Given this is slashdot, I'm assuming you won't understand the benefits of being at least 30 miles from your mother in law.
Is it better to live more than 30 miles away from the mother-in-law or is it better not to have a mother-in-law?
Is it worse not to have a mother-in-law because the opportunity to have one never arose? These are the questions that occupy the minds of the nerds who read slashdot.
Just because it hits Microsoft, I am not going to overboard and root for that gold digger who claims to have patented some XML tags or whatever. XML is by definition extensible. How can anyone patent a tag?
Let us say this patent claim can potentially hurt all ODF vendors, but right now the patent troll is going after Microsoft. Can Microsoft pay some huge award and thus validate the patent claim and use it as a weapon against other competitors. Remember how the Automobile Manufacturers' Association in 1890 willingly paid invalid patent claims to raise the barrier of entry for new players?
I read the stupid article and the author is a stupid attention seeking Stockholm syndrome suffering nitwit. Complains the use of the word "intent" of all things as a super class or an API construct. Oh, yeah go ahead and argue with the word subroutine and goto without a space when you are it. Wants the developers to be enslaved by a tyrannical system a la iPhone app approval process.
What I understand from the article is exciting. I am not a mobile device developer, but looks like Google is trying to create fundamental tools like grep, awk and sed in the mobile GUI world. If that is what Google is trying to do, it is a very wise thing. Some 40 years after debut grep, awk and sed are still going strong and power users use it every day. Even when command line interface is disappearing and text files are no longer the main repositories of data. But an updated set of such fundamental tools with a well integrated GUI and the ability to handle more forms of data would be a radical.
Looks like the author is so green behind the ears he does not even know where the concepts of such mini applications with well defined interactions with other mini ops are coming from. At least one thing is sure, he got the attention he craved so much.
Discovery is more about blowing stuff up than explaining science, the History channel seems to be nothing more than WWII and explosions.
Come on Discovery channel is way more than explosions. They got computer generated imagery of dinosaurs, shark bites, more dinosaurs, disgusting food from tribals, some more dinosaurs, disaster videos, and some dinosaurs, some more shark bites and did I mention dinosaurs?
The places may be public but the pictures belong to Google and it wants to mash it up with ads it is well within its rights to do so. And it is well within our rights to stop using Google maps too. And other big players are there with their own street views Microsoft and Apple. Let there be competition and let the marketplace decide.
Bur just yesterday we saw Mexico claiming copyright on ALL images of their heritage monuments built by the people it killed and eradicated. Google is most likely will cravenly let such governments walk all over it and assert its rights only against fairer governments like that of USA. Sad but that is life.
... However, the Vedic knowledge was in its day a library about every type of field, including manuals on how to pilot aircrafts and make the fuel. However, the records are sadly too obtuse / derived orally from other sources, so are not really practical in its present shape. However, just the fact they have these records, signify this is not the first time earth have had technically advanced civilisations, even though the original records about them have been lost...
The fundamental problem was that India out sourced all its tech support to the Arabs and manufacturing to the Greeks in those Vedic times and switched from manufacturing economy to service economy. Thus it eventually lost its technological edge and then its military edge and then eventually petered out. All it had left was those manuals.
The mice have been running the experiment to check the safety of cellphones for mice use by making the human beings to use them for a long time. It is quite well known and well documented actually.
arithmatic. Billing rate times billed hours. Remember, if your job actually requires that high level of math, most likely the pay will be very poor. The real money is in writing SQL queries to data bases for finance software.
Basically the logic goes like this. Jobs requiring high level of math are managed by people with high level of math knowledge. They tend to be hard nosed and quite stringy with money and difficult to bullshit with and get a phat pay check. Financial managers, on the other hand, are often clueless and they overpay, they can be hoodwinked into believing the job is much harder than it really is.
I thought the standard operating procedure was to shoo three bullet through her laptop. What happened to that? Once the laptop is shot the person would have been rendered harmless and she could attend class with the embalming tool,
And these are the reasons Windows still has marketshare.
Nah. Main reason is most of the driver and install issues are figured out by the vendors at the factory. Once it comes out of the box the users are willing to take lots of punishment when it comes to Windows. Things dont work. Crapware installed by vendor keeps nagging them to upgrade and get the "new and exciting features". Security holes. Forced to buy anti virus products. Vendor lock. Upgrade treadmill....
Through it all the people suffer stoically. But when you suggest switching to Linux they balk. The first thing that does not work, they bitch to high heaven and run back to their captors. One would think the typical PC user is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
There are many reasons why Windows has its market share. "It just works" is not one of them.
I am not talking about plug-ins to PDF renderer. I am talking about PDF renderer being the plug-in to browser. The pdf file input is from the web and it can not be trusted. I want a pdf renderer that will treat all input as potentially hostile and render it strictly. That is all. All your fancy nancy application creating pdf file from scratch is all fine. But if it needs me to enable javascript or hyperlinks in my reader, adios.
These octopi were carrying the shells on their tippitty-toes and seemed to be dancing. To their amazement they found they were dancing to the tune of "I got a bubbly bunch of coconuts....dididi deedi dididi dee Here they are.. Big one Small One One as big as..."
As others have mentioned, many businesses use the JavaScript features for field validation, action buttons, loading content from a remote DB, etc.
Let those companies get a special version of the PDF reader/editor/validator. Why the hell should a general user who wants to down load a government form to print get a plug-in that has features meant to be used by a microscopic minority of the users? Further the users who need such features usually use it in a protected setting. Not the typical user browsing to download scientific papers or forms or reports.
Adobe, wake up and smell the coffee. You cant grow up to be a browser. You had a niche application, WYSISWYPrint. Try to compete with the swift, quick to load, quick to render competition or you will be lost in the netherworld between browsers and pdf renderers.
It is high time people stop using any pdf reader that uses javascript or opens external links or does anything other than simply render the document on screen. Editable pdf, where one can fill in the fields etc must be a separate application, not plugged into the browser. I feel safe with NoScript controlling FireFox. Hope someone comes up with a good general purpose sandboxer that will sandbox every plug-in.
I am very sure Microsoft is really really furious at the developer, the developing group or the outsourced entity in charge of developing code. They do not tolerate such obvious and open theft of code. They have very strong internal procedures and policies. I am very sure there is a strong "Best Practices" document exclusively and exhaustively dealing with theft of source code.
It has developed lots of CASE tools and code obfuscation tools and mark up tools. They have procedures on how to massage stolen code and how to randomly relocate code blocks, variable names, function names etc so that the code borrowing would be completely masked and it would appear as though a clueless overpaid hack had written the code.
Remember? All that talk about relocating code blocks in binaries and randomly scrambling the address space each time the link loader loads and executable into memory? All that research to move around just binaries? The claim is "when buffer overflow error occurs, each run will behave differently, and so the viruses could not reliably reproduce". If they can scramble binaries, how hard is it going to be to scramble source? What is the big point in developing source code scrambling procedures and hacking the code obfuscation tool to rename variables if the developers are not using it to correctly and clearly mask the stolen code.
Some flunkie in Microsoft is sure going to have his skin flayed.
In fact, I'm betting that before Microsoft payed half a billion dollars to settle the suit, they probably scoured the world for invalidating prior art.
Established companies knowingly pay huge amounts on dubious claims just to raise the barrier to entry of their turf. In the long run 0.5 bill is not a big sum for Microsoft. Further there are likely to be silent undisclosed deals specifying that a huge portion of the pay out should be used exclusively to enforce the widest claims of the patent on all violations fingered by Microsoft. There is a precedent for that.
What principle? You, as a consumer, have no power in this.
Sorry to break your bubble. You are not the consumeR. You are the consumeD.
You are product, to be lured by the programs that interests you, and then to be packaged delivered to the advertisers. Now that you have learned your proper position in the TV market, rest easy, play along and watch and listen to the ads.
You are welcome to renounce the citizenship of this country and live where you can practice what you preach. I suggest the Fore people of New Guinea. Or may be the Mottomottomua (dont trust this spelling) people in the Amazonian jungles.
No matter how much right I have to my property, it is limited to the amount I can properly defend it by myself. Even if I have an arsenal with me, I would not be able to defend it against all the other people. In a Democracy, with non-violent conflict resolution mechanisms and property rights commonly agreed by every one I will have lot more than what I physically defend. The society you envisage will be very unproductive. Every body will be spending so much of their time and effort in defending what they got they will hardly produce anything.
The society you envisage existed about 70000 years ago. But the gradual gracilization (i.e. reduction in the thickness) of the Homo sapien skulls show that that mode of life died out about 15000 years ago, before the domestication of wheat. The last few remnants of cultures still practicing that are the Fore people of New Guinea and some M?????????o people of the Amazon.
Who gave you the authority to question Australian constitution? Australia is a democracy, pretty decent one at that. If they want to tax the rich 1.5% more to provide for universal health care it is their right. If you think that is a bad idea and that will sap the enthusiasm of the whole population, demotivate them to earn money and in general lead to general lethargy and lack of industriousness, you should rejoice. You would be able to show 10 years down the line how moribund Australian economy has become and use that as a real life example of what happens when people ignore the supply side economic principles. If you are so confident supply side economy is the best there is why are you so insecure?
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Given this is slashdot, I'm assuming you won't understand the benefits of being at least 30 miles from your mother in law.
Is it better to live more than 30 miles away from the mother-in-law or is it better not to have a mother-in-law? Is it worse not to have a mother-in-law because the opportunity to have one never arose? These are the questions that occupy the minds of the nerds who read slashdot.
Let us say this patent claim can potentially hurt all ODF vendors, but right now the patent troll is going after Microsoft. Can Microsoft pay some huge award and thus validate the patent claim and use it as a weapon against other competitors. Remember how the Automobile Manufacturers' Association in 1890 willingly paid invalid patent claims to raise the barrier of entry for new players?
What I understand from the article is exciting. I am not a mobile device developer, but looks like Google is trying to create fundamental tools like grep, awk and sed in the mobile GUI world. If that is what Google is trying to do, it is a very wise thing. Some 40 years after debut grep, awk and sed are still going strong and power users use it every day. Even when command line interface is disappearing and text files are no longer the main repositories of data. But an updated set of such fundamental tools with a well integrated GUI and the ability to handle more forms of data would be a radical.
Looks like the author is so green behind the ears he does not even know where the concepts of such mini applications with well defined interactions with other mini ops are coming from. At least one thing is sure, he got the attention he craved so much.
Discovery is more about blowing stuff up than explaining science, the History channel seems to be nothing more than WWII and explosions.
Come on Discovery channel is way more than explosions. They got computer generated imagery of dinosaurs, shark bites, more dinosaurs, disgusting food from tribals, some more dinosaurs, disaster videos, and some dinosaurs, some more shark bites and did I mention dinosaurs?
Bur just yesterday we saw Mexico claiming copyright on ALL images of their heritage monuments built by the people it killed and eradicated. Google is most likely will cravenly let such governments walk all over it and assert its rights only against fairer governments like that of USA. Sad but that is life.
... However, the Vedic knowledge was in its day a library about every type of field, including manuals on how to pilot aircrafts and make the fuel. However, the records are sadly too obtuse / derived orally from other sources, so are not really practical in its present shape. However, just the fact they have these records, signify this is not the first time earth have had technically advanced civilisations, even though the original records about them have been lost...
The fundamental problem was that India out sourced all its tech support to the Arabs and manufacturing to the Greeks in those Vedic times and switched from manufacturing economy to service economy. Thus it eventually lost its technological edge and then its military edge and then eventually petered out. All it had left was those manuals.
The mice have been running the experiment to check the safety of cellphones for mice use by making the human beings to use them for a long time. It is quite well known and well documented actually.
Basically the logic goes like this. Jobs requiring high level of math are managed by people with high level of math knowledge. They tend to be hard nosed and quite stringy with money and difficult to bullshit with and get a phat pay check. Financial managers, on the other hand, are often clueless and they overpay, they can be hoodwinked into believing the job is much harder than it really is.
"I am Andrea Thomspon, you insensitive clod".
movie? Shows it is better to post in youtube than to pimp your movie project in slashdot.
I thought the standard operating procedure was to shoo three bullet through her laptop. What happened to that? Once the laptop is shot the person would have been rendered harmless and she could attend class with the embalming tool,
I had no reception at the 85th floor visitor deck of the Empire State Building. Dont know if it was because I was using T-Mobile or what.
And these are the reasons Windows still has marketshare.
Nah. Main reason is most of the driver and install issues are figured out by the vendors at the factory. Once it comes out of the box the users are willing to take lots of punishment when it comes to Windows. Things dont work. Crapware installed by vendor keeps nagging them to upgrade and get the "new and exciting features". Security holes. Forced to buy anti virus products. Vendor lock. Upgrade treadmill....
Through it all the people suffer stoically. But when you suggest switching to Linux they balk. The first thing that does not work, they bitch to high heaven and run back to their captors. One would think the typical PC user is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
There are many reasons why Windows has its market share. "It just works" is not one of them.
Well, sounds too difficult. Is there an app for it?
I am not talking about plug-ins to PDF renderer. I am talking about PDF renderer being the plug-in to browser. The pdf file input is from the web and it can not be trusted. I want a pdf renderer that will treat all input as potentially hostile and render it strictly. That is all. All your fancy nancy application creating pdf file from scratch is all fine. But if it needs me to enable javascript or hyperlinks in my reader, adios.
These octopi were carrying the shells on their tippitty-toes and seemed to be dancing. To their amazement they found they were dancing to the tune of "I got a bubbly bunch of coconuts....dididi deedi dididi dee Here they are .. Big one Small One One as big as ..."
As others have mentioned, many businesses use the JavaScript features for field validation, action buttons, loading content from a remote DB, etc.
Let those companies get a special version of the PDF reader/editor/validator. Why the hell should a general user who wants to down load a government form to print get a plug-in that has features meant to be used by a microscopic minority of the users? Further the users who need such features usually use it in a protected setting. Not the typical user browsing to download scientific papers or forms or reports.
Adobe, wake up and smell the coffee. You cant grow up to be a browser. You had a niche application, WYSISWYPrint. Try to compete with the swift, quick to load, quick to render competition or you will be lost in the netherworld between browsers and pdf renderers.
It is high time people stop using any pdf reader that uses javascript or opens external links or does anything other than simply render the document on screen. Editable pdf, where one can fill in the fields etc must be a separate application, not plugged into the browser. I feel safe with NoScript controlling FireFox. Hope someone comes up with a good general purpose sandboxer that will sandbox every plug-in.
It has developed lots of CASE tools and code obfuscation tools and mark up tools. They have procedures on how to massage stolen code and how to randomly relocate code blocks, variable names, function names etc so that the code borrowing would be completely masked and it would appear as though a clueless overpaid hack had written the code.
Remember? All that talk about relocating code blocks in binaries and randomly scrambling the address space each time the link loader loads and executable into memory? All that research to move around just binaries? The claim is "when buffer overflow error occurs, each run will behave differently, and so the viruses could not reliably reproduce". If they can scramble binaries, how hard is it going to be to scramble source? What is the big point in developing source code scrambling procedures and hacking the code obfuscation tool to rename variables if the developers are not using it to correctly and clearly mask the stolen code.
Some flunkie in Microsoft is sure going to have his skin flayed.
In fact, I'm betting that before Microsoft payed half a billion dollars to settle the suit, they probably scoured the world for invalidating prior art.
Established companies knowingly pay huge amounts on dubious claims just to raise the barrier to entry of their turf. In the long run 0.5 bill is not a big sum for Microsoft. Further there are likely to be silent undisclosed deals specifying that a huge portion of the pay out should be used exclusively to enforce the widest claims of the patent on all violations fingered by Microsoft. There is a precedent for that.
A bunch of automobile manufacturers voluntarily recognized a dubious patent, bought the patent and used it to shut down competition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Licensed_Automobile_Manufacturers
What principle? You, as a consumer, have no power in this.
Sorry to break your bubble. You are not the consumeR. You are the consumeD. You are product, to be lured by the programs that interests you, and then to be packaged delivered to the advertisers. Now that you have learned your proper position in the TV market, rest easy, play along and watch and listen to the ads.
You are next.
India has the best judges money can buy.
No matter how much right I have to my property, it is limited to the amount I can properly defend it by myself. Even if I have an arsenal with me, I would not be able to defend it against all the other people. In a Democracy, with non-violent conflict resolution mechanisms and property rights commonly agreed by every one I will have lot more than what I physically defend. The society you envisage will be very unproductive. Every body will be spending so much of their time and effort in defending what they got they will hardly produce anything.
The society you envisage existed about 70000 years ago. But the gradual gracilization (i.e. reduction in the thickness) of the Homo sapien skulls show that that mode of life died out about 15000 years ago, before the domestication of wheat. The last few remnants of cultures still practicing that are the Fore people of New Guinea and some M?????????o people of the Amazon.
You are welcome to smoke your libertarian dope.
Who gave you the authority to question Australian constitution? Australia is a democracy, pretty decent one at that. If they want to tax the rich 1.5% more to provide for universal health care it is their right. If you think that is a bad idea and that will sap the enthusiasm of the whole population, demotivate them to earn money and in general lead to general lethargy and lack of industriousness, you should rejoice. You would be able to show 10 years down the line how moribund Australian economy has become and use that as a real life example of what happens when people ignore the supply side economic principles. If you are so confident supply side economy is the best there is why are you so insecure?