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What I don't understand is what the point is of making something open source if you're only allowed to use it as a black box. Are they expecting people to licence the patent and then distribute the reference implementation? But if they're paying for the patent why not bundle a copyright licence in with it? And why the restrictions? Surely a patent only prevents you selling or importing infringing products, so the "patent covenant" isn't actually giving you anything you didn't already have?
Wish I could remember the source, but I do recall reading an analysis which placed the necessary support for a terrorist/guerrilla movement to survive at 5%. That's not 5% willing to die: it's 5% willing to provide safe houses.
You pay $1 per litre for bottled water?! I can buy Coca Cola for that price, or 6.5 litres of bottled water for $1. (Tap water here tastes of chlorine).
The word "strict" isn't the most useful one here without qualification. I read the title as saying that the safeguards were stricter than people had assumed. IMO the title would be improved by s/Strict/Broad/.
Many Spanish inhabitants can't even speak well in their own official language, as Spain has five regions each one with their own language.
Technically (and for the sake of third parties, because I'm sure you already know this) you should say their own official national language, because the major regional languages are co-official in their respective regions.
I live in the Comunitat Valenciana, and although I hear some influence from the regional language (I'll try to avoid starting a flame war over what it's called, because that's beside the point) on the way the national language is spoken, particularly the pronunciation of "ahora" as "ara", I don't think that valencianos speak worse Spanish/Castilian than people from Madrid. It's probably more of an issue in Bilbao and Barcelona.
Having said that, I'm sure that the members of the Real Academia would consider that most people from Madrid can't speak Spanish well. In most languages the form spoken on the street is different to the form recorded in dictionaries and grammars. Even Rajoy uses -ao as an ending for past participles.
Note: I had to rewrite some of this post to avoid Spanish words with tildes. Clearly/. is still doing its bit to force nerds to speak nothing but English and transliterated Klingon.
I've even noticed an interesting phenomenon that, while far from universal, is also not all that rare: programmers who share a common non-English first language using English among themselves to engage in technical discussions.
I'm a native English speaker and fairly good Spanish speaker living in Spain. Last year I went along to a conference organised by the Spanish national association of videogame developers. All of the talks I went to were in Spanish, but I was frequently caught off guard by loan words from English. Some everyone used ("el gameplay") but others were inconsistent - some people used a loan word and others a translation (can't remember any examples).
The NGIS website (also U.S. government) also uses temporary URLs. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that there's a small circle of consulting companies which is responsible for most federal websites and that each has its own way of doing things.
We don't have an official constitution- but we do have an unspoken agreement that one is there, and that you're not allowed to change it
Then how do you explain everything Labour has done over the past decade? The "reform" of the Lords and weakening of habeas corpus stand out as major constitutional changes.
No, if it killed instantly then people wouldn't need to be careful not to get it because it would be extremely rare (unless it had a very common transmission vector which it didn't kill).
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The 1990s called: they want their benchmarks back.
Looks like it:
What I don't understand is what the point is of making something open source if you're only allowed to use it as a black box. Are they expecting people to licence the patent and then distribute the reference implementation? But if they're paying for the patent why not bundle a copyright licence in with it? And why the restrictions? Surely a patent only prevents you selling or importing infringing products, so the "patent covenant" isn't actually giving you anything you didn't already have?
Because it uses network capacity which I could be using to send spam!
I've worked at a games company which had precisely that setup, so it's mind-boggling that major infrastructure companies wouldn't do it.
Wish I could remember the source, but I do recall reading an analysis which placed the necessary support for a terrorist/guerrilla movement to survive at 5%. That's not 5% willing to die: it's 5% willing to provide safe houses.
I thought Dasani was filtered tap water, or was that only in London?
You pay $1 per litre for bottled water?! I can buy Coca Cola for that price, or 6.5 litres of bottled water for $1. (Tap water here tastes of chlorine).
Those of us who have them on our keyboards (i.e. who don't use an English keyboard layout) type them literally without even realising we're doing it.
Do you mean "out of ASCII range" or can I get Slashdot to accept acute accents and n-tilde by changing my locale from es_ES.UTF-8 to es_ES.ISO-8859-1?
The word "strict" isn't the most useful one here without qualification. I read the title as saying that the safeguards were stricter than people had assumed. IMO the title would be improved by s/Strict/Broad/.
What do you mean, "not quite off the mark"? It's a whole block out!
Back in the day I went to see Chicken Run in the cinema. On the back of the cinema ticket it had a voucher for KFC.
I prefer the British approach: Angle-Grinder Man.
The log base 2 of 2^5 is 5. Add one and you have 6. QED.
I get the right number by counting the power of 2 ones as the logarithm base 2 of the number plus 1.
I have "The Tagger", even though I have never tagged a story. It's just a really bad joke.
Many Spanish inhabitants can't even speak well in their own official language, as Spain has five regions each one with their own language.
Technically (and for the sake of third parties, because I'm sure you already know this) you should say their own official national language, because the major regional languages are co-official in their respective regions.
I live in the Comunitat Valenciana, and although I hear some influence from the regional language (I'll try to avoid starting a flame war over what it's called, because that's beside the point) on the way the national language is spoken, particularly the pronunciation of "ahora" as "ara", I don't think that valencianos speak worse Spanish/Castilian than people from Madrid. It's probably more of an issue in Bilbao and Barcelona.
Having said that, I'm sure that the members of the Real Academia would consider that most people from Madrid can't speak Spanish well. In most languages the form spoken on the street is different to the form recorded in dictionaries and grammars. Even Rajoy uses -ao as an ending for past participles.
Note: I had to rewrite some of this post to avoid Spanish words with tildes. Clearly /. is still doing its bit to force nerds to speak nothing but English and transliterated Klingon.
Latin, Greek, and Arabic all spring to mind.
I've even noticed an interesting phenomenon that, while far from universal, is also not all that rare: programmers who share a common non-English first language using English among themselves to engage in technical discussions.
I'm a native English speaker and fairly good Spanish speaker living in Spain. Last year I went along to a conference organised by the Spanish national association of videogame developers. All of the talks I went to were in Spanish, but I was frequently caught off guard by loan words from English. Some everyone used ("el gameplay") but others were inconsistent - some people used a loan word and others a translation (can't remember any examples).
The NGIS website (also U.S. government) also uses temporary URLs. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that there's a small circle of consulting companies which is responsible for most federal websites and that each has its own way of doing things.
Exactly. When someone posts something really good I check to see whether they consistently make good posts, and if so I add them to my friends list.
So how do you use a mouse with a Scottish accent? Curious minds are dying to know.
We don't have an official constitution- but we do have an unspoken agreement that one is there, and that you're not allowed to change it
Then how do you explain everything Labour has done over the past decade? The "reform" of the Lords and weakening of habeas corpus stand out as major constitutional changes.
No, if it killed instantly then people wouldn't need to be careful not to get it because it would be extremely rare (unless it had a very common transmission vector which it didn't kill).
What odds he gave, or what odds he will have given by the time they finish editing?