Memory Stick -- another locked down format from Sony.
Which is why every all-in-one card reader has licenced the Memory Stick socket -- and gadzooks! a Memory Stick Pro socket as well!
Finding a reader was never the issue. The problem is that Memory Stick is a closed, Sony-controlled format. Subsequently, while the rest of the industry was driving the price down and the storage room up on formats like Compact Flash, Memory Stick products consistently cost 40% more and languished at least a full step behind in capacity. Add to this the fact that three dozen odd manufacturers were using the interchangeable CF format for all manner of devices, and people who bought Memory Stick could only use it in Sony products. Who gives a crap if all readers can read Memory Stick when the only way to write to it is with a Sony product?
I worked construction jobs from 1995 to 2000 and the three most popular brands were Makita, Makita, and Makita.
I've worked construction jobs continuously since 1994. While Makita may be the dominant player, they aren't the whole market. The very fact you saw nothing but Makita demonstrates only that your sampling was limited. I've seen all sorts of brands. It also depends heavily on the type of tool you're dealing with. Skil circular saws, Porter-Cable hand-held band saws, Bosch jackhammers, Hitachi chop saws. How about Milwaukee sawzalls-- if you saw nothing but Makita, I'd be willing to bet money you never regularly used a sawzall. Makita is very strong in cordless tools, but they were the only game in town for a long time so now they have a sizeable installed basee of people locked in due to battery/charger compatibility. My current employer is split about evenly between Makita and DeWalt now after years of being all-Makita.
I'm not sure why you feel the need to elevate "art" above "mere information".
uhhhh, is that a trick question? Does "because I'm human" count as an answer, or if I say that do the alarms sound and the think-bots swoop down and try to assimilate me into the hivemind?
It's kind of a trick question. A variation on it would be something like "Tell me how one could objectively tell the difference between 'art' and 'mere information' without reference to its effect on humans". Point is, the "art-ness" of something is not inherent to the object, but to people's reaction to perceiving it.
I was about 6000 feet from my CO previously, and despite that, I could not maintain 1.5/768 DSL due to a crappy line installed by PG&E. Unfortunately, because there was no onelink service, I couldn't do anything if PG&E didn't want to help me out, which they didn't.
However, once I got OneLink, PG&E was now forced to lay a new line down or fix the line so that it was up to spec.
Your phone connectivity is handled by Pacific Gas & Electric?
last I checked, the QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typists when using manual typewriters to prevent jams....
The last source you checked was incorrect. QWERTY was designed to place common character digraphs as far apart from one another as possible within the continuum of the semicircular arrangement of striker bars on the original Sholes design. The keyboard layout is merely the end result of doing that with that orignal typwriter mechanism.
Actually, it's not wrong. I will conveniently sidestep the issue of what exactly constitutes art, and assume that people know art when they see it. It's a tree-falls-in-the-woods situation. If a canvas is marked with paint and no one is there to see it, is it art? Is a classic like Moby Dick art to a man who cannot read? How about if it's written in english and he only reads dutch? Is a photograph art to a blind man? Art by itself is nothing but information. Unless there is a means by which the information of a work can be perceived and appreciated as art, it's just a collection of lines and squiggles on paper, a sequence of compression waves at various frequencies, or an arrangement of acrylic polymers on woven fiber mat. I'm not sure why you feel the need to elevate "art" above "mere information". "Art" is a subset of "information", and not a clearly defined one at that.
One quick comment. I haven't followed much google's indexing so not 100% sure how it works/will work, but on section 1c (Commercial vs. nonprofit), the fact that the index is freely accesible doesn't mean it's nonprofit, as google is clearly looking to profit from it (with adwords and I'd guess with links to sales on amazon and simmilar).
You don't have to be entirely non-profit for the copying to be non profit. You can hire a professional researcher to comb the library for specific information, photocopying the relevant pages and making note of the titles and authors. Whether he gets paid to do it falls outside the scope of copyright law.
IANAL but having a book implies a liciense from the copyright holder to have that book.
That's not how copyright works. Copyright means exactly what its component words say: the right to make copies. The only entity who needs permission from the copyright holder is the publisher. The publisher prints copies of the work. What happens to those copies once they're sold is entirely beyond the control of the copyright holder, with the very narrow exceptions of cases like public performance and (of course) making additional copies. Even then, the issue of fair use comes into play.
You don't need a license to own a book. The book is utterly yours once you purchase it. Even if you make a thousand copies of that book, it is only the copies that are violations of copyright. You still legitimately own that first copy.
not that the 8th grade teachers are experts on anything, but that's what was told to me when I asked during my typing class... so, what is it, I wonder. google...google...google...
Common myth. The real reason was to separate the most commonly used letter bars from one another. The closer they are together, the less room they have to get out of each other's way during fast typing. The greater the separation, the less time they spend "in each others space".
Last time I checked, Wiktionary is written by random people from the web, whereas the New York Times is written by people who actually know something.
Last time I checked, the NY Times had some people writing for it who think the QWERTY keyboard was invented to slow typists down. NY Times probably has a better track record than Wiktionary, but it's not always right.
In 1942 during World War II, HMS Fort Rough was constructed in England as one of the Maunsell Sea Forts. It comprised a floating barge with a superstructure of two towers joined by a deck upon which other structures could be added. The barge was towed to a position above Rough Sands sandbar where its hold was intentionally flooded so that the hulk sank to a resting place on the sandbar. The structure now visible above the waterline is the superstructure of the vessel.
So yeah, definitely not floating.
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That is exactly the allegation AMD seems to be making in their lawsuit. From a monopolist, an exclusivity bonus is illegal.
Indeed, as an "exclusivity bonus" is just a nice way of saying there's a penalty for giving their competitor any business.
"you don't really feel a pencil's thickness, but rather its diameter."
A pencil's thickness is its diameter... Did you maybe mean circumference, since you grip around the pencil?
No, the point I'm getting at is that a pencil is effectively cylindrical, and cylindrical objects are generally not thought of as having "thickness", but rather "diameter". Thickness is perceived as the distance between two roughly parallel surfaces.
Around here, a the trains blow their whistle everytime they approach an intersection...
That's not a whistle, that's an air horn. The "train whistle" referenced in loudness scales is the good old fashioned steam whistle. Air horns are a LOT louder.
Sorry, were you not able to make out what I was trying to say because I forgot the S? Oh..you were but you had to comment on it anyway.
"Forgot" the S, "forgot" the P, and "forgot" there isn't an E at the end? Come off it. You didn't know how to spell it and used another word with the same pronounciation out of ignorance. I did get what you were trying to say. I just thought you might like to know how the word is really spelled. Apparently not.
News flash, state legislators/federal gov control almost every aspect of our lives. What we eat, what we drink, where we live, what we drive, how we drive it, what our kids can buy, how they are educated, what we pay in taxes, so on. You as a single person basically have no say in anything. Do you think because you get your starbucks every morning and an everybody loves raymond re-run at night that you are truly free? Your just as much a slave to the system as everyone else.
This is, in fact, exactly the point I was trying to make. They do meddle in every area of our lives, but they shouldn't.
Err, I don't think they would be draining New Orleans if they were not involved with this legislation. Thats kinda a job for the army core of engineers.
By your logic, everyone should drop what they are doing and make a feeble attempt to help plan for disasters or run down to New Orleans with a bucket. We have experts who are supposed to deal with this stuff, Army, National Guard, state and local authorities. I doubt they need some CA state legislators down there trying to help.
This is typical intentionally obtuse counter-argument that wilfully ignores the point. He's not trying to suggest that the CA state legislature ought to literally be down there in NOLA with buckets bailing out water, but rather is attempting to demonstrate through example what sort of things state legislatures should be doing rather than policing the video game purchase habits of other people's kids. If you would like an example of something the CA legislature should be doing, how about they arrange to repair the levee system around the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta? The place flooded in '97, and it'll flood again. Only now there are a lot more houses there. This isn't a case of "why is that cop giving me a speeding ticket when there are murderers to catch". This is a government body ignoring more important issues in favor of more photogenic ones.
This isn't unabashed bullshit, it's a comparison to the crap you might drag around in your pocket.
I'm good with the "weight=8 quarters" (approx. 1 3/5 oz), but the "thick as a pencil" thing is kinda half-assed. Since it's effectively round, you don't really feel a pencil's thickness, but rather its diameter. "Pencil-thick" gets the measurement across, but doesn't really give one a feel for it. Not like the cornerstone of comparative measurement, the Pack of Cigarettes.
But the optimal solution is clearly to write an AI application that leads the telemarketer down the longest possible path through their script, and possibly loops them through it from time to time. Ideally, the application would even recognize call waiting and would ask the marketer to "hold on" while it clicked over and allowed you to speak with the person on the other line. It would need to analyze what they're saying and then say "no" at appropriate times to keep the marketer on the phone for as long as possible. I imagine with such an application, you could probably keep a marketer on the phone for 2-3 hours, if not more!
As soon as I'm done writing this app, I'll be happy to sell it to you for a mere $19.95. Just send me your telephone number so I can call you and....
Heck, you could probably modify Eliza to do it.
"EARLIER YOU SAID YOU HAVE A DISCOUNTED PRICE FOR A LIMITED TIME"
"ARE YOU PREPARED TO ELABORATE?"
"SUPPOSE I WERE NOT A QUALIFIED RECIPIENT OF YOUR SPECIAL OFFER"
You do know the busses were used, right? Then brought back for a second run, but the water was too high at that point, and there was nobody at the pickup point.
Really. I don't think we're talking about the same buses. Can you provide a link to a more detailed explaination of how this happened? Looking here, (click katrina button, see lower left) it sure appears as though those 150+ city buses were neatly parked and put away before the flooding.
I hate how the right lies about things like the busses to make other folks look bad, as if saying, "But they screwed up too!" means the administration screwed up any less.
I hate how people take any attack on incompetent officials as a partisan effort just because the fools happen to align opposite politically of their preferred target.
No, instead they require a direct line-of-sight to a nuclear fusion reactor. One that uses 4 million tons of fuel per second. Do you call that efficient ?!?
Just because you don't have to foot the energy bill doesn't mean that someone doesn't have to - but I'm sure that in your socialist utopia Sun would be no one's private property and sunlight free to all...
You're right! I would rather die than live under a damned godless communist sun!
No, that doesn't fit with what the OP said. Increased tidal variation doesn't make the seas lower in some places and higher in others, it makes it both higher and lower everywhere. OP said "Other reports claim that sea levels in some areas would actually drop." This is clearly not a description of tidal variation.
2. Variations in the Earth's gravitational field.
Yeah.....OK. Now tell me how global warming manages that trick.
One thing this article was not clear on is the magnitude of any fallout. Does anyone have info on the nature and degree of any fallout from this proposed power station should the core be compromised?
There would likely be none, being that "fallout" is radioactive particulate matter precipitating out of the air. You only get that from a) low-altitude atmospheric nuclear warhead detonations, or b) old-school Soviet-type plant design and operation stupidity, i.e. building a graphite moderated core and then turning off critical automatic safety systems to test secondary backup systems while the plant is operating in a dangerously unstable low-power mode, blowing the top off the core with a 100x max power surge and setting the graphite on fire (Chernobyl).
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Which is why every all-in-one card reader has licenced the Memory Stick socket -- and gadzooks! a Memory Stick Pro socket as well!
Finding a reader was never the issue. The problem is that Memory Stick is a closed, Sony-controlled format. Subsequently, while the rest of the industry was driving the price down and the storage room up on formats like Compact Flash, Memory Stick products consistently cost 40% more and languished at least a full step behind in capacity. Add to this the fact that three dozen odd manufacturers were using the interchangeable CF format for all manner of devices, and people who bought Memory Stick could only use it in Sony products. Who gives a crap if all readers can read Memory Stick when the only way to write to it is with a Sony product?
I've worked construction jobs continuously since 1994. While Makita may be the dominant player, they aren't the whole market. The very fact you saw nothing but Makita demonstrates only that your sampling was limited. I've seen all sorts of brands. It also depends heavily on the type of tool you're dealing with. Skil circular saws, Porter-Cable hand-held band saws, Bosch jackhammers, Hitachi chop saws. How about Milwaukee sawzalls-- if you saw nothing but Makita, I'd be willing to bet money you never regularly used a sawzall. Makita is very strong in cordless tools, but they were the only game in town for a long time so now they have a sizeable installed basee of people locked in due to battery/charger compatibility. My current employer is split about evenly between Makita and DeWalt now after years of being all-Makita.
uhhhh, is that a trick question? Does "because I'm human" count as an answer, or if I say that do the alarms sound and the think-bots swoop down and try to assimilate me into the hivemind?
It's kind of a trick question. A variation on it would be something like "Tell me how one could objectively tell the difference between 'art' and 'mere information' without reference to its effect on humans". Point is, the "art-ness" of something is not inherent to the object, but to people's reaction to perceiving it.
Your phone connectivity is handled by Pacific Gas & Electric?
The last source you checked was incorrect. QWERTY was designed to place common character digraphs as far apart from one another as possible within the continuum of the semicircular arrangement of striker bars on the original Sholes design. The keyboard layout is merely the end result of doing that with that orignal typwriter mechanism.
Actually, it's not wrong. I will conveniently sidestep the issue of what exactly constitutes art, and assume that people know art when they see it. It's a tree-falls-in-the-woods situation. If a canvas is marked with paint and no one is there to see it, is it art? Is a classic like Moby Dick art to a man who cannot read? How about if it's written in english and he only reads dutch? Is a photograph art to a blind man? Art by itself is nothing but information. Unless there is a means by which the information of a work can be perceived and appreciated as art, it's just a collection of lines and squiggles on paper, a sequence of compression waves at various frequencies, or an arrangement of acrylic polymers on woven fiber mat. I'm not sure why you feel the need to elevate "art" above "mere information". "Art" is a subset of "information", and not a clearly defined one at that.
You don't have to be entirely non-profit for the copying to be non profit. You can hire a professional researcher to comb the library for specific information, photocopying the relevant pages and making note of the titles and authors. Whether he gets paid to do it falls outside the scope of copyright law.
That's not how copyright works. Copyright means exactly what its component words say: the right to make copies. The only entity who needs permission from the copyright holder is the publisher. The publisher prints copies of the work. What happens to those copies once they're sold is entirely beyond the control of the copyright holder, with the very narrow exceptions of cases like public performance and (of course) making additional copies. Even then, the issue of fair use comes into play.
You don't need a license to own a book. The book is utterly yours once you purchase it. Even if you make a thousand copies of that book, it is only the copies that are violations of copyright. You still legitimately own that first copy.
Common myth. The real reason was to separate the most commonly used letter bars from one another. The closer they are together, the less room they have to get out of each other's way during fast typing. The greater the separation, the less time they spend "in each others space".
Last time I checked, the NY Times had some people writing for it who think the QWERTY keyboard was invented to slow typists down. NY Times probably has a better track record than Wiktionary, but it's not always right.
In 1942 during World War II, HMS Fort Rough was constructed in England as one of the Maunsell Sea Forts. It comprised a floating barge with a superstructure of two towers joined by a deck upon which other structures could be added. The barge was towed to a position above Rough Sands sandbar where its hold was intentionally flooded so that the hulk sank to a resting place on the sandbar. The structure now visible above the waterline is the superstructure of the vessel.
So yeah, definitely not floating.
Indeed, as an "exclusivity bonus" is just a nice way of saying there's a penalty for giving their competitor any business.
SCO's involved in this?
Nah, SCO is a very small scum of the earth. They just make up for it by being extra-scummy.
A pencil's thickness is its diameter... Did you maybe mean circumference, since you grip around the pencil?
No, the point I'm getting at is that a pencil is effectively cylindrical, and cylindrical objects are generally not thought of as having "thickness", but rather "diameter". Thickness is perceived as the distance between two roughly parallel surfaces.
That's not a whistle, that's an air horn. The "train whistle" referenced in loudness scales is the good old fashioned steam whistle. Air horns are a LOT louder.
"Forgot" the S, "forgot" the P, and "forgot" there isn't an E at the end? Come off it. You didn't know how to spell it and used another word with the same pronounciation out of ignorance. I did get what you were trying to say. I just thought you might like to know how the word is really spelled. Apparently not.
News flash, state legislators/federal gov control almost every aspect of our lives. What we eat, what we drink, where we live, what we drive, how we drive it, what our kids can buy, how they are educated, what we pay in taxes, so on. You as a single person basically have no say in anything. Do you think because you get your starbucks every morning and an everybody loves raymond re-run at night that you are truly free? Your just as much a slave to the system as everyone else.
This is, in fact, exactly the point I was trying to make. They do meddle in every area of our lives, but they shouldn't.
Train whistle 500 feet away vs. violin played at its loudest right in front of you. Yes. Sound pressure, inverse square of the distance, etc.
This is typical intentionally obtuse counter-argument that wilfully ignores the point. He's not trying to suggest that the CA state legislature ought to literally be down there in NOLA with buckets bailing out water, but rather is attempting to demonstrate through example what sort of things state legislatures should be doing rather than policing the video game purchase habits of other people's kids. If you would like an example of something the CA legislature should be doing, how about they arrange to repair the levee system around the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta? The place flooded in '97, and it'll flood again. Only now there are a lot more houses there. This isn't a case of "why is that cop giving me a speeding ticket when there are murderers to catch". This is a government body ignoring more important issues in favor of more photogenic ones.
By the way, it's "US Army Corps of Engineers"
I'm good with the "weight=8 quarters" (approx. 1 3/5 oz), but the "thick as a pencil" thing is kinda half-assed. Since it's effectively round, you don't really feel a pencil's thickness, but rather its diameter. "Pencil-thick" gets the measurement across, but doesn't really give one a feel for it. Not like the cornerstone of comparative measurement, the Pack of Cigarettes.
Heck, you could probably modify Eliza to do it.
"EARLIER YOU SAID YOU HAVE A DISCOUNTED PRICE FOR A LIMITED TIME"
"ARE YOU PREPARED TO ELABORATE?"
"SUPPOSE I WERE NOT A QUALIFIED RECIPIENT OF YOUR SPECIAL OFFER"
No theory was presented. Speculation without a rational basis is called "imagination", not theory.
Really. I don't think we're talking about the same buses. Can you provide a link to a more detailed explaination of how this happened? Looking here, (click katrina button, see lower left) it sure appears as though those 150+ city buses were neatly parked and put away before the flooding. I hate how the right lies about things like the busses to make other folks look bad, as if saying, "But they screwed up too!" means the administration screwed up any less.
I hate how people take any attack on incompetent officials as a partisan effort just because the fools happen to align opposite politically of their preferred target.
You're right! I would rather die than live under a damned godless communist sun!
No, that doesn't fit with what the OP said. Increased tidal variation doesn't make the seas lower in some places and higher in others, it makes it both higher and lower everywhere. OP said "Other reports claim that sea levels in some areas would actually drop." This is clearly not a description of tidal variation.
2. Variations in the Earth's gravitational field.
Yeah.....OK. Now tell me how global warming manages that trick.
There would likely be none, being that "fallout" is radioactive particulate matter precipitating out of the air. You only get that from a) low-altitude atmospheric nuclear warhead detonations, or b) old-school Soviet-type plant design and operation stupidity, i.e. building a graphite moderated core and then turning off critical automatic safety systems to test secondary backup systems while the plant is operating in a dangerously unstable low-power mode, blowing the top off the core with a 100x max power surge and setting the graphite on fire (Chernobyl).