Nothing would ever get done if everyone in Congress refused to vote for anything that contained a provision that they didn't agree with. You have to compromise occasionally.
It might train Congress to pass smaller bills that can be fully read, understood, and debated. If you know you can't pass a 200 page bill because everybody will object to something, you might try breaking it up into 5 page chunks.
Speaking as an American who generally hates the way things are and likes the way Canadians do things, I can't say that I like this. Wouldn't that be a great justification for an illegal blanket wiretapping program, if it eventually led to the prevention of a terrorist attack?
Symantec is riding on brand recognition (back in the day, Norton knew his stuff; and today, people remember Symantec products that used to be quality). I don't know if the OP has that advantage.
Interestingly, it's more full circle than you might initially realize. The primary reason that spot advertising became popular was not the expense of television shows, but the desire for the television networks to break the control of advertisers on network programming. Spot advertising was first introduced on NBC by president Pat Weaver. Prior to that, shows were typically produced by the advertiser, not the network.
Look for date-stamped text with text that always corresponds to the date, sinks further into the page, and eventually disappears onto other pages. Generate a readability score for a selection of pages; a blog is more likely to have a lower readability level. Look for forms that appear to be comment boxes. Look for metadata that indicates trackback and pingback support.
None of these methods are foolproof, but they don't need to be; they just need to be enough to help tilt the existing ranking algorithm one way or the other.
And it seems that it's much less wasteful, too. Very true. In fact, I wonder what the actual U.S. labor cost of changing clocks for DST would come out to. Even if you say it takes 10 seconds to reset each clock, that adds up over millions of people.
how can they claim a church, receiving/viewing the broadcast, is "copying," and therefore in violation of copyright? They're not. The NFL is claiming that a church displaying the broadcast to a large number of people is publicly performing the broadcast, which is another protected right under copyright law (17 USC 106(5)).
isn't such viewing (at least non-commercially) "fair use?" Whether a profit is made on a copyrighted work is only one of four factors generally accepted by courts as constituting fair use.
BTW, you totally missed/ignored the original point - a sports broadcast is functional, not creative. Have you ever directed a live television show? I have. It's a process that requires a surprising amount of creativity.
Camera people are picking who to cover, how wide or tight to make a shot, whether they're going to pan with somebody or let them walk off the edge of the screen. Audio engineers are listening to everybody's microphone and determining the pitch of a person, how loudly you hear laughter or applause, and more. One of the most overlooked jobs in television is the engineer, who is constantly adjusting a camera's brightness and color to properly convey the tone of the moment while staying within broadcast standards.
Meanwhile, the director is watching a large number of cameras simultaneously. In my case, I've directed as many as five cameras, which is a rather large number and more than most local news broadcasts. In contrast, tomorrow's Super Bowl game is going to use around 30 cameras, and the director is watching all of them and deciding which one you'll see with split-second accuracy. Add to that graphics, the choice of which angle to use for instant replays, and more, and it's impossible to contend that sports broadcasts are not a creative medium.
I'll be the first to admit that copyright law is broken as it stands now - and the NFL is notorious for stretching things beyond what copyright law gives them license to do - but it needs to be fixed, not eliminated. However, I think the NFL is in the right legally in this instance (though they're probably not doing any favors to how fans perceive them). If there was no protections for public performance, nothing could stop another network from taking Fox's feed and simulcasting it with their own commercials.
Microsoft really had 4 options You must be from the Microsoft school of counting.:)
Seriously, though, what Microsoft is proposing is a proprietary extension on top of an open standard. How is this different from ActiveX, JScript, <blink>, <marquee>, SilverLight, and much, much more?
By forcing people to jump through a hoop to make IE happy, web designers are in the same boat we've been in since IE 6 - we expend a relatively small effort to make a page work in every major web browser in the world that obeys standards, and then have to go back and hack our code just to make IE happy. Microsoft still achieves its stranglehold on web design.
Incidentally, I think A List Apart sold out by publishing this alongside the articles that every browser except Internet Explorer lives by. They will, and should, lose a great deal of credibility over publishing proprietary extensions as canon.
Google's mentioned a variety of techniques publicly, although there's sure to be some secret sauce as well. The most obvious check would be a dictionary-based spellchecker. They can also look for letter transpositions, misstruck keys, word-form matching, etc.
They also do a variety of statistical analysis on a ridiculously large data set. For example, if a particular phrase appears over and over again, and all of the words in the query match the phrase save one, it may be more likely that the non-matching word is incorrect.
Google often (always?) tracks click-throughs on search pages, so it would be able to deduce the accuracy of its suggestion by seeing if a user clicks-through to a given result, and doesn't come back to the search results. Also, Google does correlation between different terms that often appear frequently together.
It's amazing what kind of stats you can do with a workforce full of Ph.D.s and half a million servers:)
That's a pretty egregious bug. One would think that somebody should have caught it in testing.
On the other hand, the clock is set by the phone network, correct? (I don't own an iPhone but my non-iPhone does this, so I feel like this is a safe assumption.) If that's the case, maybe the code to read the year part of the network time has a bug.
I wonder if this means that the 1.1.3 firmware is going to come out sooner, or be delayed. A invalid date could potentially break a lot of functionality.
The FCC limits advertising on TV to 16 minutes per hour Please cite your source. I found nothing to corroborate this and a FCC document that directly contradicts you.
In general, I'm with you all the way, until you get to this part:
It won't call the mothership and tell Big Brother were you are. The problem is that there's a logical mismatch here. One of OnStar's advertised features is that police can use OnStar to track a stolen car. If a stolen car can be tracked, there can't be a technical barrier to tracking a car that isn't stolen.
Do I claim that GM is spying on their customers? No, but I also think they could if they chose to. The question is, if they chose to, would they tell us?
Unfortunately, for every bad story about Apple, there's another bad story about Microsoft. I'm a Mac user, but only recently - I just switched a little over a year ago. Microsoft's insistence on using buggy and inflexible copy protection was the tipping point for me. At least with OS X, there are no serial numbers to lose, no constant berating me for being a pirate, no machines suddenly "bricked" because Microsoft has decided that you don't deserve the Genuine Advantage, and no bundling of an inferior browser.
I'm a Mac fanboy at the moment, but I'm not deluded. Apple's no saint, and their corrupt business practices are going to overtake Microsoft's eventually. Maybe Linux will be ready for the desktop at that point; otherwise, I'll have no problem switching back to Windows then.
The FAQ makes me believe these standards are essentially useless. No source code, no independent verification (the voting machine manufacturer pays its choice of testing lab), and most importantly, no mandate to adopt these rules for any election.
That's true, but in the U.S., if you don't register, you cannot bring suit, and if you register late, you can only claim actual damages (as in, how much money you lost because somebody copied your work), not statutory damages (where the $100,000+ liability figures come from), and you cannot claim attorney's fees.
Maybe so, but Amazon is the first real competitor that has a compelling strategy. I'm not convinced Amazon has a strategy. I'm not going to try and compare Amazon and eMusic, because realistically, Amazon has the mainstream catalog most people want.
I don't think this is Amazon's doing but the record labels'. They've realized that Apple has acquired sufficient market share to dictate terms to the labels, and if there's one thing the MAFIAA can't stand, it's being dictated to.
It really looks to me like Amazon is being used as a puppet. They are selling Universal's catalog (something Apple can't do DRM-free) at prices lower than most people think are profitable. More than anything, this is about building a competitor so the labels can wrestle back their power.
If the only purpose of early termination fees is to recoup phone subsidies, then the carriers should have no problem prorating them based on how much you've already paid toward the phone.
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Nothing would ever get done if everyone in Congress refused to vote for anything that contained a provision that they didn't agree with. You have to compromise occasionally.
It might train Congress to pass smaller bills that can be fully read, understood, and debated. If you know you can't pass a 200 page bill because everybody will object to something, you might try breaking it up into 5 page chunks.
Speaking as an American who generally hates the way things are and likes the way Canadians do things, I can't say that I like this. Wouldn't that be a great justification for an illegal blanket wiretapping program, if it eventually led to the prevention of a terrorist attack?
None of the above. Real geeks use gaffer's tape.
Symantec is riding on brand recognition (back in the day, Norton knew his stuff; and today, people remember Symantec products that used to be quality). I don't know if the OP has that advantage.
Interestingly, it's more full circle than you might initially realize. The primary reason that spot advertising became popular was not the expense of television shows, but the desire for the television networks to break the control of advertisers on network programming. Spot advertising was first introduced on NBC by president Pat Weaver. Prior to that, shows were typically produced by the advertiser, not the network.
Look for date-stamped text with text that always corresponds to the date, sinks further into the page, and eventually disappears onto other pages. Generate a readability score for a selection of pages; a blog is more likely to have a lower readability level. Look for forms that appear to be comment boxes. Look for metadata that indicates trackback and pingback support.
None of these methods are foolproof, but they don't need to be; they just need to be enough to help tilt the existing ranking algorithm one way or the other.
That's kind of the point behind this.
Your correction was accurate, relevant, and timely.
Clearly, you can't be Clippy.
Camera people are picking who to cover, how wide or tight to make a shot, whether they're going to pan with somebody or let them walk off the edge of the screen. Audio engineers are listening to everybody's microphone and determining the pitch of a person, how loudly you hear laughter or applause, and more. One of the most overlooked jobs in television is the engineer, who is constantly adjusting a camera's brightness and color to properly convey the tone of the moment while staying within broadcast standards.
Meanwhile, the director is watching a large number of cameras simultaneously. In my case, I've directed as many as five cameras, which is a rather large number and more than most local news broadcasts. In contrast, tomorrow's Super Bowl game is going to use around 30 cameras, and the director is watching all of them and deciding which one you'll see with split-second accuracy. Add to that graphics, the choice of which angle to use for instant replays, and more, and it's impossible to contend that sports broadcasts are not a creative medium.
I'll be the first to admit that copyright law is broken as it stands now - and the NFL is notorious for stretching things beyond what copyright law gives them license to do - but it needs to be fixed, not eliminated. However, I think the NFL is in the right legally in this instance (though they're probably not doing any favors to how fans perceive them). If there was no protections for public performance, nothing could stop another network from taking Fox's feed and simulcasting it with their own commercials.
Seriously, though, what Microsoft is proposing is a proprietary extension on top of an open standard. How is this different from ActiveX, JScript, <blink>, <marquee>, SilverLight, and much, much more?
By forcing people to jump through a hoop to make IE happy, web designers are in the same boat we've been in since IE 6 - we expend a relatively small effort to make a page work in every major web browser in the world that obeys standards, and then have to go back and hack our code just to make IE happy. Microsoft still achieves its stranglehold on web design.
Incidentally, I think A List Apart sold out by publishing this alongside the articles that every browser except Internet Explorer lives by. They will, and should, lose a great deal of credibility over publishing proprietary extensions as canon.
Exactly. In fact, Congress is precisely like Slashdot in many ways - the members don't RTFA, and sometimes don't even pay attention to the summary.
Google's mentioned a variety of techniques publicly, although there's sure to be some secret sauce as well. The most obvious check would be a dictionary-based spellchecker. They can also look for letter transpositions, misstruck keys, word-form matching, etc.
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They also do a variety of statistical analysis on a ridiculously large data set. For example, if a particular phrase appears over and over again, and all of the words in the query match the phrase save one, it may be more likely that the non-matching word is incorrect.
Google often (always?) tracks click-throughs on search pages, so it would be able to deduce the accuracy of its suggestion by seeing if a user clicks-through to a given result, and doesn't come back to the search results. Also, Google does correlation between different terms that often appear frequently together.
It's amazing what kind of stats you can do with a workforce full of Ph.D.s and half a million servers
That's a pretty egregious bug. One would think that somebody should have caught it in testing.
On the other hand, the clock is set by the phone network, correct? (I don't own an iPhone but my non-iPhone does this, so I feel like this is a safe assumption.) If that's the case, maybe the code to read the year part of the network time has a bug.
I wonder if this means that the 1.1.3 firmware is going to come out sooner, or be delayed. A invalid date could potentially break a lot of functionality.
Great idea :) What music do you play? I hope you're keeping ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC's palms appropriately greased.
Do I claim that GM is spying on their customers? No, but I also think they could if they chose to. The question is, if they chose to, would they tell us?
Unfortunately, for every bad story about Apple, there's another bad story about Microsoft. I'm a Mac user, but only recently - I just switched a little over a year ago. Microsoft's insistence on using buggy and inflexible copy protection was the tipping point for me. At least with OS X, there are no serial numbers to lose, no constant berating me for being a pirate, no machines suddenly "bricked" because Microsoft has decided that you don't deserve the Genuine Advantage, and no bundling of an inferior browser.
I'm a Mac fanboy at the moment, but I'm not deluded. Apple's no saint, and their corrupt business practices are going to overtake Microsoft's eventually. Maybe Linux will be ready for the desktop at that point; otherwise, I'll have no problem switching back to Windows then.
The FAQ makes me believe these standards are essentially useless. No source code, no independent verification (the voting machine manufacturer pays its choice of testing lab), and most importantly, no mandate to adopt these rules for any election.
That's true, but in the U.S., if you don't register, you cannot bring suit, and if you register late, you can only claim actual damages (as in, how much money you lost because somebody copied your work), not statutory damages (where the $100,000+ liability figures come from), and you cannot claim attorney's fees.
Note: I am not an attorney. I used http://www.publaw.com/advantage.html as my source.
I don't think this is Amazon's doing but the record labels'. They've realized that Apple has acquired sufficient market share to dictate terms to the labels, and if there's one thing the MAFIAA can't stand, it's being dictated to.
It really looks to me like Amazon is being used as a puppet. They are selling Universal's catalog (something Apple can't do DRM-free) at prices lower than most people think are profitable. More than anything, this is about building a competitor so the labels can wrestle back their power.
Great! Maybe the results will be more accurate than last time!
I say we petition Microsoft to include a multiplyLikeExcel2007 element in the next version of OOXML.
http://37signals.com/, although in fairness, they had a large hand in writing Rails.
If the only purpose of early termination fees is to recoup phone subsidies, then the carriers should have no problem prorating them based on how much you've already paid toward the phone.