lol, constant improvement, like several year old bugs that resurface! ROFL.... Neither will ever "Win", look at Netscape. They got their but kicked and they still exist. If FF takes the majority of market share from IE, then good for them for finally defeating BG at his own game. If not, too bad for them. Either way, a new competitor will come along eventually to challenge the app on top. Me? I'm waiting for either of them to get it right. FF crashes just as much as IE and I still have gotten virus warnings with it.....I won't even get started on Opera....
I disagree. I have my own computer which runs SUSE and WinXp. I also have two other computers that my family uses and only have WinXP. I will be upgrading mine and one of the family computers as soon as I can. I like OSX, I sorta like Linux, and I need WinXp to use some apps for work and for gaming. The problem is, no matter how hard I try I can't get my wife to learn Linux. So it will be a god send to be able to run WinXP and OSX on a single machine. My wife hasn't boycotted OSX and I can still run my ancient games that my friends and I still like to play by booting into WinXP but I don't have to deal with Winblows unless were playing a game......
One more analogy.....what do you think a major corp would do if you were the holder of some very pertinent information that could destroy their company financially, then you lost it and it ended up in the hands of some frauds that milked the corp for millions.....I think LITIGATION is the word you would here a lot of then.......
As to copyright, I would copyright my code not the idea. The patent would cover the idea. Just as I would not trademark my code, but just it's name. Your play on my words to try to make me sound like an idiot wasn't good enough.
Patents do serve the original function of sharing information but, now especially, they are also intended to PROTECT the idea from being taken by everyone else and letting them profit from it upon inception......Thats what science and technology publications are for. Patents these days are more commonly used to make sure you have a fair amount of time to profit from and develop the idea before handing to the rest of the world.
This whole argument and all the comments about the PSP sounds strangely similar to the arguments ppl had when the PS was released. Will Sony kill Nintendo consoles.......I think thats been answered, and will be answered again in the handheld market. I am no fan of Sony as a company but they have good engineers and marketing people......The biggest question is, when will Gates try to market a PocketPC based handheld...lol...
Saying we should counter this is like saying the U.S. should let the Chinese write software for the NSA. It doesn't make sense....though unbalanced trade practices are a norm for China anyway.....we need to worry about the 8.38 to the dollar problem before we start bitching about software sales. China has been raping our economy for years by keeping the trade balance askew and we haven't done anything about it......
DOD to Pres: "Sir, the NSA reports that our satellites went offline at the same moment we stopped ordering Chinese in favor of Pizza! You don't think it has anything to do with our proprietary software all being written in China, do you?"
it is at times like this that Linux really suffers from having a single dictator in charge; when Linus doesn't understand a problem, he won't fix it, even if all the cryptographers in the world are standing against him.
So, the troops begin to turn.....Soon it will be:
Emporer Gates
Darth Linus
Steve Jabba
Who will we have to ridicule for being successful when we can no longer rally around Linus as our champion against the Empire?
Is anyone on this site over 16 and do you have a brain? Patents are bad, selling software is bad....when does it stop? When were all broke? I agree some patents are going too far and the patent office should review the way they issue them. What I can't agree with is the way people here vilify anyone for registering a patent.
If I don't want to make money supporting software, I want to make money writing software, and if my software is good and does something that no one else has figured out, then I want to patent that software. It's a little idea called CAPATILISM! You guys need to go start a hippy-hacker commune that is as socialistic as you guys would like it to be and leave those of us alone that want a career and not a hobby....Just because they thought of it, and you didn't doesn't mean they should have to give it away.
Luckily for me there are many others out there who would like to make money also, so you socialists can keep complaining all you want, since the capatilists have the money and hence the power.
Considering that the christian god is so petty and ego driven as to be offended when I use his name in vane, he must be an asshole. Also, about using ID as an alternative to evolution; the Babylonians http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Enuma_Elish.html> believed the earth was created by multiple gods and then man was created by Enki in a story called Enuma Elish. And what of the Greeks Theogony? If ID is to be taught in schools, shouldn't we teach all of the versions so that the child can make a TRUE decision? Or, should we just teach them the one that we can Factually prove to be the most relevant in the same way there are many theories in Physics, but we teach the ones that are accepted as being as close to the truth as we can come? Oh yeah, the closest we can come to proving anything about creation is evolution! If you or your children want to learn about legend and myth, take the appropriate class and don't expect science class to be where it is found, until the religious world can produce some form of foundation for their story. Until then, it's just a modern Enuma Elish.
P.S. If anyone says it is because we now know those are just stories to explain the physical world to primative man....well in another 2000 years they may be saying that about creationism/ID!
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Ahh, not so cold now, can't wait to get there, this handbasket sure is comfortable!
Great example, thanks. I didn't even think about "extending" the project for profit. Makes more sense. I shouldn't be too concerned anyway, since my job as an net eng. is the "implementation" part, I don't really care who writes it as long as it isn't $1000 a copy and doesn't put me over budget! Hence my support for OSS! MS just charges too much....
Before I get flamed, let me just say I have nothing against open source, I just don't understand how it works financially. Could someone explain how "Open Source" software makes any money? I know that corps use services to make there money, but what about smaller companies and independants? How would software development be profitable? I'm just a hobbiest coder and don't do this for a living, so I don't know all the ins and outs. Can someone explain this to me?
I guess this new article combined with an older article:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/2 4/2242219&from=rss
Proves that physics is still very theoretical. Then again, I always felt that dark energy, and possibly dark matter will inevitably be proved to be about as real as the "Aether" theories. Like Cheech and Chong said in the 70's; If it looks like dog shit, smells like dog shit, and tastes like dog shit......... We always try to explain things by saying something unobservable is the factor causing the observations we can make. My uneducated guess is we will find that neither of these are necessary, and someone will be able to fill the holes.
One of the reasons for humanoid robots would be to allow the robots to do things that will commonly be done by humans also. By giving the robot a humanoid form, the robot would be able to use most equipment that is designed for humans.
In order to make robots a part of everyday life, they will have to be able to do things using human equipment. If your "Robot Chef" is in for repair, you still want to be able to open the refrigerator door to get something to eat. If the robot chef used a specific appendage to access a latch that is not accessible to humans, you would starve!
So, if you want your robot to make cars or PCB's, your probably not wanting a humanoid; if you want a robobutler to do things for you around the house, a humanoid would be advantageous.....
-kk
Don't let them do that if you are still conscious....I let that happen once, unfortunately they were attracted to the bar tender and left a $50 tip! Since signatures don't matter, just hit the receipt with the ink side of the pen and your good to go!
-kk
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lol, constant improvement, like several year old bugs that resurface! ROFL.... Neither will ever "Win", look at Netscape. They got their but kicked and they still exist. If FF takes the majority of market share from IE, then good for them for finally defeating BG at his own game. If not, too bad for them. Either way, a new competitor will come along eventually to challenge the app on top. Me? I'm waiting for either of them to get it right. FF crashes just as much as IE and I still have gotten virus warnings with it.....I won't even get started on Opera....
I disagree. I have my own computer which runs SUSE and WinXp. I also have two other computers that my family uses and only have WinXP. I will be upgrading mine and one of the family computers as soon as I can. I like OSX, I sorta like Linux, and I need WinXp to use some apps for work and for gaming. The problem is, no matter how hard I try I can't get my wife to learn Linux. So it will be a god send to be able to run WinXP and OSX on a single machine. My wife hasn't boycotted OSX and I can still run my ancient games that my friends and I still like to play by booting into WinXP but I don't have to deal with Winblows unless were playing a game......
One more analogy.....what do you think a major corp would do if you were the holder of some very pertinent information that could destroy their company financially, then you lost it and it ended up in the hands of some frauds that milked the corp for millions.....I think LITIGATION is the word you would here a lot of then.......
Patents do serve the original function of sharing information but, now especially, they are also intended to PROTECT the idea from being taken by everyone else and letting them profit from it upon inception......Thats what science and technology publications are for. Patents these days are more commonly used to make sure you have a fair amount of time to profit from and develop the idea before handing to the rest of the world.
This whole argument and all the comments about the PSP sounds strangely similar to the arguments ppl had when the PS was released. Will Sony kill Nintendo consoles.......I think thats been answered, and will be answered again in the handheld market. I am no fan of Sony as a company but they have good engineers and marketing people......The biggest question is, when will Gates try to market a PocketPC based handheld...lol...
DOD to Pres: "Sir, the NSA reports that our satellites went offline at the same moment we stopped ordering Chinese in favor of Pizza! You don't think it has anything to do with our proprietary software all being written in China, do you?"
So, the troops begin to turn.....Soon it will be:
Emporer Gates
Darth Linus
Steve Jabba
Who will we have to ridicule for being successful when we can no longer rally around Linus as our champion against the Empire?
Is anyone on this site over 16 and do you have a brain? Patents are bad, selling software is bad....when does it stop? When were all broke? I agree some patents are going too far and the patent office should review the way they issue them. What I can't agree with is the way people here vilify anyone for registering a patent.
If I don't want to make money supporting software, I want to make money writing software, and if my software is good and does something that no one else has figured out, then I want to patent that software. It's a little idea called CAPATILISM! You guys need to go start a hippy-hacker commune that is as socialistic as you guys would like it to be and leave those of us alone that want a career and not a hobby....Just because they thought of it, and you didn't doesn't mean they should have to give it away.
Luckily for me there are many others out there who would like to make money also, so you socialists can keep complaining all you want, since the capatilists have the money and hence the power.
Considering that the christian god is so petty and ego driven as to be offended when I use his name in vane, he must be an asshole. Also, about using ID as an alternative to evolution; the Babylonians http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Enuma_Elish.html> believed the earth was created by multiple gods and then man was created by Enki in a story called Enuma Elish. And what of the Greeks Theogony? If ID is to be taught in schools, shouldn't we teach all of the versions so that the child can make a TRUE decision? Or, should we just teach them the one that we can Factually prove to be the most relevant in the same way there are many theories in Physics, but we teach the ones that are accepted as being as close to the truth as we can come? Oh yeah, the closest we can come to proving anything about creation is evolution! If you or your children want to learn about legend and myth, take the appropriate class and don't expect science class to be where it is found, until the religious world can produce some form of foundation for their story. Until then, it's just a modern Enuma Elish.
P.S. If anyone says it is because we now know those are just stories to explain the physical world to primative man....well in another 2000 years they may be saying that about creationism/ID!
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Ahh, not so cold now, can't wait to get there, this handbasket sure is comfortable!
Great example, thanks. I didn't even think about "extending" the project for profit. Makes more sense. I shouldn't be too concerned anyway, since my job as an net eng. is the "implementation" part, I don't really care who writes it as long as it isn't $1000 a copy and doesn't put me over budget! Hence my support for OSS! MS just charges too much....
Before I get flamed, let me just say I have nothing against open source, I just don't understand how it works financially. Could someone explain how "Open Source" software makes any money? I know that corps use services to make there money, but what about smaller companies and independants? How would software development be profitable? I'm just a hobbiest coder and don't do this for a living, so I don't know all the ins and outs. Can someone explain this to me?
I guess this new article combined with an older article: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/2 4/2242219&from=rss
Proves that physics is still very theoretical. Then again, I always felt that dark energy, and possibly dark matter will inevitably be proved to be about as real as the "Aether" theories. Like Cheech and Chong said in the 70's; If it looks like dog shit, smells like dog shit, and tastes like dog shit......... We always try to explain things by saying something unobservable is the factor causing the observations we can make. My uneducated guess is we will find that neither of these are necessary, and someone will be able to fill the holes.
One of the reasons for humanoid robots would be to allow the robots to do things that will commonly be done by humans also. By giving the robot a humanoid form, the robot would be able to use most equipment that is designed for humans. In order to make robots a part of everyday life, they will have to be able to do things using human equipment. If your "Robot Chef" is in for repair, you still want to be able to open the refrigerator door to get something to eat. If the robot chef used a specific appendage to access a latch that is not accessible to humans, you would starve! So, if you want your robot to make cars or PCB's, your probably not wanting a humanoid; if you want a robobutler to do things for you around the house, a humanoid would be advantageous..... -kk
Don't let them do that if you are still conscious....I let that happen once, unfortunately they were attracted to the bar tender and left a $50 tip! Since signatures don't matter, just hit the receipt with the ink side of the pen and your good to go! -kk