French is a useful and underrated language. It's the most predominant language on the European continent in areas without good English speakers. In my experience, native Italians are ok at English, the Spanish and Portuguese are great, but the French are very poor (I'm less sure about Eastern Europe). German is practically English already.
It's also an official language of international diplomacy (it comes *before* Spanish translations on US Passports), and is spoken in a lot of North African and Caribbean nations, so you have more places available to comfortably vacation =)
The problem with Referenda on sensitive social issues is that the Consitution is specifically designed to protect minorities against discrimination by majority rule.
By the Federal government. Aside from enumerated protections in the USC amendments, though, the states can run themselves and their citizens pretty much however they want.
I don't think a person's rights and privileges are up for "vote". I don't want other people deciding how I can and cannot live my life - CERTAINLY when it doesn't involve them.
Siblings have hinted that this is about when it *does* involve others (even the Supreme Court has recognized that bans on things that occur strictly privately i.e. sodomy are unconstitutional).
But the broader issue is, isn't this what a representative government DOES? Isn't its function, in some way, to place limitations on the population at large in response to popular support? Most of the time we don't find these limitations objectionable, though, right? Murder, theft, etc. But at the most basic level a person's rights and privileges are always up for vote.
Maybe we need a newer form of government that somehow protects the rights of the minority while performing useful governmental functions supported by the majority (or super-majority). The US Constitution is a good stab at it, but the States, aside from enumerated restrictions in the USC amendments, have pretty much free reign to trample all over minorities. I don't know the answer...
Hand me that petition; I'll sign it. I don't care if you marry another man, woman, or a whole bunch of women (harem), and I don't care if you find my name on it.
You may want to read the petition first, then, because it's supporting a referendum to REPEAL civil unions in Washington.
They're like Wal-Mart, they move in, offer you low prices, then when the competition is smeared, they take you for everything you have.
That's not like WalMart at all. WalMart keeps their prices low to hedge out future competitors, and maintains profitability by selling shitty products, and abusing their suppliers and employees.
It's not a proposed law yet. It's a pile of paper that may someday become a proposed law. When it becomes a proposed law it'll be up there on Thomas with everything else. Meanwhile it's just a thought, an intermediate position in international negotiations, and negotiating requires a party to be mum about its desires and willingness to compromise until it decides it's in its interest to reveal them.
Maybe that's not how *governments* should negotiate (at least not ours), and if I heard a strong enough argument I might even agree with that position. But it's not a sign of sinister intent. It's the status quo for treaties.
I think there's a fundamental difference, though, in that the AGPL and related licenses are seeking to affect the instruments themselves and not their output.
Yeah, this.
Copyright demands a creative component. You can't claim that the algorithmic output of a webapp is somehow a work whose public performance needs to be protected. You could claim that the webapp needs to be protected, and it is! Through the GPLv3.
Now to go even further, say you have HTML templates or images that get distributed via the webapp. That's where the real public performance analogy is, but you're already protected if you stick a distribution license on them!
I think you're confused. nVidia isn't leaving the graphics card business. Just the mainboard chipset market (allegedly). I suppose this will mean fewer integrated video solutions based on nVidia, but you'll always be able to go buy a discrete PCI Express 2.0 card for your MythTV box. And on top of that, Intel has really good open drivers for their mainboard chipsets, so the combination of the two could actually make good sense for your situation.
That's a terrible analogy. We do that all the time: it's called a gravitational assist ("fly-by").
Here's a physics experiment for you: take two billiard balls and put one on a level track. Put the other on a track that dips down and then dips up again just before arriving at the same point as another one. Give them each the same push. Which gets to the end first? It's the second ball, because while energy was conserved, it temporarily gave up potential energy to have kinetic energy for a duration that significantly shortened the time-of-flight.
Energy losses from synchrotron radiation are suppressed by a factor of mass ^ 4. Muons would be fine, since they're about 200 times heavier than electrons.
It's more powerful than the Tevatron, but not more powerful than the LHC, which is strictly speaking true. But one of the improvements in going to an e+e- machine is greater availability of the power that is there. The energy in a hadron that becomes available in a collision is distributed along its "parton distribution function", while the rest remains with the "proton debris". Since an electron is (at all explored energy scales so far) a point particle, you get all the energy, every collision (minus some initial and final state radiation).
Also, in addition to greater rates to tape for those energies, the physics results have less systematic uncertainty in them, since you don't have to involve a PDF in the calculation.
And then this is a linear collider, unlike the Tevatron and the LHC (and HERA and LEP), so you could polarize the beam to a much stronger degree if you really wanted to.
The Nobel Prize in Physics has never been awarded to more than 3 people, and that was first done in its third year, in 1903, to Becquerel and the Curies.
Free neutrons decay. Helium (and many other) nuclei are forever stable, because the energy gain in neutron decay is less than the nuclear binding energy. Lower energy states are only available through fusion, with an optimum at Iron (where they'll be met by nuclear fission from the other side).
Choosing something instead of money is not all that different from having money and spending it. It's an opportunity cost instead of a realized cost. You still made a choice that in a comparison between something you value and money, you want the something more. Having money or the ability to make money gives you the ability to make those choices, and choices (at least IMO) are good.
No need to demonize a perfectly viable currency for representing value.
It takes intentional browser support to display such a thing, so wouldn't it also be imaginable that alongside adding that feature browsers would also add a malware warning like a coloration to the address bar? It could even be intelligent to only do that when there's Unicode characters for outside your $LOCALE. I could see Firefox doing that...
I agree the outrage is disproportionate in porn cases, but there is a reason to treat it to some amount specially: avoiding a sexual harassment lawsuit.
I would take it farther than that. I know a good number of Republicans who consider basic research a useful function of government (it advances technology, creates jobs) and should actually be *expanded*, both in direct grants and in R+D tax credits. GWB passed such an expansion in 2007, though Congress has been stingy with the funding thusfar.
So what exactly is the problem then? In what ways isn't the Pre open enough? Contrary to GP's post, you can install unapproved 3rd party apps, including a Bluetooth tethering app and a Google Voice dialer.
Palm doesn't prohibit other means of getting apps onto their device. There's quite a few third party apps out there you can download and install unofficially. But Apple, conversely, after locking down their device, actually does a (moderately) solid job implementing their app system. Guess which one wins in the eyes of consumers and developers?
Yes. That's by design. Hence the "reasonable" part. Our founding fathers thought there were certain classes of searches which were permissible, and the courts have tried to interpret what they meant by that. I wouldn't characterize that as a loophole, rather the law functioning as intended. (Not trying to argue, however, that some searches permitted under this *aren't* just plain ridiculous)
I feel like you are on some level being disingenuous here. Fair Use is intentionally ambiguous, since it is a question of spirit, not just enumerating that which is permitted. Pretending that distributing whole tracks or episodes of a show, even with your own work on top of it, doesn't excessively advantage from the work the original artists put into it, to score pedant points, borders on intentionally naive.
The law is the best reference for this. 17 USC 107 lists the four factors to test, and gives illustrative (and not exclusive) examples to show what the purpose behind the doctrine is. If you are trying to do something that uses the work as a basis, you probably have a problem. If you are trying to merely talk about the work, and use small snippets of it to that end, you are probably ok. And then copying your own copies for your own exclusive purposes is ok.
Parody gets a little tougher to talk about, since the case-law makes the distinction that what is meant is critical parody (which makes sense, given that it fits the pattern of the permitted classes), and not parody as a back-door to making a derivative work (in the Weird-Al sense). Note that Fair Use is not unique here: like any case that wanders too close to the boundaries of the law, you have to take it to a courtroom to know for sure. Wikipedia offers Mattel, Inc. v. Walking Mountain Productions and Art Rogers v. Jeff Koons as cases to reference.
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French is a useful and underrated language. It's the most predominant language on the European continent in areas without good English speakers. In my experience, native Italians are ok at English, the Spanish and Portuguese are great, but the French are very poor (I'm less sure about Eastern Europe). German is practically English already.
It's also an official language of international diplomacy (it comes *before* Spanish translations on US Passports), and is spoken in a lot of North African and Caribbean nations, so you have more places available to comfortably vacation =)
The problem with Referenda on sensitive social issues is that the Consitution is specifically designed to protect minorities against discrimination by majority rule.
By the Federal government. Aside from enumerated protections in the USC amendments, though, the states can run themselves and their citizens pretty much however they want.
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I don't think a person's rights and privileges are up for "vote". I don't want other people deciding how I can and cannot live my life - CERTAINLY when it doesn't involve them.
Siblings have hinted that this is about when it *does* involve others (even the Supreme Court has recognized that bans on things that occur strictly privately i.e. sodomy are unconstitutional).
But the broader issue is, isn't this what a representative government DOES? Isn't its function, in some way, to place limitations on the population at large in response to popular support? Most of the time we don't find these limitations objectionable, though, right? Murder, theft, etc. But at the most basic level a person's rights and privileges are always up for vote.
Maybe we need a newer form of government that somehow protects the rights of the minority while performing useful governmental functions supported by the majority (or super-majority). The US Constitution is a good stab at it, but the States, aside from enumerated restrictions in the USC amendments, have pretty much free reign to trample all over minorities. I don't know the answer...
Hand me that petition; I'll sign it. I don't care if you marry another man, woman, or a whole bunch of women (harem), and I don't care if you find my name on it.
You may want to read the petition first, then, because it's supporting a referendum to REPEAL civil unions in Washington.
They're like Wal-Mart, they move in, offer you low prices, then when the competition is smeared, they take you for everything you have.
That's not like WalMart at all. WalMart keeps their prices low to hedge out future competitors, and maintains profitability by selling shitty products, and abusing their suppliers and employees.
It's not a proposed law yet. It's a pile of paper that may someday become a proposed law. When it becomes a proposed law it'll be up there on Thomas with everything else. Meanwhile it's just a thought, an intermediate position in international negotiations, and negotiating requires a party to be mum about its desires and willingness to compromise until it decides it's in its interest to reveal them.
Maybe that's not how *governments* should negotiate (at least not ours), and if I heard a strong enough argument I might even agree with that position. But it's not a sign of sinister intent. It's the status quo for treaties.
I think there's a fundamental difference, though, in that the AGPL and related licenses are seeking to affect the instruments themselves and not their output.
Yeah, this.
Copyright demands a creative component. You can't claim that the algorithmic output of a webapp is somehow a work whose public performance needs to be protected. You could claim that the webapp needs to be protected, and it is! Through the GPLv3.
Now to go even further, say you have HTML templates or images that get distributed via the webapp. That's where the real public performance analogy is, but you're already protected if you stick a distribution license on them!
I think you're confused. nVidia isn't leaving the graphics card business. Just the mainboard chipset market (allegedly). I suppose this will mean fewer integrated video solutions based on nVidia, but you'll always be able to go buy a discrete PCI Express 2.0 card for your MythTV box. And on top of that, Intel has really good open drivers for their mainboard chipsets, so the combination of the two could actually make good sense for your situation.
That's a terrible analogy. We do that all the time: it's called a gravitational assist ("fly-by").
Here's a physics experiment for you: take two billiard balls and put one on a level track. Put the other on a track that dips down and then dips up again just before arriving at the same point as another one. Give them each the same push. Which gets to the end first? It's the second ball, because while energy was conserved, it temporarily gave up potential energy to have kinetic energy for a duration that significantly shortened the time-of-flight.
Energy losses from synchrotron radiation are suppressed by a factor of mass ^ 4. Muons would be fine, since they're about 200 times heavier than electrons.
It's more powerful than the Tevatron, but not more powerful than the LHC, which is strictly speaking true. But one of the improvements in going to an e+e- machine is greater availability of the power that is there. The energy in a hadron that becomes available in a collision is distributed along its "parton distribution function", while the rest remains with the "proton debris". Since an electron is (at all explored energy scales so far) a point particle, you get all the energy, every collision (minus some initial and final state radiation).
Also, in addition to greater rates to tape for those energies, the physics results have less systematic uncertainty in them, since you don't have to involve a PDF in the calculation.
And then this is a linear collider, unlike the Tevatron and the LHC (and HERA and LEP), so you could polarize the beam to a much stronger degree if you really wanted to.
You're right, of course. But to add, there are q-q T-channel gluon exchanges that contribute to the QCD background at the LHC.
The Nobel Prize in Physics has never been awarded to more than 3 people, and that was first done in its third year, in 1903, to Becquerel and the Curies.
Free neutrons decay. Helium (and many other) nuclei are forever stable, because the energy gain in neutron decay is less than the nuclear binding energy. Lower energy states are only available through fusion, with an optimum at Iron (where they'll be met by nuclear fission from the other side).
Meanwhile the savvy in both cultures buy Korean (Samsung).
Choosing something instead of money is not all that different from having money and spending it. It's an opportunity cost instead of a realized cost. You still made a choice that in a comparison between something you value and money, you want the something more. Having money or the ability to make money gives you the ability to make those choices, and choices (at least IMO) are good.
No need to demonize a perfectly viable currency for representing value.
It takes intentional browser support to display such a thing, so wouldn't it also be imaginable that alongside adding that feature browsers would also add a malware warning like a coloration to the address bar? It could even be intelligent to only do that when there's Unicode characters for outside your $LOCALE. I could see Firefox doing that...
I agree the outrage is disproportionate in porn cases, but there is a reason to treat it to some amount specially: avoiding a sexual harassment lawsuit.
I would take it farther than that. I know a good number of Republicans who consider basic research a useful function of government (it advances technology, creates jobs) and should actually be *expanded*, both in direct grants and in R+D tax credits. GWB passed such an expansion in 2007, though Congress has been stingy with the funding thusfar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_COMPETES_Act
So what exactly is the problem then? In what ways isn't the Pre open enough? Contrary to GP's post, you can install unapproved 3rd party apps, including a Bluetooth tethering app and a Google Voice dialer.
Palm doesn't prohibit other means of getting apps onto their device. There's quite a few third party apps out there you can download and install unofficially. But Apple, conversely, after locking down their device, actually does a (moderately) solid job implementing their app system. Guess which one wins in the eyes of consumers and developers?
Somehow I think Windows without the vacuum tubes would still suck. ;)
Yes. That's by design. Hence the "reasonable" part. Our founding fathers thought there were certain classes of searches which were permissible, and the courts have tried to interpret what they meant by that. I wouldn't characterize that as a loophole, rather the law functioning as intended. (Not trying to argue, however, that some searches permitted under this *aren't* just plain ridiculous)
I feel like you are on some level being disingenuous here. Fair Use is intentionally ambiguous, since it is a question of spirit, not just enumerating that which is permitted. Pretending that distributing whole tracks or episodes of a show, even with your own work on top of it, doesn't excessively advantage from the work the original artists put into it, to score pedant points, borders on intentionally naive.
The law is the best reference for this. 17 USC 107 lists the four factors to test, and gives illustrative (and not exclusive) examples to show what the purpose behind the doctrine is. If you are trying to do something that uses the work as a basis, you probably have a problem. If you are trying to merely talk about the work, and use small snippets of it to that end, you are probably ok. And then copying your own copies for your own exclusive purposes is ok.
Parody gets a little tougher to talk about, since the case-law makes the distinction that what is meant is critical parody (which makes sense, given that it fits the pattern of the permitted classes), and not parody as a back-door to making a derivative work (in the Weird-Al sense). Note that Fair Use is not unique here: like any case that wanders too close to the boundaries of the law, you have to take it to a courtroom to know for sure. Wikipedia offers Mattel, Inc. v. Walking Mountain Productions and Art Rogers v. Jeff Koons as cases to reference.