the original submission is unbelievably trollish, and I really suspect that he didnt want an actual answer at all as much as he wanted a soapbox to rant.
And yet you feed the troll? Further, you rant as much or more as the OP, just from a different perspective.
It would seem that by your definition of "troll" every single article posted on/. is a troll, because the whole purpose of/. is to solicit discussion.
If discussion is so bad that every instance of it must be labeled a troll , why do you come here? Perhaps just to troll?
Maybe you need a refresher on what Trolling actually is. Walking into the middle of a discussion to call the whole thing a troll is in fact trolling. Starting a discussion (about any subject) is not trolling.
That's how unions work. If you don't have to be in the union to work a job then it greatly weakens the power that the union has to protect the members and advocate for better compensation and conditions.
Because we all know that screen actors are working for slave wages.....
Firefly was gone before most people even watched it. That is: they watched it mostly in re-runs, where it still attracts a bigger audience than it did while it was in active production. It wasn't widely carried, so most people only heard about it second hand, and it occured at a time when not every cable company carried it, and it occurred only on cable during a period when a significant number of people were still watching broadcast TV.
Ditto for several other sifi series, which seem particularly prone to this syndrome.
Then too, some stories just have to end, and dragging them out for season after season just makes them stale. (Witness SG1).
The truth is that Pilots have always been "On Line", its just that the "line" under discussion was over the cable or even over the air. Usually the pilots were aired a year ahead of the series.
But with no measurable feedback, many a pilot lead to nothing, and several others led to series that should never have been launched. Putting the pilots on the net allows producers to directly measure consumption. But you need enough exposure for word to get around so that your show doesn't get lost in the clutter like firefly.
chances are most systems are going to have pretty much the same raw materials.
Exactly. Why not take them from something closer to home and avoid all the fighting and killing, just to get some salty water (the only resource Earth has that is obvious from afar).
If any putative aliens are just looking for Lebensraum, why pick a planet where the most common source of protein also wields nuclear weapons? They probably already have a catalog of "un-occupied" planets with adequate food stocks which are a whole lot less contentious.
It already has a boatload of features, and has been field tested for several years. You can even read your car's diagnostic codes. You don't even need a gps to make this work, because there is a free android app for it. Its not the most advanced sensor out there, but it will help you catch those fleeting diagnostic codes your mechanic just can't seem to find.
They make a phone OS. The motorola guys make phones.
The motorola guys also make a phone OS, and were doing so before android was a gleam in Andy Rubin's eye.
Somewhere in the development of the original Razr which sold well over 130 Million units, there must be some IP and experience worth a few bucks even today.
I think a lot of people at the time of the purchase did raise that the price was too high. From other sources, who were also interested in the Motorola IP, the IP valuation I was hearing was ~$3B. Was the rest of Motorola worth $9B?
The article is one sided, only mentioning INCOME from this IP. It hardly addresses the defensive aspect of having this IP in their back pocket.
Who knows how many billion dollar judgements Apple might have been able to extract for bounce back scrolling or whatever. Having one of you own patents cover what you do pretty much makes it impossible for Apple or some random patent troll (pardon the redundancy) to come after you, saving billions of dollars.
Patents have value beyond JUST a revenue stream. In fact, only a Patent Troll would think of patents ONLY as a revenue stream. Which makes the whole article somewhat suspect.
If the barrel and/or the slide is made of even the best plastic, I wouldn't trust it to take the 35ksi of a normal 9mm round even once. That application requires properly heat treated 4130 or 4140 steel (or 316 stainless).
Yeah, that's what people have been saying since the whole idea of printing guns came up. It's about to come to fruition in spite of your protestations. Just stop blabbering about how many copper units it has to withstand to be equivalent to a nine mil. The favorite weapon of an mob hit men is a 22 caliber.
"THAT", (a wired board), is vastly easier to debug than any modern software. In fact a trainee can usually debug it by trial an error in just a few minutes. Now get off my digital lawn whipersnapper!
Do you honestly think they are going to change it for the better? What did the media corporation's political donation check bounced?
That's a pretty lame excuse for leaving things as they are. What if Lincoln had taken that approach? Big media already has a strangle hold on our freedoms, yet they don't vote.
Maybe, maybe not. I hope you are right but this is Oracle they are dealing with.
Now that Widenius has some "Executives and Investors" supporting him, he becomes a target for Oracle lawyers. Even without a valid claim, they could tie him up in court for years and years.
Also remember that Executives and Investors want a ROI, and its hard to do that with an open source project like MariaDB.
But can it fix my broken coworker? Morale is horrible, wages are stagnant and our future is bleak. Please invent a robot to fix that.
The operative words were in the Summary:
lets a supervisor monitor an engineer's progress towards the maintenance site,
That's basically the whole point isn't it! They could care less about actually helping the worker fix anything as long as they know he's not stopping off for a pint along the way.
The specific patent is for creating 8.3 file names from long file names.
You are a bit behind the times. FAT/Fat16 patents have already expired. Fat32 will fairly soon. But ExFAT will be around for a long time, and you can bet when speeds or card sizes improve there will be another file system patent locking you in for another few consecutive lifetimes.
Nothing prevents releasing a file system driver for F2FS for the windows platform. But to date, Samsung has only provided code for Linux under the GPL.
Most of the Android licensing deals have been based around FAT32, which has been around since Win95. What sort of credible value of that technology remains in 2013? Absolutely none.
Much but not all.
Microsoft bought/brewed up MTP because FAT32 was expiring. Many smartphones use MTP to avoid having to put a true samba server or ftp server in the phones. There are also a few patents dealing with trivial user interface functionality.
With bigger MicroSD cards the phones also run afoul of the SD Association of which Microsoft is a member, and many other members are merely Microsoft sock puppets since Microsoft managed to get their proprietary file system declared the standard for MicroSD cards throughout the entire line: SD card is formatted with MBR and the following file system: For SDSC cards: FAT16 (patent expired) For SDHC cards: FAT32 (still under patent) For SDXC cards: exFAT (still under patent)
Wait a minute, if your software weren't a cheap copy of someone else's idea you wouldn't have to worry about patents. But let's be honest, it is easier to whine about the "gross unfairness of patents" then it is to create a unique and original work.
Really? Exactly what is innovative about the patents being licensed by Microsoft? Oh, that's right, its secret. Every one of these deals is under an NDA, both as to the amount of money and the specific patents involved. And apparently the secrecy is more important to microsoft than is the money. They are scared to death that someone will reveal exactly what is covered and which patents are involved for fear that they would quickly be found invalid.
Yet they dare not claim Google violates their patents because they know they will get their ass handed to them in court. So they pick on the weak, trying to build a wall of patent licenses to fall back on.
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the original submission is unbelievably trollish, and I really suspect that he didnt want an actual answer at all as much as he wanted a soapbox to rant.
And yet you feed the troll?
Further, you rant as much or more as the OP, just from a different perspective.
It would seem that by your definition of "troll" every single article posted on /. is a troll, because the whole purpose of /. is to solicit discussion.
If discussion is so bad that every instance of it must be labeled a troll , why do you come here? Perhaps just to troll?
Maybe you need a refresher on what Trolling actually is. Walking into the middle of a discussion to call the whole thing a troll is in fact trolling. Starting a discussion (about any subject) is not trolling.
You could have avoided posting all together, since you have nothing to add to the discussion.
That's how unions work. If you don't have to be in the union to work a job then it greatly weakens the power that the union has to protect the members and advocate for better compensation and conditions.
Because we all know that screen actors are working for slave wages.....
Firefly was gone before most people even watched it. That is: they watched it mostly in re-runs, where it still attracts a bigger audience than it did while it was in active production. It wasn't widely carried, so most people only heard about it second hand, and it occured at a time when not every cable company carried it, and it occurred only on cable during a period when a significant number of people were still watching broadcast TV.
Ditto for several other sifi series, which seem particularly prone to this syndrome.
Then too, some stories just have to end, and dragging them out for season after season just makes them stale. (Witness SG1).
The truth is that Pilots have always been "On Line", its just that the "line" under discussion was over the cable or even over the air. Usually the pilots were aired a year ahead of the series.
But with no measurable feedback, many a pilot lead to nothing, and several others led to series that should never have been launched. Putting the pilots on the net allows producers to directly measure consumption. But you need enough exposure for word to get around so that your show doesn't get lost in the clutter like firefly.
Like they're going to come to earth before every living thing is dead.
Maybe they are looking for a good source of protein. The fresher the better.
chances are most systems are going to have pretty much the same raw materials.
Exactly. Why not take them from something closer to home and avoid all the fighting and killing, just to get some salty water (the only resource Earth has that is obvious from afar).
If any putative aliens are just looking for Lebensraum, why pick a planet where the most common source of protein also wields nuclear weapons?
They probably already have a catalog of "un-occupied" planets with adequate food stocks which are a whole lot less contentious.
Sure, if all you want to do is read the codes.
The surface of the sun is practically ice-cold compared to its own core.
Question: Where is the surface of the sun? (or the surface of any gaseous body for that matter).
Save your money, and buy a commercial version from Garmin.
http://www.gpscentral.ca/products/garmin/ecoroute-hd.html
It already has a boatload of features, and has been field tested for several years. You can even read your car's diagnostic codes. You don't even
need a gps to make this work, because there is a free android app for it. Its not the most advanced sensor out there, but it will help you catch those fleeting diagnostic codes your mechanic just can't seem to find.
They make a phone OS. The motorola guys make phones.
The motorola guys also make a phone OS, and were doing so before android was a gleam in Andy Rubin's eye.
Somewhere in the development of the original Razr which sold well over 130 Million units, there must be some IP and experience worth a few bucks even today.
I think a lot of people at the time of the purchase did raise that the price was too high. From other sources, who were also interested in the Motorola IP, the IP valuation I was hearing was ~$3B. Was the rest of Motorola worth $9B?
The article is one sided, only mentioning INCOME from this IP.
It hardly addresses the defensive aspect of having this IP in their back pocket.
Who knows how many billion dollar judgements Apple might have been able to extract for bounce back scrolling or whatever. Having one of you own patents cover what you do pretty much makes it impossible for Apple or some random patent troll (pardon the redundancy) to come after you, saving billions of dollars.
Patents have value beyond JUST a revenue stream. In fact, only a Patent Troll would think of patents ONLY as a revenue stream. Which makes the whole article somewhat suspect.
If the barrel and/or the slide is made of even the best plastic, I wouldn't trust it to take the 35ksi of a normal 9mm round even once. That application requires properly heat treated 4130 or 4140 steel (or 316 stainless).
Yeah, that's what people have been saying since the whole idea of printing guns came up.
It's about to come to fruition in spite of your protestations. Just stop blabbering about how many copper units it has to withstand to be equivalent to a nine mil. The favorite weapon of an mob hit men is a 22 caliber.
"THAT", (a wired board), is vastly easier to debug than any modern software. In fact a trainee can usually debug it by trial an error in just a few minutes.
Now get off my digital lawn whipersnapper!
Do you honestly think they are going to change it for the better? What did the media corporation's political donation check bounced?
That's a pretty lame excuse for leaving things as they are. What if Lincoln had taken that approach?
Big media already has a strangle hold on our freedoms, yet they don't vote.
the American public
Translation: Big Content. It does not mean you or your neighbor. You the consumer are not a "customer" of the Copyright Office.
Seriously, when was the last time Congress ever did any big re-evaluation or restructure that actually helped the man in the street?
Who were they planning on selling it to next, and why should that make me feel all warm and fuzzy about using My/Sky/MariaDB?
Maybe, maybe not.
I hope you are right but this is Oracle they are dealing with.
Now that Widenius has some "Executives and Investors" supporting him, he becomes a target for Oracle lawyers.
Even without a valid claim, they could tie him up in court for years and years.
Also remember that Executives and Investors want a ROI, and its hard to do that with an open source project like MariaDB.
But can it fix my broken coworker? Morale is horrible, wages are stagnant and our future is bleak. Please invent a robot to fix that.
The operative words were in the Summary:
lets a supervisor monitor an engineer's progress towards the maintenance site,
That's basically the whole point isn't it! They could care less about actually helping the worker fix anything
as long as they know he's not stopping off for a pint along the way.
But really, it's no worse than the US which can confiscate your laptop at the airport and go through all your files.
Citation?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/8/court-limits-feds-ability-search-laptops-border/
This will be coming to America soon.
What do you mean "SOON"?
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/may/18/no-warrant-needed-search-laptops-phones-border-cro/
The 9Th Circuit ruled this unconstitutional, but for now that only applies to the 9th. Other circuits may make other rulings.
The specific patent is for creating 8.3 file names from long file names.
You are a bit behind the times.
FAT/Fat16 patents have already expired.
Fat32 will fairly soon.
But ExFAT will be around for a long time, and you can bet when speeds or card sizes improve there will be another file system patent locking you in for another few consecutive lifetimes.
Nothing prevents releasing a file system driver for F2FS for the windows platform.
But to date, Samsung has only provided code for Linux under the GPL.
Most of the Android licensing deals have been based around FAT32, which has been around since Win95. What sort of credible value of that technology remains in 2013? Absolutely none.
Much but not all.
Microsoft bought/brewed up MTP because FAT32 was expiring. Many smartphones use MTP to avoid having to put a true samba server or ftp server in the phones. There are also a few patents dealing with trivial user interface functionality.
With bigger MicroSD cards the phones also run afoul of the SD Association of which Microsoft is a member, and many other members are merely Microsoft sock puppets since Microsoft managed to get their proprietary file system declared the standard for MicroSD cards throughout the entire line:
SD card is formatted with MBR and the following file system:
For SDSC cards: FAT16 (patent expired)
For SDHC cards: FAT32 (still under patent)
For SDXC cards: exFAT (still under patent)
Wait a minute, if your software weren't a cheap copy of someone else's idea you wouldn't have to worry about patents. But let's be honest, it is easier to whine about the "gross unfairness of patents" then it is to create a unique and original work.
Really? Exactly what is innovative about the patents being licensed by Microsoft?
Oh, that's right, its secret. Every one of these deals is under an NDA, both as to the amount of money and the specific patents involved.
And apparently the secrecy is more important to microsoft than is the money. They are scared to death that someone will reveal exactly what is covered and which patents are involved for fear that they would quickly be found invalid.
Yet they dare not claim Google violates their patents because they know they will get their ass handed to them in court. So they pick on the weak, trying to build a wall of patent licenses to fall back on.
Yup, and all of that matters when you are intending to dissolve it in coffee. /not