Ah, Calgary... when I lived in Great Falls MT, we considered Calgary to be our northern sister-city:)
I wish the city (Palmdale/Lancaster CA) would do something similar, but nooo, I swear they use the most light-polluting lamps they could find. I'm 15 miles out of town, and 5 years ago nights out here were dead-black. Now, what with all the new development and heavy lighting that's ONLY in these newer housing areas -- you can't even see the main swath of the Milky Way anymore.:(
Conversely our new WalMart has downward-directed lights. Almost looks like the lights are out if you're more than a block away. Kinda embarrassing to have to point to WalMart as the only forward-thinking outfit in sight:/
Hmm. Well, about Jimmy Carter, I'd say as President he was kind-hearted and genuinely meant well, but didn't have the common sense the gods gave a brick. The jury is still out on GW.
I remember something Ford said years later, to the effect that he truly agonized over this decision, because while impeachment was the legal and moral avenue to pursue, it would have torn the country apart at the worst possible time. So he wound up going against his personal ethics because at the time, there was a much greater need to set it behind us and use our resources to deal with larger issues -- issues that had an actual impact on Americans' lives.
I believe he made the right decision, even tho as you say it cost him personally (perhaps more than we'll ever know).
Ford was often lambasted for being ineffectual, but in retrospect, his most basic policy was NOT to fuck with anything that might be better left alone. If all politicians operated like that, government would act only in the event of genuine need, and not at the behest of every special interest that comes down the pipe.
Please take my respects with you. From all that I know of him, Gerald Ford was a good and honest man who did the best he could even in a tough situation, and always had his countrymen's best interests at heart. I am saddened by his passing, but glad that we had him in life.
In my experience, about half of all users DO blame themselves, for "being too stupid to understand the computer". However, the demographic is heavily skewed toward the older user who didn't grow up with PCs, and who are to some degree still afraid of "breaking something".
Houses built in northern states will hold up to anything short of a direct hit by a tornado. Hurricane-force winds are common during northern plains winter storms, yet no houses blow away, and no roofs collapse under snow accumulations which in some areas can reach ten FEET. (Ever wonder why houses in West Yellowstone have an exterior door on the *second* floor??)
Anyway... the crackerbox buildings one finds in warm-climate, rapid growth areas like Florida and California are not at all typical of the states that regularly experience rough weather. Kindly don't generalize how these areas duck the standards to indict the entire country.
If you look around, you'll find that globally, people in rough climates build securely and to last, because if you don't, the weather can kill you, and you can't go out during a storm to patch the roof. But in mild climates there's less need, since there you can survive a few cracks in the walls without freezing to death.
Guess which one blows away when a hurricane hits.
New England gets hurricanes too, and you don't see whole neighbhourhoods collapsing and washing away there!!
BTW I've lived in the northern US (Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota) and in So.California.
That's a nasty thought, that this notion of "shared folder's existence necessarily means infringement" wasn't quite the legal nonsense it appeared on the surface.
If the RIAA ever *does* win such a judgment, it's not only Microsoft that could be next on the "contributory infringement" hot seat. It could be anyone who runs/codes a website or FTP server -- after all, those are by their very nature "shared", with the whole damn world.
And if they got that precedent -- once "Trusted Computing" becomes widespread, anyone with a site that will so much as speak to a non-TC connection could be found "contributory" by default.
The importance of this decision suddenly increased by several orders of magnitude!!
Got modded funny, but isn't that exactly what some of the previous suits have been about -- software as contributory to infringement?? Why should it stop with Kazaa, especially if "sharing" is a fundamental part of Windows??
Oh, I know... M$ has bigger badder lawyers. Never mind!!
I think it has to help to have a lawyer VISIBLY defending rationality. And you're the one within the legal system, ie. in the best position to judge where you can do the most good. D'oh!
And if your writing is a bit "dry", well, what matters is whether it positively impacts your fellows in the legal profession and on the bench, not whether it's fun reading for the blogging crowd.
Back to the nominal topic, recognising that "a shared folder doesn't necessarily mean filesharing" is an important step, especially since a folder with an obvious name like "My Shared Files" is a *default* part of some Windows installs. It would be very VERY bad if a normal default was automatically regarded as evidence!! About on the order of saying that anyone who breathes must necessarily have booze on their breath.
That's an excellent thought. Authors who are having a tough time getting published could upload a digital copy of their manuscript into a central location, which the machines could access and print as needed. Then the author gets a royalty for each copy in much the usual way; or you might set it up as the system keeps a commission and the author gets the rest. (I'm not sure how that would differ legally.) No publisher, agent, or any other intermediaries required. And if their book never sells, the worst it does is waste a trivial amount of disk space (an average book is well under one MB, even with extensive formatting.)
For a much lower fee, the machine might also be set up to download the digital copy to any flash device (and perhaps in any of several formats)-- bring your own USB gadget, stick in a dollar, and it dumps the file onto your device. Hmm, there's where a commission rather than a royalty would be in order, since obviously the price can't be lower than the royalty.
This machine would be really handy for books that are in periodic high demand by students, too. No more long waits for a much-reserved book!
I know a couple PC hobbyists with mainframes in their basement, much the same thing:)
I see now, commercial defined as interfacing with equipment that does Tangible Work and makes a physical product. Fair enough.
So long as it can save to something *visually* useful, that's probably sufficient for most noncommercial uses. I was thinking of game mods, computer art models, and the like.
Anyway, I might have to give it a spin, just for fun. -- Um, did it once have another name? My brain's overflowing recycle bin keeps trying to associate the company name with some NURBS-based modeling software of the ancient past.
My sister is an architect. She graduated in one of the last classes that had to do everything by hand, from drafting to models.
She's now a partner in a big firm that employs about 125 architects. They use AutoCAD and 3DStudioMax for their daily work. The main benefit, far as I can tell, is that it's easier to schlep files around than it is to ship models the size of pool tables. And it's a lot easier to make changes in a file than in an existing blueprint or model.
But when the power goes out, my sister is the only one there who can still work -- because no one else knows the old ways of doing things. She just breaks out paper and pencil and keeps on billing her hours. At $100+/hour, the ability to work during extended power outages is significant.
Andropause sounded good to me, til it reminded me of Androcles and the lion:)
As to numbers -- same thing with thyroid (we see this a lot in dogs) -- some individuals have high levels yet present obvious symptoms of deficiency, and do respond to treatment; others test with negligible to zero levels yet have no symptoms at all. It's not how much you manufacture; it's how much you uptake and utilize that counts, and blood levels as reported by simple tests may not reflect that.
Actually, pretty much the case for any hormone or nutrient. And sometimes the failure to uptake/utilize is secondary to something else imbalanced or absent (frex, failure to absorb iron can be secondary to copper deficiency; calcium uptake depends on having the correct balance of phosphorus and potassium; etc.)
Another thing we see a lot in dogs in recent years (tho mainly in the younger generation of competition breeders), is that older males kept too thin, or on low-fat diets, develop hormone deficiencies thus prematurely shrunken balls/infertility. One has to wonder if the craze for low-fat diets contributes to human hormonal imbalances too -- after all, hormones are based on fats, and if you lack the raw materials, you ain't gonna produce the end product.
Don't know if this is helpful or relevant, but I just looked at it in IE5.00 (nothing newer on this machine, nor will there ever be) and the top graphic doesn't load by itself. I have to RClick, Show Image to get it to load. -- Same for both pages. No menus either way, either top or side.
Both menus exist/work in Moz 1.5, but you might want to check it in an 800x600 window -- the red topmenu wraps, which could be quite confusing to the unsuspecting visitor.
I encountered something equally silly in IE5, where what text was inside a table determined whether a border-width bug manifested. Sometimes just omitting punctuation changed what it did.
Here's screenshots, with the culprit text hilighted:
Interesting... men aren't supposed to experience "menopause", but I think cases like your own are good reason to re-evaluate that. The symptoms sure are similar to those seen in females of like age. (Did you have headaches too? My mom had flaming headaches -- but not migraines -- til she got her hormones adjusted, then the problem went away entirely.)
And your experience goes along with my own theory on post-partum depression. It's not depression at all; it's withdrawal from progresterone (ie. the body has become addicted, or at least habituated, and now needs it as a mood leveler). And some women need higher levels of progesterone to feel good -- we've all known someone who is only truly happy when she's pregnant!
I expect the correlation is indeed in the opposite direction -- that good health (including a healthy immune system) leads to a more positive outlook, simply because you FEEL BETTER. Well, d'oh!!
Kindof like how DOING STUFF gives you a feeling of accomplishment, rather than the reverse.
Tho in today's society, the focus is frequently from the wrong end of the tube:/
In parts of California, the cost to hook up to the grid is something like $16,000. There's permits and other crap involved, so it's not just Edison.
I have a shop building that has an electrical permit and was once hooked up, but some dickwad stole the panel and drop wire, and when I've inquired what it would cost to hook it back up to the meter -- I about had a heart attack, $10k (mostly re-permitting fees) and that's with a meter and pole already present. I'm going to have to bootleg it from my pumphouse instead. (Same meter, but won't need its own drop or panel. Technically not allowed, but what they don't know won't hurt 'em.)
In 1984, when I last checked on the cost to run electric service to a new house, it was free out to 1500 feet, but if you were further out (like most of California is, away from developed areas) Edison charged $16/foot for overhead, and $40/foot for buried cable (and you don't get to choose which; the county does, plus there might be permit fees depending on where you are). At a guess, it's probably now 3x that. One problem is that new overhead wires are taxable but frequently prohibited by various environmental impact regs, but buried cable isn't taxable, so the counties won't allow it. Developers get around it, of course -- they do pretty much whatever the hell they want, just so long as they pay the bri^H^H^H fees.
Hooking up to public water/sewer here costs you a similar fee, somewhere in the $10k-$20k range depending on where you are. With developer-built houses, it's worked into the price so you never see it, but if you build it yourself (and pay 'em $38k just for the building permit) you'll get socked for it firsthand.
What's worse, L.A. County has new regs that prohibit drilling your own well if you're within a water district. And the new regs will shut down a lot of existing wells. Also, if you have a well and let the power service to it lapse, you won't be able to restart it.
Complete horseshit from top to bottom, but gods forbid that the county not be allowed to maximize its tax base!!
"This system can tell when you copy from then, but not when they copy from you....."
That's the best point anyone's made here today. How does the tool know if the person doing the scanning is the actual originator of the content? It can't. It can only go by the subscriber's say-so.
I had the same thought. This is going to catch an awful lot of "fair use" snippets in the crossfire.
It wouldn't be so bad if the crawler would then further verify that the ENTIRE work was present and infringed, but you can bet it'll lead to a flurry of half-cocked threats instead.
Slashdot Mirror
Ah, Calgary... when I lived in Great Falls MT, we considered Calgary to be our northern sister-city :)
:(
:/
I wish the city (Palmdale/Lancaster CA) would do something similar, but nooo, I swear they use the most light-polluting lamps they could find. I'm 15 miles out of town, and 5 years ago nights out here were dead-black. Now, what with all the new development and heavy lighting that's ONLY in these newer housing areas -- you can't even see the main swath of the Milky Way anymore.
Conversely our new WalMart has downward-directed lights. Almost looks like the lights are out if you're more than a block away. Kinda embarrassing to have to point to WalMart as the only forward-thinking outfit in sight
"Even the tin foil hat types will be at ease with this."
Nonsense. As every tinfoil-hat wearer knows, Chicken Little may be RIGHT!!
Hmm. Well, about Jimmy Carter, I'd say as President he was kind-hearted and genuinely meant well, but didn't have the common sense the gods gave a brick. The jury is still out on GW.
I remember something Ford said years later, to the effect that he truly agonized over this decision, because while impeachment was the legal and moral avenue to pursue, it would have torn the country apart at the worst possible time. So he wound up going against his personal ethics because at the time, there was a much greater need to set it behind us and use our resources to deal with larger issues -- issues that had an actual impact on Americans' lives.
I believe he made the right decision, even tho as you say it cost him personally (perhaps more than we'll ever know).
Ford was often lambasted for being ineffectual, but in retrospect, his most basic policy was NOT to fuck with anything that might be better left alone. If all politicians operated like that, government would act only in the event of genuine need, and not at the behest of every special interest that comes down the pipe.
We have lost a greater man than we knew.
Please take my respects with you. From all that I know of him, Gerald Ford was a good and honest man who did the best he could even in a tough situation, and always had his countrymen's best interests at heart. I am saddened by his passing, but glad that we had him in life.
Or to summarize:
Believing in the laws is not the same as believing in the long arm of the law.
Which in turn has conditioned people to believe that being watched 24 hours a day is NORMAL. :/
In my experience, about half of all users DO blame themselves, for "being too stupid to understand the computer". However, the demographic is heavily skewed toward the older user who didn't grow up with PCs, and who are to some degree still afraid of "breaking something".
Houses built in northern states will hold up to anything short of a direct hit by a tornado. Hurricane-force winds are common during northern plains winter storms, yet no houses blow away, and no roofs collapse under snow accumulations which in some areas can reach ten FEET. (Ever wonder why houses in West Yellowstone have an exterior door on the *second* floor??)
Anyway... the crackerbox buildings one finds in warm-climate, rapid growth areas like Florida and California are not at all typical of the states that regularly experience rough weather. Kindly don't generalize how these areas duck the standards to indict the entire country.
If you look around, you'll find that globally, people in rough climates build securely and to last, because if you don't, the weather can kill you, and you can't go out during a storm to patch the roof. But in mild climates there's less need, since there you can survive a few cracks in the walls without freezing to death.
Guess which one blows away when a hurricane hits.
New England gets hurricanes too, and you don't see whole neighbhourhoods collapsing and washing away there!!
BTW I've lived in the northern US (Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota) and in So.California.
That's a nasty thought, that this notion of "shared folder's existence necessarily means infringement" wasn't quite the legal nonsense it appeared on the surface.
If the RIAA ever *does* win such a judgment, it's not only Microsoft that could be next on the "contributory infringement" hot seat. It could be anyone who runs/codes a website or FTP server -- after all, those are by their very nature "shared", with the whole damn world.
And if they got that precedent -- once "Trusted Computing" becomes widespread, anyone with a site that will so much as speak to a non-TC connection could be found "contributory" by default.
The importance of this decision suddenly increased by several orders of magnitude!!
Sortof like [first lame analogy that came to mind] driving the getaway car isn't illegal unless the bank was actually robbed??
Got modded funny, but isn't that exactly what some of the previous suits have been about -- software as contributory to infringement?? Why should it stop with Kazaa, especially if "sharing" is a fundamental part of Windows??
Oh, I know... M$ has bigger badder lawyers. Never mind!!
I think it has to help to have a lawyer VISIBLY defending rationality. And you're the one within the legal system, ie. in the best position to judge where you can do the most good. D'oh!
And if your writing is a bit "dry", well, what matters is whether it positively impacts your fellows in the legal profession and on the bench, not whether it's fun reading for the blogging crowd.
Back to the nominal topic, recognising that "a shared folder doesn't necessarily mean filesharing" is an important step, especially since a folder with an obvious name like "My Shared Files" is a *default* part of some Windows installs. It would be very VERY bad if a normal default was automatically regarded as evidence!! About on the order of saying that anyone who breathes must necessarily have booze on their breath.
That's an excellent thought. Authors who are having a tough time getting published could upload a digital copy of their manuscript into a central location, which the machines could access and print as needed. Then the author gets a royalty for each copy in much the usual way; or you might set it up as the system keeps a commission and the author gets the rest. (I'm not sure how that would differ legally.) No publisher, agent, or any other intermediaries required. And if their book never sells, the worst it does is waste a trivial amount of disk space (an average book is well under one MB, even with extensive formatting.)
For a much lower fee, the machine might also be set up to download the digital copy to any flash device (and perhaps in any of several formats)-- bring your own USB gadget, stick in a dollar, and it dumps the file onto your device. Hmm, there's where a commission rather than a royalty would be in order, since obviously the price can't be lower than the royalty.
This machine would be really handy for books that are in periodic high demand by students, too. No more long waits for a much-reserved book!
I know a couple PC hobbyists with mainframes in their basement, much the same thing :)
I see now, commercial defined as interfacing with equipment that does Tangible Work and makes a physical product. Fair enough.
So long as it can save to something *visually* useful, that's probably sufficient for most noncommercial uses. I was thinking of game mods, computer art models, and the like.
Anyway, I might have to give it a spin, just for fun. -- Um, did it once have another name? My brain's overflowing recycle bin keeps trying to associate the company name with some NURBS-based modeling software of the ancient past.
My sister is an architect. She graduated in one of the last classes that had to do everything by hand, from drafting to models.
She's now a partner in a big firm that employs about 125 architects. They use AutoCAD and 3DStudioMax for their daily work. The main benefit, far as I can tell, is that it's easier to schlep files around than it is to ship models the size of pool tables. And it's a lot easier to make changes in a file than in an existing blueprint or model.
But when the power goes out, my sister is the only one there who can still work -- because no one else knows the old ways of doing things. She just breaks out paper and pencil and keeps on billing her hours. At $100+/hour, the ability to work during extended power outages is significant.
[goes to site, roots around]
:)
"Saving files is completly free, exporting them for manufacture is charged at $350 per model."
That seems reasonable enough, for business and professional use. What about hobby users, how does the software distinguish?
(Use small words. CAD isn't my field; but my sister and her inlaws are all architects
Andropause sounded good to me, til it reminded me of Androcles and the lion :)
As to numbers -- same thing with thyroid (we see this a lot in dogs) -- some individuals have high levels yet present obvious symptoms of deficiency, and do respond to treatment; others test with negligible to zero levels yet have no symptoms at all. It's not how much you manufacture; it's how much you uptake and utilize that counts, and blood levels as reported by simple tests may not reflect that.
Actually, pretty much the case for any hormone or nutrient. And sometimes the failure to uptake/utilize is secondary to something else imbalanced or absent (frex, failure to absorb iron can be secondary to copper deficiency; calcium uptake depends on having the correct balance of phosphorus and potassium; etc.)
Another thing we see a lot in dogs in recent years (tho mainly in the younger generation of competition breeders), is that older males kept too thin, or on low-fat diets, develop hormone deficiencies thus prematurely shrunken balls/infertility. One has to wonder if the craze for low-fat diets contributes to human hormonal imbalances too -- after all, hormones are based on fats, and if you lack the raw materials, you ain't gonna produce the end product.
Don't know if this is helpful or relevant, but I just looked at it in IE5.00 (nothing newer on this machine, nor will there ever be) and the top graphic doesn't load by itself. I have to RClick, Show Image to get it to load. -- Same for both pages. No menus either way, either top or side.
Both menus exist/work in Moz 1.5, but you might want to check it in an 800x600 window -- the red topmenu wraps, which could be quite confusing to the unsuspecting visitor.
I encountered something equally silly in IE5, where what text was inside a table determined whether a border-width bug manifested. Sometimes just omitting punctuation changed what it did.
l ebug/ammo_02_tablebug_comp2.gif
l ebug/ammo_02_tablebug.htm
l ebug/ie5_tableborder_bug.htm
Here's screenshots, with the culprit text hilighted:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rividh/kennel/news/tab
The original page: http://home.earthlink.net/~rividh/kennel/news/tab
My disbelieving attempts to pin down the bug:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rividh/kennel/news/tab
The bug is also in later IE versions, but manifests at completely different points. Even a different *build* of IE5.00 manifests it differently.
It's a freakin' table with a default border and nothing unusual inside it. How hard can rendering that be??!
Interesting... men aren't supposed to experience "menopause", but I think cases like your own are good reason to re-evaluate that. The symptoms sure are similar to those seen in females of like age. (Did you have headaches too? My mom had flaming headaches -- but not migraines -- til she got her hormones adjusted, then the problem went away entirely.)
And your experience goes along with my own theory on post-partum depression. It's not depression at all; it's withdrawal from progresterone (ie. the body has become addicted, or at least habituated, and now needs it as a mood leveler). And some women need higher levels of progesterone to feel good -- we've all known someone who is only truly happy when she's pregnant!
I expect the correlation is indeed in the opposite direction -- that good health (including a healthy immune system) leads to a more positive outlook, simply because you FEEL BETTER. Well, d'oh!!
:/
Kindof like how DOING STUFF gives you a feeling of accomplishment, rather than the reverse.
Tho in today's society, the focus is frequently from the wrong end of the tube
In parts of California, the cost to hook up to the grid is something like $16,000. There's permits and other crap involved, so it's not just Edison.
I have a shop building that has an electrical permit and was once hooked up, but some dickwad stole the panel and drop wire, and when I've inquired what it would cost to hook it back up to the meter -- I about had a heart attack, $10k (mostly re-permitting fees) and that's with a meter and pole already present. I'm going to have to bootleg it from my pumphouse instead. (Same meter, but won't need its own drop or panel. Technically not allowed, but what they don't know won't hurt 'em.)
In 1984, when I last checked on the cost to run electric service to a new house, it was free out to 1500 feet, but if you were further out (like most of California is, away from developed areas) Edison charged $16/foot for overhead, and $40/foot for buried cable (and you don't get to choose which; the county does, plus there might be permit fees depending on where you are). At a guess, it's probably now 3x that. One problem is that new overhead wires are taxable but frequently prohibited by various environmental impact regs, but buried cable isn't taxable, so the counties won't allow it. Developers get around it, of course -- they do pretty much whatever the hell they want, just so long as they pay the bri^H^H^H fees.
Hooking up to public water/sewer here costs you a similar fee, somewhere in the $10k-$20k range depending on where you are. With developer-built houses, it's worked into the price so you never see it, but if you build it yourself (and pay 'em $38k just for the building permit) you'll get socked for it firsthand.
What's worse, L.A. County has new regs that prohibit drilling your own well if you're within a water district. And the new regs will shut down a lot of existing wells. Also, if you have a well and let the power service to it lapse, you won't be able to restart it.
Complete horseshit from top to bottom, but gods forbid that the county not be allowed to maximize its tax base!!
"This system can tell when you copy from then, but not when they copy from you....."
That's the best point anyone's made here today. How does the tool know if the person doing the scanning is the actual originator of the content? It can't. It can only go by the subscriber's say-so.
I had the same thought. This is going to catch an awful lot of "fair use" snippets in the crossfire.
It wouldn't be so bad if the crawler would then further verify that the ENTIRE work was present and infringed, but you can bet it'll lead to a flurry of half-cocked threats instead.