FYI: Most western countries have different legal systems. But generally 2 categories Common legal system(UK, US..) and Civil legal system(France, Germany, Italy...). So a blank statement "most western countries" is dead wrong, when concerning a legal system. (The most populous country with common legal system is India - a country that is definitely not western)
Maybe what you complain about happens in the common legal systems, but in civil legal systems the judges are definitely not as important. Most civil legal systems treat judges as plain state servants.
Well, they are actually only the "administrative authority" or patent pool company. And actually a good idea, because that simplifies things when you need to get licenses to a a bundle of interrelated patents. That they represent a software patent pool, that is another issue altogether.
I didn't even notice on their site that they had the ownership of those patents, only the right to license them as a bundle. So I don't believe, that MPEG-LA has the right to file any lawsuit, the patent owners do that. And most patent owners are product producing companies, that can be sued(see Microsoft and their loss against a small company).
Learn how a computer works, and learn the power, and problems, that can be had from getting closer to the bare metal. Also then learn about higher level languages, and the advantages and disadvantages they provide. Basically, try and give students the understanding of how programming languages differ, and allow them to be able to appreciate that there are tradeoffs using different languages.
That is where I just have to say something.
Computer programs are expressions of our logic. Telling people first how bare metal works is useless without the logic. First the basic logic should come. Then memory management(unfortunately we are stuck with that and MM is mandatory). Then lower level languages.
Pascal is a teaching language, it was designed to teach. But it fails miserably when coming to memory management. Even Java with it's VM teaches more about memory management than Pascal. (In my personal experience) So for the first step: Pascal(the bare basics), Python, Java
Memory management should be tought using only and only C. Nothing displays it better(ASM would be overkill).
And from then all other languages.
Actually, Pascal is just horrible to teach about memory management. The other languages have a managed memory model.
It took me 2 years to undo the horrible damage that Pascal did to my understanding how computer memory works(though I was only 14).
Just FYI: They already got committed to Android in July 2005, while Maemo was released in November 2005.
And on another note, Maemo on Nokia 770 was horrible on the finger input.
That's for the first quarter! Nobody knew about iPhone 4th reincarnation then. And yet, Android was on par in the 4Q2009 with iPhone.
So I doubt that it's only because a new phone is coming out.
I am MS hater. But undoubtedly MS has a better R&D department, though what they lack is innovation(bringing those R&D results to consumers/businesses).
That is the whole point. We should not listen to him on tech matters. He's absolutely useless(his stance on language limitations has proven).
And that is why his blog posts, emails and opinions on technical matters are totally irrelevant.
I'm sorry, but you are likening Apple's restrictions to those of law. This leads me to believe that you must be a brainwashed fanboy. Or you just decided to write a lot of text out of context.
By law you can have your car serviced anywhere, using OE-spec parts, without voiding your warranty, due in part thanks to the Magnuson-Moss warranty act. The same is true of commodity computers.
And still Mac Mini is not serviceable without voiding the warranty.
Thankfully we didn't get to a point where Apple has a dominant, near monopolistic, position in the smartphone market. Otherwise would have been fucked.
We already know how fun is having a near monopoly on Office productivity suites, don't we? Try telling a person in the developing world or poorer countries that he/she needs to dish out a year's salary* to send documents to their state officials or read documents...
* - No jokes here, USD$200 is a years salary for a LOT of people in this world.
Oh wait, no, the Nexus 1 never actually got 802.11n
Oh, you unenlightened person. N1 actually has the 802.11n chip inside it. It connects to 802.11n routers using 802.11n but only over 2.4GHz frequency. Still mine gets 150mbps router to phone. Was that news for you?
Price? Oh no, that's right, you can find the Droid for $99...
Oh you poor brainwashed person, do you really think that the carriers actually sell it to you at $99? Noooo.... They sell it to you at something over $2000. Once you calculate the TCO of the damn device.
Great!
Basically they are reaffirming that Android is not to become a "hegemony". Google is there to provide only visionary products to push the manufacturers.
If it's politically correct to say it or not the fact remains that homosexuality differs from the norm and is, biologically speaking, of no use to furthering the human species
It's also not the biological norm to have intercourse not for reproduction(i.e should we outlaw condoms, just because it's not "natural"). But bonobos and dolphins engage in recreational sex a lot.
Wait! Are you talking about the Jews? Or are you talking about how Islam got started?
Yes, both Judaism and Islam are religions that were initiated by the need for laws. Christianity is more of a philosophical movement, than a religion like Judaism.
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FYI: Most western countries have different legal systems. But generally 2 categories Common legal system(UK, US..) and Civil legal system(France, Germany, Italy...). So a blank statement "most western countries" is dead wrong, when concerning a legal system. (The most populous country with common legal system is India - a country that is definitely not western)
Maybe what you complain about happens in the common legal systems, but in civil legal systems the judges are definitely not as important. Most civil legal systems treat judges as plain state servants.
Yeah, because many of those owners actually have little to do with the word intellect....
You are one day too early :-D And Micorosft prooved you wrong!
Microsoft Sues Salesforce.com Over Patents
Yet, HTML img tag does not define what format the image has to be. While PNG and SVG are W3 endorsed/created standards.
Google would be blasted with that suit also, because YouTube has already some videos in WebM.
Well, they are actually only the "administrative authority" or patent pool company. And actually a good idea, because that simplifies things when you need to get licenses to a a bundle of interrelated patents. That they represent a software patent pool, that is another issue altogether.
I didn't even notice on their site that they had the ownership of those patents, only the right to license them as a bundle. So I don't believe, that MPEG-LA has the right to file any lawsuit, the patent owners do that. And most patent owners are product producing companies, that can be sued(see Microsoft and their loss against a small company).
That is where I just have to say something.
Computer programs are expressions of our logic. Telling people first how bare metal works is useless without the logic. First the basic logic should come. Then memory management(unfortunately we are stuck with that and MM is mandatory). Then lower level languages.
Pascal is a teaching language, it was designed to teach. But it fails miserably when coming to memory management. Even Java with it's VM teaches more about memory management than Pascal. (In my personal experience) So for the first step: Pascal(the bare basics), Python, Java
Memory management should be tought using only and only C. Nothing displays it better(ASM would be overkill).
And from then all other languages.
Low level languages are bad for demonstrating the logic of a program. It's just too complicated.
Actually, Pascal is just horrible to teach about memory management. The other languages have a managed memory model.
It took me 2 years to undo the horrible damage that Pascal did to my understanding how computer memory works(though I was only 14).
Just FYI: They already got committed to Android in July 2005, while Maemo was released in November 2005.
And on another note, Maemo on Nokia 770 was horrible on the finger input.
That's for the first quarter! Nobody knew about iPhone 4th reincarnation then. And yet, Android was on par in the 4Q2009 with iPhone.
So I doubt that it's only because a new phone is coming out.
I am MS hater. But undoubtedly MS has a better R&D department, though what they lack is innovation(bringing those R&D results to consumers/businesses).
That is the whole point. We should not listen to him on tech matters. He's absolutely useless(his stance on language limitations has proven).
And that is why his blog posts, emails and opinions on technical matters are totally irrelevant.
And iPhone still does fail, therefore you gave away you freedom for what? Pretty promises? Good for you!
And still Mac Mini is not serviceable without voiding the warranty.
Thankfully we didn't get to a point where Apple has a dominant, near monopolistic, position in the smartphone market. Otherwise would have been fucked.
We already know how fun is having a near monopoly on Office productivity suites, don't we? Try telling a person in the developing world or poorer countries that he/she needs to dish out a year's salary* to send documents to their state officials or read documents...
* - No jokes here, USD$200 is a years salary for a LOT of people in this world.
FYI: US airport security is exceptionally lax. Still. And it's not about the overzealous security checks, it's about overall security.
Oh, you unenlightened person. N1 actually has the 802.11n chip inside it. It connects to 802.11n routers using 802.11n but only over 2.4GHz frequency. Still mine gets 150mbps router to phone. Was that news for you?
Oh you poor brainwashed person, do you really think that the carriers actually sell it to you at $99? Noooo.... They sell it to you at something over $2000. Once you calculate the TCO of the damn device.
Great!
Basically they are reaffirming that Android is not to become a "hegemony". Google is there to provide only visionary products to push the manufacturers.
That is why they should have started selling it in Europe first!
WTF? Man... That is not FUD, but logical reasoning.
It's also not the biological norm to have intercourse not for reproduction(i.e should we outlaw condoms, just because it's not "natural"). But bonobos and dolphins engage in recreational sex a lot.
Even then, there is a lot of instances of murder "in the name of God".
Wait! Are you talking about the Jews? Or are you talking about how Islam got started?
Yes, both Judaism and Islam are religions that were initiated by the need for laws. Christianity is more of a philosophical movement, than a religion like Judaism.
Let's add tho that "any monotheistic religion". Polytheistic religions have a tendency not to care about other gods.