Only flesh with its soul--its blood--YOU must not eat.
Did I just read that right? The Bible says the soul is in the blood? So if I get a blood transfusion, do I swap souls with the donor? No wonder Jehovah's Witnesses are so freaked about transfusions!
It's true that General Motors doesn't get a dime of the sale when you buy a used car, but they would if they could! If car makers could install a chip that would disable the car if it had a new owner--and get away with it--they would. The fact they can't has more to do with historical technical limitations than a desire not. Software companies believe they can get away it and for them, it's an easy technical challenge. I don't think software companies think they are more entitled to resale dollars, just as entitled and they happen to be one of the few industries that might be able to get away it.
The comparison to cars strikes me as similar to "you wouldn't download a car", to which everyone knows the answer is "hell I would!" The fact I can't doesn't affect the argument. I would do it if I could, and it would still be just as unethical to do so.
That might be motivation for creating ReFS. Third party NTFS drivers finally became mature enough to safely read/write the file system... so lets create a new undocumented filesystem and make data exchange between other OSes a PITA again.
Except that the original blog post where this was discussed states that ReFS will be extensible just like NTFS in the context of supporting features they will not be supporting out of the box.
Then, in 1999, a judge in Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS, Inc. determined that the speech was a performance distributed to the news media and not the public, making it a “limited” as opposed to a “general” publication.
So all those people he's speaking to in the video are members of the media? I'm not defending copyright law, but this seems to be a case where copyright law in itself is not the problem, it's the way it's being enforced.
It's not the Martin Luther King estate's fault, necessarily.
But it is. They could put his speech in the public domain. They could choose not to sue for infringements. They could sell the speech and video of it for free. This isn't a judgment of whether they should, but copyright law hasn't mandated this scenario, it's just allowed it.
Also crucial in the estate’s copyright claims: though King himself claimed copyright of the speech a whole month after he delivered it, his claim was seen as valid because no “tangible” copy of the speech had been distributed before he made his claim.
Well, everything seems to be in order. I agree copyright needs to be seriously reformed, but the reporting of this example seems to be much inflated to sound more nefarious than it is.
So why not build workspaces that allow more natural light? What about places that naturally have mostly consistant sunlight? Not every locale has moving cloudcover all the time. And isn't it possible that if you were given control of some fancy new lighting system that you would choose rapidly-changing light levels more because it's new and novel? I'm betting we won't see data about the actual percentage improvement in productivity over a period of months with this thing.
Because she had the mistaken assumption that the store wouldn't be selling a laptop that was useless, so obviously the only thing of significance that should be different is its cosmetic appearance. She probably also bought a car based on its shape and color and possibly how it felt to drive, gas efficiency, maybe based on safety features if she had kids, but probably not based on horsepower, number of valves, ease of repair, or how easy it is to get to the oil.
We techie people like to get all condescending with women regarding technology because they don't place as much importance on statistics and numbers like we do, but the truth is they just know those things aren't important to them. If an ugly lump of gray plastic in the middle of your living room with wires hanging out and as loud as a jet engine appeals to you then great, but don't expect that to be a selling point for everyone.
I understand she's going to be coming back and complaining that her laptop is too slow. It's the vendor's fault for not selling a fast enough laptop in pink. Don't tell her she has to make a choice between an ugly gray computer that's fast enough or a slow pink computer--tell her how she can make the pink computer as fast as the gray one.
Damn, I'm getting old.
Technically the Executive has no power to do anything about any of this[...]
Funny, that doesn't stop them from making campaign promises to do just that.
I read the first article, and I have to say, I did not see anything that proposed what should replace files. There was the vague "encompass metadata within a file abstraction", but really, what does that mean?
The main point of the article, as I read it, was that what a user *believes* a file is and what the storage media/application calls a file are often completely different and that the next form of "file" should better represent what a user thinks of as a file--i.e. the smallest allocatable unit of content, e.g. a photo, a contact, a spreadsheet, a document--and the actions they want to perform on it.
The article gave the example of a OneNote Notebook. On your computer it stores Sections as files and Notebooks as folders of these files. This makes sense from a technology perspective. But a user (a normal one, not a Slashdot one) expects the Notebook to be stored as a whole indivisible unit. And not every storage medium stores the Notebook the same way; SkyDrive was given as an example.
On the other hand, I don't think this is uncommon for a research paper. Not every research paper is intended to be a fascinating read about deblur technology in Photoshop. We're taught to "not point out a problem unless we have a solution", but that's not always the best philosophy. Sometimes it's perfectly valid to point out the flaws in something without knowing how to fix it; sometimes the problem is that people don't see there's a problem and the first step is jut raising awareness there's a problem.
I thought this was hyperbole until I read the patent for myself. IAANAL, but from what I've gathered from Slashdot Law School, it's all about the claims and what usually causes most patent lawsuits to fail is that all the claims have to be infringed on so the while the first claim is often generic, and that's what Slashdotters/media latch on to and are dismissive of, usually there's 20 other claims that taken as a whole are pretty specific.
This patent has one claim:
We claim the ornamental design for an electronic device (not even an electronic computing device, just an electronic device), substantially as shown and described.
The description does not describe the behavior of the device. It explains that each picture is a different view of the device (e.g. top view, side view, etc). As a flat, rectangular electronic device with a bezel and a screen (it has what appears to be a screen, but it doesn't claim it's a screen, just appears to be distinct from the rest of the device), this could be an electronic picture frame, digitizing pen tablet (ala Wacom), a PADD from TNG or Enterprise, or an LCD screen. I kept thinking I was missing a link to more of the patent, but I'm pretty sure I'm not. Maybe the Citations or References come into play, but that's not my understanding.
To say there's prior art is putting it kindly.
The verbage for all respondants is much more positive than the verbage for young adults. For example, "help prevent unwanted personal interactions" sounds (to me at least) much less anti-social than "avoid interacting with people around them" and "important tool in an emergency" gives an entirely different sense than "have had trouble doing something because they did not have their phone nearby", yet that appears to be how they align.
This might be entirely unintended but it looks to me as if a subconscious bias has been exposed.
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