I realise that you are a lawyer and I am not, but how is that comment not libel?
Wiki says: "In law, defamation [...] is the communication of a statement that makes a false claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government or nation a negative image."
Granted, it's kinda hard to paint the RIAA (and its law firms) in a more negative image than they've done on their own, but still.
I rather doubt it'd be a monopoly, if you had four companies with an exact even distribution of the market share. Much less so with 5, so either I misunderstood something, or you didn't explain what you meant.
The wiki page skips these (somewhat unrealistic) scenarios as well, but since we're dealing with math, we should probably look at the cases where things "look odd".
They aren't actually right - they're just a very effective tool.
0.99... + 0.99... 2
0.33... + 0.33... + 0.33... 1.
There difference is pretty close to 1/infinite, but it's still less than 1. For all intents and purposes they are the same, but there's still a small difference
But (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) = 1 no matter how you slice it.
And that was my point. You shouldn't avoid using usefull tools, just because you haven't quite understood all of it. Imagine just how much you'd be freezing right now, if every seamstress had to understand every single bloody part of the physics and mechanics involved in sowing, carting, fabrication of synthetic fibers etc.
It's not just a technicality - it's a reality. You don't download firefox and then fire up the adblock... you download firefox (install it) and then you install adblock.
Extentions aren't limited to Firefox. They exist for other browsers as well (like Opera), but the Firefox engine does make it easier to make extentions (many of which are actually part of Opera to begin with).
From what you are writing, you are essentially arguing that the way we teach math in school is wrong.
1+1=2. But you can't really prove that yet. That's VERY difficult to prove The square root of 4 is +/-2. Easy. But then we tell them that you cannot do the square root of a negative number.
Both of these things hide some of the realities of actual math, because it's easier to handle this way.
And so on and so forth.
Logarithm tells us that 2+2 != 4, but rather 3.99 [ad infinitum] - how's that for a bit of confusion.
You have to start somewhere. Sure, teaching the fundamentals is a good thing, but even in math some fundamentals aren't taught until you get waaaay beyond the intro to math. But just like in math, some times it's really nice to get to know the tools first and the precise knowledge of how it works later. If we had to know exactly how everything works before we started using it, physics would never be taught...
safari: spellchecking[sic], dynamic resize AND grammar checking
How's the spell checking and grammar in other languages? I ask because while Microsoft Office has some of the very best of these features in English, they're mediocre to downright horrible in Danish. I suspect this to be the case in other languages as well.
PS: Sorry about the [sic] but that was just too funny to skip in this post
That's not Firefox. You said it yourself - it's an extension of Firefox. It's a very cool extention, no doubts about that. The same with Flashblock. But saying that Firefox is good at blocking ads (it's not) is like saying Windows has great security (if you just install all of these extentions to it).
If it's not IN Firefox as part of the default install, it's NOT Firefox.
Isn't that just the old "buggy and whip" argument, all wrapped in a different packaging?
By this argument, Project Gutenberg is a bad thing as well, as you should just go and find a used book store that has the books you're downloading from there.
Considering the amount of press that actual piracy is getting, perhaps a better choice of words would be "copyright violation".
After all, I'm fairly sure that everyone here would agree that highjacking a huge oil tanker, threatning the lives of those aboard and making veiled threats about dumping two million barrels of oil into the sea is at least somewhat unethical.
Getting your hands on an unauthorized digital copy of a book you already own - doesn't even register on the same scale.
As a para-vegitarian I have to tell you that you don't need to apologize.
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My other neighbor always parks their cars in front of my yard because their garage is full of useless shit and they don't want cars in front of their yard.
Well, several ways to fix this. You can always park a set of tire spikes in front of your yard. There's no chance that anyone will step on it - including animals, and there's no chance that anyone with an ounce of brain will run a car over it.
Or you could just use his yard as an impromptu toilet - that would probably get the message across just as well.
Shouldn't her parents [...] also be liable for putting her on these meds?
No. Let me repeat that - no.
Unless her parents are medical experts in that specific field, how the hell are they supposed to know better than the doctors who wrote the perscriptions? Seriously?
Me, I know pretty much nothing about a lot of things, but car analogies seem very popular on Slashdot. If I go to the mechanic and he tells me to use such and such oil to keep my car in tip top shape, and the next mechanic I take the car to tells me the exact same thing, would you still say it's my fault for using an oil, that just happens to ruin the engine?
Even better - I know how to use a computer. Fairly well at that. Would you say it's my fault that my Sony laptop battery burst into flames, set fire to the highly flammable car seat I had it on and burnt down the car? What if I asked the manufacturer about the battery, because I'd heard that this had happened before - but they said not to worry about it?
What the fuck is it with people here wanting parrents, children and loved ones to be medical experts on all kinds of medication? That's why we HAVE doctors - they're the experts.
Technically, the cup is in space. The long straw just means he isn't in space.
That being said, it still won't work. Not because he can't suck water more than 10 meters upwards (the cup will be above him in a gravitational reference), but because he cannot create a big enough pressure differential to get gravity on his side.
File a counter suit, listing ALL the artists, albums and songs that glorify crime. Since people want to try all the cool stuff, like killing people, mugging people, stabbing, shooting, raping etc. they will start out doing something, that has a low risk of getting caught (i.e. piracy).
If the ISP is complicit, the studioes are even more responsible, as they are promoting the stuff that entice people.
Well, yes... it worked perfectly. Until someone turned if off and put it on a table while pulling out the tools to fix it. Then it sort of just drifted away in space.
If there's a guy in a tower with a machine gun taking shots into the crowd bellow, and some subset of the crowd has the ability to DDos, what would you want them to do?
I would want someone to sever the shooter's tower's connection to the ground I'm standing on - preferably very quickly and without warning him in advance.
Don't Smurf smurf up every other word they smurf? That's the smurfpression I've gotten from smurfing the Smurfs on smurf. I might be smurf, but then again, I might also be smurf.
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What, like the CIA but without a fancy seal?
I realise that you are a lawyer and I am not, but how is that comment not libel?
Wiki says: "In law, defamation [...] is the communication of a statement that makes a false claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government or nation a negative image."
Granted, it's kinda hard to paint the RIAA (and its law firms) in a more negative image than they've done on their own, but still.
How about:
*Tables
*Chairs
*Doors
*Beds
*Couches
*Drapes
*Curtains
*Blankets
*Carpets
That's just off the top of my head. And most of these are significantly more durable than computer mice.
I think I'm missing something here - or you are.
Example:
4 companies:
HHI = 33^2 + 33^2 + 33^2 + 1 = 3,268
HHI = 25^2 + 25^2 + 25^2 + 25^2 = 2,500
5 isn't even enough
HHI = 20^2 + 20^2 + 20^2 + 20^2 + 20^2 = 2,000
6 is though:
HHI = 17^2 + 17^2 + 17^2 + 17^2 + 16^2 + 16^2 = 1,668
I rather doubt it'd be a monopoly, if you had four companies with an exact even distribution of the market share. Much less so with 5, so either I misunderstood something, or you didn't explain what you meant.
The wiki page skips these (somewhat unrealistic) scenarios as well, but since we're dealing with math, we should probably look at the cases where things "look odd".
Is it me or does that sound somewhat similar to "two girls and a cup"?
They aren't actually right - they're just a very effective tool.
0.99... + 0.99... 2
0.33... + 0.33... + 0.33... 1.
There difference is pretty close to 1/infinite, but it's still less than 1. For all intents and purposes they are the same, but there's still a small difference
But (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) = 1 no matter how you slice it.
And that was my point. You shouldn't avoid using usefull tools, just because you haven't quite understood all of it. Imagine just how much you'd be freezing right now, if every seamstress had to understand every single bloody part of the physics and mechanics involved in sowing, carting, fabrication of synthetic fibers etc.
It's not just a technicality - it's a reality. You don't download firefox and then fire up the adblock ... you download firefox (install it) and then you install adblock.
Extentions aren't limited to Firefox. They exist for other browsers as well (like Opera), but the Firefox engine does make it easier to make extentions (many of which are actually part of Opera to begin with).
From what you are writing, you are essentially arguing that the way we teach math in school is wrong.
1+1=2. But you can't really prove that yet. That's VERY difficult to prove
The square root of 4 is +/-2. Easy. But then we tell them that you cannot do the square root of a negative number.
Both of these things hide some of the realities of actual math, because it's easier to handle this way.
And so on and so forth.
Logarithm tells us that 2+2 != 4, but rather 3.99 [ad infinitum] - how's that for a bit of confusion.
You have to start somewhere. Sure, teaching the fundamentals is a good thing, but even in math some fundamentals aren't taught until you get waaaay beyond the intro to math. But just like in math, some times it's really nice to get to know the tools first and the precise knowledge of how it works later. If we had to know exactly how everything works before we started using it, physics would never be taught ...
How's the spell checking and grammar in other languages? I ask because while Microsoft Office has some of the very best of these features in English, they're mediocre to downright horrible in Danish. I suspect this to be the case in other languages as well.
PS: Sorry about the [sic] but that was just too funny to skip in this post
That's not Firefox. You said it yourself - it's an extension of Firefox. It's a very cool extention, no doubts about that. The same with Flashblock. But saying that Firefox is good at blocking ads (it's not) is like saying Windows has great security (if you just install all of these extentions to it).
If it's not IN Firefox as part of the default install, it's NOT Firefox.
Isn't that just the old "buggy and whip" argument, all wrapped in a different packaging?
By this argument, Project Gutenberg is a bad thing as well, as you should just go and find a used book store that has the books you're downloading from there.
Considering the amount of press that actual piracy is getting, perhaps a better choice of words would be "copyright violation".
After all, I'm fairly sure that everyone here would agree that highjacking a huge oil tanker, threatning the lives of those aboard and making veiled threats about dumping two million barrels of oil into the sea is at least somewhat unethical.
Getting your hands on an unauthorized digital copy of a book you already own - doesn't even register on the same scale.
As a para-vegitarian I have to tell you that you don't need to apologize.
Well, several ways to fix this. You can always park a set of tire spikes in front of your yard. There's no chance that anyone will step on it - including animals, and there's no chance that anyone with an ounce of brain will run a car over it.
Or you could just use his yard as an impromptu toilet - that would probably get the message across just as well.
No. Let me repeat that - no.
Unless her parents are medical experts in that specific field, how the hell are they supposed to know better than the doctors who wrote the perscriptions? Seriously?
Me, I know pretty much nothing about a lot of things, but car analogies seem very popular on Slashdot. If I go to the mechanic and he tells me to use such and such oil to keep my car in tip top shape, and the next mechanic I take the car to tells me the exact same thing, would you still say it's my fault for using an oil, that just happens to ruin the engine?
Even better - I know how to use a computer. Fairly well at that. Would you say it's my fault that my Sony laptop battery burst into flames, set fire to the highly flammable car seat I had it on and burnt down the car? What if I asked the manufacturer about the battery, because I'd heard that this had happened before - but they said not to worry about it?
What the fuck is it with people here wanting parrents, children and loved ones to be medical experts on all kinds of medication? That's why we HAVE doctors - they're the experts.
Technically, the cup is in space. The long straw just means he isn't in space.
That being said, it still won't work. Not because he can't suck water more than 10 meters upwards (the cup will be above him in a gravitational reference), but because he cannot create a big enough pressure differential to get gravity on his side.
That's a very interesting piece of code.
Opera 9.61 gets consistantly slower on every new click on the buttons. But if you close the window and reopen it, it's fast again.
Not "100 ms slower" but 2, 4, 7, 9 seconds runtime ... strange.
File a counter suit, listing ALL the artists, albums and songs that glorify crime. Since people want to try all the cool stuff, like killing people, mugging people, stabbing, shooting, raping etc. they will start out doing something, that has a low risk of getting caught (i.e. piracy).
If the ISP is complicit, the studioes are even more responsible, as they are promoting the stuff that entice people.
Well, yes ... it worked perfectly. Until someone turned if off and put it on a table while pulling out the tools to fix it. Then it sort of just drifted away in space.
I would want someone to sever the shooter's tower's connection to the ground I'm standing on - preferably very quickly and without warning him in advance.
In the immortal words of Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle (flipping the bird):
[x]Smell your mom!
You grind repeatedly with my mum? My mum, who's been dead for four years?
The dating scene?
You mean apart from the fifteen other theatres, he was ejected from before this one filed charges with the police?
Granted, there's nothing that indicates that this is the case, but then again - if they had simply done as suggested, how would others know?
So ... basicly the NSA is made up of Smurfs?
Don't Smurf smurf up every other word they smurf? That's the smurfpression I've gotten from smurfing the Smurfs on smurf. I might be smurf, but then again, I might also be smurf.