That's not necessarily true. In most lottery games, if no-one wins during a given week, the money rolls over. If enough weeks go by without a winner, the pot can become big enough that the expected value of a ticket is greater than its cost.
Thus a lottery is not a tax on all the players, but those who do not use strategy when they play.
Bus Speed IS more important than processor speed. The bus is what keeps the CPU supplied with data from the memory. If you have a very slow bus it doesn't matter how fast your CPU is, it will have to wait on memory accesses.
Smart caching can keep values in the cache that will be accessed frequently and smart compiling can execute the code in an efficient sequence (so that a lot of memory accesses can be done at once), but even still the gap between bus/memory performance and CPU performance 200/400/800 MHz vs 1/2/3 GHz is so great that this still slows down execution quite a bit.
You're completely right, of course. People with regular jobs often can't find the time to vote. A good way to help encourage to participation would be to hold elections on the week-end, hold them a full 24 hours (everybody gets some time off, right). Better yet, just make election day a national holiday.
I know that for many Slashdot readers, the reaction over a patent lawsuit defaults to "those bastards are filing frivolous lawsuits," but wait a minute before you badmouth sendo.
The article said nothing beyond that the claim regards the design of an internal circuit board. Sendo's claim might be legit' it might be BS. We have no idea which at this point.
If anyone actually knows anything substatial about the claim, please enlighten us all.
What you're talking about is a NACK (negative acknowledgement). Basically, if I miss a packet, I'll send a NACK. Some protocols use them, but you can't use NACKs exclusively.
If the recipient never NACKed a packet, the sender wouldn't know if the all the packets were getting through or if none of the NACKs were getting through.
My dad had a 94 Tahoe that had a bad gas gauge that would have been quite expensive to fix. Now he's the anal retentive type, so he just watched his odometer until it was time to fill up. On one vacation, we ran out of gas in Northern Illinois in January in the middle of a snow storm.
Of course we called AAA on a cell phone, but the driver was too stupid to find us. (We were on an exit ramp and told the dispatcher that, but apparently that information never made it to the tow truck driver.) A very nice highway patrolman stopped to help, and we got to sit in his car for warmth, but because of Illinois state law, he couldn't get us gas because we had already called AAA.
Eventually AAA found us and we got back on the road but my dad really heard about watching the odometer more closely.
A couple of years later, he had got a letter in the mail about a class action settlement. Chevrolet claimed that in the first models of the Chevy Tahoe resided a 30 gallon gas tank. Problem was, the tank only held 27 gallons. The settlement was $500 off the price of your next GM car. What a ripoff. In order to take advantage of that, you'd be forced to drive a GM car, and as we all have seen that's a terrible idea.
This truly is a great day! This could become the precedent for all computer programs becoming protected speech (and thus quashing the DMCA and bunch of other awful laws).
Granted that Doom II looks a lot different to a judge and jury than DeCSS, but hey it's a start, right?
What a bitch. I direct your attention to the following snippet from the webpage:
And to Katy: Even though you haven't responded to the email I sent you, I know you check this site every few weeks. You are welcome to email me with corrections or additions to the story. If I got something wrong or left something out, please let me know and I'll be happy to change it. In fact, I'll go farther. If you want to write your own version of our relationship, I swear to my god, that I will post it, COMPLETELY UNABRIDGED, right next to mine. This is your opportunity to rebut anything I say here.
Why didn't the bitch teake him up on that offer instead of taking him to court. It's bullshit like this that is choking our legal system.
According to this web-site, a plaintiff must prove Actual Malice in order to win a libel case:
Actual Malice is what plaintiffs in the public eye have to prove in order to win a libel case. Actual malice is the act of publishing or broadcasting statements with prior knowledge of the inaccuracy of the statement or a reckless disregard for the truth.
In the case in question, if the statements are indeed true, then guy could not have been publishing them with prior knowledge of their inaccuracy or a reckless disregard for the truth.
If you were going to design a new network application, you could add a wrapper around your packet to make it look like an http packet or some higher priority packet.
The Republicans are only pushing the parts of tort reform that help big business and the wealthy.
For instance the republicans are pushing to cap medical malpractice settlements. Who does that help? Rich doctors and health insurance companies.
Now I'm not saying that tort reform shouldn't happen, but I trust W to carry out the necessary reform about as far as my little sister can throw him.
When I visited Hong Kong in 2001, I bought a subway pass with this technology.
If you buy more than about $10 US of subway services, you have the option to get a smart card. My whole stay that card left my wallet only once (to return it for a refund). Othere than that when I used the subway, I would just set my wallet on top of the read. It was so conveneient.
Even better, lots of vendors (such as convenience stores) let you pay using your subway credit.
I guess there are more security concerns when using this with a real credit card, but it seems like it should have happened in this country sooner.
by John Kennedy Toole
It's not geek chic, but it is an excellent book, and geeks should relate to it pretty well.
It's the story of Ignatius J. Reilly, probably the most interesting character in all literature. It's sad at times, but it's amazingly funny. I'll refrain from giving away more of the book than I already have.
John Kennedy Toole did not live to see the book published in his lifetime. Rather, he was so misunderstood and despondent, that he killed himself while this masterpiece was still a stack of papers in his room. After his death his mother discovered them and had them published.
You are correct in that saying that Hawking radiation is produced by quantum uncertainty, but (I believe) mistaken in classifying it as blackbody radiation.
Blackbody radiation is emitted from matter excited by heat (like the orange glow from your stove).
Granted that patents like this shouldn't be recognized in the first place, but what if the government extended eminent domain to intellectual property?
For instance, suppose some company patents some technology and thus stiffles inovation. Then perhaps, the government should claim eminent domain, pay the company for the right to their technology and make it public domain. (Not that this would ever happen.)
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That's not necessarily true. In most lottery games, if no-one wins during a given week, the money rolls over. If enough weeks go by without a winner, the pot can become big enough that the expected value of a ticket is greater than its cost.
Thus a lottery is not a tax on all the players, but those who do not use strategy when they play.
Bus Speed IS more important than processor speed. The bus is what keeps the CPU supplied with data from the memory. If you have a very slow bus it doesn't matter how fast your CPU is, it will have to wait on memory accesses.
Smart caching can keep values in the cache that will be accessed frequently and smart compiling can execute the code in an efficient sequence (so that a lot of memory accesses can be done at once), but even still the gap between bus/memory performance and CPU performance 200/400/800 MHz vs 1/2/3 GHz is so great that this still slows down execution quite a bit.
Interesting...
You're completely right, of course. People with regular jobs often can't find the time to vote. A good way to help encourage to participation would be to hold elections on the week-end, hold them a full 24 hours (everybody gets some time off, right). Better yet, just make election day a national holiday.
I've voted in almost every election since I came of age (I missed one or two school board elections).
I just wish more people my age voted. Of course, even if all teens->20 somethings voted, they still wouldn't have as much say as the baby-boomers.
I think that the vast majority of voters don't know anything about the DMCA or DRM.
/.er)
Quick, which group is most important to politicians?
That's right. The elderly. Think they know much about DRM?
(apologies to the one 80 year old
Did anyone else misread that as SPARC unveils new supercomputer?
HA!!
I just saw The Two Towers in the theatre last weekend. I'm pretty sure it's still showing.
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Sorry about the misspelling. It has been fixed.
I know that for many Slashdot readers, the reaction over a patent lawsuit defaults to "those bastards are filing frivolous lawsuits," but wait a minute before you badmouth sendo.
The article said nothing beyond that the claim regards the design of an internal circuit board. Sendo's claim might be legit' it might be BS. We have no idea which at this point.
If anyone actually knows anything substatial about the claim, please enlighten us all.
What you're talking about is a NACK (negative acknowledgement). Basically, if I miss a packet, I'll send a NACK. Some protocols use them, but you can't use NACKs exclusively.
If the recipient never NACKed a packet, the sender wouldn't know if the all the packets were getting through or if none of the NACKs were getting through.
My dad had a 94 Tahoe that had a bad gas gauge that would have been quite expensive to fix. Now he's the anal retentive type, so he just watched his odometer until it was time to fill up. On one vacation, we ran out of gas in Northern Illinois in January in the middle of a snow storm.
Of course we called AAA on a cell phone, but the driver was too stupid to find us. (We were on an exit ramp and told the dispatcher that, but apparently that information never made it to the tow truck driver.) A very nice highway patrolman stopped to help, and we got to sit in his car for warmth, but because of Illinois state law, he couldn't get us gas because we had already called AAA.
Eventually AAA found us and we got back on the road but my dad really heard about watching the odometer more closely.
A couple of years later, he had got a letter in the mail about a class action settlement. Chevrolet claimed that in the first models of the Chevy Tahoe resided a 30 gallon gas tank. Problem was, the tank only held 27 gallons. The settlement was $500 off the price of your next GM car. What a ripoff. In order to take advantage of that, you'd be forced to drive a GM car, and as we all have seen that's a terrible idea.
This truly is a great day! This could become the precedent for all computer programs becoming protected speech (and thus quashing the DMCA and bunch of other awful laws).
Granted that Doom II looks a lot different to a judge and jury than DeCSS, but hey it's a start, right?
Why didn't the bitch teake him up on that offer instead of taking him to court. It's bullshit like this that is choking our legal system.
IANAL either, but I looked up libel on google.
According to this web-site, a plaintiff must prove Actual Malice in order to win a libel case:
Actual Malice is what plaintiffs in the public eye have to prove in order to win a libel case. Actual malice is the act of publishing or broadcasting statements with prior knowledge of the inaccuracy of the statement or a reckless disregard for the truth.
In the case in question, if the statements are indeed true, then guy could not have been publishing them with prior knowledge of their inaccuracy or a reckless disregard for the truth.
Does anybody have Michael Powell's home telephone number/address?
I'd just like to send him a thank you card.
How on earth could the idea of holding an auction on-line be considered non-obvious?
Next thing you know all those bloggers will have to pay royalties.
Ha! Pretty Funny! Did anyone else get this? Where are my mod points when I need them? I just let 4 points expire yesterday...
If you were going to design a new network application, you could add a wrapper around your packet to make it look like an http packet or some higher priority packet.
The Republicans are only pushing the parts of tort reform that help big business and the wealthy. For instance the republicans are pushing to cap medical malpractice settlements. Who does that help? Rich doctors and health insurance companies. Now I'm not saying that tort reform shouldn't happen, but I trust W to carry out the necessary reform about as far as my little sister can throw him.
When I visited Hong Kong in 2001, I bought a subway pass with this technology.
If you buy more than about $10 US of subway services, you have the option to get a smart card. My whole stay that card left my wallet only once (to return it for a refund). Othere than that when I used the subway, I would just set my wallet on top of the read. It was so conveneient.
Even better, lots of vendors (such as convenience stores) let you pay using your subway credit.
I guess there are more security concerns when using this with a real credit card, but it seems like it should have happened in this country sooner.
by John Kennedy Toole It's not geek chic, but it is an excellent book, and geeks should relate to it pretty well.
It's the story of Ignatius J. Reilly, probably the most interesting character in all literature. It's sad at times, but it's amazingly funny. I'll refrain from giving away more of the book than I already have.
John Kennedy Toole did not live to see the book published in his lifetime. Rather, he was so misunderstood and despondent, that he killed himself while this masterpiece was still a stack of papers in his room. After his death his mother discovered them and had them published.
You are correct in that saying that Hawking radiation is produced by quantum uncertainty, but (I believe) mistaken in classifying it as blackbody radiation. Blackbody radiation is emitted from matter excited by heat (like the orange glow from your stove).
I don't think that the point of the article was: 'Hey these products run linux, go buy them.'
I think it was more just an encouraging note (especially to linux developers) that linux can keep up in the embedded systems market.
Granted that patents like this shouldn't be recognized in the first place, but what if the government extended eminent domain to intellectual property?
For instance, suppose some company patents some technology and thus stiffles inovation. Then perhaps, the government should claim eminent domain, pay the company for the right to their technology and make it public domain. (Not that this would ever happen.)