Agreed. If they're still having problems at this point, they're incompetent jackasses. However, that's not an excuse for the employee to be a jackass too.
What rising cost? Text messages cost about as much as extra minutes (give or take, depending on the carrier), and yet they take much less bandwidth than voice calls. Much, much, much less bandwidth.
Not at all. Not even a little bit. Shut your fucking mouth.
This was a coincidence. This was a situation where one news aggregator picked something up and it perpetuated and snowballed through other aggregators. It was then thrown to normal people who took their actions. At no point did anyone do anything malicious, at no point was there a lie, and at no point was something so wrong that it should be regulated/made criminal.
We're in an economic downturn, there was some hysteria over a bogus news story, something happened that shouldn't have. This isn't a sign that there needs to be controls or something done "to try to prevent it happening again", at least not outside the organizations that made the mistakes. The aggregators will fix what they did wrong and it won't happen again in the future.
And if that's the case, then it's not fair use. However, very few people have read the book up to this point, and I'm guessing that you got your information from a biased viewpoint. In addition, many of Rowling's statements about the case made it sound like she thought she had exclusive rights to all things Harry Potter. Finally, she used the website as a reference while writing the later books, made statements praising it and the author, and made overtures to have him write and/or edit the official one she was going to do.
In the end, the lexicon author looks like he acted in good faith through the whole proceedings while JK Rowling acted like a bitch.
And I'd be pretty pissed too if someone copied things from me and published them as their own work.
I would side more with Rowling if the lexicon weren't so clearly a work of love from the author, a work that could arguably be fair use (as mentioned in groklaw, there's a good possibility that if he'd just stuck to the main books, he would have won), and if she hadn't come out and said that she'd used the website as a reference guide.
I haven't read the lexicon so I don't know how much of it really is copying, but she's been a bitch about the situation while he's been nice and tried to do the right thing. He tried to work with her, she seemed hopeful for a while and then pulled all support. That was a pretty dick move on her part. I hope that he can edit the lexicon some more and try to publish it again, this time without including the reference works that Rowling's put out and with more of his own words than hers.
The LP album is, essentially, a concert piece. Thirty years ago, singles from an album were what hooked people into buying, but people sat down and listened to a whole album, all of the A side then all the B side. They didn't play one track, hop up and take the needle off, remove the disk and put it in its sleeve, remove another record put it on the platter, then carefully set the needle down on a specific track.
CDs are the same.
You've never heard of mixed tapes? I've been making my own collections of music since cassette tapes so that I could cherry pick the best ones. I've heard the argument that the work needs to be taken in its entirety, artists that won't sell single tracks, and I think it's a mistake. If I make a series of 7 paintings, and you need to see each of them in order to get the experience that I intended, it would be a mistake for me to try to force you to look at them like that. Instead, I would get the information out there that it's better viewed like that, and then let the viewers experience it for themselves and decide. I've listened to albums where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, but that doesn't keep the great songs from being better than the mediocre ones, it just means that the mediocre ones are a lot better when listened to in context. Guess what? I take those tracks off the CD and put them in my playlist. I still listen to the album as a whole sometimes, but not as often as I listen to the good ones as part of a playlist.
To sum it up, the artist should let the consumer enjoy their works as best they can and stop trying to force their "artistic vision" on them. People are enjoying your work; quit your bitching and enjoy the profits and the recognition.
Two reasons. First, it's deprecated. Second, because they probably have a whitelist filter for tags so that only their preapproved ones get through. That would lend itself nicely to not have the lesser used deprecated tags like strike and blink.
Actually, I believe that they were talking about how it might shake some creationist theories because so much religious belief is based on the idea that science can't explain and do everything. Showing that lifeforms can be created in the lab can lead to discoveries that show that life could be created through natural processes that existed in the primordial goo. In other words, this could be a fundamental step in showing how evolution could have happened.
The fact that life may be "creatable" does NOT imply that WE were created
There, fixed that for you. I guarantee that if science continues to develop the way that it is, then at some point in the future a scientist will be able to create an organism as intelligent and complex as a human being. We're approaching that with computers (although we're still quite far away).
the life form he creates is not the result of the work of an intelligent being
I wouldn't say that to his face.
Incidentally, all the generations that came before ours thought that life came from some intelligent being, but they were all stupid because they didn't live in the enlightened world that we live in today. There were no cars, computers, airplanes, and other technologies. They didn't have the Internet or Wikipedia. Thus, they were stupid. Today, we're much smarter than that and we know better than to believe in such nonsense.
What an awesome troll. I was going to actually respond, but then I realized that your post discredits itself rather well:D
This neither confirms nor denies any religious beliefs. If your religious beliefs rely on science not being able to do something, then you're almost certainly going to be shown to be wrong.
It looks like you can get Digis too (wireless broadband, adequate during the day, awful latency during storms). In my HOA, it's the only high speed solution because the builder signed an agreement with dish network that barred the other providers from building into it. Someday, people will realize that exclusivity deals only hurt the consumer. But that day is not today.
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It's not different at all. Your video card doesn't have the capabilities to do what it needs to do. The model of video card is just another example of versioning, and your version wasn't new enough. Get over it.
Let's not forget that there's no more open and free market than the internet. I can load up cuil and use it all day long if I want to, and any website can go to any ad service they want to. As a matter of fact, you'd have to go to MSN to get an ad into Facebook. There are so many ways to compete on the internet and they cost next to nothing. Now, if Google starts offering discounts for people who only use adwords, then there might be an issue. However, as far as I've been able to tell, they don't, so what's the problem?
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This reminds me of when I put GTAIV in my xbox and it wouldn't run the game because it wasn't an XBox360! The nerve of Take Two! Do they have an agreement with Microsoft, where they force you to upgrade consoles? What business is it of theirs what console I'm running it on? Fucking ridiculous.
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I think the analogy's backwards. The DRM isn't the heard of the product, it's put on top of it. As we're consumers, I think a food metaphor might be a little better. Something like "No matter how good the pie is, I won't eat it if it's covered in shit."
This analogy also opens the door to comparisons to pirates stealing the recipe and then making it without the shit, and how pie makers who don't use shit in their recipes sell more pies.
has any one noticed that this has failed over the last 20 years or so?
No. Labor Day was as cold in the valley as it usually is in the mountains this year, and trick or treating has consistently required coats for my family for the past 20 years.
5 digit UID: check.
A plausible list of high-profile experience: check.
A good, solid argument about why instant attacks against MS are warranted: check.
Gentlemen, you just witnessed a classic newb beatdown. It's a good day to be reading slashdot.
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Their clients, for reasons best left undisclosed, could not upgrade...Start with being 60-1600 meters below the ocean surface...
Good job, tightlips ;)
Agreed. If they're still having problems at this point, they're incompetent jackasses. However, that's not an excuse for the employee to be a jackass too.
Well, now they have two reasons to invent a steel with high heat tolerance.
They've been debunked countless times
Sometimes hilariously.
Yes, while it won't melt at the temperatures it was exposed to in the twin towers, it is at less than 50% strength because of the heat.
Eventually, Google will work to replace various common words in most languages with "google" in order to continue the strengthening of the brand.
gI think gThey would just add a silent g'G' in front of any gNouns.
What rising cost? Text messages cost about as much as extra minutes (give or take, depending on the carrier), and yet they take much less bandwidth than voice calls. Much, much, much less bandwidth.
Yep, kind of like how anti-aliasing isn't really slower than straight rendering any more because I've got a better video card.
Not at all. Not even a little bit. Shut your fucking mouth.
This was a coincidence. This was a situation where one news aggregator picked something up and it perpetuated and snowballed through other aggregators. It was then thrown to normal people who took their actions. At no point did anyone do anything malicious, at no point was there a lie, and at no point was something so wrong that it should be regulated/made criminal.
We're in an economic downturn, there was some hysteria over a bogus news story, something happened that shouldn't have. This isn't a sign that there needs to be controls or something done "to try to prevent it happening again", at least not outside the organizations that made the mistakes. The aggregators will fix what they did wrong and it won't happen again in the future.
And if that's the case, then it's not fair use. However, very few people have read the book up to this point, and I'm guessing that you got your information from a biased viewpoint. In addition, many of Rowling's statements about the case made it sound like she thought she had exclusive rights to all things Harry Potter. Finally, she used the website as a reference while writing the later books, made statements praising it and the author, and made overtures to have him write and/or edit the official one she was going to do.
In the end, the lexicon author looks like he acted in good faith through the whole proceedings while JK Rowling acted like a bitch.
And I'd be pretty pissed too if someone copied things from me and published them as their own work.
I would side more with Rowling if the lexicon weren't so clearly a work of love from the author, a work that could arguably be fair use (as mentioned in groklaw, there's a good possibility that if he'd just stuck to the main books, he would have won), and if she hadn't come out and said that she'd used the website as a reference guide.
I haven't read the lexicon so I don't know how much of it really is copying, but she's been a bitch about the situation while he's been nice and tried to do the right thing. He tried to work with her, she seemed hopeful for a while and then pulled all support. That was a pretty dick move on her part. I hope that he can edit the lexicon some more and try to publish it again, this time without including the reference works that Rowling's put out and with more of his own words than hers.
The LP album is, essentially, a concert piece. Thirty years ago, singles from an album were what hooked people into buying, but people sat down and listened to a whole album, all of the A side then all the B side. They didn't play one track, hop up and take the needle off, remove the disk and put it in its sleeve, remove another record put it on the platter, then carefully set the needle down on a specific track. CDs are the same.
You've never heard of mixed tapes? I've been making my own collections of music since cassette tapes so that I could cherry pick the best ones. I've heard the argument that the work needs to be taken in its entirety, artists that won't sell single tracks, and I think it's a mistake. If I make a series of 7 paintings, and you need to see each of them in order to get the experience that I intended, it would be a mistake for me to try to force you to look at them like that. Instead, I would get the information out there that it's better viewed like that, and then let the viewers experience it for themselves and decide. I've listened to albums where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, but that doesn't keep the great songs from being better than the mediocre ones, it just means that the mediocre ones are a lot better when listened to in context. Guess what? I take those tracks off the CD and put them in my playlist. I still listen to the album as a whole sometimes, but not as often as I listen to the good ones as part of a playlist.
To sum it up, the artist should let the consumer enjoy their works as best they can and stop trying to force their "artistic vision" on them. People are enjoying your work; quit your bitching and enjoy the profits and the recognition.
P.S. WHY doesn't slashdot support the strike tag?
Two reasons. First, it's deprecated. Second, because they probably have a whitelist filter for tags so that only their preapproved ones get through. That would lend itself nicely to not have the lesser used deprecated tags like strike and blink.
plenty of wives and girlfriends would like one good bonk before then as well
They'll probably want to take care of their headache and get a good night of sleep more if their past reactions are any indication.
The fact that life may be "creatable" does NOT imply that WE were created
There, fixed that for you. I guarantee that if science continues to develop the way that it is, then at some point in the future a scientist will be able to create an organism as intelligent and complex as a human being. We're approaching that with computers (although we're still quite far away).
the life form he creates is not the result of the work of an intelligent being
I wouldn't say that to his face.
Incidentally, all the generations that came before ours thought that life came from some intelligent being, but they were all stupid because they didn't live in the enlightened world that we live in today. There were no cars, computers, airplanes, and other technologies. They didn't have the Internet or Wikipedia. Thus, they were stupid. Today, we're much smarter than that and we know better than to believe in such nonsense.
What an awesome troll. I was going to actually respond, but then I realized that your post discredits itself rather well :D
This neither confirms nor denies any religious beliefs. If your religious beliefs rely on science not being able to do something, then you're almost certainly going to be shown to be wrong.
So, since I am neither a hooker nor LSD, I'll have to get my own drinks?
It looks like you can get Digis too (wireless broadband, adequate during the day, awful latency during storms). In my HOA, it's the only high speed solution because the builder signed an agreement with dish network that barred the other providers from building into it. Someday, people will realize that exclusivity deals only hurt the consumer. But that day is not today.
It's not different at all. Your video card doesn't have the capabilities to do what it needs to do. The model of video card is just another example of versioning, and your version wasn't new enough. Get over it.
Let's not forget that there's no more open and free market than the internet. I can load up cuil and use it all day long if I want to, and any website can go to any ad service they want to. As a matter of fact, you'd have to go to MSN to get an ad into Facebook. There are so many ways to compete on the internet and they cost next to nothing. Now, if Google starts offering discounts for people who only use adwords, then there might be an issue. However, as far as I've been able to tell, they don't, so what's the problem?
This reminds me of when I put GTAIV in my xbox and it wouldn't run the game because it wasn't an XBox360! The nerve of Take Two! Do they have an agreement with Microsoft, where they force you to upgrade consoles? What business is it of theirs what console I'm running it on? Fucking ridiculous.
I think the analogy's backwards. The DRM isn't the heard of the product, it's put on top of it. As we're consumers, I think a food metaphor might be a little better. Something like "No matter how good the pie is, I won't eat it if it's covered in shit."
This analogy also opens the door to comparisons to pirates stealing the recipe and then making it without the shit, and how pie makers who don't use shit in their recipes sell more pies.
has any one noticed that this has failed over the last 20 years or so?
No. Labor Day was as cold in the valley as it usually is in the mountains this year, and trick or treating has consistently required coats for my family for the past 20 years.
Yeah, but anyone close enough to give the sun a nooner would get burned up.
5 digit UID: check.
A plausible list of high-profile experience: check.
A good, solid argument about why instant attacks against MS are warranted: check.
Gentlemen, you just witnessed a classic newb beatdown. It's a good day to be reading slashdot.