This is a perfect example of all that is wrong with copyright as it exists today. Protection is granted to creators in order to increase works available to the public, not hide them away.
Eh? The copyright has expired. So what does this have to do with copyright? The only right involved is the right to control your own material possessions (i.e. the physical recordings). That doesn't expire.
It may be easier, but creating a good CLI interface does require some degree of thought. If you, for example, compare a Linux console to the dismal Windows terminal and what a pain in the rear that is to use, the difference is blatantly obvious. The UNIX philosophy makes a world of difference.
Momentum is mass times velocity in classical physics, but not in quantum physics. Velocity in QP is defined as the time derivative of the expectation value of the position. This is not guaranteed to be the same as the expectation value of momentum divided by mass.
What ethical line? It's all business, actors are very expensive and often behave like divas so removing the actors and replacing them with rendered models can increase the profit margins for the movie studios.
Using rendered models not only saves you the millions that big name actors typically demand, but you no longer need to hire filming locations, stage stunts etc... Actors face becoming obsolete sooner or later. Movie production of the future will be done in third world countries, where hundreds of poorly paid workers beaver away in a callcenter like environment constructing and animating digital models.
The fact that it's profitable does not automatically sidestep any ethical considerations. Case in point: It would be very profitable to chain your workers to the factory floor and have them work 18 hours a day for no money, and consumers would be able to buy the wares much cheaper, yet it would not be ethical.
In this case, one can question whether the studios have the (moral and legal) right to the actors' image beyond what they've filmed.
Okay - so how do you POSSIBLY apply a statistical analysis on something as subjective as a womans physical attractiveness?
Just walk around with a notebook and walk around, writing down whether women you see are attractive or not. When you've seen 50-ish women, you've got a decent statistical sample.
You do realize that some of those types of comments aren't really intended for humans anyway, but more for documentation generators like javadoc and doc++ ?
That makes no sense at all. Javadoc et. al. can scrape that information from the code itself, and typically does a far better job at maintaining the information up to date.
If their friends are in Mexico when they raise false alarms in USA, are they breaking any Mexican laws?
Nope, but depending on the seriousness of the crime in the US and the presence of an extradition treaty, you may be extradited and face charges in the US.
... or to continuously report a bunch of fake border crossings all the time so that the real events drown in a sea of fake ones.
I'm sure that will be a really funny story that you can share with all your new friends you make after you are tracked down by your IP and busted for kiddie porn.
Of course some other folks will have a really funny story about someone who thought crap flooding law enforcement with fake reports was a funny thing to do.
Well, what do you expect when you allow the people trying to cross into the country power to raise the alarm about people crossing into the country? Of course they're going to use it to their own advantage. They're already breaking one law, so I don't expect them to have any concerns about breaking another one to avoid getting caught.
Doesn't look like it's fully deployed yet. Google searches of the form "define:word" are not redirected to google dictionary yet. Which is a shame. Because that's one hell of an useful way of looking up terms.
It happens pretty often. Media likes to mutilate useful information into weird units. Like libraries of congress; sports related units like olympic sized swimming pools, or football fields; in units of the things related to the solar system, like the distance to the sun/the moon/mars, the circumference of the earth; units of commodity production per unit of time, like comparisons to the number of shoes produced in America every hour, etc. While it tells you that it's "a lot", it the format it's presented in is utterly useless.
Actually, speaking from someone who works in a related field, using the prefix-less format is the accepted way of writing these numbers:
MeV (1,000,000), GeV (1,000,000,000), TeV (1,000,000,000,000), etc
As a fyi, TeV is actually tetra-electron volts.
As someone who also works in a related field, I say that's a very odd convention. If you have something like 3.10 MeV, it is obvious how many significant digits you have, but if you say 310,000,000 eV, you need some special notation to express that information.
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Again, I request a "+1 Badum-tish"
"it's" is a contraction of "it is", not a possessive.
Sorry, you were saying something funny about high school education?
One "Carl", several "Carls"; and it's "Carl's" possession.
One "it", several "its"; and it's "it's" possession.
"It's" is both possessive and a contraction.
This is a perfect example of all that is wrong with copyright as it exists today. Protection is granted to creators in order to increase works available to the public, not hide them away.
Eh? The copyright has expired. So what does this have to do with copyright? The only right involved is the right to control your own material possessions (i.e. the physical recordings). That doesn't expire.
Metaphorical lemmings do.
Yes the difference is blatantly obvious. 10 people on earth can use Unix and Windows has engulfed the world.
So you're saying because a million lemmings run off a cliff, that's the best thing to do?
It may be easier, but creating a good CLI interface does require some degree of thought. If you, for example, compare a Linux console to the dismal Windows terminal and what a pain in the rear that is to use, the difference is blatantly obvious. The UNIX philosophy makes a world of difference.
Momentum is mass times velocity in classical physics, but not in quantum physics. Velocity in QP is defined as the time derivative of the expectation value of the position. This is not guaranteed to be the same as the expectation value of momentum divided by mass.
What ethical line? It's all business, actors are very expensive and often behave like divas so removing the actors and replacing them with rendered models can increase the profit margins for the movie studios.
Using rendered models not only saves you the millions that big name actors typically demand, but you no longer need to hire filming locations, stage stunts etc... Actors face becoming obsolete sooner or later.
Movie production of the future will be done in third world countries, where hundreds of poorly paid workers beaver away in a callcenter like environment constructing and animating digital models.
The fact that it's profitable does not automatically sidestep any ethical considerations. Case in point: It would be very profitable to chain your workers to the factory floor and have them work 18 hours a day for no money, and consumers would be able to buy the wares much cheaper, yet it would not be ethical.
In this case, one can question whether the studios have the (moral and legal) right to the actors' image beyond what they've filmed.
Ignorance and stupidity aren't exclusive American traits.
When it takes the form of McCarthyism, it invariably is.
I hear they have nice 0xC0FFEE
It's official, slashdot needs a "+1: Badum-tish".
Okay - so how do you POSSIBLY apply a statistical analysis on something as subjective as a womans physical attractiveness?
Just walk around with a notebook and walk around, writing down whether women you see are attractive or not. When you've seen 50-ish women, you've got a decent statistical sample.
Could it conceivably be that they are intentionally choking the supply of slots in order to debug congested load scenarios?
Huh? It runs just fine on 8600 GT. Maybe not highest quality, but reasonable resolution and a decent amount of details and quality.
You do realize that some of those types of comments aren't really intended for humans anyway, but more for documentation generators like javadoc and doc++ ?
That makes no sense at all. Javadoc et. al. can scrape that information from the code itself, and typically does a far better job at maintaining the information up to date.
Well, at least probably nope. I'm not familiar enough with Mexican law to tell. But I seriously doubt there are such laws.
If their friends are in Mexico when they raise false alarms in USA, are they breaking any Mexican laws?
Nope, but depending on the seriousness of the crime in the US and the presence of an extradition treaty, you may be extradited and face charges in the US.
... or to continuously report a bunch of fake border crossings all the time so that the real events drown in a sea of fake ones.
I'm sure that will be a really funny story that you can share with all your new friends you make after you are tracked down by your IP and busted for kiddie porn.
Of course some other folks will have a really funny story about someone who thought crap flooding law enforcement with fake reports was a funny thing to do.
Well, what do you expect when you allow the people trying to cross into the country power to raise the alarm about people crossing into the country? Of course they're going to use it to their own advantage. They're already breaking one law, so I don't expect them to have any concerns about breaking another one to avoid getting caught.
Could it be that Mexicans have registered for the purpose of locating the cameras?
... or to continuously report a bunch of fake border crossings all the time so that the real events drown in a sea of fake ones.
When I read this, the first thought I had was: Who the hell would want to play this game?
If you are given the choice between:
1. A game that heckles you for your appearance.
2. A game that doesn't heckle you for your appearance.
Which game would you chose to play?
This seems like a surefire way of making sure your games don't sell all that well.
This makes the Eyre Basin approximately 0.000126948775 of the entire oceans in the world,
You give a precision that's down to 0.001 km^3. How could you possibly have come to such an astounding level of accuracy in your calculations?
Doesn't look like it's fully deployed yet. Google searches of the form "define:word" are not redirected to google dictionary yet. Which is a shame. Because that's one hell of an useful way of looking up terms.
Your use of ">" is offensive. Rotate it 45 degrees and add four more and you just added a Swastika in the middle of your post!
It happens pretty often. Media likes to mutilate useful information into weird units. Like libraries of congress; sports related units like olympic sized swimming pools, or football fields; in units of the things related to the solar system, like the distance to the sun/the moon/mars, the circumference of the earth; units of commodity production per unit of time, like comparisons to the number of shoes produced in America every hour, etc. While it tells you that it's "a lot", it the format it's presented in is utterly useless.
Actually, speaking from someone who works in a related field, using the prefix-less format is the accepted way of writing these numbers:
MeV (1,000,000), GeV (1,000,000,000), TeV (1,000,000,000,000), etc
As a fyi, TeV is actually tetra-electron volts.
As someone who also works in a related field, I say that's a very odd convention. If you have something like 3.10 MeV, it is obvious how many significant digits you have, but if you say 310,000,000 eV, you need some special notation to express that information.