Each of the iPhone updates have forced the 3rd party developers to rewrite their apps, lending some credence to this idea. Well, your assumptions might be possible, except that this one is incorrect. There has been very little change required, if any, for applications to run on all the recent versions of iPhone firmware.
My Accord 10 yrs ago got close to 400mi on a tank of gas (highway). Ok, I'll give you that gas over $2/gal won't fill a tank for under $30 anymore, but it's pretty close.
Agreed. And all this commentary about 'Novell's implicit acknowledgement' of some rights of Microsoft sounds like FUD to me. The contract doesn't have any implicit acknowledgements except to those who choose to see them. It's possible that Novell just thought 'Hmm, we can reduce our chance of being sued by MS by making an agreement.' Such an agtreement doesn't give MS any rights other than those specified in the contract. All these implicit conjectures are rather entertaining.
Someday we'll see the contract. That'll be an interesting day.
Well, the early uses will more likely be in simple communication situations. In face to face attempts were people interact, you can go back and forth to come to an understanding. You don't need good context understanding in the translation, just some basic assistance in getting your meaning into the other persons language.
I'd guess there are tons of uses for that. Think of all the military interactions with foreign citizens. And aid workers interacting with foreign citizens. Even within a country, like here in the USA, were a public agency interacts with people speaking only a foreign language.
Heh. Ideas are cheap.;) And technically, there's not enough info for a patent in your post, no 'method of implementation' details, which are required for patents. So I suspect this wouldn't satisfy prior art either. It would indicate someone thought of those idea this month though.
Yup, sounds like RFID to me. Maybe they are putting more memory in them, but other than that... The initial technical reason for small memory would seem to be size and lack of need for larger memory. They may just be trying to target some new markets, other than the product tracking and badge markets that RFID is popular in.
"Let's call it something else so we can surpise people with our innovation!"
I heard it was all just a plot by a group of political lobbyists hired by the enlightenment project. The future of enlightenment needed a good funding base, and while Tennessee isn't the richest state, they figured it might not be found out there...
Of course, it also has a clause for Linux installation on all the government owned desktop installations. It's going to be quite a windfall, I hear.
Yeah... I work for an engineering company, and I know we had one or two floating around. And we don't do chip design tool sales... It's the software development group and our admin staff that had them.
Sounds like it would be easier to go pick up a couple used Richochet modems on ebay. 128kbps and 1 mile line of sight out of the box. USB interface and all. Linux has the network drivers already.
Windows XP has themes - great. You realise that Linux...(snip)... the only one I know of that has mouse cursor theming etc.
Linux is the only one to support mouse cursor theme'ing? Now I'm a Linux fan, but maybe you could explain this a little more. The last time I made a cursor theme for enlightenment, I used some samples from a Windows animated cursor theme pack...
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I think that's my favorite part. I only read /. for technical content as part of my interest. The cynical comments are the entertainment factor.
Nicely done.
but it's mostly masturbatory super hacker fantasy
That's a fun quote, thank you!
Err, and how would my credit card company get my email password? This article is rather silly...
Oh no! Could Apple be right?
That made me cry. This is the stuff I read slashdot for. It's not the content, it's the humorous replies! Well done.
Err, where'd you get your math? ;)
My Accord 10 yrs ago got close to 400mi on a tank of gas (highway). Ok, I'll give you that gas over $2/gal won't fill a tank for under $30 anymore, but it's pretty close.
eh? That's hilarious, yo!
Agreed. And all this commentary about 'Novell's implicit acknowledgement' of some rights of Microsoft sounds like FUD to me. The contract doesn't have any implicit acknowledgements except to those who choose to see them. It's possible that Novell just thought 'Hmm, we can reduce our chance of being sued by MS by making an agreement.' Such an agtreement doesn't give MS any rights other than those specified in the contract. All these implicit conjectures are rather entertaining.
Someday we'll see the contract. That'll be an interesting day.
Flickr will rule us all!
Or maybe that will just dictate what kind of clients he works with in the future... Food for thought there.
Well, the early uses will more likely be in simple communication situations. In face to face attempts were people interact, you can go back and forth to come to an understanding. You don't need good context understanding in the translation, just some basic assistance in getting your meaning into the other persons language.
I'd guess there are tons of uses for that. Think of all the military interactions with foreign citizens. And aid workers interacting with foreign citizens. Even within a country, like here in the USA, were a public agency interacts with people speaking only a foreign language.
See, now that's why I read /. This is hilarious. :)
Heh. Ideas are cheap. ;) And technically, there's not enough info for a patent in your post, no 'method of implementation' details, which are required for patents. So I suspect this wouldn't satisfy prior art either. It would indicate someone thought of those idea this month though.
Yup, sounds like RFID to me. Maybe they are putting more memory in them, but other than that... The initial technical reason for small memory would seem to be size and lack of need for larger memory. They may just be trying to target some new markets, other than the product tracking and badge markets that RFID is popular in.
"Let's call it something else so we can surpise people with our innovation!"
A few to many IT types with mod points? Meta mod 'em!
Neat idea... which boards do you recommend?
Oooh, that's an easy one. A project like that feels twice as long, at least, than it actually is!
I heard it was all just a plot by a group of political lobbyists hired by the enlightenment project. The future of enlightenment needed a good funding base, and while Tennessee isn't the richest state, they figured it might not be found out there...
Of course, it also has a clause for Linux installation on all the government owned desktop installations. It's going to be quite a windfall, I hear.
Yeah... I work for an engineering company, and I know we had one or two floating around. And we don't do chip design tool sales... It's the software development group and our admin staff that had them.
Wild. And if you click the 'whole video' link it will send you a huge page with preview windows of the first two hours! :-0
And it clearly states there is 2+ hrs of video...
Especially from an anonymous poster.
Let's just all agree I'm the President of the United States, shall we?
Oh, wait, I didn't turn on anon.
Sounds like it would be easier to go pick up a couple used Richochet modems on ebay. 128kbps and 1 mile line of sight out of the box. USB interface and all. Linux has the network drivers already.
Windows XP has themes - great. You realise that Linux ...(snip)... the only one I know of that has mouse cursor theming etc.
Linux is the only one to support mouse cursor theme'ing? Now I'm a Linux fan, but maybe you could explain this a little more. The last time I made a cursor theme for enlightenment, I used some samples from a Windows animated cursor theme pack...