Exactly! This is Bell going for a triple win. They are providing the least amount of product for maximum profit. They can get rid of government eyeballs looking over their shoulder. And, so they think, they will get some positive PR.
Then let's see who these patent litigants will sue.
The developer who wrote the "extension-like add-on" for creating it, Google for allowing it to be implemented, and everyone that distributes it. These are patent lawyers we are talking about. If they can think of someone to sue, they will sue.
Wasn't it designed specifically to be a way to share information even if one or more sources of communication have been disrupted? The "it" being the internet, of course.
If we get android running x86 (there are already a number of people out there working towards this), we can then do our testing in an x86 based simulator, which will be much easier on desktop system.
Very interesting comment. It might be possible to create a VServer instance and install the SDK. There wouldn't be any emulation needed.
Who is going to run current desktop software/OS on a mobile device that has a drastically different spec in other areas (memory, screen size, touchscreen, etc.)?
It looks like sgt scrub, Baloroth, and Gothmolly so far.
All the bits and pieces for RIM are dependent on Microsoft back end. Microsoft buying them to slide into existing Microsoft centric environments is blatantly obvious. Only a blithering idiot could miss that. Nokia's interest is something that eludes me however. With the exception of making themselves more attractive to Microsoft, I don't see the fit.
If the sandbox isn't contained like a chroot environment it is a security issue and needs to be fixed. This reminds me of when web hosting services gave ftp access to users yet placed user content in/home directories. ie. Everyone's content was accessible by anyone with an account. Using user/group restrictions is a long way from sandboxing, IMHO. Linux is perfectly capable of creating chroot environments for daemons.
I'm sorry. I should have pointed that out specifically. The copyright notices in most BSD/MIT licensed binaries contain the copyright in the binary itself. Unless you know how to look you will never know they were there. I should have said, "Outside of hiding the copyright were few people know how to find it, someone using or contributing to the code are completely free to do whatever they wish". It has been a long time since I've used Windows, let alone 98/2000, but you should be able to see the copyright on the unix like command line tools using the/h switch. eg. telnet/h or ftp/h I'm banging my head against the monitor trying to get out what one did to see the BSD copyright info from the TCP/IP stack but can't remember to save my life.
Before I get a lot of responses about how Microsoft didn't use BSD's TCP/IP stack I'm aware that they didn't rip it off. They paid someone else to do it.
Naner naner naner! I'm performing an action on a stucture. What? A web page is a computer generated structure and I'm performing an action on that structure. What completely ignorant fucktard allowed this patent through?!?
different skills, and different orientation Learning to make a "O" shape with your mouth, I hear, is pretty difficult; but, I think you can do it. As for orientation, I'd say it is pretty much the same except you will be able to afford better knee pads.
In all seriousness, your going to find that it is tradition to hate on you for being the boss no matter how nice you are; and your job as far as your boss is concerned, is to get shit done for as little as possible. Don't take anything personal from below and don't take anything too seriously from above. The successful boss keeps his/her crew under payed, out of the loop, and working hard enough they fall into that 1 degree above the boss screwing the crew completely. If you don't already know, that 1 degree is a percentage above what a normal crew produces in a normal situation.
Ding! Political funding comes from those with cash. Ding! Political funding from those with cash... wait for it... Ding! is to protect those with cash.
mrchaotica gets the 3 ding award for condensing three truths into one sentence. Congrads!
believing in the fairy story of "Intellectual Property" as the new way of making money
That is totally false. It was a fairy story of "Investing in the stock market for those who can." and another fairy story of "Goods being so cheap those who can't invest won't notice... until it is too late."
Whatever my brother and I "played with" is what "neef n' not" (my two nephews) found interesting. I had tools to make metal models and dies. My brother made rockets out of everything, usually things he shouldn't have. Both his kids spent more time with him playing with his toy rockets than they did with the latest cool toys. The excitement of blowing shit up, shooting things into the air, and the ability to build their own transformers had more effect than any commercial had on either of them. Long story short, get something your going to enthusiastically enjoy sharing with them.
Vini: We have a lot of works to do. You shouldn't be waisting time reading stories on the computer. Waterproof heart and brain monitor? Guido: It's a good story about ethical type stuff. Uh... check. Vini: I'm just sayin. If the boss catches ya your screwed. Robotic dunking arm? Guido: Uh... check. It aint like we gots the eyes or ears set up yet.
Um yeah, yeah. We have it good here in the U.S. Gigabit wireless unlimited time, unlimited bandwidth. We also have some nice property opportunities. In fact, I have a nice water front property with its own private bridge available for a small down payment of, lets say, $2,000 U.S.D. Please send the check to.... You have typed more than 40 characters. Your usage limit has been exceeded. Your 14.4k modem connection has been terminated. -- AT&T
[snark] What? Ten of them are from the U.S! Considering the tax payers only had to pay 80% of the cost of the plant (bonds) to get them to hire that many it isn't THAT bad of a deal. Besides. Perry, through friends, made a nice chunk of cash. [/snark]
I hate to disagree but it forces not enforces. MIT and BSD licenses are completely free and require nothing of someone using or contributing. GPL requires that anything one creates using GPL code must be open as well. I prefer GPL. There is nothing more annoying then say a company that makes an OS which uses an MIT licensed graphics library or a BSD licensed network stack but at the same time fights aggressively against free and open source software.
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Exactly! This is Bell going for a triple win. They are providing the least amount of product for maximum profit. They can get rid of government eyeballs looking over their shoulder. And, so they think, they will get some positive PR.
lmao
Then let's see who these patent litigants will sue.
The developer who wrote the "extension-like add-on" for creating it, Google for allowing it to be implemented, and everyone that distributes it. These are patent lawyers we are talking about. If they can think of someone to sue, they will sue.
Wasn't it designed specifically to be a way to share information even if one or more sources of communication have been disrupted? The "it" being the internet, of course.
I don't know if I'd want to be on a crack team. I'm more of a coke team kind of guy.
If we get android running x86 (there are already a number of people out there working towards this), we can then do our testing in an x86 based simulator, which will be much easier on desktop system.
Very interesting comment. It might be possible to create a VServer instance and install the SDK. There wouldn't be any emulation needed.
Who is going to run current desktop software/OS on a mobile device that has a drastically different spec in other areas (memory, screen size, touchscreen, etc.)?
It looks like sgt scrub, Baloroth, and Gothmolly so far.
All the bits and pieces for RIM are dependent on Microsoft back end. Microsoft buying them to slide into existing Microsoft centric environments is blatantly obvious. Only a blithering idiot could miss that. Nokia's interest is something that eludes me however. With the exception of making themselves more attractive to Microsoft, I don't see the fit.
what game will be banned next in Australia is anybody's guess
I'm going to guess "any game distributed by P2P" since they are working hard to ban P2P traffic all together.
If the sandbox isn't contained like a chroot environment it is a security issue and needs to be fixed. This reminds me of when web hosting services gave ftp access to users yet placed user content in /home directories. ie. Everyone's content was accessible by anyone with an account. Using user/group restrictions is a long way from sandboxing, IMHO. Linux is perfectly capable of creating chroot environments for daemons.
I'm sorry. I should have pointed that out specifically. The copyright notices in most BSD/MIT licensed binaries contain the copyright in the binary itself. Unless you know how to look you will never know they were there. I should have said, "Outside of hiding the copyright were few people know how to find it, someone using or contributing to the code are completely free to do whatever they wish". It has been a long time since I've used Windows, let alone 98/2000, but you should be able to see the copyright on the unix like command line tools using the /h switch. eg. telnet /h or ftp /h I'm banging my head against the monitor trying to get out what one did to see the BSD copyright info from the TCP/IP stack but can't remember to save my life.
Before I get a lot of responses about how Microsoft didn't use BSD's TCP/IP stack I'm aware that they didn't rip it off. They paid someone else to do it.
Naner naner naner! I'm performing an action on a stucture. What? A web page is a computer generated structure and I'm performing an action on that structure. What completely ignorant fucktard allowed this patent through?!?
I thought inference was mandatory in a dynamically typed language.
If you have enough money to go round suing governments, piracy must not be cutting very deep into the bottom line.
different skills, and different orientation Learning to make a "O" shape with your mouth, I hear, is pretty difficult; but, I think you can do it. As for orientation, I'd say it is pretty much the same except you will be able to afford better knee pads.
In all seriousness, your going to find that it is tradition to hate on you for being the boss no matter how nice you are; and your job as far as your boss is concerned, is to get shit done for as little as possible. Don't take anything personal from below and don't take anything too seriously from above. The successful boss keeps his/her crew under payed, out of the loop, and working hard enough they fall into that 1 degree above the boss screwing the crew completely. If you don't already know, that 1 degree is a percentage above what a normal crew produces in a normal situation.
doh! broke the href. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BT_Tower-1.jpg
And I thought their tower made them look like dicks
Ding! Political funding comes from those with cash. Ding! Political funding from those with cash... wait for it... Ding! is to protect those with cash.
mrchaotica gets the 3 ding award for condensing three truths into one sentence. Congrads!
believing in the fairy story of "Intellectual Property" as the new way of making money
That is totally false. It was a fairy story of "Investing in the stock market for those who can." and another fairy story of "Goods being so cheap those who can't invest won't notice... until it is too late. "
Whatever my brother and I "played with" is what "neef n' not" (my two nephews) found interesting. I had tools to make metal models and dies. My brother made rockets out of everything, usually things he shouldn't have. Both his kids spent more time with him playing with his toy rockets than they did with the latest cool toys. The excitement of blowing shit up, shooting things into the air, and the ability to build their own transformers had more effect than any commercial had on either of them. Long story short, get something your going to enthusiastically enjoy sharing with them.
Vini: We have a lot of works to do. You shouldn't be waisting time reading stories on the computer. Waterproof heart and brain monitor?
Guido: It's a good story about ethical type stuff. Uh... check.
Vini: I'm just sayin. If the boss catches ya your screwed. Robotic dunking arm?
Guido: Uh... check. It aint like we gots the eyes or ears set up yet.
Um yeah, yeah. We have it good here in the U.S. Gigabit wireless unlimited time, unlimited bandwidth. We also have some nice property opportunities. In fact, I have a nice water front property with its own private bridge available for a small down payment of, lets say, $2,000 U.S.D. Please send the check to.... You have typed more than 40 characters. Your usage limit has been exceeded. Your 14.4k modem connection has been terminated. -- AT&T
[snark] What? Ten of them are from the U.S! Considering the tax payers only had to pay 80% of the cost of the plant (bonds) to get them to hire that many it isn't
THAT bad of a deal. Besides. Perry, through friends, made a nice chunk of cash. [/snark]
They constantly attempt to entrap each other so know one will ever know if that opportunity in front of them is real or not.
I hate to disagree but it forces not enforces. MIT and BSD licenses are completely free and require nothing of someone using or contributing. GPL requires that anything one creates using GPL code must be open as well. I prefer GPL. There is nothing more annoying then say a company that makes an OS which uses an MIT licensed graphics library or a BSD licensed network stack but at the same time fights aggressively against free and open source software.