Uh, I like the idea of driving being a privilege. No one should be on the road without demonstrating that they have the capability to handle a ton of metal without killing people.
You are confusing the issue.
The problem is not about "capability to handle a ton of metal"
The problem lies in the fact that why does it have to take a ton (and often more than that) of metal to carry a person from point A to point B?
If the materials that are used to build up a vehicle weight much less than the weight of the passenger(s) then the matter regarding the "capability to handle heavy things" is all but moot.
We both told her that version control was an invaluable tool for any kind of software development, but had a difficult time describing to her what exactly version control was
I attempted to explain that it created a log of all the changes made to the code and allowed us to make sure that multiple developers working on the same project would not step on each other's toes
Look, geeks evolve too.
In the olden days, geeks were geeks, and geeks didn't have to say non-geeky things to non-geeks.
Nowadays, it's different. We have to explain very geeky things to non-geeks and you just can't load up all the jargons and tell it to the non-geeks. They will go bonkers !!
Nowadays we geeks have evolved into geeks who can speak every-day-language using non-geeky-examples, ie., analogies
In the case like TFA, the submitter could have use the example of a recipe, a kitchen, and 3 cooks.
The intended project is the recipe. The cooks as the programmers, and the kitchen is the programming environment.
Where the version control fits in? The food, of course !
If the recipe calls for 3 eggs, two scrambled and one sunny side up, and cook A already done one egg scrambled, he better let cook B and cook C know what he has accomplished. That's where version control comes in.
In this way, non-geeks can get a clearly picture in their mind, on how a version control software functions.
In my career spanning decades, I had to explain all kinds of very geeky things to very very awkward non-geeks, and I have to make them understand the details without making them jumping off the 55th floor.
There are not more than 8 factories that I know of, that are producing industrial-grade ultra-capacitors, that are to be deployed for the purpose of power-storage / power-stabilizing, near power generating plants and also in the power grid.
And all the factories are churning out ultra-capacitors as fast as they can.
But it is not enough.
That is why it will take some time for more ultra-capacitors to show up in places that need them.
The bottle-neck is with the manufacturers.
The main patent for the ultra-capacitors is owned by Sanyo, of Japan.
They were actually trying to find ways to develop an ultra-capacity rechargeable battery. They came up with the idea of using nano-scale materials (that was back in the late 1990's or so) and successfully produced a re-chargeable NiMH battery that can keep the charge for as long as 36 months, and at 97% capacity.
That patent was subsequently licensed to other re-chargeable battery manufacturers - including GP and Energizer.
And later, someone found that the same technique can be also used in enhancing ultra-capacitors, so they licensed it to capacitor manufacturers.
However, the industrial grade capacitor manufacturers in this planet that we live in happen to behave much like OPEC.
There are only few manufacturers and they control the market, and they restrict the manufacturing to only a handful factories - so that they can charge an arm and a leg for their products.
I think you underestimate how good compilers have become
Nope.
I know how good compilers have become - especially compilers from the makers of the particular processor the program supposed to be run on.
But I guess you may have missed the "so-so programmer" I've mentioned.
Even the top-line compiler can't produce a top-notch program if been fed source code by a so-so programmer.
There are a lot of ways to write programs.
From the so-so programmers, the source code read like a bowl of bland noodles.
But from a top-notch programmer, he or she would know how to structure his/her program in such a manner similar to what a top-notch chef can get out of a bowl of bland noodles.
The question I have is how it's less expensive (in the long run) to lay a chip out by hand once instead of improving your VLSI layout software forever.
No matter how much improvement on VLSI layout software their output can't match that of hand-laid layout by those who know what they are doing.
The VLSI layout software are like compilers. The final compiled code relies on two factors - the source-code input and the built-in "rules" of the compilers.
A similar case is in software programming - The source code from a so-so programmer compiled by a very very good compiler will result in a "good-enough" result.
It's good enough because it gets the job done.
However, a similar program by an expert Assembly Language programmer would have left "good enough" behind because the assembly language programmer would know how to tweak his code using the most efficient commands, and cut out the 'fats" by optimizing the loops and flows.
Advancement on capacitor technology resulted in capacitors that can store HUGE amount of electricity for a LONG time, with miniscule loss.
And many are being deployed in power grids - not only as a power storage but also acting as a power stabilizer - the ultra-capacitor can "soak up" power spikes and release power during "brown outs".
All the above links are all based on what actually had happened. They are not propaganda.
Unlike the liberals in the US who lives on anti-US propaganda, the Christian minority in Pakistan have no luxury at all living in the world of propaganda.
Every single day of their lives they have to go through the gauntlet of threats and insults.
Every single day some one from their community got beaten up or killed or raped or forcibly converted into Islam.
Every single day in their lives tragedy happens.
But you do not get to read any of that in the main stream media, do you?
That is because the Western main stream media, - from New York Times to Le Monde of France, - are being controlled by the liberals who hate Christianity more than anything else.
They will not report any news on the persecution of the Christian minority in Indonesia or in Pakistan.
But if ever there is a single case of Muslim being hurt or killed, you bet on the next day those liberal controlled main-stream-media will have their BIG HEADLINE blaring "Evil Christian killing peace loving Muslims !!!"
Before Islam invaded Pakistan, people there were of the Hindu and Buddhism religion.
Christianity had reached Pakistan (and Iran and Afghanistan and India) way before that pedophile "profart" was born. One of the 12 disciples had gone to that region to spread the Word, and was later put to death by a local chieftain.
If you do not know much about Pakistan, the following story may of help ---
A Christian girl with mental retardation was accused of blasphemy to Islam, by her next door neighbor, coincidently, happened to be an Islamic Imam.
According to that Islamic Imam, that Christian girl had burned pages from the so-called "Holy Quran" - and because of that, the girl was jailed on the charge of "Blasphemy" - and if convicted, can be put to death.
Immediately the whole nation of Pakistan was up in arm. Muslims threatening to kill the minority Christians, Christian churches were attacked and burned, and entire Christian community had to be vacated due to the threats.
After much twists and turns, it was reported that the "burned pages of Quran" was the making of that so-called "Islamic Imam".
That "Islamic Imam" was the one who framed that Christian girl, by putting burnt pages of Quran into the girl's bag.
And because Pakistan is a nation filled with hatreds, the minority Christians are still being threatened, and that Christian girl is still under the official charge of "Blasphemy", although a court granted her a bail.
That Christian girl still face immense danger. She could still be killed by the angry Islamic mob, or the Pakistan authority itself.
A nation like that wants the world to follow suit?
My relatives tell me that the Shah was reasonably fair â" sure, kind of a dictator, but he and his father had taken the country from an agragrian backwater to a modern industrial society in a matter of two generations â" and basically... the U.S. funded student groups, pro-democracy organizations, &c and sowed dissent so that none of them would agree enough to stand in unity... and then gave guns to the Ayatollah.
I really like the United States of America. I stayed there for many many years, and there, I have met with a lot of very, very good friends.
I love the American spirit. I truly admire the original intent of America - At least according to what the founding fathers (and also President Abe Lincoln) had written, including the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Gettysburg Address.
However, I have to confess that I simply can not understand what the government of USA is doing, for the past few decades.
Instead of carrying out the mission of the founding fathers, the US government has been doing a lot to the opposite.
Many years from now, historians in the future will compile the things the the government of the United States of America had been doing, since World War I, and they will find out that the United States of America is no more than a "name", a "label", a "billboard".
The spirit that made America so much different from the rest is long gone.
It's unfortunate, but it's the truth.
Nowadays it's not cool to say things that I've said, and I know that I will be modded down.
But, if this message (and others) can be archived, so that future generations get the chance to read, they may get to see a clearer picture of what is happening right now.
This whole concept underlines what is so critically wrong with the Iranian regime. It's not that it is an authoritarian government, it's that it is an authoritarian government that knows a lot about being authoritarian, but lacks the imagination or wit to understand that if you keep adopting measures that suppress economic activity, sooner or later the house of cards will topple and the very power you seek to keep in your clutches will fall away.
You mentioned 3 countries - Iran, China and Burma.
You also pointed out that China and Burma have not done what Iran is doing.
Now, let me ask you this - What truly differentiate the Iranian dictatorship from that of Burma and/or China?
Unfortunately, they took my criticism very badly and accused me of having been recruited by the Kremlin. I don't have any relations with them now. I think these people must leave the political stage and engage themselves in writing stories and blogs, exposing corruption schemes and so on, and leave the political work to those who want to struggle for power in earnest. You, for example?
Why not? I could make a very good opposition candidate.
I do not know why TFA appears on Slashdot.
What is Slashdot anyway?
Is Slashdot a place for geeks whose interests are girls and tech.
Or has Slashdot become a place for fanbois of Western democracies?
Is Slashdot so hard up on credible stories that this type of shameless plug of a pathetic Russian politician.
TFA has nothing to do with sexy technology, nor anything about online censorship.
Except that they're not. The Russians were fooled once with Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Unbridled capitalism does not work. Putin is a dictator, but he is a dictator who wants Russia to remain strong and to make oligarchs subservient to the interests of the state.
It's exactly the same approach which has made China successful, except that China is about forty years behind in human rights terms: allow businessmen to get rich by doing whatever it is they do as long as they don't act against the interests of the country. By doing exactly the opposite since Reagan/Thatcher - i.e. making governments subservient to the will of big business - we are now in the shit.
I would vote Putin any day. I don't want the right to a free press which will be ignored anyway - illusions of freedom serve no purpose to anyone but the stupid.
Maybe they did think it was public domain due to its age.
One can say the same about a rectangle with rounded corners, and many other so-called "Apple designs", that Apple has stolen from others, including Braun.
The above jibber-jabber you replied to is siding with Iran even though he didn't say so.
By implying that a new "Hitler" could rise out of the West while all the signs are pointing towards the Middle East and the surrounding area - Iran, Pakistan, Yemen, Egypt, Libya.
Shutting out Google / YouTube is not the only thing Iran is doing.
Iran is also banning Female Students from taking courses in 77 subjects, including English Literature, Nuclear Science, Sociology, Philosophy
um... but round corners is.... well... stupid and shouldn't be patentable. Where as, this is a rather blatant, and obvious direct copy of a piece of artwork. Whomever owns that clock design should sue the shit out of apple.
I am not standing up for Apple. I do not like what Apple is doing, but still, we need to be able to differentiate who's the original culprit in this case.
Anyone can try their luck and apply for whatever lame patents based on whatever lame claim that they can come up with
It's the patent office that has absolutely fucked up for awarding lame patents such as that rectangle with rounded corners patent to Apple.
As for the clock design, yes, Apple must be sued for infringing on the copyrights of others.
They should be made to cough up at least 3 times the total revenue they've received that is linked to the clock design they have so blatantly stolen.
The real culprit was that whatever "yahya" cult (sounds like Islamic) that took the effort to redub the video and re-upload the vid back on to Youtube as though they are the original producer.
They are the same ones who rioted over a lousily made video and now they are stealing other people's video and claim it as their own.
Every day NSA gathers 4 times the amount of data of the entire library of congress
I do not question the availability of the disk space for all those data - after all, NSA has an unlimited budget on purchasing hard disks.
But...
How are they going to crunch all those data?
How big the machine they have to crunch at least 40 petabytes of data every-single day?
And we are not talking about simple crunching - they need to sieve through all those data to find things that are worth to keep - and then, many of those things that are worth to keep may themselves be encrypted (terrorists ain't stupid these days) - and it takes a helluva juice to decrypt all those encrypted data.
I disagree with that. I don't think either side would have failed to hand cash to GM.
When I said you guys have voted in the WRONG PEOPLEI do not mean Republican vs. Democrats.
Both are as bad.
What America truly needs is a totally new crop of politicians, neither from the donkey nor from the elephant party, who will work for the people, the country and the world, and not for the corporations.
Took a glimpse at TFA looking for details about the 2 application packages...
Package #1 seems to be an administrative type of software - Student Data Aggregation Calculator
If I am not wrong, I think that has already been produced.
Back in the 1990's there was an open-sourced school program movement and they produced a lot of software, for students as well as for the teachers / school administrators.
I am still trying to recall the name...
As for the second application... they haven't even decided yet.
And the worse part of the whole thing is --- the whole thing sounded like they want the software to run on Microsoft Windows.
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Uh, I like the idea of driving being a privilege. No one should be on the road without demonstrating that they have the capability to handle a ton of metal without killing people.
You are confusing the issue.
The problem is not about "capability to handle a ton of metal"
The problem lies in the fact that why does it have to take a ton (and often more than that) of metal to carry a person from point A to point B?
If the materials that are used to build up a vehicle weight much less than the weight of the passenger(s) then the matter regarding the "capability to handle heavy things" is all but moot.
Plus it has the effect on fuel savings, as well.
From TFA:
We both told her that version control was an invaluable tool for any kind of software development, but had a difficult time describing to her what exactly version control was
I attempted to explain that it created a log of all the changes made to the code and allowed us to make sure that multiple developers working on the same project would not step on each other's toes
Look, geeks evolve too.
In the olden days, geeks were geeks, and geeks didn't have to say non-geeky things to non-geeks.
Nowadays, it's different. We have to explain very geeky things to non-geeks and you just can't load up all the jargons and tell it to the non-geeks. They will go bonkers !!
Nowadays we geeks have evolved into geeks who can speak every-day-language using non-geeky-examples, ie., analogies
In the case like TFA, the submitter could have use the example of a recipe, a kitchen, and 3 cooks.
The intended project is the recipe. The cooks as the programmers, and the kitchen is the programming environment.
Where the version control fits in? The food, of course !
If the recipe calls for 3 eggs, two scrambled and one sunny side up, and cook A already done one egg scrambled, he better let cook B and cook C know what he has accomplished. That's where version control comes in.
In this way, non-geeks can get a clearly picture in their mind, on how a version control software functions.
In my career spanning decades, I had to explain all kinds of very geeky things to very very awkward non-geeks, and I have to make them understand the details without making them jumping off the 55th floor.
Tea Partiers hate far more than just the current administration. They hate women's rights, they hate gay rights, they hate minority rights
You better come up with solid proof of what you said.
The term "TEA" stands for Tax Enough Already
The TEA party is about TAX - yes, TAX
It has nothing to do with hating women rights, or hating gays, or hating minority.
If you can't come up with solid proof of what you said, you are nothing but a pathetic liberal troll !
There are not more than 8 factories that I know of, that are producing industrial-grade ultra-capacitors, that are to be deployed for the purpose of power-storage / power-stabilizing, near power generating plants and also in the power grid.
And all the factories are churning out ultra-capacitors as fast as they can.
But it is not enough.
That is why it will take some time for more ultra-capacitors to show up in places that need them.
The bottle-neck is with the manufacturers.
The main patent for the ultra-capacitors is owned by Sanyo, of Japan.
They were actually trying to find ways to develop an ultra-capacity rechargeable battery. They came up with the idea of using nano-scale materials (that was back in the late 1990's or so) and successfully produced a re-chargeable NiMH battery that can keep the charge for as long as 36 months, and at 97% capacity.
That patent was subsequently licensed to other re-chargeable battery manufacturers - including GP and Energizer.
And later, someone found that the same technique can be also used in enhancing ultra-capacitors, so they licensed it to capacitor manufacturers.
However, the industrial grade capacitor manufacturers in this planet that we live in happen to behave much like OPEC.
There are only few manufacturers and they control the market, and they restrict the manufacturing to only a handful factories - so that they can charge an arm and a leg for their products.
I think you underestimate how good compilers have become
Nope.
I know how good compilers have become - especially compilers from the makers of the particular processor the program supposed to be run on.
But I guess you may have missed the "so-so programmer" I've mentioned.
Even the top-line compiler can't produce a top-notch program if been fed source code by a so-so programmer.
There are a lot of ways to write programs.
From the so-so programmers, the source code read like a bowl of bland noodles.
But from a top-notch programmer, he or she would know how to structure his/her program in such a manner similar to what a top-notch chef can get out of a bowl of bland noodles.
I am not from Pakistan, but I have been there.
About what you said ---
there are lots of places to live in the world. if that one sucks, move!
I guess you may be able to find the answer in the following link --
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3139989&cid=41446099
The question I have is how it's less expensive (in the long run) to lay a chip out by hand once instead of improving your VLSI layout software forever.
No matter how much improvement on VLSI layout software their output can't match that of hand-laid layout by those who know what they are doing.
The VLSI layout software are like compilers. The final compiled code relies on two factors - the source-code input and the built-in "rules" of the compilers.
A similar case is in software programming - The source code from a so-so programmer compiled by a very very good compiler will result in a "good-enough" result.
It's good enough because it gets the job done.
However, a similar program by an expert Assembly Language programmer would have left "good enough" behind because the assembly language programmer would know how to tweak his code using the most efficient commands, and cut out the 'fats" by optimizing the loops and flows.
Pumped storage plant has been used since the 1960's, but it does require a dam.
On places where there is no dam, this method can not be deployed.
However, technological advancement has enabled us another way - by using ultra-capacitors.
http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/piprod/documents/Session_D_Miller_rev.pdf
Advancement on capacitor technology resulted in capacitors that can store HUGE amount of electricity for a LONG time, with miniscule loss.
And many are being deployed in power grids - not only as a power storage but also acting as a power stabilizer - the ultra-capacitor can "soak up" power spikes and release power during "brown outs".
If you really want to know how the Christian minority in Pakistan are being treated, here are some links you should explore:
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=2556
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=3659
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/vieweditorial.php?editorialid=23
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=3765
http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/pakistan/15560
All the above links are all based on what actually had happened. They are not propaganda.
Unlike the liberals in the US who lives on anti-US propaganda, the Christian minority in Pakistan have no luxury at all living in the world of propaganda.
Every single day of their lives they have to go through the gauntlet of threats and insults.
Every single day some one from their community got beaten up or killed or raped or forcibly converted into Islam.
Every single day in their lives tragedy happens.
But you do not get to read any of that in the main stream media, do you?
That is because the Western main stream media, - from New York Times to Le Monde of France, - are being controlled by the liberals who hate Christianity more than anything else.
They will not report any news on the persecution of the Christian minority in Indonesia or in Pakistan.
But if ever there is a single case of Muslim being hurt or killed, you bet on the next day those liberal controlled main-stream-media will have their BIG HEADLINE blaring "Evil Christian killing peace loving Muslims !!!"
Before Islam invaded Pakistan, people there were of the Hindu and Buddhism religion.
Christianity had reached Pakistan (and Iran and Afghanistan and India) way before that pedophile "profart" was born. One of the 12 disciples had gone to that region to spread the Word, and was later put to death by a local chieftain.
If the Pakistanis like USA so much, why do they harbour Al Queda and the Talibans?
If the Pakistanis Muslims respect the Christians, why do they persecute the Christian minorities in their country?
Besides, the so-called "survey" is carried out by the liberals who themselves harbour so much hatred to the US of A.
If you do not know much about Pakistan, the following story may of help ---
A Christian girl with mental retardation was accused of blasphemy to Islam, by her next door neighbor, coincidently, happened to be an Islamic Imam.
According to that Islamic Imam, that Christian girl had burned pages from the so-called "Holy Quran" - and because of that, the girl was jailed on the charge of "Blasphemy" - and if convicted, can be put to death.
Immediately the whole nation of Pakistan was up in arm. Muslims threatening to kill the minority Christians, Christian churches were attacked and burned, and entire Christian community had to be vacated due to the threats.
After much twists and turns, it was reported that the "burned pages of Quran" was the making of that so-called "Islamic Imam".
That "Islamic Imam" was the one who framed that Christian girl, by putting burnt pages of Quran into the girl's bag.
And because Pakistan is a nation filled with hatreds, the minority Christians are still being threatened, and that Christian girl is still under the official charge of "Blasphemy", although a court granted her a bail.
That Christian girl still face immense danger. She could still be killed by the angry Islamic mob, or the Pakistan authority itself.
A nation like that wants the world to follow suit?
My relatives tell me that the Shah was reasonably fair â" sure, kind of a dictator, but he and his father had taken the country from an agragrian backwater to a modern industrial society in a matter of two generations â" and basically... the U.S. funded student groups, pro-democracy organizations, &c and sowed dissent so that none of them would agree enough to stand in unity... and then gave guns to the Ayatollah.
I really like the United States of America. I stayed there for many many years, and there, I have met with a lot of very, very good friends.
I love the American spirit. I truly admire the original intent of America - At least according to what the founding fathers (and also President Abe Lincoln) had written, including the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Gettysburg Address.
However, I have to confess that I simply can not understand what the government of USA is doing, for the past few decades.
Instead of carrying out the mission of the founding fathers, the US government has been doing a lot to the opposite.
Many years from now, historians in the future will compile the things the the government of the United States of America had been doing, since World War I, and they will find out that the United States of America is no more than a "name", a "label", a "billboard".
The spirit that made America so much different from the rest is long gone.
It's unfortunate, but it's the truth.
Nowadays it's not cool to say things that I've said, and I know that I will be modded down.
But, if this message (and others) can be archived, so that future generations get the chance to read, they may get to see a clearer picture of what is happening right now.
This whole concept underlines what is so critically wrong with the Iranian regime. It's not that it is an authoritarian government, it's that it is an authoritarian government that knows a lot about being authoritarian, but lacks the imagination or wit to understand that if you keep adopting measures that suppress economic activity, sooner or later the house of cards will topple and the very power you seek to keep in your clutches will fall away.
You mentioned 3 countries - Iran, China and Burma.
You also pointed out that China and Burma have not done what Iran is doing.
Now, let me ask you this - What truly differentiate the Iranian dictatorship from that of Burma and/or China?
From TFA:
How do your colleagues take your criticism?
Unfortunately, they took my criticism very badly and accused me of having been recruited by the Kremlin. I don't have any relations with them now. I think these people must leave the political stage and engage themselves in writing stories and blogs, exposing corruption schemes and so on, and leave the political work to those who want to struggle for power in earnest.
You, for example?
Why not? I could make a very good opposition candidate.
I do not know why TFA appears on Slashdot.
What is Slashdot anyway?
Is Slashdot a place for geeks whose interests are girls and tech.
Or has Slashdot become a place for fanbois of Western democracies?
Is Slashdot so hard up on credible stories that this type of shameless plug of a pathetic Russian politician.
TFA has nothing to do with sexy technology, nor anything about online censorship.
What the hell is Slashdot turning into?
Except that they're not. The Russians were fooled once with Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Unbridled capitalism does not work. Putin is a dictator, but he is a dictator who wants Russia to remain strong and to make oligarchs subservient to the interests of the state.
It's exactly the same approach which has made China successful, except that China is about forty years behind in human rights terms: allow businessmen to get rich by doing whatever it is they do as long as they don't act against the interests of the country. By doing exactly the opposite since Reagan/Thatcher - i.e. making governments subservient to the will of big business - we are now in the shit.
I would vote Putin any day. I don't want the right to a free press which will be ignored anyway - illusions of freedom serve no purpose to anyone but the stupid.
Amen !!
Maybe they did think it was public domain due to its age.
One can say the same about a rectangle with rounded corners, and many other so-called "Apple designs", that Apple has stolen from others, including Braun.
Read the following link:
http://themanufacturingrevolution.com/braun-vs-apple-is-copying-designs-theft-or-innovation
I guess I'll start taking German lessons.
And French!
And Italian... 8-o
And Romansh... what?!?
Chill out, dude.
The fine folks in Swiss-land do understand English
The above jibber-jabber you replied to is siding with Iran even though he didn't say so.
By implying that a new "Hitler" could rise out of the West while all the signs are pointing towards the Middle East and the surrounding area - Iran, Pakistan, Yemen, Egypt, Libya.
Shutting out Google / YouTube is not the only thing Iran is doing.
Iran is also banning Female Students from taking courses in 77 subjects, including English Literature, Nuclear Science, Sociology, Philosophy
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-22/iranian-women-banned-from-77-university-courses/4275764
It's a totally fucked up world under Islam and more often than not the "new Hitler" will come from a fucked up world, not from places like the West.
um... but round corners is.... well... stupid and shouldn't be patentable. Where as, this is a rather blatant, and obvious direct copy of a piece of artwork. Whomever owns that clock design should sue the shit out of apple.
I am not standing up for Apple. I do not like what Apple is doing, but still, we need to be able to differentiate who's the original culprit in this case.
Anyone can try their luck and apply for whatever lame patents based on whatever lame claim that they can come up with
It's the patent office that has absolutely fucked up for awarding lame patents such as that rectangle with rounded corners patent to Apple.
As for the clock design, yes, Apple must be sued for infringing on the copyrights of others.
They should be made to cough up at least 3 times the total revenue they've received that is linked to the clock design they have so blatantly stolen.
why not go after Youtube?
Why go after Youtube?
The real culprit was that whatever "yahya" cult (sounds like Islamic) that took the effort to redub the video and re-upload the vid back on to Youtube as though they are the original producer.
They are the same ones who rioted over a lousily made video and now they are stealing other people's video and claim it as their own.
Why not go after those scums instead?
I read TFA, click on one of the links, and ...
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-05/every-six-hours-nsa-gathers-much-data-stored-entire-library-congress
Every day NSA gathers 4 times the amount of data of the entire library of congress
I do not question the availability of the disk space for all those data - after all, NSA has an unlimited budget on purchasing hard disks.
But ...
How are they going to crunch all those data?
How big the machine they have to crunch at least 40 petabytes of data every-single day?
And we are not talking about simple crunching - they need to sieve through all those data to find things that are worth to keep - and then, many of those things that are worth to keep may themselves be encrypted (terrorists ain't stupid these days) - and it takes a helluva juice to decrypt all those encrypted data.
It's truly mind boggling !!
The open-source school software movement that I mentioned on the above runs on Linux, though ...
They did set up a distro (I think it's based on slackware, it my memory didn't fail me)
I'm still trying to recall the name ... dammit !! ... brain just gone blank ....
I disagree with that. I don't think either side would have failed to hand cash to GM.
When I said you guys have voted in the WRONG PEOPLEI do not mean Republican vs. Democrats.
Both are as bad.
What America truly needs is a totally new crop of politicians, neither from the donkey nor from the elephant party, who will work for the people, the country and the world, and not for the corporations.
Took a glimpse at TFA looking for details about the 2 application packages ...
Package #1 seems to be an administrative type of software - Student Data Aggregation Calculator
If I am not wrong, I think that has already been produced.
Back in the 1990's there was an open-sourced school program movement and they produced a lot of software, for students as well as for the teachers / school administrators.
I am still trying to recall the name ...
As for the second application ... they haven't even decided yet.
And the worse part of the whole thing is --- the whole thing sounded like they want the software to run on Microsoft Windows.
Please correct me if I am wrong. Thank you !