I would rather buy another hard disk than waste precious time editing the mail I'm replying too, in most cases it simply isn't necessary. For Usenet it's a different story as many people read it, so it's worth the effort.
That's what I was thinking. This shows how a company with good management can really save money. Instead of the standard outsourcing-to-cheap-country thing, you get 30,000 people, many of them very bright and motivated, working on your problem for free, and you only have to pay when they are successful per your definition. What a bargain!
You must not have seen the recent proposal for GNU tools options, which will require four dashes instead of two and a minimum of four words per option. Under a UN/EU funded program to ease the transition to intelligent machines, developers are rewarded for implementing full-sentence options and/or prose. But initial experiments showed that many users where unwilling to wait for the parsing of the command "remove-files --recursively-from-root-directory --do-not-ask-for-confirmation-just-delete --i-really-want-this!" just to be 1337, which led to whatever development efforts are mentioned in the article, which I didn't read.
Quite a complicated setup, but otherwise nice. I have been looking for an equivalent solution for Windows, so that I can plug it in any computer and boot my own environment. This would eliminate many potential problems (keyloggers,...) and make it possible to install own software easily.
In Germany we have RFID passports since last year. This despite much criticism (the old passports were considered one of the most secure documents ever). The new passport costs 59 euros, the old one was just 26 euros, so I got myself an old one just before the deadline.
In my opinion, the e-passport was largely introduced to secretly subsidize the biometrics sector: The interior minister responsible for the e-passport, Otto Schily, joined two biometrics companies this month:)
My guess: They block it because of potential nazi content, just as they're censoring search results in Germany and France for this reason. It's hard to filter video, so they block it completely.
That's one thing that could change a lot: Limit the amount of money that can be gathered from a patent to something like (cost of research + x%) where x allow for some profit so that research pays off. After that amount is reached, the patent goes into public domain and nobody has to pay anymore. This approach does prevent people from profiting from ridiculous patents (think Eolas) by putting the value and the effort needed to make the invention into perspective.
That way, you could still make a living by inventing things. But you can not "retire early" just by being lucky. But why should this be possible, anyway? And why should society have to pay so someone doesn't have to work for the rest of his/her life?
This system might not be fair for certain kinds of innovations. But I can't think of any right now:)
As I understand it, FAT patents _have_ been granted to MS but only recently been challenged.
So I'm wondering, did Red Hat and other commercial Linux distributors ask for permission to use VFAT, and MS allowed them to use it for free? I can't imagine that Linux companies are setting themselves up for legal risks by offering an OS with patented technology without checking with MS first.
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I would rather buy another hard disk than waste precious time editing the mail I'm replying too, in most cases it simply isn't necessary. For Usenet it's a different story as many people read it, so it's worth the effort.
That's what I was thinking. This shows how a company with good management can really save money. Instead of the standard outsourcing-to-cheap-country thing, you get 30,000 people, many of them very bright and motivated, working on your problem for free, and you only have to pay when they are successful per your definition. What a bargain!
So what did you previously and what are you doing now?
You must not have seen the recent proposal for GNU tools options, which will require four dashes instead of two and a minimum of four words per option. Under a UN/EU funded program to ease the transition to intelligent machines, developers are rewarded for implementing full-sentence options and/or prose. But initial experiments showed that many users where unwilling to wait for the parsing of the command "remove-files --recursively-from-root-directory --do-not-ask-for-confirmation-just-delete --i-really-want-this!" just to be 1337, which led to whatever development efforts are mentioned in the article, which I didn't read.
Thanks!
Quite a complicated setup, but otherwise nice. I have been looking for an equivalent solution for Windows, so that I can plug it in any computer and boot my own environment. This would eliminate many potential problems (keyloggers, ...) and make it possible to install own software easily.
Did anyone implement this already?
They are not trying to build another Google, they're aiming at more "intelligent" search using the semantic web approach.
It seems the situation is getting better in Germany in this regard, for example Hasso Plattner (one of SAP's founders) does exactly this.
Is this mathematical proof that Comic Sans is the worst font ever?
But it had only 64KB of'em, which surely wasn't enough for everyone!
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20. Profit??
Indeed, this sounds ridiculous. Upgrade your Office installations because of storage costs? With 750GB HDDs on the market?
In Germany we have RFID passports since last year. This despite much criticism (the old passports were considered one of the most secure documents ever). The new passport costs 59 euros, the old one was just 26 euros, so I got myself an old one just before the deadline.
:)
In my opinion, the e-passport was largely introduced to secretly subsidize the biometrics sector: The interior minister responsible for the e-passport, Otto Schily, joined two biometrics companies this month
Source (german only, sorry): http://www.silicon.de/enid/cio/21505
In Soviet Sweden, the criminals police you!!11!
Remember the optimized version of the Fraunhofer codec done by Radium? The guy who did it was called Ignoramus... Bush's secret cracker identity has been uncovered! Impeach him now!11!! http://windows.media.player.mp3.hack.399019.crack- locator.org/
This is probably the garbage in, garbage out concept the author mentioned.
:)
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My guess: They block it because of potential nazi content, just as they're censoring search results in Germany and France for this reason. It's hard to filter video, so they block it completely.
There you go:
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http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20051117
...or cap the sum of patent fees that can be collected for a patent to something like development_costs*x. Would kill lots of ridiculous patents, too.
That's one thing that could change a lot: Limit the amount of money that can be gathered from a patent to something like (cost of research + x%) where x allow for some profit so that research pays off. After that amount is reached, the patent goes into public domain and nobody has to pay anymore. This approach does prevent people from profiting from ridiculous patents (think Eolas) by putting the value and the effort needed to make the invention into perspective.
:)
That way, you could still make a living by inventing things. But you can not "retire early" just by being lucky. But why should this be possible, anyway? And why should society have to pay so someone doesn't have to work for the rest of his/her life?
This system might not be fair for certain kinds of innovations. But I can't think of any right now
As I understand it, FAT patents _have_ been granted to MS but only recently been challenged.
So I'm wondering, did Red Hat and other commercial Linux distributors ask for permission to use VFAT, and MS allowed them to use it for free? I can't imagine that Linux companies are setting themselves up for legal risks by offering an OS with patented technology without checking with MS first.
Could MS demand compensation from Red Hat & Co. for distributing VFAT without getting a license first?