I think this is a wonderful decision. I really regretted losing my phone number when I moved to my current residence; now, even if I'm in a completely different area code, I can sue to take my phone number with me! Thank you, New Jersey!
It's tacked onto your property tax. You're billed for the city to handle runoff from your property. You aren't allowed to control it yourself, since it eventually becomes the city's drinking water, but you're billed nonetheless.
(1) You're assuming no theaters are being built any more.
(2) Theaters are constantly getting hit with trip-and-fall lawsuits, and improving the lighting a bit would help alleviate those.
(3) Theaters will soon need both 35mm and direct-digital projectors, and I'm assuming this technology is going to take the market by storm, so if you're going to use the tech in one projector, you might as well use it in both.
(4) Does the screen in a movie theater look dark to you when the lights are down? There's still room for improvement in the contrast. I find the screen a bit on the bright side often, personally.
A lot of pretty much IP-free music, some of which is very good. You'll have to go through it to pick a few workable selections. 30 minutes should be plenty; if people are on hold for that long, you guys aren't doing your job!
This could be a huge boon for the movie industry, too. By replacing the incandescent light source with some lasers on those frequencies, they'd be able to project onto a similar high-contrast screen.
Just because there's no Federal law of the sort currently, doesn't mean one can't be passed. Or that some "anti-terror" agency can't make up an "administrative rule" suddenly requiring it.
Doesn't matter if it was "published". Linux was essentially published, and portions of its source code are available in several books; this doesn't mean it's no longer copywritable or that the GPL no longer applies. I never said what they were doing was right. What I said was they might be able to convince a court that Linux is a derivative and if they own the rights to Minix they may be given some rights over Linux as well.
SCO is starting to scare me. They may have a chance of convincing a judge they have rights over Linux.
Why? The problem is that Linux might be considered to be derived from a reverse-engineering of Minix, and that the reverse-engineering wasn't done "cleanroom" style.
Just as an example: When companies like NEC and AMD started producing x86-compatible processors, they went through a procedure designed to isolate them from being accused of copying Intel's work. Two teams were formed: One team's job was to analyze the processor and write a detailed specification of the Intel processor's operation; they passed this data to the second team, which designed a new processor to meet those specifications. The second team could ask the first team to clarify information, but in any case, all communications between the teams were kept minimal and were logged, in order to prove Intel's IP wasn't stolen. Intel sued anyway, but the audit trails kept Intel from proving its cases.
Now the question becomes, did Linus have access to Minix's source code while he was writing Linux? Did he ever look at Minix's source code to determine how it behaved? There was no separate team writing the specification. Linus can't prove a negative, unless he can rightly claim he'd never had access to Minix's source. But a civil court doesn't base its decision on absolutes, and a good lawyer might convince the court that Linus did incorporate intellectual property from Minix.
Have a wireless access point in each room connected to a switch that sends wires to each table. The access points' addresses can be configured as static, which will let you control its access via iptables or whatever.
When chips are made, many have to be discarded due to defects. The more sophisticated the chip is compared to the available technology, the more defects you wind up with and the more chips have to be discarded.
In the case of the 486, the math processor took about 3/4ths of the die, which means that 75% of the errors were in that spot. Intel saved themselves some cash by first testing the chip in total, then if it tested bad, disabling the math processor and testing it again. Those 2nd line chips were sold as 486SX processors.
Just because software is "open-source" doesn't mean it's good or that its vendor is benevolent. "Open-source" means that you get the source code along with the package; that package may be free, or it may not, and that source code may come encumbered with all sorts of funky licensing, or it may not. It's beneficial to have the source, in case you need to tweak it for your particular application or to accommodate for new hardware, but it's not a cure-all. What sort of open-source license is this company providing? Proprietary? GPL? BSD?
No one should decide the system they use solely on whether it's open-source, or even on whether it's proprietary. You need to consider the whole cost, including hardware and support.
I don't know what the PDA market has been aiming at these past few years, but they sure as hell missed ME. All I wanted was my little HP 200LX. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, it was an IBM XT the size of a large pocket calculator. It had some nice simple utility software, address book/calendar/etc, and it ran many IBM PC programs just fine. It'd run for weeks on a pair of lithium AA batteries. The QWERTY keyboard was tiny but I could type pretty quickly on it. Combined with a 10M flash disk, I was very happy with the little bugger, and was saddened when they discontinued it.
So what do we have now? We have Palm-type PDAs, with no keyboard and which are a pain in the ass to use; and we have machines running Windows CE that burn through a set of batteries in a matter of hours. Yuck, yuck, yuck.
Can't someone please bring back a gizmo based on the 200LX's concept? Say, based on a 386SX, running Windows 3.1?
That'd change if the US allowed breeder reactors, and would be especially so if we started using hydrogen or some other synthetic fuel in automobiles instead of gasoline.
It's better to keep it in a nice isolated place than to try and launch it, because it'd create an enormous mess if something happened to the rocket. This may change if we start launching stuff using something other than a large amount of explosives.
But the fact is, most "nuclear waste" is actually EXTREMELY useful if re-refined, and is being deliberately discarded because the US government is paranoid about having Plutonium in private hands.
I've heard that coal-fired power plants actually send MORE radioactives into the atmosphere than nuclear plants, because there is some Carbon 14 in coal and it's released as CO2 when the coal is burned.
I've also heard about a reactor design that's currently used in some research reactors but could be adapted for power generation, that uses a proton beam to generate neutrons when they hit a target, rather than using control rods to absorb excess neutrons; such reactors could be shut down by flipping a switch, and would be impossible to melt down even if the beam stuck on because changes to the core's geometry would block the beam or move the target.
...Which would cause less environmental damage and human dysfunction, letting these plants continue to run, or replacing them all with nuclear reactors and getting an occasional release or radiation?
At least with open-source, you'll be able to disable the @!#$)@*!@#$ detection when the thing decides your new graphic work is actually money and your boss starts screaming at you...
Go sign up for an account with one of the inexpensive web hosts out there. For a few dollars per month you can point your web site's MX record thataway and run your email through their SMTP.
routers/repeaters won't do it unless the neighborhood is fairly urban; you'd need to use transceivers, and they can get expensive enough that you might as well use fiber.
I'm sure Intel has been getting plenty of returns, both from overclockers, from people who use the wrong fans for whatever reason, or who install fans improperly. Why should Intel have to bear the burden of these returns when it's not their fault?
I don't see how this is any different from the prosecution of one person. Either they're all guilty of the DMCA provision, equating them to owning and using lockpicks together... Or the DMCA is judged invalid, and it wouldn't make any difference whether the culprit were one person or many. If something is wrong, it doesn't matter how many people vote to make it right. This is the fallacy of democracy. Personally, I think the scenario was devised simply to create more buzz.
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I think this is a wonderful decision. I really regretted losing my phone number when I moved to my current residence; now, even if I'm in a completely different area code, I can sue to take my phone number with me! Thank you, New Jersey!
It's tacked onto your property tax. You're billed for the city to handle runoff from your property. You aren't allowed to control it yourself, since it eventually becomes the city's drinking water, but you're billed nonetheless.
surely it is only a matter of time before rainfall is similarly targetted by the good guys.
Here in El Paso, Texas, you are taxed for rainfall. I kid you not.
(1) You're assuming no theaters are being built any more.
(2) Theaters are constantly getting hit with trip-and-fall lawsuits, and improving the lighting a bit would help alleviate those.
(3) Theaters will soon need both 35mm and direct-digital projectors, and I'm assuming this technology is going to take the market by storm, so if you're going to use the tech in one projector, you might as well use it in both.
(4) Does the screen in a movie theater look dark to you when the lights are down? There's still room for improvement in the contrast. I find the screen a bit on the bright side often, personally.
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A lot of pretty much IP-free music, some of which is very good. You'll have to go through it to pick a few workable selections. 30 minutes should be plenty; if people are on hold for that long, you guys aren't doing your job!
Now we've got to worry about a whole new form of virus. Remember to wear your gloves, folks!
This could be a huge boon for the movie industry, too. By replacing the incandescent light source with some lasers on those frequencies, they'd be able to project onto a similar high-contrast screen.
Just because there's no Federal law of the sort currently, doesn't mean one can't be passed. Or that some "anti-terror" agency can't make up an "administrative rule" suddenly requiring it.
Doesn't matter if it was "published". Linux was essentially published, and portions of its source code are available in several books; this doesn't mean it's no longer copywritable or that the GPL no longer applies. I never said what they were doing was right. What I said was they might be able to convince a court that Linux is a derivative and if they own the rights to Minix they may be given some rights over Linux as well.
SCO is starting to scare me. They may have a chance of convincing a judge they have rights over Linux.
Why? The problem is that Linux might be considered to be derived from a reverse-engineering of Minix, and that the reverse-engineering wasn't done "cleanroom" style.
Just as an example: When companies like NEC and AMD started producing x86-compatible processors, they went through a procedure designed to isolate them from being accused of copying Intel's work. Two teams were formed: One team's job was to analyze the processor and write a detailed specification of the Intel processor's operation; they passed this data to the second team, which designed a new processor to meet those specifications. The second team could ask the first team to clarify information, but in any case, all communications between the teams were kept minimal and were logged, in order to prove Intel's IP wasn't stolen. Intel sued anyway, but the audit trails kept Intel from proving its cases.
Now the question becomes, did Linus have access to Minix's source code while he was writing Linux? Did he ever look at Minix's source code to determine how it behaved? There was no separate team writing the specification. Linus can't prove a negative, unless he can rightly claim he'd never had access to Minix's source. But a civil court doesn't base its decision on absolutes, and a good lawyer might convince the court that Linus did incorporate intellectual property from Minix.
Have a wireless access point in each room connected to a switch that sends wires to each table. The access points' addresses can be configured as static, which will let you control its access via iptables or whatever.
When chips are made, many have to be discarded due to defects. The more sophisticated the chip is compared to the available technology, the more defects you wind up with and the more chips have to be discarded.
In the case of the 486, the math processor took about 3/4ths of the die, which means that 75% of the errors were in that spot. Intel saved themselves some cash by first testing the chip in total, then if it tested bad, disabling the math processor and testing it again. Those 2nd line chips were sold as 486SX processors.
Just because software is "open-source" doesn't mean it's good or that its vendor is benevolent. "Open-source" means that you get the source code along with the package; that package may be free, or it may not, and that source code may come encumbered with all sorts of funky licensing, or it may not. It's beneficial to have the source, in case you need to tweak it for your particular application or to accommodate for new hardware, but it's not a cure-all. What sort of open-source license is this company providing? Proprietary? GPL? BSD?
No one should decide the system they use solely on whether it's open-source, or even on whether it's proprietary. You need to consider the whole cost, including hardware and support.
I don't know what the PDA market has been aiming at these past few years, but they sure as hell missed ME. All I wanted was my little HP 200LX. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, it was an IBM XT the size of a large pocket calculator. It had some nice simple utility software, address book/calendar/etc, and it ran many IBM PC programs just fine. It'd run for weeks on a pair of lithium AA batteries. The QWERTY keyboard was tiny but I could type pretty quickly on it. Combined with a 10M flash disk, I was very happy with the little bugger, and was saddened when they discontinued it.
So what do we have now? We have Palm-type PDAs, with no keyboard and which are a pain in the ass to use; and we have machines running Windows CE that burn through a set of batteries in a matter of hours. Yuck, yuck, yuck.
Can't someone please bring back a gizmo based on the 200LX's concept? Say, based on a 386SX, running Windows 3.1?
That'd change if the US allowed breeder reactors, and would be especially so if we started using hydrogen or some other synthetic fuel in automobiles instead of gasoline.
It's better to keep it in a nice isolated place than to try and launch it, because it'd create an enormous mess if something happened to the rocket. This may change if we start launching stuff using something other than a large amount of explosives.
But the fact is, most "nuclear waste" is actually EXTREMELY useful if re-refined, and is being deliberately discarded because the US government is paranoid about having Plutonium in private hands.
I've heard that coal-fired power plants actually send MORE radioactives into the atmosphere than nuclear plants, because there is some Carbon 14 in coal and it's released as CO2 when the coal is burned.
I've also heard about a reactor design that's currently used in some research reactors but could be adapted for power generation, that uses a proton beam to generate neutrons when they hit a target, rather than using control rods to absorb excess neutrons; such reactors could be shut down by flipping a switch, and would be impossible to melt down even if the beam stuck on because changes to the core's geometry would block the beam or move the target.
...Which would cause less environmental damage and human dysfunction, letting these plants continue to run, or replacing them all with nuclear reactors and getting an occasional release or radiation?
At least with open-source, you'll be able to disable the @!#$)@*!@#$ detection when the thing decides your new graphic work is actually money and your boss starts screaming at you...
Go sign up for an account with one of the inexpensive web hosts out there. For a few dollars per month you can point your web site's MX record thataway and run your email through their SMTP.
The octopus or this guy?
routers/repeaters won't do it unless the neighborhood is fairly urban; you'd need to use transceivers, and they can get expensive enough that you might as well use fiber.
I'm sure Intel has been getting plenty of returns, both from overclockers, from people who use the wrong fans for whatever reason, or who install fans improperly. Why should Intel have to bear the burden of these returns when it's not their fault?
The World's Smallest Political Quiz
The site is biased towards libertarianism, and the "quiz" is overly simplified, but the concept is quite sound IMO.
I don't see how this is any different from the prosecution of one person. Either they're all guilty of the DMCA provision, equating them to owning and using lockpicks together... Or the DMCA is judged invalid, and it wouldn't make any difference whether the culprit were one person or many. If something is wrong, it doesn't matter how many people vote to make it right. This is the fallacy of democracy. Personally, I think the scenario was devised simply to create more buzz.