It's a good thing, then, that a House Resolution, by itself, also has "no force or effect". It seems our current House of Representatives thinks that it is good to waste time and money passing House Resolutions defunding or outlawing everything that they don't like, all the while knowing that each resolution they pass has no chance to get past the Senate or the President. Why are they wasting time with this? Isn't there a governmental shutdown deadline this Friday? Shouldn't they be working on the budget instead of killing time with small-fry legislation that goes nowhere?
I have a Nook Color and I also have the Google Reader app on it. I don't see the annoying factor you see. Then again, I also don't expect to use a tablet one-handed.
Nope. Copyright still belongs to the person who made the recording. (The Zapruder film, for instance, which showed the assassination of President Kennedy is owned by the Zapruder family.) However, there is a pretty good case for fair use in this case, especially since this Duffy video is being used for news reporting/commentary purposes.
When someone does suspect that a ghost is present in their home or business, they will sometimes call in "experts" to ascertain if that is, in fact, the case... and what sort of gear do these ghost hunters use to detect said spirits?"
A score 2 "Insightful" means that 1 person thought it was insightful (in the case of a logged in user who starts with a +1 score). How 1 person being a "bigoted moron", as you say, shows that Slashdot, on average, is full of bigoted morons is beyond me.
It's actually even narrower than merely a special event logo. The first claim covers special event logos that includes one or more animated images. The claims only covers their animated and their interactive doodles, but doesn't cover doodles of just static images. Thus, their Pacman doodle is covered, but their July 4th doodle consisting of a painting isn't.
Not that it isn't still pretty bad. It's a dumb patent, but it's also really narrow.
Well, more than horses and animals, right? Wasn't the first electric chair built using AC as part of Edison's campaign to prove how unsafe AC was? As I recall, the prisoner was subjected to so much current, his face literally melted onto the fabric of the hood they used to cover his face.
Well, in Islam, animals must be slaughtered according to halal standards, which requires the animal to be drained of blood through the carotid and jugular (similar to kosher laws).
I think this explains all the dead cows drained of blood we saw on the X-Files.
Everywhere I go these days, my friends slam laptops. They tell me my PC of choice is a dying breed and sing the praises of their new, "post-PC" Apple iPad.
Is it me or does it sound like the writer's friends are just trend-happy followers? I'm around a lot of tech people and I don't know of anyone who crow about how much tablets are going to completely displace PCs or laptops or desktops. I think for most people, the tablet is a nice toy with interesting specific applications, but it's not a replacement for anything. Same thing with all the people who said netbooks were going to displace laptops a few years ago, and the people who said laptops will destroy desktops a few years before that. Didn't happen then, won't happen now.
Maybe the writer should find less trend-whorey friends.
It's a good thing nobody in Hollywood will touch some of the great SF stories. I certainly don't want to see Hollywood crank out an abomination like, say, Michael Bay's Rendezvous with Rama. Let's leave the good stuff well alone.
Considering the cuts that are being pushed through the House, especially for research of earth/space science stuff like tsunami warnings, I can't help but wonder whether it'll just get defunded in a few months. I hope not. This looks interesting, but no amount of federal funding for scientific research is safe from the politicians right now.
It's kind of rich that Righthaven is complaining that the defendant isn't acting in good faith considering the conduct of Righthaven in pulling these completely BS lawsuits.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a good thing, then, that a House Resolution, by itself, also has "no force or effect". It seems our current House of Representatives thinks that it is good to waste time and money passing House Resolutions defunding or outlawing everything that they don't like, all the while knowing that each resolution they pass has no chance to get past the Senate or the President. Why are they wasting time with this? Isn't there a governmental shutdown deadline this Friday? Shouldn't they be working on the budget instead of killing time with small-fry legislation that goes nowhere?
I have a Nook Color and I also have the Google Reader app on it. I don't see the annoying factor you see. Then again, I also don't expect to use a tablet one-handed.
Nope. Copyright still belongs to the person who made the recording. (The Zapruder film, for instance, which showed the assassination of President Kennedy is owned by the Zapruder family.) However, there is a pretty good case for fair use in this case, especially since this Duffy video is being used for news reporting/commentary purposes.
Even if they could, which I doubt, why would they want to bring extra attention to this when it'll just go away tomorrow?
That's not luck, that's great engineering and great piloting on the part of NASA.
I think everyone remembers too fondly Captain Picard's girlfriend's rollup piano.
When someone does suspect that a ghost is present in their home or business, they will sometimes call in "experts" to ascertain if that is, in fact, the case... and what sort of gear do these ghost hunters use to detect said spirits?"
Ghosthunters don't need gadgets. The only thing they need is the desire and ability to separate idiots from their money.
It's a computer swap meet in Singapore. Good luck finding the guy who sold it to you.
A score 2 "Insightful" means that 1 person thought it was insightful (in the case of a logged in user who starts with a +1 score). How 1 person being a "bigoted moron", as you say, shows that Slashdot, on average, is full of bigoted morons is beyond me.
I don't think Apple should have banned it: they should have just packaged it with an App to cure Bigotry.
Isn't there a 10 day waiting period required for that app?
It's actually even narrower than merely a special event logo. The first claim covers special event logos that includes one or more animated images. The claims only covers their animated and their interactive doodles, but doesn't cover doodles of just static images. Thus, their Pacman doodle is covered, but their July 4th doodle consisting of a painting isn't.
Not that it isn't still pretty bad. It's a dumb patent, but it's also really narrow.
No, it only covers special event logos.
Well, more than horses and animals, right? Wasn't the first electric chair built using AC as part of Edison's campaign to prove how unsafe AC was? As I recall, the prisoner was subjected to so much current, his face literally melted onto the fabric of the hood they used to cover his face.
Unlike the news.
Well, in Islam, animals must be slaughtered according to halal standards, which requires the animal to be drained of blood through the carotid and jugular (similar to kosher laws).
I think this explains all the dead cows drained of blood we saw on the X-Files.
Which tablet are you using? Did you root one of the Android e-readers like the Literati?
FTA:
Everywhere I go these days, my friends slam laptops. They tell me my PC of choice is a dying breed and sing the praises of their new, "post-PC" Apple iPad.
Is it me or does it sound like the writer's friends are just trend-happy followers? I'm around a lot of tech people and I don't know of anyone who crow about how much tablets are going to completely displace PCs or laptops or desktops. I think for most people, the tablet is a nice toy with interesting specific applications, but it's not a replacement for anything. Same thing with all the people who said netbooks were going to displace laptops a few years ago, and the people who said laptops will destroy desktops a few years before that. Didn't happen then, won't happen now.
Maybe the writer should find less trend-whorey friends.
It's a good thing nobody in Hollywood will touch some of the great SF stories. I certainly don't want to see Hollywood crank out an abomination like, say, Michael Bay's Rendezvous with Rama. Let's leave the good stuff well alone.
I'm fairly sure that 3D Realms is essentially acting as an IP holding company for their various intellectual properties such as Duke Nukem and Prey.
"This looks interesting" is a lot more legitimate a reason than some of the random tax breaks we've pissed our money away on.
Scientific research doesn't have to be practical. Scientific knowledge is desirable for the sake of being knowledge.
Considering the cuts that are being pushed through the House, especially for research of earth/space science stuff like tsunami warnings, I can't help but wonder whether it'll just get defunded in a few months. I hope not. This looks interesting, but no amount of federal funding for scientific research is safe from the politicians right now.
Have you considered a Nook Color? It's cheap - 250 dollars and, if rooted, it is a fully functional Android tablet.
It's kind of rich that Righthaven is complaining that the defendant isn't acting in good faith considering the conduct of Righthaven in pulling these completely BS lawsuits.