Making your gadget slightly shinier then the other gadgets is not anywhere close to the same thing as inventing the assembly line or industrialised research.
Eh, he's not nearly as historically interesting as Henry Ford or Thomas Edison. Selling overpriced consumer crap doesn't come close to revolutionising entire industries.
For starters EULAs and TOS's are not even remotely binding contracts violating practically every requirement there is on binding agreements in most EU countries, for another they run afoul of practically every privacy and consumer protection law there is, not to mention all the laws specifically regulating copyrights on photos and music.
None of this is an issue for proper publishers with actual EU valid contracts.
If they tried to do that, EU would probably destroy them, literally by liquidating the company. They'd run afoul of so many European laws that just listing them would take the better part of a lawyers career.
While I'm loathe to defend Greenpeace, they wern't attacking anything. They made a comparison between all the cloud providers so that cloud consumers could make informed choices based on their enviremental impact.
Now since their numbers were off it wasn't very useful.
160 lbs of pure muscle is almost no muscle at all if you're 6'3. 160/6'3 is BMI 20, that's a few points short of sickly underweight.
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He did disclose the publically. The developers thought it was working as intended. He hacked the site to show that they're morons. They patched the issue.
Consider for instance how buffet's offer you 'unlimited' food or the 'unlimited' access passes you can get from many establishments.
The business model is that you offer the customer 'unlimited' access so they can use the service as much as they want, however most people get stuffed/bored fairly quickly and usually end up paying for much more then they actually used.
Buffet's would get rather ticked off if they suddenly got invaded by people with bottomless stomachs and would rather quickly start putting up 'Max 3 refills' signs.
Yikes. The reason you learn the multiplication table is because all other problems can be reduced to adding up a few multiplication table entries, so if you know the table by rote you can solve those problems extremely fast.
The idea is that while you -can- solve those problems by just using addition over and over and over, you'll save many hours of your life by just learning the table properly rather then calculating it slowly each time you stumble over a problem.
I was under the impression that while that's true for older vehicles (and why you shouldn't turn them off for short idles) that's not true for modern ones engineered with that in mind. Some even shut the engine off automatically when detecting idle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start-stop_system
There's also the fact that idle itself is very damaging to the engine due to the build up of partially combusted fuel.
If your house is on fire, and your house is next to mine. Then I'm bloody well going to force you to put the fire out regardless if you can see why that's a problem or not.
It's a bit tricky. Since the database is copyrighted (Your arrangement of the data) but the data itself isn't, it's illegal to copy the database and use it without permission, but it's legal to make your own Database containing all the same facts.
I think what most Database authors do is that they put bogus data entries into their database and if they can find their entries in someone elses database, they can show that it's a copy rather then a independent work.
The argument goes like this: Rationalists: Belief with no evidence to support it is silly Believers: Prove that our belief is false! Rationalists: You can't prove a negative you morons! Believers: You can't prove that God exists either because he's omnipotent! Rationalists: That's just stupid dude.
The point is that it's pretty silly to believe that we're currently being manipulated by semi-omnipotent Aliens and excuse that with that they're semi-omnipotent so we wouldn't be able to notice. No matter how technologically advanced said Aliens are, since they're not actually omni-potent and ergo forced to follow the laws of casuality in our universe (unlike God) then you could always eventually find evidence for them.
For God it's literally impossible since he's not bound by laws of causality, even if you found evidence he could erase it post-facto. You know, difference between powerful and all-powerful, very large vs infinite.
The compiler could, but it won't because one of the highest design criteria for a compiler is consistency. And guessing what the author meant will cause very inconsistent results.
I'm not sure what alternative reality you live in, but my ID didn't require anything beyond a standard photo-booth photo and the government is legally prohibited from PUBLISHING any of that information on-line.
What you're confusing it with is the fact that Sweden has for a very long time had an extremely powerful version of the FOIA which allows you to request any non classified documents from for instance the Tax Department.
However, if you're doing evasive manoeuvres at 100mph on a freeway, then you're a fucking moron that should never ever be allowed behind the wheel of a car again.
On Swedish roads you get basically two options, either you can cruise in the 'slow' lane at 110-130km/h aka 70-80mph (110-120 is the speed limit) or you can cruise in the 'fast' lane at 120-150km/h aka 75-95 mph.
The above mentioned Suzuki has no issues cruising up to 140-150 km/h, however at 160 km/h it starts getting wobbly due to the high air resistance. However as mentioned earlier, if you're doing 160 in a Suzuki you're a fucking moron that deservers to die.
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When it comes to what people remember you for, it doesn't matter so much what you did, but what people credit you for doing.
Making your gadget slightly shinier then the other gadgets is not anywhere close to the same thing as inventing the assembly line or industrialised research.
Eh, he's not nearly as historically interesting as Henry Ford or Thomas Edison. Selling overpriced consumer crap doesn't come close to revolutionising entire industries.
For starters EULAs and TOS's are not even remotely binding contracts violating practically every requirement there is on binding agreements in most EU countries, for another they run afoul of practically every privacy and consumer protection law there is, not to mention all the laws specifically regulating copyrights on photos and music.
None of this is an issue for proper publishers with actual EU valid contracts.
If they tried to do that, EU would probably destroy them, literally by liquidating the company. They'd run afoul of so many European laws that just listing them would take the better part of a lawyers career.
They do die all the time though.
While I'm loathe to defend Greenpeace, they wern't attacking anything. They made a comparison between all the cloud providers so that cloud consumers could make informed choices based on their enviremental impact.
Now since their numbers were off it wasn't very useful.
160 lbs of pure muscle is almost no muscle at all if you're 6'3. 160/6'3 is BMI 20, that's a few points short of sickly underweight.
He did disclose the publically.
The developers thought it was working as intended.
He hacked the site to show that they're morons.
They patched the issue.
Eh, it's not like it's a new idea.
Consider for instance how buffet's offer you 'unlimited' food or the 'unlimited' access passes you can get from many establishments.
The business model is that you offer the customer 'unlimited' access so they can use the service as much as they want, however most people get stuffed/bored fairly quickly and usually end up paying for much more then they actually used.
Buffet's would get rather ticked off if they suddenly got invaded by people with bottomless stomachs and would rather quickly start putting up 'Max 3 refills' signs.
Yikes. The reason you learn the multiplication table is because all other problems can be reduced to adding up a few multiplication table entries, so if you know the table by rote you can solve those problems extremely fast.
The idea is that while you -can- solve those problems by just using addition over and over and over, you'll save many hours of your life by just learning the table properly rather then calculating it slowly each time you stumble over a problem.
Though if you arn't a moron and use their server to store bitcoins, what would they steal?
I was under the impression that while that's true for older vehicles (and why you shouldn't turn them off for short idles) that's not true for modern ones engineered with that in mind. Some even shut the engine off automatically when detecting idle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start-stop_system
There's also the fact that idle itself is very damaging to the engine due to the build up of partially combusted fuel.
If your house is on fire, and your house is next to mine. Then I'm bloody well going to force you to put the fire out regardless if you can see why that's a problem or not.
What relevance exactly does an United States court case have on European database law?
It's a bit tricky. Since the database is copyrighted (Your arrangement of the data) but the data itself isn't, it's illegal to copy the database and use it without permission, but it's legal to make your own Database containing all the same facts.
I think what most Database authors do is that they put bogus data entries into their database and if they can find their entries in someone elses database, they can show that it's a copy rather then a independent work.
You appear to be confused.
The argument goes like this:
Rationalists: Belief with no evidence to support it is silly
Believers: Prove that our belief is false!
Rationalists: You can't prove a negative you morons!
Believers: You can't prove that God exists either because he's omnipotent!
Rationalists: That's just stupid dude.
The point is that it's pretty silly to believe that we're currently being manipulated by semi-omnipotent Aliens and excuse that with that they're semi-omnipotent so we wouldn't be able to notice. No matter how technologically advanced said Aliens are, since they're not actually omni-potent and ergo forced to follow the laws of casuality in our universe (unlike God) then you could always eventually find evidence for them.
For God it's literally impossible since he's not bound by laws of causality, even if you found evidence he could erase it post-facto. You know, difference between powerful and all-powerful, very large vs infinite.
That's why he said low probability of being true, rather then saying it's false.
You're confusing probability with fact.
The problem is that your odds of finding a decent sized cube in a random number are pretty abysmal.
The compiler could, but it won't because one of the highest design criteria for a compiler is consistency. And guessing what the author meant will cause very inconsistent results.
I'm not sure what alternative reality you live in, but my ID didn't require anything beyond a standard photo-booth photo and the government is legally prohibited from PUBLISHING any of that information on-line.
What you're confusing it with is the fact that Sweden has for a very long time had an extremely powerful version of the FOIA which allows you to request any non classified documents from for instance the Tax Department.
That's branch coverage, what you also want is input domain partitioning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers
Wouldn't fuel consumption be higher in the winter either way due to the car taking longer to heat up?
There's a reason I said 'City' sedan, because I was talking about cars like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Aerio
Which gets really rather unstable at 100mph.
However, if you're doing evasive manoeuvres at 100mph on a freeway, then you're a fucking moron that should never ever be allowed behind the wheel of a car again.
On Swedish roads you get basically two options, either you can cruise in the 'slow' lane at 110-130km/h aka 70-80mph (110-120 is the speed limit) or you can cruise in the 'fast' lane at 120-150km/h aka 75-95 mph.
The above mentioned Suzuki has no issues cruising up to 140-150 km/h, however at 160 km/h it starts getting wobbly due to the high air resistance. However as mentioned earlier, if you're doing 160 in a Suzuki you're a fucking moron that deservers to die.