Two people can hold a copyright on same/similar things if those things weren't based of the other.
Whereas with a patent, it guarantees a monopoly on said thing. Copyright merely guarantees that nobody can (legally) copy one's work. While still allowing them to create a same/similar work.
Matrix n. [FidoNet] 1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call
FidoNet. 2. Fanciful term for a cyberspace expected to emerge from
current networking experiments (see the network). The name of the
rather good 1999 cypherpunk movie "The Matrix" played on this sense,
which however had been established for years before. 3. The totality of
present-day computer networks (popularized in this sense by John
Quarterman; rare outside academic literature).
If word usage has become so deprecated that a secondary-definition is the one in primary use (as in the case of a word that has "lost its original meaning"), it seems to me that the secondary definition is more accurate in modern language, which a dictionary (unless you're looking at a classical language dictionary) should be describing. Merriam Webster describes language as "the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a community" Thus any dictionary that defines a word in a way that is different from how a majority of people understand that word is inaccurate (outdated).
But, etymologies from Merriam-Webster: Main Entry: 2autarchy Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -chies Etymology: Greek autarchia, from aut- + -archia -archy Date: 1665 : absolute sovereignty : AUTOCRACY
Main Entry: 1auÂtarÂchy Pronunciation: 'o-"tÃr-kE Function: noun Etymology: by alteration Date: 1617 : AUTARKY
autarchy
n 1: economic independence as a national policy [syn: autarky]
2: a political system governed by a single individual [syn: autocracy]
[ant: democracy]
My WC Cdrom distribution of slackware 3.0 let me switch to another VC and play tetris for terminals back in '95...volkerding is the real innovator here.
I use my PDA (Sony clie) for everything I can - japanese study, scheduling (classes, work, travel) - it really helps me to prioritize things, games, pictures, contact info, etc. It's hard, well terribly inconvenient anyway, for me to do without it these days.
I found my house, told my realtor I wanted to see it and bought it the next week. I wouldn't recommend using the MLS website alone (tried that for a week - I couldn't get an address of any houses without a realtor involved), but the combination of the two can't be beat.
I suppose it's also nifty if you grew up across the street from your realtor.
> Linux users choose to use Linux rather than an easier-to-use system like Windows. They have clearly already indicated that
> they are the sort of person who doesn't mind doing something the hard way.
In all my years using windows and all my years using Unix/GNU systems, I have found that it is rare that windows is easier, overall, to use.
Maybe it's just me. I can't remember what I had for breakfast except for the empty ramen wrapping on the counter...let alone a war that happened nearly half a century before I was born.
Nazi sympathizers? Collecting memorobilia hardly signifies sympathy. There's an old saying (may not be old, but it's a saying) that goes "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." Personally, I don't see anything wrong with reminding oneself, or others, of what many consider to be a terrible piece of history. It allows folk to remember that it/is/ history. It makes one wonder where it all ends, is my school textbook with the image of Adolf Hitler in it going to be french contraband? "Of course not, it's educational," they'll say. But isn't everything, especially things with historical significance (e.g.: an SS banner) educational in some way? In my opinion, it is. And has far too much value to be censored by an oppressive government (pardon my redundance).
Au contrair. According to a previous/. article at http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/20/1657238.shtm l, France was also going after yahoo's.com and other TLD auctions because French people might possibly gain access to them. Wouldn't it be a more intelligent idea to, you know, complain to the french citezens who can't obey their own laws, rather than getting on an outside business' case about it. This is like the US government, during prohibition times, complaining to the canadian government for allowing its citezenry to make the booze that US citezens might possibly try bootlegging.
> Humans are animals, and thus natural, just like > everyone else.
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." -- Agent Smith
> might be worth your consideration if he wrote it > himself.
Who cares if he wrote it himself? You're not voting for a president, you're voting for the president, all his appointed officials, advisors, etc. It is very apparent that some of his advisors, at least, know what to do.
In light of this bull, I'll be taking my cuecat shooting with me this weekend...who needs targets when you have a perfectly good piece of hardware made useless to ideallistic blokes such as myself by the socially irresponsible behaviour of its manufacturer, eh?
The "we need to be better than that" attitude would be more useful directed back at ourselves. We need to be better than what/we/ are. The others do not matter. (interpreted: it's better to be better than good than better than bad.)
I got one of these suckers for my dad (all he does is check stocks quotes) in trade for his p75 box.
It's nifty, after setting it up for him I thought about getting one for myself - put it in my living room or something and have it for guests.
You'll note that the dungeons themselves weren't exactly randomly generated. They were randomly picked from a pool of static layouts, the monster locations/types/strengths/quantaties were the most random thing in the dungeons and even they were somewhat predictable (once one saw one monster, one could guess what others were in there with it)
Slashdot Mirror
Super troopers
Two people can hold a copyright on same/similar things if those things weren't based of the other.
Whereas with a patent, it guarantees a monopoly on said thing.
Copyright merely guarantees that nobody can (legally) copy one's work. While still allowing them to create a same/similar work.
From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) :
Matrix n. [FidoNet] 1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call
FidoNet. 2. Fanciful term for a cyberspace expected to emerge from
current networking experiments (see the network). The name of the
rather good 1999 cypherpunk movie "The Matrix" played on this sense,
which however had been established for years before. 3. The totality of
present-day computer networks (popularized in this sense by John
Quarterman; rare outside academic literature).
How about the old "if guns are outlawed the only the outlaws will have guns" ?
If word usage has become so deprecated that a secondary-definition is the one in primary use (as in the case of a word that has "lost its original meaning"), it seems to me that the secondary definition is more accurate in modern language, which a dictionary (unless you're looking at a classical language dictionary) should be describing.
Merriam Webster describes language as "the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a community"
Thus any dictionary that defines a word in a way that is different from how a majority of people understand that word is inaccurate (outdated).
But, etymologies from Merriam-Webster:
Main Entry: 2autarchy
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -chies
Etymology: Greek autarchia, from aut- + -archia -archy
Date: 1665
: absolute sovereignty : AUTOCRACY
Main Entry: 1auÂtarÂchy
Pronunciation: 'o-"tÃr-kE
Function: noun
Etymology: by alteration
Date: 1617
: AUTARKY
Is it?
autarchy
n 1: economic independence as a national policy [syn: autarky]
2: a political system governed by a single individual [syn: autocracy]
[ant: democracy]
My WC Cdrom distribution of slackware 3.0 let me switch to another VC and play tetris for terminals back in '95...volkerding is the real innovator here.
Enlightenment comes from within...
I don't get it.
I use my PDA (Sony clie) for everything I can - japanese study, scheduling (classes, work, travel) - it really helps me to prioritize things, games, pictures, contact info, etc. It's hard, well terribly inconvenient anyway, for me to do without it these days.
It was definately a good investment in my case.
I found my house, told my realtor I wanted to see it and bought it the next week. I wouldn't recommend using the MLS website alone (tried that for a week - I couldn't get an address of any houses without a realtor involved), but the combination of the two can't be beat.
I suppose it's also nifty if you grew up across the street from your realtor.
Seems to me that the thousands of UFO-nuts who are wrapping tinfoil around their heads constitute prior art.
> Linux users choose to use Linux rather than an easier-to-use system like Windows. They have clearly already indicated that
> they are the sort of person who doesn't mind doing something the hard way.
In all my years using windows and all my years using Unix/GNU systems, I have found that it is rare that windows is easier, overall, to use.
Maybe it's just me. I can't remember what I had for breakfast except for the empty ramen wrapping on the counter...let alone a war that happened nearly half a century before I was born.
Nazi sympathizers? Collecting memorobilia hardly signifies sympathy. There's an old saying (may not be old, but it's a saying) that goes "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." Personally, I don't see anything wrong with reminding oneself, or others, of what many consider to be a terrible piece of history. It allows folk to remember that it /is/ history. It makes one wonder where it all ends, is my school textbook with the image of Adolf Hitler in it going to be french contraband? "Of course not, it's educational," they'll say. But isn't everything, especially things with historical significance (e.g.: an SS banner) educational in some way? In my opinion, it is. And has far too much value to be censored by an oppressive government (pardon my redundance).
Au contrair. According to a previous /. article at http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/20/1657238.shtm l, France was also going after yahoo's .com and other TLD auctions because French people might possibly gain access to them. Wouldn't it be a more intelligent idea to, you know, complain to the french citezens who can't obey their own laws, rather than getting on an outside business' case about it. This is like the US government, during prohibition times, complaining to the canadian government for allowing its citezenry to make the booze that US citezens might possibly try bootlegging.
> Humans are animals, and thus natural, just like > everyone else.
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." -- Agent Smith
> might be worth your consideration if he wrote it > himself.
Who cares if he wrote it himself? You're not voting for a president, you're voting for the president, all his appointed officials, advisors, etc. It is very apparent that some of his advisors, at least, know what to do.
In light of this bull, I'll be taking my cuecat shooting with me this weekend...who needs targets when you have a perfectly good piece of hardware made useless to ideallistic blokes such as myself by the socially irresponsible behaviour of its manufacturer, eh?
The "we need to be better than that" attitude would be more useful directed back at ourselves. We need to be better than what /we/ are. The others do not matter. (interpreted: it's better to be better than good than better than bad.)
I got one of these suckers for my dad (all he does is check stocks quotes) in trade for his p75 box.
It's nifty, after setting it up for him I thought about getting one for myself - put it in my living room or something and have it for guests.
My apologies - I was so caught up in the fact that I got the first post that I neglected to mention that it was the first post.
What's the use in having a "Read more..." option?
You'll note that the dungeons themselves weren't exactly randomly generated. They were randomly picked from a pool of static layouts, the monster locations/types/strengths/quantaties were the most random thing in the dungeons and even they were somewhat predictable (once one saw one monster, one could guess what others were in there with it)