Maybe I'm just missing something, but didn't the ipod come out BEFORE last august.
That would mean the ipod interface is prior art to the creative patent, so creative
has no right to sue apple...
I'm sorry, but I'm sure that's how patent law is supposed to work.
Did, at some point, the interface for the ipod change significantly or something?
Oh No!!! REXX
The power of obscure languages that could run on ANYTHING.
Definitly not too prevalent anymore, although anyone who
programmed in it back then seems to swear by it now.
Might be fun to hybridize it with C or C++. Nothing more
fun than making MORE obscure languages to do everything you
want better than trying to learn a new one.
Apparently, patent and trademark law has changed in the last 20 years to "Patent and Trademark EVERYTHING, Including the wheel. It will get accepted, and unless you fight it out in court, and LOSE, people should pay you money for using it." Frivility is a non-issue at this point.
I think walmart and the other guy need a good solid kick in the pants.
"I need to borrow your car tonight to take your wife out someplace nice while you fix my computer. I spilled beer all over the keyboard again"
There is a limit. Courtosy is a valuable thing. There is nothing wrong with pointing a customer to another source so you don't offend them. If they don't take the hint, feel free to let them know that there is a problem. If you are having the issues mentioned above, you needed to take action much earlier and should be very clear in telling them off.
"Although I quite like them personally, I really don't need the hassle of their regular calls at the moment."
I have a feeling that brazenly offending them isn't the solution either. Depending on how close you are to the person, you might directly ask for help with your stuff in exchange for the tech support. Cleaning someone's computer or teaching them how to use it is as time consuming and personal as a lot of domestic tasks, so I don't see this as being unreasonable.
If they just happen to be a nice customer that you're on good terms with, you might try pointing them 'gently' toward other resources. That seems to have worked well with me when I needed some time away from the constant prodding for tech support.
Exactly.
Regardless of how rediculous the hot coffee incident itself was, it seemed that that was the one that opened the floodgates for more unbelievable lawsuits that should have been beaten down for their sheer denial of common sense and responsibility.
I also catagorize the group of people who intend on suing everybody under that catagory. There is some point where that needs to stop, and we passed it a long time ago.
I would believe that. Wasn't there an article about a woman who had never used a computer in her life getting sued for filesharing.
If I remember correctly, there's a clause about stopping frivolous lawsuits. The RIAA is planning on suing every american they can until their pants will no longer stay on with the weight of the cash in the pockets.
I still blame the McDonalds 'Hot Coffee' incident.
I'm sure, more than anything, it would just start to sort them by density. The heavier ones away from the center of the centrifuge. This would probably be similar to what happens to cells in a centrifuge when people are trying to extract DNA from them. I'm sure the effect isn't nearly as strong, since it's easier to spin something smaller much faster.
I'd like to extend a connection between the statement that lesions in those areas tend to be associated with those disorders, and your statement that people working hard to overcome those vices can.
The brain is not a static thing. It is composed of living tissue, which has been proven to form connections late in life. I'm sure that "working hard to overcome those vices" results in redundant stimuli across similar, yet unrelated branches of the brain, which in turn will forge new connections to replace the damage of a lesion in those areas.
Ever wonder why it's soooo hard to break a psychological addiction?
It's not necessarily that people have an immediate choice to stop something, which they may or may not. It's also not necessarily true that a person with a gambling addiction has a physical gap in his brain where cells that used to perform evaluation of the results of those actions existed at one time. The reason it's so hard for some people to change is the creation of interconnects in the mind is tedious.
I offer this as a speculation only, but it would make sense to me if this is the way it actually works.
It gets better
It has a second part about decreasing costs.
Not only will transistor size decrease, increasing transistor count exponentially,
but the cost to produce the second chip with 2x the transistors will be less than the original.
Here's my source: http://www.intel.com/technology/silicon/mooreslaw/
but in that case, it was one button. The only button that was hidden on the back, so it's understandable.
What if you had a half qwerty on each side of the back of a gameboy. Your hands would line up the same as if you were on a regular keyboard. You might even be able to type almost as fast as normal. The only issue I see is false positives from the weight of the thing, but if you have a non-button chunk in your hands, it still might work.
what if we took a look at the design for a gameboy. The hand held videogame systems, although reasonably large, seem to be very comfortable for doing a variety of input commands. There's always the option of using the back of the device for input. Nobody seems to do that.
On a slightly more close to home note, ever notice how time seems to go faster the older you get.
Well, in the same sense that the difference between a pound and two is more significant than forty and forty one pounds, each year of your life is compared in your mind to the whole of your life.
The older you are, the more you have to compare against, so the less significant the last few weeks seem.
The key to always feeling like you have a lot of time is obviously forgetfulness!!!
While a lot of this is great in theory, there are a number of exceptions that you need to note.
"- mandating solar equipment for ALL federal buildings"
Try solar power in Rochester. It doesn't matter if it's Rochester MN or Rochester NY. Feel free to see if it's worth anything. My bet is it isn't. If a square meter surface pointing at the sun without atmospheric interference recieves 1440 Watts of power, and that's cut in half by the atmosphere, and then in half again from being 41+ degrees above the equator, and then cut in half again by persistent cloud cover, the resulting power is a nearly insignificant fraction of that. The panels will wear out from snow and salt eating at them annually long before they make enough return on investment to justify the energy costs of producing them.
"- grant tax breaks for anyone switching to biofuels"
Where are you going to get the money for your installations on federal buildings. Tax cuts alone are not an acceptable answer.
"- end the war in Iraq to free up the funds for the above initiatives"
The war in Iraq is not something that can be dropped at the flip of a hat. It's going to have to run at least for a few more years in order to stabilize the region. There are still people who liked the old regime better, and while they seem to be a minority, they also are noisy. Once they're calmed and some level of peace is restored, then that money we invest annually can be put to other use. But until then, we're going to be paying for our decision to go in. That's what happens. Cause and effect, we're covering our actions.
"- Wind mill farms granted more eminent domain power"
There are some places where there is no advantage to using wind power. The denser the population, the less likely you're going to get them built, and just like the solar issues, there are just places it makes no sense to build them. My one thought on this is if you built ones that could withstand hurricanes, could you tap into that energy... That's a resource that global warming is providing that has a tremendous amount of energy. If we could tap power out of regions prone to that, theres an opportunity waiting to be exploited.
Overall, I agree, we do need to start doing the other things, but the ones I mentioned need to be thought about a little more than what was thrown up here. It is definitly going to be the government that plays the balancing act of making it cheaper to go greener. Preferrably, it will be through researching greener being cheaper than taxing non-green, but some of that will probably happen too.
On another note, I agree, all of the other things you mentioned
Cool, I didn't know any of that.
Mine was mostly hypothetical with regard to the actual allocation of the 3MBs on chip.
Do you have any links to patents or technical info regarding the allocation? I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be interested in it.
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GE Rice is made of PEOPLE! PEOPLE!!!
Maybe I'm just missing something, but didn't the ipod come out BEFORE last august. That would mean the ipod interface is prior art to the creative patent, so creative has no right to sue apple... I'm sorry, but I'm sure that's how patent law is supposed to work. Did, at some point, the interface for the ipod change significantly or something?
Oh No!!! REXX The power of obscure languages that could run on ANYTHING. Definitly not too prevalent anymore, although anyone who programmed in it back then seems to swear by it now. Might be fun to hybridize it with C or C++. Nothing more fun than making MORE obscure languages to do everything you want better than trying to learn a new one.
Apparently, patent and trademark law has changed in the last 20 years to
"Patent and Trademark EVERYTHING, Including the wheel. It will get accepted, and unless you fight it out in court, and LOSE, people should pay you money for using it."
Frivility is a non-issue at this point.
I think walmart and the other guy need a good solid kick in the pants.
"I need to borrow your car tonight to take your wife out someplace nice while you fix my computer. I spilled beer all over the keyboard again"
There is a limit. Courtosy is a valuable thing. There is nothing wrong with pointing a customer to another source so you don't offend them. If they don't take the hint, feel free to let them know that there is a problem. If you are having the issues mentioned above, you needed to take action much earlier and should be very clear in telling them off.
Good luck.
"Although I quite like them personally, I really don't need the hassle of their regular calls at the moment."
I have a feeling that brazenly offending them isn't the solution either.
Depending on how close you are to the person, you might directly ask for help
with your stuff in exchange for the tech support. Cleaning someone's computer
or teaching them how to use it is as time consuming and personal as a lot of
domestic tasks, so I don't see this as being unreasonable.
If they just happen to be a nice customer that you're on good terms with, you
might try pointing them 'gently' toward other resources. That seems to have
worked well with me when I needed some time away from the constant prodding for
tech support.
And people are using Word why?
Exactly. Regardless of how rediculous the hot coffee incident itself was, it seemed that that was the one that opened the floodgates for more unbelievable lawsuits that should have been beaten down for their sheer denial of common sense and responsibility. I also catagorize the group of people who intend on suing everybody under that catagory. There is some point where that needs to stop, and we passed it a long time ago.
Someone capable of working a shell prompt could also be a wiz at DOS. Note, never touching unix does not mean unable to work a text based shell or os.
I would believe that.
Wasn't there an article about a woman who had never used a computer in her life getting sued for filesharing.
If I remember correctly, there's a clause about stopping frivolous lawsuits. The RIAA is planning on suing every american they can until their pants will no longer stay on with the weight of the cash in the pockets.
I still blame the McDonalds 'Hot Coffee' incident.
I'm sure, more than anything, it would just start to sort them by density. The heavier ones away from the center of the centrifuge. This would probably be similar to what happens to cells in a centrifuge when people are trying to extract DNA from them. I'm sure the effect isn't nearly as strong, since it's easier to spin something smaller much faster.
I'd like to extend a connection between the statement that lesions in those areas tend to be associated with those disorders, and your statement that people working hard to overcome those vices can.
The brain is not a static thing. It is composed of living tissue, which has been proven to form connections late in life. I'm sure that "working hard to overcome those vices" results in redundant stimuli across similar, yet unrelated branches of the brain, which in turn will forge new connections to replace the damage of a lesion in those areas.
Ever wonder why it's soooo hard to break a psychological addiction?
It's not necessarily that people have an immediate choice to stop something, which they may or may not. It's also not necessarily true that a person with a gambling addiction has a physical gap in his brain where cells that used to perform evaluation of the results of those actions existed at one time. The reason it's so hard for some people to change is the creation of interconnects in the mind is tedious.
I offer this as a speculation only, but it would make sense to me if this is the way it actually works.
What's the incentive to run Windows,
if all your apps run on OS X?
Are you kidding, From the server side, they're all zero!!!
It gets better/
It has a second part about decreasing costs.
Not only will transistor size decrease, increasing transistor count exponentially,
but the cost to produce the second chip with 2x the transistors will be less than the original.
Here's my source: http://www.intel.com/technology/silicon/mooreslaw
"...are real and undenyable."
Dude, everything's deniable.
d'nile is also a river in Africa.
Why do you think people are just getting through to these people NOW about nuclear energy and global warming.
Thirty or Fifty years from now, we STILL will have people in denial about these things.
but in that case, it was one button. The only button that was hidden on the back, so it's understandable.
What if you had a half qwerty on each side of the back of a gameboy. Your hands would line up the same as if you were on a regular keyboard. You might even be able to type almost as fast as normal. The only issue I see is false positives from the weight of the thing, but if you have a non-button chunk in your hands, it still might work.
what if we took a look at the design for a gameboy. The hand held videogame systems, although reasonably large, seem to be very comfortable for doing a variety of input commands. There's always the option of using the back of the device for input. Nobody seems to do that.
On a slightly more close to home note, ever notice how time seems to go faster the older you get.
Well, in the same sense that the difference between a pound and two is more significant than forty and forty one pounds, each year of your life is compared in your mind to the whole of your life.
The older you are, the more you have to compare against, so the less significant the last few weeks seem.
The key to always feeling like you have a lot of time is obviously forgetfulness!!!
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While a lot of this is great in theory, there are a number of exceptions that you need to note.
"- mandating solar equipment for ALL federal buildings"
Try solar power in Rochester. It doesn't matter if it's Rochester MN or Rochester NY. Feel free to see if it's worth anything. My bet is it isn't. If a square meter surface pointing at the sun without atmospheric interference recieves 1440 Watts of power, and that's cut in half by the atmosphere, and then in half again from being 41+ degrees above the equator, and then cut in half again by persistent cloud cover, the resulting power is a nearly insignificant fraction of that. The panels will wear out from snow and salt eating at them annually long before they make enough return on investment to justify the energy costs of producing them.
"- grant tax breaks for anyone switching to biofuels"
Where are you going to get the money for your installations on federal buildings. Tax cuts alone are not an acceptable answer.
"- end the war in Iraq to free up the funds for the above initiatives"
The war in Iraq is not something that can be dropped at the flip of a hat. It's going to have to run at least for a few more years in order to stabilize the region. There are still people who liked the old regime better, and while they seem to be a minority, they also are noisy. Once they're calmed and some level of peace is restored, then that money we invest annually can be put to other use. But until then, we're going to be paying for our decision to go in. That's what happens. Cause and effect, we're covering our actions.
"- Wind mill farms granted more eminent domain power"
There are some places where there is no advantage to using wind power. The denser the population, the less likely you're going to get them built, and just like the solar issues, there are just places it makes no sense to build them. My one thought on this is if you built ones that could withstand hurricanes, could you tap into that energy... That's a resource that global warming is providing that has a tremendous amount of energy. If we could tap power out of regions prone to that, theres an opportunity waiting to be exploited.
Overall, I agree, we do need to start doing the other things, but the ones I mentioned need to be thought about a little more than what was thrown up here. It is definitly going to be the government that plays the balancing act of making it cheaper to go greener. Preferrably, it will be through researching greener being cheaper than taxing non-green, but some of that will probably happen too.
On another note, I agree, all of the other things you mentioned
Recent study shows that tomatos kill.
Our study covers all people in human history who have eaten a tomato.
If you notice. Everyone up to the last 100 years has died already.
The remaining survivors have less than a century of expected life left.
Sorry for all you who have been eating tomatos.
Cool, I didn't know any of that.
Mine was mostly hypothetical with regard to the actual allocation of the 3MBs on chip.
Do you have any links to patents or technical info regarding the allocation? I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be interested in it.