Don't dismiss this idea too readily. I keep running across electromagnetism papers that have the wrong sign on terms, and that treat permittivity and permeability as constant in all cases.
If there are only a few dozen people that can understand general relitivity, then I sincerly hope they've checked all their figures. Time for more automated equation verification?
Not to sound reproachful, but don't reinvent the wheel.
If you need a search tool, look around for a solution that someone else has already wasted years of their life on rather than have yourself do the same. Why recode, when you can download?
It's true. The only question now is did anyone ever run black and white on a touchscreen. Possibly a moot point as nVidia have had gestures on thie driver software for a while now.
So, if Perl is good enough to manage Slashdot and Wiki, I imagine it's good enough to manage any "enterprise" site and is very much worth knowing.
The root of the problem here is that people try and make a distinction between "normal" applications and "enterprise level" ones. It's a construct of course. There's no real distinction between the two, except of the salaries a maintainer can expect to command.
The Super Bowl is televised worldwide, and gets about a billion viewers.
Bullshit!
There is absolutely no way, no way in hell that one sixth of the world's population both cares enough about, and has access to a broadcast of the Superbowl. From YFL:
anticipating that an estimated 90 million viewers and one billion people around the globe will tune in,
What the hell is that supposed to mean? 90 million viewers I'll buy, but what the hell do you mean by "tune in". I doubt that on billion people are even watching television over the course of the Super Bowl. 95% of people outside the United States probably don't even know what the Super Bowl is.
I think Linus might change his tune if and when companies begin releasing de facto proprietary version of Linux on closed hardware platforms.
It's simple really. A hardware company, say Dell or Apple, build DRM systems that only allow binaries that are digitally signed to run on their systems. They then proceed to pilfer GPLv2 code, sign it to run on their system, and then never give out signatures to any FOSS people.
Dell sells a PCs, servers or Laptops running "Dell Signed Linux". Sure they give you the source, but they don't give you the keys. Linux becomes a closed OS on DRM platforms, with only the big companies able to turn the now useless source into working binaries. Cue the "Proprietary Linux" club, which will begin to look an awful lot like the Unix club.
To play devils advocate here, why isn't VMWare resorting to patents to muscle out the competition? Why compete when a government monopoly can take care of competition for you?
Thanks, EA, for killing two of my favorite franchises - Command and Conquer (whose universe EnB was set in, interestingly) and Wing Commander. You damn dirty apes.
Yes. Danme them all to hell.
The loud, bloody, slow and painful death throes of C&C that was C&C:Generals merits more than the company simply going broke. Their management should be drawn, quarters and hung by their entrails, and the video made into the new intro movie for the new C&C successor.
What I'm saying is that you should consider not just the fact that they're patenting software, but also what type of software they're patenting, why, and what they're doing with the patents.
Nope.
Software, all software, is simply a mathematical algorithim. Mathematical algorithms are unpatentable by the USPTOs own rules. Therefore, software is unpatentable.
Be advised however that the USPTO no longer considers non-patentability to be an obstacle to patentability.
Buying a used game for $20 is better than buying it new for $50 only to discover that it sucks.
Amen.
The best purchases are always those classic gems you pick up for cheap in the used section. I mean, it's a perfectly good game, in some cases a gaem, and all for a third the price.
Personally I'm sick of having to pay over $80 per game. This alone has largely stopped me buying. And in europe, we are paying $80 per game.
OMFG!! Cheap Patents!! No validation!! And it only starts ticking down after the other guy brings his product to market!! IP companies are on the up!!!! zOMFGBBQ!!!!11!11oneone!eleven!!
They'll bring the patents, and the USPTO will bring the stamps.
I mean, honestly. Isn't it at all possible that the heads of EA actually do wait 'till the end of the day, close the door to the executive boardroom, and let the goats loose and go to town?
A lot of SMEs uses unsecured and passwordless network shares for sharing company data. Data that is stored in, you guessed it, *.doc *.xls, etc, etc files. This virus looks for shared drives such as this and will corrupt the files on them tomorrow.
If only one PC in the company is effected, I can see a whole lot of sore heads tomorrow at lunchtime.
I guess I should have paid more attention to this one.
In regards to the theory that the tribes and Nations opposed to the Aztecs rose up and the Spanish simply were along for the ride, the number of estimated combatants in Tenochtitlán compared to the number in the Valley of Mexico alone show that the Aztecs were already greatly outnumbered and had been for decades. The Triple Alliance was too strong to be cracked by a raid and celebrate military, which was the sole military type in existence in Central America during this period.
An interesting read. From the last paragraph, I take it that the Aztec empire was in decline, or in danger of it, for some time prior to the Spanish arrival. The Spanish were then a catalyst for the empires collapse, albiet an extremely determined and effective one.
The researchers found that participants responded more quickly when the color of the odd-man-out had a different name than the color of the other squares -- as if the linguistic difference had heightened the perceptual difference -- but this only occurred if the odd-man-out was in the right half of the visual field, and not when it was in the left half. This was the predicted pattern.
The conclusions seem sound. The experiment even proved its aim that only the left half of the brain shows a difference. As the article mentions, the linguistic distinction seems to heighten the left hemisphere's ability to distinguish the actual color distinction. But does this show a fundamental difference in thought processes, or simply a type of learned response.
For example, imagine an experiment whereby you walk down the street wearing a T-shirt with a CCCP logo on it. Most people born after say, 1980 might not even bat an eyelid. Someone who grew up amid the 50's red scare, practicing taking shelter under their school desk, might suddenly find their eye transfixed on the logo, their heart rate increasing, and a sudden urge to duck beneath the nearest school desk.
So does something similar occur when you've been taught your whole life that blue and green are different colors, verses say, being told that green was just a kind of yellowy blue?
Prior to WWII, back when Russia and Germany had relatively friendly relations, a lot of German 'tourists' visited the USSR and had their photographs taken by various strategic landmarks, such as bridges and tunnels. The photographs intentionally included the nearby signs, which provided important parameters such as clearance and maximum allowable load.
This all seems very unnessesary. Why didn't they just purchase local Soviet roadmaps?
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Don't dismiss this idea too readily. I keep running across electromagnetism papers that have the wrong sign on terms, and that treat permittivity and permeability as constant in all cases.
If there are only a few dozen people that can understand general relitivity, then I sincerly hope they've checked all their figures. Time for more automated equation verification?
Taco, please hurry up with that 'meta' mod tag.
My mind can't even comprehend what going another direction (except for "backwards") would even mean as a concept.
It's easy. Just think of Sliders, or more succinctly, the TNG episode "Parallels".
Not to sound reproachful, but don't reinvent the wheel.
If you need a search tool, look around for a solution that someone else has already wasted years of their life on rather than have yourself do the same. Why recode, when you can download?
Before anyone begins, the link goes straight to the article, not Roland's blog.
Keep up the good work ScuttleMonkey.
It's true. The only question now is did anyone ever run black and white on a touchscreen. Possibly a moot point as nVidia have had gestures on thie driver software for a while now.
How can you spell "Craigslist" wrong three times in an article summary...about Craigslist????
ScuttleMonkey: Are you saying I can dodge spell checks?
* *B-B: No ScuttleMonkey. I'm saying when the time comes, you won't have to.
You're not impressing anybody.
Except the USPTO.
So, if Perl is good enough to manage Slashdot and Wiki, I imagine it's good enough to manage any "enterprise" site and is very much worth knowing.
The root of the problem here is that people try and make a distinction between "normal" applications and "enterprise level" ones. It's a construct of course. There's no real distinction between the two, except of the salaries a maintainer can expect to command.
I'm all for comedy on Slashdot, but these evolution "debates" make us all look stupid.
Bullshit!
There is absolutely no way, no way in hell that one sixth of the world's population both cares enough about, and has access to a broadcast of the Superbowl. From YFL:
What the hell is that supposed to mean? 90 million viewers I'll buy, but what the hell do you mean by "tune in". I doubt that on billion people are even watching television over the course of the Super Bowl. 95% of people outside the United States probably don't even know what the Super Bowl is.
I just wish the women in my life would have the common decency to just leave the seat up, as they found it.
It's supposed to stay up. People who think otherwise obviously haven't thought the sitution through thourghally.
I think Linus might change his tune if and when companies begin releasing de facto proprietary version of Linux on closed hardware platforms.
It's simple really. A hardware company, say Dell or Apple, build DRM systems that only allow binaries that are digitally signed to run on their systems. They then proceed to pilfer GPLv2 code, sign it to run on their system, and then never give out signatures to any FOSS people.
Dell sells a PCs, servers or Laptops running "Dell Signed Linux". Sure they give you the source, but they don't give you the keys. Linux becomes a closed OS on DRM platforms, with only the big companies able to turn the now useless source into working binaries. Cue the "Proprietary Linux" club, which will begin to look an awful lot like the Unix club.
To play devils advocate here, why isn't VMWare resorting to patents to muscle out the competition? Why compete when a government monopoly can take care of competition for you?
Are all their patents pending?
Thanks, EA, for killing two of my favorite franchises - Command and Conquer (whose universe EnB was set in, interestingly) and Wing Commander. You damn dirty apes.
Yes. Danme them all to hell.
The loud, bloody, slow and painful death throes of C&C that was C&C:Generals merits more than the company simply going broke. Their management should be drawn, quarters and hung by their entrails, and the video made into the new intro movie for the new C&C successor.
What I'm saying is that you should consider not just the fact that they're patenting software, but also what type of software they're patenting, why, and what they're doing with the patents.
Nope.
Software, all software, is simply a mathematical algorithim. Mathematical algorithms are unpatentable by the USPTOs own rules. Therefore, software is unpatentable.
Be advised however that the USPTO no longer considers non-patentability to be an obstacle to patentability.
There's no reason why you should lose potential income for having a conscience, while the government rewards everyone else for being greedy.
It's called Integrity. Some people have it. Some people don't.
Some people measure their worth by means other than their current business portfolio, though I understand this concept is becoming increasingly rare.
Buying a used game for $20 is better than buying it new for $50 only to discover that it sucks.
Amen.
The best purchases are always those classic gems you pick up for cheap in the used section. I mean, it's a perfectly good game, in some cases a gaem, and all for a third the price.
Personally I'm sick of having to pay over $80 per game. This alone has largely stopped me buying. And in europe, we are paying $80 per game.
OMFG!! Cheap Patents!! No validation!! And it only starts ticking down after the other guy brings his product to market!! IP companies are on the up!!!! zOMFGBBQ!!!!11!11oneone!eleven!!
They'll bring the patents, and the USPTO will bring the stamps.
I mean, honestly. Isn't it at all possible that the heads of EA actually do wait 'till the end of the day, close the door to the executive boardroom, and let the goats loose and go to town?
Not since Sarbanes-Oxley.
I'm sorry. You have attempted to apply logical and/or rational thought to the great mob mentality that is the modern stock market.
Please take two ritalins, rotate your stock portfolio by ninety degrees, and try again later.
This one will be more damaging than people think.
A lot of SMEs uses unsecured and passwordless network shares for sharing company data. Data that is stored in, you guessed it, *.doc *.xls, etc, etc files. This virus looks for shared drives such as this and will corrupt the files on them tomorrow.
If only one PC in the company is effected, I can see a whole lot of sore heads tomorrow at lunchtime.
I guess I should have paid more attention to this one.
In regards to the theory that the tribes and Nations opposed to the Aztecs rose up and the Spanish simply were along for the ride, the number of estimated combatants in Tenochtitlán compared to the number in the Valley of Mexico alone show that the Aztecs were already greatly outnumbered and had been for decades. The Triple Alliance was too strong to be cracked by a raid and celebrate military, which was the sole military type in existence in Central America during this period.
An interesting read. From the last paragraph, I take it that the Aztec empire was in decline, or in danger of it, for some time prior to the Spanish arrival. The Spanish were then a catalyst for the empires collapse, albiet an extremely determined and effective one.
The researchers found that participants responded more quickly when the color of the odd-man-out had a different name than the color of the other squares -- as if the linguistic difference had heightened the perceptual difference -- but this only occurred if the odd-man-out was in the right half of the visual field, and not when it was in the left half. This was the predicted pattern.
The conclusions seem sound. The experiment even proved its aim that only the left half of the brain shows a difference. As the article mentions, the linguistic distinction seems to heighten the left hemisphere's ability to distinguish the actual color distinction. But does this show a fundamental difference in thought processes, or simply a type of learned response.
For example, imagine an experiment whereby you walk down the street wearing a T-shirt with a CCCP logo on it. Most people born after say, 1980 might not even bat an eyelid. Someone who grew up amid the 50's red scare, practicing taking shelter under their school desk, might suddenly find their eye transfixed on the logo, their heart rate increasing, and a sudden urge to duck beneath the nearest school desk.
So does something similar occur when you've been taught your whole life that blue and green are different colors, verses say, being told that green was just a kind of yellowy blue?
Prior to WWII, back when Russia and Germany had relatively friendly relations, a lot of German 'tourists' visited the USSR and had their photographs taken by various strategic landmarks, such as bridges and tunnels. The photographs intentionally included the nearby signs, which provided important parameters such as clearance and maximum allowable load.
This all seems very unnessesary. Why didn't they just purchase local Soviet roadmaps?