I get quite annoyed when people randomly substitute the big M with the little m. 1 mm (1 millimeter) is the thickness of a dime. 1 Mm (1 megameter) is about 620 miles. Those who can't tell the difference have no business trying to tell anyone anything. I won't call them stupid though. No I won't.
That's a fight you are never going to win, you prove this by claiming the superiority of SI and then use miles in the same sentence.. One megameter actually makes no sense, you just write 1000 km.
The worst idea ever was to make a bit equal a small "b", and a byte a capital B. brrrr.
We had bulletin boards on 8-bit processors using 1200 baud modems in the 1980s. Slashdot is nothing more than a fancy HTML BBS. Where is the "fundamental" change?
We have been able to do that with radio for a long time as well, with your reasoning there is not "fundamental" difference there either. BBS:es and Slashdot are not the same at all, they are different in many social and technical aspects.
This is why copyright sucks, it's usually pretty hard to get a license to play something on air, and it costs a lot of money to get that work done. I'm guessing Glee needs a couple of full time employees plus lawyer time to do this. Sure Glee can spend this kind of money but it's really soul killing to do this for anyone who can't employ people todo this.
And yes that's why CC is nice, but CC isn't really the solution because it has such a small "market share".
That would be $150 000 per infringement times 6 million viewers, but it might just be per track not per downloaded copy. That single mom had to pay ~$35 000 per track, and it mention that people settle at $3 500 per track.
Yeah... while in the rest of the world we are sane, and it's not illegal to check if a door is unlocked, and you most certainly can't kill someone because you think they are trying to break in.
DRM is a no no with CC-by-SA, it says it like this: "You may not impose any effective technological measures on the Work that restrict [the access to the work]" ( the CC-by-SA legal code part 4a)
But the license that OSM has adopted, the ODbL will allow you to do what you want with the created map, as long as you give attribution on it (and share the mapdata).
I'm somewhere in the 97th percentile by income, but I see much more in common between myself and a girl I know who's working a minimum wage job than I do between myself and Warren Buffet.
You mean like not being able to pay for medical care, not fixing your teeth until it's to late, or loosing your job because you managed to get the flu, got pregnant or broke your leg? It's easy to be envious of those that have it better than you, and hard to sympathize with those that has it worse.
I live a simple life but it is a hell of a lot better than the single mom, with chronic back pains, that cleans our office.
It doesn't matter, we have multiple parties over here in Sweden but the big ones on both extremes of the spectrum still support things similar to DHS and TSA . Sure the small parties did ensure that we had a little more discussion, but in the end it was still supported by the big parties.
Germany seems like an interesting multi party country to study though, they seem to care alot about privacy. I wonder how that came about.
(G3, I believe, I don't recall and don't know all the models. Sorry.) [....] He had plugged his G3 into one of the (micro/A/B/whatever) USB plugs from his other "standard" USB-charging phone
I had a friend who bought what he believed to be a genuine Apple charger and fried his tablet, the cheap stuff will always be there wether you use an Apple connector or the standard USB version.
Your story would be more interesting if you knew the specifics, i.e could supply make and model of both charger and phone.
Yes I do find that land lines or stationary phones do have a place, I really like being able to call home to someone, or to a specific place. Especially when I know I can only be helped if someone is at that specific place. But considering the amount of cellphones I can have in my pocket on a bad day I would say cell phones are tied to a service; i.e. the service I provide to my family and friends, my work, and soccer practice etc.
Considering the Air Force has about 300k-540k employees, that ERP just cost them between $2000 and $4000 per personal to develop and scrap. It's not that bad, I guess it's easy to spend that amount of money on ERP thingies even in small companies.
None of these, games, DRM crippled video players, tax software need to be proprietary. You even mention why: what would these software packages be without their WAD files, tax definition files and encryption keys.
What's needed is something like that Terms of Service did not read, with easy bullet points telling you just how evil this app is, sure ToS and privacy policies aren't exactly the same thing. This was discussed on slashdot last week.
I joke often about how, if I were in power, I’d employ police marksmen to sit on motorway bridges picking off people who drive too slowly -- Jeremy Clarkson (of Top Gear fame)
If I was in power I would post laser dolphins targeting the ones who go to fast. Strange that no one has thought of that, oh wait...
Sorry no such law over here, I'm free to cycle in the car lane. I think it's an extremely dangerous law and I will fight hard not to get it over here for many reasons.
But also I'm not sure I want to share a road with you, you sound very aggressive and seem to think that you can decide when it's convenient for me to give room. You have no idea what it happening on my bike right now, so I think you should calm down... Well unless I'm going around in circles and giving you the finger, then maybe you can road rage me.
There's also the theory that the more cyclists on the road, the lower the accident *rate* (absolute numbers may go up) because car drivers are just more used to seeing them. Holland has probably the highest rate of regular cycling, probably the lowest rate of helmet wearing, and probably the lowest cycle accident rate.
A well maintained bicycle infrastructure may have had something to do with it. In Stockholm the amount of cyclist doubled, but the cycle network went from almost zero to ok (not as in the Netherlands), but the number of accidents are at the same level..
Most (near)accidents i have been in are bike-bike collisions because we ride them like mad men over here. As a matter of fact i'd suggest helmets for pedestrians over bicyclists.
The Australians solved it even better and recommended Car helments. Didn't take off...
Do you cycle much? For Commute? The article is about how there's a correlation between forcing helmets on cyclist and the attractiveness of cycling.
Around here ~70% of daily cycle commuters do use helmets so many people think like you, but on the other hand you are complete wrong about car the dangers of cycling is more about road conditions than cars (20% of reported cycle accidents here in Sweden involve cars).
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I suspect [timothy] is a 10 million-line Brainfuck program.
You use new lines in brainfuck? Don't tell me you use space as well, I can't stand that kind of sloppy coding style!
I get quite annoyed when people randomly substitute the big M with the little m. 1 mm (1 millimeter) is the thickness of a dime. 1 Mm (1 megameter) is about 620 miles. Those who can't tell the difference have no business trying to tell anyone anything. I won't call them stupid though. No I won't.
That's a fight you are never going to win, you prove this by claiming the superiority of SI and then use miles in the same sentence.. One megameter actually makes no sense, you just write 1000 km.
The worst idea ever was to make a bit equal a small "b", and a byte a capital B. brrrr.
Even the incandescent light bulb [was inovated] mainly through brute force trial and error with a team of assistants.
You mean research?
We had bulletin boards on 8-bit processors using 1200 baud modems in the 1980s. Slashdot is nothing more than a fancy HTML BBS. Where is the "fundamental" change?
We have been able to do that with radio for a long time as well, with your reasoning there is not "fundamental" difference there either. BBS:es and Slashdot are not the same at all, they are different in many social and technical aspects.
This is why copyright sucks, it's usually pretty hard to get a license to play something on air, and it costs a lot of money to get that work done. I'm guessing Glee needs a couple of full time employees plus lawyer time to do this. Sure Glee can spend this kind of money but it's really soul killing to do this for anyone who can't employ people todo this.
And yes that's why CC is nice, but CC isn't really the solution because it has such a small "market share".
That would be $150 000 per infringement times 6 million viewers, but it might just be per track not per downloaded copy. That single mom had to pay ~$35 000 per track, and it mention that people settle at $3 500 per track.
I could possibly agree that running a "hacking tool" is the same as checking to see if their alarm system is up and running.
Yeah... while in the rest of the world we are sane, and it's not illegal to check if a door is unlocked, and you most certainly can't kill someone because you think they are trying to break in.
DRM is a no no with CC-by-SA, it says it like this: "You may not impose any effective technological measures on the Work that restrict [the access to the work]" ( the CC-by-SA legal code part 4a)
But the license that OSM has adopted, the ODbL will allow you to do what you want with the created map, as long as you give attribution on it (and share the mapdata).
Try Osmand. Its $4 for Android and navigation works. It is also GPL
It's also free, but sure it's better to support the devs by paying
It's not a proposed feature, it has been used over 14 thousand times in OSM..
But you got bad UI and Lazy user correct, and that's enough reason if you have no interest in maps, and your local area.
I'm somewhere in the 97th percentile by income, but I see much more in common between myself and a girl I know who's working a minimum wage job than I do between myself and Warren Buffet.
You mean like not being able to pay for medical care, not fixing your teeth until it's to late, or loosing your job because you managed to get the flu, got pregnant or broke your leg? It's easy to be envious of those that have it better than you, and hard to sympathize with those that has it worse.
I live a simple life but it is a hell of a lot better than the single mom, with chronic back pains, that cleans our office.
It doesn't matter, we have multiple parties over here in Sweden but the big ones on both extremes of the spectrum still support things similar to DHS and TSA . Sure the small parties did ensure that we had a little more discussion, but in the end it was still supported by the big parties.
Germany seems like an interesting multi party country to study though, they seem to care alot about privacy. I wonder how that came about.
(G3, I believe, I don't recall and don't know all the models. Sorry.) [....] He had plugged his G3 into one of the (micro/A/B/whatever) USB plugs from his other "standard" USB-charging phone
I had a friend who bought what he believed to be a genuine Apple charger and fried his tablet, the cheap stuff will always be there wether you use an Apple connector or the standard USB version.
Your story would be more interesting if you knew the specifics, i.e could supply make and model of both charger and phone.
Yes I do find that land lines or stationary phones do have a place, I really like being able to call home to someone, or to a specific place. Especially when I know I can only be helped if someone is at that specific place. But considering the amount of cellphones I can have in my pocket on a bad day I would say cell phones are tied to a service; i.e. the service I provide to my family and friends, my work, and soccer practice etc.
It's a bit like "england", you know those isles in the north sea.
Considering the Air Force has about 300k-540k employees, that ERP just cost them between $2000 and $4000 per personal to develop and scrap. It's not that bad, I guess it's easy to spend that amount of money on ERP thingies even in small companies.
So basically if you live outside of the US for 330 days you will not pay taxes in the US, sound about the same as in Sweden.
None of these, games, DRM crippled video players, tax software need to be proprietary. You even mention why: what would these software packages be without their WAD files, tax definition files and encryption keys.
What's needed is something like that Terms of Service did not read, with easy bullet points telling you just how evil this app is, sure ToS and privacy policies aren't exactly the same thing. This was discussed on slashdot last week.
Apparently the full quote goes like this:
I joke often about how, if I were in power, I’d employ police marksmen to sit on motorway bridges picking off people who drive too slowly -- Jeremy Clarkson (of Top Gear fame)
If I was in power I would post laser dolphins targeting the ones who go to fast. Strange that no one has thought of that, oh wait...
Sorry no such law over here, I'm free to cycle in the car lane. I think it's an extremely dangerous law and I will fight hard not to get it over here for many reasons.
But also I'm not sure I want to share a road with you, you sound very aggressive and seem to think that you can decide when it's convenient for me to give room. You have no idea what it happening on my bike right now, so I think you should calm down... Well unless I'm going around in circles and giving you the finger, then maybe you can road rage me.
There's also the theory that the more cyclists on the road, the lower the accident *rate* (absolute numbers may go up) because car drivers are just more used to seeing them. Holland has probably the highest rate of regular cycling, probably the lowest rate of helmet wearing, and probably the lowest cycle accident rate.
A well maintained bicycle infrastructure may have had something to do with it. In Stockholm the amount of cyclist doubled, but the cycle network went from almost zero to ok (not as in the Netherlands), but the number of accidents are at the same level..
Most (near)accidents i have been in are bike-bike collisions because we ride them like mad men over here. As a matter of fact i'd suggest helmets for pedestrians over bicyclists.
The Australians solved it even better and recommended Car helments. Didn't take off...
Do you cycle much? For Commute? The article is about how there's a correlation between forcing helmets on cyclist and the attractiveness of cycling.
Around here ~70% of daily cycle commuters do use helmets so many people think like you, but on the other hand you are complete wrong about car the dangers of cycling is more about road conditions than cars (20% of reported cycle accidents here in Sweden involve cars).