It's usually about a year before your first hear back from the patent office after submitting something. That's usually a rejection, because claims x, y, and z aren't adequate for some reason. You then have some ammount of time, either 3 or 6 months maybe, i forget, to resubmit changes based on the first rejection. I don't know how long it takes then to hear back again, i'm still waiting. It's been 5 months i think so far. Each iteration costing more money. I've got a little home project that I'm playing the patent game with. It's hardware though, not software. And we actually developed a prototype, which should be required I think. Or atleast a simulation should be.
So while the patent office is slow, it also takes some time for the people filing the patent to make corrections and changes, and move to the next step. I really would like to see the filing cabinet where my application has been sitting untouched for the last 5 months. Once they get their hands on it, it's probably a days work.
Yeah, and on the other bitkeeper hand the vendor decided to take something away on a whim. that *never* happens in the business world does it? yeah right.
That's consumer level stuff, and high quality consumer level stuff. Wave after wave of business level software that I've had to customize and support has been, out of the box, rubbish. Not to mention, customization is extremely difficult because for tens of thousands of dollars, you don't get the source code, just the right to be a beta tester when the company hasn't had time or care to beta test their own work.
We have a small dev team of 6, spread across numerous business projects. As a team, we all have some development experience using or creating Free software. Our managers are starting to feel the push we are making towards Free software, we really think it would make our life easier.
A roadblock however is being a pseudo-independant but wholey owned part of a larger corporation. They require us to shop around first, bringing in 3 separate vendors for software to be used in projects. Or often times even forcing coporate standards on us when those standards are irrelvant to our business, but not theirs.
Oh yeah, support contracts seem worthless too for software. So if we are customizing and supporting Proprietary software, why not make it easier for us and let us customize and support Free software?
Or they can do what a lot of supertankers have done in the past, and run a flag of convenience, generally the flag of a wholly land-locked country without a navy.
Isn't Iraq landlocked? I mean, that's why they invaded Kuwait wasn't it? Oil rich, ocean front property...
Try flying an Iraqi flag, see if the US Coast Gaurd tries boarding you.
brilliant? xpdf has been able to read every pdf i've needed to read in the past. the KDE pdf reader is also nice, but i'm not in the habit of using it.
Embedded electronic picture frames in a wall? Make them like windows, render different views of a 3d worlds for each side of a room. Even make subtle looping animations for them, clouds flying by, water rippling, sunsets, etc. It's something I've wanted to do, but never have time, energy, or an abundance of LCD displays.
$200 controller does indeed sound prohibitive, though
In neither the Challenger nor Columbia losses was the failure something that was completely unanticipated. Both of the fatal problems had been identified as a specific risk and were being worked on and analyzed when the accidents happened.
to me that sounds like, "We don't know yet if this bridge is strong enough to hold you, but drive your 2 ton car over it while we finish analyzing it."
worked on and analyzed when the accidents happened!? what kind of safety measure is that?
I do want to mention something, though: Knoppix is headed in the right direction. I used it about a year ago and was stunned that a.) it auto-detected everything just fine, b.) I had no problem finding what I needed, c.) It more or less behaved like Windows.
Hey you just made a good point. Use what you like. If you like MS-Windows, use it. if you don't like Linux, don't use it. Knoppix is heading in the right direction for you. Maybe not for me, nor for a device driver hacker, nor for server needs, however. But for you it is.
The same applies to forking. Develop the features you want if you need them. The "owner" of the app may not want or need them, so they aren't developed. Forking can be good.
Yes, you can get the E magic right now, but you have to go through E.
I think you'll find that imlib and imlib2 are usable outside E. Both developed by E, for E, and a requirement of Gnome. What makes you think that these developments won't be usable? You speculate, but that's about it.
Read the story linking to the 2002 suicide. The "kid" was 21 years old and living in his own apartment.
that being said, the guy had problems, "He'd quit his job and played almost non-stop, eventually being evicted from his apartment and moving in with his mother, before leaving her home and then being put in a group home for addictive behavior." ...
"He was diagnosed with depression and a schizoid personality disorder and put on medication." ...
"Residence in the group home was voluntary, however, and he left. He then rented his own apartment, over his mother's objections, where he resumed non-stop playing."
It doesn't sound like the game developers fault. His family could have done more, but with the guy being a legal adult, it's hard for the parents to force him to do anything.
I've heard numerous people cite Fiorina as proof that women should not be CEOs.
I've heard numerous people claim that Earth is the only habitated planet in the universe. Doesn't mean it's true.
Such sexist comments are pretty ignorant, whether that's your belief or just things you've heard said. Good managers are good managers, male or female.
How your comment got +5 Insightfull is beyond me. If I had mod points, it would definately be Flame Bait.
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LibSDL... uses OpenGL when in Linux. Uses DirectX in Windows when in windows.
Granted, i'm not a Windows game developer, but i'm not sure why anyone uses DirectX anymore unless they explicitly don't want to port the game elsewhere.
So this google web browser is old news and people have pretty much said it's not happening.
Maybe they aren't building a web browser. Google is in the information organization sector. (you may argue they are in the ad business, but that business is dependent upon their core business of analyzing data). The more logical conclusion in my opinion is if they are building a "gbrowser" that it's a file system browser application. Something that arranges info better than Microsofts Windows Explorer thingie.
Just my two cents. I doubt this is even true, they most likely just registered the domain name as a provision.
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It's usually about a year before your first hear back from the patent office after submitting something. That's usually a rejection, because claims x, y, and z aren't adequate for some reason. You then have some ammount of time, either 3 or 6 months maybe, i forget, to resubmit changes based on the first rejection. I don't know how long it takes then to hear back again, i'm still waiting. It's been 5 months i think so far. Each iteration costing more money. I've got a little home project that I'm playing the patent game with. It's hardware though, not software. And we actually developed a prototype, which should be required I think. Or atleast a simulation should be.
So while the patent office is slow, it also takes some time for the people filing the patent to make corrections and changes, and move to the next step. I really would like to see the filing cabinet where my application has been sitting untouched for the last 5 months. Once they get their hands on it, it's probably a days work.
While listening to the wineconf presentations I heard one guy talking about a scheme using goto statements.
Scheme with goto statements! That would be brilliantly evil!
Im really uncertain why it was put in there. Stupid Journalists, thats why.
Journalists? What site are *you* reading?
"You can't regulate washing machines. You can't rule the world."
-Judge David Sentelle
Yeah, and on the other bitkeeper hand the vendor decided to take something away on a whim. that *never* happens in the business world does it? yeah right.
Buyer beware indeed.
That's consumer level stuff, and high quality consumer level stuff. Wave after wave of business level software that I've had to customize and support has been, out of the box, rubbish. Not to mention, customization is extremely difficult because for tens of thousands of dollars, you don't get the source code, just the right to be a beta tester when the company hasn't had time or care to beta test their own work.
We have a small dev team of 6, spread across numerous business projects. As a team, we all have some development experience using or creating Free software. Our managers are starting to feel the push we are making towards Free software, we really think it would make our life easier.
A roadblock however is being a pseudo-independant but wholey owned part of a larger corporation. They require us to shop around first, bringing in 3 separate vendors for software to be used in projects. Or often times even forcing coporate standards on us when those standards are irrelvant to our business, but not theirs.
Oh yeah, support contracts seem worthless too for software. So if we are customizing and supporting Proprietary software, why not make it easier for us and let us customize and support Free software?
Or they can do what a lot of supertankers have done in the past, and run a flag of convenience, generally the flag of a wholly land-locked country without a navy.
Isn't Iraq landlocked? I mean, that's why they invaded Kuwait wasn't it? Oil rich, ocean front property...
Try flying an Iraqi flag, see if the US Coast Gaurd tries boarding you.
Could it possibly be argued that the original performance is the commercial release of the copyrighted act? Then this law doesn't apply.
Stop waiting and start helping. Software doesn't write it self, yet... sort of...
you get my point.
brilliant? xpdf has been able to read every pdf i've needed to read in the past. the KDE pdf reader is also nice, but i'm not in the habit of using it.
"irrelevant" is a better choice of words i think.
What, like a merger between TimeWarner and AOL? ...oh wait.
Embedded electronic picture frames in a wall? Make them like windows, render different views of a 3d worlds for each side of a room. Even make subtle looping animations for them, clouds flying by, water rippling, sunsets, etc. It's something I've wanted to do, but never have time, energy, or an abundance of LCD displays.
$200 controller does indeed sound prohibitive, though
In neither the Challenger nor Columbia losses was the failure something that was completely unanticipated. Both of the fatal problems had been identified as a specific risk and were being worked on and analyzed when the accidents happened.
to me that sounds like, "We don't know yet if this bridge is strong enough to hold you, but drive your 2 ton car over it while we finish analyzing it."
worked on and analyzed when the accidents happened!? what kind of safety measure is that?
I do want to mention something, though: Knoppix is headed in the right direction. I used it about a year ago and was stunned that a.) it auto-detected everything just fine, b.) I had no problem finding what I needed, c.) It more or less behaved like Windows.
Hey you just made a good point. Use what you like. If you like MS-Windows, use it. if you don't like Linux, don't use it. Knoppix is heading in the right direction for you. Maybe not for me, nor for a device driver hacker, nor for server needs, however. But for you it is.
The same applies to forking. Develop the features you want if you need them. The "owner" of the app may not want or need them, so they aren't developed. Forking can be good.
not sure what FluxBox is using for antialiased fonts, but it looks damn purty. Toggling it on and off is a world of difference.
They have no reason to sell to Microsoft unless Microsoft offers ludicrous money.
You forget that Bill Gates is one of a handfull of people who have a Ludicrous Dollar Bill.
Yes, you can get the E magic right now, but you have to go through E.
I think you'll find that imlib and imlib2 are usable outside E. Both developed by E, for E, and a requirement of Gnome. What makes you think that these developments won't be usable? You speculate, but that's about it.
Read the story linking to the 2002 suicide. The "kid" was 21 years old and living in his own apartment.
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that being said, the guy had problems,
"He'd quit his job and played almost non-stop, eventually being evicted from his apartment and moving in with his mother, before leaving her home and then being put in a group home for addictive behavior."
"He was diagnosed with depression and a schizoid personality disorder and put on medication."
"Residence in the group home was voluntary, however, and he left. He then rented his own apartment, over his mother's objections, where he resumed non-stop playing."
It doesn't sound like the game developers fault. His family could have done more, but with the guy being a legal adult, it's hard for the parents to force him to do anything.
Obviously, the game isn't real enough. Or else he'd still be playing it and not have the need to go kill someone for real. ...kidding.
I've heard numerous people cite Fiorina as proof that women should not be CEOs.
I've heard numerous people claim that Earth is the only habitated planet in the universe. Doesn't mean it's true.
Such sexist comments are pretty ignorant, whether that's your belief or just things you've heard said. Good managers are good managers, male or female.
How your comment got +5 Insightfull is beyond me. If I had mod points, it would definately be Flame Bait.
LibSDL... uses OpenGL when in Linux. Uses DirectX in Windows when in windows.
Granted, i'm not a Windows game developer, but i'm not sure why anyone uses DirectX anymore unless they explicitly don't want to port the game elsewhere.
I don't think this will make any difference to the end user
Except that everything SBC touches turns to a pile of dung. Or maybe you havn't lived in an area where SBC took over...
So this google web browser is old news and people have pretty much said it's not happening.
Maybe they aren't building a web browser. Google is in the information organization sector. (you may argue they are in the ad business, but that business is dependent upon their core business of analyzing data). The more logical conclusion in my opinion is if they are building a "gbrowser" that it's a file system browser application. Something that arranges info better than Microsofts Windows Explorer thingie.
Just my two cents. I doubt this is even true, they most likely just registered the domain name as a provision.
Real stepping onto the turf is an unequivocal sign that I should stop using MP3's entirely.
Helixplayer, Shmeelixplayer. I'll support the other guys on this one.