Do you read?
Books, magazines, etc print text in portrait mode.
Heck, the newspapers even print the text in several columns to avoid very long lines, as that makes text more difficult to read. (I hate programmers that create 200-character statements on one line.)
For people using computers for text (documents, programming, etc) rather than watching movies, the vertical resolution is valuable.
The problem with this is that if I decide to patent "Online Purchasing of Movies", then I will effectivly shut off all other people and get a monopoly on it
Well, a patent IS a monopoly granted by the state to individuals or corporations.
Patents == monopolies. Let that sink in.
I am a proponent of free markets where anyone can compete. I think monopolies should be abolished. Monopolies or guilds should not exist in a free market economy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild
So why should authors of software have different rules than authors of (for example) film plots?
Why shouldn't we allow patents of film plots including (for example) a teleportation device as found in Star Trek?
I am a software author. Software patents interferes with my right to publish texts that i write myself.
I think that "430 child pornography sites" is a bluff. I'm calling it. What sites? Which countries? Did the Australian authorities contact the police in those countries? What happened? Did they give up and are calling for blankets?
It needs to be asked since international lobbying groups are exploiting "child pornography" to establish censorship as being normal on the internet.
Read this:
http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/ifpis-child-porn-strategy/
Do these lobbying groups operate in Australia?
What do Australian families think about commercial entities exploiting child pornography?
'According to the latest information I have here from the [Australian Communications and Media Authority], there are 430 child pornography sites on the [World Wide Web]
Maybe Conroy could explain to Australian families why hanging a blanket in front of the sites is better than shutting the sites down and prosecute the operators? Especially since it is so easy to peer behind the blanket by using a proxy, or alternate DNS resolver, etc, etc.
Are all those sites operating from countries where child pornography is legal? Which countries and sits are we talking about?
The "computer" is not only the hardware. In My experience, software failures cause more data loss, or loss of service, than hardware failures do.
Sometimes the software fails because it is too complex to use, and the operators don't quite understand it and use it wrongly. Or the software designers haven't tested it enough.
For example, I have seen more RAID systems lose data because of failures within the disk software, than I have seen disk crashes. (I'm not saying RAID is bad, but use quality products with care and don't let RAID replace backups.)
Hmmm... Sorry, she fed him. At that point there was a payment (food & train ticket) made for the sex and then becomes a male prostitute doing her a service. Case closed. Go home
Interestingly, buying sex is illegal in Sweden. Selling sex is not. So this would open another case, against the woman.
Since the swedish prosecutors seem to be keen on taking on cases to test the edges of the sex laws, I definitely think the girl should be tried. Prosecutors should stop thinking in old sexist patterns.
The real reason he doesn't want Flash on the iPad is because Apple is increasingly lining up against Google in many markets. Google's ownership of Youtube, and therefore fast online video with an incredibly huge library, is a threat to Apple.
Jobs and Apple want a walled-garden store. Since video is arguably the iPad's single killer app, and a place where it actually does look extremely impressive, they can't afford to have another company dominant in that sector.
So you think the real reason for excluding Flash is to block Youtube?
So how come iPad ships with a Youtube application?
http://www.apple.com/ipad/guided-tours/#youtube
That's what I wished for in 2001. If it happened then, the world of mobile OS would be different. I think it is too late to save Symbian now.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13186&cid=92580
Mod parent up. It is not difficult to develop any program you wish to your iPhone and deploy it outside of the App Store.
...Microsoft is in the business of making money...
No, that is a secondary goal. The first priority for Microsoft is control, technology ownership and monopolization. Even at a financial loss.
See IE, XBOX, dotnet, Silverlight, etc, etc
Ah, Linux gets disk level clustering?
It is interesting to compare with what VMS offered 25 years ago:
- VMS could have multiple nodes (can DRBD? It is not obvious from the web site.)
- All VMS nodes have read and write access to the file systems
- The distributed lock manager helps with file locking in this case.
- VMS has the concept of quorum to avoid the "split brain" syndrom mentioned on the web page.
What is their angle?
They're a company of 40,000+ engineers, a substantial portion of which are not total douchebags, unlike how people on Slashdot seem to imagine them.
Yeah? So how come they work at Microsoft?
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