Even without the users blocking ads things would have still become as they have. There is this little thing called competition which leads people to seek still more effective ways to do things. Then there's this thing called greed which can't be overlooked either.
Maybe the blockers accelerated the drive a bit but I doubt seriously that they have been the greatest force behind it.
If you stop at this paragraph:
SCO has, without permission, copied code from sixteen discrete packages of copyrighted source code written by IBM for Linux and distributed those copies as part of its own Linux products. SCO has literally copied more than 783,000 lines of code from these sixteen packages of IBM's copyrighted material. As a result of SCO's copying and distribution of IBM's code, SCO has unlawfully exercised IBM's rights to its works and therefore infringed IBM's copyrights.
It can be interpreted it that way.
If you go on to read the next paragraph: Although IBM's contributions to Linux are copyrighted, they are permitted to be copied, modified and distributed by others under the terms of the GNU General Public License ("GPL") or the GNU Lesser General Public License ("LGPL") (collectively, the "GPL"). However, SCO has renounced, disclaimed and breached the GPL and therefore the GPL does not give SCO permission or a license to copy and distribute IBM's copyrighted works.
You can see that the axis of this motion really is the _GPL itself_.
It doesn't always work that way. I've had a flood of popups comming up on my screen and as I closed them a window popped up for less than a couple of seconds saying "Now downloading XYZ".
I cleand up the system and later learned that not all popups are "windows" you can close but some are images that look like windows (not fake messages within windows but real windows). If you right-clicked on any part the option to save the image would come up. They even go so far as to fake the little tan-colored explanations that occur on mouseover. I use a Japanese OS but the explanations came out in English!
Actually, I just thought of a way they could make their bot work as it is. They'd just have to change the algorithm from the one shown in the video.
1)open umbrella thingy.
2) rotate base a bit.
3) close umbrella thingy and spin it a opposite the rotation of the base a bit.
4) open umbrella thingy
5) rotate base a bit
6) repeat until desired orientation is reached.
Even still, it's not very efficient and having an umbrella thingy on the base and using it alternately with the top one would still be the most efficient and rapid.
I'm afraid they made a mistake in the design. Looking at the video, you can see the robot never really changes its orientation to the camera, just ratates back and forth.
The mistake they made is that the robot needs two of those variable moment of inertia devices (the thing that looks like an umbrella skeleton on top). The cat has two pairs of feet whose distance from its center of gravity it varies as it spins the other pair.
i find his original ideas more interesting, the crying-baby-activated rocking cradle (does this already exist?), solar-powered well-lift, etc.
All of his ideas are "original," assuming he never saw the things you call "modern" before he came up with them.
He faced the same problems that inspired the "modern" versions of the things he invented so it's not so surprising that he came up with similar solutions.
Actually, hybrids do better on the highway as well. At highway speeds, the needed horsepower is very low so a hybrid's modest-displacement engine alone is perfectly suited to this. On the other hand, a conventional high-displacement engine alone is overkill so it's less efficient.
One gear transmission because electric motors have all their torque available all the time, unlike engines that have to spin up to a certain RPM before they can put out their best torque.
2) "And despite packing almost twice as much food as her first crossing, she still expects to lose about 30 pounds over the course of her voyage (she lost 20 pounds during her first crossing). Fully laden with food, water, and all requisite gear, her boat, Le Connetable, will weigh roughly 1,300 pounds.
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LOL!
The moment I thought to mod you up as funny I realised I didn't have mod points!
Are any of us U.S.A citizens? Why should we care about the Tech industry in the United States of America? So now India is making labor cheaper? Great. We get more software.
For industries like this outsourcing is good, outsourcing is only bad for highly creative/culturally connected industries. Manual labor should be outsourcing.
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What percent of petrolium is used to make medicines or similarly important products? According to this for sure, we know 56% of each barrel is used for gasoline alone and other fuels take up another 37%.
That's 93% being burned. There's plenty of room for making other products long after you captains are forced to part with your land yachts. In fact, for the U.S. it's possible to stop importing oil all together (using oil centrally for making things rather than buring it)with considerable reduction of fuel consumption.
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Maybe the blockers accelerated the drive a bit but I doubt seriously that they have been the greatest force behind it.
SCO has, without permission, copied code from sixteen discrete packages of copyrighted source code written by IBM for Linux and distributed those copies as part of its own Linux products. SCO has literally copied more than 783,000 lines of code from these sixteen packages of IBM's copyrighted material. As a result of SCO's copying and distribution of IBM's code, SCO has unlawfully exercised IBM's rights to its works and therefore infringed IBM's copyrights. It can be interpreted it that way.
If you go on to read the next paragraph:
Although IBM's contributions to Linux are copyrighted, they are permitted to be copied, modified and distributed by others under the terms of the GNU General Public License ("GPL") or the GNU Lesser General Public License ("LGPL") (collectively, the "GPL"). However, SCO has renounced, disclaimed and breached the GPL and therefore the GPL does not give SCO permission or a license to copy and distribute IBM's copyrighted works.
You can see that the axis of this motion really is the _GPL itself_.
If you make that mistake then you'd eliminate your market for weapons.
I cleand up the system and later learned that not all popups are "windows" you can close but some are images that look like windows (not fake messages within windows but real windows). If you right-clicked on any part the option to save the image would come up. They even go so far as to fake the little tan-colored explanations that occur on mouseover. I use a Japanese OS but the explanations came out in English!
No, it should be burogu saabisu
They're already going after OSS on IP issues via the proxy that is SCO.
I just wish those Asian gangsters in the U.S.'s various cities and the Japanese kids I tought a few years back knew about this (to mention a few).
1)open umbrella thingy.
2) rotate base a bit.
3) close umbrella thingy and spin it a opposite the rotation of the base a bit.
4) open umbrella thingy
5) rotate base a bit
6) repeat until desired orientation is reached.
Even still, it's not very efficient and having an umbrella thingy on the base and using it alternately with the top one would still be the most efficient and rapid.
The mistake they made is that the robot needs two of those variable moment of inertia devices (the thing that looks like an umbrella skeleton on top). The cat has two pairs of feet whose distance from its center of gravity it varies as it spins the other pair.
Another difference is that the questions are now worth 2X as much as they used to be in the old rules.
All of his ideas are "original," assuming he never saw the things you call "modern" before he came up with them.
He faced the same problems that inspired the "modern" versions of the things he invented so it's not so surprising that he came up with similar solutions.
Actually, hybrids do better on the highway as well. At highway speeds, the needed horsepower is very low so a hybrid's modest-displacement engine alone is perfectly suited to this. On the other hand, a conventional high-displacement engine alone is overkill so it's less efficient.
One gear transmission because electric motors have all their torque available all the time, unlike engines that have to spin up to a certain RPM before they can put out their best torque.
It didn't die, it was Murdered.
OK, so Nissan has a single stinker you can point out. boo hoo. BMW has a single shining star hoora~ay!
Hmm... Maybe he's hinting at something by using capitOlism vs. capitAlism... We all know what happens at the capitol don't we?
I'd hate to be sent out on the deck of that thing in any kind of wind or rough seas!
In rolling seas all those angles will be changing.
2) "And despite packing almost twice as much food as her first crossing, she still expects to lose about 30 pounds over the course of her voyage (she lost 20 pounds during her first crossing). Fully laden with food, water, and all requisite gear, her boat, Le Connetable, will weigh roughly 1,300 pounds. "
The moment I thought to mod you up as funny I
realised I didn't have mod points!
Are any of us U.S.A citizens? Why should we care about the Tech industry in the United States of America? So now India is making labor cheaper? Great. We get more software.
For industries like this outsourcing is good, outsourcing is only bad for highly creative/culturally connected industries. Manual labor should be outsourcing.
Get the idea?
Less than ten percent of all oil consumed in the u.s. is used for "other products" and even less for the things you list.
How about reducing the need for oil as a whole?
That's 93% being burned. There's plenty of room for making other products long after you captains are forced to part with your land yachts. In fact, for the U.S. it's possible to stop importing oil all together (using oil centrally for making things rather than buring it)with considerable reduction of fuel consumption.