"I cannot think of a single significant innovation in either the creation or distribution of works of authorship that owes its origins to the copyright industries."
I'm no fan of the ridiculous terms of copyright law, but I suspect a lot of innovation has happened as an indirect cause of it. The creation of high tech rendering would likely have never materialized if...
1. Its creators thought their software could/would be freely copied. ILM and Pixar have spent a lot of bones to do what they can do. 2. The creators of movies (Toy Story, Wall-E, Monsters Inc, LOTR, etc)used with that technology thought they couldn't get a return on their multi million $$ investments.
In the day of eBay and world reaching online marketplaces, the easy answer is to get another one just like what you had. It met all your requirements and the only thing that you state has changed is it has worn out. I'm sure there is a brand new or nearly new one out there waiting to be found. Also, it should be cheap since it is so old. Yuo may find though, that you don't get as lucky as you did the first one. Some people have cars for 15+ years also, then get a replacement that only lasts 5.
"When we want to study the Civil War, we could go spend some time actually visiting historic battles sites. When we want to study the Revolution, we can go to Boston and look at the Boston Harbor.When we study desert ecosystems, we could go to the desert."
That sounds good and all, but Boston Harbor is downtown and is just a dirty body of water loaded with jellyfish. Not exactly a great learning experience. Most historic battle sites are sections of woods with a few plaques talking about what happened. Again, possibly not the best use of time if you actually want to learn something. The desert trip could be interesting, but again, its a lot of effort to learn very little.
Now I'm not against travel. I went to China for 2 weeks this summer for fun. I also learned a lot. Still, if I was just wanting to learn, I could have done a lot better by reading a few books and saved myself about 35 hours of being squeezed on a plane.
I feel some of the posts here have been misleading. I'm sure I'm not alone, but I have exited/returned to the US 3 times in the last 12 months. I have traveled to Costa Rica, taken a cruise to Mexico, and traveled to China. All those could be potential stops for various illegal activities. I took a laptop, phones, and cameras on all trips.
While customs could have looked at my stuff, they never even asked about it. All 3 had literally hundreds of people trying to pass through customs as fast as they could. Customs asked 2-3 questions mostly to see if I had plants and then moved me along. Some people's post seem to be implying that by passing through customs with a laptop you are guaranteed for them to do an forensic level inspection and keep it indefinately. While that is possible, it seems highly unlikely from my experiences.
Customs workers are just regular people that hate their jobs, want to get through their shifs, and can't wait to go home. Sure, if they got a speeding ticket they mey be grumpy and pass the grief onto others, but there is no major conspiracy to take people's computers and archive their data for the ages.
If she planned to fight defamation by being called a skank and/or a ho, I wonder what the person's defense would be. That she is a skank and is known to have done A and B, and exhibits ho properties including X and Y.
"The rest came from reading the MS EULA for either Windows2000 or Office2000 at work. [My reaction to it was "This is a suicide note for any business that signs it!". The company lawyer's attitude was "No court will uphold this". He wouldn't realize that MS was capable of enforcing the EULA via technical measures, and that this was only to make their actions legal.])" -------------------
You're right. Look at what is happening to all the failing companies in this economy. I bet they all use M$ products and signed their EULAs.
The last I heard, the moon is still affected by gravity. Therefore, even if the moon split in 2, it would still be held together and its orbit would not deviate. So, how would this event potentially be "radically changing the gravitational pull, disrupting global tidal patterns and forever altering the global weather pattern"?
You want internet access on your terms? Then pay for it. Get a Verizon/Sprint card and access the internet using that. They are all of $50/month and compared to the tuition you are paying, that is nothing. Or, you could surf using their terms while on campus and do whatever you believe should be "private" when off campus.
This sounds good, but not the end all. The Wii controller can make things fun, but anyone who has used it much know how tiring it can be to have to stand or use full body motions for games for an extended period. Sometimes I just want to veg out on the couch and play a game. If I have to flail my arms all over the place I'm going to often consider it more work than fun.
Ok, I should have looked this up first, http://www.tpl.org/tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=22900&folder_id=630 claims to be the Nation's Largest Elementary School with 1974 student. Not quite thousands and not exactly typical. Rarely in any other place than NY would you see a population density where that could even happen yet you speak of it as a common place occurance.
Actually, according to http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d05/tables/dt05_096.asp, there are 65k elementary schools in the US and the average student population is 476. Florida has the largest average size at 737 and that is still well below your "thousands" statement. Even then there are only 15 states that have average sizes over 500 and 21 have less than 400 students on average.
You say you work for a fortune 15 company. Well, from this link (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2008/full_list/) #15 is IBM. I find it likely that is where you work. If you had said a fortune 100, or even 50 it wouldn't be so obvious. The only more obvious thing you could say would be "I work for a fortune 17 company that I can't name" or "I work for an undisclosed fortune 1 company."
I'm slightly over 35 and my wife is 31 and we pay for cable and NEVER watch sports. We don't even watch things like the superbowl or any big playoffs. Yes, we have high speed interent access, but its still nice to just flip through channels.
It seems a lot of people here believe the biggest reason for sending people into space is the ability for mankind to survive if/when a cataclysmic event happens. That could be 500+ years in the future. Supposedly we need to colonize other planets/solar systems to ensure mankind exists forever.
The question I ask is, why? Why do you care that mankind exists forever? I understand you don't want to die, or have your children or grandchildren suffer. If something were to happen in 1000 years from now though, why do you care. It will be to people who will never know you existed or 10 generations after you. They likely won't know who Bush was, who Brad Pitt was, who Elvis was, or even who Billy Dee Williams is!!
Hey, I like my fellow man and am not looking for the end of the world, but I don't care that much on the state of mankind in 5000 years either. I also contend that it would be easier and quicker for people to learn to live under the sea than in deep space.
It would be easier to connect to the site form an free wireless connection. Where I live, some McDonalds, coffee shops, Duncan Donuts, and other places offer free wifi. Just goto one of those, connect with a VM of whatever you like and do your business. When done, revert to your snapshot of how it looked before and whatever virus or trojan they pushed on you should be eradicated.
I would prefer a urine analysis test to this. I have to pee all the time and the ability to pee right at my wortstation would be welcome. My screensaver kicks in every 15 minutes though so it would keep me healthy by forcing me to drink my 8 glasses of water per day so I could stay logged in.
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Wasn't the Bill of Rights and entire Constitution made in a secret meeting not privy to the public by a very small group of men?
"I cannot think of a single significant innovation in either the creation or distribution of works of authorship that owes its origins to the copyright industries."
I'm no fan of the ridiculous terms of copyright law, but I suspect a lot of innovation has happened as an indirect cause of it. The creation of high tech rendering would likely have never materialized if...
1. Its creators thought their software could/would be freely copied. ILM and Pixar have spent a lot of bones to do what they can do.
2. The creators of movies (Toy Story, Wall-E, Monsters Inc, LOTR, etc)used with that technology thought they couldn't get a return on their multi million $$ investments.
In the day of eBay and world reaching online marketplaces, the easy answer is to get another one just like what you had. It met all your requirements and the only thing that you state has changed is it has worn out. I'm sure there is a brand new or nearly new one out there waiting to be found. Also, it should be cheap since it is so old. Yuo may find though, that you don't get as lucky as you did the first one. Some people have cars for 15+ years also, then get a replacement that only lasts 5.
Maybe they only had a 2.7TB drive?
"When we want to study the Civil War, we could go spend some time actually visiting historic battles sites. When we want to study the Revolution, we can go to Boston and look at the Boston Harbor.When we study desert ecosystems, we could go to the desert."
That sounds good and all, but Boston Harbor is downtown and is just a dirty body of water loaded with jellyfish. Not exactly a great learning experience. Most historic battle sites are sections of woods with a few plaques talking about what happened. Again, possibly not the best use of time if you actually want to learn something. The desert trip could be interesting, but again, its a lot of effort to learn very little.
Now I'm not against travel. I went to China for 2 weeks this summer for fun. I also learned a lot. Still, if I was just wanting to learn, I could have done a lot better by reading a few books and saved myself about 35 hours of being squeezed on a plane.
I feel some of the posts here have been misleading. I'm sure I'm not alone, but I have exited/returned to the US 3 times in the last 12 months. I have traveled to Costa Rica, taken a cruise to Mexico, and traveled to China. All those could be potential stops for various illegal activities. I took a laptop, phones, and cameras on all trips.
While customs could have looked at my stuff, they never even asked about it. All 3 had literally hundreds of people trying to pass through customs as fast as they could. Customs asked 2-3 questions mostly to see if I had plants and then moved me along. Some people's post seem to be implying that by passing through customs with a laptop you are guaranteed for them to do an forensic level inspection and keep it indefinately. While that is possible, it seems highly unlikely from my experiences.
Customs workers are just regular people that hate their jobs, want to get through their shifs, and can't wait to go home. Sure, if they got a speeding ticket they mey be grumpy and pass the grief onto others, but there is no major conspiracy to take people's computers and archive their data for the ages.
If she planned to fight defamation by being called a skank and/or a ho, I wonder what the person's defense would be. That she is a skank and is known to have done A and B, and exhibits ho properties including X and Y.
for $6/hour. I need someone to cut my grass. Problem solved, case closed.
"The rest came from reading the MS EULA for either Windows2000 or Office2000 at work. [My reaction to it was "This is a suicide note for any business that signs it!". The company lawyer's attitude was "No court will uphold this". He wouldn't realize that MS was capable of enforcing the EULA via technical measures, and that this was only to make their actions legal.])"
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You're right. Look at what is happening to all the failing companies in this economy. I bet they all use M$ products and signed their EULAs.
The last I heard, the moon is still affected by gravity. Therefore, even if the moon split in 2, it would still be held together and its orbit would not deviate. So, how would this event potentially be "radically changing the gravitational pull, disrupting global tidal patterns and forever altering the global weather pattern"?
You want internet access on your terms? Then pay for it. Get a Verizon/Sprint card and access the internet using that. They are all of $50/month and compared to the tuition you are paying, that is nothing. Or, you could surf using their terms while on campus and do whatever you believe should be "private" when off campus.
This sounds good, but not the end all. The Wii controller can make things fun, but anyone who has used it much know how tiring it can be to have to stand or use full body motions for games for an extended period. Sometimes I just want to veg out on the couch and play a game. If I have to flail my arms all over the place I'm going to often consider it more work than fun.
Ok, I should have looked this up first, http://www.tpl.org/tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=22900&folder_id=630 claims to be the Nation's Largest Elementary School with 1974 student. Not quite thousands and not exactly typical. Rarely in any other place than NY would you see a population density where that could even happen yet you speak of it as a common place occurance.
Actually, according to http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d05/tables/dt05_096.asp, there are 65k elementary schools in the US and the average student population is 476. Florida has the largest average size at 737 and that is still well below your "thousands" statement. Even then there are only 15 states that have average sizes over 500 and 21 have less than 400 students on average.
I don't believe you. Name this school that has "several thousand students".
You say you work for a fortune 15 company. Well, from this link (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2008/full_list/) #15 is IBM. I find it likely that is where you work. If you had said a fortune 100, or even 50 it wouldn't be so obvious. The only more obvious thing you could say would be "I work for a fortune 17 company that I can't name" or "I work for an undisclosed fortune 1 company."
I'm slightly over 35 and my wife is 31 and we pay for cable and NEVER watch sports. We don't even watch things like the superbowl or any big playoffs. Yes, we have high speed interent access, but its still nice to just flip through channels.
I"ve said it before and I'll say it again, women and seamen don't mix!
It seems a lot of people here believe the biggest reason for sending people into space is the ability for mankind to survive if/when a cataclysmic event happens. That could be 500+ years in the future. Supposedly we need to colonize other planets/solar systems to ensure mankind exists forever.
The question I ask is, why? Why do you care that mankind exists forever? I understand you don't want to die, or have your children or grandchildren suffer. If something were to happen in 1000 years from now though, why do you care. It will be to people who will never know you existed or 10 generations after you. They likely won't know who Bush was, who Brad Pitt was, who Elvis was, or even who Billy Dee Williams is!!
Hey, I like my fellow man and am not looking for the end of the world, but I don't care that much on the state of mankind in 5000 years either. I also contend that it would be easier and quicker for people to learn to live under the sea than in deep space.
It would be easier to connect to the site form an free wireless connection. Where I live, some McDonalds, coffee shops, Duncan Donuts, and other places offer free wifi. Just goto one of those, connect with a VM of whatever you like and do your business. When done, revert to your snapshot of how it looked before and whatever virus or trojan they pushed on you should be eradicated.
I would prefer a urine analysis test to this. I have to pee all the time and the ability to pee right at my wortstation would be welcome. My screensaver kicks in every 15 minutes though so it would keep me healthy by forcing me to drink my 8 glasses of water per day so I could stay logged in.
While periodic pen testing is a good thing, doing it to your own boxes as a service seems to be a slight conflict of interest.
I think it would be better for the 100 people to start taking nonstop pictures of the cop once he starts harassing the initial photographer.
Call me when they open source a milkshake machine.
This is creepily similar to defense against the dark arts? Snape, are you there?
"Any piece of technology will advance until it has an MP3 player function. This includes household appliances, and, apparently, the DS."
I hereby claim this bit of brilliance that I didn't come up with as "MooseTick's Law"