Man, a guy tries to fit in around here and he annoys people in just 31 characters. Wasn't like I wasted your time by writing a whole worthless paragraph and making you read for more than 2 seconds before moving on.
I just wish they'd change the name of the format. It feels awkward (in English) to pronounce WebP 'cause the "b" & "p" next to each other. I'm not exactly sure how that works smoothly, and I've noticed other people shy away from talkin' about it 'cause of it. That's a problem for any hopeful tech.
I got mod points. I didn't even realize it for days. I thought that little badge/medal thingy was just a new piece of design by Slashdot. Had no clue why it was there.
I find Unity very usable and smooth. My previous experiences in GUI's are lots of Windows & some Mac's. Until this past July, I always used Linux in commandline. I set up Ubuntu (with Unity) on a laptop for my 80 year old Dad, and he finds it easy & useable too. I tried Gnome 3... but I found it the most cumbersome waste of time to get anything accomplished, that I quickly moved on to Xfce, which was good. I think Unity is my preference though. If I wanted to waste time customizing Gnome so it would be usable, then I would... but guess what? I'm busy. Too busy to mess with trying to make my GUI work out of the box... which isn't very out of the box. My big issue with Gnome is that it forces me to make several clicks just to do something I could do in one click on Unity. For example.... if I want to open my FTP program in Unity, I just go click on it in the side bar. In Gnome, I have to go up the corner of the screen to click on something so that I can click on the word "Applications" to get a screen of icons of all my apps, scroll down to find my FTP program and then click on it. Are you kidding me?? That's not worth my time, and neither is taking a lot of time to learn how to recode the whole GUI to make it work normal.
How are the biggest secrets, the least secured? Man, my laptop would be a more secure place for things that the servers of the corp's the gov't has deals with.
I'm one of the inbetweeners....I have gmail set to auto label/file incoming emails according to filters. Then I just archive them when I'm finished. To find them again, I use search. I just don't want my inbox to be 1000's long, so I have to put them somewhere. So I make my program file them, I just one-click archive (Will amazon sue me?), and also search. I guess that makes me an inbetweener.
About 40% down the page, you'll see "(e.g., facebook.com/impression.php)", as well as some sample code with a Facebook URL in it, and another reference to a Facebook URL. I think it'd be extremely unusual for one company to use a different companies URL's in their examples in papers. Although I suppose it's possible.
Also, I found out at http://seobythesea.com/2011/09/facebook-patent-application-target-ads/ , that this patent is assigned to Facebook in the USPTO assignment database.
The past few days, I've been thinking that this is all part of a Microsoft strategy. I think Microsoft is giving these companies a line that goes something like this -- "We're planning to take Linux to court for patent violations. If you sign this agreement, to give us a piece of the pie every time you use Android in your product, we'll put your company down as a partner and not a patent violator."...what company wouldn't sign THAT? Sure it's a racket, but if you're Samsung (or any other who's signed), you've got to be thinking that if it turns out in Microsoft's favor, then your company is in the right basket. If Microsoft gets found to be in the wrong, then you'll probably get your money back later when the court forces Redmond to pay back all the "protection scheme money". Either way, your company has a good shot at coming out fine by hedging. That's what I think's going on. In the meantime, Google sees this coming, and started building up a portfolio of patents as fast as they can.
If this actually happens... I just won't be using Windows anymore. I don't need it anyway. Last time I logged into the Windows part of my laptop, was early July. That was just before I installed Ubuntu so I could have dual boot.
Naw, I didn't mean "that building a successful web site requires huge sums of money". I meant that startups can't afford to run that way at all, but that the big guys can. Therefore, startups need to have a great idea & market it before the big whigs figure out the same great idea really is a great idea.
That's just it... Google was once an upstart with a great idea of how to improve web searching, that even Altavista couldn't quite grasp yet. By the time they got the point, Google had stolen their thunder and Altavista couldn't compete. That's what an upstart NEEDS to do to survive. They can't afford to lose billions and then turn a profit.
Never really thought about it before, but this really shows how hard it is for an upstart to get a new idea into the tech world. The Google's & Microsoft's can afford to lose $9,000,000,000 before the product begins to turn a profit. A new company with a great web service idea, can't. The new kids on the block either need to have great marketing (for cheap) or an idea that hits the sweet spot long before any big company realizes the value of that idea.
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Man, a guy tries to fit in around here and he annoys people in just 31 characters. Wasn't like I wasted your time by writing a whole worthless paragraph and making you read for more than 2 seconds before moving on.
Ha, never did that before
Hey cool thought bro. It's easier to say "web pages" than "webp" though, 'cause of the vowels in "pages", make it clear between the "b" & "p".
I just wish they'd change the name of the format. It feels awkward (in English) to pronounce WebP 'cause the "b" & "p" next to each other. I'm not exactly sure how that works smoothly, and I've noticed other people shy away from talkin' about it 'cause of it. That's a problem for any hopeful tech.
I got mod points. I didn't even realize it for days. I thought that little badge/medal thingy was just a new piece of design by Slashdot. Had no clue why it was there.
I find Unity very usable and smooth. My previous experiences in GUI's are lots of Windows & some Mac's. Until this past July, I always used Linux in commandline. I set up Ubuntu (with Unity) on a laptop for my 80 year old Dad, and he finds it easy & useable too. I tried Gnome 3... but I found it the most cumbersome waste of time to get anything accomplished, that I quickly moved on to Xfce, which was good. I think Unity is my preference though. If I wanted to waste time customizing Gnome so it would be usable, then I would... but guess what? I'm busy. Too busy to mess with trying to make my GUI work out of the box... which isn't very out of the box. My big issue with Gnome is that it forces me to make several clicks just to do something I could do in one click on Unity. For example.... if I want to open my FTP program in Unity, I just go click on it in the side bar. In Gnome, I have to go up the corner of the screen to click on something so that I can click on the word "Applications" to get a screen of icons of all my apps, scroll down to find my FTP program and then click on it. Are you kidding me?? That's not worth my time, and neither is taking a lot of time to learn how to recode the whole GUI to make it work normal.
It's not a mistake, it's a feature -- for Windows users & for hackers! ;-)
How are the biggest secrets, the least secured? Man, my laptop would be a more secure place for things that the servers of the corp's the gov't has deals with.
Install Flash so I can see a map.
I'm sorry, but saying "SONY Got Hacked" is like saying "Microsoft Did a Business Deal". What did you expect out of your day?
Note to Opera: CSS pagination.
I'm one of the inbetweeners....I have gmail set to auto label/file incoming emails according to filters. Then I just archive them when I'm finished. To find them again, I use search. I just don't want my inbox to be 1000's long, so I have to put them somewhere. So I make my program file them, I just one-click archive (Will amazon sue me?), and also search. I guess that makes me an inbetweener.
Always wanted to meet him. I loved his drive and his ideas about what would make computers easier for people to use and integrate into their lives.
So basically the authors fond the real answer to "how Windows gets infected with malware", is "by using it."
About 40% down the page, you'll see "(e.g., facebook.com/impression.php)", as well as some sample code with a Facebook URL in it, and another reference to a Facebook URL. I think it'd be extremely unusual for one company to use a different companies URL's in their examples in papers. Although I suppose it's possible. Also, I found out at http://seobythesea.com/2011/09/facebook-patent-application-target-ads/ , that this patent is assigned to Facebook in the USPTO assignment database.
Congratulations Facebook! You just became the first domain I've ever completed blocked from being allowed to set any cookies on my machine. You win!
You'd think they'd have thought of that idea... since Lynx has been doin' that since '92.
I didn't know about ASUS or eeePC. Very interesting!
The past few days, I've been thinking that this is all part of a Microsoft strategy. I think Microsoft is giving these companies a line that goes something like this -- "We're planning to take Linux to court for patent violations. If you sign this agreement, to give us a piece of the pie every time you use Android in your product, we'll put your company down as a partner and not a patent violator." ...what company wouldn't sign THAT? Sure it's a racket, but if you're Samsung (or any other who's signed), you've got to be thinking that if it turns out in Microsoft's favor, then your company is in the right basket. If Microsoft gets found to be in the wrong, then you'll probably get your money back later when the court forces Redmond to pay back all the "protection scheme money". Either way, your company has a good shot at coming out fine by hedging. That's what I think's going on. In the meantime, Google sees this coming, and started building up a portfolio of patents as fast as they can.
+1
if a company goes bankrupt, then a contract with its customers is no longer valid.
If this actually happens... I just won't be using Windows anymore. I don't need it anyway. Last time I logged into the Windows part of my laptop, was early July. That was just before I installed Ubuntu so I could have dual boot.
Naw, I didn't mean "that building a successful web site requires huge sums of money". I meant that startups can't afford to run that way at all, but that the big guys can. Therefore, startups need to have a great idea & market it before the big whigs figure out the same great idea really is a great idea.
That's just it... Google was once an upstart with a great idea of how to improve web searching, that even Altavista couldn't quite grasp yet. By the time they got the point, Google had stolen their thunder and Altavista couldn't compete. That's what an upstart NEEDS to do to survive. They can't afford to lose billions and then turn a profit.
Never really thought about it before, but this really shows how hard it is for an upstart to get a new idea into the tech world. The Google's & Microsoft's can afford to lose $9,000,000,000 before the product begins to turn a profit. A new company with a great web service idea, can't. The new kids on the block either need to have great marketing (for cheap) or an idea that hits the sweet spot long before any big company realizes the value of that idea.