My point is that despite any argument that police work is deadly, it is still statistically *LESS* deadly than the aforementioned professions. The fact that the workers in these other professions don't routinely have to put themselves in the same kinds of deadly situations as police does not magically make those jobs any less deadly, nor elevate the level of deadliness of police work relative to them.
What difference does that make? They are still more deadly than police work. The fact that police might have to put themselves in the aforementioned situations and *still* their job is less deadly than the others mentioned above would be a reflect of the quality of the safety measures that are employed by the police.
My thoughts exactly. "forced" was the exact word I was thinking of.
This is an established character and this proposed aspect of Sulu seems to have just come out of left field, from nowhere.
Frankly,. it feels to me like the only reason to suddenly write Sulu as gay is because the actor who used to play that character happens to be gay., and I don't think that's a good way to write for a character when it's being played by someone new. Honestly, it comes across like they are actually just wanting the new actor to portray the actor who used to play Sulu more than they want the actor to just play Sulu.
I think the fair use exemptions for "professional advice", "library or archive use", and "education" are kind of the sticking points (where the big corps are against "non-commercial private use" which basically is file sharing).
Sharing something publicly kind of invalidates the notion of being for "private use" doesn't it? That it may be non-commercial is entirely irrelevant.
Copyright isn't encouraging innovation, it's guaranteeing a revenue stream....
What revenue stream does the copyright on most open source projects guarantee? They are fully copyrighted (GPL, BSD, MIT, and many others), but are entirely free.
They believe that it will disadvantage their members, who donâ(TM)t have the means to protect themselves against large corporations that could invoke fair use as a defense.
Why would they have to protect themselves from large corporations that invoke fair use as a defense? Fair use, by definition does not adversely impact the value of the work in question. If the copyright holders are being harmed in some way by some particular usage, then fair use cannot be deemed to apply in the first place.
I don't read my ebooks on it because the screen is terrible for reading (prefer print books or e-ink)
This is, interestingly, what I use my iPad almost exclusively for. I have acrobat reader installed on my Gen 1 ipad, and use it for reading pdfs all of the time.
First of all, books are physically just too darn big. All of the books I have stored on my ipad would weigh upwards of a couple of hundred pounds.
Also, while eink is nicer to read than the ipad display, eink's shortcomings with regards to refresh speed and lack of color capability would not be amenable to the kinds of works that I read, or how I will sometimes want to quickly skim over several pages to find something that I will know immediately when I see. Acrobat reader on the device flips pages the instant I request it, while eink's update times are simply too slow, and I find that the limitations of the technology interfere with concentrating on what I am actually trying to read. Future technology may improve these things, and when eink can match the virtually instant screen update time as well as offer color, I'll probably recycle my ipad within a week or two after getting one.
Which is kind of funny, because I'm from Canada, and I realized this 20 years ago (while working as a tech support minion for a branch of the federal government, actually).
In some jurisdictions, if an employer does not give notice, pay in lieu of notice is still required, assuming that the employee has been there for some certain minimum amount of time. This is not especially advantageous to the employee in terms of employment insurance, because pay in lieu of notice still counts as income, and therefore will offset how soon employment insurance benefits will kick in after termination.
Reminds me of a time in my youth where I was playing poker and one of the other players asked me the time. I casually looked at my watch without thinking about it and told them, and as I went back to playing, I noticed a few smirks at the table. I had been holding my cards in my left hand, and I had absolutely no idea at the time that I had inadvertently just shown my entire hand to everybody.
I didn't win anything in that hand, of course, and after the hand was over I realized what had occurred. Boy did I feel dumb.
The tradition of wearing watches on the left hand arose from the fact that most people are right handed, and so would want to wind a watch with their right hand. Wearing the watch on the left wrist allowed one to wind it without removing it.
It is well known that at least to some extent, the severity of punishment for a crime does deter that crime from occurring in the first place, or in particular, giving people who might have otherwise considered trying to do it enough of a disincentive to reconsider their actions and not engage in the hypothetical criminal behavior in the first place. However, there is also a point at which increasing the penalty is unlikely to deter people who were still willing to do it despite the penalties that were being proposed and you get a diminishing return on prevention as you try to increase it further. Nobody can say for sure where that point is, but its my own suspicion that a 2 year jail term was probably already past it. I'd be willing to bet that the number of people that increasing the penalty it to 10 years is liable to prevent over the same amount of time could probably be counted on my fingers.
... not only can they hold you indefinitely for *NOT* giving your device's password to them if they want to inspect it, they can even arrest you if you do!
From what I recall, WhatTheFont! usually gives multiple matches for any sample image, because many fonts are very similar. It shows you samples in each font it finds as well, so you can visually compare with the original. Often there will be a free font among those shown.
Oh, that's not true in this case... educated people already *do* know why it won't work. The problem is that that there are people still think it would be a good idea despite having heard all of those reasons... they *want* to believe it will work, and this is blinding them to the realities of exactly why it won't work. They believe that the reasons that have been given for why it won't work simply will not apply to solar roadways, despite being unable to give any rational basis for why the reasons it won't work will somehow not apply to it. Since these people are ultimately just listening to their own feelings on a matter, after they try and fail, they will at least have the evidence of their own experience to substantiate that it won't work. While it's not a sure thing that a single experience of failure will necessarily convince the most sincere believers, it's still got a better chance of doing so than repeating all the reasons they've already heard.
I was going to say something similar. With a video display, all benefits of binocular vision are lost. You know how far done thing is in a mirror not just by the distance that your opiticsl lens is focussed at (which is actually very weak, by the way) but much more information about distance is relayed to your brain based on differences between what the left eye and right eye are seeing. That information is useful even at distances of up to almost a quarter kilometre (although most practical at distances of less than a hundred meters or so), but is lost entirely using a 2d display instead of a mirror.
Perhaps it is characteristically unexpected because of the nature of the company, but it is still not grammatically correct. It's like saying "I was unsatisfied with my purchase but got my money back". Using the word "but" makes no real sense, even if where I had purchased the item were not a place that was well known for not giving refunds. The only way the word "but" can be used properly in the headline sentence or my example sentence is if "but" is both preceded by a comma and followed by the words "at least", which then conveys the proper and literal meaning.
I suppose I can hire one security guard to "monitor" two or three areas (i.e., wait around for the robot to signal that something suspicious may be happening) and then go check it out, rather than hiring 2 or 3 security guards.
Presumably, it will stay in regular contact with a head office so if anything goes wrong and the connection goes down, or it fails to report appropriately at the correct time, humans consisting of at least one security guard plus a tech be dispatched to investigate.
I''m not "so quick" to suggest that... all of the perfectly valid reasons for why the logistics of solar roadways is not viable have been given, repeatedly. People that are still advocating it aren't listening to mathematics or science, they are going with their own feelings, even though they will deny it.
The only thing left to convince them they are wrong at this point is personal experience. After they fail to make it really work, they will have that first hand knowledge that may keep them from making similar mistakes in the future.
I'm not saying that it should be tried because I think there is even the remotest possibility that it will actually turn out to something like how the solar roadways folks painted it. I'm saying it should be tried because all of the reasons why it won't work have already been given, and it's clear that advocates of the concept don't want to listen to them, so all that is left for them to learn from is their own experience of trying it and failing that way.
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My point is that despite any argument that police work is deadly, it is still statistically *LESS* deadly than the aforementioned professions. The fact that the workers in these other professions don't routinely have to put themselves in the same kinds of deadly situations as police does not magically make those jobs any less deadly, nor elevate the level of deadliness of police work relative to them.
What difference does that make? They are still more deadly than police work. The fact that police might have to put themselves in the aforementioned situations and *still* their job is less deadly than the others mentioned above would be a reflect of the quality of the safety measures that are employed by the police.
My thoughts exactly. "forced" was the exact word I was thinking of.
This is an established character and this proposed aspect of Sulu seems to have just come out of left field, from nowhere.
Frankly,. it feels to me like the only reason to suddenly write Sulu as gay is because the actor who used to play that character happens to be gay., and I don't think that's a good way to write for a character when it's being played by someone new. Honestly, it comes across like they are actually just wanting the new actor to portray the actor who used to play Sulu more than they want the actor to just play Sulu.
Sharing something publicly kind of invalidates the notion of being for "private use" doesn't it? That it may be non-commercial is entirely irrelevant.
What revenue stream does the copyright on most open source projects guarantee? They are fully copyrighted (GPL, BSD, MIT, and many others), but are entirely free.
Why would they have to protect themselves from large corporations that invoke fair use as a defense? Fair use, by definition does not adversely impact the value of the work in question. If the copyright holders are being harmed in some way by some particular usage, then fair use cannot be deemed to apply in the first place.
Why would it be called "fair" in the first place if it wasn't actually fair?
This is, interestingly, what I use my iPad almost exclusively for. I have acrobat reader installed on my Gen 1 ipad, and use it for reading pdfs all of the time.
First of all, books are physically just too darn big. All of the books I have stored on my ipad would weigh upwards of a couple of hundred pounds.
Also, while eink is nicer to read than the ipad display, eink's shortcomings with regards to refresh speed and lack of color capability would not be amenable to the kinds of works that I read, or how I will sometimes want to quickly skim over several pages to find something that I will know immediately when I see. Acrobat reader on the device flips pages the instant I request it, while eink's update times are simply too slow, and I find that the limitations of the technology interfere with concentrating on what I am actually trying to read. Future technology may improve these things, and when eink can match the virtually instant screen update time as well as offer color, I'll probably recycle my ipad within a week or two after getting one.
It was years and years ago... and even back then, I never gambled more money than I could actually afford to lose.
Which is kind of funny, because I'm from Canada, and I realized this 20 years ago (while working as a tech support minion for a branch of the federal government, actually).
In some jurisdictions, if an employer does not give notice, pay in lieu of notice is still required, assuming that the employee has been there for some certain minimum amount of time. This is not especially advantageous to the employee in terms of employment insurance, because pay in lieu of notice still counts as income, and therefore will offset how soon employment insurance benefits will kick in after termination.
Reminds me of a time in my youth where I was playing poker and one of the other players asked me the time. I casually looked at my watch without thinking about it and told them, and as I went back to playing, I noticed a few smirks at the table. I had been holding my cards in my left hand, and I had absolutely no idea at the time that I had inadvertently just shown my entire hand to everybody.
I didn't win anything in that hand, of course, and after the hand was over I realized what had occurred. Boy did I feel dumb.
Uh... no.
The tradition of wearing watches on the left hand arose from the fact that most people are right handed, and so would want to wind a watch with their right hand. Wearing the watch on the left wrist allowed one to wind it without removing it.
It is well known that at least to some extent, the severity of punishment for a crime does deter that crime from occurring in the first place, or in particular, giving people who might have otherwise considered trying to do it enough of a disincentive to reconsider their actions and not engage in the hypothetical criminal behavior in the first place. However, there is also a point at which increasing the penalty is unlikely to deter people who were still willing to do it despite the penalties that were being proposed and you get a diminishing return on prevention as you try to increase it further. Nobody can say for sure where that point is, but its my own suspicion that a 2 year jail term was probably already past it. I'd be willing to bet that the number of people that increasing the penalty it to 10 years is liable to prevent over the same amount of time could probably be counted on my fingers.
... not only can they hold you indefinitely for *NOT* giving your device's password to them if they want to inspect it, they can even arrest you if you do!
From what I recall, WhatTheFont! usually gives multiple matches for any sample image, because many fonts are very similar. It shows you samples in each font it finds as well, so you can visually compare with the original. Often there will be a free font among those shown.
WhatTheFont can look at font text and tell you what it is.
Taking an existing color and converting it to RGB or CMYK is what any hardware store that will color-match paint to a sample has been doing for years.
Oh, that's not true in this case... educated people already *do* know why it won't work. The problem is that that there are people still think it would be a good idea despite having heard all of those reasons... they *want* to believe it will work, and this is blinding them to the realities of exactly why it won't work. They believe that the reasons that have been given for why it won't work simply will not apply to solar roadways, despite being unable to give any rational basis for why the reasons it won't work will somehow not apply to it. Since these people are ultimately just listening to their own feelings on a matter, after they try and fail, they will at least have the evidence of their own experience to substantiate that it won't work. While it's not a sure thing that a single experience of failure will necessarily convince the most sincere believers, it's still got a better chance of doing so than repeating all the reasons they've already heard.
I was going to say something similar. With a video display, all benefits of binocular vision are lost. You know how far done thing is in a mirror not just by the distance that your opiticsl lens is focussed at (which is actually very weak, by the way) but much more information about distance is relayed to your brain based on differences between what the left eye and right eye are seeing. That information is useful even at distances of up to almost a quarter kilometre (although most practical at distances of less than a hundred meters or so), but is lost entirely using a 2d display instead of a mirror.
Nah... New Here has a 6 digit slashdot id... although I haven't seem him since 2012.
Perhaps it is characteristically unexpected because of the nature of the company, but it is still not grammatically correct. It's like saying "I was unsatisfied with my purchase but got my money back". Using the word "but" makes no real sense, even if where I had purchased the item were not a place that was well known for not giving refunds. The only way the word "but" can be used properly in the headline sentence or my example sentence is if "but" is both preceded by a comma and followed by the words "at least", which then conveys the proper and literal meaning.
That is, I think, the entire point.
Presumably, it will stay in regular contact with a head office so if anything goes wrong and the connection goes down, or it fails to report appropriately at the correct time, humans consisting of at least one security guard plus a tech be dispatched to investigate.
I''m not "so quick" to suggest that... all of the perfectly valid reasons for why the logistics of solar roadways is not viable have been given, repeatedly. People that are still advocating it aren't listening to mathematics or science, they are going with their own feelings, even though they will deny it.
The only thing left to convince them they are wrong at this point is personal experience. After they fail to make it really work, they will have that first hand knowledge that may keep them from making similar mistakes in the future.
I'm not saying that it should be tried because I think there is even the remotest possibility that it will actually turn out to something like how the solar roadways folks painted it. I'm saying it should be tried because all of the reasons why it won't work have already been given, and it's clear that advocates of the concept don't want to listen to them, so all that is left for them to learn from is their own experience of trying it and failing that way.