Just about every other tablet manufacturer is, at this very moment, probably sitting reading the announcement and laughing their asses off, as their marketing and Evil Empire departments prepare to do battle over the remaining smartphone real estate that RIM is about to lose on its trip down the toilet.
Me, I'm waiting for 8.0, which is due out next Tuesday... Unless of course I have to work late, in which case I'll just wait until the Thursday afterwards for version 9.
And??? Microsoft has even bigger market share, and IE has been consistently losing ground.
Have you ever pondered the possibility that the reason Firefox is slipping is because the project itself has become an unresponsive beast who is now pissing off even its core supporters in the IT industry with its absurd release schedules?
One thing that the various WRTs did give me was proper control of iptables so I could do things like redirect to squid and the like. Yes, you won't get goodies like openvpn on slim hardware, but still, even having a bit more direct control of the networking that is there can be a boon.
I don't think shingles is from reinfection per se, but rather from incomplete infection which allows some of the virus to hide out for long periods of time before new symptoms show up.
Bully for you. You are aware, i trust, that anecdotal evidence is pretty much worthless, and judging by the behavior of many even in areas where abstinence-only education is the norm, you're very likely atypical.
Public health issues should be resolved by reason and by what actually happens on the ground, not by the mad imaginings of people caught in the midst of their own self-delusions. You know, sort of like all those good religious parents who stuff wool in their childrens' ears so they don't here the actual facts about sex and how to prevent unwanted pregnancies and STDs, so they ignorant kids can go out, do the naughty anyways (after all, that's what kids do, whether they think God will piss in their Wheaties or not), and get pregnant or get itchies in their critchies.
No it won't. Look at pregnancy rates in the US Bible belt. Abstinence-only education is a failure.
Kids have sex. They have been having sex for millions of years, and they will continue to have sex. Unless you plan on forcing them all to wear chastity belts, your plan has already been proven wrong.
What the fuck is wrong with you? Did your mother drop you on your head, or are you just a fucking mental case by default? Grow up you infantile halfwit.
Actually, you'd be wrong. Most of the posters that I saw around here when i4i was going after Microsoft over that frivolous lawsuit were defending Microsoft (mainly because it goes beyond idiotic to patent what amounts to metadata in XML).
I think the point is that, regardless of whether a company is a patent troll or not, if the patent in question is eventually tossed, could the companies that paid the licensing fees for a now invalidated patent seek repayment. I doubt it in most circumstances that those that had paid the licensing fees could, because they had the opportunity, rather than paying the fee, of going to court to seek remedy for what they viewed as an invalid patent.
That being said, I'm sure we all know that the bulk of Microsoft's patent portfolio is pure garbage, and it certainly would be nice to have a system in place whereby a company seeking licensing fees for a patent understood that it would be an inherent risk that if the patent in question is ever ultimately deemed invalid, they would have to pay the money back.
The obvious solution to software patent is to simply not allow them. That requires no expertise in a narrow field, it simply requires that if it is not a mechanical or physical invention, you can't patent it, so applicants can fuck off.
Kids are kids. When I was 12 or 13, I used to watch Star Trek or Star Wars as often as I possibly could. My daughters must have watched The Little Mermaid and The Lion King a bazillion times, and my oldest, when she was five, caught on to Sailor Moon and we bought her a season and she wore out the VHS tape.
I sure the fuck pity any kids you might somehow manage to spawn. You'd be on of those kinds of drill sergeant dads micromanaging their kids intake so they get "cultured" or whatever your metric is. Your kids won't thank you, they'll be doing high fives when you're casket's being lowered into the ground.
Yup. The hardest time I ever had understanding anyone allegedly fluent in English was a Scottish fellow with such a thick accent that I basically had to piece together what he was saying with about a 50% word comprehension rate. I've had thickly accented Indians who spoke more comprehensible English.
The majority of code out there is x86, even on Linux x86 outnumbers ARM code by a pretty wide margin.
This is a bizarre claim, considering the majority of code out there is in C or in higher level languages like Java, Cobol, C# and so on, so technically the processor architecture is irrelevant for most code.
As to Linux, there are small pieces of the kernel written in assembly, but these have been rewritten so Linux can run on a number of non-x86 platforms. The vast bulk of Linux and its userland tools are written in C, so the underlying architecture is irrelevant. Want to run emacs on an ARM variant of Linux, well, just bloody well compile it for that ARM processor.
There are other reasons that southern Africa is an attractive point of origin for modern H. sapiens. For one thing, it is the highest level of genetic diversity and certainly has the descendants of the oldest known modern H. sapiens populations. You are right that further discoveries could point to some other point of origin, and it's always possible that because there was always some gene flow that if the "modern cognition" genes evolved elsewhere, they could have made their way to southern Africa.
That being said, we can't even say what the "modern cognition" genes are with any certainty. It may in fact be possible that the mutations happened a substantial time before, perhaps originally evolving to fulfill some other need, and all it needed was some population to achieve the cultural aspects of the evolution. In other words, all moderns, right back to the earliest, might have had the neural machinery for modern cognition, but it required a trigger.
Well, Mesopotomia was considerable wetter when the first urban civilization developed, and at least in part the destruction of key agricultural areas in that region came about from very crappy farming techniques that caused salination of the soils. The early Indus River civilization seems to have also developed during a much wetter period, and I've read some theories that suggest that a climactic shift towards drying conditions saw that civilization collapse, or at least very much weakened, and perhaps the Indo-Europeans dealt it a death blow.
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Well, for starters, they don't choke on vomit... on someone else's vomit.
Just about every other tablet manufacturer is, at this very moment, probably sitting reading the announcement and laughing their asses off, as their marketing and Evil Empire departments prepare to do battle over the remaining smartphone real estate that RIM is about to lose on its trip down the toilet.
Me, I'm waiting for 8.0, which is due out next Tuesday... Unless of course I have to work late, in which case I'll just wait until the Thursday afterwards for version 9.
And??? Microsoft has even bigger market share, and IE has been consistently losing ground.
Have you ever pondered the possibility that the reason Firefox is slipping is because the project itself has become an unresponsive beast who is now pissing off even its core supporters in the IT industry with its absurd release schedules?
Opera Mini has been doing this for years.
1999 called and wants their anti-Java rant back.
I use Opera Mini on a shitty little LG phone. Works quite well, I can even post to Slashdot from it.
One thing that the various WRTs did give me was proper control of iptables so I could do things like redirect to squid and the like. Yes, you won't get goodies like openvpn on slim hardware, but still, even having a bit more direct control of the networking that is there can be a boon.
Went to Tomato last year. Clean interface, works well. Won't go back to DD-WRT
I don't think shingles is from reinfection per se, but rather from incomplete infection which allows some of the virus to hide out for long periods of time before new symptoms show up.
Bully for you. You are aware, i trust, that anecdotal evidence is pretty much worthless, and judging by the behavior of many even in areas where abstinence-only education is the norm, you're very likely atypical.
Public health issues should be resolved by reason and by what actually happens on the ground, not by the mad imaginings of people caught in the midst of their own self-delusions. You know, sort of like all those good religious parents who stuff wool in their childrens' ears so they don't here the actual facts about sex and how to prevent unwanted pregnancies and STDs, so they ignorant kids can go out, do the naughty anyways (after all, that's what kids do, whether they think God will piss in their Wheaties or not), and get pregnant or get itchies in their critchies.
No it won't. Look at pregnancy rates in the US Bible belt. Abstinence-only education is a failure.
Kids have sex. They have been having sex for millions of years, and they will continue to have sex. Unless you plan on forcing them all to wear chastity belts, your plan has already been proven wrong.
Have any other bright ideas?
Yes, because the only possible vector for HIV infection is through sexual intercourse
What the fuck is wrong with you? Did your mother drop you on your head, or are you just a fucking mental case by default? Grow up you infantile halfwit.
Actually, you'd be wrong. Most of the posters that I saw around here when i4i was going after Microsoft over that frivolous lawsuit were defending Microsoft (mainly because it goes beyond idiotic to patent what amounts to metadata in XML).
I think the point is that, regardless of whether a company is a patent troll or not, if the patent in question is eventually tossed, could the companies that paid the licensing fees for a now invalidated patent seek repayment. I doubt it in most circumstances that those that had paid the licensing fees could, because they had the opportunity, rather than paying the fee, of going to court to seek remedy for what they viewed as an invalid patent.
That being said, I'm sure we all know that the bulk of Microsoft's patent portfolio is pure garbage, and it certainly would be nice to have a system in place whereby a company seeking licensing fees for a patent understood that it would be an inherent risk that if the patent in question is ever ultimately deemed invalid, they would have to pay the money back.
The obvious solution to software patent is to simply not allow them. That requires no expertise in a narrow field, it simply requires that if it is not a mechanical or physical invention, you can't patent it, so applicants can fuck off.
In trouble soon? If they were the Titanic, I'd say the bow is already high in the air, and we're just waiting for the whole to come apart midships.
Someone could help here with a good car analogy.
Kids are kids. When I was 12 or 13, I used to watch Star Trek or Star Wars as often as I possibly could. My daughters must have watched The Little Mermaid and The Lion King a bazillion times, and my oldest, when she was five, caught on to Sailor Moon and we bought her a season and she wore out the VHS tape.
I sure the fuck pity any kids you might somehow manage to spawn. You'd be on of those kinds of drill sergeant dads micromanaging their kids intake so they get "cultured" or whatever your metric is. Your kids won't thank you, they'll be doing high fives when you're casket's being lowered into the ground.
One thing's for sure, if they don't find a way to get their hands on the content people want, pricing structure won't mean a damned thing.
All that matters is that someone will have to pay either their lawyers or Microsoft big piles of money if they intend on doing something like this.
Yup. The hardest time I ever had understanding anyone allegedly fluent in English was a Scottish fellow with such a thick accent that I basically had to piece together what he was saying with about a 50% word comprehension rate. I've had thickly accented Indians who spoke more comprehensible English.
This is a bizarre claim, considering the majority of code out there is in C or in higher level languages like Java, Cobol, C# and so on, so technically the processor architecture is irrelevant for most code.
As to Linux, there are small pieces of the kernel written in assembly, but these have been rewritten so Linux can run on a number of non-x86 platforms. The vast bulk of Linux and its userland tools are written in C, so the underlying architecture is irrelevant. Want to run emacs on an ARM variant of Linux, well, just bloody well compile it for that ARM processor.
There are other reasons that southern Africa is an attractive point of origin for modern H. sapiens. For one thing, it is the highest level of genetic diversity and certainly has the descendants of the oldest known modern H. sapiens populations. You are right that further discoveries could point to some other point of origin, and it's always possible that because there was always some gene flow that if the "modern cognition" genes evolved elsewhere, they could have made their way to southern Africa.
That being said, we can't even say what the "modern cognition" genes are with any certainty. It may in fact be possible that the mutations happened a substantial time before, perhaps originally evolving to fulfill some other need, and all it needed was some population to achieve the cultural aspects of the evolution. In other words, all moderns, right back to the earliest, might have had the neural machinery for modern cognition, but it required a trigger.
Well, Mesopotomia was considerable wetter when the first urban civilization developed, and at least in part the destruction of key agricultural areas in that region came about from very crappy farming techniques that caused salination of the soils. The early Indus River civilization seems to have also developed during a much wetter period, and I've read some theories that suggest that a climactic shift towards drying conditions saw that civilization collapse, or at least very much weakened, and perhaps the Indo-Europeans dealt it a death blow.