I understand the process, but still they could be working on it and have a prototype. It appears to me they're not interested in the technology if they can't be the only game in town. It's not that I can't understand their position, it's more than I can't sympathize.
Note I'm not disagreeing with you or with grand-grandparent (who said it sounded like an interesting idea). I simply find that basing your business primarily on having a lock on the market by patents is not particularly "nice." They could pursue their idea despite having to actually compete with whoever wants to roll their own similar service, it's a big corporation after all.
To summarize, we have a company who has no particular business in the P2P sector filing for a P2P related patent. Are they really interested in pursuing a P2P business? I don't think so. PROBABLY if they could have a monopoly or an advantage granted by this patent. Big corporations are quite patent happy and that often leaves out of the game those who really are interested in working on it. Could also be they are trying to keep others from patenting or implementing the technology, whilst not very interested in doing jack sh** about P2P. I think patents should expire earlier if the proponent doesn't actually do something about them. It wasn't the spirit of patents to stop technology from being advanced, but that's a different topic altogether.
I'm posting this from a Macbook myself. I've been a mac user for 3 years now, but I'm still primarily a BSD/Linux user who deals with Windows at work most of the time.
I haven't bothered to upgrade my older iBook since it doesn't get much use anyway, but I'm a bit surprised about how swiftly mac developers drop support for older versions. Even freeware and O.S. software has this tendency to drop support for older versions in just a couple of months. I'm afraid I will have to upgrade not for the features, but because some pieces of software that are important to me keep on supporting the latest iteration of OSX only. Quicksilver comes to mind. http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
By billing even a small ammount, you get the billing information of the user.
A spammer can only use his identity and credit card once before is banned from the service. This works great as a deterrent, if only for the unability of creating a dozen new accounts after a bunch of clicks.
Actually I also have a 20 MB Seagate inside an XT PC in my parents basement. It worked last time I tried it last year. My Amiga 2000HD sits next to it with a 40MB one and also works... back then, with floppies holding just 720KB formatted, it was very handy. This was bought in xmas 1988, I was just 12 years old so I just used it to store games and silly demos that got me busy at the time. My dad used some 3000 bucks of the day. When they introduced 100MB units I couldn't get dad to shell out.
Those things lasted. However, it could have been different if the intahwebs and bittorrent had been available at the moment;) Right now I hardly ever use it since I live pretty far away, and anyway since daddy passed away, I can't hold the tears remembering the long hours of fun we spent together with those machines.
Times change.
The FSF has radicalized their "freedom through coercion" views and is complicating GPL over what's necessary. The more you complicate a license, the more fair use "collateral-damage" you get. There are fair uses for hardware validation, you can't just rule them all out. If your hardware vendor screws you, buy from another one.
It has nothing to do with the lack of space. They live in small apartments because they are urbanites and they love big cities. Think NY, the real estate there is not cheaper than Tokyo. There is PLENTY of space and almost anyone can afford a big house in the countryside or just 30 miles away from a big city... but here (I'm living in Japan) that makes you some sort or "redneck" - really they love big cities it's just that.
Still, the size of a VCR or an XBOX is NOT significative at all. Please ditch this stupid myth.
>I'm not saying that this should be censored. It shouldn't.
>But this feels like trolling -- deliberately saying or doing something controversial, to draw attention. And trolling is lame.
>If they choose to open this door -- to associate an electronic device that has nothing to do with race with all of this ugly history, just to be titilating -- then they deserve whatever they get.
Advertising is all about attention whoring. You will see very little fairness there. It's not a review, it's an ad. Heck, even many reviewers are sold out these days to give skewed results in their reviews.
They got the message through that the PSP is coming in white. Missing accomplished. Period.
You have no idea. War today is most of the time NOT shooting at the innocent people, even when you are positive there ARE people out there to shoot you, and with AK47s and bazookas no less. Most police officers retire healthy after many years of continued service, it is obviously not in the same league of risk.
Yes, he was right. Cops who trespass and harass families belong into a body bag, even more so when armed and carrying a badge. Then it is time for celebration.
That race for the bottom would be a problem if there was REAL competition, but there really is not.
Trust me, I'm from Spain. Thankfully I'm not living there at the moment, but still it's very sad to see the kind of crap being passed as law in my country.
I can understand some basic protection can be state-sponsored, but obviously nothing remotely close to what I've witnessed in Europe (where I'm from). Treatment for basic healthcare should be paid-for and especially so by people who can afford it without a problem (99% of the people can buy a darned cold remedy).
Charity should NEVER be compulsory. This totalitarian socialistic mindset is scary. I wonder what would happen if a socialist bloc ruled the world... would they try to impose this fucked up system over everybody? I'm afraid they'd at least try.
By no means it is worse having.NET competition than the effective overtaking of Java under Windows by MS, then an induced crackdown in compatibility among platforms.
Java still has the upper hand, by a long shot. Every same individual knows.NET goes where MS wants it to go, and it's an understatement Windows is the preferred platform and support for the rest relies partly in "volunteers" in the long term. I wouldn't lock myself into.NET at any cost.
If you want a binary-based system, run Windows. Seriously. Have fun.
You're a retard if you think there are no other reasons to use Linux other than it's OS nature. I like it's OS, but if it sucked, then I would be using SOMETHING ELSE.
I like being able to look at the code, but being able to get WORK DONE has priority over that. I'm not saying Linux should be closed source, God forbid.
Kororaa is doing nothing wrong, and if the GPL is against it, then the GPL needs reform. In fact, Kororaa is helping Linux a lot. Most people believe X-Windows = irresponsive. Kororaa fights that.
Linux is a GPLd OS. If that doesn't suit you then you're quite right to use something else.
It suits me fine, but it doesn't suit many people for this reason. Lacking userbase causes many problems, like the lack of hardware support and ultimately vendor support. It helps nobody.
I seem to detect some aggressiveness in your reply. You have no business in telling me which OS to use or quit using.
This hurts Linux adoption big time. If hardware vendors and developers are not even sure they're allowed to support Linux (provided opening the source is often not a possibility) then that itself is a big wall in front of GNU/Linux adoption and support.
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I understand the process, but still they could be working on it and have a prototype. It appears to me they're not interested in the technology if they can't be the only game in town. It's not that I can't understand their position, it's more than I can't sympathize.
Note I'm not disagreeing with you or with grand-grandparent (who said it sounded like an interesting idea). I simply find that basing your business primarily on having a lock on the market by patents is not particularly "nice." They could pursue their idea despite having to actually compete with whoever wants to roll their own similar service, it's a big corporation after all.
To summarize, we have a company who has no particular business in the P2P sector filing for a P2P related patent. Are they really interested in pursuing a P2P business? I don't think so. PROBABLY if they could have a monopoly or an advantage granted by this patent. Big corporations are quite patent happy and that often leaves out of the game those who really are interested in working on it. Could also be they are trying to keep others from patenting or implementing the technology, whilst not very interested in doing jack sh** about P2P. I think patents should expire earlier if the proponent doesn't actually do something about them. It wasn't the spirit of patents to stop technology from being advanced, but that's a different topic altogether.
How about implementing it and releasing it? why patenting it with nothing done whatsoever?
It's not like they can't be the first to market and then patent their implementation, or protect their network by encryption or other means.
I'm posting this from a Macbook myself. I've been a mac user for 3 years now, but I'm still primarily a BSD/Linux user who deals with Windows at work most of the time. I haven't bothered to upgrade my older iBook since it doesn't get much use anyway, but I'm a bit surprised about how swiftly mac developers drop support for older versions. Even freeware and O.S. software has this tendency to drop support for older versions in just a couple of months. I'm afraid I will have to upgrade not for the features, but because some pieces of software that are important to me keep on supporting the latest iteration of OSX only. Quicksilver comes to mind. http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
By billing even a small ammount, you get the billing information of the user.
A spammer can only use his identity and credit card once before is banned from the service. This works great as a deterrent, if only for the unability of creating a dozen new accounts after a bunch of clicks.
Funny that you mention a couple of technologies that were pioneered by Sony back in the day.
Ibuka and Morita must be spinning in their graves. They could as well power the PS3 by installing dynamo generators in their graves.
How low has Sony fallen since they passed away?
Actually I also have a 20 MB Seagate inside an XT PC in my parents basement. It worked last time I tried it last year. My Amiga 2000HD sits next to it with a 40MB one and also works... back then, with floppies holding just 720KB formatted, it was very handy. This was bought in xmas 1988, I was just 12 years old so I just used it to store games and silly demos that got me busy at the time. My dad used some 3000 bucks of the day. When they introduced 100MB units I couldn't get dad to shell out.
;) Right now I hardly ever use it since I live pretty far away, and anyway since daddy passed away, I can't hold the tears remembering the long hours of fun we spent together with those machines.
Those things lasted. However, it could have been different if the intahwebs and bittorrent had been available at the moment
Last time I checked, I think there were no binaries. Just compile it, I believe macOS X is supported.
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.ph p
x ?pg=12 -core 2 duo
0 /index.x?pg=6 -early Athlon XP vs P4
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/
It's been around for a while. I think it's pretty good, though quite resource-demanding. The peeps at the tech-report usually benchmark it.
Here for instance:
http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/core2/index.
http://techreport.com/reviews/2002q1/athlonxp-210
(middle of the page)
As you can see, we can do real-time sphinx now.
Times change. The FSF has radicalized their "freedom through coercion" views and is complicating GPL over what's necessary. The more you complicate a license, the more fair use "collateral-damage" you get. There are fair uses for hardware validation, you can't just rule them all out. If your hardware vendor screws you, buy from another one.
Don't make their point that we're stupid.
It has nothing to do with the lack of space. They live in small apartments because they are urbanites and they love big cities. Think NY, the real estate there is not cheaper than Tokyo. There is PLENTY of space and almost anyone can afford a big house in the countryside or just 30 miles away from a big city... but here (I'm living in Japan) that makes you some sort or "redneck" - really they love big cities it's just that.
Still, the size of a VCR or an XBOX is NOT significative at all. Please ditch this stupid myth.
>I'm not saying that this should be censored. It shouldn't.
>But this feels like trolling -- deliberately saying or doing something controversial, to draw attention. And trolling is lame.
>If they choose to open this door -- to associate an electronic device that has nothing to do with race with all of this ugly history, just to be titilating -- then they deserve whatever they get.
Advertising is all about attention whoring. You will see very little fairness there. It's not a review, it's an ad.
Heck, even many reviewers are sold out these days to give skewed results in their reviews.
They got the message through that the PSP is coming in white. Missing accomplished. Period.
You have no idea. War today is most of the time NOT shooting at the innocent people, even when you are positive there ARE people out there to shoot you, and with AK47s and bazookas no less. Most police officers retire healthy after many years of continued service, it is obviously not in the same league of risk.
Yes, he was right. Cops who trespass and harass families belong into a body bag, even more so when armed and carrying a badge. Then it is time for celebration.
That race for the bottom would be a problem if there was REAL competition, but there really is not.
Trust me, I'm from Spain. Thankfully I'm not living there at the moment, but still it's very sad to see the kind of crap being passed as law in my country.
You do realize that those "real DVDs" you buy are DRMed , right?
You are not getting a better product. Probably a prettier case sometimes, but nothing else. You have been using the plastic fork all this time.
I can understand some basic protection can be state-sponsored, but obviously nothing remotely close to what I've witnessed in Europe (where I'm from). Treatment for basic healthcare should be paid-for and especially so by people who can afford it without a problem (99% of the people can buy a darned cold remedy).
Charity should NEVER be compulsory. This totalitarian socialistic mindset is scary. I wonder what would happen if a socialist bloc ruled the world... would they try to impose this fucked up system over everybody? I'm afraid they'd at least try.
It must suck to be poor. Take it easy pal.
My bad.
I didn't get the memo about (homosexual or not) marriage being a human right. Same for murder.
You seem to ignore they only failed BECAUSE OF THE LICENSE and the ruling it caused.
I'd bet my lucky pants MS would try again. MS is never afraid to open different fronts to kill competition, riding their monopoly cash cow.
By no means it is worse having .NET competition than the effective overtaking of Java under Windows by MS, then an induced crackdown in compatibility among platforms.
.NET goes where MS wants it to go, and it's an understatement Windows is the preferred platform and support for the rest relies partly in "volunteers" in the long term. I wouldn't lock myself into .NET at any cost.
Java still has the upper hand, by a long shot. Every same individual knows
Is performance remotely comparable to propietary ATI/nVidia drivers?
You're a retard if you think there are no other reasons to use Linux other than it's OS nature. I like it's OS, but if it sucked, then I would be using SOMETHING ELSE.
I like being able to look at the code, but being able to get WORK DONE has priority over that. I'm not saying Linux should be closed source, God forbid.
Kororaa is doing nothing wrong, and if the GPL is against it, then the GPL needs reform. In fact, Kororaa is helping Linux a lot. Most people believe X-Windows = irresponsive. Kororaa fights that.
This is the whole point here.
It suits me fine, but it doesn't suit many people for this reason. Lacking userbase causes many problems, like the lack of hardware support and ultimately vendor support. It helps nobody.
I seem to detect some aggressiveness in your reply. You have no business in telling me which OS to use or quit using.
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This hurts Linux adoption big time. If hardware vendors and developers are not even sure they're allowed to support Linux (provided opening the source is often not a possibility) then that itself is a big wall in front of GNU/Linux adoption and support.
Microsoft just shuts them down:
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ART
Not especially interested in defending Sony, but I'll bite:
+ Bluray
+ access to the dominant game base (PS2)
+ supposedly, a lot more horsepower