If there were no roads, would you still need a driveway/garage for your cars? It may be indirect in your analogy, but the driveway it a by product of roads. Back when there were just horses, do you think someone would ride the horse around to the drive just to approach the house from one direction???
A cell phone "should" be open as much as you own your cable or DSL service. The companies license you use through a managed endpoint: cable box, cell phone, whatever. You are not entitled to hack their infrastructure up as much as you want. Don't agree? Deploy your own network. It's a free country so long as your rights don't encroach on someone else's.
I think google is aware of the problem and is taking a blind-eye to it. It makes sense in a way: if they put in more checks to deter clickfraud their revenue would be decimated. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but you can basically hand wave "advertising charges" away from people. Case-in-point, several people who are advertising affiliates for google have had large sums of $$$ that was due for payout frozen by google(http://forums.digitalpoint.com/). If this was isolated, I would discount it as maybe a few people were doing something shady google did not like. But when respected members that have been in the advertising business a long time start have their payouts frozen because they get into the thousands of dollars, I start wondering....
I'm a merchant that has recently looked into many forms of online advertising, and these are my thoughts:
Sponsored-search advertising is a ripoff. Google makes the vast majority of their money this way and I take issue. We have run numerous campaigns and stopped due to the lack of quantification. Talking with other merchants, people are starting to get disgusted by the google/yahoo/ms advertising avenues. clickfraud is rampant and we end up paying for it. recently, every time google releases earnings i can't help but laugh. all it takes is for a adwords merchant to start a campaign and watch their traffic and usage for a month to see what is going on. my feeling is that there is no better solution for online advertising, so people feel the need to do _something_, so they will continue to pay because they feel it is better than nothing.
this is not about humanity. the only reason this drug even exists is becuase money was able to be spent on R&D to create or discover the compound. Brazil has just put another nail in the coffin of innovation by this move: if a company cannot make money from a discovery or invention the amount of both will decline.
NDAs do expire,regardless of how long the company would like to say they are good for. Like anything else legal, contracts and agreements are made of the same material that we wipe our behinds with. The key, for the company, is having enough monetary leverage to bring a legal case to bare. Oh wait, they have a 150B USD market-cap and have most of their revenue based on a glorified grep.
Am I the only one who usually finds frameworks to be pointless for serious web development? Yes.
Frameworks are what professionals use - the enforce well-formed code and design patterns. Find me a J2EE project that doesn't use Struts/Shale/WebWork/etc. and I will show you inefficiencies.
...but shouldn't they worry about educating people on how to use the broadband? There has been enough stink lately made of the shambles their education system is in.
I actually submitted the real story but it has not been approved yet.
Vertical is not going after MVC or Visual Studio. Vertical's patent pertains to something much more devistating to Microsoft: the CLR.
Vertical's patent directly covers taking arbirtrary object code and transmuting it for use on arbitrary platforms - think VB.NET, c#.NET, COBOL.NET, etc.NET...... This is/was.NET's claim-to-fame: create an interpreted platform by letting the developers write in whatever language they are comfortable in; eventually it all ends up as CLR bytecode.
No - apple does not release patches very often. This does not imply they have fewer problem, though it may.
I own a macbook pro and run the software update once a week for shits-and-giggles. I've seen ~3 OS updates this year - some driver updates.(e.g. for sprint's CDMA EVDO card when it was released.)
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Yes - they both are.
If there were no roads, would you still need a driveway/garage for your cars? It may be indirect in your analogy, but the driveway it a by product of roads. Back when there were just horses, do you think someone would ride the horse around to the drive just to approach the house from one direction???
The fact that people own guns does not make them killers. It doesn't mean there should be no rules/laws for gun control.
You're wrong.
The boxes are very much a part of their infrastructure. They are designed to work with a single provider.
It may be unpopular, but Jobs is right.
A cell phone "should" be open as much as you own your cable or DSL service. The companies license you use through a managed endpoint: cable box, cell phone, whatever. You are not entitled to hack their infrastructure up as much as you want. Don't agree? Deploy your own network. It's a free country so long as your rights don't encroach on someone else's.
Regards,
These guys obviously haven't seen Total Recall.
Discuss.
then dojo's offline storage? Or flash's storage?
if you look really close you can see that someone parted with an iPod protector - not even willing to part with the real thing....
release management - you can store _compiled_ application bundles, ready-to-go.
Why not just (common sense)reform the patent system, thus crushing this holding companies?
I think google is aware of the problem and is taking a blind-eye to it. It makes sense in a way: if they put in more checks to deter clickfraud their revenue would be decimated. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but you can basically hand wave "advertising charges" away from people. Case-in-point, several people who are advertising affiliates for google have had large sums of $$$ that was due for payout frozen by google(http://forums.digitalpoint.com/). If this was isolated, I would discount it as maybe a few people were doing something shady google did not like. But when respected members that have been in the advertising business a long time start have their payouts frozen because they get into the thousands of dollars, I start wondering....
I'm a merchant that has recently looked into many forms of online advertising, and these are my thoughts:
Sponsored-search advertising is a ripoff. Google makes the vast majority of their money this way and I take issue. We have run numerous campaigns and stopped due to the lack of quantification. Talking with other merchants, people are starting to get disgusted by the google/yahoo/ms advertising avenues. clickfraud is rampant and we end up paying for it. recently, every time google releases earnings i can't help but laugh. all it takes is for a adwords merchant to start a campaign and watch their traffic and usage for a month to see what is going on. my feeling is that there is no better solution for online advertising, so people feel the need to do _something_, so they will continue to pay because they feel it is better than nothing.
i have this funny feeling that Sun is the new Apple.
eclipse is the old hat. the newer versions of netbeans trounce eclipse in so many ways, i'll leave you to google "netbeans vs eclipse"
1) open java plugin control panel
2) disable caching of applets (this is enabled by default - cause caching is _always_ a good idea... ; =))
4) profit
3) enjoy fast java applet startup
this is not about humanity. the only reason this drug even exists is becuase money was able to be spent on R&D to create or discover the compound. Brazil has just put another nail in the coffin of innovation by this move: if a company cannot make money from a discovery or invention the amount of both will decline.
The article assumes security is static: "..if computers were designed to not be susceptible to virii.."
If it's not virri or worms or buffer-overflows then it would be something else. Human intellect has this uncanny ability to grow and adapt.
NDAs do expire,regardless of how long the company would like to say they are good for. Like anything else legal, contracts and agreements are made of the same material that we wipe our behinds with. The key, for the company, is having enough monetary leverage to bring a legal case to bare. Oh wait, they have a 150B USD market-cap and have most of their revenue based on a glorified grep.
;)
i'm really not bitter.
Frameworks are what professionals use - the enforce well-formed code and design patterns. Find me a J2EE project that doesn't use Struts/Shale/WebWork/etc. and I will show you inefficiencies.
what about mootools?
what is better about it compared to java, besides the fact they don't serve the same purpose?
Duh - everyone knows that old-people are color blind.
...but shouldn't they worry about educating people on how to use the broadband? There has been enough stink lately made of the shambles their education system is in.
I actually submitted the real story but it has not been approved yet.
.NET's claim-to-fame: create an interpreted platform by letting the developers write in whatever language they are comfortable in; eventually it all ends up as CLR bytecode.
Vertical is not going after MVC or Visual Studio. Vertical's patent pertains to something much more devistating to Microsoft: the CLR.
Vertical's patent directly covers taking arbirtrary object code and transmuting it for use on arbitrary platforms - think VB.NET, c#.NET, COBOL.NET, etc.NET...... This is/was
No - apple does not release patches very often. This does not imply they have fewer problem, though it may.
I own a macbook pro and run the software update once a week for shits-and-giggles. I've seen ~3 OS updates this year - some driver updates.(e.g. for sprint's CDMA EVDO card when it was released.)