"The trousers, to be launched in the UK next year under Levi's Dockers brand, contain mobile phone pockets with "anti-radiation lining to prevent possible health risks""
And cuts off all ability to actually recive a call while in the pocket..
It's probably to late since there's so many and mine will get lost.. but here it goes..
First off, like somebody said, this has always been the case, but there was no enforcement. So it's really not new.. As far as hardware players, a LOT of them use chips made by other companies (like TI or whatever). Now, I would think that TI would have to pay, not the company selling the MP3 players made with the device.. so then they charge the company making the player with their device an extra $0.75 and so on until you pay when you get the player. And being such a big company like TI or the others that make MP3 decoding chips, I would think they would have worked out patent stuff before, and since they were charging (just not enforcing) I bet that this is already happening.
The real bind is when it comes to software, and they've been doing this with encoding, and stuff like BLADE and LAME are still around and kicking, so I don't see why things like XMMS and mpeg123 would be effected.. I think RedHat's move is silly, but that's just me.
Server Side:
1. The replacement must support Outlook as a client, people actually like Outlook as an integrated client.
With email they can use imap. that's what I do, most users won't know the difference. And on the linux side just use Evolution.
2. The Replacement must work with the Sendto functions of Microsoft Office
My sendto works fine with my imap setup.
5. Must be easily scannable for Virus protection, and must be able to deny delivery of messages that fit certain criteria
That's easy to do with procmail or some other linux email scanning software
6. Easy rules based scripting of mail events stored on the server as part of the user's mail box.
again, procmail would work perfect for this. I use it now for my mailling lists and spam sorting
7. Must support enterprise calendaring/scheduling.
This is the biggest problem I see. THIS is what management types like, nice shared, pretty, easy to use calendars and scheduling.. Once this is able to work, IN outlook, then there will be something..
12. Must Integrate with our directory services, like exchange 2000 integrates with AD.
LDAP works with outlook for address books, probably works with other stuff.
In short, a lot of the stuff does work, like email, sorting, directory services.. the big problems are getting it easy to use, and the scheduling stuff..
"When Brown mentioned the idea to his employers while he worked for DSC Communications of Plano, Texas (subsequently bought by Alcatel) DSC decided it owned the rights to Brown's insight and demanded that he revealed his idea. Brown refused and he was fired. DSC then launched legal action against him to gain possession of his thoughts. "
He told them, on work time, at work. I always figured that if I said something at work "hey what if we put this gizmo with that whatsit" then they would own it. But if I thought of putting the gizmo with the whatsit on my own time, and then sold it on my own, either to somebody else, or actually brought a patented product into work to sell them (and I still think even that would be iffy) that would be different. Hell, if it's just his thoughts, how can he prove that he didn't just think it up at work? He should have kept his mouth shut.
All a CueCat does is translate the lines to numbers/letters and spits them to the screen.. Doesn't matter if it's just 1 number or 100 (damn, that would be a long barcode).
Uhh, read some labor laws man. They can only make you work so much in a 24hr period, and they have to give you X number of breaks for Y ammount of time worked.. That eye exam bull must be illegal too.
They'll only force stations to dump their analog transmitters if 80% of the US is able to recive digital TV. So if people just don't buy new TVs because the ones they have are fine (like me, and most people I know) then there will still be analog stations around for quite a long time.
I'm running windows XP and my MS Messenger never comes on becuase I clicked the setting to have it never come on unless I tell it to. And I did this without any type of "hack", it's in the options.
Well look at it this way.. HP Printers sell thru dell because they're part of a package deal. To buy just the printer alone from Dell is usually more expensive.
If Dell is selling their own printers, they're going to package their printers with their systems, not HPs. So since Dell selling them standalone isn't really worth it to HP, and they're not going to be part of the package deal, they're probably not going to sell many, if any, thru Dell. So what's the point?
Given the type of people that go to H2K2 this seems like a good idea. Just trying to get people that might not have a clue a heads up as to what's going on. Sure, not EVERYBODY at H2K2 does these type of activities, but there will be a large number of Skr1p7 K1dd13z out there that will, and people should be prepaired.
"if something is "missing" contact the developers and they will probably implement it if its something they missed"
More like they will send you an email either telling you to code it yourself, supply a patch, or tell you to go screw. 90% of the responses I get are the 1st two, the other 10% are the last one. Opensource developers, unless working on a project for money, only do what they need to do to get a project doing what THEY want it to do.
"If we take "space" to mean a low Earth orbit such as the one travelled by the Space Shuttle (roughly 160 to 350 miles above Earth), the Great Wall claim fails twice. First of all, it's not the only object visible from that distance: NASA's Earth from Space photographic archive (particularly the Human Interactions section) shows that pictures taken from low orbit reveal human-built structures such as highways, airports, bridges, dams, and components of the Kennedy Space Center. Secondly, even though other objects are visible at this distance, according to Shuttle astronaut Jay Apt, the Great Wall is barely discernable, if not invisible"
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And cuts off all ability to actually recive a call while in the pocket..
Stage one testing complete.
Stage two testing complete.
Testing complete for http://www.google.com. Result:
Reported as inaccessible in China
First off, like somebody said, this has always been the case, but there was no enforcement. So it's really not new.. As far as hardware players, a LOT of them use chips made by other companies (like TI or whatever). Now, I would think that TI would have to pay, not the company selling the MP3 players made with the device.. so then they charge the company making the player with their device an extra $0.75 and so on until you pay when you get the player. And being such a big company like TI or the others that make MP3 decoding chips, I would think they would have worked out patent stuff before, and since they were charging (just not enforcing) I bet that this is already happening.
The real bind is when it comes to software, and they've been doing this with encoding, and stuff like BLADE and LAME are still around and kicking, so I don't see why things like XMMS and mpeg123 would be effected.. I think RedHat's move is silly, but that's just me.
Saying your religion is "Jedi" is the same as listing your religion is "Cardinal"
"I don't care what anyone but a court of law thinks," he said. "Until a court says otherwise, if I say it's constitutional, it's constitutional."
That's from this article.
Server Side:
1. The replacement must support Outlook as a client, people actually like Outlook as an integrated client.
With email they can use imap. that's what I do, most users won't know the difference. And on the linux side just use Evolution.
2. The Replacement must work with the Sendto functions of Microsoft Office
My sendto works fine with my imap setup.
5. Must be easily scannable for Virus protection, and must be able to deny delivery of messages that fit certain criteria
That's easy to do with procmail or some other linux email scanning software
6. Easy rules based scripting of mail events stored on the server as part of the user's mail box.
again, procmail would work perfect for this. I use it now for my mailling lists and spam sorting
7. Must support enterprise calendaring/scheduling.
This is the biggest problem I see. THIS is what management types like, nice shared, pretty, easy to use calendars and scheduling.. Once this is able to work, IN outlook, then there will be something..
12. Must Integrate with our directory services, like exchange 2000 integrates with AD.
LDAP works with outlook for address books, probably works with other stuff.
In short, a lot of the stuff does work, like email, sorting, directory services.. the big problems are getting it easy to use, and the scheduling stuff..
He told them, on work time, at work. I always figured that if I said something at work "hey what if we put this gizmo with that whatsit" then they would own it. But if I thought of putting the gizmo with the whatsit on my own time, and then sold it on my own, either to somebody else, or actually brought a patented product into work to sell them (and I still think even that would be iffy) that would be different. Hell, if it's just his thoughts, how can he prove that he didn't just think it up at work? He should have kept his mouth shut.
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God, I miss good MST3K
While I agree that chipping a PS2 shouldn't be a crime, the above is an extreamly lame excuse.
If Dell is selling their own printers, they're going to package their printers with their systems, not HPs. So since Dell selling them standalone isn't really worth it to HP, and they're not going to be part of the package deal, they're probably not going to sell many, if any, thru Dell. So what's the point?
More like they will send you an email either telling you to code it yourself, supply a patch, or tell you to go screw. 90% of the responses I get are the 1st two, the other 10% are the last one. Opensource developers, unless working on a project for money, only do what they need to do to get a project doing what THEY want it to do.
http://www.snopes2.com/science/greatwal.htm
"If we take "space" to mean a low Earth orbit such as the one travelled by the Space Shuttle (roughly 160 to 350 miles above Earth), the Great Wall claim fails twice. First of all, it's not the only object visible from that distance: NASA's Earth from Space photographic archive (particularly the Human Interactions section) shows that pictures taken from low orbit reveal human-built structures such as highways, airports, bridges, dams, and components of the Kennedy Space Center. Secondly, even though other objects are visible at this distance, according to Shuttle astronaut Jay Apt, the Great Wall is barely discernable, if not invisible"