Going to a museum is not free, in any sense of the word. I have to pay to get in, I can not modify the works, I can not borrow them to take them home, I can't modify them, heck I can't even look at them too closely usually. I guess that means museums should never be visited and in an ideal world there would be no museums, because they run contrary to one's absolute freedom?
RMS needs to get his head on straight. Software as a service has it's own upsides and pitfalls, just like everything else.
If I am at home I have way too many distractions or potential distractions. The TV, my movies, my games, the kitchen, are all to close by. I only ever get real work done, at work. I have even driven in on the weekend to work on my own side projects sometimes.
This is what many Americans don't get about the BBC. All they think is "it is run by the government, they must have their hands in it".
The reason the BBC can remain so unbiased is because they have no need to profit or grow the company. They know they will be funded next year, they have a government mandate and direct taxation supporting them. Also, it is an arms length from the government. They have a charter to collect the TV tarrif directly - the government does not directly fund them to my knowledge.
Therefore, they don't have to worry about an MP cutting their funding if they run an expose on him.
They don't have to worry about "if we do an expose on ourselves and we look bad we will lose advertising dollars", because they don't run advertising.
They don't have to say "oh we can't do that report on how GE microwaves are faulty, because GE is a huge advertising client".
Since they don't have to worry about markteting and soliciting advertising, they can devote 100% of their time and energy on reporting on the news to the best of their ability.
As a Canadian, where we have the CBC which is funded both through taxpayer dollars AND through advertising, I can see both sides. The CBC is pretty impartial, more so than any American network anyway, but if I had to also have to pay a TV tarrif like people in the UK do, I am unsure if I would be OK with that. Then again, at least that would maybe fund some more decent non-news programming on the CBC.
So you are saying if I buy a lawn mower from Home Depot and then I go in the next day and streak the place and get banned, they should also have the right to re-possess the lawn mower I legally purchased?
How is this any different? He bought a kindle, he bought books for it, then did something totally unrelated Amazon did not like, and they essentially remotely deactivated his device.
Two experimental tasks in psychology, the two-stage gambling game and the Prisoner's Dilemma game....
The way people answer the prisoners dillema game has absolutely nothing to do with wishful thinking or not. The whole idea of the game is that "all rational players will play defect, all things being equal." The thing these researches are forgetting is the last part - all things being equal. All things are NEVER equal when playing the game - because anyone who is thinking rationally knows that the person on the other side of the game has just as high odds of themselves behaving irrationally as behaving rationally. Therefore, it really is a total crapshoot if defecting is beneficial to you or not.
The prisoner's dillema is nothing mroe than a logic puzzle, it is not useful to apply in any given case. The only people who would answer consistently in the prisoner's dillema game are psych students - and that is just because they are trying to show off.
The whole problem is the fact that search engines put weight on keywords in URLs. This has led to the horrible trend of every blog and news site making ungainly urls.
Ever look at the normal URLs on a site like engadget.com ?
Like "http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/15/20/80/News_about_URLs/URLS_on_the_interweb_are_too_long_-_Do_you_agree_news_at_11"
If search engines did not care about keywords in URLs sites would have no reason to do this and could revert to the old fashioned (and much more brief) "/article?id=" type of URL.
Any of them that are not trivial for bots ot parse are way too difficult to read, sometimes taking 2-3 tries before I get it right.
I like the ones better where there is a sentence on the page like "Click on the picture with a baby in it". Then you have a bunch of pictures of animals, with one of them being a baby.
So, the bulb uses 13 watts, has a power factor of 0.6, so really uses 26 watts of electricity.
Seeing how that bulb replaces a 60 watt bulb, still seems like a net gain to me. Last I checked, 26 was less than half og 60.
This article to me seems like yet another attempt to keep lazy people from changing their light bulbs. It is such a simple thing to do and if everyone in North America did it we would save millions upon millions of tonnes of CO2 from the air.
Not to mention hudreds up hundreds of millions of dollars that is essentially lost money to the economy, because those dollars are just paying for a commodity that is being destroyed and thus not adding any economic value.
The summary alludes to the opposite, but Google has been paying AP a license for a long time.
You can see it on most major stores on Google News, if the story originates from the AP, the link goes to a Google-hosted version of the page, rather than to the other site.
Rather, Verizon is rolling out FiOS, because it has no other option. VDSL technology over old twisted-pair phone line has peaked, it has no choice but to roll out FiOS if it wants to keep up with cable.
Your comparison (and the articles) is therefore very foolish. The real question I have is why Comcast is not rolling out DOCSIS 3 - wait, actually I don't have that question, because they are already.
Man I hate misinformed articles and postings... I am not even an American and I know about this.
Best possible way to get this law stuck down - get a high school student to go nude in front of the city hall security camera, and then file child pornogrpahy charges against city hall, and a lawsuit.
Most smartphones have dropped IR since everyone uses bluetooth nowadays. My HTC Touch has no IR port and no newer HTC phones I know of have it either.
So until the entire A/V industry adopts bluetooth (and the only mainstream devices I know of that use Bluetooth for remote control are the Wii and PS3), this is a pipe dream.
You are just a bunch of atoms and molecules being governed by the forces of quantum mechanics. Any idea that you have free will is merely an illusion. Given identical (ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL, down to the quanta) inputs, you will behave in the exact same way.
It is a disturbing thought to people, but it is the truth.
The problem is people still fail to grasp the difference between Javascript and DOM and CSS manipulation....
All Javascript engines have been ECMA compliant for 5 years now. Javascript incomparability is not the problem, it is the DOM and CSS incompatabilities.
He is not talking about shell scripts at all. The whole point of the article is a.desktop file does not need to be +x to execute it, KDE and Gnome execute commands in it automatically regardless. So all they have to do is save it and click on it.
Drugs are only cheaper in Canada because the provincial governments buy them in huge bulk orders via fixed price contracts, since all hospitals are funded by the taxpayer.
For example if all of the hospitals in one US state got together and ordered their drugs in coordinated bulk orders with fixed price contracts, they would get the same prices Canada gets.
I know a simple solution to keep cats from chewing on wires or other things is to take a bunch of hot sauce and rub it on the cables. The first time the cat tries to knaw on it they will taste the hot sauce and immediately stop, after acouple of tries they will not go back. Not sure if this would work for rats or not.
Another cat-specific solution is to spray citrus on the wires, cats hate the smell of citrus.
Anyway the point would be to do some research and find whats rats hate to smell or taste, and just wipe some of that on your cables.
If the copyright claim is based on a public performance, then the person who must be sued in the lawsuit is the performer, because they are the ones infringing on the copyright. In this case, the performer is the kindle itself.
If the kindle is the performer, as an entity without legal status, then the responsible party would be the owner of the entity, in this case, the customer. NOT Amazon.
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... that it should "not be used, EVAR!!!!"
Going to a museum is not free, in any sense of the word. I have to pay to get in, I can not modify the works, I can not borrow them to take them home, I can't modify them, heck I can't even look at them too closely usually. I guess that means museums should never be visited and in an ideal world there would be no museums, because they run contrary to one's absolute freedom?
RMS needs to get his head on straight. Software as a service has it's own upsides and pitfalls, just like everything else.
If I am at home I have way too many distractions or potential distractions. The TV, my movies, my games, the kitchen, are all to close by. I only ever get real work done, at work. I have even driven in on the weekend to work on my own side projects sometimes.
This is what many Americans don't get about the BBC. All they think is "it is run by the government, they must have their hands in it".
The reason the BBC can remain so unbiased is because they have no need to profit or grow the company. They know they will be funded next year, they have a government mandate and direct taxation supporting them. Also, it is an arms length from the government. They have a charter to collect the TV tarrif directly - the government does not directly fund them to my knowledge.
Therefore, they don't have to worry about an MP cutting their funding if they run an expose on him.
They don't have to worry about "if we do an expose on ourselves and we look bad we will lose advertising dollars", because they don't run advertising.
They don't have to say "oh we can't do that report on how GE microwaves are faulty, because GE is a huge advertising client".
Since they don't have to worry about markteting and soliciting advertising, they can devote 100% of their time and energy on reporting on the news to the best of their ability.
As a Canadian, where we have the CBC which is funded both through taxpayer dollars AND through advertising, I can see both sides. The CBC is pretty impartial, more so than any American network anyway, but if I had to also have to pay a TV tarrif like people in the UK do, I am unsure if I would be OK with that. Then again, at least that would maybe fund some more decent non-news programming on the CBC.
So you are saying if I buy a lawn mower from Home Depot and then I go in the next day and streak the place and get banned, they should also have the right to re-possess the lawn mower I legally purchased?
How is this any different? He bought a kindle, he bought books for it, then did something totally unrelated Amazon did not like, and they essentially remotely deactivated his device.
Two experimental tasks in psychology, the two-stage gambling game and the Prisoner's Dilemma game....
The way people answer the prisoners dillema game has absolutely nothing to do with wishful thinking or not. The whole idea of the game is that "all rational players will play defect, all things being equal." The thing these researches are forgetting is the last part - all things being equal. All things are NEVER equal when playing the game - because anyone who is thinking rationally knows that the person on the other side of the game has just as high odds of themselves behaving irrationally as behaving rationally. Therefore, it really is a total crapshoot if defecting is beneficial to you or not.
The prisoner's dillema is nothing mroe than a logic puzzle, it is not useful to apply in any given case. The only people who would answer consistently in the prisoner's dillema game are psych students - and that is just because they are trying to show off.
The whole problem is the fact that search engines put weight on keywords in URLs. This has led to the horrible trend of every blog and news site making ungainly urls.
Ever look at the normal URLs on a site like engadget.com ?
Like "http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/15/20/80/News_about_URLs/URLS_on_the_interweb_are_too_long_-_Do_you_agree_news_at_11"
If search engines did not care about keywords in URLs sites would have no reason to do this and could revert to the old fashioned (and much more brief) "/article?id=" type of URL.
Any of them that are not trivial for bots ot parse are way too difficult to read, sometimes taking 2-3 tries before I get it right.
I like the ones better where there is a sentence on the page like "Click on the picture with a baby in it". Then you have a bunch of pictures of animals, with one of them being a baby.
So, the bulb uses 13 watts, has a power factor of 0.6, so really uses 26 watts of electricity.
Seeing how that bulb replaces a 60 watt bulb, still seems like a net gain to me. Last I checked, 26 was less than half og 60.
This article to me seems like yet another attempt to keep lazy people from changing their light bulbs. It is such a simple thing to do and if everyone in North America did it we would save millions upon millions of tonnes of CO2 from the air.
Not to mention hudreds up hundreds of millions of dollars that is essentially lost money to the economy, because those dollars are just paying for a commodity that is being destroyed and thus not adding any economic value.
The summary alludes to the opposite, but Google has been paying AP a license for a long time.
You can see it on most major stores on Google News, if the story originates from the AP, the link goes to a Google-hosted version of the page, rather than to the other site.
Rather, Verizon is rolling out FiOS, because it has no other option. VDSL technology over old twisted-pair phone line has peaked, it has no choice but to roll out FiOS if it wants to keep up with cable.
Your comparison (and the articles) is therefore very foolish. The real question I have is why Comcast is not rolling out DOCSIS 3 - wait, actually I don't have that question, because they are already.
Man I hate misinformed articles and postings... I am not even an American and I know about this.
It is more like loaning a book to your friend to read, then a week later asking for it back, and also telling him to forget everything he ever read.
Intellectual property is not the same thing as physical property and should not be treated as such.
Best possible way to get this law stuck down - get a high school student to go nude in front of the city hall security camera, and then file child pornogrpahy charges against city hall, and a lawsuit.
They're probably censoring it so that you will want to watch the episode so you can see where it was...
They usually say during the show where they are doing the experiments.
Most smartphones have dropped IR since everyone uses bluetooth nowadays. My HTC Touch has no IR port and no newer HTC phones I know of have it either.
So until the entire A/V industry adopts bluetooth (and the only mainstream devices I know of that use Bluetooth for remote control are the Wii and PS3), this is a pipe dream.
You are just a bunch of atoms and molecules being governed by the forces of quantum mechanics. Any idea that you have free will is merely an illusion. Given identical (ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL, down to the quanta) inputs, you will behave in the exact same way.
It is a disturbing thought to people, but it is the truth.
... I thought this posting was about the economy.
The problem is people still fail to grasp the difference between Javascript and DOM and CSS manipulation....
All Javascript engines have been ECMA compliant for 5 years now. Javascript incomparability is not the problem, it is the DOM and CSS incompatabilities.
If you are calling me then I have a right to know who you are AFAIC.
He is not talking about shell scripts at all. The whole point of the article is a .desktop file does not need to be +x to execute it, KDE and Gnome execute commands in it automatically regardless. So all they have to do is save it and click on it.
Drugs are only cheaper in Canada because the provincial governments buy them in huge bulk orders via fixed price contracts, since all hospitals are funded by the taxpayer.
For example if all of the hospitals in one US state got together and ordered their drugs in coordinated bulk orders with fixed price contracts, they would get the same prices Canada gets.
I know a simple solution to keep cats from chewing on wires or other things is to take a bunch of hot sauce and rub it on the cables. The first time the cat tries to knaw on it they will taste the hot sauce and immediately stop, after acouple of tries they will not go back. Not sure if this would work for rats or not.
Another cat-specific solution is to spray citrus on the wires, cats hate the smell of citrus.
Anyway the point would be to do some research and find whats rats hate to smell or taste, and just wipe some of that on your cables.
For everyone else in the world who does not know what PGO is maybe some details on why it is not enabled would be helpful.
Does that mean the gamers tell the studio how they would want the design input to be handled??
If the copyright claim is based on a public performance, then the person who must be sued in the lawsuit is the performer, because they are the ones infringing on the copyright. In this case, the performer is the kindle itself.
If the kindle is the performer, as an entity without legal status, then the responsible party would be the owner of the entity, in this case, the customer. NOT Amazon.
Does this mean froogle.google.com will finally be able to index Best Buy's catalog?