So you go to the movies and sit in the third row and look up at the screen? What in the world are you talking about? Did you even read what I said? Or is there a fuse blown somewhere in your brain?
Keep in mind that any kind of "high definition," as opposed to let's say normal DVD definition, only really makes any kind of sense if you have a 6-foot (2 meter) or larger LCD or plasma screen. How many folks even have the room for such a monstrosity? And the larger the screen, the farther away you have to sit to see the damned thing. So you've got a situation like the ad for projection TVs where they project the movie on the side of a hydroelectric dam. Great! I'll spend my hard earned money on that!;-) This is the same disease you have with digital cameras with the idiotic quest for more and more megapixels that require larger and larger storage devices, all so some shlub can take a bad picture of his kid at the beach.
I love how politicians raise unsupported theories of criminal etiology to the level of fact simply because they sound reasonable to them or support their pre-existing misconceptions. From what I've seen on this subject, it is the lack of a socially acceptable form of release that often leads to the acting out of such fantasies. But then, the law has never been about preventing crime. It is about control freaks who enjoy telling people what to do and their sadistic pleasure from enforcing draconian punishment. The Spanish Inquisition comes to mind, as well as the Nazies, and particularly our present simian executive who reportedly laughed uncontrollably every time someone asked for clemency when he was governor of Texas. Unless of course you happen to be a former employee of the big Dick.
The site's not only down, the domain has been parked. Not necessarily as a result of being slashdotted. The torrent blogs are all over this. If they come back up there will no doubt be a surge of uploaded "videos" that will annoy the cr@p out of their monitors. This kind of thing rapidly becomes a no win situation as soon as folks find out about it. You'd think they'd save their money.
Actually, I've found that Yahoo lately has done a much better job of crawling my website, all 1700+ pages of it. Google has gone to Hell in this regard. When the world finally figures this out, Google is dead. I don't care how many free services they offer. They are a search company, and they are beginning to fail miserably at it.
My next self-built machine is gonna be Haiku. Well, at least if they ever get it done! That was one of the worst consequences of M$'s ability to kill the opposition--the death of the BeOS.
As I suggested elsewhere on this thread, why should any corporation be allowed to own the creative work of real people for decades into the future? Why can't they simply be limited to first use rights or first year rights or some such limiting factor and the rights then automatically reverting to the creators of the work? This would allow the corporations to make money and at the same time preserve the rights of the *real* creative artists the law is *supposed* to be protecting.
The real problem with copyright law is that large corporations are allowed to possess them. This is just another example of the much larger problem of large corporations being allowed to do anything an individual can do. Even in your example, the author doesn't necessarily own the copyright. Often, it is the publisher that does so, which is good if a lawsuit is required, but it limits the author's future right to do what they wish with their work. In short, why is a company that has not produced anything creative allowed to take advantage of a legal right that was supposedly enacted to protect creativity? Perhaps these corporations should only be allowed to possess limited copyrights that only extend to the first production of the work in question, with all rights thereafter reverting to the artists who created the works. I have no absolute solutions, but I really think this needs to be looked at from the point of view of what would actually increase creativity in the real world and not just in the corporate bizarro world.
Actually, it seems to me that intelligence would be likely to evolve more rapidly in a rapidly evolving biosystem. And once it arose, you'd have a much broader range of implimentations of that intelligence, including such specialized abilities as telepathy and telekinesis. Also, one would expect that there would be rapid evolution in such an environment of mechanisms that protected certain parts of the genetic material, either through redundancy or through dynamic reconfiguration.
Like the previous Y2K problem, it's not the realities of time measurement that are at fault, whether legislated by the US Congress or the pope several centuries ago, it's a problem of lack of foresight. THAT is what M$ is lacking and THAT is why this kind of shit always seems to happen. Folks in 1980 couldn't see the change of millennia coming? M$ couldn't see the possibility of changes in DST and thus make it relatively simple to change? Bosh.
I know very little about programming and even I know you're blowing smoke out your ass. Whatever programs need to know what time it is are going to the aforementioned registry value or some other utility that uses that registry value to determine what time it is. That's the whole point of the registry value. That's the repository of the DST dates. You don't need anything else.
Of course. Life evolves to fit the current conditions. In a high radiation environment, I can imagine a life form that takes advantage of the high radiation levels to rapidly mutate and evolve, increasing its chances of survival in a hazardous environment. Actually, there are plants on this very planet that for some reason have developed the abilty to mutate rapidly. The hawthorn for example. There was a point when there were hundreds of named species of hawthorn. Before the botanists realized the damned things were just mutating spontaneously.
Recent research at the Lysenko Institute of Alternate Studies in St Petersburg has determined that the bees' until now poorly understood method of geolocation is subject to interference from mobile internet connections.;-)
Does anybody think that Lycos is running this service out of the goodness of their socialistic hearts and not because they get advertising revenue from it? Think of the GOOD publicity they could have gotten out of this, the increased ad revenue, if they had played it right. But no, they had to shoot themselves in the foot. These folks aren't assholes, they are morons. And that's why nobody even remembers they still exist.
In fact, that was his fucking defense at his trial.
The bottom line is this guy's job isn't to be an obnoxious dickhead. What exactly do you think that second word in "customer service" means? Is this really rocket science to you Ayn Rand groupies?
Slashdot Mirror
So you go to the movies and sit in the third row and look up at the screen? What in the world are you talking about? Did you even read what I said? Or is there a fuse blown somewhere in your brain?
Keep in mind that any kind of "high definition," as opposed to let's say normal DVD definition, only really makes any kind of sense if you have a 6-foot (2 meter) or larger LCD or plasma screen. How many folks even have the room for such a monstrosity? And the larger the screen, the farther away you have to sit to see the damned thing. So you've got a situation like the ad for projection TVs where they project the movie on the side of a hydroelectric dam. Great! I'll spend my hard earned money on that! ;-) This is the same disease you have with digital cameras with the idiotic quest for more and more megapixels that require larger and larger storage devices, all so some shlub can take a bad picture of his kid at the beach.
I love how politicians raise unsupported theories of criminal etiology to the level of fact simply because they sound reasonable to them or support their pre-existing misconceptions. From what I've seen on this subject, it is the lack of a socially acceptable form of release that often leads to the acting out of such fantasies. But then, the law has never been about preventing crime. It is about control freaks who enjoy telling people what to do and their sadistic pleasure from enforcing draconian punishment. The Spanish Inquisition comes to mind, as well as the Nazies, and particularly our present simian executive who reportedly laughed uncontrollably every time someone asked for clemency when he was governor of Texas. Unless of course you happen to be a former employee of the big Dick.
The site's not only down, the domain has been parked. Not necessarily as a result of being slashdotted. The torrent blogs are all over this. If they come back up there will no doubt be a surge of uploaded "videos" that will annoy the cr@p out of their monitors. This kind of thing rapidly becomes a no win situation as soon as folks find out about it. You'd think they'd save their money.
Guillotines!
Monitor that Alberto!
Actually, I've found that Yahoo lately has done a much better job of crawling my website, all 1700+ pages of it. Google has gone to Hell in this regard. When the world finally figures this out, Google is dead. I don't care how many free services they offer. They are a search company, and they are beginning to fail miserably at it.
Does this mean I can patent hiding in the closet?
Oh, sorry, I thought you were just an idiot. My bad... ;-)
I thought they were a book publisher.
"You see, Google has not answered many questions yet and this does not an admission of guilt."
;-)
Shouldn't that be "You see, Google has not answered many questions yet and this does not an admission of guilt make it"?
The "us"? Shift key broken on your computer?
My next self-built machine is gonna be Haiku. Well, at least if they ever get it done! That was one of the worst consequences of M$'s ability to kill the opposition--the death of the BeOS.
As I suggested elsewhere on this thread, why should any corporation be allowed to own the creative work of real people for decades into the future? Why can't they simply be limited to first use rights or first year rights or some such limiting factor and the rights then automatically reverting to the creators of the work? This would allow the corporations to make money and at the same time preserve the rights of the *real* creative artists the law is *supposed* to be protecting.
The real problem with copyright law is that large corporations are allowed to possess them. This is just another example of the much larger problem of large corporations being allowed to do anything an individual can do. Even in your example, the author doesn't necessarily own the copyright. Often, it is the publisher that does so, which is good if a lawsuit is required, but it limits the author's future right to do what they wish with their work. In short, why is a company that has not produced anything creative allowed to take advantage of a legal right that was supposedly enacted to protect creativity? Perhaps these corporations should only be allowed to possess limited copyrights that only extend to the first production of the work in question, with all rights thereafter reverting to the artists who created the works. I have no absolute solutions, but I really think this needs to be looked at from the point of view of what would actually increase creativity in the real world and not just in the corporate bizarro world.
Actually, it seems to me that intelligence would be likely to evolve more rapidly in a rapidly evolving biosystem. And once it arose, you'd have a much broader range of implimentations of that intelligence, including such specialized abilities as telepathy and telekinesis. Also, one would expect that there would be rapid evolution in such an environment of mechanisms that protected certain parts of the genetic material, either through redundancy or through dynamic reconfiguration.
I suspect the EU will have something to say about this. I can't imagine this will not be shot down as a violation of free speech.
Like the previous Y2K problem, it's not the realities of time measurement that are at fault, whether legislated by the US Congress or the pope several centuries ago, it's a problem of lack of foresight. THAT is what M$ is lacking and THAT is why this kind of shit always seems to happen. Folks in 1980 couldn't see the change of millennia coming? M$ couldn't see the possibility of changes in DST and thus make it relatively simple to change? Bosh.
What, you never heard of Wild Bill Hickup?
I know very little about programming and even I know you're blowing smoke out your ass. Whatever programs need to know what time it is are going to the aforementioned registry value or some other utility that uses that registry value to determine what time it is. That's the whole point of the registry value. That's the repository of the DST dates. You don't need anything else.
Of course. Life evolves to fit the current conditions. In a high radiation environment, I can imagine a life form that takes advantage of the high radiation levels to rapidly mutate and evolve, increasing its chances of survival in a hazardous environment. Actually, there are plants on this very planet that for some reason have developed the abilty to mutate rapidly. The hawthorn for example. There was a point when there were hundreds of named species of hawthorn. Before the botanists realized the damned things were just mutating spontaneously.
Recent research at the Lysenko Institute of Alternate Studies in St Petersburg has determined that the bees' until now poorly understood method of geolocation is subject to interference from mobile internet connections. ;-)
Does anybody think that Lycos is running this service out of the goodness of their socialistic hearts and not because they get advertising revenue from it? Think of the GOOD publicity they could have gotten out of this, the increased ad revenue, if they had played it right. But no, they had to shoot themselves in the foot. These folks aren't assholes, they are morons. And that's why nobody even remembers they still exist.
In fact, that was his fucking defense at his trial.
The bottom line is this guy's job isn't to be an obnoxious dickhead. What exactly do you think that second word in "customer service" means? Is this really rocket science to you Ayn Rand groupies?
Yeah, only us leftist freaks care about the murder of 2/3 of a million human beings. Whereas you normal folks don't see anything wrong with it.
And while we're at it, don't forget:
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Big Brother loves you
Doesn't it get awfully dark with your head up your own butt?
HR 508
Tell your congressman to support it and stop crying about not having any power.