Maybe they should rather make up their own minds. Much as I agree with the EFF and the FSF, they do have their own agendas.
There is a world of difference between asking asking the opinion of organizations like the EFF, who are open about where they stand, and a supposedly independent analyst who is secretly paid by Microsoft to say what he says.
The problem is hidden bias, not bias. The opinion of people with an acknowledged interest in a subject is often valuable; for example getting a comment from Microsoft in an article about a bug in Windows will often be relevant. Knowing Microsoft's bias makes you able to take their comment with the appropriate grain of salt, but still get useful information. The opinion of people pretending to be neutral but having hidden bias is designed to mislead you, getting the companies line present as the one and only neutral truth.
A model release, known in similar contexts as a liability waiver, is a legal document typically signed by the subject of a photograph granting the photographer permission to publish the photograph in one form or another. The legal rights of the signatories in reference to the material is thereafter subject to the allowances and restrictions stated in the release, and also possibly in exchange for compensation paid to the photographed.
Publishing an identifiable photo of a person without a model release signed by that person can result in civil liability for the photographer.
Note that the issue of model release forms and liability waivers is a legal area related to privacy and is separate from copyright. Also, the need for model releases pertains to public use of the photos: i.e., publishing them, commercially or not. The act of taking a photo of someone in a public setting without a model release, or of viewing or noncommercially showing such a photo in private, generally does not create legal exposure, at least in the United States.
The legal issues surrounding model releases are complex and vary by jurisdiction. Photographers working in areas of concern should consult specialized references or professionals to better understand their rights and responsibilities.
I am guessing that the degree to which you are in the focus of the image has something to say. If I am guessing correctly, taking pictures of houses where you happen to be would make model release not apply.
5. Ballmer can see both the Linux/OS programmers' code and Microsoft's. 6. Ballmer is therefore the only party able to give the infringers what they need to know to stop damaging shareholders' interests.
This is patents we are talking about, not copyrights. Part of the patent application process is that the patents are made public. The patent applications which details what the patents are covering are public domain, and therefore perfectly available to open source programmers.
As described by Ars Technica, the new NVIDIA G80 generation of GPUs are actually collections of general stream processors, a type of FPU. The GPU functionality is then programmed in software. The article from Ars Technica points out that "These threads could do anything from graphics and physics calculations to medical imaging or data visualization.". I assume the ATI GPU is moving in the same direction.
So what AMD is adding to x86-64 is probably not just a GPU, but a new powerful general purpose massively parallel FPU.
"According to the Chinese delegate to the conference in Greece two weeks ago no sites are blocked."
Dishonesty like that just amaze. Who do they think they are fooling? To say something like that with a straight face you have to put no value on truth and honesty.
CAPTCHAs have to be relatively hard to solve if they are widely used. If a CAPCHA is not widely used then it can be quite simple, but still work.
A forum I administer has a CAPCHA which asks "what is six plus one" in plain text. Since the spammers do not have the time to manually solve the CAPCHA for a small site such as mine then the bots fail to get through. So if you inserted a small customized CAPTCHA on your site then it might do the trick.
It has been estimated that for 1.2B you could build the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, with a diameter of 100m. The OWL would by far more powerful than Hubble; among other things it should be able to directly image Earth-like planets in orbit around other stars.
I don't know what a shuttle mission+the equipment to fix Hubble will cost, but according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program #Costs total cost for the shuttle program alone divided by the number of launches gives 1.5B USD per launch.
My perspective is that using resources to fix Hubble is trying to hang on to past glory and success, instead of looking forward to the bigger future achievements there for the taking.
I tried compressing it with gzip, bzip2, and lzma programs. I tried posting the results, but they do not fit within the lameness filter:(.
The best result was with lzma, the algorithm used by 7zip, which got it down to 25,188,131 bytes. So the 17MB achieved in this contest is pretty impressive.
Quoting this is seems very possible that stuff like that could have been passed unnoticed:
Instead of dealing with its chief constitutional duty -- approving all government spending -- Congress devotes its time to dumb bullshit. "This Congress spent a week and a half debating Terri Schiavo -- it never made appropriations a priority," says Hughes. In fact, Congress leaves itself so little time to pass the real appropriations bills that it winds up rolling them all into one giant monstrosity known as an Omnibus bill and passing it with little or no debate. Rolling eight-elevenths of all federal spending into a single bill that hits the floor a day or two before the fiscal year ends does not leave much room to check the fine print. "It allows a lot more leeway for fiscal irresponsibility," says Hughes.
A few years ago, when Democratic staffers in the Senate were frantically poring over a massive Omnibus bill they had been handed the night before the scheduled vote, they discovered a tiny provision that had not been in any of the previous versions. The item would have given senators on the Appropriations Committee access to the private records of any taxpayer -- essentially endowing a few selected hacks in the Senate with the license to snoop into the private financial information of all Americans.
"We were like, 'What the hell is this?' ?says one Democratic aide familiar with the incident. "It was the most egregious thing imaginable. It was just lucky we caught them."
If you really need to get gemstones to invest in, I would recommend rubies or sapphires
Emm, they can be made synthetically, pretty cheaply I think. I would not pay lots of money for something which has so little claim to being scarce. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire
Could the US grow enough sugar cane in its more tropical parts? Aren't there other crops besides corn and sugar cane which are oily enough to produce ethanol economically? Say, switch grass or hemp?
Don't forget that Americans have hummers - They use way more oil per person than Brazillians, and probably anybody else on the planet.
Meanwhile, SCO is hanging on like a punch-drunk prizefighter; if they let their guard down for even a second, they're gonna get CLOBBERED.
By reading groklaw, I get the distinct impression that SCO is letting their guard down all the time, and getting clobbered. Things like this story is random misplaced punches which they make because they are so grokky from begin clobbered.
It just happen to be so that we don't get an official list of punches untill the referee (judge) announces the scorecard.
Except that the worst estimates say that if we switched over to 100% nuclear today, we'd have about 100 years of fuel for the most basic power plants.
The cost of uranium is a very small part of the cost of running a nuclear plant. So we can afford to use exotic and expensive mining methods.
So for example we can use Uranium recovery from seawater, which has been demonstrated. There are huge amounts of uranium in seawater. Combine that with reprocessing, and the problem i solved.
Have you ever heard of things called "propaganda"?
If you are trying to imply something then I don't get it.
And to me, "cancellation" and "postpone indefinitely" sound very much like the same thing; the two terms seems to me to be equivalent in terms of actual consequences. Hence I think that translating NASA's "postpone indefinitely" into "cancelled" is not misleading. (see also the article I linked)
Slashdot Mirror
Here is one, on the ASF video file format: http://www.advogato.org/article/101.html
Maybe they should rather make up their own minds. Much as I agree with the EFF and the FSF, they do have their own agendas.
There is a world of difference between asking asking the opinion of organizations like the EFF, who are open about where they stand, and a supposedly independent analyst who is secretly paid by Microsoft to say what he says.
The problem is hidden bias, not bias. The opinion of people with an acknowledged interest in a subject is often valuable; for example getting a comment from Microsoft in an article about a bug in Windows will often be relevant. Knowing Microsoft's bias makes you able to take their comment with the appropriate grain of salt, but still get useful information. The opinion of people pretending to be neutral but having hidden bias is designed to mislead you, getting the companies line present as the one and only neutral truth.
http://www.supermediastore.com/super-talent-super- flash-16gb-ide-flash-drive.html
16GiB IDE flash drive for $500.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_release :
A model release, known in similar contexts as a liability waiver, is a legal document typically signed by the subject of a photograph granting the photographer permission to publish the photograph in one form or another. The legal rights of the signatories in reference to the material is thereafter subject to the allowances and restrictions stated in the release, and also possibly in exchange for compensation paid to the photographed.
Publishing an identifiable photo of a person without a model release signed by that person can result in civil liability for the photographer.
Note that the issue of model release forms and liability waivers is a legal area related to privacy and is separate from copyright. Also, the need for model releases pertains to public use of the photos: i.e., publishing them, commercially or not. The act of taking a photo of someone in a public setting without a model release, or of viewing or noncommercially showing such a photo in private, generally does not create legal exposure, at least in the United States.
The legal issues surrounding model releases are complex and vary by jurisdiction. Photographers working in areas of concern should consult specialized references or professionals to better understand their rights and responsibilities.
I am guessing that the degree to which you are in the focus of the image has something to say. If I am guessing correctly, taking pictures of houses where you happen to be would make model release not apply.
http://www.argeniss.com/woodb.html I am guessing - I am still trying to figure out how he got the numbers out of it.
5. Ballmer can see both the Linux/OS programmers' code and Microsoft's.
6. Ballmer is therefore the only party able to give the infringers what they need to know to stop damaging shareholders' interests.
This is patents we are talking about, not copyrights. Part of the patent application process is that the patents are made public. The patent applications which details what the patents are covering are public domain, and therefore perfectly available to open source programmers.
The real question is what seasonings they use to cover up the taste
For the curious, Thallium is odorless and tasteless. I guess animals just don't evolve receptors for substances not usually found in nature.
But anyone can make educational material, so everyone can be a teacher. And DeCSS must be available in some form to enable that.
will let film professors copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations
Which you can only do by bypassing the copy protection. Does this make DeCSS legal, and the "no breaking encryption" clause of the DMCA void?
As described by Ars Technica, the new NVIDIA G80 generation of GPUs are actually collections of general stream processors, a type of FPU. The GPU functionality is then programmed in software. The article from Ars Technica points out that "These threads could do anything from graphics and physics calculations to medical imaging or data visualization.". I assume the ATI GPU is moving in the same direction.
So what AMD is adding to x86-64 is probably not just a GPU, but a new powerful general purpose massively parallel FPU.
"According to the Chinese delegate to the conference in Greece two weeks ago no sites are blocked."
Dishonesty like that just amaze. Who do they think they are fooling? To say something like that with a straight face you have to put no value on truth and honesty.
There is a better label to apply than the obviously wrong "Middle Eastern". The mentioned countries are all "Arabic".
CAPTCHAs have to be relatively hard to solve if they are widely used. If a CAPCHA is not widely used then it can be quite simple, but still work.
A forum I administer has a CAPCHA which asks "what is six plus one" in plain text. Since the spammers do not have the time to manually solve the CAPCHA for a small site such as mine then the bots fail to get through. So if you inserted a small customized CAPTCHA on your site then it might do the trick.
It has been estimated that for 1.2B you could build the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, with a diameter of 100m. The OWL would by far more powerful than Hubble; among other things it should be able to directly image Earth-like planets in orbit around other stars.
m #Costs total cost for the shuttle program alone divided by the number of launches gives 1.5B USD per launch.
I don't know what a shuttle mission+the equipment to fix Hubble will cost, but according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_progra
My perspective is that using resources to fix Hubble is trying to hang on to past glory and success, instead of looking forward to the bigger future achievements there for the taking.
I tried compressing it with gzip, bzip2, and lzma programs. I tried posting the results, but they do not fit within the lameness filter :(.
The best result was with lzma, the algorithm used by 7zip, which got it down to 25,188,131 bytes. So the 17MB achieved in this contest is pretty impressive.
Quoting this is seems very possible that stuff like that could have been passed unnoticed:
Instead of dealing with its chief constitutional duty -- approving all government spending -- Congress devotes its time to dumb bullshit. "This Congress spent a week and a half debating Terri Schiavo -- it never made appropriations a priority," says Hughes. In fact, Congress leaves itself so little time to pass the real appropriations bills that it winds up rolling them all into one giant monstrosity known as an Omnibus bill and passing it with little or no debate. Rolling eight-elevenths of all federal spending into a single bill that hits the floor a day or two before the fiscal year ends does not leave much room to check the fine print. "It allows a lot more leeway for fiscal irresponsibility," says Hughes.
A few years ago, when Democratic staffers in the Senate were frantically poring over a massive Omnibus bill they had been handed the night before the scheduled vote, they discovered a tiny provision that had not been in any of the previous versions. The item would have given senators on the Appropriations Committee access to the private records of any taxpayer -- essentially endowing a few selected hacks in the Senate with the license to snoop into the private financial information of all Americans.
"We were like, 'What the hell is this?' ?says one Democratic aide familiar with the incident. "It was the most egregious thing imaginable. It was just lucky we caught them."
If you really need to get gemstones to invest in, I would recommend rubies or sapphires
Emm, they can be made synthetically, pretty cheaply I think. I would not pay lots of money for something which has so little claim to being scarce. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire
"There are spelling differences between US and UK English."
Which is one of the reasons why you are able to download additional dictionaries in other languages.
I don't play WoW myself, but I liked the South Park episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBBbM2iFQ1g
Could the US grow enough sugar cane in its more tropical parts? Aren't there other crops besides corn and sugar cane which are oily enough to produce ethanol economically? Say, switch grass or hemp?
Don't forget that Americans have hummers - They use way more oil per person than Brazillians, and probably anybody else on the planet.
Deliberately infecting one self with hookworms has been shown to prevent allergy and auto-immume reactions.
See fx http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3287733.stm
Meanwhile, SCO is hanging on like a punch-drunk prizefighter; if they let their guard down for even a second, they're gonna get CLOBBERED.
By reading groklaw, I get the distinct impression that SCO is letting their guard down all the time, and getting clobbered. Things like this story is random misplaced punches which they make because they are so grokky from begin clobbered.
It just happen to be so that we don't get an official list of punches untill the referee (judge) announces the scorecard.
Except that the worst estimates say that if we switched over to 100% nuclear today, we'd have about 100 years of fuel for the most basic power plants.
The cost of uranium is a very small part of the cost of running a nuclear plant. So we can afford to use exotic and expensive mining methods.
So for example we can use Uranium recovery from seawater, which has been demonstrated. There are huge amounts of uranium in seawater. Combine that with reprocessing, and the problem i solved.
Have you ever heard of things called "propaganda"?
If you are trying to imply something then I don't get it.
And to me, "cancellation" and "postpone indefinitely" sound very much like the same thing; the two terms seems to me to be equivalent in terms of actual consequences. Hence I think that translating NASA's "postpone indefinitely" into "cancelled" is not misleading. (see also the article I linked)
The Terrestrial Planet Finder has been cancelled:2
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=109
So this list seems redundant. To bad, as it was NASA's most exciting project IMO.
But there is still ESA's Darwin, an essentially identical project, which is still scheduled for a 2015 launch as far as I am aware.