The term I picked up on was "universities". Universities do not get involved in contracts. They live in the world of DAPRA grants, typically at level 6.1 and rarely 6.2 (old terms for "basic research" and "transition technology"). DARPA's grants are often blue-sky stuff: "Imagine that we had sharks with laser beams on their heads. How could we use them?" DARPA is encouraged to think forward even when the technology support doesn't exist. That's what the first "A" in DARPA stands for. So just because this is a system for doing real-time video surveillance (which is fairly common topicwise), and the blue-sky example is a keyhole satellite, doesn't at all mean that there's a keyhole satellite which enables real-time video surveillance. It just means the project manager is being encouraged to dream big.
Lemme tell you a story then. I was in Las Vegas in 2000 attending a conference and a friend in the theme park business told me that insiders thought the best attraction to see was Star Trek: The Experience. So I went. I didn't go for the Star Trek. I went for the Experience. And he was right.
SPOILER ALERT (though I don't think this particular ride's done any more) At that time they had a "ride" that worked like this. You go into this room and they line you all up in a roughly 4x6 grid to go into a large tilt-simulator all at once.
Then the lights went out while you were standing there waiting.
When the lights came on, no simulator. The room had changed, the floor had changed, everything was different. In come some red shirts and the jig is up: you're on the Big E, having been teleported in time or some nonsense. But it didn't matter: the abrupt shift in location was a first-rate bit of hocus-pocus, and totally unexpected. You get run around the big E (quite extensive), and finally have to jump into a shuttlecraft -- which is a first-rate tilt-simulator, to fly around who knows where, and then finally the lights go out again.
Then the hotel custodian taps on your shuttlecraft door and wants to know why you're in the hotel basement. Which is where you are now! They'd changed the outer environment on you again. You walk up some pedestrian stairs and you're out. They've set up a nice DS9 habitat ring, Quark's bar, wandering aliens, the whole thing, to buy junk.
The point is, what made Star Trek the Experience such a first-rate job wasn't the gizmos or the thrill. It was the complete lack of expectation. They totally threw the wool over your eyes. It was an excellent piece of stagecraft.
Most Chinese dictionaries actually sort characters first by the radical and then by stoke count within each group of radicals.
You're dating yourself. Radical-stroke is a fairly old method which isn't very helpful to rapid lookup as character distribution is poor. Current dictionaries use a variety of methods.
Python has a class model in syntax, but the underlying semantic implementation is a prototype model. Thus it manages to achieve the worst features of both: the speed of a proto model and the flexibility of a class model.
If Python had bothered to go with a pure proto model, then you'd have something to say.
other non-bible references. That's why it is not Christian
Because you've arbitrarily defined the Bible to be the sum total of scripture? Another decision which was made, ironically, for political reasons in the Council of Nicea?
Are you really hanging all of your hats on one of the more political and nonreligious councils in Christian history?
Why? Because you've come up with your own special definition of the term?
Jesus would hardly recognize Protestant sects. They're conservative, hypocritical, moneygrubbing, warmongering cults which believe in a crazy greek Gnostic invention called the "Trinity" which has no basis in Judiasm or early Christianity and was used to wipe out competing sects at the Council of Nicea. You're all going to hell.
The licenses used by the artistic community are incompatible with the licenses used by the coding community
Nonsense. They're incompatable, if at all, with exactly one license: GPL. Because GPL has onerous, ridiculous licensing compatability rules. Rules so malformed that they shoved out by far the best open-source license out there (AFL) because FSF found its modern, well-considered patent and lawyer's fees terms "incompatable" with GPL's dark-ages approach to the legal system.
Java, Python, Ruby, and C# all seem to have no problem constructing linked list classes without any mention of freeing up memory.
Hell, Lisp has singly linked list nodes as its primary data structure: the CONS cell. On top of which nearly the entire syntax of the language is built. So tell me dear sir how you "free up" memory in Lisp.
Allocating and deallocating memory has nothing to do with building data structures. It has everything to do with building data structures in primitive languages before good garbage collection was available.
Interesting that you got modded up for this: because your statement is basically false. Mask works are not copyrightable and instead are held under a separate portion of intellectual protection law. In fact, if the mask work has a (C) copyright symbol, that's totally wrong. It needs to be an (M). Licensing has some gotchas as well; I would not rely on any current software license for a mask work.
You're defining Europe by standard geological boundaries, not cultural or political ones. Specifically, you're including half of Russia and all of Turkey. As long as you're including in Europe countries most Europeans don't consider European, you might as well at least allow the US to include Canada (the "Maple Leaf State"), which is also largely CDMA. Then we'll talk who's bigger.
It's not nearly as dire as you describe. Apple had a 13% market share of a totally different market than today. In the '80s there were no commodity PCs. And 2U servers didn't count in the market share analysis back then, nor did PCs used for embedded or automated applications. Apple's market was, and is, brand-name workstations and home computers. Of that, they've got a fair bit more than 3%.
You're looking into ancient history for trends, when you should be looking at recent developments. Apple's worldwide marketshare is double what it was just a few years ago.
Apple is selling far more machines now than they ever did in the '80s: but the pool is just much much bigger. Hell, Apple's market cap is larger than Dell's is.
Confront you? Yes. Detain you? No, not unless they saw you take it and try to leave without paying.
Actually, that's not true. Shopkeeper's privilege has been common law for well over five hundred years now.
Even so, the issue is whether or not the shopkeeper can detain you if you insist on holding onto your ill-begotten goods. Which it sounds like he did.
No, not unless they have legitimate reason to believe he stole something. And "he wouldn't show me his receipt" is not a valid reason. He's not obligated to disprove a by-default assumption that he's a thief.
You're putting constraints on a private party (the shop) which ordinarily only hold on government. He is obligated to disprove the assumption that he's a thief, if he wants to walk out of the shop with his goods. If he cares to dispute the shop, he can call the police.
...has mplayer for playing any type of video (don't just read the Nokia specs, there are many Linux apps ported for it to playback ogg and other stuff)
I own an N800. It does not have a remotely acceptable version of mplayer. mplayer on the N800 does video at hilariously slow framerates, when it works at all. When it doesn't work, it crashes but leaves daemons underneath which run at full blast on your machine but the average person doesn't know they're still there. "Honey, why is the N800 eating through battery in 15 minutes now?"
If the target audience for the N800 is Ogg-playing linux hackers who don't use iTunes and who encode their own video, I imagine Apple would be happy to ignore them. Both of them.
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Good to see he practices what he preaches.
The story of the Cookie program, in the words of its author.
The term I picked up on was "universities". Universities do not get involved in contracts. They live in the world of DAPRA grants, typically at level 6.1 and rarely 6.2 (old terms for "basic research" and "transition technology"). DARPA's grants are often blue-sky stuff: "Imagine that we had sharks with laser beams on their heads. How could we use them?" DARPA is encouraged to think forward even when the technology support doesn't exist. That's what the first "A" in DARPA stands for. So just because this is a system for doing real-time video surveillance (which is fairly common topicwise), and the blue-sky example is a keyhole satellite, doesn't at all mean that there's a keyhole satellite which enables real-time video surveillance. It just means the project manager is being encouraged to dream big.
You do realize that GMU's law school is notoriously crazy-conservative, and likely would be on the side of Thompson.
They are in Virginia, one of two states to enact UCITA.
Guess which state George Mason University is a state school of.
This is not the definition of obvious.
Example: I am about to invent the typing of something that no one has typed before:
6&uy8(8-3((821EE$@#cdm(={}-01}9}}[p_+_)(kjm
Impressive, no? And totally innovative, yes? Time to go patent this particular typing invention.
Lemme tell you a story then. I was in Las Vegas in 2000 attending a conference and a friend in the theme park business told me that insiders thought the best attraction to see was Star Trek: The Experience. So I went. I didn't go for the Star Trek. I went for the Experience. And he was right.
SPOILER ALERT (though I don't think this particular ride's done any more) At that time they had a "ride" that worked like this. You go into this room and they line you all up in a roughly 4x6 grid to go into a large tilt-simulator all at once.
Then the lights went out while you were standing there waiting.
When the lights came on, no simulator. The room had changed, the floor had changed, everything was different. In come some red shirts and the jig is up: you're on the Big E, having been teleported in time or some nonsense. But it didn't matter: the abrupt shift in location was a first-rate bit of hocus-pocus, and totally unexpected. You get run around the big E (quite extensive), and finally have to jump into a shuttlecraft -- which is a first-rate tilt-simulator, to fly around who knows where, and then finally the lights go out again.
Then the hotel custodian taps on your shuttlecraft door and wants to know why you're in the hotel basement. Which is where you are now! They'd changed the outer environment on you again. You walk up some pedestrian stairs and you're out. They've set up a nice DS9 habitat ring, Quark's bar, wandering aliens, the whole thing, to buy junk.
The point is, what made Star Trek the Experience such a first-rate job wasn't the gizmos or the thrill. It was the complete lack of expectation. They totally threw the wool over your eyes. It was an excellent piece of stagecraft.
arXiv has become the repository for junk that couldn't pass peer review. Wake me up when we see a published journal article.
Python has a class model in syntax, but the underlying semantic implementation is a prototype model. Thus it manages to achieve the worst features of both: the speed of a proto model and the flexibility of a class model.
If Python had bothered to go with a pure proto model, then you'd have something to say.
Are you really hanging all of your hats on one of the more political and nonreligious councils in Christian history?
Jesus would hardly recognize Protestant sects. They're conservative, hypocritical, moneygrubbing, warmongering cults which believe in a crazy greek Gnostic invention called the "Trinity" which has no basis in Judiasm or early Christianity and was used to wipe out competing sects at the Council of Nicea. You're all going to hell.
Copyright and confidentiality. That's all there is to this folks.
And who stole the entire problem, lock stock and barrel, from Martin Gardner without citation.
Java, Python, Ruby, and C# all seem to have no problem constructing linked list classes without any mention of freeing up memory. Hell, Lisp has singly linked list nodes as its primary data structure: the CONS cell. On top of which nearly the entire syntax of the language is built. So tell me dear sir how you "free up" memory in Lisp. Allocating and deallocating memory has nothing to do with building data structures. It has everything to do with building data structures in primitive languages before good garbage collection was available.
Interesting that you got modded up for this: because your statement is basically false. Mask works are not copyrightable and instead are held under a separate portion of intellectual protection law. In fact, if the mask work has a (C) copyright symbol, that's totally wrong. It needs to be an (M). Licensing has some gotchas as well; I would not rely on any current software license for a mask work.
"One Word: Volume"
You're defining Europe by standard geological boundaries, not cultural or political ones. Specifically, you're including half of Russia and all of Turkey. As long as you're including in Europe countries most Europeans don't consider European, you might as well at least allow the US to include Canada (the "Maple Leaf State"), which is also largely CDMA. Then we'll talk who's bigger.
Apparently you've never been to Japan.
Honda's P3 (now Asimo) has been able to do this since forever.
Actually, that's not true. Shopkeeper's privilege has been common law for well over five hundred years now.
Even so, the issue is whether or not the shopkeeper can detain you if you insist on holding onto your ill-begotten goods. Which it sounds like he did.
You're putting constraints on a private party (the shop) which ordinarily only hold on government. He is obligated to disprove the assumption that he's a thief, if he wants to walk out of the shop with his goods. If he cares to dispute the shop, he can call the police.
I own an N800. It does not have a remotely acceptable version of mplayer. mplayer on the N800 does video at hilariously slow framerates, when it works at all. When it doesn't work, it crashes but leaves daemons underneath which run at full blast on your machine but the average person doesn't know they're still there. "Honey, why is the N800 eating through battery in 15 minutes now?"
If the target audience for the N800 is Ogg-playing linux hackers who don't use iTunes and who encode their own video, I imagine Apple would be happy to ignore them. Both of them.
Nokia is screwed.