The thing is that "herbs" can also have a huge narcotic effect, especially when grown in such a way that they absorb a lovely cocktail of chemicals from the hydro setup in the subtly concealed back yard greenhouse.
The fact is that when it comes to things you put in your body if it is potentially harmful it needs to be regulated so that you KNOW that what you are consuming contains what it says it does.
Q: When did MS start using truly independent analysts? Would that part of the statement be necessary if they had no reputation for using paid shills?
No, I think they mean analysts that don't already hate MS for what they are, what they do or the software that everyone is basicly stuck with because of them.
You know, I'll bet they had a damn hard time find those analysts
You've clearly never lived in Australia. Our 3 free to air commercial stations are notorious for incosistant programming.
At the moment the only Sci-fi on AU TV is battlestar galactica, relegated to a hideously late timeslot and pushed back by hours to make room for whatever piece of crap ran late earlier.
I wanted to watch farscape when it was playing and it was on late night as filler for the cricket. Cricket ran late? No Farscape. Basicly the whole season was played in random order on random days of the week. With AU TV you can pretty much gauruntee if you like a show it will be dropped halfway through or moved to a random timeslot with no warning, causing you to miss 3 or 4 episodes before you figure out what happened. To top it off if you are an internet user you tend to wind up finding out alot of the plots from Americans chatting about the latest episode that you won't see for 6 months.
I don't trust AU Commercial TV to provide 100% of a series at a consistant, accessable time slot. I DO trust bit torrent. Is it a bad state of affairs that the legal route acts shadier than the illegal one? Yes. Do I feel justified in pirating? Not really, but I'll do it anyway.
The point was not that people that have been downloading legal DRM free tracks should use this new source but rather that now that a legal source is available those using illegal sources would be hypocrits not to use. Since the excuse on slashdot I've seen most is "I can't download it anywhere else whether I pay or not" I see the point but I think the GP post missed that most of the tracks that are being released will already be available through the sources you have mentioned.
It's not really insider trading though is it? If I see Apple doing a big advertising push for the new IsuperDevice then I can pretty much assume their stock is going up soonish, it's an indicator. Now the same can be said about a pump and dump scam, there is no inside info simply an "Advertisement" sent out to craploads of people, it is only indicitive to people who can predict its effect not a gauruntee that the stock will rise.
Actually, it's an interesting point. Trademarks exist to stop confusion between brands in such a way that it is difficult to abuse one product's popularity to sell your own. Say Joe Sixpack rocks up to his local department store, sees IPHONE in huge text with a nearly indistinguishable linksys tucked in there, possibly in conveniently iPod like boxing. What are the chances he'll think "Ah, there is that iPod phone I've heard about" rather than "Now where is that iDidntTakeTheTrademarkPhone?"
The trouble in this case, at least from my POV, is that enforcing the trademark could in fact CAUSE brand confusion, allowing Cisco to leech sales from Apple's popularity.
actually, until this post I couldn't think of much that this could improve in my life but imagine a mouse pad that charged a wireless mouse - always on, never flat mouse with no additional work. of course then you have the problem of having a wired mousepad for your wireless mouse...
I suppose you could make the whole desk an induction charging pad, that way you could chuck a pot on it and cook up some instant noodles.
Brilliant idea, and it would work great with IE6 but IE7 now forces URLs to show from what I've seen, actually quite a good idea I've never understood why browsers basicly allow users to be shut out of a majority of their control and information.
It's odd, everyone seems to be fixated on the fact that people could use this to find images of them. The trouble I see with that way of thinking is that if an image you don't want viewed is on the internet it is there for one of 2 reasons
1)You put it there. In this case it's your own fault and you shouldn't complain.
2)Someone put it there without your permission. Think naughty landlords with hidden cameras or stalkers with telephoto lenses. In this case you generally don't know you're on the $/month "gentleman's website",interent shrine of undying love or heck, even some jerrk at work's myspace page and this image searcher has the possibility to point the fact out to you before someone you know spots it.
I would think people that don't want to be exposed on the internet would be happy to see something like this come out so they can see just how exposed they currently are.
So, as is consistent with your theory, you will not have noticed that letter order in this comment?
Not so much that I didn't perfectly understand what you meant. Interesting yes?
A large oil company spends $1 Billion developing software that takes existing geological maps and analyzes it in a novel way. This robot is so effective at what it does that they patent it to ensure they protect their investment.
The Trouble is that the way things seem to be going the patent wouldn't be " method for analysing geological data" but rather "A method of analysing geological data using a computer". The problem most people seem to be having is that patents can be far to vague and particularly in software often patent the IDEA rather than the METHOD.
In your example say a small oil company comes along and makes their own piece of software that does exactly the same thing. From what I've seen of many of the patents people have had issues with the large oil company would come along, say "we patented analysing maps, pay us liscensing fees" and given the lawyer power disparity of the two companies, the smaller company would often be forced to pay up.
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The thing is that "herbs" can also have a huge narcotic effect, especially when grown in such a way that they absorb a lovely cocktail of chemicals from the hydro setup in the subtly concealed back yard greenhouse.
The fact is that when it comes to things you put in your body if it is potentially harmful it needs to be regulated so that you KNOW that what you are consuming contains what it says it does.
Q: When did MS start using truly independent analysts? Would that part of the statement be necessary if they had no reputation for using paid shills?
No, I think they mean analysts that don't already hate MS for what they are, what they do or the software that everyone is basicly stuck with because of them.
You know, I'll bet they had a damn hard time find those analysts
Don't worry, in my mind I still read loser instead of looser and I died a little inside whne I realised what I had done.
You've clearly never lived in Australia. Our 3 free to air commercial stations are notorious for incosistant programming.
At the moment the only Sci-fi on AU TV is battlestar galactica, relegated to a hideously late timeslot and pushed back by hours to make room for whatever piece of crap ran late earlier.
I wanted to watch farscape when it was playing and it was on late night as filler for the cricket. Cricket ran late? No Farscape. Basicly the whole season was played in random order on random days of the week. With AU TV you can pretty much gauruntee if you like a show it will be dropped halfway through or moved to a random timeslot with no warning, causing you to miss 3 or 4 episodes before you figure out what happened. To top it off if you are an internet user you tend to wind up finding out alot of the plots from Americans chatting about the latest episode that you won't see for 6 months.
I don't trust AU Commercial TV to provide 100% of a series at a consistant, accessable time slot. I DO trust bit torrent. Is it a bad state of affairs that the legal route acts shadier than the illegal one? Yes. Do I feel justified in pirating? Not really, but I'll do it anyway.
The point was not that people that have been downloading legal DRM free tracks should use this new source but rather that now that a legal source is available those using illegal sources would be hypocrits not to use. Since the excuse on slashdot I've seen most is "I can't download it anywhere else whether I pay or not" I see the point but I think the GP post missed that most of the tracks that are being released will already be available through the sources you have mentioned.
In all honestly do we really need to seperate them? Bring on the shark riding monkey ninja pirates I say.
It's not really insider trading though is it? If I see Apple doing a big advertising push for the new IsuperDevice then I can pretty much assume their stock is going up soonish, it's an indicator. Now the same can be said about a pump and dump scam, there is no inside info simply an "Advertisement" sent out to craploads of people, it is only indicitive to people who can predict its effect not a gauruntee that the stock will rise.
Except that you generally can't work overtime while you are asleep. Well, I can't anyway.
Actually, it's an interesting point. Trademarks exist to stop confusion between brands in such a way that it is difficult to abuse one product's popularity to sell your own. Say Joe Sixpack rocks up to his local department store, sees IPHONE in huge text with a nearly indistinguishable linksys tucked in there, possibly in conveniently iPod like boxing. What are the chances he'll think "Ah, there is that iPod phone I've heard about" rather than "Now where is that iDidntTakeTheTrademarkPhone?"
The trouble in this case, at least from my POV, is that enforcing the trademark could in fact CAUSE brand confusion, allowing Cisco to leech sales from Apple's popularity.
actually, until this post I couldn't think of much that this could improve in my life but imagine a mouse pad that charged a wireless mouse - always on, never flat mouse with no additional work. of course then you have the problem of having a wired mousepad for your wireless mouse...
I suppose you could make the whole desk an induction charging pad, that way you could chuck a pot on it and cook up some instant noodles.
Brilliant idea, and it would work great with IE6 but IE7 now forces URLs to show from what I've seen, actually quite a good idea I've never understood why browsers basicly allow users to be shut out of a majority of their control and information.
It's odd, everyone seems to be fixated on the fact that people could use this to find images of them. The trouble I see with that way of thinking is that if an image you don't want viewed is on the internet it is there for one of 2 reasons
1)You put it there. In this case it's your own fault and you shouldn't complain.
2)Someone put it there without your permission. Think naughty landlords with hidden cameras or stalkers with telephoto lenses. In this case you generally don't know you're on the $/month "gentleman's website",interent shrine of undying love or heck, even some jerrk at work's myspace page and this image searcher has the possibility to point the fact out to you before someone you know spots it.
I would think people that don't want to be exposed on the internet would be happy to see something like this come out so they can see just how exposed they currently are.
So, as is consistent with your theory, you will not have noticed that letter order in this comment? Not so much that I didn't perfectly understand what you meant. Interesting yes?
A large oil company spends $1 Billion developing software that takes existing geological maps and analyzes it in a novel way. This robot is so effective at what it does that they patent it to ensure they protect their investment.
The Trouble is that the way things seem to be going the patent wouldn't be " method for analysing geological data" but rather "A method of analysing geological data using a computer". The problem most people seem to be having is that patents can be far to vague and particularly in software often patent the IDEA rather than the METHOD.
In your example say a small oil company comes along and makes their own piece of software that does exactly the same thing. From what I've seen of many of the patents people have had issues with the large oil company would come along, say "we patented analysing maps, pay us liscensing fees" and given the lawyer power disparity of the two companies, the smaller company would often be forced to pay up.