Specifically follow-up point #5. He's going the same direction that you're talking about. I agree with you that it could have made a significantly more interesting over-all story.
But that would have been asking audiences to think about what they were seeing. Can't have that!
Of course the marginal value of a dollar is less to a rich man than to a poor man.
How much is an apple worth to you? If it's lunch time, you have no other food, the apple has a fair amount of value. If you have 200 other apples rolling around on the floor of your office/cubicle/whatever, another apple has very little value to you.
Dollars are a bit more fungible, but the same concepts apply.
Also note that a first-strike capability that would wipe out a significant response would create a "last turn" situation, where it's arguable that defecting is the best strategy. I'd argue that half a destroyed world without an Evil Empire is worse than a cold-war, but....
News for Nerds? A report of a BBC news article from 2001 about a sound heard in a 1977 movie (okay, lots of others more and less recent, but the story's hook was from SW). This is news why?
Speaking as someone who worked in the research department at Dragon prior to the whole L&H thing (and therefore WAY prior to the technology eventually being sold to ScanSoft).
Longer phrases add redundancy and context making figuring out what the user wants easier not harder. Applications like search are actually relatively forgiving of recognition errors. Dictation isn't -- one wrong word and that sentence is bad. Search text input is much easier.
What companies are leading the RFID industry?
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What companies are the leaders in RFID? Manufacturing the tags, creating software to handle the massive amounts of data, developing solutions for companies that want to track their inventory, etc.
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Not if the cash has RFIDs. Helps prevent counterfitting, helps speed up counting of large numbers of bills for banks, etc. A bunch of reasons why this'll happen. A side effect is that cash could become non-anonymous.
Senator Conrad Burns (Montana) also uses the Javascript for menus on his website. He DOES comply with the licensing requirements (at least some of them, he has the copyright notice and the URL reference, didn't see the license key). He ALSO has the comment "i am the license for the menu (duh)" in his source. So it's not like Orrin Hatch (or his developer) was likely to be the source of that comment (Andy Woolley, who wrote the code, claims not to know where it came from). Likely this javascript has been passed around the various developers for Congressmen and Sen. Hatch just happens to be one of many to use it.
But the prospect of GM pets has outraged pet dealers. The nation's aquarium industry last week said it had backballed the Night Pearl. 'This is the thin end of the wedge,' said Keith Davenport, chief executive of the Ornamental Aquatic Trade Association. 'You could put all sorts of different genes in animals and do all sorts of damage.'
Boohoo. I'd buy one of these fish. Be interesting to see how much this blackballing affects local availability.
Other than possible WTO issues, who says that SA needs to support an open market? It may well be antithetical to the idea of free markets but lots of things that countries do are.
For the same reason that a patent expires after 17 years. Yes, you invented the whatsit (or maybe "invented" doing it online). Great, you get a chance to profit from it. Then, for the greater public good we all get a chance to make whatsits too.
This does nothing for the abusive cases where the corporations are getting ad infinitum extensions.
It is useful for removing restrictions where the restrictions are merely there by default and not intent. A book that was written in the 40's where the author (and/or his/her heirs) doesn't care about the copywrite. Under the proposed system this would drop into PD even without the CW holder explicitly putting it there.
That's a fairly minimal benefit, but at least it IS a benefit and by not destroying the money-maker (extending the rights period) perhaps this could get passed? No, why bother, it's still an added hassle for the corporations that are controlling the law changes.
Also doesn't hurt that they're bringing in all kinds of alumni and adjunct faculty to basically act as super-TAs to get 7:1 student:faculty ratios in intro classes....
Lots of hands on exposure to role models is probably more valuable than the hands on exposure to circuits. Most of my friends that ended up at MIT HAD plenty of playing with circuits in their free time in high school and earlier.
Only affects drives from a single source in Mainland China that were sent to Taiwan. May affect drives that were marketed elsewhere, but worries about YOUR drive being about to go up in smoke are, for the most part, unfounded.
Of COURSE life existed long before humanity ever came into being. Life was created on the third day, humanity not until day SIX!!!!
Not all pop-ups, pop-ups on leaving a site
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Read carefully, what he's patented isn't all pop-ups. It DOESN'T include typical pop-up ads. He's patented pop-ups when a user leaves a site. Examples of these mentioned in the article include the porn loops and pop-ups when leaving a financial site to remind you that you're leaving the site.
This is not the same thing as what most of the readers (and likely the author of the article) have been assuming.
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I like David Brin's take on it from 6 years ago:
http://www.davidbrin.com/starwarsarticle1.html
Specifically follow-up point #5. He's going the same direction that you're talking about. I agree with you that it could have made a significantly more interesting over-all story.
But that would have been asking audiences to think about what they were seeing. Can't have that!
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How much is an apple worth to you? If it's lunch time, you have no other food, the apple has a fair amount of value. If you have 200 other apples rolling around on the floor of your office/cubicle/whatever, another apple has very little value to you.
Dollars are a bit more fungible, but the same concepts apply.
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"Ladbrokes has set the odds of finding intelligent life on Titan by 2010 at 10,000-1, the maximum odds allowed."
Tree-like fractal patterns probably AREN'T going to qualify as "intelligent life."
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To be more accurate, the US/USSR game was in the semi-finals.
News for Nerds? A report of a BBC news article from 2001 about a sound heard in a 1977 movie (okay, lots of others more and less recent, but the story's hook was from SW). This is news why?
Longer phrases add redundancy and context making figuring out what the user wants easier not harder. Applications like search are actually relatively forgiving of recognition errors. Dictation isn't -- one wrong word and that sentence is bad. Search text input is much easier.
What companies are the leaders in RFID? Manufacturing the tags, creating software to handle the massive amounts of data, developing solutions for companies that want to track their inventory, etc.
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Not if the cash has RFIDs. Helps prevent counterfitting, helps speed up counting of large numbers of bills for banks, etc. A bunch of reasons why this'll happen. A side effect is that cash could become non-anonymous.
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Hey! That would be a great idea. Need to pay someone in low light conditions? Boom, your money gives enough light to tell what denominations.
Mugging someone in a dark alley and what to count your haul? Works there too!
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Boohoo. I'd buy one of these fish. Be interesting to see how much this blackballing affects local availability.
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Other than possible WTO issues, who says that SA needs to support an open market? It may well be antithetical to the idea of free markets but lots of things that countries do are.
Diesel is more efficient. It also results in greater pollution. At least cite numbers for normal gas consuming vehicles.
It's a small fee at year 50 and every 5 years thereafter for the life of the copyright (which takes care of congressional extensions).
For the same reason that a patent expires after 17 years. Yes, you invented the whatsit (or maybe "invented" doing it online). Great, you get a chance to profit from it. Then, for the greater public good we all get a chance to make whatsits too.
I went to sign the petition but couldn't find the CowboyNeal option!
It is useful for removing restrictions where the restrictions are merely there by default and not intent. A book that was written in the 40's where the author (and/or his/her heirs) doesn't care about the copywrite. Under the proposed system this would drop into PD even without the CW holder explicitly putting it there.
That's a fairly minimal benefit, but at least it IS a benefit and by not destroying the money-maker (extending the rights period) perhaps this could get passed? No, why bother, it's still an added hassle for the corporations that are controlling the law changes.
Most copywritten material ISN'T worth $1. Corporations can't afford to pay $1 for everything.
Or, you know, the Damon.... At least get your actor right.
Lots of hands on exposure to role models is probably more valuable than the hands on exposure to circuits. Most of my friends that ended up at MIT HAD plenty of playing with circuits in their free time in high school and earlier.
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Only affects drives from a single source in Mainland China that were sent to Taiwan. May affect drives that were marketed elsewhere, but worries about YOUR drive being about to go up in smoke are, for the most part, unfounded.
Of COURSE life existed long before humanity ever came into being. Life was created on the third day, humanity not until day SIX!!!!
This is not the same thing as what most of the readers (and likely the author of the article) have been assuming.
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