It's a rdiculous argument, because all Google has to say is that they aren't using the method specified in the patent. It's an excellent argument against the validity of the patent, however.
A brief reading of the patent would indicate that it covers the initial, less mature page rank algorithm that google started with (and is highly vulnerable to link farming). It's number 6,285,999 if you're interested.
On top of that, the service they provide is highly subjective and therefore impossible to rate. And on top of THAT, SearchKing pages are, practically by definition, NOT the pages you want - they're they pages they want you to see. So even if we do assume that Google, because of it's value, should be taken by eminent domain and/or heavily legislated, SearchKing STILL wouldn't have had a case.
If you're part of those complex rings of crap websites that rate themselves by page rank, then odds are you aren't worth my visiting anyway. Make an interesting and/or usefull site, and people will link to you, and visit you. Thats all you need to care about.
I wouldn't say that it's something that you'd want from your ISP. But if you can think of a reasonable case for not allowing an ISP to monitor traffic on it's own equipment, I'd be happy to listen.
Also, what you can do with the traffic after you snoop it is a totally differnet question.
Wow, a highly accurate statistical study!:P Almost everyone I know has at least dabbled with online banking. It's heavily promoted, both at my bank and the banks I walk past every day. Slashdot is about as anit-MS and IE "general" site you're going to find and STILL has somewhere around 90% IE hits. So I think you'll find that banks, like all major websites, will support IE first and formost. Glitches in other browsers MAY recieve attention, but it WILL work in IE.
Maybe you want a news site then. Slashdot is a discussion forum. In any case, the editorial comments are clearly seperated from the links and submitters comments. There's no reported "news". There's a reporting of an event, a link to news about the event, and sometimes comments by one or more people about it. It's not a newspaper. The Slashdot editors are not journalists. Journalistic integrity is about unbiased reporting, not about not having an opinion, or even not reporting that opinion. Since there's no reporting going on here, there's no breach of journalistic integrity.
And bitching about this just makes you sound like a whiner, since everyone ELSE knows what I just said.
IE is a mediocre web browser but a fantastic thin client. The MS specific extensions allow you loads of functionality that you can't have with Mozilla or any other browser. Of course, these features are not neccesarily things you want with a general use browser.
It's not conspiracy to commit the crime unless you can prove intent. People idly chatting about how they would kill the president don't qualify. In any case, as so many people have said, in the location where the website is hosted, what it's suggesting is 100% legal. I can't see any way that DirectTV could win this unless there's a US presence of some kind.
IE started as just another application. Bundling it into the MSHTML components and ActiveX controls (which is rather more than a HTML renderer) didn't happen until much later.
Paint is a wrapper for metafiles, not bitmaps. So nyah.
Since email is, by design, an unreliable an insecure system, I'm not sure that prioritizing it is usefull for anything except a spamhaus (and a spamhaus probably wouldn't want the overhead of shaping and would just have a dedicated connection for the email anyway).
The fact is, they certainly could have, and haven't. That doesn't mean they won't. But, in the face of a fanatical hatred of Linux, and a dislike of OSS in general, a company famous for dirty tactics and cheap tricks has NOT used it's patent arsenal against Linux. Which I think is worth considering in the future.
This certainly does not mean they won't use non-standard exceptions, blah blah blah, all the same crap with.NET. I rather hope they don't because it's a good framework with substantial advantages over Java and if MS can resist the "mine" complex I think it'd be good for computing in general.
The 100% coolest thing about the vs2003 IDE (2002 doesn't have this)? Auto-generation of code stubs. Inherit from a virtual class or implement an Interface and the IDE can generate all your stub functions for you. No need to go looking up all the crap you have to implement for all your interfaces, no more DOH moments when you realize you missed one or forgot an overload. It doesn't make baby Jesus cry.
If they just added it to the C++ part of the IDE I'd use it more often.:P
I've looked at the Beta and to be honest it looks like a clone of VS 2003. It uses the same compiler. It has exactly the same kind of editor (I suspect they actually used the exact same rich text control, since all the chrome and highlighing is EXACTLY like VS.NETs). The forms designer is identical to VS.NETs. (not suprising). Basically, the only difference I've seen is that there's a (slightly) different default layout of the toolbars.
.NET is not intrisically any more locked in than Java is, although that may change. In any case, it's not relevent in any way to a discussion of IDEs and tools, since third parties are more than happy to make them whether or not they can create thier own VM/runtime/what have you. And if you thought for more than half a second instead of feeling threatened by.NET (if it sucks so bad, why do you care about it?), you'd realize that.
Actually, yes. I'm not sure how comprehensive the patents are but I understand that they do cover important parts of.NET. On the other hand, MS has never, for all it's nasty tricks, used patents to stifle other projects, even OSS ones it really hates.
The history books I read said that the swastika was actually derived from the German iron cross: _ | |-*-| | -
And that Hitler "modified" it by shifting the crossbars to the right (for some reason that escapes me) and that the similarity to the sun symbol is a coincidenc.
The prior art declarations are things like your patent that aren't your patent, or things on which your patent relies. All those "do X, but ON THE INTERNET" patents would have to mention a hypothetical patent on the Internet in thier prior art.
Whats the OS supposed to do if the driver won't acknowledge different resolutions and refresh rates? It's as much a workaround for games that don't allow you specify refresh rate as anything else.
Slashdot posted a bugzilla link about a (1.0? 0.99? Something major anyway...) pending Mozilla release on the main page. This brought down Bugzilla just as all the developers were trying to use it to get their final patches and fixes in before the release, thus pissing them all off. Bugzilla added the referrer block and seemingly hasn't taken it down (no real reason to, I suppose) because it really is all you need to abort the Slashdot effect.
With all due respect, thats a project management problem, not an issue with C++. Eeven with the switch on, it's easy enough to write code that doesn't rely on either behavior - it's a relatively minor syntax change. You just need to control your project better.
On a side note, you can upgrade the STL that ships with VC6 - either with a new Dinkumware one, or by using something better like STLPort, which is probably worth doing, compatability switch or no.
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A brief reading of the patent would indicate that it covers the initial, less mature page rank algorithm that google started with (and is highly vulnerable to link farming). It's number 6,285,999 if you're interested.
On top of that, the service they provide is highly subjective and therefore impossible to rate. And on top of THAT, SearchKing pages are, practically by definition, NOT the pages you want - they're they pages they want you to see. So even if we do assume that Google, because of it's value, should be taken by eminent domain and/or heavily legislated, SearchKing STILL wouldn't have had a case.
If you're part of those complex rings of crap websites that rate themselves by page rank, then odds are you aren't worth my visiting anyway. Make an interesting and/or usefull site, and people will link to you, and visit you. Thats all you need to care about.
Also, what you can do with the traffic after you snoop it is a totally differnet question.
Wow, a highly accurate statistical study! :P Almost everyone I know has at least dabbled with online banking. It's heavily promoted, both at my bank and the banks I walk past every day. Slashdot is about as anit-MS and IE "general" site you're going to find and STILL has somewhere around 90% IE hits. So I think you'll find that banks, like all major websites, will support IE first and formost. Glitches in other browsers MAY recieve attention, but it WILL work in IE.
And bitching about this just makes you sound like a whiner, since everyone ELSE knows what I just said.
IE is a mediocre web browser but a fantastic thin client. The MS specific extensions allow you loads of functionality that you can't have with Mozilla or any other browser. Of course, these features are not neccesarily things you want with a general use browser.
Amusingly enough, your sarcastic reply is actually correct. It's certainly legal to snoop traffic that comes over your own routers.
It's not conspiracy to commit the crime unless you can prove intent. People idly chatting about how they would kill the president don't qualify. In any case, as so many people have said, in the location where the website is hosted, what it's suggesting is 100% legal. I can't see any way that DirectTV could win this unless there's a US presence of some kind.
Paint is a wrapper for metafiles, not bitmaps. So nyah.
Since email is, by design, an unreliable an insecure system, I'm not sure that prioritizing it is usefull for anything except a spamhaus (and a spamhaus probably wouldn't want the overhead of shaping and would just have a dedicated connection for the email anyway).
QOS is enabled by default in XP, and thats 20% of your bandwidth right there.
_I_ always drive only the speed limit, on the roads, and obey traffic signals in GTA. Yes, I'm gay.
This certainly does not mean they won't use non-standard exceptions, blah blah blah, all the same crap with .NET. I rather hope they don't because it's a good framework with substantial advantages over Java and if MS can resist the "mine" complex I think it'd be good for computing in general.
If they just added it to the C++ part of the IDE I'd use it more often. :P
I've looked at the Beta and to be honest it looks like a clone of VS 2003. It uses the same compiler. It has exactly the same kind of editor (I suspect they actually used the exact same rich text control, since all the chrome and highlighing is EXACTLY like VS.NETs). The forms designer is identical to VS.NETs. (not suprising). Basically, the only difference I've seen is that there's a (slightly) different default layout of the toolbars.
.NET is not intrisically any more locked in than Java is, although that may change. In any case, it's not relevent in any way to a discussion of IDEs and tools, since third parties are more than happy to make them whether or not they can create thier own VM/runtime/what have you. And if you thought for more than half a second instead of feeling threatened by .NET (if it sucks so bad, why do you care about it?), you'd realize that.
Actually, yes. I'm not sure how comprehensive the patents are but I understand that they do cover important parts of .NET. On the other hand, MS has never, for all it's nasty tricks, used patents to stifle other projects, even OSS ones it really hates.
The history books I read said that the swastika was actually derived from the German iron cross:
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And that Hitler "modified" it by shifting the crossbars to the right (for some reason that escapes me) and that the similarity to the sun symbol is a coincidenc.
Everytime you masturbate, SCO sues a Linux developer....
The prior art declarations are things like your patent that aren't your patent, or things on which your patent relies. All those "do X, but ON THE INTERNET" patents would have to mention a hypothetical patent on the Internet in thier prior art.
Whats the OS supposed to do if the driver won't acknowledge different resolutions and refresh rates? It's as much a workaround for games that don't allow you specify refresh rate as anything else.
Well, the link doesn't have the actual quote, but that really doesn't sound like a call to boycott to me. Not in any reasonable sense, anyway.
Slashdot posted a bugzilla link about a (1.0? 0.99? Something major anyway...) pending Mozilla release on the main page. This brought down Bugzilla just as all the developers were trying to use it to get their final patches and fixes in before the release, thus pissing them all off. Bugzilla added the referrer block and seemingly hasn't taken it down (no real reason to, I suppose) because it really is all you need to abort the Slashdot effect.
On a side note, you can upgrade the STL that ships with VC6 - either with a new Dinkumware one, or by using something better like STLPort, which is probably worth doing, compatability switch or no.