Well the IWF just blocks it by fiat and no-one notices. If people do and a big enough fuss is raised, the IWF will back off for a while and try again later.
Go on, bitches, call me whatever you want. I don't whine about it. Because I'm part of a type of human called "grownups"! ^^
Very well. You are a malodorous, overweight, chronic underachiever, and a product of three generations of grossest incest who kidnaps, rapes, and murders small infants, in-between attending Nazi rallies, watching snuff films, and working in the financial industry.
My father was a management accountant, and worked in a fairly diverse set of businesses. While his job was more or less the same one in each business, he always made an effort to understand the rudiments and fundamentals of the business in his spare time. For example when working for glass company, he familiarised himself with how glass was made, the major companies in the industry, and the types and uses of glass. He would never have as much expertise as someone who worked in that industry their whole lives, but he would have enough understanding to acknowledge and even foresee problems when they came to his attention.
I seriously doubt that MBA managers make these kinds of efforts when they take charge of companies. The dominant ethos of that profession appears to be to run a company by the numbers just long enough to move on to a higher paid position. Most that I have met have little to no underlying understanding of the businesses they are being paid handsomely to operate.
So we have a situation where NASA managers literally do not know how rockets work, and yet will pride themselves on that fact, even as their shuttles and rockets explode after take-off. Our banks are being run by "fairly dim former [sports] players", who couldn't even perform a compound interest calculation without assistance. And above all the senior decision making levels of government, the civil service, and private industry are saturated with people who are literally incapable of understanding even why they are making their decisions, let alone which they should make.
The quintessential manifestation of this pervasive dysfunction in western management was the US President George W. Bush. The man ran everything he ever managed into the ground, and stayed true to form while in office. People may moan about old families, money, and influence, but a large portion of the blame lies in a culture which sees fit to appoint unqualified, unknowledgeable, sweet talkers to positions of responsibility, and moreover to even deny those positions to competent candidates.
This isn't about choosing between inarticulate geek savants and networkers. This is about choosing between experienced professionals who can communicate effectively if dryly, and people with the training, mentality, and ethics of used car salesmen. The analogy is exact.
Not even close. Most of the editors, journalists, and other staff will either be moved to other Murdoch publications, or else will have a six month sabbatical while the launch of "News Of The World 2: Paper without Honour or Humility" is carefully prepared.
This process is actually best compared to cutting out a festering tumour, and them transplanting pieces of it back into the rest of the body.
Sharing/using/lending your property with whomever you want is a basic property right stretching back to the dawn of human civilisation.
Copyright is effectively a restriction on this more basic right. Unfortunately, its restrictions now appear to be effectively unlimited in scope and duration.
It's easy. Typically what you do see, is put Zebra crossings just at the roundabout entrances and exits. This means that pedestrians have to walk across the road directly after what is in effect a corner. Exciting!
Drivers entering the roundabout will see pedestrians easily of course. However driver coming off the roundabout will enjoy thrills aplenty as they try to come off only to be faced with an immediate stop or else a pedestrian collision.
This is especially fun for people coming around the roundabout(in US, those turning left) who won't have had opportunity to see the Zebra crossings until the last moment. You also have to compound this with the problem of having to constantly check traffic to your rear right(UK left), as well as any cars trying to pull out in front of you.
Anyway, your question is nothing compared to the ultimate roundabout adventure quest: How does a cyclist negotiate a roundabout. My advice is to bring water and sun-cream, because you're going to be stuck for a while.
You want to implement a free market solution to dangerous driving? I think it would be less destructive in the long run just to have everyone drive their cars straight into a concrete wall. It would probably cost less too.
The entire article is little more than a paid propaganda piece. You'd read less biased articles in Pravda. Here's a choice end line:
"It's quite unfortunate," he says, "that a small number of people would engage in this behavior and hamper that otherwise frictionless system."
From this sentence the reader we can discern three things quite easily:
1. There are a large number of people engaged in this behaviour. 2. The system is a rusty, inefficient, wreck plagued with problems. 3. The people running it are worried enough about what is going on to hire PR men to write articles like this one.
Without being too rhetorical about it, Soviet scientists had much freer access to research that modern western scientists have now. They also had better propaganda than this, but I digress.
I may have to use an account like this or else leave academia altogether.
I am currently facing the prospect of being between jobs in academia, and while I am, I will no longer have university library access to digital archives. What this means is that I cannot read the many millions of papers being hoarded by academic publishers without paying around $30~$50 for each one.
Effectively, without a recognised position at a university with good library access, or a substantial lottery win, I will not be able to research in any real sense, with all reasearch, even that which was publicly funded and published before World War 2 began. So much for access in the digital age.
I would personally have no problem whatsoever in availing of one of these services if the price was right. Since the prevailing copyright regime directly impedes my ability to do my job professionally, I see no reason to support or abide by it in any way.
I have work to do, and if turning to warez sites can help me do my job better, then I will turn to those sites without hesitation. I don't see why any professional should think otherwise.
Sonic the Hedgehog, as a series, wasn't known for being difficult (like Mega Man) or innovative (like Marathon). It doesn't even have that much of a compelling story (like RPGs).
The counterexamples to your assertions are, respectively, Sonic 2, Sonic 1 and Sonic 3&K. As platformers, they delivered on all three of these counts. I'll refer you to this article about S3K in particular.
I think the analogy to Sgt Pepper is apt, if a little presumptuous. Certain games define the genres in the eras they are made, and usually become classics whose quality is obvious in any era. The single best example from the 16 bit platforming era is probably Super Mario World, but there are several titles across genres which remain playable and entertaining to this day.
What the author is bemoaning appears to me to be the inability of these old game to achieve the same level of genre defining impact they once did. By definition, this is of course obvious; they cannot define a genre a second time. Nevertheless they remain classics, so long as no-one tries to remake them. I think the same applies to something like the Star Wars prequels.
This isn't a new phenomenon. In the Middle Ages, Barons and Earls constantly vied with kings for supremacy over the nation. In the early modern era, merchants literally seized control of certain states, and corporations like the East India Company rules territories as vast as India.
The price of freedom might be eternal vigilance, but the price of control is simply a lot of money.
browser manufacturers for their root acceptance policy
And amidst al this, my Firefox installations trust these root authorities and their slipshod security, trust totally unencrypted connections, yet won't trust my self signed certificates on the same network.
Que some security pedant arguing that authentication from third party shysters like these is more important than having an encrypted connection.
People might not be in real life, but getting their face on screen is important to TV and Film actors. If displaced characters can have a conversation which is functionally equivalent to both actors in the same shot, then that will be preferred over one character being seen and the other only heard. So, I imagine the academy won't be consigning this particular trope to history just yet.
unfortunately there is no way this will happen. There are too many important competing interests which act at the beaurocratic/governance level which are anti-bandwidth.
In the West perhaps. The day the Chinese Government wants nationwide 100Gbps lines, they'll make it happen.
We don't have to run our society the way we're currently running it.
No, this is private industry deciding privately what is done on its private networks, which supply the public with public information all subsidised at public expense.
The Internet you see, is a magical place, where there are no rules, laws or traditions. And like all magical kingdoms, eventually some Great Witch or Dark Lord thunders over the horizon and conquers the land, ushering in an age of tyranny, oppression, and misery for all inhabitants.
The ISPs have brooded long in their dark lairs, waiting for the moment to strike. Now they have the technology, and the opportunity, and the guards of the internet have slumbered. We'll all be lucky if we can still visit reddit in ten years time.
6) Join the military. Very good healthcare. But this could involve getting shot at.
Keep in mind that you need to do this before you get sick. The military is not in the habit of hiring less than able bodies if they can get away with it.
Slashdot Mirror
Well the IWF just blocks it by fiat and no-one notices. If people do and a big enough fuss is raised, the IWF will back off for a while and try again later.
Very well. You are a malodorous, overweight, chronic underachiever, and a product of three generations of grossest incest who kidnaps, rapes, and murders small infants, in-between attending Nazi rallies, watching snuff films, and working in the financial industry.
My father was a management accountant, and worked in a fairly diverse set of businesses. While his job was more or less the same one in each business, he always made an effort to understand the rudiments and fundamentals of the business in his spare time. For example when working for glass company, he familiarised himself with how glass was made, the major companies in the industry, and the types and uses of glass. He would never have as much expertise as someone who worked in that industry their whole lives, but he would have enough understanding to acknowledge and even foresee problems when they came to his attention.
I seriously doubt that MBA managers make these kinds of efforts when they take charge of companies. The dominant ethos of that profession appears to be to run a company by the numbers just long enough to move on to a higher paid position. Most that I have met have little to no underlying understanding of the businesses they are being paid handsomely to operate.
So we have a situation where NASA managers literally do not know how rockets work, and yet will pride themselves on that fact, even as their shuttles and rockets explode after take-off. Our banks are being run by "fairly dim former [sports] players", who couldn't even perform a compound interest calculation without assistance. And above all the senior decision making levels of government, the civil service, and private industry are saturated with people who are literally incapable of understanding even why they are making their decisions, let alone which they should make.
The quintessential manifestation of this pervasive dysfunction in western management was the US President George W. Bush. The man ran everything he ever managed into the ground, and stayed true to form while in office. People may moan about old families, money, and influence, but a large portion of the blame lies in a culture which sees fit to appoint unqualified, unknowledgeable, sweet talkers to positions of responsibility, and moreover to even deny those positions to competent candidates.
This isn't about choosing between inarticulate geek savants and networkers. This is about choosing between experienced professionals who can communicate effectively if dryly, and people with the training, mentality, and ethics of used car salesmen. The analogy is exact.
Not even close. Most of the editors, journalists, and other staff will either be moved to other Murdoch publications, or else will have a six month sabbatical while the launch of "News Of The World 2: Paper without Honour or Humility" is carefully prepared.
This process is actually best compared to cutting out a festering tumour, and them transplanting pieces of it back into the rest of the body.
Sharing/using/lending your property with whomever you want is a basic property right stretching back to the dawn of human civilisation.
Copyright is effectively a restriction on this more basic right. Unfortunately, its restrictions now appear to be effectively unlimited in scope and duration.
It's easy. Typically what you do see, is put Zebra crossings just at the roundabout entrances and exits. This means that pedestrians have to walk across the road directly after what is in effect a corner. Exciting!
Drivers entering the roundabout will see pedestrians easily of course. However driver coming off the roundabout will enjoy thrills aplenty as they try to come off only to be faced with an immediate stop or else a pedestrian collision.
This is especially fun for people coming around the roundabout(in US, those turning left) who won't have had opportunity to see the Zebra crossings until the last moment. You also have to compound this with the problem of having to constantly check traffic to your rear right(UK left), as well as any cars trying to pull out in front of you.
Anyway, your question is nothing compared to the ultimate roundabout adventure quest: How does a cyclist negotiate a roundabout. My advice is to bring water and sun-cream, because you're going to be stuck for a while.
You want to implement a free market solution to dangerous driving? I think it would be less destructive in the long run just to have everyone drive their cars straight into a concrete wall. It would probably cost less too.
You can't do those things with most PDF files anyway.
That didn't work for General Tarkin and it won't work for this.
The USPTO is not "dumb"; they just have quotas to fill.
Oh no. The plants were far better maintained in the 70s.
The entire article is little more than a paid propaganda piece. You'd read less biased articles in Pravda. Here's a choice end line:
From this sentence the reader we can discern three things quite easily:
1. There are a large number of people engaged in this behaviour.
2. The system is a rusty, inefficient, wreck plagued with problems.
3. The people running it are worried enough about what is going on to hire PR men to write articles like this one.
Without being too rhetorical about it, Soviet scientists had much freer access to research that modern western scientists have now. They also had better propaganda than this, but I digress.
That's all very well, but in the 21st century, I think we should have a better system that Samizdat for allowing access to research results.
Since it's more convenient of going to the trouble of pirating the paper, I don't think they're selling it very well.
I may have to use an account like this or else leave academia altogether.
I am currently facing the prospect of being between jobs in academia, and while I am, I will no longer have university library access to digital archives. What this means is that I cannot read the many millions of papers being hoarded by academic publishers without paying around $30~$50 for each one.
Effectively, without a recognised position at a university with good library access, or a substantial lottery win, I will not be able to research in any real sense, with all reasearch, even that which was publicly funded and published before World War 2 began. So much for access in the digital age.
I would personally have no problem whatsoever in availing of one of these services if the price was right. Since the prevailing copyright regime directly impedes my ability to do my job professionally, I see no reason to support or abide by it in any way.
I have work to do, and if turning to warez sites can help me do my job better, then I will turn to those sites without hesitation. I don't see why any professional should think otherwise.
The counterexamples to your assertions are, respectively, Sonic 2, Sonic 1 and Sonic 3&K. As platformers, they delivered on all three of these counts. I'll refer you to this article about S3K in particular.
I think the analogy to Sgt Pepper is apt, if a little presumptuous. Certain games define the genres in the eras they are made, and usually become classics whose quality is obvious in any era. The single best example from the 16 bit platforming era is probably Super Mario World, but there are several titles across genres which remain playable and entertaining to this day.
What the author is bemoaning appears to me to be the inability of these old game to achieve the same level of genre defining impact they once did. By definition, this is of course obvious; they cannot define a genre a second time. Nevertheless they remain classics, so long as no-one tries to remake them. I think the same applies to something like the Star Wars prequels.
This isn't a new phenomenon. In the Middle Ages, Barons and Earls constantly vied with kings for supremacy over the nation. In the early modern era, merchants literally seized control of certain states, and corporations like the East India Company rules territories as vast as India.
The price of freedom might be eternal vigilance, but the price of control is simply a lot of money.
I still don't understand how Slashdot has not been inundated with spammers long before now. Taco must have some kind of secret, but what is it?
Maybe Spammers simply know that no-one here is going to buy anything.
And amidst al this, my Firefox installations trust these root authorities and their slipshod security, trust totally unencrypted connections, yet won't trust my self signed certificates on the same network.
Que some security pedant arguing that authentication from third party shysters like these is more important than having an encrypted connection.
People might not be in real life, but getting their face on screen is important to TV and Film actors. If displaced characters can have a conversation which is functionally equivalent to both actors in the same shot, then that will be preferred over one character being seen and the other only heard. So, I imagine the academy won't be consigning this particular trope to history just yet.
In the West perhaps. The day the Chinese Government wants nationwide 100Gbps lines, they'll make it happen.
We don't have to run our society the way we're currently running it.
I thought the problem was with her tubes?
No, this is private industry deciding privately what is done on its private networks, which supply the public with public information all subsidised at public expense.
The Internet you see, is a magical place, where there are no rules, laws or traditions. And like all magical kingdoms, eventually some Great Witch or Dark Lord thunders over the horizon and conquers the land, ushering in an age of tyranny, oppression, and misery for all inhabitants.
The ISPs have brooded long in their dark lairs, waiting for the moment to strike. Now they have the technology, and the opportunity, and the guards of the internet have slumbered. We'll all be lucky if we can still visit reddit in ten years time.
Given that each drone costs almost as much as a primary school building, I think we should all pause to reflect.
Keep in mind that you need to do this before you get sick. The military is not in the habit of hiring less than able bodies if they can get away with it.