So they are Suing RedHat and Novell for using whatever it is that violates the patent. Isn't that a bit like suing Dell because Microsoft's OS infringes on a patent and Dell distributes it?
No, patent trolls go after the deepest pockets. A better analogy would be going after Honda because the third party that makes their windshield glass infringes on a glassmaking patent.
Nope, it's a touch slower than the speed of light (this is just the energy, not the actual electrons, those move much much slower, as in 1mm in 4 seconds depending on the current and wire).
Nobody said there wasn't. But the fact remains you can max out several IDE devices with an old interface card on the good old 33mhz PCI bus, and solid state VRAM shouldn't be any slower than a mechanical hard drive. So even if it is running over the slowest likely bus, that's still not the bottleneck. So it might be something in the card itself causing the slowdown.
. . . then I'd be seriously upset with the government for holding back such a revolutionary energy storage technology, yet impressed they're able to keep it away from the general market where it would be worth trillions.
As I've said before, building a robotic insect with cameras, transmitters, and capable of flight is well within our technical capabilities. Stuffing in a battery with enough juice to make it at all useful is not.
Why can't they make a rotor-based flying car that's a plug-in bio-diesel hybrid?
Because it would be too heavy. The aircraft from TFA is just a conventional airplane with a fancy transmission and foldable wings and can't get airborne with a full tank of gas and two fat people. Add batteries an electric motor, a heavier diesel engine, ditch the wings and propellor for a less efficient rotor in a roadway-sized package and you'll end up with a flying brick. Minus the flying part.
Overall, the qualities that make for a good car also make for a lousy aircraft (and vice versa).
The Democrats couldn't impeach Bush if they tried. They have a slim majority, that's all. It's not nearly enough to impeach or pass veto-proof bills without Republican support.
Ummm, Netware was going strong long past Win 3.1. MS didn't really get their act together until Win2k. Even as just a file server, Netware was way ahead of windows with easy-to-manage folder-by-folder (if you want) ACLs. Heck, Netware 4 still plays nicely with Windows XP.
Also, any idea how much of a PITA it would be to migrate from Netware without having to re-do all file and user permissions? Yeah, there are tools, but I've never had much luck with them.
Couldn't Linux companies sue MS claiming that Balmer's statements are harming their business, especially in light of the fact that MS refuses to identify these patents?
And turn this into a shooting war? If a Linux company did that, Microsoft really will start suing over patents (and probably winning in a few cases as long as they don't provoke IBM). There's a very precarious balance of power in the patent world. The only ones around who can be cavalier about suing people over patents are the patent trolls who don't actually make any products and so have no risk of getting countersued for violating someone else's patents.
If MS ever specified patents, they'd just be coded around or challenged for prior art or obviousness and they'd lose one of their favorite rattling sabers.
The Wikipedia article on Real Time Strategy games is the second result when searching Google for "RTS."
There's nothing wrong with asking questions when you see a term you're unfamiliar with, but there's no need to complain that the summary didn't spell it out for you.
File formats are one of the smaller roadblocks, imho. I can't think of many file formats I can't open in Linux beyond DRM crippled Windows Media, RealPlayer and iTunes music and videos (which I avoid on principle anyway).
The biggest hangup in Linux has been (and will remain for the near term) software and hardware support.
I'll say a desktop Linux "breakthrough" has happened once I can walk into a big-box retailer and all the webcams and wireless cards on the shelf come with vendor-supported drivers.
. . . to legally purchase and drink scotch where I live.
There. Fixed that for you.
Preferences aside, if you're old enough to be capable of drinking out of a glass, you're quite capable of drinking scotch. Sooner if your parents get creative with what they put in the baby bottles.
Be sure you don't use a freezer that hasn't been thoroughly cleaned before it had food stored in it. It makes a big difference, trust me, I made that mistake. My old Meatloaf albums haven't been the same since.
I'd say the biggest factor in determining habitability is that Titan's atmosphere is highly toxic to humans (contains Hydrogen Cyanide). If any of that atmosphere gets into a habitat or environment suit, it can be fatal.
Yeah, that was the jist of the footnote I meant to put in before I prematurely hit post. By "well built" I meant it's a very capable machine under the hood and can deliver some impressive looking games and the online service is top notch. The QC issues around RRoD, overheating and the whole power brick craziness are unacceptable, but MS is trying to mitigate the issues w/ warranties and (hopefully) fixing the problems on new models.
. . . others say Cupertino is well within its rights to control its own device.
Sure. But once they sell it to me, I'd like to be able to use it as I please *and* not have to forgo firmware updates because Apple's going out of their way to disable any non-blessed modifications.
That's not the same thing. When you put a white tile under a red light vs a blue light, then photograph it, the sensor (and our eyes) are going to register the red and blue light being reflected from the tile and it really will show up as red or blue (well, YMMV on the actual shade detected).
In this case, the center squares in the image are the same exact color and it has nothing to do with lighting. The pixels don't lie. Our eyes (being tied to the crazy pattern-recognition system our visual cortexes are) view the squares in the context of their neighboring squares and we perceive them as different shades.
It seems to me that the in general geek perception, the 360 is pretty well regarded. I think it's gotten a pretty fair analysis in the geek world--a generally* well built, correctly-priced piece of hardware, competently marketed and released well enough ahead of the other players to have the upper hand w/ regards to game libraries.
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Can we have a more meaningful unit of conversion than LOCs? Such as etched wax cylinders, for instance.
No, patent trolls go after the deepest pockets. A better analogy would be going after Honda because the third party that makes their windshield glass infringes on a glassmaking patent.
Hide a few warp field coils in the streetlights and they can!
They also both intersect 5th avenue--the very same road as the Scifi Museum!!
Nope, it's a touch slower than the speed of light (this is just the energy, not the actual electrons, those move much much slower, as in 1mm in 4 seconds depending on the current and wire).
Not if the machine shipped with XP preinstalled (which is almost certainly the case here).
Nobody said there wasn't. But the fact remains you can max out several IDE devices with an old interface card on the good old 33mhz PCI bus, and solid state VRAM shouldn't be any slower than a mechanical hard drive. So even if it is running over the slowest likely bus, that's still not the bottleneck. So it might be something in the card itself causing the slowdown.
. . . then I'd be seriously upset with the government for holding back such a revolutionary energy storage technology, yet impressed they're able to keep it away from the general market where it would be worth trillions.
As I've said before, building a robotic insect with cameras, transmitters, and capable of flight is well within our technical capabilities. Stuffing in a battery with enough juice to make it at all useful is not.
Because it would be too heavy. The aircraft from TFA is just a conventional airplane with a fancy transmission and foldable wings and can't get airborne with a full tank of gas and two fat people. Add batteries an electric motor, a heavier diesel engine, ditch the wings and propellor for a less efficient rotor in a roadway-sized package and you'll end up with a flying brick. Minus the flying part.
Overall, the qualities that make for a good car also make for a lousy aircraft (and vice versa).
The Democrats couldn't impeach Bush if they tried. They have a slim majority, that's all. It's not nearly enough to impeach or pass veto-proof bills without Republican support.
Has DRM ever succeeded?
Ummm, Netware was going strong long past Win 3.1. MS didn't really get their act together until Win2k. Even as just a file server, Netware was way ahead of windows with easy-to-manage folder-by-folder (if you want) ACLs. Heck, Netware 4 still plays nicely with Windows XP.
Also, any idea how much of a PITA it would be to migrate from Netware without having to re-do all file and user permissions? Yeah, there are tools, but I've never had much luck with them.
And turn this into a shooting war? If a Linux company did that, Microsoft really will start suing over patents (and probably winning in a few cases as long as they don't provoke IBM). There's a very precarious balance of power in the patent world. The only ones around who can be cavalier about suing people over patents are the patent trolls who don't actually make any products and so have no risk of getting countersued for violating someone else's patents.
If MS ever specified patents, they'd just be coded around or challenged for prior art or obviousness and they'd lose one of their favorite rattling sabers.
Strictly speaking, there's no such thing as a "provable" hypothesis. They're either "disproven" or "not disproven."
It's my understanding that these drives are being targeted at laptops to improve battery life at a reasonable cost premium for what you get.
The Wikipedia article on Real Time Strategy games is the second result when searching Google for "RTS."
There's nothing wrong with asking questions when you see a term you're unfamiliar with, but there's no need to complain that the summary didn't spell it out for you.
File formats are one of the smaller roadblocks, imho. I can't think of many file formats I can't open in Linux beyond DRM crippled Windows Media, RealPlayer and iTunes music and videos (which I avoid on principle anyway).
The biggest hangup in Linux has been (and will remain for the near term) software and hardware support.
I'll say a desktop Linux "breakthrough" has happened once I can walk into a big-box retailer and all the webcams and wireless cards on the shelf come with vendor-supported drivers.
There. Fixed that for you.
Preferences aside, if you're old enough to be capable of drinking out of a glass, you're quite capable of drinking scotch. Sooner if your parents get creative with what they put in the baby bottles.
Be sure you don't use a freezer that hasn't been thoroughly cleaned before it had food stored in it. It makes a big difference, trust me, I made that mistake. My old Meatloaf albums haven't been the same since.
Fortunately, there are plenty of hills (and mountains) in Utah to run for. Our wives will be safe.
I'd say the biggest factor in determining habitability is that Titan's atmosphere is highly toxic to humans (contains Hydrogen Cyanide). If any of that atmosphere gets into a habitat or environment suit, it can be fatal.
Yeah, that was the jist of the footnote I meant to put in before I prematurely hit post. By "well built" I meant it's a very capable machine under the hood and can deliver some impressive looking games and the online service is top notch. The QC issues around RRoD, overheating and the whole power brick craziness are unacceptable, but MS is trying to mitigate the issues w/ warranties and (hopefully) fixing the problems on new models.
Sure. But once they sell it to me, I'd like to be able to use it as I please *and* not have to forgo firmware updates because Apple's going out of their way to disable any non-blessed modifications.
That's not the same thing. When you put a white tile under a red light vs a blue light, then photograph it, the sensor (and our eyes) are going to register the red and blue light being reflected from the tile and it really will show up as red or blue (well, YMMV on the actual shade detected).
In this case, the center squares in the image are the same exact color and it has nothing to do with lighting. The pixels don't lie. Our eyes (being tied to the crazy pattern-recognition system our visual cortexes are) view the squares in the context of their neighboring squares and we perceive them as different shades.
It seems to me that the in general geek perception, the 360 is pretty well regarded. I think it's gotten a pretty fair analysis in the geek world--a generally* well built, correctly-priced piece of hardware, competently marketed and released well enough ahead of the other players to have the upper hand w/ regards to game libraries.