self-repairing systems. only possible with multiple cores [parallel processing] and a limited speed of 'blotting' - two or more processes monitor validity of each-other and repair the damage if any, using undamaged code from read-only medium. [so that even a glitch that makes an invalid process to 'repair' a valid one will do so with good data.
If a cookie costs $0.05 to make, that's a marginal cost. If a CD costs $0.05 to make, it's marginal cost too. But then the cookie will cost $0.10 in retail and the CD will cost $50
Stealing $100 (retail)worth of cookies will cost the manufacturer much more than stealing $100 worth of CDs. The baker lost $50. The label lost $0.10. Still, even with cost of zero, the label will claim it lost some...$800,000?...while the baker can't claim more than $100 in losses anyway.
Concerning food, comparing price to cost too - the profit margin - it isn't at all. The profit margins are often very low - sure the difference between raw material and the final product is huge but there are dozens of steps, each with minimal profit. As for medicines, the infrastructure and research costs are often staggering.
Also, the moral value of charging 5000% the production cost for a life-saving medicine practiced by some manufacturers is an evil far worse, that easily justifies theft in case the alternative is death.
(In the moral question of protecting someone's property vs protecting someone else's life, life always has a priority; the one capable of saving life -is- entitled to a fair reward, but outrageous monetary demands exceeding the costs of performing the service are a simple extortion and should be dealt with that way.)
"Guaranteed" is a sound mathematical concept that works flawlessly in a mathematically perfect environment. It's not the algorithm that is usually compromised, it's the implementation. Like, the algorithm is based on strong randomness and none is assured, or the algorithm assumes a medium to be read-only while it is just write-protected in software and so on.
While main focus of Wikipedia are historical articles about things that happened in the past (and either passed away or continue to exist and function), both Wikipedia main page and Wikinews have a high quality recent news - independent, free, ad free, from all over the world, with no corporate control, in essence everything Fox is opposed to.
So attacking Wikipedia is simply attacking the competitor.
, make it be that people are far too quick to punish on allegations of sexual harassment, without stopping to check whether or not any harassment actually occurred first.
And what is the reason they do? Isn't it the same puritanical sense?
1. disclaim all responsibility efficiency 2. reduce litigation and repair costs 3. restore production at the leak point
They don't want it plugged permanently, but to rebuild the platform and reuse the shaft They don't care about environmental impact outside of how much that costs them. So they prefer to shift the blame than to repair the damage. Also, what brings more money than it costs money is reasonable. If the platform brought in more money than it cost BP to solve current problem (say, by shifting the blame), then they'll repeat it.
For this, you'd need geophysicists and demolition eperts. Nuclear physicists will know how to make a bomb to explode, sure, but how will they know how to make it seal the leak instead of blowing up a mile-wide hole to the oil deposit?
Amiga (OCS/ECS) had one fixed refresh rate, 60hz in us, 50hz in Europe. If you pushed the signal to a TV screen, there was no problem with scan rates [it was always the TV's native]. So the image pushed could switch resolutions at will - the produced res was a different abstraction layer from the physical display. You could really switch them between screens. The exception was interlace on/off which was global - vertical resolution was pretty much fixed [240 us, 256 europe]and you could only double it by switching interlace on/off, but horizontal was quite flexible and you could freely mix them.
Additionally, Amiga allowed you to drag any screen down - like, half the screen down, revealing the screen below. The screens could be in different native resolutions (like the below would run in 512x256 HAM interlace, and the top would be 320x256 halfbrite, and they would both display on the same screen at the same time, one overlapping the other. AFAIK, no PC can do this to this day.
It won't run on their later games because the AI for infected plus GUI elements are missing.
there, fixed.
It lacks GUI elements added in later games. It also adds AI for creatures found in later games - all three enemies found in Overture are included. (one of the humans in the Overture is never seen, the other is strictly scripted, no AI)
AFAIK, law acts are strictly exempt from copyright - either you copyright it or enforce it, never both. This applies to all law-binding texts - bills, EULAs, contracts and so on. That's also why "boilerplate licenses" are so common - you are perfectly legal to take some company's EULA, replace the company name and use it as your own (you'd better understand the clauses though). I'm not sure if it works like this in -all- countries, but definitely in most.
Still, what he plagiarized was explanation of the bill, not the bill itself. It didn't define the rules, just describe them, and as such was perfectly copyrightable.
Most touch interfaces until recently activated only one point on the screen. I can now tap with two fingers for middle-click, with three for right-click, drag two fingers together/apart for zoom in/out, rotate, and so on. Could you do this with the old interfaces?
then please tell me, how, in Java, to point to 0x11E00164 and read the state of the system cooling fan at bit 1 and heater/dehumidifier at bit 0...
(No, I didn't pull it out of my ass. This is taken from the actual ref sheet on the wall behind me. 0x11E00000 = memmapped IO space, +0x160 = CPLD registers, +0x4 - 230V GPIO lines.)
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...and the 60% is based on what? Those who get caught or admit it?
My guess is the number is closer to 90%...
self-repairing systems.
only possible with multiple cores [parallel processing] and a limited speed of 'blotting' - two or more processes monitor validity of each-other and repair the damage if any, using undamaged code from read-only medium.
[so that even a glitch that makes an invalid process to 'repair' a valid one will do so with good data.
Chaos Theory Claims Otherwise.
[randomness is not a bit field but a floating point value. No "Random/not Random" just "More random/Less random"]
not really.
If a cookie costs $0.05 to make, that's a marginal cost. If a CD costs $0.05 to make, it's marginal cost too.
But then the cookie will cost $0.10 in retail and the CD will cost $50
Stealing $100 (retail)worth of cookies will cost the manufacturer much more than stealing $100 worth of CDs. ...while the baker can't claim more than $100 in losses anyway.
The baker lost $50. The label lost $0.10.
Still, even with cost of zero, the label will claim it lost some...$800,000?
That sounds very... Biblical.
Concerning food, comparing price to cost too - the profit margin - it isn't at all. The profit margins are often very low - sure the difference between raw material and the final product is huge but there are dozens of steps, each with minimal profit.
As for medicines, the infrastructure and research costs are often staggering.
Also, the moral value of charging 5000% the production cost for a life-saving medicine practiced by some manufacturers is an evil far worse, that easily justifies theft in case the alternative is death.
(In the moral question of protecting someone's property vs protecting someone else's life, life always has a priority; the one capable of saving life -is- entitled to a fair reward, but outrageous monetary demands exceeding the costs of performing the service are a simple extortion and should be dealt with that way.)
"Guaranteed" is a sound mathematical concept that works flawlessly in a mathematically perfect environment.
It's not the algorithm that is usually compromised, it's the implementation. Like, the algorithm is based on strong randomness and none is assured, or the algorithm assumes a medium to be read-only while it is just write-protected in software and so on.
While main focus of Wikipedia are historical articles about things that happened in the past (and either passed away or continue to exist and function), both Wikipedia main page and Wikinews have a high quality recent news - independent, free, ad free, from all over the world, with no corporate control, in essence everything Fox is opposed to.
So attacking Wikipedia is simply attacking the competitor.
The Electorate.
It definitely matters to those who matter.
, make it be that people are far too quick to punish on allegations of sexual harassment, without stopping to check whether or not any harassment actually occurred first.
And what is the reason they do? Isn't it the same puritanical sense?
If nature facts don't agree with your moral beliefs... the worse for the facts.
Next Vatican will be sending missionaries to teach the bats about properly moral sexual practices.
Sure. DNA multiplication stops in temperatures exceeding 100 centigrades. Just increase the temperature of the patient.
Wait, you want the patient to actually survive the therapy? Now that was not in the specs... could you define this 'alive' you speak of?
declared war, sure...
no military activity followed the declaration for months though.
from that everything ever is physics.
That's our viewpoint.
BP's viewpoint is
1. disclaim all responsibility efficiency
2. reduce litigation and repair costs
3. restore production at the leak point
They don't want it plugged permanently, but to rebuild the platform and reuse the shaft
They don't care about environmental impact outside of how much that costs them. So they prefer to shift the blame than to repair the damage.
Also, what brings more money than it costs money is reasonable. If the platform brought in more money than it cost BP to solve current problem (say, by shifting the blame), then they'll repeat it.
Mow Your Lawn For Saving The Sea action? ...in no time.
Every white picket fence house donating some hay?
For this, you'd need geophysicists and demolition eperts.
Nuclear physicists will know how to make a bomb to explode, sure, but how will they know how to make it seal the leak instead of blowing up a mile-wide hole to the oil deposit?
Amiga (OCS/ECS) had one fixed refresh rate, 60hz in us, 50hz in Europe. If you pushed the signal to a TV screen, there was no problem with scan rates [it was always the TV's native]. So the image pushed could switch resolutions at will - the produced res was a different abstraction layer from the physical display. You could really switch them between screens. The exception was interlace on/off which was global - vertical resolution was pretty much fixed [240 us, 256 europe]and you could only double it by switching interlace on/off, but horizontal was quite flexible and you could freely mix them.
- in software
- arbitrary number of screens
Additionally, Amiga allowed you to drag any screen down - like, half the screen down, revealing the screen below.
The screens could be in different native resolutions (like the below would run in 512x256 HAM interlace, and the top would be 320x256 halfbrite, and they would both display on the same screen at the same time, one overlapping the other.
AFAIK, no PC can do this to this day.
It won't run on their later games because the AI for infected plus GUI elements are missing.
there, fixed.
It lacks GUI elements added in later games. It also adds AI for creatures found in later games - all three enemies found in Overture are included. (one of the humans in the Overture is never seen, the other is strictly scripted, no AI)
AFAIK, law acts are strictly exempt from copyright - either you copyright it or enforce it, never both. This applies to all law-binding texts - bills, EULAs, contracts and so on. That's also why "boilerplate licenses" are so common - you are perfectly legal to take some company's EULA, replace the company name and use it as your own (you'd better understand the clauses though). I'm not sure if it works like this in -all- countries, but definitely in most.
Still, what he plagiarized was explanation of the bill, not the bill itself. It didn't define the rules, just describe them, and as such was perfectly copyrightable.
Sounds like a reasonable Prior Art.
The funniest bit would be if IBM revoked its license to Apple.
Apple would remain with the software patents and no hardware to run them on.
Most touch interfaces until recently activated only one point on the screen.
I can now tap with two fingers for middle-click, with three for right-click, drag two fingers together/apart for zoom in/out, rotate, and so on. Could you do this with the old interfaces?
then please tell me, how, in Java, to point to 0x11E00164 and read the state of the system cooling fan at bit 1 and heater/dehumidifier at bit 0...
(No, I didn't pull it out of my ass. This is taken from the actual ref sheet on the wall behind me. 0x11E00000 = memmapped IO space, +0x160 = CPLD registers, +0x4 - 230V GPIO lines.)