It's much easier for big companies with huge budgets to engage in speculative activities like prior art searches.
In the spirit of anti-patent that prevails within a sizeable number of people here on Slashdot, we could cheer them on, except the same prior-art cancellations don't commonly happen to Google's patents.
For better or for worse, the legal system is largely 'owned' by the entities that can afford the lawyers.
Windows 10 isn't really doing that, unless you have it configured incorrectly. It's no better or worse than the surveillance that Google does, except Google openly surveils topical information about your explicitly to build a profile of you they can use to steal your attention away from what you intend to be doing, while Microsoft mostly monitors for usability and bugcatching purposes (lord knows they need to).
The 'breaking' technology of the Apple 1 was not simply that it was 'a bunch of chips put together' that anybody else could do.
The breakthrough was that it was a single board computer, complete. All you had to do was solder a power transformer onto it, solder a keyboard onto it, and plug in a TV set.
There were thousands of other nerds fiddling around with computer technology and microprocessors. It took Woz and Jobs putting together a single board design like they did and selling it with an ad in Kilobaud for $666 to make the breakthrough. Finally there was an affordable computer that anybody who knows how to solder can purchase and put to use easily.
The original Steve, who actually did all the initial design at Apple, is still living. One can't blame him for not being much inclined to get involved in the company at this point in time.
And to be fair it was a 'right time to be there' situation that got the Woz his fame. There are thousands of other nice, adept nerds in the world who could do what he did.
I had instances with my iPod Touch, back when I used an iPod Touch, where a lockup condition occurred, and I simply had to leave the thing on, singing madly, until it killed itself by completely draining the battery.
Most other mobile devices, it's a matter of yanking the battery to force a reset.
I just happened to notice your comment here and I need to ask you:
Do you have an Elon Musk mention quote to meet every freaking day? Because yours is the first mention of Musk I see on this thread. Do you collect a 'first post' bonus in addition to meeting your quote requirement?
There are dozens of keyboard alternatives on the Android App marketplace. I use the Hacker's Keyboard, which gives me cursor keys and all the control-alt-esc key sequences, on my Asus Android tablet.
The default Android keyboards from Google or Samsung are deplorable.
Does Apple even allow third party keyboards on iOS? It's been so long since I used iOS on anything.
I am still looking forward to taking possession of my fathers old IBM Thinkpad. He passed away early this year and his Thinkpad is still on his desk, I suspect. I am four states away so I will need to wait until Christmas to get it. It's one of the Pentium 1 generation, which I don't know if that makes it first generation or not. He bought it with the IBM Employees Discount, though. I have had the fear for some months now that my mother will listen to some 'security moron' and have the hard drive on it wiped before I can take possession of it. Dad did use it for all his financial records, as he prefered Lotus. He was old IBM, when he first started working at Big Blue he programmed the IBM 650. He's never needed more than that Thinkpad for home computing; my mom is the one who always gets the new machine.
If you're going to make disparaging comments about nerds, we can use that dremel tool over there to cut a door in the bakelite wall of this enclosure for you to exit out of.
I have never understood why they don't just bring the whole NoScript functionality into Firefox as built-in functionality. I think I remember there being a button on the toolbar of Opera in the early days that could toggle Javascript blocking on and off. (or was it just image loading?)
Except, the huge volume of pee running down the legs of all the 'Web Developer' script kiddies whose cherished scripts would no longer run on everybody elses' computers. They would organize a badmouthing campaign. Plus... the whole culture of Mozilla includes people invested in the 'web developer' mentality, so they want NoScript to be something 'special' that only people 'in the know' use.
I literally found out about the 9/11 attack on Slashdot. In an off-topic post somebody made.
I logged on in the morning and loaded up Slashdot to see what was up. There was an off-topic post in an unrelated thread about the 9/11 attack having occurred, so I went outside the 'nerd enclave' to find out what it was about.
Crapflooding has always occured on Slashdot. It was more sophisticated, but it has always been here.
If you're not a newb, you probably remember that it was 'Mae Ling Mak, naked and petrified' in the crapflooding, and Natalie Portman didn't matter. The crapflood culture was not always hateful and homophobic.
We have all always hated the ide of having IDs, and they didn't used to display visible in comment headers. Which I am now just repeating, but it's important.
The site went downhill in a very big way on the day that Bruce Perens whined so much that they reconfigured the header code to display UIDs.
A side effect of that is that nerds are interested in Science and Technology.
Nerds are into a lot of other things, too.
There have always been various flavors of crapflooding and spam here. That stuff is the widgets and ornamentation. It's important that it be there to repel the norms from coming to the site.
I probably spent a lot of that time re-configuring my Afterstep config file to get my desktop just right.
That's the problem with you newbs. Always futzing around with the new shiny. Just edit your.twmrc file and learn how to use Xresources, and quit with the new crap that doesn't deliver anything important.
I remember when UIDs were not visible and you had to hover over a username to see the UID number. If it ever mattered, which it didn't, and doesn't.
It all died when Bruce Fucking Perens had his hissy fit about people impersonating him with spoofed spellings of his name. There used to be a spirit of egalitarianism here, and nobody cared if an account had a 'low number' associated with it. It's actaully uncool for anything that lame to matter. This isn't Wajas or any other Virtual Pet website where the schoolgirls vie to have the lowest account number.
Unfortunately, in the filtering out process, we're left with some of the smuggest fucks with low numbers preening about it.
Yes, a lot of us have obtained and discarded old 'accounts' here because sometimes the stench of this place gets bad enough that you just want to throw away a login and you come back three months later and sign up again.
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You'll need a LOT of hemp. Hemp is only a T4 Resource in a world with eight tiers.
It's much easier for big companies with huge budgets to engage in speculative activities like prior art searches.
In the spirit of anti-patent that prevails within a sizeable number of people here on Slashdot, we could cheer them on, except the same prior-art cancellations don't commonly happen to Google's patents.
For better or for worse, the legal system is largely 'owned' by the entities that can afford the lawyers.
Windows 10 isn't really doing that, unless you have it configured incorrectly. It's no better or worse than the surveillance that Google does, except Google openly surveils topical information about your explicitly to build a profile of you they can use to steal your attention away from what you intend to be doing, while Microsoft mostly monitors for usability and bugcatching purposes (lord knows they need to).
Stealing from Apple would be one of the only forgivable things for Google to do.
When two bullies fight, they both sustain damage, and the only real loss is if they tread on the flowers while doing so.
However, Trump's staff is more intent on seeing Twitter die.
When I am ready to head out in the boat I always head on over here to get My Buddy.
Be careful. Chimpanzees are known to bite those things entirely off.
Uh, by looking, I think you are 137.
The 'breaking' technology of the Apple 1 was not simply that it was 'a bunch of chips put together' that anybody else could do.
The breakthrough was that it was a single board computer, complete. All you had to do was solder a power transformer onto it, solder a keyboard onto it, and plug in a TV set.
There were thousands of other nerds fiddling around with computer technology and microprocessors. It took Woz and Jobs putting together a single board design like they did and selling it with an ad in Kilobaud for $666 to make the breakthrough. Finally there was an affordable computer that anybody who knows how to solder can purchase and put to use easily.
The original Steve, who actually did all the initial design at Apple, is still living. One can't blame him for not being much inclined to get involved in the company at this point in time.
And to be fair it was a 'right time to be there' situation that got the Woz his fame. There are thousands of other nice, adept nerds in the world who could do what he did.
I had instances with my iPod Touch, back when I used an iPod Touch, where a lockup condition occurred, and I simply had to leave the thing on, singing madly, until it killed itself by completely draining the battery.
Most other mobile devices, it's a matter of yanking the battery to force a reset.
Apple's paternalistic approach to their users results in a 'we know better than you how to protect you' attitude.
It's unfortunate for Apple, because it means that only the duller customers will continue to trust Apple's judgement.
I just happened to notice your comment here and I need to ask you:
Do you have an Elon Musk mention quote to meet every freaking day? Because yours is the first mention of Musk I see on this thread. Do you collect a 'first post' bonus in addition to meeting your quote requirement?
Are you angry? Why shoot the messenger? Apple and/or Uber are at fault here.
I know, I know. Apple is "your team" and it's a rivalry match.
Seriously, grow up.
There are dozens of keyboard alternatives on the Android App marketplace. I use the Hacker's Keyboard, which gives me cursor keys and all the control-alt-esc key sequences, on my Asus Android tablet.
The default Android keyboards from Google or Samsung are deplorable.
Does Apple even allow third party keyboards on iOS? It's been so long since I used iOS on anything.
I am still looking forward to taking possession of my fathers old IBM Thinkpad. He passed away early this year and his Thinkpad is still on his desk, I suspect. I am four states away so I will need to wait until Christmas to get it. It's one of the Pentium 1 generation, which I don't know if that makes it first generation or not. He bought it with the IBM Employees Discount, though. I have had the fear for some months now that my mother will listen to some 'security moron' and have the hard drive on it wiped before I can take possession of it. Dad did use it for all his financial records, as he prefered Lotus. He was old IBM, when he first started working at Big Blue he programmed the IBM 650. He's never needed more than that Thinkpad for home computing; my mom is the one who always gets the new machine.
If you're going to make disparaging comments about nerds, we can use that dremel tool over there to cut a door in the bakelite wall of this enclosure for you to exit out of.
I have never understood why they don't just bring the whole NoScript functionality into Firefox as built-in functionality. I think I remember there being a button on the toolbar of Opera in the early days that could toggle Javascript blocking on and off. (or was it just image loading?)
Except, the huge volume of pee running down the legs of all the 'Web Developer' script kiddies whose cherished scripts would no longer run on everybody elses' computers. They would organize a badmouthing campaign. Plus... the whole culture of Mozilla includes people invested in the 'web developer' mentality, so they want NoScript to be something 'special' that only people 'in the know' use.
Mae Ling Mak was naked and petrified when you newbs were still in diapers and playing around with Visual Basic. On Windows 3.1.
I literally found out about the 9/11 attack on Slashdot. In an off-topic post somebody made.
I logged on in the morning and loaded up Slashdot to see what was up. There was an off-topic post in an unrelated thread about the 9/11 attack having occurred, so I went outside the 'nerd enclave' to find out what it was about.
Crapflooding has always occured on Slashdot. It was more sophisticated, but it has always been here.
If you're not a newb, you probably remember that it was 'Mae Ling Mak, naked and petrified' in the crapflooding, and Natalie Portman didn't matter. The crapflood culture was not always hateful and homophobic.
We have all always hated the ide of having IDs, and they didn't used to display visible in comment headers. Which I am now just repeating, but it's important.
The site went downhill in a very big way on the day that Bruce Perens whined so much that they reconfigured the header code to display UIDs.
This is Nerd Culture based website.
A side effect of that is that nerds are interested in Science and Technology.
Nerds are into a lot of other things, too.
There have always been various flavors of crapflooding and spam here. That stuff is the widgets and ornamentation. It's important that it be there to repel the norms from coming to the site.
I probably spent a lot of that time re-configuring my Afterstep config file to get my desktop just right.
That's the problem with you newbs. Always futzing around with the new shiny. Just edit your .twmrc file and learn how to use Xresources, and quit with the new crap that doesn't deliver anything important.
I remember when UIDs were not visible and you had to hover over a username to see the UID number. If it ever mattered, which it didn't, and doesn't.
It all died when Bruce Fucking Perens had his hissy fit about people impersonating him with spoofed spellings of his name. There used to be a spirit of egalitarianism here, and nobody cared if an account had a 'low number' associated with it. It's actaully uncool for anything that lame to matter. This isn't Wajas or any other Virtual Pet website where the schoolgirls vie to have the lowest account number.
Unfortunately, in the filtering out process, we're left with some of the smuggest fucks with low numbers preening about it.
Yes, a lot of us have obtained and discarded old 'accounts' here because sometimes the stench of this place gets bad enough that you just want to throw away a login and you come back three months later and sign up again.