You can use "pure mathematics" in many ways. You describe some of them: copy it, think about it, analyze it. Another way to use it is to implement it on a computer system. "Pure math" has now infringed the patent. Q.E.D.
When discussing the issue of software patents, one always refers to "computer system" implementations. Since the domain has already been selected it is perfectly acceptable to claim that the basis of a software patent can be reduced to pure mathematics without refuting your argument.
You're confusing prefixing with verbs and adjectives... "install" is a verb so "uninstall" means to "reverse installation"... just like undo means "reverse what was done". On adjectives the prefix means "not" though.... like "unauthorized" and "ungrateful". And I'm not even a native English speaker.
Uninstall is a much better word than "remove" in this context. Remove implies simply deleting files while the process of uninstalling is often much more complex and refer to restoring the state that the computer had before the software was installed. This could involve patching and other activity different than "removing".
I've played ~50 matches and the only feeling I get when I win is a sense of relief and "I don't want to do that again". It feels like the time I spent on the match was wasted. After all you get just as many points from rushing an opponent after 2 minutes as you get from carefully constructing a wall of defense and spending time to build an unbeatable late game army. Star Craft 2 is simply not entertaining. The pace of the game is two high for me to play it in a relaxed state. I guess that means I'm not an e-sports person. I love games though and I've played every major PC game... Probably spent several months of game time combined on TF2 and CS... but SC2? Where's the innovation really? It's just chess with more complex rules and much faster pace. I don't get any kick out of it at all. The multiplayer could have been a zillion times more fun by something as simple as making the ranking system more complex than points and ladders. For example, add some simulated large wars, factions and generated story... map regions and whatever. Make a win or a loss count more than getting a few arbitrary points added or removed. SC2 is a game ruined because it was made into an "e-sport" instead.
Sweden have 3 year longer average life expectancy too. The point is though that the quality is equal or better than in the US. It's simple really - when a huge chunk of health care spending is taken from hospitals to fund private insurance companies, even a 3 year old could figure out what will happen with the medical quality.
I live in Sweden. We pay 50% less on health care per capita (according to Wikipedia) and we have statistically better health care in most areas (look up infant mortality rates etc.). Had to remove my appendix for 3-4 years ago. Operation went great and there was no queue at all - and I didn't pay anything. I don't have any "health insurance" - and I don't know of anyone who has that. Paying for health care is strange - I'd be like paying to use the street or paying to visit the library. Doctors can focus on treatment instead of collecting money.
What the fuck Mozilla... Firefox 4 is crashing 20 times a day for me. I'm not even joking, here's a copy paste from the 7 last entries of my about:crashes
Basically I've switched to chrome now to be able to to my work. Your new strategy is fucking ridiculous. Build a quality browser instead of jumping onto the "we must increment the major version number faster than the others" bandwagon. Once upon a time the major version number was only incremented when you restarted a project from scratch. Nowadays that number doesn't mean anything anymore - to anyone. I don't know what major version number chrome is and I don't care either - and I don't think most people don't know or care.
You can start plan new features when you've fixed all the bugs. Planning for version 5 when your browser can't even run 10 minutes without crashing is ridiculous.
"If you live in a country where it is not, and it is meaningful to you, move."
That is probably the single most ignorant sentence I've read, ever. Since when does people decide in what country they want to live? I understand it's hard for you (probably American) to understand the POV of refugees and civilians being oppressed by a dictators - but can you please fucking try?
Also free speech is a human right and that fact is not correlated with the fact that most countries don't respect it. Your argument makes no sense and is invalid. If I punch you in the face, does that mean you doesn't have the right to get punched in the face anymore?
Lastly your main argument is basically about priorities - you're saying that as long as someone try to debate or stop [companies that piss on ethics by exporting censorship equipment to oppressive governments], that person believes that anything worse isn't worse (in this case - weapon exports). Classic mutual exclusion fallacy ("if you debate one issue you automatically declare that any other issues are not important").
AFAIK just getting high levels of radiation isn't that harmful. Some cells will die and if you survive that you'll recover. Radiation is just electromagnetic emission. The real danger is the radiation emitting particles. If they get out in the air and contaminate the biosphere you'll end up with an area nobody can live in like Chernobyl and thousands of people dying from cancer and other diseases related to long exposure to radiation can lead to. So the question is how much of these particles have escaped.
But man... wind power is more expensive so big macs will cost 5% more and I can't buy as much crap on walmart! Also if you like wind power you're a stupid liberal so whatever you say is a lie and unpatriotic.
But shouldnt password authentication be in the "biometrics" category? After all, when you log in with a password, the application queries the state of the neurons in your brain.
2 billion? That's awkwardly close to 2147483647... This is why your ID field should be BIGINT and not INT.... They where probably logging coordinates etc.
What #33779584 is saying is that if you are traveling in a normal aircraft, that don't have rocket engines like X-15/SpaceShipOne, you would need to fly faster than escape velocity anyway to get enough lift force on the wings to not loose altitude...
Eliminating redundancies and applying loss-less compression, that information can be compressed into about 50 million bytes
This is so retarded that it's sad. Why is it so hard to understand how compression algorithms works? Saying that X can be compressed into Y bytes doesn't say ANYTHING. You can "loose-less compress" ANYTHING into 1 bit by using the function that takes that and returns the bit "1" (and which takes anything else and returns "0" + that). What does compression has to do with anything? The stupid hurts...
In the real world when working on collaborated projects indenting with tabs is a pain due to the people who mix up tabs and spaces making the source code look completely broken. Then people will fix what they think is broken in their editor, making it even more broken in others. It's easy to accidentally indent with spaces, and since most editors does not display the difference between spaces and tabs, having a "tabs only" standard is bound to create a mess, as people are not perfect. I've worked on many collaborative projects and what I have found best is a spaces only convention with a fixed length of 4. Telling people to set the IDE to automatically convert tabs to the required number of spaces does the trick.
Also, it seems like you think people should be amazed that your are able to replace tabs with spaces in your IDE? Welcome to new millennium. Here we use graphical IDE's with something called "Find & Replace". It does not require you too read a manual to understand how too use, and it supports regular expressions. Just matching tabs however does not. You can actually copy paste tabs as normal characters.
What they have actually used is the fact that motion blur is not normal blur since normal blur would most definitely result in information loss. Apparently motion blur can be counteracted with the extra "motion" information. Now, all I wonder, how hard would it be to brute force that information that the extra camera sensors record. In many cases, I bet that in many cases, the direction wont have time to change during the short exposure, which could limit the number of directions to one. Now all you need is to go trough all of those directions and acceleration combinations and use an algorithm that approximates the resulting pictures sharpness, right?
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You can use "pure mathematics" in many ways. You describe some of them: copy it, think about it, analyze it. Another way to use it is to implement it on a computer system. "Pure math" has now infringed the patent. Q.E.D.
When discussing the issue of software patents, one always refers to "computer system" implementations. Since the domain has already been selected it is perfectly acceptable to claim that the basis of a software patent can be reduced to pure mathematics without refuting your argument.
You're confusing prefixing with verbs and adjectives... "install" is a verb so "uninstall" means to "reverse installation"... just like undo means "reverse what was done". On adjectives the prefix means "not" though.... like "unauthorized" and "ungrateful". And I'm not even a native English speaker.
Uninstall is a much better word than "remove" in this context. Remove implies simply deleting files while the process of uninstalling is often much more complex and refer to restoring the state that the computer had before the software was installed. This could involve patching and other activity different than "removing".
I've played ~50 matches and the only feeling I get when I win is a sense of relief and "I don't want to do that again". It feels like the time I spent on the match was wasted. After all you get just as many points from rushing an opponent after 2 minutes as you get from carefully constructing a wall of defense and spending time to build an unbeatable late game army. Star Craft 2 is simply not entertaining. The pace of the game is two high for me to play it in a relaxed state. I guess that means I'm not an e-sports person. I love games though and I've played every major PC game... Probably spent several months of game time combined on TF2 and CS... but SC2? Where's the innovation really? It's just chess with more complex rules and much faster pace. I don't get any kick out of it at all. The multiplayer could have been a zillion times more fun by something as simple as making the ranking system more complex than points and ladders. For example, add some simulated large wars, factions and generated story... map regions and whatever. Make a win or a loss count more than getting a few arbitrary points added or removed. SC2 is a game ruined because it was made into an "e-sport" instead.
Sweden have 3 year longer average life expectancy too. The point is though that the quality is equal or better than in the US. It's simple really - when a huge chunk of health care spending is taken from hospitals to fund private insurance companies, even a 3 year old could figure out what will happen with the medical quality.
I live in Sweden. We pay 50% less on health care per capita (according to Wikipedia) and we have statistically better health care in most areas (look up infant mortality rates etc.). Had to remove my appendix for 3-4 years ago. Operation went great and there was no queue at all - and I didn't pay anything. I don't have any "health insurance" - and I don't know of anyone who has that. Paying for health care is strange - I'd be like paying to use the street or paying to visit the library. Doctors can focus on treatment instead of collecting money.
Nope - I'm using firebug though.
This is the most common signature: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637304
What the fuck Mozilla... Firefox 4 is crashing 20 times a day for me. I'm not even joking, here's a copy paste from the 7 last entries of my about:crashes
bp-... 2011-04-14 20:01
bp-... 2011-04-14 19:59
bp-... 2011-04-14 19:05
bp-... 2011-04-14 19:05
bp-... 2011-04-14 19:00
bp-... 2011-04-14 19:00
bp-... 2011-04-14 18:31
Basically I've switched to chrome now to be able to to my work. Your new strategy is fucking ridiculous. Build a quality browser instead of jumping onto the "we must increment the major version number faster than the others" bandwagon. Once upon a time the major version number was only incremented when you restarted a project from scratch. Nowadays that number doesn't mean anything anymore - to anyone. I don't know what major version number chrome is and I don't care either - and I don't think most people don't know or care.
You can start plan new features when you've fixed all the bugs. Planning for version 5 when your browser can't even run 10 minutes without crashing is ridiculous.
Ah. So that's the prologue to zombies vs. plants.
Um. You realize that "hijacking a domain" is virtually impossible with DNSSEC right?
Very, very, very interesting... and brilliant. This solves four major problems:
With this solution you only have to trust your TLD authority and the root DNS certificate.
Lets hope this gets standardized and that DNSSEC get's rolled out for all TLD's as quick as possible.
EDIT/TYPO: "the right to NOT get punched in the face anymore" ... damn tripple negatives
"If you live in a country where it is not, and it is meaningful to you, move." That is probably the single most ignorant sentence I've read, ever. Since when does people decide in what country they want to live? I understand it's hard for you (probably American) to understand the POV of refugees and civilians being oppressed by a dictators - but can you please fucking try? Also free speech is a human right and that fact is not correlated with the fact that most countries don't respect it. Your argument makes no sense and is invalid. If I punch you in the face, does that mean you doesn't have the right to get punched in the face anymore? Lastly your main argument is basically about priorities - you're saying that as long as someone try to debate or stop [companies that piss on ethics by exporting censorship equipment to oppressive governments], that person believes that anything worse isn't worse (in this case - weapon exports). Classic mutual exclusion fallacy ("if you debate one issue you automatically declare that any other issues are not important").
AFAIK just getting high levels of radiation isn't that harmful. Some cells will die and if you survive that you'll recover. Radiation is just electromagnetic emission. The real danger is the radiation emitting particles. If they get out in the air and contaminate the biosphere you'll end up with an area nobody can live in like Chernobyl and thousands of people dying from cancer and other diseases related to long exposure to radiation can lead to. So the question is how much of these particles have escaped.
But man... wind power is more expensive so big macs will cost 5% more and I can't buy as much crap on walmart! Also if you like wind power you're a stupid liberal so whatever you say is a lie and unpatriotic.
Streamlined hardware with bloated software? Doesnt sound like a great combo IMO.
But shouldnt password authentication be in the "biometrics" category? After all, when you log in with a password, the application queries the state of the neurons in your brain.
Diddly-doodily-death threats!
2 billion? That's awkwardly close to 2147483647... This is why your ID field should be BIGINT and not INT.... They where probably logging coordinates etc.
What #33779584 is saying is that if you are traveling in a normal aircraft, that don't have rocket engines like X-15/SpaceShipOne, you would need to fly faster than escape velocity anyway to get enough lift force on the wings to not loose altitude...
Eliminating redundancies and applying loss-less compression, that information can be compressed into about 50 million bytes
This is so retarded that it's sad. Why is it so hard to understand how compression algorithms works? Saying that X can be compressed into Y bytes doesn't say ANYTHING. You can "loose-less compress" ANYTHING into 1 bit by using the function that takes that and returns the bit "1" (and which takes anything else and returns "0" + that). What does compression has to do with anything? The stupid hurts...
In the real world when working on collaborated projects indenting with tabs is a pain due to the people who mix up tabs and spaces making the source code look completely broken. Then people will fix what they think is broken in their editor, making it even more broken in others. It's easy to accidentally indent with spaces, and since most editors does not display the difference between spaces and tabs, having a "tabs only" standard is bound to create a mess, as people are not perfect. I've worked on many collaborative projects and what I have found best is a spaces only convention with a fixed length of 4. Telling people to set the IDE to automatically convert tabs to the required number of spaces does the trick. Also, it seems like you think people should be amazed that your are able to replace tabs with spaces in your IDE? Welcome to new millennium. Here we use graphical IDE's with something called "Find & Replace". It does not require you too read a manual to understand how too use, and it supports regular expressions. Just matching tabs however does not. You can actually copy paste tabs as normal characters.
What they have actually used is the fact that motion blur is not normal blur since normal blur would most definitely result in information loss. Apparently motion blur can be counteracted with the extra "motion" information. Now, all I wonder, how hard would it be to brute force that information that the extra camera sensors record. In many cases, I bet that in many cases, the direction wont have time to change during the short exposure, which could limit the number of directions to one. Now all you need is to go trough all of those directions and acceleration combinations and use an algorithm that approximates the resulting pictures sharpness, right?
Wow, you are clearly a great debater. Your ad hominem is completely unmatched.