Data costs tend to be almost as much as the actual hardware since there are only a few locations that are prime for beaming data down - and they're in Alaska or the far North.
Instead of paying the money to the company you are sueing, simply open an escrow account and put the money in the escrow account. Your credit isn't damaged because you made the money available, you are just disputing the terms. When the terms are reached, the money in escrow is distributed to the appropriate people.
I am not a lawyer, but this helped me with a dispute with a landlord at one point.
"Since arriving in America, the 30-strong team has had to enlist a local bar to help with its laundry after finding the hotel had no suitable facilities."
Bars are great! Beer and laundry facilities... does life get better?
I agree. I worked on a project like this in college. Any time a person or company would give us money for the project, we were happy. We weren't too pickey about who gave it to us. Congratulations to everyone involved, especially UF.
She made her own choice. It is no different than buying a Geo Metro & suing GM for damages when a semi-truck destroys the car in a crash.
Don't punish me because of other people's choices. Why should I have to pay more for VoIP when I have a cell phone that works for 911? I should have the choice.
If nothing else, it at least makes people that would have been otherwise unaware of some aspects of science aware of it.
One shortcoming (other than "infinite resolution") is that they rarely have a case where there isn't a clear offender or group of offenders - so people aren't used to the more "muddied" reality of the world we live in. That said, no clear offender reduces the enjoyment of watching a bit.
I added a current meter to my 12 volt line & my Mini ITX (800 Mhz with 512M ram, 80 Gig Samsung drive) only uses ~20 - 30 Watts under a normal load. Burning DVDs while watching MPEG video only uses ~ 40 Watts. The only time the system spikes above that is on start up.
I have been very happy with my little box. You can even do stepping to reduce the CPU clockspeed if desired - though I'm happy with 30 Watts.
Cars, like anything (say computers) are best at what they are designed to be best at. Just as Intel processors are very good at things that can be pipelined and demand high throughput, Via processors are very good at using low power and a small footprint. If you try using the device for something it wasn't OPTIMIZED for it will not perform - regardless of how great it can do what it is really meant to do.
If you look at Prius (and hybrid designs in general) they are based on city based use cases. Shut off the engine at the stop light & fuel economy goes up. These same cars on the highway won't perform as well. As to the 'Highway' and 'City' designations - these should be used a general baseline, not the rule.
I have personally found that some cars do better than their EPA while others don't. Lots of factors weigh in... age of the car, using the correct octane gasoline, how well you keep the car maintained, if you cary around 150 lbs of crap in your trunk, the kind of tires you use, is the car in alignment, and the list goes on.
The truth of the matter is that if you have the same circumstances that the EPA had when it tested the car, you can expect around those result.
Heaven forbid Intel reduce the 100W portable heater to a lower wattage. Clearly only the case & motherboard are the only components not "smartly" designed.
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By the sounds of it this the guy did't have much (or really any) experience with linux. He simply wanted to slap a bunch of stuff together, and hope that the designers of Fedora & whaterver else he used could make everything "magically work." That belief lends its self to someone who should pay for an out of the box solution.
I can slap a lot of hardware together and try and run any number of systems on it, but if I'm not willing to WORK through problems, they will all fail.
Just think about this, they can spin off a company to "buy" all bad domain names from Verisign, their stock price goes up because of new profits, the spin off company declares bankruptcy and everybody is happy - well sort of.
No. Time spend (regarless of you're billing rate) is not considered a deductible item. Unless... 1) a charitable organization pays you, and you turn around and "donate" the money back, but then you have the extra income which negates any deduction. 2) you normally charge for the software (and it is fairly provable) and you donate a copy, which means it probably doesn't fall under the GPL.
I looked at doing this several years ago... no such luck.
Be careful to do this discretely if you plan to do it at all. Most likely "the use of non-metal based objects as a sound deadening device" is patented.
But every little bit helps in the war on computer noise - especially at that price.
Yet another prime example of why patents shouldn't apply to software.
The entire software industry should kneel down and kiss the feet of IBM, Xerox, and other early software pioneers for not patenting every software related concept... the linked list, the hash table, binary sorts, bubble sorts, grouping data, grouping data and methods, batch processing... because if they had done so, computers would still be in large room in the basements of our universities & large corporations, with little application in our lives.
Just try and think of something that hasn't been affected by computers.
It is sickening to look at many software companies today... always looking for the path of least resistance, and never willing to claim responsibility for thier actions.
A javadoc type of source code parser that produces html or LaTex or just about whatever you want (with the proper configuration files) formatted documents.
I have been using this with great sucess at work, and it is free & runs under Linux or Cygwin. With a bit of scripting and some comment disapline, inline comments become good documentation.
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Since the DNA sequences are being published, they now can be used as prior art in patent busting. No more patents on human genes!
Because nobody would ever need more than 1 button on a mouse, nobody would ever need more than 1 button on a TV remote.
Data costs tend to be almost as much as the actual hardware since there are only a few locations that are prime for beaming data down - and they're in Alaska or the far North.
At my office, we "grep" for people. Apparently they "kill -9" people.
Instead of paying the money to the company you are sueing, simply open an escrow account and put the money in the escrow account. Your credit isn't damaged because you made the money available, you are just disputing the terms. When the terms are reached, the money in escrow is distributed to the appropriate people.
I am not a lawyer, but this helped me with a dispute with a landlord at one point.
"Since arriving in America, the 30-strong team has had to enlist a local bar to help with its laundry after finding the hotel had no suitable facilities."
Bars are great! Beer and laundry facilities... does life get better?
I agree. I worked on a project like this in college. Any time a person or company would give us money for the project, we were happy. We weren't too pickey about who gave it to us. Congratulations to everyone involved, especially UF.
She made her own choice. It is no different than buying a Geo Metro & suing GM for damages when a semi-truck destroys the car in a crash.
Don't punish me because of other people's choices. Why should I have to pay more for VoIP when I have a cell phone that works for 911? I should have the choice.
for the first time ever due to the "massive departure."
Ok, maybe not.
If nothing else, it at least makes people that would have been otherwise unaware of some aspects of science aware of it.
One shortcoming (other than "infinite resolution") is that they rarely have a case where there isn't a clear offender or group of offenders - so people aren't used to the more "muddied" reality of the world we live in. That said, no clear offender reduces the enjoyment of watching a bit.
Now if your really up to no good, you can figure out how to cause false positives for which you can counter sue.
The hunter becomes the hunted.
I added a current meter to my 12 volt line & my Mini ITX (800 Mhz with 512M ram, 80 Gig Samsung drive) only uses ~20 - 30 Watts under a normal load. Burning DVDs while watching MPEG video only uses ~ 40 Watts. The only time the system spikes above that is on start up.
I have been very happy with my little box. You can even do stepping to reduce the CPU clockspeed if desired - though I'm happy with 30 Watts.
I wouldn't mess with the CF personally.
And I the passenger don't care. Ok, maybe I care a little.
Cars, like anything (say computers) are best at what they are designed to be best at. Just as Intel processors are very good at things that can be pipelined and demand high throughput, Via processors are very good at using low power and a small footprint. If you try using the device for something it wasn't OPTIMIZED for it will not perform - regardless of how great it can do what it is really meant to do.
If you look at Prius (and hybrid designs in general) they are based on city based use cases. Shut off the engine at the stop light & fuel economy goes up. These same cars on the highway won't perform as well. As to the 'Highway' and 'City' designations - these should be used a general baseline, not the rule.
I have personally found that some cars do better than their EPA while others don't. Lots of factors weigh in... age of the car, using the correct octane gasoline, how well you keep the car maintained, if you cary around 150 lbs of crap in your trunk, the kind of tires you use, is the car in alignment, and the list goes on.
The truth of the matter is that if you have the same circumstances that the EPA had when it tested the car, you can expect around those result.
As a prior poster put it:
Your mileage may vary.
I have seen some licensing schemes that apply to per-processor costs... 1 CPU = $1,000, 2 CPU = $2,000 etc.
How long will it take to argue that consumers with a dual core processor should pay 2x the price? I'm betting not long.
Heaven forbid Intel reduce the 100W portable heater to a lower wattage. Clearly only the case & motherboard are the only components not "smartly" designed.
By the sounds of it this the guy did't have much (or really any) experience with linux. He simply wanted to slap a bunch of stuff together, and hope that the designers of Fedora & whaterver else he used could make everything "magically work." That belief lends its self to someone who should pay for an out of the box solution.
./ers time with whiners.
I can slap a lot of hardware together and try and run any number of systems on it, but if I'm not willing to WORK through problems, they will all fail.
Don't waste
Just think about this, they can spin off a company to "buy" all bad domain names from Verisign, their stock price goes up because of new profits, the spin off company declares bankruptcy and everybody is happy - well sort of.
Update the GUI and people will forget about the insecurities and DRM being pushed down their throats...
Keep your enemy close to you so you can keep your eye(s) on it. A wise move by Microsoft.
No. Time spend (regarless of you're billing rate) is not considered a deductible item. Unless...
1) a charitable organization pays you, and you turn around and "donate" the money back, but then you have the extra income which negates any deduction.
2) you normally charge for the software (and it is fairly provable) and you donate a copy, which means it probably doesn't fall under the GPL.
I looked at doing this several years ago... no such luck.
Be careful to do this discretely if you plan to do it at all. Most likely "the use of non-metal based objects as a sound deadening device" is patented.
But every little bit helps in the war on computer noise - especially at that price.
...the term 'funny' is used very loosely by the ignorant masses - especially when talking about things they don't know very much about...
Yet another prime example of why patents shouldn't apply to software.
The entire software industry should kneel down and kiss the feet of IBM, Xerox, and other early software pioneers for not patenting every software related concept... the linked list, the hash table, binary sorts, bubble sorts, grouping data, grouping data and methods, batch processing... because if they had done so, computers would still be in large room in the basements of our universities & large corporations, with little application in our lives.
Just try and think of something that hasn't been affected by computers.
It is sickening to look at many software companies today... always looking for the path of least resistance, and never willing to claim responsibility for thier actions.
A javadoc type of source code parser that produces html or LaTex or just about whatever you want (with the proper configuration files) formatted documents.
I have been using this with great sucess at work, and it is free & runs under Linux or Cygwin. With a bit of scripting and some comment disapline, inline comments become good documentation.