Just FYI, I am trying to write my Masters Thesis from home and so I was trying to look up several research papers that I could use as part of my thesis work. Because I'm not at the school on one of the school's computers or VPN'd into their network, I don't have "free" access to these journals. So I decided to see how much an article would cost to get a copy, thinking they would be around $5-$10 each, but hoping for like a dollar or two(like the cost of a digital manga issue). Much to my surprise, EACH article was $30+. Not each issue of a journal, but each article in the journal would cost me $30. Now you include 20-30 of such articles in a journal, and you can see that the prices are approaching $600-$1,000 per issue.
The other big UI problem is that the apps don't say WHY they need these privileges.
This is the biggest problem I have with the way the permissions are done. I can never tell why various apps require the different permission sets. I want to know why that game I installed needs my address book or the ability to make phone calls. What is it going to do? Call my friends & tell them I just passed the 2nd level?
Correct. The 1st link she has to decrypt it because the trial judge ordered her to do so, and the appellate judge ruled against her because she hadn't actually been convicted of anything. Which I agree with. I'm sure in light of the 2nd link, she might win the appeal though, which is what I think should have happened in the 1st place.
Someone mod this guy up. This was my understanding after RTFA. Gleick got some stuff about Heartland anonymously, then did a quick fact checking and forwarded the whole kit & caboodle off to some journalists. The thing is we still don't know where the original stuff came from.
Oh, I assure you it is not BS. I took a graduate level DBMS class and the book for the class has a chapter on data mining. This was a specific example given as to the uses of data mining. Hell, this guy probably used the exact same algorithms from that book to do it.
Pre-nups are stupid; it's like saying "I love you dear, but I expect we'll get divorced someday".
I've actually heard of pre-nups that are designed to insure the longevity of the marriage. They can be for more than just how to divide assets in the event of the marriage failing. Think of it as the legal way of defining all the 'plans' you had with your then fiance and how you would deal with various problems that might arise. Or how you would resolve conflicts in behavior & habits. You could use it to define petty things like who gets to use the bathroom 1st in the morning or more serious who's salary the mortgage/rent payment comes from.
A comical example would be Dr. Sheldon Coopers Roommate/Girlfriend Agreement from the Big Bang Theory. In them he outlines exactly what he expects from the other party & what they can expect from him as applied to situations that one normally wouldn't have a contract for.
WOW! A bit harsh. How do you know what his mental state was when he killed himself?
And just so you know mental states can change very rapidly. It is possible that there was a lot going on that will never be known. How much of it was Foxconn's fault is what the real concern is. I know personally that high stress environments do not add to one's mental well being. I had a job that had what I would consider unreasonable demands, and if I was faced with the prospect of ruining my life and quitting(like was suggested in TFA) or continuing under those demands, there's a possibility that I wouldn't be making this post. And I consider myself to be perfectly fine mentally. If Liu had similar issues with his job, and was unable to leave, then I can see that it would be very reasonable why he'd kill himself.
Might want to look at more than just the fact that peoples lives are making your i-products cheap.
Why should slashdot follow suit? Every visitor here probably knows what a piece of crap this is, there's no need to educate the readers here. But if they did, I'd support them.
What are you talking about? Are you trying to say SOPA/PIPA are "a needed evil"? Because if so, you are sorely mistaken. This would effectively allow copyright holders to create an internet similar to what actual communist have(ie Great Firewall of China). It would break the backbone of how the internet works. It would inhibit the ability to create dynamic content on the internet by sniffling innovation & discouraging investment(think no YouTube). It is a horrible piece of garbage crafted by greedy idiots who do not care about the freedom that has allowed the internet to become what it is today. Get your head out of your ass & look around instead of following what you are told.
Now if you are saying the blackout is necessary, then I agree.
I sincerely hope that all of the authors either have a stroke, Alzheimer's, or some other disease that impairs mental faculty and the attending doctor doesn't know how to perform this test due to their idiotic copyright enforcement.
Actually there's still FFXI. While the base controls are designed around the console, nothing else is. You remember how painful it is to type in your character's name with an on screen keyboard using a game pad? Well, take that and try doing real time chatting. And yes, it is that painful. If you pick up FFXI on the console, you might as well get another keyboard because you are gonna need it. I watched my buddy play FFXI on his XBox, and I won't repeat his mistake.
What you miss is that to play WoW you have to pay over $100. You complain that for a new game you have to pay $60, but for an old one you pay $100+. FFXI & EQ2 had it right, sell the latest expansion with everything before it for $40 - $60. That way if a new player wants to experience it, they can without having to pay what those who've been playing since the beginning have. I wanted to play WoW when Cataclysm came out, but didn't because I didn't feel like paying 2x what I could for any other video game out there.
Previews that won't let you watch the DVD you just bought until you devote those 3 minutes of your life to watching the trailer of a movie you don't give a fuck about to watch the one you went out and bought?
DVDs/BluRays already do this. I can't tell you the number of times I've started a movie I bought, only to have the previews tagged with the same non-skippable tag that the piracy warning has.
Actually, contracts are a negotiation. I learned that when I signed my latest lease from my roommate who was studying for the Texas Bar exam at the time. He told me it was perfectly legal to cross out parts of the contract I didn't like before I signed it. Then if the other party didn't like the changes I made, they could draw up a new contract for us to sign. And we'd go back & forth until we were both happy with the arrangements.
Now, normally the contract is pre-agreed upon before the parties come together to sign it, especially in the case like this. I don't think most people are aware of this, and so wouldn't know what to do if a lessee decided to start crossing out parts of the lease agreement.
Remember that a contract is supposed to outline the rights and obligations both parties have in the arrangement, not to take away rights from one person or another. In the case of a lease, the lease protects the lessee as much as the lessor.
You obviously haven't been driving across county boundaries much or on something that's not a federal interstate. Between where I live and where the rest of my family lives there are about 10 counties. The roads drastically change at each county line. Sometimes it is just a change in pavement, other times the roads get way worse.
I wonder if there is any way someone could get a business process patent for pissing people off so they sue you. Then just turn around & sue them for patent infringement. This would work especially well once we go to a 1st to file system.
Yes he would. He stopped a company from profiting from his speech. But nowhere has it been said that he turned around & did the same thing? Who can say that if he were alive today that he'd allow it to be viewed for free on a site like YouTube? Or have it up on a site of his own? I might not like the corporate use of IP law, I do recognize that IP law is still useful in protecting the originators of such work from being stolen by others for profit. There are a lot of people who use IP law to keep their ideas available to others without allow those same others from profiting from their work. I do believe that's what is behind the idea of Copyleft & the use of IP law in OSS.
This was a big problem at the last house I lived in. My room had 3 computers in it(desktop, server, & a laptop) and it was the closest to the thermostat. We were always freezing, even when the AC was set at a reasonable level.
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Just FYI, I am trying to write my Masters Thesis from home and so I was trying to look up several research papers that I could use as part of my thesis work. Because I'm not at the school on one of the school's computers or VPN'd into their network, I don't have "free" access to these journals. So I decided to see how much an article would cost to get a copy, thinking they would be around $5-$10 each, but hoping for like a dollar or two(like the cost of a digital manga issue). Much to my surprise, EACH article was $30+. Not each issue of a journal, but each article in the journal would cost me $30. Now you include 20-30 of such articles in a journal, and you can see that the prices are approaching $600-$1,000 per issue.
The other big UI problem is that the apps don't say WHY they need these privileges.
This is the biggest problem I have with the way the permissions are done. I can never tell why various apps require the different permission sets. I want to know why that game I installed needs my address book or the ability to make phone calls. What is it going to do? Call my friends & tell them I just passed the 2nd level?
Correct. The 1st link she has to decrypt it because the trial judge ordered her to do so, and the appellate judge ruled against her because she hadn't actually been convicted of anything. Which I agree with. I'm sure in light of the 2nd link, she might win the appeal though, which is what I think should have happened in the 1st place.
Actually there is even more to it than that.
Someone mod this guy up. This was my understanding after RTFA. Gleick got some stuff about Heartland anonymously, then did a quick fact checking and forwarded the whole kit & caboodle off to some journalists. The thing is we still don't know where the original stuff came from.
Oh, I assure you it is not BS. I took a graduate level DBMS class and the book for the class has a chapter on data mining. This was a specific example given as to the uses of data mining. Hell, this guy probably used the exact same algorithms from that book to do it.
Pre-nups are stupid; it's like saying "I love you dear, but I expect we'll get divorced someday".
I've actually heard of pre-nups that are designed to insure the longevity of the marriage. They can be for more than just how to divide assets in the event of the marriage failing. Think of it as the legal way of defining all the 'plans' you had with your then fiance and how you would deal with various problems that might arise. Or how you would resolve conflicts in behavior & habits. You could use it to define petty things like who gets to use the bathroom 1st in the morning or more serious who's salary the mortgage/rent payment comes from.
A comical example would be Dr. Sheldon Coopers Roommate/Girlfriend Agreement from the Big Bang Theory. In them he outlines exactly what he expects from the other party & what they can expect from him as applied to situations that one normally wouldn't have a contract for.
WOW! A bit harsh. How do you know what his mental state was when he killed himself?
And just so you know mental states can change very rapidly. It is possible that there was a lot going on that will never be known. How much of it was Foxconn's fault is what the real concern is. I know personally that high stress environments do not add to one's mental well being. I had a job that had what I would consider unreasonable demands, and if I was faced with the prospect of ruining my life and quitting(like was suggested in TFA) or continuing under those demands, there's a possibility that I wouldn't be making this post. And I consider myself to be perfectly fine mentally. If Liu had similar issues with his job, and was unable to leave, then I can see that it would be very reasonable why he'd kill himself.
Might want to look at more than just the fact that peoples lives are making your i-products cheap.
Why should slashdot follow suit? Every visitor here probably knows what a piece of crap this is, there's no need to educate the readers here. But if they did, I'd support them.
What are you talking about? Are you trying to say SOPA/PIPA are "a needed evil"? Because if so, you are sorely mistaken. This would effectively allow copyright holders to create an internet similar to what actual communist have(ie Great Firewall of China). It would break the backbone of how the internet works. It would inhibit the ability to create dynamic content on the internet by sniffling innovation & discouraging investment(think no YouTube). It is a horrible piece of garbage crafted by greedy idiots who do not care about the freedom that has allowed the internet to become what it is today. Get your head out of your ass & look around instead of following what you are told. Now if you are saying the blackout is necessary, then I agree.
Hopefully other major supporters(Google, Facebook, etc) will follow suit and get the word out how bad this piece of garbage is.
I sincerely hope that all of the authors either have a stroke, Alzheimer's, or some other disease that impairs mental faculty and the attending doctor doesn't know how to perform this test due to their idiotic copyright enforcement.
Actually there's still FFXI. While the base controls are designed around the console, nothing else is. You remember how painful it is to type in your character's name with an on screen keyboard using a game pad? Well, take that and try doing real time chatting. And yes, it is that painful. If you pick up FFXI on the console, you might as well get another keyboard because you are gonna need it. I watched my buddy play FFXI on his XBox, and I won't repeat his mistake.
What you miss is that to play WoW you have to pay over $100. You complain that for a new game you have to pay $60, but for an old one you pay $100+. FFXI & EQ2 had it right, sell the latest expansion with everything before it for $40 - $60. That way if a new player wants to experience it, they can without having to pay what those who've been playing since the beginning have. I wanted to play WoW when Cataclysm came out, but didn't because I didn't feel like paying 2x what I could for any other video game out there.
So, wait. We don't have diplomatic relations with Iran, but they can still file patents with us? Wow, now I know the patent system is messed up.
Previews that won't let you watch the DVD you just bought until you devote those 3 minutes of your life to watching the trailer of a movie you don't give a fuck about to watch the one you went out and bought?
DVDs/BluRays already do this. I can't tell you the number of times I've started a movie I bought, only to have the previews tagged with the same non-skippable tag that the piracy warning has.
Actually, contracts are a negotiation. I learned that when I signed my latest lease from my roommate who was studying for the Texas Bar exam at the time. He told me it was perfectly legal to cross out parts of the contract I didn't like before I signed it. Then if the other party didn't like the changes I made, they could draw up a new contract for us to sign. And we'd go back & forth until we were both happy with the arrangements.
Now, normally the contract is pre-agreed upon before the parties come together to sign it, especially in the case like this. I don't think most people are aware of this, and so wouldn't know what to do if a lessee decided to start crossing out parts of the lease agreement.
Remember that a contract is supposed to outline the rights and obligations both parties have in the arrangement, not to take away rights from one person or another. In the case of a lease, the lease protects the lessee as much as the lessor.
You obviously haven't been driving across county boundaries much or on something that's not a federal interstate. Between where I live and where the rest of my family lives there are about 10 counties. The roads drastically change at each county line. Sometimes it is just a change in pavement, other times the roads get way worse.
Fine, so why does Texas have to pay for it? If they want geological surveys done, there IS enough corporate interest in Texas to do them.
I wonder if there is any way someone could get a business process patent for pissing people off so they sue you. Then just turn around & sue them for patent infringement. This would work especially well once we go to a 1st to file system.
Or Palms running WinMobile 6.5. But I guess the effect is just about the same.
Yes he would. He stopped a company from profiting from his speech. But nowhere has it been said that he turned around & did the same thing? Who can say that if he were alive today that he'd allow it to be viewed for free on a site like YouTube? Or have it up on a site of his own?
I might not like the corporate use of IP law, I do recognize that IP law is still useful in protecting the originators of such work from being stolen by others for profit. There are a lot of people who use IP law to keep their ideas available to others without allow those same others from profiting from their work. I do believe that's what is behind the idea of Copyleft & the use of IP law in OSS.
Well, unless the ISS crew is eating Soylent Green, none of it was. TFA states that the module was unmanned.
Well, now we know why we can never a package on time from anybody. It is because Google Patented the ETA system for package delivery.
This was a big problem at the last house I lived in. My room had 3 computers in it(desktop, server, & a laptop) and it was the closest to the thermostat. We were always freezing, even when the AC was set at a reasonable level.