Looking at their timeline does make Ms look a little suspicious. And while saying a prelim injunction is harder might be stretching it a bit, it certainly isn't easy.
I'll have to side with the 'little guy' for now.
Especially as we don't like submarine patents and they are acting before Ms sells a billion dollars worth of stuff using it, sounds like they are trying to be relatively fair (without knowing what those favorable terms are, of course)
That and the fact they were able to get an injunction along with that suspicious looking timeline.
Ms using it and dealing with consequences later doesn't sound out of character. Make a billion dollars, put it in bank, years later pay fine/royalties off the interest sounds good if you can pull it off:(
Sounds more like some kind of check-sum than a backup copy.
If the mutation is not too severe and/or there arent multiple mutations
AND
The plant is good at math (ok, the plant chromosonal equivalant)
THEN it can generate a new copy of the old version when it reproduces.
I am probably missing a second AND something to get it down to 5%.
They didnt see an obvious Dup but we certainly don't know the plant chromosonal equivalent logarithems! ((or they hired the slashdot editors to look for the dup copy...))
"Such law enforcement information about a living person is released without that person's consent only when no privacy interest would be invaded by disclosing the information, when the information is already public or required to be made public, or when there is such a strong public interest in the disclosure that it overrides the individual's privacy interest."
Sounds rock-solid safe to me...not
I bet it's not the person involved that decides it is in the greater interest;p Hell we have practically defined everything as being more important than a person privacy already, if not Bushboy will simply get a law saying it is.
Plaster alone can barely hold itself up but put some gauze in it to make a cast....
With cement being better than plaster and the fabric certainly stronger than the gauze in casts sounds like it should work fine.
Only problem i see is if you want to put up shelters for drought victims/refuges!!! 500lb bag of concrete is gonna need more than a thermos of water i bet:(
Besides nothing can be worse than showing a generation watching The A-Team that machine guns dont hurt people no matter how many bullets you use.....I even had that thought then as a teenager... Whoever thought non-violent meant firing 1000 bullets and noone gets seriously hurt had more mental problems than any gamer!
2 of the links are highlighted as having been there One link i checked as 'picking up the story' seems to have...errr...picked up the story 2 days BEFORE the slashdot article referenced.
Between this 'familiar' stories and half the debate degenerating into THIEF vs It's NOT stealing getting dull around here.
Not that long ago:) I managed to run em til a couple years ago when i finally got hammered by driver issues:)
I wonder how it would do today with if it had drivers. All i remember is i usually ran out of monitor refresh rate before frame rate without unsyncing or something.
Matrox g200 8M+8M chip backed by 2 12M Monster voodoo2 cards. Top of the heap for YEARS. It had 40M of memory when 16M card was cool:)
dont remember what i paid for voodoo cards but that G200 was super-premium when i first bought during the last ice age.
hehe, back when Quake, Half-life and DSL were fresh i was a god:) what, 5-6 years ago since my dsl is 6 years old?
That and a over-modded AT were my forays into uberness, now i am just a wannabe power gamer:)
if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck....
The write-up says they say they have the right to install 3rd party software anytime after you agreed without further input from you. They may even disable others adware, thus breaking programs that came with those.
Not with Asheron Call Same thing there, single use Cd code. There is a slightly cheaper online version/CD code available for multiple accounts.
The issue shouldnt be with blizzard how about the putz that sold it to you.
If the account wasnt activated you could have bought/sold the game under the eula it seems. I would imagine it tells you the number can't reused, the seller certainly knew.
If it was reuseable you don't think it would get passed around on the net or something. I doubt any company wants to sell 1 copy per 100 people using it.
Yup, we just bought a couple more laserjet 5 off ebay cause i couldnt figure out which of the cheesy printers i wanted. Of course there is the problem of UPS dropping them on the way here! Then again even that one worked fine, its just naked(all the plastic busted off)
Our main one is over 400k pages and works fine. Besides only need one windows driver and if one breaks i merely move another over if it less important. Not that i have ever had to actually do that.
My newer color one and most of the laser faxes have had service calls at less than half the age of the old laserjets.
Our remote office is buying really cheap ones, they are almost disposable now. Seems they got lucky. Whichever technique more suits you i suppose.
I burned up one of my first computers with upgrades:(
by the time i finished i had IBM AT with:
Dual monitor dual floppy dual HD task swapping and scrollback and 16-17 M of Ram !!! 1M main + BOTH extended and expanded (100+ little chips on 2 fullsize cards+MB)
Most awesome AT ever....while it lasted....which was less than a MONTH before cpu melted:(
One hint to teachers: Dont lock the gifted class in a computer room and leave...even for a minute;)
Luckily we couldnt do much other than find the games they kept hiding from us as it was a looong time ago and you can only hack so much at 300 baud on a teletype sending stuff one character at a time across the state.
hehe, then i went to comm college across the street and we had to repeat same thing there each qtr. If you dont want kids playing computer games, delete them!
Jeez, it is just a bunch of overinflated revenue estimates being revised. They arent gonna get the $12 per MB downloaded they 'projected' etc. Blame it on others maybe your stock won't get hurt as much....
Talk about a non-story, well i'm sure you will but...
The login/calender was accurate til 2030 i think it was. However i knew most of the system and programs were as small as possible and that probably included too short of dates somewhere.
Been dieing to turn it on one of these days to see what would have happened.....but i dont think my den has enough juice:O
I probably dont look like any of the above. Especially given the sloppy look, long hair, etc. Hippy Geek is probably not a covered catagory;p Not gonna buy overpriced junk. I dont have a family. What i DO have is $1000.00 a month in disposable income;)
Someone else will help me spend it i am sure.
On the other hand, now that i think about it, I usually dont have little helpers following me around drooling:) At least until i asked for the $2400.00 printer once, that seemd to wake em from the next town....
Slashdot Mirror
A start-up with a 10-year history ?!?
:(
Looking at their timeline does make Ms look a little suspicious. And while saying a prelim injunction is harder might be stretching it a bit, it certainly isn't easy.
I'll have to side with the 'little guy' for now.
Especially as we don't like submarine patents and they are acting before Ms sells a billion dollars worth of stuff using it, sounds like they are trying to be relatively fair (without knowing what those favorable terms are, of course)
That and the fact they were able to get an injunction along with that suspicious looking timeline.
Ms using it and dealing with consequences later doesn't sound out of character. Make a billion dollars, put it in bank, years later pay fine/royalties off the interest sounds good if you can pull it off
Exactly!
:O See we do notice the ads, hehe.
;p
The FCC wants the DSL guys to have a monopoly too!!!
Thus no slashdot broadband..or my local dsl guys i guess since qwest could do it sooo much better for the country
Dont RTFA it's scary
Sounds more like some kind of check-sum than a backup copy.
If the mutation is not too severe and/or there arent multiple mutations
AND
The plant is good at math (ok, the plant chromosonal equivalant)
THEN it can generate a new copy of the old version when it reproduces.
I am probably missing a second AND something to get it down to 5%.
They didnt see an obvious Dup but we certainly don't know the plant chromosonal equivalent logarithems! ((or they hired the slashdot editors to look for the dup copy...))
"Such law enforcement information about a living person is released without that person's consent only when no privacy interest would be invaded by disclosing the information, when the information is already public or required to be made public, or when there is such a strong public interest in the disclosure that it overrides the individual's privacy interest."
;p
Sounds rock-solid safe to me...not
I bet it's not the person involved that decides it is in the greater interest
Hell we have practically defined everything as being more important than a person privacy already, if not Bushboy will simply get a law saying it is.
Plaster alone can barely hold itself up but put some gauze in it to make a cast ....
:(
With cement being better than plaster and the fabric certainly stronger than the gauze in casts sounds like it should work fine.
Only problem i see is if you want to put up shelters for drought victims/refuges!!!
500lb bag of concrete is gonna need more than a thermos of water i bet
Man are you ever behind the times...just check with your local telephone co for this one :(
Taxes on the taxes on the surcharges......
Is he sure he's not fingerprinting the CMOS battery or something ;p
I know changing mine changed the rate of error on the clock.
Does that include Americas Army by the US Army?!?
:O
That should be interesting for a lawsuit
Besides nothing can be worse than showing a generation watching The A-Team that machine guns dont hurt people no matter how many bullets you use.....I even had that thought then as a teenager... Whoever thought non-violent meant firing 1000 bullets and noone gets seriously hurt had more mental problems than any gamer!
I am NOT gonna say the 'D' word....but
2 of the links are highlighted as having been there
One link i checked as 'picking up the story' seems to have...errr...picked up the story 2 days BEFORE the slashdot article referenced.
Between this 'familiar' stories and half the debate degenerating into THIEF vs It's NOT stealing getting dull around here.
hehe, i keep getting an image of a canopy flying around the sky with no plane attached :O
hmm, thats already more than i want to know ;)
Not that long ago :) :)
:)
:) what, 5-6 years ago since my dsl is 6 years old?
:)
I managed to run em til a couple years ago when i finally got hammered by driver issues
I wonder how it would do today with if it had drivers. All i remember is i usually ran out of monitor refresh rate before frame rate without unsyncing or something.
Matrox g200 8M+8M chip backed by 2 12M Monster voodoo2 cards. Top of the heap for YEARS. It had 40M of memory when 16M card was cool
dont remember what i paid for voodoo cards but that G200 was super-premium when i first bought during the last ice age.
hehe, back when Quake, Half-life and DSL were fresh i was a god
That and a over-modded AT were my forays into uberness, now i am just a wannabe power gamer
if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck....
The write-up says they say they have the right to install 3rd party software anytime after you agreed without further input from you. They may even disable others adware, thus breaking programs that came with those.
Its a duck
Now how do you make em stop quacking?
"The school had already disabled the scanners above classroom doors and was not disciplining students who didn't wear the badges."
:)
Doesnt seem like that would produce much worthwhile info from the test now does it?
The privacy aspect sounds like kind of a non-issue at the moment
Not with Asheron Call
Same thing there, single use Cd code.
There is a slightly cheaper online version/CD code available for multiple accounts.
The issue shouldnt be with blizzard how about the putz that sold it to you.
If the account wasnt activated you could have bought/sold the game under the eula it seems. I would imagine it tells you the number can't reused, the seller certainly knew.
If it was reuseable you don't think it would get passed around on the net or something. I doubt any company wants to sell 1 copy per 100 people using it.
Yup, we just bought a couple more laserjet 5 off ebay cause i couldnt figure out which of the cheesy printers i wanted. Of course there is the problem of UPS dropping them on the way here! Then again even that one worked fine, its just naked(all the plastic busted off)
Our main one is over 400k pages and works fine. Besides only need one windows driver and if one breaks i merely move another over if it less important. Not that i have ever had to actually do that.
My newer color one and most of the laser faxes have had service calls at less than half the age of the old laserjets.
Our remote office is buying really cheap ones, they are almost disposable now. Seems they got lucky. Whichever technique more suits you i suppose.
I burned up one of my first computers with upgrades :(
:(
by the time i finished i had IBM AT with:
Dual monitor
dual floppy
dual HD
task swapping and scrollback
and
16-17 M of Ram !!! 1M main + BOTH extended and expanded (100+ little chips on 2 fullsize cards+MB)
Most awesome AT ever....while it lasted....which was less than a MONTH before cpu melted
aAhhh, high school memories :)
;)
One hint to teachers:
Dont lock the gifted class in a computer room and leave...even for a minute
Luckily we couldnt do much other than find the games they kept hiding from us as it was a looong time ago and you can only hack so much at 300 baud on a teletype sending stuff one character at a time across the state.
hehe, then i went to comm college across the street and we had to repeat same thing there each qtr. If you dont want kids playing computer games, delete them!
Any challengers for ASCII darts?
Oh wait, they didnt even bother with statistics.
Jeez, it is just a bunch of overinflated revenue estimates being revised. They arent gonna get the $12 per MB downloaded they 'projected' etc. Blame it on others maybe your stock won't get hurt as much....
Talk about a non-story, well i'm sure you will but...
I am gonna have a small problem with keeping paper in the fax cause its gonna need 16250 pages or so to print you out !
Hopefully the tray doesnt overflow and you end up out of order, hehe.
That piece of blank paper sticking out of your belly from when it fed 2 sheets at a time will then be a status symbol ?!?
I can't wait to sit there hitting the 'clean printhead' button squirting random proteins until i make my own creature :)
Now my Creepy Crawlers will actually crawl, see now THAT'S progress !
It doesnt seem to use a LASER to cut the bread yet ;p
:)
Get back to me then
really?
:)
:O
hmm..we replaced ours just in case
The login/calender was accurate til 2030 i think it was. However i knew most of the system and programs were as small as possible and that probably included too short of dates somewhere.
Been dieing to turn it on one of these days to see what would have happened.....but i dont think my den has enough juice
Only other place i have seen that used it was Asheron's Call games.
.net passports even though i have several. Ebay already knows everything...why bother with passport.
Those are currently being transfered to the developers in-house system.
In a couple months that use will be gone too.
What does that leaving using it? Hotmail?
I never even linked my ebay to one of my
Nice idea but only handy if it filled out everything for you on lots of sites, which i dont think i'd like the idea of anyway.
I probably dont look like any of the above. Especially given the sloppy look, long hair, etc. ;p ;)
:) At least until i asked for the $2400.00 printer once, that seemd to wake em from the next town....
Hippy Geek is probably not a covered catagory
Not gonna buy overpriced junk.
I dont have a family.
What i DO have is $1000.00 a month in disposable income
Someone else will help me spend it i am sure.
On the other hand, now that i think about it, I usually dont have little helpers following me around drooling