yeah but you can't let fear rule your actions. If the copyright holder did not issue a take down notice - that would be taken into account by the court. If money was made from an open textbook and then a copyright holder claimed a share of that money - fair enough, let them have some.
You'd be surprised how many people are willing to give up their time for free. Last time I looked the english wikipedia has around 4 thousand logged in editors. It has around 250 admins of which about 200 ish edit practically every day! for no money at all.
The thought of doing something worthwile is a bigger motivator than money for a lot of people.
"It certainly seems (by looking at the two sites) that WikiBooks are quite a bit further along in the game"
It has been going for nearly a year now, plus it has the link with wikipedia which means a plentiful supply of editors, so it's bound to be further along in the game
(Specifically, the edges
of the mirror act as an aperture similar to the
pinhole camera effect.)
Or why not just make a pinhole camera! Just get two bits of card. Make a hole with a pin in one, point at the sun and project the image onto the other one. The bigger the hole, the brighter, but fuzzier the image. You can get fancy if you like, go into a darkens room, black out the window except for a pinhole and project the image onto the opposite wall. The image will be bigger because the distance is greater. You could also try sticking a lens behind the pinhole, but you don't have to bother.
Have fun
To make things a bit clearer - you align the telescope so that the shadow it casts is as small as possible. That way it will be pointing directly at the sun. It's best to have the paper screen in shadow, so stick a bit of cardboard over the telescope to stop the sun shining directly on the screen (cut a hole in it to stick the telescope threough) Never look through a telescope at the sun
Whoops I did miss the reference, but I'm not disgruntled. I'm happy to be alive. I've just got over a terrible virus that I caught from a dirty telephone.
Still the number of people opening email attachments is going down as people finally start to wise up to viruses. I refuse to give into pessimism. (probably because I'm stupid)
I can imagine a situation where someone has a good spam filter provided by their company, or isp. They are never bothered by spam, so they are not as hateful of it as most people. If a spammer get through they may be more inclined to respond simply because they don't normally get spam.
When I was on holiday in tunisia, we were bothered quite a lot by trinket salesmen, who would not take no for an answer. Initially we had a lot of difficulty getting rid of them because my kids kept wanting me to buy the trinkets.
plleeeese !!!!!!!! can we have one ? .
Eventually even my kids got fed up with them, and a united front defeted them. Anyway my popint is, eventually the whole world will wise up and just ignore spam. There will bne no incentive for companies to pay the spammers, and they'll just go away.
It might take a while though.
Slashdot Mirror
yeah but you can't let fear rule your actions. If the copyright holder did not issue a take down notice - that would be taken into account by the court. If money was made from an open textbook and then a copyright holder claimed a share of that money - fair enough, let them have some.
Presumably a takedown notice would occur before any lawsuit.
You'd be surprised how many people are willing to give up their time for free. Last time I looked the english wikipedia has around 4 thousand logged in editors. It has around 250 admins of which about 200 ish edit practically every day! for no money at all.
The thought of doing something worthwile is a bigger motivator than money for a lot of people.
It has been going for nearly a year now, plus it has the link with wikipedia which means a plentiful supply of editors, so it's bound to be further along in the game
Will you look at the comments so far!
:-(
I'm going to buck the trend. Yes meeting people with the same interests as myself (presumably) would be great.
Of couse if the people are all a bunch of sad geeks who hate the thought of ever talking to another person, then it might not be so much fun
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(Specifically, the edges of the mirror act as an aperture similar to the pinhole camera effect.)
Or why not just make a pinhole camera! Just get two bits of card. Make a hole with a pin in one, point at the sun and project the image onto the other one. The bigger the hole, the brighter, but fuzzier the image. You can get fancy if you like, go into a darkens room, black out the window except for a pinhole and project the image onto the opposite wall. The image will be bigger because the distance is greater. You could also try sticking a lens behind the pinhole, but you don't have to bother.
Have fun
To make things a bit clearer - you align the telescope so that the shadow it casts is as small as possible. That way it will be pointing directly at the sun. It's best to have the paper screen in shadow, so stick a bit of cardboard over the telescope to stop the sun shining directly on the screen (cut a hole in it to stick the telescope threough)
Never look through a telescope at the sun
What does it matter if the keyboard is comfortable or not? This is a work of art.
I completely agree. The truth is - we don't understand shit about climate. So why do we assume the worst?
I did exactly the same thing. I was thinking "why has slashdot got an article on white wine?"
Whoops I did miss the reference, but I'm not disgruntled. I'm happy to be alive. I've just got over a terrible virus that I caught from a dirty telephone.
yes poets, management consultants, hairdressers, telephone sanitisers. Send the lot of em.
Oh dear! there goes my afternoon swimming session then.
fix it? it's a feature!
I suspect that they didn't care what they found. The reason for the raid was probably intimidation.
OK these things are tiny radio transmitters right ? So what's to stop people carrying some sort of jamming device?
You could try frying them with a cattle prod or stun gun.
Not the electronics. The retailers. That'll learn 'em.
You don't even need a zapper, just a detector will do. You come home, you detect where it is, you remove it manually.
Who can fathom them. They truly are evil.
for future reference, 'tis better to munge the the rightmost portion of the domain.
xyz@isp-SPAMBLOCKED.com
that way it doesn't even get to the mail server
We were so poor we had to eat spam.
Still the number of people opening email attachments is going down as people finally start to wise up to viruses. I refuse to give into pessimism. (probably because I'm stupid)
I can imagine a situation where someone has a good spam filter provided by their company, or isp. They are never bothered by spam, so they are not as hateful of it as most people. If a spammer get through they may be more inclined to respond simply because they don't normally get spam.
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When I was on holiday in tunisia, we were bothered quite a lot by trinket salesmen, who would not take no for an answer. Initially we had a lot of difficulty getting rid of them because my kids kept wanting me to buy the trinkets. plleeeese !!!!!!!! can we have one ? . Eventually even my kids got fed up with them, and a united front defeted them. Anyway my popint is, eventually the whole world will wise up and just ignore spam. There will bne no incentive for companies to pay the spammers, and they'll just go away. It might take a while though.