I want CC No Commercial (NC) and CC No Derivatives (ND) clauses removed because they don't really support free. Works don't enrich the commons unless you can do whatever you want with them. Also, the NC clause should be eliminated because it is really hard to define commercial. Does commercial mean you can't share a file on a website that has ads?
My opinion is that a little free is better than not free. I should be able to donate my work to the commons without expecting to see it on a billboard. Which has actually happened. In terms of the commercial example, I think we can all judge when things move over the line from donation based to blatantly commercial. The good news is that it is up to me as a rights holder to enforce the license. I can allow uses of my file in ad supported web sites, but object to my song being used in a local TV ad. Yes, there are ambiguities in everything. That's life.
If you object to these licenses, don't use 'em. Or anything with them.
Disclaimer: I've licensed songs I've written as CC NC.
There is a lesson in all this. Don't use social media. Anything you say there will last forever, and will be used against you.
And the flip side is that social media doesn't produce anything worth reading anyway. It is generally poorly written junk. If you want to contribute in a meaningful way, work on Wikipedia or write for Examiner.com. Look at me post junk on slashdot...ugh.
You clearly aren't a parent. Try convincing the kids they don't want McDonalds, especially if they are in a foreign country and miss home. Hell, many years ago I ate in a McDonalds in Hungary (back when it was behind the iron curtain) because I was homesick.
And it would be cool to have gold fall from the sky. But that doesn't make the current machines useless. Remember, we are at the very start of this revolution.
As for printing a candy bar...huh? Why do that? Traditional manufacturing still has a role, at least for the foreseeable future.
I think that's the plan. Google Maps now has a new mode called MapsGL which uses hardware accelerated 3d. Why add 3d to the browser if you didn't plan to use it.
There were 243 million CFL's sold in the US in 2009. And there were 34 reports of smoke, and 4 reports of fire in a US consumer product safety database from March 2011 through December of 2011 (see this article for more information). Seems like a pretty safe product to me.
In terms of your supposition that CFL's actually cost more than incandecents? Here is a study that says no, In terms of the ACEEE.org study, I can't find specifics (unless you are talking about the 2006 study, which is hopelessly out of date). But electric cars top the ACEEE.org list of cleanest cars this year.
You can keep your "spaceship" at $60,000 / kg to LTO. I'm betting on the "non-spaceship", which costs $5,400 / kg to LTO. Read wikipedia for the consequences of demanding full reusability.
Elon just answered that they were off by a few seconds because of wind. He said that if it weren't for wind, they could land Dragon in someone's backyard.
I don't get your comment. I teach math to six year olds once a week. They "get" the number line, in that they use it as a useful tool for calculation, and can understand how numbers equate to divisions on the paper. Is it innate? Probably not. Is it something that many six year olds in the US culture have? From my experience, yes.
Where the article veers into the absurd is the suggestion that we should consider "bringing the human saga" into teaching math, and that math isn't objective fact, or black and white. Math is freaking math. There is right and wrong, black and white.
I was an early adopter of the Honda Civic Hybrid in July of 2002. I've had bad problems with the continuously variable transmission (which required multiple visits to the deader, but thankfully was fixed under warranty), hybrid battery problems (again thankfully replaced under warranty), and a bad ERG valve (which I had to pay for). And I felt I had to take it to the dealer for oil changes (since it uses synthetic oil). Compared to the Honda Accord I had for 10 years before this car, the Honda Civic Hybrid has had a lot of problems.
Also, there is a class action lawsuit from owners dissatisfied with their Honda Civic Hybrid's mileage that is close to settling.
And, I do plan to drive this car for at least a few more years. I do think I've saved money, as well as creating less polution. And for my next car I will be considering a hybrid, a plug-in hybrid, or an electric car.
Taking a paragraph of someone's work and rewording it may not be infringement. See the Wikipedia article on close paraphrasing for exceptions. Close paraphrasing of copyrighted text is not allowed when it is substantial, but is also allowed when there are limited ways to say the same thing.
The problem is that not all Windows 8 laptops will have this, so it will be an afterthought. When will Microsoft learn from Apple? If you build a platform that requires certain sensors, developers will use them. Otherwise...well, it will just be a gimmick.
This isn't right. The proposed algorithm is better on sparser signals, but is a regular FFT. The point is that many things we want to compress are sparse, or at least have pieces that are sparse. In JPEG, for example, images are broken into 8x8 pixel blocks and then DCT'ed (which is similar to FFT). Many of those blocks might be sparse, and benefit from this new approach, even if the most complex blocks aren't and don't benefit.
I've gotten excellent results out of Cree CR6s. 10.5 watt 65 watt equivalent LEDs. I'm typing this from a room with 6 of them. Of course, your mileage may vary.
Yes, there are poorly coded sites. A ton of them. Welcome to the web.
But saying that everything should be W3C complaint and everything would be better is nonsense.
Do you think W3C is a single standard? Never changing or growing? Are you aware that today's proprietary features are often the W3C specs of tomorrow? Do you think that there are ways of interpreting the spec that might be to spec but different? Does the W3C specify performance for every task in a browser?
The W3C is a standards body. Necessarily behind the curve. Browsers have significantly different characteristics, and W3C or any other standard isn't going to make those differences disappear. Some sites will look better in one browser or another. Especially if the site is pushing the envelope.
XMLHttpRequest Level 2, which supports CORS is the proposed W3C standard. See this. Firefox, Chrome, and Safari implement this spec.
Microsoft's XDomainRequest is Microsoft's non-standard proprietary implementation, though they have attempted to get it ALSO added to the W3C. See this for a response to Microsoft, and why XDomainRequest is a bad idea.
Quoting a Microsoft documentation page isn't any way to prove a point. Nothing in the referenced page says other browsers are non-standard. I can't decide if you are Astroturfing, ignorant, or just can't Google.
A few years ago, I had a Blackberry Bold that used to crash during phone calls. It would take a minute to reboot. Months later I believe it was finally fixed by a OS upgrade, but by then I was onto an IPhone. Was RIM crucified then?
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I want CC No Commercial (NC) and CC No Derivatives (ND) clauses removed because they don't really support free. Works don't enrich the commons unless you can do whatever you want with them. Also, the NC clause should be eliminated because it is really hard to define commercial. Does commercial mean you can't share a file on a website that has ads?
My opinion is that a little free is better than not free. I should be able to donate my work to the commons without expecting to see it on a billboard. Which has actually happened. In terms of the commercial example, I think we can all judge when things move over the line from donation based to blatantly commercial. The good news is that it is up to me as a rights holder to enforce the license. I can allow uses of my file in ad supported web sites, but object to my song being used in a local TV ad. Yes, there are ambiguities in everything. That's life.
If you object to these licenses, don't use 'em. Or anything with them.
Disclaimer: I've licensed songs I've written as CC NC.
This drunken pirate says otherwise. Anything you post may be used against you, given the right circumstances.
There is a lesson in all this. Don't use social media. Anything you say there will last forever, and will be used against you.
And the flip side is that social media doesn't produce anything worth reading anyway. It is generally poorly written junk. If you want to contribute in a meaningful way, work on Wikipedia or write for Examiner.com. Look at me post junk on slashdot...ugh.
This is the only Khan I like on YouTube...
Khaaaaan!!!!
You clearly aren't a parent. Try convincing the kids they don't want McDonalds, especially if they are in a foreign country and miss home. Hell, many years ago I ate in a McDonalds in Hungary (back when it was behind the iron curtain) because I was homesick.
I have no idea why he chose McD's in France, but I do have kids, so this is remotely understandable.
And it would be cool to have gold fall from the sky. But that doesn't make the current machines useless. Remember, we are at the very start of this revolution.
As for printing a candy bar...huh? Why do that? Traditional manufacturing still has a role, at least for the foreseeable future.
On the other hand, I was playing with a RepRap printed herringbone gear yesterday. I thought it was pretty cool. They are very difficult to manufacture with traditional machinery, but not a problem with a 3D printer.
I think that's the plan. Google Maps now has a new mode called MapsGL which uses hardware accelerated 3d. Why add 3d to the browser if you didn't plan to use it.
I just discovered the joys of podcasting their shows, which is a great way to consume non-news radio. This is terrible news.
I'll really miss Tom and Ray. I even thought they were great in their Nova special on the car of the future
There were 243 million CFL's sold in the US in 2009. And there were 34 reports of smoke, and 4 reports of fire in a US consumer product safety database from March 2011 through December of 2011 (see this article for more information). Seems like a pretty safe product to me.
In terms of your supposition that CFL's actually cost more than incandecents? Here is a study that says no, In terms of the ACEEE.org study, I can't find specifics (unless you are talking about the 2006 study, which is hopelessly out of date). But electric cars top the ACEEE.org list of cleanest cars this year.
You can keep your "spaceship" at $60,000 / kg to LTO. I'm betting on the "non-spaceship", which costs $5,400 / kg to LTO. Read wikipedia for the consequences of demanding full reusability.
Elon just answered that they were off by a few seconds because of wind. He said that if it weren't for wind, they could land Dragon in someone's backyard.
Soccer causes head injuries too.
I don't get your comment. I teach math to six year olds once a week. They "get" the number line, in that they use it as a useful tool for calculation, and can understand how numbers equate to divisions on the paper. Is it innate? Probably not. Is it something that many six year olds in the US culture have? From my experience, yes.
Where the article veers into the absurd is the suggestion that we should consider "bringing the human saga" into teaching math, and that math isn't objective fact, or black and white. Math is freaking math. There is right and wrong, black and white.
Hey....this is the entertainment industry we're talking about?
Louis CK fucked with the system. He wasn't thinking of the middlemen. He stiffed the studio execs. He gave the lawyers and his agent the finger.
Will you think of the poor entertainment industry for a second? Blow and hookers are expensive. Vacation house mortgages don't just pay themselves.
This isn't totally surprising.
I was an early adopter of the Honda Civic Hybrid in July of 2002. I've had bad problems with the continuously variable transmission (which required multiple visits to the deader, but thankfully was fixed under warranty), hybrid battery problems (again thankfully replaced under warranty), and a bad ERG valve (which I had to pay for). And I felt I had to take it to the dealer for oil changes (since it uses synthetic oil). Compared to the Honda Accord I had for 10 years before this car, the Honda Civic Hybrid has had a lot of problems.
Also, there is a class action lawsuit from owners dissatisfied with their Honda Civic Hybrid's mileage that is close to settling.
And, I do plan to drive this car for at least a few more years. I do think I've saved money, as well as creating less polution. And for my next car I will be considering a hybrid, a plug-in hybrid, or an electric car.
Taking a paragraph of someone's work and rewording it may not be infringement. See the Wikipedia article on close paraphrasing for exceptions. Close paraphrasing of copyrighted text is not allowed when it is substantial, but is also allowed when there are limited ways to say the same thing.
The problem is that not all Windows 8 laptops will have this, so it will be an afterthought. When will Microsoft learn from Apple? If you build a platform that requires certain sensors, developers will use them. Otherwise...well, it will just be a gimmick.
This isn't right. The proposed algorithm is better on sparser signals, but is a regular FFT. The point is that many things we want to compress are sparse, or at least have pieces that are sparse. In JPEG, for example, images are broken into 8x8 pixel blocks and then DCT'ed (which is similar to FFT). Many of those blocks might be sparse, and benefit from this new approach, even if the most complex blocks aren't and don't benefit.
I've gotten excellent results out of Cree CR6s. 10.5 watt 65 watt equivalent LEDs. I'm typing this from a room with 6 of them. Of course, your mileage may vary.
Yes, there are poorly coded sites. A ton of them. Welcome to the web.
But saying that everything should be W3C complaint and everything would be better is nonsense.
Do you think W3C is a single standard? Never changing or growing? Are you aware that today's proprietary features are often the W3C specs of tomorrow? Do you think that there are ways of interpreting the spec that might be to spec but different? Does the W3C specify performance for every task in a browser?
The W3C is a standards body. Necessarily behind the curve. Browsers have significantly different characteristics, and W3C or any other standard isn't going to make those differences disappear. Some sites will look better in one browser or another. Especially if the site is pushing the envelope.
No.
XMLHttpRequest Level 2, which supports CORS is the proposed W3C standard. See this. Firefox, Chrome, and Safari implement this spec.
Microsoft's XDomainRequest is Microsoft's non-standard proprietary implementation, though they have attempted to get it ALSO added to the W3C. See this for a response to Microsoft, and why XDomainRequest is a bad idea.
Also see the XMLHttpRequest Wikipedia page as well as the cross origin resource sharing page. Microsoft's proprietary XDomainRequest partially implements the CORS spec, but they don't implement the XMLHttpRequest Level 2 spec at all.
Quoting a Microsoft documentation page isn't any way to prove a point. Nothing in the referenced page says other browsers are non-standard. I can't decide if you are Astroturfing, ignorant, or just can't Google.
Try making a cross domain javascript request with IE9 with JQuery.
Maybe the guy cares about the environment.
A recent Mythbusters episode says Motorcycles are pretty dirty.
A few years ago, I had a Blackberry Bold that used to crash during phone calls. It would take a minute to reboot. Months later I believe it was finally fixed by a OS upgrade, but by then I was onto an IPhone. Was RIM crucified then?