The Wheels of Justice do grind slowly, but they are grinding in the right direction. IBM, Novell, and all the Good Guys(tm) will eventually win. And then the countersuits will destroy SCO. Hopefully, the countersuits will destroy Darl. Also, we don't want the judge to make a mistake here. If he had thrown the case out, SCO would appeal it back in and things would take even longer. We want IBM/Novell/Good Guys(tm) to win fair and square. It is a clear cut case, they just need to make sure SCO can't claim they were beaten unfairly... because they will anyway.:)
I think this is the point. By hard to calculate, you mean it cannot be calculated with a turing complete machine. The description needs to be something you can feed to a TM and get a number back. (If I understand the topic.:))
Perhaps not. Good products need advertising as well. Remember that these listeners don't know what they want to hear until they hear it. Paid placements get them to hear it so they will want to hear it.
Remember that radio stations take money to run. A radio station that manages to get the RIAA to pay for the music is making the money flow in the right direction.
Actually, IBM may be able to Pierce the Corporate Veil and go after Darl himself. While they may or may not be able to put him in jail, they can sue him for way more than he owns (which is much more than he is worth). In order to go after Darl, IBM would have to prove three things: (quoted from linked article)
According to the court, the instrumentality rule requires proof of three elements:
complete domination and control of both the entity's policy and business practices;
use of such control to commit fraud or wrong, breach of a legal duty, or a dishonest or unjust act (such as using such control to avoid personal liability previously assumed by an individual); and
that the aforesaid control and breach of duty must proximately cause the injury or loss.
IMO, the Nazgul should have no trouble with showing these in a countersuit. Darl is not going to be out of hot water any time soon.
I don't claim to understand all of this, but it seems to either do nothing or do way to much.
(f) "fixation" means the embodiment of sounds or of images or of images and sounds or of
the representations thereof, from which they can be perceived, reproduced or communicated
through a device;
Ok, one view says that you are not fixing the signal, you are fixing the "interpretation" of the signal. The signal itself is modulated EMR.
However, the bad physics aside, this seems to prohibit (or allow Broadcasting Organizations (BOs) to prohibit) (nearly?) all recording. No more VCRs. No more time- or space-shifting. As written, this might even apply to a person with a very good memory! If I watch TV on my PC (not common around here, but definately possible), the image gets stored in RAM. Worse yet, it might be swapped onto the hard drive. This would make that illegal. Modern TVs have chips and RAM in them. There is no limitation on how long a fixation has to stick around to be illegal.
There are more examples, but that is more than enough. This is a bad plan and the writers should be brought up on drug charges.
"Broadcasting" means the wireless transmission to the public of sounds and/or images, including transmissions via satellite or other radio waves that propagate freely in space.
Wireless transmission would indeed cover everything you say. Not only that, you are reflecting lightrays from about your person. Outlaw mirrors!
It occurs to me that with calculators as powerful and flexable as they are today, giving the user the ability to switch between RPN and Infix mode would not be out of the question. I am as big a fan of RPN as the next geek, but when my teacher gives me a complicated equation in infix, just being able to copy it straight into the calculator without having to convert it can be useful. Especially for the calculators that are nearly PDAs, HP should consider making Infix and RPN both options.
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Perhaps by the content?
Dude you have a lot of friends that exactly the same age as you!
The Wheels of Justice do grind slowly, but they are grinding in the right direction. IBM, Novell, and all the Good Guys(tm) will eventually win. And then the countersuits will destroy SCO. Hopefully, the countersuits will destroy Darl. Also, we don't want the judge to make a mistake here. If he had thrown the case out, SCO would appeal it back in and things would take even longer. We want IBM/Novell/Good Guys(tm) to win fair and square. It is a clear cut case, they just need to make sure SCO can't claim they were beaten unfairly... because they will anyway. :)
I am not a mathematition, but I think it is any axiomatic system capable of expressing simple arithmetic.
Perhaps not. Good products need advertising as well. Remember that these listeners don't know what they want to hear until they hear it. Paid placements get them to hear it so they will want to hear it. Remember that radio stations take money to run. A radio station that manages to get the RIAA to pay for the music is making the money flow in the right direction.
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*looks around sheepishly* *slowly raises hand* It was a very bad joke, but sadly, still funny. :)
I don't claim to understand all of this, but it seems to either do nothing or do way to much.
Ok, one view says that you are not fixing the signal, you are fixing the "interpretation" of the signal. The signal itself is modulated EMR.
However, the bad physics aside, this seems to prohibit (or allow Broadcasting Organizations (BOs) to prohibit) (nearly?) all recording. No more VCRs. No more time- or space-shifting. As written, this might even apply to a person with a very good memory! If I watch TV on my PC (not common around here, but definately possible), the image gets stored in RAM. Worse yet, it might be swapped onto the hard drive. This would make that illegal. Modern TVs have chips and RAM in them. There is no limitation on how long a fixation has to stick around to be illegal.
There are more examples, but that is more than enough. This is a bad plan and the writers should be brought up on drug charges.
It occurs to me that with calculators as powerful and flexable as they are today, giving the user the ability to switch between RPN and Infix mode would not be out of the question. I am as big a fan of RPN as the next geek, but when my teacher gives me a complicated equation in infix, just being able to copy it straight into the calculator without having to convert it can be useful. Especially for the calculators that are nearly PDAs, HP should consider making Infix and RPN both options.