In many places, it really is population. Central Florida is a prime example. Not only are there traffic issues, but the ever-increasing population is putting quite a strain on the groundwater resources. Busses and trains won't fix that.
"If you're not five minutes early, you're already late."
Or, show up five minutes early for a meeting, and get kvetched at for spending time in the conference room that you could have been working. You can't win.
im curious why they owe $20 million on a product which is given away for free?
Because damages are calculated using lost profits or at the very least a reasonable royalty for the use of the patent. Patents cover "making, using, or selling", so the patented invention doesn't have to be sold for there to be infringement and damages owed. Given the number of Chrome downloads, $20 million really isn't a lot of money. I'm not saying I agree that the patents in question should be held valid, just pointing out that no money has to change hands for there to be an infringement.
Them's weasel words - it's not covering where the customers are, it's also covering where they aren't, like on a rural highway.
For sure, and it doesn't even have to be a rural highway. I have T-Mo, and I call my wife every day on the way home from work along U.S. 1 on the east coast of Florida, one of the busiest highways in the state. I get calls dropped 100% of the time - always at least once in a particular location, and often 2-3 times.
The Saturn V could also put six times the payload into LEO, and each one of its first-stage engines produced more thrust than the entire F9 first stage. Apples and oranges, and the S-V was also designed 50 years ago without the benefit of modern computers and materials science.
Continuing this sad tale, we saw the loss of a launch because of faulty O-ring design caused by small, but significant, warpage from the weight of the vehicle resting on its side during the O-ring installation.
That's not what caused the O-ring failure, and the vehicle was attached vertically in the VAB, well after the SRBs were fully assembled and mated to the tank. The temperature at launch was below freezing, and about 25 degrees lower than any previous launch. The O-rings lost most of their flexibility due to the cold and failed to seal the joint as a result.
And then, there was the loss during re-entry from another vehicle because of icing issues - even though NASA had a waiver to continue using freon for de-icing which would have eliminated this problem, but changed to a different, less effective, but MORE Politically Correct compound. Granted, the actual icing issue didn't cause the loss, but the ice build-up and the impact of the ice-chunk DID result in another senseless, tragic loss.
The Columbia accident wasn't caused by ice either - it was a block of insulating foam that broke off from the tank and struck the orbiter. Very little ice ever formed on the external tank due to the insulation.
Actually, yesterday (1/27) was the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire. Today (1/28) is the 31st anniversary of the Challenger disaster. I know the story was probably posted yesterday and took a few hours to get through the queue, but BeauHD should have edited the headline to reflect that.
Take Facebook's "infinitely scrolling" page design for example
I'd like to take it and throw it off a mountain somewhere. Uses *tons* more memory than a paged layout, and makes it damn near impossible to find anything that's more than a few hours old without scrolling your hand off.
Back in the day Apple had Human Interface Guidelines. And I understand that Microsoft did too.
IBM had "Common User Access" (CUA), and Microsoft had "Consistent User Interface" (CUI) guidelines, which were roughly comparable to Apple's. Following those guidelines might not be as visually attractive as some of the crap being designed today, but at least it meant that people could get acclimated to your product quickly and with a minimum of confusion. In the world of UIs today, there's way too much frosting and not nearly enough cake.
I mean, I'm aware the DMCA is awful. They should just do something about that.
It'd be nice if it were that easy, but the controversal parts of the DMCA are implementations of two treaties to which the U.S. is a signatory. The U.S. would have to revoke the treaty in order to remove the offending parts of the DMCA. To those that say it's the Republicans' fault that we have this law, please note that the DMCA was signed by a Democratic president and passed in the Senate unanimously - all 45 Democratic senators wanted this.
the PC's openness was really a result of Compaq's careful cleanroom reverse engineering of the BIOS, rather than any legal constraints on IBM
I would say that the PC's openness at least equally due to the fact that they offered full schematics, theory-of-operation documentation, and BIOS source code for a small fee prior to Compaq's entry into the market. The main competitor at the time in the business space was the Apple II, which also had schematics and ROM source available, along with a thriving industry for expansion hardware. Also, both machines were built with completely off-the-shelf parts.
It's disorienting, uncomfortable, and doesn't look good for about 99% of the events that took the effort to record in 3D.
And then on top of that, a lot of theaters cheap out on the system and only have a single bulb illuminating both frames, so it ends up being dark as hell.
This could possibly be worked around using a depth-of-field encoding/display technology similar to what Lytro does, tied to a sensor that somehow monitors the eye's lens to continually determine the eye's focal length, and adjusting the image(s) accordingly. I don't see something like that happening any time soon, but I wouldn't say it's impossible.
Who the fuck buys a plane ticket and doesn't show up?
Me, several times. I'd fly out to a customer site to do some work, and usually the return flight was booked the day I expected to be finished, with the expectation I'd drive from the customer site directly to the airport. If the work ran long, and I wasn't where I could call my employer to have them rebook, the seat went unclaimed. My employer would much rather eat the cost of a ticket than have an unhappy customer that's just paid half a million dollars for a new machine + installation.
His empirical data was dismissed without any attempt to reproduce and confirm it, because there was 'no theoretical framework explaining the results'.
The lack of an explanation for the observed results certainly didn't help, but there were an awful lot of doctors that had the opinion that they were gentlemen, and it was thus insulting to imply that they were somehow unclean and had to wash their hands.
Through the last 200+ years, scientists have had the cycle of someone saying they're wrong, they resist it, then it's proven right, and they look like stubborn and very unscientific idiots then repeat the cycle.
I think the poster boy for this is Ignaz Semmelweis. The scientific community dismissed his results out of pride, and thousands died as a result.
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In many places, it really is population. Central Florida is a prime example. Not only are there traffic issues, but the ever-increasing population is putting quite a strain on the groundwater resources. Busses and trains won't fix that.
Entrapment? No. Uber was going to engage in the illegal behavior whether an undercover cop asked for a ride or not.
At least we're past the Bennett Haselton period.
"If you're not five minutes early, you're already late."
Or, show up five minutes early for a meeting, and get kvetched at for spending time in the conference room that you could have been working. You can't win.
Most police cameras are actually constantly recording, and preserve the X minutes of video recorded prior to being turned on.
im curious why they owe $20 million on a product which is given away for free?
Because damages are calculated using lost profits or at the very least a reasonable royalty for the use of the patent. Patents cover "making, using, or selling", so the patented invention doesn't have to be sold for there to be infringement and damages owed. Given the number of Chrome downloads, $20 million really isn't a lot of money. I'm not saying I agree that the patents in question should be held valid, just pointing out that no money has to change hands for there to be an infringement.
That's not a coverage issue, that's a congestion issue. Too many clients hopping onto one tower.
I doubt it's a congestion issue - I leave work well before rush hour, and have had the same problem in the same area at 4:30am.
I'd love having a 150' tower in my back yard, so long as I also had rights to put my own antennas on it as well.
Them's weasel words - it's not covering where the customers are, it's also covering where they aren't, like on a rural highway.
For sure, and it doesn't even have to be a rural highway. I have T-Mo, and I call my wife every day on the way home from work along U.S. 1 on the east coast of Florida, one of the busiest highways in the state. I get calls dropped 100% of the time - always at least once in a particular location, and often 2-3 times.
The Saturn V could also put six times the payload into LEO, and each one of its first-stage engines produced more thrust than the entire F9 first stage. Apples and oranges, and the S-V was also designed 50 years ago without the benefit of modern computers and materials science.
Continuing this sad tale, we saw the loss of a launch because of faulty O-ring design caused by small, but significant, warpage from the weight of the vehicle resting on its side during the O-ring installation.
That's not what caused the O-ring failure, and the vehicle was attached vertically in the VAB, well after the SRBs were fully assembled and mated to the tank. The temperature at launch was below freezing, and about 25 degrees lower than any previous launch. The O-rings lost most of their flexibility due to the cold and failed to seal the joint as a result.
And then, there was the loss during re-entry from another vehicle because of icing issues - even though NASA had a waiver to continue using freon for de-icing which would have eliminated this problem, but changed to a different, less effective, but MORE Politically Correct compound. Granted, the actual icing issue didn't cause the loss, but the ice build-up and the impact of the ice-chunk DID result in another senseless, tragic loss.
The Columbia accident wasn't caused by ice either - it was a block of insulating foam that broke off from the tank and struck the orbiter. Very little ice ever formed on the external tank due to the insulation.
Actually, yesterday (1/27) was the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire. Today (1/28) is the 31st anniversary of the Challenger disaster. I know the story was probably posted yesterday and took a few hours to get through the queue, but BeauHD should have edited the headline to reflect that.
RIP to the men and women of both tragic missions.
Take Facebook's "infinitely scrolling" page design for example
I'd like to take it and throw it off a mountain somewhere. Uses *tons* more memory than a paged layout, and makes it damn near impossible to find anything that's more than a few hours old without scrolling your hand off.
Back in the day Apple had Human Interface Guidelines. And I understand that Microsoft did too.
IBM had "Common User Access" (CUA), and Microsoft had "Consistent User Interface" (CUI) guidelines, which were roughly comparable to Apple's. Following those guidelines might not be as visually attractive as some of the crap being designed today, but at least it meant that people could get acclimated to your product quickly and with a minimum of confusion. In the world of UIs today, there's way too much frosting and not nearly enough cake.
I mean, I'm aware the DMCA is awful. They should just do something about that.
It'd be nice if it were that easy, but the controversal parts of the DMCA are implementations of two treaties to which the U.S. is a signatory. The U.S. would have to revoke the treaty in order to remove the offending parts of the DMCA. To those that say it's the Republicans' fault that we have this law, please note that the DMCA was signed by a Democratic president and passed in the Senate unanimously - all 45 Democratic senators wanted this.
the PC's openness was really a result of Compaq's careful cleanroom reverse engineering of the BIOS, rather than any legal constraints on IBM
I would say that the PC's openness at least equally due to the fact that they offered full schematics, theory-of-operation documentation, and BIOS source code for a small fee prior to Compaq's entry into the market. The main competitor at the time in the business space was the Apple II, which also had schematics and ROM source available, along with a thriving industry for expansion hardware. Also, both machines were built with completely off-the-shelf parts.
Yeah, having an update script install 40,000 new files every time it's run takes a bit of getting used to.
Also it is not immersive, aka "all around you", something that most people subconsciously associate with 3D.
Good point. Disney's "CircleVision 360" movies at their theme parks are far more immersive, and they're still in 2D.
It's disorienting, uncomfortable, and doesn't look good for about 99% of the events that took the effort to record in 3D.
And then on top of that, a lot of theaters cheap out on the system and only have a single bulb illuminating both frames, so it ends up being dark as hell.
This could possibly be worked around using a depth-of-field encoding/display technology similar to what Lytro does, tied to a sensor that somehow monitors the eye's lens to continually determine the eye's focal length, and adjusting the image(s) accordingly. I don't see something like that happening any time soon, but I wouldn't say it's impossible.
Notice you didn't list, "ransomware."
Probably because ransomware is a form of extortion.
Unless Han shoots first and all of the other crap has been put back to where it was when the film was created, then it isn't the Original Star Wars.
And removing "Episode IV: A NEW HOPE" from the opening crawl. That didn't appear until the 1981 re-release.
Who the fuck buys a plane ticket and doesn't show up?
Me, several times. I'd fly out to a customer site to do some work, and usually the return flight was booked the day I expected to be finished, with the expectation I'd drive from the customer site directly to the airport. If the work ran long, and I wasn't where I could call my employer to have them rebook, the seat went unclaimed. My employer would much rather eat the cost of a ticket than have an unhappy customer that's just paid half a million dollars for a new machine + installation.
His empirical data was dismissed without any attempt to reproduce and confirm it, because there was 'no theoretical framework explaining the results'.
The lack of an explanation for the observed results certainly didn't help, but there were an awful lot of doctors that had the opinion that they were gentlemen, and it was thus insulting to imply that they were somehow unclean and had to wash their hands.
Through the last 200+ years, scientists have had the cycle of someone saying they're wrong, they resist it, then it's proven right, and they look like stubborn and very unscientific idiots then repeat the cycle.
I think the poster boy for this is Ignaz Semmelweis. The scientific community dismissed his results out of pride, and thousands died as a result.