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by joshAg 15y ago
that's the article i was thinking of! i still think 178 seconds is insanely short, though.
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by joshAg 15y ago
when instruments were first introduced to planes, most people thought that something caused all instruments to malfunction like crazy as soon as they entered clouds due to the ghost spatial effects the pilots assumed were true ("I can't be
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by joshAg 15y ago
perhaps have the plane decide which input seems more rational, then announce who has control.
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by joshAg 15y ago
pitot tubes just measure longitudinally forward airspeed (ie the direction the plane is going). altimeters measure asl (above sea level) altitude, and gyros measure angle of attack and accelerations. I believe there is a way to tell stall j
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by joshAg 15y ago
I think it's more reasonable that doctors or health care providers or health insurance companies will be the ones that actually have to license any patents because that's where the money is. It's not like consumers need to keep a bracelet o
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by joshAg 15y ago
Good point, I should have used octet, and mentioned that a byte is assumed to be equal to an octet unless otherwise stated. I should probably have also called a bit a fundamental unit and mentioned its relationship to bans.
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by joshAg 15y ago
no, i just couldn't think of a relevant use for it, aside from making it easier to talk about hex. not to mention, it's even less of a standard for measuring things than -bi prefixes.
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by joshAg 15y ago
A bit is the smallest unit in computer science. It is either 1 or 0. The unit abbreviation for bit is 'b'. A byte is the next largest unit in cs. It is equal to 8 bits, so it can have 256 different values. The unit abbreviation for byte is
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by joshAg 15y ago
is non-commercial production civil or criminal? i assume commercial production would primarily be a criminal proceeding , though the victim is also able to sue for damages and reimbursement. Is it the same for non-commercial production?
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by joshAg 15y ago
Not having to deal with court, which could be a significant time and/or money drain. I agree that that isn't a huge disincentive, though. I think that money and effort would be better spent going after producers of infringing content instea
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by joshAg 15y ago
I would argue that distributing is a different issue from producing. In the p2P case you used, I see the producer as the person who prepares the data and/or originally seeds it. Everyone else is just a distributor. "In P2P I think downloade
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by joshAg 15y ago
if that's the case, then are you suggesting the fines should be bigger, since 46% of the population doesn't seem to care about the current fines?
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by joshAg 15y ago
so then why not go after the people producing the infringing copies instad of the people using/buying them? weren't the original copyright laws created to prevent book publishers from printing a book that they didn't have a copyright to pri
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by joshAg 15y ago
Sure but how is that different from now? aside from the cost of the fine, there really isn't, and I'd argue that the specter of a large fine is having little effect on piracy anyway.
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by joshAg 15y ago
The disincentive is having to pay for the thing you pirated. Not to mention attorney fees if you decide to fight the charge.
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by joshAg 15y ago
no, past year based on the time of infringement, not time of conviction, so if you pirate it June 25, 2011, you pay the cheapest price between June 26th, 2010 and June 25th 2011.
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by joshAg 15y ago
personally, i think that anyone caught infringing should pay a fine equal to the cheapest retail price (over say, the past year) of the thing infringed(like for like, if you pirated the hd version of a movie, you have to buy the blu ray or
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by joshAg 15y ago
I am troubled by the fact that you consider the entirety of America to be copyright infringers when the study only indicated that 46% (plus/minus 2%) of americans actually did so. That leaves 53% of non-copyright infringers who think agree
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by joshAg 15y ago
Sure, there's only one IPO. But what about things like vacation time, bonuses, raises, and promotions? As someone else said, unless I've got it written down in a contract that (at least) a couple lawyers have told me is basically unbreakabl
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by joshAg 15y ago
as an executive, do you think that zynga's executive team gave any thought to the bad press this might generate and the talent that this might scare away? From my perspective, this sort of thing scares me away from companies, because they m
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by joshAg 15y ago
i believe they still have to do a logo interpreter/evaluater for the final project of this new class.
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by joshAg 15y ago
i meant it wasn't real world/practical enough for other classes, though a certain subset of students only really seemed to care about languages and concepts that they might use in industry. mit and berkeley had/have the exact same "problem"
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by joshAg 15y ago
i just hope it lives on every semester, and the faculty doesn't treat it like the red-headed step child of the 61 family.
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by joshAg 15y ago
most of the arguments that i heard about moving away from scheme were about how it wasn't worth teaching to people who had never programmed before because it wasn't practical/real world enough or too abstract/LISPy. i think scheme is still
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by joshAg 15y ago
if i remember correctly, some airfare calculators were/are written in scheme/common lisp for the macros as well.
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by joshAg 15y ago
None of the professors want to teach in scheme anymore, and a vocal subset of the eecs students think scheme is a waste of time because it has no real world applications. That said, I think scheme is one of, if not, the best language to beg
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by joshAg 15y ago
what would you pick instead?
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by joshAg 15y ago
thank god for this, then right? http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61as/fa11/
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by joshAg 15y ago
The way it was explained when I took the class was that the language is irrelevant for such an intro class and he (harvey, the guy who taught in scheme) just used scheme because SICP is so good. We actually went through tons of different pr
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by joshAg 15y ago
The reason they moved is because no one else wants to teach it in scheme. When I took the class in 2007 he mentioned then that after he retired the class would switch to python because he was the only one who thought SICP was worth the head

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