Hey, I just added white noise to your song and copyrighted it as a derivative work! Next I'll add pink noise and call it the "Radio Remix" and copyright that.
"(we can only hope that as Windows 7 gains popularity, this trend will reverse)"
Why oh WHY would you even want to hope for that? I think a better thing to hope for would be for Windows XP to lose popularity. Hell, I'd rather see people transition to... *shudder* a mac over Vista Remarketed.
And before I get the "Why don't you try it" or "You're a mac fanboi" crap: My network is 7 linux boxen (2 Cell, 3 SPARC, 2 AMD64) 2 Server 2008 (1 as a workstation, 1 as a DC) 1 Win7 Ultimate, and a hoard (lost count) of Win XP laptops. No macs. No Linux on anything that isn't some form of server.
Of common sense. There should be some things allowed within reason though. I can think of a few things that have "bank" in them that would not ever be misinterpreted as being a bank.
SLAPP doesn't apply as its not really abuse of the system. If it was, the RIAA would have gotten shut down quite a few times by now. The model never performed any legal action that named the blogger directly to force the blogger into litigation just to cause the loss of money or to be annoying. Its gaming the system, but unfortunately, the model can get away with it by saying "Once I found out it was a nobody, I didn't see the point of persuing litigation."
Google on the other hand seems like they would have a decent SLAPP case if the blogger tries to get cute.
Just wondering, is the NY MTA public or privatized? If its public, it's going to get thrown out. There's that whole sticky thing about the government not being able to patent or copyright things made with public funds. (However, this is not true of things made by contractors.) There's a few other public/private quirks in the laws too that I don't know. (IANAL.)
I counted 6 presidential candidates last election and 4 different "major" parties. Also, I remember about 7-10 candidates for two of those major parties being DEMOCRATICALLY elected as the party's candidate by members of those parties. What election were you watching?
Its a push, however, the content producer doesn't decide who it goes to like in the patent, instead, the recipient has to request the push. Because of this, the patent doesn't properly cover for this part of Twitter. If the patent has a part that I missed about subscription to notifications, then there might be a problem. However, as it appears now, this will probably be a losing battle for the plaintiff company.
If you flaunt it like sliced bread has nothing on you, yea, you're going to get treated like a prick.
Well, neglecting for a second that someone acting that way actually is a prick... Isn't that kind of what the geek culture breeds "by hivemind", as was well analogized above?
Actually, the problem is that when you do that you become non-conformist, which is why you get treated like a prick. The my-wanker-is-bigger-than-yours contests go on all the time, and are expected, but the recognized tech experts are usually expected to keep to the side during the ones in the areas they're considered experts in. As strange as it might sound, its one of the ways the military (or at least the Navy) has found to motivate its people.
"Hah! I'm better than you at making cables!" "Yea, but you're not better than me!" "Yea, well I didn't come out of the womb with a pair of wire strippers already in hand."
I've had no problems in the Navy and been put on some really choice assignments because of my technical expertise. However, I've also seen some technical experts that got nothing from it and driven out of the service. If you flaunt it like sliced bread has nothing on you, yea, you're going to get treated like a prick. If you just do your thing and not care about the rest, you can do pretty darn good. Unfortunately, at some point you get forced to put down the wrench and pick up the pen, and then its just not fun anymore. Its great if you're just in for the college money, sucks later on if you decide to make a career out of it.
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Whether this is teleportation or replication is more of a philosophical question, or maybe a matter of semantics. Is an object (or a laser beam) equal to the sum of its properties? If you can make the sum total of an object's quantum properties disappear from one place and reappear in another place, have you merely copied the object or have you moved it?
Well, the only way to really figure that out would be to do a quantum measurement on each particle in the beam and seeing if there is any stray particles that weren't in the original, missing particles from the original, or some odd combination of both.
I'm sorry, but I have a hard time seeing where any programmer would even get near the source code. Especially with the amount of bulk in it, it'd be like Microsoft open sourcing Windows. No one would touch it to update it because it's way too stinkin big for anyone to dig through in any sort of timely mannor without getting serious eyestrain or going insane.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but I'll byte:
"Being that there are 8 megs of space reserved for Windows use that are unmounted upon boot and are never really viewable unless you know the OS call. At the fest the explained they used this space to optimize the boot time on XP."
Are they storing that somewhere in the MFT by chance?
Yea, I used 8 DiamondMax 160s with two Promise Ultra133 TX2s and managed to get a filesystem with 1.09TB when formatted with ReiserFS-3. (But I gotta watercool the crap out of the drives otherwise they cause the internal temprature of the case to jump to about 120 degrees fahrenheit within 5 minutes. Oy.) I got the basic idea from a slashdot article from January. (BTW, the array only cost me $4k to build including shipping.)
Now if I can just get the 760-MPX chipset to stop locking up everytime the system boots I'll be happy and finally post benchmarks.:)
-Snip- And even were it done... there is just something comforting about having a nice printed book that I can set on the desk next to the computer and consult, without having to read it on the screen. Print still looks way better than monitors. -Snip-
Especially when the reason you have your book out is because you can't get anything to display on the monitor.:)
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I just had a scary thought of instead of using linux, they just program a "UAV flight game" and leave them in various Air Force recreation centers.
Its the Air Force, it'd be an Airwolf cluster.
Hey, I just added white noise to your song and copyrighted it as a derivative work! Next I'll add pink noise and call it the "Radio Remix" and copyright that.
"(we can only hope that as Windows 7 gains popularity, this trend will reverse)"
Why oh WHY would you even want to hope for that? I think a better thing to hope for would be for Windows XP to lose popularity. Hell, I'd rather see people transition to... *shudder* a mac over Vista Remarketed.
And before I get the "Why don't you try it" or "You're a mac fanboi" crap: My network is 7 linux boxen (2 Cell, 3 SPARC, 2 AMD64) 2 Server 2008 (1 as a workstation, 1 as a DC) 1 Win7 Ultimate, and a hoard (lost count) of Win XP laptops. No macs. No Linux on anything that isn't some form of server.
"They might sell countries weapons as we do, but there will something in there that is left out of the export package."
Yea, the instruction manual.
You forgot Open Source Intelligence, Open Source recruiting.... Next thing you know they'll crowd source 4chan against a religion...
Of common sense. There should be some things allowed within reason though. I can think of a few things that have "bank" in them that would not ever be misinterpreted as being a bank.
Got to have something for the 2010 netbook line up.
Make a netbook with an HDMI connector on it so it uses 1/3rd the size of a DVI connector and get a HDMI to DVI cable.
That's ok, according to M theory, it'd just destroy one copy of spacetime.
SLAPP doesn't apply as its not really abuse of the system. If it was, the RIAA would have gotten shut down quite a few times by now. The model never performed any legal action that named the blogger directly to force the blogger into litigation just to cause the loss of money or to be annoying. Its gaming the system, but unfortunately, the model can get away with it by saying "Once I found out it was a nobody, I didn't see the point of persuing litigation."
Google on the other hand seems like they would have a decent SLAPP case if the blogger tries to get cute.
IANAL.
This is usually in the section dealing with 3rd party companies. Context, context, context...
Just wondering, is the NY MTA public or privatized? If its public, it's going to get thrown out. There's that whole sticky thing about the government not being able to patent or copyright things made with public funds. (However, this is not true of things made by contractors.) There's a few other public/private quirks in the laws too that I don't know. (IANAL.)
I thought that was the swiss? Or am I thinking of Hot Cocoa again?
I counted 6 presidential candidates last election and 4 different "major" parties. Also, I remember about 7-10 candidates for two of those major parties being DEMOCRATICALLY elected as the party's candidate by members of those parties. What election were you watching?
Because making a martyr of someone usually just helps their cause.
And I believe Nokia has a patent on it. I wonder if the language is close enough to be able to be used to invalidate that patent?
Its a push, however, the content producer doesn't decide who it goes to like in the patent, instead, the recipient has to request the push. Because of this, the patent doesn't properly cover for this part of Twitter. If the patent has a part that I missed about subscription to notifications, then there might be a problem. However, as it appears now, this will probably be a losing battle for the plaintiff company.
If you flaunt it like sliced bread has nothing on you, yea, you're going to get treated like a prick.
Well, neglecting for a second that someone acting that way actually is a prick... Isn't that kind of what the geek culture breeds "by hivemind", as was well analogized above?
Actually, the problem is that when you do that you become non-conformist, which is why you get treated like a prick. The my-wanker-is-bigger-than-yours contests go on all the time, and are expected, but the recognized tech experts are usually expected to keep to the side during the ones in the areas they're considered experts in. As strange as it might sound, its one of the ways the military (or at least the Navy) has found to motivate its people.
"Hah! I'm better than you at making cables!" "Yea, but you're not better than me!" "Yea, well I didn't come out of the womb with a pair of wire strippers already in hand."
I've had no problems in the Navy and been put on some really choice assignments because of my technical expertise. However, I've also seen some technical experts that got nothing from it and driven out of the service. If you flaunt it like sliced bread has nothing on you, yea, you're going to get treated like a prick. If you just do your thing and not care about the rest, you can do pretty darn good. Unfortunately, at some point you get forced to put down the wrench and pick up the pen, and then its just not fun anymore. Its great if you're just in for the college money, sucks later on if you decide to make a career out of it.
Whether this is teleportation or replication is more of a philosophical question, or maybe a matter of semantics. Is an object (or a laser beam) equal to the sum of its properties? If you can make the sum total of an object's quantum properties disappear from one place and reappear in another place, have you merely copied the object or have you moved it?
Well, the only way to really figure that out would be to do a quantum measurement on each particle in the beam and seeing if there is any stray particles that weren't in the original, missing particles from the original, or some odd combination of both.
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Just share your crayons with anyone with pinkeye. :)
"Open Source my ass"
I'm sorry, but I have a hard time seeing where any programmer would even get near the source code. Especially with the amount of bulk in it, it'd be like Microsoft open sourcing Windows. No one would touch it to update it because it's way too stinkin big for anyone to dig through in any sort of timely mannor without getting serious eyestrain or going insane.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but I'll byte:
"Being that there are 8 megs of space reserved for Windows use that are unmounted upon boot and are never really viewable unless you know the OS call. At the fest the explained they used this space to optimize the boot time on XP."
Are they storing that somewhere in the MFT by chance?
-TheDarAve-
Yea, I used 8 DiamondMax 160s with two Promise Ultra133 TX2s and managed to get a filesystem with 1.09TB when formatted with ReiserFS-3. (But I gotta watercool the crap out of the drives otherwise they cause the internal temprature of the case to jump to about 120 degrees fahrenheit within 5 minutes. Oy.) I got the basic idea from a slashdot article from January. (BTW, the array only cost me $4k to build including shipping.)
:)
Now if I can just get the 760-MPX chipset to stop locking up everytime the system boots I'll be happy and finally post benchmarks.
-TheDarAve-
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:)
And even were it done... there is just something comforting about having a nice printed book that I can set on the desk next to the computer and consult, without having to read it on the screen. Print still looks way better than monitors.
-Snip-
Especially when the reason you have your book out is because you can't get anything to display on the monitor.