Yes, "trade paperback" in a comic store is a recognized term.
I was replying to the situation here where the people reading "trade paperback" might not know what that means. (see above link for def) It's not a paperback version of trading cards.
Trade paperback is not very descriptive, it's like saying that an "aftermarket part" will improve a car without mentioning the part nor whether it should be more or less powerful than the factory model.
What is actually being referred to is a reprint or collection book, no matter what size and type of cover. As we're talking about the previous issues of a comic, we're also not talking about the special stories which are only released in book form....and with some comics, you have to figure out which universe's story you want to begin with.
> > Wonder if you could freeze the fog to make it into a solid screen...
> Umm, no, it would make snow.
Umm, no, it would make sleet. Snizzle, actually.
...Eventually you would accumulate a solid screen.
If you're cool enough.
It would make snow if you're pushing the water down with a high pressure air blast. That's how artificial snow machines work -- expanding air freezes the water. You'd need a really loud sound system to go with that screen.
The live auction mentioned earlier in the week is over...
I bought an early model of Anonymous Coward, used as a prop in a segment which was cut from "Hackers". It seems to sometimes be useful, although I don't expect to get much recognition with it.
This may also be related to the fact that a lot of tech people don't understand the complications of running a business which the business types face daily.
A professional programmer will learn about the business environment in which the system will exist. The system should be designed to function properly for the business. Even if not all the details of the business are understood, the programmer should study those which are directly affected by the project and know the goals of the specific business operation.
I had one client who supplied a fairly detailed specification of a user interface. I had to redesign much of it because the business was actually using a different work flow method than that which the specification required.
Unauthorised spying is not its primary purpose.
But authorised spying is available for an additional fee.
Unauthorised spying has an even larger fee, in cash.
No, that's your computer screen checking in with the Master's system. As long as you don't have anything illegal on your screen you don't have to worry about it.
There is a different thing which really made Newton famous.
You probably heard that he said "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." He was referring to his having used previous discoveries as a foundation for his work.
At the time, this was somewhat new. Many people had been rediscovering and reinventing things, but often they were either isolated or kept their discoveries secret. There was some published history of previous scientific work, but it was not common.
The Royal Society began as a small group of scientists who demonstrated and shared discoveries. They adopted publication of discoveries and peer review as an important part of their work. This activity then collected scientific work, made it available, and allowed others to expand upon discoveries instead of spending time repeating the discovery process. This was the real cause of the Scientific Revolution which spread from Europe. Newton joined this process and his discoveries were thus examined, recorded, and made visible to everyone.
Even though Newton is known for his work in physics and mathematics, it is because he made his work public that we know about his work. And most physics scientists probably learn of Newton's work before they reinvent the calculus and combine it with observations of gravity.
Depends on whether you would demand that someone stops owning a copy of your home or car, really. Since I very much doubt you do monkey-dances at junctions demanding everyone driving a similar ford fiesta or whatever to you stops doing so, or insist that all similar houses to your own are bulldozed, I doubt you qualify for such a title.
If someone took your home or car you wouldn't have your home or car anymore. If someone took a copy of your car, you'd still have your car, they'd have a car, hey, everyone's better off!
I have no problem with you asserting rights over YOUR copy of some information, but damned if I'm going to let you tell me what to do with another copy of similar or identical information I received. Copyright is incompatible with a free society, not to mention anticapitalist, since it's an artificial barrier to market entry enforced by the government.
Note also that I consider the right to be recognised as an author/composer of a work completely different to copyright (interestingly, most countries have only weak protection for such a concept, it's not the same as copyright at all!). I believe an author has every right to associate his name with a work. I do NOT believe he has a right to restict its duplication.
Ideas require someone to have thought of them, they do not exist before they are created. There must have been a distinct time of creation of each idea.
Do you really believe that the idea that you are a burning blue bag of marbles leaking on a keyboard has always existed?
I realise that there is scope for abuse here, but I don't think Microsoft would be stupid enough to risk censoring critical posts. It would come out within hours anyway, if they ever did try it.
Obviously complaining about the relevancy evaluator as performing censorship is off-topic and is not relevant...
AOL users screwed up the previously working Usenet system?
You must have been using a different Usenet than I was.
Your state probably required the company to be registered. Look up that public information (it might even be on one of the State's web sites). There will be a contact name and/or address, although it might not have been updated. That might be their law firm, who should know who decided what happened to the assets.
..and if all the assets went to a single creditor, that company probably owns the rights now.
This kind of thing you can try to do yourself, but you'll probably want a lawyer's assistance when you actually complete a deal. Take notes and collect all the information which you find, so you can present your lawyer with what you found. The lawyer might do some other searching, but you may as well provide your info in case that reduces his effort (and expenses).
contributes to the body of research in technical and professional communication
demonstrates the depth of study expected from a master's-level student
is written in a lucid, readable style
(Yeah, I plagiarized that:-)
The "contributes to body of research/knowledge" definition is common.
"No idea is ever totally new?" Somebody was first to think of it. Maybe the concept of the atom was influenced by earlier "absolute particle" ideas, but someone created those older ideas. There may be a lot of ideas which are similar to old ideas, but truly new ideas do still appear.
You only have to prove yourself original to the Patent Office, then you can stop. The Patent Office only has to prove that someone did something with an application.
Sounds as though Microsoft's ideas on this one are steps in the right direction.
Microsoft Research loads news group and message data into a SQL Server database for analysis. Users can get a detailed overview of activity in Usenet groups. This allows a user, for example, to find not just a group on Windows XP (news - web sites) with a lot of messages, but one where many postings get replied to, Smith said.
That creates a newsgroup activity bidding system. The most active newsgroups get more participants, and more active participants. If only numbers are counted, quality is not rated. Trolls and Silliness also cause more activity. Members of newsgroups who want more activity are encouraged to post more, no matter how trivial. If you can't contribute to misc.education.medical.postmortem.organs.gallbladd er, then keep quiet and wait for someone to learn or question something.
Furthermore, message analysis before the list is displayed to a Usenet user can make sure that only relevant messages are shown, cutting the spam that is prevalent in newsgroups.
Yes, those messages in a Microsoft Windows XP newsgroup where people point out that a Samba print server can handle all the desired types of output are obviously not relevant. The person was asking a question about XP, not about all solutions. And that message about a worm which infects an XP print server is obviously spam which is trying to promote something.
Through a personalized homepage a user can be kept up to date on replies to posting and keep track of often watched threads, groups, and posters.
What a novel idea. It obviously is unrelated to the summary pages of the existing Usenet clients. Of course, this being a home page it obviously requires the protection of Passport.
However, Smith has yet to persuade any Microsoft product groups to incorporate the Microsoft Research "social accounting" metrics.
Death of Usenet predicted.
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I'm a Usenet veteran, but still find it difficult to identify a group that's relevant to me when I first want to explore a new subject.
(I'm a Usenet veteran too. Google doesn't have my oldest postings.)
Yes. When learning a new subject you might not even know enough about its vocabulary to know whether you want to read about "GUI", "Desktop", or "Operating System", so you don't know which newsgroup with those terms are relevant. Then when you peek at a newsgroup you might not find any beginners nor teachers which are at your level.
The reason why academia frowns on plagiarism is because of the goal of schools.
Schools are intended to teach ideas to the minds of students, and to produce new ideas.
If a student writes a paper by plagiarism, that does not show that the student has learned anything. The student is supposed to write to show that they know a concept, and that they are able to express their understanding of that concept -- if it is a research paper, the student also has to go find information about the topic. If the student does not learn what is supposed to be learned, they are wasting their time and money, and may not have concepts which are needed later in school or life.
If a faculty member or advanced student uses plagiarism instead of creating new ideas, that person is cheating society from getting the new ideas which the school is supposed to produce.
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Sometimes we do and eventually we will.
Particularly while we can only look up at the falling rocks.
Generally people have wanted the smallest laptop, but someone has to set the record for the biggest laptop.
I was replying to the situation here where the people reading "trade paperback" might not know what that means. (see above link for def) It's not a paperback version of trading cards.
I thought an elf is supposed to have an English accent...
Actually, if voice becomes popular I anticipate a market for voice alteration devices.
And if I become a mage, I'll have a program which speaks words so it can emit incantations and my voice does not tire in the middle of a complex one.
Gee, if they spam me then I get to try out Minnesota's shiny new antispam law.
What is actually being referred to is a reprint or collection book, no matter what size and type of cover. As we're talking about the previous issues of a comic, we're also not talking about the special stories which are only released in book form. ...and with some comics, you have to figure out which universe's story you want to begin with.
> Umm, no, it would make snow.
Umm, no, it would make sleet. Snizzle, actually.
If you're cool enough.
It would make snow if you're pushing the water down with a high pressure air blast. That's how artificial snow machines work -- expanding air freezes the water. You'd need a really loud sound system to go with that screen.
I bought an early model of Anonymous Coward, used as a prop in a segment which was cut from "Hackers". It seems to sometimes be useful, although I don't expect to get much recognition with it.
A professional programmer will learn about the business environment in which the system will exist. The system should be designed to function properly for the business. Even if not all the details of the business are understood, the programmer should study those which are directly affected by the project and know the goals of the specific business operation.
I had one client who supplied a fairly detailed specification of a user interface. I had to redesign much of it because the business was actually using a different work flow method than that which the specification required.
Unauthorised spying is not its primary purpose.
But authorised spying is available for an additional fee.
Unauthorised spying has an even larger fee, in cash.
No, that's your computer screen checking in with the Master's system. As long as you don't have anything illegal on your screen you don't have to worry about it.
One interview, with someone who talks out of both sides of their mouth at once.
OK, I'll prepare an estimate for taking you off my list.
You probably heard that he said "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." He was referring to his having used previous discoveries as a foundation for his work.
At the time, this was somewhat new. Many people had been rediscovering and reinventing things, but often they were either isolated or kept their discoveries secret. There was some published history of previous scientific work, but it was not common.
The Royal Society began as a small group of scientists who demonstrated and shared discoveries. They adopted publication of discoveries and peer review as an important part of their work. This activity then collected scientific work, made it available, and allowed others to expand upon discoveries instead of spending time repeating the discovery process. This was the real cause of the Scientific Revolution which spread from Europe. Newton joined this process and his discoveries were thus examined, recorded, and made visible to everyone.
Even though Newton is known for his work in physics and mathematics, it is because he made his work public that we know about his work. And most physics scientists probably learn of Newton's work before they reinvent the calculus and combine it with observations of gravity.
Depends on whether you would demand that someone stops owning a copy of your home or car, really. Since I very much doubt you do monkey-dances at junctions demanding everyone driving a similar ford fiesta or whatever to you stops doing so, or insist that all similar houses to your own are bulldozed, I doubt you qualify for such a title.
If someone took your home or car you wouldn't have your home or car anymore. If someone took a copy of your car, you'd still have your car, they'd have a car, hey, everyone's better off!
I have no problem with you asserting rights over YOUR copy of some information, but damned if I'm going to let you tell me what to do with another copy of similar or identical information I received. Copyright is incompatible with a free society, not to mention anticapitalist, since it's an artificial barrier to market entry enforced by the government.
Note also that I consider the right to be recognised as an author/composer of a work completely different to copyright (interestingly, most countries have only weak protection for such a concept, it's not the same as copyright at all!). I believe an author has every right to associate his name with a work. I do NOT believe he has a right to restict its duplication.
Want to buy the corrections to the dictionary?
It's something more humorous than the indicator which lights up when a guard's weapons have locked on the escaping target?
Ideas require someone to have thought of them, they do not exist before they are created. There must have been a distinct time of creation of each idea.
Do you really believe that the idea that you are a burning blue bag of marbles leaking on a keyboard has always existed?
Obviously complaining about the relevancy evaluator as performing censorship is off-topic and is not relevant...
AOL users screwed up the previously working Usenet system?
You must have been using a different Usenet than I was.
This kind of thing you can try to do yourself, but you'll probably want a lawyer's assistance when you actually complete a deal. Take notes and collect all the information which you find, so you can present your lawyer with what you found. The lawyer might do some other searching, but you may as well provide your info in case that reduces his effort (and expenses).
(Yeah, I plagiarized that :-)
The "contributes to body of research/knowledge" definition is common.
"No idea is ever totally new?" Somebody was first to think of it. Maybe the concept of the atom was influenced by earlier "absolute particle" ideas, but someone created those older ideas. There may be a lot of ideas which are similar to old ideas, but truly new ideas do still appear.
You only have to prove yourself original to the Patent Office, then you can stop. The Patent Office only has to prove that someone did something with an application.
Isn't a froggle a fuzzy blue frog which lives under stairs on Sesame Street?
That creates a newsgroup activity bidding system. The most active newsgroups get more participants, and more active participants. If only numbers are counted, quality is not rated. Trolls and Silliness also cause more activity. Members of newsgroups who want more activity are encouraged to post more, no matter how trivial. If you can't contribute to misc.education.medical.postmortem.organs.gallblad
Yes, those messages in a Microsoft Windows XP newsgroup where people point out that a Samba print server can handle all the desired types of output are obviously not relevant. The person was asking a question about XP, not about all solutions. And that message about a worm which infects an XP print server is obviously spam which is trying to promote something.
What a novel idea. It obviously is unrelated to the summary pages of the existing Usenet clients. Of course, this being a home page it obviously requires the protection of Passport.
Death of Usenet predicted.
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(I'm a Usenet veteran too. Google doesn't have my oldest postings.)
Yes. When learning a new subject you might not even know enough about its vocabulary to know whether you want to read about "GUI", "Desktop", or "Operating System", so you don't know which newsgroup with those terms are relevant. Then when you peek at a newsgroup you might not find any beginners nor teachers which are at your level.
Schools are intended to teach ideas to the minds of students, and to produce new ideas.
If a student writes a paper by plagiarism, that does not show that the student has learned anything. The student is supposed to write to show that they know a concept, and that they are able to express their understanding of that concept -- if it is a research paper, the student also has to go find information about the topic. If the student does not learn what is supposed to be learned, they are wasting their time and money, and may not have concepts which are needed later in school or life.
If a faculty member or advanced student uses plagiarism instead of creating new ideas, that person is cheating society from getting the new ideas which the school is supposed to produce.
Agent 99 is the partner of Maxwell Smart.
Get with the program guide.