I am torn between being gleeful and wanting to buy just one share for the trophy. I am afraid that others will get the idea and the price will rise beyond the point they will be saved from delisting. I want them delisted.
They had a paypal donate button, and contributers would be selected at random over the course of a week or two and one lucky person would win something. I had seen 128MB Vid cards and stuff. Nothing shockingly expensive. Looked like a bunch of promo stuff from their advertizers. the Waybackmachine has little on it but it met your test. As to US law, well the site was (see above link) hosted in Oslo. The registry is out of NE. The DNS is now hosted in NYC not Olso, so who can say. But the page a pretty light affair.
Thanks for the link about lotteries. Has I understood what they were doing it would fit the " If it is a sweepstakes, winners are selected in a random drawing from all eligible entries received." Exact details are now unavailable.
As galaxies grow older isn't it likely that the ratio of burnable hydrogen to non-burnable heavier elements would pass the densities needed to create a star. I wonder if this mechanics would not lead to postuating why there are black holes. Is this how the universe deals with non-burnables. Once all the stars have burned out there isn't anything to keep the universe from colapsing and so it's big bang time again.
We may be seeing a chunk of heavier elements but these are left over from the big bang.
Webservers and P2P aside that sort of upload sucks. For that reason I haven't gone to Speakeasy either. If I want to upload work or a large-ish datafile to a server I might as well use dialup or ISDN. ISPs pay for out going, not incoming. If I am using it for business I am gonna want both up and down. Especially if I am getting slashdotted.
I did because it applies to the process that Slashdot uses to moderate. The software inadvertently promotes a mindset. While it does not dictate that mindset it does reward those who follow a pattern that is in keeping with those who also follow that pattern.
Candidates are selected from those who have appeased enough moderators to get a good karma. Moderations are meta-moderated by Moderator candidates. The more karma you have the more times you moderate and meta-moderate. There are a few super-users like Pudge and CmdrTaco fine-tuning and pushing debate, but on the whole it's automatic.
If you step out of this pattern you criple yourself. I will admit to doing some of this myself. Everytime during the last national election that someone brought up a political statement that I though was just unoriginal parroting I marked them down. To the extent of actually using keyword searches to help me kill off just those posts. At this point I realised I was censoring opinion, not acting in good faith, which is why I quit moderating. I wanted to keep a hold on my real karma and slashdot be damned.
While I quit, others still continue and this enforces a group think.
Sounds like a late '90s style dotcom Having worked at that those I can tell you, you both can and can't leave. I would expect a bounty system internal to the company that didn't get reported. Bricks of gold which I have seen on ebay are pretty easy to get, They are spawned by the systems you just need a map to find them. But, when your get into stuff like a Amulet of Yendor that's where the company makes real money. That takes skill to obtain and skill is skill even in the third world. What that tells me is that talented people are from everywhere.
I am really not complaining here. I do admit I focused on the unpopular thought issue a bit much and I could care less about karma whores. I saw my post as a theory to explain about why it worked and how the effect is pertained to Slashdot.
"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
--Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)
Yes yes, karma-whoring again, go ahead and say it.
I would have marked it as Obvious, but this isn't Fark.
This isn't Tautology it's Technology. Using a codified process to obtain a result.
Or didn't you notice the point of the experiment was to test their publisher's claims of quality. This is after all News for nerds, stuff that matters and at least some of us want to get published even if it's for fan fiction about which Star Trek Captian is best. Making complaints about reduncancy is griping about moderations. If your currently not a moderator then pour yourself a nice cup of STFU.
Good or bad doesn't matter. If you sync with their expectations you get published. Karma whores here have realised that. The Slashdot process is impartial to a degree and otherwise blind. The decline has encouraged Group Think and UNPOPULAR opinion is caught by the mechinism.
Like here at slashdot there isn't a variety of styles mingling. One theory has won the darwinian battle and thus realising it they have gamed that system.
Any of the fighting games like tribes 2 or HL will work on your hand/eye not really your heart. Side-scrolling and Team sports where your with a bunch of people around a couch shouting might get you a workout. But it's the sexy games that will get your blood going. Good old Strip poker is the best for that. Again, that not the kind the article is talking about.
Collecting resource games like Age of whatever etc will make you fatter. As will the online ones like Fable, NWN etc. I don't see much from online poker, unless your stupid enough to bet on it, then your just doing the nervous sweat.
Sun is sitting on a bunch of patents that they are not using for anything. Kudos to them that they want to see them taken somewhere by somebody. When was the last time you gave somebody a computer that cost you bucks back in the day but is now a door stop?
Looks like a hole a mile wide here. A Derivative work would only apply to a commentary on the subject and only to the original portions. Under fair use, I can use a sample of a work, be it a bit of text or picture or sound in context with building an arguement or acting in a journalistic fashion and reporting about it. Since I am not using the whole of it, it's fair use. I could use part of your comment thus;
"your own unrestricted copy of a PD text" - CaptainCheese (724779)
that would be fair use. but to use it without CaptainCheese (724779) it would be clear plagerism. If I were to copy the full funtionally unedited text of your post (I won't), then bracket it with text about where it came from then would I now be the possessor of the text's copyright? It's like saying a photocopy becomes a legal copyright, simply by making a copy.
On your second statement, A demand for a pure source like a untainted copy of the original is comical. It's like demanding a printer who makes bibles to obtain a copy of a Gutenberg original, or maybe even a scroll from the 1st century.
All they did was to copy the text into another form and effectively transmit it. Were I to walk into a Metallica concert and tape it I would be violating their copyright but if instead of recording it I used a transmitter and had a receiver record it elsewhere would that make it legally mine? This is not a copyright, it's pillage or in this case graverobbing.
Since in this case the subject work is about a vampire it's rather funny.
I was looking at a 1800's vampire story out of a penny dreadful called Varney the Vampire, or The Feast of Blood (1847), seems the University of Viginia has made a claim on it as to copyright. While I admit it's nice of them to transcribe it to etext my question was, do they have a right to claim it for copyright just because they transcribed it into a different media or is this meerly FUD?
True they claim that it's not availible for commerical use but if I was to use it as basis for say a Graphic Novel or print edition they would have no rights to defend. Regardless of the effort it took to produce the work, the fact is that they have no rights. Anymore then a printer would. The author Thomas Preskett Prest had been dead over even the puffed up copyright of 90 years. Arno Press, which published a version in 1970 can't create a copyright from use of a public domain source. Even then copyright had already lapsed.
The point I am trying to make here is that claimed copyrights are mostly faked. UofV has no protection, never had never will. Likewise with Arno Press.
The only thing I would worry about is that the story was Biographical (un-biographical) in nature and not a work of fiction. Then I may have Varney show up on my doorstep some night wanting to take a bite out of me.
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YAST is open source, you can download it and compile it and put it on anything besides Windoze.
I am torn between being gleeful and wanting to buy just one share for the trophy. I am afraid that others will get the idea and the price will rise beyond the point they will be saved from delisting. I want them delisted.
Merlin - What is that root?
Morgana - Mandrake, the essence of it can prolong the act of love
Merlin - And if too much is taken?
Morgana - Pain and Death.
Relevanice? None. Just liked that bit in Borman's Excalibur.
And if your wondering what my distro is, it's SuSE, because she wears short skirts and big black leather boots...
Thanks for the link about lotteries. Has I understood what they were doing it would fit the " If it is a sweepstakes, winners are selected in a random drawing from all eligible entries received." Exact details are now unavailable.
Donate X amount or more and win some prize. It was innovative and I may use it in the future myself. As to the hoax? I got nothing.
We may be seeing a chunk of heavier elements but these are left over from the big bang.
The science fictions possiblilites are endless.
BTW Galaxy of Terror (1981) was a kind of cool flick.
Webservers and P2P aside that sort of upload sucks. For that reason I haven't gone to Speakeasy either. If I want to upload work or a large-ish datafile to a server I might as well use dialup or ISDN. ISPs pay for out going, not incoming. If I am using it for business I am gonna want both up and down. Especially if I am getting slashdotted.
That was some really good nyborg man.
But seriously I this could affect me as I own a few real words.
Having read the article I would say it's a gas.....
"I see dumb people... ...they're everywhere... ...they walk around like everyone else... ...they don't even know that they're dumb...
...They Post Here!"
And...
Some of them...
Candidates are selected from those who have appeased enough moderators to get a good karma. Moderations are meta-moderated by Moderator candidates. The more karma you have the more times you moderate and meta-moderate. There are a few super-users like Pudge and CmdrTaco fine-tuning and pushing debate, but on the whole it's automatic.
If you step out of this pattern you criple yourself. I will admit to doing some of this myself. Everytime during the last national election that someone brought up a political statement that I though was just unoriginal parroting I marked them down. To the extent of actually using keyword searches to help me kill off just those posts. At this point I realised I was censoring opinion, not acting in good faith, which is why I quit moderating. I wanted to keep a hold on my real karma and slashdot be damned.
While I quit, others still continue and this enforces a group think.
Sounds like a late '90s style dotcom Having worked at that those I can tell you, you both can and can't leave. I would expect a bounty system internal to the company that didn't get reported. Bricks of gold which I have seen on ebay are pretty easy to get, They are spawned by the systems you just need a map to find them. But, when your get into stuff like a Amulet of Yendor that's where the company makes real money. That takes skill to obtain and skill is skill even in the third world. What that tells me is that talented people are from everywhere.
I am really not complaining here. I do admit I focused on the unpopular thought issue a bit much and I could care less about karma whores. I saw my post as a theory to explain about why it worked and how the effect is pertained to Slashdot.
"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
--Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)
Yes yes, karma-whoring again, go ahead and say it.
Good one, my karma is stuck on spiffy and I unchecked the moderations box. Karma-whores get paid by becoming moderators, I would say I'm a Karma-slut.
This isn't Tautology it's Technology. Using a codified process to obtain a result.
Or didn't you notice the point of the experiment was to test their publisher's claims of quality. This is after all News for nerds, stuff that matters and at least some of us want to get published even if it's for fan fiction about which Star Trek Captian is best. Making complaints about reduncancy is griping about moderations. If your currently not a moderator then pour yourself a nice cup of STFU.
Like here at slashdot there isn't a variety of styles mingling. One theory has won the darwinian battle and thus realising it they have gamed that system.
Entropy is a law after all.
Yes, but it was worth mocking. Have you stopped to consider your a humorless clod?
Collecting resource games like Age of whatever etc will make you fatter. As will the online ones like Fable, NWN etc. I don't see much from online poker, unless your stupid enough to bet on it, then your just doing the nervous sweat.
Adding your own after market ink is not allowed. You violate your prodect warrantee and reduce profit margin. (Mostly the latter)
Sun is sitting on a bunch of patents that they are not using for anything. Kudos to them that they want to see them taken somewhere by somebody. When was the last time you gave somebody a computer that cost you bucks back in the day but is now a door stop?
Looks like a hole a mile wide here. A Derivative work would only apply to a commentary on the subject and only to the original portions. Under fair use, I can use a sample of a work, be it a bit of text or picture or sound in context with building an arguement or acting in a journalistic fashion and reporting about it. Since I am not using the whole of it, it's fair use. I could use part of your comment thus;
"your own unrestricted copy of a PD text" - CaptainCheese (724779)
that would be fair use. but to use it without CaptainCheese (724779) it would be clear plagerism. If I were to copy the full funtionally unedited text of your post (I won't), then bracket it with text about where it came from then would I now be the possessor of the text's copyright? It's like saying a photocopy becomes a legal copyright, simply by making a copy.
On your second statement, A demand for a pure source like a untainted copy of the original is comical. It's like demanding a printer who makes bibles to obtain a copy of a Gutenberg original, or maybe even a scroll from the 1st century.
All they did was to copy the text into another form and effectively transmit it. Were I to walk into a Metallica concert and tape it I would be violating their copyright but if instead of recording it I used a transmitter and had a receiver record it elsewhere would that make it legally mine? This is not a copyright, it's pillage or in this case graverobbing.
Since in this case the subject work is about a vampire it's rather funny.
True they claim that it's not availible for commerical use but if I was to use it as basis for say a Graphic Novel or print edition they would have no rights to defend. Regardless of the effort it took to produce the work, the fact is that they have no rights. Anymore then a printer would. The author Thomas Preskett Prest had been dead over even the puffed up copyright of 90 years. Arno Press, which published a version in 1970 can't create a copyright from use of a public domain source. Even then copyright had already lapsed.
The point I am trying to make here is that claimed copyrights are mostly faked. UofV has no protection, never had never will. Likewise with Arno Press.
The only thing I would worry about is that the story was Biographical (un-biographical) in nature and not a work of fiction. Then I may have Varney show up on my doorstep some night wanting to take a bite out of me.