It's only small children that have been hurt. The guard is there to ensure that children under 1.28m tall don't use the slide. The guard is really just a glorified fairground operator.
I don't understand why they guard it at night, though. It would be pretty easy to install a gate.
The "good" spam is sort of like a public education campaign about STDs.
Ooh, terrible metaphor. By that logic, this "good" spam would be like the government having unprotected sex with people to identify who needs to be educated about proper condom use.
On the other hand, while it might cost $500K to port 1.0 to the platform of choice, it could also cost $1M to buy new copies of a proprietary package for every government employee in the US. Hell, that would only buy 2000 copies of Microsoft Office Pro.
In the wilderness you can rely on your ears and even your nose to help alert you to danger.
In the city the only thing you got are your eyes.
Really? You don't turn your head when you hear tires screeching? Hell, just sit at an intersection with your eyes closed and you'll realize how easy it is to tell when the traffic starts and stops and when it changes direction.
Yes I cant think as well when in a large herd of people. Go to a hockey or baseball game and try to think of some mathematical exercise while navigating the herd.
Now do the same in the wilderness alone.
See, I'm not so sure about that. When I'm walking in the city, I can be completely oblivious to my surroundings until I hit the next intersection; when I'm walking in a forest, I have to constantly stare at the ground to make sure I'm not tripping over a tree trunk.
I can do it on a hike, in fact most of my "AHA!" moments are when I am out in the wild.
"AHA!" moments make you feel really smart, but don't assume they're your only source of inspiration.
There was a study that was done a while ago where two ropes were hung from the ceiling, out of arms reach from each other, and test subjects were asked to tie the ropes together. There were many objects in the room, and many ways to solve the puzzle, but there was one solution that most of the subjects never thought of: swing one of the ropes, grab the other one, and wait for the first one to swing back and reach your grasp.
So the researches started sending somebody in the room to just walk through the room and lightly brush against one of the ropes, setting it swinging ever so slightly. All of a sudden, almost all of their test subjects realized the solution. But you know what? None of them realized where they got the idea from!
So, having lots of stimuli could be an even better source of inspiration, even if you aren't conscious of it.
Sure, Yahtzee is overly negative, but every other game reviewer is overly positive. When was the last time you saw a game get reviewed lower than 5? Shouldn't 5 be the median?
At least when Yahtzee you know what you're getting. And honestly, I'm one of those games-as-art guys, so I am more interested in hearing about the game's flaws than whether or not I should buy it.
all you need to assert copyright ownership is a mark on the product that says so.
You don't even need that, but if you ever go to court, it helps your case. Having your copyright registered helps even more.
As others are saying, it may be difficult to sue for more than just damages if your copyrighted work isn't registered. But the courts aren't that inflexible. Even if Apple can't sue for statutory damages, I'm sure they can find something else to sue the infringing companies over, particularly if they can prove that the companies knew what they were doing is illegal, and it's hard to claim ignorance after the first time Apple sues you for damages.
No. You can always waive your own rights. The GPL is a statement that you're waiving some of your rights, provided the users of your work follow the rules in the license.
If it prints on one side and then on the other would picking up two papers really be such a big deal? Just print those 2 pages again? Also a decent printer shouldn't pick up two papers in the first place should it?
I'm not sure if you're suggesting something different, like using one of those expensive printers with printing heads on both sides of the page, but usually to print on both sides of the paper you first print all the even-numbered pages in reverse order, then put them back in the printer tray (and double-check that you have them in the right way around!) and print all the odd-numbered pages. So if you print the even-numbered pages and get:
8, 6, blank, 4, 2
And then it prints the even pages flawlessly, you end up with your pages in this order (grouped by physical pages):
(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, blank), (7, 6), (9, 8)
Assuming this problem only occurred once, you can just flip every page after the fifth page to get the right order, but you still have this blank page in the middle. So if you actually care about how competent you look when you pass this document off to somebody else, you have to re-print everything from page 5 onward.
This might not be a problem on high-end printers, but I think you'll find that mid-range and low-end printers are far more common.
I'm not sure how printing on both sides of the paper saves on ink.
Besides, printing on both sides of the paper is a pretty big hassle. If your printer errantly grabs two sheets of paper in the middle of your job, you're pretty much screwed.
The clause that you pointed out in Spranq's license is rather questionable, though. It makes it sound like they own a design patent on the font. That would also allow them to control derivative works, even if Bistream Vera was released under the GPL (v.2 or earlier).
I couldn't find anything that supported the patent theory, though. If it's true, that would certainly sour their slashvertisement. If it's false, then I'm pretty sure their patent is unenforceable, since you don't actually need to use the font to emulate its design.
Mod parent interesting, insightful, and informative.
It seems counter-intuitive, but if we stopped using wood completely, then forested land would no longer be profitable! If that happened, people would just replace the forested land with something that is profitable, like housing developments or farms.
I agree that deforestation is a big problem, particularly in third-world countries, but reducing paper use could reduce reforestation, which would cause more harm than good.
I think it's more important that we focus on passing laws to protect natural habitats; when forced to, logging companies have no problems making the most with the land they own.
First of all, the idea that everything required for the class should be included in the price of the class is ridiculous. Books aren't included. Neither are pens, paper, or laptops.
Second, what difference does it make whether you pay for your printing at the printer or in your tuition? Theoretically speaking, if nobody abused their printing privileges, the cost would average out and the cost to you would be the same either way.
However, if charging three cents at the printer reduces abuse, then you, as a student, actually save money. Even if you're one of the students that's abusing your printing privileges, you'd still save money because you don't have to pay for all the other students that are abusing their privileges. Putting all the cost in the tuition causes the tragedy of the commons.
My college actually charged nine cents per page; it was really no big deal. Although I'm curious if the GP meant three cents per page, or three cents per job. If it's per page, the 70% drop doesn't surprise me too much, but if it's per job, then that's pretty amazing.
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Make it out to me. I don't mind waiting until I'm 36 to become a billionaire.
I hope he gets arrested/charged/sued for what he did.
For what? What he did is no more harmful than leaving the door open at night. It was just a demonstration.
The tagline doesn't say "News for nerds && Stuff that matters".
I believe they were implying "News for nerds \isin Stuff that matters", so your claim is mathematically impossible.
Nah, you name your first kid "Hello World", and you give a proper name to the second kid. After all, the first one was just a system test.
It's only small children that have been hurt. The guard is there to ensure that children under 1.28m tall don't use the slide. The guard is really just a glorified fairground operator.
I don't understand why they guard it at night, though. It would be pretty easy to install a gate.
The "good" spam is sort of like a public education campaign about STDs.
Ooh, terrible metaphor. By that logic, this "good" spam would be like the government having unprotected sex with people to identify who needs to be educated about proper condom use.
I'm sorry, I missed the part where the GP was talking about OSS.
Look, I'm an OSS fan too, but not everything is about OSS. The fact that a good product is being released would be good news even if it wasn't OSS.
On the other hand, while it might cost $500K to port 1.0 to the platform of choice, it could also cost $1M to buy new copies of a proprietary package for every government employee in the US. Hell, that would only buy 2000 copies of Microsoft Office Pro.
Smoking doesn't guarantee lung cancer either. That doesn't mean it's unrelated.
You might be interested to know that the Appolo astronauts saw bright flashes as a result of cosmic rays passing through their vitreous humour.
The same phenomenon has even been experienced closer to Earth on Mir and at least one soviet cosmonaut is attributing his cataracts to space radiation.
Hey, not all religion is bad. As a devout frisbeetarianist, let me be the first to say:
Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits.
In the wilderness you can rely on your ears and even your nose to help alert you to danger.
In the city the only thing you got are your eyes.
Really? You don't turn your head when you hear tires screeching? Hell, just sit at an intersection with your eyes closed and you'll realize how easy it is to tell when the traffic starts and stops and when it changes direction.
Yes I cant think as well when in a large herd of people. Go to a hockey or baseball game and try to think of some mathematical exercise while navigating the herd.
Now do the same in the wilderness alone.
See, I'm not so sure about that. When I'm walking in the city, I can be completely oblivious to my surroundings until I hit the next intersection; when I'm walking in a forest, I have to constantly stare at the ground to make sure I'm not tripping over a tree trunk.
I can do it on a hike, in fact most of my "AHA!" moments are when I am out in the wild.
"AHA!" moments make you feel really smart, but don't assume they're your only source of inspiration.
There was a study that was done a while ago where two ropes were hung from the ceiling, out of arms reach from each other, and test subjects were asked to tie the ropes together. There were many objects in the room, and many ways to solve the puzzle, but there was one solution that most of the subjects never thought of: swing one of the ropes, grab the other one, and wait for the first one to swing back and reach your grasp.
So the researches started sending somebody in the room to just walk through the room and lightly brush against one of the ropes, setting it swinging ever so slightly. All of a sudden, almost all of their test subjects realized the solution. But you know what? None of them realized where they got the idea from!
So, having lots of stimuli could be an even better source of inspiration, even if you aren't conscious of it.
Sure, Yahtzee is overly negative, but every other game reviewer is overly positive. When was the last time you saw a game get reviewed lower than 5? Shouldn't 5 be the median?
At least when Yahtzee you know what you're getting. And honestly, I'm one of those games-as-art guys, so I am more interested in hearing about the game's flaws than whether or not I should buy it.
Pro-tip: "A lot" is two words.
all you need to assert copyright ownership is a mark on the product that says so.
You don't even need that, but if you ever go to court, it helps your case. Having your copyright registered helps even more.
As others are saying, it may be difficult to sue for more than just damages if your copyrighted work isn't registered. But the courts aren't that inflexible. Even if Apple can't sue for statutory damages, I'm sure they can find something else to sue the infringing companies over, particularly if they can prove that the companies knew what they were doing is illegal, and it's hard to claim ignorance after the first time Apple sues you for damages.
No. You can always waive your own rights. The GPL is a statement that you're waiving some of your rights, provided the users of your work follow the rules in the license.
On the other hand, MIT has managed to produce wireless power at 75% and even 90% efficiency, either of which would be more efficient than your laptop's power pack.
What's a Mz? Mertz?
Anyway, where's the love for machine code? What do you think your assembler was written in? (Actually, your assembler was likely written in C ;)
If it prints on one side and then on the other would picking up two papers really be such a big deal? Just print those 2 pages again? Also a decent printer shouldn't pick up two papers in the first place should it?
I'm not sure if you're suggesting something different, like using one of those expensive printers with printing heads on both sides of the page, but usually to print on both sides of the paper you first print all the even-numbered pages in reverse order, then put them back in the printer tray (and double-check that you have them in the right way around!) and print all the odd-numbered pages. So if you print the even-numbered pages and get:
8, 6, blank, 4, 2
And then it prints the even pages flawlessly, you end up with your pages in this order (grouped by physical pages):
(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, blank), (7, 6), (9, 8)
Assuming this problem only occurred once, you can just flip every page after the fifth page to get the right order, but you still have this blank page in the middle. So if you actually care about how competent you look when you pass this document off to somebody else, you have to re-print everything from page 5 onward.
This might not be a problem on high-end printers, but I think you'll find that mid-range and low-end printers are far more common.
I'm not sure how printing on both sides of the paper saves on ink.
Besides, printing on both sides of the paper is a pretty big hassle. If your printer errantly grabs two sheets of paper in the middle of your job, you're pretty much screwed.
They pretty much fucked their own limitation over by releasing this under GPL (which they had to do, starting out with a GPL typeface to begin with).
Actually, Bitstream Vera isn't GPL and has no copy-left clauses.
The clause that you pointed out in Spranq's license is rather questionable, though. It makes it sound like they own a design patent on the font. That would also allow them to control derivative works, even if Bistream Vera was released under the GPL (v.2 or earlier).
I couldn't find anything that supported the patent theory, though. If it's true, that would certainly sour their slashvertisement. If it's false, then I'm pretty sure their patent is unenforceable, since you don't actually need to use the font to emulate its design.
I think you're confused about the difference between recycling and renewable resources.
Mod parent interesting, insightful, and informative.
It seems counter-intuitive, but if we stopped using wood completely, then forested land would no longer be profitable! If that happened, people would just replace the forested land with something that is profitable, like housing developments or farms.
I agree that deforestation is a big problem, particularly in third-world countries, but reducing paper use could reduce reforestation, which would cause more harm than good.
I think it's more important that we focus on passing laws to protect natural habitats; when forced to, logging companies have no problems making the most with the land they own.
First of all, the idea that everything required for the class should be included in the price of the class is ridiculous. Books aren't included. Neither are pens, paper, or laptops.
Second, what difference does it make whether you pay for your printing at the printer or in your tuition? Theoretically speaking, if nobody abused their printing privileges, the cost would average out and the cost to you would be the same either way.
However, if charging three cents at the printer reduces abuse, then you, as a student, actually save money. Even if you're one of the students that's abusing your printing privileges, you'd still save money because you don't have to pay for all the other students that are abusing their privileges. Putting all the cost in the tuition causes the tragedy of the commons.
My college actually charged nine cents per page; it was really no big deal. Although I'm curious if the GP meant three cents per page, or three cents per job. If it's per page, the 70% drop doesn't surprise me too much, but if it's per job, then that's pretty amazing.
"Doctor, it hurts when I use a 64-bit browser!"
I think you can figure out the solution to the problem.
Don't get me wrong, this is good news, but it's not a huge deal.