Will the documents be usable outside the EU? The EU may allow Mac and Linux developers documentation, but that documentation may have the status of trade secret in the US.
So Microsoft has given documentation... Can they actually be implemented legally worldwide?
If there's a terrorist attack like the Bush Administration expects, how will it get reported? Last I checked the news was still in HDTV and not Holovision.
What happens if someone reverse-engineers the technology to get my fingerprints out of my card? Am I going to be charged for any crimes this person then goes and commits with my prints?
Aren't "enterprise sector" and "private sector" the same thing (as opposed to "government sector")?
When did we install Communism? Did I miss something?
"Looking forward to the year 2001. ChristianNerds writes "Atari Magazine is serving up an article written in 1989 concerning what the next century would be like. From the article: 'A typical morning in the year 2001: You wake up, scan the custom newspaper that's spilling from your fax, walk into the living room. There you speak to a giant screen on the wall, part of which instantly becomes a high-quality TV monitor. When you leave for work, you carry a smart wallet, a computer the size of a credit card. When you come home, you slip on special eyeglasses and stroll through a completely artificial world.' They got a great deal right, like the spread of optical disk usage, the internet (ISDN), and parallel processing."
I get custom RSS feeds, that pretty much counts as a custom newspaper for me. I've seen voice-controlled switches and HDTVs, wouldn't surprise me that some people have connected the two. American Express makes Blue, a credit card that is quite really a computer. I haven't seen the virtual world like described, but most MMORPGs would count if your monitor is big enough.
Wow. I never thought predictions of the new millennium would be accurate. Turns out they were mostly right.:O
Wouldn't I have to download three versions of the same virus for this to be a problem?
Last time I checked, PE binaries don't run on Linux and ELF binaries don't run on Windows. Yeah, in theory it could download the right virus for the platform, probe the system and run them, but please explain to me how exactly a binary that won't run on my kernel would be able to do that? I guess you could send me a shell script, but that wouldn't work on Windows. Hmm. Suddenly your 'platform independent virus' idea stops making any practical sense.
Did you contact the developers with your complaints? OSS is largely a participation sport. If you make your complaints known, the developers will fix them. Contrast that with, say, Windows, where Microsoft *STILL* hasn't fixed critical security flaws that have been publically known since 2003.
That isn't the choice, though. I didn't say some means of blocking bots is a bad idea, I said that if a person is blind or deafblind he or she should not be denied access to a particular website because he or she is that way. You're sidestepping the question rather than actually developing an answer.
I'm hard of hearing, and I've looked at what it costs in cash to have a deaf sign language (as opposed to deafblind sign language) interpreter around. And with rates generally around $80-$100 (USD) an hour, having an interpreter around all the time is cost-prohibitive if you're paying out of the pocket. I'd imagine deafblind sign language interpreters would charge even more because they have a more specialised skillset and because there's less of them overall.
Do you have $175,000 it would cost for me to have a deaf sign language interpreter with me for eight hours a day five days a week, all year? Didn't think so. For schools, there's the IEP system for a reason, but unfortunately, that doesn't follow the person home or into the workplace.
Website content developers should make their content such that it is accessable to all potential viewers, not just a particular subset of potential viewers.
Unfortunately, Firefox doesn't pass the Acid2 test yet... Konqueror does, but then again, if Safari does, so should Konqueror. As long as browser makers are trying to being compatible with the quirks in the Trident engine, standards will be ignored all over the place.
Because Linux isn't a company, let alone a monopolistic one. Linux is better because it is Free. I am led to believe that most people think freedom is better than being controlled.
Windows is control. Linux is freedom. Do you want me to sponsor a study on why freedom is better than control or should I just refer you to the Declaration of Independence and let that document speak for itself?
My opinion is that if the market cannot embrace new technologies, then the market must undergo a paradigm shift. If current providers of mobile service cannot embrace advancements, new providers must be started. If manufacturers will not develop newer, more powerful devices, new manufacturers must start producing.
Hell, if someone can get a decent hardware patent for a next-generation embedded Linux platform that sells well because it implements the newest hardware, you can bet Microsoft and Verizon will cry... A lot.
As a Christian, I allege that you are full of it and do not understand the idea of evolution yourself or are blinded by your support of ID such that you cannot see reason.
"We actually don't have substantial evidence (fossil or otherwise) that mutation ever caused inter-species changes, just the assumption that it could occur, given that intra-species changes occur."
I'm sure the homo sapiens would be very displeased to hear your belief that they never existed, as it is quite apparent from the fossil record that they did and that they predate our modern homo sapiens sapien species. There is actually extensive evidence that macro-evolution can and does occur by the fossil record, which implies that those who question this concept are only reading selective parts of certain scientific papers or are only reading the papers of people who are already biased in favor of ID and are therefor exaggerating their claims in favor of their religious beliefs. All things considered, the people who are purporting Intelligent Design to be a legitimate and valid scientific hypothesis generally do not read (or instead make great efforts to ignore or forget) the parts of material which runs contrary to their religious beliefs. Those who favor ID typically have negative views of homosexuality, sexual liberation, the equality of women, among other things, when indeed the same book (the Bible) that is cited for these beliefs is cited in such a fashion that the citation is inconsistent with context.
Is it possible those proposing ID be an acceptable way of thinking are just ignoring the details of the text they are reading in favor of particular sentences or phrases which seem to agree with them? It would certainly seem likely to me that this is the case, as it is done all so typically with regards to religious canon by the very same people.
"This is the 'flaw' in evolution that IDers seek to have pointed out - macro-evolution _isn't consistent with the scientific method_."
Oh, so something which is observable, testable and scientifically verifiable is not consistent with the scientific method, but assuming that an unseen deity whose existence cannot be proven by any scientific means whatsoever is responsible for the creation of the universe and the development of all life on earth is?
I'm not an atheist by any stretch of the imagination, but your position simply isn't tenable.
This is not a matter of faith or lack of faith in God. I believe in God. But I have difficulty believing that scientifically testable and verifiable fact can be false when compared with a hypothesis for which there is no scientific evidence whatsoever and the only thing which may imply that it is true is a single piece of religious canon whose Absolute validity cannot be determined. Until God comes down and says that everything in the Bible is true, it cannot be proven. And since the only evidence that that ever actually happened is stories which are in the Bible and oral legends, there is no evidence and therefor, any supposition that it is true is simply religious rhetoric.
If that's true than I've recomposed the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica in the time it took me to write this post on a blog somewhere. Help me find it, as we could make big bucks.
I imagine the good Reverend is smart enough to know that if the student blogger doesn't post any identifying information about himself or herself it would be very difficult for the good Reverend to suspend the student.
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Will the documents be usable outside the EU? The EU may allow Mac and Linux developers documentation, but that documentation may have the status of trade secret in the US.
So Microsoft has given documentation... Can they actually be implemented legally worldwide?
How many babies will Samba developers need to kill to be able to implement ActiveDirectory properly?
If there's a terrorist attack like the Bush Administration expects, how will it get reported? Last I checked the news was still in HDTV and not Holovision.
Our government believes that if it isn't broken (yet) don't fix it. Actually, well, a lot of businesses think that too.
Yeah, isn't it wonderful that they find a way to test them *after* they're broken and the city destroyed?
What happens if someone reverse-engineers the technology to get my fingerprints out of my card? Am I going to be charged for any crimes this person then goes and commits with my prints?
Aren't "enterprise sector" and "private sector" the same thing (as opposed to "government sector")? When did we install Communism? Did I miss something?
"Looking forward to the year 2001. ChristianNerds writes "Atari Magazine is serving up an article written in 1989 concerning what the next century would be like. From the article: 'A typical morning in the year 2001: You wake up, scan the custom newspaper that's spilling from your fax, walk into the living room. There you speak to a giant screen on the wall, part of which instantly becomes a high-quality TV monitor. When you leave for work, you carry a smart wallet, a computer the size of a credit card. When you come home, you slip on special eyeglasses and stroll through a completely artificial world.' They got a great deal right, like the spread of optical disk usage, the internet (ISDN), and parallel processing."
:O
I get custom RSS feeds, that pretty much counts as a custom newspaper for me. I've seen voice-controlled switches and HDTVs, wouldn't surprise me that some people have connected the two. American Express makes Blue, a credit card that is quite really a computer. I haven't seen the virtual world like described, but most MMORPGs would count if your monitor is big enough.
Wow. I never thought predictions of the new millennium would be accurate. Turns out they were mostly right.
The Third Rule is when in doubt, refer to rules one and two.
Wouldn't I have to download three versions of the same virus for this to be a problem? Last time I checked, PE binaries don't run on Linux and ELF binaries don't run on Windows. Yeah, in theory it could download the right virus for the platform, probe the system and run them, but please explain to me how exactly a binary that won't run on my kernel would be able to do that? I guess you could send me a shell script, but that wouldn't work on Windows. Hmm. Suddenly your 'platform independent virus' idea stops making any practical sense.
Did you contact the developers with your complaints? OSS is largely a participation sport. If you make your complaints known, the developers will fix them. Contrast that with, say, Windows, where Microsoft *STILL* hasn't fixed critical security flaws that have been publically known since 2003.
Yeah, but if it doesn't render correctly in every browser in existence (even Amaya) Microsoft will have something to FUD with.
Land of the free? heh
Indeed. I present the following extension of that idea.
The Hollywood's Mangled Manners
by Teresh
to the tune of 'The Star Spangled Banner' by Francis Scott Key
O, say can you see?
By hollywood's early light,
What so proudly we hate,
At the fair use's last gleaming.
Whose broad strides and Right bars
From the perilous 'Net
O, the controls we watch
Are so ungallantly growing
And the rootkits red glare!
The rights bursting in air!
Gave proof through the night,
That our DRM was still there!
O, say does that star spangled XCP yet wave?
O, the land of the Free*!
And the home of the RIAA!
*Note: 'Free' refers to the freedom to buy multiple copies for the same additional price.
That isn't the choice, though. I didn't say some means of blocking bots is a bad idea, I said that if a person is blind or deafblind he or she should not be denied access to a particular website because he or she is that way. You're sidestepping the question rather than actually developing an answer.
How much would it cost?
I'm hard of hearing, and I've looked at what it costs in cash to have a deaf sign language (as opposed to deafblind sign language) interpreter around. And with rates generally around $80-$100 (USD) an hour, having an interpreter around all the time is cost-prohibitive if you're paying out of the pocket. I'd imagine deafblind sign language interpreters would charge even more because they have a more specialised skillset and because there's less of them overall.
Do you have $175,000 it would cost for me to have a deaf sign language interpreter with me for eight hours a day five days a week, all year? Didn't think so. For schools, there's the IEP system for a reason, but unfortunately, that doesn't follow the person home or into the workplace.
Website content developers should make their content such that it is accessable to all potential viewers, not just a particular subset of potential viewers.
Unfortunately, Firefox doesn't pass the Acid2 test yet... Konqueror does, but then again, if Safari does, so should Konqueror. As long as browser makers are trying to being compatible with the quirks in the Trident engine, standards will be ignored all over the place.
'Microsoft stands behind its products and respects intellectual property rights.'
I'm sure Xerox PARC agrees.
Yes, the guitar plays, but does it run Linux?
Because Linux isn't a company, let alone a monopolistic one. Linux is better because it is Free. I am led to believe that most people think freedom is better than being controlled.
Windows is control. Linux is freedom. Do you want me to sponsor a study on why freedom is better than control or should I just refer you to the Declaration of Independence and let that document speak for itself?
My opinion is that if the market cannot embrace new technologies, then the market must undergo a paradigm shift. If current providers of mobile service cannot embrace advancements, new providers must be started. If manufacturers will not develop newer, more powerful devices, new manufacturers must start producing. Hell, if someone can get a decent hardware patent for a next-generation embedded Linux platform that sells well because it implements the newest hardware, you can bet Microsoft and Verizon will cry... A lot.
As a Christian, I allege that you are full of it and do not understand the idea of evolution yourself or are blinded by your support of ID such that you cannot see reason.
"We actually don't have substantial evidence (fossil or otherwise) that mutation ever caused inter-species changes, just the assumption that it could occur, given that intra-species changes occur."
I'm sure the homo sapiens would be very displeased to hear your belief that they never existed, as it is quite apparent from the fossil record that they did and that they predate our modern homo sapiens sapien species. There is actually extensive evidence that macro-evolution can and does occur by the fossil record, which implies that those who question this concept are only reading selective parts of certain scientific papers or are only reading the papers of people who are already biased in favor of ID and are therefor exaggerating their claims in favor of their religious beliefs. All things considered, the people who are purporting Intelligent Design to be a legitimate and valid scientific hypothesis generally do not read (or instead make great efforts to ignore or forget) the parts of material which runs contrary to their religious beliefs. Those who favor ID typically have negative views of homosexuality, sexual liberation, the equality of women, among other things, when indeed the same book (the Bible) that is cited for these beliefs is cited in such a fashion that the citation is inconsistent with context.
Is it possible those proposing ID be an acceptable way of thinking are just ignoring the details of the text they are reading in favor of particular sentences or phrases which seem to agree with them? It would certainly seem likely to me that this is the case, as it is done all so typically with regards to religious canon by the very same people.
"This is the 'flaw' in evolution that IDers seek to have pointed out - macro-evolution _isn't consistent with the scientific method_."
Oh, so something which is observable, testable and scientifically verifiable is not consistent with the scientific method, but assuming that an unseen deity whose existence cannot be proven by any scientific means whatsoever is responsible for the creation of the universe and the development of all life on earth is?
I'm not an atheist by any stretch of the imagination, but your position simply isn't tenable.
This is not a matter of faith or lack of faith in God. I believe in God. But I have difficulty believing that scientifically testable and verifiable fact can be false when compared with a hypothesis for which there is no scientific evidence whatsoever and the only thing which may imply that it is true is a single piece of religious canon whose Absolute validity cannot be determined. Until God comes down and says that everything in the Bible is true, it cannot be proven. And since the only evidence that that ever actually happened is stories which are in the Bible and oral legends, there is no evidence and therefor, any supposition that it is true is simply religious rhetoric.
If that's true than I've recomposed the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica in the time it took me to write this post on a blog somewhere. Help me find it, as we could make big bucks.
I imagine the good Reverend is smart enough to know that if the student blogger doesn't post any identifying information about himself or herself it would be very difficult for the good Reverend to suspend the student.
Oh well. It's not like we cared about how their parents punished them for no reason, why they got detention, or about their terrible grades anyway.
Already been done (well, with a Linux kernel, anyway). It's called ReactOS.