The ISPs are making money by providing access to Google et al. Shouldn't they be paying Google to have access to their networks?
No one would sign up for an ISP without access to the major websites. So google is providing value to that ISP and the ISP should pay for it. Not the other way around.
If they are knowingly distributing a product that's in violation of the GPL. They should stop distributing it _immediately_. Things aren't going to get better if everyone rolls over for GPL violators.
It's not the solution people seem to be praising Microsoft for. They credit Microsoft for inventing AJAX when all they did was come up with a trivial implementation for it.
The solution was dead obvious in this case. I would have implemented the 100 lines of C/C++ back in 95 if I could have.
I wanted to do asynchronous data transfer when I did some HTML back in '95. So I suppose I also "invented" AJAX. Just that I, like many other people which also wanted to do that couldn't until Microsoft finally added a way in their browser.
What they did was dead obvious and hundreds of us wanted it years before they finally did it. Sure you could say they "invented" it. When in reality adding the ability to do asynchronous websites was dead obvious in the early 90s (or even earlier?).
The problem _is_ the GPL. If NVIDIA wants to distribute their driver without giving out the source that _should_ be fine.
The GPL has made it a pain in the ass for any company that wants to write drivers for Linux. A story like this just makes more decide it's just not worth it.
However, you examples were very poor. When reverse engineering something, it is often impossible to get it right the first time, without going through a few guesses on how the system works.
When your designing the system yourself, it is obviously possible and ideal to understand the problem completely before beginnering.
Exactly. The sooner companies realize this the better.
All the companies I've worked for recently give all their engineers MS office licences. Why?!? No engineer that I saw used it for anything more then extremely simple stuff.
The only people that needed it, that I saw, were the tech writers. If an engineer is needed to proof read it, just send it as a PDF or have them install OpenOffice.
I'd be more interested if there was software that automatically removed the shake effect. I find the shake annoying at times and it would be interesting to watch the show with it removed.
The problem in this case is that people rip their images and post them on other sites. Which google then spiders, so their unable to disable the spidering of their property.
To me at least, it looks like they should be going after the people that steal their images, not google.
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I've always thought of this the other way around.
The ISPs are making money by providing access to Google et al. Shouldn't they be paying Google to have access to their networks?
No one would sign up for an ISP without access to the major websites. So google is providing value to that ISP and the ISP should pay for it. Not the other way around.
Implementing XMLHttpRequest is trivial. I am sure many people would have implemented their own versions of XMLHttpRequest if they could have.
If anyone other than Microsoft implemented an XMLHttpRequest like object it would have done no good (IE had/has > 90% market share).
This is one of those ideas that was dead obvious. Just that no one elses implementation mattered until Microsoft finally implemented it.
Uh of course it would help!
If they are knowingly distributing a product that's in violation of the GPL. They should stop distributing it _immediately_. Things aren't going to get better if everyone rolls over for GPL violators.
GPL violators need to be hit fast and hit hard.
"Strange thing is, Steve Jobs doesn't like shoot-'em up Video Games
...It isn't.
So why promote such a wasteful way of life to people?"
I don't get that? How is playing video games more wasteful than listening to music?
It's just a harder market to get into.
It's not the solution people seem to be praising Microsoft for. They credit Microsoft for inventing AJAX when all they did was come up with a trivial implementation for it.
The solution was dead obvious in this case. I would have implemented the 100 lines of C/C++ back in 95 if I could have.
That wasn't really much of an invention.
I wanted to do asynchronous data transfer when I did some HTML back in '95. So I suppose I also "invented" AJAX. Just that I, like many other people which also wanted to do that couldn't until Microsoft finally added a way in their browser.
What they did was dead obvious and hundreds of us wanted it years before they finally did it. Sure you could say they "invented" it. When in reality adding the ability to do asynchronous websites was dead obvious in the early 90s (or even earlier?).
This would be extremely good for consumers. As a consumer I'd love for a law like that in my country. Obviously it sucks for companies like Apple.
Really? Like what? His post was bang on.
The problem _is_ the GPL. If NVIDIA wants to distribute their driver without giving out the source that _should_ be fine.
The GPL has made it a pain in the ass for any company that wants to write drivers for Linux. A story like this just makes more decide it's just not worth it.
Uh they're counter suing.. Was your post a joke? Or do you expect every company to just cut a check for bullshit patent lawsuits? Are you a moron?
Good comment, for the most part...
However, you examples were very poor. When reverse engineering something, it is often impossible to get it right the first time, without going through a few guesses on how the system works.
When your designing the system yourself, it is obviously possible and ideal to understand the problem completely before beginnering.
Exactly. The sooner companies realize this the better.
All the companies I've worked for recently give all their engineers MS office licences. Why?!? No engineer that I saw used it for anything more then extremely simple stuff.
The only people that needed it, that I saw, were the tech writers. If an engineer is needed to proof read it, just send it as a PDF or have them install OpenOffice.
I'd be more interested if there was software that automatically removed the shake effect. I find the shake annoying at times and it would be interesting to watch the show with it removed.
Talk to your carrier not the company which develops your cellphone.
Nokia can't do anything to improve your carrier. It's like asking Nokia to start making better fast food.
Who doesn't use their monitor on the highest resolution setting?
If you buy a good monitor and don't use the highest resolution settings your a fool.
Most people I know that say it pronounce it as "lohl"
What would the benefit of that be?
Come study time you're not going to want to play back all your recordings. You are going to want to quickly read through notes taken of each lecture.
Exactly.
Paper is ancient. I'd said it has at most another 100 years...
If skype detects SOFTICE (even if it's not enabled) it will exit out.
To get around this intercept&blocks calls to "void WINAPI ExitProcess(int uExitCode)"
Not all internships are non-paid.
I am on internship now in cali, and it's definitely paid. Heck, some of my class even got internships in NYC for 80k a year. Not bad for undergrads...
The problem in this case is that people rip their images and post them on other sites. Which google then spiders, so their unable to disable the spidering of their property.
To me at least, it looks like they should be going after the people that steal their images, not google.
That's retarded.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with selling software.
Can someone explain the HDCP monitor requirements for Visa? I just spent $800 on two 19" LCDs which aren't HDCP (I'd assume)...
Is it for certain that we will need new monitors for Visa? If so then I guess I won't be able to update to Visa for another 5 or so years.
It's 10k players at once. So if true that there is only 10k max at once, that's probably 50-100k players total.
Weird I've always thought the opposite and I've lived in both the US and Canada.
Rogers in the area I lived in Canada is about twice-three as fast as the best as I can get here in California.