Amen, brother! I mean it ain't like one of the four companies has been very conspicuously threatening others with claims that Linux violates unspecified patents. No sir! They are all exactly the same!
If Microsoft were truly "not evil" as its apologists claim, they would address the concerns of consumers by making it a requirement that the OEM provide the key to the buyer as a prerequisite for being "Windows 8" certified.
...try IdeOne. Code doesn't run in the browser -- it's compiled and runs server-side -- but it supports dozens of languages, including esoteric ones like intercal and whitespace, and allows you to optionally publish your code snippets, a la pastebin.
Using Pick WRITE and READ statements may avoid the need for escaping quotes (or - preferably - using prepared statements) that SQL INSERT/UPDATE/SELECT queries need, but you still need to be careful. MVDBMSs carry the risk of unchecked delimiter character (@AM, @VM, etc.) injection. Plus if you use an SELECT/SSELECT query for record selection, you run the same risk of quote-based injections that SQL has.
People pay money for Android phones, the providers give away the so-called "feature" phones. There is a difference, even if snobby Apple fanboys don't want to see it.
Your hypothesis is incorrect. Microsoft does not hate software patents. To the contrary, for years they have been advocating software patents in countries that don't (yet) recognise them. And they are still at it.
Amazon video streaming works perfectly on my MS-free Kubuntu desktop. Their video download feature requires either a Windows PC or a Tivo, but that's not important to me. Their music downloads (in DRM-free MP3s) work fine in Linux (which is important to me).
I don't use toll roads regularly, and don't have a toll tag. I might be tempted to use the North Tollway or the 161 every so often, but I hear there is a $10 fee for them sending you a bill. Paying around $11 for a one-time use of a toll road is ridiculous, IMHO.
Most of these companies are no big loss, if you ask me. About the only thing I'll miss is "ping". I'm sure I can use "nmap" instead, but I'll be fantasizing about good old simple ping while I do so.
True but WinCE sucks as WinMo is in deep trouble.
Windows Mobile is really at the "also" ran level in the Cell Phone market.
Do you see any ads for WinMo phones? Not really. IPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Palm are all way ahead of Microsoft in mind share..
It all depends on who your provider is. I have AT&T. I recently shopped them for an upgrade, and looked over their smartphone selection. They had a couple Blackberries, and some obscure phone from Apple <grin>, but the rest of their selection was (what seemed like) dozens of WinMo phones. Not a single linux-derived phone in the set.
I have no desire for a Crackberry, nor the budget for an iPhone, and I sure as hell am not going to hold a Steve Ballmer product up to my face; so I ended up settling for fairly nice "feature phone".
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1983. But they "got better".
Good point. There's even earlier prior art. The patent application describes what I had used the Prodigy application to do back in 1992.
Amen, brother! I mean it ain't like one of the four companies has been very conspicuously threatening others with claims that Linux violates unspecified patents. No sir! They are all exactly the same!
If Microsoft were truly "not evil" as its apologists claim, they would address the concerns of consumers by making it a requirement that the OEM provide the key to the buyer as a prerequisite for being "Windows 8" certified.
You are ignoring a large, third group of us. Those who think that lock-in by anyone is bad
...try IdeOne. Code doesn't run in the browser -- it's compiled and runs server-side -- but it supports dozens of languages, including esoteric ones like intercal and whitespace, and allows you to optionally publish your code snippets, a la pastebin.
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In this case it might be better to appeal to an authority higher than the constitution - we the people.
You mean the "we the people" who, as a jury awarded the RIAA $675,000 in this case, and $1.5 million in the case of Jammie Thomas-Rasset?
No hope for sanity with them.
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Page and Brin are huge proponents of the need to take drastic action to deal with man caused global warming
[Citation Needed]
Wow. Did you grammer that yourself?
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Using Pick WRITE and READ statements may avoid the need for escaping quotes (or - preferably - using prepared statements) that SQL INSERT/UPDATE/SELECT queries need, but you still need to be careful. MVDBMSs carry the risk of unchecked delimiter character (@AM, @VM, etc.) injection. Plus if you use an SELECT/SSELECT query for record selection, you run the same risk of quote-based injections that SQL has.
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People pay money for Android phones, the providers give away the so-called "feature" phones. There is a difference, even if snobby Apple fanboys don't want to see it.
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I wish I could mod this up. That was exactly what I though of when I read their claim.
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MTV streams Jersey Shore. If they didn't I would get cable TV....
Is this an ironic statement? You realize you didn't post it anonymously! ;-)
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Your hypothesis is incorrect. Microsoft does not hate software patents. To the contrary, for years they have been advocating software patents in countries that don't (yet) recognise them. And they are still at it.
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How about "DFS:Professional Write"? ;-)
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Same here. I read it as WordPerfect 7 every time. I just think of Windows Phone 7 as WinPhone 7.
Actually, I usually don't think of it at all!
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"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."
Apparently Balmer has read Sun-Tzu.
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I'd say that's a false dichotomy. A love of freedom and a loathing of Microsoft are not mutually exclusive viewpoints.
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I don't use toll roads regularly, and don't have a toll tag. I might be tempted to use the North Tollway or the 161 every so often, but I hear there is a $10 fee for them sending you a bill. Paying around $11 for a one-time use of a toll road is ridiculous, IMHO.
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No, he'll probably replace the "L" with an "i"... giving the world the iEgo.
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Most of these companies are no big loss, if you ask me. About the only thing I'll miss is "ping". I'm sure I can use "nmap" instead, but I'll be fantasizing about good old simple ping while I do so.
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And when Playstation bet Nintendo and killed of Sega (Sega killed themselves .. :D)
Actually, Sega's not quite dead yet, but I did hear that their business is "in the toilet"!
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True but WinCE sucks as WinMo is in deep trouble. Windows Mobile is really at the "also" ran level in the Cell Phone market. Do you see any ads for WinMo phones? Not really. IPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Palm are all way ahead of Microsoft in mind share..
It all depends on who your provider is. I have AT&T. I recently shopped them for an upgrade, and looked over their smartphone selection. They had a couple Blackberries, and some obscure phone from Apple <grin>, but the rest of their selection was (what seemed like) dozens of WinMo phones. Not a single linux-derived phone in the set.
I have no desire for a Crackberry, nor the budget for an iPhone, and I sure as hell am not going to hold a Steve Ballmer product up to my face; so I ended up settling for fairly nice "feature phone".
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