The iPhone trademark is what is at issue between Cisco and Apple. That has nothing to do with IP or Copyright,
Meh, Large companies would have you believe that Trademark, Trade Secrets, Copyright & Patents (along with other intangible or government granted monoopolies) all fall into the 'Intellectual Property' basket.
Oh, and I could have been referring to either Cisco or Apple with my comment. Apple's complained about people violating it's copyright/look'n'feel/whatever countless times. But seems to have absolutely no problem violating some small guy's copyright
Clinton was right in refusing to sign Kyoto. It was basically a bill that punishes the first world for pollution, while the worst offenders get a free pass.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
1) Clinton signed Kyoto. 2) The worst offendors are first world countries (like US, the worst polluter & Australia, the worst per-capita polluter) 3) India/China are not projected to reach the US's level of greenhouse gas contribution for 20 years. Per Capita equivilance is even further away. 4) Kyoto wasn't supposed to be a solution - it was supposed to be a first step. Anyone thinking otherwise is deluded.
Not possible. The only way to double the talent pool is to double the population. Otherwise the only thing you can do is move the talent pool around, from something else to engineering.
The potential doubling of your engineering talent pool.
"the NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver for Linux is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that allows an attacker to run arbitrary code as root. This bug can be exploited both locally or remotely
Anyway, bringing nvidia into the discussion is a red herring, there is a huge difference between running a binary blob in ring 0 and userland. Let's discuss userland binary rather than kernel mode binary.
Look at all the flak NVidia's binary-only drivers take from the GNU-types, and those are FREE.
And why did they take all that flak? Perhaps it was because of the security implications of running a binary kernel module? Not an unrealistic fear either:
The NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver for Linux is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that allows an attacker to run arbitrary code as root. This bug can be exploited both locally or remotely
PS. Love the way you capitalized FREE! That'll get the "GNU-types" worked up. Seriously - nice trolling.
1) I don't believe (for xine at least) that wine is neccessary for asf (wmv) playback (the windows codec dlls are required, but used by xine without wine's help)
2) I guess a native binary blob is slightly better than a MS coded binary blob.... but frankly, it's still just a binary blob. You have no idea what its really doing.
The only DRM scheme that works is Apple's, and that's because they were clever enough not to get down on their knees in front of the studios and promise them anything, which is what Microsoft has done.
Incorrect on both counts.
1) Apple's DRM scheme does not work - it blocks fair use & impedes a user's rights like the others.
2) Apple did get down on their knees in front of the studios and promise them anything.
"They work 24 hours a day but the weather can hinder their progress. Walters said one ship is waiting for 30 to 40 mile-an-hour winds (48 to 64 kilometres- an-hour)
OK - imperial to metric conversions. Good!
to die down in the Bashi Channel. The winds have stirred up 10 to 12 metre waves...
But then just in metric! And weird E and R switched in meter metric! Can someone tell me how many feet in 10 metre waves?
Today's fibre optic cables are just 21 millimetres in diameter."
What's 21 millimetres in rods? I'm lost! Can anyone help?
it's an interesting question to ask the fanboys and detractors out there: could Apple succeed and continue to innovative without Jobs at the helm?"
As the first result for a google search on mac fanboy, I feel qualified to answer this.
Answer yes. Last time Jobs left, Apple was left with mediocre CEOs (who seemed determined to run Apple to the ground). It entirely depends on who replaces Jobs.
Successful projects need to be well-packaged in order to succeed,
I think a project this size is going to need someone competent enough to untar a tarball to run things. Packaging isn't as big a deal for complex server software as it is for desktop or commodity server software.
The future of libraries (brick and mortal at least) is about as bright as most open source software.
Well, both look better than the future of your slashdot trolling career if that's the best you can do.
Seeing its almost impossible for online libraries to legally lend ebooks, I don't see brick & mortar libraries going anywhere anytime soon. As GPL (and other Open Source) software is vital to almost all aspects of the software industry, OSS isn't going anywhere either.
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The iPhone trademark is what is at issue between Cisco and Apple. That has nothing to do with IP or Copyright,
Meh, Large companies would have you believe that Trademark, Trade Secrets, Copyright & Patents (along with other intangible or government granted monoopolies) all fall into the 'Intellectual Property' basket.
Oh, and I could have been referring to either Cisco or Apple with my comment. Apple's complained about people violating it's copyright/look'n'feel/whatever countless times. But seems to have absolutely no problem violating some small guy's copyright
Big Company violates other's IP whilst complaining about its own IP being violated.
News at 11.
For those that don't know, FLOSS stands for 'Free Linux Open Source Software'.
;-)
Nonsense! The 'L' stands for "lossless" - FLOSS is much better than the lossy Closed Source Software out there
Clinton was right in refusing to sign Kyoto. It was basically a bill that punishes the first world for pollution, while the worst offenders get a free pass.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
1) Clinton signed Kyoto.
2) The worst offendors are first world countries (like US, the worst polluter & Australia, the worst per-capita polluter)
3) India/China are not projected to reach the US's level of greenhouse gas contribution for 20 years. Per Capita equivilance is even further away.
4) Kyoto wasn't supposed to be a solution - it was supposed to be a first step. Anyone thinking otherwise is deluded.
The potential doubling of your engineering talent pool.
What is the business reason for developing more female engineers?
The potential doubling of your talent pool.
There are, but they don't look much different from the men, if you know what i mean.
First Post confirms that a big part of the problem is that women are judged by their appearance rather than engineering skills.
Saying "wine" is an overstatement. Some code from Wine is used,
That makes sense. Thanks for the insight.
Perhaps because of security fears?
Anyway, bringing nvidia into the discussion is a red herring, there is a huge difference between running a binary blob in ring 0 and userland. Let's discuss userland binary rather than kernel mode binary.
And why did they take all that flak? Perhaps it was because of the security implications of running a binary kernel module? Not an unrealistic fear either:
PS. Love the way you capitalized FREE! That'll get the "GNU-types" worked up. Seriously - nice trolling.
1) I don't believe (for xine at least) that wine is neccessary for asf (wmv) playback (the windows codec dlls are required, but used by xine without wine's help)
2) I guess a native binary blob is slightly better than a MS coded binary blob.... but frankly, it's still just a binary blob. You have no idea what its really doing.
Good luck to Fluendo however.
The only DRM scheme that works is Apple's, and that's because they were clever enough not to get down on their knees in front of the studios and promise them anything, which is what Microsoft has done.
Incorrect on both counts.
1) Apple's DRM scheme does not work - it blocks fair use & impedes a user's rights like the others.
2) Apple did get down on their knees in front of the studios and promise them anything.
...the future that Microsoft is trying to bring into being.
*shivers*
Where can I get the jeff shell? And how does it differ from bash/korn?
(thanks for your link with the rods information too)
"They work 24 hours a day but the weather can hinder their progress. Walters said one ship is waiting for 30 to 40 mile-an-hour winds (48 to 64 kilometres- an-hour)
...
OK - imperial to metric conversions. Good!
to die down in the Bashi Channel. The winds have stirred up 10 to 12 metre waves
But then just in metric! And weird E and R switched in meter metric! Can someone tell me how many feet in 10 metre waves?
Today's fibre optic cables are just 21 millimetres in diameter."
What's 21 millimetres in rods? I'm lost! Can anyone help?
That was launched just in the past year.
OK - but you said Cisco hadn't used the iPhone brand, I was just pointing out that they had.
Not using a trademark for over 5 years isn't going to help Cisco. The fact that they weren't defending it at all that entire time doesn't help.
Whatever, my post was only to correct your misconception that Cisco hadn't used the iPhone brand.
Couple that with the fact that Cisco hasn't used the iPhone name since they purchased it in 2000
Uh, apart from the iphone product launched by linksys?
it's an interesting question to ask the fanboys and detractors out there: could Apple succeed and continue to innovative without Jobs at the helm?"
As the first result for a google search on mac fanboy, I feel qualified to answer this.
Answer yes. Last time Jobs left, Apple was left with mediocre CEOs (who seemed determined to run Apple to the ground). It entirely depends on who replaces Jobs.
....and form factor.
the creative was as big and round as a portable CD player....
Incorrect. Creative had mp3 players smaller than the original ipod on its release.
I don't see why people get so excited about either the Sling or iTV--they are nothing new.
;-)
For the same reason people got excited about the iPod when there was already the creative mp3 player line (and many others).
Advertising & Bling. Surely someone with your nick would understand
Not a misspelling. It's Google's word for the Google gulag ;-)
Despite all that, we're still the most free place on Earth,
I presume you mean slashdot it still the most free place on Earth?
Perhaps he meant to say "cripples their customers" instead of "cripples the MP3 industry"...
Successful projects need to be well-packaged in order to succeed,
I think a project this size is going to need someone competent enough to untar a tarball to run things. Packaging isn't as big a deal for complex server software as it is for desktop or commodity server software.
The future of libraries (brick and mortal at least) is about as bright as most open source software.
Well, both look better than the future of your slashdot trolling career if that's the best you can do.
Seeing its almost impossible for online libraries to legally lend ebooks, I don't see brick & mortar libraries going anywhere anytime soon. As GPL (and other Open Source) software is vital to almost all aspects of the software industry, OSS isn't going anywhere either.