Quite often, I will want to read about a story, and the couple of sources listed on the front page will all be two paragraph summaries that provide absolutely no detail. I often have to search through the list of sources to find a decent story.
I don't know how Google News works, but I would guess it used similar principles to Google Search -- that is, link popularity is an important factor.
This would explain a bias toward shorter stories -- the ones most likely to get a link are the ones who break the story first, which means they probably have fewer details than the stories which come later.
Engines have Rev Limiters that will stop the RPMs from going to a point of an Engine Blow.
This may be true, but generally I wouldn't recommend depending on them. In my experience of attempting to move a car with a stuck throttle while moderating the speed by periodically stepping on the clutch, they can still overheat and blow steam pipes _very_ quickly. In case it isn't obvious, I don't recommend this technique to anyone.
You must either use the Work as an insubstantial portion of Your Derivative Work(s) or transform it into something substantially different from the original Work. " - without definitions of 'insubstantial' and 'substantial' this is meaningless at best, and at worst actually prohibits remixing!
"Substantial" in this context is actually a word that is reasonably well defined in legal circles, and which has a lot of case law that can be used to determine what is substantial and what isn't.
Also note that two opposite meanings (substantial and insubstantial) are used; this should have the effect that for any particular cut-off point you define for what is substantial, the same use of the work is legal, as long as you are consistent in that definition. I think this is actually quite well phrased, and will almost certainly be validated if it ever goes to court.
In other news, the word "Cyber" hasn't been cool since 1988. Please don't use it anymore.
I think people should feel free to use it, as long as they use it in a way consistent with its actual meaning. (For those who don't know, it refers to controlling physical processes.)
They aren't. To be guilty of most offences, trespassing included, you must be aware of the fact that you're committing them. Or rather, I believe, a "reasonable person" in the same situation must be considered likely to be aware they're committing them. As a "reasonable person" cannot be expected to have technical knowledge of how wireless networking works, you can get away with this. Unless you are in a position that means you "ought to know better".
It's ridiculous, and wireless router manufacturers should make it mandatory to choose passwords and security phrases. Simply resolve all internet access to the internal configuration page until the router has been successfully configured.
Sorry, that's a patented technology, you can't do that.
That Mozilla has a _huge_ number of bugs, many of which have existed for a number of years, a lot of which probably won't be fixed any time soon. Those working on the project don't generally care about them enough to fix them -- this is, after all, "only" a denial of service bug (note: I'm not condoning or excusing this behaviour, just saying that this is how a lot of people think).
Is it just me who can't read anything containing the name "Mr. Anderson" (or any other similar spelling) without it "sounding" eerily like Agent Smith?
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I see your point. The problem is, very little is _really_ original, any more. I'll admit I haven't seen the two films you cite (although the summary of Napoleon Dynamite on IMDB doesn't sound tremendously original to me, I'll grant that Donnie Darko has the potential of originality... as long as it isn't taken down any of a few paths that are likely to be very predictable), but there is a problem here, and it isn't that producers are playing it safe too much.
The problem is, writing something original is difficult. Nearly impossible, in fact. You can write what you think is original, but chances are that somebody, somewhere has done something very similar before... you just haven't seen it.
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I've said for years that record companies need to rebuild their business model so they can service and profit from lots of artists that can sell 10K units in a good year.The problem is solvable. Hint: their problem is based on physical CD distribution.
That's not the reason they can't do this.
Most of the cost of running this kind of business is in promotion -- if they didn't spend a fortune promoting individual artists, people would lose interest. The net result of spreading the marketing budget over more options is fewer total sales; they know this, because they will have tried it out at some point (on a small scale, of course).
Re:You know how films rarely live up to a book?
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Interestingly, what the OP was unfavourably comparing the books to was an instance of something that did cross media well -- Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy, which started off as a radio play.
Wasn't he the hero of the rather obscure series of fantasy novels set on a planet called 'Gor', which seemed (from the few I read) to document the hero gradually turning into a slave trader?
No -- most other adware the advert can be closed by closing the application in question. The law (as quoted) stipulates that the user must not have to close their web browser, but does not have the same requirement about any other application that may be running.
Because the license will almost certainly include an NDA, and ISTR they've released openexchange under an open source license now (is that right, or was I imagining it?), so they can't.
I worked for a while at a bank that used HP OpenMail as their back end, and that worked well. I believe the per-seat licensing is substantially lower than Exchange.
I'd rather hope they spend at least that long testing the entire platform they've put together for stability before releasing it.
OTOH, SuSE has been a very KDE-centric distribution for a long time. I don't suspect it'll have changed much with this release.
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Now I see an unpleasant tendency of including prerelease software in SuSE. As far as I remember, they were shipping a prerelease gcc 3.3, which caused problems with my (in-house) project and some prerelease of X11.
I didn't experience this, cause I upgraded straight from 7.x to 9.1, which has a fairly standard gcc 3.3.3.
How does the SuSE desktop feel, in both KDE and GNOME modes?
From my experience with 9.1, the free downloadable ISO image only includes KDE. You have to install GNOME by ftp from their web site if you want it. Given that this would have been over a modem for me, I didn't bother...
Yeah, that's the best reason for not liking rebooting. I have Mozilla open with about 30 tabs on various web sites, scrolled to information that I might need to refer to. I have 6 terminal sessions open to different machines, applications running in each of them. I have e-mail windows open in the background that have information I intend to use. If I need to reboot, I'll have to make notes of which e-mails these are because my mail client doesn't support remembering about open windows. I have several documents open in Acrobat that I'll need to refer to in the future. I have a text editor with about 30 open files, most of which I'll need to edit soon and don't want to have to find again in a hurry. I have a file sharing application open that is stuck in the middle of some very long download queues; rebooting at the moment will probably put me back by at least a day in getting those files I'm downloading.
This is why I don't like rebooting. It interrupts my workflow.
Notice the superfluous bordering especially on the right and left of konqueror and konsole
Err... that border isn't superfluous, it's there to identify (in the case of konsole) that what's inside it will be switched if you click on one of the tabs or (with konqueror) that the pane is 'inside' the draggable framework.
I think it's better that it is there than not, although I'll agree that's probably highly subjective.
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OK, so they were planning a demonstration with the intent of trying to disrupt a political rally. I believe this is a perfectly legal activity.
Quite often, I will want to read about a story, and the couple of sources listed on the front page will all be two paragraph summaries that provide absolutely no detail. I often have to search through the list of sources to find a decent story.
I don't know how Google News works, but I would guess it used similar principles to Google Search -- that is, link popularity is an important factor.
This would explain a bias toward shorter stories -- the ones most likely to get a link are the ones who break the story first, which means they probably have fewer details than the stories which come later.
Engines have Rev Limiters that will stop the RPMs from going to a point of an Engine Blow.
This may be true, but generally I wouldn't recommend depending on them. In my experience of attempting to move a car with a stuck throttle while moderating the speed by periodically stepping on the clutch, they can still overheat and blow steam pipes _very_ quickly. In case it isn't obvious, I don't recommend this technique to anyone.
You must either use the Work as an insubstantial portion of Your Derivative Work(s) or transform it into something substantially different from the original Work. " - without definitions of 'insubstantial' and 'substantial' this is meaningless at best, and at worst actually prohibits remixing!
"Substantial" in this context is actually a word that is reasonably well defined in legal circles, and which has a lot of case law that can be used to determine what is substantial and what isn't.
Also note that two opposite meanings (substantial and insubstantial) are used; this should have the effect that for any particular cut-off point you define for what is substantial, the same use of the work is legal, as long as you are consistent in that definition. I think this is actually quite well phrased, and will almost certainly be validated if it ever goes to court.
In other news, the word "Cyber" hasn't been cool since 1988. Please don't use it anymore.
I think people should feel free to use it, as long as they use it in a way consistent with its actual meaning. (For those who don't know, it refers to controlling physical processes.)
They aren't. To be guilty of most offences, trespassing included, you must be aware of the fact that you're committing them. Or rather, I believe, a "reasonable person" in the same situation must be considered likely to be aware they're committing them. As a "reasonable person" cannot be expected to have technical knowledge of how wireless networking works, you can get away with this. Unless you are in a position that means you "ought to know better".
It's ridiculous, and wireless router manufacturers should make it mandatory to choose passwords and security phrases. Simply resolve all internet access to the internal configuration page until the router has been successfully configured.
Sorry, that's a patented technology, you can't do that.
That Mozilla has a _huge_ number of bugs, many of which have existed for a number of years, a lot of which probably won't be fixed any time soon. Those working on the project don't generally care about them enough to fix them -- this is, after all, "only" a denial of service bug (note: I'm not condoning or excusing this behaviour, just saying that this is how a lot of people think).
What standards are Mozilla breaking here? I don't get that.
Is it just me who can't read anything containing the name "Mr. Anderson" (or any other similar spelling) without it "sounding" eerily like Agent Smith?
I see your point. The problem is, very little is _really_ original, any more. I'll admit I haven't seen the two films you cite (although the summary of Napoleon Dynamite on IMDB doesn't sound tremendously original to me, I'll grant that Donnie Darko has the potential of originality... as long as it isn't taken down any of a few paths that are likely to be very predictable), but there is a problem here, and it isn't that producers are playing it safe too much.
The problem is, writing something original is difficult. Nearly impossible, in fact. You can write what you think is original, but chances are that somebody, somewhere has done something very similar before... you just haven't seen it.
I've said for years that record companies need to rebuild their business model so they can service and profit from lots of artists that can sell 10K units in a good year.The problem is solvable. Hint: their problem is based on physical CD distribution.
That's not the reason they can't do this.
Most of the cost of running this kind of business is in promotion -- if they didn't spend a fortune promoting individual artists, people would lose interest. The net result of spreading the marketing budget over more options is fewer total sales; they know this, because they will have tried it out at some point (on a small scale, of course).
Interestingly, what the OP was unfavourably comparing the books to was an instance of something that did cross media well -- Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy, which started off as a radio play.
(And, yes, before you say it, I am aware of the irony involved in flaming a moderator for moderating a post as flamebait...)
Wasn't he the hero of the rather obscure series of fantasy novels set on a planet called 'Gor', which seemed (from the few I read) to document the hero gradually turning into a slave trader?
Flamebait? What the hell are you on, moderator?
No -- most other adware the advert can be closed by closing the application in question. The law (as quoted) stipulates that the user must not have to close their web browser, but does not have the same requirement about any other application that may be running.
Because the license will almost certainly include an NDA, and ISTR they've released openexchange under an open source license now (is that right, or was I imagining it?), so they can't.
I worked for a while at a bank that used HP OpenMail as their back end, and that worked well. I believe the per-seat licensing is substantially lower than Exchange.
Oh, wow, 3 weeks.
I'd rather hope they spend at least that long testing the entire platform they've put together for stability before releasing it.
OTOH, SuSE has been a very KDE-centric distribution for a long time. I don't suspect it'll have changed much with this release.
Now I see an unpleasant tendency of including prerelease software in SuSE. As far as I remember, they were shipping a prerelease gcc 3.3, which caused problems with my (in-house) project and some prerelease of X11.
I didn't experience this, cause I upgraded straight from 7.x to 9.1, which has a fairly standard gcc 3.3.3.
How does the SuSE desktop feel, in both KDE and GNOME modes?
From my experience with 9.1, the free downloadable ISO image only includes KDE. You have to install GNOME by ftp from their web site if you want it. Given that this would have been over a modem for me, I didn't bother...
Yeah, that's the best reason for not liking rebooting. I have Mozilla open with about 30 tabs on various web sites, scrolled to information that I might need to refer to. I have 6 terminal sessions open to different machines, applications running in each of them. I have e-mail windows open in the background that have information I intend to use. If I need to reboot, I'll have to make notes of which e-mails these are because my mail client doesn't support remembering about open windows. I have several documents open in Acrobat that I'll need to refer to in the future. I have a text editor with about 30 open files, most of which I'll need to edit soon and don't want to have to find again in a hurry. I have a file sharing application open that is stuck in the middle of some very long download queues; rebooting at the moment will probably put me back by at least a day in getting those files I'm downloading.
This is why I don't like rebooting. It interrupts my workflow.
On my machine, /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build is a symlink to /usr/src/linux-`uname -r`.
Notice the superfluous bordering especially on the right and left of konqueror and konsole
Err... that border isn't superfluous, it's there to identify (in the case of konsole) that what's inside it will be switched if you click on one of the tabs or (with konqueror) that the pane is 'inside' the draggable framework.
I think it's better that it is there than not, although I'll agree that's probably highly subjective.