There is no display, people. This is a research result. How many years and how many major hurdles remain until this can actually be sold to a consumer?
The 9th circuit is often considered "liberal." I think this ruling shows that the word "liberal" has changed over the years from "liberty from government oppression" to "use government to achieve a progressive agenda." If it's "for the good of the citizens," apparently, anything goes.
OK, then we agree, and we need to form a new party, the Leaf Party, which insists on devolving implementation details to the leaves whenever possible.:-)
I didn't put words in your mouth. I posted my idea of a solution, which is for the FDA to mandate a result and a consequence/reward, without trying to specify how to achieve the result. This would clarify things on both ends. When the government specifies means to the ends it desires, it often gets the means wrong as it cannot know the best way to do things. Also, it loses the big picture and people get buried in paper work showing how they are complying with idiotic procedures that don't work. Government should specify desired outcomes, rewards and penalties, and avoid specifying how to achieve those results.
So here's the best of all possible worlds: hold the hospital management responsible for deaths in their hospitals due to this kind of mistake. Let them figure out how to prevent it, but just give them jail time if they don't. Or offer them $1million to solve the problem. X-prize for the first hospital to have zero accidental deaths in a year! This has the government doing what it does best, which is to punish, prevent, reward and break things, and private industry to do what it does best, which is look after its own greedy self interest.
While you and I probably agree that there is a problem with odies' argument, your argument is also fallatious. Copyright is a recent invention, made necessary or at least greatly more useful by advances in industry and distribution that allow people to copy a work and make money off it much easier than in the past. If I write a novel, which might take a year or two, and someone else can just print it and distribute it without paying me, well, then I won't write said novel, probably.
I do agree though that the current system is hugely skewed in favor of making huge gobs of cash for copyright holders, which is not the same thing as huge gobs of cash for content creators, unfortunately. I think it's sorting itself out as we go. though
Thanks for the information. I assume you are talking about Alex Belits, I can't keep track of GGGP relationships in a thread, sorry! If so, it's one thing to talk about "most Russians have negative feelings towards US" and another to say "everyone in ex-USSR hates you." So yes, America plays dirty internationally, and lots of us Americans hate that and speak up publicly about it. It is sad that some Russians cannot tell their government's propaganda from fact, and sad that some Americans have similar limited viewpoints.
Also, a lot of people who claim "I'm a Russian and I hate America" or "I use Apple but I hate the iPad" actually are not who they claim to be. They invent an identity that makes their words sound more compelling but you can tell from their comment that they are actually just spoiled brainwashed American teenaged-mentality suburbanites.
Extremely unlikely that a scientist would be using OSX
Apparently you don't know many scientists. I work at a national laboratory for our computing center, and there are hundreds of scientists using Macs at our laboratory. I've noticed lots of the Linux heads switching to Mac. It's nice to have a sweet GUI along with a BSD Unix underpinning,
Apple does not make good cluster machines, but they make excellent desktops for doing science.
Get your head out of your bias.
I didn't know that Windows and Linux have metadata integrated into their filesystems to allow for constant-time search results. Tell me more.
If you are using Mac OS X, you can tag the files using the Finder Get Info and putting "Spotlight comments" there. Then you can easily find them based on keywords and Spotlight in constant time. The good thing about keywords is that they give you a multidimensional database effect. The bad thing I've found is I tend to forget my keywords that I'm storing stuff with, so I don't really know what to search for.
OS X Spotlight is promsing and might work very well for you.
It's rare to have a problem with software patents. When there is a problem, it makes the news on Slashdot. And then again the next week. And the month after that.
Luckyo retorts:
What you see on slashdot doesn't count as a tip of an iceberg - it's more of a few ice crystals from the tip of the iceberg at best.
Citation please? I'm curious who has the facts on their side.
This independent survey of iPhone 3GS users and iPhone 4 users show that the version 4 users have fewer dropped calls and less complaints about reception.
I'm very suspicious about their numerical precision. IF it's an estimate, then they are saying it's 129,864,880 +/- 10. That is, they are pretty sure there aren't 129,864,980 books. I think they should make their estimate something like "we think there are about 130,000,000" or whatever accuracy they actually believe.
I don't know if the HOV lanes are underutilized. They look kind of empty in rush hour, but in terms of people per minute crossing a point on the lane, they are probably serving more people.
Let's remember that "tend to" means that there is a correlation. This by no means indicates that 100% of iPad owners are selfish. In fact, knowing nothing about the study methodology, or *who financed it* (ahem), I'm suspicious about its results. How strong was this tendency anyhow and how was it measured?
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There is no display, people. This is a research result. How many years and how many major hurdles remain until this can actually be sold to a consumer?
Realize the 25% number is the number of viruses. It does not necessarily mean that 25% of worm infections are caused via USB.
The 9th circuit is often considered "liberal." I think this ruling shows that the word "liberal" has changed over the years from "liberty from government oppression" to "use government to achieve a progressive agenda." If it's "for the good of the citizens," apparently, anything goes.
OK, then we agree, and we need to form a new party, the Leaf Party, which insists on devolving implementation details to the leaves whenever possible. :-)
I didn't put words in your mouth. I posted my idea of a solution, which is for the FDA to mandate a result and a consequence/reward, without trying to specify how to achieve the result. This would clarify things on both ends. When the government specifies means to the ends it desires, it often gets the means wrong as it cannot know the best way to do things. Also, it loses the big picture and people get buried in paper work showing how they are complying with idiotic procedures that don't work. Government should specify desired outcomes, rewards and penalties, and avoid specifying how to achieve those results.
So here's the best of all possible worlds: hold the hospital management responsible for deaths in their hospitals due to this kind of mistake. Let them figure out how to prevent it, but just give them jail time if they don't. Or offer them $1million to solve the problem. X-prize for the first hospital to have zero accidental deaths in a year! This has the government doing what it does best, which is to punish, prevent, reward and break things, and private industry to do what it does best, which is look after its own greedy self interest.
While you and I probably agree that there is a problem with odies' argument, your argument is also fallatious. Copyright is a recent invention, made necessary or at least greatly more useful by advances in industry and distribution that allow people to copy a work and make money off it much easier than in the past. If I write a novel, which might take a year or two, and someone else can just print it and distribute it without paying me, well, then I won't write said novel, probably.
I do agree though that the current system is hugely skewed in favor of making huge gobs of cash for copyright holders, which is not the same thing as huge gobs of cash for content creators, unfortunately. I think it's sorting itself out as we go. though
Thanks for the information. I assume you are talking about Alex Belits, I can't keep track of GGGP relationships in a thread, sorry! If so, it's one thing to talk about "most Russians have negative feelings towards US" and another to say "everyone in ex-USSR hates you." So yes, America plays dirty internationally, and lots of us Americans hate that and speak up publicly about it. It is sad that some Russians cannot tell their government's propaganda from fact, and sad that some Americans have similar limited viewpoints.
Also, a lot of people who claim "I'm a Russian and I hate America" or "I use Apple but I hate the iPad" actually are not who they claim to be. They invent an identity that makes their words sound more compelling but you can tell from their comment that they are actually just spoiled brainwashed American teenaged-mentality suburbanites.
My bad! You are right. Sigh
Extremely unlikely that a scientist would be using OSX
Apparently you don't know many scientists. I work at a national laboratory for our computing center, and there are hundreds of scientists using Macs at our laboratory. I've noticed lots of the Linux heads switching to Mac. It's nice to have a sweet GUI along with a BSD Unix underpinning,
Apple does not make good cluster machines, but they make excellent desktops for doing science.
Get your head out of your bias.
I didn't know that Windows and Linux have metadata integrated into their filesystems to allow for constant-time search results. Tell me more.
If you are using Mac OS X, you can tag the files using the Finder Get Info and putting "Spotlight comments" there. Then you can easily find them based on keywords and Spotlight in constant time. The good thing about keywords is that they give you a multidimensional database effect. The bad thing I've found is I tend to forget my keywords that I'm storing stuff with, so I don't really know what to search for. OS X Spotlight is promsing and might work very well for you.
It's rare to have a problem with software patents. When there is a problem, it makes the news on Slashdot. And then again the next week. And the month after that.
Luckyo retorts:
What you see on slashdot doesn't count as a tip of an iceberg - it's more of a few ice crystals from the tip of the iceberg at best.
Citation please? I'm curious who has the facts on their side.
OMFG ROTFLOL! Did Hitler buy a gym? OMG stop I can't breathe
This independent survey of iPhone 3GS users and iPhone 4 users show that the version 4 users have fewer dropped calls and less complaints about reception.
Google might not say in TFA, but the number they came up with includes approximations and estimates. The precision is not as given.
I'm very suspicious about their numerical precision. IF it's an estimate, then they are saying it's 129,864,880 +/- 10. That is, they are pretty sure there aren't 129,864,980 books. I think they should make their estimate something like "we think there are about 130,000,000" or whatever accuracy they actually believe.
LOL, yep. Sigh, not my morning, typographically.
Opps, I meant "thinks it's funny that news.." not "thinks news" Sorry for the hasty post
Am I the only one who thinks news of an impending rise in sea level is brought to us by a group called "NOAA?"
I don't know if the HOV lanes are underutilized. They look kind of empty in rush hour, but in terms of people per minute crossing a point on the lane, they are probably serving more people.
Yes, lawyers are interested in getting money. It's not about justice, or consumer rights, or privacy. It's about greedy lawyers always and forever.
Let's remember that "tend to" means that there is a correlation. This by no means indicates that 100% of iPad owners are selfish. In fact, knowing nothing about the study methodology, or *who financed it* (ahem), I'm suspicious about its results. How strong was this tendency anyhow and how was it measured?
By definition, shouldn't only millionaires think 99 cent songs are microtransactions?
So if I want to steal power from a power line without paying for it, it's OK?