with laser beams are in short supply these days? Seriously? I mean.. mind controlled sharks rampaging through the waters to.. ah.. warn of potential dangers seems a bit far fetched and scary all at the same time.
First you need to figure out your problem, as some others have pointed out. Until you actually get it nailed down, asking other people's kinda pointless.
It's probably that your bandwith is being maxed out... but you'll want to hire someone that knows what they're doing. That'd be the place I'd start, were I in your shoes.
Admittedly most people get it wrong in the opposite way from you. But yes, if I create a story and someone copies it they're still violating a few laws. Even if I gave them a copy.
As a matter of fact, copies of books are given out all the time. You still can't make a movie based on them without obtaining the rights from the author.
You might be right. The way I'd read that (if I were thinking they had a lenient stance on it) is the second part being a refinement and definition of the first. In other words:
The Google Services are made available for your personal, non-commercial use only.
is a statement and
You may not use the Google Services to sell a product or service, or to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales.
is the definition. Basically I'd read it as "you can't use this commercially". But I don't see a problem with them saying someone else can't piggy back on their bandwith or rip the images and then use them in their own creation without permission. The word "commercial" in there tends to make me think they'll take a lenient stance on "personal use" even if it's for public display.
On the FreeBSD question, you should use whatever you're supremely competent in administering.
If you're not a competent admin, you could use a custom SE Linux based setup that's.gov cleared for security and *still* be insecure.
There's people out there who can set up fairly secure Windows servers from what I hear. I'm not one of them. Since I'm very comfortable administering a Linux box, that's the most secure machine for me to run.
So in conclusion, run the OS you know how to secure. Barring that, hire someone that *does* know how to secure the OS they use.
Seriously, I don't remember signing any forms or agreeing to anything by opening the package. iirc you need some form of agreement to constitute a license. I'm buying a small piece of pressed plastic/metal with a recording on it.
I think you're referring to copyright law in general. It's not a license. By buying a CD in America, I'm agreeing to be bound by the copyright laws of America as long as that CD's still here. IANAL, but is that about right?
FTA: "Record sales aren't going to improve until the BPI or the RIAA stop stuffing crap down our throats"
Actually, record sales have increased in 2004. The whole decrease was rather debateable, since that was only full on on-a-CD-through-retail sales that are getting quoted, not total product moved.. nevermind digital album sales.
Quoting from a random site here, but it sounds about right if you give it a bit of thought.
TO TAKE WITH A GRAIN OF SALT
In the chambers of the great king Mithridaes, Cneius Pompeius discovered in a private notebook, in the king's own hand, the formula for an antidote: two dry nuts, the same number of figs, and twenty leaves of rue ground together, with a grain of salt added; whoever took this on an empty stomach would be harmed by no poison that day.
Would some kind lawyerly type please define what a "trade secret" is? To me, this seems kind of odd in that it was simply some marketing info on a new product that someone was tipped off on, not an internal process to produce something that Apple didn't want seeing the light of day.
What's the deal? I've seen "secret" photos and whatnot of covered cars on tracks before they come out.. seems that in other cases the manufacturer just keeps a tighter lid on it.
"... are installed on the hard drive (which is copyright infringement.)"
So when I install something (that I own) on something else (that I own) I'm infringing on *copyright*? How does that figure? I both own a copy and posses a license for the IP contained on that copy.
Looks like I should go and throw out my game CD's, as I can't legally install them any more...
It should serve to push people over to "anything else". In this case, that includes Linux which makes a fine system if you don't need to install random software foo constantly.
Mac OSX also makes a good choice, and as you said allows for OTS software. But I don't see installing software to be intrinsically harder on Linux. It's just that no one releases nice binary self installing disks with all the dependency libraries built in for Linux. Just no market, yet.
Stephen King tried it and it was an utter success would be more like it. What he did was simply ask people to pay rather than require them to, and ended up raking in 70% of all the downloads as *payed*. This fell to 46% when he jacked the price to 2$.. a *chapter*.
I don't know about you, but if I put a PDF file online and say, "hey, I can't force you to, but I'm going to require you to put a buck in my hat for a download" and 70% of the people pay I consider it a roaring success.
And that was at a buck a chapter. The book (would've) went for like 10 bucks total.. for a PDF! And then he's got the gaul to say that it's a failure and that any smaller time writer wouldn't be able to make money. Gimmee a break!
because simply stating something is true isn't the same as providing referances and hard data to back it up. But if you'd like to read a bit up on the subject, maybe you can decide for yourself.
Looking around for a decent site related to this I pulled up a page full of links to related topics and studies. Some of that material should at least let someone decide if there's enough information to draw a hypothesis from.
I don't see terribly much upside for users on this one. It looks to be a cost saving effort by the manufacturers. Not that TFA had any technical content.
On the upside it might be slightly smaller to carry around and laptops are pretty special purpose devices. I doubt it will be much of an inconvenience to purchase new modules in this form, as most of the computers come with everything you might've had an old PCMCIA card for anyway.
Another thought. Why not simply use Compact Flash type 2? Allthough there isn't really enough info in the article to compare them..
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Just wanted to let you know the comment is right on.
with laser beams are in short supply these days? Seriously? I mean.. mind controlled sharks rampaging through the waters to.. ah.. warn of potential dangers seems a bit far fetched and scary all at the same time.
First you need to figure out your problem, as some others have pointed out. Until you actually get it nailed down, asking other people's kinda pointless.
It's probably that your bandwith is being maxed out... but you'll want to hire someone that knows what they're doing. That'd be the place I'd start, were I in your shoes.
The company put out a news release late yesterday afternoon
Was it wrapped in credit card information too? Or maybe just social security numbers...
Admittedly most people get it wrong in the opposite way from you. But yes, if I create a story and someone copies it they're still violating a few laws. Even if I gave them a copy.
As a matter of fact, copies of books are given out all the time. You still can't make a movie based on them without obtaining the rights from the author.
You might be right. The way I'd read that (if I were thinking they had a lenient stance on it) is the second part being a refinement and definition of the first. In other words:
The Google Services are made available for your personal, non-commercial use only.
is a statement and
You may not use the Google Services to sell a product or service, or to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales.
is the definition. Basically I'd read it as "you can't use this commercially". But I don't see a problem with them saying someone else can't piggy back on their bandwith or rip the images and then use them in their own creation without permission. The word "commercial" in there tends to make me think they'll take a lenient stance on "personal use" even if it's for public display.
1.001 times the speed of light. Then the radio signal'd get funky.
:)
Of course, I think they'd have bigger problems at that point. Like stopping.
On the FreeBSD question, you should use whatever you're supremely competent in administering.
.gov cleared for security and *still* be insecure.
If you're not a competent admin, you could use a custom SE Linux based setup that's
There's people out there who can set up fairly secure Windows servers from what I hear. I'm not one of them. Since I'm very comfortable administering a Linux box, that's the most secure machine for me to run.
So in conclusion, run the OS you know how to secure. Barring that, hire someone that *does* know how to secure the OS they use.
Seriously, I don't remember signing any forms or agreeing to anything by opening the package. iirc you need some form of agreement to constitute a license. I'm buying a small piece of pressed plastic/metal with a recording on it.
I think you're referring to copyright law in general. It's not a license. By buying a CD in America, I'm agreeing to be bound by the copyright laws of America as long as that CD's still here. IANAL, but is that about right?
FTA: "Record sales aren't going to improve until the BPI or the RIAA stop stuffing crap down our throats"
Actually, record sales have increased in 2004. The whole decrease was rather debateable, since that was only full on on-a-CD-through-retail sales that are getting quoted, not total product moved.. nevermind digital album sales.
Quoting from a random site here, but it sounds about right if you give it a bit of thought.
TO TAKE WITH A GRAIN OF SALT
In the chambers of the great king Mithridaes, Cneius Pompeius discovered in a private notebook, in the king's own hand, the formula for an antidote: two dry nuts, the same number of figs, and twenty leaves of rue ground together, with a grain of salt added; whoever took this on an empty stomach would be harmed by no poison that day.
Is it just me, or did the response take a good two pages yet completely walk around the issue?
My questions are these.
Did they legally obtain the rights the the logo and name before filling?
What on earth does going after illegal competitors have to do with getting trademark for a name and logo you didn't create? Did I miss something?
He might want to actually clarify the issue at hand *before* getting on the high horse.
Would some kind lawyerly type please define what a "trade secret" is? To me, this seems kind of odd in that it was simply some marketing info on a new product that someone was tipped off on, not an internal process to produce something that Apple didn't want seeing the light of day.
What's the deal? I've seen "secret" photos and whatnot of covered cars on tracks before they come out.. seems that in other cases the manufacturer just keeps a tighter lid on it.
"... are installed on the hard drive (which is copyright infringement.)"
So when I install something (that I own) on something else (that I own) I'm infringing on *copyright*? How does that figure? I both own a copy and posses a license for the IP contained on that copy.
Looks like I should go and throw out my game CD's, as I can't legally install them any more...
"What about rewarding the ... genius behind the Walmart stores"
;p
Because I'm sure they don't get anything for all that selfless labor they're doing...
our mice didn't have any buttons. And we considered ourselves lucky!
It should serve to push people over to "anything else". In this case, that includes Linux which makes a fine system if you don't need to install random software foo constantly.
Mac OSX also makes a good choice, and as you said allows for OTS software. But I don't see installing software to be intrinsically harder on Linux. It's just that no one releases nice binary self installing disks with all the dependency libraries built in for Linux. Just no market, yet.
From the article "letting your wireless PDA, for instance, pinpoint the nearest restaurant"
Even if there isn't some kind of Windows software to do this with GPS, I can do it right now by punching in a few digits on mapquest.
Sure, it's restricted to there sponsors or somesuch. But I don't see this as being any different.
You forgot
:).
- Get the patient to take the antibiotic all the way through
That's the crucial missing step that's let the nasty bugs get this far
Story that the figures are from. Forgot to include it in the parent.
Stephen King tried it and it was an utter success would be more like it. What he did was simply ask people to pay rather than require them to, and ended up raking in 70% of all the downloads as *payed*. This fell to 46% when he jacked the price to 2$.. a *chapter*.
I don't know about you, but if I put a PDF file online and say, "hey, I can't force you to, but I'm going to require you to put a buck in my hat for a download" and 70% of the people pay I consider it a roaring success.
And that was at a buck a chapter. The book (would've) went for like 10 bucks total.. for a PDF! And then he's got the gaul to say that it's a failure and that any smaller time writer wouldn't be able to make money. Gimmee a break!
Sure, I'll bite. When'd the parent mention Linux wiseguy?
because simply stating something is true isn't the same as providing referances and hard data to back it up. But if you'd like to read a bit up on the subject, maybe you can decide for yourself.
Looking around for a decent site related to this I pulled up a page full of links to related topics and studies. Some of that material should at least let someone decide if there's enough information to draw a hypothesis from.
The fork/split stuff already happened. With no one contributing to Fedora, they pretty much went off and did CentOS and White Box.
;).
Wrote up a short editorial over at PCBurn with links to the relevant distributions (or you could use Google
I don't see terribly much upside for users on this one. It looks to be a cost saving effort by the manufacturers. Not that TFA had any technical content.
On the upside it might be slightly smaller to carry around and laptops are pretty special purpose devices. I doubt it will be much of an inconvenience to purchase new modules in this form, as most of the computers come with everything you might've had an old PCMCIA card for anyway.
Another thought. Why not simply use Compact Flash type 2? Allthough there isn't really enough info in the article to compare them..