In addition, there's plenty of evidence that teaching it harms children's education by confusing them.
Using this logic, the Japanese should pick either hiragana or katakana only for their most basic writing language, and toss the other. After all, it's confusing to have to learn two different ways to write -- especially when you have what amounts to 45 letters instead of 26 in your "alphabet". Yup, their children really are struggling in school from it.
or (the most likely scenario) the public domain will lose once again as courts end up deciding that this is a valid method to perpetuate copyright for all time, by making copies of your work the night before copyright expires.
No, because you could always go back and with your own effort make a copy of the same original Amazon used. Only Amazon's own scan of the work would be copyrighted, the book itself would not get a magical copyright extension because someone scanned it right before the expiration date.
It sort of like a copyright on a musical recording. It's not related to the song itself. So I can make a recording of myself singing a folk song that is now in public domain, and Celene Dion's record company can't sue me because she did a version last year, because they don't own the rights to the song itself.
To quote myself from the post you're replying to...
The people writing the bill would give a pass to public radio so the public wouldn't think they were trying to put public radio down by stifling their limited operating budgets with new fees.
It's just an act of good faith on the part of the bill's sponsors (read as: PR move). Public radio stations generally are classical/world/independent programming, so they really aren't competing with the the media interests who push the royalty bills through.
Actually I meant that the public radio station, being supported by public donations, grants, etc is not a profit-seeking venture, it would not be required to pay extra dues, if it does to begin with. Since quite a bit of it's programming is classical music a lot of it is also public domain in some ways. The people writing the bill would give a pass to public radio so the public wouldn't think they were trying to put public radio down by stifling their limited operating budgets with new fees.
And I misspoke on my last post. I do *occasionally* listen to those two radio stations, but in general I'm on my own "canned music". I would be more upset at those two stations being shut down by this for cultural reasons, not because I personally wouldn't have anything to listen to anymore. The area commercial radio stations I used to listen to have all changed format to stuff I'm not interested in -- some through acquisitions by national companies, some in changing their own formats to try and capture a different market.
That might be one outcome. Alternately, we might just lose the independent stations and be stuck with all Clear Channel.
Perhaps we don't care anymore either way? With car stereos able to hook up to iPods and the mash of annoying commercials/on-air "personalities" one has to listen too are people even using their radios anymore? I have a broken antennae on my car. I can get pretty much two radio stations reliably: NPR, and the local college's radio station. Considering the college station is a non-commercial low-power transmitter and the public radio station is, well, a public radio station I imagine they'll be immune to these changes, and I don't listen to those two stations anyway. All i listen to is my own CDs, some of which are actual CDs and some of which are burned with digital music files I bought at online stores or acquired through other means.
I learn about new music either through word of mouth from people I know online, other works the music gets used in like commercials or movie soundtracks, or listening to samples at online music stores and bands' own websites.
At over 1300 mpg, there's really no need for a dense grid of Hydrogen stations to begin with, as you'll rarely need to fill up and having to drive out to a station wont take that much out of the vehicle's range with a filled tank.
Heck, maybe it will be possible to simply order Hydrogen in small quantities and have it delivered to the consumer to fill their tank.
From what I gathered, when you were a Clear customer you went through a separate line than everyone else. So perhaps this has nothing at all to do with security, it was nothing more than a way to legitimize the practice of bribes to get to the front of a long line.
If the service is actually able to reduce airport check-out times as much as former customers claim, and not sacrifice security at all, then all it shows is how inefficient the TSA's system is, and DHS should be revamping to emulate these services, making them unneeded. But if the service really wasn't any faster than "regular" security, and the saved time was nothing more than the fact the line itself wasn't so long, then the TSA doing the same thing would not have the same effect, as with the service now free more people would use it.
I'm saying the battery isn't necessarily a bad design. I argue the component is failing due to poor manufacture/QC procedures by the individual component maker. It's rather hard to say this is a design defect when it's not happening to all iPhone 3GS owners. Apple isn't testing every iPhone that gets produced. They test prototypes and a sample of commercial production, everything seems fine, they sign off on it.
Then the production ramps up and that 2% of bad components that were not in the phones Apple tested end up in the field, where customers get them and begin having issues, then those customers begin posting on the internet seemingly magnifying their numbers and making it appear to be a huge issue.
How many iPhone 3GSs do you think Apple's sold by now? Yeah, there are reports of overheating and such, but those reports are not in numbers that would reflect any huge percentage of the 3GS userbase. Therefore it is more likely this is a failure of a percentage of base components used in the iPhone building, not a design flaw.
Is anyone else bothered by the very existence of these companies? "Pay us and we'll get you through the security faster by taking all this personal information and running it through the security checks early, etc."
The hassle is a part of the security program designed by the TSA to keep Americans safer, not create new business opportunities. It seems to me the TSA should be offering the same service to travelers for free. Let people submit the same information beforehand, have all the info run through checks, and stored so folks are less inconvenienced by the "safety measures" they insist on.
Also, even if Apple designed the batteries, they didn't build them themselves. Poor manufacturing and QC of individual components isn't Apple's fault. Just as exploding Sony batteries isn't Dell's.
The statement was "If a person dedicates three hours a day to using the system, the BMI can reach 95% accuracy in a week", they didn't say that 95% was the highest accuracy one could obtain. After a full month of usage, you could find yourself at decimal point level inaccuracy.
'You guys don't get it,' Heiliger said. 'To build servers for companies like Facebook, and Amazon, and other people who are operating fairly homogeneous applications, the servers have to be cheap, and they have to be super power-efficient.'
One more thing worth mentioning is that its usually best if you meet a girl a couple of times before making it absolutely clear you have a sexual interest in her. You should seem engaged in conversation, enjoy activities together, and ultimately become great friends. If you follow your johnson, your gonna run into a brick wall.
Ah, but this where the rub is. People aren't social like that - at least not in America any more. The media has convinced everyone that if someone is a stranger it's very likely they are a rapist, terrorist, or con artist. People don't just randomly walk up and start conversations with people like that. So it's virtually impossible to try to meet people without saying you have a sexual interest in them. Imagine you're walking down the street, and you see an attractive woman. Now, how do you approach them? You don't know who they are, you have no idea what their interests are. The only difference between this person and other women on the street at that moment is her appearance and attitude as they go about their business.
It's obvious the reason you are speaking to them is because you find them attractive since [b]you have no other reason to be talking to a complete stranger[/b] -- all you know of them is their looks. So just by saying hello you have already revealed you have a sexual interest in them.
All DRM is in fact bad because all DRM carries the assumption that you are incapable of doing the right thing and thus, must be actively prevented from doing the wrong thing. A DRM scheme that prevents you from giving a file to your friends is treating you like a criminal because the assumption behind it is that you WOULD give it to your friends -- they are so certain that you would do this, that they paid programmers to design a system to prevent it. To say that this restriction doesn't bother you because you wouldn't do that anyway misses the point. The point is that your morality means absolutely nothing if you have no ability to be immoral. To support any form of DRM is akin to saying that they are right to treat their customers in this adversarial, dehumanizing fashion.
If it was possible for DRM to be created that could magically tell if your were a "good" customer or someone wanting to share your files over P2P I'm sure it would be in use by some media companies. Unfortunately, that software doesn't exist. The fact your media comes with DRM doesn't necessarily mean the Producer assumes your a crook, it means the Producer assumes there are crooks out there. It's unfortunate you get caught up in this "protection" as well, but the Producer has to create their product holding everyone to the lowest common denominator if the protection is going to work. Think of the companies your do business with on a pay-after-usage arrangement. Many of them require certain personal information even if they don't have an immediate usage for that information. They collect if they should have to track you down for skipping out on the bill. The fact they ask for this info doesn't necessarily mean you have to give it to them (you can choose not to do business with them), or mean that they think YOU personally are going to need to be sent to collections. The easiest explanation is "if so many people weren't crooks this wouldn't be required".
I have a deadbolt lock on my front door. It prevents burglaries. The fact I have the lock on my door and use it does not mean I believe all my neighbors will rob me while I'm gone. It means I want to prevent those people who would rob me from being able to get in. The fact the ratio of robbers to good people is high enough that I feel I need to use this lock is unfortunate, but it's how the world works. It means when my friends come by they have to knock and I have to let them in, even if they were welcome to begin with. I don't think my friends are crooks of course, but they are some of those good people who's access to me is effected by my DRM (doorway rights managament).
Is it actually 7 GB when you download it? Or just that size on the console version since it's sent in playable form on the media?
I'm brand new to Steam, but I'm downloading Mirror's Edge right now, and it said I'll need like 8 GB of free hard disk space on the system requirements, but the download is only 900 MB.
Actually, I'm not. I just wish that anyone who still showed an interest in my book would be shown directly to a place where they could actually pay for it. And I wish that they wouldn't be tempted with all of the Torrent sites.
I know the book is ten years old. I'm not surprised that someone may have written a better book. I would just like the book to be treated fairly.
It sounds as though you are now complaining because Google shows piracy options for you book more prevalently than buying options.
* shrug *
Google's Pagerank system exists to attempt to judge what search results are more important based on their popularity. Perhaps you are realizing we have reached a point where dishonesty has become the majority practice.
You always have the option of purchasing one of the "sponsored results" slots at the top of the page to plug a legitimate place to buy your book. But that wont help if nobody wants to pay for it to begin with.
I'd argue 5 years for corporate entities, and 20 years for individuals. With no extensions possible.
If you make it different terms, especially ones this far apart in length, corporations will just have one of their chief officers register all the companies work as an individual and grant a perpetual license to the corporation to use them.
It's like wondering if you peeing in the ocean when you go for a swim is making a difference to global oceanic warming because, after all, your pee is quite warm.
You forgot that if you're drinking lots of alcohol you're also peeing more.
Having barbecues on the beach: compounding the damage on many levels.
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Using this logic, the Japanese should pick either hiragana or katakana only for their most basic writing language, and toss the other. After all, it's confusing to have to learn two different ways to write -- especially when you have what amounts to 45 letters instead of 26 in your "alphabet". Yup, their children really are struggling in school from it.
Aye! It be a Sea Monster Cable!
No, because you could always go back and with your own effort make a copy of the same original Amazon used. Only Amazon's own scan of the work would be copyrighted, the book itself would not get a magical copyright extension because someone scanned it right before the expiration date.
It sort of like a copyright on a musical recording. It's not related to the song itself. So I can make a recording of myself singing a folk song that is now in public domain, and Celene Dion's record company can't sue me because she did a version last year, because they don't own the rights to the song itself.
To quote myself from the post you're replying to...
It's just an act of good faith on the part of the bill's sponsors (read as: PR move). Public radio stations generally are classical/world/independent programming, so they really aren't competing with the the media interests who push the royalty bills through.
Actually I meant that the public radio station, being supported by public donations, grants, etc is not a profit-seeking venture, it would not be required to pay extra dues, if it does to begin with. Since quite a bit of it's programming is classical music a lot of it is also public domain in some ways. The people writing the bill would give a pass to public radio so the public wouldn't think they were trying to put public radio down by stifling their limited operating budgets with new fees.
And I misspoke on my last post. I do *occasionally* listen to those two radio stations, but in general I'm on my own "canned music". I would be more upset at those two stations being shut down by this for cultural reasons, not because I personally wouldn't have anything to listen to anymore. The area commercial radio stations I used to listen to have all changed format to stuff I'm not interested in -- some through acquisitions by national companies, some in changing their own formats to try and capture a different market.
Perhaps we don't care anymore either way? With car stereos able to hook up to iPods and the mash of annoying commercials/on-air "personalities" one has to listen too are people even using their radios anymore? I have a broken antennae on my car. I can get pretty much two radio stations reliably: NPR, and the local college's radio station. Considering the college station is a non-commercial low-power transmitter and the public radio station is, well, a public radio station I imagine they'll be immune to these changes, and I don't listen to those two stations anyway. All i listen to is my own CDs, some of which are actual CDs and some of which are burned with digital music files I bought at online stores or acquired through other means.
I learn about new music either through word of mouth from people I know online, other works the music gets used in like commercials or movie soundtracks, or listening to samples at online music stores and bands' own websites.
Radio? Who needs it!
In Soviet Trojan, hard drive is overwritten by "U"!
At over 1300 mpg, there's really no need for a dense grid of Hydrogen stations to begin with, as you'll rarely need to fill up and having to drive out to a station wont take that much out of the vehicle's range with a filled tank.
Heck, maybe it will be possible to simply order Hydrogen in small quantities and have it delivered to the consumer to fill their tank.
From what I gathered, when you were a Clear customer you went through a separate line than everyone else. So perhaps this has nothing at all to do with security, it was nothing more than a way to legitimize the practice of bribes to get to the front of a long line.
If the service is actually able to reduce airport check-out times as much as former customers claim, and not sacrifice security at all, then all it shows is how inefficient the TSA's system is, and DHS should be revamping to emulate these services, making them unneeded. But if the service really wasn't any faster than "regular" security, and the saved time was nothing more than the fact the line itself wasn't so long, then the TSA doing the same thing would not have the same effect, as with the service now free more people would use it.
I'm saying the battery isn't necessarily a bad design. I argue the component is failing due to poor manufacture/QC procedures by the individual component maker. It's rather hard to say this is a design defect when it's not happening to all iPhone 3GS owners. Apple isn't testing every iPhone that gets produced. They test prototypes and a sample of commercial production, everything seems fine, they sign off on it.
Then the production ramps up and that 2% of bad components that were not in the phones Apple tested end up in the field, where customers get them and begin having issues, then those customers begin posting on the internet seemingly magnifying their numbers and making it appear to be a huge issue.
How many iPhone 3GSs do you think Apple's sold by now? Yeah, there are reports of overheating and such, but those reports are not in numbers that would reflect any huge percentage of the 3GS userbase. Therefore it is more likely this is a failure of a percentage of base components used in the iPhone building, not a design flaw.
Is anyone else bothered by the very existence of these companies? "Pay us and we'll get you through the security faster by taking all this personal information and running it through the security checks early, etc."
The hassle is a part of the security program designed by the TSA to keep Americans safer, not create new business opportunities. It seems to me the TSA should be offering the same service to travelers for free. Let people submit the same information beforehand, have all the info run through checks, and stored so folks are less inconvenienced by the "safety measures" they insist on.
Overclocked processor? Maybe you should learn not to post false information.
Also, even if Apple designed the batteries, they didn't build them themselves. Poor manufacturing and QC of individual components isn't Apple's fault. Just as exploding Sony batteries isn't Dell's.
The statement was "If a person dedicates three hours a day to using the system, the BMI can reach 95% accuracy in a week", they didn't say that 95% was the highest accuracy one could obtain. After a full month of usage, you could find yourself at decimal point level inaccuracy.
NEWSFLASH! Customer are tightwads.
Performance/Reliability/Price.
Pick any two, Heiliger.
Ah, but this where the rub is. People aren't social like that - at least not in America any more. The media has convinced everyone that if someone is a stranger it's very likely they are a rapist, terrorist, or con artist. People don't just randomly walk up and start conversations with people like that. So it's virtually impossible to try to meet people without saying you have a sexual interest in them. Imagine you're walking down the street, and you see an attractive woman. Now, how do you approach them? You don't know who they are, you have no idea what their interests are. The only difference between this person and other women on the street at that moment is her appearance and attitude as they go about their business.
It's obvious the reason you are speaking to them is because you find them attractive since [b]you have no other reason to be talking to a complete stranger[/b] -- all you know of them is their looks. So just by saying hello you have already revealed you have a sexual interest in them.
Where's the +1, Awesome mod when you need it?
If it was possible for DRM to be created that could magically tell if your were a "good" customer or someone wanting to share your files over P2P I'm sure it would be in use by some media companies. Unfortunately, that software doesn't exist. The fact your media comes with DRM doesn't necessarily mean the Producer assumes your a crook, it means the Producer assumes there are crooks out there. It's unfortunate you get caught up in this "protection" as well, but the Producer has to create their product holding everyone to the lowest common denominator if the protection is going to work. Think of the companies your do business with on a pay-after-usage arrangement. Many of them require certain personal information even if they don't have an immediate usage for that information. They collect if they should have to track you down for skipping out on the bill. The fact they ask for this info doesn't necessarily mean you have to give it to them (you can choose not to do business with them), or mean that they think YOU personally are going to need to be sent to collections. The easiest explanation is "if so many people weren't crooks this wouldn't be required".
I have a deadbolt lock on my front door. It prevents burglaries. The fact I have the lock on my door and use it does not mean I believe all my neighbors will rob me while I'm gone. It means I want to prevent those people who would rob me from being able to get in. The fact the ratio of robbers to good people is high enough that I feel I need to use this lock is unfortunate, but it's how the world works. It means when my friends come by they have to knock and I have to let them in, even if they were welcome to begin with. I don't think my friends are crooks of course, but they are some of those good people who's access to me is effected by my DRM (doorway rights managament).
Isn't that just to use them as evidence in a court case? I mean, making it illegal to record conversations at all would be impossible to enforce.
Actually, I thought of Alka-Selter.
And for the record, I'm still in my 20's.
Is it actually 7 GB when you download it? Or just that size on the console version since it's sent in playable form on the media?
I'm brand new to Steam, but I'm downloading Mirror's Edge right now, and it said I'll need like 8 GB of free hard disk space on the system requirements, but the download is only 900 MB.
It sounds as though you are now complaining because Google shows piracy options for you book more prevalently than buying options.
* shrug *
Google's Pagerank system exists to attempt to judge what search results are more important based on their popularity. Perhaps you are realizing we have reached a point where dishonesty has become the majority practice.
You always have the option of purchasing one of the "sponsored results" slots at the top of the page to plug a legitimate place to buy your book. But that wont help if nobody wants to pay for it to begin with.
*clap clap clap*
Now make Angelfire go away!
If you make it different terms, especially ones this far apart in length, corporations will just have one of their chief officers register all the companies work as an individual and grant a perpetual license to the corporation to use them.
You forgot that if you're drinking lots of alcohol you're also peeing more.
Having barbecues on the beach: compounding the damage on many levels.
So horrible, yet I'm laughing. I don't know who to be more embarrassed for.