Athlon and Opteron certainly weren't english words before AMD created them.
Funny. I drive to work every day on a road named Athllon Drive (spelt differently, pronounced the same). Have done for a number of years. Before that, I rode my bike along the same road to get to school.
Don't assume, just because you haven't heard it before, that a word is new. It may be borrowed (deliberately or accidentally) from another arena or another language.
you will be asked, in the very last field of the last window, for the last four digits of your social security number.
Child posts say they don't, but even if they did, how would they tell if you gave a fake? How would they know that your SSN doesn't end in 1234? Seem's a foolish thing to either believe of worry about.
PS. IANAA (I ain't a yank) so I'm only assuming that no organisation other than the government and perhaps your employer would know your SSN or be able to verify its veracity.
Could I come out with an operating system called OS X?
Try starting at OS I, then OS II... eventually OS IX then OS X. I distinctly remember something in US IP history that says you can't protect a number. X is just another number - I was going to say "just not in the common numerical system, then I realised that one place that system is commonly used is legal documents.
Long story short, go ahead, market an Operating System X - just make sure you lead up to it appropriately.
Oh yeah, that worked so well for those chinese students who stood in front of tanks. Publicly stood up for their cause, died for their cause, on international TV even. Their cause? No better off, but westerners felt sorry for them for a few weeks.
You can get them on pirated DVD in south-east asia. (can you picture those evil DVD pirates, with eye-patches and parrots? Perhaps I should have said "DVDs produced without the written permission of the holder of american-never-ending-copyright"
Is this "flamebait" or "informative"? I guess I shouldn't post while drunk.
"We plan on building a pharos tomb, please send money,This is no pyramid scheme."
That would be so much funnier if you got your punctuation right. Suggest you spell "pharaoh" correctly, add an apostrophe between pharaoh and the possessive "s", move the comma from immediately before the "t" in "this" to immediately after the "y" in "money", and finally either using a lower case "t" in "this" or replacing the now moved comma with a full stop.
Or just cut and paste from below:
"We plan on building a pharaoh's tomb, please send money. This is no pyramid scheme."
TFA gave a Dept. Defence example of password security, showing how to make a 7-odd character alpha-numeric password but mentioning that it would take 60 days or so to crack, so change it that often.
The question is, if my password is something like "Peter P!per p!cked a packet of green frankfurts - p!ckled peppers were out of stock" how long between password changes?
The only thing that's killed my optical drives is heat. A 40 degree (celcius) day in a poorly insulated room sorted out a CD burner and a CD ROM, a case with too many drives and too few fans killed a CD/DVD combo.
Anyway, I replaced the CD/DVD combo with a DVD drive from a cheap player that was destroyed by a power surge - the DVD ROM drive in it was of the PC type and still good.
No, that was "minitures" games. RPGs are played with character sheets, dice, and imagination.
I used to play Rifts (by Palladium). Minatures are just pointless where you've got fighting machines travelling at hundreds of knots, firing at targets over the horizon and moving between sea, land, air and space within minutes of game time.
In fact, I wouldn't have wanted minatures, or even best-in-the-world-of-50-years-later projection, animation and hologram devices. The point of role play is imagination and... strangely enough... role play.
How can you achieve that when you're watching and directing the action rather than being part of it?
Enhancing the imagination? I don't want players who need visual cues like that.
To be fair, the wheel patent was of a type called an "innovation patent" which the patent office (IP Australia) does not even look at unless it's contested. You can literally patent anything, wheels, breathing, whatever. They let the general public do the initial analysis, and the patent is easily revoked. IP Australia also grant normal patents which are investigated properly - they even look at prior art which isn't patented!
They tried this in Australia, editing child porn to get public leads. Unfortunately they sent out the wrong copies. The AFP (Australian Federal Police) sent thousands of school principles a collection of child porn your average pornogapher would be jealous of.
Here's the link to the news articals: Police send porn to schools.
Unless the antenna has an actual amplifier on it, it does not increase the power output of the transmitter. It simply alters the radiation pattern, instead of spreading the signal out in a sphere, it concentrates it into something closer to a cone.
For more information see (for example) this site or any HAM radio site.
You're thinking of something like this.
Fresh water entering the antarctic isn't a problem, but in the arctic it could switch off the gulf stream and mess up the weather all over the atlantic.
Aside from looking cool and being important to penguins (the two things that the article seems to focus on) this can affect things that are actually important.
The ice tongue that the iceberg is going to hit is the ocean end of a glacier. If that is knocked off by the collision that could be like pulling the cork from a bottle. It may cause the glacier to discharge into the more rapidly than it otherwise would, raising sea levels.
I think you hit the nail on the head with "too many cooks". Committees make poor products, driven individuals or small teams of driven team members make the best products.
I suspect that the only think keeping Microsoft up there is weight of (really quite recent) history.
By comparing "Free Software" to "Donated Software", you are, amazingly, missing the intended meaning of the word free. I say amazingly because of how many times the phrase "free as in free speech, not free as in free beer" turns up. Surely you're aware of your mistake.
Sell your free software.
If you can't manage that, go work for a company that uses custom software and spend your time writing, managing or updating their internal software. There's several hundreds of programmers employed at my place of work (an Australian government agency) who make a crust writing programs that are not intended to be sold or distributed.
Of course you'd get paid. Hell, I'd pay for good free software if no one were making it for free and I wanted it.
Okay, perhaps your employer wouldn't make quite such huge profits, but for example look at RMS, he made money for quite some time selling copies of free emacs.
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Athlon and Opteron certainly weren't english words before AMD created them.
Funny. I drive to work every day on a road named Athllon Drive (spelt differently, pronounced the same). Have done for a number of years. Before that, I rode my bike along the same road to get to school.
Don't assume, just because you haven't heard it before, that a word is new. It may be borrowed (deliberately or accidentally) from another arena or another language.
you will be asked, in the very last field of the last window, for the last four digits of your social security number.
Child posts say they don't, but even if they did, how would they tell if you gave a fake? How would they know that your SSN doesn't end in 1234? Seem's a foolish thing to either believe of worry about.
PS. IANAA (I ain't a yank) so I'm only assuming that no organisation other than the government and perhaps your employer would know your SSN or be able to verify its veracity.
Could I come out with an operating system called OS X?
Try starting at OS I, then OS II... eventually OS IX then OS X. I distinctly remember something in US IP history that says you can't protect a number. X is just another number - I was going to say "just not in the common numerical system, then I realised that one place that system is commonly used is legal documents. Long story short, go ahead, market an Operating System X - just make sure you lead up to it appropriately.
Oh yeah, that worked so well for those chinese students who stood in front of tanks. Publicly stood up for their cause, died for their cause, on international TV even. Their cause? No better off, but westerners felt sorry for them for a few weeks.
You can get them on pirated DVD in south-east asia. (can you picture those evil DVD pirates, with eye-patches and parrots? Perhaps I should have said "DVDs produced without the written permission of the holder of american-never-ending-copyright"
Is this "flamebait" or "informative"? I guess I shouldn't post while drunk.
There's been at least one physicist saying that solar sails won't work.
I've got a Minolta :)
TFA gave a Dept. Defence example of password security, showing how to make a 7-odd character alpha-numeric password but mentioning that it would take 60 days or so to crack, so change it that often.
The question is, if my password is something like "Peter P!per p!cked a packet of green frankfurts - p!ckled peppers were out of stock" how long between password changes?
The only thing that's killed my optical drives is heat. A 40 degree (celcius) day in a poorly insulated room sorted out a CD burner and a CD ROM, a case with too many drives and too few fans killed a CD/DVD combo.
Anyway, I replaced the CD/DVD combo with a DVD drive from a cheap player that was destroyed by a power surge - the DVD ROM drive in it was of the PC type and still good.
No, that was "minitures" games. RPGs are played with character sheets, dice, and imagination. I used to play Rifts (by Palladium). Minatures are just pointless where you've got fighting machines travelling at hundreds of knots, firing at targets over the horizon and moving between sea, land, air and space within minutes of game time. In fact, I wouldn't have wanted minatures, or even best-in-the-world-of-50-years-later projection, animation and hologram devices. The point of role play is imagination and... strangely enough... role play. How can you achieve that when you're watching and directing the action rather than being part of it? Enhancing the imagination? I don't want players who need visual cues like that.
To be fair, the wheel patent was of a type called an "innovation patent" which the patent office (IP Australia) does not even look at unless it's contested. You can literally patent anything, wheels, breathing, whatever. They let the general public do the initial analysis, and the patent is easily revoked. IP Australia also grant normal patents which are investigated properly - they even look at prior art which isn't patented!
The wheel has already been patented here in Australia
/me is glad US idiot patents are limited to the US. /me is sad - We've got an FTA with the US. Idiot patents are a US export.
Why trollify this???? It's a plaintext-ification of the original PDF. I'd have expected "Informative".
They tried this in Australia, editing child porn to get public leads. Unfortunately they sent out the wrong copies. The AFP (Australian Federal Police) sent thousands of school principles a collection of child porn your average pornogapher would be jealous of. Here's the link to the news articals: Police send porn to schools.
Unless the antenna has an actual amplifier on it, it does not increase the power output of the transmitter. It simply alters the radiation pattern, instead of spreading the signal out in a sphere, it concentrates it into something closer to a cone.
For more information see (for example) this site or any HAM radio site.
Funny, that. If you'd posted http://www.google.com.au/grphp?hl=en&tab=wg&q= you'd have been modded insightful.
Informative? what have the moderators been smoking? I'd go with a funny mod - it's only informative if he gives us a link to a download site!
You're thinking of something like this.
Fresh water entering the antarctic isn't a problem, but in the arctic it could switch off the gulf stream and mess up the weather all over the atlantic.
Aside from looking cool and being important to penguins (the two things that the article seems to focus on) this can affect things that are actually important.
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The ice tongue that the iceberg is going to hit is the ocean end of a glacier. If that is knocked off by the collision that could be like pulling the cork from a bottle. It may cause the glacier to discharge into the more rapidly than it otherwise would, raising sea levels.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg184
So what happens when I make some idiot VB exe for my girlfriend Claria and name it after her?
Sure, use filename matching as one way to quickly search, but before shouting that it's infected, how's about checking it first Microsoft?
I think you hit the nail on the head with "too many cooks". Committees make poor products, driven individuals or small teams of driven team members make the best products.
I suspect that the only think keeping Microsoft up there is weight of (really quite recent) history.
By comparing "Free Software" to "Donated Software", you are, amazingly, missing the intended meaning of the word free. I say amazingly because of how many times the phrase "free as in free speech, not free as in free beer" turns up. Surely you're aware of your mistake.
Sell your free software.
If you can't manage that, go work for a company that uses custom software and spend your time writing, managing or updating their internal software. There's several hundreds of programmers employed at my place of work (an Australian government agency) who make a crust writing programs that are not intended to be sold or distributed.
Of course you'd get paid. Hell, I'd pay for good free software if no one were making it for free and I wanted it.
Okay, perhaps your employer wouldn't make quite such huge profits, but for example look at RMS, he made money for quite some time selling copies of free emacs.