The basic premise of youtube requires that they be grant a non-exclusive redistribute right, otherwise they would have no right to stream it for watching at all!
The consideration received in return for that grant is in the form of exposure and reaching a wider audience. So, while you wouldn't post the whole Transformers movie on there (as a studio), you would probably want the trailer and maybe a few promotional clips on there and you absolutely want youtube to distribute those as widely as possible.
It's basically a business deal. Youtube's upside is they get advertising revenue. There's nothing sneaky about it.
I thought it was pretty cool actually that WoW has a colorblind mode since being colorblind could really frig up your ability to play certain parts of that game.
"Go get me 12 orange...oh...umm...I mean the blue flower looking...umm...you know what go kill 10 forest boars or something."
Dear god please no. It's hard enough getting through a basic group project in college. Something that would basically require a design team, management oversight, and 8+ hours a week from each person on the team would be...well, let's just say I wouldn't expect a high pass rate in that class - it would only take one screw-off in that team to fail your whole team.
And unlike the small group project stuff from college it wouldn't be an option to just have two people do all the work so they don't fail too.
It was probably hydroplaning which would leave minimal resistance between the wheels and the water. Cars easily do this at 50mph or so and small planes weigh even less than your average family car. Maybe the wheels weren't spinning fast enough to trip the brake sensor or somesuch.
Pure speculation, but I'm just saying it's feasible.
The banks wouldn't handle it. The teller would complete the transaction, put a $20 bill from their wallet/purse in the drawer and keep the $20 gold coin for themselves.
Just because an accusation is baseless hasn't stopped them so far. Who knows? An international dispute may be the only way they get to go before the supreme court!
I also turned off all of the "whiz-bang" features in Vista when I finally decided to upgrade my hardware (incidentally a real consumer 64-bit OS is a very nice thing, you just have to muddle through compatibility issues). It took several days of trial and error to shut everything off. I'd almost like them to create different "modes" like a small memory footprint "Windows 2000 mode" that shut off all of the new features and got the heck out of the way - where it would have the smallest possible memory footprint. Then there could be a "Standard Windows Mode" that would turn on commonly used services and features but still be more or less stripped down. And finally a "Full Feature Windows 7 mode" with everything turned on. Make it easier on all of us. Just because I *can* get under the hood doesn't mean I really like it there.
Don't be glib. Division is an integral part of math.
Random guesses about origin of life with nothing but imagination to back them up don't make one bit of difference to real science. It's an interesting question at best, not something significantly important to scientific progress.
I refer you to an XKCD on the subject. The more involved reality is in your branch of science the more subjective it becomes. By the time you get down to sociology and economics you have people making wild guesses about what they think will happen and then revising the guess to a new guess when it fails. And somehow we keep paying them.
Biology has some of these defects but not all. A lot of good hard science has come out of it. But there's also more hand-waving in biology than would ever be tolerated in physics (except string theorists, lets ignore them for now). I think though we're finally getting to a point, especially with molecular biology, where the guesswork is slowly being removed from the process. We're understanding the cells and interactions of biological materials better and better each year which has allowed for staggering breakthroughs in medications and treatments. And you know what's great about all of that? None of it is dependent on answering questions of origins, or sea life evolving to land life, or the fossil record or anything like that. Some questions aren't important enough to mess with.
So can we please focus our efforts on the important things? This is a stupid fight to be fighting. Tear out the pages and put in big bold print "WE DON'T KNOW AND WE'RE SICK OF ARGUING OVER IT." and leave it at that.
Pretty well by definition anything that we can observe is evolution happening small scale. Speciation events that we have seen seem to in part occur because we have trouble defining exactly what constitutes a "species". Larger examples of evolution, like creatures adapting from sea life to land life, in all likelihood are unprovable. Teaching something unprovable really should stay out of the classroom (which is to say I don't think ID should be taught in the classroom either - what's wrong with "we don't know"?).
So in the small scale, yeah, teach what we know. Here's the fossils we've found, here's the records we have, here's all the things we've observed. How did all this come about? We're not sure.
The square root of any prime number is irrational. The same proof techniques that work for sqrt(2) work for any given prime, a very elegant proof that every college math student should be exposed to.
The one that makes me see red is the "loose-lose" swap.
Like: I'm going to loose my house!
Loose it from what? Is it tied up or something? Some of the others I can forgive (its-->it's, you're-->your, their/they're-->there) because at least they're pronounced the same, but lose/loose, I mean honestly...
Oh, and to anyone who *ever* says "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes" you are going up against the wall after the loose/lose crowd.
The population crisis will be solved with grammar nazism.
I could write you a lossy compression algorithm to do exactly that (and have, as it happens). Just because JPEG is the most popular and doesn't allow exact bitrate in its encoding by design doesn't mean that such a feat is by any means complex.
I once wrote a wavelet compressor that took number of bytes as an argument. The algorithm was such that when it hit the specified number of bits it could just stop and the decoder would simply stop processing when it had no more bits to decode (this was back in 2002, using the SPIHT algorithm, if any image compression nerds were curious).
The problem that you run into is that simply capping the bitrate doesn't scale very well with resolution. 100k at 1024x768 looks fine, no really noticeable artifacts. The same thing on 10240x7680 looks absolutely horrendous. The only way you could realistically do this would be to subsample it before compressing it (in fact, JPEG allows subsampling of the chroma components before compression because slight loss of color veracity has a negligible effect to the human eye), but that would pretty well defeat the purpose since you couldn't claim increased megapixels.
That would depend on which year you're talking about. The claim has vacillated between "contracts", "copyrights", "methods and concepts", and vaguely "intellectual property" since its inception. Currently I believe they're claiming breach of contract, but with Novell having the right to waive their claims they're pretty much boned there too.
Either way, just because SCO's claims get blown away like so much chaff, IBM's counterclaims will still be in play to be resolved, and therein lies the test of the GPL that people are looking for. It will truly be worth keeping an eye on as the dust settles to see where all of the issues raised end up.
Groklaw you uncultured heathen!
And the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a pretty decent website Here that covers many aspects of the RIAA cases. It's not *quite* as well organized and coherent as Groklaw is, but it's a darn good place to start. Honestly precious few are going to have PJ's kind of dedication to a cause *and* sufficient legal background to research and make sense of court filings for the layman.
I really, REALLY liked reading the transcript of Intel's lawyers showing up in court and basically telling the judge that SCO was lying through their collective teeth. Being a third party means you can take the gloves off when you're swinging back =) I bet it made IBM's lawyers feel all warm and fuzzy inside too.
But Vanish-X on some bosses hoses you, like that random encounter in the airship - use vanish-X and no bahamut esper for you. Use Vanish-Doom and he coughs it up.
I played that game waaaaay too much...
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The basic premise of youtube requires that they be grant a non-exclusive redistribute right, otherwise they would have no right to stream it for watching at all!
The consideration received in return for that grant is in the form of exposure and reaching a wider audience. So, while you wouldn't post the whole Transformers movie on there (as a studio), you would probably want the trailer and maybe a few promotional clips on there and you absolutely want youtube to distribute those as widely as possible.
It's basically a business deal. Youtube's upside is they get advertising revenue. There's nothing sneaky about it.
I thought it was pretty cool actually that WoW has a colorblind mode since being colorblind could really frig up your ability to play certain parts of that game.
"Go get me 12 orange...oh...umm...I mean the blue flower looking...umm...you know what go kill 10 forest boars or something."
Dear god please no. It's hard enough getting through a basic group project in college. Something that would basically require a design team, management oversight, and 8+ hours a week from each person on the team would be...well, let's just say I wouldn't expect a high pass rate in that class - it would only take one screw-off in that team to fail your whole team.
And unlike the small group project stuff from college it wouldn't be an option to just have two people do all the work so they don't fail too.
It was probably hydroplaning which would leave minimal resistance between the wheels and the water. Cars easily do this at 50mph or so and small planes weigh even less than your average family car. Maybe the wheels weren't spinning fast enough to trip the brake sensor or somesuch.
Pure speculation, but I'm just saying it's feasible.
That's atomic weight. Density has much more to do with how the atoms get laid out.
RE: Graphite @ ~2.1 g/cm^3 vs. Diamond @ ~3.5 g/cm^3
Exact same atomic weight, but 2/3 more density.
The banks wouldn't handle it. The teller would complete the transaction, put a $20 bill from their wallet/purse in the drawer and keep the $20 gold coin for themselves.
Just because an accusation is baseless hasn't stopped them so far. Who knows? An international dispute may be the only way they get to go before the supreme court!
Why didn't she just use a Phoenix Down?
She was a party of one at that point and didn't have the "Final Attack-Phoenix" combination on her. Game over man!
I also turned off all of the "whiz-bang" features in Vista when I finally decided to upgrade my hardware (incidentally a real consumer 64-bit OS is a very nice thing, you just have to muddle through compatibility issues). It took several days of trial and error to shut everything off. I'd almost like them to create different "modes" like a small memory footprint "Windows 2000 mode" that shut off all of the new features and got the heck out of the way - where it would have the smallest possible memory footprint. Then there could be a "Standard Windows Mode" that would turn on commonly used services and features but still be more or less stripped down. And finally a "Full Feature Windows 7 mode" with everything turned on. Make it easier on all of us. Just because I *can* get under the hood doesn't mean I really like it there.
That's disingenuous - it's inherently impossible to prove impossibility of supernatural events through natural means.
Don't be glib. Division is an integral part of math.
Random guesses about origin of life with nothing but imagination to back them up don't make one bit of difference to real science. It's an interesting question at best, not something significantly important to scientific progress.
Math isn't subjective.
I refer you to an XKCD on the subject. The more involved reality is in your branch of science the more subjective it becomes. By the time you get down to sociology and economics you have people making wild guesses about what they think will happen and then revising the guess to a new guess when it fails. And somehow we keep paying them.
Biology has some of these defects but not all. A lot of good hard science has come out of it. But there's also more hand-waving in biology than would ever be tolerated in physics (except string theorists, lets ignore them for now). I think though we're finally getting to a point, especially with molecular biology, where the guesswork is slowly being removed from the process. We're understanding the cells and interactions of biological materials better and better each year which has allowed for staggering breakthroughs in medications and treatments. And you know what's great about all of that? None of it is dependent on answering questions of origins, or sea life evolving to land life, or the fossil record or anything like that. Some questions aren't important enough to mess with.
So can we please focus our efforts on the important things? This is a stupid fight to be fighting. Tear out the pages and put in big bold print "WE DON'T KNOW AND WE'RE SICK OF ARGUING OVER IT." and leave it at that.
Pretty well by definition anything that we can observe is evolution happening small scale. Speciation events that we have seen seem to in part occur because we have trouble defining exactly what constitutes a "species". Larger examples of evolution, like creatures adapting from sea life to land life, in all likelihood are unprovable. Teaching something unprovable really should stay out of the classroom (which is to say I don't think ID should be taught in the classroom either - what's wrong with "we don't know"?).
So in the small scale, yeah, teach what we know. Here's the fossils we've found, here's the records we have, here's all the things we've observed. How did all this come about? We're not sure.
The square root of any prime number is irrational. The same proof techniques that work for sqrt(2) work for any given prime, a very elegant proof that every college math student should be exposed to.
Thank you for this explanation. It's the best one I've yet seen explaining how massless particles are affected by gravity.
The one that makes me see red is the "loose-lose" swap.
Like: I'm going to loose my house!
Loose it from what? Is it tied up or something? Some of the others I can forgive (its-->it's, you're-->your, their/they're-->there) because at least they're pronounced the same, but lose/loose, I mean honestly...
Oh, and to anyone who *ever* says "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes" you are going up against the wall after the loose/lose crowd.
The population crisis will be solved with grammar nazism.
Your USB ports are enabled? Amateur.
I could write you a lossy compression algorithm to do exactly that (and have, as it happens). Just because JPEG is the most popular and doesn't allow exact bitrate in its encoding by design doesn't mean that such a feat is by any means complex.
I once wrote a wavelet compressor that took number of bytes as an argument. The algorithm was such that when it hit the specified number of bits it could just stop and the decoder would simply stop processing when it had no more bits to decode (this was back in 2002, using the SPIHT algorithm, if any image compression nerds were curious).
The problem that you run into is that simply capping the bitrate doesn't scale very well with resolution. 100k at 1024x768 looks fine, no really noticeable artifacts. The same thing on 10240x7680 looks absolutely horrendous. The only way you could realistically do this would be to subsample it before compressing it (in fact, JPEG allows subsampling of the chroma components before compression because slight loss of color veracity has a negligible effect to the human eye), but that would pretty well defeat the purpose since you couldn't claim increased megapixels.
It seems to me that Windows 7 will be to Vista what Windows 98 was to Windows 95 - the same thing but actually functional.
"All along we've said we wanted our day in court. Well now we're getting FIVE days in court. That's 500% better than our first expectations!"
That would depend on which year you're talking about. The claim has vacillated between "contracts", "copyrights", "methods and concepts", and vaguely "intellectual property" since its inception. Currently I believe they're claiming breach of contract, but with Novell having the right to waive their claims they're pretty much boned there too.
Either way, just because SCO's claims get blown away like so much chaff, IBM's counterclaims will still be in play to be resolved, and therein lies the test of the GPL that people are looking for. It will truly be worth keeping an eye on as the dust settles to see where all of the issues raised end up.
Groklaw you uncultured heathen! And the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a pretty decent website Here that covers many aspects of the RIAA cases. It's not *quite* as well organized and coherent as Groklaw is, but it's a darn good place to start. Honestly precious few are going to have PJ's kind of dedication to a cause *and* sufficient legal background to research and make sense of court filings for the layman.
I really, REALLY liked reading the transcript of Intel's lawyers showing up in court and basically telling the judge that SCO was lying through their collective teeth. Being a third party means you can take the gloves off when you're swinging back =) I bet it made IBM's lawyers feel all warm and fuzzy inside too.
I applaud the use of good satire sir, well played!
But Vanish-X on some bosses hoses you, like that random encounter in the airship - use vanish-X and no bahamut esper for you. Use Vanish-Doom and he coughs it up. I played that game waaaaay too much...