The patent system is useful for drug companies. Only by gaining a monopoly over the drugs that they have invented can progress continue. These drugs have ridiculous R&D costs, hence their high purchase costs. When generic versions are made available, the generic manufacturers can sell the same thing without having to pay for any R&D at all. This is why the patent system exists.
When there are companies dedicated to purchasing patents and suing people, however, you know something is wrong. Just like cybersquatting is illegal, this ought to be illegal as well. Things that are as obvious as a hyperlink in an email, where the patent obviously does not benefit future progress, ought not to be patentable.
Technically, the oxygen itself isn't flammable, the match is. The definition of flammable is that something readily combines with oxygen in an exothermic reaction producing fire. Oxygen does not combine with oxygen, but when more oxygen is present, it does have a tendency to increase the strength of a fire as the reactant is more readily available.
HCl is hydrochloric acid because it doesn't involve a polyatomic ion. HClO3 is chloric acid, which does involve a polyatomic ion. However, since hydroxide (OH-) is a polyatomic, it is hydroxic acid.
If this happened, there would have to be about 10 SMTP servers handling all the mail, the ones belonging to the major backbone providers. Otherwise, a spammer could purchase a T1 from a backbone provider and send out as much spam as he wanted. Almost all ISPs catering to end users have to get their connections from other ISPs somewhere along the line.
It might be sort of difficult to have 10 companies handle the Internet's email supply.
Most Macs (G4s did, I dunno about G5s) come bundled with a Firewire cable. Steal one from a friend, who most likely isn't using it, and plug it in. You'll get much higher quality than you would with USB anyway.
I built it with a Firewire cable with a female end that I cut in half and taped to a 9V clip, then I attached the 9V clip to an 8 battery pack. It didn't need any soldering, and it should last about 20 hours. I've determined that it can be stored in either a cornflakes box or a neoprene case; a hard case would probably work too. It's pretty cool.
I thought of going the 9V route, but then it occurred to me that it's kinda pointless to have two 9Vs - 9Vs don't hold that much charge; their main benefit is that they're small. They're actually 6 tiny (and therefore inefficient) 1.5V cells in parallel. So there is no purpose in having two.
Word is definitely a different codebase on both platforms. Premiere is definitely running in Classic mode. This is definitely a pathetic excuse for a benchmarks, when some machines have RAID and others don't.
JPEG2000 will not become incredibly popular on the web, I think. It's not really necessary anymore, as broadband is catching on and 200K image downloads aren't such a big deal. On a digital camera, however, file size still makes a difference. The more pictures you can store on a small piece of flash memory, the better.
Photoshop and several other image applications either support JPEG2000 or have plug-ins available, but it doesn't seem to have caught on anywhere yet. Here's hoping for a firmware upgrade for my current camera.
I think it's because very early on in my iBook's career I cracked one of the hinges, thus releasing the stress on the cable. Unfortunately, the other died too recently. Now I've gone with a Alumnium PowerBook...I hope I have more luck.
Half of the things here aren't rewrites. Apache wasn't rewritten, just changed API-wise. Of course the old version works fine, unless you are a developer, in which case you feel like you're getting ripped apart by your anus in the 8th circle of Dante's Inferno. Windows XP was merely a revision, and although it is in some sense a rewrite of Windows 95/98/ME since it comes from the NT family, it is certainly not new code. IPv6 is only subjectively a rewrite of IPv4, more accurately a revision. Mozilla shares code with Netscape 4.8, although XUL is new.
I think this is more of a complaint about any upgrade that breaks compatibility than a complaint about rewrites.
Yes, they did come with 7.1.2, but that's because they came out before 7.5. 7.5 runs just fine in 8MB, or 4MB of RAM for that matter. In fact, you can run it on a Mac Plus.
The update seems to make the fan kick in at a lower CPU temperature on my 12" PowerBook. I don't know about other models. I'm guessing this is a good thing, because I wouldn't want my baby overheating!
Most phones supporting E911 offer two options. One option leaves location tracking on all the time. The other option allows location tracking only after you call 911. While some criminals will likely be too stupid to change the setting, privacy advocates and serious criminals won't be.
If E911 were enabled for all calls without the consumer's permission, there would be a much larger consumer reaction. E911 is meant for security, not snooping.
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The patent system is useful for drug companies. Only by gaining a monopoly over the drugs that they have invented can progress continue. These drugs have ridiculous R&D costs, hence their high purchase costs. When generic versions are made available, the generic manufacturers can sell the same thing without having to pay for any R&D at all. This is why the patent system exists.
When there are companies dedicated to purchasing patents and suing people, however, you know something is wrong. Just like cybersquatting is illegal, this ought to be illegal as well. Things that are as obvious as a hyperlink in an email, where the patent obviously does not benefit future progress, ought not to be patentable.
Technically, the oxygen itself isn't flammable, the match is. The definition of flammable is that something readily combines with oxygen in an exothermic reaction producing fire. Oxygen does not combine with oxygen, but when more oxygen is present, it does have a tendency to increase the strength of a fire as the reactant is more readily available.
HCl is hydrochloric acid because it doesn't involve a polyatomic ion. HClO3 is chloric acid, which does involve a polyatomic ion. However, since hydroxide (OH-) is a polyatomic, it is hydroxic acid.
If this happened, there would have to be about 10 SMTP servers handling all the mail, the ones belonging to the major backbone providers. Otherwise, a spammer could purchase a T1 from a backbone provider and send out as much spam as he wanted. Almost all ISPs catering to end users have to get their connections from other ISPs somewhere along the line.
It might be sort of difficult to have 10 companies handle the Internet's email supply.
You can buy a coax splitter. It will decrease your signal quality, but make it work.
Because it's their program, on their network. They own it. They also own the commercials. There's no one they could pay if they had to.
It's odd that XFree86 is apparently a porn term, but the query XFree86 porn works fine...
Most Macs (G4s did, I dunno about G5s) come bundled with a Firewire cable. Steal one from a friend, who most likely isn't using it, and plug it in. You'll get much higher quality than you would with USB anyway.
Oops, you are right. I knew that ;-)
I built it with a Firewire cable with a female end that I cut in half and taped to a 9V clip, then I attached the 9V clip to an 8 battery pack. It didn't need any soldering, and it should last about 20 hours. I've determined that it can be stored in either a cornflakes box or a neoprene case; a hard case would probably work too. It's pretty cool.
I thought of going the 9V route, but then it occurred to me that it's kinda pointless to have two 9Vs - 9Vs don't hold that much charge; their main benefit is that they're small. They're actually 6 tiny (and therefore inefficient) 1.5V cells in parallel. So there is no purpose in having two.
I'm sure the U.S. government can trust the NSA's SELinux.
My guess is they'll take out the ability to run third-party apps. Increases revenues and lock-in at the same time.
Can't WiMP play Shoutcast? If it can't, just about any jukebox program can...
Apple gets 35 cents per song, but they must pay for the servers, services, programming, and maybe even part of the cost of encoding the songs.
Word is definitely a different codebase on both platforms. Premiere is definitely running in Classic mode. This is definitely a pathetic excuse for a benchmarks, when some machines have RAID and others don't.
JPEG2000 will not become incredibly popular on the web, I think. It's not really necessary anymore, as broadband is catching on and 200K image downloads aren't such a big deal. On a digital camera, however, file size still makes a difference. The more pictures you can store on a small piece of flash memory, the better.
Photoshop and several other image applications either support JPEG2000 or have plug-ins available, but it doesn't seem to have caught on anywhere yet. Here's hoping for a firmware upgrade for my current camera.
I think it's because very early on in my iBook's career I cracked one of the hinges, thus releasing the stress on the cable. Unfortunately, the other died too recently. Now I've gone with a Alumnium PowerBook...I hope I have more luck.
Half of the things here aren't rewrites. Apache wasn't rewritten, just changed API-wise. Of course the old version works fine, unless you are a developer, in which case you feel like you're getting ripped apart by your anus in the 8th circle of Dante's Inferno. Windows XP was merely a revision, and although it is in some sense a rewrite of Windows 95/98/ME since it comes from the NT family, it is certainly not new code. IPv6 is only subjectively a rewrite of IPv4, more accurately a revision. Mozilla shares code with Netscape 4.8, although XUL is new.
I think this is more of a complaint about any upgrade that breaks compatibility than a complaint about rewrites.
This joke is exactly the same each time. And it's not funny. So just stop it.
Yes, you, stop it.
Yes, they did come with 7.1.2, but that's because they came out before 7.5. 7.5 runs just fine in 8MB, or 4MB of RAM for that matter. In fact, you can run it on a Mac Plus.
As silly as it sound, I think higher price helps control demand not to outpace supply.
Isn't this one of the core facts of capitalism?
Or am I missing something here?
Then what are they developing by talking to people? Anti-social skills?
The update seems to make the fan kick in at a lower CPU temperature on my 12" PowerBook. I don't know about other models. I'm guessing this is a good thing, because I wouldn't want my baby overheating!
Most phones supporting E911 offer two options. One option leaves location tracking on all the time. The other option allows location tracking only after you call 911. While some criminals will likely be too stupid to change the setting, privacy advocates and serious criminals won't be.
If E911 were enabled for all calls without the consumer's permission, there would be a much larger consumer reaction. E911 is meant for security, not snooping.
It costs $99