Unacceptable to whom? Clearly you didn't read my full post, anyone who considers every other day to be "unacceptable" can rent a PO Box and get it daily. If daily delivery is that important to someone, the cost of a PO Box and going to pick it up shouldn't be a problem. Every other day delivery is a two day delay at most, assuming you would have received it on a Sat and receive it on a Mon instead. However, in ~50% of the cases, it's no delay, and in ~43% it's a 1 day delay, less than 7% of mail would encounter that 2 day delivery delay.
Well, I am the parent, and the AC was correct. Is it really that hard to figure out?
As for your other comments, people pay directly for their broadband, etc, whereas they don't pay directly for mail delivery (they pay only for sending mail, and that's dirt cheap). A one day delay in delivery is almost never an issue, and when it is, the sender should send it via an express service (USPS Express Mail, FedEX, UPS, etc). And businesses or other recipients who insist they need daily delivery can pay for a PO Box and receive daily.
Get Congress to allow 3 day a week delivery on residential routes (and maybe commercial routes), Mon-Wed-Fri for half, Tue-Thu-Sat for the other half. Still offer daily delivery to post office boxes. Anyone who thinks they really need daily delivery can rent a PO Box and pick it up daily.
That's false. Rambus did develop and submit the technology to JEDEC, but they failed to disclose that it was patent encumbered and then refused to agree to JEDEC FRAND terms and tried to license it separately. They lost those cases in court.
Based upon court rulings, that's false. Rambus mistake was failure to disclose that the information they were submitting to JEDEC was patent encumbered and then trying to collect patent royalties, not "taking credit for other people's ideas".
Wrong. Rambus submitted much of the SDRAM specifications to the group, they didn't steal it from the group. They failed to disclose they they were seeking a patent on the technologies, and as because of that failure to disclose, have lost much of the revenue they might have made had they properly disclosed it.
Rambus != RDRAM. RDRAM was one of their technologies. But so was synchronous memory transfer, differential signaling, and possibly some other technologies that are very much in use today.
Yes, they've acted in bad faith, repeatedly. And they've misused the courts. They are essentially a patent troll.
However, all the RAM you use is derived in part from Rambus technologies. SDRAM and it's descendants (DDR, DDR2, DDR3, GDDR, etc.) all derive some of their technology from Rambus technologies. So, hate their behavior (they've certainly earned your hatred), but they have helped to advance the industry.
I'm a developer, and a slashdot reader, and I think software patents are a good thing. Not all software patents, but I don't think all non-software patents are good either. The patent system is messed up and there are many "bad" patents issued. But that's no reason to condemn all patents or all software patents.
There is a HUGE difference between knowing who you call or what websites you visit (available from network info) and knowing which apps you're using or monitoring your key strokes. The latter is none of their business, and key logging can allow them to access your passwords. That's completely inappropriate and probably a crime.
If he represents one of the copyright holders, he must file the suit on their behalf with them as the plaintiff. Or have people learned nothing from Righthaven?
Reading (and figuring out) someone else's code is one of the best ways to learn to program. It also teaches the value of commenting your code and making it understandable and maintainable by others.
As for the "cheating" aspect: 1. In the real world, programmers "cheat" by sharing code to get the job done with the least effort. 2. Switch up the groups after every assignment so the learn to work with different people, you'll see a pattern in who is productive and who is a slacker. 3. In the later phases, switch up the groups in the middle of the assignment, just like a real workplace.
Black is both a better radiator, and a better absorber. As for the SR-71"Finished aircraft were painted a dark blue, almost black to increase the emission of internal heat (fuel acted as a heat sink for avionics cooling) and to act as camouflage against the night sky." So, it was a combination of things.
...most commonly reported in people who have travelled long distances... and who are already at an increased risk of thrombosis.... The mechanism for thrombosis in travellers is probably due to a combination of immobilisation, dehydration and underlying risk factors.... Patients with diseases that predispose them to thrombosis, such as antiphospholipid syndrome or cancer, are at a much greater risk. The highest risk groups include the elderly, those suffering serious medical conditions such as cancer, those with recent orthopedic surgery (legs or knees) and pregnant women....... the risk of VTE approximately doubles after a long–haul flight (>4 hours) and also with other forms of travel where travellers are exposed to prolonged seated immobility. Risk increases with the duration of the travel and also in passengers having other known risk factors of VTE.
All of the above would qualify as medical conditions, and "long haul (>4 hours)" exceeds the "every 3 hrs or so" that I stated in my post. If you choose to take breaks more frequently, for personal or medical reasons, fine, but healthy individuals only need a break every 3-4 hours.
Everyone is different. And how comfortable your seats are and how you have them adjusted makes a difference.
But every 100mi? Seriously? I drive ~800 miles, in two ~6hr segments. Stop for food, fuel, and restroom about 1/2 way. I occasionally need an additional restroom or food stop, depending upon when I start the trip. If you don't have a medical condition, you shouldn't need to stop more than every 3hrs or so.
Agreed. I'm a big fan of CM, and the rest of the ethical security researchers.
Apple's reaction to security vulnerabilities is pretty poor. I have personal experience with that since I reported a vulnerability in QT for Windows (CVE-2010-0530) that they took over a year to fix, and didn't fix it properly when they did.
Apple isn't the only vendor to have such poor policies, just one of the most visible.
Which means nothing. If you had bothered to think about it or ready any of my replies to the other people making that same claim, you wouldn't have bothered to repeat their mistake.
I think by coming here you insured that you are talking to the 5% that do care....
Which has absolutely nothing to do with my statement. My statement is about all users. That's the problem with most of the users on here, they can't see that most of the users aren't interested in the same things they are.
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Unacceptable to whom? Clearly you didn't read my full post, anyone who considers every other day to be "unacceptable" can rent a PO Box and get it daily. If daily delivery is that important to someone, the cost of a PO Box and going to pick it up shouldn't be a problem. Every other day delivery is a two day delay at most, assuming you would have received it on a Sat and receive it on a Mon instead. However, in ~50% of the cases, it's no delay, and in ~43% it's a 1 day delay, less than 7% of mail would encounter that 2 day delivery delay.
Well, I am the parent, and the AC was correct. Is it really that hard to figure out?
As for your other comments, people pay directly for their broadband, etc, whereas they don't pay directly for mail delivery (they pay only for sending mail, and that's dirt cheap). A one day delay in delivery is almost never an issue, and when it is, the sender should send it via an express service (USPS Express Mail, FedEX, UPS, etc). And businesses or other recipients who insist they need daily delivery can pay for a PO Box and receive daily.
Get Congress to allow 3 day a week delivery on residential routes (and maybe commercial routes), Mon-Wed-Fri for half, Tue-Thu-Sat for the other half. Still offer daily delivery to post office boxes. Anyone who thinks they really need daily delivery can rent a PO Box and pick it up daily.
Note to whomever modded my post down. I disagree is not a valid reason to mod a post down.
... by patenting once-public ideas ?
That's false. Rambus did develop and submit the technology to JEDEC, but they failed to disclose that it was patent encumbered and then refused to agree to JEDEC FRAND terms and tried to license it separately. They lost those cases in court.
I agree with everything else you said.
Based upon court rulings, that's false. Rambus mistake was failure to disclose that the information they were submitting to JEDEC was patent encumbered and then trying to collect patent royalties, not "taking credit for other people's ideas".
Wrong. Rambus submitted much of the SDRAM specifications to the group, they didn't steal it from the group. They failed to disclose they they were seeking a patent on the technologies, and as because of that failure to disclose, have lost much of the revenue they might have made had they properly disclosed it.
Rambus != RDRAM. RDRAM was one of their technologies. But so was synchronous memory transfer, differential signaling, and possibly some other technologies that are very much in use today.
Yes, they've acted in bad faith, repeatedly. And they've misused the courts. They are essentially a patent troll.
However, all the RAM you use is derived in part from Rambus technologies. SDRAM and it's descendants (DDR, DDR2, DDR3, GDDR, etc.) all derive some of their technology from Rambus technologies. So, hate their behavior (they've certainly earned your hatred), but they have helped to advance the industry.
You mean the fundamentals of parallel processor programming. It's not exactly a widely held skill yet.
I can't believe no one said it already.
I'm a developer, and a slashdot reader, and I think software patents are a good thing. Not all software patents, but I don't think all non-software patents are good either. The patent system is messed up and there are many "bad" patents issued. But that's no reason to condemn all patents or all software patents.
There is a HUGE difference between knowing who you call or what websites you visit (available from network info) and knowing which apps you're using or monitoring your key strokes. The latter is none of their business, and key logging can allow them to access your passwords. That's completely inappropriate and probably a crime.
Disney's animatronics are too unrealistic. Apple would have had to completely reinvent animatronics for iSteve.
Well, they're all about the "ethical* treatment of animals OTHER than humans".
* if you buy into their warped sense of what is ethical.
kills 85% of animals it receives.
PETA is launching a soft-port .xxx site and put out a gruesome comic book named "Your Mommy Kills Animals" targeted at children.
I have nothing but contempt for PETA. Even If I were a vegetarian/vegan, I would distance myself from that organization as much as possible.
...because it never could get the hang of Thursdays.
If he represents one of the copyright holders, he must file the suit on their behalf with them as the plaintiff. Or have people learned nothing from Righthaven?
Reading (and figuring out) someone else's code is one of the best ways to learn to program. It also teaches the value of commenting your code and making it understandable and maintainable by others.
As for the "cheating" aspect:
1. In the real world, programmers "cheat" by sharing code to get the job done with the least effort.
2. Switch up the groups after every assignment so the learn to work with different people, you'll see a pattern in who is productive and who is a slacker.
3. In the later phases, switch up the groups in the middle of the assignment, just like a real workplace.
Black is both a better radiator, and a better absorber. As for the SR-71 "Finished aircraft were painted a dark blue, almost black to increase the emission of internal heat (fuel acted as a heat sink for avionics cooling) and to act as camouflage against the night sky." So, it was a combination of things.
From the wikipedia link you provided:
...most commonly reported in people who have travelled long distances ... and who are already at an increased risk of thrombosis.... ... the risk of VTE approximately doubles after a long–haul flight (>4 hours) and also with other forms of travel where travellers are exposed to prolonged seated immobility. Risk increases with the duration of the travel and also in passengers having other known risk factors of VTE.
The mechanism for thrombosis in travellers is probably due to a combination of immobilisation, dehydration and underlying risk factors....
Patients with diseases that predispose them to thrombosis, such as antiphospholipid syndrome or cancer, are at a much greater risk. The highest risk groups include the elderly, those suffering serious medical conditions such as cancer, those with recent orthopedic surgery (legs or knees) and pregnant women....
All of the above would qualify as medical conditions, and "long haul (>4 hours)" exceeds the "every 3 hrs or so" that I stated in my post. If you choose to take breaks more frequently, for personal or medical reasons, fine, but healthy individuals only need a break every 3-4 hours.
Everyone is different. And how comfortable your seats are and how you have them adjusted makes a difference.
But every 100mi? Seriously? I drive ~800 miles, in two ~6hr segments. Stop for food, fuel, and restroom about 1/2 way. I occasionally need an additional restroom or food stop, depending upon when I start the trip. If you don't have a medical condition, you shouldn't need to stop more than every 3hrs or so.
Agreed. I'm a big fan of CM, and the rest of the ethical security researchers.
Apple's reaction to security vulnerabilities is pretty poor. I have personal experience with that since I reported a vulnerability in QT for Windows (CVE-2010-0530) that they took over a year to fix, and didn't fix it properly when they did.
Apple isn't the only vendor to have such poor policies, just one of the most visible.
Which means nothing. If you had bothered to think about it or ready any of my replies to the other people making that same claim, you wouldn't have bothered to repeat their mistake.
I think by coming here you insured that you are talking to the 5% that do care....
Which has absolutely nothing to do with my statement. My statement is about all users. That's the problem with most of the users on here, they can't see that most of the users aren't interested in the same things they are.