If you take something I create and sell it for profit, I'm entitled to take those profits from you. Moreover, I* can take additional money from you as punishment/discouragement. After all you won't get caught every time, and doing this has to be unprofitable for it to be discouraged.
If you take something I create and give it away for free, I can ask you to stop. If I'm a dick about it I can probably get you to pay my actual costs in terms of lost sales. Anything more is abusing the system, and really if I want to be smart about it I should count your action as free publicity and not try to bully you around at all.
If you take something I create and reference it in your own work, I'll be grateful for the exposure. Neither the law nor common sense usually lets me do anything more. Only really big asses demand compensation, and they mostly just get laughed at or routed around.
* Some would argue that the government or some neutral third party like a nonprofit organization should get this additional money, so that I'm not encouraged to seek it as a functional business model but that the abuser is still punished. I'd be okay with that, too.
The cable companies will never match Netflix' pricing. Their stuck in their old model where movies on demand should cost $2.99 each unless they decide it's a special (and then it's $0.99).
You're not thinking modern times. Corporations pull in billions from their customers and lucrative government contracts. Then, when the armada closes in, the CEO strands their crew on a desert island and make their escape via golden parachute.
To a large extent I feel this is because the Democratic party is a bigger tent, encompassing a wider range of views on a lot of issues. Sure there is variation in the Republican party, primarily in the social realm where a small number of social moderates still exist, but to be a Republican you pretty much have to toe the party line on fiscal issues. (The ones that strayed, even a little, even when the country desperately needed it, are being culled from ranks now.)
I see people say that we need a return to discourse, government through discussion and compromise to reach a shared, moderate vision. That happens - entirely within the Democratic party. To those on the extreme left, then yes, it did look like Democrats tanked Obama's opportunity to pass his agenda. They did because his agenda was moderated through compromise. I think those on the right are so far to the right that they can't or don't care to tell a moderate Democrat from an extreme Democrat, and so don't realize that there's such a large room for opinions within the other party's ranks.
No, but every NIST-traceable instrument eventually gets back to those standards. Sure, there are a very small number (probably a dozen or so) weights directly calibrated against the original articles. But then those are used to calibrate a few hundred weights at metrology labs, which are used to calibrate weights for thousands of customers around the world. Each step introduces uncertainty, but uncertainty around a precise value can be accounted for. Uncertainty around the wrong value renders the instrument useless.
The same is true for other standard units. I have instruments at my desk that are calibrated and NIST-traceable for time and voltage.
Part of taking meticulous notes is learning how to record only the important parts of what you hear. I can take very detailed notes very quickly.
And while I'm not sure what generic job you're describing, I'm never in a position where I am told something then have to recite it back without an opportunity to record it in between.
While you consider aural learning critical, I would consider quality note taking equally so. Were one trained, the other should be too.
Screw a red light in the desktop manager display. Attach a red LED directly to the enable pin of the camera IC, so that it's physically impossible to turn on the camera without showing the light unless the LED burns out or is removed.
Camera circuitry not have a simple enable pin? Don't design in that camera.
I don't make consumer devices, but if I did, and I had a manager over my shoulder trying to squeeze every penny out of the unit cost, I wouldn't tell my mechanical engineer to design me an internal light shield for the CCD, just in case the product's outer case lets in a little light. I'd tell my mechanical engineer to incorporate suitable shielding into the outer case.
Then a year later when management decides to develop a white version, but they aren't interested in paying for new tooling or adding more parts, and the original EE and ME are off working on the iPhone 5, I could see the sustaining team making such a mistake like ordering the exact same outer case in white and expecting it to work.
I develop switch products for the automated test industry. One of our products, developed several years ago, uses solid-state relays (SSRs) to implement a matrix. The first batch of SSRs we got for R&D use had a white overmolded body.
During development the original developer had problems with relays intermittently operating on their own (i.e. without the digital control system driving them). We correlated it to tests performed when the module was in its chassis versus on an extender card operating outside the chassis. We figured out that we could shine a hand-held laser on a single part and it would close, or use a flashlight and a large group would close.
We reported the problem to the SSR vendor. Their solution? Without changing the plastic type, they changed from a white to a black overmold. Voila, problem solved.
Product ships today with the same relay, with no problems.
(It did take a bit of time to figure this out, because the control system was brand new and it was thought that the system had intermittent bugs. It wasn't obvious that it was light related at first as it needed sufficient light for the SSR's internal photo-voltaic to generate enough-current to close the contacts; ambient office lighting wasn't always enough.)
I watch a lot of low-grade sci fi films. The Wii disc version had reasonable genre queues that are mostly sufficient. I have a laptop within arms reach at any point as well, so it wasn't a big deal.
So far my biggest dislike of the new integrated Netflix channel on my Wii is that it seems to include a lot more films I've already seen in its genre suggestions. I wish there was a flag I could set to remove things I've already watched from all the queues (except the "Recently Watched" queue and maybe a "Watch Your Favorites Again" queue).
I can look really closely at the PS3 disc for hours but can't discern the search functionality from the shiny reflective squares. Without a PS3 that's the best I can manage.
The Wii version, on the other hand, did not have a search function. This thread is about both but you just didn't care enough to notice.
No, but Doc the 1885 Doc could steal a few parts from his car to repair Marty's 1885 car, then they could both go forward to 1985, buy some spare parts, then go back to 1890 or 1900 or 1950, sneak into the cave, and put back the parts they'd borrowed.
Not only can lying on that one restrict entry, if you lie on that and then later become a citizen they can use it to go back and strip your citizenship and eject you from the country.
Think mobsters from the 1930s, who were only ever convicted of tax evasion. If you can convict them for not declaring it, there has to be a way to declare it....
Eye witness accounts are shit. That's especially true when the suspected criminals are the only youth/elderly/whites/blacks/asians/gays/straights in the area and the police think you might be biased against them.
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Here's my rules:
If you take something I create and sell it for profit, I'm entitled to take those profits from you. Moreover, I* can take additional money from you as punishment/discouragement. After all you won't get caught every time, and doing this has to be unprofitable for it to be discouraged.
If you take something I create and give it away for free, I can ask you to stop. If I'm a dick about it I can probably get you to pay my actual costs in terms of lost sales. Anything more is abusing the system, and really if I want to be smart about it I should count your action as free publicity and not try to bully you around at all.
If you take something I create and reference it in your own work, I'll be grateful for the exposure. Neither the law nor common sense usually lets me do anything more. Only really big asses demand compensation, and they mostly just get laughed at or routed around.
* Some would argue that the government or some neutral third party like a nonprofit organization should get this additional money, so that I'm not encouraged to seek it as a functional business model but that the abuser is still punished. I'd be okay with that, too.
The cable companies will never match Netflix' pricing. Their stuck in their old model where movies on demand should cost $2.99 each unless they decide it's a special (and then it's $0.99).
Given the events of this week, don't hold your breath for change.
Netflix uses Akamai.
You're not thinking modern times. Corporations pull in billions from their customers and lucrative government contracts. Then, when the armada closes in, the CEO strands their crew on a desert island and make their escape via golden parachute.
This guy disagrees.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxi_ZJ9RP7o
To a large extent I feel this is because the Democratic party is a bigger tent, encompassing a wider range of views on a lot of issues. Sure there is variation in the Republican party, primarily in the social realm where a small number of social moderates still exist, but to be a Republican you pretty much have to toe the party line on fiscal issues. (The ones that strayed, even a little, even when the country desperately needed it, are being culled from ranks now.)
I see people say that we need a return to discourse, government through discussion and compromise to reach a shared, moderate vision. That happens - entirely within the Democratic party. To those on the extreme left, then yes, it did look like Democrats tanked Obama's opportunity to pass his agenda. They did because his agenda was moderated through compromise. I think those on the right are so far to the right that they can't or don't care to tell a moderate Democrat from an extreme Democrat, and so don't realize that there's such a large room for opinions within the other party's ranks.
Tell that to this guy.
No, but every NIST-traceable instrument eventually gets back to those standards. Sure, there are a very small number (probably a dozen or so) weights directly calibrated against the original articles. But then those are used to calibrate a few hundred weights at metrology labs, which are used to calibrate weights for thousands of customers around the world. Each step introduces uncertainty, but uncertainty around a precise value can be accounted for. Uncertainty around the wrong value renders the instrument useless.
The same is true for other standard units. I have instruments at my desk that are calibrated and NIST-traceable for time and voltage.
Part of taking meticulous notes is learning how to record only the important parts of what you hear. I can take very detailed notes very quickly.
And while I'm not sure what generic job you're describing, I'm never in a position where I am told something then have to recite it back without an opportunity to record it in between.
While you consider aural learning critical, I would consider quality note taking equally so. Were one trained, the other should be too.
Screw a red light in the desktop manager display. Attach a red LED directly to the enable pin of the camera IC, so that it's physically impossible to turn on the camera without showing the light unless the LED burns out or is removed.
Camera circuitry not have a simple enable pin? Don't design in that camera.
And I learned by taking meticulous notes, most of which I never read again. The act of writing them down made me learn them.
I learn through discussion, too, but don't think that just because you are an aural learner that everyone else should be taught that way, too.
You're thinking too hard about technical solutions. Just kill power to the CO for hard wire access and set up signal jammers for wireless.
You are assuming you need a plastic housing to mount the lens. That's a big assumption. Don't make big assumptions.
I don't make consumer devices, but if I did, and I had a manager over my shoulder trying to squeeze every penny out of the unit cost, I wouldn't tell my mechanical engineer to design me an internal light shield for the CCD, just in case the product's outer case lets in a little light. I'd tell my mechanical engineer to incorporate suitable shielding into the outer case.
Then a year later when management decides to develop a white version, but they aren't interested in paying for new tooling or adding more parts, and the original EE and ME are off working on the iPhone 5, I could see the sustaining team making such a mistake like ordering the exact same outer case in white and expecting it to work.
I develop switch products for the automated test industry. One of our products, developed several years ago, uses solid-state relays (SSRs) to implement a matrix. The first batch of SSRs we got for R&D use had a white overmolded body.
During development the original developer had problems with relays intermittently operating on their own (i.e. without the digital control system driving them). We correlated it to tests performed when the module was in its chassis versus on an extender card operating outside the chassis. We figured out that we could shine a hand-held laser on a single part and it would close, or use a flashlight and a large group would close.
We reported the problem to the SSR vendor. Their solution? Without changing the plastic type, they changed from a white to a black overmold. Voila, problem solved.
Product ships today with the same relay, with no problems.
(It did take a bit of time to figure this out, because the control system was brand new and it was thought that the system had intermittent bugs. It wasn't obvious that it was light related at first as it needed sufficient light for the SSR's internal photo-voltaic to generate enough-current to close the contacts; ambient office lighting wasn't always enough.)
You might try searching for Forsaken costumes. That's the best costume I could find on a quick search.
I watch a lot of low-grade sci fi films. The Wii disc version had reasonable genre queues that are mostly sufficient. I have a laptop within arms reach at any point as well, so it wasn't a big deal.
So far my biggest dislike of the new integrated Netflix channel on my Wii is that it seems to include a lot more films I've already seen in its genre suggestions. I wish there was a flag I could set to remove things I've already watched from all the queues (except the "Recently Watched" queue and maybe a "Watch Your Favorites Again" queue).
I can look really closely at the PS3 disc for hours but can't discern the search functionality from the shiny reflective squares. Without a PS3 that's the best I can manage.
The Wii version, on the other hand, did not have a search function. This thread is about both but you just didn't care enough to notice.
No, but Doc the 1885 Doc could steal a few parts from his car to repair Marty's 1885 car, then they could both go forward to 1985, buy some spare parts, then go back to 1890 or 1900 or 1950, sneak into the cave, and put back the parts they'd borrowed.
Not only can lying on that one restrict entry, if you lie on that and then later become a citizen they can use it to go back and strip your citizenship and eject you from the country.
Think mobsters from the 1930s, who were only ever convicted of tax evasion. If you can convict them for not declaring it, there has to be a way to declare it....
There are cultural ways to indicate that you don't want to be talked to. Your friend just didn't know them.
Yeah, if you don't know anything about a subject why would you read a book about it? Oh wait..
Eye witness accounts are shit. That's especially true when the suspected criminals are the only youth/elderly/whites/blacks/asians/gays/straights in the area and the police think you might be biased against them.