If derivative works weren't protected, then all those VCD copies of movies with watermarks added would be perfectly legal, because they weren't exact duplicates, they were derived works.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
IANAL, but all derivative works of a copyright are protected, correct? So just copyrighting one version ought to give you some protection for all subsequent versions as well, as long as some code remains the same.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Steve Jackson Games pulled a brilliant one. First, they spread a (true) rumor about an upcoming product. Then, on April 1, they announce that the rumor was an April Fool's joke. Then, on April 2nd, they announce that yesterday's announcement was the real joke.
It's clever, because people think of claims, not denials, as being the usual April Fools day fodder.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Money Mischief, Episodes in Monetary History, by Milton Friedman, is a excellent book on how money works, and the various ways it has been screwed up over the centuries. In the beginning of it, he talks about a (true) society which used giant rocks as currency.
What you have to remember about money is that it is simply social contract. Instead of giving you a cow in exchange for your sheep, I'm giving you something that you know will allow you to obtain something of equal or lesser value from someone else. Gold, paper, computer digits, it doesn't matter as long as it's secure.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Given that we've already been essentially funding the entire ISS, giving even more money to the contries that still can't finish their ISS modules for double what it cost us to build ours seems pretty stupid.
The best solution is to let whoever can afford to go into space do it, so long as it does not pose a threat to those back on Earth. This will speed technological development, which will open space to those aforementioned underdeveloped countries.
"Some things are best left under state control" my ass.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
The GPL, unlike certain other licenses, does not require that all changes be redistributed. You are perfectly free to keep altered source code to yourself, AS LONG AS YOU DON'T DISTRIBUTE THE BINARY. Anyone who's given the binary must also be given availablility to the source code.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Okay, so this guy has a million stolen credit cards, and you don't think he's made/bought a couple of fake IDs with made up names? As for *69, this guy doesn't sound too bright, so maybe he never really tested it?
Anyway, I'm not saying you're wrong, it does seem a little fishy, but on the surface the facts seem reasonable enough.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Yes, there was a bubble in the 80's. But what about the period from 1850 to 1980? Their economy was still growing at more than double the rate of the US over that period. That was what I was speaking of when I referred to their high savings rate and long work hours. High savings rate lowers interest rates, which fuels economic growth. Lack of investment capital is what keeps many 3rd world countries where they are.
As for why they need a freer society, look at their continued inability to recover from their depression. It's been 10 years since the collapse, and the Nikkei is at what, 13,000? (Down from a high of around 40,000.) I believe that this is due in a large part to the deep links between their government and their industry, though I suppose others may disagree.
He didn't just say "oh, it's been published by others, I'll go ahead and break the story too." He gave them an additional two days to get back to him, and the fact that they didn't suggests that they probably never will. After 5.5 days, if a company hasn't responded to a message, they have probably chosen to ignore it.
I am actually quite impressed with the journalisitic merits of this article, and I'm happy that Slashdot has started putting more research into their stories.
You pretty much hit the nail on the head. The Japanese have had GDP growth of about 9% annually in the period from 1850 to 1985. Compare that to average US growth in the same period of 2.5-3%. The Japanese were willing to spend their whole lives working, and saved all the money they made (two sure ways to economic success).
Unfortunately, they never created a solid business model. Hard work and frugality will get you a long way, but with their concept of lifetime employment people often ended up in the wrong jobs, were unproductive, and spent more time posturing than working.
They also have no idea how to deal with the international community. They tend to deal with businessmen from other countries as though they were Japanese, and so they fail miserably. Look at how they handled DC. It was doing fairly well here in America. Why not merely discontinue production in Japan? Or if they don't want to deal with it themselves, why not spin off a DC America company?
Anyway, the disaster that is Japan is one of the strongest arguments in favor of free markets and a well designed democracy there is.
Yes, as others have pointed out this is a fairly alarmist article, but nevertheless, Freenet is the one system designed for true security. Let's make sure this thing gets stable before the RIAA starts hunting down Gnutella IPs.
Seriously, the Euro has fallen to a fraction of its original value. The European Union is a failure, and not terribly surprising at that, as language barriers are one of the most powerful dividing forces in the world.
So what if it only influenced other tetris clones? There were MILLIONS of them. Furthermore, it was one of the only games to date that has had strong appeal to women. I consider it to have had a big effect, even if only by spawning a new genre.
The iso uses GPL'ed code, and hence is also covered by the GPL. That's why it's called a "viral license," because it infects everything it comes in contact with.
You're right! Drilling for oil will not help California produce more power. They're completely seperate issues. Let me try this again.
Drilling for oil in Alaska increases the supply of oil.
Increased supply, without increased demand, means lower prices.
Lower prices mean smaller profits for oil companies.
As for California, that's a completely seperate issue which is mainly due to poor energy regulation (consumer prices are regulated, but supply prices are not, so a minor increase in wholesale energy prices drives all the utilites out of business).
This doesn't even make any sense, who modded this up? Bush is talking about drilling in the Alaskan Wildlife Preserve for chrissake! Sure, accuse him of being shortsighted and not environmental enough (I'm not saying he is, but I'm saying that such a case could be made), but he's definately NOT restricting oil supplies.
As for the rest, California energy consumption has increased dramatically over the last 5-10 years, but due to regulations, power companies have been unable to build more plants. The prices are frozen, so by not producing power, the power companies would have much lower profits. They can only make money when they sell their product.
Don't get too excited. All an electric car does is moves the power generation from the inside of your car to a powerplant outside your city, which probably produces more pollution by burning coal. Better car performance is cool, but this doesn't have any environmental benefits.
Sure, to Americans there may seem like an awful lot of job security, but think about it from the Japanese perspective. These people have been lead from birth to believe that the company that hires them out of college is the company that they will work for for the rest of their lives. When people are fired in Japan, it is a horrible disgrace. This is one of the reasons they've been in a decade long recession; a lot of their skilled workers commit suicide upon being laid off, so there's no reserve of cheap labor to start digging them out.
This from a guy who worked on the A-bomb?
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Okay, putting aside the y is male not female mistake for the moment, your underlying argument is still wrong. Sex may be an expressed characteristic, but it still does nothing more than affect the PROBABLIITY that you will have an accident. The Y chromosome could be thought of as the "potential" to have more car accidents. I'm sure there are plenty of men who have none, just as there are plenty of people with genetic tendancies toward cancer that never have a problem.
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If derivative works weren't protected, then all those VCD copies of movies with watermarks added would be perfectly legal, because they weren't exact duplicates, they were derived works.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
IANAL, but all derivative works of a copyright are protected, correct? So just copyrighting one version ought to give you some protection for all subsequent versions as well, as long as some code remains the same.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
It's clever, because people think of claims, not denials, as being the usual April Fools day fodder.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
What you have to remember about money is that it is simply social contract. Instead of giving you a cow in exchange for your sheep, I'm giving you something that you know will allow you to obtain something of equal or lesser value from someone else. Gold, paper, computer digits, it doesn't matter as long as it's secure.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
The best solution is to let whoever can afford to go into space do it, so long as it does not pose a threat to those back on Earth. This will speed technological development, which will open space to those aforementioned underdeveloped countries.
"Some things are best left under state control" my ass.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
The GPL, unlike certain other licenses, does not require that all changes be redistributed. You are perfectly free to keep altered source code to yourself, AS LONG AS YOU DON'T DISTRIBUTE THE BINARY. Anyone who's given the binary must also be given availablility to the source code.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
'nuff said.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
So add her. That's the exact point of Everything. Everyone adds whatever hasn't been listed that they know about. It's cool, check it out.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Just kidding, congrats. E2 is kinda neat, I like it.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Anyway, I'm not saying you're wrong, it does seem a little fishy, but on the surface the facts seem reasonable enough.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
As for why they need a freer society, look at their continued inability to recover from their depression. It's been 10 years since the collapse, and the Nikkei is at what, 13,000? (Down from a high of around 40,000.) I believe that this is due in a large part to the deep links between their government and their industry, though I suppose others may disagree.
I am actually quite impressed with the journalisitic merits of this article, and I'm happy that Slashdot has started putting more research into their stories.
Unfortunately, they never created a solid business model. Hard work and frugality will get you a long way, but with their concept of lifetime employment people often ended up in the wrong jobs, were unproductive, and spent more time posturing than working.
They also have no idea how to deal with the international community. They tend to deal with businessmen from other countries as though they were Japanese, and so they fail miserably. Look at how they handled DC. It was doing fairly well here in America. Why not merely discontinue production in Japan? Or if they don't want to deal with it themselves, why not spin off a DC America company?
Anyway, the disaster that is Japan is one of the strongest arguments in favor of free markets and a well designed democracy there is.
Yes, as others have pointed out this is a fairly alarmist article, but nevertheless, Freenet is the one system designed for true security. Let's make sure this thing gets stable before the RIAA starts hunting down Gnutella IPs.
Seriously, the Euro has fallen to a fraction of its original value. The European Union is a failure, and not terribly surprising at that, as language barriers are one of the most powerful dividing forces in the world.
So what if it only influenced other tetris clones? There were MILLIONS of them. Furthermore, it was one of the only games to date that has had strong appeal to women. I consider it to have had a big effect, even if only by spawning a new genre.
The iso uses GPL'ed code, and hence is also covered by the GPL. That's why it's called a "viral license," because it infects everything it comes in contact with.
Now is that cool or what?
Drilling for oil in Alaska increases the supply of oil.
Increased supply, without increased demand, means lower prices.
Lower prices mean smaller profits for oil companies.
As for California, that's a completely seperate issue which is mainly due to poor energy regulation (consumer prices are regulated, but supply prices are not, so a minor increase in wholesale energy prices drives all the utilites out of business).
As for the rest, California energy consumption has increased dramatically over the last 5-10 years, but due to regulations, power companies have been unable to build more plants. The prices are frozen, so by not producing power, the power companies would have much lower profits. They can only make money when they sell their product.
Hope I didn't shatter anyone's illusions :)
Sure, to Americans there may seem like an awful lot of job security, but think about it from the Japanese perspective. These people have been lead from birth to believe that the company that hires them out of college is the company that they will work for for the rest of their lives. When people are fired in Japan, it is a horrible disgrace. This is one of the reasons they've been in a decade long recession; a lot of their skilled workers commit suicide upon being laid off, so there's no reserve of cheap labor to start digging them out.
Need I say more?
Was an NES game... SMB 4, aka Super Mario World, was the first game for the SNES. Just thought I'd clear that up.
Okay, putting aside the y is male not female mistake for the moment, your underlying argument is still wrong. Sex may be an expressed characteristic, but it still does nothing more than affect the PROBABLIITY that you will have an accident. The Y chromosome could be thought of as the "potential" to have more car accidents. I'm sure there are plenty of men who have none, just as there are plenty of people with genetic tendancies toward cancer that never have a problem.