The US only recognized domestic copyrights until 1891. Prior to that, foreign works were considered public domain. Mark Twain became a US citizen to protect his writings and lobbied for the International Copright Act.
Yup, suprisingly many fabrics are IR transparent/translucent.
A fun thing to do is get a black shirt that is grey under IR and write messages on it in black or blue marker. Freaks out security, but looks almost normal to the mook asking you to take off your shoes.
It was a HUGE victory for Valve when Half-Life 2 was released and paying customers were the first to play it, rather than pirates downloading leaked gold master copies two weeks before the street date.
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That's funny. I remember my roommate being able to play it 3 days before I could. And he pirated it.
Fogbank is a light, highly insulative, strong yet fragile material that was very, very expensive years ago and was made using a solvent called acetonitrile in a very flammable process.
Aerogel is a light, highly insulative, strong yet fragile material that was expensive years ago and made with a variety of solvents, including acetonitrile, in a very flammable process(Supercritical drying).
You'd think they'd pick a better codename.
Still is pretty expensive for the space(and apparently nuke)-grade stuff, although you can make so-so aerogel fragments with CO2 and high-pressure pipe fittings. A 10 year old did it with sched 80 pipe and liquified CO2.
It was in my highschool text book ten years ago. The teacher never got that far, but it was in there.
They're probably still using the same book. I was rather lucky that they had just bought new books, considering it'd been at least 15 years since the last update before that. My book the grade before still had the "raisins in pudding" model of atoms.
How? The ISP doesn't keep track of that, from lack of storage space if nothing else. Anything the accuser could provide is trivially forged, by either the accuser or a 3rd party.
If it is anything like the various encrypted USB sticks, it'll be trivially cracked with a logic probe and maybe soldering on another controller/copying the firmware from another drive for which the key is known.
I wouldn't have said anything, if you hadn't included this in your post saying the exact opposite:
If the license wasn't adequately provided to you prior to purchase (e.g., license agreements INSIDE software boxes, etc.) feel free to use the court system to get your money back, or to prove that those particular agreements are invalid.
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If it is inside the box, I shouldn't need to go to court to prove they are invalid, the same as publishers are not allowed to print contracts inside the cover of books and sell them without getting my agreement beforehand.
And even if you give me a contract prior to selling me a book and I agree to it, you can sue me for breach of contract if I violate that contract. You cannot sue me for breach of copyright for selling a book too cheaply, reading it in the park, or lending it to a friend.
It should be the same with software as any other copyrighted material.
You cannot restrict an owners use of a copyrighted work. I can read a book when I want, I can sell it when I want for as little as I want(the original problem involved requiring you to sell books for a minimum price), I can lend it to my friends. I can even put it my wall with a camera and projector if I have poor eyesight(oo, transient copy!).
The only reason software companies get away with it is the fact that to run their software, a copy needs to be made in memory, and thus they grant you the right to make that copy with restrictions, which is only barely accepted. If you were to run an OS that supported execute in place, then you could give them the finger and wipe them across the court floor.
Some claim their software is licensed, not sold, but that is also bullshit in every other medium, via the 1976 Act that includes all lawfully possesed works whether sold, given, or traded. Some districts have included anything with the appearance of a sale(ie, I can buy it at a store just like batteries, books, or groceries), some have not.
If I download software from your website, you gave it to me, too late to add a contract of adhesion after the fact. If you give me a contract beforehand, then me bad for agreeing to it, but after I have it I'm free to ignore any paper/bytes inside the box/installer.
And an automatic disc-changer. If I'm going to be swapping 300+(don't forget coasters) discs any more frequently than once a year, I want a robot to do it for me.
One of my relatives bought one, slightly used, to burn training DVDs and it is awesome(if really damn heavy).
Shameless plug for the pyros, his second DVD on how to make fire covers a bunch of usually impractical ways to make fire: the fire plow(a la Castaway), various electrical, lots of chemical, and lenses(including jello & ice).
The first one covers methods of making fire that might actually be useful in the wilderness, but I imagine everyone here already knows them.
Prices on 1.5TB have dropped like a rock. They are, in units/dollar, cheaper than.5TB, slightly cheaper than 1TB, and roughly equal to.75TB.
Actually, I just picked up some 1.5TB on sale for 10 bucks over the 1TB cost. Either I'm about to suffer an early warranty replacement, or the incremental cost between the.75, 1 and 1.5 is only due to testing/grading performance like the various CPU/GPU chips that can be downgraded to fit the market demand.
If you're going to go that route, why not get a "gently used" blackberry. Some of them have wifi/full keyboards and work without cell access as well. They can go as cheap as $50-100
HMD of at least 800x600 with headtracking and a virtual desktop that is, say, 4000x3000. Looking spatially by moving my head is a lot easier than tabbing or switching desktops, and I could retain the spatial-memory of my always open windows.
I've got multiple monitors now, but there is only so far that can go, physically. Sure, I'd lose the peripherial vision of those other screens, but I could have screens all around me instead of just what fits on my desk.
The vuzix vr920 looks tempting, but it is only 640x480 and I'd probably have to make my own drivers for the 3DoF tracker.
Not a stretch. I just topped 8TB at home recently.
5 bay ESATA boxes are only $200 now, and my local electronics store had 1.5 TB drives on sale recently for $100&change. They didn't have enough left by the time I showed up to fill the case, but I already had 2TB in my computer(spread over 3 drives).
As a counterpoint, women buy more cars than men, in the US midwest at least, and dealership mailings aimed at women have a higher response rate than those aimed at men.
The guys read the info, say "neat", then trash the mailing. The women look at the pictures, say "pretty", then purchase.
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And theft of services. If any of those were on metered connections, they could have cost the owner a fair bit of money.
So like an Ipod Mega or Kilo?
Frell. I thought it was odd. Teach me to C&P.
The US only recognized domestic copyrights until 1891. Prior to that, foreign works were considered public domain. Mark Twain became a US citizen to protect his writings and lobbied for the International Copright Act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Copyright_Act_of_1891
On the plus side, the basic patents have less than 10 years to go.
Yup, suprisingly many fabrics are IR transparent/translucent.
A fun thing to do is get a black shirt that is grey under IR and write messages on it in black or blue marker. Freaks out security, but looks almost normal to the mook asking you to take off your shoes.
Not so much fun at casinos, though.
About 15 years, so only a year or two ahead of NT 4.
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Of course you'd feel that way, it is their third try. I hope after the first two they would have gotten better.
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That's funny. I remember my roommate being able to play it 3 days before I could. And he pirated it.
Fogbank is a light, highly insulative, strong yet fragile material that was very, very expensive years ago and was made using a solvent called acetonitrile in a very flammable process.
Aerogel is a light, highly insulative, strong yet fragile material that was expensive years ago and made with a variety of solvents, including acetonitrile, in a very flammable process(Supercritical drying).
You'd think they'd pick a better codename.
Still is pretty expensive for the space(and apparently nuke)-grade stuff, although you can make so-so aerogel fragments with CO2 and high-pressure pipe fittings. A 10 year old did it with sched 80 pipe and liquified CO2.
It was in my highschool text book ten years ago. The teacher never got that far, but it was in there.
They're probably still using the same book. I was rather lucky that they had just bought new books, considering it'd been at least 15 years since the last update before that. My book the grade before still had the "raisins in pudding" model of atoms.
How? The ISP doesn't keep track of that, from lack of storage space if nothing else. Anything the accuser could provide is trivially forged, by either the accuser or a 3rd party.
Is that the per station cost or the per person listening cost?
If it is anything like the various encrypted USB sticks, it'll be trivially cracked with a logic probe and maybe soldering on another controller/copying the firmware from another drive for which the key is known.
Especially since the material is just fancy aerogel.
I wouldn't have said anything, if you hadn't included this in your post saying the exact opposite:
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If it is inside the box, I shouldn't need to go to court to prove they are invalid, the same as publishers are not allowed to print contracts inside the cover of books and sell them without getting my agreement beforehand.
And even if you give me a contract prior to selling me a book and I agree to it, you can sue me for breach of contract if I violate that contract. You cannot sue me for breach of copyright for selling a book too cheaply, reading it in the park, or lending it to a friend.
It should be the same with software as any other copyrighted material.
The First Sale Doctrine would like to have a word with you.
You cannot restrict an owners use of a copyrighted work. I can read a book when I want, I can sell it when I want for as little as I want(the original problem involved requiring you to sell books for a minimum price), I can lend it to my friends. I can even put it my wall with a camera and projector if I have poor eyesight(oo, transient copy!).
The only reason software companies get away with it is the fact that to run their software, a copy needs to be made in memory, and thus they grant you the right to make that copy with restrictions, which is only barely accepted. If you were to run an OS that supported execute in place, then you could give them the finger and wipe them across the court floor.
Some claim their software is licensed, not sold, but that is also bullshit in every other medium, via the 1976 Act that includes all lawfully possesed works whether sold, given, or traded. Some districts have included anything with the appearance of a sale(ie, I can buy it at a store just like batteries, books, or groceries), some have not.
If I download software from your website, you gave it to me, too late to add a contract of adhesion after the fact. If you give me a contract beforehand, then me bad for agreeing to it, but after I have it I'm free to ignore any paper/bytes inside the box/installer.
And an automatic disc-changer. If I'm going to be swapping 300+(don't forget coasters) discs any more frequently than once a year, I want a robot to do it for me.
One of my relatives bought one, slightly used, to burn training DVDs and it is awesome(if really damn heavy).
Shameless plug for the pyros, his second DVD on how to make fire covers a bunch of usually impractical ways to make fire: the fire plow(a la Castaway), various electrical, lots of chemical, and lenses(including jello & ice).
The first one covers methods of making fire that might actually be useful in the wilderness, but I imagine everyone here already knows them.
Prices on 1.5TB have dropped like a rock. They are, in units/dollar, cheaper than .5TB, slightly cheaper than 1TB, and roughly equal to .75TB.
Actually, I just picked up some 1.5TB on sale for 10 bucks over the 1TB cost. Either I'm about to suffer an early warranty replacement, or the incremental cost between the .75, 1 and 1.5 is only due to testing/grading performance like the various CPU/GPU chips that can be downgraded to fit the market demand.
If you're going to go that route, why not get a "gently used" blackberry. Some of them have wifi/full keyboards and work without cell access as well. They can go as cheap as $50-100
The kindle2 does have a web browser. It is, however, worse than a cellphone browser for anything other than relatively plain text pages.
And since it uses the cell network, if you don't have signal, you're outta luck.
Plus it's expensive compared to older web tablet types that would be more functional.
HMD of at least 800x600 with headtracking and a virtual desktop that is, say, 4000x3000. Looking spatially by moving my head is a lot easier than tabbing or switching desktops, and I could retain the spatial-memory of my always open windows.
I've got multiple monitors now, but there is only so far that can go, physically. Sure, I'd lose the peripherial vision of those other screens, but I could have screens all around me instead of just what fits on my desk.
The vuzix vr920 looks tempting, but it is only 640x480 and I'd probably have to make my own drivers for the 3DoF tracker.
Not a stretch. I just topped 8TB at home recently.
5 bay ESATA boxes are only $200 now, and my local electronics store had 1.5 TB drives on sale recently for $100&change. They didn't have enough left by the time I showed up to fill the case, but I already had 2TB in my computer(spread over 3 drives).
Maybe, although I think she might feel WoT drags on a bit. On the other hand, WFR were fairly thick, so who knows.
I could see her going for the Elric books, though.
As a counterpoint, women buy more cars than men, in the US midwest at least, and dealership mailings aimed at women have a higher response rate than those aimed at men.
The guys read the info, say "neat", then trash the mailing. The women look at the pictures, say "pretty", then purchase.