The quake was the 6th of april, and the toads already sensed it 5 days before that... What a marvelous coincidence that this news reaches us *exactly* one year later. We should declare this day a worldwide holiday to celebrate the glory of toads!
Five days you say? Hmm... 365 days in a year... minus five days for unanticipated toad activity... that's 360... a circle has 360 degrees... the Earth is a circle (this was proven years ago by that guy with the boats who does have a day named after him)... the Earth has earthquakes... Ah Ha! This isn't a coincidence, it's a geometrically based inevitability!
No, I heard the researcher on the radio yesterday; the toads unexpectedly left the area for a few days & whilst they were gone, the quake hit; the toads returned after the quake
I'm sorry to be the one to have to burst this bubble, but toads cannot travel far enough in a couple of days to leave the large area affected by an earthquake. And if they just so happened to be right out the outlying portion of the area affected by the earthquake, then they would have been too far away from the epicenter to have detected it anyway, if they could, which they can't, because they are toads.
Software (meaning the code) is copyrightable and should not be patentable.
Let me give you an oversimplified example:
* Take 100 programmers from this website (rookies, dinosaurs and everything in between)
* Assign them all the exact same task: write software to solve a specific business problem
* Require them all to work in isolation so there can be no sharing of ideas or solutions
* On your marks, get ready, go!
Chances are that most (if not all) will come up with a solution that addresses the specific problem that needed to be solved (as well as assorted other features and functionality because, hey, we are programmers). There is also a very good chance that more than one will come up with the same solution, or similar enough that it would "qualify" as a patent violation. So, who gets the patent?
* Is it the first person to finish, even if their solution is clumsy or inelegant or inefficient?
* Is it the best solution? Who judges this?
* What about the people who came up with the same (or similar) solutions independently?
* Should whomever gets the patent be able to sue the other 99 people for patent infringement just because they arrived at a similar or different business solution independently?
That's one of the basic problems with software patents. And that alone is enough to make me think software patents are just a bad idea.
I say we patent this type of solution and then release it under a [insert name of least controversial open source license here] license so it can spread like Gonorrhea throughout other governments.
I do understand where this confusion comes from, I really do, but is it so hard for people to wrap their minds around the idea of arbitrary version numbers?... Bigger numbers mean better, right?
Let me introduce you to the basic concept of 11. Yes, bigger numbers are better (unless they're your/. ID, and then smaller numbers are better).
A customer in the past justifies pirating in the future? By that definition you'd pay once, and get to pirate for life.
Most of the things in life are not free. If the price for something is higher than you're willing or able to pay for it then you just don't get to have it - unless you get it as a gift or you steal it. That's just the way the world works. Wanting it, but not wanting it bad enough to pay the price for it, doesn't mean it's OK to just take it.
We all can't have everything we want. Taking something because we want it, but don't want to pay for it, isn't right. Is that really such a hard concept to grasp?
Also, they used to produce a quality product. Most of the dreck they spew forth isn't worth watching, let alone purchasing. How many bad remakes of originally mediocre films can Hollywood pump out? Too many, that's how many.
The objective is to scare all the people currently pirating into buying.
I disagree. It is to scare all the people currently pirating into not pirating. These are not people who are looking to buy the movies so they will just go without.
It was argued in a thread the other day that they are customers, but I disagree. If you steal/take/pirate/etc then you're not really a customer. On the other hand, if you're a producer of content and then you prevent your actual customers from making legitimate copies of your content (backups, copy of a CD for the car and at home, etc) then you're not really a producer - you're a greedy corporate parasite trying to squeeze unearned revenue out of legitimate customers.
What do you get when you try to squeeze your customers in unfair and unreasonable ways? Piracy, um, non-paying customers.
Apple includes Flash in OS X Safari updates. I always have to remove it after updating Safari (last one was the upgrade to 4.0.5). I had to remove it again last night after applying the 10.6.3 update.
I don't know if they include it in updates to Safari for Windows, but I know I'm sick of them including it in the OS X versions.
Actually, IE 8 and Windows 7 are listed in that very link you posted.
Internet Explorer 8:
* Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows XP Service Pack 3
* Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2
* Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
* Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2
* Windows Vista, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, and Windows Vista Service Pack 2
* Windows Vista x64 Edition, Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 1, and Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 2
* Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems and Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2**
* Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems and Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2**
* Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems * Windows 7 for x64-based Systems * Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems**
* Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems
I would feel much safer. Drivers are the cause of most crashes. If they can be replaced with something more reliable it would be a huge improvement.
Let's ask Toyota owners how they feel about 'driverless cars'. All it takes is one small problem, or even an incompatible system amongst the many manufacturers (keep in mind that odds are they all won't be running Linux).
I think he got hit by lightning, or drowned in a flood, or broke his neck falling down the stairs in front of a church. No matter what it was that got him, I'm betting it was ironic.
You are mistaken. Any number of "accidental catastrophes" could befall an operator. House fire, robbery, drive-by shooting, "random" murder during the commission of a robbery...
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... my iPad had a camera and supported Flash.
They heard the judge tell his wife when he called to ask "What's for dinner?"
The quake was the 6th of april, and the toads already sensed it 5 days before that... What a marvelous coincidence that this news reaches us *exactly* one year later. We should declare this day a worldwide holiday to celebrate the glory of toads!
Five days you say? Hmm ... 365 days in a year ... minus five days for unanticipated toad activity ... that's 360 ... a circle has 360 degrees ... the Earth is a circle (this was proven years ago by that guy with the boats who does have a day named after him) ... the Earth has earthquakes ... Ah Ha! This isn't a coincidence, it's a geometrically based inevitability!
No, I heard the researcher on the radio yesterday; the toads unexpectedly left the area for a few days & whilst they were gone, the quake hit; the toads returned after the quake
I'm sorry to be the one to have to burst this bubble, but toads cannot travel far enough in a couple of days to leave the large area affected by an earthquake. And if they just so happened to be right out the outlying portion of the area affected by the earthquake, then they would have been too far away from the epicenter to have detected it anyway, if they could, which they can't, because they are toads.
Let me introduce you to Mr Kettle. But, you two should be very well acquainted by now anyway.
If this is the best MS can do then they need to work on their game. I expect the whole MS/Apple/Google wars to get ugly.
Software (meaning the code) is copyrightable and should not be patentable.
Let me give you an oversimplified example:
* Take 100 programmers from this website (rookies, dinosaurs and everything in between)
* Assign them all the exact same task: write software to solve a specific business problem
* Require them all to work in isolation so there can be no sharing of ideas or solutions
* On your marks, get ready, go!
Chances are that most (if not all) will come up with a solution that addresses the specific problem that needed to be solved (as well as assorted other features and functionality because, hey, we are programmers). There is also a very good chance that more than one will come up with the same solution, or similar enough that it would "qualify" as a patent violation. So, who gets the patent?
* Is it the first person to finish, even if their solution is clumsy or inelegant or inefficient?
* Is it the best solution? Who judges this?
* What about the people who came up with the same (or similar) solutions independently?
* Should whomever gets the patent be able to sue the other 99 people for patent infringement just because they arrived at a similar or different business solution independently?
That's one of the basic problems with software patents. And that alone is enough to make me think software patents are just a bad idea.
I say we patent this type of solution and then release it under a [insert name of least controversial open source license here] license so it can spread like Gonorrhea throughout other governments.
I do understand where this confusion comes from, I really do, but is it so hard for people to wrap their minds around the idea of arbitrary version numbers? ... Bigger numbers mean better, right?
Let me introduce you to the basic concept of 11. Yes, bigger numbers are better (unless they're your /. ID, and then smaller numbers are better).
A customer in the past justifies pirating in the future? By that definition you'd pay once, and get to pirate for life.
Most of the things in life are not free. If the price for something is higher than you're willing or able to pay for it then you just don't get to have it - unless you get it as a gift or you steal it. That's just the way the world works. Wanting it, but not wanting it bad enough to pay the price for it, doesn't mean it's OK to just take it.
We all can't have everything we want. Taking something because we want it, but don't want to pay for it, isn't right. Is that really such a hard concept to grasp?
Also, they used to produce a quality product. Most of the dreck they spew forth isn't worth watching, let alone purchasing. How many bad remakes of originally mediocre films can Hollywood pump out? Too many, that's how many.
The objective is to scare all the people currently pirating into buying.
I disagree. It is to scare all the people currently pirating into not pirating. These are not people who are looking to buy the movies so they will just go without.
It was argued in a thread the other day that they are customers, but I disagree. If you steal/take/pirate/etc then you're not really a customer. On the other hand, if you're a producer of content and then you prevent your actual customers from making legitimate copies of your content (backups, copy of a CD for the car and at home, etc) then you're not really a producer - you're a greedy corporate parasite trying to squeeze unearned revenue out of legitimate customers.
What do you get when you try to squeeze your customers in unfair and unreasonable ways? Piracy, um, non-paying customers.
These types of lawyers give other types of lawyers an even worse name.
And before you sue me for that statement I'm sure that there is some sort of 'fair use' or 'truth' defense, so phfffft!
Climate scientist James Lovelock claims it may be necessary to put democracy on hold to prevent a global climate catastrophe.
So he wants to save a world without Democracy in it?
I claim it may be necessary to put climate scientist James Lovelock on hold to prevent a global Democracy catastrophe.
Apple includes Flash in OS X Safari updates. I always have to remove it after updating Safari (last one was the upgrade to 4.0.5). I had to remove it again last night after applying the 10.6.3 update.
I don't know if they include it in updates to Safari for Windows, but I know I'm sick of them including it in the OS X versions.
Internet Explorer 8:
* Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows XP Service Pack 3
* Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2
* Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
* Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2
* Windows Vista, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, and Windows Vista Service Pack 2
* Windows Vista x64 Edition, Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 1, and Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 2
* Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems and Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2**
* Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems and Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2**
* Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems
* Windows 7 for x64-based Systems
* Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems**
* Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems
I hate to be a downer, as I'm often fascinated by computer vision technology, but aren't there some very negative potential applications here?
You mean like how this will affect a bunch of epileptic kids walking down the street on a school field trip?
I would feel much safer. Drivers are the cause of most crashes. If they can be replaced with something more reliable it would be a huge improvement.
Let's ask Toyota owners how they feel about 'driverless cars'. All it takes is one small problem, or even an incompatible system amongst the many manufacturers (keep in mind that odds are they all won't be running Linux).
This reminds me of Itchy & Scratchy Land and its inspiration, Westworld. What could possiblye go wrong?
Whatever you do don't tell him about cosmic rays. *ouch!* *ow!!!*
If he owns a Toyota then he probably already knows about cosmic rays.
I think he got hit by lightning, or drowned in a flood, or broke his neck falling down the stairs in front of a church. No matter what it was that got him, I'm betting it was ironic.
We have no right to expect regular people NOT to be morons
I'm going to get that printed a t-shirt and walk around a MENSA conference. That'll show those know-it-alls.
Toll booths. Yes, tool booths will slow down traffic. Or speed bumps, but they aren't as irritating as the toll booths.
Um, thanks for all the scary details, but a simple 'internet' or 'people' would have sufficed. Heck, even a sarcastic 'yes' would have done nicely.
You are mistaken. Any number of "accidental catastrophes" could befall an operator. House fire, robbery, drive-by shooting, "random" murder during the commission of a robbery...
Let's not forget a bad review on Yelp.
Just give the idiot plaintiff a double blind test, and we can move on with our lives.
Is that where you poke him in both eyes and see if he can get back home on his own? I thought that was known as the Three Stooges Optical Assault #2.