It's funny how these things change. Four years ago, the quality of eMachines was so bad that when my school bought 30 of them, one wouldn't even post right out of the box and two more joined it within two months. Three months later another had a power supply fire. They certainly seemed like a bunch of junk. It sounds like Gateway has made some major improvements since buying Gateway.
66 years later. I'd say that pretty much killed it off for the PRIMARY person who would have been concerned with its publication.
66 years? Alice Randall (the parody's author) wasn't even born 66 years ago. The legal fight took less than a year, resulting in a 2001 publishing date.
If you'd read your own link, you'd've seen that they didn't kill it off, and instead they settled out of court. The settlement permitted the book to be published in exchange for a donation to Morehouse College.
This ruling is about the ability of people to replace the ink in their printers with ink made by people other than the printers' orgional manufacturers. DMCA may be in the title but this has nothing to do with pirating.
I think that conservatives in general want less the status-quo and more the way things were when they were growing up. Of course they only want the positive parts, but this is good. It serves to keep things in balance by providing a force to bring back the things that we should not have discarded.
The democrats have completely alienated much of their base, and that is why the republicans have gotten so far ahead.
Look at the 2000 election. Look at current presidential polls. The country is pretty much evenly split.
Those of us on the right have been feeling the Republican party jump left for quite some time now.
The Republicans are traditionally the US's conservative party, in favor of (generally) keeping things as they are. The Democrats are traditionally the US's progressive party, trying to change things. The conservatives hold back the progressives so they don't adopt too many short sighted ideas while the progressives keep society adapting to new problems. So Democratic ideas get slowly adopted by the culture and the Democrats of 40 years ago are Republicans today.
While I did misquote Occam's idea, it still can prove the point I wanted. The GP said:
I could say "My theory includes everything in General Relativity, except for a small sphere four miles wide in the center of Andromeda, where light travels twice as fast."
The point was that the GP's "small sphere" was an "element which [wasn't] necessary for the solution to the problem to work" and so should "be 'cut out'"
When you patent some software, you are not patenting the source code. You describe the feature of the software that you are patenting, and that feature (which may be an algorithm) is what you patent. Someone else could violate your patent without ever duplicating a line of source.
As for proving infrigement, they'd just have to show that the allegedly infringing program met their description of what they had patented.
LinuxWorld indeed has "Linux" in its name/URL. Likewise, hypothetical sites like AOLsux.com or microsoftsux.com have "AOL" or "microsoft", respectively, in their names. Generally you would not expect the sites I mention to be pro-X, despite containing X in the name.
Perhaps the connotations of "World" are different from those of "sux"?
While agree that Badnarik is being marginalized, a likely reason for the greater coverage of Nader is that he's been around longer. He was a well known comsumer advocate in the 70s and 80s and was reviled as a spoiler in the 200 election. Badnarik may be more popular and more deserving of notariety now, but he's not got the history. I know very few people who knew of him before he started campainging for this election.
No. Not until it's proven. As long as someone could come up with another theory that predicts the exact same results, in a different way, which is not disproven, it's still a theory.
Newton's laws have not been proved, they are just very likely. And there are some problems with them. So why not extend this naming to relativity?
I could say "My theory includes everything in General Relativity, except for a small sphere four miles wide in the center of Andromeda, where light travels twice as fast."
Then while you have a theory that has not been disproved, Ockhams Razor advises us to use the simplest one that explains all the data, and that's not yours.
Yes, this makes truly proving anything in the physical world basically impossible.
Which is why it is not a good idea for us to require theories to be "proven" before becoming "natural laws". We call a proven "theory" a "theorem".
In addition to these, a CD with Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Gaim, and Audacity installers can be quite useful. And Emacs can be a lot nicer than Notepad for editing Windows config files, so I'd bring that too.
The energy you get from reacting Hydrogen and Oxygen should be equal to the amount of energy you have to put in to separate water into Hyrdogen and Oxygen (plus inneficiencies).
I wasn't aware of this. The last time I bought cds, they were 15 cents each. Does this mean that a third of my purchase went to this tax (in addition to the 5% sales tax, income tax before I got the money, etc) ? This doesn't seem minimal to me.
I think the USPTO is not evil, just way understaffed. They can't go searching enough to find all the prior art they should and they can't pay enough to employ people who know enough about what is out there. How would you boycott them anyway?
Additionally, my friend working at Boston Water and Sewer drinks his tap water over bottled water, because tap water is subject to far more rigorous testing than is bottled water.
Hasn't he ever heard the song that goes "...and I love that dirty water, uh! Boston, you're my home!"?
The song is talking about how dirty the Charles River is, while Boston gets its water from Quabbin Reservoir in western Mass.
Fewer than 6 words of the Federalist Papers have any bearing to the topic under discussion, and they are parenthetical. (They are in the 8th paragraph, by the way).
Any reference to the "8th paragraph" of the federalist papers is entirely meaningless. The papers as we know them are a collection of letters and articles published anonymously (by Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton most likely). So there is no such thing as the "8th paragraph". Additionally, very few people have read all of them, and unless you have, your claim as to the number of words on this topic is not very believable.
When one gets to such extremes, things begin to seem similar. Facism and socialism, while at opposite ends of the spectrum, are generally both authoritarian enough that people use either as a negatively charged synonym for it.
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What do you mean by proper OS? The Incompatible Timesharing System? Linux, BSD, OSX, NT (2k, XP), are all POSIX compliant.
It's funny how these things change. Four years ago, the quality of eMachines was so bad that when my school bought 30 of them, one wouldn't even post right out of the box and two more joined it within two months. Three months later another had a power supply fire. They certainly seemed like a bunch of junk. It sounds like Gateway has made some major improvements since buying Gateway.
And as this shows us that the Secret Service does not read Live Journal, it becomes clear that even the Headline-writer didn't RTFA.
Send it to a spammer? Send it to ME!
66 years? Alice Randall (the parody's author) wasn't even born 66 years ago. The legal fight took less than a year, resulting in a 2001 publishing date.
If you'd read your own link, you'd've seen that they didn't kill it off, and instead they settled out of court. The settlement permitted the book to be published in exchange for a donation to Morehouse College.
This ruling is about the ability of people to replace the ink in their printers with ink made by people other than the printers' orgional manufacturers. DMCA may be in the title but this has nothing to do with pirating.
I think that conservatives in general want less the status-quo and more the way things were when they were growing up. Of course they only want the positive parts, but this is good. It serves to keep things in balance by providing a force to bring back the things that we should not have discarded.
Look at the 2000 election. Look at current presidential polls. The country is pretty much evenly split.
Those of us on the right have been feeling the Republican party jump left for quite some time now.
The Republicans are traditionally the US's conservative party, in favor of (generally) keeping things as they are. The Democrats are traditionally the US's progressive party, trying to change things. The conservatives hold back the progressives so they don't adopt too many short sighted ideas while the progressives keep society adapting to new problems. So Democratic ideas get slowly adopted by the culture and the Democrats of 40 years ago are Republicans today.
(I changed my sig)
I could say "My theory includes everything in General Relativity, except for a small sphere four miles wide in the center of Andromeda, where light travels twice as fast."
The point was that the GP's "small sphere" was an "element which [wasn't] necessary for the solution to the problem to work" and so should "be 'cut out'"
As for proving infrigement, they'd just have to show that the allegedly infringing program met their description of what they had patented.
Perhaps the connotations of "World" are different from those of "sux"?
Computers are now at $400 . When computers were $1500, people had no money for security, and they still don't.
While agree that Badnarik is being marginalized, a likely reason for the greater coverage of Nader is that he's been around longer. He was a well known comsumer advocate in the 70s and 80s and was reviled as a spoiler in the 200 election. Badnarik may be more popular and more deserving of notariety now, but he's not got the history. I know very few people who knew of him before he started campainging for this election.
Newton's laws have not been proved, they are just very likely. And there are some problems with them. So why not extend this naming to relativity?
I could say "My theory includes everything in General Relativity, except for a small sphere four miles wide in the center of Andromeda, where light travels twice as fast."
Then while you have a theory that has not been disproved, Ockhams Razor advises us to use the simplest one that explains all the data, and that's not yours.
Yes, this makes truly proving anything in the physical world basically impossible.
Which is why it is not a good idea for us to require theories to be "proven" before becoming "natural laws". We call a proven "theory" a "theorem".
In addition to these, a CD with Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Gaim, and Audacity installers can be quite useful. And Emacs can be a lot nicer than Notepad for editing Windows config files, so I'd bring that too.
Firefox: Tools > Options > Privacy, find "Clear All Information Stored While Browsing", click "Clear All"
Or chose appropriate buttons on the same "Privacy" screen to delete only some things.
The energy you get from reacting Hydrogen and Oxygen should be equal to the amount of energy you have to put in to separate water into Hyrdogen and Oxygen (plus inneficiencies).
I wasn't aware of this. The last time I bought cds, they were 15 cents each. Does this mean that a third of my purchase went to this tax (in addition to the 5% sales tax, income tax before I got the money, etc) ? This doesn't seem minimal to me.
I think the USPTO is not evil, just way understaffed. They can't go searching enough to find all the prior art they should and they can't pay enough to employ people who know enough about what is out there. How would you boycott them anyway?
Hasn't he ever heard the song that goes "...and I love that dirty water, uh! Boston, you're my home!"?
The song is talking about how dirty the Charles River is, while Boston gets its water from Quabbin Reservoir in western Mass.
I'm running Gaim 1.0.0, and the names turn colors only when the converstion is not in focus. (which is what seems reasonable to me)
Any reference to the "8th paragraph" of the federalist papers is entirely meaningless. The papers as we know them are a collection of letters and articles published anonymously (by Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton most likely). So there is no such thing as the "8th paragraph". Additionally, very few people have read all of them, and unless you have, your claim as to the number of words on this topic is not very believable.
When one gets to such extremes, things begin to seem similar. Facism and socialism, while at opposite ends of the spectrum, are generally both authoritarian enough that people use either as a negatively charged synonym for it.