"If you have a technical issue with Microsoft, it's faster to search their database with Google rather than their own search engine" Times Online. Get your act together guys!
Cybersquatters will generally either offer to sell the name back to the trademark owner for an extortionate price, or make money from internet traffic accidentally landing on their page.
Cybersquatters sound exactly like patent trolls, such as a certain company that patented double-clicking and IsNot, just with a different type of IP.
This is no different from a supermarket loyalty scheme, except that you can't opt out.
The sooner Homeland Security start offering discount points and a frequent flyer program the better - to reward loyal citizens - otherwise it's just a rip-off.
A. Depends on the ethics of each author. Nothing prevents you taking a GPL'd product and making your own proprietary changes. Then when you distribute your product you strip comments and obfuscate the code before compiling the final release version and publishing the incomprehensible source. In theory it's still Open Source, in practice it's not. I've used an AJAX framework which looks like this has happened.
"We are definitely committed to [offering copyright protection technologies]. It is one of the company's highest priorities," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt in an interview.
Note how the author calls this technology by the emotive term copyright protection throughout the whole article (because protection is good, right?), instead of the neutral term copyright restriction, even distorting quotes such as this one from Google's CEO. Also there's nothing wrong with including snippets of content from another source - it's what I've done here and it's called "fair use".
The Mesopotamians also developed a printing technology which does not require ink of any kind. The ancient technology included reusable "paper" which could be printed and erased dozens of times and had the potential to revolutionize printing. Details on this ancient technology, which was first reported around 1000 BC, are revealed in Wikipedia. These wax tablets were subsequently popularised by the Greeks and Romans.
In the subject, I'm speculating that Hammurabi, conqueror of Mesopotamia around 1792 BC and legendary for bureaucracy, probably have used Wax tablets alongside his more durable clay tablets. After almost 4000 years we're finally getting back to the paperless office.
Along with the useless 'haha' tag, doesn't some wank normally add a 'defectivebydesign' tag whenever Microsoft is mentioned?
The 'defectivebydesign' tag is for DRM, because it is. Unfortunately, unlike Vista itself the malware wasn't written by Microsoft, so it's effectivebydesign.
The downside of Ballmer "crying wolf" like this is that it seriously pisses off developers.
It forces designers like myself to avoid Microsoft technologies and extensions to standards because they attract less support, indeed outright hatred. Exactly the same thing happened when Sun brought out the lawyers, about eight years ago, and as a result killed client-side Java.
that we can't even get "The Hitchhikers' Guide to The Galaxy" onto Google book search, which means I can't link to the original of the quote about how we primitives think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
As I've said here repeatedly, nobody pays or has ever paid for music.
Back when I ran a games company I paid $thousands for sound-track music. Not ACCESS to music. Real, new music that would not have existed otherwise. Here's a more famous example, the original Channel 4 jingle.
Every time I see a story like this, it just upsets me. It's going against our culture, which values sharing and building upon others' work, and making use of what we already have to create new things. What's the point of this? It's just tilting at windmills -- those values are so ingrained in us that they're not going to go away.
I agree with you, but if you log on to YouTube many uploads there are nothing more than TV broadcasts stripped of commercials. Uploaders aren't creating anything, they're just engaging in copyright infringement. I think copyright laws need to be a little more relaxed about "clip-and-snip", where people genuinely create something new by piecing together other (copyrighted) stuff, but I have no patience with people whose idea of "sharing" is just wholesale redistribution of copyrighted material.
Says parent who just copied all grandparent's copyrighted comment wholesale.
From a programmers perspective, time zone stuff is pretty easy to work around.
Then be happy that you're a programmer, because from a system designers' perspective, time zone stuff is annoyingly complex. Did you know that there are hundreds of time zones? Are you using a tz database?
... the fingerprint scanner also doubles up as a touch-sensitive scroll interface that lets you scroll down emails, menus or Web sites simply by sliding your finger over it. While it may seem strange to have the scanner on the back, it's actually quite well placed because your fingers are on the back of the phone when you're holding it.
This sounds a more sensible use and kudos if they didn't patent it.
So we will accept the wager and perform a security audit on the Network World site and attempt to breach any vulnerabilities found. This should be a fair substitute, since we are assuming that considering Mr. Snyder's comments, Network World is confident that its website is secure and any data it holds is unbreachable. - Network World
My company has been through several security audits and they require several days of management time, plus telling the auditors all about your IT infrastructure and data compliance. Security audits are not about hacking - they check that you've hardened your infrastructure, have appropriate policies for e.g. 'phone queries, and avoid client data being unnecessarily exposed. They're similar to a VAT (sales tax) inspection.
You should only agree an audit by totally trustworthy auditors, working for a major client, which is not the case here.
The truth is out. Microsoft didn't kill clippy in MS Office, they just moved him upstairs to an entire operating system designed to ask unwieldy and confusing questions.
This link allegedly tells you how to turn the questions off, but unfortunately I can understand the words, even most of the sentences, but the whole thing is just dreadful, "As a result, IT departments often cannot gauge the holistic health and security of their environments." Can anyone help?
Just in case somebody doesn't notice the irony and takes the above seriously, all of the above is irony and none of it is intended to be taken seriously. It's a completely fictitious illustration of the consequences of the parent post. I have no intentions whatsoever of threatening or hurting anyone.
That's what these guys said, right up until they were convicted on the basis of internet 'conversations' and sentenced to jail.
Watch me as I telephone the police... see my hand press the buttons... joke!!!
Mexico is in the grip of the worst tortilla crisis in its modern history. Dramatically rising international corn prices, spurred by demand for the grain-based fuel ethanol, have led to expensive tortillas... With a minimum wage of $4.60 a day, Mexican families with one wage earner have been faced in recent months with the choice of having to spend as much as a third of their income on tortillas - Washington Post
Blue state citizen? read up on the Irish Potato Famine.
Red state citizen? realise this could force millions more poor Mexicans to head north
Re Broadband, It's important, but the carving-up of of our common public culture into so-called intellectual property which must be paid for again and again is much more significant for poor towns, as we've seen in history.
For example, if I cut an object in two, each part has half the entropy of its parent. But they're also only half as big, so my cutting doesn't affect the "entropy state" of the system. The two halves don't instantaneously get cooler for example.
In the theory, each little universe-let has less entropy, but also proportionally less mass and energy. So it cancels out and there's no "low entropy state".
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Even pirates have some standards.
"If you have a technical issue with Microsoft, it's faster to search their database with Google rather than their own search engine" Times Online. Get your act together guys!
...is that Monsanto screwed up again. Also go eat green potatoes if you think all foods are "digested just the same".
...sounds so much better than Not Invented Here
This is no different from a supermarket loyalty scheme, except that you can't opt out.
The sooner Homeland Security start offering discount points and a frequent flyer program the better - to reward loyal citizens - otherwise it's just a rip-off.
A. Depends on the ethics of each author. Nothing prevents you taking a GPL'd product and making your own proprietary changes. Then when you distribute your product you strip comments and obfuscate the code before compiling the final release version and publishing the incomprehensible source. In theory it's still Open Source, in practice it's not. I've used an AJAX framework which looks like this has happened.
The Mesopotamians also developed a printing technology which does not require ink of any kind. The ancient technology included reusable "paper" which could be printed and erased dozens of times and had the potential to revolutionize printing. Details on this ancient technology, which was first reported around 1000 BC, are revealed in Wikipedia. These wax tablets were subsequently popularised by the Greeks and Romans.
In the subject, I'm speculating that Hammurabi, conqueror of Mesopotamia around 1792 BC and legendary for bureaucracy, probably have used Wax tablets alongside his more durable clay tablets. After almost 4000 years we're finally getting back to the paperless office.
The downside of Ballmer "crying wolf" like this is that it seriously pisses off developers.
It forces designers like myself to avoid Microsoft technologies and extensions to standards because they attract less support, indeed outright hatred. Exactly the same thing happened when Sun brought out the lawyers, about eight years ago, and as a result killed client-side Java.
Anagrams: proof that sarcasm is not the lowest form of wit
that we can't even get "The Hitchhikers' Guide to The Galaxy" onto Google book search, which means I can't link to the original of the quote about how we primitives think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
These are found quite often.
If you found a frog in most products you'd be disgusted. Here it's a good thing. Anyone know who does their PR?
You should only agree an audit by totally trustworthy auditors, working for a major client, which is not the case here.
The truth is out. Microsoft didn't kill clippy in MS Office, they just moved him upstairs to an entire operating system designed to ask unwieldy and confusing questions.
This link allegedly tells you how to turn the questions off , but unfortunately I can understand the words, even most of the sentences, but the whole thing is just dreadful, "As a result, IT departments often cannot gauge the holistic health and security of their environments." Can anyone help?
...thump, whack, slap. Sorry!
Watch me as I telephone the police
Fox must want a favor in the USA because News International (Fox) is the owner of this paper. Possibly they plan a take-over!
No you can't trust me but, hey, advice on Slashdot might be a better bet than all those pump-and-dump share scams clogging your in-box.
Red state citizen? realise this could force millions more poor Mexicans to head north
Re Broadband, It's important, but the carving-up of of our common public culture into so-called intellectual property which must be paid for again and again is much more significant for poor towns, as we've seen in history.
...so this theory seems to achieve nothing.
For example, if I cut an object in two, each part has half the entropy of its parent. But they're also only half as big, so my cutting doesn't affect the "entropy state" of the system. The two halves don't instantaneously get cooler for example.
In the theory, each little universe-let has less entropy, but also proportionally less mass and energy. So it cancels out and there's no "low entropy state".