So there's an opportunity to create an difficult-to-start and unlikely-to-fund business, which would subsequently entail deailing with complaints about bad reviews every day? Sign me up!
what if that app also needs to handle streams of data ported from a pair of tricked-out sunglasses or a wristwatch, or send information in a concise and timely way to a tiny screen an inch in front of someone's left eye
So what if it does? Dealing with different form factors is not exactly new when it comes to developing for most mobile platforms. And an input stream is an input stream - the only thing that matters is the kind of data in the stream. A camera is a camera, no matter where it's mounted - and presumably application developers are smart enough to use stream metadata to determine the input source in cases where it should affect UX.
if there's one thing I've learned, it's that BGR really can't be trusted for its exclusive leaks. SO many of them just don't pan out, it seems like like an accident one one of them actually does.
In this case, we have an unconfirmed source saying that MS is planning its own phone but it doesn't have a release timeline for them. Seems like an easy way to get page hits to me.
Spending money on pensions and healthcare for 80 year olds is pure consumption, and is not an investment in future growth
Agreed.
Pensions and healthcare for retirees are important, but funding them with borrowed money is insane.
So let's cut them off and let them die while we take care of our debt issues. If any of them survive until our finances are in order, *then* we can take attend them. That's what civilized people do, don't you know - cast out their old and infirm, their non-contributors.
I love bitcoin, but so far every exchange or market turns out to be a way to lose your coins to poor security or straight fraud. Add in gold and oil futures and it sounds like another great fraud opportunity.
Yes. You're right. That sounds so much more insecure and easier to steal from than the current option of Wall Street regulated and ran by ex-bankers.
They've done a fantastic fucking job in the last 5 years.
In other news, we should stop buying mattresses because of the bedbug epidemic. 'course it's possible to keep your mattress clean of bedbugs by following some common sense practices, but still - it's the mattresses that are to blame.
Seriously, stop trying to sneak in how unfair it is that social sites have a real name policy. If you don't like them, don't use them - it's pretty easy.
Obviously. Who would voluntarily want to put the fate of their enterprise in the hands of 12 people who couldn't think of a valid excuse of how to get out of (civil) jury duty?
This argument is one that I always find irritating. You don't have a lot of duties as a citizen of the US: pay taxes, serve as a witness if called upon, and serve on a jury if called upon. Not wanting to take the time out of your life - the handful of times you might ever be asked to do it - to perform that duty doesn't trump the obligation.
The company's head lawyer is quoted praising the two former adversaries, and explaining once again that the company wants to license its patents instead of heading to court.
You'll know they have the patent when they sue you.
So what somebody says, why don’t you tell me which patents you have, Nathan, so I can avoid them, you’re supposed to be avoiding all of them! You’re saying, Nathan, I’d like to be honest with you but cheat everybody else. What’s up with that?
You read that right. You should be avoiding all the patents without knowing they exist -- and as parent stated, you can find out you violated one when you get sued whether over IV's patents or anybody else's.
Yes, but Slashdot's new corporate owner has the editors posting stories that will bring the most clicks from the general public, not "news that matters".
In other news, articles posted are the ones most likely to get clicked.
This kind of stuff has been getting posted for years - often in a way that cause people to make comments just like yours. It predates even the acquisition by geeknet.
It really shouldn't come as a surprise - Android is a patent minefield and Google doesn't offer any guarantee. Companies should go with something tested like Windows Phone 8.
I think you forgot to mention how VS is the best development environment, bar none. You're slipping.
Alternatively RIM has all but stopped creating new legacy phones, and anyone who *is* interested (at least in the north american market) is pretty much waiting for BB10 devices at this point.
Financials are out this week; it'll be interesting to see if global growth did actually stop.
1) Why is this front page? This is the result of the API and policy changes that twitter announced what, a month ago? two months? 2) Yeah. An online petition. That'll learn 'em.
You know how in some movies, there is an upswell of heartening music when the doors of a long-darkened house or room are dramatically swung open and the light comes streaming in?
While some states may have different requirements, typically gift cards are not taxable sales.
This is because you potentially end up paying sales tax twice - once when you purchase the card, and then again when the card is used.
It's entirely possible that this is changing as legislators become aware of the tax loophole created when you sell gift cards for *other* companies (which may have locations in tax-free states, or be online-only) - but to my knowledge it's not happening in most states yet.
"Freedom to go under a pseudonym is, miraculously, one freedom to survive the security lock-down of the previous decade.
Just stop.
When you're talking about the the restrictions that a company places on its non-essential services, you don't get to talk about how complying with their terms of service has an effect on your "freedom" - you're free to use a pseudonym in all kinds of places. Quit complaining and stop using it.
You are aware that there is no minority hiring percentage or quota requirement set by any US federal law, at least as applies to private employers? (I suspect state laws also have no such requirement, and nor does normal government hiring - but I don't know those for sure.)
Those laws basically amount to "skin color et al cannot be a factor in your decisiong making process" -- no less and no more.
The unfortunate truth is that even without bribes it's all about jobs. That company alone likely employs more people than the majority of the individuals who would speak out against their practices do. And no politician would be willing to do something that so obviously "costs jobs". Political suicide.
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No dude. They got your joke. It was just stupid.
So there's an opportunity to create an difficult-to-start and unlikely-to-fund business, which would subsequently entail deailing with complaints about bad reviews every day? Sign me up!
what if that app also needs to handle streams of data ported from a pair of tricked-out sunglasses or a wristwatch, or send information in a concise and timely way to a tiny screen an inch in front of someone's left eye
So what if it does? Dealing with different form factors is not exactly new when it comes to developing for most mobile platforms. And an input stream is an input stream - the only thing that matters is the kind of data in the stream. A camera is a camera, no matter where it's mounted - and presumably application developers are smart enough to use stream metadata to determine the input source in cases where it should affect UX.
if there's one thing I've learned, it's that BGR really can't be trusted for its exclusive leaks. SO many of them just don't pan out, it seems like like an accident one one of them actually does.
In this case, we have an unconfirmed source saying that MS is planning its own phone but it doesn't have a release timeline for them. Seems like an easy way to get page hits to me.
Seriously? You're linking to a computerworld blog post that discusses the actual blog post ?
Seriously? You people modded this shill up, when he's using such an obvious tactic designed for slashdot? "Oh noes, think of the OSS!"
Gimme a break.
Spending money on pensions and healthcare for 80 year olds is pure consumption, and is not an investment in future growth
Agreed.
Pensions and healthcare for retirees are important, but funding them with borrowed money is insane.
So let's cut them off and let them die while we take care of our debt issues. If any of them survive until our finances are in order, *then* we can take attend them. That's what civilized people do, don't you know - cast out their old and infirm, their non-contributors.
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I love bitcoin, but so far every exchange or market turns out to be a way to lose your coins to poor security or straight fraud.
Add in gold and oil futures and it sounds like another great fraud opportunity.
Yes. You're right. That sounds so much more insecure and easier to steal from than the current option of Wall Street regulated and ran by ex-bankers.
They've done a fantastic fucking job in the last 5 years.
In other news, we should stop buying mattresses because of the bedbug epidemic. 'course it's possible to keep your mattress clean of bedbugs by following some common sense practices, but still - it's the mattresses that are to blame.
No, for most people and businesses it does not work. You have only to look at the other 99.9% of projects on kickstarter to see that.
Side note: anything that links to pc pro is probably *not* something we should consider news for nerds.
Seriously, stop trying to sneak in how unfair it is that social sites have a real name policy. If you don't like them, don't use them - it's pretty easy.
Obviously. Who would voluntarily want to put the fate of their enterprise in the hands of 12 people who couldn't think of a valid excuse of how to get out of (civil) jury duty?
This argument is one that I always find irritating. You don't have a lot of duties as a citizen of the US: pay taxes, serve as a witness if called upon, and serve on a jury if called upon. Not wanting to take the time out of your life - the handful of times you might ever be asked to do it - to perform that duty doesn't trump the obligation.
The company's head lawyer is quoted praising the two former adversaries, and explaining once again that the company wants to license its patents instead of heading to court.
You'll know they have the patent when they sue you.
To put this into context:
So what somebody says, why don’t you tell me which patents you have, Nathan, so I can avoid them, you’re supposed to be avoiding all of them! You’re saying, Nathan, I’d like to be honest with you but cheat everybody else. What’s up with that?
You read that right. You should be avoiding all the patents without knowing they exist -- and as parent stated, you can find out you violated one when you get sued whether over IV's patents or anybody else's.
Yes, but Slashdot's new corporate owner has the editors posting stories that will bring the most clicks from the general public, not "news that matters".
In other news, articles posted are the ones most likely to get clicked.
This kind of stuff has been getting posted for years - often in a way that cause people to make comments just like yours. It predates even the acquisition by geeknet.
It really shouldn't come as a surprise - Android is a patent minefield and Google doesn't offer any guarantee. Companies should go with something tested like Windows Phone 8.
I think you forgot to mention how VS is the best development environment, bar none.
You're slipping.
Alternatively RIM has all but stopped creating new legacy phones, and anyone who *is* interested (at least in the north american market) is pretty much waiting for BB10 devices at this point.
Financials are out this week; it'll be interesting to see if global growth did actually stop.
1) Why is this front page? This is the result of the API and policy changes that twitter announced what, a month ago? two months?
2) Yeah. An online petition. That'll learn 'em.
You know how in some movies, there is an upswell of heartening music when the doors of a long-darkened house or room are dramatically swung open and the light comes streaming in?
That actually happens. You should totally try it.
While some states may have different requirements, typically gift cards are not taxable sales.
This is because you potentially end up paying sales tax twice - once when you purchase the card, and then again when the card is used.
It's entirely possible that this is changing as legislators become aware of the tax loophole created when you sell gift cards for *other* companies (which may have locations in tax-free states, or be online-only) - but to my knowledge it's not happening in most states yet.
"Freedom to go under a pseudonym is, miraculously, one freedom to survive the security lock-down of the previous decade.
Just stop.
When you're talking about the the restrictions that a company places on its non-essential services, you don't get to talk about how complying with their terms of service has an effect on your "freedom" - you're free to use a pseudonym in all kinds of places. Quit complaining and stop using it.
You are aware that there is no minority hiring percentage or quota requirement set by any US federal law, at least as applies to private employers? (I suspect state laws also have no such requirement, and nor does normal government hiring - but I don't know those for sure.)
Those laws basically amount to "skin color et al cannot be a factor in your decisiong making process" -- no less and no more.
The unfortunate truth is that even without bribes it's all about jobs. That company alone likely employs more people than the majority of the individuals who would speak out against their practices do. And no politician would be willing to do something that so obviously "costs jobs". Political suicide.
Not when there's a sea of assholes just waiting to step on their back
Now there's a fine visual for you.
The best thing about TFA is that someone actually took the time to sit down and calculate all of that, purely for the sake of hyperbole.
Epic.
Two months later, my cat could not only lift her tail, she could swish and flick it with the same mobility she had prior to its injury
*obviously* the placebo effect...
Say it brother!
Also, pass me that would you? Sounds like you have the good stuff.