With the war right now that almost every big company in the smart phone market is battling I hope the judges make all patent claims valid and make all the parties either stop selling their products or to pay ridiculous sums to each other. Maybe then someone will awake and see how much patents really progressing technology.
I would laughing so loud if Nokia, Motorola, Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm, HTC, etc. can't sell any products in the USA anymore because all patent claims would be find valid.
The problem with the law is that we spend the money exact the opposite way than we should and, if you watched the video, it's just a big money sink which no positive results at all. Money we could spend on fight crimes like murder, rape, etc.
Right now the gangs and mafia makes the money and we spend a lot of money to combat those and we spend a lot of money to treat the drug addicts (either with a treatment programs or with prison).
With legalized drugs we would make the money (i.e. the state) that the gangs and mafia is making, we wouldn't need to spend billions in fighting those and so we would have plenty of money left to treat the drug addicts.
It works with tobacco, alcohol, gambling and porn, why are we outlawing drugs?
Since we now determined that the use of recreational drugs is in our gene pool can we please stop the "War on Drugs" madness? It's working just like all the other laws to prohibit goods that people want, like alcohol and sex. But don't listen to me, listen to the Stanford "Neill" Franklin, Police (Ret.) Executive Director, LEAP .
"It pains me to know that there is a solution for preventing tragedy and nothing is being done because of ignorance, stubbornness, unsubstantiated fear and greed."
You right, the more code, the more bugs. That's why I like precise language with less features but verbose and strict language so I can use the IDE tools. With a precise language that have less features I don't have to think so much what happens behind the scene and if the tools are good I don't mind the verbosity so much.
Java falls in this category. It is strict and verbose so the compile/IDE can understand the language very good which results in great IDEs and tools. It have a minimum set of features so I know exactly from the code what is going on.
The opposite is C++. C++ code is so complex that the tools are very expensive and not good at all and there will happen a lot behind the scene because there are so many sometimes hidden features. You can't read a few lines of C++ code and know what the code will do, you need to read and understand a lot more.
Yes, you have a lot boilerplate in Java but I tend to make my classes and methods very short. A class is not more then 400 lines of code and a method is not more then 5 lines of code. I sure hope we get closures in Java so I can remove a lot anonymous interfaces from my code. I write POJO objects and object with a lot getter/setters in Groovy.
But ObjC is a wrong example here. Just to create a new object I have to write this??
-(id) init {// I have to branch the code? WTF??
if ( self = [super init] ) {// perform initialization of object here
}
return self;
}
i'm not a language purist either. over however many years i've been doing this, i've found that there are some languages that let me express my thoughts quickly, concisely and elegantly whereby i don't even have to step through code in a debugger to see where i messed up - it just becomes obvious on re-reading the code. java is not one of those languages.
Hm strange. I write programs in Java now for 4 years and I almost never use the debugger in Java because the code is so clear. There are no hidden things, and the code is compact (for a static types language with no closures).
Compare this with C++ where you have so many sometimes hidden features and with C# with is the same as C++. Hidden features are like RAII, operator overloading, pointer/references. In C# you have operator overloading again, extension methods, delegates, struct/class. There are hidden, because it's not obvious from the code if this features are used or not so I need to read the code way over the current context to understand the code. Call me old fashion, but I don't like it.
I don't think so. I think it's something fundamentally wrong with the language if the IDE can't get 2/3rd of the typing right for the developer.
Take dynamic typed languages like Python, Groovy. Half the time I need to look up what the type is and what methods are there to use instead that the IDE is just auto complete it for me. With C++ you have static typing but the language is so complex that auto completion is almost useless.
I'm not a language purist. If the code is verbose but helps the IDE/compiler to understand the code better so the IDE can generate 2/3rd of my code for me why should I care about the verbosity? Actual, sometimes verbosity is a good thing, it helps to read the code and understand it later.
True. But had your Mandelbrot 16 million colors, HD resolution of 1920x1680 and could millions of clients access it with a generic software (the browser), which runs on Linux, Mac, Windows both in 32bit and 64bit and run it for them self?
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So true. Can't Mozialla just port the JavaVM into the browser? That way we could use JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Groovy, Scala, Lisp, and Java as a web language. Mozilla just need to add some web stuff into the JavaVM like DOM so the JavaVM can manipulate the HTML.
I can't believe this is +5 insightful. All people have a right of privacy, it doesn't matter if they have commit a crime or not. We have the government to investigate, protect and to punish and we are not a lynch mob anymore. That's why we have private courts and the names and pictures of criminals are censored.
Governments on the other hand have no rights of privacy, none at all. Because a government have it's power from the people for the people. Reporter of leaks was never before punished, the reporter of leaks was hailed as press heroes.
To watch a video now I need the Flash plugin. To watch a video in HTML5 with the awesome video tags I need a FF plugin. Nothing really changed, does it? Instead they (the W3C) could have set a standard video codec so we don't need any plugins anymore and would have an addons free WWW.
In related news the developers of Doors CS were sued by Nintendo of copyright and trademark infringement because of their games Mario, Space Invaders and Tetris and their website got a DMCA take down request from the calculators companies claiming that the hack will remove any DRM on their calculators. The calculators companies spokesperson gave the statement in an interview: "With our calculators, our companies built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the chances of product tampering. The companies I represent will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep our calculators tamper-resistant."
Yeah right. "Daddy please, I want the Humble Indy Bundle for xmas" - "The humble what? I thought you wanted Crysis 4 for your PS3 and the new Kinec box?" - "But daddy, they are going to split the money between the developers, the FFE and Child's Play. They support Linux, too." - "Linux? Is that a new system from Microsoft, I though it was called Windows 7?".
If I understand correctly you have to pay to download the HIB. Event if it's 0.01$ you need to have a bank account or credit card. On the HIB2 you need to have Paypal, Amazon or GoogleCheckout which I for example have neither nor I want. That's the trouble for paying and obviously 25% don't want or can pay.
How many of this 25% are just some kids which just want to play a good game and know about Torrents&co. Do you think they will go to their parents and ask them to pay for the game? Even in the USA children don't have credit cards.
What you can say of the 25% who don't pay even 0.01$? You can't just say, they all pirates, have a bad moral and will never pay. You can only say that 25% either: a) don't know about the website and only know about other sources, b) can't pay or c) don't like to pay. The A people propably never heard of the website and just download the game from the "usual" source. The B people are people w/o accounts, like children or in some other place. The C people either don't want to register, don't want to go through hoops do get a game or don't value HIB.
The cloud is a joke. We finally have the technology where a mobile phone is more powerful then a super computer (the one in 1950), we have fast connection to the internet and we have cheap and big storage. But now Google and co. are convincing everyone to migrate to the "Cloud", back to the root of 1950 where computer where very expensive and big, so everybody needed to share a mainframe and could only effort a cheap terminal.
So instead that we get super cheap and super fast mini computers with can also used for SMS and to call people, we get locked down "Smartphones" which limited "marketplaces", and Google is working to reduce the usefulness of a computer to a browser.
Emails and to backup and share data to your devices is a good use, because there are open standards. For email you have POP3,IMAP and SMTP, to backup there is FTP and to share there is HTML, WebDAV, LDAP. But the "Cloud" is all about putting applications and your data away from you, possible with a nice lock-in. Now you only have the lock-in of a specific application, at least you can try and switch your data and the application. But in the "Cloud" neither your data nor the applications belong to you. With Chrome OS there is one further step, now even the hardware don't belong to you anymore, because you can't install new applications or switch the system, making your fully capable computer degraded to a "Smartphone".
Furthermore, privacy goes all away with the "Cloud". As you say, "And for most non-technical users who can't figure out how to back-up their data, automatically saving their data in the cloud is better than having no back-ups at all." Yes, saving your bank account data, your private pictures, you private Emails, your private documents to an entity which lacks any over site about security or privacy are such a great idea. One of the news today is "The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords". Hacked are "usernames, email addresses and passwords of more than one million registered users.". Now add to the list your private pictures and private documents as well.
Such advertisement practice should be opt-in to begin with. In telephone, e-mail and mail we only have opt-in for a reason. Why there are no laws to make such practice online opt-in?
We are lucky for the stupidity of the US government to give Wikileaks so much publicity. They could just say that they working hard to make sure no more secret documents are leaked and nothing more. But instead the US government pressures US companies, US politicians give talks about Wikileaks and Assange, the press is all over how Wikileaks is bad, etc. etc. The members of Wikileaks should be proud to get so much publicity, I hope the politic in USA will polarize about Wikileaks some more and thus give Wikileaks even more publicity.
At least with Linux you have repositories for your system and applications. With repositories you can check the hash of the packages. If you assume that the hash of the packages is correct then you can make a hash of the system (either each file or the disk image) directly after installing. If there is a root kit later installed, it will change the hash of the system.
Furthermore, if you take into account that all ChromeOS is going to have are pre-installed applications (which will eliminate the possibility that the user will install an application without a hash or from an "untrustworthy" repository) then you can make sure that a backup won't contain any malware.
Still, I take the almost non possibility to catch a virus in Linux then to have just a toy system where the only application is the browser and everything is in the cloud. It's like the TSA and airport security, for the almost non possibility of a terrorist attack I'm not going take such inconvenience. Google is here like the TSA, for the fear of a virus it like us to believe that we should trust the cloud.
In Linux you just need the little tool called dd with will make an exact copy of your root partition: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/some/place. If you catch a virus or you mess up your system you just do: dd if=/some/place of=/dev/sda1 and woops your system is back in place (with all installed applications). Every setting is in your/home partition so it's not lost.
With this little tool you can also deploy a fully installed system on a different computer. Just make sure you don't use the binary nvidia or AMD/ATI driver.
Future proof? I'm still using my 3 years "old" laptop and I'm perfectly fine with it. I think I will be using it in another 3 or 10 years if the hardware will not fail me.
Actually, I'm really don't know why I need such a power monster, all my applications run perfectly fine on my T61p.
But of course I have work to do and not play all day long Crysis.
Developers are targeting multiple systems all the time. Back then it was IBM PC, Amiga, C64; not long ego it was Windows 95, Win 98, Win 2000, Win XP, MacOS. Now it's Win Vista, Win 7, MacOSX, Linux. So now it's Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac, MeeGo. The problem was solved long ego, just use a cross platform framework.
The only thing that is bad that the smart phone companies are limiting their devices to specific frameworks or languages. They are trying to do MS-style lock-in. Can't really blame them for trying but give it a few years and cross-platform development will be as easy as it is for the PC.
Exactly. If I couldn't RIP my DVDs I wouldn't buy or watch any. In a time where we have 1TB hard disks for 50$ they are really expecting me to stand up to my shelf, search a DVD, insert the DVD to a DVD player, go through the menu to watch a movie? I just open my Videos folder with more then 100 movies, look through the RIPs and select a movie which I like to watch. I didn't even bother to convert the DVD RIP to a AVI file anymore.
Other niches are served somewhat less well because those who would be capable of producing software have no need for it, and those who need it aren't capable of writing it.
The solution is rather simple. If you know enough people who need a particular software but can't make the software themselves (artists, musicians, authors, etc) make a donation pool. The first developer who will create the software will get the donation pool but the software is free (both open source and free of charge). The cost for each client are minimal (like 10$) but the pay for the developer will be good (if 1000 people donate each 10$ that's 10000$ for the developer). The end product is a free software which the developer can continue to make money (with support and additional features).
The alternative is to wait for a commercial developer and then each client has to pay a high price for a copy.
So your work environment don't have a PDF viewer installed? Furthermore, there is a Firefox and a IE plugin/addon to see PDF files inside a browser, no need for Google Apps.
Definitely. I expect them to be free and I don't want to see ads. It's not my problem how Youtube or free TV will make an income. If they don't have a clue how to make a living then they cease to exists, that is what free market is all about.
That's also why I oppose copyright and patents. There should be no right to make money, if you want to make money it's your problem but don't make the state grand you a monopoly. If I choose to not to watch ads I'm not hurting anyone but a state granted monopoly is hurting everybody else.
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With the war right now that almost every big company in the smart phone market is battling I hope the judges make all patent claims valid and make all the parties either stop selling their products or to pay ridiculous sums to each other. Maybe then someone will awake and see how much patents really progressing technology.
I would laughing so loud if Nokia, Motorola, Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm, HTC, etc. can't sell any products in the USA anymore because all patent claims would be find valid.
The problem with the law is that we spend the money exact the opposite way than we should and, if you watched the video, it's just a big money sink which no positive results at all. Money we could spend on fight crimes like murder, rape, etc.
Right now the gangs and mafia makes the money and we spend a lot of money to combat those and we spend a lot of money to treat the drug addicts (either with a treatment programs or with prison).
With legalized drugs we would make the money (i.e. the state) that the gangs and mafia is making, we wouldn't need to spend billions in fighting those and so we would have plenty of money left to treat the drug addicts.
It works with tobacco, alcohol, gambling and porn, why are we outlawing drugs?
"It pains me to know that there is a solution for preventing tragedy and nothing is being done because of ignorance, stubbornness, unsubstantiated fear and greed."
You right, the more code, the more bugs. That's why I like precise language with less features but verbose and strict language so I can use the IDE tools. With a precise language that have less features I don't have to think so much what happens behind the scene and if the tools are good I don't mind the verbosity so much.
Java falls in this category. It is strict and verbose so the compile/IDE can understand the language very good which results in great IDEs and tools. It have a minimum set of features so I know exactly from the code what is going on.
The opposite is C++. C++ code is so complex that the tools are very expensive and not good at all and there will happen a lot behind the scene because there are so many sometimes hidden features. You can't read a few lines of C++ code and know what the code will do, you need to read and understand a lot more.
Yes, you have a lot boilerplate in Java but I tend to make my classes and methods very short. A class is not more then 400 lines of code and a method is not more then 5 lines of code. I sure hope we get closures in Java so I can remove a lot anonymous interfaces from my code. I write POJO objects and object with a lot getter/setters in Groovy.
But ObjC is a wrong example here. Just to create a new object I have to write this??
MyObject *o = [[MyObject alloc] initWithString: myString];
And the constructor is this??
-(id) init { // I have to branch the code? WTF??
if ( self = [super init] ) { // perform initialization of object here
}
return self;
}
i'm not a language purist either. over however many years i've been doing this, i've found that there are some languages that let me express my thoughts quickly, concisely and elegantly whereby i don't even have to step through code in a debugger to see where i messed up - it just becomes obvious on re-reading the code. java is not one of those languages.
Hm strange. I write programs in Java now for 4 years and I almost never use the debugger in Java because the code is so clear. There are no hidden things, and the code is compact (for a static types language with no closures).
Compare this with C++ where you have so many sometimes hidden features and with C# with is the same as C++. Hidden features are like RAII, operator overloading, pointer/references. In C# you have operator overloading again, extension methods, delegates, struct/class. There are hidden, because it's not obvious from the code if this features are used or not so I need to read the code way over the current context to understand the code. Call me old fashion, but I don't like it.
I don't think so. I think it's something fundamentally wrong with the language if the IDE can't get 2/3rd of the typing right for the developer.
Take dynamic typed languages like Python, Groovy. Half the time I need to look up what the type is and what methods are there to use instead that the IDE is just auto complete it for me. With C++ you have static typing but the language is so complex that auto completion is almost useless.
I'm not a language purist. If the code is verbose but helps the IDE/compiler to understand the code better so the IDE can generate 2/3rd of my code for me why should I care about the verbosity? Actual, sometimes verbosity is a good thing, it helps to read the code and understand it later.
True. But had your Mandelbrot 16 million colors, HD resolution of 1920x1680 and could millions of clients access it with a generic software (the browser), which runs on Linux, Mac, Windows both in 32bit and 64bit and run it for them self?
So true. Can't Mozialla just port the JavaVM into the browser? That way we could use JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Groovy, Scala, Lisp, and Java as a web language. Mozilla just need to add some web stuff into the JavaVM like DOM so the JavaVM can manipulate the HTML.
I can't believe this is +5 insightful. All people have a right of privacy, it doesn't matter if they have commit a crime or not. We have the government to investigate, protect and to punish and we are not a lynch mob anymore. That's why we have private courts and the names and pictures of criminals are censored.
Governments on the other hand have no rights of privacy, none at all. Because a government have it's power from the people for the people. Reporter of leaks was never before punished, the reporter of leaks was hailed as press heroes.
To watch a video now I need the Flash plugin. To watch a video in HTML5 with the awesome video tags I need a FF plugin. Nothing really changed, does it? Instead they (the W3C) could have set a standard video codec so we don't need any plugins anymore and would have an addons free WWW.
In related news the developers of Doors CS were sued by Nintendo of copyright and trademark infringement because of their games Mario, Space Invaders and Tetris and their website got a DMCA take down request from the calculators companies claiming that the hack will remove any DRM on their calculators. The calculators companies spokesperson gave the statement in an interview: "With our calculators, our companies built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the chances of product tampering. The companies I represent will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep our calculators tamper-resistant."
Yeah right. "Daddy please, I want the Humble Indy Bundle for xmas" - "The humble what? I thought you wanted Crysis 4 for your PS3 and the new Kinec box?" - "But daddy, they are going to split the money between the developers, the FFE and Child's Play. They support Linux, too." - "Linux? Is that a new system from Microsoft, I though it was called Windows 7?".
If I understand correctly you have to pay to download the HIB. Event if it's 0.01$ you need to have a bank account or credit card. On the HIB2 you need to have Paypal, Amazon or GoogleCheckout which I for example have neither nor I want. That's the trouble for paying and obviously 25% don't want or can pay.
How many of this 25% are just some kids which just want to play a good game and know about Torrents&co. Do you think they will go to their parents and ask them to pay for the game? Even in the USA children don't have credit cards.
What you can say of the 25% who don't pay even 0.01$? You can't just say, they all pirates, have a bad moral and will never pay. You can only say that 25% either: a) don't know about the website and only know about other sources, b) can't pay or c) don't like to pay. The A people propably never heard of the website and just download the game from the "usual" source. The B people are people w/o accounts, like children or in some other place. The C people either don't want to register, don't want to go through hoops do get a game or don't value HIB.
So why you don't try it on your computer and add a rating?
The cloud is a joke. We finally have the technology where a mobile phone is more powerful then a super computer (the one in 1950), we have fast connection to the internet and we have cheap and big storage. But now Google and co. are convincing everyone to migrate to the "Cloud", back to the root of 1950 where computer where very expensive and big, so everybody needed to share a mainframe and could only effort a cheap terminal.
So instead that we get super cheap and super fast mini computers with can also used for SMS and to call people, we get locked down "Smartphones" which limited "marketplaces", and Google is working to reduce the usefulness of a computer to a browser.
Emails and to backup and share data to your devices is a good use, because there are open standards. For email you have POP3,IMAP and SMTP, to backup there is FTP and to share there is HTML, WebDAV, LDAP. But the "Cloud" is all about putting applications and your data away from you, possible with a nice lock-in. Now you only have the lock-in of a specific application, at least you can try and switch your data and the application. But in the "Cloud" neither your data nor the applications belong to you. With Chrome OS there is one further step, now even the hardware don't belong to you anymore, because you can't install new applications or switch the system, making your fully capable computer degraded to a "Smartphone".
Furthermore, privacy goes all away with the "Cloud". As you say, "And for most non-technical users who can't figure out how to back-up their data, automatically saving their data in the cloud is better than having no back-ups at all." Yes, saving your bank account data, your private pictures, you private Emails, your private documents to an entity which lacks any over site about security or privacy are such a great idea. One of the news today is "The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords". Hacked are "usernames, email addresses and passwords of more than one million registered users.". Now add to the list your private pictures and private documents as well.
Such advertisement practice should be opt-in to begin with. In telephone, e-mail and mail we only have opt-in for a reason. Why there are no laws to make such practice online opt-in?
We are lucky for the stupidity of the US government to give Wikileaks so much publicity. They could just say that they working hard to make sure no more secret documents are leaked and nothing more. But instead the US government pressures US companies, US politicians give talks about Wikileaks and Assange, the press is all over how Wikileaks is bad, etc. etc. The members of Wikileaks should be proud to get so much publicity, I hope the politic in USA will polarize about Wikileaks some more and thus give Wikileaks even more publicity.
At least with Linux you have repositories for your system and applications. With repositories you can check the hash of the packages. If you assume that the hash of the packages is correct then you can make a hash of the system (either each file or the disk image) directly after installing. If there is a root kit later installed, it will change the hash of the system.
Furthermore, if you take into account that all ChromeOS is going to have are pre-installed applications (which will eliminate the possibility that the user will install an application without a hash or from an "untrustworthy" repository) then you can make sure that a backup won't contain any malware.
Still, I take the almost non possibility to catch a virus in Linux then to have just a toy system where the only application is the browser and everything is in the cloud. It's like the TSA and airport security, for the almost non possibility of a terrorist attack I'm not going take such inconvenience. Google is here like the TSA, for the fear of a virus it like us to believe that we should trust the cloud.
In Linux you just need the little tool called dd with will make an exact copy of your root partition: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/some/place. If you catch a virus or you mess up your system you just do: dd if=/some/place of=/dev/sda1 and woops your system is back in place (with all installed applications). Every setting is in your /home partition so it's not lost.
With this little tool you can also deploy a fully installed system on a different computer. Just make sure you don't use the binary nvidia or AMD/ATI driver.
Future proof? I'm still using my 3 years "old" laptop and I'm perfectly fine with it. I think I will be using it in another 3 or 10 years if the hardware will not fail me.
Actually, I'm really don't know why I need such a power monster, all my applications run perfectly fine on my T61p.
But of course I have work to do and not play all day long Crysis.
Developers are targeting multiple systems all the time. Back then it was IBM PC, Amiga, C64; not long ego it was Windows 95, Win 98, Win 2000, Win XP, MacOS. Now it's Win Vista, Win 7, MacOSX, Linux. So now it's Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac, MeeGo. The problem was solved long ego, just use a cross platform framework.
The only thing that is bad that the smart phone companies are limiting their devices to specific frameworks or languages. They are trying to do MS-style lock-in. Can't really blame them for trying but give it a few years and cross-platform development will be as easy as it is for the PC.
Exactly. If I couldn't RIP my DVDs I wouldn't buy or watch any. In a time where we have 1TB hard disks for 50$ they are really expecting me to stand up to my shelf, search a DVD, insert the DVD to a DVD player, go through the menu to watch a movie? I just open my Videos folder with more then 100 movies, look through the RIPs and select a movie which I like to watch. I didn't even bother to convert the DVD RIP to a AVI file anymore.
This video? http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html
I have it in my bookmarks for people that keep saying that without copyright or patents an industry would stop innovate.
Other niches are served somewhat less well because those who would be capable of producing software have no need for it, and those who need it aren't capable of writing it.
The solution is rather simple. If you know enough people who need a particular software but can't make the software themselves (artists, musicians, authors, etc) make a donation pool. The first developer who will create the software will get the donation pool but the software is free (both open source and free of charge). The cost for each client are minimal (like 10$) but the pay for the developer will be good (if 1000 people donate each 10$ that's 10000$ for the developer). The end product is a free software which the developer can continue to make money (with support and additional features).
The alternative is to wait for a commercial developer and then each client has to pay a high price for a copy.
Here is an example (not a software but a movie) http://questioncopyright.org/sita_distribution
So your work environment don't have a PDF viewer installed? Furthermore, there is a Firefox and a IE plugin/addon to see PDF files inside a browser, no need for Google Apps.
Definitely. I expect them to be free and I don't want to see ads. It's not my problem how Youtube or free TV will make an income. If they don't have a clue how to make a living then they cease to exists, that is what free market is all about.
That's also why I oppose copyright and patents. There should be no right to make money, if you want to make money it's your problem but don't make the state grand you a monopoly. If I choose to not to watch ads I'm not hurting anyone but a state granted monopoly is hurting everybody else.