Is this a trick question? How is "fair use" not applicable? This is absolutely no different from the "scanning" and "putting up" that google does of every other part of the internet. Why should the fact that it started out in a grossly inefficient medium be any distinction whatsoever?
Have you actually tried doing any research, or are you just assuming that consumers don't want to be tracked?
Ask 50 people, "Would you prefer to see ads which advertisers had determined were more-likely to be of interest to you, instead of a random selection of ads?", and report back.
The correlations are NOT "false". The relationships between the numbers are (almost always) NOT "conterfeit".
"Correlation does not imply causation" means exactly that. If the sky is dark and people are carrying around umbrellas, this does NOT imply that darkness causes umbrellas, or that umbrellas cause darkness. The causal relationship between two numbers is not determined by how often one number changes at the same time as another.
To put it another way: correlation is an *observed* behaviour, causation is a *tested* behaviour.
It's always strange to me that business people understand the importance of keeping track of money, but not other company resources. To put it in terms they understand, try explaining it in terms of accounting.
Imagine an accountant who only kept track of exactly one number: The amount of money the company currently had. This accountant might be really good at remembering where all the money is, and can even explain where all of that money needs to go and where it came from, usually. But he only ever actually writes down the current amount.
Throughout the day he does everything on a single calculator, then at the end of the day he writes down the final number, to use as the starting point for the next day.
Sometimes, just before or just after a major transaction, he'll write down the number and maybe the date, first.
But it's only ever one number.
Would you hire that accountant? Would you trust them with your accounts? Even if the accountant seemed really good at staying on top of things?
You can't just keep track of "where you are." you need to know how you got there. You need to know why you took each step along the way.
Indeed. This is the one that people don't seem to understand. As far as I am aware, no mathematical proof has ever been offered which declares cold fusion to be impossible. This is as opposed to, say, accelerating beyond the speed of light, which has been proven to require infinite energy.
Note that I don't mean to imply that this "cold fusion" is not a fraud, but crying "Thermodynamics!" at every alternative-fuel story makes me wonder how these people would have responded to the discovery of coal.
So you want your decentralised and anonymous system to vary the payout based on how many transactions are processed? I think I found a flaw in the plan.
Here's the first thing I found when looking for Guile with ECMAScript: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/ECMAScript.html In summary: Don't use ECMAScript for Guile under any circumstances, btw bitch bitch bitch bitch we are not a project worth paying attention to.
in a country where it's perfectly possible to live without a car, this term is far too short. He should never be allowed behind the wheel on a public road again.
1) Yes. 2) We don't want special treatment. We are willing to accept that others could do their job more effectively if they had multiple monitors (after the developers pushed to get multiple monitors at my office, everyone else followed suit. This seems sane)
bitcoin is designed to have "diminishing returns" in terms of bitcoin generation. ie: the longer the project goes on, the fewer new bitcoins will be generated. This ignores that the longer the project goes on, especially if it is successful, the fewer bitcoins will usefully exist. ie: not just a counter that says how many bitcoins exist, but the number of bitcoins which are valid and usable, as opposed to being lost due to lost keys, etc.
3) When you change the defaults, it needs to seamlessly migrate to the new one. 4) If an update fails, the update should roll-back (config files aren't versioned by default? still no sane "diff3" option when updating? wtf?)
because up until now the response from graphics card manufacturers has been "security auditing? Open specifications? What, are you running arbitrary binaries on your PC and complaining when they take over your system?", whereas now they'll need to say "security auditing? Open specifications? What, are you running a web browser conceived of before 2010?"
And when "dirt road in the middle of nowhere" meant "homesteader" instead of "backward anti-social extremist", and "receive mail" meant "the only way to give someone a message" instead of "archaic form of communication insisted upon by idiotic lawyers and technologically-illiterate local governments", that was relevant.
I always choose UPS or FedEx for Amazon, and stream Netflix. I only ever use the USPS when I don't have a choice, and I loath it every time. Their idea of package tracking is "we'll let you know around the time it may or may not have arrived".
I would think that the point isn't "the calculator has limited functionality" or even "the calculator costs a lot" so much as "the calculator is ridiculously slow compared to similarly sized/priced devices, and has a screen that would have looked bad on a cell-phone ten years ago".
We don't need to add a cheat button, but if all you can do is plot graphs and execute BASIC, at least have the decency to do it well.
Copyright law at this point has become so absurd that you now have three options:
- Do nothing. individuals completely ignore copyright law because it's insane
- Make copyright law more absurd, thus weakening it further.
- Weaken copyright law.
No matter what you do at this point, copyright law has pretty much "jumped the shark", and can't be considered relevant or applicable to any situation.
pgrep doesn't give me enough context for my taste. I will almost always prefer "ps | grep", as it gives me a chance to confirm that the pid I'm looking at is the pid I want to kill.
If you won't sell it to me, and I can acquire it without depriving anyone else of it, no government-endorsed monopoly protections apply.
This would include, for example:
- Movie studios owning the "rights" to a film, while having no intention of actually making that film
- Patent trolls, who do not actually create the product which they own the exclusive right to produce
- Anyone who sells a product which is intentionally broken (DRM, DVD regions, etc)
The idea that it is illegal to "steal" a copy of something which is not actually available for purchase is absurd to me. What are the damages? You don't sell it, so the damages are zero.
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and we'd need every one of them in order to build a dyson sphere, too
Is this a trick question? How is "fair use" not applicable?
This is absolutely no different from the "scanning" and "putting up" that google does of every other part of the internet. Why should the fact that it started out in a grossly inefficient medium be any distinction whatsoever?
Have you actually tried doing any research, or are you just assuming that consumers don't want to be tracked?
Ask 50 people, "Would you prefer to see ads which advertisers had determined were more-likely to be of interest to you, instead of a random selection of ads?", and report back.
The correlations are NOT "false". The relationships between the numbers are (almost always) NOT "conterfeit".
"Correlation does not imply causation" means exactly that. If the sky is dark and people are carrying around umbrellas, this does NOT imply that darkness causes umbrellas, or that umbrellas cause darkness. The causal relationship between two numbers is not determined by how often one number changes at the same time as another.
To put it another way: correlation is an *observed* behaviour, causation is a *tested* behaviour.
It's always strange to me that business people understand the importance of keeping track of money, but not other company resources.
To put it in terms they understand, try explaining it in terms of accounting.
Imagine an accountant who only kept track of exactly one number: The amount of money the company currently had.
This accountant might be really good at remembering where all the money is, and can even explain where all of that money needs to go and where it came from, usually. But he only ever actually writes down the current amount.
Throughout the day he does everything on a single calculator, then at the end of the day he writes down the final number, to use as the starting point for the next day.
Sometimes, just before or just after a major transaction, he'll write down the number and maybe the date, first.
But it's only ever one number.
Would you hire that accountant? Would you trust them with your accounts? Even if the accountant seemed really good at staying on top of things?
You can't just keep track of "where you are." you need to know how you got there. You need to know why you took each step along the way.
Indeed. This is the one that people don't seem to understand.
As far as I am aware, no mathematical proof has ever been offered which declares cold fusion to be impossible. This is as opposed to, say, accelerating beyond the speed of light, which has been proven to require infinite energy.
Note that I don't mean to imply that this "cold fusion" is not a fraud, but crying "Thermodynamics!" at every alternative-fuel story makes me wonder how these people would have responded to the discovery of coal.
Why don't we look at this as a starting-point, rather than a solution?
So you want your decentralised and anonymous system to vary the payout based on how many transactions are processed?
I think I found a flaw in the plan.
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Wow.
Here's the first thing I found when looking for Guile with ECMAScript: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/ECMAScript.html
In summary: Don't use ECMAScript for Guile under any circumstances, btw bitch bitch bitch bitch we are not a project worth paying attention to.
in a country where it's perfectly possible to live without a car, this term is far too short. He should never be allowed behind the wheel on a public road again.
1) Yes.
2) We don't want special treatment. We are willing to accept that others could do their job more effectively if they had multiple monitors (after the developers pushed to get multiple monitors at my office, everyone else followed suit. This seems sane)
bitcoin is designed to have "diminishing returns" in terms of bitcoin generation. ie: the longer the project goes on, the fewer new bitcoins will be generated. This ignores that the longer the project goes on, especially if it is successful, the fewer bitcoins will usefully exist. ie: not just a counter that says how many bitcoins exist, but the number of bitcoins which are valid and usable, as opposed to being lost due to lost keys, etc.
3) When you change the defaults, it needs to seamlessly migrate to the new one.
4) If an update fails, the update should roll-back (config files aren't versioned by default? still no sane "diff3" option when updating? wtf?)
With transmissions speeds that fast, processing and storage can both be dumped on someone else without worrying about filling the pipe.
because up until now the response from graphics card manufacturers has been "security auditing? Open specifications? What, are you running arbitrary binaries on your PC and complaining when they take over your system?", whereas now they'll need to say "security auditing? Open specifications? What, are you running a web browser conceived of before 2010?"
And when "dirt road in the middle of nowhere" meant "homesteader" instead of "backward anti-social extremist", and "receive mail" meant "the only way to give someone a message" instead of "archaic form of communication insisted upon by idiotic lawyers and technologically-illiterate local governments", that was relevant.
I always choose UPS or FedEx for Amazon, and stream Netflix.
I only ever use the USPS when I don't have a choice, and I loath it every time. Their idea of package tracking is "we'll let you know around the time it may or may not have arrived".
I considered giving them the girl, but I was playing the hero, so of course I chose the martyr route, as I did the whole game.
Then they asked me to choose between the lives of 10,000 people I had been enslaved alongside, or my dog.
THAT was a moral dilemma.
Why should google buy an irrelevant industry with a bunch of imaginary property and pretend rights?
I would think that the point isn't "the calculator has limited functionality" or even "the calculator costs a lot" so much as "the calculator is ridiculously slow compared to similarly sized/priced devices, and has a screen that would have looked bad on a cell-phone ten years ago".
We don't need to add a cheat button, but if all you can do is plot graphs and execute BASIC, at least have the decency to do it well.
Copyright law at this point has become so absurd that you now have three options:
- Do nothing. individuals completely ignore copyright law because it's insane
- Make copyright law more absurd, thus weakening it further.
- Weaken copyright law.
No matter what you do at this point, copyright law has pretty much "jumped the shark", and can't be considered relevant or applicable to any situation.
pgrep doesn't give me enough context for my taste.
I will almost always prefer "ps | grep", as it gives me a chance to confirm that the pid I'm looking at is the pid I want to kill.
If you won't sell it to me, and I can acquire it without depriving anyone else of it, no government-endorsed monopoly protections apply.
This would include, for example:
- Movie studios owning the "rights" to a film, while having no intention of actually making that film
- Patent trolls, who do not actually create the product which they own the exclusive right to produce
- Anyone who sells a product which is intentionally broken (DRM, DVD regions, etc)
The idea that it is illegal to "steal" a copy of something which is not actually available for purchase is absurd to me. What are the damages? You don't sell it, so the damages are zero.
I'm in shock, you insensitive clod!