Do whales evaporate when they die? I am failing to identify why a whale dying and a plankton dying would yield a different result regarding their sequestered carbon...?
I'm curious why you point out specifically teen girls? Are teen boys less likely to cause such accidents? Teens in general tend to have higher accident rates due to inexperience. They are also more easily distracted by friends in the car and/or have a higher tendency to be reckless. Take out "girls" from your example and I think you will find a way more accurate generalization.
It may have changed in recent years, but for a good long while that title was held by the I-10 Westbound out of Tucson. That dreary stretch between Phoenix is home to high winds and sudden dust storms, not to mention chock full of retirees. For many years running that area recorded some of the highest levels of fatal interstate accidents.
If they added all of the training and support needed to make this viable do you think that Google would do all of this for free?
It's called a Support Contract. You aren't getting all that help for free from MS. I'm sure Google is capable of providing a support contract along with a customized solution appropriate for government use.
Amazon isn't making it possible for the device to record the audio output of the text-to-speech conversion, therefore they haven't violated anything How do you know?
With digital distribution the retailer effectively makes the copies. They must have a contract allowing them to do that. That contract could have virtually any terms.
Or they can just not make content produced by AG authors available to the Kindle. Seems like that would hurt the authors more than help them, which seems counter to the purpose of being a member of the guild. There is no requirement for Amazon to cater to their demands if they choose not to. Text-to-speech unlikely actually violates Fair Use stipulations in copyright law.
This is still no different than if I handed my Kindle to my friend and they read aloud to me.
Sure it is. Otherwise why do people pay a premium for recorded books. It's because your friend is not there. Your friend may not be there to read you to sleep, as you work in the kitchen or drive the car. They are selling you this single serving friend who will read it anytime you want for a small fee.
I understand your point, but it fails to address the issue, which is that the AG thinks that additional licensing should be paid for the device to have the ability to do text-to-speech. My point is that, on their reasoning, we should all have to pay additional licensing to read aloud or be read aloud to. Which, I think we can both agree, is preposterously silly.
Moreover, if you read the book out loud yourself then sold the recornding you would have been sued.
SO they do have a point.
The place where it goes off the rails is if you use this to listen to the book with no intention of reselling the voice conversion. What's wrong with that? DOn't you "own" it.
I think the answer is that, it's not you that committed the infringement, it's Amazon for making it possible. Afterall amazon sells both forms written and audio. Now they are selling both for the price of the DRM written version. You can see why the booksellers are mad.
Amazon isn't making it possible for the device to record the audio output of the text-to-speech conversion, therefore they haven't violated anything. This is still no different than if I handed my Kindle to my friend and they read aloud to me.
To take this one step further, what about when teachers read aloud to their classes, or story time at the library?! Are these activities suddenly illegal now?
Not to mention that the Kindle can read all sorts of formats so who is to say that I am not loading PDFs from work and having the Kindle read them to me while I am driving? The Kindle isn't JUST for reading Author's Guild books.. sheesh. You'd think they invented the written word or something.
Go to This independent artist's website to listen to songs that were recorded at home, using a sound board and a G4 Mac. The album was entirely self-produced by said artist (who isn't me). She did all of the recording herself. She now independently distributes her music via iTunes, CD Baby, and at her live shows. She has been on tour, which she booked entirely on her own. Twice. Further proof that megalocorps are not necessary if you are willing to put your heart into the music.
And why, exactly, is it so bad if a kid willingly gets it on with an adult?
I would suspect that the reasoning is that children are more easily manipulated than adults. Especially by adults. They may be "willing" but the greater question becomes "why" they are willing.
Yes but the same vendor makes laptops that DO have removable batteries. The market decides by the fact of whether anyone or no one buys the version with no removable battery.
I have lived in Seattle for 2.5 years and saw plenty of hybrids when I newly arrived here and I see plenty of them on the road now. Also, gas prices only dropped very recently - too recently for one to really equate the number of hybrids on the road to the the newly lower prices. Those who bought hybrids to spend less on gas did not go and buy a regular gasoline engine the day that gas dropped to under $3.
My point is, the first section of your post doesn't make much sense. 6 months ago the price of gas was higher than it is now, yet you are claiming that there were no hybrids on the road then. Now that the prices have dropped, hybrids on the lot are just sitting there, yet you equate hybrid ownership to price of gas...?
Please let me know if I am misunderstanding what you were trying to say.
Your suggestion doesn't make any sense and has nothing at all to do with abortion and entirely to do with adoption and custody rights.
Men already have this right (as do women). An old roommate of mine got his girlfriend pregnant. When they split up he signed away his rights. He will never owe child support and she can never come after it in exchange for him having no rights or claims on the child. Lone mothers who give their children up for adoption also sign away their rights, such as the case of my younger (adopted) brother.
My landline phone will play a recorded message saying it does not accept calls with blocked callerid, but i can't find a way to make my cellphone do this... Once i have such a facility on my sell i'll be set.
Actually, since this thread started out regarding YouMail, I'll mention that their service actually allows you to configure such a message for blocked or unavailable caller IDs. I use this service (after a recommendation from/. funny enough) and have been very happy with it.
Same here. We use Metrocall/USAMobility as our paging provider. Almost everyone who is on-call for any reason (doctors, IS folks, etc.) has a company-provided Metrocall pager. People can choose to also be paged to their personal cell phones but no one in our organization is REQUIRED to personally own a device that can receive messages.
Some people (such as myself) have PDAs instead, but I agree with many above posters that it is very difficult to find a ringtone that is loud enough to effectively wake me up. Everyone I know who has the dame device just picks the longest ringtone and sets the volume as high as it goes.
And for the record, I don't live in some small town. I work for one of the largest hospitals in the Seattle area. So pagers aren't dead, just less common.
Tell me, why is it better to have these bunched together into a single menu where you can't differentiate what's open and what isn't?
I believe one reason would be consolidation and maximization of screen real estate. For a list of all things currently running, one can use the Finder menu to locate and switch to any running application. Also, running dock application show an arrow over the icon to indicate such.
Looks like you wandered over to the wrong site - this is 'News for NERDS, stuff that matters' but over on \. they've got 'News for GEEKS, stuff that splatters." See ya there!
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Do whales evaporate when they die? I am failing to identify why a whale dying and a plankton dying would yield a different result regarding their sequestered carbon...?
I'm curious why you point out specifically teen girls? Are teen boys less likely to cause such accidents? Teens in general tend to have higher accident rates due to inexperience. They are also more easily distracted by friends in the car and/or have a higher tendency to be reckless. Take out "girls" from your example and I think you will find a way more accurate generalization.
It may have changed in recent years, but for a good long while that title was held by the I-10 Westbound out of Tucson. That dreary stretch between Phoenix is home to high winds and sudden dust storms, not to mention chock full of retirees. For many years running that area recorded some of the highest levels of fatal interstate accidents.
If they added all of the training and support needed to make this viable do you think that Google would do all of this for free?
It's called a Support Contract. You aren't getting all that help for free from MS. I'm sure Google is capable of providing a support contract along with a customized solution appropriate for government use.
Windows is pants?
Amazon isn't making it possible for the device to record the audio output of the text-to-speech conversion, therefore they haven't violated anything
How do you know?
With digital distribution the retailer effectively makes the copies. They must have a contract allowing them to do that. That contract could have virtually any terms.
Or they can just not make content produced by AG authors available to the Kindle. Seems like that would hurt the authors more than help them, which seems counter to the purpose of being a member of the guild. There is no requirement for Amazon to cater to their demands if they choose not to. Text-to-speech unlikely actually violates Fair Use stipulations in copyright law.
This is still no different than if I handed my Kindle to my friend and they read aloud to me.
Sure it is. Otherwise why do people pay a premium for recorded books. It's because your friend is not there. Your friend may not be there to read you to sleep, as you work in the kitchen or drive the car. They are selling you this single serving friend who will read it anytime you want for a small fee.
I understand your point, but it fails to address the issue, which is that the AG thinks that additional licensing should be paid for the device to have the ability to do text-to-speech. My point is that, on their reasoning, we should all have to pay additional licensing to read aloud or be read aloud to. Which, I think we can both agree, is preposterously silly.
Moreover, if you read the book out loud yourself then sold the recornding you would have been sued.
SO they do have a point.
The place where it goes off the rails is if you use this to listen to the book with no intention of reselling the voice conversion. What's wrong with that? DOn't you "own" it.
I think the answer is that, it's not you that committed the infringement, it's Amazon for making it possible. Afterall amazon sells both forms written and audio. Now they are selling both for the price of the DRM written version. You can see why the booksellers are mad.
Amazon isn't making it possible for the device to record the audio output of the text-to-speech conversion, therefore they haven't violated anything. This is still no different than if I handed my Kindle to my friend and they read aloud to me.
To take this one step further, what about when teachers read aloud to their classes, or story time at the library?! Are these activities suddenly illegal now?
Not to mention that the Kindle can read all sorts of formats so who is to say that I am not loading PDFs from work and having the Kindle read them to me while I am driving? The Kindle isn't JUST for reading Author's Guild books.. sheesh. You'd think they invented the written word or something.
Go to This independent artist's website to listen to songs that were recorded at home, using a sound board and a G4 Mac. The album was entirely self-produced by said artist (who isn't me). She did all of the recording herself. She now independently distributes her music via iTunes, CD Baby, and at her live shows. She has been on tour, which she booked entirely on her own. Twice. Further proof that megalocorps are not necessary if you are willing to put your heart into the music.
And why, exactly, is it so bad if a kid willingly gets it on with an adult?
I would suspect that the reasoning is that children are more easily manipulated than adults. Especially by adults. They may be "willing" but the greater question becomes "why" they are willing.
The reasons may not be what you think.
So you are saying that PC Mag articles are written by zombies...?
http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/09/1456216
Yes but the same vendor makes laptops that DO have removable batteries. The market decides by the fact of whether anyone or no one buys the version with no removable battery.
I have lived in Seattle for 2.5 years and saw plenty of hybrids when I newly arrived here and I see plenty of them on the road now. Also, gas prices only dropped very recently - too recently for one to really equate the number of hybrids on the road to the the newly lower prices. Those who bought hybrids to spend less on gas did not go and buy a regular gasoline engine the day that gas dropped to under $3.
My point is, the first section of your post doesn't make much sense. 6 months ago the price of gas was higher than it is now, yet you are claiming that there were no hybrids on the road then. Now that the prices have dropped, hybrids on the lot are just sitting there, yet you equate hybrid ownership to price of gas...?
Please let me know if I am misunderstanding what you were trying to say.
From conception to the end of the 8th week, it isn't even a fetus, it is an embryo, if you really want to get technical about it.
Your suggestion doesn't make any sense and has nothing at all to do with abortion and entirely to do with adoption and custody rights.
Men already have this right (as do women). An old roommate of mine got his girlfriend pregnant. When they split up he signed away his rights. He will never owe child support and she can never come after it in exchange for him having no rights or claims on the child. Lone mothers who give their children up for adoption also sign away their rights, such as the case of my younger (adopted) brother.
I believe you are looking for KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid.
If you are going to develop into a male, it helps to have a Y chromosome.
If I am not mistaken, the HP thinterms run XP Embedded, not Windows CE. At least the ones we have deployed in our hospital do.
My landline phone will play a recorded message saying it does not accept calls with blocked callerid, but i can't find a way to make my cellphone do this... Once i have such a facility on my sell i'll be set.
Actually, since this thread started out regarding YouMail, I'll mention that their service actually allows you to configure such a message for blocked or unavailable caller IDs. I use this service (after a recommendation from /. funny enough) and have been very happy with it.
Same here. We use Metrocall/USAMobility as our paging provider. Almost everyone who is on-call for any reason (doctors, IS folks, etc.) has a company-provided Metrocall pager. People can choose to also be paged to their personal cell phones but no one in our organization is REQUIRED to personally own a device that can receive messages.
Some people (such as myself) have PDAs instead, but I agree with many above posters that it is very difficult to find a ringtone that is loud enough to effectively wake me up. Everyone I know who has the dame device just picks the longest ringtone and sets the volume as high as it goes.
And for the record, I don't live in some small town. I work for one of the largest hospitals in the Seattle area. So pagers aren't dead, just less common.
Tell me, why is it better to have these bunched together into a single menu where you can't differentiate what's open and what isn't?
I believe one reason would be consolidation and maximization of screen real estate. For a list of all things currently running, one can use the Finder menu to locate and switch to any running application. Also, running dock application show an arrow over the icon to indicate such.
Looks like you wandered over to the wrong site - this is 'News for NERDS, stuff that matters' but over on \. they've got 'News for GEEKS, stuff that splatters." See ya there!
What is "midgets with baseball bats"?
No matter how many licenses you have, modifying and reselling the OS is sure to land you in court.