At least in this case the innovations/patents are for actual hardware rather than mathematical formulas.
Not necessarily. I would think that Motorola is as capable at filing for bogus patents as other companies, and it would be odd if they had only filed for patents on hardware. Especially if and when they saw significant value in their patent portfolio; why wouldn't you file for easiest ones you can get? Surely they have filed for all kinds of patents, including (but not limited to) hardware ones. It would be nice to get a breakdown of types of patents, as well as years they were applied for; it seems that the trend for bogus patents has been increasing... so older patents may be bit less likely to be bs ones.
I'd just like to point out its not much of a defense if you don't enforce your ownership at some level.
Usually defensive here means using patent lawsuits in defensive way (against other companies suing you); not so much defending patents themselves.
There is no need to defend patents, per se, unless someone is specifically trying to get them invalidated. As in not initiating the court process, but responding.
Gosling did a piss poor job on the design and evolution of Java to begin with.
How so? I thought it was generally consider a pretty decent job, and not just due to actual success of the platform and language. While Java has its quirks like any other programming language, it seems pretty well-rounded and practical. Your statement would suggest much more than that, so what exact things back up your statement?
I agree in that Gosling's checking of codebase is probably not all that valuable in itself (as he can't really be external objective third-party here), but I think it can have positive effect for credibility of Google's defense. It's not about trying to prevent Oracle from suing, but rather in improving chances of winning, or limiting damages. Gosling is obviously knowledgeable on Java and history, but also about various litigations related to Java.
Thats because the America Revolution wasn't "domestic terrorism".
Many techniques used were in fact labelled as terrorism even back then. And if one uses current de-facto political definitions (as various governments, including some western ones, do), could be construed to be such: guerilla warfare, vandalism, theft, obstruction of legal system...This does not diminish value or righteousness of revolution, just points out dangers of using a label without context; and especially fallacy of equating current laws with moral.
So: given that american colonies were part of English rule, and many activities were criminal (thanks to malevolent laws etc), yes, much of it was technically domestic terrorism. And no, there was nothing wrong with that; due to corruptness of the (legal, political) system of the time.
While it is true that underdogs typically use more of dirty tactics (since they have to, for the most part), how does this absolve either side? Two wrongs do not make right; so as wrong and deplorable as it is to use human shields, it is at least as bad to shoot those children. This is what I do not understand, except maybe as indication of mental maturity level of person arguing the case -- it is a kindergarten kid argument ("but he started it!").
Forget for a moment about the irony of bickering over "ownership" of stolen documents.
"Stolen" should be in quotes -- it may unauthorized copying, but as far as I know, original owners still have said documents and what Wikileaks has are copies.
This may sound like nitpicking but it has real life implications, whatwith MPAA's "pirate" labeling of unauthorized copying and other incidents where owners of "intellectual property" are abusing legal system.
I find Android slow, clunky, and Java-based SDK's (like Eclipse and the Blackberry dev environment) to be the same - where XCode is smoothe and elegant
Really? I have not used XCode heavily, but from my colleagues who have, they all swear XCode is biggest pile of crap they have ever used. I am pretty ok with Eclipse in general, but Android plug-in has always been shaky whenever I have had to use it (to help others work around issue Android platform causes with normally well functioning java libs). So I can see why it might make life bit more difficult.
I suspect there is lots of inertia both ways; those who start with obj-C, XCode find it much more appealing than those going the other way. But still... my impression has been that XCode and obj-C both feel bit antiquated, all things considered, which is in odd contrast with modern sleek design of the phone and hardware itself.
Right, all I am saying is just that it'd be even lower in most other states. In WA 140k$ would be kind of high, for example.
Not that offers in CA might be stellar per se; and from what I have heard, 140k$ does sound bit low
And yes, there are tons of unsolicited contacts currently... job market for s/w engineers is rather hot these days. At least experienced ones.
No, definitely not -- Bay Area has relatively hot job market; and while there are more expensive areas (northeast?) most states have much lower salaries. At least my experience between pacific northerwest and CA suggests that latter has significantly higher salaries, and is confirmed by sites that compare cost of living & compensation.
I doubt that. I know full well it makes sense to use term "software engineer" when we discuss compensation (for PHBs it sounds better, hence price disparity; and there is no harm in choosing it over alternative anyway).
I would also consider anyone who thinks there is a functional distinction to be a fool with big T.
It is bit high, but nothing extra-ordinary. Amazon seems to have P/E of 75 (fluctuates, but this is quite typical value over recent years), and it is much more mature business. And theoretically Facebook's revenue could raise nicely as there is no physical inventory. Netflix has had high P/E too (now at 68), and so on.
Investors are momentum oriented though, so valuation has more to do with explosive growth of Facebook. It is big, way (too) big; I don't use it, but only significant groups of non-users seem to be people without Internet connection and hard-core geeks.:-)
Whether it is overpriced, well, we'll see. It is impossible to know what future brings; investing that drives prices up is pretty pure speculation, and with very strong feedback loops. So there is no "real value", it's all based on opinions; and looking for fundamental correct valuation is a fool's errand.
I am not the official, so whether I would try to stop or not is quite different from whether society should stop them. But yes, if and when spanking is illegal, police should stop it; this should be obvious to everyone. Police is there to enforce the laws.
And your argument of "parent vs societal" is a strawman argument -- choice is between individuals, parent and child. Parents do not have absolute rights to risk lives of their children; parental rights do not outrank rights of children. Especially not "parents right to choose" over "child's right to stay alive".
I don't agree, we have to allow those who don't have common sense to suffer the consequences.
If this was about adults themselves declining vaccinations, maybe (just maybe because of reduced herd immunity, i.e. public hazard for others). But it is not, it is about irresponsible adults putting their children directly in harm's way. There are child-protection laws that allow society to take custody of children for protection; and this is a simple example where parental control should be overridden.
At least I can not see that educational value of an innocent child dying just to "teach" common-sense-less adults the right way.
Wait, doing shit like that means you are autistic?
No, diagnosis by doctors confirms you are. Just because he didn't say he has been diagnosed does not mean he hasn't. I would assume implication is that there is the diagnosis. Or are you thinking he is just bragging about being autistic?
I don't know where you get the idea that individuals or corporations should publish everything. WikiLeaks model is that others publish dirty laundry government wants to hide. By same token, isn't surfacing of this report EXACTLY like things are to work -- someone "leaked" the document (which is even better since WL is, alas, not an impartial party for documents that pertain to legal actions relating to its founder).
I think it is bit more than that, given that newspapers can be sued, and in case of UK, succesfully so. Meaning that if it was found that journalist fabricated claims of having read said document(s), paper in question would be liable for damages if sued. I agree in that publishing a copy would be more credible, but I would not completely discount article just due to lack of such disclosure.
Really? I do not know exacty statistics of Swedish sex crimes, but I am familiar with policies of other Nordic: these are rather lax compared to countries like US.
So first-timer getting even 2 years of obligatory jail time would be highly unusual. I agree in that getting just a fine would also be unusual; most likely punishment would be somewhere in between.
Yes, Gov't created TCP/IP and the Internet as a whole. It was private inividuals that made HTML, FTP, SMTP and all the other protocols you use over your IP based network.
Individuals, many of who worked for institutions (universities) or DARPA projects, both of which are funded by the government. In case of HTML, european government(s), granted (via CERN). And only a total tool would claim that TCP/IP by itself is worthless.
No one claimed that government invented any of those things (not even TCP/IP, FWIW), but critically it did fund initial and continuing research. If it was left up to private enterprises, none of that would have been developed as early as it was done. There was no money in it for couple of decades.
It's basically the same situation that happened with Ruby and Ruby on Rails. They were "new" and "trendy" technologies that got a lot of hype. Smart people saw that Ruby was basically Perl with a slightly more readable (but less powerful) syntax, and that Rails was nothing but yet another web development framework.
If that was all they saw, I would not exactly call them "smart"... While I am not a RoR fanboy, it actually acted much like a cult band, influencing development on many other platforms, especially ones that were more static like Java server-side development. Specifically, convention-over-configuration became mainstream, when observation was made along the lines of "gee, maybe having to name my methods certain way is less painful than writing tons of XML configuration files".
As to Ruby being "just like Perl", it's like saying that USA is just like India, just slightly different. They ain't. Ruby is not less powerful than Perl, nor is it syntax its strongest points (description might fit Python better, although even for Python it'd be rather inaccurate).
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Not necessarily. I would think that Motorola is as capable at filing for bogus patents as other companies, and it would be odd if they had only filed for patents on hardware. Especially if and when they saw significant value in their patent portfolio; why wouldn't you file for easiest ones you can get? Surely they have filed for all kinds of patents, including (but not limited to) hardware ones. It would be nice to get a breakdown of types of patents, as well as years they were applied for; it seems that the trend for bogus patents has been increasing... so older patents may be bit less likely to be bs ones.
Usually defensive here means using patent lawsuits in defensive way (against other companies suing you); not so much defending patents themselves. There is no need to defend patents, per se, unless someone is specifically trying to get them invalidated. As in not initiating the court process, but responding.
How so? I thought it was generally consider a pretty decent job, and not just due to actual success of the platform and language. While Java has its quirks like any other programming language, it seems pretty well-rounded and practical. Your statement would suggest much more than that, so what exact things back up your statement?
I agree in that Gosling's checking of codebase is probably not all that valuable in itself (as he can't really be external objective third-party here), but I think it can have positive effect for credibility of Google's defense. It's not about trying to prevent Oracle from suing, but rather in improving chances of winning, or limiting damages. Gosling is obviously knowledgeable on Java and history, but also about various litigations related to Java.
Many techniques used were in fact labelled as terrorism even back then. And if one uses current de-facto political definitions (as various governments, including some western ones, do), could be construed to be such: guerilla warfare, vandalism, theft, obstruction of legal system...This does not diminish value or righteousness of revolution, just points out dangers of using a label without context; and especially fallacy of equating current laws with moral.
So: given that american colonies were part of English rule, and many activities were criminal (thanks to malevolent laws etc), yes, much of it was technically domestic terrorism. And no, there was nothing wrong with that; due to corruptness of the (legal, political) system of the time.
And why would an office suite have an email reader? Just because Microsoft thought it a good idea doesn't mean it is...
While it is true that underdogs typically use more of dirty tactics (since they have to, for the most part), how does this absolve either side? Two wrongs do not make right; so as wrong and deplorable as it is to use human shields, it is at least as bad to shoot those children. This is what I do not understand, except maybe as indication of mental maturity level of person arguing the case -- it is a kindergarten kid argument ("but he started it!").
"Stolen" should be in quotes -- it may unauthorized copying, but as far as I know, original owners still have said documents and what Wikileaks has are copies.
This may sound like nitpicking but it has real life implications, whatwith MPAA's "pirate" labeling of unauthorized copying and other incidents where owners of "intellectual property" are abusing legal system.
Really? I have not used XCode heavily, but from my colleagues who have, they all swear XCode is biggest pile of crap they have ever used. I am pretty ok with Eclipse in general, but Android plug-in has always been shaky whenever I have had to use it (to help others work around issue Android platform causes with normally well functioning java libs). So I can see why it might make life bit more difficult.
I suspect there is lots of inertia both ways; those who start with obj-C, XCode find it much more appealing than those going the other way. But still... my impression has been that XCode and obj-C both feel bit antiquated, all things considered, which is in odd contrast with modern sleek design of the phone and hardware itself.
Right, I believe the term used is "fishing expedition".
Right, all I am saying is just that it'd be even lower in most other states. In WA 140k$ would be kind of high, for example. Not that offers in CA might be stellar per se; and from what I have heard, 140k$ does sound bit low And yes, there are tons of unsolicited contacts currently... job market for s/w engineers is rather hot these days. At least experienced ones.
No, definitely not -- Bay Area has relatively hot job market; and while there are more expensive areas (northeast?) most states have much lower salaries. At least my experience between pacific northerwest and CA suggests that latter has significantly higher salaries, and is confirmed by sites that compare cost of living & compensation.
Ouch! So poignant, sad and true. And while funny, I think it should rather gets mod points for insightfulness than humor....
I doubt that. I know full well it makes sense to use term "software engineer" when we discuss compensation (for PHBs it sounds better, hence price disparity; and there is no harm in choosing it over alternative anyway). I would also consider anyone who thinks there is a functional distinction to be a fool with big T.
Investors are momentum oriented though, so valuation has more to do with explosive growth of Facebook. It is big, way (too) big; I don't use it, but only significant groups of non-users seem to be people without Internet connection and hard-core geeks. :-)
Whether it is overpriced, well, we'll see. It is impossible to know what future brings; investing that drives prices up is pretty pure speculation, and with very strong feedback loops. So there is no "real value", it's all based on opinions; and looking for fundamental correct valuation is a fool's errand.
And your argument of "parent vs societal" is a strawman argument -- choice is between individuals, parent and child. Parents do not have absolute rights to risk lives of their children; parental rights do not outrank rights of children. Especially not "parents right to choose" over "child's right to stay alive".
If this was about adults themselves declining vaccinations, maybe (just maybe because of reduced herd immunity, i.e. public hazard for others). But it is not, it is about irresponsible adults putting their children directly in harm's way. There are child-protection laws that allow society to take custody of children for protection; and this is a simple example where parental control should be overridden.
At least I can not see that educational value of an innocent child dying just to "teach" common-sense-less adults the right way.
No, diagnosis by doctors confirms you are. Just because he didn't say he has been diagnosed does not mean he hasn't. I would assume implication is that there is the diagnosis. Or are you thinking he is just bragging about being autistic?
Yes.
I don't know where you get the idea that individuals or corporations should publish everything. WikiLeaks model is that others publish dirty laundry government wants to hide. By same token, isn't surfacing of this report EXACTLY like things are to work -- someone "leaked" the document (which is even better since WL is, alas, not an impartial party for documents that pertain to legal actions relating to its founder).
I think it is bit more than that, given that newspapers can be sued, and in case of UK, succesfully so. Meaning that if it was found that journalist fabricated claims of having read said document(s), paper in question would be liable for damages if sued. I agree in that publishing a copy would be more credible, but I would not completely discount article just due to lack of such disclosure.
Really? I do not know exacty statistics of Swedish sex crimes, but I am familiar with policies of other Nordic: these are rather lax compared to countries like US. So first-timer getting even 2 years of obligatory jail time would be highly unusual. I agree in that getting just a fine would also be unusual; most likely punishment would be somewhere in between.
Based on... ? Your religious libertarian beliefs?
Individuals, many of who worked for institutions (universities) or DARPA projects, both of which are funded by the government. In case of HTML, european government(s), granted (via CERN). And only a total tool would claim that TCP/IP by itself is worthless.
No one claimed that government invented any of those things (not even TCP/IP, FWIW), but critically it did fund initial and continuing research. If it was left up to private enterprises, none of that would have been developed as early as it was done. There was no money in it for couple of decades.
If that was all they saw, I would not exactly call them "smart"... While I am not a RoR fanboy, it actually acted much like a cult band, influencing development on many other platforms, especially ones that were more static like Java server-side development. Specifically, convention-over-configuration became mainstream, when observation was made along the lines of "gee, maybe having to name my methods certain way is less painful than writing tons of XML configuration files".
As to Ruby being "just like Perl", it's like saying that USA is just like India, just slightly different. They ain't. Ruby is not less powerful than Perl, nor is it syntax its strongest points (description might fit Python better, although even for Python it'd be rather inaccurate).