Maybe because, "make-a-profit" goes right with "have a gimmick that attracts more sales" or "keep people happy/interested and continue to sell more to them in the future"
The mentioned method isn't all that bad, as the company then has a projected amount of sales before releasing a box-set. From that they could calculate how many units the need to produce and probably save money there...
If you're associated an ad with a feeling of annoyance or disgust, how effective is it?
I've found plenty of ads that annoy me, and whenever I pas by the store I think "annoying f***ers, ain't gonna see me in your store" and hit the competitors if they are any better.
First, for the obvious: it's not a multi-target hyperlink, it's a dropdown. However, the idea of dropdown-select style hyperlink isn't a bad one... perhaps something that could be included in an HTML spec for the future.
At first though, I thought that this would be for a hyperlink that opens multiple locations (best-served with tabs). This would have the potential to be really annoying in the case of popup sites or if some bozo linkbombs you, but with most browsers in the future supporting tabs it does have promise. Simply have the link open multiple tabs, and then have a browser-setting that can determine how many tabs can be opened by a single link, or give a warning if over the limit.
For example, you could have a "news" link that opens several news pages, or something of the like. This can also likely be accomplished with JavaScript (though I've never tried JS/w tabs, is there a spec)... but it would be a neat concept for future features to fully integrate the power of tabbed browsing.
Mind you, you'd either have to create your own icon sets or have games/etc that support it...
But how about games or programs which redefine keys. How about games that do it on-the-fly (for example, when you enter a chopper your keyboard changes to reflect the mapped helicopter keys).
Programs that use tons of bound key combos could make use of this too. For example when you hold ALT it could then change the keys to show what the ALT+key combos do, for the uncommonly-used ones that aren't easily memorized. I'm no touch-typist, but when it comes to special keymappings I don't really memorize them all.
If you did hire someone, would you only respect them if they did something other than what you asked them to do? See, because then they wouldn't be a puppet, right
Depends on presentation. If said person showed me I was doing something wrong, and offered a better way I'd be happy. Their job is more efficient, mine is easier... works great. The difference is in agenda. The current agenda of the government often seems contrary to the needs or well-being of its citizens, but the purpose of the government is to meet the needs of said citizens. Thus, when government creates a position which under the mystique works against the citizens, it is working against the purposet of the position.
It is the fact that the government itself is corrupt to the point where they directly oppose the purpose of their own creation that puppets origate.
One of the keys to the IPTV technology is that instead of sending all the channels to a customer all the time, as is the case with traditional cable, only the channel selected by the customer is transmitted, saving on bandwidth.
OK, so the company is saving money is respect that they can reach more customers on a given pipe due to lower congestion.
The million dollar question though, is whether the internetTV usage counts towards (monthly, etc) bandwidth limits? One of the big drawbacks to a hi-def video stream online is not the cost of the service itself, but that you must pay for the bandwidth associated with recieving the service (see cell phone carriers, who bills for a ringtone, the download time, and the browsing time.
No magnimousity here, they've finally realized there's a profit to be made for providing a "convenience" to users.
People have had foolish incidents from their past haunt them long before the internet was around. People do stupid things, and one of the deterrants against doing stupid things is that they may catch up to you in the future. Plenty of people have had their reputations/careers impacted upon when an old news article, police report, etc has surfaced... sorry but we don't need dumn legal wrangling to protect people from their own stupidity.
Isn't this pretty much the same as "aiding and abetting", or would there be a charge of a different name (for say, if somebody posted a 'Go to 123 Smith Street to get cocaine' ad).
You had also better never report a crime to authorities.
The guy wasn't sending an email about infringement to his local cops, he was posting the equivilent to a bulletin stating "downlaod infringing material here."
Now, this case is scary in that he should have been charged with something like 'aiding and abetting' etc.
Now the scary things are when companies like search engines might get nailed, but the ability to pull up any particular type of information from a generic search capability is different from knowingly posting a bulletin-type site. Hopefully the courts will understand this.
Someone should print out the web address of a stolen copyrighted work that's freely available online, go into a court house in Australia, and stick it to a bulletin board. Then they should sue the government for hosting that information, citing this case as precedent.
And again, if you posted a public bulletin of where to find hookers, or have underage sex, or whatever and it could be traced back to you, they'd probably nail you. This website was the equivilent of the same. They wouldn't go after the place "hosting" the bulletin unless they were a knowing participant (i.e. if they were given warning and didn't take it down within a reasonable amount of time).
In summary: The charge sucks... but the guy wasn't innocent either. It'd be the same as posting up an ad for "where to find" hookers in the local newspaper... he's not involved directly in the illegal activity, but he's aiding it.
Some court cases end up being dropped where the evidence against the accused is overwhelming, but a procedural error/blunder/etc (lack of warrant, not reading rights, etc) has the case dropped.
Legal decisions are often based on previous decisions, and at this point they are comparing "similar" (though not the same) situations in the physical world with those in the digital world.
In terms of public domain, visibility, and various other terms the analogies aren't bad. It's quite similar to patent cases... just because you do something on the internet doesn't make it unique (which makes for a lot of dumb patents), and really taking an electronic 'snapshot' of a publicly visible webpage shouldn't be any different than taking a picture+photocopy of a physical notice/bulletin/sign/etc in a publicly visible location.
If they'd published the same information on a sign in their front lawn... what's to seperate it from the e-Version other than the fact that one is paint and the other is bytes?
I'd possibly do more in a given day, but I'd also be much less informed. Quite a few purchase decisions, new technology concepts, and water-cooler-conferences are based around news/ideas I pick up on the net...
And to go a bit further, without forums, reference sites, online howto's, and last-but-not-least the almighty google I'd would be nearly as efficient as I am at work... having a server bork with mysterious driver issues is quite often solved with part inuition/experience and part googling the error messages...
As somebody who been on either end of the school system
How about this: encourage reading and diversity, and get off the pills and freud:
In the early grades I was diagnosed as dyslexic with learning problems. In about gr2 I had two excellent teachers (husband/wife who both taught in my elementary). The introduced me to various books that caught my interest, and were there to teach rather than collect their $x/hour. My reading/literacy skills are now better than most... and I had mostly A's/B's throughout the rest of school.
On the freud and pills angle, stop the fucking syndrome-of-the-day diagnosis. I swear we're turning kids into guinea pigs for doctors to test mood-correcting drugs. Ritalin put me to sleep, and the only reason I was wandering around etc in the first place is because I had finished my work ahead of time and was bored
With the above again, not everyone learns at the same level... don't put 8th-grade level math students with the 5th grade students. My school wasn't too bad for that, though I know some would have been better up grades, and some would have been better below as all they did was disrupt everyone else's learning.
And continuing that line of thought, how about we don't put "Billy, who spent the summer stealing cars and selling dope" in with all the other nice elementary kids. Yes, I have seen this happen... and no you don't need to give Billy another chance, he had his, he blew it, if he wants another he can do correspondence rather than selling dope to the other students in gr7.
Lastly, literacy is important. Maybe some teachers are better at math, etc... but all should have a good level of grammar/spelling. When Mr. Smith spells worse than most of the 8th-grade students then it sends a bad message to kids that reading/writing/communication skills aren't important. Also, just because somebody is a brainchild at science or whatever doesn't mean he/she can teach... and just because they can teach doesn't mean they can teach everything. My best prof in college was a former programmer... we got lucky as he was an excellent teacher as well (despite the fact that I believe he didn't have much for teaching certs).
I've seen both teachers that are put into roles teaching stuff that they themselves don't understand, and people who understand material but don't have any concept of how to convey knowledge to others.
how many animals actually verbally communicate from generation to generation, use tools, or keep domesticated pets or farm animals
I'm fairly sure animals can communicate... and I think one of the major breakthroughts in *our* intelligence might be in developing a tool/method to understand how they do "talk" to each other (or what they say). As for the keeping of domestics... did you know that ants will keep aphids around to milk them?
Animals might not be able to understand subatomic research, but then again what's to say that there isn't something they are studying or do understand that we don't?
And in my case it didn't take nearly 4-5h to install. After the initial install, which was about 15 minutes, I think that the steam updates took maybe 30-45min. Not as quick as I'd like... and I'm not a big fan of the steam-authorization-required scheme (although I'd be a big fan of one that allowed you to authorize from one of either CD-ROM/steam)... but a far cry from 5h.
Yes, jailtime is bad... but IMHO the time to nab these kids is before they become criminals, not by handing them deals as security advisors etc afterwards as it glorifies the crime itself. Punishments must be given, they should just be in line with the crime committed.
If you're worried about individuals with potential being swayed to the "dark side," then perhaps we should have more places for them to prove themselves or give them more opportunities beforehand... last time I checked ofr scholarships I would have done a whole lot better as a sports-team player or if I had parents in rotary than based on my intellectual merits.
I'm all for Harry Potter protecting his rights; but it seems we keep getting closer and closer to the world described in Stallman's visionary The Right To Read article.
What exactly is wrong with protecting your product? In a world of rip-offs and general immorality it's not very uncommon for products to be ripped off before release, or stolen from trucks/docks/etc
I myself know of workers who admit to stealing the cargo they're supposed to be loading.
There's a lot planned around the time release of the product, and realistically while they are securing to get the biggest "bang" for their own bucks, the publisher is also making things more fair for the distributers by ensuring that everyone gets the same release date, and thus no one store can steal the business from others early
Actually, I know quite a few people that, although smart intellectually, were extremely messed up in terms of productiveness in society. You might think of felons as losers with no intelligence, but successful felons can actually be very smart - just very immoral.
In fact, some of history's most homicidal individuals have been very intelligent.
In summary: Not all smart people are good people, not all bad people are dumb crooks.
I've been playing with this. So far I'm getting a nasty segfault that I need to debug, but there are lots of demos etc that are quite nice (just wish they'd fix the directory/hierarchy structure on the samples).
Oh, and it works in both linux, windows, and Mac OSX....
This is the German courts though. In the US they may have hung the kid out to dry for this as well (many US bsinesses were severely disrupted), and in Germany the penalties for stealing (or copying as the current publicity tends to center around) a DVD may be different.
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Maybe because, "make-a-profit" goes right with "have a gimmick that attracts more sales" or "keep people happy/interested and continue to sell more to them in the future"
The mentioned method isn't all that bad, as the company then has a projected amount of sales before releasing a box-set. From that they could calculate how many units the need to produce and probably save money there...
If you're associated an ad with a feeling of annoyance or disgust, how effective is it?
I've found plenty of ads that annoy me, and whenever I pas by the store I think "annoying f***ers, ain't gonna see me in your store" and hit the competitors if they are any better.
First, for the obvious: it's not a multi-target hyperlink, it's a dropdown. However, the idea of dropdown-select style hyperlink isn't a bad one... perhaps something that could be included in an HTML spec for the future.
/w tabs, is there a spec)... but it would be a neat concept for future features to fully integrate the power of tabbed browsing.
At first though, I thought that this would be for a hyperlink that opens multiple locations (best-served with tabs). This would have the potential to be really annoying in the case of popup sites or if some bozo linkbombs you, but with most browsers in the future supporting tabs it does have promise. Simply have the link open multiple tabs, and then have a browser-setting that can determine how many tabs can be opened by a single link, or give a warning if over the limit.
For example, you could have a "news" link that opens several news pages, or something of the like. This can also likely be accomplished with JavaScript (though I've never tried JS
Mind you, you'd either have to create your own icon sets or have games/etc that support it...
But how about games or programs which redefine keys. How about games that do it on-the-fly (for example, when you enter a chopper your keyboard changes to reflect the mapped helicopter keys).
Programs that use tons of bound key combos could make use of this too. For example when you hold ALT it could then change the keys to show what the ALT+key combos do, for the uncommonly-used ones that aren't easily memorized. I'm no touch-typist, but when it comes to special keymappings I don't really memorize them all.
If you did hire someone, would you only respect them if they did something other than what you asked them to do? See, because then they wouldn't be a puppet, right
Depends on presentation. If said person showed me I was doing something wrong, and offered a better way I'd be happy. Their job is more efficient, mine is easier... works great. The difference is in agenda. The current agenda of the government often seems contrary to the needs or well-being of its citizens, but the purpose of the government is to meet the needs of said citizens. Thus, when government creates a position which under the mystique works against the citizens, it is working against the purposet of the position.
It is the fact that the government itself is corrupt to the point where they directly oppose the purpose of their own creation that puppets origate.
Saves them money, makes them money.
One of the keys to the IPTV technology is that instead of sending all the channels to a customer all the time, as is the case with traditional cable, only the channel selected by the customer is transmitted, saving on bandwidth.
OK, so the company is saving money is respect that they can reach more customers on a given pipe due to lower congestion.
The million dollar question though, is whether the internetTV usage counts towards (monthly, etc) bandwidth limits? One of the big drawbacks to a hi-def video stream online is not the cost of the service itself, but that you must pay for the bandwidth associated with recieving the service (see cell phone carriers, who bills for a ringtone, the download time, and the browsing time.
No magnimousity here, they've finally realized there's a profit to be made for providing a "convenience" to users.
People have had foolish incidents from their past haunt them long before the internet was around. People do stupid things, and one of the deterrants against doing stupid things is that they may catch up to you in the future. Plenty of people have had their reputations/careers impacted upon when an old news article, police report, etc has surfaced... sorry but we don't need dumn legal wrangling to protect people from their own stupidity.
Isn't this pretty much the same as "aiding and abetting", or would there be a charge of a different name (for say, if somebody posted a 'Go to 123 Smith Street to get cocaine' ad).
I hate to play devil's advocate, but I will...
You had also better never report a crime to authorities.
The guy wasn't sending an email about infringement to his local cops, he was posting the equivilent to a bulletin stating "downlaod infringing material here."
Now, this case is scary in that he should have been charged with something like 'aiding and abetting' etc.
Now the scary things are when companies like search engines might get nailed, but the ability to pull up any particular type of information from a generic search capability is different from knowingly posting a bulletin-type site. Hopefully the courts will understand this.
Someone should print out the web address of a stolen copyrighted work that's freely available online, go into a court house in Australia, and stick it to a bulletin board. Then they should sue the government for hosting that information, citing this case as precedent.
And again, if you posted a public bulletin of where to find hookers, or have underage sex, or whatever and it could be traced back to you, they'd probably nail you. This website was the equivilent of the same. They wouldn't go after the place "hosting" the bulletin unless they were a knowing participant (i.e. if they were given warning and didn't take it down within a reasonable amount of time).
In summary: The charge sucks... but the guy wasn't innocent either. It'd be the same as posting up an ad for "where to find" hookers in the local newspaper... he's not involved directly in the illegal activity, but he's aiding it.
Some court cases end up being dropped where the evidence against the accused is overwhelming, but a procedural error/blunder/etc (lack of warrant, not reading rights, etc) has the case dropped.
Legal decisions are often based on previous decisions, and at this point they are comparing "similar" (though not the same) situations in the physical world with those in the digital world.
In terms of public domain, visibility, and various other terms the analogies aren't bad. It's quite similar to patent cases... just because you do something on the internet doesn't make it unique (which makes for a lot of dumb patents), and really taking an electronic 'snapshot' of a publicly visible webpage shouldn't be any different than taking a picture+photocopy of a physical notice/bulletin/sign/etc in a publicly visible location.
If they'd published the same information on a sign in their front lawn... what's to seperate it from the e-Version other than the fact that one is paint and the other is bytes?
One of the big issues with computers is dust, etc. You can use a filter but then it will get plugged regularly and block-off airflow.
Perhaps something akin to a dust-collector and a fan to such the dust *away* from the other components (a-la-vaccuum).
I'd possibly do more in a given day, but I'd also be much less informed. Quite a few purchase decisions, new technology concepts, and water-cooler-conferences are based around news/ideas I pick up on the net...
And to go a bit further, without forums, reference sites, online howto's, and last-but-not-least the almighty google I'd would be nearly as efficient as I am at work... having a server bork with mysterious driver issues is quite often solved with part inuition/experience and part googling the error messages...
As somebody who been on either end of the school system
How about this: encourage reading and diversity, and get off the pills and freud:
In the early grades I was diagnosed as dyslexic with learning problems. In about gr2 I had two excellent teachers (husband/wife who both taught in my elementary). The introduced me to various books that caught my interest, and were there to teach rather than collect their $x/hour. My reading/literacy skills are now better than most... and I had mostly A's/B's throughout the rest of school.
On the freud and pills angle, stop the fucking syndrome-of-the-day diagnosis. I swear we're turning kids into guinea pigs for doctors to test mood-correcting drugs. Ritalin put me to sleep, and the only reason I was wandering around etc in the first place is because I had finished my work ahead of time and was bored
With the above again, not everyone learns at the same level... don't put 8th-grade level math students with the 5th grade students. My school wasn't too bad for that, though I know some would have been better up grades, and some would have been better below as all they did was disrupt everyone else's learning.
And continuing that line of thought, how about we don't put "Billy, who spent the summer stealing cars and selling dope" in with all the other nice elementary kids. Yes, I have seen this happen... and no you don't need to give Billy another chance, he had his, he blew it, if he wants another he can do correspondence rather than selling dope to the other students in gr7.
Lastly, literacy is important. Maybe some teachers are better at math, etc... but all should have a good level of grammar/spelling. When Mr. Smith spells worse than most of the 8th-grade students then it sends a bad message to kids that reading/writing/communication skills aren't important. Also, just because somebody is a brainchild at science or whatever doesn't mean he/she can teach... and just because they can teach doesn't mean they can teach everything. My best prof in college was a former programmer... we got lucky as he was an excellent teacher as well (despite the fact that I believe he didn't have much for teaching certs).
I've seen both teachers that are put into roles teaching stuff that they themselves don't understand, and people who understand material but don't have any concept of how to convey knowledge to others.
Anyhow, that's my rant, feel free to add to it.
Normal capacity cartidges, $99.9 for a replacement print-head when the ink dries up in it...
how many animals actually verbally communicate from generation to generation, use tools, or keep domesticated pets or farm animals
I'm fairly sure animals can communicate... and I think one of the major breakthroughts in *our* intelligence might be in developing a tool/method to understand how they do "talk" to each other (or what they say). As for the keeping of domestics... did you know that ants will keep aphids around to milk them?
Animals might not be able to understand subatomic research, but then again what's to say that there isn't something they are studying or do understand that we don't?
They haven't created a "Incredible technical Idiocy" section yet, nor a "shooting-yourself-in-the-foot" department...
And in my case it didn't take nearly 4-5h to install. After the initial install, which was about 15 minutes, I think that the steam updates took maybe 30-45min. Not as quick as I'd like... and I'm not a big fan of the steam-authorization-required scheme (although I'd be a big fan of one that allowed you to authorize from one of either CD-ROM/steam)... but a far cry from 5h.
Yes, jailtime is bad... but IMHO the time to nab these kids is before they become criminals, not by handing them deals as security advisors etc afterwards as it glorifies the crime itself. Punishments must be given, they should just be in line with the crime committed.
If you're worried about individuals with potential being swayed to the "dark side," then perhaps we should have more places for them to prove themselves or give them more opportunities beforehand... last time I checked ofr scholarships I would have done a whole lot better as a sports-team player or if I had parents in rotary than based on my intellectual merits.
I'm all for Harry Potter protecting his rights; but it seems we keep getting closer and closer to the world described in Stallman's visionary The Right To Read article.
What exactly is wrong with protecting your product? In a world of rip-offs and general immorality it's not very uncommon for products to be ripped off before release, or stolen from trucks/docks/etc
I myself know of workers who admit to stealing the cargo they're supposed to be loading.
There's a lot planned around the time release of the product, and realistically while they are securing to get the biggest "bang" for their own bucks, the publisher is also making things more fair for the distributers by ensuring that everyone gets the same release date, and thus no one store can steal the business from others early
Actually, I know quite a few people that, although smart intellectually, were extremely messed up in terms of productiveness in society. You might think of felons as losers with no intelligence, but successful felons can actually be very smart - just very immoral.
In fact, some of history's most homicidal individuals have been very intelligent.
In summary: Not all smart people are good people, not all bad people are dumb crooks.
This Alien Shore - C.S. Friedman
I've been playing with this. So far I'm getting a nasty segfault that I need to debug, but there are lots of demos etc that are quite nice (just wish they'd fix the directory/hierarchy structure on the samples).
Oh, and it works in both linux, windows, and Mac OSX....
Do you have some references on that? sounds like a cool article.
This is the German courts though. In the US they may have hung the kid out to dry for this as well (many US bsinesses were severely disrupted), and in Germany the penalties for stealing (or copying as the current publicity tends to center around) a DVD may be different.