Why wasn't this treated as a criminal (or even civil property) matter? Aren't the new owners guilty of receiving stolen property? I mean, even if they didn't know it before (assuming they bought the dog from the thief and didn't realize it was stolen), they obviously do now. I've never seen a case where stolen property was found and the cops just let the holders keep it. Maybe fences should start chipping *all* their stolen goods before reselling them ("All these items chipped for your protection. Safe as buying from a reputable store!").
And even if the dog wasn't stolen, it's still the original owner's property, no? Did the UK abolish property rights for pets or something?
I'm not sure about the law in England, but under Scottish law, as long as the new owners were unaware that the dog was stolen they would legally own it and be innocent of purchasing stolen property. The former owner would have to sue the thief for damages in order to be compensated.
Sadly even though the tablets in TFA will probably have nicer hardware, more features, and be cheaper to boot, they will most likely all bomb hard. As we saw with MSFT and first tablets, then HTPCs, then Vista and Zune, what you are selling doesn't matter as much as how you sell it and that seems to be something these companies don't get, while Steve has built an empire on it.
What you seem to be missing is that nicer hardware, more features and lower price don't necessarily imply a better product.
I don't know, they've been right before.. I'm not taking any chances - I'm going to start stockpiling *classified* and move to *classified* where I can fight off any *classified* flesh-eating *classified*.
I've played WOW with that kind of latency at times, and while it's not ideal, it's definitely playable without becoming frustrated. It may not work well for some games, especially for people who are serious about PVP, but it seems like a reasonable service. Considering the technology they're using, I'd say they're doing pretty well. As a mac user, I'd give it serious consideration.
You're the second one to suggest "age". When humans die of age, that's some failure in the human body that's common when people grow old. That's when we say someone died of old age. However when human made devices die, there is always a component that has failed. When you have a 5 year old mobile telephone that dies, you say it died of old age, and replace it. That's because you don't care and replacing it costs less than finding out the root cause for the failure.
When a properly designed computer flips a bit, SOMETHING happened. We may never know, it might have been a cosmic ray. But don't you think that they would use space-certified RAM chips for such a project?
Semiconductor devices deteriorate over time due to dopant diffusion in the substrate. It's entirely possible for that memory bit to flip because the threshold voltages have drifted too far out of specification over the years.
they have basically ensured that only someone else with equally deep pockets has the time and money to engineer something so clearly better that they can recoup the time investment by surpassing VP8.
They could always recoup their money by making a codec so good that Google will just buy the company and release it as open source. If anything, it would be easier to bring such a product to market, because the market is just Google, and Google have deep pockets.
You're missing my point. In order to measure the frequency variation by counting cycles, you still need a reference clock because you're directly measuring cycles per second - counting one source for an hour and another for a day for example will yield vastly different results. You're right of course that you can easily tell the stability of 2 or more clocks relative to each other by counting cycles, but to determine the quality of a clock in any absolute sense, you'd need a measurement technique which was independent of time. I think this was the OP's point.
You want Google to discriminate against sites with more advertising? Good luck with that, buddy.
Goggle only benefits from advertising it sells. If a site gets less hits because it's full of adverts which Goggle doesn't sell, then it becomes less valuable to advertisers, and Google advertising consequentially becomes more valuable.
The measure they're talking about is how much variance there is in the frequency of the pulses over time, and you can measure that without any 'standard' to compare to -- you're actually comparing the signal to itself.
Still, they're using a reference time source to do the measurements by sampling the sources over a long period of time and using statistical methods to reduce (but not eliminate AFAIK) the effect of instability of the reference time source. Not that this is isn't a valid thing to do - in practical terms it's a useful conclusion. I don't see how accurately measuring the frequency of a clock without using a reference clock is practical. Perhaps you could do something like generate a standing wave in a resonant cavity of some kind and measure the amplitude? It's hard to see how this kind of approach would be practical given the scale of the variations they're measuring.
Is it just me, but the only bikes I could see on that site all appeared to be "Girl/Female" bikes with a step through design.
Personally the whole concept of the "Male" and "Female" designs boggle my mind, why is it that one with the balls gets the one with the bar? (I understand the whole dress thing on the female bike design, which is where I'm lead to believe it came from..)
I'm pretty sure it's from the days when women wore long skirts. It would be impossible to mount a "male" bicycle without showing some inappropriate leg and getting the petticoat all tangled in the back wheel. The "male" design makes a lot more sense from a structural perspective, so would have been the norm for trouser wearing men.
What's with the dark grey font on a black background on the website? If you're trying to give it an aura of mystery, you've suceeded, because It's practically unreadable.
It isn't like a lump of gold has any practical use.
Apart from it's use in jewelry, gold is widely used in electronics due to it's resistance to corrosion. It is the preferred material for wire bonding between silicon die and IC packages AFAIK. It is used for plating connectors in noise sensitive applications. It is used for plating PCB pads prior to soldering. If it weren't for it's relative scarcity, it would probably be used in most applications where physical strength wasn't a requirement. We'd probably gold plate our cars to stop them rusting if it were at all cost effective.
So is "apple", would you name your new phone like that?
Trademarks is all about registering common words for business purposes. And it makes some sense (at least much more than patents or copyright).
I think the issue here is that when they refer to a violation of their intellectual property rights, they mean copyright, not trademark. You can trademark a common word, but you can't copyright it AFAIK.
Aparently, simply discrimating by skin color is not cool anymore.
It's not about discrimination based on race, it's about verifying whether someone is from where they say they are from to prevent normal emmigrants passing themselves off as refugees to bypass the emmigration system. It's stupid of course because it's based on the assumption that there is a tie between nationality and genetic ancestry. A fairly large proportion of british citizens would test as Indian under this scheme.
it has the advantages of being hundreds of times faster than flash along with having at least ten times the write-cycle life
Hundreds of times faster? NOR flash is available with 50ns random access and 25ns serial access, so are you suggesting it can cope with 250ps serial access? That's 4GHz - I doubt it. 10 times faster is a bit more believable. It would be nice to see some links to actual specifications or performance data rather than just recycled marketing bumf, something which all the articles I've seen seem to lack.
This is clearly a vast improvement over flash, just because of the write speed and lack of complexity with regard to managing page buffers, but the question isn't whether it's better than flash, it's whether it's better than magnetoresistive RAM, which also recently started mass production.
Yes, and if one extra small screen is useful, think how useful 3 will be. That's right! 3 times more useful. Of course, making it publically known like that was a mistake. As soon as they release it, you can bet that one of their competitors will release a laptop with 4 small screens. Then they won't look so clever. Start selling your intel shares now folks.
You do realize that this was originally imposed upon Germany by the Allies at the end of World War II, right? It has since stuck even though the threat of a Nazi resurgence has now passed because it has become a part of the political status quo. It's not really specifically a left-wing thing.
...and no sane german politician is going to propose a bill to legalise the swastika, so this will remain law for quite some time.
They called the first world war "The War to End all Wars". It wasn't. Your assumption that World War III would have prevented all these localised conflicts is flawed.
What the parent means is that if you have two encryption functions, f1(x) and f2(x) then applying f1 and then f2 to your message is the same as applying a third encryption function f3, where f3(x)=f2(f1(x)). You can just apply cryptanalysis techniques to f3 to determine x, without needing to determine the intermediate message f1(x).
While f3(x) may well be stronger than f1(x) or f2(x), this is not necessarily the case.
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Why wasn't this treated as a criminal (or even civil property) matter? Aren't the new owners guilty of receiving stolen property? I mean, even if they didn't know it before (assuming they bought the dog from the thief and didn't realize it was stolen), they obviously do now. I've never seen a case where stolen property was found and the cops just let the holders keep it. Maybe fences should start chipping *all* their stolen goods before reselling them ("All these items chipped for your protection. Safe as buying from a reputable store!").
And even if the dog wasn't stolen, it's still the original owner's property, no? Did the UK abolish property rights for pets or something?
I'm not sure about the law in England, but under Scottish law, as long as the new owners were unaware that the dog was stolen they would legally own it and be innocent of purchasing stolen property. The former owner would have to sue the thief for damages in order to be compensated.
Sadly even though the tablets in TFA will probably have nicer hardware, more features, and be cheaper to boot, they will most likely all bomb hard. As we saw with MSFT and first tablets, then HTPCs, then Vista and Zune, what you are selling doesn't matter as much as how you sell it and that seems to be something these companies don't get, while Steve has built an empire on it.
What you seem to be missing is that nicer hardware, more features and lower price don't necessarily imply a better product.
At least all the screaming would drown out the engine noise
I don't know, they've been right before.. I'm not taking any chances - I'm going to start stockpiling *classified* and move to *classified* where I can fight off any *classified* flesh-eating *classified*.
I've played WOW with that kind of latency at times, and while it's not ideal, it's definitely playable without becoming frustrated. It may not work well for some games, especially for people who are serious about PVP, but it seems like a reasonable service. Considering the technology they're using, I'd say they're doing pretty well. As a mac user, I'd give it serious consideration.
You're the second one to suggest "age". When humans die of age, that's some failure in the human body that's common when people grow old. That's when we say someone died of old age. However when human made devices die, there is always a component that has failed. When you have a 5 year old mobile telephone that dies, you say it died of old age, and replace it. That's because you don't care and replacing it costs less than finding out the root cause for the failure.
When a properly designed computer flips a bit, SOMETHING happened. We may never know, it might have been a cosmic ray. But don't you think that they would use space-certified RAM chips for such a project?
Semiconductor devices deteriorate over time due to dopant diffusion in the substrate. It's entirely possible for that memory bit to flip because the threshold voltages have drifted too far out of specification over the years.
they have basically ensured that only someone else with equally deep pockets has the time and money to engineer something so clearly better that they can recoup the time investment by surpassing VP8.
They could always recoup their money by making a codec so good that Google will just buy the company and release it as open source. If anything, it would be easier to bring such a product to market, because the market is just Google, and Google have deep pockets.
You're missing my point. In order to measure the frequency variation by counting cycles, you still need a reference clock because you're directly measuring cycles per second - counting one source for an hour and another for a day for example will yield vastly different results. You're right of course that you can easily tell the stability of 2 or more clocks relative to each other by counting cycles, but to determine the quality of a clock in any absolute sense, you'd need a measurement technique which was independent of time. I think this was the OP's point.
You want Google to discriminate against sites with more advertising? Good luck with that, buddy.
Goggle only benefits from advertising it sells. If a site gets less hits because it's full of adverts which Goggle doesn't sell, then it becomes less valuable to advertisers, and Google advertising consequentially becomes more valuable.
The measure they're talking about is how much variance there is in the frequency of the pulses over time, and you can measure that without any 'standard' to compare to -- you're actually comparing the signal to itself.
Still, they're using a reference time source to do the measurements by sampling the sources over a long period of time and using statistical methods to reduce (but not eliminate AFAIK) the effect of instability of the reference time source. Not that this is isn't a valid thing to do - in practical terms it's a useful conclusion. I don't see how accurately measuring the frequency of a clock without using a reference clock is practical. Perhaps you could do something like generate a standing wave in a resonant cavity of some kind and measure the amplitude? It's hard to see how this kind of approach would be practical given the scale of the variations they're measuring.
No. Anarchy is undemocratic, because for practical purposes, in an anarchic state, the strong rule the weak.
If the strong rule the weak, it's not really an anarchy is it?
I'm pretty sure they are hiring people based on merit and technical ability, not race or color.
Either that, or they're staffed by Oompa -Loompas.
Any way, I wanna watch. I hope he does the trailing smoke thing!
That's not smoke, it's urine
Is it just me, but the only bikes I could see on that site all appeared to be "Girl/Female" bikes with a step through design. Personally the whole concept of the "Male" and "Female" designs boggle my mind, why is it that one with the balls gets the one with the bar? (I understand the whole dress thing on the female bike design, which is where I'm lead to believe it came from..)
I'm pretty sure it's from the days when women wore long skirts. It would be impossible to mount a "male" bicycle without showing some inappropriate leg and getting the petticoat all tangled in the back wheel. The "male" design makes a lot more sense from a structural perspective, so would have been the norm for trouser wearing men.
What's with the dark grey font on a black background on the website? If you're trying to give it an aura of mystery, you've suceeded, because It's practically unreadable.
It isn't like a lump of gold has any practical use.
Apart from it's use in jewelry, gold is widely used in electronics due to it's resistance to corrosion. It is the preferred material for wire bonding between silicon die and IC packages AFAIK. It is used for plating connectors in noise sensitive applications. It is used for plating PCB pads prior to soldering. If it weren't for it's relative scarcity, it would probably be used in most applications where physical strength wasn't a requirement. We'd probably gold plate our cars to stop them rusting if it were at all cost effective.
So is "apple", would you name your new phone like that?
Trademarks is all about registering common words for business purposes. And it makes some sense (at least much more than patents or copyright).
I think the issue here is that when they refer to a violation of their intellectual property rights, they mean copyright, not trademark. You can trademark a common word, but you can't copyright it AFAIK.
Who says it doesn't?
Aparently, simply discrimating by skin color is not cool anymore.
It's not about discrimination based on race, it's about verifying whether someone is from where they say they are from to prevent normal emmigrants passing themselves off as refugees to bypass the emmigration system. It's stupid of course because it's based on the assumption that there is a tie between nationality and genetic ancestry. A fairly large proportion of british citizens would test as Indian under this scheme.
it has the advantages of being hundreds of times faster than flash along with having at least ten times the write-cycle life
Hundreds of times faster? NOR flash is available with 50ns random access and 25ns serial access, so are you suggesting it can cope with 250ps serial access? That's 4GHz - I doubt it. 10 times faster is a bit more believable. It would be nice to see some links to actual specifications or performance data rather than just recycled marketing bumf, something which all the articles I've seen seem to lack.
This is clearly a vast improvement over flash, just because of the write speed and lack of complexity with regard to managing page buffers, but the question isn't whether it's better than flash, it's whether it's better than magnetoresistive RAM, which also recently started mass production.
Yes, and if one extra small screen is useful, think how useful 3 will be. That's right! 3 times more useful. Of course, making it publically known like that was a mistake. As soon as they release it, you can bet that one of their competitors will release a laptop with 4 small screens. Then they won't look so clever. Start selling your intel shares now folks.
You do realize that this was originally imposed upon Germany by the Allies at the end of World War II, right? It has since stuck even though the threat of a Nazi resurgence has now passed because it has become a part of the political status quo. It's not really specifically a left-wing thing.
...and no sane german politician is going to propose a bill to legalise the swastika, so this will remain law for quite some time.
They called the first world war "The War to End all Wars". It wasn't. Your assumption that World War III would have prevented all these localised conflicts is flawed.
While f3(x) may well be stronger than f1(x) or f2(x), this is not necessarily the case.
It would be more accurate to say "No life, as we know it, without water and raw materials."
Or maybe even "No Life, as we define it"