And wow - if windows doesn't make you reinstall the OS first, and the upgrades, and the backup/restore software of choice, and its upgrades, before you can start the restore process in most cases. Unless, of course, you went with some real backup software, such as dd and cloned your drive via Linux. But in that case, why are you running windows as the main OS anyways?
You should always make snapshot backups. This is easily accomplished with the asr command. You can even boot the duplicated backup to verify. TimeMachine's incremental backup feature for me is a way to recover something I deleted by accident just a day or two ago, at most. I have regular cleanings of TM as well, starting them out fresh to ensure the least amount of corruption possible. This does not take long, because the vast portion of my data is not on TM being relatively static and backed up in other ways. My real system disk backups are duped disks. I once lost a laptop drive, and my total downtime was 5 minutes - grab the latest external, boot up, and grab the differentials from TM. Off I went. Yes, I do keep more than 1 system disk backup, and yes, my data is also duped across multiple systems, depending upon the type of data. I'm just glad I got hold of 8 2TB disks before the flooding happened.
Yes, animals make greenhouse gases. Where do those gases come from? Why from the plant material those animals eat. So we grow 5 times more plants (that reduce said greenhouse gases) to feed these animals than would be necessary according to some to feed ourselves. Considering the amount of non greenhouse gas by-product, I'd say there's still a large net reduction in carbon dioxide, at least, in the atmosphere. And even better, some of that by-product can be used to generate essentially "clean" energy, further reducing the greenhouse gas problem (methane).
Animals and sustainable agriculture are not the cause of the increasing greenhouse gas problem. Fossil fuels are. Save your energy for arguing against those.
Your argument is for other than greenhouse gases. It's for the efficiency of food production, another topic altogether. See my reply to the other one above.
We need a strong fundamental shift in our lifestyles - stop eating meat - stop driving everywhere - stop flying in planes, stop consuming useless shit. No one - even global warming believers - seems to be willing to do this.
What is not eating meat going to do? Stop us from growing lots of carbon absorbing plants to feed the source?
Now that's a cool reference. The only thing lacking is a 3D avatar, but one can argue that the 3D avatar is an obvious extension to the core portion of the idea, and therefore this would be an invalid patent, otherwise anything 3-D could have been patented, back in at least 85 or so, and SGI would have owned just about all of them.
OK, as I understand the patent system, you only have 1 year from the time of an invention to file, or you're done. This was enacted to stop submarine patents, as I understood it. The second thing is, we coded MUD's and were discussing the approach to handle graphical worlds in 92 or 93, and IIRC, there was a movement afoot to create a graphical muds around then as well. USENET would be your reference there. Habitat was the first recorded one launched in 86. M59 was launched in Dec 1995, I'm guessing the development cycle pre-dated the patents, and the 95 patent seems to state the basic same claims, upon a skim.
Seems like the core of the patent claims have copious prior art, and differs only by adding in the term "3D Graphical Avatar". Guess the "on the internet" was merely a copy-cat tactic.
AC is wrong. Cancer caused her death, the shot just happened to occur shortly before the tumor killed her. 3s on google would have stopped you from posting such easily disproven tripe.
And exactly how are you going to track and enforce that? Just punish people for getting sick? What if no one else gets sick? What if it's a kid that is patient 0? What if it's an 18 y/o? What they caught it prior to turning 18? Now prove it unequivocally.
It's a losing battle. If this is starting to sound like the series of questions asked in support of universal health care, you'd be correct - it's the same basic question of determining fault after the fact in a different context without making things better for those affected. In this case, the idiot who didn't vaccinate for disease B with a bunch of others allowed disease B to get a strong foothold, mutate, and hurt/kill a bunch of others. How is going after the dumbasses after the fact going to help any of the afflicted?
Except you're not only endangering me, but everyone around you.
Yes, there are some risks to vaccines, they are not 100% safe. However, they are a lot safer than not vaccinating anyone, or only vaccinating a portion of the population. Perhaps you need to go back 100 years or so and see the ravages of a few epidemics, perhaps the Spanish Flu epidemic, or the smallpox epidemic of 1967. Or a few hundred years further back and see what a truly new virus or host of diseases can do as the Europeans came into contact with the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Vaccines work. Today's lack of epidemics of the common scourges of times past are proof enough. You will have to supply counter proof from actual medical tests that vaccines in general do not work.
Dr Tenpenny appears to be the Rush Limbaugh of the anti-vaccination movement. While Flu vaccines aren't perfect, per well-known process defects, these aren't the vaccines that people talk about when getting recommended vaccinations. Flu vaccines are a separate issue, and those are merely suggested for a certain subset of patients. That Tenpenny would leverage the Flu vaccine argument as an argument against vaccinations in general sounds more like a moron's idealistic stance than anything scientific.
You don't get the point at all. Herd immunity only works as long as the entire herd, or most of it, has immunity. As soon as a sizable portion no longer has immunity, they become a vector for infection and mutation of the illness for the rest of the herd.
That's why unvaccinated people are a danger to us all and should be pre-emptively quarantined for the rest of our safety. Note the recent several thousand case of pertussis epidemic in CA. Think about the ample chance for that to have mutated and spread into something a lot more serious, all so some morons can walk around endangering us all. I think perhaps pre-emptive quarantine might be a smarter move than I originally intended for a slightly tongue-in-cheek statement.
Why doesn't the gov have the right to mandate it? It's a health issue. They can quarantine you in cases of epidemics. Actually, since unvaccinated people are effectively an epidemic waiting to happen, perhaps we should just quarantine them. I understand we have a lovely mostly vacant seaside facility available with a nice tropical climate.
This really deserves to be modded down some, but I'll reply:
1) the press is free. Who owns most of it is a different topic.
2) If it's who we suspect, he did more than merely state his opinions. His "recording tapes and CDs denouncing America's policies as immoral, and oppressive" was not why the action was authorized, or many more "assassinations" and arrests would be ongoing.
3) You have the right to pray. You do not have the right to influence or force others to pray. There is a not so subtle difference, Ringing bells can violate noise laws, and none of these are federal issues.
4) Americans do work the longest hours of just about anyone in the industrialized world. (key difference) Federal taxes are not as high as you'd think, mine were roughly 25%, including social security. However, if you want to get to an equal standing with European countries, we do wind up having to "lose"over 50%, to have retirement benefits, health benefits, etc, equivalent to a W European country (albeit that was in the 90s when doing a comparison, it's probably different now, and might be less, in my case at least.)
7) protests following the laws set out for them will occasionally have police breaking the law. Several incidents were recorded and officers were prosecuted as a result dring the Occupy protests. When protesters violate the law, or are no longer "peacefully assembled", then there no longer is a "right" to assemble.
8) Don't know about Americans having a false belief about the gun rights in other nations. However, with the proper paperwork, you essentially can walk into a store and buy automatic weapons. There are also many places they can be used. Note that restrictions of their use is not federally but locally legislated. The Constitution only applies to the feds. If you'll notice, technically the BoR specifically limits the freedoms on a federal level only. It was later amendments and SoC rulings that forced most of them to be also applied at state and local levels.
PS3 succeeded. It doesn't matter that on the surface it was loss making. Sony was able to use the PS3 to push BD and kill HD DVD, making BD the high definition optical disc standard.
But that doesn't matter. The important thing is that Sony "won" that war. To that extent, the PS3 was a success.
The PS3 has been a failure by every measure. Sales? Low. Defeat HD-DVD? Failed. Yes, failed. Sony had to resort to selling 51% of its stake in its media arm to raise well over $500M to bribe, er, buy, the BD win. Without that huge investment and who knows what unknown and carryover costs such as capitulating on licensing fees for some of the HD-DVD rights holders that has added to their current financial woes, HD-DVD would have been the winner and we'd all have been better off.
For some things there is no forgiveness without justice occurring first. Since no heads have rolled, there will be no forgiveness, because now time has become a barrier,
Boycott? I just started choosing the better product circa 1990. Then when they started doing stupid crap like the memory sticks, rootkits,BD "win" purchase, I chose in each case to buy a standard product, which wound up never being a Sony product, until the last couple of issues, in which I actively make sure I don't support Sony in any way possible, going as far as to recommend anything but Sony even when someone asks about a Sony product, usually by saying, "Well, have you seen product x by y? It does all that, and this extra thing, costs half, and the warranty is twice as long and customer satisfaction ratings are 20% higher" and in 99% of the cases, all of those statements are true,
Sony is one of a few companies that deserves to die in their current incarnations, and it appears that their business practices are reaping just rewards.
First of all, it's possible to take years for a published piece of work to catch the fancy of the masses. But, I take your point on the renewal. Perhaps that should be removed. In any case, it shouldn't be getting longer, that has the exact opposite effect of the intended statement: to promote the arts and sciences.
To mod your first responder funny, or respond to you?
While 100+ years is extremely absurd, I think 3 months is on the other end of extreme absurdity. I do believe the US founders had a pretty good concept of copyright limitations, and that should be something we return to. A maximum of 28 years, renewed at 14, seems like a fine separation of of concerns to allow an artist to recoup what they ca before it goes into the public domain.
And we appear to agree on all counts. However, existing, and being a consumer product are two different things. According to your own linked article, the consumer product push started in 82, regardless of its status prior to that. Apparently that push did not occur in my area, so I was unaware of CompuServe existing at the time, which was my only statement several layers up and is still true. It appears I was also wrong about CIS opening up on the internet in 92/93, it was 95 according to another poster, so they came significantly after AOL. The AOL piece might even have been in 94, like you, I can't be bothered to look it up at the moment.
and you should read your own (not verified) reference. CompuServe was internet connected (in a limited fashion) in 1989. It didn't start marketing itself as a connected consumer entity until 1982.
So while it existed prior to 1987, it wasn't a real (limited) internet service until 1989. I'm also not that sure how big it was prior to 87 as a mass service, although I do recall it competing with AOL in 89 for "connected" service. I also recall the floodgates opening around 1992 or 1993, when AOL and CompuServe both opened up on the internet, and the internet, as we knew it then, was destroyed, or forever changed, depending upon how you wish to view it.
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And wow - if windows doesn't make you reinstall the OS first, and the upgrades, and the backup/restore software of choice, and its upgrades, before you can start the restore process in most cases. Unless, of course, you went with some real backup software, such as dd and cloned your drive via Linux. But in that case, why are you running windows as the main OS anyways?
You should always make snapshot backups. This is easily accomplished with the asr command. You can even boot the duplicated backup to verify. TimeMachine's incremental backup feature for me is a way to recover something I deleted by accident just a day or two ago, at most. I have regular cleanings of TM as well, starting them out fresh to ensure the least amount of corruption possible. This does not take long, because the vast portion of my data is not on TM being relatively static and backed up in other ways. My real system disk backups are duped disks. I once lost a laptop drive, and my total downtime was 5 minutes - grab the latest external, boot up, and grab the differentials from TM. Off I went. Yes, I do keep more than 1 system disk backup, and yes, my data is also duped across multiple systems, depending upon the type of data. I'm just glad I got hold of 8 2TB disks before the flooding happened.
haven't we all blacklisted those ad sites already?
Yes, animals make greenhouse gases. Where do those gases come from? Why from the plant material those animals eat. So we grow 5 times more plants (that reduce said greenhouse gases) to feed these animals than would be necessary according to some to feed ourselves. Considering the amount of non greenhouse gas by-product, I'd say there's still a large net reduction in carbon dioxide, at least, in the atmosphere. And even better, some of that by-product can be used to generate essentially "clean" energy, further reducing the greenhouse gas problem (methane).
Animals and sustainable agriculture are not the cause of the increasing greenhouse gas problem. Fossil fuels are. Save your energy for arguing against those.
I am earnestly serious.
Your argument is for other than greenhouse gases. It's for the efficiency of food production, another topic altogether. See my reply to the other one above.
They need an "OUCH" mod
We need a strong fundamental shift in our lifestyles - stop eating meat - stop driving everywhere - stop flying in planes, stop consuming useless shit. No one - even global warming believers - seems to be willing to do this.
What is not eating meat going to do? Stop us from growing lots of carbon absorbing plants to feed the source?
IANAPL.
That's out of the way, how can you continue a granted patent with no new additions? Isn't that explicitly against the terms of the new patent laws?
Now that's a cool reference. The only thing lacking is a 3D avatar, but one can argue that the 3D avatar is an obvious extension to the core portion of the idea, and therefore this would be an invalid patent, otherwise anything 3-D could have been patented, back in at least 85 or so, and SGI would have owned just about all of them.
OK, as I understand the patent system, you only have 1 year from the time of an invention to file, or you're done. This was enacted to stop submarine patents, as I understood it. The second thing is, we coded MUD's and were discussing the approach to handle graphical worlds in 92 or 93, and IIRC, there was a movement afoot to create a graphical muds around then as well. USENET would be your reference there. Habitat was the first recorded one launched in 86. M59 was launched in Dec 1995, I'm guessing the development cycle pre-dated the patents, and the 95 patent seems to state the basic same claims, upon a skim.
Seems like the core of the patent claims have copious prior art, and differs only by adding in the term "3D Graphical Avatar". Guess the "on the internet" was merely a copy-cat tactic.
AC is wrong. Cancer caused her death, the shot just happened to occur shortly before the tumor killed her. 3s on google would have stopped you from posting such easily disproven tripe.
And exactly how are you going to track and enforce that? Just punish people for getting sick? What if no one else gets sick? What if it's a kid that is patient 0? What if it's an 18 y/o? What they caught it prior to turning 18? Now prove it unequivocally.
It's a losing battle. If this is starting to sound like the series of questions asked in support of universal health care, you'd be correct - it's the same basic question of determining fault after the fact in a different context without making things better for those affected. In this case, the idiot who didn't vaccinate for disease B with a bunch of others allowed disease B to get a strong foothold, mutate, and hurt/kill a bunch of others. How is going after the dumbasses after the fact going to help any of the afflicted?
And your rights end when you endanger me.
Except you're not only endangering me, but everyone around you.
Yes, there are some risks to vaccines, they are not 100% safe. However, they are a lot safer than not vaccinating anyone, or only vaccinating a portion of the population. Perhaps you need to go back 100 years or so and see the ravages of a few epidemics, perhaps the Spanish Flu epidemic, or the smallpox epidemic of 1967. Or a few hundred years further back and see what a truly new virus or host of diseases can do as the Europeans came into contact with the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Vaccines work. Today's lack of epidemics of the common scourges of times past are proof enough. You will have to supply counter proof from actual medical tests that vaccines in general do not work.
Dr Tenpenny appears to be the Rush Limbaugh of the anti-vaccination movement. While Flu vaccines aren't perfect, per well-known process defects, these aren't the vaccines that people talk about when getting recommended vaccinations. Flu vaccines are a separate issue, and those are merely suggested for a certain subset of patients. That Tenpenny would leverage the Flu vaccine argument as an argument against vaccinations in general sounds more like a moron's idealistic stance than anything scientific.
You don't get the point at all. Herd immunity only works as long as the entire herd, or most of it, has immunity. As soon as a sizable portion no longer has immunity, they become a vector for infection and mutation of the illness for the rest of the herd.
That's why unvaccinated people are a danger to us all and should be pre-emptively quarantined for the rest of our safety. Note the recent several thousand case of pertussis epidemic in CA. Think about the ample chance for that to have mutated and spread into something a lot more serious, all so some morons can walk around endangering us all. I think perhaps pre-emptive quarantine might be a smarter move than I originally intended for a slightly tongue-in-cheek statement.
Why doesn't the gov have the right to mandate it? It's a health issue. They can quarantine you in cases of epidemics. Actually, since unvaccinated people are effectively an epidemic waiting to happen, perhaps we should just quarantine them. I understand we have a lovely mostly vacant seaside facility available with a nice tropical climate.
This really deserves to be modded down some, but I'll reply:
1) the press is free. Who owns most of it is a different topic.
2) If it's who we suspect, he did more than merely state his opinions. His "recording tapes and CDs denouncing America's policies as immoral, and oppressive" was not why the action was authorized, or many more "assassinations" and arrests would be ongoing.
3) You have the right to pray. You do not have the right to influence or force others to pray. There is a not so subtle difference, Ringing bells can violate noise laws, and none of these are federal issues.
4) Americans do work the longest hours of just about anyone in the industrialized world. (key difference) Federal taxes are not as high as you'd think, mine were roughly 25%, including social security. However, if you want to get to an equal standing with European countries, we do wind up having to "lose"over 50%, to have retirement benefits, health benefits, etc, equivalent to a W European country (albeit that was in the 90s when doing a comparison, it's probably different now, and might be less, in my case at least.)
7) protests following the laws set out for them will occasionally have police breaking the law. Several incidents were recorded and officers were prosecuted as a result dring the Occupy protests. When protesters violate the law, or are no longer "peacefully assembled", then there no longer is a "right" to assemble.
8) Don't know about Americans having a false belief about the gun rights in other nations. However, with the proper paperwork, you essentially can walk into a store and buy automatic weapons. There are also many places they can be used. Note that restrictions of their use is not federally but locally legislated. The Constitution only applies to the feds. If you'll notice, technically the BoR specifically limits the freedoms on a federal level only. It was later amendments and SoC rulings that forced most of them to be also applied at state and local levels.
PS3 succeeded. It doesn't matter that on the surface it was loss making. Sony was able to use the PS3 to push BD and kill HD DVD, making BD the high definition optical disc standard.
But that doesn't matter. The important thing is that Sony "won" that war. To that extent, the PS3 was a success.
The PS3 has been a failure by every measure. Sales? Low. Defeat HD-DVD? Failed. Yes, failed. Sony had to resort to selling 51% of its stake in its media arm to raise well over $500M to bribe, er, buy, the BD win. Without that huge investment and who knows what unknown and carryover costs such as capitulating on licensing fees for some of the HD-DVD rights holders that has added to their current financial woes, HD-DVD would have been the winner and we'd all have been better off.
... Generally lots of cases of Sony obviously trying to cut costs and sell on reputation,
Sony has a reputation all right. Not the kind that helps sell manufactured goods of any sort, except to con artists.
For some things there is no forgiveness without justice occurring first. Since no heads have rolled, there will be no forgiveness, because now time has become a barrier,
Boycott? I just started choosing the better product circa 1990. Then when they started doing stupid crap like the memory sticks, rootkits,BD "win" purchase, I chose in each case to buy a standard product, which wound up never being a Sony product, until the last couple of issues, in which I actively make sure I don't support Sony in any way possible, going as far as to recommend anything but Sony even when someone asks about a Sony product, usually by saying, "Well, have you seen product x by y? It does all that, and this extra thing, costs half, and the warranty is twice as long and customer satisfaction ratings are 20% higher" and in 99% of the cases, all of those statements are true,
Sony is one of a few companies that deserves to die in their current incarnations, and it appears that their business practices are reaping just rewards.
Copyright has nothing to do with material investments.
First of all, it's possible to take years for a published piece of work to catch the fancy of the masses. But, I take your point on the renewal. Perhaps that should be removed. In any case, it shouldn't be getting longer, that has the exact opposite effect of the intended statement: to promote the arts and sciences.
To mod your first responder funny, or respond to you?
While 100+ years is extremely absurd, I think 3 months is on the other end of extreme absurdity. I do believe the US founders had a pretty good concept of copyright limitations, and that should be something we return to. A maximum of 28 years, renewed at 14, seems like a fine separation of of concerns to allow an artist to recoup what they ca before it goes into the public domain.
And we appear to agree on all counts. However, existing, and being a consumer product are two different things. According to your own linked article, the consumer product push started in 82, regardless of its status prior to that. Apparently that push did not occur in my area, so I was unaware of CompuServe existing at the time, which was my only statement several layers up and is still true. It appears I was also wrong about CIS opening up on the internet in 92/93, it was 95 according to another poster, so they came significantly after AOL. The AOL piece might even have been in 94, like you, I can't be bothered to look it up at the moment.
and you should read your own (not verified) reference. CompuServe was internet connected (in a limited fashion) in 1989. It didn't start marketing itself as a connected consumer entity until 1982.
So while it existed prior to 1987, it wasn't a real (limited) internet service until 1989. I'm also not that sure how big it was prior to 87 as a mass service, although I do recall it competing with AOL in 89 for "connected" service. I also recall the floodgates opening around 1992 or 1993, when AOL and CompuServe both opened up on the internet, and the internet, as we knew it then, was destroyed, or forever changed, depending upon how you wish to view it.