However, a window washer's widow does not continue to take in income from her late husbands previously washed windows.
No, but she does inherit the window washing business, including any inventory or tools, receivables, contracts, etc.
So she inherits the window washing business, but she doesn't get paid unless she washes windows too. Giving copyrights to offpsring and then giving them money every time a work that they did not create is used is like paying the daughter of the window washer each time someone looks through windows her father washed.
Property can be inherited, yes, but intellectual property cannot. The offpsring of a great author/artist does not inherit their ancestor's thoughts or revelations, merely the inclination and environment to do the same.
all of these "darn near impossible to reproduce" crypto systems are just variations on a one time pad .
I'm pretty sure you're correct
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I'm quite sure that Luna is the techincal name for the first moon that humans noticed orbiting Earth. Why do I think this? It fits the pattern of the true name of the sun, the other major body that is readibly visible to us earthlings.
"the sun" actually = "sol" (latin in origin, i believe)
"the moon" actually = "luna" (latin in origin, i believe).
It makes sense to me, but then again, I dunno what validity that holds.:)
history has shown that taking Legal action against huge corporations/conglomerates like the RIAA and MPAA does not work. One person cannot hire the lawyers/bribe the politicians to change the laws.
Now that people realize this, they see a broken system and wish to change it, but legal action will suredly fail. Exhausting all legal methods is useless when you are sure that they will amount to nothing - may as well skip ahead to the vigilantism that the RIAA is trying to make legal for just themselves.
Sorry to burst your bubble about/. users, but i have a signifigant other, and by no means sleep alone when the two of us are in the same town (different colleges)
has anyone noted how arguments about processors never really win anyone over. AMD's good, Intel's good too, the competition keeps the price down, and the consumer wins. yay.
Now just imagine if there were such competition for a certain software company in Redmond...
I know many people who are frustrated with these games where you have to take hundreds of hits before you are taken down. [The rare exception is Delta Force.] In real life, a single well placed bullet will end a soldier.
I for one am not against not dying when I'm hit in the chest with a rocket, as long as the same goes for my opponent. It's all about game balance.
However, I know many people who are also frustrated with games where you take a rocket to the chest and don't die.
And I respect none of their opinions, because they obviously don't know what makes a good game. Often enough, realism is thrown in to gameplay so as to draw people in to buying it, but has a negative long term effect. Take the following example: In counter-strike, if a bullet strikes you in the head, the damage modifier is so high that you're almost bound to die. "cool!" say the ignorant masses, "That's like what it would be in real life! That's awesome!".
This, in actuality, is probably the worst aspect of counter-strike. Take that multiplayer games are meant to be a test of skill against skill (a pretty obvious assumption to affirm, so I won't go in to it here). Seeing as bullet placement has a random aspect to it (another realism aspect), one sees the inevitable conclusion: sometimes, without any act of great aiming, people get shot in the head and die. Thus the contest is won via luck, and not skill. This is completely contradictory to the statement that multiplayer games are meant to be a test of skills, and subsequently this kind of realism hampers gameplay.
And if that's not too extreme of an example, try this out: Imagine a colonial wars FPS. Muskets that take 45 seconds to reload! If your powder gets wet you can't fire! Really smell all the gangrene on your fellow soldiers! Guns Randomly Explode!
So, to conclude, don't say that realism will make a game good, it often works the other way around.
picture this: you're at the University of Fairbanks, and there's warmth to stimulate action that would satiate those college-age hormones. But wait! Someone you know in Sweden has Debbie Does Dallas on divx! Huzah! You are now only going to have to wait a few seconds to start wanking, as opposed to the normal hour for transfer of the relaxation material.
Whether or not this will be a good thing in the long run I won't speculate about - I'm too tired for that.
What I will say is this: if it does pass: good. pop under ads, when left unnoticed, can be a big pain in the ass (ever alt-tabbed to a pr0n add you didn't expect with a signifigant other present?). This way companies will be forced to use pop up adds, which are killed before I even see the content.
I don't understand why someone would use a large general-file-sharing app when all they want is music. If you download the audiogalaxy client, you get access to a far superior collection, and with creative searches, find anything for download.
Republicans have a good chance at gaining control of the senate over this issue. As long as they stay on the right side of this bill (no pun intended:-), they can make a rather sweeping and rather correct generalization that the democrats are puppets of hollywood and possibly win back the senate due to the very small difference between the seats.
Yes, it would be in Pepsi's best interest to see that Britney only endorses Pepsi, but that is moot, because Pepsi and Coke are both large companies that are in relatively equal competition with each other.
Windows is a monopoly, and as such, can cause severe damage to CPU distributors by charging extra if they want for whatever reason. The key idea here is that the CPU distributors need windows on their machines to survive as a company. They have no other alternative whereas britney can always go to a different soft drink company, and not go out of business (and yes I mean business, there's no art to the crap she puts out)
We here at Clarkson University, the place where two of the students won the recent linux challenge, there's a huge linux following. There's even a professor here whose sole job is basically heading the COSI (scroll down a ways)(clarkson open source institution).
I also remember talking to a grad student whose experience after an internship with microsoft was nothing less than "I would never work for them, and I will never again use their software" Now them's fightin' words, and the general feeling isn't quite that harsh, and windows still gets used to a large degree here, but that's mainly because there's nothing much to do at Clarkson other than play games.
So yes, the educated will turn to linux, that's really not that big a discovery. It's really always been this way. Just don't think for a second that Micro$oft will be going out of business just yet. Not until a truly idiot-user friendly Linux version comes out will a conversion of the home PC market come about. Granted, that's not a very large discovery itself, but that's the whole point. This article isn't that groundbreaking.
is it just me, or would a beowulf cluster of these things really suck?
just picture a whole bunch of bugs chirping "you appear to have attempted some form of productivity, is there any way I can obfuscate this process for you?"
"these terms have a specific political meaning and they're not being used correctly here."
these terms have more than a political meaning, they have a socio-economic meaning as well.
In order to be a 1st world nation, that nation must be a "modern" country. In order to me modern (as defined by the textbook I had for Comparative Politics last semester) one must have attained or be close to attaining the following items:
1.A quality infrastructure (roads, rails, etc.)
2.technology/science/reason (as opposed to religion controlling information)
3.urbanization
4.internatl. trade
5.capatalist/market economy (although on the surface many African nations have a market economy, it is usually highly "regulated" by various strong men)
6.rule by a sovereign majority (can we say military dictator?)
7.emphasis on individual freedom as opposed to enhancement of group/leader of group (again, can we say military dictator?)
8.centralization of government (for the most part the countries in Africa have this)
9.national conciousneses (this is still a long way off with all the tribal identities in Africa)
So, in actuality, many of the African nations are third world, and most of the rest 2nd world countries due to the level of (most often the lack of) modernization.
The Sydney games were at inconvenient times like that, and NBC just showed an extremeley american-biased set of highlights.
It flat out sucked; no amount of Bob Costas' good anchoring skills could cover up the fact that there was a whole bunch of stuff they weren't showing us.
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For the networks to keep the viewing totals up for the major advertising bucks they want (the article implies that the networks would ban recordings of shows on certain times so people would watch during the week ad prices are calculated), all that would need be done is to count all the VCR's recording the shows as a viewer.
I don't suppose the technology to do that would be very hard at all
You aren't the only one who wants a/. general forum. At other newsgroups I've frequented there have been subject specific and "general community" forums, all to the benefit of the people going to the sight. It allows the offtopic posts like this one to go to the general forum, and gives people a place to keep in touch. It's just a nice thing to have.
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However, a window washer's widow does not continue to take in income from her late husbands previously washed windows.
No, but she does inherit the window washing business, including any inventory or tools, receivables, contracts, etc.
So she inherits the window washing business, but she doesn't get paid unless she washes windows too. Giving copyrights to offpsring and then giving them money every time a work that they did not create is used is like paying the daughter of the window washer each time someone looks through windows her father washed. Property can be inherited, yes, but intellectual property cannot. The offpsring of a great author/artist does not inherit their ancestor's thoughts or revelations, merely the inclination and environment to do the same.
all of these "darn near impossible to reproduce" crypto systems are just variations on a one time pad .
I'm quite sure that Luna is the techincal name for the first moon that humans noticed orbiting Earth. Why do I think this? It fits the pattern of the true name of the sun, the other major body that is readibly visible to us earthlings.
:)
"the sun" actually = "sol" (latin in origin, i believe)
"the moon" actually = "luna" (latin in origin, i believe).
It makes sense to me, but then again, I dunno what validity that holds.
history has shown that taking Legal action against huge corporations/conglomerates like the RIAA and MPAA does not work. One person cannot hire the lawyers/bribe the politicians to change the laws.
Now that people realize this, they see a broken system and wish to change it, but legal action will suredly fail. Exhausting all legal methods is useless when you are sure that they will amount to nothing - may as well skip ahead to the vigilantism that the RIAA is trying to make legal for just themselves.
I can't seem to get to the site...
:)
You don't think we slashdotted a government server did we
i see
/. users, but i have a signifigant other, and by no means sleep alone when the two of us are in the same town (different colleges)
definetely an anonymous coward
Sorry to burst your bubble about
they claim the cycle is 25 hours
Hmm.... i must be an oddity, because i always find that 25 hours of sleep alone is what my body wants.
The same way we reward any people who make it big: severance package worth few hundred million in stocks.
Damn you! That's my machine! Now I'm gonna get slashdotted!
has anyone noted how arguments about processors never really win anyone over. AMD's good, Intel's good too, the competition keeps the price down, and the consumer wins. yay.
Now just imagine if there were such competition for a certain software company in Redmond...
I know many people who are frustrated with these games where you have to take hundreds of hits before you are taken down. [The rare exception is Delta Force.] In real life, a single well placed bullet will end a soldier.
I for one am not against not dying when I'm hit in the chest with a rocket, as long as the same goes for my opponent. It's all about game balance.
However, I know many people who are also frustrated with games where you take a rocket to the chest and don't die.
And I respect none of their opinions, because they obviously don't know what makes a good game. Often enough, realism is thrown in to gameplay so as to draw people in to buying it, but has a negative long term effect. Take the following example: In counter-strike, if a bullet strikes you in the head, the damage modifier is so high that you're almost bound to die. "cool!" say the ignorant masses, "That's like what it would be in real life! That's awesome!".
This, in actuality, is probably the worst aspect of counter-strike. Take that multiplayer games are meant to be a test of skill against skill (a pretty obvious assumption to affirm, so I won't go in to it here). Seeing as bullet placement has a random aspect to it (another realism aspect), one sees the inevitable conclusion: sometimes, without any act of great aiming, people get shot in the head and die. Thus the contest is won via luck, and not skill. This is completely contradictory to the statement that multiplayer games are meant to be a test of skills, and subsequently this kind of realism hampers gameplay.
And if that's not too extreme of an example, try this out: Imagine a colonial wars FPS. Muskets that take 45 seconds to reload! If your powder gets wet you can't fire! Really smell all the gangrene on your fellow soldiers! Guns Randomly Explode!
So, to conclude, don't say that realism will make a game good, it often works the other way around.
picture this: you're at the University of Fairbanks, and there's warmth to stimulate action that would satiate those college-age hormones. But wait! Someone you know in Sweden has Debbie Does Dallas on divx! Huzah! You are now only going to have to wait a few seconds to start wanking, as opposed to the normal hour for transfer of the relaxation material.
The internet is full of wonders.
Whether or not this will be a good thing in the long run I won't speculate about - I'm too tired for that.
What I will say is this: if it does pass: good. pop under ads, when left unnoticed, can be a big pain in the ass (ever alt-tabbed to a pr0n add you didn't expect with a signifigant other present?). This way companies will be forced to use pop up adds, which are killed before I even see the content.
I don't understand why someone would use a large general-file-sharing app when all they want is music. If you download the audiogalaxy client, you get access to a far superior collection, and with creative searches, find anything for download.
I'll summarize from the article
:-), they can make a rather sweeping and rather correct generalization that the democrats are puppets of hollywood and possibly win back the senate due to the very small difference between the seats.
Republicans have a good chance at gaining control of the senate over this issue. As long as they stay on the right side of this bill (no pun intended
Yes, it would be in Pepsi's best interest to see that Britney only endorses Pepsi, but that is moot, because Pepsi and Coke are both large companies that are in relatively equal competition with each other.
Windows is a monopoly, and as such, can cause severe damage to CPU distributors by charging extra if they want for whatever reason. The key idea here is that the CPU distributors need windows on their machines to survive as a company. They have no other alternative whereas britney can always go to a different soft drink company, and not go out of business (and yes I mean business, there's no art to the crap she puts out)
We here at Clarkson University, the place where two of the students won the recent linux challenge, there's a huge linux following. There's even a professor here whose sole job is basically heading the COSI (scroll down a ways)(clarkson open source institution).
I also remember talking to a grad student whose experience after an internship with microsoft was nothing less than "I would never work for them, and I will never again use their software" Now them's fightin' words, and the general feeling isn't quite that harsh, and windows still gets used to a large degree here, but that's mainly because there's nothing much to do at Clarkson other than play games.
So yes, the educated will turn to linux, that's really not that big a discovery. It's really always been this way. Just don't think for a second that Micro$oft will be going out of business just yet. Not until a truly idiot-user friendly Linux version comes out will a conversion of the home PC market come about. Granted, that's not a very large discovery itself, but that's the whole point. This article isn't that groundbreaking.
is it just me, or would a beowulf cluster of these things really suck?
just picture a whole bunch of bugs chirping "you appear to have attempted some form of productivity, is there any way I can obfuscate this process for you?"
"these terms have a specific political meaning and they're not being used correctly here."
these terms have more than a political meaning, they have a socio-economic meaning as well. In order to be a 1st world nation, that nation must be a "modern" country. In order to me modern (as defined by the textbook I had for Comparative Politics last semester) one must have attained or be close to attaining the following items:
1.A quality infrastructure (roads, rails, etc.)
2.technology/science/reason (as opposed to religion controlling information)
3.urbanization
4.internatl. trade
5.capatalist/market economy (although on the surface many African nations have a market economy, it is usually highly "regulated" by various strong men)
6.rule by a sovereign majority (can we say military dictator?)
7.emphasis on individual freedom as opposed to enhancement of group/leader of group (again, can we say military dictator?)
8.centralization of government (for the most part the countries in Africa have this)
9.national conciousneses (this is still a long way off with all the tribal identities in Africa)
So, in actuality, many of the African nations are third world, and most of the rest 2nd world countries due to the level of (most often the lack of) modernization.
"Here's a case where all that cat5 on college campuses can actually be used for education ;)"
Did I just hear education implied when talking about a college campus network? All these marvelous filesharing programs do little but propogate porn.
Hell, perhaps you could somehow measure the speed of light by observing how fast the search "teen sex" on Kazaa fills up.
Most of the article states that chess is a war simulation where the winner gets a satisfactory rise in testosterone.
wow
seriously, is it really that much of a surprise that a game that is supposed to be a war simulation induces a feeling of victory?
The Sydney games were at inconvenient times like that, and NBC just showed an extremeley american-biased set of highlights. It flat out sucked; no amount of Bob Costas' good anchoring skills could cover up the fact that there was a whole bunch of stuff they weren't showing us. . .
For the networks to keep the viewing totals up for the major advertising bucks they want (the article implies that the networks would ban recordings of shows on certain times so people would watch during the week ad prices are calculated), all that would need be done is to count all the VCR's recording the shows as a viewer. I don't suppose the technology to do that would be very hard at all
Wasn't there just recently an article complaining about Microsoft pumping a .NET poll?
*scratches head*
is there much difference here?
You aren't the only one who wants a /. general forum. At other newsgroups I've frequented there have been subject specific and "general community" forums, all to the benefit of the people going to the sight. It allows the offtopic posts like this one to go to the general forum, and gives people a place to keep in touch. It's just a nice thing to have.