No, I think it would be okay for Google to search for ServersCheck Crack, but the company doesn't want cracks for ServersCheck to come up when searching only on the term ServersCheck. The ServersCheck folks want a -crack -keygen -warez -... to be added to their search criteria "invisibly". And I think its a bunch of Bullshit. As others have said, I think Google should filter ServersCheck from the engine. You don't spit on the big kid on the block just because you had a bad day.
Better shine up your fingers for the next elections that our US Senators are part of, then. Currently, the two we have would tie you up and rip off your pants for the Feds to take turns if you spoke out against the current administration. They, unfortunatly, are in lockstep with the panic-control induced by the Whitehouse. It's a shame that we can't have a man like Boucher in the Senate. Oh, sure, he's got his partisan streak, and he keeps a key to the pork barrel in his coat pocket just like the rest, but he also has an idea of where the common man stands in this debate, and (imho) is squarely on "our" side.
Actually, the defensive patent holds the same value as the offensive patent, they've just been determined to have less weight when compared to a "real" patent. You can still send your lawyers into a bluster-fest with their lawyers, and assuming that you're both dealing with paper-only patents you're still fighting on level ground. The lawyers will still bill just as much and they'll be able to feed their families. Teh only difference is that your defensive patents won't hold quite as much sway if you happen to get into a fight with someone who is actually using/producing product from their own patent. And that, imho, is a Good Thing (TM).
I agree that it doesn't solve the overall problem with the patent system, but it is a step in the right direction - and a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
...actively but unsuccessfully attempting to develop his product...
That's the key part, right? These firm which are sprouting up as patent holding corporations clearly are not attempting to develop a product, but are simply trying to license the concepts for the patents to which they hold the rights. I would venture that most compenets judges can tell the difference between a guy in his garage and a corporation which consists almost exclusicely of lawyers and has neither manufacturing nor research and development facilities.
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I agree that leaking classified info to reporters is not SOP, but there are times when the proper chain of command is not sufficient.
Late reply, I know, but just in case you check your replies...
#2 is one of the biggest safety paradoxes (paradoxen?) in the world. Gasoline is the other big one. Highly flammable, poisonous, you name it - it's bad. But heaven forbit we should give up convenience. Not that I think H2 is safer (I don't). When I lived in SoCal, everybody had NG. I wondered to myself how stupid you would have to be to put NG to ever home in a high seismic area that has the perfect climate for electric heat pumps (no really cold weather that would cause the need for resistance coil usage). Then I lived there for a couple of years and...suprise, those people really are that stupid. I can't store a couple of pounds of black powder, or potassium perchorate and finlly divided aluminum on the premesis in quantities over 50mg* regardless of precaution, but I can have orders of magnitude more energy in a poorly sealed plastic canister next to the gas-fired hot water heater.
Anyway wrt #1, in most of suburbia the only "outbuilding" with the capability to process fuels would be the garage, and that's often attached to the house (though is normally separated by a 20 minute fire separation). Most of the population has that much space or less - 1/2 of my small city lives in apartments/condos/townhouses, and this isn't even an urban area.
*yes, that used to be a hobby of mine - I naturally know what it does and what it's for
You made a good point. All the subscribers wathing friends at once is asymmetrical and synchronous, which is what makes it so bad. But we all knew what you meant, so it's no big deal. Your point is still valid. Don't let the usage nazis get you down;-)
People may scoff, but this could be quite a boon to commercial hog farmers if it would help to reduce the problems associated with the fecal lagoons that are created from high density livestock operations. I believe that the waste goes mostly unprocessed due to the expense of processing, but if the waste could yield another "crop" which was revenue net-positive, or just breakeven with the investment cost in processing hardware, this would be a big plus for that industry.
One: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The people in politics run with the corporate jet set. Powerful people tend to congregate together - there's noting inherently insideous about that. Those who spend most of their time trying to figure out how to make money (corporate money, that is), look for corporate solutions. You don't expect a carpenter to figure out how to use steel to build a house cheaper, you expect him to figure it out with wood.
Two: Decentralized generation of fuel sounds like a really good idea, until you realize that most people are too stupid to do this stuff themselves in a safe manner. Half the people who aren't too stupid don't have the spare time. You have, in fact, a relatively small fraction of the population (I'm going to guess less than 2%) that have the time, space, and resources to generate and store reasonable quantites of fuel safely.
I mean, sure, I can create my own fuel at home, and given advances in technology, it might even be somewhat safe. But now you're looking at doubling or tripling the volume of flammable materials in a typical residential setting, and you're adding a large amount of fuel, pre-fuel, and potentially dangerous fuel byproducts that are being transferred on a regular basis. Think about how much gas an American family will go through in a week. With three drivers (two adults plus a teen or elderly live-in), it can easily top 20-30 gallons. Now, switch to ethanol - you're up to 32-40 gallons. You'll probably not want to generate every week, so lets say you run your still twice a month, and you'll never want to drop below 20 gallons or so, or you might run out. Now you've got 100 gallons of ethanol sitting in your garage, in addition to that in your autmotive tank. In a medium-to-high density area, I would consider that an apparent danger that most municipalities would tend to discourage.
While it may become viable for those with space, it remains wholly impractical for everyone else.
Third (Okay, I'm one issue over...sue me): you won't be able to produce it as cheaply, on a continuing basis, in your back yard. Sure, you can make a bit from your brush clippings, or buy the materials in bulk, but to really be efficient will require the leverage of a large operation. We can all make our own clothes, but we don't. We could all grow our own food, but we don't. It just isn't cost effective. In the end, making fuel at home won't be either.
Sorry to be a bummer about this, but while the idea works well on an individual scale, it just doesn't scale to the society level.
I had the occasion to try C2 (the Atkins friendly version of Coke - half corn syrup, half fake stuff) a while back, and it doesn't seem to have the nasty nutrasweet aftertaste that regular coke does. At half the calories, I don't feel as bad having one during the day. Sadly, they don't have a caffiene free version. BTW - CF Coke tastes amazing like old coke (yes, I've actually had them in close temporal proximity - long, long ago). I cut out caffiene a while back, and found that I didn't really miss it after about three weeks, and didn't have the highs/lows. It also makes it nice to get a "shot" once in a while, though two caffeinated drinks in a morning/afternoon can make my completely unproductive now.
Maybe a test of C0 is in order.
Oh, when I'm thinking about it, I'll make a liter of tea (decaf) in the morning and drink that instead of soft drinks. No sugar, 1/3 of a lemon. I've never been able to do just water for more than actual quenching of thirst, and then I prefer fruit punch gatorade (old school, I know).
Yes, but watching them is, sort of, in a roundabout way, as we are in different regions. To do so would require a device which circumvents the encryption in a way that is not allowed by the licenseholder (generally). While it may not be illegal, explicitly, for you to do so, you most likely have obtained a circumvention device you did not build from scratch, which means you were involved in trafficing of circumventing devices. Which might not be illegal yet, but our hardworking Congress should "correct" that soon enough.
Usually by the time I go to upgrade my video card, they've changed the bus to something faster (ISA, EISA, VESA, PCI, AGP (2x, 4x, 8x), PCI-X), and its just cheaper to get a new motherboard and processor, since processor slots change even faster than card slots. Which normally means that my card mix (ISA/PCI) won't fit, or they've change the HD controller (...,PATA, SATA) and I need a new hard drive.
Which means that each time I consider upgrading my video, it usually is just cheaper to mothball the machine and buy a new one. I think I replaced a video card once, back in the mid 90s. No, wait...I upgraded once back in 2003 so that I could go from a single monitor to a dual monitor setup. And even then, I had to step back about 3 generations from cutting edge so that the card would still work on my motherboard.
According to the EPA (in a report I can't find right now), the Ford E85 trucks running on Gasoline get 14city/18hwy, on E85 ethanol blend get 10city/14hwy.
Yeah, except that TiVo is already walking toward the gas chamber in the DirecTV world. I will probably drop DTV for, well, I have no idea, after they make me switch in a couple of years. I guess my only hope is a TiVo HD standalone / cablecard version and rabbit ears. (Okay, really a pair of Channelmaster 4221s). God, but I don't want to go back to Adelphia (evil...pure evil).
What I want is SA features on DTVs network. Oh, and world peace. Is that too much to ask?
Yeah, but these aren't TiVos, there DirecTV DVRs, and are made for entirely different purpose (enhanced satellite viewing experience, vs a personalized media box). Yes, I'd jump on this, if (1) Cox were allowed in my town (we're Adelphia only) and (2) TiVo was bumped from DirecTV entirely (coming soon).
I'm sorry, I missed how "Apple" relates to computers, except that they happened to stick "computer" after it. Why wasn't it J&W Computers? If there was an Apple Music and an Apple Computer, we would still be in the same boat. The fact is that Apple Computer is now in the business of selling music. Actually, more important is that Apple Computer agreed not to get into the music business. Then, decades later, they decided they were big enough to not care about their previous commitments.
I don't give a rat's ass about either of them, but I think its poor form to go back on your word. It's worse when a judge agrees that its okay.
This is a travesty - not for the gain or loss of two billionaire corporations, but for the simple concept of fair play that has been ignored. It's true that now nobody would confuse the two corporations, but the simple fact that Apple Computer exists is because Apple Corps agreed to let them continue using a name which could (at the time) have been confused, on the condition that Apple Computer not get into the music business. The distinction today is that Apple (computer) has greatly outstripped Apple (corps) is brand recognition. Heck, you may as well take Apple Corps trademark entirely, as the common person would likely mistake Apple (Corps) for the wildly popular international trademark Apple (computer).
My question would be - can Apple Corps start their internet Download Music Store and not get sued by Apple Computer? Is there a potential for mistakes in Apple iDMS and Apple iTMS?
They should include intra-aureal earphones with this, such as the these. I would think the adaptive optices to correct for vision might be a bit more cumbersome, but might be possible. My regular glasses are 16g, so 40g is indeed on the heavy side, but not outside the realm of usability.
You won't find me wearing them in public to pass the time though...they're still quite ugly. Then again, so are those huge bluetooth headsets that seem to be growing out of the ear of every real estate agent I know, but they wear them anyway.
That would reduce the overall value of the middle spots. No, you would now have the typical 9 minutes of ads over a 30 minute show dispersed more evenly. You might still have 3-5 advertisers in a row, but now you could have, say 10-20 seconds of show, then a 3-5 second ad break.
I predict that if this really catches on, you'll find companies expanding their ads to 2 to 3 seconds each. Eventually, they'll likely move to "sub-show" lengths of 30 seconds - possibly all the way up to a minute in length, though I wouldn't expect to see that happen for at least 7 or 8 years.
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No, I think it would be okay for Google to search for ServersCheck Crack, but the company doesn't want cracks for ServersCheck to come up when searching only on the term ServersCheck. The ServersCheck folks want a -crack -keygen -warez -... to be added to their search criteria "invisibly". And I think its a bunch of Bullshit. As others have said, I think Google should filter ServersCheck from the engine. You don't spit on the big kid on the block just because you had a bad day.
Better shine up your fingers for the next elections that our US Senators are part of, then. Currently, the two we have would tie you up and rip off your pants for the Feds to take turns if you spoke out against the current administration. They, unfortunatly, are in lockstep with the panic-control induced by the Whitehouse. It's a shame that we can't have a man like Boucher in the Senate. Oh, sure, he's got his partisan streak, and he keeps a key to the pork barrel in his coat pocket just like the rest, but he also has an idea of where the common man stands in this debate, and (imho) is squarely on "our" side.
...easynews
Seriously, that's where I got my versions of most of the Bill Cosby albums (...that I own on LP, fwiw; and, no, I don't own a turntable anymore).
Still, my favorite line just might be "how long can you tread water?" Either that or his advice to never let your children outnumber you.
Actually, the defensive patent holds the same value as the offensive patent, they've just been determined to have less weight when compared to a "real" patent. You can still send your lawyers into a bluster-fest with their lawyers, and assuming that you're both dealing with paper-only patents you're still fighting on level ground. The lawyers will still bill just as much and they'll be able to feed their families. Teh only difference is that your defensive patents won't hold quite as much sway if you happen to get into a fight with someone who is actually using/producing product from their own patent. And that, imho, is a Good Thing (TM).
I agree that it doesn't solve the overall problem with the patent system, but it is a step in the right direction - and a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
...actively but unsuccessfully attempting to develop his product...
That's the key part, right? These firm which are sprouting up as patent holding corporations clearly are not attempting to develop a product, but are simply trying to license the concepts for the patents to which they hold the rights. I would venture that most compenets judges can tell the difference between a guy in his garage and a corporation which consists almost exclusicely of lawyers and has neither manufacturing nor research and development facilities.
...Old Weird Harold had a continental.
Information shall not be classified for the purpose of circumventing the laws of the United States. Since you do not necessarily need to divulge the actual classified information to inform the public that an unlawful act has occured, a breach of the classified material must be material which has been classified to keep the unlawful act from becoming public.
I agree that leaking classified info to reporters is not SOP, but there are times when the proper chain of command is not sufficient.
Late reply, I know, but just in case you check your replies...
#2 is one of the biggest safety paradoxes (paradoxen?) in the world. Gasoline is the other big one. Highly flammable, poisonous, you name it - it's bad. But heaven forbit we should give up convenience. Not that I think H2 is safer (I don't). When I lived in SoCal, everybody had NG. I wondered to myself how stupid you would have to be to put NG to ever home in a high seismic area that has the perfect climate for electric heat pumps (no really cold weather that would cause the need for resistance coil usage). Then I lived there for a couple of years and...suprise, those people really are that stupid. I can't store a couple of pounds of black powder, or potassium perchorate and finlly divided aluminum on the premesis in quantities over 50mg* regardless of precaution, but I can have orders of magnitude more energy in a poorly sealed plastic canister next to the gas-fired hot water heater.
Anyway wrt #1, in most of suburbia the only "outbuilding" with the capability to process fuels would be the garage, and that's often attached to the house (though is normally separated by a 20 minute fire separation). Most of the population has that much space or less - 1/2 of my small city lives in apartments/condos/townhouses, and this isn't even an urban area.
*yes, that used to be a hobby of mine - I naturally know what it does and what it's for
Every major cell phone provider seems the defend their RF real estate with hobbled phones and pay-to-breathe business model.
Oh, well, at least there'll be something cool to look forward to when they finally move this alpha to an island somewhere.
Lighten up, Francis. I thought is was funny...
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You made a good point. All the subscribers wathing friends at once is asymmetrical and synchronous, which is what makes it so bad. But we all knew what you meant, so it's no big deal. Your point is still valid. Don't let the usage nazis get you down
People may scoff, but this could be quite a boon to commercial hog farmers if it would help to reduce the problems associated with the fecal lagoons that are created from high density livestock operations. I believe that the waste goes mostly unprocessed due to the expense of processing, but if the waste could yield another "crop" which was revenue net-positive, or just breakeven with the investment cost in processing hardware, this would be a big plus for that industry.
...Kevin Bacon?
I knew there was a reason that this whole NSA/Phone thing would turn out to be useful to the common man.
One: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The people in politics run with the corporate jet set. Powerful people tend to congregate together - there's noting inherently insideous about that. Those who spend most of their time trying to figure out how to make money (corporate money, that is), look for corporate solutions. You don't expect a carpenter to figure out how to use steel to build a house cheaper, you expect him to figure it out with wood.
Two: Decentralized generation of fuel sounds like a really good idea, until you realize that most people are too stupid to do this stuff themselves in a safe manner. Half the people who aren't too stupid don't have the spare time. You have, in fact, a relatively small fraction of the population (I'm going to guess less than 2%) that have the time, space, and resources to generate and store reasonable quantites of fuel safely.
I mean, sure, I can create my own fuel at home, and given advances in technology, it might even be somewhat safe. But now you're looking at doubling or tripling the volume of flammable materials in a typical residential setting, and you're adding a large amount of fuel, pre-fuel, and potentially dangerous fuel byproducts that are being transferred on a regular basis. Think about how much gas an American family will go through in a week. With three drivers (two adults plus a teen or elderly live-in), it can easily top 20-30 gallons. Now, switch to ethanol - you're up to 32-40 gallons. You'll probably not want to generate every week, so lets say you run your still twice a month, and you'll never want to drop below 20 gallons or so, or you might run out. Now you've got 100 gallons of ethanol sitting in your garage, in addition to that in your autmotive tank. In a medium-to-high density area, I would consider that an apparent danger that most municipalities would tend to discourage.
While it may become viable for those with space, it remains wholly impractical for everyone else.
Third (Okay, I'm one issue over...sue me): you won't be able to produce it as cheaply, on a continuing basis, in your back yard. Sure, you can make a bit from your brush clippings, or buy the materials in bulk, but to really be efficient will require the leverage of a large operation. We can all make our own clothes, but we don't. We could all grow our own food, but we don't. It just isn't cost effective. In the end, making fuel at home won't be either.
Sorry to be a bummer about this, but while the idea works well on an individual scale, it just doesn't scale to the society level.
Where they brow beat the students into coming up with oulandish (and usually fugly), unbuildable designs so that they can "hone their art."
A million monkeys...
I had the occasion to try C2 (the Atkins friendly version of Coke - half corn syrup, half fake stuff) a while back, and it doesn't seem to have the nasty nutrasweet aftertaste that regular coke does. At half the calories, I don't feel as bad having one during the day. Sadly, they don't have a caffiene free version. BTW - CF Coke tastes amazing like old coke (yes, I've actually had them in close temporal proximity - long, long ago). I cut out caffiene a while back, and found that I didn't really miss it after about three weeks, and didn't have the highs/lows. It also makes it nice to get a "shot" once in a while, though two caffeinated drinks in a morning/afternoon can make my completely unproductive now.
Maybe a test of C0 is in order.
Oh, when I'm thinking about it, I'll make a liter of tea (decaf) in the morning and drink that instead of soft drinks. No sugar, 1/3 of a lemon. I've never been able to do just water for more than actual quenching of thirst, and then I prefer fruit punch gatorade (old school, I know).
Yes, but watching them is, sort of, in a roundabout way, as we are in different regions. To do so would require a device which circumvents the encryption in a way that is not allowed by the licenseholder (generally). While it may not be illegal, explicitly, for you to do so, you most likely have obtained a circumvention device you did not build from scratch, which means you were involved in trafficing of circumventing devices. Which might not be illegal yet, but our hardworking Congress should "correct" that soon enough.
(excuse me while I go vomit)
I thought it was pioneered by the makers of VisiCalc (and no, I don't remember who created it)
Usually by the time I go to upgrade my video card, they've changed the bus to something faster (ISA, EISA, VESA, PCI, AGP (2x, 4x, 8x), PCI-X), and its just cheaper to get a new motherboard and processor, since processor slots change even faster than card slots. Which normally means that my card mix (ISA/PCI) won't fit, or they've change the HD controller (...,PATA, SATA) and I need a new hard drive.
Which means that each time I consider upgrading my video, it usually is just cheaper to mothball the machine and buy a new one. I think I replaced a video card once, back in the mid 90s. No, wait...I upgraded once back in 2003 so that I could go from a single monitor to a dual monitor setup. And even then, I had to step back about 3 generations from cutting edge so that the card would still work on my motherboard.
According to the EPA (in a report I can't find right now), the Ford E85 trucks running on Gasoline get 14city/18hwy, on E85 ethanol blend get 10city/14hwy.
Yeah, except that TiVo is already walking toward the gas chamber in the DirecTV world. I will probably drop DTV for, well, I have no idea, after they make me switch in a couple of years. I guess my only hope is a TiVo HD standalone / cablecard version and rabbit ears. (Okay, really a pair of Channelmaster 4221s). God, but I don't want to go back to Adelphia (evil...pure evil).
What I want is SA features on DTVs network. Oh, and world peace. Is that too much to ask?
Yeah, but these aren't TiVos, there DirecTV DVRs, and are made for entirely different purpose (enhanced satellite viewing experience, vs a personalized media box). Yes, I'd jump on this, if (1) Cox were allowed in my town (we're Adelphia only) and (2) TiVo was bumped from DirecTV entirely (coming soon).
I'm sorry, I missed how "Apple" relates to computers, except that they happened to stick "computer" after it. Why wasn't it J&W Computers? If there was an Apple Music and an Apple Computer, we would still be in the same boat. The fact is that Apple Computer is now in the business of selling music. Actually, more important is that Apple Computer agreed not to get into the music business. Then, decades later, they decided they were big enough to not care about their previous commitments.
I don't give a rat's ass about either of them, but I think its poor form to go back on your word. It's worse when a judge agrees that its okay.
This is a travesty - not for the gain or loss of two billionaire corporations, but for the simple concept of fair play that has been ignored. It's true that now nobody would confuse the two corporations, but the simple fact that Apple Computer exists is because Apple Corps agreed to let them continue using a name which could (at the time) have been confused, on the condition that Apple Computer not get into the music business. The distinction today is that Apple (computer) has greatly outstripped Apple (corps) is brand recognition. Heck, you may as well take Apple Corps trademark entirely, as the common person would likely mistake Apple (Corps) for the wildly popular international trademark Apple (computer).
My question would be - can Apple Corps start their internet Download Music Store and not get sued by Apple Computer? Is there a potential for mistakes in Apple iDMS and Apple iTMS?
They should include intra-aureal earphones with this, such as the these. I would think the adaptive optices to correct for vision might be a bit more cumbersome, but might be possible. My regular glasses are 16g, so 40g is indeed on the heavy side, but not outside the realm of usability.
You won't find me wearing them in public to pass the time though...they're still quite ugly. Then again, so are those huge bluetooth headsets that seem to be growing out of the ear of every real estate agent I know, but they wear them anyway.
That would reduce the overall value of the middle spots. No, you would now have the typical 9 minutes of ads over a 30 minute show dispersed more evenly. You might still have 3-5 advertisers in a row, but now you could have, say 10-20 seconds of show, then a 3-5 second ad break.
I predict that if this really catches on, you'll find companies expanding their ads to 2 to 3 seconds each. Eventually, they'll likely move to "sub-show" lengths of 30 seconds - possibly all the way up to a minute in length, though I wouldn't expect to see that happen for at least 7 or 8 years.