And, if their scrolling system is so innovative, why not stick a price on the app and see what the market says? They would have got a few sales from the publicity they got today at least, and maybe with enough of an installed base they could have renegotiated for a 40% cut from the publishers, leaving them with the app revenue + 10% of sales.
Not only that (all of which I agree with), but they're *actually* *annoyed* because The Most Secretive Company In The World didn't tell them they had a book store or revenue sharing payments system in the works?! Who are they kidding? These people have just learnt some really important lessons, hopefully. They have no right to feel the slightest bit angry towards Apple. It's just business.
Sounds like someone's having some lolz. I like the idea of Anonymous, keeping companies like HB Gary 'honest', I just don't see it working over a long period of time. Everybody has a different set of ideals (lolz aside) so, in the flat hierarchy, they're all going to pull in a slightly different direction and this kind of stuff will happen.
I'm not sure I'm reading this right, but to me it looks like Oracle now get to build back up to 40 claims (based on the 7 patents), after which Google can have up to 120 invalidity cases (prior art), from where Oracle have to halve the number of claims and Google finally have to halve the number of invalidity cases. Then they go to summary judgement.
This is the bit I'm reading:
The first reduction will follow claim construction. Within SEVEN DAYS after the finalized claim construction order issues, Oracle shall narrow its patent infringement case to 40 asserted claims. Within SEVEN DAYS after that, Google shall narrow its invalidity case to 120 prior art references. It is anticipated that this first pair of reductions will be completed by the end of May. Within SEVEN DAYS after that, Google shall narrow its invalidity case to 120 prior art references. It is anticipated that this first pair of reductions will be completed by the end of May. The second reduction will follow expert disclosures. By AUGUST 24 (five days after reply expert reports must be served), Oracle shall narrow its patent infringement case to 20 asserted claims. By AUGUST 29 (five days later), Google shall narrow its invalidity case to 60 prior art references. The parties will then have a week of expert discovery remaining, and another week before summary-judgment motions must be filed.
I'm not sure if this is a major win for either side or not, or whether the judge is just telling them to calm down and come back with a reasonable number of things to take to trial. PJ certainly seems happy, so I'm guessing that this hurts Oracle far more than Google.
I also would not be surprised if they let you burn a dvd as part of the install process. Apple really do put effort in to getting this kind of stuff right.
UM, GP wasn't entirely accurate when he said a bundle include all dependencies too. Mac OSX has a ton of libraries and 'frameworks' that are system wide. These are updated by the point-releases of OS X and security updates too. OSX uses a system called 'dynamic loader' for linking an app to the library at runtime. The only time that breaks down is when an app needs to use a lib that isn't part of OS X, then it'll be included in the bundle.
Rose tinted spectacles:) You're just getting old. In my head, Amiga Workbench is the best OS ever made.
As for the direction Apple are headed, I wonder if they'd ever lock down the OS to only run apps from the app store? I personally seriously doubt it - don't forget that's a full-blown, fully certified UNIX(r) operating system you've got there, and a huge number of people who buy Macs are technical (myself included). I'd drop Mac in a heartbeat if they ever locked it down, and so would most of my Mac owning friends. I doubt the price-sensitive mainstream would step in to replace us.
Is this really a shill review? I mean, I wouldn't expect to see the words "shoddy editing, poor writing and very little content" in a shill review, nor would I expect to see this in the conclusion: "For everyone else I would suggest reading the User Manual on the JMeter website as it covers all the material here (and much more) and is far more readable."
I mean, I'd be pretty disappointed with that shill review if I were packt.
There's another packt book that was reviewed here a while ago -- it's called Postgresql 9.0 High Performance, by Gregory Smith. Has anybody here read that particular book, and is it of the same poor quality that might appear to be the case for all packt books? I'm quite glad I didn't pick it up now...
I really don't think the point is that you could easily design a different way of achieving the same thing, but that if any sensible person sat down to design a system of putting characters on a screen using technology from that era, that this is the obvious solution that they would almost certainly come up with all on their own -- even if they had no prior knowledge of the RCA patent. Therefore the patent is not a huge leap forward in engineering, it's just a bloody nuisance to the people who actually want to create stuff.
The trouble with patents is that they don't really happen in isolation -- everything builds on everything else that is happening at the same time. There are very, very few instances of inventions that wouldn't have happened if not for one person's ingenuity. For example, if Woz hadn't built the Apple I, somebody else would have built something very similar. Patents are the same -- if one person hadn't thought of that idea, usually someone else would have.
I don't think a single Apple fan cares about the shit that goes on between corporations, even when it's Apple. Nobody can defend this kind of stuff. It's just the way things are, and it's sad. It needs to change, but it's hard to see how. Certainly it will require somebody with incredible vision and a powerful dream, somebody who really wants to change the world for the better. The trouble is, 99% of American's would call that person a communist and they'd be shot down before they'd even begun.
How can you say 100 racks per day is "Not that much"?! Imagine provisioning 100 racks every single day! -- what about cabling and power and all that stuff? What about network load -- never mind the basic data transfer during normal operation, each server loads its disk image from the SAN when it starts. These seem pretty amazing numbers to me.
Look, this isn't about getting a computer without a browser, it's about letting computer manufacturers install an alternative to IE8 if they want to. This is a good move by the EU -- why not let suppliers change components around if they want to create a unique selling proposition over their competitors?
I agree with your sentiments, but you should take a look at Amazon EC2 if you want to see how slick Windows on Xen could be. Granted, it's not as good as Linux on Xen, but it's not half bad. I think it took them a lot of effort, and hopefully some of their work will trickle back down to the community version.
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And, if their scrolling system is so innovative, why not stick a price on the app and see what the market says? They would have got a few sales from the publicity they got today at least, and maybe with enough of an installed base they could have renegotiated for a 40% cut from the publishers, leaving them with the app revenue + 10% of sales.
Not only that (all of which I agree with), but they're *actually* *annoyed* because The Most Secretive Company In The World didn't tell them they had a book store or revenue sharing payments system in the works?! Who are they kidding? These people have just learnt some really important lessons, hopefully. They have no right to feel the slightest bit angry towards Apple. It's just business.
Sounds like someone's having some lolz. I like the idea of Anonymous, keeping companies like HB Gary 'honest', I just don't see it working over a long period of time. Everybody has a different set of ideals (lolz aside) so, in the flat hierarchy, they're all going to pull in a slightly different direction and this kind of stuff will happen.
I'm not sure I'm reading this right, but to me it looks like Oracle now get to build back up to 40 claims (based on the 7 patents), after which Google can have up to 120 invalidity cases (prior art), from where Oracle have to halve the number of claims and Google finally have to halve the number of invalidity cases. Then they go to summary judgement.
This is the bit I'm reading:
The first reduction will follow claim construction. Within SEVEN DAYS after the finalized claim construction order issues, Oracle shall narrow its patent infringement case to 40 asserted claims. Within SEVEN DAYS after that, Google shall narrow its invalidity case to 120 prior art references. It is anticipated that this first pair of reductions will be completed by the end of May. Within SEVEN DAYS after that, Google shall narrow its invalidity case to 120 prior art references. It is anticipated that this first pair of reductions will be completed by the end of May. The second reduction will follow expert disclosures. By AUGUST 24 (five days after reply expert reports must be served), Oracle shall narrow its patent infringement case to 20 asserted claims. By AUGUST 29 (five days later), Google shall narrow its invalidity case to 60 prior art references. The parties will then have a week of expert discovery remaining, and another week before summary-judgment motions must be filed.
I'm not sure if this is a major win for either side or not, or whether the judge is just telling them to calm down and come back with a reasonable number of things to take to trial. PJ certainly seems happy, so I'm guessing that this hurts Oracle far more than Google.
I also would not be surprised if they let you burn a dvd as part of the install process. Apple really do put effort in to getting this kind of stuff right.
UM, GP wasn't entirely accurate when he said a bundle include all dependencies too. Mac OSX has a ton of libraries and 'frameworks' that are system wide. These are updated by the point-releases of OS X and security updates too. OSX uses a system called 'dynamic loader' for linking an app to the library at runtime. The only time that breaks down is when an app needs to use a lib that isn't part of OS X, then it'll be included in the bundle.
As far as the OS goes, Tiger was the pinnacle
Rose tinted spectacles :) You're just getting old. In my head, Amiga Workbench is the best OS ever made.
As for the direction Apple are headed, I wonder if they'd ever lock down the OS to only run apps from the app store? I personally seriously doubt it - don't forget that's a full-blown, fully certified UNIX(r) operating system you've got there, and a huge number of people who buy Macs are technical (myself included). I'd drop Mac in a heartbeat if they ever locked it down, and so would most of my Mac owning friends. I doubt the price-sensitive mainstream would step in to replace us.
> the shill who reviewed it.
Is this really a shill review? I mean, I wouldn't expect to see the words "shoddy editing, poor writing and very little content" in a shill review, nor would I expect to see this in the conclusion: "For everyone else I would suggest reading the User Manual on the JMeter website as it covers all the material here (and much more) and is far more readable."
I mean, I'd be pretty disappointed with that shill review if I were packt.
There's another packt book that was reviewed here a while ago -- it's called Postgresql 9.0 High Performance, by Gregory Smith. Has anybody here read that particular book, and is it of the same poor quality that might appear to be the case for all packt books? I'm quite glad I didn't pick it up now...
I really don't think the point is that you could easily design a different way of achieving the same thing, but that if any sensible person sat down to design a system of putting characters on a screen using technology from that era, that this is the obvious solution that they would almost certainly come up with all on their own -- even if they had no prior knowledge of the RCA patent. Therefore the patent is not a huge leap forward in engineering, it's just a bloody nuisance to the people who actually want to create stuff. The trouble with patents is that they don't really happen in isolation -- everything builds on everything else that is happening at the same time. There are very, very few instances of inventions that wouldn't have happened if not for one person's ingenuity. For example, if Woz hadn't built the Apple I, somebody else would have built something very similar. Patents are the same -- if one person hadn't thought of that idea, usually someone else would have.
I don't think a single Apple fan cares about the shit that goes on between corporations, even when it's Apple. Nobody can defend this kind of stuff. It's just the way things are, and it's sad. It needs to change, but it's hard to see how. Certainly it will require somebody with incredible vision and a powerful dream, somebody who really wants to change the world for the better. The trouble is, 99% of American's would call that person a communist and they'd be shot down before they'd even begun.
How can you say 100 racks per day is "Not that much"?! Imagine provisioning 100 racks every single day! -- what about cabling and power and all that stuff? What about network load -- never mind the basic data transfer during normal operation, each server loads its disk image from the SAN when it starts. These seem pretty amazing numbers to me.
Look, this isn't about getting a computer without a browser, it's about letting computer manufacturers install an alternative to IE8 if they want to. This is a good move by the EU -- why not let suppliers change components around if they want to create a unique selling proposition over their competitors?
I agree with your sentiments, but you should take a look at Amazon EC2 if you want to see how slick Windows on Xen could be. Granted, it's not as good as Linux on Xen, but it's not half bad. I think it took them a lot of effort, and hopefully some of their work will trickle back down to the community version.