Amazon has said very little clearly about who is paying for the Windows license in the VM, and what situations you can replicate a Windows VM in.
What they wish you could do and what Microsoft allows you to do (given the need to change SIDs and machine names, and the fact that a VLK can't be used in that scenario) means Amazon is punting license compliance onto the end user who will likely not be able to do what they wish they could do.
You clearly went to school back when science was taught. Now there's no budget to buy any gasses, tenured teachers don't give a crap anyway, and no one wants to talk about science lest a Christian decides to sue when they mention water turns solid at 32 degrees F since their messiah could clearly walk on it in the middle east where it tends to be warmer than that.
The average consumer will when they realize they can no longer get video off their Mini-DV camera into iMovie.
Its likely more like hundreds of thousands -- a huge swath of the people who switched to Mac did so for the media capabilities.
For good or bad, the vast majority of Mini-DV SD and HD cameras do not support pulling video off the tape via USB.
I've got the option, thankfully, of buying a non-Apple laptop that still has it and running OSX on it, but for the average user who may have made the switch back in the iBook days or early Macbook days and may be looking for an upgrade *and* isn't ready to replace their video camera? Its not an option.
In most of the states that have banned cell phones while driving, the way the law is written covers CBs as well.
Fact is, all of the research shows that any conversation while driving is dangerously distracting. It takes attention off the road, and the brain takes nearly 3/4 of a second to shift focus back. If someone is on the phone (hands free or not), or yelling at their kids they are equally distracted and if something happens in front of them that doesn't give them 3/4 of a second window to react, they will get into an accident.
Its fairly well understood which cognitive activities don't mesh well with driving. Talking is one, although I've seen some studies that suggested that "disembodied" talking (where the other person isn't right there) is somewhat worse. Some things apparently aren't, like eating, although of course there's a risk of dropping or spilling which then turns into a distraction.
Of course cognitive scientists aren't asked when laws are being written, so they tend to cover the wrong things.
So the grandparent is quite right. And so are you, its the same set that thinks they can carry on a conversation safely. Only you were being sarcastic and were only accidentally correct.
I don't mean to pick on you in particular in this story, but you're the first post I ran across I could reply about this to.
Every single person on here talking about prior art, prior patents, the quick start bar or any of a dozen other things among the responses to this story clearly have never written, or had to read or evaluate a patent before.
If you don't know how to read a patent (and there are *very* specific ways that the description relates to both independent and dependent claims), then you really have no idea what you're talking about when you start talking about prior art.
And FYI, the quick start bar is not prior art for the independent claims being made in this patent.
Its one thing to criticize software patents in general, but you shouldn't get specific with criticisms unless you know what you're talking about... it weakens the arguments you may be making.
60+ posts all yelling snake oil, all from people clearly with little or no engine experience.
While this may or may not be snake oil, the theory behind the gain is sound -- I don't know if people missed or don't understand that he's talking about diesel engines, not gasoline or understand that diesel is basically oil, its considerably more viscous than gasoline is.
Atomization of diesel has always been an issue with it. There's a reason the engines heat the fuel (the opposite of what you do with gasoline) before injecting into the engine -- it helps thin it down and helps atomization.
I can't say what a magnetic field may or may not do to it -- possibly nothing, perhaps something about the way he rigged it is simply heating the fuel.
Knee jerk reactions, however, from people who clearly don't understand how diesel engines work, is more useless than a snakeoil charlatan -- because real innovations can be lost.
Perfect example: I had someone tell me that a particular half in thick plate made of some sort of composite plastic that goes between a carburetor and intake manifold on a car was snake oil just like the "turbo twist" or whatever those metal fins sold to go in an engines intake.
The guy didn't understand how carbs work -- didn't understand how much heat a plate like that blocks from the fuel bowl in the carb, or how much the increased linear path through the carb helps to stabilize the atomization of fuel, making it burn more consistently. So he was calling snake oil on a part that, frankly, is a requirement on a carbed engine.
So everyone, be skeptical but holy crap, chill out. As yourself if your opinion is educated before you go assuming its correct.
Um, historically the only purpose of a country is to organize the peasants under some rich and powerful leader, and to provide some convenient way to refer to groups of them in aggregate. Its all about who is paying taxes to whom.
Taking your narrow twisted viewpoint, by that measure technology exists to increase productivity and thus taxes collected and to ensure your taxpayers keep paying taxes to you, not your enemy.
Science per se doesn't make people less dogmatic -- in fact I'd hazard a guess scientists are the most dug-in group on average in society. There's a massive amount of turf protection, budget protection, reputation protection, etc, and its a rare excellent scientist who really is open to their mind being changed.
Science isn't about making the individual less dogmatic, its about improving our knowledge of what is the truth in aggregate. Science as an industry trends human society in the direction of truth. I've met scientists (brilliant people) who were just as closed-minded and irrational as the most right wing born again Christian. The difference between them, though, is the institution they choose to support with their efforts trend towards truth and away from truth.
Why do you think there are so many scientists who are religious? Simple -- because breaking out of the natural responses our brains are hard-wired to do is *hard*. There's more people who understand the importance of science then there are people who can really truly get past themselves. Hell, I've had some amazing conversations with religious or at least spiritual leaders who fundamentally understood that -- they recognized that their belief structure was something internally generated and accepted that. They didn't pretend it was science or some firm reflection of how the universe works -- just how *their* universe worked.
I may be wrong, but my impression is that the clock keeps precise time, but the ability to accurately read it from the dial was sacrificed somewhat for artistic reasons. Once every five minutes you get an alignment that you can be entirely sure is the current time, in between its an approximation that works best for the effect of the motion, etc.
That's the impression I got, at least, reading about the mechanism over the last couple of weeks.
You miss the point -- it doesn't have blinking blue LEDs -- it has blue LEDs being used to backlight an *entirely mechanical* mechanism.
Put a floodlight behind it and you'd get the same effect.
Its an amazing piece of engineering, because its a carefully *mechanically* timed mechanism moving slits in an interference pattern behind lenses that creates an effect you'd expect from using electronics.
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One of my cats was sniffing my packets when I woke up this morning.
Freakin' weirdo.
Amazon has said very little clearly about who is paying for the Windows license in the VM, and what situations you can replicate a Windows VM in.
What they wish you could do and what Microsoft allows you to do (given the need to change SIDs and machine names, and the fact that a VLK can't be used in that scenario) means Amazon is punting license compliance onto the end user who will likely not be able to do what they wish they could do.
You clearly went to school back when science was taught. Now there's no budget to buy any gasses, tenured teachers don't give a crap anyway, and no one wants to talk about science lest a Christian decides to sue when they mention water turns solid at 32 degrees F since their messiah could clearly walk on it in the middle east where it tends to be warmer than that.
Wait, shouldn't 100x colder than 1C sort of depend on what temperature I'm comparing it to? (Since hot/cold are relative, but temperature isn't)
If you need a 1.5 TB swapfile, I suggest you start clicking some of those X's on your windows.
The average consumer will when they realize they can no longer get video off their Mini-DV camera into iMovie.
Its likely more like hundreds of thousands -- a huge swath of the people who switched to Mac did so for the media capabilities.
For good or bad, the vast majority of Mini-DV SD and HD cameras do not support pulling video off the tape via USB.
I've got the option, thankfully, of buying a non-Apple laptop that still has it and running OSX on it, but for the average user who may have made the switch back in the iBook days or early Macbook days and may be looking for an upgrade *and* isn't ready to replace their video camera? Its not an option.
We'll never break out of the two party system until we break out of the single vote majority rules style of voting.
There are better ways to do it ...
That suggests both are in fact supporting whoever best represents the values they hold most important.
There's only a few reasons to endorse someone:
- you agree with them
- you are being payed by them
- you disagree that strongly with their opponent
In most of the states that have banned cell phones while driving, the way the law is written covers CBs as well.
Fact is, all of the research shows that any conversation while driving is dangerously distracting. It takes attention off the road, and the brain takes nearly 3/4 of a second to shift focus back. If someone is on the phone (hands free or not), or yelling at their kids they are equally distracted and if something happens in front of them that doesn't give them 3/4 of a second window to react, they will get into an accident.
Its fairly well understood which cognitive activities don't mesh well with driving. Talking is one, although I've seen some studies that suggested that "disembodied" talking (where the other person isn't right there) is somewhat worse. Some things apparently aren't, like eating, although of course there's a risk of dropping or spilling which then turns into a distraction.
Of course cognitive scientists aren't asked when laws are being written, so they tend to cover the wrong things.
So the grandparent is quite right. And so are you, its the same set that thinks they can carry on a conversation safely. Only you were being sarcastic and were only accidentally correct.
I don't mean to pick on you in particular in this story, but you're the first post I ran across I could reply about this to.
Every single person on here talking about prior art, prior patents, the quick start bar or any of a dozen other things among the responses to this story clearly have never written, or had to read or evaluate a patent before.
If you don't know how to read a patent (and there are *very* specific ways that the description relates to both independent and dependent claims), then you really have no idea what you're talking about when you start talking about prior art.
And FYI, the quick start bar is not prior art for the independent claims being made in this patent.
Its one thing to criticize software patents in general, but you shouldn't get specific with criticisms unless you know what you're talking about... it weakens the arguments you may be making.
It'll be the Amero -- created at the point the CAD, USD and Peso intersect in value.
Like next week or something ...
We need a content producer bailout!!!
Kids these days ...
60+ posts all yelling snake oil, all from people clearly with little or no engine experience.
While this may or may not be snake oil, the theory behind the gain is sound -- I don't know if people missed or don't understand that he's talking about diesel engines, not gasoline or understand that diesel is basically oil, its considerably more viscous than gasoline is.
Atomization of diesel has always been an issue with it. There's a reason the engines heat the fuel (the opposite of what you do with gasoline) before injecting into the engine -- it helps thin it down and helps atomization.
I can't say what a magnetic field may or may not do to it -- possibly nothing, perhaps something about the way he rigged it is simply heating the fuel.
Knee jerk reactions, however, from people who clearly don't understand how diesel engines work, is more useless than a snakeoil charlatan -- because real innovations can be lost.
Perfect example: I had someone tell me that a particular half in thick plate made of some sort of composite plastic that goes between a carburetor and intake manifold on a car was snake oil just like the "turbo twist" or whatever those metal fins sold to go in an engines intake.
The guy didn't understand how carbs work -- didn't understand how much heat a plate like that blocks from the fuel bowl in the carb, or how much the increased linear path through the carb helps to stabilize the atomization of fuel, making it burn more consistently. So he was calling snake oil on a part that, frankly, is a requirement on a carbed engine.
So everyone, be skeptical but holy crap, chill out. As yourself if your opinion is educated before you go assuming its correct.
Um, historically the only purpose of a country is to organize the peasants under some rich and powerful leader, and to provide some convenient way to refer to groups of them in aggregate. Its all about who is paying taxes to whom.
Taking your narrow twisted viewpoint, by that measure technology exists to increase productivity and thus taxes collected and to ensure your taxpayers keep paying taxes to you, not your enemy.
Have you SEEN that 900 lbs of rock?
All I've seen is pebbles sealed in plastic.
>.>
I suspect you are missing a subtle bit of my post.
Click through EULAs have been deemed to be unenforcable.
I'd be willing to bet that their NDA would be if push came to shove as well.
And you can't retroactively add things under NDA.
Legal in the US doesn't mean legal internationally.
I assume that's what he meant.
And all of you are missing the most important point.
She's hot.
Well hotter than Obama, Biden or McCain, at least.
Science per se doesn't make people less dogmatic -- in fact I'd hazard a guess scientists are the most dug-in group on average in society. There's a massive amount of turf protection, budget protection, reputation protection, etc, and its a rare excellent scientist who really is open to their mind being changed.
Science isn't about making the individual less dogmatic, its about improving our knowledge of what is the truth in aggregate. Science as an industry trends human society in the direction of truth. I've met scientists (brilliant people) who were just as closed-minded and irrational as the most right wing born again Christian. The difference between them, though, is the institution they choose to support with their efforts trend towards truth and away from truth.
Why do you think there are so many scientists who are religious? Simple -- because breaking out of the natural responses our brains are hard-wired to do is *hard*. There's more people who understand the importance of science then there are people who can really truly get past themselves. Hell, I've had some amazing conversations with religious or at least spiritual leaders who fundamentally understood that -- they recognized that their belief structure was something internally generated and accepted that. They didn't pretend it was science or some firm reflection of how the universe works -- just how *their* universe worked.
You mean like the XBox?
If you don't like it, don't buy it. From any vendor.
I may be wrong, but my impression is that the clock keeps precise time, but the ability to accurately read it from the dial was sacrificed somewhat for artistic reasons. Once every five minutes you get an alignment that you can be entirely sure is the current time, in between its an approximation that works best for the effect of the motion, etc.
That's the impression I got, at least, reading about the mechanism over the last couple of weeks.
Its a clock going on a building... that has to be readable at night...
Mirrors and sunlight won't hack it.
Cool, maybe, but this is a case of an engineer actually knowing, designing and building to the requirements, not what is cool.
You miss the point -- it doesn't have blinking blue LEDs -- it has blue LEDs being used to backlight an *entirely mechanical* mechanism.
Put a floodlight behind it and you'd get the same effect.
Its an amazing piece of engineering, because its a carefully *mechanically* timed mechanism moving slits in an interference pattern behind lenses that creates an effect you'd expect from using electronics.