It seems that some of the damage may be mediated through triglyceride, a cholesterol-like substance found at high levels in rodents fed on trans-fats. When the researchers gave these rats a drug to bring triglyceride levels down again, the animals' performance on the memory tasks improved.
Can't they hire someone who knows what they're talking about to fact check this tripe? This is only a sample of the incredibly poor science contained in this article.
And if it cost me a million dollars to get that information in the first place? It might cost me very little to disseminate it, but if I'm going to go on to do the work to find more information, I'm going to have to have a way to earn that million dollars back. Selling it is just a way to get those who want it to help fund the cost of finding it in the first place.
I'll be the first to say that copyright is way out of whack, and it needs to be taken back to its original term (20 years I believe), but I don't believe that society would be well served by doing away with it entirely.
For the pro-free-everything types: I don't want free movies, music, etc. I want to pay creators for their work. I want the cheapasses who don't want to pay a dime to pay too, so those creators can go on making things I will want to buy. None of this stuff is stuff you need to survive. You won't die if you don't get Brittney Spears latest album. If they want too much, just don't buy it, or wait till it goes on sale, shows up in the second hand shops, or at a flea market or yard sale. You don't have to illegally fileswap.
For the **AA types: I want my fair use. I'll pay for stuff, but I'm not going to pay for what I don't want. The iTunes store should have clued you in to what you should be doing. Draconian DRM, region encoding, lose it all. Come up with DRM that preserves all of my fair use rights and I'll support it.
How about if we give artists a free choice? If they want to set up their own website, great. If they want to sign with an indie label, great. If they want to sign with a RIAA-affiliated label, great. As long as the RIAA-affiliates aren't using deceptive or coercive tactics to stop artists from choosing non-RIAA, there's no reason to step in and interfere with an artist's right to choose RIAA.
But what about consumer end software? About the only way I can see to support that is advertising, and even that is unlikely to work because someone will promptly take the source and make a version with no ad capability. Consumers don't hire programmers to add features to their games, they don't buy support contracts for their banking software, etc.
During a power outage a few years back, I properly stopped at the light that was out, and then went. There was a car coming down the hill to my left. The car behind me came up to the light, and then went as the car to the left hadn't quite reached the intersection yet. The car to the left didn't stop, and barreled right into the driver's side door going 40-45 miles an hour (speed limit is 35 on that street). The driver was critically injured but did pull through.
Since that time, I've gone out to watch nearby intersections when the power goes out. On a very sunny day, probably about 2/3 of people don't stop unless they are prompted to by someone stopping in front of them, and I've witnessed several near misses as a result. Luckily in the daytime, traffic at most intersections tends to be heavy enough that there will be a steady stream of cars and there won't be anybody arriving at the intersection without someone stopped in front of them. Even at night, about 10-20% don't stop. In the daytime, people see red, they see yellow, but a blank light seems to trigger the same brain function as green, i.e., "not red, not yellow".
Well, the "adapter" is also the charging station. I also already have bluetooth installed, so I'm only using it as a charging station. Works just fine. It charges pretty quick, I can get about 8 hours of constant use out of a full charge, and it uses AA NiMH's, so you can swap out if you're really hardcore.
Do you honestly think people would stop pirating stuff if nobody was getting rich off it? The vast majority of people who pirate just want stuff for free, they could care less about how much anybody might get paid if they were to pay for the stuff.
It's a personal thing. I don't like trackballs. I never need to move my mouse more than a couple of inches even when I'm going clear across the screen. Some people prefer the finger movement required of the trackball, and others prefer the arm/hand movement needed by mice.
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I'm using a Logitech MX900 right now, and it's the best mouse I've ever owned.
I dunno. Bill Gates has contested fines and taxes that were levied on him personally. Once he got ticketed for failure to stop at a stop sign, he didn't have proper proof of insurance on him, got cited for that too, and later showed that he did have insurance, just didn't have the card with him. He asked for mitigation of the fine even though it was a piddling amount of money for him.
Then when he had his house built, he contested the assessment on it because he said that the high cost was largely due to the number of change orders involved in the construction, and did not accurately reflect the true market value of the house. Again, the property taxes were piddly compared to his income.
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Um... those satellite images on Google maps are not real time. I found our house, and the house that we used to live in is only a few blocks away. We sold it to a guy who subdivided the lot and built a house in the back yard. The house was completed over three years ago, but there is no sign of it on the Google satellite images.
We bought our house for 272K four years ago, just refi'd it, and it appraised for 370K, and given the asking prices for what is on the market nearby, it doesn't seem out of whack. There is no HOA, there are people nearby who raise chickens, you can paint your house any darned color you like, etc. The problem with these subdivisions with HOA's is that the houses are all cookie cutter, so anything that stands out even a little looks odd. The houses here are quite varied, so difference is the norm rather than being something to be bludgeoned out of existence.
I bought one of those Ionic Breezes out of desperation trying to fix my sinus problems, and it has worked very well for me.
If it doesn't clear particles out of the air, then what is the gunk I am cleaning off of it every week? It picks up way more stuff than any filter style air cleaner I've ever had.
There's at least one other person out there with the same first and last name as me that has welched on some debts, and I've gotten calls from collection agencies trying to collect. Some of them were polite and just took my word that I was not this person, and some were obnoxious and wanted me to give them all kinds of information like my SSN, DOB, and such to "prove" I wasn't this person. They can take a hike.
Pay attention to the quotes from Stallman. Back in those days, everybody pretty much would have compiled their own, prebuilt binaries were largely confined to proprietary vendors targeting a particular platform.
These days, with the standarization of libraries, and POSIX conformance being important, it is much easier to distribute binaries.
I do see your point, but the historical perspective on the time is that Stallman probably never gave or sold anybody a binary in the first place. Of course, $150 was worth a lot more back then than it is now, and there's no way in hell that you could use his business model now to make enough to live on.
In our state, offenders are coded, and level 1 offenders like your 19 year old with a 15 year old girlfriend don't even show up. Some people think I am paranoid and overprotective about my children, I look at the map of level 2 and 3 sex offenders near my house and feel quite justified in that.
Exact addresses are not given, just stuff like "1900 block of 25th Avenue".
The study did not say why this phenomenon occurred, but The Sunday Times quoted a specialist in evolutionary psychology as saying it could be because the children of "systemiser" parents appeared to encounter more testosterone in the womb, making their gender more likely to be male.
We know what these psychologists were doing in biology class, and it wasn't paying attention to what was being taught.
$150. You could get the source from someone else who had it, or if you had internet access you could ftp it. Stallman freely admits he was trying to find a way to make money from free software cuz he was broke.
Hmm... maybe the real losers are those who feel the need to define people who are different as losers instead of just letting people who aren't hurting anybody else just have their fun.
For end user software like Mozilla, the changes would be very small and likely deal with filesystem layout differences. I mostly deal with server packages, where the different distros not only have differences in filesystem layout, but also differences in daemon scripts, log locations, log rotation, privilege levels, etc. When fixes come out, the last thing I want to be doing is sweating over whether I'm getting hacked while I review the patch. I cannot take down the DNS or mail server or whatever down while I take a few hours to review, patch, compile, and QA, and I can't keep an eye on intrusion attempts while I'm doing that either.
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It seems that some of the damage may be mediated through triglyceride, a cholesterol-like substance found at high levels in rodents fed on trans-fats. When the researchers gave these rats a drug to bring triglyceride levels down again, the animals' performance on the memory tasks improved.
Can't they hire someone who knows what they're talking about to fact check this tripe? This is only a sample of the incredibly poor science contained in this article.
And if it cost me a million dollars to get that information in the first place? It might cost me very little to disseminate it, but if I'm going to go on to do the work to find more information, I'm going to have to have a way to earn that million dollars back. Selling it is just a way to get those who want it to help fund the cost of finding it in the first place.
I'll be the first to say that copyright is way out of whack, and it needs to be taken back to its original term (20 years I believe), but I don't believe that society would be well served by doing away with it entirely.
For the pro-free-everything types: I don't want free movies, music, etc. I want to pay creators for their work. I want the cheapasses who don't want to pay a dime to pay too, so those creators can go on making things I will want to buy. None of this stuff is stuff you need to survive. You won't die if you don't get Brittney Spears latest album. If they want too much, just don't buy it, or wait till it goes on sale, shows up in the second hand shops, or at a flea market or yard sale. You don't have to illegally fileswap.
For the **AA types: I want my fair use. I'll pay for stuff, but I'm not going to pay for what I don't want. The iTunes store should have clued you in to what you should be doing. Draconian DRM, region encoding, lose it all. Come up with DRM that preserves all of my fair use rights and I'll support it.
How about if we give artists a free choice? If they want to set up their own website, great. If they want to sign with an indie label, great. If they want to sign with a RIAA-affiliated label, great. As long as the RIAA-affiliates aren't using deceptive or coercive tactics to stop artists from choosing non-RIAA, there's no reason to step in and interfere with an artist's right to choose RIAA.
But what about consumer end software? About the only way I can see to support that is advertising, and even that is unlikely to work because someone will promptly take the source and make a version with no ad capability. Consumers don't hire programmers to add features to their games, they don't buy support contracts for their banking software, etc.
During a power outage a few years back, I properly stopped at the light that was out, and then went. There was a car coming down the hill to my left. The car behind me came up to the light, and then went as the car to the left hadn't quite reached the intersection yet. The car to the left didn't stop, and barreled right into the driver's side door going 40-45 miles an hour (speed limit is 35 on that street). The driver was critically injured but did pull through.
Since that time, I've gone out to watch nearby intersections when the power goes out. On a very sunny day, probably about 2/3 of people don't stop unless they are prompted to by someone stopping in front of them, and I've witnessed several near misses as a result. Luckily in the daytime, traffic at most intersections tends to be heavy enough that there will be a steady stream of cars and there won't be anybody arriving at the intersection without someone stopped in front of them. Even at night, about 10-20% don't stop. In the daytime, people see red, they see yellow, but a blank light seems to trigger the same brain function as green, i.e., "not red, not yellow".
Well, the "adapter" is also the charging station. I also already have bluetooth installed, so I'm only using it as a charging station. Works just fine. It charges pretty quick, I can get about 8 hours of constant use out of a full charge, and it uses AA NiMH's, so you can swap out if you're really hardcore.
Do you honestly think people would stop pirating stuff if nobody was getting rich off it? The vast majority of people who pirate just want stuff for free, they could care less about how much anybody might get paid if they were to pay for the stuff.
It's a personal thing. I don't like trackballs. I never need to move my mouse more than a couple of inches even when I'm going clear across the screen. Some people prefer the finger movement required of the trackball, and others prefer the arm/hand movement needed by mice.
I'm using a Logitech MX900 right now, and it's the best mouse I've ever owned.
Yet.
I dunno. Bill Gates has contested fines and taxes that were levied on him personally. Once he got ticketed for failure to stop at a stop sign, he didn't have proper proof of insurance on him, got cited for that too, and later showed that he did have insurance, just didn't have the card with him. He asked for mitigation of the fine even though it was a piddling amount of money for him.
Then when he had his house built, he contested the assessment on it because he said that the high cost was largely due to the number of change orders involved in the construction, and did not accurately reflect the true market value of the house. Again, the property taxes were piddly compared to his income.
Um... those satellite images on Google maps are not real time. I found our house, and the house that we used to live in is only a few blocks away. We sold it to a guy who subdivided the lot and built a house in the back yard. The house was completed over three years ago, but there is no sign of it on the Google satellite images.
We bought our house for 272K four years ago, just refi'd it, and it appraised for 370K, and given the asking prices for what is on the market nearby, it doesn't seem out of whack. There is no HOA, there are people nearby who raise chickens, you can paint your house any darned color you like, etc. The problem with these subdivisions with HOA's is that the houses are all cookie cutter, so anything that stands out even a little looks odd. The houses here are quite varied, so difference is the norm rather than being something to be bludgeoned out of existence.
I bought one of those Ionic Breezes out of desperation trying to fix my sinus problems, and it has worked very well for me.
If it doesn't clear particles out of the air, then what is the gunk I am cleaning off of it every week? It picks up way more stuff than any filter style air cleaner I've ever had.
Might also be based on your IP. Owell.
Get yourself an account. No capcha's for me.
There's at least one other person out there with the same first and last name as me that has welched on some debts, and I've gotten calls from collection agencies trying to collect. Some of them were polite and just took my word that I was not this person, and some were obnoxious and wanted me to give them all kinds of information like my SSN, DOB, and such to "prove" I wasn't this person. They can take a hike.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200505091 40911151
Pay attention to the quotes from Stallman. Back in those days, everybody pretty much would have compiled their own, prebuilt binaries were largely confined to proprietary vendors targeting a particular platform.
These days, with the standarization of libraries, and POSIX conformance being important, it is much easier to distribute binaries.
I do see your point, but the historical perspective on the time is that Stallman probably never gave or sold anybody a binary in the first place. Of course, $150 was worth a lot more back then than it is now, and there's no way in hell that you could use his business model now to make enough to live on.
In our state, offenders are coded, and level 1 offenders like your 19 year old with a 15 year old girlfriend don't even show up. Some people think I am paranoid and overprotective about my children, I look at the map of level 2 and 3 sex offenders near my house and feel quite justified in that.
Exact addresses are not given, just stuff like "1900 block of 25th Avenue".
The study did not say why this phenomenon occurred, but The Sunday Times quoted a specialist in evolutionary psychology as saying it could be because the children of "systemiser" parents appeared to encounter more testosterone in the womb, making their gender more likely to be male.
We know what these psychologists were doing in biology class, and it wasn't paying attention to what was being taught.
$150. You could get the source from someone else who had it, or if you had internet access you could ftp it. Stallman freely admits he was trying to find a way to make money from free software cuz he was broke.
Hmm... maybe the real losers are those who feel the need to define people who are different as losers instead of just letting people who aren't hurting anybody else just have their fun.
I like disco.
"Do the Hustle."
The same thing was posted a few stories down with "OpenBSD 3.7".
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It's been done to death.
For end user software like Mozilla, the changes would be very small and likely deal with filesystem layout differences. I mostly deal with server packages, where the different distros not only have differences in filesystem layout, but also differences in daemon scripts, log locations, log rotation, privilege levels, etc. When fixes come out, the last thing I want to be doing is sweating over whether I'm getting hacked while I review the patch. I cannot take down the DNS or mail server or whatever down while I take a few hours to review, patch, compile, and QA, and I can't keep an eye on intrusion attempts while I'm doing that either.