One version says the Papermaster will work as head of their iPod/iPhone line (which does not compete directly with IBM's blade server or chip technology). Another version has him head of the new chip design for iPod/iPhones which is more direct competition.
Seems most likely that he'd be working on developing new ipods based on the chip. Of course IBM can't be sure where he'd be working. Still seems odd that IBM would be worried. If he was working on IBM servers he probably didn't work closely enough with their chips to cause any serious risk.
If a computer takes a fraction of as second to respond, I'm not going to be any less productive. It doesn't feel as nice though. If there's a trick to make it feel more responsive I don't care that it's a trick. It still works.
Perhaps the Democrats had a better funded public relations campaign that helped them get the media interested.
Or they just had a more charismatic candidate. Since one of the points of a charismatic candidate is to get media attention, it's really not surprising.
The other hurdle is that some studios are skeptical that users will accept all the ads that need to accompany a feature film in order to make it profitable
So? Take the risk. The worst that's going to happen is they don't. Youtube pays for the bandwidth. The worst loss for a studio is going to be people watching instead of buying the DVD, but that's not going to financially cripple the studios.
As an interesting means of propulsion, it's interesting but I just don't see why compressed air is considered such a good means of storing energy. Surely replacable batteries would be just as convenient for a much higher energy density.
Honestly, I don't think there's a lot to worry about. Cranks who want to kill the president tend to be acting alone. White supremacists and other hate groups make a lot of noise but I don't think they care quite enough to die for their cause.
By "tedious" I mean "slow". It takes a few minutes to copy several hundred files to an mp3 player. It takes longer to convert them. Fine if you only have one or two, but if you have hundreds then it's far too long a wait.
To be honest, the Obama campaign reminds me of a Cheers episode where Frasier had Woody run for City Council. Frasier's campaign policy was to use the word "change" a lot.
What's his name again? Sadam Hussain Obama Bin Laden or something. Now if that ain't a Muslim name I don't know what is. America is meant to be a Christian country. It says so right there in the First Amendment, and it was that way back when we were founded by Jey-sus in 0AD.
And now he's goin' to make an Oath on the Koran, change us all into Muslims and move the US to the middle east and we'll all have to join Al Quaeda and blow ourselves up. I don't know what I'm gonna do.
They don't even need a public FTP site unless they have a public FTP site for the binaries. Unless the software that uses ghostscript is a derived work, supplying the ghostscript source on the hard disk or on any reasonable medium with the machines would be enough to satisfy the terms of the GPL.
Diebold probably didn't offer the source code or include it, but since they only need to make the offer to the recipients (i.e. the various states that bought the machines), there's really no way of knowing whether they did or didn't make this offer.
Even if Diebold completely and deliberately violated the GPL, without at least some sort of prima facie evidence that Diebold distributed the code without making this offer, a GPL violation would surely be hard to prove, or even provide sufficient evidence for the case not to be dismissed outright.
True that. Although it's often been said that computers can't create art (The massive philosophical debate is left as an exercise for the readers) and maths is one of the purest artforms.
But most importantly, it doesn't matter. The only people who are even going to notice are the fanboys and they'll just find another piece of continuity patching to solve the problem.
Seems to me your redirects are overly complicating things. The first 3 claims would appear to represent a URL. If I'm misreading then I'd still suggest that just having the domain servers translate the URL would be covered by the claim.
And I think any software patent that can't be understood by a typical software developer (e.g. me) should be invalidated on the grounds that that's what patent law says!!!
Wait, hold on - I'm not sure I follow. In this situation, do the poorest work for the richest, and also spend a lot of their income on goods that increase the wealth of the richest?
1. the constitution places a limit on what the government can do to/with citizens, so this doesn't apply to what two private parties can get from each other in civil court,
I disagree with this point (will concede point #2 ). The civil court is part of the government. The law that they're suing under must be constitutional.
"Furthermore, there is some evidence that certain forms of compression are also incompatible with PGP whole disk encryption."
Well, you won't be able to get much compression if you try to compress the PGP encrypted disk, but surely you can encrypt all compressed files since they're still just data.
OpenID needs to hit critical mass. Once people actually use it a reasonable amount, there will be enough people to spot its shortfalls and actually provide us with some sort of useful browser plugin that automates the login.
This essentially means more sites accepting it. The only site I use that accepts OpenID logins is Livejournal and that's the openID I'm most likely to want to use. Microsoft becoming a provider helps. A lot of people are likely to be happier to accept logins if they come with a recognisable name like that.
Not that I can vote but I wouldn't base my choice on it. I don't understand economics well enough.
All candidates will hire pHD economists. Both will have ideas that will be designed to maximise the benefit to the economy and nobody will be able to determine, without putting them into practice, which would be most effective.
This is similar in many fields where there is a universally agreed optimal result. As such, all my political decisions are based on subjective factors. Not objective ones.
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One version says the Papermaster will work as head of their iPod/iPhone line (which does not compete directly with IBM's blade server or chip technology). Another version has him head of the new chip design for iPod/iPhones which is more direct competition.
Seems most likely that he'd be working on developing new ipods based on the chip. Of course IBM can't be sure where he'd be working. Still seems odd that IBM would be worried. If he was working on IBM servers he probably didn't work closely enough with their chips to cause any serious risk.
If a computer takes a fraction of as second to respond, I'm not going to be any less productive. It doesn't feel as nice though. If there's a trick to make it feel more responsive I don't care that it's a trick. It still works.
Perhaps the Democrats had a better funded public relations campaign that helped them get the media interested.
Or they just had a more charismatic candidate. Since one of the points of a charismatic candidate is to get media attention, it's really not surprising.
The other hurdle is that some studios are skeptical that users will accept all the ads that need to accompany a feature film in order to make it profitable
So? Take the risk. The worst that's going to happen is they don't. Youtube pays for the bandwidth. The worst loss for a studio is going to be people watching instead of buying the DVD, but that's not going to financially cripple the studios.
I'm sure the companies that offer a free trial would find a way for their business to work.
In other words, I don't care.
As an interesting means of propulsion, it's interesting but I just don't see why compressed air is considered such a good means of storing energy. Surely replacable batteries would be just as convenient for a much higher energy density.
Honestly, I don't think there's a lot to worry about. Cranks who want to kill the president tend to be acting alone. White supremacists and other hate groups make a lot of noise but I don't think they care quite enough to die for their cause.
By "tedious" I mean "slow". It takes a few minutes to copy several hundred files to an mp3 player. It takes longer to convert them. Fine if you only have one or two, but if you have hundreds then it's far too long a wait.
To be honest, the Obama campaign reminds me of a Cheers episode where Frasier had Woody run for City Council. Frasier's campaign policy was to use the word "change" a lot.
Does it transcode more quickly than files can be transferred to the mp3 player? If not it requires tedious waiting.
What's his name again? Sadam Hussain Obama Bin Laden or something. Now if that ain't a Muslim name I don't know what is. America is meant to be a Christian country. It says so right there in the First Amendment, and it was that way back when we were founded by Jey-sus in 0AD. And now he's goin' to make an Oath on the Koran, change us all into Muslims and move the US to the middle east and we'll all have to join Al Quaeda and blow ourselves up. I don't know what I'm gonna do.
And requires you to go through a tedious conversion process to use it on most digital music players.
They don't even need a public FTP site unless they have a public FTP site for the binaries. Unless the software that uses ghostscript is a derived work, supplying the ghostscript source on the hard disk or on any reasonable medium with the machines would be enough to satisfy the terms of the GPL.
Diebold probably didn't offer the source code or include it, but since they only need to make the offer to the recipients (i.e. the various states that bought the machines), there's really no way of knowing whether they did or didn't make this offer.
Even if Diebold completely and deliberately violated the GPL, without at least some sort of prima facie evidence that Diebold distributed the code without making this offer, a GPL violation would surely be hard to prove, or even provide sufficient evidence for the case not to be dismissed outright.
True that. Although it's often been said that computers can't create art (The massive philosophical debate is left as an exercise for the readers) and maths is one of the purest artforms.
My guess is they're betting on nobody going to court over this.
My guess is that they're not even going to carry out the threat. Way too risky.
But most importantly, it doesn't matter. The only people who are even going to notice are the fanboys and they'll just find another piece of continuity patching to solve the problem.
Seems to me your redirects are overly complicating things. The first 3 claims would appear to represent a URL. If I'm misreading then I'd still suggest that just having the domain servers translate the URL would be covered by the claim.
And I think any software patent that can't be understood by a typical software developer (e.g. me) should be invalidated on the grounds that that's what patent law says!!!
Wait, hold on - I'm not sure I follow. In this situation, do the poorest work for the richest, and also spend a lot of their income on goods that increase the wealth of the richest?
1. the constitution places a limit on what the government can do to/with citizens, so this doesn't apply to what two private parties can get from each other in civil court,
I disagree with this point (will concede point #2 ). The civil court is part of the government. The law that they're suing under must be constitutional.
"Furthermore, there is some evidence that certain forms of compression are also incompatible with PGP whole disk encryption."
Well, you won't be able to get much compression if you try to compress the PGP encrypted disk, but surely you can encrypt all compressed files since they're still just data.
We shouldn't need a devkit. Modern PCs are fast enough to run an emulator.
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
Sounds to me that this is an excessive fine and the amendment applies whether it's criminal or civil. What am I missing here?
True that.
OpenID needs to hit critical mass. Once people actually use it a reasonable amount, there will be enough people to spot its shortfalls and actually provide us with some sort of useful browser plugin that automates the login.
This essentially means more sites accepting it. The only site I use that accepts OpenID logins is Livejournal and that's the openID I'm most likely to want to use. Microsoft becoming a provider helps. A lot of people are likely to be happier to accept logins if they come with a recognisable name like that.
Not that I can vote but I wouldn't base my choice on it. I don't understand economics well enough.
All candidates will hire pHD economists. Both will have ideas that will be designed to maximise the benefit to the economy and nobody will be able to determine, without putting them into practice, which would be most effective.
This is similar in many fields where there is a universally agreed optimal result. As such, all my political decisions are based on subjective factors. Not objective ones.