David Hasselhoff elevator music is Germany, not Japan. Japanese elevators have a cute young woman in a tight uniform who screeches the floor numbers in an inhumanly high voice. Given that the space elevator only has two floors, it doesn't seem like a bad deal.
The only problem with this is that Intellisync has been using this concept in their popular iPhone notification screen software for over a year now, and It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that this is a clear rip-off of it.
The relevant patent seems to be roughly a year old. And the priority date on it is...? Whether or not Intellisync has priority (and, as with all these stories, whether the comparison of the patent to the existing product is even accurate), it seems pretty clear that Apple didn't "steal" the idea.
"PC" has been used to specifically refer to IBM PC-compatible for over 25 years, since before Macs. Pretending that the 1978 meaning of the term is still the usual one is like the people who pretend to be outraged whenever "hacker" is used in a non-ESR-approved way.
Summary: someone broke into her email, found absolutely nothing even vaguely incriminating or even embarassing, posted some stuff on Wikileaks claiming that it might somehow suggest something or other.
What other large group of people should Adams have interviewed? (I'm open to suggestion here if I'm stupid and missing a large group of people that deal with the economy).
The subset of economists with relevant expertise. (I do realize that he's a cartoonist, not an investment bank, and don't blame him for not doing an authoritative study. I'm just trying to provide some context for interpreting the results.)
But I'd still rather get an opinion from people who make thier living studying the subject...
The point is that many (most, probably) academic economists do not study "the economy". Asking a game theorist about the difference between Obama's and McCain's economic policies (assuming he even knows what they are or, for that matter, whether Obama and McCain even know what they are) is maybe marginally better than asking a botanist. Just as to get an informed opinion on databases, you ask database specialists, not abstract language theorists.
I think he's saying that the professor required students to register to vote as members of a given party in order to be enrolled in his class. Someone else already explained the advantages of registering with a party versus as an independent, and yes, you can change your registration. Also, in the general election you can vote for any party or candidate regardless of your registration.
One major misconception here is that "economists" necessarily have a useful opinion on "the economy". (Let alone on candidates' positions thereupon.) It's like asking a panel of computer scientists about what relational database to use.
Every single one of these descendants from napster are a whole lot more interesting and innovative than what the Napster brand ever did.
Presumably you're talking about the later Napster efforts, right? The original Napster may not have been especially ethical, but there's no question that it was revolutionary and industry-shaking.
A ship HAS to be registered and carry the flag of SOME nation, and it will be subject to the laws of that country. So a ship is no more or less outside the law than if you built your data center in that country.
That's true, but just as countries offering flags of convenience (Liberia, Cambodia) are happy to do away with other hassles shipowners don't like (taxes, safety regulations, inspections) I'm sure they'd be willing to accommodate Google's needs in the very unlikely event that this happens.
Discussion at KDE News. They seem to have Windows mixed in with the Linux, although there's disagreement among various people claiming inside knowledge as to what's where.
I realize that you morons know nothing about science, and therefore need to make the same stupid comment over and over again on every paleontology, geology and astronomy story. But surely news of dinosaurs battling giant crocodiles is exciting enough that even the most ignorant computer fixer could find something to say about it?
Incidentally, I'd bet that the lengths referred to in the article (like 33 feet) are over-exact conversions of metric approximations, as I'd mentioned in the underground fossil forest story, where you idiots were also making the same "6000 years old" again and again.
Some of the numbers on this article have to be wrong... 22% shared sensitive information from their prior employer... ?!
That's a type of statistic that's confusing, if not outright deceptive: those are the percentages of managers who have used that sort of information not the percentages of candidates who provide them.
I'm accustomed to American news reports converting approximate metric quantities into foolishly precise non-metric numbers. (6213 miles, for example, or 220 pounds.) When this story hits the US news, the fossils will be 81% the size of Bristol, TN or 124% the size of Bristol, CT. (Those numbers are made up off the top of my head, so no correction from Wikipedia-crazed doofuses is necessary, BTW.)
I'm pretty much the least informed mobile phone user on the planet. (I bought some Nokia phone with a bundled prepaid card, because my wife made me, and barely use it. I wrote the number on the back of the phone because otherwise I'd have no idea what it is.) And I'm only paying 10c to send texts and 5c to receive! And that's current, because I just looked it up, after looking at the phone to remember what company I'm with. Who is paying 20c?
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The claims of some regarding LHC are no less crazy. What distresses me is the level of coverage these nutbars have had on the news channels. I don't know about you, but I've had several people with non scientific backgrounds who've been scared by this 'news' turn to me for some real world information/reassurance.
I'm a biologist with a PhD, and the concerns raised about the LHC don't sound any weirder than the stuff physicists tell us all the time. I'm willing to trust that the physicists know what they're doing, but you're a lot smarter than most of us if anyone who didn't automatically dismiss all of the disaster scenarios is a moron by your standards. Certainly, merely having a "scientific background" doesn't remotely qualify you to have an informed opinion.
In 1979 Kane Kramer from Hertfordshire filed a patent for a digital music player that stored just three and a half minutes of music to a solid state chip - limiting media options to just one short song. Nonetheless, a company was set up by Kramer to bring the IXI to a commercial release, but it slipped into the public domain in 1988 when the firm failed to raise the £60,000 needed to renew international patents. Because of this patent lapse, Kramer has received no money from the sale of any of the 163 million iPods Apple has so far sold.
Huh? The patent would have expired two years before the iPod was introduced! At most, Kramer could have earned some royalties from Rio and those other early MP3-player makers whose names escape me.
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David Hasselhoff elevator music is Germany, not Japan. Japanese elevators have a cute young woman in a tight uniform who screeches the floor numbers in an inhumanly high voice. Given that the space elevator only has two floors, it doesn't seem like a bad deal.
The relevant patent seems to be roughly a year old. And the priority date on it is...? Whether or not Intellisync has priority (and, as with all these stories, whether the comparison of the patent to the existing product is even accurate), it seems pretty clear that Apple didn't "steal" the idea.
"PC" has been used to specifically refer to IBM PC-compatible for over 25 years, since before Macs. Pretending that the 1978 meaning of the term is still the usual one is like the people who pretend to be outraged whenever "hacker" is used in a non-ESR-approved way.
Summary: someone broke into her email, found absolutely nothing even vaguely incriminating or even embarassing, posted some stuff on Wikileaks claiming that it might somehow suggest something or other.
I'm not sure I have nerve to play Angband with this anyway -- those capital Z's will be terrifying in 3D!
Given the falloff between the third and fourth books, I'd wondered if the ghostwriting hadn't started back then...
The subset of economists with relevant expertise. (I do realize that he's a cartoonist, not an investment bank, and don't blame him for not doing an authoritative study. I'm just trying to provide some context for interpreting the results.)
The point is that many (most, probably) academic economists do not study "the economy". Asking a game theorist about the difference between Obama's and McCain's economic policies (assuming he even knows what they are or, for that matter, whether Obama and McCain even know what they are) is maybe marginally better than asking a botanist. Just as to get an informed opinion on databases, you ask database specialists, not abstract language theorists.
I think he's saying that the professor required students to register to vote as members of a given party in order to be enrolled in his class. Someone else already explained the advantages of registering with a party versus as an independent, and yes, you can change your registration. Also, in the general election you can vote for any party or candidate regardless of your registration.
One major misconception here is that "economists" necessarily have a useful opinion on "the economy". (Let alone on candidates' positions thereupon.) It's like asking a panel of computer scientists about what relational database to use.
They'd have to be out of their minds to do that either. Pani is (allegedly) an idiot if he thought he could score points with this.
Wing IDE, although I usually just work in Kate.
Presumably you're talking about the later Napster efforts, right? The original Napster may not have been especially ethical, but there's no question that it was revolutionary and industry-shaking.
I'd never heard of it either, but -- here you go.
$9.22 albums, DRM-free MP3s, can't purchase on Firefox or on non-Windows. Not bad, if you have Windows and IE. Does browser ID-spoofing work?
That's true, but just as countries offering flags of convenience (Liberia, Cambodia) are happy to do away with other hassles shipowners don't like (taxes, safety regulations, inspections) I'm sure they'd be willing to accommodate Google's needs in the very unlikely event that this happens.
Discussion at KDE News. They seem to have Windows mixed in with the Linux, although there's disagreement among various people claiming inside knowledge as to what's where.
I'm skeptical that real crimes, particularly murders, have been solved that way, with evidence presented in court, and it's never made the news.
I realize that you morons know nothing about science, and therefore need to make the same stupid comment over and over again on every paleontology, geology and astronomy story. But surely news of dinosaurs battling giant crocodiles is exciting enough that even the most ignorant computer fixer could find something to say about it?
Incidentally, I'd bet that the lengths referred to in the article (like 33 feet) are over-exact conversions of metric approximations, as I'd mentioned in the underground fossil forest story, where you idiots were also making the same "6000 years old" again and again.
That's a type of statistic that's confusing, if not outright deceptive: those are the percentages of managers who have used that sort of information not the percentages of candidates who provide them.
He's being pedantic, but he is nonetheless correct. That sense of "period" derives from the punctuation mark.
I'm accustomed to American news reports converting approximate metric quantities into foolishly precise non-metric numbers. (6213 miles, for example, or 220 pounds.) When this story hits the US news, the fossils will be 81% the size of Bristol, TN or 124% the size of Bristol, CT. (Those numbers are made up off the top of my head, so no correction from Wikipedia-crazed doofuses is necessary, BTW.)
I'm pretty much the least informed mobile phone user on the planet. (I bought some Nokia phone with a bundled prepaid card, because my wife made me, and barely use it. I wrote the number on the back of the phone because otherwise I'd have no idea what it is.) And I'm only paying 10c to send texts and 5c to receive! And that's current, because I just looked it up, after looking at the phone to remember what company I'm with. Who is paying 20c?
I'm a biologist with a PhD, and the concerns raised about the LHC don't sound any weirder than the stuff physicists tell us all the time. I'm willing to trust that the physicists know what they're doing, but you're a lot smarter than most of us if anyone who didn't automatically dismiss all of the disaster scenarios is a moron by your standards. Certainly, merely having a "scientific background" doesn't remotely qualify you to have an informed opinion.
"Extension" here just means getting the normal 20 year term. He lost his after only nine years.
Huh? The patent would have expired two years before the iPod was introduced! At most, Kramer could have earned some royalties from Rio and those other early MP3-player makers whose names escape me.