I've heard that the spots are glass under stress. The spots on my sunroof are very prominent, but my windshield and side windows don't show spots that are nearly as obvious (they're also not tinted). Is that because the factory is more careful with windshields and side windows? The OP also specifically mentioned tinted windows, by which I assumed he meant side windows with tinting applied.
What was the glass going to be used for that you wanted to check for residual stress?
"Doing customs clearance without the passenger is hopeless, how can he for example go through the red zone?"
I don't know what the red zone is, but customs clearance is done on cargo all the time without the shipper or the receiver present. I can understand the need to go through security after customs though. What's annoying is having to go through security again when connecting on domestic flights. Even in the US it doesn't always happen, as the OP implies, but it does occasionally.
I grew up in Alberta, now I live in Quebec, and I've been to Texas (and other parts of the US). If you want to see xenophobia, racism and fear of change, come to Quebec. All they're missing is the guns and the religion. Alberta has guns, but they stay out on the farms where they're actually useful. The wackiest religious nuts are the polygamist mormons in BC, who don't compare to their American cousins.
Saying Alberta is more conservative than anywhere in the US is either ignorance or possibly someone from Ontario or Quebec who likes sharing in the money from Alberta's (and BC's and Saskatchewan's) oil but doesn't want to share in the political fallout from it.
"So we have one article suggesting that cyberwar is an exaggeration"
This is espionage, of the good old fashioned industrial variety. It used to be done by actual people, on site, and now it's done through computers. It's not warfare, of any kind.
It's more just barely UV light. And why would it be damaging? The biggest problem with near-violet UV is that it's absorbed in the lens and it yellows it.
The spots you see on your window tinting is probably due to polarization variations in the film. My sunroof has them. Haidinger's brush is more subtle. Pull up a blank white page on an LCD monitor, stare at the centre and slowly tilt your head. If at one point you see the blue/yellow bow tie pictured in the article then you're seeing Haidinger's brush.
"the creation of standards-based platforms that rely on robust web applications (in varying degrees) more than native-run apps to provide the user experience"
Remember when Steve Jobs came out on stage and told everybody the iPhone was going to have these great web apps you could write and download? And everyone said web apps suck and clamored for a real native API? And they were right?
You're the one shouting. Shall I quote you again? Okay, here you go, your words:
"imitation is not a crime"
Yes, it is. If your product imitates a competitor to a certain legally defined point then it is illegal. Anyway, you're wrong about patents too. Apple does own design patents on the iPad and iPhone. Here's one for the iPad: http://www.scribd.com/matt_macari/d/66467658-USD627777S1. IIRC Apple's lawsuit in Germany was mostly based on imitation, not patents, while their suit in California is based on the patents.
I don't really understand you. Are you having trouble with the facts or can you just not admit you're wrong? Are you so strenuously objecting to my example of a Versacci bag? That's clearly not a counterfeit, it has a different name. But it is similar enough to the genuine article that it can easily be confused. My point with that example is that's the origin of laws regarding products that are too similar, even if there isn't an actual design patent involved.
Take a deep breath. Maybe a nice walk. You seem to be getting pretty excited about this.
When I was young we used to dig a hole to collect runoff in the spring, then drink that for the rest of the year. We didn't die. In fact, when travelling in tropical countries when everyone else thinks they really are dying, I'm the wise guy selling off his unused Immodium stock.
"Has to buy another one on arrival at the connecting airport."
I've never understood that. Civilized airports are smart enough to route connecting passengers so they stay in the security cleared area. Do some airports just like to make the lines for security as long as possible?
Interaction doesn't have to be question and answer. A reasonable lecturer takes cues from the audience. Even poor lecturers can usually tell if the audience is lost, falling asleep, or walking out. Most people are also better lecturers in front of a class. Put them on video and watch a weak lecturer turn into a horrible one.
When I was in university a long time ago nobody had thought of video (oh, yes, they had, and it sucked), but the professors all had recommended readings that should be done before the lecture. Nobody read them.
Video lectures are great for people who can't attend class for some reason, or occasionally for review afterwards. They're not a superior replacement for a live lecture. And no, assigning the lecture as homework and replacing the lecture time with a seminar doesn't usually make sense either. Seminars are already generally poorly attended and office hours even more so. When I was a TA with three office hours every week I think I had an average of about two students with five minute questions per semester. As an instructor the ratio goes up, but it's 80% students who want to argue about their grade. Once I did get an e-mail from about a quarter of the class... to tell me I'd forgotten to put a formula on the formula sheet. On the other hand, even a mediocre lecturer usually gets at least a few questions per lecture, and everyone gets to hear the answer.
Students in general just don't a) do proactive homework (if there's no deadline and nobody checking, it's not getting done) or b) think up questions ahead of time and then remember to ask them. Most of the latest tech-related teaching strategies seem to be aimed squarely at the "ideal" student, who makes up maybe a few percent of an average undergrad class. Possibly a little higher in med school.
Well then no worries, Apple's case is unfounded and the court will quickly find in favour of Samsung... er, whoops, they didn't. Apparently the judge disagrees with you.
Pre-iPhone 4 apps look just fine on an iPhone 4, resolution doubled. There are quite a few of them now, and there were a LOT of them when the 4 first came out. Many developers don't bother including bitmaps for both the pre-4 and 4+.
You're thinking of the fat apps that contain both an iPhone and an iPad version. The iPhone versions do look crappy on the iPad, but it's because they're blown up so much in size, not because they're lower resolution being displayed on the same size screen.
It's specifically trademarked and, in some cases, patented.
And yes, designing your product to look too much like another is a crime. Thus why Apple hasn't gotten thrown out of court and buying a Versacci bag in Venice will net you a $10,000 fine.
Yes, but then we'll lose the delicious irony of things like Slashdot ads for Go Daddy above stories about how Wikipedia is going to dump them because they supported SOPA.
Without an ad blocker you probably see enough ads on the Internet that the number, while technically a count, can be statistically treated as a continuous quantity.
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I've heard that the spots are glass under stress. The spots on my sunroof are very prominent, but my windshield and side windows don't show spots that are nearly as obvious (they're also not tinted). Is that because the factory is more careful with windshields and side windows? The OP also specifically mentioned tinted windows, by which I assumed he meant side windows with tinting applied.
What was the glass going to be used for that you wanted to check for residual stress?
Worse, the attacker could sign things that looked like they came from you.
"Doing customs clearance without the passenger is hopeless, how can he for example go through the red zone?"
I don't know what the red zone is, but customs clearance is done on cargo all the time without the shipper or the receiver present. I can understand the need to go through security after customs though. What's annoying is having to go through security again when connecting on domestic flights. Even in the US it doesn't always happen, as the OP implies, but it does occasionally.
I grew up in Alberta, now I live in Quebec, and I've been to Texas (and other parts of the US). If you want to see xenophobia, racism and fear of change, come to Quebec. All they're missing is the guns and the religion. Alberta has guns, but they stay out on the farms where they're actually useful. The wackiest religious nuts are the polygamist mormons in BC, who don't compare to their American cousins.
Saying Alberta is more conservative than anywhere in the US is either ignorance or possibly someone from Ontario or Quebec who likes sharing in the money from Alberta's (and BC's and Saskatchewan's) oil but doesn't want to share in the political fallout from it.
Sure. A native app that is coded in HTML5 and Javascript sucks somewhat less for the user and just as much or more for the developer.
"So we have one article suggesting that cyberwar is an exaggeration"
This is espionage, of the good old fashioned industrial variety. It used to be done by actual people, on site, and now it's done through computers. It's not warfare, of any kind.
Be nice. I think he's mentally ill.
That's a popular central Canadian meme, yes.
It's more just barely UV light. And why would it be damaging? The biggest problem with near-violet UV is that it's absorbed in the lens and it yellows it.
The spots you see on your window tinting is probably due to polarization variations in the film. My sunroof has them. Haidinger's brush is more subtle. Pull up a blank white page on an LCD monitor, stare at the centre and slowly tilt your head. If at one point you see the blue/yellow bow tie pictured in the article then you're seeing Haidinger's brush.
The sensitivity of all the pigments decays fairly similarly below about 420 nm so UV probably looks just like violet.
"the creation of standards-based platforms that rely on robust web applications (in varying degrees) more than native-run apps to provide the user experience"
Remember when Steve Jobs came out on stage and told everybody the iPhone was going to have these great web apps you could write and download? And everyone said web apps suck and clamored for a real native API? And they were right?
You're the one shouting. Shall I quote you again? Okay, here you go, your words:
"imitation is not a crime"
Yes, it is. If your product imitates a competitor to a certain legally defined point then it is illegal. Anyway, you're wrong about patents too. Apple does own design patents on the iPad and iPhone. Here's one for the iPad: http://www.scribd.com/matt_macari/d/66467658-USD627777S1. IIRC Apple's lawsuit in Germany was mostly based on imitation, not patents, while their suit in California is based on the patents.
I don't really understand you. Are you having trouble with the facts or can you just not admit you're wrong? Are you so strenuously objecting to my example of a Versacci bag? That's clearly not a counterfeit, it has a different name. But it is similar enough to the genuine article that it can easily be confused. My point with that example is that's the origin of laws regarding products that are too similar, even if there isn't an actual design patent involved.
Take a deep breath. Maybe a nice walk. You seem to be getting pretty excited about this.
Just do like they used to - if it's a suspicious liquid that's supposed to be drinkable, you take a swig. If not, it doesn't go with you.
Families still take bottles on board. You can get dry formula that you add water to, and the crew is happy to heat it up for you.
When I was young we used to dig a hole to collect runoff in the spring, then drink that for the rest of the year. We didn't die. In fact, when travelling in tropical countries when everyone else thinks they really are dying, I'm the wise guy selling off his unused Immodium stock.
"Has to buy another one on arrival at the connecting airport."
I've never understood that. Civilized airports are smart enough to route connecting passengers so they stay in the security cleared area. Do some airports just like to make the lines for security as long as possible?
Interaction doesn't have to be question and answer. A reasonable lecturer takes cues from the audience. Even poor lecturers can usually tell if the audience is lost, falling asleep, or walking out. Most people are also better lecturers in front of a class. Put them on video and watch a weak lecturer turn into a horrible one.
When I was in university a long time ago nobody had thought of video (oh, yes, they had, and it sucked), but the professors all had recommended readings that should be done before the lecture. Nobody read them.
Video lectures are great for people who can't attend class for some reason, or occasionally for review afterwards. They're not a superior replacement for a live lecture. And no, assigning the lecture as homework and replacing the lecture time with a seminar doesn't usually make sense either. Seminars are already generally poorly attended and office hours even more so. When I was a TA with three office hours every week I think I had an average of about two students with five minute questions per semester. As an instructor the ratio goes up, but it's 80% students who want to argue about their grade. Once I did get an e-mail from about a quarter of the class... to tell me I'd forgotten to put a formula on the formula sheet. On the other hand, even a mediocre lecturer usually gets at least a few questions per lecture, and everyone gets to hear the answer.
Students in general just don't a) do proactive homework (if there's no deadline and nobody checking, it's not getting done) or b) think up questions ahead of time and then remember to ask them. Most of the latest tech-related teaching strategies seem to be aimed squarely at the "ideal" student, who makes up maybe a few percent of an average undergrad class. Possibly a little higher in med school.
"imitation is not a crime"
Well then no worries, Apple's case is unfounded and the court will quickly find in favour of Samsung... er, whoops, they didn't. Apparently the judge disagrees with you.
Um, your link is full of government cover-your-ass-ese for there's nothing to see here.
Basically, if RF radiation causes cancer it's at such a low rate you're far better off worrying about something, anything, else.
Pre-iPhone 4 apps look just fine on an iPhone 4, resolution doubled. There are quite a few of them now, and there were a LOT of them when the 4 first came out. Many developers don't bother including bitmaps for both the pre-4 and 4+.
You're thinking of the fat apps that contain both an iPhone and an iPad version. The iPhone versions do look crappy on the iPad, but it's because they're blown up so much in size, not because they're lower resolution being displayed on the same size screen.
3G/4G - meh, who cares.
High resolution screen - wow.
If it actually has that screen then everything else could be identical to an iPad 2 and it would be a hit.
It's specifically trademarked and, in some cases, patented.
And yes, designing your product to look too much like another is a crime. Thus why Apple hasn't gotten thrown out of court and buying a Versacci bag in Venice will net you a $10,000 fine.
Yes, but then we'll lose the delicious irony of things like Slashdot ads for Go Daddy above stories about how Wikipedia is going to dump them because they supported SOPA.
Without an ad blocker you probably see enough ads on the Internet that the number, while technically a count, can be statistically treated as a continuous quantity.