Well, blame copyright laws, don't blame the judge for his application of broken laws. What I wanted to point is that the judge ruling is fair according to current laws : the defendant shot a close-looking photo on purpose to avoid a licensing fee for a copyrighted work.
If they paid him before, yes.
Actually, at first, they didn't pay him, so there was a first lawsuit They then settled for a royalty of 5% of the trade sale price, for past and futures sales. Not willing to pay the royalty for future sales, they changed the picture. Hence the second lawsuit.
AFAIK downloading (leech style) is not illegal in any western country
Well, I can't tell for other countries, but the law about that recently (2011-12-20) changed in France (if that's western enough for you). For those interested and that can read French, it's article L122-5 of Code de la propriété intellectuelle, modified by law 2011-1898. There is no decree for that law yet.
Before, the author couldn't oppose "copies or reproductions strictly reserved for private use". Now, the author can't oppose "copies or reproductions made from a lawful source and strictly reserved for private use".
This happened shortly after (2011-10-04) the Court of Justice of the European Union reaffirmed that the receiver was not infringing in a case about satellite video streaming. (I have not the source from the CJEU, but from a law firm (in French)).
I'm thinking this new FFT algorithm could make a big difference in encoding speeds.
I'm not so sure. It has the potential to make a big difference in decoding speed : I would think that the input signal is not that sparse, but rather that it has plenty of small components. The goal of the compression is to remove the smallest components as unnoticeable noise. Only after that step you get a sparse signal. So what you can actually improve significantly is technically the inverse FFT (which uses basically the same algorithm as the FFT), used for decoding.
But XYZ can express "colors" like that, that are supposed to stimulate only one receptor without also slightly stimulating the others, even through response curves of the receptors overlap. Maybe some day direct brain stimulation will make us able to see these colors that can't exist in the real world.
You can actually experience that kind of colors as optic illusions : if you fix a blue sheet, you will strain your blue cones. If you then fix a green or yellow sheet, you should get an "impossible" color. There are other ways to get such impossible colors, but in any case you can't perceive them in "normal" conditions.
WIndows side-by-side (that horrible multi-gig bloat in the winsxs directory) has long since fixed DLL isues. You might want to update your criticisms to things that are still actually wring with Windows.
Incidentally, my sister's HP laptop Windows 7 installation broke months ago as she would get "Incorrect side by side configuration" for many applications.
I tried to fix it during the year-end vacation. I could not spot any suspicious viral activity (there were a few toolbars though, although the Yahoo one was in the HP "distribution"), and the computer was no slower than when new (actually, it booted faster as the HP toolbar crapware that makes Windows 7 unusable the first minute after you get to the desktop would also fail to start). Windows Update would not succeed in installing its service pack. I reinstalled.Net (apparently a common culprit) and it didn't fix anything.While searching forums, Firefox told me there was a new version. I installed it. Firefox never restarted.
MS-Windows is still broken.
My sister's previous desktop computer had an Ubuntu until the motherboard died. She's now back to Ubuntu (she doesn't intend to use the freshly reinstalled Windows 7 reduced partition). Ironically, while her Windows 7 installation was broken, Ubuntu would still run in VirtualBox, and so she would use her computer that way.
Some of their questions in that test are answered incorrectly. on page 18
Actually, there is a range of valid answers for that question (question 12), and the valid answer, 0,3 , is accepted (even if it is not the one given in example). However I've found that question 6 would reject the best answers. The question makes little sense, but in any case, there is no reason that a better answer using trapezoidal rule should be rejected ( (10+26+37+45.5+45.5+33+19.5+7.5)/8 = 28 ), as the correct answer for what they mean is lake surface divided by axis height. And getting the mean with a width of 0 at top and bottom should also be accepted ( (0+20+32+42+49+42+24+15+0)/9 = 24.88 ). After all, these three answers are 224/7, 224/8, 224/9, and the only accepted solution is not the best one.
French Post introduced a new rate a few months ago, called the green stamp (link in French, use your favourite translator if you care). Before, there was the green economical stamp (0,55€), advertised for a delivery in 4 days, and the red express stamp (0,60€), advertised for a delivery in 24 hours. The new green ecological stamp costs 0,57€ and is advertised for a delivery in 48h. At the same time they introduced the ecological stamp, they switched the default from express to ecological, which means that almost nobody uses the express rate anymore.
This statistic is more relevant than yours because distribution network works as a a mesh network of hubs, followed by a star network for delivery, and not some kind of globally meshed network. Due to economies of scale, the mesh network costs less to operate, so the most relevant aspect of operating costs is the efficiency of the star network, which improves with local population density, independantly from the global, average population density.
Microsoft finally agreed to talk to them about the patents without an NDA, B&N's lawyers looked at them and explained to Microsoft they don't cover their devices, as the patents covered features the devices didn't have. Microsoft came back and explained those were just a few of the patents they had, that they could go back and find patents B&N did infringe on if they didn't sign a license agreement.
My own introduction to the realities of the patent system came in the 1980s, when my client, Sun Microsystems--then a small company--was accused by IBM of patent infringement. Threatening a massive lawsuit, IBM demanded a meeting to present its claims. Fourteen IBM lawyers and their assistants, all clad in the requisite dark blue suits, crowded into the largest conference room Sun had.
The chief blue suit orchestrated the presentation of the seven patents IBM claimed were infringed [...]
After IBM's presentation, our turn came. As the Big Blue crew looked on (without a flicker of emotion), my colleagues--all of whom had both engineering and law degrees--took to the whiteboard with markers, methodically illustrating, dissecting, and demolishing IBM's claims. [...] Confidently, we proclaimed our conclusion: Only one of the seven IBM patents would be deemed valid by a court, and no rational court would find that Sun's technology infringed even that one.
An awkward silence ensued. The blue suits did not even confer among themselves. They just sat there, stonelike. Finally, the chief suit responded. "OK," he said, "maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?"
After a modest bit of negotiation, Sun cut IBM a check, and the blue suits went to the next company on their hit list.
In corporate America, this type of shakedown is repeated weekly. The patent as stimulant to invention has long since given way to the patent as blunt instrument for establishing an innovation stranglehold. [...]
Even Linux's most passionate partisans will admit that its filesystem, which stashes vital files in a variety of arcane directories, can be baffling to users.
man hier
And, if you're lost, man man
Plus, it has nothing to do with Linux (my advice applies to *BSD — Mac OS X included —, Solaris, QNX... just to cite a few)
Now if you can explain to me what is in C:\Windows or \\HK*...
Is there any debate that a printer can be patented? No. The output of the printer however is another story altogether.
The output of the printer is what is submitted to the USPTO, so you better have it patentable or that would require all patent applications to be hand-written, in which case you could replace printer by pen which would cause the same issues:)
The guy is using short scale. This being Slashdot, you could have written 10^13, that being unambiguous. Call me back when someone actually computes 10 trillion (10^19) decimals of Pi:)
Microsoft has moved the start menu functions to the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Lion'.
You need to to keep up with the times and modify your citations accordingly, Apple has recently shipped Lion;)
Which read-write file system for removable storage media is 1. supported in Windows and 2. not patented?
UDF, with some lesser values of 'supported' (I'm not sure if Windows will accept to read/write an UDF-formatted USB stick, at least I'm pretty sure that it won't let you format it in UDF);
cutting your energy usage by 30% doesn't help much when they raise rates 30%.
You were paying: [reference power usage in kWh] * [kWh rate]
If your usage is reduced by 30% and the rate raised by 30%, you're now paying: [reference power usage in kWh] * (1-0.3) * [kWh rate] * (1+0.3) = 0.91 * [reference power usage in kW] * [kWh rate]
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Well, blame copyright laws, don't blame the judge for his application of broken laws.
What I wanted to point is that the judge ruling is fair according to current laws : the defendant shot a close-looking photo on purpose to avoid a licensing fee for a copyrighted work.
If they paid him before, yes.
Actually, at first, they didn't pay him, so there was a first lawsuit
They then settled for a royalty of 5% of the trade sale price, for past and futures sales.
Not willing to pay the royalty for future sales, they changed the picture.
Hence the second lawsuit.
Hum, what about some context ?
Old "New English Teas" tin
New "New English Teas" tin
(Thanks to johnsnails (1715452) for the Google search pointing me to these images)
Obviously New English Teas didn't want to pay the original author while maintaining the branding. You seem to think that it is ok ?
if you have to do something illegal, do not write it down.
I believe that Ricky McCormick and the likes don't care.
AFAIK downloading (leech style) is not illegal in any western country
Well, I can't tell for other countries, but the law about that recently (2011-12-20) changed in France (if that's western enough for you).
For those interested and that can read French, it's article L122-5 of Code de la propriété intellectuelle, modified by law 2011-1898. There is no decree for that law yet.
Before, the author couldn't oppose "copies or reproductions strictly reserved for private use". Now, the author can't oppose "copies or reproductions made from a lawful source and strictly reserved for private use".
This happened shortly after (2011-10-04) the Court of Justice of the European Union reaffirmed that the receiver was not infringing in a case about satellite video streaming. (I have not the source from the CJEU, but from a law firm (in French)).
Sony and Chevy are both competing for the new self-destruct battery contract.
I suspect that Sony actually provided the special self-destructing battery in that drone, and that battery failed to self-destruct.
I'm thinking this new FFT algorithm could make a big difference in encoding speeds.
I'm not so sure. It has the potential to make a big difference in decoding speed :
I would think that the input signal is not that sparse, but rather that it has plenty of small components. The goal of the compression is to remove the smallest components as unnoticeable noise. Only after that step you get a sparse signal. So what you can actually improve significantly is technically the inverse FFT (which uses basically the same algorithm as the FFT), used for decoding.
But XYZ can express "colors" like that, that are supposed to stimulate only one receptor without also slightly stimulating the others, even through response curves of the receptors overlap. Maybe some day direct brain stimulation will make us able to see these colors that can't exist in the real world.
You can actually experience that kind of colors as optic illusions : if you fix a blue sheet, you will strain your blue cones. If you then fix a green or yellow sheet, you should get an "impossible" color. There are other ways to get such impossible colors, but in any case you can't perceive them in "normal" conditions.
WIndows side-by-side (that horrible multi-gig bloat in the winsxs directory) has long since fixed DLL isues. You might want to update your criticisms to things that are still actually wring with Windows.
Incidentally, my sister's HP laptop Windows 7 installation broke months ago as she would get "Incorrect side by side configuration" for many applications.
I tried to fix it during the year-end vacation. I could not spot any suspicious viral activity (there were a few toolbars though, although the Yahoo one was in the HP "distribution"), and the computer was no slower than when new (actually, it booted faster as the HP toolbar crapware that makes Windows 7 unusable the first minute after you get to the desktop would also fail to start). Windows Update would not succeed in installing its service pack. I reinstalled .Net (apparently a common culprit) and it didn't fix anything.While searching forums, Firefox told me there was a new version. I installed it. Firefox never restarted.
MS-Windows is still broken.
My sister's previous desktop computer had an Ubuntu until the motherboard died. She's now back to Ubuntu (she doesn't intend to use the freshly reinstalled Windows 7 reduced partition). Ironically, while her Windows 7 installation was broken, Ubuntu would still run in VirtualBox, and so she would use her computer that way.
Some of their questions in that test are answered incorrectly. on page 18
Actually, there is a range of valid answers for that question (question 12), and the valid answer, 0,3 , is accepted (even if it is not the one given in example).
However I've found that question 6 would reject the best answers. The question makes little sense, but in any case, there is no reason that a better answer using trapezoidal rule should be rejected ( (10+26+37+45.5+45.5+33+19.5+7.5)/8 = 28 ), as the correct answer for what they mean is lake surface divided by axis height. And getting the mean with a width of 0 at top and bottom should also be accepted ( (0+20+32+42+49+42+24+15+0)/9 = 24.88 ).
After all, these three answers are 224/7, 224/8, 224/9, and the only accepted solution is not the best one.
please don't tell me they allow calculators
See the tips page 6.
Random ?
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865
Random ?
Obligatory XKCD
Obligatory Dilbert
To put things in perspective :
French Post introduced a new rate a few months ago, called the green stamp (link in French, use your favourite translator if you care).
Before, there was the green economical stamp (0,55€), advertised for a delivery in 4 days, and the red express stamp (0,60€), advertised for a delivery in 24 hours.
The new green ecological stamp costs 0,57€ and is advertised for a delivery in 48h.
At the same time they introduced the ecological stamp, they switched the default from express to ecological, which means that almost nobody uses the express rate anymore.
What is your point ?
Maybe you should use statistics that matter, or use more than one and explain how you combine them.
Percentage of urban population by country
This statistic is more relevant than yours because distribution network works as a a mesh network of hubs, followed by a star network for delivery, and not some kind of globally meshed network.
Due to economies of scale, the mesh network costs less to operate, so the most relevant aspect of operating costs is the efficiency of the star network, which improves with local population density, independantly from the global, average population density.
Remember WorldPerfect?
Sorry I haven't read that book by Rabbi Ken Spiro yet, and don't intend to read it.
So you could [...] run the browser in itself?
Old news. Try chrome://browser/content/browser.xul in Firefox (doesn't seem to work as a clickable link, though).
See here for more options.
After BadAnalogyGuy and PizzaAnalogyGuy, we now have CheeseburgerAnalogyGuy. *sigh*
Microsoft finally agreed to talk to them about the patents without an NDA, B&N's lawyers looked at them and explained to Microsoft they don't cover their devices, as the patents covered features the devices didn't have.
Microsoft came back and explained those were just a few of the patents they had, that they could go back and find patents B&N did infringe on if they didn't sign a license agreement.
Yes, same tactics as IBM used in the 80's :
My own introduction to the realities of the patent system came in the 1980s, when my client, Sun Microsystems--then a small company--was accused by IBM of patent infringement. Threatening a massive lawsuit, IBM demanded a meeting to present its claims. Fourteen IBM lawyers and their assistants, all clad in the requisite dark blue suits, crowded into the largest conference room Sun had.
The chief blue suit orchestrated the presentation of the seven patents IBM claimed were infringed [...]
After IBM's presentation, our turn came. As the Big Blue crew looked on (without a flicker of emotion), my colleagues--all of whom had both engineering and law degrees--took to the whiteboard with markers, methodically illustrating, dissecting, and demolishing IBM's claims. [...] Confidently, we proclaimed our conclusion: Only one of the seven IBM patents would be deemed valid by a court, and no rational court would find that Sun's technology infringed even that one.
An awkward silence ensued. The blue suits did not even confer among themselves. They just sat there, stonelike. Finally, the chief suit responded. "OK," he said, "maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?"
After a modest bit of negotiation, Sun cut IBM a check, and the blue suits went to the next company on their hit list.
In corporate America, this type of shakedown is repeated weekly. The patent as stimulant to invention has long since given way to the patent as blunt instrument for establishing an innovation stranglehold. [...]
Even Linux's most passionate partisans will admit that its filesystem, which stashes vital files in a variety of arcane directories, can be baffling to users.
man hier
And, if you're lost,
man man
Plus, it has nothing to do with Linux (my advice applies to *BSD — Mac OS X included —, Solaris, QNX... just to cite a few)
Now if you can explain to me what is in C:\Windows or \\HK* ...
Is there any debate that a printer can be patented?
No. The output of the printer however is another story altogether.
The output of the printer is what is submitted to the USPTO, so you better have it patentable or that would require all patent applications to be hand-written, in which case you could replace printer by pen which would cause the same issues :)
The guy is using short scale. :)
This being Slashdot, you could have written 10^13, that being unambiguous.
Call me back when someone actually computes 10 trillion (10^19) decimals of Pi
Microsoft has moved the start menu functions to the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Lion'.
You need to to keep up with the times and modify your citations accordingly, Apple has recently shipped Lion ;)
Which read-write file system for removable storage media is 1. supported in Windows and 2. not patented?
Now, practical to use would be another question ;)
cutting your energy usage by 30% doesn't help much when they raise rates 30%.
You were paying:
[reference power usage in kWh] * [kWh rate]
If your usage is reduced by 30% and the rate raised by 30%, you're now paying:
[reference power usage in kWh] * (1-0.3) * [kWh rate] * (1+0.3) = 0.91 * [reference power usage in kW] * [kWh rate]
See ? It helped by 9% :)
Does it work with the iPhone4 ?
Retirement = Rm * internet => e = n or Retirement = 0.
But Retirement = RM + Internet looks just wrong.
how in the world did the name come about?
It's because of h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slashdot-dot-org.