So you're deciding to stick with your stupid side of the argument and pick the least offensive thing in the picture to use as a way to dismiss the fact it's blatant copying
Actually you don't have to do something stupid to get HIV. You can get it through a blood transfusion or possibly any exposure to certain bodily fluids or you can be born with it because your mom has it. I don't think I'd call a baby stupid because he was born which wasn't even his choice anyway.
And a computer virus isn't meant to be a 100% like for like comparison to a real virus. Virus is just a generic term anyway and things like HIV are classed as retroviruses or lentiviruses so it's not even like they're all the same and rather than coming up with some sort of naming scheme for malicious code that mimics viruses we just use different terms because that's just how it is.
The app that people are opening only has one purpose. It's not an infected file meant to trick the user.
It probably is now but between autoplay, outlook's preview pane and numerous other little friendly helpers in Windows up until recently I'd argue that's probably not the case and given that IE still has more exploits than the others followed by Chrome that does mean running either of the top two browsers leaves you vulnerable without intentionally doing something. Unless of course you consider just being on the internet makes it their fault.
Microsoft *was* at fault at times like when Outlook express' preview pane ran anything in the preview pane which was on by default so you could get infected by virture of a new email just coming in even if you'd be smart enough not to open it. Which is definitely different from a Mac asking you to be sure and you open it anyway.
This story isn't covering a virus either. It is a malicious application but one that relies on an idiot running an application from a stranger and ignoring the warning suggesting that maybe you shouldn't open it.
You're more than welcome to get virus scanners or anything that windows has and it has a firewall. But it already asks you to make sure you're certain you want to run something downloaded and if someone is willing to ignore that and still run a application that someone stranger sent to them then there isn't much hope for them. Idiots will disable anything if they want to run something.
You should be able to break things when it makes sense. The fact they feel they can't just shows the average PHP coder is an idiot and because of that it's holding the language back.
Honestly, what's the point? Everyone will bitch when compatibility is broken or if they do something like Perl and do a "PHP6" then people will bitch. Unfortuantely for PHP is appeals to newbs, casuals and tightwads. In other words the sort of people that hate having to fix their code because they most likely can't.
In fact there was just a reddit submission the other day about some company crying about a bug fix breaking their code and the comments on the ticket just turned into a pile of retardation. The core developers don't seem to care much about the language either and that's probably because of their typical userbase. PHP is dying and tbh it's for the best.
A lot of fanboys laughed at Apple and thought their Android phone was goign to be 10 times better because it will have flash. I've never put flash on my android and I can't think of anyone I know that uses it because it's shit. It's shit on the desktop but it's even shittier on mobiles.
Actually no, not really. It's a nice idea but I'm not going to pay a lot to look stupid and allow Google to record my life. The technology behind it is interesting just not the product.
I mean more in tracking habits though it does specify location history so, depending on how much they gather now through Android, they are potentially tracking your location along with your habits more. There is sometimes a benefit to giving up privacy for something else but I don't think we should give any company the idea that they can increase that to whatever they feel is appropriate for their profits.
I'd agree and have to say I've completely forgot about that but I can vaguely remember some web cam "celebrities" being on TechTV ages but I'm sure they're mopping floors now in a McDonalds. I feel bad for kids though that could have it come back and bite them in the backside when they realise everyone can see how much of a retard they were when they were younger. Everyone's done something stupid when they're young. Luckily though for most people they don't have to relive it for the rest of their lives.
Exactly though like a trademarked image. The closer you make something to the Coke logo the more likely you're going to get in trouble over it. But that doesn't stop you from using red / white and wavey lines. That was the point I am trying to get in that it's trying to best describe an ipad and having some of those features isn't an issue. Making something that's a clone of an ipad is.
Honestly what sort of person wants to push their whole life into google's data centres in such detail? Given all the tourists in this area I'm used being filmed and being in pictures more than I care to but I don't mind it at all. However if I were sitting somewhere and trying to relax with some idiot filming every little thing on his ugly glasses then yes I think I would have an issue with that.
Between this and the sort of tracking that appears to be happening on their new tablet, for your "convenience" leaves me wondering how much further Google wants to pry into our lives and perhaps something should be done about it. At least give people 100% ownership and control over their own data.
I think I'd also be more concerned it's a US company and therefore the US government has access to all this too which is actually more scary than Google having it.
There are 9 images for the patent in question describe the look of the whole thing and in no where does the patent state it's a patent for a rectangle with round corners not does it even mention rectangle corner or rounded.
A design patent is more like a trademark and it describes the look of the device in detail. That way if Apple were to say go after the Kindle (after all it is rectangular and its corners aren't sharp) then someone can look at that, laugh at them and say it looks nothing like the device in the patent.
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So you're deciding to stick with your stupid side of the argument and pick the least offensive thing in the picture to use as a way to dismiss the fact it's blatant copying
Actually you don't have to do something stupid to get HIV. You can get it through a blood transfusion or possibly any exposure to certain bodily fluids or you can be born with it because your mom has it. I don't think I'd call a baby stupid because he was born which wasn't even his choice anyway.
And a computer virus isn't meant to be a 100% like for like comparison to a real virus. Virus is just a generic term anyway and things like HIV are classed as retroviruses or lentiviruses so it's not even like they're all the same and rather than coming up with some sort of naming scheme for malicious code that mimics viruses we just use different terms because that's just how it is.
The app that people are opening only has one purpose. It's not an infected file meant to trick the user.
Who said he was the inventor of computing?
Yes this is exactly how innovation and progress is made. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2011/09/samsung-copying-cjr.jpg
You can just feel Samsung push the limits of progress.
Yeah it's not like Samsung did ever go out of its way to make a product similar to Apples. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2011/09/samsung-copying-cjr.jpg
It probably is now but between autoplay, outlook's preview pane and numerous other little friendly helpers in Windows up until recently I'd argue that's probably not the case and given that IE still has more exploits than the others followed by Chrome that does mean running either of the top two browsers leaves you vulnerable without intentionally doing something. Unless of course you consider just being on the internet makes it their fault.
Yeah because living viruses and computer viruses are exactly the same thing.
Microsoft *was* at fault at times like when Outlook express' preview pane ran anything in the preview pane which was on by default so you could get infected by virture of a new email just coming in even if you'd be smart enough not to open it. Which is definitely different from a Mac asking you to be sure and you open it anyway.
This story isn't covering a virus either. It is a malicious application but one that relies on an idiot running an application from a stranger and ignoring the warning suggesting that maybe you shouldn't open it.
You're more than welcome to get virus scanners or anything that windows has and it has a firewall. But it already asks you to make sure you're certain you want to run something downloaded and if someone is willing to ignore that and still run a application that someone stranger sent to them then there isn't much hope for them. Idiots will disable anything if they want to run something.
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You should be able to break things when it makes sense. The fact they feel they can't just shows the average PHP coder is an idiot and because of that it's holding the language back.
Honestly, what's the point? Everyone will bitch when compatibility is broken or if they do something like Perl and do a "PHP6" then people will bitch. Unfortuantely for PHP is appeals to newbs, casuals and tightwads. In other words the sort of people that hate having to fix their code because they most likely can't.
In fact there was just a reddit submission the other day about some company crying about a bug fix breaking their code and the comments on the ticket just turned into a pile of retardation. The core developers don't seem to care much about the language either and that's probably because of their typical userbase. PHP is dying and tbh it's for the best.
If people keep giving up on Flash then an alternative will come sooner. Sitting on Flash until something comes will lead to nothing ever coming.
A lot of fanboys laughed at Apple and thought their Android phone was goign to be 10 times better because it will have flash. I've never put flash on my android and I can't think of anyone I know that uses it because it's shit. It's shit on the desktop but it's even shittier on mobiles.
It should probably say assembled in the US. I find it really hard to believe it's all American from the ground up.
To be fair a lot f casuals have *everything* on their desktop so if you ask the right people they may be right.
Nothing is always the best solution for every scenario. but I would expect that sort of answer form a senile old man or grey beard if you prefer.
Actually no, not really. It's a nice idea but I'm not going to pay a lot to look stupid and allow Google to record my life. The technology behind it is interesting just not the product.
I mean more in tracking habits though it does specify location history so, depending on how much they gather now through Android, they are potentially tracking your location along with your habits more. There is sometimes a benefit to giving up privacy for something else but I don't think we should give any company the idea that they can increase that to whatever they feel is appropriate for their profits.
I'd agree and have to say I've completely forgot about that but I can vaguely remember some web cam "celebrities" being on TechTV ages but I'm sure they're mopping floors now in a McDonalds. I feel bad for kids though that could have it come back and bite them in the backside when they realise everyone can see how much of a retard they were when they were younger. Everyone's done something stupid when they're young. Luckily though for most people they don't have to relive it for the rest of their lives.
Exactly though like a trademarked image. The closer you make something to the Coke logo the more likely you're going to get in trouble over it. But that doesn't stop you from using red / white and wavey lines. That was the point I am trying to get in that it's trying to best describe an ipad and having some of those features isn't an issue. Making something that's a clone of an ipad is.
It's hard not to claim that Samsung is trying to make their device as similar to the ipad as possible given all the evidence in this image. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2011/09/samsung-copying-cjr.jpg
Honestly what sort of person wants to push their whole life into google's data centres in such detail? Given all the tourists in this area I'm used being filmed and being in pictures more than I care to but I don't mind it at all. However if I were sitting somewhere and trying to relax with some idiot filming every little thing on his ugly glasses then yes I think I would have an issue with that.
Between this and the sort of tracking that appears to be happening on their new tablet, for your "convenience" leaves me wondering how much further Google wants to pry into our lives and perhaps something should be done about it. At least give people 100% ownership and control over their own data.
I think I'd also be more concerned it's a US company and therefore the US government has access to all this too which is actually more scary than Google having it.
There are 9 images for the patent in question describe the look of the whole thing and in no where does the patent state it's a patent for a rectangle with round corners not does it even mention rectangle corner or rounded.
A design patent is more like a trademark and it describes the look of the device in detail. That way if Apple were to say go after the Kindle (after all it is rectangular and its corners aren't sharp) then someone can look at that, laugh at them and say it looks nothing like the device in the patent.
KDE is an awful idea. Who would want theme Linux like a windows machine?