Of course, if you really wanted to do it the same way, You'd have to get a court warrant for probable cause before you could look up and access the information.
But then again, when has a little things like facts ever stopped the slashdot crowd when in the midst of a Republican feeding frenzy.
No need to, anymore. Liberal socialists are doing all their work for them.
FYI, since 1988, the Communist Party USA has stopped fielding candidates. They now instruct their members to vote Democrat.
If you're talking about why we have patent law in the US, it was NOT to let people build on the knowledge of others. It was to encourage invention by allowing the INVENTOR to PROFIT from HIS own EFFORT and innovation.
The founders clearly understood that no one's going to put effort into innovation if they can't profit from it, whether it be individuals or business.
Yeah, I put it right up there with Bill Clinton walking into the Oval office, looking at the bust (not the intern's, the statue on the wall) and asking: Who's that? That's George Washington, replied the aide.
No, wait. Maybe it was the one where Bill Clinton was in Rome and praised the vision and nobility of Romulus and Remus, the brothers who founded the city. Yeah, that's gotta be it. I think I like that one best.
But, then again, it could be the video at the Ron Brown funeral where he's yucking it up, catches the camera out of the corner of his eye, and then, within one and a half strides is wiping a tear from his eye. Priceless.
And, of course, if you would have gone on to college biology, you would have learned that cellular biology is far more complex than you can possibly imagine, evolution doesn't have a "higher" or "lower" classification, and certain types of people preach evolution, but completely ignore it when dictating how other humans should interact with nature.
Here's betting money the article got it wrong. The movie may be titled I, Robot, but the story is from the Naked Sun, which is the sequel to the Caves of Steel.
In it, Elijah Bailey is a detective who had previously solved a murder of an off-worlder on Earth (human off-worlder, no aliens in this series of books) with his robotic partner R. Daneel Olivaw.
Now there has been a murder on Aurora, one of the former colony worlds that now hold military and political dominance over Earth. Elijah is requested by that gov't to investigate the murder with R. Daneel because it was apparently performed by a robot, which, needless to say, has the Aurorans, who are very dependent on robots, extremely nervous.
In the book, there are a series of murders, each committed by a robot. The robot was a useless pile of junk afterward, but the real terror in the story is that someone has figured out how to make a robot kill, even if only once.
The book is not as good as the Caves of Steel (which is probably one of the finest works Asimov ever did), but is still a darn good book.
Depends on your viewpoint. It reduced the military power of the American Indians we were fighting at the time (that was one of the primary reasons for systematic slaughter of buffalo). Of course, a lot of people with a whacked sense of history think the American Indians were in some sort of enlightened utopia until us evil white guys came along and turned them into a bunch of alcoholics, so pick your agenda and run with it.
Junk science got freon banned, so why should we lose our faith in junk science here as well? I'm sure environmentalist groups will quickly publish studies showing precisely that loud sounds kill off plants, interfere with the mating habits of bees and flower pollination, cause migratory bird stress and precipitate particulate condensation of smog particles from the air into our precious groundwater, thereby poisoning the entire human race unless a new law (with corresponding funding) is passed immediately. And, of course, it will all be the fault of the evil Republicans and their slavish devotion to big business.
Unfortunately, you can't choose to have a 1" thick PC laptop with a built-in DVD/CD-RW and 4 hours of usable battery life no matter HOW much you're willing to pay, but, hey, look at all the stuff you can choose NOT to have.
You can choose NOT to have firewire You can choose NOT to have DVD-ROM You can choose NOT to have built-in 100BT Ethernet You can choose NOT to have top-quality LCD panels You can choose NOT to have slot loading combo-drives
And you can save hundreds of dollars choosing all these things NOT to have.
It's called value-added. It's the same reason I pay $40 to have some guy change my oil when I'm perfectly capable of doing it myself. It's worth $40 to me not to have to crawl under the car and deal with the mess and hassle.
The question is: will $130 be a reasonable price for people not to deal with the hassle of downloading and installing software the "old way."
and also because fonts themselves usually can not be freely shipped...
That, right there, is a major problem with Open Source. A lot of technologies (including various typefaces) require the paying of license fees and royalties to use them.
Because Open Source does not allow for a revenue stream by selling software (don't talk to me about theory, we're discussing reality), there's no money to pay for the royalties.
That's why OpenOffice doesn't ship with Arial or Times New Roman.
It's a fundamental challenge to the Open Source model, yet nobody seems to realize it.
Actually, the iPod contains one of those micro-hard drives, the ones that are about the size of a book of matches. It is not a laptop hard drive. Heck, the whole iPod is about the size of a laptop hard drive.
And, of course, the fact that a drug company spends an average of one BILLION dollars to bring a new drug to market because of gov't regulation just to have themselves ripped to shreds for daring to CHARGE enough to recover their costs has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Um, no it's not. Pressure has very little effect on water's freezing points. Even under 300 million atmospheres, pure water freezes at 250 Kelvins.
Salt lowers freezing points significantly. Why do you think cities in the north salt their roads after a snow storm?
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Not quite. Several nuclear-strength detonations occur each year in our upper atmosphere from meteors. NORAD is quite good at telling the difference.
But what if YOU are one of the idiots?
Of course, if you really wanted to do it the same way, You'd have to get a court warrant for probable cause before you could look up and access the information.
But then again, when has a little things like facts ever stopped the slashdot crowd when in the midst of a Republican feeding frenzy.
Your Japanese is off. Here's how it should read:
Tsuyoi wa taisetsu na koto desu kedo namida mo hitsuyo desu
I wouldn't worry about it. Most slashdot posters couldn't get a date to save their lives, let alone reproduce. They'll be extinct in a generation.
If more people actually understood our system of government, you'd know that the term State in the United States was not chosen arbitrarily.
We were supposed to be a republic of united federated states under a limited central authority.
We started out similar to what the European Union is designed to be.
Prior to the Franklin Roosevelt era, our federal government was much, much, much more insignificant in daily life. States ruled supreme.
No need to, anymore. Liberal socialists are doing all their work for them. FYI, since 1988, the Communist Party USA has stopped fielding candidates. They now instruct their members to vote Democrat.
If you're talking about why we have patent law in the US, it was NOT to let people build on the knowledge of others. It was to encourage invention by allowing the INVENTOR to PROFIT from HIS own EFFORT and innovation. The founders clearly understood that no one's going to put effort into innovation if they can't profit from it, whether it be individuals or business.
Yeah, I put it right up there with Bill Clinton walking into the Oval office, looking at the bust (not the intern's, the statue on the wall) and asking: Who's that? That's George Washington, replied the aide. No, wait. Maybe it was the one where Bill Clinton was in Rome and praised the vision and nobility of Romulus and Remus, the brothers who founded the city. Yeah, that's gotta be it. I think I like that one best. But, then again, it could be the video at the Ron Brown funeral where he's yucking it up, catches the camera out of the corner of his eye, and then, within one and a half strides is wiping a tear from his eye. Priceless.
And, of course, if you would have gone on to college biology, you would have learned that cellular biology is far more complex than you can possibly imagine, evolution doesn't have a "higher" or "lower" classification, and certain types of people preach evolution, but completely ignore it when dictating how other humans should interact with nature.
Here's betting money the article got it wrong. The movie may be titled I, Robot, but the story is from the Naked Sun, which is the sequel to the Caves of Steel.
In it, Elijah Bailey is a detective who had previously solved a murder of an off-worlder on Earth (human off-worlder, no aliens in this series of books) with his robotic partner R. Daneel Olivaw.
Now there has been a murder on Aurora, one of the former colony worlds that now hold military and political dominance over Earth. Elijah is requested by that gov't to investigate the murder with R. Daneel because it was apparently performed by a robot, which, needless to say, has the Aurorans, who are very dependent on robots, extremely nervous.
In the book, there are a series of murders, each committed by a robot. The robot was a useless pile of junk afterward, but the real terror in the story is that someone has figured out how to make a robot kill, even if only once.
The book is not as good as the Caves of Steel (which is probably one of the finest works Asimov ever did), but is still a darn good book.
Depends on your viewpoint. It reduced the military power of the American Indians we were fighting at the time (that was one of the primary reasons for systematic slaughter of buffalo). Of course, a lot of people with a whacked sense of history think the American Indians were in some sort of enlightened utopia until us evil white guys came along and turned them into a bunch of alcoholics, so pick your agenda and run with it.
Junk science got freon banned, so why should we lose our faith in junk science here as well? I'm sure environmentalist groups will quickly publish studies showing precisely that loud sounds kill off plants, interfere with the mating habits of bees and flower pollination, cause migratory bird stress and precipitate particulate condensation of smog particles from the air into our precious groundwater, thereby poisoning the entire human race unless a new law (with corresponding funding) is passed immediately. And, of course, it will all be the fault of the evil Republicans and their slavish devotion to big business.
You heard it here, first.
Wow. Talk about looking for ways to be offended.
Who wants to spend Christmas afternoon installing Windows drivers from a CD?
"Windows has finished installing your drivers, click yes to restart your computer."
http://www.ellenfeiss.net
Unfortunately, you can't choose to have a 1" thick PC laptop with a built-in DVD/CD-RW and 4 hours of usable battery life no matter HOW much you're willing to pay, but, hey, look at all the stuff you can choose NOT to have.
You can choose NOT to have firewire
You can choose NOT to have DVD-ROM
You can choose NOT to have built-in 100BT Ethernet
You can choose NOT to have top-quality LCD panels
You can choose NOT to have slot loading combo-drives
And you can save hundreds of dollars choosing all these things NOT to have.
You mean, you actually think the lady in the picture is the author of the article? And that conclusion would be based on...what?
People here may not be taking Apple's Switch ads seriously, but apparently, MS is.
Actually, the reason these nominations are being killed in committee is because it's pretty common knowledge they would pass a full senate vote.
It's called value-added. It's the same reason I pay $40 to have some guy change my oil when I'm perfectly capable of doing it myself. It's worth $40 to me not to have to crawl under the car and deal with the mess and hassle.
The question is: will $130 be a reasonable price for people not to deal with the hassle of downloading and installing software the "old way."
That, right there, is a major problem with Open Source. A lot of technologies (including various typefaces) require the paying of license fees and royalties to use them.
Because Open Source does not allow for a revenue stream by selling software (don't talk to me about theory, we're discussing reality), there's no money to pay for the royalties.
That's why OpenOffice doesn't ship with Arial or Times New Roman.
It's a fundamental challenge to the Open Source model, yet nobody seems to realize it.
Actually, the iPod contains one of those micro-hard drives, the ones that are about the size of a book of matches. It is not a laptop hard drive. Heck, the whole iPod is about the size of a laptop hard drive.
And, of course, the fact that a drug company spends an average of one BILLION dollars to bring a new drug to market because of gov't regulation just to have themselves ripped to shreds for daring to CHARGE enough to recover their costs has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Um, no it's not. Pressure has very little effect on water's freezing points. Even under 300 million atmospheres, pure water freezes at 250 Kelvins. Salt lowers freezing points significantly. Why do you think cities in the north salt their roads after a snow storm?