Wrong. Having the community work together doesn't really help here -- IBM cannot use its patents to attack any possible foes due to agreements and mutual assured destruction.
What I prefer, is no ads at all. I personally consider ads to be exactly in the same bucket as e-mail spam, and act accordingly. Thanks to three layers of defense (DNS, squid+adzapper, Adblock), I probably don't exist for Claria, GoogleSyndication, DoubleClick and any other sleazy advertisers.
If I want to find a product, I can search for it. Until then, you are better off staying away from my life.
Uhm, it's a bad comparison. It doesn't take a lot of reading between the lines to see that Aragorn became the "rightful ruler" by murdering all opposition. I wouldn't trust a pretender who most likely murdered the heir to the throne (Boromir), then cruelly faked a suicide of the ruler itself. The only "witnesses" were his goons, together with an officer of the guard who was reported to be shocked and behaving weirdly -- the officer was also rewarded but sent to the most remote place available just after the deed, too.
I don't want Linux be regarded to as an "usurper" and a system of dubious legitimacy.
In most other fields, coming up with something patent-worthy is a matter of five years of research. On the other hand, most software patents are on the level with things a non-drone programmer invents several times per day. Sure, there is a good chunk of insight involved, but if you can implement your idea in half an hour as opposed to years, patenting these is simply a murder on the idea for everyone else.
Hmm... just found this on WikiQuote: "The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying." -- John Carmack So obviously he already got burned by patents on at least one occasion.
The gov wanted a copy for forensics purposes, not to have the newest copy of all databases. Doing a dd of a live system would result in simply having to replay a piece of the fs journal, possibly losing a bit of data from the last few minutes.
You see, you can't really expect Ubuntu developers to be among the modem-using crowd. They are the kind of people for whom available ISPs can be a factor when buying/renting a home. I still remember the day when I finally got rid of a modem.
You don't really notice an itch that doesn't personally affect you or users savvy enough to send a bug report.
How the hell can you patent the ability to charge money in exchange for services!
Surely thats equivelent to patenting capitalism! ... "on the internet".
For the USPTO, that's a difference big enough.
Many millions of Debian users will get their FireFox packages as a.deb, this counts as a single download. There is quite a bunch of Gentooites, RedHatters, Susians, Fedora-wearing folk and so on...
On the other hand, aware Windows users will re-download FireFox every time that icon in upper right corner of the browser flashes.
Just as you say, the download count is simply useless.
Don't worry. With a huge corporation doing everything they can to support Firefox, how can it fail? The day MS changes its tactics I may start to worry.
Exactly. Banning free hosting or requiring registration won't accomplish anything. Of course, this fact won't stop the politicians from throwing another rock against free speech.
The thing is, on Win{16,32,64}, there is no way to delete or replace a file when the file is open by any process. Same applies to executables when any instance of them is running.
In the Unix world, deleting a file simply unlinks it from the directory it is in. It won't be actually deleted until no process needs it anymore; however, you are free to replace the file with a new version.
It is something which could be added to Windows without breaking compatibility. It's a kernel-level change that doesn't need any user-space changes at all. Fixing this would make it possible to replace drivers and running programs just fine.
Of course, you still will be unable to restart certain vital systems without a reboot, the monolithic design of Win32 and the GUI-is-everything principle bog them down.
Why would they care about timezones? All they know about is time(). Things like cron just know how to deal with time() suddenly going back or forth an hour. From man cron:
Special considerations exist when the clock is changed by less than 3 hours, for example at the beginning and end
of daylight savings time. If the time has moved forwards, those jobs which would have run in the time that was
skipped will be run soon after the change. Conversely, if the time has moved backwards by less than 3 hours,
those jobs that fall into the repeated time will not be re-run.
Clock changes of more than 3 hours are considered to be corrections to the clock, and the new time is used immediately.
Rebooting servers for any reason other than a kernel upgrade and/or {failover,backup} testing is pure Windowsizm and unnecessary downtime.
Right. Instead of missing your deadlines, you can give yourself some safety space. Like, Chessmaster 2000 was released in 1986, 3000 in 1991. The latest dated version is 9000 -- this means, they still have 7995 years until their next deadline. I believe they have a fair chance of making it.
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Wrong. Having the community work together doesn't really help here -- IBM cannot use its patents to attack any possible foes due to agreements and mutual assured destruction.
What I prefer, is no ads at all.
I personally consider ads to be exactly in the same bucket as e-mail spam, and act accordingly. Thanks to three layers of defense (DNS, squid+adzapper, Adblock), I probably don't exist for Claria, GoogleSyndication, DoubleClick and any other sleazy advertisers.
If I want to find a product, I can search for it. Until then, you are better off staying away from my life.
Solution: put the tickets revenue into a separate money pool, one the police nor city doesn't revenue from.
Right, he's "protecting" the Shire. Just like a number of "businessmen" do, and somehow they get considered to be shady people, go figure :p
This probably explains the 3nm to 5nm nanowires it excretes while working.
So... the next generation of electronics is going to be made of shit?
Hmm... wasn't that 30 1.7MB floppies?
Uhm, it's a bad comparison. It doesn't take a lot of reading between the lines to see that Aragorn became the "rightful ruler" by murdering all opposition. I wouldn't trust a pretender who most likely murdered the heir to the throne (Boromir), then cruelly faked a suicide of the ruler itself. The only "witnesses" were his goons, together with an officer of the guard who was reported to be shocked and behaving weirdly -- the officer was also rewarded but sent to the most remote place available just after the deed, too.
I don't want Linux be regarded to as an "usurper" and a system of dubious legitimacy.
In most other fields, coming up with something patent-worthy is a matter of five years of research.
On the other hand, most software patents are on the level with things a non-drone programmer invents several times per day. Sure, there is a good chunk of insight involved, but if you can implement your idea in half an hour as opposed to years, patenting these is simply a murder on the idea for everyone else.
Hmm... just found this on WikiQuote:
"The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying." -- John Carmack
So obviously he already got burned by patents on at least one occasion.
The hardest part is to learn what you need to know and be lucky enough to have it non-patented.
I'm talking about what was provided, not what was requested.
Downtime? What downtime?
The gov wanted a copy for forensics purposes, not to have the newest copy of all databases. Doing a dd of a live system would result in simply having to replay a piece of the fs journal, possibly losing a bit of data from the last few minutes.
If Google gets sued (by China??) then who gets the 7 years in prison??
Everyone who dares to say anything bad about the Chinese government.
You see, you can't really expect Ubuntu developers to be among the modem-using crowd. They are the kind of people for whom available ISPs can be a factor when buying/renting a home.
I still remember the day when I finally got rid of a modem.
You don't really notice an itch that doesn't personally affect you or users savvy enough to send a bug report.
How the hell can you patent the ability to charge money in exchange for services!
... "on the internet".
Surely thats equivelent to patenting capitalism!
For the USPTO, that's a difference big enough.
Many millions of Debian users will get their FireFox packages as a .deb, this counts as a single download.
There is quite a bunch of Gentooites, RedHatters, Susians, Fedora-wearing folk and so on...
On the other hand, aware Windows users will re-download FireFox every time that icon in upper right corner of the browser flashes.
Just as you say, the download count is simply useless.
Don't worry.
With a huge corporation doing everything they can to support Firefox, how can it fail?
The day MS changes its tactics I may start to worry.
Exactly.
Banning free hosting or requiring registration won't accomplish anything. Of course, this fact won't stop the politicians from throwing another rock against free speech.
apt-able IE? That's scary.
The thing is, on Win{16,32,64}, there is no way to delete or replace a file when the file is open by any process. Same applies to executables when any instance of them is running.
In the Unix world, deleting a file simply unlinks it from the directory it is in. It won't be actually deleted until no process needs it anymore; however, you are free to replace the file with a new version.
It is something which could be added to Windows without breaking compatibility. It's a kernel-level change that doesn't need any user-space changes at all. Fixing this would make it possible to replace drivers and running programs just fine.
Of course, you still will be unable to restart certain vital systems without a reboot, the monolithic design of Win32 and the GUI-is-everything principle bog them down.
Special considerations exist when the clock is changed by less than 3 hours, for example at the beginning and end of daylight savings time. If the time has moved forwards, those jobs which would have run in the time that was skipped will be run soon after the change. Conversely, if the time has moved backwards by less than 3 hours, those jobs that fall into the repeated time will not be re-run.
Clock changes of more than 3 hours are considered to be corrections to the clock, and the new time is used immediately.
Rebooting servers for any reason other than a kernel upgrade and/or {failover,backup} testing is pure Windowsizm and unnecessary downtime.
And in related news, astalavista.box.sk will be sued for a trademark breach.
(I know, I know, they're 11 years old. But MS is bigger.)
A major pirate release of NT4 used this splash screen.
Right. Instead of missing your deadlines, you can give yourself some safety space.
Like, Chessmaster 2000 was released in 1986, 3000 in 1991. The latest dated version is 9000 -- this means, they still have 7995 years until their next deadline. I believe they have a fair chance of making it.
Why? What's wrong with them?
Oh wait... you're talking about using them in clear text instead of over ssh tunnels.