Completely disagree, at least for Outlook. Outlook 2010 is WAY better than 2007, especially because it has conversation grouping. That alone makes it significantly easier to browse my inbox and keep track of email chains...
Did they ever fix the limitation on the number of Rules you can have in Outlook? Even as of Outlook 2003 only about the first 100 rules were processed; then reset silently ignored. One reason I moved to Thunderbird - where all my rules run all the time.
I do already have the Data stuff completely turned off. AT&T/Cingular's website allows you to disable all that stuff from their end through your on-line account. Keeps us from accidentally loading the web-browser or texting (or receiving texts), etc.
That said, it's a Linux Kernel, and you could probably rebuild it and install NetFilter/Iptables and setup routing rules to keep it from going out on the cell network at the very least.
Ideally I would have liked an OpenMoko 3G phone - but there won't ever be one; I'd have even settled for an OpenMoko 2G phone (A7 model), but they won't be releasing that in the US (though OpenMoko, the only US distributor) for AT&T.
Android was a good compromise for me. All the open source, modifiable stack, etc; and the full functionality. So, it's highly likely that I'll root it and more.
All this does is relieve stores who comply with the law of liability.
Actually no, it doesn't necessarily remove them from liability. If a store clerk sells to someone that is of legal age knowing they are going to give it to a minor they can still be legally culpable. It's all a matter of intent and knowledge - the D.A would try to prove the store clerk knew, if guilty the store would likely be fined as well - or possibly sued by other parties.
Actually, these days, AT&T requires a data plan for all smart phones on their network. In fact if you don't get one, even without a contract, they'll automatically add on to your package. You might be able to get data completely turned off, but typically you do have to pay for the plan like it or not.
Only if AT&T knows you have a smart phone. If their system doesn't know it, then it won't do anything. Further, they can't add it w/o your consent.
The kids' parents have the responsibility. Get your big government nose out of my business.
That's the point of the bill. To make sure that the purchase is parentally responsible. This bill isn't in YOUR business unless you're in the business of selling R-rated materials to minors without parental consent.
No, that's not the point of the bill. The point of the bill is that the Gov't knows better than the parent what is or is not appropriate for their child. And that leads to the point of the GPP - as a citizen they don't want a say in how your or anyone else raises their child; they want to leave it to the child's parent and their parent alone.
Now granted, there is some communal responsibility for everyone to help ensure parents raise their child right; but they community need not stamp all over the rights of the parent and/or child to do so; and bills like these (among others) are doing just that. What you may think irresponsible another may have a purpose behind teaching, or just a desire for the freedom to not do so. Some of us cherish the freedom to do as we please more than anything else.
Exceptions where community/government should step in mind you would be things like child sex/enslavement/etc issues; but that's goes far beyond a parent's right over the child.
Google's idea was great, but it doesn't work in the current carrier-controlled (and I don't mean this in a conspiracy-theorist way) market. The phone is just too expensive up front to compare with carrier-sponsored models that get their price dilluted into your monthly service payments.
Their price isn't really that diluted. AT&T for example requires all phones with a full keyboard or that are otherwise considered a smart phone (e.g. iPhone, NexusOne, etc.) to have a data plan. You may be paying $199 for that iPhone up front, but you'll also be paying $30/month for 2 years. Now some phones you can cancel the data plan, but when varies from phone to phone. iPhone requires it at all times (so 2 years, 3 * 24 - $720 later). Some may be as little as 6 months, and may only require the $5/month texting plan (still a minimum of $30) but they're not going to nicely tell you or document your options on that front.
That said, I just ordered my Nexus One at full price ($529), and don't plan on adding any data plan whatsoever. AT&T will be not be informed I have a smart phone, and I have no intention of using the cell service for Internet. Wi-fi is good enough for me.
"Racial" bias requires a concept of race, a peculiar and illusionary social construction which is still well beyond the capability of a toddler.
While I quite agree with you, I don't agree that it is beyond the ability/capability of a toddler. It's not that they aren't capable, but more that they don't care - they haven't learned to yet.
The time delay between when your light turns red and the intersecting traffic light turning green is supposed to compensate for mistakes like these.
No, the yellow is supposed to compensate for those mistakes. Why wait until the light turns red to begin braking?
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No. The Yellow Light is the warning that the light is going to turn red; thus if it is safe to stop, then you stop - and you must take into account the vehicles around you (especially those behind you). if it not safe, then you are to proceed through the intersection regardless of whether the light remains yellow or turns red.
Stop lights that do not have a red in all directions between red/green combination states are simply asking for a higher accident rate. Allowing 2-3 seconds in an all-red state (for all directions) solves the issue in >90% of cases. (The remaining 10% being weather related - namely snow and ice.)
Interestingly enough the Mercury Grand Marquis/Ford Crown Victoria/Linux Town Car has had the same issue as the Ford Pinto, but has not been as well known. Fortunately mine didn't explode when the guy rear-ended me - but then again, the steel frame the Grand Marquis versus the alumni frame of his Mazda B5800 was the primary reason. (The Marquis had nearly no damage; while totaled it was primarily due to age (11 years) and the lack of being able to replace the front seat (which tore off its mounts); while the B5800 was totaled outright due to engine (radiator & oil on the road), body (grill, bumper, etc.), and frame damage.) Had it been another vehicle with a strong/steel frame, it probably would have exploded....
It's one thing when someone's punching the keypad. It's completely different to be talking on the phone but not punching the buttons.
Yes, typing on the keypad is worse then talking on the phone. However, talking on the phone has been shown in numerous studies to be as bad as a drunk driver. And, if I recall, there was something recently about 1:40 people can talk on the phone and drive as successfully as when not. (BTW, those studies typically show that people using hands-free phones are marginally better than those that are not.)
By the way, whenever someone admits to "When I see somebody holding a phone instead of driving, I call the police.", I give them a ration of shit. Why? 2 months ago no emergency responders were responding to emergency calls in this city because people like you, reporting non-emergency problems like that, flooded the 911 center.
IMHO, you're an idiot.
I'd give 'em hell on it but not for that reason: (i) they should have been calling the non-emergency number for the State/Local Police - state police in the US is often #77 or *77 depending on where you are, but more (ii) they were then calling while driving themselves! (If I were an officer and received that call, I'd ask for license, address, etc. and then send them a ticket too!)
"I've used Microsoft's SharePoint, which the higher-ups like simply because it's Microsoft, but thankfully they trust their Tech Department to find the cream of the crop.
It sounds like you don't like SharePoint "simply because it's Microsoft". I've seen SharePoint used for this exact business requirement many times and it is actually quite simple to implement. Some 3rd party tools might be needed for more advanced functionality (i.e. storing content external from the SharePoint database), but even then, the solutions are relatively simple.
I've used SharePoint, as well as LiveLink. They're both utter pieces of crap; especially when compared to real version control systems like Subversion, CVS, Perforce, etc; some of which you can even use native Windows interfaces for via tools like TortoiseCVS, TortoiseSVN, TortoiseHg, etc; or even WebDAV (at least Subversion).
Even my grandma could use Subversion - especially through TSVN or WebDAV. But SharePoint? LiveLink? Not likely.
Gee everyone else figured out a long time ago: give away the compiler.
How is this relevant to this discussion? You are (at least) 8 years too late to be pushing this line - Microsoft has been giving away compilers for a while now.
True, but they limit what you can do, namely how well you can integrate new things into VS.
Maybe this will be a boost for gcc when everyone can see first hand how bad the Microsoft C++ compiler is.
And how bad is the Microsoft C++ compiler? Do you have any specific claims?
Quite bad when you start comparing it to standards. Ever wonder why MSVC doesn't support int32_t, etc? Until they fix basic things like that, it will continue to be a broken compiler.
Look at it this way: Would you respect someone who told you the best way to get FireFox running on Linux was to use some sort of Windows emulation layer... Like WINE? no, because FireFox *can* compile for Linux.
Firefox typically works better under Linux than it does Windows WITHOUT any WINE. But then, may be your retrying to imply that if it's drunk it'll work better yet?
If you have 256MB and Win7 takes 50% (1/2) of that - then you have 128MB for Win7 and 128MB for applications to share.
Windows has always been a hog of memory from the kernel level. At 256MB it's taking 50% of the RAM. At 3 GB, it takes 1 GB (33.33..%) where it fortunately stays (so even at 16 GB, it still only keeps 1 GB for itself).
The Linux Kernel, OTOH, will operate by itself in under 1 MB of memory. On a 4 MB system you still have most of that for applications to use. Win7 won't even boot the kernel on a 4MB system; and MinWin requires 40 MB of RAM, which is pretty much just the kernel.
but in 256MB you can run WIN7 plus Word. Excel. Opera. All at once.
But the question remains - how many Windows applications are happy with just 128MB or less of memory available to them? Probably not the vast majority.
I agree it runs like crap on 128, about like using XP on 128MB, but WIN7 works fine on 256. Half the memory is used for the OS, and the other half is available for apps.
And how many Windows apps out there can operate in 128MB of RAM? Of those, how many are the popular choice in their field of use?
What bank gives out unsecured loans to fund internships? Even in an alternate universe where this were possible people from lower-income backgrounds would hesitate because failure would be devastating. A lot of rich families are pretty stingy with cash, but the kids don't have to worry about being homeless if they fail at something, and know that their parents will probably pay off any loans or buy them a house if they succeed.
Wachovia? Washington Mutual? Oh wait...never mind.
I did 3 or 4 internships. All paid, all software related. All produced meaningful work and value for the company. In some cases the work was meaningless to me and my profession; in others, it was equivalent of a senior software developer yielding big income for the company. Companies ranged from non-profit to start-ups to big established companies. In no cases was I heavily supervised, in all cases I was expected to hold my own weight with the rest of the professional workers, asking questions as needed, etc.
In all of this, I also continued my own studies outside of college, producing UNPAID experience as well.
However, after all the internships, etc. when I got hired after college, the company would only count experience that we considered to be "professional" and was required to have been paid. All UNPAID experience did not count. Even with my internships, it still left me a grade level or two below what I should have been. While I can understand it for myself, I would hate to have had unpaid internships and then not be able to count them; but that was their policy. (And FYI - it wasn't a small company that was doing this - but a really big company.)
To me, in the software field especially, unpaid internships made no sense. One company was really excited about getting me until I asked about pay; then I never heard from them again. It is very hard in software to do meaningful work and not produce value for the company.
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While my money is on IBM too, you have to wonder if going after IBM is still possible since Novell directed (per contract per APA) that they are to drop everything against IBM, and SCO does not have (AFAIK) a contract directly with IBM outside of Project Montgomery - which long ago proved to be a dead-end road for going after IBM on. So what contracts exactly are they going after? It can't be UNIX related, or related to copyright infringement.
Additionally, it will likely be getting harder (if even still possible at all) to patent software at all once SCOTUS rules on Bilski (expected in June 2010).
There is no standardized set of data types in the real world. Simple issues with unstandardized case dependencies can make an application that works with Oracle and only uses standard "select" statements not work under, say, PostgreSQL. And these are the surface level technical issues: talk to any relational database guru and they'll come up with numerous philosophical issues too.
The problem is that Microsoft (SQL Server), Oracle, and most proprietary DBMS's don't do very well against that standard - it's just not in their interest to do so, as that would mean portability away from their products and they would actually have to compete on things like performance, reliability, etc.
MySQL (from my experience) and PostgreSQL (to my understanding) follow the standards very closely; and it's in their interest to do so. It makes a fool of the bigger players (for not doing so) and gives them portability as an advantage (Hey, try out MySQL, if you don't like it your app is portable to others as we use the standards).
Unfortunately you'd probably lose. Why? The contract you signed, if it looks like my contract, says "upto" a certain speed. Not a guarantee. Which means Comcast has done nothing wrong. A little immoral perhaps, but no different than how Walmart, Microsoft, or other corporations act. And no illegal.
Unless he has a business contract; then it probably does say a specific speed.
Education, or lack thereof, can take some blame. I find it troubling that there is a direct, and very strong, correlation between amount of money spent on advertising, and political success. Hinting that most people are the antithesis of informed voters, either that or most voters are highly susceptible to cheap psychological advertising gimmicks (which also is an education problem).
I don't necessarily think it's such a lack of education, as it is that people just don't see any viability in other political parties. It would probably be of great benefit to the US to move away from a 2 party system. It'll certainly increase the competition in elections, and probably make people more interested as well.
The problem with the two party system is that people typically get forced into thinking they have to vote for one or the other, making it more difficult to unseat someone that needs to be unseated. Most probably don't agree with Republicans or Democrats on a number of issues, and there probably is another political party that already exists they do agree with but either don't know about (education) or don't think is viable b/c of how much the two parties are against each other so its seen as not viable.
The media can also take some blame, for setting up a false "us vs. them" dichotomy. Democrats are not the enemies of freedom, nor are Republicans. Democrats aren't socialists who want to repress religion, and Republicans aren't fascists who want us to live in a theocracy. The media likes the fear of "the other", it is one of the most primal human triggers, and serves VERY well to get people to watch your content, and hence your sponsors. The media used to be more responsible, but it has become nothing more than a souless, amoral, corporate monolith looking out for nothing but profit. (Yes, Rupert Murdoch would be selling Liberal propaganda if he could make as much money from it).
Agreed, and probably far more true than you realize.
So I'd say the real problems are education (the media would be toothless with a decent eduction being common), to much access for non-people individuals versus access for the people who government supposedly exists for, and the blind greed of politicians who worry more about sticking around than actually helping us.
True. Companies should be stripped of their ability to influence elections in any way, and at a minimum have their ability to influence law severely limited as well. That'd probably resolve a number of problems. But as long as companies can influence the elections they will also be able to influence law.
The thing is, EVERYONE recognizes exactly what I just said. Find the most partisan drone that you can, and they will agree with me, but continue to act in a way that allows this system to exist. This is the mystery.
They do so b/c it is in their interest to do so (my original point); and they will continue to do so until we the people make it no longer their interest to do so.
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Completely disagree, at least for Outlook. Outlook 2010 is WAY better than 2007, especially because it has conversation grouping. That alone makes it significantly easier to browse my inbox and keep track of email chains...
Did they ever fix the limitation on the number of Rules you can have in Outlook? Even as of Outlook 2003 only about the first 100 rules were processed; then reset silently ignored. One reason I moved to Thunderbird - where all my rules run all the time.
Good to know. Thanks.
I do already have the Data stuff completely turned off. AT&T/Cingular's website allows you to disable all that stuff from their end through your on-line account. Keeps us from accidentally loading the web-browser or texting (or receiving texts), etc.
That said, it's a Linux Kernel, and you could probably rebuild it and install NetFilter/Iptables and setup routing rules to keep it from going out on the cell network at the very least.
Ideally I would have liked an OpenMoko 3G phone - but there won't ever be one; I'd have even settled for an OpenMoko 2G phone (A7 model), but they won't be releasing that in the US (though OpenMoko, the only US distributor) for AT&T.
Android was a good compromise for me. All the open source, modifiable stack, etc; and the full functionality. So, it's highly likely that I'll root it and more.
Actually no, it doesn't necessarily remove them from liability. If a store clerk sells to someone that is of legal age knowing they are going to give it to a minor they can still be legally culpable. It's all a matter of intent and knowledge - the D.A would try to prove the store clerk knew, if guilty the store would likely be fined as well - or possibly sued by other parties.
Actually, these days, AT&T requires a data plan for all smart phones on their network. In fact if you don't get one, even without a contract, they'll automatically add on to your package. You might be able to get data completely turned off, but typically you do have to pay for the plan like it or not.
Only if AT&T knows you have a smart phone. If their system doesn't know it, then it won't do anything. Further, they can't add it w/o your consent.
The kids' parents have the responsibility. Get your big government nose out of my business.
That's the point of the bill. To make sure that the purchase is parentally responsible. This bill isn't in YOUR business unless you're in the business of selling R-rated materials to minors without parental consent.
No, that's not the point of the bill. The point of the bill is that the Gov't knows better than the parent what is or is not appropriate for their child. And that leads to the point of the GPP - as a citizen they don't want a say in how your or anyone else raises their child; they want to leave it to the child's parent and their parent alone.
Now granted, there is some communal responsibility for everyone to help ensure parents raise their child right; but they community need not stamp all over the rights of the parent and/or child to do so; and bills like these (among others) are doing just that. What you may think irresponsible another may have a purpose behind teaching, or just a desire for the freedom to not do so. Some of us cherish the freedom to do as we please more than anything else.
Exceptions where community/government should step in mind you would be things like child sex/enslavement/etc issues; but that's goes far beyond a parent's right over the child.
Google's idea was great, but it doesn't work in the current carrier-controlled (and I don't mean this in a conspiracy-theorist way) market. The phone is just too expensive up front to compare with carrier-sponsored models that get their price dilluted into your monthly service payments.
Their price isn't really that diluted. AT&T for example requires all phones with a full keyboard or that are otherwise considered a smart phone (e.g. iPhone, NexusOne, etc.) to have a data plan. You may be paying $199 for that iPhone up front, but you'll also be paying $30/month for 2 years. Now some phones you can cancel the data plan, but when varies from phone to phone. iPhone requires it at all times (so 2 years, 3 * 24 - $720 later). Some may be as little as 6 months, and may only require the $5/month texting plan (still a minimum of $30) but they're not going to nicely tell you or document your options on that front.
That said, I just ordered my Nexus One at full price ($529), and don't plan on adding any data plan whatsoever. AT&T will be not be informed I have a smart phone, and I have no intention of using the cell service for Internet. Wi-fi is good enough for me.
While I quite agree with you, I don't agree that it is beyond the ability/capability of a toddler. It's not that they aren't capable, but more that they don't care - they haven't learned to yet.
No, the yellow is supposed to compensate for those mistakes. Why wait until the light turns red to begin braking?
/quote> No. The Yellow Light is the warning that the light is going to turn red; thus if it is safe to stop, then you stop - and you must take into account the vehicles around you (especially those behind you). if it not safe, then you are to proceed through the intersection regardless of whether the light remains yellow or turns red.
Stop lights that do not have a red in all directions between red/green combination states are simply asking for a higher accident rate. Allowing 2-3 seconds in an all-red state (for all directions) solves the issue in >90% of cases. (The remaining 10% being weather related - namely snow and ice.)
Interestingly enough the Mercury Grand Marquis/Ford Crown Victoria/Linux Town Car has had the same issue as the Ford Pinto, but has not been as well known. Fortunately mine didn't explode when the guy rear-ended me - but then again, the steel frame the Grand Marquis versus the alumni frame of his Mazda B5800 was the primary reason. (The Marquis had nearly no damage; while totaled it was primarily due to age (11 years) and the lack of being able to replace the front seat (which tore off its mounts); while the B5800 was totaled outright due to engine (radiator & oil on the road), body (grill, bumper, etc.), and frame damage.) Had it been another vehicle with a strong/steel frame, it probably would have exploded....
It's one thing when someone's punching the keypad. It's completely different to be talking on the phone but not punching the buttons.
Yes, typing on the keypad is worse then talking on the phone. However, talking on the phone has been shown in numerous studies to be as bad as a drunk driver. And, if I recall, there was something recently about 1:40 people can talk on the phone and drive as successfully as when not. (BTW, those studies typically show that people using hands-free phones are marginally better than those that are not.)
By the way, whenever someone admits to "When I see somebody holding a phone instead of driving, I call the police.", I give them a ration of shit. Why? 2 months ago no emergency responders were responding to emergency calls in this city because people like you, reporting non-emergency problems like that, flooded the 911 center. IMHO, you're an idiot.
I'd give 'em hell on it but not for that reason: (i) they should have been calling the non-emergency number for the State/Local Police - state police in the US is often #77 or *77 depending on where you are, but more (ii) they were then calling while driving themselves! (If I were an officer and received that call, I'd ask for license, address, etc. and then send them a ticket too!)
"I've used Microsoft's SharePoint, which the higher-ups like simply because it's Microsoft, but thankfully they trust their Tech Department to find the cream of the crop. It sounds like you don't like SharePoint "simply because it's Microsoft". I've seen SharePoint used for this exact business requirement many times and it is actually quite simple to implement. Some 3rd party tools might be needed for more advanced functionality (i.e. storing content external from the SharePoint database), but even then, the solutions are relatively simple.
I've used SharePoint, as well as LiveLink. They're both utter pieces of crap; especially when compared to real version control systems like Subversion, CVS, Perforce, etc; some of which you can even use native Windows interfaces for via tools like TortoiseCVS, TortoiseSVN, TortoiseHg, etc; or even WebDAV (at least Subversion).
Even my grandma could use Subversion - especially through TSVN or WebDAV. But SharePoint? LiveLink? Not likely.
Gee everyone else figured out a long time ago: give away the compiler.
How is this relevant to this discussion? You are (at least) 8 years too late to be pushing this line - Microsoft has been giving away compilers for a while now.
True, but they limit what you can do, namely how well you can integrate new things into VS.
Maybe this will be a boost for gcc when everyone can see first hand how bad the Microsoft C++ compiler is.
And how bad is the Microsoft C++ compiler? Do you have any specific claims?
Quite bad when you start comparing it to standards. Ever wonder why MSVC doesn't support int32_t, etc? Until they fix basic things like that, it will continue to be a broken compiler.
Look at it this way: Would you respect someone who told you the best way to get FireFox running on Linux was to use some sort of Windows emulation layer... Like WINE? no, because FireFox *can* compile for Linux.
Except of course the best way to get Firefox running on Linux is to use WINE http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/13/0058251
Firefox typically works better under Linux than it does Windows WITHOUT any WINE. But then, may be your retrying to imply that if it's drunk it'll work better yet?
>>>how many Windows apps operate in 128MB
Not 128MB,
If you have 256MB and Win7 takes 50% (1/2) of that - then you have 128MB for Win7 and 128MB for applications to share.
Windows has always been a hog of memory from the kernel level. At 256MB it's taking 50% of the RAM. At 3 GB, it takes 1 GB (33.33..%) where it fortunately stays (so even at 16 GB, it still only keeps 1 GB for itself).
The Linux Kernel, OTOH, will operate by itself in under 1 MB of memory. On a 4 MB system you still have most of that for applications to use. Win7 won't even boot the kernel on a 4MB system; and MinWin requires 40 MB of RAM, which is pretty much just the kernel.
But the question remains - how many Windows applications are happy with just 128MB or less of memory available to them? Probably not the vast majority.
all versions of vista, including windows 7, will never be usable on 256MB.
Oh really?
- Win7 on 256 MB - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=windows+7+on+256+MB - Win7 on 128 MB - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=windows+7+on+128MB
I agree it runs like crap on 128, about like using XP on 128MB, but WIN7 works fine on 256. Half the memory is used for the OS, and the other half is available for apps.
And how many Windows apps out there can operate in 128MB of RAM? Of those, how many are the popular choice in their field of use?
Please note who brought the initial suit. Nothing more to say.
What bank gives out unsecured loans to fund internships? Even in an alternate universe where this were possible people from lower-income backgrounds would hesitate because failure would be devastating. A lot of rich families are pretty stingy with cash, but the kids don't have to worry about being homeless if they fail at something, and know that their parents will probably pay off any loans or buy them a house if they succeed.
Wachovia? Washington Mutual? Oh wait...never mind.
I did 3 or 4 internships. All paid, all software related. All produced meaningful work and value for the company. In some cases the work was meaningless to me and my profession; in others, it was equivalent of a senior software developer yielding big income for the company. Companies ranged from non-profit to start-ups to big established companies. In no cases was I heavily supervised, in all cases I was expected to hold my own weight with the rest of the professional workers, asking questions as needed, etc.
In all of this, I also continued my own studies outside of college, producing UNPAID experience as well.
However, after all the internships, etc. when I got hired after college, the company would only count experience that we considered to be "professional" and was required to have been paid. All UNPAID experience did not count. Even with my internships, it still left me a grade level or two below what I should have been. While I can understand it for myself, I would hate to have had unpaid internships and then not be able to count them; but that was their policy. (And FYI - it wasn't a small company that was doing this - but a really big company.)
To me, in the software field especially, unpaid internships made no sense. One company was really excited about getting me until I asked about pay; then I never heard from them again. It is very hard in software to do meaningful work and not produce value for the company.
While my money is on IBM too, you have to wonder if going after IBM is still possible since Novell directed (per contract per APA) that they are to drop everything against IBM, and SCO does not have (AFAIK) a contract directly with IBM outside of Project Montgomery - which long ago proved to be a dead-end road for going after IBM on. So what contracts exactly are they going after? It can't be UNIX related, or related to copyright infringement.
Additionally, it will likely be getting harder (if even still possible at all) to patent software at all once SCOTUS rules on Bilski (expected in June 2010).
Well, SQL itself is pretty standard - you can find a list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#Standardization.
The problem is that Microsoft (SQL Server), Oracle, and most proprietary DBMS's don't do very well against that standard - it's just not in their interest to do so, as that would mean portability away from their products and they would actually have to compete on things like performance, reliability, etc.
MySQL (from my experience) and PostgreSQL (to my understanding) follow the standards very closely; and it's in their interest to do so. It makes a fool of the bigger players (for not doing so) and gives them portability as an advantage (Hey, try out MySQL, if you don't like it your app is portable to others as we use the standards).
Have you used SQL Server? I thought not.
yes and it's utter crap.
There's a lot of SoundBlaster cards that have them - Awe64 Gold, SBLive!, Audigy2, just to name a few series.
Unless he has a business contract; then it probably does say a specific speed.
I don't necessarily think it's such a lack of education, as it is that people just don't see any viability in other political parties. It would probably be of great benefit to the US to move away from a 2 party system. It'll certainly increase the competition in elections, and probably make people more interested as well. The problem with the two party system is that people typically get forced into thinking they have to vote for one or the other, making it more difficult to unseat someone that needs to be unseated. Most probably don't agree with Republicans or Democrats on a number of issues, and there probably is another political party that already exists they do agree with but either don't know about (education) or don't think is viable b/c of how much the two parties are against each other so its seen as not viable.
Agreed, and probably far more true than you realize.
True. Companies should be stripped of their ability to influence elections in any way, and at a minimum have their ability to influence law severely limited as well. That'd probably resolve a number of problems. But as long as companies can influence the elections they will also be able to influence law.
They do so b/c it is in their interest to do so (my original point); and they will continue to do so until we the people make it no longer their interest to do so.