You can measure it completely objectively. You just get a bunch of guys to watch the screen standing naked and measure the average angle. A droopy -90 degrees means no sexual content, 0 is medium, ranging up to a proud upstanding maximum of 90 for hot! hot! hot!
My job's crap, my sex life's crap, I lack the motivation to do anything about it. Can someone recommend a lawyer so I can sue someone? Can someone tell me who I should sue? Anyone else in the same boat? We could get together for a class action suit.
I don't quite understand the argument about the size of the snippet delivered to the "end user". The user is Google. They are using the entire text to boost profits. This is like a drug dealer claiming "it doesn't matter that I possess kilos of the stuff, I only sell it in small quantities so I shouldn't be punished any more that someone who possesses a small quantity".
But my point is not that Google provides the means to copy books. They have in fact already copied entire books. They have copied these entire books with the purpose of increasing advertising revenue. It doesn't matter that the individuals who make fair use of their data are breaking no laws - Google is using entire copies of books to drive up their profits. They are not using snippets to make a profit, they are using the complete books. They keep a copy of the entire book. Libraries, last time I checked, don't make copies of entire books for profit.
from an exhaustive index one can always recreate the original work
That seems like a good argument that an exhaustive index is actually a copy of the original work and hence a copyright violation. After all, why would anyone care whether the text is stored as ASCII, gzipped EBCDIC or some kind of index? They all can be converted to something that can be printed and read.
I agree that viewing snippets is fair use. My printing of a few pages from a book is probably fair use. But there are two obvious issues with what Google do: (1) while my reading of a snippet is fair use, their ability to present anyone with almost any snippet is not. Having all the snippets available to yourself is quite different to copying a snippet for yourself and (2) if I use print.google.com to search for text I get ads so they are using the entire text of books for commercial benefit.
And you demonstrate my point. All laws are based on hypothesis because there simply aren't clear cut experiments you can carry out. When lawmakers decide that people who commit crime X should receive sentence Y they are almost always hypothesising that this sentence will help reduce the crime even though there is almost never direct evidence. If you don't make hypotheses you can't have a criminal justice system and you're arguing for dumping criminal justice entirely.
They are carrying out the greatest copyright violation in the history of...well...all of history. What possible argument can they have in their favor? I can't even see where they'd start such an argument and I can hardly imagine a more clear cut case against them. Copying entire books wholesale can hardly be called "fair use" and they're using the copyrighted text to drive up hits on their ads. I think print.google.com is a great tool, I've just printed out a few useful pages from a book with it myself, but I don't think they have a legal leg to stand on. If I did the same as them as an individual I'd be considered a copyright thief.
Where's the direct correlation between virtually committing murder and physical violence among children?
You don't want to prove correlation, you want to prove causation. And as everyone knows, causation between sociological factors is hard to prove becaue we can rarely run controlled experiments. But one can sometimes reason that a causation might exist. For example it seems reasonable to argue that kids might emulate, in the real world, the behavior of people in video games. In fact, I can't really see why they wouldn't unless there are strong parental influences pointing out that such behavior is unacceptable. It's trivially true that we learn much of our behavior from the behavior of the people around us and it doesn't seem to be a gigantic leap to suggest that we might learn that behavior from virtual people too.
You have to learn to accept that the people around you aren't going to all be happy no matter what you do. Life isn't a contrived puzzle with a well defined unique solution. Sometimes you just have to go with the best in the circumstances, and that is often far from some hypothetical ideal. If you can't deal with the idea that one of the people you deal with is going to be unhappy that you need to find a new job or develop a thicker skin.
But I'm sure that in time you would learn to interpret what the stickers really meant. You're not being forced to accept Bush's interpretation of those stickers. If the sticker says "some nudity" and you eventually learn that means things like "half a second of a woman's exposed ankles" then it's still useful and informative.
It's great to see someone else making this argument I've made for years. But simple as it is, you'll find that many people simply don't follow it. To me it seems trivially obvious that concentrating your effort on researching X is a better way to develop X than to research Y in the hope of serendipitious discoveries about Y leading to development on X. But there are always anecdotes about how so-and-so did research here but accidentally made a discovery there. Unfortunately one story about a serendipitous discovery sells more copies of your book or newspaper than a hundred great discoveries made during the course of normal research.
I think Dr Who has never been quite perfect. I agree with your complaints about plot development in the new episodes - but I derived such pleasure from them in other ways that I let that pass. I found the new episodes funny, the interaction between Dr Who and Rose was entertaining, they occasionally conjured up a great atmosphere (Unquiet Dead, Empty Child).
I'm inclined to agree that Dr Who does work best as horror - after all, we all talk about our time behind the sofa as kids. The only thing I didn't like was the Slitheen - the fart jokes were just too much silliness for my taste.
I often found myself thinking "I wish they'd have let me rewrite that bit of the plot so it made more sense..." but I think that in all science fiction I watch (except, maybe, for Primer, but that's only because I can't actually figure out if it needs rewriting).
I think Unquiet Dead was very classic Dr Who - I could easily imagine that as a Tom Baker episode, say. I think the Empty Child was one of the best Dr Who stories ever, better than almost all of the classic episodes considered good. (I also like Coupling a lot, Steve Moffatt is certainly a versatile writer and he proves that a writer who made his name writing about relationships can also do science fiction.)
I just watched "Pyramids on Mars" and "Talons of...". These had a great atmosphere and were fun to watch. But you ain't gonna convince me that these were science fiction. There was very little science fiction content, just a bunch of horror/science fiction cliches thrown together. On the other hand, the Empty Child/Doctor Dances had great science fiction content. And I thought Long Game and Unquiet Dead also had some good science fiction content.
I admit, the final Bad Wolf revelation was extremely weak. Nonetheless, it was a good hook leading up to the final revelation and the web site tie ins were fun.
He also offered $10k to charity if anyone who would develop some ridiculous murder spree game. When someone did it, and he changed his mind and Penny-Arcade donated the cash instead.
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Curious. I was pretty shocked when I moved to the US from England. McDonald's was never the best place to eat but in London it achieved a basic level of hygiene and a wide cross section of society ate there. Most of the McDonald's I've tried in the US are pretty disgusting (unusual for the US which generally has the highest level of hygiene I've experienced anywhere) and the people who eat there seem to be people who can't afford to eat anywhere else - a lot of bums and people who are clearly mentally ill.
If you're busy, like me, then the thing to get is a GBA Micro. Whether you have a few seconds between meetings, a quick coffee break, a moment waiting for someone to arrive at your desk, they're all good opportunities to sneak it out to make a little progress on that level you;re working on.
Every device has its niche. Some people have big pockets, some people have small pockets, some people like to carry a backpack with them at all times. Right now I'm finding that the GBA Micro is exactly what a want and a friend who just bought a PSP and a Micro has practically dumped the PSP in favor of the Micro (a Micro, not the much more powerful DS!). It's more compatible with life at work as an adult where carrying a PSP around all day might not look too good. But I've no doubt that there are people for whom a PSP is just what they want.
...you can buy a used laptop with better graphics and much more storage for less money than a PSP+4Gb HDD. Sure, an old laptop might not be something cool to show off to your friends, but you can run games on a laptop. Come to think of it, I think you could get a new laptop for that price.
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"with satellites the fuel up to 50 per cent of the weight constitutes"
This software is really awful. German uses SOV (subject-object-verb) ordering whereas English uses SVO. Once you have a parsed representation of a sentence it's fairly trivial to output a phrase with either of these orderings. So how can this software end up emitting SOV ordering in English?
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You can measure it completely objectively. You just get a bunch of guys to watch the screen standing naked and measure the average angle. A droopy -90 degrees means no sexual content, 0 is medium, ranging up to a proud upstanding maximum of 90 for hot! hot! hot!
My job's crap, my sex life's crap, I lack the motivation to do anything about it. Can someone recommend a lawyer so I can sue someone? Can someone tell me who I should sue? Anyone else in the same boat? We could get together for a class action suit.
I bet you say that every time anyone releasse a game for Linux.
I don't quite understand the argument about the size of the snippet delivered to the "end user". The user is Google. They are using the entire text to boost profits. This is like a drug dealer claiming "it doesn't matter that I possess kilos of the stuff, I only sell it in small quantities so I shouldn't be punished any more that someone who possesses a small quantity".
But my point is not that Google provides the means to copy books. They have in fact already copied entire books. They have copied these entire books with the purpose of increasing advertising revenue. It doesn't matter that the individuals who make fair use of their data are breaking no laws - Google is using entire copies of books to drive up their profits. They are not using snippets to make a profit, they are using the complete books. They keep a copy of the entire book. Libraries, last time I checked, don't make copies of entire books for profit.
I agree that viewing snippets is fair use. My printing of a few pages from a book is probably fair use. But there are two obvious issues with what Google do: (1) while my reading of a snippet is fair use, their ability to present anyone with almost any snippet is not. Having all the snippets available to yourself is quite different to copying a snippet for yourself and (2) if I use print.google.com to search for text I get ads so they are using the entire text of books for commercial benefit.
And you demonstrate my point. All laws are based on hypothesis because there simply aren't clear cut experiments you can carry out. When lawmakers decide that people who commit crime X should receive sentence Y they are almost always hypothesising that this sentence will help reduce the crime even though there is almost never direct evidence. If you don't make hypotheses you can't have a criminal justice system and you're arguing for dumping criminal justice entirely.
They are carrying out the greatest copyright violation in the history of...well...all of history. What possible argument can they have in their favor? I can't even see where they'd start such an argument and I can hardly imagine a more clear cut case against them. Copying entire books wholesale can hardly be called "fair use" and they're using the copyrighted text to drive up hits on their ads. I think print.google.com is a great tool, I've just printed out a few useful pages from a book with it myself, but I don't think they have a legal leg to stand on. If I did the same as them as an individual I'd be considered a copyright thief.
You have to learn to accept that the people around you aren't going to all be happy no matter what you do. Life isn't a contrived puzzle with a well defined unique solution. Sometimes you just have to go with the best in the circumstances, and that is often far from some hypothetical ideal. If you can't deal with the idea that one of the people you deal with is going to be unhappy that you need to find a new job or develop a thicker skin.
But I'm sure that in time you would learn to interpret what the stickers really meant. You're not being forced to accept Bush's interpretation of those stickers. If the sticker says "some nudity" and you eventually learn that means things like "half a second of a woman's exposed ankles" then it's still useful and informative.
It's great to see someone else making this argument I've made for years. But simple as it is, you'll find that many people simply don't follow it. To me it seems trivially obvious that concentrating your effort on researching X is a better way to develop X than to research Y in the hope of serendipitious discoveries about Y leading to development on X. But there are always anecdotes about how so-and-so did research here but accidentally made a discovery there. Unfortunately one story about a serendipitous discovery sells more copies of your book or newspaper than a hundred great discoveries made during the course of normal research.
I'm inclined to agree that Dr Who does work best as horror - after all, we all talk about our time behind the sofa as kids. The only thing I didn't like was the Slitheen - the fart jokes were just too much silliness for my taste.
I often found myself thinking "I wish they'd have let me rewrite that bit of the plot so it made more sense..." but I think that in all science fiction I watch (except, maybe, for Primer, but that's only because I can't actually figure out if it needs rewriting).
I think Unquiet Dead was very classic Dr Who - I could easily imagine that as a Tom Baker episode, say. I think the Empty Child was one of the best Dr Who stories ever, better than almost all of the classic episodes considered good. (I also like Coupling a lot, Steve Moffatt is certainly a versatile writer and he proves that a writer who made his name writing about relationships can also do science fiction.)
Enough rambling...
I admit, the final Bad Wolf revelation was extremely weak. Nonetheless, it was a good hook leading up to the final revelation and the web site tie ins were fun.
You've obviously missed 'Hotrod Cow' which is the latest greatest thing to come out of the UK.
Umm...don't you think it's kinda annoying to make a product for the iPod but not be able to tell people that it's for the iPod?
Curious. I was pretty shocked when I moved to the US from England. McDonald's was never the best place to eat but in London it achieved a basic level of hygiene and a wide cross section of society ate there. Most of the McDonald's I've tried in the US are pretty disgusting (unusual for the US which generally has the highest level of hygiene I've experienced anywhere) and the people who eat there seem to be people who can't afford to eat anywhere else - a lot of bums and people who are clearly mentally ill.
...unlikely conspiracy that turned out to be true. Or do you know of any even more unlikely but true comspiracies?
No. But I heard that there are some good games that run under Windows.
If you're busy, like me, then the thing to get is a GBA Micro. Whether you have a few seconds between meetings, a quick coffee break, a moment waiting for someone to arrive at your desk, they're all good opportunities to sneak it out to make a little progress on that level you;re working on.
Every device has its niche. Some people have big pockets, some people have small pockets, some people like to carry a backpack with them at all times. Right now I'm finding that the GBA Micro is exactly what a want and a friend who just bought a PSP and a Micro has practically dumped the PSP in favor of the Micro (a Micro, not the much more powerful DS!). It's more compatible with life at work as an adult where carrying a PSP around all day might not look too good. But I've no doubt that there are people for whom a PSP is just what they want.
...you can buy a used laptop with better graphics and much more storage for less money than a PSP+4Gb HDD. Sure, an old laptop might not be something cool to show off to your friends, but you can run games on a laptop. Come to think of it, I think you could get a new laptop for that price.
...then they should apply for a SciTech award.
"with satellites the fuel up to 50 per cent of the weight constitutes" This software is really awful. German uses SOV (subject-object-verb) ordering whereas English uses SVO. Once you have a parsed representation of a sentence it's fairly trivial to output a phrase with either of these orderings. So how can this software end up emitting SOV ordering in English?