This would probably be interesting except that if you look at the EXIF headers in the image made by the camera, what's actually happening is that the man is getting INTO his car just before the flash (the before and after shots were named in reverse, i.e. after is before and before is after). Maybe we should be tracking him down and asking what he did?;)
This has actually pissed me off for a long time. Excuse me for being unusual, but I for one *LIKE* to know who the people are who made the shows I enjoy! I've also wondered about the SAG thing for a long time. I'd LOVE to see them go after stations who do this sort of thing.
Cooperation exists in corporate America. That's why when you're listening to corporate radio in a large city and it cuts to commercials, you can change stations all you want... all you'll get are more commercials. *Grumble*
Maybe then they could try selling thier idea, and in doing so, whoever they attemted to sell thier idea to could just steal the idea and use it without having to pay the licensing.
Interestingly, this is exactly what happened with intermittent wipers on automobiles, when he approached the big 3 automakers with the idea of intermittent wipers, they told him it was a worthless idea and they weren't interested. Not long after, they'd developed their own intermittent wipers and were equipping them on production automobiles. I don't remember which manufacturer it was who originally stole the idea, but I seem to remember an interview with him about how he'd spent a few decades fighting them in court to recoup some kind of compensation for his invention.
The same guy, if I remember correctly, also developed the automotive airbag and anti-lock brakes (which at the time were mechanical).
I'm not an expert by any means, but I seem to recall that the corrective lens installed in Hubble to make it work was about the diameter of a quarter (something just over one inch for those not from the U.S.).
That's just not true. Copyright law is a modern invention, it didn't exist for thousands of years and entertainers were perfectly successful without it. Do you see any copyright notices on Shakespeare's works? I don't.
The whole copyright fiasco we are seeing today is a direct result of advances in technology breaking old business models. These are simply growing pains.
Just as the modern entertainment industry grew out of modern copyright laws, so future entertainment will adapt and grow out of future copyright laws. The main point being adaptation and growth.
Why do we seem to believe that the entertainment industry of today, which has only existed for less than 100 years, must now continue to exist in exactly the form we grew up with forever? Life, and the world in general, are not static environments.
As an administrator on an IRC network for the past 6 years, I can tell you that I see a LOT of things offered on IRC, but being involved in the security end of things and trying to keep the server clean, I can also tell you that not everything is as it seems. I'd say with almost 100% certainty that this is either a virus or at least something completely different than what it claims to be.
IRC is not a lot different than the web or file-sharing networks are. There are plenty of things you can search for that will turn up results, but that doesn't mean that they are in any way related to what you searched for.
Personally, I like the idea of cameras giving off some kind of warning before they take a picture. It's polite.
Or another idea, the person using the camera (phone) could provide this warning themselves. Polite is not a camera that flashes or beeps when taking a picture, polite is a camera user who asks for permission.
If we continue to legistlate away common courtesy, we may forget what it actually is. And the idea of this coming from the UK whose people are known for their politeness, isn't that silly!
That's ridiculous. If i flew an airplane into a building in YOUR name, would that be your fault or mine? So give the "get off the high horse" thing a rest and realize that if we don't set unattainable goals for ourselves to strive for as a society then we'll never be greater than our lowest common denominator.
Just because someone chooses to do something awful in the name of God does not make that person religious or a believer in God anymore than my ordering a camshaft from Checker Auto Parts makes me a mechanic.
I don't see much point in spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a movie really, unless there's a genuine call to do so.
For example, Aliens, one of the all-time best sci-fi movies ever made, cost a mere $18.5 million to make. Then you have movies like Titanic... $280 million?! WTF?! I'm sorry, but even generously adjusted to inflation, Titanic was no where NEAR 10+ times better a film than Aliens!
Granted, that's kind of an apples to oranges comparison since they're totally different genres and target completely different demographics, but still. I believe Aliens grossed a greater profit by percentage than Titanic will ever dream of.
Hollywood probably has the same kind of business model that it had back when it was financed by organized crime and was simply a way to launder money. The laundering part may have changed, but has the rest changed to adjust to doing business in a way which has a long term viability?
Go ahead and sue the downloaders, they are breaking the law afterall. But consider this, most of them are young people, college and highschool kids; those young people will be your bosses one day, they will take over your industry whether you like it or not, and the fact remains that it is they who will be in charge of your social security and health care. Be careful of insulting the chef you are ordering your dinner from. (I'm refering here primarily to the fact that they are suing people to enforce their intellectual property rights while simultaneously waging a lobby war to grant themselves ever increasing intellectual property rights to enforce.)
It does say something about you receiving a really great blowjob whenever you want. It says that if the constitution doesn't forbid it, then it is left to your state, or to you should your state have nothing to say about it.
But I'll wager your state does say something about the whenever part. For example, probably state statutes don't allow receiving any kind of blowjob at a bus stop, or at a school play, or at the mall food court, or from someone under the age of 18, or if said blowjob is contingent upon the giver being paid a monetary sum for services rendered (unless you happen to live in nevada). So long as you remain within those kind of limiations, you're free to receive a really great blowjob anytime you want.
I can understand not wanting the conversation to devolve into a discussion that involved the phrase "activist judges." I wasn't criticizing your post at all, and I assumed that you were aware of the 10th (and 9th) amendments, I was just stating them for completeness sake... in case any young students are surfing slashdot at school when they should be studying civics class.;)
If I'm not mistaken, under the Virginia law with the sentence mentioned in the article, they would have been guilty of sending over 10,000 spams in a 24 hour period, or over 100,000 spams in a 30 day period, or of earning more than $5,000 from said spams.
It's not the sending of an untraceable/forged email, it's the quantity and/or profit generated from that quantity. The Virginia law reserves felony status for the most egregious offenders, anyone who isn't a serious spammer is at most guilty of a misdemeanor (I think it was a class 6 or class 4, just enough to appear on your permanent record).
The article doesn't say what punishment they received for having committed fraud, or which portion of their sentences were for committing fraud.
Where exactly in the Constitution is the Bill Of Internet Rights located?
The tenth ammendment.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
However, that being said, your post is right bang on.
I don't know how accurate this is, I've never seen actual credible data. But I have been told before that one of the reasons Maxtor is able to beat the other manufacturers in capacity is because they dedicate more of the available capacity on the platters to usable data storage, and less to handling the inevitable bad sectors that crop up on every drive from every manufacturer over time... which leads to their supposed tendency to fail sooner, on average, than other drives. So you may be paying for higher capacity or cheaper capacity at the expense of longevity.
Again, this is all just hearsay coming from me, I've never heard anyone from Maxtor say that, nor can I point to any statement of such from another manufacturer. The only evidence I have that supports this is the fact that Maxtor drives have consistently higher capacity than drives from competing manufacturers at any given time, their smaller capacity drives are always cheaper than those from competing manufacturers, and that my own empirical evidence indicates that they often do fail sooner than drives from competing manufacturers. Those things would seem to anecdotally confirm this.
Can anyone credibly confirm or deny, or provide any reliable sources for this claim?
I think you're wrong about the porn thing, I think one of the main attractions to porn is that real people are really having sex. It's less about the act than it is about seeing someone actually engaged in the act.
I think that's why in the last couple of years there's been a new trend in movies to feature unsimulated sex scenes in one form or another (mostly in foreign or indie films, but it's making its way to the states as well now).
May I recommend polycarbonate? I had a pair of polycarbonate glasses for about 7 years before I needed a new perscription. In all that time, they acquired barely a scratch. Mind you, I wasn't *terribly* rough with them, but I was pretty careless with cleaning etc., using paper towels or toilet paper and some lens cleaner made by visine (vis-a-clean, no longer produced, but was the best stuff ever!) a few times per week the whole time I owned them.
If you bought them at someplace like LensCrafters, they have lifetime free cleaning, and those places have ultrasonic cleaning which will remove oils etc. from between the lenses and the frame which helps eliminate some haziness. Worth a try anyway.:)
Boom Chicago is hilarious! I have some friends who got to see them when they were visiting Holland to see a friend. They were surprised at how up to date the material was. Great stuff!
The music industry will sure to bring down ANY service that starts to get that much power.
Like Clearchannel? I think if Apple were ever in such a position, the music industry would just make a sweetheart deal with them to keep everyone happy, the way they currently do.
As it is now it's all but impossible for a musician or band to become widely known and popular without going through Clearchannel radio stations. That makes them a pretty major player I'd say, and I think Apple would find themselves in a similar position to Clearchannel if they were to become such a powerful player.
I've wondered the same thing myself many times. At least with regard to something like a semi-tractor-trailer. It may not be that it's more efficient at all.
I know one obvious reason why they do this with locomotives is because it's just simpler for that particular application. It's much easier to create a system like this and have one huge engine power 3-6 electrically powered axles per locomotive than to create a very very complex transmission system that would be able to power all those axles in addition to providing the gargantuan amounts of torque required to get 30-100 cars, each weighing up to 350,000 lbs or more, moving at somewhere near highway speeds within a few miles. Not to mention the maintenance requirements of transmissions able to handle that kind of torque; the number of gears necessary, clutch wear etc. Diesel-electric, it would seem to me, may be chosen more for reasons of simplicity and lower maintenance than for reasons of fuel-efficiency.
I should also note that several of the locomotives are being converted to run on natural gas or propane now days rather than diesel for the electricity generation. And while I don't remember any of the figures for fuel efficiency in a diesel-electric locomotive, I do remember reading once that they each hold around 4500-5000 gallons of diesel fuel and need to be refueled something like every few days or once a week or something. I don't think the book I was reading mentioned how many miles are covered over that period, and I may be wildly incorrect about the refueling frequency that the book stated as it has been several years since I read that book.
Still, I've always pondered the practicality of a diesel-electric car using something small like a diesel turbine engine to generate electricity for an electric motor.
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Getting the same thing on mine, and as far as I know (I'm not a mail server guru) that's a broken implementation of an MTA. :\
This would probably be interesting except that if you look at the EXIF headers in the image made by the camera, what's actually happening is that the man is getting INTO his car just before the flash (the before and after shots were named in reverse, i.e. after is before and before is after). Maybe we should be tracking him down and asking what he did? ;)
That would explain the lack of obvious physical damage to the lamp then.
This has actually pissed me off for a long time. Excuse me for being unusual, but I for one *LIKE* to know who the people are who made the shows I enjoy! I've also wondered about the SAG thing for a long time. I'd LOVE to see them go after stations who do this sort of thing.
Cooperation exists in corporate America. That's why when you're listening to corporate radio in a large city and it cuts to commercials, you can change stations all you want... all you'll get are more commercials. *Grumble*
Maybe then they could try selling thier idea, and in doing so, whoever they attemted to sell thier idea to could just steal the idea and use it without having to pay the licensing.
Interestingly, this is exactly what happened with intermittent wipers on automobiles, when he approached the big 3 automakers with the idea of intermittent wipers, they told him it was a worthless idea and they weren't interested. Not long after, they'd developed their own intermittent wipers and were equipping them on production automobiles. I don't remember which manufacturer it was who originally stole the idea, but I seem to remember an interview with him about how he'd spent a few decades fighting them in court to recoup some kind of compensation for his invention.
The same guy, if I remember correctly, also developed the automotive airbag and anti-lock brakes (which at the time were mechanical).
AFAIK, most things in space need big lenses...
I'm not an expert by any means, but I seem to recall that the corrective lens installed in Hubble to make it work was about the diameter of a quarter (something just over one inch for those not from the U.S.).
That's just not true. Copyright law is a modern invention, it didn't exist for thousands of years and entertainers were perfectly successful without it. Do you see any copyright notices on Shakespeare's works? I don't.
The whole copyright fiasco we are seeing today is a direct result of advances in technology breaking old business models. These are simply growing pains.
Just as the modern entertainment industry grew out of modern copyright laws, so future entertainment will adapt and grow out of future copyright laws. The main point being adaptation and growth.
Why do we seem to believe that the entertainment industry of today, which has only existed for less than 100 years, must now continue to exist in exactly the form we grew up with forever? Life, and the world in general, are not static environments.
As an administrator on an IRC network for the past 6 years, I can tell you that I see a LOT of things offered on IRC, but being involved in the security end of things and trying to keep the server clean, I can also tell you that not everything is as it seems. I'd say with almost 100% certainty that this is either a virus or at least something completely different than what it claims to be.
IRC is not a lot different than the web or file-sharing networks are. There are plenty of things you can search for that will turn up results, but that doesn't mean that they are in any way related to what you searched for.
Personally, I like the idea of cameras giving off some kind of warning before they take a picture. It's polite.
Or another idea, the person using the camera (phone) could provide this warning themselves. Polite is not a camera that flashes or beeps when taking a picture, polite is a camera user who asks for permission.
If we continue to legistlate away common courtesy, we may forget what it actually is. And the idea of this coming from the UK whose people are known for their politeness, isn't that silly!
That's ridiculous. If i flew an airplane into a building in YOUR name, would that be your fault or mine? So give the "get off the high horse" thing a rest and realize that if we don't set unattainable goals for ourselves to strive for as a society then we'll never be greater than our lowest common denominator.
Just because someone chooses to do something awful in the name of God does not make that person religious or a believer in God anymore than my ordering a camshaft from Checker Auto Parts makes me a mechanic.
I don't see much point in spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a movie really, unless there's a genuine call to do so.
For example, Aliens, one of the all-time best sci-fi movies ever made, cost a mere $18.5 million to make. Then you have movies like Titanic... $280 million?! WTF?! I'm sorry, but even generously adjusted to inflation, Titanic was no where NEAR 10+ times better a film than Aliens!
Granted, that's kind of an apples to oranges comparison since they're totally different genres and target completely different demographics, but still. I believe Aliens grossed a greater profit by percentage than Titanic will ever dream of.
Hollywood probably has the same kind of business model that it had back when it was financed by organized crime and was simply a way to launder money. The laundering part may have changed, but has the rest changed to adjust to doing business in a way which has a long term viability?
Go ahead and sue the downloaders, they are breaking the law afterall. But consider this, most of them are young people, college and highschool kids; those young people will be your bosses one day, they will take over your industry whether you like it or not, and the fact remains that it is they who will be in charge of your social security and health care. Be careful of insulting the chef you are ordering your dinner from. (I'm refering here primarily to the fact that they are suing people to enforce their intellectual property rights while simultaneously waging a lobby war to grant themselves ever increasing intellectual property rights to enforce.)
OK, color me stupid. I scrolled up AFTER posting that and saw that it wasn't at the same level, and was indeed posted after your comment. D'OH!
Set your threshold lower, I've seen at least one above your comment already. ;)
It does say something about you receiving a really great blowjob whenever you want. It says that if the constitution doesn't forbid it, then it is left to your state, or to you should your state have nothing to say about it.
;)
But I'll wager your state does say something about the whenever part. For example, probably state statutes don't allow receiving any kind of blowjob at a bus stop, or at a school play, or at the mall food court, or from someone under the age of 18, or if said blowjob is contingent upon the giver being paid a monetary sum for services rendered (unless you happen to live in nevada). So long as you remain within those kind of limiations, you're free to receive a really great blowjob anytime you want.
I can understand not wanting the conversation to devolve into a discussion that involved the phrase "activist judges." I wasn't criticizing your post at all, and I assumed that you were aware of the 10th (and 9th) amendments, I was just stating them for completeness sake... in case any young students are surfing slashdot at school when they should be studying civics class.
If I'm not mistaken, under the Virginia law with the sentence mentioned in the article, they would have been guilty of sending over 10,000 spams in a 24 hour period, or over 100,000 spams in a 30 day period, or of earning more than $5,000 from said spams.
It's not the sending of an untraceable/forged email, it's the quantity and/or profit generated from that quantity. The Virginia law reserves felony status for the most egregious offenders, anyone who isn't a serious spammer is at most guilty of a misdemeanor (I think it was a class 6 or class 4, just enough to appear on your permanent record).
The article doesn't say what punishment they received for having committed fraud, or which portion of their sentences were for committing fraud.
Where exactly in the Constitution is the Bill Of Internet Rights located?
The tenth ammendment.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
However, that being said, your post is right bang on.
I don't know how accurate this is, I've never seen actual credible data. But I have been told before that one of the reasons Maxtor is able to beat the other manufacturers in capacity is because they dedicate more of the available capacity on the platters to usable data storage, and less to handling the inevitable bad sectors that crop up on every drive from every manufacturer over time... which leads to their supposed tendency to fail sooner, on average, than other drives. So you may be paying for higher capacity or cheaper capacity at the expense of longevity.
Again, this is all just hearsay coming from me, I've never heard anyone from Maxtor say that, nor can I point to any statement of such from another manufacturer. The only evidence I have that supports this is the fact that Maxtor drives have consistently higher capacity than drives from competing manufacturers at any given time, their smaller capacity drives are always cheaper than those from competing manufacturers, and that my own empirical evidence indicates that they often do fail sooner than drives from competing manufacturers. Those things would seem to anecdotally confirm this.
Can anyone credibly confirm or deny, or provide any reliable sources for this claim?
Why is this modded funny? This is making a serious point.
I think you're wrong about the porn thing, I think one of the main attractions to porn is that real people are really having sex. It's less about the act than it is about seeing someone actually engaged in the act.
I think that's why in the last couple of years there's been a new trend in movies to feature unsimulated sex scenes in one form or another (mostly in foreign or indie films, but it's making its way to the states as well now).
Dude, that's just sick....this is someone's kid you're talking about here. :(
May I recommend polycarbonate? I had a pair of polycarbonate glasses for about 7 years before I needed a new perscription. In all that time, they acquired barely a scratch. Mind you, I wasn't *terribly* rough with them, but I was pretty careless with cleaning etc., using paper towels or toilet paper and some lens cleaner made by visine (vis-a-clean, no longer produced, but was the best stuff ever!) a few times per week the whole time I owned them.
:)
If you bought them at someplace like LensCrafters, they have lifetime free cleaning, and those places have ultrasonic cleaning which will remove oils etc. from between the lenses and the frame which helps eliminate some haziness. Worth a try anyway.
Boom Chicago is hilarious! I have some friends who got to see them when they were visiting Holland to see a friend. They were surprised at how up to date the material was. Great stuff!
The music industry will sure to bring down ANY service that starts to get that much power.
Like Clearchannel? I think if Apple were ever in such a position, the music industry would just make a sweetheart deal with them to keep everyone happy, the way they currently do.
As it is now it's all but impossible for a musician or band to become widely known and popular without going through Clearchannel radio stations. That makes them a pretty major player I'd say, and I think Apple would find themselves in a similar position to Clearchannel if they were to become such a powerful player.
I've wondered the same thing myself many times. At least with regard to something like a semi-tractor-trailer. It may not be that it's more efficient at all.
I know one obvious reason why they do this with locomotives is because it's just simpler for that particular application. It's much easier to create a system like this and have one huge engine power 3-6 electrically powered axles per locomotive than to create a very very complex transmission system that would be able to power all those axles in addition to providing the gargantuan amounts of torque required to get 30-100 cars, each weighing up to 350,000 lbs or more, moving at somewhere near highway speeds within a few miles. Not to mention the maintenance requirements of transmissions able to handle that kind of torque; the number of gears necessary, clutch wear etc. Diesel-electric, it would seem to me, may be chosen more for reasons of simplicity and lower maintenance than for reasons of fuel-efficiency.
I should also note that several of the locomotives are being converted to run on natural gas or propane now days rather than diesel for the electricity generation. And while I don't remember any of the figures for fuel efficiency in a diesel-electric locomotive, I do remember reading once that they each hold around 4500-5000 gallons of diesel fuel and need to be refueled something like every few days or once a week or something. I don't think the book I was reading mentioned how many miles are covered over that period, and I may be wildly incorrect about the refueling frequency that the book stated as it has been several years since I read that book.
Still, I've always pondered the practicality of a diesel-electric car using something small like a diesel turbine engine to generate electricity for an electric motor.