SF Gate has an article about people who patent ideas for things they have no intentions of building, hoping to license technology or block competitors from doing something similar
How about people who buy land they have no intention of building on, hoping to sell it to others while blocking other people from building on this land?
...or so the story goes. I'm sure we can make it to Mars with our current technology.
I think it's hard to get to Mars because it's far away and it it's in SPACE! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out! Well on second though....
It's not offtopic. If you hadn't just gotten a computer in the last 2 years, and hung around channels like #c and #coders, you'd know what I'm talking about. He was one of the guys who helped write something cool, and they were bought up by a big company and thats almost like a dream come true.
I remember the conversations about WinAmp and Mp3's back in the mid 90's:
"I just compressed a Rob Zombie song down to 3mb, it took 25 minutes on my Pentium 166"
"Why the heck would you want to do that? It'd take a half hour to download it over my 56k modem!?"
"Well it's this cool format called MPEG Layer 3, and a bunch of us are trading music files. Anyone know where you can find some Pearl Jam?"
I use my Jornada 720 and Axim for programming in Smalltalk perl/tk (not just writing code, testing it as well), writing papers in LaTeX, email, telnet/ssh, web browsing, and other stuff.
Instead, it uses the SciTech SNAP graphics system with which it is possible to completely re-theme the desktop to look like the famous AmigaOS GUI or another famous UI.
Right. Because themes are the most important thing, ever. This isn't an media player, it's a GUI.
I think "the next big thing" in advertising could be plain old hypertext links within writings. If an online magazine has an article about C++, wherever it says "C++ compiler" in the article it could be a link to a compiler vendor.
Atomica Slingshot will allow you to click on any word in any program, and it provides search engine results for that word. Works pretty well.
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SF Gate has an article about people who patent ideas for things they have no intentions of building, hoping to license technology or block competitors from doing something similar
How about people who buy land they have no intention of building on, hoping to sell it to others while blocking other people from building on this land?
Moore's Law, at it again.
it took them 25 years to reach the billions, but they estimate that they will hit 2 billion by only 2007
I canceled my service
$59 for the service
$5 'rental'
Yuck
I signed up when it was $39.99 and FAST and the modem was free.
Its gets slower and slower and more expensive.
I think it's hard to get to Mars because it's far away and it it's in SPACE! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out! Well on second though....
Just because PNG is 'better' than GIF, doesn't mean it'll win.
GIF has such a huge head start...
What do they have, packet sniffers and logs running?
"Sir! 62.32.39.112 just sent a MP3 file to 230.93.122.5! Lets send in the SWAT team!"
Can't you just use a psuedonym? I mentioned this in another post.
If the patch or software is released by "Thor the C Coder", who's the wiser?
It's not offtopic. If you hadn't just gotten a computer in the last 2 years, and hung around channels like #c and #coders, you'd know what I'm talking about. He was one of the guys who helped write something cool, and they were bought up by a big company and thats almost like a dream come true.
I remember the conversations about WinAmp and Mp3's back in the mid 90's:
"I just compressed a Rob Zombie song down to 3mb, it took 25 minutes on my Pentium 166"
"Why the heck would you want to do that? It'd take a half hour to download it over my 56k modem!?"
"Well it's this cool format called MPEG Layer 3, and a bunch of us are trading music files. Anyone know where you can find some Pearl Jam?"
Can't he use a pen name or psuedonym?
WASTE, by Ian Cognito. (IanCognito@hotmail.com)
I remember talking to the guy on IRC years ago when he was working on his old 3D engine, Plush.
Time sure flies!
Many times you are not searching for an object left by someone else, but you are looking for a static object, such as a tombstone.
As long as you are looking for a virtual cache, are you okay?
Maybe you should just run Linux on that Jornada.
I use my Jornada 720 and Axim for programming in Smalltalk perl/tk (not just writing code, testing it as well), writing papers in LaTeX, email, telnet/ssh, web browsing, and other stuff.
Enter the Canon ImageRunner 6500
File->Print->
2 sided printing - Check
Pages per sheet - 2
621/4 = 150.25 pages. All prints in about 4 minutes. Enough for me to enjoy a ice cold can of Pepsi from the fridge.
Excuse me while I go over to the thermal binder. The joys of working in a big office!
Ollyg reviews here the official guide to Exim's current release, which weighs in at a hefty 621 pages
We spent about that on the war with Iraq.
We'd probably have to charge them one hundred trillion dollars.
First "Japan gets all the cool stuff and the USA is forced to wait, or never even gets it"
First it was those cell phone watches, then SARS, and now the PSX.
Is Symantec security software the only thing affected?
All I wanted was laptop drives with frickin' laser beams strapped to their heads.
They own the old Napster rights and they own Easy CD Creator?
Related?
Instead, it uses the SciTech SNAP graphics system with which it is possible to completely re-theme the desktop to look like the famous AmigaOS GUI or another famous UI.
Right. Because themes are the most important thing, ever. This isn't an media player, it's a GUI.
Copy protection will never really exist
Hindsight is always 20/20
Most any large disaster etc COULD have been prevented.
Fricking Recorders!!!
We had to walk uphill in the snow both ways too...
We had to buy them ourselves, too!
If we get more people surfing the web with phones, pda's, web tv or similar appliances...
Many of those devices don't have the capability to show those ads, so PC users might benefit.
I think "the next big thing" in advertising could be plain old hypertext links within writings. If an online magazine has an article about C++, wherever it says "C++ compiler" in the article it could be a link to a compiler vendor.
Atomica Slingshot will allow you to click on any word in any program, and it provides search engine results for that word. Works pretty well.