IE was purchased by Microsoft. They didn't do some dirty trick, they found a company making a product they liked and purchased them. Not just the rights to their product, the brought on the developers and all that.
Microsoft didn't purchase IE, they licensed Mosaic from Spyglass. I don't know about dirty tricks, but according to the wiki in "1997, Spyglass threatened Microsoft with a contractual audit, in response to which Microsoft settled for US $8 million".
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. If it is worth using, it might be worth porting. In the long run some time spent getting it working on newer systems will free you up in a number of ways.
Perhaps write up a number of conformance tests to make sure it works as it did before.
It is a factory complex, not just a building, it includes dormitories and other facilities and seems to operate like a good sized city with approximately 200,000 to 400,000 employees depending on which article you read. My company doesn't have anything like that order of employees, does yours?
I see what you're talking about now, but the difference is that on the Mac you have to explicitly select all the images you want to look through, while on Windows you don't. Since this is an activity that many people want to do, it would be best to make it possible to do automatically rather than have the user explicitly select all the items they want to look at.
Also, if you put quick look in fullscreen mode you can't navigate through the pictures using arrow keys, or whatever. This is an area that the Mac OS needs to improve upon.
They only need to be peaceful enough to leave their homeworld without destroying themselves, once they leave anything goes. There is not as much reason for them to be peaceful after that. However, once they leave there probably isn't much use for other lifeforms.
While Wiki is, or was, out of date, it wasn't *far* out of date if this SDK hit 1.0 on 23 June 2010. (I suppose prerelease versions were available sooner, but still.) The impression most developers would have had is with the older version of the Symbian SDK.
Patents are ultimately written by patent lawyers, even if they are attributed to the people who originally came up with the idea. In this particular case the patent lawyers are listed. From my experience patent lawyers throw all kinds of crap into the patent and get it mixed up with other patents they might be filing at the same time.
Objective-C is a new language, but it isn't particularly difficult to learn. If you know object oriented programming it takes perhaps a week to learn and a little while longer to get used to. What takes longer is the SDK, but I think that's true of all platforms.
funny how we've never had any stories since on what the best selling phones are for any other month, either in Japan, or for the countless other countries in the world
Android doesn't include the entire set of Java class libraries, in particular the user interface libraries. It instead includes its own user interface libraries along with other utility libraries. It is possible that the Vonage app includes a lot of code that can run on either platform, but the UI and other parts will need to be rewritten.
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It's also a dessert topping.
The video is now on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8FS03ddILY
SPA! isn't like the Onion, but it is a tabloid magazine. Anything coming from it should be taken with a huge grain of salt.
The See also section of that article has an list of places with similarly amusing names.
Me too. Then I was wondering why they missed the organics they had back on Mars.
IE was purchased by Microsoft. They didn't do some dirty trick, they found a company making a product they liked and purchased them. Not just the rights to their product, the brought on the developers and all that.
Microsoft didn't purchase IE, they licensed Mosaic from Spyglass. I don't know about dirty tricks, but according to the wiki in "1997, Spyglass threatened Microsoft with a contractual audit, in response to which Microsoft settled for US $8 million".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Internet_Explorer
Wiki agrees with you and disagrees with parent:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data#Meaning_of_data.2C_information_and_knowledge
Seems like if someone was obtaining that much money from lotto they'd have to account for how they paid for it.
How about instead of dual-booting, using a VM to run Windows or whatever?
unemployment is high, and jobs aren't easy to come by
doesn't that say it all?
plus you got time to post on /.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. If it is worth using, it might be worth porting. In the long run some time spent getting it working on newer systems will free you up in a number of ways.
Perhaps write up a number of conformance tests to make sure it works as it did before.
Nokia also outsources some of its manufacturing to Foxconn in China.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Apple-Nokia-Dell-HP-Investigating-Conditions-at-Foxconn-Site-635424/
It is a factory complex, not just a building, it includes dormitories and other facilities and seems to operate like a good sized city with approximately 200,000 to 400,000 employees depending on which article you read. My company doesn't have anything like that order of employees, does yours?
as it has been shown by a few articles, the suicide rate at the factories is actually lower than the Chinese national average.
the price of hardware isn't an ethical issue. if you don't like the price, don't buy it.
I see what you're talking about now, but the difference is that on the Mac you have to explicitly select all the images you want to look through, while on Windows you don't. Since this is an activity that many people want to do, it would be best to make it possible to do automatically rather than have the user explicitly select all the items they want to look at.
Also, if you put quick look in fullscreen mode you can't navigate through the pictures using arrow keys, or whatever. This is an area that the Mac OS needs to improve upon.
Oh, I don't imagine he'll be on the boards of any other companies for long. At least not the current big ones.
The PDF version http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Pi/piCompute.pdf of the page is up to date, but for some reason the html is behind. Also the PDF correctly displays the mathematical formula, while the html doesn't for me.
They only need to be peaceful enough to leave their homeworld without destroying themselves, once they leave anything goes. There is not as much reason for them to be peaceful after that. However, once they leave there probably isn't much use for other lifeforms.
While Wiki is, or was, out of date, it wasn't *far* out of date if this SDK hit 1.0 on 23 June 2010. (I suppose prerelease versions were available sooner, but still.) The impression most developers would have had is with the older version of the Symbian SDK.
I've never heard of vegans being against mother's milk.
Patents are ultimately written by patent lawyers, even if they are attributed to the people who originally came up with the idea. In this particular case the patent lawyers are listed. From my experience patent lawyers throw all kinds of crap into the patent and get it mixed up with other patents they might be filing at the same time.
In any case it is probably a bad idea to put in diagrams from other companies apps, but as this TechCrunch article mentions, it is probably not Apple's intention to be stealing from Ralph Lauren or GuideYou (or Where To).
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/05/apple-patent-diagrams-send-the-wrong-message-to-developers/
I don't know the Symbian SDK, but according to wiki it uses a non-standard version of C++.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian_OS#Developing_on_Symbian_OS
Objective-C is a new language, but it isn't particularly difficult to learn. If you know object oriented programming it takes perhaps a week to learn and a little while longer to get used to. What takes longer is the SDK, but I think that's true of all platforms.
funny how we've never had any stories since on what the best selling phones are for any other month, either in Japan, or for the countless other countries in the world
Perhaps we should:
Apple iPhone Captures 72% of Japan Smartphone Market (April 23, 2010)
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-23/apple-iphone-captures-72-of-japan-smartphone-market-update3-.html
Note that this was before the iPhone 4 was released.
Android doesn't include the entire set of Java class libraries, in particular the user interface libraries. It instead includes its own user interface libraries along with other utility libraries. It is possible that the Vonage app includes a lot of code that can run on either platform, but the UI and other parts will need to be rewritten.