Does Canon own a copyright in a photo I take (using its copyrighted firmware)? Does Lexmark own a copyright in an image I print? Does Adobe own a copyright in my photoshop file?
What if the printer inserts some 'fingerprint' into the printed image so that the print can be traced to that particular printer.
What if this 'fingerprint' were under their copyright?
Wouldn't this make every single thing printed by their printers under their copyright?
I once worked with a guy whose incredibly verbose "please leave a detailed message" message ran to about 45 seconds. In English. It was then followed by about a MINUTE of Spanish.
THEN, only AFTER you had listened to all this, could you actually leave him a message...
Needless to say, I never bothered leaving him any message at all.
My voicemail message just says "please leave a BRIEF message".
Whats wrong with the person who only sees inkblots?
Cos thats what they ARE.
I have the same problem with many 'optical illusions' like the parallelograms arranged so that most people see a 3d cube which flips from concave to convex. All I see are parallelograms.
Sagan used to be my science hero, when I was a kid and I watched a regular show of his on TV.
Then one show I was watching there was some topic about visits from extraterrestrials, interstellar travel etc.
Carl came out and said "There is no possibility of visits from other worlds. The distances involved are so great that it would take thousands of years for them to get to our solar system."
My jaw dropped at that statement. Up to that point I had thought he was an imaginative and intelligent guy.
Evidently he could not conceive of alien beings for whom thousands of years was a very short time and who could even make such a journey 'just for the hell of it'.
For him this was completely impossible, inconceivable.
Actually, something that I think a lot of people fail to notice is that extremely high detail graphics in a computer game, eg Age of Conan or Crysis, are HARDER on the eyes than the simpler graphics in, eg World of Warcraft.
The graphics in WoW are VERY high contrast.
This means that its very easy for the eye to pick out the details it needs in order to see what is around you.
In high-quality graphic games the contrast is usually pretty low, they seem to compress the color palette quite a bit. This means that the eye has to work faurly hard to pick out the details of a scene.
Age of Conan was particularly bad in this respect (ignoring the other ways in which the game was 'bad'). Almost everything in AoC is a washed out brown or green. I couldn't play for more than a few hours at a time without my eyes aching. Yes, I have a decent monitor, yes I have decent graphics card and computer.
I can play WoW for hours on end because its very easy to look at.
I guess you don't understand what a universal right is? It means it's a right, not something that's earned. Even some selfish bastard who nobody likes still has rights.
Yes, that would be my point.
The idea of people having such formally declared rights in the absence of any kind of formally declared responsibilities that come with those rights is a very western thing, and in the larger picture of human cultures is kind of warped.
In the US, you tend to get your two weeks and that's about it.
They give employees paid vacations in the USA?
I always just assumed that when an employee wanted a vacation the fired them on the spot. Then re-hired them when they felt the employee had learned their lesson. Sort of creating the effect of a vacation without having to pay them.
Really, I should have bought more clothes while I was there; kiwi guys just have the most *sad* selection of mens clothing to choose from. Thats the sort of thing I mean.
As a compromise measure I propose stealing something from Apple's playbook: The iPhone password entry interface. The last character typed is visible for 2-3 seconds, everything else is masked
Please don't make that sound like an Apple innovation, I've had several phones that do this. None of them blessed by St.Jobs
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Does Canon own a copyright in a photo I take (using its copyrighted firmware)?
Does Lexmark own a copyright in an image I print?
Does Adobe own a copyright in my photoshop file?
What if the printer inserts some 'fingerprint' into the printed image so that the print can be traced to that particular printer.
What if this 'fingerprint' were under their copyright?
Wouldn't this make every single thing printed by their printers under their copyright?
Cos this already happens...
are better than mere Humans.
Survival is *beyond* good and evil, anyone?
Who's the fscking idiot who thought having \0 indicate end-of-string was a good idea??!!?
My guess would be either Brian Kernighan or Dennis Ritchie.
Neither of which I'd characterise as 'an idiot' though they probably thought of the C programming language as a gigantic practical joke at the time...
http://www.elsop.com/wrc/humor/unixhoax.htm
I once worked with a guy whose incredibly verbose "please leave a detailed message" message ran to about 45 seconds. In English. It was then followed by about a MINUTE of Spanish.
THEN, only AFTER you had listened to all this, could you actually leave him a message...
Needless to say, I never bothered leaving him any message at all.
My voicemail message just says "please leave a BRIEF message".
Because (at least in Debian Lenny) I am still using 21 because 22 hasn't been working out so well.
Lots of problems, eg find-grep-dired not finding any results at all.
I uninstalled 22 and installed 21 instead, now my find-grep-dired is working again...
Really?
Do I need say more?
and because my cursive was hideously illegible
But to me EVERYONES cursive (including my own) is hideously illegible.
Can we not just bury this style of writing??
Makes you wonder why do they let us comment at all, since the truth has already been established.
Reminds me of Jean Baudrillard who wrote:
"It is no longer necessary to be able to produce an opinion, only to be able to reproduce public opinion."
Whats wrong with the person who only sees inkblots?
Cos thats what they ARE.
I have the same problem with many 'optical illusions' like the parallelograms arranged so that most people see a 3d cube which flips from concave to convex. All I see are parallelograms.
Whats wrong with me, doc?
Ok so diagnose me this.
All I see are inkblots. I make no interpretation.
I report to the psychiatrist on every ink blot he shows me "I see an ink blot"
Whats wrong with me, doc?
it's a good fun but most of it is not science.
dismissing it out of hand isn't science either.
Sagan used to be my science hero, when I was a kid and I watched a regular show of his on TV.
Then one show I was watching there was some topic about visits from extraterrestrials, interstellar travel etc.
Carl came out and said "There is no possibility of visits from other worlds. The distances involved are so great that it would take thousands of years for them to get to our solar system."
My jaw dropped at that statement. Up to that point I had thought he was an imaginative and intelligent guy.
Evidently he could not conceive of alien beings for whom thousands of years was a very short time and who could even make such a journey 'just for the hell of it'.
For him this was completely impossible, inconceivable.
Thats pretty sad for a guy with his reputation.
Actually, something that I think a lot of people fail to notice is that extremely high detail graphics in a computer game, eg Age of Conan or Crysis, are HARDER on the eyes than the simpler graphics in, eg World of Warcraft.
The graphics in WoW are VERY high contrast.
This means that its very easy for the eye to pick out the details it needs in order to see what is around you.
In high-quality graphic games the contrast is usually pretty low, they seem to compress the color palette quite a bit. This means that the eye has to work faurly hard to pick out the details of a scene.
Age of Conan was particularly bad in this respect (ignoring the other ways in which the game was 'bad'). Almost everything in AoC is a washed out brown or green. I couldn't play for more than a few hours at a time without my eyes aching. Yes, I have a decent monitor, yes I have decent graphics card and computer.
I can play WoW for hours on end because its very easy to look at.
Cartoony graphics ftw!
I guess you don't understand what a universal right is? It means it's a right, not something that's earned. Even some selfish bastard who nobody likes still has rights.
Yes, that would be my point.
The idea of people having such formally declared rights in the absence of any kind of formally declared responsibilities that come with those rights is a very western thing, and in the larger picture of human cultures is kind of warped.
A universal declaration of human rights with no corresponding universal declaration of human responsibilities is SO a *western* thing.
They won't need to hire 50 guys to make a bukkake video.
I always assumed that they faked it using wallpaper paste or something.
In the US, you tend to get your two weeks and that's about it.
They give employees paid vacations in the USA?
I always just assumed that when an employee wanted a vacation the fired them on the spot.
Then re-hired them when they felt the employee had learned their lesson.
Sort of creating the effect of a vacation without having to pay them.
I have been here for nearly 30 years.
I recently spent some time in Europe.
Really, I should have bought more clothes while I was there; kiwi guys just have the most *sad* selection of mens clothing to choose from. Thats the sort of thing I mean.
I disagree with that. Auckland is incredibly metropolitan and diverse. No rural town I've ever lived in had the diversity of Auckland
By NZ standards, true Auckland is metropolitan and diverse.
By NZ standards.
New Zealand suffers from small town mentality.
Its very rural, even the cities are really just very large 'small country towns'.
The shops are pretty limited in what they stock, theres very little variety in the stores.
The people are slack, lazy and highly disorganised.
NZ businesses are, by and large, extremely poorly run and the management style leaves a LOT to be desired.
Theres a saying here "She'll be right mate"
It means "Don't worry about something that appears to be almost a disaster, it'll be ok"
Usually when you hear a kiwi say this phrase DUCK because something is about to explode.
I'm even considering going to the UK.
NZ is ok if you don't mind a nation which is basically a gigantic rural small town...
.. if they also punish him virtually only, and without using any actual virtual punishment device.
Force him to play Everquest, original version not EQ2.
The average person, unless you put a gun to their head and MAKE them do differently, will choose a password that an 8-year-old can guess
No kidding.
I ran john the ripper over some of our password databases.
One of our directors had 'director' as their password.
Another director had 'ross' as their password, their husbands name.
As a compromise measure I propose stealing something from Apple's playbook: The iPhone password entry interface. The last character typed is visible for 2-3 seconds, everything else is masked
Please don't make that sound like an Apple innovation, I've had several phones that do this. None of them blessed by St.Jobs
The post I was replying to seemed to suggest that the money spent on the war had merely evaporated, vanished, burnt.
I was merely pointing out that it was a highly profitable thing for many American companies to get involved in.
War is good for business. They were profiteering from the 'captive market' of the belligerent American government.