No, but as soon as someone has a patent in hand you are looking at some very expensive litigation if that someone comes after you. It gets even worse when they already have licensees in hand. Generally these were people with not enough money to fight and instead licensed because it was just cheaper.
So prior art stays, but first to file just makes it easier for the deep pockets to get their patents.
Some people do get patent law. I've had to deal with enough of it that I've been forced to understand it.
Just because the rest of the world uses first to file is no reason the US should do so. This is one of the few cases in which the US system is the right way. First to file is completely wrong on all levels.
Dalvik doesn't implement any of the Java standard. They're not taking shortcuts to make it faster. Rather they went with a register based VM like Parrot, instead of a stack based VM like Java. The Dalvik bytecode files are bigger than the equivalent Java files as a result, but the fact that a register based approach is so much faster results in the Dalvik code still running faster.
I'm sure the president has the ability to veto this though. Surely he will?
Sure he could, but since it was passed on 72 to 23 it would be overridden in a heart beat (unlikely that 7 yeas will turn to nays). The only real option open to the president if he is unhappy with the bill is to let it sit on his desk and become law unsigned.
Congress isn't going out of town anytime soon so a pocket veto won't happen.
The Optotraffic representatives don't help themselves. At 50 mph he covers those 50 ft in 2/3 of a second. At 35 roughly one second. Just for the sake of simplicity lets use 1 second. To declerate 15 mph in 50 feet is 22 ft/s^2. That's roughly 2/3 g with simplified numbers. If you decided to be rigorous, it would be higher. I'd like to know what discs and rotors they use because they are damned good.
I use the zip code of my beach home. What will I do next year when I sell my primary home and move there permanently? Guess I'll just need to give the old zip at that point.
You'll really want to use the ADT plugin for Eclipse. I'm not a fan of Eclipse, but it is decent. The ADT provides you with just about everything you'll need and makes pushing your code to the emulator or a device easy.
Thankfully Palm tells you how to do this for free on any WebOS device. Download the tools for free and install your own apps over a USB cable. I think someone actually has a way of doing this wireless too.
In stocks today a P/E of almost 22 is high. It should be ok, but for most equities investors won't touch it.
The big one to me is $0.00 in dividends. Go to hell and keep your damned stock. No way I would invest in any equity whose company is profitable and paying no dividends. Now I might work for them, but wouldn't invest in them.:)
Ah, we have an Austrian Economic Theorist in the house. So the fact that these booms and busts happened before central or reserve banks and even banks in general is explained by? Or even that they happen in non-economic systems?
You can argue that they exacerbate them, but the evidence shows they don't cause them. In fact the evidence makes it very easy to argue that they actually make them less severe.
Berne Convention is only applicable to works that fall under the 1976 Copyright Act. Anything from before falls under the 1909 Copyright Act. If you didn't renew, the work became public domain. It's a Wonderful Life was a forgotten flop until someone figured out that it had fallen into the public domain through non-renewal. The UHF channels picked it up and started showing it since they wouldn't need to pay anyone. Now it's a Christmas classic. Go figure.
As a business owner we are told that the best course is to give NO reason when we fire someone. Giving reason can potentially come back to bite you.
There are EEO protected classes, but that still doesn't stop people from being fired discrimination on these points. You need to bring a wrongful termination suit. You need to prove with evidence that you were fired for one of the protected reasons. If your case is a little weak, you can't even hope a jury trial will help. In NC, juries are largely unsympathetic with wrongful termination cases.
So yes, just about anywhere in the US you can be fired for 'just because.' In the south, doubly so.
Not all of Sun's Java code went into Harmony et. al. So, maybe.
The point of the project was that NONE of Sun's Java code would go into the project. They started with a clean slate and implemented all of the methods with their own code. They also had processes in place with the intention of keeping out the original Java code in contributions.
Oracle is basically stating that by using the same package names, class names, and parameters that Android is an infringing derivative. This is the same argument as the SCO ABI argument. That was laughed out of court IIRC.
Advertisers are not handed the information. Advertisers specify the characteristics of the user they'd like to advertise to. I helped a friend advertise her bistro. We said who we'd like to show the ad to. Facebook then said how many people it was shown to each day, but never who. For all I know they could have lied on the number and charged her credit card anyway, but her fan count definitely took off quicker with the advertising and business went up. Was it the advertising onFacebook? It appears so, but I can't prove it.
As for application developers, of which I am one... Please tell me how you expect the social aspects of the games are supposed to work if I CAN'T pull information? Sure you can lock everything down. These are the same people who can't lock their account down. They're going to bitch when things don't just work in the games because they can't figure out how to open them up.
Here's what I tell people: If you don't want it known, don't tell it to Facebook. Belong to the Church of Satan, but don't want people to know? Don't put it in your profile. And maybe take 10 minutes to go through the privacy controls they're not that hard.
Still don't like it? Don't open a damned account. It's nice that you put up solutions, but the possibility of any of those happening is zero to nil.
Quite correct, but... I worked for IBM for 12 years. There was no real reason that IBM needs the entire 9/8 block. How many more months could we get if all of the class As were required to give up a large portion of those addresses? Here's the list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks.
Anyone who argues that IPv6 is unnecessary is a fool. The migration is not going to be easy, especially once we hit the non-technical home user. Anything that pushes the date back on IPv4 exhaustion is good and shouldn't be derided. All of the ISPs need to start now. Even then it is going to be a real pain to get there by the time we run out of addresses.
Ah, no. The lye is used to cure them. Olives are naturally bitter and need to be cured or fermented first. For California olives, they are picked full size, but green. They are soaked in lye to remove the phenolics and other compounds that make them bitter. Black olives are obtained by aerating the solution and oxidizing the olives. When they don't use aeration, it is ferrous sulfate or ferrous gluconate. The olives are soaked in clean water a few times to remove the lye and other chemicals used in the process.
Why would using instanceof be a tying factor to Java. It's the same as the 'is' operator in C#. I personally like the instanceof terminology better. More keystrokes, but it is extremely clear that you are asking if something is an instance of the object you are testing for.
Automatic memory management is hardly a Java thing. Plenty of other interpreters do that too. Back to C#, the only way you can come close to manual memory management is to use the 'using' keyword to define a scope for an object. It gets collected when you leave that scope. It is all automatic otherwise..dex and.class files are hugely different in structure. The byte codes do not translate 1:1. In fact the dex file ends up being bigger because Dalvik is register based. Still ends up being executed faster because Dalvik is register based.
Maybe you have deeper arguments behind those statements, but I'm not seeing them.
It's been a few years since I've dealt with Parrot, but the GP actually makes an extremely interesting point. I don't think you'd get to use any language with a grammar engine automatically on Parrot. There is still the sticking point of accessing the android.*, dalvik.*, and the org.* classes in those languages. If you can't talk to android.widget.* you can't talk to the UI.
But it doesn't use the Java class library as developed and distributed by Sun or Oracle. It uses a clean room implementation (Apache Harmony) of the same class structure and method interfaces. The interfaces are the same, but the code behind them are completely different (or as different as two programmers trying to achieve the same task ever are).
To argue that this is an infringement on any of Sun/Oracle's IP rights is to say that the SCO ABI argument was correct. As I recall, the court took a dim view of that characterization.
I can put my Android Apps together in a language and toolkit I already know. Thankfully it never ends up running on the slow, piggish JVM. Instead it runs on Dalvik, which is register based like the Parrot VM. Register based VMs always beat a stack based VM (JVM) for performance.
Google is doing what you should always do in a patent battle. You should always argue that you are A) Not doing that and B) even if you are they are over broad and invalid due to prior art. A is easy and B is probably still hard even after Bilski.
Exactly. I read the claims. I'm sorry, but the instant they added a GPS chip to phones and gave us programmatic access, this all became obvious. With even simple GPS access you can get location, direction, and speed. Using this in conjunction with anything you've done before is obvious. Maybe not always useful, but you can do it.
Then again this is the patent office and I'm sure that they are always surprised when it starts raining. When your definition of obvious is so low, dark clouds cannot be an indicator of rain.
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No, but as soon as someone has a patent in hand you are looking at some very expensive litigation if that someone comes after you. It gets even worse when they already have licensees in hand. Generally these were people with not enough money to fight and instead licensed because it was just cheaper.
So prior art stays, but first to file just makes it easier for the deep pockets to get their patents.
Some people do get patent law. I've had to deal with enough of it that I've been forced to understand it.
Just because the rest of the world uses first to file is no reason the US should do so. This is one of the few cases in which the US system is the right way. First to file is completely wrong on all levels.
Dalvik doesn't implement any of the Java standard. They're not taking shortcuts to make it faster. Rather they went with a register based VM like Parrot, instead of a stack based VM like Java. The Dalvik bytecode files are bigger than the equivalent Java files as a result, but the fact that a register based approach is so much faster results in the Dalvik code still running faster.
I'm sure the president has the ability to veto this though. Surely he will?
Sure he could, but since it was passed on 72 to 23 it would be overridden in a heart beat (unlikely that 7 yeas will turn to nays). The only real option open to the president if he is unhappy with the bill is to let it sit on his desk and become law unsigned.
Congress isn't going out of town anytime soon so a pocket veto won't happen.
http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_law.html
The Optotraffic representatives don't help themselves. At 50 mph he covers those 50 ft in 2/3 of a second. At 35 roughly one second. Just for the sake of simplicity lets use 1 second. To declerate 15 mph in 50 feet is 22 ft/s^2. That's roughly 2/3 g with simplified numbers. If you decided to be rigorous, it would be higher. I'd like to know what discs and rotors they use because they are damned good.
It is BS because they've put a lot of thought into it. If the app looks like crap it's probably because the developer did everything they say not to do on this page:
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html
iOS apps can look like crap too when the developer doesn't do what you need to do there for screen independence.
I use the zip code of my beach home. What will I do next year when I sell my primary home and move there permanently? Guess I'll just need to give the old zip at that point.
Tuttle, Heating Engineer at Your Service That was the first thing I thought of when I heard about this.
They need to browse the web with Google Paper!
You'll really want to use the ADT plugin for Eclipse. I'm not a fan of Eclipse, but it is decent. The ADT provides you with just about everything you'll need and makes pushing your code to the emulator or a device easy.
Thankfully Palm tells you how to do this for free on any WebOS device. Download the tools for free and install your own apps over a USB cable. I think someone actually has a way of doing this wireless too.
http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1552&Itemid=59#dev_mode
Really nice OS, sensible company. Pitiful marketshare. :(
Yes, lets. With gas prices going through $3 a gallon and higher in coming years, Exxon's profit margin should be quite safe.
In stocks today a P/E of almost 22 is high. It should be ok, but for most equities investors won't touch it.
The big one to me is $0.00 in dividends. Go to hell and keep your damned stock. No way I would invest in any equity whose company is profitable and paying no dividends. Now I might work for them, but wouldn't invest in them. :)
Ah, we have an Austrian Economic Theorist in the house. So the fact that these booms and busts happened before central or reserve banks and even banks in general is explained by? Or even that they happen in non-economic systems?
You can argue that they exacerbate them, but the evidence shows they don't cause them. In fact the evidence makes it very easy to argue that they actually make them less severe.
Berne Convention is only applicable to works that fall under the 1976 Copyright Act. Anything from before falls under the 1909 Copyright Act. If you didn't renew, the work became public domain. It's a Wonderful Life was a forgotten flop until someone figured out that it had fallen into the public domain through non-renewal. The UHF channels picked it up and started showing it since they wouldn't need to pay anyone. Now it's a Christmas classic. Go figure.
My wife is in the same boat. She's currently enrolled in Innumeracy 201.
"All it takes is a dollar and a dream."
"Gotta be in it to win it."
Great ads and they work better than the truth of: Have no bloody clue what a probability is.
And their 10-Q definitely indicates that they're not losing money. http://biz.yahoo.com/e/101028/msft10-q.html
The stock price is a meaningless indicator unless you are using it indirectly with their P/E ratio.
You don't work in North Carolina, do you? In the US there is the concept of 'at will employment.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
As a business owner we are told that the best course is to give NO reason when we fire someone. Giving reason can potentially come back to bite you.
There are EEO protected classes, but that still doesn't stop people from being fired discrimination on these points. You need to bring a wrongful termination suit. You need to prove with evidence that you were fired for one of the protected reasons. If your case is a little weak, you can't even hope a jury trial will help. In NC, juries are largely unsympathetic with wrongful termination cases.
So yes, just about anywhere in the US you can be fired for 'just because.' In the south, doubly so.
Not all of Sun's Java code went into Harmony et. al. So, maybe.
The point of the project was that NONE of Sun's Java code would go into the project. They started with a clean slate and implemented all of the methods with their own code. They also had processes in place with the intention of keeping out the original Java code in contributions.
Oracle is basically stating that by using the same package names, class names, and parameters that Android is an infringing derivative. This is the same argument as the SCO ABI argument. That was laughed out of court IIRC.
Advertisers are not handed the information. Advertisers specify the characteristics of the user they'd like to advertise to. I helped a friend advertise her bistro. We said who we'd like to show the ad to. Facebook then said how many people it was shown to each day, but never who. For all I know they could have lied on the number and charged her credit card anyway, but her fan count definitely took off quicker with the advertising and business went up. Was it the advertising onFacebook? It appears so, but I can't prove it.
As for application developers, of which I am one... Please tell me how you expect the social aspects of the games are supposed to work if I CAN'T pull information? Sure you can lock everything down. These are the same people who can't lock their account down. They're going to bitch when things don't just work in the games because they can't figure out how to open them up.
Here's what I tell people: If you don't want it known, don't tell it to Facebook. Belong to the Church of Satan, but don't want people to know? Don't put it in your profile. And maybe take 10 minutes to go through the privacy controls they're not that hard.
Still don't like it? Don't open a damned account. It's nice that you put up solutions, but the possibility of any of those happening is zero to nil.
Quite correct, but... I worked for IBM for 12 years. There was no real reason that IBM needs the entire 9/8 block. How many more months could we get if all of the class As were required to give up a large portion of those addresses? Here's the list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks.
Anyone who argues that IPv6 is unnecessary is a fool. The migration is not going to be easy, especially once we hit the non-technical home user. Anything that pushes the date back on IPv4 exhaustion is good and shouldn't be derided. All of the ISPs need to start now. Even then it is going to be a real pain to get there by the time we run out of addresses.
Ah, no. The lye is used to cure them. Olives are naturally bitter and need to be cured or fermented first. For California olives, they are picked full size, but green. They are soaked in lye to remove the phenolics and other compounds that make them bitter. Black olives are obtained by aerating the solution and oxidizing the olives. When they don't use aeration, it is ferrous sulfate or ferrous gluconate. The olives are soaked in clean water a few times to remove the lye and other chemicals used in the process.
Why would using instanceof be a tying factor to Java. It's the same as the 'is' operator in C#. I personally like the instanceof terminology better. More keystrokes, but it is extremely clear that you are asking if something is an instance of the object you are testing for.
Automatic memory management is hardly a Java thing. Plenty of other interpreters do that too. Back to C#, the only way you can come close to manual memory management is to use the 'using' keyword to define a scope for an object. It gets collected when you leave that scope. It is all automatic otherwise. .dex and .class files are hugely different in structure. The byte codes do not translate 1:1. In fact the dex file ends up being bigger because Dalvik is register based. Still ends up being executed faster because Dalvik is register based.
Maybe you have deeper arguments behind those statements, but I'm not seeing them.
It's been a few years since I've dealt with Parrot, but the GP actually makes an extremely interesting point. I don't think you'd get to use any language with a grammar engine automatically on Parrot. There is still the sticking point of accessing the android.*, dalvik.*, and the org.* classes in those languages. If you can't talk to android.widget.* you can't talk to the UI.
But it doesn't use the Java class library as developed and distributed by Sun or Oracle. It uses a clean room implementation (Apache Harmony) of the same class structure and method interfaces. The interfaces are the same, but the code behind them are completely different (or as different as two programmers trying to achieve the same task ever are).
To argue that this is an infringement on any of Sun/Oracle's IP rights is to say that the SCO ABI argument was correct. As I recall, the court took a dim view of that characterization.
I can put my Android Apps together in a language and toolkit I already know. Thankfully it never ends up running on the slow, piggish JVM. Instead it runs on Dalvik, which is register based like the Parrot VM. Register based VMs always beat a stack based VM (JVM) for performance.
Google is doing what you should always do in a patent battle. You should always argue that you are A) Not doing that and B) even if you are they are over broad and invalid due to prior art. A is easy and B is probably still hard even after Bilski.
Exactly. I read the claims. I'm sorry, but the instant they added a GPS chip to phones and gave us programmatic access, this all became obvious. With even simple GPS access you can get location, direction, and speed. Using this in conjunction with anything you've done before is obvious. Maybe not always useful, but you can do it.
Then again this is the patent office and I'm sure that they are always surprised when it starts raining. When your definition of obvious is so low, dark clouds cannot be an indicator of rain.