don't see that disappearing because the price of hardware is dropping. I run Linux but I have the technical savvy to do it. Most of the people don't. And anyone buying their first computer won't either.
The problem is that customs won't believe the cost if its too low. Try importing a new Jaguar that you claim you paid $100 for. I don't see customs going for that.
Yeah, home is claiming that documents that they provide to anyone are trade secrets.
Even when there is a copyright, there is some copying permitted by the fair use doctrine.
Publishing trade secrets would not be considered fair use.
If I signed a non-disclosure agreement with a company and then published the schematics of their latest, greatest widget, I would not be protected by fair use.
If I broke into a company, stole documents, and published them, I would not be protected by fair use.
If the court decides these documents are trade secrets this guy is SOL.
What has the HR department got to do with it?... We were so desparate that we would talk to anybody who sent us their resume.
The problem is that the HR department will do the initial screening of the resumes before the engineers even get to see it. They don't really understand the requirements of the job so they just scan resumes for keywords.
Your company may have been desparate enough to interview anyone who sent a resume but the HR department will attempt to screen some applicants out just to justify the department's existence.
This tends not to be a problem with smaller companies (the kind I like to work for) because they can't afford HR departments so they don't have them.
I think that the general problem here is that there is a perception that you cannot own and use tools in a responsible manner. You cannot outlaw a screwdriver because someone in Timbuktu used one to commit murder, rape, or burglary, because screwdrivers have legitimate legal uses.
This is not true. There are some states (A laska and Arizona for example) which prohibit the posession of burglary tools.
My definition of backward compatibility does not include working with older versions of OTHER PEOPLE'S software.
Yeah, and this is how Microsoft sustains its monopoly. If Microsoft's software runs on the new operating system and third party stuff doesn't guess who wins and who loses.
Bob Young's rebuttal is everything that the original is not. The rebuttal is well-reasoned and factual while the original is inflammatory, in-accurate and mostly pointless. In fact, Taschek's article is "like an onion... peel away its layers, and there's nothing there.".
I haven't read "The Innovator's dilemma" yet (I should be getting it later this week) but Dr. John Mashey, chief scientist for SGI, gave a talk for the Vancouver Linux User's Group giving Linux as a specific example of a disruptive technology. Tascheck believes that just because Linux is an operating system it can't be a disruptive technology without ever giving a reason.
The key example that he gives for the failure of the open source movement is Mozilla while ignoring many successes that Young gives in his article. He then goes on to equate the opening up of Netscape's code with the poaching of free labour. The truth is the vast majority of Mozilla development is still done by Netscape's engineers.
The one valid point he does make in his article is about the origin of open source being from "underappreciated programmers" and that it is "not geared to create but critique". I would have used the term "disaffected" and this would descripe RMS's starting of free software quite well. And I would consider it "geared to critique" as well since many open source projects arise out of dissatisfaction with proprietary software. This can be a strength if we use criticism as the basis of our creations. This is similar to the approach that the Japanese took in the '80s when they ate our lunch. However, if all we are doing is bitching, we aren't going to accomplish much of anything.
He then goes on to criticize the purchase of Bluecurve, evidently simply because it has a colour in the name, and then predict that our "establisment will be ripped apart". This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of open source. It is not a centralized establishment and there is nothing to rip apart. It is a loose collective or community and decisions are made more or less by consensus rather than via some top-down approach.
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That would encourage "polling"... and overwhelm Internic.
Not if the expiry date is posted. You just check a web page that says when the domain name will expire. So you just have to check back on that date to see if they renewed their domain name or not. I guess this is still polling but it would be done on the order of once or twice a year instead of once a day.
I'd like to see... the ability for judges to require legal costs to be paid by someone who has such a bogus patent and then sues someone when obvious prior art is available
This is currently how the Canadian legal system works. Not just in patent cases but in all civil cases. The legal costs are all borne by the loser of the case. I am not sure if lawyer fees are included in this but court costs are.
The use of extensions was proposed as a means of "Internet zoning". So.xxx or.sex would be used by X-rated sites and they would be limited to those domains. I think that this is a good idea. It would make filtering of sex-sites simpler for parents or ISPs.
However, if you have multiple domains that essentially mean the same thing, it makes it difficult to track down addresses (Is it frog.com or frog.biz or frog.firm or frog.something else?). Therefore, the.com top level domain will still have increased value since it will be what users will try first.
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Paramount's press release did not officially confirm the next series' setting, but this news makes it all but certain that the series will indeed be set aboard a 22nd-Century Enterprise.
Does this mean it will be pre- Kirk's Enterprise? According to the Stardate FAQ, TOS started in 2266 which would be the 23rd century.
Bus drivers know how to drive, lumberjacks can operate chainsaws, but our business culture is jam-packed with office secretaries that can't even do a simple "mail merge" with MS-Office.
I noticed that you didn't put "simple" in quotes. I have never done a mail-merge in Word so I can't testify as to how easy it is. I will try and limit my comments to the general case.
Alan Cooper wrote a good book called The Inmates Are Running the Asylum and it is about how poorly most softare is designed these days. Software is designed by programmers and it is designed for how a programmer would like to use it. It has numerous powerful features that most users don't need or want but are cool to the programmer. All that Joe/Jane user wants to do is get their work done and they don't particularily like being called stupid because some programmer who was brought up on Zork thinks they are.
Maybe that you've seen this a million times before...
That's a distinction without a difference. If Microsoft's monopoly collapses, then so does Microsoft.
Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop and I don't see that disappearing because the price of hardware is dropping. I run Linux but I have the technical savvy to do it. Most of the people don't. And anyone buying their first computer won't either.
The problem is that customs won't believe the cost if its too low. Try importing a new Jaguar that you claim you paid $100 for. I don't see customs going for that.
Yeah, home is claiming that documents that they provide to anyone are trade secrets.
Even when there is a copyright, there is some copying permitted by the fair use doctrine.
Publishing trade secrets would not be considered fair use.
If I signed a non-disclosure agreement with a company and then published the schematics of their latest, greatest widget, I would not be protected by fair use.
If I broke into a company, stole documents, and published them, I would not be protected by fair use.
If the court decides these documents are trade secrets this guy is SOL.
Gore, on the other hand, wanted ISPs to have "parents' protection page every time 95% of the pages come up..."
What does this even mean? Does it mean your browser doesn't work 95% of the time? This is just gobbledy-gook to me.
What has the HR department got to do with it? ... We were so desparate that we would talk to anybody who sent us their resume.
The problem is that the HR department will do the initial screening of the resumes before the engineers even get to see it. They don't really understand the requirements of the job so they just scan resumes for keywords.
Your company may have been desparate enough to interview anyone who sent a resume but the HR department will attempt to screen some applicants out just to justify the department's existence.
This tends not to be a problem with smaller companies (the kind I like to work for) because they can't afford HR departments so they don't have them.
I think that the general problem here is that there is a perception that you cannot own and use tools in a responsible manner. You cannot outlaw a screwdriver because someone in Timbuktu used one to commit murder, rape, or burglary, because screwdrivers have legitimate legal uses.
This is not true. There are some states (A laska and Arizona for example) which prohibit the posession of burglary tools.
My definition of backward compatibility does not include working with older versions of OTHER PEOPLE'S software.
Yeah, and this is how Microsoft sustains its monopoly. If Microsoft's software runs on the new operating system and third party stuff doesn't guess who wins and who loses.
Gimp > interface from hell. Makes simple things unnecesary complex ( the Unix way)
Why is this modded down? It's right on the money -- except for the "Unix way" comment. I find Gimp incredibly frustrating to use.
Bob Young's rebuttal is everything that the original is not. The rebuttal is well-reasoned and factual while the original is inflammatory, in-accurate and mostly pointless. In fact, Taschek's article is "like an onion ... peel away its layers, and there's nothing there.".
I haven't read "The Innovator's dilemma" yet (I should be getting it later this week) but Dr. John Mashey, chief scientist for SGI, gave a talk for the Vancouver Linux User's Group giving Linux as a specific example of a disruptive technology. Tascheck believes that just because Linux is an operating system it can't be a disruptive technology without ever giving a reason.
The key example that he gives for the failure of the open source movement is Mozilla while ignoring many successes that Young gives in his article. He then goes on to equate the opening up of Netscape's code with the poaching of free labour. The truth is the vast majority of Mozilla development is still done by Netscape's engineers.
The one valid point he does make in his article is about the origin of open source being from "underappreciated programmers" and that it is "not geared to create but critique". I would have used the term "disaffected" and this would descripe RMS's starting of free software quite well. And I would consider it "geared to critique" as well since many open source projects arise out of dissatisfaction with proprietary software. This can be a strength if we use criticism as the basis of our creations. This is similar to the approach that the Japanese took in the '80s when they ate our lunch. However, if all we are doing is bitching, we aren't going to accomplish much of anything.
He then goes on to criticize the purchase of Bluecurve, evidently simply because it has a colour in the name, and then predict that our "establisment will be ripped apart". This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of open source. It is not a centralized establishment and there is nothing to rip apart. It is a loose collective or community and decisions are made more or less by consensus rather than via some top-down approach.
Distinctly grey? Now that's an oxymoron for you.
That would encourage "polling" ... and overwhelm Internic.
Not if the expiry date is posted. You just check a web page that says when the domain name will expire. So you just have to check back on that date to see if they renewed their domain name or not. I guess this is still polling but it would be done on the order of once or twice a year instead of once a day.
I'd like to see ... the ability for judges to require legal costs to be paid by someone who has such a bogus patent and then sues someone when obvious prior art is available
This is currently how the Canadian legal system works. Not just in patent cases but in all civil cases. The legal costs are all borne by the loser of the case. I am not sure if lawyer fees are included in this but court costs are.
The use of extensions was proposed as a means of "Internet zoning". So .xxx or .sex would be used by X-rated sites and they would be limited to those domains. I think that this is a good idea. It would make filtering of sex-sites simpler for parents or ISPs.
.com top level domain will still have increased value since it will be what users will try first.
However, if you have multiple domains that essentially mean the same thing, it makes it difficult to track down addresses (Is it frog.com or frog.biz or frog.firm or frog.something else?). Therefore, the