I for one would prefer not to be blown up. If I were blown up I probably wouldn't care much about who did, it being dead. If one cent of actual police funding is taken to implement this stupid idea, the terrorists have won.
Just as the SCO matter looks like winding down (with The SCO Group running out of money to fund the bogus legal action) up pops Microsoft repeating exactly the same accusations and, in the same manner as Darl, not identifying the IP that they claim is theirs.
It's time to challenge Microsoft. Either identify by file and line, the code that they believe is their IP or shut up.
Linux source is visible to all. Even Ballmer can download and grep through it. SCO did and couldn't find their IP.
Microsoft think that they are legally untouchable. Prove them wrong.
Every experimental "interactive" tv service has failed despite being wildly popular with the participants for the first few weeks. After that interest fails. Much of the time people want animated wallpaper not something that has to be attended to at regular intervals like a demanding pet.
Using the well known US legal system, cancer patients will be suing any drug company with a possible cure that is not available because the company cannot make money on it.
Either that or India and China will be putting together production lines, RIGHT NOW, to market a generic version.
The source form looks more like Algol60 printed on a flexowriter (all aged programmers will recognise this blast from the past.) There is some resemblence to BCPL. But the language is much more complex than anything most people will be familiar with.
I don't care about the technicalities. If I put a DVD or any successor into a drive that can play the disk I should see the pictures and hear the audio to the best the hardware can support.
Vista cannot and should not make any kind of decision on the validity of the disk beyond checking that it is correctly formatted.
All Microsoft will get is a reputation for unreliability above and beyond the one they have now.
The technology is trivial but the legal costs will kill you.
Just suppose a "home robot" does harm. Who do you sue? The hardware maker, the software maker, both or neither. Obviously the standard EULA will limit the compensation to the cost of the software or $5.
How does that RIAA know that a given computer was under the sole control of the current owner? A badly secured Windows PC may be under control of somebody a thousand miles away.
I have yet to see any web ads that could in any manner be called "targeted" at me based on my interests, from any source. It's always the usual trash ads for stuff nobody with an IQ greater than their shoe size would want.
In the new world order, everybody is a terror suspect until proven otherwise. It won't be long before special rewards will be authorised for children who inform on their non-conformist parents.
You can work out what the customer wants, and provide it. Or you can not bother to find out and just put in every tick-box item you have heard of hoping you've covered all possibilities.
My DVD player remote has 83 buttons. I use about 10 of them.
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I for one would prefer not to be blown up.
If I were blown up I probably wouldn't care much about who did, it being dead.
If one cent of actual police funding is taken to implement this stupid idea, the terrorists have won.
Just as the SCO matter looks like winding down (with The SCO Group running out of money to fund the bogus legal action) up pops Microsoft repeating exactly the same accusations and, in the same manner as Darl, not identifying the IP that they claim is theirs.
It's time to challenge Microsoft. Either identify by file and line, the code that they believe is their IP or shut up.
Linux source is visible to all. Even Ballmer can download and grep through it. SCO did and couldn't find their IP.
Microsoft think that they are legally untouchable. Prove them wrong.
Can you sue for libel?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBFxscicJA0
Every experimental "interactive" tv service has failed despite being wildly popular with the participants for the first few weeks. After that interest fails. Much of the time people want animated wallpaper not something that has to be attended to at regular intervals like a demanding pet.
Microsoft cripples Vista with DRM and the potential users of DRM don't want it?
Oh, the irony.
Using the well known US legal system, cancer patients will be suing any drug company with a possible cure that is not available because the company cannot make money on it.
Either that or India and China will be putting together production lines, RIGHT NOW, to market a generic version.
Stunned! Stunned I tell ya!
If you were to tell me that the Boy Gates has $50 billion in the bank I wouldn't be more Stunned!
Fortress doesn't look anything like Fortran.
The source form looks more like Algol60 printed on a flexowriter (all aged programmers will recognise this blast from the past.) There is some resemblence to BCPL. But the language is much more complex than anything most people will be familiar with.
The street map of Moscow used to be a state secret.
Didn't do much to secure the city from crime and bombs.
Strangely enough, Iraqies tend to know their own country and a military site is rather obvious.
When will US politicians realise that giving an act a really silly name just to create an acronym makes them look like lightweights?
Had a home server for years. It used to run Fedora, but I upgraded to Solaris 10.
Why is it that Microsoft is always five years behind the times?
I don't care about the technicalities. If I put a DVD or any successor into a drive that can play the disk I should see the pictures and hear the audio to the best the hardware can support.
Vista cannot and should not make any kind of decision on the validity of the disk beyond checking that it is correctly formatted.
All Microsoft will get is a reputation for unreliability above and beyond the one they have now.
Some record companies claimed that allowing radio stations to play records would damage their profits.
As it turned out they were talking rubbish.
Identity is no proof of intent.
The technology is trivial but the legal costs will kill you.
Just suppose a "home robot" does harm. Who do you sue? The hardware maker, the software maker, both or neither. Obviously the standard EULA will limit the compensation to the cost of the software or $5.
I have no problems with the police obtaining (possibly via a court order) tapes from privately operated cameras.
It's when the state and/or the police operate the cameras that the problems arise.
And Forbidden Planet was based on a script written by some dude called Shakespeare and he ripped the idea from some Italian play.
I try hard not to travel to countries such as North Korea and USA where there is a basic assumption that I am a criminal and not to be trusted.
Stick to the fundamentals...
How does that RIAA know that a given computer was under the sole control of the current owner? A badly secured Windows PC may be under control of somebody a thousand miles away.
I have yet to see any web ads that could in any manner be called "targeted" at me based on my interests, from any source. It's always the usual trash ads for stuff nobody with an IQ greater than their shoe size would want.
In order to lead, it is necessary to be out front.
Trying to open closed source products is all very well, but all that will do is leave Linux trailing behind the front runners.
It's time for "Linux" to establish some open specifications that replace existing closed specs by being better.
'Is this person a terror suspect?'
In the new world order, everybody is a terror suspect until proven otherwise. It won't be long before special rewards will be authorised for children who inform on their non-conformist parents.
Can't say that I've heard of any of these apart from Vista but how on earth can Microsoft Exchange 2007 be a top 10 product for 2006?
You can work out what the customer wants, and provide it. Or you can not bother to find out and just put in every tick-box item you have heard of hoping you've covered all possibilities.
My DVD player remote has 83 buttons. I use about 10 of them.