well, the person sharing starts a copy that goes out into the ether, and then the person recieving makes another. then the first copy is deleted
Well, no... The "person sharing" didn't start anything, hell they didn't even have to be in the country at the time. As for how many copies were made, and where/when that all depends on the protocols used, and has little to do with the question...
Ok, the question here is: As someone who is running a program that has the capability of creating a copy, is (s)he legally responsible for all copies it creates?
And does who's equipment is used matter?
This is especially pertinent in Canada, where creating your own copy is legal, but having someone else create it for you isn't.
So, when the downloader tells their computer to tell the "uploader"'s computer to send them a copy (which is in fact what is happening), is the "uploader" doing the copying, or is the downloader doing the copying using the "uploader"'s computer???
Strictly speaking, it soulds like the latter (legal in Canada) method to me, but IANAL and don't know what the legal word on this says, or if there's some kind of clause to hold "uploaders" responsible.
While I don't use it, I beleive Opera 7's mail client is designed to allow you to do just that. You can create as many categories as you like, and any given email may belong to any combination of them.
This is the best way to generate a seed I've seen yet for GBA programming. Of course, then you have to code in a proper pseudo-random number funtion as well, so even if your seed is pretty random, your series can still be screwed up if you're not using a good one.
Water does not generally contain air. Boiling does not generally release air.
When water heats up past it's boiling point, it will start to convert to water vapor. In order to do so though, it needs a point for the newly forming vapor to "crystalyze". This usually happens at the water's edge, but since there's no spot rough enough in the container, it is unable to do this in these situations. Adding any foreign material will provide that point, and allow the water to convert to vapour. Very much vapor. That's what throws the rest of the water out of the container at high speeds. This is all explained in the article.
Nothing in that procedure prevents the same water from being gathered back up, and being superheated again. And once superheated, it will behave the same as it did the first time it was superheated.
Again, the same water can EASILY be boiled more than once.
No, actually, the problem is, they HAVE gotten "past this one thing", but MS and other companies have bought the politicians, and they've made it illegal to do something that should be none of their buisness.
People are complaining because laws have been passed that are equivilant to saying it's illegal to drive on non-toll roads (and as such also banning off-roading).
I know when I buy a FORD truck, I damn well expect to be able to drive it on any of my property, not just on FORD approved roads.
I dunno, it sounds like a good way to stifle the original speech to me. If some newspaper says something about me (true or not) that I don't want to be heard, suddenly they're responsible for printing my 3000 page reply each time?
Guess how many newspapers would still say things about me after that?
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My dad and I actually came up with the idea to charge for test drives at local malls, at $1/min, there are bound to be dozens of people willing to pay each day.
The logistics became a problem though when trying to get insurance, as well as the fact that we'd have to travel to the US to take training before they'd ship us any segways. And on top of all that, according to their sales, we could only order 2.
Well, if you're willing to go with USB, there are some very cool things being done at the University of Calgary, and they have comercialized some very handy interface devices dubbed "phidgets" which are as easy to program as any other interface widget. The web site can be found at http://www.phidgets.com/ I highly recommend you check it out.
I've always wondered why digital wasn't considered a subset of analog. I mean, there's no way to send/store anything digitally (though create, maybe). It's all voltage differences, magnetic feilds, and/or moving parts, nothing that can truely be "1" or "0". Just because they chose some strange way of encoding their information doesn't make it any less analog.
Also an interesting take on this: Because Canadians pay a levy on blank media, we have a law that states that copying music (and only music) for your personal use is completely legal.
So if a Canadian downloads copyrighted music, they would be making themselves a perfectly lawful personal copy.
Seems to me it would be stupid of them to have changed. Make a run of 3.2Ghz processors, some will fail. But if they run at 2.6Ghz, then you've got another processor to sell.
What was great was back when the yeilds were so high that they were selling processors that would work at 450-600Mhz as 300Mhz just to fill the demand for the 300s.
I heard about programs that accomplished this very same thing nearly 3 years ago in oneof my comp sci courses, so I was a bit surprized to see it as "news" now.
Turns out I got an early scoop on it I guess, my prof for that course is one of the co-researchers listed on this page.
We were actually given links to working apps that would accomplish this behavior (which of course, I have since lost), and I'm disapointed that this article does not mention them.
As a recent Comp Sci grad I can say: "been there, done that"
I've moved on. I'm now doing temp labour for light industrial (mostly sweeping/heavy lifting). Can't say it pays well, but it's better than flipping burgers was.
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well, the person sharing starts a copy that goes out into the ether, and then the person recieving makes another. then the first copy is deleted
Well, no... The "person sharing" didn't start anything, hell they didn't even have to be in the country at the time. As for how many copies were made, and where/when that all depends on the protocols used, and has little to do with the question...
Ok, the question here is: As someone who is running a program that has the capability of creating a copy, is (s)he legally responsible for all copies it creates?
And does who's equipment is used matter?
This is especially pertinent in Canada, where creating your own copy is legal, but having someone else create it for you isn't.
So, when the downloader tells their computer to tell the "uploader"'s computer to send them a copy (which is in fact what is happening), is the "uploader" doing the copying, or is the downloader doing the copying using the "uploader"'s computer???
Strictly speaking, it soulds like the latter (legal in Canada) method to me, but IANAL and don't know what the legal word on this says, or if there's some kind of clause to hold "uploaders" responsible.
While I don't use it, I beleive Opera 7's mail client is designed to allow you to do just that. You can create as many categories as you like, and any given email may belong to any combination of them.
What do you want to bet half the SPAMs sent are "from" MS? :)
There is. It's called "Insightful".
I didn't think the GBA was THAT old. :P
This is the best way to generate a seed I've seen yet for GBA programming. Of course, then you have to code in a proper pseudo-random number funtion as well, so even if your seed is pretty random, your series can still be screwed up if you're not using a good one.
Interestingly enough, we don't have enough helium (known anyhow) left to "mine" out to last us through 5 more decades, let alone this new super-race.
Water does not generally contain air. Boiling does not generally release air.
When water heats up past it's boiling point, it will start to convert to water vapor. In order to do so though, it needs a point for the newly forming vapor to "crystalyze". This usually happens at the water's edge, but since there's no spot rough enough in the container, it is unable to do this in these situations. Adding any foreign material will provide that point, and allow the water to convert to vapour. Very much vapor. That's what throws the rest of the water out of the container at high speeds.
This is all explained in the article.
Nothing in that procedure prevents the same water from being gathered back up, and being superheated again. And once superheated, it will behave the same as it did the first time it was superheated.
Again, the same water can EASILY be boiled more than once.
Yes, I knew all of that. Nowhere does it say you can't superheat/boil water more than once...
You're telling me you can only boil water once? And after that it just sits there?? ummmmmm...
No, actually, the problem is, they HAVE gotten "past this one thing", but MS and other companies have bought the politicians, and they've made it illegal to do something that should be none of their buisness.
People are complaining because laws have been passed that are equivilant to saying it's illegal to drive on non-toll roads (and as such also banning off-roading).
I know when I buy a FORD truck, I damn well expect to be able to drive it on any of my property, not just on FORD approved roads.
I dunno, it sounds like a good way to stifle the original speech to me. If some newspaper says something about me (true or not) that I don't want to be heard, suddenly they're responsible for printing my 3000 page reply each time?
Guess how many newspapers would still say things about me after that?
My dad and I actually came up with the idea to charge for test drives at local malls, at $1/min, there are bound to be dozens of people willing to pay each day.
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The logistics became a problem though when trying to get insurance, as well as the fact that we'd have to travel to the US to take training before they'd ship us any segways. And on top of all that, according to their sales, we could only order 2.
So the idea kind of died..
Well, if you're willing to go with USB, there are some very cool things being done at the University of Calgary, and they have comercialized some very handy interface devices dubbed "phidgets" which are as easy to program as any other interface widget. The web site can be found at http://www.phidgets.com/ I highly recommend you check it out.
Could be, though I was under the impression that the two went together.
I've always wondered why digital wasn't considered a subset of analog. I mean, there's no way to send/store anything digitally (though create, maybe). It's all voltage differences, magnetic feilds, and/or moving parts, nothing that can truely be "1" or "0". Just because they chose some strange way of encoding their information doesn't make it any less analog.
Also an interesting take on this:
Because Canadians pay a levy on blank media, we have a law that states that copying music (and only music) for your personal use is completely legal.
So if a Canadian downloads copyrighted music, they would be making themselves a perfectly lawful personal copy.
Seems to me it would be stupid of them to have changed. Make a run of 3.2Ghz processors, some will fail. But if they run at 2.6Ghz, then you've got another processor to sell.
What was great was back when the yeilds were so high that they were selling processors that would work at 450-600Mhz as 300Mhz just to fill the demand for the 300s.
I heard about programs that accomplished this very same thing nearly 3 years ago in oneof my comp sci courses, so I was a bit surprized to see it as "news" now.
Turns out I got an early scoop on it I guess, my prof for that course is one of the co-researchers listed on this page.
We were actually given links to working apps that would accomplish this behavior (which of course, I have since lost), and I'm disapointed that this article does not mention them.
As a recent Comp Sci grad I can say:
"been there, done that"
I've moved on. I'm now doing temp labour for light industrial (mostly sweeping/heavy lifting). Can't say it pays well, but it's better than flipping burgers was.
Yeah, the tech sector really sucks right now.
This is interesting and all, but I fail to see why the slashdot crowd needs to know this.
I mean, it's not like we're going to spend our time googleing our girlfriends. We already know everything about them. After all, we made them up.
Sorry dude, but you forgot to check out the type writers. They've only got one key.
In other news, Kevin Bacon has recently been arrested under suspicions of promoting piracy.
Unfortunately for you (and perhaps me as well), apart from the word "srtata", I beleive I interpreted that exactly the same way you did. :(
Ok, what happens if he builds it in space?
:)
:)
My guess is the particles constantly being created and destroyed in a perfect vacume would also cause friction against the "boat".
Either way, in time, any "permanent" magnet will lose it's charge. That will kind of wreck things too.
In the mean time, it would be a neat toy though