You can also interpret the headline slightly differently and get the correct information. Instead of reading it as "Judge rules that this music, based on pi, is not copyrightable", it should be "Judge rules that the idea of "pi-based music" is not copyrightable". We're so used to headlines leaving out words, especially articles (a, the, etc.), that people tend to fill them in automatically. In this case, though, there isn't a dropped article.
Judging by languages that have succeeded over the past 20 years, I would say that the main factor in success is a large company pushing the language.
I'm having trouble thinking of any such languages other than Java and C#. I don't recall C (if you go back a bit more than 20 years), Perl, PHP, Python, or JavaScript becoming widely adopted because they were pushed by large companies (though I admit that JavaScript is debatable).
You mean how they aren't all expert web designers (distinct from web developers, i.e. programmers)? I have a computer science degree, and web design is far from a strength for me. I can create a web page that someone gives me a drawing for, but creating that drawing isn't something that all, or even most, computer science graduates are good at.
Does a non-christian have a realistic chance of getting voted into office? Can someone run for office without religion being mentioned?
Theory (the constitution) and practice are two different things.
Which office? There are plenty of members of Congress who aren't Christian. Joe Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, was a candidate for vice president.
That's because so much of Christianity has been hijacked by doctrine that comes from the modern Jew, that states that even if you're an atheist, if you were born a Jew, you are a Jew, even if you deny you're Jewishness.
That isn't "modern", it's always been that way. Judaism started as, and for the most part still is, a tribal religion. You're a member of the tribe if your parent(s) is/are part of the tribe. Judaism works the same way; if your mother is Jewish, you are Jewish. Judaism is distinct from most other religions in this way.
And being a Jew is something that is both racial/ethnic as well as religious at the same time. IF you were to convert to Judaism, you would also be changing you're race/ethnicity. One of the many reasons they do not encourage the practice.
If you convert to Judaism, your genes don't magically change. There are many pasty white Jews from northern and eastern Europe (which is where most of the Jews in the United States came from, during the early 1900's); somewhat darker-skinned Jews from southern Europe, Arab and Persian regions, and of course Israel; and very dark-skinned Jews from Africa. People from any racial background can convert (or more likely in the past, marry into the tribe).
As for why conversion is "discouraged", it has absolutely nothing to do with ethnicity. The idea of "discouraging" someone from converting is that accepting all of the religious laws of Judaism is a serious commitment, and anyone that wants to convert needs to be certain that they want to make that commitment.
An LPB (low-pinged bastard) could average 100ms to many servers, and latency of 50 wasn't unheard of.
That was me in the 1998-99 time frame. That was my freshman year in college. My neighbor and I would get 50-60 ms to some of the Quake servers we played on.
You know I was right there with you when Bush started doing warantless wiretapping and the patriot act etc, but when Obama is just as bad as his predecessor I don't think you can blame just the right anymore.
Who said Obama was on "the left"? Other than the really far right, of course.
As a side thought...is there any precedent for a gay divorce? Now that I am thinking about it, I cannot recall ever hearing about a gay divorce, and how some of our current laws that assume a marriage is between two parties of opposing genders are interpreted...
If I remember correctly, the couple that had one of the first same-sex marriages (I forget which state it was in) ended up filing for divorce a couple years later. I don't think the divorce procedure is any different.
no.. reasonably fair would be for the money to come from the involved politicians' paychecks. make bad decisions, get docked pay, or fired, just like the rest of the voting block.
In some (many?) states, it's illegal to require an employee to pay for any losses they cause. They can be fired, but you can't deduct money from their paycheck.
I always liked the part where the dude (Lot) is raped by his daughters in a drunken incesty threeway. There's some hot XXX action in that there bible book.
Please stop making stuff up. There was never a three-way.
Ok, my bad, the word is yom, it can mean day or afternoon or age or daily or eternity or entire or lifetime or long or perpetually... the word doesn't translate well to a term we have in English
It translates just fine to the English word "day". How many people think that the expression "back in my day" refers to a specific calendar day?
I'm not a lawyer or an American, but as I understand it (from previous discussions on Slashdot), in America you can only defend yourself by saying that you don't infringe the patent. If you want the patent declared invalid, you have to sue separately for invalidation (which Microsoft did) then appeal demanding that the original judgement is overturned. I believe that the US is the only place with this (frankly nuts) system.
Your understanding is incorrect. Submission of prior art is a standard part of patent litigation. I do not know specifically why it would have been disallowed in that case.
As far as I know, Kopete can't currently send messages through XMPP for Facebook. I remember reading somewhere that Facebook changed something about how it does the XMPP connection, and I don't think Kopete hasn't fixed that yet.
We're not building a big army because we want to invade anyone, we're building a big army so that we can defend ourselves against those other bad people. We can tell that they're planing on invading us, because they've been building big armies...
Replace "because they've been building big armies..." with "because they started invading us last year".
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...a Fundy has to believe that the Bible is the end-all, no mistakes included way of the world. No picky-choosy, ever.
Until they get to the rules that they don't like. Not eating pork and shellfish, stuff like that.
Stupid dancing birthday dinosaur.
I say it's worth it then.
You can also interpret the headline slightly differently and get the correct information. Instead of reading it as "Judge rules that this music, based on pi, is not copyrightable", it should be "Judge rules that the idea of "pi-based music" is not copyrightable". We're so used to headlines leaving out words, especially articles (a, the, etc.), that people tend to fill them in automatically. In this case, though, there isn't a dropped article.
As well meaning as he is, I'd place good money on Congress literally JUMPING at the chance to approve ACTA.
Do you know the average age of a Senator? Half of them would probably break a hip.
Judging by languages that have succeeded over the past 20 years, I would say that the main factor in success is a large company pushing the language.
I'm having trouble thinking of any such languages other than Java and C#. I don't recall C (if you go back a bit more than 20 years), Perl, PHP, Python, or JavaScript becoming widely adopted because they were pushed by large companies (though I admit that JavaScript is debatable).
That speaks volumes to your CS grads....
You mean how they aren't all expert web designers (distinct from web developers, i.e. programmers)? I have a computer science degree, and web design is far from a strength for me. I can create a web page that someone gives me a drawing for, but creating that drawing isn't something that all, or even most, computer science graduates are good at.
And I can see being a practicing Jew as being acceptable to American Christians.
Really? They threw a fit when a Catholic got elected.
Does a non-christian have a realistic chance of getting voted into office? Can someone run for office without religion being mentioned? Theory (the constitution) and practice are two different things.
Which office? There are plenty of members of Congress who aren't Christian. Joe Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, was a candidate for vice president.
That's because so much of Christianity has been hijacked by doctrine that comes from the modern Jew, that states that even if you're an atheist, if you were born a Jew, you are a Jew, even if you deny you're Jewishness.
That isn't "modern", it's always been that way. Judaism started as, and for the most part still is, a tribal religion. You're a member of the tribe if your parent(s) is/are part of the tribe. Judaism works the same way; if your mother is Jewish, you are Jewish. Judaism is distinct from most other religions in this way.
And being a Jew is something that is both racial/ethnic as well as religious at the same time. IF you were to convert to Judaism, you would also be changing you're race/ethnicity. One of the many reasons they do not encourage the practice.
If you convert to Judaism, your genes don't magically change. There are many pasty white Jews from northern and eastern Europe (which is where most of the Jews in the United States came from, during the early 1900's); somewhat darker-skinned Jews from southern Europe, Arab and Persian regions, and of course Israel; and very dark-skinned Jews from Africa. People from any racial background can convert (or more likely in the past, marry into the tribe).
As for why conversion is "discouraged", it has absolutely nothing to do with ethnicity. The idea of "discouraging" someone from converting is that accepting all of the religious laws of Judaism is a serious commitment, and anyone that wants to convert needs to be certain that they want to make that commitment.
An LPB (low-pinged bastard) could average 100ms to many servers, and latency of 50 wasn't unheard of.
That was me in the 1998-99 time frame. That was my freshman year in college. My neighbor and I would get 50-60 ms to some of the Quake servers we played on.
People hated us. A lot.
So, care to back that up with anything resembling facts? Or were you just being snarky?
This is Slashdot. Nobody here is ever snarky.
You know I was right there with you when Bush started doing warantless wiretapping and the patriot act etc, but when Obama is just as bad as his predecessor I don't think you can blame just the right anymore.
Who said Obama was on "the left"? Other than the really far right, of course.
9.5/10. I'm sorry to say that I had to deduct half a point for not explicitly including "gold plated".
As a side thought...is there any precedent for a gay divorce? Now that I am thinking about it, I cannot recall ever hearing about a gay divorce, and how some of our current laws that assume a marriage is between two parties of opposing genders are interpreted...
If I remember correctly, the couple that had one of the first same-sex marriages (I forget which state it was in) ended up filing for divorce a couple years later. I don't think the divorce procedure is any different.
no.. reasonably fair would be for the money to come from the involved politicians' paychecks. make bad decisions, get docked pay, or fired, just like the rest of the voting block.
In some (many?) states, it's illegal to require an employee to pay for any losses they cause. They can be fired, but you can't deduct money from their paycheck.
For fuck's sake, can you fucking assholes stop all this fucking swearing?
Fuckers.
I always liked the part where the dude (Lot) is raped by his daughters in a drunken incesty threeway. There's some hot XXX action in that there bible book.
Please stop making stuff up. There was never a three-way.
Ok, my bad, the word is yom, it can mean day or afternoon or age or daily or eternity or entire or lifetime or long or perpetually... the word doesn't translate well to a term we have in English
It translates just fine to the English word "day". How many people think that the expression "back in my day" refers to a specific calendar day?
I'm not a lawyer or an American, but as I understand it (from previous discussions on Slashdot), in America you can only defend yourself by saying that you don't infringe the patent. If you want the patent declared invalid, you have to sue separately for invalidation (which Microsoft did) then appeal demanding that the original judgement is overturned. I believe that the US is the only place with this (frankly nuts) system.
Your understanding is incorrect. Submission of prior art is a standard part of patent litigation. I do not know specifically why it would have been disallowed in that case.
And by "out of context" I mean the liberal media (or the current GOP foes)
So it's the fault of the "liberal media", except when it isn't?
I grew up in Maine. Living there is never the solution.
The point is that we're supposed to be. Clearly we aren't, and haven't been for quite a while. This is a Bad Thing.
As far as I know, Kopete can't currently send messages through XMPP for Facebook. I remember reading somewhere that Facebook changed something about how it does the XMPP connection, and I don't think Kopete hasn't fixed that yet.
There's also Bill Nye.
We're not building a big army because we want to invade anyone, we're building a big army so that we can defend ourselves against those other bad people. We can tell that they're planing on invading us, because they've been building big armies...
Replace "because they've been building big armies..." with "because they started invading us last year".