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by cube13 15y ago
>A pointer is a particular kind of reference (a value type that enables indirection), and C++ references are another (not very different) kind. A reference in C++ amounts to an immutable pointer. A pointer is a memory address. That's a
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by cube13 15y ago
The main issue that I have with this specific issue that RMS is making an ideological argument that I don't feel is realistic. He states the following: >Putting these points together, we can tolerate non-free phone network firmware pro
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by cube13 15y ago
This statement confuses me: >On most Android phones, this firmware has so much control that it could turn the product into a listening device. On some, it controls the microphone. On some, it can take full control of the main computer,
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by cube13 15y ago
You run that risk with the previous system. That has not changed. The first-to-file rule change only applies when the USPTO needs to resolve a conflict between two similar patents that are applied for around the same time. The patent syst
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by cube13 15y ago
I honestly expected that they were going to try at least for the initial release. Apple did release Rosetta when they moved to Intel, which allowed PowerPC-based applications to run on x86 Macs. I'm not sure how much use that got, though,
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by cube13 15y ago
Which is entirely their fault. You don't treat basic needs(food, water, roof over your head) as investments, because no matter what the actual price is of those, you still need them. Instead, you should buy what's affordable for you, so e
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by cube13 15y ago
It should apply to either, especially if they're using the blog to get more investors.
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by cube13 15y ago
Or they actually don't want search engines to spider them, and instead of suing, they're using the preexisting technical solution.
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by cube13 15y ago
This is really more of an issue with how universities value the research, I think. Most of the time, there isn't a very clear immediate business benefit, so they're willing to part with the IP for very little money. Prime case is the Mosai
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by cube13 15y ago
There are two other things here that I think are important: 1. He's charging for the application. That really moves this from a "Big content bullying little guy" to "straight forward infringement". 2. As far as I can see, there's nothing
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by cube13 15y ago
I think that would be fine. It's the exact same thing as iTunes or WMP.
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by cube13 15y ago
>Not to beat this to death, but the developer created software. You're paying for the software, not the content. The software only allows access to CBC content. I don't see any way of adding additional streams to the list. That's what
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by cube13 15y ago
IIRC, it was something like 20 suicides in the last year, with Foxconn employing 300,000-400,000 people at the facility. According to wikipedia( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra... ), the average total number of
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by cube13 15y ago
It's also worth pointing out that Apple does have a program for recycling their equipment, and they'll even reinburse you with a gift card for certain things: http://www.apple.com/recycling/ They're not unique in this respect, too. WEEE
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by cube13 15y ago
>And yet now your company owns that idea insofar as it qualifies as an invention if it has such a clause in its employment agreement. Actually, if you're an employee, and you work on that idea to the company during business hours, they
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by cube13 15y ago
>In our current system, you have some protections as you can demonstrate that you are indeed the first to invent by using your product as evidence and you can publish your work down the road, if it becomes an issue. In the new system, n
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by cube13 15y ago
>Before this you could keep good records of your work and be safe in the knowledge that if anyone patented your idea after you created it, you would at least have the prior art to prove you came up with it first. Now you must patent it
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by cube13 15y ago
Commodities are things people buy. Currencies are what people use to buy commodities with.
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by cube13 15y ago
I honestly don't think that Amazon or Barnes and Noble consider their devices to be iPad competitors, though. They're selling them as eReaders that just happen to be able to play Angry Birds, not as full-featured tablets.
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by cube13 15y ago
> They are buying commodity servers, not the highly redundant high end ones. With just a couple of SATA drives. No redundant power supplies, raid controllers, hotplug ram and cpu and all the other high margin stuff that makes the server
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by cube13 15y ago
Given the number of complaints Linus Torvalds made about GPLv3's anti-Tivolization clause, I don't think that we're going to ever see the kernel on v3.
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by cube13 15y ago
>And if there is one thing we've learned from Microsoft etc. is that throwing unlimited funding at a problem fixes it. The main problem for Dropbox is simply scale. You, as a service provider, need to keep up with the storage and bandw
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by cube13 15y ago
>There are bigger fish than Apple in "the cloud" that HP would have to worry about -- Amazon, Google, Rackspace, heck even Microsoft wants a piece. Why? At least 3 of the 5 cloud providers you mentioned(Amazon, Apple and MS) use HP ser
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by cube13 15y ago
Motorola is counter-suing Apple, though. Without knowing exactly what patents each party is saying the other is infringing on, I would wager that the endgame for both companies is now a cross-license agreement more than an injunction again
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by cube13 15y ago
Motorola is already suing Apple(and Apple is suing Motorola) over Motorola's patents. That shouldn't change with Google's acquisition, and any resolution of the suit would probably make Apple a licensee of the patents, making them immune t
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by cube13 15y ago
That's exactly why I said Google's priority needs to be keeping those employees with those skills and talents. As with any acquisition of this nature, people are going to leave Motorola because of this. Google needs to make a lot of effor
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by cube13 15y ago
>I don't see where you're coming from on b/c. Motorola makes great hardware - it would be hard to improve that. That's exactly the problem. Google, as a software company, doesn't currently have to worry about a lot of the issues that t
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by cube13 15y ago
Is there really that much actual homebrew going on with the Wii? Since the Wiimotes use bluetooth(and there isn't any other interesting hardware in the system), I was under the impression that most of the homebrew community was just syncing
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by cube13 15y ago
>"Assembly language, interrupt handlers, race conditions, cache coherence," says Jude Miller, long-time system consultant and industry curmudgeon. The funny thing about this is that the CS degree I got covered all of these to a fairly d
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by cube13 15y ago
It really depends on the program architecture and what issue you're debugging. For most single-threaded or simple multithreaded programs, it's easier just to throw a print statement where you need it and analyze that. Even with a large dat

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