In the company I work for, not following up would potentially be a dismissable offense.
The code may not have come from the web site - they may both have a common source. Worse case would be if that common source code was, for example, protected by GPL and the version you found on the web site was in fact not legal itself. In that case there is no way you want to ship your product with this code in it as it would then be GPL'd itself. (Unless of course you are shipping under GPL already)
Also, don't just go in and rewrite it. You've read it now so any replacement you write could be a derivative work. The new code needs to be written by someone who has not seen the original code.
But the first step is to establish provenance for the existing code. Just because you found it on the web does not mean there is a problem here. Without knowing the provenance of the web code it does not tell you much at all.
I noticed that too. And if motion was an occasional thing happening only when the mud was soft, would not you see some disturbance in front of the path?
What I would think was an obvious candidate explanation was not even mentioned. That is differential expansion. One would want to model this to check but I can certainly imagine differential expansion of the rocks in the sun causing them to slowly walk.
Law 1 of Football says that a football field is between 90 and 120 metres in length and 45 and 90 metres wide. That's just the playing surface. That's roughly 4000 square metres to 10000 sq metres. (International competition is between 6400 sq.m. and 8200 sq. m.)
Well, Everlyn Waugh in "Black Mischief" tells of an English War Journalist who is so famous, when he goes to a small country for a vacation, a war breaks out, because everybody assumes he must be there for a reason.
That seems plausible. I imagine that in that case the spin of the black hole would also be larger than would be expected from the supernova collapse theory.
Has anyone managed to get good observations of balckhole spins?
According to Wikipedia, X first appeared in 1984 and X11, which certainly had the features claimed in the Patent (I have not used anything earlier), appeared in 1987.
There was also a company called 3 Rivers Systems (I think) that was selling windows based machines somewhat before the Lisa was demonstrated. I just googled it - it was called the PERQ and appears to have come out in 1979, so looks like they had been around a while when I saw one. They were way ahead of what the Lisa could do, BTW. This may not be prior art because it seems the designer came out of Xerox Parc but it could also mean that it produces a timeliness of filing defense.
BTW, isn't there law or case law about defending patents in a timely manner? Can someone comment on how that applies here?
> All ellipses have a point of view where they project as a circle
True, but the assumption is that that direction corresponds to the axis of rotation. I tend to think that failure of that to be true would tend to add noise rather than a spurious result. Unless of course there was some other systemic effect, but that would be even stranger.
Interestingly his method does not distinguish up from down so it does not mean there is an excess of rotation in one direction. Also it would be real interesting to generate the same data over a wider expanse and see if its consistent, and therefore a property of the universe as a whole, or whether it is a local property on a fairly large scale (and to determine what that scale is, in that case). Presumably it is significantly larger than 0.2Z since otherwise one might reasonably expect to see at least one boundary locally.
Note I just glanced over the paper and did not give it a critical reading for flaws. Obviously, such a startling result needs close scrutiny and alternate verification. So not arguing with the grain of salt.
Loved the comparison of doing some simple admin tasks with powershell vesus Linux.
First up he shows us how to kill a task using a fairly techy combination of grep for the name, remove the grep task, pick up field 2 with awk, and then kill it. (although I don't think his command is correct but it disappears to quick to be sure)
Then he shows us how to do it using a script he has hacked together on powershell. Surprise - the script on powershell is simpler than typing the full implementation under Linux.
So then he shows how to add a user to a group. This time, on unix he uses addgroup (although he fails to remake his yellow pages database!) while on powershell, he shows a multi-line script he had to write to do the same thing - then he calls the script, which already has the user name hard coded, and comments on how easy that was!
The surprising thing is not that the demo is wrong, or even biased, but that it is so transparently lame! And he still had to type his slashes the wrong way round!
$20 a year for 5Gig of online storage is a good rate, but how much bandwidth do you get? Usually that's the number that is unrealistically low on cheap hosting sites. At least, for example, if you want to serve video and audio files of your band. So you end up paying an arm and a leg for excess bandwidth usage if you don't watch out.
I see a business opportunity. I tell students that one thing they can do to work on their ears is play along to the radio.
Now I see that if we set them up a back-channel, we can get radio stations to hire them to do it, so it can be mixed in to keep the RIAA happy, and we can actually make practice pay in hard dollars rather than just improved skills.
The most important thing that needs to be fixed is vote suppression by failing to process voter registrations and by using under under-resourcing and identity challenges to clog up polling stations in minority districts. These tactics quite possibly changed the 2004 result in Ohio, so we know it is a real problem now. I see no mention of these issues being addressed by these bills.
Its certainly true that current voting machines have terrible security. But if you put even secure machines under the control of the current Whitehouse, would you have any more confidence in the results? Even with a paper trail, chances are some of the paper trails would be "lost". That's probably going to happen occasionally in the normal course of events, so adding a few more for nefarious purposes could be hard to detect, though it would probably prevent you manipulating anything other than a close result.
Twice the bandwidth is an amazingly small multiplier. Its the sort of growth factor that one can reasonably imagine being accomodated with improvements in technology and build-out over a short period. So one has to ask what was the motivation for coming up with that number.
Seems to me what they are thinking is that all the managed stuff will fit within existing capacity and then the unmanaged stuff requires new capacity. Or, to put it another way, all the available capacity needs to be managed.
So the real statement here is "we need to close down the internet as it exists today so we can repurpose the network in order to generate greater revenues".
Can't help thinking they are only counting sales from RIAA affiliates, or perhaps some similarly skewed group.
Wheras the technology allows bands to go direct to the public through sites like cdbaby.com - that's where all my friends seem to sell their cds. And there are other similar sites. I bet those sales are not being counted.
Another factor is the decline of the chain CD store. Nowadays, if I need a CD I go to an independent (Music Millenium in my case). I don't expect to be able to find the CD's I want to buy in a chain outlet(Hazmat Modine would be a recent example - try finding that in a Borders and they are one of the better chains). So this too leads to more purchases from independents, and possible undercounting.
Given the poor quality of downloaded bit rate compressed music I also expect that the market is further fracturing into ephemera (aka product) on download and higher quality on CD. Nobody in their right mind would want to listen to Pink Martini on download, for example, because part of the delight is the antique glossiness of the recording.
>> but why put extra pressure on a crumbling industry right now?
This will save them fuel costs.
If you can save a ton of CO2 cross-atlantic, that's roughly 3000 litres of aviation kerosene, or something like $2000 worth (I don't have a current price).
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The code may not have come from the web site - they may both have a common source. Worse case would be if that common source code was, for example, protected by GPL and the version you found on the web site was in fact not legal itself. In that case there is no way you want to ship your product with this code in it as it would then be GPL'd itself. (Unless of course you are shipping under GPL already)
Also, don't just go in and rewrite it. You've read it now so any replacement you write could be a derivative work. The new code needs to be written by someone who has not seen the original code.
But the first step is to establish provenance for the existing code. Just because you found it on the web does not mean there is a problem here. Without knowing the provenance of the web code it does not tell you much at all.
What I would think was an obvious candidate explanation was not even mentioned. That is differential expansion. One would want to model this to check but I can certainly imagine differential expansion of the rocks in the sun causing them to slowly walk.
The test sail, if you drill down, is 160 sq. m.
Hardly the size of a football field.
Well, Everlyn Waugh in "Black Mischief" tells of an English War Journalist who is so famous, when he goes to a small country for a vacation, a war breaks out, because everybody assumes he must be there for a reason.
Go out and see live music!
Has anyone managed to get good observations of balckhole spins?
There was also a company called 3 Rivers Systems (I think) that was selling windows based machines somewhat before the Lisa was demonstrated. I just googled it - it was called the PERQ and appears to have come out in 1979, so looks like they had been around a while when I saw one. They were way ahead of what the Lisa could do, BTW. This may not be prior art because it seems the designer came out of Xerox Parc but it could also mean that it produces a timeliness of filing defense.
BTW, isn't there law or case law about defending patents in a timely manner? Can someone comment on how that applies here?
I have been all sorts of trouble finding a fluffy white cat.
Presumably if you defraud people for large sums but use the funds to live quietly in the suburbs, its not a crime.
They had operatives entering data from dumpster dives and the system got swamped with unprocessed rebate forms.
True, but the assumption is that that direction corresponds to the axis of rotation. I tend to think that failure of that to be true would tend to add noise rather than a spurious result. Unless of course there was some other systemic effect, but that would be even stranger.
Interestingly his method does not distinguish up from down so it does not mean there is an excess of rotation in one direction. Also it would be real interesting to generate the same data over a wider expanse and see if its consistent, and therefore a property of the universe as a whole, or whether it is a local property on a fairly large scale (and to determine what that scale is, in that case). Presumably it is significantly larger than 0.2Z since otherwise one might reasonably expect to see at least one boundary locally.
Note I just glanced over the paper and did not give it a critical reading for flaws. Obviously, such a startling result needs close scrutiny and alternate verification. So not arguing with the grain of salt.
As an expat living in the US I always call home to check the time anyway - the AT&T service never seems to have it right.
First up he shows us how to kill a task using a fairly techy combination of grep for the name, remove the grep task, pick up field 2 with awk, and then kill it. (although I don't think his command is correct but it disappears to quick to be sure)
Then he shows us how to do it using a script he has hacked together on powershell. Surprise - the script on powershell is simpler than typing the full implementation under Linux.
So then he shows how to add a user to a group. This time, on unix he uses addgroup (although he fails to remake his yellow pages database!) while on powershell, he shows a multi-line script he had to write to do the same thing - then he calls the script, which already has the user name hard coded, and comments on how easy that was!
The surprising thing is not that the demo is wrong, or even biased, but that it is so transparently lame! And he still had to type his slashes the wrong way round!
The correct name for the system is "Sewer Hosted Internet Transport Layer". Otherwise known by its acronym, YK. (You Know)
Seems to me blocking Firefox constitutes a secondary boycott, and as such is illegal in most parts of the world.
They probably mistook it for a Russian manufacture car.
$20 a year for 5Gig of online storage is a good rate, but how much bandwidth do you get? Usually that's the number that is unrealistically low on cheap hosting sites. At least, for example, if you want to serve video and audio files of your band. So you end up paying an arm and a leg for excess bandwidth usage if you don't watch out.
Now I see that if we set them up a back-channel, we can get radio stations to hire them to do it, so it can be mixed in to keep the RIAA happy, and we can actually make practice pay in hard dollars rather than just improved skills.
Its certainly true that current voting machines have terrible security. But if you put even secure machines under the control of the current Whitehouse, would you have any more confidence in the results? Even with a paper trail, chances are some of the paper trails would be "lost". That's probably going to happen occasionally in the normal course of events, so adding a few more for nefarious purposes could be hard to detect, though it would probably prevent you manipulating anything other than a close result.
Seems to me what they are thinking is that all the managed stuff will fit within existing capacity and then the unmanaged stuff requires new capacity. Or, to put it another way, all the available capacity needs to be managed.
So the real statement here is "we need to close down the internet as it exists today so we can repurpose the network in order to generate greater revenues".
Plus, having to open the tank to re-attach the flapper mechanism must be way more interesting in zero g.
Wheras the technology allows bands to go direct to the public through sites like cdbaby.com - that's where all my friends seem to sell their cds. And there are other similar sites. I bet those sales are not being counted.
Another factor is the decline of the chain CD store. Nowadays, if I need a CD I go to an independent (Music Millenium in my case). I don't expect to be able to find the CD's I want to buy in a chain outlet(Hazmat Modine would be a recent example - try finding that in a Borders and they are one of the better chains). So this too leads to more purchases from independents, and possible undercounting.
Given the poor quality of downloaded bit rate compressed music I also expect that the market is further fracturing into ephemera (aka product) on download and higher quality on CD. Nobody in their right mind would want to listen to Pink Martini on download, for example, because part of the delight is the antique glossiness of the recording.
Yep - when your herd of giant penguins had passed, there was nothing left but stalks.
This will save them fuel costs.
If you can save a ton of CO2 cross-atlantic, that's roughly 3000 litres of aviation kerosene, or something like $2000 worth (I don't have a current price).
OK, I don't get it. So how exactly did this virus mess up the traffic lights in Rome?