This is proof that science isn't like religion, though - long established theories are constantly challenged and re-worked based on new evidence. Unlike religious views:)
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (amongst other recent manuscript discoveries like the additional finds of the Codex Sinaiticus in 1975) has challenged Christianity but the evidence found has so far as I know not required any re-working (ie alteration of our understanding of the Historical events).
Granted much of religion is not testable but one cannot discount that which is challenged under new discoveries. For example if Sinaiticus differed in important theological points from Codex Vaticanus this would impinge dramatically on the verity of the current Biblical manuscripts with respect to the original writings.
The best-guess at colouration of these dinosaurs, claimed as an absolute result, ignoring all possible causes of variation (see other comments, eg refraction, dietary causes) is pretty poor science IMO. But, in any case was there any doubt that dinosaurs had some sort of colour (which appears to be the strongest conclusion possible here).
How are you wasting your time? You're still sitting there in the car whichever way you do gear changes. For me I think it's more about being engaged in the driving process.
Do you have a reference there? I've read recently that allowing the car to warm up (for 30s I think they said) allows the engine to operate more efficiently as you're pulling away. This results in better protection of the engine, as the oil is warm, and sufficiently better fuel efficiency in the first little bit of driving that things are about even on use of petrol [gasoline].
I've not checked the situation but people are saying that Apple (IIRC) only have this tied up in the US (which seems unlikely as codecs are patent encumbered in EPC states too). Thus Firefox could mirror there previous workaround for PGP. Under export laws FF weren't allowed to distribute 128 bit (again IIRC) encryption algos - thus they offered 2 versions one for the US (with the algos) and one for the rest (without). It was a case of the user choosing which version they wanted. I recall downloading the proper (non-crippled) version to the UK without any problems even thought this meant that FF strictly contravened export/national security laws.
Mozilla may be a US corp but FF is not a US product. H.264 could be in a plugin distributed in a country without any patent restriction on it. No doubt a lawsuit on the basis of contributory infringement would arise but FF list all plugins available without making comment as to whether they are lawful in any jurisdiction - like a common carrier - and the outcome of a successful complaint would probably be bad for the plaintiff too.
On a side note: I really wish that the interoperability clause had been passed into law in the EPC (European Patent Convention).
[...] full screen mode can currently only be entered using those default controls (making full screen mode available via a scripting api is considered a security risk, and thus discouraged by the HTML5 spec). So they're sacrificing that functionality at the alter of branding.
If the browsers don't let the user override the branding then they're broken. I should be able to choose to use the native controls for all videos if I wish - just as I can choose to display all websites as green-on-black in a console font if I want to.
If he has it hosted on geocities then he should score well for a security position - he's already poisoned your DNS he probably knows the network inside out.
So my guess would be that this virus dna didn't just appear by chance in the dna of humans.
Funnily enough this is the exact opposite for one of the common arguments against creationism - the Anthropic Principle accounts for us being in this Universe of incredibly slim chances in the same way as an argument that the virus DNA just appears in the DNA of humans. So was there a previously created pattern in both circumstances or can one pick and choose which infinitesimally small odds to go with?
Of course no matter how small the odds there is always a chance that you win on the first go.
Just a thought.
Genetic convergence may also speak into interpretation of this result?
They'll send a mid-level manager(presumably competent enough to achieve and/or backstab his way to a good rank in whatever metric they use) and a standard military detachment, it's just a few primitive aliens, after all, routine job.
It's not a military detachment they are clearly mercenaries.
Perhaps 7 years automatic for free, with the next 7 years costing $1,000, and the next costing $10,000, and the next costing $100,000, then $1,000,000, and so forth. A 10x increase for each extension
This is so ridiculously biased towards big media and against the little guy that the geek ought to be ashamed for ever having posted it.
If the little guy can't make > $1000 USD of copyright work in 7 years though should he really be retaining the exclusive state protected right. If one wants to keep something secret then don't publish it.
Or have a snow-sensor and kick on a small heating device...
Can't you just have the top of the unit overhanging, no ledges for snow to settle on and a smooth outer surface sloping inwards towards the bottom? I think I've seen the general shape somewhere before - http://images.google.com/images?q=old%20fashioned%20street%20lamp
OK, it's not going to be much use in an ice-storm but then you'd need to vastly over-engineer it for that.
> And RATM only became involved a few days ago after some of their friends from the UK told them about it.
Interesting, I've never heard the song (or at least not this time around) and yet I knew about the whole thing last week - don't you think the Sony media relations people were on to them? Cowell's comments were certainly extremely well done to insight the maximum "backlash".
Sony if they've half a brain (I think they do) saw this as soon as retweets started trending with one of their stables track titles mentioned.
Curiously the BBC interview says he "helped set up the facebook group" but doesn't say who with. Also he claims to not to be involved with the music industry "no not at all" - so not a DJ?
He didn't think it mattered that the record was on Sony? Wouldn't you think that if you wanted to send a message to a company not to do something the best way wouldn't involve giving them lots of money for doing the thing you want to discourage?
Oh, so you're the chief advertising exec in Sony. Hi.
> and no one involved cares if Sony were dancing a jig about the extra sales
Supposedly people were buying RATM as an expression of anti-capitalist solidarity - wanting to show that the #1 couldn't be just bought by Sony. It looks distinctly like they were pwned.
All it was, was a couple of *Sony executives* saying "wouldn't it be cool if {classic rock song with apt band name} were *pitted for* Christmas number one *against* the pappy ballad that's supposedly a foregone conclusion. *We'll add in an anti-capitalist slant for lulz too.*
The other end result of course is that the Facebook group raised £70k for charity, and RATM are now pledging to donate the profits from sales of the record to charity too, something which I highly doubt Joe McElderberry, X-Factor winner, will do.
Are they also going to donate all their increased co-sales, the increased profit from next years tour (inevitable surely), the appearance fees and radio/tv play royalties? They're not exactly going to do badly out of this. Also I wonder if there's a bonus in it from Sony: "donate your pittance of the profits to boost sales [of both RATM and the X-factor recordings] and we'll chuck you 100-grand".
Don't you feel like a sucker for helping to line the pockets of Sony execs whilst being convinced by their media output that it was all for anti-commercialism or charity or what-have-you?
So this is indeed great news for Sony (and a nice bonus for whichever Sony exec started the Facebook group ), even better news for Shelter which are a great charity [...]
This was my immediate thought - call me cynical but this _has_ all been staged by Sony, surely.
They either win by people buying the single of "their" winner on X-Factor or they win by people buying the charity single. It seems that it's only the RATM part of the profit that goes to Shelter? RATM also win of course as this will boost sales of their other titles which had probably dribbled away to nearly nothing. The comment above said RATM profit from "record sales" were to go to Shelter, so they'd get all the airtime money then?
One interesting twist is that this sort of thing appears to be illegal under the EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive as Sony haven't made it clear that their agents have been involved from the start.
It's not quite clear what you're arguing for. Presumably it is for being allowed to carry an amount of gold around to use in common exchange for goods and services.
Bank notes usually belong to the government.
Money you place on deposit with the bank you do so with conditions attached. One of those conditions is usually that you don't have instantaneous access to that money without some interaction with said bank.
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Why is Theora more susceptible to submarine patents, or indeed granted patents that simply have not yet been enforced, over the technology of h264?
This is proof that science isn't like religion, though - long established theories are constantly challenged and re-worked based on new evidence. :)
Unlike religious views
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (amongst other recent manuscript discoveries like the additional finds of the Codex Sinaiticus in 1975) has challenged Christianity but the evidence found has so far as I know not required any re-working (ie alteration of our understanding of the Historical events).
Granted much of religion is not testable but one cannot discount that which is challenged under new discoveries. For example if Sinaiticus differed in important theological points from Codex Vaticanus this would impinge dramatically on the verity of the current Biblical manuscripts with respect to the original writings.
The best-guess at colouration of these dinosaurs, claimed as an absolute result, ignoring all possible causes of variation (see other comments, eg refraction, dietary causes) is pretty poor science IMO. But, in any case was there any doubt that dinosaurs had some sort of colour (which appears to be the strongest conclusion possible here).
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FTFY, 100% spam elimination less processing requirements.
How are you wasting your time? You're still sitting there in the car whichever way you do gear changes. For me I think it's more about being engaged in the driving process.
Do you have a reference there? I've read recently that allowing the car to warm up (for 30s I think they said) allows the engine to operate more efficiently as you're pulling away. This results in better protection of the engine, as the oil is warm, and sufficiently better fuel efficiency in the first little bit of driving that things are about even on use of petrol [gasoline].
I've not checked the situation but people are saying that Apple (IIRC) only have this tied up in the US (which seems unlikely as codecs are patent encumbered in EPC states too). Thus Firefox could mirror there previous workaround for PGP. Under export laws FF weren't allowed to distribute 128 bit (again IIRC) encryption algos - thus they offered 2 versions one for the US (with the algos) and one for the rest (without). It was a case of the user choosing which version they wanted. I recall downloading the proper (non-crippled) version to the UK without any problems even thought this meant that FF strictly contravened export/national security laws.
Mozilla may be a US corp but FF is not a US product. H.264 could be in a plugin distributed in a country without any patent restriction on it. No doubt a lawsuit on the basis of contributory infringement would arise but FF list all plugins available without making comment as to whether they are lawful in any jurisdiction - like a common carrier - and the outcome of a successful complaint would probably be bad for the plaintiff too.
On a side note: I really wish that the interoperability clause had been passed into law in the EPC (European Patent Convention).
[...] full screen mode can currently only be entered using those default controls (making full screen mode available via a scripting api is considered a security risk, and thus discouraged by the HTML5 spec). So they're sacrificing that functionality at the alter of branding.
If the browsers don't let the user override the branding then they're broken. I should be able to choose to use the native controls for all videos if I wish - just as I can choose to display all websites as green-on-black in a console font if I want to.
If he has it hosted on geocities then he should score well for a security position - he's already poisoned your DNS he probably knows the network inside out.
I bet you're a god on Reddit.
So my guess would be that this virus dna didn't just appear by chance in the dna of humans.
Funnily enough this is the exact opposite for one of the common arguments against creationism - the Anthropic Principle accounts for us being in this Universe of incredibly slim chances in the same way as an argument that the virus DNA just appears in the DNA of humans. So was there a previously created pattern in both circumstances or can one pick and choose which infinitesimally small odds to go with?
Of course no matter how small the odds there is always a chance that you win on the first go.
Just a thought.
Genetic convergence may also speak into interpretation of this result?
Unless of course they just chose the actors that turned up and could act well and didn't think about what colour they were.
My skins a light brown-pinky colour but I never thought of it as an attack on the light skinned "westerners".
They'll send a mid-level manager(presumably competent enough to achieve and/or backstab his way to a good rank in whatever metric they use) and a standard military detachment, it's just a few primitive aliens, after all, routine job.
It's not a military detachment they are clearly mercenaries.
Perhaps 7 years automatic for free, with the next 7 years costing $1,000, and the next costing $10,000, and the next costing $100,000, then $1,000,000, and so forth. A 10x increase for each extension
This is so ridiculously biased towards big media and against the little guy that the geek ought to be ashamed for ever having posted it.
If the little guy can't make > $1000 USD of copyright work in 7 years though should he really be retaining the exclusive state protected right. If one wants to keep something secret then don't publish it.
Or have a snow-sensor and kick on a small heating device...
Can't you just have the top of the unit overhanging, no ledges for snow to settle on and a smooth outer surface sloping inwards towards the bottom? I think I've seen the general shape somewhere before - http://images.google.com/images?q=old%20fashioned%20street%20lamp
OK, it's not going to be much use in an ice-storm but then you'd need to vastly over-engineer it for that.
^^
what he said!
> And RATM only became involved a few days ago after some of their friends from the UK told them about it.
Interesting, I've never heard the song (or at least not this time around) and yet I knew about the whole thing last week - don't you think the Sony media relations people were on to them? Cowell's comments were certainly extremely well done to insight the maximum "backlash".
Sony if they've half a brain (I think they do) saw this as soon as retweets started trending with one of their stables track titles mentioned.
Curiously the BBC interview says he "helped set up the facebook group" but doesn't say who with. Also he claims to not to be involved with the music industry "no not at all" - so not a DJ?
He didn't think it mattered that the record was on Sony? Wouldn't you think that if you wanted to send a message to a company not to do something the best way wouldn't involve giving them lots of money for doing the thing you want to discourage?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiRre1yNY8w&feature=player_embedded#
He does seem genuine but the lines don't meet up.
Oh, so you're the chief advertising exec in Sony. Hi.
> and no one involved cares if Sony were dancing a jig about the extra sales
Supposedly people were buying RATM as an expression of anti-capitalist solidarity - wanting to show that the #1 couldn't be just bought by Sony. It looks distinctly like they were pwned.
All it was, was a couple of *Sony executives* saying "wouldn't it be cool if {classic rock song with apt band name} were *pitted for* Christmas number one *against* the pappy ballad that's supposedly a foregone conclusion. *We'll add in an anti-capitalist slant for lulz too.*
FTFY.
The other end result of course is that the Facebook group raised £70k for charity, and RATM are now pledging to donate the profits from sales of the record to charity too, something which I highly doubt Joe McElderberry, X-Factor winner, will do.
Are they also going to donate all their increased co-sales, the increased profit from next years tour (inevitable surely), the appearance fees and radio/tv play royalties? They're not exactly going to do badly out of this. Also I wonder if there's a bonus in it from Sony: "donate your pittance of the profits to boost sales [of both RATM and the X-factor recordings] and we'll chuck you 100-grand".
Don't you feel like a sucker for helping to line the pockets of Sony execs whilst being convinced by their media output that it was all for anti-commercialism or charity or what-have-you?
wat
Also the track is 5:14 so it's actually more like 10MB for a 256kbps encode, so ~5TB total transferred, which would cost about $850 from Amazon S3
Damn, one less crate of Cristal at the Sony executives Christmas do.
So this is indeed great news for Sony (and a nice bonus for whichever Sony exec started the Facebook group ), even better news for Shelter which are a great charity [...]
This was my immediate thought - call me cynical but this _has_ all been staged by Sony, surely.
They either win by people buying the single of "their" winner on X-Factor or they win by people buying the charity single. It seems that it's only the RATM part of the profit that goes to Shelter? RATM also win of course as this will boost sales of their other titles which had probably dribbled away to nearly nothing. The comment above said RATM profit from "record sales" were to go to Shelter, so they'd get all the airtime money then?
One interesting twist is that this sort of thing appears to be illegal under the EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive as Sony haven't made it clear that their agents have been involved from the start.
If you just die and rot then what difference does it make how you spend your time anyway?
If when you're 16 someone emails you and arranges to send you millions of dollars from Nigeria what's the point of having an education?
We use handepay and don't pay anywhere near the apparent percentage you're claiming. Good per transaction rates too. You need to shop around though.
http://www.handepay.co.uk/index.html
It's not quite clear what you're arguing for. Presumably it is for being allowed to carry an amount of gold around to use in common exchange for goods and services.
Bank notes usually belong to the government.
Money you place on deposit with the bank you do so with conditions attached. One of those conditions is usually that you don't have instantaneous access to that money without some interaction with said bank.