I see people all the time argue about the slow pace of science. And it's true, it does take a long time. But I have to wonder how well they follow the science related to climatology when they use "slow pace" as argument against anthropogenic global warming.
Even if we only go back to Hansen's first global temp paper, that was in 1987--now 23 years ago. That's a generation. A kid who was 5 years old when that paper was published would today be old enough to hold a Ph.D. in climatology.
My point is that the science behind climatology has proceeded at a slow and deliberate pace. If you read the ending of the Arrhenius page, you'll get a sense of how far biology has come during the same time period.
To code for Apple iPhone OS you use an open standard (Objective C), but most people only know how to work with it in a proprietary IDE (Xcode). It runs in a proprietary, closed environment (iPhone OS) and can provide a fun gaming experience, as well as access and play H.264 video.
To code for Adobe Flash you use an open standard (SWF), but most people only know how to work with it in a proprietary IDE (Flash). It runs in a proprietary, closed environment (Flash Player) and can provide a fun gaming experience, as well as access and play H.264 video.
So though it's all about control, I don't see how one is any better than the other.
Compare the directly measured temperatures of the last 100 years to any number of proxies for the last 1000 years and it shows we are higher now. That's true even if you completely disregard everything Mann has ever published.
There's more to paleoclimate reconstruction than tree rings. In fact it's essential to explore unrelated proxies for correlations. Mann did this and so have several others.
When I was at Beloit College I had a writing teacher who used the "red thread" in a Band Aid wrapper as a metaphor for the idea that ties an essay or story together. I had not heard that metaphor before, nor since. Where did you hear of it? Thanks.
That's just the nature of a big story. Most people can't read a work like Lord of the Rings or the Harry Potter series for the first time without having to go back to remind themselves of some back story occasionally. When my wife read Steinbeck's East of Eden for the first time, she had to draw out family trees to refer to as she went.
In the good old days of film, there was no "open source" and the entire ecosystem was patent encumbered. That did not prevent the development of independent film.
The patent regime behind the tools has nothing to do with the freedom of authorship using those tools. What patents covered the technologies used to make "Casablanca" or "Reservoir Dogs?" Does anyone care? No.
To content creators, patents show up as costs when they buy their tools. Even taking those into account, it's still cheaper and easier today to shoot, produce, and distribute films than ever before.
You gotta read all the way down when you're citing articles--the NY Times and Billboard analyses are based on faulty assumptions and the articles were updated to reflect that.
I doubt very much that Apple loses any money on the iTMS. However, it's clear that they don't make much profit on it, especially compared to their other businesses.
They could even be sleazy and open up shops that almost look like the same name depending on the font used.
They would not need to, since they control the pipe through which all your traffic passes. They could simply load their site and set their DNS to call it "amazon.com". Or redirect all requests for "amazon.com" to "ISP-shop.com" whether you want them to or not.
If gold was the best basis for money, we would still be using it as such. Sometimes historical success is just proof that better options were not yet available at the time.
Evolution is not a human conceit, it is a physical system that arose naturally from the structure of the universe. I don't see any reason to believe it will somehow work differently elsewhere, given that we believe things like gravity and electromagnetism work the same everywhere.
The new Whitehouse site was developed by a team of private contractors including Acquia, Phase 2 Technologies, and General Dynamics IT. The modules are posted to Drupal.org by staff from Acquia and Phase 2, so I would assume they hold the copyrights.
My company worked with Phase 2 on a Drupal site and the contract did make provisions for them to retain the copyright of certain kinds of work.
The best reason to use a credit card is that there are federal protections on credit cards that do not apply to cash. For instance, if you are mugged and promptly notify your CC company that your credit card was stolen, you cannot be held liable for more than $50 of charges to the card by criminals, by federal law. But if you are mugged and they take your cash, it's gone.
The other two responses are right--you're just changing presentation, not the content itself.
To answer your question more broadly, copyright law concerns itself almost entirely with distribution. If you buy a copy of "Harry Potter" and take it home and scratch out half the words, technically you've altered a copyrighted work. But unless you try to redistribute it, no one is going to care.
Your ISP is redistributing the Web sites that they carry across their wires, so yeah, they would probably get in trouble if they started altering the code on its way to you.
I have not seen the outcry you're talking about. I think this post is just another angle for people to rail against Apple's policies.
Which is fine, BTW! People are certainly welcome to do so, and to an extent I agree with the outcry. But I object to the implied victimhood here--of a person beset upon by the horde.
Jailbreaking is very likely legal due to the first sale doctrine. But it hasn't been tested mainly because Apple has yet to go after a single customer for jailbreaking a product they own. They won't honor the warranty, but they're not bothering them either. It's the right place for a tech company to be IMO. If I install a new engine management chip in my Civic, Honda won't honor that warranty either.
When you don't have to forage for food all day, you can spend more time fighting and get good at fighting. When you don't have to fight all day, you can spend more time foraging for food and get good at it. Two specialized individuals, with complementary skill sets, can accomplish more than two generalists with mostly overlapping skill sets.
With all due respect to Heinlein, whose works I enjoy very much, let's not take that quote to seriously. Heinlein did not do all those things, and the ones he did do, he had the luxury of choosing to do because he was so proficient at his chosen specialization.
Sequentially target each star within a selected radius and you get way more energy on target.
Only if you have a very precise measurement off the relative velocities between the stars to "lead" the other star just right. Otherwise the target star will be long gone when your laser wavefront gets there years later.
Jumping into this conversation I know, but I just wanted to add that for me, the reflections issue is also mitigated by how bright the new backlights are. They are ridiculously bright. When I'm working in a typical indoors environment I have my MacBook Pro screen turned down to one quarter of the max brightness. When I get reflections I can adjust the angle (as the other poster said), but turning up the brightness is sometimes enough on its own.
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Comparing is not the same thing as grafting.
I see people all the time argue about the slow pace of science. And it's true, it does take a long time. But I have to wonder how well they follow the science related to climatology when they use "slow pace" as argument against anthropogenic global warming.
The greenhouse effect was discovered in the early 19th century. Climate sensitivity due to CO2 was first estimated at the turn of the century. The Keeling measurement of atmospheric CO2 was begun in 1958.
Even if we only go back to Hansen's first global temp paper, that was in 1987--now 23 years ago. That's a generation. A kid who was 5 years old when that paper was published would today be old enough to hold a Ph.D. in climatology.
My point is that the science behind climatology has proceeded at a slow and deliberate pace. If you read the ending of the Arrhenius page, you'll get a sense of how far biology has come during the same time period.
Let's compare.
To code for Apple iPhone OS you use an open standard (Objective C), but most people only know how to work with it in a proprietary IDE (Xcode). It runs in a proprietary, closed environment (iPhone OS) and can provide a fun gaming experience, as well as access and play H.264 video.
To code for Adobe Flash you use an open standard (SWF), but most people only know how to work with it in a proprietary IDE (Flash). It runs in a proprietary, closed environment (Flash Player) and can provide a fun gaming experience, as well as access and play H.264 video.
So though it's all about control, I don't see how one is any better than the other.
Compare the directly measured temperatures of the last 100 years to any number of proxies for the last 1000 years and it shows we are higher now. That's true even if you completely disregard everything Mann has ever published.
There's more to paleoclimate reconstruction than tree rings. In fact it's essential to explore unrelated proxies for correlations. Mann did this and so have several others.
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch6s6-6.html
So how do you explain the other studies that have since come to similar conclusions using independent lines of study?
When I was at Beloit College I had a writing teacher who used the "red thread" in a Band Aid wrapper as a metaphor for the idea that ties an essay or story together. I had not heard that metaphor before, nor since. Where did you hear of it? Thanks.
That's just the nature of a big story. Most people can't read a work like Lord of the Rings or the Harry Potter series for the first time without having to go back to remind themselves of some back story occasionally. When my wife read Steinbeck's East of Eden for the first time, she had to draw out family trees to refer to as she went.
Don't worry, all those new characters are incidentals who will be dead shortly.
In the good old days of film, there was no "open source" and the entire ecosystem was patent encumbered. That did not prevent the development of independent film.
The patent regime behind the tools has nothing to do with the freedom of authorship using those tools. What patents covered the technologies used to make "Casablanca" or "Reservoir Dogs?" Does anyone care? No.
To content creators, patents show up as costs when they buy their tools. Even taking those into account, it's still cheaper and easier today to shoot, produce, and distribute films than ever before.
You gotta read all the way down when you're citing articles--the NY Times and Billboard analyses are based on faulty assumptions and the articles were updated to reflect that.
I doubt very much that Apple loses any money on the iTMS. However, it's clear that they don't make much profit on it, especially compared to their other businesses.
They could even be sleazy and open up shops that almost look like the same name depending on the font used.
They would not need to, since they control the pipe through which all your traffic passes. They could simply load their site and set their DNS to call it "amazon.com". Or redirect all requests for "amazon.com" to "ISP-shop.com" whether you want them to or not.
If gold was the best basis for money, we would still be using it as such. Sometimes historical success is just proof that better options were not yet available at the time.
Evolution is not a human conceit, it is a physical system that arose naturally from the structure of the universe. I don't see any reason to believe it will somehow work differently elsewhere, given that we believe things like gravity and electromagnetism work the same everywhere.
The new Whitehouse site was developed by a team of private contractors including Acquia, Phase 2 Technologies, and General Dynamics IT. The modules are posted to Drupal.org by staff from Acquia and Phase 2, so I would assume they hold the copyrights.
My company worked with Phase 2 on a Drupal site and the contract did make provisions for them to retain the copyright of certain kinds of work.
The best reason to use a credit card is that there are federal protections on credit cards that do not apply to cash. For instance, if you are mugged and promptly notify your CC company that your credit card was stolen, you cannot be held liable for more than $50 of charges to the card by criminals, by federal law. But if you are mugged and they take your cash, it's gone.
Those are all things that make gold great for bartering. That's not the same thing as currency though.
He obviously thinks that they can sell more phones by employing a marketing message built around morals. This post nailed it.
The other two responses are right--you're just changing presentation, not the content itself.
To answer your question more broadly, copyright law concerns itself almost entirely with distribution. If you buy a copy of "Harry Potter" and take it home and scratch out half the words, technically you've altered a copyrighted work. But unless you try to redistribute it, no one is going to care.
Your ISP is redistributing the Web sites that they carry across their wires, so yeah, they would probably get in trouble if they started altering the code on its way to you.
I have not seen the outcry you're talking about. I think this post is just another angle for people to rail against Apple's policies.
Which is fine, BTW! People are certainly welcome to do so, and to an extent I agree with the outcry. But I object to the implied victimhood here--of a person beset upon by the horde.
Jailbreaking is very likely legal due to the first sale doctrine. But it hasn't been tested mainly because Apple has yet to go after a single customer for jailbreaking a product they own. They won't honor the warranty, but they're not bothering them either. It's the right place for a tech company to be IMO. If I install a new engine management chip in my Civic, Honda won't honor that warranty either.
At least, not in the scale of the global climate. The problems its causing are related to its very inconvenient location.
When you don't have to forage for food all day, you can spend more time fighting and get good at fighting. When you don't have to fight all day, you can spend more time foraging for food and get good at it. Two specialized individuals, with complementary skill sets, can accomplish more than two generalists with mostly overlapping skill sets.
With all due respect to Heinlein, whose works I enjoy very much, let's not take that quote to seriously. Heinlein did not do all those things, and the ones he did do, he had the luxury of choosing to do because he was so proficient at his chosen specialization.
Sequentially target each star within a selected radius and you get way more energy on target.
Only if you have a very precise measurement off the relative velocities between the stars to "lead" the other star just right. Otherwise the target star will be long gone when your laser wavefront gets there years later.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oAB83Z1ydE
So much for the crazy and rebellious ones...app not approved.
Jumping into this conversation I know, but I just wanted to add that for me, the reflections issue is also mitigated by how bright the new backlights are. They are ridiculously bright. When I'm working in a typical indoors environment I have my MacBook Pro screen turned down to one quarter of the max brightness. When I get reflections I can adjust the angle (as the other poster said), but turning up the brightness is sometimes enough on its own.