Of course, part of the reason they and other PC manufacturers are moving to DisplayPort is precisely because HDMI is encumbered by this kind of annoying crap.
Except you're wrong about two rather important things. Firstly, there's no requirement to grant a patent license - the patent owner can refuse to license their ideas at any cost and get an injunction stopping you from using them. Secondly, it doesn't matter whether you're profitting or not, because there's no exception for personal use or research - even if the only thing you're using the ideas for is satisfying your own curiousity it's still patent infringement.
OSPF falls under the "requires every node to know about every other node in existence" category, and possibly also the "creates a hierarchical structure where the topmost nodes are bottlenecks" category. It's fundamentally not suited to this.
I think this underestimates by quite a lot just how difficult large-scale mesh networking is. Last time I checked, the current state of the art didn't scale above small local meshes - it's quite hard to avoid every node having to know about every other node, and the schemes which don't have this requirement tend to instead have a hierarchical structure in which the nodes at the top of the hierarchy are a bandwidth bottleneck.
No chance. It's likely some disposable ex-employees might go to jail, but the current head of News International, Rebecca Brooks, was up to her neck in it and the Murdochs are still protecting her.
But if we use the steel analogy. MS is making steel, and came up with a new, better way to make more of it. They patent that technique. Samsung shouldn't be able to just waltz over, copy the design, and implement it themselves and leave MS research unrewarded for the work they did
Last time I looked, the main patent Microsoft were using to bludgeon makers of Linux devices - and certainly the hardest to challenge - was the FAT Long File Names patent. Having actually looked at the details of how it works, FAT with LFN is an abomination - unpleasant to implement, designed to maintain compatibility with OSes that haven't been in use for decades, and generally worse than the competition in all but one respect. The one "redeeming" feature of it, the reason that so many hardware manufacturers feel the need to use it, is that it's the only choice if you want your filesystem to be readable by Microsoft OSes - and you very much do want that because they have a hard-worn monopoly in the OS market.
It'd be like... actually, there's no good analogy for this.
Generally a combination of the component companies with perhaps the odd contribution from academia rather than Apple, I think, though pretty much anything related to Apple is so shrouded in secrecy and NDAs it's impossible to be sure. Apple have been doing more or less this for a while - the reason the first iPod was so compact for its capacity was because they spotted Hitachi were producing a very small hard disk they could use and bought up the entire production run. The only real news here is that they've got enough cash to actually pay for the factories these days.
The subject of discussion is News Corp and their business practices in general, remember - particularly in the UK. The Sun is our most-read paper, and it's the main way Murdoch dabbles in politics and the reason all our politicians are so chummy with him and refusing to do anything about the phone hacking.
There's a good argument that it took off despite the English patent system. Broad patents act as a disincentive to coming up with ways to improve existing designs; you can't sell them because of the patent, and the company that can has no reason to license any patent you might file because there's no competition. In particular, many possible applications of the steam engine were impossible until Watt's patent expired because his engines weren't small or efficient enough, and his patent prevented manufacture of ones that were.
GLSL is a fairly restrictive language lacking things like pointers. The verified subset of it that WebGL allows is even more restrictive. OpenCL is basically C with a few minor limitations to make it more GPU friendly. Oh, and WebCL allows this code to be executed on the CPU, not just the GPU.
When I talked about arbitrary code execution, I didn't mean it in the bullshit sense the anti-WebGL articles used - I mean the traditional definition, arbitrary code execution with access to the full privileges granted to your web browser.
Take a look at ticket #1 on the Nokia OpenCL plugin. Arbitrary code execution anyone? The security issues with WebGL are massively overblown, but WebCL seems to be a different matter entirely.
They blocked Facebook from accessing GMail contacts directly because Facebook wouldn't allow them to import Facebook contacts directly. You can still download your entire GMail contacts list yourself in a multitude of formats and do whatever you like with them, including importing them into Facebook if you really want to, whereas this news article is about Facebook blocking their own users from doing the same kind of mass-export.
Of course, this is the exact opposite of what you're imply - they thought of something not taken into account by the model and demonstrated that it matched the existing evidence. (That part is also old news; it's been well known for a while that pollution reduced global temperatures over that time period. The interesting bit is that China is apparently polluting enough to have the same effect.)
After one angry mail his app got a sprecial promotion and he got 180,000 donwloads in a single day,
180,000 free downloads - which damaged his reputation because thanks to the lack of compatibility checks it didn't actually run on many downloaders' phones.
Is this a troll, or did you just spectacularly miss the point? That forum post is fairly obviously about the system requirements for the KDE equivalent of Aero Glass or whatever it's called these days...
It is a well-known fact that the IMF and its Death Squads of bankers lurk in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to step in and prevent common people from having clean water.
Actually, the worst part is that it's probably not even intentional; the people running the IMF really do seem to believe that there's nothing the free market can't solve and that cutting government spending is always harmless. Well, so long as it's not a country they care about anyway.
Don't think the official gcc releases can compile code for Macs very reliably; Apple didn't contribute their changes upstream.
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Franco kept Spain stable for decades, dealt with old-school Communists in the most effective way, and was a reasonably good steward of his country, which he kept out of WWII.
By which you mean he supported the Nazis and offered them assistance whilst not fighting in WWII himself, summarily executed his political opponents and sent hundreds of thousands more to forced labour camps, totally rolled back women's rights and religious freedoms, and was a least as bad as the Communist states - but that's OK because he wasn't red.
Frugal management sucks from the employees perspective, but it usually allow the company to survive, just like the IMF takeovers are unpleasant but can save a country from bankruptcy.
You mean the IMF takeovers that result in things like large proportions of the population losing access to clean water because the IMF forced the government to sell off their water supplies at a knock-down price to a company that decided it only made financial sense to serve the uber-rich? Those IMF takeovers?
Actually, it's probably not a bad analogy - both attempt to improve short-term finances and enrich third parties at the expense of the long-term health and stability of the country or business.
Oh, and of course AMD support ECC on pretty much all their CPUs and chipsets, unlike with Intel where you need to pay out for really expensive server-class hardware. I think that's probably part of the reason HP Microservers use AMD chips.
If you write a report, and it says "nothing much is happening, and there's no reason to change anything" how can you go on to say "this is important research and it needs more funding".
Generally, you do it by contradicting a widely-held existing theory that says something is happening and there's a need to change everything. Then you can get money for researching why the contradiction exists, and how existing conclusions need to be re-evaluated in the light of your new evidence.
Livejournal's been doing something similar since before Facebook even existed. Probably not quite similar enough to actually invalidate any of the patent claims, but it's certainly relevant prior art that ought to narrow how they can be interpreted considerably.
You'll notice that Google didn't claim that what Bing was doing was illegal or a breach of copyright, just that it was ethically questionable and indicated Microsoft weren't comptetent enough to produce good search results without piggy-backing on someone else's effort.
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Of course, part of the reason they and other PC manufacturers are moving to DisplayPort is precisely because HDMI is encumbered by this kind of annoying crap.
Except you're wrong about two rather important things. Firstly, there's no requirement to grant a patent license - the patent owner can refuse to license their ideas at any cost and get an injunction stopping you from using them. Secondly, it doesn't matter whether you're profitting or not, because there's no exception for personal use or research - even if the only thing you're using the ideas for is satisfying your own curiousity it's still patent infringement.
OSPF falls under the "requires every node to know about every other node in existence" category, and possibly also the "creates a hierarchical structure where the topmost nodes are bottlenecks" category. It's fundamentally not suited to this.
I think this underestimates by quite a lot just how difficult large-scale mesh networking is. Last time I checked, the current state of the art didn't scale above small local meshes - it's quite hard to avoid every node having to know about every other node, and the schemes which don't have this requirement tend to instead have a hierarchical structure in which the nodes at the top of the hierarchy are a bandwidth bottleneck.
No chance. It's likely some disposable ex-employees might go to jail, but the current head of News International, Rebecca Brooks, was up to her neck in it and the Murdochs are still protecting her.
Errrm... this is less informatiopn than Facebook require you to make public and indexable by search engines, from what I recall.
But if we use the steel analogy. MS is making steel, and came up with a new, better way to make more of it. They patent that technique. Samsung shouldn't be able to just waltz over, copy the design, and implement it themselves and leave MS research unrewarded for the work they did
Last time I looked, the main patent Microsoft were using to bludgeon makers of Linux devices - and certainly the hardest to challenge - was the FAT Long File Names patent. Having actually looked at the details of how it works, FAT with LFN is an abomination - unpleasant to implement, designed to maintain compatibility with OSes that haven't been in use for decades, and generally worse than the competition in all but one respect. The one "redeeming" feature of it, the reason that so many hardware manufacturers feel the need to use it, is that it's the only choice if you want your filesystem to be readable by Microsoft OSes - and you very much do want that because they have a hard-worn monopoly in the OS market.
It'd be like... actually, there's no good analogy for this.
Generally a combination of the component companies with perhaps the odd contribution from academia rather than Apple, I think, though pretty much anything related to Apple is so shrouded in secrecy and NDAs it's impossible to be sure. Apple have been doing more or less this for a while - the reason the first iPod was so compact for its capacity was because they spotted Hitachi were producing a very small hard disk they could use and bought up the entire production run. The only real news here is that they've got enough cash to actually pay for the factories these days.
The subject of discussion is News Corp and their business practices in general, remember - particularly in the UK. The Sun is our most-read paper, and it's the main way Murdoch dabbles in politics and the reason all our politicians are so chummy with him and refusing to do anything about the phone hacking.
All of them avoid reporting news that'd be inconvenient to Murdoch where possible, from what I can tell.
There's a good argument that it took off despite the English patent system. Broad patents act as a disincentive to coming up with ways to improve existing designs; you can't sell them because of the patent, and the company that can has no reason to license any patent you might file because there's no competition. In particular, many possible applications of the steam engine were impossible until Watt's patent expired because his engines weren't small or efficient enough, and his patent prevented manufacture of ones that were.
GLSL is a fairly restrictive language lacking things like pointers. The verified subset of it that WebGL allows is even more restrictive. OpenCL is basically C with a few minor limitations to make it more GPU friendly. Oh, and WebCL allows this code to be executed on the CPU, not just the GPU.
When I talked about arbitrary code execution, I didn't mean it in the bullshit sense the anti-WebGL articles used - I mean the traditional definition, arbitrary code execution with access to the full privileges granted to your web browser.
Take a look at ticket #1 on the Nokia OpenCL plugin. Arbitrary code execution anyone? The security issues with WebGL are massively overblown, but WebCL seems to be a different matter entirely.
They blocked Facebook from accessing GMail contacts directly because Facebook wouldn't allow them to import Facebook contacts directly. You can still download your entire GMail contacts list yourself in a multitude of formats and do whatever you like with them, including importing them into Facebook if you really want to, whereas this news article is about Facebook blocking their own users from doing the same kind of mass-export.
Of course, this is the exact opposite of what you're imply - they thought of something not taken into account by the model and demonstrated that it matched the existing evidence. (That part is also old news; it's been well known for a while that pollution reduced global temperatures over that time period. The interesting bit is that China is apparently polluting enough to have the same effect.)
After one angry mail his app got a sprecial promotion and he got 180,000 donwloads in a single day,
180,000 free downloads - which damaged his reputation because thanks to the lack of compatibility checks it didn't actually run on many downloaders' phones.
Is this a troll, or did you just spectacularly miss the point? That forum post is fairly obviously about the system requirements for the KDE equivalent of Aero Glass or whatever it's called these days...
It is a well-known fact that the IMF and its Death Squads of bankers lurk in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to step in and prevent common people from having clean water.
Actually, the worst part is that it's probably not even intentional; the people running the IMF really do seem to believe that there's nothing the free market can't solve and that cutting government spending is always harmless. Well, so long as it's not a country they care about anyway.
Don't think the official gcc releases can compile code for Macs very reliably; Apple didn't contribute their changes upstream.
Franco kept Spain stable for decades, dealt with old-school Communists in the most effective way, and was a reasonably good steward of his country, which he kept out of WWII.
By which you mean he supported the Nazis and offered them assistance whilst not fighting in WWII himself, summarily executed his political opponents and sent hundreds of thousands more to forced labour camps, totally rolled back women's rights and religious freedoms, and was a least as bad as the Communist states - but that's OK because he wasn't red.
There's a reason the US isn't very popular.
Frugal management sucks from the employees perspective, but it usually allow the company to survive, just like the IMF takeovers are unpleasant but can save a country from bankruptcy.
You mean the IMF takeovers that result in things like large proportions of the population losing access to clean water because the IMF forced the government to sell off their water supplies at a knock-down price to a company that decided it only made financial sense to serve the uber-rich? Those IMF takeovers?
Actually, it's probably not a bad analogy - both attempt to improve short-term finances and enrich third parties at the expense of the long-term health and stability of the country or business.
Oh, and of course AMD support ECC on pretty much all their CPUs and chipsets, unlike with Intel where you need to pay out for really expensive server-class hardware. I think that's probably part of the reason HP Microservers use AMD chips.
If you write a report, and it says "nothing much is happening, and there's no reason to change anything" how can you go on to say "this is important research and it needs more funding".
Generally, you do it by contradicting a widely-held existing theory that says something is happening and there's a need to change everything. Then you can get money for researching why the contradiction exists, and how existing conclusions need to be re-evaluated in the light of your new evidence.
Livejournal's been doing something similar since before Facebook even existed. Probably not quite similar enough to actually invalidate any of the patent claims, but it's certainly relevant prior art that ought to narrow how they can be interpreted considerably.
You'll notice that Google didn't claim that what Bing was doing was illegal or a breach of copyright, just that it was ethically questionable and indicated Microsoft weren't comptetent enough to produce good search results without piggy-backing on someone else's effort.