My brother has exactly that same thing - he did it playing sports. But not his total bicep - just part (some 'strands'? about an inch wide) and more on the side of the arm, not the front (so maybe not technically the bicep). Anyhow, it never bothered him so he didn't do anything about it. But front the start we both immediately assumed it was as you described - a piece of muscle ripped away from the bone and thus contracted into a ball near the other bone connection. Looked to me to be something easy to diagnose.
I see that there is a misunderstanding about #4, in that the OP was saying that the piece of paper is NOT taken away with them.
However, this reveals something I hadn't thought of...
I was thinking that I'd like a system where we DID walk out with a piece of paper with a number on it, and after the election, we could then look up our number in the official poll list, and verify that the system actually recorded and counted our vote properly. This would actually allow us to check 2 things: 1 - that our vote was correct, and 2 - that the count was correct (since we see the whole database). (And although we can only check and know that our own vote was correct, we can hope/assume everyone else checks their votes, and thus assume all votes listed are correct.)
But vote buying/bullying is then possible.
Hmmm...
All I can think of right now is that maybe we only hand out an extra 'take home' printout to a random 1/2 - 1/4 of the voters. Then at least we have a statistical check for validity. Anyone who was bullied or bought into voting a certain way could just say they 'unfortunately' didn't get a take home printout.
If you take a persons brain and disconnect the two halves, there is, in some sense, 2 consciousnesses (sp!). THIS HAS BEEN DONE:
With one child whose brain was split - consistently one half wanted to grow up to be a cowboy, the other an astronaut.
Sorry I don't have a link - google is the obvious answer here.
The interesting thing about the case was that it is hard to communicate with each half separately - especially when one half tends to be in change of communication, the other something else, etc. But there are ways to do it.
Actually, coincidentally, I think I first read about this in Penrose's book...
And did Jesus have to visit other continents to "save" inhabitants there also?
Or did it suffice to wait for us to rape^H^H^H^Hcolonize those continents and 'spread the good word'?
Thus maybe our goal is to spread God's word throughout the universe. Those Jehovah's should be starting a space program soon...
Quite a few medical machines (not necessarily life and death, but technically any medical machine can probably be the crux of a life and death situation) run NeXTStep. NeXT was big in medical imaging. Personally, I've seen an X-Ray machine, an ultrasound machine, and I think one or two others, running it.
If, in your sig, you changed 'signature' to 'sig', your sig would sound more like the original song (and more like the original: 'song' too! strangely enough...)
I think the part that this crowd (read "geeks") might be most interested in, is "Version Cue" - some type of version control for your graphics files.
Probably pales in comparison to most/any source control, but maybe that's not what it should be compared to - compare it, instead, to what other graphics apps have (ie probably nothing).
No, it would not be like 'some no-name snack company naming their products "Twinkies" and "Ding-Dongs".' The service being sold is a hotel, not a sorting system.
It would be like me writing some software for Windows and selling it as "Foobar for Windows". I CAN do that and I do NOT have to pay MS to use the word "Windows" or even "Microsoft Windows". But I do have to say somewhere "Microsoft Windows is a trademark of MS blah blah blah..." But I cannot write an OS and call it Windows (or at least not Microsoft Windows.) See the difference?
Noting who owns the trademark should be all this hotel needs to do.
I think the OCLC could/should be able to sue for _something_ if the hotel used recent Dewey categories, but they don't.
the NEW Prius looks good - much better than the old one - performs pretty much like a normal car, yet gets better mileage than the old Prius. Or so they say - I haven't tried one.
1) If I turn around and sell the sex and violence parts ONLY do I have to pay for the original twice or just once?
1(b) I wonder if CleanFlicks will make me a deal for all those unused bits they edited out. Imagine the compilation CDs!...
2) Does this set an upper limit for the cost of original works when making derivative works. For example, if I make a great version of Star Wars by re-editing and even adding scenes, and it sells like hotcakes, does this say that the *most* I have to pay Lucas is the cost of the original DVD (per DVD I sell obviously). (And obviously this would probably be more than I would pay if I could go to Lucas and say "hey this thing is great, let's make a deal", etc etc etc - like I said - it's an upper bound.)
One way would be to find a "snap-shot" of the code of a particular release. Like the release of "SCO 2.0" (hypothetical, obviously). Show this code to the court, compile it (under supervision, with autditing to make sure the code under question is part of the compile, etc) and compare the resulting binary to an existing "SCO 2.0" from year 199X. Thus showing that they had that code in that year. I doubt I explained that well, but you should get the idea...
don't you know that you are NOT suppose to read patents? If you UNknowingly step on someone elses patent, they can sue you for damages. But if you KNOWINGLY do it, they can sue for 3 x damages. So it is best to just not read them. Sad but true. And this is policy at many tech companies.
So Intel doesn't want you to overclock their processors, and they've even gone to the trouble of devising a method to make it hard/impossible. Furthermore, they've patented the method. So...
- AMD can't use the (exact) same method (unless they licence it).
- therefore we'll all keep overclocking AMDs
- Although they are trying to make it so you can't overclock your own hardware, they are not (yet?) attempting to use the DMCA to prevent you from breaking their methods (if possible) and overclocking anyhow...
stating? where's the cheque? you should at least get a portion of the fine money, shouldn't you? It was your time they wasted. Similar to how punitive damages go to the defendant?...
If only a legal leg was all that was needed... the world might actually be a bit better place.
Whether it is wheelbarrows full of patents or money to drag it out forever, IBM probably has what it needs to 'win' this case.
HOWEVER, I suppose it may also turn out that IBM looks at it and says, well it doesn't look too good, it's worth $X million to just settle. Then where does that leave SCO? With a 'win' to back their next battle? Only vaguely, as surely IBM won't settle out of court AND admit guilt...
Note that they are suing IBM because they think that IBM basically broke an NDA that they (IBM) had with them (SCO). There is not *necessarily* patent infringement happening, just trade secrets that IBM allegedly made not so secret. (But patents could easily be part of the case.)
By the way, isn't the normal method to sue the small guys first? Suing IBM? IBM!? They're nuts.
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My brother has exactly that same thing - he did it playing sports. But not his total bicep - just part (some 'strands'? about an inch wide) and more on the side of the arm, not the front (so maybe not technically the bicep). Anyhow, it never bothered him so he didn't do anything about it. But front the start we both immediately assumed it was as you described - a piece of muscle ripped away from the bone and thus contracted into a ball near the other bone connection. Looked to me to be something easy to diagnose.
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"People who infringe this patent may also infringe..."
(sorry for the repost - it is just a slight improvement over my previous version of this post)
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If you infringe this patent you may also infringe...
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>MS won't let us turn off HTML in the preview pane
My Outlook Express (6.) has a checkbox:
[x] Read all messages in plain text
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I see that there is a misunderstanding about #4, in that the OP was saying that the piece of paper is NOT taken away with them.
However, this reveals something I hadn't thought of...
I was thinking that I'd like a system where we DID walk out with a piece of paper with a number on it, and after the election, we could then look up our number in the official poll list, and verify that the system actually recorded and counted our vote properly.
This would actually allow us to check 2 things:
1 - that our vote was correct, and
2 - that the count was correct (since we see the whole database). (And although we can only check and know that our own vote was correct, we can hope/assume everyone else checks their votes, and thus assume all votes listed are correct.)
But vote buying/bullying is then possible.
Hmmm...
All I can think of right now is that maybe we only hand out an extra 'take home' printout to a random 1/2 - 1/4 of the voters. Then at least we have a statistical check for validity. Anyone who was bullied or bought into voting a certain way could just say they 'unfortunately' didn't get a take home printout.
oh well...
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If you take a persons brain and disconnect the two halves, there is, in some sense, 2 consciousnesses (sp!). THIS HAS BEEN DONE:
With one child whose brain was split - consistently one half wanted to grow up to be a cowboy, the other an astronaut.
Sorry I don't have a link - google is the obvious answer here.
The interesting thing about the case was that it is hard to communicate with each half separately - especially when one half tends to be in change of communication, the other something else, etc. But there are ways to do it.
Actually, coincidentally, I think I first read about this in Penrose's book...
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You just know that someone will take up the cause to make it for real...
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And did Jesus have to visit other continents to "save" inhabitants there also? Or did it suffice to wait for us to rape^H^H^H^Hcolonize those continents and 'spread the good word'? Thus maybe our goal is to spread God's word throughout the universe. Those Jehovah's should be starting a space program soon...
Quite a few medical machines (not necessarily life and death, but technically any medical machine can probably be the crux of a life and death situation) run NeXTStep. NeXT was big in medical imaging. Personally, I've seen an X-Ray machine, an ultrasound machine, and I think one or two others, running it.
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If, in your sig, you changed 'signature' to 'sig', your sig would sound more like the original song (and more like the original: 'song' too! strangely enough...)
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Wasn't the author previously a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts?
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I think the part that this crowd (read "geeks") might be most interested in, is "Version Cue" - some type of version control for your graphics files.
Probably pales in comparison to most/any source control, but maybe that's not what it should be compared to - compare it, instead, to what other graphics apps have (ie probably nothing).
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see Photoshop in Linux thanks to disney
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No, it would not be like 'some no-name snack company naming their products "Twinkies" and "Ding-Dongs".' The service being sold is a hotel, not a sorting system.
It would be like me writing some software for Windows and selling it as "Foobar for Windows". I CAN do that and I do NOT have to pay MS to use the word "Windows" or even "Microsoft Windows". But I do have to say somewhere "Microsoft Windows is a trademark of MS blah blah blah..." But I cannot write an OS and call it Windows (or at least not Microsoft Windows.) See the difference?
Noting who owns the trademark should be all this hotel needs to do.
I think the OCLC could/should be able to sue for _something_ if the hotel used recent Dewey categories, but they don't.
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The same people who read slashdot while at work...
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the NEW Prius looks good - much better than the old one - performs pretty much like a normal car, yet gets better mileage than the old Prius. Or so they say - I haven't tried one.
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I know I'm too late to the discussion, but:
1) If I turn around and sell the sex and violence parts ONLY do I have to pay for the original twice or just once?
1(b) I wonder if CleanFlicks will make me a deal for all those unused bits they edited out. Imagine the compilation CDs!...
2) Does this set an upper limit for the cost of original works when making derivative works. For example, if I make a great version of Star Wars by re-editing and even adding scenes, and it sells like hotcakes, does this say that the *most* I have to pay Lucas is the cost of the original DVD (per DVD I sell obviously). (And obviously this would probably be more than I would pay if I could go to Lucas and say "hey this thing is great, let's make a deal", etc etc etc - like I said - it's an upper bound.)
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Or like buying the Rembrandt, and then doing it.
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One way would be to find a "snap-shot" of the code of a particular release. Like the release of "SCO 2.0" (hypothetical, obviously). Show this code to the court, compile it (under supervision, with autditing to make sure the code under question is part of the compile, etc) and compare the resulting binary to an existing "SCO 2.0" from year 199X. Thus showing that they had that code in that year. I doubt I explained that well, but you should get the idea...
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don't you know that you are NOT suppose to read patents? If you UNknowingly step on someone elses patent, they can sue you for damages. But if you KNOWINGLY do it, they can sue for 3 x damages. So it is best to just not read them. Sad but true. And this is policy at many tech companies.
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So Intel doesn't want you to overclock their processors, and they've even gone to the trouble of devising a method to make it hard/impossible. Furthermore, they've patented the method. So...
- AMD can't use the (exact) same method (unless they licence it).
- therefore we'll all keep overclocking AMDs
- Although they are trying to make it so you can't overclock your own hardware, they are not (yet?) attempting to use the DMCA to prevent you from breaking their methods (if possible) and overclocking anyhow...
- where's the "Your Rights Online" part?
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"stating the amount they had been fined"
stating? where's the cheque? you should at least get a portion of the fine money, shouldn't you? It was your time they wasted. Similar to how punitive damages go to the defendant?...
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"sources close to to IBM say" IBM is going to fight it
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If only a legal leg was all that was needed... the world might actually be a bit better place.
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Whether it is wheelbarrows full of patents or money to drag it out forever, IBM probably has what it needs to 'win' this case.
HOWEVER, I suppose it may also turn out that IBM looks at it and says, well it doesn't look too good, it's worth $X million to just settle. Then where does that leave SCO? With a 'win' to back their next battle? Only vaguely, as surely IBM won't settle out of court AND admit guilt...
I type this every time.
Note that they are suing IBM because they think that IBM basically broke an NDA that they (IBM) had with them (SCO). There is not *necessarily* patent infringement happening, just trade secrets that IBM allegedly made not so secret. (But patents could easily be part of the case.) By the way, isn't the normal method to sue the small guys first? Suing IBM? IBM!? They're nuts.
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