Thank you for your service, sailor. Glad you made it home in one piece.
My grandfather worked at the shipyard at Sparrows' Point in Baltimore. He told me about one repair job they had where the bow of a Navy ship, (I forget what type exactly; not a battleship but bigger than a destroyer) had been bent by a wave. A smaller vessel would have pitch-poled, but this one basically got the bow crunched down several feet. The shipyard cut the bow off and replaced it.
Don't you have to prove that you lost money when you are suing for damages?
Depends. In copyright law, there are statutory damages, that basically say that for x instances of copyright violation, the plaintiff is entitled to recover y dollars if he prevails.
Let's not forget that Harvard was founded as a bible-thumper school. It was basically the Oral Roberts University of its day, and as it became a secular institution, the one thing it preserved from its Puritan origins is the belief that Harvard graduates are entitled to tell other people what to do.
*I* have built R/C planes of the hand launched variety (3-5 foot wingspan) that can stay aloft for 2+ hours on *BATTERIES*
That's nice. What was their on-board avionics complement like? How many cameras, and did you have visible light only, or IR and UV sensors as well? How about chemical sniffers, GPS, or encrypted and jamming-hardened radios? How about motion compensation? Autopilot if control link was lost?
What you can build for hobby purposes, and what's practical for a military mission are very different things. Your R/C planes only have to have a receiver good for visual range (a couple hundred meters at most), and you don't even have any downlink.
I've built R/C planes too, and I also worked on the ground control station for a target drone UAV many years ago. You're the one who doesn't know what he's talking about, son.
UAVs have to make a trade-off of size for endurance. A UAV like the predator can stay aloft for hours, but something small enough to hand-launch would be impressive if it could even carry enough fuel to stay aloft for half an hour.
somehow this guy managed to spin the FM tuner as a mistake.
That's because it is a mistake. When deciding what features to include in a product, the important question is how many of your customers want it and whether that justifies the cost on every single unit.
I had assumed that Mark Cuban had to have at least two brain cells to rub together to strike it rich like he did with a dot com, but I guess it really was a matter of luck.
The patents in question are bullshit, 100%. Even more egregious than Amazon's "one click" patent. They have a fucking PATENT on sending video faster than real-time. Sorry, there's no way that passes the "non-obvious" requirement.
What Burst demonstrates is the desperate need for competent examiners in the USPTO.
If I were in the computer business in the Maryland side of the DC area, I'd make sure to move my office down the Beltway to Virginia
Absolutely.
The start-up I'm working on now needs a DC area office for federal government customers, and the chances of that office being located in MD is now nil.
Which was the plan for Longhorn, too. Whatever their intentions may be, they simply lack the ability to execute a plan in a timely manner, due primarily to management incompetence, and also in large part to the brain-drain they've been suffering ever since the stock price went flat.
Why would a loving, caring God or deity damn you to an eternity of torture that you cannot possibly comprehend?
It wouldn't, of course.
The thing to realize about superstition is that the imaginary friend in the sky is a projection of the person preaching about it. So, a decent human being who's superstitious will tell you about a sweet, loving, imaginary friend who will carry you through hardships (like that insipid, "footprints in the sand" screed you see everywhere), and a flaming asshole will tell you about his all-powerful, vicious and vengeful imaginary friend who will burn your body forever and ever in a lake of sulphur.
It's interesting to listen to superstitious people, sometimes. It really helps you figure out whether they're decent people or not.
The "religious right" wants to live their lives without having to bow to the totalitarian left's new government rules.
Not quite. They also seek to abuse the power of government to enforce their superstition on others. Right or left, superstitious or secular, the enemy is that which seeks the subjugation of the individual to the collective.
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Thank you for your service, sailor. Glad you made it home in one piece.
My grandfather worked at the shipyard at Sparrows' Point in Baltimore. He told me about one repair job they had where the bow of a Navy ship, (I forget what type exactly; not a battleship but bigger than a destroyer) had been bent by a wave. A smaller vessel would have pitch-poled, but this one basically got the bow crunched down several feet. The shipyard cut the bow off and replaced it.
-jcr
So, being an atheist, am I risking anti-trust litigation?
-jcr
Don't you have to prove that you lost money when you are suing for damages?
Depends. In copyright law, there are statutory damages, that basically say that for x instances of copyright violation, the plaintiff is entitled to recover y dollars if he prevails.
-jcr
Let's not forget that Harvard was founded as a bible-thumper school. It was basically the Oral Roberts University of its day, and as it became a secular institution, the one thing it preserved from its Puritan origins is the belief that Harvard graduates are entitled to tell other people what to do.
-jcr
Oh, my god. If I ever saw something like that at sea, I'd have a hard time facing a swimming pool after that.
-jcr
I think you need to learn the difference between the cost of a part, and the cost of including a part in a product.
-jcr
Tell you what: file an unsolicited proposal with DARPA for a UAV with only a two-mile operational range, and let us know how it goes.
-jcr
*I* have built R/C planes of the hand launched variety (3-5 foot wingspan) that can stay aloft for 2+ hours on *BATTERIES*
That's nice. What was their on-board avionics complement like? How many cameras, and did you have visible light only, or IR and UV sensors as well? How about chemical sniffers, GPS, or encrypted and jamming-hardened radios? How about motion compensation? Autopilot if control link was lost?
What you can build for hobby purposes, and what's practical for a military mission are very different things. Your R/C planes only have to have a receiver good for visual range (a couple hundred meters at most), and you don't even have any downlink.
I've built R/C planes too, and I also worked on the ground control station for a target drone UAV many years ago. You're the one who doesn't know what he's talking about, son.
-jcr
UAVs have to make a trade-off of size for endurance. A UAV like the predator can stay aloft for hours, but something small enough to hand-launch would be impressive if it could even carry enough fuel to stay aloft for half an hour.
-jcr
somehow this guy managed to spin the FM tuner as a mistake.
That's because it is a mistake. When deciding what features to include in a product, the important question is how many of your customers want it and whether that justifies the cost on every single unit.
-jcr
Can someone explain to me why anyone should care about what Mark Cuban says?
Sorry, I'm still trying to figure out why anyone should care what Bill Gates says...
-jcr
I had assumed that Mark Cuban had to have at least two brain cells to rub together to strike it rich like he did with a dot com, but I guess it really was a matter of luck.
-jcr
The patents in question are bullshit, 100%. Even more egregious than Amazon's "one click" patent. They have a fucking PATENT on sending video faster than real-time. Sorry, there's no way that passes the "non-obvious" requirement.
What Burst demonstrates is the desperate need for competent examiners in the USPTO.
-jcr
If I were in the computer business in the Maryland side of the DC area, I'd make sure to move my office down the Beltway to Virginia
Absolutely.
The start-up I'm working on now needs a DC area office for federal government customers, and the chances of that office being located in MD is now nil.
-jcr
So, no new IT companies in Maryland, and out-of-state vendors will prefer to work for clients who aren't in Maryland.
Yeah, the legislators have really screwed the pooch here.
-jcr
Why is it bad to censor Sesame Street but good to censor Intelligent Design?
Try again, sunshine. I didn't advocate censoring either one.
-jcr
Does putting words in other people's mouths usually work for you?
-jcr
That was over 80 years ago.
You seem to have missed the recent attempts to bring superstition back into the classrooms. Google for "Intelligent Design".
-jcr
Which is why they are shooting for a year or two.
Which was the plan for Longhorn, too. Whatever their intentions may be, they simply lack the ability to execute a plan in a timely manner, due primarily to management incompetence, and also in large part to the brain-drain they've been suffering ever since the stock price went flat.
-jcr
Spend a little quality time with Wikipedia, and look up the Scopes Trial, for a start.
-jcr
Why would a loving, caring God or deity damn you to an eternity of torture that you cannot possibly comprehend?
It wouldn't, of course.
The thing to realize about superstition is that the imaginary friend in the sky is a projection of the person preaching about it. So, a decent human being who's superstitious will tell you about a sweet, loving, imaginary friend who will carry you through hardships (like that insipid, "footprints in the sand" screed you see everywhere), and a flaming asshole will tell you about his all-powerful, vicious and vengeful imaginary friend who will burn your body forever and ever in a lake of sulphur.
It's interesting to listen to superstitious people, sometimes. It really helps you figure out whether they're decent people or not.
-jcr
The "religious right" wants to live their lives without having to bow to the totalitarian left's new government rules.
Not quite. They also seek to abuse the power of government to enforce their superstition on others. Right or left, superstitious or secular, the enemy is that which seeks the subjugation of the individual to the collective.
-jcr
Unfortunately, there is nothing a civil judgment can do that would even approach justice.
It will fall short of justice, but it might make some future sociopath think twice before doing something that would result in their financial ruin.
-jcr
I reply to whatever I feel like answering, whether or not the poster is an AC. Did you have some kind of point you were trying to make?
-jcr
Why do you insist on defending him?
I haven't expressed any opinion about him at all.
-jcr