Micky Mouse isn't just copyrighted he's trademarked and trademarks are copyrights on steroids and they don't expire. Disney is one of the worst for enforcing trademarks and probably spend more on lawyers than artists. Micky Mouse and some of the iconic characters are different in that they are in a sense the company much as the Pillsbury Doughboy and Ronald McDonald represent those companies. Without trademark protection another company could create a competing business off the corporate logos and characters that could easily be mistaken for the original company. I have a problem with bottom feeders that never create anything themselves lining their pockets off other people's work. I'm just saying the situation is complicated and not all creative works are equal. I doubt this is all Disney's doing as the summary hints at as evil as their team of lawyer hitmen are. Also since Micky Mouse is largely off the market I think they are more concerned with things like Snow White going public domain. They still make a bundle off those films and characters. Ultimately it's probably why they keep pulling this buy it now before it goes into the vault BS because they know one day the clock will run out and the old cartoons will be effectively worthless.
I think the number of multi billionaires that would sign on is small but it's cheap for countries to get a seat on a Moon mission. Rather than spending tens of billions themselves they can for a fraction of that get one of their people a seat. It's one of the smallest clubs on the planet and so far they have all been US citizens. I can see Japan and as well as much of Europe being very excited about the prospect. For Russia it would be an afordable way to get there without committing to a massive program.
It's impractical to build robots to make equipment that is made in the hundred of units and individual parts weighs in the tons. Humans are more flexible so it's easier for humans to do short runs and American workers have a fairly long history of doing this work. For China it's workers are one generation off the farm and it's one thing to slap two halves of an iPad together but a very different issue aligning 5 ton metal castings. Ultra heavy equipment is just shy of being one offs so it requires a much higher skill set which the US still excels at. This is nothing new. I remember reading decades ago about Russian Subs couldn't match the US for quiet operation because we had the only mills that could make the propellers for quiet running. The largest metal castings we did were for the turrets for WW II battle ships and even the US can't reproduce those now.
"a degenerative brain disease brought on by repeated hits to the head that results in confusion, depression and, eventually, dementia."
Windows Vista users suffered from a similar condition.
Just encrypt your actual work files then leave one unencrypted on the desktop called "Work Documents". Inside each file contains an endless string of the text "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"". Hundreds and hundreds of files all with the same repeated text. Not only will they avoid your room but you can tell who was doing the spying, they're the maid that turns and runs when they see you in the hallway.
Without thoroughly reading their patent application it's impossible to know if there's an actual innovation involved. Although he wasn't charging batteries Tesla was using this process to power devices and over a greater distance than Apple. There's no proof his power transmission tower was ever operational but he was powering a type of florescent light in his workshop using a wireless power source very close to what they just patented. My concern is the process was well known for over a hundred years. I know there were plans to build a length of roadway with embedded coils in LA to power electric cars a couple of decades ago. Multiple car companies have discussed charging cars in garages using this process. Doesn't common knowledge fall under prior art? The equipment may be patentable but the process itself should not be given how established the concept has been for a very long time. It's a little like patenting a process for extracting electricity using photons to split off electrons when photovoltaic cells date back to the 1800s. Long established concepts and processes should not be patentable.
Remember years ago when it was first announced that Voyager was entering interstellar space? There was another announcement a year or two ago and now they are saying it's really really close. When I was growing up NASA was considered the most reliable department the government had. After all the budget cuts they've been so starved for big announcements they keep jumping the gun. I know this wasn't out of NASA but it's still a NASA project. The real news in the last week was Mercury but it got buried under higher profile non stories. It just breaks my heart to see this. If they want news releases give us more rover stories! We've got two functional rovers again on Mars and the older one gets no attention and the new one has been all but forgotten. I've seen some stunning images because I cruise geek sites but the general public sees nothing. NASA has got to get better at playing the press game. People still support Mars exploration but look at the ISS as the poster child for press boondoggles. It's been treated more like a secret military project in the press. It's been fully functional for years but other than stories about possibly abandoning it which started weeks after it was completed when is the last time the regular press had a story about what was actually going on in the space station itself, I'm not talking resupply missions. I'll bet the average person couldn't name a single accomplishment or even test run on the space station. I'd bet most people have completely forgotten about it. What's the point of all the science if no one ever hears about it??? Botched press releases and dead silence is slowly killing NASA.
The problem is over time nutrician in food declines. We're so obsessed with keeping food forever it may all end up with the nutricianal value of card board. On the bright side it may reduce waste but it would tend to be abused. Bakeries may decide they can run just one day a week and take their sweet time getting to you or better yet centralize so there are a couple of mega bakeries in the country that take their time shipping all over the country. Their idea of fresh bread may be a month old. It may not form mold but it could all taste like crap but if it saves corporations money get used to it. Remember tomatoes taste like rubber because they are picked green to make them easier to transport. Corporations only care about profit.
If they provide the resources for the development yes, otherwise no. The point is I remember the contract I signed while I worked at Disney. Everyone from the janitors up signed it and basically anything you created while you worked for them they owned. Translated if you were sweeping floors and happened to cure cancer they owned it. More realistically if you were hired as an office worker and happened to write a successful novel they owned the rights. The amazing thing is I talked to a lot of people there and they had no idea they signed that agreement. Most found out when they got that call from Disney legal pointing out what they had signed. Now say you are working in their robotics lab and come up with a new software or hardware design using their facilities then it's reasonable since they made the investment in the facilities and paid you for your time. It's blanket agreements that should be banned.
Anything that forces you to break concentration and shift into another mode kills productivity. It's why mice have been so hard to replace. I can easily use a mouse and keyboard at the same time. Having to reach up to do an operation would seriously piss me off and cut my productivity in half. For everyday playing people love gimmicks but I think people will get tired of it fast. It's why i hated to see Windows go down that road. If vendors start requiring it to use software I'm going to have to find different software. He said they were a bad idea and I have to agree, he didn't say they wouldn't sell some before people got sick of them.
For all the deniers out there answer one question, you don't even need to debate the evidence. Why wouldn't a massive release of CO2 caused by industrialization have an affect on climate? We know how much is being released so the assumption is it would have an affect. Yes I know natural processes and all but those take time and all signs are they aren't keeping up. CO2 traditionally has been stored in forests, which we mostly cut down and coral reefs, which are dying. There are many other factors like other forms of biomass, grasses and such, even our own bodies. The point is there's no evidence that these natural processes are able to keep up with the change and a huge amount of evidence they aren't keeping up with the extra CO2. What's happening in the arctic, I'm not talking Greenland, is more than enough to prove there's a change. We can ague until doomsday about ocean level change but most of us in this country won't be affected. Those on the coast should be concerned though. I'm more concerned with things like droughts. Everyone seems to forget that most of the country is in the middle of one of the worst droughts on record and even the Great Lakes are drying up. We keep finding new uses for water like fracking but they aren't making anymore fresh water. If this becomes the norm we're in trouble. The problem is all projections are that it will get far worse. Deniers don't want to change how they live. Well guess what, nature doesn't care and your life style is going to change. How much is up to you. Keep sticking your head in the sand and it'll change a lot. That's the ugly truth.
I was flipping out. Now I feel dumb. My only solace is that Slashdot looks a lot dumber than me.
I started off assuming it was from the lander but when I got to the part where it stated that petrochemicals only come from life forms that I knew it was BS. The same kind of hydrocarbons have been found on moons in this solar system where it's assumed there's no life. I never even bothered to look at the hoax web site.
She learned their language. Learned how to dress like them and ate the same foods they ate. She also studied their history and daily lives. So what's the difference, they don't live in grass huts and they tattoo themselves with Linux Penguins? If it's properly documented it's a legitimate study. Anthropologists have studied subcultures for decades. It's generally referred to as Cultural Anthropology.
Every estimate has been overly optimistic. Can anyone see a problem with this? Essentially throw out the best case scenario and look at the worst case scenario as the baseline. Anyone not panicked at the thought of this IS A FOOL! After a decade plus of denial we come out with the worst case scenario is our best case. Basically three foot of ocean level rise is the best we can hope for and the likely result is twice that. Kiss all that coastal property goodbye! Forget all that because it mostly affects rich people. Just look at the Great Lakes. They stand at record levels. Remember this ISN'T the bad this is the best we can expect for the next 100 years and it may get worse after that. Drought is likely to be the norm not to mention storms damage. In 10 or 20 years the conservatives will blame the liberals for not telling them how bad it could get. Okay from a liberal here's how bad it can get, ever see Road Warrior???? That's bad. Good is probably Soylent Green. Any questions????
All my Apple preinstalled software is fully functional. On my windows machines if I click on a text file it defaults to Word informing me I need to purchase the software. There's been a reader installed forever but it isn't the default anymore the non functional preview install of Word is the default. It's one of many reasons I weaned myself off Windows and I'm almost exclusively Mac now.
That is the catch. It has not worked so far in people, or animals for that matter. But $scientist speculates it might. Till more data comes through we should soak the RNA in snake oil before freeze drying it.
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. I've been following this for a while now and the approach is sound. The standard ways viruses develop resistance simply won't work with this approach. It'd be a non specific antiviral so if should work on any virus. Sadly prions would likely be immune but not viruses. It's at least a decade off and maybe more but there is a lot of promise. There's reason to think viruses and bacterial infections will be treatable or preventable within the next 20 years. In the meantime we are loosing the war so we need out of the box thinking because millions will die while we are waiting for real treatments to be developed.
Two radically different cases. Amanda Knox was convicted on virtually no evidence. With Casey Anthony she was found innocent even though there was a mountain of evidence and no other suspects. The Italian press also created the persona for Amanda Knox while I'd say Anthony worked hard to create her own. Partying it up while your daughter is missing and not reporting it to the police was hardly innocent behavior. Now you are still proclaiming her innocence after even more evidence was found on the computer showing she was looking up ways to kill some one that just happened to be how her daughter died. People don't want to believe a young spoiled mother could do it so some people will never believe it. Amanda Knox got a raw deal and finally got her freedom back. Very different cases.
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Now if they can be engineered to live on land and adapt to city life.
This massive factory will provide 10 badly needed jobs. Somebody fortunately needs to oil the robots.
Micky Mouse isn't just copyrighted he's trademarked and trademarks are copyrights on steroids and they don't expire. Disney is one of the worst for enforcing trademarks and probably spend more on lawyers than artists. Micky Mouse and some of the iconic characters are different in that they are in a sense the company much as the Pillsbury Doughboy and Ronald McDonald represent those companies. Without trademark protection another company could create a competing business off the corporate logos and characters that could easily be mistaken for the original company. I have a problem with bottom feeders that never create anything themselves lining their pockets off other people's work. I'm just saying the situation is complicated and not all creative works are equal. I doubt this is all Disney's doing as the summary hints at as evil as their team of lawyer hitmen are. Also since Micky Mouse is largely off the market I think they are more concerned with things like Snow White going public domain. They still make a bundle off those films and characters. Ultimately it's probably why they keep pulling this buy it now before it goes into the vault BS because they know one day the clock will run out and the old cartoons will be effectively worthless.
I think the number of multi billionaires that would sign on is small but it's cheap for countries to get a seat on a Moon mission. Rather than spending tens of billions themselves they can for a fraction of that get one of their people a seat. It's one of the smallest clubs on the planet and so far they have all been US citizens. I can see Japan and as well as much of Europe being very excited about the prospect. For Russia it would be an afordable way to get there without committing to a massive program.
It's impractical to build robots to make equipment that is made in the hundred of units and individual parts weighs in the tons. Humans are more flexible so it's easier for humans to do short runs and American workers have a fairly long history of doing this work. For China it's workers are one generation off the farm and it's one thing to slap two halves of an iPad together but a very different issue aligning 5 ton metal castings. Ultra heavy equipment is just shy of being one offs so it requires a much higher skill set which the US still excels at. This is nothing new. I remember reading decades ago about Russian Subs couldn't match the US for quiet operation because we had the only mills that could make the propellers for quiet running. The largest metal castings we did were for the turrets for WW II battle ships and even the US can't reproduce those now.
"a degenerative brain disease brought on by repeated hits to the head that results in confusion, depression and, eventually, dementia." Windows Vista users suffered from a similar condition.
Just encrypt your actual work files then leave one unencrypted on the desktop called "Work Documents". Inside each file contains an endless string of the text "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"". Hundreds and hundreds of files all with the same repeated text. Not only will they avoid your room but you can tell who was doing the spying, they're the maid that turns and runs when they see you in the hallway.
Without thoroughly reading their patent application it's impossible to know if there's an actual innovation involved. Although he wasn't charging batteries Tesla was using this process to power devices and over a greater distance than Apple. There's no proof his power transmission tower was ever operational but he was powering a type of florescent light in his workshop using a wireless power source very close to what they just patented. My concern is the process was well known for over a hundred years. I know there were plans to build a length of roadway with embedded coils in LA to power electric cars a couple of decades ago. Multiple car companies have discussed charging cars in garages using this process. Doesn't common knowledge fall under prior art? The equipment may be patentable but the process itself should not be given how established the concept has been for a very long time. It's a little like patenting a process for extracting electricity using photons to split off electrons when photovoltaic cells date back to the 1800s. Long established concepts and processes should not be patentable.
Remember years ago when it was first announced that Voyager was entering interstellar space? There was another announcement a year or two ago and now they are saying it's really really close. When I was growing up NASA was considered the most reliable department the government had. After all the budget cuts they've been so starved for big announcements they keep jumping the gun. I know this wasn't out of NASA but it's still a NASA project. The real news in the last week was Mercury but it got buried under higher profile non stories. It just breaks my heart to see this. If they want news releases give us more rover stories! We've got two functional rovers again on Mars and the older one gets no attention and the new one has been all but forgotten. I've seen some stunning images because I cruise geek sites but the general public sees nothing. NASA has got to get better at playing the press game. People still support Mars exploration but look at the ISS as the poster child for press boondoggles. It's been treated more like a secret military project in the press. It's been fully functional for years but other than stories about possibly abandoning it which started weeks after it was completed when is the last time the regular press had a story about what was actually going on in the space station itself, I'm not talking resupply missions. I'll bet the average person couldn't name a single accomplishment or even test run on the space station. I'd bet most people have completely forgotten about it. What's the point of all the science if no one ever hears about it??? Botched press releases and dead silence is slowly killing NASA.
The problem is over time nutrician in food declines. We're so obsessed with keeping food forever it may all end up with the nutricianal value of card board. On the bright side it may reduce waste but it would tend to be abused. Bakeries may decide they can run just one day a week and take their sweet time getting to you or better yet centralize so there are a couple of mega bakeries in the country that take their time shipping all over the country. Their idea of fresh bread may be a month old. It may not form mold but it could all taste like crap but if it saves corporations money get used to it. Remember tomatoes taste like rubber because they are picked green to make them easier to transport. Corporations only care about profit.
If they provide the resources for the development yes, otherwise no. The point is I remember the contract I signed while I worked at Disney. Everyone from the janitors up signed it and basically anything you created while you worked for them they owned. Translated if you were sweeping floors and happened to cure cancer they owned it. More realistically if you were hired as an office worker and happened to write a successful novel they owned the rights. The amazing thing is I talked to a lot of people there and they had no idea they signed that agreement. Most found out when they got that call from Disney legal pointing out what they had signed. Now say you are working in their robotics lab and come up with a new software or hardware design using their facilities then it's reasonable since they made the investment in the facilities and paid you for your time. It's blanket agreements that should be banned.
Apparently he had a virus so he was running slow.
gent, swank, penthouse, hustler, and barely legal are still published.
The fact you would lump Nintendo Power with a bunch of stroke mags I find deeply disturbing. Your mother's basement must be a very scary place.
Anything that forces you to break concentration and shift into another mode kills productivity. It's why mice have been so hard to replace. I can easily use a mouse and keyboard at the same time. Having to reach up to do an operation would seriously piss me off and cut my productivity in half. For everyday playing people love gimmicks but I think people will get tired of it fast. It's why i hated to see Windows go down that road. If vendors start requiring it to use software I'm going to have to find different software. He said they were a bad idea and I have to agree, he didn't say they wouldn't sell some before people got sick of them.
Not to be out done Apple has replaced the water in their water coolers with Everclear.
They're just trying to get back at us for The Onion article about the sexiest man alive.
For all the deniers out there answer one question, you don't even need to debate the evidence. Why wouldn't a massive release of CO2 caused by industrialization have an affect on climate? We know how much is being released so the assumption is it would have an affect. Yes I know natural processes and all but those take time and all signs are they aren't keeping up. CO2 traditionally has been stored in forests, which we mostly cut down and coral reefs, which are dying. There are many other factors like other forms of biomass, grasses and such, even our own bodies. The point is there's no evidence that these natural processes are able to keep up with the change and a huge amount of evidence they aren't keeping up with the extra CO2. What's happening in the arctic, I'm not talking Greenland, is more than enough to prove there's a change. We can ague until doomsday about ocean level change but most of us in this country won't be affected. Those on the coast should be concerned though. I'm more concerned with things like droughts. Everyone seems to forget that most of the country is in the middle of one of the worst droughts on record and even the Great Lakes are drying up. We keep finding new uses for water like fracking but they aren't making anymore fresh water. If this becomes the norm we're in trouble. The problem is all projections are that it will get far worse. Deniers don't want to change how they live. Well guess what, nature doesn't care and your life style is going to change. How much is up to you. Keep sticking your head in the sand and it'll change a lot. That's the ugly truth.
And now we know why Taco left.
He actually posted the story under an alias for a laugh.
I was flipping out. Now I feel dumb. My only solace is that Slashdot looks a lot dumber than me.
I started off assuming it was from the lander but when I got to the part where it stated that petrochemicals only come from life forms that I knew it was BS. The same kind of hydrocarbons have been found on moons in this solar system where it's assumed there's no life. I never even bothered to look at the hoax web site.
Might I suggest China's favorite source for accurate news. http://www.theonion.com/
So a groupie is now called an anthropologist.
She learned their language. Learned how to dress like them and ate the same foods they ate. She also studied their history and daily lives. So what's the difference, they don't live in grass huts and they tattoo themselves with Linux Penguins? If it's properly documented it's a legitimate study. Anthropologists have studied subcultures for decades. It's generally referred to as Cultural Anthropology.
Every estimate has been overly optimistic. Can anyone see a problem with this? Essentially throw out the best case scenario and look at the worst case scenario as the baseline. Anyone not panicked at the thought of this IS A FOOL! After a decade plus of denial we come out with the worst case scenario is our best case. Basically three foot of ocean level rise is the best we can hope for and the likely result is twice that. Kiss all that coastal property goodbye! Forget all that because it mostly affects rich people. Just look at the Great Lakes. They stand at record levels. Remember this ISN'T the bad this is the best we can expect for the next 100 years and it may get worse after that. Drought is likely to be the norm not to mention storms damage. In 10 or 20 years the conservatives will blame the liberals for not telling them how bad it could get. Okay from a liberal here's how bad it can get, ever see Road Warrior???? That's bad. Good is probably Soylent Green. Any questions????
All my Apple preinstalled software is fully functional. On my windows machines if I click on a text file it defaults to Word informing me I need to purchase the software. There's been a reader installed forever but it isn't the default anymore the non functional preview install of Word is the default. It's one of many reasons I weaned myself off Windows and I'm almost exclusively Mac now.
If the vaccine works in people,
That is the catch. It has not worked so far in people, or animals for that matter. But $scientist speculates it might. Till more data comes through we should soak the RNA in snake oil before freeze drying it.
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. I've been following this for a while now and the approach is sound. The standard ways viruses develop resistance simply won't work with this approach. It'd be a non specific antiviral so if should work on any virus. Sadly prions would likely be immune but not viruses. It's at least a decade off and maybe more but there is a lot of promise. There's reason to think viruses and bacterial infections will be treatable or preventable within the next 20 years. In the meantime we are loosing the war so we need out of the box thinking because millions will die while we are waiting for real treatments to be developed.
Two radically different cases. Amanda Knox was convicted on virtually no evidence. With Casey Anthony she was found innocent even though there was a mountain of evidence and no other suspects. The Italian press also created the persona for Amanda Knox while I'd say Anthony worked hard to create her own. Partying it up while your daughter is missing and not reporting it to the police was hardly innocent behavior. Now you are still proclaiming her innocence after even more evidence was found on the computer showing she was looking up ways to kill some one that just happened to be how her daughter died. People don't want to believe a young spoiled mother could do it so some people will never believe it. Amanda Knox got a raw deal and finally got her freedom back. Very different cases.