Copyright hasn't been invalidated if you do that; you would have just created a derivative work. Copyright isn't particularly about what you have, it's about how you obtained/constructed it.
It's too bad they don't let you fix the transcription. Even if they're worried about people trying to poison their data (like people talk about with ReCaptcha), they could at least the user fix his own view of it.
1. Places where there are many accidents are not always places where people drive fast.
Well that depends what you mean by "too fast," doesn't it? If people exceed the speed limit but don't have accidents, perhaps they weren't going too fast after all.
The sense your trying to make is how to reduce the inevitable carnage from the varying road interactions, when they are over 40,000 per year, you really have to do something about it.
No you don't, because you also have to consider that Americans collectively drive about 3,000,000,000,000 (that's three trillion) miles per year (source). On average, that's one crash per 75 million miles driven -- a tiny ratio.
Two vehicles doing 130km/h in a head on, don't cut the people out of those cars, hose them out.
Fine, but what about divided highways (including all Interstates), where head-on collisions are rare to the point of negligibility?
Imho this is caused by bad traffic flow design. People speed in parking lots when there is no easy access to an unobstructed right of way.
Ironically, attempting to deter speeding is why site designers obstruct the right of way in the first place.
Maybe it's the the complex 3D street "grid" that causes it, or maybe the air pollution.. but man, if Atlanta is worse than Pittsburgh, then I do not want to drive in Atlanta.
3D or not, at least you have a grid. Except for downtown and some older residential neighborhoods, Atlanta doesn't.
Setting speeds artificially low at 65 or 55, when everyone is driving 80, and the road engineers recommend 80, makes no sense.
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Speed is set at 55mph or 65mph because of safety issues for the users, not just road capabilities. You can make roads that will work wonderfully fine at 400mph, but that is plainly unsafe for the drivers at such speeds.
I am a highway engineer (or at least, an EIT).
Your statement doesn't make sense because "road capabilities" and "safety issues for the users" are the same thing. Engineers take all factors, including sight distance etc., into account when designing the roads; if we designed them for 400mph then they would be safe to drive 400mph on, by definition!
By the way, the grandparent post's "everyone is driving 80" argument has some merit -- studies have shown that the design speed tends to correspond to the 85th percentile driver's speed, regardless of the speed limit. In other words, setting the speed limit artificially low doesn't actually make anybody slow down (unless, perhaps, its a well-known and constantly-enforced speed trap).
Lexmark. I have a Pro901, but the cartridge says it works in the Pro905, Pro805, and Pro709 as well. "Lowest black ink cost" was the most prominent advertised feature of the printer, actually.
Do keep in mind that I'm talking about black, not color... but then again, color laser cost per page, especially for relatively inexpensive home-office-class laser printers, isn't that great either.
My printer is a Lexmark Pro901 (the cheap ink also works in the Pro905, Pro805, and Pro709, according to the cartridge box). I don't know if the ink runs because I'm not in the habit of getting my printouts damp, but I do know that it can print more than 30 pages in a cartridge. In fact, the reason I got the printer is that I was printing 100+ page documents and my non-duplex laser just wasn't cutting it anymore. I only print those big documents twice a month or so, so print heads drying out hasn't seemed to be a problem.
I had given up on inkjet 10 years or so ago too, but I've been pleasantly surprised with how well this one works (except maybe for the fancy touchscreen controls). Don't get me wrong: if I could have gotten a color, networked, auto-duplex laser printer [or multifunction device] for a similar price, I would have. But I couldn't, so I didn't.
Or buy one of the inkjet multifunction devices that actually has cheap ink. Mine -- which I'll name only if somebody asks -- has black ink that costs $5 for ~500 pages. That's competitive, if not cheaper than, the laser printer I had been using before (and this not only does scanning, but also prints in color and has auto-duplex).
Oh yeah, and Office Depot gives you a $3 credit for each empty cartridge you turn in, so the net cost is actually $2/cartridge!
First of all, the HTTP 404 error is a response by the server indicating that the particular file isn't found. Since you've already necessarily connected to the server, DNS has nothing to do with it.
Secondly, are you actually proposing that everyone on the entire Internet modify every bit of software to work around the fact that some assholes at an ISP decided to maliciously break a perfectly good protocol?! My mind boggles at the ridiculousness of it!
It's a damn page not found page, who cares if they put a search engine there.
If the ISP puts content there, it's not actually a 404 error anymore. That means the client HTTP software -- which may not be a browser -- can no longer tell the difference between a page that exists and a page that doesn't exist. This breaks things!
Free as in freedom has a price my friend, and as long as you have the one two punch of no kernel DRM and Linus "Plans? What are they?" Torvalds you can give it up on ever getting Netflix.
The [theoretical] Republican idea is that government is grossly inefficient, so it should only do things the public cannot be entrusted to do. For example, the military and police are justified only because we can't reasonably allow vigilantism.
(I say "theoretical," by the way, because all the small-government rhetoric goes out the window when you start talking about the Republican social agenda.)
A few years ago in Atlanta, the police got a tip from an informant about drug dealers. They sent three undercover officers to serve a no-knock warrant. In other words, they sent three heavily-armed men who weren't dressed as police to kick in somebody's door without any warning. Guess what happened next.
That's right: the old lady who lived alone in the house (and who was not a drug dealer), scared out of her wits, fired a single shot at the armed thugs invading her home. She missed. The "officers" returning fire, on the other hand, used 39 bullets instead of one, and didn't miss five or six times.
Then, of course, they planted drugs on the old lady as she was dying, and it turned out that that the informant had lied (under pressure from police) in the first place.
Just because any particular rural area only has a few people in it doesn't mean that rural areas in aggregate contain an insignificant number of people. Consider it like a "long tail" of population.
Also, plenty of large businesses do cater to the needs of rural areas -- haven't you ever heard of the agricultural industry, for example?
The only sort of business that would ignore rural areas is the kind that has costs inversely proportional to population density. That applies to broadband providers, but (due to uniform postage rates) does not apply to GameFly.
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Delaying with a good reason still violates the license. If it's that important, then they should delay releasing the binary too.
It's a word normally written in the Cyrillic alphabet. Do you really think it has a canonical representation in the Latin alphabet?
Copyright hasn't been invalidated if you do that; you would have just created a derivative work. Copyright isn't particularly about what you have, it's about how you obtained/constructed it.
It's too bad they don't let you fix the transcription. Even if they're worried about people trying to poison their data (like people talk about with ReCaptcha), they could at least the user fix his own view of it.
Well that depends what you mean by "too fast," doesn't it? If people exceed the speed limit but don't have accidents, perhaps they weren't going too fast after all.
No you don't, because you also have to consider that Americans collectively drive about 3,000,000,000,000 (that's three trillion) miles per year (source). On average, that's one crash per 75 million miles driven -- a tiny ratio.
Fine, but what about divided highways (including all Interstates), where head-on collisions are rare to the point of negligibility?
Ironically, attempting to deter speeding is why site designers obstruct the right of way in the first place.
3D or not, at least you have a grid. Except for downtown and some older residential neighborhoods, Atlanta doesn't.
Maybe that's because people in Atlanta are conditioned to ignore the speed limits.
I am a highway engineer (or at least, an EIT).
Your statement doesn't make sense because "road capabilities" and "safety issues for the users" are the same thing. Engineers take all factors, including sight distance etc., into account when designing the roads; if we designed them for 400mph then they would be safe to drive 400mph on, by definition!
By the way, the grandparent post's "everyone is driving 80" argument has some merit -- studies have shown that the design speed tends to correspond to the 85th percentile driver's speed, regardless of the speed limit. In other words, setting the speed limit artificially low doesn't actually make anybody slow down (unless, perhaps, its a well-known and constantly-enforced speed trap).
Lexmark. I have a Pro901, but the cartridge says it works in the Pro905, Pro805, and Pro709 as well. "Lowest black ink cost" was the most prominent advertised feature of the printer, actually.
Do keep in mind that I'm talking about black, not color... but then again, color laser cost per page, especially for relatively inexpensive home-office-class laser printers, isn't that great either.
My printer is a Lexmark Pro901 (the cheap ink also works in the Pro905, Pro805, and Pro709, according to the cartridge box). I don't know if the ink runs because I'm not in the habit of getting my printouts damp, but I do know that it can print more than 30 pages in a cartridge. In fact, the reason I got the printer is that I was printing 100+ page documents and my non-duplex laser just wasn't cutting it anymore. I only print those big documents twice a month or so, so print heads drying out hasn't seemed to be a problem.
I had given up on inkjet 10 years or so ago too, but I've been pleasantly surprised with how well this one works (except maybe for the fancy touchscreen controls). Don't get me wrong: if I could have gotten a color, networked, auto-duplex laser printer [or multifunction device] for a similar price, I would have. But I couldn't, so I didn't.
Or buy one of the inkjet multifunction devices that actually has cheap ink. Mine -- which I'll name only if somebody asks -- has black ink that costs $5 for ~500 pages. That's competitive, if not cheaper than, the laser printer I had been using before (and this not only does scanning, but also prints in color and has auto-duplex).
Oh yeah, and Office Depot gives you a $3 credit for each empty cartridge you turn in, so the net cost is actually $2/cartridge!
I wonder if there's a Free Software alternative to that?
What are you, an idiot?
First of all, the HTTP 404 error is a response by the server indicating that the particular file isn't found. Since you've already necessarily connected to the server, DNS has nothing to do with it.
Secondly, are you actually proposing that everyone on the entire Internet modify every bit of software to work around the fact that some assholes at an ISP decided to maliciously break a perfectly good protocol?! My mind boggles at the ridiculousness of it!
If the ISP puts content there, it's not actually a 404 error anymore. That means the client HTTP software -- which may not be a browser -- can no longer tell the difference between a page that exists and a page that doesn't exist. This breaks things!
Adblock is applied by the end user. There is no distribution, and therefore cannot be any copyright infringement.
It's worth it.
Better to leave it as biodiesel instead of bio-jet-fuel then. My TDI would thank you [NASA].
The [theoretical] Republican idea is that government is grossly inefficient, so it should only do things the public cannot be entrusted to do. For example, the military and police are justified only because we can't reasonably allow vigilantism.
(I say "theoretical," by the way, because all the small-government rhetoric goes out the window when you start talking about the Republican social agenda.)
Let me tell you a story about excessive force:
A few years ago in Atlanta, the police got a tip from an informant about drug dealers. They sent three undercover officers to serve a no-knock warrant. In other words, they sent three heavily-armed men who weren't dressed as police to kick in somebody's door without any warning. Guess what happened next.
That's right: the old lady who lived alone in the house (and who was not a drug dealer), scared out of her wits, fired a single shot at the armed thugs invading her home. She missed. The "officers" returning fire, on the other hand, used 39 bullets instead of one, and didn't miss five or six times.
Then, of course, they planted drugs on the old lady as she was dying, and it turned out that that the informant had lied (under pressure from police) in the first place.
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Going from 50 mph to 20 mph in 0.363 seconds means he would have had to been decelerating at about 3.7Gs.
Just because any particular rural area only has a few people in it doesn't mean that rural areas in aggregate contain an insignificant number of people. Consider it like a "long tail" of population.
Also, plenty of large businesses do cater to the needs of rural areas -- haven't you ever heard of the agricultural industry, for example?
The only sort of business that would ignore rural areas is the kind that has costs inversely proportional to population density. That applies to broadband providers, but (due to uniform postage rates) does not apply to GameFly.
At this point, they should consider LibreOffice to be upstream of OpenOffice, not the other way around!
So what you're saying is, France's charitable contribution relative to GDP is higher than the United States'.
The GPL is not free in the same way that I'm not "free" to murder you.