Exactly what projections system used 70mm? I only know about IMAX being that large (actually the IMAX film is set on its side so it is larger). Are you sure you were watching 70mm projections?
Are you really sure that analog sound is better than compressed digital? And how long does the analog recording last in terms of number of playbacks before it goes to pot?
The 5 channel compressed digital sound typically has the ".1" channel and is effectively a sixth channel, and now there is an "EX" format which gives a seventh channel, a rear center to go between the right rear and left rear (rear == surround in my terminology here)
The effective resolution of 35mm film that you state is measured on a per-frame basis. There is a reduction in resolution when you move then at 24 fps, when considering the film/shutter movement (not unlike jitter) it actually cuts the real resolution by at least half.
The cropping and resulution reduction need not to happen as one can use non-square pixels, see anamorphic mode on DVD, and alas, film projection and exposure systems can use anamorphic lenses to do the same thing.
There are projectors that can output a higher resolution, I think I've read about a 2000x1500 pixel LCD projector.
One also has the drawback of film scratching when playing the same film print several times a day for a month or so, that doesn't happen with digital storage.
To me the employer / employee relationship is just like any other relationship that people are comming from two totally different perspectives. As the male/female relationships get John Gray and "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, maybe an "Employees are from Neptune, Employers are from Uranus" is warranted.
If the company NEEDS to have this training done, get it done and offer accomodations up front. Either way the company is going to have to pay for the talent either way. Maybe, like ask employees what makes them stay. Yes, prepackaged research can help but it might not catch the interests of your crew particular crew.
If it's money, offer it. Give them the little perks before training, pay for the training & give them the salary the way through, pay 2x the old salary (or 3x yearly minus training costs, whichever is higher) starting after the training finishes for a year then pay them market rate after that.
If the PHB's are still jittery, still offer that but ask them to sign a contract.
Someone moderated this post's parent as a troll. Whether it is or not, in my opinion this person has a valid point although I do have a few nitpicks.
Writable CDs are a HUGE market and I too have my doubts on how much of it is for "legitimate" use. Also, most people use CD-Rs and not CD-RWs as even now the cost of CD-RWs aren't worth it, although I don't know what the situation is like in Europe.
In either case, copying CDs isn't "getting the source from your binaries", it is a lot more like copying the binary software itself, as few people have software that turns an audio stream into sheet music and/or lyrics, which is closer to "the source code" of music, the PCM stream on a CD is not "the source code" as it is "compiled" using instruments, vocals and mixers.
BTW: Artists usually don't get compensated when recording media and devices get taxed and probably never have been. The taxes typically fatten up the "label", the company that signed them, but this might vary by country as well.
"Pentium Pro. I've seen Pentium Pro 200 servers and was impressed. Nice chip, too bad the design didn't ramp to higher speeds."
'The Pentium Pro DID ramp to higher clocks - that's what the PII/Celeron/PIII are based on(with modification, of course).'
I think the point was that the physical configuration was vastly different. Because cache was quickly becomming an important thing, Intel wanted to add cache, but adding cache to the die at the time was prohibitively expensive and it wasn't until relatively recently that it was done, starting with the Celeron 'A', I believe.
The multi-chip module apparently failed in terms of economics, as Intel switched to the cartridge design to place multiple ICs on a printed circuit board. Once IC technology caught up so that the entire cache could be dumped along side the core on the die, the cartridge style ceased to be of use to them.
I believe Apple was the pioneer of the "consumer-level" CPU card idea, and even they had abandoned it with the G3 and G4 models. I heard they originally did it to make upgrades easier, a system with a 601 could be upgraded to a 604e and beyond, but apparently no longer.
You're painfully naive if you think the opportunists who've taken over academia in the last generation and a half are anything but self-serving parasites.
Finally something I can work with, at least more informative than just accusing someone as being naive without doing the littlest thing to fix the problem. I had forgotten about this.
It's best to leave once you've found a more friendly ISP, particularly one that notifies you of any actions they take on your account and give you a chance to defend yourself without arbitrarily deleting files.
It's like any other market with products, you should investigate the product before putting the money down. Usually there is a lot of information out there to help you determine if the product is worthwhile. If there isn't any, move on to a different product or take a risk with that one. It's your money. Often a product selected on price alone will suck, keep that in mind too. I investigate everything I buy now, not because I've had trouble, but I want to make sure my money is best spent, and even if I find problems while investigating I end up buying because, I can work around it, I like knowing what I might run into as well as the chances.
It's also a good thing to ask questions before signing up, check their reputation, check to see if their customer support is worth their name, investigate their history of dealing with customers and _read_ the acceptable use policy!
It really sucks that you have to do this, but IMO I think it's better than regulating the ISP market.
It would help me if you pointed out what you thought was naive and why.
There is a whole gaggle of scientific work that at first seemed totally worthless commercially but eventually had commercial uses within 100 years or even much, much faster.
Somehow the Utopian thought behind it makes my logical circuits sputter...
I'm sure you are jesting, but anyhoo...
There are people that are only motivated by money that can't seem to understand that not everyone is motivated by same. If everyone were motivated solely for financial windfall, would Linux exist at all?
Outside of the "hacker" community, I believe that the academic and scientific type communities have contributed the most effort to Linux software in the first ten years (is it 10 years old yet? Maybe eight years), so it's not that much of a stretch. Scientific papers are about trying to share information in a hope furthering knowledge.
People wanting to get master's and doctorates were able to contribute some effort on their thesis papers.
Oops you are right! The whole site seemed to be the stereotypical trash rag. I know the use lots of unnamed insiders which is a good thing and a bad thing.
Oh well. It's not funny enough to make it worth my time, and rarely has useful or interesting enough news either, and unless I keep up it's hard enough to tell fact from fiction, so I don't read it anymore, besides "unannounced" news can change many times before it makes a real product, if ever.
Sometimes they actually get something right, but usually every story had some unjustified amount of skew in it.
There was a time when Slashdot used the Register as news a lot, like at least a story every week. I think the "editors" here finally wised up. Now to take ZDNet off should be our next task.
They aren't... They are a third party company that simply lists auctions. They can choose to ban it I guess, but they aren't illegal in the home country (US).
I honestly think it's absurd that a judge thinks that s/he has jurisdiction over sites where the servers aren't in their jurisdicion, whether the judge is French, German, Japanese or a New Yorker. Can anyone say arrogance? I believe I can. Arrogance from anyone is arrogance, from myself or others, I don't care the reasons, nationalities or motivations, the truth still is.
Your points on the US are right, but I also believe that ruling against symbolic imagery like this is equally absurd. To me, either way people are running from reality.
In the US, we are "running away" from the fact that some people are just crude, or running away from what the human body really is. In France, the people that support this ruling are running away from the truth what happened in history. I do not believe owning some small amount of Nazi memorabilia implies that one is evil. The swastika itself isn't evil, Germany simply stole it and perverted it. The swastika and its mirror image has religious meanings for the indiginous people of the Americas, as well as to most Asian cultures. Why not ban images of those as well?
I had a teacher that was in the German army in WWII. He hated the war. He hated the Nazis, didn't want to fight the war, but he keeps some historical props around for his educational classes.
BTW, does any country have such a ban on symbols of the old USSR? IMO the Communists (big C) of the USSR has done more against humanity than Germany ever did simply because they lasted much longer to perpetrate such things. I think China is high on that list as well, but in those cases they for the most part kept all that internally.
In short I am against banning something simply because someone is offended by it. Covering up something doesn't negate its existence.
And Sega is any different in your equation?
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Sega's got semiconductors. They are using their own proprietary GD-ROM system, and of course like most other game systems only support native formats, you can't play N64 games on it? There is supposedly a system to play PS1 games on a Dreamcast, but that means Sony gets the game licence fee without loosing money on selling the game system itself, instead Sega looses the money.
Frankly, IMO the average Sony product line is much higher in quality and usability than most other tech company's products, excepting the console or computer markets. Shameful capitalisim or not, the Sony products I own WORK. I'm not going to go out of my way to pay for a non-proprietary product that doesn't work as well.
I really don't see the point of sticking to LPs. I know there are some people that swear by them, but I don't see the point of getting a new LP. For the titles that haven't been properly remastered or never made it to CD, I can see getting an LP. While LPs may have a slightly higher bandwitdh, which degrades slightly after every playback, the dynamic range is quite small comparitively.
I have a small Laserdisc collection, I don't see a need to upgrade some of them, and several others I couldn't yet (Star Wars Trilogy anyone?). There are several cases where the Laserdisc video looks better than the DVD, usually they are the early ones where the producers didn't know how to properly master a DVD.
IMO the media size in both cases is too cumbersone and the player size dictated is too large. They are just formats, and they have been superceeded by newer ones, clinging to a format for the format's sake doesn't seem right to me, especially with newer formats that are much more convenient.
I'm really not convinced that the airwaves wouldn't go into chaos if it were left to businesses. Is there a case anywhere in the world where there are lots of radio stations and no bandwidth allotment?
I know that using the same or overlapping frequencies is wasteful of power, I didn't think of it at the time though.
I'm not a proponent of big government, nor am I a proponent of big business. Both have different goals and should be used to keep each other in check.
I could tell you where to find it, but you don't want to. Trust me.
I sure as heck didn't. Can anyone tell me why I'd care to see that? I immediately impemented a look-at-the-status-bar-to-see-where-the-link-reall y-goes-before-clicking style policy. Of course I haven't been bitten again.
no its not. why would it be? it should be up to industry to develop it's own means of protecting signal integrity. not government beaurocrats
Please take an RF class.
I don't think the industry would be able to agree. If you have two stations stomping on each other's frequency, there aren't many ways to "protect signal integrity" because they are both sharing the same medium at the same frequency and no amount of electronics is going to be able to properly sort them out. It might be possible but the electronics would be prohibitively expensive if it were. Bandwidth allotment is simply the best way to do it.
Almost all civil-rights progress in the last hundred years is directly attributable to the tireless efforts of lawyers, as is most civil-rights legislation, which is secured by legislators who are ex-lawyers
Yeah, lawyers really don't do evil unless their clients ask them to, and the lawyer must agree. Sometimes it seems that some people are willing to give too much to the lawyer, like rather than paying by the hour, they agree to sign off a large fraction of the loot should they win it, khich has its problems. I think I read some settlements like the tobacco settlements the average lawyer earned an equivalent of $900 an hour, and what money left over really isn't enough to pay for the health care that the "victims" needed.
Also, your point about civil rights lawyers seems a little off. Probably as many lawyers fought against opening up civil rights as well.
You seem to have alluded to it but I felt should point that out.
Not all lawyers are evil. I understand that the legal profession is also one of the few where a judge can require a lawyer to go pro bono, or for the rest of us, work for free, in the case of defending people that can't afford protection. I don't know how often that happens.
It's apparent that the industry's average wage was about $70k, which isn't a lot when compared to the student loan debt they rack up going to law school.
Where did you get the patent info? It definitely isn't in the article.
I think if it's patentable that person should do it otherwise some other sneaky bastard might do it and that bastard wouldn't play as nice.
I don't know how many third world countries have signed a patent treaty anyways.
I suspect it wouldn't fly in many areas as many fear the West's technology and cling to old wive's tales about sex diseases. Some in certain areas believe sex with a virgin brings a cure. So what that means is that female AIDS victins are younger and younger, and I doubt they'd want an invisible condom to get in the way of their cure.
The two sites you liked to are pretty... different to say the best. I have to ask what they are really trying to promote... Yes, the kids are fully clothed but some of them seem to have poses that can easily be taken as suggestive.
You see, there is this little box in the bottom left corner of the page, called "search". It's actually very handy. No need to remember everything as the server does it for you.
I do agree though, sometimes I miss stories because one would need to visit this site every day to keep up with all the stories. Sometimes it's nice to see something updated or slightly different.
Any discussion on Slashdot, no matter how serious, is going to degenerate into trollbait no matter what.
So you got one bad AC comment, that doesn't really prove the point as IMO it was still misapplied. I don't think Goodwin's / Godwin's law really plays into factor at slashdot as EVERY discussion degenerates into trollbait at somepoint, yet if you look at some of the discussion since then, there was still a positive discussion going on. I mean you get totally random responses that link to goatse.cx, First Post! disgusting ASCII art or just plain profane responses that don't even try to go a half arsed job of proving their point, just slam the other guy's opinion!
Such is the nature of Slashdot. This site didn't seem to be like that from the start, but gradually the moderation system had to be implemented or else no one would bother reading posts. I know I didn't for a long time.
Besides, the actual death count of WWII is around 60 million, with the USSR loosing something like 27M, generally agreed by historians to be a result of wholesale mismanagement, like troops getting the wrong size bullets, etc.
It seems "predatory capitalism" works equally well under either party. The US president is mostly a figurehead in economic matters anyways.
I think the "law" is at best a rule of thumb, and discernment should be used to see if the law is properly applied. Should a discussion of National Socialisim be slammed because of Godwin's law?
The idea behind that "law" is if the discussion degenerates to namecalling and innappropriate application/comparisons of Hitler, National Socialism, etc, then Godwin's Law applies, IMO.
Basically you slammed an analogy that showed that Microsoft wasn't the first. Maybe it brings the thought in the reader a comparison that Apple, MS and National Socialism are the same thing, I disagree, basically it shows a basic principle that getting kids to know you and like you when they are young, you for the most part get their mindshare to adulthood. It's a commonly known principle which has been around for millennia.
If that person said "tobacco companies", it would be an equally valid comparison, but no one could slam Godwin's law on that because Godwin's law only mentions discussions about a particular group of wacked-out Germans, but it isn't worded to provide for the stifling of discusion on communism, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, fascism or even the entertainment industry.
DVD killer? No... in order to get studios to agree to support a format, they want there fingers in it, a la DVD, given CSS, Macrovision and region coding, yet this time they will tighten their hold even further if they can.
As for the 5" (actually spec'd as 12cm, 5" is close enough), the DVD consortium deliberately chose CD size so that they can use and convert existing machinery and infrastructure. They at one time hoped to use CD jewel cases I think, but gladly the keepcases prevailed.
I still consider this vapor. The company's sample FMD in their web site's picture appear to be the protective clear blanks that you get at the end of CD-R spindles. I don't know if flourecents can have a quick enough response time to be usable as a compact storage medium, or be manipulated at a such compact level. They are welcome to disprove me, but in 5 years they will be competing with other technologies as well, assuming this is real.
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Exactly what projections system used 70mm? I only know about IMAX being that large (actually the IMAX film is set on its side so it is larger). Are you sure you were watching 70mm projections?
Are you really sure that analog sound is better than compressed digital? And how long does the analog recording last in terms of number of playbacks before it goes to pot?
The 5 channel compressed digital sound typically has the ".1" channel and is effectively a sixth channel, and now there is an "EX" format which gives a seventh channel, a rear center to go between the right rear and left rear (rear == surround in my terminology here)
The effective resolution of 35mm film that you state is measured on a per-frame basis. There is a reduction in resolution when you move then at 24 fps, when considering the film/shutter movement (not unlike jitter) it actually cuts the real resolution by at least half.
The cropping and resulution reduction need not to happen as one can use non-square pixels, see anamorphic mode on DVD, and alas, film projection and exposure systems can use anamorphic lenses to do the same thing.
There are projectors that can output a higher resolution, I think I've read about a 2000x1500 pixel LCD projector.
One also has the drawback of film scratching when playing the same film print several times a day for a month or so, that doesn't happen with digital storage.
To me the employer / employee relationship is just like any other relationship that people are comming from two totally different perspectives. As the male/female relationships get John Gray and "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, maybe an "Employees are from Neptune, Employers are from Uranus" is warranted.
If the company NEEDS to have this training done, get it done and offer accomodations up front. Either way the company is going to have to pay for the talent either way. Maybe, like ask employees what makes them stay. Yes, prepackaged research can help but it might not catch the interests of your crew particular crew.
If it's money, offer it. Give them the little perks before training, pay for the training & give them the salary the way through, pay 2x the old salary (or 3x yearly minus training costs, whichever is higher) starting after the training finishes for a year then pay them market rate after that.
If the PHB's are still jittery, still offer that but ask them to sign a contract.
Someone moderated this post's parent as a troll. Whether it is or not, in my opinion this person has a valid point although I do have a few nitpicks.
Writable CDs are a HUGE market and I too have my doubts on how much of it is for "legitimate" use. Also, most people use CD-Rs and not CD-RWs as even now the cost of CD-RWs aren't worth it, although I don't know what the situation is like in Europe.
In either case, copying CDs isn't "getting the source from your binaries", it is a lot more like copying the binary software itself, as few people have software that turns an audio stream into sheet music and/or lyrics, which is closer to "the source code" of music, the PCM stream on a CD is not "the source code" as it is "compiled" using instruments, vocals and mixers.
BTW: Artists usually don't get compensated when recording media and devices get taxed and probably never have been. The taxes typically fatten up the "label", the company that signed them, but this might vary by country as well.
Slashdot: Rumors for Nerds. Stuff that Matters
or:
Slashdot: Rumors for Nerds. Stuff that Might Matter if it Pans Out (TM)
or because nerd is something of an epithet to some people:
Slashdot: Rumors for Geeks. Stuff that Doesn't Matter for Most Other People (TM)
"Pentium Pro. I've seen Pentium Pro 200 servers and was impressed. Nice chip, too bad the design didn't ramp to higher speeds."
'The Pentium Pro DID ramp to higher clocks - that's what the PII/Celeron/PIII are based on(with modification, of course).'
I think the point was that the physical configuration was vastly different. Because cache was quickly becomming an important thing, Intel wanted to add cache, but adding cache to the die at the time was prohibitively expensive and it wasn't until relatively recently that it was done, starting with the Celeron 'A', I believe.
The multi-chip module apparently failed in terms of economics, as Intel switched to the cartridge design to place multiple ICs on a printed circuit board. Once IC technology caught up so that the entire cache could be dumped along side the core on the die, the cartridge style ceased to be of use to them.
I believe Apple was the pioneer of the "consumer-level" CPU card idea, and even they had abandoned it with the G3 and G4 models. I heard they originally did it to make upgrades easier, a system with a 601 could be upgraded to a 604e and beyond, but apparently no longer.
You're painfully naive if you think the opportunists who've taken over academia in the last generation and a half are anything but self-serving parasites.
Finally something I can work with, at least more informative than just accusing someone as being naive without doing the littlest thing to fix the problem. I had forgotten about this.
IMO, you have it.
It's best to leave once you've found a more friendly ISP, particularly one that notifies you of any actions they take on your account and give you a chance to defend yourself without arbitrarily deleting files.
It's like any other market with products, you should investigate the product before putting the money down. Usually there is a lot of information out there to help you determine if the product is worthwhile. If there isn't any, move on to a different product or take a risk with that one. It's your money. Often a product selected on price alone will suck, keep that in mind too. I investigate everything I buy now, not because I've had trouble, but I want to make sure my money is best spent, and even if I find problems while investigating I end up buying because, I can work around it, I like knowing what I might run into as well as the chances.
It's also a good thing to ask questions before signing up, check their reputation, check to see if their customer support is worth their name, investigate their history of dealing with customers and _read_ the acceptable use policy!
It really sucks that you have to do this, but IMO I think it's better than regulating the ISP market.
Well there's an insightful AC.
It would help me if you pointed out what you thought was naive and why.
There is a whole gaggle of scientific work that at first seemed totally worthless commercially but eventually had commercial uses within 100 years or even much, much faster.
Somehow the Utopian thought behind it makes my logical circuits sputter...
I'm sure you are jesting, but anyhoo...
There are people that are only motivated by money that can't seem to understand that not everyone is motivated by same. If everyone were motivated solely for financial windfall, would Linux exist at all?
Outside of the "hacker" community, I believe that the academic and scientific type communities have contributed the most effort to Linux software in the first ten years (is it 10 years old yet? Maybe eight years), so it's not that much of a stretch. Scientific papers are about trying to share information in a hope furthering knowledge.
People wanting to get master's and doctorates were able to contribute some effort on their thesis papers.
Oops you are right! The whole site seemed to be the stereotypical trash rag. I know the use lots of unnamed insiders which is a good thing and a bad thing.
Oh well. It's not funny enough to make it worth my time, and rarely has useful or interesting enough news either, and unless I keep up it's hard enough to tell fact from fiction, so I don't read it anymore, besides "unannounced" news can change many times before it makes a real product, if ever.
Sometimes they actually get something right, but usually every story had some unjustified amount of skew in it.
There was a time when Slashdot used the Register as news a lot, like at least a story every week. I think the "editors" here finally wised up. Now to take ZDNet off should be our next task.
I wonder why the hell is Yahoo selling such crap
They aren't... They are a third party company that simply lists auctions. They can choose to ban it I guess, but they aren't illegal in the home country (US).
I honestly think it's absurd that a judge thinks that s/he has jurisdiction over sites where the servers aren't in their jurisdicion, whether the judge is French, German, Japanese or a New Yorker. Can anyone say arrogance? I believe I can. Arrogance from anyone is arrogance, from myself or others, I don't care the reasons, nationalities or motivations, the truth still is.
Your points on the US are right, but I also believe that ruling against symbolic imagery like this is equally absurd. To me, either way people are running from reality.
In the US, we are "running away" from the fact that some people are just crude, or running away from what the human body really is. In France, the people that support this ruling are running away from the truth what happened in history. I do not believe owning some small amount of Nazi memorabilia implies that one is evil. The swastika itself isn't evil, Germany simply stole it and perverted it. The swastika and its mirror image has religious meanings for the indiginous people of the Americas, as well as to most Asian cultures. Why not ban images of those as well?
I had a teacher that was in the German army in WWII. He hated the war. He hated the Nazis, didn't want to fight the war, but he keeps some historical props around for his educational classes.
BTW, does any country have such a ban on symbols of the old USSR? IMO the Communists (big C) of the USSR has done more against humanity than Germany ever did simply because they lasted much longer to perpetrate such things. I think China is high on that list as well, but in those cases they for the most part kept all that internally.
In short I am against banning something simply because someone is offended by it. Covering up something doesn't negate its existence.
Sega's got semiconductors. They are using their own proprietary GD-ROM system, and of course like most other game systems only support native formats, you can't play N64 games on it? There is supposedly a system to play PS1 games on a Dreamcast, but that means Sony gets the game licence fee without loosing money on selling the game system itself, instead Sega looses the money.
Frankly, IMO the average Sony product line is much higher in quality and usability than most other tech company's products, excepting the console or computer markets. Shameful capitalisim or not, the Sony products I own WORK. I'm not going to go out of my way to pay for a non-proprietary product that doesn't work as well.
I know this was a comment in passing...
I really don't see the point of sticking to LPs. I know there are some people that swear by them, but I don't see the point of getting a new LP. For the titles that haven't been properly remastered or never made it to CD, I can see getting an LP. While LPs may have a slightly higher bandwitdh, which degrades slightly after every playback, the dynamic range is quite small comparitively.
I have a small Laserdisc collection, I don't see a need to upgrade some of them, and several others I couldn't yet (Star Wars Trilogy anyone?). There are several cases where the Laserdisc video looks better than the DVD, usually they are the early ones where the producers didn't know how to properly master a DVD.
IMO the media size in both cases is too cumbersone and the player size dictated is too large. They are just formats, and they have been superceeded by newer ones, clinging to a format for the format's sake doesn't seem right to me, especially with newer formats that are much more convenient.
I'm really not convinced that the airwaves wouldn't go into chaos if it were left to businesses. Is there a case anywhere in the world where there are lots of radio stations and no bandwidth allotment?
I know that using the same or overlapping frequencies is wasteful of power, I didn't think of it at the time though.
I'm not a proponent of big government, nor am I a proponent of big business. Both have different goals and should be used to keep each other in check.
I could tell you where to find it, but you don't want to. Trust me.
l y-goes-before-clicking style policy. Of course I haven't been bitten again.
I sure as heck didn't. Can anyone tell me why I'd care to see that? I immediately impemented a look-at-the-status-bar-to-see-where-the-link-real
no its not. why would it be? it should be up to industry to develop it's own means of protecting signal integrity. not government beaurocrats
Please take an RF class.
I don't think the industry would be able to agree. If you have two stations stomping on each other's frequency, there aren't many ways to "protect signal integrity" because they are both sharing the same medium at the same frequency and no amount of electronics is going to be able to properly sort them out. It might be possible but the electronics would be prohibitively expensive if it were. Bandwidth allotment is simply the best way to do it.
Almost all civil-rights progress in the last hundred years is directly attributable to the tireless efforts of lawyers, as is most civil-rights legislation, which is secured by legislators who are ex-lawyers
Yeah, lawyers really don't do evil unless their clients ask them to, and the lawyer must agree. Sometimes it seems that some people are willing to give too much to the lawyer, like rather than paying by the hour, they agree to sign off a large fraction of the loot should they win it, khich has its problems. I think I read some settlements like the tobacco settlements the average lawyer earned an equivalent of $900 an hour, and what money left over really isn't enough to pay for the health care that the "victims" needed.
Also, your point about civil rights lawyers seems a little off. Probably as many lawyers fought against opening up civil rights as well.
You seem to have alluded to it but I felt should point that out.
Not all lawyers are evil. I understand that the legal profession is also one of the few where a judge can require a lawyer to go pro bono, or for the rest of us, work for free, in the case of defending people that can't afford protection. I don't know how often that happens.
It's apparent that the industry's average wage was about $70k, which isn't a lot when compared to the student loan debt they rack up going to law school.
Where did you get the patent info? It definitely isn't in the article.
I think if it's patentable that person should do it otherwise some other sneaky bastard might do it and that bastard wouldn't play as nice.
I don't know how many third world countries have signed a patent treaty anyways.
I suspect it wouldn't fly in many areas as many fear the West's technology and cling to old wive's tales about sex diseases. Some in certain areas believe sex with a virgin brings a cure. So what that means is that female AIDS victins are younger and younger, and I doubt they'd want an invisible condom to get in the way of their cure.
The two sites you liked to are pretty... different to say the best. I have to ask what they are really trying to promote... Yes, the kids are fully clothed but some of them seem to have poses that can easily be taken as suggestive.
The names of one of the sites linked to:
"Cap'n Huggy's Galley Girls"
Okaaayyyyy. I'm going away now.
You see, there is this little box in the bottom left corner of the page, called "search". It's actually very handy. No need to remember everything as the server does it for you.
I do agree though, sometimes I miss stories because one would need to visit this site every day to keep up with all the stories. Sometimes it's nice to see something updated or slightly different.
Any discussion on Slashdot, no matter how serious, is going to degenerate into trollbait no matter what.
So you got one bad AC comment, that doesn't really prove the point as IMO it was still misapplied. I don't think Goodwin's / Godwin's law really plays into factor at slashdot as EVERY discussion degenerates into trollbait at somepoint, yet if you look at some of the discussion since then, there was still a positive discussion going on. I mean you get totally random responses that link to goatse.cx, First Post! disgusting ASCII art or just plain profane responses that don't even try to go a half arsed job of proving their point, just slam the other guy's opinion!
Such is the nature of Slashdot. This site didn't seem to be like that from the start, but gradually the moderation system had to be implemented or else no one would bother reading posts. I know I didn't for a long time.
Besides, the actual death count of WWII is around 60 million, with the USSR loosing something like 27M, generally agreed by historians to be a result of wholesale mismanagement, like troops getting the wrong size bullets, etc.
It seems "predatory capitalism" works equally well under either party. The US president is mostly a figurehead in economic matters anyways.
Again missapplied, IMO.
I think the "law" is at best a rule of thumb, and discernment should be used to see if the law is properly applied. Should a discussion of National Socialisim be slammed because of Godwin's law?
The idea behind that "law" is if the discussion degenerates to namecalling and innappropriate application/comparisons of Hitler, National Socialism, etc, then Godwin's Law applies, IMO.
Basically you slammed an analogy that showed that Microsoft wasn't the first. Maybe it brings the thought in the reader a comparison that Apple, MS and National Socialism are the same thing, I disagree, basically it shows a basic principle that getting kids to know you and like you when they are young, you for the most part get their mindshare to adulthood. It's a commonly known principle which has been around for millennia.
If that person said "tobacco companies", it would be an equally valid comparison, but no one could slam Godwin's law on that because Godwin's law only mentions discussions about a particular group of wacked-out Germans, but it isn't worded to provide for the stifling of discusion on communism, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, fascism or even the entertainment industry.
DVD killer? No... in order to get studios to agree to support a format, they want there fingers in it, a la DVD, given CSS, Macrovision and region coding, yet this time they will tighten their hold even further if they can.
As for the 5" (actually spec'd as 12cm, 5" is close enough), the DVD consortium deliberately chose CD size so that they can use and convert existing machinery and infrastructure. They at one time hoped to use CD jewel cases I think, but gladly the keepcases prevailed.
I still consider this vapor. The company's sample FMD in their web site's picture appear to be the protective clear blanks that you get at the end of CD-R spindles. I don't know if flourecents can have a quick enough response time to be usable as a compact storage medium, or be manipulated at a such compact level. They are welcome to disprove me, but in 5 years they will be competing with other technologies as well, assuming this is real.