Addendum: if the tablet makers (and others hadn't turned their backs on the CF format in favor of the smaller-but-performance-challenged SD and MicroSD formats, they would have been better positioned to deal with higher capacity micro-platter storage like this as a consumer add-on years ago. Then we'd now be seeing 500GB user-swappable CF cards instead of this internal fixed storage.
It's an iteration of the CompactFlash Microdrive format, really, not so revolutionary. I've got a 4GB Hitachi Microdrive bought maybe 5 years ago. The platter is probably about the same diameter, though with an obvious increase in areal density.
Are you new here? Its false positives are equally spectacular. Some days I could swear there's some mean bored Google sysadmin who happens to be a less-than-friendly coworker from my past who's just sitting there randomly applying the Spam label to messages in my Inbox.
If you know anything at all of the sordid history of this company, from its beginnings as a Xerox division, to its spinoff as ScanSoft, to its sneaky assimilation of former biggest competitors and continuing to sell multiple formerly competing products including OmniPage, to its current incarnation as Nuance, this lawsuit would not surprise you but the verdict might. Nuance has been getting its way far too often over much of the last decade, and no doubt expected getting its way with this lawsuit. Bazinga, bastards!
Those two words tell you everything you need to know about the motivations of Maria Konovalenko and why she would make such an appeal to a guy with very deep pockets.
Also, I can "recognize", say, unwanted body hair as a disease, but all that means is that I'm delusional; my recognition doesn't make it so.
... have Data Center Infrastructure Management? At least now I know what the name of that subfolder means. Is this another NSA thing, is the NSA or Facebook snarfing my photos right off the camera?
it is possible to produce meat without slaughtering animals.
That really ain't the overriding concern, is it? Synthesizing meat will consume just about the same resources as the animal would. If we allow the animals to live in the same numbers AND we grow synthetic meat, we've just graduated to consuming twice as much resources. For what, an act of ill-informed conscience? And if we start culling the former food animals to reduce their numbers to make way for the synthmeat and because we're not biting chunks out of their asses any more, well doesn't that just put us on even shakier ill-informed moral ground than we were on when we were slaughtering and eating them?
If we had clean-as-in-free energy or I had a better income then I'd still be crunching for WCG. I stopped because I couldn't afford the extra 150W it caused my system to draw 24/7. I don't have a cellphone now because of the monthly cost, so they can't get my contribution that way either.
... or be doomed to repeat it. And they have been for 20 years, every year. Strategy game development in particular seriously needs a persistent collective consciousness.
I don't have a dogmatic position on full-gonzo genetic engineering myself, and have arguments about it versus the historic hybridization or just singling out mutations that we prefer (e.g. seedless oranges). I am not at all convinced that our current grasp of biology is complete enough to make actual genetic engineering a wise practice. I do have a problem with existing IP law, as it leads to "rent collection" and concentration of wealth. Nature never intended for a creature to be able to create once and profit past the grave. Enforced monopolies do not exist in nature.
The distinction seems pretty narrow, depending on what you do and don't classify as "genetic engineering". There might not be a distinction at all. We'll have an answer if Bjorkman succeeds and then files for a patent.
What exactly is an "attack"? Is it narrowly defined elsewhere in the document in a footnote? Does whistleblowing and every other form of criticism qualify as an "attack upon honour and reputation" since justified criticism would certainly harm the person's reputation at the least? Will some non-judicial bureaucrats now be the ones meting out punishment to anyone who dares to criticize any one or any institution? Ummm... where's the improvement in that?
This is bullshit. What idiot drafted this? I'd guess it's some bloke in the U.K., since their libel and slander laws are already well known to be ridiculously restrictive.
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Addendum: if the tablet makers (and others hadn't turned their backs on the CF format in favor of the smaller-but-performance-challenged SD and MicroSD formats, they would have been better positioned to deal with higher capacity micro-platter storage like this as a consumer add-on years ago. Then we'd now be seeing 500GB user-swappable CF cards instead of this internal fixed storage.
It's an iteration of the CompactFlash Microdrive format, really, not so revolutionary. I've got a 4GB Hitachi Microdrive bought maybe 5 years ago. The platter is probably about the same diameter, though with an obvious increase in areal density.
Gmail's spam detection is spectacular.
Are you new here? Its false positives are equally spectacular. Some days I could swear there's some mean bored Google sysadmin who happens to be a less-than-friendly coworker from my past who's just sitting there randomly applying the Spam label to messages in my Inbox.
If you know anything at all of the sordid history of this company, from its beginnings as a Xerox division, to its spinoff as ScanSoft, to its sneaky assimilation of former biggest competitors and continuing to sell multiple formerly competing products including OmniPage, to its current incarnation as Nuance, this lawsuit would not surprise you but the verdict might. Nuance has been getting its way far too often over much of the last decade, and no doubt expected getting its way with this lawsuit. Bazinga, bastards!
No way, dude! Haven't you heard? Windows administers itself. Well, unless it's in Russia....
largest market
Those two words tell you everything you need to know about the motivations of Maria Konovalenko and why she would make such an appeal to a guy with very deep pockets.
Also, I can "recognize", say, unwanted body hair as a disease, but all that means is that I'm delusional; my recognition doesn't make it so.
How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key?
I prefer signal fires myself.
... by the ineptitude, apathy, and selfishness of a corporate contractor? News at 10:54pm!
... have Data Center Infrastructure Management? At least now I know what the name of that subfolder means. Is this another NSA thing, is the NSA or Facebook snarfing my photos right off the camera?
it is possible to produce meat without slaughtering animals.
That really ain't the overriding concern, is it? Synthesizing meat will consume just about the same resources as the animal would. If we allow the animals to live in the same numbers AND we grow synthetic meat, we've just graduated to consuming twice as much resources. For what, an act of ill-informed conscience? And if we start culling the former food animals to reduce their numbers to make way for the synthmeat and because we're not biting chunks out of their asses any more, well doesn't that just put us on even shakier ill-informed moral ground than we were on when we were slaughtering and eating them?
The researchers believe that the experiments indicate a promising future for robots in behavioral studies.
Wait, what? I was sure the moral of the story was gonna be a new Prohibition for our fishy friends.
I wonder if this also includes McDonald's, which has the same WiFi contract with AT&T?
That snark was uncalled for.
If we had clean-as-in-free energy or I had a better income then I'd still be crunching for WCG. I stopped because I couldn't afford the extra 150W it caused my system to draw 24/7. I don't have a cellphone now because of the monthly cost, so they can't get my contribution that way either.
They certainly don't play the ones that preceded them!
Well, maybe I should have been more specific and said 4X strategy game development....
... or be doomed to repeat it. And they have been for 20 years, every year. Strategy game development in particular seriously needs a persistent collective consciousness.
And this occurs in the same state where the original Tea Party took place? How convenient that they forget their own history.
Maybe, but *he* didn't know he was being funny.
This wont end cleanly
This won't END.
FTFY
If you get to it through Google News, it's not paywalled.
I found out about that from this alternative article in Forbes.
Maybe it wasn't a person... maybe it was Apple? They can almost afford it.
I don't have a dogmatic position on full-gonzo genetic engineering myself, and have arguments about it versus the historic hybridization or just singling out mutations that we prefer (e.g. seedless oranges). I am not at all convinced that our current grasp of biology is complete enough to make actual genetic engineering a wise practice. I do have a problem with existing IP law, as it leads to "rent collection" and concentration of wealth. Nature never intended for a creature to be able to create once and profit past the grave. Enforced monopolies do not exist in nature.
The distinction seems pretty narrow, depending on what you do and don't classify as "genetic engineering". There might not be a distinction at all. We'll have an answer if Bjorkman succeeds and then files for a patent.
Quoth the Declaration:
... attacks upon ... honour and reputation.
What exactly is an "attack"? Is it narrowly defined elsewhere in the document in a footnote? Does whistleblowing and every other form of criticism qualify as an "attack upon honour and reputation" since justified criticism would certainly harm the person's reputation at the least? Will some non-judicial bureaucrats now be the ones meting out punishment to anyone who dares to criticize any one or any institution? Ummm... where's the improvement in that?
This is bullshit. What idiot drafted this? I'd guess it's some bloke in the U.K., since their libel and slander laws are already well known to be ridiculously restrictive.