the thing is.. this RIM vs NTP case has been dragging for years.
A small business person who is just starting up would be smacked down just because he wouldn't be able to afford the legal fees associated with the case. Its kind of sad how the law now just seems to be about who can support the legal fees the best..
Its pretty sad when companies like NARUS do things like this. What happended to Corporate Responsibility?
I watched 'Lord of War' recently, where Nicholas Cage acts as Yuri Orlov an arms dealer. He clears away his guilt by saying its not him doing the killing, he's just selling the weapons; and if he doesn't sell arms, it would be someone else.
unfortunately this doesn't always win you a case. Take RIM and NTP for example, RIM invented something and patented it in Canada. NTP sues RIM even though they didn't build the product. NTP won..
Howard Schmidt is a guy who has worked in the software industry, but it not really a geek, he is a BIG SUIT or a PHB. I highly doubt he has ever programmed in his life. Unfortunately, ppl in the big seats would think , hey this guy has worked in the software industry, he knows what he is talking about. I hope ppl ignore this dumbass and just move on.
Doing something like this will also hinder the Open Source process. Software will get more expensive and we can see a whole bunch of crap going on.
u know something.. I faced the same problem last year..
I graduated in Spring and spent the entire summer looking for a job. A lot of the job postings that I saw wanted me to have 3-5yrs exp.
So I decided to actually go to a number of companies and drop my resume off, and even that didn't work. I spoke to some HR personell, and they were telling me that they were only looking for SENIOR ppl, while some others told me that a bunch of jobs got offshored.
What I did do is get involved in a bunch of projects in a wide variety of things and put that in my resume. When I was in school, instead of doing the bare minimum in a project I actually went beyond and did something a bit more complex and put that in my resume.
I got my lucky break at the company I am working at, initially as a web developer, but because of stuff on my resume, I'm now doing hardware end stuff..
I can see this being quite reasonable for the average person..
Here in BC, Canada, we use natural gas to heat our houses. If I can charge my car up while heating my car up, why not?
What we have to bare in mind is that this is still a prototype. Natural gas may not be something feasible for everyone, but the fact that u can recharge yor fuel tank in your house seems really cool. Maybe further on there might be other ways to charge your fuel tank, but at least someone has a start in the right direction.
I have a couple of questions regarding the embedded linux OS.
what are the min requirements in terms to get embedded linux into a chip?
What microchips would you recommend using? There seem to be so many embedded linux OS's which one is a decent one? I don't really need an fancy gui output capability, maybe output data to an LCD. What I mainly need it for is just to control I/O on various pins..
come to Vancouver, Canada.
We have a provincial and federal gas surcharge added to the price of each litre of gas.On top of that.. we get charged a 7% federal and 7% provincial tax on the price of the gas.
Tax on a tax.. there u go..
if RoundCube is a startup.. and their product is openSourced, how can they make money?? Same goes for Zimbra..these programmers obviously need moolah to live.
Also, is it possible to run the Zimbra webclient, without the Zimbra web server?
I've been programming since I was in Gr. 5. From all the languages I've ever programmed in(BASIC,dBase, Java, C/C++, C#, Assembler etc...), my favourite is Java and C#.
What I like about Java is that it is a modern language that uses modern concepts, is very well documented and its vast lib support makes it very useful.
C# also follows along the same lines of Java, making it quite similar except you have the option of getting out of the sandbox that Java uses. Some people need to get out of the sandbox for various purposes, and C# allows that, not Java.
If I were to choose, I would choose C# 1'st for this very reason and then Java. Unfortunately, I'm a hardware programmer, so I am stuck using C:(
Anyone know what a quick way to get rid of humid air would be?
Basically, I live in Canada, and our nights get quite cold. I was thinking of having a pipe from the outside suck in the cold air to my comp.. and then another pipe sucks out the cold hot air from the comp.. sounds pretty ghetto.. I know... but this could work if I could have cold dry air on my system. lol.
I think that its kind of sad how ppl forget what was. I think we can throw part of the blame on schools. I took a multimedia systems course and it was mostly theoretical with the only hands on stuff being done in MATLAB. I was being taught by a TA. We were learning about JPEG compression, and he was outlining the steps: huffman encoding, cosine transform etc. And then I asked how how does it actually work? I can do it on paper, but how would I go about actually implementing it. And he didn't really know.
A similar scenario occured with my Networking class, the teacher was boggling us with new technologies like CORBA, Java Spaces, RMI, JINI, SOAP etc, and in the end, the student gets overwelhmed and confused. How about starting out with a simlple socket program?
The point I'm getting at is, everyone seems to be trying to learn new stuff and complex stuff and in the end we don't know the basics on how it actually works, other than, oh I used that library. But if we want to innovate and improve, we need to constantly go back to basics and re-evaluate how things were done.
So far the best E-voting system I have seen is the one used in India. Each EVM cost only $120. Even here in Canada we use the backwards pencil and paper system.
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find these rogue programmers...
find their bosses
and beat the crap out of them...
the thing is.. this RIM vs NTP case has been dragging for years.
A small business person who is just starting up would be smacked down just because he wouldn't be able to afford the legal fees associated with the case. Its kind of sad how the law now just seems to be about who can support the legal fees the best..
as simple as it sounds, Parent has hit the nail on the head.
When I was buying a PDA, I wanted to have a 30 Gig HD... I couldn't find one (the Palm HD edition PDA wasn't out yet).
I ended up purchasing a PDA and then an MP3 Player (not an iPOD, a Neuros if ur interested).
Another thing is simplicity and ease of use. The iPOD does what it was meant to do and does it with relative ease.
The next thing is form factor,size, look and feel.
I have a Dell Axim x50, its looks pretty and isn't as bulky as the other PDA's that are out, but it can't compare to the form factor of an iPOD.
Its pretty sad when companies like NARUS do things like this. What happended to Corporate Responsibility?
I watched 'Lord of War' recently, where Nicholas Cage acts as Yuri Orlov an arms dealer. He clears away his guilt by saying its not him doing the killing, he's just selling the weapons; and if he doesn't sell arms, it would be someone else.
NARUS seems to be no better.
unfortunately this doesn't always win you a case. Take RIM and NTP for example, RIM invented something and patented it in Canada. NTP sues RIM even though they didn't build the product. NTP won..
well put,
Howard Schmidt is a guy who has worked in the software industry, but it not really a geek, he is a BIG SUIT or a PHB. I highly doubt he has ever programmed in his life. Unfortunately, ppl in the big seats would think , hey this guy has worked in the software industry, he knows what he is talking about. I hope ppl ignore this dumbass and just move on.
Doing something like this will also hinder the Open Source process. Software will get more expensive and we can see a whole bunch of crap going on.
u know something.. I faced the same problem last year..
I graduated in Spring and spent the entire summer looking for a job. A lot of the job postings that I saw wanted me to have 3-5yrs exp.
So I decided to actually go to a number of companies and drop my resume off, and even that didn't work. I spoke to some HR personell, and they were telling me that they were only looking for SENIOR ppl, while some others told me that a bunch of jobs got offshored.
What I did do is get involved in a bunch of projects in a wide variety of things and put that in my resume. When I was in school, instead of doing the bare minimum in a project I actually went beyond and did something a bit more complex and put that in my resume.
I got my lucky break at the company I am working at, initially as a web developer, but because of stuff on my resume, I'm now doing hardware end stuff..
I can see this being quite reasonable for the average person..
Here in BC, Canada, we use natural gas to heat our houses. If I can charge my car up while heating my car up, why not?
What we have to bare in mind is that this is still a prototype. Natural gas may not be something feasible for everyone, but the fact that u can recharge yor fuel tank in your house seems really cool. Maybe further on there might be other ways to charge your fuel tank, but at least someone has a start in the right direction.
I have a couple of questions regarding the embedded linux OS.
what are the min requirements in terms to get embedded linux into a chip?
What microchips would you recommend using?
There seem to be so many embedded linux OS's which one is a decent one? I don't really need an fancy gui output capability, maybe output data to an LCD. What I mainly need it for is just to control I/O on various pins..
come to Vancouver, Canada. We have a provincial and federal gas surcharge added to the price of each litre of gas.On top of that.. we get charged a 7% federal and 7% provincial tax on the price of the gas. Tax on a tax.. there u go..
what about all the think smoke from cars? wouldn't that block the sunlight?
what about those oil and medical companies that drive the prices on the smallest pretext
if RoundCube is a startup.. and their product is openSourced, how can they make money?? Same goes for Zimbra..these programmers obviously need moolah to live.
Also, is it possible to run the Zimbra webclient, without the Zimbra web server?
but not a single GM car.. no wonder they are loosing money... the are out of the loop...
thanks... until now I had no idea Blender existed.
seems like a pretty decent app...
cheers..
I've been programming since I was in Gr. 5. From all the languages I've ever programmed in(BASIC,dBase, Java, C/C++, C#, Assembler etc...), my favourite is Java and C#.
:(
What I like about Java is that it is a modern language that uses modern concepts, is very well documented and its vast lib support makes it very useful.
C# also follows along the same lines of Java, making it quite similar except you have the option of getting out of the sandbox that Java uses. Some people need to get out of the sandbox for various purposes, and C# allows that, not Java.
If I were to choose, I would choose C# 1'st for this very reason and then Java. Unfortunately, I'm a hardware programmer, so I am stuck using C
Simple, just send 165+ text messages in less than a minute..
[n00b]: "snipers suck"
[n00b]: "I'm gonna get j00"
[n00b]: *click*
[n00b]: "damn it, forgot to reload"
*thunk*
Like this: http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-093005exi t_lat,0,1534949.story?coll=la-home-headlines/
You gotta FIGHT ........
For your RIGHT
To COOOOOOPY
hahah good eye :)
that would be pretty cool.. let me know if you have any success :)
Anyone know what a quick way to get rid of humid air would be?
.. sounds pretty ghetto.. I know... but this could work if I could have cold dry air on my system. lol.
Basically, I live in Canada, and our nights get quite cold. I was thinking of having a pipe from the outside suck in the cold air to my comp.. and then another pipe sucks out the cold hot air from the comp
or does anyone have any ideas??
I think that its kind of sad how ppl forget what was. I think we can throw part of the blame on schools. I took a multimedia systems course and it was mostly theoretical with the only hands on stuff being done in MATLAB. I was being taught by a TA. We were learning about JPEG compression, and he was outlining the steps: huffman encoding, cosine transform etc. And then I asked how how does it actually work? I can do it on paper, but how would I go about actually implementing it. And he didn't really know.
A similar scenario occured with my Networking class, the teacher was boggling us with new technologies like CORBA, Java Spaces, RMI, JINI, SOAP etc, and in the end, the student gets overwelhmed and confused. How about starting out with a simlple socket program?
The point I'm getting at is, everyone seems to be trying to learn new stuff and complex stuff and in the end we don't know the basics on how it actually works, other than, oh I used that library. But if we want to innovate and improve, we need to constantly go back to basics and re-evaluate how things were done.
Here is a description of the one used in India: http://www.eci.gov.in/EVM/index.htm
Here is a comparision between the Deibold and the Indian EVM system:http://techaos.blogspot.com/2004/05/indian- evm-compared-with-diebold.html
Here is a wikipedia article on it:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_voting_mach ines
Implementing a system like this can make it so much easier to count votes and do it quickly too.