Actually, it's more like everything old is still old.
Given that Native Client has been around for five years now, don't you think you've had enough time to learn that it's NOT like ActiveX?. Try Googling Native Client vs ActiveX to get yourself started.
Can't we just let patents autoexpire every 5 - 10 years
It's probably too late for that.
The whole system is being so extensively gamed that it's pretty much unsalvageable in its current incarnation. Recently, even the Chinese government and businesses have noticed the opportunities it creates and have started a huge junk-patenting effort, so its only going to get worse.
A Chinese government scheme providing financial incentives for small and medium sized enterprises, public institutions or scientific research institutions appears to be resulting in abuse of the Australian patent system, and the 'dumping' of numerous low-quality innovation patents on the Australian Register.
I cannot think of a single book purchase I've made in the last 25 years that was in any way related to any top ten list.
You are not the publishing chain's customer. Bookbuyers are much lower down the food chain than that.
Vendors are the target of these paid endorsements. The books that appear on that NYT list are far more likely appear in newsagents and booksellers as a result. Your opportunities to buy are preselected based on list like this.
FAT filenames FAT filenames Flash Memory filesystem bad block hack Separation layer/API for telephone radio (aka a driver) Adding a number from dialler to contacts Notification API, but on mobiles. Pop-up menus, but on mobiles. Offline/online caching and reconciliation (like Notes)
Microsoft is claiming that the thought and effort that went into these ideas is worth more than $230,000,000 per annum in licensing fees.
Its not Android that Microsoft is licensing, its some of their protocols, (MTP most likely).
Bullshit.
It's pretty widely known now that MS is extorting money almost exclusively for its ancient FAT filesystem patents. Because they were able to establish it as a defacto format during their monopoly years, they're now in a position where its ubiquitous. Not because its good, or innovative or took significant effort to develop. Just because it became the lowest common denominator.
And they'll continue milking it until somebody stops them.
It really is time for industry to route around this damage and develop a new common, free and open filesystem format, or for governments to step in and stop this abuse of their systems.
According to Nationmaster, Australia has 490 million hectares of arable land, while France has 185 million. Environmental Knowledge Systems Australia (EKSA) says that 400 million hectares of Australian land is actively used for agriculture.
Even if France used all of its arable land, it still wouldn't come close to Australia.
It's more like the French are doing it because Australia is doing it.
It's cute the way they appreciate and imitate our Aussie culture and style. And they almost get it right, but there's a certain je ne sais quoi they never seem to manage. I'm not sure what it is though.
Other reasons given include Increased sunspot activity, interference from the Van Allen Belt, Jupiter is aligned with Mars, the Vulcan-death-grip ping has been applied, excess condensation in cloud network, interference from lunar radiation, a star wars satellite accidently blew up the WAN, and BOFH intervention.
Shortly after the dropout, an astronaut was seen spacewalking near the station holding a floppy disk over his head.
Anyone with a WinMo phone will tell you one of the biggest problems with them is the difficulty in finding apps that actually work.
I developed apps for Windows Mobile, and I can tell you that the biggest problem was getting a phone/OS that would actually work.
They were uniformly terrible, unreliable as phones and inconsistent and hard to understand as PDAs. You couldn't even rely on them as alarm clocks, given their propensity to hang and/or crash.
Valve's involvement wit NVidia to improve Linux drivers is old news.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012, NVIDIA Delivers Massive Performance Boost To Linux Gaming
NVIDIA today announced the latest NVIDIA® GeForce® drivers -- R310 -- double the performance(1) and dramatically reduce game loading times for those gaming on the Linux operating system. The result of almost a year of development by NVIDIA, Valve and other game developers, the new GeForce R310 drivers are designed to give GeForce customers the best possible Linux-based PC gaming experience -- and showcase the enormous potential of the world's biggest open-source operating system.
Nor will Warner Bros., given the name of one of the projects involved in this effort:
I think the Serval Project would have more right to be concerned, given that it is their work that's being hidden behind the advertising-ridden link from TFA.
Ad-hoc mesh networks do have the potential to be a game changer in a number of arenas. US government involvement this early is a bad sign for their future.
Sure, same for my cars and bikes - I spent this Xmas and new year chucking my little MGF around mountain roads in Tasmania.
Point is though, a lot of my fellow motorists doing the same drive consider it as a drudge and as a consequence don't practice enough to be good at it.
They get in my way.
Give them the autonomous vehicles and flying cars. Leave the roads to me, my MG and my Ducatis.
I think the idea of resource constraints stopping you from running a desktop OS on a mobile device is something that will soon be consigned to history.
It already has been.
But that's still not good news for MS. They've been charing monopoly rents for their desktop OS for so long, they'll have a hard time adapting to selling it on devices that cost less than they're retailing their OS for.
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Actually, it's more like everything old is still old.
Given that Native Client has been around for five years now, don't you think you've had enough time to learn that it's NOT like ActiveX?. Try Googling Native Client vs ActiveX to get yourself started.
Can't we just let patents autoexpire every 5 - 10 years
It's probably too late for that.
The whole system is being so extensively gamed that it's pretty much unsalvageable in its current incarnation. Recently, even the Chinese government and businesses have noticed the opportunities it creates and have started a huge junk-patenting effort, so its only going to get worse.
A Chinese government scheme providing financial incentives for small and medium sized enterprises, public institutions or scientific research institutions appears to be resulting in abuse of the Australian patent system, and the 'dumping' of numerous low-quality innovation patents on the Australian Register.
http://blog.patentology.com.au/2013/02/junk-patents-dumped-on-australia-as.html
Not to existing devices.
But once the frogs appear used to the warmth, the heat will be turned up and they'll be extinguished.
Hopefully those sons and daughters of the the American civilian population who are, for the moment, employed as government soldiers.
I figure that must be bash, ksh and what? csh? zsh? ash? Don't keep us in suspense here!
Monad/PowerShell.
For when you want to feel dirty again.
but they didn't
Yet.
This is the extend phase.
I cannot think of a single book purchase I've made in the last 25 years that was in any way related to any top ten list.
You are not the publishing chain's customer. Bookbuyers are much lower down the food chain than that.
Vendors are the target of these paid endorsements. The books that appear on that NYT list are far more likely appear in newsagents and booksellers as a result. Your opportunities to buy are preselected based on list like this.
Think of yourself as krill instead of whale...
These are the patents from your link:
FAT filenames
Flash Memory filesystem bad block hack
Separation layer/API for telephone radio (aka a driver)
Adding a number from dialler to contacts
Notification API, but on mobiles.
Pop-up menus, but on mobiles.
Offline/online caching and reconciliation (like Notes)
Microsoft is claiming that the thought and effort that went into these ideas is worth more than $230,000,000 per annum in licensing fees.
Its not Android that Microsoft is licensing, its some of their protocols, (MTP most likely).
Bullshit.
It's pretty widely known now that MS is extorting money almost exclusively for its ancient FAT filesystem patents. Because they were able to establish it as a defacto format during their monopoly years, they're now in a position where its ubiquitous. Not because its good, or innovative or took significant effort to develop. Just because it became the lowest common denominator.
And they'll continue milking it until somebody stops them.
It really is time for industry to route around this damage and develop a new common, free and open filesystem format, or for governments to step in and stop this abuse of their systems.
You call that a dick?...
Oops, screwed up the units. Add some zeros to those numbers. Proportions remain the same though.
Please don't taunt me a second time!
According to Nationmaster, Australia has 490 million hectares of arable land, while France has 185 million. Environmental Knowledge Systems Australia (EKSA) says that 400 million hectares of Australian land is actively used for agriculture.
Even if France used all of its arable land, it still wouldn't come close to Australia.
It's more like the French are doing it because Australia is doing it.
It's cute the way they appreciate and imitate our Aussie culture and style. And they almost get it right, but there's a certain je ne sais quoi they never seem to manage. I'm not sure what it is though.
You call that a large country with a lot of rural areas? Now this is a large country with a lot of rural areas!
Other reasons given include Increased sunspot activity, interference from the Van Allen Belt, Jupiter is aligned with Mars, the Vulcan-death-grip ping has been applied, excess condensation in cloud network, interference from lunar radiation, a star wars satellite accidently blew up the WAN, and BOFH intervention.
Shortly after the dropout, an astronaut was seen spacewalking near the station holding a floppy disk over his head.
iApple?
Anyone with a WinMo phone will tell you one of the biggest problems with them is the difficulty in finding apps that actually work.
I developed apps for Windows Mobile, and I can tell you that the biggest problem was getting a phone/OS that would actually work.
They were uniformly terrible, unreliable as phones and inconsistent and hard to understand as PDAs. You couldn't even rely on them as alarm clocks, given their propensity to hang and/or crash.
Sure, enjoy...
http://mattsurabian.com/duckhunt/
AC below is right, you're trolling.
Valve's involvement wit NVidia to improve Linux drivers is old news.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012, NVIDIA Delivers Massive Performance Boost To Linux Gaming
NVIDIA today announced the latest NVIDIA® GeForce® drivers -- R310 -- double the performance(1) and dramatically reduce game loading times for those gaming on the Linux operating system.
The result of almost a year of development by NVIDIA, Valve and other game developers, the new GeForce R310 drivers are designed to give GeForce customers the best possible Linux-based PC gaming experience -- and showcase the enormous potential of the world's biggest open-source operating system.
Opera's entirely different.
Not for long: http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-webkit
Nor will Warner Bros., given the name of one of the projects involved in this effort:
I think the Serval Project would have more right to be concerned, given that it is their work that's being hidden behind the advertising-ridden link from TFA.
It's also unsettling that work from a community project, intended to improve communications for people in need, is in the process of being "embraced" by an organisation like Mitre, funded by, and heavily tied into US Government and military.
Ad-hoc mesh networks do have the potential to be a game changer in a number of arenas. US government involvement this early is a bad sign for their future.
Sure, same for my cars and bikes - I spent this Xmas and new year chucking my little MGF around mountain roads in Tasmania.
Point is though, a lot of my fellow motorists doing the same drive consider it as a drudge and as a consequence don't practice enough to be good at it.
They get in my way.
Give them the autonomous vehicles and flying cars. Leave the roads to me, my MG and my Ducatis.
If they ever get made it will be because cars have become autonomous enough for that not to happen.
Yes.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
I think the idea of resource constraints stopping you from running a desktop OS on a mobile device is something that will soon be consigned to history.
It already has been.
But that's still not good news for MS. They've been charing monopoly rents for their desktop OS for so long, they'll have a hard time adapting to selling it on devices that cost less than they're retailing their OS for.