I don't know _enough_ about patents. I'll happily admit but it seems to me if you patented a device, hardware which does a series of sums via some circuits which have a mathematical function to them and then create another device which can do the same sums, but used a different layout of circuits and still comes up with the same result a patent for the first device wouldn't' cover the second device?
However in software you seem to patent the idea of how to do something, and anyone else who does something which looks slightly similar gets sued until they give up.
Well... no, because if i had electrons just "moving" around on my storage, with their varying negative and positive powers of persuasion surely I'd be experiencing data loss?
And I'm not.... therefore I can conlude that both the 0s AND the 1s aren't moving. No weight change
Someone care to explain why I'm not correct? (And do I now get to call myself a Professor too?)
And while sometimes the community is great, other times they make me want to stab myself in the eyes.
It really depends how deep into system your getting. If its the kind of thing that could run on ANY linux distro, you'll be fine as there is such a large community that can help. However if you find issues which crop up perticuallry with _centos_ and nothing else, and you require something which isn't "normal" in centos.... i.e.. not in the repos and your not happy building software yourself (which is kind of silly in linux but wouldn't surprise me these days) then you could be well and truely out of lucjk.
So...
If you can admin yourself, build your own software and fix it yourself - centos works fine If you can't, you need that levle of extra support red hat offers.
Disclaimer ( I've never used red hat technical support, but have worked with random other companies who do technical support as my roles in IT work places and I think I know what to expect.
'The idea that an app on an iPad can better teach my kids to read or do arithmetic, that's ridiculous.'
What?
I think you meant "Can teach my kids better than a human teacher", or something along these lines, but clearly all those digital aids mean you can't have sentences with more than 160 letters anymore;)
Its even more amusing than this.... if you buy the fire they are losing money.
I'd expect this is a break even product, done by the lack of touchscreen - but I thought the $99 one was touchscreen anyway.... This bit of the announcement makes no sense really..
The fact win98 would let you search network folders via filetype and I'm supprised anyone even thinks they can patent this.... let me guess - US Patent office?
If you build an open source project, you make sure it works for you....
Its all about egos, I've discussed this many times with devs who can't "see" what I'm trying to point out - but who'd build something which they couldn't use / understand / like?
They think its brilliant because it does exactly what THEY expect - however their expections are wildly different to what the outside world expects.
For example I was discussing how to eject a CD on OSX the other day with someone - he couldn't understand the problem with the idea that dragging the CD to the recycle bin isn't something I (A realitively pro computer user) would concider for trying to eject the disk. For him it seemed so simple, so "normal". In open source you find the same, developers make decisions which work for them, but when a user can't understand why, because they haven't gone through the whole process the developer went with the attitude is "well it doesn't work for me".
So..... we've had someone (I forget if it was AMD or Intel teaming up with trend micro to look for malware at the lowest possible hardware level) and then in teh same week an announcement about how you can have remote visuals for your WHOLE system from outside the O/S ?
While its useful if your server decides to hang and you don't know why - but this exists in DRAC cards and other forms of remote management for systems which NEED it. I don't think i've ever had to access the bios of a consumer level device remotely before, or even thought i'd be a wildly good idea...
So when a vuln is found, which it WILL be everyone has to update their bios now? I know of alot of people who are going to be very unhappy about that idea! - hey, at least they could do it remotely? (maybe!)
I want it to work, but you need to convince some sites to use it first, such as I dunno...
google.com hotmail.com facebook.com...
I didn't check any of these sites, but lastpass caused it to error out, and then every ssl cert ever is invalid. So very much kind of pointless currently, and I can't see the SSL cert providers being very friendly to it either?
Once its actually validating a sensible number of sites then I'll give it another try, for now I just stick to my paranoid "don't trust anyone!" self. I mean hell yeah google have ssl..... doesn't mean I trust them;)
What about people with legal keys..... I hope I don't miss out on using this.
I'll likely give the key away as I'm a Linux user and don't care about the Dirt game either, but it'll be a shame if everyone misses out now because of this?
1. Realise no scripts exist for problem 2. Write scripts 3. Release scripts as open source 4. Don't post pointless problem on slashdot 5. ??? 7. PROFIT!
Slashdot Mirror
Why be anon when you can be "cool" ?
Of course its why most people do anything, money, power, revenge...
Now, if Mr. Wikileaks guy had never let his name be known, he too may of escapped and never got in so much trouble ;)
)Its late and i've forgot his name, but people LOVE the fame).
Theres a 99% somewhere which doesn't believe the "cops wont beat them thing...." whats the difference now?
Its so stupidly expensive.
..the way they are applied?
I don't know _enough_ about patents. I'll happily admit but it seems to me if you patented a device, hardware which does a series of sums via some circuits which have a mathematical function to them and then create another device which can do the same sums, but used a different layout of circuits and still comes up with the same result a patent for the first device wouldn't' cover the second device?
However in software you seem to patent the idea of how to do something, and anyone else who does something which looks slightly similar gets sued until they give up.
Well... no, because if i had electrons just "moving" around on my storage, with their varying negative and positive powers of persuasion surely I'd be experiencing data loss?
And I'm not.... therefore I can conlude that both the 0s AND the 1s aren't moving. No weight change
Someone care to explain why I'm not correct? (And do I now get to call myself a Professor too?)
Seriously if you think centos is anywhere near cutting edge.... oh dear.
And while sometimes the community is great, other times they make me want to stab myself in the eyes.
It really depends how deep into system your getting. If its the kind of thing that could run on ANY linux distro, you'll be fine as there is such a large community that can help. However if you find issues which crop up perticuallry with _centos_ and nothing else, and you require something which isn't "normal" in centos.... i.e.. not in the repos and your not happy building software yourself (which is kind of silly in linux but wouldn't surprise me these days) then you could be well and truely out of lucjk.
So...
If you can admin yourself, build your own software and fix it yourself - centos works fine
If you can't, you need that levle of extra support red hat offers.
Disclaimer ( I've never used red hat technical support, but have worked with random other companies who do technical support as my roles in IT work places and I think I know what to expect.
He achieved having his rider appear on slashdot infront of hundreds of thousands of geeks... and you achieved a +1 on your Karma.
Congrats, your a true man of the world, you have truely lived and he has not.
'The idea that an app on an iPad can better teach my kids to read or do arithmetic, that's ridiculous.'
What?
I think you meant "Can teach my kids better than a human teacher", or something along these lines, but clearly all those digital aids mean you can't have sentences with more than 160 letters anymore ;)
Why not let it die,
They are replacing everything about the game - hell the feel is likely to change too, especially with new devs....
So let it die, leave it free
Let players import into this "new" game, released as a new game.
Happyness!
of course, lots of people will flame this idea for being "cheap".
+1 for truth!.
1. Attempt to view porn on iPhone app
2. ???
3. PROFIT!
Its even more amusing than this.... if you buy the fire they are losing money.
I'd expect this is a break even product, done by the lack of touchscreen - but I thought the $99 one was touchscreen anyway.... This bit of the announcement makes no sense really..
Tell apple this.
It should return
How I met your mother Season [1|1*], episode [1|1*] which presuming they made more than 10 episodes is obviously more than one :P
Search "*.mp3 OR *.avi" - TADA!
The fact win98 would let you search network folders via filetype and I'm supprised anyone even thinks they can patent this.... let me guess - US Patent office?
Coal,
Flour
I'm sure some other substances must too.... But these DO combust, without source of ignition.
Infact wikipedia has a nice list : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_combustion
All donate an infinite amount of cash, you can build an infinite computing platform to run the infinite monkey experiment!
I created this: its my ~/.bashrc
alias firefox="/usr/bin/links2"
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And I love it! Bye bye any kind of graphical respresentation of non-charaset entities applied via a digital media interface.
If you build an open source project, you make sure it works for you....
Its all about egos, I've discussed this many times with devs who can't "see" what I'm trying to point out - but who'd build something which they couldn't use / understand / like?
They think its brilliant because it does exactly what THEY expect - however their expections are wildly different to what the outside world expects.
For example I was discussing how to eject a CD on OSX the other day with someone - he couldn't understand the problem with the idea that dragging the CD to the recycle bin isn't something I (A realitively pro computer user) would concider for trying to eject the disk. For him it seemed so simple, so "normal". In open source you find the same, developers make decisions which work for them, but when a user can't understand why, because they haven't gone through the whole process the developer went with the attitude is "well it doesn't work for me".
So..... we've had someone (I forget if it was AMD or Intel teaming up with trend micro to look for malware at the lowest possible hardware level) and then in teh same week an announcement about how you can have remote visuals for your WHOLE system from outside the O/S ?
While its useful if your server decides to hang and you don't know why - but this exists in DRAC cards and other forms of remote management for systems which NEED it. I don't think i've ever had to access the bios of a consumer level device remotely before, or even thought i'd be a wildly good idea...
So when a vuln is found, which it WILL be everyone has to update their bios now? I know of alot of people who are going to be very unhappy about that idea! - hey, at least they could do it remotely? (maybe!)
While those who game.... are gaming :)
And it'll fail when they don't.
I want it to work, but you need to convince some sites to use it first, such as I dunno...
google.com
hotmail.com
facebook.com...
I didn't check any of these sites, but lastpass caused it to error out, and then every ssl cert ever is invalid. So very much kind of pointless currently, and I can't see the SSL cert providers being very friendly to it either?
Once its actually validating a sensible number of sites then I'll give it another try, for now I just stick to my paranoid "don't trust anyone!" self. I mean hell yeah google have ssl..... doesn't mean I trust them ;)
What about people with legal keys..... I hope I don't miss out on using this.
I'll likely give the key away as I'm a Linux user and don't care about the Dirt game either, but it'll be a shame if everyone misses out now because of this?
1. Realise no scripts exist for problem
2. Write scripts
3. Release scripts as open source
4. Don't post pointless problem on slashdot
5. ???
7. PROFIT!
(We don't talk about point. 6)