There's no review from the wife. Funny, with millions upon millions of people using computers, you never hear the complaint about "flying through air and hitting wall" effect of computer keyboards.
I do, and I've heard quite a few others complain as well. Modern keyboards are poor.
I've used manual typewriters, and my fingers were MUCH more tired after only an hour of typing.
That's because you weren't doing it properly. I'm a pianist and I really miss a good solid key to sink into. Unless you use your arms, hands, and fingers in precisely the correct way, however, you will find such an action unpleasant.
All power, whether fossil fuels, solar, wind, nuclear, geothermal, or some as-of-yet-undiscovered resource, is really just transferring energy from one place in the universe to another. As long as we use energy, we continue to observe entropy. And as long as that happens, there will be whiners complaining about it.
I love it too. You don't seem to grasp the concept that Slashdot is not a single human being with one viewpoint. Did you ever consider that these opinions may be voiced by two different groups of people?
I agree with most of what you have said. But Copyright and Patent are not, nor were they ever intended to be, property rights. This is the stumbling block.
It is clear that the authors of the Constitution did NOT view Copyright and Patent as "property." It's presence in Article I, Section 8 ("Enumerated Powers of Congress") is an immediate tip-off. This Section grants legislative powers. By definition, Congress could never pass a law to "grant" a right, since rights, in the Founders' philosophy, were inherent properties of the natural universe.
Further, if they had considered works to be Natural Law property, they would simply have indicated this in the Bill of Rights (which, by the way, does not grant rights either--it limits the action of the Central Power).
Also, a careful examination of Copyright and Patent demonstrates that they are intended to be viewed as special monopoly powers rather than ownership of anything at all.
Finally, the limits originally placed on Copyright and Patent by the first Congress (certainly people who understood the Constitution) are totally incompatible with any concept of property. Property is held in perpetuity. Copyright was limited to a maximum 28 year term.
It has nothing to do with ideology for me. It has to do with moving forward. Microsoft keeps telling us that "it will be compliant this time! We really mean it!" And they may manage to produce something that is halfway decent. But 5 years from now, it won't have moved an inch, while KHTML, Gecko, and Opera will not only pass ACID2 but will also support CSS3.
Once IE's market share goes up a few points, they'll stop working on it, just like they did with IE 6.
US 'IP-directed' SoftCo: OK, we'll fix that. Politicians! Come here a minute. We'd like you to turn over even *more* sovereignty to the United Nations so we can spread our bad legal practice everywhere.
As a web developer, it doesn't matter to me if they only "catch up." It will take years for IE7 to saturate, and once it does, it will be frozen in 2005 for years to come, just like IE6 was.
With Microsoft, I expect fully compliant CSS3 support in another 300 years or so...
Certainly the Slashdot audience would believe that the whole Disney pantheon belongs "down there."
Absolutely not. It's a shame how diluted their work has become, but if you look back to the old cartoons, they really produced masterpieces. The Clock Cleaners, from 1937, is a great example. Funny gags, good music, superb artwork.
Perhaps they will realise what a screwed up place their world is becoming, and actually do something about it!
No, please. It's not within our authority to go around fixing everything. We do too much of it now. Afghanistan and Iraq I can stomach on some level, since there is a self-defense rationale. Unfortunately, many of the people supporting the action in Iraq also support our involvement in international affairs on purely moral grounds. And that always spells disaster. There are nation-states for a reason, it's much better that independence be maintained.
There's no money in it, but it wouldn't be too hard. OS X's predecessor (OPENSTEP/Mach) ran on x86, m68k, SPARC, and PA-RISC. I don't suppose they've made all that many changes to Mach or the Objective-C runtime in the last 10 years.
After all, the Smalltalk branch of OOP philosophy is the driving force behind Objective-C and Cocoa. And Apple is really starting to do some interesting work in advancing the usefulness of computers, which is right up Kay's alley.
The thoughts and beliefs of a group of people is not in lock-step with the 300,000,000 other people in the surrounding 3,537,438.44 square mile radius. Things always look monolithic at a distance. They never actually are.
Additionally, even among those who believe in morality and standards, there is a great deal of disagreement on what those standards are, their origins, and their purpose.
It's worth remembering, however, that NeXT was standing on the shoulders of giants with BSD and Mach. And the concept of Services was derived from pipelines in the CLI.
Congratulations, you're the first person I've seen who is primarily annoyed with the promise of many more years of crufty ISA and a dearth of registers.
I agree completely. But after the second paragraph, I was worried that you were going to suggest some behemoth U.N. world tax scheme.
There are far too many attempts to "unify" the world and destroy the free market of laws. This leads to universal bad government. The more governments, and the more independent, the better. Let international cooperation be limited to unofficial private transactions, like Free Software collaboration and private charities.
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I do, and I've heard quite a few others complain as well. Modern keyboards are poor.
That's because you weren't doing it properly. I'm a pianist and I really miss a good solid key to sink into. Unless you use your arms, hands, and fingers in precisely the correct way, however, you will find such an action unpleasant.
All power, whether fossil fuels, solar, wind, nuclear, geothermal, or some as-of-yet-undiscovered resource, is really just transferring energy from one place in the universe to another. As long as we use energy, we continue to observe entropy. And as long as that happens, there will be whiners complaining about it.
Or maybe he doesn't surround himself with TV and pop culture 24/7?
My personal guess is that Mr. Singleton was fully able to cash a check from Redmond though.
I love it too. You don't seem to grasp the concept that Slashdot is not a single human being with one viewpoint. Did you ever consider that these opinions may be voiced by two different groups of people?
It is clear that the authors of the Constitution did NOT view Copyright and Patent as "property." It's presence in Article I, Section 8 ("Enumerated Powers of Congress") is an immediate tip-off. This Section grants legislative powers. By definition, Congress could never pass a law to "grant" a right, since rights, in the Founders' philosophy, were inherent properties of the natural universe.
Further, if they had considered works to be Natural Law property, they would simply have indicated this in the Bill of Rights (which, by the way, does not grant rights either--it limits the action of the Central Power).
Also, a careful examination of Copyright and Patent demonstrates that they are intended to be viewed as special monopoly powers rather than ownership of anything at all.
Finally, the limits originally placed on Copyright and Patent by the first Congress (certainly people who understood the Constitution) are totally incompatible with any concept of property. Property is held in perpetuity. Copyright was limited to a maximum 28 year term.
No, bigot. He's from the UK.
Once IE's market share goes up a few points, they'll stop working on it, just like they did with IE 6.
US 'IP-directed' SoftCo: OK, we'll fix that. Politicians! Come here a minute. We'd like you to turn over even *more* sovereignty to the United Nations so we can spread our bad legal practice everywhere.
I don't think anybody wants to be viewed as 'impressive.' We all just want to ride on the thing. Who cares what we call it?
Fine. Be that way. But next time you need to be sued, you are outta luck, buddy.
So take that.With Microsoft, I expect fully compliant CSS3 support in another 300 years or so...
Absolutely not. It's a shame how diluted their work has become, but if you look back to the old cartoons, they really produced masterpieces. The Clock Cleaners, from 1937, is a great example. Funny gags, good music, superb artwork.
No, please. It's not within our authority to go around fixing everything. We do too much of it now. Afghanistan and Iraq I can stomach on some level, since there is a self-defense rationale. Unfortunately, many of the people supporting the action in Iraq also support our involvement in international affairs on purely moral grounds. And that always spells disaster. There are nation-states for a reason, it's much better that independence be maintained.
There's no money in it, but it wouldn't be too hard. OS X's predecessor (OPENSTEP/Mach) ran on x86, m68k, SPARC, and PA-RISC. I don't suppose they've made all that many changes to Mach or the Objective-C runtime in the last 10 years.
"We'll put the Wal-Mart...THERE!"
After all, the Smalltalk branch of OOP philosophy is the driving force behind Objective-C and Cocoa. And Apple is really starting to do some interesting work in advancing the usefulness of computers, which is right up Kay's alley.
The thoughts and beliefs of a group of people is not in lock-step with the 300,000,000 other people in the surrounding 3,537,438.44 square mile radius. Things always look monolithic at a distance. They never actually are.
Additionally, even among those who believe in morality and standards, there is a great deal of disagreement on what those standards are, their origins, and their purpose.
It's worth remembering, however, that NeXT was standing on the shoulders of giants with BSD and Mach. And the concept of Services was derived from pipelines in the CLI.
Hey, that's the tip of the iceberg. I still see plenty of people using Windows 98. I even have a 98 box lying around here somewhere.
Congratulations, you're the first person I've seen who is primarily annoyed with the promise of many more years of crufty ISA and a dearth of registers.
There are always the OPENSTEP/Mach clones. :-)
Don't tell him about all the walkie-talkies they have there.
There are far too many attempts to "unify" the world and destroy the free market of laws. This leads to universal bad government. The more governments, and the more independent, the better. Let international cooperation be limited to unofficial private transactions, like Free Software collaboration and private charities.