Many of the "great classical composers" were in fact paid for their services - commissions for songs written for a purpose, conducting a perfomance (of their own work or someone else's). Some of them even ghost-wrote compositions (if you believe the rumor that King Henry did not write Greensleeves, anyway).
Cool! Those are always fascinating, like the one on killer bees in the americas.. and the huge number of mistakes that have been made regarding the spread of them. I don't remember that documentary being all that amusing, though - I'll have to see about these cane toads.:)
i wanted to point out that, in case it wasn't clear, this is a good post - implicitly, there's no guarantee that the virus would work any better on the cane toad than the cane toad worked on the cane grub:)
well, yes... but there is a much stronger motivation to invent the zipper if you think you'll be rewarded for it. and imagine if you invented the zipper and someone else came along and started selling them. whether that's fair or not is debatable and perhaps a major issue regarding patents.
It's true that patents should be used for things that require a good deal of work - but how about those things that require a good deal of lucky innovation or genius? and how would you measure that?
The zipper probably did not require a lot of work to be invented - at least I don't envision a hundred different proto-zippers - but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be allowed to be patented.
good point - I understand they do the timing method in Germany or something?
of course if they did it that way, wouldn't people just not use fastlane? they'd just pay with money and get the little stubs.
of course, then you could always track speeders using the stubs too.:)
well, really, since that technology only has a very short-range transmitter, they could only use it to track speeders when they're speeding through the toll booths - and in fact i know someone who once got such a ticket
once you're on the highway the fastlane/ezpass would essentially be useless as a tracking device.
really, doesn't it sound like there's just some bug where that sometimes, when there are sponsored results, it doesn't return the normal results? some hokey null termination issue, or other weird code problem. it doesn't seem all that unlikely a kind of bug.
there are a lot of people out there who thought that allowing the fans who grew up with the series to start writing it (when john nathan-turner took over as producer) was one of the worse moves the series made.
it's up for debate, but it definitely changed the feel of it.
of course, also up for debate is whether those particular fans could write..:)
m hoping the courts will make the similar connection and stop the RIAA subpoenas. To this point, just because the ISP provides the network connectivity that makes P2P pirating possible, it wasn't the original intention.
but, didn't the courts _not_ see things this way when the issue was napster? that defense didn't work, apparently because it was "mostly used" for doing something illegal...
you know... it really bugs me whenever people say "the Beatle suck" or "the Beatles are the most influential and best band ever"!.. obviously the truth is somewhere in between.
the reason the Beatles were such a major thing was that they departed from the boy-band/girl-band mentality of the 1950s and early 1960s. these were bands (usually just singers) for whom all the music was written by hired songwriters - often the same writers wrote for many groups. the Beatles were major because they wrote their own songs, and played the instruments, and sang - which wasn't an amazing thing since jazz and blues artists had been doing that for ages, but for a pop band to do it was something else. this caused aspirations, as well as commercial interst in other groups that did that (say, the Rolling Stones).
musically, the Beatles are good (imho), and did some new things, and certainly George Martin's influence on their more progressive aspects can't be ignored (he was thier producer). but a lot of their influence was idealogical, not musical, and a lot of what they did they didn't necessarily invent as popularize (mccartney's melodic songwriting certainly influenced billy joel, but mccartney himself was influenced by the musicals popular much earlier in the century).
if you don't buy another cd until they give the money back, it's not making a great statement. you might not have bought a cd anyway - and even if you would have.. the riaa won't know why you didn't buy the cd:)
of course, another issue is that there's a lot of bad science fiction out there! i mean, how many stories about scantily clad sexy female aliens/robots/other can you read?
incidentally, harry harrison's history-of book (out of print) Mechanismo has an amusing ponderance over why all the men in sci-fi are heavily geared up, yet the women seem to manage with almost no clothing.
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though yes - originally it was believed by most that nicotine has no relation to cancer...
Many of the "great classical composers" were in fact paid for their services - commissions for songs written for a purpose, conducting a perfomance (of their own work or someone else's). Some of them even ghost-wrote compositions (if you believe the rumor that King Henry did not write Greensleeves, anyway).
Cool! Those are always fascinating, like the one on killer bees in the americas.. and the huge number of mistakes that have been made regarding the spread of them. I don't remember that documentary being all that amusing, though - I'll have to see about these cane toads. :)
coast guard?
i wanted to point out that, in case it wasn't clear, this is a good post - implicitly, there's no guarantee that the virus would work any better on the cane toad than the cane toad worked on the cane grub :)
but then, that's my point too, that it isn't such a simple situation in either direction. :)
but maybe that's not the issue at hand..?
The zipper probably did not require a lot of work to be invented - at least I don't envision a hundred different proto-zippers - but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be allowed to be patented.
disclaimer: zipper != pop-unders.
that's because it's Windows 2000. obviously.
of course if they did it that way, wouldn't people just not use fastlane? they'd just pay with money and get the little stubs. :)
of course, then you could always track speeders using the stubs too.
once you're on the highway the fastlane/ezpass would essentially be useless as a tracking device.
really, doesn't it sound like there's just some bug where that sometimes, when there are sponsored results, it doesn't return the normal results? some hokey null termination issue, or other weird code problem. it doesn't seem all that unlikely a kind of bug.
candle speaker comes up with nothing at all, while candle speaker two comes up with a heckuva lot..!
and i'll sue you for using my patented use of the combination of 'printf' and '\n'.
it's up for debate, but it definitely changed the feel of it.
of course, also up for debate is whether those particular fans could write.. :)
if you have a different definition of MB or GB for RAM and disks then there will be no end to the confusion.
wait.. wasn't this a (sic)...?
but, didn't the courts _not_ see things this way when the issue was napster? that defense didn't work, apparently because it was "mostly used" for doing something illegal...
musically, the Beatles are good (imho), and did some new things, and certainly George Martin's influence on their more progressive aspects can't be ignored (he was thier producer). but a lot of their influence was idealogical, not musical, and a lot of what they did they didn't necessarily invent as popularize (mccartney's melodic songwriting certainly influenced billy joel, but mccartney himself was influenced by the musicals popular much earlier in the century).
and so, i think i've ranted enough :)
no, you misunderstand. it's not to help redesign auto security. it's so that auto manufacturers can know which cars are popular and make more of them!
if you don't buy another cd until they give the money back, it's not making a great statement. you might not have bought a cd anyway - and even if you would have.. the riaa won't know why you didn't buy the cd :)
unless there's an organized protest...
eep! *looks both ways, slowly unplugs ethernet cable*
is it pretty standard practice these days? and how long do they save the logs for? i guess they wouldn't be too big.
unless there are some very good logs kept binding hardware addresses to IPs, etc...?
incidentally, harry harrison's history-of book (out of print) Mechanismo has an amusing ponderance over why all the men in sci-fi are heavily geared up, yet the women seem to manage with almost no clothing.