How about an infinite piece of non-repeating music, consisting of say, a beep at every prime second and silence otherwise?
This isn't remotely my area of expertise, but I believe that would be representable with an infinitely large set of sine waves.
A simpler "gotcha" is a perfectly square pulse. For example, 1 HZ for 1 second, complete silence before and after that second. I believe that requires an infinite number of sine waves to model as well.
I haven't been able to find the actual Vatican statement, but as the news accounts describe it, it looks like this is really nothing more than a routine trademark claim.
So does that mean that the Catholic Church is a trade?
This helps them to compete with flash much more effectively. Now they are putting rest on doubters to use it on linux. I think this is good. Also, this helps Adobe to work hard on developing much better support for Linux.
And what do you think will happen if/when MS succeeds in pushing Flash out of the marketplace?
Just how much peace/love/flowers/self-restraint Microsoft's legal department will have once they no longer need to woo users away from Flash?
We're using C++. We wanted to use the fopen-related set of functions, because they provide better error information than the C++ iostreams library does.
But as you mentioned, it can drive you nuts writing all kinds of error handling code for each call to fopen, fwrite, etc.
So for each of those functions, we wrapped them with a function that tests the error codes, and throws a very descriptive exception if/when a problem occurs.
My point is that the dimmer kids would be removed from the gene pool due to hydrogen gas explosion. So the average IQ would go up, due to the remaining kids being (on average) smarter.
I suspect that for many of us, there are two kinds of Google searches we do that we don't want public:
(1) Things that we wouldn't want our mothers to know about.
(2) Things we wouldn't want our employers, potential insurance companies, or dictatorial governments to know about.
It sounds like the Google guy is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. He might have a point about (1), but his comment also seems to dismiss (2), and that's a real problem.
How can a document be both confidential and copyrighted?
According to the U.S. Constitution (I got this from wikipedia), the purpose of copyright is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
The problem seems to be that the actual legislation covers creative works that were never intended to be shared with the public. Such documents, like the ones in question, are within the scope of copyright law but not the spirit.
But as far as I know, courts have been unwilling to strike down current copyright laws just because they're less than perfectly efficient in achieving the Constitution's justification for them.
Personally, while I understand the business doctrine of "whatever the market will bear," I think it's time that Congress look into market collusion and racketeering. There's no way that a pigment can cost thousands of dollars per liter.
I believe that competition for ink products can't arise due to monopolies that Congress intentionally created via patents and the DMCA.
I think that the best one can hope for is that Congress didn't anticipate this.
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This isn't remotely my area of expertise, but I believe that would be representable with an infinitely large set of sine waves.
A simpler "gotcha" is a perfectly square pulse. For example, 1 HZ for 1 second, complete silence before and after that second. I believe that requires an infinite number of sine waves to model as well.
Crap, I knew there would be some reason that my post should have started with the words, "I'm pretty sure that".
It's doable, you just need to use sine waves that are wearing cowboy hats.
All signals can be represented with a set of sine waves. That's what makes Fourier transforms so useful.
What would be really impressive is if they had music that can't be represented as a set of sine waves.
A big problem for my enjoyment was the midichlorians, the microbes that supposedly give a person control over the Force.
By making the Force scientifically explicable rather than mystical/magical, it changed the feeling of the story for me.
Doesn't it matter what the purpose of the testing is?
I'm all behind using primate models for antibiotic testing. I'm entirely against animal models for cosmetics research.
So does that mean that the Catholic Church is a trade?
Just serve up plain text files. Anything else is pure decadence!
And what do you think will happen if/when MS succeeds in pushing Flash out of the marketplace?
Just how much peace/love/flowers/self-restraint Microsoft's legal department will have once they no longer need to woo users away from Flash?
"And do you know why? Because they're Scotts! Ha ha ha ha hah!"
Sigh...
Agreed. I realize that Vanilla Ice lowered the standards, but this crap would make Dr. Dre vomit.
We're using C++. We wanted to use the fopen-related set of functions, because they provide better error information than the C++ iostreams library does.
But as you mentioned, it can drive you nuts writing all kinds of error handling code for each call to fopen, fwrite, etc.
So for each of those functions, we wrapped them with a function that tests the error codes, and throws a very descriptive exception if/when a problem occurs.
This seems to be working well for us.
This sounds like a trick question, but I'm not sure which answer I'm supposed to give.
And you just know there are cave drawings somewhere showing jackasses trying to body surf in it.
Okay, sure. But is it defined to be the average over all American kids, or of some larger population?
If it's over some larger population, than my original point is still valid.
My point is that the dimmer kids would be removed from the gene pool due to hydrogen gas explosion. So the average IQ would go up, due to the remaining kids being (on average) smarter.
Let's give all 12 year olds 1 lb of sodium metal, plus a short book explaining it.
The average IQ of our country's kids would double in one week!
FWIW, I don't think your post deserved the "Troll" rating. Your question was fair.
I think you may have answered your own question.
I wonder if the next step will be to require Palestinians to were a yellow star-and-moon on their clothes.
I suspect that for many of us, there are two kinds of Google searches we do that we don't want public:
(1) Things that we wouldn't want our mothers to know about.
(2) Things we wouldn't want our employers, potential insurance companies, or dictatorial governments to know about.
It sounds like the Google guy is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. He might have a point about (1), but his comment also seems to dismiss (2), and that's a real problem.
According to the U.S. Constitution (I got this from wikipedia), the purpose of copyright is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
The problem seems to be that the actual legislation covers creative works that were never intended to be shared with the public. Such documents, like the ones in question, are within the scope of copyright law but not the spirit.
But as far as I know, courts have been unwilling to strike down current copyright laws just because they're less than perfectly efficient in achieving the Constitution's justification for them.
Looking as cool as an SR-71.
This seems like a good test case. A faithful application of the law here would shock the conscience.
I believe that competition for ink products can't arise due to monopolies that Congress intentionally created via patents and the DMCA.
I think that the best one can hope for is that Congress didn't anticipate this.