Your neighbours were fools, of course. But it was pretty foolish of the drilling company to purchase rights outright, too. What they should have done, was to purchase options to buying the rights. That way holding out would be a losing proposition.
Yeah, me too. I think most people do, unfortunately.
I'm appaled at how quickly would-be musicians/composers adjust their attitudes when tempted with regular royalty payments. Reading the publications of interest groups for authors, musicians, composers and other royalty-paid professions is pretty disgusting. They'll gladly censor you, spy on you, and demand a private tax from you as long as they get a chance at perpetual income.
It's not just a big industry position, either. Just like when poor people support tax cuts for the rich because they think they will be rich one day, two bit "content producers" support perpetual copyright terms, oppose orphan works legislation, want to obliterate fair use, install DRM in everyone's computers etc. The sense of entitlement is astounding.
Once, you just do it. Twice, you grumble, and do it. Three times, and you start writing the universal mega-library/framework that solves the problem once and for all, and gives everyone a pony.
You must understand that violent children's entertainment is far less tolerated in Germany than elsewhere, especially than in the US. They feel that it's the violent games that must justify their existence, rather than the other way around. (What the police union chief actually said was that "The world would not be poorer" without these games)
Conservatism in Germany is not the same as conservatism in USA. There's no reason to suspect Hr. Schmitt minds lesbianism. Opposition to violent children's entertainment isn't an especially conservative position in Germany today - it's way less tolerated than in the land of superhero comics.
By the way, he does not exactly say that "killer games" cause killings, only that "the world wouldn't be poorer without them".
That show... it's called "Where no one would have thought anyone could live" (that's a line from a well-known folk song here) and features people living far away from such things as roads, electricity, water and human company.
I don't know. Very warm and cozy show, but might perhaps give a slightly unrepresentative picture of rural Norway!
The NRK aren't all nice. They want everyone in Norway who owns a TV to pay a mandatory license to them, whether they can receive signals or not. Today the network is digital and encrypted, so there is no technical problem to opting out, but they still think payment should be mandatory.
I think they even once suggested that everyone with a network card in their computer should pay the license, since they publish stuff on the web. Not sure if they've abandoned that, though.
But there are some enlightened people in there as well, as this decision (and their use of open source software and consultants!) shows
In classical music, there's a lot of performer talent per listener. Especially in narrow fields such as early music, you can take advantage of this and get some extremely good performance recordings at cheap labels (Naxos...), or sites like Magnatune.
My experience with classical music has been that celebrities are overrated. There are many talented amateurs/semi-professionals out there that can give you excellent Bach recordings.
It's not just Google who claims GT is best. It is the best non-domain specific MT you can get, period.
It's contextual intelligence is downright scary - just yesterday I noticed it translated the name of the boardgame "Ticket to Ride" to "Zug um Zug", which is what it's sold as in German (but very far from a literal translation). No one taught it to, it learned it on its own. It's an example of a translation that would be utterly out of reach for classic machine translation.
Who uses babelfish these days anyway? Google translate has eclipsed it pretty decisively, if you tolerate the quirks, such as interpreting "Deutsche WÃhler" as "U.S. voters".
There was the time, quite recently, that the Belgian king got to wield a little power in order to keep his country together. He actually refused the resignation of a prime minister ^^
Not quite. Iran is a democracy (yes, if the US was a democracy under slavery, then Iran is one today), but stained by an extremely powerful and unaccountable judicial branch (the ulama).
The US Supreme Court is also powerful, and also unaccountable, and its interpretations of the Constitution are sometimes more similar to religious interpretation than interpretation of regular contracts or laws. But it's still a long, long way from the high clerics of Iran.
Because slashdot is in the stone age?:( It could be that they think everyone should write in English here, so why do they need unicode... (A hint to CmdrTaco: some of us like to have our names correctly spelled and such)
The statements about super-concrete were made by an American scientist after an American competition, in America (which the Iranians were allowed to attend. Apparently the super-concrete isn't quite top secret).
Amigas and older Macs use a processor type which doesn't do protected mode. In other words, the kernel can't prevent a program from overwriting the memory of other programs, or even itself (at least not without a lot of hassle).
There is a Linux variant which can work on non-MMU chips, ucLinux I never tried it, but would guess it would be pretty crippled.
Tomtom uses FAT on memory cards, in order to interoperate with everything else. I don't think Microsoft really believes they can win on the FAT patent bit, but when they're already suing (probably over more substantial patents), they probably think "We'll just throw everything we possibly can on them and hope something sticks. At worst it will give them more paperwork."
My thought, too. Ugly, ugly, ugly. I think all this legislating from the bench is a consequence of the USA's senate, with its different composition from the house and procedural ugliness (fillibusters, senators anonymously delaying legislation, etc), and the president's veto power. Legislation is so hard to pass, that there has over time grown more acceptance towards judges pulling these sorts of stunts.
I do not think it would likely have been accepted in most other western states. If a judge made such a ruling, politicians would quickly either put it into law or change existing laws to prevent it.
Slashdot Mirror
... and this question would pretty reliably fail if the person is a small child or has Asperger's syndrome. Isn't it from an Asperger's test?
Your neighbours were fools, of course. But it was pretty foolish of the drilling company to purchase rights outright, too. What they should have done, was to purchase options to buying the rights. That way holding out would be a losing proposition.
"I wish my wages worked like that!"
Yeah, me too. I think most people do, unfortunately.
I'm appaled at how quickly would-be musicians/composers adjust their attitudes when tempted with regular royalty payments. Reading the publications of interest groups for authors, musicians, composers and other royalty-paid professions is pretty disgusting. They'll gladly censor you, spy on you, and demand a private tax from you as long as they get a chance at perpetual income.
It's not just a big industry position, either. Just like when poor people support tax cuts for the rich because they think they will be rich one day, two bit "content producers" support perpetual copyright terms, oppose orphan works legislation, want to obliterate fair use, install DRM in everyone's computers etc. The sense of entitlement is astounding.
Once, you just do it. Twice, you grumble, and do it. Three times, and you start writing the universal mega-library/framework that solves the problem once and for all, and gives everyone a pony.
Yeah, sounds about right.
You must understand that violent children's entertainment is far less tolerated in Germany than elsewhere, especially than in the US. They feel that it's the violent games that must justify their existence, rather than the other way around. (What the police union chief actually said was that "The world would not be poorer" without these games)
Conservatism in Germany is not the same as conservatism in USA. There's no reason to suspect Hr. Schmitt minds lesbianism. Opposition to violent children's entertainment isn't an especially conservative position in Germany today - it's way less tolerated than in the land of superhero comics.
By the way, he does not exactly say that "killer games" cause killings, only that "the world wouldn't be poorer without them".
Also known as the Bugblatter Beast of Traal tactic.
Also, he's a bit crazy. Believes in Immanuel Velikovsky's "Alternate Chronology" and such.
Ok, now you can learn about Knut and his milkmaid in Hattfjelldal.
http://rapidshare.com/files/207160245/der.ingen.skulle.tru.s07e04.1024x576.h264.NRK.srt
Just switch the .srt file in the torrent download directory with this one, and vlc at least should be smart enough to pick it up and use it.
Which do you want? Shouldn't be too hard for me to translate one, to let you see what it's about.
How about "Knut and the milkmaid in Hattfjelldal (4:6)"?
That show ... it's called "Where no one would have thought anyone could live" (that's a line from a well-known folk song here) and features people living far away from such things as roads, electricity, water and human company.
I don't know. Very warm and cozy show, but might perhaps give a slightly unrepresentative picture of rural Norway!
The NRK aren't all nice. They want everyone in Norway who owns a TV to pay a mandatory license to them, whether they can receive signals or not. Today the network is digital and encrypted, so there is no technical problem to opting out, but they still think payment should be mandatory.
I think they even once suggested that everyone with a network card in their computer should pay the license, since they publish stuff on the web. Not sure if they've abandoned that, though.
But there are some enlightened people in there as well, as this decision (and their use of open source software and consultants!) shows
In classical music, there's a lot of performer talent per listener. Especially in narrow fields such as early music, you can take advantage of this and get some extremely good performance recordings at cheap labels (Naxos...), or sites like Magnatune.
My experience with classical music has been that celebrities are overrated. There are many talented amateurs/semi-professionals out there that can give you excellent Bach recordings.
It's not just Google who claims GT is best. It is the best non-domain specific MT you can get, period.
It's contextual intelligence is downright scary - just yesterday I noticed it translated the name of the boardgame "Ticket to Ride" to "Zug um Zug", which is what it's sold as in German (but very far from a literal translation). No one taught it to, it learned it on its own. It's an example of a translation that would be utterly out of reach for classic machine translation.
Who uses babelfish these days anyway? Google translate has eclipsed it pretty decisively, if you tolerate the quirks, such as interpreting "Deutsche WÃhler" as "U.S. voters".
Statistical translation, gotta love it.
There was the time, quite recently, that the Belgian king got to wield a little power in order to keep his country together. He actually refused the resignation of a prime minister ^^
No, but you at least have to admit the mistakes your nation made.
It was you who drew in Nazis first, and I hereby invoke Godwin's law.
Not quite. Iran is a democracy (yes, if the US was a democracy under slavery, then Iran is one today), but stained by an extremely powerful and unaccountable judicial branch (the ulama).
The US Supreme Court is also powerful, and also unaccountable, and its interpretations of the Constitution are sometimes more similar to religious interpretation than interpretation of regular contracts or laws. But it's still a long, long way from the high clerics of Iran.
Because slashdot is in the stone age? :( It could be that they think everyone should write in English here, so why do they need unicode... (A hint to CmdrTaco: some of us like to have our names correctly spelled and such)
The statements about super-concrete were made by an American scientist after an American competition, in America (which the Iranians were allowed to attend. Apparently the super-concrete isn't quite top secret).
Amigas and older Macs use a processor type which doesn't do protected mode. In other words, the kernel can't prevent a program from overwriting the memory of other programs, or even itself (at least not without a lot of hassle).
There is a Linux variant which can work on non-MMU chips, ucLinux I never tried it, but would guess it would be pretty crippled.
Tomtom uses FAT on memory cards, in order to interoperate with everything else. I don't think Microsoft really believes they can win on the FAT patent bit, but when they're already suing (probably over more substantial patents), they probably think "We'll just throw everything we possibly can on them and hope something sticks. At worst it will give them more paperwork."
I don't see the problem. A paraglider/car is awesome. A camper/blimp would be beyond awesome.
I can see it perfectly fine with Adblock Plus.
My thought, too. Ugly, ugly, ugly. I think all this legislating from the bench is a consequence of the USA's senate, with its different composition from the house and procedural ugliness (fillibusters, senators anonymously delaying legislation, etc), and the president's veto power. Legislation is so hard to pass, that there has over time grown more acceptance towards judges pulling these sorts of stunts.
I do not think it would likely have been accepted in most other western states. If a judge made such a ruling, politicians would quickly either put it into law or change existing laws to prevent it.