You've been watching too many movies. Markings on bullets fired one after another from a single gun are not totally uniform. It can be used, in theory, to narrow down potential suspects, just as a smudged fingerprint can. Just as with a smudged fingerprint, however, often juries will ascribe more weight to such evidence than is really warranted.
Also, they are absurdly easy to alter. Simply firing a couple hundred rounds will change the markings such that they will no longer match the first bullet fired.
I'm not a scientist either, but I did take an intro to forensics course once.
Most of what you wrote, I understood, and have learned about before. The one new thing to me is that objects slow down as they approach an event horizon. In this case, how do black holes grow? Do they stuck enough things close to their event horizon that the event horizon moves outwards to encompass the debris?
Huh? How do you get that? What good is an exclusive right if it's non-transferable? Consider the following: I write a book, Galvatron's Big Book of Penguins. I find a publisher, and oh, oops, I can't give the publisher the right to publish, because it's non-transferrable? Okay, say that we grant an exception for publishing. The publisher wants to put a clause in the contract that says I can't let anyone else publish GBBoP, because clearly no publisher on earth would take the risk of publishing a book without knowing how many other publishers would also be publishing copies of the same book. Are we granting an exception for that? Assuming we are, the publisher now has reproduction rights, and I do not.
The only remaining right to be transferred is the right to create derivative works. Clearly, forbidding anyone but the original author to create derivative works would only cause harm. Furthermore, no one would want to create a derivative work without a contract specifying that they are the only ones making a particular type of derivative work. No one would want to make Terminator 3 unless they were sure that no one else was also making a different Terminator 3 at the same time. So, supposing I also sell the exclusive right to create derivative works to my publisher, I have now effectively transferred my copyright to my publisher. Which of the above steps do you think should be illegalized?
I think the reason Shelled is trying to draw a distinction is that arguably, EULA's are not contracts. There is no meeting between the two parties, no chance for negotiation, no signature, the EULA is perpetual, and a price is paid for a physical good (making it look very much like a sale, covered by first sale doctrine rather than contract law). Of course, IANAL, but from the articles that get on Slashdot every now and again, it sounds like the courts haven't quite settled on an answer as to whether EULA's are legitimate contracts or not.
My mother has told me in the past about how after I was born, my parents thought they were absolute geniuses. I almost never cried, I slept all the time, and when I did make noise, there was some particular toy they could give me to make me quiet down again. So, when other parents would be complaining about the noise their kids made, my mother would smugly say "oh, it's really not that hard, you just give them this toy and they quiet right down.
Anyway, a few years later my younger brother was born. He cried all the time, never slept, and was totally inconsolable. Suddenly, my parents realized that they weren't actually so smart after all, they had just been lucky that I wasn't a crier.
So, my point is, what works for one family may not work for others, take any "helpful advice" from a parent who has only had one kid with a grain of salt. Some babies are just too loud to take to the movies. My parents used to go to drive-in movies when they had babies, which strikes me as remarkably clever, it's too bad drive-ins don't exist anymore. I suppose the home theater experience is better these days than the drive-ins anyway, even if it does mean waiting a couple months after the movie is released to watch it.
I think the key here is the unreality of it. They may enjoy looking at other girls with large breasts (I should point out that this is far from universal, but you're right, some girls do like breasts), but a blocky, pixelated representation of a large breasted woman probably ain't gonna cut it. Girls who like breasts tend to like them because they have an appreciation for the beauty of the female form. I would not consider Lara Croft a good representation of a beautiful woman.
Note, of course, that Walt Disney died in 1966. So, had the Bono act been in effect since the time of its publication, there never would have been a Disney Alice in Wonderland.
Isn't NATO the "North Atlantic Treaty Organization?" From what I can tell on the map, Russia has every bit as much of a claim to be on the North Atlantic as does, say, Turkey.
Yup. Here at Brown University, all student numbers are of the form 401-867-xxxx, and it's all hardwired in, so someone gets the unlucky prank number every year.
Listen, being swamped is one thing. Waiting a month before giving us any kind of explanation is another thing entirely though. It would not have been hard to set things up so that the customer support center automatically sent back a form letter explaining what was going on.
It's not the delay I (or many others) minded so much as the complete and utter silence. Also, this is not a story from 3+ years ago. This is a story from exactly one year, as in 12 months, ago.
Yeah, "horror" is just about right. After, I think it was 8.1, over a month went by after the release with no dvd shipped. Emails to customer support went unanswered. The forums were filling up with people complaining about not having received anything. Finally, Mandrake made a public post to the effect that they weren't ready for the demand, and Sept. 11th delayed shipping. Eventually, I did get my DVD, but yeah, it was pretty screwed up.
Oh, and in case it wasn't clear from the above, no, your number is useless, it doesn't track, and it's impossible to get a hold of anyone in sales anyway, so you can't use your number with them, either.
"appear to not know correct English" isn't just clumsy, it contains a split infinitive. Granted, ever since Star Trek ("to boldly go"), split infinitives aren't as frowned upon as they once were, but it's still wrong. "Appear not to know correct English" would be better, though as you say, still a tad clumsy.
Actually, I think that's the issue, these people type very slowly. Most schools don't properly teach typing at a young age because it only recently changed from being a skill only secretaries needed. For these people, u for you really does save time, and so does eliminating capitalization, because they hunt and peck.
I agree with the folks who tell you to stick with the Uplift books. I would say that really, everything of his I've read has been pretty good. One in particular I urge you not to overlook is Heart of the Comet. A collaboration with Gregory Benford, it starts off as a fairly mundane "expedition finds life on Haley's Comet" story, but then really gets interesting.
No, actually, the military said those would be the only conditions under which they would sell one. Pepsi won the case, so they didn't have to give the guy anything. If they had lost, yeah, something like that probably would have happened.
Actually, you could buy pepsi points for $0.10 each, so it was only $700,000 (plust $10 for shipping and handling). Apparently though, he lost the case.
Do you get 1700 mhz clock speed with your G4? You're comparing different processors, and in all the tests I've seen, aside of course from the photoshop tests, modern G4 processors are significantly slower than modern x86 processors.
According to the website, the CPU is $400, not $200. Adding $200 to the above sum gives me $1080. So it is, in fact, more expensive than buying from Apple.
I think the difference is, a website isn't a push technology. If you put something on a website that's illegal in another city, state, country, whatever, and someone in that region accesses it, then they're the ones at fault. Sort of like if an American flew to Amsterdam, picked up a bag of pot, and flew back home again to smoke it, they'd be importing an illegal substance.
Spam, on the other hand, is delivered to you whether you want it or not. This would be more like if someone in Amsterdam were indiscriminantly mailing out free samples of pot to people in the US.
What Dmitry did was legal in Russia (writing software that violates the DMCA), but what his company did (offer it for sale to citizens of the USA) was illegal, and they knew it. I'm opposed to the DMCA on general priciple, so I hope they don't end up getting in trouble for it, but let's not kid ourselves, the company (though again, probably not the individual) was breaking the law.
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Also, they are absurdly easy to alter. Simply firing a couple hundred rounds will change the markings such that they will no longer match the first bullet fired.
I'm not a scientist either, but I did take an intro to forensics course once.
Most of what you wrote, I understood, and have learned about before. The one new thing to me is that objects slow down as they approach an event horizon. In this case, how do black holes grow? Do they stuck enough things close to their event horizon that the event horizon moves outwards to encompass the debris?
The only remaining right to be transferred is the right to create derivative works. Clearly, forbidding anyone but the original author to create derivative works would only cause harm. Furthermore, no one would want to create a derivative work without a contract specifying that they are the only ones making a particular type of derivative work. No one would want to make Terminator 3 unless they were sure that no one else was also making a different Terminator 3 at the same time. So, supposing I also sell the exclusive right to create derivative works to my publisher, I have now effectively transferred my copyright to my publisher. Which of the above steps do you think should be illegalized?
I think the reason Shelled is trying to draw a distinction is that arguably, EULA's are not contracts. There is no meeting between the two parties, no chance for negotiation, no signature, the EULA is perpetual, and a price is paid for a physical good (making it look very much like a sale, covered by first sale doctrine rather than contract law). Of course, IANAL, but from the articles that get on Slashdot every now and again, it sounds like the courts haven't quite settled on an answer as to whether EULA's are legitimate contracts or not.
Anyway, a few years later my younger brother was born. He cried all the time, never slept, and was totally inconsolable. Suddenly, my parents realized that they weren't actually so smart after all, they had just been lucky that I wasn't a crier.
So, my point is, what works for one family may not work for others, take any "helpful advice" from a parent who has only had one kid with a grain of salt. Some babies are just too loud to take to the movies. My parents used to go to drive-in movies when they had babies, which strikes me as remarkably clever, it's too bad drive-ins don't exist anymore. I suppose the home theater experience is better these days than the drive-ins anyway, even if it does mean waiting a couple months after the movie is released to watch it.
I think the key here is the unreality of it. They may enjoy looking at other girls with large breasts (I should point out that this is far from universal, but you're right, some girls do like breasts), but a blocky, pixelated representation of a large breasted woman probably ain't gonna cut it. Girls who like breasts tend to like them because they have an appreciation for the beauty of the female form. I would not consider Lara Croft a good representation of a beautiful woman.
Note, of course, that Walt Disney died in 1966. So, had the Bono act been in effect since the time of its publication, there never would have been a Disney Alice in Wonderland.
Isn't NATO the "North Atlantic Treaty Organization?" From what I can tell on the map, Russia has every bit as much of a claim to be on the North Atlantic as does, say, Turkey.
Yup. Here at Brown University, all student numbers are of the form 401-867-xxxx, and it's all hardwired in, so someone gets the unlucky prank number every year.
Seriously, I generally try not to complain about the topics they post on, but what the fuck is this crap?
It's not the delay I (or many others) minded so much as the complete and utter silence. Also, this is not a story from 3+ years ago. This is a story from exactly one year, as in 12 months, ago.
Oh, and in case it wasn't clear from the above, no, your number is useless, it doesn't track, and it's impossible to get a hold of anyone in sales anyway, so you can't use your number with them, either.
Maybe you should put this stuff in your journal, where it belongs. The offtopic mods are completely justified. How this got modded up is beyond me.
"appear to not know correct English" isn't just clumsy, it contains a split infinitive. Granted, ever since Star Trek ("to boldly go"), split infinitives aren't as frowned upon as they once were, but it's still wrong. "Appear not to know correct English" would be better, though as you say, still a tad clumsy.
Actually, I think that's the issue, these people type very slowly. Most schools don't properly teach typing at a young age because it only recently changed from being a skill only secretaries needed. For these people, u for you really does save time, and so does eliminating capitalization, because they hunt and peck.
Isn't that called a "record?"
I agree with the folks who tell you to stick with the Uplift books. I would say that really, everything of his I've read has been pretty good. One in particular I urge you not to overlook is Heart of the Comet. A collaboration with Gregory Benford, it starts off as a fairly mundane "expedition finds life on Haley's Comet" story, but then really gets interesting.
No, actually, the military said those would be the only conditions under which they would sell one. Pepsi won the case, so they didn't have to give the guy anything. If they had lost, yeah, something like that probably would have happened.
Sorry, Slashdot stripped my link. Let's try again: he lost the case.
Actually, you could buy pepsi points for $0.10 each, so it was only $700,000 (plust $10 for shipping and handling). Apparently though, he lost the case.
Do you get 1700 mhz clock speed with your G4? You're comparing different processors, and in all the tests I've seen, aside of course from the photoshop tests, modern G4 processors are significantly slower than modern x86 processors.
According to the website, the CPU is $400, not $200. Adding $200 to the above sum gives me $1080. So it is, in fact, more expensive than buying from Apple.
Ouch, given that an Athlon XP 2000+ can be had for under $100, it sounds like you're still paying Apple prices.
It ain't free software. I'll stick with the distros that actually care about the community that supports them.
Spam, on the other hand, is delivered to you whether you want it or not. This would be more like if someone in Amsterdam were indiscriminantly mailing out free samples of pot to people in the US.
What Dmitry did was legal in Russia (writing software that violates the DMCA), but what his company did (offer it for sale to citizens of the USA) was illegal, and they knew it. I'm opposed to the DMCA on general priciple, so I hope they don't end up getting in trouble for it, but let's not kid ourselves, the company (though again, probably not the individual) was breaking the law.