See Red Hat's patent policy. Consider their "promise": Red Hat agrees to refrain from enforcing the infringed patent. It's not a license, it's not irrevocable, it's not even a hard promise: it's just an indication that the present owners of Red Hat probably won't sue you for infringing their patents today.
So, does anyone think that Oracle will feel bound by this "promise" if they buy Red Hat?
The doctorate student makes the point that you don't have to show ID; the boarding pass (plus a more thorough pat down) is all that's required. However, don't feel that you should pause to read the God damn article before spouting off your inanities; that's not the Slashdot way.
Tell me about it. I bailed from the company that developed her shortly before development started, but kept in touch with the guys that developed her. I was really impressed with the technology; the creation of the video from a story was entirely automated, even down to guesstimation of the appropriate tone and emotions from the content. It was a fine piece of work, and a damn shame that they sold it (exclusive rights) for so little to a purchaser that lost interest and discarded the technology.
Only in the sense that all news stories are initially written by humans. The stories were also selected by humans, but the generation of the presentation was entirely automated, with no hand editing of the content. She even attempted to guess at the tone and emotional context of each story by examining the content. Ananova was a superb piece of work, and it's astonishing that the technology has been Gulaged.
And what's going to drive that material technology? What, other than space elevators, requires space-elevator strength cabling? We need another Apollo project, not a bunch of interns running Lego robots up fishing twine.
But how does this help? $200,000 is chump change. It's not enough to pay the guy who runs the accounts of a serious research project. That number needs another three zeroes on the end before it will actually produce anything new.
As the article says, none of the teams actually created their own materials, they bought off the shelf. That's like trying to push forward hybrid car technology by awarding a prize to the team that brings the cleanest Prius.
Calm down, dear. I'm sure that Taco got a decent kickback from the shill that submitted this, as will whichever editor posts a dupe of it in about six hours.
> "The machine, he said, will feature a completely secure BIOS solution that allows fully automatic upgrades without user intervention and fully protects against phishing and automated worm attacks."
Also, it whitens your teeth while you sleep, and autodials Alyson Hannigan whenever she's feeling lonely and horny. All for $100!
TRON (all the various flavours) are specifications, not implementations, and they're not followed consistently. It's hard enough writing apps for specific fooTRON devices, let alone an exploit that would effect more than a small subset of them.
Just so we're clear, the court had no choice in the matter. If I file a suit against you accusing you of being an agent of the brain slugs, and you don't show up to defend yourself, the court is obliged to accept my version of the truth, without doing any investigation. That's the basis of an adversarial system. Justice is blind to everything but what is placed before it in the court. And yes, it's very, very stupid.
That's a low cunning way to get an article published. It's not like the editors ever read the linked articles anyway; in fact, you could probably get them to link to goatse, just by submitting an "article" along the lines of "OMGZ!!! Sony to sue Micro$oft using DMCA over GPL violation"
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Next they'll come for my site about ovine obstetrics, ewetube.com
Windows XP? I'm still waiting for a compelling reason to upgrade my Windows development box from 2K Pro. Let me know if you spot one.
Venusiforming.
Hey, you're surfing while you're astroturfing!
See Red Hat's patent policy. Consider their "promise": Red Hat agrees to refrain from enforcing the infringed patent. It's not a license, it's not irrevocable, it's not even a hard promise: it's just an indication that the present owners of Red Hat probably won't sue you for infringing their patents today.
So, does anyone think that Oracle will feel bound by this "promise" if they buy Red Hat?
Apology accepted.
Ohm my God, you went there.
Fourth, Red Hat have patents, which the current owners have sorta-kinda promised not to assert just this minute.
Say, I wonder if Oracle will feel bound by that sorta-kinda promise when they buy Red Hat out?
The doctorate student makes the point that you don't have to show ID; the boarding pass (plus a more thorough pat down) is all that's required. However, don't feel that you should pause to read the God damn article before spouting off your inanities; that's not the Slashdot way.
99% of the way there doesn't cut it. Someone, somewhere will have to fund the development of materials for a beanstalk. Who's that going to be?
There is no charge for this editorial service.
Tell me about it. I bailed from the company that developed her shortly before development started, but kept in touch with the guys that developed her. I was really impressed with the technology; the creation of the video from a story was entirely automated, even down to guesstimation of the appropriate tone and emotions from the content. It was a fine piece of work, and a damn shame that they sold it (exclusive rights) for so little to a purchaser that lost interest and discarded the technology.
Only in the sense that all news stories are initially written by humans. The stories were also selected by humans, but the generation of the presentation was entirely automated, with no hand editing of the content. She even attempted to guess at the tone and emotional context of each story by examining the content. Ananova was a superb piece of work, and it's astonishing that the technology has been Gulaged.
Now, if you need any other free assistance with the basics of the job that you're paid for, don't hesitate to ask.
And what's going to drive that material technology? What, other than space elevators, requires space-elevator strength cabling? We need another Apollo project, not a bunch of interns running Lego robots up fishing twine.
But how does this help? $200,000 is chump change. It's not enough to pay the guy who runs the accounts of a serious research project. That number needs another three zeroes on the end before it will actually produce anything new.
As the article says, none of the teams actually created their own materials, they bought off the shelf. That's like trying to push forward hybrid car technology by awarding a prize to the team that brings the cleanest Prius.
Calm down, dear. I'm sure that Taco got a decent kickback from the shill that submitted this, as will whichever editor posts a dupe of it in about six hours.
It's a pretty decent piece of shilling though. Don't we all just love to rush to show how much smarter than the article submitter we are?
So what they actually did was out her as a Republican.
Also, it whitens your teeth while you sleep, and autodials Alyson Hannigan whenever she's feeling lonely and horny. All for $100!
TRON (all the various flavours) are specifications, not implementations, and they're not followed consistently. It's hard enough writing apps for specific fooTRON devices, let alone an exploit that would effect more than a small subset of them.
I can't quote it, but I heard, this one time, that Alyson Hannigan totally told her friends that she was hot for me.
Enlighten me, what Illinois procedure allows a judge to perform investigation of uncontested claims?
Just so we're clear, the court had no choice in the matter. If I file a suit against you accusing you of being an agent of the brain slugs, and you don't show up to defend yourself, the court is obliged to accept my version of the truth, without doing any investigation. That's the basis of an adversarial system. Justice is blind to everything but what is placed before it in the court. And yes, it's very, very stupid.
That's a low cunning way to get an article published. It's not like the editors ever read the linked articles anyway; in fact, you could probably get them to link to goatse, just by submitting an "article" along the lines of "OMGZ!!! Sony to sue Micro$oft using DMCA over GPL violation"