No, it only does that for point releases (security updates & bug fixes). It has never automatically installed a new version. This is the same behavior as Windows Update.
Is there anyway to filter stories by submitter? I know you can exclude stories by particlar editors, but don't know about submitters. This is the third story that 'I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property' has posted that has been not just inflammatory but a flat-out lie.
By those numbers, only 6.5% of IE users are running the latest version. Even if you include IE7 you get that only 73.5% of IE users have upgraded to a browser released in the last three years.
On the otherhand, 91.4% of Firefox users are running the latest stable version or a beta version. And if you include FF2 (released the same month as IE7) 99.5% of firefox users have upgraded to a browser released in the last three years.
Firefox users are far more likely to upgrade to the newest version than Internet Explorer users are, which is what he was claiming.
The character is recognizably Tolkien's creation. The universe he inhabits. The voices. The languages. ...The character designs.
The film can't honestly be described as anything other than a derivative work.
None of those things are covered by copyright, and thus cannot be a derivative work. Some of them could be covered by trademark, but that is an entirely different matter.
The dialog. The maps. The story.
These are covered by copyright, but they are not being used (maybe the maps are I don't know). It is a fan-flick: a new story with new dialog based on the characters and word created by Tolkien.
Oh, man. You just made me remember that horrible mishmash of Auto-Lisp and Q-Basic I wrote in high school trying to use AutoCAD 10 as a Quake level editor, since that's what we had at school. I had moderate success, but finally broke down and bought a shareware package, only to find after months of work, that it always rotates walls around their center, so if you ever rotated a wall with an odd length, it was no longer aligned with the grid. And it didn't have a way to snap objects back to the grid, so you ended up with BSP-tree leaks galore. I had to reverse engineer it's file format so I could write more Q-Basic to snap all the coordinates back to the grid.
Yeah, that was odd. I could see if the final field of each assembly instruction was an address and everything was aligned to 2-word boundaries (msb-first) or you didn't use memory passed a certain boundary (lsb-first) then you could save memory by compacting all the instructions by one bit (and then packing them together). Same for registers, or if didn't use instructions with op-codes over a certain threshold. But if you were really saving one bit per instruction and you managed to compress 7k into 5k, then that means your instructions were only 3.5 bits on average to begin with, which doesn't seem very likely. Something definitely got lost in translation there.
It would provide only identity/authentication information.
I don't think you realize how much information that is.
Each transaction would authenticate me as Citizen X, rather than as card holder Y. Today all my purchases are made with a single use card number and shipped to a PO Box. If the authorities want to track me down using that, they can get a warrant and get the info from my credit company or the postal box company, but people I ordered from don't know or care who I am.
The government would also have a record of everyone who checked the public key repository. It could be setup such that this isn't necessary - for example I provide my public key to the credit card company and then the merchant talks directly with them. However, for security purposes, it would be a good idea to check with the central database for each transaction to make sure that the key hasn't been revoked. So now the government has a timestamped list of everyone I have authenticated with.
If you are authenticating to a universal identifier it makes it trivial to combine this information into a database, and if it can be done it will be. The only way to prevent information from being collected like this is to prevent it from being generated to begin with by only providing information that is needed.
In this case though, the government (through the courts) have singled out an individual corporation and granted them the right to do things that are illegal for every other individual or corporation the the country.
There are serious antimarket aspects to this settlement but the isn't the company, the problem is the government.
Consolidating this to a single card would be utterly retarded, as it provides both the issuer (the government) and entities that you do business with far more information about you than they need to know, and it greatly increases the consequences when a card is compromised.
On the other hand, having a standard authentication mechanism which was integrated into most computers would be very useful. Then when my bank issued me a pin-and-chip credit card, I would know that it worked with my computer as well as at the grocery store. Your ISP could issue you one which you could use for signing/encrypting email (using S/MIME where they manage the public key repository, and the card has your private key). Same for all these other cards that I carry in my wallet.
When a class action lawsuit is approved to go forward, then anyone and everyone defined in that class is bound by the terms of the eventual settlement unless they specifically opt-out in writing. The lawyers bringing the class action suit are supposed to contact the members of the class, but when the class is so large, this often only happens by means of a few postings in trade literature, or some commercials run on TV or the like.
A similar thing happened to my parents. They (foolishly) bought a car on a lease-to-own program, where a certain amount of what you pay in the lease is supposed to apply to the eventual purchase price. Well, in addition to being a bad deal to begin with, the dealership did even not live up to these terms and also played games like applying additional payments toward future interest incurred instead of the principle. They broke their contract and the law in several instances cheating my parents (and all their other customers) out of thousands of dollars each.
Anyway some lawyer decided to bring a class action lawsuit against them for this, and eventually "won". The result - the lawyer got a ton of money, each of the screwed customers got like $50 and the dealership got off for a fraction of what they had cheated their customers out of. The laywer claimed he mailed letters to all the customers affected by this notifying them of the class action (my parents were specifically listed as such a customer as found in discovery), but they don't ever remember getting such a thing. The first they heard about it was when they tried to bring legal action against the dealership and were told they couldn't because they had been part of a class settlement, but they could contact the lawyer and request their share of that settlement if they wished.
Class action lawsuits may have been created with good intention, but the actual outcome is enrich scummy lawyers and to indemnify corporations against lawsuits for cheap.
Some of the userspace certainly does, but some is also a lot slower - searches always take longer even though there's a lot less installed on my Linux partition
What type of searching? I have always been disappointed at how slow Windows Search is, in fact I find that running locate/grep in cygwin to be much faster than the native windows search (or even that windows desktop search that outlook tricked me into installing).
Secondly, there are absolutely things that the Linux kernel is faster at. Just as one example, an application with multiple processes is much faster in Linux than in Windows, to the point where anyone who cares about performance will convert the processes into threads when porting Unix software to Windows.
I suppose I should I be impressed that it cannot be fooled by beards, but I am instead frightened that the computer cannot tell the difference between real Spock and Evil Spock.
Don't blame him. He's been trapped inside Geocities for the last 15 years. He's finally been set free and is still learning that there are internets other other than these.
I don't know why you'd base it on a billiard/pool table and not something that was purpose built.
To save floor space and upfront costs for target customers. Flagging sales at you local poolhall/pub? Keep the pool tables for your traditional customers, but have BilliadBots tournaments on tuesdays to attract a younger clientele.
since it could make pretty much the identical arguments on all points
No, it couldn't because Google is directly distributing the works it scans, as opposed to turnitin.com who is selling services based on analysis of the works, and not distributing the work itself.
Maybe it's where I live, but nature has plenty of sharp things on the ground, like goat heads and thistles. I went barefoot most of the time as a kid, and I was always more careful walking in the undeveloped areas than the sidewalk, because it had more sharp things. And considering that flat tires on the bicycle were nearly a weekly occurrence, I don't think that callouses would have ever grown thick enough to completely protect me.
Absolutely. I saw Coraline in 3D and loved it, but hated the glasses-over-glasses to the point where I would have much rather forgone the 3D and just watched it as a normal movie. It was the only times I've ever wished I had contacts.
There is definitely nothing wrong with funding more research. The fact is that we have tons of coal plants that aren't going away any time soon - it would be great if we could retrofit these plants. Furthermore, even if people lost their fear of nuclear power, we still couldn't build them fast enough to keep up with demand due to the longer planning and approval processes required. So even with wind, solar, geothermal and nuclear, we are going to have to build more coal plants to keep up with demand.
The problem I have is the coal companies and politicians keep talking about Clean Coal as thought it is a viable alternative to other clean fuels today, when in fact carbon sequestering is a complete joke so far. It's as bad as claiming that hydrogen powered vehicles are just around the corner. Nuclear waste storage is a much more mature and "solved" problem than CO2 storage, as is nuclear reprocessing.
I have a very hard time believing that the best lawyers in this country all specialized in the same subset of the law, let alone were all hired by a single entity. While these folks certainly have studied other aspects of the law, and have had other clients, the bulk of their recent experience is all the same.
Even if all the lawyers Obama appointed used to work for the EFF & FSF I would still be concerned, because the DOJ needs a wide base of experience, not just IP law.
And the real losers in this bailout (besides tax payers) are all the other companies that are managing to make affordable electric/hybrid vehicles today without this subsidy. Now these companies who focused on practical compromises rather than flash are at a financial disadvantage to Tesla. Way to go Congress.
The speed improvements in the MacRuby experimental branch come from using LLVM to generate code and from using the ObjC Runtime (for method dispatch and garbage collection) rather than a homebrew Ruby runtime like the other interpreters.
Squirrelfish does not use LLVM. I imagine using LLVM for JIT compilation of javascript would have to much overhead, and could be more difficult to integrate into the brower DOM interface.
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No, it only does that for point releases (security updates & bug fixes). It has never automatically installed a new version. This is the same behavior as Windows Update.
Is there anyway to filter stories by submitter? I know you can exclude stories by particlar editors, but don't know about submitters. This is the third story that 'I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property' has posted that has been not just inflammatory but a flat-out lie.
By those numbers, only 6.5% of IE users are running the latest version. Even if you include IE7 you get that only 73.5% of IE users have upgraded to a browser released in the last three years.
On the otherhand, 91.4% of Firefox users are running the latest stable version or a beta version. And if you include FF2 (released the same month as IE7) 99.5% of firefox users have upgraded to a browser released in the last three years.
Firefox users are far more likely to upgrade to the newest version than Internet Explorer users are, which is what he was claiming.
The character is recognizably Tolkien's creation.
...The character designs.
The universe he inhabits. The voices. The languages.
The film can't honestly be described as anything other than a derivative work.
None of those things are covered by copyright, and thus cannot be a derivative work. Some of them could be covered by trademark, but that is an entirely different matter.
The dialog. The maps. The story.
These are covered by copyright, but they are not being used (maybe the maps are I don't know). It is a fan-flick: a new story with new dialog based on the characters and word created by Tolkien.
Oh, man. You just made me remember that horrible mishmash of Auto-Lisp and Q-Basic I wrote in high school trying to use AutoCAD 10 as a Quake level editor, since that's what we had at school. I had moderate success, but finally broke down and bought a shareware package, only to find after months of work, that it always rotates walls around their center, so if you ever rotated a wall with an odd length, it was no longer aligned with the grid. And it didn't have a way to snap objects back to the grid, so you ended up with BSP-tree leaks galore. I had to reverse engineer it's file format so I could write more Q-Basic to snap all the coordinates back to the grid.
Yeah, that was odd. I could see if the final field of each assembly instruction was an address and everything was aligned to 2-word boundaries (msb-first) or you didn't use memory passed a certain boundary (lsb-first) then you could save memory by compacting all the instructions by one bit (and then packing them together). Same for registers, or if didn't use instructions with op-codes over a certain threshold. But if you were really saving one bit per instruction and you managed to compress 7k into 5k, then that means your instructions were only 3.5 bits on average to begin with, which doesn't seem very likely. Something definitely got lost in translation there.
It would provide only identity/authentication information.
I don't think you realize how much information that is.
Each transaction would authenticate me as Citizen X, rather than as card holder Y. Today all my purchases are made with a single use card number and shipped to a PO Box. If the authorities want to track me down using that, they can get a warrant and get the info from my credit company or the postal box company, but people I ordered from don't know or care who I am.
The government would also have a record of everyone who checked the public key repository. It could be setup such that this isn't necessary - for example I provide my public key to the credit card company and then the merchant talks directly with them. However, for security purposes, it would be a good idea to check with the central database for each transaction to make sure that the key hasn't been revoked. So now the government has a timestamped list of everyone I have authenticated with.
If you are authenticating to a universal identifier it makes it trivial to combine this information into a database, and if it can be done it will be. The only way to prevent information from being collected like this is to prevent it from being generated to begin with by only providing information that is needed.
In this case though, the government (through the courts) have singled out an individual corporation and granted them the right to do things that are illegal for every other individual or corporation the the country.
There are serious antimarket aspects to this settlement but the isn't the company, the problem is the government.
Consolidating this to a single card would be utterly retarded, as it provides both the issuer (the government) and entities that you do business with far more information about you than they need to know, and it greatly increases the consequences when a card is compromised.
On the other hand, having a standard authentication mechanism which was integrated into most computers would be very useful. Then when my bank issued me a pin-and-chip credit card, I would know that it worked with my computer as well as at the grocery store. Your ISP could issue you one which you could use for signing/encrypting email (using S/MIME where they manage the public key repository, and the card has your private key). Same for all these other cards that I carry in my wallet.
No need to get the government involved at all.
When a class action lawsuit is approved to go forward, then anyone and everyone defined in that class is bound by the terms of the eventual settlement unless they specifically opt-out in writing. The lawyers bringing the class action suit are supposed to contact the members of the class, but when the class is so large, this often only happens by means of a few postings in trade literature, or some commercials run on TV or the like.
A similar thing happened to my parents. They (foolishly) bought a car on a lease-to-own program, where a certain amount of what you pay in the lease is supposed to apply to the eventual purchase price. Well, in addition to being a bad deal to begin with, the dealership did even not live up to these terms and also played games like applying additional payments toward future interest incurred instead of the principle. They broke their contract and the law in several instances cheating my parents (and all their other customers) out of thousands of dollars each.
Anyway some lawyer decided to bring a class action lawsuit against them for this, and eventually "won". The result - the lawyer got a ton of money, each of the screwed customers got like $50 and the dealership got off for a fraction of what they had cheated their customers out of. The laywer claimed he mailed letters to all the customers affected by this notifying them of the class action (my parents were specifically listed as such a customer as found in discovery), but they don't ever remember getting such a thing. The first they heard about it was when they tried to bring legal action against the dealership and were told they couldn't because they had been part of a class settlement, but they could contact the lawyer and request their share of that settlement if they wished.
Class action lawsuits may have been created with good intention, but the actual outcome is enrich scummy lawyers and to indemnify corporations against lawsuits for cheap.
Some of the userspace certainly does, but some is also a lot slower - searches always take longer even though there's a lot less installed on my Linux partition
What type of searching? I have always been disappointed at how slow Windows Search is, in fact I find that running locate/grep in cygwin to be much faster than the native windows search (or even that windows desktop search that outlook tricked me into installing).
Secondly, there are absolutely things that the Linux kernel is faster at. Just as one example, an application with multiple processes is much faster in Linux than in Windows, to the point where anyone who cares about performance will convert the processes into threads when porting Unix software to Windows.
I suppose I should I be impressed that it cannot be fooled by beards, but I am instead frightened that the computer cannot tell the difference between real Spock and Evil Spock.
your appeal has no chance of success
make your time ...
HA HA HA HA
For great justice indeed.
Don't blame him. He's been trapped inside Geocities for the last 15 years. He's finally been set free and is still learning that there are internets other other than these.
I don't know why you'd base it on a billiard/pool table and not something that was purpose built.
To save floor space and upfront costs for target customers. Flagging sales at you local poolhall/pub? Keep the pool tables for your traditional customers, but have BilliadBots tournaments on tuesdays to attract a younger clientele.
Douglas Adams knew this years ago. Proof.
since it could make pretty much the identical arguments on all points
No, it couldn't because Google is directly distributing the works it scans, as opposed to turnitin.com who is selling services based on analysis of the works, and not distributing the work itself.
Maybe it's where I live, but nature has plenty of sharp things on the ground, like goat heads and thistles. I went barefoot most of the time as a kid, and I was always more careful walking in the undeveloped areas than the sidewalk, because it had more sharp things. And considering that flat tires on the bicycle were nearly a weekly occurrence, I don't think that callouses would have ever grown thick enough to completely protect me.
It's going to have a live cast, it's just going to be filmed with a 3D camera.
Absolutely. I saw Coraline in 3D and loved it, but hated the glasses-over-glasses to the point where I would have much rather forgone the 3D and just watched it as a normal movie. It was the only times I've ever wished I had contacts.
3D-Movie glasses are circular polarized. Regular polarized sunglasses are linear polarized. They wouldn't work for what he wants to do.
There is definitely nothing wrong with funding more research. The fact is that we have tons of coal plants that aren't going away any time soon - it would be great if we could retrofit these plants. Furthermore, even if people lost their fear of nuclear power, we still couldn't build them fast enough to keep up with demand due to the longer planning and approval processes required. So even with wind, solar, geothermal and nuclear, we are going to have to build more coal plants to keep up with demand.
The problem I have is the coal companies and politicians keep talking about Clean Coal as thought it is a viable alternative to other clean fuels today, when in fact carbon sequestering is a complete joke so far. It's as bad as claiming that hydrogen powered vehicles are just around the corner. Nuclear waste storage is a much more mature and "solved" problem than CO2 storage, as is nuclear reprocessing.
I have a very hard time believing that the best lawyers in this country all specialized in the same subset of the law, let alone were all hired by a single entity. While these folks certainly have studied other aspects of the law, and have had other clients, the bulk of their recent experience is all the same.
Even if all the lawyers Obama appointed used to work for the EFF & FSF I would still be concerned, because the DOJ needs a wide base of experience, not just IP law.
And the real losers in this bailout (besides tax payers) are all the other companies that are managing to make affordable electric/hybrid vehicles today without this subsidy. Now these companies who focused on practical compromises rather than flash are at a financial disadvantage to Tesla. Way to go Congress.
The speed improvements in the MacRuby experimental branch come from using LLVM to generate code and from using the ObjC Runtime (for method dispatch and garbage collection) rather than a homebrew Ruby runtime like the other interpreters.
Squirrelfish does not use LLVM. I imagine using LLVM for JIT compilation of javascript would have to much overhead, and could be more difficult to integrate into the brower DOM interface.