Your point would be valid if the requirement of the lawsuit was that the phrase be changed to "one nation, under no god". As it is, the lawsuit is asking that the government not affirm either belief in an officially required oath.
Except the product Sklyarov wrote was sold in the US
Why is sales an important factor? I think in the countries that would like to crack down on information, whether or not it was sold is irrelevant to them.
Anyplace where cable wasn't possible or allowed, like the trailer park I live in, is a great place to find old dishes. These people are more likely to have been early adopters of satellite TV, because their other choice was antenna. I have already picked up two Primestars, looking at a third, and probably going to be able to get a couple of dishes from a microwave TV company that went out of business when satellite got big, just in my park of 250 homes.
Most Linux users who need to send PDF instead of PS to their Windows friends use the tool ps2pdf or something similar. They create the original file using the postscript tools (or something that can convert to postscript such as xfig), and then use ps2pdf to convert to PDF.
There is also very little force exerted on a silicon wafer undergoing ion etching, but it certainly peels off those atoms. Going through the thin upper atmosphere at several thousand meters per second is similar.
So don't just bitch. Switch to Debian.
All free, all the time. No dependency problems any more. Fewer crashes than Redhat. More secure out of the box. I have used both, and this is my experience.
Kinko's offers high-volume scan-to-PDF solutions... at low volume, it is
usually a 10 - 25 per page and the cost of the media to copy it to, but in
large volume, sometimes the cost can go down to 1 per page.
They must not have told the blockhead managers here at the Boulder, Colorado Kinkos, cause they quoted me $1 per page, even at a volume of 5,000 pages.
In addition, he could protect his trademarks by creating royalty-free contracts with people who make fanflicks. Perhaps this would still be a dilution of the trademark, but really, should filmmakers be primarily concerned about the trademark rights in the characters? What does this say about their priorities?
Here is a congressional report about what happens when the government gets even a little too much power:
Final Report of the Select Committee to Study
Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence
Activities of the United States Senate, 94th Congress,
2nd Session, 1976
Sure, unless it's so completely inconvenient to pull a proper backup that a
reinstall is more manageable. For "modern" machines, this generally isn't
an issue, as most have some easy removable mass-storage available (eg:
CD-R/CD-RW, etc...) - but some older machines, particularly ones like my
laptop, fall into a bit of a weird area.
I also have an old (100 Mhz, 8 M ram, 800 M HD) laptop running Debian. The easiest way to do a full backup is to buy a $75 PCMCIA network card, boot into a floppy distro (such as mulinux), and use netcat (nc) to copy the raw partition over to a desktop computer (assuming you have one somewhere). To restore, netcat in the other direction. Can't get much easier than that. Here are the commands to do the backup:
The only extra thing you'll have to do on restore is run lilo from the floppy distro to set up the boot loader. I can guarantee you this method is dozens of times faster than a fresh install because I have done both.
However, if a minor buys a piece of software, it seems they are not bound to a EULA "contract". In this case, they still can't copy the software and give it to their friends (due to copyright law), but why can't they reverse-engineer it and distribute this information? After all, reverse-engineering is legal to do so for any piece of software if you haven't agreed not to in a contract. Or is it?
I think they're talking about the CD-audio standard, which doesn't have the same kind of error correction as ISO9660. You lose a few bits here and there when ripping a CD-audio, but if you have a clean CD, a Plextor CD drive, and cdparanoia, you won't lose much (if any) quality. After that, just keep it in ISO9660 and you'll never lose a bit.
So don't use it. I'm getting sick of people whining about this when there is something they can do about. Switch to Linux, BSD, Mac, or whatever else you want. If you're talking about computing at work, your employer owns your ass anyway, so you shouldn't be worried about computer licensing issues in that case. At home, you still have a choice (for now). Help break Microsoft's monopoly by taking the extra effort to boycott their products.
Should Authors be taxed by the gov't for the gov't's perceived value of an Author's work? If a book is out of
print and no longer being sold, should the gov't have the right to continue to tax the author simply because
the gov't feels that IP has value?
If I create a GPL'ed program, retain the copyright to it many folks the world over find it to be an incredibly
useful bit of code (one that helps lots of companies save money / generate revenue) should I (as the owner
of the IP) be taxed year after year because the gov't determines that bit of code has value?
Replace work, IP, and program with real property such as land, and you answered your own question. In other words, if we consider intellectual property the same as real property (as many intellectual property owners would like), then there is absolutely no reason it should not be taxed the same. Certainly the government uses percieved value of land to tax it, without regard for whether or not that land is generating the earnings it is capable of.
and by the way, does anyone know a good graphical equation editor
in linux? it would've made taking notes in probability and physics much easier and more useful...
I checked out the link on Standard ML. I am interested, but have two questions:
Which implementation of Standard ML do you prefer? I use Linux.
Will I still be able to compile my code in 15 years like I will with ANSI C or Fortran 90? I guess what I mean is are there set-in-stone ML standards that assure me that future tools will work with code I write now?
Since this word keeps being thrown about here, I though I would copy the dict definition of theft for you, since many of you don't seem to be able to do it yourselves:
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Theft \Theft\, n.
1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious
taking and removing of personal property, with an intent
to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the
owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious;
every part of the property stolen must be removed,
however slightly, from its former position; and it must
be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of
the thief. See {Larceny}, and the Note under {Robbery}.
By this definition, the word theft has not been used correctly in this discussion. By the way, the bottom of the dict definition for stealing says "See THEFT".
I don't think you could use a "low-end" Pentium to capture 5 cameras each with 5 fps. My 500 Mhz machine can just barely do 25 fps... and that's raw to the hard disk. But maybe you can get higher rates running through an encoder first before going to hard disk? Which encoder do you use?
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Your point would be valid if the requirement of the
lawsuit was that the phrase be changed to
"one nation, under no god". As it is, the lawsuit
is asking that the government not affirm either
belief in an officially required oath.
Shit.
I loved that station. It was better than anything on the "real" radio.
Why is sales an important factor? I think in the countries that would like to crack down on information, whether or not it was sold is irrelevant to them.
No. Try this code and see if it raises an error with Valgrind (spoiler: I just did and it doesn't):
P.S. The comment before this looks like crap because slashdot doesn't use the <pre> HTML tag. Ooops.No. Try this code and see if it raises an error with Valgrind (spoiler: I just did and it doesn't):
Anyplace where cable wasn't possible or allowed, like the trailer park I live in, is a great place to find old dishes. These people are more likely to have been early adopters of satellite TV, because their other choice was antenna. I have already picked up two Primestars, looking at a third, and probably going to be able to get a couple of dishes from a microwave TV company that went out of business when satellite got big, just in my park of 250 homes.
Most Linux users who need to send PDF instead of PS to their Windows friends use the tool ps2pdf or something similar. They create the original file using the postscript tools (or something that can convert to postscript such as xfig), and then use ps2pdf to convert to PDF.
ps2pdf is part of the Ghostscript package.
There is also very little force exerted on a silicon wafer undergoing ion etching, but it certainly peels off those atoms. Going through the thin upper atmosphere at several thousand meters per second is similar.
So don't just bitch. Switch to Debian. All free, all the time. No dependency problems any more. Fewer crashes than Redhat. More secure out of the box. I have used both, and this is my experience.
Reentry.
They must not have told the blockhead managers here at the Boulder, Colorado Kinkos, cause they quoted me $1 per page, even at a volume of 5,000 pages.
You can probably guess my response.
In addition, he could protect his trademarks by creating royalty-free contracts with people who make fanflicks. Perhaps this would still be a dilution of the trademark, but really, should filmmakers be primarily concerned about the trademark rights in the characters? What does this say about their priorities?
Don't you mean Stevie Wonder? Coolio just took "Pasttime Paradise" and put some new words on it. The real heart of that song is Stevie Wonder.
Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities of the United States Senate, 94th Congress, 2nd Session, 1976
Why is there nothing about this since October 2000? Does it really take that long to get a court date? Was the case thrown out? What's the deal?
I also have an old (100 Mhz, 8 M ram, 800 M HD) laptop running Debian. The easiest way to do a full backup is to buy a $75 PCMCIA network card, boot into a floppy distro (such as mulinux), and use netcat (nc) to copy the raw partition over to a desktop computer (assuming you have one somewhere). To restore, netcat in the other direction. Can't get much easier than that. Here are the commands to do the backup:
desktop$ nc -l -p $large_port_number > $backup_file
laptop$ cat /dev/hda1 | nc $desktop_ip $large_port_number
The only extra thing you'll have to do on restore is run lilo from the floppy distro to set up the boot loader. I can guarantee you this method is dozens of times faster than a fresh install because I have done both.
However, if a minor buys a piece of software, it seems they are not bound to a EULA "contract". In this case, they still can't copy the software and give it to their friends (due to copyright law), but why can't they reverse-engineer it and distribute this information? After all, reverse-engineering is legal to do so for any piece of software if you haven't agreed not to in a contract. Or is it?
I think they're talking about the CD-audio standard, which doesn't have the same kind of error correction as ISO9660. You lose a few bits here and there when ripping a CD-audio, but if you have a clean CD, a Plextor CD drive, and cdparanoia, you won't lose much (if any) quality. After that, just keep it in ISO9660 and you'll never lose a bit.
So don't use it. I'm getting sick of people whining about this when there is something they can do about. Switch to Linux, BSD, Mac, or whatever else you want. If you're talking about computing at work, your employer owns your ass anyway, so you shouldn't be worried about computer licensing issues in that case. At home, you still have a choice (for now). Help break Microsoft's monopoly by taking the extra effort to boycott their products.
> 2. Click Yes.
It's click Yes "20 times"... :)
If I create a GPL'ed program, retain the copyright to it many folks the world over find it to be an incredibly useful bit of code (one that helps lots of companies save money / generate revenue) should I (as the owner of the IP) be taxed year after year because the gov't determines that bit of code has value?
Replace work, IP, and program with real property such as land, and you answered your own question. In other words, if we consider intellectual property the same as real property (as many intellectual property owners would like), then there is absolutely no reason it should not be taxed the same. Certainly the government uses percieved value of land to tax it, without regard for whether or not that land is generating the earnings it is capable of.
Have you tried Lyx?
I doubt if it would be fast enough for note-taking though... It's more for publication-quality stuff.
By this definition, the word theft has not been used correctly in this discussion. By the way, the bottom of the dict definition for stealing says "See THEFT".
I don't think you could use a "low-end" Pentium to capture 5 cameras each with 5 fps. My 500 Mhz machine can just barely do 25 fps... and that's raw to the hard disk. But maybe you can get higher rates running through an encoder first before going to hard disk? Which encoder do you use?