Besides the comic character that this is all about, there was an ACTUAL person named Leon Mandrake. He was a stage magician from New Westminster, B.C., who also did mental magic. (Just like the comic character) He first started touring in 1927, and he and his family toured North America and put on various shows until their final show in 1985, at the Chocolate Festival in Victoria, BC. Mandrake died in 1993
Now, 1927. The comic didn't come out until almost 10 years later. Obviously, the Mandrake estate needs to sue the comic strip syndicate! I mean, magician named Mandrake? Mental magic? He even wore a cape! The comic was obviously trying to profit off the populatiry of Leon Mandrake!
No, he means not that he sells them and pays them a portion, but that THEY sell them FOR him, and charge HIM money for each one they sell on his behalf. As in "Ok, I'll sell your CD's, but every one I sell you owe me $1." That's what they do to most artists though, not just the ones who are licencing samples...
How about Co-oP stores? (Or, as they are sometimes called, Hammer and Sickle Stores, or Commu-Mart). The idea behind them is that instead of a large corporation acting as a middle man for profit, enough people get together so as to get bulk discounts directly from the manufacturers and producers. That's the theory. They basically work the same was as a regular store. Except that instead of points for stuff from a catalog, you get a yearly cheque for your share of the profits. (Your share size is determined by how much you bought) The result is, although the Co-oP gas bar may charge the same as every other gas station, at the end of the year you get a fair bit of it back. Enough that the gas is effectivly 5-10 cents cheaper per liter.
I don't know if that would be considered an open source store...
How do you prevent something like a particular piece of code being contributed without looking at that code? I feel this is probably a non-trivial problem.
Hmm, sounds like a job for a quantum inferometer. All we'll need are some lasers and some partially silvered mirrors.
Yes, but breaking the law gets you a minor fine. Copying GPL'd code into the Windows kernel gets the kernel GPL'd. Microsoft can take a $1,000,000,000 fine, if they have to, but having the Windows source LEGALLY available to OS developers? They could improve WINE to the point that Win32 apps would run just as good as if they were on windows.
Wrong. Only distribution would be illegal. Copyright only protects from making COPIES. Just like MP3's. Having 10GB of MP3's on your hard-drive is only illegal if you distribute them. It doesn't even matter whether or not you have the original CD's, either. (But if you don't, it was probably illegal to GET them. But not to possess or use them)
Sure: A trade secret is something that only people in your company would know. Trade secret laws allow you to sue people who break their duty of secrecy. The only people who have such duties are employees, and anybody who signs an NDA. If somebody works at Microsoft, and give you the code, they can be sued for violating trade secrets. But NOTHING you do will get you in trouble WRT trade secret laws. If you hack into their computers and copy the code, STILL no trade secret laws have been broken.
You can only lose trade secret protections if it becomes common knowledge. A few thousand copies out there isn't common knowledge. And it most certainly isn't crazy to lose these protections if the secret is found out. The law doesn't protect the knowledge, it protects against employees leaking that information.
The rule the USPO uses for obviousness is "Could a person with mediocre talent, and completely lacking in creativity, come up with the same thing?" So yes, you are more or less right. And that has ALWAYS been the rule, since patents were first instituted.
Hehe, sounds about as competent as my grade 7 science teacher. First, he taught us that women have more ribs than men. I tried to correct him but he asked to talk to me after class...where he explained that he knows that, but he can't teach that or the religious parents will get mad.
Next, he taught us that babies' skulls have a gap in them so that their brain can grow. I said "But it fuses within a few months. Yet an adult's head is quite a bit larger than an infants. Obviously, your skull can grow even if it is fused solid." He wouldn't listen.
Oh, I also got in trouble when I left a floppy in one of the computers, and they found a GAME on it. They were like "We are really choked. You know the policy on games in school" and I said "Read the credits, you'll see that I wrote the game myself. You can also read the source code. I've been teaching myself programming, since all we do in computer class is Mavis Beacon and Logo Writer."
Teachers teaching faulty information, that's the one thing I can't stand. Fine, the point of elementry school isn't to teach important facts, but to teach how to learn. (Or so they tell me), but teaching stuff that is just plain wrong?
Oh, and on the note of the "psychic messages", our Chem 12 teacher accused two students of cheating on a test because one was a C student, but she got a 45/50, which was the same mark as the A student sitting across from her. But the thing is, while they each got 5 questions wrong, they only had one wrong answer in common. My friend, the A student, said "Well if having the same mark 'proves' we cheated, why don't we have the same questions wrong?" "That doesn't matter to me. 90% isn't exactly a typical mark for Lisa" "So she is being punished for studying?" "No, studying can't make you THAT much better. You must have been cheating"
A heavy metals is any metal with a specific gravity higher than 5. Everybody knows the dangerous ones: Lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, plutonium, and uranium. But there are plenty of them that arn't dangerous.
Tungsten, Ruthenium, Palladium, Platinum, Gold, Rhodium, Osmium and Iridium are all heavy metals, all far less dangerous than lead, and all slightly denser to twice as dense as lead or mercury. Some lighter heavy metals include calcium, copper, iron, and zinc. And you need all of THOSE ones to live. (That's part of why heavy metals are toxic. They replace these elements in essential reactions within the body)
Besides heavy metals not always being toxic, an elements density is also unrelated to its atomic mass. Molybdenum's atomic mass is half that of lead, but they have close specific gravities.
Instead of freting over the effects on children of adding an element that hasn't even been discovered yet to paint, you should probably look into all the mercury that doctors inject into children every year.
A basic requirement for a fair vote is that the voter does NOT receive a copy of their vote. Otherwise somebody threatening you / bribing you to vote a certain way has a way to confirm that you did like you were told.
What is so hard and confusing about THIS method:
People vote by checking off a box on a sheet of paper. People fold this paper over and hand it to a poll worker, and watch while this worker places the folded piece of paper in a locked strongbox. Poll worker has a clicker to count the number of votes placed in the box. When the polls are closed, a public counting occurs, where a third-party counts all of the votes up. If the number doesn't add up to the clicker number, they count again. Once their count has been confirmed, representatives of the various candidates are allowed to count it themselves, if they want, again under observation. If their number doesn't agree with the third-party number, they can dispute the count. Otherwise, the people present sign off that they witnessed the counting.
Now, nobody can hack the system. Can a worker stuff the box? No, the box is plainly visible to public observers. This is VERY important. The press, and public watchdog groups need people at EACH voting station to make SURE the workers arn't on the take. Additionaly, bribing a vote counter or a poll worker, or any other sort of fraud, should be considered treason, and punished by life in prision. Again, there is no good way for the counters to disrupt the vote, because they are being watched. (Behind closed doors, democracy dies) Disputed boxes will be recounted elsewhere by somebody else, but still under public observation. To prevent rampant disputing, the campaign officials and watchdogs will face stiff fines if they dispute a vote, and the recount is not in their favour. Similarily, if the recount differs signifigantly from the original count, the official counters will face punishment. The end result is, it makes it quite hard to foul up a vote without being caught. And the punishments are dire enough to (hopefully) prevent most people from trying. There should also be more stations, so that no group is counting thousands and thousands of votes.
This whole process is time consuming, and expensive (Small poll stations = lots of workers). But if bringing Democracy to other coutnries is worth hundreds of billions, isn't bringing it to yourself worth even 1? Also, I've never understood the need to have results NOW NOW NOW. Can't you wait a day? Is is so necessary to have the vote results within an hour? No doubt it would be nice, but is saving day of suspense worth potentially wrong results?
The problem is that IE uses both the extention AND the mime type. It decides what to do when you click on it by looking at the MIME type. But it decides how to OPEN it by looking at the extention. So it sees "virus.exe" with a MIME type of text/html, and knows that it is supposed to automatically open html files when they are clicked on, so it downloads it. Once it downloads, it tries to open the file The routines for opening files are the same as the ones in Windows Explorer, so it sees ".exe" and executes it. The user is never prompted because IE is never setup to prompt every time you visit a new page, and Windows Explorer isn't set to prompt every time you tell it to run a program.
You are correct. Hundreds to tens of thousands die of spradic CJD (SCJD) in the US alone every year. (Hundreds of confirmed, but they think that upwards of 10,000 deaths every year are mistaken for Alzheimers) However, there have only been two reported cases of VCJD, the type of CJD known to be caused by eating infected meat. One was the woman the parent mentioned. The other was Staff Sgt. James Alford, who got it from eating sheep brains while serving overseas. The differences betwen SCJD and VCJD are in the way they destroy the nervous system. They are quite distinct. There is conclusive evidence that VCJD is caused by eating BSE infected meats. SCJD has been around longer than BSE has been known about. They are unsure where it comes from. Vegans get it, everybody gets it, just fairly rarely, which is why it is called sporadic.
However, a recent study in mice has shown that BSE tainted meat CAN cause SCJD, not just VCJD. Their study seemed to show that the numbers of each were roughly even. If that is the case, then it is likely only a few of the SCJD cases are caused by meat...but even humanized transgenic mice are different enough from humans that they can't say one way or the other.
I'm sorry for your loss. And I agree, if they would rather die horribly that have their privacy violated, then they can go ahead, but they better not tell ME that I have to die to protect my privacy. If I cared THAT much about my privacy, I wouldn't have signed the agreement to get the card in the first place...in fact, I would also wear a mask when I went shopping, because at my local Co-oP, most of the cashiers know my whole family. One of them doesn't even need to ask for our member ID.
Slippery slope. Are you OK with a car dealer calling you because the car you bought has a recall on it, and it will explode if you take too sharp a left turn? Well, then how about calling all the authorized mechanics in town, and telling them your name and number. You know, so they can fix it for you. And they should probably tell the police your name, #, address, and licence plate #. So they can pull you over and tell you if you don't already know. To save lives.
Anyways, you can't make up something that didn't happen, and use that as evidence that something is bad.
Yes, copyright doesn't say anything about modifying it. But you see, the TOS is what gives you the right to have the copy of it in the first place. Without the licence agreement with them, you aren't allowed to have it. So copyright violations. Just like if you break the GPL, you get sued for copyright violations, since without the licence, you have no permission to copy and distribute the code.
Some judges have ruled that since a computer loads a program into memory, running a program is a copyright violation, sice you are copying it every time you run it. Other judges have said that since this computer copy is temporary, and part of normal operation, it doesn't count. But either way, the modified version was probably shared between multiple people. So they DID violate copyrights by sharing a copy of it amongst themselves.
The 20 or so people I have met that read sladhot are male. BTW, is anyone else convinced that statistics lie and the world is really 70% male? 96% of the people I see on a day to day basis are male. Either there is a conspericy at work here or I chose the wrong damn profession.
Hehe, go back to university! On Campus, at least 70% women;) Except of course, in upper level computer science classes. Then, the classes range from 5% to 20% women. (60% if it is also part of the health information science degree program) I know at least 2 of them read/. though;)
Yeah...not only is this bs made to make people feel better about not getting any exercise, it's probably BAD for you. I mean, playing video games can give you RSI and so on. Making the joysticks stiffer will just amplify it...instead of repeatedly pushing lightly, you are repeatedly pushing heavily. This will cause a LOT more wrist damage, I would expect.
see that computer you are typing on, see the cell phone you are using, see that velcro, teflon, anything small, anything modern, anything you see around you.....it has been made possable because of the work NASA did in the 60's to get men to the moon.
Wrong.
Velcro? Swiss inventor, 1948.
Teflon? Ohio researcher, 1937.
Care to try a few more? Plastics, maybe? Nope, 1908!
Smoke detector? Nope
Computers? No. Night vision goggles? No. Cell phones? No. TV? No. Radio? No. Microwaves? NO. Tang?......NO! All of these things I have heard people mention as spinoffs, and NONE OF THEM ARE TRUE. Some even came from the 19th century!
Most of the advances they have contributed have been minor improvements on existing ideas. That's not to say that they havn't contributed anything, but it isn't vital to our current state of technology. The most important things they have come up with has been in the field of treating osteoporosis, on account of having to deal with it in astronaughts who had been in space for too long...
Oh, and data compression. They hold a whole whack of patents on various methods of compressing images and other data, and 40% of their funding comes from these royalties.
Wrong.
I doubt they said:
foo.h line 16
foo.h line 17
foo.h line 18 ...
foo.h line 90
They just as easily could have said
"foo.h lines 16-90"
Further, if some file had multiple blocks copied from it, they could have these ranges on the same line also: 16-90, 1750-2001, 3000-4089, and so on.
Therefore, you can say nothing at all about it, other than the fact that they span less than 3600 different files.
You cannot appeal it. It is only a gauge of how likely it is that you are a terrorist. You can't prove that you arn't one, and even if you arn't, the colour only represents the CHANCE that you are, not whether or not you ACTUALLY are. If you get a red, that just means you probably are according to their metrics. You can't prove that wrong.
My dad, a Canadian citizin, is a high risk flyer. Whenever he tries to come back from a conference in Portland, he has a HELL of a time getting on the plane. The reason he is on their list of terrorists? My mom's sister in Toronto is married to a guy from Lebanon. So you see, to be ranked a danger, you need only be related to somebody who is related to somebody who is related to an Arab. (And belive me, they know) To make matters worse, the LAST time he tried to get on, his luggage set off the bomb detector. Apparently, the chemical sniffer said his external CD-RW was some form of platic explosives. I knew they could be fooled by cologne, aftershave, mouthwash, deoderant, and shampoo, but apparently they can also be fooled by "new electronics smell."
They did that last time. IBM complained. The Judge agreed with IBM and gave SCA a verbal reaming, and told them EXACTLY what they have to give, with no room for doubt. He said they need a list of file names, version numbers, and line numbers for each case of infrigment.
The topic says:
"In addition to using the knowledge to develop safer alternatives for surgical and household glues, the researchers are looking at how to combat the glue to prevent damage to shipping vessels and the accidental transport of invasive species, such as the zebra mussel that has ravaged the midwestern United States."
I dunno about the large scale bit, it depends on the deal you can get. As for "long haul": If I left every light in my 2 bedroom apartment on 24/7, the portion of my electricity bill corresponding to the cost of the lights would only reach $50,000 by 2138. So if I make it to 150, I could rest easy knowing that I saved myself some money...except that utilities are included in my rent. I imagine if one lived in California, they payoff time would be shorter.
On the other hand, compact fluorescent bulbs are 35 times cheaper, and 50%+ more efficient than LED bulbs (Even using coloured LEDs. Using white LEDs, fluorescents are 3 times more efficient) Some company has said that by 2005 it will be producing white LEDs that are as efficient as compact fluorescents...
Until then, however, compact flurescents are the way to go for saving power OR money.
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Besides the comic character that this is all about, there was an ACTUAL person named Leon Mandrake. He was a stage magician from New Westminster, B.C., who also did mental magic. (Just like the comic character) He first started touring in 1927, and he and his family toured North America and put on various shows until their final show in 1985, at the Chocolate Festival in Victoria, BC. Mandrake died in 1993
Now, 1927. The comic didn't come out until almost 10 years later. Obviously, the Mandrake estate needs to sue the comic strip syndicate! I mean, magician named Mandrake? Mental magic? He even wore a cape! The comic was obviously trying to profit off the populatiry of Leon Mandrake!
No, he means not that he sells them and pays them a portion, but that THEY sell them FOR him, and charge HIM money for each one they sell on his behalf. As in "Ok, I'll sell your CD's, but every one I sell you owe me $1." That's what they do to most artists though, not just the ones who are licencing samples...
How about Co-oP stores? (Or, as they are sometimes called, Hammer and Sickle Stores, or Commu-Mart). The idea behind them is that instead of a large corporation acting as a middle man for profit, enough people get together so as to get bulk discounts directly from the manufacturers and producers. That's the theory. They basically work the same was as a regular store. Except that instead of points for stuff from a catalog, you get a yearly cheque for your share of the profits. (Your share size is determined by how much you bought) The result is, although the Co-oP gas bar may charge the same as every other gas station, at the end of the year you get a fair bit of it back. Enough that the gas is effectivly 5-10 cents cheaper per liter.
I don't know if that would be considered an open source store...
Yes, but breaking the law gets you a minor fine. Copying GPL'd code into the Windows kernel gets the kernel GPL'd. Microsoft can take a $1,000,000,000 fine, if they have to, but having the Windows source LEGALLY available to OS developers? They could improve WINE to the point that Win32 apps would run just as good as if they were on windows.
Wrong. Only distribution would be illegal. Copyright only protects from making COPIES. Just like MP3's. Having 10GB of MP3's on your hard-drive is only illegal if you distribute them. It doesn't even matter whether or not you have the original CD's, either. (But if you don't, it was probably illegal to GET them. But not to possess or use them)
Sure: A trade secret is something that only people in your company would know. Trade secret laws allow you to sue people who break their duty of secrecy. The only people who have such duties are employees, and anybody who signs an NDA. If somebody works at Microsoft, and give you the code, they can be sued for violating trade secrets. But NOTHING you do will get you in trouble WRT trade secret laws. If you hack into their computers and copy the code, STILL no trade secret laws have been broken.
You can only lose trade secret protections if it becomes common knowledge. A few thousand copies out there isn't common knowledge. And it most certainly isn't crazy to lose these protections if the secret is found out. The law doesn't protect the knowledge, it protects against employees leaking that information.
The rule the USPO uses for obviousness is "Could a person with mediocre talent, and completely lacking in creativity, come up with the same thing?" So yes, you are more or less right. And that has ALWAYS been the rule, since patents were first instituted.
Hehe, sounds about as competent as my grade 7 science teacher. First, he taught us that women have more ribs than men. I tried to correct him but he asked to talk to me after class...where he explained that he knows that, but he can't teach that or the religious parents will get mad.
Next, he taught us that babies' skulls have a gap in them so that their brain can grow. I said "But it fuses within a few months. Yet an adult's head is quite a bit larger than an infants. Obviously, your skull can grow even if it is fused solid." He wouldn't listen.
Oh, I also got in trouble when I left a floppy in one of the computers, and they found a GAME on it. They were like "We are really choked. You know the policy on games in school" and I said "Read the credits, you'll see that I wrote the game myself. You can also read the source code. I've been teaching myself programming, since all we do in computer class is Mavis Beacon and Logo Writer."
Teachers teaching faulty information, that's the one thing I can't stand. Fine, the point of elementry school isn't to teach important facts, but to teach how to learn. (Or so they tell me), but teaching stuff that is just plain wrong?
Oh, and on the note of the "psychic messages", our Chem 12 teacher accused two students of cheating on a test because one was a C student, but she got a 45/50, which was the same mark as the A student sitting across from her. But the thing is, while they each got 5 questions wrong, they only had one wrong answer in common. My friend, the A student, said "Well if having the same mark 'proves' we cheated, why don't we have the same questions wrong?" "That doesn't matter to me. 90% isn't exactly a typical mark for Lisa" "So she is being punished for studying?" "No, studying can't make you THAT much better. You must have been cheating"
A heavy metals is any metal with a specific gravity higher than 5. Everybody knows the dangerous ones: Lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, plutonium, and uranium. But there are plenty of them that arn't dangerous.
Tungsten, Ruthenium, Palladium, Platinum, Gold, Rhodium, Osmium and Iridium are all heavy metals, all far less dangerous than lead, and all slightly denser to twice as dense as lead or mercury. Some lighter heavy metals include calcium, copper, iron, and zinc. And you need all of THOSE ones to live. (That's part of why heavy metals are toxic. They replace these elements in essential reactions within the body)
Besides heavy metals not always being toxic, an elements density is also unrelated to its atomic mass. Molybdenum's atomic mass is half that of lead, but they have close specific gravities.
Instead of freting over the effects on children of adding an element that hasn't even been discovered yet to paint, you should probably look into all the mercury that doctors inject into children every year.
A basic requirement for a fair vote is that the voter does NOT receive a copy of their vote. Otherwise somebody threatening you / bribing you to vote a certain way has a way to confirm that you did like you were told.
What is so hard and confusing about THIS method:People vote by checking off a box on a sheet of paper. People fold this paper over and hand it to a poll worker, and watch while this worker places the folded piece of paper in a locked strongbox. Poll worker has a clicker to count the number of votes placed in the box. When the polls are closed, a public counting occurs, where a third-party counts all of the votes up. If the number doesn't add up to the clicker number, they count again. Once their count has been confirmed, representatives of the various candidates are allowed to count it themselves, if they want, again under observation. If their number doesn't agree with the third-party number, they can dispute the count. Otherwise, the people present sign off that they witnessed the counting.
Now, nobody can hack the system. Can a worker stuff the box? No, the box is plainly visible to public observers. This is VERY important. The press, and public watchdog groups need people at EACH voting station to make SURE the workers arn't on the take. Additionaly, bribing a vote counter or a poll worker, or any other sort of fraud, should be considered treason, and punished by life in prision. Again, there is no good way for the counters to disrupt the vote, because they are being watched. (Behind closed doors, democracy dies) Disputed boxes will be recounted elsewhere by somebody else, but still under public observation. To prevent rampant disputing, the campaign officials and watchdogs will face stiff fines if they dispute a vote, and the recount is not in their favour. Similarily, if the recount differs signifigantly from the original count, the official counters will face punishment. The end result is, it makes it quite hard to foul up a vote without being caught. And the punishments are dire enough to (hopefully) prevent most people from trying. There should also be more stations, so that no group is counting thousands and thousands of votes.
This whole process is time consuming, and expensive (Small poll stations = lots of workers). But if bringing Democracy to other coutnries is worth hundreds of billions, isn't bringing it to yourself worth even 1? Also, I've never understood the need to have results NOW NOW NOW. Can't you wait a day? Is is so necessary to have the vote results within an hour? No doubt it would be nice, but is saving day of suspense worth potentially wrong results?
The problem is that IE uses both the extention AND the mime type. It decides what to do when you click on it by looking at the MIME type. But it decides how to OPEN it by looking at the extention. So it sees "virus.exe" with a MIME type of text/html, and knows that it is supposed to automatically open html files when they are clicked on, so it downloads it. Once it downloads, it tries to open the file The routines for opening files are the same as the ones in Windows Explorer, so it sees ".exe" and executes it. The user is never prompted because IE is never setup to prompt every time you visit a new page, and Windows Explorer isn't set to prompt every time you tell it to run a program.
The DDOS portion of the virus activates on February 1. So their site is still fine because it hasn't started yet.
You are correct. Hundreds to tens of thousands die of spradic CJD (SCJD) in the US alone every year. (Hundreds of confirmed, but they think that upwards of 10,000 deaths every year are mistaken for Alzheimers) However, there have only been two reported cases of VCJD, the type of CJD known to be caused by eating infected meat. One was the woman the parent mentioned. The other was Staff Sgt. James Alford, who got it from eating sheep brains while serving overseas. The differences betwen SCJD and VCJD are in the way they destroy the nervous system. They are quite distinct. There is conclusive evidence that VCJD is caused by eating BSE infected meats. SCJD has been around longer than BSE has been known about. They are unsure where it comes from. Vegans get it, everybody gets it, just fairly rarely, which is why it is called sporadic.
However, a recent study in mice has shown that BSE tainted meat CAN cause SCJD, not just VCJD. Their study seemed to show that the numbers of each were roughly even. If that is the case, then it is likely only a few of the SCJD cases are caused by meat...but even humanized transgenic mice are different enough from humans that they can't say one way or the other.
I'm sorry for your loss. And I agree, if they would rather die horribly that have their privacy violated, then they can go ahead, but they better not tell ME that I have to die to protect my privacy. If I cared THAT much about my privacy, I wouldn't have signed the agreement to get the card in the first place...in fact, I would also wear a mask when I went shopping, because at my local Co-oP, most of the cashiers know my whole family. One of them doesn't even need to ask for our member ID.
Slippery slope. Are you OK with a car dealer calling you because the car you bought has a recall on it, and it will explode if you take too sharp a left turn? Well, then how about calling all the authorized mechanics in town, and telling them your name and number. You know, so they can fix it for you. And they should probably tell the police your name, #, address, and licence plate #. So they can pull you over and tell you if you don't already know. To save lives.
Anyways, you can't make up something that didn't happen, and use that as evidence that something is bad.
Yes, copyright doesn't say anything about modifying it. But you see, the TOS is what gives you the right to have the copy of it in the first place. Without the licence agreement with them, you aren't allowed to have it. So copyright violations. Just like if you break the GPL, you get sued for copyright violations, since without the licence, you have no permission to copy and distribute the code.
Some judges have ruled that since a computer loads a program into memory, running a program is a copyright violation, sice you are copying it every time you run it. Other judges have said that since this computer copy is temporary, and part of normal operation, it doesn't count. But either way, the modified version was probably shared between multiple people. So they DID violate copyrights by sharing a copy of it amongst themselves.
Yeah...not only is this bs made to make people feel better about not getting any exercise, it's probably BAD for you. I mean, playing video games can give you RSI and so on. Making the joysticks stiffer will just amplify it...instead of repeatedly pushing lightly, you are repeatedly pushing heavily. This will cause a LOT more wrist damage, I would expect.
Velcro? Swiss inventor, 1948.
Teflon? Ohio researcher, 1937.
Care to try a few more? Plastics, maybe? Nope, 1908!
Smoke detector? Nope
Computers? No. Night vision goggles? No. Cell phones? No. TV? No. Radio? No. Microwaves? NO. Tang?......NO! All of these things I have heard people mention as spinoffs, and NONE OF THEM ARE TRUE. Some even came from the 19th century!
Most of the advances they have contributed have been minor improvements on existing ideas. That's not to say that they havn't contributed anything, but it isn't vital to our current state of technology. The most important things they have come up with has been in the field of treating osteoporosis, on account of having to deal with it in astronaughts who had been in space for too long...
Oh, and data compression. They hold a whole whack of patents on various methods of compressing images and other data, and 40% of their funding comes from these royalties.
Wrong.
...
I doubt they said:
foo.h line 16
foo.h line 17
foo.h line 18
foo.h line 90
They just as easily could have said "foo.h lines 16-90"
Further, if some file had multiple blocks copied from it, they could have these ranges on the same line also: 16-90, 1750-2001, 3000-4089, and so on.
Therefore, you can say nothing at all about it, other than the fact that they span less than 3600 different files.
You cannot appeal it. It is only a gauge of how likely it is that you are a terrorist. You can't prove that you arn't one, and even if you arn't, the colour only represents the CHANCE that you are, not whether or not you ACTUALLY are. If you get a red, that just means you probably are according to their metrics. You can't prove that wrong.
My dad, a Canadian citizin, is a high risk flyer. Whenever he tries to come back from a conference in Portland, he has a HELL of a time getting on the plane. The reason he is on their list of terrorists? My mom's sister in Toronto is married to a guy from Lebanon. So you see, to be ranked a danger, you need only be related to somebody who is related to somebody who is related to an Arab. (And belive me, they know) To make matters worse, the LAST time he tried to get on, his luggage set off the bomb detector. Apparently, the chemical sniffer said his external CD-RW was some form of platic explosives. I knew they could be fooled by cologne, aftershave, mouthwash, deoderant, and shampoo, but apparently they can also be fooled by "new electronics smell."
No, only 1 in 7 US citizins is a lawyer.
They did that last time. IBM complained. The Judge agreed with IBM and gave SCA a verbal reaming, and told them EXACTLY what they have to give, with no room for doubt. He said they need a list of file names, version numbers, and line numbers for each case of infrigment.
The topic says:
"In addition to using the knowledge to develop safer alternatives for surgical and household glues, the researchers are looking at how to combat the glue to prevent damage to shipping vessels and the accidental transport of invasive species, such as the zebra mussel that has ravaged the midwestern United States."
You didn't even have to RTFA!
I dunno about the large scale bit, it depends on the deal you can get. As for "long haul": If I left every light in my 2 bedroom apartment on 24/7, the portion of my electricity bill corresponding to the cost of the lights would only reach $50,000 by 2138. So if I make it to 150, I could rest easy knowing that I saved myself some money...except that utilities are included in my rent. I imagine if one lived in California, they payoff time would be shorter.
On the other hand, compact fluorescent bulbs are 35 times cheaper, and 50%+ more efficient than LED bulbs (Even using coloured LEDs. Using white LEDs, fluorescents are 3 times more efficient) Some company has said that by 2005 it will be producing white LEDs that are as efficient as compact fluorescents...
Until then, however, compact flurescents are the way to go for saving power OR money.