It follows that the people (who the police protect and serve) can record police (who often forget who they ultimately work for) in their workplace (the public).
Public servants are not employees of each citizen.
No, but they are employees of the government, our elected representatives, and therefore the public as a whole.
1) The images are false colour. All images taken by the rovers (or any probe for that matter) are never true colour. They generally take images through various infra red and green and ultraviolet filters. When combined, they create unnatural coloured images. So that blue soil you see wouldn't really be blue if it were to be seen with the naked eye.
Not exactly true. They can create near-real color images in the same way many digital cameras do. They have seven filters for different wavelengths of light. By using pictures from the same point of view with different filters, the images can be combined into true-color images. That is the same way cameras with CCDs work, they have filters over red, blue, and green wells, they just take samples of all three at the same time. This is common in astrophotography as well. You fit a CCD device to your telescope and take multiple pictures with different filters then assemble the results into a true-color image. This is no more "false color" than current LCD displays that actually display individual red, green, and blue pixels that our eyes combine (via red, green and blue cones) into what we perceive as a color.
2) The specific image shown were taken on the rim of Endurance crater, not at the floor of it. Water can't exactly pool on a slope.
The pictures may have been taken "on" the rim (where do you see that?), but they are pictures "of" the crater floor. "The surface is incredibly smooth, and the edges are in a plane and all at the same altitude," - the top of the supposed water is all at the same altitude.
I don't doubt that there is water on Mars, but I don't think it can pool on the surface (due to the low atmospheric pressure), nor do I think this photo contains any evidence of pooling water either. It may contain evidence of past water how ever.
The article seems to doubt it is water also. Theoretically liquid water could exist in the absence of wind despite the low pressure as an amount of liquid vapor would accumulate over the water, but there is wind on mars. Maybe in this crater there is little wind?
Well, you can get broadcast channels on cable for free at least, plus some music ones. Also I was able to apparently watch other people's video on demand, my channel search found several channels that had movies on them, but only at certain times of the day.
What about Apple? They had to settle with Apple Records when they started selling iPods and music on iTunes. A version of Vista is even meant to be a media center, hence the closeness to television.
7. The anti-copyright movement does not create jobs, exports, tax revenues and economic growth-it largely consists of people pontificating on a commercial world about which they know little. Very few political movements create jobs, exports, tax revenues or economic growth. They exist to fight to enact change in laws or government. "Pontificating". "about which they know little". This is an ad hominem attack on people they disagree with, nothing more.
Yes, it appears the sole purpose of government is to enrich copyright holders. I never knew...
I'm not saying the white house's analysis is correct by any means, they were wrong not to include all greenhouse gases. But the linked analysis is skewed as well. The white house was talking about changes since the Kyoto protocol came into effect. The analysis claims the UN says that 1990 should be used for a base year:
Article 3 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change specifies that all greenhouse gas emissions analyses
are to use 1990 as the base year.
That's not what they are trying to show. They are trying to show the effect the Kyoto protocol has had, which is silly if you use 1990 as the base year, from a framework laid just two years after that date. Are they trying to say that you cannot talk about climate change unless you compare numbers from 1990? I think the numbers in the analysis itself show that the 1997 Kyoto protocol didn't have much effect on Europe, their emissions have been about level since 1990 anyway. Not signing didn't have much effect on the U.S. either, their emissions growth slowed down about the same time without signing the protocol. It's meaningless to use 1990 as a base date to come up with an increase in emissions when you're studying the changes from an event in 1997.
If it runs on my laptop (Dell E1705 with a Raedon X1400), I'll give it a go. I liked Gentoo back in 2004 (?) when I tried the live cd with Unreal Tournament demo installed. That was amazing, all of my hardware from 3d video to sound worked first try, unlike any other Linux distribution I tried...
All it takes to avoid looking like an idiot is to use some common sense and hover over the first word of the summary.
What does it take to avoid looking like a dick? I'm probably asking the wrong person...
Of course hovering over the first link in an article and looking at the url in the bottom of the browser (which could have simply been "http://www.xbmc.com" but still only tells you "xboxmediacenter") is much simpler than reading a one-sentence description in the article. Heck, why even have sentences, just make articles a list of links...
I think this has all been caused by free trial accounts. Spammers can apply for one and create characters and spam all night. I say if it's a paying account, they should be able to send tells to whoever they want. If they are reported as spammers, that can go into suspension and banishment for the account where they will be out the $30 to buy the game and the monthly fee. This is assuming they are keeping track of characters that are added and deleted, that's a must. There's not much reason not to keep track of deleted characters, at least for a period. To solve the problem with free accounts, they can do combinations of the following:
Bayesian filter - will automatically track reported and non-reported tells, this is how many spam filters work and with such a narrow subject matter it should be highly accurate
/reportspam command that will automatically report the last person to send you a tell and log the tells for a GM to inspect (only works for level 10+ characters?)
Automatically suspend tells from the ACCOUNT that was reported, they have to talk to a GM (or wait an hour?) to get it cleared
If GM sees that it was a gold spammer (would take like 10 seconds to review), automatically flag that account as Banned
To keep the '/reportspam' command from harming innocent players:
Doesn't work anymore after level 5 or 10, this way it won't affect you after you have a couple of hours of playtime
Possibly doesn't work anymore after you have any character over a certain level, so it won't affect your legitimate low-level alts
Possibly has a graduated level where you can still be automatically suspended after enough people complain about the account in a certain time
If someone fraudulently reports another person, that would be harassment under the TOS, so if the GM saw it wasn't valid, the reporter could get suspended
I bet if this case went to court, the video would be ruled public domain. I haven't seen this mentioned in a comment yet, but the only thing that is copyrightable is expression. AT&T couldn't copyright the phone book because it was simply an arrangement of information in a logical way, there was no creativity or expression embodied in the data.
Photographs (and videos) have enjoyed broad protection under the copyright act. A lot happens up until the shutter is released, the photograph or movie has to be framed in a pleasing way, the lighting and time of day have to be right, any point in space could be used to take the photograph and get various elements to stand out, etc... However, this is simply a NJ traffic camera that was thrown on a pole with a view of the road meant to get traffic in the picture. The position and angle were dictated by the need to record something, not for artistic expression. And it wasn't something that was created to express someone's creativity, some city worker probably was just told to put a camera up and put it there. Then it runs night and day for years merely capturing data.
In a traditional video, you at least have a cameraman taking the video. Even with webcams, you have the actor(/directory) that is creating the content. Also they are editing the video to display what they want you to see. Even JennyCam that was on 24 hours a day had her being the actor in it, plus it entailed behind-the-scenes espression like in the decorating of her room. This video is simply lacking all of the elements that are protectable by copyright.
Would they be looking especially for lunar cooling at "night" on the moon? Because it has no atmosphere and no sunlight when dark, they say that the temperature of the side nearest the Earth is controlled by radiation from Earth. Would that mean global warming would cause it to be cooler, since the greenhouse effect causes that radiation to be reflected back to Earth?
First let me say I have very little experience with MySQL. I have basically tried it out a couple of times, but we use MS SQL Server at work so I don't use it much. I am not an MySQL fanboy by any means, but I find the slant of the article disturbing.
His first two reasons:
MySQL Uses the GPL
MySQL Doesn't Use the GPL
It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to see a logical problem here. These two could actually be seen as a reason to use MySQL. You can choose the GPL if you wish to use MySQL for free and plan to use the GPL yourself, or you can purchase a commercial license if you want to keep your code to yourself. Choice seems like a good thing to me. Each one cancels out the negatives of the other. If you choose the other RDBMSs mentioned (except POSTGRESQL), you are stuck with all the minuses of option #2 and more (since you still get the MySQL source with option #2) without the choice to go for option #1.
Integration With an Existing Environment
Basically he says that if you're already using another RDBMS and have enough licenses, why not use it? This could also be seen as a reason to use MySQL if you already use it for other projects.
Feature Set Maturity
It looks like he is saying that MySQL has all the features you need as of version 5.0, but it is only one year old so how can you trust that they work well since they weren't in the previous version? Seems like a lame stab at MySQL whereas a real analysis would use the features and judge them on their merits. While the new features have only been in production for a year, they were in beta long before that. It's confusing because he mixes in faults of previous versions in his discussion, very strange indeed.
Corporate Considerations
Wow, this is incredible to me. He actually says that because Microsoft and Oracle are publicly traded companies that they are more reliable. I would argue that since you get the source code to the RDBMS that MySQL has the upper hand here. Other solutions stop supporting versions after just a few years and you have to pay new license fees as well as go through the pains of an upgrade (admittedly easy I know from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 at least). With MySQL you have the source code and can fix any problems yourself and use it as long as you want, for free if you use the GPL.
He makes some claim that if a crash occurs during certain operations that the database can be left in an inconsistent state. I can't vouch for that one way or another but that would be a reason not to use MySQL.
Trying to misappropriate the hard (sometimes unpaid) work of others for your own monetary gain can't be good for his Karma. People should act ethically in all aspects of their lives. Being in charge of a business is no excuse for unethical conduct. SCO sought $5 billion in damages from one licensee, IBM, when they only spent $7 million dollars to acquire the technology. That should tell you right there that something wasn't on the up-and-up. They claimed three teams of experts (including a team from MIT) found "mountains", "truckloads" and "millions of lines" of infringing code in Linux. I've seen no evidence that they ever hired a single expert until last year. They refused to give any evidence of infringement for years, and then claimed copyright on code written by others. I think he should be most ashamed of his claim that "contracts are what you use against people you have a relationship with" (paraphrased). Contracts are something you enter into in order to benefit both parties, not something that you should inherit 20 years later and try to find ways to reinterpret the contract so that you can sue the other party.
I mean, it's all just business litigation, right?
How would you feel if you were a musician and wrote a song, then some company came along and tried to charge people money to listen to your music? If Darl was smart, he would have simply sued IBM for contract violations and not made any sweeping claims about Linux infringing. If that had been the case then they may actually have had a chance and the public opinion wouldn't be weighed against them so heavily. As it is, their statements and actions allowed IBM to enter several counterclaims, from unfair competition to copyright violations.
The difference is that yours is a bad analogy. The coffee shop had a sign that said "Free Wireless Internet". I still don't know what the problem was. Was the problem that the guy didn't buy coffee, or that he was using the wireless from his car? If he had bought a cup of coffee and took it to his car to use his computer, would that be OK? If he sat down in the coffee shop to use his computer but didn't buy anything would that have been OK?
I think a better analogy would be restroom use in an establishment. Would you arrest someone for trespassing that entered an establishment and used the restroom without buying anything?
Why not train a dolphin to do the exploration? Strap a camera and sensors to it and let it do the work. Once we have that technology we can strap lasers to them!
Are you saying that people can reasonably assume, because my door happens to be wide open while I'm away at work, that they are welcome to enter my house and take a look around?
More like you are selling your house and there's a big sign in your yard announcing "open house" with refreshments and brochures available, then you arrest someone for trespassing because they went in the basement and they weren't supposed to even though they didn't know it.
But not just installing Linux, installing Windows is a pain also. The vast majority of people will just use whatever is on their computers when they purchase them and currently that's Microsoft Windows. If the situation were reversed, we would be talking about how Windows is out of touch with the average user.
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Well, you can get broadcast channels on cable for free at least, plus some music ones. Also I was able to apparently watch other people's video on demand, my channel search found several channels that had movies on them, but only at certain times of the day.
Shai-Hulud
Like "Windows"?
So what were "Vice City" and "San Andreas"? GTA 3.5 and GTA 3.9?
At least I'm pretty sure they took some ideas from this book.
If it runs on my laptop (Dell E1705 with a Raedon X1400), I'll give it a go. I liked Gentoo back in 2004 (?) when I tried the live cd with Unreal Tournament demo installed. That was amazing, all of my hardware from 3d video to sound worked first try, unlike any other Linux distribution I tried...
But 'your' and 'her' are already possessive. You wouldn't say "Yours fly is undone" or "Hers shirt is on backwards."
Thank goodness theres two others!
Of course hovering over the first link in an article and looking at the url in the bottom of the browser (which could have simply been "http://www.xbmc.com" but still only tells you "xboxmediacenter") is much simpler than reading a one-sentence description in the article. Heck, why even have sentences, just make articles a list of links...
To keep the '/reportspam' command from harming innocent players:
I bet if this case went to court, the video would be ruled public domain. I haven't seen this mentioned in a comment yet, but the only thing that is copyrightable is expression. AT&T couldn't copyright the phone book because it was simply an arrangement of information in a logical way, there was no creativity or expression embodied in the data.
Photographs (and videos) have enjoyed broad protection under the copyright act. A lot happens up until the shutter is released, the photograph or movie has to be framed in a pleasing way, the lighting and time of day have to be right, any point in space could be used to take the photograph and get various elements to stand out, etc... However, this is simply a NJ traffic camera that was thrown on a pole with a view of the road meant to get traffic in the picture. The position and angle were dictated by the need to record something, not for artistic expression. And it wasn't something that was created to express someone's creativity, some city worker probably was just told to put a camera up and put it there. Then it runs night and day for years merely capturing data.
In a traditional video, you at least have a cameraman taking the video. Even with webcams, you have the actor(/directory) that is creating the content. Also they are editing the video to display what they want you to see. Even JennyCam that was on 24 hours a day had her being the actor in it, plus it entailed behind-the-scenes espression like in the decorating of her room. This video is simply lacking all of the elements that are protectable by copyright.
Would they be looking especially for lunar cooling at "night" on the moon? Because it has no atmosphere and no sunlight when dark, they say that the temperature of the side nearest the Earth is controlled by radiation from Earth. Would that mean global warming would cause it to be cooler, since the greenhouse effect causes that radiation to be reflected back to Earth?
First let me say I have very little experience with MySQL. I have basically tried it out a couple of times, but we use MS SQL Server at work so I don't use it much. I am not an MySQL fanboy by any means, but I find the slant of the article disturbing.
His first two reasons:- MySQL Uses the GPL
- MySQL Doesn't Use the GPL
It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to see a logical problem here. These two could actually be seen as a reason to use MySQL. You can choose the GPL if you wish to use MySQL for free and plan to use the GPL yourself, or you can purchase a commercial license if you want to keep your code to yourself. Choice seems like a good thing to me. Each one cancels out the negatives of the other. If you choose the other RDBMSs mentioned (except POSTGRESQL), you are stuck with all the minuses of option #2 and more (since you still get the MySQL source with option #2) without the choice to go for option #1.- Integration With an Existing Environment
Basically he says that if you're already using another RDBMS and have enough licenses, why not use it? This could also be seen as a reason to use MySQL if you already use it for other projects.- Feature Set Maturity
It looks like he is saying that MySQL has all the features you need as of version 5.0, but it is only one year old so how can you trust that they work well since they weren't in the previous version? Seems like a lame stab at MySQL whereas a real analysis would use the features and judge them on their merits. While the new features have only been in production for a year, they were in beta long before that. It's confusing because he mixes in faults of previous versions in his discussion, very strange indeed.- Corporate Considerations
Wow, this is incredible to me. He actually says that because Microsoft and Oracle are publicly traded companies that they are more reliable. I would argue that since you get the source code to the RDBMS that MySQL has the upper hand here. Other solutions stop supporting versions after just a few years and you have to pay new license fees as well as go through the pains of an upgrade (admittedly easy I know from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 at least). With MySQL you have the source code and can fix any problems yourself and use it as long as you want, for free if you use the GPL.He makes some claim that if a crash occurs during certain operations that the database can be left in an inconsistent state. I can't vouch for that one way or another but that would be a reason not to use MySQL.
Trying to misappropriate the hard (sometimes unpaid) work of others for your own monetary gain can't be good for his Karma. People should act ethically in all aspects of their lives. Being in charge of a business is no excuse for unethical conduct. SCO sought $5 billion in damages from one licensee, IBM, when they only spent $7 million dollars to acquire the technology. That should tell you right there that something wasn't on the up-and-up. They claimed three teams of experts (including a team from MIT) found "mountains", "truckloads" and "millions of lines" of infringing code in Linux. I've seen no evidence that they ever hired a single expert until last year. They refused to give any evidence of infringement for years, and then claimed copyright on code written by others. I think he should be most ashamed of his claim that "contracts are what you use against people you have a relationship with" (paraphrased). Contracts are something you enter into in order to benefit both parties, not something that you should inherit 20 years later and try to find ways to reinterpret the contract so that you can sue the other party.
How would you feel if you were a musician and wrote a song, then some company came along and tried to charge people money to listen to your music? If Darl was smart, he would have simply sued IBM for contract violations and not made any sweeping claims about Linux infringing. If that had been the case then they may actually have had a chance and the public opinion wouldn't be weighed against them so heavily. As it is, their statements and actions allowed IBM to enter several counterclaims, from unfair competition to copyright violations.
The difference is that yours is a bad analogy. The coffee shop had a sign that said "Free Wireless Internet". I still don't know what the problem was. Was the problem that the guy didn't buy coffee, or that he was using the wireless from his car? If he had bought a cup of coffee and took it to his car to use his computer, would that be OK? If he sat down in the coffee shop to use his computer but didn't buy anything would that have been OK?
I think a better analogy would be restroom use in an establishment. Would you arrest someone for trespassing that entered an establishment and used the restroom without buying anything?
I was thinking her pubic hair would fall out from the chemotherapy :)
Why not train a dolphin to do the exploration? Strap a camera and sensors to it and let it do the work. Once we have that technology we can strap lasers to them!
But not just installing Linux, installing Windows is a pain also. The vast majority of people will just use whatever is on their computers when they purchase them and currently that's Microsoft Windows. If the situation were reversed, we would be talking about how Windows is out of touch with the average user.