I honestly think the threat to Apple is minimal. The patent is questionable enough that Creative isn't going to be really abusive with it. They'll ask for their quarter ounce of flesh and be done with it.
I'm not so sure about that. Looks like they've filed another one (for the same exact thing?): patent application 20050187976.
Or is this just a defensive move in case the original hierarchical filing system (aka directory tree) fell through?
Not sure that's a fair comparison...how many employees are represented by the AFT contributions? How many employees are represented by Microsoft contributions?
Yeah, funny that in the worst error case possible, the programmer decided to choose the value that was most frequently legitimate. When you want to indicate an error condition, it's awfully convenient to have exceptions to throw, as we do in Java. I can't tell you how many times I've reviewed Java code that returns null or 0 or -1 when it should be throwing an exception. At least, however, it was returning SOMEthing that looked like an error value....not the most typically returned value!!!
maybe you're thinking of "pulling up" as in "moving your mouse up".... i think you're being a bit picky here. the point was that they'd do whatever it takes to gain altitude. i think what puppetman is probably still true regardless.
or do you just object to the 'misconception' that apparently everyone has that "pulling up" means "gaining altitude"? but think about it...if you were flying, someone yelled, "Pull up!", would you really head into a nose-dive?...
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I honestly think the threat to Apple is minimal. The patent is questionable enough that Creative isn't going to be really abusive with it. They'll ask for their quarter ounce of flesh and be done with it.
I'm not so sure about that. Looks like they've filed another one (for the same exact thing?): patent application 20050187976. Or is this just a defensive move in case the original hierarchical filing system (aka directory tree) fell through?
Not sure that's a fair comparison...how many employees are represented by the AFT contributions? How many employees are represented by Microsoft contributions?
Yeah, funny that in the worst error case possible, the programmer decided to choose the value that was most frequently legitimate. When you want to indicate an error condition, it's awfully convenient to have exceptions to throw, as we do in Java. I can't tell you how many times I've reviewed Java code that returns null or 0 or -1 when it should be throwing an exception. At least, however, it was returning SOMEthing that looked like an error value....not the most typically returned value!!!
maybe you're thinking of "pulling up" as in "moving your mouse up".... i think you're being a bit picky here. the point was that they'd do whatever it takes to gain altitude. i think what puppetman is probably still true regardless.
or do you just object to the 'misconception' that apparently everyone has that "pulling up" means "gaining altitude"? but think about it...if you were flying, someone yelled, "Pull up!", would you really head into a nose-dive?...