If I'm marked as "busy", it usually means I might be willing to talk to the right person but not to expect a replay. On the whole, my friends know this.
They're all still talking to me so I clearly haven't committed a major social faux pas.
But there are two problems here. Firstly, Yahoo overreacted. They are only meant to disable access to the work infringed. Secondly, the law isn't as good as you make out. The provider is still required to remove access to the content. A better method would be for the ISP to give the publisher a certain time to send a counter notice before it is disabled. At the moment this does provide a means for short term censorship.
It's not that easily faked. Let's use my comment here for an example. It's copyrighted by me. If you wanted to falsely claim ownership, how would you apply the technique in the link? Put it in the envelope that you previously mailed to themselves. Did you previously mail an unsealed envelope to yourself? I'm betting you didn't. Not only would your opponent have to prove it could be faked, but that it probably was faked.
Reasonable doubt is not enough to disqualify evidence in civil suits. You need the preponderance of evidence. i.e. is it more probably that you planned to fake this before the infringed item even existed, or that you posted to yourself in an attempt to protect yourself?
Okay, it's not the best way of doing things, but I imagine it could help.
If a copyright infringer claimed that he came up with the idea at a certain date, and you had done the sealed envelope trick at a date before then, then the infringer would at least need to come up with some suggestion as to why you mailed a blank envelope to yourself. An elaborate scam in which you planned to steal someone else's copyright some years hence really wouldn't pass the plausibility test.
This may be of limited use, and there are certainly better alternative available, but it's not totally worthless advice.
That doesn't really require ray tracing so much as for someone to come up with a flexible, consistent and usable way to describe objects in 3D space. I'd love for someone to work out a solution but for now I think we're stuck with triangles.
Shadows aren't perfect in current 3D rendering systems either. You could probably manage soft edge shadows with a little extra effort, involving working out how close a ray is to a polygon edge and adjusting the light level based on the size and distance of the light source.
They're (allegedly) in Malaysia. Granted, it's still an hour or so too early but getting an April fools joke in shortly before midnight for the next day's edition would explain things.
Either that or the entire Tech industry has started hiring PR people via "investment opportunity" emails.
Well, control over whether people reproduce is generally not regarded as a right a state should have.
Still - it seems that schools are missing out on a little basic education about how to do things like bring up children. Sure, you can get advice after the kid's born if you ask for it, but if you're unwilling, or unaware that the help is available, or just don't get the help when you need it for whatever reason, you end up with kids suffering from bad parenting. And the children suffer because their parents were never given the basic skills needed and expected to muddle along on their own.
That's what I was thinking. An OLPC at $200 for each of the 600 000 workers would cost $120 million. The PCs could then be recycled and sent to poor kids overseas after the census is complete. Say another $2 million for developing the software (I think you could probably do it for about $100 000 but let's assume that counting requires some serious R&D).
And to top it off, the census isn't really all tat useful. From a cost-benefit point of view, you can get information that's almost as good from a random sampling at a fraction of the cost.
The best solution is that you pay an amount based on your own legal costs. Of course, "Legal costs" would have to be the costs that can reasonably be accounted for, but that will cover a lot. Lawyers are legally obliged to keep careful track of accounts.
Everyone can find someone to hate them. The important point is that Microsoft are hated by their own customers, and it's probably true that Google and Apple will be too.
Their "don't be evil" policy is admirable, but "evil" is subjective. Google really don't seem to be quite in step with most geeks I know when it comes to data protection and privacy.
In Doran Swade's book - The Cogwheel Brain - it's suggested that Ada Lovelace's influence on computer software was somewhat exaggerated. Letters from her certainly suggest she had a severely inflated ego.
As far as major role models for female software developers go I pick Grace Hopper, who is on record as having had considerable involvement in computer development, and may, or may not have coined the term "computer bug".
Quite so. There was an expectation of loyalty towards the employees up until the parents of the current generation. At some stage, there was a shift in opinion where the workers were seen less as people with families and more a resources.
The current generation is aware of this view. They've accepted that this is the way of things, and have accepted their time is being sold as a resource. However, they're also aware that they own this "resource", and can remove it and lease it to someone else if they want to.
I suspect it's actually a data error. Dems have one too many, GOP have one too few. This is exactly the number of votes cast for Guiliani. They could have simply set him to the wrong party.
There's something to be said for a "InRange(x, min, max)" function. If rather than date you have a more complex construct that's calculated. Say "Date_of_birth+age_in_martian_years*earth_year_length/Mars_year_length". It's easier if you only have to type that once. Of course an InRange is quite a low level function and would make sense in a ranges library. It probably doesn't belong in a higher level library, especially if that means reimplementing it several times.
It is a scare tactic. But don't think they have nothing to back it up. Now, harassment suing isn't really much of a threat. The state has competent lawyers and legal expenses can easily be sold to the voters as an unavoidable cost, and Felton can probably find a dozen lawyers with IP expertise who'd be delighted to represent him pro-bono, but there is still the possibility that they would actually win, depending on the licensing agreement.
Would be nice if there was some sort of pattern to the naming though. Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III and Pentium 4 made it clear which one was newer (although the shift to arabic numerals was a little inconsistent). I have no idea where the other processors fit into this pattern.
Hmmm... But that's because OpenGL is a graphics library and is not intended for sound. Generally speaking you'd simply combine it with a sound library. Lack of sound support isn't something I'd consider as evidence of being behind DX. Just that it has a different emphasis.
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If I'm marked as "busy", it usually means I might be willing to talk to the right person but not to expect a replay. On the whole, my friends know this.
They're all still talking to me so I clearly haven't committed a major social faux pas.
But there are two problems here. Firstly, Yahoo overreacted. They are only meant to disable access to the work infringed. Secondly, the law isn't as good as you make out. The provider is still required to remove access to the content. A better method would be for the ISP to give the publisher a certain time to send a counter notice before it is disabled. At the moment this does provide a means for short term censorship.
Really.
I wonder why all none of the people who believe the method works have considered doing so.
It's not that easily faked. Let's use my comment here for an example. It's copyrighted by me. If you wanted to falsely claim ownership, how would you apply the technique in the link? Put it in the envelope that you previously mailed to themselves. Did you previously mail an unsealed envelope to yourself? I'm betting you didn't. Not only would your opponent have to prove it could be faked, but that it probably was faked.
Reasonable doubt is not enough to disqualify evidence in civil suits. You need the preponderance of evidence. i.e. is it more probably that you planned to fake this before the infringed item even existed, or that you posted to yourself in an attempt to protect yourself?
Okay, it's not the best way of doing things, but I imagine it could help. If a copyright infringer claimed that he came up with the idea at a certain date, and you had done the sealed envelope trick at a date before then, then the infringer would at least need to come up with some suggestion as to why you mailed a blank envelope to yourself. An elaborate scam in which you planned to steal someone else's copyright some years hence really wouldn't pass the plausibility test.
This may be of limited use, and there are certainly better alternative available, but it's not totally worthless advice.
Thanks for that. Being a hardware guy I wasn't aware that anything did such high level primitives. I'll have to have a look at how that works.
That doesn't really require ray tracing so much as for someone to come up with a flexible, consistent and usable way to describe objects in 3D space. I'd love for someone to work out a solution but for now I think we're stuck with triangles.
Well, a bit of Googling gives us a list of terrain tools. Not sure whether they're FOSS.
I did get a copy of Vistapro for the PC on a coverdisc many years ago. I'll have to dig it out. If it actually runs it's gonna fly on a Core 2 duo.
Shadows aren't perfect in current 3D rendering systems either. You could probably manage soft edge shadows with a little extra effort, involving working out how close a ray is to a polygon edge and adjusting the light level based on the size and distance of the light source.
They're (allegedly) in Malaysia. Granted, it's still an hour or so too early but getting an April fools joke in shortly before midnight for the next day's edition would explain things.
Either that or the entire Tech industry has started hiring PR people via "investment opportunity" emails.
Well, control over whether people reproduce is generally not regarded as a right a state should have.
Still - it seems that schools are missing out on a little basic education about how to do things like bring up children. Sure, you can get advice after the kid's born if you ask for it, but if you're unwilling, or unaware that the help is available, or just don't get the help when you need it for whatever reason, you end up with kids suffering from bad parenting. And the children suffer because their parents were never given the basic skills needed and expected to muddle along on their own.
That's what I was thinking. An OLPC at $200 for each of the 600 000 workers would cost $120 million. The PCs could then be recycled and sent to poor kids overseas after the census is complete. Say another $2 million for developing the software (I think you could probably do it for about $100 000 but let's assume that counting requires some serious R&D).
And to top it off, the census isn't really all tat useful. From a cost-benefit point of view, you can get information that's almost as good from a random sampling at a fraction of the cost.
I like a girl in uniform.
And from what I've read I think I would have liked Grace Hopper.
Loser pays is the situation in a lot of countries. People are still quite able to sue large companies. Litigation happens less often, but America is seen as pretty damn litigious.
The best solution is that you pay an amount based on your own legal costs. Of course, "Legal costs" would have to be the costs that can reasonably be accounted for, but that will cover a lot. Lawyers are legally obliged to keep careful track of accounts.
So she was the first 133t hax0r?
This is indeed true.
Everyone can find someone to hate them. The important point is that Microsoft are hated by their own customers, and it's probably true that Google and Apple will be too.
Their "don't be evil" policy is admirable, but "evil" is subjective. Google really don't seem to be quite in step with most geeks I know when it comes to data protection and privacy.
In Doran Swade's book - The Cogwheel Brain - it's suggested that Ada Lovelace's influence on computer software was somewhat exaggerated. Letters from her certainly suggest she had a severely inflated ego.
As far as major role models for female software developers go I pick Grace Hopper, who is on record as having had considerable involvement in computer development, and may, or may not have coined the term "computer bug".
The people I know who pirate the most also buy the most. They're games junkies. They can't get enough.
Quite so. There was an expectation of loyalty towards the employees up until the parents of the current generation. At some stage, there was a shift in opinion where the workers were seen less as people with families and more a resources.
The current generation is aware of this view. They've accepted that this is the way of things, and have accepted their time is being sold as a resource. However, they're also aware that they own this "resource", and can remove it and lease it to someone else if they want to.
I suspect it's actually a data error. Dems have one too many, GOP have one too few. This is exactly the number of votes cast for Guiliani. They could have simply set him to the wrong party.
There's something to be said for a "InRange(x, min, max)" function. If rather than date you have a more complex construct that's calculated. Say "Date_of_birth+age_in_martian_years*earth_year_length/Mars_year_length". It's easier if you only have to type that once. Of course an InRange is quite a low level function and would make sense in a ranges library. It probably doesn't belong in a higher level library, especially if that means reimplementing it several times.
It is a scare tactic. But don't think they have nothing to back it up. Now, harassment suing isn't really much of a threat. The state has competent lawyers and legal expenses can easily be sold to the voters as an unavoidable cost, and Felton can probably find a dozen lawyers with IP expertise who'd be delighted to represent him pro-bono, but there is still the possibility that they would actually win, depending on the licensing agreement.
Would be nice if there was some sort of pattern to the naming though. Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III and Pentium 4 made it clear which one was newer (although the shift to arabic numerals was a little inconsistent). I have no idea where the other processors fit into this pattern.
Hmmm... But that's because OpenGL is a graphics library and is not intended for sound. Generally speaking you'd simply combine it with a sound library. Lack of sound support isn't something I'd consider as evidence of being behind DX. Just that it has a different emphasis.