You can't sue an end user for patent infringement because they're not selling it or making a profit off of it. And if they are selling it, they're no longer the end user.
Its perfectly legal---and theoretically, encouraged---to take a patent and use it to build the system at home. Theoretically, patents are to be in such detail that the invention they patent may be recreated from the patent.
This is the stupidest bullshit I've ever heard. I dunno what idiot invented this shit, and I can't believe the brain dead fucks who are perpetuating it.
Suppose you're a British citizen travelling in America. OOPS! He's not a citizen. Well fuck-all, let's just ship him on down to gitmo. He doesn't even have to be accused of anything, because... you know, he's not a citizen (of America anyways)! Well yippie-kai-yay.
So. Under your interpretation, this is perfectly justified right? I hope you realize how brain dead this sounds./end rant.
Shit. You d00ds really need to take a chill pill. Seriously, this is the sort of shit I expect to see in a preschool: is not! is too. is not! is too. Blah blah fucking blah.
True, although I would argue that most people would think of a virus as a parasite. In any case, this is an almost impossible point to argue, so I agree with you.:)
With regards to influenza, most people do survive the strains that can infect humans (mostly A, B and C are rare), but there is a virus similar to influenza that is extremely deadly to fish. Sadly I have no idea what it's called, so I can't find a link for you.
Parasite—Biology. An organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host.
How are influenza and ebola not parasites? Because they're not organisms since they're composed of a single prokaryotic cell (ie. they don't have organelles)? Come on. That's a ridiculous distinction. Ignoring whatever makes up a virus, they behave exactly like a parasite.
You're right that the slant is very much american, but remember, if wikipedia buys the copyrights, then translations can be made. Biology, Chemistry, etc. are subjects which transcend language. It would be fantastic if the teaching base was standardized, all countries using the same textbook (language aside). Rather than wasting effort on re-writing the same material in twenty different ways, the community as a whole may suggest questions, tests, improvements, new diagrams, etc. I think this could be very useful for improving the standard of education, theoretically. In practice I'm sure some idiot is going to complain and it will never get used in schools.
The issue of the study of languages is one I know almost nothing about, so I won't presume to say anything about it. But let me just say that I can see the Americanism being a major issue there.
You can't _compress_ data into more 0s, but you can easily invent a system that maximizes the number of 0s used. The most obvious one is to pause for a certain amount of time between flashing the pipe.
So suppose you divide the data into 8bit tokens. Then your maximum waiting time is 2^8 * x = 256x. Where x being the smallest unit of time you can use. So a pause of 1x represents 0x01h, 2x represents 0x02h, 16x represents 0x0fh, etc.
You could also remap the times to their binary values by occurrence, with the goal of more frequent sequences getting larger binary values.
However, this sounds like we're effectively trying to minimize the bandwidth, and I wonder if any savings will actually occur if you turn up the knob to make the bandwidth actually equivalent.
The parent isn't a troll per-se. It refers to Vista rather than Firefox. It's sort of amusing actually. Perhaps +1 troll, -1 funny would be appropriate.:)
Perhaps when you have mod points/. should default the view to -1? Personally, with the new system, its so easy to read a message that I'll see all of the messages when moderating.
The company behind VMware, EMC Corp. makes roughly 9 billion in revenue, and 1 billion in profit a year. They have no reason to sell VMware really. So it's not that big a concern right nows.
There are also open source replacements for VMware. Granted, they're arguablly not as good or integrated as VMware, but they do their job.
Microsoft makes a power toy that lets you make some serious adjustments to various UI features. I run linux these days, so I can't check, but there might be something related to that in the toy. I remember there was some stuff about typing and delays.
Cheers
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You only read good books for an hour a week?
Most good books take about 10 hours to read, depending on your speed and the depth of the book. Think about it, 2 minutes a page, 300 page book -> 10 hours.
True, but then you have to worry about whether its detectable if you are running the program in a VM. Theoretically it shouldn't be possible, but is it?
I'm not sure why this pisses me off so much, but it does.
It's retarded that such a license can be agreed to. I understand that you agree to a license if you use their software, but I fail to see why it is legal for them to invent something that basically says this program will delete files off your computer, devices, and anything attached you have write access to without your explicit permission. And saying this can posibly be done in the future, isn't really explicit permission.
We need a program that allows you to run another program with certain changes in place. In this case, the program can read files, can create files, and it can move files, but if it tries to delete a file it will work perfectly, and the file will appear to be deleted, but the control program will not actually delete the real file, just make it look like it has been deleted. File writes are tricky. Perhaps a special "program control" file could be made (by humans) with explicit declarations as to what files can be modified, and how (REGEXes, etc.), by a program. We can then distribute these program controls from a central site.
Lots of issues would need to be resolved, but it/could/ work.
If the frame rate is so god awful slow, it is more likely that the renderer is implemented in software, and is not really using the graphics card.
I do not know of any good way to check this. Perhaps if you were running a desktop rather than a notebook you could feel up the card and see if it heats up, but that is somewhat... lame.
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You had numlock turned on. Back with Mathematica 5 and earlier this caused major shit. Weird, I know. I spent half a day trying to figure that out.
What the hell? How is that a troll?
For the mods:
SFW = Suitable For Work
Hence:
SFW? = Is that link you just posted with no descriptive comment suitable for viewing at work?
A perfectly valid comment.
Slashdot. Grr.
According to Wikipedia you're correct. Patents officially suck.
You can't sue an end user for patent infringement because they're not selling it or making a profit off of it. And if they are selling it, they're no longer the end user.
Its perfectly legal---and theoretically, encouraged---to take a patent and use it to build the system at home. Theoretically, patents are to be in such detail that the invention they patent may be recreated from the patent.
IANAL.
Woosh!
This is the stupidest bullshit I've ever heard. I dunno what idiot invented this shit, and I can't believe the brain dead fucks who are perpetuating it.
/end rant.
Suppose you're a British citizen travelling in America. OOPS! He's not a citizen. Well fuck-all, let's just ship him on down to gitmo. He doesn't even have to be accused of anything, because... you know, he's not a citizen (of America anyways)! Well yippie-kai-yay.
So. Under your interpretation, this is perfectly justified right? I hope you realize how brain dead this sounds.
:-P
Cheers.
As of now, it is win2003:
http://www.live.com/asdad
Cheers.
Honestly, I don't see them using anything else.
Shit. You d00ds really need to take a chill pill. Seriously, this is the sort of shit I expect to see in a preschool: is not! is too. is not! is too. Blah blah fucking blah.
True, although I would argue that most people would think of a virus as a parasite. In any case, this is an almost impossible point to argue, so I agree with you. :)
With regards to influenza, most people do survive the strains that can infect humans (mostly A, B and C are rare), but there is a virus similar to influenza that is extremely deadly to fish. Sadly I have no idea what it's called, so I can't find a link for you.
How are influenza and ebola not parasites? Because they're not organisms since they're composed of a single prokaryotic cell (ie. they don't have organelles)? Come on. That's a ridiculous distinction. Ignoring whatever makes up a virus, they behave exactly like a parasite.
Cheers./p
You're right that the slant is very much american, but remember, if wikipedia buys the copyrights, then translations can be made. Biology, Chemistry, etc. are subjects which transcend language. It would be fantastic if the teaching base was standardized, all countries using the same textbook (language aside). Rather than wasting effort on re-writing the same material in twenty different ways, the community as a whole may suggest questions, tests, improvements, new diagrams, etc. I think this could be very useful for improving the standard of education, theoretically. In practice I'm sure some idiot is going to complain and it will never get used in schools.
The issue of the study of languages is one I know almost nothing about, so I won't presume to say anything about it. But let me just say that I can see the Americanism being a major issue there.
You can't _compress_ data into more 0s, but you can easily invent a system that maximizes the number of 0s used. The most obvious one is to pause for a certain amount of time between flashing the pipe.
So suppose you divide the data into 8bit tokens. Then your maximum waiting time is 2^8 * x = 256x. Where x being the smallest unit of time you can use. So a pause of 1x represents 0x01h, 2x represents 0x02h, 16x represents 0x0fh, etc.
You could also remap the times to their binary values by occurrence, with the goal of more frequent sequences getting larger binary values.
However, this sounds like we're effectively trying to minimize the bandwidth, and I wonder if any savings will actually occur if you turn up the knob to make the bandwidth actually equivalent.
The parent isn't a troll per-se. It refers to Vista rather than Firefox. It's sort of amusing actually. Perhaps +1 troll, -1 funny would be appropriate. :)
Perhaps when you have mod points /. should default the view to -1? Personally, with the new system, its so easy to read a message that I'll see all of the messages when moderating.
The company behind VMware, EMC Corp. makes roughly 9 billion in revenue, and 1 billion in profit a year. They have no reason to sell VMware really. So it's not that big a concern right nows.
There are also open source replacements for VMware. Granted, they're arguablly not as good or integrated as VMware, but they do their job.
Microsoft makes a power toy that lets you make some serious adjustments to various UI features. I run linux these days, so I can't check, but there might be something related to that in the toy. I remember there was some stuff about typing and delays.
Cheers
You only read good books for an hour a week?
Most good books take about 10 hours to read, depending on your speed and the depth of the book. Think about it, 2 minutes a page, 300 page book -> 10 hours.
You need to lose the last slash in the GP's link:
http://www.debian.org/logos/officiallogo-100.jpg
True, but then you have to worry about whether its detectable if you are running the program in a VM. Theoretically it shouldn't be possible, but is it?
I'm not sure why this pisses me off so much, but it does.
/could/ work.
It's retarded that such a license can be agreed to. I understand that you agree to a license if you use their software, but I fail to see why it is legal for them to invent something that basically says this program will delete files off your computer, devices, and anything attached you have write access to without your explicit permission. And saying this can posibly be done in the future, isn't really explicit permission.
We need a program that allows you to run another program with certain changes in place. In this case, the program can read files, can create files, and it can move files, but if it tries to delete a file it will work perfectly, and the file will appear to be deleted, but the control program will not actually delete the real file, just make it look like it has been deleted. File writes are tricky. Perhaps a special "program control" file could be made (by humans) with explicit declarations as to what files can be modified, and how (REGEXes, etc.), by a program. We can then distribute these program controls from a central site.
Lots of issues would need to be resolved, but it
I dunno.
Hey, that's cool. Thanks.
If the frame rate is so god awful slow, it is more likely that the renderer is implemented in software, and is not really using the graphics card.
I do not know of any good way to check this. Perhaps if you were running a desktop rather than a notebook you could feel up the card and see if it heats up, but that is somewhat... lame.
Cheers,
Chris.
And yes, the above was a joke, before people post corrections.