Creating new ideas is a very chaotic process. Sometimes in five minutes one can have a eureka moment and come up with an idea that might have taken five engineers months to create using a different approach. Granting a lifetime for a patent based on creation time seems unfair to me.
If I understand your point, you attempt to reduce the lifetime on obvious patents, that really require little thinking at all. That too is a tough situation, because sometimes once someone told you the idea, you go "Doh! That's so simple and cool, why didn't I think of that?", but coming up with that idea in the first place takes insight that's hard to come by. Patents are meant to protect exactly this. The illusion is that people usually see that an idea is simple and assume everyone could have thought of it.
Of course, I don't mean to imply that the patent system is not broken. There *are* lots of patents being granted on ideas that many people *have* come up with, but didn't bother to patent them because they thought it was so simple.
I think all but a few Tablets on the market now have a stylus optional screen with a touchpad as well, and keyboard. They open either as a clamshell to use the keyboard like a standard laptop and then just use the stylus for certain things (adding math formulas, drawing connectors in Visio, etc) *or* even a slate form factor that you can just keep in front of you at meetings to take notes in Journal or OneNote. Or annotate the PowerPoint deck the speaker is using as he goes along, and then email him the pen annotations right from the built in 802.11. I love my tablet. I use it every day at work.
Contrary to public opinion, Microsoft is actually not marketing this to the general computer user, because most users won't benefit from it right now. When the digitizers become cheap enough, power management efficient enough, and a few other hardware improvements occur than all laptops will have pen digitizers built in for (almost) free and people will find uses for pen input. For right now, Microsoft is targeting this to niche markets.
I am sure that Beoing up and leaving the state, leaving thousands of jobs vaporized has nothing to do with the unemployment rate in Seattle. Nor does Microsoft hiring at a steady pace every week.
In the software development world, people would love to be able to load up a virgin image of say Win 95, or 98, or ME, or 3.11 for that matter and run some tests without having to have a seperate machine for each scenario. Just store all the scenarios as drive images on your workgroup server, have each dev. load up what he needs, test it, and move on.
Why should Microsoft spend development money to ensure that their competitors product runs correctly. They are doing nothing to stop it from working, just not officially supporting it and throwing their money behind making it easier.
Sounds to me like SCO has a really well thought out plan. Announce licenses. Announce invoices. Respond with confusion when people call to purchase said licenses. Announce price increase. Announce balk on invoices. Annouce price increase time extension. Announce only Fortune 1000 can participate.
Their plan is simply announcements to pump their stock, because otherwise they would have though through this license deal before hand, and shown us the code. But we knew that already.
I assume you mean the P900? Well AT&T should support it on their GSM network. They might not sell it at first, but you can always plug your SIM into it (assuming you buy an unlocked one). As far as I know, Verizion doesn't do GSM, so they won't carry it.
When working for a company that treats its employees right, when someone recieves and email with red text on top saying "Confidential" and forward/clipboard/printing disabled, they know this information is to stay inside. It's still circumventable for whistleblowers and people who really want to get around it, but loyal employees won't acidentally print it to read on the train home in public, etc.
Well, I wouldn't say that's the only way. In fact many security holes are discovered, fixed, and a patch is released before the exploit hits. There has been evidence that some of the exploits have reverse engineered the patch to provide further information in developing the exploit. The crux of the problem is finding a way for users to patch their machines effectively. That's not an easy problem to solve, given corporate networks with hundreds of machines, server farms with mission critical applications, and even uneducated users.
Is it fair to compare a bare bones install of BeOS with Windows XP and KDE both running GUI enchancment applications? I'll cede that OS X looks pretty out of the box.
INTRODUCTION. In these terms of use ("Terms of Use"), "you" and "your" refer to each user ("User") and its agents and "we", "us" and "our" refer collectively to VeriSign, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively "VeriSign"). This Agreement sets forth our obligations to you, and your obligations to us solely in relation to the use of the Site Finder services provided through this web site (the "VeriSign Service(s)").
It seems to me like this only applies to sitefinder.verisign.com.
Common Type System C Style memory access when necessary (raw IO, etc)
Those two off the top of my head.
Don't get me wrong. I love Java, I've been using it for work since 1996. But just because something was done by Microsoft doesn't make it inferior automatically. They have taken the Java evirnonment, studied it, and improved on that concept by making it cleaner, easer to share objects across languages, machines, and platforms (surprise!).
That was a nice history of languages that compile to a VM. But that's just one part of it. It's like saying Windows XP is no innovation because we used plug boards on an ENIAC for our human interface.
This indeed sounds like a good idea. If you are serious about this, back it up with some hard numbers like expected adoption rate, expected expenses, and expected profit. Include some market data on the types of users targeted, their economic patterns, etc. Then, get in contact with someone at Valve that is willing to discuss your ideas and set up a meeting with them. That will really get them thinking about going done a path more like yours. They will be more willing to take the plunge if you can show them that the risk can be hedged.
Most of the comments above *are* true. It's read only, doesn't allow manipulations. But, labels do work, in multiple fonts and orientations to their folders (no one I saw had a problem associating folders with their labels). The poster above must have seen an earlier version while we were coding. You can select how many levels deep to label, and when you mouse over any folder the name appears in the status bar. Navigation was never difficult, and based on our usibility studies 70% of the participants (all prospective freshman to the College of Engineering, technical knowledge workers being are target audience) found it as easy or easier to navigate huge complicated trees. As for replacing file manangers, no. As for we were told "write a 3-D file mananger to graduate" I think we did pretty well.
The comment about IT people gearing up for space as the next market was misleading. I don't consider engineering rockets to be information technology. I was expecting orbiting routers, server, and stuff.
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That doesn't look like the campus to me. It looks more like downtown Redmond.
Creating new ideas is a very chaotic process. Sometimes in five minutes one can have a eureka moment and come up with an idea that might have taken five engineers months to create using a different approach. Granting a lifetime for a patent based on creation time seems unfair to me.
If I understand your point, you attempt to reduce the lifetime on obvious patents, that really require little thinking at all. That too is a tough situation, because sometimes once someone told you the idea, you go "Doh! That's so simple and cool, why didn't I think of that?", but coming up with that idea in the first place takes insight that's hard to come by. Patents are meant to protect exactly this. The illusion is that people usually see that an idea is simple and assume everyone could have thought of it.
Of course, I don't mean to imply that the patent system is not broken. There *are* lots of patents being granted on ideas that many people *have* come up with, but didn't bother to patent them because they thought it was so simple.
I'm sorry for you. The Viewsonic is the worst Tablet out there. I've used pretty much all of them, and it's my least favorite.
I think all but a few Tablets on the market now have a stylus optional screen with a touchpad as well, and keyboard. They open either as a clamshell to use the keyboard like a standard laptop and then just use the stylus for certain things (adding math formulas, drawing connectors in Visio, etc) *or* even a slate form factor that you can just keep in front of you at meetings to take notes in Journal or OneNote. Or annotate the PowerPoint deck the speaker is using as he goes along, and then email him the pen annotations right from the built in 802.11. I love my tablet. I use it every day at work.
Contrary to public opinion, Microsoft is actually not marketing this to the general computer user, because most users won't benefit from it right now. When the digitizers become cheap enough, power management efficient enough, and a few other hardware improvements occur than all laptops will have pen digitizers built in for (almost) free and people will find uses for pen input. For right now, Microsoft is targeting this to niche markets.
I am sure that Beoing up and leaving the state, leaving thousands of jobs vaporized has nothing to do with the unemployment rate in Seattle. Nor does Microsoft hiring at a steady pace every week.
In the software development world, people would love to be able to load up a virgin image of say Win 95, or 98, or ME, or 3.11 for that matter and run some tests without having to have a seperate machine for each scenario. Just store all the scenarios as drive images on your workgroup server, have each dev. load up what he needs, test it, and move on.
Why should Microsoft spend development money to ensure that their competitors product runs correctly. They are doing nothing to stop it from working, just not officially supporting it and throwing their money behind making it easier.
Sounds to me like SCO has a really well thought out plan. Announce licenses. Announce invoices. Respond with confusion when people call to purchase said licenses. Announce price increase. Announce balk on invoices. Annouce price increase time extension. Announce only Fortune 1000 can participate.
Their plan is simply announcements to pump their stock, because otherwise they would have though through this license deal before hand, and shown us the code. But we knew that already.
I assume you mean the P900? Well AT&T should support it on their GSM network. They might not sell it at first, but you can always plug your SIM into it (assuming you buy an unlocked one). As far as I know, Verizion doesn't do GSM, so they won't carry it.
When working for a company that treats its employees right, when someone recieves and email with red text on top saying "Confidential" and forward/clipboard/printing disabled, they know this information is to stay inside. It's still circumventable for whistleblowers and people who really want to get around it, but loyal employees won't acidentally print it to read on the train home in public, etc.
Well, I wouldn't say that's the only way. In fact many security holes are discovered, fixed, and a patch is released before the exploit hits. There has been evidence that some of the exploits have reverse engineered the patch to provide further information in developing the exploit. The crux of the problem is finding a way for users to patch their machines effectively. That's not an easy problem to solve, given corporate networks with hundreds of machines, server farms with mission critical applications, and even uneducated users.
"What should be alarming is that these repetitive, albeit pointless efforts, are slowly making DRM a reality."
If these repetitive efforts are alarming and slowing making DRM a reality, are they really pointless?
But it can't, there is no H in "Matrix Reloaded", nor are there two Ts, nor three Es.
Is it fair to compare a bare bones install of BeOS with Windows XP and KDE both running GUI enchancment applications? I'll cede that OS X looks pretty out of the box.
INTRODUCTION.
In these terms of use ("Terms of Use"), "you" and "your" refer to each user ("User") and its agents and "we", "us" and "our" refer collectively to VeriSign, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively "VeriSign"). This Agreement sets forth our obligations to you, and your obligations to us solely in relation to the use of the Site Finder services provided through this web site (the "VeriSign Service(s)").
It seems to me like this only applies to sitefinder.verisign.com.
That's all great, fine, and dandy until you want to write resuable objects that don't require the original source.
Common Type System
C Style memory access when necessary (raw IO, etc)
Those two off the top of my head.
Don't get me wrong. I love Java, I've been using it for work since 1996. But just because something was done by Microsoft doesn't make it inferior automatically. They have taken the Java evirnonment, studied it, and improved on that concept by making it cleaner, easer to share objects across languages, machines, and platforms (surprise!).
This probably has a lot more to do with tax laws than anything else.
That was a nice history of languages that compile to a VM. But that's just one part of it. It's like saying Windows XP is no innovation because we used plug boards on an ENIAC for our human interface.
This indeed sounds like a good idea. If you are serious about this, back it up with some hard numbers like expected adoption rate, expected expenses, and expected profit. Include some market data on the types of users targeted, their economic patterns, etc. Then, get in contact with someone at Valve that is willing to discuss your ideas and set up a meeting with them. That will really get them thinking about going done a path more like yours. They will be more willing to take the plunge if you can show them that the risk can be hedged.
Hahahaha!! This is hilarious! I developed this.
Most of the comments above *are* true. It's read only, doesn't allow manipulations. But, labels do work, in multiple fonts and orientations to their folders (no one I saw had a problem associating folders with their labels). The poster above must have seen an earlier version while we were coding. You can select how many levels deep to label, and when you mouse over any folder the name appears in the status bar. Navigation was never difficult, and based on our usibility studies 70% of the participants (all prospective freshman to the College of Engineering, technical knowledge workers being are target audience) found it as easy or easier to navigate huge complicated trees. As for replacing file manangers, no. As for we were told "write a 3-D file mananger to graduate" I think we did pretty well.
www.sf.net/projects/innolab for more.
I see both commas as confusing because the phrase seperated off by commas is necessary. And of course, 0.25 USD is not free.
A full featured database, for me, should include these features (in order of usefulness):
1) transactions
2) sequencers
3) stored procedures
4) triggers
The comment about IT people gearing up for space as the next market was misleading. I don't consider engineering rockets to be information technology. I was expecting orbiting routers, server, and stuff.