Oh BS on the killer phones. 2 of my aunts, one of my uncles, and a cousin are all nurses at local hospitals and they ALL have cell phones they use at work. All but my cousin have used them for years. He, 27 year old, but somehow a luddite, finally turned in his pager and got a cellphone this past year.
My aunt, head of the ICU, wants an iPhone because many of her coworkers use it to gain access to various resource texts and databases. My other aunt, senior nurse at the emergency room, has her phone with her everywhere.
The reason why so many people in the medical profession still have pagers is not because of any life-threatening aspect of cell phones. It's because the hospitals have service contracts to provide the pagers, and they don't want to pay more for phones.
If you have a web administrator account with Google, they have an option for removing your site files from their cache and separately from their index. Again, nothing sneaky on Google's part, and all left in the hands of the site maintainers.
No, it doesn't take anything special on Google's part to index these kinds of sites. Most of them just look for the browser's user-agent string, and if it isn't Google, then they force a login.
Hmm... I wonder if spoofing the user agent string works on expertsexchange
That mistake is easy, try explaining to a non-technical person the differences of networking via Bluetooth, WiFi, Wireless/mobile.
On the other hand, look how many iPhone users do utilize their calendars, web browsing, and email and compare that to other smartphones or "regular" phones that have all those features. Proof that UI matters more than technical capabilities and specifications.
Warning, pushing your components beyond their ratings may damage them!
Wow, never knew that overclocking might be problematic, guess I shouldn't have ignored all those warnings by the manufacturer, the system bios, the warranty pamphlets, the packaging....
They might be, depending on how a patent is phrased. But I'm sure a patent could be written in such a way that they wouldn't be considered prior art.
But neither the summary, nor the article mention anything about a patent. A bit reactionary for you to assume this was a patent article don't you think?
My mom has never used the photo function on either of here two camera capable phones (the previous one she owned, and the current). She can't get the photos off (would need a special cable and software) except by sending them for $0.25 each (or whatever insane price Sprint charges).
Hell, my mom has never used the photo function on her iPhone. She loves how easy it is to use the contact list and email, but anything beyond that she doesn't use. She didn't want to switch from her Windows Treo (which she loathed for good reason), but just the ease of use of those two features have made it a godsend for her.
Easy answer with a question: Why would they set up a licensing setup (with all the overhead and fun as their investment) when the government can instead get the big boost from the initial sale and then tax both the sale itself, the revenue of the company, and the sales of the consumer? This would then shunt any overhead of profiting off the patent to the winning bidder as well.
Then contract out the license management (just like the armed forces contract out the supply chain) with a percentage cut for the private contractor. This way the license manager has an incentive to get licensees in the private sector, and NASA retains ultimate control. But don't sell the patent!
Once you've sold the patent there isn't anything you can do to stop mishandling of it. I wouldn't be surprised to one day find out that NASA can't move forward on a project without a hefty license fee on a patent they once owned...
If my tax dollars paid for the research and development that has lead to a patent, then that patent should remain in the hands of the government, not sold to the highest bidder.
If these patents are so valuable that someone is willing to buy them (and theoretically license them), then NASA should be licensing the patents themselves. Sounds like a better long-term supplemental funding solution to me. Several other agencies have fee and license structures (FCC, FDA) that helps supplement their annual Congressional appropriations. Why not NASA as well?
iTunes installs its own CD drivers to manage ripping and burning, as well as always-on "helper" and updater processes, in addition to drivers for the iPod/iPhone.
Asinine, but then again Apple doesn't follow Windows UI guidelines either.
If you have a house worth $500,000 it's because someone is willing to pay you $500,000 for it. If the economy changes or a methlab opens across the street and people now only are willing to pay you $250,000 for your house, the extra $250,000 didn't evaporate or disappear. It never existed to begin with. However, the loss of value is very real.
Who cares what font designers say. US copyright law says they have no choice in the matter. Font designs are not copyrightable.
Perhaps not, but the data files that store the font are copyrightable and are copyrighted. Which means if you embed those font files in your website (maybe you'd like a nice title like Slashdot in something other than Arial), then you're violating copyright law.
I am pretty sure that for most parts of a business, this would be enough.
I keep hearing this argument over and over, and it doesn't hold water. Every industry has its own set of "industry standard" applications (aka "vertical stack") which are never easily replaceable and are always a core requirement to how the companies in that industry do their work.
Examples:
Architecture: Core work is done on CAD of which the only reasonable solutions are AutoCAD, Revit (both from Autodesk and Windows only) and ArchiCAD (Win/OSX). The CAD solutions available for Linux are a joke.
Movie Special Effects: This industry can run on Linux, but only because all the big companies use their own in-house software that was originally written for UNIX stacks. The back-end accounting and business management departments all use tools written for Windows
Law Firms: Good luck getting versions of their research and case management tools for anything other than Windows
Accounting: Again, the enterprise-level financial reporting, organizing, and filing tools are all Windows-centric.
It isn't just about MS Office. While an office suite is an important part of any business (even my OSX office of 75 people uses MS Office), there is always something that ties the industry to a specific platform. It is usually a very niche product, and only available from 1 or 2 vendors. And because it's so ingrained to their workflow, it won't be replaced unless their primary vendor goes under.
Although the most likely scenario is botnet shutdowns, here's some steps you can try if you still suspect some new filtering in place:
First check your message headers to see if there's anything new in there. If your ISP, webhost, or other intermediary is filtering, you'll probably see something in there indicating the messages as clean/safe and what filter marked them as such.
Second, send yourself messages from multiple outside sources with the GTUBE string. This string is meant to trigger SpamAssassin so that it guarantees the message is marked as spam. Other filter systems respond to it as well. So you'll be able to tell if the message came through or not. http://spamassassin.apache.org/gtube/
Third, if you're really ambitious, try forging an IP address to send yourself some messages from IPs on the major known blacklists. This should confirm if some filter is doing blacklist filtering, as some of the mail delivery systems (eg. Postfix) can do blacklist filtering without the need of an additional tool like SpamAssassin.
I don't know why you got modded flamebait, but I agree. The altered version just looks like a Photoshop sharpness filter overly applied, and color adjusted to make everything darker (but in a way that will make everything far too dark on CRTs).
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Oh BS on the killer phones. 2 of my aunts, one of my uncles, and a cousin are all nurses at local hospitals and they ALL have cell phones they use at work. All but my cousin have used them for years. He, 27 year old, but somehow a luddite, finally turned in his pager and got a cellphone this past year.
My aunt, head of the ICU, wants an iPhone because many of her coworkers use it to gain access to various resource texts and databases. My other aunt, senior nurse at the emergency room, has her phone with her everywhere.
The reason why so many people in the medical profession still have pagers is not because of any life-threatening aspect of cell phones. It's because the hospitals have service contracts to provide the pagers, and they don't want to pay more for phones.
If you have a web administrator account with Google, they have an option for removing your site files from their cache and separately from their index. Again, nothing sneaky on Google's part, and all left in the hands of the site maintainers.
No, it doesn't take anything special on Google's part to index these kinds of sites. Most of them just look for the browser's user-agent string, and if it isn't Google, then they force a login.
Hmm... I wonder if spoofing the user agent string works on expertsexchange
That mistake is easy, try explaining to a non-technical person the differences of networking via Bluetooth, WiFi, Wireless/mobile.
On the other hand, look how many iPhone users do utilize their calendars, web browsing, and email and compare that to other smartphones or "regular" phones that have all those features. Proof that UI matters more than technical capabilities and specifications.
Warning, pushing your components beyond their ratings may damage them!
Wow, never knew that overclocking might be problematic, guess I shouldn't have ignored all those warnings by the manufacturer, the system bios, the warranty pamphlets, the packaging....
They might be, depending on how a patent is phrased. But I'm sure a patent could be written in such a way that they wouldn't be considered prior art.
But neither the summary, nor the article mention anything about a patent. A bit reactionary for you to assume this was a patent article don't you think?
Are you in California? If so, non-compete clauses are illegal and routinely slapped down in court.
Barstow is 256 miles from Mammoth Lakes. Granted, that's by car, but it's a fairly straight-shot route.
That's like saying a thunderstorm in New York City killed someone in Washington DC
The best source is the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the official book of what is and isn't Catholic doctrine.
You might be surprised what you read in there. There are a lot of common misconceptions about Catholic belief (even among Catholics)
http://www.amazon.com/Catechism-Catholic-Church-Second-U-S/dp/0385508190/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222670838&sr=8-1
Hell, my mom has never used the photo function on her iPhone. She loves how easy it is to use the contact list and email, but anything beyond that she doesn't use. She didn't want to switch from her Windows Treo (which she loathed for good reason), but just the ease of use of those two features have made it a godsend for her.
Yet in the same type of situation involving Budweiser, the Czech brewery was the loser and now goes under the name of Czechvar.
Then contract out the license management (just like the armed forces contract out the supply chain) with a percentage cut for the private contractor. This way the license manager has an incentive to get licensees in the private sector, and NASA retains ultimate control. But don't sell the patent!
Once you've sold the patent there isn't anything you can do to stop mishandling of it. I wouldn't be surprised to one day find out that NASA can't move forward on a project without a hefty license fee on a patent they once owned...
If my tax dollars paid for the research and development that has lead to a patent, then that patent should remain in the hands of the government, not sold to the highest bidder.
If these patents are so valuable that someone is willing to buy them (and theoretically license them), then NASA should be licensing the patents themselves. Sounds like a better long-term supplemental funding solution to me. Several other agencies have fee and license structures (FCC, FDA) that helps supplement their annual Congressional appropriations. Why not NASA as well?
Yet if you install the GEAR drivers separately (for us XP64 users), iTunes doesn't recognize them as valid (although it did in the past).
<sarcasm>And of course, Windows doesn't already have disc burning built in. Apple needsd to make sure to include that.</sarcasm>
APX?
So until iTunes 8.1 is released, some people can either charge their phones or use their keyboards... but not both at the same time!
iTunes installs its own CD drivers to manage ripping and burning, as well as always-on "helper" and updater processes, in addition to drivers for the iPod/iPhone.
Asinine, but then again Apple doesn't follow Windows UI guidelines either.
You're right, money didn't evaporate, value did.
If you have a house worth $500,000 it's because someone is willing to pay you $500,000 for it. If the economy changes or a methlab opens across the street and people now only are willing to pay you $250,000 for your house, the extra $250,000 didn't evaporate or disappear. It never existed to begin with. However, the loss of value is very real.
As a photographer you should be able to recognize the difference between ownership and a royalty-free license for use.
Perhaps not, but the data files that store the font are copyrightable and are copyrighted. Which means if you embed those font files in your website (maybe you'd like a nice title like Slashdot in something other than Arial), then you're violating copyright law.
I keep hearing this argument over and over, and it doesn't hold water. Every industry has its own set of "industry standard" applications (aka "vertical stack") which are never easily replaceable and are always a core requirement to how the companies in that industry do their work.
Examples:
It isn't just about MS Office. While an office suite is an important part of any business (even my OSX office of 75 people uses MS Office), there is always something that ties the industry to a specific platform. It is usually a very niche product, and only available from 1 or 2 vendors. And because it's so ingrained to their workflow, it won't be replaced unless their primary vendor goes under.
Why would it be a problem?
If you actually looked at the link you'd see it is a long specialized string that would never be accidentally created. GTUBE is just the name.
Although the most likely scenario is botnet shutdowns, here's some steps you can try if you still suspect some new filtering in place:
No, there's only one way of thinking.
I don't know why you got modded flamebait, but I agree. The altered version just looks like a Photoshop sharpness filter overly applied, and color adjusted to make everything darker (but in a way that will make everything far too dark on CRTs).