Should I memorize the exact order each and every single element and remember their names in that order?
Well... I remember Hydrogen is first followed by Helium (and something about noble gases) but beyond that I think unless you work with it on a daily basis, that is what Google is for. Tom Lehrer can also help.
http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html/
Just because Babe Ruth struck out sometimes doesn't mean he was a shitty baseball player.No but if he decides for one season to start running around throwing his bat at the other players, setting the stands on fire and pissing on the umpires, I think we'd have a right to be angry at him for it
"It seems the period has arrived when you should allow some intelligence to creep into a mind that has plainly been warped."
Ban Johnson to Babe Ruth May 26, 1922
After Ruth pulled an Ron Artest (worse actually in some ways, Ruth took a bat with him when he went into the stands). Didn't catch up with the guy he went after, but said he had no regrets and would do the same thing again.
One of 4 times Ban Johnson would suspend Ruth in that one season (Landis also suspended him once)
You know why Harry Frazee said he sold Ruth? Too disruptive.
I don't believe him (Or to be more accurate, I believe he'd have sold Ruth even if he wasn't disruptive). He needed the money. He was faced with losing access to Fenway Park if he didn't buy it (The No, No Nanette story's been debunked. Frazee made money in show business, just not enough to buy Fenway). Still, there was a long list of problems while he was in Boston (including leaving the team mid-season in a dispute about pitching. You know why he basically stopped pitching even though it's obvious that he could have helped any team? He simply refused to pitch -- except an occasional time on his own terms)
Oh yeah, maybe he didn't piss on umps. He certainly punched one. And was suspended on at least three occassions for abusing them.
Ruth got away with it, by and large.
A friend of mine was involved in the early days of an experiment of self-selected algorithms.
In fairly short order the OS figured out the fastest way to "finish" a backup was to snap the tape.
I know that neither Sean Lahman (who has created a searchable database of baseball stats) nor Sean Forman (who started with the Lahman database and built baseball-reference.com) has ever had any problems with major league baseball.
I know the only thing that Sean Forman has heard from MLB is stuff like, Great site, keep up the good work.
Likewise I know MLB has cooperated with Dave Smith and company at retrosheet.org.
This is not about the "stats." This is about MLB trademarks, and (more importantly), the MLBPA members' right of publicity
Nobody owns data, no matter who "gathers" it. That's Feist. "Sweat of the brow" -- that is, effort -- does not create a property interest in data. Now, one can have a copyright in a compilation of the data, but not in the data itself. (A compilation can include the particular arrangement or selection of data -- but again, the data itself is not protected. And there needs to be at least _some_ creativity in the arrangement -- putting data in alphabetical order, for instance, does not qualify.
MLB -- regardless of what the article says -- isn't talking about the statistics themselves. The primary issue here, as I said earlier, is right of publicity. You know how the local Toyota dealership puts your team's shortstop on their highway billboard? Well, the reason they do that is because he lets them. And the reason he does that is because the dealership pays him to do so. And the reason they're willing to pay him to do so is because he won't let them them otherwise, and they can't do it if he won't let them. Not because it's false -- even if it is, it would hardly be defamatory -- but because he has what's known as a "right of publicity." Roughly speaking, the right to control how his name and/or likeness is used for commercial purposes.
But there's an important point: the right of publicity doesn't trump news reporting. You can't stop the local newspaper from reporting that you've just been arrested by citing the right of publicity. And you can't stop the local newspaper from printing what happened in yesterday's game.
Jeez I can remember the Columbia "portables" from the 80s. Basically a (big) desktop system with a carrying strap. Seemed that this was their definition of portable.
"No, they simply look at the register for when this thing was sold, then check the security cameras. Unless you bought this thing with a mask on"
I'm sure that everybody will be keeping all of their security tapes forever.
Seriously, what's to prevent the eviil geniuses from nuying the printer a long ways away from where they actually use it and waiting a while before using the printer?
I too have decided that I won't buy anything by Peguin. (And I don't particularly care that Penguin's not driving this. They can pull back Tarbox's lawyer. Well maybe they can't, but I don't particularly care.)
And I've passed the word on to friends and family.
Little enough I know, but I do buy a honking lot of books.
Good idea about a snail mail to Penguin. I've just sent one off.
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A friend of mine was involved in the early days of an experiment of self-selected algorithms. In fairly short order the OS figured out the fastest way to "finish" a backup was to snap the tape.
I know that neither Sean Lahman (who has created a searchable database of baseball stats) nor Sean Forman (who started with the Lahman database and built baseball-reference.com) has ever had any problems with major league baseball. I know the only thing that Sean Forman has heard from MLB is stuff like, Great site, keep up the good work. Likewise I know MLB has cooperated with Dave Smith and company at retrosheet.org.
As David Nieporent has pointed out in several other places, the dispute is not about the statistics themselves.
n d/discussion/ap_fantasy_league_company_wants_free_ stats/
For more details see his posts at:
http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newssta
Selective quotes:
This is not about the "stats." This is about MLB trademarks, and (more importantly), the MLBPA members' right of publicity
Nobody owns data, no matter who "gathers" it. That's Feist. "Sweat of the brow" -- that is, effort -- does not create a property interest in data. Now, one can have a copyright in a compilation of the data, but not in the data itself. (A compilation can include the particular arrangement or selection of data -- but again, the data itself is not protected. And there needs to be at least _some_ creativity in the arrangement -- putting data in alphabetical order, for instance, does not qualify.
MLB -- regardless of what the article says -- isn't talking about the statistics themselves. The primary issue here, as I said earlier, is right of publicity. You know how the local Toyota dealership puts your team's shortstop on their highway billboard? Well, the reason they do that is because he lets them. And the reason he does that is because the dealership pays him to do so. And the reason they're willing to pay him to do so is because he won't let them them otherwise, and they can't do it if he won't let them. Not because it's false -- even if it is, it would hardly be defamatory -- but because he has what's known as a "right of publicity." Roughly speaking, the right to control how his name and/or likeness is used for commercial purposes.
But there's an important point: the right of publicity doesn't trump news reporting. You can't stop the local newspaper from reporting that you've just been arrested by citing the right of publicity. And you can't stop the local newspaper from printing what happened in yesterday's game.
Jeez I can remember the Columbia "portables" from the 80s. Basically a (big) desktop system with a carrying strap. Seemed that this was their definition of portable.
"No, they simply look at the register for when this thing was sold, then check the security cameras. Unless you bought this thing with a mask on" I'm sure that everybody will be keeping all of their security tapes forever. Seriously, what's to prevent the eviil geniuses from nuying the printer a long ways away from where they actually use it and waiting a while before using the printer?
I haven't used a floppy in quite some time, but I still have a few that I might want to use.
At work we have to read a few 20+ year old reel to reel tapes every year, and that experience has made me reluctant to chuck my floppy drive.
I too have decided that I won't buy anything by Peguin. (And I don't particularly care that Penguin's not driving this. They can pull back Tarbox's lawyer. Well maybe they can't, but I don't particularly care.) And I've passed the word on to friends and family. Little enough I know, but I do buy a honking lot of books. Good idea about a snail mail to Penguin. I've just sent one off.