*shakes head* Whatever... I got plenty more karma to burn stating the truth even when it hurts some delicate snowflake's worldview.
I don't think your original post is that offtopic, but I can say that seeing about 5 posts here with you arguing "this is ontopic, meta this, woe is me!" really isn't on topic of floating cities.
Mods here are *sometimes* like a box of chocolate. You aren't sure what you will get. Sometimes posts that shoot up to +5 end up at -1, sometimes it is the other way around. I wouldn't worry about the modding that your posts get. If you are posting quality content, the masses will override the few. Besides,/. isn't about getting nothing but praise for comments, it is about making an interesting discussion.
You may be correct insofar as registering a trademark, but to defend it in court against infringers is different. In court, Nintendo would have to show that it has zealously defended its trademark, and if the phrase is well-established in the wild then that test is likely to fail.
Not if your plan is to simply bully the other parties into running out of cash defending a case. How many of those T-Shirt vendors using that phrase are going to have the funds ready and waiting to fight this in court? Should they argue and win this case? Yup.
In Law, the winner is the guy with most money. - Denny Crane
How does that work when it comes to expressions like this one?
Clearly, very clearly, what it means is that, ahem, again, very clearly, that we, being Nintendo, can clearly do whatever it is that we want, and you, clearly, can not do pretty much anything at all with that phrase.
Yes, they probably are. If you were sacked and not given a reason, you would probably be asking questions. These folks didn't start the hunger strike the moment they got shitcanned. They tried to find out what happened, how to resolve it and the like. This is the only thing they can think of doing - for better or worse.
I don't know the background of this at all, they could have been doing shonky business practice and got caught out once too many by Google or perhaps Google thought they could make more money by simply getting their own folks to do the work, or a million other possible scenarios.
Or perhaps they are simply that desperate to have a job to be able to support their families/put food on their own table that they do not see any other option but to get all the media attention that they can by sitting outside the office of the big "foreign company" starving.
Google ISN'T responsible for their personal well being, I totally agree, but that probably isn't a consolation for them.
I wouldn't go so far as to say genius, but certainly say it is simple forward planning. It is the simple result of: Where are we now, where do we want to be financially, in the marketplace and from a client base point of view in 3 years, what is the gap between where we are and where we want to be - and finally, how do we cover that gap.
In this case, it is clearly simple. We want to be in a stronger market position and to achieve that, we need to earn a higher market penetration. To do this we need to either buy, discredit or discontinue our competitor products. We have the money available to make a lot of purchases as well as the current market position to be able to drive a very large product towards the goals that will benefit us most.
The move from Apache is clearly a salvo from a company who can perceive this change and doesn't like where it is going as it will clearly impact THEIR goals negatively. If they can make enough of a stink/problem/thorn about it, then Oracle will have to realign their own thinking/planning to plan a slightly different path that avoids this big thorn/problem or account for the fallout and accept it as part of the bigger solution.
While I am more techy than most of the people I worky with (Hence I am sitting here reading this at work) most of the folks around me look at PCs simply as a tool. Can't teach them new tricks? Bollocks. A lot of my time is spent working with business teams who are looking to improve their way of doing business and teaching them about how different programs can be used to get the information they want.
Want to find your current sales trends in a way that you haven't been able to before? Okay, well, we have the data in this thing called Datawarehouse. Our reporting team will be able to provide you a set of reports, but they take a long time to develop and check. If you want to do some quick nasty analysis to fend off a crisis, there is a program called TOAD that will let you directly query your data. Look difficult? Lets go through how it works and how you write a SQL query.
Result: In the last Two years, I have introduced around 100 users who are NOT tech savvy at all to the wonders of SQL queries. They are now in various stages of competence, but they are using new things.
My (belated) point here is that while something like Toad (or now replace with Linux) isn't something that they can just pick up and run with, if people see a benefit to it, they WILL make the effort to learn how to use it.
In my mind, Linux really needs to advertise the benefits it has to the ordinary person so that they are enticed to make the effort to learn how to use it. Having said that, the easier it makes this learning process, the less advertising it has to do.
Hmm, actually, anyone in the know care to enlighten us with some explanation of how the LHC decided to jump straight from protons (atomic #1) to Iron (atomic #26, atomic weight 55) ? And will Lead or Uranium be forthcoming? ^_^
I always assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that when they were smashing protons, it wasn't singular protons, but protons as part of a nucleus. While I may be a ways off in my thinking, even getting a bunch of singular protons sans electrons would be difficult as they would repel one another and likely make for a larger target needed to impact a larger amount of them.
This is speaking totally off the cuff, I haven't read deeply into the mechanics of this thing at all.
I have always believed that this passage is a parable describing what separates us from the other animals on the planet. We started off as they are, amoral and ignorant. God offered us a path towards being as he is, and dared us not to take it.
What an interesting take you have there. I never looked at it this way. You sir, just made my day. Thank you for that.
lawsuits and streissand effects coming in 3...2...1...
I wonder if you could counter-sue through copyright of data. Unless there is a clause when buying the car saying that the company can copy data from your property, it is by rights, your data and when they download this black box of data they are infringing. Given that it is indeed a black box, an even better argument might well be that they are not only infringing on your data, but also blocking you from accessing your own data.
My personal peeve is using boat physics in space. There's a natural "up" direction, ships bank when they turn, and ships top out at a maximum speed.
Actually, there is good reason for those things. Ships Banking rather than just turning: Okay, sure, in space there is technically no need to bank. You can just turn BUT from a pilots point of view, you don't want the pilot getting jerked around left and right in high G environments. Look at F1 racing car drivers. They are packed SOOOO tightly into their seats, especially the part behind their crash helmet, that they generally can move their head only a few degrees left and right. If the ship banks like a boat, the pilot will always be pushed "down" into his/her seat.
Now, add to that thruster control. Rather than having four or more systems that can all equally efficiently turn a ship without banking it, wouldn't it be much better to have a small set to control yaw and a main set to control pitch? That would make for a much simpler system.
Ships maximum speed: Totally agree with you on this one. Except that most people who don't understand physics wouldn't understand that statement if you replaced "speed" with "acceleration". It is the same meaning, but more people understand it.
"I can't go any faster!! The other ship is getting away!"
"I am accelerating as fast as I can! The other ship has more thrust and is getting away!"
Same thing, max speed, max acceleration. Deal with it. More people understand it that way without any physics knowledge.
Natural Up Direction: Okay, so in space, you don't really really truly need a natural up direction, but if you have a bunch of ships all going in the same direction, you certainly would want them all aligned to be the same way. I mean, just imagine trying to communicate if no-one cared what way they were rotated!
"Fleet! Look out on your left!" turns into:
"Jack, look out below! Paul, it's to your right! Mick, it's right in your front window sights, Tom, it's behind you!"
See why all the ships would be in a natural "up" direction? Simple communication. It's a formation for a reason.
but a security researcher had his daughter kidnapped for a number of years for looking into the wrong "cyber" criminals. She was only recently returned to him, after a number of years, having been through much badness.
I believe that the story you are referring to is this one which was mentioned in the book Fatal System Error by Joseph Menn.
Actually, I recall reading an article about this a while back, they said that the main weakness in the whole system are large transformers, which cost a few hundred thousand dollars each. Upgrading them to be resistant to a CME would cost about ten thousand per unit. However, if an unprotected unit is struck via a CME, it has to be replaced totally.
The US Energy board/commission/whateveritwas said that this additional $10k on top of the few hundred thousand for the unit itself was going to cost too much money.
I guess that even with something as important as keeping electricity flowing through the world, everything has a pretty small event horizon when it comes to economic planning. It must indeed be better to save the $10k now and have to possibly spend the $3-400k in a few years. I must be backwards in thinking the way I think:)
Having read that post, I think I must ask for that more often.
In high school and college track my co-athletes and I would pinch a bicep in jest, squeeze a shoulder blade, snap a wet towel against bare skin, but I had never been touched by a man like this before. This felt like my girlfriend, on our third or fourth date running her hands over my chest, my arm around her in a darkened movie theatre.
"Sunburn, yes, I have sunburn!. Now, fondle me you hunk!"
What do you say we reward someone who doesn't burden actual customers with troublesome and self defeating DRM instead of mocking them?
This wouldn't be a story if the site had a "Hey, we are struggling financially, and would appreciate if you got a subscription if you plan to read a bunch of articles."
But it doesn't. It goes from zero to a hundred in one step. "Read on and we are going to sue you!". That's why this is a story, and that is why they are being mocked.
Actually, in my non-lawyer understanding of the law, it seems that they are offering a contract on the page, which is fine, but that doesn't mean that people have to agree to it. Correct me if I am wrong, but don't both parties have to agree to a contract to make it binding? So, if you don't agree to the contract, you can keep browsing as it is online for everyone to access, or does it mean that you aren't allowed to keep viewing the site unless you agree to abide by the terms they place on the website (purely from a law point of view)?
The earth's thin crust in that area may actually have something to do with the impact crater.
Or possibly the impact has caused the crust to be thin in this area. Such a large impact certainly would have had an effect on the entire thickness of the crust in that area.
Slashdot Mirror
*shakes head* Whatever... I got plenty more karma to burn stating the truth even when it hurts some delicate snowflake's worldview.
I don't think your original post is that offtopic, but I can say that seeing about 5 posts here with you arguing "this is ontopic, meta this, woe is me!" really isn't on topic of floating cities.
/. isn't about getting nothing but praise for comments, it is about making an interesting discussion.
Mods here are *sometimes* like a box of chocolate. You aren't sure what you will get. Sometimes posts that shoot up to +5 end up at -1, sometimes it is the other way around. I wouldn't worry about the modding that your posts get. If you are posting quality content, the masses will override the few. Besides,
You may be correct insofar as registering a trademark, but to defend it in court against infringers is different. In court, Nintendo would have to show that it has zealously defended its trademark, and if the phrase is well-established in the wild then that test is likely to fail.
Not if your plan is to simply bully the other parties into running out of cash defending a case. How many of those T-Shirt vendors using that phrase are going to have the funds ready and waiting to fight this in court? Should they argue and win this case? Yup.
In Law, the winner is the guy with most money. - Denny Crane
How does that work when it comes to expressions like this one?
Clearly, very clearly, what it means is that, ahem, again, very clearly, that we, being Nintendo, can clearly do whatever it is that we want, and you, clearly, can not do pretty much anything at all with that phrase.
*sips coffee*
Man those chinese are desperate.
Yes, they probably are. If you were sacked and not given a reason, you would probably be asking questions. These folks didn't start the hunger strike the moment they got shitcanned. They tried to find out what happened, how to resolve it and the like. This is the only thing they can think of doing - for better or worse.
I don't know the background of this at all, they could have been doing shonky business practice and got caught out once too many by Google or perhaps Google thought they could make more money by simply getting their own folks to do the work, or a million other possible scenarios.
Or perhaps they are simply that desperate to have a job to be able to support their families/put food on their own table that they do not see any other option but to get all the media attention that they can by sitting outside the office of the big "foreign company" starving.
Google ISN'T responsible for their personal well being, I totally agree, but that probably isn't a consolation for them.
From a business point of view, it's genius.
I wouldn't go so far as to say genius, but certainly say it is simple forward planning. It is the simple result of: Where are we now, where do we want to be financially, in the marketplace and from a client base point of view in 3 years, what is the gap between where we are and where we want to be - and finally, how do we cover that gap.
In this case, it is clearly simple. We want to be in a stronger market position and to achieve that, we need to earn a higher market penetration. To do this we need to either buy, discredit or discontinue our competitor products. We have the money available to make a lot of purchases as well as the current market position to be able to drive a very large product towards the goals that will benefit us most.
The move from Apache is clearly a salvo from a company who can perceive this change and doesn't like where it is going as it will clearly impact THEIR goals negatively. If they can make enough of a stink/problem/thorn about it, then Oracle will have to realign their own thinking/planning to plan a slightly different path that avoids this big thorn/problem or account for the fallout and accept it as part of the bigger solution.
Limewire has been so painfully irrelevant for the past 8 years now that it laughable to even still hear the name.
True. If I saw it on a computer I would uninstall it immediately
Sometimes the point is to say: Whatever you try to kill, I can bring back to life. Your move.
While I am more techy than most of the people I worky with (Hence I am sitting here reading this at work) most of the folks around me look at PCs simply as a tool. Can't teach them new tricks? Bollocks. A lot of my time is spent working with business teams who are looking to improve their way of doing business and teaching them about how different programs can be used to get the information they want.
Want to find your current sales trends in a way that you haven't been able to before? Okay, well, we have the data in this thing called Datawarehouse. Our reporting team will be able to provide you a set of reports, but they take a long time to develop and check. If you want to do some quick nasty analysis to fend off a crisis, there is a program called TOAD that will let you directly query your data. Look difficult? Lets go through how it works and how you write a SQL query.
Result: In the last Two years, I have introduced around 100 users who are NOT tech savvy at all to the wonders of SQL queries. They are now in various stages of competence, but they are using new things.
My (belated) point here is that while something like Toad (or now replace with Linux) isn't something that they can just pick up and run with, if people see a benefit to it, they WILL make the effort to learn how to use it.
In my mind, Linux really needs to advertise the benefits it has to the ordinary person so that they are enticed to make the effort to learn how to use it. Having said that, the easier it makes this learning process, the less advertising it has to do.
Honestly! If geneticists aren't even reading their own bloody papers, maybe the government grants should be issued to those Slashdot readers who do.
Tell us how you feel. Don't hold anything back. You are in a SAFE environment here... Now, show me on the dolly where the geneticist touched you...
:)
Side note: Totally agree with the comment
Hmm, actually, anyone in the know care to enlighten us with some explanation of how the LHC decided to jump straight from protons (atomic #1) to Iron (atomic #26, atomic weight 55) ? And will Lead or Uranium be forthcoming? ^_^
I always assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that when they were smashing protons, it wasn't singular protons, but protons as part of a nucleus. While I may be a ways off in my thinking, even getting a bunch of singular protons sans electrons would be difficult as they would repel one another and likely make for a larger target needed to impact a larger amount of them.
This is speaking totally off the cuff, I haven't read deeply into the mechanics of this thing at all.
I have always believed that this passage is a parable describing what separates us from the other animals on the planet. We started off as they are, amoral and ignorant. God offered us a path towards being as he is, and dared us not to take it.
What an interesting take you have there. I never looked at it this way. You sir, just made my day. Thank you for that.
lawsuits and streissand effects coming in 3...2...1...
I wonder if you could counter-sue through copyright of data. Unless there is a clause when buying the car saying that the company can copy data from your property, it is by rights, your data and when they download this black box of data they are infringing. Given that it is indeed a black box, an even better argument might well be that they are not only infringing on your data, but also blocking you from accessing your own data.
Lock and Load!
The owls didn't see that coming....
Oh my! I think I made even myself ill.
My personal peeve is using boat physics in space. There's a natural "up" direction, ships bank when they turn, and ships top out at a maximum speed.
Actually, there is good reason for those things.
Ships Banking rather than just turning: Okay, sure, in space there is technically no need to bank. You can just turn BUT from a pilots point of view, you don't want the pilot getting jerked around left and right in high G environments. Look at F1 racing car drivers. They are packed SOOOO tightly into their seats, especially the part behind their crash helmet, that they generally can move their head only a few degrees left and right. If the ship banks like a boat, the pilot will always be pushed "down" into his/her seat.
Now, add to that thruster control. Rather than having four or more systems that can all equally efficiently turn a ship without banking it, wouldn't it be much better to have a small set to control yaw and a main set to control pitch? That would make for a much simpler system.
Ships maximum speed: Totally agree with you on this one. Except that most people who don't understand physics wouldn't understand that statement if you replaced "speed" with "acceleration". It is the same meaning, but more people understand it.
"I can't go any faster!! The other ship is getting away!"
"I am accelerating as fast as I can! The other ship has more thrust and is getting away!"
Same thing, max speed, max acceleration. Deal with it. More people understand it that way without any physics knowledge.
Natural Up Direction: Okay, so in space, you don't really really truly need a natural up direction, but if you have a bunch of ships all going in the same direction, you certainly would want them all aligned to be the same way. I mean, just imagine trying to communicate if no-one cared what way they were rotated!
"Fleet! Look out on your left!" turns into:
"Jack, look out below! Paul, it's to your right! Mick, it's right in your front window sights, Tom, it's behind you!"
See why all the ships would be in a natural "up" direction? Simple communication. It's a formation for a reason.
but a security researcher had his daughter kidnapped for a number of years for looking into the wrong "cyber" criminals. She was only recently returned to him, after a number of years, having been through much badness.
I believe that the story you are referring to is this one which was mentioned in the book Fatal System Error by Joseph Menn.
We are DOING IT FOR THE CHILDREN. Why can't you all just get it through your thick heads?
Jerry Espensen, is that you?
You need to think of this from the child's point of view! We are doing this to protect THEM!
and if there were no cell towers back then, what makes you think the iridium satellite constelation was up and working?
And what makes you think it WASN'T?
*crazy look in eyes*
Actually, I recall reading an article about this a while back, they said that the main weakness in the whole system are large transformers, which cost a few hundred thousand dollars each. Upgrading them to be resistant to a CME would cost about ten thousand per unit. However, if an unprotected unit is struck via a CME, it has to be replaced totally.
:)
The US Energy board/commission/whateveritwas said that this additional $10k on top of the few hundred thousand for the unit itself was going to cost too much money.
I guess that even with something as important as keeping electricity flowing through the world, everything has a pretty small event horizon when it comes to economic planning. It must indeed be better to save the $10k now and have to possibly spend the $3-400k in a few years. I must be backwards in thinking the way I think
In high school and college track my co-athletes and I would pinch a bicep in jest, squeeze a shoulder blade, snap a wet towel against bare skin, but I had never been touched by a man like this before. This felt like my girlfriend, on our third or fourth date running her hands over my chest, my arm around her in a darkened movie theatre.
"Sunburn, yes, I have sunburn!. Now, fondle me you hunk!"
but shouldn't this be under YRO?
No, YRO is about online rights. This is an article about airport security, hence it is listed under Security, Transport and United Kingdom.
What do you say we reward someone who doesn't burden actual customers with troublesome and self defeating DRM instead of mocking them?
This wouldn't be a story if the site had a "Hey, we are struggling financially, and would appreciate if you got a subscription if you plan to read a bunch of articles."
But it doesn't. It goes from zero to a hundred in one step. "Read on and we are going to sue you!". That's why this is a story, and that is why they are being mocked.
Actually, in my non-lawyer understanding of the law, it seems that they are offering a contract on the page, which is fine, but that doesn't mean that people have to agree to it. Correct me if I am wrong, but don't both parties have to agree to a contract to make it binding? So, if you don't agree to the contract, you can keep browsing as it is online for everyone to access, or does it mean that you aren't allowed to keep viewing the site unless you agree to abide by the terms they place on the website (purely from a law point of view)?
Limestone is calcium carbonate, which releases tons of CO2 when burned.
Unless you only burn a few kilograms. Then it releases kilograms of CO2.
*gulps more coffee*
The earth's thin crust in that area may actually have something to do with the impact crater.
Or possibly the impact has caused the crust to be thin in this area. Such a large impact certainly would have had an effect on the entire thickness of the crust in that area.