Which is exactly why more processing power is important. You can't wait hours for it to render the next scene. Then again it really is just a semantics issue on what he meant by intensive. You could always just throw your computer into an infinite loop and peg the processor as well.
Reminds me of a quote by Chuck Palahniuk, "Why have I sold out? You think I'm supposed to grow old, beating some trite old protest drum that people don't hear anymore? Please; protest is now just a backdrop for a Diesel clothing ad in a slick fashion magazine. My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. It's time -- for me, at least -- to be clever and seduce people by entertaining them. I'll never be heard if I'm always ranting and griping."
It's better to "close" the OLPC a little bit then it is for it to never take off.
I don't know how far your comment is from the truth. They seem to be making two of the major mistakes they made with UT2003. The sniper rifle leaves a trail again and they removed assault.
Still won't mean anything. Until you can run every program you can run on Windows on Linux the average user won't adopt it. Also, people don't care about it being stable and secure, they want it to be user friendly.
I'm majoring in Computer Programming and those two reasons still are why I use XP over Linux.
What's the difference? An internal combustion engine is coupled directly from the explosion all the way to the road, well at least in a manual car. The reason you don't feel each explosion though is that instead of using one big one there are thousands of tiny ones so it seems like a smooth motion.
I don't think they are common carriers, at least all of my reading seems to point that way. Also though, they have never been held responsible for what goes over their lines because they have always said that it would be impossible to filter it. This will show though that they can filter and if they can filter illegal movies why can't they filter out other illegal content?
Would this mean that AT&T is now responsible for all the content that goes over their lines since they are demonstrating they have the ability to filter it?
The difference between all of those "tools" that you just described and the one in this article is those all leave marks. How do you prove an officer used excessive force on you when there are no marks?
Somewhere along the way, or maybe it has been this way the whole time, people started using laws as ethics. Most people seem to think that if something is illegal then it must be wrong and if it's not illegal then it's probably fine.
I don't think anyone here is jumping for joy that a gmail account got hacked. Instead I see a bunch of people jumping for joy because a company that is seeming violating the law might actually have to suffer for its actions.
I think what happened here is for the greater good. Sometimes breaking the law draws attention to a problem few realized existed.
I gotta tell you. I just did this. What a difference! It has this quality that's hard to describe. A kind of warmth that I just don't get from silicon transistors.
The patent law specifies the general field of subject matter that can be patented and the conditions under which a patent may be obtained.
In the language of the statute, any person who "invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent," subject to the conditions and requirements of the law. The word "process" is defined by law as a process, act or method, and primarily includes industrial or technical processes. The term "machine" used in the statute needs no explanation. The term "manufacture" refers to articles that are made, and includes all manufactured articles. The term "composition of matter" relates to chemical compositions and may include mixtures of ingredients as well as new chemical compounds. These classes of subject matter taken together include practically everything that is made by man and the processes for making the products.
The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 excludes the patenting of inventions useful solely in the utilization of special nuclear material or atomic energy in an atomic weapon 42 U.S.C. 2181 (a).
The patent law specifies that the subject matter must be "useful." The term "useful" in this connection refers to the condition that the subject matter has a useful purpose and also includes operativeness, that is, a machine which will not operate to perform the intended purpose would not be called useful, and therefore would not be granted a patent.
Interpretations of the statute by the courts have defined the limits of the field of subject matter that can be patented, thus it has been held that the laws of nature, physical phenomena, and abstract ideas are not patentable subject matter.
A patent cannot be obtained upon a mere idea or suggestion. The patent is granted upon the new machine, manufacture, etc., as has been said, and not upon the idea or suggestion of the new machine. A complete description of the actual machine or other subject matter for which a patent is sought is required.
I thought Linux could already do that. I know about two years ago my dad and I were looking into trimming down the Linux machine we used as a router. We figured we could boot off of a flash drive instead of HDDs. Since the cheap flash drives back then didn't give you a lot of read and writes and most of what the machine was writing/reading was just log files we found out you could mount some RAM as HDD and then when you went to shut it down it would write that data out to the flash card. The only time you would ever actually hit the flash card is on boot and shut down. With an UPS installed you don't have to worry about losing any data either because you should have plenty of time to write it out to the flash card in the event of power failure.
Does HD Radio have any sort of DRM? I personally believe the best way is to set up the rules the same for Internet Radio as they do for traditional radio. That's as long as the Internet Radio is only streaming music to you like a traditional radio instead of allowing you to choose what is playing, when it's playing, etc.
Hence why I said, "you aren't suppose to be able to patent ideas." I've seen people speed, get busted by the cops, and then not get a ticket. Does that mean that the law for speeding is changed? No, just that it's not always enforced the same way.
This wouldn't be prior art. You aren't supposed to be able to patent an idea, only a solution to a problem. So they could patent the solution even though you came up with the idea.
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Games, after all, run in realtime.
Which is exactly why more processing power is important. You can't wait hours for it to render the next scene. Then again it really is just a semantics issue on what he meant by intensive. You could always just throw your computer into an infinite loop and peg the processor as well.
Reminds me of a quote by Chuck Palahniuk, "Why have I sold out? You think I'm supposed to grow old, beating some trite old protest drum that people don't hear anymore? Please; protest is now just a backdrop for a Diesel clothing ad in a slick fashion magazine. My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. It's time -- for me, at least -- to be clever and seduce people by entertaining them. I'll never be heard if I'm always ranting and griping."
It's better to "close" the OLPC a little bit then it is for it to never take off.
I'd think a pressurized air or hydraulic system would be better than the battery as well.
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." - Plato
I don't know how far your comment is from the truth. They seem to be making two of the major mistakes they made with UT2003. The sniper rifle leaves a trail again and they removed assault.
I imagine the upscaling that the PS3 does is much better than the upscaling that any TV can do. It's the same reason people buy upscaling DVD players.
Still won't mean anything. Until you can run every program you can run on Windows on Linux the average user won't adopt it. Also, people don't care about it being stable and secure, they want it to be user friendly.
I'm majoring in Computer Programming and those two reasons still are why I use XP over Linux.
What's the difference? An internal combustion engine is coupled directly from the explosion all the way to the road, well at least in a manual car. The reason you don't feel each explosion though is that instead of using one big one there are thousands of tiny ones so it seems like a smooth motion.
So if a member of the government asks you to do something that you know is illegal you would do it?
I don't think they are common carriers, at least all of my reading seems to point that way. Also though, they have never been held responsible for what goes over their lines because they have always said that it would be impossible to filter it. This will show though that they can filter and if they can filter illegal movies why can't they filter out other illegal content?
You're right but the marks at least give you some credibility. With this ray gun it's impossible to prove that it was actually used on you.
Would this mean that AT&T is now responsible for all the content that goes over their lines since they are demonstrating they have the ability to filter it?
The difference between all of those "tools" that you just described and the one in this article is those all leave marks. How do you prove an officer used excessive force on you when there are no marks?
Somewhere along the way, or maybe it has been this way the whole time, people started using laws as ethics. Most people seem to think that if something is illegal then it must be wrong and if it's not illegal then it's probably fine.
I don't think anyone here is jumping for joy that a gmail account got hacked. Instead I see a bunch of people jumping for joy because a company that is seeming violating the law might actually have to suffer for its actions.
I think what happened here is for the greater good. Sometimes breaking the law draws attention to a problem few realized existed.
It's been proven in court with ink cartridges and garage door openers that you can't use DMCA to break compatibility.
I gotta tell you. I just did this. What a difference! It has this quality that's hard to describe. A kind of warmth that I just don't get from silicon transistors.
You haven't used a Pentium 4 then.
This sparks an interesting question in my mind. Would the Church of England be as upset if Resistance was a book and assuming it was just as popular?
I think the USPTO begs to differ from you:
What Can Be Patented
The patent law specifies the general field of subject matter that can be patented and the conditions under which a patent may be obtained.
In the language of the statute, any person who "invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent," subject to the conditions and requirements of the law. The word "process" is defined by law as a process, act or method, and primarily includes industrial or technical processes. The term "machine" used in the statute needs no explanation. The term "manufacture" refers to articles that are made, and includes all manufactured articles. The term "composition of matter" relates to chemical compositions and may include mixtures of ingredients as well as new chemical compounds. These classes of subject matter taken together include practically everything that is made by man and the processes for making the products.
The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 excludes the patenting of inventions useful solely in the utilization of special nuclear material or atomic energy in an atomic weapon 42 U.S.C. 2181 (a).
The patent law specifies that the subject matter must be "useful." The term "useful" in this connection refers to the condition that the subject matter has a useful purpose and also includes operativeness, that is, a machine which will not operate to perform the intended purpose would not be called useful, and therefore would not be granted a patent.
Interpretations of the statute by the courts have defined the limits of the field of subject matter that can be patented, thus it has been held that the laws of nature, physical phenomena, and abstract ideas are not patentable subject matter.
A patent cannot be obtained upon a mere idea or suggestion. The patent is granted upon the new machine, manufacture, etc., as has been said, and not upon the idea or suggestion of the new machine. A complete description of the actual machine or other subject matter for which a patent is sought is required.
From USPTO
I thought Linux could already do that. I know about two years ago my dad and I were looking into trimming down the Linux machine we used as a router. We figured we could boot off of a flash drive instead of HDDs. Since the cheap flash drives back then didn't give you a lot of read and writes and most of what the machine was writing/reading was just log files we found out you could mount some RAM as HDD and then when you went to shut it down it would write that data out to the flash card. The only time you would ever actually hit the flash card is on boot and shut down. With an UPS installed you don't have to worry about losing any data either because you should have plenty of time to write it out to the flash card in the event of power failure.
This is already handled by the drive itself.
Does HD Radio have any sort of DRM? I personally believe the best way is to set up the rules the same for Internet Radio as they do for traditional radio. That's as long as the Internet Radio is only streaming music to you like a traditional radio instead of allowing you to choose what is playing, when it's playing, etc.
Hence why I said, "you aren't suppose to be able to patent ideas." I've seen people speed, get busted by the cops, and then not get a ticket. Does that mean that the law for speeding is changed? No, just that it's not always enforced the same way.
I imagine the OS won't be able to tell the difference between the two.
This wouldn't be prior art. You aren't supposed to be able to patent an idea, only a solution to a problem. So they could patent the solution even though you came up with the idea.