I would love to see Uniloc take on IBM over the Rational license server.
Ah, but did you use it on a mobile device? Over the Internet? No? So clearly it can't be the same idea recycled, then, can it?
The problem is that the existence of a hardware-signature-based licensing system severely jacks up the bar for a patent application to meet the "non-obvious" part of the criteria for awarding a patent. Also, Windows XP, as part of its activation process, hashes ten components of your system and uses that, with a maximum deviation from the initial hardware profile, in combination with your product serial number to determine whether your copy of Windows is authorized to run. That was in 2001, four years before Uniloc got their patent. A signature based on your device's hardware? Check. Used to determine authorization of licensing? Check. Installed on laptops, clearly 'mobile devices'? Check. Prior art? Check.
Ride the trolley in; from what I saw yesterday, trying to get a car in and out of downtown, unless you're doing something like going straight to Horton Plaza to eat at one of the places up on the top floors, then heading straight out, is going to leave you stuck in traffic for far longer than you'd ever want, with hordes of people utterly ignoring the traffic signals.
On the whole, I miss Comic-Con, too; looking back over the years I've attended, the years I worked, and the years I was on committee, what I've been attending hasn't been Comic-Con for a good many years, and I'm thinking that it's time I let it go and look at other cons around that block of time that are still run by and for the fans, not as a baldly commercial four-day marketing tool.
WRONG the sceptics demand a continued rise in CO2 in the air. The scientists demand no further increases in CO2 concetrations.
Close, but no cigar. The skeptics don't demand a continued rise in CO2, and you would likely be hard-pressed to find an AGW skeptic who believed that we should stop R&D toward the goal of reducing CO2 emissions. What the skeptics are saying is that the "OMG! OMG! CATASTROPHE! Divert all money into halting CO2 emissions NOW! (and keep giving us grants so we can continue to produce doomsday predictions) or we're all DOOMED!" attitude of the AGW proponents would have us all throwing money down a rathole, diverting huge amounts of funds from actually doing something useful in our depressed economies and using it for programs that won't have the benefits the warmists are claiming.
Except in this case the company didn't put anything on your property,
The soybean plants' flowers have to be pollinated in order for them to produce soybeans. Soybean plants are normally self-pollinating, but if the pollen from a field planted with the Roundup-Ready beans is carried to another field planted in a non-GM strain of soybeans (either airborne or via bees), then the GM genome can hybridize the non-GM strain. Having the GM pollen cross onto your plot of soybeans is certainly analogous to coal spilling onto your land.
The proposal is not written by european politicians, but rather by a an interest organization for european telecom operators.
...who already, IIRC, charge end-users a fee based on the amount of bandwidth they use, so the bandwith taken up by Facebook, Google, et al. sending data back to the user who requested it has already been assessed and charged for. This would allow European telecom companies to charge twice for the same traffic -- once to the end-user for their connection to the Internet, and once to the content provider for allowing that content to reach the end-user. I can see why the telecom operators are behind it; getting paid twice for the same amount of service is much more profitable than only charging once for it.
The whole 'cloud computing' thing seems to me to depend on three things: First, do you trust that the server(s) for your apps are going to have both 100% uptime and 100% connectivity, second, do you trust that your data is going to be secure both stored in the cloud and in transit to/from the app server(s), and third, what is the cost of moving your data between cloud storage, the app servers, and your local machines compared with having both the data and apps local?
Now, I can see where cloud computing could be a godsend to the software publishers; once they no longer have to contend with the stumbling block of users being able to continue to use perfectly-functional but outdated software and avoid paying for new versions, they can establish a continuous revenue stream, because they can keep the software on their servers, and users will have to keep paying year after year for continued access to the applications.
There's another reason for doing that: you can't just stick two AC lines from non-synchronized generators together and expect it to work. They will actually work against each other, and you get a huge mess. This is a problem when combining two power sources from different countries.
It doesn't have to be different countries. After the Fukushima disaster, the power problems in Japan were compounded because of purchases made more than a hundred years ago. In 1895, the first electrical generators were installed in Tokyo, purchased from AEG in Germany; a year later, Osaka installed generators purchased from General Electric. AEG's generators produced 50-Hz power, while GE's generators produced 60-Hz power. This dichotomy exists to this day, so that western Japan runs on 60-Hz power, while eastern Japan runs on 50-Hz power. There are four back-to-back HVDC convertors at the border between the two grids to convert between the two frequencies, but it didn't have anywhere near the capacity to shift more than a fraction of the load to the western grid after 11 nuclear generators (including the three at Fukushima) were shut down in response to the quake, taking 9.7GW off the eastern grid.
With things like phased array antenna, it's possible to get the beam spread quite low,...
Actually, phased-array antennae don't do any better with the inverse-square law than regular antennae do. A phased-array antenna is a grid with a large number of individual antennae, each of which is subject to the inverse-square law. Where a phased-array antenna gets its sensitivity is from applying precisely-controlled delays to the signal being emitted from each antenna in the array to create a constructive-interference signal peak in a tightly-aimed direction -- the emitter-based version of using two or radar telescopes separated by a distance to achieve the resolution of a single telescope as big as the distance between the individual telescopes. The individual antennae, in fact, have particularly poor signal collimation, in order that the synthesized signal have the widest possible sweep angle, and as a result waste the vast majority of the power emitted.
Perhaps, then, the way to get the MAFIAA [Music And Film Industry Association of America] off the backs of the file-sharers is to have them submit -- anonymously, of course -- bills for the advertising they're doing to increase the visibility of the movies or music being shared. That way, the production companies would be able to document the additional costs in their accounting to show that they're still in the red for the total production.
I'm going to ignore your lies about the science. It's settled, and it doesn't matter that you choose to ignore it. But I will respond to the quoted bit, because it's an oft repeated bit of bad logic.
"Post hoc, ergo propter hoc", which is what all of the AGW alarmist rhetoric boils down to, does not prove anthropogenic global warming. Look at their claims, and look at their models, and pay attention to how many times the models have been rewritten and tweaked and had their datasets culled every time the climate changes move in a direction that contradicts the models. Until they can make predictions that accurately reflect future changes, all they're doing is drawing lines and claiming that we need to spend trillions of dollars because the lines predict doom.
Looking at that particular auction, that's the carbine version of the P90, semiauto and with an extended barrel to meet the barrel-length requirement, not the select-fire PDW used on the show. That variant was made so that it could be sold to civilians.
49 USC 30166 (c) Matters That Can Be Inspected and Impoundment.— In carrying out this chapter, an officer or employee designated by the Secretary of Transportation— (1) at reasonable times, may inspect and copy any record related to this chapter; (no definition of 'reasonable' is given, but the data in the black box is certainly a 'record') (3) at reasonable times, in a reasonable way, and on display of proper credentials and written notice to an owner, operator, or agent in charge, may— (B) enter and inspect with reasonable promptness premises at which a vehicle or equipment involved in a motor vehicle accident is located; (C) inspect with reasonable promptness that vehicle or equipment; and (D) impound for not more than 72 hours a vehicle or equipment involved in a motor vehicle accident. (Note carefully that the statute only specifies "...involved in a motor vehicle accident" -- it does not specify that there has to be some temporal connection between the accident and the inspection. By stretching the definition, if your car has ever been involved in an accident, someone from DoT can show up at your door and require you to allow them to inspect not only your car but your home without the bothersome requirement of getting a warrant first But we all know that the government would never stoop to such tactics -- or decide that criminal evidence the inspector just happens to come across in the course of their inspection is either a) admissible as evidence, or b) constitute sufficient cause to permit a search warrant to be issued.)
Just the BDR media by itself without any sort of fancy caddy is going to be more expensive than any other option available.
And when they first came out, 3.5" floppies cost almost $70 per box of ten; now you can get 100 for less than that. Why shouldn't we expect comparable price drops for the BDR media for this device?
I've been making a paper airplane with the flap lock such as in that video and the article since about the mid-1970s, although I generally do the wings differently. Most of the time, I'll fold the wings first as the article describes -- the outer edge of the wings folded down to line up with the bottom of the spine -- and then similarly to how the video shows -- from the point on the nose where the first fold starts down just above where the triangle of the folded tip ends -- which, when unfolded, gives me a gull-wing effect deepening toward the rear of the plane. Less often, I will do the first fold in the reverse direction, so that what I get is an inverted gull-wing. Because the keel doesn't stick down as far, the inverted gull-wing version has a little less drag and flies slightly faster, but it's more readily diverted by gusts of wind when flown outside. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing; when I was in high school I lost one of them when it disappeared from sight over an auditorium after some 35 seconds of flight.
Judging from the two YouTube videos that scroll the tweets from his account, he has all the couth and social graces of a diarrhoetic yak, but I didn't see anything that was encouraging other people to commit violence against black people. Encouraging other people to commit violence against him, yes -- particularly with his lame "couldn't you tell I was just joking?" tweet -- but that's just being stupid. It wasn't until subsequent tweets that he even mentioned Muamba's race. I have to agree with Baloroth; kicked out of school for egregious conduct, yes, but "inciting racial hatred" is, I believe, out of proportion.
They're not just trying to mess with everyone; the article also states "It [Apple] also asks that all other patent holders accept the same terms in accordance with the principle of reciprocity." It seems to me that Apple wants access to patents that at least one of the other players has control of, and Apple is using this 'offer' to get free licensing, with the threat of trying to kick over the sand castle if they don't get what they want.
The Constitution is still in commission as well; however, the claim was active service. The HMS Victory website states that she was launched in 1765 and commissioned in 1778, with an active service of 34 years. However, while the Constitution has the record for greatest number of years in active service, the Enterprise holds the record for continuous active service, as the Constitution was taken in and out of active service several times.
They can stand on the sidewalk, or in the street, and sample the air blowing past my house. Proving that the components that they identified came from my house, and not from a source upwind of my house, is going to be difficult, however, and coming onto my property to sniff directly at my home is trespassing on my property if done without a warrant, making any evidence inadmissible -- and if they have a warrant, why don't they just use it to enter and search the house?
About 460 million years ago, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere ranged somewhere between 14 and 22 times the current level, and the average global temperature was about 5C higher than it is now.
From www.globalchange.gov:
Based on scenarios that do not assume explicit climate policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, global average temperature is projected to rise by 2 to 11.5F by the end of this century
Taking the data on trends in carbon dioxide measured at Mauna Loa, the 1960 concentration of CO2 was 320ppm. Taking an extreme value for annual increase in CO2 from their data of 2 ppm, doubling the CO2 concentration from the 1960 value wuold take 150 years, and increasing it to fourteen times the 1960 value -- a (low estimate) CO2 concentration at which the average global temperature was 5C higher -- would take almost 2000 years. But we're expected to believe the AGW doomcriers that, according to their tight, rigid, and scientifically-accurate climate models, we might see an increase of 6.4C by the end of the century with a tenth the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere?
And everyone running down the AGW skeptics wonders why we find it difficult to believe the reports 'proving' AGW and painting doomsday scenarios if we don't pour trillions of dollars into reducing CO2 emissions. Or even if we do pour trillions of dollars into reducing CO2 emissions, if you believe the reports that say we've already passed a tipping point.
Not just 'octane', but 100% n-octane -- the straight-chain hydrocarbon, rather than any of its isomers (2-Methylheptane, 3-Methylheptane,4-Methylheptane, 3-Ethylhexane,2,2-Dimethylhexane, etc.)
Is there really a demand for "candidate-specific downloadable mobile apps"? I can't think of anything more horrific spamming up the App Store.
If there were a mobile app that was candidate-specific and allowed you to send a high-voltage charge to the rump of the candidate the app was dedicated to, it would sell like hotcakes.
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I would love to see Uniloc take on IBM over the Rational license server.
Ah, but did you use it on a mobile device? Over the Internet? No? So clearly it can't be the same idea recycled, then, can it?
The problem is that the existence of a hardware-signature-based licensing system severely jacks up the bar for a patent application to meet the "non-obvious" part of the criteria for awarding a patent. Also, Windows XP, as part of its activation process, hashes ten components of your system and uses that, with a maximum deviation from the initial hardware profile, in combination with your product serial number to determine whether your copy of Windows is authorized to run. That was in 2001, four years before Uniloc got their patent. A signature based on your device's hardware? Check. Used to determine authorization of licensing? Check. Installed on laptops, clearly 'mobile devices'? Check. Prior art? Check.
Ride the trolley in; from what I saw yesterday, trying to get a car in and out of downtown, unless you're doing something like going straight to Horton Plaza to eat at one of the places up on the top floors, then heading straight out, is going to leave you stuck in traffic for far longer than you'd ever want, with hordes of people utterly ignoring the traffic signals.
On the whole, I miss Comic-Con, too; looking back over the years I've attended, the years I worked, and the years I was on committee, what I've been attending hasn't been Comic-Con for a good many years, and I'm thinking that it's time I let it go and look at other cons around that block of time that are still run by and for the fans, not as a baldly commercial four-day marketing tool.
WRONG the sceptics demand a continued rise in CO2 in the air. The scientists demand no further increases in CO2 concetrations.
Close, but no cigar. The skeptics don't demand a continued rise in CO2, and you would likely be hard-pressed to find an AGW skeptic who believed that we should stop R&D toward the goal of reducing CO2 emissions. What the skeptics are saying is that the "OMG! OMG! CATASTROPHE! Divert all money into halting CO2 emissions NOW! (and keep giving us grants so we can continue to produce doomsday predictions) or we're all DOOMED!" attitude of the AGW proponents would have us all throwing money down a rathole, diverting huge amounts of funds from actually doing something useful in our depressed economies and using it for programs that won't have the benefits the warmists are claiming.
All that went away back when they stopped letting you catch sea bats on the hangar deck.
Except in this case the company didn't put anything on your property,
The soybean plants' flowers have to be pollinated in order for them to produce soybeans. Soybean plants are normally self-pollinating, but if the pollen from a field planted with the Roundup-Ready beans is carried to another field planted in a non-GM strain of soybeans (either airborne or via bees), then the GM genome can hybridize the non-GM strain. Having the GM pollen cross onto your plot of soybeans is certainly analogous to coal spilling onto your land.
The proposal is not written by european politicians, but rather by a an interest organization for european telecom operators.
...who already, IIRC, charge end-users a fee based on the amount of bandwidth they use, so the bandwith taken up by Facebook, Google, et al. sending data back to the user who requested it has already been assessed and charged for. This would allow European telecom companies to charge twice for the same traffic -- once to the end-user for their connection to the Internet, and once to the content provider for allowing that content to reach the end-user. I can see why the telecom operators are behind it; getting paid twice for the same amount of service is much more profitable than only charging once for it.
The whole 'cloud computing' thing seems to me to depend on three things: First, do you trust that the server(s) for your apps are going to have both 100% uptime and 100% connectivity, second, do you trust that your data is going to be secure both stored in the cloud and in transit to/from the app server(s), and third, what is the cost of moving your data between cloud storage, the app servers, and your local machines compared with having both the data and apps local?
Now, I can see where cloud computing could be a godsend to the software publishers; once they no longer have to contend with the stumbling block of users being able to continue to use perfectly-functional but outdated software and avoid paying for new versions, they can establish a continuous revenue stream, because they can keep the software on their servers, and users will have to keep paying year after year for continued access to the applications.
There's another reason for doing that: you can't just stick two AC lines from non-synchronized generators together and expect it to work. They will actually work against each other, and you get a huge mess. This is a problem when combining two power sources from different countries.
It doesn't have to be different countries. After the Fukushima disaster, the power problems in Japan were compounded because of purchases made more than a hundred years ago. In 1895, the first electrical generators were installed in Tokyo, purchased from AEG in Germany; a year later, Osaka installed generators purchased from General Electric. AEG's generators produced 50-Hz power, while GE's generators produced 60-Hz power. This dichotomy exists to this day, so that western Japan runs on 60-Hz power, while eastern Japan runs on 50-Hz power. There are four back-to-back HVDC convertors at the border between the two grids to convert between the two frequencies, but it didn't have anywhere near the capacity to shift more than a fraction of the load to the western grid after 11 nuclear generators (including the three at Fukushima) were shut down in response to the quake, taking 9.7GW off the eastern grid.
With things like phased array antenna, it's possible to get the beam spread quite low, ...
Actually, phased-array antennae don't do any better with the inverse-square law than regular antennae do. A phased-array antenna is a grid with a large number of individual antennae, each of which is subject to the inverse-square law. Where a phased-array antenna gets its sensitivity is from applying precisely-controlled delays to the signal being emitted from each antenna in the array to create a constructive-interference signal peak in a tightly-aimed direction -- the emitter-based version of using two or radar telescopes separated by a distance to achieve the resolution of a single telescope as big as the distance between the individual telescopes. The individual antennae, in fact, have particularly poor signal collimation, in order that the synthesized signal have the widest possible sweep angle, and as a result waste the vast majority of the power emitted.
Perhaps, then, the way to get the MAFIAA [Music And Film Industry Association of America] off the backs of the file-sharers is to have them submit -- anonymously, of course -- bills for the advertising they're doing to increase the visibility of the movies or music being shared. That way, the production companies would be able to document the additional costs in their accounting to show that they're still in the red for the total production.
I'm going to ignore your lies about the science. It's settled, and it doesn't matter that you choose to ignore it. But I will respond to the quoted bit, because it's an oft repeated bit of bad logic.
"Post hoc, ergo propter hoc", which is what all of the AGW alarmist rhetoric boils down to, does not prove anthropogenic global warming. Look at their claims, and look at their models, and pay attention to how many times the models have been rewritten and tweaked and had their datasets culled every time the climate changes move in a direction that contradicts the models. Until they can make predictions that accurately reflect future changes, all they're doing is drawing lines and claiming that we need to spend trillions of dollars because the lines predict doom.
And this, of course, is all "to protect our democratic way of life".
"We had to destroy your freedom in order to save it."
Looking at that particular auction, that's the carbine version of the P90, semiauto and with an extended barrel to meet the barrel-length requirement, not the select-fire PDW used on the show. That variant was made so that it could be sold to civilians.
49 USC 30166 (c) Matters That Can Be Inspected and Impoundment.— In carrying out this chapter, an officer or employee designated by the Secretary of Transportation—
(1) at reasonable times, may inspect and copy any record related to this chapter;
(no definition of 'reasonable' is given, but the data in the black box is certainly a 'record')
(3) at reasonable times, in a reasonable way, and on display of proper credentials and written notice to an owner, operator, or agent in charge, may—
(B) enter and inspect with reasonable promptness premises at which a vehicle or equipment involved in a motor vehicle accident is located;
(C) inspect with reasonable promptness that vehicle or equipment; and
(D) impound for not more than 72 hours a vehicle or equipment involved in a motor vehicle accident.
(Note carefully that the statute only specifies "...involved in a motor vehicle accident" -- it does not specify that there has to be some temporal connection between the accident and the inspection. By stretching the definition, if your car has ever been involved in an accident, someone from DoT can show up at your door and require you to allow them to inspect not only your car but your home without the bothersome requirement of getting a warrant first But we all know that the government would never stoop to such tactics -- or decide that criminal evidence the inspector just happens to come across in the course of their inspection is either a) admissible as evidence, or b) constitute sufficient cause to permit a search warrant to be issued.)
Just the BDR media by itself without any sort of fancy caddy is going to be more expensive than any other option available.
And when they first came out, 3.5" floppies cost almost $70 per box of ten; now you can get 100 for less than that. Why shouldn't we expect comparable price drops for the BDR media for this device?
I've been making a paper airplane with the flap lock such as in that video and the article since about the mid-1970s, although I generally do the wings differently. Most of the time, I'll fold the wings first as the article describes -- the outer edge of the wings folded down to line up with the bottom of the spine -- and then similarly to how the video shows -- from the point on the nose where the first fold starts down just above where the triangle of the folded tip ends -- which, when unfolded, gives me a gull-wing effect deepening toward the rear of the plane. Less often, I will do the first fold in the reverse direction, so that what I get is an inverted gull-wing. Because the keel doesn't stick down as far, the inverted gull-wing version has a little less drag and flies slightly faster, but it's more readily diverted by gusts of wind when flown outside. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing; when I was in high school I lost one of them when it disappeared from sight over an auditorium after some 35 seconds of flight.
Just be careful what you say there; Texas has a law against the defamation of beef.
Judging from the two YouTube videos that scroll the tweets from his account, he has all the couth and social graces of a diarrhoetic yak, but I didn't see anything that was encouraging other people to commit violence against black people. Encouraging other people to commit violence against him, yes -- particularly with his lame "couldn't you tell I was just joking?" tweet -- but that's just being stupid. It wasn't until subsequent tweets that he even mentioned Muamba's race. I have to agree with Baloroth; kicked out of school for egregious conduct, yes, but "inciting racial hatred" is, I believe, out of proportion.
They're not just trying to mess with everyone; the article also states "It [Apple] also asks that all other patent holders accept the same terms in accordance with the principle of reciprocity." It seems to me that Apple wants access to patents that at least one of the other players has control of, and Apple is using this 'offer' to get free licensing, with the threat of trying to kick over the sand castle if they don't get what they want.
The Constitution is still in commission as well; however, the claim was active service. The HMS Victory website states that she was launched in 1765 and commissioned in 1778, with an active service of 34 years. However, while the Constitution has the record for greatest number of years in active service, the Enterprise holds the record for continuous active service, as the Constitution was taken in and out of active service several times.
They can stand on the sidewalk, or in the street, and sample the air blowing past my house. Proving that the components that they identified came from my house, and not from a source upwind of my house, is going to be difficult, however, and coming onto my property to sniff directly at my home is trespassing on my property if done without a warrant, making any evidence inadmissible -- and if they have a warrant, why don't they just use it to enter and search the house?
And Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. The authorized sequels, done by other authors, aren't quite as good, but Great-King's War is still worth tracking down.
From the article:
About 460 million years ago, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere ranged somewhere between 14 and 22 times the current level, and the average global temperature was about 5C higher than it is now.
From www.globalchange.gov:
Based on scenarios that do not assume explicit climate policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, global average temperature is projected to rise by 2 to 11.5F by the end of this century
Taking the data on trends in carbon dioxide measured at Mauna Loa, the 1960 concentration of CO2 was 320ppm. Taking an extreme value for annual increase in CO2 from their data of 2 ppm, doubling the CO2 concentration from the 1960 value wuold take 150 years, and increasing it to fourteen times the 1960 value -- a (low estimate) CO2 concentration at which the average global temperature was 5C higher -- would take almost 2000 years. But we're expected to believe the AGW doomcriers that, according to their tight, rigid, and scientifically-accurate climate models, we might see an increase of 6.4C by the end of the century with a tenth the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere?
And everyone running down the AGW skeptics wonders why we find it difficult to believe the reports 'proving' AGW and painting doomsday scenarios if we don't pour trillions of dollars into reducing CO2 emissions. Or even if we do pour trillions of dollars into reducing CO2 emissions, if you believe the reports that say we've already passed a tipping point.
Not just 'octane', but 100% n-octane -- the straight-chain hydrocarbon, rather than any of its isomers (2-Methylheptane, 3-Methylheptane,4-Methylheptane,
3-Ethylhexane,2,2-Dimethylhexane, etc.)
Is there really a demand for "candidate-specific downloadable mobile apps"? I can't think of anything more horrific spamming up the App Store.
If there were a mobile app that was candidate-specific and allowed you to send a high-voltage charge to the rump of the candidate the app was dedicated to, it would sell like hotcakes.