I'm surprised they didn't mention the bird in Mary Poppins - the one that sings sitting on Mary's fingers. I always thought that was the first use of Anamatronics. That and the Parrot Head on Mary's umbrella.
Id Software is a U.S.-based company. It can't release Doom 3 under any GPL-compatible license until October 2019, when U.S. Patent 6384822 on depth-fail shadowing expires.
Why does it have to be GPL? Why can't they release it under BSD or just make it public domain? What you really mean is that you can't use the code until October 2019 because you won't consider anything but the GPL. I'm assuming you're not bound by U.S. patent law, or the license wouldn't be an issue -- Americans can't use a patent until it expires under any software license.
So what I'm basically saying is that *I* should be the one controlling my content, not some other site or cloud service. Unite makes that easy for people.
Yeah, but it's Opera, so the Chinese Government is the one controlling your content.
Windows programs can either let Windows handle things like the minimize, maximize, and close buttons or it can do them itself. Microsoft Office applications have ALWAYS done these themselves, rather than let Windows do it. Their reason is to give Office the latest-and-greatest look and feel, even on older versions of Windows. The downside is that older versions of Office have the older look and feel, even on the newest version of Windows. If you understand why they think this is a Good Thing, please post here because it makes little sense to me. Sure sets a poor example for the other Windows developers.
Or C - (re)-write it yourself. If you don't understand what it does, why do you want to use it in the first place? If you want it because of what it's documented to do (a function in a library) then either trust it works as documented or use something else.
IMHO the documentation should be written first, and the code should then be written to behave as documented, with the user acceptance tests also based on the documentation. Really, you shouldn't need a requirements document if you start with the user's manual, and if the user can't understand the user's manual they probably won't understand the software and you should re-think your design. IMHO.
I once coded a function that varied depending on what quadrant (+x,+y; -x, +y; -x,-y; +x,-y) it was in. I couldn't get it to work right in the second quadrant, but finally got it working by chance and said so in my comments. The code worked, but I didn't understand why and said so. Is that bad coding? It worked!
This is a prime example of companies failing to recognize what business they're in. The railroads thought they were in the railroad business but they were really in the transportation business. The record labels think they're in the record business but they're really in the entertainment aggregation business. The record labels aggregated musicians for customers and customers for musicians, and this convenience will break down as the artists take their catalogs back. Who wants to go to Eagles.com, Kansas.com, NIN.com, etc.? Everyone wants to go to one site -- iTunes or Amazon (and we don't want them to be monopolies, either). I hope the artists realize this and go for multiple distribution channels.
My first thought was "Apple patents products that nobody will buy." Then I realized that may be the point. But even if they gave away iPhones with free unlimited voice and data I wouldn't want one, and if I took one I wouldn't depend on it as my primary phone.
I might just take one and never use it to drain their resources, though.
This is called "Social Engineering." Our Government wants heterosexual couples to marry and have kids, and they want the Mother to stay home to raise the kids while the Father goes to work. That's the way it always has been and always shall be, damnit, and our tax laws will encourage this until the end of time.
Which makes me wonder why they don't want gays in the military, where they're more likely to die. Indeed, you'd think they'd ban heterosexuals from the military, in order to protect our gene pool. I swear the RRR just doesn't think these things through.
You may want to read the petition first, then, because it's supporting a referendum to REPEAL civil unions in Washington.
Not exactly. First, it's not civil union. The legislature passed a law to give committed homosexual couples the same legal rights as married heterosexual couples (you know, the right to be in the hospital room with them, etc.) -- but without a civil ceremony. Some people objected, so they turned this law into a referendum (distinct from an initiative), which means the public now votes on whether we want this law. This referendum does not repeal civil unions, it grants equal legal rights to homosexual couples.
So put the floppy image on a USB stick (instead of a floppy disk) and boot from that. Sheesh, do we have to hold your hand, or do you need us to type the commands for you, or what?
I don't want one. What I want is one of those mini-tablet/large-PDA thingies Bill Gates showed us a couple of years ago. You know, the ones with no keyboard, a 7" touch screen with handwriting recognition, etc. Oh, sure, they're available, but I think $500 is a reasonable price, not the $1500 the makers are charging.
I think the biggest appeal of these "budget" laptops is just that -- the price fits most people's budgets.
You're all assuming votes were lost, as in 45 people voted but only 36 votes were counted. Perhaps 100% were counted, but all votes for this guy were mis-counted for someone else. Which is worse, lost votes or mis-counted votes?
The bottom line is we're all speculating based on imcomplete data, and apparantly it will take a court order to open the voting machine and find out what happened. We can only hope.
the 600m pulls cool air in from below, and ejects it out the back, so unless you block off the vent,...then I can't see it getting too hot.
Most if not all Dell laptops pull cool air from below. "So unless you block off the vent" - What? How do you use your laptop? I have yet to find a comfortable position with my Inspiron that does not block the bottom vent. I dare not set it on my bed. Even on the hard, flat surface of our diningroom table, it's overheated with the lid shut - yes, it also vents through the keyboard. It needs every vent it can get.
One cause is Dell putting desktop chips into laptops, betting they won't die under warranty. I'm guessing the "m" in your "600m" stands for "mobile," as in a mobile processor. Lucky you.
In general, Dell laptops need bigger fans. They suck, but they don't suck enough.
Not at all, you'd just be formatting your own document. What's patented is a method for recognizing an instruction to highlight all numbers, finding all the numbers in the document, then somehow highlighting them. So unless your perl script for converting text to html also responded to a command to highlight all numbers, this patent would not apply. Then again, IANAL and certainly IANAPL.
They've already cloned the servers, why not just clone the clients too, and tell Sony to climb a rope?
What? Too much like work? Seriously, if the Open Source community wants to shake the "only cloners" label, why not create an Open MMORPG? It should be easy -- if it's architected well, you can just release a basic shell and let it grow. The players will want a good game, so they'll develop content, enhancements, and bug fixes, right? The Players will be the Developers will be the Artists will be the Community. It should be a perfect application for Open Source. And if you toss in a little BitTorrent and a little Seti@home you could do it serverless peer-to-peer.
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Given today's job market, I'll bet a lot of CS grads would be happy to maintain a business critical COBOL code base.
I'm surprised they didn't mention the bird in Mary Poppins - the one that sings sitting on Mary's fingers. I always thought that was the first use of Anamatronics. That and the Parrot Head on Mary's umbrella.
Id Software is a U.S.-based company. It can't release Doom 3 under any GPL-compatible license until October 2019, when U.S. Patent 6384822 on depth-fail shadowing expires.
Why does it have to be GPL? Why can't they release it under BSD or just make it public domain? What you really mean is that you can't use the code until October 2019 because you won't consider anything but the GPL. I'm assuming you're not bound by U.S. patent law, or the license wouldn't be an issue -- Americans can't use a patent until it expires under any software license.
So what I'm basically saying is that *I* should be the one controlling my content, not some other site or cloud service. Unite makes that easy for people.
Yeah, but it's Opera, so the Chinese Government is the one controlling your content.
Seems like this would be a best seller in tornado alley.
OK, you're not guilty of child molestation. But you're guilty of growing pot -- why else do you need that many watts?
My Toshiba Portege M200 (Tablet PC) has no scroll wheel. And it has 1400x1050 on a 14" screen -- I'm going blind here! Thank goodness for "Ctrl +"
Windows programs can either let Windows handle things like the minimize, maximize, and close buttons or it can do them itself. Microsoft Office applications have ALWAYS done these themselves, rather than let Windows do it. Their reason is to give Office the latest-and-greatest look and feel, even on older versions of Windows. The downside is that older versions of Office have the older look and feel, even on the newest version of Windows. If you understand why they think this is a Good Thing, please post here because it makes little sense to me. Sure sets a poor example for the other Windows developers.
Or C - (re)-write it yourself. If you don't understand what it does, why do you want to use it in the first place? If you want it because of what it's documented to do (a function in a library) then either trust it works as documented or use something else.
IMHO the documentation should be written first, and the code should then be written to behave as documented, with the user acceptance tests also based on the documentation. Really, you shouldn't need a requirements document if you start with the user's manual, and if the user can't understand the user's manual they probably won't understand the software and you should re-think your design. IMHO.
I once coded a function that varied depending on what quadrant (+x,+y; -x, +y; -x,-y; +x,-y) it was in. I couldn't get it to work right in the second quadrant, but finally got it working by chance and said so in my comments. The code worked, but I didn't understand why and said so. Is that bad coding? It worked!
This is a prime example of companies failing to recognize what business they're in. The railroads thought they were in the railroad business but they were really in the transportation business. The record labels think they're in the record business but they're really in the entertainment aggregation business. The record labels aggregated musicians for customers and customers for musicians, and this convenience will break down as the artists take their catalogs back. Who wants to go to Eagles.com, Kansas.com, NIN.com, etc.? Everyone wants to go to one site -- iTunes or Amazon (and we don't want them to be monopolies, either). I hope the artists realize this and go for multiple distribution channels.
(Puts on Carnac hat) "Switch to BSD"
(opens envelope) "What will everyone do if the Linux 2012 problem isn't fixed by mid 2011?"
My first thought was "Apple patents products that nobody will buy." Then I realized that may be the point. But even if they gave away iPhones with free unlimited voice and data I wouldn't want one, and if I took one I wouldn't depend on it as my primary phone.
I might just take one and never use it to drain their resources, though.
So, what happened? Did its volume drop from 33.3% to 4%, or did its volume stay the same and the total spam problem got that much larger?
Poker is a game?
Personally, I think Microsoft is doing you a favor by asking you to remove iTunes and Google Toolbar.
And note, they're not forcing you to replace them with Zune and Live Toolbar, so don't go all "evil empire" on us over this.
This is called "Social Engineering." Our Government wants heterosexual couples to marry and have kids, and they want the Mother to stay home to raise the kids while the Father goes to work. That's the way it always has been and always shall be, damnit, and our tax laws will encourage this until the end of time.
Which makes me wonder why they don't want gays in the military, where they're more likely to die. Indeed, you'd think they'd ban heterosexuals from the military, in order to protect our gene pool. I swear the RRR just doesn't think these things through.
You may want to read the petition first, then, because it's supporting a referendum to REPEAL civil unions in Washington.
Not exactly. First, it's not civil union. The legislature passed a law to give committed homosexual couples the same legal rights as married heterosexual couples (you know, the right to be in the hospital room with them, etc.) -- but without a civil ceremony. Some people objected, so they turned this law into a referendum (distinct from an initiative), which means the public now votes on whether we want this law. This referendum does not repeal civil unions, it grants equal legal rights to homosexual couples.
So put the floppy image on a USB stick (instead of a floppy disk) and boot from that. Sheesh, do we have to hold your hand, or do you need us to type the commands for you, or what?
I don't want one. What I want is one of those mini-tablet/large-PDA thingies Bill Gates showed us a couple of years ago. You know, the ones with no keyboard, a 7" touch screen with handwriting recognition, etc. Oh, sure, they're available, but I think $500 is a reasonable price, not the $1500 the makers are charging.
I think the biggest appeal of these "budget" laptops is just that -- the price fits most people's budgets.
You're all assuming votes were lost, as in 45 people voted but only 36 votes were counted. Perhaps 100% were counted, but all votes for this guy were mis-counted for someone else. Which is worse, lost votes or mis-counted votes?
The bottom line is we're all speculating based on imcomplete data, and apparantly it will take a court order to open the voting machine and find out what happened. We can only hope.
One cause is Dell putting desktop chips into laptops, betting they won't die under warranty. I'm guessing the "m" in your "600m" stands for "mobile," as in a mobile processor. Lucky you.
In general, Dell laptops need bigger fans. They suck, but they don't suck enough.
Not at all, you'd just be formatting your own document. What's patented is a method for recognizing an instruction to highlight all numbers, finding all the numbers in the document, then somehow highlighting them. So unless your perl script for converting text to html also responded to a command to highlight all numbers, this patent would not apply. Then again, IANAL and certainly IANAPL.
What? Too much like work? Seriously, if the Open Source community wants to shake the "only cloners" label, why not create an Open MMORPG? It should be easy -- if it's architected well, you can just release a basic shell and let it grow. The players will want a good game, so they'll develop content, enhancements, and bug fixes, right? The Players will be the Developers will be the Artists will be the Community. It should be a perfect application for Open Source. And if you toss in a little BitTorrent and a little Seti@home you could do it serverless peer-to-peer.