OpenOffice.org does not implement the JVM and java compilers and libraries. The law suit in question here is all about someone making something that claims to be Java but isn't.
Let's simplify this completely. Let's say I invent a coffee cup with a lid and large handle, so it's portable and can be held by anyone. I call it Java. And I license my invention, so anyone can make a portable coffee cup, but to call it Java it must have a lid and a large handle.
What Google has done, they created a coffee cup without lid, small handle and they want to call it Java, but it's not by definition. So, Google has 2 options. Make their implementation have all requirements of Java or stop calling their implementation Java.
Exactly. For evolution to work (as fast as it had to get us here) we need natural selection to work as well, i.e. we need only the fittest (to survive) to reproduce. But nowadays almost everyone survives and reproduces. Natural selection forces on humans are lowest of any species on this planet. This means we are evolving very slowly and for all I know we could be degenerating into lower beings.
You use the word theory like it's some derogatory term. It's not. Theory is the highest pedestal a scientific hypothesis can be placed upon, the highest form of truth without being exact. Only mathematics has exact truth and calls its important truths theorems.
Gravity and falling of objects is also "just a" theory.
Besides, evolution is in fact observable and repeatable phenomenon that happens all the time in controlled environment. Only fundamentalist religious people would have an issue with it (and that does not include the Catholic church since it supports evolution).
I put that part in there because that is certainly something I myself would do. I'm currently heavily invested into Apple hardware, but if Apple would do something like this (introduced ads into the desktop OS where they can't be skipped over) I would definitely switch to Linux full time (and perhaps Windows for Photoshop and video editing). I already develop software for Linux at work (among other OSes), so might as well use it for personal needs at home too.
As a matter of fact, the mere fact that we are having this discussion, that I initiated by posting the story, is making me re-think any further investment into Apple platform. This is something that goes pretty much against everything I believe in and I don't want to support it by buying more Apple products. Even rumors about something like this are damaging to Apple's bottom line as far as I'm concerned and Apple, if they were a more transparent corporation, should clarify their intentions with this patent. But, as we all know Apple is not exactly transparent and they will never make a statement on this.
Actually, the single neuron is not simple. It's extremely complex, as complex as a CPU or more. Our neural models usually over simplify each neuron and assign it some basic function but that is far from reality. Every cell in our body is more complex than we have the ability today to model with even the most powerful computers. Even more strongly, we can not even model single large chain protein (protein folding models are one of the hardest things tackled in computational biology), let alone entire cell, and let's not even speak of something as complex as organs or things like the brain.
Yet, considering Windows security track record, Windows would benefit the most from Microsoft store as the only way to install applications on Windows, so Microsoft can check all of them if they are malicious (for a small fee of course) before making them available in the store.
Yes, indeed. The idea goes way back. Jesus was a socialist and communist (sell all you have and give it to the poor and follow me). How many capitalists that claim to be Christian do that?
I think the real problem is that stupid people have an opinion too. It can be wrong, but it doesn't matter, it's still an opinion and it counts. So, as a consequence getting any kind of consensus is impossible. All you have to do is have a media campaign to dilute the issue and divide the public opinion and there you go, another rebellion prevented.
iOS 4 has actually improved this a bit. You now can turn off location services for individual applications (as opposed to on/off for everything).
If an application requests access to your current location it gets added to the "Location Services" control panel and your answer is remembered. Here you can also change access permissions for all apps that previously requested access to your location.
If you allowed some app access to your location, but change your mind, you can disable access again. Before applications used to ask you each time you launched them. Now they don't nag you any more each time, which is definitely an improvement.
Of course if you allow an application to access your current location, then don't be surprised if that information gets used arbitrarily including selling it to other interested parties.
Not if you are James Gosling, Guy Steele, Peter Norvig, Ken Tompson, Bjarne Stoustroup, Joshua Block, Donald Knuth etc.
If you get too comfortable in your position and stagnate, fail to thrive and achieve and make a name for yourself in the industry, then yes, you will be pushed out by cheaper labor that will eat your lunch. I doubt any of the above guys tremble in front of 20 year old kids that come to work with them. It's most definitely the other way around.
Well I consider myself lucky and blessed then...
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Because my work does not mind if we browse internet, access web mail, download/upload files, install software (we are all administrators on our computers), listen to online radio, watch the word cup etc. and we also all have VPN access to our computers from anywhere to do some work in crazy times of day if we feel so inclined.
They treat us as well paid professionals and expect results from us. We are supposed to deliver on agreed deadlines and we usually do. So, if I read Slashdot from time to time, check the news or chat to my wife here and there for a few minutes, and it does not affect my productivity (i.e. I'm not doing my job to the standard or above expected of me in this company) then no one sees it as a problem.
It's only in rare instances when people don't perform satisfactorily that questions arise how are they spending their time and what is wrong in general (but still no one monitors them even then).
I find this freedom really helps with the moral of the people, the sense of trust in you as individual it provides, and it liberates you to be creative. If you have an issue with this much freedom and could not control yourself and spend ALL your time online playing games and looking at porn, then you probably should be monitored and you most likely would not get though our interview process anyway.
As a matter of fact I don't think I could work for a company that does not treat me as a responsible adult and a professional. Imagine if hospitals monitored their doctors to make sure they are not checking personal email or make sure they are not telling nebulous lies to their patients? It's kind of the same.
The Church is here with one and only one mission, to spread the teachings and revelations entrusted to it by its founder Jesus Chirst. It has no other business or reason for existence. But apparently, some criminals found it an apt vessel for their criminal enterprises.
By your logic we should also kill all Americans because after all the Americans are harboring and protecting child murderers (you call them soldiers) and rapists who killed thousands of innocent people in Iraq alone. Not only that but they are glorified as patriots and saviors of the nation.
Snow Leopard is not pure 64 bit OS. By default it has 32 bit kernel on all hardware except the XServe, and it can be booted with 64 bit kernel on some other more recent hardware but not all things work in that configuration.
Why yes it can. Type:h holy-grail in VIM and see what happens:D.
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That method is fine too and it works in plain old vi. You only save one keystroke really: instead of your f"ldt" (i.e. 6 keystrokes), you type f"ci" (i.e. 5 keystrokes):D.
However, ci" (or ci{ etc) are most useful when you are inside the text object. Then you don't have to find or move to the boundaries of the text object to modify its contents. This is even more useful for XML tags, e.g.
<tag>
line 1
line 2
line 3 </tag>
If your cursor is in line 1 or line 2 etc, you can type dit (delete innner tag) and delete everything between <tag> and </tag>
similarly
if (condition) {
line 1
line 2... }
if your cursor is anywhere in the {} block (line1, 2 etc) the command ci{ will delete all lines between { and } and put you in insert mode. Very useful.
For a complete list of all supported text objects type:h object
Except performance problem can be worked around as easily as installing a better browser. Firefox for example. Google who has vested interest in anything web has their own browser as well based on same technology as Apple's Safari. So, this argument doesn't stand to scrutiny too well.
Have you ever heard of credit rating? In case you have not, credit rating is a score assigned to you, calculated from all financial transactions you have made in your life, all collected by a private company. Even though it's just a number scoring you it can seriously affect your life, if it happens to be low.
And all this because some private company decided to watch and collect "harmless" information about how much money you spent and how fast you are paying off your loans. And the information is not readily available to you even, you have to pay to get access to it, and often times it is extremely hard to correct wrong information that makes it to your credit report.
Facebook (and Google by the way) has a potential to become a cluster of various scores assigned to you, that various businesses would pay money to get their hands on, insurance, financial and most certainly government and various political vectors.
Actually it's opposite. If you have higher DPI you use more pixels to describe each element on screen. So typical 10 pt font that is perhaps 12 pixels high would be 24 pixels high on a 2 times higher DPI screen. This means more, smaller pixels to finely define edges of complex things which means less aliasing for everything.
This is the same as printing with dot matrix printers of old vs printing with modern laser printer at 2000 DPI. Which one looks better? Laser of course. Same height letter is described with hundred times more smaller pixels.
I'm making decent living out of developing software, just not for mobile and definitely not for Apple platforms. I was looking into developing/porting for OS X, but now I won't even remotely consider ever developing anything for it, nor porting existing stuff to it.
This is sad in a way because even though at work I develop for plethora of platforms (Linux, AIX, Solaris, HPUX and Windows), at home I settled on OS X for my personal needs. But, I'm not so sure about that decision any more. With Apple being so "nice" to developers I think it's time to forget they even exist.
You are making it sound like a general purpose device that is not locked down can't do all those things already, and even more so by giving you more choice of vendors implementations and unthinkably the choice to even implement it yourself if you feel adventurous enough.and get this, in ANY programming language you choose. Wow. This sounds like technology from star trek compared to iPhone or iPad.
Except it seems Apple won't be happy until they kill the notion of "general purpose computer" for the masses and each computing "device" sold to the public is a locked down single purpose appliance designed for the consumption of content, all preferably sold by Apple.
I as someone who makes a living from developing software and who generally loves tinkering with computers hate that vision and can not support Apple moving close to it.
Ah, actually, the battery (4 AAA batteries to be exact) of HP50 lasts about a week. HP48G has 3 AAA batteries that last half a year on same usage pattern.
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OpenOffice.org does not implement the JVM and java compilers and libraries. The law suit in question here is all about someone making something that claims to be Java but isn't.
Let's simplify this completely. Let's say I invent a coffee cup with a lid and large handle, so it's portable and can be held by anyone. I call it Java. And I license my invention, so anyone can make a portable coffee cup, but to call it Java it must have a lid and a large handle.
What Google has done, they created a coffee cup without lid, small handle and they want to call it Java, but it's not by definition.
So, Google has 2 options. Make their implementation have all requirements of Java or stop calling their implementation Java.
Exactly. For evolution to work (as fast as it had to get us here) we need natural selection to work as well, i.e. we need only the fittest (to survive) to reproduce. But nowadays almost everyone survives and reproduces. Natural selection forces on humans are lowest of any species on this planet. This means we are evolving very slowly and for all I know we could be degenerating into lower beings.
You use the word theory like it's some derogatory term. It's not. Theory is the highest pedestal a scientific hypothesis can be placed upon, the highest form of truth without being exact. Only mathematics has exact truth and calls its important truths theorems.
Gravity and falling of objects is also "just a" theory.
Besides, evolution is in fact observable and repeatable phenomenon that happens all the time in controlled environment. Only fundamentalist religious people would have an issue with it (and that does not include the Catholic church since it supports evolution).
I put that part in there because that is certainly something I myself would do. I'm currently heavily invested into Apple hardware, but if Apple would do something like this (introduced ads into the desktop OS where they can't be skipped over) I would definitely switch to Linux full time (and perhaps Windows for Photoshop and video editing). I already develop software for Linux at work (among other OSes), so might as well use it for personal needs at home too.
As a matter of fact, the mere fact that we are having this discussion, that I initiated by posting the story, is making me re-think any further investment into Apple platform. This is something that goes pretty much against everything I believe in and I don't want to support it by buying more Apple products. Even rumors about something like this are damaging to Apple's bottom line as far as I'm concerned and Apple, if they were a more transparent corporation, should clarify their intentions with this patent. But, as we all know Apple is not exactly transparent and they will never make a statement on this.
Actually, the single neuron is not simple. It's extremely complex, as complex as a CPU or more. Our neural models usually over simplify each neuron and assign it some basic function but that is far from reality. Every cell in our body is more complex than we have the ability today to model with even the most powerful computers. Even more strongly, we can not even model single large chain protein (protein folding models are one of the hardest things tackled in computational biology), let alone entire cell, and let's not even speak of something as complex as organs or things like the brain.
Yet, considering Windows security track record, Windows would benefit the most from Microsoft store as the only way to install applications on Windows, so Microsoft can check all of them if they are malicious (for a small fee of course) before making them available in the store.
Yes, indeed. The idea goes way back. Jesus was a socialist and communist (sell all you have and give it to the poor and follow me). How many capitalists that claim to be Christian do that?
I think the real problem is that stupid people have an opinion too. It can be wrong, but it doesn't matter, it's still an opinion and it counts. So, as a consequence getting any kind of consensus is impossible. All you have to do is have a media campaign to dilute the issue and divide the public opinion and there you go, another rebellion prevented.
Is that you?
iOS 4 has actually improved this a bit. You now can turn off location services for individual applications (as opposed to on/off for everything).
If an application requests access to your current location it gets added to the "Location Services" control panel and your answer is remembered. Here you can also change access permissions for all apps that previously requested access to your location.
If you allowed some app access to your location, but change your mind, you can disable access again. Before applications used to ask you each time you launched them. Now they don't nag you any more each time, which is definitely an improvement.
Of course if you allow an application to access your current location, then don't be surprised if that information gets used arbitrarily including selling it to other interested parties.
Not if you are James Gosling, Guy Steele, Peter Norvig, Ken Tompson, Bjarne Stoustroup, Joshua Block, Donald Knuth etc.
If you get too comfortable in your position and stagnate, fail to thrive and achieve and make a name for yourself in the industry, then yes, you will be pushed out by cheaper labor that will eat your lunch. I doubt any of the above guys tremble in front of 20 year old kids that come to work with them. It's most definitely the other way around.
Because my work does not mind if we browse internet, access web mail, download/upload files, install software (we are all administrators on our computers), listen to online radio, watch the word cup etc. and we also all have VPN access to our computers from anywhere to do some work in crazy times of day if we feel so inclined.
They treat us as well paid professionals and expect results from us. We are supposed to deliver on agreed deadlines and we usually do. So, if I read Slashdot from time to time, check the news or chat to my wife here and there for a few minutes, and it does not affect my productivity (i.e. I'm not doing my job to the standard or above expected of me in this company) then no one sees it as a problem.
It's only in rare instances when people don't perform satisfactorily that questions arise how are they spending their time and what is wrong in general (but still no one monitors them even then).
I find this freedom really helps with the moral of the people, the sense of trust in you as individual it provides, and it liberates you to be creative. If you have an issue with this much freedom and could not control yourself and spend ALL your time online playing games and looking at porn, then you probably should be monitored and you most likely would not get though our interview process anyway.
As a matter of fact I don't think I could work for a company that does not treat me as a responsible adult and a professional. Imagine if hospitals monitored their doctors to make sure they are not checking personal email or make sure they are not telling nebulous lies to their patients? It's kind of the same.
The Church is here with one and only one mission, to spread the teachings and revelations entrusted to it by its founder Jesus Chirst. It has no other business or reason for existence. But apparently, some criminals found it an apt vessel for their criminal enterprises.
By your logic we should also kill all Americans because after all the Americans are harboring and protecting child murderers (you call them soldiers) and rapists who killed thousands of innocent people in Iraq alone. Not only that but they are glorified as patriots and saviors of the nation.
Snow Leopard is not pure 64 bit OS. By default it has 32 bit kernel on all hardware except the XServe, and it can be booted with 64 bit kernel on some other more recent hardware but not all things work in that configuration.
Why yes it can. Type :h holy-grail in VIM and see what happens :D.
That method is fine too and it works in plain old vi. You only save one keystroke really: instead of your f"ldt" (i.e. 6 keystrokes), you type f"ci" (i.e. 5 keystrokes) :D.
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:h object
However, ci" (or ci{ etc) are most useful when you are inside the text object. Then you don't have to find or move to the boundaries of the text object to modify its contents. This is even more useful for XML tags, e.g.
<tag>
line 1
line 2
line 3
</tag>
If your cursor is in line 1 or line 2 etc, you can type dit (delete innner tag) and delete everything between <tag> and </tag>
similarly
if (condition) {
line 1
line 2
}
if your cursor is anywhere in the {} block (line1, 2 etc) the command ci{ will delete all lines between { and } and put you in insert mode. Very useful.
For a complete list of all supported text objects type
Finally someone with a sense of humor here.
Except performance problem can be worked around as easily as installing a better browser. Firefox for example. Google who has vested interest in anything web has their own browser as well based on same technology as Apple's Safari. So, this argument doesn't stand to scrutiny too well.
Have you ever heard of credit rating? In case you have not, credit rating is a score assigned to you, calculated from all financial transactions you have made in your life, all collected by a private company. Even though it's just a number scoring you it can seriously affect your life, if it happens to be low.
And all this because some private company decided to watch and collect "harmless" information about how much money you spent and how fast you are paying off your loans. And the information is not readily available to you even, you have to pay to get access to it, and often times it is extremely hard to correct wrong information that makes it to your credit report.
Facebook (and Google by the way) has a potential to become a cluster of various scores assigned to you, that various businesses would pay money to get their hands on, insurance, financial and most certainly government and various political vectors.
Actually, 17'' Macbook pro with 1920x1200 has 133 DPI, while 30'' ACD is only 107 DPI by comparison.
Actually it's opposite. If you have higher DPI you use more pixels to describe each element on screen. So typical 10 pt font that is perhaps 12 pixels high would be 24 pixels high on a 2 times higher DPI screen. This means more, smaller pixels to finely define edges of complex things which means less aliasing for everything.
This is the same as printing with dot matrix printers of old vs printing with modern laser printer at 2000 DPI. Which one looks better? Laser of course. Same height letter is described with hundred times more smaller pixels.
I'm making decent living out of developing software, just not for mobile and definitely not for Apple platforms. I was looking into developing/porting for OS X, but now I won't even remotely consider ever developing anything for it, nor porting existing stuff to it.
This is sad in a way because even though at work I develop for plethora of platforms (Linux, AIX, Solaris, HPUX and Windows), at home I settled on OS X for my personal needs. But, I'm not so sure about that decision any more. With Apple being so "nice" to developers I think it's time to forget they even exist.
You are making it sound like a general purpose device that is not locked down can't do all those things already, and even more so by giving you more choice of vendors implementations and unthinkably the choice to even implement it yourself if you feel adventurous enough.and get this, in ANY programming language you choose. Wow. This sounds like technology from star trek compared to iPhone or iPad.
Except it seems Apple won't be happy until they kill the notion of "general purpose computer" for the masses and each computing "device" sold to the public is a locked down single purpose appliance designed for the consumption of content, all preferably sold by Apple.
I as someone who makes a living from developing software and who generally loves tinkering with computers hate that vision and can not support Apple moving close to it.
Ah, actually, the battery (4 AAA batteries to be exact) of HP50 lasts about a week. HP48G has 3 AAA batteries that last half a year on same usage pattern.