Comment Re:Wow, quite the article... (Score 1) 548
It's not up to the U.S. market to decide whether all pc's should be running SecureBoot. Would China go along with Secure Boot, or would they just design and build their own PC's?
Comment Re:Dreamweaver (Score 1) 545
Arachnophilia supports Unicode as of 03/31/2011. Can someone tell the Slashdot Designers that they should update their wysiwyg editor?
Comment Re:The Surface has revenue to shuffle? (Score 1) 165
WP7 is version 7, not version 1. It's unfair to compare a 7.0 release to the 1.0 releases of other companies. But, in this case, if one would compare a WP7 phone with an iPhone 1.0, WP7 loses.
Comment innovation? (Score 2, Insightful) 74
EA just reinvented the R&D department.
5 Years of Linux Kernel Releases Benchmarked 52
An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has published benchmarks of the past five years worth of Linux kernel releases, from the Linux 2.6.12 through Linux 2.6.37 (dev) releases. The results from these benchmarks of 26 versions show that, for the most part, new features haven't affected performance."
Comment Re:I'm shocked. (Score 2, Insightful) 589
Microsoft is just one of many who sell office suites. There is no 'ripping of Microsoft's branding'.
Submission + - Should the Patent Authority be Outlawed
previewlounge writes: Amazon patented the "one-click" purchase button .. or system ... or technique ...
Is this a methodology? Is this an intellectual property? If so, who cares? Amazon does, and so do hundreds of thousands of patent applicants applying for their own patents.
Facebook has patented the GPS-based social network function of "automatically locating web-based social network members".
Facebook did not develop GPS systems, and neither did Amazon develop the system of commerce, the system of purchasing at shops.
To purchase by clicking one button is common sense. To allow a patent on this, is (imho) an offense against society and commerce.
Where does common sense start and commercially enforceable "ownership" begin?
If a patent is granted, a wide range of implications accompany this; most importantly for general populations, the implications are financial ... and creative.
This Patent Authority who gives out these patents is supported by law, however if the general good of society is being compromised, should the systems and methods be allowed to be patented? Should the international network of Patent and Trademark Offices be outlawed?
Is this a methodology? Is this an intellectual property? If so, who cares? Amazon does, and so do hundreds of thousands of patent applicants applying for their own patents.
Facebook has patented the GPS-based social network function of "automatically locating web-based social network members".
Facebook did not develop GPS systems, and neither did Amazon develop the system of commerce, the system of purchasing at shops.
To purchase by clicking one button is common sense. To allow a patent on this, is (imho) an offense against society and commerce.
Where does common sense start and commercially enforceable "ownership" begin?
If a patent is granted, a wide range of implications accompany this; most importantly for general populations, the implications are financial
This Patent Authority who gives out these patents is supported by law, however if the general good of society is being compromised, should the systems and methods be allowed to be patented? Should the international network of Patent and Trademark Offices be outlawed?
Comment Re:Birds themselves could be creating new viruses (Score 1) 42
[i]This would be like asking a word processing program written for CP/M then transferred by paper tape to a TRS 80, then transferred by modem a computer running OS X to start decoding video streams. [/i][br]
You are talking about Emacs, right?
Comment Re:For what purpose? (Score 5, Interesting) 343
I've skimmed through the first pdf. It looks like they are trying to build an Event Control system. Designed to control and identify people at large events, like soccer games. Some countries in Europe have a real problem with soccer hooligans. Or just plain riots, like the ones in France last year. It's the cops who want a system to identify the rioters. Seems logical to me, Jim.
But the government could mis-use it for anything they want. And that scares me, as a E.U. citizen.
Comment Re:Oblig SCTV ref. (Score 1) 594
Smell-O-vision, or Odorama. Not Smell-O-Rama.
Comment Re:Illegal under Net Neutrality (Score 1) 196
It's not only about Net Neutrality. QOS for one user means DOS for other users. Do those users get a discount because their traffic is slowed down?
Comment Re:This is best invention from Microsoft ever. (Score 1) 453
This is the most brilliant invention Microsoft has ever come up with.
Saddening, isn't it?
Comment Re:Reading into it? (Score 1) 417
That's exactly what they used to say at the Apple R&D team.
Comment Re:I'd hope so. (Score 1) 171
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Comment Re:Um ... a "friend" of mine wants to know (Score 1) 120
Asking stupid questions on
