we could say it was the music buying populace engaging in a measured boycott of the industry fronted by the thugs at the RIAA, but sadly, I don't think that's it. And I can't even say that it's because popular music (you know, the kind that climbs the charts) sucks, because it has sucked for 20 years or more (I blame The Cherry Hill Gang).
I know why I so rarely buy CDs anymore (there's little I like, and Pandora hasn't catalgued bands I do like yet), but I am considered a social deviant so I don't ascribe such simple and straightforward motives to the mass of the music buying populace.
SAN doesn't write directly to the disk, and as such, a "high disk utlilization" situation in the OS, is not really a high disk utilization situation in the san...With the san I have worked with, it either means that the disk array doesn't have enough memory (some vendors can expand, some cannot) or you are having contention issues from improper zoning. Other possibilities that occur to me are not enough memory on the server (although my experience is with Oracle, not MSSQL in the case of db servers) and a poor san design that spools database data to the same spindles as another io intensive application. I would recommend that you get someone who knows the san product you are using to look at your setup.
In which case, Viacom admits liability and opens itself to similar law suits of equivelent size. I don't honestly believe that Viacom will admit any liability.
In which case, YouTube might be able to say "We are taking the same steps as Viacom. That means Viacom must think what we are doing is sufficient, so this is a baseless lawsuit."
No one in their right mind wants to ride in a Hummer...the ride is for crap. And no one in the US can fit in a Prius. THey are made for skinny people, and we Americans are fat.
if YouTube could say, "We take proactive steps to limit infringment, and respond within our stated guidelines to complaints of infringement. Viacom does neither."
YouTube could be seen as coming up short on the limit side...They do, however, as far as I can tell, jerk videos pretty quickly upon a claim of infringement.
Most ENTERPRISES still have tape at some level as part of a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. Tape is easy to offsite, fairly reliable overall and still have comprehensive support available in all platforms.
Most INDIVIDUALS don't do backups at all.
I'm probably a bit more jaded because I came out of an MFA program whose preofessors were almost solely concentrated on post modernism. David Foster Wallace, Curtis White, Ricardo Cruz...Only White was really open to the possibilities of science fiction/fantasy. The one class I took from Wallace, he seemed to want his students to all try to recreate the reading experience of "The Girl With Curious Hair" which is not what I consider great fun.
But could you imagine a creative writing department run by Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, David Brin, Greg Bear, and Steven Brust? Or a similarly accomplished group of science fiction writers? I could, but I can't see it happening any time soon:(
The university is not a good place to gain a firm understanding of genre, as, especially now adays, most writers in the university environment seem to be focused on one of three genres: magic realism (which has nothing to do with magic, but is rather a term first used to define the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who is highly immitated, where the plot is shrouded in confusing perceptive realities belonging to highly questionable narrators), historical fiction (which, while there is a place for it, tends to be either boring or boring and pendantic, as the academic writers of this genre are usually using it to express dull political opinions that they think should be taken as truisms...and should not be mistaken for alternate history which is a scifi subgenre), and postmodern fiction, which is just silly attempts to subvert story telling and plot to random verbage barages on limited topics and really only servers to cover up the fact that these writers just can't tell stories.
In the publishing industry (outside of academic houses, which are often run by university professors), there is no such genre as "speculative fiction". Publishing houses don't like overly broad statements like that because they tend to want to focus their marketing to specific groups and maximize the advertising dollar. The only true industry places that I see the term used regularly are Locus, which is a trade magazine and covers all of the publishing under the whole broad spectrum (though they refer to individual published works with their marketing genre) and the odd anthology that is often published at a University press, and thus carries the phrase "An anthology of Speculative Fiction" because no one wants to lose their "university professor snob" card;).
Considering that there are still three profitable publishing houses (yeah, they are owned by mega houses, but they are still run as seperate publishers), in this day of people who can't or won't read, that specialize in science fiction, fantasy, and horror (Tor, Baen, Ace), and that the 3 largest gatherings about books are the World Science Fiction Convention, the British Fantasy convention, and the World Horror Fiction convention, I think it is safe to say that the only people who really sneer at science fiction any more are the professors who hypocritally will accept it if you call it speculative fiction.
I would point out that Robert A. Heinlein was an acomplished engineer who did aeronautics work for the Navy during WWII. He also detailed many inventions in his writing that later prevented the patenting of many of those ideas (such as waterbeds). He was far more than just "a writer."
Specualtive Fiction was a term coined in the 1960s (usually attributed to Robert Anson Heinlein) in response to the constraints of the genre classification Science Fiction, not to avoid being accused of writing genre material. The term speculative fiction is usually now used (by authors and others) when they feel the fiction would have a hard time being marketed as science fiction, or as a broad umbrella term to refer to science fiction, science fantasy (aka space opera), and horror (pure fantasy is generally excluded).
All three of the feminist sci fi novels you mentioned are considered and marketed as science fiction. While the marketing designations are not important, I find it annoying when people parrot to the late 60s attitude that cause speculative fiction to be used in an attempt to case disdain on the term science fiction.
For hard sci-fi, I would recommend going with the following authors, who are accessible and pretty detail oriented: Hal Clement, Greg Bear, David Brin, Stephen Baxter...Maybe Joe Haldeman (though I really only recommend Forever War).
In addition, Heinlein's juveniles are great reads, heavy in the science. But they were written for serialization the the BSA magazine Boy's Life...a girl might not find them as entertaining.
to pump out code. I know lots of programmers who don't even have technical degrees. Everything Gates says is just an excuse to beg for more H1B visas and put those of us who can do tech work (but refuse to be stupid about it) in the bread line...
Actually, we didn't. We have no proof that the 'anonymous' witness didn't plan the pornograpy there himself and then turn the judge in. In fact, that should be the basis of his first appeal.
It's still illegally collected evidence and should have been excluded. Also, the "anonymous" hacker should have been sought out for prosecution. Hacking is still illegal, no matter the aim, when done without the knowledge of the hackee.
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Sorry. I meant the The Sugarhill Gang. I'm old and have trouble remembering my eclectic cultural references.
we could say it was the music buying populace engaging in a measured boycott of the industry fronted by the thugs at the RIAA, but sadly, I don't think that's it. And I can't even say that it's because popular music (you know, the kind that climbs the charts) sucks, because it has sucked for 20 years or more (I blame The Cherry Hill Gang). I know why I so rarely buy CDs anymore (there's little I like, and Pandora hasn't catalgued bands I do like yet), but I am considered a social deviant so I don't ascribe such simple and straightforward motives to the mass of the music buying populace.
SAN doesn't write directly to the disk, and as such, a "high disk utlilization" situation in the OS, is not really a high disk utilization situation in the san...With the san I have worked with, it either means that the disk array doesn't have enough memory (some vendors can expand, some cannot) or you are having contention issues from improper zoning. Other possibilities that occur to me are not enough memory on the server (although my experience is with Oracle, not MSSQL in the case of db servers) and a poor san design that spools database data to the same spindles as another io intensive application. I would recommend that you get someone who knows the san product you are using to look at your setup.
In which case, Viacom admits liability and opens itself to similar law suits of equivelent size. I don't honestly believe that Viacom will admit any liability.
In which case, YouTube might be able to say "We are taking the same steps as Viacom. That means Viacom must think what we are doing is sufficient, so this is a baseless lawsuit."
Go to the little Korean guy three block over, with the sign in the window tha says Alterations....I hear he makes a killer Levis knockoff.
Overcompensate much?
No one in their right mind wants to ride in a Hummer...the ride is for crap. And no one in the US can fit in a Prius. THey are made for skinny people, and we Americans are fat.
You must be a vegetarian.
if YouTube could say, "We take proactive steps to limit infringment, and respond within our stated guidelines to complaints of infringement. Viacom does neither." YouTube could be seen as coming up short on the limit side...They do, however, as far as I can tell, jerk videos pretty quickly upon a claim of infringement.
Most ENTERPRISES still have tape at some level as part of a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. Tape is easy to offsite, fairly reliable overall and still have comprehensive support available in all platforms. Most INDIVIDUALS don't do backups at all.
I'm probably a bit more jaded because I came out of an MFA program whose preofessors were almost solely concentrated on post modernism. David Foster Wallace, Curtis White, Ricardo Cruz...Only White was really open to the possibilities of science fiction/fantasy. The one class I took from Wallace, he seemed to want his students to all try to recreate the reading experience of "The Girl With Curious Hair" which is not what I consider great fun. But could you imagine a creative writing department run by Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, David Brin, Greg Bear, and Steven Brust? Or a similarly accomplished group of science fiction writers? I could, but I can't see it happening any time soon:(
The university is not a good place to gain a firm understanding of genre, as, especially now adays, most writers in the university environment seem to be focused on one of three genres: magic realism (which has nothing to do with magic, but is rather a term first used to define the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who is highly immitated, where the plot is shrouded in confusing perceptive realities belonging to highly questionable narrators), historical fiction (which, while there is a place for it, tends to be either boring or boring and pendantic, as the academic writers of this genre are usually using it to express dull political opinions that they think should be taken as truisms...and should not be mistaken for alternate history which is a scifi subgenre), and postmodern fiction, which is just silly attempts to subvert story telling and plot to random verbage barages on limited topics and really only servers to cover up the fact that these writers just can't tell stories. In the publishing industry (outside of academic houses, which are often run by university professors), there is no such genre as "speculative fiction". Publishing houses don't like overly broad statements like that because they tend to want to focus their marketing to specific groups and maximize the advertising dollar. The only true industry places that I see the term used regularly are Locus, which is a trade magazine and covers all of the publishing under the whole broad spectrum (though they refer to individual published works with their marketing genre) and the odd anthology that is often published at a University press, and thus carries the phrase "An anthology of Speculative Fiction" because no one wants to lose their "university professor snob" card;). Considering that there are still three profitable publishing houses (yeah, they are owned by mega houses, but they are still run as seperate publishers), in this day of people who can't or won't read, that specialize in science fiction, fantasy, and horror (Tor, Baen, Ace), and that the 3 largest gatherings about books are the World Science Fiction Convention, the British Fantasy convention, and the World Horror Fiction convention, I think it is safe to say that the only people who really sneer at science fiction any more are the professors who hypocritally will accept it if you call it speculative fiction.
I would point out that Robert A. Heinlein was an acomplished engineer who did aeronautics work for the Navy during WWII. He also detailed many inventions in his writing that later prevented the patenting of many of those ideas (such as waterbeds). He was far more than just "a writer."
Specualtive Fiction was a term coined in the 1960s (usually attributed to Robert Anson Heinlein) in response to the constraints of the genre classification Science Fiction, not to avoid being accused of writing genre material. The term speculative fiction is usually now used (by authors and others) when they feel the fiction would have a hard time being marketed as science fiction, or as a broad umbrella term to refer to science fiction, science fantasy (aka space opera), and horror (pure fantasy is generally excluded). All three of the feminist sci fi novels you mentioned are considered and marketed as science fiction. While the marketing designations are not important, I find it annoying when people parrot to the late 60s attitude that cause speculative fiction to be used in an attempt to case disdain on the term science fiction.
For hard sci-fi, I would recommend going with the following authors, who are accessible and pretty detail oriented: Hal Clement, Greg Bear, David Brin, Stephen Baxter...Maybe Joe Haldeman (though I really only recommend Forever War). In addition, Heinlein's juveniles are great reads, heavy in the science. But they were written for serialization the the BSA magazine Boy's Life...a girl might not find them as entertaining.
Clearly he doesn't view himself as a mere game developer, he's an artiste!
And as we all, know, artiste is another work for poser.
Yeah, It sucked but it was never as outright stupid as DS9.
What are you smoking? DS9 was the 2nd worst of the Star Trek franchises. Only Voyager was worse.
What's the point? You can copy the stuff to CD and rip it form CD into mp3s anyway.
to pump out code. I know lots of programmers who don't even have technical degrees. Everything Gates says is just an excuse to beg for more H1B visas and put those of us who can do tech work (but refuse to be stupid about it) in the bread line...
before the Mormons jump on this to support their "lost tribes of Israel" mantra?
Actually, we didn't. We have no proof that the 'anonymous' witness didn't plan the pornograpy there himself and then turn the judge in. In fact, that should be the basis of his first appeal.
It's still illegally collected evidence and should have been excluded. Also, the "anonymous" hacker should have been sought out for prosecution. Hacking is still illegal, no matter the aim, when done without the knowledge of the hackee.
Yes, Mom:P.