an electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations.
Since neither of the examples you gave (power steering and ignition) have output displays, by definition you're still wrong - they're not run by computers.
Only for some definitions of "computer." I don't consider anything with a CPU a computer, and most of the automotive devices you're alluding to, I would call "controllers," not "computers."
My car has many controllers, but not a single computer, which I believe implies a device which is more general purpose and readily programmed than any in my car.
OTOH, by some definitions, the classic vacuum/centrifugal advance distributor would be a (analog) computer.
It's quicker just to do it in your head. An exact answer wasn't needed - it's a multiple choice question and the answers provided were so different that a simple "guesstimate" would lead you to the correct one.
(47*75)/25= becomes 50*(75/25) = 50*3 = 150 so what are you going to pick, 141, 1175, or something even larger?
Good alkaline batteries can have a 7 year shelf life. I'm not sure what "shelf life" is technically defined as, but assume it means that at least the majority of charge is still available. i.e. after 7 years, they're still useful, and not dead.
In any case, how much 10 year old computer equipment do you still have in use, especially $50 stuff (cables excepted).
They didn't build them for nothing. Just because they didn't sell them (although, they apparently sold this one at some point), doesn't mean they didn't cost anything. One could probably figure out a reasonable retail price if they knew the rental fee, expected lifetime, and guessed at PV's profit margin.
No, they didn't. There were 7 infected ones. The GP said "uninfected," and he's correct (unusual for a AC, I know) - without knowing how many uninfected ones qualify as "used under MacOS," the figure has no significance.
They must be representing copyright holders en masse, or they would have no standing for a copyright suit, and the case would have been thrown out long ago.
But Google themselves doesn't copy "short snippets," they copy everything. If they had license to copy everything, then making short snippets available might fall under fair use. But, those are two separate instances.
I fail to see how making snippets available makes the original copying fall under fair use.
"To me, this case is the same as if IBM in its early days would have gone after anyone (including Apple) selling some sort of computational device consisting of a box to house everything in, some sort of rectangual screen and an input device consisting of letters and numbers - and tried to maintain a no competition policy using the courts to back its business plan."
Because, of course, this looks so much like this. If you're referring to the IBM PC, Apple was there first.
Yeah. That's implausible. After carving up the turkey recently, the last thing left was the dark matter. Everyone seems to like the white matter better.
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""not without our secret magic decoder ring"
Everything is encoded with ROT-13. What's the problem?
"*crash*"
Brings new meaning to "the blue screen of death," doesn't it?
"If it was just headed for the ocean anyway, it doesn't appear to be selfish of them."
If that's the case, they're spinning it wrong. They should be claiming they're trying to offset ocean level rise due to AGW.
You mean like how DB vendors try to prevent you from disclosing benchmarks of their products?
Better judges would be preferable.
Cogito ergo sum.
What they should do, is turn around and submit their change upstream.
That's OK. It's not really a paper, it's just a way to sell Maple software.
Then you are inventing words. Computer is a word with a defined meaning, not a fictional term to which you can assign new meaning at will.
Since neither of the examples you gave (power steering and ignition) have output displays, by definition you're still wrong - they're not run by computers.
Only for some definitions of "computer." I don't consider anything with a CPU a computer, and most of the automotive devices you're alluding to, I would call "controllers," not "computers."
My car has many controllers, but not a single computer, which I believe implies a device which is more general purpose and readily programmed than any in my car.
OTOH, by some definitions, the classic vacuum/centrifugal advance distributor would be a (analog) computer.
"And you get car malware."
Could be worse. Could be Microsoft/Ford Sync.
"It's nice to see them copying Microsoft's innovation for a change."
Where have you been?
Microsoft is the new IBM.
Apple is the new Microsoft.
Google is the new Apple.
(Oracle and Facebook are the new SCO)
It's quicker just to do it in your head. An exact answer wasn't needed - it's a multiple choice question and the answers provided were so different that a simple "guesstimate" would lead you to the correct one.
(47*75)/25=
becomes 50*(75/25) = 50*3 = 150
so what are you going to pick, 141, 1175, or something even larger?
Good alkaline batteries can have a 7 year shelf life. I'm not sure what "shelf life" is technically defined as, but assume it means that at least the majority of charge is still available. i.e. after 7 years, they're still useful, and not dead.
In any case, how much 10 year old computer equipment do you still have in use, especially $50 stuff (cables excepted).
They didn't build them for nothing. Just because they didn't sell them (although, they apparently sold this one at some point), doesn't mean they didn't cost anything. One could probably figure out a reasonable retail price if they knew the rental fee, expected lifetime, and guessed at PV's profit margin.
The obvious question is, how much were they when new?
No, they didn't. There were 7 infected ones. The GP said "uninfected," and he's correct (unusual for a AC, I know) - without knowing how many uninfected ones qualify as "used under MacOS," the figure has no significance.
"Well, now they're banned from going into the woods with strange men, ship-to-ship combat with pirates is their one hope of getting a decent badge."
How can you have pirates without ninjas?
They must be representing copyright holders en masse, or they would have no standing for a copyright suit, and the case would have been thrown out long ago.
"I DO write for a living. I happen to takke greeat straights to bee voluble ohn-line, and be as respecctful as possible to thost that opposte me."
+5, Funny.
It doesn't matter what The Authors think. It does matter what the copyright holders think. If they like it, as you claim, why are they suing?
But Google themselves doesn't copy "short snippets," they copy everything. If they had license to copy everything, then making short snippets available might fall under fair use. But, those are two separate instances.
I fail to see how making snippets available makes the original copying fall under fair use.
"To me, this case is the same as if IBM in its early days would have gone after anyone (including Apple) selling some sort of computational device consisting of a box to house everything in, some sort of rectangual screen and an input device consisting of letters and numbers - and tried to maintain a no competition policy using the courts to back its business plan."
Because, of course, this looks so much like this. If you're referring to the IBM PC, Apple was there first.
"I've got rid of dark matter!"
Yeah. That's implausible. After carving up the turkey recently, the last thing left was the dark matter. Everyone seems to like the white matter better.