I've got a computer. I haven't purchased a CD in about 6 months, however, I know that Amazon will still deliver them to me for free, so the cost of driving to the mall has nothing to do with it.
I just don't want their damned music. I don't want their damned music badly enough that I haven't downloaded any of it either.
That CD I bought 6 months ago? It was made on a computer. In the home of the artist. I bought it from her at one of her appearances at a local coffeehouse. It's got a CC license. It doesn't even show up on the sales statistics.
Ya think that might have something to do with the official sales numbers?
". . . finding accurate correlations between file-sharing and loss of revenue for the music industry is tremendously difficult.'"
Yeah, I have the same problem counting the number of pixies living under my bed.
What happens when you return the controls to a "stable" setting?
The airplane keeps turning.
Stability is a funny thing, and the Earth's climate has never stablized in the first place. You shoulda been here back in the day, when the toxic oxygen content of the atmosphere started to rise. You wouldn't believe the crap that's happened because of that!
Wouldn't getting a bicycle be quicker, cheaper, easier and safer?
It would take alot of effort, but not completly beyond our current level of tech...
You have faith. You'll have to do something about that before it kills you....esp if its that or death.
It's not going to be death unless you Panic! and start trying to blow mountains into the air to counter the few gas particles you've already blown into the air. There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. . .
Remember that one? It's what's called a "Cautionary Tale." If there's anything to be learned from this its that if you poke the world it pokes back. Get a grip. Hang on. We've weathered worse than warm weather.
Couldn't reducing destabilization be considered a form of stabilization?
No, but it might make you feel better if the ground is only rushing at you 100 mph instead of 200 mph. ..until you start to get really close to the ground. Then you're likely to Panic!
I'm old enough to remember books, but not rich enough to have them laying around my tiny apartment.
My apartment is 400 square feet (I do have some more storage space though). Sometimes I think it's a little too big for comfort; and that's taking into account that about half the space is hardcore workshop/lab. Most of its interior walls, however, are constructed of floor to ceiling bookcases. I can rearrange them to rearrange my spaces. It's a nice system. I'm torn between finding a smaller space and something about 600 square feet. I could use a bit more space in the workshop. I can only sit in one chair at a time and I've got four. Enough for enough company; and no more.
Although I have paid a lot of money (for me) for the odd out of print volume I do not actually have a lot of money, as these things go, into my books and am anything but rich. I've just been collecting them for a long time. When asked what I wanted for my second birthday I said,"Books." People still know to give me books. Some of them are the authors of the books. Most the books I've purchased I paid something like a dime to a couple bucks for. Even a couple of the O'Reilly's (nothing sells cheaper than an obsolete tech manual).
It is fine for you to think that the British tea monopoly was just and that the colonists had no right to smuggle in "illegitimate" tea.
Who said I think anything like that? My father's family is old Boston. Like from the beginning and shit. In other posts I've lamented that America is no longer the contraban runner to the world. My tiny little apartment is in an old neighborhood. Washington and LaFayette used to sleep just a couple blocks from me. Sometimes it seems like half the buildings still standing were built by the Schuyler family.
But certainly you would agree that the overreaction by the British was legendary?
George was nuts. I've noted in other posts that Parliament often reacted to news of an American military victory with a cheer and standing ovation.
Funny, then, that the US is currently lead by another. ..
. ..King George. He's nuts. Up the revolution. What do we want? Freedom! When do we want it? Now!
Yeah, I remember the 60s. I've been gathering books for a long time.
The spousal unit bought it. I gave it a look and just thought, "better graphics, more of the same," and left the building.
Grim Fandango was a wonderful story, my favorite LucasArts game ever. But its puzzles were really pretty trivial.
And yet a few of them stuck me for awhile. Perhaps if I played more puzzle games familiarity with the conventions of the genre would have helped. I don't know. I don't know the genre that well.
On the other hand I've got some world records in racing games. I put a lot of time into my racing games. I take them just as seriously as my "real" racing, because I consider them just as real, with the advantage that they hurt less (Come in little girl, would you like see my. ..scars and x-rays?).
Showing a logical reason why a given study is wrong is science.
His remark was not aimed at showing a given study wrong. His remark was aimed at showing that people on both sides of the issue are arguing opinion, not science.
Are you and the previous poster both, by any chance, on the payroll of Phillip Morris?
. ..the British monopolist East India Company, which was quickly going bankrupt.
Because of American tea smuggling.
. ..the plan to escort in the East India Company's ships with a British naval guard.
You don't suppose this step might have been taken because they anticipated something like the Boston Tea Party?
Even then, the Boston Tea Party did not directly lead to war.
Never said it did. Sam Adams did. Ya know, the guy who "organized" the Boston Tea Party, however, Cousin John wrote in his diary, "This destruction of the tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, so intripid and inflexible, it must have . ..important consequences."
A simple Google search will enlighten you. ..
Don't need to. I've done a more complicated search through these things called "books," many of which are right over there. The John Adams quote above was not cut and pasted. I typed it by hand, copying out of one these books.
How do scientists determine the temperatures from millions of years ago. .
From the article:
"The California researchers obtained a record of tropical ocean surface temperatures from the magnesium content in the shells of microscopic sea surface animals, as recorded in ocean sediments."
. ..and what range of error do these readings fall within?
When applied over thousands of years, not bad. It is clearly warmer now than during the last ice age, innit?
When applied over the past thirty years the margin is larger than the measurement. If the graph on the linked site were in whole degrees over the past thousand years it would appear to the eye as a straight, level line.
This is not to say that small changes cannot have pronounced influence. They can. But we are talking about very small changes against comparitively large margins of error. The trend has been warming for quite some time. We really do not have a very good idea about what is happening now, nevermind why it is happening.
One thing seems clear to me though (Warning! Warning! Incoming opinion. Get a grip), while man may well be able to destablize environment, he is absolutely powerless to stablize it.
This just in, your actual milage may vary with local conditions and driving habits. Our figures were derived from a test. It was only a test.
I posted just a little while ago how disappointed I was with Myst. I played the game for two evenings. The first evening I just messed around with it for about an hour, getting a feel for the territory. The second evening I ran the game in a few hours, and I'm not even what you could call a puzzle game player. I wanted my money back. I wanted it back a lot.
I understand there are people who have been "playing" Myst for years without solving it. Well, your milage obviously varies. That's life.
Conversely, God only knows how many hours I put into Grim Fandango before I solved it. It was a lot. I was dissapointed with the game ended, because. ..well, it ended. Jeezum Crow! Where can I go to buy more of this thing? I have money. Please; take it from me!
I want my Grim Fandango 2. I need my Grim Fandango 2.
Maybe he should just get into RTSs. You can play for an evening until the game "ends," and then resuffle the bits for a new experience when you feel like a game again.
A trademark is not established through use. You're confusing trademark with copyright.
No, I am not, although there are issues of jurisdiction. At one time, under American law (your country's milage may vary; and even in America each state manintains its own code. In my state you even change your personal legal name simply by establishing its use, there does not even exist a legal procedure to do so) you could not even file for Federal registration until the mark had already been established by use.
Even with registration trademarks are issues of common law, not registration. That is why you can lose one into the public domain if you do not defend it. They are a matter of public perception, established by use.
Compared to copyright in the same period, where use without prior registration placed the work into the public domain (Salinger won his case against his unofficial biographer before America signed on to the Berne Convention Treaty because the quoted materials had not been previously published). Nor could you lose a copyright, once established by failure to defend it.
All statments about current law void the next time any legislature goes into session. No man, nor his intellectual property, is safe when that happens.
At this point, assuming the original Honest Bob's Pet Repair was trademarked. ..
A trademark is established by using it. It exists de facto. A trademark may be strengthened by registering it.
People started taking their pets into other vet clinics to get their cats or dogs Honest Bob'ed.
I chose my example with a modicum of care. Although there is a growing trend against it, yes, people take their cats and dogs to vets to get "bobbed."
See Hormel Foods(tm) and Google(tm) for how to handle the issue with a modicum of aplomb, even when a truely unique tradename is at stake and being used in its entirety by the public as a generic term. To legally protect a mark one does not have to be an asshole about it.
Certainly not, otherwise you'd find them going after every use of the letter "i."
It is the unique combination of a lowercase "i" as the first letter of a proper noun that contitutes the mark. The "i" is a necessary (but not sufficient) componant of the mark.
They could go into the ice cream business and start selling "iCream." This would not make "cream" a mark just because "iCream" is.
Slashdot Mirror
LOL, you clearly aren't married with children!
Been there. Done that. It's concievable I might do it again, but not today or tomorrow. I'm enjoying the quiet.
I assumed that you were taking a "Colonial British" point of view, because calling the tea "legitimate" could definitely be considered biased.
Oh I can take all sorts of points of views that aren't necessarily fully in line with my own.
I'm a little bit at a loss as to what to make of the current state of the Union. Actually make that the state of the world.
I'm keeping my eyes open for a nice, little, dry cave in the Adirondacks. Ha, ha, only serious.
KFG
. . .17 if you count the one that's away at college.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeah. Bummer. Couln't be the bastard that's always hiding my socks, Nooooooooo! She'd have to be one I actually miss.
KFG
I've got a computer. I haven't purchased a CD in about 6 months, however, I know that Amazon will still deliver them to me for free, so the cost of driving to the mall has nothing to do with it.
I just don't want their damned music. I don't want their damned music badly enough that I haven't downloaded any of it either.
That CD I bought 6 months ago? It was made on a computer. In the home of the artist. I bought it from her at one of her appearances at a local coffeehouse. It's got a CC license. It doesn't even show up on the sales statistics.
Ya think that might have something to do with the official sales numbers?
". . . finding accurate correlations between file-sharing and loss of revenue for the music industry is tremendously difficult.'"
Yeah, I have the same problem counting the number of pixies living under my bed.
KFG
What happens when you destablize an airplane?
It starts to turn.
What happens when you return the controls to a "stable" setting?
The airplane keeps turning.
Stability is a funny thing, and the Earth's climate has never stablized in the first place. You shoulda been here back in the day, when the toxic oxygen content of the atmosphere started to rise. You wouldn't believe the crap that's happened because of that!
KFG
Can you imagine needing a 200-amp service and liquid nitrogen cooling for something like that right now?
No, but you'll need it to surf Web 3.0
KFG
This will finally run Vista, right?
And get here ahead of it, so we'll be ready.
KFG
Wouldn't getting a bicycle be quicker, cheaper, easier and safer?
...esp if its that or death.
It would take alot of effort, but not completly beyond our current level of tech...
You have faith. You'll have to do something about that before it kills you.
It's not going to be death unless you Panic! and start trying to blow mountains into the air to counter the few gas particles you've already blown into the air. There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. . .
Remember that one? It's what's called a "Cautionary Tale." If there's anything to be learned from this its that if you poke the world it pokes back. Get a grip. Hang on. We've weathered worse than warm weather.
KFG
In conclusion, lets double comsumption of fossil fuels.
The faster we use it up, the faster we'll have to learn to do without.
They're really neat fucking shit. I'm gonna miss 'em. I have a feeling that our descendents are going to revile us for just burning the stuff.
KFG
Couldn't reducing destabilization be considered a form of stabilization?
.until you start to get really close to the ground. Then you're likely to Panic!
No, but it might make you feel better if the ground is only rushing at you 100 mph instead of 200 mph. .
You should have brought a bigger towel.
KFG
I'm old enough to remember books, but not rich enough to have them laying around my tiny apartment.
.
.King George. He's nuts. Up the revolution. What do we want? Freedom! When do we want it? Now!
My apartment is 400 square feet (I do have some more storage space though). Sometimes I think it's a little too big for comfort; and that's taking into account that about half the space is hardcore workshop/lab. Most of its interior walls, however, are constructed of floor to ceiling bookcases. I can rearrange them to rearrange my spaces. It's a nice system. I'm torn between finding a smaller space and something about 600 square feet. I could use a bit more space in the workshop. I can only sit in one chair at a time and I've got four. Enough for enough company; and no more.
Although I have paid a lot of money (for me) for the odd out of print volume I do not actually have a lot of money, as these things go, into my books and am anything but rich. I've just been collecting them for a long time. When asked what I wanted for my second birthday I said,"Books." People still know to give me books. Some of them are the authors of the books. Most the books I've purchased I paid something like a dime to a couple bucks for. Even a couple of the O'Reilly's (nothing sells cheaper than an obsolete tech manual).
It is fine for you to think that the British tea monopoly was just and that the colonists had no right to smuggle in "illegitimate" tea.
Who said I think anything like that? My father's family is old Boston. Like from the beginning and shit. In other posts I've lamented that America is no longer the contraban runner to the world. My tiny little apartment is in an old neighborhood. Washington and LaFayette used to sleep just a couple blocks from me. Sometimes it seems like half the buildings still standing were built by the Schuyler family.
But certainly you would agree that the overreaction by the British was legendary?
George was nuts. I've noted in other posts that Parliament often reacted to news of an American military victory with a cheer and standing ovation.
Funny, then, that the US is currently lead by another. .
. .
Yeah, I remember the 60s. I've been gathering books for a long time.
KFG
Riven was pretty easy. . .
.scars and x-rays?).
The spousal unit bought it. I gave it a look and just thought, "better graphics, more of the same," and left the building.
Grim Fandango was a wonderful story, my favorite LucasArts game ever. But its puzzles were really pretty trivial.
And yet a few of them stuck me for awhile. Perhaps if I played more puzzle games familiarity with the conventions of the genre would have helped. I don't know. I don't know the genre that well.
On the other hand I've got some world records in racing games. I put a lot of time into my racing games. I take them just as seriously as my "real" racing, because I consider them just as real, with the advantage that they hurt less (Come in little girl, would you like see my. .
Milage varies. Go figure.
KFG
Showing a logical reason why a given study is wrong is science.
His remark was not aimed at showing a given study wrong. His remark was aimed at showing that people on both sides of the issue are arguing opinion, not science.
Are you and the previous poster both, by any chance, on the payroll of Phillip Morris?
Q.E.D. Ironic, innit?
KFG
. . .the British monopolist East India Company, which was quickly going bankrupt.
.the plan to escort in the East India Company's ships with a British naval guard.
.important consequences."
.
Because of American tea smuggling.
. .
You don't suppose this step might have been taken because they anticipated something like the Boston Tea Party?
Even then, the Boston Tea Party did not directly lead to war.
Never said it did. Sam Adams did. Ya know, the guy who "organized" the Boston Tea Party, however, Cousin John wrote in his diary, "This destruction of the tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, so intripid and inflexible, it must have . .
A simple Google search will enlighten you. .
Don't need to. I've done a more complicated search through these things called "books," many of which are right over there. The John Adams quote above was not cut and pasted. I typed it by hand, copying out of one these books.
Am I simplifying? Damn straight.
KFG
. . .stop spreading this "all science is just opinion" bull crap.
Ironically, that's what he's fighting.
KFG
How do scientists determine the temperatures from millions of years ago. .
.and what range of error do these readings fall within?
From the article:
"The California researchers obtained a record of tropical ocean surface temperatures from the magnesium content in the shells of microscopic sea surface animals, as recorded in ocean sediments."
. .
When applied over thousands of years, not bad. It is clearly warmer now than during the last ice age, innit?
When applied over the past thirty years the margin is larger than the measurement. If the graph on the linked site were in whole degrees over the past thousand years it would appear to the eye as a straight, level line.
This is not to say that small changes cannot have pronounced influence. They can. But we are talking about very small changes against comparitively large margins of error. The trend has been warming for quite some time. We really do not have a very good idea about what is happening now, nevermind why it is happening.
One thing seems clear to me though (Warning! Warning! Incoming opinion. Get a grip), while man may well be able to destablize environment, he is absolutely powerless to stablize it.
KFG
We haven't had people who think that way in the last 150 or so years here. We had the founding fathers. . .
.tea merchant. This just might have had some influence on his political point of view.
John Hancock was America's largest . .
KFG
It is said the American Revolution was more about expanding trade for businessmen in the colonies which the crown sought to prevent.
The Boston Tea Party occured because the British eliminated a tax, levied only in English ports; as a way to compete with American tea smugglers.
It was this price reduced tea that was dumped into the Harbour, to prevent Americans from buying, cheap, legal tea.
KFG
You might almost think that practice makes less imperfect.
KFG
This just in, your actual milage may vary with local conditions and driving habits. Our figures were derived from a test. It was only a test.
.well, it ended. Jeezum Crow! Where can I go to buy more of this thing? I have money. Please; take it from me!
I posted just a little while ago how disappointed I was with Myst. I played the game for two evenings. The first evening I just messed around with it for about an hour, getting a feel for the territory. The second evening I ran the game in a few hours, and I'm not even what you could call a puzzle game player. I wanted my money back. I wanted it back a lot.
I understand there are people who have been "playing" Myst for years without solving it. Well, your milage obviously varies. That's life.
Conversely, God only knows how many hours I put into Grim Fandango before I solved it. It was a lot. I was dissapointed with the game ended, because. .
I want my Grim Fandango 2. I need my Grim Fandango 2.
Maybe he should just get into RTSs. You can play for an evening until the game "ends," and then resuffle the bits for a new experience when you feel like a game again.
KFG
A trademark is not established through use. You're confusing trademark with copyright.
No, I am not, although there are issues of jurisdiction. At one time, under American law (your country's milage may vary; and even in America each state manintains its own code. In my state you even change your personal legal name simply by establishing its use, there does not even exist a legal procedure to do so) you could not even file for Federal registration until the mark had already been established by use.
Even with registration trademarks are issues of common law, not registration. That is why you can lose one into the public domain if you do not defend it. They are a matter of public perception, established by use.
Compared to copyright in the same period, where use without prior registration placed the work into the public domain (Salinger won his case against his unofficial biographer before America signed on to the Berne Convention Treaty because the quoted materials had not been previously published). Nor could you lose a copyright, once established by failure to defend it.
All statments about current law void the next time any legislature goes into session. No man, nor his intellectual property, is safe when that happens.
Unless your name is Barrie or Disney.
KFG
Personally, I never liked the idea of using "podcast" to mean "recording". . .
Personally I think it should be stamped "Dumbass" and sent back, but nobody asked me and now it's too late.
KFG
Everyone knows the GPL is a virus. Maybe it's one of them flesh eating virus thingies.
KFG
No, but if you started a major fast-food chain called MacDonalds, you could still be found to have infringed McDonalds' trademark.
I take you are not familiar with McDonald's vs. McDonald's?
KFG
At this point, assuming the original Honest Bob's Pet Repair was trademarked. . .
A trademark is established by using it. It exists de facto. A trademark may be strengthened by registering it.
People started taking their pets into other vet clinics to get their cats or dogs Honest Bob'ed.
I chose my example with a modicum of care. Although there is a growing trend against it, yes, people take their cats and dogs to vets to get "bobbed."
See Hormel Foods(tm) and Google(tm) for how to handle the issue with a modicum of aplomb, even when a truely unique tradename is at stake and being used in its entirety by the public as a generic term. To legally protect a mark one does not have to be an asshole about it.
KFG
Does their trademark apply only to the i?
Certainly not, otherwise you'd find them going after every use of the letter "i."
It is the unique combination of a lowercase "i" as the first letter of a proper noun that contitutes the mark. The "i" is a necessary (but not sufficient) componant of the mark.
They could go into the ice cream business and start selling "iCream." This would not make "cream" a mark just because "iCream" is.
KFG