How is this possibly insightful??? The "symbolic forms of the drag-and-drop method are mathematical"?? The statement itself is non-sensical.
The concept of drag and drop is not mathematical. It is a concept. You are patenting the concept, not the mathematical processes the processor ultimately goes through to implement the drag and drop task. Again: you are not patenting the program, you are patenting the concept.
I know that CS research has a mathemetical basis, but this has NOTHING TO DO WITH SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT.
As I guy who programs for a living and has a MS in computer engineering I can assure you that software development is NOT a mathematical field. The study of CS may be a branch of applied mathematics, but that has little to do with software development. You can write many many programs without having to know math.
"...everything that has been done or can be done with software is performable by a purely mental process.... How anyone can believe this does not qualify as a field of pure mathematics is beyond me"
A "pure mental process" does not mean that it is pure mathematics.
Really the fact that such drivel has been modded up as "Insightful" says a lot about this site lately.
Um, I write programs for a living and I can assure you that mathematical operations is about 1% of what I do. Take a hypothetical software patent where someone tries to patent the method of drap and drop between web browser programs. It has nothing to do with mathematics. It doesn't even have to explain the actual programming implementation.
Obviously if the politicians made their decision based on the idea that "mathematical equations can't be patented and software is like that so it can't be patented either" then they have made a big mistake.
"You don't patent a mathematical formula, for software is merely a connection of a mathematical formula"
More proof that the people making the decisions don't know what they are doing. Software is not a derivative of a mathmatical formula. This isn't 1940 where computers are simply solving math problems. Software development and mathematics diverged a long time ago. They have virtually nothing in common anymore.
And why are you paying to subscribe to such a site? It just validates their behavior.
Also, is it so hard for editors to actually edit the submissions? There is an obvious sentence fragment in the summary. It makes this site look like it was run by retarded high school dropouts.
I have never seen a company as well run as Microsoft. Throughout its history it has been growth and its ability to generate cash is unparalleled. Microsoft can enter markets it previously had zero presence in and quickly major market share. Its forays in the game device, cell phone, mobile device market have just begun, yet they have already made major progress.
If you think a company that generates $1 BILLION in CASH every month in a so-so economic climate isn't well run, well you are just caught in the Slashdot reality distortion field.
Because it is NOT healthier for society in the long run! Does the EU have a healthy software industry producing innovative products? NO - and this is why. It is unfair for a mega-corporation to come in and simply grab all of my R&D investment. The little guy and small shop needs this protection too.
Anyway, I am through discussing my views on this because it is obvious that I will just get modded down so there is no room for debate there. Stupid site.
Copyright protection only protects the implementation, not the idea.
If I come up with a truly innovative idea, there is nothing to protect me against a mega-corporation simply taking that idea and implementing it - stealing any the R&D investment I have made. Is that what you want? In order to have a healthy industry you better have patent protection. The EU doesn't have a healthy software industry now - and the lack of patent protection is a big reason why.
Copyrights protect the implementation of the idea, not the idea itself. It is frequently the idea that is innovative, not the implementation of the idea. Why would a developer WHOSE SOLE MEANS OF INCOME is the production of IP want to weaken their position? Patents can provide an important protection for you - the individual, the small business, the corporation - against those that are looking to simply copy your ideas.
Fight the improper application of patents, not patent law.
Of course I have posted against the slashdot groupthink so you will probably never read this.
That will show those fools not to support software patents.
BTW everyone, unlike what you have heard around here - software patents are a GOOD thing. It protects your IP (assuming you have any) from predatory behavior from mega-corporations. Fight improper application of the patent laws, but keep the right to protect your ideas from those that would take them from you.
Well Ballmer has been keeping MS growing at a healthy pace in revenues and getting more and more profitable every quarter for quite a long time. If that isn't "up to the job" I don't know what is. Thats what you want out of your CEO.
The CTO should handle the progress of the technology.
Uh, if you alias "video.google.com" to 127.0.0.1 then you wont be able to view any videos that aren't hosted locally.
BTW, a hack is a hack - not matter how trivial it may be to you. To me the more important story is how this exposes a weakness in OSS (from Googles POV). Its trivial to change the source code. If the player was CSS it would be much less trivial. I don't know how google will respond. Perhaps with a CSS player?
Dude, if you want to smoke pot go ahead and knock yourself out. Just stop spouting bullshit about the oppression of hemp. Everyone knows the dreadlocked white kids on college campuses aren't interested in legalizing hemp, so stop pretending already.
BTW, if hemp was so fucking awesome then every country that had legalized pot would be using it extensively and would be using this magical plant material that The Man keeps you from having. Since they are not you can pretty much figure out that the pro-hemp crowd is full of it.
Bullshit - take a look at Japans economy vs the US over the last 5 years. The reason why is that Asian markets are used as a test bed for new technologies. If a company isn't sure of a new platform they will release it in Asia first.
Its much easier to introduce new phones in those areas (no FCC-like requirements) and less chance of product lawsuits if the product doesn't work well, and expensive recalls are unheard of.
Actually I was thinking about mega-corporations such as Redhat (which had the CEO who made over $250 million in compensation before he quit) and Google (their newly minted billionaires and many multi-millionaires thank you), Linksys, etc.
What a great idea! The execs finally figured out how to get the people to work for them for free! No wonder they make tens of millions of dollars per year.
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How is this possibly insightful??? The "symbolic forms of the drag-and-drop method are mathematical"?? The statement itself is non-sensical.
The concept of drag and drop is not mathematical. It is a concept. You are patenting the concept, not the mathematical processes the processor ultimately goes through to implement the drag and drop task. Again: you are not patenting the program, you are patenting the concept.
I know that CS research has a mathemetical basis, but this has NOTHING TO DO WITH SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT.
As I guy who programs for a living and has a MS in computer engineering I can assure you that software development is NOT a mathematical field. The study of CS may be a branch of applied mathematics, but that has little to do with software development. You can write many many programs without having to know math.
"...everything that has been done or can be done with software is performable by a purely mental process.... How anyone can believe this does not qualify as a field of pure mathematics is beyond me"
A "pure mental process" does not mean that it is pure mathematics.
Really the fact that such drivel has been modded up as "Insightful" says a lot about this site lately.
Um, I write programs for a living and I can assure you that mathematical operations is about 1% of what I do.
Take a hypothetical software patent where someone tries to patent the method of drap and drop between web browser programs. It has nothing to do with mathematics. It doesn't even have to explain the actual programming implementation.
Obviously if the politicians made their decision based on the idea that "mathematical equations can't be patented and software is like that so it can't be patented either" then they have made a big mistake.
"You don't patent a mathematical formula, for software is merely a connection of a mathematical formula"
More proof that the people making the decisions don't know what they are doing. Software is not a derivative of a mathmatical formula. This isn't 1940 where computers are simply solving math problems.
Software development and mathematics diverged a long time ago. They have virtually nothing in common anymore.
Thats because you have never produced something worth copyrighting or patenting in your life.
Hilarious. Too bad the mods think its flamebait (or flaimbait as they spell it).
And why are you paying to subscribe to such a site? It just validates their behavior.
Also, is it so hard for editors to actually edit the submissions? There is an obvious sentence fragment in the summary. It makes this site look like it was run by retarded high school dropouts.
I have never seen a company as well run as Microsoft. Throughout its history it has been growth and its ability to generate cash is unparalleled. Microsoft can enter markets it previously had zero presence in and quickly major market share. Its forays in the game device, cell phone, mobile device market have just begun, yet they have already made major progress.
If you think a company that generates $1 BILLION in CASH every month in a so-so economic climate isn't well run, well you are just caught in the Slashdot reality distortion field.
Microsoft is possibly the best run company in modern history. So forgive them if they don't take the advice of random slashbots.
Because it is NOT healthier for society in the long run! Does the EU have a healthy software industry producing innovative products? NO - and this is why. It is unfair for a mega-corporation to come in and simply grab all of my R&D investment. The little guy and small shop needs this protection too.
Anyway, I am through discussing my views on this because it is obvious that I will just get modded down so there is no room for debate there. Stupid site.
Copyright protection only protects the implementation, not the idea.
If I come up with a truly innovative idea, there is nothing to protect me against a mega-corporation simply taking that idea and implementing it - stealing any the R&D investment I have made. Is that what you want? In order to have a healthy industry you better have patent protection. The EU doesn't have a healthy software industry now - and the lack of patent protection is a big reason why.
Copyrights protect the implementation of the idea, not the idea itself. It is frequently the idea that is innovative, not the implementation of the idea. Why would a developer WHOSE SOLE MEANS OF INCOME is the production of IP want to weaken their position? Patents can provide an important protection for you - the individual, the small business, the corporation - against those that are looking to simply copy your ideas.
Fight the improper application of patents, not patent law.
Of course I have posted against the slashdot groupthink so you will probably never read this.
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That will show those fools not to support software patents.
BTW everyone, unlike what you have heard around here - software patents are a GOOD thing. It protects your IP (assuming you have any) from predatory behavior from mega-corporations. Fight improper application of the patent laws, but keep the right to protect your ideas from those that would take them from you.
Uh huh. Its the corporations/George Bush/Bill Gates/black helicopters/The Boogeyman that are keeping people from adopting OSS.
If that were true then how do you explain Redhat, Linspire, etc? They are certainly corporations. How does that fit in with your conspiracy theory?
Maybe people aren't adopting OSS for other reasons (other than George Bush whispering in their ear).
Well Ballmer has been keeping MS growing at a healthy pace in revenues and getting more and more profitable every quarter for quite a long time. If that isn't "up to the job" I don't know what is. Thats what you want out of your CEO.
The CTO should handle the progress of the technology.
Thats why you will always be a wage slave.
Uh, if you alias "video.google.com" to 127.0.0.1 then you wont be able to view any videos that aren't hosted locally.
BTW, a hack is a hack - not matter how trivial it may be to you. To me the more important story is how this exposes a weakness in OSS (from Googles POV). Its trivial to change the source code. If the player was CSS it would be much less trivial. I don't know how google will respond. Perhaps with a CSS player?
"Honesty is a stupid ideal created by religion"
You sound like you hang out on Indymedia quite a bit. Are you an editor there?
Dude, if you want to smoke pot go ahead and knock yourself out. Just stop spouting bullshit about the oppression of hemp. Everyone knows the dreadlocked white kids on college campuses aren't interested in legalizing hemp, so stop pretending already.
BTW, if hemp was so fucking awesome then every country that had legalized pot would be using it extensively and would be using this magical plant material that The Man keeps you from having. Since they are not you can pretty much figure out that the pro-hemp crowd is full of it.
The US has a parliament? Another ignorant EUsian!
Bullshit - take a look at Japans economy vs the US over the last 5 years. The reason why is that Asian markets are used as a test bed for new technologies. If a company isn't sure of a new platform they will release it in Asia first.
Its much easier to introduce new phones in those areas (no FCC-like requirements) and less chance of product lawsuits if the product doesn't work well, and expensive recalls are unheard of.
This is slashdot. The editors will tell you what to think. This will save you from having to think for yourself.
(3) Windows XP Embedded - This is a version of XP?
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Um, yes it is. http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/windowsxpembed
You can strip it down to just a kernel if you want, which is what the original poster wants.
Windows CE - not suitable for the desktop
Why not? It has everything you would need for the desktop (IE, Office "Lite", media player, etc)
Really, I don't think anything would satisfy the complainers around here.
And this differs from any company that "supports" OSS how? Its all about free labor for the corporations!
Actually I was thinking about mega-corporations such as Redhat (which had the CEO who made over $250 million in compensation before he quit) and Google (their newly minted billionaires and many multi-millionaires thank you), Linksys, etc.
What a great idea! The execs finally figured out how to get the people to work for them for free! No wonder they make tens of millions of dollars per year.