Cars are different though. If people can't sell a used car they'll stick with it and not buy a replacement. Typically 100% of the used car value goes to purchasing a new car (or maybe a fraction goes to a dealer but that benefits the manufacturer too).
Some used game sales go towards funding new games but not all.
Whether the digital edition affects sales of the print edition is beside the point. Online news is going to affect the sales of the print edition anyway. the question is whether the NYT wants a segment of that or not.
Digital media is distruptive technology. If the NYT doesn't clobber their print sales someone else is going to do the job for them.
Good question. It seems a lot of people on Slashdot don't quite get the argument so I could imagine it's possible the court will miss it as well.
There is another reasonble interpretation. Either only the original uploader is liable or each uploader is only liable for the files they personally uploaded. This actually makes a little more sense to me since otherwise why not put the blame on the group who made it available in the first place (i.e. the record company). Clearly a ludicrous argument.
They might be able to successfully use the defence of the student involved got the wrong end of the stick and they did not and do not have the ability to do what was claimed in the lawsuit. I mean this may or may not be the case but we don't know al the facts.
You can't grant the school permission to perform illegal acts (although of course some acts do become legal once permission is granted). An agreement doesn't always give absolute authority, especially to do things that are only suggested by the agreement. I'm sure someone would have noticed if it said "we have the right to spy on you for any purpose"
The main reason games do not do multi-threaded coding historically was that the x86 did horrible context switching, causing a massive performance hit that was large enough to be noticeable.
Does it? What works better? I know the CPU on the XBox 360 is pretty crappy at this.
Ultimately it comes down to practicality. The average weight of passenger will be pretty consistent unless the plane has been chartered by supermodels or a group of hyper-obese. People aren't going to change their weight purely for a single flight. And it's potentially going to offend people to weigh them.
If you have no limit on the weight of luggage people will just lug as much as they can carry. This will not average out. There's no automatic cap on it, and people will take less luggage if they end up getting charged for it.
Incidently some of the artists used recently seem to have been influenced by the impressionist school of drawing because the drawings they make don't always resemble the subject.
I thought that was the idea. Given that the suspect is currently presumed innocent, they deserve a little privacy and don't need to be recorded in the media in a way that associates them with a crime.
I knew this poet. His work consisted of snippets from newspapers rearranged into a poem.
Since this was the point, there was certainly no deceit involved. Nobody even raised the question as to whether this was unoriginal. It was original. He rearranged a limited amount of work in a new and totally different way. So it's quite possible not only to use other people's words, but to use entirely other people's words and not be considered to be stealing.
I realise this girl wasn't doing that. I merely point out that this sort of thing can be done legitimately.
We still have a matter of context though. Star Wars came out when Cinema was dying and Sci-fi movies were typically cerebral and pretty slow. Movies in general were at that time.
Star Wars started with two spaceships shooting rayguns at each other! Real action sci-fi stuff. It gave us spectacle. We had swordfights and swinging across chasms and dogfights. These days they look pretty tame. The fight at the end of Phantom Menace was way more exciting and action packed, and the pod race was pretty thrilling as well. So from the point of view of action, prequels work a lot better.
Where ANH scores is story structure. It's a pretty basic plot, a heroes journey basically recycled from thousands of ancient stories, but it's tried and tested so it works. TPM has lots of decent enough ideas that could work as a story but simply don't fit together. It could have been great but Lucas seemed to be only interested in spectacle.
Well... we'd get some decent dialogue at least. Wouldn't say everything Joss does is perfect though, and he's really bad at dealing with studio interference.
Yes, but we're also abstracting. This is also nothing new. This is what a chess AI does, but there's probably a meta-intelligence level whereby we work out how to abstract.
Well, humans can be pretty smart but have some pretty illogical belief - for example, we consider it important to propagate our species. There's no real logic to that. It's part of biology hard-wiring us.
So, it's important that our AIs believe that their raison d'etre is to make life better for humans, and we're smart enough to work out what "better" actually means.
Well, you could fast track aspects of it. It might be possible to pre-program language (saving a good couple of years), and there may not be such a need to teach basic numeracy.
Well, you can usually make any code faster. Google presumably felt their JVM was good enough for the current release, and certainly not worth the man hours it would take to make it faster. It probably is if there are a lot of calls to natively compiled code.
Other people clearly have a different idea of what "good enough" is. However, for Google to reach this sort of speed it sounds like they'd need a total rewrite. Their resources are better spent elsewhere.
Another point to consider is that although Google has many extremely intelligent people, it doesn't have a monopoly on extremely intelligent people.
Why not indeed. In fact any new device the question to ask is "how could this be useful to me", or in a broader context "who will find this useful". For example, with MS Surface, the system is quite useful for interactive displays.
Write down all the possible times on bits of paper. Put on blindfold. Throw darts. There's your estimate. I'm consistently getting more accurate times than any other method.
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Cars are different though. If people can't sell a used car they'll stick with it and not buy a replacement. Typically 100% of the used car value goes to purchasing a new car (or maybe a fraction goes to a dealer but that benefits the manufacturer too).
Some used game sales go towards funding new games but not all.
Whether the digital edition affects sales of the print edition is beside the point. Online news is going to affect the sales of the print edition anyway. the question is whether the NYT wants a segment of that or not.
Digital media is distruptive technology. If the NYT doesn't clobber their print sales someone else is going to do the job for them.
Good question. It seems a lot of people on Slashdot don't quite get the argument so I could imagine it's possible the court will miss it as well.
There is another reasonble interpretation. Either only the original uploader is liable or each uploader is only liable for the files they personally uploaded. This actually makes a little more sense to me since otherwise why not put the blame on the group who made it available in the first place (i.e. the record company). Clearly a ludicrous argument.
That school district is fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked
They might be able to successfully use the defence of the student involved got the wrong end of the stick and they did not and do not have the ability to do what was claimed in the lawsuit. I mean this may or may not be the case but we don't know al the facts.
You can't grant the school permission to perform illegal acts (although of course some acts do become legal once permission is granted). An agreement doesn't always give absolute authority, especially to do things that are only suggested by the agreement. I'm sure someone would have noticed if it said "we have the right to spy on you for any purpose"
The main reason games do not do multi-threaded coding historically was that the x86 did horrible context switching, causing a massive performance hit that was large enough to be noticeable.
Does it? What works better? I know the CPU on the XBox 360 is pretty crappy at this.
It's still Bill Gates' opinion as opposed to that of the company.
Almost. It would be if you added a keyboard and a USB slot. Maybe an SD card reader as well.
Microsoft hasn't stared an opinion. A major shareholder and founder has. This is the opinion of a private individual.
Ultimately it comes down to practicality. The average weight of passenger will be pretty consistent unless the plane has been chartered by supermodels or a group of hyper-obese. People aren't going to change their weight purely for a single flight. And it's potentially going to offend people to weigh them.
If you have no limit on the weight of luggage people will just lug as much as they can carry. This will not average out. There's no automatic cap on it, and people will take less luggage if they end up getting charged for it.
Well, fat people are quite nice to embrace. All soft and squishy.
Incidently some of the artists used recently seem to have been influenced by the impressionist school of drawing because the drawings they make don't always resemble the subject.
I thought that was the idea. Given that the suspect is currently presumed innocent, they deserve a little privacy and don't need to be recorded in the media in a way that associates them with a crime.
I knew this poet. His work consisted of snippets from newspapers rearranged into a poem.
Since this was the point, there was certainly no deceit involved. Nobody even raised the question as to whether this was unoriginal. It was original. He rearranged a limited amount of work in a new and totally different way. So it's quite possible not only to use other people's words, but to use entirely other people's words and not be considered to be stealing.
I realise this girl wasn't doing that. I merely point out that this sort of thing can be done legitimately.
Why does it matter whether it's terrorism or not?
It is arguably damage. It isn't killing anybody. It is a political act. Labelling it terrorism just muddies the water by using emotive language.
It's more of an activity. Possibly a culture. It certainly doesn't have anyone who speaks for the group as a whole.
I think it's more the lack of awareness that people seem to be pretty upset about this regardless of whether it's Bush or Obama.
It looks like the majority of comments here are about how this is a violation of fundamental rights.
Does it still count an open quotation mark as a whole word? That really bugged me about v3.1
We still have a matter of context though. Star Wars came out when Cinema was dying and Sci-fi movies were typically cerebral and pretty slow. Movies in general were at that time.
Star Wars started with two spaceships shooting rayguns at each other! Real action sci-fi stuff. It gave us spectacle. We had swordfights and swinging across chasms and dogfights. These days they look pretty tame. The fight at the end of Phantom Menace was way more exciting and action packed, and the pod race was pretty thrilling as well. So from the point of view of action, prequels work a lot better.
Where ANH scores is story structure. It's a pretty basic plot, a heroes journey basically recycled from thousands of ancient stories, but it's tried and tested so it works. TPM has lots of decent enough ideas that could work as a story but simply don't fit together. It could have been great but Lucas seemed to be only interested in spectacle.
Well... we'd get some decent dialogue at least. Wouldn't say everything Joss does is perfect though, and he's really bad at dealing with studio interference.
Yes, but we're also abstracting. This is also nothing new. This is what a chess AI does, but there's probably a meta-intelligence level whereby we work out how to abstract.
Well, humans can be pretty smart but have some pretty illogical belief - for example, we consider it important to propagate our species. There's no real logic to that. It's part of biology hard-wiring us.
So, it's important that our AIs believe that their raison d'etre is to make life better for humans, and we're smart enough to work out what "better" actually means.
Well, you could fast track aspects of it. It might be possible to pre-program language (saving a good couple of years), and there may not be such a need to teach basic numeracy.
Well, you can usually make any code faster. Google presumably felt their JVM was good enough for the current release, and certainly not worth the man hours it would take to make it faster. It probably is if there are a lot of calls to natively compiled code.
Other people clearly have a different idea of what "good enough" is. However, for Google to reach this sort of speed it sounds like they'd need a total rewrite. Their resources are better spent elsewhere.
Another point to consider is that although Google has many extremely intelligent people, it doesn't have a monopoly on extremely intelligent people.
Why not indeed. In fact any new device the question to ask is "how could this be useful to me", or in a broader context "who will find this useful". For example, with MS Surface, the system is quite useful for interactive displays.
Write down all the possible times on bits of paper. Put on blindfold. Throw darts. There's your estimate. I'm consistently getting more accurate times than any other method.