Dude, if the "data" on your roll of toilet paper is something that you consider "nearly sacred", then you've got some serious mental issues. I mean, it's okay to be proud, but that's taking things a little too far.
Nope. In fact, I'm even a bit prejudiced against them, as I've seen the crap they make some of their employees put up with. I'm simply defending a company with an actual product that injects value into the economy, against a patent squatting firm that does nothing of the sort.
It's clear, however, that you can't take the time to support your viewpoint. So I'm content to let it drop as well.
Personally, my hands are big enough that I just use my fingers to move the mouse around. My forearm and wrist do not move at all. The same is true of typing, at lease with the standard letters. My wrists and forearms are immobile, and my fingers reach for all of the keys. Exceptions include the numbers across the top, where I have to move my forearms or I can't reach them.
As a side note, I rest my forearms on the desk, with my keyboard a good 14 inches away from me. There is no pressure on my wrists, just on the muscles in my forearms. No problems with typing for me, except for the occasional fatigue in the fingers from a long report.
Well, I picked through the first two pages. Still, all I found were three cases of RIM initiating a lawsuit. The first was against Handspring, for allegedly infringing on their keyboard patent. However, it's not just a keyboard patent. One of the links on the google search you sent me to explained it a little bit more thoroughly, while taking a stab at the professionalism of The Register as well.
The patent is in fact for a QWERTY keyboard _and_ thumbwheel, optimised for use with the thumbs, on a mobile device, with a specific arrangement of symbols activated by the use of the ALT key, and specific shapes and arrangments of the buttons. Hmm. Seems pretty specific to me.
The lawsuit against Xerox is simply a defensive one, where they are asking the courts to rule that Xerox cannot demand any licensing fees for the allegedly infringed patents. No more information was immediately available.
Finally, there was also a lawsuit against Good, who apparently infringed on four of the patents in the wireless portfolio. I could not discover what these patents specifically were, but if you want to investigate that, feel free.
I still maintain my opinion that RIM is defending their own inventions, and defending their product, whereas NTP is simply a litigation firm, that merely kept quiet until the "infringing" company had a large enough user base to make the lawsuit worthwhile.
Feel free to prove me wrong, but please link me to specific examples, rather than a google search for "RIM sucks" "RIM is a loser". Really, put some effort into it.
The only concrete example, in those you linked to, of RIM suing for patent infringement is for the QWERTY keyboard on a handheld device. Note that at the time, RIM not only held the patent, they were also actively producing a device using the patent. This is not like NTP, which simply sat on its patent until someone made tons of money off of a similar idea, then loosed the attack sharks.
Well, I use IE here at work, and when I'm, um, surfing . . . after hours . . . I'll occasionally be prompted to download the chinese language font set . . .
He may be talking about a more practical, rather than moral, boundary. I'm thinking along the lines of the species barrier, as it applies to disease transmission. Put enough human cells in a mouse, and perhaps the mouse-TB, that currently cannot infect us, will "figure out" how to infect a human cell. With no previous cases, we'll have no immunity to it at all, and the results could be devastating.
Yes, diseases do cross the species barrier now (cum the asian bird flu), but chances are very low that they do so. Imagine how much worse things could be.
If I found a deal that looked too good to be true, I'd be inclined to take the website to one of my local stores that touts a price matching policy. That way, if they accept the price, you get a good deal, you see what you're buying before you pay for it, and there's a human face you can go and talk to if anything goes wrong.
The trick is in getting the local retailer to accept the website-listed "good deal". I do know of a couple that have well-defined posted rules for their price matching policies, and I'm sure some accept website listings as valid prices as well. Try checking it out in your area.
Are you sure you're talking about the same type of leakage? Actual dielectric leakage? There is also the leakage from S to D in a CMOS circuit, which you get when one of the gates does not turn completely off. I can see that as a much more likely source of power usage than dielectric leakage.
I dunno, I thought the second two were pretty funny. How about:
New mammal found: Don't worry, we set it up the bomb. New mammal found: Netcraft confirms that it is dead. New mammal found: Petrified remains are covered in hot grits for native dinner.
The injunction states that RIM must halt Blackberry sales and service to everyone in the US, excepting people who work for the US government. Now, I've seen estimates that 10% of the US Blackberry users are government employees. I'm sure people here on Slashdot would agree that it's not fair for RIM to take a huge revenue (and profit) hit to protest this ruling, thus:
RIM turns off all commercial service, except for gov't employees. The service fee for those employees increases 10x. Total revenue = same. Economic impact on gov't = large. Service impact on wealthy CEOs, who complain to gov't = total. Amount of time before injunction is repealed = ??
When the code changes - change the comments. Change the design document so that it still reflects the code. In fact, don't change code by changing code. Change code by changing the design document, propogate that through to the code comments, then rewrite the affected code.
Please note that these comments I'm talking about are not "add one to i". They are more likely to be "find the largest integer in this set". It should be a high-level description of the steps in the algorithm. If your code is changing enough that the algorithm it performs is now completely different, I think you need to re-evaluate your design document before any further steps are taken.
As per the subject line, the author of this article is on crack. I'm not going to argue the why's and wherefores of his text, but I have a major objection to his "when". He states that the best time to comment code is once it's all done, and you're just about to submit it. WRONG!
Has he ever worked on a major project? One that cannot be held in one brain in its entirety at one point in time? START with the comments. Start with the program architecture. Decide what each part will do. Write out how each part will accomplish its goals. Then, copy/paste that into your editor, and write the code to match the comments.
Believe me, if you can plan out how everything will work in the first place, and then just follow your plan, the whole project will be much easier. An added bonus is that the code comments just come straight from your design document. Of course, from the tone of the article, I'd guess that this guy's response would be "What design document?"
As a child, my parents took me to many various museums. One of my favourites was the Science & Technology museum in Ottawa. I'm certain that some of the models there were cutaways of working 2-stroke and 4-stroke cylinders.
I remember it as being one of the coolest things there (although there were tons of cool things), watching how everything opens and closes at just the right time, all mechanically linked, and that makes the engine go.
Do your kids a favour. Take them to one of these places. They'll have fun. You'll have fun. Bonding will occur.
The Canadian Red Cross won't take my blood. They think I'm tainted. I spent more than 3 months cumulative in Great Britan between the years of 1980 and 1996. They're worried about the risk of CJD and vCJD.
Now what am I going to do with all of this excess blood?
I would say that "rebuttling" is something you do at the end of the night, where you take all the dregs of everyone's drinks, pour them into a new glass (thus rebuttling the liquid), and give it to the drunkest person there to see if they'll actually consume it.
You are absolutely correct. The US is under no obligations to ship soybeans, machine parts, and integrated circuits to China. However, if the US does stop shipping these products to China, what are they going to do with the vast stockpiles that will build up? How are they going to replace the lost revenue?
A trade relationship only exists (ideally) when both sides benefit. If you think the US is selling products to China, or anywhere else, simply out of the good of their collective hearts, you are sorely mistaken. For every article that leaves a US port, a certain amount of foreign money flows into the US economy. Disrupt this state of events at your own risk.
In 2001, over 30 percent of the Canadian population lived in predominantly rural regions. In the 2000 census, more than 20 percent of the US population lived in rural regions. I grew up in one of these regions. Our options for internet were dial-up, or none. Then came the advent of satellite internet, for which you required a giant, ugly dish in your backyard, as well as hundreds of dollars a year in fees.
Some people use dial-up through choice, and some use it through necessity. Similarly with analog television, out in the country, there is no way to get a digital signal. There will be no way to get a digital signal until tv stations start broadcasting them. The largest selection of channels will always be available in analog, UNTIL those analog broadcasts are shut down. That is why people are not buying digital sets. How would you feel if someone told you that you had to use Internet2, even though there are many fewer sites on it, but don't worry, in five years we're turning off Internet1, so your existing connection will be useless anyway.
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Dude, if the "data" on your roll of toilet paper is something that you consider "nearly sacred", then you've got some serious mental issues. I mean, it's okay to be proud, but that's taking things a little too far.
Nope. In fact, I'm even a bit prejudiced against them, as I've seen the crap they make some of their employees put up with. I'm simply defending a company with an actual product that injects value into the economy, against a patent squatting firm that does nothing of the sort.
It's clear, however, that you can't take the time to support your viewpoint. So I'm content to let it drop as well.
Cheers.
Personally, my hands are big enough that I just use my fingers to move the mouse around. My forearm and wrist do not move at all. The same is true of typing, at lease with the standard letters. My wrists and forearms are immobile, and my fingers reach for all of the keys. Exceptions include the numbers across the top, where I have to move my forearms or I can't reach them.
As a side note, I rest my forearms on the desk, with my keyboard a good 14 inches away from me. There is no pressure on my wrists, just on the muscles in my forearms. No problems with typing for me, except for the occasional fatigue in the fingers from a long report.
Well, I picked through the first two pages. Still, all I found were three cases of RIM initiating a lawsuit. The first was against Handspring, for allegedly infringing on their keyboard patent. However, it's not just a keyboard patent. One of the links on the google search you sent me to explained it a little bit more thoroughly, while taking a stab at the professionalism of The Register as well.
The patent is in fact for a QWERTY keyboard _and_ thumbwheel, optimised for use with the thumbs, on a mobile device, with a specific arrangement of symbols activated by the use of the ALT key, and specific shapes and arrangments of the buttons. Hmm. Seems pretty specific to me.
The lawsuit against Xerox is simply a defensive one, where they are asking the courts to rule that Xerox cannot demand any licensing fees for the allegedly infringed patents. No more information was immediately available.
Finally, there was also a lawsuit against Good, who apparently infringed on four of the patents in the wireless portfolio. I could not discover what these patents specifically were, but if you want to investigate that, feel free.
I still maintain my opinion that RIM is defending their own inventions, and defending their product, whereas NTP is simply a litigation firm, that merely kept quiet until the "infringing" company had a large enough user base to make the lawsuit worthwhile.
Feel free to prove me wrong, but please link me to specific examples, rather than a google search for "RIM sucks" "RIM is a loser". Really, put some effort into it.
The only concrete example, in those you linked to, of RIM suing for patent infringement is for the QWERTY keyboard on a handheld device. Note that at the time, RIM not only held the patent, they were also actively producing a device using the patent. This is not like NTP, which simply sat on its patent until someone made tons of money off of a similar idea, then loosed the attack sharks.
Well, I use IE here at work, and when I'm, um, surfing . . . after hours . . . I'll occasionally be prompted to download the chinese language font set . . .
He may be talking about a more practical, rather than moral, boundary. I'm thinking along the lines of the species barrier, as it applies to disease transmission. Put enough human cells in a mouse, and perhaps the mouse-TB, that currently cannot infect us, will "figure out" how to infect a human cell. With no previous cases, we'll have no immunity to it at all, and the results could be devastating.
Yes, diseases do cross the species barrier now (cum the asian bird flu), but chances are very low that they do so. Imagine how much worse things could be.
If I found a deal that looked too good to be true, I'd be inclined to take the website to one of my local stores that touts a price matching policy. That way, if they accept the price, you get a good deal, you see what you're buying before you pay for it, and there's a human face you can go and talk to if anything goes wrong.
The trick is in getting the local retailer to accept the website-listed "good deal". I do know of a couple that have well-defined posted rules for their price matching policies, and I'm sure some accept website listings as valid prices as well. Try checking it out in your area.
Are you sure you're talking about the same type of leakage? Actual dielectric leakage? There is also the leakage from S to D in a CMOS circuit, which you get when one of the gates does not turn completely off. I can see that as a much more likely source of power usage than dielectric leakage.
I dunno, I thought the second two were pretty funny. How about:
New mammal found: Don't worry, we set it up the bomb.
New mammal found: Netcraft confirms that it is dead.
New mammal found: Petrified remains are covered in hot grits for native dinner.
The injunction states that RIM must halt Blackberry sales and service to everyone in the US, excepting people who work for the US government. Now, I've seen estimates that 10% of the US Blackberry users are government employees. I'm sure people here on Slashdot would agree that it's not fair for RIM to take a huge revenue (and profit) hit to protest this ruling, thus:
RIM turns off all commercial service, except for gov't employees. The service fee for those employees increases 10x. Total revenue = same. Economic impact on gov't = large. Service impact on wealthy CEOs, who complain to gov't = total. Amount of time before injunction is repealed = ??
When the code changes - change the comments. Change the design document so that it still reflects the code. In fact, don't change code by changing code. Change code by changing the design document, propogate that through to the code comments, then rewrite the affected code.
Please note that these comments I'm talking about are not "add one to i". They are more likely to be "find the largest integer in this set". It should be a high-level description of the steps in the algorithm. If your code is changing enough that the algorithm it performs is now completely different, I think you need to re-evaluate your design document before any further steps are taken.
As per the subject line, the author of this article is on crack. I'm not going to argue the why's and wherefores of his text, but I have a major objection to his "when". He states that the best time to comment code is once it's all done, and you're just about to submit it. WRONG!
Has he ever worked on a major project? One that cannot be held in one brain in its entirety at one point in time? START with the comments. Start with the program architecture. Decide what each part will do. Write out how each part will accomplish its goals. Then, copy/paste that into your editor, and write the code to match the comments.
Believe me, if you can plan out how everything will work in the first place, and then just follow your plan, the whole project will be much easier. An added bonus is that the code comments just come straight from your design document. Of course, from the tone of the article, I'd guess that this guy's response would be "What design document?"
And now they're going after refrigerators with icemakers in them, citing copyright infringement.
As a child, my parents took me to many various museums. One of my favourites was the Science & Technology museum in Ottawa. I'm certain that some of the models there were cutaways of working 2-stroke and 4-stroke cylinders.
I remember it as being one of the coolest things there (although there were tons of cool things), watching how everything opens and closes at just the right time, all mechanically linked, and that makes the engine go.
Do your kids a favour. Take them to one of these places. They'll have fun. You'll have fun. Bonding will occur.
The persons responsible for sacking the persons responsible for posting the above notice have been sacked.
Are you saying that drinking lots of gin and tonic won't work? Oh well. I'll keep drinking anyway, just in case you are wrong.
The Canadian Red Cross won't take my blood. They think I'm tainted. I spent more than 3 months cumulative in Great Britan between the years of 1980 and 1996. They're worried about the risk of CJD and vCJD.
Now what am I going to do with all of this excess blood?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php?date=2003-12- 03
I would say that "rebuttling" is something you do at the end of the night, where you take all the dregs of everyone's drinks, pour them into a new glass (thus rebuttling the liquid), and give it to the drunkest person there to see if they'll actually consume it.
"Oh dear," replied God, and promptly disappeared in a puff of logic.
You are absolutely correct. The US is under no obligations to ship soybeans, machine parts, and integrated circuits to China. However, if the US does stop shipping these products to China, what are they going to do with the vast stockpiles that will build up? How are they going to replace the lost revenue?
A trade relationship only exists (ideally) when both sides benefit. If you think the US is selling products to China, or anywhere else, simply out of the good of their collective hearts, you are sorely mistaken. For every article that leaves a US port, a certain amount of foreign money flows into the US economy. Disrupt this state of events at your own risk.
It was the one-armed man!
In 2001, over 30 percent of the Canadian population lived in predominantly rural regions. In the 2000 census, more than 20 percent of the US population lived in rural regions. I grew up in one of these regions. Our options for internet were dial-up, or none. Then came the advent of satellite internet, for which you required a giant, ugly dish in your backyard, as well as hundreds of dollars a year in fees.
Some people use dial-up through choice, and some use it through necessity. Similarly with analog television, out in the country, there is no way to get a digital signal. There will be no way to get a digital signal until tv stations start broadcasting them. The largest selection of channels will always be available in analog, UNTIL those analog broadcasts are shut down. That is why people are not buying digital sets. How would you feel if someone told you that you had to use Internet2, even though there are many fewer sites on it, but don't worry, in five years we're turning off Internet1, so your existing connection will be useless anyway.
I do not think that slashdotters will ever reproduce.
Slashdotters think that the only purpose of mould is to reproduce.
Slashdotters think "reproduce" is when you walk through the vegetable section in the grocery store again.
If parents think that when they reproduce, they will end up with slashdotters, they usually elect to use birth control.