I think they've just invented something...let's call it the Component Object Model. Next release we'll get Object Linking and Embedding. I'm sure Microsoft couldn't innovate that!
> Google discovered Heartbleed on or before March 21 and notified OpenSSL on April 1. Other key dates include Finnish security testing firm Codenomicon discovering the flaw independently of Google at 23:30 PDT, April 2.
Doesn't it seem strange that the flaw has existed for a long, long time (years?) but Codenomicon happens to find it less than a day after Google notified OpenSSL, and, per the article, "some infrastructure providers under embargo"? That just seems... unlikely. Not impossible, but it kind of makes you wonder who is leaking information...
Considering the $4.5B that the Rockstar group paid for ~4000 mobile-related patents, and that Google is keeping the "Vast Majority" of the Motorola patents, the bulk of the price difference may well be in the IP.
A quick google didn't quickly give me a number for how many patents Google is keeping, but if Lenovo is getting about 2000 patents, and that is not the "Vast Majority", then there are a LOT of patents.
First, is training included? If not, well, make it worth your while. Generally when I've done (much smaller) projects, I generally make sure that the contract I sign lays out that the payment is for the code, and specifically covered training regarding the operation/implementation of the project. Bringing a fresh person up to speed on the code that I provide is not part of the contract, but can be for the right amount of money.
Since I also work full-time at my "real" job, are you sure that this isn't just them wanting to bring the project in-house, more under their control? It might not be about the money, specifically, which means that this might open other opportunities with them on other projects, or even a full-time job with them (if you want it.) Looking at it from the point of view of my real job, there are times when I want ta project done by a contractor/temp, and there are times when I want it done/supported in house. It's usually more about the strategic vs. tactical value of the project than the pure "how much am I paying the guy" number. Make sure that you understand the motivation of the client, so you can better position your next move...
In the case of AEGIS and related defenses, the goal is not necessarily to be able to absorb/defend against anything and everything that the enemy throws against you. The goal is to survive long enough to turn the attacking launch site into a glass parking lot (or a steaming hole in the water) before they can destroy your offensive assets. In the mentioned case of Iran, I expect the goal would be to absorb one or two 'provocative' attacks. If there was full out attack, though, I'm pretty sure they would not have the opportunity to launch all the missiles...
Why so many of these stupid questions on/. over the last few days? I feel like I'm reading Digg. And not the good Digg.
..."At the moment there’s very little information about VSV"......"there should be working demonstrations of VSV within the next three to six months"......"Performance is awful"...
Yeah, this is DEFINATELY the kind of thing that will cause all current digital cameras and monitors to be obsolete within 5 years.
Or, it may get them an investment from some gullible investors that will then disappear into 'continued research due to unanticipated complications" for a few years, followed by "the pixel industry establishment is suppressing us!"
They can spend lots and lots of $$$, effort, and time trying to make it harder to get access to content that people want...... or, they could just make the content available for a reasonable price in a timely manner. But I guess that takes too many brain cells.
And why is MSFT so interested in making their platforms less useful for consumers? As a stockholder, I'd like to see them quietly funding 'legitimate' sharing sites to make the Windows OS the preferred content consumption platform, rather than keeping me from getting what I want.
I went for four years in the mid '80's, and had a great time every year. Everything from model rocketry, to robotics (building Hero), to Pascal. (Mid '80's, remember...). And the games of Capture The Flag that were held in the forest are still some of my best memories...
I wonder how many Nokia/Motorola/HTC/Samsung/Microsoft patents this provides prior art against?
I'm OK with that too... the sooner everyone realizes that all cell phone patents are "obvious" derivatives of Maxwell Smart's shoe phone, the sooner the lawyers will join the ranks of the unemployed. Flying cars will follow shortly thereafter, I'm told.
"You should buy a less-optimum system now, so I can have a better one in five years."
Screw that. I didn't buy Intel a few years ago when P4 sucked, and I'm not going to buy AMD now when they suck.
> And remember that Intel is hated even more than Microsoft by many in the industry. Ermm... and AMD is hated by many as well, I assume? What's that got to do with the price of tea in China, or what processor is in my PC?
The problem with search engines today is that they exactly do not do what Bush was envisioning... they do not record the associations, the context, of the information. What they do well is finding a specific word, or the fact that one page points to another. In many cases, that may help with a task, but it's not the information that Memex was supposed to help with.
Memex would be like a browser history that is permanent, with the ability to annotate, comment, and add one's own private links between pages. Over time, the pages, documents, emails, and other media would be not linked just by a few hyperlinks or search keywords, but by a much more rich and useful set of associations, and more importantly, contexts. Days/months/years down the road, those contexts could help reconstruct thought patterns, discussions, and other information that is just not saved today in a search engine.
That is why the Memex was supposed to provide "immortality".
Office Depot declined to stock AMD-powered notebooks regardless of the amount of financial support AMD offered, citing the risk of retaliation.
Translation: "Thier bid was more than our bid, and we're pissed." AMD is saying they were doing the exact same thing!!! Now that sort of undercuts thier argument in my eyes...
Q: If I don't like spyware should I use an Apple? A: You should use something else
to
"Intel Head Recommends Apple!"
Seems that "something else" includes Linux, BSD, Be, and many other things that actually runs on an x86... since Otellini is unlikely to actually upset Microsoft by saying "Microsoft is bad!", "Something else" is probably the strongest rejection of Microsoft (though not necessarily endoresement of Apple) that he could get away with in print...
New York provides the job, New York provides the professional opportunity, and New York should be able to tax that income, even if the employee for his own convenience was working outside of New York state," said Marc Violette, spokesman for state Assistant Solicitor General Julie Mereson, who won the case.
As someone who lives in the state of New York, but telecommutes to a company based in California via servers in Bangalor, I look forward to no longer paying NYS taxes, since I'm there out of convenience...
>>I'd like to point out, however, that between major versions of Windows there is almost never binary driver compatibility, or at the very least problems can show up.
Bull... the exact same binary of the driver my team supports work on Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, 2003, and Longhorn. Different interfaces may be available and different levels of kernel functionality, but I ship a SINGLE binary. Very easy for my team to maintain.
I also ship a single Linux binary. If you're not using the latest shipping Red Hat you're SOL. For IP reasons that are way beyond my control, I cannot ship source, and I cannot support all the different binaries.
My product happens to be one of the ones that everyone complains there is no Linux driver support for. I feel thier pain. I would like to support that market, but cannot... I believe that a REAL module interface would go a long, long way towards legitimizing Linux in the corporate IT desktop world...
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Nah, Apple doesn't like Flash.
I think they've just invented something...let's call it the Component Object Model. Next release we'll get Object Linking and Embedding. I'm sure Microsoft couldn't innovate that!
> Google discovered Heartbleed on or before March 21 and notified OpenSSL on April 1. Other key dates include Finnish security testing firm Codenomicon discovering the flaw independently of Google at 23:30 PDT, April 2.
Doesn't it seem strange that the flaw has existed for a long, long time (years?) but Codenomicon happens to find it less than a day after Google notified OpenSSL, and, per the article, "some infrastructure providers under embargo"? That just seems... unlikely. Not impossible, but it kind of makes you wonder who is leaking information...
Considering the $4.5B that the Rockstar group paid for ~4000 mobile-related patents, and that Google is keeping the "Vast Majority" of the Motorola patents, the bulk of the price difference may well be in the IP.
A quick google didn't quickly give me a number for how many patents Google is keeping, but if Lenovo is getting about 2000 patents, and that is not the "Vast Majority", then there are a LOT of patents.
I gotta get me some more patents.
First, is training included? If not, well, make it worth your while. Generally when I've done (much smaller) projects, I generally make sure that the contract I sign lays out that the payment is for the code, and specifically covered training regarding the operation/implementation of the project. Bringing a fresh person up to speed on the code that I provide is not part of the contract, but can be for the right amount of money.
Since I also work full-time at my "real" job, are you sure that this isn't just them wanting to bring the project in-house, more under their control? It might not be about the money, specifically, which means that this might open other opportunities with them on other projects, or even a full-time job with them (if you want it.) Looking at it from the point of view of my real job, there are times when I want ta project done by a contractor/temp, and there are times when I want it done/supported in house. It's usually more about the strategic vs. tactical value of the project than the pure "how much am I paying the guy" number. Make sure that you understand the motivation of the client, so you can better position your next move...
As long as there are Pastafarians in the world, his Noodley Goodness shall keep the strainers always full, but never running over.
Math has nothing on His Noodleyness.
In the case of AEGIS and related defenses, the goal is not necessarily to be able to absorb/defend against anything and everything that the enemy throws against you. The goal is to survive long enough to turn the attacking launch site into a glass parking lot (or a steaming hole in the water) before they can destroy your offensive assets. In the mentioned case of Iran, I expect the goal would be to absorb one or two 'provocative' attacks. If there was full out attack, though, I'm pretty sure they would not have the opportunity to launch all the missiles...
Why so many of these stupid questions on /. over the last few days? I feel like I'm reading Digg. And not the good Digg.
..."At the moment there’s very little information about VSV"... ..."there should be working demonstrations of VSV within the next three to six months"... ..."Performance is awful"...
Yeah, this is DEFINATELY the kind of thing that will cause all current digital cameras and monitors to be obsolete within 5 years.
Or, it may get them an investment from some gullible investors that will then disappear into 'continued research due to unanticipated complications" for a few years, followed by "the pixel industry establishment is suppressing us!"
Personally, I am (ahem) quite a bit more than I was 15 years ago.
[Self: Put down the donut and walk away...]
They can spend lots and lots of $$$, effort, and time trying to make it harder to get access to content that people want... ... or, they could just make the content available for a reasonable price in a timely manner. But I guess that takes too many brain cells.
And why is MSFT so interested in making their platforms less useful for consumers? As a stockholder, I'd like to see them quietly funding 'legitimate' sharing sites to make the Windows OS the preferred content consumption platform, rather than keeping me from getting what I want.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
Came here to say this.
I went for four years in the mid '80's, and had a great time every year. Everything from model rocketry, to robotics (building Hero), to Pascal. (Mid '80's, remember...). And the games of Capture The Flag that were held in the forest are still some of my best memories...
I wonder how many Nokia/Motorola/HTC/Samsung/Microsoft patents this provides prior art against?
I'm OK with that too... the sooner everyone realizes that all cell phone patents are "obvious" derivatives of Maxwell Smart's shoe phone, the sooner the lawyers will join the ranks of the unemployed. Flying cars will follow shortly thereafter, I'm told.
I wonder how many iPhone patents this provides prior art against?
"e to the x, dy/dx, e to the x, dx. secant, cosine, tangent, sine, 3.14159, square root, cube root, log of pi, disintegrate them RPI!"
Ah, for the days when the Big Red Freakout actually was...
"You should buy a less-optimum system now, so I can have a better one in five years."
Screw that. I didn't buy Intel a few years ago when P4 sucked, and I'm not going to buy AMD now when they suck.
> And remember that Intel is hated even more than Microsoft by many in the industry.
Ermm... and AMD is hated by many as well, I assume? What's that got to do with the price of tea in China, or what processor is in my PC?
And it's RPI, galdamnit.
Sacrifice the Chicken.
This is largely based on his book "Next", a pretty darn good novel based on what can go wrong when bio-patenting is taken to an extreme. Good book.
Engineer: 2+2=5, for large values of 2
Put them both in a room, and watch the room implode. Read Cringely's article at http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050714. html, and contrast with Robertson's.
I seems like it's not all IBM failing to deliver the horsepower; there may be more to the story,
The problem with search engines today is that they exactly do not do what Bush was envisioning... they do not record the associations, the context, of the information. What they do well is finding a specific word, or the fact that one page points to another. In many cases, that may help with a task, but it's not the information that Memex was supposed to help with.
Memex would be like a browser history that is permanent, with the ability to annotate, comment, and add one's own private links between pages. Over time, the pages, documents, emails, and other media would be not linked just by a few hyperlinks or search keywords, but by a much more rich and useful set of associations, and more importantly, contexts. Days/months/years down the road, those contexts could help reconstruct thought patterns, discussions, and other information that is just not saved today in a search engine.
That is why the Memex was supposed to provide "immortality".
Actually.... yes it is... http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1246424,00.as p
Translation: "Thier bid was more than our bid, and we're pissed." AMD is saying they were doing the exact same thing!!! Now that sort of undercuts thier argument in my eyes...
I have a hard time getting from:
Q: If I don't like spyware should I use an Apple?
A: You should use something else
to
"Intel Head Recommends Apple!"
Seems that "something else" includes Linux, BSD, Be, and many other things that actually runs on an x86... since Otellini is unlikely to actually upset Microsoft by saying "Microsoft is bad!", "Something else" is probably the strongest rejection of Microsoft (though not necessarily endoresement of Apple) that he could get away with in print...
As someone who lives in the state of New York, but telecommutes to a company based in California via servers in Bangalor, I look forward to no longer paying NYS taxes, since I'm there out of convenience...
>>I'd like to point out, however, that between major versions of Windows there is almost never binary driver compatibility, or at the very least problems can show up.
Bull... the exact same binary of the driver my team supports work on Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, 2003, and Longhorn. Different interfaces may be available and different levels of kernel functionality, but I ship a SINGLE binary. Very easy for my team to maintain.
I also ship a single Linux binary. If you're not using the latest shipping Red Hat you're SOL. For IP reasons that are way beyond my control, I cannot ship source, and I cannot support all the different binaries.
My product happens to be one of the ones that everyone complains there is no Linux driver support for. I feel thier pain. I would like to support that market, but cannot... I believe that a REAL module interface would go a long, long way towards legitimizing Linux in the corporate IT desktop world...
So Linux is a Dolphin safe phishing net, then?