SCO sells a unix distribution
SCO also sells SCO Unix.
SCO claims IBM stole parts of SCO Unix, and put those peices in linux.
Since SCO has never GPL'd SCO Unix, no one else has any right to use it. If IBM were using parts of SCO unix, they would be in the wrong. Most people do not belive SCO's claims, however.
L = the installed base. Stays positive, and grows.
dL/dT = adoption rate, the number of new installs per unit time. This number would stay positive (new people would keep installing linux). But I think this is what they want to shrink, in order to 'slow down' linux instalation. If dW/dT is higher (installs of windows) then MS 'wins' in the long run.
d2L/d2T is the rate of change in the adoption rate, or the 'acceleration'. if 10,000 people installed last month, and 12,000 people installed this month, then the acceleration 2k/month.
d3L/d3T is the jerk. If you had 10k one month 12k, then 14k, the jerk between the second and third months would be zero, but if you slowed down the acceleration rate, then the jerk would be negative. So like, 10k, 12k, 13.9k, the jerk would be -.1 for a the 3rd month.
I honestly can't belive anyone would even worry about something like this. Do you think the cops are going to come by and make sure you're not doing anything 'comercial' in your home?
Besides, why do you even need a physical location anyway? Just colaborate with people over the 'net.
First, there is negligence for allowing one's computer to become infected. A related precedent would be the owner of a condemned house allowing it to become a crack house. IANAL, but in a lot of ways it seems the cases are similar. One could claim that the software manufacturer (MS) was responsible for faulty software, or that the virus writer was responsible for letting loose his creation. In the same way, the crackhouse owner could claim that the lock manufacturer did a poor job, or that the addicts breaking into his house were at fault.
Holding people responsible for having secure computers is idiotic. The vast majority of people out there probably have insecure systems, even if they are protected from the most common attacks (like the ones used by worms). And anyone can leave some hole open by accident.
Unlike a crackhouse, which is an eyesore and reduces quality of life for the people around it, a few jpgs on a hard drive that are never looked at by anyone are not going to cause problems.
I probably have about 20 or 30 files sitting on my desktop that I havn't filed away, and a lot of that changes frequently. I doubt I would even notice one or two more, although I eventualy might see what they were in order to 'file' them. (and, by that I mean dumping into a big folder along with everything else I've cleaned off my desktop in the past few years)
Beyond that, my computer has hundreds of thousands of files on it, in total. I don't even know how many. I would never notice additions... unless I had something like tripwire installed, but then I wouldn't have had the trojan in the first place, now would I?
Trademark law dosn't recognize unregistered trademarks at all, especialy when they're general terms used by lots of diffrent people. If Moz should have to give up the name, then so should these database people, since there has been lots of software in the past with that name.
I really don't understand how anyone could defend Mozilla's actions, here. Even if you don't understand the trademark argument, don't y'all have a grasp of "good manners"? What happened to being considerate of other people? Part of professionalism, in my book, is conducting business in good-faith. Using someone else's trademark simply because your lawyers tell you they can beat the case doesn't pass the "good faith" test by a mile.
THERE IS NO TRADEMARK
Lots of things are called "firebird", I don't see why one random group feels they can claim it for themselves just because they have something named that. If they had named it something unique, like "firebase" or something, then they might have a legitimate complaint.
people can't just take pieces of the general language for themselves.
The same thing would happen with any other angular mesurement system, since any rational fraction of a full would have an irrational answer for sign and cosine (other then 180/90/0 degrees) IIRC.
Aside from the obvious, imagine the ultimate cellphone - one that charges the battery every time it rings/vibrates, hence promising extended talktimes, and giving operators all the more reasons to get their customers to use their devices. How cool is that? Do I see 3G applications with a vibrate() call mandatory every couple minutes? "
The poster really doesn't understand thermodynamics.
Just to make it clear, you will never be able to get back as much energy from the phone as you use to vibrate it. You certainly wouldn't get more energy.
In fact, the more energy you take out of the vibration, the less sound (including infrasonic vibrations that you would feel in your pocket) generated. If you took out all the energy you wouldn't feel anything. even if you could have an 'ideal' vibration->energy converter you would never have anything more then the effect of reducing the input vibrations. In other words, if you vibrated the phone using 10j of energy, and could perfectly extract 5j of energy, the effect would be the same as using 5j of energy to vibrate the phone in the first. Place.
On the other hand, what you can do is grab some of the vibration from the person walking, but I doubt you would ever get enough to use a phone that way.
Using the SuperVCD format or Divx/Xvid would be a much more cost-effective use of such drive. for just 20 per show, it would be totaly worth it. Of course, 99% of all people would never watch 99% of their disks again..:P
It certanly does seem like a life changing device
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That is, if I ever watched television anymore:P
Seriously, though. A TiVo seems like it would make TV watching almost convenient enough actually view. I got a little Via EIPA mini-itx PC that I was planning to set-up as a sort of mail-server/emulation game machine/media player/PVR box, but it turned out to be kind of unstable (I think it's the RAM) and I turned out to be to lazy to get that stuff setup. Plus, a homebrew system would still require me to keep up with listings to program.
On the other hand, I don't really want to pay for the listing service. I'd like to see an open source PVR software package with TiVo-like abilities and user-supplied listings... like the old CDDB before it got corpritized. It would be a lot of work, but I think it could work if there were enough users.
Another solution would be to have people pay the minimum needed to pay for people to license Tvguide listings or whatever. It probably wouldn't be more then $5/year or something.
If not, then they should just STFU. Firebird is a common term, searching for "Firebird" isn't going to turn up their database without "SQL" attached, so who cares?
OTOH, I think "Firebird" and "Thunderbird" are pretty lame names, and I wish Moz would go back to the old ones.
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SCO sells a unix distribution
SCO also sells SCO Unix.
SCO claims IBM stole parts of SCO Unix, and put those peices in linux.
Since SCO has never GPL'd SCO Unix, no one else has any right to use it. If IBM were using parts of SCO unix, they would be in the wrong. Most people do not belive SCO's claims, however.
L = the installed base. Stays positive, and grows.
dL/dT = adoption rate, the number of new installs per unit time. This number would stay positive (new people would keep installing linux). But I think this is what they want to shrink, in order to 'slow down' linux instalation. If dW/dT is higher (installs of windows) then MS 'wins' in the long run.
d2L/d2T is the rate of change in the adoption rate, or the 'acceleration'. if 10,000 people installed last month, and 12,000 people installed this month, then the acceleration 2k/month.
d3L/d3T is the jerk. If you had 10k one month 12k, then 14k, the jerk between the second and third months would be zero, but if you slowed down the acceleration rate, then the jerk would be negative. So like, 10k, 12k, 13.9k, the jerk would be -.1 for a the 3rd month.
Anyway, you can keep going with this forever.
Starwars isn't cool anymore. Didn't you get the memo?
I honestly can't belive anyone would even worry about something like this. Do you think the cops are going to come by and make sure you're not doing anything 'comercial' in your home?
Besides, why do you even need a physical location anyway? Just colaborate with people over the 'net.
First, there is negligence for allowing one's computer to become infected. A related precedent would be the owner of a condemned house allowing it to become a crack house. IANAL, but in a lot of ways it seems the cases are similar. One could claim that the software manufacturer (MS) was responsible for faulty software, or that the virus writer was responsible for letting loose his creation. In the same way, the crackhouse owner could claim that the lock manufacturer did a poor job, or that the addicts breaking into his house were at fault.
Holding people responsible for having secure computers is idiotic. The vast majority of people out there probably have insecure systems, even if they are protected from the most common attacks (like the ones used by worms). And anyone can leave some hole open by accident.
Unlike a crackhouse, which is an eyesore and reduces quality of life for the people around it, a few jpgs on a hard drive that are never looked at by anyone are not going to cause problems.
I probably have about 20 or 30 files sitting on my desktop that I havn't filed away, and a lot of that changes frequently. I doubt I would even notice one or two more, although I eventualy might see what they were in order to 'file' them. (and, by that I mean dumping into a big folder along with everything else I've cleaned off my desktop in the past few years)
Beyond that, my computer has hundreds of thousands of files on it, in total. I don't even know how many. I would never notice additions... unless I had something like tripwire installed, but then I wouldn't have had the trojan in the first place, now would I?
Most. Idiotic. Argument. Ever.
The database wasn't the first software project to use that name, why should they have the right to be the last?
Trademark law dosn't recognize unregistered trademarks at all, especialy when they're general terms used by lots of diffrent people. If Moz should have to give up the name, then so should these database people, since there has been lots of software in the past with that name.
I really don't understand how anyone could defend Mozilla's actions, here. Even if you don't understand the trademark argument, don't y'all have a grasp of "good manners"? What happened to being considerate of other people? Part of professionalism, in my book, is conducting business in good-faith. Using someone else's trademark simply because your lawyers tell you they can beat the case doesn't pass the "good faith" test by a mile.
THERE IS NO TRADEMARK
Lots of things are called "firebird", I don't see why one random group feels they can claim it for themselves just because they have something named that. If they had named it something unique, like "firebase" or something, then they might have a legitimate complaint.
people can't just take pieces of the general language for themselves.
I'm a geek, and I'm sure as hell wouldn't rule in their favor if I was a judge.
(relevant as most /.'ers will of course be white males).
Bleh, what makes you say that? Besides, 5.1% isn't that much better then 5.8% I think the real issue here is the unemployment rate for collage grads.
The same thing would happen with any other angular mesurement system, since any rational fraction of a full would have an irrational answer for sign and cosine (other then 180/90/0 degrees) IIRC.
Tiny robots that go around and change the battires!
Most of the bulbs you stick in regular incandesant sockets change the frequency they flicker at to the khz range. The old-style tubes do not.
Not all of the energy of your voice is being converted to electrical signal.
okay
If some of that could be recaptured and used to power the phone, that would be a good use for this technology.
You mean, by converting it into an electrical signal?
Aside from the obvious, imagine the ultimate cellphone - one that charges the battery every time it rings/vibrates, hence promising extended talktimes, and giving operators all the more reasons to get their customers to use their devices. How cool is that? Do I see 3G applications with a vibrate() call mandatory every couple minutes? "
The poster really doesn't understand thermodynamics.
Just to make it clear, you will never be able to get back as much energy from the phone as you use to vibrate it. You certainly wouldn't get more energy.
In fact, the more energy you take out of the vibration, the less sound (including infrasonic vibrations that you would feel in your pocket) generated. If you took out all the energy you wouldn't feel anything. even if you could have an 'ideal' vibration->energy converter you would never have anything more then the effect of reducing the input vibrations. In other words, if you vibrated the phone using 10j of energy, and could perfectly extract 5j of energy, the effect would be the same as using 5j of energy to vibrate the phone in the first. Place.
On the other hand, what you can do is grab some of the vibration from the person walking, but I doubt you would ever get enough to use a phone that way.
So, the Googlebot took the time to register for the NYT, but you can't?
Using the SuperVCD format or Divx/Xvid would be a much more cost-effective use of such drive. for just 20 per show, it would be totaly worth it. Of course, 99% of all people would never watch 99% of their disks again.. :P
That is, if I ever watched television anymore :P
Seriously, though. A TiVo seems like it would make TV watching almost convenient enough actually view. I got a little Via EIPA mini-itx PC that I was planning to set-up as a sort of mail-server/emulation game machine/media player/PVR box, but it turned out to be kind of unstable (I think it's the RAM) and I turned out to be to lazy to get that stuff setup. Plus, a homebrew system would still require me to keep up with listings to program.
On the other hand, I don't really want to pay for the listing service. I'd like to see an open source PVR software package with TiVo-like abilities and user-supplied listings... like the old CDDB before it got corpritized. It would be a lot of work, but I think it could work if there were enough users.
Another solution would be to have people pay the minimum needed to pay for people to license Tvguide listings or whatever. It probably wouldn't be more then $5/year or something.
Not Vega, Wega. I know a lot of people screw that up, but I how can you trust a review site that doesn't even get the name of the product right?
By your logic, using 6.2830 divisions would be a terrible idea.
The amount of time it takes is not constant. All we can do is mesure the rotation and let everyone know when it's changed.
I got too distracted by this article. I especially liked the pictures.
If not, then they should just STFU. Firebird is a common term, searching for "Firebird" isn't going to turn up their database without "SQL" attached, so who cares?
OTOH, I think "Firebird" and "Thunderbird" are pretty lame names, and I wish Moz would go back to the old ones.