Well, there was that time that Dreamhost billed their entire customer base for three years of service in one go because their Perl script that charges everyone had no safeguards against being run for the wrong date.
Pragmatically, Bruce could afford to set a fund aside to re-purchase his library in one of his daughter's names, but I'm sure it's the principle of the thing, and in that respect he's right.
Not really, since the entire story is lifted right off the Mexican equivalent of The Onion. Bruce Willis is planning no such thing.
Correction: Apple does indeed have some of the essential patents. However, they have very few compared to Qualcomm, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and their kind. Certainly not enough to negate the cash obligation (of which Qualcomm alone reportedly demands 3.5% per device).
Well the SDK is the software, so certainly you could get around it by using OpenKinect. The problem is that game development studios aren't going to want to cross Microsoft on it, especially since if they're making Kinect games for 360 Microsoft's paying them big bucks (either in cash or shitloads of free advertising). So your only hope is indie studios, who probably won't want to cross Microsoft for fear of being sued, no matter how unlikely that is.
Actually, no it can't. Downloadable content requires storage media. Either a hard drive, or a memory card in the controller. If you have no storage device, the 360 would not let you download Dawnguard (or anything else for that matter).
Oh that's good, it means that Apple's invention will never actually get implemented, because if there's one group slower than patent examiners, it's mobile engineers. Most of the world doesn't even have Visual Voicemail because most telcos aren't interested in paying a fortune for Apple's proprietary stuff just to support iPhone users. I doubt we'll ever see them implementing this in the wild either.
Apple likely also picked up the contractual obligations to license at X rate to anyone that asks. And based on the patent breakdowns, they and Microsoft own a very small part of the total pool. The large players are actually LG, Qualcomm, Motorola, InterDigital, Nokia, and Samsung (closely followed by ZTE).
Except that everyone else pays less because they cross-license patents into the pool. I mean, we're talking about Samsung, Nokia, HTC, Sony, all of whom have the other essential patents necessary to implement the tech. Apple has no such essential patents in the pool to negate the cost, and refuses to cross-license any of their non-essential patents, so they are expected to front up the cash. Not really surprising.
He's actually referring to the fact that the two judgements are very likely for the same amount, effectively cancelling them both out. This actually happens quite a lot in business - I know my telco apparently never pays for call termination to their largest competitor because they just look at each other once a month, bill each other for the same amount, and then never bother paying it since the bill to the other telco neutralised the bill from the other telco.
You're arguing with an Apple fanboy. Your interpretation is exactly what they think. If Apple were the ones holding standards-essential patents, they'd be arguing why it's perfectly OK for Apple to hold those patents and threaten to sue anyone who launches a suit against them with them. They'd even continue to pitch it as Apple only having patents for defense against patent trolls, despite the fact that they are the ones initiating all the suits.
You just demonstrated your lack of knowledge. There is indeed a My Documents folder (now simply called "Documents") and you can use folder redirection to repoint the Videos folder elsewhere too.
There is no excuse for blaming a user for saving documents in the profile. If the user is saving files there because that's where the default folders are, and you are complaining about this, it is because you are incompetent.
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Well, there was that time that Dreamhost billed their entire customer base for three years of service in one go because their Perl script that charges everyone had no safeguards against being run for the wrong date.
Um, the age of consent for that is usually around 16, not 18.
Except when the app in question is baked into the OS like Twitter and Facebook nowadays. Are you sure you're the one in control then?
Coworkers? Read your forums lately?
He's not talking about any fine print. The whole story is fabricated. Go Slashdot editors!
Pragmatically, Bruce could afford to set a fund aside to re-purchase his library in one of his daughter's names, but I'm sure it's the principle of the thing, and in that respect he's right.
Not really, since the entire story is lifted right off the Mexican equivalent of The Onion. Bruce Willis is planning no such thing.
Correction: Apple does indeed have some of the essential patents. However, they have very few compared to Qualcomm, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and their kind. Certainly not enough to negate the cash obligation (of which Qualcomm alone reportedly demands 3.5% per device).
Life's so much easier in a country with no McKesson presence. We're happily inventing the fuck out of solutions to all our EHR problems.
Google outright refuses to indemnify OEMs against patent lawsuits, so even stock Android could land the manufacturers in Apple lawsuits.
Well the SDK is the software, so certainly you could get around it by using OpenKinect. The problem is that game development studios aren't going to want to cross Microsoft on it, especially since if they're making Kinect games for 360 Microsoft's paying them big bucks (either in cash or shitloads of free advertising). So your only hope is indie studios, who probably won't want to cross Microsoft for fear of being sued, no matter how unlikely that is.
Kinect for Windows isn't allowed to be used for games. The license agreement on the SDK expressly forbids it.
No, because we already know that Microsoft paid to get exclusivity - for 30 days.
My favourite has to be the one that smites guards with lightning from the heavens if they mention arrows to the knee.
Actually, no it can't. Downloadable content requires storage media. Either a hard drive, or a memory card in the controller. If you have no storage device, the 360 would not let you download Dawnguard (or anything else for that matter).
Oh that's good, it means that Apple's invention will never actually get implemented, because if there's one group slower than patent examiners, it's mobile engineers. Most of the world doesn't even have Visual Voicemail because most telcos aren't interested in paying a fortune for Apple's proprietary stuff just to support iPhone users. I doubt we'll ever see them implementing this in the wild either.
That would be commercial suicide. Qualcomm owns nearly 25% of the entire LTE patent pool.
Apple likely also picked up the contractual obligations to license at X rate to anyone that asks. And based on the patent breakdowns, they and Microsoft own a very small part of the total pool. The large players are actually LG, Qualcomm, Motorola, InterDigital, Nokia, and Samsung (closely followed by ZTE).
Except that everyone else pays less because they cross-license patents into the pool. I mean, we're talking about Samsung, Nokia, HTC, Sony, all of whom have the other essential patents necessary to implement the tech. Apple has no such essential patents in the pool to negate the cost, and refuses to cross-license any of their non-essential patents, so they are expected to front up the cash. Not really surprising.
He's actually referring to the fact that the two judgements are very likely for the same amount, effectively cancelling them both out. This actually happens quite a lot in business - I know my telco apparently never pays for call termination to their largest competitor because they just look at each other once a month, bill each other for the same amount, and then never bother paying it since the bill to the other telco neutralised the bill from the other telco.
You're arguing with an Apple fanboy. Your interpretation is exactly what they think. If Apple were the ones holding standards-essential patents, they'd be arguing why it's perfectly OK for Apple to hold those patents and threaten to sue anyone who launches a suit against them with them. They'd even continue to pitch it as Apple only having patents for defense against patent trolls, despite the fact that they are the ones initiating all the suits.
Actually, if you're a dev you'll probably find PowerShell easier. It's a complete OO environment for batch scripting.
Yeah. this is 10.8 Mountain Lion. Almost regret that upgrade.
Yes it is a command shell, but when someone talks about command shell on Windows, they're invariably referring to (yeech) CMD.
They demonstrated a working model too. The fact that it crashed when they opened IE is irrelevant.
You just demonstrated your lack of knowledge. There is indeed a My Documents folder (now simply called "Documents") and you can use folder redirection to repoint the Videos folder elsewhere too.
There is no excuse for blaming a user for saving documents in the profile. If the user is saving files there because that's where the default folders are, and you are complaining about this, it is because you are incompetent.