Chart 6d on page 22 shows that patent trolls (non practicing entities) receive vastly higher damages in software. The median for software is ~$143, while that for the runner-up (computer hardware) is ~$48.
Combine this with unavoidability of accidentally using obvious software patents and you can see why there are only a few big players that control the software market.
Chart 2c shows that the Lucent got awarded over $1500 million in damages from Microsoft for MP3 techology. I was not aware of this case from 2007 before. The damages are larger than the Eolas and i4i cases combined.
A good documentary on monsanto can be viewed online.
"the world according to monsanto" There 's an acoompanying book with tons of shocking revelations about this company, starting from dioxins, ddt, round-up through to their push on GMOs while ignoring all risks and even trying to suppress them.
Here's an interesting blog by a mozilla developer on the subject of the -webkit prefix. Basically he is reminding people that the extensions should move into W3.
At the moment the best alternative is the write the application in OpenGL ES or HTML5. The choice depends on the type of application. Both will need a small wrapper on each platform. PhoneGap is a good choice if you go with HTML5.
I'm not sure how viable the OpenGL ES option is for Windows Phone, but then I personally loathe that platform anyway.
As for look and feel consistency, look at Angry Birds to see that that is not needed at all.
An Intent provides a facility for performing late runtime binding between the code in different applications. Its most significant use is in the launching of activities, where it can be thought of as the glue between activities. It is basically a passive data structure holding an abstract description of an action to be performed.
Sarcasm noted. Most of the price is in getting clean bills into the machine in a secure way and keeping them there until someone makes a transaction. Still, I prefer paying for that instead of seeing advertising.
Each application on facebook get's a private API. In FOSS, this key is present in the source code. That is not permissible according to facebook terms of service. In effect, they are blocking FOSS software. An alternative is to use a different key for each user.
Who needs noscript when you can use a personal proxy with web configuration interface. That way, I get noscript and requestpolicy in a more finegrained way for all my browsers and need to configure it only once.
I wrote my own with Node.JS and will probably add storage to it at some point. The only downside is that does not work for https connections.
The areas would improve over time by editing. An area or set of areas is, for most topics, an improvement over a single point. Few areas will be perfect, certainly initially, just like the articles themselves are not perfect. But as often, here too perfection is the enemy of success.
Many boundaries are defined by states. In case of disagreement, multiple areas can be mentioned, just like different versions of the facts, with an explanation of the origins, can be present on a Wikipedia page.
The best way forward, is to add support for areas to WikiMedia so people can start improving the pages. The points can also be retained to mean the center of a certain area.
This approach is incomplete though. It create wrong information. No place is just a spot, it's usually an area, some places are a volume. It would be much better to give users the ability to paint an area on the map instead of just one point.
Some examples:
area where a species lives in summer
area of a country or city (London has coordinates 51Â30â26âN 0Â7â39âW, but it covers an area of 1,579 square kilometers)
area of seas and events.
The notion that articles relate to points and not to areas, is a simplification.
Personally I'm more interested in seeing the permissions model of Android applied to a standard Linux Distro, possibly an Android x86 that allows installation through apt-get, or some other repo system. (must be script-able for sys-admin use)
Indeed, the fine-grained permission model of Android should come to Linux.
- One file per application - Easy to override permissions for application (e.g. restrict net access for an application to a certain IP address or domain or restrict access to the file system to one folder)
Such requests always meet with developers claiming that memory will be used inefficiently, yet, mobile devices work fine this way. It's time Linux was developed to meet the requirements of simple users.
Exactly, musicians that make music today are harmed by an extension of the copyright period. Since people still have to pay for the old music, there is less money to pay for the new music.
A copyright term beyond 30 years actually likely harms the creative output.
The closure compiler for javascript checks for non-null passing by adding non-nullability to the type. E.g. /**
* @param {?string} input string that may be null
* @return {!string}
**/
function makeDefaultIfNull(input) {
return (input) ? input : "Default";
}
That is the whole point. The current economy is based on the idea of eternal growth. The lack of real growth is masked by inflation. Inflation makes the economy appear to grow and makes sure that you spend your money and contribute the to the growing economy.
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Wave is still there. Check it out from http://incubator.apache.org/wave/
Chart 6d on page 22 shows that patent trolls (non practicing entities) receive vastly higher damages in software. The median for software is ~$143, while that for the runner-up (computer hardware) is ~$48.
Combine this with unavoidability of accidentally using obvious software patents and you can see why there are only a few big players that control the software market.
Chart 2c shows that the Lucent got awarded over $1500 million in damages from Microsoft for MP3 techology. I was not aware of this case from 2007 before. The damages are larger than the Eolas and i4i cases combined.
While the one child policy is certainly very very good and should be adopted on the entire plant, the effects on population growth and fertility rate are less than you think.
A good documentary on monsanto can be viewed online.
"the world according to monsanto"
There 's an acoompanying book with tons of shocking revelations about this company, starting from dioxins, ddt, round-up through to their push on GMOs while ignoring all risks and even trying to suppress them.
Here's an interesting blog by a mozilla developer on the subject of the -webkit prefix.
Basically he is reminding people that the extensions should move into W3.
At the moment the best alternative is the write the application in OpenGL ES or HTML5. The choice depends on the type of application. Both will need a small wrapper on each platform. PhoneGap is a good choice if you go with HTML5.
I'm not sure how viable the OpenGL ES option is for Windows Phone, but then I personally loathe that platform anyway.
As for look and feel consistency, look at Angry Birds to see that that is not needed at all.
KDE is working on a mobile UI: http://plasma-active.org/.
Math in ODF is MathML.
be google
Indeed, the comment was not stellar.
That sounds very much like Android Intents and Activities.
Sarcasm noted.
Most of the price is in getting clean bills into the machine in a secure way and keeping them there until someone makes a transaction.
Still, I prefer paying for that instead of seeing advertising.
No he was not:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1966/does-indian-derive-from-columbuss-description-of-native-americans-as-una-gente-in-dios
Each application on facebook get's a private API. In FOSS, this key is present in the source code. That is not permissible according to facebook terms of service. In effect, they are blocking FOSS software. An alternative is to use a different key for each user.
More info: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276609
But you don't have to live in either. There's a whole life out there where you do not need them.
Who needs noscript when you can use a personal proxy with web configuration interface. That way, I get noscript and requestpolicy in a more finegrained way for all my browsers and need to configure it only once.
I wrote my own with Node.JS and will probably add storage to it at some point. The only downside is that does not work for https connections.
The areas would improve over time by editing. An area or set of areas is, for most topics, an improvement over a single point. Few areas will be perfect, certainly initially, just like the articles themselves are not perfect. But as often, here too perfection is the enemy of success.
Many boundaries are defined by states. In case of disagreement, multiple areas can be mentioned, just like different versions of the facts, with an explanation of the origins, can be present on a Wikipedia page.
The best way forward, is to add support for areas to WikiMedia so people can start improving the pages. The points can also be retained to mean the center of a certain area.
This approach is incomplete though. It create wrong information. No place is just a spot, it's usually an area, some places are a volume. It would be much better to give users the ability to paint an area on the map instead of just one point.
Some examples:
area where a species lives in summer
area of a country or city (London has coordinates 51Â30â26âN 0Â7â39âW, but it covers an area of 1,579 square kilometers)
area of seas and events.
The notion that articles relate to points and not to areas, is a simplification.
There does not seem to be an easy UI for this. Remember: it should be easy for simple users.
Personally I'm more interested in seeing the permissions model of Android applied to a standard Linux Distro, possibly an Android x86 that allows installation through apt-get, or some other repo system. (must be script-able for sys-admin use)
Indeed, the fine-grained permission model of Android should come to Linux.
- One file per application
- Easy to override permissions for application (e.g. restrict net access for an application to a certain IP address or domain or restrict access to the file system to one folder)
Such requests always meet with developers claiming that memory will be used inefficiently, yet, mobile devices work fine this way. It's time Linux was developed to meet the requirements of simple users.
Exactly, musicians that make music today are harmed by an extension of the copyright period. Since people still have to pay for the old music, there is less money to pay for the new music.
A copyright term beyond 30 years actually likely harms the creative output.
The closure compiler for javascript checks for non-null passing by adding non-nullability to the type. E.g.
/**
* @param {?string} input string that may be null
* @return {!string}
**/
function makeDefaultIfNull(input) {
return (input) ? input : "Default";
}
What is missing is lack of support for open formats that do exist.
That is the whole point. The current economy is based on the idea of eternal growth. The lack of real growth is masked by inflation. Inflation makes the economy appear to grow and makes sure that you spend your money and contribute the to the growing economy.
Until Linus licenses his blanket from Microsoft, I'll stick with my duvet.