There are still a small handful of old-school, honest journalists out there. Seymour Hersch and Robert Fisk come to mind. (Unfortunately, that's all I can think of.)
"At any rate, to answer your question, all Mayan dialects have long since been Romanized, but it has only been in recent years (ten, perhaps) that efforts have been made to standardize the lithography across dialects."
I think you meant "orthography", unless the new spelling rules only apply to stone engravings.
Ah yes, that brings back memories of my failed attempt to use Linux for about a year before switching to OS X. As I recall, less than half my attempts to compile applications from source succeeded. In my final desperate days of trying to use Linux, I refused to download anything that didn't have a pre-compiled binary I could un-tar-zip-bleibenflaven and run.
The blurb is unnecessarily confusing (thanks, Slashdot editors). I missed the "vs." the first five times I read it and thought it was saying Germany's six-month sales were ten times the US's weekly sales, and that made the US's numbers seen awfully low.
Slashdot doesn't even support Unicode. It's kind of sad that what used to be the Internet's foremost tech site is now a decade behind even the simplest Tumblog with regard to basic Web features and functionality.
Considering how little he apparently knows about phishing and the Internet in general, it would probably be a catastrophe if he pushed for a law based on that ignorance.
"With HTML5's video, audio and canvas elements, there will be less and less need for Flash in the future on the web."
I agree. But if Adobe were smart (and I don't hold out much hope), they would develop a new application as a successor to Flash that would allow designers with minimal programming skills to create Flash-like content and save it as pure HTML5, Canvas, and Javascript.
Actually, I'd really prefer it if Apple made such an app. But whoever does so first (and does a good job of it) is going to own the Internet.
Actually, the point of a corporation is that a board of directors contractually assume legal and financial liability from the shareholders â" so they're the ones who should be punished for the company's crimes.
The economic benefits of profit goes well beyond self-interested motivation. In the free market, profit is a barometer of the usefulness and productivity of an activity. Profit on the seller's side can be equated to the new wealth created for the buyer â" since in a voluntary exchange, someone only engages in trade if he stands to gain more than he gives up.
Additionally, the possibility of profit attracts capital and production to wherever it is most needed in the economy â" to wherever demand outstrips supply of a good or service.
In other words, when an activity is governed by the desire for profit and conducted in a free market, you can count on it being a net benefit and producer of wealth for the economy. Government programs, on the other hand, fall subject to Mises' famous calculation problem. Without comparing your inputs to your outputs to see if you're profitable or not, you don't know whether you're creating wealth and enriching society or destroying wealth and impoverishing society.
You're right, of course. Not only are the logos not similar, it's irrelevant. Trademark law permits companies to have similar logos and names so long as they don't compete in the markets and there is no likelihood of reasonable consumers getting confused about which company they're doing business with. No one is going to go to an Apple store to by fresh produce, and no one is going to shop at Woolworths to look for a Macbook Pro. And even if they tried, they'd fail.
Trademarks are not copyrights. They're a consumer protection device, not a government-granted monopoly on an idea, word, or symbol.
But without extra government incentives lumped under the broad and vague umbrella of copyright, football players will stop putting numbers on their jerseys or letting people see their faces while they play. Oh the humanity! Think of the children! There must be some way the legal system can be twisted and abused to prevent the calamity that will occur if computer game programmers and artists have free reign to make products their customers want!
I've noticed this article and all its comments make the assumption that all Kiwis will obey the new law, and since it's a stupid law, everyone wishes it were changed or revoked. But is that really a correct assumption to make? Here in Japan, whenever they pass a stupid law, everyone just ignores it and does whatever is sensible. People are people, not sheep, and they can decide what to do on their own sometimes.
There's a major difference between Germany and Japan, and how they regard their past.
Germany, like many other European cultures, is reactionary. They live in a constant state of of guilt for actions no one now alive has committed. They make irrational laws that do nothing to relieve this guilt while subverting the very values they claim to believe in. They censor the present to deny the past, and so they remain stuck in the past.
Japan simply moves on. Yes, the past is embarrassing so it doesn't always make it into the textbooks â" just like every other country. But Japan doesn't live in constant guilt. They don't censor the past or otherwise engage in futile oppression in pursuit of elusive cosmic forgiveness. Japan is rooted in the present and focused on the future.
In my native British Columbia, a number of companies are developing pellet energy as a way to use the branches and brush left over from logging. This sounds like a pretty good match for that technology.
The thing about invasive weeds is that they tend to outperform native plants in temperate climates where sun, rain, and nutrients are scarce. However, their native climates are often semi-tropical like Japan, and they get easily choked out by other plants that are better at taking advantage of abundant rain and nutrients.
To take another example, dandelions are an invasive species in North America, where they choke out native grasses and garden plants. But in Japan, where they are native (or have existed for a very long time), they are a somewhat uncommon sight, as other local plants tend to crowd them out after the spring rains.
No, it's not. It's a Tragedy of the Commons issue. Any service provided for "free" (i.e. provided at the expense of non-users) results in over-use of that service. Microsoft should pay for their own fire, water, security, roads, etc., and then they should be free to keep the money they earn for their shareholders.
Yeah, I was hoping to read about 25th Anniversary and Judgment Rites too â" 25th was one of the first computer games I ever bought. (Third actually, after Space Quest V and Sim City.)
Hah! The fun's only starting. Just wait till they find out about my patent for "Identity Obfuscation Using a Form-Fitting Spandex or Rubber Body Suit for the Purpose of Assisting Law Enforcement in an Anonymous Fashion". I've also got business method patents that cover sidekicks, hidden lairs, and corny entrances.
I skimmed this Slashdot entry a few hours ago, but I just took another look just now hoping to find a comment like the one you just wrote. If I had mod points, they'd be yours.
Apple's decision not to approve Google Voice was made at the executive (board) level. Why would they contact Google with one of their engineers? Besides, Schiller is a familiar face to most people who follow Apple.
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There are still a small handful of old-school, honest journalists out there. Seymour Hersch and Robert Fisk come to mind. (Unfortunately, that's all I can think of.)
"At any rate, to answer your question, all Mayan dialects have long since been Romanized, but it has only been in recent years (ten, perhaps) that efforts have been made to standardize the lithography across dialects."
I think you meant "orthography", unless the new spelling rules only apply to stone engravings.
Ah yes, that brings back memories of my failed attempt to use Linux for about a year before switching to OS X. As I recall, less than half my attempts to compile applications from source succeeded. In my final desperate days of trying to use Linux, I refused to download anything that didn't have a pre-compiled binary I could un-tar-zip-bleibenflaven and run.
English speakers use "Holland" to refer to the whole country, just like they call the USA "America" and the old USSR "Russia".
It could be argued that a small text file of IP addresses contains a movie or MP3 file within it?
It could be quite reasonably argued that you are a moron.
The blurb is unnecessarily confusing (thanks, Slashdot editors). I missed the "vs." the first five times I read it and thought it was saying Germany's six-month sales were ten times the US's weekly sales, and that made the US's numbers seen awfully low.
"On the bright side, my system now runs 1.27% faster compared to yesterday."
Which means that time you spent recompiling everything should pay for itself after about 90 more days of straight Firefox usage.
Slashdot doesn't even support Unicode. It's kind of sad that what used to be the Internet's foremost tech site is now a decade behind even the simplest Tumblog with regard to basic Web features and functionality.
Hey, where have I seen that quote before?
Considering how little he apparently knows about phishing and the Internet in general, it would probably be a catastrophe if he pushed for a law based on that ignorance.
"With HTML5's video, audio and canvas elements, there will be less and less need for Flash in the future on the web."
I agree. But if Adobe were smart (and I don't hold out much hope), they would develop a new application as a successor to Flash that would allow designers with minimal programming skills to create Flash-like content and save it as pure HTML5, Canvas, and Javascript.
Actually, I'd really prefer it if Apple made such an app. But whoever does so first (and does a good job of it) is going to own the Internet.
Actually, the point of a corporation is that a board of directors contractually assume legal and financial liability from the shareholders â" so they're the ones who should be punished for the company's crimes.
The economic benefits of profit goes well beyond self-interested motivation. In the free market, profit is a barometer of the usefulness and productivity of an activity. Profit on the seller's side can be equated to the new wealth created for the buyer â" since in a voluntary exchange, someone only engages in trade if he stands to gain more than he gives up.
Additionally, the possibility of profit attracts capital and production to wherever it is most needed in the economy â" to wherever demand outstrips supply of a good or service.
In other words, when an activity is governed by the desire for profit and conducted in a free market, you can count on it being a net benefit and producer of wealth for the economy. Government programs, on the other hand, fall subject to Mises' famous calculation problem. Without comparing your inputs to your outputs to see if you're profitable or not, you don't know whether you're creating wealth and enriching society or destroying wealth and impoverishing society.
You're right, of course. Not only are the logos not similar, it's irrelevant. Trademark law permits companies to have similar logos and names so long as they don't compete in the markets and there is no likelihood of reasonable consumers getting confused about which company they're doing business with. No one is going to go to an Apple store to by fresh produce, and no one is going to shop at Woolworths to look for a Macbook Pro. And even if they tried, they'd fail.
Trademarks are not copyrights. They're a consumer protection device, not a government-granted monopoly on an idea, word, or symbol.
I agree. Harry Potter could never have made that potion on his first try if he had taken a new textbook!
But without extra government incentives lumped under the broad and vague umbrella of copyright, football players will stop putting numbers on their jerseys or letting people see their faces while they play. Oh the humanity! Think of the children! There must be some way the legal system can be twisted and abused to prevent the calamity that will occur if computer game programmers and artists have free reign to make products their customers want!
I've noticed this article and all its comments make the assumption that all Kiwis will obey the new law, and since it's a stupid law, everyone wishes it were changed or revoked. But is that really a correct assumption to make? Here in Japan, whenever they pass a stupid law, everyone just ignores it and does whatever is sensible. People are people, not sheep, and they can decide what to do on their own sometimes.
There's a major difference between Germany and Japan, and how they regard their past.
Germany, like many other European cultures, is reactionary. They live in a constant state of of guilt for actions no one now alive has committed. They make irrational laws that do nothing to relieve this guilt while subverting the very values they claim to believe in. They censor the present to deny the past, and so they remain stuck in the past.
Japan simply moves on. Yes, the past is embarrassing so it doesn't always make it into the textbooks â" just like every other country. But Japan doesn't live in constant guilt. They don't censor the past or otherwise engage in futile oppression in pursuit of elusive cosmic forgiveness. Japan is rooted in the present and focused on the future.
In my native British Columbia, a number of companies are developing pellet energy as a way to use the branches and brush left over from logging. This sounds like a pretty good match for that technology.
The thing about invasive weeds is that they tend to outperform native plants in temperate climates where sun, rain, and nutrients are scarce. However, their native climates are often semi-tropical like Japan, and they get easily choked out by other plants that are better at taking advantage of abundant rain and nutrients.
To take another example, dandelions are an invasive species in North America, where they choke out native grasses and garden plants. But in Japan, where they are native (or have existed for a very long time), they are a somewhat uncommon sight, as other local plants tend to crowd them out after the spring rains.
"This isn't a liberal tax and spend issue. "
No, it's not. It's a Tragedy of the Commons issue. Any service provided for "free" (i.e. provided at the expense of non-users) results in over-use of that service. Microsoft should pay for their own fire, water, security, roads, etc., and then they should be free to keep the money they earn for their shareholders.
Yeah, I was hoping to read about 25th Anniversary and Judgment Rites too â" 25th was one of the first computer games I ever bought. (Third actually, after Space Quest V and Sim City.)
Hah! The fun's only starting. Just wait till they find out about my patent for "Identity Obfuscation Using a Form-Fitting Spandex or Rubber Body Suit for the Purpose of Assisting Law Enforcement in an Anonymous Fashion". I've also got business method patents that cover sidekicks, hidden lairs, and corny entrances.
I skimmed this Slashdot entry a few hours ago, but I just took another look just now hoping to find a comment like the one you just wrote. If I had mod points, they'd be yours.
Apple's decision not to approve Google Voice was made at the executive (board) level. Why would they contact Google with one of their engineers? Besides, Schiller is a familiar face to most people who follow Apple.