By the age when people are typically diagnosed with Alzheimer's, skin cancer is very common. Is anyone likely to question a purely coincidental diagnosis of skin cancer in a 70-year-old and its subsequent treatment?
Perhaps TBL was hedging his bets by using logic that would either 1) win the case, or 2) cause the case to be lost so terribly badly and with such devastating precedent that major tech firms would join him in opposing software patents.
As a third-party observer, the funny part is watching people fall all over themselves to be the first to correct the OP's statement.
If they wrote the browser themselves, then they might have a claim that an IPC-aware browser was a novel thing.
He would've been in a race with AMosaic, an Amiga web browser with an ARexx interface that allowed it to interact with other applications and scripts and which was publicly released on Christmas 1993.
It takes an author years of their life to arrange the words in such a way as to bring entertainment value to you in the form of a book. But, because of this new technology that makes copying that arrangement effortless they don't deserve to get paid for years of work?
Your message was typed into a free web browser connected to a non-proprietary, royalty-free network and delivered to a crowd full of F/OSS advocates on a free website running on a Free operating system.
I don't know about the rest of your writing skills, but you have the whole irony thing down, my friend.
Which lesson is that? Keep your code portable?
You beat me to it. For the vast majority of apps, adding a new architecture to a build is as simple as changing the build target in Xcode. The other 1% needing more low-level control should be sufficiently competent to port the CPU-specific code to a new architecture.
I think Apple developers learned something in the PPC->Intel migration: Apple won't support your bad architectural decisions to the detriment of all their other vendors and customers.
While this is a great idea, in some cases it'll be a race to get an open spot, even worse than now.
So add a feature where you can reserve a spot with your credit card by pre-paying double the normal rate from the moment of reservation to the moment you actually park your car. Take reserved spots off the list and make them clearly visible in real life, like with a blinking red LED on top showing that it's unavailable.
Plenty of people would pay double for a few minutes for the privilege of having a spot waiting for them.
Having lived there in the early 90s, I can say that my car was much more of a hindrance than a blessing!
I moved here three weeks ago and I'm selling the car I have back home ASAP. You're exactly right: transit is so plentiful and cheap, and walking so easy, that I have absolutely no desire to register, insure, drive, and park a car here. It's way more of a hassle than just taking the BART or Muni to within a block of my destination and walking the rest.
I hadn't been on public transportation in nearly two decades before moving here and was never interested in it, but this has won me over. It's a model of how it can and should be. Plus, we have Zipcar for when you really need to drive around for a few hours.
Whenever the GOP is in power they seem to spend more time grandstanding for political advantage than doing the work of the people
...he says in response to a news story about a Democratic in power refusing to do the work of the people.
Can we get past the idea that either major US party cares more about the citizenry than the other?
The biggest stumbling block was with my parents. That BASIC cartridge wasn't exactly free and they were gun shy about buying me a better system. I kept my mouth shut about the limitations of that little ZX81 until I learned enough to make use of it anyway. I was able to impress them enough with my enthusiasm that it was easier to talk them into getting a Commodore 64 a few months later.
Again, my own ZX81 came with the 16KB cartridge. It had 1KB "native".
Necessity has no law. -- St. Augustine