Gates' claim that they wanted to clean up 95 and that meant leaving out file naming stuff that WP relied upon, though, is disingenuous and a lie.
I agree. I think even a non-technical person might be suspicious of that claim. "Yeah, by astonishing coincidence it just happened to be that the thing that you say was broken and had to be removed was the one thing that kept your competitors from being able to run on your platform. Right."
Gates may as well admit it - Windows 95 wasn't market ready, but they were willing to push it out the door and fix it later - which has been their practice ever since (if you doubt this, ask yourself about Vista.) Weak argument. Even then it was all about monopoly.
The assumption is- if the universe had a fair amount of both, we'd see the gamma radiation leftovers from collisions, and we don't...
May as well theorize the equal and opposite reaction to the Big Bang was one of Antimatter in an inverse universe. Not saying there's anti Cowboy Neal or anyone else in that universe, it's doing its own thing.
I find it inconceivable that Microsoft's technologists did not know of this prior art. Since patent law requires that prior art be disclosed at the time the patent application is filed, and not doing so is a violation of law sometimes turned patent fraud, I think the DOJ should go after these rat bastards for these violations.
Microsoft's early hires probably knew all about it, standing around the water cooler reminiscing the good old days when they used a mouse on a drafting board on some ancient single use computing device. Then the legal department showed up and told them to shut up about knowing such things as they were busy patenting them hand over fist, like they had just invented these technologies.
Much was made of Bill Gates failure to recognise the prominent role the Web would play when he rolled out his book(!) The Road Ahead. Not to surprised the company seems to go around blinkered. Though much of the IP they're claiming is not used for visionary purposes, as this assault on Android illustrates, it's venal.
"Abstract objects" or "mathematical objects" don't exist in general, so this suggestion is rather plausible. Of course, the reality of the wave function had been proposed before, but new arguments are sorely needed in philosophy of quantum mechanics.
The most shocking realization is this: Quantum Mechanics are ceasing to be Crazy, they're Real and Definite.
Not sure if this is meant cynically or in humour, but the Chinese government is highly creative and quite indirect when it comes to the tit-for-tat of diplomacy. They've been at it for a bit longer.
Sorry Microsoft but your patent has to be denied. I already patented having an annoying boss, if you persist with this you will be hearing from my lawyers.
They're claiming a patent on firing employees for insubordination. Dang. I knew I should have filed for that one.
While the human brain has many advantages over computers (at least right now), memory is not one of them. The human brain is pathetic in that regard. Why doesn't the god of evolution make us evolve to fix this?
Perhaps it is in the not suddenly remembering everything connected at once, rating it in relevance/importance which prevents us being paralyzed constantly and allowed to make decisions as simple as turning left, right or going straight. Make choices on little to no information is likely an important asset.
When I was in college I thought I was doing poorly in a chemistry class and considered dropping it so I could focus on other classes. I gave chemistry one last chance, sat down and decided to write down everything I knew. Turned out I knew a lot more than I didn't know, so stayed in the class, finishing with top marks. We're pretty good at telling ourselves we can't do something or, like Barbie, some subject is hard and then being so stupid as to believe it.
In my studies I've read that people often remember more than what actually happened. And the further away in time from the event, the less accurate their memory gets, and the greater their confidence in the memory grows.
This jives with my personal experience. If I recall correctly.
It's probably at some peak in confidence that they then try running for public office, on the belief enough other people think like they do.
So... they correspond to something on the ground they want to match, I betcha. They may have added a few lines to mask their intent, but the drawings to the west look like airfieds and I imagine the two which look like random stuff in a rectangle do match some city roads, somewhere.
Klaxon (http://code.google.com/p/klaxon/) is a must have. It's an on-call app for text message receiving. You can separate out your on-call texts from personal ones and set separate alarms and everything. It's fantastic.
That would be pretty sweet...
Text includes words 'emergency' 'urgent' 'system' 'down' -> (Zzzz)
Text includes words 'down' 'hours' 'hardware' 'failure' -> (Zzzz)
Text includes words 'panic' 'weeping' 'wailing' 'praying' -> (Zzzz)
Text includes words 'payroll' 'not' 'running' -> (WAKEY! WAKEY!)
I don't know. I mean, sure there are lots of great advantages in the eu compared to the us, like not locking up such large proportions of poor darker skinned people, not such a deep and wide economic chasm dividing the people, vacation, health care... And now recently also this freedom thing...
I'm kind of surprised about this. Maybe everything in the halls of power in Europe hasn't turned completely to shit just yet. If it isn't just posturing, then great, but I won't get my hopes up about a non-retarded world to live in.
Were headed for the same authoritarian privatized stratification. The same ideology with the same bizarrely rich people on top is shaping our world too. We're just a bit behind due to some legacy cruft in our culture and politics.
Judge Dredd will be by shortly because you haven't got the right attitude.
I dunno. Really, I see so many laws motivated by MONEY in the USA, who gets the monopoly, who can take it from someone else, outrageous tort awards, etc. I feel like EU is more often writing laws to protect the people or expand their rights (imagine writing a law that actually restricts the power of government, whoa!)
Hell, the man himself admitted he didn't know thing one about computers when he wrote 'Neuromancer.' They were magic boxes to him.
Amazes me how people who aren't in directly in a field suddenly become of interest to people in the field.
This year's Heisman contenders include Andrew Luck, QB, Stanford; Trent Richardson, RB, Alabama; Brandon Weedon, QB Ok. State and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, because there's a lot of Heisman talk on his social media site.
The C64 loader known as Fastloader was an early usage of the LZH compression to bring more capacity to the tape system storage whilst reducing load times. Its true that certain security (null blocks in particular or "bad sectors") where used to validate security however these were often defeated as the primary loader needed (itself) to load into resident memory before going any further. Per this discussion, i find it interesting again that the cat and mouse game is now afoot and it hardware level code signing is being used, its only a matter of time before some ingenious individual works or discovers the key.
Create a unique signature upon installation. Have validation gathering throughout boot-up and check. There's endless variations on this sort of scheme they could employ. Ultimately, if throughout the boot processes the OS identifies something is amiss it could lock the system down, affect repair, a number of things.
It's a cat and mouse game, alright, but one where the cat seems to be very slow thinking, clumsy to react and frequenly brained with an iron skillet.
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Let me know when they find a way to repel Ticks without harmful effects.
Gates' claim that they wanted to clean up 95 and that meant leaving out file naming stuff that WP relied upon, though, is disingenuous and a lie.
I agree. I think even a non-technical person might be suspicious of that claim. "Yeah, by astonishing coincidence it just happened to be that the thing that you say was broken and had to be removed was the one thing that kept your competitors from being able to run on your platform. Right."
Gates may as well admit it - Windows 95 wasn't market ready, but they were willing to push it out the door and fix it later - which has been their practice ever since (if you doubt this, ask yourself about Vista.) Weak argument. Even then it was all about monopoly.
I would love to see governments attacking Microsoft for making its software too secure. That would keep me laughing for years.
What a concept.
But seriously, if they made the OS secure, they wouldn't need the anti-virus. It's been riddled with security flaws since day one.
so it ain't ever going to happen.
The assumption is- if the universe had a fair amount of both, we'd see the gamma radiation leftovers from collisions, and we don't...
May as well theorize the equal and opposite reaction to the Big Bang was one of Antimatter in an inverse universe. Not saying there's anti Cowboy Neal or anyone else in that universe, it's doing its own thing.
Is such an imbalance dangerous for a universe this age? Does our universe need medical treatment?
Further, don't expect a balanced universe amendment any time soon.
Time to put this one to rest.
I find it inconceivable that Microsoft's technologists did not know of this prior art. Since patent law requires that prior art be disclosed at the time the patent application is filed, and not doing so is a violation of law sometimes turned patent fraud, I think the DOJ should go after these rat bastards for these violations.
Microsoft's early hires probably knew all about it, standing around the water cooler reminiscing the good old days when they used a mouse on a drafting board on some ancient single use computing device. Then the legal department showed up and told them to shut up about knowing such things as they were busy patenting them hand over fist, like they had just invented these technologies.
Much was made of Bill Gates failure to recognise the prominent role the Web would play when he rolled out his book(!) The Road Ahead. Not to surprised the company seems to go around blinkered. Though much of the IP they're claiming is not used for visionary purposes, as this assault on Android illustrates, it's venal.
"Abstract objects" or "mathematical objects" don't exist in general, so this suggestion is rather plausible. Of course, the reality of the wave function had been proposed before, but new arguments are sorely needed in philosophy of quantum mechanics.
The most shocking realization is this: Quantum Mechanics are ceasing to be Crazy, they're Real and Definite.
It's like a part of my childhood just died.
Is just a new weapon that the US doesn't have... YET.
SOPA: Punish the man for the sins of a few.
They took yer job, U.S. government!
Not sure if this is meant cynically or in humour, but the Chinese government is highly creative and quite indirect when it comes to the tit-for-tat of diplomacy. They've been at it for a bit longer.
Sorry Microsoft but your patent has to be denied. I already patented having an annoying boss, if you persist with this you will be hearing from my lawyers.
They're claiming a patent on firing employees for insubordination. Dang. I knew I should have filed for that one.
While the human brain has many advantages over computers (at least right now), memory is not one of them. The human brain is pathetic in that regard. Why doesn't the god of evolution make us evolve to fix this?
Perhaps it is in the not suddenly remembering everything connected at once, rating it in relevance/importance which prevents us being paralyzed constantly and allowed to make decisions as simple as turning left, right or going straight. Make choices on little to no information is likely an important asset.
When I was in college I thought I was doing poorly in a chemistry class and considered dropping it so I could focus on other classes. I gave chemistry one last chance, sat down and decided to write down everything I knew. Turned out I knew a lot more than I didn't know, so stayed in the class, finishing with top marks. We're pretty good at telling ourselves we can't do something or, like Barbie, some subject is hard and then being so stupid as to believe it.
Yes, it's news to me.
In my studies I've read that people often remember more than what actually happened. And the further away in time from the event, the less accurate their memory gets, and the greater their confidence in the memory grows.
This jives with my personal experience. If I recall correctly.
It's probably at some peak in confidence that they then try running for public office, on the belief enough other people think like they do.
So... they correspond to something on the ground they want to match, I betcha. They may have added a few lines to mask their intent, but the drawings to the west look like airfieds and I imagine the two which look like random stuff in a rectangle do match some city roads, somewhere.
Klaxon (http://code.google.com/p/klaxon/) is a must have. It's an on-call app for text message receiving. You can separate out your on-call texts from personal ones and set separate alarms and everything. It's fantastic.
That would be pretty sweet...
Text includes words 'emergency' 'urgent' 'system' 'down' -> (Zzzz)
Text includes words 'down' 'hours' 'hardware' 'failure' -> (Zzzz)
Text includes words 'panic' 'weeping' 'wailing' 'praying' -> (Zzzz)
Text includes words 'payroll' 'not' 'running' -> (WAKEY! WAKEY!)
Many flavors of vibrating only alarm clocks are out there, worn by folks with hearing deficits. Should work for you!
Yeah, but can you hook them up to a phone of any sort? I think that's the trick.
I used to put my phone on vibrate and put it under my pillow.
I don't know. I mean, sure there are lots of great advantages in the eu compared to the us, like not locking up such large proportions of poor darker skinned people, not such a deep and wide economic chasm dividing the people, vacation, health care... And now recently also this freedom thing...
I'm kind of surprised about this. Maybe everything in the halls of power in Europe hasn't turned completely to shit just yet. If it isn't just posturing, then great, but I won't get my hopes up about a non-retarded world to live in.
Were headed for the same authoritarian privatized stratification. The same ideology with the same bizarrely rich people on top is shaping our world too. We're just a bit behind due to some legacy cruft in our culture and politics.
Judge Dredd will be by shortly because you haven't got the right attitude.
I dunno. Really, I see so many laws motivated by MONEY in the USA, who gets the monopoly, who can take it from someone else, outrageous tort awards, etc. I feel like EU is more often writing laws to protect the people or expand their rights (imagine writing a law that actually restricts the power of government, whoa!)
Will they ban pencils, because they can be sharpened into "stabbing weapons?"
Yep, they'll have to go back to carving their words into blocks of wood with knives, stilettos and daggers.
Almost as wacky, I mean, zany; no, I mean bombastic as US laws .. or so I'm led to believe by the news these days.
Probably next ban saying "Eh!"
...not a computer pioneer.
Hell, the man himself admitted he didn't know thing one about computers when he wrote 'Neuromancer.' They were magic boxes to him.
Amazes me how people who aren't in directly in a field suddenly become of interest to people in the field.
This year's Heisman contenders include Andrew Luck, QB, Stanford; Trent Richardson, RB, Alabama; Brandon Weedon, QB Ok. State and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, because there's a lot of Heisman talk on his social media site.
Did somebody 'shop his head to be too small?
I think his shoulders are overlarge. Probably has a parka on under his suit.
3.. 2.. 1..
For all the ills of Europe, they seem to have a pretty good grip on freedoms which are eroding in USA and Australia.
The C64 loader known as Fastloader was an early usage of the LZH compression to bring more capacity to the tape system storage whilst reducing load times. Its true that certain security (null blocks in particular or "bad sectors") where used to validate security however these were often defeated as the primary loader needed (itself) to load into resident memory before going any further.
Per this discussion, i find it interesting again that the cat and mouse game is now afoot and it hardware level code signing is being used, its only a matter of time before some ingenious individual works or discovers the key.
Create a unique signature upon installation. Have validation gathering throughout boot-up and check. There's endless variations on this sort of scheme they could employ. Ultimately, if throughout the boot processes the OS identifies something is amiss it could lock the system down, affect repair, a number of things.
It's a cat and mouse game, alright, but one where the cat seems to be very slow thinking, clumsy to react and frequenly brained with an iron skillet.