I think his question is about aspects that are already patented, as you can just about guarantee that any non-trivial program infringes on some parents. I don't think it was about someone else patenting it after he released it, or his ability to patent it.
Before you start foaming at the mouth...note that this a is a design patent . It is more like a trademark than a utility patent and covers only the "non-functional" elements of the design.
A trademark grants a monopoly on the use of a name to identify a product in a particular market. It benefits the buyer, e.g. he can know that the Coca-Cola drink he's buying is from the Coca-Cola company, and not some knock-off also called Coca-Cola. A design patent apparently grants a monopoly on the aspects of a design that affect its appearance. How does this benefit the buyer? He might want to buy a cheap knock-off product that has the same appearance.
That's an aspect of imaginary property laws that is often ignored in discussions: even if you don't care to "protect" your own imaginary property with the laws, you must still play the game, otherwise someone else may use the laws to attack your real property (i.e. money).
According to as post on Wikipedia, each COIL burst produces enough energy in a five-second burst to power a typical American household for more than one hour
Produces?!? I think they mean it dissipates that much energy. Also, is that an American house at night, day, or mid-afternoon in the south in summer? I smell a new unit forming to go along with LOCs.
Rather than making me think that all humans are mutants, this made me think: Wow, over a runtime of 204 years, the DNA copying process has an accuracy of 99.99988%, or an error rate of only 0.00012%.
Did you include all the defective copies that resulted in no ancestors? Otherwise, I can easily claim 100% fidelity in nth-generation copies of some data by eliminating the defective copies.
Bad wording on my part. I meant that the ad-free version will cost more than a normal game, rather than the ad-laden one costing less than a normal game
Ah, but what if they offered you a version without commercials for $100 or one with ads all over it for $60 [the regular price]- which would you choose then?
Fixed the prices for you. The ad-free version will cost more, not less.
As for your flying car, you'll start seeing it when we have drivers who can safely drive on 3 dimensional roads, and for that, you have to be able to do it safely on 2 dimensional roads first, which can be far, far away...
Agreed! I think drivers need to be able to drive safely on one-dimensional roads first. And of course not just one-way roads, but two-way ones as well. Once they can do that, 2- and 3-dimensional roads are easy.
It[']s a code error, and luckily (or possibly unluckily) for the guys at USAspending.gov, Google's APIs don't just segfault out and crash the page, instead they try to parse it in a "is this what you wanted?" sort of way
It should at least flag these errors (see Postel's Law). Maybe it does; just wanted to note that there is something between "reject" and "accept without even a warning".
Speaking of Tetris-like games, once I found Panel de Pon (also known as Tetris Attack, Pokemon Puzzle League, etc.), I could never go back to Tetris (YouTube videos). Instead of dropping pieces and having no way to undo a drop, you swap pairs of horizontally-adjacend colored panels using a cursor you can move around the screen. When three or more panels of like color form a horizontal or vertical line, they flash and then disappear. Any panels above the ones that disappeared will then fall. If this causes another match you get an extra bonus called an x2 chain; if this match then causes more panels to fall and match, it's an x3 chain, and you can get up to x24 chain (very difficult). There is gravity, and new rows of panels slowly push up from the bottom to keep the area filled (you can also manually speed this up if you've just cleared the stack). Still to this day I can play it for an hour at a time, practicing and improving, due to chain techniques available. It's very appealing due to the simple rules that lead to very rich techniques.
The fact that a few-hour outage is big news is a testament to how reliable gmail has been. Like you say, apparently people feel that a service that covers a wider area should have less downtime than a smaller one, to the point that one that covers the global should have zero downtime.
The incompetence of the legal system has no lower bound.
As does the proper use of negation. I think you either mean "The competence of the legal system has no lower bound." or "The incompetence of the legal system has no upper bound."
Perhaps, but I did read something first. True, I could have read the official Apple version that listed the affected versions. The blog author could have updated his post as well, considering that he did update it to note that Apple credited him in the security fix (ego takes priority I guess, heh).
I did read the blog posting, and it says "The oldest kernel I was able to test the problem was Darwin 8.0.1 which corresponds to Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger'." I figured I'd post a result on an earlier one, so shove it.
people in America seem to think that cyclists are fair game.
As both a sometimes-driver and often-cyclist, I have to say that the behavior of most other cyclists I see on the road is terrible. They regularly go through stop signs and red lights without even slowing down. And whenever I come to a multi-way stop (with full intention to stop), I see other cars waiting for me, because they assume I'm just going to ignore the stop sign. What makes cyclists think they aren't bound by normal traffic laws? Following them isn't just a function of one's vehicle type; it's also to make one's actions predictable to others in less-agile vehicles.
I think you mean 1kB, as an uppercase K doesn't mean kilo. In that case, we could define the unit named "KB" (no prefix, just the name) as 1024 bytes, without conflicting with any SI units.
-rw-rw-r-- 1 seebs users 116471 Oct 17 1999 Doom3.zip
They sent us a threatening letter because they believed this was the retail version of Doom 3.
Clearly it's Doom 3 with some super-duper compression scheme that makes a CD-ROM or whatever compress down to under 200K. I think the NSA needs to be notified as well...
And here I, a dumb layman, would have thought that was just a boat and its wake in the water. These people are the experts who can see that it's clearly not that!
And as a final step, scroll down to "Additional Forecasts & Information" at the bottom (it's an image), click "Text-Only Forecast", bookmark that page and enjoy the bloat-free goodness.
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I think his question is about aspects that are already patented, as you can just about guarantee that any non-trivial program infringes on some parents. I don't think it was about someone else patenting it after he released it, or his ability to patent it.
A trademark grants a monopoly on the use of a name to identify a product in a particular market. It benefits the buyer, e.g. he can know that the Coca-Cola drink he's buying is from the Coca-Cola company, and not some knock-off also called Coca-Cola. A design patent apparently grants a monopoly on the aspects of a design that affect its appearance. How does this benefit the buyer? He might want to buy a cheap knock-off product that has the same appearance.
That's an aspect of imaginary property laws that is often ignored in discussions: even if you don't care to "protect" your own imaginary property with the laws, you must still play the game, otherwise someone else may use the laws to attack your real property (i.e. money).
Produces?!? I think they mean it dissipates that much energy. Also, is that an American house at night, day, or mid-afternoon in the south in summer? I smell a new unit forming to go along with LOCs.
More importantly, imagine a Beowulf cluster of Whoppers. Mmmmmm, Beowulf cluster of Whoppers...
Did you include all the defective copies that resulted in no ancestors? Otherwise, I can easily claim 100% fidelity in nth-generation copies of some data by eliminating the defective copies.
Bad wording on my part. I meant that the ad-free version will cost more than a normal game, rather than the ad-laden one costing less than a normal game
Fixed the prices for you. The ad-free version will cost more, not less.
Agreed! I think drivers need to be able to drive safely on one-dimensional roads first. And of course not just one-way roads, but two-way ones as well. Once they can do that, 2- and 3-dimensional roads are easy.
It should at least flag these errors (see Postel's Law). Maybe it does; just wanted to note that there is something between "reject" and "accept without even a warning".
Speaking of Tetris-like games, once I found Panel de Pon (also known as Tetris Attack, Pokemon Puzzle League, etc.), I could never go back to Tetris (YouTube videos). Instead of dropping pieces and having no way to undo a drop, you swap pairs of horizontally-adjacend colored panels using a cursor you can move around the screen. When three or more panels of like color form a horizontal or vertical line, they flash and then disappear. Any panels above the ones that disappeared will then fall. If this causes another match you get an extra bonus called an x2 chain; if this match then causes more panels to fall and match, it's an x3 chain, and you can get up to x24 chain (very difficult). There is gravity, and new rows of panels slowly push up from the bottom to keep the area filled (you can also manually speed this up if you've just cleared the stack). Still to this day I can play it for an hour at a time, practicing and improving, due to chain techniques available. It's very appealing due to the simple rules that lead to very rich techniques.
Besides, you don't need a complex virus to kill a human; some very simple compounds will do.
The fact that a few-hour outage is big news is a testament to how reliable gmail has been. Like you say, apparently people feel that a service that covers a wider area should have less downtime than a smaller one, to the point that one that covers the global should have zero downtime.
As does the proper use of negation. I think you either mean "The competence of the legal system has no lower bound." or "The incompetence of the legal system has no upper bound."
In geological time, August 28 and October 22 of the same year are like the same time!
Yes, suicide: " The act or an instance of intentionally killing oneself."
Check this out, hello world in a tweet! I really had to work hard shortening it to under 140 characters.
extern int puts( const char* ); int main( int argc, char* argv [] ) { puts( "Hello, world!\n" ); /* prints string */ return 0; /* OK */ }
The GPL is too open-source, man! As a developer, I need to be able to put some locks and chains on it.
Perhaps, but I did read something first. True, I could have read the official Apple version that listed the affected versions. The blog author could have updated his post as well, considering that he did update it to note that Apple credited him in the security fix (ego takes priority I guess, heh).
I did read the blog posting, and it says "The oldest kernel I was able to test the problem was Darwin 8.0.1 which corresponds to Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger'." I figured I'd post a result on an earlier one, so shove it.
As both a sometimes-driver and often-cyclist, I have to say that the behavior of most other cyclists I see on the road is terrible. They regularly go through stop signs and red lights without even slowing down. And whenever I come to a multi-way stop (with full intention to stop), I see other cars waiting for me, because they assume I'm just going to ignore the stop sign. What makes cyclists think they aren't bound by normal traffic laws? Following them isn't just a function of one's vehicle type; it's also to make one's actions predictable to others in less-agile vehicles.
I think you mean 1kB, as an uppercase K doesn't mean kilo. In that case, we could define the unit named "KB" (no prefix, just the name) as 1024 bytes, without conflicting with any SI units.
Clearly it's Doom 3 with some super-duper compression scheme that makes a CD-ROM or whatever compress down to under 200K. I think the NSA needs to be notified as well...
And here I, a dumb layman, would have thought that was just a boat and its wake in the water. These people are the experts who can see that it's clearly not that!
And as a final step, scroll down to "Additional Forecasts & Information" at the bottom (it's an image), click "Text-Only Forecast", bookmark that page and enjoy the bloat-free goodness.