Suppose person P buys a computer with windows installed.
Now maybe there is a contract between him and microsoft.
But suppose person p gets rid of windows, and gives computer to school S.
School S is in no contractual relationship with microsoft. They have no legal requirements not to take the computer.
Also calling a contractual requirement a legal one is missleading.
" It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine. "
where did they come up with that legal requirement. even if it is a contractual requirement it is not a legal one, and a school is not bound by a contract between microsoft and some other random pc donator.
It will basicly make any adult discussions (and i mean adult not in the pronographic sence but in the mature sence) equivalent to porn.
Something similar already happened with the movie industry in the US. The rating for 18+ (i forget it) is considered pronography so nobody is willing to make movies that will get rated that way even if they are serious movies. If some one does make a movie that is rated adult it will be treated as porn and not shown in most theatres even if it is not porn but a serious adult movie.
Thus the US in the embarrassing position where most if its movies, and thus a big part of its culture is made for adolescents.
Protecting children is fine, but it is really sad if the whole cultural discource is reduced to adolescent level in order to protect children. Then it is the adults that suffer - they do not have a chance to grow up mentally and spiritually.
If you think that an adult can lead a full life while only participating in culture that is suitable for children conside that even the bible is not really suitable for children.
And if you think that this law will prevent a child that really wants porn, you are mistaken, there is always a way to go around circumvension measures - all you need is a friend on the outside that can access the adult site and send it to you encrypted, so no one sees what it is.
not a good explanation?
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I think science have a very good explanation about how evolution works.
It is usually given in highschool or college bio classes.
After 20 years of promises of the multiple future uses of AI, and the way the market for AI will jst explode, AI is finally usefull... for add placement and impersonating horny teenage girls on paysites.
I kind of feel bad for AI programmers, I am sure these uses differ sharply from the lofty dreams they had when they entered the field.
It is getting really annoying when movies do their own add placement. If i pay $10.00 for a movie i do not want to see adds.
Of course there may be things that look like adds in the movie, but as long as they are not payed for it is ok.
To put it more clearly i think movies should represent either reality or the unobstructed vision of the makers, and not advertising agreements.
So i guess in the times square case it is ok to keep the original adds because they represent reality.
You can say my rule is arbitrary: "whats the diff between an nbc add and a usa today add?" Well there is a difference, because when some one pays for an add they usually put conditions on how it will be shown in the movie and those conditions, usually having to do with adds being clearly shown close to the main heroine's tits or something silly like that, make movies suck.
why do they think people will help?
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I dont know why copyright and other assorted ip owners assume that people will go out of their way to help them protect their rights, which they (the owners) will use for their own gain.
There is community support to enforce the gpl but that benefits everyone.
I think video games addiction is worse than coffee and cigarettes and heroin addiction in that, playing videogames just forces you away from the rest of the world.
Even very serious coffee and tabaco addictions will not prevent the victim to function in society.
I hate it when questionable statements are presented as undisputed facts:
"But the demand for the idea of an information repository isn't going to go away -- users demand convenience, and this would be convenient."
I cant see anybody other than advertising agencies or aspiring dictators demanding a central information repository.
And yet the news story suggests that consumers are demanding it. I really really doubt that. Any customer convinience can be achieved if the customer data is stored at his/her computer and is completely under his/her control.
This may be an interesting issue but is worded in a way that loads the question. Slashdot editors should be more careful.
That adaptation was pretty damn terrible. the silliest thing is that someone actually believed that La Femme Nikita was not accessible to american audiences.
The cultural rift between the US and France is not that great you know.
"Second, growing disparity between rich and poor is not necessarily bad. If you could wave a wand and improve the standard of living of the poor by 8x, but in the process make the rich 10x as rich, would you do so? If not, why not? Just because disparity would grow?"
I dont think that is happening. The poor are still dirt poor.
"Third, by almost all objective standards, the amount and severity of poverty in the world has dropped significantly during the era of globalization. There is less starvation; infant mortality is lower; life expectancy is longer; there is less malnutrition. "
Where are you getting that from? Standards of living dropped sharply in eastern europe after the fall of communism. Countries in south america like argentina and brazil are in facing humanitarian disasters.
"Finally, the places where things haven't improved correspond not to hotbeds of globalization, but to regimes so repressive or corrupt that global investment doesn't happen. Globalization has barely touched most of Africa or North Korea because no one will invest. In those places the standard of living is wretched. "
What about the "hotbeds of globalisation" like eastern europe which are still well behind the industrial production and standard of living they had under communism; what about argentina that used to be a darling of the globalisation movement and now it is at the edge of anarchy; even the former powerful economies of the east - japan korea, taiwan etc; are suffering long reccessions as a result of globalisation.
also your argument has an underlying assumptuin that is false - that hotbeds of globalisation are different from places with repressive regimes.
That is not true, just look at indonesia saudi arabia etc. even places like russia. The more repressive the Putin government becomes the more he is praized by economies. Hell the same is true about the US.
Congress did not ratify the nuclear test ban treaty.
The only way i can explain this is that some people actually want other countries to develop nuclear capabilities. Which is not that far fetched actually.
He made raised his track a good tree meters off the ground. If he made it half a m off the ground it would still be a monorail. He must really trust his engineering abilities.
Of course the guy with a roller coaster was much more brave. His creation would do loops and stuff and looked much less solid.
That rendering of britney will not tip the scales for realism because she looks hideous.
But lets ponder another question, when technology finally allows us to render britney in her real life hotness (judging from the nytimes photo that tech is 50 years away at least) would there be video games where the player has sex with brittney?
Would she license it ?(well i know the answer to that - yes)
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Suppose person P buys a computer with windows installed. Now maybe there is a contract between him and microsoft. But suppose person p gets rid of windows, and gives computer to school S. School S is in no contractual relationship with microsoft. They have no legal requirements not to take the computer. Also calling a contractual requirement a legal one is missleading.
" It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine. " where did they come up with that legal requirement. even if it is a contractual requirement it is not a legal one, and a school is not bound by a contract between microsoft and some other random pc donator.
It will basicly make any adult discussions (and i mean adult not in the pronographic sence but in the mature sence) equivalent to porn.
Something similar already happened with the movie industry in the US. The rating for 18+ (i forget it) is considered pronography so nobody is willing to make movies that will get rated that way even if they are serious movies. If some one does make a movie that is rated adult it will be treated as porn and not shown in most theatres even if it is not porn but a serious adult movie.
Thus the US in the embarrassing position where most if its movies, and thus a big part of its culture is made for adolescents.
Protecting children is fine, but it is really sad if the whole cultural discource is reduced to adolescent level in order to protect children. Then it is the adults that suffer - they do not have a chance to grow up mentally and spiritually.
If you think that an adult can lead a full life while only participating in culture that is suitable for children conside that even the bible is not really suitable for children.
And if you think that this law will prevent a child that really wants porn, you are mistaken, there is always a way to go around circumvension measures - all you need is a friend on the outside that can access the adult site and send it to you encrypted, so no one sees what it is.
I think science have a very good explanation about how evolution works.
It is usually given in highschool or college bio classes.
After 20 years of promises of the multiple future uses of AI, and the way the market for AI will jst explode, AI is finally usefull ... for add placement and impersonating horny teenage girls on paysites.
I kind of feel bad for AI programmers, I am sure these uses differ sharply from the lofty dreams they had when they entered the field.
Microsoft is not writing this license because they feel like it, they are writing it because they being punished for breaking the law.
So no they cant write it however they damn well please.
one problem in hydrogen is that it's energy density is far too low and another problem with hydrogen is that it causes really awesome explosions.
You cant have your cake and eat it too you know.
It is getting really annoying when movies do their own add placement. If i pay $10.00 for a movie i do not want to see adds.
Of course there may be things that look like adds in the movie, but as long as they are not payed for it is ok.
To put it more clearly i think movies should represent either reality or the unobstructed vision of the makers, and not advertising agreements.
So i guess in the times square case it is ok to keep the original adds because they represent reality.
You can say my rule is arbitrary: "whats the diff between an nbc add and a usa today add?" Well there is a difference, because when some one pays for an add they usually put conditions on how it will be shown in the movie and those conditions, usually having to do with adds being clearly shown close to the main heroine's tits or something silly like that, make movies suck.
I dont know why copyright and other assorted ip owners assume that people will go out of their way to help them protect their rights, which they (the owners) will use for their own gain.
There is community support to enforce the gpl but that benefits everyone.
You would be surprised how many "normal people" are actually heroin addicts.
Lawyers, bussinessmen, actors, etc.
Yep lets blame those people because they dont take responsibility.
that statement is:
-very old and has been repeated millions times for alchoholics, drug addicts, overeaters, undereaters, gamblers, people with depression etc.
-shortsighted
-completely useless because it has never helped anyone and tends to force people deeper into their addictions.
I think video games addiction is worse than coffee and cigarettes and heroin addiction in that, playing videogames just forces you away from the rest of the world.
Even very serious coffee and tabaco addictions will not prevent the victim to function in society.
That is true about heroin as well, up to a point.
I hate it when questionable statements are presented as undisputed facts:
"But the demand for the idea of an information repository isn't going to go away -- users demand convenience, and this would be convenient."
I cant see anybody other than advertising agencies or aspiring dictators demanding a central information repository.
And yet the news story suggests that consumers are demanding it. I really really doubt that. Any customer convinience can be achieved if the customer data is stored at his/her computer and is completely under his/her control.
This may be an interesting issue but is worded in a way that loads the question. Slashdot editors should be more careful.
Hollywood is just too scared to release completely original material.
That happens less and less nowadays.
Makes perfect bussiness sence - release a movie that has already been seen and already has an audience.
That adaptation was pretty damn terrible. the silliest thing is that someone actually believed that La Femme Nikita was not accessible to american audiences.
The cultural rift between the US and France is not that great you know.
By the way i dont think it is a whole, i think it simply is a provision that allows people to sell open source software.
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"Second, growing disparity between rich and poor is not necessarily bad. If you could wave a wand and improve the standard of living of the poor by 8x, but in the process make the rich 10x as rich, would you do so? If not, why not? Just because disparity would grow?"
I dont think that is happening. The poor are still dirt poor.
"Third, by almost all objective standards, the amount and severity of poverty in the world has dropped significantly during the era of globalization. There is less starvation; infant mortality is lower; life expectancy is longer; there is less malnutrition. "
Where are you getting that from? Standards of living dropped sharply in eastern europe after the fall of communism. Countries in south america like argentina and brazil are in facing humanitarian disasters.
"Finally, the places where things haven't improved correspond not to hotbeds of globalization, but to regimes so repressive or corrupt that global investment doesn't happen. Globalization has barely touched most of Africa or North Korea because no one will invest. In those places the standard of living is wretched. "
What about the "hotbeds of globalisation" like eastern europe which are still well behind the industrial production and standard of living they had under communism; what about argentina that used to be a darling of the globalisation movement and now it is at the edge of anarchy; even the former powerful economies of the east - japan korea, taiwan etc; are suffering long reccessions as a result of globalisation.
also your argument has an underlying assumptuin that is false - that hotbeds of globalisation are different from places with repressive regimes.
That is not true, just look at indonesia saudi arabia etc. even places like russia. The more repressive the Putin government becomes the more he is praized by economies. Hell the same is true about the US.
i bet they just use more parralel data buses, hard drives, whatever.
Congress did not ratify the nuclear test ban treaty.
The only way i can explain this is that some people actually want other countries to develop nuclear capabilities. Which is not that far fetched actually.
He made raised his track a good tree meters off the ground. If he made it half a m off the ground it would still be a monorail. He must really trust his engineering abilities.
Of course the guy with a roller coaster was much more brave. His creation would do loops and stuff and looked much less solid.
That rendering of britney will not tip the scales for realism because she looks hideous.
But lets ponder another question, when technology finally allows us to render britney in her real life hotness (judging from the nytimes photo that tech is 50 years away at least) would there be video games where the player has sex with brittney?
Would she license it ?(well i know the answer to that - yes)
Would that ruin sex with normal people?
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if you download their pdf file you will see some pics of some of their smaller subs.
As far as the largest one it seem they have not made it yet.
The reason they kind of hide their picuters of submarines, is because the actual boats look kind of ugly.
They are made to look like an yacht when surfaced, but the part thats underwater looks like a tube and breaks the continuity.
When they draw pictures they cheat, so they draw the bottom to look like the bottom of an yacht with large windows.
as far as i remember there are two theories on what he was working on
1. his idea to deliver electricity to every household without the need for wires by sending oscilating current in the ground.
2. some people say that he wanted to create some kind of a military invention
btw trying to communicate with aliens does not neccessarily make you insane. Are the people at SETI insane?
Do you remember the slashdot story about an year ago about how the Smithsonian put edison's bust over tesla's inventions.
The edison companies were big sponsors.
So yeah it still goes on.
What is more paranoid to think about are some of the Tesla files that are still in fbi custody.
Are they keeping them secret because of incompetence, or is there something truly interesting in there?