If the source code was reused you can be quite sure they would have introduced that as evidence. But they never introduced the code or even the games as evidence. Hmmm.
They based their claim on an "expert" opinion that the games looked very similar, therefore the source code must have been copied. Because everyone knows that you couldn't possibly rewrite the game to run on the same hardware using the same story without copying the code, right?
Except in this case the party being sued was the patent holder. They needed to defend their request for royalties. It's odd because normally the plaintiff needs to prove they were damaged rather than the defendant proving that they would be damaged.
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The email implies it's an opt out but, it's not clear to me that he'll actually be billed until he sets up the enhanced security. Regardless, I've avoided Network Solutions for a long, long time and would never consider doing business with them.
Roughly 350 households in that town. How much infrastructure would the telco cooperative have? They're probably trying to price themselves out of the market because it's a PITA to support.
Can someone please explain that connection? Really seems like a long stretch to get the topic back on the table. Maybe tiered pricing is caused by global warming and GMO crops?
You're correct, since this is an ESA project the proper units would be soccer fields. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be a standard measurement; I suppose it's about 9% of a smallish field - if that helps
Any sufficiently advanced search, communications, and sensing infrastructure is indistinguishable from Big Brother
Most people have gotten weary of all the NSA "revelations" that a spy agency is spying on people, so the ones trying to keep it on the front page are resorting to slightly indirect references to the same topic.
I've heard it runs a lot.
My vote was going to be Windows System Idle process. Graphics cards might top that but I have no idea how many are running the same code
Cite one historical example of a free market existing, and working as advertised.
There probably are no examples. But his point that Corporations don't exist in a free market is still valid.
Capitalism is just entrenching greed and ownership as a belief system
That's certainly one way to look at it. Humans respond to incentives, at its heart capitalism is a system that attempts to provide incentive for hard work, innovation, and risk taking. Greed can corrupt it the same as greed can corrupt any other system, which is why we have governments and regulations.
Sometimes there a number of competing things which are important to consider, and there's no good single way to combine the various criteria into a single metric.
Yes, but I still claim we're saying the same thing. Each action (hummingbird or whatever) is based on factors present at the time the decision was made. They had assumed they understood the relationship between choices A, B, and C, but it turns out there's more to it than they initially thought.
My cynicism is based on them bringing transitivity into the paper at all. It looks to me more like a linear programming problem rather than transitivity.
I think that they should not say that transitivity is broken but rather that the food attractiveness function can be changed by some events
That's exactly my original point (and why was it modded Troll????).
Their initial attempt at ranking the choices didn't consider all the factors that go into the decision. Transitivity was never broken, just their model.
Google a bit more and see whose signature is on the legislation making those commodities legal (Hint: the President's name starts with a "C"). It couldn't have happened if he hadn't rolled back the laws that were put in place back in the 1930's to prevent exactly this from happening.
The excuse was that everyone knew that relaxing the rules on who qualified for those mortgages would result in more foreclosures. The commodities were a way of spreading the losses from foreclosures around. Bad idea all around
(oh, and a raspberry to whoever modded me down because you disagreed with what I said)
redefine the amp on the basis of e, a physical constant representing the charge of an electron.
Until some smarty pants physicist comes along and determines that e or the charge of an electron changes depending on [pick something, this is physics after all]
It would be nice if we could figure out a way for everyone to just get along. Unfortunately we live in the real world. China's butt is still hurting from what happened during WWII. Would you leave your country open to something like that happening again?
True that shooting is uncalled for. On the other had, the victim was obviously a bully who didn't care if people around him were annoyed by his behavior. Texting a 3 year old? Really?
the shooter had to leave the theater to retrieve his gun from the car
I don't see that in the article. He went to complain to the theater manager. When he returned the victim started the argument up again and it escalated from there. Both guys sound like assholes.
You don't understand the root cause of the financial crisis. Clinton tried to encourage home ownership among lower income brackets by forcing banks to make a certain percentage of their mortgages to those borrowers (can you say "quota"?). In order to make that happen he changed the laws on how mortgages were approved with his National Homeownership Strategy. None of that came from conservatives or Wall Street. It was a liberal agenda run amok.
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If the source code was reused you can be quite sure they would have introduced that as evidence. But they never introduced the code or even the games as evidence. Hmmm.
They based their claim on an "expert" opinion that the games looked very similar, therefore the source code must have been copied. Because everyone knows that you couldn't possibly rewrite the game to run on the same hardware using the same story without copying the code, right?
RTFA. The Supreme Court ruled that the defendant has the burden of proof in this case
Except in this case the party being sued was the patent holder. They needed to defend their request for royalties. It's odd because normally the plaintiff needs to prove they were damaged rather than the defendant proving that they would be damaged.
The only thing dumber than Facebook offering that much money for Snapchat was when Snapchat declined the offer.
I don't know about that...Microsoft's offer of somewhere around $50B for Yahoo comes to mind.
We strongly encourage you to take advantage of this security program and register Certified Users before the program launch date...your credit card will be billed $1,850 for the first year of service on the date your program goes live
The email implies it's an opt out but, it's not clear to me that he'll actually be billed until he sets up the enhanced security. Regardless, I've avoided Network Solutions for a long, long time and would never consider doing business with them.
Can I use it in my Anti-Zeppelin?
That would be a Led Zeppelin (kinda like a lead balloon...you can look it up).
without anything more than a few months of pragmatic training on how to write software
Yea, those are the kind of "coders" who write websites like Healthcare.gov
Roughly 350 households in that town. How much infrastructure would the telco cooperative have? They're probably trying to price themselves out of the market because it's a PITA to support.
Can someone please explain that connection? Really seems like a long stretch to get the topic back on the table. Maybe tiered pricing is caused by global warming and GMO crops?
You're correct, since this is an ESA project the proper units would be soccer fields. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be a standard measurement; I suppose it's about 9% of a smallish field - if that helps
Any sufficiently advanced search, communications, and sensing infrastructure is indistinguishable from Big Brother
Most people have gotten weary of all the NSA "revelations" that a spy agency is spying on people, so the ones trying to keep it on the front page are resorting to slightly indirect references to the same topic.
I've heard it runs a lot. My vote was going to be Windows System Idle process. Graphics cards might top that but I have no idea how many are running the same code
Mere ideas cannot be patented, contrary to what many Slashdot posters would like you to believe
You mean someone couldn't patent an idea like buying something by clicking on a button? Oh wait...
It seems like a resource optimization problem, albeit a very difficult one to model.
Cite one historical example of a free market existing, and working as advertised.
There probably are no examples. But his point that Corporations don't exist in a free market is still valid.
Capitalism is just entrenching greed and ownership as a belief system
That's certainly one way to look at it. Humans respond to incentives, at its heart capitalism is a system that attempts to provide incentive for hard work, innovation, and risk taking. Greed can corrupt it the same as greed can corrupt any other system, which is why we have governments and regulations.
Sometimes there a number of competing things which are important to consider, and there's no good single way to combine the various criteria into a single metric.
Yes, but I still claim we're saying the same thing. Each action (hummingbird or whatever) is based on factors present at the time the decision was made. They had assumed they understood the relationship between choices A, B, and C, but it turns out there's more to it than they initially thought.
My cynicism is based on them bringing transitivity into the paper at all. It looks to me more like a linear programming problem rather than transitivity.
I think that they should not say that transitivity is broken but rather that the food attractiveness function can be changed by some events
That's exactly my original point (and why was it modded Troll????).
Their initial attempt at ranking the choices didn't consider all the factors that go into the decision. Transitivity was never broken, just their model.
That's why there are laws in place that give these employees the right to sue. If the companies did something wrong they will pay the price.
In other words, the scientists didn't understand the criteria for ranking the choices. Nothing to see here...
Google a bit more and see whose signature is on the legislation making those commodities legal (Hint: the President's name starts with a "C"). It couldn't have happened if he hadn't rolled back the laws that were put in place back in the 1930's to prevent exactly this from happening.
The excuse was that everyone knew that relaxing the rules on who qualified for those mortgages would result in more foreclosures. The commodities were a way of spreading the losses from foreclosures around. Bad idea all around
(oh, and a raspberry to whoever modded me down because you disagreed with what I said)
redefine the amp on the basis of e, a physical constant representing the charge of an electron.
Until some smarty pants physicist comes along and determines that e or the charge of an electron changes depending on [pick something, this is physics after all]
It would be nice if we could figure out a way for everyone to just get along. Unfortunately we live in the real world. China's butt is still hurting from what happened during WWII. Would you leave your country open to something like that happening again?
True that shooting is uncalled for. On the other had, the victim was obviously a bully who didn't care if people around him were annoyed by his behavior. Texting a 3 year old? Really?
the shooter had to leave the theater to retrieve his gun from the car
I don't see that in the article. He went to complain to the theater manager. When he returned the victim started the argument up again and it escalated from there. Both guys sound like assholes.
You don't understand the root cause of the financial crisis. Clinton tried to encourage home ownership among lower income brackets by forcing banks to make a certain percentage of their mortgages to those borrowers (can you say "quota"?). In order to make that happen he changed the laws on how mortgages were approved with his National Homeownership Strategy. None of that came from conservatives or Wall Street. It was a liberal agenda run amok.