A sperm barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic sperm. Steve Austin will be that sperm. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.
Unbelievably high interest rates coupled with some shady withdrawal limits leads to classic epic losses to investors.... Second Life has a real monetary value.
Wouldn't usury laws would cover cases like this, since the Second Life money has real monetary value?
Would the shareholders really allow that though. What you have with this idea, is that a single person could hold almost all the assets of a company. If you have a music/movie/tv production company, then one person would hold all the assets. You could never really ensure against that person leaving the company with all your copyrights. They could extort a lot of money out of the company by threatening to leave, and bring all the copyrights to some other competitor.
The shareholders (stakeholders, in general) will allow it as long as the company makes money on the idea, and its interests are properly protected by the agreement.
For corporate copyrights, 5 years is fine. Maybe a fee to continue the copyright for 5 year increments beyond that (to encourage continue publication of the media as long as it is copyrighted, and public-domaining as soon as it isn't profitable). Corporations are too abusive to give long copyrights too.
Individual copyrights for 10-20 years are fine, IMO. It forces the corporations to answer to the artists if they want to save on copyright fees, and the artists will probably be more considerate to the consumers.
The distinction between corporate and individuals wouldn't be effective. Some company exec will just hold the copyright personally, and license it exclusively to the corporation for the full 20 years.
You've not used OpenOffice then? Because if you have, you'd know the experience is a world away from MS Office*.
True! That's why I had my non-techie dad uninstall Office07 and install OO.org on his PC. Their recent UI mangling has made it a nearly unusable product.
Apparently Tim Rifat, the world's leading expert in psychic spying (who knew there WAS such an expert. Where do you take certification tests for THAT honor?) reported in 1998 that the 884 MHz frequency is being used for govt mind control. Of course the sneaky bastards can also alter your sleep patterns! It's all a part of their plan to turn us all into zombies!
Please forgive the 'tards, they can't help but kick Micro$oft while they're down. I have Vista installed (and activated - it's legal) and you know what it actually works really good.
You should at least check your grammar if you want to call people who agree with general consensus a "'tard."
the desire to reimplement everything from the ground up using 'new technology' but this really falls into the trap of thinking that new is automatically better.
From the sounds of it, Jaron Lanier really wants to start from scratch. A quote from an interview with Sun:
Interviewer: Maybe we need to go back and start all over again?
Jaron: That's what I've been thinking lately. Tracing the history of programming, we can see places where it went wrong, based on the limited experiences and metaphors that were available at the time. It's possible to imagine a different history. Let's go back to the middle of the 20th century, to a very brilliant, first generation of serious hackers that included people like Alan Turing, John von Neumann, and Claude Shannon. Their primary source of coding experience involved coding information that could be sent over a wire. They were familiar with encoded messages on the telegraph and telephone. Everything was formulated in terms of a message being sent from point A to point B, with some advance knowledge on point B about the nature of the message. Or if not that, at least an attempt by point B to recreate that knowledge, in the case of hacking.
...So much for standing on the shoulders of giants.
1. The dependencies reported from apt-get are declarative (stated in a manifest), not necessarily from actual code dependencies. As it has already been stated, upgrading some of these dependencies improves performance, but many of them are also security updates (the openssl update, for example).
2. Other OSs DO install and replace more than one file in their update schemes. This is a random update I clicked on the Windows Update site http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979. I count 111 files to be replaced in the 32-bit version of Vista. Also, keep in mind that core updates, like the Windows equivalents of binutils and libc++ would have been taken care of in a previous patch, because they are system-wide enhancements, not just related to a small utility (kruler).
I an app developer, not a driver developer, but I have seen a few programs, like TrueCrypt fake-out the Windows Driver Architecture into using a driver that isn't associated with actual hardware.
I don't see any reason that this won't work for Video and Sound drivers (until MSFT tries to shove trusted computing down our throats). I have been considering researching the feasibility of/writing a [OSS?] driver that would take the output and encode it directly to disk. This bypasses the need to actually target the hardware itself.
One definition from Dictionary.com: a brand of material for producing polarized light from unpolarized light by dichroism, consisting typically of a stretched sheet of colorless plastic treated with an iodine solution so as to have long, thin, parallel chains of polymeric molecules containing conductive iodine atoms. It is used widely in optical and lighting devices to reduce glare.
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Any letter drive under Windows.
Erm... degrees? Radians?
Much of the argument against solar is one of economics, but a company called Nanosolar has recently produced solar panels making energy more cheaply than coal. "Current Technology" is a moving target.
I'm with you, I wanted more info. I found a page with a little more technical information about how this works: http://www-stud.fht-esslingen.de/projects/alt_energy/sol_thermal/powertower.html
A sperm barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic sperm. Steve Austin will be that sperm. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.
It's irritating to have links on words if the href has nothing to do with the anchor text .
Wouldn't usury laws would cover cases like this, since the Second Life money has real monetary value?
Exclusive licenses are contractually (therefore legally) protected.
Companies make money on exclusively licensed ideas all the time. Also, guaranteeing that the idea is not also sold to a competitor is the whole idea behind an exclusive license.
The shareholders (stakeholders, in general) will allow it as long as the company makes money on the idea, and its interests are properly protected by the agreement.
The distinction between corporate and individuals wouldn't be effective. Some company exec will just hold the copyright personally, and license it exclusively to the corporation for the full 20 years.
True! That's why I had my non-techie dad uninstall Office07 and install OO.org on his PC. Their recent UI mangling has made it a nearly unusable product.
Apparently Tim Rifat, the world's leading expert in psychic spying (who knew there WAS such an expert. Where do you take certification tests for THAT honor?) reported in 1998 that the 884 MHz frequency is being used for govt mind control. Of course the sneaky bastards can also alter your sleep patterns! It's all a part of their plan to turn us all into zombies!
... Off to make my tinfoil hat.
wget traffic is still traffic, right?
Or Godzilla! That would be fun!
You should at least check your grammar if you want to call people who agree with general consensus a "'tard."
From the sounds of it, Jaron Lanier really wants to start from scratch. A quote from an interview with Sun:
Hmmm... 5 patches behind. ***Goes to read changelog**
Err... the second link must have 301'd or 302'd me back to news.com... nevertheless, it seems to be up.
The Coral Cache version of the first two links:
http://en.wikipedia.org.nyud.net:8090/wiki/Annals_of_Improbable_Research
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9837983-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&coral-no-serve
I couldn't find cache on the third link, but the original appears to be up-ish (Up but slow)
http://www.improbable.com/magazine
1. The dependencies reported from apt-get are declarative (stated in a manifest), not necessarily from actual code dependencies. As it has already been stated, upgrading some of these dependencies improves performance, but many of them are also security updates (the openssl update, for example).
2. Other OSs DO install and replace more than one file in their update schemes. This is a random update I clicked on the Windows Update site http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979. I count 111 files to be replaced in the 32-bit version of Vista. Also, keep in mind that core updates, like the Windows equivalents of binutils and libc++ would have been taken care of in a previous patch, because they are system-wide enhancements, not just related to a small utility (kruler).
Re-encoding without extra hardware is the point... the old I-Tunes files are encoded with their DRM junk. Re-encoding removes that.
A recording device would have worked all along, but requires the device (hardware).
I an app developer, not a driver developer, but I have seen a few programs, like TrueCrypt fake-out the Windows Driver Architecture into using a driver that isn't associated with actual hardware.
I don't see any reason that this won't work for Video and Sound drivers (until MSFT tries to shove trusted computing down our throats). I have been considering researching the feasibility of/writing a [OSS?] driver that would take the output and encode it directly to disk. This bypasses the need to actually target the hardware itself.
You are right, Polaroid is a name brand, but they do make sunglasses.
One definition from Dictionary.com: a brand of material for producing polarized light from unpolarized light by dichroism, consisting typically of a stretched sheet of colorless plastic treated with an iodine solution so as to have long, thin, parallel chains of polymeric molecules containing conductive iodine atoms. It is used widely in optical and lighting devices to reduce glare.
... it doesn't just refer to the cameras.
"Daily Universal Register" is an older name for the "Times" newspaper in the UK... relevant? Dunno. Maybe some of the other stuff in that string has to do with stories.
Its a find-and-replace that turns the title:
Wanted: Master Software Developers
Into:
http://wanted-master-software-developers.com/
... and the test continues...