I would argue that all this commentary regarding the article as posted on Slashdot contributes to the "commentary" part of the Fair Use argument. Whether the commentary is "in line" with the text of the article or not seems like a stylistic difference.
Was the article separately copyrighted (like syndicated columns are) in the WSJ? If not, then it was one article from a larger publication that is copyrighted. The entire issue of the WSJ was not posted.
I have seen in the past articles published in a newspaper, written by the newspaper company, separately copyrighted in the paper (presumably, because other news papers are using parts or all of it in their papers).
Gotta throw in Stalin, the Khans (Ghengis, Kublai, et al), and Pol Pot, too. And think about what Cortez and the Conquistadors (sounds like a cheeseball lounge act...) did in Central and South America, as well as the good ol' USA as it expanded westward to the Pacific...
Now NASA does use parachutes to recover spent boosters from Shuttle launches and they are fairly heavy, but they are also different shaped and maybe its easier to slow them down than a large jet.
they also don't have people on them, so they don't have to worry about g-forces and impulse loading...
The speeding ticket should be the least of your worries. Think about your car insurance. At least in the US, if you don't get dropped from your coverage (and put into a higher-risk group, which means your premiums will be higher), you are gonna be paying higher premiums for at least 3 years...
...no, Office 2000 had the beginnings of this.
You can save Excel 2000 and Word 2000 files in an "XML" format.
You can work with XML-based ADO datasets, etc.
Some left over corn in the field grew, and was harvested along with the crop of soybeans, and thus the whole silo of soy beans. The corn seed contaminated the soy crop. the genes did not go from corn to soy bean.
from the WP article: 'Even if the organism were to escape stringent confinement and enter the environment, Smith said, "it's a dead duck."'
Well, the HIV-4 virus is extremely fragile outside the human body, also, but that hasn't stopped its spread now, has it...
Even if the organism has the ability to attach to human cells, if the living conditions of the new organism are close to the parameters of the human body, if it gets out of the lab, humans would be perfect walking Petri dishes.
...if you've ever been to Seattle, the "subway muggers" have that opportunity already in the bus tunnel stations.
If you've ever been to Chicago and Seattle, the sound levels between the El and the existing Monorail are completely different. The El sounds like a 727 at takeoff when it goes by. The Monorail is significantly quieter.
IIRC, from the story in the Chicago Tribune, the soybean crop was polluted because some corn seeds left over from last year's TEST PLOT ended up in the soil, and thus grew in the soybeans. (typical process is to grow corn one year, soybeans the next).
Corn and soybean combines appear to be the same machines, one just switches the "head" on it between a corn picker and a soybean harvester depending on the crop. I'm guessing that if the dried cobs got into the harvester, the corn fell off the cob normally inside, and thus got into the seed hopper on the combine, and thus made its way to the grain silos.
The combines are pretty efficient, but plenty of cobs with corn, as well as corn seed, get left in the field.
As far as randomly changing genes, I think it does come about as effectively being random. At least hybridization through pollinization is more or less a natural process.
The companies want unfettered ability to do this, not out of any moral desire to benefit humanity, but to expand "intellectual property" insidiously, without anyone being able to say, "boo!".
You mean it took you three weeks to fall off the roof, that someone moved the ladder three weeks ago? *:)
Or how about watching the Miami Dolphins quarterback do a good number on his shoulder on Monday Night Football? I was thinking he probably broke his collarbone...
This sounds exactly like a validated system (those in the Pharma industry know about that...).
"can we upgrade it?" "No, because then it, and every system it interacts with, would have to be revalidated".
...but no common database is very ANSI-compliant, and they all have non-ANSI extensions that make particular tasks much easier to do, code and understand than with straight ANSI SQL (Oracle has several, Access has PIVOT).
I actually like Oracle's simpler join syntax. It is much easier to visually parse than a list of essentially recursive FROM Table INNER JOIN (table.field ON (inner join table3.field on table2.field)).
Only MS idiots refer to the MS SQL Server product as "Microsoft SQL" or "Microsoft Seequel". It's right up there with Windows or Word users who refer to either as "Microsoft".
...there used to be a defacto licensing fee, at least to create Acrobat files. You used to need Adobe Acrobat Distiller to create PDF files.
Now, there are a plethora of other tools one can use to create PDF files w/o needing Acrobat for most purposes...
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...but should one factor in all of the missed launch dates or launch aborts also, because of discovered mechanical problems just prior to launch?
I would argue that all this commentary regarding the article as posted on Slashdot contributes to the "commentary" part of the Fair Use argument. Whether the commentary is "in line" with the text of the article or not seems like a stylistic difference. Was the article separately copyrighted (like syndicated columns are) in the WSJ? If not, then it was one article from a larger publication that is copyrighted. The entire issue of the WSJ was not posted. I have seen in the past articles published in a newspaper, written by the newspaper company, separately copyrighted in the paper (presumably, because other news papers are using parts or all of it in their papers).
Like someone said...$10/mo for SimOnline, or $150/hr for a shrink?
...or even the 54-bits (56?) of the CDC computers...
Gotta throw in Stalin, the Khans (Ghengis, Kublai, et al), and Pol Pot, too. And think about what Cortez and the Conquistadors (sounds like a cheeseball lounge act...) did in Central and South America, as well as the good ol' USA as it expanded westward to the Pacific...
they also don't have people on them, so they don't have to worry about g-forces and impulse loading...
I dunna know. I bought a used HP laptop for my wife last summer - P2-300, 96MB RAM, 14.1" LCD, $550.
It's not the best, but it's more than servicable.
The speeding ticket should be the least of your worries. Think about your car insurance. At least in the US, if you don't get dropped from your coverage (and put into a higher-risk group, which means your premiums will be higher), you are gonna be paying higher premiums for at least 3 years...
The ticket is a one-time charge.
Nah, XML will just become a container for proprietery file formats.
.it's valid XML, but good luck deciphering it.
No rule says that the XML tags have to be human-decipherable.
You could easily have an XML document like this:
<stupid>
<12343-1235AF342378FD-0043534DC>
<AF3443-235234df23432423>
2399fdb3423dfeaf22342a23998f
</AF3443-235234df23432423>
</12343-1235AF342378FD-0043534DC>
</stupid>
..
Nah, XML will just become a container for proprietery file formats.
...it's valid XML, but good luck deciphering it.
No rule says that the XML tags have to be human-decipherable.
You could easily have a document like this:
2399fdb3423dfeaf22342a23998f
...no, Office 2000 had the beginnings of this. You can save Excel 2000 and Word 2000 files in an "XML" format. You can work with XML-based ADO datasets, etc.
swinging the clue stick...
the genes did not go from corn to soy.
Some left over corn in the field grew, and was harvested along with the crop of soybeans, and thus the whole silo of soy beans. The corn seed contaminated the soy crop. the genes did not go from corn to soy bean.
from the WP article:
'Even if the organism were to escape stringent confinement and enter the environment, Smith said, "it's a dead duck."'
Well, the HIV-4 virus is extremely fragile outside the human body, also, but that hasn't stopped its spread now, has it...
Even if the organism has the ability to attach to human cells, if the living conditions of the new organism are close to the parameters of the human body, if it gets out of the lab, humans would be perfect walking Petri dishes.
...if you've ever been to Seattle, the "subway muggers" have that opportunity already in the bus tunnel stations.
If you've ever been to Chicago and Seattle, the sound levels between the El and the existing Monorail are completely different. The El sounds like a 727 at takeoff when it goes by. The Monorail is significantly quieter.
...as opposed to...giving it to you to do the same sorts of things?
It's SQL Server 2000 Enterprise, dammit. Pedants-R-Us.com
IIRC, from the story in the Chicago Tribune, the soybean crop was polluted because some corn seeds left over from last year's TEST PLOT ended up in the soil, and thus grew in the soybeans. (typical process is to grow corn one year, soybeans the next).
Corn and soybean combines appear to be the same machines, one just switches the "head" on it between a corn picker and a soybean harvester depending on the crop. I'm guessing that if the dried cobs got into the harvester, the corn fell off the cob normally inside, and thus got into the seed hopper on the combine, and thus made its way to the grain silos.
The combines are pretty efficient, but plenty of cobs with corn, as well as corn seed, get left in the field.
As far as randomly changing genes, I think it does come about as effectively being random. At least hybridization through pollinization is more or less a natural process.
The companies want unfettered ability to do this, not out of any moral desire to benefit humanity, but to expand "intellectual property" insidiously, without anyone being able to say, "boo!".
You mean it took you three weeks to fall off the roof, that someone moved the ladder three weeks ago? *:)
Or how about watching the Miami Dolphins quarterback do a good number on his shoulder on Monday Night Football? I was thinking he probably broke his collarbone...
Reread the introduction to "Applied Cryptography". "You're so wrong it isn't even stupid."
This sounds exactly like a validated system (those in the Pharma industry know about that...). "can we upgrade it?" "No, because then it, and every system it interacts with, would have to be revalidated".
You already can get a DirecTV PVR box.
...but what if the bug is "fixed" by microsoft saying, "you need to upgrade to IE6"?
...but no common database is very ANSI-compliant, and they all have non-ANSI extensions that make particular tasks much easier to do, code and understand than with straight ANSI SQL (Oracle has several, Access has PIVOT). I actually like Oracle's simpler join syntax. It is much easier to visually parse than a list of essentially recursive FROM Table INNER JOIN (table.field ON (inner join table3.field on table2.field)).
No, the language is SQL (or "seequel").
Only MS idiots refer to the MS SQL Server product as "Microsoft SQL" or "Microsoft Seequel". It's right up there with Windows or Word users who refer to either as "Microsoft".
Oracle is just...Oracle.
...there used to be a defacto licensing fee, at least to create Acrobat files. You used to need Adobe Acrobat Distiller to create PDF files. Now, there are a plethora of other tools one can use to create PDF files w/o needing Acrobat for most purposes...