Re:I'd love to see the reaction from the /. commun
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Netscape 8 Breaks IE XML
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I can already tell you the argument in that case:
Netscape breaks IE: They both use the same rendering engine. It was an honest mistake.
IE breaks Firefox: MS did it on purpose because they were losing marketshare.
...or maybe you end up with a group of people who just keep overwriting each other with aimless direction. Just imagine a stadium full of people trying to decide where to eat lunch. Wouldn't be pretty.
Do you think this would play friendly with music. Say there's a section of the movie that I found interesting musically, do you think they'd let me sample it for free if I agreed to release it under creative commons?
I am in agreement that the rules should be changed, and I like the UK's approach (sounds better than what we have here now), and I even agree that if they broke the rules they should be penalized, they should have the particular patent revoked and even a fine, maybe even in certain extreme cases, a probation period where they can't file new patents. But these are all scenarios that should happen IF they broke the rules. In this case they didn't, they played the USPTO's game and they play it well. Which is why I think the patent office is at fault and needs major change, so behavior like this is not encouraged and these shenanigans wont happen.
Um...don't you think that's just a little bit too harsh? While I don't agree with the patent at all, and I don't like a lot of Microsoft's tactics, I can't blame them for trying. In this case the fault is the patent office (as is with most bad patents issued). Microsoft simply saw an opportunity and tried to take it, they just happened to succeed. The patent office needs to come up with a better review process, because there's blatant prior art in this case. There was a suggestion that I've seen on/. before that said, there should be a challenge period, where patent applications become public for a period of time where anyone that can prove prior art can submit to the patent office to have a submission like this halted. It may take more time to get the patents out, but that's what the pending period is for. What Microsoft is doing here is a bit shady, but that's only because the PTO let's it happen, which has got to change. Now on the subject of the dummy companies, that is the fault of the corporations creating them, and they should be penalized for that.
I personally see no downside to this, it's only 5 dollars a month, which is cheaper than the TiVo monthly fee, and that money will go right back into making the product even better, plus the 5 bucks returns a more professional scheduling service for the end user. So I see it as a win-win situation.
I personally think it's better to help further technology by making diamonds more accesible, than to keep up the value of a pretty decoration on someone's finger.
You don't actually expect me to give up my social security, driver's license, or any other personal number to google just so I can vote on whether a site is good or not. I like google, they have a good service, but I don't like them enough to give up that info just to move a website up 3 spots in rank.
When people advertise that their application has had so many downloads, many people assume that that number equals the number of users
If people assume, that is their own fault. The number that Firefox gives is number of downloads, nothing more, nothing less. Downloads is the only number they should give to the public. They don't know how many unique users are downloading the program. They don't take personal information (and if they did, people would question why they need that info for a free, open source browser. Especially us tin foilers here at slashdot), therefore, they can't give out exact user numbers, they best they could do is estimate. Downloads is the perfect statistic for them; It's honest, a great representation of how well their program has caught on, it's an impressive number, and it does show a good deal of "user confidence". Even if every person downloaded 10 copies of it, that's still 8 million people who trust it, enjoy it, use it frequently enough that they stay updated with every upgrade, put it on every computer they use regularly, and probably tell their friends/family/colleagues about, which is a grand vote of confidence in my book. Misinterpretation of the number is the fault of the (potential) user, all Mozilla/Firefox is doing is giving out the facts.
Do they have older videos available? I'm not that interested in a lot of newer, higher profile artists, but if I can find some old videos that I loved from about 5+ years back, it might convince me to actually give iTunes a try. Second, how much do these videos cost to buy, and how much do the record labels get out of this, I need to know how much disgust I need to have for myself when I start giving the RIAA and their companies my money. (oh the dilemnas)
I don't think the console manufacturers want custom cases, cause I don't think they want the consumer to get that close to the innards of their machines. We all know how paranoid they are about people mod chipping their boxes and letting people play "backup" copies of the games.
I personally think that it's Microsoft trying to copy that Apple look, but they didn't get it right, and that's what makes it ugly to me. I'm not even an apple zealot, I don't own a single Apple product. It just doesn't have the same sexiness in design that Apple has.
They can be both epic and have great stories, probably just have to toss in a little imagination. The stories deal with morality, world issues, life and loss, and of course a little love and hate, and just about anything else you can think of. It's not all simply guys in tights shooting laserbeams. They can be deep tales just told in boxes and bubbles. As a guy who spent a good deal of my youth lost in them, I can tell you they can be quite exciting...and if all else fails, you get to look at the pretty pictures.
Re:"Nationwide"? For what values of 'nation'?
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Re:There Can Be More Than One
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If they can improve on what Microsoft is doing (as shown with the search engine) it may be a welcome invasion. I personally have no problem with better.
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I can already tell you the argument in that case:
Netscape breaks IE: They both use the same rendering engine. It was an honest mistake.
IE breaks Firefox: MS did it on purpose because they were losing marketshare.
The people may not be American, but their movies are.
I'm sure NVidia will be happy to jack up the prices of the 6800's once this mod becomes widely known.
or when they start shipping it with the mod unlocked themselves.
If they sue the bittorrent engine shouldn't they sue google since you can always use the 'filetype:torrent' search in the google engine?
...or maybe you end up with a group of people who just keep overwriting each other with aimless direction. Just imagine a stadium full of people trying to decide where to eat lunch. Wouldn't be pretty.
Do you think this would play friendly with music. Say there's a section of the movie that I found interesting musically, do you think they'd let me sample it for free if I agreed to release it under creative commons?
I bet it has something to do with a penguin!
Who says they haven't? But perhaps they weren't taken seriously, look at how 'seriously' they're being taken here.
Did they also award the Atari 2600 version as "Worst arcade to home console conversion ever!"?
I am in agreement that the rules should be changed, and I like the UK's approach (sounds better than what we have here now), and I even agree that if they broke the rules they should be penalized, they should have the particular patent revoked and even a fine, maybe even in certain extreme cases, a probation period where they can't file new patents. But these are all scenarios that should happen IF they broke the rules. In this case they didn't, they played the USPTO's game and they play it well. Which is why I think the patent office is at fault and needs major change, so behavior like this is not encouraged and these shenanigans wont happen.
Um...don't you think that's just a little bit too harsh? While I don't agree with the patent at all, and I don't like a lot of Microsoft's tactics, I can't blame them for trying. In this case the fault is the patent office (as is with most bad patents issued). Microsoft simply saw an opportunity and tried to take it, they just happened to succeed. The patent office needs to come up with a better review process, because there's blatant prior art in this case. There was a suggestion that I've seen on /. before that said, there should be a challenge period, where patent applications become public for a period of time where anyone that can prove prior art can submit to the patent office to have a submission like this halted. It may take more time to get the patents out, but that's what the pending period is for. What Microsoft is doing here is a bit shady, but that's only because the PTO let's it happen, which has got to change. Now on the subject of the dummy companies, that is the fault of the corporations creating them, and they should be penalized for that.
and it runs on linux!
I personally see no downside to this, it's only 5 dollars a month, which is cheaper than the TiVo monthly fee, and that money will go right back into making the product even better, plus the 5 bucks returns a more professional scheduling service for the end user. So I see it as a win-win situation.
I personally think it's better to help further technology by making diamonds more accesible, than to keep up the value of a pretty decoration on someone's finger.
It's the average ticket price over the life of the movies.
You don't actually expect me to give up my social security, driver's license, or any other personal number to google just so I can vote on whether a site is good or not. I like google, they have a good service, but I don't like them enough to give up that info just to move a website up 3 spots in rank.
When people advertise that their application has had so many downloads, many people assume that that number equals the number of users
If people assume, that is their own fault. The number that Firefox gives is number of downloads, nothing more, nothing less. Downloads is the only number they should give to the public. They don't know how many unique users are downloading the program. They don't take personal information (and if they did, people would question why they need that info for a free, open source browser. Especially us tin foilers here at slashdot), therefore, they can't give out exact user numbers, they best they could do is estimate. Downloads is the perfect statistic for them; It's honest, a great representation of how well their program has caught on, it's an impressive number, and it does show a good deal of "user confidence". Even if every person downloaded 10 copies of it, that's still 8 million people who trust it, enjoy it, use it frequently enough that they stay updated with every upgrade, put it on every computer they use regularly, and probably tell their friends/family/colleagues about, which is a grand vote of confidence in my book. Misinterpretation of the number is the fault of the (potential) user, all Mozilla/Firefox is doing is giving out the facts.
Do they have older videos available? I'm not that interested in a lot of newer, higher profile artists, but if I can find some old videos that I loved from about 5+ years back, it might convince me to actually give iTunes a try. Second, how much do these videos cost to buy, and how much do the record labels get out of this, I need to know how much disgust I need to have for myself when I start giving the RIAA and their companies my money. (oh the dilemnas)
There's not much else in the article. It IS a story about leaked pictures.
I don't think the console manufacturers want custom cases, cause I don't think they want the consumer to get that close to the innards of their machines. We all know how paranoid they are about people mod chipping their boxes and letting people play "backup" copies of the games.
I personally think that it's Microsoft trying to copy that Apple look, but they didn't get it right, and that's what makes it ugly to me. I'm not even an apple zealot, I don't own a single Apple product. It just doesn't have the same sexiness in design that Apple has.
They can be both epic and have great stories, probably just have to toss in a little imagination. The stories deal with morality, world issues, life and loss, and of course a little love and hate, and just about anything else you can think of. It's not all simply guys in tights shooting laserbeams. They can be deep tales just told in boxes and bubbles. As a guy who spent a good deal of my youth lost in them, I can tell you they can be quite exciting...and if all else fails, you get to look at the pretty pictures.
Slashdot is US Centric it's in the FAQ.
If they can improve on what Microsoft is doing (as shown with the search engine) it may be a welcome invasion. I personally have no problem with better.
Competition is all well and good...when you're winning!