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| Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, September 15 2012 @ 07:17 AM EDT |
| Killer whales live on after
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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, September 15 2012 @ 07:27 AM EDT |
| The time when football
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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 15 2012 @ 11:05 AM EDT |
In short, Firefox OS is about taking the technologies behind the
Web, like JavaScript, and using them to produce an entire mobile operating
system. Just let that sink in for a moment — it's a mobile OS powered by
JavaScript!
http://rawkes.com/articles/there-is-something-magical-about-firefox-os
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and then there's this...
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The JavaScript Trap,
by
Richard
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, September 15 2012 @ 11:25 AM EDT |
| here. ---
RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 15 2012 @ 01:34 PM EDT |
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-57513391-235/zynga-countersues-ea-for-alleged-
anticompetitive-practices/
Sigh, so it isn't "real competition" until they fight it out in the
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| Authored by: symbolset on Saturday, September 15 2012 @ 06:49 PM EDT |
| Somebody should probably make a newspick about this. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 15 2012 @ 09:45 PM EDT |
I think there are some really interesting updates to the
Android-Aliyun situation.
Here is Andy Rubin's first Google+ post on this topic:
https://plus.google.com/112599748506977857728/posts/H7eC4uaJ
12Q
First off, you have *Chinese* people commenting like this:
- "As a Chinese, I don't support Aliyun OS."
- "As a Chinese, I will never buy that Ali-s***"
- "aliyun is s***, as a chinese"
I have a lot of close Chinese friends who hate the Chinese
government and the companies that happily work with it (and
its a given that all large Chinese companies have to work
with the regime and its censorship policies), so I'm not
surprised. That's why Google still has a lot of love in
China - in fact, more so after it stood up to the regime.
Second take a look at this link:
http://apps.aliyun.com/detail.htm?
id=22473&from_keyword=%B7%DF%C5%AD&from_page=1
That's nothing short of a pirated version of Angry Birds
(look at the publisher name)! Andy Rubin himself mentions
pirated versions of Android apps in his second Google+ post:
https://plus.google.com/112599748506977857728/posts/hRcCi5xg
ayg
Now tell me: even if Google didn't warn Acer ... would any
self-respecting company that operates internationally want
to use Aliyun in its smartphones?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 15 2012 @ 10:40 PM EDT |
| Prisoner's dilemma strategies have been condensed into the slogan, Don't be
too clever, don't be unfair. William H. Press and Freeman Dyson have shown
that cleverness and unfairness triumph after all.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 16 2012 @ 02:25 AM EDT |
Series Premiere Compiling time has never felt so great!
http://compiling.tv/[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 16 2012 @ 07:06 AM EDT |
A new test that measures eye movement while
watching
television
helps detect neurological disorders earlier
including Parkinson’s disease,
fetal alcohol spectrum
disorder, autism and attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder.
[...]
Researchers recorded
the participant’s eye movements
and compared the data
against control subjects to determine abnormal eye
movement
patterns indicative of brain abnormality.
The eye test is
currently available at Hotel Dieu Hospital
and can be used on children as young
as six months old.
Queen's University[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: JamesK on Sunday, September 16 2012 @ 08:22 AM EDT |
It doesn't take a genius
Has Apple Really Ever Invented
Anything?
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The following program contains immature subject
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 16 2012 @ 11:17 PM EDT |
Low broadband caps in Canada put that country close to third-world
countries, and overage charges almost amount to human rights violations: Netflix
chief content officer Ted Sarandos blasted broadband caps and
usage-based-billing employed by Canadian ISPs during an investor event Thursday
afternoon.
There’s no love lost between Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted
Sarandos and Canada’s big Internet providers: “It’s almost a human rights
violation what they’re charging for internet access in Canada,”
Janko Roettgers, GigaOM[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 17 2012 @ 01:20 AM EDT |
If Microsoft become primarily a "devices-and-services company" then
its OEMs may get a trifle annoyed.
It is rumoured that the Surface RT will sell for $200 with a 2 year (or so)
contract to MS services. Either Dell will have to start its own services to
compete with MS or it will have to get a kickback from MS to subsidise any Dell
tablets so that it can sell them on the same basis. But it will also have to pay
MS $70-95 (depending on who you believe) for the OS.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 17 2012 @ 02:14 AM EDT |
Lululemon is trying to chart a new path by filing and litigating
patents secured on the basis of its designs.
Such patents, called design
patents, have "for too long been grossly underappreciated" by the fashion
industry, said Perry Saidman, a design-law expert and lawyer in Silver Spring,
Md.
Fashion designers have only sporadically gone to court over such
patents. But slowly, design patents are coming into vogue across a widening
number of industries.
[...]
Lawyers for Calvin Klein haven't yet filed any
paperwork in the case, but legal experts say they will likely use a host of
potentially damaging defenses, including that Lululemon's patents should never
have been granted in the first place.
Indeed, some argue that granting such
patents may cause more harm, than help, to the industry.
Ashby Jones, The Wall Street Journal[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 17 2012 @ 03:06 AM EDT |
| and they will still want to protect the purveyor [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 17 2012 @ 06:41 AM EDT |
'Microsoft said the move is risky and bound to make Government systems more
vulnerable to hackers'.
“We agree with the open standards but not the
free and open source software strategy,” said Paul Roy Owino, technology
advisor, Microsoft East and Southern Africa.
“The Government stands to
lose to hackers, freedom to third party modification coming with Free and Open
Source Software it plans to adopt increases chances of Internet attacks,” he
said “I do not think the Government has competent expertise to handle the
challenges that comes with the free and Open Source Software,” he
said.
“Just like other players in the copyrighted software, we are
accountable when our software is hacked, the case is different with the
non-copyrighted software,”
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 17 2012 @ 06:49 AM EDT |
- greater innovation
- faster responce to change
- the ability
to support a wide range of heterogeneous systems
- better access to
skilled, motivated and innovative development and support staff
-
faster exploitation of new technology developments
- the ability to
draw on a global community for specilist knowlege and problem solving
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avoiding dependency on monopoly suppliers
- reduced total cost of
ownnership
- full visibility of, and thus confidence in the source code
used Open for Business link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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