My bet is that people will avoid buying these in droves simply because they can't find a CD slot on their cellphones.
Good point. If they have a CD player they could really be confused. Ringtone CD, cell phone, all you need is a connector. A 3.5mm to 2.5mm patch cord should do it.
Imagine needing a $500 computer to connect $7 media in a $29 player to a free cell phone!
Moments before Apollo 11 's booster lifted off from Cape Kennedy last July, Spiro Agnew declared that the nation's next major space goal should be a manned landing on Mars by the end of the century.
In a later refinement explained in the article, the least ambitious (cheapest) plan the manned Mars landing at 1990. I figure we probably had a manned mission to Mars fifteen or twenty years ago, but no one remembers it.
Last time I checked you could disagree with the EULA, send the Vista disk back to M$ and get your money back
Not to Microsoft, unless you bought it from Microsoft. You return it to the vendor, who tells you that the Microsoft Windows was included for free and gives you $0 back.
Nor does the consumer sign any contract with regard to use of GPL software.
Absent a contract I would think that "what is allowed" reduces to "what is allowed by law."
Maybe MLB is just informing its viewers of the law (so they can't claim ignorance),
or perhaps they are stretching the law through a questionable interpretation.
Is the law for baseball (or sporting events in general) different than for other broadcast material?
I don't know, but I would not be surprised if the sports owners had taken care of that aspect.
If there is indeed a prohibition against "retransmission," I'd guess that it even applies to "private use" such as an Internet session.
That is the distinction between retransmission and rebroadcast, and both are specified in MLB's standard announcement.
IBM Global Service delivers on (at least) one of IBM's three Basic Beliefs[1]: "Service to the Customer," also expressed in the slogan IBM Means Service.
IBM left the service business entirely when it sold its Service Bureau Corporation subsidiary to CDC in 1973 and agreed not to re-enter the market for a period after that. (CDC, for its part, agreed not to pursue antitrust claims against IBM. CDC was the only company with which IBM settled. Every other case was dropped, or saw IBM prevail in court. One can only wonder what the CDC lawyers came across during the voluminous discovery process.)
IGS is IBM's re-entry into the services market following the settlement with CDC.
[1]Under Lou Gerstner the three Basic Beliefs were replaced with eight principles. Each principle contained a conjunction, for a total of 16 items. Sizteen being somewhat larger than seven, I never tried to memorize them.
Seriously, having to specify which device, block and sector your files are located at beyond the year 1980 is totally messed up.
If you don't want to specify the device, catalog the dataset: DISP=CATLG. If you don't want to specify the block, you can name each record instead: KEYLEN=8, e.g. Sector? There's no such beast in OS/360.
The Bill of Rights restrictts a number of government acivities, including spying (4th), suppressing speech (1st), torture (8th) etc. That's probably why they are being outsourced to private corporations.
I still stand by me recollection that one of the original goals was to make all x86 programs (including Windows of that time) efficiently runnable
AIX 3.1 came with a 286 simulator. It was not terribly fast, especially for graphics, but it was there. Note that this was simulating a segmented architecture, not too easy to do. Compared to some other architectures at that time, POWER was reasonlably good at bit extraction/insertion, which helps when you are trying to emulate another architecture. There was also - internal to IBM - an S/370 simulator (MIMIC) which averaged 4 RS/6000 instructions per S/370 instruction.
A bit bizarre that IBM does this after they decided to make POWER exclusively big-endian
The PPC 970 doesn't have the "optional little-endian facility," but the 970 is not used in the high-end boxes. I'm not aware of any high-end Power implementation without little-endian support. In particular, IBM says that POWER5 has it.
Why the 970 doesn't have it beats me. Perhaps someone muffed the implementation or thought they could save a few cents per processor.
I'm confused... If it meets the requirements, than why is it not running faster?
The FRA crash standards mean a heavier train. That takes longer to accelerate/decelerate, and somewhat limits the tilting technology that can be used. That, and curves, and interlocking, all adds up. Acela averates 65 mph NY to Boston, vs. about 42 mph for a typical long-distance train - if the LDT is on time.
Well, Amtrack is completely stuck, because they don't OWN any tracks
Amtrak does own track between New York and Washington, and implemented the North East Corridor Improvement Program (NECIP) to improve the track.
In the Northeast corridor, one of the primary speed limitations is the Acela equipment, which meets the crash test standards required by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). I recall that those standards were eveloped after a lightweight aluminum "Highliner" collided with a standard steel commuter train in Chicago. European trains, for better or worse, don't meet the FRA standards.
Amtrak tried a goods (freight) service. It was called ExpressTrak. Really annoyed the railroads to have federally subsidized Amtrak trains competing with them for premium cargo.:-) The ExpressTrak website contenst are still in Google cache, but the domain is now for sale.
Before Amtrak, Railway Express Agency did the same business. The problem with really fast freight is that the railroads are optimized for goods which are not time-sensitive. So long as there is a continuous pipeline of DVD players from Guangdong to Manhattan, it doesn't matter very much how long any particular player takes to make the trip. (The slight exception is the cost of the equipment and labor used for shipping. If trains are too slow the rails get clogged, labor costs go up, and equipment utilization goes down. But that is the railroad's problem, not the shipper's.)
KEYS STICKING. SPACE BAR DOES NOT RESPOND WHEN PRESSED. That's HARDWARE failure not SOFTWARE.
1) Linux is installed implies a long-haired smelly at the keyboard.
2) A long-haired smelly at the keyboard implies hair, or Jolt, or worse, under the keys.
3) Linux causes sticky keys.
QED
I gave up sed and awk for perl because I grew tired of silly limitations: 2048 chars per line in sed, 300 chars per line and 300 fields in awk. Implementations could increase them, and probably have, but Perl avoids artificial limits as a matter of principal.
Nothing against Python though. I like the fact that the Python specification is about 80 pages, while the Perl specification is loosely spread throughout the 1000-page Camel book.
I wouldn't forget sed entirely. The Liinux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard requires sed and sh in/bin, but does not require perl or python.
Another odd case was the blood-spattered lens in Children of God. Was that real fake blood on the lens, or CGI? I guess latter. In either case it bring the camera - and the cameraman - into the scene.
parties do not have standing to obtain rulings on matters that remain hypothetical or conjectural
Thanks for the explanation. The original link had Justice Thomas' conclusion with no reasoning! Suppose that Nikon patents a lithography process - one which costs a billion or so to apply. Is there any criterion for standing to sue? What happens in these two cases:
Someone who has licensed the patent but cannot afford to apply it?
Someone who has not licensed the patent and cannot affort to apply it?
If (1) has standing then (2) does also, unless licensing now grants more standing, whereas it used to remove standing.
Then there's the web app that requires Sun Java and the web app that requires MS Java, both of which run only in IE, and both of which are supposed to run ON THE SAME MACHINE! (I have to deal with that situation once. Royal pain in the rear-end. I don't remember how I solved it, actually...)
Ah.. 1997 called, they want their rant back.
It 2007, and my browser uses Java 1.4.2 because a basic corporate app won't run on 1.5. You would recognize the company, We're a big Java supporter.
This engine is about twice the power of the (also two stroke) engines found on rail locomotives.
The summary was poorly worded, which led to this incorrect statement. Each *cylinder* is 7780 HP, about twice the 4000 HP found in a typical railroad locomotive. And if I'm not mistaken, U.S. rail locmotives are split between two-stroke (EMD engines, up to the 710) and four stroke (all GE engines, EMD H series).
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System of a Down actually named an album "Steal This Album" so I think they win
Only us really old geezers recognize the reference to Steal This Book, by Abbie Hoffman.
My bet is that people will avoid buying these in droves simply because they can't find a CD slot on their cellphones.
Good point. If they have a CD player they could really be confused. Ringtone CD, cell phone, all you need is a connector. A 3.5mm to 2.5mm patch cord should do it.
Imagine needing a $500 computer to connect $7 media in a $29 player to a free cell phone!
Have a look at these plans from 1969.
In a later refinement explained in the article, the least ambitious (cheapest) plan the manned Mars landing at 1990. I figure we probably had a manned mission to Mars fifteen or twenty years ago, but no one remembers it.Last time I checked you could disagree with the EULA, send the Vista disk back to M$ and get your money back
Not to Microsoft, unless you bought it from Microsoft. You return it to the vendor, who tells you that the Microsoft Windows was included for free and gives you $0 back.
The only time you're bound by [the GPL] is if you want the redistrubtion rights that copyright law does not offer.
Exactly I was going down that branch, and negelected to make that clear.
Courts have already thrown out arguments against time shifting and space shifting.
I was unaware of the space-shifting decision. In that light, I accept your conclusion. Thanks for the follow-up.
Long story short: MLB doesn't have a legal leg to stand on.
Nor does the consumer sign any contract with regard to use of GPL software. Absent a contract I would think that "what is allowed" reduces to "what is allowed by law." Maybe MLB is just informing its viewers of the law (so they can't claim ignorance), or perhaps they are stretching the law through a questionable interpretation.
Is the law for baseball (or sporting events in general) different than for other broadcast material? I don't know, but I would not be surprised if the sports owners had taken care of that aspect.
If there is indeed a prohibition against "retransmission," I'd guess that it even applies to "private use" such as an Internet session. That is the distinction between retransmission and rebroadcast, and both are specified in MLB's standard announcement.
Ever try to design a processor that uses 1000 byte pages? Good freaking luck.
No, but these guys did.
IBM Global Service delivers on (at least) one of IBM's three Basic Beliefs[1]: "Service to the Customer," also expressed in the slogan IBM Means Service.
IBM left the service business entirely when it sold its Service Bureau Corporation subsidiary to CDC in 1973 and agreed not to re-enter the market for a period after that. (CDC, for its part, agreed not to pursue antitrust claims against IBM. CDC was the only company with which IBM settled. Every other case was dropped, or saw IBM prevail in court. One can only wonder what the CDC lawyers came across during the voluminous discovery process.)
IGS is IBM's re-entry into the services market following the settlement with CDC.
[1]Under Lou Gerstner the three Basic Beliefs were replaced with eight principles. Each principle contained a conjunction, for a total of 16 items. Sizteen being somewhat larger than seven, I never tried to memorize them.
Seriously, having to specify which device, block and sector your files are located at beyond the year 1980 is totally messed up.
If you don't want to specify the device, catalog the dataset: DISP=CATLG. If you don't want to specify the block, you can name each record instead: KEYLEN=8, e.g. Sector? There's no such beast in OS/360.
S/360 JCL (and the S/360 DCB macro) had a mechanism for 4096-byte blocks in 1964:
RECFM=F,LRECL=4096
The first IBM disk drive to hold 4096 bytes on a track was the 2314, introduced in 1965.
The Bill of Rights restrictts a number of government acivities, including spying (4th), suppressing speech (1st), torture (8th) etc. That's probably why they are being outsourced to private corporations.
AIX 3.1 came with a 286 simulator. It was not terribly fast, especially for graphics, but it was there. Note that this was simulating a segmented architecture, not too easy to do. Compared to some other architectures at that time, POWER was reasonlably good at bit extraction/insertion, which helps when you are trying to emulate another architecture. There was also - internal to IBM - an S/370 simulator (MIMIC) which averaged 4 RS/6000 instructions per S/370 instruction.
The PPC 970 doesn't have the "optional little-endian facility," but the 970 is not used in the high-end boxes. I'm not aware of any high-end Power implementation without little-endian support. In particular, IBM says that POWER5 has it.
Why the 970 doesn't have it beats me. Perhaps someone muffed the implementation or thought they could save a few cents per processor.
If I had mod points, then if I had a sense of humor, ... oh, nevermind.
The FRA crash standards mean a heavier train. That takes longer to accelerate/decelerate, and somewhat limits the tilting technology that can be used. That, and curves, and interlocking, all adds up. Acela averates 65 mph NY to Boston, vs. about 42 mph for a typical long-distance train - if the LDT is on time.
Amtrak does own track between New York and Washington, and implemented the North East Corridor Improvement Program (NECIP) to improve the track.
In the Northeast corridor, one of the primary speed limitations is the Acela equipment, which meets the crash test standards required by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). I recall that those standards were eveloped after a lightweight aluminum "Highliner" collided with a standard steel commuter train in Chicago. European trains, for better or worse, don't meet the FRA standards.
Before Amtrak, Railway Express Agency did the same business. The problem with really fast freight is that the railroads are optimized for goods which are not time-sensitive. So long as there is a continuous pipeline of DVD players from Guangdong to Manhattan, it doesn't matter very much how long any particular player takes to make the trip. (The slight exception is the cost of the equipment and labor used for shipping. If trains are too slow the rails get clogged, labor costs go up, and equipment utilization goes down. But that is the railroad's problem, not the shipper's.)
KEYS STICKING. SPACE BAR DOES NOT RESPOND WHEN PRESSED. That's HARDWARE failure not SOFTWARE.
1) Linux is installed implies a long-haired smelly at the keyboard.
2) A long-haired smelly at the keyboard implies hair, or Jolt, or worse, under the keys.
3) Linux causes sticky keys. QED
Greater Los Angeles has Fry's. I bet that's why CompUSA isn't staying there.
Should read *3000* characters per line in awk.
I gave up sed and awk for perl because I grew tired of silly limitations: 2048 chars per line in sed, 300 chars per line and 300 fields in awk. Implementations could increase them, and probably have, but Perl avoids artificial limits as a matter of principal.
/bin, but does not require perl or python.
Nothing against Python though. I like the fact that the Python specification is about 80 pages, while the Perl specification is loosely spread throughout the 1000-page Camel book.
I wouldn't forget sed entirely. The Liinux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard requires sed and sh in
I wonder if CGI is really cheaper than glycerine.
Another odd case was the blood-spattered lens in Children of God. Was that real fake blood on the lens, or CGI? I guess latter. In either case it bring the camera - and the cameraman - into the scene.
Thanks for the explanation. The original link had Justice Thomas' conclusion with no reasoning! Suppose that Nikon patents a lithography process - one which costs a billion or so to apply. Is there any criterion for standing to sue? What happens in these two cases:
- Someone who has licensed the patent but cannot afford to apply it?
- Someone who has not licensed the patent and cannot affort to apply it?
If (1) has standing then (2) does also, unless licensing now grants more standing, whereas it used to remove standing.Then there's the web app that requires Sun Java and the web app that requires MS Java, both of which run only in IE, and both of which are supposed to run ON THE SAME MACHINE! (I have to deal with that situation once. Royal pain in the rear-end. I don't remember how I solved it, actually...)
Ah.. 1997 called, they want their rant back.
It 2007, and my browser uses Java 1.4.2 because a basic corporate app won't run on 1.5. You would recognize the company, We're a big Java supporter.