If any significant fraction [of research leading to a new and useful invention] was funded by grants, then the patent is "corporate welfare" in its most evil form.
Pharma companies that buy the exclusive rights to research generally pay back federal research grants as part of the price of such exclusive rights. Thus, the "grants" are more like loans.
the gene cannot be patented. A method for testing for the gene can be patented.
Really? Can't a pharma company patent "testing for the presence of a specific gene" as a method for screening for breast cancer? What do U.S. and Canadian patent law say about that?
From what I've heard, slightly earlier versions of IE on Windows had semi-cruddy PNG support.
Non-transparent indexed-color PNGs work just fine in IE 4.x and later. Binary-transparent indexed-color PNGs work just fine in IE 5.x and later. Alpha-transparent PNGs still don't work even in 6.x, but GIF supports only binary transparency and indexed color anyway.
Maybe on PCs, but not on embedded systems, handheld systems, or game consoles. The Game Boy Advance, for instance, has only 384 KB of RAM, and all but 32 KB are 16-bit bus width with muchos wait states. Many microcontrollers inside such things as microwave ovens are as powerful as an Atari 2600 VCS, with 128 bytes of RAM and about 12 bytes of VRAM (if that).
Sure, you can spend more to get more, but what will the customer want, and how much will they pay?
If it puts ads for local businesses on the passenger's display in response to GPS indicating that the vehicle is approaching said businesses, that could cut costs.
Who needs a webbrowser in their car - and for those few why wouldn't a laptop be a vastly superior solution?
Wouldn't it be cute if the front passenger could browse Mapquest and have the map automatically scroll and rotate based on the position and direction returned by the car's navigation?
Paying Fraunhofer = Bad idea
Driving while listening to OGGs = Good idea
(Yes, I know that for the foreseeable future, any embedded.ogg players will have to play.mp3 as well because most.ogg users have a legacy audio library.)
NTSC, PAL and SECAM don't have resolutions at all.
NTSC, PAL, and SECAM specify a number of scanlines for a signal, the timing used for each scanline, the bandwidth of the main carrier, and the bandwidth of a color subcarrier. The Nyquist theorem guarantees a sample frequency given bandwidth or vice versa, and multiplying that by the length of a scanline gives a pixel count per line. Thus, you have a HxV pixel count, which is what computer users typically call "resolution".
I'm not going to bother explaining why you come across as a retard... dipshit.
Do you seriously claim that any person who prefers PG/PG-13 rated movies to R rated movies or E/T rated video games to M rated video games is a "retard" and a "dipshit"?
In most of the cases the "remake" if you will, is continents apart from it's predacessor.
But doesn't the availability of a game (admittedly with simpler graphics) for an older console weaken the apparent "exclusive"ity of the newer title?
I'll answer your question with a question. Ford produced the Mustang in 1965. What makes the 2003 model any better?
I'll humor you by taking a guess at the answer to your question. In general, a newer sports car has at least the following: improved safety features, improved climate control, a better stereo system, and an engine that produces more power with less fuel and less emissions. The Ford Mustang may have other features.
I'd guess that the new Superman game for Xbox probably has sharper textures and more detailed models than the N64 version. But is involving play there, or is it lacking? I've answered your question; now you answer mine.
Sorry, some people don't have $200-300 dollars laying around to spend on a decent video card to play UT2003.
True, you need a newer video card for UT2003. But you also need a special video card (i.e. one with TV in) to play Xbox games in a crowded dorm room with no space for a stand-alone television set.
Yes, [Unreal Championship] will play online via the Xbox Live service, according to M. Rein.
UT2003 will (barely) work down to a 33.6 modem. Xbox Live, on the other hand, requires high-speed Internet access, which isn't available at consumer prices to all families in the United States. Given that somebody already has dial-up Internet access at $20 per month, Xbox Live costs about $24 per month ($4 per month for Xbox Live and $20 per month for the upgrade from dial-up to cable).
Unless you're 12y/o and like to play PG13 games, then GameCube is for you.
Super Smash Bros. Melee is the most popular video game played on the TV in the lobby of a dorm room in a college. Not a middle school, a college. Well, if Xbox has few if any good exclusive E/T rated games, that's Microsoft's problem.
I just wish that there was a pizza+movie delivery service.
You could wait for one firm to offer what you want, or you could follow the Unix philosophy and turn several small tools into more than the sum of their parts. That is, get pizza from Papa John's, Domino's, Pizza Hut, or something, and get movies from Netflix.
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The pharmaceutical companies hardly pay for any of their R&D these days.
Yes they do. See my other comment.
If any significant fraction [of research leading to a new and useful invention] was funded by grants, then the patent is "corporate welfare" in its most evil form.
Pharma companies that buy the exclusive rights to research generally pay back federal research grants as part of the price of such exclusive rights. Thus, the "grants" are more like loans.
the gene cannot be patented. A method for testing for the gene can be patented.
Really? Can't a pharma company patent "testing for the presence of a specific gene" as a method for screening for breast cancer? What do U.S. and Canadian patent law say about that?
now all we need are 1/10 scale drivers
You'll find plenty in Lilliput.
Windows 95 absolutely does have virtual memory. (Are you thinking of Mac OS 9??)
Mac OS 7 had virtual memory. It just wasn't protected virtual memory until Mac OS X.
That battery only has a life span of a few more billion years. You might want to look into getting a new one before then.
That human body only has a life span of a few more dozen years. You might want to look into getting a new one before then.
all TV's have the same number of dots.
All USA TVs have the same number of dots. European TVs, on the other hand, have more scanlines.
I thought .SID was a music format that contained a Commodore 64 program to play music through its SID synthesizer chip.
there's no reason anyone on Earth should continue to use Netscape 4.
Make Mozilla useful on a six-year-old P100 with 24 MB of RAM of the type commonly found in K-12 school systems, and I'll believe you.
From what I've heard, slightly earlier versions of IE on Windows had semi-cruddy PNG support.
Non-transparent indexed-color PNGs work just fine in IE 4.x and later. Binary-transparent indexed-color PNGs work just fine in IE 5.x and later. Alpha-transparent PNGs still don't work even in 6.x, but GIF supports only binary transparency and indexed color anyway.
pin eight has burned all GIFs.
Plug the keyboard in
Make sure to power down the motherboard first. ADB and PS/2 keyboards are not hot pluggable; horror stories of fried controller chips are common.
For instance, I think 25 years with no extensions for a copyright is reasonable.
Reasonable, but also against the terms of the Berne Convention. Breaking the Berne treaty could get U.S. copyrights de-recognized all over the world.
Not that I agree with the details of the Berne Convention or anything...
CPU is cheap, hard disk is cheap.
Maybe on PCs, but not on embedded systems, handheld systems, or game consoles. The Game Boy Advance, for instance, has only 384 KB of RAM, and all but 32 KB are 16-bit bus width with muchos wait states. Many microcontrollers inside such things as microwave ovens are as powerful as an Atari 2600 VCS, with 128 bytes of RAM and about 12 bytes of VRAM (if that).
Yeah, that 25 cent one-time royalty on the player is really gonna hurt.
Yes it is. For something that's not yet mass-produced, there's a $15,000 per year minimum royalty no matter how many units you sell.
40k? luxury! try 256 bytes ;)
256 bytes? luxury! farbrausch has a 16-byte DOS demo.
(context for mods) let's see... ELF... elves... races in fantasy and science fiction:
No. Trolls
Look at that troll. Isn't it Qt?
are completely different creatures from hobbits and elves.
let's see... among (semi) intelligent roughly-humanoid races, the fantasy multiverse has at least humans, dwarves, elves, hobbits, ents, weebles, smurfs, cyclopes, gnomes (pronounced g; 90 cm tall), gnomes (silent g; 15 cm tall), trolls, orcs, merfolk, selkies, marsh-wiggles, nerdlucks, jawas, tuskens, wookiees, ewoks, teeks, borrowers, morlocks, and eloi.
Saturday, Saturday, Saturday! Watch the Race Race at the Motor Speedway!
Be there.
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define MAX_CHRISTS 5
Sure, you can spend more to get more, but what will the customer want, and how much will they pay?
If it puts ads for local businesses on the passenger's display in response to GPS indicating that the vehicle is approaching said businesses, that could cut costs.
Who needs a webbrowser in their car - and for those few why wouldn't a laptop be a vastly superior solution?
Wouldn't it be cute if the front passenger could browse Mapquest and have the map automatically scroll and rotate based on the position and direction returned by the car's navigation?
Incidentally, I wouldn't mind seeing a safe-guard that let the user browse the web only while stopped.
Or while the display is tilted toward the passenger, who is reading Mapquest.
Driving while listening to MP3s = Good idea
Paying Fraunhofer = Bad idea
Driving while listening to OGGs = Good idea
(Yes, I know that for the foreseeable future, any embedded .ogg players will have to play .mp3 as well because most .ogg users have a legacy audio library.)
NTSC, PAL and SECAM don't have resolutions at all.
NTSC, PAL, and SECAM specify a number of scanlines for a signal, the timing used for each scanline, the bandwidth of the main carrier, and the bandwidth of a color subcarrier. The Nyquist theorem guarantees a sample frequency given bandwidth or vice versa, and multiplying that by the length of a scanline gives a pixel count per line. Thus, you have a HxV pixel count, which is what computer users typically call "resolution".
I'm not going to bother explaining why you come across as a retard ... dipshit.
Do you seriously claim that any person who prefers PG/PG-13 rated movies to R rated movies or E/T rated video games to M rated video games is a "retard" and a "dipshit"?
In most of the cases the "remake" if you will, is continents apart from it's predacessor.
But doesn't the availability of a game (admittedly with simpler graphics) for an older console weaken the apparent "exclusive"ity of the newer title?
I'll answer your question with a question. Ford produced the Mustang in 1965. What makes the 2003 model any better?
I'll humor you by taking a guess at the answer to your question. In general, a newer sports car has at least the following: improved safety features, improved climate control, a better stereo system, and an engine that produces more power with less fuel and less emissions. The Ford Mustang may have other features.
I'd guess that the new Superman game for Xbox probably has sharper textures and more detailed models than the N64 version. But is involving play there, or is it lacking? I've answered your question; now you answer mine.
Sorry, some people don't have $200-300 dollars laying around to spend on a decent video card to play UT2003.
True, you need a newer video card for UT2003. But you also need a special video card (i.e. one with TV in) to play Xbox games in a crowded dorm room with no space for a stand-alone television set.
Yes, [Unreal Championship] will play online via the Xbox Live service, according to M. Rein.
UT2003 will (barely) work down to a 33.6 modem. Xbox Live, on the other hand, requires high-speed Internet access, which isn't available at consumer prices to all families in the United States. Given that somebody already has dial-up Internet access at $20 per month, Xbox Live costs about $24 per month ($4 per month for Xbox Live and $20 per month for the upgrade from dial-up to cable).
Unless you're 12y/o and like to play PG13 games, then GameCube is for you.
Super Smash Bros. Melee is the most popular video game played on the TV in the lobby of a dorm room in a college. Not a middle school, a college. Well, if Xbox has few if any good exclusive E/T rated games, that's Microsoft's problem.
I just wish that there was a pizza+movie delivery service.
You could wait for one firm to offer what you want, or you could follow the Unix philosophy and turn several small tools into more than the sum of their parts. That is, get pizza from Papa John's, Domino's, Pizza Hut, or something, and get movies from Netflix.
Stop and think about it. NTSC and PAL run at different resolutions. Of course which resolution you use is going to make a difference on the game.
NTSC and PAL run at different resolutions, but PAL/M runs at the same resolution and frequency as NTSC.
If you half the radius, the circumference is reduced by a factor 2*pi
I don't think so. If you halve the radius, you halve the circumference, and you reduce the area to one-fourth.
2*Pi*r = p
2*Pi*(1/2*r) = 1/2*p