the typical view is that, once you post copyrighted material (that you hold the copyright to, otherwise you have infringed on another's copyright) to a public forum, be it a message kiosk on your local college campus, or an electronic messaging system, such as deja.com or the/. forums, you have implicitly given up any copyrights you may have held, and the work passes into public domain.
I feel (and many others will agree) that there is a huge difference there: Yes, posting to a public forum might be seen with some justification as giving up the copyrights in respect to duplication and modification - but it's totally different to modify a something without the author's consent and still attribute it to him!! Basically what Deja is doing is qualitatively the same as if I posted a bit of Nazi hate propaganda on Usenet and put your name under it and your email address in the headers. You wouldn't like that, would you?
You are making the incorrect assumption that the mass of a proton is equivalent to the charge of a proton, and therefore the gravity is a much weaker force
Well, so the question changes from "why is gravity so much weaker" to "why are the electromagnetic, strong and weak atomic charges (if present at all) so much greater than the gravitational ones in all particles known to human science?
Gravity is an attractive force because the "gravitational charge" - mass - is always positive.
Doesn't quite cut it - if that were the point, then you could always say that humans simply haven't discovered the "negative charge" yet. But all particles known to man have the same kind of "charge", and the force pulls them together whereas with all the 3 other forces, objects with the same charge are pulled apart!
And that is the fundamental difference between gravity and the other forces, besides its weakness.
Interesting idea: if gravity didn't have the "same chrage attracts" property and there were different charges, it would be so weak as to be immeasurable. Perhaps there are dozens of yet undiscovered forces that are as weak as gravity but follow the "different charges attract" principle?
but everyone knows that the best anime ever has got to be Neon Genesis Evangelion because it has all the elements of a great entertainment experience: comedy, action, violence, sex, drama, technology, mystery, and a great ending.
Fortunately not everyone thinks that Evangelion is the greatest anime ever, because that's total bullshit. It certainly was somewhat revolutionary and had a lot of good points, but there's at least a dozen better anime ("better", being of course more or less subjective anyway). Evangelion started out as a run-of-the-mill cheesy mecha show, then became something truly unique and at the end, it totally blew. That has to be its biggest weakness: The ending, both of them, were total crap. Tenchi, on the other hand does not have an anding yet, so the game is still open...
Anime isn't just meant for children in Japan. Yes, there are some anime shows for children (ie, Pokemon), but there are easily just as many for Adults or people inbetween.
This is actually not true. Even in Japan, Anime is thought of as mainly for children; the exceptions are there but not too numerous in comparison. This is, however, different with Manga (i.e. comic books).
Sorry, but I don't believe that one could seriously consider Sailor Moon to be adult entertainment. Yes, there are some small portions that portray adult themes, but overall, let's be serious; it appeals to my 4 year old daughter.
Still, she's not the core target group, which was the 10-16 years range. Still it was broadcast unedited at an early hour in Japan.
I mean how would it be "unsafe" for a 4 year-old to watch the unedited show? It's not as if they showed people getting killed or having sex in detail, and the homosexual stuff would most likely go right over a 4-year-old's head.
Bullshit. The phenomenon you describe is certainly a factor, but some anime is easily as complex and deep as any real life movie or TV series you could name. Many people like anime for its intelligent stories and characters.
A lot of people think that because it's animated it's a cartoon, and thus targeted for children even when it's not. Like how Funimation completely butchered DBZ and turned it into a cartoon
Yeah, suuure. Get yourself a copy of "1984", read it, and learn why total surveillance is a bad thing. The very existence of such data is a danger in itself, because it can be used to commit crimes, and you can never be sure who eventually gets hold of it.
The more likely explanation is that the limestone casing simply eroded away.
From the look of it, some of the casing at the tip is still left, and I don't see why it wouldn't have eroded along with the rest. Or is that something entirely else?
Yeah, but labeling the chips beforehand would increase the rejection rates a big deal. Now, they make a platter of 500 PIIIs, and get maybe 2% that work at 1GHz, 10% that can do 900MHz, and so on till the 10% that fail completely. With prelabelled chips, you'd have to throw away all but those 2% that pass all the tests!
(Note: I have no idea whether my percentages are accurate or total garbage, but the process does work like that)
Reason Number 1. It would mean having different CPU dies for each chip they sell. They aren't going to do that. They prefer to simply build a batch of chips and depending on how clean they come out you put a label on to claim a specific clock speed. Yes. Specific clock speeds are determined after the fact before labeling is done, not before.
And there's a reason for this. If you didn't do it, you'd have to throw away a lot more chips, and the OK ones would get about 5 times as expensive.
The phenomenon you mention is called "leet (or 1337) speech" by the (few) people who actually use it, and pretty much everyone with the faintest trace of Clue(tm) recognizes it as the mark of childish, attention-craving and ill-mannered hacker wannabes. It was a fad over a decade ago, and then it might have been cool, but nowadays...
What about the cost of that pound of material? Has the cost of a communications satellite gone down at the same rate?
Perhaps, but even more importantly: the usefulness of communications satellites has gone down. Comm satellites used to be a big factor in long-distance phone and data connections. This has changed because of optical cables: they're just as expensive to deposit as copper cables, cheaper to maintain and have much higher capacities. So much higher, in fact, that satellites just don't cut it anymore, except for TV and some specialized demands.
A properly-developed business budgets for the legal and administrative side of things: a business that tries to do it any other way is stuffed and mounted before it begins.
Perfectly, true, but there is no base whatsoever for the claim that the license is more important than the product itself. Don't bother citing Microsoft, what made them successful was neither the quality of their product nor the license, it was the marketing.
A crappy product will most likely fail, and the license is definitely not going to prevent that.
Finally, license consideration are almost totally separate from technical aspects; there's no reason why you can't write the code first and worry about the license later. Ideally, you should, of course, do both at the same time.
Fireworks should be legal. When they are legal they can be controlled.
Guns are legal in the US and quite obviously can't be controlled very well, or at least not as well as in most countries where they aren't.
And the other question is: What's the difference between fireworks and explosives that can level a large house? Answer: none, as is evident after the explosion of a fireworks factory in the Netherlands some time ago destroyed a sizable part of a town and killed some 20 people.
I know there is tons of stuff for AS/400/S/36/NT. Maybe opening this would allow someone to make something for Linux (I don't know if there is one now)
There is. SAP's R/3, one of the most successful ERP solutions, has been ported to Linux and has done quite well in the benchmarks.
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I feel (and many others will agree) that there is a huge difference there: Yes, posting to a public forum might be seen with some justification as giving up the copyrights in respect to duplication and modification - but it's totally different to modify a something without the author's consent and still attribute it to him!! Basically what Deja is doing is qualitatively the same as if I posted a bit of Nazi hate propaganda on Usenet and put your name under it and your email address in the headers. You wouldn't like that, would you?
So it's not really about copyrights at all...
Not quite true. There may new particles be discovered, but the old ones won't change.
Well, so the question changes from "why is gravity so much weaker" to "why are the electromagnetic, strong and weak atomic charges (if present at all) so much greater than the gravitational ones in all particles known to human science?
Same difference.
Doesn't quite cut it - if that were the point, then you could always say that humans simply haven't discovered the "negative charge" yet. But all particles known to man have the same kind of "charge", and the force pulls them together whereas with all the 3 other forces, objects with the same charge are pulled apart!
And that is the fundamental difference between gravity and the other forces, besides its weakness.
Interesting idea: if gravity didn't have the "same chrage attracts" property and there were different charges, it would be so weak as to be immeasurable. Perhaps there are dozens of yet undiscovered forces that are as weak as gravity but follow the "different charges attract" principle?
Fortunately not everyone thinks that Evangelion is the greatest anime ever, because that's total bullshit. It certainly was somewhat revolutionary and had a lot of good points, but there's at least a dozen better anime ("better", being of course more or less subjective anyway). Evangelion started out as a run-of-the-mill cheesy mecha show, then became something truly unique and at the end, it totally blew. That has to be its biggest weakness: The ending, both of them, were total crap. Tenchi, on the other hand does not have an anding yet, so the game is still open...
This is actually not true. Even in Japan, Anime is thought of as mainly for children; the exceptions are there but not too numerous in comparison. This is, however, different with Manga (i.e. comic books).
Still, she's not the core target group, which was the 10-16 years range. Still it was broadcast unedited at an early hour in Japan.
I mean how would it be "unsafe" for a 4 year-old to watch the unedited show? It's not as if they showed people getting killed or having sex in detail, and the homosexual stuff would most likely go right over a 4-year-old's head.
Bullshit. The phenomenon you describe is certainly a factor, but some anime is easily as complex and deep as any real life movie or TV series you could name. Many people like anime for its intelligent stories and characters.
Um, Dragonball (and the sequels) is a kids' show.
Only if pronounced incorrectly, moron.
Just because some of it's too intelligent and mature for your poor little mind doesn't mean that others can't enjoy it...
Wrong. This is real news, and appeared about 2 weeks back. Before that, it was just rumors. Now, it's pretty much official.
2nd series: OAV 8-13
3rd series: yet to be done ending to that storylineTenchi Universe, Tenchi in Tokyo: crap that doesn't count.
There are anime dubs out there that are better/i> than the original, in at least one case it was the director who said this.
Yeah, suuure. Get yourself a copy of "1984", read it, and learn why total surveillance is a bad thing. The very existence of such data is a danger in itself, because it can be used to commit crimes, and you can never be sure who eventually gets hold of it.
From the look of it, some of the casing at the tip is still left, and I don't see why it wouldn't have eroded along with the rest. Or is that something entirely else?
(Note: I have no idea whether my percentages are accurate or total garbage, but the process does work like that)
The question is whether you can find memory that works at such speeds.
And there's a reason for this. If you didn't do it, you'd have to throw away a lot more chips, and the OK ones would get about 5 times as expensive.
The phenomenon you mention is called "leet (or 1337) speech" by the (few) people who actually use it, and pretty much everyone with the faintest trace of Clue(tm) recognizes it as the mark of childish, attention-craving and ill-mannered hacker wannabes. It was a fad over a decade ago, and then it might have been cool, but nowadays...
Perhaps, but even more importantly: the usefulness of communications satellites has gone down. Comm satellites used to be a big factor in long-distance phone and data connections. This has changed because of optical cables: they're just as expensive to deposit as copper cables, cheaper to maintain and have much higher capacities. So much higher, in fact, that satellites just don't cut it anymore, except for TV and some specialized demands.
Bull. There is competition: why do you think the European Ariane program is so successful?
Try being a bit less america-centric and realize that putting stuff into orbit simply is expensive because of all the resources it uses up.
Perfectly, true, but there is no base whatsoever for the claim that the license is more important than the product itself. Don't bother citing Microsoft, what made them successful was neither the quality of their product nor the license, it was the marketing.
A crappy product will most likely fail, and the license is definitely not going to prevent that.
Finally, license consideration are almost totally separate from technical aspects; there's no reason why you can't write the code first and worry about the license later. Ideally, you should, of course, do both at the same time.
Guns are legal in the US and quite obviously can't be controlled very well, or at least not as well as in most countries where they aren't.
And the other question is: What's the difference between fireworks and explosives that can level a large house? Answer: none, as is evident after the explosion of a fireworks factory in the Netherlands some time ago destroyed a sizable part of a town and killed some 20 people.
There is. SAP's R/3, one of the most successful ERP solutions, has been ported to Linux and has done quite well in the benchmarks.