The same answer they gave to Pons and Fleischman. The usual Scientific black or white dogma. The "maybe" answer never applies. Just ignore anything that might be contradictory. Very scientific, that's how all the new discoveries get made.
Now just carry this logic a little bit further. Why is first so important? The patent system insists the people who come behind have no rights to their own independent but similar ideas at all. When they do come up with similar independent ideas, these are not valid just because they are later?
Why can someone own an idea just because they had it first? What does that do for innovation, or how does it support equal human rights. Is it not granting special rights and privileges to a few, while limiting the rights of the rest of society? Why does first equate to exclusivity? Where is the logic to this prejudice? Being first did not work for the North American natives.
Thanks, this is the kind of information that I never see posted anywhere, when I am about to beat on my printer with a hammer because there is some Linux USB or printer driver that I don't have. The light at the end of the tunnel thing. Take the problem outside the PC box.
There is more than the BIOS that needs to be fixed on PCs, and the whole issue of anachronisms, the technology and processes that aren't needed anymore.
What about printers and the whole WYSIWYG thing. This didn't make monitors and printers work on the same principle. There is a standard monitor output, and how the monitor deals with that internally to present the screen image is up to the monitor manufacturer.
Why can't there be a standard printer output, instead of the thousands of different drivers and outputs. How the printer handles this standard output internally, with firmware or whatever, to present the printed page image would be up to the printer manufacturer. That would solve the Linux printer driver problems, and reduce PC manufacturers and users problems.
Furniture is still the same old thing, I think the whole point here is the paradigm shift possibilities. The outside the box stuff. Not a better typewriter, but better "speech to text" etc.
The easy excess to the off the wall wing nut stuff, that after some reprocessing can become viable concepts.
Market Cap is the calculated value of the company shares on the stock market, based on the number of shares and the share price. Money on paper only, until redeemed. It is neither company budget, cash or cash flow, but estimated shareholder value.
Attract "The best and the brightest"? I don't know a thing about what happens inside MS. But I could have guessed this. It is the old business axiom: "a company treats its employees the same way that it treats its customers", bully, bully, bully. Why would the corporate culture be different internally?
"Caveat Emptor" let the buyer beware. Google has lots of cash and does not need to suck up to Wall Street to sell shares and raise funding. Share price is determined by the offers to buy versus the for sale volumes and price acceptance.
If the idiots want to offer too much, then where is the "Caveat Emptor"?
The only piece of the original article that I agree with is they shouldn't resort to the MS tactics of slamming the competition. That's for politicians. But I have not seen an instance of the Fire Fox community do this, so is that just conjecture?
This is informative. I have used computer VOIP at home for over 5 years, just recently having got a LinkSys VOIP router. I don't know a lot about the technology, but I did know that it would do away with the need for central switching, and rearrange the telcos net model.
I did not know that the telcos were trying to mould it back into their old net model. I had thought the advantages of distributed and netrual net would be obvious. That is natures way, I think the brain works on this principle.
You should read Revelation again. The "mark of the beast" is actually the "mark of the beast". "BIOMETRICS". When they have this technology perfected and in common use, you will have your "mark of the beast". Not silicon chips which are the "mark of sand".
Ah, Ah, Ah, science can from the available physical evidence imply theories about the "process", the "how it happened", but they are still largely in the dark about the "cause", the "why it happened". Why do these micro organisms behave this way?
But if you look at insects that have been trapped in amber, that some say are 100 million years old. These don't look very much different from today's variety of the very same species. Is that not a strike against this "empirically observable rates of genetic drift."
Maybe they should compare the DNA and genomes of these 100 million year old life forms, to see if there is any drift at all.
Linux does not come bundled with a media player "as part of the OS". This is the "key" part of the sentence.
Media Player has had several bugs that have enabled serious malware attacks in the past. How do you prevent that if you cannot get rid of the player from out of the OS? One of the best solutions is to have a stand alone OS without any other crap entwined with it, and if an associated program proves to be too risky, simply uninstall it. How do you do that if it is part of the OS?
But there is a flip side to this coin. How many RIAA sue me cases have you heard of in Canada. That is because it is not illegal to download, only illegal to provide copyrighted material for up load. Hence free downloads but offsetting taxes on the copy media.
So scientists should live at the poverty line. And used car salesmen should hog the limelight. What kind of upside down twisted thinking is that? Who designs cars and creates efficient manufacure methods, who designs the homes that the real estate agents sell?
It is science and not real estate agents or lawyers that brought human kind out of the caves.
Court cases that involve huge amounts of money, about $3B in this case, usually take a fair amount of time anyway. In this case the motives of SCO are suspect because they seem to have a very weak case, and are dragging it out at every opportunity.
So the real issue may not be about money changing hands only, but about trying to keep Linux in a negative limelight with businesses, for as long as possible.
There are suspicions that MS is somewhere behind all this, and that is why IBM have subpoenaed all their records that relate to their dealings with SCO.
No, Linux does not come bundled with a media player as part of the OS. Linux comes bundled with several media playerS that are different applications. The concept is bundled choices, not a bundled monopoly.
"since no one's written a truly new story in like five thousand years."
This is an interesting statement, for what works can be claimed as truly original? Any cultural based product had its roots in education and learning, and is thus not wholly insulated from prior art. (the past)
I suppose if you are a copyright holder you would want everyone to ignore that question. The two edged sword of copyright can prevent people being able to publish their own ideas, if they are expressed in a manner too similar to others, and thus deny their right of free expression. Granting rights to some should not take away those same rights from others.
When you ask a fan why do they support one team instead of the other, they don't really have a good answer, but you can bet that is something personal, like they come from my home town, or my father supported this team etc.
Any reasons to buy Vista in today's market of choices would be something personal like this. In earlier years past, it would have been there is no other choice.
Little nasty words here, that sit in the closet and no-one ever brings out and dusts off. Is this some kind of "denial" thing? How about "greed", how about "self-interest" only?
That is why there are the laws in the first place, because "greed" and "self-interest" are the core values of Capitalism, and we need the laws to balance these off. MS right now is out of balance and out of control. Not a pretty sight.
The evolutionary development story is interesting. But toads are not the only nuisance introduced to Australia or many other places for that matter. European foxes and rabbits, European rats and mice. All these also played havoc with the natural ecological balance of the region. Because these little critters evolved different dining habits, and also reproduced out of control.
For instance, the foxes did not keep the rabbits in check, but instead exterminated a lot of the small ground dwelling animal and bird species. Then there were the feral goats on I think one of the Galapagos islands.
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The same answer they gave to Pons and Fleischman. The usual Scientific black or white dogma. The "maybe" answer never applies. Just ignore anything that might be contradictory. Very scientific, that's how all the new discoveries get made.
Millions of years old fossils, and then live specimens of identical genus. Does the theory of evolution have to be reworked?
Now just carry this logic a little bit further. Why is first so important? The patent system insists the people who come behind have no rights to their own independent but similar ideas at all. When they do come up with similar independent ideas, these are not valid just because they are later?
Why can someone own an idea just because they had it first? What does that do for innovation, or how does it support equal human rights. Is it not granting special rights and privileges to a few, while limiting the rights of the rest of society? Why does first equate to exclusivity? Where is the logic to this prejudice? Being first did not work for the North American natives.
Thanks, this is the kind of information that I never see posted anywhere, when I am about to beat on my printer with a hammer because there is some Linux USB or printer driver that I don't have. The light at the end of the tunnel thing. Take the problem outside the PC box.
There is more than the BIOS that needs to be fixed on PCs, and the whole issue of anachronisms, the technology and processes that aren't needed anymore.
What about printers and the whole WYSIWYG thing. This didn't make monitors and printers work on the same principle. There is a standard monitor output, and how the monitor deals with that internally to present the screen image is up to the monitor manufacturer.
Why can't there be a standard printer output, instead of the thousands of different drivers and outputs. How the printer handles this standard output internally, with firmware or whatever, to present the printed page image would be up to the printer manufacturer. That would solve the Linux printer driver problems, and reduce PC manufacturers and users problems.
Furniture is still the same old thing, I think the whole point here is the paradigm shift possibilities. The outside the box stuff. Not a better typewriter, but better "speech to text" etc.
The easy excess to the off the wall wing nut stuff, that after some reprocessing can become viable concepts.
Market Cap is the calculated value of the company shares on the stock market, based on the number of shares and the share price. Money on paper only, until redeemed. It is neither company budget, cash or cash flow, but estimated shareholder value.
Attract "The best and the brightest"? I don't know a thing about what happens inside MS. But I could have guessed this. It is the old business axiom: "a company treats its employees the same way that it treats its customers", bully, bully, bully. Why would the corporate culture be different internally?
"Caveat Emptor" let the buyer beware. Google has lots of cash and does not need to suck up to Wall Street to sell shares and raise funding. Share price is determined by the offers to buy versus the for sale volumes and price acceptance.
If the idiots want to offer too much, then where is the "Caveat Emptor"?
All this heat and they still can't get self sustaining hot fusion to work?
The only piece of the original article that I agree with is they shouldn't resort to the MS tactics of slamming the competition. That's for politicians. But I have not seen an instance of the Fire Fox community do this, so is that just conjecture?
This is informative. I have used computer VOIP at home for over 5 years, just recently having got a LinkSys VOIP router. I don't know a lot about the technology, but I did know that it would do away with the need for central switching, and rearrange the telcos net model.
I did not know that the telcos were trying to mould it back into their old net model. I had thought the advantages of distributed and netrual net would be obvious. That is natures way, I think the brain works on this principle.
You should read Revelation again. The "mark of the beast" is actually the "mark of the beast". "BIOMETRICS". When they have this technology perfected and in common use, you will have your "mark of the beast". Not silicon chips which are the "mark of sand".
Ah, Ah, Ah, science can from the available physical evidence imply theories about the "process", the "how it happened", but they are still largely in the dark about the "cause", the "why it happened". Why do these micro organisms behave this way?
But if you look at insects that have been trapped in amber, that some say are 100 million years old. These don't look very much different from today's variety of the very same species. Is that not a strike against this "empirically observable rates of genetic drift."
Maybe they should compare the DNA and genomes of these 100 million year old life forms, to see if there is any drift at all.
Unfortunately yes, but isn't this just another form of "no value added" tax, that the end user will have to pay in the end?
Linux does not come bundled with a media player "as part of the OS". This is the "key" part of the sentence.
Media Player has had several bugs that have enabled serious malware attacks in the past. How do you prevent that if you cannot get rid of the player from out of the OS? One of the best solutions is to have a stand alone OS without any other crap entwined with it, and if an associated program proves to be too risky, simply uninstall it. How do you do that if it is part of the OS?
But there is a flip side to this coin. How many RIAA sue me cases have you heard of in Canada. That is because it is not illegal to download, only illegal to provide copyrighted material for up load. Hence free downloads but offsetting taxes on the copy media.
So scientists should live at the poverty line. And used car salesmen should hog the limelight. What kind of upside down twisted thinking is that? Who designs cars and creates efficient manufacure methods, who designs the homes that the real estate agents sell?
It is science and not real estate agents or lawyers that brought human kind out of the caves.
Court cases that involve huge amounts of money, about $3B in this case, usually take a fair amount of time anyway. In this case the motives of SCO are suspect because they seem to have a very weak case, and are dragging it out at every opportunity.
So the real issue may not be about money changing hands only, but about trying to keep Linux in a negative limelight with businesses, for as long as possible.
There are suspicions that MS is somewhere behind all this, and that is why IBM have subpoenaed all their records that relate to their dealings with SCO.
No, Linux does not come bundled with a media player as part of the OS. Linux comes bundled with several media playerS that are different applications. The concept is bundled choices, not a bundled monopoly.
"since no one's written a truly new story in like five thousand years."
This is an interesting statement, for what works can be claimed as truly original? Any cultural based product had its roots in education and learning, and is thus not wholly insulated from prior art. (the past)
I suppose if you are a copyright holder you would want everyone to ignore that question. The two edged sword of copyright can prevent people being able to publish their own ideas, if they are expressed in a manner too similar to others, and thus deny their right of free expression. Granting rights to some should not take away those same rights from others.
We hear from those anal retentive, perfecto BSD users again.
When you ask a fan why do they support one team instead of the other, they don't really have a good answer, but you can bet that is something personal, like they come from my home town, or my father supported this team etc.
Any reasons to buy Vista in today's market of choices would be something personal like this. In earlier years past, it would have been there is no other choice.
Little nasty words here, that sit in the closet and no-one ever brings out and dusts off. Is this some kind of "denial" thing? How about "greed", how about "self-interest" only?
That is why there are the laws in the first place, because "greed" and "self-interest" are the core values of Capitalism, and we need the laws to balance these off. MS right now is out of balance and out of control. Not a pretty sight.
The evolutionary development story is interesting. But toads are not the only nuisance introduced to Australia or many other places for that matter. European foxes and rabbits, European rats and mice. All these also played havoc with the natural ecological balance of the region. Because these little critters evolved different dining habits, and also reproduced out of control.
For instance, the foxes did not keep the rabbits in check, but instead exterminated a lot of the small ground dwelling animal and bird species. Then there were the feral goats on I think one of the Galapagos islands.