Nice to know you don't see the point of mentioning that Florida has less restrictions on an item designed to injure, if not kill, than it does on second hand music.
Whether or not Verizon should or shouldn't have the patent will have no bearing on the appeal process. The most Vonage could do with that is get a stay while the patent office reviews the patent; the court itself cannot throw the patent out, and MUST enforce it if the patent office says it's valid.
Yeah, the XBox360 and the PS3 (and the PS2) have USB ports. Yeah, they support USB keyboards and mice.
But that doesn't mean jack if the developer doesn't put support for them in the game.
I know, my mind is still boggling over the sheer idiocy of RFC 3514. I mean, honestly, do you REALLY believe hackers are going to mark their packets as malicious?
I'm not going to argue about how different WinXP is from Win2K. But the fact is that the WinXP kernel is an evolution of the Win2K kernel, just like the 2.6 kernel is an evolution of the 2.4 kernel. But the NT kernel isn't derived from Win9x at all, making your analogy flawed. Saying that Win9x is related to Win2K is like saying Linux is related to Unix; the look alike, and they function similarly, but were developed separately.
Just because a patch is ready for download, doesn't mean that you have to install it. You can make it your company's policy to update only on the 10th of every month for example.
I'd think that any corporation that relies on Windows with an IT department worth their paychecks would be running a WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) server; that way, NO updates will install until AFTER you've approved them. Not to mention the fact that it'll make the clients pull the updates from an internal server, saving massive amounts of external bandwidth. Throw in the ability to remotely track clients to make sure that they're staying up to date, and you'd have to be an idiot to NOT run it.
Switching from 9x to NT is more akin to switching from OS/2 to Linux than a switching from 2.4 to 2.6, considering that the NT kernel was in no way derived from 9x.
Let me fix that for you:
What your describing is more along the lines of upgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows XP.
All of the services mentioned in the story are OPTIONAL.
And one of these days, people are going to get so hooked on telegraphs^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htext-messaging that they'll offer a plan where voice is optional, too...
The usual coercion and strong-arm tactics should do the trick. Nice try, troll. If the drivers are distributed as source code, the user needs to compile it before using it. How can you stop corporations from doing just that and keeping the source to themselves?
It's not a matter of "strong-arm tactics". It's a matter of technical abilities. The ONLY way they would EVER be able to force open-source drivers is if they force you to compile the driver EVERY TIME YOU INSTALL IT.
If you want to pull an anti-M$ troll, at least ATTEMPT to be realistic about it.
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And yet, not only did he spell it right in the rest of the paragraph, he got the Wikipedia link right.
It was a typo.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=26315&cid=2850 660
...becaust the Internet is unreliable.
Have a nice day.
Nice to know you don't see the point of mentioning that Florida has less restrictions on an item designed to injure, if not kill, than it does on second hand music.
Whether or not Verizon should or shouldn't have the patent will have no bearing on the appeal process. The most Vonage could do with that is get a stay while the patent office reviews the patent; the court itself cannot throw the patent out, and MUST enforce it if the patent office says it's valid.
Yeah, the XBox360 and the PS3 (and the PS2) have USB ports. Yeah, they support USB keyboards and mice. But that doesn't mean jack if the developer doesn't put support for them in the game.
No you may not.
Perhaps, but it's one that's been repeated enough without justification that people have actually started to simply believe it.
The 9x "kernel" has a name: MS-DOS. NT is not based off of DOS, therefore the NT kernel is not related to 9x.
And didn't I say I wasn't going to argue about XP-vs-2K? You're arguing with yourself, there...
We're talking about porn sites and the man says penetration, how is THAT off-topic?
Hehe... you said penetration... hehe...
I know, my mind is still boggling over the sheer idiocy of RFC 3514. I mean, honestly, do you REALLY believe hackers are going to mark their packets as malicious?
I'm not going to argue about how different WinXP is from Win2K. But the fact is that the WinXP kernel is an evolution of the Win2K kernel, just like the 2.6 kernel is an evolution of the 2.4 kernel. But the NT kernel isn't derived from Win9x at all, making your analogy flawed. Saying that Win9x is related to Win2K is like saying Linux is related to Unix; the look alike, and they function similarly, but were developed separately.
Switching from 9x to NT is more akin to switching from OS/2 to Linux than a switching from 2.4 to 2.6, considering that the NT kernel was in no way derived from 9x.
Let me fix that for you:
What your describing is more along the lines of upgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows XP.
So there's no question that there are tools involved, then?
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...that a law that's a blatantly ignores people's rights would be blatantly ignored?
Good ol' 45th Space Wing...
...at least they aren't claiming Intel did it on purpose. I would hate to see AMD turn into the next SCO.
It's not a matter of "strong-arm tactics". It's a matter of technical abilities. The ONLY way they would EVER be able to force open-source drivers is if they force you to compile the driver EVERY TIME YOU INSTALL IT.
If you want to pull an anti-M$ troll, at least ATTEMPT to be realistic about it.
Touché.