Mod parent with a couple (+1, Informative)s for his trouble. GP raises a question which is partially addressed in TFS: retail stores are actively promoting digital distribution.
B. How the fuck do you get to the conclusion that there is anything in the USA not bound by the US Constitution. Further, how the fuck do you get to the conclusion that there is anything in [State] not bound by [State]'s Constitution? Even Bush had to go to Cuba to try and dodge the US Constitution.
I am fairly sure you don't actually mean this. The Constitution has never regulated private parties. See parochial schools, for example.
Let this not indicate any of my personal thoughts on global warming per se, but rather the scientific process in general. Many people join climate research to help "save the Earth", as it were. There is little doubt in my mind that the majority of climate scientists would rather see data that shows man is doing terrible terrible things to the planet.
It shouldn't matter, that's why we have the scientific method. Subjective predisposition shouldn't matter... but if you don't have enough competent scientists working the other side, then peer review at that point becomes a little suspect. I'm in academia personally, but in a far less politically sensitive subject, and we definitely have our cliques of prejudices to our own little fiefdoms, it gets frustrating at times.
What I'm saying is, climate research results may be from sound data and have sound conclusions, but it would make me feel better to know there's enough capable (not just well-financed) devil's advocates.
America doesn't hate diesel -- we just have more stringent standards on diesel engines over here, if you'd believe it. That's why they're far more prevalent in Europe.
But see, tax evasion is a felony, vs. copyright infringement which is a civil tort most of the time. NOW it's a "legitimate" matter for the FBI to investigate.
NTP reports UTC. You need to know your timezone to convert to local time.
Furthermore proper timezone support depends on more than the present time, it also requires knowing how past times map between local and UTC, to make sense of things like timestamps, etc. And then multiply this for all the different locations you support and you see that this is not an entirely trivial thing to support.
President Obama was unable to meet with Queen Elizabeth, since she passed away a while ago. Instead he met with HM Queen Elizabeth II. I know it sounds pedantic, but they are different people.
The Clie had a BEAUTIFUL form factor. I wouldn't buy one nowadays, but I blame that more on Palm OS and our expectation for more hardware features (Phone/WiFi/Bluetooth, pick 2 at least, Clie had none).
You would need a receiver on the remote and more logic to drive it. Stock remotes today just read in the scan code, translate it to a series of pulses, and send it to the infrared diode. None of that (well, the battery) is usable to power this new function.
Also the receiver would have to be RF, not infrared, because you can't assume the remote is pointing at the TV.
A derived work is no less of a work in its own right, under at least American copyright law. Disney can derive from their own works to their hearts content and indeed start the clock again.
The point you bring up is not about derived works, but about how much "creative" content is necessary to qualify for copyright, since copyright only covers works that are creative in nature. An amalgamation of facts, for example, is not copyrightable. Changing of a font to a previous work is probably not copyrightable. Touching up the color and the sound to a previous work probably IS copyrightable (though of course up to a court to decide).
For a good example of how nit-picky this debate can get, see Happy Birthday, which is itself a derivative work of something that is in the public domain. There's a few sites out there that discuss its copyright status, which I have no doubt you can find with a little googling.
Of course none of this matters because regardless of whether or not Disney does this, the original works will still go into the public domain at the same time. I suspect the reason Disney does this is so they can sell new versions of works that people already have.
It's a bit more than that, isn't it? Otherwise Apple would be abusing a monopoly right now.
It's also important if your sexwidgets constitute a market, that is, how available close substitutes are. Which is itself a gray area (are other mp3 players substitutes for iPods? Are Satellite radios?)
You've convinced them that they're all geniuses, that they can all be Einstein and Newton. But the truth is, most are ordinary, and one day they'll realize that despite what you say, they're nothing special. And they'll hate you for it.
That's certainly a great line, and I respect it, but you missed Escalante's counter to it: if you don't raise the level of expectations, people will never realize they're capable of delivering to meet them.
If you meet a foreign residence test you can file a form 2555 and be exempt from up to $87,600 of earned income. That should be most of a reasonable person's income from a single employer.
I would be worried that such a tactic legitimizes the system. Wouldn't a continuation of the current string of ridiculous lawsuits from patent trolls draw far greater attention to the fact that it is the law itself that is broken?
Defending oneself against patents with patents themselves seems like an unstable solution.
Taxes are like an MMORPG: sure you can solo, but it's better if you play with someone who know's what he's doing. Then if you understand the rules well enough you can win some rewards, though they're paid in in-game money and never seem like a drop in the bucket compared to your subscription fees.
And the rules are always changing, supposedly to "balance" the classes, but it just makes the game harder for everyone. And then every 4-8 years there's an expansion pack that inevitably nerfs one of the classes, usually the ones being bitched about the most on the forums (though the ones the devs play always seem to come out all right).
Anyway, I recommend it, it's the only game in town!
If the LHC could run at room temperature, it'd cost a mere fraction of what it does.
And it would've been done 3 years ago, since you don't have to warm-up and cool-down to fix every damn little problem, or train (heat/cool cycle) the magnets to get to the desired field strength.
This is an attitude I've never quite understood, and I apologize in advance if this sounds critical. What costs you to visit Slashdot in terms of time, attention, and possibly money, is supposedly worth it to you because you are here. Granted things could always be better, and we should like them to be better.
But what does it matter to a reader if Slashdot pays its editors or not? Why does how they choose to run their business affect our willingness to accept Slashdot on its own merits?
To me, a business is a black box. I will judge them based on the products they offer me and let them succeed or fail on their own competence (or lack thereof).
What makes denial of service attacks so hard to respond to technologically? Our pipes are limited in capacity, surely. Is it not possible to build a router that can mask out requests from IP ranges as fast as they can electrically come in?
Or is the problem more in the "distributed" part than the "denial of service" part? Can a network engineer enlighten me?
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Mod parent with a couple (+1, Informative)s for his trouble. GP raises a question which is partially addressed in TFS: retail stores are actively promoting digital distribution.
B. How the fuck do you get to the conclusion that there is anything in the USA not bound by the US Constitution. Further, how the fuck do you get to the conclusion that there is anything in [State] not bound by [State]'s Constitution? Even Bush had to go to Cuba to try and dodge the US Constitution.
I am fairly sure you don't actually mean this. The Constitution has never regulated private parties. See parochial schools, for example.
You laugh but that is something I worry about.
Let this not indicate any of my personal thoughts on global warming per se, but rather the scientific process in general. Many people join climate research to help "save the Earth", as it were. There is little doubt in my mind that the majority of climate scientists would rather see data that shows man is doing terrible terrible things to the planet.
It shouldn't matter, that's why we have the scientific method. Subjective predisposition shouldn't matter... but if you don't have enough competent scientists working the other side, then peer review at that point becomes a little suspect. I'm in academia personally, but in a far less politically sensitive subject, and we definitely have our cliques of prejudices to our own little fiefdoms, it gets frustrating at times.
What I'm saying is, climate research results may be from sound data and have sound conclusions, but it would make me feel better to know there's enough capable (not just well-financed) devil's advocates.
America doesn't hate diesel -- we just have more stringent standards on diesel engines over here, if you'd believe it. That's why they're far more prevalent in Europe.
You misspelled "California".
But see, tax evasion is a felony, vs. copyright infringement which is a civil tort most of the time. NOW it's a "legitimate" matter for the FBI to investigate.
NTP reports UTC. You need to know your timezone to convert to local time. Furthermore proper timezone support depends on more than the present time, it also requires knowing how past times map between local and UTC, to make sense of things like timestamps, etc. And then multiply this for all the different locations you support and you see that this is not an entirely trivial thing to support.
It could still be simpler. Gauntlet: Legends was, and it was well received.
Sometimes you just want to button mash and explore.
President Obama was unable to meet with Queen Elizabeth, since she passed away a while ago. Instead he met with HM Queen Elizabeth II. I know it sounds pedantic, but they are different people.
Don't worry about him, he's busy trying to get the matter/anti-matter ratio right on his warp engines.
Is that you, Dr. Lexus?
How would anything else not be piracy?
When it's the settlement of a class-action lawsuit. Members of a class traditionally have to opt-out.
Don't laugh. XUL is to Firefox what ELisp is to Emacs, in a way.
You can put Boxee (and XBMC) on an Apple TV with relative ease. So, $230 instead of $150, but it's something I'm considering doing myself.
The Clie had a BEAUTIFUL form factor. I wouldn't buy one nowadays, but I blame that more on Palm OS and our expectation for more hardware features (Phone/WiFi/Bluetooth, pick 2 at least, Clie had none).
You would need a receiver on the remote and more logic to drive it. Stock remotes today just read in the scan code, translate it to a series of pulses, and send it to the infrared diode. None of that (well, the battery) is usable to power this new function.
Also the receiver would have to be RF, not infrared, because you can't assume the remote is pointing at the TV.
A derived work is no less of a work in its own right, under at least American copyright law. Disney can derive from their own works to their hearts content and indeed start the clock again.
The point you bring up is not about derived works, but about how much "creative" content is necessary to qualify for copyright, since copyright only covers works that are creative in nature. An amalgamation of facts, for example, is not copyrightable. Changing of a font to a previous work is probably not copyrightable. Touching up the color and the sound to a previous work probably IS copyrightable (though of course up to a court to decide).
For a good example of how nit-picky this debate can get, see Happy Birthday, which is itself a derivative work of something that is in the public domain. There's a few sites out there that discuss its copyright status, which I have no doubt you can find with a little googling.
Of course none of this matters because regardless of whether or not Disney does this, the original works will still go into the public domain at the same time. I suspect the reason Disney does this is so they can sell new versions of works that people already have.
It's a bit more than that, isn't it? Otherwise Apple would be abusing a monopoly right now.
It's also important if your sexwidgets constitute a market, that is, how available close substitutes are. Which is itself a gray area (are other mp3 players substitutes for iPods? Are Satellite radios?)
You've convinced them that they're all geniuses, that they can all be Einstein and Newton. But the truth is, most are ordinary, and one day they'll realize that despite what you say, they're nothing special. And they'll hate you for it.
That's certainly a great line, and I respect it, but you missed Escalante's counter to it: if you don't raise the level of expectations, people will never realize they're capable of delivering to meet them.
If you meet a foreign residence test you can file a form 2555 and be exempt from up to $87,600 of earned income. That should be most of a reasonable person's income from a single employer.
I would be worried that such a tactic legitimizes the system. Wouldn't a continuation of the current string of ridiculous lawsuits from patent trolls draw far greater attention to the fact that it is the law itself that is broken?
Defending oneself against patents with patents themselves seems like an unstable solution.
Taxes are like an MMORPG: sure you can solo, but it's better if you play with someone who know's what he's doing. Then if you understand the rules well enough you can win some rewards, though they're paid in in-game money and never seem like a drop in the bucket compared to your subscription fees.
And the rules are always changing, supposedly to "balance" the classes, but it just makes the game harder for everyone. And then every 4-8 years there's an expansion pack that inevitably nerfs one of the classes, usually the ones being bitched about the most on the forums (though the ones the devs play always seem to come out all right).
Anyway, I recommend it, it's the only game in town!
If the LHC could run at room temperature, it'd cost a mere fraction of what it does.
And it would've been done 3 years ago, since you don't have to warm-up and cool-down to fix every damn little problem, or train (heat/cool cycle) the magnets to get to the desired field strength.
This is an attitude I've never quite understood, and I apologize in advance if this sounds critical. What costs you to visit Slashdot in terms of time, attention, and possibly money, is supposedly worth it to you because you are here. Granted things could always be better, and we should like them to be better.
But what does it matter to a reader if Slashdot pays its editors or not? Why does how they choose to run their business affect our willingness to accept Slashdot on its own merits?
To me, a business is a black box. I will judge them based on the products they offer me and let them succeed or fail on their own competence (or lack thereof).
What makes denial of service attacks so hard to respond to technologically? Our pipes are limited in capacity, surely. Is it not possible to build a router that can mask out requests from IP ranges as fast as they can electrically come in?
Or is the problem more in the "distributed" part than the "denial of service" part? Can a network engineer enlighten me?
I could actually block cookies on Yahoo since I don't use their services.
That's not a half-bad idea.