My understanding is that patent cases are not tried by jury.
Judges determine what is or isn't valid from a strictly legal perspective. Juries determine facts.
Patent cases often involve rulings on legal points, and if a ruling goes against a plaintiff they may no longer have a case to take to a jury. Similarly, if a ruling goes against the defendant, the parties to a case may then agree to settle rather than take a case to trial. But if a plaintiff has grounds to sue, and the defendant is not willing to settle, then only a jury can say "Yes they infringed" or "No they did not infringe" IIOOTLF.
On top of that, the music of the 70's has been filtered through 40 years and many songs were thankfully lost along the way. In forty years we'll know for sure what was notable today - right now i may have missed it in a cacophony of many sounds that do not interest me.
We'll know what was popular. I'm sure there's plenty of music from the 70s that I've never heard and would think was fantastic, but it just never had enough reach to be kept around.
XTO Energy Inc. is charged with five counts of unlawful conduct under the Clean Streams Law and three counts of unlawful conduct under the Solid Waste Management Act.
What does it mean for a corporation to face criminal charges? Is this just civil damages in a weird format, or is a specific person/people being held liable? Both linked articles refer only to XTO and not to any individual being charged.
'It's an arms race.' The crux of the issue with Google making the NSA dragnet harder (knowing if the government wants in, it will get in) is that the NSA evaluates the tactic it uses by weighing the cost with the value of the information obtained.
Ok, that makes sense...
However, the agency does evaluate the tactic it uses by weighing the cost with the value of the information obtained.
By you own definition "season" is ambiguous not misleading. As there is no standardized number of episodes in a "season".
Not really. Just because one season may have 13 episodes and another 16 episodes doesn't mean that there's any confusion about what is or isn't part of season 5. AMC last summer phrased the now current episodes as "the second half of season 5". They have at no point described it as season 6. And from TFA:
The complaint further notes that consumers who purchased the first eight episodes "were specifically informed in writing that they were paying for 'all current and future' episodes of Season 5."
This isn't a case of 'better' or 'more satisfying' being inherently vague terms. The content promised is fairly specific, and does not match up with what was delivered.
There's a distinction between ambiguous and misleading.
If I say that something is "20% better", the first question you would want to ask is "better how?", since 'better' is not necessarily easy to define. The fine print can clarify what I mean by 'better', because 'better' is ambiguous.
If I say 12 pack of Awesome Brand beer for $10, and when you get it home and open it up there's only 6 beers in there, then you would be rightfully pissed. The fine print can't say "by 12 we mean 6". Fine print can't outright contradict.
Let me guess 30-50? When you get beyond 50 like me, email becomes a god-send. I can never remember what people tell me on the phone or in person, I can never remember what I read in the email either but at least I can re-read them as necessary. Text chats are useful too but emails are the best.
I think that's more a personality thing than an age thing. I have an incredible visual memory, but things said to me over the phone often don't stick very well.
“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
Socrates
Indeed. I find most generation vs generation complaints are some combination of "This isn't what I'm used to" and selective memory.
It will cost just a hundred billion euros and will make 2% of the fatal accidents non-fatal, only crippling.
It won't necessarily save lives either. If you have a car that manages to speed somehow (there will still be a million ways) and then suddenly that car passes a spot where the limit drops, it will cause the car to brake without the driver anticipating it. That will cause more accidents than speeding. Plus, a car that breaks hard when there's nothing in front of it will surprise other drivers and cause a number of accidents as well.
Implementing this will increase, not decrease traffic fatalities.
I love the me too posts like this one. Why do you always have to bring the US up?
Any free speech story on slashdot inevitably involves international comparisons. If this had happened in the US, I'd expect comments about Canadian free speech laws as well as a variety of European ones. Likely Australian ones too.
Actually, it's an old story in Engineering. When you try to explain something, you see holes that you were blind to for days, months, even years. It's an "Aha!" generator.
DARPA's grand challenge had the cars unmanned. Totally autonomous, no human control, no one in the vehicle. Remote control of them would be easier than that. DARPA's goal at the time was to have supply trucks for the US Army to move around with like drones, so they wouldn't risk soldiers to IEDs.
Overall I'd agree that autonomous is probably harder. But remote, especially long distance remote introduces some difficult problems, such as handling lag and disconnects. Seems like a silly endeavor since you'd most likely need to fail over to autonomous anyway in some situations.
So far, SC is just a lazy reworking of WC with 'surprises' that tend to bewilder any expectations of competence.
Can't agree with you there. In WC2 at least (never played 1), the Orcs and the Humans had units that were fairly analogous to each other. There were differences, but they weren't massive, and if I picked a human unit and asked what the equivalent orc unit was, there's an obvious answer that shouldn't surprise anyone familiar with the game.
SC on the other hand set up each side as completely distinct units. The human, zerg, and protoss units are all dissimilar from each other and you need to take different approaches depending on which one you're playing. WC3 (which came out AFTER SC) comes much closer to this concept. If there's a rehash going on, it's not in that direct.
John McCaffery, TSA, said, “No, those vehicles that are in the garage, short term long term parking, even if they carry pretty large amounts of explosives, they would not cause damage to the front of the airport. But for those who use the valet, the car could be there for a half hour or an hour so there is a vulnerability.”
"Oh and it's a lot easier to search them when we already have the keys."
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My understanding is that patent cases are not tried by jury.
Judges determine what is or isn't valid from a strictly legal perspective. Juries determine facts.
Patent cases often involve rulings on legal points, and if a ruling goes against a plaintiff they may no longer have a case to take to a jury. Similarly, if a ruling goes against the defendant, the parties to a case may then agree to settle rather than take a case to trial. But if a plaintiff has grounds to sue, and the defendant is not willing to settle, then only a jury can say "Yes they infringed" or "No they did not infringe"
IIOOTLF.
On top of that, the music of the 70's has been filtered through 40 years and many songs were thankfully lost along the way. In forty years we'll know for sure what was notable today - right now i may have missed it in a cacophony of many sounds that do not interest me.
We'll know what was popular. I'm sure there's plenty of music from the 70s that I've never heard and would think was fantastic, but it just never had enough reach to be kept around.
From TFA:
XTO Energy Inc. is charged with five counts of unlawful conduct under the Clean Streams Law and three counts of unlawful conduct under the Solid Waste Management Act.
What does it mean for a corporation to face criminal charges? Is this just civil damages in a weird format, or is a specific person/people being held liable? Both linked articles refer only to XTO and not to any individual being charged.
Gotta love a proofread summary:
'It's an arms race.' The crux of the issue with Google making the NSA dragnet harder (knowing if the government wants in, it will get in) is that the NSA evaluates the tactic it uses by weighing the cost with the value of the information obtained.
Ok, that makes sense...
However, the agency does evaluate the tactic it uses by weighing the cost with the value of the information obtained.
Whoa. That changes everything. Damn.
By you own definition "season" is ambiguous not misleading. As there is no standardized number of episodes in a "season".
Not really. Just because one season may have 13 episodes and another 16 episodes doesn't mean that there's any confusion about what is or isn't part of season 5. AMC last summer phrased the now current episodes as "the second half of season 5". They have at no point described it as season 6. And from TFA:
The complaint further notes that consumers who purchased the first eight episodes "were specifically informed in writing that they were paying for 'all current and future' episodes of Season 5."
This isn't a case of 'better' or 'more satisfying' being inherently vague terms. The content promised is fairly specific, and does not match up with what was delivered.
There's a distinction between ambiguous and misleading.
If I say that something is "20% better", the first question you would want to ask is "better how?", since 'better' is not necessarily easy to define. The fine print can clarify what I mean by 'better', because 'better' is ambiguous.
If I say 12 pack of Awesome Brand beer for $10, and when you get it home and open it up there's only 6 beers in there, then you would be rightfully pissed. The fine print can't say "by 12 we mean 6". Fine print can't outright contradict.
Tis where the two meet. I'm guessing the conversion was included just to show off that fact (and maybe see who would assume it was a typo).
Let me guess 30-50? When you get beyond 50 like me, email becomes a god-send. I can never remember what people tell me on the phone or in person, I can never remember what I read in the email either but at least I can re-read them as necessary. Text chats are useful too but emails are the best.
I think that's more a personality thing than an age thing. I have an incredible visual memory, but things said to me over the phone often don't stick very well.
“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
Socrates
Indeed. I find most generation vs generation complaints are some combination of "This isn't what I'm used to" and selective memory.
automatically apply the brakes
Maybe I misread the summary?
It will cost just a hundred billion euros and will make 2% of the fatal accidents non-fatal, only crippling.
It won't necessarily save lives either. If you have a car that manages to speed somehow (there will still be a million ways) and then suddenly that car passes a spot where the limit drops, it will cause the car to brake without the driver anticipating it. That will cause more accidents than speeding. Plus, a car that breaks hard when there's nothing in front of it will surprise other drivers and cause a number of accidents as well.
Implementing this will increase, not decrease traffic fatalities.
I love the me too posts like this one. Why do you always have to bring the US up?
Any free speech story on slashdot inevitably involves international comparisons. If this had happened in the US, I'd expect comments about Canadian free speech laws as well as a variety of European ones. Likely Australian ones too.
The best day ever was when I left NYC for good.
We all feel that way about the day you left.
He might not be in Texas.
7: Fewer IT admins needed (no "windows" guy/"UNIX" guy.)
Depends on the shop. Here we'd have to hire a windows guy, so it would be more admins.
For the first time in the history of free software?
urgh
Exactly. So no developer has ever had a conversation with another developer about what license to use until now? Really?
Orca are carnivores, their natural prey includes seals - which are of comparable size and, for all I know, tastiness to a human.
No, seals definitely taste better.
Says someone who clearly doesn't know how to properly prepare human.
This is why I always answer the door wearing a balaclava.
Answer the door eating baclava too if you want to get a real reaction.
I'm more concerned with whether or not NFC is better than AFC. I suppose we'll find out in February.
Actually, it's an old story in Engineering. When you try to explain something, you see holes that you were blind to for days, months, even years. It's an "Aha!" generator.
Talk to the duck
I don't understand the difference. Who cares? If someone can get the job done, that's what counts.
It sounds to me like the difference between tactics and strategy. One (skilled) is good at getting things done, another (talented) is good at design.
DARPA's grand challenge had the cars unmanned. Totally autonomous, no human control, no one in the vehicle. Remote control of them would be easier than that.
DARPA's goal at the time was to have supply trucks for the US Army to move around with like drones, so they wouldn't risk soldiers to IEDs.
Overall I'd agree that autonomous is probably harder. But remote, especially long distance remote introduces some difficult problems, such as handling lag and disconnects. Seems like a silly endeavor since you'd most likely need to fail over to autonomous anyway in some situations.
So far, SC is just a lazy reworking of WC with 'surprises' that tend to bewilder any expectations of competence.
Can't agree with you there. In WC2 at least (never played 1), the Orcs and the Humans had units that were fairly analogous to each other. There were differences, but they weren't massive, and if I picked a human unit and asked what the equivalent orc unit was, there's an obvious answer that shouldn't surprise anyone familiar with the game.
SC on the other hand set up each side as completely distinct units. The human, zerg, and protoss units are all dissimilar from each other and you need to take different approaches depending on which one you're playing. WC3 (which came out AFTER SC) comes much closer to this concept. If there's a rehash going on, it's not in that direct.
I've been involved with Blizzard since the early days when they weren't so popular despite being so young.
Wow, so Slashdot has hipsters.
Or slipsters, as MojoKid might call them.
Wannabe hipster. "Early days" is apparently:
Before WoW, before Warcraft 3.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but that really doesn't feel like that long ago to me.
Pretty much what I was thinking too.
from TFA:
John McCaffery, TSA, said, “No, those vehicles that are in the garage, short term long term parking, even if they carry pretty large amounts of explosives, they would not cause damage to the front of the airport. But for those who use the valet, the car could be there for a half hour or an hour so there is a vulnerability.”
"Oh and it's a lot easier to search them when we already have the keys."