The system was desinged in a time that thermodynamics was the only advanced science, and just a bunch of people worked at hight tech (all on the same kind of tech). It was not designed to cope with any aspect of advanced sciences or our current R&D methodology. Software is not the exception, mechanic engeneering (where patens somewhat work) is.
I wonder why nearly nobody is fighting. I know one can't judge a patent by its title, but there is no chance I'm reading such beasts...
"Common name space for long and short filenames."
Looks like those patents on DOS naming convention MS is suing every flash user with. The problem here is that Android doesn't use the DOS naming convention.
"Monitoring entropic conditions of a flash memory device as an indicator for invoking erasure operations."
The hardware doesn't already do that? Can MS sue the flash manufacturers with that patent, and them go and sue the companies that use those same flash chips? Can it sue the end consumers too?
"Radio interface layer in a cell phone with a set of APIs having a hardware-independent proxy layer and a hardware-specific driver layer."
That is the funniest of all. It is corba over a wireless connection. I simply doubt Android uses the same APIs defined at the patent.
"Method and system for managing changes to a contact database.", "Flexible architecture for notifying applications of state changes.", "Method and system for supporting off-line mode of operation and synchronization using resource state information." and "Generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device."
All are in the format <Something we do since the 60's> in a mobile device.
"Context sensitive menu system/menu behavior."
Finally, that one isn't clear enough to know what it is talking about...
"Oracle absolutely trounces every other DBMS out there for large BW applications in terms of performance and scalability, and naturally it performs best on Solaris."
Yet, the largest databases I've ever met run on hightly distibuted DBMS, what Oracle just can't do. Oracle is used at "millions of people data" applications, where people have the option of just buying a few big machines and using them, while the "hundreds of millions of people data" applications need some serious support from software.
And when would that be the case now, at 2011? Most sites I see Oracle running use it because they needed Oracle at the past (and once you start with Oracle you just can't stop anymore), or because "Well, nothing compares with Oracle" while they use bad practices to go around Oracle's licensing and would be better serverd even by MySQL. From 2006 to now I've just never saw a site that needs Oracle, and I simply don't know of any exclusive feature of Oracle that would make a site need it anyway.
The 3rd worlders are way smarter than you think... If they see your army sucessfully using solar panels, they'll more likely think "Hey, even those slow bureocratic and inefficient (not on that exact terms) imperialists can make that thing work, why can't I?"
Disbanding the army wouldn't solve (at the short term) all the US budget deficit, not even most of it. But it could increase the US GDP by virtue of breaking less windows, and that could solve most of the US budget deficit. That, of course, assuming that your government would invest the money on something usefull (like letting it with the population, for example), instead of breaking other windows with it.
There are lots of people pointing that clusters appear at random in this thread. Did you read the comments before posting?
I too find it quite unlikely that this cluster isn't random. But it would be sane to retire the machines, or at least make the workers wear detectors. Anyway, I'm far away from the problem, so, go on...
It would be better phrased as "A tyrant can't take everybody's power from us. We have to surrender it."
Of course, lots of tyrants all over history took power from lots of people that didn't surrender it. And the problem with the GP rationale is that there is always a share of the people that is willing to surrender.
It surely occurs to me, but I'm quite used to popular english sentenses making no sense. Some times I discover why (thanks for the explanation), but often I don't.
Thanks $DEITY that KDE developers don't depend on it for their livehood... Too bad Facebook has less features now. I, personaly, don't care; but Facebook should care...
If you have to give a key for somebody, give it to the user, not the application developer. Authenticate the user, not the application, if you want to ban, ban the user, not the application, etc.
It is a quite obvious priciple, that is why you don't see people saying it. On the other hand, since people rarely say it, some idiots think it doesn't exist.
That depends, do I live in a civilized society, where The People are the ones choosing what goes into The Law, and The Justice withold such law with homogeinity? Or do I live in a society where The Corporations are the ones choosing what goes into The Law, and The Justice has two standards depending if the accused is rich or not, and refuses to act to withold laws as long as possible?
It is a necessary condition for the first scenario to be true that the CEO gets a pretty harsh penalty from his actions (probably jaitime), if just the company loses a few milions, or just the regulation changes, you are not at a just society anymore. Now, tell me, what do you expect to happen if you sue Ferrari for negligence at your society? (And why do you have to sue, it is a crime, what is the police doing?)
You mean, like all the games I run in DosBox? I'm still having trobles installing Windows 98 in a virtual machine, so I can only run the 20 year old stuff, I'm still fighting to run the 15 (ok, just 13) years old ones...
I guess everybody values stability. The second biggest software company is alive just because of that... Go argue against a point that earns them billions of dollars every month. People also value a tool that is productive, more than they value change (a few may even invest in learning a tool before using it, if it promisses to make them more productive), but gratuitous change anoyes everybody.
Those libraries are alredy marked read-only. More processes still use more memory, but that is because of extra space at the stack and heap, not because of a duplicated executable.
Anyway, the difference is not relevant for a browser, you won't have tens of thousands of tabs oppened.
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The system was desinged in a time that thermodynamics was the only advanced science, and just a bunch of people worked at hight tech (all on the same kind of tech). It was not designed to cope with any aspect of advanced sciences or our current R&D methodology. Software is not the exception, mechanic engeneering (where patens somewhat work) is.
I wonder why nearly nobody is fighting. I know one can't judge a patent by its title, but there is no chance I'm reading such beasts...
"Common name space for long and short filenames."
Looks like those patents on DOS naming convention MS is suing every flash user with. The problem here is that Android doesn't use the DOS naming convention.
"Monitoring entropic conditions of a flash memory device as an indicator for invoking erasure operations."
The hardware doesn't already do that? Can MS sue the flash manufacturers with that patent, and them go and sue the companies that use those same flash chips? Can it sue the end consumers too?
"Radio interface layer in a cell phone with a set of APIs having a hardware-independent proxy layer and a hardware-specific driver layer."
That is the funniest of all. It is corba over a wireless connection. I simply doubt Android uses the same APIs defined at the patent.
"Method and system for managing changes to a contact database.", "Flexible architecture for notifying applications of state changes.", "Method and system for supporting off-line mode of operation and synchronization using resource state information." and "Generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device."
All are in the format <Something we do since the 60's> in a mobile device.
"Context sensitive menu system/menu behavior."
Finally, that one isn't clear enough to know what it is talking about...
Your logic there is impecable, so you must question your premisses...
"Oracle absolutely trounces every other DBMS out there for large BW applications in terms of performance and scalability, and naturally it performs best on Solaris."
Yet, the largest databases I've ever met run on hightly distibuted DBMS, what Oracle just can't do. Oracle is used at "millions of people data" applications, where people have the option of just buying a few big machines and using them, while the "hundreds of millions of people data" applications need some serious support from software.
And when would that be the case now, at 2011? Most sites I see Oracle running use it because they needed Oracle at the past (and once you start with Oracle you just can't stop anymore), or because "Well, nothing compares with Oracle" while they use bad practices to go around Oracle's licensing and would be better serverd even by MySQL. From 2006 to now I've just never saw a site that needs Oracle, and I simply don't know of any exclusive feature of Oracle that would make a site need it anyway.
I just can't find where I proposed any course of action. Would you care to clarify that?
The 3rd worlders are way smarter than you think... If they see your army sucessfully using solar panels, they'll more likely think "Hey, even those slow bureocratic and inefficient (not on that exact terms) imperialists can make that thing work, why can't I?"
Are you sure that solar pannels don't survive bullet damage? I'd expect them too, being modular...
Yep, and you could have done that with just a bunch of missiles while he still was at Afganistan.
Disbanding the army wouldn't solve (at the short term) all the US budget deficit, not even most of it. But it could increase the US GDP by virtue of breaking less windows, and that could solve most of the US budget deficit. That, of course, assuming that your government would invest the money on something usefull (like letting it with the population, for example), instead of breaking other windows with it.
Only if they decide to pay.
Shut up! Extremism isn't broke, so let's not "fix" it.
There are lots of people pointing that clusters appear at random in this thread. Did you read the comments before posting?
I too find it quite unlikely that this cluster isn't random. But it would be sane to retire the machines, or at least make the workers wear detectors. Anyway, I'm far away from the problem, so, go on...
It would be better phrased as "A tyrant can't take everybody's power from us. We have to surrender it."
Of course, lots of tyrants all over history took power from lots of people that didn't surrender it. And the problem with the GP rationale is that there is always a share of the people that is willing to surrender.
In short, the truth not only hurts, but it also dumbifies?
It surely occurs to me, but I'm quite used to popular english sentenses making no sense. Some times I discover why (thanks for the explanation), but often I don't.
That is because Javascript is sandboxed. You can also sanbox a compiled language.
Anyway, I disagree with the GP, compiling a web language isn't that important. Type safety is.
I have several of those near my home computer.
Not if they are web apps.
Thanks $DEITY that KDE developers don't depend on it for their livehood... Too bad Facebook has less features now. I, personaly, don't care; but Facebook should care...
If you have to give a key for somebody, give it to the user, not the application developer. Authenticate the user, not the application, if you want to ban, ban the user, not the application, etc.
It is a quite obvious priciple, that is why you don't see people saying it. On the other hand, since people rarely say it, some idiots think it doesn't exist.
And now the question is... Why should one pay to have a worse experience? It used to be that we paid people to get something we wanted from them...
That depends, do I live in a civilized society, where The People are the ones choosing what goes into The Law, and The Justice withold such law with homogeinity? Or do I live in a society where The Corporations are the ones choosing what goes into The Law, and The Justice has two standards depending if the accused is rich or not, and refuses to act to withold laws as long as possible?
It is a necessary condition for the first scenario to be true that the CEO gets a pretty harsh penalty from his actions (probably jaitime), if just the company loses a few milions, or just the regulation changes, you are not at a just society anymore. Now, tell me, what do you expect to happen if you sue Ferrari for negligence at your society? (And why do you have to sue, it is a crime, what is the police doing?)
You mean, like all the games I run in DosBox? I'm still having trobles installing Windows 98 in a virtual machine, so I can only run the 20 year old stuff, I'm still fighting to run the 15 (ok, just 13) years old ones...
I guess everybody values stability. The second biggest software company is alive just because of that... Go argue against a point that earns them billions of dollars every month. People also value a tool that is productive, more than they value change (a few may even invest in learning a tool before using it, if it promisses to make them more productive), but gratuitous change anoyes everybody.
Those libraries are alredy marked read-only. More processes still use more memory, but that is because of extra space at the stack and heap, not because of a duplicated executable.
Anyway, the difference is not relevant for a browser, you won't have tens of thousands of tabs oppened.