A bank note QR code would refer to a single site. It would not go to "the world". Input hardening in such a case should be reasonably trivial. And if it failed to have the proper form it would be false.
Whole room projection has been in scifi forever and a whole bunch of researchers have done it before some with moving floors.
Where this MS patent is different and where it becomes patentable is "main display" and "secondary display" and merging the two. It envisions your TV as your main display, with some sort of secondary projector to do the rest of the room and the secondary projection will merge with what is on the TV.
Flight simulators have used multiple merged screens for years. But the MS idea of primary and secondary is slightly different.
Following the close of a polling station, the deputy returning officer in an electoral district counts the votes, in the presence of the poll clerk, and any candidates or their representatives who are present, or, if none are present, in the presence of at least two electors. Before the count, the deputy returning officer must, in the following order:
* count the number of electors who voted and enter the number in the poll book
* count the spoiled ballots, place them in the envelope provided for that purpose, indicate the number of spoiled ballots on the envelope and seal it
* count the unused ballots, place them in the envelope provided for that purpose, indicate their number on the envelope and seal the envelope
* ensure that all ballots provided are accounted for
The deputy returning officer then empties the contents of the ballot box onto a table to proceed with the count.
During the count, the deputy returning officer examines each ballot, shows it to each person present and asks the poll clerk to tally the vote in favour of the candidate for whom the vote was cast. The poll clerk (along with any of the candidates or their representatives who also wish to do so) keeps a tally of the votes for each candidate.
Climate on a penninsula is vulnerable to changes in ocean currents. I would say nothing to see here unless global climates can be correlated with the local climate.
This is infront of a jury. "We had 22 witnesses ready, but were denied time to present their testimony" "They were ready to say all sorts of things to support us"
It is all about getting the jury on your side. Being "unable to present your case" is one such method. And the other side cannot cross examine imagined testimony.
http://youaskandy.com/questions-answers/25-article-series-1950/16332--why-do-we-have-to-graft-fruit-trees.html There are other advantages to grafting. A grafted fruit tree may be made to grow in new places. A peach likes sandy, wellsanded soil. The plum tree likes poorly drained soil. Peach can be grafted onto plum stock growing in soggy soil. Plum can be grafted,into peach stock growing in looses sandy soil. So we get peaches and plums growing where they have never grown before.
Grafting also helps to keep down plait pests and disease. Some fruit trees cannot be hurt by this pest or that disease. These trees form fine stock, though the fruit may be poor,. ----
Risk taker. The Beta ran fine and I made the decision based on that. They broke Linux operation between Beta and Release.
> you are a moron. and the game companys favorite type of customer. clueless.
None of the games are guaranteed to work on Linux. I would not have any games if I was not "a moron" and did the safe thing and only get games guaranteed to work.
Also it is an MMO with a recurring monthly fee. Sure they got my up front cash, and I accepted a risk on that. But they did not get any monthly fee's out of me. So that is their loss of a potential monthly customer. I have money to spare to get games, they are not getting any more of it.
Also I game with a small group of friends, they did the fun thing in the new game. But the whole group moved on more quicker than otherwise because I could not play. So this was a loss of several monthly subscriptions because I was not supported.
Is the problem there are no gamers on Linux or the problem there are no games on Linux?
I am Linux only. I play MassEffect, Skyrim, MindCraft, LoTRO, GuildWars, played WoW for far to long. I will play GuildWars2.
I paid for but have still not activated SW:ToR. It worked on Linux in Beta and then they did a zig/zag and it did not. I know there is a wine patch. Just have not done it and interest in doing so is decling.
I am a paying Linux gamer. I would have given more money to SW:ToR, but they broke their game on Linux.
When Steam does it's "Check System" thing it reports my machine as windows *sigh*, so I am not even sure I am counted. There is a Linux market, just not sure anyone knows it.
Throw that one guy out as a strange "outlier" and the number is zero. That is more believeable.
Lies, damn lies and statistics. Grarbage in garbage out.
If it was only one person out of a full one thousand sample then the sample size is way to small to be statistically significant. Whoever did the statistical analysis should be fired. With that low a report rate you don't know it is 1/1e6 or 1/1e9 and you just got unlucky in the sample.
Currently it is a race to be fast and their are all sorts of manipulations about being fast and doing algorithmic trading. Dropping back to a single trade resolution per day would make it so much cleaner. Or may as many as 4 just to keep the traders occupied.
Trades would be done with 2 parts. The trade info which would be encoded and a seprate unlock key. The trade and key are kept separate until resolution begins. That way trades can be logged, verified and locked yet unknown before the resolution point And fully published to all after the resolution.
You want a screen on the front. Ok it will be flat in front. You want to minimize cost. Ok as few elements as possible You want to use it flat on a desk. Ok it will be flat in the back. You want it to fit in a pocket. Ok it will be rectangular..... form follows function. Similar function means similar form.
To take part in a democracy the citizens are supposed to make educated informed voting choices. How do you do this if you don't understand growth rates, investment income, cost per person of wars. One should not take the opinion of news pieces one should take the facts about things and be able to form ones own opinion.
Proper democracy requires education. Math most of all in our financially driven economies.
If it is a system, it can be hacked. No system should ever take validation as 100% proof.
'We think biometrics is something that can be actually used by the people and it becomes their technology that they use to protect themselves.'" This from the banking system that brought us 4 digit PIN codes that were considered perfect validation. *sigh*
A billion electrons per-second = 1x10^9 which is a lot less than 1A. A billion electrons per-second = 10^9/6.241x10^18 = 0.160nA = 160pA = 160x10^(-12) A (160 pico-amperes so pretty much the number in the article).
So while this might be a whole wack load electrons for this type of device it really is not much.
Also it might make you respect your hose wiring a little more. Your 200A house service is (200*1A) = 1.2482x10^21 electrons per second.
Programming is selecting an algorithm to achive a behavior. Writing a program is using a particular language to express a defined algorithm. Somewhere inbetween the programming and the writing is the selection of the language to use.
If you only learn one language you are not learning programming.
I had a liberal prof for computing 101. They said we could write the matrix solving program tasked in any standard language we wanted as long as we stuck to the language basics and not precanned libraries. I selected APL.
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A bank note QR code would refer to a single site. It would not go to "the world".
Input hardening in such a case should be reasonably trivial. And if it failed to have the proper form it would be false.
Whole room projection has been in scifi forever and a whole bunch of researchers have done it before some with moving floors.
Where this MS patent is different and where it becomes patentable is "main display" and "secondary display" and merging the two.
It envisions your TV as your main display, with some sort of secondary projector to do the rest of the room and the secondary projection will merge with what is on the TV.
Flight simulators have used multiple merged screens for years. But the MS idea of primary and secondary is slightly different.
> Why wasn't this an issue in this appeal?
Justice is only as good as the lawyer you can pay for.
Somewhat seriously. The aristocrats of the Capitalistic system are totally messing with us.
We get away with hand counting because any one poll (vote collection point) is less than a thousand people. Each riding is many polls.
See Elections Canada for Details: what happens after a vote -
http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=bkg&document=ec90565&lang=e
Following the close of a polling station, the deputy returning officer in an electoral district counts the votes, in the presence of the poll clerk, and any candidates or their representatives who are present, or, if none are present, in the presence of at least two electors. Before the count, the deputy returning officer must, in the following order:
* count the number of electors who voted and enter the number in the poll book
* count the spoiled ballots, place them in the envelope provided for that purpose, indicate the number of spoiled ballots on the envelope and seal it
* count the unused ballots, place them in the envelope provided for that purpose, indicate their number on the envelope and seal the envelope
* ensure that all ballots provided are accounted for
The deputy returning officer then empties the contents of the ballot box onto a table to proceed with the count.
During the count, the deputy returning officer examines each ballot, shows it to each person present and asks the poll clerk to tally the vote in favour of the candidate for whom the vote was cast. The poll clerk (along with any of the candidates or their representatives who also wish to do so) keeps a tally of the votes for each candidate.
Legislation of this type is a measure of how easy the political process is to buy in a nation.
Congrats to Malaysia on being number one.
Are they more or less likely to spontaneously errupt in flames when on, or when off?
Climate on a penninsula is vulnerable to changes in ocean currents. I would say nothing to see here unless global climates can be correlated with the local climate.
This is not about a functional Desktop OS.
That is not the mouse Microsoft is currently chasing.
Microsoft is chasing the mobile-platform space and a tied application store.
Where do the spectators sit?
This is infront of a jury.
"We had 22 witnesses ready, but were denied time to present their testimony"
"They were ready to say all sorts of things to support us"
It is all about getting the jury on your side. Being "unable to present your case" is one such method.
And the other side cannot cross examine imagined testimony.
The grafting of fruit trees is very common.
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http://youaskandy.com/questions-answers/25-article-series-1950/16332--why-do-we-have-to-graft-fruit-trees.html ,into peach stock growing in looses sandy soil. So we get peaches and plums growing where they have never grown before.
There are other advantages to grafting. A grafted fruit tree may be made to grow in new places. A peach likes sandy, wellsanded soil. The plum tree likes poorly drained soil. Peach can be grafted onto plum stock growing in soggy soil. Plum can be grafted
Grafting also helps to keep down plait pests and disease. Some fruit trees cannot be hurt by this pest or that disease. These trees form fine stock, though the fruit may be poor,.
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Risk taker. The Beta ran fine and I made the decision based on that. They broke Linux operation between Beta and Release.
> you are a moron. and the game companys favorite type of customer. clueless.
None of the games are guaranteed to work on Linux. I would not have any games if I was not "a moron" and did the safe thing and only get games guaranteed to work.
Also it is an MMO with a recurring monthly fee. Sure they got my up front cash, and I accepted a risk on that. But they did not get any monthly fee's out of me. So that is their loss of a potential monthly customer. I have money to spare to get games, they are not getting any more of it.
Also I game with a small group of friends, they did the fun thing in the new game. But the whole group moved on more quicker than otherwise because I could not play. So this was a loss of several monthly subscriptions because I was not supported.
Is the problem there are no gamers on Linux or the problem there are no games on Linux?
I am Linux only.
I play MassEffect, Skyrim, MindCraft, LoTRO, GuildWars, played WoW for far to long.
I will play GuildWars2.
I paid for but have still not activated SW:ToR. It worked on Linux in Beta and then they did a zig/zag and it did not. I know there is a wine patch. Just have not done it and interest in doing so is decling.
I am a paying Linux gamer. I would have given more money to SW:ToR, but they broke their game on Linux.
When Steam does it's "Check System" thing it reports my machine as windows *sigh*, so I am not even sure I am counted.
There is a Linux market, just not sure anyone knows it.
Throw that one guy out as a strange "outlier" and the number is zero. That is more believeable.
Lies, damn lies and statistics. Grarbage in garbage out.
If it was only one person out of a full one thousand sample then the sample size is way to small to be statistically significant. Whoever did the statistical analysis should be fired. With that low a report rate you don't know it is 1/1e6 or 1/1e9 and you just got unlucky in the sample.
Why not just a single trade resolution per day ?
Currently it is a race to be fast and their are all sorts of manipulations about being fast and doing algorithmic trading.
Dropping back to a single trade resolution per day would make it so much cleaner. Or may as many as 4 just to keep the traders occupied.
Trades would be done with 2 parts. The trade info which would be encoded and a seprate unlock key. The trade and key are kept separate until resolution begins. That way trades can be logged, verified and locked yet unknown before the resolution point And fully published to all after the resolution.
You want a screen on the front. Ok it will be flat in front. .... form follows function. Similar function means similar form.
You want to minimize cost. Ok as few elements as possible
You want to use it flat on a desk. Ok it will be flat in the back.
You want it to fit in a pocket. Ok it will be rectangular.
I am keeping this focused on poli-sci.
To take part in a democracy the citizens are supposed to make educated informed voting choices. How do you do this if you don't understand growth rates, investment income, cost per person of wars. One should not take the opinion of news pieces one should take the facts about things and be able to form ones own opinion.
Proper democracy requires education. Math most of all in our financially driven economies.
Scan the eyeball it has a deep 3d structure that is unique: opps,
Researchers create synthetic iris that can defeat eye-scanning security systems:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/26/3188518/synthetic-iris-scanning-security.
See all the ways to cheat on drug piss tests ....
If it is a system, it can be hacked. No system should ever take validation as 100% proof.
'We think biometrics is something that can be actually used by the people and it becomes their technology that they use to protect themselves.'"
This from the banking system that brought us 4 digit PIN codes that were considered perfect validation. *sigh*
The lawyers profit. It is their game.
1. Petition for patents on everything.
2. File Patent lawsuit with billable hours.
3. Profit.
Say goodbye to a whole lot more mid-level jobs. This is the path we are going down, labor is expensive.
But what is the cost of a large unemployed population ?
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2011/03/strange-planet-real-life-up-ho-1.html
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/upinspired-floating-house-14
It even had a real aviation tail number N878UP Experimental.
A number of open text books are now being created in response to this.
The publishers will get their wish and be destroyed in the process.
A billion electrons per-second = 1x10^9 which is a lot less than 1A.
A billion electrons per-second = 10^9/6.241x10^18 = 0.160nA = 160pA = 160x10^(-12) A (160 pico-amperes so pretty much the number in the article).
So while this might be a whole wack load electrons for this type of device it really is not much.
Also it might make you respect your hose wiring a little more.
Your 200A house service is (200*1A) = 1.2482x10^21 electrons per second.
Programming is selecting an algorithm to achive a behavior.
Writing a program is using a particular language to express a defined algorithm.
Somewhere inbetween the programming and the writing is the selection of the language to use.
If you only learn one language you are not learning programming.
I had a liberal prof for computing 101. They said we could write the matrix solving program tasked in any standard language we wanted as long as we stuck to the language basics and not precanned libraries. I selected APL.