You are NOT obeying the law if your state has a 'Keep right except to pass' type law on the books. Illinois, for instance, is one of those states.
So, either keep out of Illinois or take off that stupid paper hat, get off your high hobby-horse and get your sorry slavish-speed-limit-obeying butt into the right lane.
The United States is an original signer of the 1875 Metric Treaty, however it shares the unique & dubious distinction along with Liberia & Myanmar of not implementing the metric system.
Seems to me that if you run a (public) web server with a publicly available IP address and/or DNS resolution, that means anyone (public) can hotlink your images and steal all the bandwidth they want
What's the difference? Of are you the sort of person that doesn't see a problem?
Shouldn't they be able to protect that in some way?
Sure, they can protect it the same way McDonald's, CarMax, Wal-Mart and others have protected their place. To my knowledge neither of these three (or of dozens of other premier companies with 'novel business models' has needed the USPTO to help retain their place of prominence. Being first to market is a huge advantage and that alone will sustain the fellow who 'thought of that first' in many cases.
TANSTAAFL, especially in the business world. Just because I come up with the novel concept of providing a subscription CD service (totally different from DVDs which appears to be what is patented), over the internet, with sprinkles gives me no more claim to royalties than the fellow who figured out that people were dumb enough to pay $1.50 for a bottle of water.
When I was seventeen, I drank some very good beer
I drank some very good beer I purchased with a fake ID
My name was Brian McGee
I stayed up listening to Queen
When I was seventeen
I find it ironic that the fellow with reference to 'maths' in his id and.sig is lecturing another pedant on the inevetability of semantic drift.
As for the subject at hand: I refuse to make excuses for people too lazy to speak or write correctly. Two words have been established, 'affect' and 'effect' and they have different meanings. Using one word in place of the other is either ignorance or apathy. And you know the difference between ignorance and apathy right?
What makes you think that the margins for the $100 laptop are going to be that much thinner than margins for the $4/6/800 laptops? The actual hardware producers will be operating under similar margins regardless of what they are producing.
I'm also a bit confused as to why the $100 laptop will destroy the closed source software people unless you are prophesying the coming of the Open Source Panacea. Giving people $100 laptops will not magically make throw out their desktop machines, abandon proprietary app X or not buy game Y.
I've never run out of gas. Ever driven cross-country? Mis-estimate your fuel capacity once in the middle of the plains/desert especially at night and you are SOL. This is why some people carry extra fuel in a can.
Why isn't it still being researched? Simple, it was not deemed economically viable (not enough profit to justify the expense). If that were not the case someone else (the Japanese for instance) would have jumped all over it.
What about that new battery chemistry that we read about awhile ago that recharges to 90% in only a few minutes? Could that scale into BEV sizes? I believe head disspation was a serious concern (dischaging a few thousand amps at 48V for a few minutes generates no small amount of heat.
Hell, if Detroit would invest half the money into BEV technology that they spend on marketing for the H2 and Grand Cherokee..... Do you know how much it cost to develop and market either of those vehicles? They are all simple changes to existing designs and technologies. And marketing is marketing regardless of the product. Plus, it seems there are many thousands more people interested in an H2/H3/Grand Cherokee than those a battery powered econo-box which easily justifies the marketing budget.
hmmm, I'm pretty confident the reason God came up with "Thou shalt not commit adultery" was because he didn't want people doing that sort of thing.
I'm supremely confident his thought process was not: "Hmmm I've got to prevent VD and single motherhood.... I know! no adultery. Perfect. That should suffice until those fools invent condoms."
Well that is pretty obvious to me. It's printing a compilation error (or something similar) out of a certain level of a call stack. I could tell you more if knew the data, but I don't.
btw, what part of that is "unreadable"? the only magic operators are the "${...}" construction which dereferences (just like '*' in C/C++/Java/etc) and the "$#..." which gives the index of the last array element. Pretty simple stuff.
That's right folks you can go out and buy all those weapons, Kalashnikovs, AR-15s, mac-10s, etc that you couldn't buy bef...... wait.... Are you sure it has always been legal to purchase those weapons? Then what did the "Assault Weapons Ban" ban?
COSMETIC FEATURES? What kind of ban is that!!
In all seriousness, the only thing the AWB did was force people to buy their high-capacity magazines used instead of new. It had no meaninful effect whatsoever. Thanks for playing.
So the people who believe a president has major influence over the economy are those worthy of having an "opinino", whatever that is, and those who refuse to vote for a greasy weasel are the "extremely stupid".
I agree with you. Once I'm off work I'll be heading to my DuPage Co. polling place and filling out those same scantronesque ballots and be forced to vote on everything.
To provide another data point, when voting during the primaries using the same system I was able to vote for one candidate when told to pick two, go figure.
Would you care to enlighten the ignorant among us and reveal the one true definition of the word "democracy" Remember, you can only give one definition and that definition cannot contain multiple parts
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So, either keep out of Illinois or take off that stupid paper hat, get off your high hobby-horse and get your sorry slavish-speed-limit-obeying butt into the right lane.
Being one of three does not make you 'unique'.
What's the difference? Of are you the sort of person that doesn't see a problem?
Sure, they can protect it the same way McDonald's, CarMax, Wal-Mart and others have protected their place. To my knowledge neither of these three (or of dozens of other premier companies with 'novel business models' has needed the USPTO to help retain their place of prominence. Being first to market is a huge advantage and that alone will sustain the fellow who 'thought of that first' in many cases.
TANSTAAFL, especially in the business world. Just because I come up with the novel concept of providing a subscription CD service (totally different from DVDs which appears to be what is patented), over the internet, with sprinkles gives me no more claim to royalties than the fellow who figured out that people were dumb enough to pay $1.50 for a bottle of water.
I drank some very good beer I purchased with a fake ID
My name was Brian McGee
I stayed up listening to Queen
When I was seventeen
...and exactly which flavor of Linux do you run iTunes one?
'thought so.
And the bonus round:
How much does iTunes charge for their unlimited download subscription service?
Thanks for playing.
As for the subject at hand: I refuse to make excuses for people too lazy to speak or write correctly. Two words have been established, 'affect' and 'effect' and they have different meanings. Using one word in place of the other is either ignorance or apathy. And you know the difference between ignorance and apathy right?
"I don't know, and I don't care".
You misspelled "The precise reason I wouldn't buy it".
I'm also a bit confused as to why the $100 laptop will destroy the closed source software people unless you are prophesying the coming of the Open Source Panacea. Giving people $100 laptops will not magically make throw out their desktop machines, abandon proprietary app X or not buy game Y.
Their business is transportation, processing and delivery. Whether they are moving and refining petrolium or veggie oil it's the same basic ball game.
If I were to fear anyone it would be Big Agriculture, not Big Oil.
I have a hard enough time finding them at all which is why I've been sticking to the diesel 123's.
Yet you point out carefully why your commuting choice is driven by cost and why it is costlier to drive than take the bus.
Ever driven cross-country? Mis-estimate your fuel capacity once in the middle of the plains/desert especially at night and you are SOL. This is why some people carry extra fuel in a can.
Why isn't it still being researched?
Simple, it was not deemed economically viable (not enough profit to justify the expense). If that were not the case someone else (the Japanese for instance) would have jumped all over it.
What about that new battery chemistry that we read about awhile ago that recharges to 90% in only a few minutes? Could that scale into BEV sizes?
I believe head disspation was a serious concern (dischaging a few thousand amps at 48V for a few minutes generates no small amount of heat.
Hell, if Detroit would invest half the money into BEV technology that they spend on marketing for the H2 and Grand Cherokee.....
Do you know how much it cost to develop and market either of those vehicles? They are all simple changes to existing designs and technologies. And marketing is marketing regardless of the product. Plus, it seems there are many thousands more people interested in an H2/H3/Grand Cherokee than those a battery powered econo-box which easily justifies the marketing budget.
And now the circle may close as Taco takes his wrath out on an innocent bystander with the guff to mock him.
I hope you enjoy posting at (Score:-1, pissed off CmdrTaco)
hmmm, I'm pretty confident the reason God came up with "Thou shalt not commit adultery" was because he didn't want people doing that sort of thing.
I'm supremely confident his thought process was not: "Hmmm I've got to prevent VD and single motherhood.... I know! no adultery. Perfect. That should suffice until those fools invent condoms."
and, hopefully just long enough that we meet other intelligent life in the universe...
With any luck you will die just before they blow up our planet and enslave us all.
Well that is pretty obvious to me. It's printing a compilation error (or something similar) out of a certain level of a call stack. I could tell you more if knew the data, but I don't.
btw, what part of that is "unreadable"? the only magic operators are the "${...}" construction which dereferences (just like '*' in C/C++/Java/etc) and the "$#..." which gives the index of the last array element. Pretty simple stuff.
Just remember, the technology that lets you keep tabs on your kids, lets Joe Random Paedophile keep tabs on them as well.
That video is at least a few years old. The show has improved a great deal since then.
I was actually impressed by most of his voices. His Yoda was the only one that could be considered weak.
Let me get this straight.....
The fellow in the BMW is not allowed to be a jerk because that's your job.
Mmmkay.
That's right folks you can go out and buy all those weapons, Kalashnikovs, AR-15s, mac-10s, etc that you couldn't buy bef......
wait....
Are you sure it has always been legal to purchase those weapons? Then what did the "Assault Weapons Ban" ban?
COSMETIC FEATURES? What kind of ban is that!!
In all seriousness, the only thing the AWB did was force people to buy their high-capacity magazines used instead of new. It had no meaninful effect whatsoever. Thanks for playing.
So the people who believe a president has major influence over the economy are those worthy of having an "opinino", whatever that is, and those who refuse to vote for a greasy weasel are the "extremely stupid".
Right......
I agree with you. Once I'm off work I'll be heading to my DuPage Co. polling place and filling out those same scantronesque ballots and be forced to vote on everything.
To provide another data point, when voting during the primaries using the same system I was able to vote for one candidate when told to pick two, go figure.
Zero of them know the definition of "democracy".
Would you care to enlighten the ignorant among us and reveal the one true definition of the word "democracy"
Remember, you can only give one definition and that definition cannot contain multiple parts