The biggest problem that Bioshere 2 had was that the people involved weren't actually scientists. Most of them got their "credentials" from a place that sounded like a scientific institute but it was really an art gallery/cafe in London. The best credentials of the lot was the guy with the metallurgical degree.
*gasp* You mean a an article by McAllister might twists facts around in an article for nothing more than to drive hits to his blog? Say it ain't so!!!!
The issue there was that Microsoft app writers (like Microsoft Office) were able to use private APIs and nobody else was.
Except that according to people like Raymond Chen, the Office folks were just crappily reverse engineering those private APIs and doing things they weren't supposed to be doing by having done so.
The functions were exported only by ordinal. There was no documentation, there was no LIB file to link against, the function wasn't named; you had to reverse-engineer the LIB file and link with it. Surely that must've been a clue that what you were doing was the slightest bit dodgy. Office probably found those undocumented functions the same way you did. In the Windows division, we treat Microsoft applications the same as any other company's applications. In fact, earlier versions of the programs now known collectively as Office were such problems that -- I hope the Office folks' feelings aren't hurt by this -- we made up insulting names for them just to keep our sanity. The only one that comes to mind right now is "PowerPig". (I must point out that in the intervening years, the Office folks have done a fabulous job of getting their act together.)
But it's about as meaningful an "experiment" as that silly "Biosphere 2 [wikipedia.org]" trainwreck in the early 90's.
How dare you impugn the scientific credentials of a bunch of improv theater players! They got their credentials from a legitimate art gallery/café in London!
remember the health care bill it also gave the government control of the student loan industry;
You do realize that the government already controlled and subsidized all those student loans to begin with, right? All they did was cut out the middlemen that were making the loans more expensive to the students.
MPEG-LA does it because they know they can't guarantee that there aren't any submarine patents on the technology they license. If Google was truly confident that VP8 doesn't infringe any patents then they would be indemnifying their users.
So if Google thought that there were no patent issues why don't they indemnify any of the VP8 users from patent claims? Oh right, that's because they've already licensed the MPEG-LA patent pool so they're already protected.
Then you've apparently never used it or you actually fell for that shitty comparison from their website which was nothing but misleading marketing material.
I've seen people of mainstream protestant denominations refer to members of other mainstream protestant denominations to not be "real" Christians. No matter how you attempt to flail around your argument is still fallacious.
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If you use the BSD license you end up with OSX
The most popular desktop Unix variant in the world? Oh the horrors!
Market cap is not synonymous with the size of a company. BP has 10x the yearly revenue and 4.5x as many employees as Google. It is the far larger company.
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Since a while? I found this in 2 seconds by googling "at&t android phones".
Fuck AT&T. Go Android.
You mean except for the fact that AT&T has Android phones?
Apparently those supposed heavyweight credentials he was swinging around don't mean shit!
The biggest problem that Bioshere 2 had was that the people involved weren't actually scientists. Most of them got their "credentials" from a place that sounded like a scientific institute but it was really an art gallery/cafe in London. The best credentials of the lot was the guy with the metallurgical degree.
*gasp* You mean a an article by McAllister might twists facts around in an article for nothing more than to drive hits to his blog? Say it ain't so!!!!
The issue there was that Microsoft app writers (like Microsoft Office) were able to use private APIs and nobody else was.
Except that according to people like Raymond Chen, the Office folks were just crappily reverse engineering those private APIs and doing things they weren't supposed to be doing by having done so.
From a a comment in this article posted by him:
The functions were exported only by ordinal. There was no documentation, there was no LIB file to link against, the function wasn't named; you had to reverse-engineer the LIB file and link with it. Surely that must've been a clue that what you were doing was the slightest bit dodgy. Office probably found those undocumented functions the same way you did. In the Windows division, we treat Microsoft applications the same as any other company's applications. In fact, earlier versions of the programs now known collectively as Office were such problems that -- I hope the Office folks' feelings aren't hurt by this -- we made up insulting names for them just to keep our sanity. The only one that comes to mind right now is "PowerPig". (I must point out that in the intervening years, the Office folks have done a fabulous job of getting their act together.)
Why does anyone still listen to this turd? Has McAllister ever said anything that was actually insightful?
But it's about as meaningful an "experiment" as that silly "Biosphere 2 [wikipedia.org]" trainwreck in the early 90's.
How dare you impugn the scientific credentials of a bunch of improv theater players! They got their credentials from a legitimate art gallery/café in London!
remember the health care bill it also gave the government control of the student loan industry;
You do realize that the government already controlled and subsidized all those student loans to begin with, right? All they did was cut out the middlemen that were making the loans more expensive to the students.
Considering it took deaths at Apple's iPhone manufacturing plant
Except that Apple doesn't own the plant and Foxconn (the actual owner) manufactures parts for pretty much any hardware company you can name.
That's not true. Everyone's had a turn at his sister.
Do I now have to block kdawson as well?
Does anyone really have to answer that question? The answer is pretty obvious.
MPEG-LA does it because they know they can't guarantee that there aren't any submarine patents on the technology they license. If Google was truly confident that VP8 doesn't infringe any patents then they would be indemnifying their users.
They are NOT legally enforceable though.
Germany would like to have a word with you.
So if Google thought that there were no patent issues why don't they indemnify any of the VP8 users from patent claims? Oh right, that's because they've already licensed the MPEG-LA patent pool so they're already protected.
VP8 doesn't suck
Then you've apparently never used it or you actually fell for that shitty comparison from their website which was nothing but misleading marketing material.
and free is hard to say no to
So that's why Theora has been such a smashing success?
Even the drones at the Apple store will freely admit this while they tell you that they don't have any screen covers.
Really? I found this in 2 seconds.
when he was hired by the startup Sun.
Bill was a co-founder of the company. That's not really analogous to being "hired".
You do realize that ISPs are not and have never been common carriers, right?
It's not as if net neutrality really had a chance. The incumbent ISPs were going to buy enough politicians off to get the concept killed.
Fedora doesnt just fuck half the system up every release just to be new and flashy...
You mean except for well-known examples like their way too early adoption of PulseAudio or KDE4?
I've seen people of mainstream protestant denominations refer to members of other mainstream protestant denominations to not be "real" Christians. No matter how you attempt to flail around your argument is still fallacious.
If you use the BSD license you end up with OSX
The most popular desktop Unix variant in the world? Oh the horrors!
Market cap is not synonymous with the size of a company. BP has 10x the yearly revenue and 4.5x as many employees as Google. It is the far larger company.