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Marcel Kilgus wrote:
I think I've never ever seen as many footnotes in a paper as in this
one. 398 footnotes on 79 pages, that's an average of 5 per page!
Truly amazing.
Morning Marcel,
I take it you don't read Terry Pratchett novels then ?
Lots of footnotes
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 at 08:06:02, wrote:
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I take it you don't read Terry Pratchett novels then ?
Lots of footnotes there too - most of them, highly amusing.
Does anyone remember Martin Gardner? He came to the fore writing a
mathematic puzzle column in Scientific
On Jan 16, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
In some cases this might also include a method of doing something
(IE: software patents).
Fortunately enough software patents are still an US problem only
(mostly, the EU patent office regularly tries to grant sort-of
software patents, but
James Hunkins wrote:
Luckily, one of the key points in patents is that patents can not be
done on something that is obvious.
Muahahaha, that was a good one! It might be nice in theory, but in
real life I'm amazed nobody has patented intake and output of oxygen
containing gas in order to produce
- Original Message -
From: George Gwilt
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Reverse engineering
Hmmm!! Apart from spending quite a lot of time disassembling
programs I also copy quite a lot of music. Perhaps I should be behind
bars instead of playing them
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], James
Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Jan 16, 2006, at 4:18 AM, Tony Firshman wrote:
... and at what level does code become unique.
As Marcel said, there is only _one_ way to set serial port baud
rates on
the QL.
Luckily, one of the key points in patents is
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], James
Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
One caution about reverse engineering; while it may be legal to do,
it is illegal to use 'borrowed' code in other code that you might
release or resell without permission. In some cases this might also
include a method of
