I've got a vostro at home and a latitude at work. Both "just work" out of the box. The vostro switches hdmi properly with no tweaking under Win7, and the latitude runs linux well including triple monitor support when using the dock.
I don't think it's greed that motivates two people who've both lost limbs due to someone else's reckless driving to sue whomever their lawyer says they should name in the suit.
The job of the lawyer is to suggest all possible avenues of recourse. The job of the people in the accident is to realize that the person sending the text is in no way responsible and telling the lawyer not to submit them to a frivolous lawsuit.
If someone doesn't have a lawyer on retainer, it's going to cost them hundreds of dollars to deal with being sued, even if they're completely innocent.
suing is not "causing bad things to others". it is simply asking a judge "don't you think this person owes me money because of his behavour?". The judge said no, case closed. explain to me the harm they have caused to anyone aside from the inconvenience to walk to court?
Sorry, no. Suing someone is saying, "I think this person has done me harm enough that I will take the court's time and incur legal fees to get what I think is coming to me."
For someone who doesn't have a lawyer on retainer, being sued will generally cost a minimum of several hundred dollars.
I sure hope to be married for life. Sex is better than ever, though the kids tend to cramp our style. I don't know of any cases at work or in my circle of friends where a woman has accused a man of sexual misconduct as an act of revenge/regret.
Very few people need 4TB, the current largest hard drive. I'd argue most people are happy with 500gb.
And how do you back up a couple of 500GB machines? Simplest is a NAS with a couple multi-TB drives in it and a couple more in external cases for offsite backup.
I'm allowed to make a copy in my own home, with my equipment, for my personal use.
Assuming I'm still paying for my subscription, can I pay someone else to make a copy for me using _my_ equipment in _my_ home? Can I pay someone else to make a copy for me using _their_ equipment in _my_ home? Can I pay someone else to make a copy for me using _their_ equipment in _their_ building?
If any of these are acceptable, it's hard to see why they aren't all acceptable.
Around here it's like making your own wine. I'm allowed to make wine in my own home. I can rent space and make wine in a commercial facility. Technically I can't hire someone else to make wine for me, but I can pay them to do everything else for me and I just sprinkle in the yeast.
The consumer is then directing the device to behave in a certain way. Any responsibility is therefore the consumer's rather than the manufacturer of the device.
A digital sprinker box is still going to have mechanical parts in it.
Putting lights on a simple timer would be messed up around here--depending on time of year the length of the day varies from 5 hrs to 17 hrs. The proper solution for lights is a photosensor with averaging and hysteresis.
"...detecting contact with the touch-sensitive display while the device is in a user-interface lock state; moving an unlock image along a predefined displayed path on the touch-sensitive display in accordance with the contact, wherein the unlock image is a graphical, interactive user-interface object with which a user interacts in order to unlock the device; transitioning the device to a user-interface unlock state if the detected contact corresponds to a predefined gesture; and maintaining the device in the user-interface lock state if the detected contact does not correspond to the predefined gesture."
Basically you touch an unlock image and slide it along the path shown on the screen to unlock. Yes, there is a physical device involved, but this is fundamentally a concept rather than an implementation of the concept.
Agreed. Now, I'm simply asking for your evidence that patents stifle more than they benefit. This is the original evidence I asked for, to which you demurred and instead said "but everyone knows it exists". If you can't support your conclusion with facts, then, while it may be true, you'll never convince a reasonable person.
I am a computer programmer. The assumption is we probably infringe on something even if we invented it independently, so we have been explicitly told not to look at any patents related to our field because we could be liable for treble damages if it appears we may have knowingly infringed.
This is chilling because it means I'm not supposed to see what other people are doing, even though we may be able to trivially work around it.
If the only input is data and the only output is data (rather than running a motor controller or servo or something) then I would argue that we're talking about an algorithm, i.e. pure math.
The fact that it runs on a computer is beside the point, you could in theory do it with pen and paper or in your head.
"light" is another term for "electromagnetic radiation"
Although one could quibble about whether or not a EM radiation travels in a copper wire, and technically the speed of progagation of the signal in a copper wire is roughly 0.96c while in a coax cable it's more like 0.66c.
Ideally you want each subscriber getting a fair share of the available bandwidth based on their contract terms. Within that available bandwidth, it would be nice if I as a subscriber could specify how I would like my packets prioritized.
The self-checkout ones that are any good match the barcode against the expected weight of the item and complain loudly if it's off by any significant amount.
The gertboard for the RPi will have ADC/DAC capability (2 channels, though apparently only up to 12-bit). Alternately, I see USB audio devices starting at $17 or so.
If you're not willing to fork out for a proper NAS or a more expensive board with SATA ports, you can always use dual external drives with USB. Sure there's a speed penalty, but it's certainly functional.
If they preprocess the data and only transmit the location of the points of interest (say density transitions, which correspond to surfaces), the bandwidth requirement drops substantially. At about 50 seconds into the ExtremeTech video it shows what appears to be some sort of point cloud corresponding to the surface of the hand(s). I assume this is pretty close to the raw data sent to the computer.
While most of the kernel is written in C, there are portions of each architecture that are written in assembly. Generally it's the very low-level stuff dealing with system startup, exception vectors, etc. It's also used in creating the low level synchronization primitives (locks, barriers, etc.) that are used by the C code to ensure that access to data is synchronized by the various parts of the system. Lastly, it's used in certain performance-sensitive code.
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Unassisted shells have pretty decent range (26 miles or so), and specialty weapons can go even further.
I've got a vostro at home and a latitude at work. Both "just work" out of the box. The vostro switches hdmi properly with no tweaking under Win7, and the latitude runs linux well including triple monitor support when using the dock.
I don't think it's greed that motivates two people who've both lost limbs due to someone else's reckless driving to sue whomever their lawyer says they should name in the suit.
The job of the lawyer is to suggest all possible avenues of recourse. The job of the people in the accident is to realize that the person sending the text is in no way responsible and telling the lawyer not to submit them to a frivolous lawsuit.
If someone doesn't have a lawyer on retainer, it's going to cost them hundreds of dollars to deal with being sued, even if they're completely innocent.
suing is not "causing bad things to others". it is simply asking a judge "don't you think this person owes me money because of his behavour?". The judge said no, case closed. explain to me the harm they have caused to anyone aside from the inconvenience to walk to court?
Sorry, no. Suing someone is saying, "I think this person has done me harm enough that I will take the court's time and incur legal fees to get what I think is coming to me."
For someone who doesn't have a lawyer on retainer, being sued will generally cost a minimum of several hundred dollars.
I lived in equatorial Africa with no air conditioning for years. I don't buy the excuse that it's too hot to go outside.
Besides, if it's that bad then why not move somewhere better?
I've been working for 12 years and married for 8.
I sure hope to be married for life. Sex is better than ever, though the kids tend to cramp our style. I don't know of any cases at work or in my circle of friends where a woman has accused a man of sexual misconduct as an act of revenge/regret.
Few people actually need 2TB of storage, the idea that SSDs have to be dead equal to HDDs is silly.
Multiple backups, digital photos and videos, etc. I've got over a TB of data in my backup NAS and I'm not trying hard.
Very few people need 4TB, the current largest hard drive. I'd argue most people are happy with 500gb.
And how do you back up a couple of 500GB machines? Simplest is a NAS with a couple multi-TB drives in it and a couple more in external cases for offsite backup.
I'm allowed to make a copy in my own home, with my equipment, for my personal use.
Assuming I'm still paying for my subscription, can I pay someone else to make a copy for me using _my_ equipment in _my_ home?
Can I pay someone else to make a copy for me using _their_ equipment in _my_ home?
Can I pay someone else to make a copy for me using _their_ equipment in _their_ building?
If any of these are acceptable, it's hard to see why they aren't all acceptable.
Around here it's like making your own wine. I'm allowed to make wine in my own home. I can rent space and make wine in a commercial facility. Technically I can't hire someone else to make wine for me, but I can pay them to do everything else for me and I just sprinkle in the yeast.
or a bought-outright DVR. Many options.
The consumer is then directing the device to behave in a certain way. Any responsibility is therefore the consumer's rather than the manufacturer of the device.
A digital sprinker box is still going to have mechanical parts in it.
Putting lights on a simple timer would be messed up around here--depending on time of year the length of the day varies from 5 hrs to 17 hrs. The proper solution for lights is a photosensor with averaging and hysteresis.
In the early days the blocks were allocated with different expectations. It would be legally problematic for ARIN to try and take them back.
Find me a patent that includes a mathematical algorithm, the phrase "used in a computer", and nothing else. I'll wait.
Second, even if you could, then you wouldn't be patenting the math. It could still be freely used outside of a computer.
How about Apple's "slide to unlock" patent?
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,657,849.PN.&OS=PN/7,657,849&RS=PN/7,657,849
"...detecting contact with the touch-sensitive display while the device is in a user-interface lock state; moving an unlock image along a predefined displayed path on the touch-sensitive display in accordance with the contact, wherein the unlock image is a graphical, interactive user-interface object with which a user interacts in order to unlock the device; transitioning the device to a user-interface unlock state if the detected contact corresponds to a predefined gesture; and maintaining the device in the user-interface lock state if the detected contact does not correspond to the predefined gesture."
Basically you touch an unlock image and slide it along the path shown on the screen to unlock. Yes, there is a physical device involved, but this is fundamentally a concept rather than an implementation of the concept.
Agreed. Now, I'm simply asking for your evidence that patents stifle more than they benefit. This is the original evidence I asked for, to which you demurred and instead said "but everyone knows it exists". If you can't support your conclusion with facts, then, while it may be true, you'll never convince a reasonable person.
I am a computer programmer. The assumption is we probably infringe on something even if we invented it independently, so we have been explicitly told not to look at any patents related to our field because we could be liable for treble damages if it appears we may have knowingly infringed.
This is chilling because it means I'm not supposed to see what other people are doing, even though we may be able to trivially work around it.
If the only input is data and the only output is data (rather than running a motor controller or servo or something) then I would argue that we're talking about an algorithm, i.e. pure math.
The fact that it runs on a computer is beside the point, you could in theory do it with pen and paper or in your head.
"light" is another term for "electromagnetic radiation"
Although one could quibble about whether or not a EM radiation travels in a copper wire, and technically the speed of progagation of the signal in a copper wire is roughly 0.96c while in a coax cable it's more like 0.66c.
I'm sure that there exist police officers who are doing the job because they think it needs doing and someone else would do it worse.
Ideally you want each subscriber getting a fair share of the available bandwidth based on their contract terms. Within that available bandwidth, it would be nice if I as a subscriber could specify how I would like my packets prioritized.
The self-checkout ones that are any good match the barcode against the expected weight of the item and complain loudly if it's off by any significant amount.
The gertboard for the RPi will have ADC/DAC capability (2 channels, though apparently only up to 12-bit). Alternately, I see USB audio devices starting at $17 or so.
If you're not willing to fork out for a proper NAS or a more expensive board with SATA ports, you can always use dual external drives with USB. Sure there's a speed penalty, but it's certainly functional.
It could theoretically be a custom ASIC, in which case it's not really a processor running a program as much as a physical embodiment of the program.
If they preprocess the data and only transmit the location of the points of interest (say density transitions, which correspond to surfaces), the bandwidth requirement drops substantially. At about 50 seconds into the ExtremeTech video it shows what appears to be some sort of point cloud corresponding to the surface of the hand(s). I assume this is pretty close to the raw data sent to the computer.
While most of the kernel is written in C, there are portions of each architecture that are written in assembly. Generally it's the very low-level stuff dealing with system startup, exception vectors, etc. It's also used in creating the low level synchronization primitives (locks, barriers, etc.) that are used by the C code to ensure that access to data is synchronized by the various parts of the system. Lastly, it's used in certain performance-sensitive code.