There is no proof that there is any GPL software in the iPhone
The legals screen on my iPhone goes on for pages and pages and pages and PAGES, and includes BSD, GPL, LGPL, and other licensing information. Some but not all of the software on the phone, therefore, is covered by GPL. However, there's no evidence that Apple has modified any of that GPL software in a way which would require them to open it up. You're perfectly welcome to take the same software that Apple took and put it on your own cell phone hardware.
3)The surface is probably soaked with radiation where it faces the sun and cold where it does not.
The surface of the earth is "soaked with radiation". A red dwarf puts out, proportionally, a lot more IR and a lot less UV than a yellow star like Sol, so if the average temp of the planet is in the 0-40 degrees C range, I doubt you'd even be able to tan there.
It's not even a "profit first" motive -- it's an "aggression first" motive. The parody site is almost certainly not cutting into Second Life's profits -- I'd guess it's giving 2L a very slight publicity boost, if anything.
Trademarks are domain specific. Apple and McDonalds can each name products with variations on the word "Mac" without any trademark conflict. FIFA can sue Apple when they start marketing the iBall with the phrase "Fair Play".
RSQRTSS is an approximation using a lookup table, accurate to about 12 bits. It neatly replaces the integer trick in the q3 version, but you may still want a NR step to tighten it up afterwards. Also, a few of us are still worried about non-SSE platforms.
Right-shifting would seem to divide the exponent by two (i.e. take the square root), but it would also shift the least significant bit of the exponent into the most significant bit of the mantissa (making the mantissa negative if the exponent was odd, or positive if the exponent was even?). How on earth does subtracting the result from a magic value then give you the inverse square root? The key is that it doesn't give you the inverse square root; it gives you a not-ridiculously-bad approximation which is then refined via Newton-Raphson.
The sign bit is separate from the mantissa, and the mantissa has a presumed leading "1." before the bits in the float. I've seen a less clever version of the same trick (and adapted it to cube roots) without the magic number that, step 1, separated the sign bit, step 2, unbiased the exponent, step 3, shifted the exponent and mantissa parts one to the right. The result changes 1.bbbbbb... x 2^x to 1.0bbbbbb... x 2^(x/2) (if the exponent is even) or 1.1bbbbbb... x 2^((x-1)/2) (if the exponent is odd), both of which are pretty good approximations. I haven't analyzed the magic number part of this version yet but I imagine it takes care of (a) protecting the sign bit and (b) unbiasing the exponent along the way to making a slightly better approximation.
"He went on to say that most CDs are simply used for ripping onto digital audio players."
Likewise, the CD ROM and DVD ROM are dead. Most users just "install" the software from optical disk onto the hard disk right away, never using the opticals again.
Can I not use the letters "mac" simply because McDonalds has a product they call a big "mac"?? Oh wait Apple computers are called macs too, maybe they have a case...
It's domain specific. McDonald's will come after you if you try to sell a sandwich using the word "Mac". Kraft will come after you if you try and sell a pasta-and-cheese product using the word "Mac". Apple will come after you if you try and sell a computer using the word "Mac". You should have no problem selling a sandwich using the word "Pod".
Nope. "Miri". Kirk tells the girl, who is supposed to be just entering puberty, she has a "pretty name... for a pretty girl." Then he holds eye contact just a bit too long, and continues "...*very* pretty." *shudder*
Okay, the actress was 19 or so, and Miri herself was at least 100 years old chronologically, but physically and emotionally she was barely pubescent.
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Wait... wait... what are you saying about Star Trek?
3)The surface is probably soaked with radiation where it faces the sun and cold where it does not. The surface of the earth is "soaked with radiation". A red dwarf puts out, proportionally, a lot more IR and a lot less UV than a yellow star like Sol, so if the average temp of the planet is in the 0-40 degrees C range, I doubt you'd even be able to tan there.
That's pretty hilarious. Computers used to be part of real engineering work. Now they're toys.
It's not even a "profit first" motive -- it's an "aggression first" motive. The parody site is almost certainly not cutting into Second Life's profits -- I'd guess it's giving 2L a very slight publicity boost, if anything.
Hey, leave Pelosi out of this.
Trademarks are domain specific. Apple and McDonalds can each name products with variations on the word "Mac" without any trademark conflict. FIFA can sue Apple when they start marketing the iBall with the phrase "Fair Play".
Oh, not another one of you treehugging DHMO scaremongers! Hydrogen hydroxide is safe, natural, and beneficial!
Put down the crack pipe. The phone won't be available for six months. I'm pretty sure the name dispute will be cleared up by then.
Actually, they changed the name to "BHA", and insist that it's not an initialism for anything in particular.
Keep working on that reading comprehension thing.
What? That wouldn't even be as good as your average season 4 episode of Hypnotoad.
This is the most satisfying way to get a hard copy of HAKMEM.
RSQRTSS is an approximation using a lookup table, accurate to about 12 bits. It neatly replaces the integer trick in the q3 version, but you may still want a NR step to tighten it up afterwards. Also, a few of us are still worried about non-SSE platforms.
You're shocked to learn that American culture is fine with violence and totally timid about sex? Have you seen a Hollywood film in the last 30 years?
"He went on to say that most CDs are simply used for ripping onto digital audio players." Likewise, the CD ROM and DVD ROM are dead. Most users just "install" the software from optical disk onto the hard disk right away, never using the opticals again.
Uh, Persia is generally identified with modern Iran, and none of the various Persian empires occupied the area of modern Lebanon/Syria after 150BC.
Can I not use the letters "mac" simply because McDonalds has a product they call a big "mac"?? Oh wait Apple computers are called macs too, maybe they have a case... It's domain specific. McDonald's will come after you if you try to sell a sandwich using the word "Mac". Kraft will come after you if you try and sell a pasta-and-cheese product using the word "Mac". Apple will come after you if you try and sell a computer using the word "Mac". You should have no problem selling a sandwich using the word "Pod".
If, by "nuclear", you mean "really really big", maybe.
Apple calls out the phonetic similarity of "myPodder" with "iPod" and the similarity of the "Podcast Ready" logotype with Apple's iPod logo.
You can call your fast food joint "DaveWick's" all you want, that doesn't mean you can use a Golden Arches logo.
'You must be new here', said the man with the 70-times-larger UID.
"The OED cites a bewildering variety of spellings from various periods:
I don't know enough about the history of English spelling to be able to figure out what range of sound patterns lie behind that list."Absymal Ruby performance is Bush's fault. Everyone knows that. He ignored a briefing about it.
Nope. "Miri". Kirk tells the girl, who is supposed to be just entering puberty, she has a "pretty name... for a pretty girl." Then he holds eye contact just a bit too long, and continues "...*very* pretty." *shudder* Okay, the actress was 19 or so, and Miri herself was at least 100 years old chronologically, but physically and emotionally she was barely pubescent.