While the issue of border control may have been discussed, I doubt it was any serious consideration. Like I said, you've got the president pushing for it. If they go and say "Well ok, we'll give it to Chicago, but you have to do away with the fingerprinting and such for the people coming to see it," the president will say "No problem."
It is not just the olympics. International scientific conferences are tending to shy away from the US as well. I'm involved in the organization of three computer science conferences that traditionally alternate between North America and Europe. The North American Slots are ending up in Canada because it is to much of a hassle for the European participants to enter the US. I was at one conference in the US several years ago, and several of us were in the security lineup to leave the country, and one of my colleagues remarked to me, that "it just isn't worth the hassle anymore". Throw in the drama that happens if you happen to take a picture in public (omg a picture of a library or a hotel), and you have to wonder why anyone would visit the USA.
Declaratory judgments require a case or controversy. An organization such as the EFF can't seek a declaratory judgement since they are not party to the controversy. What you are thinking of is an advisory opinion. We have it it Canada, but most US courts are not allowed to issue advisory opinions.
If it's about the insurance companies willing to buy the expensive machine for you but not the cheap one, then why would a (financially) poor, disabled person mind?
because the inexpensive machine may be easier to use and more effective for dealing with your disability.
... don't you understand? This is a class action lawsuit from the copyright owners. it *does* cover works that the publishers don't hold copyright on. You have to explicitly opt out not to be covered by the settlement and there is a time limit on the opt out too.
Nice reference. Standard boilerplate crime reporting. Now show us the follow up article where the police actually find something useful on the CCTV footage and catch the bad guys..
They are supposed to make the claim against the area for which their language is most appropriate. Although to be fair, it is often the people who are marketing the self-help books that tend to be the most vocal advocates of a particular language. I remember picking up an early O'Reilly book on Perl in a bookstore and reading the introduction and putting it back on the shelf in disgust because of the zealousness of the advocacy in the introduction.
I have also been down the "should not" path on several languages much to my chagrin. Fortunately, I've paid the price allowing me to spare my students the pain.
There is more to auditing than reading the course notes. Things like attending labs and lectures, and getting credit for the audit on the transcripts. Some courses legitimately hide course material from the general public, usually professional courses. But the default should not be to hid the course notes. This is the reason that I do not use the blackboard product at my institution for my classes. I have just used a regular website. Our faculty is moving to moodle this year, so we will see how that goes.
Actually, the GGP(by moon3) did mention Public Domain, but by inference. Quote:
Allowing copyrighted content would spawn all sorts of problems. You would no longer be able to fully cite, print or publish Wiki content easily.
What is not a copyrighted work? If it is not copyrighted, then it is public domain. There is no third option. As you correctly noted, Creative Commons is where you retain the copyright and grant a license for redistribution. Even the GPL requires copyright to work.
"If the page would contain copyrighted image, you would have to ask for pardon[sic] the copyright holder etc. Headache after headache.."
The GP(by pjt33) is right (and you(CarpetShark) are wrong), the GGP(by moon3) has completely confused the issue. The GGP post doesn't know the difference between ARR, CC and PD.
The comments are not out of context. I think you should actually read the comments before you react (PBKAC).
The link given in the summary is a horrible article. IT was actually Canadian Journalism students, and they were working on a story about ewaste. It wasn't just some random country, they were following leads from North america. Better links are at
the register and at the CBC.
The 6502 was available in multiple clock speeds. The Apple II and PET ran the 6502 at 1MHz. As far as I know, only the Vic 20 and the BBC micro ran the 6502 at 2MHz. The apple IIc had a 4Mhz 65C02, and there were the transwarp cards for the Apple II, but they were after market add ons.
Even if not phython, what does Fortran have over modern compiled languages, for example?
The main thing that Fortran (and Ada too) has is a standard floating point model. There are some
minor differences between compilers. This is unlike C, Java, Python which rely on the
underlying FP hardware. Then to look at the loopholes in the IEEE FP standard for what NaN means.
For citations, look at the Numerical Recipes series of books for a discussion of the differences.
Also check out "What every computer scientist should know about floating point"
IBM has released a set of libraries for C and Java that provide the Fortran semantics
of floating point, and there is a wrapper for them that uses operator overloading in C++
to make them easier to use. But they are still a pain to use compared to the
I think I read once (no citation, sorry) that something like 80% of drivers believe they're above average in driving skill. They can't all be right!
I've heard that too. It is unlikely that they are all correct. It is actually more likely that >50% are below average drivers, although to some extent it depends on what you mean by "average driving skill". One of the general assumptions in statistics is that the general population follows a gaussian distribution. If you place a minimum qualification on a given activity then the distribution skews to the left, and the average (arithmetic mean) and the mode is less than the median (the middle person). While a driving test is not the most rigorous guarantee of minimal qualification standards, other qualifications means such as license suspensions also skew the distribution.
But it is also a possibility that drivers surveyed are right. Check out http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/702946. If a small portion of the population engages severely in behaviours that significantly lower the scores, and the other, majority part of the population improves with practice, you end up with a bimodal distribution with the arithmetic mean between the two modes. In such a distribution >50% of the population is greater than the mean.
Of course, many people are probably thinking of the median as the average driver, which makes the quoted statistic (80 % think they are better than average) that much more an indication of the implications of self image.
I went back and read the parent post, and I don't see anything about a server. In fact since it talked about performing a task in Notes and a ghosted image I assumed it was talking about the notes client. Also they may already have had the work around, but telling the bosses secretary that she can't have an audio CD in the drive (it didn't have to be playing) may be a bit counter productive.
If all the carriers discontinued service to these models they would render them useless.
I wasn't aware that the model of the phone was part of the GSM protocol. Even if it was, if you can program the phone to lie about the IEMI or IMSI, then you can program the phone to lie about the phone model to the provider.
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While the issue of border control may have been discussed, I doubt it was any serious consideration. Like I said, you've got the president pushing for it. If they go and say "Well ok, we'll give it to Chicago, but you have to do away with the fingerprinting and such for the people coming to see it," the president will say "No problem."
Bwaaaaahhaaaaaahaaaaahaaahaaahaaahaahaahaa
Maybe this will be a wakeup call to the US that we've gone completely off the deep end here.
If past experience is any indication, I doubt that it will.
Do they fingerprint you when you enter Japan?
It is not just the olympics. International scientific conferences are tending to shy away from the US as well. I'm involved in the organization of three computer science conferences that traditionally alternate between North America and Europe. The North American Slots are ending up in Canada because it is to much of a hassle for the European participants to enter the US. I was at one conference in the US several years ago, and several of us were in the security lineup to leave the country, and one of my colleagues remarked to me, that "it just isn't worth the hassle anymore". Throw in the drama that happens if you happen to take a picture in public (omg a picture of a library or a hotel), and you have to wonder why anyone would visit the USA.
Declaratory judgments require a case or controversy. An organization such as the EFF can't seek a declaratory judgement since they are not party to the controversy. What you are thinking of is an advisory opinion. We have it it Canada, but most US courts are not allowed to issue advisory opinions.
Was the law accessible to small claims court? That might have been interesting.
because the inexpensive machine may be easier to use and more effective for dealing with your disability.
... don't you understand? This is a class action lawsuit from the copyright owners. it *does* cover works that the publishers don't hold copyright on. You have to explicitly opt out not to be covered by the settlement and there is a time limit on the opt out too.
Actually, the laws only apply to audio, video is just fine as long as there is no microphone.
They are suing. They are suing the government. The court decision is from that lawsuit.
Nice reference. Standard boilerplate crime reporting. Now show us the follow up article where the police actually find something useful on the CCTV footage and catch the bad guys..
They are supposed to make the claim against the area for which their language is most appropriate. Although to be fair, it is often the people who are marketing the self-help books that tend to be the most vocal advocates of a particular language. I remember picking up an early O'Reilly book on Perl in a bookstore and reading the introduction and putting it back on the shelf in disgust because of the zealousness of the advocacy in the introduction.
I have also been down the "should not" path on several languages much to my chagrin. Fortunately, I've paid the price allowing me to spare my students the pain.
The avrocar didn't use the Coanda effect, they had a turbine through the center.
Looks a lot like:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-447317/The-flying-saucer-snapped-US-army.html;jsessionid=646AE8D297BA42F4A5BDDD6223D5FA58
from the slashdot story back in 2007:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/07/04/09/1723218/Combined-Hovercraft-and-Helicopter?art_pos=4
In fact, the 'first' prototype looks like the prototype from 2007 (even the same yellow body!!)
There is more to auditing than reading the course notes. Things like attending labs and lectures, and getting credit for the audit on the transcripts. Some courses legitimately hide course material from the general public, usually professional courses. But the default should not be to hid the course notes. This is the reason that I do not use the blackboard product at my institution for my classes. I have just used a regular website. Our faculty is moving to moodle this year, so we will see how that goes.
Actually, the GGP(by moon3) did mention Public Domain, but by inference. Quote:
What is not a copyrighted work? If it is not copyrighted, then it is public domain. There is no third option. As you correctly noted, Creative Commons is where you retain the copyright and grant a license for redistribution. Even the GPL requires copyright to work.
The GP(by pjt33) is right (and you(CarpetShark) are wrong), the GGP(by moon3) has completely confused the issue. The GGP post doesn't know the difference between ARR, CC and PD.
The comments are not out of context. I think you should actually read the comments before you react (PBKAC).
The link given in the summary is a horrible article. IT was actually Canadian Journalism students, and they were working on a story about ewaste. It wasn't just some random country, they were following leads from North america. Better links are at the register and at the CBC.
Vic 20 was 1 MHz, BBC micro was 2. (Otherwise the Vic 20 would have been faster than the C64....) Finally C128 had 2MHz
You are correct. My mistake. However, the C128 was an 8502 (fast version of the 6510).
The 6502 was available in multiple clock speeds. The Apple II and PET ran the 6502 at 1MHz. As far as I know, only the Vic 20 and the BBC micro ran the 6502 at 2MHz. The apple IIc had a 4Mhz 65C02, and there were the transwarp cards for the Apple II, but they were after market add ons.
Citation needed.
Even if not phython, what does Fortran have over modern compiled languages, for example?
The main thing that Fortran (and Ada too) has is a standard floating point model. There are some minor differences between compilers. This is unlike C, Java, Python which rely on the underlying FP hardware. Then to look at the loopholes in the IEEE FP standard for what NaN means. For citations, look at the Numerical Recipes series of books for a discussion of the differences. Also check out "What every computer scientist should know about floating point"
http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
IBM has released a set of libraries for C and Java that provide the Fortran semantics of floating point, and there is a wrapper for them that uses operator overloading in C++ to make them easier to use. But they are still a pain to use compared to the
I think I read once (no citation, sorry) that something like 80% of drivers believe they're above average in driving skill. They can't all be right!
I've heard that too. It is unlikely that they are all correct. It is actually more likely that >50% are below average drivers, although to some extent it depends on what you mean by "average driving skill". One of the general assumptions in statistics is that the general population follows a gaussian distribution. If you place a minimum qualification on a given activity then the distribution skews to the left, and the average (arithmetic mean) and the mode is less than the median (the middle person). While a driving test is not the most rigorous guarantee of minimal qualification standards, other qualifications means such as license suspensions also skew the distribution.
But it is also a possibility that drivers surveyed are right. Check out http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/702946. If a small portion of the population engages severely in behaviours that significantly lower the scores, and the other, majority part of the population improves with practice, you end up with a bimodal distribution with the arithmetic mean between the two modes. In such a distribution >50% of the population is greater than the mean.
Of course, many people are probably thinking of the median as the average driver, which makes the quoted statistic (80 % think they are better than average) that much more an indication of the implications of self image.
I went back and read the parent post, and I don't see anything about a server. In fact since it talked about performing a task in Notes and a ghosted image I assumed it was talking about the notes client. Also they may already have had the work around, but telling the bosses secretary that she can't have an audio CD in the drive (it didn't have to be playing) may be a bit counter productive.
If all the carriers discontinued service to these models they would render them useless.
I wasn't aware that the model of the phone was part of the GSM protocol. Even if it was, if you can program the phone to lie about the IEMI or IMSI, then you can program the phone to lie about the phone model to the provider.
No other country ... adheres to an exclusionary rule as a matter of constitutional principle.
Ummm. How about Canada.... (Section 24(1&2))
More like changing the car battery while it is inside a transport truck but with big gloves on.