My quick parsing of this act suggests that it only applies to the Republic of Slovenia. Since this is a US company with a US patent the point seems moot. FWIW I don't believe there is an official private use exemption but I could be wrong.
Am I the only one who sees the incredible hypocrasy of slashdotters complaining about a high traffic site hotlinking to other sites and drastically increasing bandwidth use?
Personnaly, I find haveing software dictate business methods oppressive so I rolled-my-own.
Amen brother! There is nothing worse than shelling out thousands of dollars for niche proprietary software and finding out the UI sucks or it takes 25 clicks to do something simple. Customizability is a HUGE advantage but you need good people to put it in place. You should be able to write your optimized procedure first and fit the software in with it instead of the other way around.
Scientists measuring the ozone layer have only been here for about 30 years.
Real measurement for 30 years verses millions of years of unknown history.
Hmm...now if only we had some sort of material that could trap gasses at the poles and would accrete at a predictable pace hence saving samples of historical atmosphere. Possibly something that starts as a liquid but ends up as a solid?
The hole is a seasonal ozone hole over the South Pole. It comes and goes, sometimes it's bigger than usual. This has been used by environmentalists since the 80's to scare people.
Holy crap, you mean global climate change takes a while to happen?
Geologists have been using the threat of a large quake to scare people in Seattle for decades but it hasn't happened yet, that must mean it will never happen huh?
I'm attacking the claim that music piracy increases record sales because of a correlation between people who pirate music, and the amount of music they buy.
Why is causation required (and who said it was causation to begin with). The correlation is that music pirates by more music than non pirates. Hence they are the better customer. Traditionally businesses try to entice the better customers.
ways to lock-in the user even more. They are adding in DRM galore, trying to kill openGL and move everyone to their proprietary DirectX, trying to kill PDF and move everyone to their proprietary alternative, etc., etc.
After intensive lobbying by the Bush administration, in early October 2002, the U.S. House of Representatives and then the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to give President Bush broad authority to use force against Iraq.
So even if someone took the precautions outlined above by you, once it has exploded we could trace the source of the uranium/plutonium back to the original source and have a good idea of who created the bomb in the first place.
Yeah, cold war era USSR, how does that help us find the bombers again?
They 'know' it works, 'know' it does what they want, 'know' it's compatible with their software, hardware, customers, and supply chain.
Well it helps that in this example it is actually true 99% of the time. It is when they claim that free is more expensive than $300 that people question the results.
No-one gives a shit about Ogg playback except for people here.
"Supports more formats than the competition" is a pretty good marketing line regardless of the geekiness of the format. I don't think I ever saw a single ad rio.
There is no conflict between the two sets of quotes. It is possible to have a belief yet not wish to enforce it through the threat of violence (the only force a government actually controls).
I expect the pro-choice crowd to be EXTREMELY upset at this research, that manages to create research lines WITHOUT destroying life, as many of the vocal members aren't focused on the research, but a believe that every embryo destroyed someone secures their agenda.
The pro-choice crowd was EXTREMELY excited about the ability to destroy more embryos as part of their "proof" that embryos aren't life.
Wow...just....wow. How did such a blatant ad hominem attack get modded up?
Newsflash: pro-choice people don't go around destroying fetuses for fun. As much as some people would like you to believe...
Like most groups of people there are always a vocal minority for some stance or the other. I would hope most people just use the best tool for the job.
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My quick parsing of this act suggests that it only applies to the Republic of Slovenia. Since this is a US company with a US patent the point seems moot. FWIW I don't believe there is an official private use exemption but I could be wrong.
Here is a translation of the Act link
Also, the Emusic search page is here: search
Am I the only one who sees the incredible hypocrasy of slashdotters complaining about a high traffic site hotlinking to other sites and drastically increasing bandwidth use?
Congratulations, you just discovered that Computer Science (like all sciences) is incremental.
Correction:
Nope, it's their utter ignorance that only ad view counts matter. Especially for advertising.
I agree with your sentiment but just wanted to point out:
;)
Have a player that you have to drop to "wake up" the reader arm on the hard drive? Possibly.
This was not Creative, I think it was a Rio...
I would also like to add that I really dislike Creative's menu system in the first place, so maybe making people not use it is a good thing!
Exactly! Everybody knows we bought Iraq on credit!
No, the experiment I was aluding to was using ice core samples to determine if ozone depleting chemicals existed in nature before industrialization.
It is easy to figure out when the hole appeared because it happened in the last 100 years or so.
Personnaly, I find haveing software dictate business methods oppressive so I rolled-my-own.
Amen brother! There is nothing worse than shelling out thousands of dollars for niche proprietary software and finding out the UI sucks or it takes 25 clicks to do something simple. Customizability is a HUGE advantage but you need good people to put it in place. You should be able to write your optimized procedure first and fit the software in with it instead of the other way around.
The earth has been here for millions of years....
Scientists measuring the ozone layer have only been here for about 30 years.
Real measurement for 30 years verses millions of years of unknown history.
Hmm...now if only we had some sort of material that could trap gasses at the poles and would accrete at a predictable pace hence saving samples of historical atmosphere. Possibly something that starts as a liquid but ends up as a solid?
The hole is a seasonal ozone hole over the South Pole. It comes and goes, sometimes it's bigger than usual. This has been used by environmentalists since the 80's to scare people.
Holy crap, you mean global climate change takes a while to happen?
Geologists have been using the threat of a large quake to scare people in Seattle for decades but it hasn't happened yet, that must mean it will never happen huh?
I'm attacking the claim that music piracy increases record sales because of a correlation between people who pirate music, and the amount of music they buy.
Why is causation required (and who said it was causation to begin with). The correlation is that music pirates by more music than non pirates. Hence they are the better customer. Traditionally businesses try to entice the better customers.
ways to lock-in the user even more. They are adding in DRM galore, trying to kill openGL and move everyone to their proprietary DirectX, trying to kill PDF and move everyone to their proprietary alternative, etc., etc.
Wow, they really are ripping Apple "features."
(that was funny and you know it)
Congress gave Bush carte blanc to declare whatever wars he wanted to against Iraq.
the first source found via google:
here
After intensive lobbying by the Bush administration, in early October 2002, the U.S. House of Representatives and then the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to give President Bush broad authority to use force against Iraq.
Or how about Max Payne? You went a little nuts in that one. I wonder if it came out before 2000 though...
So even if someone took the precautions outlined above by you, once it has exploded we could trace the source of the uranium/plutonium back to the original source and have a good idea of who created the bomb in the first place.
Yeah, cold war era USSR, how does that help us find the bombers again?
They 'know' it works, 'know' it does what they want, 'know' it's compatible with their software, hardware, customers, and supply chain.
Well it helps that in this example it is actually true 99% of the time. It is when they claim that free is more expensive than $300 that people question the results.
No-one gives a shit about Ogg playback except for people here.
"Supports more formats than the competition" is a pretty good marketing line regardless of the geekiness of the format. I don't think I ever saw a single ad rio.
I don't even get the point you are trying to make.
I don't bother to watch the shows I don't like because I don't like them.
I am such a bastard; it is like I am stealing ad revenue from the selfless TV executives.
If you actually take the long view (instead of just arbitrarily choosing 50 years as "long") you would see that all empires eventually dwindle.
There is no conflict between the two sets of quotes. It is possible to have a belief yet not wish to enforce it through the threat of violence (the only force a government actually controls).
and once you hear a woman fart, the magic is gone....
This gives new meaning to the classic escaping magic smoke joke.
I expect the pro-choice crowd to be EXTREMELY upset at this research, that manages to create research lines WITHOUT destroying life, as many of the vocal members aren't focused on the research, but a believe that every embryo destroyed someone secures their agenda.
The pro-choice crowd was EXTREMELY excited about the ability to destroy more embryos as part of their "proof" that embryos aren't life.
Wow...just....wow. How did such a blatant ad hominem attack get modded up?
Newsflash: pro-choice people don't go around destroying fetuses for fun. As much as some people would like you to believe...
What? Are you a idiot. MS$ is a MONOPOLY.
Is it really still a monopoly with direct competition from the million Linux distros and indirect competition with Apple?
Like most groups of people there are always a vocal minority for some stance or the other. I would hope most people just use the best tool for the job.