It's relevant to the defense claim of "fair use". There are four factors in determining whether fair use is applicable under U.S. law:
1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes
2. the nature of the copyrighted work
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work
As you can see, the fourth criterion weighs against the defense.
And the reason why 2^n-1 is prime implies n is prime is very easy to see when you use binary: if n were any composite number, say 6, then 2^n-1 in binary would be 111111 and so trivially divisible by 11 and 111.
Also, the story sounds suspiciously like the WWI incident when the German chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg supposedly called the 1839 Treaty of London "a mere scrap of paper".
Weston, the mad scientist, wants to colonize the (inhabited) planet of Mars - and justifies it on the grounds that humanity is a higher form of life than the Martians, as well as that of loyalty to one's own kind. There is a reasonable plot summary at Wikipedia (see especially the section "Weston's speech and its translation"). Of course, if Mars did have intelligent inhabitants, the grandparent's premise concerning the need to preserve our possibly unique intelligent species would no longer hold.
And this article argues that the destruction was gradual, and may have been as much due to physical deterioration of the scrolls over time as any act of violence.
Like models, hackers wear a lot of black, think they are more famous than they are, and their career effectively ends at age 30. Either way, upon entering one's third decade, it is time to put down the disassembler and consider a relaxing job in management.
Hate to nitpick, but one enters one's third decade upon turning 20!
In other words, their attitude is identical to Richard Nixon's. He claimed that "when the president does it, that means it is not illegal" in a 1977 interviewwith David Frost .
Morphy became paranoid after his retirement - he believed e.g. his brother-in-law was trying to cheat him of his inheritance, and conspiring with a friend named Binder to kill him and/or steal his clothes! Ernest Jones wrote a paper about him called "The Problem of Paul Morphy".
As to Steinitz, he became psychotic twice, the first time after he lost the championship (and the return match). He believed he could make telephone calls without a telephone, and that he could move chess pieces without touching them by electrical currents emitted from his body. His wife committed him to an asylum. I don't know whether he had syphilis or not, though that could explain quite a bit - references I've found seem uncertain.
They're both discussed in Reuben Fine's The Psychology of the Chess Player, if you can find a copy.
Oh, I agree in general about the dubious canonicity of Tolkien's Letters, but the point was that all the available evidence points in the same direction (and some of it comes from the text of LotR itself). The FAQ author discusses such caveats here: http://tolkien.slimy.com/faq/External.html#Canon
But since the evidence I linked was in support of your position, I'm not even sure why we're arguing; [smacks forehead] oh, right, this is Slashdot! That explains it.
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"Choose your enemy well, for you will come to resemble him."
Supernews and (I'm told) news.individual.net both have excellent spam filtering.
And now he's resigned his position over what was a misunderstanding to begin with.
Are you implying there's some sort of list of Slashdot-standard errors in English? That's rediculous!
As you can see, the fourth criterion weighs against the defense.
You'll love this page then. It includes a supposedly complete list of the "Janus words" in English.
A recent Language Log post about it
But mammals evolved at about the same time dinosaurs did - see e.g. http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/dinosaurs/dn9936-top-10-dinosaur-myths.html#2 or http://museumvictoria.com.au/dinosaurs/milestones_mesozoic.html
And the reason why 2^n-1 is prime implies n is prime is very easy to see when you use binary: if n were any composite number, say 6, then 2^n-1 in binary would be 111111 and so trivially divisible by 11 and 111.
Also, the story sounds suspiciously like the WWI incident when the German chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg supposedly called the 1839 Treaty of London "a mere scrap of paper".
Weston, the mad scientist, wants to colonize the (inhabited) planet of Mars - and justifies it on the grounds that humanity is a higher form of life than the Martians, as well as that of loyalty to one's own kind. There is a reasonable plot summary at Wikipedia (see especially the section "Weston's speech and its translation"). Of course, if Mars did have intelligent inhabitants, the grandparent's premise concerning the need to preserve our possibly unique intelligent species would no longer hold.
I'm surprised no one seems to have linked to the source of that saying.
And this article argues that the destruction was gradual, and may have been as much due to physical deterioration of the scrolls over time as any act of violence.
Like models, hackers wear a lot of black, think they are more famous than they are, and their career effectively ends at age 30. Either way, upon entering one's third decade, it is time to put down the disassembler and consider a relaxing job in management.
Hate to nitpick, but one enters one's third decade upon turning 20!
The purpose? It's possible for both purposes to be legitimate.
Kernel hackers from my culture can only count "1-4, 5-6, many", you insensitive clod!
According to TFA, that is exactly what AT&T is doing.
Another fun fact: the diacritical mark on the s is called the "caron" or "hacek".
But B12 can be obtained from pills - which are still vegan since they are produced by microbes. http://www.veganhealth.org/articles/everyvegan/
In other words, their attitude is identical to Richard Nixon's. He claimed that "when the president does it, that means it is not illegal" in a 1977 interviewwith David Frost .
Nitpick: shouldn't that be "apologies to Damon Knight"?
Of course it's a parody site! They took in quite a few people with an article on the evils of Apple computers - see http://www.answers.com/topic/objective-ministries for the details.
Morphy became paranoid after his retirement - he believed e.g. his brother-in-law was trying to cheat him of his inheritance, and conspiring with a friend named Binder to kill him and/or steal his clothes! Ernest Jones wrote a paper about him called "The Problem of Paul Morphy".
As to Steinitz, he became psychotic twice, the first time after he lost the championship (and the return match). He believed he could make telephone calls without a telephone, and that he could move chess pieces without touching them by electrical currents emitted from his body. His wife committed him to an asylum. I don't know whether he had syphilis or not, though that could explain quite a bit - references I've found seem uncertain.
They're both discussed in Reuben Fine's The Psychology of the Chess Player, if you can find a copy.
There were other chess champions before Fischer who became insane - notably Paul Morphy and Wilhelm Steinitz.
Oh, I agree in general about the dubious canonicity of Tolkien's Letters, but the point was that all the available evidence points in the same direction (and some of it comes from the text of LotR itself). The FAQ author discusses such caveats here: http://tolkien.slimy.com/faq/External.html#Canon
But since the evidence I linked was in support of your position, I'm not even sure why we're arguing; [smacks forehead] oh, right, this is Slashdot! That explains it.