Samsung don't pay 2.25% because they cross licensed their patents with Motorola so it effectively became 0%. They still nominally pay 2.25% for the patents.
Microsofts problem (and Apples) is that it did not want to cross license their patents. I am sure that Microsoft would have could have got a big reduction in their patent rate had they for example been willing to throw in their FAT and other patents they extort out of Android makers into a cross licensing agreement with Motorola.
The fact that Samsung are charged less is therefore not relevant. The opening bid for everyone was 2.25% with cross licensing agreements of patents able to lower it. That is fair reasonable and none discriminatory. The jury judgement is frankly a travesty.
What if Motorola are charging Samsung 2.25% of the device's price for the same patents? Of course Motorola and Samsung have cross licensing of their patent portfolio so the real cost is close to zero, as Samsung are also charging Motorola something close to 2.25% for a patent license.
If Microsoft had been willing to enter into a patent cross licensing deal I am sure that that 2.25% would have effectively come to zero or close to zero.
How is it fair, and none discriminatory if Samsung, Nokia, Sony, etc. are now all paying more than Microsoft?
Wrong, because they would mostly even out. So say Samsung pay Nokia 2.25% and Nokia pay Samsung 2.25% and that then the balance is close to 0%, and everyone is happy. The people who are not happy, aka Apple and Microsoft who don't have FRAND payments are fighting it, meanwhile charging silly figures for trivial patents.
It's fair, reason and non discriminatory if you are charging everyone the same. So if Samsung pay the same 2.25% for the patents then Microsoft should just pay up.
I have just bothered to read the second article about exercise, entitled "Americans exercise more, but are still not losing *MUCH* weight", emphasis mine. Again it actually goes to prove my point. Also with only ~51% of men sufficiently active that allows for 49% of men to be inactive and obese.
The point of the peer reviewed article I linked to is that everyone across the board in Cuba suffered almost overnight a drop in calorie intake and an increase in activity, which lead to a decrease in weight.
The first link says that obesity rates in the USA has stabilized and in some cities is reducing. So thanks for reinforcing my argument. I would point out that as the first article says the reduction in *average* calorie intake is fairly insignificant 76 calories a day less for girls for example, yet is having an impact.
The other issue is that these are *AVERAGE* calorie intakes. This does not rule out the very real issue of polarization of American society into "fatties and thinnies". So it is perfectly possible for the average calorie consumption to drop while the percentage of obese people increase. Although your none peer reviewed references (and I contrast that to my peer reviewed reference) indicate that obesity rates have been effected.
Anyone who claims that cutting calories and increasing exercise does not lead to weight loss in the long term is claiming that the most fundamental laws of physics are wrong. Consequently I treat such views with the disinterest bordering on contempt they deserve.
If you had bothered to read the rest of my post, you would have seen that actually it is not a sweeping generalization, based on a reality TV show. I cited a peer reviewed paper published in one of the top medical journals in the world to *PROVE* my point. An involuntary experiment carried out on 11 million people That said the reality TV show is important because it shows that the amount of calories people consume is more than they think.
There is another reality TV show by Channel 4 in the U.K. called Supersize vs Superskinny that pairs very obese people with the severely underweight. Without exception the very obese people basically stuff their faces with huge portions and huge amounts of food.
I have no problem with anyone being overweight. What I do have a problem with is people who are overweight blaming everyone else but themselves for consuming more calories than they require for the level of activity that they personally are engaged in.
Wrong, there is was this little experiment conducted on 11 million people living in the Caribbean. See results of this pear reviewed paper published in the British Medical Journal
So eat less and do more *REALLY* does work. The people who don't think it works are in denial and want someone else to blame for the fact they are overweight.
Perhaps true, but if you where to watch the U.K. Channel 4 program Secret Eaters you would come to understand that overweight people don't eat ~2000 Calories they eat *MUCH* more than that. For really obese people they eat more than double that.
Not only that it clearly showed that obese people outright lie to themselves and others about how much food they consume.
The basic premise of the program is the people keep a food diary of what they eat for a week, and the programme makers engage in 24/7 surveillance over the same period to record what they actually eat.
The reality is that people are getting fatter because they are consuming more calories. You only need to look a Cuba to see it all playing out. The austerity brought about by the collapse of the Soviet Union the calorie intake dropped and people lost weight across the board. The economy recovered, calorie intake surged as did waist lines. That's peer reviewed research in a high impact journal dumass.
In the end it *REALLY* is hard thermodynamics. If you are over weight unless you are suffering from a really really rare and invariably fatal genetic condition stop stuffing your face and exercise more and you WILL loose weight over the long term.
No, for starters it only applied to the aristocracy. So if you where a Villein, Bordars or other member of the peasant class it did not apply to you. I also suspect that it did not apply to females either...
This is the U.K. where failure to disclose the encryption key when requested is a crime under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, punishable by up to two years in jail. You would have to be as dumb as hell to pass through the U.K. with sensitive "Snowden" documents that are encrypted, when you could deploy PGP and just FTP them.
Seriously they can be had quite cheap on the refurb market, and they are built like tanks. They will **easily** do a million pages though you will need to service them with maintenance kits these are cheap. I have seen them going strong at over 1.5 million pages. Most of the second hand ones are at a tiny fraction of these sorts of page numbers. Spares are readily available, if they don't have network cards, then JetDirects are dirt cheap on eBay. Compatible toner cartridges are really cheap as well. Might need memory upgrades, these are cheap as well.
In the end they don't build them like this anymore.
For freezer proof labels then you need specialist label printers with specialist labels. They are not cheap to buy or run...
I would imagine it has something to do with the last piece in the last episode of the last series. They had some random maps showing where things produced in the UK where sold etc. and the one for Top Gear very specifically excluded France. I would imagine it has something to do with Clarkson referring to the French as cheese eating surrender monkeys all the time.
Actually I think the trend is to larger and heavier over the last couple of years, which is kind of annoying. I don't want a phone with a five inch/12cm screen thank you very much.
Perhaps because if he shaves at night by the morning he will need to shave again. You might be lucky and have slow growing facial hair. From personal experience my brother in law's facial hair takes about five days to grow to the same length as mine does in a day.
The only time I shave in the evening is when I am on a skiing holiday...
Even that is usually not true as there are always exceptions to the rule. It's certainly not true in the U.K. For example if I am hiring an actor to play Othello, I can perfectly legitimately exclude all white males and all women.
No it was revealed by a partner at the law firm who should have known better, and should now face sanctions from the Law Society. Being struck of the register would be about right.
On the other hand they have already reached an out of court settlement for a substantial sum, which probably came out the partners own pocket. I would also imagine the firm has lost the JKR account.
In theory not. The original definition of the metre was one ten-millionth of the length of the Earth's meridian along a quadrant. That is, the distance from the Equator to the North Pole. Hence there is a direct link between one minute of arc and a metre.
Surface area of a sphere 4*pi*r^2, so for the earth that comes to 5.10e14 square metres. The pressure at the surface on average is 1.01325e5 Pa. Using the fact that pressure is force time area, and that force is mass time acceleration, then the mass of a one square meter of the earths atmosphere assuming acceleration due to gravity is 9.8m/s^2 is 1.033e5 kg. That makes the mass of the atmosphere 5.268e15 metric tones, at 78% nitrogen that makes ~4113 trillion metric tonnes of nitrogen.
For comparison the world wheat production in 2012 was 704 million metric tonnes or 0.000017% of the atmospheric nitrogen.
The chances of this being able to significantly change the composition of the atmosphere are close to zero. You need to understand the scale at which the world and the wider universe works.
My 'O' level biology teach claimed that many years ago. Looked a good argument right up until I pointed out that the geraniums in the labs that he claimed required no animals would be the last geraniums in the world if all the animals died tomorrow. Hint they need insects to pollinate and reproduce.
You don't destroy evidence like that if you have nothing to hide. No single party is likely to be entirely responsible for the disaster, and there has been some jingoistic sentiment in the USA that it was all the fault of the nasty foreign company. Something that is highly improbable.
It is not all Halliburton's fault, but it is also not all BP fault either.
Real backup and since 6.3 does journal based backups for Ext2, Ext3, Ext4; XFS, ReiserFS, JFS, VxFS, and NSS.
The other option I have seen (surprisingly for GPFS as TSM does not do journal based backups for GPFS even though both are IBM products) is to register to the DMAPI (this would only work for XFS I think) and then use that to capture all activity on the file system. You could then use that to generate your list of files to backup. Admittedly this is going to require you to get your hands dirty and do some coding. I am also not sure what state DMAPI support is in XFS either.
Unfortunately the real tragedy is yet to play out. Basically the Rubella vaccination that was given to 11-12 year old girls was withdrawn for all those who should have had the MMR vaccination as babies as it was no longer required. Personally even as an 11 year old I never understood why it was only given to girls given the value of herd immunity.
Fortunately the government in England at least has decided belatedly to organize a program to deliver the MMR vaccination to all those who missed it due to "refusnik" parents, that will hopefully divert the problem.
Also personally speaking as someone who got measles as an adult *despite* having been vaccinated as a child, it is truely awful experience, though I was told at the time without the vaccination I would have been in intensive care.
Just to make it clear coal fired power station max 40% efficient and takes hours to start stop so problem with what to do overnight. Gas fired power station (aka a combined cycle one) is max 60% efficient, and can go from zero to full power in minutes.
Consequently closing all the coal power stations and switching to combined cycle gas ones will lead to a dramatic reduction in CO2 emissions. One would have thought that an environmental group would be in favour of such a move. However as they have a myopic zero CO2 mentality they are against these sorts of plants as well, even though they produce less CO2 than conventional coal plants.
The reason is that when actually faced with the prospect of bringing a DS child they are forced to properly consider the issues around abortion and change their minds.
The problem with most anti-abortion thinking is that it is based on Christian thinking and is intellectually bankrupt.
For example take one of the standard retorts of Jeremiah 1:5, (basically God claims to have known you in the womb), So ignoring the fact that most pregnancies end in spontaneous abortions without the mother even being aware, what about all those anencephaly fetuses (1 in 10000 births) because without any cerebrum they are incapable of ever achieving a conscious existence? I would really like to know how God knew such a person, and how an abortion can possibly be considered killing a human? Personally I consider people saying that aborting an anencephaly fetuse is wrong are evil bastards that deserve to burn in hell.
Suffice as to say I using any piece of scripture as an argument against abortion will allow me to make you look like an idiot spouting scripture without remotely understanding it.
For the record I consider the idea of aborting healthy fetuses that where not conceived through violence as wrong.
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Samsung don't pay 2.25% because they cross licensed their patents with Motorola so it effectively became 0%. They still nominally pay 2.25% for the patents.
Microsofts problem (and Apples) is that it did not want to cross license their patents. I am sure that Microsoft would have could have got a big reduction in their patent rate had they for example been willing to throw in their FAT and other patents they extort out of Android makers into a cross licensing agreement with Motorola.
The fact that Samsung are charged less is therefore not relevant. The opening bid for everyone was 2.25% with cross licensing agreements of patents able to lower it. That is fair reasonable and none discriminatory. The jury judgement is frankly a travesty.
What if Motorola are charging Samsung 2.25% of the device's price for the same patents? Of course Motorola and Samsung have cross licensing of their patent portfolio so the real cost is close to zero, as Samsung are also charging Motorola something close to 2.25% for a patent license.
If Microsoft had been willing to enter into a patent cross licensing deal I am sure that that 2.25% would have effectively come to zero or close to zero.
How is it fair, and none discriminatory if Samsung, Nokia, Sony, etc. are now all paying more than Microsoft?
Wrong, because they would mostly even out. So say Samsung pay Nokia 2.25% and Nokia pay Samsung 2.25% and that then the balance is close to 0%, and everyone is happy. The people who are not happy, aka Apple and Microsoft who don't have FRAND payments are fighting it, meanwhile charging silly figures for trivial patents.
It's fair, reason and non discriminatory if you are charging everyone the same. So if Samsung pay the same 2.25% for the patents then Microsoft should just pay up.
I have just bothered to read the second article about exercise, entitled "Americans exercise more, but are still not losing *MUCH* weight", emphasis mine. Again it actually goes to prove my point. Also with only ~51% of men sufficiently active that allows for 49% of men to be inactive and obese.
The point of the peer reviewed article I linked to is that everyone across the board in Cuba suffered almost overnight a drop in calorie intake and an increase in activity, which lead to a decrease in weight.
The first link says that obesity rates in the USA has stabilized and in some cities is reducing. So thanks for reinforcing my argument. I would point out that as the first article says the reduction in *average* calorie intake is fairly insignificant 76 calories a day less for girls for example, yet is having an impact.
The other issue is that these are *AVERAGE* calorie intakes. This does not rule out the very real issue of polarization of American society into "fatties and thinnies". So it is perfectly possible for the average calorie consumption to drop while the percentage of obese people increase. Although your none peer reviewed references (and I contrast that to my peer reviewed reference) indicate that obesity rates have been effected.
Anyone who claims that cutting calories and increasing exercise does not lead to weight loss in the long term is claiming that the most fundamental laws of physics are wrong. Consequently I treat such views with the disinterest bordering on contempt they deserve.
If you had bothered to read the rest of my post, you would have seen that actually it is not a sweeping generalization, based on a reality TV show. I cited a peer reviewed paper published in one of the top medical journals in the world to *PROVE* my point. An involuntary experiment carried out on 11 million people That said the reality TV show is important because it shows that the amount of calories people consume is more than they think.
There is another reality TV show by Channel 4 in the U.K. called Supersize vs Superskinny that pairs very obese people with the severely underweight. Without exception the very obese people basically stuff their faces with huge portions and huge amounts of food.
I have no problem with anyone being overweight. What I do have a problem with is people who are overweight blaming everyone else but themselves for consuming more calories than they require for the level of activity that they personally are engaged in.
Wrong, there is was this little experiment conducted on 11 million people living in the Caribbean. See results of this pear reviewed paper published in the British Medical Journal
http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f1515#ref-40
So eat less and do more *REALLY* does work. The people who don't think it works are in denial and want someone else to blame for the fact they are overweight.
Perhaps true, but if you where to watch the U.K. Channel 4 program Secret Eaters you would come to understand that overweight people don't eat ~2000 Calories they eat *MUCH* more than that. For really obese people they eat more than double that.
Not only that it clearly showed that obese people outright lie to themselves and others about how much food they consume.
The basic premise of the program is the people keep a food diary of what they eat for a week, and the programme makers engage in 24/7 surveillance over the same period to record what they actually eat.
The reality is that people are getting fatter because they are consuming more calories. You only need to look a Cuba to see it all playing out. The austerity brought about by the collapse of the Soviet Union the calorie intake dropped and people lost weight across the board. The economy recovered, calorie intake surged as did waist lines. That's peer reviewed research in a high impact journal dumass.
http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f1515#ref-40
In the end it *REALLY* is hard thermodynamics. If you are over weight unless you are suffering from a really really rare and invariably fatal genetic condition stop stuffing your face and exercise more and you WILL loose weight over the long term.
No, for starters it only applied to the aristocracy. So if you where a Villein, Bordars or other member of the peasant class it did not apply to you. I also suspect that it did not apply to females either...
This is the U.K. where failure to disclose the encryption key when requested is a crime under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, punishable by up to two years in jail. You would have to be as dumb as hell to pass through the U.K. with sensitive "Snowden" documents that are encrypted, when you could deploy PGP and just FTP them.
Seriously they can be had quite cheap on the refurb market, and they are built like tanks. They will **easily** do a million pages though you will need to service them with maintenance kits these are cheap. I have seen them going strong at over 1.5 million pages. Most of the second hand ones are at a tiny fraction of these sorts of page numbers. Spares are readily available, if they don't have network cards, then JetDirects are dirt cheap on eBay. Compatible toner cartridges are really cheap as well. Might need memory upgrades, these are cheap as well.
In the end they don't build them like this anymore.
For freezer proof labels then you need specialist label printers with specialist labels. They are not cheap to buy or run...
I would imagine it has something to do with the last piece in the last episode of the last series. They had some random maps showing where things produced in the UK where sold etc. and the one for Top Gear very specifically excluded France. I would imagine it has something to do with Clarkson referring to the French as cheese eating surrender monkeys all the time.
Actually I think the trend is to larger and heavier over the last couple of years, which is kind of annoying. I don't want a phone with a five inch/12cm screen thank you very much.
Perhaps because if he shaves at night by the morning he will need to shave again. You might be lucky and have slow growing facial hair. From personal experience my brother in law's facial hair takes about five days to grow to the same length as mine does in a day.
The only time I shave in the evening is when I am on a skiing holiday...
Even that is usually not true as there are always exceptions to the rule. It's certainly not true in the U.K. For example if I am hiring an actor to play Othello, I can perfectly legitimately exclude all white males and all women.
No it was revealed by a partner at the law firm who should have known better, and should now face sanctions from the Law Society. Being struck of the register would be about right.
On the other hand they have already reached an out of court settlement for a substantial sum, which probably came out the partners own pocket. I would also imagine the firm has lost the JKR account.
In theory not. The original definition of the metre was one ten-millionth of the length of the Earth's meridian along a quadrant. That is, the distance from the Equator to the North Pole. Hence there is a direct link between one minute of arc and a metre.
Surface area of a sphere 4*pi*r^2, so for the earth that comes to 5.10e14 square metres. The pressure at the surface on average is 1.01325e5 Pa. Using the fact that pressure is force time area, and that force is mass time acceleration, then the mass of a one square meter of the earths atmosphere assuming acceleration due to gravity is 9.8m/s^2 is 1.033e5 kg. That makes the mass of the atmosphere 5.268e15 metric tones, at 78% nitrogen that makes ~4113 trillion metric tonnes of nitrogen.
For comparison the world wheat production in 2012 was 704 million metric tonnes or 0.000017% of the atmospheric nitrogen.
The chances of this being able to significantly change the composition of the atmosphere are close to zero. You need to understand the scale at which the world and the wider universe works.
My 'O' level biology teach claimed that many years ago. Looked a good argument right up until I pointed out that the geraniums in the labs that he claimed required no animals would be the last geraniums in the world if all the animals died tomorrow. Hint they need insects to pollinate and reproduce.
You don't destroy evidence like that if you have nothing to hide. No single party is likely to be entirely responsible for the disaster, and there has been some jingoistic sentiment in the USA that it was all the fault of the nasty foreign company. Something that is highly improbable.
It is not all Halliburton's fault, but it is also not all BP fault either.
Real backup and since 6.3 does journal based backups for Ext2, Ext3, Ext4; XFS, ReiserFS, JFS, VxFS, and NSS.
The other option I have seen (surprisingly for GPFS as TSM does not do journal based backups for GPFS even though both are IBM products) is to register to the DMAPI (this would only work for XFS I think) and then use that to capture all activity on the file system. You could then use that to generate your list of files to backup. Admittedly this is going to require you to get your hands dirty and do some coding. I am also not sure what state DMAPI support is in XFS either.
It's a tabloid newspaper that has pictures of topless models with usually larger than averaged sized breasts on page three.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_3
Unfortunately the real tragedy is yet to play out. Basically the Rubella vaccination that was given to 11-12 year old girls was withdrawn for all those who should have had the MMR vaccination as babies as it was no longer required. Personally even as an 11 year old I never understood why it was only given to girls given the value of herd immunity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_rubella_syndrome
Fortunately the government in England at least has decided belatedly to organize a program to deliver the MMR vaccination to all those who missed it due to "refusnik" parents, that will hopefully divert the problem.
Also personally speaking as someone who got measles as an adult *despite* having been vaccinated as a child, it is truely awful experience, though I was told at the time without the vaccination I would have been in intensive care.
Just to make it clear coal fired power station max 40% efficient and takes hours to start stop so problem with what to do overnight. Gas fired power station (aka a combined cycle one) is max 60% efficient, and can go from zero to full power in minutes.
Consequently closing all the coal power stations and switching to combined cycle gas ones will lead to a dramatic reduction in CO2 emissions. One would have thought that an environmental group would be in favour of such a move. However as they have a myopic zero CO2 mentality they are against these sorts of plants as well, even though they produce less CO2 than conventional coal plants.
The reason is that when actually faced with the prospect of bringing a DS child they are forced to properly consider the issues around abortion and change their minds.
The problem with most anti-abortion thinking is that it is based on Christian thinking and is intellectually bankrupt.
For example take one of the standard retorts of Jeremiah 1:5, (basically God claims to have known you in the womb), So ignoring the fact that most pregnancies end in spontaneous abortions without the mother even being aware, what about all those anencephaly fetuses (1 in 10000 births) because without any cerebrum they are incapable of ever achieving a conscious existence? I would really like to know how God knew such a person, and how an abortion can possibly be considered killing a human? Personally I consider people saying that aborting an anencephaly fetuse is wrong are evil bastards that deserve to burn in hell.
Suffice as to say I using any piece of scripture as an argument against abortion will allow me to make you look like an idiot spouting scripture without remotely understanding it.
For the record I consider the idea of aborting healthy fetuses that where not conceived through violence as wrong.