Well, if you are using *some* Samsung Galaxy devices, you are using PowerVR. There are many variations of the Galaxy, Galaxy S, Galaxy SII, and Galaxy SIII, some with Adreno, some with Tegra, some with PowerVR.
They did register it. However, there's some confusion around just exactly what they registered and what the registration covers. It came up a few times during the trial, with Google filing several motions to have the whole case tossed due to Oracle not having the rights to sue.:)
Reading through the groklaw.net stories about each day in the court room is very interesting. Basically, Oracle's lawyers screwed the pooch from the get-go.:)
Even if the judge does the unthinkable and rules for Oracle, all they'll get from it is the $150,000 statutory limit. To go against their several million dollar lawyers fees.
Oracle started with 7 or 9 patents that they thought were worth $6 billion in damages/licensing/royalties/whatever.
All but 2 of the patents ('104 and '520) were found to be invalid and rejected by the USPTO. The '104 patent was found to be preliminarily invalid after the trial started.
And now Oracle is leaving with nothing but a huge invoice from the lawyers... the same lawyers who lost the SCO trial(s). (Go figure.)
Many cable companies are doing this already. I don't remember the exact name for it, but most (high-end?) digital cable boxes only stream the channel(s) you are currently watching/recording.
You forgot the most important aspects of becoming a utility: standardisation of what "1 MB" looks like, an independently verified and tested meter to track the MBs going into/out of a house, and legislated (or otherwise mandated) pricing for "1 MB".
Without those, metered billing is pointless as every company will measure things slightly differently, without any way to independently verify that what they are measuring is actually what you are using.
And a hardware keyboard. I basically use my phone like a pocket computer, and there's no way I could survive without a hardware keyboard. Virtual keyboards don't cut it for SSH sessions.
Bah! Just modify the firmware on your access point to boost the transmit power and drown out all the other APs! If you do it right, you won't be able to see any other APs. And you may even be able to warm food on it, to boot.:)
Working on the helpdesk for 10 years, you'd be amazed at just how many of those 3500 employees I've spoken with.:) A much larger percentage than your random 200 million users.:D
And you just described the problem with the ribbon: it's a mishmash of 4 different sizes of icons, some in colour, some b&w, some with text labels, some without, and the different sizes aren't even aligned to a grid of any kind.
And the different styles drops-downs (font, style, etc) *DO* show the style in the drop-down. At least in Office 2003. Maybe in XP, don't recall off-hand. And, if you use a real word processor like WordPerfect, you can even get live updates of highlighted portions of the document as you hover over the different styles/fonts in the drop-downs (something you can't do with the ribbon).
Considering he doesn't know how to rip a commercial DVD, how do you expect him to figure out:
* searching for torrents
* downloading torrents
* converting video files to DVD format
* burning to DVD
and then going through the duplication process??
Considering the MPAA is sending reel-to-reel films and projectors that can only be used in large rooms that need to be scheduled, anything that can be loaded onto a laptop for 3-5 people to gather around is a god-send.
Would make shotgunning a beer so much simpler to have it forced down (or even up) your throat under pressure.;) No need to worry about swallowing slowing you down.
We have students in our system with the last name "Sample". And every year, the Ministry of Education flags their records as "test records" with "invalid data in last name field" and refuses to fund us for them. And every year, we have to re-fax their birth certificates to the Ministry.
Our school district stopped buying Office at 2003 because of the ribbon interface. Since you can't buy licenses for Office 2003 anymore, we use the "downgrade license" in 2007 and 2010 to install 2003.
We have a few staff members that have laptops that came with 2007/2010 pre-installed, and after trying to use it for a month or so, they all come crawling back asking for 2003 to be installed.
We also use OpenOffice.org on our Linux stations, and make OO.o available to our Windows users.
So my anecdotal evidence includes just under 3500 co-workers, and just under 14,000 students.
My personal beef with the ribbon is that there's no organisation to it. It's just a mishmash of large icons, small icons, text, jumbled together.
A toolbar has every icon the same size, and organised according to a grid.
A menu has every entry the same size, and organised according to a grid.
And, the biggest thing, is that if you turn off the annoying "personalised menus" feature, everything is in the same place, everytime. Nothing moves, nothing jumps around.
The ribbon may have it's uses. But I've yet to find one.
Guess you've never been into a Superstore, or heard of PC Financial? Free banking. Free Interac. Free access to CIBC bank machines. Free cheques. Free online access. Basically, all your normal day-to-day banking is free.
The new 16-year old kid probably would have known to turn the key off, and/or put the car in neutral, and move toward the side of the road to put two wheels into the rough to help slow the car down. It's pretty much mandatory studying knowledge in all the drivers training places I've been to (part of the "defensive driving" and "emergency situations" training). At least up here in Canada.
And many (most?) SSH clients support auto-reconnect on short network drops. And many even support reconnect on IP change (like when switching wireless networks or to 3G). And you can even configure your tmux (way better than screen) session to connect on login.
Thus, many SSH clients already do everything that MOSH does, but without having to install any new software anywhere.
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Well, if you are using *some* Samsung Galaxy devices, you are using PowerVR. There are many variations of the Galaxy, Galaxy S, Galaxy SII, and Galaxy SIII, some with Adreno, some with Tegra, some with PowerVR.
http://www.cdw.ca/
http://www.ncix.ca/
And the .com for those of you too unfortunate to live in Canada. :)
Whoosh!
That one went so far over your head, it's nearing LEO. :)
They did register it. However, there's some confusion around just exactly what they registered and what the registration covers. It came up a few times during the trial, with Google filing several motions to have the whole case tossed due to Oracle not having the rights to sue. :)
Reading through the groklaw.net stories about each day in the court room is very interesting. Basically, Oracle's lawyers screwed the pooch from the get-go. :)
Even if the judge does the unthinkable and rules for Oracle, all they'll get from it is the $150,000 statutory limit. To go against their several million dollar lawyers fees.
Oracle started with 7 or 9 patents that they thought were worth $6 billion in damages/licensing/royalties/whatever.
All but 2 of the patents ('104 and '520) were found to be invalid and rejected by the USPTO. The '104 patent was found to be preliminarily invalid after the trial started.
And now Oracle is leaving with nothing but a huge invoice from the lawyers ... the same lawyers who lost the SCO trial(s). (Go figure.)
Many cable companies are doing this already. I don't remember the exact name for it, but most (high-end?) digital cable boxes only stream the channel(s) you are currently watching/recording.
You forgot the most important aspects of becoming a utility: standardisation of what "1 MB" looks like, an independently verified and tested meter to track the MBs going into/out of a house, and legislated (or otherwise mandated) pricing for "1 MB".
Without those, metered billing is pointless as every company will measure things slightly differently, without any way to independently verify that what they are measuring is actually what you are using.
Because they're a constant reminder of all the things wrong with the US? ;)
But not pointing devices. Asus did a lot of the groundwork to add pointing device support to Android.
And they could have just used the work that Asus did for the Transformer. :)
And a hardware keyboard. I basically use my phone like a pocket computer, and there's no way I could survive without a hardware keyboard. Virtual keyboards don't cut it for SSH sessions.
You can still download Delphi and Kylix (the Linux/cross-platform version of Delphi) from various places around the Internet.
Bah! Just modify the firmware on your access point to boost the transmit power and drown out all the other APs! If you do it right, you won't be able to see any other APs. And you may even be able to warm food on it, to boot. :)
Working on the helpdesk for 10 years, you'd be amazed at just how many of those 3500 employees I've spoken with. :) A much larger percentage than your random 200 million users. :D
And you just described the problem with the ribbon: it's a mishmash of 4 different sizes of icons, some in colour, some b&w, some with text labels, some without, and the different sizes aren't even aligned to a grid of any kind.
And the different styles drops-downs (font, style, etc) *DO* show the style in the drop-down. At least in Office 2003. Maybe in XP, don't recall off-hand. And, if you use a real word processor like WordPerfect, you can even get live updates of highlighted portions of the document as you hover over the different styles/fonts in the drop-downs (something you can't do with the ribbon).
Considering he doesn't know how to rip a commercial DVD, how do you expect him to figure out:
* searching for torrents
* downloading torrents
* converting video files to DVD format
* burning to DVD
and then going through the duplication process??
Considering the MPAA is sending reel-to-reel films and projectors that can only be used in large rooms that need to be scheduled, anything that can be loaded onto a laptop for 3-5 people to gather around is a god-send.
Would make shotgunning a beer so much simpler to have it forced down (or even up) your throat under pressure. ;) No need to worry about swallowing slowing you down.
Unless you are a hilly-billy / Southern States American, that sentence is parsed "wish you" "all the best", and not "wish y'all" "the best". :)
We have students in our system with the last name "Sample". And every year, the Ministry of Education flags their records as "test records" with "invalid data in last name field" and refuses to fund us for them. And every year, we have to re-fax their birth certificates to the Ministry.
Our school district stopped buying Office at 2003 because of the ribbon interface. Since you can't buy licenses for Office 2003 anymore, we use the "downgrade license" in 2007 and 2010 to install 2003.
We have a few staff members that have laptops that came with 2007/2010 pre-installed, and after trying to use it for a month or so, they all come crawling back asking for 2003 to be installed.
We also use OpenOffice.org on our Linux stations, and make OO.o available to our Windows users.
So my anecdotal evidence includes just under 3500 co-workers, and just under 14,000 students.
My personal beef with the ribbon is that there's no organisation to it. It's just a mishmash of large icons, small icons, text, jumbled together.
A toolbar has every icon the same size, and organised according to a grid.
A menu has every entry the same size, and organised according to a grid.
And, the biggest thing, is that if you turn off the annoying "personalised menus" feature, everything is in the same place, everytime. Nothing moves, nothing jumps around.
The ribbon may have it's uses. But I've yet to find one.
Guess you've never been into a Superstore, or heard of PC Financial? Free banking. Free Interac. Free access to CIBC bank machines. Free cheques. Free online access. Basically, all your normal day-to-day banking is free.
http://www.pcfinancial.com/
The new 16-year old kid probably would have known to turn the key off, and/or put the car in neutral, and move toward the side of the road to put two wheels into the rough to help slow the car down. It's pretty much mandatory studying knowledge in all the drivers training places I've been to (part of the "defensive driving" and "emergency situations" training). At least up here in Canada.
And many (most?) SSH clients support auto-reconnect on short network drops. And many even support reconnect on IP change (like when switching wireless networks or to 3G). And you can even configure your tmux (way better than screen) session to connect on login.
Thus, many SSH clients already do everything that MOSH does, but without having to install any new software anywhere.
And, actually mentioning the name of the product would be too hard because ... ?
XBMC v10 supports the Xbox. Hence, that release is "Xbox Media Centre" (aka XBMC).
XBMC v11 does not supprt the Xbox, and is thus called "XBMC Media Centre".