Re: Oh dear.
What about the color of eyes, weight and length. Education, perhaps too difficult to measure.
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Why are you picking on Lewis all the time?. He is clearly an optimist and wants to show us "the sunny side".
Perhaps I am sarcastic, but we all know that the end is shitty anyway. We all know we do not know enough and some of us believe we can learn more about how this planet reacts. Any new ideas, data is interesting, I think.
Reliable sources whisper that Apple has been granted a patent for producing a phone using some "new" material.
So you got the picture now. Best of all, they whisper, is that the phone will magically transform into a Samsung unworkable phone filled with Apple patents.
Of course you newer know with reliable sources
Apple wanted to get rid of Google fast as possible so the bosses asked other bosses if they could produce a superb system bye them selves fast as hell. They all said "Yes" as that is the only answer allowed. Then they asked the programmers and others if they can do it, and again the answer was "Yes" as that is the only answer programmers are allowed to use. I should know, I said "Yes" for 35 years. It is indeed very common, and probably one of the reasons why many good programmers do open source rather than work for companies run by idiots and so damned dependent on what ever Christmas or similar event is approaching. The rest is history.
Makes me happy, in fact.
As somebody pointed out without up to date maps you have absolutely nothing and I wont believe TomTom is the reason here as their navigators work fine. A map is not a map but a hell of a lot of code you have to make into a map.
If you do not know how to work with that data you produce rubbish.
He he.
Funny how (at least I) think there is always something to the name. What would you choose "Openmoko" or "Android". Most of the open source naming is rather "funny", Linux as an exception like Apache, for instance.
Still if you want to check all the cell phones based on Linux, just have a look at www.linuxfordevices.com
,it goes a long way back.
Incidentally, I still don't know if one should write Linux or linux.
If you want to know something about it just look for Case COMP/C-3/37.792 Microsoft and read it.
American companies turned to the EU for help as the US did nothing. The browser is just on of the matters involved, perhaps the least significant.
This "Case" is from 2004, it really takes time and I am quite sure the money EU had to pay for running this case might have been more than the rather modest amount of money Microsoft has payed (or have they) compared to what they could have been demanded to pay.
And for a short answer about who took the money, think lawyers.
Help me out, but I wonder how many countries have this "jury" system. Is it an Anglo-American system only.
I did like the "Twelve brave men" film, (where were the women) very much and I know at least every second film ever made in dear USA is about a jury. But the end, as mostly, in the USA, is a happy end. The innocent are always cleared and there are happy faces and a lot of nice, heart stopping tears, running down both old and yuong cheeks. I cannot remember one single film where the jury was wrong. (perhaps my memory is bad).
I also find it very revealing that the innocent are apart from happy also very surprised.
Just bury the jury even when dealing with people, especially when dealing with well known sportsmen.
Anyway, how the hell could we expect anything more than a 50/50 chance of justice dealing with patent questions bye any jury. And I think the answer to this is that a fifty fifty chance to win is exactly why cases are brought before a jury in the USA. Just look a SCO, the jury was their only chance to survive. (many thanks to the jury in this case, and many more to Groklaw).
Still the real rascal is the office granting all there patents accepting absolutely anything without doing anything to check prior art and demanding absolutely nothing like a working example. All that is needed i a text and perhaps some sketch.
If you add together all the software patents granted to big companies each year I think 99% is absolute rubbish.
The only software I remember since 1968 worth a patent was VisiCalc, and there was "some" prior art even to that, still. In those days VisiCalc was not considered patentable. Patent lawyers have since then seen the light , unfortunately.
What about relying a bit more on all this "forensic" stuff we are given to day, choked with, hats and coats.
I would like to add that theinquirer works, well, as before and the problem with the Reg is the addition of this black cookie story. Having been a web programmer too, I know It cannot be a big deal to correct it if you know there is a problem. Or am I the only person using a Nokia for this.
Forward again, please.
Is this the only way or perhaps the wrong way too.
What annoys me is that you have fucked up El Reg on my Nokia cellphone. I used to read the Reg frequently on a Nokia N92 but now I am stuck with your black cookie story and I cannot get any further from that.
Regards Lars
Sadly some sites I use, use Java, and will not work properly without it. The suggestion to use an other browser for those few sites was a good one. As such I have nothing against Java and as a programmer I have not really ever used it. The slowness, bye Oracle, to respond seems to be the problem, otherwise we would have ceased to use computers, He he.
For all you feeling so bad about being accused of having a turkey in the family three remember we are all African from the beginning. So just call your self African and get over it. The important thing to remember is that you are not American as the possibility for the Americans to reach the islands in those days is so remote.
Having spent time in two companies in Lund (a lovely place) I am not that surprised. People don't work more than three days a week, Friday is for lottery and chatting, monday for dropping in late. There seems to be one secretary for every three persons and at least two cellphones for anybody higher up. Then there is the kitchen, chauffeurs and what not. The number of bosses outnumbers anything else in the company. Programming tasks are given to the youngest girls as programming is below anything decent well paid people do. So if the company is an IT company I would estimate that out of the 650 persons some 25 actually produce something. And most of them do it at home rather than at work. Still the interesting thing is that a company like that can do very well provided they have at least a couple of persons who provide.
"I'm willing to bet there's more illegal copies of windows globally than legal".
I would not bet on that as most PC machines come with Windows preloaded and it has been like that for a long time, then of course some of them have probably been upgraded illegally if possible, but as we know there is a limit to that.
Perhaps that was sarcasm or something it`s not called BIOS anymore and it can be changed like any program.
Microsoft has tried to bond Windows with programs and hardware almost from the beginning and they will contine to do it.
Years ago Gates predicted that harware would become very cheap while the price of software would increase.
So when the bond between hardware and Windows is strong enough then Microsoft will be able to increase the price of Windows anyway they like.
I hope they fail.
Hang on Sill Water, if you believe that testing will always reveal every error then you just have no experience.
I remember a program I wrote long ago, it worked for about three months but then started to tilt every now and then. In the beginning the users, four ladies, just booted the machine, and started again. Eventually it did it more and more often and I had to look into it.
The error was easy to find and easy to mend and the reason was that one of the girls developed an incredible speed with her five finger numeric input.
I could never have found that error, nor anybody working in our company by testing it.
(A faster processor would not have revealed that error ever.)
I have corrected programs that worked OK for many years until then suddenly there was a problem.
The testing surrounding is never exactly the same as real life and the input, no matter how hard you try, is never as complete as in real life.
Still I think there should have been some means to prevent it from going on like it did.
Also I am sure any additional programming and testing that perhaps the programing department might have asked for, might have been rejected by those who decide, because of costs and time tables.
Much bigger losses of money have occurred because of programing errors. And they will always remain no matter what we do.
Nothing against your post, but those it really matter how many cats, dogs and parrots have accounts and how many are false, duplicate and so on. who cares how many similar "persons" have an hotmail or gmail account.
The problem seems to be that Facebook for such a long time tried to speak about how many persons used Facebook. I have a feeling that sooner or later intelligent people give up, I never started, Does not prove me intelligent, however.
If I was a great lier I would say I am surprised Microsoft does not provide those programs for free in order to save the cost of rewriting good programs for their customers because their IE platform got rotten.
But I am not, so good luck Browsium.
There was a time when Unix customers wanted to switch to the, then new, NT, and many did. The most important tools to make that possible where made bye some university in Utah. Unix scripts for Windows, the most important where those dealing with character substitutions.
There is perhaps something to like about touch, but I think it's a bit wrong to compare it to a mouse and or a keyboard.
The thing that so easily is forgotten, is for instance, that with a mouse your hand rests, the movement your hand has to do is small and apart from that you have easy input from a least four fingers, and your hand does not hide your screen.
Touch is rather heavy work and very restricted, really, compared to a mouse, and the bigger the screen the longer your hand movement will become.
Touch is very old, (too) used, for instance, on monitors for those dealing with air control.
Right now I can understand touch only on very small handheld devices like cell phones or "industrial" screens used only now and then to define stuff, but not as a constant input.
Now, I did forget to mention the mouse less laptop I use right now, of course, and also Microsoft.
Then about Valve Software, why would they not be interested in a growing market like linux.
I suppose when you buy a company it's because you need the experts and perhaps the customers of that company. But I think some big companies, like Microsoft, very soon, let those "experts" understand they are now lucky to be among the expert experts and it's high time to learn how to think and behave.
For a while I also had this bad feeling about Elop having a Microsoft mission for Nokia.
To day I simply think the guy is totally worthless to run any company at all.
Too bad, but one has to remember that Nokia fell a sleep long before Elop pulled the helm out of the ship.