I think the problem is that you don't know what you're talking about. You only have a basic, if any, knowledge of what patents are, and how they are enforced. Just because they have a patent releated to how eBay does business, doesn't mean that you can make these broad generalizations about all commerce which will invalidate the patent.
Look here to see some of the patents by the company. I haven't dug deep enough too see which one is in question, but actually open one and look at the claims section. The claims are what bounds a patent. The claims here are talking about electronic commerce systems, so they obviuosly have nothing to do with Grandma selling cookies. Even the vast majority of e-commerce has nothing to do with this issue.
Read the claims.
It's interesting that you can use those same ideas to promote the idea of outsourcing computer programming to another country...The reasoning behind having a job like that here in the U.S. is so that your collegues can interact more directly with you and more promptly.
What on earth does this have to do with oursourcing?
I have an office. If I need privacy, I can shut the door. Even with the door open, I have enough privacy to get into "the zone". If someone needs to interact with me directly, they can come out of their office and take the 10 steps to my door. Does walking for a few seconds not fall under the category of "promptly"?
You must have missed the giant full page disclaimer during install that describes what the Googlebar's page rank service does. You must also have missed the option on that page that lets you select whether or not you want that feature enabled.
Google tells you exactly what the feature is, and throws the option to enable or disable it in your face, and yet you still whine about it.
making it all but impossible for honest players trying to make a few silver here and there to sell anything.
Oh stop, please. I'm a casual player who just got back into the game a few weeks ago after a few months off. I started a new character on a new server and am at level 25. I spend most of my time screwing off, and I'm sitting on about 30g and have a full set of 16 slot bags. WoW is surprisingly like real life, where if you put some thought into managing money, you'll have plenty.
Ships a lot of information about you or your activities to the home office
Yes, however, the difference here being
1) Google doesn't trick you into installing the "spyware"
2) Google tells you exactly what the "spyware" feature does
3) Google has the "spyware" feature turned off by default
with resources, not quality.
Quality of software is 100% dependent on the quality of the development team, with the following caveats:
1) Management: good developers + bad management = fouled software
2) Finances: good developers - necessary resources = fouled software
3) Business sense: good developers - "in touch with reality" = good developers out of touch with reality
4) Personnell issues: good developers + huge egos that get in the way = bad developers
Here is where big business can have an effect
1) If it add unnecessary management or red tape, it will hurt the quality of the software
2) If it adds $$ to the project, it will help the quality of the software
3) If it adds competent business infrastructure, it will help the quality and marketibility of the software
4) No change, unless developers are replaced
So... assuming an OSS project has a good development team, big business can help by providing resources, including resources for development, and resources for business needs. It doesn have the potential of swallowing up the project and making it crap. Again, as usual, it all comes down to the people involved.
1) Established - Needs to be stable and in heavy use. New stuff is fun to play with, but not an option for paying customers.
2) Philosophy - I need to agree with the way they do things. Major reason why I ignored EJBs, but jumped on Spring
3) Cost - I hate having to spend unnecessary $$ when team members cycle, or we have to do an install. Free is best
4) Standards Based - Vendorlock is teh suck. I like the options of being able to swap a component if I'm unhappy with it, even if I know I'll never swap it.
5) Familiarity/Ease of Use - Will it ease into what we're doing? Can the team become proficient in it in a reasonable amount of time? Is there decent documentation available?
6) Licensing - I don't like unecessary limitations, or surprising my customers, so I avoid things like the GPL.
I think it's called vision. It is what seperates good leaders from wishy-washy leaders. Now that the president has set this goal, he must give money to support. If there is no money or resources, than it is IT hell.
People don't like change, but let's face it, in 20 years, do you really think we are going to have rooms that do nothing but hold computers? We will look back and laugh at the idea of a "computer lab", just as we now look back and laugh at rooms full of draftsmen, or a human telephone operator. This president is preparing his school for the future, and while doing it, the IT department has to develop new techniques. This is a wonderful role for an academic endeavor. It will be much more valuable to the community at large if the IT departement does a thourough right up or lessons learned type document.
It's also what separates leaders from the crybabies who lurk in the shadows and shit on every new idea that involves effort. There are schools which have been doing this for *years* and are never looking back.
Sad part of Yahoo! (got to remember the exclamation point!) buckling under like most of the western media over Mohammed cartoons is that it shows to terrorists and their lackeys is that terror as a political tools works. It's not kooky right wing christians that are the biggest threat to our freedom of speech. It's fundamentalist Islam that seeks to regulate western speech with threats of violence from the middle east.
Brilliant point.
People do cry about the religious right, but if they had the power people claim, I wouldn't be seeing commercials about a gay cowboy movie which will likely clean up as the Oscars.
Doesn't necessarily fit the "news for nerds" mantra...
Because "news for nerds" is really "advertising dollars for Slashdot's parent company", and this article is a clickfest goldmine.
The article is really about Rumsfeld being, gasp, honest about one of the fronts of the war. About how al-Qaeda is very media savy. Kneejerks will misinterpret this as Donald "Big Brother" Rumsfeld trying to control their minds.
Maybe Mr Rumsfeld should talk to the editors at Slashdot. The seem to have a good grip on this community already.
or even better, spending a few days in a country where such a culture persists.
"OK guys, things have gotten really bad in Cameroon. The Muslim minority has risen up and violently siezed control of the country. They are terrorizing the Christian natives and executing anyone who looks even remotly European or American. An ally is in trouble and the President wants this stopped."
"Sir, are we leaving immediately?"
"No, the operation starts in a few weeks. Since we'll be in deep into the country, we'll need to go though training on the local cultures. We need to know who our enemies are."
"This is a big operation sir, how will we train?"
"The Secretary of Defense has decided that the best way to prepare is for us to send our initial 100,000 troops on a two week vacation to Cameroon first. Oh, and since the country is on the coast, he said to make sure to bring your bathing suit."
Somewhere in the neighborhood of $900 to build when it launches.
Well I, for one, have been dissapointed with Microsoft's so called 'evil' lately. If Sony sells the consoles at a loss, I think Microsoft needs to step up to the plate and buy all the consoles, then resell than at a profit to their favorite terrorist regime for the purpose of making super computers. Profit plus opponent loss kills two birds with one stone and holds off Google from taking the evil crown.
Which must be why they have it under the "Desktops with PowerPC Processors" category
That's why it doesn't come with a monitor.
Sure it does, that just costs extra.
To compare the iMac, I would choose one of the smaller form factor Dells, but I really don't feel like wasting any more time on this. Your opinion seems set in stone.
OK, just went to Apple.com and looked at the base G5, then went to Dell and selected the base XPS. The XPS was cheaper, so I added some features to make the priced comparable. Note that I didn't complete the orders, so no shipping/support options looked at
G5: $1,999.00 XPS: $2,039
G5: 2GHz Dual-core PowerPC G5 XPS: Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.8GHz, 800FSB)
G5: 512MB 533 DDR2 XPS: 2GB of same
G5: 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) XPS: 250GB of same
So, basically you're saying that anyone who misunderstands or maybe even disagrees with you is a moron.
That's my interpretation of what you said, at least.
Either you're trolling or you've just provided more proof that the article is true.
Does this explain why religion is on the decline? As less people are infected, less display symptoms of schizophrenia, such as "feeling the divine presence", and "talking to God". Maybe true devotion in the middle ages was a neurochemical imbalance caused by a parasite, and now that humans are living more cleanly, the "faith" we have left is just residual from the earlier teachings?
I would disagree totally, the cleanest livers are mostly religious people. Scientologists are RABID when it comes to what crap goes into the body, and they aren't models of sanity. Mormons and Jews also have strict guidlines. The most well adjusted people I know are all very spiritual people. Me, I grew up mildly Catholic but never accepted this whole God thing, and I am totally insane.
I would argue that the religious decline is cause by globalization. When you're stuck in a village and never meet different types of people, it's pretty easy to have everyone follow the same path. However, when people are merged, and communication is easy, the stuff breaks down. The 'elders' lose some clout when there are a dozen different elders running around with different messages. People who question their faith aren't repressed and now have means, such as the internet, of exploring other options. The options and diversity availible now lead to more doubt and open mindedness.
Well OK, games are often about solving problems and getting around situations which try to trick you.
What world do you live in? 99% of the game playing that takes place today consists of: 1) Training control combinations to master combat 2) Searching forums for answers when you have to think 3) Hitting on hairy fat guys pretending to be chicks
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I think the problem is that you don't know what you're talking about. You only have a basic, if any, knowledge of what patents are, and how they are enforced. Just because they have a patent releated to how eBay does business, doesn't mean that you can make these broad generalizations about all commerce which will invalidate the patent.
Look here to see some of the patents by the company. I haven't dug deep enough too see which one is in question, but actually open one and look at the claims section. The claims are what bounds a patent. The claims here are talking about electronic commerce systems, so they obviuosly have nothing to do with Grandma selling cookies. Even the vast majority of e-commerce has nothing to do with this issue.
Read the claims.
It's interesting that you can use those same ideas to promote the idea of outsourcing computer programming to another country...The reasoning behind having a job like that here in the U.S. is so that your collegues can interact more directly with you and more promptly.
What on earth does this have to do with oursourcing?
I have an office. If I need privacy, I can shut the door. Even with the door open, I have enough privacy to get into "the zone". If someone needs to interact with me directly, they can come out of their office and take the 10 steps to my door. Does walking for a few seconds not fall under the category of "promptly"?
You must have missed the giant full page disclaimer during install that describes what the Googlebar's page rank service does. You must also have missed the option on that page that lets you select whether or not you want that feature enabled.
Google tells you exactly what the feature is, and throws the option to enable or disable it in your face, and yet you still whine about it.
If you are a techie with no communication or useful business skills...you will never be promoted.
There, fixed it for you.
making it all but impossible for honest players trying to make a few silver here and there to sell anything.
Oh stop, please.
I'm a casual player who just got back into the game a few weeks ago after a few months off. I started a new character on a new server and am at level 25. I spend most of my time screwing off, and I'm sitting on about 30g and have a full set of 16 slot bags. WoW is surprisingly like real life, where if you put some thought into managing money, you'll have plenty.
Bush = Big Brother = Christian Fundamentalists = Hate RFID = Tin Foil Hat Nerds!!
Worlds collide! What will the binary thinkers do!!
Ships a lot of information about you or your activities to the home office
Yes, however, the difference here being
1) Google doesn't trick you into installing the "spyware"
2) Google tells you exactly what the "spyware" feature does
3) Google has the "spyware" feature turned off by default
with resources, not quality.
Quality of software is 100% dependent on the quality of the development team, with the following caveats:
1) Management: good developers + bad management = fouled software
2) Finances: good developers - necessary resources = fouled software
3) Business sense: good developers - "in touch with reality" = good developers out of touch with reality
4) Personnell issues: good developers + huge egos that get in the way = bad developers
Here is where big business can have an effect
1) If it add unnecessary management or red tape, it will hurt the quality of the software
2) If it adds $$ to the project, it will help the quality of the software
3) If it adds competent business infrastructure, it will help the quality and marketibility of the software
4) No change, unless developers are replaced
So... assuming an OSS project has a good development team, big business can help by providing resources, including resources for development, and resources for business needs. It doesn have the potential of swallowing up the project and making it crap. Again, as usual, it all comes down to the people involved.
not really sure what my point is now
Change your fucking cellphone e-mail address, genius.
Yeah, you'd think that after 5 years, he'd think of that one. Guess some people are a little slow.
Kids gamed on consoles, and adults gamed on home computers.
nerd ego
but...but...Evil Corporations....and...Big Brother....and....Ben Franklin quotes....
I tell ya man. "And then they came for me". Fear it.
(did I miss anything?)
1) Established - Needs to be stable and in heavy use. New stuff is fun to play with, but not an option for paying customers.
2) Philosophy - I need to agree with the way they do things. Major reason why I ignored EJBs, but jumped on Spring
3) Cost - I hate having to spend unnecessary $$ when team members cycle, or we have to do an install. Free is best
4) Standards Based - Vendorlock is teh suck. I like the options of being able to swap a component if I'm unhappy with it, even if I know I'll never swap it.
5) Familiarity/Ease of Use - Will it ease into what we're doing? Can the team become proficient in it in a reasonable amount of time? Is there decent documentation available?
6) Licensing - I don't like unecessary limitations, or surprising my customers, so I avoid things like the GPL.
I think it's called vision. It is what seperates good leaders from wishy-washy leaders. Now that the president has set this goal, he must give money to support. If there is no money or resources, than it is IT hell.
People don't like change, but let's face it, in 20 years, do you really think we are going to have rooms that do nothing but hold computers? We will look back and laugh at the idea of a "computer lab", just as we now look back and laugh at rooms full of draftsmen, or a human telephone operator. This president is preparing his school for the future, and while doing it, the IT department has to develop new techniques. This is a wonderful role for an academic endeavor. It will be much more valuable to the community at large if the IT departement does a thourough right up or lessons learned type document.
It's also what separates leaders from the crybabies who lurk in the shadows and shit on every new idea that involves effort. There are schools which have been doing this for *years* and are never looking back.
Sad part of Yahoo! (got to remember the exclamation point!) buckling under like most of the western media over Mohammed cartoons is that it shows to terrorists and their lackeys is that terror as a political tools works. It's not kooky right wing christians that are the biggest threat to our freedom of speech. It's fundamentalist Islam that seeks to regulate western speech with threats of violence from the middle east.
Brilliant point.
People do cry about the religious right, but if they had the power people claim, I wouldn't be seeing commercials about a gay cowboy movie which will likely clean up as the Oscars.
Doesn't necessarily fit the "news for nerds" mantra...
Because "news for nerds" is really "advertising dollars for Slashdot's parent company", and this article is a clickfest goldmine.
The article is really about Rumsfeld being, gasp, honest about one of the fronts of the war. About how al-Qaeda is very media savy. Kneejerks will misinterpret this as Donald "Big Brother" Rumsfeld trying to control their minds.
Maybe Mr Rumsfeld should talk to the editors at Slashdot. The seem to have a good grip on this community already.
They come up with a good headline, a proper description to start off a meaningful discussion.
Score:5, Insightful
Mods are hitting the Slashdot brand kool-aid hard today.
or even better, spending a few days in a country where such a culture persists.
"OK guys, things have gotten really bad in Cameroon. The Muslim minority has risen up and violently siezed control of the country. They are terrorizing the Christian natives and executing anyone who looks even remotly European or American. An ally is in trouble and the President wants this stopped."
"Sir, are we leaving immediately?"
"No, the operation starts in a few weeks. Since we'll be in deep into the country, we'll need to go though training on the local cultures. We need to know who our enemies are."
"This is a big operation sir, how will we train?"
"The Secretary of Defense has decided that the best way to prepare is for us to send our initial 100,000 troops on a two week vacation to Cameroon first. Oh, and since the country is on the coast, he said to make sure to bring your bathing suit."
Somewhere in the neighborhood of $900 to build when it launches.
Well I, for one, have been dissapointed with Microsoft's so called 'evil' lately. If Sony sells the consoles at a loss, I think Microsoft needs to step up to the plate and buy all the consoles, then resell than at a profit to their favorite terrorist regime for the purpose of making super computers.
Profit plus opponent loss kills two birds with one stone and holds off Google from taking the evil crown.
WHICH IS A FUCKING SERVER
Which must be why they have it under the "Desktops with PowerPC Processors" category
That's why it doesn't come with a monitor.
Sure it does, that just costs extra.
To compare the iMac, I would choose one of the smaller form factor Dells, but I really don't feel like wasting any more time on this. Your opinion seems set in stone.
OK, just went to Apple.com and looked at the base G5, then went to Dell and selected the base XPS. The XPS was cheaper, so I added some features to make the priced comparable. Note that I didn't complete the orders, so no shipping/support options looked at
G5: $1,999.00
XPS: $2,039
G5: 2GHz Dual-core PowerPC G5
XPS: Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.8GHz, 800FSB)
G5: 512MB 533 DDR2
XPS: 2GB of same
G5: 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
XPS: 250GB of same
G5: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE 128MB
XPS: 256MB PCI Express(TM) x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) nVidia GeForce 6800
G5: no monitor
XPS: 19 inch E196FP Analog Flat Panel
G5:16x SuperDrive double-layer (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
XPS: Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/ dbl layer write capable
Nah, it's just proof that you are, indeed, a moron. ;)
I feel like I just painted a bullseye on my forehead, then handed you a giant mallet.
Maybe you are right, lol.
So, basically you're saying that anyone who misunderstands or maybe even disagrees with you is a moron.
That's my interpretation of what you said, at least.
Either you're trolling or you've just provided more proof that the article is true.
Does this explain why religion is on the decline? As less people are infected, less display symptoms of schizophrenia, such as "feeling the divine presence", and "talking to God". Maybe true devotion in the middle ages was a neurochemical imbalance caused by a parasite, and now that humans are living more cleanly, the "faith" we have left is just residual from the earlier teachings?
I would disagree totally, the cleanest livers are mostly religious people. Scientologists are RABID when it comes to what crap goes into the body, and they aren't models of sanity. Mormons and Jews also have strict guidlines. The most well adjusted people I know are all very spiritual people. Me, I grew up mildly Catholic but never accepted this whole God thing, and I am totally insane.
I would argue that the religious decline is cause by globalization. When you're stuck in a village and never meet different types of people, it's pretty easy to have everyone follow the same path. However, when people are merged, and communication is easy, the stuff breaks down. The 'elders' lose some clout when there are a dozen different elders running around with different messages. People who question their faith aren't repressed and now have means, such as the internet, of exploring other options. The options and diversity availible now lead to more doubt and open mindedness.
Well OK, games are often about solving problems and getting around situations which try to trick you.
What world do you live in? 99% of the game playing that takes place today consists of:
1) Training control combinations to master combat
2) Searching forums for answers when you have to think
3) Hitting on hairy fat guys pretending to be chicks
This is a slashdot article with almost all the links are linking to wikipedia articles!
Well, considering that most comments come with Wikipedia links nowadays, I'd say it's a good match.