It's obvious to me -- in that it trips my bullshit meter -- that posting a sign at the Circle K on the corner that says, "Sorry, no homos." is wrong - deeply wrong - but I can't make a logical argument against the business that doesn't get into businesses being dependent on roads and police and fire and other government services, and as such, the government can make rules that force you to cater to your enemies. Businesses need licenses, and depend on state services -- after that, I got nothing. Let the shitty businesses out themselves as close-minded bigots.
It's sort of a tragedy of the commons (it looks like tyranny of small decisions is a more accurate name). If you allow discrimination in "private" business, you reduce the availability of some product or service to the group that you're discriminating against. If the availability gets reduced enough, you begin to get a class of people that can't participate in the economy, or even in society at all, because there's simply no way for everyone in that group to get what they're trying to buy, even if they have the money. Obviously this is a much bigger issue when it comes to basic necessities like food and housing, but it can still cause problems for general consumer goods and services.
From the stories I've heard from people that have dealt with psychologists (particularly assigned ones), is that they tend to be fairly dismissive an uncaring in general. Your experience may have been more because it was a psychologist than them being with VA.
Just to provide a little counterargument, can you imagine what it would be like for doctors, especially psychologists and psychiatrists, if they did start caring that much about every patient? After a couple years, they would be the ones needing the full-time care.
I know the Slashdot meme of Apple suing over 'rounded corners' is prevalent. However, the actual design patent Apple were suing over contained numerous clauses (including operational UI elements as rendered by software) that the courts evaluate for infringement as a whole. It had nothing to do with Apple claiming violation of a singular clause of their design patent.
It looks like the patent license only applies to their contrbutions, though ("where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by such Contributor that are necessarily infringed by their Contribution(s) alone or by combination of their Contribution(s) with the Work"). So if they don't submit any changes, maybe other than device drivers, they could still use their patents against other Android manufacturers.
Of course there is. Apple isn't allowed to distribute copies of Android to the public except under license from Linus Torvalds, Google, and other contributors to Android. If Apple accepts the license of Android (mostly Apache v2 and GPLv2), it has to give the public an implicit or explicit license to patents that Apple holds that Android allegedly infringes. So unless Apple wants to end up dropping lawsuits against Samsung, it has to refrain from making an iDroid.
Is what you said true, though? Does the APL and GPL require granting the public a license to all of Apple's patents, or does it only require granting a license to users of the software when they use the software (i.e. you can't distribute some GPL software and then sue the people that got it from you)?
I haven't read the licenses lately, and I don't care enough to go read them right now, so that is a genuine question.
Antiparticles have the same mass as their particle counterparts. We haven't actually found anything with negative mass yet, and only have the hypothetical tachyon in that category.
Tachyons don't have negative mass, they have imaginary mass (i.e. m^2 is negative).
I thought that if you don't assert your patent from day one, then you can't cry foul later on. How long have they been sitting on this thing, only to turn around and start suing everyone after the process became wide spread.
That is mostly true. You aren't allowed to wait to tell someone that they infringe your patent just to get more damages. If you do (and you get caught), then you can only get money for the time up until you figured out that they were infringing.
Having said that, I don't know the details of this case, so I don't know how that rule might apply.
The standard rumor is that they they all violate bogus patents rampantly and only by keeping their code secret (and possibly backdoored) can they stay afloat, in face of the patent trolls.
That rumor would persist only because most people don't know anything about how lawsuits work. You don't need to see someone's source code before filing a lawsuit; you get to see their source code after you file the lawsuit.
For Unix shells, that's true, but Unix shells are not the only possible command-line interfaces. In terms of general definitions, "CLI" and "Unix shell" are not the same thing.
Yes, and that language is Turing complete. Please don't conflate the command interface with any programming languages that a specific shell may support.
The CLI is Turing complete. Anything computable can be expressed through CLI. No GUI can make that claim.
I don't think any interface can be Turing complete. I had always thought only programming languages could be Turing complete, but I'm happy to be corrected.
I ordered a toy for my nephew 5 days before Christmas, with Amazon Prime 2-day GUARANTEED shipping. Right on the item page, Amazon GUARANTEED that it would arrive by Christmas. I don't hold UPS responsible. I hold responsible the vendor that made the claim.
I spent my Christmas Eve driving to a Toys-R-Us 3 towns over, instead of sipping egg nog and decorating the tree.
Congratulations on teaching a child the true meaning of Christmas.
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It's obvious to me -- in that it trips my bullshit meter -- that posting a sign at the Circle K on the corner that says, "Sorry, no homos." is wrong - deeply wrong - but I can't make a logical argument against the business that doesn't get into businesses being dependent on roads and police and fire and other government services, and as such, the government can make rules that force you to cater to your enemies. Businesses need licenses, and depend on state services -- after that, I got nothing. Let the shitty businesses out themselves as close-minded bigots.
It's sort of a tragedy of the commons (it looks like tyranny of small decisions is a more accurate name). If you allow discrimination in "private" business, you reduce the availability of some product or service to the group that you're discriminating against. If the availability gets reduced enough, you begin to get a class of people that can't participate in the economy, or even in society at all, because there's simply no way for everyone in that group to get what they're trying to buy, even if they have the money. Obviously this is a much bigger issue when it comes to basic necessities like food and housing, but it can still cause problems for general consumer goods and services.
From the stories I've heard from people that have dealt with psychologists (particularly assigned ones), is that they tend to be fairly dismissive an uncaring in general. Your experience may have been more because it was a psychologist than them being with VA.
Just to provide a little counterargument, can you imagine what it would be like for doctors, especially psychologists and psychiatrists, if they did start caring that much about every patient? After a couple years, they would be the ones needing the full-time care.
Did someone else notice that if the chances for something to happen are exactly a million to one, there is a 1 to ten chance that it actually happens?
Million-to-one chances work nine times out of ten.
Does he have any idea what the world water situation is?
Yeah, 75% of the world is covered with water. If you have unlimited free energy, water purification is not a problem.
I'll just assume that you haven't bothered to look at the design patent then.
I know the Slashdot meme of Apple suing over 'rounded corners' is prevalent. However, the actual design patent Apple were suing over contained numerous clauses (including operational UI elements as rendered by software) that the courts evaluate for infringement as a whole. It had nothing to do with Apple claiming violation of a singular clause of their design patent.
The meme comes directly from the design patent.
And a majority of Americans voted, twice, for W
Not even close. Just over 50% of the people who voted did so for Bush. Voter turnout in the United States isn't even remotely close to 100%.
It looks like the patent license only applies to their contrbutions, though ("where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by such Contributor that are necessarily infringed by their Contribution(s) alone or by combination of their Contribution(s) with the Work"). So if they don't submit any changes, maybe other than device drivers, they could still use their patents against other Android manufacturers.
Of course there is. Apple isn't allowed to distribute copies of Android to the public except under license from Linus Torvalds, Google, and other contributors to Android. If Apple accepts the license of Android (mostly Apache v2 and GPLv2), it has to give the public an implicit or explicit license to patents that Apple holds that Android allegedly infringes. So unless Apple wants to end up dropping lawsuits against Samsung, it has to refrain from making an iDroid.
Is what you said true, though? Does the APL and GPL require granting the public a license to all of Apple's patents, or does it only require granting a license to users of the software when they use the software (i.e. you can't distribute some GPL software and then sue the people that got it from you)?
I haven't read the licenses lately, and I don't care enough to go read them right now, so that is a genuine question.
There was a brief period where IE was considerably better than Netscape, I think in the 2000-2002 range.
And now we'll get a bunch of pointless replies with incorrect words and phrases.
Intensive purposes, irregardless, ekcetera
Antiparticles have the same mass as their particle counterparts. We haven't actually found anything with negative mass yet, and only have the hypothetical tachyon in that category.
Tachyons don't have negative mass, they have imaginary mass (i.e. m^2 is negative).
I thought that if you don't assert your patent from day one, then you can't cry foul later on. How long have they been sitting on this thing, only to turn around and start suing everyone after the process became wide spread.
That is mostly true. You aren't allowed to wait to tell someone that they infringe your patent just to get more damages. If you do (and you get caught), then you can only get money for the time up until you figured out that they were infringing.
Having said that, I don't know the details of this case, so I don't know how that rule might apply.
No one is saying that no one should try to get to Mars.
You must be new here.
The standard rumor is that they they all violate bogus patents rampantly and only by keeping their code secret (and possibly backdoored) can they stay afloat, in face of the patent trolls.
That rumor would persist only because most people don't know anything about how lawsuits work. You don't need to see someone's source code before filing a lawsuit; you get to see their source code after you file the lawsuit.
For Unix shells, that's true, but Unix shells are not the only possible command-line interfaces. In terms of general definitions, "CLI" and "Unix shell" are not the same thing.
Yes, and that language is Turing complete. Please don't conflate the command interface with any programming languages that a specific shell may support.
The CLI is Turing complete. Anything computable can be expressed through CLI. No GUI can make that claim.
I don't think any interface can be Turing complete. I had always thought only programming languages could be Turing complete, but I'm happy to be corrected.
That's a fairly poor example, though. In most decent text editors, that's just Edit -> Find in Files, then check the "Ignore case" checkbox.
It was a little intimidating to see this CLI master hopping around typing crazy little combinations of letters...
Most of those were just to be able to create the C file in vim, though.
Stop waging your War on Christmas!
I ordered a toy for my nephew 5 days before Christmas, with Amazon Prime 2-day GUARANTEED shipping. Right on the item page, Amazon GUARANTEED that it would arrive by Christmas. I don't hold UPS responsible. I hold responsible the vendor that made the claim. I spent my Christmas Eve driving to a Toys-R-Us 3 towns over, instead of sipping egg nog and decorating the tree.
Congratulations on teaching a child the true meaning of Christmas.
We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.
Any investment to improve your service would take over a year to recoup...
If you require your return to reach 100% in under a year, it's not really fair to call that an "investment".
Time Warner is also a content maker.
Comcast is owned by NBC.