He DOES get it, but this is PR.
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McVoy Strikes Back
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I think McVoy knows very well that just a few Open-Source zealots are enough to come up with something better than BitKeepers "superior" technology. That is why he keeps saying "you cant do it": he hopes that at some point everybody believes him.
AFAIK Sony tried very hard to declare the Playstation 2 as a computer in the EU so that they did not face the Tax For Toys. In this light, it makes very much sense for Sony as well as for IBM to open the Cell for as many developers as possible.
BTW, this announcement nicely agrees with the predictions from the first articles on Slashdot about the Cell, namely that it is posed to take over the world.
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a signature is what declares the argument types of a function
... Microsoft will do the same thing as with the office: they will have contracts with living room builders, which bind them to build an XBox 360 (a la "Pimp my ride") into it.
Microsoft sure wants to. And as long as every second mail I get contains some silly *text* as *Word* document, I am convinced they will succeed. Apparently, regular people are not as sharp as us here at slashdot.
> I don't see any reason why common names are a problem when they apply to a narrow domain.
Well, I do. Who gets the domain www.tiger.com?
> You mention Ford. Are you saying that Fred Ford should be allowed to sell cars called "Ford"? Do you think that'd be good for the consumer?
No. I am saying that this name shouldn't have been trademarked in the first place. If my name is "Fred Ford" and I decide to sell cars, what am I supposed to do? Change my name?
>... in which money rules.
Well, it shouldn't be. That is why it is called "legal system", not "monetary system". And before I hear "but that's just the way it is!": it is no law of physics. It does not need to be that way. Everybody who does not try to change things like this, deserves no better.
My point was not about trademark law itself. But on the practice to allow companies to trademark such common expressions as Tiger, Apple, Windows, Kinder, or even regular peoples' names like Milka, Mercedes or Ford. The problems which ensue are well earned (but mostly not by those suffering from them).
... because when you buy her a PC, you have to get all those viruses from it every week, and have to explain how she can write mails several times because the GUI is so unintuitive, and the mouse just stops working, but after a reboot it works quite fine, thank you, and CD burning doesn't take you a three year old who could do it, but everyone who touches the computer can do it in a snap, and finding files is easy, and install doesn't hang the machine, and (the best of all) she doesn't have to shoo you away everytime she wants to use it.
You meant the spirit of GNU. The GPL just tries to force you to abide by the spirit of the GNU project.
Anyway, even if the other developer has to big an ego, it's always a good idea to make him calm down with soothing words. After all, everything he wants is probably a little bit of recognition. The need for recognition is what drives Open Source, not the need for good software, right?
There are 20 reasons/month it's not.
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Firefox vs. SP2's IE?
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Those 20 reasons/month are called exploitable bugs.
Of course he doesn't care about security...
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Firefox vs. SP2's IE?
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... because whenever something bad happens, he'll expect you to fix it!
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I think McVoy knows very well that just a few Open-Source zealots are enough to come up with something better than BitKeepers "superior" technology. That is why he keeps saying "you cant do it": he hopes that at some point everybody believes him.
AFAIK Sony tried very hard to declare the Playstation 2 as a computer in the EU so that they did not face the Tax For Toys. In this light, it makes very much sense for Sony as well as for IBM to open the Cell for as many developers as possible.
BTW, this announcement nicely agrees with the predictions from the first articles on Slashdot about the Cell, namely that it is posed to take over the world.
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a signature is what declares the argument types of a function
... Microsoft will do the same thing as with the office: they will have contracts with living room builders, which bind them to build an XBox 360 (a la "Pimp my ride") into it.
Microsoft sure wants to. And as long as every second mail I get contains some silly *text* as *Word* document, I am convinced they will succeed. Apparently, regular people are not as sharp as us here at slashdot.
> I don't see any reason why common names are a problem when they apply to a narrow domain.
... in which money rules.
Well, I do. Who gets the domain www.tiger.com?
> You mention Ford. Are you saying that Fred Ford should be allowed to sell cars called "Ford"? Do you think that'd be good for the consumer?
No. I am saying that this name shouldn't have been trademarked in the first place. If my name is "Fred Ford" and I decide to sell cars, what am I supposed to do? Change my name?
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Well, it shouldn't be. That is why it is called "legal system", not "monetary system". And before I hear "but that's just the way it is!": it is no law of physics. It does not need to be that way. Everybody who does not try to change things like this, deserves no better.
My point was not about trademark law itself. But on the practice to allow companies to trademark such common expressions as Tiger, Apple, Windows, Kinder, or even regular peoples' names like Milka, Mercedes or Ford. The problems which ensue are well earned (but mostly not by those suffering from them).
Ciao,
Dscho
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Who sues Sue?
... for their use of the letter "T"
How could a term like "Tiger" in any non-judicial sense (such as common sense) ever be accused of being an intellectual property?
... because when you buy her a PC, you have to get all those viruses from it every week, and have to explain how she can write mails several times because the GUI is so unintuitive, and the mouse just stops working, but after a reboot it works quite fine, thank you, and CD burning doesn't take you a three year old who could do it, but everyone who touches the computer can do it in a snap, and finding files is easy, and install doesn't hang the machine, and (the best of all) she doesn't have to shoo you away everytime she wants to use it.
You meant the spirit of GNU. The GPL just tries to force you to abide by the spirit of the GNU project.
Anyway, even if the other developer has to big an ego, it's always a good idea to make him calm down with soothing words. After all, everything he wants is probably a little bit of recognition. The need for recognition is what drives Open Source, not the need for good software, right?
Those 20 reasons/month are called exploitable bugs.
... because whenever something bad happens, he'll expect you to fix it!
Hi, > This whole 30 day calendary is silly.. No. It only qualifies as silly if some major software vendor has patented it. Ciao, Dscho
They tested all the voting machines, and those failing were shipped into likely Democrat states...
A short can hold values from -32768 to 32767. You meant an unsigned short day.