True, but in practice the 1st and 4th parts of the test are what most cases hinge on. Admittedly, that could be due to relatively few cases of whole-work reuse being litigated in the first place. It's relatively unusual, though, to see a case fail due solely to the 3rd factor, with the judge ruling that a particular use would've been fair, except for the defendant using too large a proportion of the work.
It's been a while since I've played a long game that felt compelling after the first few hours (at least in single-player). If it's just a slog, why bother?
True, though it could be done at the distro level, which appears to be the author's plans (the person who wrote this script works for Red Hat, and discussed elsewhere in the thread what Red Hat's plans are for rolling out systemd, which will handle this). Then things would be appropriately updated by the maintainers rather than relying on users to keep their.bashrc synced with infrastructure changes.
Leahy seems to always be at the forefront of these draconian pro-IP laws. On non-copyright/patent/etc. related issues, he's actually fairly civil-libertarian, so it doesn't seem like he's one of those authoritarians for whom more government police power for its own sake, and copyright infringement is just a convenient excuse for introducing them (the way many Republicans are on "terrorism"). It seems he actually does want strong enforcement of copyright laws, and that that's his motivator, not an excuse. But he's Senator for Vermont, a place not exactly known for its large media industry. It would make more sense to me if he were from CA or FL or something.
Now that he's become one of the media industry's bet friends in Washington, he gets a bunch of media donations, which could explain his continued advocacy on the subject. But how did a Senator from VT end up in that position in the first place? Personal conviction? Opportunism?
I think PageRank is ultimately some of the problem, though I hear they've been de-emphasizing it (but it hasn't fixed my searches). When I search for band lyrics, I want the lovingly crafted fan site that's been accumulating information on that band for the past 10 years. When I search for reviews, I want that site too. I don't want mp3lyrics.com for lyrics or allmusic.com for reviews or whatever. But the problem is that each of the good fan sites is a separate entity (which is one reason they're good): one's at joydiv.org, another one's off some person's university webspace, another one's on free hosting somewhere, yet another one's at brainwashed.com or synthpunk.org or whatever. So they each rank lower than mp3lyrics.com or allmusic.com, which have mediocre info for every band on the planet tucked away under their single pagerank unit.
Same with non-music stuff. You're never going to find the person with a great page on blueberry pies; instead you'll get a recipe from eHow.
The main thing saving Google's ass these days is that 90% of the time they can just throw up a Wikipedia result in the top-5, and usually that's good enough.
We view this work as one of the first serious, credible justifications for covering the planet's surface with computers.
Uhh... it doesn't seem like a very good one. If there is any good reason to "cover[] the planet's surface with computers", it had better be doing something more useful than providing some fucking stock market liquidity.
Gen X is roughly people who're now 30-50. Varies a bit, can include people in their late 20s, maybe some early 50s. Maybe doesn't include late 40s.
The literal post-war "baby boom" of 1945-1950 would be people now 60-65. It's used more broadly to include some people born later, though, but not much later than, say, the late 1950s. If you think of boomer culture involving things like anti-Vietnam protests, the Beatles, hippiedom, etc., that has to be people who were at least, say, teenagers by 1970.
It's odd for you to have a pro-science polemic and be using quasi-religious terminology like "how their brain was created". It's currently a very open question when exactly brains are "created", with most scientists believing it isn't at any one time. Physical brain structure changes significantly over someone's life, especially in the earlier years; it doesn't spring from the womb fully preprogrammed. Experimental interventions on other mammals (can't do that research on humans) show that environmental and stimulus differences can even induce physically different brain structures.
It's well-known that venture capitalists are increasingly interested in diversifying beyond the web into "atom-based" startups, i.e. companies working on manufacturing physical items. This is a perfect opening. While the traditional e-book has served us well for years, some of its limitations become apparent when one wants to run a lending system. It can be implemented, but clearly in an onerous manner. That's why my new startup will propose to make physical e-books. They'll be just as readable and affordable as the traditional e-books you know and love, but with our new permaprint technology, the text will actually be physically imprinted onto thin surfaces; a stack of such surfaces will contain the contents of a book. Since each permaprint e-book will be imprinted on a separate stack of surfaces, which can be moved separately, lending will be as simple as lending the appropriate stack. As an added bonus, battery life is much improved.
A protocol that continually finds and hops to not-interfered-with frequencies is perhaps "intelligent" in a generic sort of way, but calling it "cognition" is a bit weird. It's pretty standard communications-theory stuff.
There's nothing wrong with disliking players of games, even if they aren't breaking the rules. I can choose to attack Google, or boycott them, if I believe their business practices are immoral, even if those business practices are legal. If I cared enough, I could even take out attack ads in newspapers against them to put pressure on them to refrain from those practices (so long as my ads did not falsely claim that the practices were illegal). They can ignore my ads if they want. That's how free speech and free markets work: I don't need Congress's permission to attack Google's business practices, to spread negative PR about them, or to boycott them for their choice of practices.
Corporate income taxes are a tax on economic inefficiency, monopolies, etc. In a properly competitive market, large rates of profit do not persist, because the invisible hand will reallocate resources to drive prices towards the cost of production (plus an epsilon). If corporations are making large profits, it's by definition because the market they're operating in is failing, and recovering the proceeds of that market failure seems perfectly justified to me..
This sounds quite interesting. Is there a way I can randomly claim ownership of YouTube videos, and derive revenues from their viewers? Or do you have to be someone special to get in on that?
It's interesting how the terms are used differently. On the web and in popular culture, it seems "design" has taken to be synonymous with things like web design and interior design, with a focus on visual look, layout, colors, etc., perhaps with some UX thrown in. But in design as an academic discipline, architecture (in the designing buildings sense) is seen as a fairly canonical example of design.
That seems to be more Microsoft's fault than the article author's. Ozzie's title was "Chief Software Architect", but his job was indeed somewhat closer to product design than software architecture. That, plus a good mix of management/politics thrown in, since his real job was to attempt to make something happen out of the slow-moving behemoths that make up Microsoft's various product and dev teams.
Especially since if we're going to complain about "misuse" this way, then the proposed use of "cracker" here is incorrect: in computing, a cracker is a person who cracks copy-protection. A person who breaks into bank accounts or servers is not a "cracker" under the long-accepted definition. (Breaking encryption can also be called "cracking encryption", but those people aren't usually called "crackers", at least not without some other adjective, like "code crackers".)
Salaried employees at most companies don't fill out time cards. They have to request vacation days, but nobody is forcing them to fill in logs of when they came in and when they left every day. That's handled informally by managers, whose job it is to make sure people are showing up. If you're not, your manager should notice and talk to you, but there's still no timecard.
How informally depends on the company; some have fairly strict 9-5 policies, while others, especially in tech, are extremely liberal with the clock as long as you're getting things done.
I'd be more worried about whether it's actually going to come out in late November with the promised features. If you look over the list, it's much more than a bugfix release; they're promising to do major surgery on the game, add missing features, etc.
In these cases it's rules imposed on the bureaucrats. When national medical insurance programs started covering take-home "devices", there was controversy over whether that would mean that everyone would just get their doctor to prescribe them "home computer" or something. So to avoid supposed waste, there are rules (in both the U.S. and Canada) against the government medical services paying for consumer devices that have entertainment uses.
I can see why peopled wanted the rule, but it probably costs more than it saves, given how expensive the equivalent specialist devices are.
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True, but in practice the 1st and 4th parts of the test are what most cases hinge on. Admittedly, that could be due to relatively few cases of whole-work reuse being litigated in the first place. It's relatively unusual, though, to see a case fail due solely to the 3rd factor, with the judge ruling that a particular use would've been fair, except for the defendant using too large a proportion of the work.
So I won't be able to give $20 to a friend without: 1) being tracked; and 2) giving a cut to some payment processor like PayPal? I'd rather use cash.
It's been a while since I've played a long game that felt compelling after the first few hours (at least in single-player). If it's just a slog, why bother?
True, though it could be done at the distro level, which appears to be the author's plans (the person who wrote this script works for Red Hat, and discussed elsewhere in the thread what Red Hat's plans are for rolling out systemd, which will handle this). Then things would be appropriately updated by the maintainers rather than relying on users to keep their .bashrc synced with infrastructure changes.
Leahy seems to always be at the forefront of these draconian pro-IP laws. On non-copyright/patent/etc. related issues, he's actually fairly civil-libertarian, so it doesn't seem like he's one of those authoritarians for whom more government police power for its own sake, and copyright infringement is just a convenient excuse for introducing them (the way many Republicans are on "terrorism"). It seems he actually does want strong enforcement of copyright laws, and that that's his motivator, not an excuse. But he's Senator for Vermont, a place not exactly known for its large media industry. It would make more sense to me if he were from CA or FL or something.
Now that he's become one of the media industry's bet friends in Washington, he gets a bunch of media donations, which could explain his continued advocacy on the subject. But how did a Senator from VT end up in that position in the first place? Personal conviction? Opportunism?
They're ideologically opposed to enrichment.
I think PageRank is ultimately some of the problem, though I hear they've been de-emphasizing it (but it hasn't fixed my searches). When I search for band lyrics, I want the lovingly crafted fan site that's been accumulating information on that band for the past 10 years. When I search for reviews, I want that site too. I don't want mp3lyrics.com for lyrics or allmusic.com for reviews or whatever. But the problem is that each of the good fan sites is a separate entity (which is one reason they're good): one's at joydiv.org, another one's off some person's university webspace, another one's on free hosting somewhere, yet another one's at brainwashed.com or synthpunk.org or whatever. So they each rank lower than mp3lyrics.com or allmusic.com, which have mediocre info for every band on the planet tucked away under their single pagerank unit.
Same with non-music stuff. You're never going to find the person with a great page on blueberry pies; instead you'll get a recipe from eHow.
The main thing saving Google's ass these days is that 90% of the time they can just throw up a Wikipedia result in the top-5, and usually that's good enough.
Uhh... it doesn't seem like a very good one. If there is any good reason to "cover[] the planet's surface with computers", it had better be doing something more useful than providing some fucking stock market liquidity.
Gen X is roughly people who're now 30-50. Varies a bit, can include people in their late 20s, maybe some early 50s. Maybe doesn't include late 40s.
The literal post-war "baby boom" of 1945-1950 would be people now 60-65. It's used more broadly to include some people born later, though, but not much later than, say, the late 1950s. If you think of boomer culture involving things like anti-Vietnam protests, the Beatles, hippiedom, etc., that has to be people who were at least, say, teenagers by 1970.
It's odd for you to have a pro-science polemic and be using quasi-religious terminology like "how their brain was created". It's currently a very open question when exactly brains are "created", with most scientists believing it isn't at any one time. Physical brain structure changes significantly over someone's life, especially in the earlier years; it doesn't spring from the womb fully preprogrammed. Experimental interventions on other mammals (can't do that research on humans) show that environmental and stimulus differences can even induce physically different brain structures.
It's well-known that venture capitalists are increasingly interested in diversifying beyond the web into "atom-based" startups, i.e. companies working on manufacturing physical items. This is a perfect opening. While the traditional e-book has served us well for years, some of its limitations become apparent when one wants to run a lending system. It can be implemented, but clearly in an onerous manner. That's why my new startup will propose to make physical e-books. They'll be just as readable and affordable as the traditional e-books you know and love, but with our new permaprint technology, the text will actually be physically imprinted onto thin surfaces; a stack of such surfaces will contain the contents of a book. Since each permaprint e-book will be imprinted on a separate stack of surfaces, which can be moved separately, lending will be as simple as lending the appropriate stack. As an added bonus, battery life is much improved.
"Cognitive radio"?
A protocol that continually finds and hops to not-interfered-with frequencies is perhaps "intelligent" in a generic sort of way, but calling it "cognition" is a bit weird. It's pretty standard communications-theory stuff.
There's nothing wrong with disliking players of games, even if they aren't breaking the rules. I can choose to attack Google, or boycott them, if I believe their business practices are immoral, even if those business practices are legal. If I cared enough, I could even take out attack ads in newspapers against them to put pressure on them to refrain from those practices (so long as my ads did not falsely claim that the practices were illegal). They can ignore my ads if they want. That's how free speech and free markets work: I don't need Congress's permission to attack Google's business practices, to spread negative PR about them, or to boycott them for their choice of practices.
Corporate income taxes are a tax on economic inefficiency, monopolies, etc. In a properly competitive market, large rates of profit do not persist, because the invisible hand will reallocate resources to drive prices towards the cost of production (plus an epsilon). If corporations are making large profits, it's by definition because the market they're operating in is failing, and recovering the proceeds of that market failure seems perfectly justified to me..
This sounds quite interesting. Is there a way I can randomly claim ownership of YouTube videos, and derive revenues from their viewers? Or do you have to be someone special to get in on that?
It's interesting how the terms are used differently. On the web and in popular culture, it seems "design" has taken to be synonymous with things like web design and interior design, with a focus on visual look, layout, colors, etc., perhaps with some UX thrown in. But in design as an academic discipline, architecture (in the designing buildings sense) is seen as a fairly canonical example of design.
That seems to be more Microsoft's fault than the article author's. Ozzie's title was "Chief Software Architect", but his job was indeed somewhat closer to product design than software architecture. That, plus a good mix of management/politics thrown in, since his real job was to attempt to make something happen out of the slow-moving behemoths that make up Microsoft's various product and dev teams.
Especially since if we're going to complain about "misuse" this way, then the proposed use of "cracker" here is incorrect: in computing, a cracker is a person who cracks copy-protection. A person who breaks into bank accounts or servers is not a "cracker" under the long-accepted definition. (Breaking encryption can also be called "cracking encryption", but those people aren't usually called "crackers", at least not without some other adjective, like "code crackers".)
Cognitive science largely does that.
Fortunately, under modern experimental protocols, the mice are allowed pants under normal circumstances.
Salaried employees at most companies don't fill out time cards. They have to request vacation days, but nobody is forcing them to fill in logs of when they came in and when they left every day. That's handled informally by managers, whose job it is to make sure people are showing up. If you're not, your manager should notice and talk to you, but there's still no timecard.
How informally depends on the company; some have fairly strict 9-5 policies, while others, especially in tech, are extremely liberal with the clock as long as you're getting things done.
I'd be more worried about whether it's actually going to come out in late November with the promised features. If you look over the list, it's much more than a bugfix release; they're promising to do major surgery on the game, add missing features, etc.
In these cases it's rules imposed on the bureaucrats. When national medical insurance programs started covering take-home "devices", there was controversy over whether that would mean that everyone would just get their doctor to prescribe them "home computer" or something. So to avoid supposed waste, there are rules (in both the U.S. and Canada) against the government medical services paying for consumer devices that have entertainment uses.
I can see why peopled wanted the rule, but it probably costs more than it saves, given how expensive the equivalent specialist devices are.
It's true that they make more money now with their content sites, but only slightly more: ISP subscriptions still make up around 40% of its revenues.