For many engineers, there's a certain prestige in being able to say that they successfully submitted a patent. Not forgetting that additional bit of job security if layoffs might be in the near future.
The Egyptians knew about the dangers of skin cancer from exposure to the Sun. One way the construction workers of the pyramids used to protect themselves from sunburn was to slap on clay mud on themselves. There is a carving or scroll which documents the time when the workers
actually went on strike when they ran out of the stuff.
Our school day started at 8:50am, until break at 11.05am. Then worked from 11.20am until 12.45pm. Afternoons went from 2.05pm until 4.05pm with additional homework. If I had that amount of spare time, I'd have spent all my hours workingo on my pet projects.
You should start looking at university text books on mathematics, physics and biology and chemistry, if not genomics.
During the sixth form, I started focussing on maths, physics and chemistry. This level is the hardest to categorise in the UK; much of the material is beyond what an everyday person would need to know of, say, maths, and the focus is more on preparation for studying a related degree than anything else.
The idea of sixth form is to allow you to get a feel for university level subjects without having to take the risk of accepting a university offer that you later regret accepting. That way, if you enjoyed the subjects, and got good exam results, you could skip the first year of university. The universities benefit in that they don't waste a place on someone who drops out. And you gain by not having to take out an expensive loan. And the schools benefit because the teachers have the enjoyment of teaching the most motivated students.
I did SYS's in Mathematics and Physics. These were the first time I really enjoyed these subjects. Mainly because everything was completely new to me (Moments of Inertia, Keplers Laws of Motion,...) and the learning pace was constant - all the kids who just wanted to lark about had already left school.
Device drivers can be used to emulate features not implemented in hardware. Ever heard of the OpenGL software implementation? Remember Nvidia boasted that they were the first to implement T&L (Transformation and Lighting) in hardware? And there is nvEmulate for emulating vertex and fragment shaders.
Although, saying that, I've noticed that a FX5600 laptop supports OpenGL shading language (with the exception of condition looping) under Linux, but not under Windows XP using the exact same chip.
I've always been curious that exactly these cards offer ( other than more raw power ) over regular video cards other than the dual DVI setup.
Workstation cards have more hardware for switching between rendering contexts and for multi-window overlap tests. Along with faster clock speeds and more pixel pipelines as well as support for overlay and underlay planes.
Since games run in full-screen mode, you only need one rendering context, can skip the multi-window overlap tests, and dump the overlay/underlay planes.
Could the same logic behind using Eminent Domain to take real property be used to take a Patent?
This happenen in France in the 1800's, with the Jacquard loom. Joseph-Marie Jacquard began his invention, and was interrupted by the French Revolution, and then afterwards completed his invention in 1801. He presented his invention in Paris in 1804, and was awarded a medal and patent for his design, however the French government claimed the loom to then be public property, giving Jacquard a slight royalty and a small pension.
There was a lawsuit thrown out of court where the advertisers decided to have a computer animated cockroach run across the TV screen - for added realism the animators added the reflective glow of the TV screen around the roaches body.
Unfortunately, some guy was suing for a new TV because his claim was that he thought there was a real bug on his screen, which caused him to take off his shoe and throw it at the TV, which then exploded.
Enough people don't want to turn off ads, or don't know how, to make this profitable.
In the UK, the usual tactics are the sounds of household accidents (plates falling onto the floor, fork/knives falling onto plates, children screaming, the TV blinking out into silence or white noise). I guess the advertisers are targetting those parents who are likely to be in the kitchen while their offspring are in the living room watching TV. Any "bad sound" is going to make them run into the living room to see what is happening.
The current advert which makes everyone want to change channel is the charity advert where various people say "I shouldn't be here...". Well, we can easily fix that...
Mircosoft own IP in opengl,I am sure some whoresome games developers (EA?) are thinking about not doing linux stuff (gl only) because of this.
They claim to have a patent related to programmable graphics hardware; in particular vertex and fragment shading programs. My guess is that they have probably employed somebody or bought out a company that filed for the patent.
On the Linux systems that I have both vertex and fragment programs along with the OpengL Shading Language are supported courtesy of the Nvidia drivers. Nvidia also has numerous tutorial examples designed to compile under Linux.
English language evolved without any formal regulating body unlike the French or Spanish languages. More details can be found under "English Orthography".
I remember the fun of removing the EPROM chips and RAM chips in order to upgrade my Hercules Graphics Station Card from 1 Mbyte to 2Mbyte. It's a pity something similar couldn't be done with graphics accelerator cards these days.
That's going to be the next thing in intelligent refrigerators. Each unit will automatically scan the RFID tags on every food product inside and automatically throw out those items with expired "use by" dates. If more than three products are found it will wait until you come home and refuse to open until you have watched the public health information film on the hazards of expired use-by dates at least three times.
I heard rumours that there was a solution for "Tic-Tac-Toe" very close to being announced. The only hold up is finding a large enough distributed network to explore all paths in real-time.
I read "The Times" a lot, and also visit google. The most annoying advert to me is HSBC who absolutely insist on having pop-up adverts that obscure the text of the article. So long as they (or any other company) do this, I will never open a bank account with them. Similarly for software and hardware vendors.
Yes, I can block these popups can be disabled javascript, only to have the annoying frustation of being unable to visit other websites (such as google) because they insist on having javascript running.
Having per-site javascript controls would be a good idea, but advertisers would probably find a way of randomising the IP addresses/domain names.
It doesn't say a whole lot (and the victim agrees) when a serial burglar who had been imprisoned for burglary before and who was out on bail for yet another attempt only gets 11 months in prison.
At 19 years old with several prior convictions and now this and they think that it will rehabilitate him to stick him in prison for another year?
The prison governors were against this, because it took at least a year to completely rehabilitate people (around half were illiterate, or had no educational skills, if not drug users as well).
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Not forgetting IT Jobs Watch
IT Sector
Engineering
Companies just amass huge patent libraries. Hm...
For many engineers, there's a certain prestige in being able to say that they successfully submitted a patent. Not forgetting that additional bit of job security if layoffs might be in the near future.
The Egyptians knew about the dangers of skin cancer from exposure to the Sun. One way the construction workers of the pyramids used to protect themselves from sunburn was to slap on clay mud on themselves. There is a carving or scroll which documents the time when the workers actually went on strike when they ran out of the stuff.
The sky is blue. Water is wet. And Gates is rich.
Only on paper...
That should have been Sock puppet Bill
per the suggestion of a Microsoft puppet
You haven't seen sock puppet Bill.
Given the choice, I'd use mini graphics tablet and pressure sensitive stylus.
I go to school from 8:45 to 2:10 every day,
Your school finishes at 2:10pm every day?
Our school day started at 8:50am, until break at 11.05am. Then worked from 11.20am until 12.45pm.
Afternoons went from 2.05pm until 4.05pm with additional homework. If I had that amount of spare time, I'd have spent all my hours workingo on my pet projects.
You should start looking at university text books on mathematics, physics and biology and chemistry, if not genomics.
During the sixth form, I started focussing on maths, physics and chemistry. This level is the hardest to categorise in the UK; much of the material is beyond what an everyday person would need to know of, say, maths, and the focus is more on preparation for studying a related degree than anything else.
...) and the learning pace was constant - all the kids who just wanted to lark about had already left school.
The idea of sixth form is to allow you to get a feel for university level subjects without having to take the risk of accepting a university offer that you later regret accepting. That way, if you enjoyed the subjects, and got good exam results, you could skip the first year of university. The universities benefit in that they don't waste a place on someone who drops out. And you gain by not having to take out an expensive loan. And the schools benefit because the teachers have the enjoyment of teaching the most motivated students.
I did SYS's in Mathematics and Physics. These were the first time I really enjoyed these subjects. Mainly because everything was completely new to me (Moments of Inertia, Keplers Laws of Motion,
Device drivers can be used to emulate features not implemented in hardware. Ever heard of the OpenGL software implementation? Remember Nvidia boasted that they were the first to implement T&L (Transformation and Lighting) in hardware? And there is nvEmulate for emulating vertex and fragment shaders.
Although, saying that, I've noticed that a FX5600 laptop supports OpenGL shading language (with the exception of condition looping) under Linux, but not under Windows XP using the exact same chip.
I've always been curious that exactly these cards offer ( other than more raw power ) over regular video cards other than the dual DVI setup.
Workstation cards have more hardware for switching between rendering contexts and for multi-window overlap tests. Along with faster clock speeds and more pixel pipelines as well as support for overlay and underlay planes.
Since games run in full-screen mode, you only need one rendering context, can skip the multi-window overlap tests, and dump the overlay/underlay planes.
Could the same logic behind using Eminent Domain
to take real property be used to take a Patent?
This happenen in France in the 1800's, with the Jacquard loom.
Joseph-Marie Jacquard began his invention, and was interrupted by the French Revolution, and then afterwards completed his invention in 1801. He presented his invention in Paris in 1804, and was awarded a medal and patent for his design, however the French government claimed the loom to then be public property, giving Jacquard a slight royalty and a small pension.
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That's why the case was thrown out.
There was a lawsuit thrown out of court where the advertisers decided to have a computer animated cockroach run across the TV screen - for added realism the animators added the reflective glow of the TV screen around the roaches body.
Unfortunately, some guy was suing for a new TV because his claim was that he thought there was a real bug on his screen, which caused him to take off his shoe and throw it at the TV, which then exploded.
Enough people don't want to turn off ads, or don't know how, to make this profitable.
In the UK, the usual tactics are the sounds of household accidents (plates falling onto the floor, fork/knives falling onto plates, children screaming, the TV blinking out into silence or white noise). I guess the advertisers are targetting those parents who are likely to be in the kitchen while their offspring are in the living room watching TV. Any "bad sound" is going to make them run into the living room to see what is happening.
The current advert which makes everyone want to change channel is the charity advert where various people say "I shouldn't be here...". Well, we can easily fix that...
.... then we could have an electric powered car which recharges the battery automatically.
Mircosoft own IP in opengl,I am sure some whoresome games developers (EA?) are thinking about not doing linux stuff (gl only) because of this.
They claim to have a patent related to programmable graphics hardware; in particular vertex and fragment shading programs. My guess is that they have probably employed somebody or bought out a company that filed for the patent.
On the Linux systems that I have both vertex and fragment programs along with the OpengL Shading Language are supported courtesy of the Nvidia drivers. Nvidia also has numerous tutorial examples designed to compile under Linux.
English language evolved without any formal regulating body unlike the French or Spanish languages. More details can be found under "English Orthography".
I remember the fun of removing the EPROM chips and RAM chips in order to upgrade my Hercules Graphics Station Card from 1 Mbyte to 2Mbyte. It's a pity something similar couldn't be done with graphics accelerator cards these days.
If two experts are playing, every sub-game will become a draw, leading to the main grid becoming a draw.
Space Lines is much more fun.
That's going to be the next thing in intelligent refrigerators. Each unit will automatically scan the RFID tags on every food product inside and automatically throw out those items with expired "use by" dates. If more than three products are found it will wait until you come home and refuse to open until you have watched the public health information film on the hazards of expired use-by dates at least three times.
I heard rumours that there was a solution for "Tic-Tac-Toe" very close to being announced. The only hold up is finding a large enough
distributed network to explore all paths in real-time.
I read "The Times" a lot, and also visit google.
The most annoying advert to me is HSBC who absolutely insist on having pop-up adverts that obscure the text of the article. So long as they (or any other company) do this, I will never open a bank account with them. Similarly for software and hardware vendors.
Yes, I can block these popups can be disabled javascript, only to have the annoying frustation of being unable to visit other websites (such as google) because they insist on having javascript running.
Having per-site javascript controls would be a good idea, but advertisers would probably find a way of randomising the IP addresses/domain names.
It doesn't say a whole lot (and the victim agrees) when a serial burglar who had been imprisoned for burglary before and who was out on bail for yet another attempt only gets 11 months in prison.
At 19 years old with several prior convictions and now this and they think that it will rehabilitate him to stick him in prison for another year?
Oh don't worry, he'll only need to serve half his sentence if he behaves himself in prison, as the government have started an Early Release Program for Prisoners to relieve overcrowing in jail.
The prison governors were against this, because it took at least a year to completely rehabilitate people (around half were illiterate, or had no educational skills, if not drug users as well).