It was a lawsuit between Cologne based Eyeo and Munich based Sueddeutsche. If they had fought it out as a soccer match instead in court, Sueddeutsche would have prevailed.
The fact, that no seller of the tool chain claimed any ownership of the items generated, or limited the usage of the tools in any way, no seat licenses, no restriction of the field of usage, no restriction in the way they were used, expanded or replaced.
In the late 1970ies and early 1980ies, especially the University of Berkeley in California (UCB) added a lot of valuable tools to UNIX, which on many commercial Unixes were installed in/usr/ucb. They even started to reimplement Unix from scratch and created their own distribution of a UNIX kernel and a userland, called the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). AT&T, which acquired Bell Labs, the owner of the original UNIX source code at the time, tried to claim ownership on everything that was added to UNIX with the argument, that all the programs and extensions were derivative works of the UNIX source code.
To avoid a similar disaster, Richard M. Stallman tried to start from scratch, creating a complete UNIX environment which was not tainted by any proprietary code, and also invented a licence that guaranteed that it remained so for all eternity.
Actually, the manufacturer never contacted you, never had any dealings with you. It was the retailer, in whose shop you saw the item, with whom you talked about the fitness for your purpose and whose Terms of Service you agreed to. From your point of view, it's completely irrelevant for the trade at hand, who in the end made the item. It's still the retailer who sold it to you, and who was the last owner of the item.
If you buy a batch of foul eggs, would you try to figure out what farm they originally came from, or would you just return them to the super market you picked them up, showing the receipt for the proof of sale? Why would that be any different for any technical items?
The retailer is the only one the consumer has a contract with. It's the retailer who gets the consumer's money. So the retailer is the only one the consumer can hold responsible for fulfilling the contract or taking back the merchandise.
Before you say no, you should be aware, that the sentence you quote is taken verbatim from the blog post the actual operator of Pinboard wrote. Basicly you were telling Pinboard that they are not what they claim to be.
You could actually power an LCD with 120 Hz, that's not the problem. There is just no reason to do so, differently than with CRTs. CRTs have a luminescense coating on the inside of the tube. It gets hit by the electron ray (cathode ray, hence the name), and lights up. It takes some time, until it goes out again. If this time is too long, all movements on the screen are blurred. If this is too short, the screen gets too dark and flickers. If we use a stronger cathode ray, the luminescense coating wears out too quickly and burns in. So the only way we can have a bright, non-blurry CRT picture is increasing the frequency.
In an ideal world, a picture frequency of around 20 would suffice. Cinemas use 24 pictures per second, and not many complain about the picture flashing too much or movements being blurry. It works, because the time between picture frames is much smaller than the time we see the single picture frame. LCDs at 60 Hz are completely ok, but a CRT at 60 Hz flickers like an old TV set.
Cloud services do much more than just store user data. Most cloud offerings include a whole stack of processing facilities. Basicly, cloud computing is distributed computer processing done in a standardized environment with dynamic resource allocation. Offsite storage is just the cheapest way to make use of cloud services in most cases.
The antennas are at 6000 ft above sea level, so no problems with trees inbetween (but it makes laying fiber or copper even more expensive). They are standard Wimax (802.16), and use a parabolic mirror to bundle the signal. The antennas are mostly mounted on the roof of a shed which contains all the indoor equipment like power sources, switches etc.. Prices are about $2000 per access point.
I routinely maintain some WiFi connections that go about 10 mls. Yes, we use special antennas. Yes, both antennas sit on mountain tops so no problem with anything getting inbetween. Yes, after a heavy storm, you sometimes have to readjust the antennas. And now imagine the cost of running anything else (copper, fiber) inbetween.
If you look at this map you see that the tidal range of florida is between 50 cm and 70 cm, and that indeed, the coast of the Northern Sea is one of the coasts with the highest tidal range (it actually increases from West to East, thus the german islands have an higher tidal range than Rotterdam indeed.)
Maybe I suggest you start talking to the Dutch either. I often hear that argument, but it means that you just use it as a talking point, but have never bothered to actually look at what the Dutch have there. First of all, the Dutch live at a coast that is very unique in that it has a large intertidal zone, a landscape so unique that there is no english word for it (while French, Dutch, German and Danish call it vasière, wad, Watt and vade resp.) It can stretch over several miles and falls dry every low tide and gets flooded every high tide. In this zone, waves wash new sand on the shore every high tide, so the land slowly grows into the sea. (It's different in Northern Germany and Danmark, where the tidal streams wash the sand away.) Thus, along the dutch shore new islands form all the time and grow.
In historical times already, the Dutch started building dams that got flooded every high tide, but kept the sand in the low tide, thus increasing the land grow at their coast. If the spot was high enough, they started building a dike on it to prevent even very high tides to get onto the freshly won land. After the dikes are ready and all remaining water has been pumped out, the land is called a polder. Most of the land at the Dutch coast is polderland. What we have here is a tradition of 1500 years of winning land by creating polders on former seabeds, helped by the unique feature of the large intertidal zones.
One problem still remains: Rivers flow into the sea, and if the land level is below sea level, they will not. At every river mouth, you have to somehow get the river water into the sea water, and if the sea level rises, you have to have pumps that are able to pump all the river water up into the seawater, or the river mouth will move up until it reaches the point where the sealevel matches the river level. At the Dutch coast, this problem is migitated by another natural phenomenom: A very high difference between high and low tide. While for most of the oceans, the difference (called tidal range) is just one or two feet (and thus much lower than the expected rise in sea levels), at the Dutch coast, the difference is between 6 and 10 feet. Thus, to let the river into the sea, but not the sea water into the land, you just close big gates at the river mouths every high tide, but open it at the low tide.
Florida borders directly at the Atlantic Ocean, and thus the tidal range is very low, which means that no Floridan river will flow into the ocean anymore if the sea level rises. If you build large dikes around Florida, it will not be flooded by ocean water, but the rain water and the ground water, which no longer can flow into the ocean, will flood Florida instead.
That is PR spin. The FBI, hackers, criminals, etc do NOT need Apple to create the software. All are perfectly capable of tampering with binaries as people have been doing for decades. The ONLY thing that stops such efforts is that the firmware is expecting the software to be digitally signed. The only thing the FBI really needs from Apple is to sign the FBI's tampered iOS binaries. That's it.
No, that's downright the problem itself. Apple gets either forced to make a statement they don't want to make (e.g. creating the new binary), or they are forced to sign a statement someone else makes and thus declare it their own statement. That's simply unconstitutional. And that's why the Fourth Amendment comes into play.
That's not what this move is about. It's about information that can be legally introduced into an U.S. court. Now the U.S. state attorney has to jump through the loop and actually ask a german court to force Deutsche Telekom to release the information requested, which until now they tried to avoid as much as possible. Especially in cases where the U.S. sentencing laws are considered draconic in Germany, this request might be denied on legal grounds. If for instance an U.S. state attorney would put pressure on the defendant by asking the court for 50 years of imprisonment or agree to a plea bargain for some cases of unlawful computer access, a german court could decide that this is unjust and thus any request by the U.S. court has to be denied.
I have heard of Here maps. I heared really angry words from them, when they were still called maps24.com, and when I accidently plugged one of the deactivated firewalls in again in the data center and caused the load balancers in front of map24.com to lose sync and effectively shutting down map24.com at a friday afternoon.
Actually, even this version will be better at the next game, as it is a self learning system. It became that good at Go by playing millions of games against diverse opponents.
If the part of your tuition fee that pays for adminstration, increases, while the part of your tuition fee that pays for your education shrinks, you turn from a student into a milking cow for an institution that mainly works for itself.
And if you read the WP article, you know why: To save on teaching staff. The head count of the teachers at universities and other educational institutions has stagnated since decades, but enrollment has exploded, and so has administrative staffing (and the wages for the administrational staff).
It's not because online education is inherently better, it's because you can offer the same course material to more people without investing into more buildings, additional positions for teachers and mentors or any other infrastructure that actuallyhelps the students. No one cares if it profits the single student, as long as you can profit from more students.
If you ever read anything in mathemathical statistics (e.g. Measure theory), you will always stumble upon sentences like "The random variable Z is almost equal to x" or "The value of f(x) will almost surely be less than y for all x in Set X.".
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It was a lawsuit between Cologne based Eyeo and Munich based Sueddeutsche. If they had fought it out as a soccer match instead in court, Sueddeutsche would have prevailed.
In the late 1970ies and early 1980ies, especially the University of Berkeley in California (UCB) added a lot of valuable tools to UNIX, which on many commercial Unixes were installed in /usr/ucb. They even started to reimplement Unix from scratch and created their own distribution of a UNIX kernel and a userland, called the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). AT&T, which acquired Bell Labs, the owner of the original UNIX source code at the time, tried to claim ownership on everything that was added to UNIX with the argument, that all the programs and extensions were derivative works of the UNIX source code.
To avoid a similar disaster, Richard M. Stallman tried to start from scratch, creating a complete UNIX environment which was not tainted by any proprietary code, and also invented a licence that guaranteed that it remained so for all eternity.
If you buy a batch of foul eggs, would you try to figure out what farm they originally came from, or would you just return them to the super market you picked them up, showing the receipt for the proof of sale? Why would that be any different for any technical items?
The retailer is the only one the consumer has a contract with. It's the retailer who gets the consumer's money. So the retailer is the only one the consumer can hold responsible for fulfilling the contract or taking back the merchandise.
Before you say no, you should be aware, that the sentence you quote is taken verbatim from the blog post the actual operator of Pinboard wrote. Basicly you were telling Pinboard that they are not what they claim to be.
It looks fine, if you just watch movies. It does not if you try to work with black-on-white documents.
You could actually power an LCD with 120 Hz, that's not the problem. There is just no reason to do so, differently than with CRTs. CRTs have a luminescense coating on the inside of the tube. It gets hit by the electron ray (cathode ray, hence the name), and lights up. It takes some time, until it goes out again. If this time is too long, all movements on the screen are blurred. If this is too short, the screen gets too dark and flickers. If we use a stronger cathode ray, the luminescense coating wears out too quickly and burns in. So the only way we can have a bright, non-blurry CRT picture is increasing the frequency. In an ideal world, a picture frequency of around 20 would suffice. Cinemas use 24 pictures per second, and not many complain about the picture flashing too much or movements being blurry. It works, because the time between picture frames is much smaller than the time we see the single picture frame. LCDs at 60 Hz are completely ok, but a CRT at 60 Hz flickers like an old TV set.
Cloud services do much more than just store user data. Most cloud offerings include a whole stack of processing facilities. Basicly, cloud computing is distributed computer processing done in a standardized environment with dynamic resource allocation. Offsite storage is just the cheapest way to make use of cloud services in most cases.
This does only work if you have an infinite network buffer. Otherwise, you get dropped instead of late packets.
You got it in reverse. LotR closely follows the tradition of Irish (and even more that of Welsh) lore.
And that's why the pub's owner at first called the police and not the palaeontologists.
Yes, because they can't find the needle in the haystack, they ask for more hay.
The antennas are at 6000 ft above sea level, so no problems with trees inbetween (but it makes laying fiber or copper even more expensive). They are standard Wimax (802.16), and use a parabolic mirror to bundle the signal. The antennas are mostly mounted on the roof of a shed which contains all the indoor equipment like power sources, switches etc.. Prices are about $2000 per access point.
I routinely maintain some WiFi connections that go about 10 mls. Yes, we use special antennas. Yes, both antennas sit on mountain tops so no problem with anything getting inbetween. Yes, after a heavy storm, you sometimes have to readjust the antennas. And now imagine the cost of running anything else (copper, fiber) inbetween.
If you look at this map you see that the tidal range of florida is between 50 cm and 70 cm, and that indeed, the coast of the Northern Sea is one of the coasts with the highest tidal range (it actually increases from West to East, thus the german islands have an higher tidal range than Rotterdam indeed.)
In historical times already, the Dutch started building dams that got flooded every high tide, but kept the sand in the low tide, thus increasing the land grow at their coast. If the spot was high enough, they started building a dike on it to prevent even very high tides to get onto the freshly won land. After the dikes are ready and all remaining water has been pumped out, the land is called a polder. Most of the land at the Dutch coast is polderland. What we have here is a tradition of 1500 years of winning land by creating polders on former seabeds, helped by the unique feature of the large intertidal zones.
One problem still remains: Rivers flow into the sea, and if the land level is below sea level, they will not. At every river mouth, you have to somehow get the river water into the sea water, and if the sea level rises, you have to have pumps that are able to pump all the river water up into the seawater, or the river mouth will move up until it reaches the point where the sealevel matches the river level. At the Dutch coast, this problem is migitated by another natural phenomenom: A very high difference between high and low tide. While for most of the oceans, the difference (called tidal range) is just one or two feet (and thus much lower than the expected rise in sea levels), at the Dutch coast, the difference is between 6 and 10 feet. Thus, to let the river into the sea, but not the sea water into the land, you just close big gates at the river mouths every high tide, but open it at the low tide.
Florida borders directly at the Atlantic Ocean, and thus the tidal range is very low, which means that no Floridan river will flow into the ocean anymore if the sea level rises. If you build large dikes around Florida, it will not be flooded by ocean water, but the rain water and the ground water, which no longer can flow into the ocean, will flood Florida instead.
Legally, code is (protected) speech. And the Freedom of Speech means that you are also allowed to keep silent if you don't want to speak.
That is PR spin. The FBI, hackers, criminals, etc do NOT need Apple to create the software. All are perfectly capable of tampering with binaries as people have been doing for decades. The ONLY thing that stops such efforts is that the firmware is expecting the software to be digitally signed. The only thing the FBI really needs from Apple is to sign the FBI's tampered iOS binaries. That's it.
No, that's downright the problem itself. Apple gets either forced to make a statement they don't want to make (e.g. creating the new binary), or they are forced to sign a statement someone else makes and thus declare it their own statement. That's simply unconstitutional. And that's why the Fourth Amendment comes into play.
That's not what this move is about. It's about information that can be legally introduced into an U.S. court. Now the U.S. state attorney has to jump through the loop and actually ask a german court to force Deutsche Telekom to release the information requested, which until now they tried to avoid as much as possible. Especially in cases where the U.S. sentencing laws are considered draconic in Germany, this request might be denied on legal grounds. If for instance an U.S. state attorney would put pressure on the defendant by asking the court for 50 years of imprisonment or agree to a plea bargain for some cases of unlawful computer access, a german court could decide that this is unjust and thus any request by the U.S. court has to be denied.
The meat-in-a-bun-company you are lookingg for is actually called Wienerwald. (And it's Das Wienerschnitzel.)
I have heard of Here maps. I heared really angry words from them, when they were still called maps24.com, and when I accidently plugged one of the deactivated firewalls in again in the data center and caused the load balancers in front of map24.com to lose sync and effectively shutting down map24.com at a friday afternoon.
Actually, even this version will be better at the next game, as it is a self learning system. It became that good at Go by playing millions of games against diverse opponents.
If the part of your tuition fee that pays for adminstration, increases, while the part of your tuition fee that pays for your education shrinks, you turn from a student into a milking cow for an institution that mainly works for itself.
It's not because online education is inherently better, it's because you can offer the same course material to more people without investing into more buildings, additional positions for teachers and mentors or any other infrastructure that actuallyhelps the students. No one cares if it profits the single student, as long as you can profit from more students.
If you ever read anything in mathemathical statistics (e.g. Measure theory), you will always stumble upon sentences like "The random variable Z is almost equal to x" or "The value of f(x) will almost surely be less than y for all x in Set X.".