Suit yourself, but maybe then we should ask Magritte to change his painting to "Ceci n'est pas un pipe"? Ça serait plus logique!
(Seriously, would you care to point me to the aforementioned post? I'd be interested in your logic, maybe even in your newsletter;-)
Totally unrelated here, but I was thinking that maybe you should change your signature to be grammatically correct.
A signature in french is "une signature" (signature is feminine). I cringe every time I see someone using that signature here on/.
You'll remember that Magritte's painting says "Ceci n'est pas une pipe", same reason, "une pipe", because in french a pipe is feminine.
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I don't look so much at the firehose to check, but if those stories you like don't appear as often, maybe that's because nobody submits them anymore?
So if I get it right, you play Go, hold both an MD and a PhD, have 5 patents and published numerous papers, and you were on the first mission to dock with the ISS, and have spent almost 26 hours in space.
Quite some credentials if I may say so!
Not that I agree or disagree with you on the original iMac, but look at the eMac: only a 17" CRT but already humongous and super-heavy. Now imagine a 24" CRT instead. I don't now if people expect TFTs from futuristic looking computers, but I for one would really prefer not to have to carry such a beast, even if its only once in a while.
Actually, the 35h week is the least of the problems, although I'll welcome its demise if it comes as a way to slack off and be paid for more hours at the same time(the main effect of the 35h week has been to increase per-worker productivity by increasing the work pace, and not reduce unemployment as it was intended).
Anyway I don't think many people in France believed in Royal's programme or ideas, most of those 47% who voted for her mostly did it as a vote against Sarkozy. That's my case, I can't stand his ideas on society and a police state. I believe big business would have thrived anyway, neither Royal nor Sarkozy can for example do anything about factory relocations in cheaper countries, but they both claimed otherwise.
In any case, it's a stretch to think of French "socialists" as socialists. The last socialist government sold more State-owned companies than the right-wing governements before and after.
oops, sorry my bad... I see that my english isn't error-free. I meant "trying to win the workers' vote by being demagogic". Someone mod my previous comment down!
Sorry I should have said it wasn't published in the US originally. See, it's not only the US copyright laws that are stupid, but the European ones as well.
Again from the POV of a researcher, try getting grant money with publications on the website of your institution/company. And I'm pretty sure most researchers wouldn't mind their papers being freely disseminated, as that would get them more recognition from their peers, but a vast majority can't do that.
But as you say, depends on the text.
Tell me about it... If you're a scientific author, in most scientific fields (not everybody can publish in PLoS Biology, for example if you're a physicist that woulnd't be so useful), you are pretty much required to relinquish you rights for publication to companies like Elsevier if you want to be published. Those companies then sell the publications for insane amounts of money, and will keep the selling rights weel into the 21st century, when we have flying cars and AI.
Of course you have the right to shut up (declaring your publication as public domain and not getting it disseminated), but that's not really the original idea behind copyright.
The author:
- was an archeologist who was publishing for the dissemination of knowledge and academic credit. He probably didn't put much into thinking about copyright, especially since it was in 1900.
- the author/publishers were not the ones who voted an extension of copyright from 50 years to 70 years post-mortem.
I have nothing against reasonable laws. That's when they become unreasonable that one can get 'angry' (it's more like I'm annoyed, and it's not like I didn't already illegally copy the book).
is that I can't buy a certain book published in 1900, because nobody's printing it anymore. But I can't legally copy it from the library or download it from Google books, because the author died in 1956, and therefore it won't fall into the public domain before 2026. That's the problem with copyright, not its existence.
And one of my best friends, a French citizen, born in Cambodia from Chinese parents, was so tired of having to always prove his frenchness, despite having changed his name to Patrick instead of Srun, that he finally left to work in China 2 years ago. Believe me, France is far from a paradise for immigrants.
Yeah, weel, as a French, I see it a misplaced pride to be snotty to non-french speakers. The French do not learn arabic when they visit Egypt. The Germans do not learn turkish when they vacation in Turkey. They are not mistreated there from what I've seen.
I must give the precision that, of course, since we don't want to influence the vote of the late voters, the interior ministry doesn't proclaim any results before 8pm.
Actually, he's really more like Bush, but tries to cater to workers at the same time.
And "Sarkozy l'Americain" wasn't such a deadly insult, it appears, since more than 53% of the French voted for him.
Come on, that's a fallacy. Not only is the 35h-week not implemented in small businesses, but white collars work in majority more than 50 hours, often 60 a week, due to peer and hierarchy pressure, and a stupid culture of thinking that it's the hours spent on your desk that count. And in contrast with our big neighbour Germany, or Scandinavian countries (Denmark has a 37h-week that is quite respected even for white collars), french white collars do not get paid for overtime.
Nobody cares about Royal not being married to Hollande and them having 4 children together. The same way nobody cared with former prime minister Michel Rocard being divorced. Nobody really cares that Presidents Mitterrand and Chirac had mistresses. As long as they keep it private, it's none of our business.
The difference with Sarkozy is that he very openly tried to put his wife (btw she's divorced from a previous marriage) under the limelight, and tried to gain a good image from it. In addition he clearly stated that if he was elected, it would not only be him to be elected but also his wife (nobody ever said something like that before in France). Only when problems arose in the couple was it something he wouldn't want to be talked about in the press. And when one of the french rags (Paris-Match) mentioned the problems and published the picture of his wife with another man, Sarkozy used his connections to get the editor sacked. He also successfully stopped the publishing of a book about his wife, again thanks to his connections. That's why the question of Sarkozy's unstable marriage is of importance, although the press doesn't talked about it anymore because of fear (and also because a lot of the french press is openly pro-Sarkozy).
Because, in France it's not allowed to publish voter-polls on election day before all polling-places are closed. Which happens at 8 pm. Not exactly, I'm afraid. The vast majority of polling-places close at 6pm. Only in big cities do polling-places close at 8pm. And since the polling-places that close earlier are in smalls cities and rural dwellings, that means the ballot-counting goes very fast. And then the results are sent in real-time to the interior minstry, which can gathers results and get quite a good view on the results already around 6.30 pm.
Yeah sure, appearance matters, so what? If a tourist, or anybody for that matter, is treated badly, or worse, xenophobically, then the shopkeeper is a fucking jerk. That would be the case if he's French or anything else. And god knows how awful some parisian shopkeepers can be (luckily, not all of them , but quite a lot indeed). I should know, I'm a parisian by birth.
OK, my mistake, it says it's only for Windows. On the 3rd page of a 4 page review. Nothing about that on the first page, where the writer should try to get my interest (well apparently he didn't want to get my interest and he succeeded well enough), and especially, nothing in the summary on the last page.
Sorry but no, I'm not reading a 4 page review of something that may or may not be useful to me if the author didn't even bother giving the requirements either in the beginning or in the summary at the end of the article. No way.
The review doesn't even bother giving the system requirements, not telling us it's a Windows only utility. This really shows how Linux or Mac users are non-existent in the world of ExtremeTech. Nothing to see here, move along.
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Suit yourself, but maybe then we should ask Magritte to change his painting to "Ceci n'est pas un pipe"? Ça serait plus logique! ;-)
(Seriously, would you care to point me to the aforementioned post? I'd be interested in your logic, maybe even in your newsletter
Totally unrelated here, but I was thinking that maybe you should change your signature to be grammatically correct. A signature in french is "une signature" (signature is feminine). I cringe every time I see someone using that signature here on /.
You'll remember that Magritte's painting says "Ceci n'est pas une pipe", same reason, "une pipe", because in french a pipe is feminine.
I don't look so much at the firehose to check, but if those stories you like don't appear as often, maybe that's because nobody submits them anymore?
So if I get it right, you play Go, hold both an MD and a PhD, have 5 patents and published numerous papers, and you were on the first mission to dock with the ISS, and have spent almost 26 hours in space.
Quite some credentials if I may say so!
Not that I agree or disagree with you on the original iMac, but look at the eMac: only a 17" CRT but already humongous and super-heavy. Now imagine a 24" CRT instead. I don't now if people expect TFTs from futuristic looking computers, but I for one would really prefer not to have to carry such a beast, even if its only once in a while.
Actually, the 35h week is the least of the problems, although I'll welcome its demise if it comes as a way to slack off and be paid for more hours at the same time(the main effect of the 35h week has been to increase per-worker productivity by increasing the work pace, and not reduce unemployment as it was intended).
Anyway I don't think many people in France believed in Royal's programme or ideas, most of those 47% who voted for her mostly did it as a vote against Sarkozy. That's my case, I can't stand his ideas on society and a police state. I believe big business would have thrived anyway, neither Royal nor Sarkozy can for example do anything about factory relocations in cheaper countries, but they both claimed otherwise.
In any case, it's a stretch to think of French "socialists" as socialists. The last socialist government sold more State-owned companies than the right-wing governements before and after.
oops, sorry my bad... I see that my english isn't error-free. I meant "trying to win the workers' vote by being demagogic". Someone mod my previous comment down!
Hey, I was mostly replying to the comparison with Blair. I voted for Royal.
Sorry I should have said it wasn't published in the US originally. See, it's not only the US copyright laws that are stupid, but the European ones as well.
Again from the POV of a researcher, try getting grant money with publications on the website of your institution/company. And I'm pretty sure most researchers wouldn't mind their papers being freely disseminated, as that would get them more recognition from their peers, but a vast majority can't do that.
But as you say, depends on the text.
Tell me about it... If you're a scientific author, in most scientific fields (not everybody can publish in PLoS Biology, for example if you're a physicist that woulnd't be so useful), you are pretty much required to relinquish you rights for publication to companies like Elsevier if you want to be published. Those companies then sell the publications for insane amounts of money, and will keep the selling rights weel into the 21st century, when we have flying cars and AI.
Of course you have the right to shut up (declaring your publication as public domain and not getting it disseminated), but that's not really the original idea behind copyright.
The author: - was an archeologist who was publishing for the dissemination of knowledge and academic credit. He probably didn't put much into thinking about copyright, especially since it was in 1900. - the author/publishers were not the ones who voted an extension of copyright from 50 years to 70 years post-mortem. I have nothing against reasonable laws. That's when they become unreasonable that one can get 'angry' (it's more like I'm annoyed, and it's not like I didn't already illegally copy the book).
is that I can't buy a certain book published in 1900, because nobody's printing it anymore. But I can't legally copy it from the library or download it from Google books, because the author died in 1956, and therefore it won't fall into the public domain before 2026. That's the problem with copyright, not its existence.
And one of my best friends, a French citizen, born in Cambodia from Chinese parents, was so tired of having to always prove his frenchness, despite having changed his name to Patrick instead of Srun, that he finally left to work in China 2 years ago. Believe me, France is far from a paradise for immigrants.
Yeah, weel, as a French, I see it a misplaced pride to be snotty to non-french speakers. The French do not learn arabic when they visit Egypt. The Germans do not learn turkish when they vacation in Turkey. They are not mistreated there from what I've seen.
I must give the precision that, of course, since we don't want to influence the vote of the late voters, the interior ministry doesn't proclaim any results before 8pm.
Actually, he's really more like Bush, but tries to cater to workers at the same time. And "Sarkozy l'Americain" wasn't such a deadly insult, it appears, since more than 53% of the French voted for him.
Come on, that's a fallacy. Not only is the 35h-week not implemented in small businesses, but white collars work in majority more than 50 hours, often 60 a week, due to peer and hierarchy pressure, and a stupid culture of thinking that it's the hours spent on your desk that count. And in contrast with our big neighbour Germany, or Scandinavian countries (Denmark has a 37h-week that is quite respected even for white collars), french white collars do not get paid for overtime.
Nobody cares about Royal not being married to Hollande and them having 4 children together. The same way nobody cared with former prime minister Michel Rocard being divorced. Nobody really cares that Presidents Mitterrand and Chirac had mistresses. As long as they keep it private, it's none of our business. The difference with Sarkozy is that he very openly tried to put his wife (btw she's divorced from a previous marriage) under the limelight, and tried to gain a good image from it. In addition he clearly stated that if he was elected, it would not only be him to be elected but also his wife (nobody ever said something like that before in France). Only when problems arose in the couple was it something he wouldn't want to be talked about in the press. And when one of the french rags (Paris-Match) mentioned the problems and published the picture of his wife with another man, Sarkozy used his connections to get the editor sacked. He also successfully stopped the publishing of a book about his wife, again thanks to his connections. That's why the question of Sarkozy's unstable marriage is of importance, although the press doesn't talked about it anymore because of fear (and also because a lot of the french press is openly pro-Sarkozy).
Yeah sure, appearance matters, so what?
If a tourist, or anybody for that matter, is treated badly, or worse, xenophobically, then the shopkeeper is a fucking jerk. That would be the case if he's French or anything else. And god knows how awful some parisian shopkeepers can be (luckily, not all of them , but quite a lot indeed). I should know, I'm a parisian by birth.
OK, my mistake, it says it's only for Windows. On the 3rd page of a 4 page review. Nothing about that on the first page, where the writer should try to get my interest (well apparently he didn't want to get my interest and he succeeded well enough), and especially, nothing in the summary on the last page.
Sorry but no, I'm not reading a 4 page review of something that may or may not be useful to me if the author didn't even bother giving the requirements either in the beginning or in the summary at the end of the article. No way.
The review doesn't even bother giving the system requirements, not telling us it's a Windows only utility.
This really shows how Linux or Mac users are non-existent in the world of ExtremeTech.
Nothing to see here, move along.
And now look at the software's page and laugh at the way the guy is trying to weasel out of the shit he put himself in.