Oh, please. At least 90% of blogs on the web today are highly critical of Bush and the American government, and not 1 has been shut down by the CIA. I hope you were joking.
Hopefully society will change where a judge will be able to come up with punishments that aren't so expensive to institute.
They have. Corporal punishment, lashings, flaying, and execution (I'm not talking pretty little gas-chamber humane execution, but charging the family of the dearly departed a bill for the bullet). The problem is, the cheap methods aren't humane.
When you vandalize wikipedia, an elementary school kid gets something wrong on his paper. When you vandalize MediWiki, a doctor gives a patient 300cc's of anaesthetic too much--and ends up having a very stiff, very dead dude on his operating table.
That's what is currently happening....for instance, take VB. Each line of code you write isn't an individual assembly instruction--it's basically a prewritten piece of code....
All this guy is doing is taking it to a higher level. It sounds exciting, but is really obvious:-P.
Actually, the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet is a COMPLETELY different jet than the F/A-18 C/D. The only reason they kept the F18 designation was for funding purposes.
All too often, it's not the actual user who decides whether to implement Office for Linux, but instead the upper management who feels warm and fuzzy when they're buying a product developed by a corporation instead of by a ragtag group of programmers who everybody knows can't really develop software. Microsoft's FUD machine works wonders on the upper brass.
I was being sarcastic with the whole "free speech" reference.
What I was trying to show is the utter ridiculousness of banning the word "pod" from product names. True, trademarks will keep other companies from freeloading off of your mindshare. However, the purpose of a trademark is to simply give your specific product a unique name. That any company could copyright a word of the English language--especially one like "pod," which has been in common use for a long time, is simply preposterous. If I see something called, for instance, "Super Pod" that happens to be some unrelated technological device, I (nor will, I think, any other sane person) will not automatically associate said device with Apple or their iPod.
I'm only curious why you would need external, 3rd-party Facebook applications? I use it, and it seems to work pretty damned well on it's own as a social networking site.
They've gone half-way, but now it's time to make SURE that the iPod's name will never be infringed upon. The next logical step is to not allow others to use any name beginning with the letter "i", ESPECIALLY a lower-case "i". Good for Apple, glad to see they're supporting free speech! Because I know that if I see a piece of technology with the word "pod" in it, it immediately becomes indistiguishable from an MP3 player.
In my family, cell phones were often used to defuse situations. For instance, if I or my brother were gone and my parents are worrying, they would call us on our cell phones. It was good for safety too--if there was ever a car accident or anything, we could call home and get help (this was never necessary, but good to know).
He's a spokesman for Microsoft, a company trying to move a product. What is he supposed to say? "No, our browser sucks. It's not standards-compliant in the least bit. Have you tried firefox?"
A corporation claims their product is better than it really is. Wow. I'm shocked.
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DEFCON was loosely based on Wargames, and it's cool as hell.
Oh, please. At least 90% of blogs on the web today are highly critical of Bush and the American government, and not 1 has been shut down by the CIA. I hope you were joking.
Read?
As long as it doesn't make it to Fox News, Nickelodeon, or Highlights we should be safe.
Hopefully society will change where a judge will be able to come up with punishments that aren't so expensive to institute.
They have. Corporal punishment, lashings, flaying, and execution (I'm not talking pretty little gas-chamber humane execution, but charging the family of the dearly departed a bill for the bullet). The problem is, the cheap methods aren't humane.
Yes, but it takes many more than 1 or 2 programmers to maintain a distro!
8. ??? (come on, it has to factor in somewhere)
Vandalism?
When you vandalize wikipedia, an elementary school kid gets something wrong on his paper. When you vandalize MediWiki, a doctor gives a patient 300cc's of anaesthetic too much--and ends up having a very stiff, very dead dude on his operating table.
That's what is currently happening....for instance, take VB. Each line of code you write isn't an individual assembly instruction--it's basically a prewritten piece of code....
All this guy is doing is taking it to a higher level. It sounds exciting, but is really obvious :-P.
Not everyone is solely interested in power.
A ridiculous statement made even more ridiculous when applied to Hugo Chavez. Read up a little on the guy. He likes his power.Well, you pretty much summarized the Saturday of your average Slashdot reader :-P.
Okay....sit down, Mr. Cruise.
Public smoking bans have more to do with keeping cancer-causing poisons out of your body than putting morals in.
IIRC, the F-22 is a pure air-air combat fighter.
Actually, the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet is a COMPLETELY different jet than the F/A-18 C/D. The only reason they kept the F18 designation was for funding purposes.
When misusing explosives, you kill people and destroy property.
Please tell me you're not equating copyright infringement with the taking of a human life. Explosives and bittorrent are not at all alike.
Lots of people in the U.S. government are quite insightful and intelligent. It's just that the insane ones get all the press.
All too often, it's not the actual user who decides whether to implement Office for Linux, but instead the upper management who feels warm and fuzzy when they're buying a product developed by a corporation instead of by a ragtag group of programmers who everybody knows can't really develop software. Microsoft's FUD machine works wonders on the upper brass.
I was being sarcastic with the whole "free speech" reference.
What I was trying to show is the utter ridiculousness of banning the word "pod" from product names. True, trademarks will keep other companies from freeloading off of your mindshare. However, the purpose of a trademark is to simply give your specific product a unique name. That any company could copyright a word of the English language--especially one like "pod," which has been in common use for a long time, is simply preposterous. If I see something called, for instance, "Super Pod" that happens to be some unrelated technological device, I (nor will, I think, any other sane person) will not automatically associate said device with Apple or their iPod.
I have a feeling that it'll go to the Supreme Court and, because of the 5 conservative judges on the court, Judge Taylor's ruling will be massacred.
There's still a ray of hope...SCOTUS ruled reasonably on the Guantanamo Bay case, hopefully they'll do it here too.
I'm only curious why you would need external, 3rd-party Facebook applications? I use it, and it seems to work pretty damned well on it's own as a social networking site.
They've gone half-way, but now it's time to make SURE that the iPod's name will never be infringed upon. The next logical step is to not allow others to use any name beginning with the letter "i", ESPECIALLY a lower-case "i". Good for Apple, glad to see they're supporting free speech! Because I know that if I see a piece of technology with the word "pod" in it, it immediately becomes indistiguishable from an MP3 player.
In my family, cell phones were often used to defuse situations. For instance, if I or my brother were gone and my parents are worrying, they would call us on our cell phones. It was good for safety too--if there was ever a car accident or anything, we could call home and get help (this was never necessary, but good to know).
He's a spokesman for Microsoft, a company trying to move a product. What is he supposed to say? "No, our browser sucks. It's not standards-compliant in the least bit. Have you tried firefox?"
A corporation claims their product is better than it really is. Wow. I'm shocked.
Umm, no. RTFA. It's about statements made by Robert G. Americans, Jr.
Not exactly. I'm 10.