Be it a patent offensive or a perceived pre-emptive strike, it's still contributing to the abuse of the system. Simply saying "we know it's bad, but we're just doing it to help everyone [ESP OURSELVES]" won't get us anywhere. The system won't be brought down while all the players continue to fight each other inside it, rather than moving outside.
If Google had let some jackass patent highlighting, and then when taken to the court used their power and influence to win the case, setting a precedent that "you can't patent the [mouse] wheel" and pushing for more publicity on the "software patents kill innovation" campaign, then some real pressure could be on.
A system highlights search terms in documents distributed over a network. The system generates a search query that includes a search term and, in response to the search query, receives a list of one or more references to documents in the network. The system receives selection of one of the references and retrieves a document that corresponds to the selected reference. The system then highlights the search term in the retrieved document.
I know I haven't RTFB but from above it sounds like
"here is a buzzword. other companies have buzzword which is helping them succeed. how can we use buzzword to profit?"
Buzzword might as well be anything, just the latest popular scheme amongst management.
Did those experts having found those errors correct them? If not, why not? What Wikipedia needs is more expert contributors. I can add a little to articles I'm researching, but what is most helpful is when someone who knows more than most about a subject can work on those articles.
Lucky you. In the UK we have something similar, but it's has to relevance. It's completely ignored, we get phone calls tridaily at least, there haven't been any lawsuits or anything it's complete anarchy it's like spam email.
.. but what actually is Java? (I know it's NOT javascript)
I don't use it for sho, not sure I even have it. I thought it was a programming language, but then how can it be compared to LAMP? (a server configuration). This is like Google vs Microsoft.
I've been most amused by the bad publicity given from the press following the John Seigenthaler Sr. incident - which shouldn't have become an incident anymore than any other sentance on the encyclopaedia, until a man who didn't udnerstand what it was googled himself.
Anyway, most recently I read that "Wikipedia had banned the anonymous editing of articles". I was shocked! Would those years of history proving the concept worked be abandoned just cos of one incident. Of course not. The press, who criticise Wikipedia's inaccuracy, were wrong thsemselves. Wikipedia had banned anonmymouis creatiion of pages. A very differennt thing but a good idea. Becoming a user leaves you anonymous still anyway.
Thankfully, we have the BBC here, which give me a impressively wide selection of stations to listen to, all free of the sickening irritation of radio ads, which are much harder to manage than those on TV - mute, change channel, go out the room, read something etc.
I'd never really experienced how bad radio really was until after I'd played GTA, I was shocked. Radio takes the piss of itself. GTA radio had a longer playlist.
If you do ever get the chance to see this documentary, do!
It's called Monsoon Railway and documents how the staff at one station do their best to make the best out of a imposibly overcrowded and out-dated system through one seasons. It's incredibly uplifting. The people work through the night to keep it going. They have hospital trains manned with volunteers to send out in the event of any accident. There's one guy has only the smallest crummiest room himself to live in, but he feels so priveleged that he makes a shelter with his hands for the Indian railway children.
Seriously, if you think there's no hope, no ove, no humanity in this world, watch it. If you feel the third world is corrupt, hopeless not somewhere you can connect with, you're wrong. It made me want to travel, just to meet those people who commit such acts of kindness as if there was no other choice.
Of course they want to change the user agent string as much as they can, so thousands of users will download it again unnecessary, tipping the increasingly inaccurate and uninformative counter.
Can I upgrade yet, or will it break extensions, install it's same old useless searchplugins etc? If not I can't be bothered. What's wrong with what i have now?
I can no longer sit back and allow...Communist infiltration...Communist indoctrination...Communist subversion...and the international Communist conspiracy...to sap and impurify...all...of our precious bodily fluids
You can't hope for a government that considers "intelligent" design as a self-proven scientific theory. Global warming to them is just a punishment from God unhappy because not enough oil states are being invaded.
God bless America and the separation of church and state.
We all know OS version numbers don't mean anything. But to clarify;
Red Hat Linux had version numbers in line with SUSE, it's principal rival.
Now Fedora Core 5 will match Ubuntu (possibly the most suspicous versioning given it started on 4.10 ). But really, given they've had 1 through 4, 5 is the logical continuation.
Use on of those business directories, and then phone the Head guy of Custom Services directly, in his office. Just as he's about to leave. Then speak polity but firmly, with authority, don't question that you are on his private line and simply demand what you want to be done. Works a treat. Be the king.
Liberty, equality, brotherhood. The tagline for the French republic. So they have to use free software , or they'd be breaking their ideals. Like "God bless America and the separation of church and state". I'm suprised the French don't use more free software, given their hate for America and the anglofication of their language, of which computers are a big cause. I used a French version of windows ocne. Only the very front was translated, any error messages, anything practically not visible at first view was still in English.
And thank the French language for having separate words gratuit and libre, to distringuish the meanings of free. No excuse for the open source buzzword coerupting ouyr message there.,
First I must agree with every rational person posting here that this guy is an idiot, and has no right to sue Amazon. So to him I say, fuck you! Sue Slashdot now:P
But as we're on the subject of the supposed negative influence of games, I must post something original about Child's Play, a charity that provides games to children stuck in hospital. (previous Slashdot coverage http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/08/ 1647245&tid=105)
To quote founders Gabe and Tycho (pennyarcade.com) "For two years now we've set up and organized a charity called Child's Play. We set it up because we were angry the media decided to blame all the world's problems on games and gamers. Basically they said that gamers were bad people, and we thought that wasn't right. Apparently, you guys agreed: through Child's Play you sent nearly a million dollars in toys, games, and cash to the sick kids in Children's Hospitals around the nation."
So at some good (he'd disagree) did actually come indirectly from this guy voicing his wrong opinion. Argh, he makes me angry. Now excuse so I can kill some stuff in HL2.
Slashdot Mirror
Be it a patent offensive or a perceived pre-emptive strike, it's still contributing to the abuse of the system. Simply saying "we know it's bad, but we're just doing it to help everyone [ESP OURSELVES]" won't get us anywhere. The system won't be brought down while all the players continue to fight each other inside it, rather than moving outside.
If Google had let some jackass patent highlighting, and then when taken to the court used their power and influence to win the case, setting a precedent that "you can't patent the [mouse] wheel" and pushing for more publicity on the "software patents kill innovation" campaign, then some real pressure could be on.
Their idealogical allegiances aside, Googles still have a patent on highlighting.
T O1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm l&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,839,702.WKU.
See US Patent 6,839,702 on the following server which clearly doesn't use mod_alias.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P
A system highlights search terms in documents distributed over a network. The system generates a search query that includes a search term and, in response to the search query, receives a list of one or more references to documents in the network. The system receives selection of one of the references and retrieves a document that corresponds to the selected reference. The system then highlights the search term in the retrieved document.
maybe it is time i got a graphics card.
I know I haven't RTFB but from above it sounds like "here is a buzzword. other companies have buzzword which is helping them succeed. how can we use buzzword to profit?" Buzzword might as well be anything, just the latest popular scheme amongst management.
Don't knock it.
Did those experts having found those errors correct them? If not, why not? What Wikipedia needs is more expert contributors. I can add a little to articles I'm researching, but what is most helpful is when someone who knows more than most about a subject can work on those articles.
i don't think slashdotters can have standards if they hope to get laid :p
Lucky you. In the UK we have something similar, but it's has to relevance. It's completely ignored, we get phone calls tridaily at least, there haven't been any lawsuits or anything it's complete anarchy it's like spam email.
.. but what actually is Java? (I know it's NOT javascript)
I don't use it for sho, not sure I even have it. I thought it was a programming language, but then how can it be compared to LAMP? (a server configuration). This is like Google vs Microsoft.
please excuse my bad typing i had fingers qwhilst writing that.
I've been most amused by the bad publicity given from the press following the John Seigenthaler Sr. incident - which shouldn't have become an incident anymore than any other sentance on the encyclopaedia, until a man who didn't udnerstand what it was googled himself.
Anyway, most recently I read that "Wikipedia had banned the anonymous editing of articles". I was shocked! Would those years of history proving the concept worked be abandoned just cos of one incident. Of course not. The press, who criticise Wikipedia's inaccuracy, were wrong thsemselves. Wikipedia had banned anonmymouis creatiion of pages. A very differennt thing but a good idea. Becoming a user leaves you anonymous still anyway.
Thankfully, we have the BBC here, which give me a impressively wide selection of stations to listen to, all free of the sickening irritation of radio ads, which are much harder to manage than those on TV - mute, change channel, go out the room, read something etc.
I'd never really experienced how bad radio really was until after I'd played GTA, I was shocked. Radio takes the piss of itself. GTA radio had a longer playlist.
If you do ever get the chance to see this documentary, do!
e s/monsoon-railway.shtmle s/photogallery/indian_rail1.shtml
It's called Monsoon Railway and documents how the staff at one station do their best to make the best out of a imposibly overcrowded and out-dated system through one seasons. It's incredibly uplifting. The people work through the night to keep it going. They have hospital trains manned with volunteers to send out in the event of any accident. There's one guy has only the smallest crummiest room himself to live in, but he feels so priveleged that he makes a shelter with his hands for the Indian railway children.
Seriously, if you think there's no hope, no ove, no humanity in this world, watch it. If you feel the third world is corrupt, hopeless not somewhere you can connect with, you're wrong. It made me want to travel, just to meet those people who commit such acts of kindness as if there was no other choice.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/featur
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/featur
I have conclusive proof of the Roswell incident, if only I can get it to you before I am cens :@SD{F CGV NO CARRIER.
(that film sounded funny)
I don't think the Greeks were using the Oxford dictionary.
In most cases when Windows says YOU MUST REBOOT you never need to. obviously dumb applications installers are lying, usb hardware works fine.
Of course they want to change the user agent string as much as they can, so thousands of users will download it again unnecessary, tipping the increasingly inaccurate and uninformative counter.
Can I upgrade yet, or will it break extensions, install it's same old useless searchplugins etc? If not I can't be bothered. What's wrong with what i have now?
So what does it say in Help/About then?
And what about the changes for RC3 changelog.
I can no longer sit back and allow...Communist infiltration...Communist indoctrination...Communist subversion...and the international Communist conspiracy...to sap and impurify...all...of our precious bodily fluids
You can't hope for a government that considers "intelligent" design as a self-proven scientific theory. Global warming to them is just a punishment from God unhappy because not enough oil states are being invaded.
God bless America and the separation of church and state.
We all know OS version numbers don't mean anything. But to clarify;
Red Hat Linux had version numbers in line with SUSE, it's principal rival.
Now Fedora Core 5 will match Ubuntu (possibly the most suspicous versioning given it started on 4.10 ). But really, given they've had 1 through 4, 5 is the logical continuation.
Use on of those business directories, and then phone the Head guy of Custom Services directly, in his office. Just as he's about to leave. Then speak polity but firmly, with authority, don't question that you are on his private line and simply demand what you want to be done. Works a treat. Be the king.
Liberty, equality, brotherhood. The tagline for the French republic. So they have to use free software , or they'd be breaking their ideals. Like "God bless America and the separation of church and state". I'm suprised the French don't use more free software, given their hate for America and the anglofication of their language, of which computers are a big cause. I used a French version of windows ocne. Only the very front was translated, any error messages, anything practically not visible at first view was still in English.
And thank the French language for having separate words gratuit and libre, to distringuish the meanings of free. No excuse for the open source buzzword coerupting ouyr message there.,
First I must agree with every rational person posting here that this guy is an idiot, and has no right to sue Amazon. So to him I say, fuck you! Sue Slashdot now :P
/ 1647245&tid=105)
But as we're on the subject of the supposed negative influence of games, I must post something original about Child's Play, a charity that provides games to children stuck in hospital. (previous Slashdot coverage http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/08
To quote founders Gabe and Tycho (pennyarcade.com)
"For two years now we've set up and organized a charity called Child's Play. We set it up because we were angry the media decided to blame all the world's problems on games and gamers. Basically they said that gamers were bad people, and we thought that wasn't right. Apparently, you guys agreed: through Child's Play you sent nearly a million dollars in toys, games, and cash to the sick kids in Children's Hospitals around the nation."
So at some good (he'd disagree) did actually come indirectly from this guy voicing his wrong opinion. Argh, he makes me angry. Now excuse so I can kill some stuff in HL2.
Ok, whilst on free OS logo fetishes.
The Red Hat model.
http://www.madyiordache.com/TheRedHat.htm