Why does everyone expect Intel to have an *obligation* to write optimizations in THEIR COMPILER for a COMPETITOR'S chip? And they don't specifically check for AMD and write bogus code if so -- quite the opposite. They check if they're running on Intel, and if so they put in faster code that's specifically designed for Intel processors. I'm not seeing the problem here. This lawsuit should be thrown out. This is like suing OpenOffice for having full support of their own file format, but "DISCRIMINATING" against Microsoft Word by not supporting it as well.
From what I can deduce from your post, you've got basically zero chance of convincing the higher-ups. And frankly, I'm not even sure that open sourcing it is a good idea, anyway. If your target market is 20-50 customers and it's a niche piece of software, you're dreaming if you think anyone is going to do any work on it, much less submit patches back. You're essentially giving your $2 million of R&D away for free with no gain for the company. No corporation is gonna go for that.
Microsoft has gone batshit crazy with astroturfing the Xbox 360 so far. (Ourcolony?) If the leak wasn't planned by them, I'd bet they at least don't really care.
Yeah, a lot of that boils down to problems in the business procedures and not so much the spreadsheet itself -- someone should be double-checking that stuff. But I have seen situations where the spreadsheet has told the buyer to get one bar short or one bar too many, which nobody is going to catch. That is, until they actually start making parts and find out they're short 20 feet of steel.
Example: in the CNC machining industry, you have to buy steel for the jobs. Depending on what jobs you have queued up and how many pieces you want to run, you order different amounts of steel. Spreadsheets are very common for this. If it tells you to order more steel than you really need, there's several thousand dollars right there.
For as out-of-touch The Screen Savers was, I guess I shouldn't be at all surprised that they picked something as arcane as MP3Pro for their distribution format.
Misleading argument. While Microsoft Office does the same thing, it is very easily disabled (delete the Microsoft Office shortcut in the Startup folder, delete the FindFast reference under Run\ in the registry). And after doing so, and verifying in the process list that there's definitely nothing Office-related running, MS Office *still* runs circles around OpenOffice in startup time.
It's a matter of convenience. With current OSX and WinXP, it's just more convenient/less hassle to make folders and organize yourself. I'm the same way -- I don't think I've ever used the find tool in OSX. But back when I used BeOS, I used filesystem queries all the time because it was more convenient and faster than dealing with my own organization.
I think when Spotlight is there at a click's notice, it might become more convenient to use it instead of folders.
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Apple licensed Xerox's IP by giving them a substantial amount of Apple stock, actually. They didn't "steal" anything.
The ethernet port does, but Debian ARM doesn't. RTFA -- Debian ARM doesn't run in big-endian mode.
Why does everyone expect Intel to have an *obligation* to write optimizations in THEIR COMPILER for a COMPETITOR'S chip? And they don't specifically check for AMD and write bogus code if so -- quite the opposite. They check if they're running on Intel, and if so they put in faster code that's specifically designed for Intel processors. I'm not seeing the problem here. This lawsuit should be thrown out. This is like suing OpenOffice for having full support of their own file format, but "DISCRIMINATING" against Microsoft Word by not supporting it as well.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 817FSG/ref=pd_sxp_f/103-8844487-7101435?v=glance&s =wireless
Good job taking 5 minutes to see what was out there.
Brian Greene.
From what I can deduce from your post, you've got basically zero chance of convincing the higher-ups. And frankly, I'm not even sure that open sourcing it is a good idea, anyway. If your target market is 20-50 customers and it's a niche piece of software, you're dreaming if you think anyone is going to do any work on it, much less submit patches back. You're essentially giving your $2 million of R&D away for free with no gain for the company. No corporation is gonna go for that.
Many DVD players will notice that you've played a DVD before, and offer to pick up where you left off.
It's funny that you should pick those three, because I'm fairly certain a HUGE number of people would (and do!) do all three.
I was with you until "Since MacOS X runs on SPARC". NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP ran on SPARC, but no version of Mac OS X ever has.
^^^ This post is exactly why geeks don't get much action. ;)
TFA typo'd. They're at UCLA.
Surprise! People are stupid.
I believe 911 service is required by law regardless of whether you've been paying your bills.
Microsoft has gone batshit crazy with astroturfing the Xbox 360 so far. (Ourcolony?) If the leak wasn't planned by them, I'd bet they at least don't really care.
Bonjour is the new name for Rendezvous. Apple had to rename it because someone else had a trademark on Rendezvous.
This just in! Caching frequently-used data yields performance improvements! Film at 11!
Yeah, a lot of that boils down to problems in the business procedures and not so much the spreadsheet itself -- someone should be double-checking that stuff. But I have seen situations where the spreadsheet has told the buyer to get one bar short or one bar too many, which nobody is going to catch. That is, until they actually start making parts and find out they're short 20 feet of steel.
Example: in the CNC machining industry, you have to buy steel for the jobs. Depending on what jobs you have queued up and how many pieces you want to run, you order different amounts of steel. Spreadsheets are very common for this. If it tells you to order more steel than you really need, there's several thousand dollars right there.
For as out-of-touch The Screen Savers was, I guess I shouldn't be at all surprised that they picked something as arcane as MP3Pro for their distribution format.
Misleading argument. While Microsoft Office does the same thing, it is very easily disabled (delete the Microsoft Office shortcut in the Startup folder, delete the FindFast reference under Run\ in the registry). And after doing so, and verifying in the process list that there's definitely nothing Office-related running, MS Office *still* runs circles around OpenOffice in startup time.
-1, Incorrectly Assumes Slashdot Has Any Journalistic Integrity.
Spellchecking submissions? You must be new here.
Stuck on a ship at sea with 599 other programmers? Kill me now.
It's a matter of convenience. With current OSX and WinXP, it's just more convenient/less hassle to make folders and organize yourself. I'm the same way -- I don't think I've ever used the find tool in OSX. But back when I used BeOS, I used filesystem queries all the time because it was more convenient and faster than dealing with my own organization.
I think when Spotlight is there at a click's notice, it might become more convenient to use it instead of folders.
GIF technology was proprietary and, thus, could not be placed into a product that had a open source license (Linux).
Last I checked, open source Mozilla supports GIFs.