Alice in Wonderland wasn't in 3D, it was two-and-a-half - all the 3d was added in post. Badly. According to rumor, Burton hates 3D, but the studio demanded it, so he deliberatly did a poor job.
The minimum value that must be inherited to be taxed is five million dollars. After you pay the 35% tax, you have $3.25million left... even if you've lost the farm, that just means you have a GIANT PILE OF MONEY. No sympathy from me.
I remember the old days of Ext2... you didn't want to run that without a UPS! NTFS will at least *usually* get through intact. I'm not sure why it corrupts files not opened for writing - the stations all run XP, which doesn't do background defragging, but perhaps there is some other optimisation process that moves them around.
Even Microsoft is inconsistant in it. For example, Windows Movie Makes saves project parts to a Local Settings subfolder.... so if you take your project files elsewhere, or even try to just log on to another computer on the network that maps the same My Documents folder, your projects mysteriously fail to open.
Brings to mind the constant efforts of the republicans to fight the inheritence tax, even inventing the name 'Death Tax' while conveniently neglecting you need to inherit far more money than most people would ever have for it to take effect.
All the republicans candidates look much the same to me, except Ron Paul. They seem to be all playing it safe, avoiding saying anything too out-of-the-mainstream at such a critical time.
"The kids loved the laptops. They "grew up" and treated them as their most precious possession."
What type of strange school is this? I've had to replace two vandalised mice and one vandalised keyboard at this school within the last hour! Yes, I'm posting to slashdot from work. It keeps me sane.
I work at a school, and lazy students are constantly turning computers off by holding the button or turning off the plug to save a few seconds. NTFS is resistant to power-loss-induced damage, but it is not entirely immune: We get a couple of machines a week with such problems. Fortunatly we have a backup partition as well, so all we need do is boot off of a USB stick and copy the backup over the damaged partition.
I wrote a program some time ago that does block-level dedupe within single files. It's not actually any good on a live filesystem at all - I made it as a compressor for drive backups and VM images - but it can be used to at least estimate space savings. If you run a drive (It'll take a block device under linux) through this, the resulting file size will tell you potentially how much capacity deduplication could save under ideal circumstances. If this software can't shrink the drive, don't bother even looking into deduplication: It isn't going to work.
http://birds-are-nice.me/programming/BLDD.shtml
It isn't really good enough for general use (things like hard-coded references to/tmp/ precluding a Windows compressor), just a little project I made as a proof-of-concept. Takes a ridiculous time to run too, but that's the cost of dedup.
Copper alloys. Copper alone is prone to corrosion... though I suppose manufacturers might like a keyboard that rusts after a few years. You could use silver instead, which is also an effective antimicrobial, and less corrodeable, but pricier.
We have laptops with easy-swap keyboards at my workplace. Said workplace is a school, and the amount of keys pulled off by vandals accounts for a significent part of the IT team's workload. Easy-swap keyboards are a requirement, just due to how often someone utterly destroys a keyboard.
I was refering to my first example, the native american one. Actually, I remembered that slightly wrong: While they do have an exception to the Migratory Birds Act, it's granted by legislation rather than court.
I do find it amusing that the strongest campaigning against legalising polygamy as a religious right would come from other religions. That is the reason that a multicultural society is characterised by constant infighting: What one subcultural requires, another believes must be prohibited to all.
NTFSs file compression actually rather sucks. Space saving is minimal under all but ideal conditions. It's a common problem in filesystem-level compression - the need to be able to read a file without seeking very far, or reconstructing the entire stream. Compression ratio is seriously compromised to achieve that.
I discovered an interesting one in Wisconsin v Yoder though, in which they successfully challenged a state law requiring compulsory education as an infringement upon their freedom of religion - the Amish religion strictly prohibits any formal education beyond the eigth grade. I already knew that, but I didn't know they'd had to go to court to get it. It is one reason I am so comfortable mocking them all as ignorant: They actually are uneducated, and by choice too. Their deliberate refusal of education fuels my deep dislike for them, espicially as it makes leaving their community almost impossible: Someone raised in an Amish community is unemployable elsewhere. Can you imagine trying to get a job when you don't even know how to operate a telephone?
That's because I was slightly wrong. I was conflating two different but quite similar cases.
The eagle case was one Mr. Hardman (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&case=/data2/circs/10th/994210.html). I remembered one crucial detail incorrectly though: He actually lost in court. The case I was confusing it with was one of those he cited as precident, Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Lukumi_Babalu_Aye_v._City_of_Hialeah). The religion in question there wasn't native american, but a decendant of an African religion requiring animal sacrifice. In that case, they won, and the ordinance was struck down as unconstitutional.
The MBA actually *does* have an exception for native american religions, but Hardman didn't qualify as he was not a legal member of one of the authorised tribes.
It can be so hard to keep all these cases straight when citeing from memory. I am not a lawyer though, I just debate this stuff a lot on the internet.
US copyright law sets the term of an individually authored work as life plus a fixed term. If the bible is indeed true, then the copyright to those speeches is still held by Jesus - he never died. Wouldn't matter much though, as the instruction to spread the word could easily be seen as permission to copy.
That depends upon how good the religion's lobbyists and lawyers are. The US has a few cases of that sort of thing - surprisingly, not all Christian. A native american tribe managed to successfully challenge the Migratory Bird Act so they could sacrifice federally-protected golden eagles as part of their rituals, and won. The Amish are very well known for it, because their lifestyle has a great many minor conflicts - things like requiring all buildings be produced entirely within the community, which means they can't use fireproofing treatments for wood required by state law. It really comes down, as so much does, to a combination of legal skill, funding and the luck of finding a sympathetic court.
Because there are few online payment services, the others are little better. Also because only one is supported by the world's largest auction site, and don't forget the network effect - a payment service is no good if the other party doesn't use it too.
I am sure that somewhere in the PayPal contract is a clause forbidding customers from sueing, in as much as is allowed by state law. It is a fairly common thing for companies to do.
Maybe it was a fake maybe not. If it was indeed genuine, then the original owner can probably claim damages as soon as she gets a trustworthy expert to examine... hmm. Perhaps that is why they ordered it destroyed?
They already do. Congresspeople have no time to read letters from some nobody. At best, they'll have a secretary go through them. If you want their attention, you have to give them a reason to want to please you - your one vote isn't enough. Only two things will get their attention: A large number of voters expressing how seriously they take the issue, or a large number of dollars that a lobbyists hints will be donated to a politician favorable to his employer's desires.
They did get into a legal dispute with the holder of the copyright to Peter Pan. Though Disney had licenced the movie rights, the contract was a little unclear on the merchandising rights. Disney claimed that the physical appearance of the characters was entirely their own artists' creative work, while the hospital* that holds the copyright claimed that the character appearance was incidential to the characters as described in the play.
* Yes, copyright is held by a hospital. The author donated it to them as an act of charity. Curiously, it's an actual perpetual copyright in the UK, never expiring. Ever. A special case granted by parliment in respect for the charitable work the hospital had performed, and the only copyright of its kind.
It is also a field where infringement isn't that serious a problem - in-house software is usually so niche, no-one else would be able to use it without extensive modification.
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Alice in Wonderland wasn't in 3D, it was two-and-a-half - all the 3d was added in post. Badly. According to rumor, Burton hates 3D, but the studio demanded it, so he deliberatly did a poor job.
The minimum value that must be inherited to be taxed is five million dollars. After you pay the 35% tax, you have $3.25million left... even if you've lost the farm, that just means you have a GIANT PILE OF MONEY. No sympathy from me.
I remember the old days of Ext2... you didn't want to run that without a UPS! NTFS will at least *usually* get through intact. I'm not sure why it corrupts files not opened for writing - the stations all run XP, which doesn't do background defragging, but perhaps there is some other optimisation process that moves them around.
Even Microsoft is inconsistant in it. For example, Windows Movie Makes saves project parts to a Local Settings subfolder.... so if you take your project files elsewhere, or even try to just log on to another computer on the network that maps the same My Documents folder, your projects mysteriously fail to open.
Brings to mind the constant efforts of the republicans to fight the inheritence tax, even inventing the name 'Death Tax' while conveniently neglecting you need to inherit far more money than most people would ever have for it to take effect.
I call it the Paris Hilton Tax.
Prohibition of... er, name it. Drugs, abortion, pornography. They also love spending federal money on abstinance program.
All the republicans candidates look much the same to me, except Ron Paul. They seem to be all playing it safe, avoiding saying anything too out-of-the-mainstream at such a critical time.
The socratic method was doomed the day someone invented standardised testing.
"The kids loved the laptops. They "grew up" and treated them as their most precious possession."
What type of strange school is this? I've had to replace two vandalised mice and one vandalised keyboard at this school within the last hour! Yes, I'm posting to slashdot from work. It keeps me sane.
I work at a school, and lazy students are constantly turning computers off by holding the button or turning off the plug to save a few seconds. NTFS is resistant to power-loss-induced damage, but it is not entirely immune: We get a couple of machines a week with such problems. Fortunatly we have a backup partition as well, so all we need do is boot off of a USB stick and copy the backup over the damaged partition.
I wrote a program some time ago that does block-level dedupe within single files. It's not actually any good on a live filesystem at all - I made it as a compressor for drive backups and VM images - but it can be used to at least estimate space savings. If you run a drive (It'll take a block device under linux) through this, the resulting file size will tell you potentially how much capacity deduplication could save under ideal circumstances. If this software can't shrink the drive, don't bother even looking into deduplication: It isn't going to work.
/tmp/ precluding a Windows compressor), just a little project I made as a proof-of-concept. Takes a ridiculous time to run too, but that's the cost of dedup.
http://birds-are-nice.me/programming/BLDD.shtml
It isn't really good enough for general use (things like hard-coded references to
Copper alloys. Copper alone is prone to corrosion... though I suppose manufacturers might like a keyboard that rusts after a few years. You could use silver instead, which is also an effective antimicrobial, and less corrodeable, but pricier.
We have laptops with easy-swap keyboards at my workplace. Said workplace is a school, and the amount of keys pulled off by vandals accounts for a significent part of the IT team's workload. Easy-swap keyboards are a requirement, just due to how often someone utterly destroys a keyboard.
I was refering to my first example, the native american one. Actually, I remembered that slightly wrong: While they do have an exception to the Migratory Birds Act, it's granted by legislation rather than court.
I do find it amusing that the strongest campaigning against legalising polygamy as a religious right would come from other religions. That is the reason that a multicultural society is characterised by constant infighting: What one subcultural requires, another believes must be prohibited to all.
NTFSs file compression actually rather sucks. Space saving is minimal under all but ideal conditions. It's a common problem in filesystem-level compression - the need to be able to read a file without seeking very far, or reconstructing the entire stream. Compression ratio is seriously compromised to achieve that.
I can't find that Amish fire code one either, though I did find a rather amusing case in which one of them argued that his religion forbade him from displaying a 'slow vehicle' warning sign on his buggy... and actually won, at least at first! ( http://louisville-accident-lawyer.com/2011/09/kentucky-statute-189-820-for-slow-moving-vehicles-is-found-constitutional-for-amish-buggies/ ) The case was overturned on appeal. I can find many, many news stories and discussions detailing the conflict between the Amish and regulators over enforcing building codes (http://www.firehouse.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-91475.html, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,466606,00.html, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1991276/posts ) but no actual case name.
I discovered an interesting one in Wisconsin v Yoder though, in which they successfully challenged a state law requiring compulsory education as an infringement upon their freedom of religion - the Amish religion strictly prohibits any formal education beyond the eigth grade. I already knew that, but I didn't know they'd had to go to court to get it. It is one reason I am so comfortable mocking them all as ignorant: They actually are uneducated, and by choice too. Their deliberate refusal of education fuels my deep dislike for them, espicially as it makes leaving their community almost impossible: Someone raised in an Amish community is unemployable elsewhere. Can you imagine trying to get a job when you don't even know how to operate a telephone?
That's because I was slightly wrong. I was conflating two different but quite similar cases.
The eagle case was one Mr. Hardman (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&case=/data2/circs/10th/994210.html). I remembered one crucial detail incorrectly though: He actually lost in court. The case I was confusing it with was one of those he cited as precident, Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Lukumi_Babalu_Aye_v._City_of_Hialeah). The religion in question there wasn't native american, but a decendant of an African religion requiring animal sacrifice. In that case, they won, and the ordinance was struck down as unconstitutional.
The MBA actually *does* have an exception for native american religions, but Hardman didn't qualify as he was not a legal member of one of the authorised tribes.
It can be so hard to keep all these cases straight when citeing from memory. I am not a lawyer though, I just debate this stuff a lot on the internet.
US copyright law sets the term of an individually authored work as life plus a fixed term. If the bible is indeed true, then the copyright to those speeches is still held by Jesus - he never died. Wouldn't matter much though, as the instruction to spread the word could easily be seen as permission to copy.
That depends upon how good the religion's lobbyists and lawyers are. The US has a few cases of that sort of thing - surprisingly, not all Christian. A native american tribe managed to successfully challenge the Migratory Bird Act so they could sacrifice federally-protected golden eagles as part of their rituals, and won. The Amish are very well known for it, because their lifestyle has a great many minor conflicts - things like requiring all buildings be produced entirely within the community, which means they can't use fireproofing treatments for wood required by state law. It really comes down, as so much does, to a combination of legal skill, funding and the luck of finding a sympathetic court.
Because there are few online payment services, the others are little better. Also because only one is supported by the world's largest auction site, and don't forget the network effect - a payment service is no good if the other party doesn't use it too.
I am sure that somewhere in the PayPal contract is a clause forbidding customers from sueing, in as much as is allowed by state law. It is a fairly common thing for companies to do.
Maybe it was a fake maybe not. If it was indeed genuine, then the original owner can probably claim damages as soon as she gets a trustworthy expert to examine... hmm. Perhaps that is why they ordered it destroyed?
"they will just tune me out."
They already do. Congresspeople have no time to read letters from some nobody. At best, they'll have a secretary go through them. If you want their attention, you have to give them a reason to want to please you - your one vote isn't enough. Only two things will get their attention: A large number of voters expressing how seriously they take the issue, or a large number of dollars that a lobbyists hints will be donated to a politician favorable to his employer's desires.
They did get into a legal dispute with the holder of the copyright to Peter Pan. Though Disney had licenced the movie rights, the contract was a little unclear on the merchandising rights. Disney claimed that the physical appearance of the characters was entirely their own artists' creative work, while the hospital* that holds the copyright claimed that the character appearance was incidential to the characters as described in the play.
* Yes, copyright is held by a hospital. The author donated it to them as an act of charity. Curiously, it's an actual perpetual copyright in the UK, never expiring. Ever. A special case granted by parliment in respect for the charitable work the hospital had performed, and the only copyright of its kind.
It is also a field where infringement isn't that serious a problem - in-house software is usually so niche, no-one else would be able to use it without extensive modification.