You complain about possible hardware malfunctions for that? Hardware errors are possible, but the solution is usually to trash the hardware and replace it, except with high-confidence computing, and that's relatively uncommon.
What you should worry about is your habits. If you get a habit of writing != to terminate a loop, you rely on a certain starting condition. If you have a function that fills an array and returns a long integer of number of elements, it might return -1 on error, and you'd be happily trashing your heap with your "for (a = foo(); a != 0; a--)" loop.
Or if it didn't touch memory, you'd be waiting eons for the loop to complete. Not quite infinite, but a gnat might starve on the difference.
Women live longer than men and have different health risks and (demographically) different behaviors. This affects the insurance rates. You'd be a damn fool to think that sex is the motivation for these differences, and certainly not an actuary.
Suffice it to say, if a woman is likely to incur less cost to an insurance company, she'll get better premiums. If Asians are likely to incur less cost, they'll get better premiums. Any factors that can be analyzed, the insurance companies analyze at great cost and charges its customers appropriately.
Is it unfair? Perhaps. Is there a better system? Not a capitalist one, at least, and the US is unlikely to go with a socialist system of healthcare (at least one that's generally available).
In other words, people who were born in, and thus are native to, America. Though that encompasses two continents, so the grandparent meant "United States natives", but that's awkward to state.
On the other hand, this *does* affet GtkSharp, Glade, QTDesigner, et cetera. So Mono would be affected, as would other open source projects (and TrollTech).
I read 'object library' differently -- like STL or Java's standard library. Since the patent is not specific enough to differentiate, there's no telling which.
This applies not just to having an XML file describing an interface with a codebehind layer in some other language, but to keeping your GUI in one file or set of files and your engine in another set of files, which is a common practice. The former was somewhat novel (at least, I never really thought of it until I saw that Glade and QT Designer had XML output), but from the sound of it, they didn't specifically consider this -- at least, the portion of their patent that would cover this practice also covers using a scripting language that doesn't involve a separate compilation step and keeping the GUI in a separate set of files.
Claim 18 amuses me, though -- it specifically covers using CVS on such projects.
Novell is the biggest single party contributing to Mono, so you could sue them. Of course, once this issue is settled, the Mono project will be covered by MS's patent licenses, which is a good thing, as far as it goes.
Will MSVS Express work on this OS and typical computers available in third-world countries? It would probably be slow as hell on the OLPC, not to mention its system requirements would likely go beyond 1GB of hard disk space.
I disagree with your analysis that Microsoft software doesn't work. In such a limited system with little freedom to create and distribute new software or connect new hardware, it would be relatively easy to ensure that the software is relatively stable.
Granted, it would be much more stable running Unix, but that's another matter. The stability of Microsoft software would be sufficient.
More likely, judges view spam similarly to littering -- you're probably not going to get rid of it any time soon, and it's more of an annoyance than an expense, and there are too many spammers to do anything about. (Though apparently there are only a few major spam groups, so that last is more perception than reality.)
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You could create a plugin for Firefox to do so. It wouldn't be as easy, and since you're (apparently) only offering these kiosks for particular, limited purposes, it's unnecessary. Still, your sites could support Firefox for home users, if that's an issue.
More importantly, you'll only be able to use it with IIS, until Mono provides full support for.NET 3 and assuming that it can make up for any platform-specific code such as hard-coded paths in Windows format. So that locks out 60% of all web sites easily.
Still, I think Mono will become a more popular platform for web development. You can use MS's dev tools, which are pretty good, and then host your site on a stable, secure Apache server. And I haven't seen an open-source equivalent to ASP.NET, which would bother me if I had to do web development on Unix.
It's based on.NET, so unless there are specific OS checks in the binaries, it should be possible to run the Firefox plugin with Mono (probably with modifications to Mono, since it doesn't have any.NET 3 support yet). And since there's a Mac version, we can be reasonably certain that things like UNIX-style paths are supported.
This is actually better for Linux users than MS's traditional behavior.
Why not type by sight in those rare cases you need qwerty and use dvorak when you're in your OS? You shouldn't need to muck about in your BIOS or boot menu that often.
I use dvorak and vim. You start ignoring the hjkl thing quickly. And jk at least are still adjacent, and h further left than l.
Really, since most bindings in vi are arbitrary, why shouldn't those be? And since the bindings are intended to be used with both hands remaining on the keyboard, it rarely makes a difference that you need both hands to navigate all directions without resorting to the arrow keys.
The photoelectric effect is more direct, so it likely has less energy loss. Specifically, the hot water tank has a lot of surface area exposed to cool air that sucks energy from it. So, no, that's a pretty lousy way to make electricity.
What if it were a quarter the price and half as efficient? Then you'd pay half as much to get a certain amount of power, but it would take twice as much material.
How about incompetence for not consulting the IT staff about how to stop students from accessing MySpace (and other nonproductive sites)? He's supposed to be a leader, which means asking your staff experts about problems in their fields.
Kids make fun of teachers and principals. This is nothing new. The fact that it's online may be new, but it's not surprising or suddenly more important. The sensible thing to do is to ignore it. It's not that difficult. And in a programming class, the instructor should be keeping the students on task anyway, so there's no reason to eliminate the class.
And it would be difficult and expensive enough that the manufacturers would still subject their products to thorough testing. And probably expensive enough that it'll only be used in high-confidence operations, such as NASA hardware.
In the 1600s, 'they' and 'their' were used both for plurals and gender-neutral pronouns. Then prescriptivists got hold of the language and told us that it was wrong. We still use them in that 'bad' way, and it's in our mental grammars, but people try to make us feel guilty about it.
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You complain about possible hardware malfunctions for that? Hardware errors are possible, but the solution is usually to trash the hardware and replace it, except with high-confidence computing, and that's relatively uncommon.
What you should worry about is your habits. If you get a habit of writing != to terminate a loop, you rely on a certain starting condition. If you have a function that fills an array and returns a long integer of number of elements, it might return -1 on error, and you'd be happily trashing your heap with your "for (a = foo(); a != 0; a--)" loop.
Or if it didn't touch memory, you'd be waiting eons for the loop to complete. Not quite infinite, but a gnat might starve on the difference.
Women live longer than men and have different health risks and (demographically) different behaviors. This affects the insurance rates. You'd be a damn fool to think that sex is the motivation for these differences, and certainly not an actuary.
Suffice it to say, if a woman is likely to incur less cost to an insurance company, she'll get better premiums. If Asians are likely to incur less cost, they'll get better premiums. Any factors that can be analyzed, the insurance companies analyze at great cost and charges its customers appropriately.
Is it unfair? Perhaps. Is there a better system? Not a capitalist one, at least, and the US is unlikely to go with a socialist system of healthcare (at least one that's generally available).
In other words, people who were born in, and thus are native to, America. Though that encompasses two continents, so the grandparent meant "United States natives", but that's awkward to state.
On the other hand, this *does* affet GtkSharp, Glade, QTDesigner, et cetera. So Mono would be affected, as would other open source projects (and TrollTech).
I read 'object library' differently -- like STL or Java's standard library. Since the patent is not specific enough to differentiate, there's no telling which.
This applies not just to having an XML file describing an interface with a codebehind layer in some other language, but to keeping your GUI in one file or set of files and your engine in another set of files, which is a common practice. The former was somewhat novel (at least, I never really thought of it until I saw that Glade and QT Designer had XML output), but from the sound of it, they didn't specifically consider this -- at least, the portion of their patent that would cover this practice also covers using a scripting language that doesn't involve a separate compilation step and keeping the GUI in a separate set of files.
Claim 18 amuses me, though -- it specifically covers using CVS on such projects.
Novell is the biggest single party contributing to Mono, so you could sue them. Of course, once this issue is settled, the Mono project will be covered by MS's patent licenses, which is a good thing, as far as it goes.
Will MSVS Express work on this OS and typical computers available in third-world countries? It would probably be slow as hell on the OLPC, not to mention its system requirements would likely go beyond 1GB of hard disk space.
I disagree with your analysis that Microsoft software doesn't work. In such a limited system with little freedom to create and distribute new software or connect new hardware, it would be relatively easy to ensure that the software is relatively stable.
Granted, it would be much more stable running Unix, but that's another matter. The stability of Microsoft software would be sufficient.
Still, I agree with your other points.
More likely, judges view spam similarly to littering -- you're probably not going to get rid of it any time soon, and it's more of an annoyance than an expense, and there are too many spammers to do anything about. (Though apparently there are only a few major spam groups, so that last is more perception than reality.)
You could create a plugin for Firefox to do so. It wouldn't be as easy, and since you're (apparently) only offering these kiosks for particular, limited purposes, it's unnecessary. Still, your sites could support Firefox for home users, if that's an issue.
More importantly, you'll only be able to use it with IIS, until Mono provides full support for .NET 3 and assuming that it can make up for any platform-specific code such as hard-coded paths in Windows format. So that locks out 60% of all web sites easily.
Still, I think Mono will become a more popular platform for web development. You can use MS's dev tools, which are pretty good, and then host your site on a stable, secure Apache server. And I haven't seen an open-source equivalent to ASP.NET, which would bother me if I had to do web development on Unix.
It's based on .NET, so unless there are specific OS checks in the binaries, it should be possible to run the Firefox plugin with Mono (probably with modifications to Mono, since it doesn't have any .NET 3 support yet). And since there's a Mac version, we can be reasonably certain that things like UNIX-style paths are supported.
This is actually better for Linux users than MS's traditional behavior.
Why not type by sight in those rare cases you need qwerty and use dvorak when you're in your OS? You shouldn't need to muck about in your BIOS or boot menu that often.
I use dvorak and vim. You start ignoring the hjkl thing quickly. And jk at least are still adjacent, and h further left than l.
Really, since most bindings in vi are arbitrary, why shouldn't those be? And since the bindings are intended to be used with both hands remaining on the keyboard, it rarely makes a difference that you need both hands to navigate all directions without resorting to the arrow keys.
I'm just waiting for Google to start building power plants. Though I'm not sure how they'd send advertisements via electricity...
The photoelectric effect is more direct, so it likely has less energy loss. Specifically, the hot water tank has a lot of surface area exposed to cool air that sucks energy from it. So, no, that's a pretty lousy way to make electricity.
What if it were a quarter the price and half as efficient? Then you'd pay half as much to get a certain amount of power, but it would take twice as much material.
Again, learn basic math.
Plus it's a trade secret, and trademarked.
How about incompetence for not consulting the IT staff about how to stop students from accessing MySpace (and other nonproductive sites)? He's supposed to be a leader, which means asking your staff experts about problems in their fields.
Kids make fun of teachers and principals. This is nothing new. The fact that it's online may be new, but it's not surprising or suddenly more important. The sensible thing to do is to ignore it. It's not that difficult. And in a programming class, the instructor should be keeping the students on task anyway, so there's no reason to eliminate the class.
And it would be difficult and expensive enough that the manufacturers would still subject their products to thorough testing. And probably expensive enough that it'll only be used in high-confidence operations, such as NASA hardware.
The real questions are, why is trademark insufficient? And why is Utah concerned with trademark issues when trademarks are a federal issue in the US?
In the 1600s, 'they' and 'their' were used both for plurals and gender-neutral pronouns. Then prescriptivists got hold of the language and told us that it was wrong. We still use them in that 'bad' way, and it's in our mental grammars, but people try to make us feel guilty about it.