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Where is that? In our area, you can get RoadRunner for 44.95 if you have basic cable also, or 49.95 if you don't.
That's the way it used to be here in San Diego. Now it's 44.95 for everyone, and they also stopped charging the strange cable taxes to broadband-only subscribers.
That web page is rather old and is referring to the first American season of Junkyard Wars. In fact they start airing the most recent UK episodes here on Wednesday, starting with "Mud Monsters".
Yes, I did notice this. I'm suprised nobody else did. In one part of the show, there's a prerecorded bit with the robot approaching the "door" with it's sonar attachment. The right "handle" is long. They then cut to something else, and then back to the video of the robot inching closer to the door (still with the sonar attachment) and the "handle" is short.
Theory: The robot broke the "handle" while applying pressure to the "door" with the sonar attachment.
From the previous expedition, the other "handle" appears to once have been longer, but also broke off at one point. The broken off piece is visible in one of the pictures here.
It's too bad they did not explain what happened. I prefer TV that doesn't insult my intelligence.
They only need to make the source available if they distribute the binary. If it was kept for internal use, they wouldn't have to make anything available to anyone.
Sure, but what's the point of GPLing something that you're not going to release?
A JVM is barely more efficient running on the native API rather than BREW. BREW really doesn't add much overhead. And if you are writing a JVM for a phone that supports BREW, it's worth it to write it on top of BREW since this will let your JVM run on other phones that support BREW. (There are many differences between phones besides the chipset, and this is where the BREW API is going to help you out a lot.) And down the road, it is possible that you'll see BREW on ARM phones that don't use Qualcomm's chipsets. It is also possible that you will see BREW on non-ARM phones, in which case porting will be as easy as recompiling.
It's makes a lot of sense to write a JVM on top of BREW. Without the abstraction of BREW, writing a JVM to run on many different phones is a real pain in the ass. But if you make your JVM a BREW app, it will run on a bunch of phones.
Anyone that thinks wireless download of games or apps is going to work is sadly mistaken. Wireless data transmission is far from reliable enough to work consistently 95% of the time.
You are blatantly wrong. BREW app downloads work very well on Verizon in San Diego. Application downloads are just as reliable as voice calls.
You are very wrong. BREW is definitely not interpreted. BREW is just an API. BREW apps are native ARM code, generally compiled from C and C++ source code.
If your a developers, where would you put your efort first?
I'd put my effort into BREW, where I can write my apps in ARM assembly and squeeze every last bit of performance out of the processor. That's really important for games. What I would not want is the overhead of a Java Virtual Machine.
If we assume for the moment that they had thought of consulting an attorney when they first embarked on this project, would it have made a difference?
Well, I did seek some legal device back in 1998, when I receive a cease and desist letter from the Software Publishers Association. The letter (well email, actually) came less than 12 hours after I published bnetd 0.1.
The lawyer was from the Student Legal Services office at my university, and didn't know much about IP law, but I did seek legal advice early on.:)
Actually, it was the SPA that sent me the cease and desist e-mail. I exchanged a few e-mails with the SPA lawyer until he didn't respond any more. The Slashdot story is here:
The article doesn't say the source code was released. I assume just the binaries were released into the public domain, and the source code remains secret.
No, 15% is a great raise. At that rate, you'll surpass $65K in 3 years. In 6 years, you'll be making more than $100K, and in 11 years, you'll be making more than $200K.
People who compain about exponential salary growth don't deserve any raises at all!
I agree. I can't live without this program. Of course, it only works with IE (this is what finally convinced me to ditch Nutscrape) and it does its job a little too well. It would be nice if it were smarter, and allowed me to open a new instance of IE via the File->New menu option or the desktop shortcut. And I would think it would be possible to make a pop-up blocker that was able to distinguish between pop-ups that resulted from me clicking a link and other pop-ups.
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Where is that? In our area, you can get RoadRunner for 44.95 if you have basic cable also, or 49.95 if you don't.
That's the way it used to be here in San Diego. Now it's 44.95 for everyone, and they also stopped charging the strange cable taxes to broadband-only subscribers.
That web page is rather old and is referring to the first American season of Junkyard Wars. In fact they start airing the most recent UK episodes here on Wednesday, starting with "Mud Monsters".
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It would be astronomically huge. That is why.
You misread. The article says the seventh game ended in a draw, which means they're tied going into the final game (game 8).
Yes, I did notice this. I'm suprised nobody else did. In one part of the show, there's a prerecorded bit with the robot approaching the "door" with it's sonar attachment. The right "handle" is long. They then cut to something else, and then back to the video of the robot inching closer to the door (still with the sonar attachment) and the "handle" is short.
Theory: The robot broke the "handle" while applying pressure to the "door" with the sonar attachment.
From the previous expedition, the other "handle" appears to once have been longer, but also broke off at one point. The broken off piece is visible in one of the pictures here.
It's too bad they did not explain what happened. I prefer TV that doesn't insult my intelligence.
They only need to make the source available if they distribute the binary. If it was kept for internal use, they wouldn't have to make anything available to anyone.
Sure, but what's the point of GPLing something that you're not going to release?
A JVM is barely more efficient running on the native API rather than BREW. BREW really doesn't add much overhead. And if you are writing a JVM for a phone that supports BREW, it's worth it to write it on top of BREW since this will let your JVM run on other phones that support BREW. (There are many differences between phones besides the chipset, and this is where the BREW API is going to help you out a lot.) And down the road, it is possible that you'll see BREW on ARM phones that don't use Qualcomm's chipsets. It is also possible that you will see BREW on non-ARM phones, in which case porting will be as easy as recompiling.
It's makes a lot of sense to write a JVM on top of BREW. Without the abstraction of BREW, writing a JVM to run on many different phones is a real pain in the ass. But if you make your JVM a BREW app, it will run on a bunch of phones.
Anyone that thinks wireless download of games or apps is going to work is sadly mistaken. Wireless data transmission is far from reliable enough to work consistently 95% of the time.
You are blatantly wrong. BREW app downloads work very well on Verizon in San Diego. Application downloads are just as reliable as voice calls.
You are very wrong. BREW is definitely not interpreted. BREW is just an API. BREW apps are native ARM code, generally compiled from C and C++ source code.
Brew does perform better, but it's not a scalable platform.
I don't understand what you're trying to say here.
Writing abstraction layers is easier in Java.
BREW is an abstraction layer.
If your a developers, where would you put your efort first?
I'd put my effort into BREW, where I can write my apps in ARM assembly and squeeze every last bit of performance out of the processor. That's really important for games. What I would not want is the overhead of a Java Virtual Machine.
Hey Mike! Well, I'm not getting sued, yet. But who knows, it might happen.
Well, I did seek some legal device back in 1998, when I receive a cease and desist letter from the Software Publishers Association. The letter (well email, actually) came less than 12 hours after I published bnetd 0.1.
The lawyer was from the Student Legal Services office at my university, and didn't know much about IP law, but I did seek legal advice early on. :)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=older/980411091 225
I imagine the publicity that the Slashdot story generated was what convinced the SPA and Blizzard to back off. Maybe it will work again this time.
Anyway, I'm somewhat amused to be a certified DMCA criminal! ;)
No, trade secrets != copyrights.
If the source code is secret, then it cannot be copyrighted. Copyrights are only for things that are published.
The article doesn't say the source code was released. I assume just the binaries were released into the public domain, and the source code remains secret.
Hey, don't mod this off topic. Mod it up so it gets fixed!
You posted to a public place. You gave up your copyright when you did that.
No, 15% is a great raise. At that rate, you'll surpass $65K in 3 years. In 6 years, you'll be making more than $100K, and in 11 years, you'll be making more than $200K.
People who compain about exponential salary growth don't deserve any raises at all!
I heard that recently @home (at least in San Diego) has begun blocking various ports, including port 80. That would explain the problem.
I agree. I can't live without this program. Of course, it only works with IE (this is what finally convinced me to ditch Nutscrape) and it does its job a little too well. It would be nice if it were smarter, and allowed me to open a new instance of IE via the File->New menu option or the desktop shortcut. And I would think it would be possible to make a pop-up blocker that was able to distinguish between pop-ups that resulted from me clicking a link and other pop-ups.
Obelisks couldn't be built from "the bottom up" because they were each made of one solid piece of granite.
It was Nova. I don't think any of the obelisks were nearly as large as the ancient obelisks they were mimicking. Here's the link to the Nova web site:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/obelisk/