I appreciate the noble effort, AC, but you are probably wasting your time. He will no doubt just claim it's me, and try to hound me even more than he's doing already.
You said "personal computer". You did not say anything about desktops, laptops, or mobile devices.
Since I use my mobile devices for both personal and work-related computing tasks (and not just making/sending/receiving calls/messages, either), I consider them mobile personal computers.:^)
You also said, "this doesn't include Android...I'm asking specifically about the Linux OS," which is a bit like asking for water but specifying that it mustn't be too damp.
IOW, you might want to consider the possibility that you posed a really badly worded question.
You might claim I could patent it, but you anti-intellectual property advocates naturally oppose those as well.
If you're talking about a new and different way of making decorative candles and you can demonstrate it working--then by all means you should be granted a patent. This is what patents are for. If you don't wish to reveal the process, you can instead take your chances at keeping a trade secret--but in this case, you are not protected from independent reinvention, only from actual theft of your trade secret.
If you're talking about a software programme, that's just a mathematical formula, which should not be patentable. However, the source constitutes your own expression of this formula, and thus should be (and is) copyrightable. This is what copyrights are for.
Some of us are actually interested in news about the push for open formats. If this story doesn't interest or seem especially newsworthy to you, you are free to skip it.
I seem to recall the Buddha saying that not everyone was ready for all of the truth all at once and we should show compassion by not trying to force such people to accept more of it than they were ready for.
I had some very interesting discussions around this topic a few years ago with some monks in Thailand; specifically, I asked them about the giving of blessings, which I found a bit odd, given what I knew about the Buddha's teachings. Their response could be summed up as something like, "We know that these 'blessings' are not part of the teachings of the Buddha, and they don't really do anything except perhaps make people feel better. But making people feel better is certainly permitted, even encouraged, as long we do no harm. It could be argued that going along with the people in this regard fosters superstition, which of course is harmful--IF we claimed that our blessings actually had any effect, which we do not. We are merely showing appropriate compassion towards those who are not yet ready to free themselves of all superstition, which the Buddha does indeed teach us that we should do."
Reincarnation is actually part of the core teachings, and was not tacked on later as you allege.
I suspect you're making the classical error of confusing it with resurrection, which is a mostly if not purely Western/Christian concept.
Resurrection: After you die, you'll be brought back to life as yourself, just as you were when you were alive previously. Which is poppycock.
Reincarnation: After you die, you won't come back, but bits of you will be included in and live again as parts of new life. Which is perfectly true.
Finally, you're under the mistaken impression that Buddhism is a religion, and it is not. Religion is about accepting dogma. Buddhism is about discerning the truth to the best of your abilities, and accepting it.
One of the nice things about WM is that the program menus are easily customisable, and you can actually get it looking pretty slick with a little tweaking. And there are still lots of themes for it floating about here and there, not too hard to find.
I'm not certain, of course, but I tend to think that our AC friend is APK. No idea what I've done to merit the schoolboy crush, though. Maybe he doesn't know that I'm married.
Had you actually read this thread, you'd have seen that the article date has already been brought up, and I've already taken note of same. But, hey, thanks for playing.
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I'm sorry, what has this to do with the EU again?
*snort*
Still waiting...
When you post ac, it's your schizophrenic multiple personality disorder
Well, an AC said it, I guess an AC would know.
I'd mod you up if (a) I'd not already posted in this thread and (b) I could decide between Funny and Insightful. :)
I've lots (tens, maybe hundreds) of colleagues who buy Macs and put Linux on them.
Nope, and nope. Hadn't thought of either--thanks for the suggestions. I'll try limiting the CPU first.
I appreciate the noble effort, AC, but you are probably wasting your time. He will no doubt just claim it's me, and try to hound me even more than he's doing already.
I read that as "potential exploits", but by all means take the point for this one--I stand corrected.
Exploits are programs developed to take advantage of flaws and vulnerabilities, so most software is not "stuffed" with them.
Non sequitur. Just because an exploit has not yet been developed for a given vulnerability does not mean that the vulnerability does not exist.
You said "personal computer". You did not say anything about desktops, laptops, or mobile devices.
Since I use my mobile devices for both personal and work-related computing tasks (and not just making/sending/receiving calls/messages, either), I consider them mobile personal computers. :^)
You also said, "this doesn't include Android...I'm asking specifically about the Linux OS," which is a bit like asking for water but specifying that it mustn't be too damp.
IOW, you might want to consider the possibility that you posed a really badly worded question.
Nobody NEEDS indoor plumbing; there is nothing happening in there that can't be accomplished elsewhere.
Parts of Eurasia have their act together. The US is largely a 2nd world country in terms of internet access and rates.
TFTFY. On behalf of those of us who live in "Asia" west of the Urals.
You might claim I could patent it, but you anti-intellectual property advocates naturally oppose those as well.
If you're talking about a new and different way of making decorative candles and you can demonstrate it working--then by all means you should be granted a patent. This is what patents are for. If you don't wish to reveal the process, you can instead take your chances at keeping a trade secret--but in this case, you are not protected from independent reinvention, only from actual theft of your trade secret.
If you're talking about a software programme, that's just a mathematical formula, which should not be patentable. However, the source constitutes your own expression of this formula, and thus should be (and is) copyrightable. This is what copyrights are for.
Some of us are actually interested in news about the push for open formats. If this story doesn't interest or seem especially newsworthy to you, you are free to skip it.
I seem to recall the Buddha saying that not everyone was ready for all of the truth all at once and we should show compassion by not trying to force such people to accept more of it than they were ready for.
I had some very interesting discussions around this topic a few years ago with some monks in Thailand; specifically, I asked them about the giving of blessings, which I found a bit odd, given what I knew about the Buddha's teachings. Their response could be summed up as something like, "We know that these 'blessings' are not part of the teachings of the Buddha, and they don't really do anything except perhaps make people feel better. But making people feel better is certainly permitted, even encouraged, as long we do no harm. It could be argued that going along with the people in this regard fosters superstition, which of course is harmful--IF we claimed that our blessings actually had any effect, which we do not. We are merely showing appropriate compassion towards those who are not yet ready to free themselves of all superstition, which the Buddha does indeed teach us that we should do."
Reincarnation is actually part of the core teachings, and was not tacked on later as you allege.
I suspect you're making the classical error of confusing it with resurrection, which is a mostly if not purely Western/Christian concept.
Resurrection: After you die, you'll be brought back to life as yourself, just as you were when you were alive previously. Which is poppycock.
Reincarnation: After you die, you won't come back, but bits of you will be included in and live again as parts of new life. Which is perfectly true.
Finally, you're under the mistaken impression that Buddhism is a religion, and it is not. Religion is about accepting dogma. Buddhism is about discerning the truth to the best of your abilities, and accepting it.
One of the nice things about WM is that the program menus are easily customisable, and you can actually get it looking pretty slick with a little tweaking. And there are still lots of themes for it floating about here and there, not too hard to find.
I'm not certain, of course, but I tend to think that our AC friend is APK. No idea what I've done to merit the schoolboy crush, though. Maybe he doesn't know that I'm married.
That wasn't my post.
Why should I post AC and lose my auto +1?
When Boehner says something intelligent about a subject of interest to most Slashdotters, he might very well make the front page, too.
What's with all the Euro-hate, anyway?
Can we have the Golden Girls Guy back now, please?
I'm willing to bet that the amount of forested area has not increased over the last few centuries.
Had you actually read this thread, you'd have seen that the article date has already been brought up, and I've already taken note of same. But, hey, thanks for playing.
Take it up with Aleister Crowley, kiddo.
Because we travel the way we do through time.
Antimatter travels through it in the other direction.
And we when we and the antimatter get all the way from one end of Time to the other--BOOM! It's the end.