I suppose there's a good reason for not having an 'official' medal rank. The usual ranking, based on the amount of gold medals per country, seems to indicate that medals can be bought. You'd want to correct for income and preferably also for 'waste' in the case of countries who can't really afford athletes (North Korea comes to mind).
I got the impression it's not supposed to land on its back, so you'd want to tie the buttered bread to the underside (which is easier albeit perhaps less effective than a plate of spaghetti upside-down).
Copyright is the exclusive right to publish, distribute and reproduce works. The interesting part for rights holders is the possibility to license parts of the rights, even on a regional (e.g. per country or continent) basis. That worked reasonably well in an analog age when there were physical limits inherent to transportation and reproduction.
Those limits don't apply anymore, at least not with the same weight, to bytes. Computers work by copying bytes, networks work by transporting bytes. Computers with internet connection are available to many people. The very essence of copyright is undermined by something like a smart phone which enables you to take a picture of a 'protected' work, manipulate the image by something like Instagram and distribute it across the world at the touch of a (virtual) button.
Yes, there's the world-wide aspect of the internet which makes national laws (or pan-national treaties among a few countries) less effective but I think the concept of copyright as we have it has become flawed at a more fundamental level thanks to digital equipment. Trying to hold on to our old idea of copyright creates more and more problems on a practical level. To say it's 'sustainable' means imho that we'll succeed at bending the digital world into the framework of copyright and I don't think it's possible.
You're right, it's another example of why copyright is unsustainable in the world-wide digital age. I suppose you can prevent easy distribution of physical goods in the world but digital copyrighted items are impossible to contain within borders. Essentially, the promise made by copyright laws to the rights holders is a lie.
What about largely secular nations like the Netherlands? Norway? Sweden? Don't they have very low crime rates?
I'm Dutch. The Netherlands isn't large. It's secular but religion can be found on all levels. Norway has black metal bands, giving a fresh twist in the relationship between belief in hell and crime.
It used to do that but since a year or so I don't find the.flv files anymore in my.tmp directory. They're 'unlinked' as soon as they're created meaning they're invisible in normal file system use.
Mobile was the reason the Dutch netneutrality legislation was drafted. Carriers used to selling (mobile) phone by the minute and text messages per piece wanted to apply the same ideas to data: such as Skype per minute or pay-per-video Youtube, all to be monitored through DPI.
And why exactly should a judge take new 'netneutrality' legislation into account when he's asked to make a decision on existing copyright laws? The new telecom law still allows for specific anti-piracy measures.
I'm from The Netherlands. Copyright here is defined as the exclusive right of the creator of a work to publish and duplicate it. With that definition comes the rest of the copyright law and then there's additional laws, treaties and rulings but the basis is more or less the same everywhere.
If you want to look at it in a reasonable way, as you seem to do, you might notice that things are a bit different compared to the analog world with regards to publishing and duplicating. Just a silly example: in order to merely see the copyright notice on a website, you already have made a copy of it.
I think the, let's say, war on piracy is just a symptom of a larger fight. I think it's about keeping copyright and all that comes with it. The exclusivity, the rights, the financial systems.
I think that copyright mechanisms as we know them are no longer sustainable. And I can't wait to see what happens if 3D printers become normal household items because publishing blue prints of patented items or Mickey Mouse figures is stealing or destroying the job creators.
But before the world at large understands how disruptive digital technology has become, I expect a lot more attempts of the rights holders to cling to their precious 'intellectual property'. And that's in a deeper sense than just 'fighting piracy'.
but I never wanted to program "just for the sake of it".
I did. I'd seen people type in things on C64's and such and then saw a string like their name being printed over the screen endlessly. The result didn't inspire me at all but getting my first own PC was an experience only rivaled by the discovery of GW-BASIC on that machine.
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Surely you mean 'modpointii'.
I suppose there's a good reason for not having an 'official' medal rank. The usual ranking, based on the amount of gold medals per country, seems to indicate that medals can be bought. You'd want to correct for income and preferably also for 'waste' in the case of countries who can't really afford athletes (North Korea comes to mind).
I'd love to have an Amarok 1.4 like front-end to MPD. Currently using GMPC
he wrote a small web server!.
That's probably an example of what you can find in the book, it is in the 2nd edition of Core Python Programming.
I got the impression it's not supposed to land on its back, so you'd want to tie the buttered bread to the underside (which is easier albeit perhaps less effective than a plate of spaghetti upside-down).
Copyright is the exclusive right to publish, distribute and reproduce works. The interesting part for rights holders is the possibility to license parts of the rights, even on a regional (e.g. per country or continent) basis. That worked reasonably well in an analog age when there were physical limits inherent to transportation and reproduction.
Those limits don't apply anymore, at least not with the same weight, to bytes. Computers work by copying bytes, networks work by transporting bytes. Computers with internet connection are available to many people. The very essence of copyright is undermined by something like a smart phone which enables you to take a picture of a 'protected' work, manipulate the image by something like Instagram and distribute it across the world at the touch of a (virtual) button.
Yes, there's the world-wide aspect of the internet which makes national laws (or pan-national treaties among a few countries) less effective but I think the concept of copyright as we have it has become flawed at a more fundamental level thanks to digital equipment. Trying to hold on to our old idea of copyright creates more and more problems on a practical level. To say it's 'sustainable' means imho that we'll succeed at bending the digital world into the framework of copyright and I don't think it's possible.
You're right, it's another example of why copyright is unsustainable in the world-wide digital age. I suppose you can prevent easy distribution of physical goods in the world but digital copyrighted items are impossible to contain within borders. Essentially, the promise made by copyright laws to the rights holders is a lie.
A short video about a Dutch athlete on the BBC site, blocked for Dutch viewers.
What about largely secular nations like the Netherlands? Norway? Sweden? Don't they have very low crime rates?
I'm Dutch. The Netherlands isn't large. It's secular but religion can be found on all levels. Norway has black metal bands, giving a fresh twist in the relationship between belief in hell and crime.
It used to do that but since a year or so I don't find the .flv files anymore in my .tmp directory. They're 'unlinked' as soon as they're created meaning they're invisible in normal file system use.
According to TFA the UV radiation there is a killer too.
It's rebranded, it's now called "Azux".
And with GIMP having a single window interface at last, there's no excuse left for a blind person to stick to Windows/Osx.
Mobile service is irrelevant.
Mobile was the reason the Dutch netneutrality legislation was drafted. Carriers used to selling (mobile) phone by the minute and text messages per piece wanted to apply the same ideas to data: such as Skype per minute or pay-per-video Youtube, all to be monitored through DPI.
And why exactly should a judge take new 'netneutrality' legislation into account when he's asked to make a decision on existing copyright laws? The new telecom law still allows for specific anti-piracy measures.
I would go and see this chimp if they would let me throw the stones back at him. Hell, I'd even pay good money.
Good thinking, we could sell him a shield. And then shield penetrating stones! You know, nudge him towards civilization a bit.
He isn't just planning ahead, and then coming up with a new plan. He's being deceptive.
and no matter how often he misses his targets, he'll still claim a bonus.
I'm from The Netherlands. Copyright here is defined as the exclusive right of the creator of a work to publish and duplicate it. With that definition comes the rest of the copyright law and then there's additional laws, treaties and rulings but the basis is more or less the same everywhere.
If you want to look at it in a reasonable way, as you seem to do, you might notice that things are a bit different compared to the analog world with regards to publishing and duplicating. Just a silly example: in order to merely see the copyright notice on a website, you already have made a copy of it.
I think the, let's say, war on piracy is just a symptom of a larger fight. I think it's about keeping copyright and all that comes with it. The exclusivity, the rights, the financial systems.
I think that copyright mechanisms as we know them are no longer sustainable. And I can't wait to see what happens if 3D printers become normal household items because publishing blue prints of patented items or Mickey Mouse figures is stealing or destroying the job creators.
But before the world at large understands how disruptive digital technology has become, I expect a lot more attempts of the rights holders to cling to their precious 'intellectual property'. And that's in a deeper sense than just 'fighting piracy'.
Price was not obviously the reason for this decision.
Total Cost of Ownership.
Whatever that may mean; Earth and Venus are a few times, say 2, bigger than Mars.
Nope, Turkmenistan.
Actually I'd call bull on this one.
Do not confuse the summary with TFA.
but I never wanted to program "just for the sake of it".
I did. I'd seen people type in things on C64's and such and then saw a string like their name being printed over the screen endlessly. The result didn't inspire me at all but getting my first own PC was an experience only rivaled by the discovery of GW-BASIC on that machine.
What damages?
I still don't. Let me google that for you
It's not such an easy matter but the site of the FSF does manages to explain it all quite good and I'm sure you've also heard of Wikipedia.