Perhaps they've invented a compiler that's so smart that it can deal with (code handling single) atoms by cleverly dividing them into groups or something.
As an analogy: fluid mechanics also does not describe one atom at a time, yet the equations are valid on a larger scale.
Actually, I'd blame w3c for providing us with their web-standards that are so complicated that no browser-maker can get them right.
Instead, and hear me out, they should provide us with a more simple standard, like a low-level opcode type of programming language, that is jit-compiled into native code behind the scenes. This code should be so low-level that it has no garbage-collection or anything (so we don't get the sluggishness of Java). Then we should have an OpenGL-type of interface for graphics (and similar for audio, etc.)
With such a basic layer, programmers could program their own DOM models, and their own javscript-like languages if they want, in fact they could even make their own webbrowsers, and their code would just be compatible.
In fact, I've got my hopes on google's NaCl project, although I think their interface for rendering stuff is still too fancy.
Clearly patents are not a necessity for pharmaceutical companies to have an incentive to do research, because...*drumrolls*... before this particular patent was granted it was thought that such patents on genes were not admissible (while the research had already been done!)
The worship of corporations has come so far that customers are allowing companies to spank them when their behavior goes against the established business models?
I'm absolutely convinced that we suffer way greater from all the damage those patent trolls cause
Especially here on slashdot, where we spend a great deal of the workday talking about these issues.
Anyway, patents have turned America from "land of the free" into "land of the constrained", and I'm glad that at least someday I can move my business to Europe where the rules are not so ridiculous.
The average person has virtually no knowledge or understanding of patent law, and has no interest in becoming informed. The minority of us who do care and are informed are easily ignored with no political consequences for our elected representatives.
So, indeed, the real problem is the political system. I also wonder why the discussions here on slashdot always get stuck at what's wrong with patents (we've heard all the arguments), instead of focusing on how the system could be changed.
I guess what we need is a robots.txt file, but included with every comment you post. It could contain information such as: "this post should be shared only with..." or "do not spread this beyond company borders", or "do not index". And there should be some legal significance to it.
Right now, those "social" website companies can get away with just about anything, it seems.
In other news, Google announced that it expects to stop crawling the web in 2015, since all the data on the internet will be stored at Google servers anyway.
I certainly don't want to provoke anyone, but I wonder how long it will take until they hack gmail and other cloud-based services, and put all the data into the open? Thanks to these guys, I'm not so sure anymore whether I like this idea of the cloud.
...sadly, the smartest people on this planet have been lured by advertising companies into jobs aimed at attracting eyeballs.
All the PhDs are now producing software that's about as useful as paperclips and other office disposables. And they even seem to be content in doing so.
It seems that currently there is only room for one big player on the social networking market.
That is strange. It would be like AT&T being the only telephone company. I just hope that somehow, if google takes over, facebook remains a big player, because lack of competition will just be a very bad thing for consumers, even if google runs the place.
Funny thing is that alot less people would have noticed such a stunt had Facebook just left it alone...
Yes, but did anyone actually verify the claims of the submitter? It may just as well be a stunt from the side of Google (I'm not implying it is, just that it could be so).
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Perhaps they've invented a compiler that's so smart that it can deal with (code handling single) atoms by cleverly dividing them into groups or something.
As an analogy: fluid mechanics also does not describe one atom at a time, yet the equations are valid on a larger scale.
Actually, I'd blame w3c for providing us with their web-standards that are so complicated that no browser-maker can get them right.
Instead, and hear me out, they should provide us with a more simple standard, like a low-level opcode type of programming language, that is jit-compiled into native code behind the scenes. This code should be so low-level that it has no garbage-collection or anything (so we don't get the sluggishness of Java). Then we should have an OpenGL-type of interface for graphics (and similar for audio, etc.)
With such a basic layer, programmers could program their own DOM models, and their own javscript-like languages if they want, in fact they could even make their own webbrowsers, and their code would just be compatible.
In fact, I've got my hopes on google's NaCl project, although I think their interface for rendering stuff is still too fancy.
With the current pace of technology, those machines will be outdated in a few years.
Imagine the pile of garbage that will create...
Clearly patents are not a necessity for pharmaceutical companies to have an incentive to do research, ...*drumrolls*... before this particular patent was granted it was thought that such patents on genes were not admissible (while the research had already been done!)
because
The worship of corporations has come so far that customers are allowing companies to spank them when their behavior goes against the established business models?
I'm absolutely convinced that we suffer way greater from all the damage those patent trolls cause
Especially here on slashdot, where we spend a great deal of the workday talking about these issues.
Anyway, patents have turned America from "land of the free" into "land of the constrained", and I'm glad that at least someday I can move my business to Europe where the rules are not so ridiculous.
Yes, but probably there will be various other patents to practically prevent that.
If only the amount of fun and laughter to be expected from a movie was propertional to the amount of money they put into it...
Sadly it's not (perhaps even the opposite), and so let's do away with the whole concept of mega-corporation made movies.
And I'm not paying a dime until they start producing bug-free movies.
http://www.moviemistakes.com/
I mean how hard can it be? It's not that the stuff they are producing is interactive.
they had one customer already:
http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/mini-steve-jobs-action-figure-appears-online-28-06-2011/
What we need is a HTML-less and javascript-less browser, that is capable of running a render engine, and a interpreter of choice.
It is nice that W3C cooks up abstractions for the world to use, but what if developers want to use their own?
Yes, but this time they patented it. Oh wait.
Well, they might have found out how to do the conversion in an information-preserving way.
There are some smart people at google, you know...
The average person has virtually no knowledge or understanding of patent law, and has no interest in becoming informed. The minority of us who do care and are informed are easily ignored with no political consequences for our elected representatives.
So, indeed, the real problem is the political system. I also wonder why the discussions here on slashdot always get stuck at what's wrong with patents (we've heard all the arguments), instead of focusing on how the system could be changed.
RTFA. The real issue is that duplicating the name is causing system conflicts for those with both installed.
Aha! So the true culprit is Linux, for not providing a proper namespace mechanism.
I guess what we need is a robots.txt file, but included with every comment you post. It could contain information such as: "this post should be shared only with ..." or "do not spread this beyond company borders", or "do not index". And there should be some legal significance to it.
Right now, those "social" website companies can get away with just about anything, it seems.
In other news, Google announced that it expects to stop crawling the web in 2015, since all the data on the internet will be stored at Google servers anyway.
These guys probably have shares in some security company...
Those engineers can now work at Google to make office software. Sigh.
I certainly don't want to provoke anyone, but I wonder how long it will take until they hack gmail and other cloud-based services, and put all the data into the open?
Thanks to these guys, I'm not so sure anymore whether I like this idea of the cloud.
...sadly, the smartest people on this planet have been lured by advertising companies into jobs aimed at attracting eyeballs.
All the PhDs are now producing software that's about as useful as paperclips and other office disposables.
And they even seem to be content in doing so.
Can somebody send me an invite please? My e-mail address is:
mark.zuckerberg AT facebook.com
I want to know what all the fuzz is about.
It seems that currently there is only room for one big player on the social networking market.
That is strange. It would be like AT&T being the only telephone company. I just hope that somehow, if google takes over, facebook remains a big player, because lack of competition will just be a very bad thing for consumers, even if google runs the place.
Funny thing is that alot less people would have noticed such a stunt had Facebook just left it alone...
Yes, but did anyone actually verify the claims of the submitter?
It may just as well be a stunt from the side of Google (I'm not implying it is, just that it could be so).
Well, thanks to the PhDs at Google
These PhDs might as well hand in THEIR badges, and go work for the entertainment industry directly.