Note that I didn't say it was ok for Google to take copyrighted works and distribute them willy-nilly.
However, fair use is more liberally construed in conjunction with academic works. The guidelines for fair use and the use by libraries and archives from the US Copyright Law say
... the fair use of a copyrighted work,... for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include --
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Case law indicates that there aren't hard and fast guidelines, but that each circumstance is to be taken in its context.
Google may have to tread lightly, such as by only serving up part of a journal article at a time. The profit/nonprofit aspect works against them, but it's not a trump card. The key may be in item (4), that having an article in Google's cache may tend to increase the market for the work. I'd expect them to argue that, anyway.
My main point is, and was, that the academic publishers are going to have to accept change sooner or later, whether they figure out how to immediately profit from Google's use of their works or not.
Like street-sweepers protesting the loss of horse manure to sweep, these publishing houses seem to have trouble following historical trends.
Another way to look at it is that they have missed their first calling, which is to disseminate academic information, by becoming enslaved to the profit they make on a particular method of doing so.
Cynically, perhaps they are afraid that once the bulk of their collections are online people will discover that most of what they publish is rehashed from older work. No, I don't seriously think that.
But I do seriously think that the academic publishing business, like the newspaper business, is transitioning to the Internet.
... it's clearly an operating system problem on the tablet, not a hardware problem. Linux to the rescue! ------------------
From the README on the site: Intro [...]
1. This is old news: the event happened on October 9, 2004.
2. Microsoft rep in Ukraine had to use free software to get on with a presentation on a free software conference since his munition failed to cooperate with projector.
3. See below (also posted to the places I could track down). [...] As for the facts:
* it was not Master but ALT Linux Compact 2.3 (page|ISO|ML)
* it was Third Ukrainian Free Software Developers' and Users' Conference
* it was sponsored by IBM, Novell and EMT (yeah, I work for...us; another funny thing is that Microsoft proposed to sponsor the conference too but we decided to politely decline the generous offer)
* it is the head of Microsoft Ukraine, Mr. Valery Lanovenko
* it is the Tablet PC which failed to feed the projector on the secondary head properly to blame
* and indeed it's OpenOffice.org on our Linux/ThinkPad running their PowerPoint presentation;-)
* IMG_0395 has Mr. Lanovenko's personal comment -- he tries to make an impression that it was PDF (we as the conference staff recommended to keep those at hand) but all of us know OOo doesn't display PDFs;-) [...] -- Michael Shigorin mike at osdn dot org dot ua EMT.Com.UA * OSDN.Org.UA * Linux.Kiev.UA * ALTLinux.ORG
This is worse than powering a powering a go-cart with a chainsaw (not a chainsaw engine, a chainsaw). Or any attempt to juggle objects meant to fell trees.
No, this couple gets a waiver straight into the Hall.
in the yard, kill dandelions and other broadleaf weeds without killing other plants
inside, find lego pieces and sort them by shape, size, and color
walk the dog at 6:30am or whatever unGodly cow-milking hour it is
take a constant inventory of my personal belongings as I leave them strewn about, and find my keys, wallet, watch, phone, TV remote, or whatever else I can't locate. Better yet, it should start the car, pay my bills, tell the time, have a phone built in, and change the TV channel by IR link.
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(i) yeah, I know they have these already
Apparently "ear worms" is the scientific term for a musical cognitive itch. An ear worm comes from knowing a little bit of a song, causing your brain to demand to know the rest.
There are two known ways to get rid of them:
Google the lyrics, buy or download the tune, and learn the whole song well enough for your brain to be satisfied.
(My personal favorite is to) sing or hum just enough of the song to give them to someone else.
"I'm sure the comments on this story will be incredibly insightful."
So a
week later they called again and told me the cheque had bounced and said... I
had to see... Doug.
Well, I was terrified. Everyone was terrified of Doug. I've seen grown men
pull their own heads off rather than see Doug. Even Dinsdale was frightened of
Doug. He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."
Depends on the metal, doesn't it? They say in TFA that it's not Mercury. It's probably Gallium, or an allow of Gallium and Lithium or something. No, those probably don't mix.
Gallium melts at 144F, which presents some design problems, such as what to do when it freezes.
NOUN: pl. ironies 1a. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning. b. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning. c. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See synonyms at wit1. 2a. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain). b. An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic. 3. Dramatic irony. 4. Socratic irony.
It's my understanding, though I am a mere neophyte in these matters, that the Jedi were one sect and the Sith another, wholly different, sect.
There are references in other episodes, but note in Episode III the way in which one attains the rank of Jedi Master. The Jedi Council awards the rank. Surely Dooku would not have been awarded the rank of Jedi Master.
It's not the same religion, any more than e.g., Satanism and Judaism are the same, even though they share the same lore.
2. Yes, Dooku was a Sith Lord (not "Jedi Master") and able to do all kinds of wacky telekinetic tricks. Jedi Masters are capable of similar feats, and should not be seen as constrained by such mundane things as Newtonian physics.
Liberal application of items 1 and 2 will lead away from many dark areas of confusion for you.
I don't buy any computer hardware. Not for myself, anyway. I have engineer clients who need good video for CAD, but they don't need liquid-metal coolant, particularly.
Maybe this will become the standard technology. If it allows for quieter fans to keep the decibel level down to double digits, it might catch on.
Anything but "crackers". "Crackers" just has no ring to it at all:-).
I almost added to the list:
Hackers (what's in a name?).
The reason "hackers" is ok by me is that it's stupid to identify yourself with a word. Why fight it?
Then I thought of a perfectly good reason to fight it. The script kiddeez and "Neo" wannabees hear the term "hacker" applied to black hat activity. They are led to think that messing with other people's systems is what is cool. One day they grow up and start doing something productive, while my time is wasted fighting their idiocy.
This may sound like the tail whinning that the dog doesn't wag, but the vendors may have a legitimate complaint.
The potential for harm is if Mozilla releases a security fix, and the distros don't right away. There's a period of time in which Mozilla version x.y is vulnerable on FooDistLinux, and there's no reasonable expectation for the fix to happen for some period. Since the fix has been released, attackers are on notice that there is are vulnerable systems out there, and they're running Mozilla x.y on FooDistLinux.
Now, mind you, I don't think that's such a big fat hairy deal. But the situation does put minor distros (anything not supported by the official Mozilla site) at a disadvantage. The perception is that the major players are "more secure", since you can get your fix straight from Mozilla.org.
the famous trademark STAR WARS owned by Lucasfilm Ltd., the Court ruled that the slang term used to refer to the Strategic Defense Initiative did not weaken the trademark and the Court refused to stop its use as a slang term
As if they could stop its use as a slang term, or as if that's even a legal action for a company or court to undertake. Trademarks are about advertising, or reference to a product. No one can stop you from merely reusing the words of a trademark.
Companies that get bent out of shape when their product becomes a metaphor need to adjust their attitude. A product such as Hormel's SPAM luncheon meat, with its, er, distinctive physical characteristics, is ripe for similization.
But of course, Hormel doesn't want to lose their trademark to common use. Then, someone could start making generic spam meat. Oh, the horror!
Give me but one firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the earth.
That got translated from the original Attic Greek into common Greek, then into High Latin, then Vulgar Latin, and then into Old French, then soon after that into Old English. When William the Conqueror took over England in 1066, the new language that got created got it a little mixed up at first:
Give me but one firm spot on which to sit, and I will move my bowels.
Somehow it doesn't seem to mean quite the same thing, but I can't quite figure out where the difference is.
I use my phone for three vital functions
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Just a Phone?
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as a telephone to talk to people. I don't use my landline much, but haven't dropped it yet.
as a text pager. My system monitors and trouble report mail addresses all route to my phone.
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>this is more of that marine corps bullShit,
>obsolete male impulses from a hundred years ago
I don't think it's bullshit. I think you need to grow some balls.
Only cowards are afraid to show strength.
Note that I didn't say it was ok for Google to take copyrighted works and distribute them willy-nilly.
However, fair use is more liberally construed in conjunction with academic works. The guidelines for fair use and the use by libraries and archives from the US Copyright Law say
Case law indicates that there aren't hard and fast guidelines, but that each circumstance is to be taken in its context.
Google may have to tread lightly, such as by only serving up part of a journal article at a time. The profit/nonprofit aspect works against them, but it's not a trump card. The key may be in item (4), that having an article in Google's cache may tend to increase the market for the work. I'd expect them to argue that, anyway.
My main point is, and was, that the academic publishers are going to have to accept change sooner or later, whether they figure out how to immediately profit from Google's use of their works or not.
Like street-sweepers protesting the loss of horse manure to sweep, these publishing houses seem to have trouble following historical trends.
Another way to look at it is that they have missed their first calling, which is to disseminate academic information, by becoming enslaved to the profit they make on a particular method of doing so.
Cynically, perhaps they are afraid that once the bulk of their collections are online people will discover that most of what they publish is rehashed from older work. No, I don't seriously think that.
But I do seriously think that the academic publishing business, like the newspaper business, is transitioning to the Internet.
It's time to lead, follow, or get out of the way.
... it's clearly an operating system problem on the tablet, not a hardware problem. Linux to the rescue!
...us; another funny thing is that Microsoft proposed to sponsor the conference too but we decided to politely decline the generous offer) ;-) ;-)
------------------
From the README on the site:
Intro
[...]
1. This is old news: the event happened on October 9, 2004.
2. Microsoft rep in Ukraine had to use free software to get on with a presentation on a free software conference since his munition failed to cooperate with projector.
3. See below (also posted to the places I could track down).
[...]
As for the facts:
* it was not Master but ALT Linux Compact 2.3 (page|ISO|ML)
* it was Third Ukrainian Free Software Developers' and Users' Conference
* it was sponsored by IBM, Novell and EMT (yeah, I work for
* it is the head of Microsoft Ukraine, Mr. Valery Lanovenko
* it is the Tablet PC which failed to feed the projector on the secondary head properly to blame
* and indeed it's OpenOffice.org on our Linux/ThinkPad running their PowerPoint presentation
* IMG_0395 has Mr. Lanovenko's personal comment -- he tries to make an impression that it was PDF (we as the conference staff recommended to keep those at hand) but all of us know OOo doesn't display PDFs
[...]
--
Michael Shigorin
mike at osdn dot org dot ua
EMT.Com.UA * OSDN.Org.UA * Linux.Kiev.UA * ALTLinux.ORG
Hall of fame inductees!
This is worse than powering a powering a go-cart with a chainsaw (not a chainsaw engine, a chainsaw). Or any attempt to juggle objects meant to fell trees.
No, this couple gets a waiver straight into the Hall.
They deserve their own wing.
>upper-middle-class ...
>stop being lazy and do it yourself
Ha. You don't know the power of the Middle Side.
I will raise a droid army! Join me and together we will rule the entire suburb!
... since the neighbors will declare "unsightly" anything that isn't the right shade of Natural SandStone (TM).
Perhaps there is aluminum siding now that has the look of Natural SandStone vinyl siding?
Mustn't stray too far from the norm.
> that kind of potentially lethal product?
... hey, that should have made the original list!
That kind of depends on the design. It would have to be designed to work very slowly, shutting off rather than cutting up a stick or a foot.
There is more than one way to skin a cat
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(i) yeah, I know they have these already
There are two known ways to get rid of them:
"Honey, call the space-time travel agent - we have to take the train to Andromeda or risk being thrown into separate tangential universes and stuff. "
We can send a man to the moon, but we can't even get a wormhole to stick around.
>Dirty.
Depends on the metal, doesn't it? They say in TFA that it's not Mercury. It's probably Gallium, or an allow of Gallium and Lithium or something. No, those probably don't mix.
Gallium melts at 144F, which presents some design problems, such as what to do when it freezes.
>or was this an attempt to make a quick joke
>with inaccurate information?
I just didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
>Newtonian physics is not some "mundane" thing.
irony:
NOUN: pl. ironies
1a. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning. b. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning. c. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See synonyms at wit1. 2a. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain). b. An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic. 3. Dramatic irony. 4. Socratic irony.
Now, reread my post.
It's my understanding, though I am a mere neophyte in these matters, that the Jedi were one sect and the Sith another, wholly different, sect.
There are references in other episodes, but note in Episode III the way in which one attains the rank of Jedi Master. The Jedi Council awards the rank. Surely Dooku would not have been awarded the rank of Jedi Master.
It's not the same religion, any more than e.g., Satanism and Judaism are the same, even though they share the same lore.
Dear mr uchi (534979):
1. Suspend your disbelief. Enjoy the movie.
2. Yes, Dooku was a Sith Lord (not "Jedi Master") and able to do all kinds of wacky telekinetic tricks. Jedi Masters are capable of similar feats, and should not be seen as constrained by such mundane things as Newtonian physics.
Liberal application of items 1 and 2 will lead away from many dark areas of confusion for you.
I don't buy any computer hardware. Not for myself, anyway. I have engineer clients who need good video for CAD, but they don't need liquid-metal coolant, particularly.
Maybe this will become the standard technology. If it allows for quieter fans to keep the decibel level down to double digits, it might catch on.
Cool.
* ducks *
Anything but "crackers". "Crackers" just has no ring to it at all :-).
I almost added to the list:
Then I thought of a perfectly good reason to fight it. The script kiddeez and "Neo" wannabees hear the term "hacker" applied to black hat activity. They are led to think that messing with other people's systems is what is cool. One day they grow up and start doing something productive, while my time is wasted fighting their idiocy.
Right, that's why I said it wasn't such a "big fat hairy deal". Sorry I wasn't specific.
I think that usually it's better to post a fix for someone rather than waiting to post them for everyone.
This may sound like the tail whinning that the dog doesn't wag, but the vendors may have a legitimate complaint.
The potential for harm is if Mozilla releases a security fix, and the distros don't right away. There's a period of time in which Mozilla version x.y is vulnerable on FooDistLinux, and there's no reasonable expectation for the fix to happen for some period. Since the fix has been released, attackers are on notice that there is are vulnerable systems out there, and they're running Mozilla x.y on FooDistLinux.
Now, mind you, I don't think that's such a big fat hairy deal. But the situation does put minor distros (anything not supported by the official Mozilla site) at a disadvantage. The perception is that the major players are "more secure", since you can get your fix straight from Mozilla.org.
As if they could stop its use as a slang term, or as if that's even a legal action for a company or court to undertake. Trademarks are about advertising, or reference to a product. No one can stop you from merely reusing the words of a trademark.
Companies that get bent out of shape when their product becomes a metaphor need to adjust their attitude. A product such as Hormel's SPAM luncheon meat, with its, er, distinctive physical characteristics, is ripe for similization.
But of course, Hormel doesn't want to lose their trademark to common use. Then, someone could start making generic spam meat. Oh, the horror!
That got translated from the original Attic Greek into common Greek, then into High Latin, then Vulgar Latin, and then into Old French, then soon after that into Old English. When William the Conqueror took over England in 1066, the new language that got created got it a little mixed up at first:
Somehow it doesn't seem to mean quite the same thing, but I can't quite figure out where the difference is.
as a telephone to talk to people. I don't use my landline much, but haven't dropped it yet.
as a text pager. My system monitors and trouble report mail addresses all route to my phone.
tetris on the shitter