Actually, Japanese has no alphabets. It has kanji, which are pictographs, and hiragana and katakana, which are phonetics (not alphabets)
Hiragana is used extensively for grammar, wheras the Kanji form the root of most nouns, verbs, and adjectives, etc. Hiragana handle conjugation of those words, tense, all the preopsitions etc.
Katakana are used for foreign words (gairaigo) but also for emphasis. In many places where english speakers would put a word into italics, the word will appear in katakana. BTW, "printo piipir" its a really bad conversion of "printer paper" It would much more likely be "puriinta pepa" And since japanese does in fact have a word for paper, it would often be "puriinta no kami"
Katakana is also used for onomonopias, and lots of advertising.
Not all katakana is from english, there are mana gairaigo that come from french, german, and especially dutch.
For your project yes, as your yearbook is a school project not being sold for profit. His video is going to be sold for profit, and fair use goes away instantly.
I don't think it should count as a derivitave work, but you shouldn't be able to copy it.
For example, If I fix spelling mistakes, I can't copyright the new text with spelling corrected. But you shouldnt be able just to take my text and copy it. You should have to fix the mistakes yourself and then distribute.
This of course would be impossible to prove, but if you imagine a large work (say the complete LoTR trilogy). Between editions, they changed the spellings of elves, to elfs (because JRR invented the word elves) and then back to elves when someone figured out he spelled it that way intentionally.
Now, assuming the work was out of copyright, you could go and retype the entire thing, and fix the spelling on your own, but not just scan my text.
A more serious example in my my would be real formatting and pagination. If I wrote a book with no paragraph breaks, no italics, and no paging, it might be a lot of work (and thought) to format it so it made sense. Competitors to my publisher should not get that work for free.
If they did get that, then it would provide a competative advantage to be second to publish. The first guy eats the cost of fixing, and you have the same product in the end.
If you wanted to distribute just the text of a result of a search you can do that. If you distribute their page numbers, or formatting, or headers, or annotations, then you get the crap sued out of you.
I can take a copy of shakespeare, and re-type the text and give it away. I can't give away photocopies of the book.
Find law is a good way to find laws. caselaw however is something different, that quite often does not get codified into law. lexus and westlaw give you court decisions, which are not in findlaw most times (and definatly not on cornell)
It was so horrible, I didn't even get what he was talking about until I saw your post. I was thinking he was aiming for
"na na na na... na na na na... hey hey.. good times.." And I couldnt for the life of me figure out why Spector and Garriot had anything to do with that.
For something with a real distribution (either bell curve, or in this case power), a REALLY small number of datapoints shows you the pattern, if the datapoints were drawn randomly.
I would guess if you picked just a few 100, the graph would look the same.
In this case, what is more suspect is that we have inclusion of the biggest, most popular weblogs, which implies they were included by hand. Therefore the sample is probably not random.
In addition, there is no definitive list or way to calculate all blogs, so by defenition his sample comes from a subset of all blogs that were in some way listed or linked to. There are probably a whole strata of blogs that were guaranteed not to be in the analysis, because they werent included in whatever source material he drew his sample from.
There are tons of value stocks. They just aren't glamourous, so you don't hear about them.
BTW, I meant growth relative to GDP would not be sustainable. This is true. If a company truly had NO growth, they would in fact be shrinking because of inflation etc.
Yes, when a stock stops growing, its fame in the market will decrease, and its price will fall. That only makes it more attractive to someone who is buying it for the inherint value in the company, reflected in a better P/E ratio.
The stock market isn't about growth. The stock bubbles and speculation you see are about growth.
The true purpose of the stock market is distribution of risk. I can start up a company, and sell shares, thus sharing the risk (that I go bankrupt and lose all my start-up money) with all the investors.
The reverse is true. I can put stock into 100 companies, and chances are they aren't all going to fail.
There is a large segment of the market that is not directed toword growth. The bond market, and value/dividend stocks. Growth would only happpen if you are in an emerging market, or if something changes radically in the economy (Shift in demand). Long term growth for a specific industry or company is fairly impossible.
Kishotenketsu is an interesting writing style, and it lends itself to some interesting applications, particularly in philosophy or politics. (Plato's The Republic, while a narritive, goes in a pattern simmilar to Kishotenketsu, in that several unrelated examples or narritives are told, and then a final "bring them together" dialog is presented which shows the relationship between the original narritives, and leads the user to the desired conclusion.
Kishotenketsu is a result of the Japanese aversion to direct confrontation, and consiousness of status. (For another example of status consiousness, a listener of music should not say "That is good music" because that implies that the listener is a superior musician, and in a position to judge the player. Rather, the listener should say something like "Your music moves me"
In any case, programs have a purpose, they DO something. While it certainly makes sense to abstract where applicable, being circuitous is not a good programming method.
I suppose you could do something like go calculate Pi out to find the circumference of a circle that has a radius of the constant that you want to use to calculate your taxes.
But that seems dumb to me:)
On the other hand, this could be a good anti-piracy methodology, if you put a bunch of unrelated code in your serial number validation routine.
uh, you really dont understand statistics do you. a.5% (and I think its much smaller than that actually) RANDOM sample of the entire nation is a very accurate picture of the entire nation.
They wont use tivo ratings until everyone has a tivo. Tivo users are a self selecting group, high income, and geeky. Thats great, if you are marketing to high income geeks (So SciFi would love those numbers)
However, High income geeks are not the average household on there, and that is what the nielsons are trying to measure. The nielsons numbers would be worthless if they didnt base them off of a random sample
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No. If they were first, and nobody has copied them, then they can file for patent.
Once someone else has it out, you cant retroactivly kick them out.
However you can file for a pantent, someone copies, then patent is granted. but you have to have filed, before they have their art out.
Well, my entire industry (aerospace) is using it, my last industry (insurance) is using it, every developer I talk to is using it, so I think maybe you aren't looking very well. Of course, if you only associate with linux developers, you arent going to see it..Net does not cost a zillion euros..Net is free. (Of course, you have to have a windows box to host it from). Visual Studio closts alot, but there is Web Matrix available for free, or you can just use notepad (or vi:) )
I bought a WebTV for my grandmother. Its great, she can get on and send email around, surf the web, shop for her antiques on ebay and do cool stuff.
The downsides : No local storage for images or emails. She has to re-download stuff every time. And her email gets purged after a while, so she can't save that new grandchild picture forever
No games (not a big deal for my grandmother, but dont buy it for your 15 year old cousin!)
No wordproccessing/excel/etc. My grandmother would have some use for Word, so she could write letters to her lawyer, or to different companies/groups, but she doesnt have this.
The deal with WebTV, is know what you are buying, and what you need. If its just for email, and surfing, its great. If you want more than that, go buy them a 300$ computer at best buy, or (shudder) a mac!
Oh, and make sure you buy the keyboard, it makes everything MUCH easier than typing with a remote control
the aliens want to not be widely known, or at least aren't advertizing themselves. so we only have to cover up the occasional slip.
The cover up is against the humans, not the aliens. Your idea would be correct if we were trying to hide OURSELVES from the aliens, which is not the case.
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Actually, Japanese has no alphabets. It has kanji, which are pictographs, and hiragana and katakana, which are phonetics (not alphabets)
Hiragana is used extensively for grammar, wheras the Kanji form the root of most nouns, verbs, and adjectives, etc. Hiragana handle conjugation of those words, tense, all the preopsitions etc.
Katakana are used for foreign words (gairaigo) but also for emphasis. In many places where english speakers would put a word into italics, the word will appear in katakana. BTW, "printo piipir" its a really bad conversion of "printer paper" It would much more likely be "puriinta pepa" And since japanese does in fact have a word for paper, it would often be "puriinta no kami"
Katakana is also used for onomonopias, and lots of advertising.
Not all katakana is from english, there are mana gairaigo that come from french, german, and especially dutch.
Thats because they pass that cost on to the vendor, for not validating enough information about who the purchaser was.
The CC company doesn't eat that. The vendor does for accepting the stolen card
Easy answer : offer the man 40% less, when he refuses, offer it to the woman. Keep a record that you offered it to the man.
Or hold a reverse auction for qualified applicants.
For your project yes, as your yearbook is a school project not being sold for profit. His video is going to be sold for profit, and fair use goes away instantly.
I don't think it should count as a derivitave work, but you shouldn't be able to copy it.
For example, If I fix spelling mistakes, I can't copyright the new text with spelling corrected. But you shouldnt be able just to take my text and copy it. You should have to fix the mistakes yourself and then distribute.
This of course would be impossible to prove, but if you imagine a large work (say the complete LoTR trilogy). Between editions, they changed the spellings of elves, to elfs (because JRR invented the word elves) and then back to elves when someone figured out he spelled it that way intentionally.
Now, assuming the work was out of copyright, you could go and retype the entire thing, and fix the spelling on your own, but not just scan my text.
A more serious example in my my would be real formatting and pagination. If I wrote a book with no paragraph breaks, no italics, and no paging, it might be a lot of work (and thought) to format it so it made sense. Competitors to my publisher should not get that work for free.
If they did get that, then it would provide a competative advantage to be second to publish. The first guy eats the cost of fixing, and you have the same product in the end.
If you wanted to distribute just the text of a result of a search you can do that. If you distribute their page numbers, or formatting, or headers, or annotations, then you get the crap sued out of you.
I can take a copy of shakespeare, and re-type the text and give it away. I can't give away photocopies of the book.
Find law is a good way to find laws. caselaw however is something different, that quite often does not get codified into law. lexus and westlaw give you court decisions, which are not in findlaw most times (and definatly not on cornell)
And how did you aquire a legal copy of the copyrighted software?
If they sold in violation of their terms of license, you just recieved stolen goods, which is a crime.
It was so horrible, I didn't even get what he was talking about until I saw your post. I was thinking he was aiming for
"na na na na... na na na na... hey hey.. good times.." And I couldnt for the life of me figure out why Spector and Garriot had anything to do with that.
Britannia started out all high tech. It wasn't till 4 that it went fantasy all the way. In the early ultimas, there were space ships, lasers, etc.
Blackthorn is a cyborg because of a plot line invoving Exedus. Which kinda makes sense, but only if you started with the early Ultimas.
For something with a real distribution (either bell curve, or in this case power), a REALLY small number of datapoints shows you the pattern, if the datapoints were drawn randomly.
I would guess if you picked just a few 100, the graph would look the same.
In this case, what is more suspect is that we have inclusion of the biggest, most popular weblogs, which implies they were included by hand. Therefore the sample is probably not random.
In addition, there is no definitive list or way to calculate all blogs, so by defenition his sample comes from a subset of all blogs that were in some way listed or linked to. There are probably a whole strata of blogs that were guaranteed not to be in the analysis, because they werent included in whatever source material he drew his sample from.
There are tons of value stocks. They just aren't glamourous, so you don't hear about them.
BTW, I meant growth relative to GDP would not be sustainable. This is true. If a company truly had NO growth, they would in fact be shrinking because of inflation etc.
Yes, when a stock stops growing, its fame in the market will decrease, and its price will fall. That only makes it more attractive to someone who is buying it for the inherint value in the company, reflected in a better P/E ratio.
The stock market isn't about growth. The stock bubbles and speculation you see are about growth.
The true purpose of the stock market is distribution of risk. I can start up a company, and sell shares, thus sharing the risk (that I go bankrupt and lose all my start-up money) with all the investors.
The reverse is true. I can put stock into 100 companies, and chances are they aren't all going to fail.
There is a large segment of the market that is not directed toword growth. The bond market, and value/dividend stocks. Growth would only happpen if you are in an emerging market, or if something changes radically in the economy (Shift in demand). Long term growth for a specific industry or company is fairly impossible.
Kishotenketsu is an interesting writing style, and it lends itself to some interesting applications, particularly in philosophy or politics. (Plato's The Republic, while a narritive, goes in a pattern simmilar to Kishotenketsu, in that several unrelated examples or narritives are told, and then a final "bring them together" dialog is presented which shows the relationship between the original narritives, and leads the user to the desired conclusion.
:)
Kishotenketsu is a result of the Japanese aversion to direct confrontation, and consiousness of status. (For another example of status consiousness, a listener of music should not say "That is good music" because that implies that the listener is a superior musician, and in a position to judge the player. Rather, the listener should say something like "Your music moves me"
In any case, programs have a purpose, they DO something. While it certainly makes sense to abstract where applicable, being circuitous is not a good programming method.
I suppose you could do something like go calculate Pi out to find the circumference of a circle that has a radius of the constant that you want to use to calculate your taxes.
But that seems dumb to me
On the other hand, this could be a good anti-piracy methodology, if you put a bunch of unrelated code in your serial number validation routine.
It wasnt a run forrest analogy. It was a Dick and Jane allusion.
See spot. See Spot Run. Run Spot, Run!
Uh.
2^2 = 4.
-2^2 = 4.
Given 4, x^(1/2) is not reversable, if your original input could include a negative number.
That would be Kwanzaa you dip :)
uh, you really dont understand statistics do you. a .5% (and I think its much smaller than that actually) RANDOM sample of the entire nation is a very accurate picture of the entire nation.
They wont use tivo ratings until everyone has a tivo. Tivo users are a self selecting group, high income, and geeky. Thats great, if you are marketing to high income geeks (So SciFi would love those numbers)
However, High income geeks are not the average household on there, and that is what the nielsons are trying to measure. The nielsons numbers would be worthless if they didnt base them off of a random sample
No. If they were first, and nobody has copied them, then they can file for patent.
Once someone else has it out, you cant retroactivly kick them out.
However you can file for a pantent, someone copies, then patent is granted. but you have to have filed, before they have their art out.
Situation 1 : You buy the ticket, for the wrong time (your fault)
You : Hey, I bought the wrong ticket!
Them : Sorry, no refunds or exchanges
Situation 2 : They misprint the ticket
Them : Hey, we misprinted the ticket
You : Sorry, no refunds or exchanges
They put up the no exchange rule, bind them to it!
Well, my entire industry (aerospace) is using it, my last industry (insurance) is using it, every developer I talk to is using it, so I think maybe you aren't looking very well. Of course, if you only associate with linux developers, you arent going to see it. .Net does not cost a zillion euros. .Net is free. (Of course, you have to have a windows box to host it from). Visual Studio closts alot, but there is Web Matrix available for free, or you can just use notepad (or vi :) )
I bought a WebTV for my grandmother. Its great, she can get on and send email around, surf the web, shop for her antiques on ebay and do cool stuff.
The downsides : No local storage for images or emails. She has to re-download stuff every time. And her email gets purged after a while, so she can't save that new grandchild picture forever
No games (not a big deal for my grandmother, but dont buy it for your 15 year old cousin!)
No wordproccessing/excel/etc. My grandmother would have some use for Word, so she could write letters to her lawyer, or to different companies/groups, but she doesnt have this.
The deal with WebTV, is know what you are buying, and what you need. If its just for email, and surfing, its great. If you want more than that, go buy them a 300$ computer at best buy, or (shudder) a mac!
Oh, and make sure you buy the keyboard, it makes everything MUCH easier than typing with a remote control
There were some ads for taken about a month ago, and she was talking about how she is 1/4 alien, because her dad was 1/2 alien.
she is the kid of the kid.
I told you it was a spoiler, and it was in the commercials, so that isn't really even a spoiler. So there.
the aliens want to not be widely known, or at least aren't advertizing themselves. so we only have to cover up the occasional slip.
The cover up is against the humans, not the aliens. Your idea would be correct if we were trying to hide OURSELVES from the aliens, which is not the case.