When internet connectivity is ubiquitous and free.
And not before.
Until then, streaming won't dominate, because everything else is still needed to deal with the gaps in, and cost of, Internet connectivity. When cars start coming with radios which will no longer play music from AM, FM, or SirusXM, don't have CD or DVD drives, even for navigation data, and will only play streaming, THEN streaming will have dominated the music business(*). Not before.
(*) I am well aware the article is about revenue; revenue is, however, not the question the headline asks.
Nokia's handset business ran into problems because of idiotic management decisions, a lack of focus and poor software development. They tied their handset business to Microsoft and before they had a Windows based product on the market they announced that they were killing off their old platform. Shockingly demand for Meego and Symbian dropped like a rock.
Tell me you did not just claim that Nokia Adam Osborne'd themselves and killed off their feature phone sales in a market which could never afford a Microsoft smart phone by announcing the were going to sell a Microsoft smart phone?
Nokia: "We are going to be building something you can't afford." Shepherd in Namibia: "Well, there goes my plans to buy a Nokia feature phone!"
I guess it makes sense in the universe where Spock has a beard...
I gave my iPhone to my daughter and bought a Nexus 5 precisely because getting the operating system (iOS 7 at that point) was just one big piece of suckage [...]
I had exactly the opposite problem with Android [...]
You didn't hate your daughter enough to give her "one big piece of suckage" and take the good stuff for yourself?
I run Linux Mint on my MB Pro. The only complaint I have is that the camera is non-functional (there's active work on solving this in the community, though), but I've been quite happy with it otherwise.
sorry to ask the obvious, but... So why is this taking more than a day to solve?
Method A: (1) Put the Apple Camera driver in IDA Pro (2) Disassemble it to see what it does (3) Do what it does
Method B: (1) Throw a logic analyzer on the camera connector (2) See what the host pokes (3) Poke the camera the same way
Method C: (1) Set up two machine kernel debugging (2) Build a kernel that does early entry debugger (there's a place to uncomment in bsd_init.c) (3) Set breakpoints (4) Step through the load of the camera driver initialization (5) Step through the camera driver operations you want to be able to duplicate (6) Do the same things
Even if it's downloading a wad of firmware to the camera, this should be pretty blatantly obvious from any of these three methods, and if you have a Mac, you obviously have a license for Mac OS, and therefore a license to use the blob.
Is it just that no one who can do this care about the camera working?
Exactly. Windows is famous for doing this. I have to rewrite my viruses, trojans, and worms each time they release a new version of Windows. Why can't those assholes maintain binary backward compatibility? I mean, what's *ACTUALLY* stopping UEFI from having been designed so that my MBR + TSR virus couldn't still run on modern hardware? Are these guys idiots or something?!?!?
There is a very sizeable market for basic phones with basic features at a low price. Nokia has been serving this market successfully for many years now.
Sizable market?
I suppose this is why Nokia *didn't* go practically bankrupt, and have to sell itself to Microsoft. Oh wait, it did.
Having a sizable market that wants something, and having that market be able to afford to pay for that something are two different things. The average monthly wage in that "sizable market" won't allow the purchase of the device in numbers to make it sufficiently profitable, or Nokia would not have found itself in trouble in the first place.
To paraphrase Feynman, the situation is not as symmetrical as it first appears.
As we have learned, aptly enough from exactly the hack, inflated damages aren't inflated because they think the target would have deep enough pockets to even remotely ponder thinking about considering paying a fraction thereof. It's all part of the shock and awe strategy.
It also builds political capital for the prosecutors and law enforcement, etc., involved in pursuing the case, making it more likely to be pursued vigorously, and it's part of what gets written off the taxes as capital losses. It also moves the crime up the penalty ladder to "teach 'them' a lesson". All benefits to Sony.
This seems heavily biased to the US... or maybe low-demand skill sets.
I jump jobs regularly in AU as a contractor, I'm rarely down for more than a week, with no help from anyone (not even a recruitment agent), traveling all over AU 2-3 times a year where jobs take me.
Again, this is voluntary on your part, not the company flooding the job market with people. And yes, contracting is not the same as having a full time job, and requires the ability to sell yourself. The original article was not about sales skills, it was about "Hey! Come move out to the boonies! The water's fine!", when in fact the water is *not* fine for stereotypical job seekers in stereotypical jobs.
I've voluntarily changed jobs five times here, without more than a weekend between them.
"Voluntarily" is disloyalty on your par, and generally has only the downtime you choose to have, since you tend to explore all your options, then pick up the new job before you leave the old job.
What I was talking about was employment risk. Employment risk is the risk of your employer *leaving you in the lurch*, and what happens when that happens. In that case, it's typical that there are other people from the same company, and you are all looking for jobs at once.
For example, I was working in Tucson, Arizona when the company basically ran out of money (the new CEO had spent all of the company's buffer on telephony acquisitions, because he thought that was the next big thing), and a company that had been operating for over a decade suddenly became insolvent. Suddenly, there were 400+ people looking for work in the same job market, with roughly comparable skill sets to their peers. Tucson is a limited tech job market. I was lucky, I had an existing network, and an industry reputation. Some of my peers were not so lucky.
I didn't mention industry reputation before, because it's simply not possible for everyone to have one, and these people tend to have standing offers, even if it requires the company pay relocation for the person to take advantage of them. They're kind of irrelevant to the idea of Joe Shmoe, techie, who answers a billboard ad and moves to Omaha, only to be competing with 10 former coworkers for the same *small* set of jobs within a largely non-tech region.
So I will claim non-applicability of your case, based on (1) voluntarily means you avoided the "flash crowd" problem, and (2) You demonstrated use of a small network, and (3) it was not a case of company disloyalty to the worker.
(1) Retroactive tax write-off (2) Increased damages claims against the perpetrators (3) Marketing opportunity (4) Increased sales due to putative discount, front-loaded into the post-Christmas slump quarter
I doubt you can really find a good job within a week. Finding a really good job takes months at best.
You can if you have standing offers. Many people have multiple standing offers, at least one of which would qualify as "good". How often do you get "hit on" by a recruiter? If it's once a week, chances are good they will have a job in inventory that's to your liking. If you just hang up on them when they call, rather than maintaining an amicable relationship, then yes, it can take you a while to find a job.
You can also do it if you have the friends network that I mentioned in my first posting; put the word out you are looking, and you will likely get multiple offers. The quality of the offers will likely depend on the connectedness and quality of your friends, and whether or not they are connected in the domains where you want to work, but this is why you cultivate a network.
Both of these bring me back to the original points of why you go into a tech Mecca, rather than going to Omaha: (1) Standing offers are generally "for someone in your geographic area", and (2) Your friends network's ability to help you out is dependent on connectivity to a large enough base of companies that cover some at which you'd want to work.
But, yes: if you are in Omaha(*), it can take months, at best.
(*) I picked Omaha more or less at random, so sorry if you are a tech company in Omaha trying to hire, it was not a personal grudge.
If you work in SV, you can likely walk away from a tech job you can't stand and have another tech job inside a week. Some people can do it the same day.
If you work in Omaha Nebraska, you can walk away from a tech job you can't stand and have another job inside a week. At Pizza Hut.
There's a huge benefit to the worker to being able to switch loyalties quickly in an industry which is notoriously disloyal to their workers; some people's notification comes in the form of them coming back from a trip and finding that their badge no longer opens the door.
There are also economic factors. First, it's very east to relocate from San Francisco to Omaha, because it's an economic downslope. It's very hard to migrate from Omaha to... well, anywhere... because it's an economic upslope. The equity in your house or condo will convert out nicely, going one direction, and will end very poorly going in the other.
Finally, there are the social aspects; I'm not just talking about nightlife, or the bar scene, or sexuality issues, I'm talking about having a group of friends and acquaintances with whom you can maintain face to face contact, who are able to help you out in a job search, which simply doesn't exist, if you're looking for a tech job, but don't live in a tech Mecca. It's just not going to happen. So when your company is disloyal to you (read: let go, RIF'ed, laid off, temporarily cut back, or any of the other euphemisms), there's no reciprocity.
Gone are the days you could move to Southern Utah, go to work for Browning Arms, and write IBM 360 assembly code happily until you hit retirement age, and then collect your pension for the remainder of your life, in happy retirement. Even IBM has moved to a cash-balance pension plan, instead of a fully funded pension plan. Jobs for life are a thing of the past. And relocation, when it happens, is generally a long term thing. IF jobs don't last as long as the relocation does, and there are no alternatives: no thank you.
Thanks for the elaboration, so there's basically four different styles of glasses? Is there another 'professional' or 'official' name for normal glasses or they're basically just 'glasses' and we refer to everything else with those names? I expect there's probably a more professional name than 'coke bottle'.
"Coke Bottle" is a pejorative term referring to the lensing effect on the persons eyes in order to correct their vision. The most common reason, historically, for "Coke Bottle" lenses was cataract surgery to remove the lens of the eye, before we had the ability to replace the lens. Mostly they are provided to very small children these days, when cataracts occur earlier, and general replacement of the lens is contraindicated.
The generic professional term for all non-vanity based glasses is "corrective lenses".
There are various lenses for various conditions:
- "myopia" is near-sghtedness
- "presbyopia" is far-sightedness, and if age related, is usually corrected by over the counter "readers" or "reading glasses"
- "macular degeneration" can be age related, or caused by a number of other conditions, such as diabetes, and results in damage from the center of the retina outwards; special glasses can "work around" the problem by focussing all light as a ring around the retina outside the area of damage, and depend on the ability of the brain to reintegrate it into a normal field of view.
- "Keratoconus" is a cone shaped cornea that will prevent a full field of view, since light no longer focusses un the retina; unlike macular degeneration, there is no retina damage, and this is fully correctable with special lenses.
Generally, if you care about thee things, or just find them interesting, you can always stop by a not-very-busy Len Crafters or other similar store, and chat up their optometrist or opthamologist, or just read about them on the net.
How does watermarking a vinyl record identify who bought it, when they find the MP3 all over the Internet, again?
This is like the idiots who wantGPS in everything, not understand that GPS only allows the *thing* to *know where it is*; it does nothing for allow *you* to *know where the thing is*, unless it gets on a communications networks and *tells you*.
Good luck finding whoever ripped that MP3 from the vinyl record, and then sent it to his cousin in New Jersey, where it ends up in a used record store.
"Where the hell do you envision that those magical parallel algorithms would be used?"
When you have millions of robots running around your body, repairing your telomere length and resetting the cells Hayflick limit, and repairing other aging related damage, so you can live another 200+ years of healthy, relatively physiologically young.
You know, unless you actually *want* to be old and decrepit, and die centuries before you actually have to...
Why TF don't Apple have a slot for microSD card ike most smartphones these days.
Anyway I gave up on Apple in 1988
Usually this type of decision is based on a couple of things, and all of them really such with MicroSD:
(1) Power management; with the card it, it's hard/impossible to drive down battery usage/drive up battery life (2) It's another hole in the case to let in water/dirt/etc. (3) Speed/quality of MicroSD cards is highly variable (4) As hardware which talks directly to the driver, not through an intermediary, and effectively on the memory bus, it's an attack vector (5) They're easy to lose, compared to, say, a power brick or a laptop, where you should be crossloading your media in the first place (6) It's easy to make a mistake on insertion and damage the slot (this is the same reason it's so hard to insert/remove the SIMs) (7) Electrical damage, should someone put a metal object, such as a screwdriver or paperclip in the slot (including possible battery fire)
And the biggie:
(8) If people want an Android device, then they should buy an Android device instead
The problem with sophistry is that Aristotle himself arrived at the following "facts" through strict reasoning (as opposed to, you know counting or measuring:
(1) Women have fewer teeth than men (2) Men have a higher blood temperature than women (3) Men have fewer ribs than women (4) Eels don't reproduce, they are spontaneously generated from mud (5) The same for flies, lice, oysters, clams... all from inanimate matter. Ruined a lot of science for years.
An empiricist, he was not. If I am to have an oncologist, I prefer that he or she be an empiricist.
True communism hasn't really even been applied anywhere...
I think you are perhaps unfamiliar with the early history of the state of Utah, when it was called Deseret, and subsumed most of Nevada and part of Colorado and a corner of Wyoming. The early Mormon/LDS settlers practiced early Communism (early, because it predated Marx et. al., so obviously it wasn't called that yet).
One of the problems was when the kids wanted new pair of dungarees (which is what they were called at the time), they would tend to use a knife sharpening grinding wheel to "age" the cloth past the point of being patched.
>The other problem is the use of the DMCA in this case: unless you are the Copyright holder...you do not have standing...to assert a DMCA claim...
So what's the problem? Virtually all business-related correspondence and documents can probably be safely presumed to have been created under work-for-hire agreements which would place the copyrights firmly in Sony's possession. Thus granting them standing.
It depends on whether the emails constitute work product or not. Certainly some of the emails which I've seen would not qualify, as they were personal emails. In fact, most of the significantly inflammatory ones were personal emails to business partners and colleagues, rather than business related, other than tangentially. And these are the ones Sony would most want quashed.
For attorney/client communications, it's possible that privilege would attach. Under U.S. law, the attorney would need to be acting as such in connection with the communication in question, and the communication would have had to have been engaged for the purpose of the client seeking legal advice.
Ironically, it would probably take a court to decide whether or not the disclosure of the information to someone who was neither the attorney nor the client would qualify as an exception to privilege. This in turn would likely come down to a matter of due diligence. Even so, if the intent was to commit a crime or a tort (and it's pretty clear some of these emails qualify), then privilege does not attach.
I think the most they can do at this point is assert ownership or get a grant of agency, and issue the DMCA notices, mostly for the scripts and other material, if any, which falls under HIPPA or attorney/client privilege. This will most likely not be very satisfying to Sony, as it will most likely cover material which is being largely withheld anyway.
If you go back through medical history - right back to bubonic plague having a natural reservoir in rats' fleas - identifying how a virus has been making the jump into humans has been the first stage in controlling it.
Yersinia pestis is a bacteria, not a virus. But yes, identifying patient zero is quite important to fighting any disease.
The other thing you should probably have corrected the GP about is that we are not in a position to start any kind of wide-scale immunization program against Ebola, since we don't have a proven vaccine for it yet. It's not like scientists are holding out: we just don't have one.
however, in order to protect said automatic copyright, and have legal standing to win a lawsuit for instance, in the u.s. works must be registered with the trademark and copyright office. this, of course, was not done with the emails. this can be considered dissemination of proprietary and confidential corporate property and trade secrets, which should have at least as strong of a case for sony.. just not via dmca.
Very incorrect, on two counts:
(1) Copyright registration is merely a verifiable record of the date and content, in case of some future claim of plagarism or Copyright infringement by another party. Registration is only required on claims of statutory damages for an infringement suit, and that's valid as long as it occurs within 3 months of publication. For that to be useful to Sony, however, they would have to also establish value for the Copyright work. Since they were able to do this for the "Spectre" script, Twitter took the excerpts down. Email is a different matter.
(2) AT&T USL attempted to pull the "Trade Secret" trick of having their cake and eating it to in the AT&T USL v. The Regents of the University of California at Berkeley. The problem with Trade Secret disclosure is once a secret is disclosed, it's no longer secret. You can Patent something (requires disclosure) or you can Copyright something (also requires disclosure). In exchange for that disclosure, you are then granted certain legal protections, but those protections do not attach to Trade Secrets. For a Trade Secret, in order to collect damages, you, again, have to establish a value for the Secret. But - and this is a big one - you can only collect those damages against the original discloser - you are not permitted to seek out deep pockets. So Sony can take it up with North Korea (or whoever we've decided was responsible this week), but they can't take it up with this Twitter user, unless they can prove he was the disclosing party. So again: any trade secrets in to emails is *gone*.
The other problem is the use of the DMCA in this case: unless you are the Copyright holder, or you are a designated agent acting on behalf of the Copyright holder, you do not have standing, under the law, to assert a DMCA claim on behalf of someone else. This was the problem that a number of the DMCA takedown companies had with their third party takedown notices. This was actually precisely what occurred in the Righthaven v. Wayne Hoehn case.
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I'm sure colorblind people will appreciate the color-coded maps.
When internet connectivity is ubiquitous and free.
And not before.
Until then, streaming won't dominate, because everything else is still needed to deal with the gaps in, and cost of, Internet connectivity. When cars start coming with radios which will no longer play music from AM, FM, or SirusXM, don't have CD or DVD drives, even for navigation data, and will only play streaming, THEN streaming will have dominated the music business(*). Not before.
(*) I am well aware the article is about revenue; revenue is, however, not the question the headline asks.
Nokia's handset business ran into problems because of idiotic management decisions, a lack of focus and poor software development. They tied their handset business to Microsoft and before they had a Windows based product on the market they announced that they were killing off their old platform. Shockingly demand for Meego and Symbian dropped like a rock.
Tell me you did not just claim that Nokia Adam Osborne'd themselves and killed off their feature phone sales in a market which could never afford a Microsoft smart phone by announcing the were going to sell a Microsoft smart phone?
Nokia: "We are going to be building something you can't afford."
Shepherd in Namibia: "Well, there goes my plans to buy a Nokia feature phone!"
I guess it makes sense in the universe where Spock has a beard...
I gave my iPhone to my daughter and bought a Nexus 5 precisely because getting the operating system (iOS 7 at that point) was just one big piece of suckage [...]
I had exactly the opposite problem with Android [...]
You didn't hate your daughter enough to give her "one big piece of suckage" and take the good stuff for yourself?
I run Linux Mint on my MB Pro. The only complaint I have is that the camera is non-functional (there's active work on solving this in the community, though), but I've been quite happy with it otherwise.
sorry to ask the obvious, but... So why is this taking more than a day to solve?
Method A:
(1) Put the Apple Camera driver in IDA Pro
(2) Disassemble it to see what it does
(3) Do what it does
Method B:
(1) Throw a logic analyzer on the camera connector
(2) See what the host pokes
(3) Poke the camera the same way
Method C:
(1) Set up two machine kernel debugging
(2) Build a kernel that does early entry debugger (there's a place to uncomment in bsd_init.c)
(3) Set breakpoints
(4) Step through the load of the camera driver initialization
(5) Step through the camera driver operations you want to be able to duplicate
(6) Do the same things
Even if it's downloading a wad of firmware to the camera, this should be pretty blatantly obvious from any of these three methods, and if you have a Mac, you obviously have a license for Mac OS, and therefore a license to use the blob.
Is it just that no one who can do this care about the camera working?
Why should old apps break in the new OS?
Exactly. Windows is famous for doing this. I have to rewrite my viruses, trojans, and worms each time they release a new version of Windows. Why can't those assholes maintain binary backward compatibility? I mean, what's *ACTUALLY* stopping UEFI from having been designed so that my MBR + TSR virus couldn't still run on modern hardware? Are these guys idiots or something?!?!?
There is a very sizeable market for basic phones with basic features at a low price. Nokia has been serving this market successfully for many years now.
Sizable market?
I suppose this is why Nokia *didn't* go practically bankrupt, and have to sell itself to Microsoft. Oh wait, it did.
Having a sizable market that wants something, and having that market be able to afford to pay for that something are two different things. The average monthly wage in that "sizable market" won't allow the purchase of the device in numbers to make it sufficiently profitable, or Nokia would not have found itself in trouble in the first place.
To paraphrase Feynman, the situation is not as symmetrical as it first appears.
As we have learned, aptly enough from exactly the hack, inflated damages aren't inflated because they think the target would have deep enough pockets to even remotely ponder thinking about considering paying a fraction thereof. It's all part of the shock and awe strategy.
It also builds political capital for the prosecutors and law enforcement, etc., involved in pursuing the case, making it more likely to be pursued vigorously, and it's part of what gets written off the taxes as capital losses. It also moves the crime up the penalty ladder to "teach 'them' a lesson". All benefits to Sony.
This seems heavily biased to the US... or maybe low-demand skill sets.
I jump jobs regularly in AU as a contractor, I'm rarely down for more than a week, with no help from anyone (not even a recruitment agent), traveling all over AU 2-3 times a year where jobs take me.
Again, this is voluntary on your part, not the company flooding the job market with people. And yes, contracting is not the same as having a full time job, and requires the ability to sell yourself. The original article was not about sales skills, it was about "Hey! Come move out to the boonies! The water's fine!", when in fact the water is *not* fine for stereotypical job seekers in stereotypical jobs.
I've voluntarily changed jobs five times here, without more than a weekend between them.
"Voluntarily" is disloyalty on your par, and generally has only the downtime you choose to have, since you tend to explore all your options, then pick up the new job before you leave the old job.
What I was talking about was employment risk. Employment risk is the risk of your employer *leaving you in the lurch*, and what happens when that happens. In that case, it's typical that there are other people from the same company, and you are all looking for jobs at once.
For example, I was working in Tucson, Arizona when the company basically ran out of money (the new CEO had spent all of the company's buffer on telephony acquisitions, because he thought that was the next big thing), and a company that had been operating for over a decade suddenly became insolvent. Suddenly, there were 400+ people looking for work in the same job market, with roughly comparable skill sets to their peers. Tucson is a limited tech job market. I was lucky, I had an existing network, and an industry reputation. Some of my peers were not so lucky.
I didn't mention industry reputation before, because it's simply not possible for everyone to have one, and these people tend to have standing offers, even if it requires the company pay relocation for the person to take advantage of them. They're kind of irrelevant to the idea of Joe Shmoe, techie, who answers a billboard ad and moves to Omaha, only to be competing with 10 former coworkers for the same *small* set of jobs within a largely non-tech region.
So I will claim non-applicability of your case, based on (1) voluntarily means you avoided the "flash crowd" problem, and (2) You demonstrated use of a small network, and (3) it was not a case of company disloyalty to the worker.
Great strategy for Sony...
(1) Retroactive tax write-off
(2) Increased damages claims against the perpetrators
(3) Marketing opportunity
(4) Increased sales due to putative discount, front-loaded into the post-Christmas slump quarter
What's not to like about this for Sony?
I doubt you can really find a good job within a week.
Finding a really good job takes months at best.
You can if you have standing offers. Many people have multiple standing offers, at least one of which would qualify as "good". How often do you get "hit on" by a recruiter? If it's once a week, chances are good they will have a job in inventory that's to your liking. If you just hang up on them when they call, rather than maintaining an amicable relationship, then yes, it can take you a while to find a job.
You can also do it if you have the friends network that I mentioned in my first posting; put the word out you are looking, and you will likely get multiple offers. The quality of the offers will likely depend on the connectedness and quality of your friends, and whether or not they are connected in the domains where you want to work, but this is why you cultivate a network.
Both of these bring me back to the original points of why you go into a tech Mecca, rather than going to Omaha: (1) Standing offers are generally "for someone in your geographic area", and (2) Your friends network's ability to help you out is dependent on connectivity to a large enough base of companies that cover some at which you'd want to work.
But, yes: if you are in Omaha(*), it can take months, at best.
(*) I picked Omaha more or less at random, so sorry if you are a tech company in Omaha trying to hire, it was not a personal grudge.
No. Reciprocal loyalty is dead.
If you work in SV, you can likely walk away from a tech job you can't stand and have another tech job inside a week. Some people can do it the same day.
If you work in Omaha Nebraska, you can walk away from a tech job you can't stand and have another job inside a week. At Pizza Hut.
There's a huge benefit to the worker to being able to switch loyalties quickly in an industry which is notoriously disloyal to their workers; some people's notification comes in the form of them coming back from a trip and finding that their badge no longer opens the door.
There are also economic factors. First, it's very east to relocate from San Francisco to Omaha, because it's an economic downslope. It's very hard to migrate from Omaha to ... well, anywhere ... because it's an economic upslope. The equity in your house or condo will convert out nicely, going one direction, and will end very poorly going in the other.
Finally, there are the social aspects; I'm not just talking about nightlife, or the bar scene, or sexuality issues, I'm talking about having a group of friends and acquaintances with whom you can maintain face to face contact, who are able to help you out in a job search, which simply doesn't exist, if you're looking for a tech job, but don't live in a tech Mecca. It's just not going to happen. So when your company is disloyal to you (read: let go, RIF'ed, laid off, temporarily cut back, or any of the other euphemisms), there's no reciprocity.
Gone are the days you could move to Southern Utah, go to work for Browning Arms, and write IBM 360 assembly code happily until you hit retirement age, and then collect your pension for the remainder of your life, in happy retirement. Even IBM has moved to a cash-balance pension plan, instead of a fully funded pension plan. Jobs for life are a thing of the past. And relocation, when it happens, is generally a long term thing. IF jobs don't last as long as the relocation does, and there are no alternatives: no thank you.
SSH connections take For. Eh. Ver. relatively speaking:
gethotbyaddr + getpeername + gethostbyname
Try configuring your DNS correctly; the reason it's fast with Google as a remote host is that their DNS is correctly configured.
Thanks for the elaboration, so there's basically four different styles of glasses? Is there another 'professional' or 'official' name for normal glasses or they're basically just 'glasses' and we refer to everything else with those names? I expect there's probably a more professional name than 'coke bottle'.
"Coke Bottle" is a pejorative term referring to the lensing effect on the persons eyes in order to correct their vision. The most common reason, historically, for "Coke Bottle" lenses was cataract surgery to remove the lens of the eye, before we had the ability to replace the lens. Mostly they are provided to very small children these days, when cataracts occur earlier, and general replacement of the lens is contraindicated.
The generic professional term for all non-vanity based glasses is "corrective lenses".
There are various lenses for various conditions:
- "myopia" is near-sghtedness
- "presbyopia" is far-sightedness, and if age related, is usually corrected by over the counter "readers" or "reading glasses"
- "macular degeneration" can be age related, or caused by a number of other conditions, such as diabetes, and results in damage from the center of the retina outwards; special glasses can "work around" the problem by focussing all light as a ring around the retina outside the area of damage, and depend on the ability of the brain to reintegrate it into a normal field of view.
- "Keratoconus" is a cone shaped cornea that will prevent a full field of view, since light no longer focusses un the retina; unlike macular degeneration, there is no retina damage, and this is fully correctable with special lenses.
Generally, if you care about thee things, or just find them interesting, you can always stop by a not-very-busy Len Crafters or other similar store, and chat up their optometrist or opthamologist, or just read about them on the net.
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peace out...
How does watermarking a vinyl record identify who bought it, when they find the MP3 all over the Internet, again?
This is like the idiots who wantGPS in everything, not understand that GPS only allows the *thing* to *know where it is*; it does nothing for allow *you* to *know where the thing is*, unless it gets on a communications networks and *tells you*.
Good luck finding whoever ripped that MP3 from the vinyl record, and then sent it to his cousin in New Jersey, where it ends up in a used record store.
Second sentence:
Tomasetti crunched the numbers and compared them with actual cancer statistics, he concluded that this theory explained two-thirds of all cancers.
That's correlation, not causation. It's bad science.
Answering Linus' "Where the hell..." question:
"Where the hell do you envision that those magical parallel algorithms would be used?"
When you have millions of robots running around your body, repairing your telomere length and resetting the cells Hayflick limit, and repairing other aging related damage, so you can live another 200+ years of healthy, relatively physiologically young.
You know, unless you actually *want* to be old and decrepit, and die centuries before you actually have to...
Why TF don't Apple have a slot for microSD card ike most smartphones these days.
Anyway I gave up on Apple in 1988
Usually this type of decision is based on a couple of things, and all of them really such with MicroSD:
(1) Power management; with the card it, it's hard/impossible to drive down battery usage/drive up battery life
(2) It's another hole in the case to let in water/dirt/etc.
(3) Speed/quality of MicroSD cards is highly variable
(4) As hardware which talks directly to the driver, not through an intermediary, and effectively on the memory bus, it's an attack vector
(5) They're easy to lose, compared to, say, a power brick or a laptop, where you should be crossloading your media in the first place
(6) It's easy to make a mistake on insertion and damage the slot (this is the same reason it's so hard to insert/remove the SIMs)
(7) Electrical damage, should someone put a metal object, such as a screwdriver or paperclip in the slot (including possible battery fire)
And the biggie:
(8) If people want an Android device, then they should buy an Android device instead
The article says:
Thus, Tomasetti and Vogelstein reasoned, ...
The problem with sophistry is that Aristotle himself arrived at the following "facts" through strict reasoning (as opposed to, you know counting or measuring:
(1) Women have fewer teeth than men
(2) Men have a higher blood temperature than women
(3) Men have fewer ribs than women
(4) Eels don't reproduce, they are spontaneously generated from mud
(5) The same for flies, lice, oysters, clams... all from inanimate matter. Ruined a lot of science for years.
An empiricist, he was not. If I am to have an oncologist, I prefer that he or she be an empiricist.
True communism hasn't really even been applied anywhere...
I think you are perhaps unfamiliar with the early history of the state of Utah, when it was called Deseret, and subsumed most of Nevada and part of Colorado and a corner of Wyoming. The early Mormon/LDS settlers practiced early Communism (early, because it predated Marx et. al., so obviously it wasn't called that yet).
One of the problems was when the kids wanted new pair of dungarees (which is what they were called at the time), they would tend to use a knife sharpening grinding wheel to "age" the cloth past the point of being patched.
>The other problem is the use of the DMCA in this case: unless you are the Copyright holder...you do not have standing...to assert a DMCA claim...
So what's the problem? Virtually all business-related correspondence and documents can probably be safely presumed to have been created under work-for-hire agreements which would place the copyrights firmly in Sony's possession. Thus granting them standing.
It depends on whether the emails constitute work product or not. Certainly some of the emails which I've seen would not qualify, as they were personal emails. In fact, most of the significantly inflammatory ones were personal emails to business partners and colleagues, rather than business related, other than tangentially. And these are the ones Sony would most want quashed.
For attorney/client communications, it's possible that privilege would attach. Under U.S. law, the attorney would need to be acting as such in connection with the communication in question, and the communication would have had to have been engaged for the purpose of the client seeking legal advice.
Ironically, it would probably take a court to decide whether or not the disclosure of the information to someone who was neither the attorney nor the client would qualify as an exception to privilege. This in turn would likely come down to a matter of due diligence. Even so, if the intent was to commit a crime or a tort (and it's pretty clear some of these emails qualify), then privilege does not attach.
I think the most they can do at this point is assert ownership or get a grant of agency, and issue the DMCA notices, mostly for the scripts and other material, if any, which falls under HIPPA or attorney/client privilege. This will most likely not be very satisfying to Sony, as it will most likely cover material which is being largely withheld anyway.
If you go back through medical history - right back to bubonic plague having a natural reservoir in rats' fleas - identifying how a virus has been making the jump into humans has been the first stage in controlling it.
Yersinia pestis is a bacteria, not a virus. But yes, identifying patient zero is quite important to fighting any disease.
The other thing you should probably have corrected the GP about is that we are not in a position to start any kind of wide-scale immunization program against Ebola, since we don't have a proven vaccine for it yet. It's not like scientists are holding out: we just don't have one.
however, in order to protect said automatic copyright, and have legal standing to win a lawsuit for instance, in the u.s. works must be registered with the trademark and copyright office. this, of course, was not done with the emails. this can be considered dissemination of proprietary and confidential corporate property and trade secrets, which should have at least as strong of a case for sony.. just not via dmca.
Very incorrect, on two counts:
(1) Copyright registration is merely a verifiable record of the date and content, in case of some future claim of plagarism or Copyright infringement by another party. Registration is only required on claims of statutory damages for an infringement suit, and that's valid as long as it occurs within 3 months of publication. For that to be useful to Sony, however, they would have to also establish value for the Copyright work. Since they were able to do this for the "Spectre" script, Twitter took the excerpts down. Email is a different matter.
(2) AT&T USL attempted to pull the "Trade Secret" trick of having their cake and eating it to in the AT&T USL v. The Regents of the University of California at Berkeley. The problem with Trade Secret disclosure is once a secret is disclosed, it's no longer secret. You can Patent something (requires disclosure) or you can Copyright something (also requires disclosure). In exchange for that disclosure, you are then granted certain legal protections, but those protections do not attach to Trade Secrets. For a Trade Secret, in order to collect damages, you, again, have to establish a value for the Secret. But - and this is a big one - you can only collect those damages against the original discloser - you are not permitted to seek out deep pockets. So Sony can take it up with North Korea (or whoever we've decided was responsible this week), but they can't take it up with this Twitter user, unless they can prove he was the disclosing party. So again: any trade secrets in to emails is *gone*.
The other problem is the use of the DMCA in this case: unless you are the Copyright holder, or you are a designated agent acting on behalf of the Copyright holder, you do not have standing, under the law, to assert a DMCA claim on behalf of someone else. This was the problem that a number of the DMCA takedown companies had with their third party takedown notices. This was actually precisely what occurred in the Righthaven v. Wayne Hoehn case.
It won't get much love, but... There's always Chromebooks.