Maybe I misunderstood the original post but what I get from it is the following:
"This is old news. Acrobat Reader 7.0 has been available on the package manager of my LInux distribution for some time now"
Other people mentioned that it could be downloaded from FTP. FTP zealots?
But hey, I don't know any Gentoo users, maybe you have a better understanding of how their minds work than me
all he did was point out that it's been in portage for some time! How does that make him a zealot? If somebody mentioned that the fedora rpm has been around for a while, would that make him/her a fedora zealot?
Well I guess I shouldn't point out something like that around here. Writing Microsoft without a $ sign or some mispelling makes you a troll, having a mac makes you a fanboy, well why not mentioninng portage makes you a zealot.
I think that you've missed the point. I chose the teleporter example as an exaggeration to press a point.
The system would not be abused by patenting the teleporter or just any other 'invention' from a scifi book but it can be dangerous if you could 'smell' an upcoming invention and patent it eventhough you don't really know how to do it.
For example here, does sony really know how to implment those patents? do they have the know how or did they just think oh that's where we think the short future of gaming is going. Let's patent it now and we'll see if we can implment it later. If someone else beats us to actually knowing how to do it then great, we'll still get paid.
Can someone enlighten me please.
How detailed, exact and 'can be done with the current technology'a patent claim has to be in order to get granted? I mean they can't implement these patents now, can they?
Can I just take say the teleporter and describe it as a commuting device that works by transforming matter into energy, beaming it and retransforming it back to get a patent for it?
well, you could argue that posting on the web is some form of broadcasting. After all it means transmitting something to the public. In any case you can't blame GP for pointing out that it was the TV version. Otherwise how would you distinguish it from the website?
There's alwasy some pricks trying to ruin the web for everyone else.
I hate pop-ups and floaters as much as the next guy but c'mon, you're on their website! It's not like they're sticking their ads on every website you visit withotut he site's approval. If you don't like their business model, do not visit the sites. simple.
regardless of the doubtful value of using NTFS that's what you're most likely to find if you sit on an NT, win2k or XP machine.
This compatibility was achieved in the Wine way by using the original Microsoft Windows ntfs.sys driver. It emulates the required subsystems of the Microsoft Windows kernel by reusing one of the original ntoskrnl.exe
The above quotation is from captive website. Does that mean that there is an original copy of ntfs.sys and ntoskernel.exe shipped with it?
Slashdot Mirror
That was funny the first time we heard about it. Now I think the joke is being overused. Kina like a slashdot meme.
Humour
definition of spellcheck
Spellcheck actually means using a computerised spellchecker.
my grandparent's postis flamebait? C'mon!
Could you please point me to the spellchecker that would correct sing to sign based on the context?
sounds more like 'the cereal in the milk'
Don't know about the rest of the world but we don't have to take systems down to backup them here.
"This is old news. Acrobat Reader 7.0 has been available on the package manager of my LInux distribution for some time now"
Other people mentioned that it could be downloaded from FTP. FTP zealots?
But hey, I don't know any Gentoo users, maybe you have a better understanding of how their minds work than me
Well I guess I shouldn't point out something like that around here. Writing Microsoft without a $ sign or some mispelling makes you a troll, having a mac makes you a fanboy, well why not mentioninng portage makes you a zealot.
very true. I only realised it after clicking submit. please read above "version 5 didn't count". :)
Thanks for the correction
How is this making a start? Acrobat reader 6 didn't count?
error 666 god is unavailable to reply to messages at the moment as heaven's 2003 server is being rebooted.
actually the politically correct term is 'vertically challenged'
I think that you've missed the point. I chose the teleporter example as an exaggeration to press a point.
The system would not be abused by patenting the teleporter or just any other 'invention' from a scifi book but it can be dangerous if you could 'smell' an upcoming invention and patent it eventhough you don't really know how to do it.
For example here, does sony really know how to implment those patents? do they have the know how or did they just think oh that's where we think the short future of gaming is going. Let's patent it now and we'll see if we can implment it later. If someone else beats us to actually knowing how to do it then great, we'll still get paid.
Can someone enlighten me please.
How detailed, exact and 'can be done with the current technology'a patent claim has to be in order to get granted? I mean they can't implement these patents now, can they?
Can I just take say the teleporter and describe it as a commuting device that works by transforming matter into energy, beaming it and retransforming it back to get a patent for it?
why is that? Did it try to escape or something?
especially when we already know the answer it's looking for. 42
inflatable dolls!
so only one candidate to vote off and we're left with the winner?
I think whoever can solve any of those problems can licence the invention for a lot more money! Or is this the new form of OSS (Open Source Science)
as if I didn't hate my workplace enough already.
well, you could argue that posting on the web is some form of broadcasting. After all it means transmitting something to the public. In any case you can't blame GP for pointing out that it was the TV version. Otherwise how would you distinguish it from the website?
I hate pop-ups and floaters as much as the next guy but c'mon, you're on their website! It's not like they're sticking their ads on every website you visit withotut he site's approval. If you don't like their business model, do not visit the sites. simple.
You need to play strings to use yahoo bookmarks?
Gosh those EULAs are getting restrictive!
This compatibility was achieved in the Wine way by using the original Microsoft Windows ntfs.sys driver. It emulates the required subsystems of the Microsoft Windows kernel by reusing one of the original ntoskrnl.exe
The above quotation is from captive website. Does that mean that there is an original copy of ntfs.sys and ntoskernel.exe shipped with it?
don't you mean:
1- Sell a crappy OS
2- Sell People the ability to protect themsevles from it
3- Profit
?