> However, the creator of a sculpture retains the copyrights of his work and that includes the right to any reproductions of a sculpture - including pictures
He would have to prove a loss. For a poster or other commercial reproduction that could be the case. For a photograph published on the Internet that would be harder to justify. Anyway if the Sculptur doesn't want photos taken, he shouldn't put his work in a public place.
Tainting does seem to be a big issue for us developers.
I'm not thinking about the move from a CS to OSS project but just getting hired by another company who are extremely risk averse. For example if you've seen Sun's Java source code (who hasn't Sun were pimping all around the shop at one time) there is no way IBM would hire you to work on the J9 JVM.
It seems crazy though, what actually adds value to you as a developer stops you working elsewhere.
> Must be terrorists; we'd better invade right away.
The US (or at least Pentagon) already considers the UK as little more than terrorists which is why the UK will get a dumbed down version of the new F35 joint jet figher as the Brits are deemed a "government where US technology may fall into terrorist hands". Of course the Brits are expected to fess-up all the good tech they have to the US.
It is a bit like the recently signed extradition treaty where UK citizens can be sent to the US if the US justice says they are wanted terrorists but the US won't send terrorists (remember that US citizens were major funders of the IRA one of the world's most ruthless terrorist organisations) to the UK.
One curious thing. If you are a UK citizen but living outside the UK you will not be required to have an ID card when you renew your passport because of the lack of biometric readers in every town on the planet... you normally renew your passport by post with the embassy. So the whole scheme is a big waste of money, probably introduced because Tony Blair is getting backhanders from the American IT companies that will build the system.
I agree with you on that one. I'm still on W2000 (like a lot of folk) AFAIKS the important and useful features of XP and Vista could have been handled by a couple of service packs.
> Vista was also held up because the project was restarted in the summer of 2004. The new work, Microsoft decided, would take a new approach. Vista was built more in small modules that then fit together like Lego blocks, making development and testing easier to manage.
Wow, Microsoft discovers modular design and good interfaces 30 years after the rest of the world went that way.
Most well run companies base there IT planning around business cases...
The key to your statement being Well Run. Many of the companies I've worked for in my 21 year post grad IT carrier have based their business case around
Did the sales woman have huge cleavage and a short skirt?
Is the boss getting a back hander?
Will this technology look good on my CV?
notions of profit for the business, delivering a good product to the client etc don't even appear on most employees radar.
jennifer lopez and kate hudson in a lesbo cowgirl movie, now your talking, they could call it
Spankbutt Mountain
coming back to a another poster's comment, it was the gay "cowboy" bit that got me. Maybe if they were gay jewish cowboys? It is like that Billy Elliot film, hardass northern lad wants to learn ballet. It is like who can come up with the most ridiculous idea for a story?
The reality is that the commission are quite ready to hand out huge fines to European governments and companies when they contravene the EC neo-liberal agenda. They probably go easy on Microsoft because they are seen as an arm of the current Republican administration.
Still you are right to ask the question but Microsoft are in trouble because their business practises contravene the norms.
> Of course, googling "The Canyon of the Vaginas" is the same as googling "Canyon Vaginas"
This is a minor point but the above statement is not true. Google has been supporting stop word searches for about 6 months. Try searching for "the" and you will see Google claims 19 billion results. So the results you get for the above searches are slightly different. It is best to try a more specific search first - quoting your phrase gives you results related to the book you were talking about.
Interesting project, it reminds me of the digital camera I built with a fellow student as a degree project. We ground the top of a 256 byte DRAM using a grinding machine in the mech.eng lab and fitted a glass window. The DRAM capacitors discharge at a different rate when exposed to light. We mounted the chip to a PCB, cut the back out of a 35mm Zenith camera and mounted the PCB. Obviously the optics and chip were poorly matched, we were only using a small part of the lens.
Knowing the discharge rate of the DRAM and the time to load and scan all 256 elements you could get a black and white image. We used the camera for some image recognition work. One application was counting the number of cups remaining in a drinks machine hopper by edge detecting the image then counting the "lips" that we saw.
That was back in the autumn of 1986. We've come a long way.
The problem with the recent Kodak 'bridge' cameras seems to be JPEG compression levels. The images are overly compressed which is ok if all you want is a 7x5" print but not good for other work. The cameras could probably spit out quite good RAW mode images if there were such an option.
I had a number of points about the article as published. In it he claims that the idea of a portable music player was alien at the time he filed his patent whereas I gave examples where there was clearly market demand and use of such equipment, albeit in an unrefined way, a number of years prior to his patent. The Bush "discasette", which I already refered to, is even closer to a portable music player in that there is no record mechanism as it is designed purely for playing 45 rpm records. In the mid-1960s Clive Sinclair introduced his slimline minature radio. Apart from the fact the medium is radio waves and not tape this clearly demonstrates two of the key aspects of the invention - uses headphones or earpieces rather than speakers and has a battery power supply.
I think the Walkman was a refinement of an existing system and although parts of the technology needed to make that refinement could be subject to patents I'm not sure the general idea of a portable music player should be patentable nor should the removal of loudspeaker and power supply be classed as "invention".
I'm not sure I understand the invention here (unless we are defining "invention" in the terms used by the USPO). When I was at school back in the early 1970s there were girls who would walk around with headphones and casette recorders to listen to music using the Philips Compact Audio casette system. which was introduced in 1963. I don't know if you remember these casette players, they would work on batteries and had a strap so they could be carries over the shoulder like a handbag. The walkman just seems like the usual Japanese refinement and minituarization of the system... I don't see an inventive process here except for certain component technologies such as the compact audio cassette. There were also portable music systems based on the 45RPM record available from the early 1970s.
Just because this was novel in Hicktown Italy in 1977 doesn't mean it was novel in some of the slightly more go ahead parts of the world. He has basically beaten Sony into submission by harrassment despite losing all of his court cases. Ok maybe we shouldn't shed a tear for Sony who would do much the same themselves.
Just Imagine if EasyJet gets in on this....the flight will cost just $50 one way plus spaceport taxes of $25,000 but you will have to pay extra for oxygen, a spacesuit and a seat!
Before the privatisation saga priority used to be given to IC services by BR. Now there is no reason by the ConnexChuffer should wait for the Virgin Express to pass. What they need is a system a bit like IPv6 where trains are treated a bit like packets and get routed faster if they pay more.
Sounds like my recent experience with Amazon. They have taken from mid-August to December to fulfill a camera order. They seem to operate on:
1. advertise low price to attract customers + they have a good reputation 2. see if they can obtain cameras and get a great price based on the huge number of orders 3. cancel order or suggest different camera if they can't fulfill 4. repeat 5. Profits!!!!
In fairness to Amazon I spoke to a customer representative a few times from Amazon who explained that unless they had 24 hour availibiity I could expect delays or problems sourcing the order. Something to bear in mind.
Would I order from Amazon again? Yes, although I've had some other problems in the past which puts them in the league of one of the poorer online stores.
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No the shop is not public, it is more analagous to a museum where restrictions on photography often apply.
> However, the creator of a sculpture retains the copyrights of his work and that includes the right to any reproductions of a sculpture - including pictures
He would have to prove a loss. For a poster or other commercial reproduction that could be the case. For a photograph published on the Internet that would be harder to justify. Anyway if the Sculptur doesn't want photos taken, he shouldn't put his work in a public place.
Music or films being other good examples.
Tainting does seem to be a big issue for us developers.
I'm not thinking about the move from a CS to OSS project but just getting hired by another company who are extremely risk averse. For example if you've seen Sun's Java source code (who hasn't Sun were pimping all around the shop at one time) there is no way IBM would hire you to work on the J9 JVM.
It seems crazy though, what actually adds value to you as a developer stops you working elsewhere.
They look to be having a lot more fun than the average /. reader
Web 2.0? As Microsoft is involved everyone knows it won't be usable until Web 3.1 is released... although it will be named Web 2010.
Personally I'm sticking with eXtreme Web.
> Must be terrorists; we'd better invade right away.
The US (or at least Pentagon) already considers the UK as little more than terrorists which is why the UK will get a dumbed down version of the new F35 joint jet figher as the Brits are deemed a "government where US technology may fall into terrorist hands". Of course the Brits are expected to fess-up all the good tech they have to the US.
It is a bit like the recently signed extradition treaty where UK citizens can be sent to the US if the US justice says they are wanted terrorists but the US won't send terrorists (remember that US citizens were major funders of the IRA one of the world's most ruthless terrorist organisations) to the UK.
One curious thing. If you are a UK citizen but living outside the UK you will not be required to have an ID card when you renew your passport because of the lack of biometric readers in every town on the planet... you normally renew your passport by post with the embassy. So the whole scheme is a big waste of money, probably introduced because Tony Blair is getting backhanders from the American IT companies that will build the system.
I agree with you on that one. I'm still on W2000 (like a lot of folk) AFAIKS the important and useful features of XP and Vista could have been handled by a couple of service packs.
> Vista was also held up because the project was restarted in the summer of 2004. The new work, Microsoft decided, would take a new approach. Vista was built more in small modules that then fit together like Lego blocks, making development and testing easier to manage.
Wow, Microsoft discovers modular design and good interfaces 30 years after the rest of the world went that way.
> Microsoft executive Goldberg bristles at the notion that little innovative work has come out of the Windows group since XP.
Yes outrageous, litte innovative work has come out of Microsoft since Clippy!
The key to your statement being Well Run. Many of the companies I've worked for in my 21 year post grad IT carrier have based their business case around
notions of profit for the business, delivering a good product to the client etc don't even appear on most employees radar.
Alternatively you could have gotten down to doing some real work.
> jennifer lopez or kate hudson
jennifer lopez and kate hudson in a lesbo cowgirl movie, now your talking, they could call it
Spankbutt Mountain
coming back to a another poster's comment, it was the gay "cowboy" bit that got me. Maybe if they were gay jewish cowboys? It is like that Billy Elliot film, hardass northern lad wants to learn ballet. It is like who can come up with the most ridiculous idea for a story?
> Open Source Champion IBM
I think you mean "Profits Champion IBM". OS, or at least Linux and a few other products are a mean to an end.
The reality is that the commission are quite ready to hand out huge fines to European governments and companies when they contravene the EC neo-liberal agenda. They probably go easy on Microsoft because they are seen as an arm of the current Republican administration.
Still you are right to ask the question but Microsoft are in trouble because their business practises contravene the norms.
> Of course, googling "The Canyon of the Vaginas" is the same as googling "Canyon Vaginas"
This is a minor point but the above statement is not true. Google has been supporting stop word searches for about 6 months. Try searching for "the" and you will see Google claims 19 billion results. So the results you get for the above searches are slightly different. It is best to try a more specific search first - quoting your phrase gives you results related to the book you were talking about.
Interesting project, it reminds me of the digital camera I built with a fellow student as a degree project. We ground the top of a 256 byte DRAM using a grinding machine in the mech.eng lab and fitted a glass window. The DRAM capacitors discharge at a different rate when exposed to light. We mounted the chip to a PCB, cut the back out of a 35mm Zenith camera and mounted the PCB. Obviously the optics and chip were poorly matched, we were only using a small part of the lens.
Knowing the discharge rate of the DRAM and the time to load and scan all 256 elements you could get a black and white image. We used the camera for some image recognition work. One application was counting the number of cups remaining in a drinks machine hopper by edge detecting the image then counting the "lips" that we saw.
That was back in the autumn of 1986. We've come a long way.
You must be shooting up with the Crack Hoares if you believe that.
The problem with the recent Kodak 'bridge' cameras seems to be JPEG compression levels. The images are overly compressed which is ok if all you want is a 7x5" print but not good for other work. The cameras could probably spit out quite good RAW mode images if there were such an option.
I think the Walkman was a refinement of an existing system and although parts of the technology needed to make that refinement could be subject to patents I'm not sure the general idea of a portable music player should be patentable nor should the removal of loudspeaker and power supply be classed as "invention".
Just because this was novel in Hicktown Italy in 1977 doesn't mean it was novel in some of the slightly more go ahead parts of the world. He has basically beaten Sony into submission by harrassment despite losing all of his court cases. Ok maybe we shouldn't shed a tear for Sony who would do much the same themselves.
Just Imagine if EasyJet gets in on this....the flight will cost just $50 one way plus spaceport taxes of $25,000 but you will have to pay extra for oxygen, a spacesuit and a seat!
Before the privatisation saga priority used to be given to IC services by BR. Now there is no reason by the ConnexChuffer should wait for the Virgin Express to pass. What they need is a system a bit like IPv6 where trains are treated a bit like packets and get routed faster if they pay more.
Sounds like my recent experience with Amazon. They have taken from mid-August to December to fulfill a camera order. They seem to operate on:
1. advertise low price to attract customers + they have a good reputation
2. see if they can obtain cameras and get a great price based on the huge number of orders
3. cancel order or suggest different camera if they can't fulfill
4. repeat
5. Profits!!!!
In fairness to Amazon I spoke to a customer representative a few times from Amazon who explained that unless they had 24 hour availibiity I could expect delays or problems sourcing the order. Something to bear in mind.
Would I order from Amazon again? Yes, although I've had some other problems in the past which puts them in the league of one of the poorer online stores.