Hell, it would have meant Open/LibreOffice and just about anyone with software or libraries that can read or write the old Word 97-2003 formats would be insanely vulnerable. The distance between an API, a document format or a protocol is no distance at all, and anyone who didn't have a license to write Word-compatible files could be nailed to the wall.
It would have been a disaster. Just about every operating system vendor, programming toolkit, developer of document formats and protocols would have to amend licenses to grant developers the rights to access the outward facing layers. Big guys like Microsoft could just crush projects like Wine. It would have been absolute chaos and would have created years of uncertainty, not to mention the fact that as the EU has already ruled APIs cannot be copyrighted, it would have created a monstrous rift in IP rules between Europe and the United States.
How exactly is it a win for Oracle? They now have a competing VM that can run Java code. Considering Android's position in the mobile market, I'd say for Oracle this means Java goes into a slow eclipse.
Just about everything is safe. Ruling APIs copyrightable would have been a catastrophe of earth-shattering proportions. It is very much a good day for software. And, of course, Oracle has been handed their balls on a platter, though I'm assuming they will appeal this.
We're working with a critical cloud app where I work, and an asshole with a backhoe gave us an all day outage yesterday. With the old in-house system we could have just kept going, but now a serious outage here or at the data center means work stops.
The component you're missing is lawyers. Lawyers make those abstract barriers, and ultimately it is lawyers that profit from those abstract barriers. The whole system is a confidence game built of the lawyers, for the lawyers and by the lawyers.
I wonder if every generation thinks that they're the first ones to ever have substantial political or social problems. The way people talk, you would think that the last 200 hundred years have just been clear sailing, and our problems or sooooo huge that no other generation has ever had to face them.
Give it up, people. We lead a pretty charmed life compared to most folks who lived even a couple of hundred years ago.
If you want to see what Intelligent Design really is, read the Dover Trial transcripts. You bought into a scam. ID is just Creationism with the word "God" removed in an attempt to sneak past the First Amendment.
That's because they have no strategy other than "HOLY FUCK! Look at all those Android and iOS smart devices! What are we gonna do? We'd better just start flinging shit at the wall. Some of it has got to stick!"
I don't hate RIM. But I do think RIM is dying. The disease is reversible, I think, but nobody over there seems to be seriously looking for a cure. TFS says RIM stock is down 75 percent from last year alone. Imagine a patient who has lost 75 percent of his body weight but keeps insisting, "I'm not sick!"
Is it curable? Activesync isn't quite what Blackberry has, but it's good enough for most things, so on the Exchange-hookup end of things, RIM doesn't have any particular edge. Yes, it could go full Android, but then, well, it's fighting in a sea of Android devices, some, like Samsung, who have been sailing these waters a lot longer.
RIM sat on its laurels during very crucial years of 2007-2010, when Apple, and then Google, began rolling over the market place. RIM utterly misjudged the market, assuming that Apple and Google would just be consumer-grade products, and RIM would always hold the corporate ground... except that didn't happen, and now iPhones and high-end Androids are all over the place (where I work, three staff in the last month have got permission to start checking mail and scheduling via iPhones or Androids, and I expect we'll probably have ten or more by the middle of summer). The dividing line between consumer device and business device has utterly melted, and RIM is so far back now that short of basically buying someone else's high end Android and slapping their name on it, I don't really see what they can do.
I think RIM will either die, or will be bought up. I don't know who exactly would buy it up, though. I can't imagine Microsoft wanting to end up competing against its own Windows offerings by buying RIM, but there is still some RIM technology that might be attractive to someone.
"Good at being a smartphone" now means apps. And that's the problem. Apple and Android were late to the party, but they pushed past RIM, and now we're reaching the point where, if investors are lucky, someone will just swoop in and buy it up, rather than waiting for it to turn into the next Nortel.
I'd question your interpretations here, but beyond that, centuries separate the Genesis accounts (which most certainly predate 1,000 BC) and Job and Isaiah. There are clear links between the cosmography found in Genesis and the cosmography of Sumero-Akkadian civilizations.
A good chunk of the Old Testament was written by people who thought the world was flat and that there was a crystal dome above where the celestial bodies were set. That's why you had stories like Joshua's Long Day, which is, of course, utterly impossible, but was believable by a people who thought the Earth itself was stationary.
My understanding is that the two accounts are literally two different accounts, one of clearly polytheistic or henotheistic origin, and the other a monotheistic recasting of the more ancient myth.
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Hell, it would have meant Open/LibreOffice and just about anyone with software or libraries that can read or write the old Word 97-2003 formats would be insanely vulnerable. The distance between an API, a document format or a protocol is no distance at all, and anyone who didn't have a license to write Word-compatible files could be nailed to the wall.
It would have been a disaster. Just about every operating system vendor, programming toolkit, developer of document formats and protocols would have to amend licenses to grant developers the rights to access the outward facing layers. Big guys like Microsoft could just crush projects like Wine. It would have been absolute chaos and would have created years of uncertainty, not to mention the fact that as the EU has already ruled APIs cannot be copyrighted, it would have created a monstrous rift in IP rules between Europe and the United States.
And let's remember how much more quickly your competitor could go to market. He surely owes you billions for this.
How exactly is it a win for Oracle? They now have a competing VM that can run Java code. Considering Android's position in the mobile market, I'd say for Oracle this means Java goes into a slow eclipse.
Just about everything is safe. Ruling APIs copyrightable would have been a catastrophe of earth-shattering proportions. It is very much a good day for software. And, of course, Oracle has been handed their balls on a platter, though I'm assuming they will appeal this.
Nudges or not, I think we should insist that every time someone call for a ban on something, they do so with a noose around their neck.
We're working with a critical cloud app where I work, and an asshole with a backhoe gave us an all day outage yesterday. With the old in-house system we could have just kept going, but now a serious outage here or at the data center means work stops.
The component you're missing is lawyers. Lawyers make those abstract barriers, and ultimately it is lawyers that profit from those abstract barriers. The whole system is a confidence game built of the lawyers, for the lawyers and by the lawyers.
Agreed. Design patents are even more frivolous
I wonder if every generation thinks that they're the first ones to ever have substantial political or social problems. The way people talk, you would think that the last 200 hundred years have just been clear sailing, and our problems or sooooo huge that no other generation has ever had to face them.
Give it up, people. We lead a pretty charmed life compared to most folks who lived even a couple of hundred years ago.
Goddamn but I wish I had mod points.
If you have the brains to set up a mail server, setting up SpamAssassin is pretty easy.
Because having jerking video and audio that sounds like it's coming from the bottom of a barrel is the future of communications.
And aluminum pants. Never forget the aluminum pants.
If you're trying to market yet another social networking chat box, you need to convince people email is on the way out.
If you want to see what Intelligent Design really is, read the Dover Trial transcripts. You bought into a scam. ID is just Creationism with the word "God" removed in an attempt to sneak past the First Amendment.
That's because they have no strategy other than "HOLY FUCK! Look at all those Android and iOS smart devices! What are we gonna do? We'd better just start flinging shit at the wall. Some of it has got to stick!"
Is it curable? Activesync isn't quite what Blackberry has, but it's good enough for most things, so on the Exchange-hookup end of things, RIM doesn't have any particular edge. Yes, it could go full Android, but then, well, it's fighting in a sea of Android devices, some, like Samsung, who have been sailing these waters a lot longer.
RIM sat on its laurels during very crucial years of 2007-2010, when Apple, and then Google, began rolling over the market place. RIM utterly misjudged the market, assuming that Apple and Google would just be consumer-grade products, and RIM would always hold the corporate ground... except that didn't happen, and now iPhones and high-end Androids are all over the place (where I work, three staff in the last month have got permission to start checking mail and scheduling via iPhones or Androids, and I expect we'll probably have ten or more by the middle of summer). The dividing line between consumer device and business device has utterly melted, and RIM is so far back now that short of basically buying someone else's high end Android and slapping their name on it, I don't really see what they can do.
I think RIM will either die, or will be bought up. I don't know who exactly would buy it up, though. I can't imagine Microsoft wanting to end up competing against its own Windows offerings by buying RIM, but there is still some RIM technology that might be attractive to someone.
"Good at being a smartphone" now means apps. And that's the problem. Apple and Android were late to the party, but they pushed past RIM, and now we're reaching the point where, if investors are lucky, someone will just swoop in and buy it up, rather than waiting for it to turn into the next Nortel.
And that's the best RIM could do at this point; open the damned thing up and they could probably get rid of their stock in a month.
I'd question your interpretations here, but beyond that, centuries separate the Genesis accounts (which most certainly predate 1,000 BC) and Job and Isaiah. There are clear links between the cosmography found in Genesis and the cosmography of Sumero-Akkadian civilizations.
A good chunk of the Old Testament was written by people who thought the world was flat and that there was a crystal dome above where the celestial bodies were set. That's why you had stories like Joshua's Long Day, which is, of course, utterly impossible, but was believable by a people who thought the Earth itself was stationary.
My understanding is that the two accounts are literally two different accounts, one of clearly polytheistic or henotheistic origin, and the other a monotheistic recasting of the more ancient myth.
Moses didn't write Genesis. It seems unlikely that Moses even existed.