That's interesting. I think one option is that, having been born during the Soviet Union years, and having presumably lived in Russia most of his life, he is now a Russian citizen involved in Russian politics.
I guess that's right. The number came off the top of my head as I remembered what I did when Azureus was bogging down my Win desktop PC - on which I use Azureus the most. Java is currently 1.4.2 on OS X.
On OS X, I'll stick to Azureus. It's had all these "new" features for months now, possibly years, plus many others. And it's a pretty active project, too, so I guess they'll be up-to-date in a few days, if it need be.
For one, the ability to set per-file settings without having to run multiple instances was a major advantage some time ago. According to some comments here, it still is, at least over the "official" client.
Use the Java VM >=1.5 to keep CPU usage from going through the roof though:)
How many of the adware's intended targets would be in an AD domain? Anyways, parent's wrong, but let's not forget the average Windows user runs as admin by default...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't breaking this encryption fall under the DMCA definition of illegal breaking?
Not that I would shed a tear if it would, but AFAICT the DMCA only allows for cracking in the name of "research."
This paragraph, defining who is exempt from prosecution for cracking an encryption, is particularly funny:
`(A) whether the information derived from the encryption research was disseminated, and if so, whether it was disseminated in a manner reasonably calculated to advance the state of knowledge or development of encryption technology, versus whether it was disseminated in a manner that facilitates infringement under this title or a violation of applicable law other than this section, including a violation of privacy or breach of security;
Again, IANAL, but it seems to me the law doesn't care about user convenience in this case. In order for cracking to be legal, it looks as though there has to be a "scientific" interest such as verifying vulnerabilities in the encryption.
Again if I'm not wrong, Jon's defence was that it enabled users to make their rightful backup copies of DVDs. I can hardly see the need to break AirPort encryption for backups. Yes, I do realize the very legal uses of it, but are they rights granted by law?
I'm afraid a judge would rather look at the illegal actions (e.g., bypassing DRMs, breaking a company's encryption software, facilitation of privacy violation) than the legal, but not "protected," uses. Maybe a solution would be to publish the result in the form of a technical paper focusing on security (or lack thereof) of the algorithm?
I guess the idea behind the (adventurous) prediction is that Google has its code ready, and that it's started to index publicly available calendars either as an internal "beta test" (better to harvest thousands of calendars than to write them yourself) or as a base index for a search engine.
As for one-time indexing, well that wouldn't be very useful, as it wouldn't be up-to-date. Plus, other people have very insightfully suggested it might be a bug in Google's spider, causing it to recursively follow links within calendars.
I responded to this: "What REALLY pisses me off about this whole sham, is the fact that digital downloads are already pure profit
So you're saying, "it's not pure profit, it's just unheard of profit percentages?"
If so, I agree. I understand there are costs other than what I mentioned, but those are common to all recorded production (they would pay for that anyways): artwork, digitizing, promotion.
By digitizing I assume you mean recording in a digital form, because as of today, the CPU power required to turn uncompressed audio files into those puny 128-kbit AAC files is pretty much irrelevant. Plus, I'm sure Apple does all the encoding, as do other online stores.
Finally, I don't think we can easily classify a $9.99 album sold on iTunes as a "cost of a CD that won't be purchased." Fist off, a CD sold on iTunes might be considered as the "increased profit as opposed to a CD I would never have sold."
Additionally, supposing the guys in charge can do their job, so that they don't end up with hundred thousands CDs left over in their warehouses, an album sold in iTunes should be a "CD whose physical production and worlwide distribution (on a per-copy basis) cost me next to nothing," i.e. next to pure copyright money.
I'm asking because, you know, I thought Apple was paying for iTMS bandwidth, development and maintenance.
The only bandwidth the labels are paying for, in this market, is the first transfer of a record to the iTMS. That, I believe, is a UPS bill rather than an ISP one.
TFA talks about record labels pondering whether to increase their ridiculous margins in this specific market, not the online stores.
A couple of weeks of the Italian equivalents of Saturday Night (Nite?) Live and 11 pm talk shows would cover all expenses for N. Korea, Iran and Syria cleansing.
Only last night, I think I heard at least 10 top-notch curses, then I saw a nice pair of boobs covered only by half-inch dots on the nipples. The girl was in an infant-sized thong, too.
That was all in mainstream network television... Funny thing is, our channels have self-regulated and agreed not to air prophanities or naked bodies before 11 pm. We're protecting the children, here, not the 50-year-olds.
True, and we're not talking about just civil lawsuits you can settle out of courts.
EU laws in general see this kind of malpractice as felonies. In Italy, in particular, there has to be a company official in charge of data security, and s/he can be charged with one or more criminal offences in such cases.
How could this be reduced to a lawsuit, presumably ending in a settlement? It's not just a matter of money...
Well, to be more precise: memory leak or not, Linux and Windows versions are 10x more stable.
Firefox on my Powerbook crashes at least once a day, it has problems with Flash and Java applet visualization I've never had on other platforms, JavaScript and FireFox windows (such as those from extension prefs) sometimes just don't do anything when you click on them, many search bar plugins simply crash the whole app, many extensions just don't work and/or make your favorites disappear (TabBrowser Preferences, for one.) Finally, I get the beach ball cursor way too often (meaning the application won't respond.)
I've never had any of that on other platforms. The OS X port is way behind the quality of other OS's, to the point I have been giving up FF and using Safari before 1.0 came out. Not that it has fixed much, it's just that I missed my extensions too much...
If you have ever seen the score, it has several pages of rests of various lengths.
Ok but... How are you going to demonstrate the later song has the same rests, especially if it has never been written to paper?
AFAIK you don't need to write down your score in order to copyright a song. I might argue in court that where the earlier song has two consecutive 1/4 rests, I have been "playing" four consecutive 1/8 rests, and so forth.
I don't think resorting to original scores would be useful on the plaintiff's side, unless of course the second "artist" has been stupid enough to write down a sufficiently similar score, and use it.
Not sure about the number of notes, but it's indisputable than judges only look at notes there...
Very few people know that Michael Jackson has been [that's Dagospia.com, the local equivalent of Matt Drudge] sued by an Italian singer for copyright infringement.
The links are in Italian and the trial was in Italy, but you may find some info in Spanish on Google, as the guy is also popular in South America. Basically, Al Bano claimed his song "I Cigni di Balaka" had been plagiarized in Jackson's "Will You Be There?"
As much as I hate the two, I really don't see any possible way Jackson might ever have heard about this Al Bano guy. However, the lengthy trial (2001 through 2003, IIRC) finally awarded Al Bano a victory, as the judges found "significant similarities" between the songs, although it was never stated Jackson had purposefully plagiarized the Italian singer.
I distincly remember seeing that kind of shooting in the first series of "NYPD Blue", in which I really liked it, as it added a lot of mood and "violence" to the show.
Another reader mentioned "Law and Order" which is 3 years older than NYPD, but I actually can't remember that technique in the early series.
Kudos to you and your willpower -- I wish more patients did that.
In my clinical anesthesia/critical care practice as an almost-resident, I'm asking for consent all the time, and I'm constantly confronted with the problem of being both true to reality and comprehensible to the patient.
As sessamoid pointed out in the thread, the average patient is often not able to understand the inherent uncertainties in anesthesia, and the risk it carries.
You often end up being asked "Doctor, I don't know, I can't decide. What am I supposed to do?" -- that's precisely what you should be avoiding by talking to the patient and asked for informed consent.
I'm not too fond of movie reviews, but I use IMDB all the time because it has a plethora of additional information films movie.
What was the exact quote from that guy? Who wrote the song in the final credits? Who was playing the seventh henchman killed by the hero? What's the movie title in France?
If you quickly need a review, Google is probably faster -- although I, too, prefer amateur critics. IMDB gives you pretty much all there is to know about about a movie, and armchair critics ravings...
IMHO Half-Life 2 did a better overall job at rendering realistic sceneries, and it's a perfect example of how artistry is as important as raw power in this field. I loved the dull coloring and details in that game.
As a side note, IIRC, I played HL2 at maxed-out texture settings on a 128 MB ATI Radeon 9700, with pretty good performance at a 1280x(?) resolution.
or he should make a correct transition to more modern representation
Not sure what you mean... Leaving all caps aside, what would have been your proposed correct capitalization for the phrase?
Now, a question: so do you think that it is correct usage to begin this particular sentence with "est"?
That's a very good question, and at first glance I'd say you're right: it's not. All examples I could come up with include "est" in your first sense (est modus in rebus, for example.)
However, I've also been trying to rearrange that sentence, and it just doesn't sound right if you move the "est." I should note, though, that I'm not a Latin expert (as you have surely guessed), it's just that you're exposed to five-year classes in our high schools, with a lot of translation. And you don't get to choose whether to take Latin or something else.
I would say that it is in fact correct usage, when you're stressing the characteristic more than the subject of the phrase, in an absolute sense (not comparing or contrasting to anything else.)
Even in English, or Italian for that matter, I'd say "It is foolish to run Windows Me on a Beowulf cluster," as opposed to "Running Windows Me on a Beowulf cluster is foolish," if I were to match the rhetorical style of the original Latin sentence. In Italian, where you don't need to explicitly use subject pronouns for all verbs, the analogy is even closer.
"Stulti est persistere in errore" would certainly be acceptable, but at least to me, it would sound more like stressing "stulti" as opposed to someone or something else -- as in replying to some other statement, commenting or adding to it, etc...
capitalize only at the beginning of a paragraph, which you don't have here)
I live in Rome, and I've never seen lower-case Latin in inscriptions on monuments or anything more formal than sexual jokes graffiti on walls in Pompeii. AFAIK lower-case (which was a direct variation of the uppercase anyhow) might be used in vulgar inscriptions and possibly personal writing, but not in more formal texts.
Romans would have written "EST STVLTI PERSISTERE IN ERRORE", or the same with a mid-dot (don't know how to write it here, if you use OS X, it's alt-.) between words. They also had a knack for abbreviating words which stuck in later ages, possibly because writing on marble isn't that convenient...
As for case, stulti is genitive of the adjective stultus, -a, -um - dative would be stulto for masculine and neutral genders. Genitive is appropriate here, as the phrase really means "It is (a) fool's [habit|custom|characteristic] to persist in error."
Besides, I do agree word order in Latin is variable according to rhetorical emphasis, etc...
Just look at the sales figures - this year's smartphone sales are set to be higher than all the PDA sales ever!
I'm sure your market data is valid, and smartphones are indeed a smarter choice than carrying around both your cell and a (bulky) PDA.
However, I really can't see how Symbian OS may be in direct competition with PalmOS or Windows Mobile (or whatever it's called.)
I'm speaking out of personal experience. I'm a doctor, and I've been looking around for specialized calculators and reference textbooks for my Nokia Symbian phone (which I haven't bought for its OS, but rather for its low cost and compatibility with OS X.)
Well, at least in my area (which I believe is a good market for PDAs) I haven't been able to find anything really worth buying - all amateurish stuff with no resemblance of reliability, completeness or even usefulness.
On PocketPC's or Palms you get all kinds of medical software, including authoritative sources such as the Harrison's, official pharmacopeias for any country, and many more.
On Symbian, you get pretty much nothing more than small-time "generic business" apps.
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That's interesting. I think one option is that, having been born during the Soviet Union years, and having presumably lived in Russia most of his life, he is now a Russian citizen involved in Russian politics.
I guess that's right. The number came off the top of my head as I remembered what I did when Azureus was bogging down my Win desktop PC - on which I use Azureus the most. Java is currently 1.4.2 on OS X.
On OS X, I'll stick to Azureus. It's had all these "new" features for months now, possibly years, plus many others. And it's a pretty active project, too, so I guess they'll be up-to-date in a few days, if it need be.
For one, the ability to set per-file settings without having to run multiple instances was a major advantage some time ago. According to some comments here, it still is, at least over the "official" client.
Use the Java VM >=1.5 to keep CPU usage from going through the roof though :)
My Italian bank snail-mails you a 10-character alphanumeric password, in addition to the one you set for your account.
For any single operation, you are asked for three of those ten digits, selected randomly. For read-only operations, you're simply asked to login.
I think that's a good compromise between good security and customer convenience.
How many of the adware's intended targets would be in an AD domain? Anyways, parent's wrong, but let's not forget the average Windows user runs as admin by default...
In any case, the net effect is the same.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't breaking this encryption fall under the DMCA definition of illegal breaking?
Not that I would shed a tear if it would, but AFAICT the DMCA only allows for cracking in the name of "research."
This paragraph, defining who is exempt from prosecution for cracking an encryption, is particularly funny:
Again, IANAL, but it seems to me the law doesn't care about user convenience in this case. In order for cracking to be legal, it looks as though there has to be a "scientific" interest such as verifying vulnerabilities in the encryption.
Again if I'm not wrong, Jon's defence was that it enabled users to make their rightful backup copies of DVDs. I can hardly see the need to break AirPort encryption for backups. Yes, I do realize the very legal uses of it, but are they rights granted by law?
I'm afraid a judge would rather look at the illegal actions (e.g., bypassing DRMs, breaking a company's encryption software, facilitation of privacy violation) than the legal, but not "protected," uses. Maybe a solution would be to publish the result in the form of a technical paper focusing on security (or lack thereof) of the algorithm?
Insightful?
I guess the idea behind the (adventurous) prediction is that Google has its code ready, and that it's started to index publicly available calendars either as an internal "beta test" (better to harvest thousands of calendars than to write them yourself) or as a base index for a search engine.
As for one-time indexing, well that wouldn't be very useful, as it wouldn't be up-to-date. Plus, other people have very insightfully suggested it might be a bug in Google's spider, causing it to recursively follow links within calendars.
I responded to this: "What REALLY pisses me off about this whole sham, is the fact that digital downloads are already pure profit
So you're saying, "it's not pure profit, it's just unheard of profit percentages?"
If so, I agree. I understand there are costs other than what I mentioned, but those are common to all recorded production (they would pay for that anyways): artwork, digitizing, promotion.
By digitizing I assume you mean recording in a digital form, because as of today, the CPU power required to turn uncompressed audio files into those puny 128-kbit AAC files is pretty much irrelevant. Plus, I'm sure Apple does all the encoding, as do other online stores.
Finally, I don't think we can easily classify a $9.99 album sold on iTunes as a "cost of a CD that won't be purchased." Fist off, a CD sold on iTunes might be considered as the "increased profit as opposed to a CD I would never have sold."
Additionally, supposing the guys in charge can do their job, so that they don't end up with hundred thousands CDs left over in their warehouses, an album sold in iTunes should be a "CD whose physical production and worlwide distribution (on a per-copy basis) cost me next to nothing," i.e. next to pure copyright money.
Do you buy legal mp3's from the label's own site?
I'm asking because, you know, I thought Apple was paying for iTMS bandwidth, development and maintenance. The only bandwidth the labels are paying for, in this market, is the first transfer of a record to the iTMS. That, I believe, is a UPS bill rather than an ISP one.
TFA talks about record labels pondering whether to increase their ridiculous margins in this specific market, not the online stores.
A couple of weeks of the Italian equivalents of Saturday Night (Nite?) Live and 11 pm talk shows would cover all expenses for N. Korea, Iran and Syria cleansing.
Only last night, I think I heard at least 10 top-notch curses, then I saw a nice pair of boobs covered only by half-inch dots on the nipples. The girl was in an infant-sized thong, too.
That was all in mainstream network television... Funny thing is, our channels have self-regulated and agreed not to air prophanities or naked bodies before 11 pm. We're protecting the children, here, not the 50-year-olds.
True, and we're not talking about just civil lawsuits you can settle out of courts.
EU laws in general see this kind of malpractice as felonies. In Italy, in particular, there has to be a company official in charge of data security, and s/he can be charged with one or more criminal offences in such cases.
How could this be reduced to a lawsuit, presumably ending in a settlement? It's not just a matter of money...
I'd probably start using Safari if I could get away from my favorite feature, type-ahead =/
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Find While Typing works great, and there's more goodness on that little page.
Yeah, same here on OS X and FF 1.0.
I have AdBlock, too, but it's really not very strict - it's only blocking an ad with "/RealMedia/ads/" in it, so maybe it's that one?
JavaScript enabled, though.
You mean the one where tab-related extensions (and possibly others) simply ignore any middle-mouse click despite what their preferences say?
Well, to be more precise: memory leak or not, Linux and Windows versions are 10x more stable.
Firefox on my Powerbook crashes at least once a day, it has problems with Flash and Java applet visualization I've never had on other platforms, JavaScript and FireFox windows (such as those from extension prefs) sometimes just don't do anything when you click on them, many search bar plugins simply crash the whole app, many extensions just don't work and/or make your favorites disappear (TabBrowser Preferences, for one.) Finally, I get the beach ball cursor way too often (meaning the application won't respond.)
I've never had any of that on other platforms. The OS X port is way behind the quality of other OS's, to the point I have been giving up FF and using Safari before 1.0 came out. Not that it has fixed much, it's just that I missed my extensions too much...
If you have ever seen the score, it has several pages of rests of various lengths.
Ok but... How are you going to demonstrate the later song has the same rests, especially if it has never been written to paper?
AFAIK you don't need to write down your score in order to copyright a song. I might argue in court that where the earlier song has two consecutive 1/4 rests, I have been "playing" four consecutive 1/8 rests, and so forth.
I don't think resorting to original scores would be useful on the plaintiff's side, unless of course the second "artist" has been stupid enough to write down a sufficiently similar score, and use it.
Not sure about the number of notes, but it's indisputable than judges only look at notes there...
Very few people know that Michael Jackson has been [that's Dagospia.com, the local equivalent of Matt Drudge] sued by an Italian singer for copyright infringement.
The links are in Italian and the trial was in Italy, but you may find some info in Spanish on Google, as the guy is also popular in South America. Basically, Al Bano claimed his song "I Cigni di Balaka" had been plagiarized in Jackson's "Will You Be There?"
As much as I hate the two, I really don't see any possible way Jackson might ever have heard about this Al Bano guy. However, the lengthy trial (2001 through 2003, IIRC) finally awarded Al Bano a victory, as the judges found "significant similarities" between the songs, although it was never stated Jackson had purposefully plagiarized the Italian singer.
I distincly remember seeing that kind of shooting in the first series of "NYPD Blue", in which I really liked it, as it added a lot of mood and "violence" to the show.
Another reader mentioned "Law and Order" which is 3 years older than NYPD, but I actually can't remember that technique in the early series.
Kudos to you and your willpower -- I wish more patients did that.
In my clinical anesthesia/critical care practice as an almost-resident, I'm asking for consent all the time, and I'm constantly confronted with the problem of being both true to reality and comprehensible to the patient.
As sessamoid pointed out in the thread, the average patient is often not able to understand the inherent uncertainties in anesthesia, and the risk it carries.
You often end up being asked "Doctor, I don't know, I can't decide. What am I supposed to do?" -- that's precisely what you should be avoiding by talking to the patient and asked for informed consent.
IMDB is way different, though, at least for now.
I'm not too fond of movie reviews, but I use IMDB all the time because it has a plethora of additional information films movie.
What was the exact quote from that guy? Who wrote the song in the final credits? Who was playing the seventh henchman killed by the hero? What's the movie title in France?
If you quickly need a review, Google is probably faster -- although I, too, prefer amateur critics. IMDB gives you pretty much all there is to know about about a movie, and armchair critics ravings...
IMHO Half-Life 2 did a better overall job at rendering realistic sceneries, and it's a perfect example of how artistry is as important as raw power in this field. I loved the dull coloring and details in that game.
As a side note, IIRC, I played HL2 at maxed-out texture settings on a 128 MB ATI Radeon 9700, with pretty good performance at a 1280x(?) resolution.
or he should make a correct transition to more modern representation
Not sure what you mean... Leaving all caps aside, what would have been your proposed correct capitalization for the phrase?
Now, a question: so do you think that it is correct usage to begin this particular sentence with "est"?
That's a very good question, and at first glance I'd say you're right: it's not. All examples I could come up with include "est" in your first sense (est modus in rebus, for example.)
However, I've also been trying to rearrange that sentence, and it just doesn't sound right if you move the "est." I should note, though, that I'm not a Latin expert (as you have surely guessed), it's just that you're exposed to five-year classes in our high schools, with a lot of translation. And you don't get to choose whether to take Latin or something else.
I would say that it is in fact correct usage, when you're stressing the characteristic more than the subject of the phrase, in an absolute sense (not comparing or contrasting to anything else.)
Even in English, or Italian for that matter, I'd say "It is foolish to run Windows Me on a Beowulf cluster," as opposed to "Running Windows Me on a Beowulf cluster is foolish," if I were to match the rhetorical style of the original Latin sentence. In Italian, where you don't need to explicitly use subject pronouns for all verbs, the analogy is even closer.
"Stulti est persistere in errore" would certainly be acceptable, but at least to me, it would sound more like stressing "stulti" as opposed to someone or something else -- as in replying to some other statement, commenting or adding to it, etc...
capitalize only at the beginning of a paragraph, which you don't have here)
I live in Rome, and I've never seen lower-case Latin in inscriptions on monuments or anything more formal than sexual jokes graffiti on walls in Pompeii. AFAIK lower-case (which was a direct variation of the uppercase anyhow) might be used in vulgar inscriptions and possibly personal writing, but not in more formal texts.
Romans would have written "EST STVLTI PERSISTERE IN ERRORE", or the same with a mid-dot (don't know how to write it here, if you use OS X, it's alt-.) between words. They also had a knack for abbreviating words which stuck in later ages, possibly because writing on marble isn't that convenient...
As for case, stulti is genitive of the adjective stultus, -a, -um - dative would be stulto for masculine and neutral genders. Genitive is appropriate here, as the phrase really means "It is (a) fool's [habit|custom|characteristic] to persist in error."
Besides, I do agree word order in Latin is variable according to rhetorical emphasis, etc...
Just look at the sales figures - this year's smartphone sales are set to be higher than all the PDA sales ever!
I'm sure your market data is valid, and smartphones are indeed a smarter choice than carrying around both your cell and a (bulky) PDA.
However, I really can't see how Symbian OS may be in direct competition with PalmOS or Windows Mobile (or whatever it's called.)
I'm speaking out of personal experience. I'm a doctor, and I've been looking around for specialized calculators and reference textbooks for my Nokia Symbian phone (which I haven't bought for its OS, but rather for its low cost and compatibility with OS X.)
Well, at least in my area (which I believe is a good market for PDAs) I haven't been able to find anything really worth buying - all amateurish stuff with no resemblance of reliability, completeness or even usefulness.
On PocketPC's or Palms you get all kinds of medical software, including authoritative sources such as the Harrison's, official pharmacopeias for any country, and many more.
On Symbian, you get pretty much nothing more than small-time "generic business" apps.
But... Can't you see the Form is everywhere? Even as I speak to you now, Brother, I can feel it's all part of a Form!
I, for one, would like to welcome our new overlords!