if this had been in 2012, he wouldn't have patented a film process but instead followed Apple (and others) by patenting "The idea of colour moving pictures displayed to an audience" and his descendents would now be suing Hollywood for 15 gazillion dollars.
Yep, for the first time in the "new" series this episode actually had the kids cowering behind the traditional sofa - something that was part & parcel of the Who experience back in the sixties but mostly went missing from the new series in favour of a lot of running and puffing and CGI monsters. Excellent episode. The sort of thing Torchwood could have been if it hadn't got so hung up on "adult" situations.
Were it not for the fact that the wiimote is designed to detect movement in all three spatial dimesnsions. Do these people turn sideways on to the telly every time they want to make a sideways movement of the wiimote...?? Or maybe they've only discovered the "stabbing" movement so far...
I'm just finding it hard to credit the number of people claiming that their wiimote "flew out of their hands and into the telly...". Maybe there's just an awful lot of people who really fancy a new telly off the insurance? No one seems to be complaining that "My wiimote flew off the strap and broke that nasty ornament over the fireplace I've always hated since the day my Aunt gave it to me".
It's always a compromise. There's always a tradeoff between ease of writing the program and the portability and speed with which it executes. I spent many years coding directly in Assembler for IBM mainframes and the execution speed was so fast it almost finished before it started. Code written in a third or fourth generation language on the same platform always seemed sluggish by comparison, but no-one would have suggested writing our core applications in Assembler; that was reserved for the critical paths only. To have any chance of supporting applications the benefits of writing them in a high-level language (portability and clarity) outweigh the speed advantage. Horses for courses.
In which case all one has to do to be secure is to encrypt using the Chinese standard, then re-encrypt using the US standard. I can't see the Chinese and the US sharing their backdoors!
Whoa, hang on a minute. I really think your statistics are baseless. I would contend that there is a very large body of older and retired people who lead very active lives in the UK, doing all the things you mention of the US inhabitants, and more. Yes, of course there are some older people who have started to find it difficult to do as much as they would like, or for whatever reason have drawn themselves into their shells and do little but watch TV and play bingo, but to extrapolate from this that 90% of the UK's older population has the intellectual capacity of a turnip is a little extreme. Am I to infer that because a large percentage of people under the age of twenty eat regularly at McBurgers and the like, hardly a sensible lifestyle choice,that 90% of all younger people have the brain capacity of a turnip as well?
It seems to have the same problem as Google, requiring me to add -kelkoo -reviewcentre -bargainbubble -pricerunner -everyotherdamnpointlesslinksite to searches whenever I want real information about electronics equipment and not skeleton sites linking to other sites with "There are 0 reviews for this product - would you like to write one?" all over the place. Yes, I'm angry! Give me back my old Internet please!
I also assume the chances of Google / MSN / Altavista et al actually screening out these sites unless specifically requested are about nil as well.
...that 1.5 billion of the increase in profit is due to a 1.5 billion reduction in R&D. Wonder what long term effect halving the R&D budget will have on future MS technology?
If I could buy XP for $15 like the OEM merchants I would pick up a legit copy tomorrow. However the "real" price bears no relation to the products actual worth, so until it changes, pirating will remain rampant. Shouldn't monopolies be subject to statutory price control?
I think it requires us to have another look at market share to realise that, although there is no doubt some competition developing now, the lock-in that MS has been nurturing over the last ten years is really very powerful. Allowing that lock-in strategy to be continued by an effective monopolist does not lead to MS being "beaten in the long run" - in fact, quite the opposite. Taking strong legal measures now to ensure a level, standards-based playing field for all participants in the future is in my view a perfectly justified, and required, move.
Then let Joe CEO take out a paid for support contract - heaven knows there are enough companies getting into the Linux support game now. With all the money he saves avoiding proprietary operating software he can certainly afford it.
Such a law would need to go further and make the software supplier liable for consequential losses incurred from using their software. THEN you would see Windows getting a proper rewrite.
I confidently predict this will never actually reach court. SCO haven't a leg to stand on, and they know it. It's no use to Microsoft having the GPL formally validated in a courtroom - they need long term FUD. So the case will get pulled in a month or two...and then in three months time another stalking horse against Linux and the GPL will miraculously appear to continue the FUD...
At the price MS charge for it? I think not! "Average" users with an ounce of gumption will take the PC without MS Office and install OpenOffice themselves.
The key information missing from this article is how long the data recorded will stay in pristine shape though - the fact the disc will decompose in 50 years when discarded is good, but if the data is gone in two years, well, that's no better than current plastics! Could be useful to make us re-buy our DVDs every few years though....
...because suddenly there are no invalid URLs on the Internet. It will break every app under the sun which does simple verification of the validity of alleged domains. How fast can you say "spam"? This looks like a disastrous proposal to me.
It's not the legality that should necessarily be questioned here, but the amount of damages. In my book, the members of the RIAA have suffered to the tune of 50c per song (average price of an album divided by avergae number of songs on an album - YMMV) which means they should be suing for $250 plus punitive damages of another $250. WTF is the $150,000 per download all about - that's just crazy talk, complete nonsense.
Tried it under Wine - the application just displays a message "There has been a problem" in a graphical window and nothing works. The CD is now filed in "bin".
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if this had been in 2012, he wouldn't have patented a film process but instead followed Apple (and others) by patenting "The idea of colour moving pictures displayed to an audience" and his descendents would now be suing Hollywood for 15 gazillion dollars.
I admit to not actually carrying my towel all day but I did at least make sure I knew where it was all the time.
Yep, for the first time in the "new" series this episode actually had the kids cowering behind the traditional sofa - something that was part & parcel of the Who experience back in the sixties but mostly went missing from the new series in favour of a lot of running and puffing and CGI monsters. Excellent episode. The sort of thing Torchwood could have been if it hadn't got so hung up on "adult" situations.
Were it not for the fact that the wiimote is designed to detect movement in all three spatial dimesnsions. Do these people turn sideways on to the telly every time they want to make a sideways movement of the wiimote...?? Or maybe they've only discovered the "stabbing" movement so far...
I'm just finding it hard to credit the number of people claiming that their wiimote "flew out of their hands and into the telly...". Maybe there's just an awful lot of people who really fancy a new telly off the insurance? No one seems to be complaining that "My wiimote flew off the strap and broke that nasty ornament over the fireplace I've always hated since the day my Aunt gave it to me".
It's always a compromise. There's always a tradeoff between ease of writing the program and the portability and speed with which it executes. I spent many years coding directly in Assembler for IBM mainframes and the execution speed was so fast it almost finished before it started. Code written in a third or fourth generation language on the same platform always seemed sluggish by comparison, but no-one would have suggested writing our core applications in Assembler; that was reserved for the critical paths only. To have any chance of supporting applications the benefits of writing them in a high-level language (portability and clarity) outweigh the speed advantage. Horses for courses.
In which case all one has to do to be secure is to encrypt using the Chinese standard, then re-encrypt using the US standard. I can't see the Chinese and the US sharing their backdoors!
except chess. and Go.
Whoa, hang on a minute. I really think your statistics are baseless. I would contend that there is a very large body of older and retired people who lead very active lives in the UK, doing all the things you mention of the US inhabitants, and more. Yes, of course there are some older people who have started to find it difficult to do as much as they would like, or for whatever reason have drawn themselves into their shells and do little but watch TV and play bingo, but to extrapolate from this that 90% of the UK's older population has the intellectual capacity of a turnip is a little extreme. Am I to infer that because a large percentage of people under the age of twenty eat regularly at McBurgers and the like, hardly a sensible lifestyle choice,that 90% of all younger people have the brain capacity of a turnip as well?
Use Squid as a front end reverse proxy redirecting traffic to multiple back-end web servers. Easy, we do it. Cost: $low_end_pentiumII_desktop.
It seems to have the same problem as Google, requiring me to add -kelkoo -reviewcentre -bargainbubble -pricerunner -everyotherdamnpointlesslinksite to searches whenever I want real information about electronics equipment and not skeleton sites linking to other sites with "There are 0 reviews for this product - would you like to write one?" all over the place. Yes, I'm angry! Give me back my old Internet please!
I also assume the chances of Google / MSN / Altavista et al actually screening out these sites unless specifically requested are about nil as well.
...that 1.5 billion of the increase in profit is due to a 1.5 billion reduction in R&D. Wonder what long term effect halving the R&D budget will have on future MS technology?
Lifted directly off www.linuxsucks.org. Troll.
It's like a souped up version of the "Juggler" screensaver...
If I could buy XP for $15 like the OEM merchants I would pick up a legit copy tomorrow. However the "real" price bears no relation to the products actual worth, so until it changes, pirating will remain rampant. Shouldn't monopolies be subject to statutory price control?
I think it requires us to have another look at market share to realise that, although there is no doubt some competition developing now, the lock-in that MS has been nurturing over the last ten years is really very powerful. Allowing that lock-in strategy to be continued by an effective monopolist does not lead to MS being "beaten in the long run" - in fact, quite the opposite. Taking strong legal measures now to ensure a level, standards-based playing field for all participants in the future is in my view a perfectly justified, and required, move.
Then let Joe CEO take out a paid for support contract - heaven knows there are enough companies getting into the Linux support game now. With all the money he saves avoiding proprietary operating software he can certainly afford it.
Such a law would need to go further and make the software supplier liable for consequential losses incurred from using their software. THEN you would see Windows getting a proper rewrite.
I confidently predict this will never actually reach court. SCO haven't a leg to stand on, and they know it. It's no use to Microsoft having the GPL formally validated in a courtroom - they need long term FUD. So the case will get pulled in a month or two...and then in three months time another stalking horse against Linux and the GPL will miraculously appear to continue the FUD...
At the price MS charge for it? I think not! "Average" users with an ounce of gumption will take the PC without MS Office and install OpenOffice themselves.
The key information missing from this article is how long the data recorded will stay in pristine shape though - the fact the disc will decompose in 50 years when discarded is good, but if the data is gone in two years, well, that's no better than current plastics! Could be useful to make us re-buy our DVDs every few years though....
...because suddenly there are no invalid URLs on the Internet. It will break every app under the sun which does simple verification of the validity of alleged domains. How fast can you say "spam"? This looks like a disastrous proposal to me.
It's not the legality that should necessarily be questioned here, but the amount of damages. In my book, the members of the RIAA have suffered to the tune of 50c per song (average price of an album divided by avergae number of songs on an album - YMMV) which means they should be suing for $250 plus punitive damages of another $250. WTF is the $150,000 per download all about - that's just crazy talk, complete nonsense.
Who owns the patent on this type of filesystem implementation - there must be one? Microsoft, IBM, Seth...SCO?
Tried it under Wine - the application just displays a message "There has been a problem" in a graphical window and nothing works. The CD is now filed in "bin".