This is likely to go down a similar path to the Lexmark vs. Static Control Components case - the court said that
copywrite protections don't apply when they are required for plug compatibility.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexmark_Int'l_v._Static_Control_Components for more details.
You aren't just kidding - I wrote a reporting system for a nuclear plant weld monitoring system. and 2 bubbles turned into 5500 lines of FORTRAN after all the hidden contractual commitments became known....
Boy, they are going to love PeopleSoft - a whole crowd of people chasing after Oracle upgrades, PeopleSoft upgrades, and other general tomfoolery. Is PeopleSoft creating a new vertical in this..?
If they are, it will take a long time for this to all to congeal...
The problem is that state and local governments can't keep good people in thier organizations because they don't pay enough to attract the best. This is going to become an ever increasing problem
as more and more systems become mature and the implementors leave the scene....
This is similar to the fantasty that the value of a publicly traded company is number of shares issued x last cost per share.
That assumption fails to take into account that it is unlikely that
a) you would get the same price (as a minimum) for all shares,
b) that there is sufficient liquid cash in the monetary system to fund the purchases for all companies,
c) that there would be sufficient willing buyers for said stocks.
These loss estimates are just a case of someone putting a monsterously big number up to get a prosecutor to pay attention. If the RIAA were
to go into court and be candid about the true value of some of this media, they would get zero attention. I have always thought
that is a waste of government money to pursuit the majority of copyright claims, as the cost of the prosecution of the offenders
is greater than the benefit derived by the government via taxation and civil fines, and in many cases, to the original author. At some point, there needs to be
a better balance between the nature of any published work (that, at some level, anything you say or do is spread to the winds and uncontrollable once you release it from your control) vs. the government enforcing artificial monopolies at times where it doesn't make sense financially. I say it is
time to shorten the periods of copyright protection before the legal system strangles on litigation....
There is also the question of copyright protections for publicly published works that are no longer available commerically (not through the desire of the author, but due to the inherent economic friction of carrying costs for titles that produced in quantities exceeding apparent marginal demand. How much obligation does the government have to protect publishers that guess wrong in the short term? in the long term? individual authors? Who should bear these enforcement costs, and when should these costs fall back to the copyright holder?
I think that this probably has something to do with the terms of the arrangement that OEM's such as Dell have with Microsoft. It is my understanding that Microsoft is paid for each Windows capable machine sold, not per Windows installed machine sold. So effectively, you are paying for a Microsoft license when you pay for a Ubuntu load without receiving the software. I am surprised that this isn't illegal under antitrust law as a tying action. Perhaps it is because you don't have to buy the product - you just don't receive any price advantage by not doing so.
Of course, this could no longer the arrangement between Microsoft and Dell. Anybody have a good feel for current practice?
http://www.tinaja.com/glib/casagpat.pdf is a good read by Don Lancaster
(writer of the "TTL Cookbook" - yeah, that Don Lancaster) and why he considers
the patent system to be a games that is stacked against the small player.
I had a problem with rats in my basement at one point, and finally was able to get it under control.
I found that they had chewed through the bottom sill plate on one end of the house after coming in around the natural gas line. My son and I found the hole by having him walk around the foundation with a drop light at night while I set in the unlit basement watching for light infiltration. You might be able to something similar at your work.
After finding the hole,
I used Polyurethane foam (Great Stuff brand is what I used) did the trick in getting the path outdoors closed off. Getting rid of the holes in the building is the most crucial thing here.
Also, put on a dust mask and vaccum up all old rat excrement (which is nasty stuff anyway - you don't want leave it in the house). And then keep an eye out for new evidence of visits. Dump trash every night out of the building. Also,
if you have any bird feeders, the seeds will attract rodents. Snap rat traps (get the big ones - they kill both rats and mice) are actually a
humane way to kill the vermin (as the trap breaks the rat's neck and it dies relatively quickly)
Folks,
this was for an amateur radio contact. It was done with an off the shelf VHF transceiver from Icom. Amazing what happens with the PR folks get ahold of something... If you are interested in this sort of thing, I would suggest www.amsat.org and www.arrl.org as resources.
obviously you don't right the checks for your Microsoft Select or Enterprise agreement each year... do you think that Microsoft is
giving it away support for free?
the question is - why do routers simple not drop
connections from these hijacked address blocks as a default policy? Is it because the process of activating a new block is not working well due to router configurations internet wide, or is there rogue routers that are enabling this? Or something else?
Also, why do merged companies get to keep multiple class A's (HP/Compaq/Digital/Tandem comes immediately to mind, but I am certain that there are others)? Perhaps it is time to pass a $1 per allocated address annual fee or tax to 'encourage' people to release unused addresses. This is particularly true of organizations that are NAT'ed or proxied with very few machines that are internet facing...
The reality is that the IPv4 -> IPv6 transition is extremely costly, and may face some huge problems with the current economic crisis.
and realize that if the ambient sound level is greater that 85 db, the company has to start
a hearing conservation program...
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9735
You really don't want to share a computer room and a office, and may not be able to
and meet fire codes. You might want to touch base with the local fire marshal. Also,
I am assuming that you are going to have limited access to the computer room - how are
you going to have general access to your office at the same time?
Well, this is correct - but does not take into account the various closed source enhancements that incompatible between platforms (HACMP vs. MC/ServiceGuard,smit vs. sam, various network utilities, backup software, etc.) Posix only solves a small portion of the problem.
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This is likely to go down a similar path to the Lexmark vs. Static Control Components case - the court said that copywrite protections don't apply when they are required for plug compatibility.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexmark_Int'l_v._Static_Control_Components for more details.
You aren't just kidding - I wrote a reporting system for a nuclear plant weld monitoring system. and 2 bubbles turned into 5500 lines of FORTRAN after all the hidden contractual commitments became known....
Boy, they are going to love PeopleSoft - a whole crowd of people chasing after Oracle upgrades, PeopleSoft upgrades, and other general tomfoolery. Is PeopleSoft creating a new vertical in this..? If they are, it will take a long time for this to all to congeal...
The problem is that state and local governments can't keep good people in thier organizations because they don't pay enough to attract the best. This is going to become an ever increasing problem as more and more systems become mature and the implementors leave the scene....
Since there isn't anything quite as dense as an asshat....
This is similar to the fantasty that the value of a publicly traded company is number of shares issued x last cost per share. That assumption fails to take into account that it is unlikely that
a) you would get the same price (as a minimum) for all shares,
b) that there is sufficient liquid cash in the monetary system to fund the purchases for all companies,
c) that there would be sufficient willing buyers for said stocks.
These loss estimates are just a case of someone putting a monsterously big number up to get a prosecutor to pay attention. If the RIAA were to go into court and be candid about the true value of some of this media, they would get zero attention. I have always thought that is a waste of government money to pursuit the majority of copyright claims, as the cost of the prosecution of the offenders is greater than the benefit derived by the government via taxation and civil fines, and in many cases, to the original author.
At some point, there needs to be a better balance between the nature of any published work (that, at some level, anything you say or do is spread to the winds and uncontrollable once you release it from your control) vs. the government enforcing artificial monopolies at times where it doesn't make sense financially. I say it is time to shorten the periods of copyright protection before the legal system strangles on litigation....
There is also the question of copyright protections for publicly published works that are no longer available commerically (not through the desire of the author, but due to the inherent economic friction of carrying costs for titles that produced in quantities exceeding apparent marginal demand. How much obligation does the government have to protect publishers that guess wrong in the short term? in the long term? individual authors? Who should bear these enforcement costs, and when should these costs fall back to the copyright holder?
replace the electrolytic capacitors, it is likely to work then....
I think that this probably has something to do with the terms of the arrangement that OEM's such as Dell have with Microsoft. It is my understanding that Microsoft is paid for each Windows capable machine sold, not per Windows installed machine sold. So effectively, you are paying for a Microsoft license when you pay for a Ubuntu load without receiving the software. I am surprised that this isn't illegal under antitrust law as a tying action. Perhaps it is because you don't have to buy the product - you just don't receive any price advantage by not doing so.
Of course, this could no longer the arrangement between Microsoft and Dell. Anybody have a good feel for current practice?
http://www.tinaja.com/glib/casagpat.pdf is a good read by Don Lancaster (writer of the "TTL Cookbook" - yeah, that Don Lancaster) and why he considers the patent system to be a games that is stacked against the small player.
I found that they had chewed through the bottom sill plate on one end of the house after coming in around the natural gas line. My son and I found the hole by having him walk around the foundation with a drop light at night while I set in the unlit basement watching for light infiltration. You might be able to something similar at your work.
After finding the hole, I used Polyurethane foam (Great Stuff brand is what I used) did the trick in getting the path outdoors closed off. Getting rid of the holes in the building is the most crucial thing here.
Also, put on a dust mask and vaccum up all old rat excrement (which is nasty stuff anyway - you don't want leave it in the house). And then keep an eye out for new evidence of visits. Dump trash every night out of the building. Also, if you have any bird feeders, the seeds will attract rodents. Snap rat traps (get the big ones - they kill both rats and mice) are actually a humane way to kill the vermin (as the trap breaks the rat's neck and it dies relatively quickly)
Folks, this was for an amateur radio contact. It was done with an off the shelf VHF transceiver from Icom. Amazing what happens with the PR folks get ahold of something... If you are interested in this sort of thing, I would suggest www.amsat.org and www.arrl.org as resources.
obviously you don't right the checks for your Microsoft Select or Enterprise agreement each year... do you think that Microsoft is giving it away support for free?
I suggest reading the following story at rollingstone.com for some additional reasons not to vote for McCain: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain
Also, why do merged companies get to keep multiple class A's (HP/Compaq/Digital/Tandem comes immediately to mind, but I am certain that there are others)? Perhaps it is time to pass a $1 per allocated address annual fee or tax to 'encourage' people to release unused addresses. This is particularly true of organizations that are NAT'ed or proxied with very few machines that are internet facing...
The reality is that the IPv4 -> IPv6 transition is extremely costly, and may face some huge problems with the current economic crisis.
and realize that if the ambient sound level is greater that 85 db, the company has to start a hearing conservation program... http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9735 You really don't want to share a computer room and a office, and may not be able to and meet fire codes. You might want to touch base with the local fire marshal. Also, I am assuming that you are going to have limited access to the computer room - how are you going to have general access to your office at the same time?
Well, this is correct - but does not take into account the various closed source enhancements that incompatible between platforms (HACMP vs. MC/ServiceGuard,smit vs. sam, various network utilities, backup software, etc.) Posix only solves a small portion of the problem.