if we reduce the duration of intellectual ownership to a term of 20 years, then works released under BSD, GPL, CC etc would revert to the public domain after 20 years as well (free them up for commercial use and removing the requirement of attribution, for instance)
And this would be bad how exactly?
If some company wants to take 20 year old FOSS code and build something on top of it that they can sell, more power to them. Note that they wont be able to incorporate ANY updates made to that code base in the last 20 years, so it is not as if any software project that began more than 20 years will become public domain, just he oldest versions.
After all, the 20 year old code will still be public domain, so others can use the same codebase to build a (possibly free) alternative. And if there really is a market for something built on top of the old code, someone was dropping the ball during the 20 year copyright period.
Indeed. I suspect that what they really want is to be able to say that they consulted the public without it being a bald-faced lie. That fact the only public input they may use is one they already agreed with will not be mentioned.
Or, if 10 kg is too much (and your currency isn't an issue) you could convert to 500 Euro notes for a total of 1.65 kilograms or 3.63 pounds (500 euro notes weight 1.1 and there are 1.34 dollars to the euro, meaning 1 million USD equals 749,288 Euro).
And if you are feeling really lazy, you could convert to Singapore $100.000 notes (the worlds most highest value banknote). 1 million US equals 1,275,300 Singapore dollars, which means you'll only need 13 banknotes to carry one million USD (plus change). That'll fit in you wallet!
Only if by "screwed up" you mean "requested something that couldn't be delivered". 4xx is also used for things like "Payment required" and "Forbidden". The four hundred range is exactly right for this type of code. Asking for something you are not allowed to have is, in a very technical sense, a client error.
If you just go straight up, you're just going to fall back to earth and never achieve orbit.
If you have an efficient enough rocket (not chemically powered) you can achieve escape velocity by going straight up, then you will never fall down (to the earth) again.
While true, you'll also never achieve orbit going straight up.
No. I know I have conscious experience. Anything beyond that is supposition. While it is entirely possible that I'm the only conscious entity in the universe, I find that unlikely. However, until we can explain consciousness in terms that enable me to test the consciousness of others, it will be a matter of faith that others are conscious (albeit the amount of faith required is very small).
This research, however limited it may be, is an attempt to provide empirical underpinnings to the term consciousness. Hopefully it will get us a little closer to understanding what consciousness is but clearly this falls well short of explaining its nature in full.
While what you describe is technically possible, it does have two significant drawbacks.
First, it imposes a hefty tech burden on the 'original' site to install the software. No longer is it just a little snippet. Now there will be some server side aspect to gather this data. This server side aspect will also need to be available for different platforms etc. This is massively more complicated to deploy than the current "here paste in this snippet".
Secondly, this imposes additional bandwidth requirements on the 'original' site. It will need to fetch updates to the ads it serves from the provider, it will need to serve those ads to each user, it will need to gather the user data and finally it will need to communicate (either in aggregate or real-time) user activity. This is all network traffic that in today's model bypasses the 'original' site entirely. Many sites which only make a little bit of money off of ads will not doubt lose money on them with this additional cost.
Maybe your perspective is different but my country of Norway took the neutrality route in the 1930s, no military build-up, no signs of military aggression, we were seeking a position of neutrality and being a non-threat to everybody. What happened was the Nazis said "thank you very much" and invaded with minimal resistance
This is a rather inaccurate view of events.
The real reason for Germany's invasion of Norway was to secure the import of iron ore from Sweden, that passed through Norway. Britain had been ignoring Norwegian neutrality by attacking ships within Norwegian territorial waters. This threatened the supply of iron that the German war machine was heavily dependent on. Thus they invaded. The presence or absence of a strong Norwegian military did not factor heavily into the equation.
How about specifying it must have enough gravity to make it round to be called a moon and not just a satellite?
That would reduce the number of moons in the solar system rather dramatically. Mars, for example, would no longer have any "moons" as neither Phobos nor Deimos meet this definition. In fact both Phobos (11.1 km) and Deimos (6.2 km) are smaller than this newly discovered moon of Neptune (20 km).
So here's the thing... If God doesn't exist and morals are dependent on your personal feelings... Why does lying provoke such an outraged reaction?
Civilized society functions primarily on the basis of a moral contract between us citizens. Part of this contract is that some citizens wield considerable authority on the premise (and promise!) that they use it for the common good. It is also part of the contract that those individuals are accountable to the rest of us.
When such individuals break the contract (in this case by lying) it should be a cause for outrage. Not because "god" said lying was evil, but because they've abused their position within our society.
Invoking a higher power is neither necessary nor helpful in this situation.
Pay no attention to the man in the Russian airport.
No, they want you to pay attention to him, to this, to ANYTHING except for what they (the US government and the NSA in particular) are actually doing with regards to you personal liberties. That is what they are trying to distract you from thinking about.
70% of *something* is better than 100% of *nothing*. They created the roads, they are entitled to their tool booths. Quit bitching.
Apple did not create "roads", it created a consumer product.
Roads sometimes have tolls because the only alternative to pay for a road is a general tax. We pay, outright, for consumer products. There is no inherent reason why Apple should continue to benefit after the sale has taken place unless they CONTINUE to provide something of measurable value.
I'd have no problem with them taking 30% off of things sold through the app store (their road in some sense) if they didn't put in an entirely artificial restriction on alternative app stores.
No it couldn't. the surface of Lake Nicaragua is 32.7 meters above sea level. Its maximum depth is 26 meters. If you connect it to the sea without locks, it will empty out entirely.
The only way to make this work is to use locks, same as with the Panama canal.
The advantage here is that you will not need to accommodate any traffic during construction.
Denmarks protectorate Iceland, mostly use thermal power, but wind power is on the rise. Its other large protectorate,
Iceland has NOT been a "protectorate" of Denmark for nearly 70 years. Also, wind power is NOT on the rise here. There is currently only one test wind mast (and that blew down recently, not sure if they have it back up) with no plans for further development. We do, however, have plenty of hydro and geothermal energy.
I would imagine the BL have referenced archive.org work extensively
They've actually worked closely with the Internet Archive for many many years. This includes commissioning IA to conduct crawls for them of government sites.
Both the BL and IA are members of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC see: http://netpreserve.org./ Both are very familiar with what the other is doing in this space.
So why not let IA do all the work? There are several reasons. Part of it is that the BL is responsible for web archiving as far as British cultural heritage is concerned. Relying on a foreign entity to handle it is questionable as they would not be able to enforce any/all policies they might need on IA. You can certainly contract the IA to crawl for you, but it will be on their terms.
However, there is also a question of redundancy. If multiple institutions, all over the world, are all engaged in web archiving, the ultimate result will be much better coverage and resilience. From my experience in dealing with the Internet Archive, this is something they support. Ever since I got involved in web archiving, 10 years ago, the Internet Archive has been a strong support of national libraries, archives and other interested parties doing their own web archiving.
That is why the IIPC was formed. So we could share knowledge and pool resources where useful while each institution follows its own path in web archiving.
That might be why I don't like it. I haven't enjoyed a comedy with a laugh track since Seinfeld.
It isn't a laugh track. The show is filmed in front of a live audience (as was Seinfeld). A laugh track is added in post using stock laugh sound tracks. MASH had a laugh track (and was much improved by its removal when the DVDs came out).
The difference is important as laugh tracks are artificial and very annoying. Live audiences (assuming the producers don't cheat) generally convey a genuine atmosphere.
I did a search in Google. When searching for "Web browsers" IE was an extra small link at the very bottom of the page. Top result was Wikipedia, which I'm sure lists them a.. (i didn't bother to check), but just food for thought.
And if you search for "web browsers" on Bing IE doesn't show up at all except in a side bar under 'related searches'. Seems MS hasn't done any SEO for IE under the term 'web browser'.
The US may not be perfect, but you get to eat, people are allowed to speak and move more or less freely, and most of them aren't locked up in camps.
If you count prisons as 'camps' then more people (per capita) are locked up in the US than in any other country in the world (including China, North Korea or any other totalitarian state you care to name).
Well, then why do people complain about the quality of the product when they don't participate in such a program? That's like non-voters complaining about the state of the nation. If, instead, all these people opted in and the first thing they did was buy and install Start8, then Microsoft might have more realistic results, we might even get an option on first boot to choose between MetroUI and Desktop as our default option.
This is a very flawed comparison. Anonymous voting is the bedrock of democracy and you are only providing one bit of crucial data to a (reasonably) respected authority. None of that holds true for allowing Microsoft to monitor your usage of Windows 8.
You dont dial the 1 or +1 unless you are outside of NA and need to call back into the US (or just overly pedantic).
Why wouldn't you? Obviously you're not going to dial +1 if you are manually entering the number in the cellphone, but most calls are made using pre-entered contacts. I find it very convenient to enter all number starting with +CountryCode. That way I don't have to mess around with the contacts on my phone when traveling.
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if we reduce the duration of intellectual ownership to a term of 20 years, then works released under BSD, GPL, CC etc would revert to the public domain after 20 years as well (free them up for commercial use and removing the requirement of attribution, for instance)
And this would be bad how exactly?
If some company wants to take 20 year old FOSS code and build something on top of it that they can sell, more power to them. Note that they wont be able to incorporate ANY updates made to that code base in the last 20 years, so it is not as if any software project that began more than 20 years will become public domain, just he oldest versions.
After all, the 20 year old code will still be public domain, so others can use the same codebase to build a (possibly free) alternative. And if there really is a market for something built on top of the old code, someone was dropping the ball during the 20 year copyright period.
It's a trap!
Indeed. I suspect that what they really want is to be able to say that they consulted the public without it being a bald-faced lie. That fact the only public input they may use is one they already agreed with will not be mentioned.
Bleh, managed to add a zero to the Singapore dollar. That should be 10.000, so you'll need about 127 of them. Will still fit in your pocket.
Or, if 10 kg is too much (and your currency isn't an issue) you could convert to 500 Euro notes for a total of 1.65 kilograms or 3.63 pounds (500 euro notes weight 1.1 and there are 1.34 dollars to the euro, meaning 1 million USD equals 749,288 Euro).
And if you are feeling really lazy, you could convert to Singapore $100.000 notes (the worlds most highest value banknote). 1 million US equals 1,275,300 Singapore dollars, which means you'll only need 13 banknotes to carry one million USD (plus change). That'll fit in you wallet!
4xx means the client screwed up.
Only if by "screwed up" you mean "requested something that couldn't be delivered". 4xx is also used for things like "Payment required" and "Forbidden". The four hundred range is exactly right for this type of code. Asking for something you are not allowed to have is, in a very technical sense, a client error.
I don't know which is worse, the joke itself or that someone actually thought it was funny.
If you just go straight up, you're just going to fall back to earth and never achieve orbit.
If you have an efficient enough rocket (not chemically powered) you can achieve escape velocity by going straight up, then you will never fall down (to the earth) again.
While true, you'll also never achieve orbit going straight up.
We *know* we have conscious experience.
No. I know I have conscious experience. Anything beyond that is supposition. While it is entirely possible that I'm the only conscious entity in the universe, I find that unlikely. However, until we can explain consciousness in terms that enable me to test the consciousness of others, it will be a matter of faith that others are conscious (albeit the amount of faith required is very small).
This research, however limited it may be, is an attempt to provide empirical underpinnings to the term consciousness. Hopefully it will get us a little closer to understanding what consciousness is but clearly this falls well short of explaining its nature in full.
While what you describe is technically possible, it does have two significant drawbacks.
First, it imposes a hefty tech burden on the 'original' site to install the software. No longer is it just a little snippet. Now there will be some server side aspect to gather this data. This server side aspect will also need to be available for different platforms etc. This is massively more complicated to deploy than the current "here paste in this snippet".
Secondly, this imposes additional bandwidth requirements on the 'original' site. It will need to fetch updates to the ads it serves from the provider, it will need to serve those ads to each user, it will need to gather the user data and finally it will need to communicate (either in aggregate or real-time) user activity. This is all network traffic that in today's model bypasses the 'original' site entirely. Many sites which only make a little bit of money off of ads will not doubt lose money on them with this additional cost.
Maybe your perspective is different but my country of Norway took the neutrality route in the 1930s, no military build-up, no signs of military aggression, we were seeking a position of neutrality and being a non-threat to everybody. What happened was the Nazis said "thank you very much" and invaded with minimal resistance
This is a rather inaccurate view of events.
The real reason for Germany's invasion of Norway was to secure the import of iron ore from Sweden, that passed through Norway. Britain had been ignoring Norwegian neutrality by attacking ships within Norwegian territorial waters. This threatened the supply of iron that the German war machine was heavily dependent on. Thus they invaded. The presence or absence of a strong Norwegian military did not factor heavily into the equation.
How about specifying it must have enough gravity to make it round to be called a moon and not just a satellite?
That would reduce the number of moons in the solar system rather dramatically. Mars, for example, would no longer have any "moons" as neither Phobos nor Deimos meet this definition. In fact both Phobos (11.1 km) and Deimos (6.2 km) are smaller than this newly discovered moon of Neptune (20 km).
So here's the thing... If God doesn't exist and morals are dependent on your personal feelings... Why does lying provoke such an outraged reaction?
Civilized society functions primarily on the basis of a moral contract between us citizens. Part of this contract is that some citizens wield considerable authority on the premise (and promise!) that they use it for the common good. It is also part of the contract that those individuals are accountable to the rest of us.
When such individuals break the contract (in this case by lying) it should be a cause for outrage. Not because "god" said lying was evil, but because they've abused their position within our society.
Invoking a higher power is neither necessary nor helpful in this situation.
Pay no attention to the man in the Russian airport.
No, they want you to pay attention to him, to this, to ANYTHING except for what they (the US government and the NSA in particular) are actually doing with regards to you personal liberties. That is what they are trying to distract you from thinking about.
70% of *something* is better than 100% of *nothing*. They created the roads, they are entitled to their tool booths. Quit bitching.
Apple did not create "roads", it created a consumer product.
Roads sometimes have tolls because the only alternative to pay for a road is a general tax. We pay, outright, for consumer products. There is no inherent reason why Apple should continue to benefit after the sale has taken place unless they CONTINUE to provide something of measurable value.
I'd have no problem with them taking 30% off of things sold through the app store (their road in some sense) if they didn't put in an entirely artificial restriction on alternative app stores.
... could potentially be a sea-level canal...
No it couldn't. the surface of Lake Nicaragua is 32.7 meters above sea level. Its maximum depth is 26 meters. If you connect it to the sea without locks, it will empty out entirely.
The only way to make this work is to use locks, same as with the Panama canal.
The advantage here is that you will not need to accommodate any traffic during construction.
Denmarks protectorate Iceland, mostly use thermal power, but wind power is on the rise. Its other large protectorate,
Iceland has NOT been a "protectorate" of Denmark for nearly 70 years. Also, wind power is NOT on the rise here. There is currently only one test wind mast (and that blew down recently, not sure if they have it back up) with no plans for further development. We do, however, have plenty of hydro and geothermal energy.
I would imagine the BL have referenced archive.org work extensively
They've actually worked closely with the Internet Archive for many many years. This includes commissioning IA to conduct crawls for them of government sites.
Both the BL and IA are members of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC see: http://netpreserve.org./ Both are very familiar with what the other is doing in this space.
So why not let IA do all the work? There are several reasons. Part of it is that the BL is responsible for web archiving as far as British cultural heritage is concerned. Relying on a foreign entity to handle it is questionable as they would not be able to enforce any/all policies they might need on IA. You can certainly contract the IA to crawl for you, but it will be on their terms.
However, there is also a question of redundancy. If multiple institutions, all over the world, are all engaged in web archiving, the ultimate result will be much better coverage and resilience. From my experience in dealing with the Internet Archive, this is something they support. Ever since I got involved in web archiving, 10 years ago, the Internet Archive has been a strong support of national libraries, archives and other interested parties doing their own web archiving.
That is why the IIPC was formed. So we could share knowledge and pool resources where useful while each institution follows its own path in web archiving.
That might be why I don't like it. I haven't enjoyed a comedy with a laugh track since Seinfeld.
It isn't a laugh track. The show is filmed in front of a live audience (as was Seinfeld). A laugh track is added in post using stock laugh sound tracks. MASH had a laugh track (and was much improved by its removal when the DVDs came out).
The difference is important as laugh tracks are artificial and very annoying. Live audiences (assuming the producers don't cheat) generally convey a genuine atmosphere.
I did a search in Google. When searching for "Web browsers" IE was an extra small link at the very bottom of the page. Top result was Wikipedia, which I'm sure lists them a.. (i didn't bother to check), but just food for thought.
And if you search for "web browsers" on Bing IE doesn't show up at all except in a side bar under 'related searches'. Seems MS hasn't done any SEO for IE under the term 'web browser'.
The US may not be perfect, but you get to eat, people are allowed to speak and move more or less freely, and most of them aren't locked up in camps.
If you count prisons as 'camps' then more people (per capita) are locked up in the US than in any other country in the world (including China, North Korea or any other totalitarian state you care to name).
If we could actually capture and convert the waste heat into some form of usable energy, I believe we have plenty of use for it right here on Earth.
They'll probably be great when all those are ironed out.
Or in other words; wait for the first service pack before flying...
Well, then why do people complain about the quality of the product when they don't participate in such a program? That's like non-voters complaining about the state of the nation. If, instead, all these people opted in and the first thing they did was buy and install Start8, then Microsoft might have more realistic results, we might even get an option on first boot to choose between MetroUI and Desktop as our default option.
This is a very flawed comparison. Anonymous voting is the bedrock of democracy and you are only providing one bit of crucial data to a (reasonably) respected authority. None of that holds true for allowing Microsoft to monitor your usage of Windows 8.
You dont dial the 1 or +1 unless you are outside of NA and need to call back into the US (or just overly pedantic).
Why wouldn't you? Obviously you're not going to dial +1 if you are manually entering the number in the cellphone, but most calls are made using pre-entered contacts. I find it very convenient to enter all number starting with +CountryCode. That way I don't have to mess around with the contacts on my phone when traveling.
It sounds like the Democrats have put a lot of effort into understanding their electorate.
They put a lot of effort into knowing what the electorate wants to hear. Once in office, they could give a crap what the electorate thinks.
Whereas the Republicans skip straight to not giving a crap about what the electorate thinks. Must admit, very efficient.