I think the author missed a significant loophole: he ignores the consideration that the licensee may create a robot (or program) that can use the software in perpetuity after the licensee's death. The robot, being neither an heir nor a living being, and having no legal liability, would be able to use the software on the licensee's behalf with impunity.
I've never had much luck with Wikipedia's technical articles. Especially when it's a field I'm new to. I think it's probably because Wikipedia attempts to be encyclopedic, instead of expository. For technical subjects, there tend to be several interrelated concepts that you need to learn in tandem for either of the individual parts to work. Wikipedia tends to offload different elements to different pages. And they tend to be cross-referential.
===foo=== '''foo''' is an extension of [[bar]] that helps stabilize [[whatsit|whatsits]] in bar's [[verbing]]. foo contains facilities for [[mechgeneering]] and other locality-based facilitators of verbing-related activity.
===bar=== '''bar''' is a [[component infrastructure]] of [[whatsit|whatsits]] that performs locality-based [[verbing]]. bar usually requires [[foo]] in for stability and [[mechgeneering]].
First of all, prices can't really update if there's no trading. So there's no point in saying that prices update continuously if nothing's actually being traded. Prices update once, trading is executed once.
Second, even if there's no trading on the market proper, I don't see how this would prevent the kind of volatility that the GP is talking about. The scenario I see happening is something like the futures market---people make bets and update their particular valuation of a stock continuously, and by the time the market executes its trades, a stock's valuation has already gone through significant change on whatever "shadow markets" are set up behind the scenes. This is a recipe for GP's prediction of volatility, IMO.
But what do I know, I'm not an electrical engineer and I'm certainly not a market analyst.
You're not really following good privacy practices right now.
It looks like you have a Google Code profile under a different username. That username is also your AIM name, which is listed under your Slashdot profile. It doesn't show up in a Google search as being associated with your Slashdot username...yet. I assume that if you ever finish somenewlang, and want to show it to a prospective employer, that you would need to delete your current account---and hope they don't check the Internet archives!---and create a new account under a different name, so that your Google Code account would not be associated with your Slashdot username.
In any case, once they have "TehZorroness" as a potential alias, they can find you with user accounts on torrent sites and over here admitting you smoke pot. Nothing I care about, but nothing you want an employer to see, either. And I haven't even gotten past the first page of results. So don't bang on us for using Facebook.
I wish I hadn't burned my last mod point earlier in this thread, because the fact that you've got Score 1: Troll, and the parent has Score 5: Insightful, is truly a tragedy.
If it makes you feel any better, one of the points I'd spent earlier has vanished into nothingness by the act of making this comment.
I just don't have a good grasp on the whole "awareness" thing. There are plenty of things that plenty of people are not aware of, and probably should be, but it just doesn't seem that the more common deadly diseases fall in that category.
Q: "Were you aware of breast cancer?" A: "Why no, I've never heard of that. Is that white meat chicken stuffed with crab meat?" Q: "No, in fact, it's a life-threatening illness where doctors have to cut your boobs off to save your life." A: "Outrage! Every boob is sacred! Why aren't we doing anything about this most important issue?!"
If the "awareness" is meant to drum up political support or funding, then okay, but I don't understand the strategy other than that.
Same here. Unfortunately, it's not a very quotable song except for the title, so I am not going to be able to sneak any lyrics from it into a casual Slashdot post.
Okay, I lied. You caught me under false pretenses.
As far as free speech goes, the positions she has taken in the role of Solicitor General have been consistent with the academic papers she wrote as a law professor.
So it's also likely going to remain consistent on the Supreme Court.
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For instance, nouveau riche is a French phrase imported into English. Webster's has it listed, but my spellchecker cries bloody murder when it sees me type it. That's two words; Webster's has an entry for nouveau but not for riche. So is riche an English word?
Webster's has anime as a Japanese import, but not otaku or hentai, both of which are also widely used in the English-speaking world.
Queso may be the Spanish word for cheese, but around these parts we use it as an English word to refer specifically to molten nacho cheese, as in chili con queso. Speaking of which, the word nacho is a relatively recent import, and while Webster's doesn't list chili con queso, it does list chili con carne.
I would probably have a lot more to work with, too, if we were speaking a different language, besides English, because so many neologisms in our language make their way around the globe.
You ever seen one of those FBI warnings? (I haven't in a while, I haven't watched an honest-to-goodness DVD in a while). They say something along the lines that "this content is only for private use" or some such. Whatever your opinion on IP and piracy might be, it's pretty clear that storing a broadcast on your DVR is private use, uploading* it onto the Internet is very public.
*Nobody goes after downloaders. They go after uploaders. Which, with P2P software, happen to be the same people as the uploaders.
Your vote simply doesn't count in other countries.
Assuming citizens of said countries have a vote in the first place. And a vote counts for jack shit when government strangles the media. Like North Korea; it's illegal to say that Tiger Woods is a better golfer than Kim Jong-Il. I guess you might say, "That's their culture of autocracy; deal with it!" but I'm more inclined to say, "That's terrorizing bullshit."
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I think the author missed a significant loophole: he ignores the consideration that the licensee may create a robot (or program) that can use the software in perpetuity after the licensee's death. The robot, being neither an heir nor a living being, and having no legal liability, would be able to use the software on the licensee's behalf with impunity.
I've never had much luck with Wikipedia's technical articles. Especially when it's a field I'm new to. I think it's probably because Wikipedia attempts to be encyclopedic, instead of expository. For technical subjects, there tend to be several interrelated concepts that you need to learn in tandem for either of the individual parts to work. Wikipedia tends to offload different elements to different pages. And they tend to be cross-referential.
===foo===
'''foo''' is an extension of [[bar]] that helps stabilize [[whatsit|whatsits]] in bar's [[verbing]]. foo contains facilities for [[mechgeneering]] and other locality-based facilitators of verbing-related activity.
===bar===
'''bar''' is a [[component infrastructure]] of [[whatsit|whatsits]] that performs locality-based [[verbing]]. bar usually requires [[foo]] in for stability and [[mechgeneering]].
I don't see how that works.
First of all, prices can't really update if there's no trading. So there's no point in saying that prices update continuously if nothing's actually being traded. Prices update once, trading is executed once.
Second, even if there's no trading on the market proper, I don't see how this would prevent the kind of volatility that the GP is talking about. The scenario I see happening is something like the futures market---people make bets and update their particular valuation of a stock continuously, and by the time the market executes its trades, a stock's valuation has already gone through significant change on whatever "shadow markets" are set up behind the scenes. This is a recipe for GP's prediction of volatility, IMO.
But what do I know, I'm not an electrical engineer and I'm certainly not a market analyst.
Oh, shit. You can.
Fucking Live Journal. I thought I deleted that when I was 17.
Fortunately, I don't have a name and a picture yet. I have a Facebook. Can you find mine?
You're not really following good privacy practices right now.
It looks like you have a Google Code profile under a different username. That username is also your AIM name, which is listed under your Slashdot profile. It doesn't show up in a Google search as being associated with your Slashdot username...yet. I assume that if you ever finish somenewlang, and want to show it to a prospective employer, that you would need to delete your current account---and hope they don't check the Internet archives!---and create a new account under a different name, so that your Google Code account would not be associated with your Slashdot username.
In any case, once they have "TehZorroness" as a potential alias, they can find you with user accounts on torrent sites and over here admitting you smoke pot. Nothing I care about, but nothing you want an employer to see, either. And I haven't even gotten past the first page of results. So don't bang on us for using Facebook.
Wait, so in order for me to justify learning something, I need to be able to explain the practical uses for it?
We need to start rounding up the humanities majors right now.
Class president? I was wondering which Senate seat he was elected to.
I wish I hadn't burned my last mod point earlier in this thread, because the fact that you've got Score 1: Troll, and the parent has Score 5: Insightful, is truly a tragedy.
If it makes you feel any better, one of the points I'd spent earlier has vanished into nothingness by the act of making this comment.
I just don't have a good grasp on the whole "awareness" thing. There are plenty of things that plenty of people are not aware of, and probably should be, but it just doesn't seem that the more common deadly diseases fall in that category.
Q: "Were you aware of breast cancer?"
A: "Why no, I've never heard of that. Is that white meat chicken stuffed with crab meat?"
Q: "No, in fact, it's a life-threatening illness where doctors have to cut your boobs off to save your life."
A: "Outrage! Every boob is sacred! Why aren't we doing anything about this most important issue?!"
If the "awareness" is meant to drum up political support or funding, then okay, but I don't understand the strategy other than that.
Well now I know why my duck is a hat.
Same here. Unfortunately, it's not a very quotable song except for the title, so I am not going to be able to sneak any lyrics from it into a casual Slashdot post.
Okay, I lied. You caught me under false pretenses.
I was going to say, aren't there demons in space?
Oh man, I didn't realize it was the same John Carmack.
As far as free speech goes, the positions she has taken in the role of Solicitor General have been consistent with the academic papers she wrote as a law professor.
So it's also likely going to remain consistent on the Supreme Court.
It makes me think of glittery sea shells.
Nonsense. There's also "communism" and a few other isms.
What I'm really trying to say is that your post is fascist.
...up with which we will not put.
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Buy Google in 1995?
"[Google] was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, with its initial public offering to follow on August 19, 2004."
He must have really seen it coming.
Also, by "the crash" are you referring to the dot-com bust? 'Cause I think you might want to sell in 2000, not 2001.
I still think that's ambiguous.
For instance, nouveau riche is a French phrase imported into English. Webster's has it listed, but my spellchecker cries bloody murder when it sees me type it. That's two words; Webster's has an entry for nouveau but not for riche. So is riche an English word?
Webster's has anime as a Japanese import, but not otaku or hentai, both of which are also widely used in the English-speaking world.
Queso may be the Spanish word for cheese, but around these parts we use it as an English word to refer specifically to molten nacho cheese, as in chili con queso. Speaking of which, the word nacho is a relatively recent import, and while Webster's doesn't list chili con queso, it does list chili con carne.
I would probably have a lot more to work with, too, if we were speaking a different language, besides English, because so many neologisms in our language make their way around the globe.
I was aware that malloc() had a price tag attached, but free()? That's misleading advertising.
You ever seen one of those FBI warnings? (I haven't in a while, I haven't watched an honest-to-goodness DVD in a while). They say something along the lines that "this content is only for private use" or some such. Whatever your opinion on IP and piracy might be, it's pretty clear that storing a broadcast on your DVR is private use, uploading* it onto the Internet is very public.
*Nobody goes after downloaders. They go after uploaders. Which, with P2P software, happen to be the same people as the uploaders.
I demand my right to torture! ;-)
Your vote simply doesn't count in other countries.
Assuming citizens of said countries have a vote in the first place. And a vote counts for jack shit when government strangles the media. Like North Korea; it's illegal to say that Tiger Woods is a better golfer than Kim Jong-Il. I guess you might say, "That's their culture of autocracy; deal with it!" but I'm more inclined to say, "That's terrorizing bullshit."
I mean, who wants to have to pay royalties whenever they get cancer? ;-)