Except this guy still thinks they are honoring the contract:
"To this day, the terms of employment of all employees of the Smithsonian Institute require them to say the Wrights flew first (a scandal reaching far beyond the history of aviation – negotiated history?)"
So they are honoring some parts of the contract, but not others? Riiiight.
Dude, he took the design of the wright flyer and bolted wheels onto the bottom of it. The tricky part that nobody got before the Wrights was the wing cross-section. They worked a *lot* to get it correct - they thew out existing data on airfoil and lift data and created their own measuring device to figure out the best shape.
Not taking anything away from Dumont - he made some good improvements to the design of the Wright flyer. However, there's a reason why everything before Wright's plane looked like a bird or a bat, and everything after looked like a Wright Flyer.
If you are getting your info from the Whitehead site, the guy seems like a bit of a quack:
Quote from: http://www.gustave-whitehead.com/history-of-whitehead-critics/ "Interestingly, Wright (or his attorney) tried to be too clever when tying up the Smithsonian, and the latter's trustees, apparently, failed to notice the blunder: By referring to "any aircraft" and not "airplane", the document prohibits the Smithsonian from even admitting that, since 1852, dozens of dirigable airships (indisputably 'craft of the air') had been "capable of carrying a man under [their] own power in controled flight". Count Zeppelin and his predecessors would be as unhappy as Whitehead if airbrushed out of history by this secret agreement."
Quote from: http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/blimp/ "All Zeppelins are dirigibles, but not all dirigibles are Zeppelins. A dirigible is any powered lighter-than-air craft capable of maneuvering. For the linguistically fastidious, a Zeppelin is a rigid airship manufactured by the Zeppelin Company, or by Goodyear-Zeppelin, the American firm that produced the two great U.S. naval airships, ZRS-4, USS Akron (1931-1933), and ZRS-5, USS Macon (1933-1935)."
Might be overly critical, but from the picture it looks an awful lot like that thing is gliding off the top of a hill. That's quite a bit different than lifting off of a flat surface.
How "reconstructed" is that photograph, anyway? That fence in the foreground looks weird.
The only reason patent holders use that district is that it hears a very low number of criminal cases, so civil cases have a chance of getting on the docket.
> No. Because for a small scale database / hobby database / fun database a VPS is far more ecnomical and just as capable. Filemaker on a windows VPS is FAR cheaper than colocating a mac mini. And if you want mysql postgresql or something? colocating a mac is simply idiotic.
Hosting a database in a VM, especially a shared VM, is a bad idea. Unless you are absolutely positive it will be used *very* sparingly. Databases want lots of memory all to themselves. A stale cache causing disk IO kills performance pretty fast - and VPSes tend to restrict guest OS RAM. There are many other scenarios that work better on bare metal - even medium-volume Email runs much better outside a VM. Ditto anything directory related (which is very rough on IO once you hit a certain workload saturation point.)
Know where that "Trust fund" is invested? The safest investment there is: treasury bonds. Know who backs treasury bonds? The treasury, AKA taxes from you and me. Know what the government did with the money it took from selling itself those bonds? Spent it.
So when those bonds mature, guess who's gonna have to pay out?
This is Krugman's idea of a sustainable system. Heh.
Buy the cheapest laptop you can with a built-in cell modem and that computrace system in BIOS. Heck, leave it in your apartment with the door unlocked. Track it back to their lair where they have all your stuff.
Adobe Photoshop, AfterEffects and Premiere. Pretty much every modern video encoder and decoder. Pretty much every on-line computing initiative (BOINC, SETI@home, Folding@home, Bitcoin)
Wolfram Mathematica. MATLAB/Simulink. Arcview. Maple. Pretty much all simulation/engineering/visualization software (Ansys, OrCad, NX, etc...)
Pretty much every 3D and compositing package in existence (3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, Mud, Flame, Smoke, Media Compose VRay, DaVinci, BorisFX, Red, Nuke, Vegas, Lightwave, Cinema4D, Nuke)
There are also various CUDA/OpenCL accelerated versions of random codecs - LAME, FLAC, FAAC, Opus, etc...
You had to submit a mostly working model of what your patent covers. They did away with this years ago, and the models became collectors items.
Makes sense for algorithms and code. It looks like they used to do this - the patent for RSA has a very detailed explanation on *exactly* how it works. It's practically pseudo-code. Forcing an applicant to specify the exact implementation should help with the vagueness problem of software patents (There's a list of HTTP links and a computer program downloads them automatically, etc...)
It's not a panacea, but I think it's a step in the right direction.
Brazil isn't even *close* to being a 3rd world country. It' the sixth largest economy in the world, above England and Italy, and just below France. There are some dodgy parts, just like there are dodgy parts of the US.
There is no protection for a cover. *However* if you change the song lyrics in any way, your changes are copyrighted. Coulton inserted his name into the song, and Glee *kept that change in* He has a pretty strong case.
Windows 8 runs much nicer than 7 - Metro notwithstanding. Think of the performance enhancement from Vista to 7, that's what you see in 7 to 8. They removed more crufty legacy code and cleaned up the kernel quite a bit. So, yeah, I'd take 8 with the start menu added back in and all the Metro/touch garbage stripped out.
Go to a butcher shop and have them grind you up some fresh serloin.
Heat up an iron skillet. Fry up a few rashers of bacon (I like Wright's) until it's nice and crispy. Take the bacon out of the skillet when done.
Dice up some yellow onion and sautee it in the bacon grease. When done, set aside.
Form the ground sirloin into thin patties, throw on a little salt and pepper, and cook them in the bacon/onion grease. It will take some trial and error to figure out how to get a good medium using this technique - on my regular sized burner on medium-high heat it takes 2-3 minutes a side. If you want cheese, put a slice of American on a minute or two before you pull them off. The heat from the skillet will melt the cheese onto the burger. You can put on any kind of cheese you like, but American is designed to be melted onto things, so it works out the best.
When finished, heat up some sesame seed burger buns in the microwave for about twenty seconds. Combine the burger, onion and bacon in the bun. Optionally add mustard - though they are so good I usually don't add anything else.
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Except this guy still thinks they are honoring the contract:
"To this day, the terms of employment of all employees of the Smithsonian Institute require them to say the Wrights flew first (a scandal reaching far beyond the history of aviation – negotiated history?)"
So they are honoring some parts of the contract, but not others? Riiiight.
Dude, he took the design of the wright flyer and bolted wheels onto the bottom of it. The tricky part that nobody got before the Wrights was the wing cross-section. They worked a *lot* to get it correct - they thew out existing data on airfoil and lift data and created their own measuring device to figure out the best shape.
Not taking anything away from Dumont - he made some good improvements to the design of the Wright flyer. However, there's a reason why everything before Wright's plane looked like a bird or a bat, and everything after looked like a Wright Flyer.
If you are getting your info from the Whitehead site, the guy seems like a bit of a quack:
Quote from:
http://www.gustave-whitehead.com/history-of-whitehead-critics/
"Interestingly, Wright (or his attorney) tried to be too clever when tying up the Smithsonian, and the latter's trustees, apparently, failed to notice the blunder: By referring to "any aircraft" and not "airplane", the document prohibits the Smithsonian from even admitting that, since 1852, dozens of dirigable airships (indisputably 'craft of the air') had been "capable of carrying a man under [their] own power in controled flight". Count Zeppelin and his predecessors would be as unhappy as Whitehead if airbrushed out of history by this secret agreement."
Quote from:
http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/blimp/
"All Zeppelins are dirigibles, but not all dirigibles are Zeppelins. A dirigible is any powered lighter-than-air craft capable of maneuvering. For the linguistically fastidious, a Zeppelin is a rigid airship manufactured by the Zeppelin Company, or by Goodyear-Zeppelin, the American firm that produced the two great U.S. naval airships, ZRS-4, USS Akron (1931-1933), and ZRS-5, USS Macon (1933-1935)."
Oops.
Might be overly critical, but from the picture it looks an awful lot like that thing is gliding off the top of a hill. That's quite a bit different than lifting off of a flat surface.
How "reconstructed" is that photograph, anyway? That fence in the foreground looks weird.
The only reason patent holders use that district is that it hears a very low number of criminal cases, so civil cases have a chance of getting on the docket.
Here's a good overview:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack
Exactly the same as anywhere else in the US, since patents are covered by federal law.
> No. Because for a small scale database / hobby database / fun database a VPS is far more ecnomical and just as capable. Filemaker on a windows VPS is FAR cheaper than colocating a mac mini. And if you want mysql postgresql or something? colocating a mac is simply idiotic.
Hosting a database in a VM, especially a shared VM, is a bad idea. Unless you are absolutely positive it will be used *very* sparingly. Databases want lots of memory all to themselves. A stale cache causing disk IO kills performance pretty fast - and VPSes tend to restrict guest OS RAM. There are many other scenarios that work better on bare metal - even medium-volume Email runs much better outside a VM. Ditto anything directory related (which is very rough on IO once you hit a certain workload saturation point.)
To be fair he's been in prison for three years. Tough to advance.
"Trust fund," riiiight.
Know where that "Trust fund" is invested? The safest investment there is: treasury bonds. Know who backs treasury bonds? The treasury, AKA taxes from you and me. Know what the government did with the money it took from selling itself those bonds? Spent it.
So when those bonds mature, guess who's gonna have to pay out?
This is Krugman's idea of a sustainable system. Heh.
Do you propose that the government not pay people the benefits they paid for as part of a contract?
There is no contract, there's just a law saying the government takes your money and will give it back later. That law can (and has) been changed.
Buy the cheapest laptop you can with a built-in cell modem and that computrace system in BIOS. Heck, leave it in your apartment with the door unlocked. Track it back to their lair where they have all your stuff.
Pffft. CED video disc, 8-track, and one of those huge RCA space-commander projection console TVs that weigh 500lbs.
Burglars will probably drop more valuable stuff stuff on their way out :)
Everyone asks why on earth you'd want to use Bitlocker or Truecrypt. Here's the reason.
Adobe Photoshop, AfterEffects and Premiere. Pretty much every modern video encoder and decoder. Pretty much every on-line computing initiative (BOINC, SETI@home, Folding@home, Bitcoin)
Wolfram Mathematica. MATLAB/Simulink. Arcview. Maple. Pretty much all simulation/engineering/visualization software (Ansys, OrCad, NX, etc...)
Pretty much every 3D and compositing package in existence (3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, Mud, Flame, Smoke, Media Compose VRay, DaVinci, BorisFX, Red, Nuke, Vegas, Lightwave, Cinema4D, Nuke)
There are also various CUDA/OpenCL accelerated versions of random codecs - LAME, FLAC, FAAC, Opus, etc...
Because it's a major swing state. If you want more attention, your state needs to not vote for the same party every single election.
You had to submit a mostly working model of what your patent covers. They did away with this years ago, and the models became collectors items.
Makes sense for algorithms and code. It looks like they used to do this - the patent for RSA has a very detailed explanation on *exactly* how it works. It's practically pseudo-code. Forcing an applicant to specify the exact implementation should help with the vagueness problem of software patents (There's a list of HTTP links and a computer program downloads them automatically, etc...)
It's not a panacea, but I think it's a step in the right direction.
New motherboard = new computer. At least that's how Windows licensing works.
I have Office 2013 installed on the machine I'm running right now, and it isn't linked to any account.
Brazil isn't even *close* to being a 3rd world country. It' the sixth largest economy in the world, above England and Italy, and just below France. There are some dodgy parts, just like there are dodgy parts of the US.
Car said it could go the distance. Rep said it could go the distance. CEO of the company said it would run within parameters in cold weather.
It didn't.
"A Tesla agent brought the car to me in suburban Washington with a full charge"
Maybe you missed it.
There is no protection for a cover. *However* if you change the song lyrics in any way, your changes are copyrighted. Coulton inserted his name into the song, and Glee *kept that change in* He has a pretty strong case.
Windows 8 runs much nicer than 7 - Metro notwithstanding. Think of the performance enhancement from Vista to 7, that's what you see in 7 to 8. They removed more crufty legacy code and cleaned up the kernel quite a bit. So, yeah, I'd take 8 with the start menu added back in and all the Metro/touch garbage stripped out.
Go to a butcher shop and have them grind you up some fresh serloin.
Heat up an iron skillet. Fry up a few rashers of bacon (I like Wright's) until it's nice and crispy. Take the bacon out of the skillet when done.
Dice up some yellow onion and sautee it in the bacon grease. When done, set aside.
Form the ground sirloin into thin patties, throw on a little salt and pepper, and cook them in the bacon/onion grease. It will take some trial and error to figure out how to get a good medium using this technique - on my regular sized burner on medium-high heat it takes 2-3 minutes a side. If you want cheese, put a slice of American on a minute or two before you pull them off. The heat from the skillet will melt the cheese onto the burger. You can put on any kind of cheese you like, but American is designed to be melted onto things, so it works out the best.
When finished, heat up some sesame seed burger buns in the microwave for about twenty seconds. Combine the burger, onion and bacon in the bun. Optionally add mustard - though they are so good I usually don't add anything else.
You're welcome :)
Google Nexus Q?
Heck, the Apple Hi-Fi?