Litigation isn't like football. It is rarely suddenly over.
Witness the neverliving, undying horror which is SCO v. Novell. Still, there are moments that you can persuasively say "Ok, it's over", even if the vanquished is still struggling. Like:
20-Nov-2008: Final Judgment in favor of Novell, Inc., SCO Group and also against Novell, Inc., SCO Group. Case Closed. Magistrate Judge Brooke C. Wells no longer assigned to case. See Judgment for details. Signed by Judge Dale A. Kimball on 20-Nov-2008.
This particular setback* for B&N is pretty harsh, and I (though not a lawyer) don't know of any way to undo the damage.
Mueller has a tendency to go all "end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it" in his pronouncements, but the (accurate) retelling of this news is still interesting and useful (once you dig out the mere facts).
It would have been nice if Groklaw could have covered this development in and of itself, rather than as a pointless rebuttal to Mueller. Really, do we have to concede initiative to this guy? Can't we just report the facts and ignore him?
*Ok, maybe I play World of Warcraft too much, but I think I just read that in the voice of Kael'thas. "Merely a setback", indeed.
"Interstellar matter found WITHIN our Solar System" would be unexpected. "Interstellar matter found outside our Solar System" is redundant, for plain (non-jargon, non-specialist) meanings of the phrase "interstellar matter".
"Ocean water found outside Hawaii" is unsurprising and redundant. "Ocean water found inside Hawaii" would be somewhat surprising (discounting wave action). "If it's beyond Hawaii, it is, by definition, ocean" is overgeneralized.
GPP overgeneralized and missed the point a bit, but the naive redundancy is still there. Where would you, by definition, expect interstellar matter? In extra-solar-system space.
Eventually you end up with dudes from the assembly line trying to be tankers, that didn't work out so well.
Well, it worked out OK for the Russians. But the T-34 was a different beast from either the Panzer or the Sherman. And the Russians did have a walloping lot of tanks. And shorter lines of communication. And Marshall Winter.
Interesting. The use of effective countermeasures becomes, under the table, a default conviction for any IP crime, with an indeterminate sentence. All under the false label "contempt of court".
Except in his case, it won't be warranted, whereas in the actual case of the Amiga, it was. Cuz the market failure of the Amiga was clearly the result of a conspiracy.
Now that I think about it, I'm not at all sure I understand where you were going with your original point, so my response is probably off-topic rambling, as usual. *shrug*.
I think I see where you're going with this, but that's a bit inaccurate.
The Saturn launch platform did, indeed, descend from ICBM projects, which are pretty much the ultimate in "one-way tickets". So reusability clearly wasn't in the initial engineering.
But modern UAVs are the descendants of cruise missile technology, and although cruise missiles are also single-shot (like ballistic missiles), UAVs are reusable.
If a cruise missile could carry a weapon instead of being the weapon, or some other non-destructive payload; and could return to base for some kind of landing (even a parachute recovery would work), that would make it a UAV. So reuability, while not part of the inputs, could be part of the results if someone cared enough to pay for it.
Both of those are city-killers, I suppose, but the baseball will kill a bigger city deader.
Neither is a dinosaur-killer. Humanity has made, and used, weapons with as much energy release as that.
*Actually, that "baseball at the speed of light" is classical kinetic energy. Using the relativistic kinetic energy equation, which seems appropriate at.999c, the answer turns out to be 2.78 x 10^17 Joules,, or about 66 1/2 megatons. Which is a bit more than the biggest weapon we've ever used in any setting. Still not a dinosaur-killer, but damned unpleasant to be anywhere near I'd bet.
Depends on your group of people / friends / family. In my particular group, giving a real card is a sign that you're an outsider who hasn't been around us long enough to know that we all hate the damn things.
Wow. Did an invitation card routinely bully you and steal your lunch money in your childhood?
Yeah. There are vastly more convenient ways to do things nowadays. But your tweet won't go into a keepsake box and be treasured by your widow in 30 years.
When you do the effort the buy a real card and mail it, you're not just doing the effort to show your friends what they are worth: you're also now requiring them to spend their valuable time sending you a thank you note via a similar medium.
Is that your perception? Maybe based on your particular circle, but in my circumstances, I don't especially demand or even expect any particular reciprocity, and I make a point of emphasizing the lack of obligation. Send a hand-written thank-you note, and I'll appreciate it. Send a tweet, and I won't get it. (Cuz I don't do twitter). Send an email, and I'll appreciate it. Pick up the phone and call for 45 seconds, and I'll appreciate it. Hell, blow it off, and I really won't get bent out of shape.
But, whatever, YMMV. I'm just saying that it's not supposed to be an Illuminati conspiracy of spiraling mutual obligation. It's just people who like and respect each other liking and respecting each other,.
Interesting. The iPhone Reality Distortion Field is, in fact, the tidal gravitation zone of their humongous black hole's event horizon. The entire smartphone industry is stuck in the iPhone accretion disk, and there's almost no escape.
Well, I'll still keep jailbraking, and they won't catch me.
The NPP spacecraft [was] launched into a sun-synchronous polar orbit at an altitude of 825 kilometers with an equator crossing time of 1:30 pm, a period of 100 minutes, and a repeat cycle of 16 days.
825 km is 512 miles.
So, the nadir point (center) of the image is largely distortion-free and scales closely to the geometry of the original instrument swath. As you get farther away from the center, the distortion increases, of course. Still, I'm guessing that Earth really does look that... swollen.. from that relatively low altitude.
And back it up with tamper-detection hardware and self-destruct capability. And an explicit waiver of liability, which you'll also have to sign.
And the overwhelming majority of soccer moms buying the console for their teen-aged basement beast will just sign and get on with it, because she has a very busy day.
I'm not sure I'm following where you're leading. This is a composite; it's a composite of Earth-view swaths of a sun-synchronous polar orbiting earth observation satellite. The "native geolocation space" of the images is a swath approximately 3000 km wide and tracking under the orbital path of the spacecraft (i.e., ground-track Mercator). This image is based on reprojecting those swaths to the geoid, so it looks like you're floating above the Equator and looking down at Earth.
As to anti-aliasing, I dunno. This isn't a standard product of Suomi's ground system, so whatever aesthetic and technical decisions are reflected in this image are entirely on the NASA folks who did this.
Still (and I'm not necessarily addressing you, just commenting in passing), it's disingenuous to say "It's ok, because you can delete your G+ stuff after it's automatically and unavoidably created for you", but also say "those dirty rat-bastards in [evil company du jour] making us opt out of their privacy-invading services."
As far as I can tell, the only difference between those positions is that one is Google, and one is not.
Slashdot Mirror
Web developers must realize that the future is HTML5.
And IPV6. And "Strong" Artificial Intelligence. And maybe The Singularity. Or the Eschaton.
Litigation isn't like football. It is rarely suddenly over.
Witness the neverliving, undying horror which is SCO v. Novell. Still, there are moments that you can persuasively say "Ok, it's over", even if the vanquished is still struggling. Like:
This particular setback* for B&N is pretty harsh, and I (though not a lawyer) don't know of any way to undo the damage.
Mueller has a tendency to go all "end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it" in his pronouncements, but the (accurate) retelling of this news is still interesting and useful (once you dig out the mere facts).
It would have been nice if Groklaw could have covered this development in and of itself, rather than as a pointless rebuttal to Mueller. Really, do we have to concede initiative to this guy? Can't we just report the facts and ignore him?
*Ok, maybe I play World of Warcraft too much, but I think I just read that in the voice of Kael'thas. "Merely a setback", indeed.
Yaaay for eugenics! We'll have Übermenschen in just a few generations!
I for one welcome our well-bred genetically superior overlords!
That translates to "You're objectively right, but LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
"Interstellar matter found WITHIN our Solar System" would be unexpected. "Interstellar matter found outside our Solar System" is redundant, for plain (non-jargon, non-specialist) meanings of the phrase "interstellar matter".
"Ocean water found outside Hawaii" is unsurprising and redundant. "Ocean water found inside Hawaii" would be somewhat surprising (discounting wave action). "If it's beyond Hawaii, it is, by definition, ocean" is overgeneralized.
GPP overgeneralized and missed the point a bit, but the naive redundancy is still there. Where would you, by definition, expect interstellar matter? In extra-solar-system space.
Eventually you end up with dudes from the assembly line trying to be tankers, that didn't work out so well.
Well, it worked out OK for the Russians. But the T-34 was a different beast from either the Panzer or the Sherman. And the Russians did have a walloping lot of tanks. And shorter lines of communication. And Marshall Winter.
"Ok, now hit the centerline drop release!"
<click!>
<THUMP! Slooosh!>
"Centerline drop release, check."
Kill 'em from orbit!
you think there's some reasonable interpretation of International Law that allows a completely man-made structure to be seen as territory?
A warship.
Good point. Beauty is truth, and truth, beauty. Obviously, then, Apple is right.
Here's a news flash: courts get this kind of crap wrong. All the time.
Interesting. The use of effective countermeasures becomes, under the table, a default conviction for any IP crime, with an indeterminate sentence. All under the false label "contempt of court".
Whoa. You think the proper response to Elop's commentary is "L2P Your Market?"
I like it. I hope you get modded +infinity Insightful
Steven Elop is only a step away from Amiga Persecution Complex.
Except in his case, it won't be warranted, whereas in the actual case of the Amiga, it was. Cuz the market failure of the Amiga was clearly the result of a conspiracy.
Signed,
An Amiga Advocate
Now that I think about it, I'm not at all sure I understand where you were going with your original point, so my response is probably off-topic rambling, as usual. *shrug*.
I think I see where you're going with this, but that's a bit inaccurate.
The Saturn launch platform did, indeed, descend from ICBM projects, which are pretty much the ultimate in "one-way tickets". So reusability clearly wasn't in the initial engineering.
But modern UAVs are the descendants of cruise missile technology, and although cruise missiles are also single-shot (like ballistic missiles), UAVs are reusable.
If a cruise missile could carry a weapon instead of being the weapon, or some other non-destructive payload; and could return to base for some kind of landing (even a parachute recovery would work), that would make it a UAV. So reuability, while not part of the inputs, could be part of the results if someone cared enough to pay for it.
I would rather have a baseball traveling the speed of light hit us rather then a 1000 ton pieces of stone impacting the earth at 55,000 km per hour.
Are you sure?
The "big rock hitting us pretty fast" case is a kinetic energy content of 1.167 x 10^14 Joules, or about 28 kilotons equivalent yield.
OTOH, that wee little 145 gram baseball at .999c is 6.5 x 10^15 Joules, or 1.55 megatons yield equivalent*.
Both of those are city-killers, I suppose, but the baseball will kill a bigger city deader.
Neither is a dinosaur-killer. Humanity has made, and used, weapons with as much energy release as that.
*Actually, that "baseball at the speed of light" is classical kinetic energy. Using the relativistic kinetic energy equation, which seems appropriate at .999c, the answer turns out to be 2.78 x 10^17 Joules,, or about 66 1/2 megatons. Which is a bit more than the biggest weapon we've ever used in any setting. Still not a dinosaur-killer, but damned unpleasant to be anywhere near I'd bet.
Depends on your group of people / friends / family. In my particular group, giving a real card is a sign that you're an outsider who hasn't been around us long enough to know that we all hate the damn things.
Wow. Did an invitation card routinely bully you and steal your lunch money in your childhood?
Yeah. There are vastly more convenient ways to do things nowadays. But your tweet won't go into a keepsake box and be treasured by your widow in 30 years.
When you do the effort the buy a real card and mail it, you're not just doing the effort to show your friends what they are worth: you're also now requiring them to spend their valuable time sending you a thank you note via a similar medium.
Is that your perception? Maybe based on your particular circle, but in my circumstances, I don't especially demand or even expect any particular reciprocity, and I make a point of emphasizing the lack of obligation. Send a hand-written thank-you note, and I'll appreciate it. Send a tweet, and I won't get it. (Cuz I don't do twitter). Send an email, and I'll appreciate it. Pick up the phone and call for 45 seconds, and I'll appreciate it. Hell, blow it off, and I really won't get bent out of shape.
But, whatever, YMMV. I'm just saying that it's not supposed to be an Illuminati conspiracy of spiraling mutual obligation. It's just people who like and respect each other liking and respecting each other,.
Airstrip One is officially a police state now. Isn't Big Brother wonderful?
FTFY.
Interesting. The iPhone Reality Distortion Field is, in fact, the tidal gravitation zone of their humongous black hole's event horizon. The entire smartphone industry is stuck in the iPhone accretion disk, and there's almost no escape.
Well, I'll still keep jailbraking, and they won't catch me.
Actually, your guess as to the altitude is pretty good.
From http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/media/newsletter/winter09/nppsatellite.pdf:
825 km is 512 miles.
So, the nadir point (center) of the image is largely distortion-free and scales closely to the geometry of the original instrument swath. As you get farther away from the center, the distortion increases, of course. Still, I'm guessing that Earth really does look that... swollen.. from that relatively low altitude.
And back it up with tamper-detection hardware and self-destruct capability. And an explicit waiver of liability, which you'll also have to sign.
And the overwhelming majority of soccer moms buying the console for their teen-aged basement beast will just sign and get on with it, because she has a very busy day.
I'm not sure I'm following where you're leading. This is a composite; it's a composite of Earth-view swaths of a sun-synchronous polar orbiting earth observation satellite. The "native geolocation space" of the images is a swath approximately 3000 km wide and tracking under the orbital path of the spacecraft (i.e., ground-track Mercator). This image is based on reprojecting those swaths to the geoid, so it looks like you're floating above the Equator and looking down at Earth.
As to anti-aliasing, I dunno. This isn't a standard product of Suomi's ground system, so whatever aesthetic and technical decisions are reflected in this image are entirely on the NASA folks who did this.
Two word: Bubbly Creek
Where would this be? And which "mail ports?"
[E]SMTP? Pretty rare any more for any residential service to permit that; it's just too easy to find home machines botted as spam relays.
I connect to non-local IMAP ports from my Cox connection all the time; in fact, none of the email client ports are a problem.
Yeah. I'm guessing you're talking about SMTP, and that stopped happening almost anywhere last millennium, unless you're a business-class subscriber.
See? Informative.
Poorly formatted, but nonetheless informative.
I hope you're modded into the heavens.
Still (and I'm not necessarily addressing you, just commenting in passing), it's disingenuous to say "It's ok, because you can delete your G+ stuff after it's automatically and unavoidably created for you", but also say "those dirty rat-bastards in [evil company du jour] making us opt out of their privacy-invading services."
As far as I can tell, the only difference between those positions is that one is Google, and one is not.