JamieEi | 13 years ago | on: EFF taking on software patent reform
I'm ok with algorithm patents. It seems like the vast majority of abuses involve business method patents. I'd like to see those abolished.
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JamieEi | 13 years ago | on: Comcast Protests “Shake Down” of Alleged BitTorrent Pirates
For internet in many places it's them or them. Unless you are ok with very slow or very expensive.
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: The social media bubble has popped
I disagree that innovation in social is dead. You could have said the same thing a year ago, but who saw Pinterest coming? There are still lots of unmet needs.
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: Poll: What is Your Favorite Programming Language?
It shouldn't be since it's not a programming language (i.e., not Turing complete).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language#Definition...
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload
Except that probable cause requires a judge to authorize the action and allows supervision of the terms.
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: IBM Tops Microsoft to Become Second-Most Valuable in Technology
Microsoft continues to do very well in enterprise markets. It's true that their consumer mindshare is almost zero except for XBox, but there is a lot of growth to be had from enterprise servers and their various cloud offerings.
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: Amazon tablet costs $209.63 to make, IHS estimates
The difference is that your Amazon content can be used on virtually any device, whereas Apple has little interest in bringing iX to any additional non-Apple devices.
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: Oracle's 'APIs are copyrightable' defense = nightmare for programmers
I'm not an intern, and I don't understand why web vs. local makes a difference in this case. Can you explain?
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: HTC sues Apple over everything
You want 50 sets of slightly different standards for light bulbs? Surely that is a recipe for chaos and inefficiency.
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air
Yet it still happens all of the time at big companies.
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: FBI arrests 16 Anons across US; UK police pick up LulzSec member
His account was created 106 days ago and has 7 posts, 4 of which are about Anon/Lulz. From this you conclude that he is a sock puppet paid by someone (the FBI?) to lead us astray with his constant one liners. Seems like a stretch, but hey that's just me.
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: Scala isn’t complicated; it’s clever
I don't understand the concern about typing non-ASCII Unicode characters on a Windows box. I know of at least 3 easy ways: charmap, alt+numpad, and editor-specific support.
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: Comcast cuts off customer for going over 250GB of legitimate use
I have Qwest because Comcast can't provide reliable service to my 1920s apartment building, and I only get 2.6 Mbps down. I wouldn't think I'd have to explain on HN why that's not a viable alternative. It's certainly not for the OP's use case of streaming video.
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: Comcast cuts off customer for going over 250GB of legitimate use
Sorry, Comcast has been handed a monopoly franchise for broadband in many parts of the US, including Seattle. With their obscene profits comes an obligation to provide acceptable service in all reasonable cases. This is not an equal bargain between two independent parties -- the OP has ZERO alternative broadband providers and the real battle Comcast is fighting is against Netflix.
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: What RSS reader do you use, and what does it lack?
FeedDemon Pro w/ Google Reader as the backend.
Missing features: - Mothball feeds I'm not reading lately but might want to pick back up in the future. - Topical aggregation of feeds/posts. - De-duping.
Not sure if I'd pay extra or switch readers for any of those features, however.
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: The Procrastinating Caveman: Human Evolution and Procrastination
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: What's yours stays yours. - Dropbox Terms Update
This is exactly how you should put out a fire. As a user I now feel better about Dropbox than I did before the ToS confusion.
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: Why I switched from Dropbox to Windows Live Mesh
I used Live Mesh from launch up until about a year ago and had similar experiences. Lots of sync errors, lots of pain upgrading when MS decided to shuffle Live Mesh over to the Windows Live team.
On the other hand, Dropbox has been incredibly reliable and easy to use, plus it works on Android and Linux.
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: Microsoft wants Samsung to pay it $15 for each Android handset
It appears to be multiple patents, virtually all obvious and with significant prior art:
• 5,579,517: Common name space for long and short filenames
• 5,758,352: Common name space for long and short filenames
• 6,621,746: Monitoring entropic conditions of a flash memory device as an indicator for invoking erasure operations
• 6,826,762: Radio interface layer in a cell phone with a set of APIs having a hardware-independent proxy layer and a hardware-specific driver layer
• 6,909,910: Method and system for managing changes to a contact database
• 7,644,376: Flexible architecture for notifying applications of state changes
• 5,664,133: Context sensitive menu system/menu behavior
• 6,578,054: Method and system for supporting off-line mode of operation and synchronization using resource state information
• 6,370,566: Generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device
• Give people easy ways to navigate through information provided by their device apps via a separate control window with tabs;
• Enable display of a webpage’s content before the background image is received, allowing users to interact with the page faster;
• Allow apps to superimpose download status on top of the downloading content;
• Permit users to easily select text in a document and adjust that selection; and
• Provide users the ability to annotate text without changing the underlying document.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/10/microsoft-sues...
http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...
I really hate software patents and the trolls that abuse them.
JamieEi | 14 years ago | on: Should I Change My Password?
You enter your email address, not your password.
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