They ended up with a bunch of things (probably obvious if given the problem they wanted to solve) they patented, then put it all together.
The end result failed, someone else tried to address the same/similar problems, and came up with a similar solution, low and behold, at the very least broad (likely invalid) claims from the MS inventions are infringed.
I think one thing that would help patents would be if any claim is invalid, the whole patent is invalid. This would prevent the often purely absurd claims from being included.
It started with less annoying people than myspace (being university only), then opened to the public, but the fact that social network whores were already invested in myspace slowed the pace of facebook becoming annoying.
What do I know though, I thought buzz was alright, and it's automatic stuff was painfully clear and explained to me.
In my experiance legalese reduces ambiguity at the expense of brevity.
It is written in such a way as to. Explain to a new born (with adult language skills) what is meant, answering every possible ambiguity that arises.
It must be waded through, but after the effort of reading it things become very specific.
this is not patent specific though, it is only in the context of loans and laws that I have read it (areas where people say it is too hard to understand).
Loans now have a "plain english" portion, which is great for people that don't have a grasp of the language, but it's hardly unambiguous.
Paying x% of interest computed how?, what day do I pay?, if I pay late, are my late fees paid before or after my next payment?
The answers to these questions and hundreds more make it harder to read, but more clear too.
I bet getting rid of that type of customer saves money in support, not all customers are profitable, and the calls about my google hours to a different site probably cost money.
If os's need to be locked down like ios to avoid liability we're fucked in the long run (the fact that it's described as a trojan implies to me it's a stupid user issue).
Linux will always have forks that give users control, even if the main branch removes this, in your hypothetical world, does that make it the least secure vs the other toal lockdown systems, and therefore all the developers liable?
There password becomes the hash they generate and send to the server, if it is not hashed on the server, a db comprimise reveals what is needed to log in, we are back to trusting the site.
If you use a separate. Salt for every user the salts will neede to be stored in the database, I imagine this degrades their value in the instance where the db is hacked (usuallly the salt is stored in a file I think).
Hashing on the client turns the hash into the passwo defeating the value of the with the exception perhaps of cross site reused passwords (but if it were common practice, the hashed password would be the same in various places, with the exception of salts that are now made public.
I actually think other alternative browsers with huge companies behind them will be their downfall.
I find it unlikely that IE would ever dip them below 20% useage at this point, and that would still be very profitable (they get 10 million/year for 30%-40% usage). They consistently keep good enough, and improving, just not as good as chrome, and maybe safari, and perhaps whatever the newest IE is, but many people just hate IE on principal, enough to keep things rolling for alternative browsers.
The browser market is worth around $35 million in search royalties, that leaves room for a few players.
Even if we take out IE, Safari, and Mobile browsers (assumption being those are the pre-installed ones), we're still left with $16 million to be split amongst the rest. If google can cut firefox usage down, they can save millions a year, and I doubt that's what it costs them. If they can pull people away from IE (which is what the long-term trend looks like in the end), they can make millions, as they are getting all the search profit, rather than just the difference of searches sold - royalties.
Even Opera is presumably making $1 million/year in royalties, that should be able to keep a few people employed full time in a small office (don't know how much they actually need to sustain themselves, but working on and improving an existing browser can't cost too much, I certainly imagine it could be done for that amount).
Giving away web browsers may not be big business, but there is definitely money to be made, which is in the end, what the real downfall will be for firefox, competition.
I'm really glad that mine (2345) is not on the list, I'm safe.
The best thing is, I still have it on old services that have much stricter requirements (letters, more digits, etc.).
A lot didn't force retro-active password rules. I actually think having a passcode that doesn't match the policy of a site is an advantage, especially when it's easy to type being only four digits, without any letters or special characters.
I found the command key plus number better than alt tab, and alt f then arrows fine on the rate occasion I needed access the system part of the menu in 11.04. Command plus typing was decent too (making me but need alt f2).
The only place windows wind in window management is command plus arrows for window management in windows 7
I think one could make assumptions about it and try and justify.
If Verizon just did a build out, and is unlikely to make huge capital investments for the foreseeable future, it will go down, perhaps Sprint is at equilibrium, or ready to upgrade again.
I think it is unlikely Verizon will grow capacity as fast as customers, causing them to slowly drop, and when AT&T merges with T-Mobile, I imagine TMO is gonna get worse.
Tomato pickers in pennsylvania make $16/hour on average. The problem isn't the pay, it's the fact that it is temporary. The immegrents doing those jobs fairly consistently do signifigently better than minimum wage, then they move hundreds of miles and do some other seasonal job.
Americans in general don't want to work that hard, but the bigger issue is that they don't want to live wandering around following the work.
In restaurante and domestic work immegrents make less than minimum wage, often to get something in the filler time between the decent paying work.
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Thanks for that video link.
I believe they refined what became the mouse wheel at least.
I could be mis remembering though.
I think the mouse wheel is one of the most important ui innovations for a long while (and I'm glad the joystick idea it evolved out of didn't stick).
I'm sure they did a lot of research on the Kin.
They ended up with a bunch of things (probably obvious if given the problem they wanted to solve) they patented, then put it all together.
The end result failed, someone else tried to address the same/similar problems, and came up with a similar solution, low and behold, at the very least broad (likely invalid) claims from the MS inventions are infringed.
I think one thing that would help patents would be if any claim is invalid, the whole patent is invalid. This would prevent the often purely absurd claims from being included.
It actually is a pretty effective imitation of Kafka I think.
Were it effective it would be a bad imitation.
That's how facebook took off too.
It started with less annoying people than myspace (being university only), then opened to the public, but the fact that social network whores were already invested in myspace slowed the pace of facebook becoming annoying.
What do I know though, I thought buzz was alright, and it's automatic stuff was painfully clear and explained to me.
In my experiance legalese reduces ambiguity at the expense of brevity.
It is written in such a way as to. Explain to a new born (with adult language skills) what is meant, answering every possible ambiguity that arises.
It must be waded through, but after the effort of reading it things become very specific.
this is not patent specific though, it is only in the context of loans and laws that I have read it (areas where people say it is too hard to understand).
Loans now have a "plain english" portion, which is great for people that don't have a grasp of the language, but it's hardly unambiguous.
Paying x% of interest computed how?, what day do I pay?, if I pay late, are my late fees paid before or after my next payment?
The answers to these questions and hundreds more make it harder to read, but more clear too.
All technology in the world is relevant.
My problems with google wave were beyond that (and the UI was terrible).
I didn't like the threaded discussion being in real-time, and I didn't like that the mail search missed it.
I wanted e-mails that were threaded, and maybe editable, and instead i got IM threads that were awkward to use.
I bet getting rid of that type of customer saves money in support, not all customers are profitable, and the calls about my google hours to a different site probably cost money.
Heaven forbid I use an smtp server that's not my isp
I hope not.
If os's need to be locked down like ios to avoid liability we're fucked in the long run (the fact that it's described as a trojan implies to me it's a stupid user issue).
Linux will always have forks that give users control, even if the main branch removes this, in your hypothetical world, does that make it the least secure vs the other toal lockdown systems, and therefore all the developers liable?
There password becomes the hash they generate and send to the server, if it is not hashed on the server, a db comprimise reveals what is needed to log in, we are back to trusting the site.
If you use a separate. Salt for every user the salts will neede to be stored in the database, I imagine this degrades their value in the instance where the db is hacked (usuallly the salt is stored in a file I think).
Hashing on the client turns the hash into the passwo defeating the value of the with the exception perhaps of cross site reused passwords (but if it were common practice, the hashed password would be the same in various places, with the exception of salts that are now made public.
If it is hashed client side you've defeated the purpose.
Now cracking the database reveals the info needed to login once more.
I don't think that's true.
I'm not in a partituclarly big city (75k, no college) and the bars are generally in 2 clusters. I drive to a cluster and am then on foot.
I used to live close enough it was simply a long walk if I over-indulged, now I take a nap in my car for that.
Even without the issue of drinking and driving, I can't imagine driving from bar to bar
Not use martian sand as the poster up the thread implied.
In don't want to knock it though, any research into 3-d printers is good, as there time will come.
I actually think other alternative browsers with huge companies behind them will be their downfall.
I find it unlikely that IE would ever dip them below 20% useage at this point, and that would still be very profitable (they get 10 million/year for 30%-40% usage). They consistently keep good enough, and improving, just not as good as chrome, and maybe safari, and perhaps whatever the newest IE is, but many people just hate IE on principal, enough to keep things rolling for alternative browsers.
The browser market is worth around $35 million in search royalties, that leaves room for a few players.
Even if we take out IE, Safari, and Mobile browsers (assumption being those are the pre-installed ones), we're still left with $16 million to be split amongst the rest. If google can cut firefox usage down, they can save millions a year, and I doubt that's what it costs them. If they can pull people away from IE (which is what the long-term trend looks like in the end), they can make millions, as they are getting all the search profit, rather than just the difference of searches sold - royalties.
Even Opera is presumably making $1 million/year in royalties, that should be able to keep a few people employed full time in a small office (don't know how much they actually need to sustain themselves, but working on and improving an existing browser can't cost too much, I certainly imagine it could be done for that amount).
Giving away web browsers may not be big business, but there is definitely money to be made, which is in the end, what the real downfall will be for firefox, competition.
That looks pretty clearly aimed at physical products though.
Time machine!
I'm not sure of your second point.
As the lots of missile assassination was attempted in Iraq, and it did not succeed.
I'm really glad that mine (2345) is not on the list, I'm safe.
The best thing is, I still have it on old services that have much stricter requirements (letters, more digits, etc.).
A lot didn't force retro-active password rules. I actually think having a passcode that doesn't match the policy of a site is an advantage, especially when it's easy to type being only four digits, without any letters or special characters.
Interestingly, that's what we ended up doing in pakistan.
I found the command key plus number better than alt tab, and alt f then arrows fine on the rate occasion I needed access the system part of the menu in 11.04. Command plus typing was decent too (making me but need alt f2).
The only place windows wind in window management is command plus arrows for window management in windows 7
As for ejecting, you have a point.
I think one could make assumptions about it and try and justify.
If Verizon just did a build out, and is unlikely to make huge capital investments for the foreseeable future, it will go down, perhaps Sprint is at equilibrium, or ready to upgrade again.
I think it is unlikely Verizon will grow capacity as fast as customers, causing them to slowly drop, and when AT&T merges with T-Mobile, I imagine TMO is gonna get worse.
Tomato pickers in pennsylvania make $16/hour on average. The problem isn't the pay, it's the fact that it is temporary. The immegrents doing those jobs fairly consistently do signifigently better than minimum wage, then they move hundreds of miles and do some other seasonal job.
Americans in general don't want to work that hard, but the bigger issue is that they don't want to live wandering around following the work.
In restaurante and domestic work immegrents make less than minimum wage, often to get something in the filler time between the decent paying work.