Oh BlindType maybe? They got bought by Google and nobody heard of them since. It doesn't really as similar to the IBM as patent as ThickButtons to my eye.
You -- and your entire family -- need to visit a chiropractor regularly to make sure you can all lead a healthy, subluxation-free life. - practitioner alternative of medicine.
Not fun and didn't fix anything. - you, me and qualified medical professionals.
Yes? (A to B) vs (A to C) is a valid comparison. (A to B) vs (B to C) is not.
But it's the same number! Why should this make a difference? Because when you invert a metric, the big numbers become small numbers, and the small numbers become big numbers. e.g....
Nonsense. Meaningless words and numbers. Pants-on-head retarded.
The 11 MPG improvement switching from the SUV to sedan saves you 3.1 gallons per 100 miles driven, while the 25 MPG improvement switching from sedan to hybrid only saves you 2 gallons.
Classic mistake. You can' t make a comparison without a baseline.
So lets use GPM.
4 / 7.1 = 0.56
2 / 7.1 = 0.28
OK, what about MPG?
25 / 50 = 0.5
14 / 50 = 0.28
Doesn't make a lick of difference if you use X/y or Y/x. Switching to a hybrid will save your nearly twice as much fuel as switching to a sedan would. The numbers don't lie.
They haven't actually threatened developers, true. But they did ban the use of toolchains designed for writing cross-platform apps.
For a developer without much in the way of resources it amounts to the same thing: "You can develop for our platform, or you can develop for theirs, take your pick"
Current status is that they are abandoning their PCB manufacturer for another... all the PCB's that have been sitting in the manufacturer's storage for all that time have rotted
This would be a complete 180 on what the production team have been claiming, so (as in "investor") I would be very interested to hear if you have a citation for that.
If the topic at hand had been things that are of importance to a consumer of applications you might have a point.
But it wasn't. You went out of your way to point out you are not qualified or even interested enough in the topic to have an opinion. People are naturally going to discount it.
You seem to know an awful lot about the OP's lifestyle, spending habits and motivations. Projecting much?
There isn't anything nonsensical about an American being concerned with human rights. It's even less nonsensical if you believe Americans share some of the responsibility.
I suppose weakly rationalizing your own complacency isn't nonsensical either - it's just appalling.
Well, project code names are older then software development itself, so don't go tilting at windmills or anything.
Besides, Google did actually intend to use release numbers, it's just that consumers enjoy the silly names so much that the very selection of the next name becomes newsworthy. Go figure... but Google certainly ain't stupid enough to to argue.
Or, rather, it should be legal to pass around copies of the install disk to everyone who has the OS.
It is. Well, sort of. It's a licensing thing. You can download an ISO off the piratebay for all Microsoft cares. They only get pissy if you don't use a legitimate key to install it with.
So we are just going to have to accept that patents have become an impediment to the innovation and commerce they were designed to protect?
Or maybe reform is in order... Or maybe we recognize the system has long since stopped serving it's purpose, so we just throw the whole system out altogether.
Considering there are nearly a dozen other torrent managers still on the market - some with over a quarter of a million downloads - I'd say that it is not unlikely the submitter is talking out of their ass.
Yeah right. "Please hold the line for an important call." Really? I'm sure if it was that important an actual human will ring me next time ---call terminated---
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Oh BlindType maybe? They got bought by Google and nobody heard of them since. It doesn't really as similar to the IBM as patent as ThickButtons to my eye.
This one?
Anonymous has a Cherimoya GNU/Linux, a live cd with built in support for TOR and I2P. Perhaps that's where the DoD got the idea.
I've heard this before...
You -- and your entire family -- need to visit a chiropractor regularly to make sure you can all lead a healthy, subluxation-free life. - practitioner alternative of medicine.
Not fun and didn't fix anything. - you, me and qualified medical professionals.
You can still check a hashed password against a hashed dictionary.
I don't think that undercutting Facebook is what MS has in mind at all. Google+ has the world talking right now, and MS wants to kill it.
But it's the same number! Why should this make a difference? Because when you invert a metric, the big numbers become small numbers, and the small numbers become big numbers. e.g. ...
Nonsense. Meaningless words and numbers. Pants-on-head retarded.
The 11 MPG improvement switching from the SUV to sedan saves you 3.1 gallons per 100 miles driven, while the 25 MPG improvement switching from sedan to hybrid only saves you 2 gallons.
Classic mistake. You can' t make a comparison without a baseline.
So lets use GPM.
4 / 7.1 = 0.56
2 / 7.1 = 0.28
OK, what about MPG?
25 / 50 = 0.5
14 / 50 = 0.28
Doesn't make a lick of difference if you use X/y or Y/x. Switching to a hybrid will save your nearly twice as much fuel as switching to a sedan would. The numbers don't lie.
I mean, this is a democracy, right?
Actually, no - it's not. A democratic republic sure, but that's a very different beast. It means you get to choose who rules, but not how they rule.
I get you were being sarcastic, but in a republic the Government would be fools if they didn't mistrust the People.
Ownership does not (or should not) trump privacy. It's like installing bugs or cameras in your house to monitor your family without their knowledge.
Apple is very hostile to advanced, technical users, no matter how you slice it.
Apple does not recognize an "advanced technical users" category of iOS users. They have regular users and iOS developers.
Hmm, so not hostile then. More passive aggressive?
'Exie' stands in for executable, which are more often not applications then they are.
Well... crap.
Thanks for following up.
They haven't actually threatened developers, true. But they did ban the use of toolchains designed for writing cross-platform apps.
For a developer without much in the way of resources it amounts to the same thing: "You can develop for our platform, or you can develop for theirs, take your pick"
Current status is that they are abandoning their PCB manufacturer for another... all the PCB's that have been sitting in the manufacturer's storage for all that time have rotted
This would be a complete 180 on what the production team have been claiming, so (as in "investor") I would be very interested to hear if you have a citation for that.
If the topic at hand had been things that are of importance to a consumer of applications you might have a point.
But it wasn't. You went out of your way to point out you are not qualified or even interested enough in the topic to have an opinion. People are naturally going to discount it.
You seem to know an awful lot about the OP's lifestyle, spending habits and motivations. Projecting much?
There isn't anything nonsensical about an American being concerned with human rights. It's even less nonsensical if you believe Americans share some of the responsibility.
I suppose weakly rationalizing your own complacency isn't nonsensical either - it's just appalling.
+1 The Tunnel is my favorite movie this year - from ANY studio.
Well, project code names are older then software development itself, so don't go tilting at windmills or anything.
Besides, Google did actually intend to use release numbers, it's just that consumers enjoy the silly names so much that the very selection of the next name becomes newsworthy. Go figure... but Google certainly ain't stupid enough to to argue.
Or, rather, it should be legal to pass around copies of the install disk to everyone who has the OS.
It is. Well, sort of. It's a licensing thing. You can download an ISO off the piratebay for all Microsoft cares. They only get pissy if you don't use a legitimate key to install it with.
Simple fix: Put the onus on the applicant (both pre and post grant), not on the examiner.
So we are just going to have to accept that patents have become an impediment to the innovation and commerce they were designed to protect?
Or maybe reform is in order... Or maybe we recognize the system has long since stopped serving it's purpose, so we just throw the whole system out altogether.
Considering there are nearly a dozen other torrent managers still on the market - some with over a quarter of a million downloads - I'd say that it is not unlikely the submitter is talking out of their ass.
Yeah right. "Please hold the line for an important call." Really? I'm sure if it was that important an actual human will ring me next time ---call terminated---
They've been arrested. The public is watching. There will be a trial. How much more due process do you think a criminal deserves?
Alleged criminal.
If the courts are as quick to jump to conclusions as you, then all the publicity in the world won't buy him due process.