Seems like the M$ PR group is on something, if they think you need a mainframe to run Linux. On the other hand, they say that you will need one for Longhorn... something that's a little more believable.
If an album was actually created to be an album (examples being at least most of what Enigma has produced), where each song flows into the next, then there's some actual justification to wanting to keep sales as album only.
In most cases, though, it's just as the article says (in so many words)... a small handful of good songs, thrown together with a bunch of crap.
Looking further into the actual claims of the patent, it looks like they tiptoed around both what the Address Book does in Palm OS (isn't quite "opening a document" and isn't a user-defined behavior), as well as being able to press the Datebook button multiple times to cycle through the different views that are available. The patent claims stop at 2 presses, and mention a defined time threshold.
Then again... that's one thing Microsoft seems very good at... tiptoeing around the rules to get what they want.
With a Palm OS device, if you just hit the Address Book button, it takes you to that app. If you hold the button down longer, it tries to beam a record that's been designated as a "business card", if such a record exists.
I don't know how long they've been doing this, exactly, though I doubt it was after M$ started producing PDAs, much less filed for this patent.
Seems they're trying to patent the concept of double-clicks as well... they bloody stole that from Apple!
Gibson cast some of the blame on the packet-based nature of Internet Protocol, which was not designed for foolproof delivery of messages. The protocol cannot guarantee delivery of e-mail, for instance.
Erm, hello? Isn't that what TCP is for?
Another limitation with the IP approach is the inability to dynamically build networks. The military wants to quickly set up ad hoc networks.
Microsoft has had this in varying degrees of workability for several years. Maybe they should put down their picks/axes and talk for a bit.
Yahoo's been charging (as a subscription, even) for listings of commercial sites for years in their main index, and hardly listing any new ones that weren't.
The bill would not affect people who are trying to safeguard their privacy because it only makes it a crime to submit false registration data when it is done to help commit a crime, said Mark Bohannon, senior vice president for public policy at the Software & Information Industry Association, which supports the bill.
No one is using ICQ on your network, then? Last I checked, it's still using UDP for main communication to the server... at least from checking my router whenever I'm using it.
IIRC, ICQ implemented an ack/nack/resend system on top of UDP. A little redundant when compared to TCP, sure, but the up side is that you don't need 1001 sockets (counting one listener) open on the server to handle 1000 users... you just need one. Maybe a few more if you wanted to, depending on traffic.
Another side to that argument, is that FAT is fairly simple to implement by comparison to NTFS, WinFS, etc. If that's in fact what they're thinking, then all consumer devices will eventually have to have the processing power of laptops to be able to deal with it very well. That would drive the cost up even more...
At least I hope that they manage to keep Aragorn taking the different route to Gondor and picking up the army of the dead (I forget the name of that place... I did remember Shelob's, though, just didn't say it:-). Without that, one would be wondering where he got all of the extra help in finally driving off the orcs or, even worse, where they all went. Closure, man... we need closure!
They're already throwing things off enough with him by waiting until now to give him Narsil (when that should have been in FOTR, if I remember correctly).
Indeed... the best quality of advertising always has been, and is still, word of mouth. If you've got a good product, it speaks for itself through those that use it. I've personally seen that more than once with my own software (as an example).
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Seems like the M$ PR group is on something, if they think you need a mainframe to run Linux. On the other hand, they say that you will need one for Longhorn... something that's a little more believable.
If an album was actually created to be an album (examples being at least most of what Enigma has produced), where each song flows into the next, then there's some actual justification to wanting to keep sales as album only.
In most cases, though, it's just as the article says (in so many words)... a small handful of good songs, thrown together with a bunch of crap.
Looking further into the actual claims of the patent, it looks like they tiptoed around both what the Address Book does in Palm OS (isn't quite "opening a document" and isn't a user-defined behavior), as well as being able to press the Datebook button multiple times to cycle through the different views that are available. The patent claims stop at 2 presses, and mention a defined time threshold.
Then again... that's one thing Microsoft seems very good at... tiptoeing around the rules to get what they want.
New innovation... like this one?
With a Palm OS device, if you just hit the Address Book button, it takes you to that app. If you hold the button down longer, it tries to beam a record that's been designated as a "business card", if such a record exists.
I don't know how long they've been doing this, exactly, though I doubt it was after M$ started producing PDAs, much less filed for this patent.
Seems they're trying to patent the concept of double-clicks as well... they bloody stole that from Apple!
Liberal use of addslashes() +
Surrounding data from clients with quotes in SQL =
SQL injections? Where?
Here's the bandwagon... you know what to do...
At least he can spell.
"Remember that 2nd terabyte server we were going to put in for the newsgroups archive search? HURRY!!!"
Apparently you haven't even tried to play it. The only joke is requiring the original Quake files for it to work.
Is that counting the TV just being on as background noise? :-)
Gibson cast some of the blame on the packet-based nature of Internet Protocol, which was not designed for foolproof delivery of messages. The protocol cannot guarantee delivery of e-mail, for instance.
Erm, hello? Isn't that what TCP is for?
Another limitation with the IP approach is the inability to dynamically build networks. The military wants to quickly set up ad hoc networks.
Microsoft has had this in varying degrees of workability for several years. Maybe they should put down their picks/axes and talk for a bit.
Yahoo's been charging (as a subscription, even) for listings of commercial sites for years in their main index, and hardly listing any new ones that weren't.
Doesn't anyone RTFA anymore?
The bill would not affect people who are trying to safeguard their privacy because it only makes it a crime to submit false registration data when it is done to help commit a crime, said Mark Bohannon, senior vice president for public policy at the Software & Information Industry Association, which supports the bill.
Just a little...
No one is using ICQ on your network, then? Last I checked, it's still using UDP for main communication to the server... at least from checking my router whenever I'm using it.
IIRC, ICQ implemented an ack/nack/resend system on top of UDP. A little redundant when compared to TCP, sure, but the up side is that you don't need 1001 sockets (counting one listener) open on the server to handle 1000 users... you just need one. Maybe a few more if you wanted to, depending on traffic.
Another side to that argument, is that FAT is fairly simple to implement by comparison to NTFS, WinFS, etc. If that's in fact what they're thinking, then all consumer devices will eventually have to have the processing power of laptops to be able to deal with it very well. That would drive the cost up even more...
None, you mean?
In the eyes of their PR department, at least.
To everyone with a clue, it was more like "let's release this as a beta, but not tell anyone".
RTFA (including the linked part of the labor code), then get back to us when you have a sufficient amount of clue.
1 million domains, powered by how many servers?
Certainly not 1 million of those. A domain parking service doesn't need that kind of horsepower.
You're kidding, right?
At least I hope that they manage to keep Aragorn taking the different route to Gondor and picking up the army of the dead (I forget the name of that place... I did remember Shelob's, though, just didn't say it :-). Without that, one would be wondering where he got all of the extra help in finally driving off the orcs or, even worse, where they all went. Closure, man... we need closure!
They're already throwing things off enough with him by waiting until now to give him Narsil (when that should have been in FOTR, if I remember correctly).
Spider, yes. Demon, no.
She's going to be in the ROTK movie. You'd know this, had you not been living under a rock.
Indeed... the best quality of advertising always has been, and is still, word of mouth. If you've got a good product, it speaks for itself through those that use it. I've personally seen that more than once with my own software (as an example).