I have no illusions whatsoever about Social Security being available to me when I retire. I am making m my plans under the assumption that will be completely insolvent and a quaint memory thirty years from now.
Not so fast, Kimosabe. Valve might have a case if they hadn't already activated them. At this point, they have performed on the contract, which means they have ratified the implied variation from the license. They said, from their actions, "I know you aren't in the right region, but I'll let you start anyways." Given that they performed on the agreement and then decided to renege afterwards, I'm seeing torts all the way from Breach of Contract to Conversion.
Or, you could use the "get info" option (keyboard shortcut, under the "file menu", through contextual menu, take your pick) and let the computer count them for you.
I guess either I have good luck or you are incompetent at using GUIs.
# WTC 7, which was not hit by hijacked planes, collapsed in 6.6 seconds, just.6 of a second longer than it would take an object dropped from the roof to hit the ground. "Where is the delay that must be expected due to conservation of momentum, one of the foundational laws of physics?" Jones asks. "That is, as upper-falling floors strike lower floors--and intact steel support columns--the fall must be significantly impeded by the impacted mass.
It is there. It was.6 seconds, which was 10% of the time of the entire event. Please make a mental note to not hire anyone who has a physics degree from BYU.
There is no way that this is a US phone, if it is anything. All phones in the US have to be FCC approved. It is public record, and we would know if a design had been submitted. Everytime Apple changes the iPhone, they will need new approval, and it takes 5-6 months. Apple is not going to kill sales of the current iPhone by submitting a new design to the FCC before the current one even launches.
Maybe it is a Canadian phone, maybe it is a European phone, maybe it is just an iPod. What is isn't is a next-gen US iPhone.
In other words, to be a valid patent violation, the parties must use a telephone number to identify eachother. I don't know about you, but I've never given nor received anyone's telephone telephone numbers on paypal.
Not true. Claim 1 is an independant claim, which means that it stands on its own. If you violate every part of claim 1 (and just claim 1), you violate the patent. The reason that you have 5 and 7 as dependant claims is that if claim 1 is invalidated (like if it was anticipated [someone already invented it] or it was obvious to do that for someone skilled in the art [probably] then 1+5 or 1+7 might still be different enough to survive.
I'm betting that what will happen is that Claim 1 will die on being challenged, but some of the dependant claims will survive.
Last time I was in a law class, it was said that a prosecutor could get an indictment against a ham sandwich froma grand jury. They are rubber stamps.
They are. That wasn't my point. My point was that all the (so-called) checks and balances he was guaranteed had been met (barring some evidence of malice) and that he was SOL as far as getting that time back.
actually cops normally only pull you over if you've broken the law (speeding, failure to yield, running a stop sign). it's up to their discression of weather or not to give you a ticket. giving you a "warning" normally means
you were speeding and i'm choosing not to give you a ticket
That is completely wrong. The police don't have the power to decide if you have broken the law. They can't even charge you with a crime; a government attorney has to do that. What they CAN do is use arrest powers because of probable cause. That means that a reasonable person would say that you probably were breaking the law.
Giving you a warning usually means they used the probable cause of one minor offense (speeding) to excercise thier arrest powers (detain and verify ID) to look for a bigger crime (warrant for murder, trading MP3s, cracking encryption, you know, capital crimes.)
What it really means in this case is that the prosecuting attorney AND the Grand Jury both decided there was probably cause, but the verdict didn't agree. The legal term for the defendant's situation at that point is "Shit Out Of Luck".
Meanwhile, Intel is planning to have every device that uses an Intel chip Wi-Fi enabled which will make it difficult for companies that sell Wi-Fi as an accessory to prosper.
Does this mean that they are going to put Wi-Fi in stuff that has imbedded processors, or just computers? Are they going to try to make it a requirement for people who buying bare processors?
I think that a lot of that is over-reaction anyway. Airport hasn't killed Wi-Fi in the Apple market. Airport cards and base stations are great, but I know lots of people who use aftermarket cards and third-party base stations. Intel is going to be a strong competetor, but that doesn't mean that they can M$ the other makers out.
There's always armed revolution. Oh, wait, I forgot you leftist types don't have any guns. Ha ha!
True. But libertarians have lots and lots and lots of guns. More than your average right-winger, in fact. If you look at the last successful armed revolution in this country, it wasn't led by the right -- those were the loyalists. It was by the libertarians. (Called liberal at the time, until that title was stolen by the socialists.)
Libertarians generally opposed the initiation of force. The thing to remember, however, is that government embodies the collective use of force, so you cannot initiate force against the government, as it is in a constant state of threatening force.
...but concludes that the company ought to set the right example by ensuring that each division "should eat its own dogfood."... Huh? what kind of an official document would claim that their product is crap? This suggests that the paper is of an unofficial status.
That isn't what "eating your own dogfood" means. It is a marketing term, from back in the old days. I means that if you work for Alpo, your dogs eat Alpo. If you work for Coca Cola, you can't be seen drinking a Pepsi (this is an actual company policy, BTW.)
It isn't a derrogatory term, any more than your webpage taking a lot of hits means that someone is trying to beat you up.
I believe this idea has long been entertained in fiction, particularly by some science fiction authors.
Sure, let's have a different state for each point of view!
Well, if you actually had any knowledge of the intent of the founders, you would know that this is exactly what the founders had in mind when they formed the Federal system. If you didn't like the laws in one state, you could move to one with better laws -- the free market in government. Competition between the states to attract better consituents was the idea.
In fact, Jefferson went so far as to say this if the US was every united under one set of Federal laws, it would quickly become the most corrupt government in the world. But then, that could never happen, right?
If we can create a state where the original ideals of the USA can hold strong, all the people to whom they are important can migrate there. At least, that is, until the population is 100% sympathizers, at this point the larger, more armed remainder of the USA can label them all traitors and take over.
Liberty is dangerous -- but it is worth it. Of course, you need to keep in mind that libertarians are pretty heavily armed as a group. We oppose the initiation of force -- but once you initiate it, your ass is grass.
(I'm blowing my chance to mod this discussion, but this troll was too much to pass up.)
Judging from the picture [microsoft.com] I'd say it took half a day and a team of 6 people to get that shot.
As a media professional, I find the composition amusing. It is a down-angle, making the subject look more downtrodden and small. The half grin could almost be seen as a grimace. Even the way she holds the cup -- as if she was handcuffed with it -- seems to suggest more of a prisoner than someone empowered.
What are the odds that they went to a Mac-using ad agency to get this done, and this is secret code to the smart people?
The same is also true of the two parties who brought this frivolous action against Adobe, neither or which I have even heard of. There is nothing at stake in the economy if these clowns get their way. They are only trying to be a thorn in Adobe's side, and from all appearances, are doing it in the most meddlesome and intrusive way they know how.
This is a load of crap. Until they went TU, not many people had heard of Global Crossing, but they are a major player none the less. ITG is a major font producer. They don't see fonts; they license them. (Sound familiar, Adobe?) A direct competator (for those of us who don't know Adobe's roots) was taking thier product and blatantly violating the explicit license.
Say what you want about the DCMA as a principle, but this is much more of a violation than most of the other claims that I have seen.
Steve Jobs is fairly well known for taking the stance that you have the right to transfer the music and video that you own to any other device that you own, in direct defiance to the RIAA.
What is going to have to happen to kill DRM is for a major hardware/OS company to say "go to hell, I'm giving my consumers what they want," and right now, the most likely candidate is Apple.
With a major player opting out, the entire DRM house of cards falls down. Consider Apple. After all, MacOS is just a pretty version of BSD now.
Yup, we've done this in the past, going 32 base for location codes. The number didn't need to be a human consumable and we got the "numeric" range we needed including a barcode which could be long range scanned easier!
The problem is that the number does need to be human consumable. I wait long enough in line for the mouth-breather that has to punch in the numbers because the scanner doesn't read the barcode.
Do you want to wait for that guy to punch in 13 digits or 32? (Hint: Given the number of times these guys have to start over, it isn'tjust a matter of doubling the time.
don't know whether to laugh at your post or just feel sorry for you. What kind of armed resistance can even a large militia give against even light armor and artillery from the US's military? None.
Molotov Cocktails tend to make short work of armor. Artillery is just as vulnerable to infiltration and sniping as it is counter-battery fire. If it is mobile artillery, see "Molotov Cocktail."
The danger from an armed populace isn't that they have massive military might; it is that you cannot determine who is or isn't an enemy. Artillery and guided missiles are no longer your enemy; the guy delivering the produce for lunch mess, or the girlfriend of the unit's LT, or the Eagle Scouts who accidently hiked through your camp become the enemy.
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I've looked at the PDF manual for this thing, and I couldn't find anything about it being AppleScriptable. When I saw this thing, I immediately thought, "Hook this thing into Speakable Items and you have a voice controlled PVR!" but it looks like that is going to at least have to wait for an upgrade.
Of course, I could imagine what it is like sometimes if you start arguing about what program to watch with your SO...
I went to the Apple Store, looked up the $2999 G4 tower, went to the Dell site, punched in the same features (dual processor, video card, HD, RAM, etc) and guess what I got?
Mac: $2999 Dell: $3021
You know, even I thought the premise of the article was bull, but this has me wondering...
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Because single people have more disposable income for flying. They are a prime demographic.
I have no illusions whatsoever about Social Security being available to me when I retire. I am making m my plans under the assumption that will be completely insolvent and a quaint memory thirty years from now.
Electrolytes are the answer to everything.
Or, you could use the "get info" option (keyboard shortcut, under the "file menu", through contextual menu, take your pick) and let the computer count them for you. I guess either I have good luck or you are incompetent at using GUIs.
Maybe it is a Canadian phone, maybe it is a European phone, maybe it is just an iPod. What is isn't is a next-gen US iPhone.
In other words, the pen that runs Windows.
Giving you a warning usually means they used the probable cause of one minor offense (speeding) to excercise thier arrest powers (detain and verify ID) to look for a bigger crime (warrant for murder, trading MP3s, cracking encryption, you know, capital crimes.)
What it really means in this case is that the prosecuting attorney AND the Grand Jury both decided there was probably cause, but the verdict didn't agree. The legal term for the defendant's situation at that point is "Shit Out Of Luck".
I think that a lot of that is over-reaction anyway. Airport hasn't killed Wi-Fi in the Apple market. Airport cards and base stations are great, but I know lots of people who use aftermarket cards and third-party base stations. Intel is going to be a strong competetor, but that doesn't mean that they can M$ the other makers out.
Libertarians generally opposed the initiation of force. The thing to remember, however, is that government embodies the collective use of force, so you cannot initiate force against the government, as it is in a constant state of threatening force.
Maybe this is the plan for Palladium... set up a "trusted" system and then use your Passport account to charge you by the bit.
In fact, Jefferson went so far as to say this if the US was every united under one set of Federal laws, it would quickly become the most corrupt government in the world. But then, that could never happen, right?
Liberty is dangerous -- but it is worth it. Of course, you need to keep in mind that libertarians are pretty heavily armed as a group. We oppose the initiation of force -- but once you initiate it, your ass is grass.
(I'm blowing my chance to mod this discussion, but this troll was too much to pass up.)
What are the odds that they went to a Mac-using ad agency to get this done, and this is secret code to the smart people?
The Elbonians already have the giant slingshot AND a contract with France.
"I hope these things aren't expensive."
"Crying and mowing the lawn at the same time! How's that for therapy? 'Geez, the Leary kid is in therapy again -- their lawn looks great!'"
This is a load of crap. Until they went TU, not many people had heard of Global Crossing, but they are a major player none the less. ITG is a major font producer. They don't see fonts; they license them. (Sound familiar, Adobe?) A direct competator (for those of us who don't know Adobe's roots) was taking thier product and blatantly violating the explicit license.
Say what you want about the DCMA as a principle, but this is much more of a violation than most of the other claims that I have seen.
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002mar/m ac20020305010561.htm
What is going to have to happen to kill DRM is for a major hardware/OS company to say "go to hell, I'm giving my consumers what they want," and right now, the most likely candidate is Apple.
With a major player opting out, the entire DRM house of cards falls down. Consider Apple. After all, MacOS is just a pretty version of BSD now.
Do you want to wait for that guy to punch in 13 digits or 32? (Hint: Given the number of times these guys have to start over, it isn'tjust a matter of doubling the time.
Molotov Cocktails tend to make short work of armor. Artillery is just as vulnerable to infiltration and sniping as it is counter-battery fire. If it is mobile artillery, see "Molotov Cocktail."
The danger from an armed populace isn't that they have massive military might; it is that you cannot determine who is or isn't an enemy. Artillery and guided missiles are no longer your enemy; the guy delivering the produce for lunch mess, or the girlfriend of the unit's LT, or the Eagle Scouts who accidently hiked through your camp become the enemy.
I've looked at the PDF manual for this thing, and I couldn't find anything about it being AppleScriptable. When I saw this thing, I immediately thought, "Hook this thing into Speakable Items and you have a voice controlled PVR!" but it looks like that is going to at least have to wait for an upgrade.
Of course, I could imagine what it is like sometimes if you start arguing about what program to watch with your SO...
Mac: $2999
Dell: $3021
You know, even I thought the premise of the article was bull, but this has me wondering...