The issue here is that the number of Patents MS holds is huge, and they are not being specific about which ones Linux infringes, so no-one can check if Linux actually infringes them or not, Many of MS's software patents are weak, and software patents are often suspect anyway
So it is more like MS claim they invented something, but won't say what, claim that Casio are using their Patented ideas, and Casio are paying MS without any of this being visible or tested in the courts... sounds like protection money to me...Especially as MS are not going after the thousands of other companies they could go after, i.e. the ones who might challenge it?
Facebook are a private company they can impose any rules they like (with a few specific exceptions) you are not forced to join and agree to them, the rule for under 13's is because they cannot be legally bound by the rules...
The Government wanted to stop private citizens speaking on a public forum... that is against the constitution
The problem is that Lucas did not Create it, the credits state the wrote it (I bet he had help), and Directed it.. However he did not Produce, Film, Write the music, Act, Record the sound, edit etc.... so he is not the sole Artist... why does he seem to hold all the rights ?
The money he made from the first 3 did not "incentivize" him to make the prequels, he could have not bothered and been rich for the rest of his life... he just wanted to make them because he wanted to money had nothing to do with it
Before Copyright people obviously did not bother to make anything creative... and definitely did not try again... (there were plenty of creative people who somehow managed to make money without copyright)
And there are industries today without copyright (e.g. The fashion industry) where they have no creative people and are losing money... (the fashion industry is much more profitable that the music or movie industries)
I use this alternative payment method which is untraceable it's called "Cash", this seems to be an alternative where everyone can trace me and all my transactions...
Give me an "eWallet" that I can fill with cash and spend anonymously and you have something I will use......I will give cash to people who I don't want to "do business" formally with, I don't want to be hounded by them for evermore afterwards (Charities are the prime example)
Microsoft is evil, but so is Google in it's own way... just like all corporations
The fact that you are running a mixture or Windows, Linux, BSD means you have reaped the benefits of a mixed marketplace, this is what most Slashdotters want, they don't like it when one company dominates and tries to crush the competition, Microsoft is very guilty of this, but so is Google, Apple, IBM, etc...
Trying to avoid Microsoft at work is almost impossible, they are still the default and still almost a monopoly so they are still considered evil, Apple do everyting to monopolise their field, and so do Google so as you say I don't know why often they are let off...?
The answer is - iPhone/Mac/Safari uses the h.264 interface on YouTube... regardless of HTML5
Apple do not seem to like Flash - for good reasons - and so have persuaded Google to allow it's software to use the native codecs regardless of HTML 5 support
x86 is cheap because it sells in bulk, and it sells in bulk because it is popular, and it is popular because it runs Windows...
None of this means they are good.. just good enough, and cheap enough
I didn't put ARM up as a replacement to x86 just as an example of another chip that dominates in a market that has historically not run Windows (Often because it can't or would be pointless to), x86 chips do not dominate in this market simply because there is no need to run windows
x86 chips are modern under the skin of the API, and have as you say speculative and out-of-order execution, parallel pipelines, etc but if they could jettison the x86 legacy API they could be so much better...it has many challengers over the years in it's own domain but all have fallen at the first hurdle except in specialist applications because they could not run Windows/windows apps, and were not cheap - They were not cheap because they could not match Intel's bulk pricing, but were often better then the equivalent Intel chip simply because they did not have to support the x86 instruction set...
It's simply a layer under the OS, and (hopefully) read only, but it will still have bugs and exploits, and these are ones the OS can do nothing about......and what's the betting that if someone decides that is malware, you can do nothing about it...
My machine is mine, not Microsoft's, not McAffee's...
Except all the other little countries cannot get anything done because the giants would crush them, and the giants can't be bothered to get anything new done because there is no incentive
At Least the Cold War fostered a technology race between them....
Try the Fashion industry - Makes large profits, seems to be doing very well, lives on new ideas.... and has no Copyright only Trademarks and all the basic Patents expired years ago...!
The API is a cruft ridden, legacy interface to a very modern up to date set of chips that are held back by having to support this API
If they could bin the x86 API then the chips would be able to show their true capabilities...they have been many Chips that various x86 based chips could not hope to compete with, but since they were not x86 they could not run Windows and standard Windows apps and so were instantly dead in the water...
Go to a field where a GP CPU is needed and Windows compatibility is not an issue... and you get ARM chips instead - "In 2005, about 98% of the more than one billion mobile phones sold each year used at least one ARM processor. As of 2009, ARM processors account for approximately 90% of all embedded 32-bit RISC processors"
The point is that their rules are arbitrary - They allow some apps that violate their rules, and ban others, or in this case allow it through their rigorous evaluation procedure that all apps go through, leave it up for a couple of hours when anyone could download it, until someone pointed out it could refelct badly on them , and the they banned it...
So apps like this can get through onto the apps store - their approval procedure is not up to much If an it was an app that did not bother them how long would it have remained up ? and they only pulled it when they realised it would look bad...
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256 from the start of the year... in which Calendar? Ethiopian, Coptic, Chinese, Russian Orthodox, French Revolutionary?
The notable phrase in what they can do to get out of the 3 year period is "...either to contribute the product to a non-profit under permissive licensing like BSD, or to remove the developer's contribution, and all others for which the three-year clock is still running, from the product."
So BSD it (Which can be folded into a closed source system but you have a snapshot at that point, or they roll back the changes
So your contribution can go closed source, in less than 3 years, and after 3 years they can do anything with it
If Oracle got hold of this company then they could lock the code up at that point quite easily, but as per other OpenSource you could fork the project at that point
There was a test done between an experienced stock trader, a stock buying AI program, a 5 year old child, and a random number generator... the Stock trader came last, the 5 year old child won... and these guys get paid for their insight and experience....
BeOs was what Windows should have been, and was abandoned for all the reasons MS did not do it...
New DB file system which was not as ideal as it could be... was toned down to be nearer a conventional file system much like NTFS is now
Incompatible with with old apps, was retrofitted with Linux compatibility... Several versions of Windows were said to be incompatible with previous apps, and it turned out they were not when released
This is an issue with Wifi drivers, MS does have some minor problems with this too, but since the manufacturer of the device makes the driver MS just blame them...
MS have such a good deal, they get their drivers written for them, can blame the hardware manufacturer if any goes bad, and when hardware is no longer supported just point the finger at the hardware....
Linux mostly writes it's own drivers because the manufacturers won't, gets all the flack for any issues, most of which are cause by the lack of documentation from the hardware manufactures...
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The issue here is that the number of Patents MS holds is huge, and they are not being specific about which ones Linux infringes, so no-one can check if Linux actually infringes them or not, Many of MS's software patents are weak, and software patents are often suspect anyway
So it is more like MS claim they invented something, but won't say what, claim that Casio are using their Patented ideas, and Casio are paying MS without any of this being visible or tested in the courts ... sounds like protection money to me ...Especially as MS are not going after the thousands of other companies they could go after, i.e. the ones who might challenge it?
They tested Gallium vs Catalyst so yes ....
The tests seem to be 3D, but either one driver did not work, or the game used was CPU heavy and the difference are minimal
The test suites used seems odd, they have the closed source driver using more CPU than the OpenSource? I suspect they are using the wrong tests?
Facebook are a private company they can impose any rules they like (with a few specific exceptions) you are not forced to join and agree to them, the rule for under 13's is because they cannot be legally bound by the rules...
The Government wanted to stop private citizens speaking on a public forum ... that is against the constitution
The problem is that Lucas did not Create it, the credits state the wrote it (I bet he had help), and Directed it .. However he did not Produce, Film, Write the music, Act, Record the sound, edit etc .... so he is not the sole Artist ... why does he seem to hold all the rights ?
The money he made from the first 3 did not "incentivize" him to make the prequels, he could have not bothered and been rich for the rest of his life ... he just wanted to make them because he wanted to money had nothing to do with it
Before Copyright people obviously did not bother to make anything creative... and definitely did not try again ... (there were plenty of creative people who somehow managed to make money without copyright)
And there are industries today without copyright (e.g. The fashion industry) where they have no creative people and are losing money ... (the fashion industry is much more profitable that the music or movie industries)
I use this alternative payment method which is untraceable it's called "Cash", this seems to be an alternative where everyone can trace me and all my transactions ...
Give me an "eWallet" that I can fill with cash and spend anonymously and you have something I will use ... ...I will give cash to people who I don't want to "do business" formally with, I don't want to be hounded by them for evermore afterwards (Charities are the prime example)
US Citizens have a right to free speech - they can freely speak to anyone they like on any forum
So either this was unconstitutional, or children and Teachers are not Citizens ...?
Microsoft is evil, but so is Google in it's own way ... just like all corporations
The fact that you are running a mixture or Windows, Linux, BSD means you have reaped the benefits of a mixed marketplace, this is what most Slashdotters want, they don't like it when one company dominates and tries to crush the competition, Microsoft is very guilty of this, but so is Google, Apple, IBM, etc ...
Trying to avoid Microsoft at work is almost impossible, they are still the default and still almost a monopoly so they are still considered evil, Apple do everyting to monopolise their field, and so do Google so as you say I don't know why often they are let off ...?
The answer is - iPhone/Mac/Safari uses the h.264 interface on YouTube ... regardless of HTML5
Apple do not seem to like Flash - for good reasons - and so have persuaded Google to allow it's software to use the native codecs regardless of HTML 5 support
the iPhone has a specific chip to decode h.264
Thanks .. my memory for numbers is terrible - and I should have remembered it was Richard Wiseman ...
x86 is cheap because it sells in bulk, and it sells in bulk because it is popular, and it is popular because it runs Windows ...
None of this means they are good .. just good enough, and cheap enough
I didn't put ARM up as a replacement to x86 just as an example of another chip that dominates in a market that has historically not run Windows (Often because it can't or would be pointless to), x86 chips do not dominate in this market simply because there is no need to run windows
x86 chips are modern under the skin of the API, and have as you say speculative and out-of-order execution, parallel pipelines, etc but if they could jettison the x86 legacy API they could be so much better ...it has many challengers over the years in it's own domain but all have fallen at the first hurdle except in specialist applications because they could not run Windows/windows apps, and were not cheap - They were not cheap because they could not match Intel's bulk pricing, but were often better then the equivalent Intel chip simply because they did not have to support the x86 instruction set ...
It's simply a layer under the OS, and (hopefully) read only, but it will still have bugs and exploits, and these are ones the OS can do nothing about ... ...and what's the betting that if someone decides that is malware, you can do nothing about it ...
My machine is mine, not Microsoft's, not McAffee's ...
Except all the other little countries cannot get anything done because the giants would crush them, and the giants can't be bothered to get anything new done because there is no incentive
At Least the Cold War fostered a technology race between them ....
Try the Fashion industry - Makes large profits, seems to be doing very well, lives on new ideas .... and has no Copyright only Trademarks and all the basic Patents expired years ago...!
The API is a cruft ridden, legacy interface to a very modern up to date set of chips that are held back by having to support this API
If they could bin the x86 API then the chips would be able to show their true capabilities...they have been many Chips that various x86 based chips could not hope to compete with, but since they were not x86 they could not run Windows and standard Windows apps and so were instantly dead in the water ...
Go to a field where a GP CPU is needed and Windows compatibility is not an issue ... and you get ARM chips instead - "In 2005, about 98% of the more than one billion mobile phones sold each year used at least one ARM processor. As of 2009, ARM processors account for approximately 90% of all embedded 32-bit RISC processors"
The point is that their rules are arbitrary - They allow some apps that violate their rules, and ban others, or in this case allow it through their rigorous evaluation procedure that all apps go through, leave it up for a couple of hours when anyone could download it, until someone pointed out it could refelct badly on them , and the they banned it ...
So apps like this can get through onto the apps store - their approval procedure is not up to much ...
If an it was an app that did not bother them how long would it have remained up ?
and they only pulled it when they realised it would look bad
256 from the start of the year ... in which Calendar? Ethiopian, Coptic, Chinese, Russian Orthodox, French Revolutionary?
The notable phrase in what they can do to get out of the 3 year period is "...either to contribute the product to a non-profit under permissive licensing like BSD, or to remove the developer's contribution, and all others for which the three-year clock is still running, from the product."
So BSD it (Which can be folded into a closed source system but you have a snapshot at that point, or they roll back the changes
So your contribution can go closed source, in less than 3 years, and after 3 years they can do anything with it
If Oracle got hold of this company then they could lock the code up at that point quite easily, but as per other OpenSource you could fork the project at that point
Skynet is already taken, it's a set of UK Government Military Satellites...perhaps the films were correct except for the US setting ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)
I can imagine Google saying we can't or won't do that because it's our policy not to game the rankings
There was a test done between an experienced stock trader, a stock buying AI program, a 5 year old child, and a random number generator ... the Stock trader came last, the 5 year old child won ... and these guys get paid for their insight and experience ....
WinFS that would be like the Be File System?
BeOs was what Windows should have been, and was abandoned for all the reasons MS did not do it ...
New DB file system which was not as ideal as it could be ... was toned down to be nearer a conventional file system much like NTFS is now
Incompatible with with old apps, was retrofitted with Linux compatibility ... Several versions of Windows were said to be incompatible with previous apps, and it turned out they were not when released
This is an issue with Wifi drivers, MS does have some minor problems with this too, but since the manufacturer of the device makes the driver MS just blame them ...
MS have such a good deal, they get their drivers written for them, can blame the hardware manufacturer if any goes bad, and when hardware is no longer supported just point the finger at the hardware ....
Linux mostly writes it's own drivers because the manufacturers won't, gets all the flack for any issues, most of which are cause by the lack of documentation from the hardware manufactures ...
SSD's are quoted now as $1 per GB
1TB rotating metal drive ~ $60 That's $16 per GB
At that price I will be adding more memory, and using the SSD as a pure boot drive, not for storage - That will stay as rotating metal for a while