More obviously, recent calculus books have attempted to incorporate graphing calculators and software packages
It's a calculus class, not a "how to use Mathematica" class. If you only learn how to type your homework into Maple/Mathematica/Calculator, then you really didn't learn calculus.
You will never understand the stuff unless you go slogging through it yourself. Once you understand it, THEN you use the tools.
Otherwise, you end up just being a technician, not a scientist/engineer/etc..
This was pretty much standard practice in a lot of places before November 22, 1998, the date before which the knowledge would have to be "public" in order to count as prior art against this particular submarine patent.
Too bad someone has to waste a lot of resources fighting something like this.
Forgot to say. You can't find it by searching on the AUS patent office web site. (by AUTH, NUM, or TITLE) Bit of an embarassment, but prohibiting access? Hmmn.
Sounds like this would make it possible for a retailer to copyright the information contained in weekly flyers and prohibit places like fatwallet.com from listing them.
(a) Whoever
(1) having knowingly accessed a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access....
So, the relevant question is: What is the legal definition of "authorization"?
(In law, words have very specific definitions, but which are not always synonymous with their colloquial counterparts.)
Administratively, the Repubs did not have authorization, but as far as the computer was concerned, they did. What say the lawyers? IANALBIUTDO (IANAL, but I used to date one).
I agree with him on the Finder. Apple has followed in Microsoft's footsteps by making finder window was too much space, al though they aren't as bad. At least they didn't turn the finder into a web browser.
How is this different from Macy's in New York, which has its own holding cell in their basement for shoplifters who have been detained and are awaiting the NYPD?
When you shoplift from Macy's, you're on their property.
Three (assume they're male) physics/engineering students are having a conversation.
The first one says, "The strangest thing happened to me the other day! I was walking across campus, minding my own business, when a beautiful woman rode up to me on her bicycle. She threw down the bike, tore off her clothes and threw them to the ground, and then cried to me, 'Take whatever you want!'."
His friends look at each other knowingly. One replies, "So, you took the bike, right?"
My first thought was the same as yours -- oil on water and asphyxiating fish. But that might not be the case.
They claim that their technique produces a monolayer on the surface. That's a layer one molecule thick. This would easily be disturbed by the slightest motion or breeze. The tiniest ripple would create local openings. In fact, this is probably why their reduction in water loss is so small -- only tens of percent. Lots of water gets out. This implies that lots of gases could also get in. (i.e., gas exchange with the atmosphere would perhaps be inhibited by tens of percent amount.)
...it seems so many scientists are out for a little fame and don't see the big pictures.
It's not scientists. It's companies that seek to capitalize on the fruits of science that you're looking to blame. Real scientists seek to understand the big picture. Companies look for new ways to make money.
I, too, used to care where my MP3's were on the HD. That was before any good jukebox software existed. Once iTunes (Mac) came out, I soon stopped caring. It's so easy to manage MP3s from iTunes, that doing it by the file system is pointless.
But if you insist on continuing to do it through the file system, just get MP3 Rage and let it batch rename and organize everything. That will take all of 10 minutes of your time.
Somebody please give me a chart or visual reference for when Kazaa is bad and when the RIAA is bad.
Dude, everything is shades of gray. No organization/person is absolutely good, or absolutely evil. Someone you like may sometimes do bad things, and someone you hate may sometimes do good things.
This is Slashdot, and the article is here because it raises interesting or potentially important issues about technology (and society).
Someone suggested ripping it open to find the bad parts... Don't! I killed my wonderful, first-generation 48SX trying to open it for cleaning a soda spill. (Yes, I could have used distilled water and dried over a few days, but I didn't want to lose 13 years' worth of equations and constants. You get 10 minutes of battery-out time.) It's not a press-fit or screwed case like you might expect. The two shell halves are fused/welded together, and tearing it open will destroy the case, as well as ripping apart the internal component connections. I don't think it was designed to ever be opened.
According to the lesson, the volunteer would then "ask them how they felt when they realized that their work was stolen and that they would not get anything for their efforts."
What a great lesson in what is feels like to sign on with a major record label.
They're trying to sell you something. So, doesn't that make it commercial speech , which does not have the same protections as strongly as free (individidual or corporate) speech?
They've had automatic electronic luggage storage lockers (!) in some German rail terminals for at least three years, based on NT. I'm not kidding. Internal robotic compartment switching to save space. They seemed to BSOD regularly, leaving numerous travelers in the lurch. I used the old-fashioned mechanical key lockers.
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More obviously, recent calculus books have attempted to incorporate graphing calculators and software packages
It's a calculus class, not a "how to use Mathematica" class. If you only learn how to type your homework into Maple/Mathematica/Calculator, then you really didn't learn calculus.
You will never understand the stuff unless you go slogging through it yourself. Once you understand it, THEN you use the tools.
Otherwise, you end up just being a technician, not a scientist/engineer/etc..
This was pretty much standard practice in a lot of places before November 22, 1998, the date before which the knowledge would have to be "public" in order to count as prior art against this particular submarine patent.
Too bad someone has to waste a lot of resources fighting something like this.
Forgot to say. You can't find it by searching on the AUS patent office web site. (by AUTH, NUM, or TITLE) Bit of an embarassment, but prohibiting access? Hmmn.
In the real world, you can file for a patent on literally anything.....swinging sideways on a swing
Or the wheel
Or excercising a cat using a laser pointer
Sounds like this would make it possible for a retailer to copyright the information contained in weekly flyers and prohibit places like fatwallet.com from listing them.
BINGO!
Mod the parent up. Please!
(a) Whoever (1) having knowingly accessed a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access....
So, the relevant question is: What is the legal definition of "authorization"?
(In law, words have very specific definitions, but which are not always synonymous with their colloquial counterparts.)
Administratively, the Repubs did not have authorization, but as far as the computer was concerned, they did. What say the lawyers? IANALBIUTDO (IANAL, but I used to date one).
To find fax numbers, the company used a sophisticated automated "war dialing" system that randomly called and recorded millions of fax numbers.
I think "sophisitcated" means they call every damn number they can, sequentially, every damn week.
five small circles in a particular configuration
But, there must be more. Photoshop CS won't open a scan of the front of a new US $20, either. I can't find the pattern of circles there anywhere.
But I have not found a solution for Flash-overs, that is, flash monstrosities that overwhelm the content of a page.
:-)
I did. I deleted all files associated with Shockwave/Flash. I have encountered very few sites (that I NEED to go to) that absolutely require it.
GIF animations are also off, but I still do get the occasional often-changing static graphic image.
For those I use Post-Its(TM).
I agree with him on the Finder. Apple has followed in Microsoft's footsteps by making finder window was too much space, al though they aren't as bad. At least they didn't turn the finder into a web browser.
You can turn off the sidebar.
How is this different from Macy's in New York, which has its own holding cell in their basement for shoplifters who have been detained and are awaiting the NYPD?
When you shoplift from Macy's, you're on their property.
Bill certainly thinks it's, he has been selling stock like crazy.
Not that much, really. He's only sold about 0.1 % of his holdings recently.
Three (assume they're male) physics/engineering students are having a conversation.
The first one says, "The strangest thing happened to me the other day! I was walking across campus, minding my own business, when a beautiful woman rode up to me on her bicycle. She threw down the bike, tore off her clothes and threw them to the ground, and then cried to me, 'Take whatever you want!'."
His friends look at each other knowingly. One replies, "So, you took the bike, right?"
"Of course! The clothes never would have fit me."
But for how long?
I think it was actually an advertisement disguised as an article.
Let's see, what alternatives did he suggest?
My first thought was the same as yours -- oil on water and asphyxiating fish. But that might not be the case.
They claim that their technique produces a monolayer on the surface. That's a layer one molecule thick. This would easily be disturbed by the slightest motion or breeze. The tiniest ripple would create local openings. In fact, this is probably why their reduction in water loss is so small -- only tens of percent. Lots of water gets out. This implies that lots of gases could also get in. (i.e., gas exchange with the atmosphere would perhaps be inhibited by tens of percent amount.)
It's not scientists. It's companies that seek to capitalize on the fruits of science that you're looking to blame. Real scientists seek to understand the big picture. Companies look for new ways to make money.
The Zip disk never caught on? Inexcpliciably, it did. But why didn't the Jaz disk?
I, too, used to care where my MP3's were on the HD. That was before any good jukebox software existed. Once iTunes (Mac) came out, I soon stopped caring. It's so easy to manage MP3s from iTunes, that doing it by the file system is pointless.
But if you insist on continuing to do it through the file system, just get MP3 Rage and let it batch rename and organize everything. That will take all of 10 minutes of your time.
Somebody please give me a chart or visual reference for when Kazaa is bad and when the RIAA is bad.
Dude, everything is shades of gray. No organization/person is absolutely good, or absolutely evil. Someone you like may sometimes do bad things, and someone you hate may sometimes do good things.
This is Slashdot, and the article is here because it raises interesting or potentially important issues about technology (and society).
Someone suggested ripping it open to find the bad parts... Don't! I killed my wonderful, first-generation 48SX trying to open it for cleaning a soda spill. (Yes, I could have used distilled water and dried over a few days, but I didn't want to lose 13 years' worth of equations and constants. You get 10 minutes of battery-out time.) It's not a press-fit or screwed case like you might expect. The two shell halves are fused/welded together, and tearing it open will destroy the case, as well as ripping apart the internal component connections. I don't think it was designed to ever be opened.
According to the lesson, the volunteer would then "ask them how they felt when they realized that their work was stolen and that they would not get anything for their efforts." What a great lesson in what is feels like to sign on with a major record label.
They're trying to sell you something. So, doesn't that make it commercial speech , which does not have the same protections as strongly as free (individidual or corporate) speech?
Take a look at his purchasing behavior at Safeway - Goya rice, three separate purchases of mangos.
And what's this? Kim-chee? Bean paste, pickled bamboo, and guava? Any connection to North Korea here? Has he purchased any maps of North Korea lately?
Also appears to be an avid news reader, and heavy user of public transportation. Definitely a troublemaker.
They've had automatic electronic luggage storage lockers (!) in some German rail terminals for at least three years, based on NT. I'm not kidding. Internal robotic compartment switching to save space. They seemed to BSOD regularly, leaving numerous travelers in the lurch. I used the old-fashioned mechanical key lockers.