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Copy, in this context, doesn't mean "to duplicate".

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/copy

1. an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting.
2. one of the various examples or specimens of the same book, engraving, or the like.
3. written matter intended to be reproduced in printed form: The editor sent the copy for the next issue to the printer.
4. the text of a news story, advertisement, television commercial, etc., as distinguished from related visual material.

The rights to the copy.

So if the burglar steals copies of your CDs and money falls out of his pockets on the way out, the homeowner is said to have "derives financial benefit from the infringement".

Now I know I'm being facetious but with the way the music mafia has been able to bend/buy laws to suit them, you never know.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/facetious
(In case a lone Digger visitor gets confused with grammar...)

I thought when reading this, that it was some kind of bad typo or misprint, then I looked up to see if posit was really a word.

Turns out it was. Geez...learn something new every day, even on /.

What???

Surely you jest. What christian right-wing nut modded that rediculous tripe insightful?

First off:
humanism
any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate.

religion
a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

The two have NOTHING to do with each other at all. One is all about everything human (more specifically human interests), the other is about everything existential. Religion does NOTHING in the better interest of humans, it was created as a way to "control" the people and hasn't changed much since. The only benifits that came from religion is that some very rich folks got richer, and some very stupid people got a false hope of something better.

What was humanistic about the crusades? What about the spanish inquisition? what about the DEATH of JESUS? Was killing jesus (due to him challenging the believe structure of the jews) humanistic?

Next point:
"It takes as much faith to believe there isn't a god as it does to believe there is a god."

Although that superficially sounds all "deep" and John Lennon-like, it's a complete and utter load of crap. The ONLY thing a person needs to discontinue their believe in God is a basic understanding of the history of christianity. Hell, read the bible! That'll stop you right there! I'd rather my kid grow up reading "The Brothers Grimm" fairy tales believing that those were tales from the bible than the bible itself. You could swap the stupid stories out and it wouldn't make a difference. Would it matter if the Ark was replaced by a talking puppet and a whale? A talking tree, a talking snake. Does it matter? ... who cares? (Shamefully ripped off from Bill Maher)

The more science learns about how the world works, the less we need god (and the more we disprove him). The more we learn about the history of christianity, the more we learn how much complete and utter bullshit it is.

It takes faith (read: intense stupidity and gullability) to believe in god.
It takes reason to not believe in him.

Faith is the crutch of the simple minded.

What???

Surely you jest. What christian right-wing nut modded that rediculous tripe insightful?

First off:
humanism
any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate.

religion
a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

The two have NOTHING to do with each other at all. One is all about everything human (more specifically human interests), the other is about everything existential. Religion does NOTHING in the better interest of humans, it was created as a way to "control" the people and hasn't changed much since. The only benifits that came from religion is that some very rich folks got richer, and some very stupid people got a false hope of something better.

What was humanistic about the crusades? What about the spanish inquisition? what about the DEATH of JESUS? Was killing jesus (due to him challenging the believe structure of the jews) humanistic?

Next point:
"It takes as much faith to believe there isn't a god as it does to believe there is a god."

Although that superficially sounds all "deep" and John Lennon-like, it's a complete and utter load of crap. The ONLY thing a person needs to discontinue their believe in God is a basic understanding of the history of christianity. Hell, read the bible! That'll stop you right there! I'd rather my kid grow up reading "The Brothers Grimm" fairy tales believing that those were tales from the bible than the bible itself. You could swap the stupid stories out and it wouldn't make a difference. Would it matter if the Ark was replaced by a talking puppet and a whale? A talking tree, a talking snake. Does it matter? ... who cares? (Shamefully ripped off from Bill Maher)

The more science learns about how the world works, the less we need god (and the more we disprove him). The more we learn about the history of christianity, the more we learn how much complete and utter bullshit it is.

It takes faith (read: intense stupidity and gullability) to believe in god.
It takes reason to not believe in him.

Faith is the crutch of the simple minded.

Online Etymology Dictionary
enjoy
c.1380, [...] Sense of "have the use or benefit of" first recorded c.1430. [...]

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper (Link)

You forgot cowtow . Unless he was, of course, towing a cow...

Ok.... So you are wrong. Sorry to say it but its true.

As per Reference.com and my own personal expirience ( 10 years in the United States Submarine Service ) , a submarine is ANY vessel that can navigate while submerged.

The fact that this submarines propulsion is the result of hydrodynamic forces on a "wing" makes no difference at all. A propeller, turned by an main propultion unit is a "wing" that hydrodynamic forces act upon, thereby resulting in movement in any plane of reference ( up, down, left, right ) satisfies the demand that this submarine have a mode of propulsion.

FTA and I quote:

On its face this is, well no other word for it, wrong. The principles of boyancy as described by Archimedes clearly indicate this. Boyancy is based upon a volume of water or gas that is displaced by a body or form and the pressure towards a lesser pressure with therefor lift the body or form towards the region of a lesser pressure.

The ONLY way for a bod or form to become more or less boyant is to either increase or decrease the volume of the water / gas being displaced. The only way to do this in any submersable device with a rigid hull form is to add or subtract water from a ballast tank.

Most of these people complaining are not doing so by their own violation

What would you say if it said "Cancer causes death" instead? It's assumed that piracy would still exist without DRM, just like it's assumed that death would still exist without cancer.

That sound you may have heard was the joke flying over your head.

I realize this is an article about how WoW does instances, but the definition is a little more broad than that. An instance in an MMOG really goes by the definition: a case or occurrence of anything. Anything in the case of MMOGs referring to a zone or area of the world. It isn't necessarily restricted to you or your party. In Everquest 2 they had the major zones automatically create another instance of themselves, so if the low level grounds of Antonica had more than 100 players or so in it, a new one would be created, and anyone entering the zone after that would have the choice of entering the first instance with 100 random players in it, or entering the newer instance that had less people in it.

It really just boils down to if the zone is static (there will only be one), or if more than one "instance" of the zone can be created. Usually it is done so that there is enough content for everyone, as having only static zones tends to get cramped.

He's talking about scrum not scrum.

1. an act or instance of extorting.
2. Law. the crime of obtaining money or some other thing of value by the abuse of one's office or authority.

The real question: Can we sue him for Libel for making false statements about the Linux operating system? It would be a bitchin' class action. Suing fo r libel is how FUD is typically handled when it's about a person. FYI, Libel . I guess the next step is to get a lawyer and hit him with everything we've got.

Clover principles Atsushi Inaba, Hideki Kamiya, and Shinji Mikami

Clover principals. This is one of the trickier homonyms in the English language because their meanings are so very similar. Principle can mean primary so it does seem like it makes sense to use it here. However, principal is the word we're looking for here: "a chief or head."[1]

Slashdot: Where the users suggest the stories, and are the only ones doing any editing...

[1] "principal." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 20 Feb. 2007. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/principal>.

here you go:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/monopoly

(as in microsoft)

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/weight the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.

bald[...]
3. lacking detail; bare; plain; unadorned: a bald prose style.
[....]

While we are correcting things from my point of view the above poster cannot spell colour correctly.

So long as people have interesting things to say why bring out the red pen?

"Admission is the (usually grudging but not necessarily) revocation of a previously explicit or implied assertion or denial (which are actually the same thing; denial is merely a negative assertion). If Ballmer never asserted or denied implicitly or explicitly a certain sales target for Vista, then there's no admission in a statement."

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=admission

First dictionary:

6. an acknowledgment of the truth of something.
7. a point or statement admitted; concession.

You're beaten by one.

Second dictionary:

4 A confession, as of having committed a crime.
5 A voluntary acknowledgment of truth.
6 A fact or statement granted or admitted; a concession.

You win by one, but the other definition is present. Definition 6 is ambiguous.

Third dictionary has neither definition.

Fourth dictionary has only:

an acknowledgment of the truth of something

Fifth dictionary:

a party's acknowledgment that a fact or statement is true

Summary: You lose. :D

The word you want is whining.

And stop saying scientist. She is a researcher. The articles calls her a researcher. I'll bet she will even call herself a researcher. And, she is relevant because she was researching.

Yes, and that research was relevant because it was part of science... [Origin: 1300-50; ME

By the way, I'm a scientist too. I use the scientific method, and my "faith" (if you can call it that, and I think you can) is in science. But wait, I am employed as a Graphic Artist! Holy shit, I guess you can't call me a scientist either. I guess I am just Man-who-uses-science.

He suggests that bargain-hunting clients avoid both AMD and Intel stock for now. First of all, where in either article was this even eluded to...I did not pick up on it at all.

It must have eluded you. (The word you want is "Alluded". If you don't want to look like a total idiot, try not to use words you don't understand.)

Here is the bit of the article in question: "Intel will likely feel pressured to respond with cuts of its own," Mok contends, driving down profits for both firms. "We would avoid both names here, as believe lower prices and higher capital spending may continue to limit margins." This was the fourth paragraph. They did not hide it.

Secondly, is there any alternative to AMD or Intel for an average PC technician?

Uh, this is a business analysis, not a technical one. Avoid the STOCK. Not the products. Perhaps one day you will learn to read.

With that said, there are alternatives only for SFF PCs. But they are slow. If all you need is your basic computing functionality, or to use them for a thin client, they are fine, otherwise they are just not acceptable. VIA produces most of them.

I never heard of a "bigit" either, and I've been studying computers since 1982. Every book I read said (as you pointed out) that "bit" was short for "binary digit". I looked it up in both dictionary.com and Wikipedia and found no results for "bigit" in either.

Without having a reference cited, I must come to the conclusion that kdawson is just making shit up. I urge him to clear this up for us, lest we all think he's a bigit (see below) trying to sound smart.

I fondly remember the "bit" character in Tron (Yes yes yesyesyesyes... nononono"). I was amazed that Disney would let the blatant drug references stay in; "tron", of course, being a BASIC command to turn something on, as well as the scene where they drink from the "energy pool" ("Man, we have SCORED!") with the programs (and Flynn) acting like they had just snorted cocaine.

Qubit reminded me of one of my favorite 80s computer games, "Q-Bert". Ah, the memories...

As (again) to "bigit", if there would have been such a character in Tron would he be a bigoted individual, or a big British git?

-mcgrew

Faith in an of itself gives answers

There is no way science or any other human effort can discover these [answers]

I think the entry you were looking for was this.

Actually, I don't see a single innovator blitzing the market. When I said "killer app," I didn't mean "application" as in computer application. I meant "application" as in "the act of putting to a special use or purpose." As in a REASON TO DO IT. There has to be a legal, Fair-Use reason for millions of folks to want to rip DVDs to their computers. That reason will be DVD-ripping's killer app, as it were.

I don't see that happening any time soon. To whatever extent video manipulation is mainstream, it's not video that comes from DVDs. It's music videos that come straight from artists' Myspace pages, or guys taping themselves dancing on treadmills, or people's frankly disturbing homespun animations or something.

But even in those cases, it's, like, one ten-thousandth of the population actually manipulating the video; everyone else is just watching it in Flash Player.

I just don't see where millions of people are going to want to rip video to their computers, and want it badly enough to make MPAA change its attitude toward DRM. It'll be ten years from now just like it is today: the people who want to get at the bits on a disc will be able to with some amount of trouble, the rest of the population won't be able to and won't care to. It's a totally different thing from music, where if some CD tries to keep itself from being ripped all hell is raised by lots of people until the studio gives in.

Video just != audio, and what the vast majority of people want from one will always be different from what they want from the other.

He may be trolling, but you need to get your facts correct.

Vast is "great" not "tiny". A vast minority would be 49% of a population, not something like 1%. I'm not sure if the two words make any sense when used together.

VAST: very great in degree, intensity, etc.: an artisan of vast skill.

Thus, a vast minority would refer to a minority that is very, very small, as opposed to only slightly smaller than the majority. IE, .1% or 1% instead of 25% or 48%.

I have no problem with people being pedantic over stupid english lit/grammar/spelling, etc. However, if you're going to do it, do it right.

Threatening an assignation sounds like something Clinton would have done.

After submitting some of his more cryptic speeches.

That's the second time you've used that [sic] when quoting "ridiculous", implying that you think it's spelled wrong, and of course from there making the secondary implication that the person who wrote it is a mouth-breathing bag of boogers who should not, under any circumstances, be listened to.

But it's not spelled wrong; ridiculous is correct.

so what shape is a ball?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/circle
24 results for: circle
16. a sphere or orb: the circle of the earth.

Interesting, never knew that it also meant "pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality".

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pansexual

It's difficult to come up with an instance where this isn't true.

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is the act of pretending or claiming to have beliefs, feelings, morals or virtues that one does not truly possess or PRACTICE.

You can play semantic games to claim that saying one thing and doing the opposite is not hypocrisy. But since we will never know what is inside the mind of Jobs, I am only concerned about what is put into practice. He claims one thing does the opposite. To me that is hypocrisy. I don't care if you want to use another word. But when deeds reveal the opposite to what the words claim, I will trust the deeds over the meaningless words.

Decrying DRM in some alternate fantasy world where it doesn't exist is no great statement. It is completely nullified by forcing bands to include DRM even when the don't want it. That is where it would stand if it were not for the timing of this letter.

With the current situation in Norway, this appears to nothing more than attempt to deflect the heat from Apple, saying in effect it is them, not us.

Steve Jobs, saying he is against DRM (given current actions) is like George Bush saying he is a pacifist and against military invasion.

Unless he has some deed to back up his empty words, this is nothing but a self serving political statement aimed at shifting blame.

The hell are you talking about? If his last 1000 cases were good and this one sucked it is a "botch". If his last 1000 cases sucked and this one sucks he is just a shitty surgeon.

Reference: botch

You could put a million PHEV's on the road tomorrow and people could plug them into any convenient 110 volt outlet at night.

No, you couldn't, because people wouldn't buy a million cars in a day.

Way to misunderstand the English language. The first clause was clearly not a proposal to do so (even so, a million cars is only about 21 days of sales and could theoretically all be delivered to buyers on the same day) and you ignore the truth of the second clause.

You are misusing "infrastructure".

See the term "transportation infrastructure"

So right on the first page, it has:

Writes legislation regarding aviation, railroads, navigable waterways, roads, and public works projects.

In transport-speak, "infrastructure" refers to highways, streets, roads and bridges, rails and pipelines (consistent definition here).

You are either too stupid to understand English, or trolling.

you assume people are idiots. You act like they're just going to watch fields go dry one by one while twiddling their thumbs.

Given you as an example, that's a pretty safe assumption.

That's exactly what we did in the 1960's as US oil production peaked and fell while consumption continued to climb. This led to our vulnerability to the OPEC oil price shocks in the 1970's. Why should I expect the public to learn such lessons from history? It's not like they ever did before. Heck, the same thing happened again in the 90's: business interests fought energy-efficiency standards for buildings in the name of "consumer demand", and now we are looking at having to import LNG in order to heat them. Designs available during that same period would need little or no heat. Why didn't we use those designs? Because people are idiots, QED.

And since I did the research for this, I'm going to post it:

even spiral-wound lead-acid is sufficient to get started.

No, not really (not to mention would be disastrous for the environment). At 25 Wh/kg, half a metric tonne of batteries alone -- a bloody 11 cubic feet -- to your car would only get you 12.5 kWh (and with how heavy your car will be, meaning wasteful use of energy for accel, that would be a range of something like 15 miles or so).

25 Wh/kg will get you 4 kWH out of 160 kg. That's plenty for driving around the neighborhood (12 miles @ 200 Wh/mi) plus surge power and regenerative braking. When they wear out, you replace them with carbon-foam backed lead-acid at 260 Wh/kg. They might be only 1/3 as dense, so you'll only get about 90 Wh in the space of your former 25 Wh cells; your capacity goes from 4 kWh up to 14 kWh while the weight falls to about 55 kg. This brings your all-electric range up to 50 miles plus surge power. The carbon foam backings eliminate the corrosion and sulfation failure modes of standard lead-acid, so they last about 10 years. If the car is worth refurbishing at 13 years of age, Li-ion chemistries will be ready to take over from lead-acid at that point (or you might just fit it out with 5-year-old units from a newer car being upgraded for better range).

As a consequence, the Chevy Volt, the type of car that we're both wanting to see as a stopgap, hinges entirely on the advancement of battery

Give users something and tell them it is tough and they will break it by being wreckless.

Give users something and tell them it is tough and they will break it by being wreckless.

Fascism does not necessarily point to racism. It can - and belligerent nationalism often does. But that doesn't mean it has to.

Besides - we can't call "Bushitler" - the economy of Germany absolutely skyrocketed and was doing awesomely while hitler was in charge.

natch

The only fine that is justified here is for the trespassing and vandalism.

Ummmm.

vandalism - " deliberately mischievous or malicious destruction or damage of property: vandalism of public buildings." Entry #1 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vandalism

I can sort of see how nailing a "garage sale" or "lost puppy" sign to a telephone pole would be considered vandalism. Technicaly speaking... you do cause damage to a pole which is rather why it's reccomended you buy your own sticks, attach to the sign, and stick them in the ground. Some cities are more tolerant, others require a permit to glue or affix paper on walls or telephone poles. Others require permits to even have a sign on your own property. I would normally consider graffiti to be a form of vandalism... as in spray painting someone else's building, using a bocket knife to write something in a bench or a table.

From what I read these were hacker made readerboard signs... so while graphics it isn't graffiti as it can be removed ease. Tresspass? Perhaps depending on where they went, but a bridge was one example which you can't really call a bridge private property. I think vandalism (deliberate destruction of property)is over reacting .... probally the most likely crime commited is posting signs without a permit.

Too bad being stupid is not a crime.

1) The DMCA is not an organization, it is a law. Laws get enforced. They don't go around doing the enforcing.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/by:

by [...] 13. in consequence, as a result, or on the basis of

You want to be pedantic, then get it right. The headline is grammatically correct (but most likely factually incorrect, as you pointed out).

Why are shorts, pants and underpants all referred to as pairs.. in fact they have no singular noun. You can have 1 Pair of shorts, 10 pairs of shorts.. but you can't have 1 short or 1 pant..

Ah, the dictionary is your friend for this one.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pant%20le g

pant leg
-noun
a leg of a pair of pants.
Also called pant.

That would be disembowelment...

Since we have no way to prove such a conjecture, I think it's rather pointless to speculate about what would have happened had it been 150 degrees instead of 180-190.

I will say this though, that it was only an example, more meant to illustrate the frequency of frivolous lawsuits, rather than call attention to that specific instance.

"Vista, like it or not, has turned into a 'phenomenal' product, by definition"

By definition it's phenomenal?

Let's look in the dictionary:
  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Phenomenal

Here's the 1st definition:
    1. highly extraordinary or prodigious; exceptional: phenomenal speed.

Well, the fact that it implies speediness means this has nothing to do with Vista.

Okay, let's look some more:
    2. of or pertaining to phenomena.

I hate those kind of definition. It's a non-definition. Doesn't help us so...
    3. of the nature of a phenomenon; cognizable by the senses.

This might be it, particularly if we're talking about the sense of smell.

In terms of this being some sort of major event, unfortunately, Microsoft hit their high water mark in '95 when they introduced Windows 95. This launch is more subdued probably because it breaks most computers, and the benefits are heavily weighted towards providing DRM services. The launch is similar to Windows XP, although the stakes are much higher for MS these days.

In terms of phenomenal launches, we're a bit numb right now seeing as how Nintendo and Sony had actual phenomenal launches of their platforms.

The only phenomena right now will be how fast MS either drops prices or throws a lot of features in the box to convince a bored public that what they're doing is worthwhile. I think the sell is tough mainly because even chairman bill can't articulate value for Vista. It's a fair bet that Vista could be Microsoft's Vietnam.

Perhaps you noticed the word and at the beginning of my post, indicating that I did realise that the example in my question was different from the one in your post. Look for definition 7 on the reference, if that will help.

To make it easy for you: To be fair, the latter patch was for Beta 1; the exploit isn't present in the RTM, and the exploits being sold? They are apparently current, and the service pack acknowledges current issues as well. Happy now?