Pretty darn good journalism. like.com said it "owns almost 12 patents." For the journalist to claim like.com said something else would be poor journalism. My guess is like.com has several patents pending, hence the reason they claim almost 12.
.... I've been working in this game for twenty years, both as programmer and as project manager; Isn't it about time you've shipped Duke Nuke'm Forever?
"mutual respect"
Unfortunately that is part of the problem. You have taught your gets to trust one another. You have taught them to trust others. Do they also know to distrust? In general people think everyone is like themselves, they trust and are trustworthy so they think others are trustworthy.
Then little susan means John Doe online. He is a trustworthy guy. You have taught her to be trusting... And then she goes and meets this cute 15 year old...
Trust your kids, but they can still make mistakes.
I don't get it. Why should there be a problem this Saturday?
If I'm calculating the amount of a loan I'd use the number of years (30) possibly the number of payments (30 x 12 or 360), the percentage rate, and value of the house/car. Where does the date come in? its been a while since I've taking accounting 101, but I'm pretty sure the formulaes are date agnostic.
Perhaps after I'm done computing the payments, I might print out a payment calendar (for the whole 30 years!) In which case I'd use a tried and true algorithm that doesn't use the time_t command to figure out what day of the week Jan 19, 2038 falls on.
I mean I guess I can add 604800 to some value of time_t to move forward a week, although that doesn't help me figure out the day of the week a month from now.
what is not understandable is a record company making more money than the artist they are publishing. Why is this not understandable? Should an actor make more money than the movie studio? Should a waitress make more money than the restaurant owner? Should YOU make more money than the company?
I agree that a recording artist should get their fair share. But that doesn't necessarily mean they should make more money than the distributor.
Seriously - any developer writing modern desktop or server applications that doesn't know how to do multi-threaded programming effectively deserves to be on EI anyway. It is not that difficult. Actually it is EXTREMELY difficult to write good multithreading.
I think the solution is double edged. Compilers/OSes need to get better about generating/dealing with multithreaded code. And programmers need to think about it a bit more. Get everything not related to the UI on separate threads.
When will we stop being impressed? Hopefully never, cause when we stop being impressed, then it means we haven't advanced far enough relative to "the good old days."
Write a letter to Gamespot. Tell them you will stop reading them unless they give honest reviews.
Write a letter to Eidos, tell them you no longer read Gamespot, because Gamespot does offer truthful journalism.
Write a letter to other advertisers on Gamespot, tell them you no longer read Gamespot because they kowtow to the advertisers and not to the truth.
When I signed my contract for my current job, I noticed an odd discrepency. There were two clauses that were in outright contridiction to each other. I pointed this out, and refused to sign until it was fixed. The VP of the company finally got involved, and claimed I was only the second person out of thousands to say something. I was thinking well either you are hiring morons, or people who just don't care.
"obviously quilty?" The defenders are just doing their job. And they are doing it legally. Just be glad that there are compentent defenders out there if you are every accussed of doing something wrong.
If you really feel that the defendant is quilty, then the fault lies with the prosecutor and the police, not with the defender.
It isn't conjecture about the iPhone. It is discussing what things are going to be like in a more touch oriented world (which iPhone will be a part of.)
This doesn't have anything to do with standards or non compliance of standards. It has to do with a paradigm shift. It has to do witht he standards don't fully support the scenario.
Someone said it isn't his problem if his website doesn't work with the iphone. Yet you designed your website for a particular set of interfaces (namely a mouse and a keyboard) While the iphone (and other touch devices) can mimic a keyboard, it is much more complicated to mimic a mouse.
One of the coolest features a mouse has, and most people don't know, is hover. Hovering gives you tooltips, it highlights areas that are clickable, among other things. When you no longer have hover, and you only have click/not click, what do you do? No more tooltips. No more highlighting the area to let the user know they can click there.
Another interesting thing, is it becomes hard to "cancel" an action by dragging off before it releases.
In the long run websites and browsers and standard will slowly change. Probably not for the iPhone, but perhaps the next version of Windows that has better touch support. Or the version after that.
I don't understand this argument.
Pretty much by definition Open Source == Free Software. One of the tenents to Open Source is you have the right to modify and redistribute the software.
Why would it be sensible for Microsoft to release its source code? If you can't rebuild the software, then what is the point. Oh sure, you could make a few changes yourself, and rebuild it for YOU. But since Microsoft retains the copyright you can't share your changes (I suppose you could release your diff) but you wouldn't be able to redistrute the finished product. So how is it sensible?
As far as the whole reuse thing, there are things called libraries. You can use these libraries without the source code.
OSI is defining "Open Source" to mean "Approved by OSI."
This is news to me, and I suspect news to about 99.9% of the population not directly connected to OSI.
If you provide some sort of license that is similar to OSI approved liscenses how is it "deceptive marketing?"
What does Open Source actually mean? Bruce was stating it means 4 things. Yet many people here don't seem to know/agree to that. So you expect non Slash Dotters to truley understand the meaning?
Based on your remarks the Patent did exactly what it was supposed to do. Make money for its inventor. Unfortuantely his competitors had more money than him, tied him up in court for 8 years, and found a loop hole (one year before the patent expired)
The purpose of a patent is to protect the inventor. A patent is supposed to encourage development. It isn't supposed to help the utility of the public. It is to encourage inventors to invent. And allow them several years of exclusive rights of their invention.
Does a patent stifle creativity? It does, of course it also encourages finding alternative methods.
Anyone who claims they program without a debugger is either lieing, writing embedded code (or something that a debugger won't work with) or is a bad programmer.
Everyone jumps up and says this is so obvious, and then proceeds to give an example of something that ISN'T a location based search.
The biggest example everyone provides is the YellowBook. Generally the only location you could search was the area the entire book covered. Sometimes the book would cover a few different areas. But what if I wanted to find the pizza places within 5 miles of my house? I could do that only by looking at every pizza place in the YellowBook, then looking up the address on a map and figuring out if it was within 5 miles.
While it may be an obvious thing to want to do, it isn't quite so obvious how one goes about doing it.
On the other hand, I would be surprised if Quantum or Compuserve or AOL or even some BBS's didn't have some sort of location based search prior to 1996.
Who is the developer supposed to listen to? The many non vocal users?
I'm working on a project. I found a forum that had some healthy discussion about my program. People were asking when the next version would be out. Others were saying that they liked a competing project better, etc. I got on the forum, and asked for ideas/suggestions/improvements. Let people know I was working on the next version. And in return, got silence.
Developers listen to the vocal few, because they are VOCAL!
Why does a university care of the student is in the lecture? The student paid for the lecture whether or not the student attends the lecture.
Who is going to alert the student if they are missing the lecture? Perhaps the student could have some other means to know they are missing the lecture?
How is knowing where the studen is going to improve security?
Do you really need a centralized location tracking students to turn lights on/off? (why would you turn the computer on unless the person sits down and uses it?) And what happens if I'm not a student? I have to stumble around in the dark?
There are a few cool things you could do if you can track a student. BUT most of those cool things make the adminstrators jobs easier, not the students. And for other things, you can use a decentralized, non invasive method (like motion sensors for lights)
Let college students be adults, and stop stomping on their rights.
Who is the onus on?
If I am walking down the street, do I need to make sure I am on a public sidewalk? Do I look for no tresspassing signs, private property signs, or "its ok to walk here" signs?
And what happens if there is a sign that says "free wireless?"
It seems to me that the guy had a lousy lawyer.
The claim is its piggybacking if you don't have the owners permission. Was there a sign posted that said "free wireless?" Did the sign say "Free wireless only if inside building?" Or "Buy a cup of coffee and get free wireless?"
I'm guess it just mentioned free wireless. Wouldn't that be construed as implied permission?
I think everyone screwed up here. The cop should have informed the coffee shop owner, and left it alone. The coffee shop owner should have better signs. The dude shouldn't have been surfing pron in the parking lot, and he should have gotten a better lawyer.
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Pretty darn good journalism. like.com said it "owns almost 12 patents." For the journalist to claim like.com said something else would be poor journalism. My guess is like.com has several patents pending, hence the reason they claim almost 12.
.... I've been working in this game for twenty years, both as programmer and as project manager; Isn't it about time you've shipped Duke Nuke'm Forever?"mutual respect" Unfortunately that is part of the problem. You have taught your gets to trust one another. You have taught them to trust others. Do they also know to distrust? In general people think everyone is like themselves, they trust and are trustworthy so they think others are trustworthy. Then little susan means John Doe online. He is a trustworthy guy. You have taught her to be trusting... And then she goes and meets this cute 15 year old... Trust your kids, but they can still make mistakes.
I don't get it. Why should there be a problem this Saturday? If I'm calculating the amount of a loan I'd use the number of years (30) possibly the number of payments (30 x 12 or 360), the percentage rate, and value of the house/car. Where does the date come in? its been a while since I've taking accounting 101, but I'm pretty sure the formulaes are date agnostic. Perhaps after I'm done computing the payments, I might print out a payment calendar (for the whole 30 years!) In which case I'd use a tried and true algorithm that doesn't use the time_t command to figure out what day of the week Jan 19, 2038 falls on. I mean I guess I can add 604800 to some value of time_t to move forward a week, although that doesn't help me figure out the day of the week a month from now.
....it wants it's article back.Seriously - any developer writing modern desktop or server applications that doesn't know how to do multi-threaded programming effectively deserves to be on EI anyway. It is not that difficult.
Actually it is EXTREMELY difficult to write good multithreading. I think the solution is double edged. Compilers/OSes need to get better about generating/dealing with multithreaded code. And programmers need to think about it a bit more. Get everything not related to the UI on separate threads.
When will we stop being impressed? Hopefully never, cause when we stop being impressed, then it means we haven't advanced far enough relative to "the good old days."
Write a letter to Gamespot. Tell them you will stop reading them unless they give honest reviews. Write a letter to Eidos, tell them you no longer read Gamespot, because Gamespot does offer truthful journalism. Write a letter to other advertisers on Gamespot, tell them you no longer read Gamespot because they kowtow to the advertisers and not to the truth.
When I signed my contract for my current job, I noticed an odd discrepency. There were two clauses that were in outright contridiction to each other. I pointed this out, and refused to sign until it was fixed. The VP of the company finally got involved, and claimed I was only the second person out of thousands to say something. I was thinking well either you are hiring morons, or people who just don't care.
"obviously quilty?" The defenders are just doing their job. And they are doing it legally. Just be glad that there are compentent defenders out there if you are every accussed of doing something wrong. If you really feel that the defendant is quilty, then the fault lies with the prosecutor and the police, not with the defender.
I assume this so called era of "positve [Radio Shack] brand identity" was BEFORE the TRaSh-80 was released?
You are right, we should force Microsoft to unbundle most of the software, like IE and Media Player.
The first thing the user does after installing the OS is to connect up to the internet and download whichever browser they want.
It isn't conjecture about the iPhone. It is discussing what things are going to be like in a more touch oriented world (which iPhone will be a part of.) This doesn't have anything to do with standards or non compliance of standards. It has to do with a paradigm shift. It has to do witht he standards don't fully support the scenario. Someone said it isn't his problem if his website doesn't work with the iphone. Yet you designed your website for a particular set of interfaces (namely a mouse and a keyboard) While the iphone (and other touch devices) can mimic a keyboard, it is much more complicated to mimic a mouse. One of the coolest features a mouse has, and most people don't know, is hover. Hovering gives you tooltips, it highlights areas that are clickable, among other things. When you no longer have hover, and you only have click/not click, what do you do? No more tooltips. No more highlighting the area to let the user know they can click there. Another interesting thing, is it becomes hard to "cancel" an action by dragging off before it releases. In the long run websites and browsers and standard will slowly change. Probably not for the iPhone, but perhaps the next version of Windows that has better touch support. Or the version after that.
I don't understand this argument. Pretty much by definition Open Source == Free Software. One of the tenents to Open Source is you have the right to modify and redistribute the software. Why would it be sensible for Microsoft to release its source code? If you can't rebuild the software, then what is the point. Oh sure, you could make a few changes yourself, and rebuild it for YOU. But since Microsoft retains the copyright you can't share your changes (I suppose you could release your diff) but you wouldn't be able to redistrute the finished product. So how is it sensible? As far as the whole reuse thing, there are things called libraries. You can use these libraries without the source code.
OSI is defining "Open Source" to mean "Approved by OSI." This is news to me, and I suspect news to about 99.9% of the population not directly connected to OSI. If you provide some sort of license that is similar to OSI approved liscenses how is it "deceptive marketing?" What does Open Source actually mean? Bruce was stating it means 4 things. Yet many people here don't seem to know/agree to that. So you expect non Slash Dotters to truley understand the meaning?
Based on your remarks the Patent did exactly what it was supposed to do. Make money for its inventor. Unfortuantely his competitors had more money than him, tied him up in court for 8 years, and found a loop hole (one year before the patent expired) The purpose of a patent is to protect the inventor. A patent is supposed to encourage development. It isn't supposed to help the utility of the public. It is to encourage inventors to invent. And allow them several years of exclusive rights of their invention. Does a patent stifle creativity? It does, of course it also encourages finding alternative methods.
If what Google is doing is Evil. Then what about all of the live webcams?
Anyone who claims they program without a debugger is either lieing, writing embedded code (or something that a debugger won't work with) or is a bad programmer.
Sure it is possible. Check out MottoSearch. http://www.tckerrigan.com/Motto%20Search
Everyone jumps up and says this is so obvious, and then proceeds to give an example of something that ISN'T a location based search. The biggest example everyone provides is the YellowBook. Generally the only location you could search was the area the entire book covered. Sometimes the book would cover a few different areas. But what if I wanted to find the pizza places within 5 miles of my house? I could do that only by looking at every pizza place in the YellowBook, then looking up the address on a map and figuring out if it was within 5 miles. While it may be an obvious thing to want to do, it isn't quite so obvious how one goes about doing it. On the other hand, I would be surprised if Quantum or Compuserve or AOL or even some BBS's didn't have some sort of location based search prior to 1996.
Why should he and his "supposed" group NOT work for Microsoft? Why would he feel more at home at a fundamental science laboratory?
Who is the developer supposed to listen to? The many non vocal users? I'm working on a project. I found a forum that had some healthy discussion about my program. People were asking when the next version would be out. Others were saying that they liked a competing project better, etc. I got on the forum, and asked for ideas/suggestions/improvements. Let people know I was working on the next version. And in return, got silence. Developers listen to the vocal few, because they are VOCAL!
Why does a university care of the student is in the lecture? The student paid for the lecture whether or not the student attends the lecture. Who is going to alert the student if they are missing the lecture? Perhaps the student could have some other means to know they are missing the lecture? How is knowing where the studen is going to improve security? Do you really need a centralized location tracking students to turn lights on/off? (why would you turn the computer on unless the person sits down and uses it?) And what happens if I'm not a student? I have to stumble around in the dark? There are a few cool things you could do if you can track a student. BUT most of those cool things make the adminstrators jobs easier, not the students. And for other things, you can use a decentralized, non invasive method (like motion sensors for lights) Let college students be adults, and stop stomping on their rights.
Who is the onus on? If I am walking down the street, do I need to make sure I am on a public sidewalk? Do I look for no tresspassing signs, private property signs, or "its ok to walk here" signs? And what happens if there is a sign that says "free wireless?"
It seems to me that the guy had a lousy lawyer. The claim is its piggybacking if you don't have the owners permission. Was there a sign posted that said "free wireless?" Did the sign say "Free wireless only if inside building?" Or "Buy a cup of coffee and get free wireless?" I'm guess it just mentioned free wireless. Wouldn't that be construed as implied permission? I think everyone screwed up here. The cop should have informed the coffee shop owner, and left it alone. The coffee shop owner should have better signs. The dude shouldn't have been surfing pron in the parking lot, and he should have gotten a better lawyer.