Google combating who? The only competition is torrent.
Google combating the licensors of the content, who wish their distribution channels in non-US markets to remain free of easy, legal online competition. Pandora has the same issue with streaming audio.
Hulu competes with bt for content delivery, but is also competes with DVDs, VHS, movie theaters, etc. That last one is pretty important -- many movies are just hitting theaters overseas when DVDs or online distribution is released to the US market.
This is one of the most idiotic posts I've ever read on Slashdot. Go back to dailykos.
And that's one of the most idiotic responses I've ever read on slashdot. What exactly is so idiotic about my post?
Let's see... a large portion of blue-collar workers and farmers in the US are xenophobes? Nope, not idiotic -- truth.
Many of these people also believe that politicians are out for themselves, and that politicians make a living off the labors of the working classes? Not idiotic -- truth. And the Republican party has been selling this tothem for ages.
The Republican party is heavily supported by these people? Not idiotic -- truth.
Bobby Jindal is the son of immigrants? Not idiotic -- truth.
I fail to see where the idiocy is, in pointing out the dissonance between what so many people believe, and who their elected leaders have chosen to be the face of that leadership.
Probably because all the "rednecks" are more open-minded and tolerant than you apparently are.
That's a laugh. I grew up with, work with, live next to, and am friends with many rednecks. I consider myself to have strong redneck roots...
The simple truth of the matter is that many of them consider all non-white or immigrant people to be "taking their jobs away", and will loudly proclaim the same. No joke.
But how does society mitigate the effects of earthquakes, especially in areas with very ancient architecture?
Depends on the values you assign to things that can be saved. For example, while some ancient architecture (priceless?) may not be able to be saved, some lives (also priceless?) could be saved.
We can mitigate the damage in human lives, which is a pretty noble achievement, IMO.*
*Especially since those too dumb to evacuate have a higher chance of being removed from the gene and culture pools.
He's a legal citizen, and his parents were also in the country legally. There's a big difference between an 'illegal immigrant' and a 'United States citizen'.
Tell that to the rednecks I know who rail against immigration in general.
3. I'm all for legal immigration anyway. It's just when people conflate 'Juan who swam the Rio Grande, and who is now taking all my tax money via ill-conceived government handouts' and 'Ranjeet, who started here as a student, got a work visa, took the citizenship test, and is now paying taxes right alongside me' I get a little hot under the collar.
I agree. Personally, I think we need to open the floodgates to immigration so we can drive down manufacturing wages and compete in the global economy... but that's just me:). The key is to make sure that high-level jobs requiring specialized knowledge and skills are still compensated well.
If you make a deposit in your account, you cannot cash it until either (1) it clears or (2) a hold is placed on your account in the amount of the check to cover it in case it bounces.
Since your buying power was not affected, this means that you are able to treat the deposited item as cash, investing it in securities. This is only possible if there is a hold on equivalent funds in your account.
What is boils down to is that in order for the funds to be available for you to purchase securities with, a hold has to be placed on covering funds. If Zecco instead had a policy where funds could not be invested until the deposit clears, then you'd be able to withdraw the $10000 without a problem.
Say your buying power is 1x your deposits. Your despoits were 10,000 (100% cleared) and $500 (not cleared). You buy 500 of securities, and withdraw $10000. Then the check bounces. Now you have $0 deposits to cover $500 of securities. Uh-oh... FTC securities violation.
Because of the fact that Zecco needs to make funds available for investment immediately (I dunno if this is statutory, or if it's to compete in the marketplace), they have to place the hold on your $500.
I'm not sold on their evidence. I don't see a huge jump since February of '08 in search popularity
What? Did you even look at the graph you linked to? Sure, it's fairly steady growth, but even just a quick eyeing of the graph shows at least a 50% growth (and that's a VERY conservative estimate -- looks more like 75% to me, but I didn't want to push it).
I don't know about you, but that's pretty damn significant to me.
B-b-b-b-but that contradicts what Rush, Hannity, et al told me he said!
It can't be the truth, it makes it look like Jindal said something purely as a demagogue, and he's not a demogogue, he's a real[1] American.
Surely you're wrong, and you're misquoting him, you libtard!
[1] By real, I mean I have to pretend I like the fact that he pulled himself up by his bootstraps to elected office, which is good because he's not taking any jobs from REAL Merkins who work in factories, just from politicians, who as we know exist to live off the fat of the hard-working Merkins.
/sarcasm
I wonder why all the rednecks aren't having major issues from cognitive dissonance due to the wonderboy of the "New Republican" Party being an immigrant (or the son of one, I don't know where he was born)?
Sigh... and AR means "Accounts Receivable", not "Anal Retentive". Although the two are not mutually exclusive
No, it's short for Ayn Rand, and the C&C department is usually responsible for making sure that all the anarcho-capitalist "Randroids" mind their business.
Can't we take an already popular model (like the Chocolate or Razr or whatever the devil it is the kids consume these days) and just compile it down to match the architecture and write the drivers for the devices on the phone?
1. Joe Sixpack is gonna use whatever OS is on the device they buy.
2. Commercial driver support is needed for this to avoid the hell that linux drivers can become.
People using Android on a phone do not want to mess with the OS on their appliance. For adoption to happen, people must have a smooth transition, and a cobbled-together Android distro for $HARDWARE will turn off a lot of potential users.
That said, do you really want an Android with a Razor? What could it possible need to shave?!.
Or an Android with a Chocolate, or a Blackberry? My wife would leave me in a second for a robot that takes orders and comes bearing sweets.
A million in Roman Numerals would be an M with a horizontal bar over it (the horizontal bar means the numeral should be multiplied by a thousand).
However, this character (M-bar) did not exist in most typefaces when finance was being written about & published extensively for the first time (eighteenth century) so manuscripts we printed using a second 'M' instead.
Since people learned notations from the books they read, the 'MM' abbreviation for millions stuck around, being passed into each new generation of printed books & pamphlets... it's still in heavy use in finance and accounting to this day.
Yes, it's a legacy artifact, but I like it because it disambiguates 'M' from meaning million (as an abbreviation for million) or thousand (from Roman numerals).
Just as programmers have their own set of $LINGOISTIC_TERM, people in finance have theirs. Here are some more examples to help ease your understanding, and to translate from techian:
M -- a thousand. From Roman numerals. P&L -- profit and loss statement. S&M -- Sales and Marketing. Unfortunately. C&D -- Cease and desist. Borrowed from Law. C&C -- an RTS, or a Music Factory. Must be disambiguated via context. $ -- dollar. Not string. Although worth about the same. $$ -- More than one dollar. Not a fascist police organization.
CBA -- Cost-benefit analysis. Or maybe a basketball leage.
ROI - A French king. DM - direct margin. Not a runner of a table-top fantasy game.
I logged in to Zecco 4/1 at around 9:30 AM... my cash-on-hand was off by about $1.6 MM (balance was 1.8 MM instead of 0.2 MM). I immediately instructed Zecco to wire me the excess funds... and the funds hit my bank account at 12:02 PM!
As of today, the money is still in my account, but there is a hold on it. Apparently, the funds transfer was initiated properly, fully authorized... so my bank is holding the funds while I accrue interest on it until they determine final disposition.
Oh hell, who am I kidding... I don't have 0.2 MM in an online investment account. Hell, I don't think I have 0.2 MM is assets, unless you include my wife & daughter, who I could probably sell for that much if I found a good buyer or if there was a bidding war.
There are of course a few regular female contributors, but if I were them I wouldn't bother - you could be deluged with sexist bullshit anywhere.
True. But, it's my opinion that some slashdot female contributors are often modded up just because they are female (especially if they have "girl" in their nick). I've read lengthy posts that are seriously misinformed or offtopic, yet modded to +5 within minutes of posting... that if posted by other users, would have been slagged off with disagreeing posts immediately.
Of course, I'm also of the opinion that most users of a tech site with "girl" in their nick are either aging hairy creepsters in their underwear, or federales.:)
As for achievements being harmless... I disagree. There is potential for good as well as bad -- it's all in the implementation. It changes how users use slashdot, and thus changes the nature of slashdot. I think it can have a positive effect, but one of the things I've always liked about slashdot is how organic it is. Achievements seem like a very heavy-handed way to encourage certain behaviour.
That said, my own nature demands that I collect as many achievements as possible, within reason. This means less time discussing articles, and more time finding ways to collect achievements. Given that you've marked me as a foe, I guess to you that'd be a net positive:).
However I feel that if Google are to be given any rights over works as the ones mentioned then it should be for a limited time only. Perhaps as a reward for taking the initiate and as way for them to profit from their endeavour. But as I said, only for, say 5-10 years, after that the rights to any such material should be freely available to everyone.
They should not be given any rights at all. They can enforce their control over the contents via licensing.
If I go and digitize and publish one of these orphan works myself, Google should not be able to stop me. And I don't believe they'd try. Only the legal copyright holder (or assigned designee) could try to sue me for copyright infringement.
If I try to republish orphan works that Google has digitized, that I acquired from Google -- then fine, I would be profiting from Google's work and they should have recourse against me. But, that recourse should not be enforcement of copyright, it should be violation of contract (which I would have agreed to prior to downloading the work).
The only reason to assign some form of copyright to Google for these works is so that Google could use the legal copyright enforcement structure (and associated laws) to enforce their claim. I don't think that claim is valid, they have legal recourse according to contract law, and since they are not the owners of the copyright, they should be able to make no claims nuder copyright law. Ever (foir these orphaned works).
Google can charge for access, but they can't charge for the work persay.
The phrase you are looking for is per se, it's latin.
Google will be able to provide access to the material, that almost no one else can (since the books are out of print). They are free to sell access to, or to publish, those works (since no one will make a copyright claim against them for these orphaned works).
However, Googoe does NOT have copyright on these works. Anyone else may publish them as well, and Google has no recourse against them, since copyright did not pass to Google.
This is all fine.
Someone could actually copypaste from Google, and publish on their own, and Google would have no legal recourse regarding copyright. However, Google might have recourse based upon their contract with the person who copied from Google... the license contract between Google and the User to access the content might(!) specifically forbid republication, in which case the User could be liable.
I'm a scientist too, and I judge theories based on merit, not popular opinion.
This is contradicted by:
It doesn't explain current observations either: CO2 concentration has steadily increased over the past 100 years, while temperatures have gone up, then down, then up again, then down again (as they are currently). There is no dramatic warming trend as predicted by GW theory.
Look at the data again. There is most assuredly a dramatic warming trend, despite the slight decrease in global mean temperature over the past few years. Run a regression on the data, it's quite clear.
Furthermore, once periodic solar activity is factored in as an ameliorating effect due to lower output over the past few years, it becomes quite clear that the warming trend continues.
If you're such a logic scientist, how could you have missed the bare facts of the data of the past 100 years? And how could you have dismissed the impact of solar activity on temperature?
Seems to me like you don't WANT to believe in GCC, and so you don't bother reading all the evidence and theory.
They will just sign over any oversight they have to the president and be a bunch of rubber-stamping pantywaists
That's why we should remove the oversight responsibility from Congress and assign it to the Union of Retired Postal Workers. Then we could have rubber-pantied stamp wasters.
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Google combating the licensors of the content, who wish their distribution channels in non-US markets to remain free of easy, legal online competition. Pandora has the same issue with streaming audio.
Hulu competes with bt for content delivery, but is also competes with DVDs, VHS, movie theaters, etc. That last one is pretty important -- many movies are just hitting theaters overseas when DVDs or online distribution is released to the US market.
Being most-popular is not an advantage when no one has figured out how to profit from it. Most-popular means highest costs in bandwidth, servers, etc.
Ad spend is shrinking globally. How exactly is YouTube going to make money when everyone and their dog uses their servers and bandwidth for free?
Reminds me of the dotcom boom... sure, we're losing money on every transaction, but we'll make up for it in volume.
And that's one of the most idiotic responses I've ever read on slashdot. What exactly is so idiotic about my post?
Let's see... a large portion of blue-collar workers and farmers in the US are xenophobes? Nope, not idiotic -- truth.
Many of these people also believe that politicians are out for themselves, and that politicians make a living off the labors of the working classes? Not idiotic -- truth. And the Republican party has been selling this tothem for ages.
The Republican party is heavily supported by these people? Not idiotic -- truth.
Bobby Jindal is the son of immigrants? Not idiotic -- truth.
I fail to see where the idiocy is, in pointing out the dissonance between what so many people believe, and who their elected leaders have chosen to be the face of that leadership.
That's a laugh. I grew up with, work with, live next to, and am friends with many rednecks. I consider myself to have strong redneck roots...
The simple truth of the matter is that many of them consider all non-white or immigrant people to be "taking their jobs away", and will loudly proclaim the same. No joke.
Depends on the values you assign to things that can be saved. For example, while some ancient architecture (priceless?) may not be able to be saved, some lives (also priceless?) could be saved.
We can mitigate the damage in human lives, which is a pretty noble achievement, IMO.*
*Especially since those too dumb to evacuate have a higher chance of being removed from the gene and culture pools.
Tell that to the rednecks I know who rail against immigration in general.
I agree. Personally, I think we need to open the floodgates to immigration so we can drive down manufacturing wages and compete in the global economy... but that's just me :). The key is to make sure that high-level jobs requiring specialized knowledge and skills are still compensated well.
Yes, that's correct.
If you make a deposit in your account, you cannot cash it until either (1) it clears or (2) a hold is placed on your account in the amount of the check to cover it in case it bounces.
Since your buying power was not affected, this means that you are able to treat the deposited item as cash, investing it in securities. This is only possible if there is a hold on equivalent funds in your account.
What is boils down to is that in order for the funds to be available for you to purchase securities with, a hold has to be placed on covering funds. If Zecco instead had a policy where funds could not be invested until the deposit clears, then you'd be able to withdraw the $10000 without a problem.
Say your buying power is 1x your deposits. Your despoits were 10,000 (100% cleared) and $500 (not cleared). You buy 500 of securities, and withdraw $10000. Then the check bounces. Now you have $0 deposits to cover $500 of securities. Uh-oh... FTC securities violation.
Because of the fact that Zecco needs to make funds available for investment immediately (I dunno if this is statutory, or if it's to compete in the marketplace), they have to place the hold on your $500.
I prefer Terran.
But if we did want a name for people from Tellus, wouldn't Tellosian be better? It at least fits grammatically.
Sure, SF writers named things that had no name, but that were theorized (by themselves or others).
Some of those names stuck.
But what about all the names that sucked and never stuck? In other words, throw a million darts and surely some will hit the bullseye.
I'm coming up empty right now, but there have to be some obvious ones... like pretty much any scifi term that begins with "med-" or "medi-".
And, of course, as we all know from xkcd, the quality of the fantasy [sci-fi?] novel is inversely proportional to the number of made-up words.
You need to be very careful online.
The problem is that Joe User doesn't understand infosec, and trusts too much. Period.
What? Did you even look at the graph you linked to? Sure, it's fairly steady growth, but even just a quick eyeing of the graph shows at least a 50% growth (and that's a VERY conservative estimate -- looks more like 75% to me, but I didn't want to push it).
I don't know about you, but that's pretty damn significant to me.
B-b-b-b-but that contradicts what Rush, Hannity, et al told me he said!
It can't be the truth, it makes it look like Jindal said something purely as a demagogue, and he's not a demogogue, he's a real[1] American.
Surely you're wrong, and you're misquoting him, you libtard!
[1] By real, I mean I have to pretend I like the fact that he pulled himself up by his bootstraps to elected office, which is good because he's not taking any jobs from REAL Merkins who work in factories, just from politicians, who as we know exist to live off the fat of the hard-working Merkins.
/sarcasm
I wonder why all the rednecks aren't having major issues from cognitive dissonance due to the wonderboy of the "New Republican" Party being an immigrant (or the son of one, I don't know where he was born)?
I made all of that up, it's a guess.
Pretty plausible though, huh?
No, it's short for Ayn Rand, and the C&C department is usually responsible for making sure that all the anarcho-capitalist "Randroids" mind their business.
I was referring to Command & Conquer, but Castles & Crusades works just fine.
C&C in business is Credit & Collections, it's an operating unit responsible for oversight of AR.
1. Joe Sixpack is gonna use whatever OS is on the device they buy.
2. Commercial driver support is needed for this to avoid the hell that linux drivers can become.
People using Android on a phone do not want to mess with the OS on their appliance. For adoption to happen, people must have a smooth transition, and a cobbled-together Android distro for $HARDWARE will turn off a lot of potential users.
That said, do you really want an Android with a Razor? What could it possible need to shave?!.
Or an Android with a Chocolate, or a Blackberry? My wife would leave me in a second for a robot that takes orders and comes bearing sweets.
A million in Roman Numerals would be an M with a horizontal bar over it (the horizontal bar means the numeral should be multiplied by a thousand).
However, this character (M-bar) did not exist in most typefaces when finance was being written about & published extensively for the first time (eighteenth century) so manuscripts we printed using a second 'M' instead.
Since people learned notations from the books they read, the 'MM' abbreviation for millions stuck around, being passed into each new generation of printed books & pamphlets... it's still in heavy use in finance and accounting to this day.
Yes, it's a legacy artifact, but I like it because it disambiguates 'M' from meaning million (as an abbreviation for million) or thousand (from Roman numerals).
Just as programmers have their own set of $LINGOISTIC_TERM, people in finance have theirs. Here are some more examples to help ease your understanding, and to translate from techian:
M -- a thousand. From Roman numerals.
P&L -- profit and loss statement.
S&M -- Sales and Marketing. Unfortunately.
C&D -- Cease and desist. Borrowed from Law.
C&C -- an RTS, or a Music Factory. Must be disambiguated via context.
$ -- dollar. Not string. Although worth about the same.
$$ -- More than one dollar. Not a fascist police organization.
CBA -- Cost-benefit analysis. Or maybe a basketball leage.
ROI - A French king.
DM - direct margin. Not a runner of a table-top fantasy game.
HTH.
I logged in to Zecco 4/1 at around 9:30 AM... my cash-on-hand was off by about $1.6 MM (balance was 1.8 MM instead of 0.2 MM). I immediately instructed Zecco to wire me the excess funds... and the funds hit my bank account at 12:02 PM!
As of today, the money is still in my account, but there is a hold on it. Apparently, the funds transfer was initiated properly, fully authorized... so my bank is holding the funds while I accrue interest on it until they determine final disposition.
Oh hell, who am I kidding... I don't have 0.2 MM in an online investment account. Hell, I don't think I have 0.2 MM is assets, unless you include my wife & daughter, who I could probably sell for that much if I found a good buyer or if there was a bidding war.
Oops... was that my out-loud voice?
True. But, it's my opinion that some slashdot female contributors are often modded up just because they are female (especially if they have "girl" in their nick). I've read lengthy posts that are seriously misinformed or offtopic, yet modded to +5 within minutes of posting... that if posted by other users, would have been slagged off with disagreeing posts immediately.
:)
:).
Of course, I'm also of the opinion that most users of a tech site with "girl" in their nick are either aging hairy creepsters in their underwear, or federales.
As for achievements being harmless... I disagree. There is potential for good as well as bad -- it's all in the implementation. It changes how users use slashdot, and thus changes the nature of slashdot. I think it can have a positive effect, but one of the things I've always liked about slashdot is how organic it is. Achievements seem like a very heavy-handed way to encourage certain behaviour.
That said, my own nature demands that I collect as many achievements as possible, within reason. This means less time discussing articles, and more time finding ways to collect achievements. Given that you've marked me as a foe, I guess to you that'd be a net positive
They should not be given any rights at all. They can enforce their control over the contents via licensing.
If I go and digitize and publish one of these orphan works myself, Google should not be able to stop me. And I don't believe they'd try. Only the legal copyright holder (or assigned designee) could try to sue me for copyright infringement.
If I try to republish orphan works that Google has digitized, that I acquired from Google -- then fine, I would be profiting from Google's work and they should have recourse against me. But, that recourse should not be enforcement of copyright, it should be violation of contract (which I would have agreed to prior to downloading the work).
The only reason to assign some form of copyright to Google for these works is so that Google could use the legal copyright enforcement structure (and associated laws) to enforce their claim. I don't think that claim is valid, they have legal recourse according to contract law, and since they are not the owners of the copyright, they should be able to make no claims nuder copyright law. Ever (foir these orphaned works).
The phrase you are looking for is per se, it's latin.
Google will be able to provide access to the material, that almost no one else can (since the books are out of print). They are free to sell access to, or to publish, those works (since no one will make a copyright claim against them for these orphaned works).
However, Googoe does NOT have copyright on these works. Anyone else may publish them as well, and Google has no recourse against them, since copyright did not pass to Google.
This is all fine.
Someone could actually copypaste from Google, and publish on their own, and Google would have no legal recourse regarding copyright. However, Google might have recourse based upon their contract with the person who copied from Google... the license contract between Google and the User to access the content might(!) specifically forbid republication, in which case the User could be liable.
just bookmark www.slashdot.org/users.pl
This is contradicted by:
Look at the data again. There is most assuredly a dramatic warming trend, despite the slight decrease in global mean temperature over the past few years. Run a regression on the data, it's quite clear.
Furthermore, once periodic solar activity is factored in as an ameliorating effect due to lower output over the past few years, it becomes quite clear that the warming trend continues.
If you're such a logic scientist, how could you have missed the bare facts of the data of the past 100 years? And how could you have dismissed the impact of solar activity on temperature?
Seems to me like you don't WANT to believe in GCC, and so you don't bother reading all the evidence and theory.
That's why we should remove the oversight responsibility from Congress and assign it to the Union of Retired Postal Workers. Then we could have rubber-pantied stamp wasters.
It just sounds like a lot more fun to me.