Eh I don't know if you can really blame them. If they can successfully sue then it's entirely the law's fault (or the judge for badly interpreting it). If they have no legal standing then the case will be dismissed or the judgment denied. What's everyone so angry about? Anyone can bring a case, no matter how outlandish.
We can get really mad at the RIAA for scaring people and ruining lives, but this group isn't suing teenagers. They're suing AT&T, with almost $300 billion in assets. Excuse me if I'm not terribly concerned about one of their legal teams having a little more work to do to fight off this frivolous lawsuit.
I agree; what an idiot. There's more useful, educationalinformation instantly available on the internet than any library in the world will ever hold. Just because he's too old and blind to find anything other than Yahoo games doesn't mean that the internet is distracting and meaningless. I'm sure Wikipedia alone has orders of magnitude more educational reading material than you could read going to the library three times a week for generations.
So artists should spend 60 hours a week pressing disks and mailing boxes to cut out the middleman? So there should be a hundred thousand separate online stores, one per manufacturer? I'm not giving out my credit card number to some rubik's cube manufacturer, but Amazon is trustworthy. And how does it make good sense to design a web site for every manufacturer; just uniting everything in one familiar format is much more efficient. Any possible gains from doing it on your own would be offset by the cost of developing and deploying your own ecommerce platform. I don't think Doctorow realizes how many millions of dollars it costs to run warehouses and hire workers.
I wish Google would fix its gaping security holes at all; I don't care how they do it. On my Gentoo Firefox 2 I'm invulnerable. On my XP Chrome, accidentally clicking an on.nimp.org link necessitates a hard power down. I'm paranoid about every click on Chrome.
You forget things all the time. Are you still you when you do?
No. You're different. Our idea of "being you" is based on consistent behavior from others not really being affected day-to-day and a perceived permanence in our own thought patterns. But no you're not still you if you forget something, or experience something, or fall asleep. You're just similar and it's convenient to label you the same name.
Oh, also you look almost exactly the same day-to-day so that contributes to the idea of being "you".
I think the story was that they announced the victory after they had counted some portion of the votes and seen that Ahaminejad had a significant lead.
I think you'd run into trouble with the gigantic kilometers-across wheel spinning near windspeed out in nature somewhere.
Anyway you'd never be able to overcome friction and get it moving. Square kilometers of structure tends to be heavy. Also it's hard to support a kilometer-long arm with a cantilever. If you make it a track you have problems with dead leaves, animals, etc. Put it inside and you'll never be profitable. The whole thing would just be monstrously expensive
I agree. If these kites are being pulled by the wind to generate energy, how do we pull them back? Or do we just keep manufacturing cable until they've gone around the world and we can unhook them and use the cable again?
I have to admit at least you're true to your name.
All you have to do is measure the period of Phobos's orbit and its distance from the center of Mars. The mass of Phobos doesn't matter (remember Galileo on the leaning tower of Pisa). We've known the approximate mass of Mars since practically the dawn of astronomy.
Mercury and Venus were a lot tougher since they don't have moons but since modern science we've been able to use lasers and such to get very accurate measurements from gravitational perturbations.
The tenets of an ancient religion are as valuable as a plausible educated guess?
And this situation is completely different from gravity. We know exactly how gravity behaves and can model it perfectly (well, until you get down to the quantum level). We just don't have a very good way to break it down like we've been able to do with the other 3 fundamental interactions. In the case of the Earth's magnetic field, we don't know what generates it and we don't know why it changes direction, but there's nothing magic or fundamental going on like with gravity; it's just a difficult problem in geology.
Wii Motion+ seems to me like the kind of feature that the Wiimote should have shipped with in the first place. You shouldn't have to replace core functionality with better hardware halfway through your product's lifecycle.
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Eh I don't know if you can really blame them. If they can successfully sue then it's entirely the law's fault (or the judge for badly interpreting it). If they have no legal standing then the case will be dismissed or the judgment denied. What's everyone so angry about? Anyone can bring a case, no matter how outlandish.
We can get really mad at the RIAA for scaring people and ruining lives, but this group isn't suing teenagers. They're suing AT&T, with almost $300 billion in assets. Excuse me if I'm not terribly concerned about one of their legal teams having a little more work to do to fight off this frivolous lawsuit.
None of wikipedia is valid for a paper because it's a tertiary source. You can't cite any encyclopedia.
I learned more from these than some semesters of classes. street fighting math mathematics for computer science and information and entropy.
Because a lot of the texts are written by the profs and available for download as pdfs.
Oh please. Do you "remember" 5000-year-old Chinese manuscripts that were popular for a few decades with a tiny section of population?
That point may have been valid before the Wiki.
Ridiculous. Universal access to infinite copies of information does not make it easier for firemen to pull out content.
I agree; what an idiot. There's more useful, educational information instantly available on the internet than any library in the world will ever hold. Just because he's too old and blind to find anything other than Yahoo games doesn't mean that the internet is distracting and meaningless. I'm sure Wikipedia alone has orders of magnitude more educational reading material than you could read going to the library three times a week for generations.
Like someone staring down the barrel of a multi-million-dollar judgment cares..
Well the defendant didn't have to accept the settlement. Not that I blame her; the legal battling hasn't exactly worked out for Thomas.
They could do only digital distribution but they're missing out on a lot of money. Probably more money than amazon would take off the top.
Also good luck with digital distribution of electric shavers and vacuum cleaners.
So artists should spend 60 hours a week pressing disks and mailing boxes to cut out the middleman? So there should be a hundred thousand separate online stores, one per manufacturer? I'm not giving out my credit card number to some rubik's cube manufacturer, but Amazon is trustworthy. And how does it make good sense to design a web site for every manufacturer; just uniting everything in one familiar format is much more efficient. Any possible gains from doing it on your own would be offset by the cost of developing and deploying your own ecommerce platform. I don't think Doctorow realizes how many millions of dollars it costs to run warehouses and hire workers.
I wish Google would fix its gaping security holes at all; I don't care how they do it. On my Gentoo Firefox 2 I'm invulnerable. On my XP Chrome, accidentally clicking an on.nimp.org link necessitates a hard power down. I'm paranoid about every click on Chrome.
Yes the new generation of webcomic-reading, slashdot-posting, console-playing mac users will do a task and do it well.
Tuition is just a way to trim down their applicant pool. The state pays much more of your tuition than you do.
Two words: Excel macros.
Yeah, it should be deploying a system, not writing one from scratch for every university out there.
Hey, designing your own database backend has measurable performance benefits!
No. You're different. Our idea of "being you" is based on consistent behavior from others not really being affected day-to-day and a perceived permanence in our own thought patterns. But no you're not still you if you forget something, or experience something, or fall asleep. You're just similar and it's convenient to label you the same name.
Oh, also you look almost exactly the same day-to-day so that contributes to the idea of being "you".
I think the story was that they announced the victory after they had counted some portion of the votes and seen that Ahaminejad had a significant lead.
I think you'd run into trouble with the gigantic kilometers-across wheel spinning near windspeed out in nature somewhere.
Anyway you'd never be able to overcome friction and get it moving. Square kilometers of structure tends to be heavy. Also it's hard to support a kilometer-long arm with a cantilever. If you make it a track you have problems with dead leaves, animals, etc. Put it inside and you'll never be profitable. The whole thing would just be monstrously expensive
I agree. If these kites are being pulled by the wind to generate energy, how do we pull them back? Or do we just keep manufacturing cable until they've gone around the world and we can unhook them and use the cable again?
I have to admit at least you're true to your name.
All you have to do is measure the period of Phobos's orbit and its distance from the center of Mars. The mass of Phobos doesn't matter (remember Galileo on the leaning tower of Pisa). We've known the approximate mass of Mars since practically the dawn of astronomy.
Mercury and Venus were a lot tougher since they don't have moons but since modern science we've been able to use lasers and such to get very accurate measurements from gravitational perturbations.
The tenets of an ancient religion are as valuable as a plausible educated guess?
And this situation is completely different from gravity. We know exactly how gravity behaves and can model it perfectly (well, until you get down to the quantum level). We just don't have a very good way to break it down like we've been able to do with the other 3 fundamental interactions. In the case of the Earth's magnetic field, we don't know what generates it and we don't know why it changes direction, but there's nothing magic or fundamental going on like with gravity; it's just a difficult problem in geology.
Wii Motion+ seems to me like the kind of feature that the Wiimote should have shipped with in the first place. You shouldn't have to replace core functionality with better hardware halfway through your product's lifecycle.