For companies like these, all of the software and hardware is outsourced, right down to the board layouts and case design. I worked with Netgear a while back, and no one who spoke English as a native language had the foggiest clue of what the software did, or even where the source was.
The same was true of Linksys before the Cisco acquisition, though now all of the development is being dragged back in-house, as is Cisco's preference.
These sorts of companies exist purely as marketing and sales, and don't know much about things like security.
Do you have a figure for the number of developers working within an environment? If that's your measure, I'd bet the iPhone OS and Windows CE would do very well.
Otherwise, "dominating" = "number of deployments", and that is most definitely vxWorks, by a huge margin.
No it's not. Various large projects require you to give up your individual copyright. When I contributed code to Asterisk, for example, I had to fax in a disclaimer that assigned my copyright to Digium. The dozens of projects overseen by the Apache Foundation require a similar disclaimer. There are many other examples.
People who say things like this typically know nothing about programming or how operating systems allocate resources, let alone how to compute efficiency. No offence.
Exactly. The makers of this software aren't hoping for a settlement. They just want to make the rights infringement public, and lawsuits attract publicity.
Everyone knows that Chinese "programmers" cheerfully copy whatever they get their hands on. This lawsuit is the legal equivalent of a press release.
Hmm, I had no idea they distinguished between a "tower" and a "building" - I stand corrected!
That said, they do distinguish between radio towers and other towers, as they call the CN Tower the world's tallest still. I suppose it might be because radio towers generally aren't freestanding? Not sure.
then eclipsed by the Sears Tower the very next year, which remained the tallest building in the world until 1998
No, the CN Tower in Toronto was completed in 1976 and was the world's tallest building until 2007, when it was beaten by Burj Dubai. It's still the tallest building in the Americas.
Same with argenine, which I'm taking for a soft-tissue injury. It acts as a vasodilator, and there's evidence the increased blood flow to normally low blood flow tissues like tendons and ligaments can help heal them faster.
But all that blood flow has another effect as well...makes me wonder what stuff like Viagra and Cialis are actually like, given the effects of this stuff.
I just checked out your posting history - you aren't a very smart guy. I won't waste much time with a rebuttal, except to say that Unix programmers love OS X. I guess that makes us impractical sheep.
Nice use of "M$", by the way. I sure wish there was some kind of a Slashdot IQ test to keep cretins like you out.
Sure. It "just works" on Apple approved hardware.:) Luxury on top? Hm. Control? I wasn't aware that Mac OS X allowed you to control your system as much as Linux or Windows. I thought it actually was simpler and didn't allow as much control - which is fine, it's a design decision that many people like, I have no problem with it. And what is "architectural philosophy" anyways? I thought Mac OS X was about being a good OS, not an architectural POC...
You are basically a non-technical person, correct? Your post would indicate it. It's also clear you know nothing about OS X or Darwin and have never used it.
The case involves the algorithms MS uses to open and display what they call "custom XML". It does not involve a patent on XML itself, and only affects Office 2003 and 2007, not 2010. Stop being so hysterical.
Bank transfers, Mr. Conspiracy Theorist. Cheques have been obsolete in much of Europe for years, yet there's no crushing dictatorship preventing people from giving money to one another.
And Fedora doesn't favour Gnome over KDE (at least, last time I checked, you had the choice at install time). I think he just meant that it's the default desktop.
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For companies like these, all of the software and hardware is outsourced, right down to the board layouts and case design. I worked with Netgear a while back, and no one who spoke English as a native language had the foggiest clue of what the software did, or even where the source was.
The same was true of Linksys before the Cisco acquisition, though now all of the development is being dragged back in-house, as is Cisco's preference.
These sorts of companies exist purely as marketing and sales, and don't know much about things like security.
Bah, how did that get posted anonymously?
Do you have a figure for the number of developers working within an environment? If that's your measure, I'd bet the iPhone OS and Windows CE would do very well.
Otherwise, "dominating" = "number of deployments", and that is most definitely vxWorks, by a huge margin.
Don't forget "correlation is not causation!"
Don't be bitter just because your more level-headed peers rejected your kooky theories.
Try vm_stat and iostat.
No it's not. Various large projects require you to give up your individual copyright. When I contributed code to Asterisk, for example, I had to fax in a disclaimer that assigned my copyright to Digium. The dozens of projects overseen by the Apache Foundation require a similar disclaimer. There are many other examples.
People who say things like this typically know nothing about programming or how operating systems allocate resources, let alone how to compute efficiency. No offence.
Do you post multiple top-level comments per story in order to advertise your terrible website?
Exactly. The makers of this software aren't hoping for a settlement. They just want to make the rights infringement public, and lawsuits attract publicity.
Everyone knows that Chinese "programmers" cheerfully copy whatever they get their hands on. This lawsuit is the legal equivalent of a press release.
Hmm, I had no idea they distinguished between a "tower" and a "building" - I stand corrected!
That said, they do distinguish between radio towers and other towers, as they call the CN Tower the world's tallest still. I suppose it might be because radio towers generally aren't freestanding? Not sure.
then eclipsed by the Sears Tower the very next year, which remained the tallest building in the world until 1998
No, the CN Tower in Toronto was completed in 1976 and was the world's tallest building until 2007, when it was beaten by Burj Dubai. It's still the tallest building in the Americas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cn_tower
Not if other Android phones are any sort of indicators.
Games? I don't play them on a phone, but a lot of people sure seem to.
No, China is a signatory to the WTO and curbing raw materials exports is a violation. The WTO is looking into the issue: http://www.purchasing.com/article/441486-WTO_to_study_China_s_raw_material_export_curbs.php
No Western country could get away with limiting raw materials exports for secondary and tertiary onshore processing, though some have tried.
Same with argenine, which I'm taking for a soft-tissue injury. It acts as a vasodilator, and there's evidence the increased blood flow to normally low blood flow tissues like tendons and ligaments can help heal them faster.
But all that blood flow has another effect as well...makes me wonder what stuff like Viagra and Cialis are actually like, given the effects of this stuff.
I just checked out your posting history - you aren't a very smart guy. I won't waste much time with a rebuttal, except to say that Unix programmers love OS X. I guess that makes us impractical sheep.
Nice use of "M$", by the way. I sure wish there was some kind of a Slashdot IQ test to keep cretins like you out.
Mac OS X bias, too:
Sure. It "just works" on Apple approved hardware. :) Luxury on top? Hm. Control? I wasn't aware that Mac OS X allowed you to control your system as much as Linux or Windows. I thought it actually was simpler and didn't allow as much control - which is fine, it's a design decision that many people like, I have no problem with it. And what is "architectural philosophy" anyways? I thought Mac OS X was about being a good OS, not an architectural POC...
You are basically a non-technical person, correct? Your post would indicate it. It's also clear you know nothing about OS X or Darwin and have never used it.
The case involves the algorithms MS uses to open and display what they call "custom XML". It does not involve a patent on XML itself, and only affects Office 2003 and 2007, not 2010. Stop being so hysterical.
You mean like this one, one of my local beaches:
http://nudisttravel.blogspot.com/2007/05/wreck-beach-pictures-of-vancouvers.html
Currently we are no longer adapting to our invironment, but adapting our environment to ourselves.
You are incorrect. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that human evolution is not only still happening, but accelerating.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/12/13/evolution.speedup/index.html
The rest of your post was equally nonsensical.
This is a reference to an ancient Slashdot meme that was probably well before your time.
Bank transfers, Mr. Conspiracy Theorist. Cheques have been obsolete in much of Europe for years, yet there's no crushing dictatorship preventing people from giving money to one another.
And Fedora doesn't favour Gnome over KDE (at least, last time I checked, you had the choice at install time). I think he just meant that it's the default desktop.
Nice to see good results for openSuse. The reviewer didn't fall for the immature "Novell is evil!" absurdity.