Sueing doesn't have to be "for" anything. There don't even have to be losses, expecially in copyright law. Statutory infringment does away with such silly notions.
It already is free, computer to computer. What they are saying is it will be free computer to phone, which they can't do now because it costs more money than can be recovered in advertisements.
They would lose all advantages that skype gives. You can't do peer-to-peer communication with a java applet. Java applets only have the security permission to open an outgoing socket to the domain from which the applet was loaded.
When a thread crashes it can overwrite things in memory. It can even overwrite the "cleanup code" you are trying to implement. What are you gonna do then, add cleanup cleanup code? Etc. etc.?
I read the first guy's post and I was like "wow he really has some good points." Then I read your post and I was like, "wow, that first guy was an idiot." It really goes to show how far someone can go with a bunch of stuff put together with no factual basis and a bunch of terms from the topics at hand thrown in. I can't believe I didn't catch several of the things you pointed out about his post on my first reading.
Yeah just like CO2 isn't a problem cause we can just "mine" it all in to oxygen. So, we convert the water in the ocean into hydrogen and then use that as fuel. We then burn that and get water. Even if both of these processes are 100% efficient which they are not we still get 0 gain in energy.
caveat: it might be a net gain overall in the winter with the ability to use waste heat for heating. I don't think so in the summer, even if used for hot water.
I can not imagine that a home based generator running off of natural gas would have enough efficiency to cover powerline tranmission loss. The natural gas jet turbine based generators that have been developed over the recent years are so efficient that even with line loss the home unit can't compete.
Ironically it was like a week before 9/11 that Headline News went to their new layout. I remember The Daily Show making fun of it at the time. Then 9/11 happened and they immediately dropped the hideous layout (though they did add a ticker). They eventually brought back the layout and kept the addition of the ticker.
Does Microsoft actually run the servers for the majority of the games or are they for all intents and puporses just a glorified GameSpy? I ask because with the variability in lag between various halo games it sure seems that Live just sort of picks one player to host the game. Confirm/refute? If they are just a GameSpy than the MMORPG analogy falls on its face. They are more like Blizzard's BattleNet (before WoW).
They are nearly equivalent but that isn't the question. Without optimazation accessing a member of an array requires you to add an offset to the array pointer. You could write the code such that the array itself is incremented instead of the offset and then you would find your equivalence. Otherwise there is an extra arithmetic step in each access. Now granted with compiler optimization this isn't an issue but that is the question.
I'm not saying it wouldn't be the same regardless of the commerce clause. I'm saying if they followed the logic they did in interpreting the commerce clause in Lopez they would have applied that same process to the "limited times" clause in Eldred. You are correct though, they didn't address Lessig's key argument, which was put forth almost solely because of Lopez.
Lopez didn't change anything or Lessig would have handily won his case before the court (Eldred v. Ashcroft). The case was similar. The result was not.
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Sueing doesn't have to be "for" anything. There don't even have to be losses, expecially in copyright law. Statutory infringment does away with such silly notions.
It already is free, computer to computer. What they are saying is it will be free computer to phone, which they can't do now because it costs more money than can be recovered in advertisements.
They would lose all advantages that skype gives. You can't do peer-to-peer communication with a java applet. Java applets only have the security permission to open an outgoing socket to the domain from which the applet was loaded.
I realize that, but the guy was talking about video--I didn't feel it was necessary to mention that I was only talking about video as well.
One of the ESRB's cirteria for going up a notch is "comic mischief." Is that a joke?
Id didn't release a DirectX codepath; what the hell are you talking about? Q4 is OpenGL only on both Windows and Linux.
You don't need a windows system to play the game. It is the client and the server.
N64 demos were available in Toys-R-Us long before it was released
My point is that CO2 isn't some free source of O2, it takes energy to get it (plants use sunlight). The same goes for getting H out of H20.
Unfortunately he isn't lying (or at most he is only barely exaggerating).
When a thread crashes it can overwrite things in memory. It can even overwrite the "cleanup code" you are trying to implement. What are you gonna do then, add cleanup cleanup code? Etc. etc.?
I read the first guy's post and I was like "wow he really has some good points." Then I read your post and I was like, "wow, that first guy was an idiot." It really goes to show how far someone can go with a bunch of stuff put together with no factual basis and a bunch of terms from the topics at hand thrown in. I can't believe I didn't catch several of the things you pointed out about his post on my first reading.
Yeah just like CO2 isn't a problem cause we can just "mine" it all in to oxygen. So, we convert the water in the ocean into hydrogen and then use that as fuel. We then burn that and get water. Even if both of these processes are 100% efficient which they are not we still get 0 gain in energy.
caveat: it might be a net gain overall in the winter with the ability to use waste heat for heating. I don't think so in the summer, even if used for hot water.
I can not imagine that a home based generator running off of natural gas would have enough efficiency to cover powerline tranmission loss. The natural gas jet turbine based generators that have been developed over the recent years are so efficient that even with line loss the home unit can't compete.
Ironically it was like a week before 9/11 that Headline News went to their new layout. I remember The Daily Show making fun of it at the time. Then 9/11 happened and they immediately dropped the hideous layout (though they did add a ticker). They eventually brought back the layout and kept the addition of the ticker.
Does Microsoft actually run the servers for the majority of the games or are they for all intents and puporses just a glorified GameSpy? I ask because with the variability in lag between various halo games it sure seems that Live just sort of picks one player to host the game. Confirm/refute? If they are just a GameSpy than the MMORPG analogy falls on its face. They are more like Blizzard's BattleNet (before WoW).
Better yet you can run xlinkkai's engine on a Linksys wrt54g instead of having to have a PC up constantly.
Using Kaillera you can do it today.
Nice addition if you are trying to DoS your own box.
They are nearly equivalent but that isn't the question. Without optimazation accessing a member of an array requires you to add an offset to the array pointer. You could write the code such that the array itself is incremented instead of the offset and then you would find your equivalence. Otherwise there is an extra arithmetic step in each access. Now granted with compiler optimization this isn't an issue but that is the question.
I'm not saying it wouldn't be the same regardless of the commerce clause. I'm saying if they followed the logic they did in interpreting the commerce clause in Lopez they would have applied that same process to the "limited times" clause in Eldred. You are correct though, they didn't address Lessig's key argument, which was put forth almost solely because of Lopez.
Let me quote from the quote you quoted: "commercially-available." I didn't realize xbox 360 was commercially available.
Lopez didn't change anything or Lessig would have handily won his case before the court (Eldred v. Ashcroft). The case was similar. The result was not.
I don't get it, is this supposed to be an excuse? Whether software patents are good or bad is irrelavent; no one has a patent on the paragraph tag.