Patents long ago became the land of legal doublespeak and contain as little actionable substance (from an engineers perspective not a lawyers) as possible. That said it is still possible to get ideas from patents. The ideas of particular value are the ones that never made it to market.
Without a visionary at the helm it just becomes greed for profits. This usually implies a good deal of short sighted thinking which is usually followed with a decline.
You joke, but you are almost certainly prophetic. Given the trend of the governments of the world, mega-corps seem well placed to supplant them and field their own military.
How about changes the duration of patents from 20 years to 2 years. When these damn things stop looking like assets on a balance sheet companies will move on to other forms of mischief and we can get on with the job of innovation.
No, they are ironically called the "greatest generation" along with their brat children the "baby-boomers." Drunkeness isn't really required. They're either suffering from dementia or burned their brains out on whatever drugs were in fashion or both. Meanwhile "gen-X" is taking advantage of their feeble minded ancestors for the fun and profit.
Actually not likely. The US government doesn't have to abide by patent laws so their kids will always have the latest toys from China while we're stuck with the DynaTAC.
That sounds all fair and reasonable. But then I find myself asking this: If picketing and protesting are "cool" with you then why are we not permitted this exercise of civil liberties/rights? Oh, that's right, because embarrassing and generally offending the establishment is considered blooding their nose...
Spinrite doesn't "repair" a drive in the classical sense. Rather, Spinrite will identify failing sectors, recover the data, then swap out the failed sector for a reserved sector. Data recovery is achieved by trying, trying again and trying yet some more using various strategies. For instance, hit a certain failing sector from various originating points on the drive in hopes that such subtle differences will allow enough unreadable bits to be read that ECC can take over.
Pure capitalism has neither government oversight nor regulation. No nation has implemented such a thing and for good reason. Business acts absent ethics. The only way to elicit an alternative behavior is to regulate it in such a way as to make following desired behavior more profitable.
You'd force yourself out of the Visual Studio tool chain which carries with it a significant amount of extra work. If you don't mind or perhaps you just want to run Eclipse with a C/C++ plugin, or some other solution with both compile and debug support go for it. However, you really won't find anyone using a win32 port of gcc for serious work. The hassles and other negatives involved out weigh any conceivable benefit. If you're allergic to Visual Studio you could go with C++ Builder from Embarcadero (formerly Borland).
There are native 64bit build tools (compiler/linker) for producing 64bit binaries however, there isn't a 64bit cross-compiler/linker for producing 32bit binaries.
It's really quite simple. There are no 64bit versions of Visual Studio. The farthest you can move the goalposts is 4GB (when run on a 64bit version of Windows).
Actually, 4GB of address space on a 64bit Windows is correct with respect to Visual Studio and more specifically the linker since it is only 32bit. Microsoft--even with the crippled (for C++) Visual Studio 2010--has never released a 64bit version.
Well in all fairness VS 2010 is next to worthless for C++ development due to the absent Intellisense--it didn't fit within the release schedule. So really they're only behind by one major version. Either way, regardless of which version of VS they use they'll still be dealing with a 4GB wall since Microsoft has never released a 64bit version. I don't think the Firefox team has much choice but to restructure their projects because they simply cannot move the goalposts far enough down field.
I don't think they are trying to do "too much" per-se. Rather, they have an underlying architecture that is forcing bloat creating compromises in support of functional requirements. FireFox needs a reboot and this is a symptomatic consequence.
It's actually rather common and tools are readily available to pull it off. Go shopping online and select though the various "color" options for a given article of clothing some time. If varies from store to store but often you'll find tells such as identical models, identical poses, different colors, if not entire garments. You just buy a model model and tailor her/him to the ethnicity, pose, skin, etc. desired via simple controls. Some of these tools produce obvious fakes, but others are down right creepy in their realism.
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Now that would be a system worth considering. Shame it never will again.
Patents long ago became the land of legal doublespeak and contain as little actionable substance (from an engineers perspective not a lawyers) as possible. That said it is still possible to get ideas from patents. The ideas of particular value are the ones that never made it to market.
Without a visionary at the helm it just becomes greed for profits. This usually implies a good deal of short sighted thinking which is usually followed with a decline.
You joke, but you are almost certainly prophetic. Given the trend of the governments of the world, mega-corps seem well placed to supplant them and field their own military.
I'm surprised you haven't been modded into oblivion by the fan boys yet... Well I guess we'll see come morning.
How about changes the duration of patents from 20 years to 2 years. When these damn things stop looking like assets on a balance sheet companies will move on to other forms of mischief and we can get on with the job of innovation.
No, they are ironically called the "greatest generation" along with their brat children the "baby-boomers." Drunkeness isn't really required. They're either suffering from dementia or burned their brains out on whatever drugs were in fashion or both. Meanwhile "gen-X" is taking advantage of their feeble minded ancestors for the fun and profit.
It will, but not before turning the landscape around it to ash.
Actually not likely. The US government doesn't have to abide by patent laws so their kids will always have the latest toys from China while we're stuck with the DynaTAC.
That sounds all fair and reasonable. But then I find myself asking this: If picketing and protesting are "cool" with you then why are we not permitted this exercise of civil liberties/rights? Oh, that's right, because embarrassing and generally offending the establishment is considered blooding their nose...
Hmm, seems the poor little server couldn't cope. I can't seem to connect right now.
Would you care to explain? Recovering data from failing sectors seems just as important today as it was in days of old.
Spinrite doesn't "repair" a drive in the classical sense. Rather, Spinrite will identify failing sectors, recover the data, then swap out the failed sector for a reserved sector. Data recovery is achieved by trying, trying again and trying yet some more using various strategies. For instance, hit a certain failing sector from various originating points on the drive in hopes that such subtle differences will allow enough unreadable bits to be read that ECC can take over.
Pure capitalism has neither government oversight nor regulation. No nation has implemented such a thing and for good reason. Business acts absent ethics. The only way to elicit an alternative behavior is to regulate it in such a way as to make following desired behavior more profitable.
The overwhelming majority of YouTube content isn't from big media.
You'd force yourself out of the Visual Studio tool chain which carries with it a significant amount of extra work. If you don't mind or perhaps you just want to run Eclipse with a C/C++ plugin, or some other solution with both compile and debug support go for it. However, you really won't find anyone using a win32 port of gcc for serious work. The hassles and other negatives involved out weigh any conceivable benefit. If you're allergic to Visual Studio you could go with C++ Builder from Embarcadero (formerly Borland).
There are native 64bit build tools (compiler/linker) for producing 64bit binaries however, there isn't a 64bit cross-compiler/linker for producing 32bit binaries.
Sorry forgot the propensity for pedanticism... Intellisense for "managed" C++ and an x86-64 cross-compiler for x86-32.
It's really quite simple. There are no 64bit versions of Visual Studio. The farthest you can move the goalposts is 4GB (when run on a 64bit version of Windows).
Actually, 4GB of address space on a 64bit Windows is correct with respect to Visual Studio and more specifically the linker since it is only 32bit. Microsoft--even with the crippled (for C++) Visual Studio 2010--has never released a 64bit version.
Well in all fairness VS 2010 is next to worthless for C++ development due to the absent Intellisense--it didn't fit within the release schedule. So really they're only behind by one major version. Either way, regardless of which version of VS they use they'll still be dealing with a 4GB wall since Microsoft has never released a 64bit version. I don't think the Firefox team has much choice but to restructure their projects because they simply cannot move the goalposts far enough down field.
I don't think they are trying to do "too much" per-se. Rather, they have an underlying architecture that is forcing bloat creating compromises in support of functional requirements. FireFox needs a reboot and this is a symptomatic consequence.
Perhaps, but supposedly they're also helping them.
Actually, penicillin is only effective for a large subset of Gram-positive bacterial infections not Gram-negative.
It's actually rather common and tools are readily available to pull it off. Go shopping online and select though the various "color" options for a given article of clothing some time. If varies from store to store but often you'll find tells such as identical models, identical poses, different colors, if not entire garments. You just buy a model model and tailor her/him to the ethnicity, pose, skin, etc. desired via simple controls. Some of these tools produce obvious fakes, but others are down right creepy in their realism.