No, it is a valid argument in this case. If they're arguing for more protection of their IP, then they have to explain why it is that they should get protection and other people shouldn't get protection. That sort of logical inconsistency is definitely fair game considering that the industry is trading on its "integrity" and harm being done to it to try to push SOPA through.
Polar has been using a similar system for their heart rate monitors for years. I played around with it, but it tends to be a pain and from what I've observed I think it has issues dealing with the Doppler effect. The only way I could get the data to transmit accurately would by by setting both the mic and the watch down to work.
I was wondering how this was different than when folks were sending information over a phone line via modem. Other than the obvious fact that they're using a sound jack rather than a modem.
Consider that the update is being shipped via USB stick. I think there's your answer the car is almost certainly locked against unsigned updates, so the likelihood of it working out well in that case is pretty slim. Especially considering that the only connectivity is likely to be through the USB port rather than WiFi.
If it was WiFi, I'd be wondering how long until somebody figures out how to literally unlock the care via WiFi.
That was amusing back when Ford has serious quality issues, those days are by and large gone.
As others have mentioned this is probably largely MS' fault for not doing proper QA prior to shipping the product. I'd consider blaming Ford, but let's be honest it's not like MS has any methods in place for requiring QA of products built with their products and they do often times deliberately provide work arounds so that the integrators don't have to.
No, since it's free software with an ulterior motive. It's one thing to pay for the software and give it away, but giving away free software to promote an ideology is something different.
And really free is still too expensive. Considering how much time I spend showing people how to use the broken interface they ought to be paying me to work around their poorly thought out ribbon crap.
That's why you have attorneys, even with the most qualified hardest working examiners there's always the possibility of a bad patent slipping through, ultimately it's the responsibility of the courts to determine what the costs of infringement are and if it does infringe. The only solution is reform, once you sign that settlement deal that's more or less it, you've waived your right to contest it in court.
The cost depends upon what services are being provided. In this case I'm guessing that it's primarily profiteering. I could imagine services that would make it worth $200 a year, such as verification that the sites are legal in whatever jurisdiction.
No that's not how they work. Right now those patents are valid and enforceable, B&N is challenging them, but until they're declared to be invalid any settlements are legitimate. The USPTO decides whom to grant patents to and as long as MS owns those patents that the USPTO granted they can't be sued for using them to get settlements.
I personally use Crashplan for that reason. I typically keep a back up on an external disk and one on the cloud. Most of the time when I need a restore I just go to my external disk to get it, but I still have the protection if that HDD is stolen or destroyed when the house burns down.
They do have a plan for businesses, although I doubt it's affordable or realistic for large ones.
Fukishima was an accident, but they really should have had a backup backup generator that was protected against flooding. And even in a rather extreme case it managed to survive the earthquake with relatively minor damage and contain the worst of it.
Chernobyl is a really good example of why I'm not worried about nuclear energy. Chernobyl was taken down by what can only be described as deliberate sabotage by the technicians running the plant. It was known at the time that they couldn't pull that many control rods out of the core with that many fuel rods in and did it anyway. What's more the reactor lacked basic safe guards that were in place in reactors in the rest of the world at that time.
Ultimately, it's easy for people to bash nuclear energy because the downside is so prone to FUD, but the reality is that fewer people have died from nuclear energy production than gas or coal power production which are our main alternatives at the moment.
Right and what a lot of people forget is that the waste from nuclear reactors comes in relatively convenient bundles for disposal. Coal emissions are a constant problem because they don't come in a convenient form to deal with. Now, nuclear reactors do have issues with waste, but the amount of waste you're talking about is small and if we in the US would reprocess our fuel the amount would be quite small indeed.
Right and my post is where it all breaks down, right? If you're going to post something like that you really ought to address it to the person that's trying to compare the two in the first place.
And no, claiming that they have nothing in common is bullshit. Just like the brain you can't use a portion of the processor to do more than one thing at the same time. Whether that includes the entire chip, unit or core is going to depend greatly on the architecture, but you're not going to be using the same gates at the same time.
Also, it's a perfectly valid comparison to make they both serve the same purpose, you make it sound like I'm comparing bats to the 1937 Yankees which have essentially nothing in common.
That's been pretty thoroughly established. It's probably something that you've been observed yourself. Sort of like if you're trying to count and somebody starts yelling out random numbers. Likewise, it's doubtful that you can read a book while listening to somebody without losing comprehension of one or the other.
Any supersitioning of waves in that respect would require an amazing amount of error correction and for the reasons I've already pointed out that's not the case. We can do one thing with a structure at a time, trying to do any more than that at once leads to the same sort of scheduling problems that you generally see in computers.
Repressed or hidden memories are a physical impossibility based on the understanding we presently have of memory. In order for such memories to exist they would have to be disconnected from the network of neurons that encompass our entire life's memory. Which would require a completely knew mechanism for memory that hasn't yet been discovered. The current understanding is that the more connections a memory has the stronger it is and the more likely it is to be recalled. In order for something to be repressed it would have to have virtually no connections to other memories making it susceptible to being repurposed.
Then there's the issue of things important enough for somebody to want to forget being especially hard to forget. In large part due to the amount of time and energy spent thinking about it.
That's just a highly informal explanation, the actual mechanics are somewhat more complex and the specific details aren't completely established. Forgetting something is really hard to do once something has made its way into long term memory.
I see that all the time at work. The problem is that unlike a computer our memory isn't a binary affair, we can half or quarter know things whereas a computer will either have a file or not. There will occasionally be semi-corrupted files, but those are basically junk. The human brain can make use of those half correct memories to reconstruct ones that are reasonable within some degree of accuracy.
Which isn't really surprising as we can't just assert whenever our memory doesn't agree with the memory of an associate or with the other two people who witnessed an event.
Yes, the brain is analogous to a multicore processor, except that it's more complicated. You can think multiple things at once providing they don't need to make simultaneous use of the same structures. Where the brain really shines is that it has structures that have evolved to very efficiently handle certain types of information.
Also, the brain doesn't have to route a message across the entire brain the way that a processor generally does a signal across the chip, and so some things can and do happen more quickly than others.
Jobs like that typically come with what's essentially a golden handcuff, if you're not getting enough money to justify it then find another job or don't take it. Personally, I never get drunk and only a poorly run company allows for the bus factor to drop that low.
It's actually pretty common. A person might be on call 24/7, but if that means more than a few calls a year at night then something isn't right. Being on call shouldn't mean that you're being regularly woken up at night.
Precisely, if those nations are unable or unwilling to invest in the infrastructure to feed themselves then it's rather unlikely that they'll invest in the infrastructure to produce goods to trade for food. It's not a lack of people or ability so much as the corruption and war that prevents it from happening. Few populated parts of the world are genuinely incapable of producing their own food for long periods of time.
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No, it is a valid argument in this case. If they're arguing for more protection of their IP, then they have to explain why it is that they should get protection and other people shouldn't get protection. That sort of logical inconsistency is definitely fair game considering that the industry is trading on its "integrity" and harm being done to it to try to push SOPA through.
Polar has been using a similar system for their heart rate monitors for years. I played around with it, but it tends to be a pain and from what I've observed I think it has issues dealing with the Doppler effect. The only way I could get the data to transmit accurately would by by setting both the mic and the watch down to work.
I was wondering how this was different than when folks were sending information over a phone line via modem. Other than the obvious fact that they're using a sound jack rather than a modem.
Consider that the update is being shipped via USB stick. I think there's your answer the car is almost certainly locked against unsigned updates, so the likelihood of it working out well in that case is pretty slim. Especially considering that the only connectivity is likely to be through the USB port rather than WiFi.
If it was WiFi, I'd be wondering how long until somebody figures out how to literally unlock the care via WiFi.
That was amusing back when Ford has serious quality issues, those days are by and large gone.
As others have mentioned this is probably largely MS' fault for not doing proper QA prior to shipping the product. I'd consider blaming Ford, but let's be honest it's not like MS has any methods in place for requiring QA of products built with their products and they do often times deliberately provide work arounds so that the integrators don't have to.
Anybody that claims to be doing something without an ulterior motive is either a liar or a fool.
No, since it's free software with an ulterior motive. It's one thing to pay for the software and give it away, but giving away free software to promote an ideology is something different.
I personally dump my own ROMs with retrode.org . Tends to work well and I don't have to worry about being busted for piracy.
And really free is still too expensive. Considering how much time I spend showing people how to use the broken interface they ought to be paying me to work around their poorly thought out ribbon crap.
Which is why you give them on CDs or not at all.
And really, this is a pretty self serving gift so it's probably best not given at all.
That's why you have attorneys, even with the most qualified hardest working examiners there's always the possibility of a bad patent slipping through, ultimately it's the responsibility of the courts to determine what the costs of infringement are and if it does infringe. The only solution is reform, once you sign that settlement deal that's more or less it, you've waived your right to contest it in court.
The cost depends upon what services are being provided. In this case I'm guessing that it's primarily profiteering. I could imagine services that would make it worth $200 a year, such as verification that the sites are legal in whatever jurisdiction.
No that's not how they work. Right now those patents are valid and enforceable, B&N is challenging them, but until they're declared to be invalid any settlements are legitimate. The USPTO decides whom to grant patents to and as long as MS owns those patents that the USPTO granted they can't be sued for using them to get settlements.
I personally use Crashplan for that reason. I typically keep a back up on an external disk and one on the cloud. Most of the time when I need a restore I just go to my external disk to get it, but I still have the protection if that HDD is stolen or destroyed when the house burns down.
They do have a plan for businesses, although I doubt it's affordable or realistic for large ones.
I'm sorry, but this post isn't insightful.
Fukishima was an accident, but they really should have had a backup backup generator that was protected against flooding. And even in a rather extreme case it managed to survive the earthquake with relatively minor damage and contain the worst of it.
Chernobyl is a really good example of why I'm not worried about nuclear energy. Chernobyl was taken down by what can only be described as deliberate sabotage by the technicians running the plant. It was known at the time that they couldn't pull that many control rods out of the core with that many fuel rods in and did it anyway. What's more the reactor lacked basic safe guards that were in place in reactors in the rest of the world at that time.
Ultimately, it's easy for people to bash nuclear energy because the downside is so prone to FUD, but the reality is that fewer people have died from nuclear energy production than gas or coal power production which are our main alternatives at the moment.
Right and what a lot of people forget is that the waste from nuclear reactors comes in relatively convenient bundles for disposal. Coal emissions are a constant problem because they don't come in a convenient form to deal with. Now, nuclear reactors do have issues with waste, but the amount of waste you're talking about is small and if we in the US would reprocess our fuel the amount would be quite small indeed.
Right and my post is where it all breaks down, right? If you're going to post something like that you really ought to address it to the person that's trying to compare the two in the first place.
And no, claiming that they have nothing in common is bullshit. Just like the brain you can't use a portion of the processor to do more than one thing at the same time. Whether that includes the entire chip, unit or core is going to depend greatly on the architecture, but you're not going to be using the same gates at the same time.
Also, it's a perfectly valid comparison to make they both serve the same purpose, you make it sound like I'm comparing bats to the 1937 Yankees which have essentially nothing in common.
That's been pretty thoroughly established. It's probably something that you've been observed yourself. Sort of like if you're trying to count and somebody starts yelling out random numbers. Likewise, it's doubtful that you can read a book while listening to somebody without losing comprehension of one or the other.
Any supersitioning of waves in that respect would require an amazing amount of error correction and for the reasons I've already pointed out that's not the case. We can do one thing with a structure at a time, trying to do any more than that at once leads to the same sort of scheduling problems that you generally see in computers.
Repressed or hidden memories are a physical impossibility based on the understanding we presently have of memory. In order for such memories to exist they would have to be disconnected from the network of neurons that encompass our entire life's memory. Which would require a completely knew mechanism for memory that hasn't yet been discovered. The current understanding is that the more connections a memory has the stronger it is and the more likely it is to be recalled. In order for something to be repressed it would have to have virtually no connections to other memories making it susceptible to being repurposed.
Then there's the issue of things important enough for somebody to want to forget being especially hard to forget. In large part due to the amount of time and energy spent thinking about it.
That's just a highly informal explanation, the actual mechanics are somewhat more complex and the specific details aren't completely established. Forgetting something is really hard to do once something has made its way into long term memory.
I see that all the time at work. The problem is that unlike a computer our memory isn't a binary affair, we can half or quarter know things whereas a computer will either have a file or not. There will occasionally be semi-corrupted files, but those are basically junk. The human brain can make use of those half correct memories to reconstruct ones that are reasonable within some degree of accuracy.
Which isn't really surprising as we can't just assert whenever our memory doesn't agree with the memory of an associate or with the other two people who witnessed an event.
Some people do upgrade to a modern filesystem, what do you think gets people on death row?
Yes, the brain is analogous to a multicore processor, except that it's more complicated. You can think multiple things at once providing they don't need to make simultaneous use of the same structures. Where the brain really shines is that it has structures that have evolved to very efficiently handle certain types of information.
Also, the brain doesn't have to route a message across the entire brain the way that a processor generally does a signal across the chip, and so some things can and do happen more quickly than others.
Jobs like that typically come with what's essentially a golden handcuff, if you're not getting enough money to justify it then find another job or don't take it. Personally, I never get drunk and only a poorly run company allows for the bus factor to drop that low.
It's actually pretty common. A person might be on call 24/7, but if that means more than a few calls a year at night then something isn't right. Being on call shouldn't mean that you're being regularly woken up at night.
Precisely, if those nations are unable or unwilling to invest in the infrastructure to feed themselves then it's rather unlikely that they'll invest in the infrastructure to produce goods to trade for food. It's not a lack of people or ability so much as the corruption and war that prevents it from happening. Few populated parts of the world are genuinely incapable of producing their own food for long periods of time.