What would Dance Dance Revolution be classified under?
Sounds odd, but I'd say number 8, "Light gun" (or rather: "additional accessory needed"):
Sure, any game that requires wacky additional accessories like
dance pads, fishing reels, or maracas can be lumped into this category, but light gun games have been around the longest.
Europe is either "pro-American" (President Bush this and President Bush that blah blah let's just copy the feed from CNN) or "anti-American" (can you believe those Americans thinking they are more important than France?).
And your comment is definately pro-American (patriotic). Indeed, why single out the French? France is not the only country that wonders why those Americans think they are more important than the UN and due process.
When swimming in shark-infested waters, you should always be careful...
Intellectual property law is a tricky business, and "submarine" patents are a bitter reality. Just ask Rambus.
The present case would be a case of submarine copyrights;-) And besides: the fattest wallet always wins, regardless of any other considerations...
What makes you believe that Bush will stop at the border? When time is right, he will just annex Canada, the same way that Germany annexed Austria. All in the name of "fight against terrorism", of course. Y'a know, those dudes that wanted to
blow up the Space Needle in 2000 came over from Canada. Oh, and it will be a good excuse to whack the Freedom in Québec too...
I know, the word is hard to pronounce, but if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it certainly is a duck.
Time to emigrate folks, before Bush starts heating the ovens. Glad I'm a European. Hope we'll be able to bail you out, like you bailed us out 60 years ago.
The introduction of errors is not a basis for copyright protection because nobody would ever be able to copy facts.
The errors are not facts, and thus actually an expression of the creativity. So, if the defendant had been more careful, he would not only not have been caught, but also compliant to the law (because he would only have copied facts, rather than creative expression).
Wouldn't that be Afghanistan? So far, the only person who sees ties between Iraq and al Quaeda is the shrub.
banned weapons
Which banned weapons? Do you by chance mean North Korea's nukes? (which Dubya tries so hard to ignore..). You cannot possibly mean the empty shells found in Iraq, can you?
and genocide
... was more than a dozen years ago (that doesn't certainly excuse it, but...). That would have been Daddy's job. But for some weird reason Daddy decided that actually winning his war was not so important, and he "gave up" just two days before he would have reached Baghdad... Maybe he was afraid to piss off his allies in Istanbul?
I must admin that I also only read the first page of the article, but I think what he is trying to get at is directionality and/or spatial locality. You can put several green objects in one room, and you are able to see them all, because they are at different places in that room.
However, far from being revolutionary, his 'discovery' is a well known fact, which is already in wide use by now:
the directional antenna that the Wifi freaks are so fond of...
satellites at different orbital positions reuse the same frequencies...
FM spectrum is reused as well. Ever noticed that when driving long distances you get different radio stations on the same frequency?
mobile phone cells (d'oh...)
Also, his analogy breaks when you compare wavelengths: light having much shorter waves is much more directional (allowing for the pinhole camera phenomenon) whereas radio need much bigger spatial separation to avoid interference. While you can put several green objects into one room, and still distinguish them, you need much larger cells for RF.
It is ancient technology, examining people as they tell their stories, but it works in most cases.
If you are a good actor, you can look very convincing, even if you don't tell the truth... Don't pull this off though, if you're the kind that easily blushes;-)
Second, you can take a photograph of your calling-line display.
Can be faked to easily. Especially if your telephone is able to substitute names for known numbers...
Third, if they leave a message on your answering machine, you can take a recording to court.
Such recording could have come from another telephone, which is not on the "do not call list". And besides, what stoopid telemarketer leaves a message on the answering machine, if this is a number he's not supposed to be calling...
Fourth, you can keep a log of unwanted calls you receive. This is better than your testimony alone, because it shows you are being careful and are making accurate records.
Who says the records are accurate?
Fifth, many telemarketing suits involve multiple calls. You can give the judge a list of people you spoke to, on what dates, what you told them, and so on. The combined facts make it very unlikely that the defendant did not call you as you claim, and you only need a preponderance of the evidence to prevail.
Agreed.
Sixth, you can ask your friends and neighbors if they received similar calls. Any telemarketer violating the do-not-call list is calling everyone, so you will find other witnesses to verify your report.
Also agreed. While the probability of one consumer lying might be high (at least, in the eyes of the unethical businessman...), the probability of 10 people making up the same story is incredibly low... unless they operate in collusion.
Seventh, if it gets to that point is important enough, you can subpoena their records and so on. But then you are into real discovery and may not be able to use small claims court.
And, depending on how they're systems are set up, this would have the beneficial side effect of crippling their operations if you subpoena enough of their equipment...
I personally made a little plugin for my mail client that reads out the subject line of the email and a few of my colleagues use it and like it very much.
Either you like to live dangerously, or you've found a miracle recipe against nasty porn spam... Or maybe the reason you like it so much is because some of your colleagues use it;-)
have you considered the businesses next to starbucks?
Why would that business be interested, unless it was a coffeeshop too?
If it is a different type of business (a fast food joint, a bookstore, etc.), their customers will just profit from the wifi leaking in from Starbucks, so not point in wasting money to set up your own.
If OTOH it was a coffee-shop too, it would want a Wifi network just for the annoyance value (hoping it will leak into the Starbucks next door, and disturb their network...)
OK, you seem to be a little confused. What gets dated are the layers of deposition ON TOP of your cat, not the dirt under it. Geological deposition happens in layers of strata; go to the seaside and look at an eroded-out bank. You can see layers of clay, ash, sand, perhaps midden from some ancient group, and so forth.
Agreed, dating by strata is a bit uncertain at times - in the absence of any other evidence, all you can really say is "this is older than that, because this is underneath that." But the presence of dateable bits in the strata itself, or of well-known events (a layer of ash may correspond to some well-known volcanic eruption, for example) allows scientists to more accurately assign an absolute date range to the item at hand (your cat).
Read a first-year archeology textbook for more information, and then come to your own conclusion.
The grass is always greener on the other side. If you did sth stupid, and croak from it, you regret. If you did not do sth stupid, and eventually croak of boredom errr... old age, you also regret. No matter how you live your life, you'll regret.
Transmission of information across property lines by technical means must follow the following regulations
Sounds awfully like the old telecom's monopolies in Europe (hanging an ethernet cable out of your window and into your neighbor's for a LAN party was illegal, because only the state operated telecoms had the right to establish communications across property lines), and has AFAIK nothing to do with usage of spectrum. Encroaching on a frequency that is not you are not licensed to use is illegal, even if both (intended) endpoints of communication are on the same property.
Actually, the big box of AOL CD's at the local post office is so big it takes up a lot of the working space on the counter. Makes it a hassle to fill out the forms, etc.
Easy solution: next time you're at the post office filling out a form, "accidentally" elbow them off the counter...
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Sounds odd, but I'd say number 8, "Light gun" (or rather: "additional accessory needed"):
And your comment is definately pro-American (patriotic). Indeed, why single out the French? France is not the only country that wonders why those Americans think they are more important than the UN and due process.
But the French are against the war!
The new biological weapon of choice for the apprentice terrorist: a nice runny camembert!
- open window
- throw
- close window
Should solve any problem...The present case would be a case of submarine copyrights ;-) And besides: the fattest wallet always wins, regardless of any other considerations...
What makes you believe that Bush will stop at the border? When time is right, he will just annex Canada, the same way that Germany annexed Austria. All in the name of "fight against terrorism", of course. Y'a know, those dudes that wanted to blow up the Space Needle in 2000 came over from Canada. Oh, and it will be a good excuse to whack the Freedom in Québec too...
Time to emigrate folks, before Bush starts heating the ovens. Glad I'm a European. Hope we'll be able to bail you out, like you bailed us out 60 years ago.
The errors are not facts, and thus actually an expression of the creativity. So, if the defendant had been more careful, he would not only not have been caught, but also compliant to the law (because he would only have copied facts, rather than creative expression).
Is that a screenscraper pointed to monster.com?
Wouldn't that be Afghanistan? So far, the only person who sees ties between Iraq and al Quaeda is the shrub.
banned weapons
Which banned weapons? Do you by chance mean North Korea's nukes? (which Dubya tries so hard to ignore..). You cannot possibly mean the empty shells found in Iraq, can you?
and genocide
to name a few other reasons?
Oil, oil and oil...
However, far from being revolutionary, his 'discovery' is a well known fact, which is already in wide use by now:
Also, his analogy breaks when you compare wavelengths: light having much shorter waves is much more directional (allowing for the pinhole camera phenomenon) whereas radio need much bigger spatial separation to avoid interference. While you can put several green objects into one room, and still distinguish them, you need much larger cells for RF.
No problema. Dubya and Saddam will solve this problem real soon now...
Beat's "Saddam is a Pretzel" any day...
If you are a good actor, you can look very convincing, even if you don't tell the truth... Don't pull this off though, if you're the kind that easily blushes ;-)
Second, you can take a photograph of your calling-line display.
Can be faked to easily. Especially if your telephone is able to substitute names for known numbers...
Third, if they leave a message on your answering machine, you can take a recording to court.
Such recording could have come from another telephone, which is not on the "do not call list". And besides, what stoopid telemarketer leaves a message on the answering machine, if this is a number he's not supposed to be calling...
Fourth, you can keep a log of unwanted calls you receive. This is better than your testimony alone, because it shows you are being careful and are making accurate records.
Who says the records are accurate?
Fifth, many telemarketing suits involve multiple calls. You can give the judge a list of people you spoke to, on what dates, what you told them, and so on. The combined facts make it very unlikely that the defendant did not call you as you claim, and you only need a preponderance of the evidence to prevail.
Agreed.
Sixth, you can ask your friends and neighbors if they received similar calls. Any telemarketer violating the do-not-call list is calling everyone, so you will find other witnesses to verify your report.
Also agreed. While the probability of one consumer lying might be high (at least, in the eyes of the unethical businessman...), the probability of 10 people making up the same story is incredibly low... unless they operate in collusion.
Seventh, if it gets to that point is important enough, you can subpoena their records and so on. But then you are into real discovery and may not be able to use small claims court.
And, depending on how they're systems are set up, this would have the beneficial side effect of crippling their operations if you subpoena enough of their equipment...
Either you like to live dangerously, or you've found a miracle recipe against nasty porn spam... Or maybe the reason you like it so much is because some of your colleagues use it ;-)
And with e-mail, nobody interrupts you when your run-on sentence overflows their two-bit stack either.
Why would that business be interested, unless it was a coffeeshop too?
Agreed, dating by strata is a bit uncertain at times - in the absence of any other evidence, all you can really say is "this is older than that, because this is underneath that." But the presence of dateable bits in the strata itself, or of well-known events (a layer of ash may correspond to some well-known volcanic eruption, for example) allows scientists to more accurately assign an absolute date range to the item at hand (your cat).
Read a first-year archeology textbook for more information, and then come to your own conclusion.
Two words: coal miners!
... or must we wait until Asus releases a similar Laptop?
The grass is always greener on the other side. If you did sth stupid, and croak from it, you regret. If you did not do sth stupid, and eventually croak of boredom errr... old age, you also regret. No matter how you live your life, you'll regret.
Sounds awfully like the old telecom's monopolies in Europe (hanging an ethernet cable out of your window and into your neighbor's for a LAN party was illegal, because only the state operated telecoms had the right to establish communications across property lines), and has AFAIK nothing to do with usage of spectrum. Encroaching on a frequency that is not you are not licensed to use is illegal, even if both (intended) endpoints of communication are on the same property.
Isn't this supposed to be the other way round: i.e. artists paying payola to the radio stations, in exchange for more airtime / promotion?
Easy solution: next time you're at the post office filling out a form, "accidentally" elbow them off the counter...