Maybe but I wouldn't know, as I'm apparently one of the few developers left who dont work on web apps but write actual software in an actual programming language rather than just hack scripts in html/css/js
I don't know the first thing about web apps or nor do I want to. Mostly I just dislike the whole "everything needs a browser to run" paradigm, but also If you tried to web-ise any of the aircraft cockpit systems we make it could be fatal. Literally.
>>> In fact, any developer worth his paycheck has probably been playing with the OS and maybe even Visual Studio 2012 for months.
Uhh no. Microsoft isn't the only platform in the world you know. Its not even the most popular platform in the sw development jobs market any more.
Many developers never use Microsoft platforms at all, so dont even notice Windows 8, much less want to waste time learning it. Personally I actively avoid development jobs for any Microsoft platform as its always been a relatively bad experience.
$199 might be the subsidised price a phone company will sell you a branded, locked down version as long as you sign up for a 2 year plan. Actually for that deal I would even call $199 overpriced.
Now try and just buy the phone without all of that. It'll be like $600.
That there edjumakation is fer city folk. Lewann and me and the 8 wait 9 kids dont need no more book learnin we already have a sweet doublewide an all them welfare checks we gettin.
While the US legal system is such that entities can drag even blatantly bogus lawsuits out for years, so winning against individuals and smaller businesses just by attrition of legal costs, fine-tweaking the definition of bogusness wont have even the slightest effect.
He said: >> If courts would faithfully apply the 1952 Act, limiting those claims to the actual algorithms the patentees disclosed and their equivalents,
Clearly the authors were thinking non-obvious stuff with complexity such as a Fourier Transform would be patentable but how about just parts of it? What is the smallest/simplest functional thing that could constitute an algorithm?
If this gets enacted as case law the obvious next step is that Apple will patent the 'for' loop and Microsoft will licence the 'if' statement.
'They' are the government. me? no. The internet has become fundamental to everything including business and commerce, so has become key infrastructure. Therefore the government need to defend it. The best way is to inform people of the basics of security at least. it needs to be a government initiative.
I agree but I'm not so sure how long you will actually even be able to buy a computer with an actual keyboard at least from Apple. Their dev kit probably won't be available for platforms other than Apple's so your development will soon be limited to having to use a pad.
I dont get why Apple areto force people to move away from the traditional PC for everything, given that a pad is actually a worse and less productive user experience for serious work, and not even do-able for many tasks.
I guess its cheaper to make a tablet than a PC, so more profit for Apple at the cost of actual usability, just as long as the sheeple keep swallowing the Apple brainwashing thats telling them pads are "cooler" than laptops.
I wonder how bad this pad phenomenon will get before someone finally says that the emporor is naked.
>> Take away one of the leading causes of childhood death, and they'll produce fewer children.
Umm nope. They have large numbers of kids as their "pension plan" and for cultural reasons, such as religious, to attain more respect and power in the tribe (i.e. elders of larger families are more likely to become village elders), and to appear "prosperous". None of those will change just because malaria goes away.
It wastes far too much valuable screen space on pointless eye candy and takes more time and operations than to do the same thing in windows 7. Its therefore a massive downgrade in the things that actually matter: usability and productivity.
Linux as a desktop isn't even close to dead in my world. I use it for just about everything, including at work as my primary desktop.
The only thing it doesn't do better than commercial OS's like Windows or OSX is gaming, which is completely an artificial restriction by the marketplace rather than a technical one, as the companies that write the games I like to play don't even make Linux versions (damn them). Gaming is the only reason I keep a windows partition and my only use for it, as windows is otherwise a joke OS in every respect compared to Linux).
From my experience, the only 2 things that have prevented most people from considering Linux for their own desktop are:
1) A lack of informed awareness about Linux (even amongst people who have even heard of it, there's way more very outdated and/or very wierd misconceptions about Linux out there than factually correct information). This is probably the main reason why Android needed to not be called Linux.
2) Most people's own sheep-like behaviour patterns. they are so mentally locked-in to what they already know (or what they've been told to think) that they wont consider even trying an alternative, even if it has significant potential to be much better.
>> Singling one out vs. the plethora of others for cause and effect politically serves little real purpose. Of course it does, especially when its probably the most used drug in the US. They're trying to dispel the incorrect but persistent myth that only pot heads and idiots chose to believe and spread that smoking pot is somehow physically harmless.
A lot of evidence suggests that an occasional glass of red wine is actually good for you. As you're including alcohol as a recreational drug, your claim that all recreational drugs are bad sounds more like a poor excuse for continuing your own abuse of other drugs rather than a well-researched fact.
Back up just his data then blow away windows entirely and upgrade him to Linux.
Not only is linux more secure than windows anyway, but if his recovered data includes places where virusses can hide (such as any Microsoft Office files or PDF files) then they most likely wouldn't be able to do harm or even run in that environment either.
>> Also, I think the two party system we have in the USA might makes us a little more resistant to politicians selling out
Its exactly because the US has (only) a 2 party system that the US is so bad.
Both parties (who are just as bad as each other) screw the citizens equally, because they know if they go a little to far and lose power at very worst they'll have to wait 5 years before they're back in anyway.
Ahh now you said that somethings vaguely coming back... I think they sold a version that people could buy to just watch DVDs on etc. (no head tracker or VGA support) that was a lower spec. I seem to remember there being some kind of box you needed to convert video to VGA (or was it the other way round?). Weren't video signals displayed in half the resolution of VGA signals or something?
I had a pair of Virtual i-o I-glasses that had a head tracker and resolution of 640x480 per eye, and cost less than $500 new.
What does Occulus bring to the table that wasnt already tried and failed back then? (in a much neater/lighter glasses-like package too I might add).
No gamer will take Occulus seriously with a resolution of only 640x800 per eye.
Even 17 years ago, my I-glasses with their similarly low res 640x480 seemed too crappy to use seriously, compared to the my monitor with its res of 1280x1024.
These days people are completely used to full HD 1920x1080. its become the defacto bare minimum spec for any kind of gaming display these days.
17 years later from I-glasses, still the best that can be done is 640x800 per eye? If so Occulus is dead in the water. To appeal to hardcore gamers, as a minimum it needs to be up around 1920x1080, if not better.
I'm not in any way associated with this auction but if you just wanna see what I-glasses look like:
OK here's an exercise: Burn a US flag in a US street, the US police will tazer you to the ground, kneel on your back while they put you in cuffs, beat you up then put you in a cell with someone called Bubba who wants to rape you.
Burn a UK flag in a UK street and the police may ask you to move but they will recognise your freedom to demonstrate.
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Maybe but I wouldn't know, as I'm apparently one of the few developers left who dont work on web apps but write actual software in an actual programming language rather than just hack scripts in html/css/js
I don't know the first thing about web apps or nor do I want to. Mostly I just dislike the whole "everything needs a browser to run" paradigm, but also If you tried to web-ise any of the aircraft cockpit systems we make it could be fatal. Literally.
>>> In fact, any developer worth his paycheck has probably been playing with the OS and maybe even Visual Studio 2012 for months.
Uhh no. Microsoft isn't the only platform in the world you know. Its not even the most popular platform in the sw development jobs market any more.
Many developers never use Microsoft platforms at all, so dont even notice Windows 8, much less want to waste time learning it. Personally I actively avoid development jobs for any Microsoft platform as its always been a relatively bad experience.
Actually I just checked.
Unlocked iPhone 5 Price: $649 (16GB), $749 (32GB) and $849 (64GB).
With a two-year contract, iphone 5 Price: $199 (16GB), $299 (32GB) and $399 (64GB).
$849 for a phone? hell yeah its overpriced.
Apple 5 will be $199? I think not.
$199 might be the subsidised price a phone company will sell you a branded, locked down version as long as you sign up for a 2 year plan. Actually for that deal I would even call $199 overpriced.
Now try and just buy the phone without all of that. It'll be like $600.
That there edjumakation is fer city folk.
Lewann and me and the 8 wait 9 kids dont need no more book learnin we already have a sweet doublewide an all them welfare checks we gettin.
Good luck with ever finding a job if you leave your current company because 99% of the rest are actually like that.
Somebody will reverse engineer the windows version of the API and add an open version into Linux within like half a day of its release (on windows).
..because constructing and maintaining such a net is affordable and easy enough for the other 99% of us to do too?
While the US legal system is such that entities can drag even blatantly bogus lawsuits out for years, so winning against individuals and smaller businesses just by attrition of legal costs, fine-tweaking the definition of bogusness wont have even the slightest effect.
He said:
>> If courts would faithfully apply the 1952 Act, limiting those claims to the actual algorithms the patentees disclosed and their equivalents,
Clearly the authors were thinking non-obvious stuff with complexity such as a Fourier Transform would be patentable but how about just parts of it? What is the smallest/simplest functional thing that could constitute an algorithm?
If this gets enacted as case law the obvious next step is that Apple will patent the 'for' loop and Microsoft will licence the 'if' statement.
'They' are the government. me? no. The internet has become fundamental to everything including business and commerce, so has become key infrastructure. Therefore the government need to defend it. The best way is to inform people of the basics of security at least. it needs to be a government initiative.
They should notify all the infected people and also make sure they understand what a firewall is etc. and not totr ust the Mictrosoft one.
I know many people that just have a windows PC plugged straight into their cable modem (i.e. not even NAT happening) and think its gonna be OK.
I agree but I'm not so sure how long you will actually even be able to buy a computer with an actual keyboard at least from Apple. Their dev kit probably won't be available for platforms other than Apple's so your development will soon be limited to having to use a pad.
I dont get why Apple areto force people to move away from the traditional PC for everything, given that a pad is actually a worse and less productive user experience for serious work, and not even do-able for many tasks.
I guess its cheaper to make a tablet than a PC, so more profit for Apple at the cost of actual usability, just as long as the sheeple keep swallowing the Apple brainwashing thats telling them pads are "cooler" than laptops.
I wonder how bad this pad phenomenon will get before someone finally says that the emporor is naked.
>> Take away one of the leading causes of childhood death, and they'll produce fewer children.
Umm nope. They have large numbers of kids as their "pension plan" and for cultural reasons, such as religious, to attain more respect and power in the tribe (i.e. elders of larger families are more likely to become village elders), and to appear "prosperous". None of those will change just because malaria goes away.
>> One could argue these two problems may eventually even each other out -
Nope because the west will respond with food aid.
It wastes far too much valuable screen space on pointless eye candy and takes more time and operations than to do the same thing in windows 7.
Its therefore a massive downgrade in the things that actually matter: usability and productivity.
Linux as a desktop isn't even close to dead in my world.
I use it for just about everything, including at work as my primary desktop.
The only thing it doesn't do better than commercial OS's like Windows or OSX is gaming, which is completely an artificial restriction by the marketplace rather than a technical one, as the companies that write the games I like to play don't even make Linux versions (damn them). Gaming is the only reason I keep a windows partition and my only use for it, as windows is otherwise a joke OS in every respect compared to Linux).
From my experience, the only 2 things that have prevented most people from considering Linux for their own desktop are:
1) A lack of informed awareness about Linux (even amongst people who have even heard of it, there's way more very outdated and/or very wierd misconceptions about Linux out there than factually correct information). This is probably the main reason why Android needed to not be called Linux.
2) Most people's own sheep-like behaviour patterns. they are so mentally locked-in to what they already know (or what they've been told to think) that they wont consider even trying an alternative, even if it has significant potential to be much better.
>> Singling one out vs. the plethora of others for cause and effect politically serves little real purpose.
Of course it does, especially when its probably the most used drug in the US. They're trying to dispel the incorrect but persistent myth that only pot heads and idiots chose to believe and spread that smoking pot is somehow physically harmless.
A lot of evidence suggests that an occasional glass of red wine is actually good for you. As you're including alcohol as a recreational drug, your claim that all recreational drugs are bad sounds more like a poor excuse for continuing your own abuse of other drugs rather than a well-researched fact.
Back up just his data then blow away windows entirely and upgrade him to Linux.
Not only is linux more secure than windows anyway, but if his recovered data includes places where virusses can hide (such as any Microsoft Office files or PDF files) then they most likely wouldn't be able to do harm or even run in that environment either.
If you're stupid enough to put up with employers that conduct that level of abuse then the fault is yours.
...how clueless most americans are.
>> Also, I think the two party system we have in the USA might makes us a little more resistant to politicians selling out
Its exactly because the US has (only) a 2 party system that the US is so bad.
Both parties (who are just as bad as each other) screw the citizens equally, because they know if they go a little to far and lose power at very worst they'll have to wait 5 years before they're back in anyway.
Ahh now you said that somethings vaguely coming back...
I think they sold a version that people could buy to just watch DVDs on etc. (no head tracker or VGA support) that was a lower spec.
I seem to remember there being some kind of box you needed to convert video to VGA (or was it the other way round?). Weren't video signals displayed in half the resolution of VGA signals or something?
Back in 1995, VR gaming had a brief surge.
I had a pair of Virtual i-o I-glasses that had a head tracker and resolution of 640x480 per eye, and cost less than $500 new.
What does Occulus bring to the table that wasnt already tried and failed back then? (in a much neater/lighter glasses-like package too I might add).
No gamer will take Occulus seriously with a resolution of only 640x800 per eye.
Even 17 years ago, my I-glasses with their similarly low res 640x480 seemed too crappy to use seriously, compared to the my monitor with its res of 1280x1024.
These days people are completely used to full HD 1920x1080. its become the defacto bare minimum spec for any kind of gaming display these days.
17 years later from I-glasses, still the best that can be done is 640x800 per eye? If so Occulus is dead in the water. To appeal to hardcore gamers, as a minimum it needs to be up around 1920x1080, if not better.
I'm not in any way associated with this auction but if you just wanna see what I-glasses look like:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VIRTUAL-I-OS-IGLASSES-THESE-ARE-THE-ORIGINAL-1995-GLASSES-USED-ONLY-TWICE-/200799140740?pt=US_Video_Glasses&hash=item2ec08fbb84#ht_1314wt_1139
OK here's an exercise:
Burn a US flag in a US street, the US police will tazer you to the ground, kneel on your back while they put you in cuffs, beat you up then put you in a cell with someone called Bubba who wants to rape you.
Burn a UK flag in a UK street and the police may ask you to move but they will recognise your freedom to demonstrate.
Now tell me who has freedom of speech.