To paraphrase Jack Valenti: I say to you that HD video is to the internet as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.
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My guess is that RIM is expecting the workaround to get challenged by NTP as still violating their patents. Waiting until the last minute to roll out the workaround buys RIM time while the challenge works it way through the courts.
This has 2 results, it delays the possible injunction, and it forces another court decision later in time which will hopefully be after all the patents have been invalidated by the USPTO.
Motivation and work ethic didn't get me through university. The most important thing I learned at university is how to do the least amount of work possible to get through life.
When the final and midterm exams are worth 60-80% of your grade you just need to learn to do cram sessions and write exams well. Especially those multiple choice parts. Often it's obvious what the answer is without knowing barely anything about a subject, the other options are just absurd.
If you need to use cygwin in a commercial setting where you don't want to license your source code under the GPL then you should consider getting a cygwin contract.
lawyer's should be in space. And that's if they've been put on the "B" spaceship with all the middle managers, telephone sanitizers and the like and sent away like in Hitchhiker's Guide.
The submarine patent is dead. You can no longer keep a patent in the application phase indefinetely. Patents now last 20 years from the filing date, the date that the invention first gets submitted to USPTO.
They don't mention who the researchers are, that's a bit odd. Most university reasearchers/companies like to get some recognition in any news release.
And besides, all I see in the article is some CG animation which was probably cobbled together in Photoshop (where are the flashing boxes?) and a not very detailed photo of the headset contraption.
Historically it was discovered (the same as Neptune) by its perturbative effect on another planet's orbit, long before any other KBOs, so it gets grandfathered in as an honorary "planet".
Actually, Pluto's not massive enough to have a noticeable pertubartive effect on Neptune. It was another astronomer's mistaken belief that perturbations in Neptune's orbit were caused by a planet that started Tombaugh on the search for Pluto.
But since Tombaugh had essentially no clue where to look as other planet discoverers would have from more significant perturbations, it was an incredible feat that he found Pluto through his persistence.
Assigning copyright to the FSF means that the FSF now owns the eCos codebase and they can do whatever they want with it including publishing it under the GPL.
Basically the point of this is so that if a developer wants to contribute to the eCos codebase they fill out a copyright assignment to the FSF instead of RedHat from now on.
So if China wants to base their software on Linux, more power to them - as long as they obey the GPL.
Unfortunately China may have little obligation to obey the GPL since it is based on US/European (Berne convention) copyright law. Moreover, any enforcement efforts (ie law cases) would have to be done in Chinese courts. A long way away from FSF headquarters. And a different jurisdictions from any legal precedents involving the GPL.
There's a fairly simple solution to that problem, That's not simple at all. Besides weight problem already mentioned, the problem I see is that batteries degrade. When a driver swaps his discharged battery for a charged battery, the service station has no way to tell what condition the driver's batteries are in. The service center could be getting a worthless (unchargeable) battery while he's giving you a brand new one for the cost of the charge in the battery. Heck the drivers could exchange new batteries for old ones on the black market for a healthy profit while all the service centers are going out of business.
I've created a Squid redirector to deal with this problem. I tried to post it here, but couldn't get past the Slashdot lameness filter.
To paraphrase: I have created a truly remarkable solution to this problem which the Slashdot lameness filter is to lame to let through. (Apologies to Pierre de Fermat.)
My handwriting was bad before I got a computer and its been getting worse since. Damnit, I was hoping in the future I'd never have to hand-write anything again.
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Not to mention all the of donuts and coffee cups that accompany topology discussions. Need to find me a Tim's.
Reminds me of an old quote:
To paraphrase Jack Valenti: I say to you that HD video is to the internet as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.
My guess is that RIM is expecting the workaround to get challenged by NTP as still violating their patents. Waiting until the last minute to roll out the workaround buys RIM time while the challenge works it way through the courts.
This has 2 results, it delays the possible injunction, and it forces another court decision later in time which will hopefully be after all the patents have been invalidated by the USPTO.
I say Canada and Denmark wait this one out a while. After a decade or so of global there won't be anything left of this island.
I said across her nose, not up it!!!
Pvt. Asshole: I'm sorry sir, I'm doing my best
The only thing that can generate that kind of electricity is a magnetar flare! Unfortunately you never now when and where there going to strike.
Motivation and work ethic didn't get me through university. The most important thing I learned at university is how to do the least amount of work possible to get through life.
When the final and midterm exams are worth 60-80% of your grade you just need to learn to do cram sessions and write exams well. Especially those multiple choice parts. Often it's obvious what the answer is without knowing barely anything about a subject, the other options are just absurd.
If you need to use cygwin in a commercial setting where you don't want to license your source code under the GPL then you should consider getting a cygwin contract.
lawyer's should be in space. And that's if they've been put on the "B" spaceship with all the middle managers, telephone sanitizers and the like and sent away like in Hitchhiker's Guide.
The submarine patent is dead.
You can no longer keep a patent in the application phase indefinetely. Patents now last 20 years from the filing date, the date that the invention first gets submitted to USPTO.
It had to be said...
I doubt that there are many fasteners that can withstand the carbide-tip drill bit attack.
Gee, I wish my wife's orgs would take less than 5 minutes.
Looks like you can turn on and off a private browsing feature.
Sure beats creating a second firefox profile and clearing all your privacy info just to go surfing for pr0n...
Exactly, I bet they'd think differently about it if it was scheduled during the superbowl.
I mean it is awfully close to April 1st.
They don't mention who the researchers are, that's a bit odd. Most university reasearchers/companies like to get some recognition in any news release.
And besides, all I see in the article is some CG animation which was probably cobbled together in Photoshop (where are the flashing boxes?) and a not very detailed photo of the headset contraption.
Historically it was discovered (the same as Neptune) by its perturbative effect on another planet's orbit, long before any other KBOs, so it gets grandfathered in as an honorary "planet".
Actually, Pluto's not massive enough to have a noticeable pertubartive effect on Neptune. It was another astronomer's mistaken belief that perturbations in Neptune's orbit were caused by a planet that started Tombaugh on the search for Pluto.
But since Tombaugh had essentially no clue where to look as other planet discoverers would have from more significant perturbations, it was an incredible feat that he found Pluto through his persistence.
AFAIK eCos was always published under the GPL.
Assigning copyright to the FSF means that the FSF now owns the eCos codebase and they can do whatever they want with it including publishing it under the GPL.
Basically the point of this is so that if a developer wants to contribute to the eCos codebase they fill out a copyright assignment to the FSF instead of RedHat from now on.
And have it standard equipment, not some overpriced add-on package.
Let us write software that is cross-platform.
This is exactly why we need to make it legal to hunt spammers...
All we need is a one or two week open season on spammers to vent and our frustrations. That would prevent episodes like this from happening.
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So if China wants to base their software on Linux, more power to them - as long as they obey the GPL.
Unfortunately China may have little obligation to obey the GPL since it is based on US/European (Berne convention) copyright law. Moreover, any enforcement efforts (ie law cases) would have to be done in Chinese courts. A long way away from FSF headquarters. And a different jurisdictions from any legal precedents involving the GPL.
There's a fairly simple solution to that problem,
That's not simple at all. Besides weight problem already mentioned, the problem I see is that batteries degrade. When a driver swaps his discharged battery for a charged battery, the service station has no way to tell what condition the driver's batteries are in. The service center could be getting a worthless (unchargeable) battery while he's giving you a brand new one for the cost of the charge in the battery. Heck the drivers could exchange new batteries for old ones on the black market for a healthy profit while all the service centers are going out of business.
I've created a Squid redirector to deal with this problem. I tried to post it here, but couldn't get past the Slashdot lameness filter.
To paraphrase: I have created a truly remarkable solution to this problem which the Slashdot lameness filter is to lame to let through. (Apologies to Pierre de Fermat.)
My handwriting was bad before I got a computer and its been getting worse since. Damnit, I was hoping in the future I'd never have to hand-write anything again.