I should think any year now we'll be having probes wandering all over the solar system driven with ion drives, pointed every which way. Some collimation of the exhaust is presumed for best performance, but it's exhaust and tuning it like a cutting laser seems excess optimization. It seems unlikely to matter over interstellar distances. Some 50 years hence we'll be moving megaton asteroids with the things. You ought to be able to see that from a long way off if it's pointed at you. I would think that from Gleise 581 that would be brighter even than the sun.
There's some difficulty in predicting what future signatures might be, but some physicist should be able to make a good guess. This is a question with only three or four possible answers, and we could look for them all.
If we had told these men that it was near certain death: that there was almost no chance of survival whatever but we might learn something from their ashen corpse - it would not have made any difference. They were ready to GO. They would have strapped in with a smile on their lips. Once upon a time we were made of sterner stuff.
I'm wondering what this will do to the cases in (California?) and Germany. I had heard the US court had put a hold on enforcement of a similar ban on XBox in Germany. With a US Court having the same findings I wonder if the German ban will now be allowed to proceed.
The easy way to secure a Windows box it to turn it off. For extra safety, immerse it in salt water as well. For the maximum in security, immerse it in the salt water first and then turn it off.
Since Android is open Oracle actually have the source code for it. Its nature is laid bare for all to see. They know precisely what it does, and how it does it, and have known this whole time. They had a vast arsenal of patents and picked out the most applicable ones. With years to prepare their case and no way for Google to deny their own source code, Oracle's team should have had a slam dunk here if they had a case at all. But apparently, they didn't. The whole time.
And then bringing this weak case to stand in court and make these absurd claims:
. APIs are copyrightable
. Nine lines of 15 million justify infringers profits
. An array index is a symbolic reference
. Preprocessing a non-running executable is "dynamic optimization"
. Pattern matching is the same as simulating execution
... and other such nonsensical gems. It boggles the mind what depths of folly these were dredged from.
Remember this next time somebody's suing over IP: It ain't over 'til it's over.
Oracle needs to be held up to considerable ridicule over this one.
Now that they're part of Google they can leverage some awesome search engine technology, some offshore human resources and huge Google money to reverse engineer every Microsoft, Apple and Oracle product to inspect against 24,000 patents. And then spin out infringement lawsuit bundles to little IP startups for enforcement. Turn it into a profit center. That should be fun.
it is HIGHLY likely that two people could come up with the exact same code completely independant of one another without having met or seen each other's work.
I think you're missing the fact that your "two people" are, in fact, one person. Josh Bloch wrote both the infringed and the infringing code. It's just an honest mistake.
The best we can do for the previously open projects acquired with Sun by Oracle is to fork them. Oracle is run by Larry Ellison. Larry Ellison is not in the "giving stuff away" business.
You can do it with $79 with the MK802 But it would be handy if it were just built into the monitor or TV, and had a crisper processor - which is on the way. It would add maybe $40 to the cost of an HDTV.
For $380 you can buy a Windows laptop if that's what you want. 4GB and a 500GB drive. 15" display and full size keyboard. 2 whole hours of battery life new - after a year maybe 1 hour or maybe none. Knock yourself out. But that's not what people want any more.
It turns out these new ARM processors are "good enough."
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With so many different Linux distributions, how are you so sure one isn't named Azure?
I should think any year now we'll be having probes wandering all over the solar system driven with ion drives, pointed every which way. Some collimation of the exhaust is presumed for best performance, but it's exhaust and tuning it like a cutting laser seems excess optimization. It seems unlikely to matter over interstellar distances. Some 50 years hence we'll be moving megaton asteroids with the things. You ought to be able to see that from a long way off if it's pointed at you. I would think that from Gleise 581 that would be brighter even than the sun.
There's some difficulty in predicting what future signatures might be, but some physicist should be able to make a good guess. This is a question with only three or four possible answers, and we could look for them all.
20 lightyears. So you're in China then? I hear they block Google. That must be horrible.
I would think they should be looking for ion engine signatures. That seems a more likely signal to span the distance.
"What is a VPN?"
If Zuck took the Street for a ride, I'm OK with that.
Google paid $50m for Android, so that is a good return.
By the time W8 is released iOS+Android should be approaching a billion users. That's a pretty big installed base.
Some people write code because they need to do something. With no intention of publishing it at all, free or pay.
If we had told these men that it was near certain death: that there was almost no chance of survival whatever but we might learn something from their ashen corpse - it would not have made any difference. They were ready to GO. They would have strapped in with a smile on their lips. Once upon a time we were made of sterner stuff.
Google's recent acquisition may be able to help with that. I understand they know how to get stuff manufactured at scale.
I'm wondering what this will do to the cases in (California?) and Germany. I had heard the US court had put a hold on enforcement of a similar ban on XBox in Germany. With a US Court having the same findings I wonder if the German ban will now be allowed to proceed.
Great week for Google anyway.
The easy way to secure a Windows box it to turn it off. For extra safety, immerse it in salt water as well. For the maximum in security, immerse it in the salt water first and then turn it off.
Motorola Mobility is the part of Motorola that got the 17,000 patents and 6,500 pending patent applications.
Since Android is open Oracle actually have the source code for it. Its nature is laid bare for all to see. They know precisely what it does, and how it does it, and have known this whole time. They had a vast arsenal of patents and picked out the most applicable ones. With years to prepare their case and no way for Google to deny their own source code, Oracle's team should have had a slam dunk here if they had a case at all. But apparently, they didn't. The whole time.
And then bringing this weak case to stand in court and make these absurd claims:
. APIs are copyrightable
. Nine lines of 15 million justify infringers profits
. An array index is a symbolic reference
. Preprocessing a non-running executable is "dynamic optimization"
. Pattern matching is the same as simulating execution
... and other such nonsensical gems. It boggles the mind what depths of folly these were dredged from.
Remember this next time somebody's suing over IP: It ain't over 'til it's over.
Oracle needs to be held up to considerable ridicule over this one.
Now that they're part of Google they can leverage some awesome search engine technology, some offshore human resources and huge Google money to reverse engineer every Microsoft, Apple and Oracle product to inspect against 24,000 patents. And then spin out infringement lawsuit bundles to little IP startups for enforcement. Turn it into a profit center. That should be fun.
They're going for a block on Windows too in Germany. I wonder if they could get the ITC to stand for that one. Now THAT would be interesting.
it is HIGHLY likely that two people could come up with the exact same code completely independant of one another without having met or seen each other's work.
I think you're missing the fact that your "two people" are, in fact, one person. Josh Bloch wrote both the infringed and the infringing code. It's just an honest mistake.
Can you imagine what would happen if every petty law were enforced to the fullest extent? We'd all be in jail by the end of the day.
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Exactly. If you need Antivirus, you're doing it wrong.
Here's an interesting article from last year: Microsoft admits that one in fourteen downloads are Windows malware.
I would say Android is a long way from having anything like this sort of problem.
Oh, we're not done with that one yet.
The best we can do for the previously open projects acquired with Sun by Oracle is to fork them. Oracle is run by Larry Ellison. Larry Ellison is not in the "giving stuff away" business.
You can do it with $79 with the MK802 But it would be handy if it were just built into the monitor or TV, and had a crisper processor - which is on the way. It would add maybe $40 to the cost of an HDTV.
For $380 you can buy a Windows laptop if that's what you want. 4GB and a 500GB drive. 15" display and full size keyboard. 2 whole hours of battery life new - after a year maybe 1 hour or maybe none. Knock yourself out. But that's not what people want any more.
It turns out these new ARM processors are "good enough."