Copyright only exists for writing that is "creative" in nature.
If by "creative", you mean fiction or poetry, then that's complete poppycock. True, you can't copyright facts, but you can absolutely copyright prose. So they are entirely within their right to try to stop the publication of a document to which they own the copyright.
The separate substantive issue was whether they can suppress the resulting news articles, and the judge ruled that they couldn't.
Yep - totally agree. If you are a MS shop, and have Server 2003 infrastructure (which you will), then WSS 3 is a free download. I have had great success with it for replacing a network file share for document sharing, and for replacing "Tracking" spreadsheets with Sharepoint lists.
It has basic sarch built in, and there is an upgrade path. IFilters are built in for the MS formats, and there is third party for non-MS formats.
One thing - Office Sharepoint designer essentially doesn't work. Just don't bother with it.
Re:We already have this in the UK
on
Manhattan 1984
·
· Score: 1
The most likely outcome of this? Poorer people will use public transport, while for the richer bigger fines will just affirm their social status, or make them consider getting smaller cars.
Nope. Citrix apps execute on the server side. Softgrid cuts applications up into smaller chunks (God knows exactly how) and then streams the required components to the client as required. The application is then executed on the client in a sandbox.
Similar kinds of manageability benefits as Citrix, but the execution is on the client.
So I am explicitly allowed to timeshift broadcast content - or at least I would be if I was a merkin. And now I might be allowed to "placeshift". So does that mean I am allowed to record any broadcast media and time'n'place (tm) shift it to enjoy anywhere on any device in any location?
Record the entire broadcast stream, and then operate a kind of private Video on Demand service based on all of the content that has been broadcast in the past N years. All you need is some cheapo commodity disk and some software like Promise TV with streaming.
Can anyone think of any other ideas that would "allow the United States to drastically reduce its dependence on foreign oil and the production of harmful exhaust emissions".
You've seen Enterprise Library, right? And the Community content sections on MSDN? And Channel 9?
I think that the poster is treating "Open Source" as meaning Open business practices as well as literally open source code. These things are happening at MS.
The tools here are targeted at the SMB resellers. When SOHO users start having 6 figure IT budgets then no doubt they'll be targeted in the same fashion. No doubt there are separate sales and marketing groups building similar analyses for the consumer and home office space. Or maybe not, since Linux really isn't competition on the desktop yet.
You do know that you could just cut the card up and throw it in the bin? Regardless of the fact that this is FUD, the personal choice argument extends to your choice not to use the product.
As an aside, 5 million Londoners have an Oyster card in their pocket. Mine currently has about 80 quid of pre-pay on it. I am not in the slightest bit worried that someone will be able to steal this, and I haven't heard of this happening to anyone. This is basically the same contactless smartcard implementation that will be used for the next generation of banking cards.
To run Vista a lot of companies need to replace all of their PC infrastructure. No they don't. You just turn off the whizzy graphics, and it runs just fine on standard Business PCs. Which might be moot anyway, since most PC refresh cycles run over 3 years, and a lot of firms postponed for y2k and so are just about to hit the next wave. They'll DBT for the first half og 2007, and deploy in the second half.
they will experience severe license costs for OS and software Except it's under the same licensing scheme as XP for corporate customers, so no difference. I don;t see why software costs should change much either.
Open Office is a serious competitor nowadays Have you looked at Office 2007 yet? It's the collaboration features that people are going to pay for.
After those statements, you simply say that migrating is difficult. Agreed, and that means expensive and risky, which is a good reason not to do it. Which is why the enterprise customers are not at risk of moving to linux on the desktop yet.
I like your colour coded parts idea a lot, and I've been using and building computers for over 15 years. Keeps it simple, and unless you actually care about the specs of a given part, all you have to know is the relative performance of the colours. Yes, there will always be some nit picking, but broadly speaking this is an excellent idea.
I found that the subject of the degree really doesn't make the blindest bit of difference in the technical job market. Where you did it probably does. So, if your university isn't in the top 15 it's probably worth doing a 1 year MSc at Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial etc to get the institution name on your CV. Otherwise, if you can demonstrate code that you have developed, and have at least a 2:1 there is no need to do a formal CompSci education.
Find your own black belt corporate operator. Preferably one that is not only good, but enjoys the political shenanighans, *and* can be clued up. Then place him or her between you and the people you want to be protected from.
Then make your work life revolve around making that person understand what you do. Make them understand the problems and be totally honest. Make them know when you are working your nuts off and why. Move on if they don't do the same for you.
I have such a symbiotic relationship. I make his life easy, and he makes mine easy. I do the tech and manage my developers. He does the project management nitty gritty and deals with the proverbial marketing department. There is no bullshit between us.
Recipe for a happy working life as a technologist.
IBM last year was the market leader with a 49.6 percent share, followed by Oce (Research), based in the Netherlands., with 43.8 percent, according to InfoTrends.
Reducing inherent rights is an impossibility in the States. It is tyranny to trample on our right to be secure in our person and property when no warrant has been issued for a specific investigation into a specific crime.
Slashdot Mirror
In fact the majority of the current (fourth) generation of leaders in the PRC have an engineering background.
Copyright only exists for writing that is "creative" in nature.
If by "creative", you mean fiction or poetry, then that's complete poppycock. True, you can't copyright facts, but you can absolutely copyright prose. So they are entirely within their right to try to stop the publication of a document to which they own the copyright.
The separate substantive issue was whether they can suppress the resulting news articles, and the judge ruled that they couldn't.
75,000 trips to 80 turbines in 18 months? Or 1.7 chopper flights per turbine per day? Don't be silly - they'd be bust in a week.
Yep - totally agree. If you are a MS shop, and have Server 2003 infrastructure (which you will), then WSS 3 is a free download. I have had great success with it for replacing a network file share for document sharing, and for replacing "Tracking" spreadsheets with Sharepoint lists.
It has basic sarch built in, and there is an upgrade path. IFilters are built in for the MS formats, and there is third party for non-MS formats.
One thing - Office Sharepoint designer essentially doesn't work. Just don't bother with it.
I humbly tender the following as an excellent example of very high quality science journalism written from the primary research: http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/
The most likely outcome of this? Poorer people will use public transport, while for the richer bigger fines will just affirm their social status, or make them consider getting smaller cars.
Which isn't exactly a bad outcome now, is it?
Nope. Citrix apps execute on the server side. Softgrid cuts applications up into smaller chunks (God knows exactly how) and then streams the required components to the client as required. The application is then executed on the client in a sandbox.
Similar kinds of manageability benefits as Citrix, but the execution is on the client.
That is all
So I am explicitly allowed to timeshift broadcast content - or at least I would be if I was a merkin. And now I might be allowed to "placeshift". So does that mean I am allowed to record any broadcast media and time'n'place (tm) shift it to enjoy anywhere on any device in any location?
Record the entire broadcast stream, and then operate a kind of private Video on Demand service based on all of the content that has been broadcast in the past N years. All you need is some cheapo commodity disk and some software like Promise TV with streaming.
HTK
Can anyone think of any other ideas that would "allow the United States to drastically reduce its dependence on foreign oil and the production of harmful exhaust emissions".
You've seen Enterprise Library, right? And the Community content sections on MSDN? And Channel 9?
I think that the poster is treating "Open Source" as meaning Open business practices as well as literally open source code. These things are happening at MS.
The tools here are targeted at the SMB resellers. When SOHO users start having 6 figure IT budgets then no doubt they'll be targeted in the same fashion. No doubt there are separate sales and marketing groups building similar analyses for the consumer and home office space. Or maybe not, since Linux really isn't competition on the desktop yet.
You do know that you could just cut the card up and throw it in the bin? Regardless of the fact that this is FUD, the personal choice argument extends to your choice not to use the product.
As an aside, 5 million Londoners have an Oyster card in their pocket. Mine currently has about 80 quid of pre-pay on it. I am not in the slightest bit worried that someone will be able to steal this, and I haven't heard of this happening to anyone. This is basically the same contactless smartcard implementation that will be used for the next generation of banking cards.
Thanks for the sanity. Will probably go unnoticed round here, though.
You're gay. :)
To run Vista a lot of companies need to replace all of their PC infrastructure.
No they don't. You just turn off the whizzy graphics, and it runs just fine on standard Business PCs. Which might be moot anyway, since most PC refresh cycles run over 3 years, and a lot of firms postponed for y2k and so are just about to hit the next wave. They'll DBT for the first half og 2007, and deploy in the second half.
they will experience severe license costs for OS and software
Except it's under the same licensing scheme as XP for corporate customers, so no difference. I don;t see why software costs should change much either.
Open Office is a serious competitor nowadays
Have you looked at Office 2007 yet? It's the collaboration features that people are going to pay for.
After those statements, you simply say that migrating is difficult. Agreed, and that means expensive and risky, which is a good reason not to do it. Which is why the enterprise customers are not at risk of moving to linux on the desktop yet.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha. snort.
I like your colour coded parts idea a lot, and I've been using and building computers for over 15 years. Keeps it simple, and unless you actually care about the specs of a given part, all you have to know is the relative performance of the colours. Yes, there will always be some nit picking, but broadly speaking this is an excellent idea.
I found that the subject of the degree really doesn't make the blindest bit of difference in the technical job market. Where you did it probably does. So, if your university isn't in the top 15 it's probably worth doing a 1 year MSc at Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial etc to get the institution name on your CV. Otherwise, if you can demonstrate code that you have developed, and have at least a 2:1 there is no need to do a formal CompSci education.
Gosh. A genuinely insightful, non-snide comment on Slashdot. Thank you sir.
Having your identity card stolen != having your identity
stolen.
Find your own black belt corporate operator. Preferably one that is not only good, but enjoys the political shenanighans, *and* can be clued up. Then place him or her between you and the people you want to be protected from.
Then make your work life revolve around making that person understand what you do. Make them understand the problems and be totally honest. Make them know when you are working your nuts off and why. Move on if they don't do the same for you.
I have such a symbiotic relationship. I make his life easy, and he makes mine easy. I do the tech and manage my developers. He does the project management nitty gritty and deals with the proverbial marketing department. There is no bullshit between us.
Recipe for a happy working life as a technologist.
RTFA.
IBM last year was the market leader with a 49.6 percent share, followed by Oce (Research), based in the Netherlands., with 43.8 percent, according to InfoTrends.
Reducing inherent rights is an impossibility in the States. It is tyranny to trample on our right to be secure in our person and property when no warrant has been issued for a specific investigation into a specific crime.
Guantanamo Bay.
That is all.