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by fnid2 17y ago
PKZip was one that really moved the compression industry forward. JPEG is another. The current H.264 debate is a sound one and the owners of that patent have even publicly stated that it'll be free to use for the next 5 years or so. Imagi
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by fnid2 17y ago
A patent also takes 8 years to come to fruition. There is a huge backup. Startups can be invented and sold in that amount of time or fail completely, so if it's just one person in a garage, there are bigger issues, but still, some of thos
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by fnid2 17y ago
Well, perhaps to add more content here w.r.t. the Monsanto case, I mean, the court should have been able to determine if the wind just blew the pollen in to pollinate the plants. IANAL, perhaps an IP attorney who is knows what they are tal
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by fnid2 17y ago
Okay, I'll go further then to say, save up $40,000, then quit your job. Create a company called whateveryouwannacallit.com and start inventing stuff. New algorithms. Optimize compression. Optimize Video streaming. Then spend $20,000 to ha
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by fnid2 17y ago
It depends on the sentence. And I know where you are going.
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by fnid2 17y ago
I don't think that is exactly true. A good patent from a very good firm in L.A. will run you about $20k. Yes, it's a lot, but I a computer engineer could sock that much away in a year. Work on the software at home at night, patent it, se
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by fnid2 17y ago
Okay, then the problem is not software patents, or patents in general, but that they unfairly tip the scales in favor of the big corporations. How do we fix that problem? That problem exists outside the world of patents and software. Mon
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by fnid2 17y ago
No, I don't think it does and I don't think simply stating that it is without providing any evidence for your case is going to change my mind or anyone's mind who agrees with me, but it looks like I'm the only one. Anyway.... The legal sys
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by fnid2 17y ago
Absurdity is ubiquitous. Computer science is no exception. I know we think we are above it, but we aren't. We're just like everyone else. People don't have to be mechanical engineers to pattent something physical. They don't have to be
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by fnid2 17y ago
Every time the patent debate comes up, someone links to this patent as the summit of absurdity. Why not link to this one: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6368227.pdf It's just as absurd as lots of software patents -- that doesn't mean
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Cloud computing jobs 378% higher than a year ago(demo.qrimp.com)
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by fnid2 17y ago
That's how I see it too. Right now, I'm waiting on other people on most of the projects and I'm thinking about better interfaces or architectures for some. It helps me to have other things to work on that are productive to distract me fro
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by fnid2 17y ago
I am working on at least 10 different "startups" right now. People think it's too many. It's not focused. But I think the world moves slower than I do, so I work on lots of projects simultaneously. If I hit a wall on one project, I procra
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by fnid2 17y ago
A bit OT, but might I suggest it's Chrome that is buggy? If it works in all the major browsers except Chrome, then might it be Chrome's responsibility to make it work? My general test is, if it works in 3 of the 5, then it's the other brow
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by fnid2 17y ago
In practice, I use a slight enhancement. Not only does the url contain the ID to the element, but changing a part of it can tell the site how to display the data. For example: http://www.shellcompanyfinder.com/ShellCompanies/7845/11/Nat.
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Tell HN: Apple one-to-one only supports Safari 3(onetoone.apple.com)
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by fnid2 17y ago
It's still a religious debate. I just talked about it with a professor in the field and he refuses to have a conversation about OS with other similar folks due to the lack of rationality in the debate.
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by fnid2 17y ago
Let the "name" in the url be irrelevant. Build your links so that there is a unique identifier in the url that takes you to the page you want that will never change. Then the name can change frequently without breaking links. So if you ha
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by fnid2 17y ago
Electricity without wires can be transmitted now. http://blog.ted.com/2009/08/wireless_electr.php A lot of the other things the OP wants already exist as well. Including monitors with about 10x more pixels than a 1024x768. Batteries in s
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by fnid2 17y ago
Why would they jeopardize the identities of so many of their agents? Would they have bothered with disguises at all if it was intentional to be "caught"? I don't believe an intelligence agency like that would be dumb enough to be so brazenl
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by fnid2 17y ago
It's difficult to look at the computer world, the rise of the internet, and onlive itself and not see that games are really no different than other aspects of computing, which have already migrated to the cloud... How many "nevers" have b
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by fnid2 17y ago
Should be, except that the science has been corrupted by special interests.
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by fnid2 17y ago
I think it is possible to believe in climate change and not believe in anthropogenic warming. It's just like pascal's wager. Let's assume just the two options where the globe is warming, is it man's fault or not? Let's assume it is man's
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by fnid2 17y ago
This attitude is really self-defeating. Even pg has software patents. It'd probably be in your self-interest to start thinking about why patents aren't terrible.
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by fnid2 17y ago
I agree. It's like people expect smart people to do all the work because it's easy for them or something. Easier than being lazy. A lot of being "smart" isn't about being smart, but about being willing to do the work. It takes a while to
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by fnid2 17y ago
Tree style tabs would be better if the tab panel would expand and put thumbnails under the links. I don't like that they automatically collapse either.
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by fnid2 17y ago
It also means all those people trained on Flash are going to have to be retrained. Flash is kind of like Adobe's stake in the web world. Flash ruled the online video and graphics world. Everything else, there's a good enough competitor.
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by fnid2 17y ago
Politically, there is nothing Adobe can do now. TBL has the final say and he has spoken. Adobe is just doing what is best for their shareholders. Can't blame them really. Before HTML5, they had more of a monopoly than Microsoft had on the
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by fnid2 17y ago
Thanks TBL. I knew we could count on you. Well, you know, Adobe is a company and they have their interests and they pay $60k a year to be a member of the w3c and have their voices heard and they did and the proper procedures were in place
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by fnid2 17y ago
You could say it was taken from the native americans. Indigenous people or that it was in the ground, the result of decayed dinosaurs and random locations of minerals and plants and weather.

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