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Comment Re:I got the facts ... (Score 1, Informative) 524

I really like the ability to highlight text then search Google for it using the right click menu. I know this is just robbed from Mozilla, buy they do say copying is the highest form of flattery.

I also like the ability to highlight text then see it translated into a different language in a little popup. Hopefully this is not patented so other browsers can now copy it but I am probably being overly optimistic here.

try the ubiquity firefox addon

Comment Re:You forgot something (Score 1) 325

It is a known fact that several JVMs out there do leak just by running. Even if you try, Java, with its language constructs, makes it difficult to control memory management and fine tuning.

Look at the WeakReference class and its family, if this is not a fine tuned memory management i don't know what it is. But to use it correctly you have to understandt the Java memory model. Also I have a some servers running a J2EE app and I currently have a 6 month up time. Last down time was a scheduled application update.

Patents

Submission + - UK Allows Full-Blown Software Patent (computerworlduk.com)

Glyn Moody writes: "In Europe, software patents are not allowed "as such" (whatever that means). The UK has been one of the most rigorous in rejecting attempts to patent software — until now. A decision (PDF) handed down by the UK Intellectual Property Office has given Nokia a patent for "a software implemented method for developing networked applications for a wireless mobile device, the software enabling a developer to use a computer remote from a wireless mobile device to call, over a network connection, modular software elements resident on the wireless mobile device and to combine and execute modular software elements resident on the device by using a script composed on the computer and transferred to the wireless mobile device." The reasoning draws on an earlier judgment that held software was patentable when "there is more than just a "better program", there is a faster and more reliable computer." Is that a viable distinction, and is it likely to open the floodgates to software patents in UK and Europe?"

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