Would that this were so. Unfortunately, a graphics company I worked for got hit by Cadtrak's patent on the XOR operation back in the day. This is a hardware patent based on the obvious fact that negating a value twice returns the original value. The inventor applied this to drawing and erasing lines on a screen and then sold the patent to Cadtrak who vigorously licensed it.
Its a good example of applying an obvious concept to a new application. Every TV set ever made uses an XOR to add and erase the HSync signal in the VSync, but that isn't drawing a line, so it doesn't count as prior art. Thank you, USPTO.
Both perl/tk and tcl/tk can be converted to a loadable binary. It all comes down to what you consider to be "small and easy to install", and how much work you are willing to put into packaging your app. Its no harder than including DLLs with a C program, and much easier than a Java app where the user needs to install the (correct) JRE.
"it's checking that the goddamn wheels are still on the goddamn car before driving it 15 miles to work."
So, just for the record, you walk around your car every morning to check that the wheels are still on? You should consider moving to a lower crime rate area.
I don't think that people expect their browsers or email client to be able to run arbitrary code at elevated privilege on their system without their knowledge. Yet it happens. As for me, if someone stole the wheels on my car, I would probably not notice until I backed the car up.
Interesting claim. See RFC 706 entitled, "On the junk mail problem", by Jon Postel, dated Nov 1975. There were less than 100 systems on the net when this RFC was written. This may also be the first mention of "denial of service" attacks.
No. IBM could not be sued. You could write them a nice letter (or a nasty one if you prefer) and they would fix their distribution. If they refused to fix their distribution (unlikely) then you could sue. But in US courts, you can't sue until you have shown that the defendent is refusing to comply with your legitimate request.
Besides, which is more restrictive, the "obnoxious BSD advertising clause" or the GPL "conspicuously" clause?
You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.
I've never seen a real framer use a book or a calculator, just a framing square is enough. All of the rafter measurements are based off the roof pitch. Anyone who has to "monkey" with a pilot rafter is not a real carpenter, just a guy with a saw. I worked summers building houses and those guys didn't waste any time.
About 1/3 of CO2 emissions comes from point sources like coal power plants. If you could capture half that using algae, it would be a huge win for the environment. Other proposals, such as coal gasification, add cost. The algae method actually reduces fuel costs since the recaptured carbon is used as fuel.
We just got rid of our out-of-date function headers and replaced them with doxygen-style comments. The function parameters, return values and called-by / calls information will now stay up to date, and the html reference output is handy.
"I suspect that the first story would have been clearer if Eric Kriss, Peter J. Quinn's former supervisor, had returned the Globe's phone calls."
Did you note the date on the story? The Saturday after Thanksgiving?
"Kriss, who left state government in September, did not return phone messages left at his home yesterday and Wednesday."
This was an intentional smear by the Globe. They timed it so that no-one was around to respond, why else would they rush it out in a week?
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True. If I want a half-baked homebrew project these days, I don't solder it together out of parts, I write it in perl.
Out of curiousity, what do you plan on doing when gas hits $20/gallon?
Give 'em a break. Its not like they shot someone in the face, or something.
Cause he sure wouldn't want to sell hardware that ran the world's three most popular O/S's would he? Oh, wait... yes he would.
it would be neat to have a simple pole near your complex plane.
* groan *
Would that this were so. Unfortunately, a graphics company I worked for got hit by Cadtrak's patent on the XOR operation back in the day. This is a hardware patent based on the obvious fact that negating a value twice returns the original value. The inventor applied this to drawing and erasing lines on a screen and then sold the patent to Cadtrak who vigorously licensed it.
Its a good example of applying an obvious concept to a new application. Every TV set ever made uses an XOR to add and erase the HSync signal in the VSync, but that isn't drawing a line, so it doesn't count as prior art. Thank you, USPTO.
Both perl/tk and tcl/tk can be converted to a loadable binary. It all comes down to what you consider to be "small and easy to install", and how much work you are willing to put into packaging your app. Its no harder than including DLLs with a C program, and much easier than a Java app where the user needs to install the (correct) JRE.
"it's checking that the goddamn wheels are still on the goddamn car before driving it 15 miles to work."
So, just for the record, you walk around your car every morning to check that the wheels are still on? You should consider moving to a lower crime rate area.
I don't think that people expect their browsers or email client to be able to run arbitrary code at elevated privilege on their system without their knowledge. Yet it happens. As for me, if someone stole the wheels on my car, I would probably not notice until I backed the car up.
The author also says disk mfgs are lying when they use K = 1000 bytes, M = 1000000 bytes. This person is a know-nothing.
... and then there's the crouton, which mediates salads.
Interesting claim. See RFC 706 entitled, "On the junk mail problem", by Jon Postel, dated Nov 1975. There were less than 100 systems on the net when this RFC was written. This may also be the first mention of "denial of service" attacks.
Besides, which is more restrictive, the "obnoxious BSD advertising clause" or the GPL "conspicuously" clause?
The Internet, like the road system, should be open to everyone for the same rates.
I guess you didn't get the memo
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/. plain old text function
But then, neither does the
i could probably patent my ass if i tried to
Rejected - too broad
This patent is for a progress bar which tracks multiple threads. Why would your examples infringe?
I've never seen a real framer use a book or a calculator, just a framing square is enough. All of the rafter measurements are based off the roof pitch. Anyone who has to "monkey" with a pilot rafter is not a real carpenter, just a guy with a saw. I worked summers building houses and those guys didn't waste any time.
Please kill this thread.
About 1/3 of CO2 emissions comes from point sources like coal power plants. If you could capture half that using algae, it would be a huge win for the environment. Other proposals, such as coal gasification, add cost. The algae method actually reduces fuel costs since the recaptured carbon is used as fuel.
Shuffling the drives wasn't the problem. Pulling out a second drive after the first failure was the mistake.
Damn. I just bought that star from the International Star Registry, too.
We just got rid of our out-of-date function headers and replaced them with doxygen-style comments. The function parameters, return values and called-by / calls information will now stay up to date, and the html reference output is handy.
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1) Head not moving - drive dead.
2) Head moving too much - not enough memory.
3) Head lying at bottom of case - drive broken.
"I suspect that the first story would have been clearer if Eric Kriss, Peter J. Quinn's former supervisor, had returned the Globe's phone calls." Did you note the date on the story? The Saturday after Thanksgiving? "Kriss, who left state government in September, did not return phone messages left at his home yesterday and Wednesday." This was an intentional smear by the Globe. They timed it so that no-one was around to respond, why else would they rush it out in a week?
Maybe. But imagine the ratings! 25 share easy.