Nobody will come after you if you use code from Stackoverflow without attribution. The code isn't worth enough and the ownership is not obvious enough.
People and companies that have a policy of sticking to the spirit of a licence agreement as well as the letter will appreciate having some rules to know that what they're doing is acceptable.
The problem is, Microsoft and Google use these processes. Then the cargo cult nature of managers comes in and they assume that they are successful because if these processes (rather than because they have a large segment of the market tied up).
Netflix don't give a damn about VPNs. They just need to pay a bit of lip service to mollify their providers. Their providers don't really care too much either. Netflix is giving them money
You gave a patronising non-answer which was based on reading a non-existent subtext into the question. It doesn't answer what the IAU's policy is here or whether they will Latinise the name. When the question was clarified, you switched to a tactic of insults.
Do you have an answer to the question, or are you just some troll relishing in your own superiority for "calling people out" for asking the wrong sorts of question?
It's not an ad hominem attack. Your "just asking questions" comment was an ad hominem attack. You were accusing the other poster of "attempting to make wild accusations acceptable". Did you read the article?
You were attacking the character of the person asking the questions, rather than addressing what you perceive as problems in the questions themselves.
My observation that those who link to rationalwiki are easily offended whiners was also an ad hominem. No surprise you didn't spot that (yes, that's one as well).
This also has nothing to do with my response. Your justification was based on the assumption that rationalwiki was rational. I was simply demonstrating that this is an argument without merit.
Or how about David Cameron, who apparently, " has made it his life's work to surpass his idol in Margaret Thatcher and take her place as the most reviled name in modern British politics."
It's not totally clear but it seems that the IAU uses Latin as the official designation and other nations are free to use their own translation.
So taking a more established place of "Mare Tranquillitatis", it is referred to as Mare Tranquillitatis in a lot of English language articles, but also as The Sea of Tranquility. Likewise, French articles will use both the Latin and "La mer de la Tranquillite", and German article will use the Latin, or "Meer der Ruhe".
Not quite sure what this means for "Moon Palace". I don't think there's any precedent for non-English, non-Latin names. I imagine the IAU will use "Palatio Lunaris", but what everyone else uses will be down to house style, picking either the Latin, Chinese or whatever language is being used.
Twitter's character limit seems to be based on unicode characters. I'd assume it stores internally in one of the UTF encodings.
10000 characters is an arbitrary limit, to prevent people posting entire novels. If some messages take 10K to store and some take 20K or 30K to store it's a fairly minor problem for twitter, where the costs are offset by the fact that this indicates a much larger, more international userbase.
Seriously, I never got the appeal of this 140 character thing. It seems like that creates pressure in the direction of thought-free trivialities rather than meaningful depth of communication.
As far as I can tell, that is the appeal.
before twitter and facebook, LJ and other blogging sites had a pretty active community. The format allowed you to post links to "Which timewasting personality quiz are you" and the like but also had a format that encouraged people to actually say something meaningful. And people posted their actual thoughts. But the short message seems to appeal a lot more.
This is the twitter generation. We just don't have anything like that 5-minute attention span that the MTV generation managed.
The legitimate purpose of the "safe harbor" provisions of the DMCA is precisely this. Send a letter to the publishers infringing the work, and that publisher has to provide details of the actual pirate, and remove the work.
Google has limited power here. They don't know if something is infringing. They will probably remove the book from their search results if they can, but that's all.
Flying east cost to west coast doesn't give you a lot of options. And how do you get to other continents? Do you really think an ocean liner is a realistic option for most people?
My guess is that potatoes are just the acceptable understandable crop for explaining to the public. They'll want to consider a lot of high energy foods. Casava and yam might get better energy density. Sweet potato might win on ease of production. Wild guesses here. May be completely different.
No. That's 0.00015 increase in people dying of cancer. That is for every million people who would normally die of cancer, there will instead be be 1,000,001.5 people dying.
And the number was taken from estimates based on the level of radiation. May have miscalculated my percentage, but the estimate is 6 deaths per year, assuming the risk scales linearly with radiation dose.
According to This article, there were more than 30000 terrorism victims last year.
When you start mentioning things like skin cancer, you start sounding a bit hysterical. Are you *really* worried about a 0.00015% increase in risk of cancer? Honestly, you're several hundred times more likely to be a victim of terrorism than to get skin cancer from thee machines, and that risk is negligible.
It's a nice UI - aesthetically interesting and a much better design for a touch interface than for a mouse and keyboard. Lumia owners seem to be quite happy with their phones. I can imagine some people really liking them.
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Nobody will come after you if you use code from Stackoverflow without attribution. The code isn't worth enough and the ownership is not obvious enough.
People and companies that have a policy of sticking to the spirit of a licence agreement as well as the letter will appreciate having some rules to know that what they're doing is acceptable.
The problem is, Microsoft and Google use these processes. Then the cargo cult nature of managers comes in and they assume that they are successful because if these processes (rather than because they have a large segment of the market tied up).
Netflix don't give a damn about VPNs. They just need to pay a bit of lip service to mollify their providers. Their providers don't really care too much either. Netflix is giving them money
I bet you use your phone to make phone calls as well, like some sort of Luddite.
Surely the GPU can zero hardware quickly though.
The shareholders would blink first. The chairman would be replaced about 30 seconds after suggesting doing something so reckless.
You didn't give those answers. At best you offered part of it as a possibility, and that's being charitable.
You gave a patronising non-answer which was based on reading a non-existent subtext into the question. It doesn't answer what the IAU's policy is here or whether they will Latinise the name. When the question was clarified, you switched to a tactic of insults.
Oh bullshit!
Do you have an answer to the question, or are you just some troll relishing in your own superiority for "calling people out" for asking the wrong sorts of question?
It's not an ad hominem attack. Your "just asking questions" comment was an ad hominem attack. You were accusing the other poster of "attempting to make wild accusations acceptable". Did you read the article?
You were attacking the character of the person asking the questions, rather than addressing what you perceive as problems in the questions themselves.
My observation that those who link to rationalwiki are easily offended whiners was also an ad hominem. No surprise you didn't spot that (yes, that's one as well).
This also has nothing to do with my response. Your justification was based on the assumption that rationalwiki was rational. I was simply demonstrating that this is an argument without merit.
It would help this position of rational wiki was rational. Sadly it's highly selective, and has a clear editorial bias.
Seriously, here's their article on the Daily Telegraph. It starts of reasonable and then goes off on a rant about "wingnuttery", and "pro-batshit" article.
Or how about David Cameron, who apparently, " has made it his life's work to surpass his idol in Margaret Thatcher and take her place as the most reviled name in modern British politics."
It's not totally clear but it seems that the IAU uses Latin as the official designation and other nations are free to use their own translation.
So taking a more established place of "Mare Tranquillitatis", it is referred to as Mare Tranquillitatis in a lot of English language articles, but also as The Sea of Tranquility. Likewise, French articles will use both the Latin and "La mer de la Tranquillite", and German article will use the Latin, or "Meer der Ruhe".
Not quite sure what this means for "Moon Palace". I don't think there's any precedent for non-English, non-Latin names. I imagine the IAU will use "Palatio Lunaris", but what everyone else uses will be down to house style, picking either the Latin, Chinese or whatever language is being used.
I've noticed that those who link to rational wiki are the most petulant, easily offended whiners there are.
Why people think it is a worthwhile website for anything but mockery is beyond me.
Twitter's character limit seems to be based on unicode characters. I'd assume it stores internally in one of the UTF encodings.
10000 characters is an arbitrary limit, to prevent people posting entire novels. If some messages take 10K to store and some take 20K or 30K to store it's a fairly minor problem for twitter, where the costs are offset by the fact that this indicates a much larger, more international userbase.
As far as I can tell, that is the appeal.
before twitter and facebook, LJ and other blogging sites had a pretty active community. The format allowed you to post links to "Which timewasting personality quiz are you" and the like but also had a format that encouraged people to actually say something meaningful. And people posted their actual thoughts. But the short message seems to appeal a lot more.
This is the twitter generation. We just don't have anything like that 5-minute attention span that the MTV generation managed.
The legitimate purpose of the "safe harbor" provisions of the DMCA is precisely this. Send a letter to the publishers infringing the work, and that publisher has to provide details of the actual pirate, and remove the work.
Google has limited power here. They don't know if something is infringing. They will probably remove the book from their search results if they can, but that's all.
Flying east cost to west coast doesn't give you a lot of options. And how do you get to other continents? Do you really think an ocean liner is a realistic option for most people?
My guess is that potatoes are just the acceptable understandable crop for explaining to the public. They'll want to consider a lot of high energy foods. Casava and yam might get better energy density. Sweet potato might win on ease of production. Wild guesses here. May be completely different.
No. That's 0.00015 increase in people dying of cancer. That is for every million people who would normally die of cancer, there will instead be be 1,000,001.5 people dying.
And the number was taken from estimates based on the level of radiation. May have miscalculated my percentage, but the estimate is 6 deaths per year, assuming the risk scales linearly with radiation dose.
According to This article, there were more than 30000 terrorism victims last year.
When you start mentioning things like skin cancer, you start sounding a bit hysterical. Are you *really* worried about a 0.00015% increase in risk of cancer? Honestly, you're several hundred times more likely to be a victim of terrorism than to get skin cancer from thee machines, and that risk is negligible.
Ireland's the bit of the country that defies the yoke of the mainland's righteous oppression.
That's an Ireland thing. They have an agreement with the US. We don't do that in Britain.
They were even quite open about wanting to go to one of their training facilities!
Perhaps, but 410 (gone) and 403 (forbidden) are similar in nature.
Mainly though, it's because people like the Ray Bradbury reference.
It's a nice UI - aesthetically interesting and a much better design for a touch interface than for a mouse and keyboard. Lumia owners seem to be quite happy with their phones. I can imagine some people really liking them.