Microsoft restricts Windows downloads to people that actually purchase their product!
Last time I was at the mall's food court, the various food merchants kept all of their napkins behind the counter. I guess napkin loss from non-customers was somehow a huge profit drain.
I bet a car sales lot would not take too kindly if you just walked in, grabbed a donut or two, a cup of coffee, and then walked out, either.
There are a few exceptions, though. A restaurant owner may put up a sign that says the "restrooms are for customers only," but most states have health laws that allow the general public to use most restaurant restrooms without purchase. Anti-virus products should likely have the same proviso.
you might not want to market it as "derived from HIV"
Why is that, exactly? Think of the other dreaded word which invokes a guaranteed knee-jerk reaction from just about anyone: radiation. What's the worst thing you can put in your body? Poison. Our current treatments for cancer involve heavy doses of radiation and heavy doses of toxic chemicals.
As a society, we're pretty familiar with using some amazingly deadly tactics against cancer, and yet, you don't see a whole lot of healthy people screaming about their exposure to those deadly glowing, poisonous cancer patients.
Commercial photographs of the Eiffel Tower during the day are perfectly legitimate, but commercial photographs of the Eiffel Tower when illuminated are infringing upon the copyrighted lighting design. How fucked up is that?
I know this will be modded off-topic, but is there any particularly good reason the whole front page is filled with stories posted by a single editor? How long do you go into hybernation between these spasms of dupe-and-bore postings?
I think I heard of this method of attack in a security book I read once. Where the image of an avatar's identification turned out to be a computer-infecting virus. Oh, wait, it was a novel. "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson.
The fact that an octopus doesn't get tangled up is probably related to the fact that the arms are (1) smooth, (2) pliable, (3) slippery, (4) oiled/lubricated, (5) immersed in a fluid. The way the arm tapers from large to small probably has some value here, too.
What do you think hair conditioner does? It mostly lubricates the hair strands so it won't get traction and kink up onto other strands.
Are we going to build tentacle robots that are oozing oil along their smooth plasticene actuators? I think I've seen a few Japanese cartoons along this motif...
This is based on somebody's little rant in a personal blog? Wake me up when CNN actually publishes anything that even remotely resembles introspection on copyright laws. Better yet, write these screeds to congressfolk, not to kitty14@aol readers. The world won't change just because people are bickering around in blogs.
Judges MUST start out a case totally unbiased. But they don't need to end up that way. In many cases, they should end up pretty negative towards one party. That's the basis for judgement.
That's not correct thinking. A case is about a disputed issue, not about the parties involved in the dispute. The Judge should rightfully decide the issue, but remain unbiased about the parties themselves. Good companies do bad things, and bad people are not invariably in the wrong.
The reason a Judge in the USA legal system should remain (at least appear to remain) completely unbiased for or against the parties in a suit: they may be called upon to revisit their decision. When litigants appeal to a higher court, the higher court may simply return the case to the lower judge with certain concerns that should receive due consideration in a reevaluation of the judgement.
You can't re-evaluate a returned case fairly if you've loudly and publically derided one of the litigants as being a total prick.
"My girlfriend has a cycle every month."
Heat?
Running at about 380 nano-Hz, I would rule out heat issues.
You know, I don't know who is geekier... the guy I quote above for the menses joke, or myself for checking the math using Google Calculator. I get 28 days = 2.4192 megaseconds, or by its reciprocal, 2.4192 microHz. And if I'm somehow wrong, does that make me geekier or less geeky?
Some people don't use local clients which download headers, summarize subject lines, allow you to delete before reading, etc. Boggles the mind, but it's true.
SGI made two things: a software 3D programming methodology called GL, and a hardware 3D matrix and raster pipeline.
SGI slowed development, and virtually stopped doing much in the way of graphics. The two things they produced morphed into three separate groups:
OpenGL picked up GL and made it more accessible to developers.
Half of the hardware experts went to nVidia, and half of the hardware experts went to ATi. These companies licensed and used SGI hardware patents.
ATi doesn't reveal much about their 3D hardware, not solely out of choice, but because they were patented by SGI and have no permission to share.
Microsoft bought the hardware 3D pipeline patents from SGI as an investment. They're not getting into the hardware business directly, but the licensing deals keep their thumb in the marketplace.
Microsoft does not own a sizeable "percentage" of patents related to the software OpenGL standard, though I'm sure DirectX has some overlap in terms of methods and apparatus.
There's a fallacy in imagining a world where a particular person never completed a particular invention. In short, it skips the notion that someone else would have invented it instead.
If Ungh Blungh didn't invent the wheel, some other proto-Sapiens halfwit would have invented it in the following year. It's not like there was a shortage of halfwits in the golden crescent.
If Henry Ford didn't invent the assembly-line production model, someone else would have invented it in the following decade. It's not like there was a shortage of development in the industrial arena.
If this developer at Microsoft didn't fix "enhanced mode" Windows, then some other developer at Microsoft would have. It's not like Microsoft was aching for cash to hire smart developers to tinker with 80386 instruction sets.
The size and complexity of an invention AND its environment are also key: If Linus never wrote a whole and usable kernel and published it, chances are that no other homebrew kernel would have grown with the same fervor. The complexity of the task, and the complexity of the eco-political forces at work, helped to spur the adoption in a unique way.
On slashdot, if you say "When I'm driving around in my car, this buzzer won't turn off and it's really annoying." everyone will respond with "Well then just turn the car off."
IBM is trying to be a "service" company. That means that, if you pay them enough, they'll support CheeseWiz(tm) on Solaris 10. Not too likely that Sun will pay IBM enough to get industry-wide support, but many little companies might strike up a contract if they saw it as worthwhile.
Of course, IBM still has strong roots as a "hardware" company. What's IBM's incentive to rewrite their software (little profit) on Sun's hardware (no profit)? Not a whole lot of incentive there.
They were talking big about this thing in 2001/2002. It's been vaporware for years, because they haven't found anyone to actually fund and manufacture the things. A couple of prototypes is nice, and a few c|net and CNN mentions is nice, but it's not on my desk right now, three years later.
Is it just me, or does anyone else have 140 dB klaxons going off in their head when they read "soon to be audited" and "working on this for years" with regards to a cryptography project? Nobody should be insular when they're developing crypto. Ask for feedback regularly and work with the community from day one.
The first thing that came to my mind when I heard it was that "long contracts mean weak projections." You have to have a lot of years to demand a lot of dollars. If ESPN's projections for growth in this arena were better, there'd be a lot more pressure for shorter contracts so they could return to the auction block sooner.
What part of "resolution is not just how many pixels" escaped you?
Signal is the actual photon counts given, the charge built from all the incoming light energy. You want the strongest signal possible.
Noise is the level of spurious charge buildup from heat or transistor variations. You can't get rid of this noise in the system. You can try to minimize it in the design, but you still have to deal with some.
If you're filtering out any photons, the signal-to-noise ratio falls. Subtle details just above the floor of noise for an unfiltered sensor would be far below the noise for a filtered sensor. Thus, those details are lost.
Just being a photographer isn't enough. Have you actually used an electronic camera that has a sensor without color filters?
Black and white sensors have higher resolution, just as black and white film has higher resolution. Resolution is more than the number of pixels, it's the valuable ability to resolve actual data with those photosensors.
Your little consumer digicam that did not cost a hundred thousand dollars is arranged with cheap little colored filters, cutting out over half of the photons that arrive in the camera, just so you can get the right shade of pink on your girlfriend's tummy. Scientists would rather collect all the photons they can, thanks.
Scientists do use filters now and then. Spirit and Opportunity use black and white cameras, but they can use something like NINE different filters to block out all frequencies except certain bands of interest. They don't just select Red, Green, Blue, but also various bands of near and far Infrared and Ultraviolet too. Those probes were designed later, and were going to be used on a longer mission, where power and available light energy would be greater. Huygens was built earlier, and going to a distant and dark moon where they'd be lucky if the probe lasted a couple of hours.
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Last time I was at the mall's food court, the various food merchants kept all of their napkins behind the counter. I guess napkin loss from non-customers was somehow a huge profit drain.
I bet a car sales lot would not take too kindly if you just walked in, grabbed a donut or two, a cup of coffee, and then walked out, either.
There are a few exceptions, though. A restaurant owner may put up a sign that says the "restrooms are for customers only," but most states have health laws that allow the general public to use most restaurant restrooms without purchase. Anti-virus products should likely have the same proviso.
Why is that, exactly? Think of the other dreaded word which invokes a guaranteed knee-jerk reaction from just about anyone: radiation. What's the worst thing you can put in your body? Poison. Our current treatments for cancer involve heavy doses of radiation and heavy doses of toxic chemicals.
As a society, we're pretty familiar with using some amazingly deadly tactics against cancer, and yet, you don't see a whole lot of healthy people screaming about their exposure to those deadly glowing, poisonous cancer patients.
Commercial photographs of the Eiffel Tower during the day are perfectly legitimate, but commercial photographs of the Eiffel Tower when illuminated are infringing upon the copyrighted lighting design. How fucked up is that?
I know this will be modded off-topic, but is there any particularly good reason the whole front page is filled with stories posted by a single editor? How long do you go into hybernation between these spasms of dupe-and-bore postings?
I think I heard of this method of attack in a security book I read once. Where the image of an avatar's identification turned out to be a computer-infecting virus. Oh, wait, it was a novel. "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson.
What do you think hair conditioner does? It mostly lubricates the hair strands so it won't get traction and kink up onto other strands.
Are we going to build tentacle robots that are oozing oil along their smooth plasticene actuators? I think I've seen a few Japanese cartoons along this motif...
Thus sayeth the Anonymous Coward.
This is based on somebody's little rant in a personal blog? Wake me up when CNN actually publishes anything that even remotely resembles introspection on copyright laws. Better yet, write these screeds to congressfolk, not to kitty14@aol readers. The world won't change just because people are bickering around in blogs.
Judges MUST start out a case totally unbiased. But they don't need to end up that way. In many cases, they should end up pretty negative towards one party. That's the basis for judgement.
That's not correct thinking. A case is about a disputed issue, not about the parties involved in the dispute. The Judge should rightfully decide the issue, but remain unbiased about the parties themselves. Good companies do bad things, and bad people are not invariably in the wrong.
The reason a Judge in the USA legal system should remain (at least appear to remain) completely unbiased for or against the parties in a suit: they may be called upon to revisit their decision. When litigants appeal to a higher court, the higher court may simply return the case to the lower judge with certain concerns that should receive due consideration in a reevaluation of the judgement.
You can't re-evaluate a returned case fairly if you've loudly and publically derided one of the litigants as being a total prick.
Heat?
Running at about 380 nano-Hz, I would rule out heat issues.
You know, I don't know who is geekier... the guy I quote above for the menses joke, or myself for checking the math using Google Calculator. I get 28 days = 2.4192 megaseconds, or by its reciprocal, 2.4192 microHz. And if I'm somehow wrong, does that make me geekier or less geeky?
Some people don't use local clients which download headers, summarize subject lines, allow you to delete before reading, etc. Boggles the mind, but it's true.
If there was no Linux and Linux, then there would have been the Hurd.
So you're saying that Hurd is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Linux?
SGI made two things: a software 3D programming methodology called GL, and a hardware 3D matrix and raster pipeline.
SGI slowed development, and virtually stopped doing much in the way of graphics. The two things they produced morphed into three separate groups:
OpenGL picked up GL and made it more accessible to developers.
Half of the hardware experts went to nVidia, and half of the hardware experts went to ATi. These companies licensed and used SGI hardware patents.
ATi doesn't reveal much about their 3D hardware, not solely out of choice, but because they were patented by SGI and have no permission to share.
Microsoft bought the hardware 3D pipeline patents from SGI as an investment. They're not getting into the hardware business directly, but the licensing deals keep their thumb in the marketplace.
Microsoft does not own a sizeable "percentage" of patents related to the software OpenGL standard, though I'm sure DirectX has some overlap in terms of methods and apparatus.
If Ungh Blungh didn't invent the wheel, some other proto-Sapiens halfwit would have invented it in the following year. It's not like there was a shortage of halfwits in the golden crescent.
If Henry Ford didn't invent the assembly-line production model, someone else would have invented it in the following decade. It's not like there was a shortage of development in the industrial arena.
If this developer at Microsoft didn't fix "enhanced mode" Windows, then some other developer at Microsoft would have. It's not like Microsoft was aching for cash to hire smart developers to tinker with 80386 instruction sets.
The size and complexity of an invention AND its environment are also key: If Linus never wrote a whole and usable kernel and published it, chances are that no other homebrew kernel would have grown with the same fervor. The complexity of the task, and the complexity of the eco-political forces at work, helped to spur the adoption in a unique way.
We can patent this old concept by adding the magic three words: "Is this art... on the Internet?"
After three or four postings which all spelled it correctly, the best you could come up with is measuem? Public school, right?
Look up the term, dihydrogen monoxide. Let the enlightenment hit you.
Go off and develop your own car! Sheesh!
Or even a first thought.
Of course, IBM still has strong roots as a "hardware" company. What's IBM's incentive to rewrite their software (little profit) on Sun's hardware (no profit)? Not a whole lot of incentive there.
They were talking big about this thing in 2001/2002. It's been vaporware for years, because they haven't found anyone to actually fund and manufacture the things. A couple of prototypes is nice, and a few c|net and CNN mentions is nice, but it's not on my desk right now, three years later.
Is it just me, or does anyone else have 140 dB klaxons going off in their head when they read "soon to be audited" and "working on this for years" with regards to a cryptography project? Nobody should be insular when they're developing crypto. Ask for feedback regularly and work with the community from day one.
The first thing that came to my mind when I heard it was that "long contracts mean weak projections." You have to have a lot of years to demand a lot of dollars. If ESPN's projections for growth in this arena were better, there'd be a lot more pressure for shorter contracts so they could return to the auction block sooner.
What part of "resolution is not just how many pixels" escaped you? Signal is the actual photon counts given, the charge built from all the incoming light energy. You want the strongest signal possible. Noise is the level of spurious charge buildup from heat or transistor variations. You can't get rid of this noise in the system. You can try to minimize it in the design, but you still have to deal with some. If you're filtering out any photons, the signal-to-noise ratio falls. Subtle details just above the floor of noise for an unfiltered sensor would be far below the noise for a filtered sensor. Thus, those details are lost. Just being a photographer isn't enough. Have you actually used an electronic camera that has a sensor without color filters?
Black and white sensors have higher resolution, just as black and white film has higher resolution. Resolution is more than the number of pixels, it's the valuable ability to resolve actual data with those photosensors.
Your little consumer digicam that did not cost a hundred thousand dollars is arranged with cheap little colored filters, cutting out over half of the photons that arrive in the camera, just so you can get the right shade of pink on your girlfriend's tummy. Scientists would rather collect all the photons they can, thanks.
Scientists do use filters now and then. Spirit and Opportunity use black and white cameras, but they can use something like NINE different filters to block out all frequencies except certain bands of interest. They don't just select Red, Green, Blue, but also various bands of near and far Infrared and Ultraviolet too. Those probes were designed later, and were going to be used on a longer mission, where power and available light energy would be greater. Huygens was built earlier, and going to a distant and dark moon where they'd be lucky if the probe lasted a couple of hours.
Is their logic still a mystery to you?