Or, if Microsoft is stupid, they'll leverage the patents against other browsers and open up a nice new series of anti-competition complaints. But as we've seen over the last 10 years, MS has gotten very, very careful about not treading into areas that could open up a new round of such suits, and very subtle in their anti-competitive behavior so as not to draw attention from the DoJ.
I'm sure MS would love to lock out all browsers but IE from Windows 8, like Apple can on iOS, but MS burned themselves there before. I'm sure they'd love to lock out the ability for users to boot non-Windows platforms on x86 PCs, like they do on ARM. But that too would draw an unending stream of complaints (though I think the ARM lock out should as well, against all vendors.)
The question to be asked is how MS will use these patents to raise fees on Android, and if they'll go around demanding more "Linux licenses" like they did in 2007.
Hey look, a stupid, panicky post made in repsonse to "brain tumor" and "radiation" with not a shred of accuracy.
Everybody with half a brain has known for decades that radiation, whether it comes from an X-Ray or the current mess that is the Fukushima NPlant, is dangerous, and very much capable of causing cancer.
But that doesn't make it obvious that a dental x-ray would be a source of such mutations. Like all x-rays they are carefully dosed and focused on a narrow region.
don't want to get all conspiratorial, but it seems to take 3 - 5 decades each time, for something involving radiation actually being linked to cancer.
Yeah, it takes a LONG time for studies to show any sort of trend or linkage. Of course, if we had read the article:
And regardless of the age when the bitewings were taken, those who had them yearly or more frequently were at between 40 percent and 90 percent higher risk at all ages to be diagnosed with a brain tumor.
To put that in perspective, Dr. Paul Pharoah, a cancer researcher at the University of Cambridge said in a statement the results would mean an increase in lifetime risk of intracranial meningioma in the U.K. from 15 out of every 10,000 people to 22 in 10,000 people.
So, not that huge an increase. And it can be mediated by more carefully controlling how often and when such x-rays are performed.
For example, after over 2 decades of rumors and talk about it, we still don't know with any degree of certainty whether cellphones/mobilephones do or don't cause cancer. Given the overall time trend established, we'll probably know for sure, say, 2 - 3 decades from now, when its too late for any of us to stop using a mobile phone.
And this is where the stupid arises. You see, had you ever bothered to stop and learn about electromagnetic radiation, you'd know that cell phones don't emit ionizing radiation, which is what x-rays are. And non-ionizing radiation doesn't have enough energy to cause cancer. To heat you up a tiny fraction of a percent, yes, but not damage the DNA of your cells.
It sounds almost as if you're shilling for the plaintiff, defending their misfortune by using the worst of all arguments to criticize the judge's decision.
By your logic we should be happy with TWM and a bunch of X Terminals. Anything beyond that is purely eye candy, of course. Especially any sort of OpenGL, which doesn't work over the network.
He won't be able to use twm if you wayland faggots have anything to say about it. Can't you keep your stupid shit corralled in arch linux?
Then step the fuck up and maintain X11 and the X11 compatibility layers for the toolkits that are out there. Don't tell other people they can't move on to newer things because it would inconvenience your lazy ass.
Then use TWM. Or hush and go use your dusty old Mac. Some people want eyecandy and the ability to have a dynamic desktop without feeding money into Apple's DRM-happy coffers.
Before 1996 and my family's acquisition of dialup internet (at $0.50 an hour!) my parents had access to Compuserve for several years. I remember using it many times on a 14.4K modem, eventually upgrading to a 28.8K as Compuserve began enabling internet access over their dialup connections.
Their services were replaced rapidly, even AOL with their numerous exclusives couldn't stave off the inevitable dominance (and infinitely greater flexibility) of the internet.
They're already working on it. Apple accomplished it on all iOS devices, and Microsoft looks to do so with ARM devices. Hell many Android devices do as well.
The user is the enemy, just like the MPAA/RIAA have always said. Now the tech industry is in on the conspiracy as well.
Quickly, everyone! Let us adopt the latest in DRM'd technology so that we may more quickly route our money to overpriced, overcompressed rentals of movies from companies who will then turn that money around and lobby Congress for even more oppressive laws!
Santorum? He was out of office before the Tea Party ever existed.
But now he's running for President. And before him there was Bachmann, who hadn't a clue in her head.
Maybe you should look at what the true Tea Party stood for instead of just mindlessly believing what their enemies say. The Tea Party was about fiscal issues, nothing more.
No they weren't. They certainly weren't for sane fiscal issues, preferring to scream about taxes in a way that was only useful to the richest and advocating only tax cuts while completely not putting forward any solutions to the debt issue. And the social conservatives came along for the ride, getting their regressive idiots into office all over the country.
The Tea Party has been going through and cleaning out (to the degree they can) the Republican system, starting at the lowest levels. It will take time but over time the Republican party will become much more libertarian and less big government as a result. The Tea Party already had substantial impact in the last elections, especially in primaries, and frames the debate even today.
Yup, they did. They gave us Eric Cantor and all the uncompromising, "our way or the highway" Republicans who refuse to negotiate and were willing to run this country off a cliff for the sake of ramming bad policy through. No real plans to solve the problem, just cutting taxes more and more and ensuring any and all social safety nets are burned to the ground.
Then they gave us all the fundie legislators and men like Santorum, who insist on waging a misogynistic war in the name of "social conservativism" while solving exactly zero problems.
Considering what was found, why should any authority there NOT freak out? The flight crew did.
Yup, they should just freak out and panic and assume the worst despite the lack of any credible threat. Just what the TSA wants. And the TSA should, accordingly, overreact and treat people like criminals ASAP rather than, you know, thinking.
It's really annoying it had such a large impact but in this case it was I think fully warranted. Even though I think they should have been allowed to enter the plane with the whole kit unscanned, once they left it behind all bets are off.
It wasn't warranted. Nothing in the disaster that is modern airport security is warranted. It's all about panic, hype, and instilling a sense of fear that justifies the TSA's existence.
Good job on your illiteracy. Note the bit you quoted:
For more information on radiation monitoring and safety, go to: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Italics mine. They're pointing people to those sites for additional information on the topics of radiation monitoring and safety. Neither the EPA nor FDA have a hand in this. Good job at failing utterly at reading comprehension in favor of omgnuke paranoia.
Do note that since this started, Florian has been portending doom and gloom for Google at each step, and now we're down to a single issue, a judge who isn't giving a kind ear to Oracle's demands, and a refused settlement offer from Google to Oracle.
When this was supposed to end Android and all of Google's mobile ambitions, at least according to Florian.
Most of the initial material release was Iodine, the vast majority of which has since decayed.
Of course, your statements are completely un-sourced so unless you can link to such a statement you either tried, and failed, to be funny or are just spreading nonsense.
No, I dislike Android and Google's development model. You disagree with that.
There is no reason that someone would have to maintain their own (e.g.) windowing system rather than just using the latest published version
Please keep in mind the context of my comment. This is IF Google permanently closed the source and if you wanted to completely fork the platform and carry it forward. Oh sure, you can sit forever on an ancient version, but eventually you might want to move on. Not that it will help, since driver vendors would still target the official Google builds and not your fork.
unless they need to make changes to it that Google is disinclined to incorporate upstream
And since I last looked, all development happens internally to Google and between their partners. AOSP is a one-way dumping ground for the sources.
So the hardware vendors are incompetent and don't support their products in Linux, resulting in the experience sucking.... and it's the Linux community's fault. Got it.
If you wish to take up all the developmental work that Google was doing.
Considering they had a libc, a vm, windowing subsystem, and all the other myriad parts you'd be picking up a heck of a load. Or you could dump it for something based on existing open source technologies, which are already receiving lots of attention and have their own developmental groups.
What are you using called MeeGo? Intel and Nokia did a bad job by trying to cover too many platforms.
It wasn't compelling.
Again, the average user would probably never know they were using MeeGo. It was meant to be a standard *nix starting point upon which compatible platforms were built.
Feel free to add to it.
And have it rot because there's no upstream.
They have done a lot of interesting things better then the current status quo.
But not when it comes to tackling the problem being discussed, that of drivers and binary blobs. Instead the blobs lock you to a libc and the drivers lock you to a kernel and rot, making it a pain in the ass, if not impossible, to move Android devices forward unless the vendor decides to do so.
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And it hasn't been pursued. They've been very subtle.
Or, if Microsoft is stupid, they'll leverage the patents against other browsers and open up a nice new series of anti-competition complaints. But as we've seen over the last 10 years, MS has gotten very, very careful about not treading into areas that could open up a new round of such suits, and very subtle in their anti-competitive behavior so as not to draw attention from the DoJ.
I'm sure MS would love to lock out all browsers but IE from Windows 8, like Apple can on iOS, but MS burned themselves there before. I'm sure they'd love to lock out the ability for users to boot non-Windows platforms on x86 PCs, like they do on ARM. But that too would draw an unending stream of complaints (though I think the ARM lock out should as well, against all vendors.)
The question to be asked is how MS will use these patents to raise fees on Android, and if they'll go around demanding more "Linux licenses" like they did in 2007.
Hey look, a stupid, panicky post made in repsonse to "brain tumor" and "radiation" with not a shred of accuracy.
But that doesn't make it obvious that a dental x-ray would be a source of such mutations. Like all x-rays they are carefully dosed and focused on a narrow region.
Yeah, it takes a LONG time for studies to show any sort of trend or linkage. Of course, if we had read the article:
And regardless of the age when the bitewings were taken, those who had them yearly or more frequently were at between 40 percent and 90 percent higher risk at all ages to be diagnosed with a brain tumor.
To put that in perspective, Dr. Paul Pharoah, a cancer researcher at the University of Cambridge said in a statement the results would mean an increase in lifetime risk of intracranial meningioma in the U.K. from 15 out of every 10,000 people to 22 in 10,000 people.
So, not that huge an increase. And it can be mediated by more carefully controlling how often and when such x-rays are performed.
And this is where the stupid arises. You see, had you ever bothered to stop and learn about electromagnetic radiation, you'd know that cell phones don't emit ionizing radiation, which is what x-rays are. And non-ionizing radiation doesn't have enough energy to cause cancer. To heat you up a tiny fraction of a percent, yes, but not damage the DNA of your cells.
They ripped out the sidebar but left the widgets in. Now they just reside directly on the desktop, which is a better solution.
It sounds almost as if you're shilling for the plaintiff, defending their misfortune by using the worst of all arguments to criticize the judge's decision.
By your logic we should be happy with TWM and a bunch of X Terminals. Anything beyond that is purely eye candy, of course. Especially any sort of OpenGL, which doesn't work over the network.
Then step the fuck up and maintain X11 and the X11 compatibility layers for the toolkits that are out there. Don't tell other people they can't move on to newer things because it would inconvenience your lazy ass.
Then use TWM. Or hush and go use your dusty old Mac. Some people want eyecandy and the ability to have a dynamic desktop without feeding money into Apple's DRM-happy coffers.
Before 1996 and my family's acquisition of dialup internet (at $0.50 an hour!) my parents had access to Compuserve for several years. I remember using it many times on a 14.4K modem, eventually upgrading to a 28.8K as Compuserve began enabling internet access over their dialup connections.
Their services were replaced rapidly, even AOL with their numerous exclusives couldn't stave off the inevitable dominance (and infinitely greater flexibility) of the internet.
No worries, we'll just wait for "conservatives" in Congress to back big oil, big coal, and other large industries.
They're already working on it. Apple accomplished it on all iOS devices, and Microsoft looks to do so with ARM devices. Hell many Android devices do as well.
The user is the enemy, just like the MPAA/RIAA have always said. Now the tech industry is in on the conspiracy as well.
Quickly, everyone! Let us adopt the latest in DRM'd technology so that we may more quickly route our money to overpriced, overcompressed rentals of movies from companies who will then turn that money around and lobby Congress for even more oppressive laws!
But now he's running for President. And before him there was Bachmann, who hadn't a clue in her head.
No they weren't. They certainly weren't for sane fiscal issues, preferring to scream about taxes in a way that was only useful to the richest and advocating only tax cuts while completely not putting forward any solutions to the debt issue. And the social conservatives came along for the ride, getting their regressive idiots into office all over the country.
Awesome addendum there, samzenpus.
Yup, they did. They gave us Eric Cantor and all the uncompromising, "our way or the highway" Republicans who refuse to negotiate and were willing to run this country off a cliff for the sake of ramming bad policy through. No real plans to solve the problem, just cutting taxes more and more and ensuring any and all social safety nets are burned to the ground.
Then they gave us all the fundie legislators and men like Santorum, who insist on waging a misogynistic war in the name of "social conservativism" while solving exactly zero problems.
Yup, they should just freak out and panic and assume the worst despite the lack of any credible threat. Just what the TSA wants. And the TSA should, accordingly, overreact and treat people like criminals ASAP rather than, you know, thinking.
It wasn't warranted. Nothing in the disaster that is modern airport security is warranted. It's all about panic, hype, and instilling a sense of fear that justifies the TSA's existence.
Good job on your illiteracy. Note the bit you quoted:
Italics mine. They're pointing people to those sites for additional information on the topics of radiation monitoring and safety. Neither the EPA nor FDA have a hand in this. Good job at failing utterly at reading comprehension in favor of omgnuke paranoia.
Do note that since this started, Florian has been portending doom and gloom for Google at each step, and now we're down to a single issue, a judge who isn't giving a kind ear to Oracle's demands, and a refused settlement offer from Google to Oracle.
When this was supposed to end Android and all of Google's mobile ambitions, at least according to Florian.
Most of the initial material release was Iodine, the vast majority of which has since decayed.
Of course, your statements are completely un-sourced so unless you can link to such a statement you either tried, and failed, to be funny or are just spreading nonsense.
That's what the EULA with the binding arbitration clause is for.
No, I dislike Android and Google's development model. You disagree with that.
Please keep in mind the context of my comment. This is IF Google permanently closed the source and if you wanted to completely fork the platform and carry it forward. Oh sure, you can sit forever on an ancient version, but eventually you might want to move on. Not that it will help, since driver vendors would still target the official Google builds and not your fork.
And since I last looked, all development happens internally to Google and between their partners. AOSP is a one-way dumping ground for the sources.
So the hardware vendors are incompetent and don't support their products in Linux, resulting in the experience sucking.... and it's the Linux community's fault. Got it.
No, I'm sure he would have been amused but satisfied in knowing that their reasons for opposing it were themselves diametrically opposed.
If you wish to take up all the developmental work that Google was doing.
Considering they had a libc, a vm, windowing subsystem, and all the other myriad parts you'd be picking up a heck of a load. Or you could dump it for something based on existing open source technologies, which are already receiving lots of attention and have their own developmental groups.
What are you using called MeeGo? Intel and Nokia did a bad job by trying to cover too many platforms.
Again, the average user would probably never know they were using MeeGo. It was meant to be a standard *nix starting point upon which compatible platforms were built.
And have it rot because there's no upstream.
But not when it comes to tackling the problem being discussed, that of drivers and binary blobs. Instead the blobs lock you to a libc and the drivers lock you to a kernel and rot, making it a pain in the ass, if not impossible, to move Android devices forward unless the vendor decides to do so.