The writer behind the books on that site took it to court and lost. Apparently the court said that there was no plagiarism but also that she (Stouffler) had lied and doctored evidence. Seems like the last name Potter only occurs in later reprints and not in the original ones... Which is pretty damning proof that she was trying to cash in but didn't trust her proof that much. She applead to a higher court but verdict was upheld. My highly personal opinion: Stouffler is a golddigger and you took the bait hook, line and sinker.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Stouffer
...or simply that traditionally wine making countries have very different diet and eating patterns. Just agreeing with you that it's not clear which factor it is.
For example Merriam-Webster says that alcoholism is "continued excessive or compulsive use of alcoholic drinks" and I belive most of us would agree. So the study isn't about alcoholism unless you want to be someone who makes specious arguments.
And it's not like it's really new findings that wine consumption could be benefitial.
I agree with Suburnt because the most important photo journalists are the ones that are willing to put their ass on the line. Not to diminish the occaisonal photographer but I do belive that those who do "highly-produced" material (using Sunburnts wording) by seeking it out will always make valuable contributions. So mod Sunburnt up. Think about it, he has a point.
I think you're right when it comes to the long run ("extreme" gamers don't make up the majority of the customers. And from what I've read it would seem like Nintendo has an advantage when it comes to appealing to the non-gamers/occasional gamers with the new controllers... because. as you say, it allows them to have more fun. So I'm guessing the Wii will do allright (not saying it will come up on top but though)
Me? No console and don't play much games.
The use of a holographic storage method could be a very big step if they get it to work (have we heard promises like that before?). Imagine holographic storage in cube form instead. Then we'd really talk about major capacity. I'm hoping this could become the first real world step towards something like that.
Of the more wellknown iAudio has some models that support FLAC. That and some other models are mentioned at the main page of http://flac.sourceforge.net/
For me music isn't to be just "consumed" where you replace last months listening with something new. When I look at what I listen to often there's both year old stuff as well as some that I bought some 20 years ago.
Today mp3 is the reigning format but what about 10 or 20 years? Will any new formats come and replace it or will there be significantly better equipment that will easily expose the quality difference between mp3 and lossless?
And if new lossy formats come along you risk getting audible artifacts when converting from one lossy format to another which is no good for me. And who knows which of todays drm will work in 10 to 20 years.
So in those cases where I can pick it's going to be lossless and non-drm for me.
No, no dupe.
First story was about Judge Kimball affirming an order Judge Wells maid (the striking a lot of evidence) and this story is about a hearing that Judge Wells held today.
Part of the Lanham Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanham_Act) is often used when a company claims their business been hurt by false or misleading statements. There are 3 things that must be proved by the company that claims the damage: 1) there was a false or misleading statement made, 2) the statement was used in commercial advertising or promotion and 3) and the statement creates a likelihood of harm to the plaintiff.
Now looking at how SCOX has kept shooting it's mouth of in the early phases of the case I'd say that 2) and 3) are pretty self-evident for those who have followed the development of this case. 2) because SCOX made a lot of loud statements during their Road Shows (which they only made to market themselves) that never materialized. 3) can most likely be proved just by reading what market analysts wrote based on SCOX:s statements and the initial soaring of SCOX value.
So the only way to weaken the Lanham Act accusations from IBM is to weaken 1). If something, just any little thing, does survive into the trial itself it might give SCOX the chance to argue that the other statements were made in some kind of good faith. So they try to wriggle anything in sideways, under or over that can help them to do that. Because if they don't then it will look very bleak for them when Lanham Act part of trial starts.
Last sentence should have been:
And, oh, I wouldn't go around saying "We will bring this much of that type of evidence into court" without doing it later. That will land you big fat Lanham accusations you know.
Bad editing on my part. Sorry.
Well if the large hypotetical company gave full access to their source code control system for the alledged infringing products and then the judge said, after you'd had access for about 2 years, "Is this all you got?" I would cut my losses and bow out.
And this was actually what happend (except the bowing out part). SCOs lawyers have full access to IBMs CMVC (their version control system) and in a hearing Judge Wells asks SCOX lawyer "Does SCO have, can they provide, additional specificity?... I mean, basically, is this all you've got?" (source: http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=2006 0414162430240)
And, oh, I wouldn't go around saying "We will bring this much of that type of evidence into court before I actually did it. That will land you big fat Lanham accusations you know.
I fully agree with you with the only difference that I suspect the lack of taste and aromatics might be partially due to forced growing (and early harvest as well) to get a better crop yield. A fast grown and/or oversized fruit of any kind will usually not have the same amount of taste as a slowly matured one.
And don't even get me started on tomatos these days. I was on vacation in Yugoslavia before hell broke out there and they did have some wonderful tomatos... but then the serbian word for tomato is "paradajz".
And if you add some kind of relief on the bills as well then you will most likely cut down on counterfeit bills as well. Swedish bills have the numbers printed with reliefs and it's very easy just to run your finger over them to make a preliminary check if the bill is real.
Stokke and other kneeling chairs (see http://www.backinaction.co.uk/kneeling) got it right then and really knew what they were doing. I have tried a chair like that myself for a while when I did some data entry while at the university. It did feel a bit weird first but you felt that 'tensed-tired-back' after sitting on them.
I thought so as well so I looked it up: "In answering, the defendant is limited to admitting, denying or denying on the basis he/she/it has no information to affirm or deny"
Here in Sweden we also call it "the mobile" (i.e. "mobilen" in Swedish). But a lot of the time it's just "the phone" if the listener can figure out if which phone you're talking about.
I think they've introduced some kind of compression into their encoding.
Enter the usual mode of operations for people coming up with new "fantastic" compression algorithms. First the present what they've done. Then they're asked to do a demonstration on actual data supplied by someone else. After that they either disappear straight away or say it has a few glitches to iron out and they will be back soon with the sharp version and disappear.
Problem is that you have not bought something. You've just paid for the right to use it, with restrictions... you've paid a ticket to ride in Microsofts Funland Park - not bought all or part of it.
Looking at an Microsoft EULA you'll see the following text:
3. RESERVATION OF RIGHTS AND OWNERSHIP. Microsoft reserves all rights not expressly granted to you in this EULA. The Software is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties. Microsoft or its suppliers own the title, copyright, and other intellectual property rights in the Software. The Software is licensed, not sold.
That is an interesting question. One way could be to use separate cooling systems for each coil and if there is a cooling system failure you could shunt the energy from the failing coil to the rest of them and then proceed with an orderly shutdown. Anyone else have any suggestions? (Or actualy *gasp* know?:)
The electromagnet not used to hold anything together. The energy is just "stored" in the coils and when you remove the power supply the field dissipates. Now, should you short-circuit the coils - that would be interesting.
Huh? The complaint that led to this came from... Sun Microsystems. Not from some EU goon or even an european company. And can you show any bias in how the EU has given preferential treatment to european companies compared to US ones when it comes to anti-competition judgements? All lists I have seen are firmly dominated by EU companies. If you can show me any factual background I might change my mind... if not then I can only look at your statement as an Bill O'Reilly type rant.
At the time I wrote this you had been modded insightful... why any reasonable modder would do that I don't know.
The EU is going to decide three things: whether the documents satisfy their requirements...
And for those who wonder if EU is competent to judge wether the documents are appropriate it should be pointed out that the expert that will look at the documents was picked from a shortlist that Microsoft themselves submitted.
Also, I'd guess that environmental gene expression stars in the womb - that the fetus gets clues to the external environment from the nutrients and chemicals coming from the mother and adjusts itself accordingly. You could test that by somehow getting ahold of some in-vitro twins and implanting them at different times, I guess? But there probably still would be too many variables.
There was a very interesting BBC documentary "The Ghost In Your Genes" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizo n/ghostgenes.shtml) where they mentioned several interesting results about environmental effects on gene expression. In the program (and linked BBC article) one researcher mentions that he could turn some gene expression on and off in mice embryos by physically manipulating the embryos.
One very interesting thing they also talked about was the possible transgenerational effects by famine as an example of how environments affects the human organism. Överkalix in far northern Sweden was very isolated so there were struck by famine several times. Being Swedes they were also kept very good records of births, deaths etc. A researcher decided to look at the health of those families over 3 generations. I'd say they found something quite astounding: there was a link in grandmothers food supply and their granddaugters mortality rate, same for grandfathers and their grandsons (the link was either all on the male line or all on the female line).
For those who wish to read a little more about the transgenerational the researchers has written an (non-scholar) article at the University of Bristols website http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2005/866. I think there will a lot of really interesting developments in the gene expression research in the coming years.
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The writer behind the books on that site took it to court and lost. Apparently the court said that there was no plagiarism but also that she (Stouffler) had lied and doctored evidence. Seems like the last name Potter only occurs in later reprints and not in the original ones... Which is pretty damning proof that she was trying to cash in but didn't trust her proof that much. She applead to a higher court but verdict was upheld. My highly personal opinion: Stouffler is a golddigger and you took the bait hook, line and sinker. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Stouffer
...or simply that traditionally wine making countries have very different diet and eating patterns. Just agreeing with you that it's not clear which factor it is.
For example Merriam-Webster says that alcoholism is "continued excessive or compulsive use of alcoholic drinks" and I belive most of us would agree. So the study isn't about alcoholism unless you want to be someone who makes specious arguments. And it's not like it's really new findings that wine consumption could be benefitial.
I agree with Suburnt because the most important photo journalists are the ones that are willing to put their ass on the line. Not to diminish the occaisonal photographer but I do belive that those who do "highly-produced" material (using Sunburnts wording) by seeking it out will always make valuable contributions. So mod Sunburnt up. Think about it, he has a point.
I think you're right when it comes to the long run ("extreme" gamers don't make up the majority of the customers. And from what I've read it would seem like Nintendo has an advantage when it comes to appealing to the non-gamers/occasional gamers with the new controllers... because. as you say, it allows them to have more fun. So I'm guessing the Wii will do allright (not saying it will come up on top but though) Me? No console and don't play much games.
The use of a holographic storage method could be a very big step if they get it to work (have we heard promises like that before?). Imagine holographic storage in cube form instead. Then we'd really talk about major capacity. I'm hoping this could become the first real world step towards something like that.
Of the more wellknown iAudio has some models that support FLAC. That and some other models are mentioned at the main page of http://flac.sourceforge.net/
For me music isn't to be just "consumed" where you replace last months listening with something new. When I look at what I listen to often there's both year old stuff as well as some that I bought some 20 years ago.
Today mp3 is the reigning format but what about 10 or 20 years? Will any new formats come and replace it or will there be significantly better equipment that will easily expose the quality difference between mp3 and lossless? And if new lossy formats come along you risk getting audible artifacts when converting from one lossy format to another which is no good for me. And who knows which of todays drm will work in 10 to 20 years.
So in those cases where I can pick it's going to be lossless and non-drm for me.
No, no dupe. First story was about Judge Kimball affirming an order Judge Wells maid (the striking a lot of evidence) and this story is about a hearing that Judge Wells held today.
IANAL etc.
Part of the Lanham Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanham_Act) is often used when a company claims their business been hurt by false or misleading statements. There are 3 things that must be proved by the company that claims the damage: 1) there was a false or misleading statement made, 2) the statement was used in commercial advertising or promotion and 3) and the statement creates a likelihood of harm to the plaintiff.
Now looking at how SCOX has kept shooting it's mouth of in the early phases of the case I'd say that 2) and 3) are pretty self-evident for those who have followed the development of this case. 2) because SCOX made a lot of loud statements during their Road Shows (which they only made to market themselves) that never materialized. 3) can most likely be proved just by reading what market analysts wrote based on SCOX:s statements and the initial soaring of SCOX value.
So the only way to weaken the Lanham Act accusations from IBM is to weaken 1). If something, just any little thing, does survive into the trial itself it might give SCOX the chance to argue that the other statements were made in some kind of good faith. So they try to wriggle anything in sideways, under or over that can help them to do that. Because if they don't then it will look very bleak for them when Lanham Act part of trial starts.
Last sentence should have been:
And, oh, I wouldn't go around saying "We will bring this much of that type of evidence into court" without doing it later. That will land you big fat Lanham accusations you know.
Bad editing on my part. Sorry.
Well if the large hypotetical company gave full access to their source code control system for the alledged infringing products and then the judge said, after you'd had access for about 2 years, "Is this all you got?" I would cut my losses and bow out.
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And this was actually what happend (except the bowing out part). SCOs lawyers have full access to IBMs CMVC (their version control system) and in a hearing Judge Wells asks SCOX lawyer "Does SCO have, can they provide, additional specificity?... I mean, basically, is this all you've got?" (source: http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=200
And, oh, I wouldn't go around saying "We will bring this much of that type of evidence into court before I actually did it. That will land you big fat Lanham accusations you know.
I fully agree with you with the only difference that I suspect the lack of taste and aromatics might be partially due to forced growing (and early harvest as well) to get a better crop yield. A fast grown and/or oversized fruit of any kind will usually not have the same amount of taste as a slowly matured one.
And don't even get me started on tomatos these days. I was on vacation in Yugoslavia before hell broke out there and they did have some wonderful tomatos... but then the serbian word for tomato is "paradajz".
Well damn you for making me wonder if my subconcious is up to something... ;-p....
And if you add some kind of relief on the bills as well then you will most likely cut down on counterfeit bills as well. Swedish bills have the numbers printed with reliefs and it's very easy just to run your finger over them to make a preliminary check if the bill is real.
Stokke and other kneeling chairs (see http://www.backinaction.co.uk/kneeling) got it right then and really knew what they were doing. I have tried a chair like that myself for a while when I did some data entry while at the university. It did feel a bit weird first but you felt that 'tensed-tired-back' after sitting on them.
The negative side? They cost to much I think.
I thought so as well so I looked it up: "In answering, the defendant is limited to admitting, denying or denying on the basis he/she/it has no information to affirm or deny"
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Here in Sweden we also call it "the mobile" (i.e. "mobilen" in Swedish). But a lot of the time it's just "the phone" if the listener can figure out if which phone you're talking about.
I think they've introduced some kind of compression into their encoding.
Enter the usual mode of operations for people coming up with new "fantastic" compression algorithms. First the present what they've done. Then they're asked to do a demonstration on actual data supplied by someone else. After that they either disappear straight away or say it has a few glitches to iron out and they will be back soon with the sharp version and disappear.
Looking at an Microsoft EULA you'll see the following text:
(Bold emphasis added by me)
Link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/eula.mspx
That is an interesting question. One way could be to use separate cooling systems for each coil and if there is a cooling system failure you could shunt the energy from the failing coil to the rest of them and then proceed with an orderly shutdown. Anyone else have any suggestions? (Or actualy *gasp* know? :)
The electromagnet not used to hold anything together. The energy is just "stored" in the coils and when you remove the power supply the field dissipates. Now, should you short-circuit the coils - that would be interesting.
Huh? The complaint that led to this came from... Sun Microsystems. Not from some EU goon or even an european company. And can you show any bias in how the EU has given preferential treatment to european companies compared to US ones when it comes to anti-competition judgements? All lists I have seen are firmly dominated by EU companies. If you can show me any factual background I might change my mind... if not then I can only look at your statement as an Bill O'Reilly type rant.
At the time I wrote this you had been modded insightful... why any reasonable modder would do that I don't know.
One very interesting thing they also talked about was the possible transgenerational effects by famine as an example of how environments affects the human organism. Överkalix in far northern Sweden was very isolated so there were struck by famine several times. Being Swedes they were also kept very good records of births, deaths etc. A researcher decided to look at the health of those families over 3 generations. I'd say they found something quite astounding: there was a link in grandmothers food supply and their granddaugters mortality rate, same for grandfathers and their grandsons (the link was either all on the male line or all on the female line).
For those who wish to read a little more about the transgenerational the researchers has written an (non-scholar) article at the University of Bristols website http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2005/866. I think there will a lot of really interesting developments in the gene expression research in the coming years.