The thing I would complain about, is that it is quite difficult to figure out how to automate it with a script, in fact I would be very grateful if you could provide me a script that can automate this task...
I do not know about this device, but if I was in charge to make one, I would add some feature to check the depth, so the wrinkles would be detected by refraction not by looking at the picture, or even better you could try to match the surface to the picture.
Now you want truly un-American thinking? Release a treadmill or other exercise equipment that can be set to automatically give the little tubs o' lard more game time in exchange for actually exercising. It works well with hamsters...
An SSD ought to have speeds comparable to RAM, in the Gbps range, and until one does, the rest are just useless ripoffs. But, of course, that's just my opinion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H desire with no basis in what's actually technologically feasible. Fixed that for you. ^H without googling or even reading previous posts because I prefer to assume that I know everything. Fixed that for you.
http://www.fusionio.com/
Are you for real ? Can you read ?
Their development libraries are much, much worse. To write an app that takes a frame from a video and saves it in a *.BMP file I had to download
1) Visual Studio (something like 2.5 gigs)
2) Windows SDK (another gigabyte); I need about 5 files from it (ten megabytes)
3) DirectX SDK (about 500 megs) - because DirectShow SDK was moved from DirectX to Windows SDK but still needs DirectX SDK to compile.
That's FOUR GIGABYTES just to use a couple of functions! Visual Studio can be replaced with some light compiler (like VC++ Express) but that's still an about 1.7 gigabytes total.
I will do the maths for you since you have difficulties with this one...
VC++ Express 100MB
Windows SDK about 1GB
DirectX SDK about 500MB
Here you go...
Or another method, 4GB-2.4GB(removed from Visual Studio suite) = 1.6GB
Please read before to reply, especially when it is a reply which is saying RTFA
I think the parent should have not been modded offtopic, his opinion makes sense, sometimes few knowledge is worse than no knowledge at all, when people start to question things like genocides in the WW2 or case of soldiers raping civilians, you have to wonder what kind of education they got.
When you build roads, you have to follow some construction norms in order to have a minimum of security, accessibility,... etc.
The same analogy could be used here against your argument, if the government decides that a minimum of security is needed over students network in order to monitor the careless acts of piracy, it would be like putting CCTV and speed radar over the highways in order to find the careless drivers.
Though I agree that the only people who will agree with my analogy are the RIAA and MPAA members...
Hmph. I respectfully disagree. I use OOCalc even when I have Excel available to me sometimes because it has features that are not found in any version of Excel, such as:
additional formulas, you can use VBA and the COM or Automation interface to add your own functions
automatic column resizing on import of CSV files, you can code this in a macro or press CTRL+A and double click the size of a border
better conditional formatting I agree on this one
export as PDF built-in most of the businesses have the Adobe version
... I could go on. Also OOCalc will often open Excel documents that Excel won't open -- so it's handy to fix broken XLS files!
I agree on this one even if the newest Office does not break very often the.xls. The thing is that what is lacking in Open Source tools is more or less critical to businesses while the opposite is not true.
IMHO, first amendment is mostly about protecting political ideas, bullying your neighbour, calling your ex-girlfriend's friends to say lies and tell them how much she was a sicko are hardly things that are protected by the first amendment.
I doubt also that the first amendment was written to protect the marketing departments from being sued for lying in order to increase their sales...
You can't return intellectual property usually, what they could do is that returning an item involves agreeing to a contract where you are forbidden to use what you returned, which in the case of software means nothing as it would be difficult to prove that you did not use it...
You are right, but from what I have read there, in the US, a large corporation can get away very easily and can use many appeals to delay the payment of the fine.
The problem which lies in your system is that it goes against the original idea behind patenting, imagine that you discover something truly revolutionary, you will be force to licence it to companies such as Sony or Microsoft for an amount of money while they have much more ways to leverage your idea using their funds. You will end up losing your own invention to them for a small amount of money.
And the fair value is a concept very difficult to define like you said... (is it from your point of view, is it based on the investment made on the research ? is it based on the amount at which it will be profitable for the other company to use your patent ?)
Whenever a patent is classified as "dumb patent" and the jury has decided that you went to the court with a "dumb reason", you will be requested to pay X times the amount requested to the court and the person/company you sued for wasting everybody's time. You would be put also on a probation period during which suing for "dumb reasons" would increase the X for each time you bother the court with invalid/stupid reasons.
Would work also for RIAA abuse.
Now that would save alot of time and money... Economics is based on incentive, people react to incentives and the courts are already enough busy to deal with these complaints.
Do not worry, they have taken all the necessary precautions: the nuclear training is targetted to teach how to handle safely nukes and is slightly more expensive while requiring also US Citizenship. Like someone said, ignorance is more dangerous than knowledge.
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The thing I would complain about, is that it is quite difficult to figure out how to automate it with a script, in fact I would be very grateful if you could provide me a script that can automate this task ...
I do not know about this device, but if I was in charge to make one, I would add some feature to check the depth, so the wrinkles would be detected by refraction not by looking at the picture, or even better you could try to match the surface to the picture.
I thought he married Vista, I thought ... "poor him"
Continue to smoke ! From that study I can extrapolate the sure fact that if you continue smoking you will die of diabetes or heart attack !!!
Unless it involved some chair with long legs maybe ...
They should get a cut of your salary, since I am pretty sure than a big percentage of dollars went trough their bank account at some point in history.
I received your last ballot and I saw that you put the meaningful choices on the right of the paper, can you put the all on the left goddamnit !
That's FOUR GIGABYTES just to use a couple of functions! Visual Studio can be replaced with some light compiler (like VC++ Express) but that's still an about 1.7 gigabytes total.
I will do the maths for you since you have difficulties with this one
- VC++ Express 100MB
- Windows SDK about 1GB
- DirectX SDK about 500MB
Here you goOr another method, 4GB-2.4GB(removed from Visual Studio suite) = 1.6GB
Please read before to reply, especially when it is a reply which is saying RTFA
Being a german officer during WW2 does not make you a nazi nor a war criminal, shooting enemy soldiers is hardly a war crime.
Therefore they needed a trial to prove that they were involved in atrocities.
I think the parent should have not been modded offtopic, his opinion makes sense, sometimes few knowledge is worse than no knowledge at all, when people start to question things like genocides in the WW2 or case of soldiers raping civilians, you have to wonder what kind of education they got.
How does that protect the kids ?
Can someone explain this to me ?
Somebody sue google ... fast ...
When you build roads, you have to follow some construction norms in order to have a minimum of security, accessibility, ... etc.
...
The same analogy could be used here against your argument, if the government decides that a minimum of security is needed over students network in order to monitor the careless acts of piracy, it would be like putting CCTV and speed radar over the highways in order to find the careless drivers.
Though I agree that the only people who will agree with my analogy are the RIAA and MPAA members
additional formulas, you can use VBA and the COM or Automation interface to add your own functions automatic column resizing on import of CSV files, you can code this in a macro or press CTRL+A and double click the size of a border better conditional formatting I agree on this one export as PDF built-in most of the businesses have the Adobe version
... I could go on. Also OOCalc will often open Excel documents that Excel won't open -- so it's handy to fix broken XLS files! .xls. The thing is that what is lacking in Open Source tools is more or less critical to businesses while the opposite is not true.
I agree on this one even if the newest Office does not break very often the
IMHO, first amendment is mostly about protecting political ideas, bullying your neighbour, calling your ex-girlfriend's friends to say lies and tell them how much she was a sicko are hardly things that are protected by the first amendment.
...
I doubt also that the first amendment was written to protect the marketing departments from being sued for lying in order to increase their sales
You can't return intellectual property usually, what they could do is that returning an item involves agreeing to a contract where you are forbidden to use what you returned, which in the case of software means nothing as it would be difficult to prove that you did not use it ...
Is the oil used in the chips hot ?
You are right, but from what I have read there, in the US, a large corporation can get away very easily and can use many appeals to delay the payment of the fine.
I am sure that someone has prior art over you for "hearing things since they started reading Slashdot"
The problem which lies in your system is that it goes against the original idea behind patenting, imagine that you discover something truly revolutionary, you will be force to licence it to companies such as Sony or Microsoft for an amount of money while they have much more ways to leverage your idea using their funds. You will end up losing your own invention to them for a small amount of money.
... (is it from your point of view, is it based on the investment made on the research ? is it based on the amount at which it will be profitable for the other company to use your patent ?)
And the fair value is a concept very difficult to define like you said
Whenever a patent is classified as "dumb patent" and the jury has decided that you went to the court with a "dumb reason", you will be requested to pay X times the amount requested to the court and the person/company you sued for wasting everybody's time. You would be put also on a probation period during which suing for "dumb reasons" would increase the X for each time you bother the court with invalid/stupid reasons.
... Economics is based on incentive, people react to incentives and the courts are already enough busy to deal with these complaints.
Would work also for RIAA abuse.
Now that would save alot of time and money
Do not worry, they have taken all the necessary precautions: the nuclear training is targetted to teach how to handle safely nukes and is slightly more expensive while requiring also US Citizenship. Like someone said, ignorance is more dangerous than knowledge.