A lot of comments are mentioning processed foods, and the large amount of corn in them.
While there are many good reasons to stay away from processed foods (read "The Omnivore's Dilemma" or "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan for details), you can't necessarily apply the cited study to processed foods, precisely because they are processed. The processing might well break down or remove the chemicals that are causing the organ damage.
Carriers justify ETFs on the basis of having to subsidize handsets, but they turn around and charge the SAME amount to customers who aren't taking advantage of the subsidy
... they should also have to deactivate every (legal) copy that's currently out in the wild.
A large part of the damage award is to cover those copies. That's why they don't have to be disabled. They pay damages to cover the copies already out there, and have to stop selling new copies that infringe.
If it's a technology person, that's a red flag. I'd expect them to at least have their own domain name. It doesn't cost THAT much and looks far more professional
You can't infer from someone using an aol, hotmail, yahoo, or gmail address that they don't have their own domain. It's quite possible that they simply don't trust you with their @theirdomain address.
This is an extremely dangerous tool. If you are looking to live in an area, you can use this tool to see the proportion of (say) blacks and hispanics (through the choice of movies), and then decide to move/not move there, thus encouraging the creation of racial ghettos
Or you could just look at census data and not have to try to infer racial data from movie choice.
I've occasionally thought it would be interesting to use this kind of technology for home plumbing. For example, when you turn on your sink and ask for hot water, instead of having a continuous flow in a pipe from the hot water heater to the sink (which wastes a lot of energy), why not use a pneumatic tube system to deliver a packet of hot water to the sink?
Note that the same tubes could be used for delivering hot water an cold water, and taking away waste water? (You'd have separate containers, of course, for fresh water and waste water).
You could do cool things with a pneumatic packet-switched water network. For instance, it would be easy to add a storage tank and route shower waster water to the tank, and then from there to the toilets for flushing.
And I bet with some clever design, you could make it so the pneumatic tube system could double as a centralized vacuum system for house cleaning.
Open source is another way to stop malware... not every user looks at the source, but enough curious ones will put out the warning should anything not be as its marked
That's commonly claimed, but there is not much evidence to back it. There just aren't enough people interested in looking at source to cover all the apps if the Android market gets as big as the iPhone market.
Carmack's problems were with one particular way of using Direct3D, which is what he would have had to use for games like Quake. He was pretty clear that he had no problem with it for games that did not need that particular mode.
It's interesting most of the reasons people have given you wrong.
iTunes music doesn't have DRM.
It's easy to make your own ringtones from any random MP3. Apple even gives instructions on their support site. You use Garageband to do it.
iPhone price is comparable to other smart phones. Mac prices when a new model is introduced or revised are generally comparable to equivalent hardware from others. The difference is that Apple doesn't lower prices over the life of the model. Other manufacturers lower prices as models age. For instance, when I bought one of my Mac Pros, it was a good $1000 cheaper than anything comparable from Dell. A year later, the comparable Dell model was cheaper than my Mac Pro. The new top end iMac right now is not much above the cost of parts if you tried to put together an equivalent system yourself (the killer is the display).
Experiment has shown that the touch screen keyboard is fine. It might take a few days or a week or two to get used to it and get proficient, though.
My provider runs spamassassin, and given their track record in updating their other software, I rather doubt that they'll update spamassassin anytime soon
If they are slow enough updating, it's possible you don't have the bug. I haven't bothered to update my home mail server past Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, since it works fine. The version of Spamassassin it uses, 3.1.7, does not appear to have this bug.
Dammit, people. The decade runs through 2010. 2001-2010. Next year is the end of the decade. Not this year.
2001-2010 is a decade. So is 2003-2013. Or 1998-2007. However, the decade generally means a set of years such that floor(year/10) is constant for all years in the set. Or, as the New Oxford American Dictionary says in one of its definitions, "a period of ten years beginning with a year ending in 0".
Yes, I know, you are going to say something about there being no year 0. That has no relevance whatsoever to how we choose today to group our years into a disjoint set of decades.
You don't read very well, do you? Just because "or" is a small word doesn't mean you can just ignore it. I didn't put it in just to improve the feng shui of my sentence structure.
It's very hard not to agree with the court that Microsoft wilfully infringed. Furthermore, it seems they expected to be caught, and to lose the inevitable suit - and didn't care either. Not hard to see why: The damages awarded are equivalent to just two days' revenue for Microsoft (although they infringed for five years). As a commenter pointed out, that's why such cases are unlikely to change their posture on software patents;
Why would they change? Microsoft's position on software patents is that there is nothing wrong with them in principle, but the patent office needs to do a better job of not granting patents on things that are not non-obvious or that are not novel. Their position would be that the i4i is one of the ones that would not have been granted under what they would consider proper standards of novelty and non-obviousness.
The way damages were calculated is detailed by the document linked (and was upheld by appeal, as it most likely substantially underestimated the real damages).
Considering how few people actually make use of Custom XML in Office, it's hard to see how the real damages are underestimated. If Microsoft had left that feature out, leaving it for i4i to provide as a plug-in, i4i would not have had big sales.
I'm using Open Office on my gaming PC to track my Warhammer Online auctions.
I've actually considered buying whatever the cheapest version of Microsoft Office for Windows is, just to make that less painful. That's how bad Open Office is.
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A lot of comments are mentioning processed foods, and the large amount of corn in them.
While there are many good reasons to stay away from processed foods (read "The Omnivore's Dilemma" or "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan for details), you can't necessarily apply the cited study to processed foods, precisely because they are processed. The processing might well break down or remove the chemicals that are causing the organ damage.
Carriers justify ETFs on the basis of having to subsidize handsets, but they turn around and charge the SAME amount to customers who aren't taking advantage of the subsidy
$179 is not the same as $529.
... they should also have to deactivate every (legal) copy that's currently out in the wild.
A large part of the damage award is to cover those copies. That's why they don't have to be disabled. They pay damages to cover the copies already out there, and have to stop selling new copies that infringe.
If it's a technology person, that's a red flag. I'd expect them to at least have their own domain name. It doesn't cost THAT much and looks far more professional
You can't infer from someone using an aol, hotmail, yahoo, or gmail address that they don't have their own domain. It's quite possible that they simply don't trust you with their @theirdomain address.
A business professional should have an email address which identifies them with the company they represent
Generally, people applying for a job do not represent a company.
I get 11 hours just typing in notepad with the radio off
How did you discover that? Most people I know replace notepad with something else long before 11 hours.
This is an extremely dangerous tool. If you are looking to live in an area, you can use this tool to see the proportion of (say) blacks and hispanics (through the choice of movies), and then decide to move/not move there, thus encouraging the creation of racial ghettos
Or you could just look at census data and not have to try to infer racial data from movie choice.
You are assuming that you know what the word "information" means in physics. That assumption is faulty.
I've occasionally thought it would be interesting to use this kind of technology for home plumbing. For example, when you turn on your sink and ask for hot water, instead of having a continuous flow in a pipe from the hot water heater to the sink (which wastes a lot of energy), why not use a pneumatic tube system to deliver a packet of hot water to the sink?
Note that the same tubes could be used for delivering hot water an cold water, and taking away waste water? (You'd have separate containers, of course, for fresh water and waste water).
You could do cool things with a pneumatic packet-switched water network. For instance, it would be easy to add a storage tank and route shower waster water to the tank, and then from there to the toilets for flushing.
And I bet with some clever design, you could make it so the pneumatic tube system could double as a centralized vacuum system for house cleaning.
Open source is another way to stop malware... not every user looks at the source, but enough curious ones will put out the warning should anything not be as its marked
That's commonly claimed, but there is not much evidence to back it. There just aren't enough people interested in looking at source to cover all the apps if the Android market gets as big as the iPhone market.
Carmack's problems were with one particular way of using Direct3D, which is what he would have had to use for games like Quake. He was pretty clear that he had no problem with it for games that did not need that particular mode.
Do you need anything else?
tablet + Safari Library + ACM Digital Library + couch == nerd heaven
Wrong. Read 17 USC 109.
As for Novell, who takes their open source work seriously in light of their ties with Microsoft and the associated legal landmine?
Well, for one, the large number of companies and developers who aren't afraid of imaginary legal landmines.
It's interesting most of the reasons people have given you wrong.
RIAA/MPAA's classic settlement offer is whatever-you-have plus a dollar
Bull. Their settlement offer is almost always a few thousand dollars, tops.
My provider runs spamassassin, and given their track record in updating their other software, I rather doubt that they'll update spamassassin anytime soon
If they are slow enough updating, it's possible you don't have the bug. I haven't bothered to update my home mail server past Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, since it works fine. The version of Spamassassin it uses, 3.1.7, does not appear to have this bug.
What does this have to do with my rights online?
Do you also refuse to buy any product made in China?
So the year 10 was in two different decades?
The year 10 was in ten different decades (assuming we are requiring decades to include an integral number of years).
Dammit, people. The decade runs through 2010. 2001-2010. Next year is the end of the decade. Not this year.
2001-2010 is a decade. So is 2003-2013. Or 1998-2007. However, the decade generally means a set of years such that floor(year/10) is constant for all years in the set. Or, as the New Oxford American Dictionary says in one of its definitions, "a period of ten years beginning with a year ending in 0".
Yes, I know, you are going to say something about there being no year 0. That has no relevance whatsoever to how we choose today to group our years into a disjoint set of decades.
You don't read very well, do you? Just because "or" is a small word doesn't mean you can just ignore it. I didn't put it in just to improve the feng shui of my sentence structure.
It's very hard not to agree with the court that Microsoft wilfully infringed. Furthermore, it seems they expected to be caught, and to lose the inevitable suit - and didn't care either. Not hard to see why: The damages awarded are equivalent to just two days' revenue for Microsoft (although they infringed for five years). As a commenter pointed out, that's why such cases are unlikely to change their posture on software patents;
Why would they change? Microsoft's position on software patents is that there is nothing wrong with them in principle, but the patent office needs to do a better job of not granting patents on things that are not non-obvious or that are not novel. Their position would be that the i4i is one of the ones that would not have been granted under what they would consider proper standards of novelty and non-obviousness.
The way damages were calculated is detailed by the document linked (and was upheld by appeal, as it most likely substantially underestimated the real damages).
Considering how few people actually make use of Custom XML in Office, it's hard to see how the real damages are underestimated. If Microsoft had left that feature out, leaving it for i4i to provide as a plug-in, i4i would not have had big sales.
That's the problem with sites like Digg and Slashdot, where people submit things and they show up without any editorial review.
What? Slashdot is edited? That's a joke, right? Nice try, but I'm not falling for something that far out of whack with empirical evidence.
I'm using Open Office on my gaming PC to track my Warhammer Online auctions.
I've actually considered buying whatever the cheapest version of Microsoft Office for Windows is, just to make that less painful. That's how bad Open Office is.