Maybe it's that, strictly speaking, email isn't intended to be a shared resource. An email represents a single transaction between 2 parties, and it's ostensibly trackable, but it's not a sharing mechanism, I think, because you can't get content unless the other party agrees to email you the content you want. I'm not sure I'm articulating this well, but maybe someone else can take this up where I'm leaving off.
"A concrete possibility is that various choice deficits may result from an impaired or dysfunctional activity of this population (of neurons), though this hypothesis remains to be tested," Padoa-Schioppa.
What's Herculean about an unfair situation? That would be more like the case of Sisyphus, condemned to forever roll a boulder up a hill, only to have it roll back down again, forcing him to start over. Hades sentenced him to this fate.
IBM, then, is claiming that the requirement put before them is an almost Sisyphean task -- one that can't be accomplished. Or maybe you'd say it's a Hadean task, since Hades imposed such an impossible requirement.
Unless Herc got a similar treatment. Did he? I'm familiar with the notion of a "Sisyphean" punishment, but don't recall Herc suffering something like it.
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I also noticed that Apple's language on this page was more confrontational than I'm used to seeing from them. It looks like open warfare has been declared -- I hope they have the ammo to back it up.
Personally I'd be thrilled if I could run Windows on a Mac as long as I'm not taking a big performance hit or locking myself away from certain apps that run on Windows and a PC, but not Windows and a Mac. If I have to worry about whether an Windows app or driver will work on the Mac, I might as well be using a PC.
... running in Windows Whatever on my Intel Mac concurrently with OSX.
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One advantage of GMail we forgot to add: you can use it without having to fart around with installing anything, even Pine. Most consumer-grade computers you encounter are already set up to use GMail.
Didn't Tolkien's estate try to do that? I know only of a rumor that Dungeons & Dragons developers were threatened with suits, or sued, because the types of characters in the game too closely resembled Tolkien's creations. Hence the "halfling" character class, rather than "hobbit", so the legend goes. I've no idea of the truth of it, but the legend usually claims that even the fictional being described as the "elf" was claimed by Tolkien's estate as copyrightable (in spite of the fact that "elf" was a word and concept in several cultures' histories) because D&D's elves were so much like Tolkien's.
Anyway, if the rumors of such lawsuits are based in fact, then maybe there's a case for you, a case where people try to claim copyright on an idea within a work of fiction, rather than the particular words used to describe the idea. Clearly this one, if indeed it happened, was unsuccessful...? That's how it looks to me.
... write about it? That's ridiculous. Suppose I wrote a book claiming to know who killed John F. Kennedy. I couldn't sue someone who made a movie based on my theory. That's ridiculous.
Of course, if my theory were fiction in the first place, I could see why I'd feel like my ideas were being ripped off -- but then, if it were fiction, I'd have published it as such, and thus enjoyed the copyright privileges thereunto appertaining. In this case, I could attempt to sue someone whose fiction too closely resembled mine -- but only if their work was fiction, too, right?
If I wrote fiction based on a theory, and you wrote a non-fiction book exploring the same theory, I can't sue -- the theory isn't the fiction, is it?
If I wrote a [allegedly] non-fiction book, I must accept that someone may base a novel or movie on my idea, right? That's how I understand copyright and fair use to work, in general, though it'll be [a bit] interesting to see what a court in the UK makes of the notion.
Hmm, you've given me an idea. Thanks, magnet. I work for a university -- there may be a way to get the computer center folks to make a tape backup for me [though when it comes to Macs, it's a hassle getting help in general]. I never seriously looked into the costs of tape backup. I should.
Good question. The last purchase I made was for 2 of the next-to-largest drive I could get, because I prefer modularity. That way, if one drive fails [or I drop it or spill something on it], I've still got the data on the other. Saves me time.
I don't run them all at the same time. I mount a drive for certain projects, and exchange it for another when I'm done. I've got two attached right now and one on the shelf.
Who among us has the nerve to act surprised?
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Should we really have expected otherwise? What I want to know [and hope to find out by reading replies to this story] is how I can control or use this knowledge to my advantage, and prevent others from using it for purposes which I do not approve.
I work with digital video and audio. I filled up 3 160 GB drives this year with stuff I can't delete for years, and I'll have my new 200 GB FireWire drive filled up by April. Yeah, I keep too much, but I have a lot of really, really large files.
Come tell me when they finally come out with FW3200 10 PetaByte thumb drives -- I'm going to need a few of those.
Judge Mr. Fripp how you will [I've no problem with his work for MS, and I'd be proud if I were him], but I thought it interesting that, to judge by his online diary entries, he's a PowerBook user.
Of course, they're hoping we'll settle for the "all-you-can eat subscription, an option the iTunes music store doesn't have". iTunes doesn't have that because it's a stupid idea that won't sell. Music ain't like movies; we want to keep our own copies and take them with us.
Now they want to make you pay for lyrics, as if anyone would. Assuming they bothered to make lyrics available separately from the recording [statistically, almost never, I bet], they priced it out of the market and now they whine that no one wants to pay. They just need to lower their prices to about 10% of current levels; otherwise they deserve all the so-called "stealing" of "their" intellectual property.
As I came here to post that the linked article is just meaningless jargon, I see plenty of fellow/. readers were seeing it the same way I do. Naturally, I had to post anyway.... but at least I spared you the marketing technobabble.
As long as we're being nitpicky [which I enjoy], "android" means 'man like'. That's all the word implies. "Anthros" = man, human [Greek], with an "-oid" ending because an android is like a human, but isn't exactly the same thing as a human.
The word robot, however, comes to us from Czech, and it was first used to describe man-made workers -- they could be set to work in a factory, and sure, you'd tell them to do factory work, but you didn't have to tell them 'move your hand 16.7 inches to the left, grasp the bolt, lift 5 inches, move your hand 16.7 inches to the right, lower the bold 5 inches, rotate the bolt clockwise, release the bolt, raise your hand 5 inches, and repeat".
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Looks like the designers of the new Office interface decided to chuck Fitt's Law out the window -- trading the already wasteful menubar-in-the-window for screen "buttons". I predict more repetitive motion injuries as a result.
I can't recall the name, but it ran on a Commodore 64. Without that, I would never have justified buying a computer [not being a geek yet], would never have learned how fun they could be, never gotten a job as a multimedia developer... and I only got the thing so I could write freshman college term papers without having to pay for paper and typewriter ribbons. See, the C64 and that app let me delete, and undelete, so I could see what I *might want to write* before I ever committed it to paper -- I saw it as a money saver. That app changed my life.
I used to see lots of DAZ Poser figures on Renderosity, and it seemed all the Poser stuff people spent their time on was like playing with 3D Barbie dolls. I say "used to see" because Renderosity got boring and I stopped looking, so I don't know how different it is today... but the DAZ gallery today looks like more of the same "Let's play Barbie" style.
It's a waldo. A robot is independent; a robot makes its own decisions, whether based on the environment or anything the programmers dreamed up. This device is "teleoperated", as the builders say. The word for such a thing is waldo, not robot.
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Maybe it's that, strictly speaking, email isn't intended to be a shared resource. An email represents a single transaction between 2 parties, and it's ostensibly trackable, but it's not a sharing mechanism, I think, because you can't get content unless the other party agrees to email you the content you want. I'm not sure I'm articulating this well, but maybe someone else can take this up where I'm leaving off.
"A concrete possibility is that various choice deficits may result from an impaired or dysfunctional activity of this population (of neurons), though this hypothesis remains to be tested," Padoa-Schioppa.
What's Herculean about an unfair situation? That would be more like the case of Sisyphus, condemned to forever roll a boulder up a hill, only to have it roll back down again, forcing him to start over. Hades sentenced him to this fate.
IBM, then, is claiming that the requirement put before them is an almost Sisyphean task -- one that can't be accomplished. Or maybe you'd say it's a Hadean task, since Hades imposed such an impossible requirement.
Unless Herc got a similar treatment. Did he? I'm familiar with the notion of a "Sisyphean" punishment, but don't recall Herc suffering something like it.
Good points, somersault and chrj.
I also noticed that Apple's language on this page was more confrontational than I'm used to seeing from them. It looks like open warfare has been declared -- I hope they have the ammo to back it up.
Personally I'd be thrilled if I could run Windows on a Mac as long as I'm not taking a big performance hit or locking myself away from certain apps that run on Windows and a PC, but not Windows and a Mac. If I have to worry about whether an Windows app or driver will work on the Mac, I might as well be using a PC.
... running in Windows Whatever on my Intel Mac concurrently with OSX.
One advantage of GMail we forgot to add: you can use it without having to fart around with installing anything, even Pine. Most consumer-grade computers you encounter are already set up to use GMail.
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Didn't Tolkien's estate try to do that? I know only of a rumor that Dungeons & Dragons developers were threatened with suits, or sued, because the types of characters in the game too closely resembled Tolkien's creations. Hence the "halfling" character class, rather than "hobbit", so the legend goes. I've no idea of the truth of it, but the legend usually claims that even the fictional being described as the "elf" was claimed by Tolkien's estate as copyrightable (in spite of the fact that "elf" was a word and concept in several cultures' histories) because D&D's elves were so much like Tolkien's.
...? That's how it looks to me.
Anyway, if the rumors of such lawsuits are based in fact, then maybe there's a case for you, a case where people try to claim copyright on an idea within a work of fiction, rather than the particular words used to describe the idea. Clearly this one, if indeed it happened, was unsuccessful
... write about it? That's ridiculous. Suppose I wrote a book claiming to know who killed John F. Kennedy. I couldn't sue someone who made a movie based on my theory. That's ridiculous.
Of course, if my theory were fiction in the first place, I could see why I'd feel like my ideas were being ripped off -- but then, if it were fiction, I'd have published it as such, and thus enjoyed the copyright privileges thereunto appertaining. In this case, I could attempt to sue someone whose fiction too closely resembled mine -- but only if their work was fiction, too, right?
If I wrote fiction based on a theory, and you wrote a non-fiction book exploring the same theory, I can't sue -- the theory isn't the fiction, is it?
If I wrote a [allegedly] non-fiction book, I must accept that someone may base a novel or movie on my idea, right? That's how I understand copyright and fair use to work, in general, though it'll be [a bit] interesting to see what a court in the UK makes of the notion.
Their support pages say they have no plans to make a Mac version, so if you're a D&D fan who only uses Macs [or just prefer them], you're out of luck.
http://www.officewhisper.com/blogs/businessdevolut ion/archive/2006/02/18/33.aspx
Business Devolution : Attendance Equals Revenue
Hmm, you've given me an idea. Thanks, magnet. I work for a university -- there may be a way to get the computer center folks to make a tape backup for me [though when it comes to Macs, it's a hassle getting help in general]. I never seriously looked into the costs of tape backup. I should.
Good question. The last purchase I made was for 2 of the next-to-largest drive I could get, because I prefer modularity. That way, if one drive fails [or I drop it or spill something on it], I've still got the data on the other. Saves me time.
I don't run them all at the same time. I mount a drive for certain projects, and exchange it for another when I'm done. I've got two attached right now and one on the shelf.
Should we really have expected otherwise? What I want to know [and hope to find out by reading replies to this story] is how I can control or use this knowledge to my advantage, and prevent others from using it for purposes which I do not approve.
I work with digital video and audio. I filled up 3 160 GB drives this year with stuff I can't delete for years, and I'll have my new 200 GB FireWire drive filled up by April. Yeah, I keep too much, but I have a lot of really, really large files.
Come tell me when they finally come out with FW3200 10 PetaByte thumb drives -- I'm going to need a few of those.
Judge Mr. Fripp how you will [I've no problem with his work for MS, and I'd be proud if I were him], but I thought it interesting that, to judge by his online diary entries, he's a PowerBook user.
Of course, they're hoping we'll settle for the "all-you-can eat subscription, an option the iTunes music store doesn't have". iTunes doesn't have that because it's a stupid idea that won't sell. Music ain't like movies; we want to keep our own copies and take them with us.
Now they want to make you pay for lyrics, as if anyone would. Assuming they bothered to make lyrics available separately from the recording [statistically, almost never, I bet], they priced it out of the market and now they whine that no one wants to pay. They just need to lower their prices to about 10% of current levels; otherwise they deserve all the so-called "stealing" of "their" intellectual property.
As I came here to post that the linked article is just meaningless jargon, I see plenty of fellow /. readers were seeing it the same way I do. Naturally, I had to post anyway.... but at least I spared you the marketing technobabble.
As long as we're being nitpicky [which I enjoy], "android" means 'man like'. That's all the word implies. "Anthros" = man, human [Greek], with an "-oid" ending because an android is like a human, but isn't exactly the same thing as a human.
The word robot, however, comes to us from Czech, and it was first used to describe man-made workers -- they could be set to work in a factory, and sure, you'd tell them to do factory work, but you didn't have to tell them 'move your hand 16.7 inches to the left, grasp the bolt, lift 5 inches, move your hand 16.7 inches to the right, lower the bold 5 inches, rotate the bolt clockwise, release the bolt, raise your hand 5 inches, and repeat".
Looks like the designers of the new Office interface decided to chuck Fitt's Law out the window -- trading the already wasteful menubar-in-the-window for screen "buttons". I predict more repetitive motion injuries as a result.
I can't recall the name, but it ran on a Commodore 64. Without that, I would never have justified buying a computer [not being a geek yet], would never have learned how fun they could be, never gotten a job as a multimedia developer... and I only got the thing so I could write freshman college term papers without having to pay for paper and typewriter ribbons. See, the C64 and that app let me delete, and undelete, so I could see what I *might want to write* before I ever committed it to paper -- I saw it as a money saver. That app changed my life.
I used to see lots of DAZ Poser figures on Renderosity, and it seemed all the Poser stuff people spent their time on was like playing with 3D Barbie dolls. I say "used to see" because Renderosity got boring and I stopped looking, so I don't know how different it is today ... but the DAZ gallery today looks like more of the same "Let's play Barbie" style.
It's a waldo. A robot is independent; a robot makes its own decisions, whether based on the environment or anything the programmers dreamed up. This device is "teleoperated", as the builders say. The word for such a thing is waldo, not robot.