Things wear out not from the static loads but from dynamic loads - like vibration and the fact that the materials are being loaded beyond their elastic limit.
Things like furniture wear out because decay from microrganisms weakens them, and dampness weakens them.
They don't use up any sort of energy holding things up.
The HSBC InvestDirect site in Australia does this; it was developed 2 years prior to the patent being filed.
What's required for this to be prior art? Anyone skilled in the art looking at the cookies from that site would be able to work out what was going on, so is that enough?
Well, I don't know.NET, but they seemed to be saying you couldn't reference "this" in the constructor in.NET?
And sometimes you know enough about the constructor to have done everything the superclass needs to do, and you just don't want to call it. It's not an uncommon thing to do in python...
I think so. They go on to mention that other missing features are things like multiple inheritance, and the ability to reference self in the constructor, and to avoid calling super-classes constructors.
In the end, though, they come out with something about how "language neutral".NET is.... They seem to be Windows pukes, though - they refer to.DLLs all the time, rather than the more general "shared libraries".
There's certainly no way pretty much any Python code I've written (and I've written a lot) would run on.NET, given these limitations.
You're right - originally Bilbo won the ring from Gollum in a game of riddles. After he worked on the LotR, Tolkein realised that didn't fit in with the ring's nature and rewrote that bit, leaving Bilbo's account to the Dwarves intact.
That made Bilbo win the ring by stealing it, but lie about it, which fit in much better with the ring's revealed nature.
I'm pretty sure the first time I read The Hobbit, back in about '77, I read a very old edition which had the original story in it. When I re-read it a few years later, I remember being very confused about how poorly I remembered how Bilbo got the ring...
Whether a particular atom spontaneously decays in a period of time seems to be really, really random. Similarly for various quantum mechanical effects.
So yes, there are things which are theoretically as well as practically _really_ random. In fact, you can buy devices that use radioactive decay as an entropy source for _very_ high security crypto applications...
We have a postgreSQL system (well, cluster) that handles 400-800 queries/second sustained for several hours a day (it's a stock-market information system).
We tried MySQL and decided against it because:
a) It was much, much slower with a large number of concurrent queries. b) It has really, really bad error reporting - it just silently truncates, converts and discards data. c) Their implementations of foreign indices is somewhat flawed, and there are no stored procedure or triggers.
(b) was the killer - it's really painful to have to do all your data integrity checking yourself rather than letting the DB do it.
Provided that the Linux box you're running is pretty old. It certainly won't run on Fedora Core 1, and I suspect not RedHat 9 or anything of that vintage either.
I'm not a molecular biologist, but I don't think this is true.
It's possible that we all have the gene for growing fur; it's just not switched on in human cells because of some other gene somewhere else, which may not be switched on because of some other gene...
So we'd find some gene that eventually turns on fur, but may also make our arms grow longer and our brains shrink (well, smaller than most people's).
Or it might be a simple expressive gene. It's not a sure thing, either way.
Well, the law in the USA says that. Lots of people aren't in the USA, but the law outside the USA (in Europe and Australia/NZ, for example) is generally better (no DMCA, for example) than in it in this area.
Reverse engineering doesn't protect you from patents, though. If they have a patent, and you use the method, you're screwed regardless.
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It's nothing to do with copyright.
Since it's undocumented and the implementors have (presumably) never seen the MS code, there can be no copyright problems or IP leakage.
The only problem may be if MS has a patent on something fundamental in the NTLM system...
Lots of people have said lots of things are impossible, and most of them were right. It's selective memory - only the people who say things that are (in retrospect) wrong are remembered; the rest are forgotten. Who wants to remember that someone said that generating infinite power from a glass of water is impossible? Whereas remembering that someone talking waaay outside their field of knowledge said that travelling beyond the Earth's atmosphere was impossible is much more interesting.
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Things wear out not from the static loads but from dynamic loads - like vibration and the fact that the materials are being loaded beyond their elastic limit.
Things like furniture wear out because decay from microrganisms weakens them, and dampness weakens them.
They don't use up any sort of energy holding things up.
Gamma rays? Explain how uncharged gamma rays interact with the Earth's magnetic field.
For bonus marks explain why visible light isn't also effected...
Well, actually betas are harmless, unless the emitter is inside your body. It's when it gets into your lungs or elsewhere that the trouble starts.
Betas are blocked by your skin, after all.
Which makes it the afternoon, and thus after the traditional April Fools period.
I don't think so. Give it a rest. These were lame when it was April 1st, by mid-morning on the 2nd they are really sad.
The HSBC InvestDirect site in Australia does this; it was developed 2 years prior to the patent being filed.
What's required for this to be prior art? Anyone skilled in the art looking at the cookies from that site would be able to work out what was going on, so is that enough?
Nice try, but no.
If you were doing this in a sensible way you'd actually "fire" the space craft from the launch platform somehow (e.g. drop it).
The craft then lights its rocket and off it goes. It doesn't have to push _against_ anything.
Think about what happens in a vacuum...
Ah. Neither did I - but pleny of places sell the CDs for $AUD10 a set...
Err, you do know that RedHat has been free up until RH9.0, and Fedora is now free... I've been using RH for years, never paid a cent.
Well, I don't know .NET, but they seemed to be saying you couldn't reference "this" in the constructor in .NET?
And sometimes you know enough about the constructor to have done everything the superclass needs to do, and you just don't want to call it. It's not an uncommon thing to do in python...
I think so. They go on to mention that other missing features are things like multiple inheritance, and the ability to reference self in the constructor, and to avoid calling super-classes constructors.
.NET is.... They seem to be Windows pukes, though - they refer to .DLLs all the time, rather than the more general "shared libraries".
.NET, given these limitations.
In the end, though, they come out with something about how "language neutral"
There's certainly no way pretty much any Python code I've written (and I've written a lot) would run on
What, in 2006 Windows will get the equivalent of SVG which Gnome has now?
I think you've got the wrong group playing in the dust.
You're right - originally Bilbo won the ring from Gollum in a game of riddles. After he worked on the LotR, Tolkein realised that didn't fit in with the ring's nature and rewrote that bit, leaving Bilbo's account to the Dwarves intact.
That made Bilbo win the ring by stealing it, but lie about it, which fit in much better with the ring's revealed nature.
I'm pretty sure the first time I read The Hobbit, back in about '77, I read a very old edition which had the original story in it. When I re-read it a few years later, I remember being very confused about how poorly I remembered how Bilbo got the ring...
Whether a particular atom spontaneously decays in a period of time seems to be really, really random. Similarly for various quantum mechanical effects.
So yes, there are things which are theoretically as well as practically _really_ random. In fact, you can buy devices that use radioactive decay as an entropy source for _very_ high security crypto applications...
I think it's probably that once you have 12 sides the damn thing _will_ roll anyway. It's getting pretty close to a cylinder...
The Australian Mint's site seems to say the shape was to distinguish it from 20c coins; in fact early on 50c coins were round.
What, you mean like the Australian 50 cent coin, which has 12 flat edges?
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I'm used to USAians forgetting there's the rest of the world; it's unusual coming from a Britian
Interesting you should say that.
We have a postgreSQL system (well, cluster) that handles 400-800 queries/second sustained for several hours a day (it's a stock-market information system).
We tried MySQL and decided against it because:
a) It was much, much slower with a large number of concurrent queries.
b) It has really, really bad error reporting - it just silently truncates, converts and discards data.
c) Their implementations of foreign indices is somewhat flawed, and there are no stored procedure or triggers.
(b) was the killer - it's really painful to have to do all your data integrity checking yourself rather than letting the DB do it.
It needs an older version of SDL than comes with the distros. Downgrading is a pain.
It's a pity because Bolo was a fun game.
Provided that the Linux box you're running is pretty old. It certainly won't run on Fedora Core 1, and I suspect not RedHat 9 or anything of that vintage either.
I'm not a molecular biologist, but I don't think this is true.
It's possible that we all have the gene for growing fur; it's just not switched on in human cells because of some other gene somewhere else, which may not be switched on because of some other gene...
So we'd find some gene that eventually turns on fur, but may also make our arms grow longer and our brains shrink (well, smaller than most people's).
Or it might be a simple expressive gene. It's not a sure thing, either way.
Well, the law in the USA says that. Lots of people aren't in the USA, but the law outside the USA (in Europe and Australia/NZ, for example) is generally better (no DMCA, for example) than in it in this area.
Reverse engineering doesn't protect you from patents, though. If they have a patent, and you use the method, you're screwed regardless.
It's nothing to do with copyright.
Since it's undocumented and the implementors have (presumably) never seen the MS code, there can be no copyright problems or IP leakage.
The only problem may be if MS has a patent on something fundamental in the NTLM system...
No, he means Duck Tape. Do a quick web search and find out what it was called when invented (WW2).
I'm getting really tired of this quote.
Lots of people have said lots of things are impossible, and most of them were right. It's selective memory - only the people who say things that are (in retrospect) wrong are remembered; the rest are forgotten. Who wants to remember that someone said that generating infinite power from a glass of water is impossible? Whereas remembering that someone talking waaay outside their field of knowledge said that travelling beyond the Earth's atmosphere was impossible is much more interesting.
Well, it'd be easier to take this comment seriously if:
a) It were a virus; it's a bacteria. Virus don't move about by themselves.
b) Gravity was thought to have much effect on things this small in a liquid medium - they are neutrally boyant and really, really light.
c) You could spell "its".