The really effective way to do it (used by a number of SF writers, including Heinlein in "Starship Troopers") is to leave race entirely ambiguous until the end. In other words, get people to for a complete opinion of the character and then let them in on the race.
You definitely could delete or change stuff on the one we used as well, though it was so long ago that I do not recall the technical details. I don't recall who made ours.
I worked for a company that bought a "WORM" (Write Once Read Many) drive for backup purposes in 1987. We were amazed at a technology that could store over 650 megabytes on a single replacable CD-like platter! It cost something like $10,000.
Call me cynical, but I think the real idea was so that users would only notice patches once a month, and so think that Microsoft was releasing fewer, and was therefore the software was less buggy.
XUL isn't HTML, and therefore wouldn't be covered by this patent.
Sure, given that XUL already existed when this was filed, you could make the claim that using HTML instead was "obvious", but it isn't, strictly speaking, the same.
Perhaps the Mozilla people should patent XUL. For defensive purposes, if nothing else. But the conspiracy theorists should look elsewhere for Microsoft threats to open-source browsers.
I've never done ATMs, but I have done cash registers, and the industries seem much the same. They were pretty damn simple. There was no OS, really, just a board with a chip and some specialized code for controlling things in firmware. Since probably only twenty people in the OS could program the damn things, a worm was unlikely.
When I left the industry, the move was to Windows based systems.
They may not of been. It can happen like this: Idiot manager brings laptop home. Idiot manager plugs his laptop into the DSL line. Idiot manager gets hit by a worm, and his laptop is infected. Idiot manager takes his laptop to work and plugs it into the private network. Worm starts infecting machines on the private network.
A lot of infections happen like this. It's one reason why firewalls are not a complete solution.
This is awesome! Now I don't have to go through all the rigamoral of finding a friend to hold snailmail evidence when I blackmail someone. Now I can just say "and if you kill me, the information will automatically be emailed to the New York Times".
Big in the balls displayed perhaps, but not in size. SCO is still a very tiny company, only worth a very small fraction of what Enron was going for even at its currently overinflated price.
Netscape had 95% of the market because it was one of the first full-featured browsers. Google got 75% of the market by taking it away from other, older, established search-engines.
In other words, Netscape got marketshare by being first while Google got marketshare by being best.
For Microsoft to beat Netscape, they had to create a better browser than a company that had never had real competition. For Microsoft to beat Google, they have to create a better search engine than a company whose search engine blew away a large number of other competitors in a competitive market.
If you read the article, you'll see that this is about contracts with publishers that state that the books in question cannot be placed in an electronic database. Since it is likely that Amazon got this database from the publishers, this is the problem.
Amazon could legally scan all the books in themselves and make the same search available under fair use. The issue here is whether the authors' contracts with the publishers give those publishers the right to distribute their works in a database.
Oddly enough, the ACLU was suing because six counties are still going to be using punchcards, rather than these touchscreen systems, on the assumpton that the touchscreens were "more accurate".
The trouble with the Star Trek "Universal Translator" is that they show it working on languages where there is no already translated work. This sort of statistical translation requires someone to sit down and hand-translate a bunch of documents to teach the machine the correlations.
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The really effective way to do it (used by a number of SF writers, including Heinlein in "Starship Troopers") is to leave race entirely ambiguous until the end. In other words, get people to for a complete opinion of the character and then let them in on the race.
You definitely could delete or change stuff on the one we used as well, though it was so long ago that I do not recall the technical details. I don't recall who made ours.
Winamp 5 usings the Winamp 2 plugin architecture rather than the Winamp 3. Which is good for me, but crappy if you have a Winamp 3 plugin you like.
I worked for a company that bought a "WORM" (Write Once Read Many) drive for backup purposes in 1987. We were amazed at a technology that could store over 650 megabytes on a single replacable CD-like platter! It cost something like $10,000.
I believe that it is Harlan Ellison that wrote into his will that all unfinished manuscripts be destroyed upon his death.
No, the GPL does not protect against patents. Prior art does, but copyrights (which is what the GPL is) are trumped by patents.
Call me cynical, but I think the real idea was so that users would only notice patches once a month, and so think that Microsoft was releasing fewer, and was therefore the software was less buggy.
Why wouldn't Mozilla be able to use Chrome? Chrome doesn't use HTML.
Sure, given that XUL already existed when this was filed, you could make the claim that using HTML instead was "obvious", but it isn't, strictly speaking, the same.
Perhaps the Mozilla people should patent XUL. For defensive purposes, if nothing else. But the conspiracy theorists should look elsewhere for Microsoft threats to open-source browsers.
I've never done ATMs, but I have done cash registers, and the industries seem much the same. They were pretty damn simple. There was no OS, really, just a board with a chip and some specialized code for controlling things in firmware. Since probably only twenty people in the OS could program the damn things, a worm was unlikely.
When I left the industry, the move was to Windows based systems.
They may not of been. It can happen like this: Idiot manager brings laptop home. Idiot manager plugs his laptop into the DSL line. Idiot manager gets hit by a worm, and his laptop is infected. Idiot manager takes his laptop to work and plugs it into the private network. Worm starts infecting machines on the private network.
A lot of infections happen like this. It's one reason why firewalls are not a complete solution.
Given that he'd been dead over ten years, he probably didn't think anything of all about Total Recall
This is awesome! Now I don't have to go through all the rigamoral of finding a friend to hold snailmail evidence when I blackmail someone. Now I can just say "and if you kill me, the information will automatically be emailed to the New York Times".
Big in the balls displayed perhaps, but not in size. SCO is still a very tiny company, only worth a very small fraction of what Enron was going for even at its currently overinflated price.
In other words, Netscape got marketshare by being first while Google got marketshare by being best.
For Microsoft to beat Netscape, they had to create a better browser than a company that had never had real competition. For Microsoft to beat Google, they have to create a better search engine than a company whose search engine blew away a large number of other competitors in a competitive market.
So don't be too quick to bet against Google.
If you read the article, you'll see that this is about contracts with publishers that state that the books in question cannot be placed in an electronic database. Since it is likely that Amazon got this database from the publishers, this is the problem.
Amazon could legally scan all the books in themselves and make the same search available under fair use. The issue here is whether the authors' contracts with the publishers give those publishers the right to distribute their works in a database.
It's a contract issue not a copyrhight issue.
Velcro came from someone in Switzerland who got burrs in his pants while walking his dog.
Much as I like (and use) XMMS, it's not the best project to put forward as it is, for the most part, just a clone of Winamp.
Perhaps they should have controlled for gender in the study.
No wonder Carter was such a crappy president.
The article appears to be talking about opt-in email, not spam.
Oddly enough, the ACLU was suing because six counties are still going to be using punchcards, rather than these touchscreen systems, on the assumpton that the touchscreens were "more accurate".
Yeah, that's what I was talking about.
I gather they didn't learn from the problems California had a couple years back.
The trouble with the Star Trek "Universal Translator" is that they show it working on languages where there is no already translated work. This sort of statistical translation requires someone to sit down and hand-translate a bunch of documents to teach the machine the correlations.