I have a friend who likes importing 15 year old Toyotas from Japan, which are difficult to get insured for the same reason. There are always a couple of companies willing to charge a bit extra to take the risk. They employ actuaries for more than just looking up values in a chart, after all.
If the truck you're hit by is an 18-wheeler transport truck it won't matter if you're driving a Fiat or an F150. If you only have a standard driver's license then you're nowhere near the biggest thing on the road, and should probably learn how to drive defensively rather than depending on the size of your vehicle to save you in a crash.
Retina is an trademarked term for anything apple wants to use it for to do with displays. Of course it didn't exist before, it's a technically meaningless marketing term.
Wikipedia to the rescue!
Worldwide, whooping cough affects 48.5 million people yearly resulting in nearly 295,000 deaths.
In 2000 the WHO estimated that there were ~45 million cases of measles worldwide with 800,000 deaths from it.
Mumps: Death is very unusual. The disease is self-limiting, and general outcome is good, even if other organs are involved. There's a list of possible side-effects which includes rare cases of sterility and deafness.
Solar anything isn't a realistic power solution for any part of the world where you get less than 8 hours of sunlight per day for several months straight. Also anyone who lives in a cold climate can tell you that using electricity to heat buildings is horribly inefficient compared to using natural gas or oil.
Disney has licensed the rights to build an Avatar-themed land at Animal Kingdom, Disney World. This kind of technology was probably developed for use there.
May work some places, but last time I was in a major city I was on the 20th floor of a hotel and I had access to about 20 hotspots, including several starbucks. GPS would tell them that I was a couple hundred feet above the store location, and thus probably not physically in the store.
You need to be able to find things somehow. This requires either some set of central servers, which somewhat defeats the purpose, or a method of broadcast communication that isn't blocked by your ISP. There's a good reason your ISP blocks UDP broadcast and multicast packets - on a large network broadcast leads to exponential packet growth.
For most of us the most limited part of the internet infrastructure is the link from the last router to our house. Picking up my youtube cat videos from my neighbour rather than from a cache server on my ISP's backbone may seem like a good idea, but in reality you're switching traffic from a high-capacity link between my street's router and my ISP, to a low capacity link between my neighbour and our router.
If you're going to cache things on my computer you're going to be using my hardware. That hardware isn't free, and neither are the bits you want to use my internet connection to send. How am I going to be compensated?
Air Force 1 has a no-fly zone around it. It would be extremely hard to enforce that if they didn't publicly publish AF1's flight plans in advance of a flight.
That's the whole point of notice-and-notice. The service provider doesn't know or care who owns the copyright, they get a notice that something is illegal and they take it down and notify the user that put it up. The user can the fill out a form to get the content put back up, which the provider will also do. If it is put back up then the provider will notify the entity that sent the take-down notice that the content is back up, and provide the contact information for the user allowing the company trying to assert copyright to go through the courts. The service providers aren't on the hook so long as they blindly take down and put back data as requested by the forms, and the copyright holders have a simple method to get the contact info for people who are actually violating their copyright.
I suspect off is enough, even airplane mode should be enough. If any common cell phones kept broadcasting anything when turned off I suspect the FAA and FDA (some medical equipment is radio-sensitive) would be aware, and probably not amused.
Laws forbidding passing on the right are great - until your highway has an entrance or exit on the left. Ever see a heavy truck trying to merge into the far-left lane of a busy highway? It isn't pretty, and it would be a cash cow if every one of the cars passing was ticketable.
That would be a copyright violation, which has nothing to do with patents. Unless by 'rips off' you mean 'reimplements without access you my source code', in which case I'm not seeing the problem. Marketing is part of business, and if your business can't do it, even with a significant first-mover advantage, why should someone else not be allowed to compete with you?
Maybe because there's a subtle yet important distinction between reducing production and stockpiling? Either that or, as an AC pointed out, most of the important OPEC members aren't part of the WTO.
If you consider a vtable to be complicated to debug how do you manage normal functions? Is one extra level of indirection so difficult? The only time I found function calls difficult to debug was a unit test trick someone used where they edited a vtable after an object was created to change a couple functions to make something else testable. I have been shown C code where there was a hex array created and then the instruction pointer was set to the head of the array. You can write screwed up code in any language.
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I have a friend who likes importing 15 year old Toyotas from Japan, which are difficult to get insured for the same reason. There are always a couple of companies willing to charge a bit extra to take the risk. They employ actuaries for more than just looking up values in a chart, after all.
Personally I would prefer to be driving the Fiat 500 in any case, but it really has nothing to do with potential accidents :D
If the truck you're hit by is an 18-wheeler transport truck it won't matter if you're driving a Fiat or an F150. If you only have a standard driver's license then you're nowhere near the biggest thing on the road, and should probably learn how to drive defensively rather than depending on the size of your vehicle to save you in a crash.
Retina is an trademarked term for anything apple wants to use it for to do with displays. Of course it didn't exist before, it's a technically meaningless marketing term.
Wikipedia to the rescue!
Worldwide, whooping cough affects 48.5 million people yearly resulting in nearly 295,000 deaths.
In 2000 the WHO estimated that there were ~45 million cases of measles worldwide with 800,000 deaths from it.
Mumps: Death is very unusual. The disease is self-limiting, and general outcome is good, even if other organs are involved. There's a list of possible side-effects which includes rare cases of sterility and deafness.
Solar anything isn't a realistic power solution for any part of the world where you get less than 8 hours of sunlight per day for several months straight. Also anyone who lives in a cold climate can tell you that using electricity to heat buildings is horribly inefficient compared to using natural gas or oil.
As soon as you can find a way to stretch out that sentence enough to fill an entire book, and give it a catchy title.
Why shouldn't a sci-fi show be able to qualify as prior art for design or UI patents?
Disney has licensed the rights to build an Avatar-themed land at Animal Kingdom, Disney World. This kind of technology was probably developed for use there.
Dijkstra, is that you?
May work some places, but last time I was in a major city I was on the 20th floor of a hotel and I had access to about 20 hotspots, including several starbucks. GPS would tell them that I was a couple hundred feet above the store location, and thus probably not physically in the store.
There are a couple other little issues:
You need to be able to find things somehow. This requires either some set of central servers, which somewhat defeats the purpose, or a method of broadcast communication that isn't blocked by your ISP. There's a good reason your ISP blocks UDP broadcast and multicast packets - on a large network broadcast leads to exponential packet growth.
For most of us the most limited part of the internet infrastructure is the link from the last router to our house. Picking up my youtube cat videos from my neighbour rather than from a cache server on my ISP's backbone may seem like a good idea, but in reality you're switching traffic from a high-capacity link between my street's router and my ISP, to a low capacity link between my neighbour and our router.
If you're going to cache things on my computer you're going to be using my hardware. That hardware isn't free, and neither are the bits you want to use my internet connection to send. How am I going to be compensated?
People in general do not like the idea of a national ID system
Just what do you consider a SSN to be?
Doesn't matter, as long as her parents were US citizens.
Air Force 1 has a no-fly zone around it. It would be extremely hard to enforce that if they didn't publicly publish AF1's flight plans in advance of a flight.
I'll see your xkcd and raise you a ctrl-alt-del
That's the whole point of notice-and-notice. The service provider doesn't know or care who owns the copyright, they get a notice that something is illegal and they take it down and notify the user that put it up. The user can the fill out a form to get the content put back up, which the provider will also do. If it is put back up then the provider will notify the entity that sent the take-down notice that the content is back up, and provide the contact information for the user allowing the company trying to assert copyright to go through the courts. The service providers aren't on the hook so long as they blindly take down and put back data as requested by the forms, and the copyright holders have a simple method to get the contact info for people who are actually violating their copyright.
They blew a bunch of hours to track down and disable a harmless easter egg? I wish I could mod this +1 sad.
Brings a whole new meaning to 'plug-in hybrid'
I suspect off is enough, even airplane mode should be enough. If any common cell phones kept broadcasting anything when turned off I suspect the FAA and FDA (some medical equipment is radio-sensitive) would be aware, and probably not amused.
Laws forbidding passing on the right are great - until your highway has an entrance or exit on the left. Ever see a heavy truck trying to merge into the far-left lane of a busy highway? It isn't pretty, and it would be a cash cow if every one of the cars passing was ticketable.
Maybe this has something to do with it:
http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Microsoft_(MSFT)/Data/Net_Income/2010
Investors don't care about innovative or cool, except as they affect the bottom line.
That would be a copyright violation, which has nothing to do with patents. Unless by 'rips off' you mean 'reimplements without access you my source code', in which case I'm not seeing the problem. Marketing is part of business, and if your business can't do it, even with a significant first-mover advantage, why should someone else not be allowed to compete with you?
Maybe because there's a subtle yet important distinction between reducing production and stockpiling? Either that or, as an AC pointed out, most of the important OPEC members aren't part of the WTO.
If you consider a vtable to be complicated to debug how do you manage normal functions? Is one extra level of indirection so difficult? The only time I found function calls difficult to debug was a unit test trick someone used where they edited a vtable after an object was created to change a couple functions to make something else testable. I have been shown C code where there was a hex array created and then the instruction pointer was set to the head of the array. You can write screwed up code in any language.