I can see how Google can protect itself, but I don't see how it can (or will want to) protect every phone-maker. Of course, it can (and it must) protect people licensing/buying Android/phone from it, but that won't be much different from what MS itself does.
XML is OK for interchange, but it sucks as a human-readable markup language I think the problem with XML in this context is not readability; the problem is typability. XML is simply too verbose for this application. But then, an XML "OS" need not have an XML command line interface.
You were OK until you said
Bloody Germans I find your use of that phrase in very poor taste. It makes me almost want to suggest that your comment be marked a flamebait.
To fix this, Microsoft will be removing the patent application. Our sincere apologies to Michael Kölling and the BlueJ community. What about listing BlueJ in Visual Studio credits?
To 'bring it to light' means that you've made some portion, usually a significant portion, of a group of people aware of it. The majority of the Slashdot crowd did NOT know about this before it was announced on Saturday, so it WAS 'brought to light'.
That light has been burning for some time now, and reached Slashdot only last Saturday. Quite a few people did keep that light burning between May 2005 and now.
The way the story is worded gives the impression that Slashdot broke the story, which it did not. IMO, it would have been better to say something like "This story was on Slashdot first on Saturday". Why the urge to claim to be the "light bringer"?
You have to admit that it is somewhat ironic that Slashdot made this poor choice with a story about giving due credits.
Vote with your money against such business practices, use competitive products. Do you mean competing products? Microsoft products are competitive, you know?
At least one party in Florida may want this judgment appealed: Mark Foley.
If this judgment is unchallenged, or upheld on appeal, Mark Foley could be in big trouble if he sent some of his infamous IMs to minors when he was in Florida.
I think if I was making $2/hr (I made that up, I don't know what the real number is but I am sure it is low compared to the US) while I knew I was being exploited for cheap labor and was offered a large sum of money in exchange for personal data knowing I would lose my job but not be in trouble legally that I would probably take the money and go hunting for a new job.
A call center employee in India does make about $2.3 dollars per hour. However, I am really tired of people quoting these low Dollar figures for pay, while forgetting to mention that the "low pay" tends to be rather high for the local economy.
Let me give you some estimate of costs and expenses in US Dollars. These numbers are for cities like Bangalore and lie closer to the upper limit. I have considered the kind of restaurants and other establishments a young and hip call-center employee is likely to haunt. In the interest of full disclosure: I am Indian, and am quite familiar with the goings on in India in the IT and BPO fields.
Here is the summary before I give you the details: A call-center employee has the potential to save about 35% of his monthly pay. I wish I could do so in the US. Even by Indian standards, 35% is very good savings potential. For comparison, my sister and brother-in-law live in Bangalore, do not work in IT or BPO, and together earn less than the average call-center employee does. Mind you they both have daily expenses. They also have other expenses (schooling and feeding children mostly) an average call-center employee tends not to: The average call-center employee is single, in early 20s, and quite often not contributing much financially to his family.
With numbers like these, I can argue that call-center employees in India have a lot less incentive to sell out. That is, people in the US might look for "supplemental income" more than an Indian call-center employee does. Now, I don't believe that is so, just like I don't believe the argument that the lower Dollar-wage makes Indians (or other nationals) sell out data.
Here is the deal: For every 100 guys selling data, there is one guy buying it. The buyer shops in India because doing so is less expensive for him. So, how about we also look at where the buyers are coming from and what they do with it?
Average Monthly Numbers
Pay: $444.44
Expenses: -$276.75 (Everyday expenses (-$150.9), and rent and other montly expenses (-$125.85)
Savings: $167.69 (37.7% of income)
Everyday expenses (Note: Call centers in India give their employees free refreshments and free/subidised transportation)
A cup of coffee at a really fancy coffee house: $0.33 (yes, 33 cents)
A cup of ice cream at a really fancy parlour: $0.65 (must buy ice cream for the girl that tags along)
A pack of cigarettes: $1.5 (cigarette smoking seems to be on the rise)
A full meal at a really fancy restaurant: $2.22
A day pass on a city bus: $0.56 (though the average call-center employees are unlikely to take a bus: they ride bikes)
A can of beer: $2.00 (most people don't drink beer everyday, but I list it here in case you are wondering)
Monthly expenses
Rent: $44.00 (A native is likely to live with parents, and pays well below this number)
Hair cut: $0.55
Movie tickets, for four shows: $3.00 (movies are the most popular form of entertainment)
Concessions at the movies for four shows: $4.50
Apparel for self: $10.00
Apparel for the person you are wooing: $10.00
10 gallons of gas: $48.8 (yes, gas is that expensive)
A toolset I have developed to automate some aspects of mash-up development uses the Yahoo geo-coding web-service API, but displays mash-ups using the Google Maps API. The combination works rather well. (An overview of the toolset is available at http://sparce.cs.pdx.edu/mash-o-matic/.)
Ontok has published a comparison of geo-coders (somewhat stale by now) http://www.ontok.com/geocode/compare/.
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I can see how Google can protect itself, but I don't see how it can (or will want to) protect every phone-maker. Of course, it can (and it must) protect people licensing/buying Android/phone from it, but that won't be much different from what MS itself does.
That light has been burning for some time now, and reached Slashdot only last Saturday. Quite a few people did keep that light burning between May 2005 and now.
The way the story is worded gives the impression that Slashdot broke the story, which it did not. IMO, it would have been better to say something like "This story was on Slashdot first on Saturday". Why the urge to claim to be the "light bringer"?
You have to admit that it is somewhat ironic that Slashdot made this poor choice with a story about giving due credits.
Sarang (to be pronounced saa-ra-ng) is a kind of a deer. Ancient Indian texts refer a lot to this animal.
If this judgment is unchallenged, or upheld on appeal, Mark Foley could be in big trouble if he sent some of his infamous IMs to minors when he was in Florida.
Wow! you are one brave soul. I only wish fellow /.ers are as brave and conscientious.
A call center employee in India does make about $2.3 dollars per hour. However, I am really tired of people quoting these low Dollar figures for pay, while forgetting to mention that the "low pay" tends to be rather high for the local economy.
Let me give you some estimate of costs and expenses in US Dollars. These numbers are for cities like Bangalore and lie closer to the upper limit. I have considered the kind of restaurants and other establishments a young and hip call-center employee is likely to haunt. In the interest of full disclosure: I am Indian, and am quite familiar with the goings on in India in the IT and BPO fields.
Here is the summary before I give you the details: A call-center employee has the potential to save about 35% of his monthly pay. I wish I could do so in the US. Even by Indian standards, 35% is very good savings potential. For comparison, my sister and brother-in-law live in Bangalore, do not work in IT or BPO, and together earn less than the average call-center employee does. Mind you they both have daily expenses. They also have other expenses (schooling and feeding children mostly) an average call-center employee tends not to: The average call-center employee is single, in early 20s, and quite often not contributing much financially to his family.
With numbers like these, I can argue that call-center employees in India have a lot less incentive to sell out. That is, people in the US might look for "supplemental income" more than an Indian call-center employee does. Now, I don't believe that is so, just like I don't believe the argument that the lower Dollar-wage makes Indians (or other nationals) sell out data.
Here is the deal: For every 100 guys selling data, there is one guy buying it. The buyer shops in India because doing so is less expensive for him. So, how about we also look at where the buyers are coming from and what they do with it?
Average Monthly Numbers
- Pay: $444.44
- Expenses: -$276.75 (Everyday expenses (-$150.9), and rent and other montly expenses (-$125.85)
- Savings: $167.69 (37.7% of income)
Everyday expenses (Note: Call centers in India give their employees free refreshments and free/subidised transportation)- A cup of coffee at a really fancy coffee house: $0.33 (yes, 33 cents)
- A cup of ice cream at a really fancy parlour: $0.65 (must buy ice cream for the girl that tags along)
- A pack of cigarettes: $1.5 (cigarette smoking seems to be on the rise)
- A full meal at a really fancy restaurant: $2.22
- A day pass on a city bus: $0.56 (though the average call-center employees are unlikely to take a bus: they ride bikes)
- A can of beer: $2.00 (most people don't drink beer everyday, but I list it here in case you are wondering)
Monthly expenses- Rent: $44.00 (A native is likely to live with parents, and pays well below this number)
- Hair cut: $0.55
- Movie tickets, for four shows: $3.00 (movies are the most popular form of entertainment)
- Concessions at the movies for four shows: $4.50
- Apparel for self: $10.00
- Apparel for the person you are wooing: $10.00
- 10 gallons of gas: $48.8 (yes, gas is that expensive)
- Vehicle maintenance: $5.00
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A toolset I have developed to automate some aspects of mash-up development uses the Yahoo geo-coding web-service API, but displays mash-ups using the Google Maps API. The combination works rather well. (An overview of the toolset is available at http://sparce.cs.pdx.edu/mash-o-matic/.) Ontok has published a comparison of geo-coders (somewhat stale by now) http://www.ontok.com/geocode/compare/.