I would much prefer a 1% positive hit, rather than an unreasonably large number. Does it say anything about people who were ruled out from the DNA test? $280 million for 28k convictions seems like a pretty good deal to me, $1,000 doesn't buy you a whole load of police time to gather evidence in more 'traditional' ways.
In music there are a lot of cover version widely regarded as being better than the original, the key difference being that the original artist is credited and does receive some royalties. Johnny Cash's "Hurt" comes immediately to mind, but everybody can credit Trent Reznor with writing it, and he received a cut.
The rocks don't stay impermeable after they've been fractured. We do in fact have some quite good evidence from fracing wells that have already been drilled that went where we didn't want them to go. The problem is not so much the fracking fluid (it's mainly water with a few additives like corrosion inhibitor etc.) but the oil/gas that migrates through what used to be an impermeable layer to the groundwater.
The main problem is that there isn't a good way to tell where exactly the rocks will fracture. It takes a lot more of an in-depth look at the rock than we currently have the capability to do. The oil industry does puch the limits of technology, and given enough pressure they will spend the money to thoroughly examine the rocks and precision-frack in such a way as to get the oil without polluting the groundwater. Only with pressure though, as long as the shills are going around telling us that there is no problem they'll keep doing what they're doing.
So, a business offers a service, but then they institute some kind of "terms" upon which they agree to provide the service. Interesting, I wonder if Verizon has a similar set of terms, to which the customers agree... Maybe they'd put it on the intnernet, the URL would probably be something like: http://www22.verizon.com/about/terms/
Look, I hate ISPs as much as the next man, but you need to pick which battles you want to fight. You can't fight them all and if you try you just look foolish. Making up what is or isn't in the ToS isn't going to get you anywhere. If you really want to rant about ISPs I'm sure within a couple of minutes you'll find an aritcle about an ISP that actually did something unfair. Not exactly an ISP, but try this one: http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/24/1210203/att-quietly-adds-charges-to-all-contract-cell-plans
belie/bil/Verb 1.(of an appearance) Fail to give a true notion or impression of (something); disguise or contradict: "his alert manner belied his years". 2.Fail to fulfill or justify (a claim or expectation); betray.
Synonyms contradict
People look at it and think it's just a type of cable, without realising that it's the infrastructure that the entire networking industry relies upon. I score this as a correct usage of the word. Also, people assume that things going on behind closed doors must be more complex than they understand, so they imagine there must be something more complex than ethernet under the hood.
Even though your question has been answered already, I'll jump on the Bandwagon.
The fact that you used to produce the product in question doesn't really factor into a troll or not. you say that you license them to other companies, and have taken action against infringment of your patent. While you may fall into some people's definition of a patent troll, I understand that you have not acquired a patent and let it sit on your shelf until enough it has entered widespread use before you took action against it. That means that in my book you are an awesome inventor:)
Some people have talked about bringing in rule similar to trademark rules, where if you fail to enofrce it for long enough you lose it, that may be a little harsh, but once something enters to common market, it really is too late for these trolls to come out and make their demands. People have built their lives around what they thought was an open technology, and now troll want to rip it away. As long as I didn't just describe you, you're golden.
They were already selling roadster, and had more people ordering them than they could possibly build. That's the perfect time to give someone a loan. How about you get one successful product line going first, then the gov't will give you a loan.
The government isn't as concerned with lining their pockets as a private investment firm. the DOE loans are not looking for a direct return on the funds, but a return for society as a whole. Bankrupted companies drag down the economy, non-bankrupt companies lift it up.
Let's look at the two possible options here: 1) The guys who built Fermilab don't actually know anything about physics 2) You are not actually an expert on magnets Which seems more likely?
For the price of free soda your paycheque may go up but a dollar a week. Once you take into account the overheads it's a lot more cost effective to just give someone soda. (Please no-one interperet that as big-government making it too expensive to employ people.)
Also, money is nice, but I place a high value on a nice place to work. I spend over half my waking hours at work, getting a soda and a cookie isn't much but it makes me feel a lot better about coming.
Because, of course people only work late once per pay period... (I'm not against math, I'm just saying the assumptions used in this scenario are not realistic.)
Wasn't it IBM who predicted a world market for 5 computers back in the day. Looks like they're overcompensating, so on average they're estimates come out pretty close.
That's a bit unfair, most of the stuff I've just read seems more like they don't like what Google is doing, but enjoy seeing Microsoft getting some of it's own crap directed back at it.
It's a lot like the guys who always pop up in piracy stories: we know that you don't like the way media companies (or Youtube in this case) treat you as a consumer and try to place restrictions on you, that doesn't automatically give you the right to just take what you want, your options are to play according to the rules or not play at all. There are other video services, just because Youtube has everything you want doesn't mean you have to keep going back to them.
There is at least one app in the apple app store to facilitate downloading youtube videos. I use it to download them at home, then watch while I'm waiting without using the flaky and expensive mobile network.
Part of the art of humor is in being insightful while being funny. It why the greats are so great, they just tell you good life advice, but they frame it in an amusing way and we love them for it.
Yessiree! Forty one is a prime number. (Big whoop. Lots of numbers are prime.) I bet I could make more money if I just sold homework answers... Get out of here kid, you bother me.
Unfortunately, none of the free ones seem to work with either iTouches or iPhones. (Unless someone's written one that works in the couple of months since I exhaustively searched for one.)
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That is using computer as a noun, and compute as a verb. The AC was complaining about using compute as a noun ("let's have a compute about this").
No, somebody mentioning a word which has previously been mentioned in an xkcd does not warrant the includion of the "obligatory" xkcd.
I would much prefer a 1% positive hit, rather than an unreasonably large number. Does it say anything about people who were ruled out from the DNA test?
$280 million for 28k convictions seems like a pretty good deal to me, $1,000 doesn't buy you a whole load of police time to gather evidence in more 'traditional' ways.
The art world is full of pricks...
In music there are a lot of cover version widely regarded as being better than the original, the key difference being that the original artist is credited and does receive some royalties. Johnny Cash's "Hurt" comes immediately to mind, but everybody can credit Trent Reznor with writing it, and he received a cut.
The rocks don't stay impermeable after they've been fractured. We do in fact have some quite good evidence from fracing wells that have already been drilled that went where we didn't want them to go. The problem is not so much the fracking fluid (it's mainly water with a few additives like corrosion inhibitor etc.) but the oil/gas that migrates through what used to be an impermeable layer to the groundwater.
The main problem is that there isn't a good way to tell where exactly the rocks will fracture. It takes a lot more of an in-depth look at the rock than we currently have the capability to do. The oil industry does puch the limits of technology, and given enough pressure they will spend the money to thoroughly examine the rocks and precision-frack in such a way as to get the oil without polluting the groundwater. Only with pressure though, as long as the shills are going around telling us that there is no problem they'll keep doing what they're doing.
We need a story about your experience, so people won't have to get upset about Verizon enforcing their ToS like they are now.
So, a business offers a service, but then they institute some kind of "terms" upon which they agree to provide the service. Interesting, I wonder if Verizon has a similar set of terms, to which the customers agree... Maybe they'd put it on the intnernet, the URL would probably be something like: http://www22.verizon.com/about/terms/
Look, I hate ISPs as much as the next man, but you need to pick which battles you want to fight. You can't fight them all and if you try you just look foolish. Making up what is or isn't in the ToS isn't going to get you anywhere. If you really want to rant about ISPs I'm sure within a couple of minutes you'll find an aritcle about an ISP that actually did something unfair. Not exactly an ISP, but try this one: http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/24/1210203/att-quietly-adds-charges-to-all-contract-cell-plans
belie /bil/Verb
1.(of an appearance) Fail to give a true notion or impression of (something); disguise or contradict: "his alert manner belied his years".
2.Fail to fulfill or justify (a claim or expectation); betray.
Synonyms
contradict
People look at it and think it's just a type of cable, without realising that it's the infrastructure that the entire networking industry relies upon. I score this as a correct usage of the word. Also, people assume that things going on behind closed doors must be more complex than they understand, so they imagine there must be something more complex than ethernet under the hood.
Even though your question has been answered already, I'll jump on the Bandwagon.
The fact that you used to produce the product in question doesn't really factor into a troll or not. you say that you license them to other companies, and have taken action against infringment of your patent. While you may fall into some people's definition of a patent troll, I understand that you have not acquired a patent and let it sit on your shelf until enough it has entered widespread use before you took action against it. That means that in my book you are an awesome inventor :)
Some people have talked about bringing in rule similar to trademark rules, where if you fail to enofrce it for long enough you lose it, that may be a little harsh, but once something enters to common market, it really is too late for these trolls to come out and make their demands. People have built their lives around what they thought was an open technology, and now troll want to rip it away. As long as I didn't just describe you, you're golden.
They were already selling roadster, and had more people ordering them than they could possibly build. That's the perfect time to give someone a loan. How about you get one successful product line going first, then the gov't will give you a loan.
The government isn't as concerned with lining their pockets as a private investment firm. the DOE loans are not looking for a direct return on the funds, but a return for society as a whole. Bankrupted companies drag down the economy, non-bankrupt companies lift it up.
Let's look at the two possible options here:
1) The guys who built Fermilab don't actually know anything about physics
2) You are not actually an expert on magnets
Which seems more likely?
So Edison probably owns the copyright...
For the price of free soda your paycheque may go up but a dollar a week. Once you take into account the overheads it's a lot more cost effective to just give someone soda. (Please no-one interperet that as big-government making it too expensive to employ people.)
Also, money is nice, but I place a high value on a nice place to work. I spend over half my waking hours at work, getting a soda and a cookie isn't much but it makes me feel a lot better about coming.
Because, of course people only work late once per pay period... (I'm not against math, I'm just saying the assumptions used in this scenario are not realistic.)
Wasn't it IBM who predicted a world market for 5 computers back in the day. Looks like they're overcompensating, so on average they're estimates come out pretty close.
That's a bit unfair, most of the stuff I've just read seems more like they don't like what Google is doing, but enjoy seeing Microsoft getting some of it's own crap directed back at it.
It's a lot like the guys who always pop up in piracy stories: we know that you don't like the way media companies (or Youtube in this case) treat you as a consumer and try to place restrictions on you, that doesn't automatically give you the right to just take what you want, your options are to play according to the rules or not play at all. There are other video services, just because Youtube has everything you want doesn't mean you have to keep going back to them.
Look for "VideoCache" in the app store.
There is at least one app in the apple app store to facilitate downloading youtube videos. I use it to download them at home, then watch while I'm waiting without using the flaky and expensive mobile network.
Sometimes I get too far out with my humor, I apologise for making you feel that way.
is.41.aprimenumber.com has something stupid like that about a lot of numbers.
Actually, it gets slightly smaller as you approach the speed of light.
Part of the art of humor is in being insightful while being funny. It why the greats are so great, they just tell you good life advice, but they frame it in an amusing way and we love them for it.
Yessiree! Forty one is a prime number. (Big whoop. Lots of numbers are prime.) I bet I could make more money if I just sold homework answers... Get out of here kid, you bother me.
Unfortunately, none of the free ones seem to work with either iTouches or iPhones. (Unless someone's written one that works in the couple of months since I exhaustively searched for one.)