Groklaw has a huge library of documentation. A researcher's dream. Lots of legal docs containing evidence of Microsoft's many and varied nasty deeds. PJ may have left the building, but Groklaw is still there with all the documentation and articles intact, many of them transcribed to make them searchable. It's also been archived by the Library of Congress, so it's never going to disappear entirely.
Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZadCj8O1-0
"Perhaps you should leave Academia for a while and see how the rest of the world works, consider it a Sabbatical. In actually the For Profit industry isn't as bad as it seems."
Or..."Come into my parlor" said the spider to the fly.
Actually, Microsoft has been doing things to piss people off for many years now, yet people still use it. Some people are just happier in an abusive relationship, I guess.
Right. Because Bill Gates didn't start out as a privileged child of wealthy and powerful parents, which might have helped him in some small ways. Hmmm?
After skimming through the majority of comments it seemed odd that no one noticed the absence of investigations into the tools that were used by the Russian spammer.
I couldn't help but wonder why the authorities don't seem concerned about the origins of the malware that infected all those Windows machines in the first place, nor seemed interested in those who originally sold control of those herds of zombied Windows-bots to the Russian spammer.
A long stay in a Russian jail seems appropriate for the spammer, but it should also be appropriate for the others contributing to the crime.
You obviously don't understand what the Pixel Qi screen is all about. Software is changeable, but the Pixel Qi screen is about as innovative as it gets...as in true innovation, not the Microsoft marketing-drivel-definition. Maybe you should learn about it from Ms. Jepsen's blog: http://www.pixelqi.com/blog1/
Mary Lou Jepson's Pixel Qi screens are coming soon. Then screens that are readable in any light will be available, the demo is pretty impressive.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm8WoItVRn0 In the demo she also explains how her team has found a way to mass produce these screens using existing manufacturing techniques, so they can get to market very fast.
I think it will toss a huge wrench into Microsoft's plans for products like the Courier (supposing it's real at all). Pixel Qi is hardware that Microsoft can't control. So, it wouldn't surprise me to see them using the same methods they used against the OLPC and netbooks to squelch this new technology. Which could partially explain this current Courier hype.
I can't believe you actually wrote that torrenting is "basically wrong", it's just a matter of degrees. What on Earth do you base that statement on? Seriously, I'd like to know to what "degree" I was wrong when I used Transmission for downloading Mint the other day.
I'm a *great grandmother using GNU/Linux, and I've been very happy with it. Haven't messed with Windows for a couple of years now and I don't miss it one bit.
*Actually I'm just great at being a plain ol' grandmother, but with two grandkids in high school now, I might be a great grandma someday soon (but not TOO soon, I hope).
Your Tennesee Thunderstorm and Guitar music was a treat! I've just sent it to a friend who's learning to play the guitar, she loves it. (OMG, does that make me a pirate???...nah, probably not;)
Anyway, just wanted to say thank you.
Message from the State Chief Information Officer Michael Locatis, State CIO "As the Chief Information Officer for the State of Colorado, my role is to provide the momentum and strategy for wide-ranging activities from promoting high end research and development of cutting edge technologies to creating strategies for service delivery supporting the day to day operations for the State of Colorado - thereby making a difference in the lives of the people of Colorado and delivering Governor Ritter's 'Colorado Promise'."
http://www.govtech.com/pcio/articles/386146 Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter and CIO Mike Locatis Launch IT Consolidation Aug 21, 2008 Before his Cabinet appointment in Colorado, he was CIO of Denver, where he showed his centralization skills (and caught Ritter's attention) by consolidating 20 separate municipal and county departments into a single, citywide IT agency. It's also where Locatis learned how fragmented the state's IT systems were.
"It was while I was working in local government that the issues surrounding state IT were immediately apparent because they impacted how services were delivered at the local level," he said.
Before becoming a public-sector CIO, Locatis was the senior director of enterprise technology strategy for Time Warner Cable Inc., part of Time Warner Inc., a Fortune 50 company and the country's largest entertainment firm. Locatis honed his skills at aligning customer-service delivery systems, standardizing desktop capabilities and managing tech and support teams for huge enterprise resource planning applications.
Despite Locatis' knowledge of the state's IT systems' problems, he wasn't expecting the mammoth job he faced. "It was significantly siloed and fragmented IT delivery, which was a root cause of a lot of the issues - including inefficiencies, a lack of leveraging an enterprise approach and just about every [IT] department in the state doing its own thing," he said.
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Groklaw has a huge library of documentation. A researcher's dream. Lots of legal docs containing evidence of Microsoft's many and varied nasty deeds. PJ may have left the building, but Groklaw is still there with all the documentation and articles intact, many of them transcribed to make them searchable. It's also been archived by the Library of Congress, so it's never going to disappear entirely.
Don't look Ethel! Their members are exposed!
What is a "Bad Connections Dog" and why is it Googling Mountain View's wi-fi Network? Possibly it is looking for a Good Connections Cat?
I'm waitin' for the Peanutbutter & Jelly fish...
Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZadCj8O1-0
They also need to make a moose...
A Giant Paper Spit-wad?
Haha...Florian Mueller, Shill Extraordinaire.
Hmmm, apparently someone actually did die, sadly it wasn't Murdoch. http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2011-07-18-murdoch_n.htm
Mysteries aplenty.
"Perhaps you should leave Academia for a while and see how the rest of the world works, consider it a Sabbatical. In actually the For Profit industry isn't as bad as it seems."
Or..."Come into my parlor" said the spider to the fly.
Actually, Microsoft has been doing things to piss people off for many years now, yet people still use it. Some people are just happier in an abusive relationship, I guess.
If nobody uses Google Search, how will Bing! ever improve?
Right. Because Bill Gates didn't start out as a privileged child of wealthy and powerful parents, which might have helped him in some small ways. Hmmm?
While they're at it, maybe those Arizona State researchers can work on some self-healing rubber too.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/21/national/main6698274.shtml
"It's almost taken as a given that the world would have less creativity without copyright but I do wonder."
How is that a "given"? Do you believe that creativity did not exist before copyright?
After skimming through the majority of comments it seemed odd that no one noticed the absence of investigations into the tools that were used by the Russian spammer.
I couldn't help but wonder why the authorities don't seem concerned about the origins of the malware that infected all those Windows machines in the first place, nor seemed interested in those who originally sold control of those herds of zombied Windows-bots to the Russian spammer.
A long stay in a Russian jail seems appropriate for the spammer, but it should also be appropriate for the others contributing to the crime.
In space, no one can hear you scream at Microsoft Outlook...
You obviously don't understand what the Pixel Qi screen is all about. Software is changeable, but the Pixel Qi screen is about as innovative as it gets...as in true innovation, not the Microsoft marketing-drivel-definition. Maybe you should learn about it from Ms. Jepsen's blog: http://www.pixelqi.com/blog1/
Mary Lou Jepson's Pixel Qi screens are coming soon. Then screens that are readable in any light will be available, the demo is pretty impressive.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm8WoItVRn0 In the demo she also explains how her team has found a way to mass produce these screens using existing manufacturing techniques, so they can get to market very fast.
I think it will toss a huge wrench into Microsoft's plans for products like the Courier (supposing it's real at all). Pixel Qi is hardware that Microsoft can't control. So, it wouldn't surprise me to see them using the same methods they used against the OLPC and netbooks to squelch this new technology. Which could partially explain this current Courier hype.
About Pixel Qi: http://www.pixelqi.com/about_us
So, you're much too lofty to actually be required to say what you mean, you just assume the rest of the world can read your mind?
I can't believe you actually wrote that torrenting is "basically wrong", it's just a matter of degrees. What on Earth do you base that statement on? Seriously, I'd like to know to what "degree" I was wrong when I used Transmission for downloading Mint the other day.
I'm a *great grandmother using GNU/Linux, and I've been very happy with it. Haven't messed with Windows for a couple of years now and I don't miss it one bit.
*Actually I'm just great at being a plain ol' grandmother, but with two grandkids in high school now, I might be a great grandma someday soon (but not TOO soon, I hope).
There are girls here. Trust me, I know this to be true. ;)
Your Tennesee Thunderstorm and Guitar music was a treat! I've just sent it to a friend who's learning to play the guitar, she loves it. (OMG, does that make me a pirate???...nah, probably not ;)
Anyway, just wanted to say thank you.
Message from the State Chief Information Officer
Michael Locatis, State CIO
"As the Chief Information Officer for the State of Colorado, my role is to provide the momentum and strategy for wide-ranging activities from promoting high end research and development of cutting edge technologies to creating strategies for service delivery supporting the day to day operations for the State of Colorado - thereby making a difference in the lives of the people of Colorado and delivering Governor Ritter's 'Colorado Promise'."
http://www.govtech.com/pcio/articles/386146
Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter and CIO Mike Locatis Launch IT Consolidation
Aug 21, 2008
Before his Cabinet appointment in Colorado, he was CIO of Denver, where he showed his centralization skills (and caught Ritter's attention) by consolidating 20 separate municipal and county departments into a single, citywide IT agency. It's also where Locatis learned how fragmented the state's IT systems were.
"It was while I was working in local government that the issues surrounding state IT were immediately apparent because they impacted how services were delivered at the local level," he said.
Before becoming a public-sector CIO, Locatis was the senior director of enterprise technology strategy for Time Warner Cable Inc., part of Time Warner Inc., a Fortune 50 company and the country's largest entertainment firm. Locatis honed his skills at aligning customer-service delivery systems, standardizing desktop capabilities and managing tech and support teams for huge enterprise resource planning applications.
Despite Locatis' knowledge of the state's IT systems' problems, he wasn't expecting the mammoth job he faced. "It was significantly siloed and fragmented IT delivery, which was a root cause of a lot of the issues - including inefficiencies, a lack of leveraging an enterprise approach and just about every [IT] department in the state doing its own thing," he said.