Silly producers, they had to purchase IP rights from the game owners... we could increase our margin by using a public-domain game and make a FORTUNE! Some suggestions for forthcoming movies: - checkers - tic-tac-toe - go
> Billions have been wasted rewriting the same code (at times in roundabout ways) just to avoid copyLEFT restrictions!
Billions have been wasted rewriting the same code (at times in roundabout ways) just to avoid proprietary restrictions, too. People who want to use copyleft code only have to release their changes, it's not such a big deal... From the point of view of the software ecosystem, I'd say that the GNU toolchain has given birth to what I consider the most successful open-source project ever, namely Linux (probably a billion-dollar success overall), mostly under the GPL. From an industrial point of view, copyleft hasn't harmed Google too much, and Apple is definitely not a model for free software.
> I think that free and transparent will prevail, that is Google Scholar.
I agree about the free part, but "transparent"? Not really. How do you know what's in GS or not? How do you correct inaccurate data when you notice it? There are so many questions about the under-the-hood working of GS that I'd like to ask...
> Tolkien actually enjoyed hard sf, especially Asimov
Huh? Could you please tell us your evidence for this? I was under the impression (based on JRRT's letters and novels) that he wasn't too keen on technology and the so-called modern world. So I have some difficulty imagining him interested in a distant future filled with spaceships and robots.
> Publishing articles nowadays is terribly easy and does not cost a thing (arxiv)
Note that this is no longer accurate: Arxiv is now asking universities worldwide for donations. It isn't a mandatory license fee and it only amounts to a handful of commercial journal subscriptions, but it is no longer "not a thing".
> Some UN fixes I can think of are 1) t 1) the invasion of Normandy in 1942 and the subsequent war in Europe against Germany
Sorry, but huh? - the invasion of Normandy took place in 1944. There was a raid on the city of Dieppe in 1942, performed by Canadian forces under British command, but it was a complete failure. - the United Nations didn't really exist until 1945, at which time they mostly meant "the WW2 winners"
Doen't string theory (supposed to be predicting the behavior of spacetime at very high energies as far as could understand from popular science books) claim that there are more dimensions than the 4 we observe, rather than less? I'm confused...
Smartphones are only one generation away from achieving console-like performance. Counting in IT generations that's what, 2 years? Sony should be worried.
> Google Scholar is the most comprehensive index of scholarly articles in the world, period.
You can't possibly know that, as Google doesn't tell us exactly what's covered by GS.
> Not only are there no free alternatives, there are no alternatives at all.
Wrong. The Web of Knowledge and Scopus (commercial) and Scirus (free) are perfectly valid alternatives. Furthermore, a number of studies in various fields have shown that all of these tools, as well as GS, usually return a number of hits that were not found by the others (again, including GS). Therefore, they can always be seen as complementing each other.
What you cound argue, on another hand, is that GS offers the best quality/price ratio. I for one would accept that.
> I wonder how foolish scientists will be as to unknowingly forfeit their copyrights, IP, etc.
I assume you're not aware that they already do just that when they publish an article in most scientific journals? The publisher owns the copyright to the article, not the authors.
I think the usage in question certainly falls under 'fair use.' It certainly fits into the norms in the scientific community.
It certainly does. It even fits into the norms of law.
Even though the journals are part owners (or sometimes full owners) of the copyright of papers, it's very normal for scientists to email each other PDFs, post copies on their websites, reproduce graphs in presentations, and so on. This is not only considered "fair" but very much considered "necessary" to maintaining healthy progress in science.
As a librarian and a scientist, I have to say that was passes as "fair" in the norms of the scientific community is unfortunately not always the same as reality. In particular, e-mailing or posting PDF copies of article journals on one's web site is generally not allowed by the publishers. This is slowly changing as the publishers are starting to recognize that their customers will not accept such fascist policies for too long (and this is obviously a very good thing) but there are often special conditions on these open-access articles: only possible XX months after publication, or based on the author's manuscript and not the published PDF, or including proper acknowledgement of the publisher's copyright... many different schemes exist depending on the publisher. Usually, scientists are totally unaware of these conditions, though,
I for one sincerely hope that SCO won't have the excuse of going bankrupt before the trial actually starts. I seriously want to see IBM's lawyers destroy them in front of a jury! It would really be a pity if Darl & Co. could go on whining about how they would have won if they hadn't had to quit for financial reasons.
The ADS shoots a beam of millimeters waves, which are longer in wavelength than x-rays but shorter than microwaves -- 94 GHz (= 3 mm wavelength) compared to 2.45 GHz (= 12 cm wavelength) in a standard microwave oven... These waves are not "shorter in wavelength than microwaves", they ARE microwaves (W-band frequency range). The accepted microwave domain among electromagnetic radiation is between ca. 30 and 0.3 cm wavelength. And on shorter wavelengths comes infrared radiation, not X-rays as TFA might suggest.
> there might be some gpl issues integrating it into the kernel Only if they want to re-use the Linux kernel code; otherwise I guess they are free to implement it from scratch, the specs should be open enough.
I am anxiously awaiting the moment where IBM lawyers get to dissect SCO's line of reasoning from beginning to end
This assumes that reasonably sane people will actually be able to figure out what passes for a line of reasoning at SCO. IMHO there would be a better chance if you could round up a bunch of schizos from the nearest asylum, and then maybe... just maybe.
Anyone here played Paranoia (see here for more details) role-playing game? Some of those think tanks defend such unbelievable ideals that they remind me of the good old secret societies in the game!
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as opposed to what? Smartly shifting the taxpayer's money to the bank account of the world's richest man?
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Have you heard about Zotero http://www.zotero.org and Mendeley https://www.mendeley.com/ ? They're both much better than Endnote IMHO.
Silly producers, they had to purchase IP rights from the game owners... we could increase our margin by using a public-domain game and make a FORTUNE!
Some suggestions for forthcoming movies:
- checkers
- tic-tac-toe
- go
> Billions have been wasted rewriting the same code (at times in roundabout ways) just to avoid copyLEFT restrictions!
Billions have been wasted rewriting the same code (at times in roundabout ways) just to avoid proprietary restrictions, too. People who want to use copyleft code only have to release their changes, it's not such a big deal...
From the point of view of the software ecosystem, I'd say that the GNU toolchain has given birth to what I consider the most successful open-source project ever, namely Linux (probably a billion-dollar success overall), mostly under the GPL. From an industrial point of view, copyleft hasn't harmed Google too much, and Apple is definitely not a model for free software.
> I think that free and transparent will prevail, that is Google Scholar.
I agree about the free part, but "transparent"? Not really. How do you know what's in GS or not? How do you correct inaccurate data when you notice it? There are so many questions about the under-the-hood working of GS that I'd like to ask...
Because the most offending importer belongs to the same parent company as the main French publishing company.
> Tolkien actually enjoyed hard sf, especially Asimov
Huh? Could you please tell us your evidence for this? I was under the impression (based on JRRT's letters and novels) that he wasn't too keen on technology and the so-called modern world. So I have some difficulty imagining him interested in a distant future filled with spaceships and robots.
> Publishing articles nowadays is terribly easy and does not cost a thing (arxiv)
Note that this is no longer accurate: Arxiv is now asking universities worldwide for donations. It isn't a mandatory license fee and it only amounts to a handful of commercial journal subscriptions, but it is no longer "not a thing".
> Some UN fixes I can think of are 1) t 1) the invasion of Normandy in 1942 and the subsequent war in Europe against Germany
Sorry, but huh?
- the invasion of Normandy took place in 1944. There was a raid on the city of Dieppe in 1942, performed by Canadian forces under British command, but it was a complete failure.
- the United Nations didn't really exist until 1945, at which time they mostly meant "the WW2 winners"
What does it have to do with the UN?
library scientist
Eh????
In case it wasn't sarcasm but genuine surprise, yes, there are such beasts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_science
Doen't string theory (supposed to be predicting the behavior of spacetime at very high energies as far as could understand from popular science books) claim that there are more dimensions than the 4 we observe, rather than less? I'm confused...
Smartphones are only one generation away from achieving console-like performance. Counting in IT generations that's what, 2 years? Sony should be worried.
Not to mention the peer referees who were supposed to review the manuscript before it was accepted for publication...
> Google Scholar is the most comprehensive index of scholarly articles in the world, period.
You can't possibly know that, as Google doesn't tell us exactly what's covered by GS.
> Not only are there no free alternatives, there are no alternatives at all.
Wrong. The Web of Knowledge and Scopus (commercial) and Scirus (free) are perfectly valid alternatives. Furthermore, a number of studies in various fields have shown that all of these tools, as well as GS, usually return a number of hits that were not found by the others (again, including GS). Therefore, they can always be seen as complementing each other.
What you cound argue, on another hand, is that GS offers the best quality/price ratio. I for one would accept that.
> I wonder how foolish scientists will be as to unknowingly forfeit their copyrights, IP, etc.
I assume you're not aware that they already do just that when they publish an article in most scientific journals? The publisher owns the copyright to the article, not the authors.
> there was a continual barrage of horribly misspelled postings, lots of retarded "lols" and all that jazz
./ instead? Your logic escapes me.
So you came back to
I think the usage in question certainly falls under 'fair use.' It certainly fits into the norms in the scientific community.
It certainly does. It even fits into the norms of law.
Even though the journals are part owners (or sometimes full owners) of the copyright of papers, it's very normal for scientists to email each other PDFs, post copies on their websites, reproduce graphs in presentations, and so on. This is not only considered "fair" but very much considered "necessary" to maintaining healthy progress in science.
As a librarian and a scientist, I have to say that was passes as "fair" in the norms of the scientific community is unfortunately not always the same as reality. In particular, e-mailing or posting PDF copies of article journals on one's web site is generally not allowed by the publishers. This is slowly changing as the publishers are starting to recognize that their customers will not accept such fascist policies for too long (and this is obviously a very good thing) but there are often special conditions on these open-access articles: only possible XX months after publication, or based on the author's manuscript and not the published PDF, or including proper acknowledgement of the publisher's copyright... many different schemes exist depending on the publisher. Usually, scientists are totally unaware of these conditions, though,
I for one sincerely hope that SCO won't have the excuse of going bankrupt before the trial actually starts. I seriously want to see IBM's lawyers destroy them in front of a jury! It would really be a pity if Darl & Co. could go on whining about how they would have won if they hadn't had to quit for financial reasons.
The ADS shoots a beam of millimeters waves, which are longer in wavelength than x-rays but shorter than microwaves -- 94 GHz (= 3 mm wavelength) compared to 2.45 GHz (= 12 cm wavelength) in a standard microwave oven...
These waves are not "shorter in wavelength than microwaves", they ARE microwaves (W-band frequency range). The accepted microwave domain among electromagnetic radiation is between ca. 30 and 0.3 cm wavelength. And on shorter wavelengths comes infrared radiation, not X-rays as TFA might suggest.
"You can say "I just made a copy" but that does not change the fact that you accessed something I should have been paid for to enable your access"
Hmm, doesn't sound like theft to me. Rather like fare-dodging...
> there might be some gpl issues integrating it into the kernel
Only if they want to re-use the Linux kernel code; otherwise I guess they are free to implement it from scratch, the specs should be open enough.
I am anxiously awaiting the moment where IBM lawyers get to dissect SCO's line of reasoning from beginning to end
This assumes that reasonably sane people will actually be able to figure out what passes for a line of reasoning at SCO. IMHO there would be a better chance if you could round up a bunch of schizos from the nearest asylum, and then maybe... just maybe.
Don't forget Darl McBride as the Mouth of Sauron!
Ooops, you're right AC. I had forgotten about that! And yet the man officially lives less than 10 km away from me...
However, Ingvar Kamprad denies reports that he has surpassed Billy Boy.
Anyone here played Paranoia (see here for more details) role-playing game? Some of those think tanks defend such unbelievable ideals that they remind me of the good old secret societies in the game!
as opposed to what? Smartly shifting the taxpayer's money to the bank account of the world's richest man?