Well for those that don't get it.. on-line is a really broad term. Usually it means on a computer. Thier first claim, basically consists of a computer on a network, that is looking at goegraphical information via a search engine. Who patented this, mapquest?
Claim 1 is so broad, that Google and just about anyone doing mapping (GPS included) could fall under this defination. Now considering that I was using a GPS when I was in the army back in 1991, and that a GPS is a specialized computer, this claim can be invalidated under that.
But back to star trek.. they tracked people on that show and scouted planet surfaces using computers and GPS stuff. This was all talked about years before these people patented this stuff.
Who do I talk to about working to invalidate this patent? Seriously!
I have noticed posts like this on/. in the past year or so. Someone releases a beta and then people say it has bugs and it is broken. They said the same thing when IE7 beta's were released. What is it about the word beta that people on/. don't get?
thanks, I thought I just saw this story the other day. Although I wasn't totally sure it was here or somewhere else. Good to know that/. has reruns. I guess this means if I miss a day of news I can get it a few days later:D
... on crave. It looked like a pretty good phone. Nice sized screen, 2mp camera ( which is only now becoming 'in fashon' in the us ), and all the other things that make a good multi-user phone. Of course if you do not like multi-use phones, then this phone is not for you. If you are like me, though it is a nice phone.
The only issue is that it is an MS phone, so if you do not like MS mobile phones then this would not be good for you.
I'd be curious, if anyone is hacking these phones to install Linux or BSD on them, and if so can they still using them with their phone providers. Is this even possible or does it violate some license?
... How would I know that Dell was not using their leftovers and cheaper hardware to make their Linux based machines? They would be getting rid of stuff they normally would not use, and then be screwing Linux users and making people get a bad impression of Linux. The oh if you run Linux, your hardware life will be shorter.
I'd buy that, only I have a 12 year old tyan tomcat dual cpu motherboard that has been running linux for 12 years, and I have only had to replace the fans. It makes a great firewall!
I don't care if you are a republican or democrat, the real issue is that this administration has lied about more things than satan himself!
The real problem I have with this, is that there are people who still believe that this administration is the best thing since sliced bread!
Ask yourself this. Do you believe someone just because of their political affiliation, or from what you know they have done? Then ask yourself, do you still think that IRAQ was the right thing to do? If the answer is yes, then get your a** over there and put up or shutup!
I'd agree. People should be paying attention to their credit card purchases and transactions.
I think that the credit card companies are in this too though. They offer identity theft plans and credit checks for a fee. So even it they are loosing 3% in id theft, they are probably making it back in these plans and credit checks.
IMHO, it is almost like the credit card companies are in collusion with the id theives.
I kind of feel the same way with the TSA and the airport companies and terrorists. You can't take a 1.25 bottle of water through security, so you end up at the mercy of the airport to sell you a 2-3 dollar bottle of water. It's highway rape.
I just have to wonder how security is being handled in this. How is this going to prevent a virus from being part of someones storage and run in mozilla. I read that they are thinking about it, but what is to stop someone from setting up a fake google app and installing a virus on to your system instead of a word processor, or worse a wordprocessor that turns you machine into a bot while you run your app off line. My connection is always on line, so even if I am working in 'offline mode' what is to stop a virus from working online.
I'd agree. While it may be harder to interview for a new job, he is better off. I've often thought that if people quit a job without having a new job, then they will have no problem quiting each time they do not like thier job.
So yes, it is better to be miserable with money than to be unemployed(IMHO). Besides, the posters parents already turned his bedroom into an office (LOL).
One question I've always gotten in an interview is, "what have you been doing recenetly?" Being unemployeed, because you just quit, does not look attractive. Good excuses for being unemployed are: 1) you were laid off because they outsourced your department; 2) the company was shutting down operations and laid off / fired everyone; or 3) you were fired because you would not do something that was unethical / immoral to please you supervisor.
Being miserable at a job, is not something that employers want to hear. They will often wonder if there is something wrong with you. Also they may see you quitting your last job because you were miserable as sign that if you are not 100% happy with your job that you will leave them also.
Hey have you seen office space? How about Joe vs the volcano? Watch those 2 movies if you have not. Not only are they funny but they give some perspective to work in an office. No really! Also read dilbert, because so often he nails office life.
My roommate was sent a box, when his apple was recalled and postage page he was able to send it in. The other time it died, he just took it to the apple store. He's had it about 4 years now.
Yeah, you kind of need an apple store to take it to, but how many dell stores are there?
LOL.. and here Microsoft though that Linux or mac would be a real threat to their operations and low and behold, their own operating system is so bad that people just don't want this crap anymore. ROTFLOL... I think MS would have been better off creating just 1 version of Vista with install options. Mac sells 2 Server and Desktop. Most modern Linux distros let you choose what you want to install it as Server or Workstation, and then let you pick the packages you want to install too.
I had to wait 3 days for them to get a tech out there.
When my roommates apple laptop died, he took it to an apple store and they took care of it for him. I guess it really depends on the apple store, as I would think that like any other chain, YMMV.
according to my old AT&T / bell labs ....
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UNIX programming manual from the 70's,/etc is essential data and dangerous maintenance utilities. Having said that, I think et cetera would be close. I actually think it stands for something like essential tools and configurations. Only using et&c would not work because of the &. I suppose it could have been/etnc but why?
All patent applications should be online and available for community review. This will allow any person that may have an interest in the patent app to look for prior art rather than just relying in the patent examiner. Patent examiners have to review 5 patents or more in 40 hours of 'billable time'. This is not an adequate period of time. Also patent examiners are not all experts in the industry and they end up doing more legal issues than technical.
I ought to know, I was a patent examiner and I got tired of dealing with lawyers trying to get something patented even though it was obvious to me. MS wanted to patent a data struture. The claims were so broad that they covered just about any data structure that was used to store font information. WTF!
The real question is how often is too often. If you are talking about doing contracting then no it is not. Contractors are expected to switch jobs often. If you are talking about doing full time employment. You should stay at a job for at least 2 years or more. An employer invents money and time in you bringing you up to speed on development of their product. So if they think you are they type to bail every year or two they may not even consider you after seeing that on your resume.
I stayed with one company for 5.5 years. I got lots of interviews, because many employers are actually looking for people to stay around a while. They looked at me as as 'loyal', which many companies still want.
Figure they expeect you to stay at least 2 years and prefer you to stay at least 3 to 5.
Does youtube have any type of video upload approval process, or are videos just uploaded and noone looks at them to see if the content is acceptable? I've gone ot other sites that do that. They have people that look at all pictures that are uploaded to see if the content is ok to upload. I think that is really the only way to stop people from uploading things that they are not supposed to or that you don't want them to post.
Having been a big fan or RH and SUSE and been using RPM for a while now, I used to think that it was better than dpkg. I have used slackware, debian, suse, rh, since 5.0, and various other linux installs.
Recently I decided to try debian again. After installing sarge, I noticed that the software was old ( sorry guys it just is [2005]). So I decided to try something radical. I decided to point my sarge install at ubuntu repositories. First I pointed it at hoary. I ran apt-get update and then apt-get dist-upgrade, and viola. My debian install was now ubuntu. Then I did the same thing moving the system to dapper and then edgy. It is now running xubuntu.
When I had tried to upgrade my fc4 system to fc6 a few weeks ago, rpm couldn't not handle it. Packages did not get installed, the system was in a state of total flux. I had to reinstall FC6 from scratch. Luckily I had my home and important files on seperate filesystems and was able to install the system without loosing any important data. It was much more painful than the debian to ubuntu changes.
So IMHO either dpkg is better or the guys at ubuntu are doing a better job than fedora guys. BTW: Try upgrading a fc system to an equivalant rh system. Last time I tried, you could not.
Oh well. for now I will stick with my fc6 system and xubuntu on my 2 laptops and if in fc7/fc8 I run into the same issues that I did with fc4-fc6 upgrade, I'll say bye bye fc and hello xubuntu!
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Do I really need to say more?
Well for those that don't get it.. on-line is a really broad term. Usually it means on a computer. Thier first claim, basically consists of a computer on a network, that is looking at goegraphical information via a search engine. Who patented this, mapquest?
Claim 1 is so broad, that Google and just about anyone doing mapping (GPS included) could fall under this defination. Now considering that I was using a GPS when I was in the army back in 1991, and that a GPS is a specialized computer, this claim can be invalidated under that.
But back to star trek.. they tracked people on that show and scouted planet surfaces using computers and GPS stuff. This was all talked about years before these people patented this stuff.
Who do I talk to about working to invalidate this patent? Seriously!
From wikipedia -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_cycl e#Beta , this is a prototype / preview / early access.
Report the bugs and they will probably get fixed.
I'm amazed that things like this get to the story line on /. .
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/0 6/07/2317239
thanks, I thought I just saw this story the other day. Although I wasn't totally sure it was here or somewhere else. Good to know that /. has reruns. I guess this means if I miss a day of news I can get it a few days later :D
The only issue is that it is an MS phone, so if you do not like MS mobile phones then this would not be good for you.
In any case, crave ( http://crave.cnet.com/8300-1_105-1.html?search=htc +wing ) has more photos of this phone than the posted article. This is worth a look. They also have a link to a full review.
I'd be curious, if anyone is hacking these phones to install Linux or BSD on them, and if so can they still using them with their phone providers. Is this even possible or does it violate some license?
I'd buy that, only I have a 12 year old tyan tomcat dual cpu motherboard that has been running linux for 12 years, and I have only had to replace the fans. It makes a great firewall!
guess what, the rapture passed and we are all stuck here.. so now what will those stupid re-pubic-hairs do?
The real problem I have with this, is that there are people who still believe that this administration is the best thing since sliced bread!
Ask yourself this. Do you believe someone just because of their political affiliation, or from what you know they have done? Then ask yourself, do you still think that IRAQ was the right thing to do? If the answer is yes, then get your a** over there and put up or shutup!
I think MS is playing a dangerous game here, and I think they are going to loose.
I think that the credit card companies are in this too though. They offer identity theft plans and credit checks for a fee. So even it they are loosing 3% in id theft, they are probably making it back in these plans and credit checks.
IMHO, it is almost like the credit card companies are in collusion with the id theives.
I kind of feel the same way with the TSA and the airport companies and terrorists. You can't take a 1.25 bottle of water through security, so you end up at the mercy of the airport to sell you a 2-3 dollar bottle of water. It's highway rape.
BITS sounds almost like snarf, where it resumes its download. I think I remember using snarf before windows had a windows update.
Just a concern.
So yes, it is better to be miserable with money than to be unemployed(IMHO). Besides, the posters parents already turned his bedroom into an office (LOL).
One question I've always gotten in an interview is, "what have you been doing recenetly?" Being unemployeed, because you just quit, does not look attractive. Good excuses for being unemployed are: 1) you were laid off because they outsourced your department; 2) the company was shutting down operations and laid off / fired everyone; or 3) you were fired because you would not do something that was unethical / immoral to please you supervisor.
Being miserable at a job, is not something that employers want to hear. They will often wonder if there is something wrong with you. Also they may see you quitting your last job because you were miserable as sign that if you are not 100% happy with your job that you will leave them also.
Hey have you seen office space? How about Joe vs the volcano? Watch those 2 movies if you have not. Not only are they funny but they give some perspective to work in an office. No really! Also read dilbert, because so often he nails office life.
If you look at the first link you posted they have laptops with 128 Megs of RAM. Wee I can install an OS.
okay.. but I'm claiming port 969 :-D
Yeah, you kind of need an apple store to take it to, but how many dell stores are there?
LOL.. and here Microsoft though that Linux or mac would be a real threat to their operations and low and behold, their own operating system is so bad that people just don't want this crap anymore. ROTFLOL... I think MS would have been better off creating just 1 version of Vista with install options. Mac sells 2 Server and Desktop. Most modern Linux distros let you choose what you want to install it as Server or Workstation, and then let you pick the packages you want to install too.
When my roommates apple laptop died, he took it to an apple store and they took care of it for him. I guess it really depends on the apple store, as I would think that like any other chain, YMMV.
UNIX programming manual from the 70's, /etc is essential data and dangerous maintenance utilities. Having said that, I think et cetera would be close. I actually think it stands for something like essential tools and configurations. Only using et&c would not work because of the &. I suppose it could have been /etnc but why?
I ought to know, I was a patent examiner and I got tired of dealing with lawyers trying to get something patented even though it was obvious to me. MS wanted to patent a data struture. The claims were so broad that they covered just about any data structure that was used to store font information. WTF!
.. thanks. now I am going to start looking at a new provider...
People who can't change their mind are called George Bushes and.. well look at the mess he got us into!
I stayed with one company for 5.5 years. I got lots of interviews, because many employers are actually looking for people to stay around a while. They looked at me as as 'loyal', which many companies still want.
Figure they expeect you to stay at least 2 years and prefer you to stay at least 3 to 5.
Does youtube have any type of video upload approval process, or are videos just uploaded and noone looks at them to see if the content is acceptable? I've gone ot other sites that do that. They have people that look at all pictures that are uploaded to see if the content is ok to upload. I think that is really the only way to stop people from uploading things that they are not supposed to or that you don't want them to post.
Recently I decided to try debian again. After installing sarge, I noticed that the software was old ( sorry guys it just is [2005]). So I decided to try something radical. I decided to point my sarge install at ubuntu repositories. First I pointed it at hoary. I ran apt-get update and then apt-get dist-upgrade, and viola. My debian install was now ubuntu. Then I did the same thing moving the system to dapper and then edgy. It is now running xubuntu.
When I had tried to upgrade my fc4 system to fc6 a few weeks ago, rpm couldn't not handle it. Packages did not get installed, the system was in a state of total flux. I had to reinstall FC6 from scratch. Luckily I had my home and important files on seperate filesystems and was able to install the system without loosing any important data. It was much more painful than the debian to ubuntu changes.
So IMHO either dpkg is better or the guys at ubuntu are doing a better job than fedora guys. BTW: Try upgrading a fc system to an equivalant rh system. Last time I tried, you could not.
Oh well. for now I will stick with my fc6 system and xubuntu on my 2 laptops and if in fc7 /fc8 I run into the same issues that I did with fc4-fc6 upgrade, I'll say bye bye fc and hello xubuntu!