So if Apple would stop selling iPhones, and instead produce a $10 plugin module with 3G/4G for their next iPod touch, then the fees to Motorola would be 22 cents.
I am happy if the patent law contains an paragraph that states that buying, selling, writing, downloading, installing or executing software will never infringe on any patent.
{// long, long code// a = 1; a_label: b = 2; return a*b; }
When reading code, the label messes up what you know about the state of the program. What are we returning here? You have to scan the entire function and find the gotos to know.
The referenced article says nothing since they never did a proper reset on the SSD.
Of course OS X needs TRIM. Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to reset an SSD on a Mac. You have to remove the drive and put it in a Linux or Windows machine to reset it properly.
Most people believe that a widescreen 20" monitor gives you "more/better screen" than a "non--widescreen" 20" monitor.
The opposite is true. The 20" measurement is the diagonal of the screen. You get the largest area when the height/width is equal. The more you increase the width (and reduce the height), the smaller area you get.
The manufacturers benefit because they can sell a 20" screen with less pixels and make it sound more desirable.
Think of a circle where the radius is the screen size...
Do you read? Books, magazines, etc print text in portrait mode.
Heck, the newspapers even print the text in several columns to avoid very long lines, as that makes text more difficult to read. (I hate programmers that create 200-character statements on one line.)
For people using computers for text (documents, programming, etc) rather than watching movies, the vertical resolution is valuable.
The problem with this is that if I decide to patent "Online Purchasing of Movies", then I will effectivly shut off all other people and get a monopoly on it
Well, a patent IS a monopoly granted by the state to individuals or corporations.
Patents == monopolies. Let that sink in.
I am a proponent of free markets where anyone can compete. I think monopolies should be abolished. Monopolies or guilds should not exist in a free market economy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild
I think that "430 child pornography sites" is a bluff. I'm calling it. What sites? Which countries? Did the Australian authorities contact the police in those countries? What happened? Did they give up and are calling for blankets?
It needs to be asked since international lobbying groups are exploiting "child pornography" to establish censorship as being normal on the internet.
'According to the latest information I have here from the [Australian Communications and Media Authority], there are 430 child pornography sites on the [World Wide Web]... that are accessible to anyone...[Malcolm Turnbull] has to explain to Australian families that he is prepared to do nothing about blocking access to those sites,' Conroy added.
Maybe Conroy could explain to Australian families why hanging a blanket in front of the sites is better than shutting the sites down and prosecute the operators? Especially since it is so easy to peer behind the blanket by using a proxy, or alternate DNS resolver, etc, etc.
Are all those sites operating from countries where child pornography is legal? Which countries and sits are we talking about?
Hmmm... Sorry, she fed him. At that point there was a payment (food & train ticket) made for the sex and then becomes a male prostitute doing her a service. Case closed. Go home
Interestingly, buying sex is illegal in Sweden. Selling sex is not. So this would open another case, against the woman.
Since the swedish prosecutors seem to be keen on taking on cases to test the edges of the sex laws, I definitely think the girl should be tried. Prosecutors should stop thinking in old sexist patterns.
The real reason he doesn't want Flash on the iPad is because Apple is increasingly lining up against Google in many markets. Google's ownership of Youtube, and therefore fast online video with an incredibly huge library, is a threat to Apple.
Jobs and Apple want a walled-garden store. Since video is arguably the iPad's single killer app, and a place where it actually does look extremely impressive, they can't afford to have another company dominant in that sector.
So you think the real reason for excluding Flash is to block Youtube?
It is interesting to compare with what VMS offered 25 years ago: - VMS could have multiple nodes (can DRBD? It is not obvious from the web site.) - All VMS nodes have read and write access to the file systems - The distributed lock manager helps with file locking in this case. - VMS has the concept of quorum to avoid the "split brain" syndrom mentioned on the web page.
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So if Apple would stop selling iPhones, and instead produce a $10 plugin module with 3G/4G for their next iPod touch, then the fees to Motorola would be 22 cents.
Would you consider this to be fair too?
If you think biometrics is useful for unsupervised authentication, please read this:
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9808.html#biometrics
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/16/gummi_bears_defeat_fingerprint_sensors/
Your fingerprints are not secrets.
Can I publish program my own text that encodes and decodes H.264 video without infringing a patent?
Can I sell that text? Like other authors can with their work?
Programs = text.
I am happy if the patent law contains an paragraph that states that buying, selling, writing, downloading, installing or executing software will never infringe on any patent.
In one sentence:
I am a software author and I want to have the same right to publish texts I write as other authors have.
If you don't agree, why should novels, film scripts, musical genres, comic characters, etc, be exempt from patenting?
If you bought your Mac three years ago and never bought an OS upgrade, you are likely running Leopard.
Apple has still not provided any fix or upgrade that addresses this malware for Leopard. Only for Snow Leopard and Lion.
Mozilla already plays H264 video embedded in flash contents through an external flash plugin. Today.
So why would it be controversial to allow another plugin to do the same?
The same is true for Microsoft. So why did they join the cartel?
Do you think MS is able to re-license the patents to Nokia? If they can, why couldn't Google?
There's nothing wrong with goto.
Correct. It is the labels that mess things up.
{ // long, long code //
a = 1;
a_label:
b = 2;
return a*b;
}
When reading code, the label messes up what you know about the state of the program. What are we returning here? You have to scan the entire function and find the gotos to know.
Please mod the parent up!
The referenced article says nothing since they never did a proper reset on the SSD.
Of course OS X needs TRIM. Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to reset an SSD on a Mac. You have to remove the drive and put it in a Linux or Windows machine to reset it properly.
But the Iranians insist the nuclear facilities are for research and civil uses. It is against islam to create nuclear weapons!
So why the secrecy? Why not be open about everything and build some trust?
Most people believe that a widescreen 20" monitor gives you "more/better screen" than a "non--widescreen" 20" monitor.
The opposite is true. The 20" measurement is the diagonal of the screen. You get the largest area when the height/width is equal.
The more you increase the width (and reduce the height), the smaller area you get.
The manufacturers benefit because they can sell a 20" screen with less pixels and make it sound more desirable.
Think of a circle where the radius is the screen size...
Do you read?
Books, magazines, etc print text in portrait mode.
Heck, the newspapers even print the text in several columns to avoid very long lines, as that makes text more difficult to read. (I hate programmers that create 200-character statements on one line.)
For people using computers for text (documents, programming, etc) rather than watching movies, the vertical resolution is valuable.
The problem with this is that if I decide to patent "Online Purchasing of Movies", then I will effectivly shut off all other people and get a monopoly on it
Well, a patent IS a monopoly granted by the state to individuals or corporations.
Patents == monopolies. Let that sink in.
I am a proponent of free markets where anyone can compete. I think monopolies should be abolished. Monopolies or guilds should not exist in a free market economy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild
So why should authors of software have different rules than authors of (for example) film plots?
Why shouldn't we allow patents of film plots including (for example) a teleportation device as found in Star Trek?
I am a software author. Software patents interferes with my right to publish texts that i write myself.
I think that "430 child pornography sites" is a bluff. I'm calling it. What sites? Which countries? Did the Australian authorities contact the police in those countries? What happened? Did they give up and are calling for blankets?
It needs to be asked since international lobbying groups are exploiting "child pornography" to establish censorship as being normal on the internet.
Read this:
http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/ifpis-child-porn-strategy/
Do these lobbying groups operate in Australia?
What do Australian families think about commercial entities exploiting child pornography?
'According to the latest information I have here from the [Australian Communications and Media Authority], there are 430 child pornography sites on the [World Wide Web] ... that are accessible to anyone...[Malcolm Turnbull] has to explain to Australian families that he is prepared to do nothing about blocking access to those sites,' Conroy added.
Maybe Conroy could explain to Australian families why hanging a blanket in front of the sites is better than shutting the sites down and prosecute the operators? Especially since it is so easy to peer behind the blanket by using a proxy, or alternate DNS resolver, etc, etc.
Are all those sites operating from countries where child pornography is legal? Which countries and sits are we talking about?
Hmmm... Sorry, she fed him. At that point there was a payment (food & train ticket) made for the sex and then becomes a male prostitute doing her a service. Case closed. Go home
Interestingly, buying sex is illegal in Sweden. Selling sex is not. So this would open another case, against the woman.
Since the swedish prosecutors seem to be keen on taking on cases to test the edges of the sex laws, I definitely think the girl should be tried. Prosecutors should stop thinking in old sexist patterns.
The real reason he doesn't want Flash on the iPad is because Apple is increasingly lining up against Google in many markets. Google's ownership of Youtube, and therefore fast online video with an incredibly huge library, is a threat to Apple.
Jobs and Apple want a walled-garden store. Since video is arguably the iPad's single killer app, and a place where it actually does look extremely impressive, they can't afford to have another company dominant in that sector.
So you think the real reason for excluding Flash is to block Youtube?
So how come iPad ships with a Youtube application?
http://www.apple.com/ipad/guided-tours/#youtube
That's what I wished for in 2001. If it happened then, the world of mobile OS would be different. I think it is too late to save Symbian now.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13186&cid=92580
Mod parent up. It is not difficult to develop any program you wish to your iPhone and deploy it outside of the App Store.
...Microsoft is in the business of making money...
No, that is a secondary goal. The first priority for Microsoft is control, technology ownership and monopolization. Even at a financial loss.
See IE, XBOX, dotnet, Silverlight, etc, etc
Ah, Linux gets disk level clustering?
It is interesting to compare with what VMS offered 25 years ago:
- VMS could have multiple nodes (can DRBD? It is not obvious from the web site.)
- All VMS nodes have read and write access to the file systems
- The distributed lock manager helps with file locking in this case.
- VMS has the concept of quorum to avoid the "split brain" syndrom mentioned on the web page.
What is their angle?
They're a company of 40,000+ engineers, a substantial portion of which are not total douchebags, unlike how people on Slashdot seem to imagine them.
Yeah? So how come they work at Microsoft?