Wouldn't Youtube be the ones in violation of the patent then? Seems to me that if the patent covers the plug-in automatically starting, then whoever is facilitating that would be in violation of the patent.
However, what happens when people grow up and go to work. They will be expected to be on the corporate network and use their file servers,email servers, collaboration, calendering, and other tools. Of course all the files they upload to those systems will be subject to scrutiny by the company they work for. I don't see how this is any different. This is space to work on your school assignments. And as such, they don't want you putting stuff up there that isn't related to your school work. If you have storage needs that aren't for school projects, then find somewhere else to store it. Just like if you have files that aren't related to work, don't store them on the file server at your office.
What if a person doesn't have ID? If you don't drive, and don't travel out of the country (passport), what ID is one expected to have? Credit cards and other non-picture plastic cards usually don't count. If you don't have an ID to show, or just don't carry one around (who carries their passport when they go to the mall), can you still be arrested?
But there was no crime, because they had already checked his bags, and verified that there was nothing stolen. They should have just let him go on his way. Instead, the cop hassled him for his identification. To me it seems the cops are way too wrapped up with verifying the identity of everyone, instead of just stopping criminals. My uncle called in to report a drunk driver racing around town, and he spent a lot of time on the phone trying to convince them to just go arrest the guy, and that he wasn't going to tell them his name. He didn't want to be involved (it's a small town, didn't want the offender to come knocking on his door), he just wanted them to stop the guy. Anyway, car ended up crashing, and someone(from what I remember, it wasn't the driver) ended up dying. Instead of just going and investigating it, they spent a bunch of time just trying to get his name, and then brushing him off with a "we'll see what we can do about it", and "we might send someone around to check it out". Just do your job, and unless it's specifically necessary for doing your job, stop trying to identify every person in existence.
While wireless headphones would be nice, it seems like just another thing to suck up more battery power. While it says it has low power usage (10x less than bluetooth), I'd much rather just have wired headphones. Plus what happens when one of those earbuds falls out of your ear when you're running? Even if it doesn't break when it hits the ground, somebody could step on it, or it could fall down a sewer grate.
Mod this guy up. Seriously, I don't even know how you would do a comparison of 2 products that don't compete against eachother. Sure the are both IDEs, but one is mainy for Java Development, while the other is for.Net,C++. Comparing features and how easy to do things would be nice, but the major deciding factor for most people will be which programming language they are using.
Or forward it to 10,000 of your closest friends. After half the world's computers get infected, and we trace back the virus to the German government, we'll see how impressed the rest of the world is with them.
This is my biggest fear about flying cars. Look at the mechanical state of the cars that the average person drives. It's terrible. But it doesn't bother us, because mostly when their car breaks down (engine dies, or whatever), they can make it to the side of the road, or if worse comes to worse, they stop in the middle of traffic, and we go around them. They could even put it in neutral and push it off the road. What happens when a flying vehicle breaks down. Well, it falls. Sure some planes have 2 engines, and can continue flying if one shuts off, but knowing Joe Sixpack, he'd drive it around for months with only 1 engine.
I don't own a PS3, and don't plan to. But the general consensus from what I hear is that there aren't that many good PS3 games. PS1/2 games can be discounted, because if you want to play those, you can save yourself a few hundred dollars and get a PS2. There maybe be just as many good games for the PS3 as for the Wii or 360, but then why pay so much extra unless the games are signinficantly better? If you get the same amount of fun (assuming you can measure fun) out of a PS3, 360, or Wii, then the Wii makes the most sense to purchase on a fun:cost ratio.
The controls are only different insofar as that you can utililize them differently. I'm not sure how it actually works in the Wii development environment, but based on what I've seen from the PC libraries available for the wiimote, it basically shows up as a bluetooth joystick with a couple of extra axes. So getting and interpreting the data from the wiimote isn't difficult, it's figuring out good ways to use that data. Also, if you don't want to use the motion sensing capabilities, you can just use the nunchuck, and you have basically the same controls as any other console. If the game is good, and doesn't benifit from the motion sensing, I don't think anyone would care.
Wii, assuming that they get any games for it at all besides Wii Sports, have been buying and are going to buy Nintendo games and not much else. It was the same with the GameCube, and the same before that with the N64. Waggle doesn't change anything.
Wii, assuming that they get any games for it at all besides Wii Sports, have been buying and are going to buy GOOD games and not much else. It was the same with the GameCube, and the same before that with the N64. Waggle doesn't change anything.
There, fixed that for you. The fact that most publishers completely ignored the GameCube while Nintendo released some very good games, means that obviously most of the games that are being bought are going to be from Nintendo. One notable exception is Resident Evil. Same thing seems to be happening on the Wii. Nintendo is releasing a lot of really good games, meanwhile, the other publishers seem to be ignoring it, or at least did at the beginning. Most people don't even bother checking who the publisher of a game is. All they want to know is whether or not the game is good, and base their decision off that.
But there's no games for the PS3 Either. I think most publishers banked on the 360 because they already had a lot of units in the wild when the other two were released. I think there was a lot of hesitation towards the PS3 because of the high cost, but also because it's hard and expensive to develop for.
That's the problem with Vista though. It was released, it was buggy, and it was still pushed down our throats. It's hard to walk into most retailers and buy a computer isn't Vista. The only way I'm aware to get a windows machine without vista is to shop at Dell, and choose the Business category. It isn't so much the problem that they released it before it was ready, but the fact that the old version isn't on most store shelves anymore.
Try eMusic.com. They have a very extensive catalog. They don't sell anything from the major labels, but that doesn't mean they don't have a lot to offer. If you must listen to the big name bands, then you're pretty much going to have to deal with DRM, or buy the actual CD. I like to listen to big label bands too, but not as much as I like paying 30 cents a track, and getting DRM free music over the internet.
I would say that high prices are what cause piracy. If you could buy an album for $5, most people wouldn't even take the time to bother pirating it, and just buy it. With albums at $15 a piece, it takes a really good album to make me want to pay for it. I still don't pirate music, but I buy way less music than I want to, because the price of a single album is hard to justify. I got on eMusic a while ago, because I can get an album for about $3 - $5. Charging $45 for a single album, especially one that was released so long ago, is completely unreasonable.
Except try dialing number or texting without looking at the screen. Having actual tactile buttons or keys makes inputing of text a lot easier. As nice as this new Nokia seems to be for browsing photos, it seems like it would suck as a phone.
In Canada on Bell and Telus that's how it works. You never have to change the time, because it's set automatically. DST and all. I don't see why any provider wouldn't have that feature.
I've been using Mandriva for 6 years, and find it to be the best desktop distro. I've tried Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat, Suse, Slackware, and probably about 5 other distros, and have found that Mandriva is the only one that works out of the box consistently on all my PCs. It really doesn't get enough recognition as good desktop Linux distro.
However, their version numbers have no connection with how much the product has changed/improved. If they release every 6 months, then they go up a major version number every year, regardless of if anything has actually changed.
I presume that they have concluded that it is no longer neccesary because everyone's cell phone has relatively accurate time ( and the clocks that are set according to cell time ).
Except Roger's (AT&T) up here in Canada. They can't seem to get their cellphones to calibrate to a network time. Maybe it's just specific phone models, but everybody I know on Roger's doesn't have this feature, while every phone I've had on other networks has no problem doing this.
That may explain why I did well in algebra, but didn't do well in calculus. It's hard to deduce calculus, or understand why things are the way they are. Why is the derivative of x^2 = 2x? You have to remember all these complicated rules for finding the derivative and integral that don't really make sense, and teachers rarely ever try to explain to you where these things are derived from. You're just supposed to memorize all these different ways of calculating derivatives of different types of equations, without understand the logic behind them. Then again, maybe I just had bad calculus teachers.
From what I can Google, the heart starts beating about 3-4 weeks after conception. So we should count most of the pregnancy as time that her heart was beating.
They are overpriced. At least if you don't want to spend a lot of money. Looking on Apple.ca, the cheapest laptop starts at $CDN 1249. I just bought a laptop for $CDN 500. It came with Vista, which runs like a pig in 2 feet of mud, but it has an Intel GMA, the BroadCom Wireless (still using NDISWrapper), so I'm running Linux and I'm completely happy with my purchase. I would like a longer lasting battery, but I usually just use it on the couch, so it doesn't bother me that much. Macs are nice if you're looking to spend that much money anyway. However, if you're looking to spend less money, there's lots of good products available in the PC world.
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Wouldn't Youtube be the ones in violation of the patent then? Seems to me that if the patent covers the plug-in automatically starting, then whoever is facilitating that would be in violation of the patent.
Does this mean I can create a product called SoftMicro Windows, and SoftMicro Office, without fear of getting sued by Microsoft?
However, what happens when people grow up and go to work. They will be expected to be on the corporate network and use their file servers,email servers, collaboration, calendering, and other tools. Of course all the files they upload to those systems will be subject to scrutiny by the company they work for. I don't see how this is any different. This is space to work on your school assignments. And as such, they don't want you putting stuff up there that isn't related to your school work. If you have storage needs that aren't for school projects, then find somewhere else to store it. Just like if you have files that aren't related to work, don't store them on the file server at your office.
What if a person doesn't have ID? If you don't drive, and don't travel out of the country (passport), what ID is one expected to have? Credit cards and other non-picture plastic cards usually don't count. If you don't have an ID to show, or just don't carry one around (who carries their passport when they go to the mall), can you still be arrested?
But there was no crime, because they had already checked his bags, and verified that there was nothing stolen. They should have just let him go on his way. Instead, the cop hassled him for his identification. To me it seems the cops are way too wrapped up with verifying the identity of everyone, instead of just stopping criminals. My uncle called in to report a drunk driver racing around town, and he spent a lot of time on the phone trying to convince them to just go arrest the guy, and that he wasn't going to tell them his name. He didn't want to be involved (it's a small town, didn't want the offender to come knocking on his door), he just wanted them to stop the guy. Anyway, car ended up crashing, and someone(from what I remember, it wasn't the driver) ended up dying. Instead of just going and investigating it, they spent a bunch of time just trying to get his name, and then brushing him off with a "we'll see what we can do about it", and "we might send someone around to check it out". Just do your job, and unless it's specifically necessary for doing your job, stop trying to identify every person in existence.
While wireless headphones would be nice, it seems like just another thing to suck up more battery power. While it says it has low power usage (10x less than bluetooth), I'd much rather just have wired headphones. Plus what happens when one of those earbuds falls out of your ear when you're running? Even if it doesn't break when it hits the ground, somebody could step on it, or it could fall down a sewer grate.
Mod this guy up. Seriously, I don't even know how you would do a comparison of 2 products that don't compete against eachother. Sure the are both IDEs, but one is mainy for Java Development, while the other is for .Net,C++. Comparing features and how easy to do things would be nice, but the major deciding factor for most people will be which programming language they are using.
Or forward it to 10,000 of your closest friends. After half the world's computers get infected, and we trace back the virus to the German government, we'll see how impressed the rest of the world is with them.
This is my biggest fear about flying cars. Look at the mechanical state of the cars that the average person drives. It's terrible. But it doesn't bother us, because mostly when their car breaks down (engine dies, or whatever), they can make it to the side of the road, or if worse comes to worse, they stop in the middle of traffic, and we go around them. They could even put it in neutral and push it off the road. What happens when a flying vehicle breaks down. Well, it falls. Sure some planes have 2 engines, and can continue flying if one shuts off, but knowing Joe Sixpack, he'd drive it around for months with only 1 engine.
I don't own a PS3, and don't plan to. But the general consensus from what I hear is that there aren't that many good PS3 games. PS1/2 games can be discounted, because if you want to play those, you can save yourself a few hundred dollars and get a PS2. There maybe be just as many good games for the PS3 as for the Wii or 360, but then why pay so much extra unless the games are signinficantly better? If you get the same amount of fun (assuming you can measure fun) out of a PS3, 360, or Wii, then the Wii makes the most sense to purchase on a fun:cost ratio.
The controls are only different insofar as that you can utililize them differently. I'm not sure how it actually works in the Wii development environment, but based on what I've seen from the PC libraries available for the wiimote, it basically shows up as a bluetooth joystick with a couple of extra axes. So getting and interpreting the data from the wiimote isn't difficult, it's figuring out good ways to use that data. Also, if you don't want to use the motion sensing capabilities, you can just use the nunchuck, and you have basically the same controls as any other console. If the game is good, and doesn't benifit from the motion sensing, I don't think anyone would care.
There, fixed that for you. The fact that most publishers completely ignored the GameCube while Nintendo released some very good games, means that obviously most of the games that are being bought are going to be from Nintendo. One notable exception is Resident Evil. Same thing seems to be happening on the Wii. Nintendo is releasing a lot of really good games, meanwhile, the other publishers seem to be ignoring it, or at least did at the beginning. Most people don't even bother checking who the publisher of a game is. All they want to know is whether or not the game is good, and base their decision off that.
But there's no games for the PS3 Either. I think most publishers banked on the 360 because they already had a lot of units in the wild when the other two were released. I think there was a lot of hesitation towards the PS3 because of the high cost, but also because it's hard and expensive to develop for.
That's the problem with Vista though. It was released, it was buggy, and it was still pushed down our throats. It's hard to walk into most retailers and buy a computer isn't Vista. The only way I'm aware to get a windows machine without vista is to shop at Dell, and choose the Business category. It isn't so much the problem that they released it before it was ready, but the fact that the old version isn't on most store shelves anymore.
Try eMusic.com. They have a very extensive catalog. They don't sell anything from the major labels, but that doesn't mean they don't have a lot to offer. If you must listen to the big name bands, then you're pretty much going to have to deal with DRM, or buy the actual CD. I like to listen to big label bands too, but not as much as I like paying 30 cents a track, and getting DRM free music over the internet.
I would say that high prices are what cause piracy. If you could buy an album for $5, most people wouldn't even take the time to bother pirating it, and just buy it. With albums at $15 a piece, it takes a really good album to make me want to pay for it. I still don't pirate music, but I buy way less music than I want to, because the price of a single album is hard to justify. I got on eMusic a while ago, because I can get an album for about $3 - $5. Charging $45 for a single album, especially one that was released so long ago, is completely unreasonable.
Except try dialing number or texting without looking at the screen. Having actual tactile buttons or keys makes inputing of text a lot easier. As nice as this new Nokia seems to be for browsing photos, it seems like it would suck as a phone.
In Canada on Bell and Telus that's how it works. You never have to change the time, because it's set automatically. DST and all. I don't see why any provider wouldn't have that feature.
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I've been using Mandriva for 6 years, and find it to be the best desktop distro. I've tried Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat, Suse, Slackware, and probably about 5 other distros, and have found that Mandriva is the only one that works out of the box consistently on all my PCs. It really doesn't get enough recognition as good desktop Linux distro.
However, their version numbers have no connection with how much the product has changed/improved. If they release every 6 months, then they go up a major version number every year, regardless of if anything has actually changed.
That may explain why I did well in algebra, but didn't do well in calculus. It's hard to deduce calculus, or understand why things are the way they are. Why is the derivative of x^2 = 2x? You have to remember all these complicated rules for finding the derivative and integral that don't really make sense, and teachers rarely ever try to explain to you where these things are derived from. You're just supposed to memorize all these different ways of calculating derivatives of different types of equations, without understand the logic behind them. Then again, maybe I just had bad calculus teachers.
From what I can Google, the heart starts beating about 3-4 weeks after conception. So we should count most of the pregnancy as time that her heart was beating.
If it ain't broke, why fix it?
They are overpriced. At least if you don't want to spend a lot of money. Looking on Apple.ca, the cheapest laptop starts at $CDN 1249. I just bought a laptop for $CDN 500. It came with Vista, which runs like a pig in 2 feet of mud, but it has an Intel GMA, the BroadCom Wireless (still using NDISWrapper), so I'm running Linux and I'm completely happy with my purchase. I would like a longer lasting battery, but I usually just use it on the couch, so it doesn't bother me that much. Macs are nice if you're looking to spend that much money anyway. However, if you're looking to spend less money, there's lots of good products available in the PC world.