Why do IBM continuously chase new patents? It's not because they plan to license all unapproved uses of their patents. Rather it's to give IBM leverage in acquisitions of companies. With so many patents owned by IBM, many companies are bound to infringe on some patent owned by IBM.
I don't get why this is such a big fuzz. I can easily imagine that this hint is actually helpfull for quite a few kids out there.
Having loaded up with coffeine, bought a fresh copy of the game and ready to spend the night, I'm sure this comes as a relief (however obvious it may seem in retrospect).
How about having a rotating keypad on the computer screen? So when typing your pin, you must map the number on your numberpad to the one on the screen? So the actual input is different from your pin all the way.
I guess what I wanted to say, was that you still need skills in concurrent programming, even though CPU throughput speed continues too increase with new technologies.
Multithreading is more then just speeding things up. Quite importantly it is also allowing for more responsive operation.
Ex: having gui and logic in separated processes, allowing the gui to respond when logic is bussy. This does'nt make annything "faster", it just makes things more responsive.
I've been working with seo for a while. Not all seo companies give good reports on quality of their work. Therefore I've created an independent service which measures actual searchengine positions, and keeps track of it over time. Check it out if interested: http://www.seoreporter.com/
In general I would recommend non-biased search engine position reports if you consider buying seo services.
Funny how people can round the age of the unviverse up/down to the thousands of billions of years, as if not important. ("Just give or take a few thousand million years and it's close enuogh"). And at the same time be extremly spesific about that mikrosecond after time began.
That mikrosecond seems very lonely in a timespan of "a few thousand million years".
I for one think XP service pack 2 is a good thing. Now really, why is the security issues in service pack 2 so blown up, all earlier service packs has had security issues too??
Service pack 2 is about to make serious changes to the web, simply becaus popup's are blocked. Even Joe Average will have a popup blocker in 6 months time.
It makes me wonder if there could be some anti-popup-blocker people spreading a whole lot of FUD about this package? The days of popups might have come to an end, and some people might not like that.
Pop-up free browsers need to emulate a local popup environment. F.ex when a popup is called for, it first goes through the standard smart policy. Then the unrequested popup is launched as an invisible window. From the window tab on the menu-tab, theese popups should be available, in a submenu, and with a choice for closing them all in one click. Anny other thoughs annyone?
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Every Linux distro seems to have the same problem. What every distribution should focus on, is to contribute to the opensource projects with functionality they think is lacking. I've used both Mandrake and Suse for quite a while, and both of them have their own control-panels with extra functionality such as resolution and frequency changing among others. Why don't they contribute such functionality as modular plugin to kcontrol or gnomes equivalent, so that a standard can be built. And secondly, why do they have to clutter with the start-menues. I prefer the default kde menu, becaus I can easily install new icons from themes.kde.org. And when I add rpm packages from apps.kde.com, they actually show up in the menu!
Was this a reply to my posting? Have you read anny theories to support your thoughts? First thing you need to do is figure out why "matter moves", and then figure out why matter "slows down" when it is sendt with a transporter around the world. (This has been tested). Then you have to prove that Einsteins theory of relativity is wrong, or pherhaps choose another theory like "Quantum Mechanics" to support your thoughts. I'm no scientist, therefore I only quote other theories like the Schrödingers Cat. I find it somewhat amusing to think about.
The theory of Schrödingers Cat suggests that for each possible outcome since time began, dimensions are split to include all outcomes. This means that the future is already set! All potensial outcomes of the future I might add. The dimension you follow is somewhat random and pherhaps subjective to you.
If timetravel makes a "paradox", f.ex where you stop yourself from beeing able to do the actual time-travel in the past, you will enter a new split dimenasion where that so is the case. There will be two copies of you from that point in time. When travelling "Back to the future" there will also be two copies of you when you arrive, the one you meet will never have done the actual time-travle though (you follow?).
This means that when you travel back in time, you "jump dimensions" as well, possibly creating a new one. The problem of course is to jump back to the dimension you originated from.
Open for discussion!
Mindflow
Here's a nice comparson of abstraction layers Linux or Unix v.s Windows. There is a difference:-)
Windows NT/2000/XP:
1. Kernel (unchangeable)
2. Gui (Unchangeable)
3. Fileman (changeable, but unremoveable)
4. WWW-Browser (changeable, but unremoveable)
Linux
1. Kernel (Recompileable)
2. Shell (Changeable: bash, tsh etc.)
3. Gui platform (Changeable and removeable: XFree, Accellerated X)
4. Gui (changeable and removeable: KDE, Gnome, enlightment etc.)
5. Fileman (Changeable and removeable: Konqueror, Nautilus, gmc)
6. Browser (Changeable and removeable: Konqueror, Nautilus, netscape, mozilla etc.)
Of course you all know this! It just illustrates that Windows users can't choose freely between different alternative abstractions for the os, while Linux and Unix CAN do this.
I don't mind Windows beeing installed with IE and Explorer as default, but it should be removeable and changeable. People don't want to have different applications doing the same thing installed at once because it makes a mess, and they want to be able to choose. At least I do
What will be the next unremoveable feature in Microsoft Windows? MediaPlayer "forcing" us to use asx formats, The XP Video-Editor, A lightweight version of M.S Office would be strategic pherhaps.
Microsoft will continue to make applications which are unremovable because it makes the applications in their OS better intergrated with eachother. And users will stop using competetive applications becaus they can't easily remove currently installed applications and in addition to that, competetive applications often cost money. They to must earn money somehow.
That's why we need a ruling to say that MS is to make a leightweight OS with only the gui-platform installed, just like in Windows 3.1, so that other companies in the IT industry can create abstraction layers and make money to. This package should be sold to third party vendors at a reduced price matching the reduced amount of code lines in percentage of the complete code. Then we atleast have a fair competition.
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Why do IBM continuously chase new patents? It's not because they plan to license all unapproved uses of their patents. Rather it's to give IBM leverage in acquisitions of companies. With so many patents owned by IBM, many companies are bound to infringe on some patent owned by IBM.
I don't get why this is such a big fuzz. I can easily imagine that this hint is actually helpfull for quite a few kids out there. Having loaded up with coffeine, bought a fresh copy of the game and ready to spend the night, I'm sure this comes as a relief (however obvious it may seem in retrospect).
How about having a rotating keypad on the computer screen? So when typing your pin, you must map the number on your numberpad to the one on the screen? So the actual input is different from your pin all the way.
Member of the counsil, planet krypton.
I guess what I wanted to say, was that you still need skills in concurrent programming, even though CPU throughput speed continues too increase with new technologies.
Multithreading is more then just speeding things up. Quite importantly it is also allowing for more responsive operation. Ex: having gui and logic in separated processes, allowing the gui to respond when logic is bussy. This does'nt make annything "faster", it just makes things more responsive.
I've been working with seo for a while. Not all seo companies give good reports on quality of their work. Therefore I've created an independent service which measures actual searchengine positions, and keeps track of it over time. Check it out if interested: http://www.seoreporter.com/ In general I would recommend non-biased search engine position reports if you consider buying seo services.
Now scientist need to figure out how to make theese mice pilot planes.
Funny how people can round the age of the unviverse up/down to the thousands of billions of years, as if not important. ("Just give or take a few thousand million years and it's close enuogh"). And at the same time be extremly spesific about that mikrosecond after time began. That mikrosecond seems very lonely in a timespan of "a few thousand million years".
I for one think XP service pack 2 is a good thing. Now really, why is the security issues in service pack 2 so blown up, all earlier service packs has had security issues too?? Service pack 2 is about to make serious changes to the web, simply becaus popup's are blocked. Even Joe Average will have a popup blocker in 6 months time. It makes me wonder if there could be some anti-popup-blocker people spreading a whole lot of FUD about this package? The days of popups might have come to an end, and some people might not like that.
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Was'nt that the meaining of life, based on a the calculations of a megacomputer?
Pop-up free browsers need to emulate a local popup environment. F.ex when a popup is called for, it first goes through the standard smart policy. Then the unrequested popup is launched as an invisible window. From the window tab on the menu-tab, theese popups should be available, in a submenu, and with a choice for closing them all in one click. Anny other thoughs annyone? Mindflow
We never clicked "I agree" did we?!?
Every Linux distro seems to have the same problem. What every distribution should focus on, is to contribute to the opensource projects with functionality they think is lacking. I've used both Mandrake and Suse for quite a while, and both of them have their own control-panels with extra functionality such as resolution and frequency changing among others. Why don't they contribute such functionality as modular plugin to kcontrol or gnomes equivalent, so that a standard can be built. And secondly, why do they have to clutter with the start-menues. I prefer the default kde menu, becaus I can easily install new icons from themes.kde.org. And when I add rpm packages from apps.kde.com, they actually show up in the menu!
Was this a reply to my posting? Have you read anny theories to support your thoughts? First thing you need to do is figure out why "matter moves", and then figure out why matter "slows down" when it is sendt with a transporter around the world. (This has been tested). Then you have to prove that Einsteins theory of relativity is wrong, or pherhaps choose another theory like "Quantum Mechanics" to support your thoughts. I'm no scientist, therefore I only quote other theories like the Schrödingers Cat. I find it somewhat amusing to think about.
The theory of Schrödingers Cat suggests that for each possible outcome since time began, dimensions are split to include all outcomes. This means that the future is already set! All potensial outcomes of the future I might add. The dimension you follow is somewhat random and pherhaps subjective to you. If timetravel makes a "paradox", f.ex where you stop yourself from beeing able to do the actual time-travel in the past, you will enter a new split dimenasion where that so is the case. There will be two copies of you from that point in time. When travelling "Back to the future" there will also be two copies of you when you arrive, the one you meet will never have done the actual time-travle though (you follow?). This means that when you travel back in time, you "jump dimensions" as well, possibly creating a new one. The problem of course is to jump back to the dimension you originated from. Open for discussion! Mindflow
Here's a nice comparson of abstraction layers Linux or Unix v.s Windows. There is a difference :-)
Windows NT/2000/XP:
1. Kernel (unchangeable)
2. Gui (Unchangeable)
3. Fileman (changeable, but unremoveable)
4. WWW-Browser (changeable, but unremoveable)
Linux
1. Kernel (Recompileable)
2. Shell (Changeable: bash, tsh etc.)
3. Gui platform (Changeable and removeable: XFree, Accellerated X)
4. Gui (changeable and removeable: KDE, Gnome, enlightment etc.)
5. Fileman (Changeable and removeable: Konqueror, Nautilus, gmc)
6. Browser (Changeable and removeable: Konqueror, Nautilus, netscape, mozilla etc.)
Of course you all know this! It just illustrates that Windows users can't choose freely between different alternative abstractions for the os, while Linux and Unix CAN do this.
I don't mind Windows beeing installed with IE and Explorer as default, but it should be removeable and changeable. People don't want to have different applications doing the same thing installed at once because it makes a mess, and they want to be able to choose. At least I do
What will be the next unremoveable feature in Microsoft Windows? MediaPlayer "forcing" us to use asx formats, The XP Video-Editor, A lightweight version of M.S Office would be strategic pherhaps.
Microsoft will continue to make applications which are unremovable because it makes the applications in their OS better intergrated with eachother. And users will stop using competetive applications becaus they can't easily remove currently installed applications and in addition to that, competetive applications often cost money. They to must earn money somehow.
That's why we need a ruling to say that MS is to make a leightweight OS with only the gui-platform installed, just like in Windows 3.1, so that other companies in the IT industry can create abstraction layers and make money to. This package should be sold to third party vendors at a reduced price matching the reduced amount of code lines in percentage of the complete code. Then we atleast have a fair competition. mindflow
Think about all the trash/litter this would create!
What if I make a mistake and play a chapter at the middle of the Disc. Is that chapter lost then?
Annyway, I really think this would accelerate piracy even more. Buy the "play once disc", copy it, and then throw it in the trash.