You're neglecting to address the point of the argument here
You're right, I was. The argument was actually a good one. I was merely trying to address the constant assertion that "piracy" has nothing to do with "copyright violation."
(BTW, "catachresis" was a new word for me, I like it...it's perfect for this argument.)
'Piracy' -- Copyright infringement is called just that, 'copyright infringement.' I suggest you stop someone when they use the word 'piracy' and ask them what boats on what ocean they are talking about. "Piracy" has no legal meaning and it only exists because 'copyright infringement' doesn't sound as bad. It's hard to argue with this fact.
Okay, I'll play the devil's advocate and argue with the "fact."
Main Entry: piracy Function: noun Etymology: Medieval Latin piratia, from Late Greek peirateia, from Greek peiratEs pirate Date: 1537 1 : an act of robbery on the high seas; also : an act resembling such robbery 2 : robbery on the high seas 3 : the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright
Hey kids! Today I'm going to take this opportunity to ridicule my former employers, now that they are customers!
On June 12, we're hosting the release party for Mozilla 1.0. For those of you who haven't been following along at home, my first ever experience in nightclub promotion was throwing the first Mozilla party back in 1998. A year later, when the company proved to me that its head was so far up its collective ass that it wasn't going to be able to ship anything usable before I went insane, I threw a second party and quit in April 1999.
Well, it's now a bit over three years since I quit, and they're finally about to release 1.0! I'm actually very happy for them, because I think it will end up being a good product. But I'm sure glad I didn't have to help them roll that boulder up the hill for those last three years. In that time, I took about a year off, and then Barry and I created a whole new business from scratch in a completely different industry, and that was far more interesting than continuing to work on the same old thing I'd been doing since 1994. (Or 1985, depending on how you count.)
So anyway, I'm organizing this party for them. ...
The trend seems to be toward simulating 3D with high-resolution flat screens, though.
These are completely different technologies. The first is an "actual" 3D display. The voxels have a true location in 3D space, for instance. People can view it from any angle with no equipment.
The second appears to be just a large screen. People wear shutter or polarized glasses to send different images to the left and right eyes.
While the second techology is great, especially for high-resolution display to a single person, it really is annoying when used with multiple people with different locations in space.
Since there is only one set (left and right) images on the flat screen, only one viewpoint can be chosen. If a group of people is sufficiently far from the screen, or sufficiently close together in the room, it's fine. But if you let the people wander around the room, you start getting perspective problems that really make collaborative viewing troublesome.
I have a feeling that we will be seeing voxel-based visualization like the one mentioned in this post more and more often. It's just more natural to use.
As someone who is in the field of high-resolution scientific visualization (that's me on the left), I certainly hope that technology will move in this direction.
If a LOC is 10 terabytes, then 700 megs (approximately), is about.00007 Libraries of Congress. (Don't get me started about bips and bits).
The informaton that the LOC is 10 terabytes comes from the Data Powers of Ten page. Whether or not this is entirely accurate, I'd be willing to bet that a lot of reporters and such use it as a reference. They're probably good ballpark numbers.
To quote a bit from the section of the page that includes the LOC:
Terabyte (1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
1 Terabyte: An automated tape robot OR All the X-ray films in a large technological hospital OR 50000 trees made into paper and printed OR Daily rate of EOS data (1998)
2 Terabytes: An academic research library OR A cabinet full of Exabyte tapes
10 Terabytes: The printed collection of the US Library of Congress
50 Terabytes: The contents of a large Mass Storage System
Fine. Let's say for the sake of argument that you're right.
Something that every person should do when considering whether a new law should come into existence is whether the legislating body has that power.
Does the Constitution of New Jersey give the N.J. Legislature the power to regulate sporting and recreational activities? It certainly may, I haven't looked at it.
But the point is that there are a heck of a lot of laws out there, both at the Federal and State levels, that dramatically overstep the bounds of what the legislative bodies are actually allowed to do.
If the answer comes out "yes, they do have the power", only then should the merits of the law in question be debated.
I can't believe how old Slashdot's icon for PalmOS features is! For a story about a kick-ass advanced PDA, having an icon showing 4-year old technology is just embarassing.
(Okay, I don't know that it's 4 years old, but you know what I mean.)
With as long as we've had "100 watt" and "60 watt" lightbulbs, people have gotten it into their heads that the wattage rating is a measure of the light output.
I would have to work out the physics to see if it's possible, but I don't immediately see any barrier to a.1 watt bulb of some new technology giving the same light output as a 100 watt incandescent tungsten filament bulb.
You're right. Innumeracy is actually a pretty large problem that is generally unknown by the public. One hears of lots of "literacy" programs that help to teach people to read. But I've never heard of a single program to help those who are deficient in math.
As for the travel example you gave - my employer (Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab) has made it a no-no to take personal travel while on foreign business travel. I think they were having people go to England to "just" attend a conference, tacking on some vacation, and having the Lab pay for most of the hotel and all of the airfare.
He's a co-worker of mine. We both work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the DOE labs where these machines keep appearing. Computer scientists here program on them all the time.
When I first read the headline, I thought maybe some guy had hooked up his digital camera to take a picture of something whenever he reached certain speeds.
Chrisd, your odometer is the thing that tells you how many miles you've gone. Your speedometer is the thing that tells you how fast you're going.
Sorry for being picky - this just bugged me.
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It's an obvious troll, but I'll bite.
If that's "proof" of what a "stupid and dangerous" sport Snowboarding is...
Then there's hordes of evidence that pretty much every activity that we engage in on a day-to-day basis is stupid and dangerous.
Driving cars, riding public transportation, breathing air around anything resembling civilization, eating food, getting excited (better not have sex!), expressing opinions, typing on your computer,......
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It's dead, Jim.
Example:
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You're neglecting to address the point of the argument here
You're right, I was. The argument was actually a good one. I was merely trying to address the constant assertion that "piracy" has nothing to do with "copyright violation."
(BTW, "catachresis" was a new word for me, I like it...it's perfect for this argument.)
I honestly read the moderation as "(Score:5, Funky)"
Okay, I'll play the devil's advocate and argue with the "fact."
According to The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, "piracy" has the following definition (emphasis mine):
It continues. Interesting story - go read it.
Amen, brother.
Um... the moon was pretty much worthless when we went back in 69. It's only been recently that we've discovered that there might be value there.
Interesting.
Obviously, a lot more than 9 distinct views would be nice, but even something as low as 25 would probably be useful.
If they engineer in the ability to move up and down, this would start being a serious contender.
The trend seems to be toward simulating 3D with high-resolution flat screens, though.
These are completely different technologies. The first is an "actual" 3D display. The voxels have a true location in 3D space, for instance. People can view it from any angle with no equipment.
The second appears to be just a large screen. People wear shutter or polarized glasses to send different images to the left and right eyes.
While the second techology is great, especially for high-resolution display to a single person, it really is annoying when used with multiple people with different locations in space.
Since there is only one set (left and right) images on the flat screen, only one viewpoint can be chosen. If a group of people is sufficiently far from the screen, or sufficiently close together in the room, it's fine. But if you let the people wander around the room, you start getting perspective problems that really make collaborative viewing troublesome.
I have a feeling that we will be seeing voxel-based visualization like the one mentioned in this post more and more often. It's just more natural to use.
As someone who is in the field of high-resolution scientific visualization (that's me on the left), I certainly hope that technology will move in this direction.
The informaton that the LOC is 10 terabytes comes from the Data Powers of Ten page. Whether or not this is entirely accurate, I'd be willing to bet that a lot of reporters and such use it as a reference. They're probably good ballpark numbers. To quote a bit from the section of the page that includes the LOC:
Yes, they do have this power actually.
Perfect. That determination is all I ask for.
Fine. Let's say for the sake of argument that you're right.
Something that every person should do when considering whether a new law should come into existence is whether the legislating body has that power.
Does the Constitution of New Jersey give the N.J. Legislature the power to regulate sporting and recreational activities? It certainly may, I haven't looked at it.
But the point is that there are a heck of a lot of laws out there, both at the Federal and State levels, that dramatically overstep the bounds of what the legislative bodies are actually allowed to do.
If the answer comes out "yes, they do have the power", only then should the merits of the law in question be debated.
Why the heck would you run nm on executables? What's that supposed to tell you? Especially C++ code, you aren't going to learn much.
I don't mean a multithreaded app.
I mean tracking the threads of an email conversation.
The one thing that will keep Mail.app from being my default mail program is the absence of threads. Add that, and I'm there, dude.
Every major free work can trace its roots to GCC
So what? Does that mean that gcc/GNU/RMS has to be in the name?
If that were the case, shouldn't we name a heck of a lot of software with "Microsoft VC++/" prepended?
If it's recognition RMS is after, I can understand that, but to have kittens over the name...
This is offtopic, but...
I can't believe how old Slashdot's icon for PalmOS features is! For a story about a kick-ass advanced PDA, having an icon showing 4-year old technology is just embarassing.
(Okay, I don't know that it's 4 years old, but you know what I mean.)
You're right on.
.1 watt bulb of some new technology giving the same light output as a 100 watt incandescent tungsten filament bulb.
With as long as we've had "100 watt" and "60 watt" lightbulbs, people have gotten it into their heads that the wattage rating is a measure of the light output.
I would have to work out the physics to see if it's possible, but I don't immediately see any barrier to a
Not quite. They'll pay for the extra Saturday. But you can't tack on another week, say, of your own vacation time. That's not allowed.
Oh, there's plenty of Dilbertisms when you work for the government!
You're right. Innumeracy is actually a pretty large problem that is generally unknown by the public. One hears of lots of "literacy" programs that help to teach people to read. But I've never heard of a single program to help those who are deficient in math.
As for the travel example you gave - my employer (Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab) has made it a no-no to take personal travel while on foreign business travel. I think they were having people go to England to "just" attend a conference, tacking on some vacation, and having the Lab pay for most of the hotel and all of the airfare.
Makes you wonder why the IRS makes its forms generally unreadable...
Then again, it's probably because the tax code is so complicated.
He's a co-worker of mine. We both work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the DOE labs where these machines keep appearing. Computer scientists here program on them all the time.
When I first read the headline, I thought maybe some guy had hooked up his digital camera to take a picture of something whenever he reached certain speeds.
Chrisd, your odometer is the thing that tells you how many miles you've gone. Your speedometer is the thing that tells you how fast you're going.
Sorry for being picky - this just bugged me.
It's an obvious troll, but I'll bite.
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If that's "proof" of what a "stupid and dangerous" sport Snowboarding is...
Then there's hordes of evidence that pretty much every activity that we engage in on a day-to-day basis is stupid and dangerous.
Driving cars, riding public transportation, breathing air around anything resembling civilization, eating food, getting excited (better not have sex!), expressing opinions, typing on your computer,