Well SFLC doesn't own the MAME trademark - it's owned by a project member. If SFLC decides to mess us around, we'll do what we did when David R. Foley tried to tradmark the MAME name in bad faith: lawyer up defend ourselves.
At present we contract SFLC to provide legal representation. That doesn't give them ownership over any part of the project. We own the trademark, we don't assign copyright on code, we don't have a shell company consisting of SFLC employees.
I can understand why SFLC is seeking invalidation of SFC's trademark. The "SFLC" initialism was in use before the SFC was founded. The SFC operates in a similar space, and does seem to have intentionally chosen a confusingly similar initialism. If anything, I'd say SFLC were stupid not to object earlier.
No it wouldn't. Time zones are very helpful, for example when you're trying to set up a reasonable time for a phone call/teleconference, or thinking about when someone will read an e-mail. You can think, "well, they're five hours behind us, so they won't be getting into the office for a couple of hours yet," or, "they're two hours ahead, so they should be just getting back from lunch." You can have a row of clocks showing the time in all your offices and from that have some idea of what part of the day it is.
Without timezones, you'd have to think about what phase of the day a time corresponds to in another part of the world. It's more work to think through. It's been tried before. You may or may not remember "Swatch Internet Time", heavily promoted starting in 1998. They divided the day into 1000 parts called ".beats" with 0 at midnight UTC+1 and used the same values everywhere. It went nowhere because it just isn't useful.
Biggest/perkiest e-boobs! No-one boasts about having a deep vagina - tight vagina maybe, but no-one really talks about depth much. Get your terminology right!
There are a limited number of private vehicle registrations available. When a registration becomes available (due to someone's registration lapsing, or the number of registrations being increased), they first look at needs-based assignment (e.g. if someone with a disabled family member has made and application), and if it isn't allocated that way they auction it.
Most of the people buying vehicle registrations at auction for ridiculous prices really don't need a car, they just want it as a status symbol. Raising the price just makes it more exclusive. The city's really to small to handle any more private vehicles, it makes sense to stop increasing the number of vehicle registrations available.
Building roads on top of roads isn't a solution - how do you get people on and off these stacked roads at their destinations? How does it do to the properties alongside the stacked roads? Singapore is already at a point where the vast majority of people don't need a car at all.
Can confirm sex workers don't always actually have sex with clients. Source: have paid sex workers for (non-erotic) massage, to talk to me and drink champagne after a really shit day at work, and just to sing and dance with me at a karaoke bar. They're generally pretty happy to do stuff other than sex. One time, the girl was like, "So, are we going to have sex now?" and seemed disappointed that I wasn't actually interested in going there. The didn't let me go without a kiss on the lips, though.
It wasn't that people thought the world was flat at the time, it was that Columbus thought the globe was a lot smaller than everyone else thought it was, and hence he thought there may be a more efficient westward route to India. I don't know if he really thought he'd reached India when he got to America though.
That isn't really true. GPRS (the GSM packet data extension) allows somewhat flexible allocation within a single timeslot allowing multiple light users of data to be serviced in a single timeslot (think TCP keep-alives, instant messaging, server hearbeats, interactive SSH sessions, and other low-bandwidth stuff). Managing uplink allocation is somewhat more complex and less efficient. GSM supported simultaneous voice and data provided the network enabled it by doing voice in one timeslot and data in another, using the same radio. However many network operators (e.g. Telstra in Australia, and AT&T in the US) didn't allow this and would kill your GPRS connection when you established a voice call. EDGE used the same channel management as regular GSM but used higher-order modulation (some kind of QAM IIRC) to increase the data rate.
iDEN died mainly because it was a proprietary system from a single vendor (Motorola), so it didn't have the economies of scale that the widely-deployed systems had. It had some interesting functionality like a fast call establishment sequence used for the push-to-talk "walkie-talkie" feature. GSM tried to add an equivalent for this but it never performed as well, and it wasn't popular with the operators. There's no reason iDEN couldn't have been hacked up to support something like GSM's GPRS/EDGE to get usable packet data.
IS95/CDMA2000 CDMA had a number of benefits compared to UMTS W-CDMA. IS95 uses 1.25MHz channels compared to UMTS 5MHz channels (ignoring the IS95 3x mode that used three times the channel bandwidth - this wasn't widely deployed). This means you need to be able to support more than three times as many users per channel before you get the same spectrum efficiency. You also need faster DSPs on the handsets to process the 5MHz baseband signal, which leads to shorter battery life. Allocating code space to give each handset optimal bandwidth and noise level becomes more complex as you have more users on a channel and more code space. Early UMTS cell base hardware didn't have the computational power to do this effectively, so bandwidth was allocated very poorly. This has been mostly mitigated by improvements in DSPs, CPUs and batteries.
CDMA is inherently complex to implement and comes with its own set of problems. One of them is that a distant handset may be able to receive the signal from the base, but not be able to transmit to the base because its signal is swamped by handsets closer to the base. More distant handsets require allocation of more code space to get the same bandwidth as close-by handsets. Very tight synchronisation between handsets and also between base stations is required to keep the signals orthogonal.
LTE isn't actually a CDMA system. It uses orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) to handle multiple simultaneous users on a channel. It's a different technology to TDMA or CDMA with a new set of issues. One notable feature is the cyclic prefix applied to symbols. This gives very high immunity to multi-path reception with delay spread up to the length of the cyclic prefix. But if the multi-path delay spread exceeds the length of the cyclic prefix, it falls over very quickly. CDMA is less immune to multi-path reception with relatively low delay spread, but more immune if the delay spread becomes very high. It's impossible to go through all the implications in a comment here, but one needs to appreciate that this is a big, complex topic, and there are many technical and economic factors at play.
They licensed ADB to anyone who asked. A license was less than $1,000 and you could sell an unlimited number of devices. It was cheaper than licensing USB patents and paying for a vendor ID. There were input devices from Gravis, MacAlly, etc. if you didn't like what Apple had on offer.
Having drivers in mainline only guarantees they'll continue to compile, not that they'll actually continue to work. The Linux kernel team don't have every piece of esoteric hardware available for testing, or the resources to test every driver. Then there are whole classes of drivers that the Linux kernel developers are philosophically opposed to and would never include (for example Chelsio T4 TCP Offload Manager). It's nice not to have your kernel ripped out from under you.
C++ lambdas don't automatically extend scope of capture expressions, so you need to know what you're doing when you use them. If the lambda is going to outlive its containing invocation scope, you need to capture by copy or move. C++ gives you more low-level control over how the lambdas behave.
C++17 adds optionals, variants and any type to the standard library. They're inspired by the corresponding types in Boost, but with a lot of the rough edges cleaned up. There's some argument to be had over language vs library, but the C++ way has always been to prefer library.
Claiming that you can't write OSX apps in C++ is just silly - I do it all the time.
He said "wont back up to drives that have been upgraded to APFS" not "won't back up from drives that have been upgraded to APFS". Nothing implies that you can use Time Machine to back up to an APFS volume.
Larger trucks are subject to stricter standards in Europe. They're required to have electrical heating on the exhaust system so the AdBlue NOX suppression system can function regardless of ambient temperature. Passenger cars are exempt from this, and they're allowed to disable the AdBlue system if the ambient temperature is too low for it to be effective (as high as 15 degrees for some Mercedes cars IIRC). The VW cars implicated in the scandal completely lacked AdBlue NOX suppression for the most part, because they cheated on tests making it look like it wasn't needed.
So you're saying that the US essentially isn't a democracy? Because in a democracy, in theory the power is with the people. The irony is huge - the US is a shining beacon of democracy, freedom, liberty and hope, but only when convenient; the rest of the time, the populace is completely out-of-touch with what the government does, and have no responsibility.
David R. Foley of UltraCade attempted to trademark the MAME name (he was later found guilty of selling games he didn't have the rights to). The MAME team had to legally challenge this trademark application. So yes, the MAME name/logo/wordmark is a registered trademark mainly because someone else attempted to register it in bad faith first.
Solaris zones, and cluster-like features on Sun hardware (e.g. being able to take bad RAM out of service without bringing down the OS). They did have some cool technology, Linux on commodity hardware still doesn't have a viable replacement for either of these features.
I see it differently. MS killed desktop UNIX by being good enough. Desktop UNIX was better, but Windows NT 4 on commodity hardware was (perhaps just barely) good enough, and far cheaper. This impacted all the UNIX vendors, as it killed off a significant revenue stream.
Sun was losing the performance battle badly with SPARC. This was painfully obvious with the Sun Blade 2500 tower. The CPUs were no faster than the Blade 2000, and it had a quarter of the RAM bandwidth as a cost-saving measure (they reduced memory from 256 bits wide to 64 bits wide so you could install RAM DIMMs individually rather than in groups of four). They were still trying to charge premium prices for SPARC, but x86 and POWER were walking all over it in performance. They managed to score some wins on highly-parallel workloads with the UltraSPARC T series (Niagara), but it was always specialised and Suns AMD64 boxes performed better on most workloads.
Sun was spread far too thin on the ground and faced with falling revenues. They tried open source as a strategy, but open sourcing something provides no value on its own. They couldn't maintain/enhance their OS (Solaris), compilers (SunPro), Java, and everything else. They were floundering, occasionally coming out with an interesting product, but no consistency.
Ruby on Rails was framework-of-the-month already by 2006, years before the Oracle purchase. The explosion of programming languages would've happened anyway, it's a result of all the people who studied computer science after the first dotcom bubble. J2EE had already been co-opted by Apache and Red Hat, and let's face it, hardly anyone even uses J2EE. Most of the time Spring is a lighter-weight substitute, you only really want J2EE if you need distributed transactional consistency.
Sun were lucky to sell out when they did. They really didn't have a viable plan, and taking the money and running probably was the best thing for the shareholders. They'd already open-sourced most of the stuff that had any value, so it wasn't going to matter too much how Oracle mismanaged it. Oracle were stupid to buy Sun, as it was already pretty obvious there wasn't really much worth buying.
Yeah, I miss Sun, but the Sun I miss had already faded long before the Oracle purchase. I just didn't want to believe it and willingly went into denial.
It's been on life support for years. I knew it was coming when I saw the Blade 2500 tower in 2004, but I willingly went into denial. Since then it's just been a slow death spiral.
Yeah, besides Eminem who was arguably the world's most successful/well-kown rapper for years, B-Real (Cypress Hill) who keeps kicking on, the Beastie Boys, dudes from the Kottonmouth Kings... They're in the minority, but there's definitely been a steady stream of successful white rappers.
It isn't about buying applications, it's about Apple saying that peer-to-peer payments count as in-app purchases. WeChat/QQ/etc. allow you to send money or pay for purchases with a wallet tied to your account. They charge no commission on this (same business model as zero-commission travellers' cheques - TenCent can use the rather significant total amount of money that everyone has in their WeChat wallets at any given time). Apple wants a 30% cut of all these transactions. They may have written themselves out of the Chinese mobile market with this - WeChat payment is really popular.
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Well SFLC doesn't own the MAME trademark - it's owned by a project member. If SFLC decides to mess us around, we'll do what we did when David R. Foley tried to tradmark the MAME name in bad faith: lawyer up defend ourselves.
At present we contract SFLC to provide legal representation. That doesn't give them ownership over any part of the project. We own the trademark, we don't assign copyright on code, we don't have a shell company consisting of SFLC employees.
I can understand why SFLC is seeking invalidation of SFC's trademark. The "SFLC" initialism was in use before the SFC was founded. The SFC operates in a similar space, and does seem to have intentionally chosen a confusingly similar initialism. If anything, I'd say SFLC were stupid not to object earlier.
No it wouldn't. Time zones are very helpful, for example when you're trying to set up a reasonable time for a phone call/teleconference, or thinking about when someone will read an e-mail. You can think, "well, they're five hours behind us, so they won't be getting into the office for a couple of hours yet," or, "they're two hours ahead, so they should be just getting back from lunch." You can have a row of clocks showing the time in all your offices and from that have some idea of what part of the day it is.
Without timezones, you'd have to think about what phase of the day a time corresponds to in another part of the world. It's more work to think through. It's been tried before. You may or may not remember "Swatch Internet Time", heavily promoted starting in 1998. They divided the day into 1000 parts called ".beats" with 0 at midnight UTC+1 and used the same values everywhere. It went nowhere because it just isn't useful.
And SFLC represents MAME and Kodi. As a MAME developer, that makes me somewhat sympathetic to SFLC.
Biggest/perkiest e-boobs! No-one boasts about having a deep vagina - tight vagina maybe, but no-one really talks about depth much. Get your terminology right!
There are a limited number of private vehicle registrations available. When a registration becomes available (due to someone's registration lapsing, or the number of registrations being increased), they first look at needs-based assignment (e.g. if someone with a disabled family member has made and application), and if it isn't allocated that way they auction it.
Most of the people buying vehicle registrations at auction for ridiculous prices really don't need a car, they just want it as a status symbol. Raising the price just makes it more exclusive. The city's really to small to handle any more private vehicles, it makes sense to stop increasing the number of vehicle registrations available.
Building roads on top of roads isn't a solution - how do you get people on and off these stacked roads at their destinations? How does it do to the properties alongside the stacked roads? Singapore is already at a point where the vast majority of people don't need a car at all.
He's was an Australian, not an Austrian. But he renounced his Australian citizenship for US citizenship so he could make more money.
Oh it happens, but I don't think it's as widespread as people try to claim. Heres's an example of it that got to court almost a decade ago: http://www.google.com.au/search?rls=en&q=giller+v+procopets.
Can confirm sex workers don't always actually have sex with clients. Source: have paid sex workers for (non-erotic) massage, to talk to me and drink champagne after a really shit day at work, and just to sing and dance with me at a karaoke bar. They're generally pretty happy to do stuff other than sex. One time, the girl was like, "So, are we going to have sex now?" and seemed disappointed that I wasn't actually interested in going there. The didn't let me go without a kiss on the lips, though.
It wasn't that people thought the world was flat at the time, it was that Columbus thought the globe was a lot smaller than everyone else thought it was, and hence he thought there may be a more efficient westward route to India. I don't know if he really thought he'd reached India when he got to America though.
That isn't really true. GPRS (the GSM packet data extension) allows somewhat flexible allocation within a single timeslot allowing multiple light users of data to be serviced in a single timeslot (think TCP keep-alives, instant messaging, server hearbeats, interactive SSH sessions, and other low-bandwidth stuff). Managing uplink allocation is somewhat more complex and less efficient. GSM supported simultaneous voice and data provided the network enabled it by doing voice in one timeslot and data in another, using the same radio. However many network operators (e.g. Telstra in Australia, and AT&T in the US) didn't allow this and would kill your GPRS connection when you established a voice call. EDGE used the same channel management as regular GSM but used higher-order modulation (some kind of QAM IIRC) to increase the data rate.
iDEN died mainly because it was a proprietary system from a single vendor (Motorola), so it didn't have the economies of scale that the widely-deployed systems had. It had some interesting functionality like a fast call establishment sequence used for the push-to-talk "walkie-talkie" feature. GSM tried to add an equivalent for this but it never performed as well, and it wasn't popular with the operators. There's no reason iDEN couldn't have been hacked up to support something like GSM's GPRS/EDGE to get usable packet data.
IS95/CDMA2000 CDMA had a number of benefits compared to UMTS W-CDMA. IS95 uses 1.25MHz channels compared to UMTS 5MHz channels (ignoring the IS95 3x mode that used three times the channel bandwidth - this wasn't widely deployed). This means you need to be able to support more than three times as many users per channel before you get the same spectrum efficiency. You also need faster DSPs on the handsets to process the 5MHz baseband signal, which leads to shorter battery life. Allocating code space to give each handset optimal bandwidth and noise level becomes more complex as you have more users on a channel and more code space. Early UMTS cell base hardware didn't have the computational power to do this effectively, so bandwidth was allocated very poorly. This has been mostly mitigated by improvements in DSPs, CPUs and batteries.
CDMA is inherently complex to implement and comes with its own set of problems. One of them is that a distant handset may be able to receive the signal from the base, but not be able to transmit to the base because its signal is swamped by handsets closer to the base. More distant handsets require allocation of more code space to get the same bandwidth as close-by handsets. Very tight synchronisation between handsets and also between base stations is required to keep the signals orthogonal.
LTE isn't actually a CDMA system. It uses orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) to handle multiple simultaneous users on a channel. It's a different technology to TDMA or CDMA with a new set of issues. One notable feature is the cyclic prefix applied to symbols. This gives very high immunity to multi-path reception with delay spread up to the length of the cyclic prefix. But if the multi-path delay spread exceeds the length of the cyclic prefix, it falls over very quickly. CDMA is less immune to multi-path reception with relatively low delay spread, but more immune if the delay spread becomes very high. It's impossible to go through all the implications in a comment here, but one needs to appreciate that this is a big, complex topic, and there are many technical and economic factors at play.
They licensed ADB to anyone who asked. A license was less than $1,000 and you could sell an unlimited number of devices. It was cheaper than licensing USB patents and paying for a vendor ID. There were input devices from Gravis, MacAlly, etc. if you didn't like what Apple had on offer.
Having drivers in mainline only guarantees they'll continue to compile, not that they'll actually continue to work. The Linux kernel team don't have every piece of esoteric hardware available for testing, or the resources to test every driver. Then there are whole classes of drivers that the Linux kernel developers are philosophically opposed to and would never include (for example Chelsio T4 TCP Offload Manager). It's nice not to have your kernel ripped out from under you.
C++ lambdas don't automatically extend scope of capture expressions, so you need to know what you're doing when you use them. If the lambda is going to outlive its containing invocation scope, you need to capture by copy or move. C++ gives you more low-level control over how the lambdas behave.
C++17 adds optionals, variants and any type to the standard library. They're inspired by the corresponding types in Boost, but with a lot of the rough edges cleaned up. There's some argument to be had over language vs library, but the C++ way has always been to prefer library.
Claiming that you can't write OSX apps in C++ is just silly - I do it all the time.
He said "wont back up to drives that have been upgraded to APFS" not "won't back up from drives that have been upgraded to APFS". Nothing implies that you can use Time Machine to back up to an APFS volume.
Larger trucks are subject to stricter standards in Europe. They're required to have electrical heating on the exhaust system so the AdBlue NOX suppression system can function regardless of ambient temperature. Passenger cars are exempt from this, and they're allowed to disable the AdBlue system if the ambient temperature is too low for it to be effective (as high as 15 degrees for some Mercedes cars IIRC). The VW cars implicated in the scandal completely lacked AdBlue NOX suppression for the most part, because they cheated on tests making it look like it wasn't needed.
You must be new here, GNAA have definitely been around longer than a decade.
So you're saying that the US essentially isn't a democracy? Because in a democracy, in theory the power is with the people. The irony is huge - the US is a shining beacon of democracy, freedom, liberty and hope, but only when convenient; the rest of the time, the populace is completely out-of-touch with what the government does, and have no responsibility.
David R. Foley of UltraCade attempted to trademark the MAME name (he was later found guilty of selling games he didn't have the rights to). The MAME team had to legally challenge this trademark application. So yes, the MAME name/logo/wordmark is a registered trademark mainly because someone else attempted to register it in bad faith first.
Solaris zones, and cluster-like features on Sun hardware (e.g. being able to take bad RAM out of service without bringing down the OS). They did have some cool technology, Linux on commodity hardware still doesn't have a viable replacement for either of these features.
I see it differently. MS killed desktop UNIX by being good enough. Desktop UNIX was better, but Windows NT 4 on commodity hardware was (perhaps just barely) good enough, and far cheaper. This impacted all the UNIX vendors, as it killed off a significant revenue stream.
Sun was losing the performance battle badly with SPARC. This was painfully obvious with the Sun Blade 2500 tower. The CPUs were no faster than the Blade 2000, and it had a quarter of the RAM bandwidth as a cost-saving measure (they reduced memory from 256 bits wide to 64 bits wide so you could install RAM DIMMs individually rather than in groups of four). They were still trying to charge premium prices for SPARC, but x86 and POWER were walking all over it in performance. They managed to score some wins on highly-parallel workloads with the UltraSPARC T series (Niagara), but it was always specialised and Suns AMD64 boxes performed better on most workloads.
Sun was spread far too thin on the ground and faced with falling revenues. They tried open source as a strategy, but open sourcing something provides no value on its own. They couldn't maintain/enhance their OS (Solaris), compilers (SunPro), Java, and everything else. They were floundering, occasionally coming out with an interesting product, but no consistency.
Ruby on Rails was framework-of-the-month already by 2006, years before the Oracle purchase. The explosion of programming languages would've happened anyway, it's a result of all the people who studied computer science after the first dotcom bubble. J2EE had already been co-opted by Apache and Red Hat, and let's face it, hardly anyone even uses J2EE. Most of the time Spring is a lighter-weight substitute, you only really want J2EE if you need distributed transactional consistency.
Sun were lucky to sell out when they did. They really didn't have a viable plan, and taking the money and running probably was the best thing for the shareholders. They'd already open-sourced most of the stuff that had any value, so it wasn't going to matter too much how Oracle mismanaged it. Oracle were stupid to buy Sun, as it was already pretty obvious there wasn't really much worth buying.
Yeah, I miss Sun, but the Sun I miss had already faded long before the Oracle purchase. I just didn't want to believe it and willingly went into denial.
As far as I know, AIX and macOS are the only actively-developed certified commercial UNIX operating systems left.
It's been on life support for years. I knew it was coming when I saw the Blade 2500 tower in 2004, but I willingly went into denial. Since then it's just been a slow death spiral.
So you're saying Google will make an exception to the kernel requirements for themselves? Great way to be open and fair with other vendors.
Yeah, besides Eminem who was arguably the world's most successful/well-kown rapper for years, B-Real (Cypress Hill) who keeps kicking on, the Beastie Boys, dudes from the Kottonmouth Kings... They're in the minority, but there's definitely been a steady stream of successful white rappers.
It isn't about buying applications, it's about Apple saying that peer-to-peer payments count as in-app purchases. WeChat/QQ/etc. allow you to send money or pay for purchases with a wallet tied to your account. They charge no commission on this (same business model as zero-commission travellers' cheques - TenCent can use the rather significant total amount of money that everyone has in their WeChat wallets at any given time). Apple wants a 30% cut of all these transactions. They may have written themselves out of the Chinese mobile market with this - WeChat payment is really popular.