Note that if you have the system in your car and you are NOT paying for the service, then they can activate it and listen without any problem (if they have a warrant). They will not interfer with the service as you are not paying for it.
Now that they have a bunch of game developers following them, they no longer need the easy porting feature. They prove (to some extends) that they can build a competitive gaming console, now they can change the architecture without second taughts.
Like it was previously mentionned, they will probably use the VirtualPC software to provide game compatibility with the current XBox. I bet that the new API will be backward compatibile with the current one. They will certainly not do a complete rewrite of it. So current developpers will be able to quickly go on with the new architecture.
Yup, it's called pause. All DVD remote were build in anticipation of this release. While viewing LOTR: Two Towers Extended Edition this feature is being enabled between action scenes.
Companies are accountable to their shareholders in relation to their SEC statements. If a company decides not to apply for any patents and file for this statement with the SEC, then the shareholder are being notified and they cannot sue management if they fail to profit because of that.
They is NO legal requirements that a company must try to do a maximum of profit. They just can't lie or hide stuff (decision) that can affect the value of their shareholder investement.
The reason you expose do not apply here. With this service you can burn the songs (up to 3 times) on a CD.
You can copy the CD all you want after that.
The law allow you to copy music for personal use but it does not prevent anyone to make it hard to copy the music.
Also with the levy, you pay the artist (author and compositor) twice, not the record company or the interpret (ie Celine Dion will be only paid once for the sale on the song but will get nothing from the collected levy).
I don't know what is considered harassmeent in the US, but in Canada, the misconduct must be repeated to be actually called harassment.
For example, some guy can stop a nice lady on the street and ask her if she wants to have his Big d**k in her sl*t. Even if the lady find this offeding, she would have a hard time suing for harassment. On the other hand, if the guy is asking here many time, then she is on good ground to sue (she will actually complain to the police and criminal charges will be pressed on the guy).
Note that if there is a relation of power between the two person (the guy is the lady's boss) then the first misconduct can be interpretted as harassment.
How is 3$/month + 1$ to 2$ / hours cost less than 9.95$ / month?
You seem to forgot that in North America, there is no per-minute charges for local calls.
Surfing more than 6 hours (off-peak) will cost more in Sweden than in the US. I'm pretty sure that monthly average of these internet users will surf more than 6 hours a month.
It's not just that. It's the first time I hear a Linux user complaining about keyboard shortcuts. In general it's a lot faster to work with the keyboard than with the mouse.
What, you never compiled MPlayer on your box? You are surely not a real geek! And you are not able to configure Mozilla to run your favorite media player when it hit a ".rm" file? Maybe you should try recompiling it!
So le me repeat myself. This link (can you see it) point to a RealOne video of a presentation demoing new stuff from Sun. If you skip to 1:01:00 (approx), the guy gives a demo of Java 3D desktop where you can see many video stream displayed in a 3D desktop. You'll see the guy rotate the window in "3D" without missing a single frame. At the same time the clip is displayed in it's window, you have a 3D icon displaying the same clip at the bottom of the screen (think Aqua zoomable icons on steroids).
For sure the whole code is not pure Java. They use Java 3D which itself sits on OpenGL (on Linux).
As for large Java application that are not slow and that do not crash, I can think of many : Eclipse, JBuilder, WebLogic, JBoss.
As of now the only people who think that big, stable, fast Java GUI apps do not exist are the people who don't see anything else beside C or C++ due to technological blindness or other reasons of having very closed mind.
The concept of pair programming already exist in a good team. No need to force people to work all their time in pair.
When you have a good and balanced team, pair programming will occur naturally. At some point someone is having stuck on some problem (design, bug,...). In genral, the person will ask one of his fellow team member help to solve the problem. Natural Pair Programming! This is much more effective than having 2 persons work on the same problem (which is trivial 80% of the time).
I believe that Natural Pair Programming with mentoring and code review are a lot better than full-time pair programming. This will help junior developer get up to speed more quickly without having to have two brains waisting their time on trivial problems.
I also like the idea of the other poster saying that you can have one developer write the Unit Test while the other write the business code (you should inverse roles often though). This also benefit having two brain work on different thing while maintaining synergy and increasing the odd of catching bugs.
The KVM Approach is more secure but requires a seperate computer AND physical network connection (unless you use a switch or a hub so both computer can share the same ethernet cable on different VLAN) and cost much more than the VMWare solution.
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Even if you are laptop user... AFAIK no laptop have a built-in cable/xDSL model. So you still need backup power for you cable/xDSL modem.
You can trademark common english words if the product/service the trademark will be put on is not related to the meaning of the word.
I can trademark "Truck" for some software product but not for a vehicule.
Note that if you have the system in your car and you are NOT paying for the service, then they can activate it and listen without any problem (if they have a warrant). They will not interfer with the service as you are not paying for it.
Now that they have a bunch of game developers following them, they no longer need the easy porting feature. They prove (to some extends) that they can build a competitive gaming console, now they can change the architecture without second taughts.
Like it was previously mentionned, they will probably use the VirtualPC software to provide game compatibility with the current XBox. I bet that the new API will be backward compatibile with the current one. They will certainly not do a complete rewrite of it. So current developpers will be able to quickly go on with the new architecture.
Yup, it's called pause. All DVD remote were build in anticipation of this release. While viewing LOTR: Two Towers Extended Edition this feature is being enabled between action scenes.
You seem to forget about Mandrake Linux which has free ISO availlable for download.
I believe that Mandrake has more market share in North America than SUSE (I don't have any link to back that up though).
That's pure crap!
Companies are accountable to their shareholders in relation to their SEC statements. If a company decides not to apply for any patents and file for this statement with the SEC, then the shareholder are being notified and they cannot sue management if they fail to profit because of that.
They is NO legal requirements that a company must try to do a maximum of profit. They just can't lie or hide stuff (decision) that can affect the value of their shareholder investement.
The reason you expose do not apply here. With this service you can burn the songs (up to 3 times) on a CD.
You can copy the CD all you want after that.
The law allow you to copy music for personal use but it does not prevent anyone to make it hard to copy the music.
Also with the levy, you pay the artist (author and compositor) twice, not the record company or the interpret (ie Celine Dion will be only paid once for the sale on the song but will get nothing from the collected levy).
All the these service bring profits to the record companies.
;-)
The actually services are money loosers (iTunes may be profitable but there is no confirmation yet).
It's a win-win for record companies and their associations
What a great seller! I can easily browse their site, but whenever I try to preview a song, I get :
/player/player_new.asp, line 18
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e31'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Timeout expired
About #3...
I don't know what is considered harassmeent in the US, but in Canada, the misconduct must be repeated to be actually called harassment.
For example, some guy can stop a nice lady on the street and ask her if she wants to have his Big d**k in her sl*t. Even if the lady find this offeding, she would have a hard time suing for harassment. On the other hand, if the guy is asking here many time, then she is on good ground to sue (she will actually complain to the police and criminal charges will be pressed on the guy).
Note that if there is a relation of power between the two person (the guy is the lady's boss) then the first misconduct can be interpretted as harassment.
How is 3$/month + 1$ to 2$ / hours cost less than 9.95$ / month?
You seem to forgot that in North America, there is no per-minute charges for local calls.
Surfing more than 6 hours (off-peak) will cost more in Sweden than in the US. I'm pretty sure that monthly average of these internet users will surf more than 6 hours a month.
It's not just that. It's the first time I hear a Linux user complaining about keyboard shortcuts. In general it's a lot faster to work with the keyboard than with the mouse.
Was it the mouse with the blue laser? If so... You now understand why MS switched to a blue laser!
Next thing, MS is going to file for a patent when you mouse communicate with MS server to report that it just crashed!
As cool as the chip it's cooling ;-)
What, you never compiled MPlayer on your box? You are surely not a real geek! And you are not able to configure Mozilla to run your favorite media player when it hit a ".rm" file? Maybe you should try recompiling it!
What I find amusing is that it probably took a lot more time filling for this patent than implement the feature.
One must be very creative to describe such a simple feature in so many pages of text!
So le me repeat myself. This link (can you see it) point to a RealOne video of a presentation demoing new stuff from Sun. If you skip to 1:01:00 (approx), the guy gives a demo of Java 3D desktop where you can see many video stream displayed in a 3D desktop. You'll see the guy rotate the window in "3D" without missing a single frame. At the same time the clip is displayed in it's window, you have a 3D icon displaying the same clip at the bottom of the screen (think Aqua zoomable icons on steroids).
For sure the whole code is not pure Java. They use Java 3D which itself sits on OpenGL (on Linux).
As for large Java application that are not slow and that do not crash, I can think of many : Eclipse, JBuilder, WebLogic, JBoss.
As of now the only people who think that big, stable, fast Java GUI apps do not exist are the people who don't see anything else beside C or C++ due to technological blindness or other reasons of having very closed mind.
I don't want to repeat myself so check this. It amazingly fast and did not crash (at least during the demo).
Here is a direct link to the stream
That's because you did NOT see the Java 3D desktop demo (RealOne Stream)(it start at arround 1:01:00 in the video stream).
It's amazing!
Only bad thing is that they may not include it in the first release of Mad Hatter.
You must have a Pocket PC device ;-)
Next thing they are going to stream you the video of the concert to you PDA!!!
When you have a good and balanced team, pair programming will occur naturally. At some point someone is having stuck on some problem (design, bug,
I believe that Natural Pair Programming with mentoring and code review are a lot better than full-time pair programming. This will help junior developer get up to speed more quickly without having to have two brains waisting their time on trivial problems.
I also like the idea of the other poster saying that you can have one developer write the Unit Test while the other write the business code (you should inverse roles often though). This also benefit having two brain work on different thing while maintaining synergy and increasing the odd of catching bugs.
This past slashdot article has some information on this.
The KVM Approach is more secure but requires a seperate computer AND physical network connection (unless you use a switch or a hub so both computer can share the same ethernet cable on different VLAN) and cost much more than the VMWare solution.