The key is that utility is a function of desired quality.
For me, for example, 3d acceleration has zero utility, while an extremely high-res (I'm eyeing the dell laptop w/ 1920x1200 @17") LCD has a very high utility. Likewise, I prefer MB over MHz, and low weight over internal optical drives.
I think many people who object to apple's prices do so because you may get a lot for your money, but you may not WANT half of it.
If you take some ice at 0C and heat it up enough to turn all of it to steam at 100C, you'd have used up enough energy to heat up the liquid to 700C. The phase change costs you (for water at least) almost 6 times the energy needed to reach the boiling point.
A 49C boiling point for this liquid could be good OR bad, depending on the phase change energy.
The one strategy most likely to lead to a desirable outcome is for the small company to sell its assets to Microsoft, probably for less than they are worth, but still make a tidy profit and run.
But still more than they would have been worth without the partnership. I think (more accurately I repeat other thoughts) that many a company is founded with the explicit goal to be an attractive purchase by microsoft.
If I read the grandparent correctly, there was nothing special about the tapes; they were any audio tape (I imagine the mouth was controlled by convolving the VU meter output).
So, according to the TR owners ANY audio tape infringes their copyright!
I thought maybe it was a trademark issue, that the tapes were marketed using the TR name, but your link makes it seem that wasn't the case. The case hinged rather on the similar effects that could be acheived with the tapes, rather than their marketing.
I'm agoggle at US law. again. You'd think I'd get used to it. Or remember that EU law (with the benefit of seeing what a mess the US legal system is) is falling over itself to copy those mistakes.
I in no way defended diebold. Go back and re-read my [very short and hard to misunderstand] comment. without the tinfoil hat in your way (sorry; you were getting a litte histronic there)
Think of it this way. We have a really simple digital system. All it does is make sure that
1) you vote the way you think you did 2) your vote is qualified: no hanging chads (whatever that was), no box-n-a-half fillins
Now this system basically just confirms what you want, and when you click ok, prints out a ballot that falls directly into a bin. For extra confirmation, you can see how your paper was marked before it is committed to the bin. (think clear lexan window)
Where it is manually counted. The machine merely marks ballots in a uniform way.
Of course, we could also (in addition to printing the paper ballot) have the machine keep track internally of the running tallies. This tally is an optimisation. The printed ballots are the gold standard.
Since you count manually, the machine tallies become the "early return" data that newscasters love, then confirmend by manual counting.
As confidence in machines grow (and this can happen at any pace you want), scale the 100% manual counting to random sampling.
well, it seems the problem is putting so many things on one ballot. Why not just have several small ballots that can be counted (or discarded) independently.
I actually really liked the idea of a digital machine that gives you a paper reciept, and internally records a copy on paper tape a well.
If there's a dispute, you can always manually read the tape, and you can check your receipt to make sure your vote was recorded the way you meant it.
'nuff said. I love this trackball. Precise, wireless, runs for weeks on a battery (I have rechargables, change maybe every 6 weeks) and extremely comfortable.
Only downside is a lack of a scroll wheel, but I use the keyboard / arrow keys for most things like that.
whatabout all those paparazzi pix taken with ultra-long lenses. The celebrati hardly released those pictures, and they were harldy taken in a public place.
So is a public place any place where you can be seen from without tresspassing (or perhaps not even that restriction), or printing in a tabloid not a commercial use?
just off the top of my head there are two important patents on font stuff: 1) the TT font hinting in XFT. By default disabled in favor of the autohinter, but that doesn't really make a diff for patent issues. 2) Microsoft has a patent on cleartype, which is damn close to the subpixel rendering that makes fonts pretty on lcds.
I'd not be suprised if both apple and microsoft have UI elements patented which both gnome and KDE infring on, but I can't name any. Likely these patents will come out of the woodwork should the free software world become very successful.
because for a carpenter, a hammer and screwdriver trivially work together.
when you want to apply multiple computer languages to a problem, you are often faced with foreign function call hassles that are bigger than the gains from good language choice.
I thought that SQL was the embodiment of the relational calculus? While I'm asking, could you perhaps post a link to the seminal paper; a quick google isn't doing it for me.
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whatever happened to the jpg replacements? Wavelet compression et al?
imagine a perforated plate --- like a colander --- I could easily sew plates like that into an uncomfortable jacket, and it would be stab resistant.
The needle doesn't break the threads -- it goes inbetween.
$1400 for a two bedroom... in manhattan?!
most likely, break-even is defined as the total power GAINED from fusion is greater than the input.
So if output = input + fusion
then breakeven is implied by fusion > input
value is calculated as ultility / cost.
The key is that utility is a function of desired quality.
For me, for example, 3d acceleration has zero utility, while an extremely high-res (I'm eyeing the dell laptop w/ 1920x1200 @17") LCD has a very high utility. Likewise, I prefer MB over MHz, and low weight over internal optical drives.
I think many people who object to apple's prices do so because you may get a lot for your money, but you may not WANT half of it.
problem is that CF has such a slow read/write speed you might as well use a drive.
If you take some ice at 0C and heat it up enough to turn all of it to steam at 100C, you'd have used up enough energy to heat up the liquid to 700C. The phase change costs you (for water at least) almost 6 times the energy needed to reach the boiling point.
A 49C boiling point for this liquid could be good OR bad, depending on the phase change energy.
I would have thought that IEEE compliance required bit-identical results for bit-identical inputs.
... because photon rendering is bottlenecked by the GUI?
How is GUI performance relevant to the problem at hand?
The one strategy most likely to lead to a desirable outcome is for the small company to sell its assets to Microsoft, probably for less than they are worth, but still make a tidy profit and run.
But still more than they would have been worth without the partnership. I think (more accurately I repeat other thoughts) that many a company is founded with the explicit goal to be an attractive purchase by microsoft.
If I read the grandparent correctly, there was nothing special about the tapes; they were any audio tape (I imagine the mouth was controlled by convolving the VU meter output).
So, according to the TR owners ANY audio tape infringes their copyright!
I thought maybe it was a trademark issue, that the tapes were marketed using the TR name, but your link makes it seem that wasn't the case. The case hinged rather on the similar effects that could be acheived with the tapes, rather than their marketing.
I'm agoggle at US law. again. You'd think I'd get used to it. Or remember that EU law (with the benefit of seeing what a mess the US legal system is) is falling over itself to copy those mistakes.
I in no way defended diebold. Go back and re-read my [very short and hard to misunderstand] comment. without the tinfoil hat in your way (sorry; you were getting a litte histronic there)
Think of it this way. We have a really simple digital system. All it does is make sure that
1) you vote the way you think you did
2) your vote is qualified: no hanging chads (whatever that was), no box-n-a-half fillins
Now this system basically just confirms what you want, and when you click ok, prints out a ballot that falls directly into a bin. For extra confirmation, you can see how your paper was marked before it is committed to the bin. (think clear lexan window)
Where it is manually counted. The machine merely marks ballots in a uniform way.
Of course, we could also (in addition to printing the paper ballot) have the machine keep track internally of the running tallies. This tally is an optimisation. The printed ballots are the gold standard.
Since you count manually, the machine tallies become the "early return" data that newscasters love, then confirmend by manual counting.
As confidence in machines grow (and this can happen at any pace you want), scale the 100% manual counting to random sampling.
tsk tsk.
... kinda reminds me of that SNL sketch.
...
Ankh Morpork was a democracy: one man, one vote. The patrician was the man, and he had the vote.
"in LA a man is mugged every 5 minutes.. and here he is!"
"how long has it been now?"
"about 4 minutes"
"and here come your attackers now"
well, it seems the problem is putting so many things on one ballot. Why not just have several small ballots that can be counted (or discarded) independently.
I actually really liked the idea of a digital machine that gives you a paper reciept, and internally records a copy on paper tape a well.
If there's a dispute, you can always manually read the tape, and you can check your receipt to make sure your vote was recorded the way you meant it.
soo.
what is us airspace? How far up? radial or linear spokes?
'nuff said. I love this trackball. Precise, wireless, runs for weeks on a battery (I have rechargables, change maybe every 6 weeks) and extremely comfortable.
Only downside is a lack of a scroll wheel, but I use the keyboard / arrow keys for most things like that.
for mplayer? or windos only?
I crashed Linux today. after 23 odd days of use. I think it was a resource leak in X.
well,
whatabout all those paparazzi pix taken with ultra-long lenses. The celebrati hardly released those pictures, and they were harldy taken in a public place.
So is a public place any place where you can be seen from without tresspassing (or perhaps not even that restriction), or printing in a tabloid not a commercial use?
Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive had a 3Jane. But she was an insane clone.
perhaps not the best precedent
just off the top of my head there are two important patents on font stuff:
1) the TT font hinting in XFT. By default disabled in favor of the autohinter, but that doesn't really make a diff for patent issues.
2) Microsoft has a patent on cleartype, which is damn close to the subpixel rendering that makes fonts pretty on lcds.
I'd not be suprised if both apple and microsoft have UI elements patented which both gnome and KDE infring on, but I can't name any. Likely these patents will come out of the woodwork should the free software world become very successful.
untested, but I'd assume that in java
(new Integer(4) == new Integer(4))
would also return false.
how does it work? I was expecting it to have an @ sign or something.
because for a carpenter, a hammer and screwdriver trivially work together.
when you want to apply multiple computer languages to a problem, you are often faced with foreign function call hassles that are bigger than the gains from good language choice.
huh?
I thought that SQL was the embodiment of the relational calculus? While I'm asking, could you perhaps post a link to the seminal paper; a quick google isn't doing it for me.