Come on, folks. There should be a moratorium on new TLDs until they can fix the ones they have. My domain is a good example (we'll call it Fubar):
Fubar.com - owned by namespace, a company who rents email addresses for an outrageous sum. Clearly they should lose their domain, as there is a.name domain specifically for this purpose now. You should have (for the US) a registered corporation (INC/PC/LLC/etc.) registered with a FEIN which justifies the.com being given to you.
Fubar.net - owned by a the Fubar lawfirm. Clearly NOT a network provider of any sort. You should be have a FEIN and corporate papers (they're cheap) indicating that your business is set of for the purpose of providing network services.
Fubar.org - owned by me, Mr. Fubar. Used for personal wmail space and for my political campaign organization. Yes, I ran for elected office last year. I lost. I may run again...eventually. I have also considered hosting the Fubar family genealogy from the.org site. I'm probably borderline here, as you should have your organization set up as a (name your favorite federal paragraph) non-profit/charitable organization or corporate not-for-profit to qualify.
Of course, I'd like Fubar.com for my business, Fubar Engineering, Inc, but I've setteled for FubarEngineering.com. It's a bit cumbersome, especially since I spell Fubar with nine letters.
My point is - until the clean up the process, they shouln't go complicating it any more than it already is. A free-for-all at the top would be disasterous. Not to mention the fact that, like.biz and.ws, it just makes the.com TLD more valuable to squatters. Oh, that too.
There is a billboard in Blacksburg, Virginia what states the 70% of the high shcool students at (Blacksburg High, IIRC) have more fun when they party without alcohol. I've paraphrased from my (poor) memory, VT folks who might want to go see take 460 and turn onto North Main, back into town...it's on the left.
I always thought that that was a bit bad a stat to use, as it implies that 30% of the local high school students prefer to drink when they party.
Actually, you've put your finger on the larger problem in your last sentense:
"Or maybe they expect a flood of online orders from customers in India. Like that will happen."
This is one key problem with the outsourcing of labor to other countries. As cathcy as the phrase "globy economy" is, it is easy to forget that a majority of businesses rely solely on domestic customers. The more payroll which gets paid to international entities, the fewer dollars are available to be spent domestically.
What? "Go global" I hear you say? That's nice, but still cumbersome and mostly out of reach for small business. Let's say I have a chain of three small to medium grocery stores. I should sell overseas? Not really practical. How about if I'm an engineer or an architect? Other countries have vastly different building codes and construction resources. Move an office there? It's hard enough trying to open a new office more than 100 miles away, much less overseas.
No, the ability to outsource certain professions is mostly a drain on the economic engine of this country. It does keep the "saved" money in the pockets of corporations, and hence the stockholders, but the (lower) salary may as well be gone. The world economy isn't "efficient" yet, so this balance can be tipped.
And still to expensive to get hired. No one is complaining about finding qualified American programmers, they're complaining that the qualified American programmers cost more than programmers which the outsourcing/importing agency calims are qualified.
(I'm not saying that none/some/most/all of the Indian programmers are or are not qualified, but it's harder to interview someone effectively 10 timezones away than somwone sitting on the other side of your desk.)
On my reread, I came up with a better book analogy! Forget temperature ranges, imagine if books were printed with ultraviolet absorbing ink at a particular wavelength. The only way to read a book would be to buy a lamp which flouresced in the range which was absorptive by the ink. Now, lets say that they patented that wavelength and only properly licenced lamp vendors could sell lamps with that wavelength. The US government passes a law (THE UV-DMCA) which fobids the sale of any lamp which can radiate in that area of the UV spectrum.
Now, here comes the hi temperature, general purpose incandescent lamp company ("All Spectrum Lamps") whose lamps radiate at blackbody temperatures up into the proper UV range. Of course, they can't sell you the lamp, because that would violate the UV-DMCA. But what if they sold you a (higher resistance) lower temperature lamp, and you doubled the voltage? Now you can read the book with your hacked lamp.
You've followed this far...so answer this: Are allowed to read your book with your new lamp now, or would reading the book without an approved lamp be illegal? Seems silly, but that's exactly what's being thrown about here. Although the intended viewing apparatus isn't being used, the content is really what we're interested in.
It's the UV-DMCA restrictions on commercial production of any UV emitting lamps which is preventing the All Spectrum Lamp company from selling their portable viewing devices.;-)
Interesting...I bought a consumer product. Paid cash and got a physical object. Looks like a sale, not a contract to me. Sure, it's covered under copyright. I didn't buy bits or encryption - that's not whats advertised - I bought a movie. I'm not interested in the paper or ink when I buy a book, I'm buying the story.
I've always had those rights. Content providers have found ways to tie up the delivery system - control it from top to bottom they thought - in order to limit access to those rights. Now, we're "finding out" about those new limitations. The providers are giving us your line - "you never had those rights" - like they have the power to dictate copyright law. (okay, aside from the congressmen they own) Bzzzt. Sorry. Thankyouforplaying. They've made an effort with DVD, and you can bet they'll have learned lessons which thy will apply to the HD-(media) rollout.
Books are a worn-out analogy, nonetheless, here I go. I'd be pretty pissed if my paperback ink became transparent outside of a narrow temperature range, say 60F to 80F. Sure, it would be fine for 95% of my reading, but would I really want a book that couldn't be read at the beach, or at the busstop in the winter? Of course not. If Doubleday tried to pull that, we'd photocopy the book in the office, then take the temperature-independent print on vacation.
Whether I buy bits or celluloid or pages, the medium is still just a delivery mechanism. The copyright - the product - is about the content, and copyright laws have undergone fairly little in the way of consumer rights in recent history (extensions "for all eternity" not withstanding).
No, you haven't encrypted anything, nor have you committed a crime. Yuo have decrypted a movie from DVD and placed it in an encoded (for compression) format. Now, bu the DMCA, you're not allowed to sell (term used loosly) any way to decrypt the content, but if you write the code yourself for your personal use you're ok. You're still restricted by fair use of the copyrighted material, of course.
As for "used in the commission of a crime..," that always reminds me of a discussion I had in high school. If you plead not guilty to a crime or - worse - testify that you are innocent of a crime during your criminal trial, and are found guilty, are you then also guity of perjury? Clearly if you are found guilty, and claimed - under oath - that you were not, then you must have committed perjury. Nobody ever seems to get called on that one, though (except Bill Clinton, who lied to cover up something that wasn't illegal, and got caught).
Exactly - $28M profit in two years ($372M purchase just 22 months after $344M investment). Looks like about 4% per year, and that was through the dot-com burst period.
Of course, if you consider the $250M damage award to the eventual purchaser, the effective sales price was quite a bit lower. Call it a "pre- rebate!"
Yes that is a lot of pain. I nine days in the UVa burn unit, admitted with 30% full thickness burns. You can ask "how bad is it on a scale of 1 to 10?" Well, I've injured myself pretty good over the years in various ways, mostly cuts & bruises from home remodeling, and have my share of minor scars. The scale expands when you have serious burns, and the typical 1 to 10 covers the span of, say, 1 to 2 when compared to burns. And that's if you consider the 1-10 scale logarithmic to begin with! Dressing changes and wound cleaning (aka pulling off your skin each day) are, without a doubt, the worst. Good opiates help during those times, and minor pain relievers (codene (sp), etc.) do an okay job the rest of the time, but distraction is critical. If you have nothing to do, you focus on the pain. Have you noticed that hospital TVs only ever seem to show soap operas and golf? Torture when your well, downright evil when you're a captive audience.
Luckily, the my burn extent & thickness was overestimated. That and I'm an ornery b@astard and refuse to allow such things to slow me down. It still took two months for me to return to work. After six years there is no readily visible scarring.
Here's my question: does this work to combat the absolutely infernal itching that occurs when the hair begins growing back? I could handle the cleaning and dressing with just a few ibuprofin in under two weeks, but - damnit - I couldn't take enough benedryl to keep my from wanting to scratch!
Oh, and the positive (for me) side effect was that I don't have to listen to any labor pain whining from my wife. I'm willing to concede the pains of childbirth, but even my wife and I called a truce on who has experienced the worst pain. I don't wish either on any sane person.
FWIW, when I hear news reports of very serious burn injuries it still makes me shiver. For those with 50-75%+ full thickness burns, I quitely hope that they don't make it through the first night. The suffering they will go through...no one should ever have to edure that.
At a cost of (what I've heard) somewhere north of $1x10^12 dollars for a mission to Mars, the cost to keep Hubble working is quite a small sum. In fact, there's nothing I'm aware of which would prevent a lunar-capable vehicle from servicing Hubble for the extended term. Of course, you're not going to get an extra trillion dollars into NASA by tossing in an extra 5% a year, as Dubya has offered in his budget proposal.
Luckily, Barbara Mikulski (Senator MD-D), is the toughest legislator on the hill (inch-for-inch), especially when it comes to protecting projects at the Goddard Space Flight Center, where Hubble's team is located. I hope she wins this time, too.
Metric world: you're vibration modes don't look right, they're off by about a factor of ten from where you think they should be, where did you make a mistake?
English world (Imperial): you're vibration modes don't look right, they're off by about a factor of twenty from where you think they should be, where did you make a mistake?
Though it seems trivial, I have had to troubleshoot these types of problems for junior engineers. The first situation would require a complete reevalution of the mathematical models used - there are lots of combintions of factors of ten which result in the answer being off. The second is easy: using lbm instead of slugs for mass. SQRT(386.4)~20. 386.4=32.2ft/s x 12in/ft.
A mistake you probably wouldn't make using SI, admittedly, since you (almost) never refer to the weight of an object (Newtons) and instead use the appropriate defining unit of mass correctly.
As for English/Imperial: Heck, here in the states we say we speack English, though to just about anyone else in the world the difference between speech here and in England clearly differs.
"There's no evidence Sprague was duplicating these movies and selling them," he added. "But anything is possible."
He should really get life for this. I mean, just listen to the FBI, "Anything is possible." I'll bet he used those screeners to kill people too. I mean "anything is possilbe." They'd better check all tohe cold case murders in that town. There's no telling what kind of felon this guy is. I mean, they already know he's actually used this slolen property to fund his *gasp* vast FedEx shipping empire.
He shouldn't do any time. He should have a small fine to pay (FBI wonks cost money, I'd say $50,000 should do it). Make sure there's a felony on his record - he did steal over $300 worth of "content".
He should have to pay for the owners of the copyrighted films for the distribution to the half-dozen or so family members he send the discs to. (60/yr*6 copies*3years*-let's say 3x damages = $4320)
DirecTV should sue his ass for theft of service, also with triple damages. That would be quite a bit more: figure $90 for all the channels, plus another 90-150 for PPV (how much can you really watch in a day?) x (?) 5 years x 6 boxes (oh, actually that's only $5 extra per box, per mo.)
All in all, he's a bad man doing bad things. Doesn't really rank up there with killing, raping, physically assault, selling drugs, or cooking corporate books resulting in the _direct_ loss of billions of dollars for shareholders. Still, he does deserve a good slap.
Here's a tangential question: If you plead innocent and are then found guilty, aren't you also therefor guilty of perjury?
Or is it like suicide, which is considered a homicide in some (most? all?) states, but if the victim dies there's no sense in prosecuting, and if the victim lives, you figure the insanity defense is a lock.
That just allows us to be one step closer to reverse engineering the entire system. Patents do not hold force against items you create for personal use. Once the "secret" parts are reverse engineered and completed, the only thing left is to personally implement the patentable part. Royalty free personal use is part of the code IIRC.
Of course, the problem comes in where the distribution occurs. How much can I give you before I've crossed the line? C code isn't useable, it's just the "parts". If I gave you a bunch of seeminly generic gears and you made a Wankel engine out of it would it be an infringement? If the engine were't patented but a particular gear was, and I let you borrow the jig I made to creat that part, knowing you had a the tools and material?
When jig -> code, and tools -> assembler, and material -> electrons or magnetic states...well, that's why the whole system is broken I suppose.
I suspect it would be viewed like the video speed traps which can't positively identify the driver. They usually get dimissed (at least on appeal), because the person at fault can't be identified (am I remembering this right?).
Your ISP could still stab you in the eye with a red hot poker, but they probably don't care as long as you're not a bandwidth hog and you pay your bill evey month.
I should have specified AutoCAD in the A/E (Architecture and Engineering) world. If you work with architects, you use AutoCAD. Sure, there are other packages, but they're fractional in marketshare. If you don't, you'd better have a d@mned good DXF engine.
AutoCAD was late to the 3D party, so they're not the big fish for manufacturing. I used both SolidEdge and Pro/E when I did work in the mechanical/aero/optical field. That market is fairly fragmented, and there's no clear winner (yet). I must admit that I don't pine over not having to buy a $20k pro/e license to get one desktop running in my small firm.
I use flac for the original copy. Then I transcode for my portable. I got burned by MP3 ad MP3pro (please don't laugh). Now I'll only rip to lossless. FLAC is superfast and GB's are cheap.
FWIW, using EAC to encode FLAC and foobar2000 to transcode (LAME MP3 engine) is my combo of choice.
My two missing pieces are finding a good cataloging/playlisting app and something better than WMP for PocketPC. $200+ for a dedcated MP3 player just isn't high on my list right now.
You mean 'cause it's mostly white, right? Besides that, it's mostly generic. Nearly all of the devices out there are roughly parallelpiped boxes with a rectangular display and buttons.
Yes, the circular arrangement of transport buttons is reminiscent of the iPod, but it's the white color that sets it closer to the iPod than other players. Imagine the Dcube box in either "stainless" or "metallic blue" - then it looks like every other generic player out there.
I accidentally left crossfading on when I d/l'ed WinAmp3 a while back. I queued up a book to listen to, and had quite a shock at the end of the first / beginning of the second tracks. At first I thought it might be voices in my head.
Ah, but that's what makes the discussion so interesting.
You're an infantryman in a foreign coutry getting shot at by someone who doesn't want you there. When you decided to be an infantryman, did you expect something else?
If you were trained as an underwater diver and intended to work oil rigs, you wouldn't get to complain about the lousy conditions either.
HOWEVER, let's say you spent $40,000 of your (or, more likely, your parents) money and four years (or more) of your life to get a college degree so that you would work in primarily climate controlled, professional office spaces with other (supposedly) intellegent people who rarely want to shoot at you with the kind of firepower afforded to those in combat.
Now, if you fall ito the latter case, and find that you are in a situation where the conditions are significanlty worse than one might expect, you've got a reason to stand up and be counted.
Let's review:
soldier = getting shot at for money programmer = holding down a chair with your butt
Both people find themselves in a drafty building with no heat or air conditioning with dangerous or gross things happening all around them. Which work environment has the greatest contrast to the expected situation? The programmer, of course, and that's the point.
I'm thankful that some folks, like you, have chosen to join the military as their vocation. Nonetheless, as one of the people who pays for your salary, healthcare, training, and other benefits I find your attitude disappointing. I can only hope that if and when you have child(ren) you let them know that the military, in your opinion, is not a worthwhile career path.
Damn. I wish I made enough to pay 27% to the feds on my gross income.
When I made 100k+ in SoCal with nary a deduction, I paid almost 13% fo my gross income in Federal income taxes, and something like 7% to the state.
Now, if you're referring to you adjusted gross income, which is usually less than 75% of your gross, and lumping in property taxes on a high $$$ area, and Social Security and Medicare (both halves if you're self employed, yeah!), and sales taxes, etc., then you have a point.
My question to you is: would you like an instant 20% reduction in your (federal income) taxes as well as a drop in mortgage rates? Yes? Tell that idiot in the White house to stop spending money and pay off the damned national debt. If your curious, todays balance is $7,006,834,072,435.49. Lat year's tab for interest came in around $318,000,000,000.00, or 18%(?) of the federal budget.
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"Did you bulls#!t last week? Did you TRY to bulls#!t last week?"
Hmmm...actually, that'll probably be the next questions for all the lawyers for SCO.
(took me many watchings to catch the Roman Feast and Orgy banner which advertised "first served, first come")
If they say it isn't about the money...then it is.
Come on, folks. There should be a moratorium on new TLDs until they can fix the ones they have. My domain is a good example (we'll call it Fubar):
.name domain specifically for this purpose now. You should have (for the US) a registered corporation (INC/PC/LLC/etc.) registered with a FEIN which justifies the .com being given to you.
.org site. I'm probably borderline here, as you should have your organization set up as a (name your favorite federal paragraph) non-profit/charitable organization or corporate not-for-profit to qualify.
.biz and .ws, it just makes the .com TLD more valuable to squatters. Oh, that too.
Fubar.com - owned by namespace, a company who rents email addresses for an outrageous sum. Clearly they should lose their domain, as there is a
Fubar.net - owned by a the Fubar lawfirm. Clearly NOT a network provider of any sort. You should be have a FEIN and corporate papers (they're cheap) indicating that your business is set of for the purpose of providing network services.
Fubar.org - owned by me, Mr. Fubar. Used for personal wmail space and for my political campaign organization. Yes, I ran for elected office last year. I lost. I may run again...eventually. I have also considered hosting the Fubar family genealogy from the
Of course, I'd like Fubar.com for my business, Fubar Engineering, Inc, but I've setteled for FubarEngineering.com. It's a bit cumbersome, especially since I spell Fubar with nine letters.
My point is - until the clean up the process, they shouln't go complicating it any more than it already is. A free-for-all at the top would be disasterous. Not to mention the fact that, like
God, I love slashdot!
There is a billboard in Blacksburg, Virginia what states the 70% of the high shcool students at (Blacksburg High, IIRC) have more fun when they party without alcohol. I've paraphrased from my (poor) memory, VT folks who might want to go see take 460 and turn onto North Main, back into town...it's on the left.
I always thought that that was a bit bad a stat to use, as it implies that 30% of the local high school students prefer to drink when they party.
Damned my lack of mod points! (as an Alton Brown fan, I find the though of horrible accidents happening to Emeril way to funny)
Actually, you've put your finger on the larger problem in your last sentense:
"Or maybe they expect a flood of online orders from customers in India. Like that will happen."
This is one key problem with the outsourcing of labor to other countries. As cathcy as the phrase "globy economy" is, it is easy to forget that a majority of businesses rely solely on domestic customers. The more payroll which gets paid to international entities, the fewer dollars are available to be spent domestically.
What? "Go global" I hear you say? That's nice, but still cumbersome and mostly out of reach for small business. Let's say I have a chain of three small to medium grocery stores. I should sell overseas? Not really practical. How about if I'm an engineer or an architect? Other countries have vastly different building codes and construction resources. Move an office there? It's hard enough trying to open a new office more than 100 miles away, much less overseas.
No, the ability to outsource certain professions is mostly a drain on the economic engine of this country. It does keep the "saved" money in the pockets of corporations, and hence the stockholders, but the (lower) salary may as well be gone. The world economy isn't "efficient" yet, so this balance can be tipped.
And still to expensive to get hired. No one is complaining about finding qualified American programmers, they're complaining that the qualified American programmers cost more than programmers which the outsourcing/importing agency calims are qualified.
(I'm not saying that none/some/most/all of the Indian programmers are or are not qualified, but it's harder to interview someone effectively 10 timezones away than somwone sitting on the other side of your desk.)
On my reread, I came up with a better book analogy! Forget temperature ranges, imagine if books were printed with ultraviolet absorbing ink at a particular wavelength. The only way to read a book would be to buy a lamp which flouresced in the range which was absorptive by the ink. Now, lets say that they patented that wavelength and only properly licenced lamp vendors could sell lamps with that wavelength. The US government passes a law (THE UV-DMCA) which fobids the sale of any lamp which can radiate in that area of the UV spectrum.
;-)
Now, here comes the hi temperature, general purpose incandescent lamp company ("All Spectrum Lamps") whose lamps radiate at blackbody temperatures up into the proper UV range. Of course, they can't sell you the lamp, because that would violate the UV-DMCA. But what if they sold you a (higher resistance) lower temperature lamp, and you doubled the voltage? Now you can read the book with your hacked lamp.
You've followed this far...so answer this:
Are allowed to read your book with your new lamp now, or would reading the book without an approved lamp be illegal? Seems silly, but that's exactly what's being thrown about here. Although the intended viewing apparatus isn't being used, the content is really what we're interested in.
It's the UV-DMCA restrictions on commercial production of any UV emitting lamps which is preventing the All Spectrum Lamp company from selling their portable viewing devices.
Interesting...I bought a consumer product. Paid cash and got a physical object. Looks like a sale, not a contract to me. Sure, it's covered under copyright. I didn't buy bits or encryption - that's not whats advertised - I bought a movie. I'm not interested in the paper or ink when I buy a book, I'm buying the story.
I've always had those rights. Content providers have found ways to tie up the delivery system - control it from top to bottom they thought - in order to limit access to those rights. Now, we're "finding out" about those new limitations. The providers are giving us your line - "you never had those rights" - like they have the power to dictate copyright law. (okay, aside from the congressmen they own) Bzzzt. Sorry. Thankyouforplaying. They've made an effort with DVD, and you can bet they'll have learned lessons which thy will apply to the HD-(media) rollout.
Books are a worn-out analogy, nonetheless, here I go. I'd be pretty pissed if my paperback ink became transparent outside of a narrow temperature range, say 60F to 80F. Sure, it would be fine for 95% of my reading, but would I really want a book that couldn't be read at the beach, or at the busstop in the winter? Of course not. If Doubleday tried to pull that, we'd photocopy the book in the office, then take the temperature-independent print on vacation.
Whether I buy bits or celluloid or pages, the medium is still just a delivery mechanism. The copyright - the product - is about the content, and copyright laws have undergone fairly little in the way of consumer rights in recent history (extensions "for all eternity" not withstanding).
No, you haven't encrypted anything, nor have you committed a crime. Yuo have decrypted a movie from DVD and placed it in an encoded (for compression) format. Now, bu the DMCA, you're not allowed to sell (term used loosly) any way to decrypt the content, but if you write the code yourself for your personal use you're ok. You're still restricted by fair use of the copyrighted material, of course.
As for "used in the commission of a crime..," that always reminds me of a discussion I had in high school. If you plead not guilty to a crime or - worse - testify that you are innocent of a crime during your criminal trial, and are found guilty, are you then also guity of perjury? Clearly if you are found guilty, and claimed - under oath - that you were not, then you must have committed perjury. Nobody ever seems to get called on that one, though (except Bill Clinton, who lied to cover up something that wasn't illegal, and got caught).
Exactly - $28M profit in two years ($372M purchase just 22 months after $344M investment). Looks like about 4% per year, and that was through the dot-com burst period.
Of course, if you consider the $250M damage award to the eventual purchaser, the effective sales price was quite a bit lower. Call it a "pre- rebate!"
Yeah, a dash in there would really help parse it a bit better.
Yes that is a lot of pain. I nine days in the UVa burn unit, admitted with 30% full thickness burns. You can ask "how bad is it on a scale of 1 to 10?" Well, I've injured myself pretty good over the years in various ways, mostly cuts & bruises from home remodeling, and have my share of minor scars. The scale expands when you have serious burns, and the typical 1 to 10 covers the span of, say, 1 to 2 when compared to burns. And that's if you consider the 1-10 scale logarithmic to begin with! Dressing changes and wound cleaning (aka pulling off your skin each day) are, without a doubt, the worst. Good opiates help during those times, and minor pain relievers (codene (sp), etc.) do an okay job the rest of the time, but distraction is critical. If you have nothing to do, you focus on the pain. Have you noticed that hospital TVs only ever seem to show soap operas and golf? Torture when your well, downright evil when you're a captive audience.
Luckily, the my burn extent & thickness was overestimated. That and I'm an ornery b@astard and refuse to allow such things to slow me down. It still took two months for me to return to work. After six years there is no readily visible scarring.
Here's my question: does this work to combat the absolutely infernal itching that occurs when the hair begins growing back? I could handle the cleaning and dressing with just a few ibuprofin in under two weeks, but - damnit - I couldn't take enough benedryl to keep my from wanting to scratch!
Oh, and the positive (for me) side effect was that I don't have to listen to any labor pain whining from my wife. I'm willing to concede the pains of childbirth, but even my wife and I called a truce on who has experienced the worst pain. I don't wish either on any sane person.
FWIW, when I hear news reports of very serious burn injuries it still makes me shiver. For those with 50-75%+ full thickness burns, I quitely hope that they don't make it through the first night. The suffering they will go through...no one should ever have to edure that.
At a cost of (what I've heard) somewhere north of $1x10^12 dollars for a mission to Mars, the cost to keep Hubble working is quite a small sum. In fact, there's nothing I'm aware of which would prevent a lunar-capable vehicle from servicing Hubble for the extended term. Of course, you're not going to get an extra trillion dollars into NASA by tossing in an extra 5% a year, as Dubya has offered in his budget proposal.
Luckily, Barbara Mikulski (Senator MD-D), is the toughest legislator on the hill (inch-for-inch), especially when it comes to protecting projects at the Goddard Space Flight Center, where Hubble's team is located. I hope she wins this time, too.
Okay, try this one:
Metric world: you're vibration modes don't look right, they're off by about a factor of ten from where you think they should be, where did you make a mistake?
English world (Imperial): you're vibration modes don't look right, they're off by about a factor of twenty from where you think they should be, where did you make a mistake?
Though it seems trivial, I have had to troubleshoot these types of problems for junior engineers. The first situation would require a complete reevalution of the mathematical models used - there are lots of combintions of factors of ten which result in the answer being off. The second is easy: using lbm instead of slugs for mass. SQRT(386.4)~20. 386.4=32.2ft/s x 12in/ft.
A mistake you probably wouldn't make using SI, admittedly, since you (almost) never refer to the weight of an object (Newtons) and instead use the appropriate defining unit of mass correctly.
As for English/Imperial: Heck, here in the states we say we speack English, though to just about anyone else in the world the difference between speech here and in England clearly differs.
"There's no evidence Sprague was duplicating these movies and selling them," he added. "But anything is possible."
He should really get life for this. I mean, just listen to the FBI, "Anything is possible." I'll bet he used those screeners to kill people too. I mean "anything is possilbe." They'd better check all tohe cold case murders in that town. There's no telling what kind of felon this guy is. I mean, they already know he's actually used this slolen property to fund his *gasp* vast FedEx shipping empire.
He shouldn't do any time. He should have a small fine to pay (FBI wonks cost money, I'd say $50,000 should do it). Make sure there's a felony on his record - he did steal over $300 worth of "content".
He should have to pay for the owners of the copyrighted films for the distribution to the half-dozen or so family members he send the discs to. (60/yr*6 copies*3years*-let's say 3x damages = $4320)
DirecTV should sue his ass for theft of service, also with triple damages. That would be quite a bit more: figure $90 for all the channels, plus another 90-150 for PPV (how much can you really watch in a day?) x (?) 5 years x 6 boxes (oh, actually that's only $5 extra per box, per mo.)
All in all, he's a bad man doing bad things. Doesn't really rank up there with killing, raping, physically assault, selling drugs, or cooking corporate books resulting in the _direct_ loss of billions of dollars for shareholders. Still, he does deserve a good slap.
Here's a tangential question: If you plead innocent and are then found guilty, aren't you also therefor guilty of perjury?
Or is it like suicide, which is considered a homicide in some (most? all?) states, but if the victim dies there's no sense in prosecuting, and if the victim lives, you figure the insanity defense is a lock.
That just allows us to be one step closer to reverse engineering the entire system. Patents do not hold force against items you create for personal use. Once the "secret" parts are reverse engineered and completed, the only thing left is to personally implement the patentable part. Royalty free personal use is part of the code IIRC.
Of course, the problem comes in where the distribution occurs. How much can I give you before I've crossed the line? C code isn't useable, it's just the "parts". If I gave you a bunch of seeminly generic gears and you made a Wankel engine out of it would it be an infringement? If the engine were't patented but a particular gear was, and I let you borrow the jig I made to creat that part, knowing you had a the tools and material?
When jig -> code, and tools -> assembler, and material -> electrons or magnetic states...well, that's why the whole system is broken I suppose.
Separate cases.
I suspect it would be viewed like the video speed traps which can't positively identify the driver. They usually get dimissed (at least on appeal), because the person at fault can't be identified (am I remembering this right?).
Your ISP could still stab you in the eye with a red hot poker, but they probably don't care as long as you're not a bandwidth hog and you pay your bill evey month.
I know this is late, but I had to add:
I should have specified AutoCAD in the A/E (Architecture and Engineering) world. If you work with architects, you use AutoCAD. Sure, there are other packages, but they're fractional in marketshare. If you don't, you'd better have a d@mned good DXF engine.
AutoCAD was late to the 3D party, so they're not the big fish for manufacturing. I used both SolidEdge and Pro/E when I did work in the mechanical/aero/optical field. That market is fairly fragmented, and there's no clear winner (yet). I must admit that I don't pine over not having to buy a $20k pro/e license to get one desktop running in my small firm.
I use flac for the original copy. Then I transcode for my portable. I got burned by MP3 ad MP3pro (please don't laugh). Now I'll only rip to lossless. FLAC is superfast and GB's are cheap.
FWIW, using EAC to encode FLAC and foobar2000 to transcode (LAME MP3 engine) is my combo of choice.
My two missing pieces are finding a good cataloging/playlisting app and something better than WMP for PocketPC. $200+ for a dedcated MP3 player just isn't high on my list right now.
You mean 'cause it's mostly white, right? Besides that, it's mostly generic. Nearly all of the devices out there are roughly parallelpiped boxes with a rectangular display and buttons.
Yes, the circular arrangement of transport buttons is reminiscent of the iPod, but it's the white color that sets it closer to the iPod than other players. Imagine the Dcube box in either "stainless" or "metallic blue" - then it looks like every other generic player out there.
I accidentally left crossfading on when I d/l'ed WinAmp3 a while back. I queued up a book to listen to, and had quite a shock at the end of the first / beginning of the second tracks. At first I thought it might be voices in my head.
Ah, but that's what makes the discussion so interesting.
You're an infantryman in a foreign coutry getting shot at by someone who doesn't want you there. When you decided to be an infantryman, did you expect something else?
If you were trained as an underwater diver and intended to work oil rigs, you wouldn't get to complain about the lousy conditions either.
HOWEVER, let's say you spent $40,000 of your (or, more likely, your parents) money and four years (or more) of your life to get a college degree so that you would work in primarily climate controlled, professional office spaces with other (supposedly) intellegent people who rarely want to shoot at you with the kind of firepower afforded to those in combat.
Now, if you fall ito the latter case, and find that you are in a situation where the conditions are significanlty worse than one might expect, you've got a reason to stand up and be counted.
Let's review:
soldier = getting shot at for money
programmer = holding down a chair with your butt
Both people find themselves in a drafty building with no heat or air conditioning with dangerous or gross things happening all around them. Which work environment has the greatest contrast to the expected situation? The programmer, of course, and that's the point.
I'm thankful that some folks, like you, have chosen to join the military as their vocation. Nonetheless, as one of the people who pays for your salary, healthcare, training, and other benefits I find your attitude disappointing. I can only hope that if and when you have child(ren) you let them know that the military, in your opinion, is not a worthwhile career path.
Damn. I wish I made enough to pay 27% to the feds on my gross income.
When I made 100k+ in SoCal with nary a deduction, I paid almost 13% fo my gross income in Federal income taxes, and something like 7% to the state.
Now, if you're referring to you adjusted gross income, which is usually less than 75% of your gross, and lumping in property taxes on a high $$$ area, and Social Security and Medicare (both halves if you're self employed, yeah!), and sales taxes, etc., then you have a point.
My question to you is: would you like an instant 20% reduction in your (federal income) taxes as well as a drop in mortgage rates? Yes? Tell that idiot in the White house to stop spending money and pay off the damned national debt. If your curious, todays balance is $7,006,834,072,435.49. Lat year's tab for interest came in around $318,000,000,000.00, or 18%(?) of the federal budget.