Apple have been fighting all along to pay royalties. Nokia wanted Apple to hand-over some of their patents relating to mobile 'phones but Apple refused.
Sorry but that just shows a lack of interest and a lack of basic self-motivation and a lack of imagination.
I wrote and self-published a game when I was 14. I wrote numerous Fortran programs at University and got an account on an old Perkin-Elmer Unix box (with a connection to JANET) to do some C programming.
I had no problems getting my first programming job.
When I interview I expect even entry level programmers to be able to show me some of their previous work because it shows they actually *like* programming, they're capable of it and they are self-motivated.
Sorry but you wouldn't get past me if I was interviewing you.
Bad idea. All it will do is generate hundreds of bug reports. And. It doesn't really address the problem. If 'Misery' can auto-magically detect trolling why not just auto-ban or auto-suspend and give an explanation? That assumes of course that 'Misery' can detect trolling reliably -which I doubt- so realistically it's going to annoy 'normal' users, ie the ones your web site presumably wants to keep, who will just think your web site is badly written and buggy. In short: it's a stupid idea and a stupid plugin.
Technically it might be commendable but is it actually sensible?
That backwards compatibility isn't free: it takes effort- effort that could have been spent making other parts of Windows better. It also takes up disk and memory and cpu. And it makes Windows itself more complicated (you have to support both the latest shiney and the old crud from the past).
Is it really necessary? Who cares that Windows 7 can run Doom? Apart from the willy-waving that you could if you wanted to, who actually will do it more than once?
So yes, admirable from a technical point of view but it strikes me that there was a serious lack of common sense in deciding to do it.
Well I'll get the 'you should spend less time playing WOW and more time in English class' dig out of the way.
You compare WoW with Mass Effect 1 and 2... you did notice that both of those are single player games where you *are* the great hero didn't you? WoW in contrast is a *massively* *multi-* player game. A very different beast.
I also disagree that the WoW engine is what holds back Blizz from introducing voice etc through out the game. I think it's far more likely to be down to return on investment: i.e. it wouldn't be worth their while doing. Not because it goes against WoW's style.
'programming may in fact be transforming into an art, one that requires a skilled hand and a creative mind to achieve a happy medium between problematic extremes.'
Bullshit.
Programming has always been an art that required skill and a creative mind. The only people who have claimed otherwise have been managers, who would prefer all techies were interchangable cogs, and crap programmers: the gimps and muppets of our trade.
It's difficult to take you seriously because either you are lying about owning an iPad or you are just stupid.
If all you use your ipad is to read books and magazines you should have bought a Kindle, which is both superior for that task and a lot cheaper.
The complex at Avebury is orders of magnitude more impressive than Stonehenge. Possibly the most impressive stone... calendar err.. complex in the world.
You can't get more than a fraction in a single photo.
Definately worth a day trip.
Some links:
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-aveburyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avebury
Who died and made you the Supreme Court? Or is there something in the constitution that allows any ill-informed muppet the right to make that judgement?
This is about trademarks not patents.
Could you provide a source for your assertion that '[p]atents are founded as a - protection - for small startups against the big corporations'. Thanks.
Games? Nah. Paradox only sell one game, Europa Universalis, which they just give a different name or incremented the number and release again.
Same bugs, same stupid rebellions if you do to well in every game.
Rubbish book, rubbish series.
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I've bought several of the "beautiful..." books and they're uniformly rubbish: trite, trivial and they contain more fluff promoting the pseudo-authors of the various 'articles' than actual content..
What keeps countries like India poor is the corrupt politicians.
India can afford to build a nuclear arsenal but they can't manage to provide clean water to all of their people? That's India's fault and no-one elses'.
Because if Allah is so great how come he couldn't dictate a book that was translatable[1]? Both the Jewish and Christian God managed that much.
[1]It's part of Muslim dogma that as the words in the Koran were God's and the arabic they are written is 'perfect' you can't translate them only interpret them (translate meaning to carry over their full meaning into the new language). Apparently Allah isn't omnipotent.
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Apple have been fighting all along to pay royalties. Nokia wanted Apple to hand-over some of their patents relating to mobile 'phones but Apple refused.
Apple got what they wanted, not Nokia.
'nuff said.
Sorry but that just shows a lack of interest and a lack of basic self-motivation and a lack of imagination.
I wrote and self-published a game when I was 14. I wrote numerous Fortran programs at University and got an account on an old Perkin-Elmer Unix box (with a connection to JANET) to do some C programming.
I had no problems getting my first programming job.
When I interview I expect even entry level programmers to be able to show me some of their previous work because it shows they actually *like* programming, they're capable of it and they are self-motivated.
Sorry but you wouldn't get past me if I was interviewing you.
"browser if their using IE6" in the original post is incorrect. It should be 'they are'.
Bad idea.
All it will do is generate hundreds of bug reports.
And. It doesn't really address the problem. If 'Misery' can auto-magically detect trolling why not just auto-ban or auto-suspend and give an explanation?
That assumes of course that 'Misery' can detect trolling reliably -which I doubt- so realistically it's going to annoy 'normal' users, ie the ones your web site presumably wants to keep, who will just think your web site is badly written and buggy.
In short: it's a stupid idea and a stupid plugin.
Technically it might be commendable but is it actually sensible?
That backwards compatibility isn't free: it takes effort- effort that could have been spent making other parts of Windows better. It also takes up disk and memory and cpu. And it makes Windows itself more complicated (you have to support both the latest shiney and the old crud from the past).
Is it really necessary? Who cares that Windows 7 can run Doom? Apart from the willy-waving that you could if you wanted to, who actually will do it more than once?
So yes, admirable from a technical point of view but it strikes me that there was a serious lack of common sense in deciding to do it.
You do realise Jurassic Park was fiction, not a documentary right?
Unless they keep it in an hermetically sealed tent it'll be dead to one of the common disease it has no immunity to within weeks if not days.
Stupidest idea ever.
Amazon could simply refuse to sell apps where the developer sets too high a list price.
Wasn't that obvious?
Amazon have no such automated mechanism in place currently and they've not mentioned introducing one.
It shows what a bargain Apple's store is. They only charge you 30%, not Amazon's 70%, of your asking price.
Try reading the article or even the summary.
Whilst I regularly skim Ars technica I don't think you can really call its articles 'in depth'.
And some are just painfully 'wrong by omission'.
Well I'll get the 'you should spend less time playing WOW and more time in English class' dig out of the way.
You compare WoW with Mass Effect 1 and 2... you did notice that both of those are single player games where you *are* the great hero didn't you? WoW in contrast is a *massively* *multi-* player game. A very different beast.
I also disagree that the WoW engine is what holds back Blizz from introducing voice etc through out the game. I think it's far more likely to be down to return on investment: i.e. it wouldn't be worth their while doing. Not because it goes against WoW's style.
'programming may in fact be transforming into an art, one that requires a skilled hand and a creative mind to achieve a happy medium between problematic extremes.' Bullshit. Programming has always been an art that required skill and a creative mind. The only people who have claimed otherwise have been managers, who would prefer all techies were interchangable cogs, and crap programmers: the gimps and muppets of our trade.
It's difficult to take you seriously because either you are lying about owning an iPad or you are just stupid. If all you use your ipad is to read books and magazines you should have bought a Kindle, which is both superior for that task and a lot cheaper.
The complex at Avebury is orders of magnitude more impressive than Stonehenge. Possibly the most impressive stone... calendar err.. complex in the world. You can't get more than a fraction in a single photo. Definately worth a day trip. Some links: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-avebury http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avebury
Who died and made you the Supreme Court? Or is there something in the constitution that allows any ill-informed muppet the right to make that judgement?
This is about trademarks not patents. Could you provide a source for your assertion that '[p]atents are founded as a - protection - for small startups against the big corporations'. Thanks.
Games? Nah. Paradox only sell one game, Europa Universalis, which they just give a different name or incremented the number and release again. Same bugs, same stupid rebellions if you do to well in every game.
I've read OK magazine articles with more depth.
Avoid the entire series.
What keeps countries like India poor is the corrupt politicians. India can afford to build a nuclear arsenal but they can't manage to provide clean water to all of their people? That's India's fault and no-one elses'.
Numpty - it's right in there.
mr anonymous coward.
Because if Allah is so great how come he couldn't dictate a book that was translatable[1]? Both the Jewish and Christian God managed that much. [1]It's part of Muslim dogma that as the words in the Koran were God's and the arabic they are written is 'perfect' you can't translate them only interpret them (translate meaning to carry over their full meaning into the new language). Apparently Allah isn't omnipotent.