There is nothing in there about giving away for free - yes, you can't re-sell or otherwise transfer ownership, but there's nothing about giving it away (especially if the other person makes the copy);
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but are you trying to claim that giving something away for free can never be copyright infringement? If so, that would be a very incorrect claim (see GPL).
My friends and I also 'invented' the iPod. We all took small automobile cassette players, hooked them up to batteries and headphones. We put this in a small pack so that we could have our tunes while skiing in Lake Tahoe in the 70s. Sony and others came along later with their 'Walkman'.
This was interesting and innovative but should it have earned a patent?
Depends on the year. Wikipedia says that the portable cassette player was invented in 1972 and patented in the United States in 1978.
From what little I've read, there's no evidence that the three pairings of quarks and three "types" of leptons (electron, muon, tauon) are in any way related to each other.
It will have switchen on next week, and so far, we've found one, but as we get closer to the time it willen been switchen on, we'll detect more and more of them.
I'm generally against more laws, but if there ever was a constitutional amendment I could get behind, it's that all laws should be available to the public without charge.
How sad of a commentary on the American legal system that people see a need for a constitutional amendment to ensure that citizens can read laws.
So, unless a new player comes up with some amazing new technology which Intel and AMD want enough to let that company into the patent-party, it would be very difficult for a new competitor to walk in.
What are the odds of nVidia finding some patent violation in Intel's or AMD/ATI's graphics chips? Would nVidia be able to play the Mutually Assured Destruction card?
There are companies out there masquerading as charities and calling folks.
Wouldn't the penalties for establishing a fraudulent charity be quite a bit worse than the penalties for calling someone that has told you to stop? Besides that, it seems like every time I hear about some kind of fake charity it's a cover for something like money laundering, so they'd probably get an FBI investigation pretty quickly, too.
I've been around the block long enough to know that what this often is an excuse for corporate environments to hold better developers back to try and force a levelling of a pay scale. If you paid developers based on their ability to produce working systems, you would find that some developers produce far more than others. But.... now we have to riddle our code with wrapped access methods, ultra long symbol names, case sensitivity and standards made by morons for morons, and all of it adds -ZERO- features to the finished product. Sure, you can argue that it makes "better" code, but that "better" code has NO MORE EXTRA FEATURES. It only allows retards to work on it. And really, is that a feature?
Spoken like someone who believes that writing unmaintainable code is the best form of job security.
Marijuana is mentally addictive, where the person has the mental/emotional desire to smoke. Tobacco (and drugs such as heroin) are physically addictive, since they affect the chemical workings of the brain and produce physical withdrawal symptoms.
Alcohol I'm not certain about. I've drank enough to know that it doesn't produce any kind of physical addiction the way that drugs like heroin do. I think alcoholism is a mental/functional disease, not a physical/chemical disease, but I obviously can't speak with any kind of authority.
I vaguely remember seeing a message on the development mailing list that they're aiming for mid-2009 or so. Doing the normal translation from project planning to reality, I'd expect an official 6.0.0 release near the end of next year.
In PHP4 objects are passed by value. In PHP5 they're passed by reference.
This is probably one of the most misunderstood features of PHP5. They are passed by reference, but they're also copy-on-write references. As soon as the variables value is changed, a copy is made, and the function/method then uses the local copy (as if a copy were made in the first place like in php4).
Nothing has changed for the programmer except a reduction in memory usage.
That is not correct. If you pass an object to a function, and modify a property of that object in the function, the object will still have the modified property outside the function.
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There is nothing in there about giving away for free - yes, you can't re-sell or otherwise transfer ownership, but there's nothing about giving it away (especially if the other person makes the copy);
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but are you trying to claim that giving something away for free can never be copyright infringement? If so, that would be a very incorrect claim (see GPL).
My friends and I also 'invented' the iPod. We all took small automobile cassette players, hooked them up to batteries and headphones. We put this in a small pack so that we could have our tunes while skiing in Lake Tahoe in the 70s. Sony and others came along later with their 'Walkman'.
This was interesting and innovative but should it have earned a patent?
Depends on the year. Wikipedia says that the portable cassette player was invented in 1972 and patented in the United States in 1978.
There was also a bit n FLILF's (pretty sure it's a different one; I don't think it was Sam Bee that did it). Kucinich's wife is pretty hot.
So, why do we allow this principle to override our own, desires of what can and can not be done to our houses and other properties?
Because if you screw up the wiring in your house and it catches fire, you could end up destroying your neighbors' homes as well.
From what little I've read, there's no evidence that the three pairings of quarks and three "types" of leptons (electron, muon, tauon) are in any way related to each other.
It will have switchen on next week, and so far, we've found one, but as we get closer to the time it willen been switchen on, we'll detect more and more of them.
Fixed that for ya
I'm generally against more laws, but if there ever was a constitutional amendment I could get behind, it's that all laws should be available to the public without charge.
How sad of a commentary on the American legal system that people see a need for a constitutional amendment to ensure that citizens can read laws.
Maybe he was talking about CEO's, whom you could easily argue receive a pension just for being bossy.
I guess C still wins. I bet your computer runs C code all the time.
My computer usually runs compiled executables, but if you want to compile every time you run a program, more power to you.
No, it doesn't have to be said.
Well, right now it's the '00s, and we're still using hardware architecture created in 1978 (8086 processor).
You could probably go back farther than that. The basic concepts of Von Neumann's digital computer are what, almost 70 years old now?
Now, we're both gay
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So, unless a new player comes up with some amazing new technology which Intel and AMD want enough to let that company into the patent-party, it would be very difficult for a new competitor to walk in.
What are the odds of nVidia finding some patent violation in Intel's or AMD/ATI's graphics chips? Would nVidia be able to play the Mutually Assured Destruction card?
There are companies out there masquerading as charities and calling folks.
Wouldn't the penalties for establishing a fraudulent charity be quite a bit worse than the penalties for calling someone that has told you to stop? Besides that, it seems like every time I hear about some kind of fake charity it's a cover for something like money laundering, so they'd probably get an FBI investigation pretty quickly, too.
If there is a 5 hour queue at the time when the voting shall end - will these be disqualified from voting?
No. If you're in line when the polls officially close, you must still be allowed to cast your vote.
I've been around the block long enough to know that what this often is an excuse for corporate environments to hold better developers back to try and force a levelling of a pay scale. If you paid developers based on their ability to produce working systems, you would find that some developers produce far more than others. But.... now we have to riddle our code with wrapped access methods, ultra long symbol names, case sensitivity and standards made by morons for morons, and all of it adds -ZERO- features to the finished product. Sure, you can argue that it makes "better" code, but that "better" code has NO MORE EXTRA FEATURES. It only allows retards to work on it. And really, is that a feature?
Spoken like someone who believes that writing unmaintainable code is the best form of job security.
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Marijuana is mentally addictive, where the person has the mental/emotional desire to smoke. Tobacco (and drugs such as heroin) are physically addictive, since they affect the chemical workings of the brain and produce physical withdrawal symptoms.
Alcohol I'm not certain about. I've drank enough to know that it doesn't produce any kind of physical addiction the way that drugs like heroin do. I think alcoholism is a mental/functional disease, not a physical/chemical disease, but I obviously can't speak with any kind of authority.
The assertion that the software is licensed rather than sold shouldn't in my non-lawyer opinion hold in court, since there are no recurring payments.
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Ugh, and the single-click moderation has finally bit me.
And I can't think of anything useful to contribute either.
I vaguely remember seeing a message on the development mailing list that they're aiming for mid-2009 or so. Doing the normal translation from project planning to reality, I'd expect an official 6.0.0 release near the end of next year.
In PHP4 objects are passed by value. In PHP5 they're passed by reference.
This is probably one of the most misunderstood features of PHP5. They are passed by reference, but they're also copy-on-write references. As soon as the variables value is changed, a copy is made, and the function/method then uses the local copy (as if a copy were made in the first place like in php4).
Nothing has changed for the programmer except a reduction in memory usage.
That is not correct. If you pass an object to a function, and modify a property of that object in the function, the object will still have the modified property outside the function.
MTV is basically just HSN without an 800 number.
You can buy cheap 18-year-old sluts on HSN now?
How did he stay in office so long if there was already evidence of corruption in 2003 and 2004?
You must be new. Let me be the first to welcome you to the United States.
My question is, how many politicians can get charged with major crimes before they have to stop pretending morality is part of their platform?