Oh, you had meant COMMERCIAL, closed source software developers? If you're planning on making money with your product, you always have to spend some money first
That would work, except that the open-source software is as vulnerable to claims of intellectual-property infringement as any other category of software.
the billion-dollar lawsuit by SCO against IBM backs that up. Of course SCO's intellectual-property claims had gone all wrong, but if something like that would have been targeted at a small time developers, they wouldnt even have the resource to fight SCO. It takes so much money, often US$500,000 in legal fees, to defend an infringement case that the Free Software developer will have to settle within days of the start of a trial.
Patents are supposed to protect and stimulate inventions for those that do the research, requiring an actual product that is being sold makes this very hard for individual researchers, and very easy for the big companies.
True, the patent system does not work for small enterprises and individuals. It wasn't even designed for inventors in the first place, but for the industry. For example, Most software are built on existing code, and the only way programmers can avoid patent infringements is by paying for a patent search, which is an expensive and lengthy process.
Built into some extention right now, but..
Placing a small 'similar pages' button at the status bar (like blocked popups) that when clicked, would open another tab with google news or google with 'similar pages' search result.
That makes researching news articles very efficient.
"I don't like Firefox, can't you just fix the Internet?" The second day, after she figured out tabs, popup blocking, and even the speed, she said, "Firefox is so much better. Why would anyone still use Internet Explorer."
Wait, she went from being a dumb whore to an elite user, by using firefox.. in just one day!? They should probably force britney spears to use firefox then!
Actually the Matrix was planned as a trilogy to begin with, but the Warner bros. were uncertain about it so they put a hold on Reloaded and Revolutions until the first became a success. If you check out the official site, you can check out the storyboard of pics dated as back as 1999. Plus they explained it themselfs on Matrix Revisited.
As for the suckyness in the story.. well dont look at the trilogy as three movies but one movie cut in 3 parts. First part was about the story, second was about the action and third was about the climax. Now compair that to any movie/story thats known to man kind... Of course that doesnt justify the cheesy dialogs and over-action focusing on sfx just for the heck of it.. but then again, The Matrix (1st) was _so_ good that even sequels didnt manage to live up to it.
It did looked that the sequels were trying to be matrixy like those b-grade movies and commercials and underworld.
Its a little different in this case... Opposition party = guys who lost. Their supporters = Thugs they hired. Thats how it goes in india. They dont care about right wing or left wing, theres no concept like that as a matter of fact. People there support whatever government they elected and hardly any common man bitches about it unless the said government does a really bad job after they are elected.
Anyone who knows anything about India will realize that with the level of curruption there and rampant anarchy, any new technological developments will be quenched pretty soon. New technologies will not suit the currupt and they are the one's who usually have the power to decide what stays and what doesn't.
I would have agreed if this were the 90s.. but the indian government has grown a lot in terms of corruption and the sense of tech awareness. Right now in india, most of the population (except those who cant even afford food and clothing) carry a cell phone.. Pretty advanced ones in the urban areas and outdated, but usables in rural ares. Even the cab drivers that earn around $11 a day, carry one (as reported by one of my friends who recently visited mumbai aka bombay) The corruption still exist among lower level government employees, but people that are responsible of running the city and country as a whole are lot less corrupt then they used to be. Of course still a lot as compaired to developed countries, but changes dont happen overnight.
As a whole.. the country is developing pretty fast and its not too long before most of the outdated problems that still exist in that country are solved. I see India and China as countries that will probably rise up after the fall of the west (it is gonna happen.. It always happens. Read our history!)
Note: No, I am not an indian. I just like to keep a watch on whats going on.
Also, the bulk of people are against technology and change, as seen in the last elections. They want the old government which promotes anarchy and curruption. So, they will get what they want.
The only people who bitched about the new government are the opposition party and its supporters. If the overall population didnt want the new government, they wouldnt have voted for it. As for the technological development, no one is opposing it. At most, people who arent aware are on the fence and looking at how things are heading.
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the billion-dollar lawsuit by SCO against IBM backs that up. Of course SCO's intellectual-property claims had gone all wrong, but if something like that would have been targeted at a small time developers, they wouldnt even have the resource to fight SCO. It takes so much money, often US$500,000 in legal fees, to defend an infringement case that the Free Software developer will have to settle within days of the start of a trial.
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them."
Built into some extention right now, but..
Placing a small 'similar pages' button at the status bar (like blocked popups) that when clicked, would open another tab with google news or google with 'similar pages' search result.
That makes researching news articles very efficient.
Not really machine learning, but.. yeah!
Guess we are doomed to die by hunger, terrorism, violent climate shift, war or MPAA.
I was really betting it would be an asteroid.
"I don't like Firefox, can't you just fix the Internet?" The second day, after she figured out tabs, popup blocking, and even the speed, she said, "Firefox is so much better. Why would anyone still use Internet Explorer."
Wait, she went from being a dumb whore to an elite user, by using firefox.. in just one day!?
They should probably force britney spears to use firefox then!
Lucas has actually made (or remade) something more then starwars!?!
Actually the Matrix was planned as a trilogy to begin with, but the Warner bros. were uncertain about it so they put a hold on Reloaded and Revolutions until the first became a success. If you check out the official site, you can check out the storyboard of pics dated as back as 1999. Plus they explained it themselfs on Matrix Revisited.
As for the suckyness in the story.. well dont look at the trilogy as three movies but one movie cut in 3 parts. First part was about the story, second was about the action and third was about the climax. Now compair that to any movie/story thats known to man kind...
Of course that doesnt justify the cheesy dialogs and over-action focusing on sfx just for the heck of it.. but then again, The Matrix (1st) was _so_ good that even sequels didnt manage to live up to it.
It did looked that the sequels were trying to be matrixy like those b-grade movies and commercials and underworld.
Its a little different in this case... Opposition party = guys who lost. Their supporters = Thugs they hired. Thats how it goes in india. They dont care about right wing or left wing, theres no concept like that as a matter of fact. People there support whatever government they elected and hardly any common man bitches about it unless the said government does a really bad job after they are elected.
Anyone who knows anything about India will realize that with the level of curruption there and rampant anarchy, any new technological developments will be quenched pretty soon. New technologies will not suit the currupt and they are the one's who usually have the power to decide what stays and what doesn't.
I would have agreed if this were the 90s.. but the indian government has grown a lot in terms of corruption and the sense of tech awareness. Right now in india, most of the population (except those who cant even afford food and clothing) carry a cell phone.. Pretty advanced ones in the urban areas and outdated, but usables in rural ares. Even the cab drivers that earn around $11 a day, carry one (as reported by one of my friends who recently visited mumbai aka bombay) The corruption still exist among lower level government employees, but people that are responsible of running the city and country as a whole are lot less corrupt then they used to be. Of course still a lot as compaired to developed countries, but changes dont happen overnight.
As a whole.. the country is developing pretty fast and its not too long before most of the outdated problems that still exist in that country are solved. I see India and China as countries that will probably rise up after the fall of the west (it is gonna happen.. It always happens. Read our history!)
Note: No, I am not an indian. I just like to keep a watch on whats going on.
Also, the bulk of people are against technology and change, as seen in the last elections. They want the old government which promotes anarchy and curruption. So, they will get what they want.
The only people who bitched about the new government are the opposition party and its supporters. If the overall population didnt want the new government, they wouldnt have voted for it. As for the technological development, no one is opposing it. At most, people who arent aware are on the fence and looking at how things are heading.
Mofo #1: And he pulled out his P4 cpu, and I was like damn brotha Mofo #2: Shit thats whack!
...when low-cost labor in China is combined with Microsoft technologies?
We get more crap on tv!?