The paper he links is itself incorrect in its very first page when it speaks of "the rights of owners and users of creative works." The US Constitution makes it quite clear that the "owners" of creative works are we, the people. The copyright holder is NOT the "owner". He has a "limited time" monopoly on publication, NOT "ownership".
You are reachi8ng there a bit. The const. does specifically mention securing rights to the creator.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited
Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings
and Discoveries;
I agree that it is offtopic, it is in the subject and body. But, it has been almost an hour since the story was posted and there are 11 comments. Maybe we can get into the meta discussion a bit since nobody is interested this late??
I found this article interesting in the firehose and voted it up. The thing is, since they have to give the subscribers their head-start, I have already lost interest...
I might have had a non-offtopic comment a couple of hours ago.
There ya go, Dave, being all informative, complete, accurate, and factual. You realize the haters are about to label you, let's see, what is it this time? Fanboi, apologist, and employee of Apple I think is due this time, right?
For the record, I saw the writeup and was hoping you'd have written a response, and am glad to see you did.
I wonder why you would be hoping to see his response unless he had some sort of pattern to his posts... What do you call someone who, without fail, defends a particular company?
The road to total nuclear power:
* Nationalise all the coal mines then shut them down. (Any which are still operating, by any
rate.)
* Slap a large carbon tax on import coal for power plants.
* Power generators which run on natural gas or oil, slap a carbon tax on those, too.
* Hydro, well the enviromentalists hate hydro because it interfers with the social lives of fish,
such as the snail darter so bust the dams.
* Enviros also hate those wind generators, which kill wild fowl with their big blades, knock 'em
down.
Somehow I don't think you are going to get very far with your pro-socialist anti environmentalist platform. That is one damn small union of sets!
It is not an issue with tactile response. The keyboard of the iPhone with its predictive correction is so good that I actually miss it on my regular desktop keyboard. The problem is that "texting" has its own dictionary that the iPhone (thankfully) doesn't recognize. So "texters" make more errors. Good I say. If the same study was done with email instead of text, you'd probably see dramatically different results. I type faster on my iPhone than I ever did on any of my Treos (have had 3 over the years).
From the article: The researchers found that while iPhone users entered text as fast as their counterparts, they made significantly more texting errors. iPhone users made 5.6 errors per message, while keyboard users made 2.1 mistakes per message and numeric phone typers made 2.4 mistakes.
Alternatively, one could posit the hypothesis that the typical iPhone user can't spell to save their life, being more likely to be young creative types than to be older, wiser and more careful when texting.
You can posit anything, or you can read the article.
FTA:
Surprisingly, the study found that iPhone texters don't improve with experience. The researchers also asked users in the other groups to send text messages using the iPhone. These novice iPhone users made mistakes at the same rate as people who have owned iPhones for at least one month, the study found.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This might/mat/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[mahyt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
-auxiliary verb
1. pt. of may1.
2. (used to express possibility): They might be at the station.
Unless its encrypted, you have no privacy on the phone. Just ask any telephone admin, or for that matter, anyone with a pair of alligator clips. This means that privacy means absolutely zilch when it comes to infrastructure. (Note that how individual companies handle your personal information is another story entirely...)
I was thinking bloat more in the context of how much value does it really add, versus how many resources it consumes. I guess I just question how much actual learning comes from playing the game.
Exactly! They should strip out anything that has the possibility of being fun. That will definitely be a hit with the kids.
I don't know about the U.S., but at least in the UK polls regularly show a disturbing level of support for Islamist values among the immigrant community.
It is the same in the US. Most Christians show a disturbing level of support for Christian values.
..awful name. I can't help but think of Geek Squad, and that doesn't make me happy.
We already understand the issues surrounding network neutrality (and Best Buy). To a normal person a name reminding them of the people who fixed their computer adds credibility.
How about you stop spreading FUD and give some evidence to your claims. The vast majority of college students change their majors at least once. I wasn't asked by anyone what my major would be until junior year of high school, and I wasn't asked to make a concrete choice until I actually applied to colleges Senior year.
Heh, I think you just provided it. I remember a time where you weren't asked what your college major was going to be until you were, you know, going to college.
Main Entry: (from Merriam Webster)
democracy Listen to the pronunciation of democracy
Pronunciation:
\di-mä-kr-s\
Function:
noun
Inflected Form(s):
plural democracies
Etymology:
Middle French democratie, from Late Latin democratia, from Greek dmokratia, from dmos + -kratia -cracy
Date:
1576
1 a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
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The paper he links is itself incorrect in its very first page when it speaks of "the rights of owners and users of creative works." The US Constitution makes it quite clear that the "owners" of creative works are we, the people. The copyright holder is NOT the "owner". He has a "limited time" monopoly on publication, NOT "ownership".
You are reachi8ng there a bit. The const. does specifically mention securing rights to the creator.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
I'm not a lawyer, but sue them for what? Don't you have to prove that you lost money when you are suing for (copyright) damages?
Obviously not, or have you completely missed the million stories about the RIAA suits on here?
I agree that it is offtopic, it is in the subject and body. But, it has been almost an hour since the story was posted and there are 11 comments. Maybe we can get into the meta discussion a bit since nobody is interested this late??
flip-flopper!
The second joke would be about how, with a large enough lever, you can move any joke into the diuscussion.
The third, of course, would relate to the perils of searching for "large lever" on google to make sure the quote was correct.
...pretty sure this is why I am not a comedian...
I found this article interesting in the firehose and voted it up. The thing is, since they have to give the subscribers their head-start, I have already lost interest...
I might have had a non-offtopic comment a couple of hours ago.
There ya go, Dave, being all informative, complete, accurate, and factual. You realize the haters are about to label you, let's see, what is it this time? Fanboi, apologist, and employee of Apple I think is due this time, right?
For the record, I saw the writeup and was hoping you'd have written a response, and am glad to see you did.
I wonder why you would be hoping to see his response unless he had some sort of pattern to his posts... What do you call someone who, without fail, defends a particular company?
Well, it was a joke. I forget that people actually believe it.
The road to total nuclear power: * Nationalise all the coal mines then shut them down. (Any which are still operating, by any rate.) * Slap a large carbon tax on import coal for power plants. * Power generators which run on natural gas or oil, slap a carbon tax on those, too. * Hydro, well the enviromentalists hate hydro because it interfers with the social lives of fish, such as the snail darter so bust the dams. * Enviros also hate those wind generators, which kill wild fowl with their big blades, knock 'em down.
Somehow I don't think you are going to get very far with your pro-socialist anti environmentalist platform. That is one damn small union of sets!
It is not an issue with tactile response. The keyboard of the iPhone with its predictive correction is so good that I actually miss it on my regular desktop keyboard. The problem is that "texting" has its own dictionary that the iPhone (thankfully) doesn't recognize. So "texters" make more errors. Good I say. If the same study was done with email instead of text, you'd probably see dramatically different results. I type faster on my iPhone than I ever did on any of my Treos (have had 3 over the years).
From the article:
The researchers found that while iPhone users entered text as fast as their counterparts, they made significantly more texting errors. iPhone users made 5.6 errors per message, while keyboard users made 2.1 mistakes per message and numeric phone typers made 2.4 mistakes.
Alternatively, one could posit the hypothesis that the typical iPhone user can't spell to save their life, being more likely to be young creative types than to be older, wiser and more careful when texting.
You can posit anything, or you can read the article.
FTA:
Surprisingly, the study found that iPhone texters don't improve with experience. The researchers also asked users in the other groups to send text messages using the iPhone. These novice iPhone users made mistakes at the same rate as people who have owned iPhones for at least one month, the study found.
Egads, sorry evanbd, the GP was below the threshold so I didn't see it. For the record no shenanigans were occurring.
What happens when criminals get their hands on this and start disabling police cars as well?
What's to stop it from killing the engine to the police car?
What's to stop me from changing your quote to make it easy to counter?
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This /mat/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[mahyt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
might
-auxiliary verb
1. pt. of may1.
2. (used to express possibility): They might be at the station.
Something important to work on like this?
More than 25 percent of the homeless population in the United States are military veterans, although they represent 11 percent of the civilian adult population
Probably... If nothing else it was a trademark suit waiting to happen.
Unless its encrypted, you have no privacy on the phone. Just ask any telephone admin, or for that matter, anyone with a pair of alligator clips. This means that privacy means absolutely zilch when it comes to infrastructure. (Note that how individual companies handle your personal information is another story entirely...)
So it's a guaranteed success then?
Hehe, too funny:
Dvorak to Apple - Stop The iPhone
How did I find this gem? Clicking the "idiot" tag to see how many Dvorak articles pop up.
I was thinking bloat more in the context of how much value does it really add, versus how many resources it consumes. I guess I just question how much actual learning comes from playing the game.
Exactly! They should strip out anything that has the possibility of being fun. That will definitely be a hit with the kids.
I don't know about the U.S., but at least in the UK polls regularly show a disturbing level of support for Islamist values among the immigrant community.
It is the same in the US. Most Christians show a disturbing level of support for Christian values.
..awful name. I can't help but think of Geek Squad, and that doesn't make me happy.
We already understand the issues surrounding network neutrality (and Best Buy). To a normal person a name reminding them of the people who fixed their computer adds credibility.
How about you stop spreading FUD and give some evidence to your claims. The vast majority of college students change their majors at least once. I wasn't asked by anyone what my major would be until junior year of high school, and I wasn't asked to make a concrete choice until I actually applied to colleges Senior year.
Heh, I think you just provided it. I remember a time where you weren't asked what your college major was going to be until you were, you know, going to college.
"Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean you should be malicious and vandalise it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience Chew on that for a while.
Well, I think you are an ass so I am going to break your window. Civil disobedience!
Repeat after me: America is not a democracy!
Main Entry: (from Merriam Webster)
democracy Listen to the pronunciation of democracy
Pronunciation:
\di-mä-kr-s\
Function:
noun
Inflected Form(s):
plural democracies
Etymology:
Middle French democratie, from Late Latin democratia, from Greek dmokratia, from dmos + -kratia -cracy
Date:
1576
1 a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
nt
No, the attention is the means to the end. The end they seek is getting money they didn't earn.
You have made this allegation several times in this thread. Please see here for the sources of Greenpeace's funding.