The rest of the world doesn't care if the average American can speak their language as well as English. What they care about is that the average American tourist visiting their country can't speak anything but English, is reluctant to even learn even two words of Mexican/French/Spanish/German/Italian/whatever, yet expects everyone else to be able to understand what they're saying to them.
You know, I didn't detect that sort of attitude from NanoGator. All he did was offer an explanation why things are the way they are - I can drive for an entire week and remain within English speaking areas - except for isolated pockets in cities, I would have to drive over 1000 miles to reach a non-English speaking area (Mexico). No wonder most people don't pick up a second/third language. I also don't know that your stereotype is accurate - it may be that you remember the obnoxious tourists, but the nice ones may have been German or something. I haven't been to europe, but when I go, I'll happily butcher 3 or 4 romance languages, then speak some passable German.
That of lack of respect for law enforcement officials.
Give me a reason to respect them in the first place. My interaction with cops is limited to getting pulled over and fined and having them file police reports when people I know die. Nothing much comes of it, and the cops don't seem to do much to fix things.
The amount of flak and disrespect that police officers get for what is an essential and dangerous function in society
Compared to what? Construction workers have a more dangerous job. Where's the respect for them? 142 Cops died in 2000 - 50 were murdered. 200 salesmen were murdered in the same year - I guess it's safer to be a cop after all.
Perhaps you were thinking of the United States of America?
And London is a city in Ontario? No, the America that most people refer to has 50 states, lots of guns, and a monkey in the whitehouse. Don't be so literal.
Well, taht's different. You can argue about the legal basis for different treatment of photographers, but complaining that you signed a different contract or that you aren't able to negotiate that clause away is different.
This is a convienient exception for you to make when we're explicitly talking about work for hire.
Okay, here's the definition. BAsically, if you are a software contractor, and your contract doesn't mention work for hire, you retain the copyright. I am not speaking about convention here, except as it applies to the default legal disposition of a work. Obviously, any one of these categories can include works made for hire, in which case, the copyright goes with the hiring party. Again, in all of these cases, if 'work for hire' is not mentioned, then it is not a work for hire.
Our usual arrangement is that clients get a non-exclusive, nontranferrable license to the code, the source itself, and varying agreements that we won't go and sell the same code to their direct competitors.
How do you handle the case where a client is insolvent or gets sold to another company?
In all these fields you almost always sell your copyright when you do work for hire. It's not a matter of thinking it is, it *actually* is that way.
Only if the contract says so (demands an assignment of rights) or if you're a salaried employee. This is not usually the case. Oh, and I'd love to find a publishing scientist that isn't an employee somewhere. Consultant scientist just doesn't make sense.
The problem is that this is measured at full throttle, and cars don't need full throttle power at the torque peak to cruise at speed.
That is almost never the case on production cars. The torque peak on Japanese motors is typically around 4500-5000RPM. My MR2 has a fairly flat torque curve from 2500-5000, with a max RPM of 6250, give or take. My car will, therefore, cruise at 3500-4000 RPM, which translates to 30MPG. At WOT, I would expect power to drop by about 30%
Most cars try to generate as little drag as possible, and they depend on gravity to hold them down. Airplanes have to generate lift to fight gravity. Or, in other words, this is not at all congruous.
As food for thought, most cars have a Cd of.30 to.40. Older Porsches have about.38, and race cars can go up to around.75 (from all the negative lift). Most cars run around.10 Cl, with sport cars approaching 0 and race cars being negative. -3.00 is common, and -5.5 has been done in prototypes.
Still waiting for the thread to degrade into a "why everyone should be vegetarian" debate;)
Speaking of that, my dinner tonight was about 9 oz. of really good new york strip, marinated and cooked medium rare. Mmmmm. Then I rode an exercise bike for 15 minutes.
The way to get good fuel efficiency with a standard design engine is twofold - make the car light, make the engine underpowered, and go slow. If the engine is always struggling, it's always in the power band, and always efficient. Hence the reason that a Geo Metro gets great gas efficiency.
That's exactly opposite to what i've always heard. My recollection is that maximal efficiency is roughly at torque peak (ignoring such things as aerodynamics and gearing), and that underpowering a car kills the mileage. Case in point: a particular truck is offered in an economy V6 and a V8 trim. The V8 got better mileage because the V6 was always running full throttle (above the powerband).
Your Geo may get good mileage, but it's crap, and I won't drive one. I have an MR2 that gets 30 MPG and handles nicely, so I don't have to.
wouldn't that component-video monitor be useful as a hi-res/hi-quality DVD-player hookup?
No. That is a fixed frequency RGB monitor. The monitor you currently use is also RGB, but multiscanning. Component video is Y/Cb/Cr - luminance/red/blue, which is totally different.
buuut, they kept fighting. even "castrated". what we needed was something to make them GIVE UP. maybe another year of conventional war would have made them give up. But the A-bomb DID make them give up.
Also, consider that we needed to win the war before Russia had any sort of claim over Japan. Had we not forced a surrender, we'd have a half soviet Japan, whatever that looks like.
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Which is why Disney fights for extensions every time Mickey Mouse is in danger of hitting the public domain.
Mickey Mouse has never been in danger of entering the public domain. Steamboat Willie has come close, but the mouse is covered by trademark law.
The rest of the world doesn't care if the average American can speak their language as well as English. What they care about is that the average American tourist visiting their country can't speak anything but English, is reluctant to even learn even two words of Mexican/French/Spanish/German/Italian/whatever, yet expects everyone else to be able to understand what they're saying to them.
You know, I didn't detect that sort of attitude from NanoGator. All he did was offer an explanation why things are the way they are - I can drive for an entire week and remain within English speaking areas - except for isolated pockets in cities, I would have to drive over 1000 miles to reach a non-English speaking area (Mexico). No wonder most people don't pick up a second/third language. I also don't know that your stereotype is accurate - it may be that you remember the obnoxious tourists, but the nice ones may have been German or something. I haven't been to europe, but when I go, I'll happily butcher 3 or 4 romance languages, then speak some passable German.
This is a discussion about the terms of a standard contract with a photographer.
Oh, sorry, I didn't realize that you believed in standard contracts. don't sign any record deals.
That of lack of respect for law enforcement officials.
Give me a reason to respect them in the first place. My interaction with cops is limited to getting pulled over and fined and having them file police reports when people I know die. Nothing much comes of it, and the cops don't seem to do much to fix things.
The amount of flak and disrespect that police officers get for what is an essential and dangerous function in society
Compared to what? Construction workers have a more dangerous job. Where's the respect for them? 142 Cops died in 2000 - 50 were murdered. 200 salesmen were murdered in the same year - I guess it's safer to be a cop after all.
Perhaps you were thinking of the United States of America?
And London is a city in Ontario? No, the America that most people refer to has 50 states, lots of guns, and a monkey in the whitehouse. Don't be so literal.
Well, taht's different. You can argue about the legal basis for different treatment of photographers, but complaining that you signed a different contract or that you aren't able to negotiate that clause away is different.
This is a convienient exception for you to make when we're explicitly talking about work for hire.
Okay, here's the definition. BAsically, if you are a software contractor, and your contract doesn't mention work for hire, you retain the copyright. I am not speaking about convention here, except as it applies to the default legal disposition of a work. Obviously, any one of these categories can include works made for hire, in which case, the copyright goes with the hiring party. Again, in all of these cases, if 'work for hire' is not mentioned, then it is not a work for hire.
Our usual arrangement is that clients get a non-exclusive, nontranferrable license to the code, the source itself, and varying agreements that we won't go and sell the same code to their direct competitors.
How do you handle the case where a client is insolvent or gets sold to another company?
What list of fields can you come up with where the producer keeps the copyright and not the entity who commissions the work?
the only exception is if the work falls under the 'work for hire' definitions.
In all these fields you almost always sell your copyright when you do work for hire. It's not a matter of thinking it is, it *actually* is that way.
Only if the contract says so (demands an assignment of rights) or if you're a salaried employee. This is not usually the case. Oh, and I'd love to find a publishing scientist that isn't an employee somewhere. Consultant scientist just doesn't make sense.
Why should your busniess be special compared to every other creative field? Shouldn't it be the other way around?
What makes you think it is?
It's too bad /. doesn't allow private messages.
America - that continent that Canada is part of?
America is a country, not a continent. Perhaps you were thinking of North America?
Such a worm could reach saturation point and begin destroying its hosts before most admins had even noticed what was happening.
We even have a name for it: Blitzkrieg.
So why should the local community invest in $500 piggyback tuners when only half the stations are even there yet?
Hell, why bother with TV at all? My TV works great for movies, but I can't justify $40/mo for what is basically garbage.
Don't forget: in 1983 it was becoming much harder to find LPs.
Actually, LPs are still being produced. The difference is that it's mostly for DJs now.
The FCC is moving ahead with plans to relegate NTSC analog video to the broadcast trash heap
They're trying, but nobody's buying the HD converter for #500 or whatever it is now.
The problem is that this is measured at full throttle, and cars don't need full throttle power at the torque peak to cruise at speed.
That is almost never the case on production cars. The torque peak on Japanese motors is typically around 4500-5000RPM. My MR2 has a fairly flat torque curve from 2500-5000, with a max RPM of 6250, give or take. My car will, therefore, cruise at 3500-4000 RPM, which translates to 30MPG. At WOT, I would expect power to drop by about 30%
Most cars try to generate as little drag as possible, and they depend on gravity to hold them down. Airplanes have to generate lift to fight gravity. Or, in other words, this is not at all congruous.
As food for thought, most cars have a Cd of .30 to .40. Older Porsches have about .38, and race cars can go up to around .75 (from all the negative lift). Most cars run around .10 Cl, with sport cars approaching 0 and race cars being negative. -3.00 is common, and -5.5 has been done in prototypes.
Still waiting for the thread to degrade into a "why everyone should be vegetarian" debate ;)
Speaking of that, my dinner tonight was about 9 oz. of really good new york strip, marinated and cooked medium rare. Mmmmm. Then I rode an exercise bike for 15 minutes.
The way to get good fuel efficiency with a standard design engine is twofold - make the car light, make the engine underpowered, and go slow. If the engine is always struggling, it's always in the power band, and always efficient. Hence the reason that a Geo Metro gets great gas efficiency.
That's exactly opposite to what i've always heard. My recollection is that maximal efficiency is roughly at torque peak (ignoring such things as aerodynamics and gearing), and that underpowering a car kills the mileage. Case in point: a particular truck is offered in an economy V6 and a V8 trim. The V8 got better mileage because the V6 was always running full throttle (above the powerband).
Your Geo may get good mileage, but it's crap, and I won't drive one. I have an MR2 that gets 30 MPG and handles nicely, so I don't have to.
wouldn't that component-video monitor be useful as a hi-res/hi-quality DVD-player hookup?
No. That is a fixed frequency RGB monitor. The monitor you currently use is also RGB, but multiscanning. Component video is Y/Cb/Cr - luminance/red/blue, which is totally different.
maybe a it looks a bit like germany did?
My money's on North Korea.
So while you bleeped SHIT and FUCK, you still broke the FCC Rules with your TITTIES comment.
Actually, you broke it with all 3 words, because codewords that are recognizable as swear words are also banned.
buuut, they kept fighting. even "castrated". what we needed was something to make them GIVE UP. maybe another year of conventional war would have made them give up. But the A-bomb DID make them give up.
Also, consider that we needed to win the war before Russia had any sort of claim over Japan. Had we not forced a surrender, we'd have a half soviet Japan, whatever that looks like.
Do you know of anybody out there who's got a product that automates some of this crap?
Winamp comes to mind.