Either pirating other people's work (software, mp3 etc) is right or wrong. If it's right, then why are you laughing at this, according to half of the/.'ers they have the moral right to. If it's wrong, then they've quite rightly been done and you should go delete any pirated software you have. One of the reasons I switched to Linux is to get software that I couldn't otherwise afford, and do it legally. This story is going to show up a lot of hypocrisy.
Oh, and I should point out, we take a lot of POD orders. We don't generally stock them, unless there's an academic recommendation (I sold nearly 1000 copies of a single POD maths book last year), but we WILL order them, individually if needed, if there's demand. Trouble is, shelf space is limited, even with the million or so titles we have on the shelves, we can't stock everything.
I work in the book industry, science buyer for a large branch of a national bookstore specialising in academic titles. A very big chunk of my job is promoting my subject locally, I'm in touch with local organisations, universities and clubs. I am heavily involved in a national science festival at the moment, supplying books for events where the authors give a public lecture on, say, cosmology, and then sign a few books and have a chat. I'm making sure that we have a bunch of related titles on special offer for the next month or so, and the publishers help me out with that by giving us a discount to allow cheaper books for those who are interested.
We're at the bleeding edge of public science education, along with libraries and the like, and it's exactly the same for my colleagues running the history section, and the art section, and the music section. Yes, it's a little commercial from a cynical point of view, but it's also in our interest to simply get people into these things. Books are a bit special that way.
And then we get questions like "How dare you charge that? It's half the price on Amazon!"
"I don't know sir, why don't you go into their shop and ask the guy at the counter?"
"Don't be silly, I can't"
People are obsesed with getting the cheapest end-product, no matter how good the service.
Firstly: Hell yeah - these physicist nutters (including myself) are quite happy to wipe out the Universe from curiosity, it's the least it deserves. After all, once we find out we can destroy "Everything"(TM) there's not much else to find out, eh?
I just bought one. A base level Nokia, pay as you talk, network free so I can use any SIM. Cost me £30, I got it because the charger for my old phone died and this was a cheaper option than a new charger. I can make calls, send texts, hell it even stores phone numbers for me.
Internet? I've got a computer for that, and I don't ever need to access the internet that desperately.
You know what? I sometimes go outside without my phone too!!!!
Furthermore, use the extra energy it produces to run refrigeration coils in the superconducting plinth it sits on, bingo you can levitate your way into space on the Earth's own magnetic field. (Just make sure the plinth is big enough).
Once you break one major law of physics it generally allows you to break all the others in a very pretty cascade pattern.
From what I can tell, the inventor understands this full well, but the journalist has read something a little more "colourful" into it. Whatever next, time-travel at the LHC?;)
Interesting comment. It ties in very closely with this from the original:
"An OS should never have been something that people (in general) really care about: it should be completely invisible and nobody should give a flying [expletive] about it except the technical people"
The irony is, that while I started being very in-depth about 20 years ago (when I was 10 - I even dabbled with assembly), I've been pretty clueless since I switched to using Windows based machines. I got a lot DONE with them, and for the basics (word processing, graphic design etc) they do the job for 99% of people.
But since I switched back to Linux a couple of years back I've found that I'm much more in touch with the OS, I can see all of the background stuff and understand it. It's as if the BBC/Commadore/Spectrums of my childhood suddenly bumped into me, all grown up all of a sudden. It's how an OS should be in my head.
But most people want quick and easy and simple. And the two don't entirely mix yet. There's been some big moves with the embedded stuff like the EEEEeeee (I forget how many exactly), and it's a good way to be going, as long as there are always "the technical people" there who understand and enjoy the project enough to keep it on the rails.
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I could write a site that doesn't work on any browser and/or OS you care to mention. It's my fault if I can't make sure it works on *everything*. It's called cross-platform compatibility, it's a bit of a "thing" in web design.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good giggle at Vista, but this wasn't entirely MS's fault for once.
I despair. This is supposed to be one of the few sites on the planet that has intelligent people, and yet all we get is "THE MAN CAN'T STOP US SHARING MUSIC!". Sorry, but The Man isn't the record execs on their £100k salaries, it's the musicians trying to break through. Sure, try to break "the system" by copying everything, but you'll get this:
1: The Man will earn just as much doing something else...advertising exec for SourceForge for example....The Man doesn't really care where he gets his money, as long as he gets it. And he will.
2: We'll have wall-to-wall pap (good Scots word, means "meaningless nothing") and it will be called music. Seriously, it'll be far worse than the stuff we get now. Nickelbak will be by FAR the most innovative it gets.
If you want to get free music, then go support the DAMN BANDS THAT PRODUCE IT! If you don't want to pay for music, DON'T BLOODY WELL BUY IT!
Mainly because proper helmet removal can take a couple of minutes...by the time they've stopped breathing (which can happen at any time with an unconscious casualty) you're pushing it dangerously close for time, and it's not a procedure you want to hurry.
Airway maintenence is very simple, you don't need equipment to do it. Around a third of motorbike fatalities are directly related to blocked airways.
Not *technically* correct, at least as far as my training goes. Generally, yes, you leave the helmet on. Good rule.
IF you've been taught proper procedures though, the helmet will come off if the person is unconscious; you need access to the airway whether they're breathing or not. It does need proper training though, and shouldn't be attempted without it. (Unless, as you say, they've stopped breathing and are going to be dead anyway.)
Helmet removal, maintaining an airway on a casualty with suspected spinal damage etc are quite easy with the proper training, it's well worth doing a course if your first aid skills are already quite good.
It depends on how the calendar is being marketed. If it's a "Ford Calendar" then they have every right to say no, it's their brand and their trademark. What if it was a collection of Fords in fatal accidents? Or a calendar of Linux or Mac machines during a (rare) crash next to Windows machines running 27 different proc-intensive apps? Somebody would cry foul on that, and why? Because you're misrepresenting them.
If they're using the name "Ford" or making a point of Ford's trademark, they need to ask Ford.
Anyone want to buy my Slashdot calendar featuring all of their graphics, logos and masthead? Boring, yes, but a breach of copyright. Why so many users rant on about the "unfairness" of copyright whilst saying how brilliant FOSS is escapes me. IP is IP. The FOSS guys are nice enough to give it away, and should be applauded, but I bet a large chunk of them also get paid for code and would get upset if you hacked their machine and sold it yourself.
As is so often qouted on/., "You can't con an honest man"
You could have a website, full control over ALL the html, the ability to run php/mysql stuff, links to anything you want, a neat little script to let your friends leave comments....it'll cost you very little, I pay £60/yr for one of my websites and I get backups, halon fire suppression (which I couldn't even legally have in the UK), superb support etc etc
OR....you could get a free but very limited version of the same plus adverts, spam and the occasional security scare like this. Stupid? No, just ignorant, but if I offered you a {WARNING, CAR ANALOGY} free car, and it turned out to have a radio that only tunes to one station then you can't really complain.
You pays your money, you takes your pick. Or not, as the case may be.
Remember when Latin was the preserve of the monks and the few educated? When if you wanted to talk to god, it had to be in Latin?
Well if you want to lose a large number of the language recognition problems, you'd switch to Latin, a highly logical and structured language. So in the future, Latin will be used by the highly educated to converse with non-human intelligences. Funny how things go around...
Could anyone enlighten me as to a detail in the US law? Do you HAVE to be nominated to run, or would a simple majority of voters writing your name on the paper be considered a legal vote?
I'd normally argue that the guy broke the law, and got arrested....so what?
Nut that's a good comment that deserves addressing...watch this...
"The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (from where I am posting) lives at number 10 Downing Street, London."
I just broke the Official Secrets Act. Seriously. That's a pretty heavy crime, and it's easy enough to trace me with evidence like that. Get a lawyer on to it, force Slashdot to hand over my registration details, google the email address, find out which sites I run, do a WHOIS do find out the hosts and then force them to hand over the details of the billing address.
Easy enough, and (on paper) quite a big crime. Will they? No, probably not. People have to complain before the public prosecutors can act in this country. You could dissolve a man in acid in front of a thousand people, but if nobody officially complains and the police don't see it, they can't prosecute.
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All I ask is a little consistency....
/.'ers they have the moral right to. If it's wrong, then they've quite rightly been done and you should go delete any pirated software you have. One of the reasons I switched to Linux is to get software that I couldn't otherwise afford, and do it legally. This story is going to show up a lot of hypocrisy.
Either pirating other people's work (software, mp3 etc) is right or wrong. If it's right, then why are you laughing at this, according to half of the
Oh, and I should point out, we take a lot of POD orders. We don't generally stock them, unless there's an academic recommendation (I sold nearly 1000 copies of a single POD maths book last year), but we WILL order them, individually if needed, if there's demand. Trouble is, shelf space is limited, even with the million or so titles we have on the shelves, we can't stock everything.
This is simply the way it will go.
I work in the book industry, science buyer for a large branch of a national bookstore specialising in academic titles. A very big chunk of my job is promoting my subject locally, I'm in touch with local organisations, universities and clubs. I am heavily involved in a national science festival at the moment, supplying books for events where the authors give a public lecture on, say, cosmology, and then sign a few books and have a chat. I'm making sure that we have a bunch of related titles on special offer for the next month or so, and the publishers help me out with that by giving us a discount to allow cheaper books for those who are interested.
We're at the bleeding edge of public science education, along with libraries and the like, and it's exactly the same for my colleagues running the history section, and the art section, and the music section. Yes, it's a little commercial from a cynical point of view, but it's also in our interest to simply get people into these things. Books are a bit special that way.
And then we get questions like "How dare you charge that? It's half the price on Amazon!"
"I don't know sir, why don't you go into their shop and ask the guy at the counter?"
"Don't be silly, I can't"
People are obsesed with getting the cheapest end-product, no matter how good the service.
As is this: http://www.the-martians.co.uk/upgrade/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?2136.0/
Firstly: Hell yeah - these physicist nutters (including myself) are quite happy to wipe out the Universe from curiosity, it's the least it deserves. After all, once we find out we can destroy "Everything"(TM) there's not much else to find out, eh?
Secondly:
I check http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/large_hadron_collider.png/ before I check Slashdot these days, a picture paints a thousand words and is usually more +5 Insightful.....
Empty your litre of [generic soft drink] over him. "Sorry dude, you were all glowy and stuff...thought you were on fire..."
J'm not jojnjng jn wjth any of thjs nonsense, J'm an engjneer........
I just bought one. A base level Nokia, pay as you talk, network free so I can use any SIM. Cost me £30, I got it because the charger for my old phone died and this was a cheaper option than a new charger. I can make calls, send texts, hell it even stores phone numbers for me.
Internet? I've got a computer for that, and I don't ever need to access the internet that desperately.
You know what? I sometimes go outside without my phone too!!!!
Furthermore, use the extra energy it produces to run refrigeration coils in the superconducting plinth it sits on, bingo you can levitate your way into space on the Earth's own magnetic field. (Just make sure the plinth is big enough). Once you break one major law of physics it generally allows you to break all the others in a very pretty cascade pattern. From what I can tell, the inventor understands this full well, but the journalist has read something a little more "colourful" into it. Whatever next, time-travel at the LHC? ;)
Interesting comment. It ties in very closely with this from the original:
"An OS should never have been something that people (in general) really care about: it should be completely invisible and nobody should give a flying [expletive] about it except the technical people"
The irony is, that while I started being very in-depth about 20 years ago (when I was 10 - I even dabbled with assembly), I've been pretty clueless since I switched to using Windows based machines. I got a lot DONE with them, and for the basics (word processing, graphic design etc) they do the job for 99% of people.
But since I switched back to Linux a couple of years back I've found that I'm much more in touch with the OS, I can see all of the background stuff and understand it. It's as if the BBC/Commadore/Spectrums of my childhood suddenly bumped into me, all grown up all of a sudden. It's how an OS should be in my head.
But most people want quick and easy and simple. And the two don't entirely mix yet. There's been some big moves with the embedded stuff like the EEEEeeee (I forget how many exactly), and it's a good way to be going, as long as there are always "the technical people" there who understand and enjoy the project enough to keep it on the rails.
I could write a site that doesn't work on any browser and/or OS you care to mention. It's my fault if I can't make sure it works on *everything*. It's called cross-platform compatibility, it's a bit of a "thing" in web design.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good giggle at Vista, but this wasn't entirely MS's fault for once.
I despair. This is supposed to be one of the few sites on the planet that has intelligent people, and yet all we get is "THE MAN CAN'T STOP US SHARING MUSIC!". Sorry, but The Man isn't the record execs on their £100k salaries, it's the musicians trying to break through. Sure, try to break "the system" by copying everything, but you'll get this:
1: The Man will earn just as much doing something else...advertising exec for SourceForge for example....The Man doesn't really care where he gets his money, as long as he gets it. And he will.
2: We'll have wall-to-wall pap (good Scots word, means "meaningless nothing") and it will be called music. Seriously, it'll be far worse than the stuff we get now. Nickelbak will be by FAR the most innovative it gets.
If you want to get free music, then go support the DAMN BANDS THAT PRODUCE IT! If you don't want to pay for music, DON'T BLOODY WELL BUY IT!
Exactly, it's very easy to put out a load of IR - the real headline should be "Word's most inefficient torch".
Mainly because proper helmet removal can take a couple of minutes...by the time they've stopped breathing (which can happen at any time with an unconscious casualty) you're pushing it dangerously close for time, and it's not a procedure you want to hurry.
Airway maintenence is very simple, you don't need equipment to do it. Around a third of motorbike fatalities are directly related to blocked airways.
Not *technically* correct, at least as far as my training goes. Generally, yes, you leave the helmet on. Good rule.
IF you've been taught proper procedures though, the helmet will come off if the person is unconscious; you need access to the airway whether they're breathing or not. It does need proper training though, and shouldn't be attempted without it. (Unless, as you say, they've stopped breathing and are going to be dead anyway.)
Helmet removal, maintaining an airway on a casualty with suspected spinal damage etc are quite easy with the proper training, it's well worth doing a course if your first aid skills are already quite good.
I live in the flat above the office where Festival was developed.
I have no other relevant information....t's just that that is the best bit of geek-name-dropping I have...
It depends on how the calendar is being marketed. If it's a "Ford Calendar" then they have every right to say no, it's their brand and their trademark. What if it was a collection of Fords in fatal accidents? Or a calendar of Linux or Mac machines during a (rare) crash next to Windows machines running 27 different proc-intensive apps? Somebody would cry foul on that, and why? Because you're misrepresenting them.
If they're using the name "Ford" or making a point of Ford's trademark, they need to ask Ford.
Anyone want to buy my Slashdot calendar featuring all of their graphics, logos and masthead? Boring, yes, but a breach of copyright. Why so many users rant on about the "unfairness" of copyright whilst saying how brilliant FOSS is escapes me. IP is IP. The FOSS guys are nice enough to give it away, and should be applauded, but I bet a large chunk of them also get paid for code and would get upset if you hacked their machine and sold it yourself.
Handy bit of self-defence, yes, but you can't rely on your users to be savvy.
It's quite a hack though, ignoring the ethical points, that's a lot of machines.
As is so often qouted on /., "You can't con an honest man"
You could have a website, full control over ALL the html, the ability to run php/mysql stuff, links to anything you want, a neat little script to let your friends leave comments....it'll cost you very little, I pay £60/yr for one of my websites and I get backups, halon fire suppression (which I couldn't even legally have in the UK), superb support etc etc
OR....you could get a free but very limited version of the same plus adverts, spam and the occasional security scare like this. Stupid? No, just ignorant, but if I offered you a {WARNING, CAR ANALOGY} free car, and it turned out to have a radio that only tunes to one station then you can't really complain.
You pays your money, you takes your pick. Or not, as the case may be.
Remember when Latin was the preserve of the monks and the few educated? When if you wanted to talk to god, it had to be in Latin?
Well if you want to lose a large number of the language recognition problems, you'd switch to Latin, a highly logical and structured language. So in the future, Latin will be used by the highly educated to converse with non-human intelligences. Funny how things go around...
What, like this? http://www.the-martians.co.uk/upgrade/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.20
Hardly a new idea (see also "Holy Blood Holy Grail") There's pictures and everything on ours though....
Could anyone enlighten me as to a detail in the US law? Do you HAVE to be nominated to run, or would a simple majority of voters writing your name on the paper be considered a legal vote?
I'm not even going to bother clicking - it's probably been slashdotted....
;)
I'd normally argue that the guy broke the law, and got arrested....so what?
Nut that's a good comment that deserves addressing...watch this...
"The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (from where I am posting) lives at number 10 Downing Street, London."
I just broke the Official Secrets Act. Seriously. That's a pretty heavy crime, and it's easy enough to trace me with evidence like that. Get a lawyer on to it, force Slashdot to hand over my registration details, google the email address, find out which sites I run, do a WHOIS do find out the hosts and then force them to hand over the details of the billing address.
Easy enough, and (on paper) quite a big crime. Will they? No, probably not. People have to complain before the public prosecutors can act in this country. You could dissolve a man in acid in front of a thousand people, but if nobody officially complains and the police don't see it, they can't prosecute.
Sounds more akin to the "report post" button on a forum.
;)
Unless that is your idea of a good Friday night?