The problem are the "pro" consumer which is where most of the profit is made anyways. The consumer who buys the $300 player with bells and whistles is much more profitable than the wallmart $30 due to higher margin for almost equal material cost. Those consumers would be very unhappy to have to buy another player within a short period of time. (Especially if the color/shape of the old player was picked for the room's interior or some other weird reason someone spent that much on an equivalent system). Those consumers are also the same ones who have a much stronger political pull and are likely to sue manufacturer for "faulty" players.
One of my professors who is in the embedded devices business has said that the cost of putting a camera on a phone is about $8. That is about the maximum cost that the manufacturer is willing to spend on a new feature to make sure to recoup their investment. (That's $8 in manufacturing cost, not including development I think)
You are confusing the features of the provider with the features of the phone. Voicemail is something done by the provider and has NOTHING to do with the type of the phone. And if you don't like flip-phones, a 30 second trip to ATT could show you that there is Sony-Ericson T637. Other providers offer similar and more "brick-like" phones. (ie. TMobile with Nokia 6010, Samsung R225m, etc.)
Don't confuse your lack of research with lack of offerings.
Somehow the only people who win with that hammer are either extemely rich or able to show a pretty/painful story against a faceless corporation. Neither of these cases really apply to being a a good weapon that's fair. Most of the lawsuits seem to come AFTER the fact of discovery by some scientist and usually governmental action rather than before. (ie. the usual examples of driving unsafe products off the road, where the lawsuit happens after recall for millions in class-action for "mental anguish")
There was also the case of Peppered Moth. There the changes in species were visible change in coloration of the moth as it adjusted to the environment. That is natural selection. However, taking it one step further one can see that it is a different species. The coloration of the insect usually helps them in the mating by allowing them to find similar species and mate with them. As the color has changed in the Moth, the England moth would be unable to be properly identified by the Russian moth (they had the same species in north-western Russia). That would mean the two are different species due to inability to copulate due to different mating 'ritual'.
In general, he created a specific builds compiled for each architecture. For those architectures he turned on the optimizations best for the CPU. For example, his builds include MMX/SSE2 compiler optimizations to take advantage of that portion of the CPU pipeline.
I personally have found that something he turned on has resulted in the browser being more page-out friendly, which on my XP-SP2 box results in slow un-minimize due to paging.
So that is why they gave them all up when asked? Because they were interested in having hte money when sanctions are lifted? There is little logic to that assertion if the countries that were owed money were so willing to give Iraq a second chance after US decimated their infrastracture.
Another intersting thing to note is that Bush's administration, specifically Defence Dept., alienated the rest of possible allies by telling them that there are no contracts to be given to anyone who didn't help out in the first place. If the country's companies are unable to gain any benefit from the occupation, there's much less interest by the country to support the occupation. If you have a lot of your own citizens working in the threatened area, you want to provide the proper troop support to protect their safety.
Looking at google: 240 (m^2) = 2 583.3385 ft^2 120 (m^2) = 1 291.66925 ft^2 While the story's house is: 800 (ft^2) = 74.322432 m^2
And as many have pointed out, the average house they've lived in is about 1200 sq. ft. Thus average person doesn't live in a house that's MUCH bigger. However, if you go into the affluent neighborhoods where people have more money than sense, you will find fairly huge houses.
Hummer H1 was never designed for regular use. That never stopped the SUV crowd at looking at that military vehicle as a coolness factor. Once it started to become an item of interest for people, someone had to come out with the "consumer" version. I'm sure the SUV crowd will feel "safer" within that new monstrosity than in their current SUV.
Many people seem to think similarly about their font selection. That is why someone has created the Extended Prefs pluging for gaim. It allows you to change the font size of incoming IMs as well as simplification of the IM window. Very convenient.
In Lynx, if you press a tab key, the highlight immediatly jumps to the next links within the document. (The same is done for the press of the down key) That would put it as sufficiently similar to the method described within the patent. I am not 100% sure as to the method used to select the next link within a complex table-driven website, but it seems to be going through each cell within table and selecting links based on that. Thus I really doubt that it would be possible to discredit lynx as prior art for that claim.
As far as the Popup preferences, the best choice for mozilla is not to use the default but to install an extension. If you are using Mozilla suite, the best extension is the multizilla, which provides large amount of control over your tabs. (Where to open, where to go for close, what to do with new windows, etc.) A similar feature for the Firefox browser is given by the TabBrowser Extension. Though I gotta say that I like multizilla better due to their better support of reopenning tabs and other small details. On the other hand, TabBrowser supports grouping of tabs and behaviors within groups which seems like an interesting improvement.
What about the normal election - all you need to do is to mark the card given to you during the election with an invisible ink. There's really no easy way to make complete anonymity if you ever want to see something.
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It is offered on the official bittorrent links, so I'm guessing they want to seed some bittorrents and mirrors before announcing to the world and having hordes of people download it. If they release it by bittorrent, the bandwidth usage is spread across all the users, and once the beginning/. (etc.) demand is satisfied, they can let the rest of the people use ftp. It's a nice way of combatting the/. effect, and the flood to the mirrors that result from it.
I was in general referring to the surface temperature of the ocean as that is where majority of life happens as well as the locations of animals that would try to "save themselves" by jumping into water. (My Source)
To be more exact for your "a lot of energy" required to raise water over the air - it is about 4 times as much energy for water than air. That is because the specific head of fresh water is 1 (Ocean water is.93) while the specific heat of air is only.25. Thus it takes 4 times as much energy to raise 1g of water 1 degree Celcius as compared to a gram of air.
This doesn't at all take into the account the fact that the starting temperature of the air is higher than that of the water. The average temperature of water in the oceans is just a bit above freezing in the pole areas and is about 17C(62F) on average (max 36C). The average temperature of air is much higher due to being over landmasses. Thus heating all of the air is MUCH easier than water.
I'm sorry to say, but there's no way that the measely amount that NASA gets will even put a dent into those problems. Nasa's operating budget: 15 Billion asked for DOD's budget: 410 Billion received I would look at about 10% of that DOD budget instead of the small NASA - they also provide the satellites as well as many other scientific studies that aren't based on space exploration.
Since you seem to know atleast something about Mozilla process, I'm curious if you could tell me why this bug seems to be ignored: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225977 (Summary: Large # of images kills Moz)
My best guess is that nobody wants to search for resource problems when such huge number of resources are allocated. But I do find this bug to be annoying because of having to often look at webpages that have large amount of images. (And no, they aren't all porn as the first submitter "implied")
The only problem I have with your logic is the fact that Intel would be scared to lose customers due to the DRM. The whole ID inside CPU chip fiasco was the beginning of a DRM in CPUs and they were not at all scared to go down that path. Only after a HUGE stink was raised with the ability to ask for the ID over the net connection was the feature "disabled". (It still could be enabled easily enough by software IIRC) The DRM technology would not lose them customers if they do it together with MS, RIAA, MPAA, etc. All that is required is to have the media available cheaper/exclusively on MS software that requires DRM hardware and people will buy them. Most people wouldn't know the difference between the two computers (with DRM and without) except that one with DRM can play the "exclusive" content. If they can sign up Dell, HP/Compaq, etc. to sell these new features in HUGE letters, people will buy it. And computer manufacturer would love to obsolete all the "old" machines because this new feature can only be used on new computers. That's money in the bank for them.
From what I heard, it was done by using Netscape's IP on encryption for their browser. (Says somewhere on the website about using the certificates) Thus you can trust it about as much as you can trust IE or Netscape to encrypt your credit cards. Some security is better than none, and since they are selling this to big companies, it is important for them to make it atleast secure enough for that. (ie. as secure as IE which is accepted level of security)
The problem with any type of a plugin that does encryption is that it requires both sides to have the same plugin/software. That is very unlikely with the current dominance of "vanilla" AIM on the desktop.
If you want something that's more likely to be widely used, then AOL's implementation of encryption is more likely to work. Quite a few windows users I know have downloaded some type of a certificate, and since any certificate can be used, even a privately signed one will work.
It has greatly improved over the past year with the improvements in GTK 2.2. The biggest poster child for GTK on windows is I think Gaim. Few of my friends have switched to Gaim on windows even though they've never used Linux on their own.
I would say that it is a fairly stable choice if users are switching from AIM to Gaim and not complaining on stability. (And these aren't OSS advocates but non-programmers)
But how is that any different from me being a server on the way of the TCP packet. If I look at the packet's destination port I could "know" that it is a Mute/Kazaa/etc. packet. That doesn't make me responsible for the content. I don't know if the packet is a music file, or a personal video that I'm sending to my brother due to firewall restrictions. It could also be just a search result or some other legal file. Here you have a much higher deniability because you never know what the content is, you are just like ISP that is forwarding the packets.
Otherwise you could claim that if the ISP has a caching proxy and it has a child porn cached on the proxy and therefore ISP is now distributing child porn.
Copyright law allows for quoting of portions of the original for the usage as a reference to the original. (ie. I can quote a paper if I cite it; I can provide passages from book in reviews, etc.)
Would a patch against a GPLed source be required to be GPLed, or would the "quoting" within the patch be withing the "fair-use" of copyright works? This would be a fairly interesting line to walk on, since a patch could theoretically "quote" the whole work (if I changed all of white-space, variable names, etc.) or it could be just a single line around a large addition.
From my understanding, as long as the majority of the patch is an original work, it would not have to be given under GPL as the patch lines would be "quoting" the original for reference.
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The problem are the "pro" consumer which is where most of the profit is made anyways. The consumer who buys the $300 player with bells and whistles is much more profitable than the wallmart $30 due to higher margin for almost equal material cost. Those consumers would be very unhappy to have to buy another player within a short period of time. (Especially if the color/shape of the old player was picked for the room's interior or some other weird reason someone spent that much on an equivalent system). Those consumers are also the same ones who have a much stronger political pull and are likely to sue manufacturer for "faulty" players.
One of my professors who is in the embedded devices business has said that the cost of putting a camera on a phone is about $8. That is about the maximum cost that the manufacturer is willing to spend on a new feature to make sure to recoup their investment. (That's $8 in manufacturing cost, not including development I think)
You are confusing the features of the provider with the features of the phone. Voicemail is something done by the provider and has NOTHING to do with the type of the phone. And if you don't like flip-phones, a 30 second trip to ATT could show you that there is Sony-Ericson T637. Other providers offer similar and more "brick-like" phones. (ie. TMobile with Nokia 6010, Samsung R225m, etc.)
Don't confuse your lack of research with lack of offerings.
Somehow the only people who win with that hammer are either extemely rich or able to show a pretty/painful story against a faceless corporation. Neither of these cases really apply to being a a good weapon that's fair. Most of the lawsuits seem to come AFTER the fact of discovery by some scientist and usually governmental action rather than before. (ie. the usual examples of driving unsafe products off the road, where the lawsuit happens after recall for millions in class-action for "mental anguish")
There was also the case of Peppered Moth. There the changes in species were visible change in coloration of the moth as it adjusted to the environment. That is natural selection.
However, taking it one step further one can see that it is a different species. The coloration of the insect usually helps them in the mating by allowing them to find similar species and mate with them. As the color has changed in the Moth, the England moth would be unable to be properly identified by the Russian moth (they had the same species in north-western Russia). That would mean the two are different species due to inability to copulate due to different mating 'ritual'.
In general, he created a specific builds compiled for each architecture. For those architectures he turned on the optimizations best for the CPU. For example, his builds include MMX/SSE2 compiler optimizations to take advantage of that portion of the CPU pipeline.
I personally have found that something he turned on has resulted in the browser being more page-out friendly, which on my XP-SP2 box results in slow un-minimize due to paging.
So that is why they gave them all up when asked? Because they were interested in having hte money when sanctions are lifted? There is little logic to that assertion if the countries that were owed money were so willing to give Iraq a second chance after US decimated their infrastracture.
Another intersting thing to note is that Bush's administration, specifically Defence Dept., alienated the rest of possible allies by telling them that there are no contracts to be given to anyone who didn't help out in the first place. If the country's companies are unable to gain any benefit from the occupation, there's much less interest by the country to support the occupation. If you have a lot of your own citizens working in the threatened area, you want to provide the proper troop support to protect their safety.
Bush claimed in the second debates that he's being attacked by lies on the Internets.
800 ft^2 is nowhere close to 240 m^2.
Looking at google:
240 (m^2) = 2 583.3385 ft^2
120 (m^2) = 1 291.66925 ft^2
While the story's house is:
800 (ft^2) = 74.322432 m^2
And as many have pointed out, the average house they've lived in is about 1200 sq. ft. Thus average person doesn't live in a house that's MUCH bigger. However, if you go into the affluent neighborhoods where people have more money than sense, you will find fairly huge houses.
Hummer H1 was never designed for regular use. That never stopped the SUV crowd at looking at that military vehicle as a coolness factor. Once it started to become an item of interest for people, someone had to come out with the "consumer" version. I'm sure the SUV crowd will feel "safer" within that new monstrosity than in their current SUV.
Many people seem to think similarly about their font selection. That is why someone has created the Extended Prefs pluging for gaim. It allows you to change the font size of incoming IMs as well as simplification of the IM window. Very convenient.
In Lynx, if you press a tab key, the highlight immediatly jumps to the next links within the document. (The same is done for the press of the down key) That would put it as sufficiently similar to the method described within the patent. I am not 100% sure as to the method used to select the next link within a complex table-driven website, but it seems to be going through each cell within table and selecting links based on that.
Thus I really doubt that it would be possible to discredit lynx as prior art for that claim.
As far as the Popup preferences, the best choice for mozilla is not to use the default but to install an extension. If you are using Mozilla suite, the best extension is the multizilla, which provides large amount of control over your tabs. (Where to open, where to go for close, what to do with new windows, etc.) A similar feature for the Firefox browser is given by the TabBrowser Extension.
Though I gotta say that I like multizilla better due to their better support of reopenning tabs and other small details. On the other hand, TabBrowser supports grouping of tabs and behaviors within groups which seems like an interesting improvement.
What about the normal election - all you need to do is to mark the card given to you during the election with an invisible ink. There's really no easy way to make complete anonymity if you ever want to see something.
It is offered on the official bittorrent links, so I'm guessing they want to seed some bittorrents and mirrors before announcing to the world and having hordes of people download it. If they release it by bittorrent, the bandwidth usage is spread across all the users, and once the beginning /. (etc.) demand is satisfied, they can let the rest of the people use ftp. It's a nice way of combatting the /. effect, and the flood to the mirrors that result from it.
There's a forum post on official forums, and the Official torrent link also has the 3.6.
I was in general referring to the surface temperature of the ocean as that is where majority of life happens as well as the locations of animals that would try to "save themselves" by jumping into water. (My Source)
To be more exact for your "a lot of energy" required to raise water over the air - it is about 4 times as much energy for water than air. That is because the specific head of fresh water is 1 (Ocean water is .93) while the specific heat of air is only .25. Thus it takes 4 times as much energy to raise 1g of water 1 degree Celcius as compared to a gram of air.
This doesn't at all take into the account the fact that the starting temperature of the air is higher than that of the water. The average temperature of water in the oceans is just a bit above freezing in the pole areas and is about 17C(62F) on average (max 36C). The average temperature of air is much higher due to being over landmasses. Thus heating all of the air is MUCH easier than water.
I'm sorry to say, but there's no way that the measely amount that NASA gets will even put a dent into those problems.
Nasa's operating budget: 15 Billion asked for
DOD's budget: 410 Billion received
I would look at about 10% of that DOD budget instead of the small NASA - they also provide the satellites as well as many other scientific studies that aren't based on space exploration.
Since you seem to know atleast something about Mozilla process, I'm curious if you could tell me why this bug seems to be ignored: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225977
(Summary: Large # of images kills Moz)
My best guess is that nobody wants to search for resource problems when such huge number of resources are allocated. But I do find this bug to be annoying because of having to often look at webpages that have large amount of images. (And no, they aren't all porn as the first submitter "implied")
The only problem I have with your logic is the fact that Intel would be scared to lose customers due to the DRM. The whole ID inside CPU chip fiasco was the beginning of a DRM in CPUs and they were not at all scared to go down that path. Only after a HUGE stink was raised with the ability to ask for the ID over the net connection was the feature "disabled". (It still could be enabled easily enough by software IIRC)
The DRM technology would not lose them customers if they do it together with MS, RIAA, MPAA, etc. All that is required is to have the media available cheaper/exclusively on MS software that requires DRM hardware and people will buy them. Most people wouldn't know the difference between the two computers (with DRM and without) except that one with DRM can play the "exclusive" content. If they can sign up Dell, HP/Compaq, etc. to sell these new features in HUGE letters, people will buy it.
And computer manufacturer would love to obsolete all the "old" machines because this new feature can only be used on new computers. That's money in the bank for them.
Have you read ALL of gaim's source?
From what I heard, it was done by using Netscape's IP on encryption for their browser. (Says somewhere on the website about using the certificates) Thus you can trust it about as much as you can trust IE or Netscape to encrypt your credit cards. Some security is better than none, and since they are selling this to big companies, it is important for them to make it atleast secure enough for that. (ie. as secure as IE which is accepted level of security)
The problem with any type of a plugin that does encryption is that it requires both sides to have the same plugin/software. That is very unlikely with the current dominance of "vanilla" AIM on the desktop.
If you want something that's more likely to be widely used, then AOL's implementation of encryption is more likely to work. Quite a few windows users I know have downloaded some type of a certificate, and since any certificate can be used, even a privately signed one will work.
It has greatly improved over the past year with the improvements in GTK 2.2. The biggest poster child for GTK on windows is I think Gaim. Few of my friends have switched to Gaim on windows even though they've never used Linux on their own.
I would say that it is a fairly stable choice if users are switching from AIM to Gaim and not complaining on stability. (And these aren't OSS advocates but non-programmers)
But how is that any different from me being a server on the way of the TCP packet. If I look at the packet's destination port I could "know" that it is a Mute/Kazaa/etc. packet. That doesn't make me responsible for the content. I don't know if the packet is a music file, or a personal video that I'm sending to my brother due to firewall restrictions. It could also be just a search result or some other legal file. Here you have a much higher deniability because you never know what the content is, you are just like ISP that is forwarding the packets.
Otherwise you could claim that if the ISP has a caching proxy and it has a child porn cached on the proxy and therefore ISP is now distributing child porn.
A question:
Copyright law allows for quoting of portions of the original for the usage as a reference to the original. (ie. I can quote a paper if I cite it; I can provide passages from book in reviews, etc.)
Would a patch against a GPLed source be required to be GPLed, or would the "quoting" within the patch be withing the "fair-use" of copyright works? This would be a fairly interesting line to walk on, since a patch could theoretically "quote" the whole work (if I changed all of white-space, variable names, etc.) or it could be just a single line around a large addition.
From my understanding, as long as the majority of the patch is an original work, it would not have to be given under GPL as the patch lines would be "quoting" the original for reference.