Stealing an MP3 is impossible I agree but you've also stolen the oppertunity to sell the MP3 to the "theif"/infringer. While oppertunity is an intangelble, it's legaly recognised as "cost of lost oppertunity"
If memory serves me correctly it was Nixon who did the deed so '71 is about right. Most European contries didn't bother to hold gold because they held US$, which was the same as gold until Nixon. This really fucked over a lot of countries on that side of the pond. I was stationed in Germany from 74-77, and got a 1936 $20 bill from a bank! in the picture on the back of the whitehouse you see how much the trees had grown in 40 years.
Cool, never noticed that before, now I'll have to check PS, if it's not there I'll have something else to rag on my son about in the Gimp vs. PS thing.
I'm not a windows guru, and am working from memory, but my wife's machine was acting similarly, so I went into the admin account and the [I think] Win32srv.exe [/I think] crashed about 5 times in quick suscession, and I sent in the error report, then my mozzila (that was a suprise, it was the default rather than IE) fired up to the microsoft download area and I installed a new [I think] Win32srv.exe [/i think] and end of problem. Seems the key was loging in as admin. running adware, spybot, MS antispy and winclam all found no nasties.
Firstly out-of-state sale are NOT exempt from sales tax, normaly a seller has a physical presence in a state, and a reasonable good knowlege of local law, so the state forces the seller to collect the sales tax from the purchaser, for goods and service for consumption inside the state. The state then assumes that the seller has collected the tax, and collect it's percentage from the gross reciepts. The State cannot force foriegn (as in out of state or out of country) bussinesses to pay; so the purchaser is responsable for making the payment of the sales/use taxes at the end of the year with their income taxes, which of course almost nobody does( I remember a certain TYCO CEO got burned on this a while back). I had a small website a whiile back and on the final confirm page it said, please print this page, you may neeed it for your tax records just to cover my ass.
The case was not about if the taxes were to be paid, but about who was going to pay the taxes; the seller who was taking a calculated risk by paying the law very close to the edge, or the purchaser who was going to play stupid. The States when face with one easy to find big-fish and a million minnows is usualy going to go after the big-fish.
I'd argue that considering how much I've spent on my wife Dell computer, Dell all-in-one scanner-fax-printer and Dell inject ink that they're just like HP, an ink company!
The word your searching for is marginal profits, such that if you make n widgets, profits = revenue - expenses, average profits = revenue/n - expenses/n, Marginal profits = (revenue/n+1 - revenue/n) - (expenses/n+1 - expenses/n)
Usualy if marginal profits are higher than average profits, probably make more, if less make less unless you might saturate the market demand.
I wasn't a big Kimba fan, yet when I saw The Lion King. something seemed to be daja vue about it, this realy connects the dots for me. Well Disney, "bad form, really bad form" as Hook might say.
Was it pure and good while Walt Disney was in charge? And exactly when did it lose it's way? No it was not all pure and good, but they went to great lenghts to appear pure and good. Disney if nothing else always was a marketing giant, when people wanted good and pure, that's what they got from Disney. Seems the problem really became obvious in the Viet Nam era, people wanted evil-military-industrial complex bashing and got some, but that seems to have started Disney down a slippery slope, till today after bashing gays, praising gays, bashing native americans glorifing native amercans, Americans are evil eco-destructionists, polititans are evil-corupt bastads,ect. Now they've finaly have gotten the Disney animated movie formula perfected to where they bash everybody, stick mediocure artwork on the screen, back it with pathetic pop music that adds nothing to the movie and still manage to insert 12 minutes of story into a 120 minute feature.
What are the Japanese doing they tell a story, everything add to the story. What Pixar does is tell a story, everthing adds to the story. Forget the story telling and you've shot yourwelf in the foot; OBTW all that round-eyed crap that only exists to market trading cards can get shove up some marketing droits ass too.
That got me too, I don't consider myself to be a graphic artist, but letting a one-size-fits-all tool try to remove red-eye in a photo is asking for a dead picture. With out the right catch light in the eyes people tend to look like they belong in a George Romero movie. If you haven't the skill to select the offending red, and balance it back to neutral, it doesn't seem that you've got the skill to even use the program. I'd bet his copy of PS is pirated too.
My Wife's Econ instructor, was barred from instruction for 2 weeks and ordered to clean his office durring the time. Both of her instructors during the summer session econ and psyc are instructor I had 25 years ago and even I am amazed at how they've changed from slightly ecentric to whacko over time. this is a community college so we're not talking Ph.D. here either
Same way in gov/millitary, some times you're better off consuming the excess into barterable material, that way you might say something like this to your local obstructionist, "gee the crt monitor is kinda big for your desk, maybe I could trade you that 19 inch LCD we hardly ever use, OBTW could you sign off on this...." of course that might be re-inforcing an undesirable behavior
little guy 1. needs to keep a notebook himself 2. needs to write notes in the computer and scan his drawing and publish the md5 checksums in the news papers' legal notes, 3. needs to mail copies to himself so he can open the postmarked envelopes in court.
The entire planet is first-to-file EXCEPT the US, I guess that means that the in europe it's OK for big-mega-corp-IP-whore to file first on my Idea while I'm still talking to the bank to borrow enough money to hire a patent attorny and pay the filing fees. I see time-of-conception as a good thing, I see public disclosure as a good thing; generaly I see secret races to file as a bad thing and needing to hire consultants to watch for competitors filings at the patent office a bad thing.
I also find the patent offices policy of patenting every-stupid-trivial-thing that everbody has been doing for years and let the courts sort out the resulting mess a bad thing.
I'm doing that a lot at work, go to punch-out and the computer tell me I have to punch-out before I can punch-in. I'm still trying to figure out what part of the mouse pointer is pointing, intuitively I want to use the apex of the pointer, but usualy the computer recognises the mouse pointer position more like center-of-area.
I find I do most of my writing via the Emacs-LaTeX route, maybe I'm old-school but I find content first, then presentation a better psychological fit for me
What makes Apple better isn't necessarily the GUI so much as the ease of use.d I all most laughed at my boss trying to install windows, college educated major in CS, hold a MCSE, worked in the field many years providing romote administration and support to 150 machine, on 5 continents, it took him three days, and 15 tries to get windowsXP pro installed and running stable on a relatively new machine
Deformable Piezo actuator, I read that as probably a piezo-electric crystal that physicaly pushes the ink through the nozzle, which will probably mean that it's not a sensative to the ink as a thermal-inkjet would be. It will probably allow for pigmented inks with higher opacity more like air-brush paint, transperant inks like a dye, glossy inks, or even conductive inks for us mere-mortals types.
Other than that it's just an update of the good-ol' line-printers of the 60's.
From reading the nature article I got the impression that the whole thing was ingeniously simple. Proving it was fusion was several orders of magnitude more complicated than get the fussion.
Your tin-foil hat is absorbing your mental energy and frying your brain with the feed-back. This is simple stuff, ingenious, but simple. High schoolers can build the thing so a mysterious accident will set back research about a week, and patents only last 17 years so after that it's anybodies game.
Maybe it's just "don't expect fusion to become readily available" means net energy yielding fusion and "it really may not be long" means that the technologies for "cold fusion" such as H-S devices , the pon's device, and this latest with pyro-electric crystals devices are really High-School science fair grade projects; you can buy everything you need on the internet, right now.
If memory serves me correctly Fe fusion is actually endothermic, the reaction absorbs energy rather than giving off energy. I seem to remember iron-cycle fusion involved in supernovas, the star's core goes into the iron-cycle and cools/collapes so fast that the outer layers, remain behind and eventualy collapse as a shell which when it reaches critical density begins to fuse itself around the inner core, the explosion caused by the shell's ignition both blows off the shell, and causes the core to implode giving the energy to create elements heavier than iron.
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Stealing an MP3 is impossible
I agree but you've also stolen the oppertunity to sell the MP3 to the "theif"/infringer. While oppertunity is an intangelble, it's legaly recognised as "cost of lost oppertunity"
If memory serves me correctly it was Nixon who did the deed so '71 is about right. Most European contries didn't bother to hold gold because they held US$, which was the same as gold until Nixon. This really fucked over a lot of countries on that side of the pond. I was stationed in Germany from 74-77, and got a 1936 $20 bill from a bank! in the picture on the back of the whitehouse you see how much the trees had grown in 40 years.
Cool, never noticed that before, now I'll have to check PS, if it's not there I'll have something else to rag on my son about in the Gimp vs. PS thing.
From what I understand, when D-bus start really coming online, all of the K[foo] stuff will actualy be able to be integrated with all of the G[foo].
I'm not a windows guru, and am working from memory, but my wife's machine was acting similarly, so I went into the admin account and the [I think] Win32srv.exe [/I think] crashed about 5 times in quick suscession, and I sent in the error report, then my mozzila (that was a suprise, it was the default rather than IE) fired up to the microsoft download area and I installed a new [I think] Win32srv.exe [/i think] and end of problem. Seems the key was loging in as admin.
running adware, spybot, MS antispy and winclam all found no nasties.
Firstly out-of-state sale are NOT exempt from sales tax, normaly a seller has a physical presence in a state, and a reasonable good knowlege of local law, so the state forces the seller to collect the sales tax from the purchaser, for goods and service for consumption inside the state.
The state then assumes that the seller has collected the tax, and collect it's percentage from the gross reciepts. The State cannot force foriegn (as in out of state or out of country) bussinesses to pay; so the purchaser is responsable for making the payment of the sales/use taxes at the end of the year with their income taxes, which of course almost nobody does( I remember a certain TYCO CEO got burned on this a while back). I had a small website a whiile back and on the final confirm page it said, please print this page, you may neeed it for your tax records just to cover my ass.
The case was not about if the taxes were to be paid, but about who was going to pay the taxes; the seller who was taking a calculated risk by paying the law very close to the edge, or the purchaser who was going to play stupid. The States when face with one easy to find big-fish and a million minnows is usualy going to go after the big-fish.
I'd argue that considering how much I've spent on my wife Dell computer, Dell all-in-one scanner-fax-printer and Dell inject ink that they're just like HP, an ink company!
The word your searching for is marginal profits, such that if you make n widgets,
profits = revenue - expenses,
average profits = revenue/n - expenses/n,
Marginal profits = (revenue/n+1 - revenue/n) - (expenses/n+1 - expenses/n)
Usualy if marginal profits are higher than average profits, probably make more, if less make less unless you might saturate the market demand.
I wasn't a big Kimba fan, yet when I saw The Lion King. something seemed to be daja vue about it, this realy connects the dots for me. Well Disney, "bad form, really bad form" as Hook might say.
Was it pure and good while Walt Disney was in charge? And exactly when did it lose it's way?
No it was not all pure and good, but they went to great lenghts to appear pure and good. Disney if nothing else always was a marketing giant, when people wanted good and pure, that's what they got from Disney.
Seems the problem really became obvious in the Viet Nam era, people wanted evil-military-industrial complex bashing and got some, but that seems to have started Disney down a slippery slope, till today after bashing gays, praising gays, bashing native americans glorifing native amercans, Americans are evil eco-destructionists, polititans are evil-corupt bastads,ect.
Now they've finaly have gotten the Disney animated movie formula perfected to where they bash everybody, stick mediocure artwork on the screen, back it with pathetic pop music that adds nothing to the movie and still manage to insert 12 minutes of story into a 120 minute feature.
What are the Japanese doing they tell a story, everything add to the story. What Pixar does is tell a story, everthing adds to the story. Forget the story telling and you've shot yourwelf in the foot; OBTW all that round-eyed crap that only exists to market trading cards can get shove up some marketing droits ass too.
Its your friggin job to read the links you post here. /. editors have never done that.
you must be new around here; did you buy your UID on eBay?
That got me too, I don't consider myself to be a graphic artist, but letting a one-size-fits-all tool try to remove red-eye in a photo is asking for a dead picture. With out the right catch light in the eyes people tend to look like they belong in a George Romero movie. If you haven't the skill to select the offending red, and balance it back to neutral, it doesn't seem that you've got the skill to even use the program. I'd bet his copy of PS is pirated too.
My Wife's Econ instructor, was barred from instruction for 2 weeks and ordered to clean his office durring the time. Both of her instructors during the summer session econ and psyc are instructor I had 25 years ago and even I am amazed at how they've changed from slightly ecentric to whacko over time. this is a community college so we're not talking Ph.D. here either
Same way in gov/millitary, some times you're better off consuming the excess into barterable material, that way you might say something like this to your local obstructionist, "gee the crt monitor is kinda big for your desk, maybe I could trade you that 19 inch LCD we hardly ever use, OBTW could you sign off on this...." of course that might be re-inforcing an undesirable behavior
little guy
1. needs to keep a notebook himself
2. needs to write notes in the computer and scan his drawing and publish the md5 checksums in the news papers' legal notes,
3. needs to mail copies to himself so he can open the postmarked envelopes in court.
it's not that hard or expensive.
The entire planet is first-to-file EXCEPT the US,
I guess that means that the in europe it's OK for big-mega-corp-IP-whore to file first on my Idea while I'm still talking to the bank to borrow enough money to hire a patent attorny and pay the filing fees.
I see time-of-conception as a good thing, I see public disclosure as a good thing; generaly I see secret races to file as a bad thing and needing to hire consultants to watch for competitors filings at the patent office a bad thing.
I also find the patent offices policy of patenting every-stupid-trivial-thing that everbody has been doing for years and let the courts sort out the resulting mess a bad thing.
I'm doing that a lot at work, go to punch-out and the computer tell me I have to punch-out before I can punch-in. I'm still trying to figure out what part of the mouse pointer is pointing, intuitively I want to use the apex of the pointer, but usualy the computer recognises the mouse pointer position more like center-of-area.
I find I do most of my writing via the Emacs-LaTeX route, maybe I'm old-school but I find content first, then presentation a better psychological fit for me
What makes Apple better isn't necessarily the GUI so much as the ease of use.d
I all most laughed at my boss trying to install windows, college educated major in CS, hold a MCSE, worked in the field many years providing romote administration and support to 150 machine, on 5 continents, it took him three days, and 15 tries to get windowsXP pro installed and running stable on a relatively new machine
Your right its nothing new, well completely new.
Deformable Piezo actuator, I read that as probably a piezo-electric crystal that physicaly pushes the ink through the nozzle, which will probably mean that it's not a sensative to the ink as a thermal-inkjet would be.
It will probably allow for pigmented inks with higher opacity more like air-brush paint, transperant inks like a dye, glossy inks, or even conductive inks for us mere-mortals types.
Other than that it's just an update of the good-ol' line-printers of the 60's.
From reading the nature article I got the impression that the whole thing was ingeniously simple. Proving it was fusion was several orders of magnitude more complicated than get the fussion.
Your tin-foil hat is absorbing your mental energy and frying your brain with the feed-back. This is simple stuff, ingenious, but simple. High schoolers can build the thing so a mysterious accident will set back research about a week, and patents only last 17 years so after that it's anybodies game.
Maybe it's just "don't expect fusion to become readily available" means net energy yielding fusion and "it really may not be long" means that the technologies for "cold fusion" such as H-S devices , the pon's device, and this latest with pyro-electric crystals devices are really High-School science fair grade projects; you can buy everything you need on the internet, right now.
isn't, E^2 = MC^4pq^2, the real equation?
If memory serves me correctly Fe fusion is actually endothermic, the reaction absorbs energy rather than giving off energy. I seem to remember iron-cycle fusion involved in supernovas, the star's core goes into the iron-cycle and cools/collapes so fast that the outer layers, remain behind and eventualy collapse as a shell which when it reaches critical density begins to fuse itself around the inner core, the explosion caused by the shell's ignition both blows off the shell, and causes the core to implode giving the energy to create elements heavier than iron.
everybody got burned-out on dilithium joke on the previous postings.