Well, hopefully this patent will take down Microsoft, they will break up into a OS division, an Office division, and other-uselss-crap-that-nobody-really-wants-and-makes-a-loss-anyway division. A few days after that, the US gov bans software patents.
They can do as you suggest, or they can try to get the law changed. They don't try to get the law changes, because it is in their advantage to have the current system. They prefer it this way, to no software patents.
Why do people keep looking at the size of a country. Canada is mainly populated along the US border, there aren't cell towers all over the country. USA, sure that is more widespread, but it is ridiculous to use this to argue for countries like Canada, Australia and even Finland/Sweden/Norway.
Finland is tiny, and most of Finland doesn't have cell towers, know does it? It is only the bottom part of finland that has any people it in, a VERY small area. So I think it stand, and Australia has a worse situation to USA. We are about the same size (excluding alaska), and have 1/20th the people.
Of course, 90% of people live in the major cities.
Saying IE is hijacking your domain query is a little like claiming the normal pilot of a plane is hijacking it whenever he flies. No, he's not, he's the pilot. It's kind of his job.
What if he flies it to a completely different airport, under the guise of killing you all and stealing the plane? Is that still not a hijack? This is a good analogy for what IE does.
Remember, the reason that Asian societies never had much use for the idea of the straight-blade sword, and never developed the single-handed "lunge" maneuver, is that those don't work very well for people whose arms and legs are proportionally shorter than most of the Western people. If they wanted something to poke at someone at distance, their best bet was a spear.
Yeah, I remember that from training at the Jedi Academy.
The fact a company can't afford to lose people for 4 months, esp a small company. You are not a child, you have to be responsibly about this, take a day of here and there is ok, but 4 months is a fucking joke.
1 -NEVER EVER trust your employer. they will screw you any chance they get.
You are an idiot. Just becuase you put up with this shit situation, doesn't mean all employers are like that. You vapid generalisation might be reasonable for large companies, but for smaller companies, your employer is not out to get you (well, not always). A lot of employers will bend over backwards to make sure you are treated fairly.
If some loser put up with shit for 8 years, the lesson is for you not to put up with shit for 8 years, or ever 2. If a place is treating you baldy, then start looking for other work.
Photoshop is glitchy as hell. In CS3, when you saved a web image it would wash out the colours due to using the wrong colour profile. This was a joke for such a major program. Fixed in CS4. CS4 crashes on me at least once a week, so much that now I expect it to crash anytime, and keep all my stuff saved.
See, I hate having to ask follow up questions. Sometime I have them, sometimes I don't. Most of my questions are answered during the interview, you seem like reasonable people, why do you want me to make up a question for? What does that prove? Unless, of course, the position if for chief question asker...
Well, as an Australian, you are fucking ignorant because in Australia the main cable provider is fox, and they run a very popular news service called sky news.
And, in Australia, if you aren't watching ABC news or SBS news, then you might as well be watching fox. So get of your high kangaroo cobbber. Ch 10, 9 and 7 are no different, and a not worth the radio waves.
Yes, and the fact that the price of chopsticks has gone up is one more reason for me not to buy some and jab them into my eye, but I think all the obvious reasons are more than enough anyway.
It might look better on the macbook because it has a glossy screen, compared with his PC setup. As much as we all hate glossy screens, it does bring out some colours better.
Yeah, except exactly the same things happen in all major electronics, laptops and mobile phones. Including Microsoft Zunes. So who is getting grief here, Microsoft who also do this, or Apple who do no different to anyone else in the industry, except they are patenting it, and they are the ones being vilified.
What about accuracy in grammar? If you could care less, then you must care about it a little bit. How do we take you seriously when you can't even master a simple phrase?
So basically you have little to no basis to make such a sweeping claim.
No, what he is doing is using all the information available to him, without doing an expensive survey. He has explained what he has used, if you have some information to counter it, all well and good. It adds to the data.
You realise we are discussing this on a forum, not in a court of law???
PS. I agree with him, and have not met anyone who likes it (out of about 5 people I have discussed it with). I revile it, probably a little less than Microsoft's crappy storage formats and the new docx.
The difference is between people who use office all day, and people who use it occasionaly. People who use it all day don't mind spending some time to get used to it. People who don't, and I am in this category, don't want to waste ANY time fooling around with the stupid thing. I know what I have to do, I do it quickly, I move on. I don't want to wrestle with a new GUI, just to get something simple done.
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Well, fuck off then. Get back to me when you want to communicate with me again. (OK, maybe not in the real world, but we all want to say that!)
Yeah, I don't think that word means what you think it means. Innovate \= copy from everyone else.
Innovative does not mean something you haven't seen before.
Well, hopefully this patent will take down Microsoft, they will break up into a OS division, an Office division, and other-uselss-crap-that-nobody-really-wants-and-makes-a-loss-anyway division. A few days after that, the US gov bans software patents.
A man can dream, can't he?
They can do as you suggest, or they can try to get the law changed. They don't try to get the law changes, because it is in their advantage to have the current system. They prefer it this way, to no software patents.
Why do people keep looking at the size of a country. Canada is mainly populated along the US border, there aren't cell towers all over the country. USA, sure that is more widespread, but it is ridiculous to use this to argue for countries like Canada, Australia and even Finland/Sweden/Norway.
Finland is tiny, and most of Finland doesn't have cell towers, know does it? It is only the bottom part of finland that has any people it in, a VERY small area. So I think it stand, and Australia has a worse situation to USA. We are about the same size (excluding alaska), and have 1/20th the people.
Of course, 90% of people live in the major cities.
That would be great, because I would make them give me a rise to compensate for not having an electric car and riding to work.
Saying IE is hijacking your domain query is a little like claiming the normal pilot of a plane is hijacking it whenever he flies. No, he's not, he's the pilot. It's kind of his job.
What if he flies it to a completely different airport, under the guise of killing you all and stealing the plane? Is that still not a hijack? This is a good analogy for what IE does.
Remember, the reason that Asian societies never had much use for the idea of the straight-blade sword, and never developed the single-handed "lunge" maneuver, is that those don't work very well for people whose arms and legs are proportionally shorter than most of the Western people. If they wanted something to poke at someone at distance, their best bet was a spear.
Yeah, I remember that from training at the Jedi Academy.
The fact a company can't afford to lose people for 4 months, esp a small company. You are not a child, you have to be responsibly about this, take a day of here and there is ok, but 4 months is a fucking joke.
America is more capitalistic than Australia. You can thank the huge ALP reforms in Australia for that.
1 -NEVER EVER trust your employer. they will screw you any chance they get.
You are an idiot. Just becuase you put up with this shit situation, doesn't mean all employers are like that. You vapid generalisation might be reasonable for large companies, but for smaller companies, your employer is not out to get you (well, not always). A lot of employers will bend over backwards to make sure you are treated fairly.
If some loser put up with shit for 8 years, the lesson is for you not to put up with shit for 8 years, or ever 2. If a place is treating you baldy, then start looking for other work.
Photoshop is glitchy as hell. In CS3, when you saved a web image it would wash out the colours due to using the wrong colour profile. This was a joke for such a major program. Fixed in CS4. CS4 crashes on me at least once a week, so much that now I expect it to crash anytime, and keep all my stuff saved.
I hate photoshop, it has its problems as well.
See, I hate having to ask follow up questions. Sometime I have them, sometimes I don't. Most of my questions are answered during the interview, you seem like reasonable people, why do you want me to make up a question for? What does that prove? Unless, of course, the position if for chief question asker...
Is this really what is most important to you?
Well, as an Australian, you are fucking ignorant because in Australia the main cable provider is fox, and they run a very popular news service called sky news.
And, in Australia, if you aren't watching ABC news or SBS news, then you might as well be watching fox. So get of your high kangaroo cobbber. Ch 10, 9 and 7 are no different, and a not worth the radio waves.
Yes, and the fact that the price of chopsticks has gone up is one more reason for me not to buy some and jab them into my eye, but I think all the obvious reasons are more than enough anyway.
Can't he give his content away for free, and make it up on volume?
It might look better on the macbook because it has a glossy screen, compared with his PC setup. As much as we all hate glossy screens, it does bring out some colours better.
Yeah, except exactly the same things happen in all major electronics, laptops and mobile phones. Including Microsoft Zunes. So who is getting grief here, Microsoft who also do this, or Apple who do no different to anyone else in the industry, except they are patenting it, and they are the ones being vilified.
I am typing this with my noddle right now, what are you going to do about it?
What about accuracy in grammar? If you could care less, then you must care about it a little bit. How do we take you seriously when you can't even master a simple phrase?
Sucked in for buying the latest and greatest.
So basically you have little to no basis to make such a sweeping claim.
No, what he is doing is using all the information available to him, without doing an expensive survey. He has explained what he has used, if you have some information to counter it, all well and good. It adds to the data.
You realise we are discussing this on a forum, not in a court of law???
PS. I agree with him, and have not met anyone who likes it (out of about 5 people I have discussed it with). I revile it, probably a little less than Microsoft's crappy storage formats and the new docx.
The difference is between people who use office all day, and people who use it occasionaly. People who use it all day don't mind spending some time to get used to it. People who don't, and I am in this category, don't want to waste ANY time fooling around with the stupid thing. I know what I have to do, I do it quickly, I move on. I don't want to wrestle with a new GUI, just to get something simple done.