How do you install software in Red Hat? Debian? Windows 95? Windows XP?
The Windows "setup.exe" method is analogous to the shar format, which is still supported by Red Hat/Debian et al.
Alternatively, Microsoft does now offer a package manager for Windows, but I'd be surprised if many people are using it with Windows 95; it'd be like alien on Debian.
Thanks to the Berne convention, all software created in Berne-friendly nations becomes non-free by default. And, as long as said software isn't in the Public Domain, the authors still have the ability to license it under other terms. Even though they are unwilling to exercise other licensing options today, something could happen tomorrow or in 50 years (e.g. a badly worded GPL v4).
I think "Freed Software" would be best: no ambiguity, and it's only one letter added.
It looks to me like the Wordnet description is the "base language", and English is merely a quick sanity check. Try searching for "cat" in the English/French section.
example table with English backbone descriptions will not allow adding of words which cannot be translated with one English word
While you have this set in <blockquote>, it is far from a direct quote ("There will be always the backbone description which binds English word to only one meaning in Wordnet." - poor English, ought to be either "an English word" or "English words"), and doesn't match reality (words).
If you search for "cat" (their example) in the English <> French dictionary, one of examples is
catarrh chasing # contre le rhume
both of which are more than one word, so "blue jeans" certainly should be possible.
Even if they do give a good answer about how to recognize "legitimate" e-mails, there's still a potential issue/vulnerability if they neglectfully don't inform their other customers.
I very recently complained to Schwab IT about their online statement delivery. It comes in an email, contains an html doc that contains a java app that directly asks for my account and password info. I wrote them a letter saying how bad an idea that was, and that it encourages less sophisticated users to trust the sender too much.
One-Click Secure Access - A PostX secure document can include a link back to secure website pages. Because PostX already authenticates the user, there is no need for additional logins, combining security and convenience within the user experience.
Soliciting opinions from people like Schneierand other security people attacking this PostX concept (narrowly via e-mail, if not broadly elsehow) as fundamentally flawed (obviously by creating an imitation of it that sends the info elsewhere but is otherwise virtually indistinguishable) would be best.
I don't know if you intended this, but if you are sincere about your admiration for Jon Stewart then the least you could do is spell his name correctly (no "h").
An anonymous coward in an earlier patent discussion, perhaps an Examiner, mentioned that many pieces of Art found in Journals and on the Internet aren't useable as Prior Art because they lacked dates. They might've been before or after, but without a date the Examiner can't use it.
Whether the journal was "reputable" or not, and whether the Art was available to someone's notion of "the public" or not, do not to matter; those can be hashed out later.
Maybe Washington just isn't as anal as Massachusetts about collecting their taxes from all businesses, or just are failing to enforce the appropriate attribution of income to Washington state? This stuff is always confusing in the software world, since it's not always so clear cut to say where the work was performed and where the income came from.
The obvious attribution for such intangible licensing would be whatever is listed in the license agreement, which for Microsoft Windows XP would be Washington State (20. APPLICABLE LAW.). Their laws, their taxes.
It sounds like, if ACM or IEEE (or whoever else) was compelled to:
Include the submission date and any other date the author supplied
Request (or, better yet, require) within their submission guidelines that authors include dates in their submissions
in the interest of invalidating or at least shortening future patents, this might take care of itself. I don't know enough about the ACM or IEEE or their journals to know if they care or are corrupt, but...
great piece of art on the internet that they would love to use except it isn't dated
If only the URLs for these was available or tracked somewhere, for future invalidation use. If the time has already been taken to find them, surely it wouldn't be much longer to track them?
patents, in their most basic and innocent form, are supposed to protect the rights of inventors so they can make a profit on their hard work. nothing wrong there.
That's a nice theory. Actually, patents are supposed to promote progress (see U.S. Constitution). There's nothing about "profit" or "hard work". Hard work might not have been exerted (could be simple derivative of preexisting patent[s]) and profit might or might not occur (e.g. "defensive patent").
what's "bad" is patent ABUSE. like companies that patent things that they'll never use, just in case someone uses it, so they can sue them. Patents should not be made with the intent to sue or collect license fees. Patents should be made so that a decent product can be funded and sold at a practical price
Please read the USPTO's "What Is a Patent" - what you consider abuse is completely intentional. Not that I like it either (see my.sig).
What scientists should be doing is finding ways that allow mammals to live/work in these toxic environments.
Robots are (relatively) easy to control. Bioinvaders can wreak havoc on an ecosystem. A toxic environment shouldn't always be a call for terraforming or compensation by mutation; that could drive as-yet undiscovered biodiversity to extinction (if the toxicity wasn't recent).
This will take those images away before you (or other image capturer) has a chance to remember them.
At first, this was a joke. But now I'm wondering: would this make video capture more difficult, especially if they intersperse black frames?
I suspect that it might make display a bit jerkier, having abrupt display changes rather than dissolve side-effects. To take it further, I predict that there'll be a backlash similar to DVD vs vinyl.
Interesting that you'd be raving about BitPim while using an unsupported phone. I, too, have a CDM-8900 but that warning is pretty ominous. Maybe if they'd declared/limited a subset of what you could do (supported) and what was likely to break (unsupported)...
In the future, I'd recommend the IETF just make sure any standards it endorses includes a poison pill for would-be patenters contributing to standards, that if it changes the rights of patentees in the future, after it's become a standard, to restrict them in any discriminatory way, that it must pay the cost of developing the next, non-compatible(yet non-infringing on the patent) standard.
To avoid them spinning off a company for a couple of months to license royalty-free only to pass the patent to someone else later that might discriminate, the poison pill should include that whoever inherits/owns the patent also inherits the liability of funding future development.
Talking of which: the print-friendly version of the original article is terrible. They've made it fixed width, but the fixed width they've chosen falls out of the size of the paper with my current browser settings. Site designers need to start using print-media CSS with max-width and some of the page-oriented properties to achieve their printer-friendly layout.
Or, better yet, just use 'width="100%" or 'width="*"' or table-free.
Something I'd wished for years ago was an override of specified table widths, something like "ignore table width attributes". Come to think of it, maybe an extension for Mozilla Firefox is feasible or already has it.
He'd agree with both of us - he sometimes refers to liquid layouts.
... I asked him what the purpose of a front plate was and if it was suppossed to make it safer for officers. His response was something like, I have no idea, I think they're silly but the law states you have to have it so you do.
There was some recent discussion I read somewhere about discontinuing front plates in WA state. I recall two favoring arguments:
One more chance to ID a vehicle
It's the single biggest reflective surface, increasing safety
I can't argue with the second argument. It's also the reasoning behind issuing new plates after a number of years.
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One of the links from the flashmob page is for bash scripts suitable for Linux/*nix (and presumably OS X et al).
There's a "Link to this page" link, it alters the title bar (as of Firefox 1.0 on Debian) to something you could paste elsewhere.
Alternatively, Microsoft does now offer a package manager for Windows, but I'd be surprised if many people are using it with Windows 95; it'd be like alien on Debian.
I think "Freed Software" would be best: no ambiguity, and it's only one letter added.
It looks to me like the Wordnet description is the "base language", and English is merely a quick sanity check. Try searching for "cat" in the English/French section.
If you search for "cat" (their example) in the English <> French dictionary, one of examples is
both of which are more than one word, so "blue jeans" certainly should be possible.Even if they do give a good answer about how to recognize "legitimate" e-mails, there's still a potential issue/vulnerability if they neglectfully don't inform their other customers.
Thus they only need to state that they represent the "copyright-owning" party, and not that an actual copyright violation is taking place under penalty of perjury.
Whether the journal was "reputable" or not, and whether the Art was available to someone's notion of "the public" or not, do not to matter; those can be hashed out later.
I wasn't able to get this link working, but here's a freecache link. Hope I don't get kicked off; supposedly good up to 1GB.
- Include the submission date and any other date the author supplied
- Request (or, better yet, require) within their submission guidelines that authors include dates in their submissions
in the interest of invalidating or at least shortening future patents, this might take care of itself. I don't know enough about the ACM or IEEE or their journals to know if they care or are corrupt, but...At first, this was a joke. But now I'm wondering: would this make video capture more difficult, especially if they intersperse black frames?
I suspect that it might make display a bit jerkier, having abrupt display changes rather than dissolve side-effects. To take it further, I predict that there'll be a backlash similar to DVD vs vinyl.
Interesting that you'd be raving about BitPim while using an unsupported phone. I, too, have a CDM-8900 but that warning is pretty ominous. Maybe if they'd declared/limited a subset of what you could do (supported) and what was likely to break (unsupported)...
Something beefier than that webserver, I'd say.
If you:
- were paused on Live TV without a program being recorded
- had a program record successfully
- remained paused in Live TV
there's sort of a black half-screen, but pressing the TiVo button would take care of it.It might've helped if you'd named platform and version...
That user stylesheet rule rules! Thanks!!!
Something I'd wished for years ago was an override of specified table widths, something like "ignore table width attributes". Come to think of it, maybe an extension for Mozilla Firefox is feasible or already has it.
He'd agree with both of us - he sometimes refers to liquid layouts.
- One more chance to ID a vehicle
- It's the single biggest reflective surface, increasing safety
I can't argue with the second argument. It's also the reasoning behind issuing new plates after a number of years.