And by another odd coincidence, other particle physicists took a detour into Wall Street, where they applied their advanced mathematical knowledge to creating exotic derivatives like Credit Default Swaps
That's the scariest correlation I've heard in a long time.
<Credit Bank VP>: "'Morning, Erwin, how's the CDO hedge working out? Makin' the firm some megabux?" <Ex-physicist>: "Maybe we did, maybe we didn't."
In the end, the VP opened Erwin Schrödinger's books, collapsed the quantum superposition of mortgage debt obligations, and found that the economy was dead.
Don't hide your crack stash inside the dead body laying on the kitchen floor. It doesn't work, it provides no cover in court, and the necessity of the search really pisses off John Law.
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. --Speech in New York, urging ratification of the U.S. Constitution (1788-06-21)
I'm totally in favor of bioremediation, but can we please draw a clean line between bioremediation crops and crops I put into my mouth? Pre-salted potato chips are good as long as the salts in question aren't toxic metal halides (Cadmium Chloride... YUMMY!). And no PCBs, dioxin, or radioactives, please.
To a reasonable and informed person, this might constitute a legitimate non-infringing use of P2P.
To the IP Crusaders, this another step on the slippery slope!
"Now this evil infringing peer-to-peer technology is being used to host UNSTOPPABLE repositories of COPYRIGHT-INFRINGEMENT and COPYRIGHT-PROTECTION-CIRCUMVENTION software! The P2P terrorists have gone from Torrent as a WMD to Torrent as a WMD factory!"
I hope/code doesn't get all "all-caps-filter" on me; I'm trying to simulate hysterics.
Morbid curiosity and obsessive-compulsive need for closure.
At least, that explains it in my case. I'll probably ride the "BSG re-imagined" train to its final bitter end.
Did I ever mention that I'm the kind of guy who won't drop quests in MMORPGs, even after they're worthless for experience or faction reputation or anything, because I hate to be a quitter? Thank God I never took up any destructive habits; if, for instance, I started smoking I'd probably drop dead with a cig in my lips rather than be a quitter.
Consider what the "B" in BSD stands for. And BSD-derived OSs are almost the most liberally licensed software in the universe. U Cal Berkeley retains copyright on most of it, and yet haven't commercialized it to any significant extent that I can see.
the difference between parasitism and commensal symbiosis. Great. It's already hard enough to keep infestation under control in the network ecosystem. When there's no visible damaging impact, how will we detect them?
But I think one point being overlooked is that if the process includes novel automation and tools, it usually is patentable.
Now, to my ol' country space hyperchicken mindset, maybe they oughta patent the tools and leave the process alone (protected by limited access to the tools), but since business process patents of a physically transformative fashion appear to be patentable (subject to tweaks like re Bilski), it's hard to automatically assume that this is an invalid patent. (Other than if you're already hard-over to the idea that all patents are bad, but then this argument isn't for you.)
I bet Microsoft's legal eagles would have been up to the task, but Microsoft's marketing would have insisted that the disclaimer be thoroughly buried* (to not detract from the "Vista on YOUR computer!" message).
*By "thoroughly buried", written in the most obscured legalese, than translated to Attic Greek, transliterated phonetically into Mandarin Chinese, ROT-13'd, printed in navy blue ink on royal blue paper, glued shut, and locked "in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard."
If you want a "less than" or "greater than" sign in your comment, and you're using the "HTML Formatted" setting (the default), you have to use a character-entity notation to avoid Slashcode mis-interpreting your "<" or ">" as HTML tagging.
To get "<", type "<" To get ">", type ">"
There are a few others that I've found work:
To get "€", type "€" To get "¥", type "¥" To get "£", type "£"
Yeah, this is off-topic, but I hope it's helpful to someone.
So, if you trash the hard drive and install an empty one.... you're hosed? No MacOS for you?
Not every Macintosh boot drive will have a valid MacOS image. Selling, and restricting, the retail package to "Upgrade" pretty much obligates you to sell a "clean-install" version, undercutting the "we only sell upgrade packages" argument. Labelling the packages "Upgrade" but not enforcing any kind of technical measure against clean installs is called lying. If that "Upgrade Only" proviso becomes part of a body of evidence in court, it'll be refuted in 30 minutes by opposing experts. (See also "Internet Explorer is an integral part of Windows".)
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Well, it is!
Look at the thing on a map. There it is tucked into the bottom of Iraq.
Have you ever listed to Kuwaiti? It sounds so much like Iraqi that it may as well be Iraqi.
Therefore, Kuwait is "part" of Iraq! :)
Signed, Saddam Hussein (FROM THE GRAVE!)
And by another odd coincidence, other particle physicists took a detour into Wall Street, where they applied their advanced mathematical knowledge to creating exotic derivatives like Credit Default Swaps
That's the scariest correlation I've heard in a long time.
<Credit Bank VP>: "'Morning, Erwin, how's the CDO hedge working out? Makin' the firm some megabux?"
<Ex-physicist>: "Maybe we did, maybe we didn't."
In the end, the VP opened Erwin Schrödinger's books, collapsed the quantum superposition of mortgage debt obligations, and found that the economy was dead.
There's an object lesson here.
Don't hide your crack stash inside the dead body laying on the kitchen floor. It doesn't work, it provides no cover in court, and the necessity of the search really pisses off John Law.
Alexander Hamilton, is that you?
Oodaloop's boss's boss: This is relevant to my interests.
Excellent, this analogy to Apple products and culture extends consistently and accurately.
I'm totally in favor of bioremediation, but can we please draw a clean line between bioremediation crops and crops I put into my mouth? Pre-salted potato chips are good as long as the salts in question aren't toxic metal halides (Cadmium Chloride... YUMMY!). And no PCBs, dioxin, or radioactives, please.
To a reasonable and informed person, this might constitute a legitimate non-infringing use of P2P.
To the IP Crusaders, this another step on the slippery slope!
"Now this evil infringing peer-to-peer technology is being used to host UNSTOPPABLE repositories of COPYRIGHT-INFRINGEMENT and COPYRIGHT-PROTECTION-CIRCUMVENTION software! The P2P terrorists have gone from Torrent as a WMD to Torrent as a WMD factory!"
I hope /code doesn't get all "all-caps-filter" on me; I'm trying to simulate hysterics.
Well true, but all humans are cheap and like to avoid paying for anything anyway.
There, corrected that for you.
Obvious "hark-backs":
That's just off the top of my head.
Morbid curiosity and obsessive-compulsive need for closure.
At least, that explains it in my case. I'll probably ride the "BSG re-imagined" train to its final bitter end.
Did I ever mention that I'm the kind of guy who won't drop quests in MMORPGs, even after they're worthless for experience or faction reputation or anything, because I hate to be a quitter? Thank God I never took up any destructive habits; if, for instance, I started smoking I'd probably drop dead with a cig in my lips rather than be a quitter.
And no hawt skinjob Cylons either. Why, exactly, would I watch this?
Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't.
Consider what the "B" in BSD stands for. And BSD-derived OSs are almost the most liberally licensed software in the universe. U Cal Berkeley retains copyright on most of it, and yet haven't commercialized it to any significant extent that I can see.
the difference between parasitism and commensal symbiosis. Great. It's already hard enough to keep infestation under control in the network ecosystem. When there's no visible damaging impact, how will we detect them?
You might be able to drink away a hangover, but it's just going to result in a worse hangover later.
Not necessarily.
I'm not saying it's better than a hangover, but at least you can honestly say it isn't a hangover.
Model formal systems in quantum state encoding; undecidable theorem == uncertain state.
Seems intuitively obvious to the casual observer.
But I think one point being overlooked is that if the process includes novel automation and tools, it usually is patentable.
Now, to my ol' country space hyperchicken mindset, maybe they oughta patent the tools and leave the process alone (protected by limited access to the tools), but since business process patents of a physically transformative fashion appear to be patentable (subject to tweaks like re Bilski), it's hard to automatically assume that this is an invalid patent. (Other than if you're already hard-over to the idea that all patents are bad, but then this argument isn't for you.)
I bet Microsoft's legal eagles would have been up to the task, but Microsoft's marketing would have insisted that the disclaimer be thoroughly buried* (to not detract from the "Vista on YOUR computer!" message).
*By "thoroughly buried", written in the most obscured legalese, than translated to Attic Greek, transliterated phonetically into Mandarin Chinese, ROT-13'd, printed in navy blue ink on royal blue paper, glued shut, and locked "in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard."
For certain small values of "Vista". And a sufficiently tolerant definition of "runs".
I'm picturing a tiny kitten peering intently at his cute little paw, with a macro over his head reading "My quark has a flavor?"
found it!
My toddlers don't eat rocks. They throw them. I have the bruises to prove it.
As to vegetables, the boy asks for sliced cucumbers with soy sauce (but will eat them without), and the girl's favorite dinner is a big green salad.
I think they're mutants, but there are counterexamples.
If you want a "less than" or "greater than" sign in your comment, and you're using the "HTML Formatted" setting (the default), you have to use a character-entity notation to avoid Slashcode mis-interpreting your "<" or ">" as HTML tagging.
To get "<", type "<"
To get ">", type ">"
There are a few others that I've found work:
To get "€", type "€"
To get "¥", type "¥"
To get "£", type "£"
Yeah, this is off-topic, but I hope it's helpful to someone.
Dude, you're getting this completely wrong.
So, if you trash the hard drive and install an empty one.... you're hosed? No MacOS for you?
Not every Macintosh boot drive will have a valid MacOS image. Selling, and restricting, the retail package to "Upgrade" pretty much obligates you to sell a "clean-install" version, undercutting the "we only sell upgrade packages" argument. Labelling the packages "Upgrade" but not enforcing any kind of technical measure against clean installs is called lying. If that "Upgrade Only" proviso becomes part of a body of evidence in court, it'll be refuted in 30 minutes by opposing experts. (See also "Internet Explorer is an integral part of Windows".)