McDonald's kept their coffee super-duper hot not because "customers like hot coffee", as they claimed, but because you get more coffee per pound of grind if the water's super-duper hot. Furthermore, the plaintiff was willing to settle for medical expenses related to her third-degree burns (totaling $10K), but McDonald's went to litigation and lost out big-time. (Lesson: No matter how good your claim is, as a big corporation, going up against a little-old lady with third-degree burns and no insurance is NOT a good way to hold on to your money.)
I always thought that using a hybrid system with a flash memory and a hard drive would be great. Every time the boot configuration changes, write a new "hibernation file" to the flash memory, and then boot from that. Furthermore, the code calls for each application as it starts up could be written to the flash memory. Indeed, the most-accessed binaries can be copied onto the flash memory, as space permits. Such a system would decrease boot times and quicken application start times while reducing the risk of burning out the flash memory over the average life of the computer/drive.
"I don't know about you, but my High School Chemistry class had an entire segment on what household chemicals could be used to create very nasty poisons and explosives. Most of it was geared towards "don't EVER mix these two chemicals", but was followed up with "because if you mix 2 parts this, with 1 part that, stir, drain, separate and then let sit, you'll have a nice plastique"."
You believe that the Second Amendment protects the right of ordinary citizens to carry weapons to oppose the government when the time came. Therefore, you think that weapons should not be regulated at all. Are you saying that plastique, RPGs, and nerve agents should not be regulated because they are necessary to prevent government oppression?
That's what Tim McVeigh thought, too, when he blew up the Oklahoma City federal government building to stick it to The Man. Truth is that your view of society would reduce us to Iraq, where the Sunnis and the Shiites are blowing each other up over differences on what government should be. I like the American way of life, thank you very much.
They didn't use "precedent" to refer to case law, so I don't see what's so legal about that. Precedent is a real English word, you know, not some special legal term.
It seems that your method forces the soldier to look down all the time, which is probably not the best way to see the bad guys coming. I don't know if Silly String works in a jungle terrain, but I'd rather throw Silly String into a building to look for traps rather than walk slowly into the room with my eyes looking down at the tip of a string.
It's near-impossible to predict exactly what troops on the ground need before you actually get there. Therefore, American soldiers have always innovated in the absence of the right tool for the job. In World War II, soldiers fighting in France were getting bogged down in hedgerows, which were basically dunes. Aerial photos did not reveal the three-dimensional structure of the hedgerows, so the soldiers were not prepared for such a battlefield. Defending Germans would lay in ambush behind every hedgerow, and American soldiers going over the top of the hedgerows were mowed down by German machine gun fire.
Initially, GIs tried to dynamite the hedgerows so they could attack from a more concealed position. Though this met with some success, it took up too much dynamite. Other GIs tried to drive tanks through the hedgerows, but those got stuck and wouldn't reliably penetrate the hedgerows. Eventually, the soldiers welded on a long metal rod onto tanks. The tip of the rod contained a barrel of explosives that was detonated once the tank shoved the rod into the hedgerow. The "Rhino" saved many American lives by creating a fast and safer way to secure hedgerows in France.
The current administration should be faulted for many things. However, not being able to anticipate Silly String as a precious wartime commodity should not be one of them. I mean, no one would have thought that this would have saved American lives -- and in fact, it was only the innovation of the American soldier that created such a need for a child's toy.
Tough talk. But a flashbang grenade through your bedroom window at 3 AM, some angry jackbooted thugs with MP-5s, and a secret warrant for interrogation at Gitmo and you'll be a whimpering coward in no time.
You can't beat the house. They have more guns and more soldiers than you do.
In a situation like Iraq, you do not want to kill lots of civilians -- even those who are angry at the military already -- because that begets more enemies. If there's a huge riot against American forces because the security promised never appeared, shooting into the crowd will cause more fanaticism.
Shooting a microwave into the crowd hopefully will break up these things without a huge firefight.
"Some players might have to change their interfaces a bit. Big deal."
Well, that and the cost of damages for prior infringement over the last ten years, attorney fees, and any additional punitive damages for willful infringement or inequitable conduct before the US PTO. Of course, changing the interfaces to get around this patent may render a portable audio player uncompetitive. Other than that, not a big deal.
The rules only require companies to maintain their normal course of business. The exception is if a company realizes it is going to be sued, or the target of a government investigation. Under those circumstances, the company has to enter into a hold and stop destroying data even if it would have done so in the normal course of business.
The law restricts what a patent holder may do with his government-granted monopoly. For example, the patentee cannot enter into a licensing deal lasting longer than the remaining term on his patent. Nor can a patentee try to corner a particular market by buying up all the patents necessary to compete in that field. (It would be another story if the patentee innovated all the patents, but not if he just bought all of them.)
If IBM sued Amazon partly because Amazon wouldn't buy IBM hardware, then this is arguably an unlawful extension of IBM's patent power. I cannot license a patent on software, for example, on terms that change depending on how much hardware I buy from you. That would be bundling, which is bad.
Freedom fighters firebomb cities and nuke entire cities. All arguments from morality are the same and simply depends on where you stand: here, or there.
It's not a bug; the software spec apparently did not call for such a rollover. Feature drift would be tinkering with the code to allow a rollover and thereby introduce a flaw.
Well, you can always verify the election using statistical sampling of exit polls. The results are accurate enough to verify that an election was valid. That's what the US does to assure that the election of other countries were on the level. Surely, Americans will rise up in anger if exit polling showed that a Presidential election was tampered with. Or maybe not. Oops.
Well, pretend we spent all the money on a new Hubble, not a James Webb IR satellite. Using lessons learned and leveraging new understandings of material science, we could get a super-Hubble. Of course, it'll take longer, but imagine a space telescope with a main lens that actually works!
Seriously, how big a threat are Boy Scouts to the content cartels? If they get the boy scouts on their side, who next? 80-year old fundamentalist grandmothers?
They need to start something that'll get the cool kids. Like an anti-piracy gang. Complete with drugrunning and cap-bustin.
Hey, RIAA's a paranoid bunch. Remember the time they sued a grandmother who couldn't turn on a computer? Or when they sued a dead guy?
You suspend, post facto, the kids after someone gets injured. Everything remains the same, really, but the schools can at least try to say the kids were at fault. (But then, kids are always at fault and that's why you have to supervise them.) You are right in that this will do nothing.
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McDonald's kept their coffee super-duper hot not because "customers like hot coffee", as they claimed, but because you get more coffee per pound of grind if the water's super-duper hot. Furthermore, the plaintiff was willing to settle for medical expenses related to her third-degree burns (totaling $10K), but McDonald's went to litigation and lost out big-time. (Lesson: No matter how good your claim is, as a big corporation, going up against a little-old lady with third-degree burns and no insurance is NOT a good way to hold on to your money.)
Because Google also sponsors Firefox through the Google search box.
I always thought that using a hybrid system with a flash memory and a hard drive would be great. Every time the boot configuration changes, write a new "hibernation file" to the flash memory, and then boot from that. Furthermore, the code calls for each application as it starts up could be written to the flash memory. Indeed, the most-accessed binaries can be copied onto the flash memory, as space permits. Such a system would decrease boot times and quicken application start times while reducing the risk of burning out the flash memory over the average life of the computer/drive.
"I don't know about you, but my High School Chemistry class had an entire segment on what household chemicals could be used to create very nasty poisons and explosives. Most of it was geared towards "don't EVER mix these two chemicals", but was followed up with "because if you mix 2 parts this, with 1 part that, stir, drain, separate and then let sit, you'll have a nice plastique"."
You believe that the Second Amendment protects the right of ordinary citizens to carry weapons to oppose the government when the time came. Therefore, you think that weapons should not be regulated at all. Are you saying that plastique, RPGs, and nerve agents should not be regulated because they are necessary to prevent government oppression?
That's what Tim McVeigh thought, too, when he blew up the Oklahoma City federal government building to stick it to The Man. Truth is that your view of society would reduce us to Iraq, where the Sunnis and the Shiites are blowing each other up over differences on what government should be. I like the American way of life, thank you very much.
They didn't use "precedent" to refer to case law, so I don't see what's so legal about that. Precedent is a real English word, you know, not some special legal term.
It seems that your method forces the soldier to look down all the time, which is probably not the best way to see the bad guys coming. I don't know if Silly String works in a jungle terrain, but I'd rather throw Silly String into a building to look for traps rather than walk slowly into the room with my eyes looking down at the tip of a string.
It was the state attorneys' office that brought suit. The funds are probably going to be thrown into the general state funds.
It's near-impossible to predict exactly what troops on the ground need before you actually get there. Therefore, American soldiers have always innovated in the absence of the right tool for the job. In World War II, soldiers fighting in France were getting bogged down in hedgerows, which were basically dunes. Aerial photos did not reveal the three-dimensional structure of the hedgerows, so the soldiers were not prepared for such a battlefield. Defending Germans would lay in ambush behind every hedgerow, and American soldiers going over the top of the hedgerows were mowed down by German machine gun fire.
Initially, GIs tried to dynamite the hedgerows so they could attack from a more concealed position. Though this met with some success, it took up too much dynamite. Other GIs tried to drive tanks through the hedgerows, but those got stuck and wouldn't reliably penetrate the hedgerows. Eventually, the soldiers welded on a long metal rod onto tanks. The tip of the rod contained a barrel of explosives that was detonated once the tank shoved the rod into the hedgerow. The "Rhino" saved many American lives by creating a fast and safer way to secure hedgerows in France.
The current administration should be faulted for many things. However, not being able to anticipate Silly String as a precious wartime commodity should not be one of them. I mean, no one would have thought that this would have saved American lives -- and in fact, it was only the innovation of the American soldier that created such a need for a child's toy.
I think you mean Rockbox. Sure, the hardware isn't open-source but the firmware is. That's close enough.
Tough talk. But a flashbang grenade through your bedroom window at 3 AM, some angry jackbooted thugs with MP-5s, and a secret warrant for interrogation at Gitmo and you'll be a whimpering coward in no time.
You can't beat the house. They have more guns and more soldiers than you do.
In a situation like Iraq, you do not want to kill lots of civilians -- even those who are angry at the military already -- because that begets more enemies. If there's a huge riot against American forces because the security promised never appeared, shooting into the crowd will cause more fanaticism.
Shooting a microwave into the crowd hopefully will break up these things without a huge firefight.
"Some players might have to change their interfaces a bit. Big deal."
Well, that and the cost of damages for prior infringement over the last ten years, attorney fees, and any additional punitive damages for willful infringement or inequitable conduct before the US PTO. Of course, changing the interfaces to get around this patent may render a portable audio player uncompetitive. Other than that, not a big deal.
The rules only require companies to maintain their normal course of business. The exception is if a company realizes it is going to be sued, or the target of a government investigation. Under those circumstances, the company has to enter into a hold and stop destroying data even if it would have done so in the normal course of business.
The law restricts what a patent holder may do with his government-granted monopoly. For example, the patentee cannot enter into a licensing deal lasting longer than the remaining term on his patent. Nor can a patentee try to corner a particular market by buying up all the patents necessary to compete in that field. (It would be another story if the patentee innovated all the patents, but not if he just bought all of them.)
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If IBM sued Amazon partly because Amazon wouldn't buy IBM hardware, then this is arguably an unlawful extension of IBM's patent power. I cannot license a patent on software, for example, on terms that change depending on how much hardware I buy from you. That would be bundling, which is bad.
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That's because Voyager is nuclear powered. Good luck getting the masses to approve shooting up another nuclear power package.
He left in a jet plane.
Reciprocation would be a bitch.
Freedom fighters firebomb cities and nuke entire cities. All arguments from morality are the same and simply depends on where you stand: here, or there.
It's not a bug; the software spec apparently did not call for such a rollover. Feature drift would be tinkering with the code to allow a rollover and thereby introduce a flaw.
what's even worse is that they referred to the website as a "gay-themed" website because the pedophiles like little boys.
Seems pointless.
Less light = Less photosynthesis = More CO2 = More global warming.
But then, that's just me.
Well, you can always verify the election using statistical sampling of exit polls. The results are accurate enough to verify that an election was valid. That's what the US does to assure that the election of other countries were on the level. Surely, Americans will rise up in anger if exit polling showed that a Presidential election was tampered with. Or maybe not. Oops.
Well, pretend we spent all the money on a new Hubble, not a James Webb IR satellite. Using lessons learned and leveraging new understandings of material science, we could get a super-Hubble. Of course, it'll take longer, but imagine a space telescope with a main lens that actually works!
Seriously, how big a threat are Boy Scouts to the content cartels? If they get the boy scouts on their side, who next? 80-year old fundamentalist grandmothers?
They need to start something that'll get the cool kids. Like an anti-piracy gang. Complete with drugrunning and cap-bustin.
Hey, RIAA's a paranoid bunch. Remember the time they sued a grandmother who couldn't turn on a computer? Or when they sued a dead guy?
You suspend, post facto, the kids after someone gets injured. Everything remains the same, really, but the schools can at least try to say the kids were at fault. (But then, kids are always at fault and that's why you have to supervise them.) You are right in that this will do nothing.