Comment how is this news? (Score 2, Insightful) 412
Certainly how is it bad news for microsoft? It's just saying that people are upgrading from XP to 7
Certainly how is it bad news for microsoft? It's just saying that people are upgrading from XP to 7
And now for something completely different, a man with three buttocks
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How is a pun insightful?
I appreciate the pun, it's a good one, but seriously, not an insightful comment
Watch this get modded funny and the parent not change
50,000 / 3,000,000 = 1.7%
Alarming
You've been able to use
MSDN is just a nice community of developers to be involved in. It makes me loyal to Microsoft development products because I know that if I use Visual Studio and
I have not had the same experience working with Java. Whenever I have a java problem to solve I am met with unclear articles and flames. Lots and lots of flames.
I know, I can't wait for a full port of Revenge of the Fart Machine II for OS X.
I agree that modders are not XBoxes best customers, but I do not agree that microsoft is trying to keep their box a secret.
I am a developer in the Xbox live creators club and in order to write a decent game you have to really dig in and understand the hardware in the box. My game has code in the shaders and physics engine to specifically work with the xbox hardware. Whenever I get a slow framerate, it's usually because I've missed a difference between my xbox and my pc.
I'm able to do this because microsoft publishes an API (XNA) and information about how the xbox works.
Apologies, I made some math errors in my calcs. The upward force exerted by a one mile diameter hemisphere inflated to 1 psi would actually be 6300000000lb.(2*pi*r^2) Still astronomical.
A tire inflated to 1psi (0.007N/mm^2) isn't much stiffer than it would be non-pressurized. It's the tires superstructure that helps it keep its shape. Try inflating a partyballoon to 1psi above atm.
Thank you for making my point. If you had enough pressure difference to support the structure than the loads would be too high to hold the thing to the ground. If you keep the pressure difference low you will need to build a support structure for the panels which would very heavy.
The force exerted by a 1 mile diameter disk as another reply to my first post suggested would be half that, or 3150000000lb. Even though this design would have half the upward force due to any pressure difference, it is probably less feasible. Flat rooftops are poor structures. The moment exerted by the center of such a rooftop on the outer walls would make any structural engineer break into a fit of simultaneous laughter, crying and anger.
I don't have time to do the calcs right now, but you could model the wind loading on either type of building as drag around a hemisphere or a cylinder respectively and I'm sure you'd find the loads to be ridiculously high.
The problem isn't the paneling, the problem is the structure to hold the paneling one mile up in the air. That is far, far larger than any structure we have ever built. They propose to hold it up by pressurizing the inside of the dome. Well, if you pressurized it at 1 psi more than atmospheric pressure, you would have a 16,815,854,700lb upward force. And I don't think 1 psi would come anywhere close to doing the job. Just think of how stiff a tire is if you inflate it to 1 psi.
The company claims the panel can withstand a 180 mile per hour wind, but that must be a panel with a specific surface area that is supported in a specific way. The forces on a dome of that size under wind loading would be astronomical.
And if you're inside a dome and there's a fire, and the dome starts to shrink, it would shrink towards the fire, in other words, towards you. This would be very, very bad. Men women and children running and screaming around with molten goo on them bad. Ever dripped candle wax on your hand on accident? What about burning plastic? Not good.
That is growth in data usage, not growth in customer base or profits.
provided you're not stupid enough to run an executable from an untrusted source.
That's exactly the problem with this article, these people intentionally tried to install 10 viruses on the computer. I've been running windows 7 since the Beta first came out without even running antivirus and I haven't had any problems.
Why? because I stay away from suspicious sites and I don't open suspicious emails
If you have patent pending you don't need an NDA.
Patents in the US are based on the date of invention, not the date the patent was issued, if B&N has been working on this, they will have internal documentation of the date of invention and the patent will rightfully be theirs.
If the B&N reader doesn't infringe on the patent because it is significantly different than the spring reader than B&N hasn't done anything wrong. This is why patents help innovation. It is perfectly legal and ethical for B&N to read the spring patent, look at exactly how their invention works, improve on the ideas and develop a product.
If spring hired a poor patent attorney who filed weak claims, then B&N will have no trouble winning the case. I would feel sad for spring in that situation but that's the breaks
What usually happens in this case is B&N settles for a sum of money that is cheaper than their licensing fees would have been but still a ludicrous sum of money for the guys at spring and is all spring can hope to get anyway because they hired a cheap patent attorney who filed a weak patent. B&N would do this because it would cost two or three ludicrous sums of money to hire their gigantic team of lawyers for the amount of time even a cheap patent attorney make the proceedings last.
If you have a patent pending you would not need to have them sign a non-disclosure agreement. In fact, if you've filed a patent you have already disclosed your idea to the public or will soon.
That's true for some shows but not all, there are a lot of shows that put the commercial break right at a cliffhanger to try to keep you from leaving.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
