he's also interested in getting as much of the credit as possible. Clearly he thinks that he is using the best strategy of crowdsourcing vs. proprietary approach.
Jurisprudence does... in general... recognize a future hypothetical case... as... lawsuits against... copyright violators... [A]n unholy cross between corruption, politics, and insanity... permit... police to use... powers for any... purpose.
The correct answer is... just... a... person... armed... can solve the problem.
Really it's even worse. There are three basic ways this can shake out:
Scenario 1: Almost noone buys in. Speeding is more strictly enforced, and almost everyone stays at 60 or whatever instead of finding the natural equilibrium; in addition there are a few road missiles flooring it to 100. Net result: more dangerous roads, and slower for most.
Scenario 2: Significant minority of people buy in. Same as above, probably a little less safe. State makes a decent chunk of money for it.
Scenario 3: Almost everyone buys in. State has effectively levied a highway tax. The few people who don't buy in are now forced by law to be virtual roadblocks for everyone else. Significantly more dangerous roads.
Actually, advances in programming languages and user interfaces on computerized machine tools went along with the re-skilling of factory workers. See, when there was no effective UI, it was a selling point that the Managers would have to program the machines or hire consultants to do it.
Admittedly, a number of factors went into reversing this situation. Perhaps most importantly, the products of the preprogrammed machines were mostly junk, and the market didn't want them. Cause and effect is hard or impossible to pin down. However, yeah, when the workers regained control of their machines, there was an improved UI.
Keeping things hard always doesn't benefit the practitioner; making things easier doesn't always deskill them. We just need to keep trying to find the natural correspondence, and this is a slow and inefficient process exactly because we're human.
from the obvious source: "Acetone has been studied extensively and is generally recognized to have low acute and chronic toxicity if ingested and/or inhaled... Inhalation 500 ppm of acetone in the air caused no symptoms of irritation in humans even after 2 hours of exposure... Acetone has been rated as a GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) substance when present in beverages, baked goods, desserts, and preserves at concentrations ranging from 5 to 8 mg/L."
That is, using it for a few minutes to scrub off a sticker won't hurt you at all.
Be careful with this and do a spot test first; essential oils destabilize some plastics. I'd recommend starting out with something simpler like ethanol/isopropyl. Plain old rubbing alcohol plus friction has always done the trick for me.
I don't personally like Yuengling, but that's hardly relevant.
It's quite clear that "American beer" generally refers to the product of megabreweries, which is the common face of beer in America. The criticism of American beer is properly understood, whether you agree or not, as a criticism of mainstream American taste for accepting such crap. I think that whatever one's tastes, there will be an American beer (perhaps very obscure) that comes pretty close to satisfying it. The same cannot be said of other countries, where the unified national taste dictates the product.
Now personally, I think American budweiser just completes the commodification and blandification of beer pioneered in Plzen (i.e., birthplace of Pilsner) some centuries ago. Once again America finishes what Europe starts.
I'll pay a premium for and appreciate good ale; stout; gueuze; barleywine; &c., but if I want something `smooth' I'll go all the way with an ice-cold Natty, Coors or Budweiser rather than go half-cocked with Pilsner Urquell or similar. Fortunately it's also a cheaper option.
The gist seems to be that although copyright itself gives no protection, it can successfully be argued to be fraud to willfully misrepresent PD status at least if $ is involved.
It all comes down to what one means by "stays in the public domain."
If they mean that mere duplication stays in the public domain, then the PD satisfies that already so there is no question apart from what is called "copyfraud" elsewhere in thread. I am not sure whether PD blocks copyfraud (claiming authorship of material verbatim); I suspect it depends on whether the country has a concept of moral rights apart from intellectual property rights.
So, the alternative is that if by "stays in the public domain," they mean that derived works stay in the domain declared for the original work. OK, now strictly speaking we've reached a contradiction since the public domain does not allow this. However, we may consider a quasi-public domain in which this property holds. It is obvious that there is no way whatsoever to do this for an open release, without something GPL-like (feel free to prove me wrong). Specifics may differ, but that part of GPL which is called "viral" by its detractors and called "spider plant-like" by rms exactly identifies what is necessary for derived works to stay in the original domain.
I'd be happy if I only didn't occasionally have to go into the "Appearance" preference, just to make Ubuntu remember that it's supposed to be using a theme.
I guess I didn't make this very clear, but a lot of cool stuff can be done as numerical optimization. Google's ad delivery is done with massive-scale penalized/regularized logistic regression, and you can also do pretty good spam detection that way too. Hell, Google's search is based on math more than CS, and that's gotta be pretty cool, right?
The question is, I guess, whether these concepts are just too hard to be worth trying to teach; or whether no one has really tried; or whether the kids really wouldn't care.
I dunno; if you took a poll, I don't think "coding a bit-blitting VGA or even ASCII game on an obsolete platform" would be tremendously popular either.
Different interests for different people I guess. Here is my own story: I honestly wish I had known about numerical optimization and stats in middle school and high school. It took me until college when I finally had a professor who Knew Things, that I realized that everything I thought I wanted to do in Comp. Sci. was actually math.
I didn't like math until I took real analysis. If I had known that high school calc would help lead to elegant tricks like convex duality and neat applications like optimizing quasilikelihoods and penalty functions for real world applications, I'd have bothered learning it. As it was, I just figured you could approximate any integral with the trapezoid rule, and all those tricks were pointless.:-/ It wasn't until analysis that I learned about interesting functions and counterexamples.
I eventually wound up in a good grad school and I'm working on my Ph.D. now, but yeah, if I'd had a class in programming obsolete hardware I don't think I would have jumped for joy.
Another way to get to this level of demand is to have them work on extremely large datasets using mathematically sophisticated models. Even on a modern computer, developing a sparse matrix-represented tensor from R^{60 000} dimensions to R^{7500^2} will take a bit of planning.
This will train (mostly) the same skill set and also prepare them for real work. Unfortunately, most CS teachers don't know jack about numerical optimization/statistics/data mining.
Instead of old machinery, they can just code for the MMIX machine right?
I don't have particularly anything against this retro programming plan, and I think it'd be a fun and useful experience. There are however many other ways to get people to think.
No, I won't deride you. I like and defend plenty of movies which most people consider retarded; I'm a big fan of Minority Report and Robocop for example. Stalker just really did it for me; I have a lot of the same doubts as the characters. Watching it was a real "get out of my head" moment and I was riveted through.
There's an apocryphal story about how Tarkovski intentionally made his movies boring so as to get by Soviet censors. Maybe it's true.
I don't know what other genre to put Stalker in. It fits the "high-brow" re-definition of science fiction in that it uses a fantastical device (the Zones) to reduce and explore human nature. (shrug)
I agree that Moon is easier to classify as science fiction, but having accepted Moon it's not such a big step to Stalker imho.
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he's also interested in getting as much of the credit as possible. Clearly he thinks that he is using the best strategy of crowdsourcing vs. proprietary approach.
Jurisprudence does ... in general ... recognize a future hypothetical case ... as ... lawsuits against ... copyright violators ... [A]n unholy cross between corruption, politics, and insanity ... permit... police to use ... powers for any ... purpose.
The correct answer is ... just ... a ... person ... armed... can solve the problem.
Really it's even worse. There are three basic ways this can shake out:
Scenario 1: Almost noone buys in. Speeding is more strictly enforced, and almost everyone stays at 60 or whatever instead of finding the natural equilibrium; in addition there are a few road missiles flooring it to 100. Net result: more dangerous roads, and slower for most.
Scenario 2: Significant minority of people buy in. Same as above, probably a little less safe. State makes a decent chunk of money for it.
Scenario 3: Almost everyone buys in. State has effectively levied a highway tax. The few people who don't buy in are now forced by law to be virtual roadblocks for everyone else. Significantly more dangerous roads.
Once there's a legitimate way to buy "speeding rights," one would expect enforcement to be stricter for the ones who don't buy indulgences.
Of course it's probably a stupid idea anyway.
I'll take the bait.
Actually, advances in programming languages and user interfaces on computerized machine tools went along with the re-skilling of factory workers. See, when there was no effective UI, it was a selling point that the Managers would have to program the machines or hire consultants to do it.
Admittedly, a number of factors went into reversing this situation. Perhaps most importantly, the products of the preprogrammed machines were mostly junk, and the market didn't want them. Cause and effect is hard or impossible to pin down. However, yeah, when the workers regained control of their machines, there was an improved UI.
Keeping things hard always doesn't benefit the practitioner; making things easier doesn't always deskill them. We just need to keep trying to find the natural correspondence, and this is a slow and inefficient process exactly because we're human.
Yeah I'd agree with that and suggest rubbing alcohol instead (noting that this still contains a a fraction of a percent of acetone by mass).
However "air/acetone ratio could lead to the inevitable" seems to suggest health concerns.
from the obvious source: "Acetone has been studied extensively and is generally recognized to have low acute and chronic toxicity if ingested and/or inhaled... Inhalation 500 ppm of acetone in the air caused no symptoms of irritation in humans even after 2 hours of exposure... Acetone has been rated as a GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) substance when present in beverages, baked goods, desserts, and preserves at concentrations ranging from 5 to 8 mg/L."
That is, using it for a few minutes to scrub off a sticker won't hurt you at all.
Be careful with this and do a spot test first; essential oils destabilize some plastics. I'd recommend starting out with something simpler like ethanol/isopropyl. Plain old rubbing alcohol plus friction has always done the trick for me.
the government encourages you... Then, at some time in the future...
Gee, all that and what do they get in exchange? Merely an absolute state-enforced monopoly for nearly two decades. Woe be unto them.
Hah! Especially funny since a lot of bars will call Killian's Red (Coors) an import. :)
I don't personally like Yuengling, but that's hardly relevant.
It's quite clear that "American beer" generally refers to the product of megabreweries, which is the common face of beer in America. The criticism of American beer is properly understood, whether you agree or not, as a criticism of mainstream American taste for accepting such crap. I think that whatever one's tastes, there will be an American beer (perhaps very obscure) that comes pretty close to satisfying it. The same cannot be said of other countries, where the unified national taste dictates the product.
Now personally, I think American budweiser just completes the commodification and blandification of beer pioneered in Plzen (i.e., birthplace of Pilsner) some centuries ago. Once again America finishes what Europe starts.
I'll pay a premium for and appreciate good ale; stout; gueuze; barleywine; &c., but if I want something `smooth' I'll go all the way with an ice-cold Natty, Coors or Budweiser rather than go half-cocked with Pilsner Urquell or similar. Fortunately it's also a cheaper option.
Overrated, huh? I could understand "redundant".
Let me guess, the last sentence was enough to rub the sand in a libertarian's pants?
Pretty much. They can only deliver letters as an express service which is a different market than general mail (and of course they can't deliver them to mailboxes). This is an interesting read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service#Universal_Service_Obligation_and_monopoly_status
I am in favor of this USPS obligation/monopoly in principle, but it may be redundant now in practice anyway.
This seems like a sensible distinction to make. There's some analysis of the US situation here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=787244.
The gist seems to be that although copyright itself gives no protection, it can successfully be argued to be fraud to willfully misrepresent PD status at least if $ is involved.
Serious question: can I take a PD work verbatim and claim authorship? Or more precisely, in which countries can I do this?
It all comes down to what one means by "stays in the public domain."
If they mean that mere duplication stays in the public domain, then the PD satisfies that already so there is no question apart from what is called "copyfraud" elsewhere in thread. I am not sure whether PD blocks copyfraud (claiming authorship of material verbatim); I suspect it depends on whether the country has a concept of moral rights apart from intellectual property rights.
So, the alternative is that if by "stays in the public domain," they mean that derived works stay in the domain declared for the original work. OK, now strictly speaking we've reached a contradiction since the public domain does not allow this. However, we may consider a quasi-public domain in which this property holds. It is obvious that there is no way whatsoever to do this for an open release, without something GPL-like (feel free to prove me wrong). Specifics may differ, but that part of GPL which is called "viral" by its detractors and called "spider plant-like" by rms exactly identifies what is necessary for derived works to stay in the original domain.
I'd be happy if I only didn't occasionally have to go into the "Appearance" preference, just to make Ubuntu remember that it's supposed to be using a theme.
Interesting. Many friends of mine suggested it to me. I'm glad it's big in Japan, and I'm afraid your assessment of Americans is accurate. Sad.
I guess I didn't make this very clear, but a lot of cool stuff can be done as numerical optimization. Google's ad delivery is done with massive-scale penalized/regularized logistic regression, and you can also do pretty good spam detection that way too. Hell, Google's search is based on math more than CS, and that's gotta be pretty cool, right?
The question is, I guess, whether these concepts are just too hard to be worth trying to teach; or whether no one has really tried; or whether the kids really wouldn't care.
I dunno; if you took a poll, I don't think "coding a bit-blitting VGA or even ASCII game on an obsolete platform" would be tremendously popular either.
Different interests for different people I guess. Here is my own story: I honestly wish I had known about numerical optimization and stats in middle school and high school. It took me until college when I finally had a professor who Knew Things, that I realized that everything I thought I wanted to do in Comp. Sci. was actually math.
I didn't like math until I took real analysis. If I had known that high school calc would help lead to elegant tricks like convex duality and neat applications like optimizing quasilikelihoods and penalty functions for real world applications, I'd have bothered learning it. As it was, I just figured you could approximate any integral with the trapezoid rule, and all those tricks were pointless. :-/ It wasn't until analysis that I learned about interesting functions and counterexamples.
I eventually wound up in a good grad school and I'm working on my Ph.D. now, but yeah, if I'd had a class in programming obsolete hardware I don't think I would have jumped for joy.
Another way to get to this level of demand is to have them work on extremely large datasets using mathematically sophisticated models. Even on a modern computer, developing a sparse matrix-represented tensor from R^{60 000} dimensions to R^{7500^2} will take a bit of planning.
This will train (mostly) the same skill set and also prepare them for real work. Unfortunately, most CS teachers don't know jack about numerical optimization/statistics/data mining.
Instead of old machinery, they can just code for the MMIX machine right?
I don't have particularly anything against this retro programming plan, and I think it'd be a fun and useful experience. There are however many other ways to get people to think.
Also, the novel Stalker is based on is quite clearly science fiction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic
The movie just happens to remove almost all explicit depiction of the technology in order to focus on the characters. ;-)
No, I won't deride you. I like and defend plenty of movies which most people consider retarded; I'm a big fan of Minority Report and Robocop for example. Stalker just really did it for me; I have a lot of the same doubts as the characters. Watching it was a real "get out of my head" moment and I was riveted through.
There's an apocryphal story about how Tarkovski intentionally made his movies boring so as to get by Soviet censors. Maybe it's true.
I don't know what other genre to put Stalker in. It fits the "high-brow" re-definition of science fiction in that it uses a fantastical device (the Zones) to reduce and explore human nature. (shrug)
I agree that Moon is easier to classify as science fiction, but having accepted Moon it's not such a big step to Stalker imho.
When I look at District 9 and compare it to, say, Moon or Stalker, I feel the same way people do about Avatar.
I'm really afraid of seeing Avatar.
I think "novelty" isn't quite the right word here.