you have to pay the patent office a lofty fine if your patent gets overturned in court.
A more effective deterrent to bogus patents would be for the USPTO to have to pay any damages and legal costs awarded by the courts for overturned patents.
As it stands, the USPTO has everything to gain and nothing to lose by rubber stamping everything it receives. If they had "some skin in the game" they would likely be more dilligent in their research.
they should give the names of the sites that should be avoided for security reason.
They could be sued for lost business if they released the names. The compromised sites could fix their problem, but the warnings would still be out there, hurting their business.
"Please pay no attention to the pictures. These were taken from a weird camera angle the produced a fan-shaped distortion in the heatsink grid." - a deep booming voice from behind the curtain.
While there are indeed fanless mini-ITX systems, this ain't one of them.
That said, I'm personally not comfortable with the idea of transmitting significant amounts of electrical power through my body- even low level power. Not sure what the side effects would be.
Well, that nervous twitch, for one thing... probably due to nerve damage.
And then there's that "Blue Face Of Death" thing you do when you're under a lot os stress.
And the fact that it only goes away when someone kicks you in the butt. You should seriously see a doctor about that.
The problem with GA (and real life genetics) is that they get stuck in "saddle points" where further deviation seems to "get worse" in either direction. This can be mitigated somewhat by an intelligent choice of starting point, but you can never trust that the solution is even close to optimal. Even worse, GA with a human-selected starting point pretty much rules out finding a really novel, counter-intuitive solution.
A true brute force, exhaustive search of all possible parameter values may take longer, but it leaves no stone unturned.
I regularly use Word 2.0 but I get really annoyed with the blindingly fast scroll rate on a P-III/800. It makes mouse-scrolling impossible. Word 2000 is blindingly slow. It makes mouse-scrolling impossible, too.
Maybe I should upgrade to 5.1.
Word 2.0 stores the paragraph characteristics (formatting, font, etc.) in the "paragraph mark". If you copy/paste a PM, you get all the attributes. Word '97 uses some screwy method that I haven't figured out yet (after six years) so I still use Word 2.0.
I've had tube based electronics run for years on end without failure.
But your devices only used a few tubes and the aggregate MTBF was still pretty large.
I think the problem is that the filaments burn out, just like lightbulbs do. The filaments are in a vacuum inside the tube, so forced air cooling is not going to cool them down any. Not that you'd want to cool down the filament, because then the tube wouldn't work.
This is about ENIAC, but the problem was the same:
"UNIVAC was the brainchild of two physicists named J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly. They had worked on the U.S. government's ENIAC computer during World War II, and finished it in 1946. They figured that there ought to be civilian uses for the enormous computing power of such a machine. ENIAC was a monster which weighed 30 tons and used 17,468 vacuum tubes to do its work. It was the largest practical computer that could be built based on vacuum tubes because in order to make it more powerful you'd have to add significantly more vacuum tubes and the mean time between failure (MTBF) of the vacuum tubes used was such that if you ran much more than 17,468 vacuum tubes some would always be "blown out," as we used to say of light bulbs and vacuum tubes, so you'd never be able to use the bigger machine."
I thought we were supposed to protest the moderation system and mod jokes as "informative" because "information wants to be fun". Now that effort gets a -1 Retard, -1 Stupid, and -1 Cretin.
I find this whole Slashdot experience very confusing.
To be fair, you don't really have a reasonable expectation of privacy on the street in downtown Baltimore.
Quite true. You can reasonably expect others to see you. They may be on the street with you or maybe looking out of a third story window. They might even have a cam-corder.
On the other hand, if someone starts following you around with a cam-corder all day, you would probably be able to invoke anti-stalking laws and get a restraining order. This is what a downtown surveilance system amounts to - stalking. One person (or entity) has access to all the tapes, so even if you were recorded by multiple cameras, that one entity is stalking you. And stalking everyone else. Multi-person stalking doesn't make it legal, it just means mutliple stalking counts on the arrest warrant.
I'm going to upgrade my tin-foil hat to include surveilance camera recognition capabilities and an infra-red laser pen.
... if all you want to do is steer. Oh, and control engine speed. No problem. And maybe integrate the radar. Still no problem. And run LSASS to make sure that there are no NT license violations. And RPC to check if anyone wants to use the C$ share. And SVCHOST and SPOOLSV and WINLOGON. And CSRSS and SMSS and maybe WOW. And IE4 for the user interface. And MSTASK to monitor it all...
Captain to Engine Room (through the low-tech voice tube): Switch to manual control IMMEDIATELY!
You are not allowed to do any of the following things:
* Webcast specific sound recordings within one hour of the request by a listener or at a time designated by the listener
So at 14:00 I'll request, "Please play Song-A at any time ~except~ between 16:00 and 16:05. TIA" and I'm legal, right?
Having worked for a bank, I can tell you that it is in the bank's interest (pun intended) to sit on your money for as long as possible while calling it their money. That way they get the interest. You may not think that the interest on your $1000 is all that much, but you're only one depositor. To a large bank the overnight interest on several billion dollars is a hefty chunk of change.
If they can pretend your money is their money for 2 or 3 extra days, they make out like bandits. (Again, pun intended).
The business climate in banking these days has put the squeeze on everyone. If you're getting "free" checking or special low interest rates, your bank is making up for it in one way or another. Deposit "float" is just one way. This doesn't arouse too much customer ire.
Another more ire-prone tactic is to sort the day's debits (checks) by decreasing amounts so an overdraft will cause more checks to bounce and thereby generate more overdraft fees. (Yes, they do that sort on purpose.)
If you pull up to the drive-in window in a Jaguar, it's several thousand pounds (Canadian). If you walk up pushing a grocery cart, you get one of those cool nickels with a beaver (Canadian) on it.
The pedometers they give away are not all that accurate. My wife got two of them and clipped them both on her belt for a day. At the end of the day one registered 5,000 steps (5,000 metric steps) and the other registered 10,000 steps (whatever that works out to in metric).
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1. Denial
2. Denial
3. Denial
4. Denial
5. Buy another Mac
I'm going to run it on my z990 mainframe, yup-yup-yup!
It even has a Java coprocessor now, so I won't have to simulate it in software and it won't take cycles away from my counting-all-the-atoms-in-the-universe project.
From a recent IBM announcement:
"The new zSeries Application Assist Processor (zAAP)... provides an economical Java execution environment... "
I grew up in the 60's and 70's. WMMS in Cleveland was the station of choice. Their motto was "Where Music Means Something" and it was not a hollow boast.
They played lots of different stuff. Each DJ had his own tastes and you knew that if you tuned in in the evening you would get hard rock. Afternoons were mostly unheard-of new artists. At 3AM you never knew what to expect - it was a free-for-all! Mornings were... well, I never got up before noon, so I don't know.
Wednesday at noon was the "Coffeebreak Concert" where they would get a local musician or a visiting celebrity to visit the studio, talk, and sing a few songs. Live, with only studio mics. It was sort of like MTV Unplugged, only less pretentious. I remember Melanie saying how she couldn't understand why people liked her - she sang flat. Yep, she did, but it was an honest flat. And we liked her.
A friend of mine was a record store manager. He did it because he loved music. His apartment was always filled with LPs - literally - mostly culls and demos - and he just kept getting more. You know how some people pigeonhole others according to what they wear or what kind of car they drive or who their friends are? Rusty remembered you according to your musical tastes. Every time you entered his apartment, you knew going in that you ~must~ leave with an armful of records. Not just any records, but ones that he personally selected for you, and although many of them sucked, they were at least in the ballpark of the kind of stuff you liked. The point is that Rusty ran a record store because he loved music. It was in his blood.
I think that it's as hard for teenagers today to relate to that era as it was for the 70's teenagers to relate to their parents' tales of growing up during the Depression or WW-II. Unless you were there and lived the zeitgeist it's not the same.
David Crosby did hit the nail on the head - it used to be about the music, not about the money.
The main issue for consumers is that unless they buy the vehicle new and plan on running it until it dies, it's harder to get the Return On Investment (ROI). Fleet operators typically buy 'em new and run 'em into the ground.
If you buy a new car and plan to trade it in after three years, you can't justify the ROI. Also, any conversion will likely void the warranty, and you may find it difficult to sell a "non-standard" car later.
If you buy an older used car and convert it, it may not last long enough to give you a decent ROI.
HEV conversion will likely be popular only for fleets and for die-hard hobbyists. Let's hope that this will eventually work its way into a factory installed (and supported) option on mainstream vehicles.
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A more effective deterrent to bogus patents would be for the USPTO to have to pay any damages and legal costs awarded by the courts for overturned patents.
As it stands, the USPTO has everything to gain and nothing to lose by rubber stamping everything it receives. If they had "some skin in the game" they would likely be more dilligent in their research.Yeah, that picture of Snoopy had all the women in the data center giggling.
They could be sued for lost business if they released the names. The compromised sites could fix their problem, but the warnings would still be out there, hurting their business.
It sucks, but that's the way it is.While there are indeed fanless mini-ITX systems, this ain't one of them.
Well, that nervous twitch, for one thing... probably due to nerve damage.
And then there's that "Blue Face Of Death" thing you do when you're under a lot os stress.And the fact that it only goes away when someone kicks you in the butt. You should seriously see a doctor about that.
WhenU click upon a link
Makes no difference what you think
WhenU click upon our link
Your base are belong to us.
A true brute force, exhaustive search of all possible parameter values may take longer, but it leaves no stone unturned.
Maybe I should upgrade to 5.1.
Word 2.0 stores the paragraph characteristics (formatting, font, etc.) in the "paragraph mark". If you copy/paste a PM, you get all the attributes. Word '97 uses some screwy method that I haven't figured out yet (after six years) so I still use Word 2.0.Or pr0n spam in my bionic eye...
But your devices only used a few tubes and the aggregate MTBF was still pretty large.
I think the problem is that the filaments burn out, just like lightbulbs do. The filaments are in a vacuum inside the tube, so forced air cooling is not going to cool them down any. Not that you'd want to cool down the filament, because then the tube wouldn't work.
This is about ENIAC, but the problem was the same:
"UNIVAC was the brainchild of two physicists named J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly. They had worked on the U.S. government's ENIAC computer during World War II, and finished it in 1946. They figured that there ought to be civilian uses for the enormous computing power of such a machine. ENIAC was a monster which weighed 30 tons and used 17,468 vacuum tubes to do its work. It was the largest practical computer that could be built based on vacuum tubes because in order to make it more powerful you'd have to add significantly more vacuum tubes and the mean time between failure (MTBF) of the vacuum tubes used was such that if you ran much more than 17,468 vacuum tubes some would always be "blown out," as we used to say of light bulbs and vacuum tubes, so you'd never be able to use the bigger machine."
I find this whole Slashdot experience very confusing.
Back in 1951 there were factories that pumped out vacuum tubes by the millions. That was convenient, because Univac burned out tubes by the thousands.
Firing up an old Univac would require firing up some old tube factories, too.
Hah! You say perform well but you girlfriend say NOT!
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Quite true. You can reasonably expect others to see you. They may be on the street with you or maybe looking out of a third story window. They might even have a cam-corder.
On the other hand, if someone starts following you around with a cam-corder all day, you would probably be able to invoke anti-stalking laws and get a restraining order. This is what a downtown surveilance system amounts to - stalking. One person (or entity) has access to all the tapes, so even if you were recorded by multiple cameras, that one entity is stalking you. And stalking everyone else. Multi-person stalking doesn't make it legal, it just means mutliple stalking counts on the arrest warrant.I'm going to upgrade my tin-foil hat to include surveilance camera recognition capabilities and an infra-red laser pen.
Captain to Engine Room (through the low-tech voice tube): Switch to manual control IMMEDIATELY!
* Webcast specific sound recordings within one hour of the request by a listener or at a time designated by the listener
So at 14:00 I'll request, "Please play Song-A at any time ~except~ between 16:00 and 16:05. TIA" and I'm legal, right?
If they can pretend your money is their money for 2 or 3 extra days, they make out like bandits. (Again, pun intended).
The business climate in banking these days has put the squeeze on everyone. If you're getting "free" checking or special low interest rates, your bank is making up for it in one way or another. Deposit "float" is just one way. This doesn't arouse too much customer ire.Another more ire-prone tactic is to sort the day's debits (checks) by decreasing amounts so an overdraft will cause more checks to bounce and thereby generate more overdraft fees. (Yes, they do that sort on purpose.)
If you pull up to the drive-in window in a Jaguar, it's several thousand pounds (Canadian). If you walk up pushing a grocery cart, you get one of those cool nickels with a beaver (Canadian) on it.
The pedometers they give away are not all that accurate. My wife got two of them and clipped them both on her belt for a day. At the end of the day one registered 5,000 steps (5,000 metric steps) and the other registered 10,000 steps (whatever that works out to in metric).
1. Denial
2. Denial
3. Denial
4. Denial
5. Buy another Mac
It even has a Java coprocessor now, so I won't have to simulate it in software and it won't take cycles away from my counting-all-the-atoms-in-the-universe project.
From a recent IBM announcement: ... provides an economical Java execution environment ... "
"The new zSeries Application Assist Processor (zAAP)
They played lots of different stuff. Each DJ had his own tastes and you knew that if you tuned in in the evening you would get hard rock. Afternoons were mostly unheard-of new artists. At 3AM you never knew what to expect - it was a free-for-all! Mornings were... well, I never got up before noon, so I don't know.
Wednesday at noon was the "Coffeebreak Concert" where they would get a local musician or a visiting celebrity to visit the studio, talk, and sing a few songs. Live, with only studio mics. It was sort of like MTV Unplugged, only less pretentious. I remember Melanie saying how she couldn't understand why people liked her - she sang flat. Yep, she did, but it was an honest flat. And we liked her.A friend of mine was a record store manager. He did it because he loved music. His apartment was always filled with LPs - literally - mostly culls and demos - and he just kept getting more. You know how some people pigeonhole others according to what they wear or what kind of car they drive or who their friends are? Rusty remembered you according to your musical tastes. Every time you entered his apartment, you knew going in that you ~must~ leave with an armful of records. Not just any records, but ones that he personally selected for you, and although many of them sucked, they were at least in the ballpark of the kind of stuff you liked. The point is that Rusty ran a record store because he loved music. It was in his blood.
I think that it's as hard for teenagers today to relate to that era as it was for the 70's teenagers to relate to their parents' tales of growing up during the Depression or WW-II. Unless you were there and lived the zeitgeist it's not the same.David Crosby did hit the nail on the head - it used to be about the music, not about the money.
Get her a puppy. A cute, cuddly one. A yellow Lab might be a good choice.
Then get yourself a puppy. Name it "Erica".You'll both be happier - trust me.
If you buy a new car and plan to trade it in after three years, you can't justify the ROI. Also, any conversion will likely void the warranty, and you may find it difficult to sell a "non-standard" car later.
If you buy an older used car and convert it, it may not last long enough to give you a decent ROI.HEV conversion will likely be popular only for fleets and for die-hard hobbyists. Let's hope that this will eventually work its way into a factory installed (and supported) option on mainstream vehicles.
That's the same line the Mormons use to justify polygamy.