then again Alacritch did go through three rounds of funding for a total of only $35M.
Conclusion: Patents granted to small companies can be (in practice) stolen without making a big fuzz about it. Or at least it'll hurt ($$$) the small company much more than the big company.
(Another reason for the patent system to be reformed)
Why should you expect that they should have anything valuable to contribute, when they don't even take the time to put punctuation in their communication, have spelling and grammar even half-correct, or refer to every module, icon and screen in a program as 'that thing'?
Because, that's the population that will use your software. Whether you like it or not.
With software becoming open source, it can't be delivered as a product anymore because anyone can get it. However, customized software, and/or software maintenance is starting to become a necessity in the software world.
Companies stop selling software, and begin selling their services (even if this involves DEVELOPING software).
But it's not much different... if companies don't charge by selling their software product, they'll charge for the time spent writing it. (Of course, nobody says you cann't charge for a service you already did for another company:P)
Anyway I like this corporate change of IBM. First they ask for a reform on the patent system, and now they switch to services:)
Tell him what he doesn't like about certain software, and why.
Unfortunately, (some) Linux Gurus have forgotten the meaning of usability. Accustomed to the intrincated labyrinths of the command line, they just don't care to make something more user friendly (particularly the installations).
It's like moving from the city (with all comodities) to the jungle. Unfortunately, developers don't have a team of "joe user" testers. And sometimes they ABHOR them. It's not rare (at least for me) that you encounter a FOSS project whose author says: "Want this feature? Implement it yourself". However, the developer doesn't help AT ALL so you can incorporate those features.
I remember a FOSS GUI/language (whose name I shall not dare utter in public) where I wasn't given the least of support. The devs never bothered to make a simple class diagram, or documentation so I could help doing the development in windows. It's been 6 years, and only in the last months it got out of "pre-beta".
And it's worse when your requests get denied "by principle". i.e. (from another FOSS project) "Why can't I just click on the form and add the control? Why do I have to select the stupid sizer from the object tree? Can't you make this process transparent?" Then expect a long philosophical discussion on why you can't do something that you're always used to (VB, Delphi, etc).
Sincerely, it's hard when geniuses take the control over the USABILITY DESIGN of their software. They're not hired to make something look or feel right, they do as they please.
Or simply they like some existing FOSS that isn't user friendly but more popular, and never started clones that would rock
i.e. have you seen Linux ports (clones) of:
- Photoshop (GIMP is better, we don't use photocrap) - irfanview (what?) - Visual Basic (real programmers use python/c++ / don't use GUIs / program using the API themselves / insert your stupid excuse here)
In general, I can give a simple phrase for FOSS programmers to remember:
"The user (customer) is always right". Trust me, it'll make your program much more popular than it is now.
And in your model, anyone could break their contractual agreements freely without fear of any discipline or reprisal simply by leaking to any web site.
They already do, doh! You could take some secrets of your company, go to a cybercafe, enter an anonimizing proxy and upload the data to your favorite website. All of this without getting caught.
NO - It is the COMPANY's responsibility to ensure the data isn't leaked in the first place.
And the Apple blogger in question didn't expose anything that would actually *harm* the company (like publishing some blueprints or source code). He just published A COUPLE OF ROUMORS, come on.
That garbled text is ungarbled by certain software (i.e. outlook). That's because there are invisible chars in there that activate the "right to left" mode.
Example: De*ra* B*lcra*ays M*bme*er translates to: Dear Barclays Member
(I tried to copy the text I got in Yahoo, and paste it in MSN messenger. Amazingly, the text was "ungarbled". That's when I realized how tricky spammers were)
SPAM software could simply detect left-to-right characters in such text, and ipso-facto label it as spam. Unless of course, you're reading hebrew. Which is obviously NOT the case.
I remember in my old times I loaded one of those music virus simulators when I played tetris (no soundblaster by then). It was fun.
Later i'd play "catching the faces". Remember the little faces that played all over your screen? Well I grabbed my text editor (QEdit), and tried to jail those darn faces using the box characters.
Its nice to see this posted on./ but I think that most people here know that point to point doesn't harm the industry.
yeah but how many times have you seen the claim FULLY DEBUNKED?
At most you've seen/. posts saying "that's bull" or the-like.
But a full paper with references (the same writing style that you'd see on "Journal of Algorithms", or "IEEE Transactions on Image Processing"), now THAT's something.
Can anybody tell me why the **** a fish woman has BREASTS? OK the hyperspace stuff, the droids, the lightsabers are tolerable to the logical mind. But THIS?
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Why not just call the thing Hubble II? People would say "Ah, a better hubble than hubble" and stuff.
then again Alacritch did go through three rounds of funding for a total of only $35M.
Conclusion: Patents granted to small companies can be (in practice) stolen without making a big fuzz about it. Or at least it'll hurt ($$$) the small company much more than the big company.
(Another reason for the patent system to be reformed)
for(int i=0;i<10;i++);
:)
Ironically, I just stumbled upon that one.
Twice.
Anyway C++ should issue warnings about semicolons following forloops. Now _THAT_ would be a very good standard!
They're a major member of the RIAA", don't be so shocked.
Sony is part of the RIAA!?
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! *Jumps out the window*
April Fool is WAY over, man!
As Moore says in the article, Moore's Law will become obsolete by the time we reach the atomic (nano) scale.
However, he gives it 30 to 40 years. Which is rather unfortunate - the sooner we have atomic scale transistors the better, don't you think?
I didn't realise the Starter Edition was so crippled. I would consider that barely useful!
Actually there was a discussion among Microsoft enginner of what name they would give it.
Suggestion #1:
Stupid Edition
Suggestion #2:
gullible n00b Edition
Averaging the two above:
Starter Edition
You call pictures and fingerprints biometric?
Please, I got my voter's credential here. It's got my picture and my fingerprints. Does it make it "biometric"?
that ST has reached its *Final* frontier.
^^;
(italian gangster voice) Bambino, you forgot the #1 rule of illegal file swapping... you must ENCRYPT.
Capisca? (slaps swapper's head)
Translation:
They were idiots. It's their own fault they got caught.
Why should you expect that they should have anything valuable to contribute, when they don't even take the time to put punctuation in their communication, have spelling and grammar even half-correct, or refer to every module, icon and screen in a program as 'that thing'?
Because, that's the population that will use your software. Whether you like it or not.
With software becoming open source, it can't be delivered as a product anymore because anyone can get it. However, customized software, and/or software maintenance is starting to become a necessity in the software world.
:P)
:)
Companies stop selling software, and begin selling their services (even if this involves DEVELOPING software).
But it's not much different... if companies don't charge by selling their software product, they'll charge for the time spent writing it. (Of course, nobody says you cann't charge for a service you already did for another company
Anyway I like this corporate change of IBM. First they ask for a reform on the patent system, and now they switch to services
Tell him what he doesn't like about certain software, and why.
Unfortunately, (some) Linux Gurus have forgotten the meaning of usability. Accustomed to the intrincated labyrinths of the command line, they just don't care to make something more user friendly (particularly the installations).
It's like moving from the city (with all comodities) to the jungle. Unfortunately, developers don't have a team of "joe user" testers. And sometimes they ABHOR them. It's not rare (at least for me) that you encounter a FOSS project whose author says: "Want this feature? Implement it yourself". However, the developer doesn't help AT ALL so you can incorporate those features.
I remember a FOSS GUI/language (whose name I shall not dare utter in public) where I wasn't given the least of support. The devs never bothered to make a simple class diagram, or documentation so I could help doing the development in windows. It's been 6 years, and only in the last months it got out of "pre-beta".
And it's worse when your requests get denied "by principle". i.e. (from another FOSS project)
"Why can't I just click on the form and add the control? Why do I have to select the stupid sizer from the object tree? Can't you make this process transparent?" Then expect a long philosophical discussion on why you can't do something that you're always used to (VB, Delphi, etc).
Sincerely, it's hard when geniuses take the control over the USABILITY DESIGN of their software. They're not hired to make something look or feel right, they do as they please.
Or simply they like some existing FOSS that isn't user friendly but more popular, and never started clones that would rock
i.e. have you seen Linux ports (clones) of:
- Photoshop (GIMP is better, we don't use photocrap)
- irfanview (what?)
- Visual Basic (real programmers use python/c++ / don't use GUIs / program using the API themselves / insert your stupid excuse here)
In general, I can give a simple phrase for FOSS programmers to remember:
"The user (customer) is always right". Trust me, it'll make your program much more popular than it is now.
What about speech that isn't protected now?
There has to be some arbiter.
Yes, but NOT the company in question!
And in your model, anyone could break their contractual agreements freely without fear of any discipline or reprisal simply by leaking to any web site.
They already do, doh! You could take some secrets of your company, go to a cybercafe, enter an anonimizing proxy and upload the data to your favorite website. All of this without getting caught.
NO - It is the COMPANY's responsibility to ensure the data isn't leaked in the first place.
And the Apple blogger in question didn't expose anything that would actually *harm* the company (like publishing some blueprints or source code). He just published A COUPLE OF ROUMORS, come on.
"'a new crop of products and services that will enhance your Firefox experience.'"
That sounds a lot like Ads and spyware toolbars!
He said CROP, not CRAP.
ISPs are beginning to sign codes of conduct that they'll never follow.
And here's Mike with the weather.
You just need to understand and practice the following acronyms:
:)
a) RTFM
b) STFW
Ta-da!
Oh. If you don't know what they mean, and don't know HOW to find out, you've failed the test miserably.
You haven't RTFA it seems.
That garbled text is ungarbled by certain software (i.e. outlook). That's because there are invisible chars in there that activate the "right to left" mode.
Example:
De*ra* B*lcra*ays M*bme*er
translates to:
Dear Barclays Member
(I tried to copy the text I got in Yahoo, and paste it in MSN messenger. Amazingly, the text was "ungarbled". That's when I realized how tricky spammers were)
SPAM software could simply detect left-to-right characters in such text, and ipso-facto label it as spam. Unless of course, you're reading hebrew. Which is obviously NOT the case.
having different distros that won't run others code takes greatly away from the "power of linoox"
:)
Takes away? Like if Linux distros were already compatible with each other?
Excuse me for a second.
*runs to the bathroom and ROFL's for about 10 minutes.*
OK, back.
Now that it's /.'ed... anyone? :(
He copied text from an earlier post NOT written by him! (See below)
I wonder what the South American FOSS contingent will have to say as time goes by or what influence the hacker high thing will have.
:(
:P )
Who cares? We're all switching to Linux. But you shouldn't worry about SOFTWARE... see, China is already investing in Nanotech.
Industrial revolution #3 is just about to start... and South America is gonna be left out again
(Well, at least things won't change much down here
I remember in my old times I loaded one of those music virus simulators when I played tetris (no soundblaster by then). It was fun.
Later i'd play "catching the faces". Remember the little faces that played all over your screen? Well I grabbed my text editor (QEdit), and tried to jail those darn faces using the box characters.
Ahh the good times...
Its nice to see this posted on ./ but I think that most people here know that point to point doesn't harm the industry.
/. posts saying "that's bull" or the-like.
yeah but how many times have you seen the claim FULLY DEBUNKED?
At most you've seen
But a full paper with references (the same writing style that you'd see on "Journal of Algorithms", or "IEEE Transactions on Image Processing"), now THAT's something.
Can anybody tell me why the **** a fish woman has BREASTS? OK the hyperspace stuff, the droids, the lightsabers are tolerable to the logical mind. But THIS?
And I thought the Startrek sequels were bad...