The most fun thing about Exodus is filling up the entire map with unopened chests. It turned out to be much more difficult than finishing the game itself.
1. It's easy to achieve simple goals 2. It's OO 3. Only needs a text editor and a browser, no need to buy any IDE or restricted to one platform 4. It's arguably the fastest-growing language used in the Real World (tm) 5. Get familiarize with the syntax helps moving on to C/C++/C#/Java
I know what you mean in that code (tho it may contain mistakes) - it does NOT take assembly experience to see the cache benefit - granted I know 6502 and x86 but I figured most optimization tricks for high and low level languages alike, are readily learned from C++.
Wrong in the 2nd part, too. Show us some evidence where the "money" is involved. Businesses offer influential people in the community and congressmen freebies *all* the time. Free magazine subscriptions, free mobile phone trials etc. I've seen it first hand - any business can do it, as long as no law is broken.
You seem to be mistaken. What are the rules? The laws are the rules.
If you obey the laws, you obey the rules - are there any "unwritten rules" that people are expected to follow? If a rule is not written, it's not a rule - simple as that.
I do not know how you believe NTP followed the rules by your definition - if trying to spam USPTO with 30000 patent claims in order to slow down the review is following the rules, more power to you.
One company tried to speed up the review, the other one tried to slow it down. It looks fair to my eyes.
It looked like the keyboards in question matches the one described in the patent closely in terms of the specified sizes and shapes and relative key positions - which looks to me like the result of some hard UI work.
I highly doubt you'd get sued by including just any small keyboard.
Looks like you haven't looked at the patents before you speak. The "small keyboard" patent definitely doesn't seem to be bogus, as it included a lot of specifics on key shapes, relative positions and sizes - probably after a lot of painful UI research - so just making a small keyboard will not make you infringe.
>with the expectation that you will use this incentive to create stuff that society >as a whole benefits from
Sorry, I cannot agree with this.
While it should have a limit and after which it should be public domain, but within the period where you own the copyright I'm not obliged nor expected to "create stuff that benefits the society".
Anyone? This had to be the most comprehensive single player RPG at the time, far ahead of its time - its world was more immersive than even Ultima 6, Might and Magic 3, D&D Pool of Radiance, etc not to mention any FF, save FF online maybe.
Because the definition of "good" when applied to Apple products have to take into consideration the hardware AND software, running together. It's not just the functionality - there is substantial value in owning Apple product - the style, the taste, the "hipness".
In other words, even if the OS does exactly what it does on a generic PeeCee, it is going to be worth LESS and it is going to be less "good". The taste is simply not there anymore.
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From 4 feet in the air, you'll see why Treo has no hope of catching up.
It'd be nice if they add an analog watch as part of this wrist pc.
If you want to conduct your business on someone else's laptop:
1. Boot using a Linux Live CD
2. Use a USB Key drive
If it does not leave any trace in the first place, you'll not need to erase anything.
>Not to mention you can view attachments with origami unlike the blackberry.
That's funny. I can view MS Office documents, images, Pdf, Zip files and other attachments on my blackberry.
Mostly likely their use of "Secure" means "You won't lose it"
I remember it too, with Mockingboards!
The most fun thing about Exodus is filling up the entire map with unopened chests. It turned out to be much more difficult than finishing the game itself.
The memories!
1. It's easy to achieve simple goals
2. It's OO
3. Only needs a text editor and a browser, no need to buy any IDE or restricted to one platform
4. It's arguably the fastest-growing language used in the Real World (tm)
5. Get familiarize with the syntax helps moving on to C/C++/C#/Java
Bzzzz.
I know what you mean in that code (tho it may contain mistakes) - it does NOT take assembly experience to see the cache benefit - granted I know 6502 and x86 but I figured most optimization tricks for high and low level languages alike, are readily learned from C++.
Wrong in the 2nd part, too. Show us some evidence where the "money" is involved. Businesses offer influential people in the community and congressmen freebies *all* the time. Free magazine subscriptions, free mobile phone trials etc. I've seen it first hand - any business can do it, as long as no law is broken.
You seem to be mistaken. What are the rules? The laws are the rules.
If you obey the laws, you obey the rules - are there any "unwritten rules" that people are expected to follow? If a rule is not written, it's not a rule - simple as that.
I do not know how you believe NTP followed the rules by your definition - if trying to spam USPTO with 30000 patent claims in order to slow down the review is following the rules, more power to you.
One company tried to speed up the review, the other one tried to slow it down. It looks fair to my eyes.
So the conclusion is, the other companies did not do enough to defend themselves.
Is doing something that nobody has ever done "questionable"?
> used some pretty questionable lobbying practices
Argh, how informative!! I guess we wouldn't mind having a little more info on what's your so-called "questionable lobbying practices".
Care/Dare to elaborate?
It looked like the keyboards in question matches the one described in the patent closely in terms of the specified sizes and shapes and relative key positions - which looks to me like the result of some hard UI work.
I highly doubt you'd get sued by including just any small keyboard.
Looks like you haven't looked at the patents before you speak. The "small keyboard" patent definitely doesn't seem to be bogus, as it included a lot of specifics on key shapes, relative positions and sizes - probably after a lot of painful UI research - so just making a small keyboard will not make you infringe.
Look at the actual patent before spewing out gibberish and put calculator keypads and Blackberry keypads in the same sentence.
It dictates the keys in very specific shapes, sizes, and relative arrangements - which I suspect is the result of some serious UI research.
It's not "just a miniature keyboard".
> This option also gives you a wider range of devices that you can use
For some reason I suspect this wider range of devices all run an OS from a single company, which will remain unnamed.
To back everything up just issue a single command: cp -R ~ /dev/null
Sell MORE Pocket PC than competing smart phones, or we'll launch free voice-over-WiFi?
>with the expectation that you will use this incentive to create stuff that society
>as a whole benefits from
Sorry, I cannot agree with this.
While it should have a limit and after which it should be public domain, but within the period where you own the copyright I'm not obliged nor expected to "create stuff that benefits the society".
What kind of totalitarian society do you live in?
Regardless of education, the disease takes the same amount of time to degrade you to a mindless, insensitive clod with the same lower mental ability?
Braking from 100 km/h to 0 in 5 seconds is a harder deceleration than from 30 km/h to 0 in 5 seconds, for sure.
Anyone? This had to be the most comprehensive single player RPG at the time, far ahead of its time - its world was more immersive than even Ultima 6, Might and Magic 3, D&D Pool of Radiance, etc not to mention any FF, save FF online maybe.
Because the definition of "good" when applied to Apple products have to take into consideration the hardware AND software, running together. It's not just the functionality - there is substantial value in owning Apple product - the style, the taste, the "hipness".
In other words, even if the OS does exactly what it does on a generic PeeCee, it is going to be worth LESS and it is going to be less "good". The taste is simply not there anymore.
A central store of gobloads of logins and passwords is a MUCH more attractive target than listening randomly for them.
When there's a solution that does not store my password remotely.
$200...I believe it's mapped to the keyboard
$300 you can put whatever there unless you've loaded DOS. Remember how to exit the monitor in DOS?
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