I just hooked my PS3 up after disconnecting it for a couple of weeks, and noticed the date was off and I couldn't connect to the PSN. Oh well, might as well read Slashdot! And I find this. Someone call James Randi, I think we found a psychic!
They didn't make those contributions to the PC out of altruism. It was done for profit.
So I say don't cut them any check unless they have a valid claim befitting of recompense. And even then only if the patents in question are non-obvious and not overly broad.
The main cause for kids getting in trouble seems to be boredom.
And I'll give you points for the internet arriving, but the console resurgence and penetration in the early 90s was massive.
Even the poorest welfare families I knew had a console. They're like a TV, a single purchase that you get a long run out of. Internet access required subscriptions and computers. Significant expenses far outweighing a PS1 and N64.
If we look at the youth crime rates in the US, they dropped of precipitously when the PS1 came out and have stayed low compared to previous decades ever since.
If the trend was the same in Switzerland, what happens when you take away that outlet?
Most of the drop in crime likely comes from resolution of boredom, but it probably serves as a panacea for some of the whackjobs out there too.
Instead of constantly creating slices and diluting the amount equally between everyone, I want to be able to edit my Flatter profile the following way:
I log in and see all the sites I've Flattr'd in the last 30 days. The site list is accompanied by sliders that are hooked into a bar graph or pie chart.
I slide the settings around until I'm satisfied with the split based on the content that I think has the most worth.
I can edit the sliders right up to payout day. That way if someone impresses me at the beginning of the month, but then pulls a bait-and-switch with trash for the following weeks (or it turned out they plagiarized another content producer) I can put that money elsewhere.
Can I just move out to the middle of nowhere in the midwest, deem religion and intelligent design obscene in my "community" and put an end to them on the internet?
There's a reason professionals shoot for center mass. You try pegging someone through the eye while pumped full of adrenaline and not in the comfort of a firing range.
Id like to comment on your bit about abstinence education. I don't think it is totally without merit... it just isn't effective as is.
Isn't effective as is? Abstinence education isn't even education. It's indoctrination. The sex drive is one of the strongest biological drives people have.
You might as well try and teach Breathing Abstinence.
Before the Slashdot virgin jokes kick in, let's consider how many people here would forego sex if it was offered to them by a person they found attractive.
And how many will resort to masturbation and porn in the event that a suitable partner isn't available. Factor in those who will resort to masturbation even if they do have a regular sex partner but the sex isn't keeping up to their sex drive.
Now tell them "It's better to wait. Because Jesus will love you more." Good luck with that. The abstinence movement is just another attempt by religion to dictate your life. And it's laughable.
Teach people safe sex and birth control methods. Additionally, undo the damage done by adults teaching people that sex is dirty and something that you must feel guilty about and engage in furtively.
And that's just in the US.
In the third world countries you also have to deal with the mortality rate in children. People don't just have a lot of kids out of sheer ignorance of how children are made. If you have four kids and three of them die before they are five years old because of disease, then it's a matter of having enough children to ensure that some survive to adulthood. This common in species throughout the animal kingdom.
Make life better for people by educating them and they'll start to have less children on their own.
But teaching abstinence is about as constructive as bringing 'intelligent design' into the classroom.
Heh, I find it amusing that some people tag that comment as trolling.
Imagine any product or technology capable of generating billions of dollars of income.
Let's say.... Viagra.
Now instead of the copyright/patent/trademark being in effect for a set amount of time (short/long/whatever) you base it entirely on the moment of death for a specific individual.
Want to take bets on how quickly that individual would die?
Setting a 5/10/15 year limit as opposed to "free on death" is additional protection for the creator.
Do you realize how quickly JK Rowling and other authors would be murdered if that were the case? Book publishers would end up with their own mercenary task forces to get access to popular works.
The United States Department of Justice agrees, having declared that Google should negotiate individually with copyright holders. The Director of the United States Copyright Office calls the Settlement “an end-run around copyright law.”
Exactly. And that's the magic right there. No claim of extending copyright. Just fair treatment of copyright holders without special exemption for corporations... Google operates for a profit. Your local library does not.
Wouldn't there need to be enough mass present to create a gravity well strong enough to draw in sustenance for the black hole? So that even if you create an itty bitty one it will just evaporate due to starvation and the effects of other gravitational and molecular forces...
I could almost certainly misunderstand, but I am curious about these subjects.:)
I saw the same thing with Photoshop, as well as Max, Maya, XSI, Flash (especially after Adobe jacked the price). Once a hobby user starts making money at it, they tend to go legit. At least when they're working with other legit users. The studio I worked at either paid or used the rare free tool. We did get employees who would talk about everyone in their former company having a pirated copy of Max and it really didn't make any sense. If you're on a deadline, something goes wrong, and you can't get the support you need right away that's money lost. Especially if you have milestone commitments.
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I just hooked my PS3 up after disconnecting it for a couple of weeks, and noticed the date was off and I couldn't connect to the PSN. Oh well, might as well read Slashdot! And I find this. Someone call James Randi, I think we found a psychic!
Thank you. I was starting to wonder if I was genetically predisposed to not find the hole. Some kind of nerd mutation.
Now I'm practically certain!
You might want to edit that sig.
There are 42 million people in slavery worldwide right now, and communism is alive and well.
They didn't make those contributions to the PC out of altruism.
It was done for profit.
So I say don't cut them any check unless they have a valid claim befitting of recompense. And even then only if the patents in question are non-obvious and not overly broad.
The main cause for kids getting in trouble seems to be boredom.
And I'll give you points for the internet arriving, but the console resurgence and penetration in the early 90s was massive.
Even the poorest welfare families I knew had a console. They're like a TV, a single purchase that you get a long run out of. Internet access required subscriptions and computers. Significant expenses far outweighing a PS1 and N64.
If we look at the youth crime rates in the US, they dropped of precipitously when the PS1 came out and have stayed low compared to previous decades ever since.
If the trend was the same in Switzerland, what happens when you take away that outlet?
Most of the drop in crime likely comes from resolution of boredom, but it probably serves as a panacea for some of the whackjobs out there too.
I emailed their beta team. Maybe they'll like the idea too :)
Instead of constantly creating slices and diluting the amount equally between everyone, I want to be able to edit my Flatter profile the following way:
I log in and see all the sites I've Flattr'd in the last 30 days.
The site list is accompanied by sliders that are hooked into a bar graph or pie chart.
I slide the settings around until I'm satisfied with the split based on the content that I think has the most worth.
I can edit the sliders right up to payout day. That way if someone impresses me at the beginning of the month, but then pulls a bait-and-switch with trash for the following weeks (or it turned out they plagiarized another content producer) I can put that money elsewhere.
A micro-payment system that prevents corporations from getting in there and taking the money they deserve?
Sounds like COMMUNISM!
Or at least that's how it's going to be played out in the media.
BC and AD still work...
Before Christians, After Deception. :)
You drank the Kool-aid, didn't you?
Even 2000 years ago there were those who recognized the exploitive purpose of religion:
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. - Seneca (ca. 4 BC –AD 65)
Christianity beat him by centuries. Judaism before that. And so on.
Mohammed lived in the sixth century and you're going to call him the first troll?
As a troll yourself you should have better knowledge of troll history.
How big does the community have to be?
Can I just move out to the middle of nowhere in the midwest, deem religion and intelligent design obscene in my "community" and put an end to them on the internet?
We gotta get those motherfucking eels off the motherfucking hovercraft.
You don't just make it a TV series. You make it an *HBO* series, and put David Milch at the helm.
Then it will get the quality and treatment it deserves.
Shouldn't you have been using them on crows? Anything else is just asking for trouble.
There's a reason professionals shoot for center mass.
You try pegging someone through the eye while pumped full of adrenaline and not in the comfort of a firing range.
O'Dwyer had prototypes for handguns that were armed and disarmed by a wedding-band-like ring, which probably contained an RFID tag, a decade ago.
These are the guys that created Metal Storm, which is probably one of the coolest gun videos on YouTube :)
Isn't effective as is? Abstinence education isn't even education. It's indoctrination. The sex drive is one of the strongest biological drives people have.
You might as well try and teach Breathing Abstinence.
Before the Slashdot virgin jokes kick in, let's consider how many people here would forego sex if it was offered to them by a person they found attractive.
And how many will resort to masturbation and porn in the event that a suitable partner isn't available. Factor in those who will resort to masturbation even if they do have a regular sex partner but the sex isn't keeping up to their sex drive.
Now tell them "It's better to wait. Because Jesus will love you more." Good luck with that. The abstinence movement is just another attempt by religion to dictate your life. And it's laughable.
Teach people safe sex and birth control methods. Additionally, undo the damage done by adults teaching people that sex is dirty and something that you must feel guilty about and engage in furtively.
And that's just in the US.
In the third world countries you also have to deal with the mortality rate in children. People don't just have a lot of kids out of sheer ignorance of how children are made. If you have four kids and three of them die before they are five years old because of disease, then it's a matter of having enough children to ensure that some survive to adulthood. This common in species throughout the animal kingdom.
Make life better for people by educating them and they'll start to have less children on their own.
But teaching abstinence is about as constructive as bringing 'intelligent design' into the classroom.
Heh, I find it amusing that some people tag that comment as trolling.
Imagine any product or technology capable of generating billions of dollars of income.
Let's say.... Viagra.
Now instead of the copyright/patent/trademark being in effect for a set amount of time (short/long/whatever) you base it entirely on the moment of death for a specific individual.
Want to take bets on how quickly that individual would die?
Setting a 5/10/15 year limit as opposed to "free on death" is additional protection for the creator.
Do you realize how quickly JK Rowling and other authors would be murdered if that were the case?
Book publishers would end up with their own mercenary task forces to get access to popular works.
Exactly. And that's the magic right there.
No claim of extending copyright. Just fair treatment of copyright holders without special exemption for corporations... Google operates for a profit. Your local library does not.
No, she's saying that while copyright on the document is in effect that no corporation shall infringe upon that copyright.
Disney wants "copyright == infinity".
Wouldn't there need to be enough mass present to create a gravity well strong enough to draw in sustenance for the black hole? So that even if you create an itty bitty one it will just evaporate due to starvation and the effects of other gravitational and molecular forces...
I could almost certainly misunderstand, but I am curious about these subjects. :)
I saw the same thing with Photoshop, as well as Max, Maya, XSI, Flash (especially after Adobe jacked the price).
Once a hobby user starts making money at it, they tend to go legit. At least when they're working with other legit users.
The studio I worked at either paid or used the rare free tool. We did get employees who would talk about everyone in their former company having a pirated copy of Max and it really didn't make any sense. If you're on a deadline, something goes wrong, and you can't get the support you need right away that's money lost. Especially if you have milestone commitments.