all I had to do to come to the same conclusion is notice the five (5).NET & one (1) c# adverts in the sidebars to figure out who "wrote" this "commentary"
moron (môrn, mr-) http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=mor on
n.
1. A stupid person; a dolt.
2. Psychology. A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational employment. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
everyone I know has bought a webcam thinking they would get hot cybersex pictures with it. While I don't know of anyone who bought directly from X10, I guarantee you they *all* were influenced primarily by the X10 popups.
and the rest of the world laughs at "business" people with their palm pilots, powerpoint presentations, stuffed shirts, phony handshakes, hollow phrases, long winded repetitive speeches and shallow self importance.
then you could look at records in the patent office and see if company A registered the patent before companys B, C, D, & E.
Its really very simple. Of course if there is prior art, or if it is a common idea, or obvious, or does not work (the patent office used to require working prototypes - or at least implementation details) the patent office should reject the patent.
If company B (or individual F) is sued by company A for patent infringement, and for some reason the patent office had not done its job, then it is a simple matter of producing prior art or demonstrating it is an obvious invention, etc.
As far as I know, there hasn't yet been an issue where patents were wrongfully enforced where it wasn't patently (sorry) obvious unless it was a complex invention. Even software patents.
The problem lies in the corrupt judicial system. The corrupt (and lazy) patent office is a secondary player -- like blaming the zoning department for not putting up a stop light at an intersection where someone is hit by a drunk driver.
infoweb is a hostname in the internal network that maps to the machine infoweb.corp.microsoft.com or something like that. It's just an aliased URL for the corporate help site that Microsoft's internal DNS recognizes (most of the time)
you're probably the same guy as the AC that posted the original statement that you rebuffed. Very clever, but as you can see, it does nothing for the rest of us for creditability.
it is exactly the simple rhetoric and narrow mindedness exhibited above that breeds oppressive regimes. "Bougeois" has been used exclusively by communists and naive academics for over a century.
If I don't pay Green Peace then I must be a Republican southern Baptist oil magnate homophobe Libertarian logger?
Its funny how the only posters who seem to believe him (with a couple exceptions) are themselves under 20. And without fail, they all assume that anyone older than them couldn't possibly have done any work or touched a computer before graduating from high school. We may not have had IE 5.5, but back in my day we worked in the mines or the looms re-gauging and setting valves on IDM 120's twelve hours a day, and six more doing manual labor just for fun.
The best help he can get is to realize that he isn't the shit with whipped cream on top.
If he was some prodigy and dropped out of junior high and lied about his work permit (that's what 14 year olds need to get a *part time* job) then he shouldn't be sweating about some petty sysadmin job. If he is fired, he'll have the opportunity to try to get another job and broaden his horizons. Also, he will learn a valuable life lesson that, like someone else pointed out, life isn't fair.
I chose to not complete college and am suffering the consequences in the workplace myself, where in this situation, it is perfectly fair, and just like my parents and high school guidance councellors warned me.
These days, a "Psychology" degree is the same thing a "Communications" degree was a few years ago. The least amount of work that costs four years tuition that looks better on a diploma than "undecided" or "general ed"
actually smith & wesson is playing both sides of the fence. consider their lobbying for "child protections" on guns that helped them get exclusive contracts with many government agencies and police forces
Mr. Lessig complains about the complacency of the Slashdot crowd and suggests we are lazy because we do not participate politically or (even better) donate enough money to political organizations like the one that pays him (the EFF).
He calls for us to become "environmentalists" for the internet, and I think there is where he finds issue with us most. Slashdot readers do not ascribe as a whole to all the political beliefs he supports, even if many share his concerns regarding privacy, copyright, and technical issues.
Well, I am not an enviornmentalist, and I do not approve of environmentalist tactics, and I do not consider the internet an "envirmonment" that needs preserved. I don't share a full range of political beliefs that coincide with his, or with John Perry Barlow's, or with Richard Stallman's.
I don't agree with everything Eric Raymond's views either, although I believe his Geeks With Guns movement does a better job of relating personal freedoms to cyberspace. But he has earned my respect because he doesn't ask for my money, and also because he helps with some of the most unloved and unappreciated open source jobs (like correcting documentation).
The way to fight a corrupt political system is not to feed it. I'm sure someone said something about replacing one tyrant with another. I'm not saying Mr. Lessig, or RMS, or the EFF are bad or wrong. But just because I don't pay your salary doesn't mean I'm not doing my part for freedom.
he is proposing a fragmentation of the net, so advertizsers could bar ads (sites) from those who have not paid for them to be seen in that locality.
Nowadays, if Joe's Sandwich Shoppe in Goose Island Oregon wants to put a menu online, they run the risk of swamping their hosting server (in California) with hungry people in Thailand looking at their menu. The parent poster suggests cutting off those who are browsing from Thailand (and California) unless Joe specifically wants (pays for) them to see it.
Its only fair. Joe's hosting provider shouldn't have to absorb the cost of all those hits (or meter Joe's connection and bill him for bandwidth,) not to mention the backbone that has to bear the extra weight.
The logic is flawed however, because targetting the hits to only those in Goose Island, in no way guarantees an increase of local traffic (Unless Joe is being slashdotted by hungry Thai's). This situation would only work if Joe was prohibited from posting his own web page, and had to advertize specifically on the Goose Island Reporter, USA Today, or the Bangkok Diners Club web pages.
This benefits the Goose Island Reporter, USA Today, and maybe the Bangkok Diners Club, but not Joe or his potential customers. Whether or not it would benefit Joe's provider or the internet backbone in general, is irrelevant, because, as you stated, it is technically infeasable to target local viewers without fragmenting the web.
I wonder what the ratio of linux users is after 5pm, as opposed to during working hours?
I know my daytime hits are usually Mozilla/NT (or Lynx/Solaris if the boss is looking -- or the animated gifs get too annoying.) Of course, at night I'm usually working on something, so I don't have time for Slashdot.
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all I had to do to come to the same conclusion is notice the five (5) .NET & one (1) c# adverts in the sidebars to figure out who "wrote" this "commentary"
i assume you meant a "heap of Java programmers"
I read this on the link page:
r on
moron (môrn, mr-) http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=mo
n.
1. A stupid person; a dolt.
2. Psychology. A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational employment. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
The last science headline that had any science beyond the headline was around the time Neal Armstrong stepped onto a soundstage in the Nevada desert.
everyone I know has bought a webcam thinking they would get hot cybersex pictures with it. While I don't know of anyone who bought directly from X10, I guarantee you they *all* were influenced primarily by the X10 popups.
hence the bashing of internet ads from doubleclick, etc..as in:
"don't buy their stuff, our product (ads) is much better than theirs"
I remember when it consisted of a pretty computer package.
news sources used to try to "get the scoop" instead of "sell the product", so in a twisted, antiquated way, TimeCanada.com did *good*.
is a worse mouse design than the original iMac
your ass provides a cushion when you sit on it.
and the rest of the world laughs at "business" people with their palm pilots, powerpoint presentations, stuffed shirts, phony handshakes, hollow phrases, long winded repetitive speeches and shallow self importance.
then you could look at records in the patent office and see if company A registered the patent before companys B, C, D, & E.
Its really very simple. Of course if there is prior art, or if it is a common idea, or obvious, or does not work (the patent office used to require working prototypes - or at least implementation details) the patent office should reject the patent.
If company B (or individual F) is sued by company A for patent infringement, and for some reason the patent office had not done its job, then it is a simple matter of producing prior art or demonstrating it is an obvious invention, etc.
As far as I know, there hasn't yet been an issue where patents were wrongfully enforced where it wasn't patently (sorry) obvious unless it was a complex invention. Even software patents.
The problem lies in the corrupt judicial system. The corrupt (and lazy) patent office is a secondary player -- like blaming the zoning department for not putting up a stop light at an intersection where someone is hit by a drunk driver.
infoweb is a hostname in the internal network that maps to the machine infoweb.corp.microsoft.com or something like that. It's just an aliased URL for the corporate help site that Microsoft's internal DNS recognizes (most of the time)
Maybe he's just a passive aggressive type with burnout who really wants to be fired.
you're probably the same guy as the AC that posted the original statement that you rebuffed. Very clever, but as you can see, it does nothing for the rest of us for creditability.
it is exactly the simple rhetoric and narrow mindedness exhibited above that breeds oppressive regimes. "Bougeois" has been used exclusively by communists and naive academics for over a century.
If I don't pay Green Peace then I must be a Republican southern Baptist oil magnate homophobe Libertarian logger?
Its funny how the only posters who seem to believe him (with a couple exceptions) are themselves under 20. And without fail, they all assume that anyone older than them couldn't possibly have done any work or touched a computer before graduating from high school. We may not have had IE 5.5, but back in my day we worked in the mines or the looms re-gauging and setting valves on IDM 120's twelve hours a day, and six more doing manual labor just for fun.
The best help he can get is to realize that he isn't the shit with whipped cream on top.
If he was some prodigy and dropped out of junior high and lied about his work permit (that's what 14 year olds need to get a *part time* job) then he shouldn't be sweating about some petty sysadmin job. If he is fired, he'll have the opportunity to try to get another job and broaden his horizons. Also, he will learn a valuable life lesson that, like someone else pointed out, life isn't fair.
I chose to not complete college and am suffering the consequences in the workplace myself, where in this situation, it is perfectly fair, and just like my parents and high school guidance councellors warned me.
These days, a "Psychology" degree is the same thing a "Communications" degree was a few years ago. The least amount of work that costs four years tuition that looks better on a diploma than "undecided" or "general ed"
It was even mentioned on slashdot when he raised the "bounty" from $5000 to $20,000 for the code.
there isn't enough people in the electorate (counting the majority who didn't vote) to make a Senator fear for his job.
actually smith & wesson is playing both sides of the fence. consider their lobbying for "child protections" on guns that helped them get exclusive contracts with many government agencies and police forces
Mr. Lessig complains about the complacency of the Slashdot crowd and suggests we are lazy because we do not participate politically or (even better) donate enough money to political organizations like the one that pays him (the EFF).
He calls for us to become "environmentalists" for the internet, and I think there is where he finds issue with us most. Slashdot readers do not ascribe as a whole to all the political beliefs he supports, even if many share his concerns regarding privacy, copyright, and technical issues.
Well, I am not an enviornmentalist, and I do not approve of environmentalist tactics, and I do not consider the internet an "envirmonment" that needs preserved. I don't share a full range of political beliefs that coincide with his, or with John Perry Barlow's, or with Richard Stallman's.
I don't agree with everything Eric Raymond's views either, although I believe his Geeks With Guns movement does a better job of relating personal freedoms to cyberspace. But he has earned my respect because he doesn't ask for my money, and also because he helps with some of the most unloved and unappreciated open source jobs (like correcting documentation).
The way to fight a corrupt political system is not to feed it. I'm sure someone said something about replacing one tyrant with another. I'm not saying Mr. Lessig, or RMS, or the EFF are bad or wrong. But just because I don't pay your salary doesn't mean I'm not doing my part for freedom.
he is proposing a fragmentation of the net, so advertizsers could bar ads (sites) from those who have not paid for them to be seen in that locality.
Nowadays, if Joe's Sandwich Shoppe in Goose Island Oregon wants to put a menu online, they run the risk of swamping their hosting server (in California) with hungry people in Thailand looking at their menu. The parent poster suggests cutting off those who are browsing from Thailand (and California) unless Joe specifically wants (pays for) them to see it.
Its only fair. Joe's hosting provider shouldn't have to absorb the cost of all those hits (or meter Joe's connection and bill him for bandwidth,) not to mention the backbone that has to bear the extra weight.
The logic is flawed however, because targetting the hits to only those in Goose Island, in no way guarantees an increase of local traffic (Unless Joe is being slashdotted by hungry Thai's). This situation would only work if Joe was prohibited from posting his own web page, and had to advertize specifically on the Goose Island Reporter, USA Today, or the Bangkok Diners Club web pages.
This benefits the Goose Island Reporter, USA Today, and maybe the Bangkok Diners Club, but not Joe or his potential customers. Whether or not it would benefit Joe's provider or the internet backbone in general, is irrelevant, because, as you stated, it is technically infeasable to target local viewers without fragmenting the web.
I wonder what the ratio of linux users is after 5pm, as opposed to during working hours?
I know my daytime hits are usually Mozilla/NT (or Lynx/Solaris if the boss is looking -- or the animated gifs get too annoying.) Of course, at night I'm usually working on something, so I don't have time for Slashdot.