Indeed. However, I see another Bilski type case coming out of this one if Google drives it home like it ought to. It's pretty bogus relative to that decision to begin with.
They TRIED to. You forget this was a Jury Trial where they're pulling people from the East Texas area for that role. While they're not all clueless in this space- there's a much higher proportion of potential Jurors that would not know and not care about the distinction we would.
Depends on whether it gets remanded or not. As it stands, they did prove that it wasn't a valid patent- but the Jury believed "the little guy's attornies" all the same. There's a distinct anti-corporation bent in East Texas and many of the prospective Jurors on these cases aren't as tech savvy as we might be- which is why they do a lot of the Patent Troll litigation there.
In order for it to be legal, an officer typically has to review the captured events before a citation is issued. The Police ARE involved and are partly responsible. Don't be calling people idiots next time if you don't have it right yourself, k? Diminishes the impact of what you have to say- and makes you look the part you're calling for someone else.
Heh... The thing is that there's law requirements for how the citations are issued. An LEO accurately measuring you being 8 over would be sufficient grounds for a ticket (if he so chose to issue one...). An automated system's typically got a threshold, specified in the laws, that they're not supposed to issue citations for- but the requirement is still for accurately measuring the speed (regardless if you're breaking the law...if they can't precisely prove you were doing it, it doesn't count as they don't KNOW in his example... Now 100MPH in this case and it'd be clear...) and it sounds like they're missing the ball by 4-6 MPH there in the GP poster's case.
No kidding about the user mod community. Met a gent in the extended stay that was disappointed about my playing Oblivion on the PS3- because he was part of the modder community for that game engine. If it weren't for the fact that it's not on Linux (Don't tell me about WINE, guys... I port games...unless I got it as a gift, it's largely going to get played on WINE...) I'd be playing it on my much more powerful machines I have. Oftentimes, it's not the game itself that's important- it's the ability to allow people to come up with new game concepts and stories using the engine that sells the game (Though not for $60...geez...)
Actually, it will. Which titles have less piracy in the app store situation that you brought up? Those priced $1-4. For a mobile phone and a casual game...that's the price point people will pay without thinking twice for it. $10 for a phone app's pricey, based on the pricing I've seen for apps. I know I definitely won't consider most of them worth that price point- and I'm sure as heck going to want a better than basic demo evaluation before buying it. Now, for PC and many Console titles... $10-20 seems to be the breakover point for things there. Past that, most of the games aren't worth more than this- this includes the titles Epic's whining about, even if that's just merely my opinion on the subject. Yes, you are still going to encounter piracy- but as a developer that's seen his stuff pirated and on a different set of deals, earn the money he was supposed to have gotten with the first title on the other two, I can tell you that there IS something to the line of thought there.
Heh... They're a fine one to be commenting on that subject. All I need do is point to Unreal Tournament III... After that, any $60 title from them is a hard sell.
Indeed. If you're worried about trying to convince people that your $60 title is "worth it" against the $1 backdrop- you''re Doing It Wrong. If you can't people sigining off on the price, it's OVERPRICED out of the gate- and it matters little what the "why" it is happens to be. Either make it really worth the money in question or lower your costs, etc. so it can be worth $30 or something comparably cheaper. You're not going to get that rapacious rate out of most people for much longer. They can't afford it, for starters.
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This depends on whether you're drinking just Pulp-Free OJ or if you're also taking in all the other fructose that's in our commercially produced food. Large quantities of Fructose will turn you into a Type II Diabetic over a moderate amount of time because of the metabolic pathways for it. It's not an "if", it's a "when" in this case- at which point you'll have a lifetime battle of trying to keep your sugars stable as you'll have weakened or broken a key endocrine system component with it. Your body only has one organ/tissue set that processes Fructose- the rest of your body won't use it and it won't be processed by insulin like glucose is. Your liver processes all the fructose in your system. While it is doing it, the fructose sits in your blood stream. If it stays for more than a handful of minutes, your pancreas senses sugar (it doesn't know the difference...) and tries to command the sugar out by way of producing insulin. Large quantities of it. These spikes over time cause your body to be less responsive to it- at some threshold, you become a Type II Diabetic. To top it all off, when your liver has processed it's fill of glucogon (a day's reserve supply of immediate energy for your body...) it starts processing it into fat- some of which forms deposits IN your liver.
The fatty liver disease can eventually turn in to cirrosis. The Diabetes, if not fully managed, will cause you to have heart disease, degredation in your ability to heal, loss of vision, etc.
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Actually, refined sugar's bad for you. HFCS is worse. And we take in entirely too much of either in Western society.
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Invertase starts the process, but it's fully done in your stomach. That's why a Type I or Type II diabetic should have glucose tablets instead of taking in sucrose or anything with a lot of fructose in it (It doesn't work the same way for you...). Anything other than a glucose tablet or HFCS-42 will take time to help you if you're running low on your blood sugar- if it will help you at all. (Before anyone remarks... I learned quite a bit, having been diagnosed as a Type II Diabetic, some 7-8 years ago, checking into the ER with a blood sugar of 605 and an A1c of 12.5...it's a matter of my actual survival...)
HFCS is already cracked apart and it should be noted that the ratios given are rough percentages and oftentimes 42's more like 55% and 55's more like 65-70% fructose, which immediately starts being absorbed by your stomach and upper small intestine. The fructose in question enters your bloodstream and causes insulin spikes because your body can't distinguish between glucose and fructose. The ONLY organ that processes fructose in your body is your liver. When your liver has built up it's day's worth supply of glucogon, it starts storing the rest as fat with predictable results. While your liver's about peeling the fructose from your bloodstream, the fructose sits there. Your pancreas sees the sugar and tries to command it out with insulin- which won't work as that only controls glucose. These spikes eventually cause someone to be insulin resistant- which describes Type II Diabetes.
It should be noted that when someone states that it's biochemically identical, they're showing that they don't know the current research on the subject- and they're really just talking organic chemistry because they're clearly missing the impacts on your body's endocrine system of the stuff in general. Refined sugars are bad. Anything other than HFCS-42 is NOT like table sugar and has a differing impact on your systems- which is quite a bit worse than sucrose's impacts. Anyone claiming it to be akin to various honeys is also wrong. Honey has less (38%, typically, by volume...) fructose than any HFCS on the market- it tends to be sweeter than sugar because the fructose is not bound up, much like the HFCS- and Fructose is sweeter than Sucrose which is part of why they took to using HFCS in the first place.
It's water contaminated with at least Iodine-131 and Cesium-137 compounds in solution with the water in the form of salts. Disposal's a bit trickier than you'd suppose. Evaporation's going to get at least part of the stuff into the atmosphere- and I'd rather that none either isotope got too far and wide because of their natures.
Confiscation without proper due-process (and this crap ISN'T it...) is a direct violation of the Fifth Amendment. I can't see how they're justifying the search clauses within X miles of the border or at Ports of Entry- if they're a Citizen, there are NO Amendments claiming this so it's in violation of the Fourth Amendment as well.
Honestly, I think the only thing that's been "fixed" the wrong way was changing Senators to being chosen by popular vote- there was a reason for having the State governments to select them- the Senate was supposed to be the States' representation in the Republic. It's a subtle distinction, but it's allowed all sorts of shenanigans to go on that would've otherwise not happened.
Heh... They've almost got them with the current crop of dual-core machines (The A8 series devices lie somewhere around an X-Box classic in overall ability...)
It's a mobile computing device attached to a data spigot. I've stopped thinking of them as phones as early as my Palm Centro- and my old somewhat dated Droid definitely isn't a phone even though it does phone calls.
If you're writing properly multithreaded code, the right OS handles SMP fine. Same with multiple processes.
By the by, if you're talking about Idle CPUs...they'd be powered down in this model- and if I'm running good multi-threaded stuff I'm able to pin all CPUs busy on a Linux box. (By the by...that would be what's at the heart of the Android devices...) And MPI? Please... It's ONLY useful in the context of writing code for an HPC Cluster- it's not overly useful (or effective) for an SMP context by itself.
(Before you comment, I've been doing stuff with my dual cores and quadcores for a while- and I do know what MPI and a few others are about because I was a hired gun for one of the companies that were making the first 10G Ethernet adapters and I worked in that playground with iWarp and OpenFabrics for the company...)
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Indeed. However, I see another Bilski type case coming out of this one if Google drives it home like it ought to. It's pretty bogus relative to that decision to begin with.
They TRIED to. You forget this was a Jury Trial where they're pulling people from the East Texas area for that role. While they're not all clueless in this space- there's a much higher proportion of potential Jurors that would not know and not care about the distinction we would.
And it's for this reason that the Patent Trolls keep submitting this sort of stuff to this District.
It only works out that it's easy money for no work if you're a Patent Troll. Otherwise it's work trying to mug everybody for licensing at the least.
Depends on whether it gets remanded or not. As it stands, they did prove that it wasn't a valid patent- but the Jury believed "the little guy's attornies" all the same. There's a distinct anti-corporation bent in East Texas and many of the prospective Jurors on these cases aren't as tech savvy as we might be- which is why they do a lot of the Patent Troll litigation there.
In order for it to be legal, an officer typically has to review the captured events before a citation is issued. The Police ARE involved and are partly responsible. Don't be calling people idiots next time if you don't have it right yourself, k? Diminishes the impact of what you have to say- and makes you look the part you're calling for someone else.
Heh... The thing is that there's law requirements for how the citations are issued. An LEO accurately measuring you being 8 over would be sufficient grounds for a ticket (if he so chose to issue one...). An automated system's typically got a threshold, specified in the laws, that they're not supposed to issue citations for- but the requirement is still for accurately measuring the speed (regardless if you're breaking the law...if they can't precisely prove you were doing it, it doesn't count as they don't KNOW in his example... Now 100MPH in this case and it'd be clear...) and it sounds like they're missing the ball by 4-6 MPH there in the GP poster's case.
And, if they do, they'll be challenged as being re-touched. You HAVE to have the timestamps to make it legal in the slightest. :-D
No kidding about the user mod community. Met a gent in the extended stay that was disappointed about my playing Oblivion on the PS3- because he was part of the modder community for that game engine. If it weren't for the fact that it's not on Linux (Don't tell me about WINE, guys... I port games...unless I got it as a gift, it's largely going to get played on WINE...) I'd be playing it on my much more powerful machines I have. Oftentimes, it's not the game itself that's important- it's the ability to allow people to come up with new game concepts and stories using the engine that sells the game (Though not for $60...geez...)
Actually, it will. Which titles have less piracy in the app store situation that you brought up? Those priced $1-4. For a mobile phone and a casual game...that's the price point people will pay without thinking twice for it. $10 for a phone app's pricey, based on the pricing I've seen for apps. I know I definitely won't consider most of them worth that price point- and I'm sure as heck going to want a better than basic demo evaluation before buying it. Now, for PC and many Console titles... $10-20 seems to be the breakover point for things there. Past that, most of the games aren't worth more than this- this includes the titles Epic's whining about, even if that's just merely my opinion on the subject. Yes, you are still going to encounter piracy- but as a developer that's seen his stuff pirated and on a different set of deals, earn the money he was supposed to have gotten with the first title on the other two, I can tell you that there IS something to the line of thought there.
Heh... They're a fine one to be commenting on that subject. All I need do is point to Unreal Tournament III... After that, any $60 title from them is a hard sell.
Indeed. If you're worried about trying to convince people that your $60 title is "worth it" against the $1 backdrop- you''re Doing It Wrong. If you can't people sigining off on the price, it's OVERPRICED out of the gate- and it matters little what the "why" it is happens to be. Either make it really worth the money in question or lower your costs, etc. so it can be worth $30 or something comparably cheaper. You're not going to get that rapacious rate out of most people for much longer. They can't afford it, for starters.
This depends on whether you're drinking just Pulp-Free OJ or if you're also taking in all the other fructose that's in our commercially produced food. Large quantities of Fructose will turn you into a Type II Diabetic over a moderate amount of time because of the metabolic pathways for it. It's not an "if", it's a "when" in this case- at which point you'll have a lifetime battle of trying to keep your sugars stable as you'll have weakened or broken a key endocrine system component with it. Your body only has one organ/tissue set that processes Fructose- the rest of your body won't use it and it won't be processed by insulin like glucose is. Your liver processes all the fructose in your system. While it is doing it, the fructose sits in your blood stream. If it stays for more than a handful of minutes, your pancreas senses sugar (it doesn't know the difference...) and tries to command the sugar out by way of producing insulin. Large quantities of it. These spikes over time cause your body to be less responsive to it- at some threshold, you become a Type II Diabetic. To top it all off, when your liver has processed it's fill of glucogon (a day's reserve supply of immediate energy for your body...) it starts processing it into fat- some of which forms deposits IN your liver.
The fatty liver disease can eventually turn in to cirrosis.
The Diabetes, if not fully managed, will cause you to have heart disease, degredation in your ability to heal, loss of vision, etc.
Actually, refined sugar's bad for you. HFCS is worse. And we take in entirely too much of either in Western society.
Invertase starts the process, but it's fully done in your stomach. That's why a Type I or Type II diabetic should have glucose tablets instead of taking in sucrose or anything with a lot of fructose in it (It doesn't work the same way for you...). Anything other than a glucose tablet or HFCS-42 will take time to help you if you're running low on your blood sugar- if it will help you at all. (Before anyone remarks... I learned quite a bit, having been diagnosed as a Type II Diabetic, some 7-8 years ago, checking into the ER with a blood sugar of 605 and an A1c of 12.5...it's a matter of my actual survival...)
HFCS is already cracked apart and it should be noted that the ratios given are rough percentages and oftentimes 42's more like 55% and 55's more like 65-70% fructose, which immediately starts being absorbed by your stomach and upper small intestine. The fructose in question enters your bloodstream and causes insulin spikes because your body can't distinguish between glucose and fructose. The ONLY organ that processes fructose in your body is your liver. When your liver has built up it's day's worth supply of glucogon, it starts storing the rest as fat with predictable results. While your liver's about peeling the fructose from your bloodstream, the fructose sits there. Your pancreas sees the sugar and tries to command it out with insulin- which won't work as that only controls glucose. These spikes eventually cause someone to be insulin resistant- which describes Type II Diabetes.
It should be noted that when someone states that it's biochemically identical, they're showing that they don't know the current research on the subject- and they're really just talking organic chemistry because they're clearly missing the impacts on your body's endocrine system of the stuff in general. Refined sugars are bad. Anything other than HFCS-42 is NOT like table sugar and has a differing impact on your systems- which is quite a bit worse than sucrose's impacts. Anyone claiming it to be akin to various honeys is also wrong. Honey has less (38%, typically, by volume...) fructose than any HFCS on the market- it tends to be sweeter than sugar because the fructose is not bound up, much like the HFCS- and Fructose is sweeter than Sucrose which is part of why they took to using HFCS in the first place.
It's water contaminated with at least Iodine-131 and Cesium-137 compounds in solution with the water in the form of salts. Disposal's a bit trickier than you'd suppose. Evaporation's going to get at least part of the stuff into the atmosphere- and I'd rather that none either isotope got too far and wide because of their natures.
No kidding. The most overturned decisions by the Supreme Court than any other Circuit.
Confiscation without proper due-process (and this crap ISN'T it...) is a direct violation of the Fifth Amendment. I can't see how they're justifying the search clauses within X miles of the border or at Ports of Entry- if they're a Citizen, there are NO Amendments claiming this so it's in violation of the Fourth Amendment as well.
Honestly, I think the only thing that's been "fixed" the wrong way was changing Senators to being chosen by popular vote- there was a reason for having the State governments to select them- the Senate was supposed to be the States' representation in the Republic. It's a subtle distinction, but it's allowed all sorts of shenanigans to go on that would've otherwise not happened.
It isn't. That's the problem as much as anything.
Heh... No kidding there. (Esp. the Embezzlement part.)
Heh... They've almost got them with the current crop of dual-core machines (The A8 series devices lie somewhere around an X-Box classic in overall ability...)
Yes. That's part of the energy management features of all the A9 devices out there right now.
It's a mobile computing device attached to a data spigot. I've stopped thinking of them as phones as early as my Palm Centro- and my old somewhat dated Droid definitely isn't a phone even though it does phone calls.
If you're writing properly multithreaded code, the right OS handles SMP fine. Same with multiple processes.
By the by, if you're talking about Idle CPUs...they'd be powered down in this model- and if I'm running good multi-threaded stuff I'm able to pin all CPUs busy on a Linux box. (By the by...that would be what's at the heart of the Android devices...) And MPI? Please... It's ONLY useful in the context of writing code for an HPC Cluster- it's not overly useful (or effective) for an SMP context by itself.
(Before you comment, I've been doing stuff with my dual cores and quadcores for a while- and I do know what MPI and a few others are about because I was a hired gun for one of the companies that were making the first 10G Ethernet adapters and I worked in that playground with iWarp and OpenFabrics for the company...)