These "rates of change" mean nothing when you have a very small share. If I produce my chrisbrows browser and test it myself, the day I give it to a friend I have achieved a growth rate of 100% per day, beating Safari, Opera, Firefox and the lot.
Last recession we took on someone who had been "unemployed" for six months, but had lots of testimonials and thanks for work on OSS projects. Given the choice between someone who did that, someone who spent the time sending hundreds of CVs, and someone who watched tv for six months I would always go for the person who kept working. He had useful skills too, and we incorporated some OSS into our systems.
It is the wrong way to go about it, but let's be honest; The only thing which they can test with purchasing is the install mechanism, and they can do that anyway. They already have their app.
Maybe not the only thing. perhaps they want to write an app that works in conjunction with another. Maybe they got a fault report that "after I installed XXX your app stopped working". I don't know how good inter-application isolation is on the Android but it is a possibility.
Surely there are methods of dealing with this. One way would be to have all companies contributing, officially commenting on, or doing anything that could affect a standards decision sign a waiver of all patent rights applying to the standard.
Open standards should be immune from patents, if anyone believes that their patent will be infringed they should bring it up during the standards process.
There's nothing at all accidental about it. It's a cruel joke perpetrated by cruel people.
Yea, definitely. I bet those guys over in payroll were all like "Hahah, wouldn't it be hilarious if we paid those losers that got fired more than we should? We'd give the company even more bad press, and if we're lucky we might even get fired ourselves!"
Of course the guys in payroll could have been working their notice at the time. Then it becomes "Wouldn't it be nice if we paid ourselves extra. If it gets found out it will be bad press for the bastards who fired me too".
Suppose they have a way to intercept Skype calls and decrypt everything. How will they know a conversation like "Aunt Emma's cat had seven kittens, three black and four white" actually means "I'm sending seven kilos of heroin, Giuseppe will take three and Giovanni four"?
because you've just told us - and you are now on the "listen" list
The interesting thing is that Neanderthals has the same version of FOXP2 as modern humans. This makes it more likely that they had proper speech rather than just "grunting" sounds.
Excellent point. If Silverlight took off and Adobe became an "also ran" there would be a patent-protected, copyrighted "Silverlight 3" that could not run on non-M$ operating systems.
Under the Novell and Microsoft patent cooperation agreement, when you buy any Novell products "whether Linux-based or proprietary" you receive a patent covenant not to sue from Microsoft. Microsoft's covenant not to sue a Novell customer applies to a Novell offering independent of the channel of distribution and licensing terms, and whether any code is covered by GPLv2 or GPLv3.
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American public maybe, but I bet a lot of people in the rest of the world have. And Intel isn't restricting sales to the USA.
I think they also lost the trademark to Heroin as part of the war reparations.
I'm not sure that many of the dealers in this business would respect trademark ownership anyway
These "rates of change" mean nothing when you have a very small share. If I produce my chrisbrows browser and test it myself, the day I give it to a friend I have achieved a growth rate of 100% per day, beating Safari, Opera, Firefox and the lot.
Last recession we took on someone who had been "unemployed" for six months, but had lots of testimonials and thanks for work on OSS projects. Given the choice between someone who did that, someone who spent the time sending hundreds of CVs, and someone who watched tv for six months I would always go for the person who kept working. He had useful skills too, and we incorporated some OSS into our systems.
There phones don't get sold here because they think the average American is to stupid to know how to use it.
And to know the difference between their and there.
You have to realize that years of viewing things like "Sex and the City" has done tremendous damage to the view of Americans from China's viewpoint.
From my point of view too
It is the wrong way to go about it, but let's be honest; The only thing which they can test with purchasing is the install mechanism, and they can do that anyway. They already have their app.
Maybe not the only thing. perhaps they want to write an app that works in conjunction with another. Maybe they got a fault report that "after I installed XXX your app stopped working". I don't know how good inter-application isolation is on the Android but it is a possibility.
There are dangers on the internet; this is not one of them.
. And the millions of fools stupid enough to fall for it, what about them?
They don't need the internet to become victims. They will buy "solid gold" watches from a man on the street, or something like that
Jack Straw stranded in Nigeria? It's more likely than you think.
Nah, that's just wishful thinking
I'd pay them to keep him!
Oh the Irony that someone who has an "X" on her box (as far as males are concerned) should be banned from X-box live.
I wonder if there is any danger of this happening to anyone using a mobile near the coast?
I always thought George Bush was an alien.
Surely there are methods of dealing with this. One way would be to have all companies contributing, officially commenting on, or doing anything that could affect a standards decision sign a waiver of all patent rights applying to the standard.
Open standards should be immune from patents, if anyone believes that their patent will be infringed they should bring it up during the standards process.
Just think "Child Tax Credits".
There's nothing at all accidental about it. It's a cruel joke perpetrated by cruel people.
Yea, definitely. I bet those guys over in payroll were all like "Hahah, wouldn't it be hilarious if we paid those losers that got fired more than we should? We'd give the company even more bad press, and if we're lucky we might even get fired ourselves!"
Of course the guys in payroll could have been working their notice at the time. Then it becomes "Wouldn't it be nice if we paid ourselves extra. If it gets found out it will be bad press for the bastards who fired me too".
Suppose they have a way to intercept Skype calls and decrypt everything. How will they know a conversation like "Aunt Emma's cat had seven kittens, three black and four white" actually means "I'm sending seven kilos of heroin, Giuseppe will take three and Giovanni four"?
because you've just told us - and you are now on the "listen" list
Just because they may look structurally similar to humans, they aren't human.
I really, really hope this is a troll; the same has been said of Jews, Black people, Irish, Native Americans and many more.
The interesting thing is that Neanderthals has the same version of FOXP2 as modern humans. This makes it more likely that they had proper speech rather than just "grunting" sounds.
Excellent point. If Silverlight took off and Adobe became an "also ran" there would be a patent-protected, copyrighted "Silverlight 3" that could not run on non-M$ operating systems.
Under the Novell and Microsoft patent cooperation agreement, when you buy any Novell products "whether Linux-based or proprietary" you receive a patent covenant not to sue from Microsoft. Microsoft's covenant not to sue a Novell customer applies to a Novell offering independent of the channel of distribution and licensing terms, and whether any code is covered by GPLv2 or GPLv3.
Hmmm. Do they sell mouse mats?
'enhancing the self-manufacture ratio.'?
What does this mean? Outsource development to offshore companies?
It's called Nova! Isn't that Spanish for "doesn't work"
Oh good, I can be really confident now
The average user only runs too apps. So we've built them in; Explorer 7 and Silverlight.