Care to provide citations? Especially considering the legal status of Wi-Fi.

Because a) it might fall under general transmission and not require any special permission to receive (just as it doesn't require any special permission to transmit), and b) your interpretation makes even just scanning for networks around you criminal - as in that screen which shows available networks in your phone settings and such. You see, I didn't give your phone a permission to receive my SSID and protection state - even though they are transmitted in the clear. I transmit them only for my laptop and phone.

Yeah, did you notice how Nokia's the only maker under "windows phone"?.. Oh, right, they're still in there with same HTC, LG and Samsung. But while HTC, LG and Samsung Android phones all look different - at least to some degree, HTC, LG, Samsung and Nokia WinPhones all look the same. So, from whom exactly are they differentiating there?

> a hardware AND software package that are differentiated from the competition in some way other than "it's a different color."

Ahahaha, you're a funny one!

Here, check all this WP7 diversity. Now contrast it with all these identically looking UIs and shapes of Android phones. Err, wait...

Misread it as "cheap network or sound crabs"

Could be done, electrically stimulate a crab to snap its pincers, employ good old pulse-width modulation and add some output filters.

Then get a bunch of them and make a polyphonic sound crab.

No need for special element, their AND gate is basically a 2-to-4 decoder (without 0 output line) - it has (NOT a AND b), (a AND b) and (a AND NOT b) outputs.

Just send a synchronized stream of crabs (damn, that's a nice combination of words) down one input and use corresponding output as NOT.

We should just forbid any communications on non-work related themes. All communication should be done in text form or using a speech synthesizer to avoid possibility of others made feel unwelcome by your voice - may be it's your accent (hispanic, southern american or Queen's English, or any other), creepy heavy breathing or unpleasant lisp.

We should also prohibit any personal contact, lest somebody gets offended by someone's appearance or manners. Everyone should work in a completely isolated personal space, leave and arrive at work separately.

This way we'll create completely unbiased, gender-, race- and culture- neutral environment, equally (un)welcoming for everyone.

Because there's difference between coding style and significant whitespace.

// Somebody pasted a few lines, but didn't reindent last line.
// Still correct syntax, still does the same, Reindent All fixes the formatting and everybody's happy.
  if (x) {
    statement1
    statement2
  statement3
}
 
# Somebody pasted a few lines, but didn't reindent last line.
# Still correct syntax, statement3 errorneously executes every time, IDE doesn't help (it could reindent _when pasting_, not after the fact). Have fun debugging!
  if x:
    statement1
    statement2
  statement3

First, your BNF example is lame because it describes only grammar of a language - but grammar alone doesn't make a language and there's no standard notations for all the rest of what makes a language.

Second, yes, language expressed in these forms is an expression of idea. That is, you can copyright a BNF description of grammar, and even specification of your language, but they're _expressions of idea of a language_, but not the language itself.

Saying that copyright on specification is copyright on the language is like saying copyright on a book is copyright on its plot.

But of course they have to be paid more now that they work more efficiently and provide more skills to the company.

The proper solution would be a kind of subsidized loan on the training - send them to study, raise the pay and then recover the training costs from the wages.

Want to jump ship? Return the loan. Gonna stay with us after the loan ends? Great, enjoy your raised pay.

Capital letters mean variables, evaluation is by rewriting and pattern matching.

Seems like it's trying to substitute every mention of Factorial for "if (Number

factorial Number = if (Number <=1 ) then 1 else (Number * factorial (Number -1))

this works

As well as this:

Number! = if (Number <=1 ) then 1 else (Number * (Number -1)!)
 
5!

You can even write something like "X plus Y minus Z = X+Y-Z" and ask it for "5 plus 4 minus 9"

They do. Filesystems and device drivers are on the kernel side in monolithic OSes, FUSE/CUPS/SANE/graphics drivers with minimal kernel mode parts/etc. muddy the difference.

It's easy to declare an OS as microkernel or _not_ microkernel, but "monolithic" is pretty much meaningless term, unless you just define anything non-microkernel to be monolithic.

Here's one real-world microkernel OS, for example.

Though most real-world is neither pure micro- nor pure macro-kernel, Win NT, OS X and Linux are stuck somewhere inbetween with varying degree of user-space/kernel-space separation.

> why is one place saddled with search engine results that are negative and another not?

Because one place is famous for bad thing happening there and another is not. Searching for Jane Q. Celebrity will turn up her personal site first, as she's famous by herself, but searching for brutally murdered John Smith will turn up news reports, not his facebook page.

Your definition of "relevance" is strange. If most people looking for "Nuremberg" or "Bhopal" are interested in trials and chemical plant disaster, filling top page with tourist spots would be irrelevant.

Great post, except top result for "camping alfaques" is "Alfaques Camping - Apartamentos - Camping www.alfaques.com/" both on Google and Bing and they are just ticked off by image search feature showing unpleasant pictures.

But why get constrained by boring reality, when you can rant instead?

> why not call them 'burglars'?

Better yet, call them "terrorists" and the public will immediately see how bad and wrong they are.

After all, nomenclature, not what someone actually did, is what really matters.