About explanation, I believe it's the literary norm to let a piece of literature stand on it's own merit. You shouldn't explain why certain passages say things
Norm or not, needing to explain outside the bounds of the work can certainly be taken as an admission of failure on the author's part. Maybe that's why they like the anonymity...
I think it's unethical for them to do it anonymously. AFAICS there's nothing wrong with the author explaining why they think their work is so wonderful so long as they're posting as themselves.
In fact that can be downright useful because the author can explain things that other reviewers can only guess about.
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Another thing to consider is that these chips usually (always?) only alter the data, not the program which actually uses that data. So what they're doing is feeding the program with data for which it might not have been tested, and we all know what *that* can do.
I speak from experience here, because I used to write engine management systems. One of the more "interesting" parts of the job was going round a high speed test track while tweaking the EMS. Everything would be fine and then some coincidence - like the AC kicking in just as you hit 6000rpm - would happen. If you're lucky, all that happens is that the engine stalls, but even that's no joke at 70mph.
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So SCO add the ingredient that makes the cake bad for you. Sounds about right.
Yes, you're right; it seems that the giver always has to provide an email address. Hey, maybe *I* should patent using a slashdot id instead;)
Regardless, the point is that the giver doesn't provide or need to know the delivery address. Sounds suspiciously like the way you can get a letter delivered by just providing a name and postal code.
Extracting the address from an email, web page etc is not in the first claim
Looks like it is to me:
"[...] determining whether the gift order includes sufficient information so that the gift can be delivered to the recipient; when sufficient information is not provided in the gift order, obtaining delivery information from one or more information sources; and [...]"
I read that to mean that they use whatever information the giver specified (email, user id, whatever) to go out and determine the rest.
Agreed on your point about the basis for the opposition though, and FWIW I also don't like the idea that this should be patentable. After all, doesn't the post office do it all the time with partially addressed letters?
I just read the patent and the key part seems to be delivering gifts to people from people who don't know their full contact info. I'm guessing that it's Amazon's wish list and honor system where all the giver needs to know is the Amazon id of the recipient - their name/address etc. aren't revealed.
I'm not going to comment on whether that should be patentable, but at least it's not as trivial as it looks at first glance.
I used to have to watch Dr Who from the safety of a large cardboard box T.A.R.D.I.S down behind the sofa so I could hide when the scarey bits came on
You too, huh. We didn't have a TARDIS, but all the kids in our family basically hid behind the sofa as soon as "World of Sport" finished and watched Dr. Who from between gaps in the cushions.
Come to think of it, so did everyone in my age group that I've ever mentioned it to. Group consciousness?
Because of his ineptitude there are now drug trafficers in Nigeria who have some positive revenue.
What, you think drug trafficking runs at a loss? The evil drug runners need to use scams like this because they sell of drugs at below cost? Yeah, right. That's progaganda, pure and simple - and you fell for it.
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The Enlightenment pager is resizable to whatever size you want.
;)
You can click on a panel to switch to that virtual screen.
The application snapshots update in real time so they match what's happening to the app.
You can drag the apps from one panel of the pager to another, or onto the current full size desktop.
You can even drag a full size app from the desktop to the panel to move it onto another virtual screen.
Being as it's Enlightenment there are all sorts of transition effects to choose from. (The "E" in Enlightenment does stand for "eye-candy" after all
Have I missed anything?
One word. Plastics.
:)
Mod +1 for the reference
They're just politically correct gotos.
About explanation, I believe it's the literary norm to let a piece of literature stand on it's own merit. You shouldn't explain why certain passages say things
Norm or not, needing to explain outside the bounds of the work can certainly be taken as an admission of failure on the author's part. Maybe that's why they like the anonymity...
I think it's unethical for them to do it anonymously. AFAICS there's nothing wrong with the author explaining why they think their work is so wonderful so long as they're posting as themselves.
In fact that can be downright useful because the author can explain things that other reviewers can only guess about.
Another thing to consider is that these chips usually (always?) only alter the data, not the program which actually uses that data. So what they're doing is feeding the program with data for which it might not have been tested, and we all know what *that* can do.
I speak from experience here, because I used to write engine management systems. One of the more "interesting" parts of the job was going round a high speed test track while tweaking the EMS. Everything would be fine and then some coincidence - like the AC kicking in just as you hit 6000rpm - would happen. If you're lucky, all that happens is that the engine stalls, but even that's no joke at 70mph.
So SCO add the ingredient that makes the cake bad for you. Sounds about right.
SCO sez :
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Its scalability, reliability and flexibility are legendary.
Merriam-Webster sez
Main Entry: legendary
synonym see FICTITIOUS
Shocker! SCO isn't lying!
You missed the most appropriate one :
Part 8c: Anyone can make the Internet a better place to live, work and raise up kids. It takes a real blockhead with a will of iron to make it worse.
Are you listening, Verisign?
And quite apart from that, IBM *made* x86 processors. Remember the "Blue Lightning"?
Yes, you're right; it seems that the giver always has to provide an email address. Hey, maybe *I* should patent using a slashdot id instead ;)
Regardless, the point is that the giver doesn't provide or need to know the delivery address. Sounds suspiciously like the way you can get a letter delivered by just providing a name and postal code.
Extracting the address from an email, web page etc is not in the first claim
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Looks like it is to me
"[...] determining whether the gift order includes sufficient information so that the gift can be delivered to the recipient;
when sufficient information is not provided in the gift order, obtaining delivery information from one or more information sources; and [...]"
I read that to mean that they use whatever information the giver specified (email, user id, whatever) to go out and determine the rest.
Agreed on your point about the basis for the opposition though, and FWIW I also don't like the idea that this should be patentable. After all, doesn't the post office do it all the time with partially addressed letters?
I just read the patent and the key part seems to be delivering gifts to people from people who don't know their full contact info. I'm guessing that it's Amazon's wish list and honor system where all the giver needs to know is the Amazon id of the recipient - their name/address etc. aren't revealed.
I'm not going to comment on whether that should be patentable, but at least it's not as trivial as it looks at first glance.
And I've never seen the kind of silent hatred for bosses in the US that I've seen overseas.
It's replaced by a silent hatred of Human Resources. The bosses hate HR too, which brings them closer to the workers.
I'm half joking there - but half serious.
I used to have to watch Dr Who from the safety of a large cardboard box T.A.R.D.I.S down behind the sofa so I could hide when the scarey bits came on
You too, huh. We didn't have a TARDIS, but all the kids in our family basically hid behind the sofa as soon as "World of Sport" finished and watched Dr. Who from between gaps in the cushions.
Come to think of it, so did everyone in my age group that I've ever mentioned it to. Group consciousness?
Sorry about my rant... I just have a lot of angst about these people.
Try schadenfreude instead, it's a lot more fun.
who do you think will be next?
Amazon.com, they're a big Linux user.
I'm pretty sure that the result would show the huge advanatage of Java over C++.
Yeah - you can bill more hours of development work if you program in Java.
My old company outsourced my job to the US, so I followed it and now I'm surrounded by foreigners.
Nah, they're just trying to insinuate that anyone who uses Linux is supporting terrorism. Pathetic.
Because of his ineptitude there are now drug trafficers in Nigeria who have some positive revenue.
What, you think drug trafficking runs at a loss? The evil drug runners need to use scams like this because they sell of drugs at below cost? Yeah, right. That's progaganda, pure and simple - and you fell for it.
they are more often correct then Gartner
Wow, talk about damning with faint praise.
Exactly. Until you can buy it, it's vapor. Wanna bet Half Life 2 gets one of the awards this year?
Remember, Half-Life 2 was complete vaporware until a few short months ago.
Half-Life 2 is still complete vaporware.
Chip giant Intel has pushed for a predecessor to BIOS it calls the Intel Platform Innovation Framework for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface).
But I don't think that word means what they think it means.