I agree. And just for extra measure, don't do personal banking from your home PC unless it's housed in a windowless room with concrete walls that are least 4 inches thick.
Time for RMS to add a "NewEggization" clause to GPL4.
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If your biggest concern, in 10 or 15 years, is that you wasted money on a video game that you only got to play for about 60 to 120 hours but can no longer play because Blizzard goes out of business, congratulations! Most of us are too busy worrying about if the planet will even be habitable by then.
Then again, maybe you've built an underground nuclear fallout shelter, and desperately are looking for Diablo III to be your sole source of entertainment.
A federal jury on Friday ruled in favor of Kodak, and the photography giant is now seeking damages of $1 billion from Sun.
The case has outraged some opponents of software patents, who claim it is a textbook example of why software should not be patentable.
Kodak's case centered on three patents that it bought from Wang Laboratories in 1997, several years after Java was created. These patents--numbers 5,206,951, 5,421,012, and 5,226,161--referred to the integration of data between object managers, and between data managers, and to the integration of different programs that were manipulating data of different types.
The lawsuit was filed in February 2002 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York.
Kodak argued in court that these patents covered the method where an application "asked for help" from another application--such as in Java's object-oriented programming language.
Yeah, it seems like Kodak really spent a lot of time sitting around, inventing useful stuff. Or, you could realize that Kodak purchased an overly broad patent that should have never been granted in the first place, and then used it as a weapon of extortion against one of the largest innovators in the tech world.
Yeah, I'm pretty much hoping they go down in flames. The Kodak that Steve Jobs loved and admired has long been dead.
It's much more subtle than that. Did you click the link above? Do you notice how CNN chose a picture of Ross Perot where he looks goofy as hell? MSM wants you to read the term "independent party" and then immediately see a picture of a goofy nut, making it so much easier to discredit the serious need for a non-two-party system.
They did the same thing in 2008 with their election poll. All the candidates had dignified, diplomatic headshots in the poll, except for Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, and Mike Gravel, who all managed to look like they escaped the loony bin together.
(you can't turn PIN guesses off obviously because that would just enable a DOS attack)
I'm not so sure that's true. The PIN is only used during the setup process. If someone DOS'd you out of pin guesses, you could always PUSH THE BIG SETUP BUTTON AGAIN ON YOUR ROUTER.
Your argument is a bit disingenuous, similar to if you had just said, "There are infinite counting numbers, but only one instance of number 2. Shouldn't there be infinite?"
Download Corona SDK. She can use the trial version to create iOS apps in just a few lines of code, and only needs to pay the $199 Corona fee and $99 Apple iOS Developer Program fee if she wishes to publish her iOS apps to Apple's App Store.
Separation of content and presentation can never be fully achieved so long as the structure of the content is bound to certain constraints. For example, at least in western regions where top-to-bottom representation of lingual content is the norm, artificial importance is placed upon the top-to-bottom parsing of HTML documents. There are just certain things that you can't do in CSS if one element precedes another; the exact ordering of the elements is important for the rules to be interpreted properly by the browser.
The historical significance of top-to-bottom content structures might not be entirely appropriate for new content presentations in which segments of the content can be displayed in a manner other than top-to-bottom, but it's easy to see that society's bias towards expecting content to be structured a certain way carried over blindly to the new technology.
What is it with geeks choosing really horrible, horrible names for software products? I can't count the number of directors at public companies that I've spoken with in the past who refuse to go anywhere even near GIMP based on its name alone.
It's funny to read this comment after seeing an ad from the BSA on Slashdot's homepage. Unfortunately, that means that this will be my last post here. I'm off to inhabit other virtual locales that don't cater to the strong-arm tactics of the BSA.
My head spins at the logic - Apple knowingly makes the antenna dysfunctional solely to make the phone look sexy, but requires the antenna to be covered up anyway by an ugly case.
Also, there is a simple engineering fix to this problem which doesn't sacrifice the design - cover the antenna with a thin layer of insulator, and then cover that insulator with an ultra thin layer of metal as a facade that looks indistinguishable from the current antenna.
Excellent build quality, are you serious? I used one for five minutes, and left it with a permanent nick in the corner because I ever so slightly tapped it against my MacBook. It must be constructed out of the thinnest aluminum ever conceived. And don't even get me started on the lack of viewing angle of the display, which makes the motion based games all but unplayable.
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I agree. And just for extra measure, don't do personal banking from your home PC unless it's housed in a windowless room with concrete walls that are least 4 inches thick.
Time for RMS to add a "NewEggization" clause to GPL4.
If your biggest concern, in 10 or 15 years, is that you wasted money on a video game that you only got to play for about 60 to 120 hours but can no longer play because Blizzard goes out of business, congratulations! Most of us are too busy worrying about if the planet will even be habitable by then.
Then again, maybe you've built an underground nuclear fallout shelter, and desperately are looking for Diablo III to be your sole source of entertainment.
What do you think the CEO does all day long?
Bulleted lists. Bulleted lists have been broken since well before 2002.
Oh, and "sections". Sections have been broken for almost as long as bulleted lists.
Oh yeah, they invent stuff...
http://news.cnet.com/Kodak-wins-Java-patent-suit/2100-1014_3-5394765.html
A federal jury on Friday ruled in favor of Kodak, and the photography giant is now seeking damages of $1 billion from Sun.
The case has outraged some opponents of software patents, who claim it is a textbook example of why software should not be patentable.
Kodak's case centered on three patents that it bought from Wang Laboratories in 1997, several years after Java was created. These patents--numbers 5,206,951, 5,421,012, and 5,226,161--referred to the integration of data between object managers, and between data managers, and to the integration of different programs that were manipulating data of different types.
The lawsuit was filed in February 2002 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York.
Kodak argued in court that these patents covered the method where an application "asked for help" from another application--such as in Java's object-oriented programming language.
Yeah, it seems like Kodak really spent a lot of time sitting around, inventing useful stuff. Or, you could realize that Kodak purchased an overly broad patent that should have never been granted in the first place, and then used it as a weapon of extortion against one of the largest innovators in the tech world.
Yeah, I'm pretty much hoping they go down in flames. The Kodak that Steve Jobs loved and admired has long been dead.
It's much more subtle than that. Did you click the link above? Do you notice how CNN chose a picture of Ross Perot where he looks goofy as hell? MSM wants you to read the term "independent party" and then immediately see a picture of a goofy nut, making it so much easier to discredit the serious need for a non-two-party system.
They did the same thing in 2008 with their election poll. All the candidates had dignified, diplomatic headshots in the poll, except for Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, and Mike Gravel, who all managed to look like they escaped the loony bin together.
(you can't turn PIN guesses off obviously because that would just enable a DOS attack)
I'm not so sure that's true. The PIN is only used during the setup process. If someone DOS'd you out of pin guesses, you could always PUSH THE BIG SETUP BUTTON AGAIN ON YOUR ROUTER.
Your argument is a bit disingenuous, similar to if you had just said, "There are infinite counting numbers, but only one instance of number 2. Shouldn't there be infinite?"
I'm surprised to see no love for Wicket here.
Download Corona SDK. She can use the trial version to create iOS apps in just a few lines of code, and only needs to pay the $199 Corona fee and $99 Apple iOS Developer Program fee if she wishes to publish her iOS apps to Apple's App Store.
Separation of content and presentation can never be fully achieved so long as the structure of the content is bound to certain constraints. For example, at least in western regions where top-to-bottom representation of lingual content is the norm, artificial importance is placed upon the top-to-bottom parsing of HTML documents. There are just certain things that you can't do in CSS if one element precedes another; the exact ordering of the elements is important for the rules to be interpreted properly by the browser.
The historical significance of top-to-bottom content structures might not be entirely appropriate for new content presentations in which segments of the content can be displayed in a manner other than top-to-bottom, but it's easy to see that society's bias towards expecting content to be structured a certain way carried over blindly to the new technology.
The model (of a hand) was "digitized" - get it?
What is it with geeks choosing really horrible, horrible names for software products? I can't count the number of directors at public companies that I've spoken with in the past who refuse to go anywhere even near GIMP based on its name alone.
It's funny to read this comment after seeing an ad from the BSA on Slashdot's homepage. Unfortunately, that means that this will be my last post here. I'm off to inhabit other virtual locales that don't cater to the strong-arm tactics of the BSA.
Wow, this is the coolest rooftop simulator I've ever seen! If you ask me, this game is ready to ship.
I disagree, but feel free to enlighten me.
My head spins at the logic - Apple knowingly makes the antenna dysfunctional solely to make the phone look sexy, but requires the antenna to be covered up anyway by an ugly case.
Also, there is a simple engineering fix to this problem which doesn't sacrifice the design - cover the antenna with a thin layer of insulator, and then cover that insulator with an ultra thin layer of metal as a facade that looks indistinguishable from the current antenna.
It obviously wasn't yellow.
Excellent build quality, are you serious? I used one for five minutes, and left it with a permanent nick in the corner because I ever so slightly tapped it against my MacBook. It must be constructed out of the thinnest aluminum ever conceived. And don't even get me started on the lack of viewing angle of the display, which makes the motion based games all but unplayable.
This inevitable comment is why I dread reading any /. story about patents.
This is worthy of a new acronym: DRMS.
Go ahead, hero, give up your life over an iPhone in order to defend the "cowardice" of this country. I won't cry for you.
I guess Samantha Carter's plan worked!
No one that has three working neurons can think that...
You assume that the average marketing professional has three working neurons? How generous of you...