1) Why didn't the originator copyright it in the USA? This leads to . . .
2) How can Wal-mart try to copyright it in the USA when the government considers it public domain?
The last CD I bought was double-CD of club songs containing a total of 44 songs. It cost $9.99 at the Virgin store in Chicago. That's less than $0.25 a song. Out of the entire collection, I'd say 3 songs I don't really like.
As long as older songs are less than $0.99, I wouldn't really mind. A dollar a song still seems a bit much. I'd rather just send the money to the artist instead. At least they get more money that way.
But why just ZFS? Why not add JFS or XFS as well? Hell, why not add in ext3 while they're at it? Speaking of which, does anyone have Mac OS X running with a native non-HFS, non-UFS filesystem?
With the death of commodity of PowerPC computers imminent with Apple's switch, this can fill the niche for commodity alternative architectures. I'd get one if it comes here. Hopefully it won't be a "Lisa Lionheart."
Especially for a market as large as China with such rampant piracy. The revenue stream keeps coming as long as the content is interesting and worthwhile. As for pirating a copy, well that doesn't matter because you can't play if you don't pay the monthly fee.
Covered in a previous Slashdot story...
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...but I can't find the story. Anyway, I like JS/UIX. Wish I could be talented enough to do that.
Wikipedia has a nice write up about this. In the Common Pitfalls section it states:
It is worth noting that the halting problem is decidable for deterministic machines with finite memory. A machine with finite memory has a finite number of states, and thus any deterministic program on it must eventually either halt or repeat a previous state. Repetition of a previous state indicates a loop, so a program that repeats a previous state is thus known to not halt.
That implies that anything finite has a decidable outcome.
I guess it depends on if you believe that reductionism is true. Thus if we reduce all of our actions and decisions to physical phenomena, we're probably going to find that none of our actions are a matter of "choice." Rather, the actions we take are inevitable given the exact state that our brain is in and the exact environment we are in.
Especially since current GPUs don't implement double-precision floating point math. Heh, in that vein you could add a dual Opteron single-board computer into one of the expansion slots...
If they continue to do what they're allegedly doing, they might lose the case. If they relent a little, AMD its marketshare. At least the consumers win though.
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1) Why didn't the originator copyright it in the USA? This leads to . . . 2) How can Wal-mart try to copyright it in the USA when the government considers it public domain?
They're action figures!!!
The last CD I bought was double-CD of club songs containing a total of 44 songs. It cost $9.99 at the Virgin store in Chicago. That's less than $0.25 a song. Out of the entire collection, I'd say 3 songs I don't really like.
As long as older songs are less than $0.99, I wouldn't really mind. A dollar a song still seems a bit much. I'd rather just send the money to the artist instead. At least they get more money that way.
But why just ZFS? Why not add JFS or XFS as well? Hell, why not add in ext3 while they're at it? Speaking of which, does anyone have Mac OS X running with a native non-HFS, non-UFS filesystem?
uh, I said "commodity PowerPC." Last time I checked, those RS/6000 machines don't sell in large enough numbers to be considered "commodity."
That raises an interesting question: why didn't they go with an open architecture such as SPARC or PowerPC?
With the death of commodity of PowerPC computers imminent with Apple's switch, this can fill the niche for commodity alternative architectures. I'd get one if it comes here. Hopefully it won't be a "Lisa Lionheart."
And there goes the $20,000 savings per patient...
And that still doesn't tell me what your sexual orientation is.
Especially for a market as large as China with such rampant piracy. The revenue stream keeps coming as long as the content is interesting and worthwhile. As for pirating a copy, well that doesn't matter because you can't play if you don't pay the monthly fee.
...but I can't find the story. Anyway, I like JS/UIX. Wish I could be talented enough to do that.
How about programming it as an x86 processor and then booting from it? That would be pretty interesting.
I guess it depends on if you believe that reductionism is true. Thus if we reduce all of our actions and decisions to physical phenomena, we're probably going to find that none of our actions are a matter of "choice." Rather, the actions we take are inevitable given the exact state that our brain is in and the exact environment we are in.
How about putting electrodes in these areas and forcing these macaque monkeys to choose grape over apple juice? That would really prove it.
Hey, parent should be modded higher, not lower!
Especially since current GPUs don't implement double-precision floating point math. Heh, in that vein you could add a dual Opteron single-board computer into one of the expansion slots...
What exactly is the current Dell situation? Dell threatening to use AMD processors thus Intel continuing to give Dell a price break?
If they continue to do what they're allegedly doing, they might lose the case. If they relent a little, AMD its marketshare. At least the consumers win though.
Given that Apple is rather sue happy, will T3 be sued too?
The last operating system to do that was OS/2, and now it's practically gone. But, I don't think they're going to put the Windows API into OS X.
Obviously a drive-by shouting match.
"Oh Reginold! I disagree!!!"
Hmmm... apparently it worked since you actually remember the commercials.
Now that iTunes and other apps run in Windows, does Apple have a Windows lab?