Alright, but how do you expect a software developer to support such an old configuration? Can you even buy a copy of Windows 95 these days, and will it run on modern hardware?
I can explain further. Basically personal experience is worthless when trying to see a bigger picture. That's why one guy will say "country A is still an M$ stronghold" while some other guy will say "country A is very open to Linux". They work for different companies, with different business partners and different mindsets.
I think the basic idea of web 2.0 is getting other people to create your website for free. You then make a fortune from advertising or by charging for "advanced features."
I'm so old that I read "older" as a comparison, and wonder "older than who?", instead of as a synonym for "elderly" as the user apparently intends most of the time.
They can hardly go after everybody who criticises a politician, they would have to arrest most of the population eventually. Perhaps whistleblowers are the real target.
Your first two points seem valid, but the article says "Forchione filed a felony criminal charge of disrupting public services against Michael W. Stone", and near the end "Police took Stone to the Stark County Jail", which implies that he was arrested, although not necessarily "currently being held in jail".
For the USA, these days, the war is never over. But a new model of jet fighter is hardly likely to make a big impact agaist drugs, or terror, or whatever it will be next year.
The idea that our brains are wired for religion seems improbable. I certainly don't have any religious inclinations myself.
However wired for culture seems plausible, and religion is just an instance of culture. From Timothy Taylor's essay:
The underdeveloped brains of hominin infants were culture-prone, and in this sense, I do not dissent from Dan Sperber's dangerous idea that 'culture is natural'. But human culture, unlike the basic culture of learned routines and tool-using observed in various mammals, is a system of signs -- essentially the association of words with things and the ascription and recognition of value in relation to this.
The license terms say that the material is only provided for use within the UK. So as far as I can see, they aren't giving you permission to put the original/remixed material on a globally accessible website.
This certainly kills any enthusiasm that I might have had for doing anything with it.
At least in the UK, where there seems to be a general phobia about residential buildings with more than four floors, and perhaps a phobia about new buildings in general.
About all you can expect is more efficient use of existing space for the growing population.
One possibility would be using the "Bluetooth" trademark without permission. But as far as I know, that would only apply when selling something (i.e., a non-commercial list is no more illegal than this Slashdot posting.)
I'd like to know what the real story is about "file system redirectors". Does Microsoft support and document this technique of adding new file system protocols to Windows?
A statement directly from the microsoft web site (on a page which confounds direct linking):
Common Internet File System
The Common Internet File System (CIFS) is the standard way that computer users share files across corporate intranets and the Internet. An enhanced version of the Microsoft open, cross-platform Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, CIFS is a native file-sharing protocol in Windows 2000.
thus claiming that SMB and CIFS are the native Windows file sharing protocols, and are "open".
So surely server vendors would want to be using these protocols when supporting Windows, and make use of the client-side networking stack that the desktop users have already paid for.
But what is this missing documentation that the EU is now requesting, if Microsoft say it's already open and standard?
The complaint here was not that Microsoft has a monopoly in the server market, but that they are using their near-monopoly in the desktop market to give their server business a boost over its competitors.
The competitors are naturally disadvantaged because they don't have the inside knowledge into the protocols supported by Windows on the desktop. They have to waste time and/or money on reverse engineering.
Many of these countries have either joined the EU or are trying to join. Their brightest IT/programmer types are then just as likely to move west, for jobs with western salaries, then to stay in their home countries.
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I can only assume that not enough moderator points have been allocated to cover them all.
Alright, but how do you expect a software developer to support such an old configuration? Can you even buy a copy of Windows 95 these days, and will it run on modern hardware?
In theory I could trace my ancestory back to Mitochondrial Eve, although with a few gaps here and there.
Even if it's illegal to ask about religion, it's surely not illegal to ask a leading qestion about interests outside of work.
There are at least 159 others that have been overlooked.
I can explain further. Basically personal experience is worthless when trying to see a bigger picture. That's why one guy will say "country A is still an M$ stronghold" while some other guy will say "country A is very open to Linux". They work for different companies, with different business partners and different mindsets.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the world.
Normally it would be called something like "loss leader" or "marketing freebie", not "trojan horse".
I think the basic idea of web 2.0 is getting other people to create your website for free. You then make a fortune from advertising or by charging for "advanced features."
Also, pages that take ages to load, like more than 50 milliseconds. Links from Slashdot articles invariably fail this test.
I'm so old that I read "older" as a comparison, and wonder "older than who?", instead of as a synonym for "elderly" as the user apparently intends most of the time.
They can hardly go after everybody who criticises a politician, they would have to arrest most of the population eventually. Perhaps whistleblowers are the real target.
Your first two points seem valid, but the article says "Forchione filed a felony criminal charge of disrupting public services against Michael W. Stone", and near the end "Police took Stone to the Stark County Jail", which implies that he was arrested, although not necessarily "currently being held in jail".
I'm not sure, how many Slashdot users are respectable anyway?
For the USA, these days, the war is never over. But a new model of jet fighter is hardly likely to make a big impact agaist drugs, or terror, or whatever it will be next year.
However wired for culture seems plausible, and religion is just an instance of culture. From Timothy Taylor's essay:
The underdeveloped brains of hominin infants were culture-prone, and in this sense, I do not dissent from Dan Sperber's dangerous idea that 'culture is natural'. But human culture, unlike the basic culture of learned routines and tool-using observed in various mammals, is a system of signs -- essentially the association of words with things and the ascription and recognition of value in relation to this.
So you see it as a compliment that he views Slashdot as a malicious "hacker" site?
This certainly kills any enthusiasm that I might have had for doing anything with it.
About all you can expect is more efficient use of existing space for the growing population.
Society is getting better in the long run? I'm not convinced.
Personally, I would not like this kind of Big Brother-style surveillance, and I wouldn't impose it on children.
One possibility would be using the "Bluetooth" trademark without permission. But as far as I know, that would only apply when selling something (i.e., a non-commercial list is no more illegal than this Slashdot posting.)
A statement directly from the microsoft web site (on a page which confounds direct linking):
Common Internet File System
The Common Internet File System (CIFS) is the standard way that computer users share files across corporate intranets and the Internet. An enhanced version of the Microsoft open, cross-platform Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, CIFS is a native file-sharing protocol in Windows 2000.
thus claiming that SMB and CIFS are the native Windows file sharing protocols, and are "open".
So surely server vendors would want to be using these protocols when supporting Windows, and make use of the client-side networking stack that the desktop users have already paid for.
But what is this missing documentation that the EU is now requesting, if Microsoft say it's already open and standard?
The competitors are naturally disadvantaged because they don't have the inside knowledge into the protocols supported by Windows on the desktop. They have to waste time and/or money on reverse engineering.
Many of these countries have either joined the EU or are trying to join. Their brightest IT/programmer types are then just as likely to move west, for jobs with western salaries, then to stay in their home countries.