How did the parent get modded insightful? It's a blatant troll.
1) Straw man. The DMCA doesn't cover disclosing "methods of operating and controlling" products unless those methods are for the purposes of circumventing copyright protection. These are not.
2) Straw man. You can't patent "a method by which Cisco,(us), uses a PC to and printer to generate the instructions to operate our hardware". It's not novel or non-obvious, so it's not patentable. Even the USPTO could see that. Probably.
I can't see the menu; I think they must think I'm at 1024x768. The menu is on the right anyway. Why? What is the point of having the menu on the right? Everybody has the menu on the left. Putting the main menu on the right is pure artistic masturbation.
The "team" then proceed to take the piss out of Jakob's writing style, redesign a quick reference so you need to turn it over and suggest adding Flash because it's 'sexy'.
Ha ha ha I am so funny it hurts quite a lot and its not the drugs again really it isnt i am fine please let go of my arms why areyouputtingthatneedleintomyarmithurtsquiteahhhwe lllitsnothatbadafteralllithinkilllgostoslleee.e..................
Sometimes turning up the resolution gives you an advantage, but often turning off some eye-candy gives you an advantage too. Draw distances for leaves and trees reduce, textures are less complex making it easier to spot enemies...
I play Wolf ET (and so should you) and I have the eye candy turned up. Fairly often I will get shot by someone I can't see behind the smoke billowing out the top of a broken tank because the person shooting at me doesn't have that bit of eye candy switched on (they still see smoke, but it's easier to see through).
I play with the eye candy turned up as far as I can without getting crappy frame rate because it gives a more immersive experience, not for a tactical advantage.
No, it's you not understanding that American English [...]
Would you mind awfully just calling it "American"? I'd rather my beautiful native tongue not be sullied by association with that cacophonous pidgin you colonials "speak". There's a good chap.
And we call them cars over here, dear boy. Do try to keep up.
Now I can have several GB of on-line, off-site storage I might consider it as a backup solution. Dump a tarball to to your Gmail, Rediff etc. accounts over-night and all you most important crap is stored off-site.
Other than that, I can't really see why people would forego a generally bigger/cheaper TV screen to see video on a smaller window on a computer monitor.
Your TV is bigger than your monitor?
I'm afraid I have to revoke your membership of the Geek club.
No offense to Ion or any other fine producer of games out there, but should these kind of patches really be necessary?
I mean honestly, do they HAVE testing? You'd think something like this would be noticed ahead of release.
Ah, so you must work work on one of those perfect software projects that always produce bug-free software on time and on budget then. What is it? We know it can't be for Microsoft, Apple, Sun, Novell, IBM, Linux, BSD, Apache, Mozilla, KDE, Gnome, Samba... Hell, even NASA get it wrong sometimes and their code costs orders of magnitude more than most commerical software.
So, please enlighten us as to what major software projects you produce and educate us as to your methods.
In fact, people who think Java is slow think so because when they run real Java programs, they find that real Java programs really do run slowly.
In my experience people find that the GUIs on Java programs run slow. Which they do. That makes the whole thing feel slow. It's a real concern, but not directly related to the language, VM, garbage collection, level of abstraction or the rest.
Gnome is noticably slower on my PC than Win 2000. That does not mean the Linux kernel is slower than the NT5 kernel.
All those benchmarks have shown me is that unless I am writing a huge computationally intensive application then performance should not be one of the criteria on which I decide whether to use C++ or Java.
BT, Britain's monopolist telephone company. A phone company that makes you pay by the second for local calls.
I guess you're from the USA, the country we still own. Or have things changed since then?
BT is no longer a monopoly. Well, not as much of a monopoly as it was. There are various bits of BT that I've given up keeping up with, but some company with BT in the name still owns the wires from your house to the exchange. That makes sense - a monoploy in wires and pipes from houses to some central point is cheaper overall. But they have to allow other companies to use those wires for a reasoable (regulated) cost. Some people have cable (TV, broadband etc.) cables to thier houses too, so they can ignore BT completely. There are a dozen or more phone companies I can chose from with just a phone call. I don't need any new hardware to chose between them, unless I chose my local cable company. Many offer free local calls. Some BT suscription plans offer free local calls too.
Here's another bit of news: we have these round things that fit on boxes to make them easier to move.
At least we don't pay to receive calls on our mobile phones in the UK.
I have long wondered why web interfaces aren't much good.
The HT in HTTP and HTML stand for Hyper Text you know. The web is a document reading system. It's good at that. You can create customised documents on demand and you can link to other documents. You can customise and link the documents to customise the information you display.
If the website developers have a clue then you can view it (or feel it or hear it) on a wide variety of devices. You can make the information appear as you want it to appear. Once you start adding in buttons and widgets and frames and windows you lose that freedom. Granted, few web developers or those paying them have a clue (nor do many slashdotters - I just searched the source for this page and found lots of italics but absolutely no emphasis - but then I'm guilty of that myself sometimes too), but you can hardly blame the web for that. Blame the developers.
If you want a networked interactive application with a flashy GUI then don't use the web. That's not what it's for. That's not what it was designed for and it's not very good at it.
If you want to make information available to as wide a range of people possible then do use the web. That's what it was designed for and it's very good at it (if you do it right). You can organise the information you find using your client and change the way it is displayed (or you should be able to). You can make your client integrate the information provided with your system however you want, because the information is (or should be) distinct from the presentation.
Most people just want to get information out there, be it a comment on APIs for other geeks to read or the price of the MK17 Whizzbangs they are selling. You should keep the information separate from the presentation. That's what the ML in HTML is - it's Markup Language.
If the kind of interface you want is, for example, to be able to arrange the view of a store's pricelist and stock information with the flexibility you get with, say, a good GUI database frontend then a dedicated Flash, Java etc. app is the wrong solution. They've already come up with the right solution. XML is the right solution. Provide a GUI for convenience, fine, but don't tie the information to the GUI.
The "European elections" were to elect MEPs, who sit in the European Parliament. This sounds like a local Munich matter, decided by the city council (or equivalent).
Anyway, winning the election and gaining overall power aren't the same thing if you have more than two significant parties.
I just got a directory listing when I went to www.fuckinggoogleit.com. So of course I went and looked in the Google cache, where I found the site tells me "Someone thinks you are an idiot because you were too stupid to check Google[...]".
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The woman of the Pioneer 10 plaque (check the Wikipedia link) has no genitals.
Alien biologists will have a hard time figuring out how human reproduction works.
Perhaps they'll wonder why she doesn't have an in-built drinking tube.
But more likely they'll just figure she takes it up the @$$.
Actually, the expansion of the universe itself will impart some additional redshifting to the light.
The Hubble expansion will indeed red-shift light from very distant objects. However, it is a large-scale effect observable in very distant objects (other galaxies) but not in gravitationally bound systems like out own galaxy or the solar system.
The velocity with which a distant galaxy is receeding from us is proportional to its distance - ie the further away the faster it receeds. The baloon analogy works, but for a more 3-D effect I prefer to to think of raisins inside a loaf as it rises. The more dough there is rising between raisins the faster the expansion (I think I nicked that from Stephen Hawking).
If it was totally free, then someone could instantly take it and GPL a slightly changed version. So you still would get a GPL one.
What would be the point of that? The original code would still be totally free, so a company could still use the original in their proprietary products without giving anything back. GPLing modified code wouldn't force companies who used the original code to release their modifications. You'd just be wasting your time. You might as well wait till you have some substantial changes to make. The original code would be available for ever.
I use a spatial interface every now and then. It's commonly known as the "real world". As an interface, it sucks. Every time I want to go to the pub I have to walk down the road, turn left, walk up the road and turn left again. Not only that, but I have to do the opposite to get back to my house!
The "real world" system is intuitive, but it's too damn inefficient. I mean, why can't I have the pub, toilet and a selection of restaurants right next to my bed? Why do I even have to get out of bed? Why can't I just have a list of places I like to go and click one and go straight there?
At least on my computer I can use the equivalent of a teleporter, even if doing so upsets some wannabe hack on OSNews.
The simple fact that there are is a significant proportion of people who are suspicious of voting machines means we shouldn't use them. Democracy must not only be done, but it must be *seen* to be done.
While many slashdotters may think they would be able to verify for themselves that a voting machine hasn't been tampered with, I'm sure many of us could come up with a way to ensure our tampering wouldn't be detected.
We vote, what, every couple of years? It is arguably the most important thing most of us do for our country. Is counting bits of paper really that hard?
The only way I can see that the electorate can see for themselves that democracy is being done is for ballots, once marked, to be put into transparent ballot boxes, transported to the counting station in full view and counted in full view. I can see no other way the average person can be confident the election is fair.
I'm sorry, but have you looked at what happened in the last race? They had the *exact* technologies you described, in fact most were better. Some teams started with maps accurate to tens of cm - no need to work it out on the fly. And you know what? Most failed within a mile, the best got 15.
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1) Straw man. The DMCA doesn't cover disclosing "methods of operating and controlling" products unless those methods are for the purposes of circumventing copyright protection. These are not.
2) Straw man. You can't patent "a method by which Cisco,(us), uses a PC to and printer to generate the instructions to operate our hardware". It's not novel or non-obvious, so it's not patentable. Even the USPTO could see that. Probably.
I can't see the menu; I think they must think I'm at 1024x768. The menu is on the right anyway. Why? What is the point of having the menu on the right? Everybody has the menu on the left. Putting the main menu on the right is pure artistic masturbation.
The "team" then proceed to take the piss out of Jakob's writing style, redesign a quick reference so you need to turn it over and suggest adding Flash because it's 'sexy'.
Oh yes, they certainly know their stuff.
Ha ha ha I am so funny it hurts quite a lot and its not the drugs again really it isnt i am fine please let go of my arms why areyouputtingthatneedleintomyarmithurtsquiteahhhwe lllitsnothatbadafteralllithinkilllgostoslleee.e... ...............
I play Wolf ET (and so should you) and I have the eye candy turned up. Fairly often I will get shot by someone I can't see behind the smoke billowing out the top of a broken tank because the person shooting at me doesn't have that bit of eye candy switched on (they still see smoke, but it's easier to see through).
I play with the eye candy turned up as far as I can without getting crappy frame rate because it gives a more immersive experience, not for a tactical advantage.
Hey, just because you inherited the rights for free from yo momma doesn't mean the rest of us were so lucky.
Would you mind awfully just calling it "American"? I'd rather my beautiful native tongue not be sullied by association with that cacophonous pidgin you colonials "speak". There's a good chap.
And we call them cars over here, dear boy. Do try to keep up.
56k users need not apply :)
Your TV is bigger than your monitor?
I'm afraid I have to revoke your membership of the Geek club.
Ah, so you must work work on one of those perfect software projects that always produce bug-free software on time and on budget then. What is it? We know it can't be for Microsoft, Apple, Sun, Novell, IBM, Linux, BSD, Apache, Mozilla, KDE, Gnome, Samba... Hell, even NASA get it wrong sometimes and their code costs orders of magnitude more than most commerical software.
So, please enlighten us as to what major software projects you produce and educate us as to your methods.
In my experience people find that the GUIs on Java programs run slow. Which they do. That makes the whole thing feel slow. It's a real concern, but not directly related to the language, VM, garbage collection, level of abstraction or the rest.
Gnome is noticably slower on my PC than Win 2000. That does not mean the Linux kernel is slower than the NT5 kernel.
All those benchmarks have shown me is that unless I am writing a huge computationally intensive application then performance should not be one of the criteria on which I decide whether to use C++ or Java.
1. Put E450 in back of vehicle.
2. Take pictures.
3. Post pix on site with fabricated explanation.
4. Successfully troll slashdot.
5. ???
6. Profit!!
I guess you're from the USA, the country we still own. Or have things changed since then?
BT is no longer a monopoly. Well, not as much of a monopoly as it was. There are various bits of BT that I've given up keeping up with, but some company with BT in the name still owns the wires from your house to the exchange. That makes sense - a monoploy in wires and pipes from houses to some central point is cheaper overall. But they have to allow other companies to use those wires for a reasoable (regulated) cost. Some people have cable (TV, broadband etc.) cables to thier houses too, so they can ignore BT completely. There are a dozen or more phone companies I can chose from with just a phone call. I don't need any new hardware to chose between them, unless I chose my local cable company. Many offer free local calls. Some BT suscription plans offer free local calls too.
Here's another bit of news: we have these round things that fit on boxes to make them easier to move.
At least we don't pay to receive calls on our mobile phones in the UK.
If you can't keep the data you are routing separate from the data you are using you have a really, really shitty system.
Oh....
The HT in HTTP and HTML stand for Hyper Text you know. The web is a document reading system. It's good at that. You can create customised documents on demand and you can link to other documents. You can customise and link the documents to customise the information you display.
If the website developers have a clue then you can view it (or feel it or hear it) on a wide variety of devices. You can make the information appear as you want it to appear. Once you start adding in buttons and widgets and frames and windows you lose that freedom. Granted, few web developers or those paying them have a clue (nor do many slashdotters - I just searched the source for this page and found lots of italics but absolutely no emphasis - but then I'm guilty of that myself sometimes too), but you can hardly blame the web for that. Blame the developers.
If you want a networked interactive application with a flashy GUI then don't use the web. That's not what it's for. That's not what it was designed for and it's not very good at it.
If you want to make information available to as wide a range of people possible then do use the web. That's what it was designed for and it's very good at it (if you do it right). You can organise the information you find using your client and change the way it is displayed (or you should be able to). You can make your client integrate the information provided with your system however you want, because the information is (or should be) distinct from the presentation.
Most people just want to get information out there, be it a comment on APIs for other geeks to read or the price of the MK17 Whizzbangs they are selling. You should keep the information separate from the presentation. That's what the ML in HTML is - it's Markup Language.
If the kind of interface you want is, for example, to be able to arrange the view of a store's pricelist and stock information with the flexibility you get with, say, a good GUI database frontend then a dedicated Flash, Java etc. app is the wrong solution. They've already come up with the right solution. XML is the right solution. Provide a GUI for convenience, fine, but don't tie the information to the GUI.
Anyway, winning the election and gaining overall power aren't the same thing if you have more than two significant parties.
I just got a directory listing when I went to www.fuckinggoogleit.com. So of course I went and looked in the Google cache, where I found the site tells me "Someone thinks you are an idiot because you were too stupid to check Google[...]".
Perhaps they'll wonder why she doesn't have an in-built drinking tube.
But more likely they'll just figure she takes it up the @$$.
The Hubble expansion will indeed red-shift light from very distant objects. However, it is a large-scale effect observable in very distant objects (other galaxies) but not in gravitationally bound systems like out own galaxy or the solar system.
The velocity with which a distant galaxy is receeding from us is proportional to its distance - ie the further away the faster it receeds. The baloon analogy works, but for a more 3-D effect I prefer to to think of raisins inside a loaf as it rises. The more dough there is rising between raisins the faster the expansion (I think I nicked that from Stephen Hawking).
If it was totally free, then someone could instantly take it and GPL a slightly changed version. So you still would get a GPL one.
What would be the point of that? The original code would still be totally free, so a company could still use the original in their proprietary products without giving anything back. GPLing modified code wouldn't force companies who used the original code to release their modifications. You'd just be wasting your time. You might as well wait till you have some substantial changes to make. The original code would be available for ever.
The "real world" system is intuitive, but it's too damn inefficient. I mean, why can't I have the pub, toilet and a selection of restaurants right next to my bed? Why do I even have to get out of bed? Why can't I just have a list of places I like to go and click one and go straight there?
At least on my computer I can use the equivalent of a teleporter, even if doing so upsets some wannabe hack on OSNews.
While many slashdotters may think they would be able to verify for themselves that a voting machine hasn't been tampered with, I'm sure many of us could come up with a way to ensure our tampering wouldn't be detected.
We vote, what, every couple of years? It is arguably the most important thing most of us do for our country. Is counting bits of paper really that hard?
The only way I can see that the electorate can see for themselves that democracy is being done is for ballots, once marked, to be put into transparent ballot boxes, transported to the counting station in full view and counted in full view. I can see no other way the average person can be confident the election is fair.
Am I the only one to see the irony?
Version 1.0 might have perfectly accurate voice control, but Version 1.1 would be outsourced to India so wouldn't understand a fscking word you said.
I'm sorry, but have you looked at what happened in the last race? They had the *exact* technologies you described, in fact most were better. Some teams started with maps accurate to tens of cm - no need to work it out on the fly. And you know what? Most failed within a mile, the best got 15.
This is a hard problem.