Users who are idiots (not unintelligent, but ignorant of the extent of their own ignorance) and tech support people who are assholes (not incompetent, but prone to saying things like "most people are barely competent to wipe their asses, they're so stupid")... well, these people deserve each other.
I've heard some fairly good arguments to suggest that the lecture itself is a mediaeval form of presenting information and is now out of date as a way of transforming knowledge.
How bout this, the MIT student is getting sued for DOWNLOADING MP3s. What if he/she already owns the CDs in question?
Good question. The problem comes when that same person allows others to copy those MP3s from his collection, effectively "distributing" copyrighted material. That's not so ambiguous, though I don't know to what extent it has been tested in court.
That said, I'm glad at least a few universities think their students still have the rights granted to them under the Constitution.
Actually, when referring to a specific kind of "Nazi", both words should be capitalized:
"Grammar Nazi"
I would concur, but for the fact that "grammar Nazi" is not itself a proper noun. Cf. "Misplace that comma and you'll suffer the tender ministrations of the punctuation Mafia." That said... hmm....
Somewhere in the back of my head, I hear Chef saying: "Now knock it off, boys. That stopped being funny 40 seconds ago." On the other hand, I also hear him saying, a few more fart jokes later, "Heh heh. OK, now it's funny again."
Their searching feature for something that "sounds like" a different artist caught my eye, and now I'm happily looking at different trance/tribal artists that, though certainly not mimicking Delerium, have a similar feel. I can't get that by going to a store [...]
You may not be able to get it by going to The Wall or Sam Goody, and you definitely won't be able to get it if you buy CDs at Wal-Mart or a truck stop, but you almost certainly will get it if you go into one of the nation's many fine independent music stores. I grew up near such a store. The guys who ran it were nerds and they could be jerks sometimes, but they did know a lot about a lot of different kinds of music. They were usually very happy to give you (for free) off-the-cuff dissertations on any particular artist/producer/genre you asked about.
Good post. One quibble about the relevant legal term: it's de minimis (ablative plural), as in de minimis non curat lex, that is, "the law does not concern itself with the smallest matters."
"I understand this concern on behalf of the taxpayers. People want value for money. That's why we always insist on the principle of Information Retrieval charges. It's absolutely right and fair that those found guilty should pay for their periods of detention and the Information Retrieval procedures used in their interrogations."
I was watching C-SPAN the other day and the issue was spam. Lots of callers were complaining about pop-up windows as well. I really wanted to tell them about Mozilla, but it was a taped show
So, let me get this straight. You're saying that in addition to being a web browser, a mail client, and an application platform, Mozilla should also enable you to make phone calls to the past?!? Sheesh.
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What happens is that Apple will then be sitting on a big pile of cash, that's what. How is this a problem for their business model again?
With your superior knowledge you should run your own, improved benchmarks and post the results.
By that logic, with your superior knowledge of who should run benchmarks and post results, you should be the one to run them.
Good catch, though "turd" might be better. Here's a poem about a fatal turd, from the Google cache: l'etron fatale de Luis Alfredo
And then speculate baselessly about whether it would ever be possible to create a human that could beat the best machine players.
Users who are idiots (not unintelligent, but ignorant of the extent of their own ignorance) and tech support people who are assholes (not incompetent, but prone to saying things like "most people are barely competent to wipe their asses, they're so stupid") ... well, these people deserve each other.
Excellent quote, but you've got to give the next line:
Stephen R. Donaldson called; he wants his plotline from The Wounded Land back.
Top posting.
> What's the worst thing about Usenet?
The problem with Occam's Razor is that it dresses up baseless dismissal as logical necessity.
Well, "nothing ventured, nothing lost."
Yes, but does the glass have its own IP address?
I think someone has a business model. And it doesn't involve a "???" step.
Of course, you should check also check out "$240 Worth of Pudding," but now I'm off topic....
Can you at least mention one?
It looks like sheep have arisen. I for one...
You gonna finish that? "I, for one, welcome our new avine overlords"?
Good question. The problem comes when that same person allows others to copy those MP3s from his collection, effectively "distributing" copyrighted material. That's not so ambiguous, though I don't know to what extent it has been tested in court.
That said, I'm glad at least a few universities think their students still have the rights granted to them under the Constitution.
Actually, when referring to a specific kind of "Nazi", both words should be capitalized:
"Grammar Nazi"
I would concur, but for the fact that "grammar Nazi" is not itself a proper noun. Cf. "Misplace that comma and you'll suffer the tender ministrations of the punctuation Mafia." That said ... hmm....
Somewhere in the back of my head, I hear Chef saying: "Now knock it off, boys. That stopped being funny 40 seconds ago." On the other hand, I also hear him saying, a few more fart jokes later, "Heh heh. OK, now it's funny again."
You may not be able to get it by going to The Wall or Sam Goody, and you definitely won't be able to get it if you buy CDs at Wal-Mart or a truck stop, but you almost certainly will get it if you go into one of the nation's many fine independent music stores. I grew up near such a store. The guys who ran it were nerds and they could be jerks sometimes, but they did know a lot about a lot of different kinds of music. They were usually very happy to give you (for free) off-the-cuff dissertations on any particular artist/producer/genre you asked about.
There is no substitute for knowledge.
And should be capitalized correctly: "grammar Nazi." :)
Nice one. For more about the "actual" syndrome, check out this book description.
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Good post. One quibble about the relevant legal term: it's de minimis (ablative plural), as in de minimis non curat lex, that is, "the law does not concern itself with the smallest matters."
"I understand this concern on behalf of the taxpayers. People want value for money. That's why we always insist on the principle of Information Retrieval charges. It's absolutely right and fair that those found guilty should pay for their periods of detention and the Information Retrieval procedures used in their interrogations."
So, let me get this straight. You're saying that in addition to being a web browser, a mail client, and an application platform, Mozilla should also enable you to make phone calls to the past?!? Sheesh.