Considering how long Spirit has been stuck, it's quite amazing that the MER team keep plugging at this. Or maybe pulling the plug just doesn't occur to them.:-)
Would the judge have ordered slashdot shut down just because a single individual posted something copyrighted? Even though it had already been removed? Certainly the complaint (from TFA) that it was also about allegations made on the site against the company and its officers suggests that the same argument could be used here.
I guess the big question is how long it'll take an appeals court to quash this order.
Well, the stock never returned to its 2000/2001 peaks, and the company's reputation never recovered from the bashing it took during the big anti-trust case. I'd say the 1990s were Microsoft's big decade -- the double-zeros weren't a complete disaster, but they were hardly a triumph.
If the double-zeros belonged to anyone, it had to be Google. They went from nothing to a household word, and they didn't even have to advertise to do it.
No, it was a spoof done to entertain people at the annual company meeting. It was popular (for years) to make spoof ads for us as well as spoofs of ads by competitors. My favorite was a spoof on the IBM software for the Olympics, in a year when IBM made a big deal about how their software was being used to tally the scores, but there were serious problems (possibly not really IBM's fault) anyway. The spoof reported that some event (say the pole vault) was won by a 7-foot-tall dwarf from Mesopotamia. (Or something equally outlandish.)
Once it was possible for these things to leak onto the Internet, I think they quit doing them.
The Mac vs. PC ads that Apple runs have benefited Microsoft enormously because they've forced it to focus on serious quality problems that management had successfully ignored for years on the grounds that "nobody cares about that." It's hard to argue that nobody cares when someone is rubbing it in your face on a daily basis. When I was at Microsoft (over 14 years), nothing was more frustrating than reporting an inexcusable quality problem and having it dismissed on the grounds that "it's been in the last several releases, so it doesn't need to be fixed."
When I play with Windows 7 and the new Office Beta, I see dozens of my pet peeves fixed, and I'll give a lot of credit to those Mac vs. PC ads. The most effective ads for Microsoft -- ever!
He means "Pearl River Delta" not "Delhi" of course. Roughly, that means "Greater Hong Kong." So the train connects rural regions in China with the manufacturing powerhouse that surrounds Hong Kong.
The patent cites SGML as prior art. The difference is that, with SGML (supposedly) the meaning of the codes is defined in the standard. By analogy with programming langauges, the tags are constants, not variables. The claim is (far as I can tell) for the idea of letting the tags be variables, whose meanings reside in separate lookup table.
It seems to me, though, that this covers the use of XML schemas -- at least, if they're constructed under program control.
"A system and method for the separate manipulation of the architecture and content of a document, particularly for data representation and transformations. The system, for use by computer software developers, removes dependency on document encoding technology. A map of metacodes found in the document is produced and provided and stored separately from the document. The map indicates the location and addresses of metacodes in the document. The system allows of multiple views of the same content, the ability to work solely on structure and solely on content, storage efficiency of multiple versions and efficiency of operation."
I thought it odd that they calculated the damages on the assumption that, had Microsoft paid royalties on the patent, they'd have pushed the price of MS Word from $90 to $500 with no loss of sales. It seems to me that if the traffic would support that price, Microsoft would already have been charging it!
Never mind India -- notice that when you do a US search for "sex" Bing suggests you also search for "phimsex" and "sexviet". Neither of these terms is in the Urban dictionary, but (based on the search results) I think they're both synonyms for "spam".
I notice that GEO 600 actually has a US competitor called LIGO which the Telegraph article seems to have missed, but according to the New Scientist apparently they're both due to go live at the same time.
Both sites are asking for public help processing the data, via a special screensaver called Einstein@Home.
Here's a link to the original NASA article by Grinspoon and others. It's pretty long (and part of a longer set of papers) so you might just search for "Titan" and go from there. However, if you have the time, it's fascinating reading, and it does have cool pictures.:-)
Why should that be a problem? There are thousands of asteroids and thousands of comets orbiting the sun, and both of those definitions seem to be doing fine.
Use Pluto as the yardstick. Require a "planet" have at least the mass of Pluto and be in solar orbit -- any solar orbit, regardless of eccentricity or orientation.
The public will be happy to learn of more planets -- it feels like progress. It'll be hard to convince the public we lost a planet somehow. That sounds like an unimportant consideration, but I don't want us giving the Creationists more ammo for their arguments that Science is fickle. "They used to think there were nine planets, but then they found they were WRONG!"
It's not like any serious science rests on this definition anyway.
I had a friend who tried this right after college; I actually talked my boss into letting him work for free for a couple of weeks to demonstrate what he could do. Unfortunately, it turns out that high-tech companies want to own any intellectual property you create while you're working there, and the lawyers eventually told us that if he worked for free, he might be able to make a claim that he owned part of the product. They also weren't entirely sure the nondisclosure would hold for someone who was unpaid. (The issue is that a contract requires that both parties get something, and there was concern that "a chance to prove yourself" might not be held to be good enough.)
Anyway, once we got busted, they paid him the full rate (same as they were paying me, anyway) for those two weeks, but that ended it, and he didn't get a job after all.
For a job at a car wash, it might make sense to offer to work a day or two for free, but in high tech, they just can't let you do it.
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--Greg
I guess the big question is how long it'll take an appeals court to quash this order.
--Greg
If the double-zeros belonged to anyone, it had to be Google. They went from nothing to a household word, and they didn't even have to advertise to do it.
--Greg
Once it was possible for these things to leak onto the Internet, I think they quit doing them.
--Greg
When I play with Windows 7 and the new Office Beta, I see dozens of my pet peeves fixed, and I'll give a lot of credit to those Mac vs. PC ads. The most effective ads for Microsoft -- ever!
--Greg (In some sense of "for" of course) :-)
--Greg
--Greg :-)
While it will be useful, I don't think widespread usage of IPv6 will start before we run out of IPv4 addresses.
I rather type in 49.1.4.22 than 2001:db8:85a3::8a2e:370:7334
I don't think that'll happen until we run out of words and names!
--Greg
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It seems to me, though, that this covers the use of XML schemas -- at least, if they're constructed under program control.
--Greg
From the abstract of TFP:
"A system and method for the separate manipulation of the architecture and content of a document, particularly for data representation and transformations. The system, for use by computer software developers, removes dependency on document encoding technology. A map of metacodes found in the document is produced and provided and stored separately from the document. The map indicates the location and addresses of metacodes in the document. The system allows of multiple views of the same content, the ability to work solely on structure and solely on content, storage efficiency of multiple versions and efficiency of operation."
--Greg
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Everyone hates him because he's so popular. --Greg
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--Greg :-)
And the right quote, "You can't make an omlette without breaking eggs."
--Greg :-)
I guess they can't laugh at our bridge to nowhere anymore . . .
--Greg
Both sites are asking for public help processing the data, via a special screensaver called Einstein@Home.
--Greg
--Greg
--Greg
The public will be happy to learn of more planets -- it feels like progress. It'll be hard to convince the public we lost a planet somehow. That sounds like an unimportant consideration, but I don't want us giving the Creationists more ammo for their arguments that Science is fickle. "They used to think there were nine planets, but then they found they were WRONG!"
It's not like any serious science rests on this definition anyway.
--Greg
Anyway, once we got busted, they paid him the full rate (same as they were paying me, anyway) for those two weeks, but that ended it, and he didn't get a job after all.
For a job at a car wash, it might make sense to offer to work a day or two for free, but in high tech, they just can't let you do it.
--Greg
--Greg
--Greg