is it like that sign that I saw at Microsoft recently "by entering this building you agree to accept a 10% reduction of your salary to be applied on the amount indicated at the signature of your contract" ?
to second your opinion, has everyone forgotten the social utility of a job (and I mean any job) ? if you keep firing someone - from different companies - because of some inhuman (as in not actually produced by a human) numerical "value" attributed to him/her, aren't you denying his/her blessing to a decent life ? sorry for the odd example, but if a company rejects this view, it would be like the usual "I don't care about keeping other kids off the grass, since it's someone else's..."
isn't that why there are managers at different levels, each of which has 5 to 20 direct subordinates and meeting at different levels can show useful information on any subset of the organisation since these people can easily keep the tab on sch a small number of "close" colleagues ?!
I guess that TFA (as in author) has learned this from many years of trying to make their windows fit in the existing ecosystem of mini, mega and personal computers...
right, so are you saying that all those who had relatives who died in the Twin Towers accident should not be able to find another job for how many years ? (if your theory is that until their mourning is placated they are not "serving their company's function of providing a profit to the shareholders"...)
I'm always baffled by how easily sites gets overloaded by a simple post on slashdot... how many users have actually tried to open that page in order to make the site timeout so quickly and for so long ?
this was an article specific to Apple Mac and although I understand that the/. crowd is rather technically inclined (meaning most Windows aficionados would have probably skipped on it), how on earth can a few thousand (almost) simultaneous accesses bring the site to its knees ?!
funnily enough, that's the same direction of thought that I had when I switched completely to OpenOffice.org in order to read those.docx Job Descriptions that I keep receiving... why spend £200 for a non-limited copy of Office 2007 when those are the only documents that I need to read in this format...
is Microsoft buying again its way to the grave by lobbying/infiltrating places like the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 committee or the US Patent office ?!
who on Earth (and orbiting objects) would have given such locking-in patent ?
hear hear, over 2/3 (two thirds) of the World Wide Web is stored on EXT filesystems... think about it, that's a hell of a storage, and you are telling me that Windows has a monopoly on this ?
maybe, but then again it was fighting hard back in the days to simply stay on top of Netware... so it might have have on desktop computers, but now you tell me how much REAL space an average user takes on his/her computer with own data other than 20 GB of bloated opearting system files and then we'll talk again about monopoly on data storage...
10 years ? highly doubt that, more like since Windows XP SP2 which came out some 4.5 years ago
most of the time, when I reinstalled using my Windows XP original CD from 5 years ago, I then needed to also install the drivers for the card reader
invariably over 50% of the devices that you buy come with a driver CD (heck, even Dell computers come with one) because Windows is not ready for it - think Webcam, printers, wireless dongles,... - so how difficult is to insert a TomTom CD that on top of installing the GPS software also installs a tiny driver that allows to read the most common filesystem used on the World Wide Web ?
in the old days (even those Plug&Play ones) you almost invariably had to install a driver for anything that you added to the computer...
how lazy have you become to choose not to insert a standard CD that installs a EXT3 driver onto Windows the first time that you purchase a TomTom device ??
I just need a clarification (or a few):
- is the patent on FAT16, FAT32, VFAT or what ?
- is the patent about calling files with names ?
- is this a software or hardware patent ?
- is this patent valid in The Netherlands ?
- is there a need to patent obvious things done in own ways ?
(I'm pretty sure that Norton Utilities, the GEM O.S. or.nfo files have been used to assign extra information to a file on DOS/Windows before Microsoft "invented" its own way of doing it...)
no, but now you've given-out to Microsoft a new idea for a "free" stream of revenues: floppy disk manufacturers !!
am I the only one to think that we could start being charged extra money for hard disks (and storage devices in general) simply for the fact of hypothetical use of LONG_NAM.ESX, given that these were implemented in many other systems before Microsoft did and it's just them exploiting their monopoly on poorly designed DOS/Windows filesystems that people had no choice but to upgrade from ??
come again, why exactly are they suing TomTom and not the authors of the infringing code ??
sorry for replying to myself here, but I just wanted to add something after I clicked Preview+Submit:
STAY AWAY FROM RESTRICTIONS, THEY ONLY GET TIGHTER
given that being at the centre of a 20m circle means an area of over 1000 sqm, how many computers are there in such space, say in an office, and how can you make sure which precise keyboard are you "listening" to ??
does it mean that anyone directly working for a company remotely linked to the government can get away with any crime ? cool ! (this is a joke, right ?)
oh well, that was precisely my point: I would like to argue how having an humongous budget and really not caring abot project failure would make the military industry worth of the glory and praise that you claim...
do you know what's the rate of failed military project ? if I have to be taxed a sock and a half to have the military (in any country) try to find a way to make Foucault pendulum work in space, then thank you but no
and if you are suggesting that a good way to make progress in technology/engineering is to start a war, well good luck with that too !
It's probably better to learn with tighter rules first that can be relaxed later... otherwise you'll never convince someone that a camelBump may not fit in a NeedleHole (case sensitivity) or that you need to type a semicolon at the end of each line when a BASIC dialect was your best friend...
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just when I thought that I could use again my USB launcher...
is it like that sign that I saw at Microsoft recently "by entering this building you agree to accept a 10% reduction of your salary to be applied on the amount indicated at the signature of your contract" ?
sounds like the "fair use" of the unlimited Internet plans...
to second your opinion, has everyone forgotten the social utility of a job (and I mean any job) ? if you keep firing someone - from different companies - because of some inhuman (as in not actually produced by a human) numerical "value" attributed to him/her, aren't you denying his/her blessing to a decent life ? sorry for the odd example, but if a company rejects this view, it would be like the usual "I don't care about keeping other kids off the grass, since it's someone else's..."
isn't that why there are managers at different levels, each of which has 5 to 20 direct subordinates and meeting at different levels can show useful information on any subset of the organisation since these people can easily keep the tab on sch a small number of "close" colleagues ?!
I guess that TFA (as in author) has learned this from many years of trying to make their windows fit in the existing ecosystem of mini, mega and personal computers...
right, so are you saying that all those who had relatives who died in the Twin Towers accident should not be able to find another job for how many years ? (if your theory is that until their mourning is placated they are not "serving their company's function of providing a profit to the shareholders"...)
I'm always baffled by how easily sites gets overloaded by a simple post on slashdot... how many users have actually tried to open that page in order to make the site timeout so quickly and for so long ? /. crowd is rather technically inclined (meaning most Windows aficionados would have probably skipped on it), how on earth can a few thousand (almost) simultaneous accesses bring the site to its knees ?!
this was an article specific to Apple Mac and although I understand that the
funnily enough, that's the same direction of thought that I had when I switched completely to OpenOffice.org in order to read those .docx Job Descriptions that I keep receiving... why spend £200 for a non-limited copy of Office 2007 when those are the only documents that I need to read in this format...
is Microsoft buying again its way to the grave by lobbying/infiltrating places like the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 committee or the US Patent office ?!
who on Earth (and orbiting objects) would have given such locking-in patent ?
hear hear, over 2/3 (two thirds) of the World Wide Web is stored on EXT filesystems... think about it, that's a hell of a storage, and you are telling me that Windows has a monopoly on this ?
maybe, but then again it was fighting hard back in the days to simply stay on top of Netware... so it might have have on desktop computers, but now you tell me how much REAL space an average user takes on his/her computer with own data other than 20 GB of bloated opearting system files and then we'll talk again about monopoly on data storage...
10 years ? highly doubt that, more like since Windows XP SP2 which came out some 4.5 years ago ... - so how difficult is to insert a TomTom CD that on top of installing the GPS software also installs a tiny driver that allows to read the most common filesystem used on the World Wide Web ?
most of the time, when I reinstalled using my Windows XP original CD from 5 years ago, I then needed to also install the drivers for the card reader
invariably over 50% of the devices that you buy come with a driver CD (heck, even Dell computers come with one) because Windows is not ready for it - think Webcam, printers, wireless dongles,
in the old days (even those Plug&Play ones) you almost invariably had to install a driver for anything that you added to the computer...
how lazy have you become to choose not to insert a standard CD that installs a EXT3 driver onto Windows the first time that you purchase a TomTom device ??
alright, so you are saying that Edison's light bulb can be patented by anyone who puts an extension cord on it ??
I just need a clarification (or a few): .nfo files have been used to assign extra information to a file on DOS/Windows before Microsoft "invented" its own way of doing it...)
- is the patent on FAT16, FAT32, VFAT or what ?
- is the patent about calling files with names ?
- is this a software or hardware patent ?
- is this patent valid in The Netherlands ?
- is there a need to patent obvious things done in own ways ?
(I'm pretty sure that Norton Utilities, the GEM O.S. or
no, but now you've given-out to Microsoft a new idea for a "free" stream of revenues: floppy disk manufacturers !!
am I the only one to think that we could start being charged extra money for hard disks (and storage devices in general) simply for the fact of hypothetical use of LONG_NAM.ESX, given that these were implemented in many other systems before Microsoft did and it's just them exploiting their monopoly on poorly designed DOS/Windows filesystems that people had no choice but to upgrade from ??
come again, why exactly are they suing TomTom and not the authors of the infringing code ??
sorry for replying to myself here, but I just wanted to add something after I clicked Preview+Submit:
STAY AWAY FROM RESTRICTIONS, THEY ONLY GET TIGHTER
1) remove the offending licensed code from TomTom custom distribution
2) change the licensing terms of that GPL code to something else
what is this "Laches" timeout and wasn't the FAT16 patent awarded just a couple of years ago ?
given that being at the centre of a 20m circle means an area of over 1000 sqm, how many computers are there in such space, say in an office, and how can you make sure which precise keyboard are you "listening" to ??
does it mean that anyone directly working for a company remotely linked to the government can get away with any crime ? cool ! (this is a joke, right ?)
who cares about fragmentation anymore, given that file allocation on USB drives and SSD is done at hardware level anyway... ?
oh well, that was precisely my point: I would like to argue how having an humongous budget and really not caring abot project failure would make the military industry worth of the glory and praise that you claim...
do you know what's the rate of failed military project ? if I have to be taxed a sock and a half to have the military (in any country) try to find a way to make Foucault pendulum work in space, then thank you but no
and if you are suggesting that a good way to make progress in technology/engineering is to start a war, well good luck with that too !
but it did get plenty of pyramids to be the tallest buildings for millennia...
It's probably better to learn with tighter rules first that can be relaxed later... otherwise you'll never convince someone that a camelBump may not fit in a NeedleHole (case sensitivity) or that you need to type a semicolon at the end of each line when a BASIC dialect was your best friend...