I am sort of torn between getting a bluetooth keyboard for my iPad and getting a cheap chrome book.
With the cost difference being only $150 or so having yet another device to test websites with has me sort of leaning that way. (and the escape key)
Torvalds was counting on Mauro to be checking to make sure this type of stuff doesn't happen.
Not only was the patch bad, but it broke the trust that Torvolds had in Mauro.
Torvalds was probably thinking something along the lines of "Fuck, now I have to go back and check every patch I have ever accepted from Mauro and see if it is also crap."
Not the original poster but here is why I don't use LaTeX. You have to compile to see your changes, and LaTeX does not have a wysiwyg mode. (There are a few attempts, but none of them that I have tried work al that well. and I have used Lyx a lot)
Courts have rules that are based on typewriters and word perfect. You must have your heading on line 8 or line 10 or what ever it is for that court. From my experience LaTeX and Lyx is that creating a style sheet and tweaking it is actually rather tedious and time consuming as there are no tools to my knowledge to get you to the 90% done format quickly.
Further more I don't know of any good way of collaborating with people using LaTeX. git is fine for coders but it is a bit of a nightmare trying to get non-coders to share free form writing with it.
Admittedly these are all things that could be addressed with some UI polish and some small tools. but If you need to get something filed by a deadline, the best way is rarely the path you take, but rather one you know you can complete the task on deadline.
No, but the billion dollar award is not official until several motions by Samsung are heard.
On the other hand Apple has been ordered to pay damages for the injunction against the galaxy tab that they got granted.
News reports on the day of the trial: Samsung lost a billion dollars to Apple. Actual payments ordered so far: Apple has to pay 2.6 million (IIRC).
It is far from clear who is going to win this trial, but MoFo has scored some impressive wins for Apple.
The question "Are you on crack?" was not in response to them wanting to submit a huge amount of paperwork. It was about claiming that they could go through a large number of witnesses in the remaining time and that Samsung should have to prepare for them.
The game that they were trying to play was to make Samsung guess which witnesses would be called in the last two days. MoFo (Apple's lawyers) tried this because they were getting away with similar tactics leading up to the trial.
What I want is the ten inch paper white touch screen at a reasonable price ($200 - $300 or so)
I also want the weight to be somewhat less than my ipad3.
I also want my kindle to support epub without having to do crazy side loading.
I don't use the kindle that much because it really is only useful for reading on the train and such, which I don't do that often.
It depends on the work load.
IIRC on AMD64 most programs are about five to ten percent larger if they are compiled for 64 bit instead of 32 bit with a slight slowdown. However SSL and other programs that extensively use numbers larger than 32bits tend to be twice as fast on 64bit than 32bit. So if you are doing mostly authentication or ssl on your PI then 64 bit would make sense.
... this is proof that corporations respond to publicity and pressure.
Either that or customers like apple are concerned about import bans in the patent war and want to not be importing into the large markets.
Yes, I am cynical.
In the US:
This is as per the US copyright offices current interpretation of the DMCA.
Just a heads up for those of us in the US.
I am currently looking for a new monitor and not real happy with what I am finding, but CRTs are very expensive to use.
Distribution is where copyright law kicks in.
Like when you distribute the program from your drive to your RAM?
Now if the program is all rights reserved, and your modified version that you distribute mocks the original author, you could claim the parody exception for copyright. (Would you be successful? I don't know about that question, ask an attorney.)
... or if you want to implement some modifications of your own (which you don't intend to distribute)
IANAL, but I have been led to believe that code that is all rights reserved cannot be modified without consent of the author, unless it falls under the fair use exemption of copyright.
The fact that your modifications could reduce the profitability of the copyright owners derivative works lead me to suspect that the courts would generally find that your changes are a copyright violation, even if they are not distributed.
Copyright law is all about money and lost sales.
My advice, get permission from the copyright holder, it is much cheaper and less confusing than attorneys.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
