Has it occurred to anyone that this whole story is coming to us after passing through the mentality of a Popular Mechanics writer? You know, the Popular Mechanics that says Area 51 has moved to New Mexico?
Asimov wrote more about theology than you probably have ever read. With all due respect, he could have nailed your hide to the wall in a theological discussion...
The Corps of Engineers uses contractors heavily too. It does the engineering and management in-house, but you won't see soldiers driving earth movers on your local flood-control project.
Just think how people's lives would be different if international or long distance phone charges didn't exist. How many times have you heard of someone waiting until a certain time of day to make a really long distance call?
So, if the call were cheaper, it would travel through time so your friend in Jakarta would be awake?
Lucas? Sounds like he believes he deserves all the money from anything related in any way to Star Wars, even if he did absolutely none of the work in creating it, simply because he came up with Star Wars to begin with.
Sounds much like Tandy Corp, with their aggressive guarding of the TRS-80 name. There was a magazine called Softside whose stock-in-trade was listings of games written in BASIC for the Apple, Atari and TRS-80. As soon as the first issue hit the shelves, they were visited by a Tandy lawyer demanding they either pay royalties for being allowed to say "TRS-80" or desist from doing so; they claimed they deserved all the money accruing from so much as mentioning their product in public. The magazine complied by substituting "S-80 bus", which was generic.
Tandy got its wish: nobody ever mentions Radio Shack computers any more.
Softside apparently learned the wrong lesson: it threatened action against any subscriber who copied a file from another subscriber: the only legitimate way to use their programs, they claimed, was to type them in yourself. Otherwise you weren't earning the product. It didn't last as long as the TRS-80 did.
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Just like when people mistake firecrackers for gunshots.
...and vice versa. When the reporter asks witnesses why they didn't call the cops right away, they're very likely to say "It didn't sound like a gun." What they really mean is "It didn't sound like a movie gun."
I remember quite a few people who thought the gunfire in Saving Private Ryan sounded fakey -- precisely because it didn't.
...the same capability exists in the upgrade versions of WinXP. If no Windows version is present on the hard disk, it asks you to briefly insert a disk of a qualifying version, including 95/98/Me, and it activates on the new disk's product key.
It's no such thing. It's simply an offer to bet on an outcome that, just like all the other bets, has a negative expectation of gain. There are bets all over the table that can involve the shooter losing his pass bet: the "boxcars" bet, for example.
They don't let you count cards because, if you're good enough to do it right, it has a positive expectation of gain. If you do it poorly -- which you probably will, and they will know -- they'll treat you like a king.
Likewise the insurance bet in blackjack. If you take insurance, you're betting that everybody who doesn't have a blackjack will lose, and if the deck is not ten-heavy it's a losing bet.
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...so we thought up a new deployment model for our multibillion-dollar flagship product, and we asked Larry the helpdesk guy to type up a new EULA for it, and you know what? Larry just didn't get the idea we were driving at. So Harry in Shipping said, y'know what, guys? Let's ask Bernie the attorney how we could make the customer experience better...
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OK, forget the kidpr()n. How many Office, Photoshop and AutoCAD torrents are exposed on his IP?
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--Eli Wallach, The Magnificent Seven
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Around $20 a pound in aircraft grades, compared to $5 for aluminum.
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Asimov wrote more about theology than you probably have ever read. With all due respect, he could have nailed your hide to the wall in a theological discussion...
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Aw, c'mon, I was working out on the traveling rings in gym class in 1958. It was the only gym exercise I could get a C in.
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The Corps of Engineers uses contractors heavily too. It does the engineering and management in-house, but you won't see soldiers driving earth movers on your local flood-control project.
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So, if the call were cheaper, it would travel through time so your friend in Jakarta would be awake?
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Sounds much like Tandy Corp, with their aggressive guarding of the TRS-80 name. There was a magazine called Softside whose stock-in-trade was listings of games written in BASIC for the Apple, Atari and TRS-80. As soon as the first issue hit the shelves, they were visited by a Tandy lawyer demanding they either pay royalties for being allowed to say "TRS-80" or desist from doing so; they claimed they deserved all the money accruing from so much as mentioning their product in public. The magazine complied by substituting "S-80 bus", which was generic.
Tandy got its wish: nobody ever mentions Radio Shack computers any more.
Softside apparently learned the wrong lesson: it threatened action against any subscriber who copied a file from another subscriber: the only legitimate way to use their programs, they claimed, was to type them in yourself. Otherwise you weren't earning the product. It didn't last as long as the TRS-80 did.
rj
I remember quite a few people who thought the gunfire in Saving Private Ryan sounded fakey -- precisely because it didn't.
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It's called seeing the light when you feel the heat.
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...the same capability exists in the upgrade versions of WinXP. If no Windows version is present on the hard disk, it asks you to briefly insert a disk of a qualifying version, including 95/98/Me, and it activates on the new disk's product key.
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Remember, you're starting with people who fell for "Be All You Can Be".
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It's no such thing. It's simply an offer to bet on an outcome that, just like all the other bets, has a negative expectation of gain. There are bets all over the table that can involve the shooter losing his pass bet: the "boxcars" bet, for example.
They don't let you count cards because, if you're good enough to do it right, it has a positive expectation of gain. If you do it poorly -- which you probably will, and they will know -- they'll treat you like a king.
Likewise the insurance bet in blackjack. If you take insurance, you're betting that everybody who doesn't have a blackjack will lose, and if the deck is not ten-heavy it's a losing bet.
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Much more accurate, and not at all ironic, would be "optimal play".
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Sometimes a planet is just a planet.
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That's precisely why it was considered a royal color.
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...which contradicts the parent how?
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We reviewed the terms in context of your comments - and we agree that it currently implies things we would never do with the content.
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Not to mention supporting the German economy by fencing their loot...
http://www.uek.ch/en/
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He tells the cops to RTFA.
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On the contrary...now if his fingerprint is found on a murder weapon, he has 16 alibis.
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A cult is a small, unpopular religion that wants your money. A religion is a large, popular cult that wants your money.
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Damn, and I thought "breathtaking inanity" was a zinger.
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No. The navigable airspace over your house has belonged to the federal government since the Air Commerce Act of 1926.
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