You cold get a design patent on wallpaper (the physical kind and the desktop kind) That limits designers and software developers in the same way that Google's design patent prevents one from copying their page's look.
And design patents don't last as long, IIRC
If they have paid Microsoft for the right to Sell x Million copies of Office, then Microsoft has already sold x Million copies to Dell.
That's quite a big "if" there. I doubt that Dell pays Microsoft 60 days ahead of time for software that they are going to copy onto a new harddrive when and if they sell it. They might have paid MS for the master, but the copy doesn't exist to be licensed until they make it - I would expect that moment of copying would be the moment the legal infringement takes place.
Anyway, the injunction prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing. There's no reason that would enjoin Dell from selling their stock.
It's doubtful that Dell has a pre-bought stock of CDs to sell for the preloaded software that is the subject of of their brief. They probably pay MS quarterly or monthly on the number of copies they make. That would make any copies Dell preloads onto their machines new copies sold by Microsoft.
The tests of Bell's Theorem shows that no locally causal hidden variable theory is viable. This says basically that one of these must be the case
There are no hidden variables (i.e., true quantum uncertainty applies, and quantum mechanics is correct).
The speed of Light can be violated (i.e., there are hidden states that can exchange information faster than the speed of light). This implies, by the way, causality failures would be possible, so that in principle you could do something like kill your grandfather and prevent your own existence.
There is action at a distance (i.e., the theory is non-local).
Or, since we're talking about quantum states, it could be that any combination of the three and not the three are the case, only to collapse to one (or more) of them when you make your observation.
For me it is obvious that planes can fly, and dead obvious why, that was not the case back then.
Interesting that you should say that. The Wright brothers held some important patents about flying machines, but that never was enough to make them a financial success, and they were surpassed in the flying business by many others.
Already my DVR cannot do a lot of things because of patents. With a Tivo you can fast forward, press stop, and it will jump back a few seconds. Thats a tivo patent.
My U-Verse DVR does that too. I hope that the Tivo lawsuit causes them to drop that feature, because I find it terribly annoying.
The short answer: don't eat any of it.
The long answer: there's a difference between American Cheese, American Cheese Food, American Cheese Spread, and American Cheese Product
Traditionally, "Old Fashioned American Cheese" was American-made Cheddar (and/or mixed with Colby) and was real cheese. Various additives/emulsifiers were developed to make it melt evenly, without the separation of fat from the cheese. They started making it from scraps left over from making decent cheeses to save costs. Then Kraft developed the pre-packaged slices with no taste that are easy to manufacture by pouring the yellow goop into the plastic and letting it set, and started to sell them to people that don't don't like real cheese and/or don't read labels.
The definitions include:
* Pasteurized process cheese (100% cheese which includes "American Cheese" and "Pasteurized process American cheese"),[1] (e.g., "Kraft Deli Deluxe American Cheese", "Land o Lakes American Cheese", "Laughing Cow").
* Pasteurized process cheese food, which contains at least 51% cheese.
* Pasteurized process cheese product which contain less than 51% cheese and cannot be advertised as cheese by the FDA (e.g. "Velveeta, "Kraft Singles")
* Pasteurized process cheese spread [similar to cheese product, but not quite solid, and often fluffed with air or propellant]
The Constitution has to mean what it meant when it was written. Yes it CAN change, but only by the Amendment process, not judges deciding 'society has changed' or 'evolving standards'.
The problem with that stance is that the Constitution was written by humans in English. No language can be completely free from contradictions and ambiguities, and the Constitution is no exception. The Ninth Amendment ("The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.") is probably the the best example of such uncertainty creating the need for SCOTUS to "make policy" in particular cases.
(not that I entirely disagree with your examples of overreaching interpretation)
As for your 'authorities' I wouldn't put much stock in what a NY Democrat has to say about the inner workings of the Republican party and Pat Buchanan is quite mad these days, you do know that don't you.
In spite of your dismissal of Pat Moynihan's knowledge of the Nixon administration, he was a
member of it
And Pat Buchanan is far from mad. He was a speech writer for Nixon, and, even though I disagree with a lot of Pat Buchanan's stances on the issues, he is one of the more articulate and reasonable conservative voices today - it's the neo-cons that are mad. (IMHO)
Riding bikes to friends houses was the highlight of living in the 'burbs.
Close-in older suburbs, maybe.
Living in the city, riding my bike was my main mode of transportation for most of my life, followed by walking, the "L" train, the bus, and car, in that order. Though, after my kids were born, I needed to drive more often.
Having moved into the suburbs, I found it imprudent for my daughter to bike to her best friend's house. Even though it was only a few hundred yards away if she climbed the fence and cut through yards, it was in the next subdivision over, and she would have had to ride on a 2-lane road with a 45 MPH speed limit and narrow, gravel shoulders in order to get there. Since she's been old enough to drive, she drives everywhere (at least I don't have to drive her anymore).
Fun fact... if you want a really precise measurement you actually have to apply the theory of relativity here.)
Once you know your precise distance from at least 3 satellites, and the locations of the satellites is known, it's a simple matter of triangulation to calculate your position.
Technically, (and I'm going to ignore relativity here) if you precisely know the distance to 3 satellites, there are two possible positions to choose from. You need 4 satellites, or other limitations to your position, to decide for sure. In addition, 4 satellites gives you a little redundancy in information which can help you refine the estimates of your location and probable range of error.
Your fear is of Iran, not nuclear weapons, and has more to do with the "they're different to us" Arab stereotyping than it does to any element of fact.
. ..
In addition, you accused me of being prejudiced against Arabs, which is not the case at all.
Please note that Iranians are Persians, not Arabs.
MS would probably be willing to make that editor, at least as long as they think Silverlight will stay well behind Flash in adoption. They would appreciate it as a Flash killer as well as an opportunity to later embrace and extend.
Mod parent up.
Grandparent was not insightful.
Those complaining about MS not remaining backward compatible to IE6 are definitely not the same as those praising Apple for breaking backward compatibility in order to move forward.
Carl Sagan had a graph of scientific progress - basically very rapid in Ancient Greece and zero in the Dark Ages. As Christianity lost its grip in Europe science picked up again.
As if the plague had nothing to do with that. Or the breakdown of civility with the fall of the Roman Empire and rise of bands of knights in perpetual raids and gang wars for their lords. Anyway, there was a lot of progress on science and math during the Middle Ages in the Muslim middle east, which was not exactly a bastion of atheism.
Not really. Survival of the fittest means survival of the species best able to adapt to changing living conditions and avoiding extinction. Since human culture can adapt faster than beneficial DNA mutations arise, the human species is quite adept at adapting, evolving, and surviving.
Admit it, you just added that second paragraph to make your post longer than 140 characters to try and prove your point. In reality your first 78 characters said it all.
The first 78 characters:
"It just seems to me if have something worthwhile to say 140 char isn't enough."
The first 140 characters:
"It just seems to me if have something worthwhile to say 140 char isn't enough.
With the volume of information I am interested in increasing I know th"
The entire post (about 560+/- characters, depending on how you count spaces and endlines):
It just seems to me if have something worthwhile to say 140 char isn't enough.
With the volume of information I am interested in increasing I know there is a sacrifice between speed, completeness and size. I can't see getting good info from 140 char to make it worthwhile - unless we are going to play follow the link and I would rather hit a big blog (eg/. ) that has summaries and many links than try and follow a vast volume of little stuff and piece it together.
Maybe it just won't work for the way I want my information.
I'm sure he could have said it in fewer characters, but you are quite wrong to say that the first 78 characters said it all.
Throughout my 28 years in construction, I've seen data centers and server rooms with gaseous fire suppression systems, water sprinkler systems. Often, they will have both, the gaseous system being useful to minimize damage to equipment, but water systems possibly to meet a fire protection code. If I've seen any trend, it is to get cheaper by only putting in pre-action sprinkle systems and forgoing the more expensive gaseous systems.
Halon has been phased out and is banned in new construction, because of its' ozone depletion and global warming concerns. It has been replaced with mostly FM200, a non-ozone depleting gaseous fire supressant. Both are lethal in high enough concentrations; since they are designed to interfere with oxygen combining with fuels they can suffocate you. Neither are particularly toxic otherwise.
Almost all sprinklers heads are "isolated" in action. They each have a fusible link that melts if it gets hot enough (usually at 165F) to release the water from that head only. The thing they do in data centers, is use pre-action systems. These have piping filled with air, and won't spray water until the pre-action valve lets the water in. That means that the head won't spray water if it's accidentally bumped open. The valve will only open if a heat/smoke detector goes off (often, only if two go off) and the water won't go anywhere unless the fusible link opens. This avoids a lot of expense from a false alarm.
According to the psychrometric chart, at 80F and 30% RH there is about 0.0067 lbs of water vapor per lb of dry air and about 13.7 cu ft per pound of air. That's about 0.0005 lbs of water per cu ft of air or about 0.00006 gallons of water per cubic foot of air. (Air at 92F and 20%RH or 65F and 50%RH are at roughly the same absolute moisture content.)
But there are 43,560 square feet per acre. If you figure on only the first 10 feet of air above the acre, there are more than 25 gallons of water for each acre. In reality, there are thousands of feet of air above each acre containing moisture and many conditions where the absolute humidity is higher.
Still, like anything, if done on a big enough scale or for a large enough population, there could be a problem of depleting the water in the air downwind.
(aren't US standards of weights and measures fun?)
IANAAE, but, in my understanding, fly-by-wire != autopilot.
Fly-by-wire means electronic controls as opposed to hydraulic or other mechanical controls. There would often be more sophisticated algorithms using digitally-connected controls to create an output to the planes engines, elevators, rudder, ailerons,etc. from manual inputs stick, etc.) rather than using hydraulics. But that is not the same as saying you can't turn autopilot off in an emergency. For example, a stealth fighter is unstable and so must be controlled using computer algorithms. But the pilot still uses manual controls to maneuver. The digital systems take care of making sure the plane does what the pilot wants it to.
No,
it is a bank account.
It is possible to access it from 2 ATMs at one time.
Ordering in this case shouldn't be too hard, but it does make an example understandble to the layman.
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You cold get a design patent on wallpaper (the physical kind and the desktop kind) That limits designers and software developers in the same way that Google's design patent prevents one from copying their page's look. And design patents don't last as long, IIRC
A design patent is not the same as a utility patent.
If they have paid Microsoft for the right to Sell x Million copies of Office, then Microsoft has already sold x Million copies to Dell.
That's quite a big "if" there. I doubt that Dell pays Microsoft 60 days ahead of time for software that they are going to copy onto a new harddrive when and if they sell it. They might have paid MS for the master, but the copy doesn't exist to be licensed until they make it - I would expect that moment of copying would be the moment the legal infringement takes place.
Anyway, the injunction prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing. There's no reason that would enjoin Dell from selling their stock.
It's doubtful that Dell has a pre-bought stock of CDs to sell for the preloaded software that is the subject of of their brief. They probably pay MS quarterly or monthly on the number of copies they make. That would make any copies Dell preloads onto their machines new copies sold by Microsoft.
The tests of Bell's Theorem shows that no locally causal hidden variable theory is viable. This says basically that one of these must be the case
There are no hidden variables (i.e., true quantum uncertainty applies, and quantum mechanics is correct).
The speed of Light can be violated (i.e., there are hidden states that can exchange information faster than the speed of light). This implies, by the way, causality failures would be possible, so that in principle you could do something like kill your grandfather and prevent your own existence.
There is action at a distance (i.e., the theory is non-local).
Or, since we're talking about quantum states, it could be that any combination of the three and not the three are the case, only to collapse to one (or more) of them when you make your observation.
For me it is obvious that planes can fly, and dead obvious why, that was not the case back then.
Interesting that you should say that. The Wright brothers held some important patents about flying machines, but that never was enough to make them a financial success, and they were surpassed in the flying business by many others.
Already my DVR cannot do a lot of things because of patents. With a Tivo you can fast forward, press stop, and it will jump back a few seconds. Thats a tivo patent.
My U-Verse DVR does that too. I hope that the Tivo lawsuit causes them to drop that feature, because I find it terribly annoying.
The short answer: don't eat any of it.
The long answer: there's a difference between American Cheese, American Cheese Food, American Cheese Spread, and American Cheese Product
Traditionally, "Old Fashioned American Cheese" was American-made Cheddar (and/or mixed with Colby) and was real cheese. Various additives/emulsifiers were developed to make it melt evenly, without the separation of fat from the cheese. They started making it from scraps left over from making decent cheeses to save costs. Then Kraft developed the pre-packaged slices with no taste that are easy to manufacture by pouring the yellow goop into the plastic and letting it set, and started to sell them to people that don't don't like real cheese and/or don't read labels.
Shamelessly copied from wikipedia:
The definitions include:
* Pasteurized process cheese (100% cheese which includes "American Cheese" and "Pasteurized process American cheese"),[1] (e.g., "Kraft Deli Deluxe American Cheese", "Land o Lakes American Cheese", "Laughing Cow").
* Pasteurized process cheese food, which contains at least 51% cheese.
* Pasteurized process cheese product which contain less than 51% cheese and cannot be advertised as cheese by the FDA (e.g. "Velveeta, "Kraft Singles")
* Pasteurized process cheese spread [similar to cheese product, but not quite solid, and often fluffed with air or propellant]
The Constitution has to mean what it meant when it was written. Yes it CAN change, but only by the Amendment process, not judges deciding 'society has changed' or 'evolving standards'.
The problem with that stance is that the Constitution was written by humans in English. No language can be completely free from contradictions and ambiguities, and the Constitution is no exception.
The Ninth Amendment ("The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.") is probably the the best example of such uncertainty creating the need for SCOTUS to "make policy" in particular cases.
(not that I entirely disagree with your examples of overreaching interpretation)
If you want to have an EPA, pass a constitutional amendment.
As if pollution does not cross state lines.
As for your 'authorities' I wouldn't put much stock in what a NY Democrat has to say about the inner workings of the Republican party and Pat Buchanan is quite mad these days, you do know that don't you.
In spite of your dismissal of Pat Moynihan's knowledge of the Nixon administration, he was a member of it
And Pat Buchanan is far from mad. He was a speech writer for Nixon, and, even though I disagree with a lot of Pat Buchanan's stances on the issues, he is one of the more articulate and reasonable conservative voices today - it's the neo-cons that are mad. (IMHO)
Riding bikes to friends houses was the highlight of living in the 'burbs.
Close-in older suburbs, maybe.
Living in the city, riding my bike was my main mode of transportation for most of my life, followed by walking, the "L" train, the bus, and car, in that order. Though, after my kids were born, I needed to drive more often.
Having moved into the suburbs, I found it imprudent for my daughter to bike to her best friend's house. Even though it was only a few hundred yards away if she climbed the fence and cut through yards, it was in the next subdivision over, and she would have had to ride on a 2-lane road with a 45 MPH speed limit and narrow, gravel shoulders in order to get there. Since she's been old enough to drive, she drives everywhere (at least I don't have to drive her anymore).
Fun fact... if you want a really precise measurement you actually have to apply the theory of relativity here.)
Once you know your precise distance from at least 3 satellites, and the locations of the satellites is known, it's a simple matter of triangulation to calculate your position.
Technically, (and I'm going to ignore relativity here) if you precisely know the distance to 3 satellites, there are two possible positions to choose from. You need 4 satellites, or other limitations to your position, to decide for sure. In addition, 4 satellites gives you a little redundancy in information which can help you refine the estimates of your location and probable range of error.
Does SCO even have the right to sell their Unix business without the approval of Novell?
Your fear is of Iran, not nuclear weapons, and has more to do with the "they're different to us" Arab stereotyping than it does to any element of fact.
. . .
In addition, you accused me of being prejudiced against Arabs, which is not the case at all.
Please note that Iranians are Persians, not Arabs.
MS would probably be willing to make that editor, at least as long as they think Silverlight will stay well behind Flash in adoption. They would appreciate it as a Flash killer as well as an opportunity to later embrace and extend.
Mod parent up.
Grandparent was not insightful.
Those complaining about MS not remaining backward compatible to IE6 are definitely not the same as those praising Apple for breaking backward compatibility in order to move forward.
Carl Sagan had a graph of scientific progress - basically very rapid in Ancient Greece and zero in the Dark Ages. As Christianity lost its grip in Europe science picked up again.
As if the plague had nothing to do with that. Or the breakdown of civility with the fall of the Roman Empire and rise of bands of knights in perpetual raids and gang wars for their lords.
Anyway, there was a lot of progress on science and math during the Middle Ages in the Muslim middle east, which was not exactly a bastion of atheism.
Not really. Survival of the fittest means survival of the species best able to adapt to changing living conditions and avoiding extinction. Since human culture can adapt faster than beneficial DNA mutations arise, the human species is quite adept at adapting, evolving, and surviving.
Admit it, you just added that second paragraph to make your post longer than 140 characters to try and prove your point. In reality your first 78 characters said it all.
The first 78 characters:
"It just seems to me if have something worthwhile to say 140 char isn't enough."
The first 140 characters:
"It just seems to me if have something worthwhile to say 140 char isn't enough.
With the volume of information I am interested in increasing I know th"
The entire post (about 560+/- characters, depending on how you count spaces and endlines): /. ) that has summaries and many links than try and follow a vast volume of little stuff and piece it together.
It just seems to me if have something worthwhile to say 140 char isn't enough.
With the volume of information I am interested in increasing I know there is a sacrifice between speed, completeness and size. I can't see getting good info from 140 char to make it worthwhile - unless we are going to play follow the link and I would rather hit a big blog (eg
Maybe it just won't work for the way I want my information.
I'm sure he could have said it in fewer characters, but you are quite wrong to say that the first 78 characters said it all.
In spite of someone thinking that your demonstration of twitterizing was insightful, it was not a lossless compression.
Throughout my 28 years in construction, I've seen data centers and server rooms with gaseous fire suppression systems, water sprinkler systems. Often, they will have both, the gaseous system being useful to minimize damage to equipment, but water systems possibly to meet a fire protection code. If I've seen any trend, it is to get cheaper by only putting in pre-action sprinkle systems and forgoing the more expensive gaseous systems.
Halon has been phased out and is banned in new construction, because of its' ozone depletion and global warming concerns. It has been replaced with mostly FM200, a non-ozone depleting gaseous fire supressant. Both are lethal in high enough concentrations; since they are designed to interfere with oxygen combining with fuels they can suffocate you. Neither are particularly toxic otherwise.
Almost all sprinklers heads are "isolated" in action. They each have a fusible link that melts if it gets hot enough (usually at 165F) to release the water from that head only. The thing they do in data centers, is use pre-action systems. These have piping filled with air, and won't spray water until the pre-action valve lets the water in. That means that the head won't spray water if it's accidentally bumped open. The valve will only open if a heat/smoke detector goes off (often, only if two go off) and the water won't go anywhere unless the fusible link opens. This avoids a lot of expense from a false alarm.
But there are 43,560 square feet per acre. If you figure on only the first 10 feet of air above the acre, there are more than 25 gallons of water for each acre. In reality, there are thousands of feet of air above each acre containing moisture and many conditions where the absolute humidity is higher.
Still, like anything, if done on a big enough scale or for a large enough population, there could be a problem of depleting the water in the air downwind.
(aren't US standards of weights and measures fun?)
IANAAE, but, in my understanding, fly-by-wire != autopilot.
Fly-by-wire means electronic controls as opposed to hydraulic or other mechanical controls.
There would often be more sophisticated algorithms using digitally-connected controls to create an output to the planes engines, elevators, rudder, ailerons,etc. from manual inputs stick, etc.) rather than using hydraulics. But that is not the same as saying you can't turn autopilot off in an emergency.
For example, a stealth fighter is unstable and so must be controlled using computer algorithms. But the pilot still uses manual controls to maneuver. The digital systems take care of making sure the plane does what the pilot wants it to.
No,
it is a bank account.
It is possible to access it from 2 ATMs at one time.
Ordering in this case shouldn't be too hard, but it does make an example understandble to the layman.