Depends on what is required to move. If you're packing things in your car and driving there, then $3-5k is fine (if you have a job lined up). If you're hiring a professional moving company and need 6 months of rent and groceries, then $15-20k is more the ballpark.
I did the pack up in the car route and had about $5k, but I also lined up an apartment to rent before moving and had a job as soon as I got there.
Because under the current system, you can sue anyone who is "doing business" in a location. As long as you accept online sales, you are doing business anywhere. Add to that the attractiveness of bringing in lots of court fees, and some politicians in Texas got the idea to appoint judges that would be extremely patent friendly. They then brag about the high rate of settlements/favorable judgements and the speed in which the court will hear your case
Bottom line: marketing and politics created a forum for patent trolls to get a court to back up their extortion. Texas rakes in the court costs, the trolls rake in the settlement/judgement money, and everyone is happy....right?:P
You say you aren't interested in persistence, so I don't see any reason why the data needs to be personally identifiable. Whether your index is John Smith in Albany,NY or User #71829382 doesn't matter for usage analytics. Even demographic information can at least be stripped of things like name and phone number.
If you REALLY need to tie this information to a particular instance, then use a hardware key from the mobile device and not a user's information. A hacked phone is easier to deal with than identity theft.
As someone else mentioned, work from the assumption that anything you save will end up being hacked and used for nefarious purposes. Make the data as useless as possible to a hacker and THEN design the systems and storage to be a hackproof as you can.
Sure, if it's a criminal case. That's rather the point of district attorneys and attorney generals; only someone in law enforcement can bring criminal charges to court.
The Lanham Act added the concept known as "trade dress". Trade dress seems to be defined as "If I take random Joe off the street and ask him what this is, does he reply that it's my product?". I don't think it's formally defined as copyright OR trademark.
A lot of places won't even consider you if they think you're overqualified, since they believe (perhaps rightly) that you will jump ship as soon as you get an offer that matches your experience.
Essentially, they claim the really thin (~0.03mm) layer of air between the stationary plate and the rotating heatsink is thermally conductive and agitated by the rotation, so no static boundary layer.
I don't think that one is useful, either. You have a slider at the bottom to adjust consumption rates, but there's two different scales (-2 to 5 and -1 to 4) AND a confusing note below that. Since the sliders are at 0%, is that assuming no increase, or should you adjust the slider to match the average increase listed? (which would make all 3 run out at roughly the same time)...who knows? There's no context to work with, just random sizes and shapes that pretend to be data.
Not really. Any time they display or send your content to another person, that's copyright infringement. So they need a license from you, it needs to be worldwide (since anyone can access the website), you WANT it to be non-exclusive, they don't intend to pay you to use their service so royalty-free, sublicenseable to the extent that if they use akami or some such to host the content, then akami doesn't comment infringement..
Time duration's about the only piece of the typical grant that is questionable. Since Dropbox is something of a temporary service, theirs makes sense.
Does anyone really think this cycle is any different? We're pretty much at the mid-point of the console cycle: PCs are flexing their muscle (again) and developers are reluctant to design just for PCs. But, as always, more will jump back on the PC bandwagon as it becomes obvious that the PC is the place to be for graphic quality (and the market loves eye candy). Eventually the console makers will decide to release new hardware to try to coax them back, and we'll repeat this cycle again.
Because then you can buy a legit copy of the game, register it with the password "Free4All", and post the CD key and password to anyone and everyone that wants to download a copy.
The only problem with that is you have to track what the player is looking at. It's all fine and good to blur the background, but what if I'm actually trying to look at what's in the distance?
And if you add eye-tracking...well, you might as well use 3D glasses or implants : )
Consider this: By your logic, this is how we would represent the following problems: 31.4 / 10 = 03.14.314 * 10 = 3.140
But we don't. Multiplying or dividing by 10 is about moving the decimal place, not about adding zeroes to one end of the number or the other. After all, you can put all the placeholder zeroes you want in front of the 31 or behind.4 and it still doesn't change 31.4
So 10r=9.999... does NOT end in zero as a significant digit, thus making the rest of you analysis incorrect.
Actually, one of the developers has repeatedly called this a social experiment and a sort of primer for learning about real life issues.
One of the discussions after the election was how all the canidates essentially had the same platform with just a few small variations between them (sound familiar?). Most people agreed that this is what happens with a committee process...the extremists get filtered out and you're left with essentially bland canidates that, for the most part, campaigned on NOT using thier banning powers unless the fate of the game was in the balance.
This issue also comes up in the law system. Most of the passed laws are easily agreed with, while the ones that attempt something more radical (like land ownership or a justice system) never get teh 2/3rds majority to pass. In fact, there's a group of people that will vote no to any law that even allows the chance of a potentially bad law to be petitioned, much less passed!
So yes, it's a simplified version of real life. However, it's also an effective way of learning more about how things work socially in real life.
On a slight side note, it can be agrued that Congress was only given the power to CREATE a copyright law, not change it. While this may spell bad news for the legality of the current bill being debated, it also makes the extensions to copyright illegal, which I think serves a much greater good.
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Depends on what is required to move. If you're packing things in your car and driving there, then $3-5k is fine (if you have a job lined up). If you're hiring a professional moving company and need 6 months of rent and groceries, then $15-20k is more the ballpark.
I did the pack up in the car route and had about $5k, but I also lined up an apartment to rent before moving and had a job as soon as I got there.
Probably not. Considering you have to pull the air through the filters, then any gap between the mask and you becomes the path of least resistance.
Because under the current system, you can sue anyone who is "doing business" in a location. As long as you accept online sales, you are doing business anywhere. Add to that the attractiveness of bringing in lots of court fees, and some politicians in Texas got the idea to appoint judges that would be extremely patent friendly. They then brag about the high rate of settlements/favorable judgements and the speed in which the court will hear your case
Bottom line: marketing and politics created a forum for patent trolls to get a court to back up their extortion. Texas rakes in the court costs, the trolls rake in the settlement/judgement money, and everyone is happy....right? :P
You say you aren't interested in persistence, so I don't see any reason why the data needs to be personally identifiable. Whether your index is John Smith in Albany,NY or User #71829382 doesn't matter for usage analytics. Even demographic information can at least be stripped of things like name and phone number.
If you REALLY need to tie this information to a particular instance, then use a hardware key from the mobile device and not a user's information. A hacked phone is easier to deal with than identity theft.
As someone else mentioned, work from the assumption that anything you save will end up being hacked and used for nefarious purposes. Make the data as useless as possible to a hacker and THEN design the systems and storage to be a hackproof as you can.
Sure, if it's a criminal case. That's rather the point of district attorneys and attorney generals; only someone in law enforcement can bring criminal charges to court.
The Lanham Act added the concept known as "trade dress". Trade dress seems to be defined as "If I take random Joe off the street and ask him what this is, does he reply that it's my product?". I don't think it's formally defined as copyright OR trademark.
A lot of places won't even consider you if they think you're overqualified, since they believe (perhaps rightly) that you will jump ship as soon as you get an offer that matches your experience.
Essentially, they claim the really thin (~0.03mm) layer of air between the stationary plate and the rotating heatsink is thermally conductive and agitated by the rotation, so no static boundary layer.
I don't think that one is useful, either. You have a slider at the bottom to adjust consumption rates, but there's two different scales (-2 to 5 and -1 to 4) AND a confusing note below that. Since the sliders are at 0%, is that assuming no increase, or should you adjust the slider to match the average increase listed? (which would make all 3 run out at roughly the same time)...who knows? There's no context to work with, just random sizes and shapes that pretend to be data.
Not really. Any time they display or send your content to another person, that's copyright infringement. So they need a license from you, it needs to be worldwide (since anyone can access the website), you WANT it to be non-exclusive, they don't intend to pay you to use their service so royalty-free, sublicenseable to the extent that if they use akami or some such to host the content, then akami doesn't comment infringement..
Time duration's about the only piece of the typical grant that is questionable. Since Dropbox is something of a temporary service, theirs makes sense.
Does anyone really think this cycle is any different? We're pretty much at the mid-point of the console cycle: PCs are flexing their muscle (again) and developers are reluctant to design just for PCs. But, as always, more will jump back on the PC bandwagon as it becomes obvious that the PC is the place to be for graphic quality (and the market loves eye candy). Eventually the console makers will decide to release new hardware to try to coax them back, and we'll repeat this cycle again.
So what's changed?
Because then you can buy a legit copy of the game, register it with the password "Free4All", and post the CD key and password to anyone and everyone that wants to download a copy.
The only problem with that is you have to track what the player is looking at. It's all fine and good to blur the background, but what if I'm actually trying to look at what's in the distance?
And if you add eye-tracking...well, you might as well use 3D glasses or implants : )
Pesky formatting...that should be
.314 * 10 = 3.140
31.4 / 10 = 03.14
and
10r = 9.999...0 ("ending" in *zero*!)
.314 * 10 = 3.140
.4 and it still doesn't change 31.4
Your logic is just a bit off.
Consider this:
By your logic, this is how we would represent the following problems:
31.4 / 10 = 03.14
But we don't. Multiplying or dividing by 10 is about moving the decimal place, not about adding zeroes to one end of the number or the other. After all, you can put all the placeholder zeroes you want in front of the 31 or behind
So 10r=9.999... does NOT end in zero as a significant digit, thus making the rest of you analysis incorrect.
Actually, one of the developers has repeatedly called this a social experiment and a sort of primer for learning about real life issues.
One of the discussions after the election was how all the canidates essentially had the same platform with just a few small variations between them (sound familiar?). Most people agreed that this is what happens with a committee process...the extremists get filtered out and you're left with essentially bland canidates that, for the most part, campaigned on NOT using thier banning powers unless the fate of the game was in the balance.
This issue also comes up in the law system. Most of the passed laws are easily agreed with, while the ones that attempt something more radical (like land ownership or a justice system) never get teh 2/3rds majority to pass. In fact, there's a group of people that will vote no to any law that even allows the chance of a potentially bad law to be petitioned, much less passed!
So yes, it's a simplified version of real life. However, it's also an effective way of learning more about how things work socially in real life.
So the first person in makes it illegal for anyone besides him to make any laws. Oops.
Sure, if you can convince 25-35 people to sign the petition for this law so it can be voted on by everyone in Egypt, more power to you.
On a slight side note, it can be agrued that Congress was only given the power to CREATE a copyright law, not change it. While this may spell bad news for the legality of the current bill being debated, it also makes the extensions to copyright illegal, which I think serves a much greater good.