No, it doesn't. The GPL (and all other "open" licenses) do nothing to grant you a patent license or to protect you from needing them. There is no assurance that some Joe's open source free software doesn't unknowingly infringe on someone else's patent.
The smaller, older bones represent people who were 3 to 4 feet (94 to 120 centimeters) tall and weighed between 70 and 90 pounds (32 and 41 kilograms), according to the paper.
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More of a social concern about having too many articles; monitoring articles takes time, and having articles on topics that they consider worthless, but that still need to be monitored, causes the amount of eyes watching each article to decrease.
If only they could find a way to let anyone monitor articles. You know, someone finds something interesting, they start watching a page and contributing to it. If they see bad changes, then they can turn it back. I guess the hard part is in building a system that allows anyone to edit it.
Wait! There is a tool to allow that. It's called a "wiki." I propose that wikipedia move itself to a wiki platform immediately to solve this problem.
Perhaps we should start with re-examining the concept of privacy, and decide precisely the level of privacy we're comfortable with.
We already did:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The problem with "re-examining" is that it allows for a constant incremental erosion. Once people get used to the current level of privacy, it's not a big deal to take just one little thing away. They get used to that... take another thing away... they get used to that... then take another. It goes on and on until "what's the big deal about putting a camera in your bedroom, there's already one in your living room!"
Because it takes revenue away from the company who is supposed to sell it. They lose out on recouping R&D costs.
Look at it this way: why would you sink a wad of cash into R&D if someone else can just clone your chip. The two of you have the same fabrication costs, but they didn't pay the R&D. If it gets into a price war, you go out of business because you have an R&D expense that they don't. Even if it doesn't get into a price war, their profits are higher because they don't have an R&D expense. The market would be signaling to everyone to not do any R&D.
So I have a tech question... this iPhone SDK, store and such is all very exciting, but does any of it apply to the iTouch as well? Is there an iTouch SDK that is a subset of the iPhone SDK? I'd be interested in developing for the iTouch since it is so much cheaper (more customers) and available internationally (more customers).
Or do they just look the same but share no common internals (which would seem really dumb)?
I don't buy this "we couldn't find anyone" BS. Were you, by chance, using a 2 year old technology, and your HR drones were looking for someone who "must have 5 years experience" with it. Were you looking for a laundry list of tools, apps, and domain knowledge that, realistically, no-one except the previous employee had? You could, you know, find someone with a modicum of intelligence and [*gasp*] train them. Did you insist on someone with a degree to do little more than cut and paste text files? Were you paying at the market rate? I suspect that the problem was more with your hiring process than with your technology. If it was purely a technology problem, then the answer would be obvious and you wouldn't be asking us.
Sounds like a great way for big corporate interests to stamp out little competitors. Just force them to overvalue their IP (so they are at a disadvantage in servicing it) or buy it out from under them.
Quantitative metrics don't work on developers. As soon as a developer learns what it is, they are smart enough to game the system.
I [commit] can [commit] game [commit] any [commit] system [commit] based [commit] on [commit] commit [commit] counts[commit].[commit]
Numver off bugz fixd es eze 2 gaeme two.
Bug free code and low bug recidivism is easy. [have tester check code before checkin].
Number of projects? Sure. Every possible sub-component now has it's own source tree and project space.
Lines of code? Sure, I can write lots of code. It's one of my favorite things to do. On and on and on I can write code. It's like there doesn't have to be an end to what I say. Lots of productivity here. Oddoles and oodles of work product. Lots of code means lots of productivity, and man, I can sure be productive when I have to be. blah blah blah blah balh....
The FCC should have stated that it would have accepted unlimited comments on the matter.
After the comment period ended, they should have announced that certain comments were rejected because they were too long (beyond an arbitrary amount determined after the comment period) or contained too much legalese, since they didn't want to have make the other commenters "subsidize the [resource]-hogging activities of a few."
6. You can copy an RFID tag remotely (within 10 meters, or whatever it is). Copying a physical key requires physical access (or a really good close-up photo). That one alone is enough to make me not want to do it.
Backed by a study that says teens show more respect for copyrights when told of possible jail time for infringement,
Don't break the law because it's against the law! That might work on teens, but it won't work on any free-thinking individual. Too bad our schools don't teach independent thought anymore.
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No, it doesn't. The GPL (and all other "open" licenses) do nothing to grant you a patent license or to protect you from needing them. There is no assurance that some Joe's open source free software doesn't unknowingly infringe on someone else's patent.
See information bias.
Telephony Fraudster Gets Lifetime Ban from Telecom Business March 05
This is slashdot. "Hack" means good here.
And the money shot (missing for the summary):
https://www.google.com/accounts/TOS
http://gmail.google.com/mail/help/privacy.html
If only they could find a way to let anyone monitor articles. You know, someone finds something interesting, they start watching a page and contributing to it. If they see bad changes, then they can turn it back. I guess the hard part is in building a system that allows anyone to edit it.
Wait! There is a tool to allow that. It's called a "wiki." I propose that wikipedia move itself to a wiki platform immediately to solve this problem.
There were similar studies many many years ago. They found that petting animals immediately reduced blood pressure.
That one did actually show causation.
I'd aim for the camera myself.
We already did:
The problem with "re-examining" is that it allows for a constant incremental erosion. Once people get used to the current level of privacy, it's not a big deal to take just one little thing away. They get used to that... take another thing away... they get used to that... then take another. It goes on and on until "what's the big deal about putting a camera in your bedroom, there's already one in your living room!"
Because it takes revenue away from the company who is supposed to sell it. They lose out on recouping R&D costs.
Look at it this way: why would you sink a wad of cash into R&D if someone else can just clone your chip. The two of you have the same fabrication costs, but they didn't pay the R&D. If it gets into a price war, you go out of business because you have an R&D expense that they don't. Even if it doesn't get into a price war, their profits are higher because they don't have an R&D expense. The market would be signaling to everyone to not do any R&D.
So I have a tech question... this iPhone SDK, store and such is all very exciting, but does any of it apply to the iTouch as well? Is there an iTouch SDK that is a subset of the iPhone SDK? I'd be interested in developing for the iTouch since it is so much cheaper (more customers) and available internationally (more customers).
Or do they just look the same but share no common internals (which would seem really dumb)?
Riiight... because Cuba can't defend its own sovereignty. If it was that easy, don't you think that the Americans would have invaded by now?
... exceeds the cost of replacing it.
P.S.
I don't buy this "we couldn't find anyone" BS. Were you, by chance, using a 2 year old technology, and your HR drones were looking for someone who "must have 5 years experience" with it. Were you looking for a laundry list of tools, apps, and domain knowledge that, realistically, no-one except the previous employee had? You could, you know, find someone with a modicum of intelligence and [*gasp*] train them. Did you insist on someone with a degree to do little more than cut and paste text files? Were you paying at the market rate? I suspect that the problem was more with your hiring process than with your technology. If it was purely a technology problem, then the answer would be obvious and you wouldn't be asking us.
American reporters.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. /no seriously, I'd like a link
Sounds like a great way for big corporate interests to stamp out little competitors. Just force them to overvalue their IP (so they are at a disadvantage in servicing it) or buy it out from under them.
Good luck. They can just sue you for violating their patent.
Jeff Han: Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface design
Feb 2006 talk. Publicly posted Aug 2006. No "Patent pending" anywhere.
Quantitative metrics don't work on developers. As soon as a developer learns what it is, they are smart enough to game the system.
I [commit] can [commit] game [commit] any [commit] system [commit] based [commit] on [commit] commit [commit] counts[commit].[commit]
Numver off bugz fixd es eze 2 gaeme two.
Bug free code and low bug recidivism is easy. [have tester check code before checkin].
Number of projects? Sure. Every possible sub-component now has it's own source tree and project space.
Lines of code? Sure, I can write lots of code. It's one of my favorite things to do. On and on and on I can write code. It's like there doesn't have to be an end to what I say. Lots of productivity here. Oddoles and oodles of work product. Lots of code means lots of productivity, and man, I can sure be productive when I have to be. blah blah blah blah balh....
The FCC should have stated that it would have accepted unlimited comments on the matter.
After the comment period ended, they should have announced that certain comments were rejected because they were too long (beyond an arbitrary amount determined after the comment period) or contained too much legalese, since they didn't want to have make the other commenters "subsidize the [resource]-hogging activities of a few."
There are already numerous meta tag schemes for content rating.
http://www.icra.org/label/
http://www.w3.org/PICS/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/wcl/
No kidding. This can't work. What happens when you "helpful" worm breaks my computer.
6. You can copy an RFID tag remotely (within 10 meters, or whatever it is). Copying a physical key requires physical access (or a really good close-up photo). That one alone is enough to make me not want to do it.
Don't break the law because it's against the law! That might work on teens, but it won't work on any free-thinking individual. Too bad our schools don't teach independent thought anymore.