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When I was a freshman there, they installed gigabit ethernet in all of the dorms. This was way back in 2004. I can't find anything that old, but here's a source from 2006 to confirm it: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2075070,00.asp

The scariest thing about this Google sniffing and data collection is not that it was supposedly done "accidentally" (that excuse never worked for bank robbers, although it has worked for murderers). The scariest thing is Britain's response to this unauthorized and "accidental" data collection:

Data protection authorities in the U.K. said this week that they are satisfied that Google's recent unauthorized Wi-Fi data collection did not include any meaningful personal data about residents in the region.

Which is not surprising, considering the fact that they live in a panopticon society.
- Ref:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367101,00.asp

Though Britain's response may sound ignorant and offensive, this isn't quite so bad as some other European countries that have a history of abuse and human rights violations:

Google will turn over data its Street View cars accidentally collected over Wi-Fi networks to German, French and Spanish data protection authorities, according to a report in the Financial Times and confirmed by Google.

So according to these governments, if abuse has occurred, they want to keep all the details about the victims, and only publicly scold the perpetrator.

But who cares? It's back to the Sports Network for me...

Google's working on cars that drive by themselves.

What the fuck is Microsoft innovating?

Facebook is just a fad...

Google's car isn't really innovation: link.

I mean, jeez, yeah. The last thing I heard about Google doing was building cars that drive themselves in traffic. That's sooo mid-2000s...

While I agree Google is great for doing this, it is in no way innovative (or atleast, not imaginative). Check out Google Car: Not the First Self-Driving Vehicle for a small list of self driving vehicles in the past. There was also a car
(can't remember the name - think it was from UCLA or Stanford) that did parallel parking too. So the real reason that this is getting this much publicity is because it is Google, not because it is new.

Not to say the Microsoft's Facebook teaming up is cool or great (see Microsoft Research for some actual cool stuff, as well as IBM's Watson Lab, PARC, HP Labs etc.). This is business. You made an apples to oranges comparison. Microsoft Maps is more like something you can compare to Google (and IMO, Microsoft Maps has some really neat features that Google can learn from).

PCMag.com says "If there's one thing consumers won't put up with, it's the fracturing of the basic television-viewing experience. Not only do all current 3D TVs require glasses, they're not all using the same ones. Some knuckle-head manufacturers are even charging extra for these glasses, which may only work with a fraction of today's 3D TVs. Imagine if you bought glasses that only focused on buildings and signs but not cars and people.

Really ? Even when the earlier versions of windows mobile sucked, MS actually handed out the developer tools and paid a lot of importance to third party apps - just as they did on the desktop. I know, having worked for a developer shop that actually developed applications for Windows Mobile and Symbian platforms. Social networking life is built into the new windows phone, and is getting extremely good reviews. It is said to seamless integrate with the contacts/photos etc, and provide a very usable interface to facebook. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2361374,00.asp - A range of big-name developers will be on board for the first apps, including game developers Electronic Arts and Glu Mobile, social networkers Seesmic and Foursquare, the AP, Pandora, Sling Media, and SPB Software. Providing evidence to support your claims might make them more believable. Right now it sounds like just an Apple/Android fanboy rant, that too one who does not actually know much about apps or integrating them into "social networking" life.

Seriously? You returned the game because it shows YOU your own name?

No, that wasn't a major reason.

Was it a surprise?

I thought it was a bit odd. No other software I've ever used puts my full legal name (not my email, handle, etc) in big bold letters on the main screen.

Did you not know your own name previously?

No, I was previously aware of my own name.

You do realize it shows no one else that information unless you tell it to.

Yes, but I didn't feel like I had a good understanding of just how much of the game I would be sacrificing if I declined to participate. My experience is that choosing privacy (i.e., opting out of information sharing) tends to make one something of a second-class citizen when the product or service is heavily oriented to an online community. I'm not saying that's necessarily the case here, but I got the sense that Blizzard was really pushing for me to give in to RealID friend sharing and I would end up missing out on a significant part of the game's experience.

And you thought the default avatar was "ugly" and were offended by CG models of smoking?

I don't really know if this counts as offended, but it just looks gross to me. When I was younger, people in my family would smoke cigarettes, and I developed chronic bronchitis. It gives me a dizzy shudder to smell it or sometimes even think about it. Some people will instantly relate to this, others won't at all.

Also you lied about the Facebook bit. If you never turn it on (and I don't even know how you turn it on so it isn't in your face or anything) then you never see it.

Sometimes I feel like the last guy on the planet without a Facebook account, but I'm pretty sure I would remember having signed up for it. Not sure how I could prove that negative (that I didn't turn on Facebook), nor am I really going to try.

What I'm saying is that, to me, the game startup screen felt like loading a web page with affiliate links. I see enough of that during the day to enjoy at more of it at night. I get tired visually of filtering out corporate logos. Here's a link to the startup screen in beta. To this they added my legal name, and the character name in big bold letters. As well as prominent/frequent invitations to associate my real identity on Facebook. Take a look at the WoW startup screen, it doesn't have any of that. If they ever added banner ads and affiliate links, I'd probably stop playing.

I hate sounding like a jerk, but those reasons are really silly.

No, absolutely, those on their own would be silly reasons to not play a game, and the actual gameplay didn't suck. As I said, the main reason I returned the game was because, after spending $60 on the thing, I was forbidden from ever changing my character name and I felt like that wasn't made clear to me at the time that I purchased it.

Hypothetically speaking, if you want me to be a customer and pay $60 for a game, and I say "No thanks, it turns out not to be enjoyable to me because I find your policies about identity to be heavy-handed and I'm not exactly in love with some of its other aesthetic qualities" then it's not really useful to anyone for you to argue back. I'm not under an obligation to be logical about what I like and don't like. The game (particularly the character name thing) wasn't what I thought it would be. Nothing personal.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369340,00.asp

Steve Jobs is busy selling too many of these to even bother about the education market.

I don't have an Android phone, because I don't want Google having the final say over what apps I can have on my phone. Mine runs Maemo 5. It has Skype, Google Voice and a SIP client right out of the box, and is connection-agnostic.

Skype over 3G on the iPhone is free for a trial period, then they start milking you when you make calls over 3G, for no reason.

You can't even use an alternate browser or email client

ibisMail, and tne numerous webkit-based browsers available on the itunes store would beg to differ with you.

I said "alternative browser" not "browser skin pack."

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2339605,00.asp

I'll concede that there appear to be alternative email clients now.

As for the functionality an open phone such as mine can do that yours can't:

- Run alternative, different, totally separate browsers, with Flash even!

- Install any app from anywhere, even compile and run apps right on the phone.

- Do true multitasking with any app - not just fast app switching

- Drop files straight on the device via any method the phone is technically capable of, just like a laptop, no iTunes needed!

- Install offensive, pornographic or politically controversial games, even if not made by a prominent author who can bitch to the media, or the head of the iPhone app store who sells fart apps and says "no more fart apps."

- Install an app even if there are many others like it already available, or some dude at Apple would consider it useless.

- Install dictionaries with naughty words in them, make my phone say naughty words with speech synthesis, or even voice-dail contacts using naughty words!

- Install a tethering app or hacking tool.

- Be sure that none of these apps will be remote-killed, and none will be remote-installed, ever.

Internet Explorer 9 Reviewed, Benchmarked

From another source, they didn't use Places at all.

"We've been in contact with the Nashua police, and they confirmed that they while they have an ongoing investigation and have already made a number of arrests, the only Facebook link was that one of those arrested had a Facebook friend who posted about leaving town in the near future (which is why they believe that home was targeted) and it had nothing to do with Facebook Places," said a Facebook spokesman in an email interview with Cnet's Caroline McCarthy.

The old guy thinks along the same line:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367331,00.asp

You don't see more of it because you don't get told, and you don't look.

Then there are the snit fits peers have to indulge in.

And the occasional stupidity.

Go check out the Internet Taffic Report from time to time. Today it looks like there was significant event. Wonder what happened.....?

Now don't get me started on PMTUD. How do I explain to a user that it is not 'our' network that is the cause, we have MILLIONS of users working just fine, but everyone in their office can't get on because we broke something just to annoy them? And of course, since they can see the same error a different, unrelated site, it MUST BE US. Yeah. I'm the designated PMTUD expert on the team now, because I let their ISP talk itself into the solution. And I can read packet captures. Yay me, think I'm going off decaf for a few days...

The Internet is not perfect.

Many of these protections are already in place in the US and Europe is just catching up. For example, US employers have been limited for years in how they can use social networking sites, based on existing US non-discrimination and privacy laws. Many of those restrictions in the US are based on case law; they don't require separate legislation.

Yeah, nobody in the US was ever fired for posting stuff on social networking sites like facebook

1) http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/08/unpatched_vulnerability_in_all.php
2) http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/microsoft-warns-of-serious-unpatched-windows-7-flaw/6474
3) http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/08/unpatched_vulnerability_in_all.php
4) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9176944/Microsoft_warns_of_bug_in_64_bit_Windows_7?source=rss_security
5) http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=8023
6) http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10170962-83.html
7) http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/17-year-old-unpatched-windows-vulnerability-discovered-20100120/
8) http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/exploits-of-unpatched-ie6-ie7-flaw-on-the-rise.ars
9) http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Several-known-vulnerabilities-to-remain-unpatched-on-forthcoming-Microsoft-patch-day-947191.html
10) http://www.myce.com/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-shortcut-zero-day-exploit-32107/?utm_source=myce&utm_medium=frontpage&utm_campaign=related_posts

There, 10 vulnerabilities, which either took Microsoft months after visibility to patch, or still aren't patched.

Now, STFU.

1) http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/08/unpatched_vulnerability_in_all.php
2) http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/microsoft-warns-of-serious-unpatched-windows-7-flaw/6474
3) http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/08/unpatched_vulnerability_in_all.php
4) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9176944/Microsoft_warns_of_bug_in_64_bit_Windows_7?source=rss_security
5) http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=8023
6) http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10170962-83.html
7) http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/17-year-old-unpatched-windows-vulnerability-discovered-20100120/
8) http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/exploits-of-unpatched-ie6-ie7-flaw-on-the-rise.ars
9) http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Several-known-vulnerabilities-to-remain-unpatched-on-forthcoming-Microsoft-patch-day-947191.html
10) http://www.myce.com/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-shortcut-zero-day-exploit-32107/?utm_source=myce&utm_medium=frontpage&utm_campaign=related_posts

There, 10 vulnerabilities, which either took Microsoft months after visibility to patch, or still aren't patched.

Now, STFU.

Apple's multitouch patent is well documented.

There's plenty of examples, I'm not sure why you're so blind to them. I actually quoted Apple's press release which was also quoted in the article so if its misleading or sensationalistic then it is Apple behaving that way. Feel free to discount what you don't agree with even though you're arguing with recent history.

Google has denied these claims:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367436,00.asp

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180192/Google_denies_talks_with_Verizon_to_end_Net_neutrality_

"The New York Times is quite simply wrong," wrote Mistique Cano, a Google spokesman, in an e-mail. "We have not had any conversations with Verizon about paying for carriage of Google traffic. We remain as committed as we always have been to an open Internet."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/05/gogle-denies-verizon-deal-net-neutrality

A Google spokeswoman told the Guardian: "The New York Times is quite simply wrong. We have not had any conversations with Verizon about paying for carriage of Google traffic. We remain as committed as we always have been to an open internet.

Verizon has also moved to dismiss the story. A company statement reads: "The NYT article regarding conversations between Google and Verizon is mistaken. It fundamentally misunderstands our purpose. As we said in our earlier FCC filing, our goal is an internet policy framework that ensures openness and accountability, and incorporates specific FCC authority, while maintaining investment and innovation. To suggest this is a business arrangement between our companies is entirely incorrect."

PC Mag reports 4.6 million. However...

Brian Heater writes:

News about the app serviced during a talk given by Lookout yesterday at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, the app, which offers desktop wallpapers featuring designs from Star Wars, My Little Pony, and more, collects SIM card numbers, text messages, browsing history, and voicemail passwords. The app in questions has reportedly been downloaded as much as 4.6 million times.

...due to the multiple errors in writing, it accuses the Black Hat conference of doing the data theft.

Built on a technology known as silicon photonics, the link has the potential to scale to up to a terabit per second, enough to transfer the contents of a laptop in less than a second or the entire Library of Congress in less than two minutes, according to Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technical officer.

It sounds like he's going to use a modified Femtocell. Since you can actually go out and buy these and they route phone calls over public networks, there any many potential points of attack. Considering if someone wants to listen to your cell phone calls and asks ATT nicely ATT will happily given them a room, or anybody with a radio scanner can listen to cordless phone calls and WiFi WPA2 has been cracked in several different ways, no one should be assuming privacy on anything wireless.

No dice. This year they're all getting turkeys.

I think he was talking about Google, not Microsoft.

yeah, i hate ads too, but like them or not they pay for the web.

if you wanted to gain a large slice of online revenue, you could:

1) create your own, closed platform
2) entice content creators to your platform by banning non-compliant software
2) effectively ban other ad publishers from using that platform, forcing advertisers to go through you
3) make it hard for web publishers to make money by adding ad- to the platform's web browser.

Oh, and about that refund for 90 days.....

Good luck getting out of your ATT contract.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2366601,00.asp

It is a flawed product. As far as flaws go, "decreased reception only when holding the phone in a certain way that causes issues only in low signal strength areas that can be corrected by any inexpensive 3rd party case" seems overblown.

How can they recommend the older phone that has permanent, unfixable weak reception but not this one?

It seems like they are withholding the recommendation to punish Apple for insufficient disclosure, or not giving away free cases or something. Which I'm not really against, but its not about what phone would be more practical for the consumer or gives them the most value for the money. For something that you will use every day for years, the extra hassle of buying a 3rd party case and putting it on does not seem more important than all the other factors.

I'm guessing that most of the intelligent, technically knowledgeable people have left Microsoft. So now non-technical employees are pretending to run a technological company. It's worth it to them to put a lot of effort into pretending that they are doing a good job, because they would not be paid as much somewhere else.

One indication that the smart people have left is when a company brings out a new version of software, and the big change is in the menus. Menu changes are something people who don't care about technology can do.

There have been a lot of technological embarrassments at Microsoft in recent years. An obvious patent is just one of them.

(The Microsoft Vista operating system was, it is said, not a failure, but an intentional method of getting people to pay for two operating systems, by deliberately releasing an unfinished one.)

The fee is being issued for storing information of people who are not customers of facebook.

This is probably the last we will all hear of this case, because the court applied German law. Facebook is US based, so if taken to court in Germany they'd have to apply US law. As a result of this Facebook can ignore the court's decision and nothing will ever happen. If i was in Facebook's position, i'd just appeal against the initial decision. The appelate court will most likely dismiss the case entirely.

Although probably nobody at the upper layers of the German government realizes this, these legal steps of Germany at least raise attention on the importance of privacy.

Actually the whole thing was started by the German minister of Consumer Protection Ilse Aigner. Her quotes upon quitting her own facebook account do reveal how competent she is...

I guess someone at the court got under severe political pressure

So you're entirely willing to discount solid reviews of signal strength, all because it smacks, to you, of an Apple 'Love', or is it possible you don't like it because it doesn't slam the iPhone 4 as as you think it should? kool-aid goes both ways my friend.

PC Magazine? Anandtech? These are not 'fanboi' sites for Apple as far as I'm aware of. They are PC oriented sites. Neither gushed about the phone as the be-all-end-all, just as neither said it was 'faulty' as is the fashion of late in these forums. They both did give it favorable reviews however:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364785,00.asp

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2

Where in the parents post was it claimed it was superior to everyone else's choice?

Lastly, reading the parent and your post above, I think it's clear who is being the 'arrogant prick' as you kindly put it.

Those emails have now been rejected by Apple as fake.

But it's not clear those emails are fake. "The technology world took a bizarre new twist Friday when Apple officials denied that an email purportedly sent by chief executive Steve Jobs on the subject of the iPhone 4's antenna problems was a fake." Get that, Apple denies the email is fake?

Either Apple employees are not telling the truth about the email being fake or they are not telling the truth about them not being fake. However Apple has said iPhone 4 Signal Strength Calculations Were Wrong and Apple iPhone 4 Reception Bars: A Distorted Reality.

Falcon

Those emails have now been rejected by Apple as fake.

But it's not clear those emails are fake. "The technology world took a bizarre new twist Friday when Apple officials denied that an email purportedly sent by chief executive Steve Jobs on the subject of the iPhone 4's antenna problems was a fake." Get that, Apple denies the email is fake?

Either Apple employees are not telling the truth about the email being fake or they are not telling the truth about them not being fake. However Apple has said iPhone 4 Signal Strength Calculations Were Wrong and Apple iPhone 4 Reception Bars: A Distorted Reality.

Falcon

I always thought the retinal display claim was kind of dumb. What PART of the retina (should have called it a fovea display)? How far do I need to hold it from my face?

god, mod parent down! like hell that's insightful. mods are on crack.

Steve Jobs didn't omit this information. He said 12 inches from your face multiple times.

and mentioned in the articles in the media http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364871,00.asp

and from the Slashdot summary on the related article http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/06/09/2130232/iPhone-4s-Retina-Display-Claims-Challenged

Just imagine trying to do this from an iPhone in a major market!

I know that it's fashionable to make fun of AT&T. I don't like carrier-exclusive agreements either - I think that they're anti-consumer and shouldn't be allowed. However, AT&T's network is actually the best in most markets as shown in independent tests by Gizmodo, PC World, and PC Magazine.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364263,00.asp
http://www.pcworld.com/article/189592/atandt_roars_back_in_pcworlds_second_3g_wireless_performance_test.html
http://gizmodo.com/5428343/our-2009-12+city-3g-data-mega-test-att-won

The most recent test (PC Magazine) shows AT&T nearly 80% faster than the other 3G networks (June 2010). PC World's tests show AT&T to be 67% faster than the competition (Feb 2010). Gizmodo's tests show AT&T on top, but by a smaller margin (Dec 2009). PC World's tests do show that AT&T has improved markedly since their Feb 2009 tests (improving speeds by over 200% in some places). By the end of 2009, AT&T's network was the fastest and it's kept improving to widen the gap. Even in so-called trouble markets like New York and San Francisco AT&T is doing well. In San Francisco, their speeds are double the competition's average and over 75% faster than the second fastest. In New York, T-Mobile's HSPA+ network (recently rolled out) is 10% faster, but AT&T is still 94% faster than Verizon and 130% faster than Sprint.

It's fashionable to make fun of AT&T. If you live in a rural area, AT&T might not have 3G service to you. If you were using AT&T in 2007 and 2008, their service was likely slower than the competition. That is not the case anymore. Real data (rather than anecdotal evidence) shows AT&T to be quite ahead of the competition when it comes to 3G capacity in major markets.

all of whom were working on a similar concept

No they weren't, enterprise was just one of their stupid directions.

Yes they were. LL says so: http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2010/06/09/a-restructuring-for-linden-lab?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+SecondLife+(Official+Second+Life+Blogs+-+FEATURED)

More sources: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/06/10/second-life-creator-linden-lab-downsizes-morphs/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20007260-36.html http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364893,00.asp

Well there's also this.

Something definitely seems wrong with the story. Remember, the system that was compromised at Google was an XP system running IE6 and logged in as administrator. IOW, they made no serious attempt to secure it. From this they jump all the way to banning Windows?

For the sort of targeted attack that hit Google an off-the-shelf Mac system is at least as vulnerable as an off-the-shelf Windows system. Surely Google knows this.

(My take: http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/05/google_dropping_windows_for_in.php)

If Microsoft employees can't even ditch their iPods and iPhones, why would they give up teh Google?

What about one of these? (dell tablet running android)

by me in PCMag....

There's this obscure little company, called AT&T, used to sell telegraphs or somesuch, that seems to disagree...

Also, the money quote from the "president of licensing and business development for MPEG LA": "We, as a company, don't make any assurances that all essential patents are included."

Statistically, implementing something with the MPEG LA's blessing almost certainly reduces the number of companies that will potentially be suing you(if only by the number of members of the MPEG LA...); but it only takes one to tangle you in a very nasty lawsuit, risking a major payout, or even an injunction against your product.

h.264 is a non-issue

H.264 is 26% of web video now. 160% increase in H.264 video online since January

H.264 video support is everywhere. In cell phones. Camcorders. Webcams. Blu-Ray and HDTV. In OSX. Windows 7. In Canonical's OEM distribution of Ubuntu...

Hardware accelerated in Flash 10. Silverlight.

Netflix Now Streams HD Movies to the Web [May 18]

H.264 is a problem for Firefox that can not be wished away.
 

The headcount of the Mozilla foundation I can not found but it seems to be a dozen or two at most from what I find here and there.

You are defending an off the cuff remark, why not just admit it?

Mozilla Foundation employs just a few people, as it should. Mozilla Corporation on the other hand employs hundreds of people at the moment.

See e.g. http://blogs.pcmag.com/miller/2009/05/d7_firefox_defines_modern_brow.php

Real hardware? Get a Nexus One. It beats the iPhone in nearly every way. Note that I am not bashing Apple, I love the iPhone's beautiful interface, I just don't like their locked down app store policies.

What are iPad's sales figures like? I haven't seen any. I can see a use for the iPad for certain people, but I'm on the side of the fence that says it won't do particularly amazing.

Apple announced 300,000 iPads sold on launch day (including pre-orders) -- April 3
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/apple-sells-over-300-000-ipad-tablets-on-us-launch-day/

Apple announced 450,000 sold the following Thursday -- April 8
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362390,00.asp

They announced 500,000 sold today.
http://www.gearlog.com/2010/04/apple_breaks_500000_ipad_barri.php

Go get an education, and a couple of decades of experience, and you'll know the difference

I have participated in starting a software company, taking it from three starters to fifty employees grown organically and sold to a bigger company, all based on one of the very first commercial Java Enterprise applications ever. I have developed embedded software in C for companies like Sorrento Networks, Cisco, Alcatel and Lucent. I have made a living from software development and related activities since the '80s. For a few years I even worked for IBM. I have worked with Sun long enough to have lamented when they went from BSD to SysV. I have developed software for DEC, Mac and NExT. I am pretty sure I have a lot more varied experience than you. Heck I have even done hardware modifications for a PDP-11 once.

I would assume you are a developer that mostly have developed software for PCs. I might be wrong but only people with a REALLY narrow focus would be as clueless as you.

The JIT is a runtime, same as any other runtime. It INTERPRETS the code

You are astonishingly clueless, and apparently unable to use a search engine: Try this article. I assume you are actually too dumb to click links, here is a quote: "At the time the bytecode is run, the just-in-time compiler will compile some or all of it to native machine code for better performance" (my emphasis). Who is right, the entire world your your dumb ass?

There's a difference between optimizing for the runtime

Again, your SPECIFIC claim was that it was not possible to optimize away getter and setter functions since Java was an interpreted language. Given that Java is COMPILED to bytecode which makes any optimization possible and then again COMPILED to native code by the Just In Time COMPILER which makes it easy, please elaborate. You have so far been unable to do anything relating to your original claim other than denying that you actually made it.

Try this article to learn what a compiler IS. Again, it seems like you are COMPLETELY at odds with the rest of the world. Can you explain why you are right and the rest of the computing world is wrong? Here are some quotes:
While the typical multi-pass compiler outputs machine code from its final pass, there are several other types

• A "source-to-source compiler"
• Stage compiler that compiles to assembly language of a theoretical machine
• Just-in-time compiler, used by Smalltalk and Java systems (my emphasis)
  • Applications are delivered in bytecode, which is compiled to native machine code just prior to execution (my emphasis)

There is also a nice article on Wikipedia about Java compiler. Wonder what that might be... The most common form of output from a Java compiler are Java class files containing platform-neutral Java bytecode. There exist also compilers emitting optimized native machine code for a particular hardware/operating system combination

How about this one? which says: Java source code files (files with a .java extension) are compiled into a format called bytecode. Heck even the DUMBEST computer dictionary on the web gets it right. Even PC Mag gets it right.

There used to be a Java interpreter on the market. It was called Bean Shell, and it interpreted Java code. I have not checked to see if it still exists. Try Google for "Java interpreter".

It's only a small thing (no pun intended) but this form factor (1, 2) is, if nothing else, pretty different from everything else we've seen so far. I doubt it'll be enough to save the line, but at least someone, somewhere is trying new stuff.

It's only a small thing (no pun intended) but this form factor (1, 2) is, if nothing else, pretty different from everything else we've seen so far. I doubt it'll be enough to save the line, but at least someone, somewhere is trying new stuff.

I can't help but think you are incredibly naive. Have you been paying attention to how Microsoft is suing third party controller makers? Or how they are subverting their own standards? Or if you are in Europe, how they are heavily lobbying your representatives to hurt open standards? If you live in the US, don't worry, they are working to influence your representatives too. Not to mention they stand firmly committed to helping out a truly evil empire (yeah, saying 'evil' is a bit much but a government that censors political speech and has secret trials for people they don't like isn't exactly nice).

I mean, this is just in 2010. You shouldn't have particular love for any company, but claiming that Microsoft has changed can only be done by ignoring the facts and reality. Don't do that.

Already been done. Five-Dimensional storage requires placing data on material in an XYZ axis, then using light at different frequencies with polarization.

Article below here. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2347423,00.asp

other solutions to the wi-fi problems.

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