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Cheers for the help guys. For the moment, I have put this project on hold as I am somewhat in-love with the new CryENGINE SDK and wanna learn more about it!-Stephen66515 (August 19, 2011, 09:57 AM)
Look at the state of Internet Explorer. There are still people using IE6. How much easier it would be to develop a style for a web site if everyone had the latest version of their favorite browser?
As a user, I'd much rather use a portable application that auto-updates itself and runs with limited permissions than install anything that requires admin permissions.-vlastimil (August 16, 2011, 11:30 AM)
It is the right way to go. While it means that the users are less in control of the software they run on their computers, it simplifies the development and maintenance by a great deal.-vlastimil (August 16, 2011, 08:38 AM)
I must be stoned while I'm reading this.
How, in the name of all that is decent, can giving users less control over what gets installed on their machines ever be viewed as "the right way to go"?-40hz (August 16, 2011, 10:35 AM)
I'm starting to see how we'll all end up living in an exaggerated sci-fi vision of the future; with just a few massive corporations running everything.
Welcome to the United States of Apple.-nudone (August 19, 2011, 07:16 AM)
They will counter-sue but the damage is done in the EU - after all the advertising/promotion they are not allowed to sell any Galaxy 10.1 tablets that aren't already in the shops. If you live in the EU and want one don't wait!
Actually they will win in court (have you seen the stupid patent app!).
In the long run Samsung will come out on top in the EU - all everyone will remember was that the Samsung Galaxy 10.1 was the first device to really get Apple worried - especially as all the reviews say it is better than iPad2-Carol Haynes (August 19, 2011, 05:13 AM)
right after "major victory", there is this teeny-tiny admission.Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet confirmed that a district court in Dusseldorf, Germany, granted the preliminary injunction.
now we can expect a counter-suit by Samsung in the EU just like elsewhere and the case will drag on..-lanux128 (August 19, 2011, 02:38 AM)
deleted absurdly rude, sarcastic post making fun of these people who patent every passing idea, as if their every thought is something brilliant-db90h (August 18, 2011, 02:45 PM)
Trollsys.
"A button that says upgrade" is dumbing down the actual patent a bit too much, but nevertheless is is a silly patent, and the trollsys guys are the kind on (un)human beings that deserve to wake up with and icepick in their skulls.-f0dder (August 18, 2011, 10:04 AM)
Several iOS programmers on Friday morning said they received a legal complaint from Lodsys, a patent-holding firm.
Lodsys is accusing the developers of infringing a patent related to the usage of an “upgrade” button that customers can use to upgrade from a free version of an app to a paid version, or to make purchases from within an app.
)All these comics strips are drawn by our lead Better ListView developer Libor Tinka. He is either restlessly crafting the perfect code, drinking green Japanese tea, or drawing hilarious comics.
I do keep a .357 Magnum revolver loaded with hollow-points in my car glovebox. The car stays locked, even when I'm at home.-kyrathaba (August 16, 2011, 07:31 PM)
The right to defend your property only works in Texas and maybe one or two other places. Here in NJ, a person is legally required to take all possible steps to avoid use of lethal force. You're only allowed to use lethal force when you reasonably believe that your own, or another's, life is in danger.-CWuestefeld (August 16, 2011, 02:26 PM)
Which is precisely why the last thing you want in a shooting is a second version of what happened...-Stoic Joker (August 16, 2011, 07:53 PM)
The right to defend your property only works in Texas and maybe one or two other places. Here in NJ, a person is legally required to take all possible steps to avoid use of lethal force. You're only allowed to use lethal force when you reasonably believe that your own, or another's, life is in danger.-CWuestefeld (August 16, 2011, 02:26 PM)
I'm curious...
What levels of FORCE can one use to stop theft? if someone breaks into your home, and tries to steal from you, what level of VIOLENCE can you use? Can you shoot someone if you warn them and they persist? Can you use a baseball bat? A knife?
There has to be some level of justified force to protect one's property.-Renegade (August 15, 2011, 11:09 PM)
While the Castle Doctrine allows for the use of Deadly Force to protect ones property. The paperwork they show up with states that it is not your property - You're a squatter in your own home - hence it would actually serve to justify their 'legally" shooting you (gotta love that one).
This is why the pencil necked paper monkey shows up with the fuzz in toe to make sure everyone behaves properly and bends over on cue.-Stoic Joker (August 16, 2011, 06:58 AM)
Yay~! Whoever is left alive wins~! I like the god-like rays in the pic above though...-JavaJones (August 16, 2011, 12:42 PM)
Protecting patents by grabbing more under your own organizations label ? that's double standard from google.
As for google acquiring motorola, they did that to dominate android market. You can't compete with 6% microsoft phone crowd and 40% apple crowd only by creating open source mobile platform. You have to come up with hardware as well before dumping them down the trash. They did this type of thing already when they first penalized "beat that quote" site and then they purchased it and ranked it higher again than any other quote websites in the search results. Very few people in SEO world noticed this type trick from google.-mahesh2k (August 16, 2011, 04:24 AM)
For "we" are civilised, are we not? It is always "they" who are uncivilised.-IainB (August 15, 2011, 10:14 PM)
It's truly depressing and scary. Had a friend kicked out of her house and she never missed a payment. Mortgage was sold underneath her and she wasn't notified. By the time found out something was wrong, the sheriff had a crew placing her stuff on the curb.-zridling (August 15, 2011, 11:50 AM)
)That is why I am so excited today to announce that we have agreed to acquire Motorola.
We recently explained how companies including Microsoft and Apple are banding together in anti-competitive patent attacks on Android. The U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene in the results of one recent patent auction to “protect competition and innovation in the open source software community” and it is currently looking into the results of the Nortel auction. Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google’s patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies.
No luck. The Cool C ReadWrite wouldn't run without a license, and the company is out of business it looks like. (Web site gone.)
@joiwind - The first link was a 404. Which did you mean there?-Renegade (August 11, 2011, 05:13 PM)
Sorry Ren, try this and look for AARON and AIB. But I'm not at all sure that you can use WAVs, just a micro.-joiwind (August 14, 2011, 12:25 PM)
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