Lets add to the fact that a lot of us don't really want to be helping people who can't even be bothered reading the books online or otherwise. Other people do perhaps have better things to do. Helping some lazy noob could be considered a distraction.
The problem with your idea is that it only works for "cursory" reading, you rarely get details that matter. Also there is a lot of plain wrong information on the internet. Wikipedia comes to mind.
If you don't know the details you are not going to know they are missing. If you don't try to put the knowledge into action you are not going to notice details missing or notice that the information is wrong.
Using the "everything I know is on the internet" is not a very good argument when clearly the only place you look for knowledge is the internet.
Eventually books will vanish, just like stone tablets did.
People keep saying that and books still keep selling like there is no tomorrow. The internet will eventually get its fair share of freely available *good* technical references. But people will still want to buy the printing version.
Libraries was the primary way i got internet access when I was unemployed. They are also a good way to get things archived and for ensuring some form of fair use. In short the internet is a good thing. So are Libraries. I want to keep both.
I never said anything about copyright. Copyright is good for me...Perhaps. I write code. A company pays me a salary. After i leave that company, they still make money off my code and I *don't* get paid. I need to find another job *like everyone else*. If i produce bad code, finding a new job or even keeping the one I have is going to be harder....
If you only want to produce art if you are paid thats fine by me. But don't complain if no one want to pay for it (that was the original point with 95% of un-famous artists!). Thats not my problem, nor is it anyone else's. That has *nothing* to do with copyright.
They are not famous enough to make any income from such "complements."
Why is that my problem?
If 95% of [insert poor helpless group] can't make any income from [insert some lifestyle choice they want] it is not society's problems. Its theirs. If they can't make it as an artist then don't quit your day job.
For a commercial reactor, we don't have an ideal first wall material yet.
There are some really good ideas in fact. However we do not have the ability to test these ideas.
These cost overruns and delays over the history of the ITER program have been ridiculous
They have been ridiculous, and are 100% political, not scientific. The science of fusion has improved dramatically, confinement has improve many orders of magnitude. And ITER is a logical next step. But its not the only step. We could do smaller experiment on ELM or upgrade JET yet again, or....
We don't seem to be very good at "organizing" science at this kind of size, so smaller seems better with more specific R&D goals.
Here in Germany (well Austria in fact) no one cares about boobies. But a drop of blood... Boom R18/16 or whatever. But only for games. Movies are somehow ignored.
Total BS. Hardware decoders will do only a few little things so they can claim to be hardware accelerated. These little things will be the bits that don't have patents.
Its over water so you don't need the extra height that land based ones do. Then by my numbers 2.3MW is doable with a strong wind. Norway has a lot of strong wind. Remember the power goes to the *cube* of wind speed. But.
..capable of generating 2.3 megawatts...
Which is why wind doesn't work so well as a BOTE calculation suggest. Most of the time it won't be doing that and so you have a big chuck of expensive copper that is only "capable" of generating 2 MW. While the coal equivalent spends 90% of its operating life at capacity.
In many university's its not just the cheater that gets in trouble. Its the person who let them copy from their work. It is often in the university "EULA" if you like.
However this is not as stupid as it sounds. Who did the original assignment and who did the copying?
Further more almost every university I have worked in sound all big and bad about cheating. But at undergrad level, will only give you a zero or a negative mark for the times they catch you. Only after you are a heavy repeat offender do they get serious.
Also professes or lectures or otherwise are paid to research, not teach. I don't get to count teaching time against anything. I still need to get grants and publish papers. The only thing teaching does is cut into research time.
Any instructor that dishes out the exact same projects semester after semester isn't showing any commitment, and certainly isn't staying with the times..
If I am given several courses to teach each semester. Nobody asks how much time that takes or if it was a good course or anything. They only ask why I haven't published as many peer reviewed papers this year. The excuse that I was teaching a lot this year doesn't work. We find it hard to find the time to be so committed.
When I apply to work at a different university, about the only thing they look at is publications.
1) Corporations employ the artists and make money by selling their works. Looks like we still need copyright after all.
This is how a majority of the "art" is produced today. The "creator" does not retain the copyright. So what does lifetime + 70 mean when you are a corporation?
In fact the lack of balance in copyright perfectly illustrates the real problem of corporations with too much protections and rights. They are not people and they are not our equal. People should be first in the eyes of the law. But we are not.
And back to copyright. Most folk I talk too, its not the idea of copyright thats the problem, its the current implementation. There is simply no balance. Anything over 20 years is plain stupid. Yes I have written published books and I write software.
Then you have a choice, let the computer crash you or let the pilot attempt to not crash you.
if you are in a situation that needs terrain following radar and this happens. They only choice you have time for, is to curse or pray before instant death.
In older aircraft that didn't have FBW they was still envelope enforcing mechanisms. My favorite is the wings falling off when g loads are exceeded. But I also like engine failure via damage from running them out of range. Even better it the natural tendency off *all* aircraft to spontaneously dissemble in thunder storms (or other high wind shear situations) with or without FBW.
And what does "battle hardened" even mean with commercial pilots? My understanding is that battle hardened tends to coincide with death, not useful experience.
The copyright holders do not have a license. They are breaking various IP laws in some countries. If they are relevant, it is because they can get sued.
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The money is coming from somewhere...
Don't you remember the economic meltdown? Turns out the money was, and still is, coming from nowhere.
People like you said that 20 years ago. Well that was a few decades ago, how many more am I suppose to wait?
Its not all progress.
Also the vast majority of online material I read. I print first.
Lets add to the fact that a lot of us don't really want to be helping people who can't even be bothered reading the books online or otherwise. Other people do perhaps have better things to do. Helping some lazy noob could be considered a distraction.
The wiki does not fix this problem, but compound it. As a few stories on /. have shown. Fake facts become verifiable...
The problem with your idea is that it only works for "cursory" reading, you rarely get details that matter. Also there is a lot of plain wrong information on the internet. Wikipedia comes to mind.
If you don't know the details you are not going to know they are missing. If you don't try to put the knowledge into action you are not going to notice details missing or notice that the information is wrong.
Using the "everything I know is on the internet" is not a very good argument when clearly the only place you look for knowledge is the internet.
Eventually books will vanish, just like stone tablets did.
People keep saying that and books still keep selling like there is no tomorrow. The internet will eventually get its fair share of freely available *good* technical references. But people will still want to buy the printing version.
Libraries was the primary way i got internet access when I was unemployed. They are also a good way to get things archived and for ensuring some form of fair use. In short the internet is a good thing. So are Libraries. I want to keep both.
Or is very expensive. i.e. scientific journals.
... well "normal" ie rubbish. As evidence I present exhibit A: /.
As more normal people come onto the internet the content becomes more
But it is entertaining....
. . gun in hand . .
Don't you mean chair in hand?
I never said anything about copyright. Copyright is good for me...Perhaps. I write code. A company pays me a salary. After i leave that company, they still make money off my code and I *don't* get paid. I need to find another job *like everyone else*. If i produce bad code, finding a new job or even keeping the one I have is going to be harder....
If you only want to produce art if you are paid thats fine by me. But don't complain if no one want to pay for it (that was the original point with 95% of un-famous artists!). Thats not my problem, nor is it anyone else's. That has *nothing* to do with copyright.
They are not famous enough to make any income from such "complements."
Why is that my problem?
If 95% of [insert poor helpless group] can't make any income from [insert some lifestyle choice they want] it is not society's problems. Its theirs. If they can't make it as an artist then don't quit your day job.
For a commercial reactor, we don't have an ideal first wall material yet.
There are some really good ideas in fact. However we do not have the ability to test these ideas.
These cost overruns and delays over the history of the ITER program have been ridiculous
They have been ridiculous, and are 100% political, not scientific. The science of fusion has improved dramatically, confinement has improve many orders of magnitude. And ITER is a logical next step. But its not the only step. We could do smaller experiment on ELM or upgrade JET yet again, or ....
We don't seem to be very good at "organizing" science at this kind of size, so smaller seems better with more specific R&D goals.
You don't have to wait....
Here in Germany (well Austria in fact) no one cares about boobies. But a drop of blood... Boom R18/16 or whatever. But only for games. Movies are somehow ignored.
Total BS. Hardware decoders will do only a few little things so they can claim to be hardware accelerated. These little things will be the bits that don't have patents.
Its a browser. Not an interface between every computer on the net and my installed library's. Really this sounds like a terrible idea.
..If I wanted to do that, I'd still be collecting Lego sets.
There is an important difference between lego and game creation. Lego is fun.
But if I paid money I want something thats "finished".
..capable of generating 2.3 megawatts ...
Which is why wind doesn't work so well as a BOTE calculation suggest. Most of the time it won't be doing that and so you have a big chuck of expensive copper that is only "capable" of generating 2 MW. While the coal equivalent spends 90% of its operating life at capacity.
In many university's its not just the cheater that gets in trouble. Its the person who let them copy from their work. It is often in the university "EULA" if you like.
However this is not as stupid as it sounds. Who did the original assignment and who did the copying?
Further more almost every university I have worked in sound all big and bad about cheating. But at undergrad level, will only give you a zero or a negative mark for the times they catch you. Only after you are a heavy repeat offender do they get serious.
Also professes or lectures or otherwise are paid to research, not teach. I don't get to count teaching time against anything. I still need to get grants and publish papers. The only thing teaching does is cut into research time.
Any instructor that dishes out the exact same projects semester after semester isn't showing any commitment, and certainly isn't staying with the times..
If I am given several courses to teach each semester. Nobody asks how much time that takes or if it was a good course or anything. They only ask why I haven't published as many peer reviewed papers this year. The excuse that I was teaching a lot this year doesn't work. We find it hard to find the time to be so committed.
When I apply to work at a different university, about the only thing they look at is publications.
1) Corporations employ the artists and make money by selling their works. Looks like we still need copyright after all.
This is how a majority of the "art" is produced today. The "creator" does not retain the copyright. So what does lifetime + 70 mean when you are a corporation?
In fact the lack of balance in copyright perfectly illustrates the real problem of corporations with too much protections and rights. They are not people and they are not our equal. People should be first in the eyes of the law. But we are not.
And back to copyright. Most folk I talk too, its not the idea of copyright thats the problem, its the current implementation. There is simply no balance. Anything over 20 years is plain stupid. Yes I have written published books and I write software.
Then you have a choice, let the computer crash you or let the pilot attempt to not crash you.
if you are in a situation that needs terrain following radar and this happens. They only choice you have time for, is to curse or pray before instant death.
In older aircraft that didn't have FBW they was still envelope enforcing mechanisms. My favorite is the wings falling off when g loads are exceeded. But I also like engine failure via damage from running them out of range. Even better it the natural tendency off *all* aircraft to spontaneously dissemble in thunder storms (or other high wind shear situations) with or without FBW.
And what does "battle hardened" even mean with commercial pilots? My understanding is that battle hardened tends to coincide with death, not useful experience.
There was a lot of effort put into H.264 and xvid/divx before the hardware was all that common. Hell the hardware is not that common even now.
The copyright holders do not have a license. They are breaking various IP laws in some countries. If they are relevant, it is because they can get sued.
Thats why software patents sux.
2 seats out of how many? They are not taking it as seriously as you think.