Microsoft had a windows copyright before Lindows was started. I think that might be the pertinent date
According to the article, the 'pertinent date' is November 1985. You may think different, but I don't think the judge will care.
If the jury find that windows was generic before this date then Lindows will be in the clear and the choice of names could be something for the marketing history books. Or it could flop and all be forgotten in a few years...
Espresso beans tend to have less caffeine content in the beans, however the process of making espresso involves high pressure water through more, tighter packed grounds, thus resulting in a more conentrated mixture (which is why you can dilute it with a bunch of milk to make a latte or cappucino and still have flavour).
They are talking about the Starbucks house blend which is not, AFAIK created with the same pressurized process as espresso. Thus if they were using espresso beans, it would likely have far less caffeine than others. The article even mentions that a 20oz Starbucks Latte (which is made with espresso) has about a quarter of the caffeine in the 20oz house blend
and why should anyone get angry at soda manufacturers? I love the fact that I can have a nice cold cola to get some caffeine on a hot day. Don't want any? Have a Sprite or 7up or root beer, or caffeine free cola or don't have any and drink water instead. Last I heard they weren't shoving caffeinated sodas down your throat.
The stats also show that women are "the cause" of more fires at the gas pump. Hey, don't blame me... it's just the stats, ma'am!
Nylon rubbing against cotton in a dry environment is a midget lightning storm, quite suitable for igniting gasoline vapor (or any other explosive vapor mixture). Women wear full-leg nylon stockings or pantyhose under loose cotton dresses MUCH more often than men. B-)
It is hypethesized that women more frequently will return to sit in the car while the gas is being pumped (ironically for reasons of safety). When they get out of the car often the first metal they touch is the nozzle or the car right around the filler cap where the gasoline vapours are much more likely to be within the explosive limits.
When you are starting to pump the gas you generally are touching the metal bits before there are suitable concentrations of vapour present so it is somewhat safer. In any event it's probably a good habit to grab something metallic on the way out the the car (the shock you get later is uncomfortable even if you don't get blown to smithereens).
Then what's the point of electronic voting> If it's not important enough to wait a few hours to count the votes, then it's probably not worth counting them.
However, there is no "stalemate" in pool, so your goal in hiding the eight-ball is to allow you (or force your opponent) to move your balls into better positions so that you might win.
Totally off topic, but:
From the World Standardized 8 ball rules...I know a similar rule exists in APA rules as well...
STALEMATED GAME If, after 3 consecutive turns at the table by each player (6 turns total), the referee judges that attempting to pocket or move an object ball will result in loss of game, the balls will be re-racked with the original breaker of the stalemated game breaking again. The stalemate rule may be applied regard-less of the number of balls on the table. Please Note: Three consecutive fouls by one player in 8-ball is not a loss of game.
Or mechanical voting systems that don't rely on software that we can't see or understand?
Paper ballots and mechanical voting systems are no less a black box system than an electronic system with no receipt. When you put your ballot into the box or press the lever, you have no idea whether or not your vote will actually be counted. It's a problem inherent in anonymous voting, not just electronic systems.
It seems to me that electronic voting would have one real meaningful tangible benefit - you wouldn't need to go to the polling station to cast your vote.
The other benefits - quicker tabulation, lower cost (if this would ever be possible) and anything else people could suggest are icing on the cake.
You don't need fancy machines, hanging chads etc. Just a piece of paper with a box with a name beside it. You check the appropriate box and let people count it. Simple. And it works.
Why the heck do we need touchscreen voting?
Because, oddly enough, this is something computers are really good at, counting things. They do it consistently without getting bored and are not subject to interpretation. Two identical machines will count the same input the same way everytime. They can also do it much faster.
A paper ballot with a box with an X is not very subject to interpretation.
Computers may be faster, but does it really matter if you find out now or two hours from now or two days from now? (I'll help, the answer is NO, it doesn't matter one little teensy weensy bit). If it did matter, you could just hold the election two days earlier!
4GB wouldn't probably be enough for 1000 songs. 10-15GB would be more reasonable then.
Give me 15GB in the same form factor and I'd take it. Give me 40GB in a larger size (ie the size of a normal Ipod) and I'd prefer the 4GB in the smaller size.
Capacity is nice, but I think that thinking in terms of smaller form factors one needs to think about the smaller size of the mini.
Why is this wasteful? If someone can afford it then why shouldn't they buy it if they so choose? Considering that they will be better able to see/be seen (and if - ok big if - properly aimed they will not be blinding anyone). Furthermore they are more efficient and use less energy. And once economies of scale happen the price will go down.
Ir reminds me of the ceramic brakes on 911's when they first cam out - it was a $12000 option sometime in the mid 90's - now you can buy ceramic pads for your Honda Civic for under $100 a pair.
The point is that the pollution has already been created - if you save a car from the scrap heap instead of buying a new one, then you skip the whole 'manufacturing process pollution' again, not to mention saving the landfill space.
Kind of like getting a puppy from the pound instead of the pet shop...well, not exactly, or perhaps nothing like that at all...but you should still get puppies from the pound!
luminum body work: there are currently 3 (well 2) cars for sale in the US that have an aluminum body. Acura NSX, Audi A8 and the now dead Prowler
And the Land Rovers, and the Porsche 928 (not being sold new anymore but have been aluminum bodied since 1979), and the Honda Insight, and the Nissan 350Z and the Ford Explorer, and the soon the be released Ford GT, and the lincoln LS and the Ferrari 360 Modena and well, I could probably go on, but clearly you don't know what you are talking about in this particulat case.
Worst case is everything gets a power cord. If I'm using wireless USB, why would I want a power cord?
Personally I'd LOVE to be able to put a printer on the other side of the room (near a power connection) without having to string a USB cable around the room to the PC. How about having my IPOD dock (or PDA) on my dresser (again, near the power outlet) and having it sync up to my PC in the office?
one of the things I like about Wireless USB is that there are no wires.
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I use my wireless keyboard when I have to do keyboard requiring stuff on my PVR - it is hidden away in a cabinet and it is much easier to pull the keyboard out of a drawer on my coffee table, than it would be to open up the cabinet and fish around for a wired keyboard.
The display is my TV of course, which is far away from the computer so if I were close to the computer I would not be close to the display.
If cops really wanted to stop speeders, all they have to do is drive one marked police car though the area at the posted speed limit
Right - that would work if there was a marked police car on every road all the time. Essentially what you are saying is if you don't see a marked car then you can speed without fear of a ticket.
What hidden radar traps (real live police and photo) do is let you know that you can be ticketed at any time if you are speeding. They only problem is there aren't enough of them to really be a detriment.
Not that I really want there to be more, considering I own 2 sports cars and a sports bike, and on occasion may find myself bending the speed limit slightly.
Personally I don't like the idea of people trusting other people's judgment on what their kids should or shouldn't see in a movie. Seems a little Big Brother'ish.
So do you go and personally screen every movie that you let your kids watch? Or do you trust that a Rated-G movie from Disney will be OK?
You are right about that weight - I've learned that even a cotton T-shirt (that gets soaked with sweat) is rather undesirable compared with a microfibre tank top.
However if you are trying to get into shape, then the extra weight really doesn't hurt - if you are doing endurance training then perhaps less weight will allow you to train longer.
Personally I used to just run with a few litres of water (here in Arizona a 12 mile run even at 9pm requires heaps of water), but I got an mp3 player and tried it and find the music a nice change, although sometimes I still do appreciate the quiet and solitude.
EXTORTION - The use, or the express or implicit threat of the use, of violence or other criminal means to cause harm to person, reputation, or property as a means to obtain property from someone else with his consent. USC 18,
Dead tree manuals are easier to read than some.pdf or README file.
I'm really sick of people saying this - I prefer PDFs or some other form of electronic docs. Don't tell me people are going to want the box and the manual - tell me SOME people are going to want the box and the manual and thus they won't purchase from this machine - it certainly won't stop me or a bunch of others from buying from such a machine (other things might, but not that)
They would simply charge the battery at a lower current - as someone else pointed out, just because you can, doesn't mean you have to.
And charging a couple of AA's in a minute wouldn't be a problem with standard household current. It'd work for me - especially for things like my mp3 player and bicycle light that don't have super large capacity batteries.
For my RC Airplanes I'd be happy with something that charged at a rate close to the discharge rate so that only two sets of batteries would be necessary to fly 'forever' without having to wait for batteries to charge.
right - but last night I downloaded an the myth knoppix iso - I downloaded 400 or so megabytes and uploaded 10 megabytes, and that was when I checked about 3 hours after initially starting the download.
So while I didn't want to leech, and tried not to, I did.
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Microsoft had a windows copyright before Lindows was started. I think that might be the pertinent date
According to the article, the 'pertinent date' is November 1985. You may think different, but I don't think the judge will care.
If the jury find that windows was generic before this date then Lindows will be in the clear and the choice of names could be something for the marketing history books. Or it could flop and all be forgotten in a few years...
"The X Window System"
That is WAY too long winded...
how 'bout 'X' like they asked?
Is there a legal limit for caffeine content?
The answer to that is it depends on the country. A few examples of laws related to caffeine content for food and drinks include the following:
In the United States there is a limit of 6mg of caffeine per liquid ounce in beverages. There is also a limit of 200mg in pills such as Vivrin.
From, article, a 20oz coffee has 400 mg of caffeine, or 20 mg/oz - so would it be illegal for Starbucks to sell that same coffee in the States?
Who knows, maybe the coffee FAQ is wrong...but it was on the internet so it must be true!
No Duh?
Espresso beans tend to have less caffeine content in the beans, however the process of making espresso involves high pressure water through more, tighter packed grounds, thus resulting in a more conentrated mixture (which is why you can dilute it with a bunch of milk to make a latte or cappucino and still have flavour).
They are talking about the Starbucks house blend which is not, AFAIK created with the same pressurized process as espresso. Thus if they were using espresso beans, it would likely have far less caffeine than others. The article even mentions that a 20oz Starbucks Latte (which is made with espresso) has about a quarter of the caffeine in the 20oz house blend
and why should anyone get angry at soda manufacturers? I love the fact that I can have a nice cold cola to get some caffeine on a hot day. Don't want any? Have a Sprite or 7up or root beer, or caffeine free cola or don't have any and drink water instead. Last I heard they weren't shoving caffeinated sodas down your throat.
The stats also show that women are "the cause" of more fires at the gas pump. Hey, don't blame me... it's just the stats, ma'am!
Nylon rubbing against cotton in a dry environment is a midget lightning storm, quite suitable for igniting gasoline vapor (or any other explosive vapor mixture). Women wear full-leg nylon stockings or pantyhose under loose cotton dresses MUCH more often than men. B-)
It is hypethesized that women more frequently will return to sit in the car while the gas is being pumped (ironically for reasons of safety). When they get out of the car often the first metal they touch is the nozzle or the car right around the filler cap where the gasoline vapours are much more likely to be within the explosive limits.
When you are starting to pump the gas you generally are touching the metal bits before there are suitable concentrations of vapour present so it is somewhat safer. In any event it's probably a good habit to grab something metallic on the way out the the car (the shock you get later is uncomfortable even if you don't get blown to smithereens).
What's the point of internet voting?
Then what's the point of electronic voting> If it's not important enough to wait a few hours to count the votes, then it's probably not worth counting them.
However, there is no "stalemate" in pool, so your goal in hiding the eight-ball is to allow you (or force your opponent) to move your balls into better positions so that you might win.
Totally off topic, but:
From the World Standardized 8 ball rules...I know a similar rule exists in APA rules as well...
STALEMATED GAME
If, after 3 consecutive turns at the table by each player (6 turns total), the referee judges that attempting to pocket or move an object ball will result in loss of game, the balls will be re-racked with the original breaker of the stalemated game breaking again. The stalemate rule may be applied regard-less of the number of balls on the table. Please Note: Three consecutive fouls by one player in 8-ball is not a loss of game.
Or mechanical voting systems that don't rely on software that we can't see or understand?
Paper ballots and mechanical voting systems are no less a black box system than an electronic system with no receipt. When you put your ballot into the box or press the lever, you have no idea whether or not your vote will actually be counted. It's a problem inherent in anonymous voting, not just electronic systems.
It seems to me that electronic voting would have one real meaningful tangible benefit - you wouldn't need to go to the polling station to cast your vote.
The other benefits - quicker tabulation, lower cost (if this would ever be possible) and anything else people could suggest are icing on the cake.
You don't need fancy machines, hanging chads etc. Just a piece of paper with a box with a name beside it. You check the appropriate box and let people count it. Simple. And it works.
Why the heck do we need touchscreen voting?
Because, oddly enough, this is something computers are really good at, counting things. They do it consistently without getting bored and are not subject to interpretation. Two identical machines will count the same input the same way everytime. They can also do it much faster.
A paper ballot with a box with an X is not very subject to interpretation.
Computers may be faster, but does it really matter if you find out now or two hours from now or two days from now? (I'll help, the answer is NO, it doesn't matter one little teensy weensy bit). If it did matter, you could just hold the election two days earlier!
4GB wouldn't probably be enough for 1000 songs. 10-15GB would be more reasonable then.
Give me 15GB in the same form factor and I'd take it. Give me 40GB in a larger size (ie the size of a normal Ipod) and I'd prefer the 4GB in the smaller size.
Capacity is nice, but I think that thinking in terms of smaller form factors one needs to think about the smaller size of the mini.
or go really high tech and get a fm transmitter!
This wastefulness makes me sick.
Why is this wasteful? If someone can afford it then why shouldn't they buy it if they so choose? Considering that they will be better able to see/be seen (and if - ok big if - properly aimed they will not be blinding anyone). Furthermore they are more efficient and use less energy. And once economies of scale happen the price will go down.
Ir reminds me of the ceramic brakes on 911's when they first cam out - it was a $12000 option sometime in the mid 90's - now you can buy ceramic pads for your Honda Civic for under $100 a pair.
The point is that the pollution has already been created - if you save a car from the scrap heap instead of buying a new one, then you skip the whole 'manufacturing process pollution' again, not to mention saving the landfill space.
Kind of like getting a puppy from the pound instead of the pet shop...well, not exactly, or perhaps nothing like that at all...but you should still get puppies from the pound!
luminum body work: there are currently 3 (well 2) cars for sale in the US that have an aluminum body. Acura NSX, Audi A8 and the now dead Prowler
And the Land Rovers, and the Porsche 928 (not being sold new anymore but have been aluminum bodied since 1979), and the Honda Insight, and the Nissan 350Z and the Ford Explorer, and the soon the be released Ford GT, and the lincoln LS and the Ferrari 360 Modena and well, I could probably go on, but clearly you don't know what you are talking about in this particulat case.
Worst case is everything gets a power cord. If I'm using wireless USB, why would I want a power cord?
Personally I'd LOVE to be able to put a printer on the other side of the room (near a power connection) without having to string a USB cable around the room to the PC. How about having my IPOD dock (or PDA) on my dresser (again, near the power outlet) and having it sync up to my PC in the office?
one of the things I like about Wireless USB is that there are no wires.
I use my wireless keyboard when I have to do keyboard requiring stuff on my PVR - it is hidden away in a cabinet and it is much easier to pull the keyboard out of a drawer on my coffee table, than it would be to open up the cabinet and fish around for a wired keyboard.
The display is my TV of course, which is far away from the computer so if I were close to the computer I would not be close to the display.
If cops really wanted to stop speeders, all they have to do is drive one marked police car though the area at the posted speed limit
Right - that would work if there was a marked police car on every road all the time. Essentially what you are saying is if you don't see a marked car then you can speed without fear of a ticket.
What hidden radar traps (real live police and photo) do is let you know that you can be ticketed at any time if you are speeding. They only problem is there aren't enough of them to really be a detriment.
Not that I really want there to be more, considering I own 2 sports cars and a sports bike, and on occasion may find myself bending the speed limit slightly.
Personally I don't like the idea of people trusting other people's judgment on what their kids should or shouldn't see in a movie. Seems a little Big Brother'ish.
So do you go and personally screen every movie that you let your kids watch? Or do you trust that a Rated-G movie from Disney will be OK?
You are right about that weight - I've learned that even a cotton T-shirt (that gets soaked with sweat) is rather undesirable compared with a microfibre tank top.
However if you are trying to get into shape, then the extra weight really doesn't hurt - if you are doing endurance training then perhaps less weight will allow you to train longer.
Personally I used to just run with a few litres of water (here in Arizona a 12 mile run even at 9pm requires heaps of water), but I got an mp3 player and tried it and find the music a nice change, although sometimes I still do appreciate the quiet and solitude.
How is that not extortion?
EXTORTION - The use, or the express or implicit threat of the use, of violence or other criminal means to cause harm to person, reputation, or property as a means to obtain property from someone else with his consent. USC 18,
'cuz it's not?
Dead tree manuals are easier to read than some .pdf or README file.
I'm really sick of people saying this - I prefer PDFs or some other form of electronic docs. Don't tell me people are going to want the box and the manual - tell me SOME people are going to want the box and the manual and thus they won't purchase from this machine - it certainly won't stop me or a bunch of others from buying from such a machine (other things might, but not that)
They would simply charge the battery at a lower current - as someone else pointed out, just because you can, doesn't mean you have to.
And charging a couple of AA's in a minute wouldn't be a problem with standard household current. It'd work for me - especially for things like my mp3 player and bicycle light that don't have super large capacity batteries.
For my RC Airplanes I'd be happy with something that charged at a rate close to the discharge rate so that only two sets of batteries would be necessary to fly 'forever' without having to wait for batteries to charge.
One of the major drawbacks of current batteries is that you can't get them to discharge very quickly.
Hopefully these batteries will allow more applications to become feasible, like LIPOs are doing for RC airplane applications...
right - but last night I downloaded an the myth knoppix iso - I downloaded 400 or so megabytes and uploaded 10 megabytes, and that was when I checked about 3 hours after initially starting the download.
So while I didn't want to leech, and tried not to, I did.
The people who had one hit 20 years ago can frankly go find another job rather than expect to leech off the public forever.
So the public should be able to leech of the people who wrote a hit song? Huh?