You must have forgot to read number one in my previous post. Please re-read that. Just because damage may not be done yet, doesn't mean it will not be done in the future. Now is the proper time to work this out in court, and to stand by their trademark if they're ever going to do it.
And if anything, more people searching for Tiger or derivatives will lead to more people coming to Tiger Direct (someone I had never heard of before today).
You may be right here.:) It could go either way really. I've actually heard of them before, but never bought from them.
It's not stealing of words, it's possible loss of business, and if you read something about trademark law you'd know that trademarks are usually industry based. Since Tiger Direct could arguably be in the same industry as Apple, they may have a legitimate claim that damage will be done. If they lose search engine placement to other stores selling Mac OS Tiger, or to Apple itself, then they are being damaged.
I'm not taking sides, but this claim is understandable.
1) Mac OS Tiger will become much more prevalent in the search results after release.
2) Searching for 'tiger' alone isn't going to prove much. A better example might be 'tiger software'. Or other combinations of words that Apple might steal from them. I think you can definitely expect to see Apple creeping up in the searching rankings, and causing problems from Tiger Direct as many of their search keywords are the same.
This is going to sound a tad trollish, but I'm not intending it to be.
I've watched those classics, and they suck.:) Maybe if you're a girl, over 50, gay, or an English/Art major they might be good. I think those movies are called classics, because society has carried on a nostalgia about them.
That said, there are plenty of gorey/violent/explicit movies these days that suck. I think this problem is working itself out as people become desensitized to the explicit material, and realize they need a good story as well. I say let the artist create what they want. Time will tell whether the movie is worth a damn or not.
Typical AC just typing to see your words on the screen, and not man enough to own up to them by signing in.
Agreed. If I had mod points I'd mod you up, mostly for your Due Process comments. You're also entitled to your opinion of the GPL, and I congratulate you for standing up and saying something about it.
Basically I'm saying, +1 Insightful to you, and -1 Troll to AC.
Boy, I'll bet you wish you hadn't missed your slashdot dose yesterday. Nothing like posting, and then realizing you're an ass for not getting the joke yourself.:)
But because ATI now supplies the GPU, there has been speculation that the Xbox2 will not be backwards compatible.
You sure about that? I would imagine that MS would have an API accessing the graphics components, and that they would just need to change the back-end of the API. It seems far more likely that the backwards compatability problem will come from using a PowerPC chip which uses different machine code than an x86 chip, and would require all games to be recompiled/changed. NOTE: I have not read anything on this subject.
Of course, the effectiveness of a trained machine is limited by how big a computer you have, and how well you train it.
I think that says it all about this. There's no way he can train for 50 students papers from just a paper he writes. Until we can see really accurate computer translations of languages, I don't trust this kind of software. (And don't tell me the translate deals on the web are good, because they miss out on a lot of stuff.) Here's my idea of how his program grades the papers:
srand; my $grade = rand(100); print "Your grade is: $grade \%.\n";
Either that or
# $number_of_keywords_stuff done here. srand; my $grade = 50 + rand($number_of_keywords_found); print "Your grade is: $grade \%.\n";
:) I'd rather see the prof get some grad students working on the papers. Although some would argue that the code I wrote above might be more accurate.;)
I agree. Honestly, I'd like to see everyone just use GMT, with no modifications. That way we don't have to deal with all the time zones, and when an event is advertised as being at 3:00pm, you don't have to calculate what time zone it is in, whether the person has daylight savings time or not, and whether the moon is in the 5th phase of the Zinonian Calendar. (Ok, so it isn't that bad.;)) I have a feeling most people wouldn't be able to handle the "difficult" calculation of how long they work when they go to work at 23:00 and end at 07:00.
People are willing to donate money to protect a GPL author, but heaven forbid they pay for anything they're pirating on Bittorrent. You guys are such hypocrites!
I'll make sure to pirate John Carmack's next game because you guys say it's okay to do so.
1) Commercial software company moves to GPL license
2) Commercial software company sues themself over the move and then asks for donations to support the case.
3) PROFIT!
Congratulations, you just found out the middle step!
Agreed. These things are over 20 years old, and operating off an old design. You can't tell me that we can't do better after 20 years. Heck, they even started on new designs, and didn't finish up on them. Why keep wasting money like this?
DOS was rock solid and stable, and I loved every minute of it. However, I sure as hell can get a lot more done in Windows XP than in DOS.
Perhaps NASA just plans on waiting for the private space companies to take over their deliveries to space. They'll just keep eating the free donuts until then.:)
Sure, you might not be able to notice this on 4k, but when you have 100 megs trying to swap back into memory, you definitely notice the program pausing/freezing for a LONG time while the memory is restored to RAM.
Something like Linux's swappiness parameter in Windows would be great for me. (I have 2 gigs of ram.) I can pretty much guarantee that most of the data in my 1.5 gigs of system cache is useless. I would much rather have no swapping, and reduce the size of that, and my available memory.
They can leave Hoshi, T'Pol, and the weapons/armor dude.(Reed?) I'm not too fond of the rest of the acting, though. The worst is the captains. In all fairness, maybe it's just the story that's bad and the actors are screwed and doing the best they can.
The XP's teletubby user interface is much more sluggish than 2000Pro's.
Have you tried:
1) Windows Key-Break (or right click 'my computer', and select 'properties')
2) Click Advanced Tab
3) Click the first 'Settings' button. (Under Performance.)
4) On the Visual Effects tab, click custom, and uncheck every box.
5) Click OK a couple of times.
You should now be using the Windows 2000 look. If you're start menu is still using the "XP" style, then right click on your start button and go to properties. Select the start menu tab, and select 'classic start menu'.
I was going to make this exact point myself as soon as I saw the words CSV/HTML/URLs. Most of these are things you should be doing with a proper module that parses the data.
They could of course be useful for simple jobs, but on the whole, you'd be a lot smarter to future proof your work, and do it the right way the first time.
I think professors should be called in to teach you about black holes.
Which one?:) Aren't there a few different theories about black holes? Seems to me that something that warps space/time so drastically that it causes standard equations to get messed up is not something to tread on lightly.
Now, for my disclaimer so I don't get flamed too bad if I'm out of touch with research here.:) I am not a professor, black hole expert, relativity expert, physics expert, or yadda yadda. This was just my opinion based on my poor memory about black hole research I've read. If someone has more information on this, I'd be interested in hearing it.
I remember when viruses walked up monsterous hills trudging through 6 feet of snow while braving a blizzard just to burn up your motherboard! These new viruses have it so easy these days!;)
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You must have forgot to read number one in my previous post. Please re-read that. Just because damage may not be done yet, doesn't mean it will not be done in the future. Now is the proper time to work this out in court, and to stand by their trademark if they're ever going to do it.
:) It could go either way really. I've actually heard of them before, but never bought from them.
And if anything, more people searching for Tiger or derivatives will lead to more people coming to Tiger Direct (someone I had never heard of before today).
You may be right here.
It's not stealing of words, it's possible loss of business, and if you read something about trademark law you'd know that trademarks are usually industry based. Since Tiger Direct could arguably be in the same industry as Apple, they may have a legitimate claim that damage will be done. If they lose search engine placement to other stores selling Mac OS Tiger, or to Apple itself, then they are being damaged.
I'm not taking sides, but this claim is understandable.
Well a couple things you are forgetting here:
1) Mac OS Tiger will become much more prevalent in the search results after release.
2) Searching for 'tiger' alone isn't going to prove much. A better example might be 'tiger software'. Or other combinations of words that Apple might steal from them. I think you can definitely expect to see Apple creeping up in the searching rankings, and causing problems from Tiger Direct as many of their search keywords are the same.
This is going to sound a tad trollish, but I'm not intending it to be.
:) Maybe if you're a girl, over 50, gay, or an English/Art major they might be good. I think those movies are called classics, because society has carried on a nostalgia about them.
I've watched those classics, and they suck.
That said, there are plenty of gorey/violent/explicit movies these days that suck. I think this problem is working itself out as people become desensitized to the explicit material, and realize they need a good story as well. I say let the artist create what they want. Time will tell whether the movie is worth a damn or not.
You must be running on the Bongo Drum transport system. ;)
Yeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaa, I smell a bar brawl with ACs!! :)
-- Josh
Typical AC just typing to see your words on the screen, and not man enough to own up to them by signing in.
Agreed. If I had mod points I'd mod you up, mostly for your Due Process comments. You're also entitled to your opinion of the GPL, and I congratulate you for standing up and saying something about it.
Basically I'm saying, +1 Insightful to you, and -1 Troll to AC.
Boy, I'll bet you wish you hadn't missed your slashdot dose yesterday. Nothing like posting, and then realizing you're an ass for not getting the joke yourself. :)
But because ATI now supplies the GPU, there has been speculation that the Xbox2 will not be backwards compatible.
You sure about that? I would imagine that MS would have an API accessing the graphics components, and that they would just need to change the back-end of the API. It seems far more likely that the backwards compatability problem will come from using a PowerPC chip which uses different machine code than an x86 chip, and would require all games to be recompiled/changed. NOTE: I have not read anything on this subject.
LOL! That post was awesome!
Hey, I was a a part of that conversation on BG. ;) You can certainly tell who reads too much slashdot. :)
Actually, I think she's the one that requested the "alternative" treatment. The doctor recommended something entirely different.
Hmm, I didn't have any problem with this. I killed everyone, and everything was all good. :)
I think that says it all about this. There's no way he can train for 50 students papers from just a paper he writes. Until we can see really accurate computer translations of languages, I don't trust this kind of software. (And don't tell me the translate deals on the web are good, because they miss out on a lot of stuff.) Here's my idea of how his program grades the papers:
Either that or:) I'd rather see the prof get some grad students working on the papers. Although some would argue that the code I wrote above might be more accurate.
Yeah, agreed. There are definitely pros and cons to both methods. (Single time vs multiple times.)
I agree. Honestly, I'd like to see everyone just use GMT, with no modifications. That way we don't have to deal with all the time zones, and when an event is advertised as being at 3:00pm, you don't have to calculate what time zone it is in, whether the person has daylight savings time or not, and whether the moon is in the 5th phase of the Zinonian Calendar. (Ok, so it isn't that bad. ;)) I have a feeling most people wouldn't be able to handle the "difficult" calculation of how long they work when they go to work at 23:00 and end at 07:00.
People are willing to donate money to protect a GPL author, but heaven forbid they pay for anything they're pirating on Bittorrent. You guys are such hypocrites!
"Gimme that, it's mine! Gimme that, it's mine! Here's money to protect a fellow GPL author. Gimme that, it's mine! Gimme that, it's mine!"
I'll make sure to pirate John Carmack's next game because you guys say it's okay to do so.
1) Commercial software company moves to GPL license
2) Commercial software company sues themself over the move and then asks for donations to support the case.
3) PROFIT!
Congratulations, you just found out the middle step!
Agreed. These things are over 20 years old, and operating off an old design. You can't tell me that we can't do better after 20 years. Heck, they even started on new designs, and didn't finish up on them. Why keep wasting money like this?
:)
DOS was rock solid and stable, and I loved every minute of it. However, I sure as hell can get a lot more done in Windows XP than in DOS.
Perhaps NASA just plans on waiting for the private space companies to take over their deliveries to space. They'll just keep eating the free donuts until then.
Misconception 1: Swap-file usage = performance degradation
Sure, you might not be able to notice this on 4k, but when you have 100 megs trying to swap back into memory, you definitely notice the program pausing/freezing for a LONG time while the memory is restored to RAM.
Something like Linux's swappiness parameter in Windows would be great for me. (I have 2 gigs of ram.) I can pretty much guarantee that most of the data in my 1.5 gigs of system cache is useless. I would much rather have no swapping, and reduce the size of that, and my available memory.
They can leave Hoshi, T'Pol, and the weapons/armor dude.(Reed?) I'm not too fond of the rest of the acting, though. The worst is the captains. In all fairness, maybe it's just the story that's bad and the actors are screwed and doing the best they can.
The XP's teletubby user interface is much more sluggish than 2000Pro's.
Have you tried:
1) Windows Key-Break (or right click 'my computer', and select 'properties')
2) Click Advanced Tab
3) Click the first 'Settings' button. (Under Performance.)
4) On the Visual Effects tab, click custom, and uncheck every box.
5) Click OK a couple of times.
You should now be using the Windows 2000 look. If you're start menu is still using the "XP" style, then right click on your start button and go to properties. Select the start menu tab, and select 'classic start menu'.
I was going to make this exact point myself as soon as I saw the words CSV/HTML/URLs. Most of these are things you should be doing with a proper module that parses the data.
They could of course be useful for simple jobs, but on the whole, you'd be a lot smarter to future proof your work, and do it the right way the first time.
If I had mod points, I'd give them to you.
-- Josh
But if I had to pick, I'd pick Keira Knightley, assuming they could build a "special" costume... heh heh.
:)
I'm not sure what you mean by "special", but for some reason I like it!
I think professors should be called in to teach you about black holes.
:) Aren't there a few different theories about black holes? Seems to me that something that warps space/time so drastically that it causes standard equations to get messed up is not something to tread on lightly.
:) I am not a professor, black hole expert, relativity expert, physics expert, or yadda yadda. This was just my opinion based on my poor memory about black hole research I've read. If someone has more information on this, I'd be interested in hearing it.
Which one?
Now, for my disclaimer so I don't get flamed too bad if I'm out of touch with research here.
I remember when viruses walked up monsterous hills trudging through 6 feet of snow while braving a blizzard just to burn up your motherboard! These new viruses have it so easy these days! ;)