Actually, the F-22s are needed in case we ever get into a conventional war with a nation to whom a Great Power has been selling their own aircraft (e.g., Venezuela buying Su-30s and possibly Su-35s from Russia).
The first is the USPTO "we'll patent anything, including arse-wiping techniques" attitude, already familiar to Slashdot. I don't need to elaborate on that. Not here, anyway.
And please don't, until you've actually worked for the USPTO and understand how the patent process works.
Also, we get plenty of the opposite kind of bitching from patent attorneys who are pissed that we keep rejecting their crapplications.
I think the OP's post arose from a misunderstanding of what "RAID is not backup" means.
The adage isn't an admonition not to use hard drives as a means of backing up data. Rather, it is concerned with the fact that any change to your data is committed to each duplicate volume in a RAID, so if you delete an important file, for example, it's just as gone as if you weren't running a RAID.
That's completely different from mirroring your drive onto an external hard drive and putting it on a shelf somewhere. If you delete a file on your live system, you can restore from that backup.
What about the copyrights for the songs? Do you maintain total control over your work? Are you signing your songs over to them? Are you granting them an exclusive contract to redistribute your songs in perpetuity? Can you revoke the agreement later and pull your music off their service? If you later "make it big", can they hold this agreement over your head to force you into further contractual agreements with them?
Actually, the tags here serve one useful purpose: they provide a quick indicator of most Slashdotters' opinions related to the article. After all, a time-honored tradition around here is not R'ing TFA. With tags, now you don't have to read the comments, either.
When I play games like Guild Wars solo, it's not because "I want to be the hero" or because "I want all the lewts". It's because pick-up groups suck. You spend half an hour trying to round up people to fill out the group, and it only takes one of them being a moron to ruin the entire experience.
For those few of you who don't know, that's the guy who doesn't know how to get where you're going, can't properly follow your directions to get there, tries to boss around the party when he finally does get there even though he clearly doesn't know what he's doing, and then fifteen minutes into the group says, "o man i have 2 go.. mom wants me 2 clean my room".
Agreed. When I watch my old Futurama DVDs, I more often than not watch with the commentary track turned on. I swear I do have actual friends in real life, but those guys are kind of like the friends I never had. There's no way in hell I'd bother watching if they're not involved.
For that matter, I thought the Transformers movie sucked because they didn't let Frank Welker provide Megatron's voice. I mean, seriously, I can get Megan Fox pics on the Tubes - I don't need a crappy movie for that.
Indeed, which is why the vast majority of studies that get tagged by the moronic "correlationisnotcausation" involve some application of Mill's Methods and/or statistical and theoretical inference to demonstrate causation based on the observed correlations.
Clearly, the tagging of those studies with "correlationisnotcausation" was a causal influence on the inclusion of the aforementioned statistical techniques in those studies.
On January 16, 2009, Zimbabwe announced plans for imminent issue of banknotes of $10 trillion, $20 trillion, $50 trillion, and $100 trillion
Believe it or not, that was after Zimbabwe had lopped off a bunch of zeros from their currency the previous year.... twice. And then they did it a third time a month after they printed their first $100 trillion notes.
Meanwhile, Homeland Security has been promoting broad use of RFID because its own advisory committee on data integrity and privacy warned that radio-tagged IDs have the potential to allow "widespread surveillance of individuals" without their knowledge or consent.
But seriously, you make a great point. Most of the funny games out there - the ones where humor is part and parcel of the game, as opposed to a novelty - implement their humor in cut scenes or scripted movements where the player isn't really in control. It may only be for a few seconds, but until the joke is told, the player watches the humor unfold instead of participating in it.
Indeed. There are also folks who use 2-d to 3-d technology to produce a 3-d head model of a subject based on 2-d images, rotate the head to the proper perspective, and then render the head at that perspective in order to compare it to a current 2-d image for face recognition.
The tricky part is picking points of correspondence in the images. The overlap requirement in TFA is probably to ease the difficulty of this. Usually, some kind of iterative error minimization is performed over the parameters of an affine transform. If two images are already pretty similar, the transform parameters will be more accurate and there will be more of the same "interesting" points in each image to check for correspondence. With face images, though, it's a bit easier, because you can also use contextual clues such as recognizing eyes/nose/mouth from the image first, and then using key points on those known features to get you started.
Clearly, supporting every option available to us that improves from the current situation is the way to go. The problem that the earlier poster was referring to is that many environmentalists would rather support no option until a perfect option is somehow devised, and in the meantime, we're all supposed to sit around in the dark.
Also, at least in past years, the "handlers" were not Chinese, so a large portion of the proceeds went to some asshole in the US or Canada, while the Chinese gold-farming sweatshop workers slaved away to meet their quotas for a puny fraction of the market value of their work.
This is why China's move here won't stop the gold farming. The handlers have already started moving a lot of this crap to Southeast Asia, where wage rates are even lower and regulation is even more scarce (but where proficiency and experience playing these games is generally not as widespread), and this will only incentivize the gold farming outfits to finish moving their operations.
I'm pretty sure the rigid safety standard Panasonic is referring to is the one that causes the battery to operate properly with their camera firmware. After all, anything else would be unsafe!
My guess without looking up the prosecution history on Public PAIR (which anyone could do when the system is up) is that the key limitation here is that you have to get carrier network information from an access point database using the carrier network identifiers as a key.
Unfortunately, some internal databases at the USPTO have been down all day today, and that includes the databases that supply data to Public PAIR.
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Actually, the F-22s are needed in case we ever get into a conventional war with a nation to whom a Great Power has been selling their own aircraft (e.g., Venezuela buying Su-30s and possibly Su-35s from Russia).
The first is the USPTO "we'll patent anything, including arse-wiping techniques" attitude, already familiar to Slashdot. I don't need to elaborate on that. Not here, anyway.
And please don't, until you've actually worked for the USPTO and understand how the patent process works.
Also, we get plenty of the opposite kind of bitching from patent attorneys who are pissed that we keep rejecting their crapplications.
I think the OP's post arose from a misunderstanding of what "RAID is not backup" means.
The adage isn't an admonition not to use hard drives as a means of backing up data. Rather, it is concerned with the fact that any change to your data is committed to each duplicate volume in a RAID, so if you delete an important file, for example, it's just as gone as if you weren't running a RAID.
That's completely different from mirroring your drive onto an external hard drive and putting it on a shelf somewhere. If you delete a file on your live system, you can restore from that backup.
It's not a meme, though. Or, at least, it's not supposed to be.
What about the copyrights for the songs? Do you maintain total control over your work? Are you signing your songs over to them? Are you granting them an exclusive contract to redistribute your songs in perpetuity? Can you revoke the agreement later and pull your music off their service? If you later "make it big", can they hold this agreement over your head to force you into further contractual agreements with them?
Actually, the tags here serve one useful purpose: they provide a quick indicator of most Slashdotters' opinions related to the article. After all, a time-honored tradition around here is not R'ing TFA. With tags, now you don't have to read the comments, either.
When I play games like Guild Wars solo, it's not because "I want to be the hero" or because "I want all the lewts". It's because pick-up groups suck. You spend half an hour trying to round up people to fill out the group, and it only takes one of them being a moron to ruin the entire experience.
For those few of you who don't know, that's the guy who doesn't know how to get where you're going, can't properly follow your directions to get there, tries to boss around the party when he finally does get there even though he clearly doesn't know what he's doing, and then fifteen minutes into the group says, "o man i have 2 go.. mom wants me 2 clean my room".
Agreed. When I watch my old Futurama DVDs, I more often than not watch with the commentary track turned on. I swear I do have actual friends in real life, but those guys are kind of like the friends I never had. There's no way in hell I'd bother watching if they're not involved.
For that matter, I thought the Transformers movie sucked because they didn't let Frank Welker provide Megatron's voice. I mean, seriously, I can get Megan Fox pics on the Tubes - I don't need a crappy movie for that.
Indeed, which is why the vast majority of studies that get tagged by the moronic "correlationisnotcausation" involve some application of Mill's Methods and/or statistical and theoretical inference to demonstrate causation based on the observed correlations.
Clearly, the tagging of those studies with "correlationisnotcausation" was a causal influence on the inclusion of the aforementioned statistical techniques in those studies.
On January 16, 2009, Zimbabwe announced plans for imminent issue of banknotes of $10 trillion, $20 trillion, $50 trillion, and $100 trillion
Believe it or not, that was after Zimbabwe had lopped off a bunch of zeros from their currency the previous year.... twice. And then they did it a third time a month after they printed their first $100 trillion notes.
Meanwhile, Homeland Security has been promoting broad use of RFID because its own advisory committee on data integrity and privacy warned that radio-tagged IDs have the potential to allow "widespread surveillance of individuals" without their knowledge or consent.
Fixed.
I would have modded you funny....
But seriously, you make a great point. Most of the funny games out there - the ones where humor is part and parcel of the game, as opposed to a novelty - implement their humor in cut scenes or scripted movements where the player isn't really in control. It may only be for a few seconds, but until the joke is told, the player watches the humor unfold instead of participating in it.
Indeed. There are also folks who use 2-d to 3-d technology to produce a 3-d head model of a subject based on 2-d images, rotate the head to the proper perspective, and then render the head at that perspective in order to compare it to a current 2-d image for face recognition.
The tricky part is picking points of correspondence in the images. The overlap requirement in TFA is probably to ease the difficulty of this. Usually, some kind of iterative error minimization is performed over the parameters of an affine transform. If two images are already pretty similar, the transform parameters will be more accurate and there will be more of the same "interesting" points in each image to check for correspondence. With face images, though, it's a bit easier, because you can also use contextual clues such as recognizing eyes/nose/mouth from the image first, and then using key points on those known features to get you started.
Why not support both?
Clearly, supporting every option available to us that improves from the current situation is the way to go. The problem that the earlier poster was referring to is that many environmentalists would rather support no option until a perfect option is somehow devised, and in the meantime, we're all supposed to sit around in the dark.
Are you saying that Johnnie Cochran got that stuff about Chewbacca living on Endor from Wikipedia?
Well, web page advertising reads on the first several claims. Viewing a printed newspaper on an electronic device might read on certain other ones.
I don't know whether anybody's done this on an e-book yet, though.
Does Google charge their customers per clickthrough or per impression?
So, let me get this straight:
The trojaneers' moneymaking is predicated upon people actually clicking on ads.
Uh... good luck with that!
Also, at least in past years, the "handlers" were not Chinese, so a large portion of the proceeds went to some asshole in the US or Canada, while the Chinese gold-farming sweatshop workers slaved away to meet their quotas for a puny fraction of the market value of their work.
This is why China's move here won't stop the gold farming. The handlers have already started moving a lot of this crap to Southeast Asia, where wage rates are even lower and regulation is even more scarce (but where proficiency and experience playing these games is generally not as widespread), and this will only incentivize the gold farming outfits to finish moving their operations.
Is it just me, or did that quote manage to use a hundred words without actually saying anything?
And the best thing is, you smell delicious!
Harder than erecti0n?
Just remember, if your password lasts for more than four hours, seek immediate medical attention.
I'm pretty sure the rigid safety standard Panasonic is referring to is the one that causes the battery to operate properly with their camera firmware. After all, anything else would be unsafe!
Once the economy recovers and the USPTO starts hiring again, you could always apply to work there and fix the system from within.
My guess without looking up the prosecution history on Public PAIR (which anyone could do when the system is up) is that the key limitation here is that you have to get carrier network information from an access point database using the carrier network identifiers as a key.
Unfortunately, some internal databases at the USPTO have been down all day today, and that includes the databases that supply data to Public PAIR.