I agree that Goblet of Fire wasn't much of a movie. (IMHO, it was the best of the books, along with the first one.) The book is just too long for one movie, they didn't cut that much and the movie was really choppy as a result. Order of the Phoenix is a much more tractable story, and the trailer looked *really* good.
This is one of a large number of variants between humans and apes. There's no reason to think this is "the gene that makes us human", they're not claiming it is, and reporting this not-especially-interesting news accurately would allow just as many moronic comments about creationism.
To clarify: I have no doubt that Rachel Hyman is legally in the right here. But taunting and publicly humiliating people (who know where you work and who by definition aren't the greatest respecters of the law) is just begging for much worse trouble than she wound up catching.
...but if you make a game of screwing with people you do get kicked in the teeth sometimes. It's not clear to me if she dug up and posted all the personal information on that person before or after she got the takedown, but if it was before I can't have much sympathy for her. (I realize many of you have some irrational, indiscriminate reverence for "artists".)
Prediction: by August, there'll be a press release noting that revenues for Ocean's Thirteen and Harry Potter were low...
Have you seen the Harry Potter trailer?!? More likely, Michael Geist and "this community" will be running around in Gryffindor robes complaining that the DVD won't be out soon enough.
There are a few games I can play infinitely (Angband, Maelstrom, Jewelbox) but given a sufficient set of third-party maps, Doom II probably takes the spot.
I read that and wondered if the same guy has been submitting all the recent stories along this line: "[Company] is going to be participating in [some event]. I wonder if people are going to bring up [some random issue that I will now hold forth upon]?"
Yup, same guy. If it's necessary to give him a soapbox, perhaps you could at least remove the dishonest framing of these pieces as news?
I'm constantly posting here to explain why copyrights and patents are vital for continued innovation and creativity, and why you "Music and movies suck so that's why I have to steal them!" people are idiots. And I wrote to my representatives the minute Pandora sent me the above link. All the music I've purchased over the last few years is stuff I've learned about from Pandora, Live365 and Garageband, and keeping it legal is what allows me to talk down to you whiny thieves.
If you don't take action on this, you've forfeited your right to ever post moronic "Teh RIAA is suing teh singal mothers!" comments again.
How long until the long arm of the MPAA gets to my own site (run in Ecuador)...?
Don't sweat it -- Evo Morales will probably have disbanded the legal system by the time your case gets that far. Just hope your site isn't nationalized first.
Sincere question: does anyone (or anyone outside Brazil) still use Orkut? I haven't heard it mentioned outside of legal issues for a couple of years. I'd go look myself, but for some reason Orkut and MySpace are the two sites we have blocked at work.
Decision here. I'm not sure I follow it, but since my understanding could hardly be worth less than the submitter's, here's a shot at summarizing it:
The issue is whether the US patent held by AT&T applies to copies of Windows that are installed on foreign-built computers. The ruling is that OS installs from a master disk made in the US don't qualify as US-made export goods themselves, and therefore aren't subject to US patents.
I think it's a ballsy move to put it to shareholder vote.
They're required to put any qualified proposal to a vote. Despite what the submitter thinks, largely symbolic politicized proposals are routine at any large public corporation.
There's a very simple solution, and all you goobers were claiming you were for it back in the Napster days, before it started happening:
Trust consumers, eliminate DRM and sue the pants off of illegal file sharers. Yes, that means college students, nine-year-olds, cancer patients, single mothers and everyone else. Yes, that means some small percentage of erroneous accusations.
That's the solution, not some goofball schemes to turn the whole entertainment industry into street mimes.
That story was linked here when it happened. (I remember the nerd in the cowboy hat.) My recollection was that the employer's version of events was very different from his and that the judge agreed with the employer. Brown's writing doesn't exactly dispel the perception that he's a nut.
That said, the lesson is still worth learning. If you're not asking for anything unreasonable, don't be shy about adding it to the contract, and certainly don't sign anything you're uncomfortable with.
And even if they are not right, they get to play "which side blinks first". A lawyer can look at the other company and tell them the probability of that game being successful or not. Also, the development company might not have much in the way of grounds for a counter-suit, and may prefer to have repeat business and good references to having a lawsuit on their record whenever anyone else checks up on them before choosing their company.
That's a really charming line of reasoning. For all the complaining people do about Big Evil Corporate Lawyers, I've never heard one say anything even close to the sleazy cynicism of that comment.
It's commonplace to see a figure labeled "used by permission"...
In journals, yes, in talks, usually not. A blog post is kind of a middle ground, although given that ScienceBlogs is a business venture (it is, right?) maybe it should be treated like a journal.
But as I said, now that she's changed the original post, it's hard to tell how appropriate the initial version was.
She's replaced the figures so it's hard to see what the original presentation looked like. But whatever the legal correctness of her fair use claim (which certainly has nothing to do with "This is taxpayer-supported research, which should be available for all."), it sounds like she did what scientists do routinely, so I can't understand why they're suddenly picking on her.
Come to think of it, industry researchers present slides with figures like that all the time, and it's not like there's a shortage of lawyers vetting them, and a lot deeper pockets for an angry journal to go after than some blogger has...
I like this new form of journalism being pioneered here: "X is going to be speaking at some event and I will now hold forth on some completely random topic that might come up!" One of the more vigorous submitters then follows it up with "X spoke at some meeting and I will now hold forth on some completely random topic that didn't come up!"
As with all of these "Our Country's Educational System Has Fallen Behind Someone Else's!" stories:
The hysterical claim being made (in this case that comparing a single question from one exam to a single question from another exam, with no context as to who takes the test or how students do on those questions) always demonstrates utter innumeracy far more clearly than it denounces it.
And I'm missing where the submitter got the whole "Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics" thing from.
You missed the real best line in that item which is:
Verdict: Go with the centipede -- he's a tenured professor of religion!
At any rate, while I agree that Clippy is irritating (although not nearly as bad as the breakdancing Mac SE in Mac Office 6, or whatever it was), I've always been fond of the kitten...
I'd say the were better off looking at narrow time slices and natural yawns (i.e. do yawns happen at random or do they set off avalanches). Then there is only one group and you're just testing the Poisson process assumption of uncorrelatedness.
The advantage of their way is that you know the causality of an increased yawning rate. In your design, it's harder to rule out temperature fluctuations or conversations about, say, the appropriateness of a correlation test for binary data.
Given that neither the submitter nor 95% of the people commenting here correctly understand what the defendant was arguing, I'm not so sure I want you people on my jury either.
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I agree that Goblet of Fire wasn't much of a movie. (IMHO, it was the best of the books, along with the first one.) The book is just too long for one movie, they didn't cut that much and the movie was really choppy as a result. Order of the Phoenix is a much more tractable story, and the trailer looked *really* good.
This is one of a large number of variants between humans and apes. There's no reason to think this is "the gene that makes us human", they're not claiming it is, and reporting this not-especially-interesting news accurately would allow just as many moronic comments about creationism.
To clarify: I have no doubt that Rachel Hyman is legally in the right here. But taunting and publicly humiliating people (who know where you work and who by definition aren't the greatest respecters of the law) is just begging for much worse trouble than she wound up catching.
...but if you make a game of screwing with people you do get kicked in the teeth sometimes. It's not clear to me if she dug up and posted all the personal information on that person before or after she got the takedown, but if it was before I can't have much sympathy for her. (I realize many of you have some irrational, indiscriminate reverence for "artists".)
Have you seen the Harry Potter trailer?!? More likely, Michael Geist and "this community" will be running around in Gryffindor robes complaining that the DVD won't be out soon enough.
There are a few games I can play infinitely (Angband, Maelstrom, Jewelbox) but given a sufficient set of third-party maps, Doom II probably takes the spot.
Yup, same guy. If it's necessary to give him a soapbox, perhaps you could at least remove the dishonest framing of these pieces as news?
If you don't take action on this, you've forfeited your right to ever post moronic "Teh RIAA is suing teh singal mothers!" comments again.
Errr, make that Rafael Correa. Hard to keep track of which Latin American country is being demolished by whom, nowadays.
Don't sweat it -- Evo Morales will probably have disbanded the legal system by the time your case gets that far. Just hope your site isn't nationalized first.
Sincere question: does anyone (or anyone outside Brazil) still use Orkut? I haven't heard it mentioned outside of legal issues for a couple of years. I'd go look myself, but for some reason Orkut and MySpace are the two sites we have blocked at work.
They do, but that's not (again, as I understand this) enough to make US patent law applicable to those sales. The product has to be "made" in the US.
The issue is whether the US patent held by AT&T applies to copies of Windows that are installed on foreign-built computers. The ruling is that OS installs from a master disk made in the US don't qualify as US-made export goods themselves, and therefore aren't subject to US patents.
They're required to put any qualified proposal to a vote. Despite what the submitter thinks, largely symbolic politicized proposals are routine at any large public corporation.
Trust consumers, eliminate DRM and sue the pants off of illegal file sharers. Yes, that means college students, nine-year-olds, cancer patients, single mothers and everyone else. Yes, that means some small percentage of erroneous accusations.
That's the solution, not some goofball schemes to turn the whole entertainment industry into street mimes.
That said, the lesson is still worth learning. If you're not asking for anything unreasonable, don't be shy about adding it to the contract, and certainly don't sign anything you're uncomfortable with.
That's a really charming line of reasoning. For all the complaining people do about Big Evil Corporate Lawyers, I've never heard one say anything even close to the sleazy cynicism of that comment.
In journals, yes, in talks, usually not. A blog post is kind of a middle ground, although given that ScienceBlogs is a business venture (it is, right?) maybe it should be treated like a journal.
But as I said, now that she's changed the original post, it's hard to tell how appropriate the initial version was.
Come to think of it, industry researchers present slides with figures like that all the time, and it's not like there's a shortage of lawyers vetting them, and a lot deeper pockets for an angry journal to go after than some blogger has...
I like this new form of journalism being pioneered here: "X is going to be speaking at some event and I will now hold forth on some completely random topic that might come up!" One of the more vigorous submitters then follows it up with "X spoke at some meeting and I will now hold forth on some completely random topic that didn't come up!"
Ah, sorry. At least I'm good at math!
The hysterical claim being made (in this case that comparing a single question from one exam to a single question from another exam, with no context as to who takes the test or how students do on those questions) always demonstrates utter innumeracy far more clearly than it denounces it.
And I'm missing where the submitter got the whole "Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics" thing from.
The advantage of their way is that you know the causality of an increased yawning rate. In your design, it's harder to rule out temperature fluctuations or conversations about, say, the appropriateness of a correlation test for binary data.
Given that neither the submitter nor 95% of the people commenting here correctly understand what the defendant was arguing, I'm not so sure I want you people on my jury either.