Riiight. This has worked so well in Europe. In many countries (Denmark and France, IIRC) they have rules like this and their unemployment is skyrocketing.
Between this and California's new "download tax" I guess they want to be sure no tech development EVER happens there again.
Go to the American Memory ( http://memory.loc.gov/ ) portion of the Library of Congress's page to listen/view about 3 million items. Some of Edison's original motion pictures are available.
they're concerned about some of thomas edison's first movies and the like... they were all made on nitrate-based material that decomposes (into nitroglycerine. boom!)..
they want to provide public access for all of this stuff in the long term since it's all public domain...
The Library of Congress is attempting to answer this question as they have huge amounts of media that is on highly degrading (nitrate-based films) materials.
Their answer? A huge RAID array starting at 180TB and growing steadily over time.
Your answer? Probably figure out which of the data is fixed and which of it changes and attempt to back up accordingly. Does all 220gb change on a weekly basis? That seems unlikely...
Starting the fall of '95 my college Rose-Hulman started requiring everyone to buy their laptop freshman year. It sounds like a great idea until you get to be a junior or senior...
Ah, but profits are NOT something that you want. Profits get taxed but if you "just cover expenses"[1], the most of the time, the studio doesn't have to pay all of the extra taxes.
Stan Lee should instead request a few percent of the gross... then he would get his cut first before everyone else.
[1] Expenses defined as all production costs, personnel costs, everyone gets their cut.
I think the premise of code = free speech was defeated in the DMCA case in NY. Remember, code in executable form was considered a breach. Any other form was okay...
This is a serious question that always seems to be glazed over by the open source advocates. Most seem to see it only as a method of attacking MS.
Well, if liabilities become a reality, EULA's won't protect the company, otherwise every company just puts a clause in it and the liabilities cease to exist. The law would be required to allow very few, if any, exceptions.
If the open source community has to face this, what will happen? The next time there's an error (such as the recent Bind exploit) do the lawsuits begin?
The only thing I don't like about all this is the fact that it all becomes property of them. I've been working on a world off and on for about 8 years now (Hey, college got in the way) and this sounds pretty cool.
Seems like they're setting up for a new movie, but as far as I can tell, there's nothing in the works (imdb search on david & gillian). Afterall, wasn't gillian recently quoted that the series should have ended a while ago?
Some of the recaps were appreciated since I haven't followed closely, but I guessed the occupant of the ruins (no spoilers here!).
exactly... the government loves having companies do the research and have a vested interest... you see, companies have to make a profit...
the government, by definition, shouldn't make a profit, so there's no vested interest... the government will be around whether the item/idea/project does or doesn't work... companies aren't the same...
This is the equivalent of walking up to a cop on the street and DEMANDING use of his (or her) gun since our tax dollars paid for it. While public funding=free code sounds like a good idea, it needs more thought first.
having email just days afterwards is impressive... i didn't know they had AOL (afghanistan online) available there... and I think these people getting Ipods or the like is fairly unlikely...
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Why doesn't the RICO Act apply to the BSA (not the Boy Scouts)?
It depends on what you want to do.
CHALKBOARD is great for addition and the other basic operations, but if you want to do symbolic algebra, Maple or MathCad are your best bets.
If you want to do some sort of signal processing and/or crazy matrix applications, the Matlab is probably the answer.
If you want to do something with statistics, Matlab or Minitab are the way to go.
Riiight. This has worked so well in Europe. In many countries (Denmark and France, IIRC) they have rules like this and their unemployment is skyrocketing.
Between this and California's new "download tax" I guess they want to be sure no tech development EVER happens there again.
Go to the American Memory ( http://memory.loc.gov/ ) portion of the Library of Congress's page to listen/view about 3 million items. Some of Edison's original motion pictures are available.
(disclaimer: I work on the project with Ragnar)
they're concerned about some of thomas edison's first movies and the like... they were all made on nitrate-based material that decomposes (into nitroglycerine. boom!)..
they want to provide public access for all of this stuff in the long term since it's all public domain...
10TB is nonsense.
Their answer? A huge RAID array starting at 180TB and growing steadily over time.
Your answer? Probably figure out which of the data is fixed and which of it changes and attempt to back up accordingly. Does all 220gb change on a weekly basis? That seems unlikely...
Starting the fall of '95 my college Rose-Hulman started requiring everyone to buy their laptop freshman year. It sounds like a great idea until you get to be a junior or senior...
Ah, but profits are NOT something that you want. Profits get taxed but if you "just cover expenses"[1], the most of the time, the studio doesn't have to pay all of the extra taxes.
Stan Lee should instead request a few percent of the gross... then he would get his cut first before everyone else.
[1] Expenses defined as all production costs, personnel costs, everyone gets their cut.
Why should we bother making sure people have enough food to eat when they don't have the bandwidth for all the porn they want!?
Actually he was talking about 50k-100k WATTS. He said the electric bill alone would be upwards of $100/month.
pppsssst.... they haven't gone to court yet. though the tyco and mci crew have been arrested.
Besides, imagine how much it would help the enviroment (aka hurt the extremist enviro-nuts) if instead of burning fossil fuels, we grew plants.
So we should let people steal cars to learn to drive before they buy their own?
I think the premise of code = free speech was defeated in the DMCA case in NY. Remember, code in executable form was considered a breach. Any other form was okay...
This is a serious question that always seems to be glazed over by the open source advocates. Most seem to see it only as a method of attacking MS.
Well, if liabilities become a reality, EULA's won't protect the company, otherwise every company just puts a clause in it and the liabilities cease to exist. The law would be required to allow very few, if any, exceptions.
If the open source community has to face this, what will happen? The next time there's an error (such as the recent Bind exploit) do the lawsuits begin?
The only thing I don't like about all this is the fact that it all becomes property of them. I've been working on a world off and on for about 8 years now (Hey, college got in the way) and this sounds pretty cool.
Seems like they're setting up for a new movie, but as far as I can tell, there's nothing in the works (imdb search on david & gillian). Afterall, wasn't gillian recently quoted that the series should have ended a while ago?
Some of the recaps were appreciated since I haven't followed closely, but I guessed the occupant of the ruins (no spoilers here!).
Actually it's PETAbytes, NOT pentabytes. On a project that I'm on, there's discussion fo 9 Petabyte storage systems.
except when they leave their area, they get shocked... now that I think of it, that would be easy to rig up on one of these...
I can hear the price dropping now...
the government, by definition, shouldn't make a profit, so there's no vested interest... the government will be around whether the item/idea/project does or doesn't work... companies aren't the same...
This is the equivalent of walking up to a cop on the street and DEMANDING use of his (or her) gun since our tax dollars paid for it. While public funding=free code sounds like a good idea, it needs more thought first.
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it already says that they use the 1000C ones in nuclear and fossil fuel plants...
less power required= less pollution
having email just days afterwards is impressive... i didn't know they had AOL (afghanistan online) available there... and I think these people getting Ipods or the like is fairly unlikely...
How many months of earnings is that for them?