Warning: Pedantic. In basketball, the original goal was to shoot the ball into peach baskets hung on the wall. In effect the original name was accurate.
The idea behind the Judge's instructions is this:If the Judge ruled from the bench after the copyright phase of the trial that SSO is crap then Oracle can appeal for a Jury to hear it. By letting the Jury reach a decision that the Judge may overrule then there will be no need for a retrial on appeal as there is a jury decision already. It saves the Court's time.
Yes, the Cop was a poor driver, but to be fair the Lexus he had used a push button start that you had to hold the button in for a few seconds before the engine would turn off. Studies have shown that when people are panicking they stab at the button quickly multiple times to try to turn the car off. That would have had not affected that Lexus. A better UI would have had the car notice someone pushing the button multiple times and shut the car off.
The first one listed is a specific way of powering a device fed by AC in such a way as not to trip the relay that old style furnaces use for 'call heat.'
The second one is a generic way that covers all methods of powering a device without unwanted side-effects, like tripping the relay that old style furnaces use for 'call heat.'
The second patent listed cover the specific AC case. Neither should have been granted a patent as the solution is obvious to an EE who needs to grab a little bit of power for recharging batteries/caps in a thermostat.
It would probably be more fun to set up an 8-bit emulator for the Atari or C64 machines and turn them loose on BASIC there. There's tons of old magazine listings to type in and learn from. It's also nice that it is possible to learn everything that is happening on the (simulated) machine. Being able to POKE a memory location with a value and see immediate changes helps bring about the A-HA! moments.
Ugh. That's like giving a six year old a translation of 'The Brothers Karamazov' to further their reading interest and ability. Except that 'The Brothers Karamazov' had reasons to be written like that.
Pedantic alert: BASIC has different variable types, or at least the ones I used did.
A is a float, by default
A$ is a string
A% is an integer
On my VIC-20 it was important to use integer variables as much as possible for speed. They were also 16 bits so you saved two bytes, which is important when you 3583 bytes available at boot.
LA is a bit of an outlier. If you look at TVFool.com for LA you can see that the TV allocated spectrum is just about full. Even if they wanted to they couldn't broadcast on another frequency.
Almost every other city has spare bandwidth available. I hope the companies that are doing whitespace crap realize that in the most populous cities they aren't going to have much success.
OTA isn't uncompressed, it's just a higher bandwidth connection.
The ATSC spec has ~19Mb total bandwidth with up to 17Mb or so available for video. On a station with no subchannels you get an excellent picture. Cable uses QAM which usually has about 25Mb bandwidth per 6MHz channel. Before you think that it's an improvement, understands that cable companies put from one to six HD channels per 25Mb stream if they are using MPEG2. Usually premium channels (HBO and the like) get better bandwidth but cheaper stations get crappy bandwidth. I'm pretty sure that most of the cable companies are switching over to MPEG4 so I'm sure that they'll dump 6x the streams on the same 25Mb pipe just so they can advertise a thousand channels.
Because it doesn't cost Ford or GM a significant amount more to make a full size pickup versus a compact pickup, assuming similar drive trains and amenities.
Don't forget the Chicken Tax either, which keeps out small imported trucks.
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Warning: Pedantic. In basketball, the original goal was to shoot the ball into peach baskets hung on the wall. In effect the original name was accurate.
The idea behind the Judge's instructions is this:If the Judge ruled from the bench after the copyright phase of the trial that SSO is crap then Oracle can appeal for a Jury to hear it. By letting the Jury reach a decision that the Judge may overrule then there will be no need for a retrial on appeal as there is a jury decision already. It saves the Court's time.
Let me be the first to say: "Fuck you too."
Once this gets worked out tailoring the waste output into the IR could be quite useful.
It's not as dead end as writing for a newspaper!
Or better yet: Why do you try to make more money now at the expense of even more longer term?
With most Americans' working knowledge of math it would be easier to make a machine that just says 'Wrong Answer."
Quit whining: Inifinti has got you covered.
It happened in Vancouver as well.
They should have hired Encyclopedia Brown to investigate. He's solved similar cases before.
Like I said, He was a poor driver.
When we've found the biggest players, we'll start tracking them back — finding out what data are they monitoring, and why.
And then we'll sell the info back to them!
I'll raise you a decade. Midi Maze for the Atari ST in 1987. 3D Networked multi-player game using MIDI for data communiations.
Yes, the Cop was a poor driver, but to be fair the Lexus he had used a push button start that you had to hold the button in for a few seconds before the engine would turn off. Studies have shown that when people are panicking they stab at the button quickly multiple times to try to turn the car off. That would have had not affected that Lexus. A better UI would have had the car notice someone pushing the button multiple times and shut the car off.
The first one listed is a specific way of powering a device fed by AC in such a way as not to trip the relay that old style furnaces use for 'call heat.'
The second one is a generic way that covers all methods of powering a device without unwanted side-effects, like tripping the relay that old style furnaces use for 'call heat.'
The second patent listed cover the specific AC case. Neither should have been granted a patent as the solution is obvious to an EE who needs to grab a little bit of power for recharging batteries/caps in a thermostat.
It would probably be more fun to set up an 8-bit emulator for the Atari or C64 machines and turn them loose on BASIC there. There's tons of old magazine listings to type in and learn from. It's also nice that it is possible to learn everything that is happening on the (simulated) machine. Being able to POKE a memory location with a value and see immediate changes helps bring about the A-HA! moments.
Ugh. That's like giving a six year old a translation of 'The Brothers Karamazov' to further their reading interest and ability. Except that 'The Brothers Karamazov' had reasons to be written like that.
A is a float, by default
A$ is a string
A% is an integer
On my VIC-20 it was important to use integer variables as much as possible for speed. They were also 16 bits so you saved two bytes, which is important when you 3583 bytes available at boot.
Everything I've read said 25Mb/s of usable data on QAM256. I stand corrected.
So sayeth Lucas, the prince of darkness.
LA is a bit of an outlier. If you look at TVFool.com for LA you can see that the TV allocated spectrum is just about full. Even if they wanted to they couldn't broadcast on another frequency.
If you look at New York it's even worse.
Almost every other city has spare bandwidth available. I hope the companies that are doing whitespace crap realize that in the most populous cities they aren't going to have much success.
OTA isn't uncompressed, it's just a higher bandwidth connection.
The ATSC spec has ~19Mb total bandwidth with up to 17Mb or so available for video. On a station with no subchannels you get an excellent picture. Cable uses QAM which usually has about 25Mb bandwidth per 6MHz channel. Before you think that it's an improvement, understands that cable companies put from one to six HD channels per 25Mb stream if they are using MPEG2. Usually premium channels (HBO and the like) get better bandwidth but cheaper stations get crappy bandwidth. I'm pretty sure that most of the cable companies are switching over to MPEG4 so I'm sure that they'll dump 6x the streams on the same 25Mb pipe just so they can advertise a thousand channels.
I'll stick with OTA where the quality is better
It has an automatic zoom setting on 0.24 It's what I use at home.
Please tell me you stay out of the left lane.
Don't forget the Chicken Tax either, which keeps out small imported trucks.