Err, isn't the decision on who can use her name or not up to Lindsey Vonn herself? Or do participants in the Olympic games sign a paper in which they transfer their rights and assets and their children to the Olympic comittee?
Doesn't it make perfect sense to make consumers pay for what other people steal, or are supposed to have stolen? In Holland, you pay a premium on blank cd's, which goes to the music industry because people use cd's to make illegal copies of music. Even a software company that ships their software on cd's, pays for other people copying music illegally. Also in Holland, companies pay a tax on photocopies for other people's illegal photocopies. The taxes and premium don't give you the right to make your own illegal copies, of course. I've been in the situation that my startup company didn't even have a copier, but we still had to pay the illegal copying tax. A friend of mine suggested introducing a "stolen bicycle tax". In Amsterdam, on average a bike is stolen every two years or so, so we should have a tax on new bikes to pay for the stolen bikes.
These examples are symptoms of a seriously broken copyright system.
I don't see that it says "technology is bad". It says "destroying nature is bad" and "the military is bad". The Na'vi have developed a very high grade bio techology that in the end makes them more powerful than an earthling colonel who went berserk, so technology is good.
The video and the effects are great, the idea of having humans using remote control bodies - beit robots or bio robots - is very interesting and powerful. But the story is really really bad. It's more sentimental than the Lion King and Pokahontas put together. Of course, the makers didn't take themselfves all to serious: the stuff that it's all about is called "Unobtainium".
Does this mean that IT people are generally incompetent? Or is it just the IT managers who are incompetent? Or, just maybe, it's all IT people who don't read/. who are. Hmm..
I bought a cheap printer 18 months ago. During those 18 months, I printed 20 pages at most, only letters I had to send to organizations that you can't send email to. The ink in the printer, no matter how little they put in, will probably dry out before it runs out. Compared to those of you who buy new cartrigdes every one or two months, how many trees have I saved?
Is the average manager able to understand the type of information a systems administrator is able to provide? Or, put otherwise, is a systems administrator able to provide the information that a manager can understand? I think we have an issue here.
The actual problem is that they don't know how to delete calls that they shouldn't have recorded in the first place: conversations between lawyers and their clients. Why am I not surprised? Someone told me a couple of years ago that Dutch police staff is not allowed to be present when staff of the Israeli vendor of the equipment is performing maintenance. I'm sure Moss^H^H^H^H Verint has put in components that send the calls to more recipients than it should.
Doesn't e-coli live in sewers? So if we use sewer content to cool nuclear reactors, e-coli kills the nuclear waste and the reactor kills e-coli: two birds with one stone....
A person is legally dead when their heart stops beating. This is based on the ancient notion that your soul is in your heart. The law should be changed, in that only brain function determines if a person is dead. This means that people aren't kept in coma for 17 years while their brain is dead and there's no chance whatsoever that they will resume consciousness.
But with this research, people can be kept "alive" because their dead brain still responds to images. This provides whole new opportunities for religious loonies for keeping dead bodies from being declared dead.
I ditched my last windows computer when I found that Vista wouldn't let me name directories on my computer the way I liked. I couldn't create a My Documents dir as MS had tought us to do for decades. They went as far as not allowing a system admin to remove the My Documents block. When I finally found out how to do it, I got a windows update that blocked that too. So I was stuck with a computer that I bought, with my own money, and I couldn't use it the way I wanted to.
The universe is less than 10 billion years old - depending of course on your personal preferences in cosmology - so half to one billion years to go in my book is not "nearly over". Also, humanity is only, what, 100k years old? What is 100k years compared to 1G years to go?
A whole other issue is that humanity will prove perfectly capable of exterminating all life on Earth well before the Sun will offer to assist in that.
Reading a book about marriage when you plan to get married sounds like a real geek action. I'm surprised that these books are targeted to non-geeks. Don't read a book, just do it. And remember, a marriage only works for you if it works for the other person.
How can mixing salt water and fresh water be "renewable"? You can't unmix it without putting in more energy than you got out of it when you mixed it. I take it that they will use this energy for plants that create fresh water from salt water using lots of energy?
Yeah, right. As if a prediction is only correct if it doesn't miss a single detail. I have always seen Neuromancer as the perfect prediction of the future of technology. Even now, there's things in the book that haven't come true yet, but will eventually, if not shorltly. VR is one of them - think of html5 on a VR headset - and computers that talk intelligently is another.
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The pilot of the thing is Commander Green. Isn't he supposed to be in an old computer game?
Err, isn't the decision on who can use her name or not up to Lindsey Vonn herself? Or do participants in the Olympic games sign a paper in which they transfer their rights and assets and their children to the Olympic comittee?
I see a joint venture here, between Starbucks and Pizza Hut. It must be awesome to make like $250 on a single pizza, and $100 on a latte.
Doesn't it make perfect sense to make consumers pay for what other people steal, or are supposed to have stolen? In Holland, you pay a premium on blank cd's, which goes to the music industry because people use cd's to make illegal copies of music. Even a software company that ships their software on cd's, pays for other people copying music illegally. Also in Holland, companies pay a tax on photocopies for other people's illegal photocopies. The taxes and premium don't give you the right to make your own illegal copies, of course. I've been in the situation that my startup company didn't even have a copier, but we still had to pay the illegal copying tax. A friend of mine suggested introducing a "stolen bicycle tax". In Amsterdam, on average a bike is stolen every two years or so, so we should have a tax on new bikes to pay for the stolen bikes.
These examples are symptoms of a seriously broken copyright system.
I don't see that it says "technology is bad". It says "destroying nature is bad" and "the military is bad". The Na'vi have developed a very high grade bio techology that in the end makes them more powerful than an earthling colonel who went berserk, so technology is good.
The video and the effects are great, the idea of having humans using remote control bodies - beit robots or bio robots - is very interesting and powerful. But the story is really really bad. It's more sentimental than the Lion King and Pokahontas put together. Of course, the makers didn't take themselfves all to serious: the stuff that it's all about is called "Unobtainium".
The magic being that "the way it's supposed to work" is defined by - and only known to - other people than the ones who make the software.
Does this mean that IT people are generally incompetent? Or is it just the IT managers who are incompetent? Or, just maybe, it's all IT people who don't read /. who are. Hmm..
I bought a cheap printer 18 months ago. During those 18 months, I printed 20 pages at most, only letters I had to send to organizations that you can't send email to. The ink in the printer, no matter how little they put in, will probably dry out before it runs out. Compared to those of you who buy new cartrigdes every one or two months, how many trees have I saved?
Just don't print. Save trees.
One jet or another, who cares....
Apparently, the insurance company people are masochists. They want the woman to stay home and get even more depressed, so they can pay her more money.
Is the average manager able to understand the type of information a systems administrator is able to provide? Or, put otherwise, is a systems administrator able to provide the information that a manager can understand? I think we have an issue here.
Liberarians tend to focus on "my freedom" more than on "your freedom".
The actual problem is that they don't know how to delete calls that they shouldn't have recorded in the first place: conversations between lawyers and their clients. Why am I not surprised? Someone told me a couple of years ago that Dutch police staff is not allowed to be present when staff of the Israeli vendor of the equipment is performing maintenance. I'm sure Moss^H^H^H^H Verint has put in components that send the calls to more recipients than it should.
Doesn't e-coli live in sewers? So if we use sewer content to cool nuclear reactors, e-coli kills the nuclear waste and the reactor kills e-coli: two birds with one stone....
On average, Linux users are smarter than Windows users. You don't want to say you use Linux?
A person is legally dead when their heart stops beating. This is based on the ancient notion that your soul is in your heart. The law should be changed, in that only brain function determines if a person is dead. This means that people aren't kept in coma for 17 years while their brain is dead and there's no chance whatsoever that they will resume consciousness.
But with this research, people can be kept "alive" because their dead brain still responds to images. This provides whole new opportunities for religious loonies for keeping dead bodies from being declared dead.
Can I bring my WII?
I ditched my last windows computer when I found that Vista wouldn't let me name directories on my computer the way I liked. I couldn't create a My Documents dir as MS had tought us to do for decades. They went as far as not allowing a system admin to remove the My Documents block. When I finally found out how to do it, I got a windows update that blocked that too. So I was stuck with a computer that I bought, with my own money, and I couldn't use it the way I wanted to.
Ubuntu was a lot faster on that computer, too.
yes, anyone having an X chromosome should not be allowed to participate in games.
People who can't explain to their kids why the sky is blue or what makes a rainbow shouldn't be allowed to have children.
The universe is less than 10 billion years old - depending of course on your personal preferences in cosmology - so half to one billion years to go in my book is not "nearly over". Also, humanity is only, what, 100k years old? What is 100k years compared to 1G years to go?
A whole other issue is that humanity will prove perfectly capable of exterminating all life on Earth well before the Sun will offer to assist in that.
Reading a book about marriage when you plan to get married sounds like a real geek action. I'm surprised that these books are targeted to non-geeks. Don't read a book, just do it. And remember, a marriage only works for you if it works for the other person.
How can mixing salt water and fresh water be "renewable"? You can't unmix it without putting in more energy than you got out of it when you mixed it. I take it that they will use this energy for plants that create fresh water from salt water using lots of energy?
OK, I have lightened up :-)
Didn't want to offend you. I do like Neuromancer a lot, more than "Spook Country", which is kind of ok.
Yeah, right. As if a prediction is only correct if it doesn't miss a single detail. I have always seen Neuromancer as the perfect prediction of the future of technology. Even now, there's things in the book that haven't come true yet, but will eventually, if not shorltly. VR is one of them - think of html5 on a VR headset - and computers that talk intelligently is another.