Except there is nothing wrong with 'typosquatting'. It isn't really squatting if they are paying to register those domains. As far as I know, and IANAL, brand names have very precise definitions and that is why anyone trying to make a fake/copy often has to change it a little so it isn't illegal.
Ever been to Vietnam and buy Tommi Hilfigger[sic] jeans?
Yes, there is plenty of evidence. A backlight causes prolonged constriction of pupils while eyes are focused at close range. This leads to fatigue, and will eventually get you glasses. There is also evidence that the blink rate diminishes when staring at a backlit display, causing eyes to dry out. Of course , E-ink doesn't solve all these problems, but is better than LCD displays.
For starters,
http://www.aoa.org/documents/EffectsComputerUse.pdf
No, you need loopy strings of all colors tangled into more dimensions than you can access. Your data needs to be holographically encoded along the 15th dimension to be safe.
Oh wait, I think the inventor of 15th dimension claims copyright on his IP.
Yeah, that's called argumentum ad hominem. Fine, India has a ton of issues - water, poverty etc. Firstly, India is very heterogenous, far more than most Europeans and Americans can fathom. There is a large educated middle class that actually does care about the environment, and by the way does enjoy clean drinking water. Does it follow that because a substantial fraction of the country has to deal with issues the Western countries have solved, that Indians must be bound to accept the conclusions of a UN body ? Does it make them automatically incompetent to derive their own conclusions ?
It is irrelevant. If they want an independent assessment, its a good thing. After the CO2 emissions/Kyoto fiasco, Indians are wary of Western environmental policies. Most Indians see any limitation on their CO2 emissions as retarding their development due to a problem that is created largely by the now-developed nations, in the last century.
In any case, in science, as many independent investigations there are , the better the confidence in the findings. And trust me, the Indians know the entire Ganges plain is fed by Himalayan glaciers. They have a very large stake here.
As the article puts forth so clearly, piracy is about 6% of the total publishing industry revenue. While I will take the already rather low figures with a grain of salt since the "Indian Institute of Publishing" is just about as independent a source for book piracy as the RIAA is for music piracy.
Of course the article does mention what personal experience has already taught many Indians - book costs in India are quite unreasonable , especially foreign printed books. The rise of 'piracy' almost has a Darwinian ring to it.
And while we're on the subject of Darwinianism , being cocky is hardly considered a positive trait. Reading and understanding articles would be helpful though, the irony in your sig notwithstanding.
Based on what reports? I'd appreciate a pointer - mostly because in 23 years of living there - I've found the problem to be the opposite, and have cringed at paying dollar/pound-converted prices in rupees that are disproportionate to the average Indian monthly income.
We know those books don't cost that much to print...there is a huge profit margin. I'd love to see Google digitize old books - paper is on its way out anyway.
Ditto. Also, I would imagine that spaceship building seems to be a much more complicated (euphemistically speaking) engineering problem than getting a website right.
The underlying insinuation that these things are somewhat comparable skill-sets in their "coolness" factor just made me laugh.
I whole whole-heartedly agree with you. In fact, I've also run into situations where people cannot understand why I find the Windows interface more usable than a Mac.
Is it just me or does the Neosmart website have a terrible time pulling the videos from YouTube. The player interface seems to load but no video.
A lot of people seem to have problems with Flash. I really don't understand what the issues are, and would like to know.
I've been using Flash on Firefox/Windows for years and it has done its job so well that I've forgotten its there - which is exactly what I expect from something like Flash.
I am going out a limb here, but could it be 'conscience' ? Hackers, even black hats, will attack only that which they see as evil. I think there is a pretty good consensus that the internet as a whole, is not evil - in fact, it is the most liberating force in our times. Hackers owe their existence to it, and could be observing a self-preservative moral code.
Or it could be simply that its too easy. Hackers seek a challenge, and if , as they claim, all it takes them is 30 minutes, perhaps its not worth all the trouble ?
So, what you're saying is , a multi-billion dollar company, who can hire people to write entire operating systems, that work with myriad hardware, and in this particular instance, hired people to write server-grade virtualization code, couldn't manage to write a network driver by themselves and so decided to break away from the norm in the company and release their entire code base under GPL - a community that includes fanbois who think MS is evil.
Are you nuts, man?
Uh, seeing that, Joel seems to be doing unnecessary behaviours (sunglasses), is apparently interested in appearances more than function , and sounds like TV (make-beleive, fiction)- I'd say Joe-Jack is the obvious choice for doing ANY kind of work.
Support for Image Analysis that is as good as Photoshop (in the least)
That is not to say Photoshop is the best, IMHO, the best image analysis program is the free and open source ImageJ
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Except there is nothing wrong with 'typosquatting'. It isn't really squatting if they are paying to register those domains. As far as I know, and IANAL, brand names have very precise definitions and that is why anyone trying to make a fake/copy often has to change it a little so it isn't illegal. Ever been to Vietnam and buy Tommi Hilfigger[sic] jeans?
Yes, there is plenty of evidence. A backlight causes prolonged constriction of pupils while eyes are focused at close range. This leads to fatigue, and will eventually get you glasses. There is also evidence that the blink rate diminishes when staring at a backlit display, causing eyes to dry out. Of course , E-ink doesn't solve all these problems, but is better than LCD displays. For starters, http://www.aoa.org/documents/EffectsComputerUse.pdf
No, you need loopy strings of all colors tangled into more dimensions than you can access. Your data needs to be holographically encoded along the 15th dimension to be safe. Oh wait, I think the inventor of 15th dimension claims copyright on his IP.
It is ad hominem because that 'issue' is irrelevant. It does not affect their ability or right to conduct an independent investigation.
Yeah, that's called argumentum ad hominem. Fine, India has a ton of issues - water, poverty etc. Firstly, India is very heterogenous, far more than most Europeans and Americans can fathom. There is a large educated middle class that actually does care about the environment, and by the way does enjoy clean drinking water. Does it follow that because a substantial fraction of the country has to deal with issues the Western countries have solved, that Indians must be bound to accept the conclusions of a UN body ? Does it make them automatically incompetent to derive their own conclusions ?
It is irrelevant. If they want an independent assessment, its a good thing. After the CO2 emissions/Kyoto fiasco, Indians are wary of Western environmental policies. Most Indians see any limitation on their CO2 emissions as retarding their development due to a problem that is created largely by the now-developed nations, in the last century.
In any case, in science, as many independent investigations there are , the better the confidence in the findings. And trust me, the Indians know the entire Ganges plain is fed by Himalayan glaciers. They have a very large stake here.
Am I the only one to ask why the office that is supposed to deal with new innovation is still using fax in the age of the internet?
As the article puts forth so clearly, piracy is about 6% of the total publishing industry revenue. While I will take the already rather low figures with a grain of salt since the "Indian Institute of Publishing" is just about as independent a source for book piracy as the RIAA is for music piracy. Of course the article does mention what personal experience has already taught many Indians - book costs in India are quite unreasonable , especially foreign printed books. The rise of 'piracy' almost has a Darwinian ring to it. And while we're on the subject of Darwinianism , being cocky is hardly considered a positive trait. Reading and understanding articles would be helpful though, the irony in your sig notwithstanding.
Based on what reports? I'd appreciate a pointer - mostly because in 23 years of living there - I've found the problem to be the opposite, and have cringed at paying dollar/pound-converted prices in rupees that are disproportionate to the average Indian monthly income. We know those books don't cost that much to print...there is a huge profit margin. I'd love to see Google digitize old books - paper is on its way out anyway.
And might I add, the actual Indians, not those who owe their name to Columbus' navigational skills.
Ditto. Also, I would imagine that spaceship building seems to be a much more complicated (euphemistically speaking) engineering problem than getting a website right. The underlying insinuation that these things are somewhat comparable skill-sets in their "coolness" factor just made me laugh.
I am no Mac fan, but here's the solution : don't buy it. Don't use it.
I whole whole-heartedly agree with you. In fact, I've also run into situations where people cannot understand why I find the Windows interface more usable than a Mac.
I think you mean 'sieze'.
Is it just me or does the Neosmart website have a terrible time pulling the videos from YouTube. The player interface seems to load but no video. A lot of people seem to have problems with Flash. I really don't understand what the issues are, and would like to know. I've been using Flash on Firefox/Windows for years and it has done its job so well that I've forgotten its there - which is exactly what I expect from something like Flash.
Incidentally, that winding gesture has existed on HTC phones running Windows Mobile 6.1 for about 2 years now in the picture album application.
I am going out a limb here, but could it be 'conscience' ? Hackers, even black hats, will attack only that which they see as evil. I think there is a pretty good consensus that the internet as a whole, is not evil - in fact, it is the most liberating force in our times. Hackers owe their existence to it, and could be observing a self-preservative moral code. Or it could be simply that its too easy. Hackers seek a challenge, and if , as they claim, all it takes them is 30 minutes, perhaps its not worth all the trouble ?
So, what you're saying is , a multi-billion dollar company, who can hire people to write entire operating systems, that work with myriad hardware, and in this particular instance, hired people to write server-grade virtualization code, couldn't manage to write a network driver by themselves and so decided to break away from the norm in the company and release their entire code base under GPL - a community that includes fanbois who think MS is evil. Are you nuts, man?
Uh, seeing that, Joel seems to be doing unnecessary behaviours (sunglasses), is apparently interested in appearances more than function , and sounds like TV (make-beleive, fiction)- I'd say Joe-Jack is the obvious choice for doing ANY kind of work.
But popular usage has made the term synonymous with poverty and underdevelopment. Switzerland was non-aligned too, is it referred to as Third World ?
You mean :
If neighbourhood {
M>5 then F=Strip;
elseif
M5 then F=Strip;asslick(rand(F));
}
The Dalai Lama is way too cool to be a Mac person.
Support for Image Analysis that is as good as Photoshop (in the least) That is not to say Photoshop is the best, IMHO, the best image analysis program is the free and open source ImageJ
OMG! He said Freedom, and he was marked a troll...but...but...this is Slashdot! Now I've seen everything (shoots himself in the head).
You mean "Perl HAS a niche, C++ DOES not."
Not trying to sound like a troll here,
There times when you _are_ trying to sound like a troll?