In a recent talk by RMS he mentioned that the Linux kernel violated around 300 software patents. He didn't mention what study he was quoting but he might have been talking about this one by the OSRM group:
http://www.osriskmanagement.com/press_releases/pre ss_release_080204.pdf/
I don't know anything about these guys but this seems pretty legit.
Does anyone here have better info on this?
I have a neat digital camera and a Sony cd-MP3 player.
I never use them.
My SonyEricsson K700 is a so-so camera and a crappy videocamera. Also a radio and a mp3 player with way to little memory and battery life. It's also pretty hard to write email with it, especially longer ones. The BBC wap page is really small and there is only one picture per news article. The http version of the site is either very slow og fails to load completely.
This is still a LOT better than my MP3 player, radio, camera, and all the other specialized gizmos because they are all back home og lost or the charger is somewhere else or...
Anyway, the phone is in my pocket ALL the time so I can use it all the time. It's also a great phone and gets good connections. Connection quality of course usually depends on the network and not the phone, but you get the picture.
I agree that HL2 isn't vapourware. Still I feel that Valve really have missed the chance to deliver something special. When I first saw the game demoed a long time ago I was thrilled, the gravity gun vas original and the graphics looked crazy. Now I am playing Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy and the gravity gun is there. HL2 isn't groundbreaking anymore. Neither is the graphics.
Same with Doom 3. It looked incredible in 2002 but now it's almost standard.
I just hope I'm dead wrong about this and Doom 3 and HL2 will have me quivering on the floor:)
Thanks fot the link, I've been meaning to switch from IE for a while now. Firefox looks neat, it's small and imported the bookmarks and history from IE. Easy. It also imported the saved passwords on my computer (I rarely use this option but still).
Leading to a slightly offtopic and pretty stupid question: If Firefox can easily import my passwords, can't every adware and such also "import" them and send them anywhere?
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Thanks. It's easy being jaded and lazy, no one should get credit for that.
I accidentally downvoted this comment, posting something to remove moderation.
Yup. They intended to include legacy support but gave up, not really giving a reason...
Smartest thing I have read on "post humans", "the singularity" or even on humans in general so far...
Posted anonymously? I can't subscribe to that, what gives?
Probably, but the Google location stuff is opt-in anyway. Just don't turn it on on your Android phone.
You do have an android phone, right?
Google's brand used to be gold, now it is shit.
Wow, really?
There are comparisons of the value brands available online, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple...
Just google them, you might be surprised ;)
http://web.archive.org/web/19961022174810/http://www.altavista.com/
You're welcome.
I see a lot of nonsense about the "free market" here on Slashdot. The EU is trying to create or sustain a free market with this action.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure
The "free market" isn't magic. I don't know why a lot of Slashdotters seem to believe that...
In a recent talk by RMS he mentioned that the Linux kernel violated around 300 software patents. He didn't mention what study he was quoting but he might have been talking about this one by the OSRM group: http://www.osriskmanagement.com/press_releases/pre ss_release_080204.pdf/
I don't know anything about these guys but this seems pretty legit.
Does anyone here have better info on this?
This has been said so many times, but...
I have a neat digital camera and a Sony cd-MP3 player.
I never use them.
My SonyEricsson K700 is a so-so camera and a crappy videocamera. Also a radio and a mp3 player with way to little memory and battery life. It's also pretty hard to write email with it, especially longer ones. The BBC wap page is really small and there is only one picture per news article. The http version of the site is either very slow og fails to load completely.
This is still a LOT better than my MP3 player, radio, camera, and all the other specialized gizmos because they are all back home og lost or the charger is somewhere else or...
Anyway, the phone is in my pocket ALL the time so I can use it all the time. It's also a great phone and gets good connections. Connection quality of course usually depends on the network and not the phone, but you get the picture.
I agree that HL2 isn't vapourware. Still I feel that Valve really have missed the chance to deliver something special. When I first saw the game demoed a long time ago I was thrilled, the gravity gun vas original and the graphics looked crazy. Now I am playing Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy and the gravity gun is there. HL2 isn't groundbreaking anymore. Neither is the graphics.
:)
Same with Doom 3. It looked incredible in 2002 but now it's almost standard.
I just hope I'm dead wrong about this and Doom 3 and HL2 will have me quivering on the floor
Thanks fot the link, I've been meaning to switch from IE for a while now. Firefox looks neat, it's small and imported the bookmarks and history from IE. Easy. It also imported the saved passwords on my computer (I rarely use this option but still). Leading to a slightly offtopic and pretty stupid question: If Firefox can easily import my passwords, can't every adware and such also "import" them and send them anywhere?