The biggest problem for a camera manufacturer like Nikon is exFAT (and VFAT, but the last patents on that will expire soon). Theoretically you can replace it with another file system, but for removable media like SDXC cards, you need to use a standard filesystem that will interoperate with PCs and other devices.
I've tested a few cards of different brands and classes for use in an embedded device, and seen similar results - except that those appalling small block write speeds are related as much with brand as with class. Some brands are just as bad for small writes at class 4 as class 10.
Obviously recording the entire performance is probably a violation of copyrights
Obviously, to anyone versed in the basics of copyright law, it is not a violation of copyright. It might be a violation of the terms and conditions for entry into the event, but there is no copyright on a public event unless it is choreographed (in which case there will be an artistic component to the performance, which may give it some copyright protection).
When I want to respect an injured person, I've been following the 20th century tradition of sending flowers to their hospital bed. I really must catch up with the times and issue some DCMA takedown notices on false pretenses in their honour instead, least they consider me old fashioned.
When I called for their support engineers to try to fix a problem with one of their machines shutting off 10 times a day, they were always unavailable for through out the entire day except for early morning. If you missed this window, you would never be able to speak to them at all. When I complained about it, they would reply with some rude manner that I was just some gun totting American that wanted his way (I speak French fluently, but they always forgot about that). Really, it's quite true they work for literally 3 hours a day and have literally 2 hour lunch breaks.
Now I see where TFA is coming from. Stupid American CEOs that don't understand the concept of timezones.
Here I was hoping that it meant they were finally going to take their medication, and cure themselves of the disease that has given us Unity, Shopping Lens and other mistakes of the last couple of years.
What ports are typical corp/govt/hotel/cafe router/firewalls likely to pass?
443 is a good candidate if you don't need https on the server you are running ssh on, as even with a proxy in the way, the content of the packets is not going to be expected to conform to some control-freak sysadmin's idea of what you should be allowed to do on his network.
They were a new, easy-to-use blogging platform that came out around the same time as Tumblr -- another new, easy-to-use blogging platform. You know how it often happens that two similar things come out around the same time and one takes off and one doesn't?
It more frequently happens that two similar things come out around the same time, and neither takes off, especially when they have stupid names closely derived from other successful services to announce their "#me2 #web2.0" status.... oh, I see what you did there.
You're being naive and just waiting for a disaster to happen if all you rely on is changing the default port.
I run ssh on a non-standard port, not because I'm relying on it for security, but to cut down on noise in logs from all the bots trying various 'sploits on it. I figure I'm more likely to spot a real threat occuring in the logs if the noise level is low. Until about 6 months ago, mostly the log activity was port scans for HTTP ports, but about 6 months ago, I started getting regular ssh root login attempts showing up in the log as well.
In practice, almost everybody who gets a royalty deal gets about 5%, +- 2%. (There's a whole theory of IP valuation, but it's not taken very seriously.) So 5% of $100 million is $5 million. Expect legal fees of about $2 million. So you make about $3 million, best case. It's fully taxable, so you get to keep about $2 million. The odds of winning a patent case are about 30%-40%, So the expectation is about $700K on $100,000,000 in infringement.
Ummm, no. 30-40% of the time you net $2M, the other 60-70% of the time, you pay out $2M in legal fees with no return. The expectation is a loss in the range of 400k - 800k.
The question is also misapplied. Trevor Baylis is not a good poster child for "ripped-off" inventors
He's not a particularly good poster child for someone living in poverty either, living on his island on the Thames in South West London. He's just overextended his finances, and has an overextended sense of entitlement to match.
Which as of now is redirecting to www.python.org. So does that make posting to slashdot the cheapest and quickest route to solving trademark disputes. Can we try something similar for patents?
Electricity companies already price peak and off-peak use differently. All they need to do to encourage overnight trickle charging rather than unnecessary half-hour power charging is to charge a premium for high current usage on domestic plans. I don't know if the current generation of smart meters have that capability, but its something that will come in future if this turns out to be a real problem.
I'm pretty sure no one with an automatic transmission would switch between D and N while the car is moving.
I know most people use their automatic transmission as "set and forget", using only P, R and D, but they can also be used as a clutchless manual, which can avoid unnecessary braking when the traffic is crawling slower than the idle creep speed, for example, or coasting without the added friction of the engine.
A typical modern automatic will stop the fuel intake if you take your foot off the accelerator in D, but engine brake (ie use fuel to actively slow the engine down) if you shift down or use the brake pedal.
You do know that the retiring pope is one of the progressive guys who brought about Vatican II, right? He's also a philosopher with tons of PhDs (as was the previous one) and in that position explicitly said he doesn't believe Jesus either resurrected or actually is God incarnate.
Wait, so the guy does not believe in the ressurection or the Holy Trinity, yet he still preaches the "every sperm is sacred" anti-contraception bullshit to his followers in the third world?
Maybe something to do with using Base to connect to a MySQL database?
Yeah, because it is of course, impossible to use MySQL from any other language. Base's database connectivity is all via native code for more popular databsaes, and java for the rest.
The actual use of PHP in LibreOffice seems to be to allow running the headless version of libreoffice to be called from PHP to do document conversions etc.
When I'm experiencing slow internet, I often go to the speedtest site my ISP recommends just to get my downloads to speed up for 10 minutes (YMMV, depending on how your ISP's traffic shaping is configured).
Worse, you see half a headline from the #1 discussed story at the top, with half a headline from stories not in the top 5 below it. Finding #2 to #5 is an exercise for the reader.
I only realised this because I could not find this story on the mobile site. There is a visual clue of 5 dots, but it is far from obvious and a terrible ui design from a usability and information discovery perspective.
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The biggest problem for a camera manufacturer like Nikon is exFAT (and VFAT, but the last patents on that will expire soon). Theoretically you can replace it with another file system, but for removable media like SDXC cards, you need to use a standard filesystem that will interoperate with PCs and other devices.
I've tested a few cards of different brands and classes for use in an embedded device, and seen similar results - except that those appalling small block write speeds are related as much with brand as with class. Some brands are just as bad for small writes at class 4 as class 10.
Obviously, to anyone versed in the basics of copyright law, it is not a violation of copyright. It might be a violation of the terms and conditions for entry into the event, but there is no copyright on a public event unless it is choreographed (in which case there will be an artistic component to the performance, which may give it some copyright protection).
When I want to respect an injured person, I've been following the 20th century tradition of sending flowers to their hospital bed. I really must catch up with the times and issue some DCMA takedown notices on false pretenses in their honour instead, least they consider me old fashioned.
Now I see where TFA is coming from. Stupid American CEOs that don't understand the concept of timezones.
4) Golf.
5) Business Lunches that last several hours and involve enough alcohol consumption to write off the rest of the day.
I'm sure there are more...
In which country was WikiLeaks illegal?
Here I was hoping that it meant they were finally going to take their medication, and cure themselves of the disease that has given us Unity, Shopping Lens and other mistakes of the last couple of years.
443 is a good candidate if you don't need https on the server you are running ssh on, as even with a proxy in the way, the content of the packets is not going to be expected to conform to some control-freak sysadmin's idea of what you should be allowed to do on his network.
It more frequently happens that two similar things come out around the same time, and neither takes off, especially when they have stupid names closely derived from other successful services to announce their "#me2 #web2.0" status .... oh, I see what you did there.
I run ssh on a non-standard port, not because I'm relying on it for security, but to cut down on noise in logs from all the bots trying various 'sploits on it. I figure I'm more likely to spot a real threat occuring in the logs if the noise level is low. Until about 6 months ago, mostly the log activity was port scans for HTTP ports, but about 6 months ago, I started getting regular ssh root login attempts showing up in the log as well.
Ummm, no. 30-40% of the time you net $2M, the other 60-70% of the time, you pay out $2M in legal fees with no return. The expectation is a loss in the range of 400k - 800k.
He's not a particularly good poster child for someone living in poverty either, living on his island on the Thames in South West London. He's just overextended his finances, and has an overextended sense of entitlement to match.
Which as of now is redirecting to www.python.org. So does that make posting to slashdot the cheapest and quickest route to solving trademark disputes. Can we try something similar for patents?
Serial ports on a PC are dying, along with RS232 level serial lines, but UARTs are still very much alive and well in embedded devices.
Electricity companies already price peak and off-peak use differently. All they need to do to encourage overnight trickle charging rather than unnecessary half-hour power charging is to charge a premium for high current usage on domestic plans. I don't know if the current generation of smart meters have that capability, but its something that will come in future if this turns out to be a real problem.
I know most people use their automatic transmission as "set and forget", using only P, R and D, but they can also be used as a clutchless manual, which can avoid unnecessary braking when the traffic is crawling slower than the idle creep speed, for example, or coasting without the added friction of the engine.
A typical modern automatic will stop the fuel intake if you take your foot off the accelerator in D, but engine brake (ie use fuel to actively slow the engine down) if you shift down or use the brake pedal.
Wait, so the guy does not believe in the ressurection or the Holy Trinity, yet he still preaches the "every sperm is sacred" anti-contraception bullshit to his followers in the third world?
This version is the highly sugared and caffeinated unspecified fruit juice product.
For that, we has got the optionel blowtorch accesary, to burn that peice of paper you was writting on.
Yeah, because it is of course, impossible to use MySQL from any other language. Base's database connectivity is all via native code for more popular databsaes, and java for the rest.
The actual use of PHP in LibreOffice seems to be to allow running the headless version of libreoffice to be called from PHP to do document conversions etc.
When I'm experiencing slow internet, I often go to the speedtest site my ISP recommends just to get my downloads to speed up for 10 minutes (YMMV, depending on how your ISP's traffic shaping is configured).
I get my internet by WiMax, and I'm pretty sure that over half of my metered usage is error packets and resends.
Worse, you see half a headline from the #1 discussed story at the top, with half a headline from stories not in the top 5 below it. Finding #2 to #5 is an exercise for the reader.
I only realised this because I could not find this story on the mobile site. There is a visual clue of 5 dots, but it is far from obvious and a terrible ui design from a usability and information discovery perspective.