I'm really not sure why people always say this... Up until a month and a half ago I was running my main computer on a Windows 9x install that hadn't been reformatted or reinstalled from scratch since sometime in 1997... It lasted through an upgrade from Windows 95 to 98SE and a switch in the computer the drive was in before finally dying just recently from a hard drive failure. It just takes a little bit of registry trimming every once and a while and it'll be happy.
Wow, why? I prefer the Profs who are willing to schedule outside of office hours. The ones that won't can be a pain in the ass if, for instance, they're during times you're working. It's much easier and more convenient to just find a time when you're both available.
One second, we were watching Neo and the other dude on the table, and then all of a sudden the movie abruptly said "To be continued", and went straight switched to the credits!
Where's the conclusion? I'm out here hanging in the wind! Half the audience was booing...
It wasn't really that bad of an ending though... It probably would have been slightly better if they had cut it a few minutes earlier, right after Neo zapped the machine, but then it would have been hard to start the next one explaining that he was in a coma. It's not exactly strange to have a middle chapter in a series end in a failure like that. If they'd just ended it without the message at the end, people wouldn't be that pissed off.
They ended the major plot pieces of that movie, and then took a few minutes to set some stuff up for the next movie.
If it's public knowledge that stuff like that is easy to acquire, then the company who makes that stuff MUST do something about it or face not being able to take action down the road.
Blarg?
This isn't a trademark... it's copyright. You don't lose it if you don't run around defending it against everyone.
Something doesn't need to be a primary goal to be an intrinsic value... In this case, it's somewhat easier to show that it is indeed intrinsic by showing that it isn't extrinsic...
From Websters
extrinsic
\Ex*trin"sic\, a. [L. extrinsecus; exter on the outside + secus otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F. extrins[`e]que. See Exterior, Second.] 1. Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic.
How is not crashing to Earth external to the miles travelled and, by extention, the velocity maintained in orbit? I'll point out that it definitely isn't unessential...
I would consider the consequences of circular motion to be quite intrinsic to the distance travelled maintaining the circular motion.
Travelling millions of miles in orbits at 18,000 mph is just a dangerous energy-wasting implementation detail that we unfortunately have to put up with due to physics.
How the heck is that energy wasting? If there were some way to just float there, I might agree with you, but as it stands, it's no more energy wasting than the energy in an airplane's thrust that ends up countering the force due to gravity rather than creating a forward vector...
"Hey, all this flying sure is energy wasting... let's see what happens if we don't use wings next time and skip all the energy wasting lift!"
It just doesn't make sense to count the miles traveled in orbit as having some kind of intrinsic value
I, personally, would consider not crashing to Earth a rather important intrinsic value of those miles...
That's all well and good... there are still a finite number of chord changes. There are a finite number of notes you can play at the same time. Therefore there are a finite number of ways to change between two different combinations of notes. There may be an infinite number of melodies you can play with multiple chord changes, over an infinite period of time, but that was obviously not the intention of the grandparent.
I'll also point out that we're talking about melodies that are as small as four chords. The combination of four chords is definately finite.
Because it isn't only the implementation of music that has copyright on it... The initial composition also has it's own form seperate from the copyright of the performance.
I will, of course, point out that that makes absolutely no sense, as making the result freely available doesn't help the guy who made the original music being sampled...
Hey... I'll just sample this whole track so it's freely available for everyone!
Yeah, the Slashdot article appears to be misrepresenting what's actually there. What I saw, was one scientist who is entirely against this type of patent and an Agency that will, hopefully, not abuse the patent they've recieved.
How I read it, is that the BC Cancer Agency has had experience with the misuse of genetic patents with the breast Cancer test a short while ago, as a result, they wanted this patent to make sure nobody else can do that sort of thing000000000000. I assume 'protecting accessability' is through using non-prohibitive licensing fees and terms.
Somebody has to pay the freight, and that somebody is any of a number of corporations. Corporations that know full well they will cease to exist if they do research from which they cannot recover, and the only way to recover research costs is to hold the market for a period of time (patents).
Or the government can fund it for the public good.
The U.S. administration is unhappy that marijuana possession in Canada is now a ticketing offense (parking meter sort of thing) instead of a criminal offense.
Well... not quite yet... The intention to do this has been announced, but no legislation has yet been passed.
I really don't understand what's cheeky about this article. It appears to be at least as well referenced and researched as any other 'hard' news story posted here. It doesn't seem to contain any sort of mocking undertones that one would expect from something labelled as cheeky. For something to be cheeky, one would expect something to be at least mildly offensive to some, due to the manner that the facts were presented it.
Only someone who has NEVER EVER CREATED ANYTHING could say that works "belong to the public." That's just patently absurd on its face.
That's some nice speaking for absolutely everyone you're doing there... I'm rather sure there isn't a single person anywhere who hasn't, at some point, created something that would be under American copyright law, were they in America.
It's actually somewhat absurd that you're posting this on a site that is one of the prime gathering places for people who go and create software and then try to distribute it in such a way that it will always belong to the community. It isn't the same as public domain, but the goal is definately to allow the software to belong to the public. Hell, if you want to look at something closer to public domain, look at the BSD license.
My girlfriend is looking for work, she majored in hearing and speech disorders in college.
I would assume he's helping support her financially while she's looking for somewhere to work. You know, the type of thing that you'd do if you care for someone.
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I'm really not sure why people always say this... Up until a month and a half ago I was running my main computer on a Windows 9x install that hadn't been reformatted or reinstalled from scratch since sometime in 1997... It lasted through an upgrade from Windows 95 to 98SE and a switch in the computer the drive was in before finally dying just recently from a hard drive failure. It just takes a little bit of registry trimming every once and a while and it'll be happy.
Wow... you should probably tell that to pretty much all the phone companies in the world. I'm sure they'd be happy to hear it.
Wow, why? I prefer the Profs who are willing to schedule outside of office hours. The ones that won't can be a pain in the ass if, for instance, they're during times you're working. It's much easier and more convenient to just find a time when you're both available.
One second, we were watching Neo and the other dude on the table, and then all of a sudden the movie abruptly said "To be continued", and went straight switched to the credits!
Where's the conclusion? I'm out here hanging in the wind! Half the audience was booing...
It wasn't really that bad of an ending though... It probably would have been slightly better if they had cut it a few minutes earlier, right after Neo zapped the machine, but then it would have been hard to start the next one explaining that he was in a coma. It's not exactly strange to have a middle chapter in a series end in a failure like that. If they'd just ended it without the message at the end, people wouldn't be that pissed off.
They ended the major plot pieces of that movie, and then took a few minutes to set some stuff up for the next movie.
That sounds like bullshit to me. If you were looking for large files, you'd just do a search for files greater than $blah size...
it's not like you can hose the hard drive of a dell and install os x like you can with linux. macs cost more, but it's not apples to apples.
No, it's Apples to Dells!
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You poor, poor man... :(
If it's public knowledge that stuff like that is easy to acquire, then the company who makes that stuff MUST do something about it or face not being able to take action down the road.
Blarg?
This isn't a trademark... it's copyright. You don't lose it if you don't run around defending it against everyone.
I read that as Brady Bunch :(
I probably need to get more sleep.
Unless, of course, you're talking about the verb 'to loose'... in which case the verb is quite obviously loose and the past participle is loosed.
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How is not crashing to Earth external to the miles travelled and, by extention, the velocity maintained in orbit? I'll point out that it definitely isn't unessential...
I would consider the consequences of circular motion to be quite intrinsic to the distance travelled maintaining the circular motion.
Travelling millions of miles in orbits at 18,000 mph is just a dangerous energy-wasting implementation detail that we unfortunately have to put up with due to physics.
How the heck is that energy wasting? If there were some way to just float there, I might agree with you, but as it stands, it's no more energy wasting than the energy in an airplane's thrust that ends up countering the force due to gravity rather than creating a forward vector...
"Hey, all this flying sure is energy wasting... let's see what happens if we don't use wings next time and skip all the energy wasting lift!"
It just doesn't make sense to count the miles traveled in orbit as having some kind of intrinsic value
I, personally, would consider not crashing to Earth a rather important intrinsic value of those miles...
I like how all the news outlets went on about it when he was charged but very few mentioned it when he was cleared.
That's all well and good... there are still a finite number of chord changes. There are a finite number of notes you can play at the same time. Therefore there are a finite number of ways to change between two different combinations of notes. There may be an infinite number of melodies you can play with multiple chord changes, over an infinite period of time, but that was obviously not the intention of the grandparent.
I'll also point out that we're talking about melodies that are as small as four chords. The combination of four chords is definately finite.
Because it isn't only the implementation of music that has copyright on it... The initial composition also has it's own form seperate from the copyright of the performance.
I will, of course, point out that that makes absolutely no sense, as making the result freely available doesn't help the guy who made the original music being sampled...
Hey... I'll just sample this whole track so it's freely available for everyone!
Yeah, the Slashdot article appears to be misrepresenting what's actually there. What I saw, was one scientist who is entirely against this type of patent and an Agency that will, hopefully, not abuse the patent they've recieved.
How I read it, is that the BC Cancer Agency has had experience with the misuse of genetic patents with the breast Cancer test a short while ago, as a result, they wanted this patent to make sure nobody else can do that sort of thing000000000000. I assume 'protecting accessability' is through using non-prohibitive licensing fees and terms.
Somebody has to pay the freight, and that somebody is any of a number of corporations. Corporations that know full well they will cease to exist if they do research from which they cannot recover, and the only way to recover research costs is to hold the market for a period of time (patents).
Or the government can fund it for the public good.
The U.S. administration is unhappy that marijuana possession in Canada is now a ticketing offense (parking meter sort of thing) instead of a criminal offense.
Well... not quite yet... The intention to do this has been announced, but no legislation has yet been passed.
I really don't understand what's cheeky about this article. It appears to be at least as well referenced and researched as any other 'hard' news story posted here. It doesn't seem to contain any sort of mocking undertones that one would expect from something labelled as cheeky. For something to be cheeky, one would expect something to be at least mildly offensive to some, due to the manner that the facts were presented it.
Only someone who has NEVER EVER CREATED ANYTHING could say that works "belong to the public." That's just patently absurd on its face.
That's some nice speaking for absolutely everyone you're doing there... I'm rather sure there isn't a single person anywhere who hasn't, at some point, created something that would be under American copyright law, were they in America.
It's actually somewhat absurd that you're posting this on a site that is one of the prime gathering places for people who go and create software and then try to distribute it in such a way that it will always belong to the community. It isn't the same as public domain, but the goal is definately to allow the software to belong to the public. Hell, if you want to look at something closer to public domain, look at the BSD license.
"I use it for hunting... I swear!"
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My girlfriend is looking for work, she majored in hearing and speech disorders in college.
I would assume he's helping support her financially while she's looking for somewhere to work. You know, the type of thing that you'd do if you care for someone.
They actually make braille 'displays'. They're rather neat.
Here's a useful link
He's talking about physical junk mail... hence the comment that follows about the USPS