Well if this had been Intel then this would have been believable since they already have a lottery-virtualization core, that is you don't know if your CPU supports virtualization or not even in CPUs of the same generation and family. However this is AMD so this must be an april fools.
No, there are no algorithms clever enough to deserve patent protection. What is an algorithm in a computer? It is just math by another name. Software is made up of mathematical principles, math is not patentable, and therefore software shouldn't be, end of story.
Well if Google can comply easily with Chinese law by censoring websites that are illegal, then surely they can also comply with Italian law and censor illegal YouTube videos in Italy.
I mean Google has already agreed to censorship in general, so they have dug themselves a deep hole by making themselves responsible for all content.
The problem is that you are a company. Therefore what any employee says now has no meaning or bearing on what happens in the future. You may well be very nice people and all and nothing is being done with this information now. However being a company means you can be bought, and those people that buy you can be evil and can misuse the information, hence you can not be trusted, ever.
If you think this is advanced then you obviously aren't a software engineer. There is nothing complex about this, this is basic stuff, it isn't like computers and software engineering was suddenly invented in 1991. If you have a computer and some type of connection to another computer you can do this, you don't need a TCP/IP stack. Like all software patents this is trivial nonsense.
In the patent:
"A system and method for separate manipulation of the architecture and content of a document particularly for data representation and transformations."
Here in Iceland your tax income is public record and details of loans for buying property are also public records. Also the Internal Revenue Directorate here in Iceland has access to details of all your bank accounts.
I personally have no problem with my loan information being public records, but then again I don't have anything to hide:)
Latest news from Iceland: After a major uproar from the Icelandic public, Kaupthing has finally decided not to go through with the injunction against the press.
It's funny how you can get modded as troll just because you tell the truth. Everybody that has any understanding of security understands that Windows security was designed badly from the start.
1) Default user as administrator = Bad design 2) All or nothing security when running a program instead of layered = Bad design 3) Open ports by default = Bad design
No we bitch about how you can get infected by a virus/adware with AutoRun, not that AutoRun in it self is bad. If Windows was designed properly then you wouldn't get infected with a virus by automatic running of a program.
So the only edge case is when the user changes floppy drive from A to B type. This would mean when the user booted up next time the OS would think that there was a disk in the floppy drive even tough there wasn't and would try to spin up the disk only to find out this wasn't the case and correct the detection. Of course if the user had inserted a disk before booting up this would be a problem and would be the only problematic case.
However auto detection for a floppy disk versus not detecting a disk only after a change from A to B type floppy drive and only if inserting a disk before boot and having not accessed it at least once, seems a small price to pay.
Having a detection in the boot up with a spin up would of course also solve the problem, with a small time penalty. I think if I remember correctly I think Windows 95 already accessed the floppy at boot up?
The correct way to do this is when the OS is being installed for the first time. If it is being installed from the floppy, well then the problem is solved. If it is being installed from CD-ROM the you have a check in the installing routine to display text "Checking floppy" or something and spin up the drive and store the results. If the floppy was installed after the OS was installed you check it in the first boot after that. A small spin up in the boot up after installing a new floppy drive is a small step for having automatic auto detection for the floppy drive.
All of the major banks in Iceland went bankrupt. The government could either nationalize them or leave them bankrupt. Leaving them bankrupt would have meant that ALL Icelanders and ALL companies in Iceland would have been bankrupt over night. This would have been a literal death sentence for all Icelander, so they where nationalized. The Icelandic government guarantied local depositors but did not guaranty foreign above the required 20,000 Euro limit, according to EU laws. (Needed for doing business on the EU market although Iceland is not in EU). So UK put Iceland on a terrorist list, which meant that Icelandic companies unrelated to the banks could not do foreign business because they where on this list. They froze the assets of the banks and sold them off at a discount price to British businessmen. They also forced IMF to stall loans to Iceland in order to bully Iceland into compliance.
In summary: Private banks in Iceland went bankrupt affecting about 0.5% of the British population. The British response was to bankrupt deliberately 100% of the Icelandic population.
Iceland never said anything about UK depositors money would not be guarantied (Your linked news says no such thing). The problem was that the EU directive was not clear enough. See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/11/iceland-creditcrunch And because of the incompetent EU directives, the UK decided to bully Iceland instead of settling the issue in a EU court.
There is also a major difference between guarantying local depositors, because they are in the Icelandic krona currency (ISK). So they are automatically guaranteed because the Icelandic government controls printing of ISK.
I was wrongly locked out of steam once for unknown reasons. It took me some days to get Valve to fix the situation, meanwhile I could not play on a scheduled LAN tournament. As you can imagine Valve is not my favorite company.
Do you really believe they have already made a patch to remove all activation requirements?, and have to keep that patch up to date all the time? No I can assure they have not, I mean why should they, there is no financial gain for creating such a patch, and If they go bankrupt, no patch will ever be made.
I have tried moving away from MS Office but there are many small important things that are missing. On the top of my head for example there is no way of rotating images you have to use an external program even for simple 90 degrees rotation and no way to keep scale correct when resizing images.
This guy is a clear example of a sociopath. He doesn't give a damn about anyone else but himself, and doesn't have one thought about if his actions will cause harm to other people computers. This is the guy that has wasted my time over the years fixing my relatives computers. What a sleazeball.
Actually the FO2 European version only removed the images of the children making them invisible in the game. This stupid censoring decision actually made the game mostly unplayable, since you could have all your stuff stolen from invisible children and if an invisible child walked into a firefight you could accidentally kill it. Killing a child in FO2 had dire consequences for the rest of the game, you where basically an outcast if you did it and it made trading and talking to NPC's very hard.
Why is hubble repairs hindered because the cpu is 486? This cpu is still available (I have one of these still in my attic) The tools are still available and of course the team on the ground has the same system and setup for testing. How would a upgraded system make it any better?
Many people here in Iceland are not happy about being labeled terrorists by the UK. Iceland is probably the most peace loving nation in the world. We have no army, the police here doesn't carry guns and to my knowledge no Icelander has ever been suspected or linked to any terrorism in the history of Iceland.
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So obviously they where wrong in the first place if they are now only revising the standard to include an index.
Well if this had been Intel then this would have been believable since they already have a lottery-virtualization core, that is you don't know if your CPU supports virtualization or not even in CPUs of the same generation and family. However this is AMD so this must be an april fools.
No, there are no algorithms clever enough to deserve patent protection. What is an algorithm in a computer? It is just math by another name. Software is made up of mathematical principles, math is not patentable, and therefore software shouldn't be, end of story.
Car black boxes cannot be used to track where you've been
And how can you be sure of this if you can't examine the data yourself?
Well if Google can comply easily with Chinese law by censoring websites that are illegal, then surely they can also comply with Italian law and censor illegal YouTube videos in Italy.
I mean Google has already agreed to censorship in general, so they have dug themselves a deep hole by making themselves responsible for all content.
The problem is that you are a company. Therefore what any employee says now has no meaning or bearing on what happens in the future. You may well be very nice people and all and nothing is being done with this information now. However being a company means you can be bought, and those people that buy you can be evil and can misuse the information, hence you can not be trusted, ever.
If you think this is advanced then you obviously aren't a software engineer. There is nothing complex about this, this is basic stuff, it isn't like computers and software engineering was suddenly invented in 1991. If you have a computer and some type of connection to another computer you can do this, you don't need a TCP/IP stack. Like all software patents this is trivial nonsense.
In the patent:
"A system and method for separate manipulation of the architecture and content of a document particularly for data representation and transformations."
And how is this different from using XSL?
Like all software patents this is bullshit.
Here in Iceland your tax income is public record and details of loans for buying property are also public records. Also the Internal Revenue Directorate here in Iceland has access to details of all your bank accounts.
I personally have no problem with my loan information being public records, but then again I don't have anything to hide :)
Latest news from Iceland: After a major uproar from the Icelandic public, Kaupthing has finally decided not to go through with the injunction against the press.
So you would agree that it is okay to torture suspected U.S citizens in for example Irak? I mean they are foreigners there and suspected of crime.
It's funny how you can get modded as troll just because you tell the truth. Everybody that has any understanding of security understands that Windows security was designed badly from the start.
1) Default user as administrator = Bad design
2) All or nothing security when running a program instead of layered = Bad design
3) Open ports by default = Bad design
I could go on and on...
No we bitch about how you can get infected by a virus/adware with AutoRun, not that AutoRun in it self is bad. If Windows was designed properly then you wouldn't get infected with a virus by automatic running of a program.
So the only edge case is when the user changes floppy drive from A to B type. This would mean when the user booted up next time the OS would think that there was a disk in the floppy drive even tough there wasn't and would try to spin up the disk only to find out this wasn't the case and correct the detection. Of course if the user had inserted a disk before booting up this would be a problem and would be the only problematic case.
However auto detection for a floppy disk versus not detecting a disk only after a change from A to B type floppy drive and only if inserting a disk before boot and having not accessed it at least once, seems a small price to pay.
Having a detection in the boot up with a spin up would of course also solve the problem, with a small time penalty.
I think if I remember correctly I think Windows 95 already accessed the floppy at boot up?
The correct way to do this is when the OS is being installed for the first time. If it is being installed from the floppy, well then the problem is solved. If it is being installed from CD-ROM the you have a check in the installing routine to display text "Checking floppy" or something and spin up the drive and store the results. If the floppy was installed after the OS was installed you check it in the first boot after that. A small spin up in the boot up after installing a new floppy drive is a small step for having automatic auto detection for the floppy drive.
Uhh, you realize that "12PM" is basically undefined, did you mean noon or midnight?
All of the major banks in Iceland went bankrupt. The government could either nationalize them or leave them bankrupt. Leaving them bankrupt would have meant that ALL Icelanders and ALL companies in Iceland would have been bankrupt over night. This would have been a literal death sentence for all Icelander, so they where nationalized. The Icelandic government guarantied local depositors but did not guaranty foreign above the required 20,000 Euro limit, according to EU laws. (Needed for doing business on the EU market although Iceland is not in EU). So UK put Iceland on a terrorist list, which meant that Icelandic companies unrelated to the banks could not do foreign business because they where on this list. They froze the assets of the banks and sold them off at a discount price to British businessmen. They also forced IMF to stall loans to Iceland in order to bully Iceland into compliance.
In summary: Private banks in Iceland went bankrupt affecting about 0.5% of the British population. The British response was to bankrupt deliberately 100% of the Icelandic population.
Iceland never said anything about UK depositors money would not be guarantied (Your linked news says no such thing). The problem was that the EU directive was not clear enough. See:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/11/iceland-creditcrunch
And because of the incompetent EU directives, the UK decided to bully Iceland instead of settling the issue in a EU court.
There is also a major difference between guarantying local depositors, because they are in the Icelandic krona currency (ISK). So they are automatically guaranteed because the Icelandic government controls printing of ISK.
I was wrongly locked out of steam once for unknown reasons. It took me some days to get Valve to fix the situation, meanwhile I could not play on a scheduled LAN tournament. As you can imagine Valve is not my favorite company.
Do you really believe they have already made a patch to remove all activation requirements?, and have to keep that patch up to date all the time? No I can assure they have not, I mean why should they, there is no financial gain for creating such a patch, and If they go bankrupt, no patch will ever be made.
I have tried moving away from MS Office but there are many small important things that are missing. On the top of my head for example there is no way of rotating images you have to use an external program even for simple 90 degrees rotation and no way to keep scale correct when resizing images.
This guy is a clear example of a sociopath. He doesn't give a damn about anyone else but himself, and doesn't have one thought about if his actions will cause harm to other people computers. This is the guy that has wasted my time over the years fixing my relatives computers. What a sleazeball.
I thought there were many for and against studies about power lines and cancer. I don't think there have been any conclusive proof either way.
Actually the FO2 European version only removed the images of the children making them invisible in the game. This stupid censoring decision actually made the game mostly unplayable, since you could have all your stuff stolen from invisible children and if an invisible child walked into a firefight you could accidentally kill it. Killing a child in FO2 had dire consequences for the rest of the game, you where basically an outcast if you did it and it made trading and talking to NPC's very hard.
Why is hubble repairs hindered because the cpu is 486? This cpu is still available (I have one of these still in my attic) The tools are still available and of course the team on the ground has the same system and setup for testing. How would a upgraded system make it any better?
Many people here in Iceland are not happy about being labeled terrorists by the UK. Iceland is probably the most peace loving nation in the world. We have no army, the police here doesn't carry guns and to my knowledge no Icelander has ever been suspected or linked to any terrorism in the history of Iceland.