Actually, I'm pretty sure it was Bea Arthur, not Betty White. It was horrible though. As was the second attempt to remake it with John Larroquette in the Basil role.
The series episodes are 45 minutes long, not one hour. Pretty standard for BBC shows, from what I understand. I would not be surprised if you are correct re: effects and other post production. I wouldn't look at this as being the final polished product.
I don't think the point is that it is an efficient computer. But, it is performing computations. I am not particularly impressed, but I am amused. I imagine that was the point.
If you want to read a good version, check out the translation by (Nobel prize winner) Seamus Heaney. It's a good balance between rendering the poem in modern language while keeping the spirit of the original IMHO.
That's an important point you make: every analog-to-digital process must include an anti-aliasing filter to remove frequencies near Nyquist. Normally, you want to make this a smooth "roll-off" to prevent ringing. I remember hearing that the 22 kHz Nyquist of the CD format cuts it so close to the upper limit of human hearing that the roll-off must quite sharp, leading to (alleged) unpleasant effects on the high end of the spectrum.
Wrong. Their government-granted monopoly has been violated. That's different from theft. Illegal, maybe (depending on the details of the law), but not theft by any reasonable historical definition.
Because the point is wrong. Copyright is a government-granted monopoly that emerged relatively recently in human history (17th and 18th centuries to be precise). If I steal your painting, that's theft. You can't look at it anymore, you can't use it to impress your friends, etc. If I copy it, you can still do all of those things, but now so can I. If I tried to claim that I was the artist, that would be fraud. But if I don't, then the only thing I've done is potentially deprive the artist of income from selling copies. Copyright is a grant to the artist by the government of a limited monopoly on selling copies of the painting. There may be very good reasons for granting this monopoly, but that's what it is. The act of copyright infringement is a violation of a government-sanctioned monopoly. Nothing more, nothing less.
This is the whole problem with "intellectual property": it is intangible. The entire concept is relatively new. I don't think Hammurabi addressed IP issues. The first "copyright" law (the Statute of Anne) was enacted in the UK in 1709. Throughout most of human history, if I said or wrote something, nobody would have even considered that my words were my "property".
Unlike a thing, words and ideas must be transferred from one person to another to achieve utility. Theft, to me, is depriving someone of the use or enjoyment of something without compensation or consent. Copying a book or movie does not deprive the author (or producer, director, actor, etc.) of the use or enjoyment of the work. Copying an invention does not deprive the inventor of the use or enjoyment of the invention. What copying may do is deprive the originator of income derived from selling copies of the work (or things derived from the work). Intellectual property "rights" are really legal sanctioned monopolies (which is what "letters patent" originally granted explicitly). In the U.S., the right of Congress to grant copyrights and patents had to be explicitly included in the Constitution. This seems to indicate that such "rights" were not taken for granted.
The point? Complaining that another jurisdiction does not enforce your country's IP laws is like complaining that they have a different system of taxation. The only reason there is any international consistency is due to the efforts of large copyright holders who wish to extend their monopoly protections over the entire world (and also for the rest of time, if current efforts are any indication).
...they use it to convict you AFTER they find you.
Of course, the interesting thing is that it would be trivial to hook up your confiscated printer and print out some incriminating evidence after the search itself. Then backdate the evidence tag, and voila. Of course, not that police ever tamper with forensic evidence.
As others have pointed out, they can still match the serial number on your printer when, through some other means (e.g., Slashdot post), you have been identified as the counterfeiting/forgery/sedition suspect.
So, if preservation of life is the goal, you'd better think about which side you're on. The side of continued sanctions and half a million Iraqis dead, or freeing a country - the first of many, hopefully.
Speaking of black and white... You do realize that there were people protesting the Iraq sanctions back during the Clinton administration, right? Also, perhaps there were alternatives to both sanctions and invasion that might have been pursued. But, we never heard about any.
And where is any mention of Israel in your post? Regardless of one's opinions on the Israeli-Palestinian situation, the role of the U.S. in this conflict is one of the most powerful motivators for many of the Islamists. Even if their leaders have other motivations, it's the treatment of Palestinians that is used to motivate the "ground troops".
Personally, I don't believe that a century of conflict in the Middle East will be solved by America sending in the troops to "install democracy". The problems facing this part of the world are almost unbelievably complex, involving the legacies of the Ottoman Empire and European colonialism; the subsequent divisions of World War II and the Cold War; religious conflict between Shi'ite Muslims, Sunni Muslims, Jews, and Christians; and an unequal distribution of natural resources, particularly water and oil. How does an American invasion address any of those issues? The "Pax Americana" viewpoint of the PNAC crowd does not convince me.
Yes, almost all Americans know what the Constitution is, but how many know what's actually in the Constitution? Not that many. And as for values, there is a real cultural divide in the country that is expressed in the current political division. It can almost be boiled down to those who think that the changes in America during the 60s were positive versus those who think they were negative. That's overly simplistic, but not far from the mark, IMHO.
I'd be surprised if there is a correlation in this case; they are two different subduction systems. There is ongoing research in triggered earthquakes (when the shaking from one earthquake triggers an earthquake in a remote location). I don't know if there is any research in triggered volcanism. Certainly the thermal features (geysers, etc.) at Yellowstone respond to distant earthquakes. Maybe pressured volcanic systems would respond similarly.
If you RTFA, you find that HP is going with Intel's 64 bit extended Xeon, not AMD 64 or Opteron. They are quoted as saying they have no current plans to sell AMD-based systems. So, they may be joining AMD's game, but they are using Intel's equipment.
This same (or similar) insert (the GLAT: Google Labs Aptitude Test) was also in the latest issue of Physics Today (the magazine of the American Institute of Physics). There are questions that have definite answers. However, I imagine they are more interested in being noticed than actually evaluating responses to the "test".
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Exactly right. Anonymous writings can even sometimes be more effective that signed writings because you are not reading them with some preconceived notion of who the author is and what his/her biases are. However, this only holds as long as the piece sticks to independently verifiable evidence and reasoned argument. Anonymous allegations with no proof or simple personal invective may be safely ignored. But simply dismissing one's opponent solely on the basis of anonymity (or, more often at Slashdot pseduonymity) is just lazy.
Note: I am not a database expert, and I have no particular knowledge of the issues in this debate. But you'll just have to trust me on that;)
The plain ol' telephone service (POTS) companies were granted the status of "common carriers" by the various laws establishing their regulated monopoly status. In my (non-lawyer) understanding, this both required them to carry all traffic and exempted them from liability for the content of such traffic. Thus, while it was illegal for people to conduct illegal business over the telephone, the telephone company could not be charged with a crime for allowing it. They could, however, be required to allow the cops to tap the line (with a warrant, I think). It sounds like this EULA was written because these folks are not common carriers and are thus worried about potential liability.
Well, for one thing, the old, (formerly) stable hardware may be failing. It might be easier to get hold of a PDP/11 emulator being used (and, hopefully, improved) by multiple organizations than to attempt to translate the in-house PDP/11 assembly code into something that will run on a PIV Linux box. Especially if the people who wrote the legacy app are retired/laid off/dead.
When Fedora was launched, they explicitly said that it would be released frequently. It doesn't mean you have to install the newest release every time it comes out, though. Unless you're just a masochist:)
To quote "Weird Al" Yankovic, "I lost on Jeopardy, baby!" I was $100 ahead going into Final Jeopardy, but I blew it. I did get, among other lovely parting gifts, a case of Rice-A-Roni ("The San Francisco Treat") for my troubles.
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Actually, I'm pretty sure it was Bea Arthur, not Betty White. It was horrible though. As was the second attempt to remake it with John Larroquette in the Basil role.
The series episodes are 45 minutes long, not one hour. Pretty standard for BBC shows, from what I understand. I would not be surprised if you are correct re: effects and other post production. I wouldn't look at this as being the final polished product.
I don't think the point is that it is an efficient computer. But, it is performing computations. I am not particularly impressed, but I am amused. I imagine that was the point.
If you want to read a good version, check out the translation by (Nobel prize winner) Seamus Heaney. It's a good balance between rendering the poem in modern language while keeping the spirit of the original IMHO.
That's an important point you make: every analog-to-digital process must include an anti-aliasing filter to remove frequencies near Nyquist. Normally, you want to make this a smooth "roll-off" to prevent ringing. I remember hearing that the 22 kHz Nyquist of the CD format cuts it so close to the upper limit of human hearing that the roll-off must quite sharp, leading to (alleged) unpleasant effects on the high end of the spectrum.
Wrong. Their government-granted monopoly has been violated. That's different from theft. Illegal, maybe (depending on the details of the law), but not theft by any reasonable historical definition.
Because the point is wrong. Copyright is a government-granted monopoly that emerged relatively recently in human history (17th and 18th centuries to be precise). If I steal your painting, that's theft. You can't look at it anymore, you can't use it to impress your friends, etc. If I copy it, you can still do all of those things, but now so can I. If I tried to claim that I was the artist, that would be fraud. But if I don't, then the only thing I've done is potentially deprive the artist of income from selling copies. Copyright is a grant to the artist by the government of a limited monopoly on selling copies of the painting. There may be very good reasons for granting this monopoly, but that's what it is. The act of copyright infringement is a violation of a government-sanctioned monopoly. Nothing more, nothing less.
Unlike a thing, words and ideas must be transferred from one person to another to achieve utility. Theft, to me, is depriving someone of the use or enjoyment of something without compensation or consent. Copying a book or movie does not deprive the author (or producer, director, actor, etc.) of the use or enjoyment of the work. Copying an invention does not deprive the inventor of the use or enjoyment of the invention. What copying may do is deprive the originator of income derived from selling copies of the work (or things derived from the work). Intellectual property "rights" are really legal sanctioned monopolies (which is what "letters patent" originally granted explicitly). In the U.S., the right of Congress to grant copyrights and patents had to be explicitly included in the Constitution. This seems to indicate that such "rights" were not taken for granted.
The point? Complaining that another jurisdiction does not enforce your country's IP laws is like complaining that they have a different system of taxation. The only reason there is any international consistency is due to the efforts of large copyright holders who wish to extend their monopoly protections over the entire world (and also for the rest of time, if current efforts are any indication).
...they use it to convict you AFTER they find you. Of course, the interesting thing is that it would be trivial to hook up your confiscated printer and print out some incriminating evidence after the search itself. Then backdate the evidence tag, and voila. Of course, not that police ever tamper with forensic evidence.
As others have pointed out, they can still match the serial number on your printer when, through some other means (e.g., Slashdot post), you have been identified as the counterfeiting/forgery/sedition suspect.
So, if preservation of life is the goal, you'd better think about which side you're on. The side of continued sanctions and half a million Iraqis dead, or freeing a country - the first of many, hopefully.
Speaking of black and white... You do realize that there were people protesting the Iraq sanctions back during the Clinton administration, right? Also, perhaps there were alternatives to both sanctions and invasion that might have been pursued. But, we never heard about any.
And where is any mention of Israel in your post? Regardless of one's opinions on the Israeli-Palestinian situation, the role of the U.S. in this conflict is one of the most powerful motivators for many of the Islamists. Even if their leaders have other motivations, it's the treatment of Palestinians that is used to motivate the "ground troops".
Personally, I don't believe that a century of conflict in the Middle East will be solved by America sending in the troops to "install democracy". The problems facing this part of the world are almost unbelievably complex, involving the legacies of the Ottoman Empire and European colonialism; the subsequent divisions of World War II and the Cold War; religious conflict between Shi'ite Muslims, Sunni Muslims, Jews, and Christians; and an unequal distribution of natural resources, particularly water and oil. How does an American invasion address any of those issues? The "Pax Americana" viewpoint of the PNAC crowd does not convince me.
Yes, almost all Americans know what the Constitution is, but how many know what's actually in the Constitution? Not that many. And as for values, there is a real cultural divide in the country that is expressed in the current political division. It can almost be boiled down to those who think that the changes in America during the 60s were positive versus those who think they were negative. That's overly simplistic, but not far from the mark, IMHO.
Did the Bronte sisters have academic appointments? The things one learns on Slashdot...
I'd be surprised if there is a correlation in this case; they are two different subduction systems. There is ongoing research in triggered earthquakes (when the shaking from one earthquake triggers an earthquake in a remote location). I don't know if there is any research in triggered volcanism. Certainly the thermal features (geysers, etc.) at Yellowstone respond to distant earthquakes. Maybe pressured volcanic systems would respond similarly.
If you RTFA, you find that HP is going with Intel's 64 bit extended Xeon, not AMD 64 or Opteron. They are quoted as saying they have no current plans to sell AMD-based systems. So, they may be joining AMD's game, but they are using Intel's equipment.
Actually, the zinc whiskers brought down the Secretary of State's office. Prevented things like online filings of corporate documents.
This same (or similar) insert (the GLAT: Google Labs Aptitude Test) was also in the latest issue of Physics Today (the magazine of the American Institute of Physics). There are questions that have definite answers. However, I imagine they are more interested in being noticed than actually evaluating responses to the "test".
Exactly right. Anonymous writings can even sometimes be more effective that signed writings because you are not reading them with some preconceived notion of who the author is and what his/her biases are. However, this only holds as long as the piece sticks to independently verifiable evidence and reasoned argument. Anonymous allegations with no proof or simple personal invective may be safely ignored. But simply dismissing one's opponent solely on the basis of anonymity (or, more often at Slashdot pseduonymity) is just lazy. Note: I am not a database expert, and I have no particular knowledge of the issues in this debate. But you'll just have to trust me on that ;)
The plain ol' telephone service (POTS) companies were granted the status of "common carriers" by the various laws establishing their regulated monopoly status. In my (non-lawyer) understanding, this both required them to carry all traffic and exempted them from liability for the content of such traffic. Thus, while it was illegal for people to conduct illegal business over the telephone, the telephone company could not be charged with a crime for allowing it. They could, however, be required to allow the cops to tap the line (with a warrant, I think). It sounds like this EULA was written because these folks are not common carriers and are thus worried about potential liability.
Well, for one thing, the old, (formerly) stable hardware may be failing. It might be easier to get hold of a PDP/11 emulator being used (and, hopefully, improved) by multiple organizations than to attempt to translate the in-house PDP/11 assembly code into something that will run on a PIV Linux box. Especially if the people who wrote the legacy app are retired/laid off/dead.
When Fedora was launched, they explicitly said that it would be released frequently. It doesn't mean you have to install the newest release every time it comes out, though. Unless you're just a masochist :)
To quote "Weird Al" Yankovic, "I lost on Jeopardy, baby!" I was $100 ahead going into Final Jeopardy, but I blew it. I did get, among other lovely parting gifts, a case of Rice-A-Roni ("The San Francisco Treat") for my troubles.
Chuck Forrest. Who, according to this site is hunting Iraqi war criminals.
You think the audience members get out of the studio alive? Where do you think Soylent Green comes from?