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Comment Re:Won the war failed the objectives. (Score 2) 377

iOS was the death knell for a lot of proprietary IE crap pervading the web and in the enterprise. As soon as CEOs started showing up with their shiny new toys to find the corporate web site and intranet looked like crap or would not render, heads rolled and a whole new set of web developers were hired on to replace the IE6 mess they had been maintaining for a decade.

Comment Re:Fees Don't Matter When You Don't Trade (Score 1) 95

Unless you're a very high net worth individual, you probably don't have access to the sorts of funds that charge a percentage of assets under management

That's just not true. All of the financial firms you see advertised on TV (Edward Jones for example) is marketed to middle class families and charge a % of assets under management.

Submission + - Inventor says Google is patenting his public domain work (arstechnica.com)

Rob Riggs writes: Jarek Duda, the inventor of a compression technique called asymmetric numeral systems (ANS), dedicated the invention to the public domain. Since 2014, Facebook, Apple, and Google have all created software based on his breakthrough. Google is now trying to patent a video encoding scheme using the compression technique. The inventor is fighting Google in the European courts and has won a preliminary ruling. The fight's not over and Google is also seeking a patent with the USPTO.

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