Have you actually used IE8? It's brilliant for standards compliance - I can write a standard XHTML/CSS2 page, and it renders the same in both IE8 and Firefox. IE7, of course, mauls it horribly.
(I'm loving finally having support for "display: table" on divs and "background-image" on inputs).
It's even worse, since the fucking US government has dictated to all signatory countries that they are not allowed to disclose the contents of the treaty to their citizens, and then required signing it as a pre-requisite to any form of free-trade agreement.
In fact the response from the NZ government to an Official Information Act request for this document is to reject the request on the grounds that disclosing it would violate national security, and/or harm international relations.
So yeah, fuck the United States of the Recording Industry Association of America.
Actually no. Not speaking for anything else, but Windows no longer autoruns anything - it asks if you'd like to run whatever is on the disc. So this means that any issue there is user driven.
(By the way, to turn off that whole thing with the pictures, select "Do Nothing" next time you insert the stick and tick the "Do this every time" checkbox - if you don't have this, update Windows)
Your post seems to completely ignore that a lot of Apple's patents are things other people invented. Like a rewards system, a shopping cart, or a completely non-novel method of injection moulding a plastic case.
Yes, the system is a problem. But companies like Apple (who do have their own R&D departments!) have more than enough original research which they can patent to defend themselves, without resorting to patenting obvious crap and other people's work.
There's no defense for Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Novell, or anyone else engaging in THAT practice, when they don't need to.
That said, I am tremendously amused that Roughly Drafted of all places just tried to sell me a 30GB Zune.
I didn't say it was the only possibility, just that it's unlikely it is your ISP. I'd take a look at everything (even the box on your desk connecting you to the internet) and blast your ISP if that doesn't help.
If it helps any, Apple has also patented the Amazon Mechanical Turk (11/729,170), Interactive Blu Ray discs (11/940,297), eCommerce shopping carts (11/898,337), anything which happens to be double shot injection molded (11/782,175), AMD PowerNow technology (11/715,092), Greeting cards with gift cards in them (11/601,292), Microsoft PlaysForSure DRM (11/550,701), ALL Heatsinks (with IBM - 11/344,657), USB battery charging (11/216,321), doing stuff in response to events (11/877,618) and Citrix MetaFrame and every other network bootable OS (10/763,581).
Usually I like to think that patents do serve a useful purpose. Unfortunately I can no longer hold that opinion after seeing that Apple has patented (or applied to patent) at least seven other companies' products.
I'd hardly call that innovation. (Even if I did have to oversimplify some of those a bit, it can't be argued that Apple is applying for patents on absolutely obvious crap).
I agree with 1,3 and 4, but 2 isn't 100% accurate - there are several ways to migrate downloadable content to a new console or hard drive, and if you do copy it across to another console the only limitation is that on any additional consoles you put it on, it'll only work if logged into your profile (effectively locking it to you, not your console).
Actually, that's normal. One of the major issues with P2P is that since your client is communicating with so many others, it can actually saturate your pipe with acknowledgements. You'll probably find that with 1MB/s, 200Kb/s upload is the critical point where the download can't be sustained. It's probably not your ISPs fault.
Clearly this would be best off open sourced and shared, it likely has no future as a proprietary product. I'm sure the researchers themselves would totally agree, they just can't openly express this sentiment for political reasons.
That's not true at all - Microsoft has OSI approved licenses they can use for code, so it wouldn't surprise me to see them release this research using one of them.
What the fuck are you (and the people who modded you insightful) smoking? The Xbox 360 has nothing to do with Windows. It doesn't run Windows, it doesn't do anything special if you have a PC with Windows, in fact it really doesn't do much at all rather than play games. The new Games for Windows with the ability to interconnect was more of an afterthough, and sure doesn't lock you into Windows.
That's like saying the iPod could be a microwave if Apple thought it could help lock in Mac OS users.
And this is somehow anything to do with the server? We're talking about a payment processor, who has to comply with PCI DSS. One thing that requires is that the server managing payment data be isolated from all the client PCs, and run appropriate security software etc. If anything, this is Heartland's fault (and their PCI assessors, of course). Nothing to do with Microsoft, who for the most part make good servers (even if everything else sucks).
Actually, they can. It isn't invalid at all, it was merely issued by Microsoft's certification authority (which itself has a CA certificate issued by GTE CyberTrust). The problem is your browser (my Firefox 3 didn't even blink twice at it).
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Right before InstallShield files an anti-trust complaint, of course.
Microsoft can't have a package manager, because (like anything else Microsoft bundles) someone will complain.
Have you actually used IE8? It's brilliant for standards compliance - I can write a standard XHTML/CSS2 page, and it renders the same in both IE8 and Firefox. IE7, of course, mauls it horribly.
(I'm loving finally having support for "display: table" on divs and "background-image" on inputs).
That's "In Soviet Russia". You must be... ah, forget it.
It's even worse, since the fucking US government has dictated to all signatory countries that they are not allowed to disclose the contents of the treaty to their citizens, and then required signing it as a pre-requisite to any form of free-trade agreement.
In fact the response from the NZ government to an Official Information Act request for this document is to reject the request on the grounds that disclosing it would violate national security, and/or harm international relations.
So yeah, fuck the United States of the Recording Industry Association of America.
Actually no. Not speaking for anything else, but Windows no longer autoruns anything - it asks if you'd like to run whatever is on the disc. So this means that any issue there is user driven.
(By the way, to turn off that whole thing with the pictures, select "Do Nothing" next time you insert the stick and tick the "Do this every time" checkbox - if you don't have this, update Windows)
I give up. You're obviously going to continue with your opinion no matter what.
But one question:
If I replaced all instances of "Apple" with "Microsoft" in the original post, would your answer be the same?
Your post seems to completely ignore that a lot of Apple's patents are things other people invented. Like a rewards system, a shopping cart, or a completely non-novel method of injection moulding a plastic case.
Yes, the system is a problem. But companies like Apple (who do have their own R&D departments!) have more than enough original research which they can patent to defend themselves, without resorting to patenting obvious crap and other people's work.
There's no defense for Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Novell, or anyone else engaging in THAT practice, when they don't need to.
That said, I am tremendously amused that Roughly Drafted of all places just tried to sell me a 30GB Zune.
Even Microsoft loses the WMA battle, because people have to make their music files MP3 to get transferred to their iPod.
Wrong. iTunes will convert WMA to AAC to copy to the iPod.
I didn't say it was the only possibility, just that it's unlikely it is your ISP. I'd take a look at everything (even the box on your desk connecting you to the internet) and blast your ISP if that doesn't help.
If it helps any, Apple has also patented the Amazon Mechanical Turk (11/729,170), Interactive Blu Ray discs (11/940,297), eCommerce shopping carts (11/898,337), anything which happens to be double shot injection molded (11/782,175), AMD PowerNow technology (11/715,092), Greeting cards with gift cards in them (11/601,292), Microsoft PlaysForSure DRM (11/550,701), ALL Heatsinks (with IBM - 11/344,657), USB battery charging (11/216,321), doing stuff in response to events (11/877,618) and Citrix MetaFrame and every other network bootable OS (10/763,581).
Usually I like to think that patents do serve a useful purpose. Unfortunately I can no longer hold that opinion after seeing that Apple has patented (or applied to patent) at least seven other companies' products.
I'd hardly call that innovation. (Even if I did have to oversimplify some of those a bit, it can't be argued that Apple is applying for patents on absolutely obvious crap).
NoScript isn't a browser.
Unlike Firefox, the '-moz-scrollbars-vertical', IE8 wants 'overflow-y: scroll;' in the body portion of the CSS.
That's quite reasonable, since "-moz-scrollbars-vertical" is invalid CSS (well, it's vendor specific... you may as well use DXTransforms).
And yet, just like in Firefox, it takes only two clicks to see exactly what addons I'm running.
Firefox: Tools > Add-ons
IE: Tools > Manage Add-ons
Now, if we can get Tom Cruise to do it...
Just as an example: I'll bet Apple patented the magnetic cord of the MacBook
US patent application number 11/876,733 filed October 22 2007.
I agree with 1,3 and 4, but 2 isn't 100% accurate - there are several ways to migrate downloadable content to a new console or hard drive, and if you do copy it across to another console the only limitation is that on any additional consoles you put it on, it'll only work if logged into your profile (effectively locking it to you, not your console).
And worse, limited undersea cables owned by Optus and Telecom New Zealand. Yeech.
Actually, that's normal. One of the major issues with P2P is that since your client is communicating with so many others, it can actually saturate your pipe with acknowledgements. You'll probably find that with 1MB/s, 200Kb/s upload is the critical point where the download can't be sustained. It's probably not your ISPs fault.
Clearly this would be best off open sourced and shared, it likely has no future as a proprietary product. I'm sure the researchers themselves would totally agree, they just can't openly express this sentiment for political reasons.
That's not true at all - Microsoft has OSI approved licenses they can use for code, so it wouldn't surprise me to see them release this research using one of them.
What the fuck are you (and the people who modded you insightful) smoking? The Xbox 360 has nothing to do with Windows. It doesn't run Windows, it doesn't do anything special if you have a PC with Windows, in fact it really doesn't do much at all rather than play games. The new Games for Windows with the ability to interconnect was more of an afterthough, and sure doesn't lock you into Windows.
That's like saying the iPod could be a microwave if Apple thought it could help lock in Mac OS users.
Same with mine. And funnily enough, my Xbox 360 is cold as ice too. If it's a space heater, it's doing a poor job.
That said, my Nvidia GTX260 is an EXTREMELY good heater.
Uh, Linux?
Simple. Make it impossible to prosecute the subject of a photograph for manufacturing. I'm not sure how to deal with the distribution though.
And this is somehow anything to do with the server? We're talking about a payment processor, who has to comply with PCI DSS. One thing that requires is that the server managing payment data be isolated from all the client PCs, and run appropriate security software etc. If anything, this is Heartland's fault (and their PCI assessors, of course). Nothing to do with Microsoft, who for the most part make good servers (even if everything else sucks).
Actually, they can. It isn't invalid at all, it was merely issued by Microsoft's certification authority (which itself has a CA certificate issued by GTE CyberTrust). The problem is your browser (my Firefox 3 didn't even blink twice at it).