Google are making entire copies of books for their own use and profit. That's illegal (at least in the UK where there's a limit on the percentage of a work you can copy for personal use) and immoral.
The idea that a company can just stand up and say "We're going to break the law as we feel like it and authors that object must write to us and say so. If we don't hear from you we'll assume we have permission to steal your work. Thanks." is insane.
What the hell is wrong with people that they think it's okay for big companies to re-write the law to fit their business model?
There's absolutely no reason to think Roche's drug will be of any use once the virus has mutated, and in fact it's pretty well bugger all use even now - it only helps recover from the flu faster, it does not have any real effect on mortality rates and is not a vaccine. Until the flu mutates there's little can be done to prepare for it, really.
It's strange how we don't hear stories everyday about scientists worrying about what would happen if normal human flu mutated to have a 90% mortality rate, but is it any more or less likely?
Of course, since Bayer also invented Heroin (which they're rather less enthusiastic about mentioning in their ads), you could argue that they have a very substantial presence in terms of US market share!
Name one major software company (MS included) that doesn't heavily use xml
Wait till the damage is done to the small fry; buy the patent (or just the whole company), go to bed safe in the knowledge that the monopoly has been protected for another while.
Part of our proposal was to put in a system where if a shipment of firearms was sent from Melbourne to Sydney the Sydney office would actually know that one was going to arrive.
What's the point? I don't want the post office phoning me to say there's a postman going to be around later. What a waste of time. The sender knows everything important about the delivery, and in this case is actually doing the delivery, so what the hell is the recieving office supposed to do with the information?
Personally, all I can think of when I read that quote is the Gods come back and say, "You FAIL!!!" LOL!!!
Well, what I didn't mention is that the Mayans thought that this was the fifth attempt - each time the Gods made people from different things (the elements and then flesh and bone, I think) and the first four times said exactly that and scrapped it all to start again. So the outlook isn't good, but it's nice that they thought there was SOME chance of getting it right!
but it was supposed to end sometime around 2005 or 2006 I believe
2014, I think. There was a difference in opinion between lowland Mayans and highland Mayans but it was only a matter of a year.
Also, they didn't think it was the end of the world; they thought the Gods would return and judge our progress. If they didn't like what they saw, THEN it would be the end of the world. So, obviously, we're okay...er...where's the exit again?
Also, even works such as Encyclopedia Britannica has inaccuracies...
And when it does, and it fixes them, it is a pretty safe bet that they won't reappear the next day, which is often the case in Wiki.
Having had ago at contributing to Wikipedia I've come to the conclusion that it's a waste of my time and that any information in it should be treated as an informed guess at best and at worse as a deliberate attempt to deceive.
i really don't see the point of "announcing" something now, that could have easily waited till the end of the year.
Well, everyone will be drunk on New Year.
but where do all these predictions about local and global climate come from?
Largely from computer models, but also from the simple fact that weather is driven by heat differences and the world is non-uniform, so the more heat in the system, the more extreme the weather.
isn't "global warming" supposed to cause extreme temperatures in BOTH directions
Only at a local level, these figures are global.
so how can anyone predict the weather for the next 2 1/2 months based on historical records and in face of supposedly dramatic climate changes...
The figures are global and also average, so it is possible to calculate ahead how cold things would have to get to reduce the "total" temperature and say whether or not that is likely. If the world record for an average score at some game was, say 9.5 over a 10 game season, and after 8 games a player had scored a total of 90 points, you'd feel pretty confident in saying that a record was coming, regardless of the fact that the last two games haven't been played.
if they started doing some real audiophile stuff with computer sound?
It would only be neat for audiophiles, ie that group of people who suffer from the inability to listen to music without reference to the price of the equipment it is played on. "Delusional" used to be the term.
I just bought an "analog" tube driven amp with no DSP which cost five times that and sounds infinately better.
Yeah, right. It may sound different when you listen to it at five am in the dark with every source of noise in a three mile radius covered in acoustic foam. Meanwhile, in the real world, the recording equipment and compression techniques used at the studio put an upper bound on the reproduction quality that swamps anything you can do with the resulting CD/album.
You are ready to toss out the Dark Matter model on the basis of one pre-print article because you don't like it. I don't consider that particularly scientific.
The fact that it is a blatantly stupid idea is a factor, too.
Where is dark matter? How is it created? Why is it not created in the lab? What are its characteristics, other than the ability to appear when it's needed and not appear when it's not?
It helps explain present observations, and makes unique predictions that can be tested.
And which it often fails, such as the problems earlier in the year with star clusters.
This type of philosophical debate is exactly what the creation propagandists want
Who gives a damn what those morons want? We should't conduct science on the basis of who will or won't like the result. I know we often do, but we shouldn't.
Will the record companies tell dentists they need to pony up a portion of their patient fees because patients hear music in the waiting room?
Actually, they already do that. I suppose it's not a "portion" in the sense of a fixed percentage, it's just a flat charge per year.
I used to have a games shop and I had to pay it because I had a CD player going behind the counter to pass the long hours waiting for the local schools to get out, when the guy from the BPI (the UK wing of the RIAA) came in one day.
Use whichever selection tool is best for what shape you want and then select "Stroke Selection" from the Edit menu. This allows you to draw even complex shapes using the brush, or other tool of your choice.
It is a very badly advertised feature of the Gimp!
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The UN couldn't find its arse with both hands, a guide-dog and a fucking map, let alone enforce a world-wide tax, so wise up, you twat.
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The idea that a company can just stand up and say "We're going to break the law as we feel like it and authors that object must write to us and say so. If we don't hear from you we'll assume we have permission to steal your work. Thanks." is insane.
What the hell is wrong with people that they think it's okay for big companies to re-write the law to fit their business model?
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Ya you are right they have never tried to setup a tax organization *roll eyes*
The loonies have got a website!
The idea of the UN being organised enough to be able to collect their OWN membership dues is amusing - raising worldwide taxes is hilarious.
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Spot the loonie.
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Get a humour implant, mate.
It's strange how we don't hear stories everyday about scientists worrying about what would happen if normal human flu mutated to have a 90% mortality rate, but is it any more or less likely?
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He only uses one orifice for these little speeches, and it ain't his mouth.
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Wait till the damage is done to the small fry; buy the patent (or just the whole company), go to bed safe in the knowledge that the monopoly has been protected for another while.
But, actually, no. You're probably right.
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would bankroll something which is a direct attack on OpenOffice....hmmm?
What's the point? I don't want the post office phoning me to say there's a postman going to be around later. What a waste of time. The sender knows everything important about the delivery, and in this case is actually doing the delivery, so what the hell is the recieving office supposed to do with the information?
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Well, what I didn't mention is that the Mayans thought that this was the fifth attempt - each time the Gods made people from different things (the elements and then flesh and bone, I think) and the first four times said exactly that and scrapped it all to start again. So the outlook isn't good, but it's nice that they thought there was SOME chance of getting it right!
Ah, people, eh?
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2014, I think. There was a difference in opinion between lowland Mayans and highland Mayans but it was only a matter of a year.
Also, they didn't think it was the end of the world; they thought the Gods would return and judge our progress. If they didn't like what they saw, THEN it would be the end of the world. So, obviously, we're okay...er...where's the exit again?
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And when it does, and it fixes them, it is a pretty safe bet that they won't reappear the next day, which is often the case in Wiki.
Having had ago at contributing to Wikipedia I've come to the conclusion that it's a waste of my time and that any information in it should be treated as an informed guess at best and at worse as a deliberate attempt to deceive.
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Well, everyone will be drunk on New Year.
but where do all these predictions about local and global climate come from?
Largely from computer models, but also from the simple fact that weather is driven by heat differences and the world is non-uniform, so the more heat in the system, the more extreme the weather.
TWW
Only at a local level, these figures are global.
so how can anyone predict the weather for the next 2 1/2 months based on historical records and in face of supposedly dramatic climate changes...
The figures are global and also average, so it is possible to calculate ahead how cold things would have to get to reduce the "total" temperature and say whether or not that is likely. If the world record for an average score at some game was, say 9.5 over a 10 game season, and after 8 games a player had scored a total of 90 points, you'd feel pretty confident in saying that a record was coming, regardless of the fact that the last two games haven't been played.
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Score one big one for Gaim! That's more than a "don't need", that's a "don't want".
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It would only be neat for audiophiles, ie that group of people who suffer from the inability to listen to music without reference to the price of the equipment it is played on. "Delusional" used to be the term.
I just bought an "analog" tube driven amp with no DSP which cost five times that and sounds infinately better.
Yeah, right. It may sound different when you listen to it at five am in the dark with every source of noise in a three mile radius covered in acoustic foam. Meanwhile, in the real world, the recording equipment and compression techniques used at the studio put an upper bound on the reproduction quality that swamps anything you can do with the resulting CD/album.
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Well, they certainly were the wrong trousers, in that case – they were ankle-length!
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The fact that it is a blatantly stupid idea is a factor, too.
Where is dark matter? How is it created? Why is it not created in the lab? What are its characteristics, other than the ability to appear when it's needed and not appear when it's not?
It helps explain present observations, and makes unique predictions that can be tested.
And which it often fails, such as the problems earlier in the year with star clusters.
This type of philosophical debate is exactly what the creation propagandists want
Who gives a damn what those morons want? We should't conduct science on the basis of who will or won't like the result. I know we often do, but we shouldn't.
Dark matter is, and always has been, baloney.
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Actually, they already do that. I suppose it's not a "portion" in the sense of a fixed percentage, it's just a flat charge per year.
I used to have a games shop and I had to pay it because I had a CD player going behind the counter to pass the long hours waiting for the local schools to get out, when the guy from the BPI (the UK wing of the RIAA) came in one day.
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It is a very badly advertised feature of the Gimp!
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I think you underestimate how slow the Lisa was, the GUI was of no importance when waiting for it to do anything was an exercise in frustration.
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