No, no. First you feed the bodies to the pigs. Then you collect the excrement for fertilizer for your corn. Then you eat the corn and use to cobs to generate electricity. Then you roast the pigs in your electric oven. If you don't roast the pigs properly you then have a fresh supply of bodies to feed to the remaining pigs.
It's the food chain/carbon cycle gone horribly awry.
Solitaire is so 19th century, yet it seems to have a fairly sizable following.
A good game is a good game is good game and if you follow a decent emotional development pattern somewhere about the time you have to take your pants off to keep counting your age you'll suddenly realize that the phrase "so last year" is doofy.
Well in my day we had pencils, paper, slide rules and APL. Shame that IBM effectively killed it by taking it propriatary.
Ah, the good old days of waking up, eating a cold lump of poison, going to work in mine. ..
Ummmmmm, nevermind.
Feynman was always highly visually oriented. It seems almost natural that he would have developed both useful and unique methods of notation. I'm not sure the current state of academia is suitable for the development of his like. In fact I'm not sure the state of academia at the time was suitable for the development of his like and he really got a bit lucky with the Manhatten project. Luck that benefited us all.
A terrible tragedy to one of the most ancient, cultured and best educated Islamic dominated countries.
I'd very much like to have seen it in it's better days. The odds that it will ever come even close to recovery in my, or my children's, lifetime is slim.
They were only recognized as such by three countries out of the whole wide world. It wouldn't take many guesses to get all three.
The Taliban was a revolutionary force seeking to oust the legitimate governement recognized by the rest of the world. They held no aspects of government control but operated territory under their sway ( which never even amounted to a clear majority of territory) under pure martial law. They had no civil police. No civil law for such civil police to enforce.
When outside military forces entered Afghanistan they did so in support of the recognized legitimate government which still held the northern portion of the country and said government's military forces bore the brunt of the fighting.
No, that won't work. You've forgotten that SCO's charge is that code from AIX has gotten into Linux and that SCO owns the rights to AIX and has revoked IBMs UNIX license.
AIX is the primary rights target. Linux is the collarteral damage.
To prove that SCO has ip rights in Linux it must first prove that it has rights in IBMs AIX code.
If you remove an author's right to control the reproduction and use of his works and ideas then the "medium of exchange" naturally reduces to credit for authorship.
Credit isn't a form of control, it's merely a from of aknowledgement or what you have contributed to the
Grade A Original, Fantastic & Highly Edifying Calculus Primer
http://www.profemc2.com/flash/profMcSquaredV1.0. ht ml
It's a hoot, and you'll actually learn calculus.
Read "A tour of the Calculus," by David Berlinski concurently. I brilliant and superbly written English exploration of the subject. You'll never look at math the same way again after reading this book.
For Physics, start with Nick Herbert's "Quantum Reality" for Quantum theory and Steven Weinberg's "Dreams of a Final Theory" for the quest for the Theory of Everything.
These two books are the only popular books that that get their respective subjects right. Accept no substitutes. After you read these you can read the other popular titles without being led astray.
Throw in Leon Lederman's "The God Particle" for good measure. It won't teach you physics but it's a good look at the life of an experimentalist, a sadly parched literary field.
As for Algebra, well, as my Psychology professor used to protest, it's a motor skill. You have to sit down and work problems with a paper and pencil. Work enough of them and think about what it is that you're doing at the time and you'll figure it out on your own.
Schaum's Outline Series title " Modern Elementary Algebra" should do it for you. But you have to put in the work.
For other stuff I'll agree with things others have posted. Feynman's "Six Easy Pieces" and his classic "Lecture" books. Damnably expesive. Worth every penny. You'll treasure them forever. You won't hand them down to your kids because you won't be able to bear to part with them. This makes them even more expensive because you'll have to buy a copy for each of them.
And finally, every nonfiction work Isaac Asimov every wrote. They're priceless. They're also cheap in paperback. Especially if you pick them up used. They're all over the place. Hunt around and you can get them for something like a dime apiece. Try the Salvation Army. Honest. I've found some there.
Indeed, as the songwriter retains the rights to the song. He may well assign publishing rights to a third party, and usually does, and sound recording rights to even another party.
In case of a talking book the recording company will own the rights to the recording.
The author can, of course, record it in his den and try to distribute it himself, in which case he will own the recording.
There is both a difference in law ( there's no such thing as a mechanical royalty for printed matter) and difference in the business between the printing business and the recording business.
The upfront (before producing the physical medium) costs of a book to the publisher are anything from nothing to about $5000 dollars.
Now your band could certainly also make it's own recording in your den and then seek a distributor, but if you want Columbia to front you a quarter million to do it I don't think it's entirely out of line for them to demand ownership of the result.
Making it an article of law is another matter though.
You are only partially correct. The record label owns the copyright for the recording, not the song.
The copyright for the recording and the copyright for the song are legally seperated. Unless the record label payed the artist a direct fee for writting the song ( as happens with commercial jingles) then it is not a work for hire and the artist retains ownership rights until he reassigns them by contract (which is often required of a new artist if they want to get a recording contract).
Look at a CD produced before this new law. You'll find the same copyright notice giving rights to the recording to the record label. The record label produced the recording and own it, not the artist. It has always been this way, it was simply arranged by contract.
If an artist didn't assign exclusive distribution rights to a label, why on earth would the label bother to produce the artist's album?
Let him bloody well go produce and distribute it himself.
Which, of course, the brighter minds are now doing.
That would be because you speak English, as opposed to Timothy, who sort of makes things up as he goes along.
Obviously NCR is licensing the technology. Since they are the claimed owners they are the only ones who can do such licensing.
Yahoo! is buying a license.
While the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs is dying in English, Americans like to shoot them with a bazooka and then pretend it never happened.
Slashdot Mirror
No, no. First you feed the bodies to the pigs. Then you collect the excrement for fertilizer for your corn. Then you eat the corn and use to cobs to generate electricity. Then you roast the pigs in your electric oven. If you don't roast the pigs properly you then have a fresh supply of bodies to feed to the remaining pigs.
It's the food chain/carbon cycle gone horribly awry.
KFG
you're using the system password as part of your data security on your Win98 box.
Did you know that the entire password system can be aborted by simply hitting escape?
Have I just commited a federal crime, and if so, why?
KFG
I'll try to go gentle with my "diatribe."
Solitaire is so 19th century, yet it seems to have a fairly sizable following.
A good game is a good game is good game and if you follow a decent emotional development pattern somewhere about the time you have to take your pants off to keep counting your age you'll suddenly realize that the phrase "so last year" is doofy.
KFG
"The world needs to realise thats all bill wants to do: make money from idiots"
Ummmm, you say that like you think that's a bad thing.
KFG
They should keep it in their sock drawer as God intended.
KFG
"I go to a Pac-10, man."
There. Slashdot ought to be getting their copy of the letter tomorrow.
Bad bot. Stupid bot. Sit bot. Staaaaaaaay! Now roll over and play dead.
KFG
Well in my day we had pencils, paper, slide rules and APL. Shame that IBM effectively killed it by taking it propriatary.
.
Ah, the good old days of waking up, eating a cold lump of poison, going to work in mine. .
Ummmmmm, nevermind.
Feynman was always highly visually oriented. It seems almost natural that he would have developed both useful and unique methods of notation. I'm not sure the current state of academia is suitable for the development of his like. In fact I'm not sure the state of academia at the time was suitable for the development of his like and he really got a bit lucky with the Manhatten project. Luck that benefited us all.
KFG
A terrible tragedy to one of the most ancient, cultured and best educated Islamic dominated countries.
I'd very much like to have seen it in it's better days. The odds that it will ever come even close to recovery in my, or my children's, lifetime is slim.
KFG
That is correct. The Taliban != Government.
They were only recognized as such by three countries out of the whole wide world. It wouldn't take many guesses to get all three.
The Taliban was a revolutionary force seeking to oust the legitimate governement recognized by the rest of the world. They held no aspects of government control but operated territory under their sway ( which never even amounted to a clear majority of territory) under pure martial law. They had no civil police. No civil law for such civil police to enforce.
When outside military forces entered Afghanistan they did so in support of the recognized legitimate government which still held the northern portion of the country and said government's military forces bore the brunt of the fighting.
KFG
Because, as it turns out, two other physicists solved the same problem independantly at the same time.
Newton and Liebnitz get cocredit for inventing the calculus at the same time. What's more, everybody uses Liebnitz's because Newton's sucked.
English physicist Jonathan Swann demonstrated his electric lightbulb the day before Edison did.
The wheel was independently invented all over the world.
More than one person can legitimately invent the same thing.
Go figure.
KFG
Not to mention the fact that it's SCO's ( well, IBM's really) expertise with UNIX on the x86 chip that they claim has been misappropriated.
KFG
No, that won't work. You've forgotten that SCO's charge is that code from AIX has gotten into Linux and that SCO owns the rights to AIX and has revoked IBMs UNIX license.
AIX is the primary rights target. Linux is the collarteral damage.
To prove that SCO has ip rights in Linux it must first prove that it has rights in IBMs AIX code.
The attack is a comprehensive one.
KFG
It's called "piss."
You can buy it in concentrated powder form at your local garden store, or apply it to your plants directly.
KFG
So let's try that again, shall we?
Credit isn't a form of control, it's merely a from of aknowledgement of what you have contributed to the public domain.
KFG
If you remove an author's right to control the reproduction and use of his works and ideas then the "medium of exchange" naturally reduces to credit for authorship.
Credit isn't a form of control, it's merely a from of aknowledgement or what you have contributed to the
KFG
Grade A Original, Fantastic & Highly Edifying Calculus Primer
. ht ml
http://www.profemc2.com/flash/profMcSquaredV1.0
It's a hoot, and you'll actually learn calculus.
Read "A tour of the Calculus," by David Berlinski concurently. I brilliant and superbly written English exploration of the subject. You'll never look at math the same way again after reading this book.
For Physics, start with Nick Herbert's "Quantum Reality" for Quantum theory and Steven Weinberg's "Dreams of a Final Theory" for the quest for the Theory of Everything.
These two books are the only popular books that that get their respective subjects right. Accept no substitutes. After you read these you can read the other popular titles without being led astray.
Throw in Leon Lederman's "The God Particle" for good measure. It won't teach you physics but it's a good look at the life of an experimentalist, a sadly parched literary field.
As for Algebra, well, as my Psychology professor used to protest, it's a motor skill. You have to sit down and work problems with a paper and pencil. Work enough of them and think about what it is that you're doing at the time and you'll figure it out on your own.
Schaum's Outline Series title " Modern Elementary Algebra" should do it for you. But you have to put in the work.
For other stuff I'll agree with things others have posted. Feynman's "Six Easy Pieces" and his classic "Lecture" books. Damnably expesive. Worth every penny. You'll treasure them forever. You won't hand them down to your kids because you won't be able to bear to part with them. This makes them even more expensive because you'll have to buy a copy for each of them.
And finally, every nonfiction work Isaac Asimov every wrote. They're priceless. They're also cheap in paperback. Especially if you pick them up used. They're all over the place. Hunt around and you can get them for something like a dime apiece. Try the Salvation Army. Honest. I've found some there.
KFG
Scott McNealy says it would be absurd to build a car from parts, that's why the PC is dead.
Who the hell do these people think they are making a liar out of Scott?
KFG
Ah, I didn't say they owned it. I implied they demanded it. That's what they own Senators for. :)
I also left out the part where Columbia may well be fronting the money, but consider it a loan to be payed back out of royalties.
That bit alone should disqualify it as a work for hire. If you wish it to be a work for hire, pay them for it.
KFG
Indeed, as the songwriter retains the rights to the song. He may well assign publishing rights to a third party, and usually does, and sound recording rights to even another party.
In case of a talking book the recording company will own the rights to the recording.
The author can, of course, record it in his den and try to distribute it himself, in which case he will own the recording.
There is both a difference in law ( there's no such thing as a mechanical royalty for printed matter) and difference in the business between the printing business and the recording business.
The upfront (before producing the physical medium) costs of a book to the publisher are anything from nothing to about $5000 dollars.
Now your band could certainly also make it's own recording in your den and then seek a distributor, but if you want Columbia to front you a quarter million to do it I don't think it's entirely out of line for them to demand ownership of the result.
Making it an article of law is another matter though.
KFG
You are only partially correct. The record label owns the copyright for the recording, not the song.
The copyright for the recording and the copyright for the song are legally seperated. Unless the record label payed the artist a direct fee for writting the song ( as happens with commercial jingles) then it is not a work for hire and the artist retains ownership rights until he reassigns them by contract (which is often required of a new artist if they want to get a recording contract).
Look at a CD produced before this new law. You'll find the same copyright notice giving rights to the recording to the record label. The record label produced the recording and own it, not the artist. It has always been this way, it was simply arranged by contract.
If an artist didn't assign exclusive distribution rights to a label, why on earth would the label bother to produce the artist's album?
Let him bloody well go produce and distribute it himself.
Which, of course, the brighter minds are now doing.
KFG
Well that's all well and good for you.
But please, don't share them afterwards.
KFG
"We have some Solaris users where I work, but all they do is run their applications. They're not power users, and they don't want to be power users"
This would be the market for such a book.
KFG
What's a floppy?
KFG
Thoreau defined wealth as being that which you could affored to live without.
He had a point.
KFG
That would be because you speak English, as opposed to Timothy, who sort of makes things up as he goes along.
Obviously NCR is licensing the technology. Since they are the claimed owners they are the only ones who can do such licensing.
Yahoo! is buying a license.
While the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs is dying in English, Americans like to shoot them with a bazooka and then pretend it never happened.
KFG