Education, like medical care or any other service, is not a right.
Incorrect. In Germany, as in the Unites States of America, education is a legal right, if I understand. However, the way this right is protected in these two countries differs.
That said, you may not like the fact that these (and other) countries have made basic education a legal right, so perhaps what you mean to say is that "education shouldn't be a legal right".
I highly doubt Hulu or anyone else will ever support H264. By the time they start to move away from Flash, there will be something else on the horizon.
You can watch YouTube videos on a Palm Pre because YouTube videos are also encoded in h.264 (the Pre doesn't yet have an Adobe Flash player).
Evidence weakens that Joe Stewart's analysis shows that the CRC algorithm used in the attack was developed by Chinese programmers.
As other folks have pointed out, this is NOT the basis of Google's or others' assessments that the attacks originated from within mainland China, and in no way does it weaken the evidence regarding the origin of the attack.
And the sad thing is that if Costa Rica tells us to go fsck ourselves, while it will hurt Costa Rica's economy, all it will do here is help sell even more High Fructose Corn Syrup and help the corn lobby here.
Sounds as if the price of selling sugar in the US is:
Don't violate US patents
Don't violate US copyrights
Don't violate US trademarks
This is "bullying"? Seriously?
(I assume by "Costa Rica is a victim of international antitrust" you mean "Costa Rica is a victim of illegal monopolistic practices by a foreign government")
You agree to pay Google an equipment subsidy recovery fee (the "Equipment Recovery Fee") equal to the difference between the full price of the Nexus handheld device without service plan and the price you paid for the Nexus handheld device if you cancel your wireless plan prior to 120 days of continuous wireless service. For example, if the full price of the Nexus handheld device without service plan was $529 USD and the price you paid for the Nexus handheld device was $179 USD with a service plan, the Equipment Recovery Fee you pay will be $350 USD in the event you cancel within the first 120 days of carrier service. The Equipment Recovery Fee is equal to the line item in your confirmation email setting forth the discount on the full priced Nexus handheld device related to your carrier service plan activiation. You authorize Google to charge the Equipment Recovery Fee directly to your credit card, or other payment method used to purchase the Nexus handheld device, upon cancellation of your wireless plan. You will not be charged the Equipment Recovery Fee if you return your Nexus handheld device to Google within the 14 day Return Policy period as set forth below.
I want to see what I'm working on and not have to deal with... my hand and wrist covering up my work.
A problem that utterly destroyed the work of amateurs like DaVinci, Michaelangelo, and Raphael, right?
DaVinci and the others were not using computers, and didn't have the option of working without covering their art. Furthermore, being unable to see 1/20 of a large canvas or 1/1000 of a wall is a lot less relatively annoying than covering 1/4 of your display area with your hands.
A Wacom is at least 2400 point per inch. A tablet using a finger cannot have that precision.
Well, yes, it can, and more -- by zooming in. And also by utilizing technologies such as bezier and spline curves. Methinks thou protests a bit too much. Also, even if you are stuck with the type of drawing you describe, it doesn't mean that others will be.
What? This comment implies that you have detailed knowledge of what they GP was doing, and what he didn't do, which seems extremely unlikely.
Furthermore, a skilled artist won't have to rely on the same crutches as someone extremely unskilled. For example, I would use a LOT of zoom and computational curve tools, because I'm too uncoordinated to draw nice, clean lines without that kind of help. Sure, I can draw a pretty good picture using all the technical cheats, but it would take me a month to make something that a skilled artist could create in an hour. You can bet DaVinci and the rest didn't use "zoom" and "bezier and spline curves" to paint a portrait.
I feel I should add some trollish comment here, but I'm not going to. But I surely thought about it.
The article was light on significant details. It looks as if these images are used effectively as trademarks in Mexico, used for purposes of tourism, or some such thing. This is obviously not a copyright issue.
Amen. If I ever find myself unable to afford food, I, too, will finally be so hungry I could eat at Arby's, but in my destitute state, I will also be ironically deprived of the ability to do so.
95% of interactions between a child and an adult are positive.
Give me a break. This is a completely made-up statistic, supported by no measured data about type or frequency of interaction from any study by anyone. You even say as much later in your post.
Look at our history... children didn't grow up in segregated 'child only' areas... they grew up working with their parents and community members. They were exposed to life.
Whose history? Crap or not, segregation of children from adults outside our families (at least in the US) is not even remotely new. The segregated "child only" areas most of my peers grew up in were called "schools". Most of those of earlier generations who didn't have schools available grew up in living and working with their families, where the need to segregate children from adults wasn't (and isn't) seen to be as essential.
Did you perhaps mean to include a part where he said: "substantially changing the content of the atmosphere has no predictable effects, and here is why...."
I think they're saying it's one of the least fanciful explanations. A bizarre use of the word parsimonious though; looks as if it was used by someone who wasn't at all familiar with it's common use. (Yeah, I know, it's not really commonly used, but generally it is used to mean stingy, cheap, frugal, thrifty, extremely unwilling/unlikely to spend money.)
This is what happens when someone breaks out their favorite five-dollar word so they don't have to say "likely" or "realistic".
Of course, I may be over-analyzing; there's always the possiblity that timothy had no freakin' idea what parsimonious meant.
PETA would be all over that, I am sure. As long as the "meat eaters" are processed first.
From a health perspective, it would be better to eat vegetarians. Economically, vegetarians also have the benefit of being cheaper to produce, and their environmental cost is lower. I believe PETA's web site can provide helpful information supporting those points.
It's not PETA or some vegetarian group that would cause the dominance of faux meat, it's simple quality and economy. If faux meat tastes good and is cheaper to produce, THEN it's time to say goodbye to real meat. If not, your exemplary diet and admirable lust for the blood of animals have nothing to fear from this development.
Now, I'm going to go home and apply heat, butter, and spices to part of the delicious carcass of a recently deceased animal, which I will then consume without regard to it's ethical implications or environmental consequences. Mmmmm. Maybe I'll complement it with a nice, leafy salad.
while also depriving states and localities of hundreds of millions of dollars of legally due revenue each year
Paying sales-tax is the buyer's responsibility. The seller is merely charged with helping the State collect. I find it worryingly hypocritical of kdawson — and people like him — to accuse retailers like Amazon of "depriving" States of sales taxes, while defending pirate bays and napsters against charges of piracy, in which the end-users engage.
Maybe, this is because Amazon's stand harms the Government, while the napsters harm private enterprise?
Dude... far as I can tell, this summary was written by someone named "theodp", and the person describing Amazon as "depriving" states of money is named "Mazerov".
That said, it seems to me the problem is there are too many hands trying to collect sales taxes. Is there any reason anyone other than the state government should be allowed to collect sales tax? Local governments can levy other kinds of taxes, but it sounds as if the idea that every level of government can collect taxes for exactly the same thing is basically obsolete.
How's this for a modest proposal: Only a state government has the power to levy sales tax.
And since every modest proposal needs a crazy part: For purchases that are shipped, taxes are levied based on the location to which the goods are shipped.
Are there examples (other than sensitive legal/classified documents) of publicly produced, publicly owned material that is publicly available where the information (not necessarily literal copies) contained therein is not freely distributable under copyright law?
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Education, like medical care or any other service, is not a right.
Incorrect. In Germany, as in the Unites States of America, education is a legal right, if I understand. However, the way this right is protected in these two countries differs.
That said, you may not like the fact that these (and other) countries have made basic education a legal right, so perhaps what you mean to say is that "education shouldn't be a legal right".
I highly doubt Hulu or anyone else will ever support H264. By the time they start to move away from Flash, there will be something else on the horizon.
You can watch YouTube videos on a Palm Pre because YouTube videos are also encoded in h.264 (the Pre doesn't yet have an Adobe Flash player).
Evidence weakens that Joe Stewart's analysis shows that the CRC algorithm used in the attack was developed by Chinese programmers.
As other folks have pointed out, this is NOT the basis of Google's or others' assessments that the attacks originated from within mainland China, and in no way does it weaken the evidence regarding the origin of the attack.
And the sad thing is that if Costa Rica tells us to go fsck ourselves, while it will hurt Costa Rica's economy, all it will do here is help sell even more High Fructose Corn Syrup and help the corn lobby here.
Hmmm.... I think it means the US sugar producers will benefit. The US is one of the top 10 producers of sugar cane.
No, "Free Trade" means whatever the treaty establishing it says it means. Here's some information about CAFTA.
Sounds as if the price of selling sugar in the US is:
This is "bullying"? Seriously?
(I assume by "Costa Rica is a victim of international antitrust" you mean "Costa Rica is a victim of illegal monopolistic practices by a foreign government")
And with light wear and just a little luck, those 5 pairs of Wal-mart jeans will last almost as long as the $90 pair of hemp jeans. :-)
Okay, really, I have no idea, but Wal-mart clothing is notorious for its... erm... "quality".
Perhaps retail and marketing solely based on Christmas would be more effective than targeting a "holiday season" that includes the Thanksgiving, the New Year's Day, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa (not to be confused with The currency of Angola) Festivus and any other year-end holidays.
Yup, sounds like a stroke of genius.
As Ars poster captriker notes: the Google fee is only levied if you do not return the device to them in the subscribed time.
Google's terms of sale for the Nexus device state:
You agree to pay Google an equipment subsidy recovery fee (the "Equipment Recovery Fee") equal to the difference between the full price of the Nexus handheld device without service plan and the price you paid for the Nexus handheld device if you cancel your wireless plan prior to 120 days of continuous wireless service. For example, if the full price of the Nexus handheld device without service plan was $529 USD and the price you paid for the Nexus handheld device was $179 USD with a service plan, the Equipment Recovery Fee you pay will be $350 USD in the event you cancel within the first 120 days of carrier service. The Equipment Recovery Fee is equal to the line item in your confirmation email setting forth the discount on the full priced Nexus handheld device related to your carrier service plan activiation. You authorize Google to charge the Equipment Recovery Fee directly to your credit card, or other payment method used to purchase the Nexus handheld device, upon cancellation of your wireless plan. You will not be charged the Equipment Recovery Fee if you return your Nexus handheld device to Google within the 14 day Return Policy period as set forth below.
A problem that utterly destroyed the work of amateurs like DaVinci, Michaelangelo, and Raphael, right?
DaVinci and the others were not using computers, and didn't have the option of working without covering their art. Furthermore, being unable to see 1/20 of a large canvas or 1/1000 of a wall is a lot less relatively annoying than covering 1/4 of your display area with your hands.
A Wacom is at least 2400 point per inch. A tablet using a finger cannot have that precision.
Well, yes, it can, and more -- by zooming in. And also by utilizing technologies such as bezier and spline curves. Methinks thou protests a bit too much. Also, even if you are stuck with the type of drawing you describe, it doesn't mean that others will be.
What? This comment implies that you have detailed knowledge of what they GP was doing, and what he didn't do, which seems extremely unlikely.
Furthermore, a skilled artist won't have to rely on the same crutches as someone extremely unskilled. For example, I would use a LOT of zoom and computational curve tools, because I'm too uncoordinated to draw nice, clean lines without that kind of help. Sure, I can draw a pretty good picture using all the technical cheats, but it would take me a month to make something that a skilled artist could create in an hour. You can bet DaVinci and the rest didn't use "zoom" and "bezier and spline curves" to paint a portrait.
I feel I should add some trollish comment here, but I'm not going to. But I surely thought about it.
The article was light on significant details. It looks as if these images are used effectively as trademarks in Mexico, used for purposes of tourism, or some such thing. This is obviously not a copyright issue.
Amen. If I ever find myself unable to afford food, I, too, will finally be so hungry I could eat at Arby's, but in my destitute state, I will also be ironically deprived of the ability to do so.
BBC accountant: We provide the $ame or better picture quality with half the bitrate! Just think of the $aving$!
BBC IT decision maker: I $ee what you're $aying.... The$e picture$ look $uper!
Public: This looks like crap.
BBC rep: (waves hand) The$e aren't the compre$$ion artifact$ you're looking for. We can go about our bu$ine$$. There are no complaint$.
95% of interactions between a child and an adult are positive.
Give me a break. This is a completely made-up statistic, supported by no measured data about type or frequency of interaction from any study by anyone. You even say as much later in your post.
Look at our history... children didn't grow up in segregated 'child only' areas... they grew up working with their parents and community members. They were exposed to life.
Whose history? Crap or not, segregation of children from adults outside our families (at least in the US) is not even remotely new. The segregated "child only" areas most of my peers grew up in were called "schools". Most of those of earlier generations who didn't have schools available grew up in living and working with their families, where the need to segregate children from adults wasn't (and isn't) seen to be as essential.
I hate to have to point this out, but teenage girls are also looking for explicit content.
Hmmm.... My impression is it's "most" teenaged boys, and "some" teenaged girls.
And no, I have nothing whatsoever to back that up.
Did you perhaps mean to include a part where he said: "substantially changing the content of the atmosphere has no predictable effects, and here is why...."
I think they're saying it's one of the least fanciful explanations. A bizarre use of the word parsimonious though; looks as if it was used by someone who wasn't at all familiar with it's common use. (Yeah, I know, it's not really commonly used, but generally it is used to mean stingy, cheap, frugal, thrifty, extremely unwilling/unlikely to spend money.)
This is what happens when someone breaks out their favorite five-dollar word so they don't have to say "likely" or "realistic".
Of course, I may be over-analyzing; there's always the possiblity that timothy had no freakin' idea what parsimonious meant.
Soylent Green, perhaps?
PETA would be all over that, I am sure. As long as the "meat eaters" are processed first.
From a health perspective, it would be better to eat vegetarians. Economically, vegetarians also have the benefit of being cheaper to produce, and their environmental cost is lower. I believe PETA's web site can provide helpful information supporting those points.
It's not PETA or some vegetarian group that would cause the dominance of faux meat, it's simple quality and economy. If faux meat tastes good and is cheaper to produce, THEN it's time to say goodbye to real meat. If not, your exemplary diet and admirable lust for the blood of animals have nothing to fear from this development.
Now, I'm going to go home and apply heat, butter, and spices to part of the delicious carcass of a recently deceased animal, which I will then consume without regard to it's ethical implications or environmental consequences. Mmmmm. Maybe I'll complement it with a nice, leafy salad.
Correct. This is a problem with some kind of valve, and is a direct analogue to a hotel that's currently closed for renovation.
So.... It sounds as if you don't disagree with his methods or conclusions, but rather that this is positioned as a model of the economy.
If I understand correctly, economists object because this is not what most would consider a valid model of the economy.
Am I getting this right?
Slashdot americanism knee-jerk on anything about China is just amazing.
It's almost amazing as the Slashdot anti-"americanism" knee-jerk... wait, what were we lampooning again?
True... I just wonder is if the Slashdot anti-americanists and the anti-everyone-else-ists are actually the same people.
Paying sales-tax is the buyer's responsibility. The seller is merely charged with helping the State collect. I find it worryingly hypocritical of kdawson — and people like him — to accuse retailers like Amazon of "depriving" States of sales taxes, while defending pirate bays and napsters against charges of piracy, in which the end-users engage.
Maybe, this is because Amazon's stand harms the Government, while the napsters harm private enterprise?
Dude... far as I can tell, this summary was written by someone named "theodp", and the person describing Amazon as "depriving" states of money is named "Mazerov".
That said, it seems to me the problem is there are too many hands trying to collect sales taxes. Is there any reason anyone other than the state government should be allowed to collect sales tax? Local governments can levy other kinds of taxes, but it sounds as if the idea that every level of government can collect taxes for exactly the same thing is basically obsolete.
How's this for a modest proposal: Only a state government has the power to levy sales tax.
And since every modest proposal needs a crazy part: For purchases that are shipped, taxes are levied based on the location to which the goods are shipped.
What about the Pre's browser? It'd be interesting to see how it differed from Safari.
The only difference that matters: It's not on the iPhone.
Are there examples (other than sensitive legal/classified documents) of publicly produced, publicly owned material that is publicly available where the information (not necessarily literal copies) contained therein is not freely distributable under copyright law?