Amen. Widescreens for general computer usage are a scam: higher diagonal measure (stupid "x inches" measurement that doesn't mean shit) with less surface area.
For widescreen movies, it makes a little sense. For web browsing / reading / any vertical activity, it is horrid. For just about any other application square is better as well.
It's not just rural areas. Suburban areas often have terrible DSL coverage. 5 miles out of a town of 55 thousand people, in a county of 250 thousand people, is beyond the "coverage limit" for DSL.
"it is the right of governments to decide what they make public and not"
That is insane - the exact opposite of every advance that has been made in government since the Enlightenment. If you give the government the right to total obscurity, that is tantamount to total lack of accountability, and they will use it to hide their corruption completely. In no time at all you will have a dictatorship.
"Imitation of [Author X]'s writing style" would cover any written satire of the author. Since satire is universally accepted as protected and allowed under copyright law, imitation of style cannot be considered copyright infringement.
As a matter of fact this extends beyond writing to all works that can be copyrighted. Imitation of style covers, essentially, any possible satire.
Then you run into the obfuscation problem again. And polymorphic code is used heavily in DRM and anti-cheat software now, so that in itself would not fit a negative signature. At that point you either have to know in advance how to unpack the meaningful code (back to our signature problem) or run the thing (back to the halting problem).
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I horribly disagree with everything you said, up to your last point. Why the fuck does the government give marriage licenses in the first place? Everyone who wants to marry should be given a civil union, and then do whatever ceremony they want for their marriage. If the Catholic Church doesn't allow gay marriages, well you're fucked if you are a gay Catholic because it is their right under religious freedom.
The whole concept of government marriage licenses is bad.
Bush. Bush is well below the threshold of "stupid enough to vote for someone based on inane bullshit criteria". Note, I'm sure there are people stupider than Bush who voted for him, but not all of them.
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I always heard it was a Grassy Gnoll who shot JFK
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It can be fun playing the waveform of a given function as a sound. Coolest Mathematica feature :D.
Bastard beat me to it :/
Reread the quoted text 10 times and you might get the joke.
Will it run Cybermorph?
I played Tower of Goo back when it was a toy on the Experimental Games project. Cool that it's become a full fledged commercial game.
I want my 19" Trinitron back. God I loved that monitor.
Amen.
Widescreens for general computer usage are a scam: higher diagonal measure (stupid "x inches" measurement that doesn't mean shit) with less surface area.
For widescreen movies, it makes a little sense. For web browsing / reading / any vertical activity, it is horrid. For just about any other application square is better as well.
Yay for moderators! Keep smoking that crack!
The fact that the concept is being practiced does not mean it is not insane.
I definitely should have used the word parody instead, although I'm not sure I agree with your analysis.
Funny, I was taking the opposite approach: most people are happy to write of "those backwards rural areas". :D
The Mississippi border is 10 miles from the center of Memphis, and Memphis is in the top 20 US cities by population.
It's not just rural areas. Suburban areas often have terrible DSL coverage. 5 miles out of a town of 55 thousand people, in a county of 250 thousand people, is beyond the "coverage limit" for DSL.
This will also capture the market on all those people who live too far from any hub to get DSL and have free/stolen cable so can't get that!
"it is the right of governments to decide what they make public and not"
That is insane - the exact opposite of every advance that has been made in government since the Enlightenment. If you give the government the right to total obscurity, that is tantamount to total lack of accountability, and they will use it to hide their corruption completely. In no time at all you will have a dictatorship.
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"Imitation of [Author X]'s writing style" would cover any written satire of the author. Since satire is universally accepted as protected and allowed under copyright law, imitation of style cannot be considered copyright infringement.
As a matter of fact this extends beyond writing to all works that can be copyrighted. Imitation of style covers, essentially, any possible satire.
What? I've never heard of an instance in the US where someone was given medication by a pharmacist without paying for it...
Then you run into the obfuscation problem again. And polymorphic code is used heavily in DRM and anti-cheat software now, so that in itself would not fit a negative signature. At that point you either have to know in advance how to unpack the meaningful code (back to our signature problem) or run the thing (back to the halting problem).
I horribly disagree with everything you said, up to your last point. Why the fuck does the government give marriage licenses in the first place? Everyone who wants to marry should be given a civil union, and then do whatever ceremony they want for their marriage. If the Catholic Church doesn't allow gay marriages, well you're fucked if you are a gay Catholic because it is their right under religious freedom.
The whole concept of government marriage licenses is bad.
Bush. Bush is well below the threshold of "stupid enough to vote for someone based on inane bullshit criteria". Note, I'm sure there are people stupider than Bush who voted for him, but not all of them.
4 whole turtles down. Hah.
Deliberately fucking up/poisoning what everybody else is doing is the only thing they do well!