I hope he does because one could patent anything these days. As Gosling noted, they obtained a patent that essentially said, "if you make something simpler, it'll go faster". This was in relation to computer software.
I am curious to see how this will tie into the BitTorrent case ruling made earlier this month indicating that an IP address does not uniquely identify the person behind it."
Why did it require a visit to the court system in order to establish this 'obvious' fact?
The IP in my opinion only identifies a service/hardware to which it's tied. Not a human being. Seems obvious to me.
My request is for an informed and knowledgeable slashdotter to point readers to a site that potentially debunks each one of Oracle's patent infringement claims.
Android based smart phone users are not prevented from installing tethering apps from elsewhere. In fact, one can [still] install them if on the Sprint network.
What Google has done is to 'comply' with Verizon's request to have tethering apps removed from the Android Market if this market is accessed by Android devices *on* the Verizon network.
This falls short of a ban as implied by the diction in the title.
I would like to know how App Inventor handles the chaos (read fragmentation) in the Android ecosystem. Chaos stemming from the different screen sizes, types, hardware especially that for processors and graphics and manufacturing quality.
Disclaimer: I am no app developer, but an avid Android fan, currently using the Samsung Galaxy S II and loving it.
Question is..."For how long?" The trend lines are not in RIM's favour!
most of the high school kids I know buy blackberry as their first smartphone...
That is until they discover Android. Take the Galaxy line of phones from Samsung. The latest Galaxy S2 leaves the newest BlackBerry phone in the dust if you exclude enterprise capabilities. These features do not matter that much to those high school kids. I know because I teach them.
And unfortunately standard Western schooling doesn't challenge many intelligent kids like me who coast through with minimal effort.
I am afraid I have to agree with you on this. Coming to this land from a "3rd world" country, I was surprised that I could do mathematics 2 grades above my classmates with ease. For most of them, it was a struggle to even complete their mathematics exercises.
One thing though, is that the system over here encourages guess work with multiple choice questions. Where I came from, one gets a few marks for each relevant step taken to solve a problem. This encourages critical thinking which I find lacking in today's school going children.
...and that is that Apple fanbois will not have to queue up in the wee hours of the morning or night for this service.
This phenomenon has always intrigued me. How someone can line up in the cold, hungry and with limited bathroom facilities in order to be the 'first' to have a device, which by the way, becomes mainstream a few weeks after.
All the while, some clever gentle man is making millions as the fans 'suffer'.
Note: I'm baiting you a little, because I've driven US cars into Canada, and the customs officials didn't say "you can't have that imperialist car on this road!"
Did you read what I wrote? If you did, you could have figured that Canadian buyers would at some point have to register their vehicles. That's where the problem comes in.
You can always drive on Canadian roads with a temporary license.
The cost of "dual calibration" of a speedometer is not prohibitive...
It depends on who is doing the calibration. Right now, the Canadian government mandates that any re-calibration be done by a 'licensed' technology house. These folks will charge thousands for an essentially simple procedure.
Whilst the cost of switching would be huge, there is also a massive hidden cost in not switching when dealing with the rest of the world (except for Liberia & Burma, the only other two countries that don't use the metric system)
My request is to a Slashdotter to provide examples of especially what this "massive hidden cost" as mentioned above is .
One thing I know is that US car salesmen are stuck with their inventory and wish they could sell more of those cars to Canadians given the Canadian currency which is now stronger than its US counterpart.
The problem is Canadians employ the metric system, but with US cars calibrated in imperial units, they cannot be allowed on Canadian roads and the cost of conversion is prohibitive.
I have never got a convincing reason as to why individuals and companies develop iOS applications before Android applications even when Android is clearly more popular than iOS...at least in the USA. Why?
Steve Jobs is doing pretty well. He's created the iPad. Certainly, it has made life more efficient for Americans, but the iPad is produced in China. It is not produced here in the United States."
I for one will refuse to make a rich man even richer. I even wonder what will ever make me queue up in the dark of the early mornings just to get my hands on an iDevice. Am I boring or what?
And on the subject matter, I happen to agree with the congressman to a large degree.
"It seems that APNIC has just released the last block of IPv4 addresses and are now completely out, a lot faster then expected.
The headline says something to the effect that IP addresses are out yet the quoted line has the word 'seems', casting doubt as to whether the addresses are out for sure. What's really going on?
Those movies involved languages like Groovy, Scala, Jython, JRuby, C# and so on.
Nothing will beat Java as a language. Nothing! And with Google's Android using the 'Java' language. The fruits of the Ceylon project will, as the saying goes, be 'dead on arrival.'
America discovered the Airplane but Europeans are beating us big time with Airbus.
America discovered the transistor but it was not until the Japanese came that we saw its true potential. No wonder all electronics in America are Asian made.
...over at the various district school boards in the mighty USA, a teaching professional only has to breathe for a few years before being granted tenure!
That is, even if the professional produces results next to garbage!
Microsoft researchers Erik Meijer and Gavin Bierman... present a mathematical model and standardized query language that could be used to unify SQL and NoSQL data models."
Maybe we should add...
"in an [impossible] exploratory effort to embrace, extend and extinguish..."
at the end of the sentence as they have done in the past.
The IRS, however, will continue to accept tax returns filed electronically and to process payments. 'We need to be able to collect the money that is owed to the U.S. government,' the official said.
So will the government shut-down or not? From some online dictionary, shut-down refers to: "ceasing operations or cause to cease operating."
Now if the IRS will still be working in some capacity, the government will not be shut-down. It's that simple.
Heck, this whole thing reminds me of our ISPs' 'unlimited' data plans which turn out to be capped to a ceiling. It's the same thing with our neighbours to the north...Canada.
My advice: get a better word, for example, 'slow-down.'
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I hope he does because one could patent anything these days. As Gosling noted, they obtained a patent that essentially said, "if you make something simpler, it'll go faster". This was in relation to computer software.
I hope this fellow has applied for a patent.
I am curious to see how this will tie into the BitTorrent case ruling made earlier this month indicating that an IP address does not uniquely identify the person behind it."
Why did it require a visit to the court system in order to establish this 'obvious' fact?
The IP in my opinion only identifies a service/hardware to which it's tied. Not a human being. Seems obvious to me.
that enable them to bypass the browser's sandbox, as well as ASLR and DEP, and run arbitrary code on a vulnerable machine.
"...on a vulnerable machine...". Those are the keywords. So how is it a Chrome problem when the machine itself is vulnerable?
By the way, it was about time for /. to embed video. Please allow the same for pictures especially for slashdotters here.
My request is for an informed and knowledgeable slashdotter to point readers to a site that potentially debunks each one of Oracle's patent infringement claims.
Google Allows Carriers To Ban Tethering Apps
I beg to differ, and here's why.
Android based smart phone users are not prevented from installing tethering apps from elsewhere. In fact, one can [still] install them if on the Sprint network.
What Google has done is to 'comply' with Verizon's request to have tethering apps removed from the Android Market if this market is accessed by Android devices *on* the Verizon network.
This falls short of a ban as implied by the diction in the title.
I would like to know how App Inventor handles the chaos (read fragmentation) in the Android ecosystem. Chaos stemming from the different screen sizes, types, hardware especially that for processors and graphics and manufacturing quality.
Disclaimer: I am no app developer, but an avid Android fan, currently using the Samsung Galaxy S II and loving it.
Seems to be working fine for them in Canada...
Question is..."For how long?" The trend lines are not in RIM's favour!
most of the high school kids I know buy blackberry as their first smartphone...
That is until they discover Android. Take the Galaxy line of phones from Samsung. The latest Galaxy S2 leaves the newest BlackBerry phone in the dust if you exclude enterprise capabilities. These features do not matter that much to those high school kids. I know because I teach them.
Sooner or later, RIM will have to ditch BlackBerry for DroidBerry.
And I hope the difference in tuition fees will be pegged to some kind of index which I could baptise the "Income Potential Index" (IPI).
You see, a graduate of English will earn potentially less than a graduate in law. Just an example and a fact.
And unfortunately standard Western schooling doesn't challenge many intelligent kids like me who coast through with minimal effort.
I am afraid I have to agree with you on this. Coming to this land from a "3rd world" country, I was surprised that I could do mathematics 2 grades above my classmates with ease. For most of them, it was a struggle to even complete their mathematics exercises.
One thing though, is that the system over here encourages guess work with multiple choice questions. Where I came from, one gets a few marks for each relevant step taken to solve a problem. This encourages critical thinking which I find lacking in today's school going children.
OR maybe there employees?
I think you meant "OR maybe their employees?"
Emphasis mine.
...and that is that Apple fanbois will not have to queue up in the wee hours of the morning or night for this service.
This phenomenon has always intrigued me. How someone can line up in the cold, hungry and with limited bathroom facilities in order to be the 'first' to have a device, which by the way, becomes mainstream a few weeks after.
All the while, some clever gentle man is making millions as the fans 'suffer'.
This world is clearly interesting, isn't it?
Note: I'm baiting you a little, because I've driven US cars into Canada, and the customs officials didn't say "you can't have that imperialist car on this road!"
Did you read what I wrote? If you did, you could have figured that Canadian buyers would at some point have to register their vehicles. That's where the problem comes in.
You can always drive on Canadian roads with a temporary license.
The cost of "dual calibration" of a speedometer is not prohibitive...
It depends on who is doing the calibration. Right now, the Canadian government mandates that any re-calibration be done by a 'licensed' technology house. These folks will charge thousands for an essentially simple procedure.
Whilst the cost of switching would be huge, there is also a massive hidden cost in not switching when dealing with the rest of the world (except for Liberia & Burma, the only other two countries that don't use the metric system)
My request is to a Slashdotter to provide examples of especially what this "massive hidden cost" as mentioned above is .
One thing I know is that US car salesmen are stuck with their inventory and wish they could sell more of those cars to Canadians given the Canadian currency which is now stronger than its US counterpart.
The problem is Canadians employ the metric system, but with US cars calibrated in imperial units, they cannot be allowed on Canadian roads and the cost of conversion is prohibitive.
I have never got a convincing reason as to why individuals and companies develop iOS applications before Android applications even when Android is clearly more popular than iOS...at least in the USA. Why?
Steve Jobs is doing pretty well. He's created the iPad. Certainly, it has made life more efficient for Americans, but the iPad is produced in China. It is not produced here in the United States."
I for one will refuse to make a rich man even richer. I even wonder what will ever make me queue up in the dark of the early mornings just to get my hands on an iDevice. Am I boring or what?
And on the subject matter, I happen to agree with the congressman to a large degree.
Network Address Translation could provide some relief I think...no?
"It seems that APNIC has just released the last block of IPv4 addresses and are now completely out, a lot faster then expected.
The headline says something to the effect that IP addresses are out yet the quoted line has the word 'seems', casting doubt as to whether the addresses are out for sure. What's really going on?
...and nothing has come of it!
Those movies involved languages like Groovy, Scala, Jython, JRuby, C# and so on.
Nothing will beat Java as a language. Nothing! And with Google's Android using the 'Java' language. The fruits of the Ceylon project will, as the saying goes, be 'dead on arrival.'
Ask Slashdot: What Country Has the Best Email Privacy Laws?
And here's why I say this:
It depends on who's metrics we'll use to determine what is 'best'. So that's the question.
You might ask why:
America discovered the Airplane but Europeans are beating us big time with Airbus.
America discovered the transistor but it was not until the Japanese came that we saw its true potential. No wonder all electronics in America are Asian made.
...over at the various district school boards in the mighty USA, a teaching professional only has to breathe for a few years before being granted tenure!
That is, even if the professional produces results next to garbage!
Think about it. My take: "Disgusting."
Microsoft researchers Erik Meijer and Gavin Bierman ... present a mathematical model and standardized query language that could be used to unify SQL and NoSQL data models."
Maybe we should add...
"in an [impossible] exploratory effort to embrace, extend and extinguish..."
at the end of the sentence as they have done in the past.
The IRS, however, will continue to accept tax returns filed electronically and to process payments. 'We need to be able to collect the money that is owed to the U.S. government,' the official said.
So will the government shut-down or not? From some online dictionary, shut-down refers to: "ceasing operations or cause to cease operating."
Now if the IRS will still be working in some capacity, the government will not be shut-down. It's that simple.
Heck, this whole thing reminds me of our ISPs' 'unlimited' data plans which turn out to be capped to a ceiling. It's the same thing with our neighbours to the north...Canada.
My advice: get a better word, for example, 'slow-down.'