Nokia hold 63 patents on essential GSM technology alone. Nokia is only suing over ten of these. Do you seriously think that Nokia is suing just because they can't innovate? Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) rates for the patents in question are paid by every cell phone manufacturer: do you think Apple should get a golden ticket allowing free access?
I think he's talking about the NeXT libraries, which we can conclude were in violation since they were eventually contributed to GCC as required but never maintained. I don't think he's talking about Clang or anything.
You seem knowledgeable. Why would a downtown area not get decent coverage from a 19th floor balcony, but be well covered on the alley directly below the balcony, between two buildings? Cell towers are largely up high, and I understand they are line-of-sight.
Yes, except I'm still trying to come to grips with an OS that includes nothing but a browser but still weighs in at almost a GB. Why so much? Heck, I can get Slitaz (an OpenBox-based Linux distro), which includes Firefox, in a 25MB.iso.
I understand that. They shouldn't, though, have the right to search anyone, U.S. citizen or not, crossing from another country or not, without cause (suspicionless) for drugs and weapons in large swaths of border states. And, if you watch the videos, you'll realize that they don't actually have that right (as evidenced by the subjects' refusal to cooperate or answer any questions without any repercussion by the border patrol). they simply pretend to have the right and try to intimidate U.S. citizens.
You know, if you make an accusation like that, you really need to back it up with some kind of evidence, perhaps a link. Otherwise, you're just a troll.
I may not be the brightest bulb in the room, but I would guess that writing a game to an unsupported library is a bad idea. I don't think you could write to DX10 and claim WinXP support on the game box.
Not to argue against you, but Dell sells the OEM version of Windows, which requires the hardware vendor to provide Windows support. You can't buy a Dell and call MS without paying for the call.
Douglas Crockford (the Javascript guru for Yahoo!) said something like "I used to think developing for the web was the worst experience possible, trying to write applications to hundreds of different platforms simultaneously, then I learned about mobile. What a mess _that_ is."
Last year, my taxi driver was playing solitaire on his GPS while whipping through 5 o'clock traffic. Almost everyone in SK watches TV while driving. Terrifying.
Oh, yeah, and US$50 will get me a dual-SIM phone with TV, unlocked. (Of course, there are very few phones sold locked in Thailand since the carrier will just lose money when the phone is immediately unlocked and the customer disappears, never paying a single bill.)
Just about every phone but the bottom of the barrel comes with TV in Thailand, and yes, the phones just pick it up off of the air. Same for Korea (called DVB there, I think). Heck, my Korean GPS had DVB.
As usual, American companies are holding back progress in order to line their pockets. As an American, I'm ashamed of how far behind the pack we are.
Linden Labs claims Second Life has turned over more than $1 billion in its six-year history. Nor is it slowing down; quite the opposite in fact. Linden claims the in-world economy grew by a staggering 94% year-on-year from Q2 2008 to Q2 2009.
If that's not growing, I'd be happy to be in a flat economy.
> requiring all websites with over 100.000 (IIRC) visitors to require registration with [sic] using the national ID number.
I fail to see how this could possibly be effective. Valid national ID numbers can't be spoofed? Or is SK already at the point where breaking the ToS of a website is a heinous crime?
Identity theft is a major crime. The ID number hooks into the national database, which retrieves the user's personal information. Basically, as far as I understand it, there is no anonymity allowed.
I was never home-schooled. I had real problems with math in public school until seventh grade, though I was in the gifted program in fourth grade and we learned about bases and such then. Still, in the normal math class, I sucked.
Then, in seventh grade, I started at a private school where everything was self-paced using unit studies. I went from fifth-grade math to eighth-grade math in just over a semester. I went into algebra in the eighth grade, in a normal class, where I plateaued again. It wasn't until my senior year of high school that I went back into a self-paced curriculum, and I covered senior calc and stats in a single year (while being drunk most of the time).
I had the ability. The standard public school system is just a complete failure in math and science.
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Nokia hold 63 patents on essential GSM technology alone. Nokia is only suing over ten of these. Do you seriously think that Nokia is suing just because they can't innovate? Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) rates for the patents in question are paid by every cell phone manufacturer: do you think Apple should get a golden ticket allowing free access?
I think he's talking about the NeXT libraries, which we can conclude were in violation since they were eventually contributed to GCC as required but never maintained. I don't think he's talking about Clang or anything.
How much of that technology is for fundamentally new technology, and how much is for trying to get a laptop to fit in a manila envelope?
And perhaps you should do a little more homework on Apple's patent filings before saying that they don't deliver fundamentally new technology.
Like the patented multi-touch, a twenty year-old technology filed for three years ago??
This would make the MPAA happy. Oh, yeah, and saying "an ethical line needs to be drawn somewhere" about the MPAA seems ridiculously naive.
You seem knowledgeable. Why would a downtown area not get decent coverage from a 19th floor balcony, but be well covered on the alley directly below the balcony, between two buildings? Cell towers are largely up high, and I understand they are line-of-sight.
Let's be clear: you mean that GNOME isn't fast. Or maybe that $DISTRO isn't fast. There are certainly plenty of fast Linux distros and DEs.
Yes, except I'm still trying to come to grips with an OS that includes nothing but a browser but still weighs in at almost a GB. Why so much? Heck, I can get Slitaz (an OpenBox-based Linux distro), which includes Firefox, in a 25MB .iso.
I understand that. They shouldn't, though, have the right to search anyone, U.S. citizen or not, crossing from another country or not, without cause (suspicionless) for drugs and weapons in large swaths of border states. And, if you watch the videos, you'll realize that they don't actually have that right (as evidenced by the subjects' refusal to cooperate or answer any questions without any repercussion by the border patrol). they simply pretend to have the right and try to intimidate U.S. citizens.
What if you're 40 miles (64km) inside the country and stopped at a "border checkpoint," despite never having left the country?
You know, if you make an accusation like that, you really need to back it up with some kind of evidence, perhaps a link. Otherwise, you're just a troll.
Not if YouTube moves to HTML5 video.
I may not be the brightest bulb in the room, but I would guess that writing a game to an unsupported library is a bad idea. I don't think you could write to DX10 and claim WinXP support on the game box.
Also not in Asia as far as I can tell. It seems your "most of the world" is actually quite a small part.
So ... what? Two to three months?
Have you ever had the opportunity before? ;) Slashdot joke. Don't take it personally.
Not to argue against you, but Dell sells the OEM version of Windows, which requires the hardware vendor to provide Windows support. You can't buy a Dell and call MS without paying for the call.
Douglas Crockford (the Javascript guru for Yahoo!) said something like "I used to think developing for the web was the worst experience possible, trying to write applications to hundreds of different platforms simultaneously, then I learned about mobile. What a mess _that_ is."
Last year, my taxi driver was playing solitaire on his GPS while whipping through 5 o'clock traffic. Almost everyone in SK watches TV while driving. Terrifying.
Oh, yeah, and US$50 will get me a dual-SIM phone with TV, unlocked. (Of course, there are very few phones sold locked in Thailand since the carrier will just lose money when the phone is immediately unlocked and the customer disappears, never paying a single bill.)
Just about every phone but the bottom of the barrel comes with TV in Thailand, and yes, the phones just pick it up off of the air. Same for Korea (called DVB there, I think). Heck, my Korean GPS had DVB.
As usual, American companies are holding back progress in order to line their pockets. As an American, I'm ashamed of how far behind the pack we are.
Linden Labs claims Second Life has turned over more than $1 billion in its six-year history. Nor is it slowing down; quite the opposite in fact. Linden claims the in-world economy grew by a staggering 94% year-on-year from Q2 2008 to Q2 2009.
If that's not growing, I'd be happy to be in a flat economy.
You can't post to Korean sites unless you're Korean. Even my alien registration card number wouldn't work. I know -- it's screwed up.
> requiring all websites with over 100.000 (IIRC) visitors to require registration with [sic] using the national ID number.
I fail to see how this could possibly be effective. Valid national ID numbers can't be spoofed? Or is SK already at the point where breaking the ToS of a website is a heinous crime?
Identity theft is a major crime. The ID number hooks into the national database, which retrieves the user's personal information. Basically, as far as I understand it, there is no anonymity allowed.
I was never home-schooled. I had real problems with math in public school until seventh grade, though I was in the gifted program in fourth grade and we learned about bases and such then. Still, in the normal math class, I sucked.
Then, in seventh grade, I started at a private school where everything was self-paced using unit studies. I went from fifth-grade math to eighth-grade math in just over a semester. I went into algebra in the eighth grade, in a normal class, where I plateaued again. It wasn't until my senior year of high school that I went back into a self-paced curriculum, and I covered senior calc and stats in a single year (while being drunk most of the time).
I had the ability. The standard public school system is just a complete failure in math and science.