I'm curious what Hasbro actually owns the copyrights on. They own the trademark on the name of the game, as the article says, and they own the copyright on the original game's rules, but do they own a copyright on any rephrasings of those rules?
If the game looks similar and plays the same, but does not have its rules phrased the same as the original game, is this a violation of copyright? I'm genuinely curious.
How does google distinguish between the comment and the signature?
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They just changed to using Tree-SSA and they gave it a new major version number, and now they're throwing that work out and changing it again? This new system must have a lot of benefits.
Actually, removal of this gene only helps those who are on this extreme diet. Animals that lack this gene react even better to the stress caused by not eating as much food. Having this gene prevents you from entering that state, caused by undereating, where your body becomes much more effective at healing genetic and other damage.
Wait a minute - they're saying that a patent received in 1995 could apply to a product that was created in 1985. It took a long time for that patent to be processed by the USPTO.
I also suspect that the 10NES cartridge authentication system is not additionally a console authentication system: the clone NES consoles shouldn't need to verify that the cartridges are authentic to get them to work.
That leaves it up to trademarks, which I'm sure that it's not to hard work around. You could say that your console "plays games which are designed for the Nintendo Entertainment System (a trademark of Nintendo of America."
As always, IANAL, though, so take these words with a grain of salt.
Yes, you can get a patent on anything (that's nonobvious...), even if it won't work, as long as it isn't a perpetual motion machine. Apparently the government got tired of people patenting that certain variety of impossible device, so they started to crack down on it. Besides that you have free rein.
Yes, sorry, I was. I meant bandwidth in the colloquial sense of channel capacity, rather than in the actual, logical, technical sense of the width of the frequency band.
Of course, with twice as much power the S/N ratio can be twice as much, giving you more bandwidth. I'm not certain how much more bandwidth, as that depends on the current S/N ratio.
I believe it only stores the system files that have changes/the differences in the registry, etc. Most user files are not included.
Because there are multiple restore points, newer points could restore the worm but older points should be free. Unless the worm inserts itself into them, that is.
That might work with a three-core graphics card, but there's generally too much linkage between different parts of the code and different objects to somehow magically divide the CPU's work in half. Graphic cards inherently do many serial things, whereas CPUs do many things serially.
Yes, because as we all know, Crossover Office is a magical fairy-tale that does not exist. Why would Vista reserve RAM and a swap file specifically for Excel? Can't Excel malloc and mmap on its own?
The problem was apparently that the spotlight they were using had too diffuse of a beam. Next year, when the teams provide their own beaming systems, it might turn out better.
Well, by the Shannon-Hartley theorem, there is a limited bandwidth available (assuming limited transmitter power). Assuming a S/N of 20 dB (arbitrary, but you have to limit signal power at some point), you can get at most 38.6 Gbps for the all radio using the bandwidth from 0-5.8 Ghz. This is a hard limit, and unless you want to raise the S/N (more power needed to transmit/eventually you fry the people using the devices) or maximum frequency (you lose the ability to transmit through certain materials), you run into a hard limit on how fast you can send your data.
Oh no, what will Walt Disney do when it is confronted by the monster that is ClearChannel? What can ClearChannel do, lobby Washington with more money than ABC can to make it illegal for ABC to sell shows over the internet?
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From Answers.com: cartoon (kär-tn') n.
1. a.A drawing depicting a humorous situation, often accompanied by a caption.
b. A drawing representing current public figures or issues symbolically and often satirically: a political cartoon. [...] 4. A comic strip.
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Linux systems were always vulnerable to malicious software on dual-booted systems - the software could always overwrite the linux partition with random data. This just lets windows do useful things with the partition.
Yep, even in the 1910's reformers were concerned with the effects of the movies on children. This concern has been going back at least as far as that, and probably much farther.
I think that that's where the unit tests come in. If something doesn't compile, or it doesn't pass the unit tests, then it cannot be checked in. There could also be known-good checkpoints, which enable users and possibly even developers to work on something that should work.
I doubt that its trivial, but with some work with the compiler (assuming you only use one compiler), you could automagically use space that the caller has pre-declared. You can already do this by declaring an object on the stack, and passing a pointer to the object into the function. I don't feel like working on the corner cases (e.g. multiple levels of callers), but its certainly feasible. Worthwhile, maybe not.
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I'm curious what Hasbro actually owns the copyrights on. They own the trademark on the name of the game, as the article says, and they own the copyright on the original game's rules, but do they own a copyright on any rephrasings of those rules?
If the game looks similar and plays the same, but does not have its rules phrased the same as the original game, is this a violation of copyright? I'm genuinely curious.
How does google distinguish between the comment and the signature?
They just changed to using Tree-SSA and they gave it a new major version number, and now they're throwing that work out and changing it again? This new system must have a lot of benefits.
Actually, removal of this gene only helps those who are on this extreme diet. Animals that lack this gene react even better to the stress caused by not eating as much food. Having this gene prevents you from entering that state, caused by undereating, where your body becomes much more effective at healing genetic and other damage.
Maybe you should count by posts, rather than bytes, considering that not too movies were posted on usenet in 1996.
Wait a minute - they're saying that a patent received in 1995 could apply to a product that was created in 1985. It took a long time for that patent to be processed by the USPTO.
I also suspect that the 10NES cartridge authentication system is not additionally a console authentication system: the clone NES consoles shouldn't need to verify that the cartridges are authentic to get them to work.
That leaves it up to trademarks, which I'm sure that it's not to hard work around. You could say that your console "plays games which are designed for the Nintendo Entertainment System (a trademark of Nintendo of America."
As always, IANAL, though, so take these words with a grain of salt.
Yes, you can get a patent on anything (that's nonobvious...), even if it won't work, as long as it isn't a perpetual motion machine. Apparently the government got tired of people patenting that certain variety of impossible device, so they started to crack down on it. Besides that you have free rein.
Yes, sorry, I was. I meant bandwidth in the colloquial sense of channel capacity, rather than in the actual, logical, technical sense of the width of the frequency band.
Of course, with twice as much power the S/N ratio can be twice as much, giving you more bandwidth. I'm not certain how much more bandwidth, as that depends on the current S/N ratio.
I believe it only stores the system files that have changes/the differences in the registry, etc. Most user files are not included.
Because there are multiple restore points, newer points could restore the worm but older points should be free. Unless the worm inserts itself into them, that is.
That might work with a three-core graphics card, but there's generally too much linkage between different parts of the code and different objects to somehow magically divide the CPU's work in half. Graphic cards inherently do many serial things, whereas CPUs do many things serially.
Yes, because as we all know, Crossover Office is a magical fairy-tale that does not exist. Why would Vista reserve RAM and a swap file specifically for Excel? Can't Excel malloc and mmap on its own?
The problem was apparently that the spotlight they were using had too diffuse of a beam. Next year, when the teams provide their own beaming systems, it might turn out better.
They're not useless; that's what the converters are for.
I agree 100%.
Perhaps, but we have the right not to use it.
Well, by the Shannon-Hartley theorem, there is a limited bandwidth available (assuming limited transmitter power). Assuming a S/N of 20 dB (arbitrary, but you have to limit signal power at some point), you can get at most 38.6 Gbps for the all radio using the bandwidth from 0-5.8 Ghz. This is a hard limit, and unless you want to raise the S/N (more power needed to transmit/eventually you fry the people using the devices) or maximum frequency (you lose the ability to transmit through certain materials), you run into a hard limit on how fast you can send your data.
Oh no, what will Walt Disney do when it is confronted by the monster that is ClearChannel? What can ClearChannel do, lobby Washington with more money than ABC can to make it illegal for ABC to sell shows over the internet?
From Answers.com:
cartoon (kär-tn')
n.
1. a.A drawing depicting a humorous situation, often accompanied by a caption.
b. A drawing representing current public figures or issues symbolically and often satirically: a political cartoon.
[...]
4. A comic strip.
What's short-lived about Dilbert?
Linux systems were always vulnerable to malicious software on dual-booted systems - the software could always overwrite the linux partition with random data. This just lets windows do useful things with the partition.
Who's paying for their education? International students don't get financial aid.
Yep, even in the 1910's reformers were concerned with the effects of the movies on children. This concern has been going back at least as far as that, and probably much farther.
I think that that's where the unit tests come in. If something doesn't compile, or it doesn't pass the unit tests, then it cannot be checked in. There could also be known-good checkpoints, which enable users and possibly even developers to work on something that should work.
I doubt that its trivial, but with some work with the compiler (assuming you only use one compiler), you could automagically use space that the caller has pre-declared. You can already do this by declaring an object on the stack, and passing a pointer to the object into the function. I don't feel like working on the corner cases (e.g. multiple levels of callers), but its certainly feasible. Worthwhile, maybe not.