Robert X. Cringely says the worker shift will result in firing most IBMers now
working for IBM. Says it is part of a plan. See cringely.com blog entries
from October, 2012.
AC writes: "Actually, they last beyond the time the material is worthless".
Actually even if the author wants a work released there is no practical way to
release it that is accepted in US law. Plenty of authors have no illusions
and plenty of works have very short useful lives. But existing law
provides no way to deal with that.
The book "How To Fix Copyright" by William Patry has details on this and much more.
I have no financial or other interest, I just like the book.
I recall being told, in high school, that one's body was made up of cells.
That made me uncomfortable because it simply made no sense.
I could not have said why it made no sense to me.
I just figured I was incapable of understanding.
All anyone needed to say was 'Though the body is made up of fluids, non-cell tissue and cells, we will
focus on the role of cells here.'
Now we know all those symbotic organisims in our body are crucial too, but 50
years ago nobody knew that.
So I never got interested in biology except as related to trying to eat right..,
Watch TV actors driving on screen. Like Bones (which I love, so shoot me).
They spend seconds looking at the passenger while pretending (one hopes
not real) to be driving. Makes me wince every time. Really
bad behavior.
You do know that the stores sell blank cards and you can print anything on them (even how to contact you!)
and pretty much whatever you print it's still called a business card?
So yes, no matter what you print on a card it's pretty much still free speech.
I cannot speak for others, but I have stopped flying. Period. Instead we drive where the distance is reasonable
and simply don't go many places we once went. So the argument that 'people are flying anyway, the security theater must be ok' is
weak as the number flying might be much higher. Not that airports have the capacity for more
air travel anyway...
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And don't even think about leaving your books to your kids.
Yes, my copy of Lord of the Rings turned to yellow fragments too. Wait. Is that what you meant?
I too love the smell of mold and mildew. Oh wait, that's not what you meant about smelling books.
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Buy from Baen, their books are drm free and the publisher cannot take it back any more easily than they can
take a physical book back. And you can loan it to a friend.
5. The bad guys who wanted to control the outcome had no way to know the result was verifiable so their compromise was either a waste of time or worse (for them).
RedHat can (mostly) handle an in-place upgrade.....Debian can (mostly) handle an in-place upgrade..
You would have to be crazy to try an in-place upgrade with Fedora. From their saying don't do it, they make
you feel like failure is routine. And when I used Fedora for a few years (up through Fedora 12 I think), even minor upgrades (fixes, not
full releases) broke sound-production again and again (as in for one fix I would have to add
a 3 line alsa script to get sound output and for the next I would have to delete it again to get sound output).
So I took their warning seriously and always reinstalled. And Pulse Audio (on Fedora back then) simply never worked.
Ubuntu, on the other hand (I use Xubuntu, Unity makes no sense to me -- I could never find anything I wanted)
has upgraded itself many times now without any
difficulty (Now running 11.10). So to label both as 'mostly' seems oddly at odds with my experience.
One caveat though: Network Manager has been a horror even on Ubuntu and sometimes reappears
for no reason I can discern -- deleting Network Manager and fixing a few scripts in/etc is (for me) simpler.
Or use 'Wicd' for a laptop that gets around --when you need to accomodate changing circumstances.
The media companies are selling (and generating) artificial scarcity. Historically, each time technology makes a leap
the previous owners of the 'goods' work as hard as possible to stop the new tech that makes the 'goods'
too cheap. Like folks attempted to stop
the printing press when it was new (giving a peasant the possibility to own a book? Horrors!).
But new tech changes the game. Copying of data is now free (for all practical purposes)
and of course we all know you cannot even view or hear the 'goods' without copying it from here to there (multiple times
in some cases) inside whatever device you are working with!
And the notion that the copyright owner can stop you from copying from one device you own to another you own is...just crazy.
Nobody accepts that. We know it's wrong to prevent us so we do it. Every day. Copying is unavoidable, really.
Please continue to try to fight the perversion of language too: no copyright issue involves folks with guns hijacking
a ship. Call it the copyright issue it is (not that the newspapers will pick it up that way, but try...)
If you really want to understand US copyright and what it really serves (not authors!) simply read
"How To Fix Copyright" by William Patry. No, I don't have any financial interest in this or any book
or publisher, I simply hope more folks become better informed.
While it's called Piracy by the RIAA and MPAA and the governments
seemingly under their control, it is actually (depending on circumstances)
actually copyright infringement. Or it is just fair use. Whatever.
The real pirates near Somalia have nothing to do with copyright infringement.
Yes, I complained about Linux Journal stopping the print edition too, but I broke down and bought a tablet and reading LJ there is great.
(happens to be an iPad, so I guess my geek card is cancelled?)
Any kindle owner knows not to buy any book that has pictures or drawings. E-ink simply does not work for those.
iPad (or the like, I would guess) are fine fine for pictures and drawings. And being able to use non-DRM ePub
format documents is great in color. Don't tell anyone, but the ads in The New Yorker look much nicer
on the iPad than they do in the print magazine!
It is profoundly annoying that publishers set nonsense prices. Except in unusual circumstances I simply ignore
books with those ripoff publisher-set prices. That publishers refuse to put some (text only) books into Kindle at all
really makes me angry at times.
We considered it, but since it was impossible to buy an Aptera we got a Mini.
Plenty of folks would buy an unusual looking car (not sure how many in
Nebraska would do so, but in major Metro areas, sure). Besides, full
electric cars obviously won't work for rurals where the minimum trip to the store
is 100 miles each way (with present technology).
The looks were cute (ok, call me crazy) and 2-wheels-forward is plenty safe, the unsafe
3-wheelers were 2-wheels-at-the-back. Though two-wheels-at-back 3-wheelers have
provided endless amusement in the UK! For example in various Monty Python skits...
The 'sealed' design means air-conditioning had to be on all the time. I always wondered what percent
of the battery would go to cooling the air.
Pirating got started not to overwhelm the publishers, but to do what the public demanded.
Remember a few years ago? Back then the music publishers would only sell on the web a tiny tiny fraction of what they had,
the only way to get 99% of the music out there was to pirate it. Still true, at least in the sense that where you are
determines whether and when you can buy something at all.
How do I know this? The owner of a small music publishing house said so on NPR (National Public Radio in the US) (various times over years).
Apple killed hypercard fairly early. One of Hypercard's severe limitations was incompetent report-generation.
An aftermarket product "Reports" fixed that big time (in a nice way, building reports
by moving stuff around the 'page' with the mouse). The Reports author tried hard (over years) to
get Apple to accept that feature set into Hypercard (he said he was not asking money) but
he said he got ignored. All this in the very beginning of the 90's, well before www.
It became self-fulfilling: Apple stopped mentioning Hypercard so no one new started using it,
Claris got it but could not be bothered (AFAIK nothing Claris did was any good). Even
the truly committed Reports author got discouraged and gave up.
I rewrote the software in question in Python (so not tied to Linux). A process that took
10 minutes on an Apple MacOS Centris Hypercard script takes a fraction of a second on 3.1Ghz cpu
(and the database is twice as big now).
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Robert X. Cringely says the worker shift will result in firing most IBMers now working for IBM. Says it is part of a plan. See cringely.com blog entries from October, 2012.
AC writes: "Actually, they last beyond the time the material is worthless".
Actually even if the author wants a work released there is no practical way to release it that is accepted in US law. Plenty of authors have no illusions and plenty of works have very short useful lives. But existing law provides no way to deal with that.
The book "How To Fix Copyright" by William Patry has details on this and much more. I have no financial or other interest, I just like the book.
I recall being told, in high school, that one's body was made up of cells. That made me uncomfortable because it simply made no sense. I could not have said why it made no sense to me. I just figured I was incapable of understanding. All anyone needed to say was 'Though the body is made up of fluids, non-cell tissue and cells, we will focus on the role of cells here.' Now we know all those symbotic organisims in our body are crucial too, but 50 years ago nobody knew that. So I never got interested in biology except as related to trying to eat right..,
Seti@Home is unrelated to the Seti Institute. Seti@Home continues unabated.
Watch TV actors driving on screen. Like Bones (which I love, so shoot me). They spend seconds looking at the passenger while pretending (one hopes not real) to be driving. Makes me wince every time. Really bad behavior.
Another Gary Larson cartoon (no link, sorry) was "what dogs would say if they could talk" with the cartoon showning all the dogs saying "Hey!" :-)
You do know that the stores sell blank cards and you can print anything on them (even how to contact you!) and pretty much whatever you print it's still called a business card? So yes, no matter what you print on a card it's pretty much still free speech.
I cannot speak for others, but I have stopped flying. Period. Instead we drive where the distance is reasonable and simply don't go many places we once went. So the argument that 'people are flying anyway, the security theater must be ok' is weak as the number flying might be much higher. Not that airports have the capacity for more air travel anyway...
And don't even think about leaving your books to your kids.
Yes, my copy of Lord of the Rings turned to yellow fragments too. Wait. Is that what you meant?
I too love the smell of mold and mildew. Oh wait, that's not what you meant about smelling books.
Buy from Baen, their books are drm free and the publisher cannot take it back any more easily than they can take a physical book back. And you can loan it to a friend.
5. The bad guys who wanted to control the outcome had no way to know the result was verifiable so their compromise was either a waste of time or worse (for them).
There. Fixed that for you.
There is really no real reason to use linux.
Windows disaster recovery isn't all that difficult. Just follow the simple instructions that come with the Linux CD. -- Anthony DeBoer
RedHat can (mostly) handle an in-place upgrade. ....Debian can (mostly) handle an in-place upgrade. .
You would have to be crazy to try an in-place upgrade with Fedora. From their saying don't do it, they make you feel like failure is routine. And when I used Fedora for a few years (up through Fedora 12 I think), even minor upgrades (fixes, not full releases) broke sound-production again and again (as in for one fix I would have to add a 3 line alsa script to get sound output and for the next I would have to delete it again to get sound output). So I took their warning seriously and always reinstalled. And Pulse Audio (on Fedora back then) simply never worked.
Ubuntu, on the other hand (I use Xubuntu, Unity makes no sense to me -- I could never find anything I wanted) has upgraded itself many times now without any difficulty (Now running 11.10). So to label both as 'mostly' seems oddly at odds with my experience. One caveat though: Network Manager has been a horror even on Ubuntu and sometimes reappears for no reason I can discern -- deleting Network Manager and fixing a few scripts in /etc is (for me) simpler.
Or use 'Wicd' for a laptop that gets around --when you need to accomodate changing circumstances.
The media companies are selling (and generating) artificial scarcity. Historically, each time technology makes a leap the previous owners of the 'goods' work as hard as possible to stop the new tech that makes the 'goods' too cheap. Like folks attempted to stop the printing press when it was new (giving a peasant the possibility to own a book? Horrors!). But new tech changes the game. Copying of data is now free (for all practical purposes) and of course we all know you cannot even view or hear the 'goods' without copying it from here to there (multiple times in some cases) inside whatever device you are working with!
And the notion that the copyright owner can stop you from copying from one device you own to another you own is...just crazy. Nobody accepts that. We know it's wrong to prevent us so we do it. Every day. Copying is unavoidable, really.
Please continue to try to fight the perversion of language too: no copyright issue involves folks with guns hijacking a ship. Call it the copyright issue it is (not that the newspapers will pick it up that way, but try...)
If you really want to understand US copyright and what it really serves (not authors!) simply read "How To Fix Copyright" by William Patry. No, I don't have any financial interest in this or any book or publisher, I simply hope more folks become better informed.
While it's called Piracy by the RIAA and MPAA and the governments seemingly under their control, it is actually (depending on circumstances) actually copyright infringement. Or it is just fair use. Whatever. The real pirates near Somalia have nothing to do with copyright infringement.
The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion. -- Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11. Signed by John Adams.
";login: is still pretty good" is, IMHO, the understatement of the day :-)
Yes, I complained about Linux Journal stopping the print edition too, but I broke down and bought a tablet and reading LJ there is great. (happens to be an iPad, so I guess my geek card is cancelled?)
Any kindle owner knows not to buy any book that has pictures or drawings. E-ink simply does not work for those.
iPad (or the like, I would guess) are fine fine for pictures and drawings. And being able to use non-DRM ePub format documents is great in color. Don't tell anyone, but the ads in The New Yorker look much nicer on the iPad than they do in the print magazine!
It is profoundly annoying that publishers set nonsense prices. Except in unusual circumstances I simply ignore books with those ripoff publisher-set prices. That publishers refuse to put some (text only) books into Kindle at all really makes me angry at times.
Search for 'grok'. You won't find it on this encyclopedia. Enough said.
We considered it, but since it was impossible to buy an Aptera we got a Mini. Plenty of folks would buy an unusual looking car (not sure how many in Nebraska would do so, but in major Metro areas, sure). Besides, full electric cars obviously won't work for rurals where the minimum trip to the store is 100 miles each way (with present technology).
The looks were cute (ok, call me crazy) and 2-wheels-forward is plenty safe, the unsafe 3-wheelers were 2-wheels-at-the-back. Though two-wheels-at-back 3-wheelers have provided endless amusement in the UK! For example in various Monty Python skits...
The 'sealed' design means air-conditioning had to be on all the time. I always wondered what percent of the battery would go to cooling the air.
Pirating got started not to overwhelm the publishers, but to do what the public demanded.
Remember a few years ago? Back then the music publishers would only sell on the web a tiny tiny fraction of what they had, the only way to get 99% of the music out there was to pirate it. Still true, at least in the sense that where you are determines whether and when you can buy something at all.
How do I know this? The owner of a small music publishing house said so on NPR (National Public Radio in the US) (various times over years).
Apple killed hypercard fairly early. One of Hypercard's severe limitations was incompetent report-generation. An aftermarket product "Reports" fixed that big time (in a nice way, building reports by moving stuff around the 'page' with the mouse). The Reports author tried hard (over years) to get Apple to accept that feature set into Hypercard (he said he was not asking money) but he said he got ignored. All this in the very beginning of the 90's, well before www.
It became self-fulfilling: Apple stopped mentioning Hypercard so no one new started using it, Claris got it but could not be bothered (AFAIK nothing Claris did was any good). Even the truly committed Reports author got discouraged and gave up.
I rewrote the software in question in Python (so not tied to Linux). A process that took 10 minutes on an Apple MacOS Centris Hypercard script takes a fraction of a second on 3.1Ghz cpu (and the database is twice as big now).