Sounds to me that the real problem in this case is that copy shops can be led liable in case of copyright violation.
That's something that Google/Youtube/etc. battled long ago to remove. They want the users to be led liable, not the messenger.
Because yes, you can totally copy pictures all you want, even if they are made by a professional photographer, as long as it's under private / fair use.
Thanks for answering this so thoroughly, definitely some helpful tips here (I'm though already aware of most shortcuts I must say)
Just to be a little more specific (and since some other replies also had the comment that "there does not seem to be anything wrong here...")
I guess some people know in advance what they are writing because they have all figured out beforehand. Or some people don't care about formatting until the end. I'm somewhat in-between. I like to format my documents nicely as I write them but only where it counts and when it helps me order my thoughts. But as I do I also go back and forth a lot, rewrite/replace whole paragraphs, add little reminder to go verify a fact, etc. And I'm a little like the Spanish Inquisition. I have 2 points, no 3 points I want to make:)
So... when I write technical doc in ASCII for instance it can get quite messy, but at least I know exactly what needs to be done to have the correct formatting (remove all these spaces here, add equal signs there to underline this word, put this in caps...)
But in Word I always come in situations where I do not have a clue what went wrong but all I enter is simply messy (wrongly bulleted, wrongly indented, wrongly formatted...) and I can't figure out how to fix it. In these situations I'd REALLY like to be able to see some underlying XML or something... but I have no choice but to copy & paste all my text elsewhere (sometimes even in notepad to remove formatting) and then clean-up the document real-nice before pasting it back.
Just try playing around with bullets, adding all sorts of pasting and line-breaks between them, delete text, insert text inside... maybe I'm cursed, but in 30 second time I already have very weird behaviors going on, like bullets going on a third level of indentation where I never pressed the Tab key more than once.
Anyway, I would not bitch about this if Word did not try to be more and more friendly and WYSIWYG every release. There was a time where the default layout was almost to see every line-break characters. Now in Office 2007 you are in the "Print Layout" by default. But the screaming... it never stops! I simply cannot imagine what it would be like on the web under the same dumbed-down ideology.
One thing I'm sad that has not been fixed since Office 97 is the bullet points. Maybe I am missing something, or I'm using too much bullet points, but there is always some point when I'm writing a mail in Outlook or editing an Office document where I'll either:
- loose indentation for some unclear reason. The bullet will start at the middle of the screen. And how to go back to the correct indentation is some voodoo magic
- won't be able to create a bullet point on the same level of indentation than the previous one, after I made some multi-line text under the bullet or went back from correcting some text at another place in the doc
That makes me think about another annoying thing about Office: if 99% of the text of my document is in pt.10 Arial, and then I bold some word, please please please don't make it so if I put the caret after the word all the remaining of the text comes bold!!! Ok, when I'm still typing it's ok... but when I just highlighted the word, made it bold, then went back editing another part of the doc, then came back again... NO!
This kind of behavior forces me to put spaces everywhere around where I make the slightest format change (and even around where I insert images etc.)
Anyway... my final point is: if they can't fix simple usability stuff (and I didn't even go into table layout etc.) in 12 years having full execution control of a fast turing-machine, what can I expect of some Web App emulating office?
You'll... never... have... me! (a la Lost Highway when the blonde version of Patricia Arquette enters the mysterious man's shack after it imploded back to a standing structure)
FIltering news? This seems to me completely unrelated. The government wants to force Telstra to ensure it permits wholesale customers?
A little like we forced Bell to do so in Quebec?
Except that in Quebec Bell forces its wholesale customers to throttle as well (or rather, it throttles its wholesale customers without their consent!) And as we know throttling is evil. The CRTC is reviewing the case right now, let's hope liberty prevail!
Liberty.. Anonymity.. prevail!!!!!! (I should become a sailor)
Notice that the article talks about insurance claims, but the summary talks about having accidents, which are two totally different things.
My guess is that someone that has a high-salary job like in engineering will tend to buy a new car and take a fuller insurance coverage, and hence will claim more (minor bumps and scratches...) than for instance someone who buys a 10 years old car that he will keep for a year or two, make minor repairs to and throw away. The first-listed professions also don't sound like being suited for manually-included people that would make repairs themselves - or professions that require a big indestructible truck (like a farmer).
I'm making very broad statements here, but that's just to highlight my point that claims != accidents.
The salary itself would also explain the other top-10 professions, except "student". What do they mean by student? Most of the young people I knew with big cars where school drop-outs that went to get jobs in shops early in life - certainly not students. I would have liked if the article explained what age range it included, if they consider accident with the parent's car... and of course, what were their field of study!!
Just came back from the screening and yeah, that got me real angry too. Under the benefits section of the contract, I had no idea that the "free escort" was a lousy trip to the museum to see Harry Potter ! And I already had an Xbox !
I wonder if the Microsoft Audit team will show up and slap a fine for violating the EULA or something...
I think these Xboxes have probably been provided free by the Microsoft Marketing team and that's one of the reason it's such "cost-effective":)
From the summary:
Although major reworking of any previous code framework is required
Let's conservatively say that that alone require a programmer underpaid 30'000$ for a whole year (or two for 15'000 for six month, etc.) With that money you can buy 30 PCs that outweigh the Xbox in every performance aspects (or 39 considering that 30 Xbox would have cost 9000 to start with anyway).
I cannot see how this cannot be some kind of PR stunt from a former Microsoft related game dev.
The PS3 beowulf cluster cell-processing hype made a lot more sense, even more so when the PS3 was just hitting the shelves and thus was more or less on par with what desktop computer performances offered at the time.
I have all your tweets copied in notepad. I will print them on paper and send them back to you by mail, but first let's play a little game, mister du Keyboard. Mouahahhhahhhahahha *click*.
And part of the reason is that normally it's hard to know when an account has been compromised, because e-mail snooping doesn't leave a trace
Simply do like most client systems and put in big red bold: "someone tried to connect to your account 32 times from w.x.y.z...", and keep something like a 30 days log of connection history browsable somewhere. I'm sure modern techniques can also be used to highlight strange connection patterns and/or unusual connection location. Although it's far from perfect it at least gives some basic tools to be aware and deal with this situation. And if the hackers know their address is not only logged in an obscure web log but also available to the user (with a nice helpful tips page about what to do and who to contact when you're a victim) it would probably intimidate part of them.
If I understand this correctly, Google (as the main, can we say unique?, search engine out there) will be filtering its service - a neutral search engine - to accommodate other products it owns (street view)?
Can Google be morally anything other than a search engine?
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Sounds to me that the real problem in this case is that copy shops can be led liable in case of copyright violation.
That's something that Google/Youtube/etc. battled long ago to remove. They want the users to be led liable, not the messenger.
Because yes, you can totally copy pictures all you want, even if they are made by a professional photographer, as long as it's under private / fair use.
(source http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html)
Thanks for answering this so thoroughly, definitely some helpful tips here (I'm though already aware of most shortcuts I must say)
Just to be a little more specific (and since some other replies also had the comment that "there does not seem to be anything wrong here ...")
I guess some people know in advance what they are writing because they have all figured out beforehand. Or some people don't care about formatting until the end. I'm somewhat in-between. I like to format my documents nicely as I write them but only where it counts and when it helps me order my thoughts. But as I do I also go back and forth a lot, rewrite/replace whole paragraphs, add little reminder to go verify a fact, etc. And I'm a little like the Spanish Inquisition. I have 2 points, no 3 points I want to make :)
So ... when I write technical doc in ASCII for instance it can get quite messy, but at least I know exactly what needs to be done to have the correct formatting (remove all these spaces here, add equal signs there to underline this word, put this in caps ...)
But in Word I always come in situations where I do not have a clue what went wrong but all I enter is simply messy (wrongly bulleted, wrongly indented, wrongly formatted ...) and I can't figure out how to fix it. In these situations I'd REALLY like to be able to see some underlying XML or something ... but I have no choice but to copy & paste all my text elsewhere (sometimes even in notepad to remove formatting) and then clean-up the document real-nice before pasting it back.
Just try playing around with bullets, adding all sorts of pasting and line-breaks between them, delete text, insert text inside ... maybe I'm cursed, but in 30 second time I already have very weird behaviors going on, like bullets going on a third level of indentation where I never pressed the Tab key more than once.
Anyway, I would not bitch about this if Word did not try to be more and more friendly and WYSIWYG every release. There was a time where the default layout was almost to see every line-break characters. Now in Office 2007 you are in the "Print Layout" by default. But the screaming ... it never stops! I simply cannot imagine what it would be like on the web under the same dumbed-down ideology.
One thing I'm sad that has not been fixed since Office 97 is the bullet points. Maybe I am missing something, or I'm using too much bullet points, but there is always some point when I'm writing a mail in Outlook or editing an Office document where I'll either:
- loose indentation for some unclear reason. The bullet will start at the middle of the screen. And how to go back to the correct indentation is some voodoo magic
- won't be able to create a bullet point on the same level of indentation than the previous one, after I made some multi-line text under the bullet or went back from correcting some text at another place in the doc
That makes me think about another annoying thing about Office: if 99% of the text of my document is in pt.10 Arial, and then I bold some word, please please please don't make it so if I put the caret after the word all the remaining of the text comes bold!!! Ok, when I'm still typing it's ok... but when I just highlighted the word, made it bold, then went back editing another part of the doc, then came back again ... NO!
This kind of behavior forces me to put spaces everywhere around where I make the slightest format change (and even around where I insert images etc.)
Anyway ... my final point is: if they can't fix simple usability stuff (and I didn't even go into table layout etc.) in 12 years having full execution control of a fast turing-machine, what can I expect of some Web App emulating office?
You'll ... never ... have ... me!
(a la Lost Highway when the blonde version of Patricia Arquette enters the mysterious man's shack after it imploded back to a standing structure)
http://www.archive.org/details/doa_1949
FIltering news? This seems to me completely unrelated. The government wants to force Telstra to ensure it permits wholesale customers?
A little like we forced Bell to do so in Quebec?
Except that in Quebec Bell forces its wholesale customers to throttle as well (or rather, it throttles its wholesale customers without their consent!) And as we know throttling is evil. The CRTC is reviewing the case right now, let's hope liberty prevail!
Liberty .. Anonymity.. prevail!!!!!! (I should become a sailor)
You could never get laid ever again in your entire lifetime!
Actually this one was quite a realistic scenario ... let's try another one:
You could be eaten by a grue within the next minute!
So being able to call someone else Noob in a shitty Flash game is fun! Yay!
Notice that the article talks about insurance claims, but the summary talks about having accidents, which are two totally different things.
My guess is that someone that has a high-salary job like in engineering will tend to buy a new car and take a fuller insurance coverage, and hence will claim more (minor bumps and scratches ...) than for instance someone who buys a 10 years old car that he will keep for a year or two, make minor repairs to and throw away. The first-listed professions also don't sound like being suited for manually-included people that would make repairs themselves - or professions that require a big indestructible truck (like a farmer).
I'm making very broad statements here, but that's just to highlight my point that claims != accidents.
The salary itself would also explain the other top-10 professions, except "student". What do they mean by student? Most of the young people I knew with big cars where school drop-outs that went to get jobs in shops early in life - certainly not students. I would have liked if the article explained what age range it included, if they consider accident with the parent's car ... and of course, what were their field of study!!
Are engineering students more accident-prone? :)
What? Like morality?
Naw, I think they are trying to make a 1-ton replica of Jim Cramer's brain :)
Just came back from the screening and yeah, that got me real angry too. Under the benefits section of the contract, I had no idea that the "free escort" was a lousy trip to the museum to see Harry Potter ! And I already had an Xbox !
I wonder if the Microsoft Audit team will show up and slap a fine for violating the EULA or something...
I think these Xboxes have probably been provided free by the Microsoft Marketing team and that's one of the reason it's such "cost-effective" :)
From the summary:
Although major reworking of any previous code framework is required
Let's conservatively say that that alone require a programmer underpaid 30'000$ for a whole year (or two for 15'000 for six month, etc.) With that money you can buy 30 PCs that outweigh the Xbox in every performance aspects (or 39 considering that 30 Xbox would have cost 9000 to start with anyway).
I cannot see how this cannot be some kind of PR stunt from a former Microsoft related game dev.
The PS3 beowulf cluster cell-processing hype made a lot more sense, even more so when the PS3 was just hitting the shelves and thus was more or less on par with what desktop computer performances offered at the time.
I have all your tweets copied in notepad. I will print them on paper and send them back to you by mail, but first let's play a little game, mister du Keyboard. Mouahahhhahhhahahha *click*.
I've RTFA, and they don't even tell us which IRC Network!
The original Marvel vs. Capcom is the real classic in my opinion, MvC2 being a bastardized child.
Since I'm always right I prefer to work with nice persons without initiative that are gullible to my points of view and always smile.
(ergo I'm a self-confident a-hole and you would like to work with me !:)
Which rocks are you talking about? ;)
And part of the reason is that normally it's hard to know when an account has been compromised, because e-mail snooping doesn't leave a trace
Simply do like most client systems and put in big red bold: "someone tried to connect to your account 32 times from w.x.y.z ...", and keep something like a 30 days log of connection history browsable somewhere. I'm sure modern techniques can also be used to highlight strange connection patterns and/or unusual connection location. Although it's far from perfect it at least gives some basic tools to be aware and deal with this situation. And if the hackers know their address is not only logged in an obscure web log but also available to the user (with a nice helpful tips page about what to do and who to contact when you're a victim) it would probably intimidate part of them.
If I understand this correctly, Google (as the main, can we say unique?, search engine out there) will be filtering its service - a neutral search engine - to accommodate other products it owns (street view)?
Can Google be morally anything other than a search engine?
That's an unexplained phenomenon
Lies and statistics? It's like saying Bush was an idiot, it's a pleonasm!
Sound Act As a Predator Alarm.
News for ornithologists (and creepy old dudes with lens) - stuff that flies!
Here "Here's a really lame joke about recursion." is a lame joke about repetition.
I know like 7 or 8 people [...] NONE of them, has a single original game. Why so?
Because they come ask you when a new title comes out if you couldn't by any chance put your hands on it? ;)
Like a cat, of course! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Je1CEPkUM