Reading the HP-UX fsck manual page and finding a joke (the only one I know f in the standard reference docs): "You can tune a filesystem but you can't tuna fish"
...realize that if Google *doesn't* patent it, someone else can, which would be even worse...
IANAL, but, AFAIK, Google could publish their algorithm, thus preventing (by `prior art') anyone else patenting it. Always assuming that the patent lawers etc are competent enough to find the Google publication.
As an aside, I once saw a (U.K.) patent which cited the Beano (Famous U.K. comic) in `related work'. I don't know whether the patent people have a full library of comics...
...the british will stop at nothing to keep their empire.
Not strictly true, for two reasons. Firstly, there's not much of an empire left (c.f. Hong Kong, handed back to China not so long ago), and Australia isn't part of the `empire' (on which, of course, the sun never sets:); it's part of the Commonwealth, which means that the Queen is officially head of state. Practically, it seems to mean the odd state visit here and there, to allow someone a pot-shot at Prince Charles:)
I guess it probably also suffers from the usual self-selecting sample problem of other opinion polls. I don't know how long it's been running. it'd be interesting to examine the correlation between election results and Posdaq prices.
Seems an interesting idea, though. Anyone have a URL?
The usenet posts are published as Appendix A of ``Open Sources'' from O'Reilly. An interesting debate between Tannenbaum (who thinks that micro-kernel OSs are The One True Way), Linus (who mainly agrees, but is more pragmatic about things), and others (guest appearances from Ken Thompson). It's a good read, and the place where I learnt LBT's middle initial:) Stephen
Slashdot Mirror
And a BBC link too...
SW
IANAL, but, AFAIK, Google could publish their algorithm, thus preventing (by `prior art') anyone else patenting it. Always assuming that the patent lawers etc are competent enough to find the Google publication.
As an aside, I once saw a (U.K.) patent which cited the Beano (Famous U.K. comic) in `related work'. I don't know whether the patent people have a full library of comics...
Stephen
Not strictly true, for two reasons. Firstly, there's not much of an empire left (c.f. Hong Kong, handed back to China not so long ago), and Australia isn't part of the `empire' (on which, of course, the sun never sets :); it's part of the Commonwealth, which means that the Queen is officially head of state. Practically, it seems to mean the odd state visit here and there, to allow someone a pot-shot at Prince Charles :)
Stephen
I guess it probably also suffers from the usual self-selecting sample problem of other opinion polls. I don't know how long it's been running. it'd be interesting to examine the correlation between election results and Posdaq prices.
Seems an interesting idea, though. Anyone have a URL?
Stephen
The usenet posts are published as Appendix A of ``Open Sources'' from O'Reilly. An interesting debate between Tannenbaum (who thinks that micro-kernel OSs are The One True Way), Linus (who mainly agrees, but is more pragmatic about things), and others (guest appearances from Ken Thompson). It's a good read, and the place where I learnt LBT's middle initial :) Stephen