If the supreme course declines to hear an appeal or it is not appealed , it does become binding caselaw within the first circuit and damn persuasive everywhere else.
The US government implemented in 1918 what the US and Canadian Railroads had already agreed to in 1883. It was the General Time Convention of 1883 that implemented the time zones , the government followed along 35 years later.
SpaceX has already delivered on its promises with the Falcon I and the Falcon V and the dragon test flight to the ISS is scheduled for this year.
Paypal is a con job? Apparently Ebay doesnt think so neither does most of the people who use it. The truth is hes putting his name and his money on the line which is more than I can say for you.
Thats not a problem of technological vision (if you saw the were using finger slides just like they do with ipad today!)
The pile of PADDs was a metaphor for a pile of books. Also with cheap easily replicated pads you might actually want each pad to be on a different document.
Its not as crazy as it sounds. A version of powerpoint that would work with an android phone would be a fantastic application. Imagine a scaled down version of Microsoft publisher for android tablets. If I were in charge of Microsoft, I would create an entire division for Android mobile apps. Why do they even need windows phone, its reinventing the wheel. Microsoft Office is the moneymaker not windows itself. I cant imagine why Microsoft wouldnt create a version of Office for Android(with file compatibility with Windows).
The only problem is that they would probably need a new ceo to figure that out.
They have been researching digital cameras since the 1970s and have like 1000 patents relating to digital cameras. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sasson They literally the invented digital still camera and got a patent for it in 1978 Their patents have been tested in court. However Kodak seems to have no problems licensing its patents. Kodak doesnt pursue frivolous or overly broad claims. Kodak actually invented most of the digital camera technology existing today and licenses it to everybody.
The assumption of only 1 lifebearing planet in the universe of hundreds of billions of stars is pretty damn silly. Whether the drake equation is right or wrong, its pretty safe to say something is out there. cryptozoology seems like flaky science until they find something like the Okapi or the Giant Squid then its no longer cryptozoology its just zoology.
Is tv worse than it was in the 80s? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. There were some great shows on in the 80s but there was lots and lots of crap on in the 80s. Manimal, Dynasty. If you go back and actually watch shows from the 1980s they are unintentionally hilarious. There are many shows from the 1980s that do not age well.
The problem with cable video on demand is that price should have dropped continously but it hasnt. Its now cheaper to buy dvds than to watch VOD, and the internet has gotten to the point of where its cheap(or free) and good enough. While dropping porn demand is one problem for cable giants its just the symptom of the fact that their services(porn and otherwise) arent worth what they are charging.
Cable tv customers want their service to be a big fat pipe, and the problem is most of what the customers get on their cable tv packages are not what they want to watch. The future of tv is Roku where people buy their own tv box and pick their own channels.
As long as there is at least the appearance of fairness(even assuming long odds), everything is Ok. When people start believing the game is rigged (whether true or false) they refuse to play anymore.
Imagine "Lego Factory" a 3d printer designed to print low volume customized and/or specialized lego parts.
Imagine creating your own set of 100 lego blocks with any color you can imagine.
Of course if lego doesnt want to do that...someone else will...especially since the shape of the lego brick is no longer legally protected as a trademark.
Anyone willing to spend $1700 for an Apple Laptop has to be doing more with it than just surfing the web and playing games right??? *wink, wink, nudge nudge*
Constellation was a joke created primarily as space industry welfare and Obama was right to end it.
Spacex has done more in 3 years in getting a new rocket system off the ground than NASA did in 10 years at 1/10 the cost. I have every reason to believe that the Falcon Heavy demo flight will launch next year and dragon capsule will be ready on time to supply the space station.
Obama has done nothing but scrap unrealistic uberexpensive programs and focus on what is achieveable with what we actually have which is refreshing and can actually work.
Microsoft is now a parasite not a predator when it comes to linux and android. The most successful parasites are the ones the host barely notices($5 per phone...grumble,grumble now here leave me alone). Apple on the other hand is trying to use its patents to exterminate its competitors.
The author of the article clearly has no background in history and is just making stuff up. In London by 1736, the streets were lit all night long. Gas and oil lamps were common in homes by the time the electric light was introduced. Oil Lamps had been around for 1000s of years. Then you also had these things called candles. There was moral panic about the safety of the electric wires but that has nothing to do with the authors argument
Miss USA was only 1 of 2 contestants in the contest to come out for teaching evolution only, and spoke about it correctly referenced the stuart and tudor eras when talking about history, talked about her book collection and has come out in favor of gay marriage.
She may not be a geek in the slashdot tradition but shes geek-friendly and since there is not an overabundance of geek friendly smart hot girls I say cut her some slack.
"Copying something you didn't make yourself is generally classified as stealing unless the creator specifically says otherwise, and always has been, long before there was copyright law, regardless of whether the original continues to exist."
History test 1) What did christian monks typically do for some 1000 years until the invention of the printing press?
answer: Copy books by hand
2) What was the first book copied on the printing press?
answer: the bible
I know young men on slashdot would wish that there really was some 16 year old girl superhacker goddess out there. There may very well be but since the world loves female hackers they will likely be too worried about losing their college scholarship to be doing lulzsec kind of pointless crap.
"I'm pretty confident that towards the end of 2012 we will have an answer to the Shakespeare question for the Higgs boson, to be, or not to be?" Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director general of CERN, said at Britain's Royal Society."
Id be perfectly okay if you wait until 2013 to get your answers. Its not that I believe all these December 22,2012 things its just that some idiot who forgot to carry their zero might be stupid enough to rush something and accidentally cause some sort of catastrophe. Lets all just shut down all the accelerators on December 14th,2012 and give everyone a holiday until January 7th, 2013.
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If the supreme course declines to hear an appeal or it is not appealed , it does become binding caselaw within the first circuit
and damn persuasive everywhere else.
Wrong.
The US government implemented in 1918 what the US and Canadian Railroads had already agreed to in 1883.
It was the General Time Convention of 1883 that implemented the time zones , the government followed along 35 years later.
SpaceX has already delivered on its promises with the Falcon I and the Falcon V and the dragon test flight to the ISS is scheduled for this year.
Paypal is a con job? Apparently Ebay doesnt think so neither does most of the people who use it.
The truth is hes putting his name and his money on the line which is more than I can say for you.
Thats not a problem of technological vision (if you saw the were using finger slides just like they do with ipad today!)
The pile of PADDs was a metaphor for a pile of books. Also with cheap easily replicated pads you might actually want each pad to be on a different document.
Its not as crazy as it sounds. A version of powerpoint that would work with an android phone would be a fantastic application.
Imagine a scaled down version of Microsoft publisher for android tablets. If I were in charge of Microsoft, I would
create an entire division for Android mobile apps. Why do they even need windows phone, its reinventing the wheel.
Microsoft Office is the moneymaker not windows itself. I cant imagine why Microsoft wouldnt create a version
of Office for Android(with file compatibility with Windows).
The only problem is that they would probably need a new ceo to figure that out.
Speech that advocates specific criminal acts that endanger people or property is not and should not be protected by law.
Saying "burn baby burn" is free speech
saying "lets go steal some stuff from the grocery store tonight" is not
Android 2.2 and has Android market access.
Its not state of the art and it has a resistive touch screen but it runs the apps I want and I can use it with
my cheap prepaid sim card.
If I were Apple id be FAR more worried about the increasingly "cheap and good enough" android phones
than any crappy iphone knockoff.
They have been researching digital cameras since the 1970s and have like 1000 patents relating to digital cameras.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sasson
They literally the invented digital still camera and got a patent for it in 1978
Their patents have been tested in court. However Kodak seems to have no problems licensing its patents. Kodak
doesnt pursue frivolous or overly broad claims. Kodak actually invented most of the digital camera technology existing today
and licenses it to everybody.
Apple tried to claim a patent claim against kodak and got bitchslapped in May.
http://www.toledoblade.com/Courts/2011/05/16/Apple-loses-round-in-digital-camera-patent-dispute-with-Eastman-Kodak.html
The assumption of only 1 lifebearing planet in the universe of hundreds of billions of stars is pretty damn silly. Whether the drake equation is right or wrong, its pretty safe to say something is out there. cryptozoology seems like flaky science until they find something like the Okapi or the Giant Squid then its no longer cryptozoology its just zoology.
Is tv worse than it was in the 80s? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. There were some great shows on in the 80s
but there was lots and lots of crap on in the 80s. Manimal, Dynasty. If you go back and actually watch
shows from the 1980s they are unintentionally hilarious. There are many shows from the 1980s that do not age well.
The problem with cable video on demand is that price should have dropped continously but it hasnt. Its now cheaper
to buy dvds than to watch VOD, and the internet has gotten to the point of where its cheap(or free) and good enough.
While dropping porn demand is one problem for cable giants its just the symptom of the fact that their services(porn and otherwise)
arent worth what they are charging.
Cable tv customers want their service to be a big fat pipe, and the problem is most of what the customers get on their
cable tv packages are not what they want to watch. The future of tv is Roku where people buy their own tv box and pick their own channels.
As long as there is at least the appearance of fairness(even assuming long odds), everything is Ok.
When people start believing the game is rigged (whether true or false) they
refuse to play anymore.
Imagine "Lego Factory" a 3d printer designed to print low volume customized and/or specialized lego parts.
Imagine creating your own set of 100 lego blocks with any color you can imagine.
Of course if lego doesnt want to do that...someone else will...especially since the shape of the lego brick
is no longer legally protected as a trademark.
Anyone willing to spend $1700 for an Apple Laptop
has to be doing more with it than just surfing the web and playing games right???
*wink, wink, nudge nudge*
There would be someone out there that would make Bill Gates seem like a nice guy.
Constellation was a joke created primarily as space industry welfare and Obama was right to end it.
Spacex has done more in 3 years in getting a new rocket system off the ground than NASA did in 10 years
at 1/10 the cost. I have every reason to believe that the Falcon Heavy demo flight will launch next year and dragon
capsule will be ready on time to supply the space station.
Obama has done nothing but scrap unrealistic uberexpensive programs and focus on what is achieveable with what we actually
have which is refreshing and can actually work.
Purely defensive lol!
Microsoft is now a parasite not a predator when it comes to linux and android. The most successful parasites
are the ones the host barely notices($5 per phone...grumble,grumble now here leave me alone). Apple on the other
hand is trying to use its patents to exterminate its competitors.
The author of the article clearly has no background in history and is just making stuff up.
In London by 1736, the streets were lit all night long.
Gas and oil lamps were common in homes by the time the electric light was introduced. Oil Lamps
had been around for 1000s of years. Then you also had these things called candles.
There was moral panic about the safety of the electric wires but that has nothing to do with the authors argument
Miss USA was only 1 of 2 contestants in the contest to come out for teaching evolution only, and
spoke about it correctly referenced the stuart and tudor eras when talking about history,
talked about her book collection and has come out in favor of gay marriage.
She may not be a geek in the slashdot tradition but shes geek-friendly and since there is not
an overabundance of geek friendly smart hot girls I say cut her some slack.
"Copying something you didn't make yourself is generally classified as stealing unless the creator specifically says otherwise, and always has been, long before there was copyright law, regardless of whether the original continues to exist."
History test
1) What did christian monks typically do for some 1000 years until the invention of the printing press?
answer: Copy books by hand
2) What was the first book copied on the printing press?
answer: the bible
The Linux Mint guys still put the window buttons on the right, the start button on the bottom and use gnome 2.32.
The folks using linux mint like new stuff(flash, nvidia drivers) but they dont just embrace whatever Ubuntu fad comes down the pike.
No Im not related to Winklevoss
$65 million is a lot different from $1000
$1000 is piss on you money
$65 million is Youre still a bastard but um yeah its $65 million bucks.
I know young men on slashdot would wish that there really was some 16 year old girl superhacker goddess out there.
There may very well be but since the world loves female hackers they will likely be too worried about losing their college
scholarship to be doing lulzsec kind of pointless crap.
"I'm pretty confident that towards the end of 2012 we will have an answer to the Shakespeare question for the Higgs boson, to be, or not to be?" Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director general of CERN, said at Britain's Royal Society."
Id be perfectly okay if you wait until 2013 to get your answers. Its not that I believe all these December 22,2012 things its just that
some idiot who forgot to carry their zero might be stupid enough to rush something and accidentally cause some sort of catastrophe. Lets all just
shut down all the accelerators on December 14th,2012 and give everyone a holiday until January 7th, 2013.