4000 were deported back to Germany, where they ended up in concentration camps
Counts as a “had them killed,”
Yes, likely to a large share. Stalin sent those members of the KPD to (almost) certain death, who weren’t completely in line with the Stalinist ideology. If they belonged to the party elite, there were rightoff killed by the NKVD directly.
Stalin had them all killed.
Not, all but many, 242 were killed during purges and 4000 were deported back to Germany, where they ended up in concentration camps. Others, among them the elite of the later SED, e.g. Pieck, Ulbricht and Mielke, stayed in the USSR.
The ‘E’ isn’t on the sticker, but on the aluminium foil.
MSI files are actually comparable to Linux packages, from what I understand, in that the program that does the installing (and which gets root/admin permissions for that) comes with the OS itself.
Neat. I’ve always wondered why e.g. 7zip is distributed as both, MSI and exe installer. Now that makes somewhat sense to me.
The Greeks were very into geometry, a purely calculated algebraic proof didn’t count for them.
I’d say it’s more about that Linux packages aren’t (distributed as) compiled binary installers (appimages are executables, but no installers), like msi or exe installers for Windows, but (as) essentially plain archives.
The patent was published 10 years ago. It says it is withdrawn but I don’t know if we can somehow see the reason or if it was voluntarily withdrawn.
They didn’t pay the annual renewal fee:
01.08.2018 – Application deemed to be withdrawn, date of legal effect [2019/02]
28.08.2018 – Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: renewal fee not paid in time [2019/02]
And the most important aspect of what makes us fast typing is not the order of the letters, but the fact that we have muscle memory to reach them once we are used to a layout.
Some of the proposed applications of the patent are vending machines and car navigation systems . For vending machines, the aspect of muscle memory is probably not very dominant and thus, an optimised layout might be beneficial. Yet, as the layout is ‘different’ than usual, people usung the vending machines might also be confused and thus, the time benefit from the novel optimal layout is probably also non existent in that use case.
For the car navigation system it’s probably beneficial. After some time you probably have internalised the location of the letters and thus can type faster. For navigation systems it’s probably not a frequent use case that the keyboard language and thus its layout is changed regularly.
For a smartphone keyboard, I agree, it’s odd if you have to search for the location of the same letter on different layouts at different places.
The patented properties are stated on the Github page:
read the related patent documentation (WO2014111963A3 and EP2946267A2) which can be recap with these three points:
- Hexagonal key structure which means that each key is connected to SIX other keys. Not less. Not more.
- The space key MUST be in the center of the Keybee Keyboard layout.
- The most frequent bi-grams, tri-grams or n-grams are linked between the keys.
Yet, the European patent (EP…) is probably already withdrawn (https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2946267A2/en).
But if I’ve understood patents right; Someone else can’t patent your idea if you can prove you have had it and used it before them, right?
Yes.
I assume, the creator wants a fair share if somebody decides to use their keyboard in a proprietary software/device. The Apache license would usually permit this without compensation of the original creator.
Ghost Commander supports SFTP (“SSH-FTP”)
If you could damage a camera by pointing it at something, the manufacturer would fix the issue before selling it, because no one is buying a camera that does.
Recently, there were news about the LIDAR of Volvo cars destroying camera sensors when they were aimed into the direction of the IR laser beam. Yet, this is not a passive item.
Actually, Elmo didn’t found Tesla.
We and our 1842 partners value your privacy.
And while LEGO is a privately held company, they likely have US investors too.
No, they have not. 75 % are owned by the family, 25 % by the LEGO foundation.
AfaIk, the entire plant is chopped, fermented and fed to cattle. Yet, compared to grass, corn has a higher content on easily digestable carbohydrates.
Deep in the coating, where the Cu6Sn5 [Remark: intermetallic phase of Sn coating and Cu substrate] is present, the deviatoric strain was high. This indicates that the growth of the intermetallic phase causes plastic deformation of the tin coating.
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A short (4 micrometre) radial gradient in hydrostatic stress was observed around the root of the whisker. This gradient together with long-range diffusion from specific regions could provide the driving force for whisker growth.
https://portal.research.lu.se/en/publications/tin-whiskers-experiments-and-modelling
A colleague of me did his PhD exactly on the last topic.
Definitely. If I get the German and English Wikipedia articles right, it was the remaining inner circle of the KPD (Pieck, Ulbricht, Mielke) denouncing the others to the NKVD.