Google is (last I checked) the only search engine that tells you if your search results have been censored.
It's a very small victory, but it's still something the people of China didn't have before.
I also point out that Google tried for years to get the ability to have uncensored searches, they fought, and lost, and while they may not have accomplished much, it wouldn't accomplish anything at all to pull out of China now.
Funnily enough I do live about 300 feet from the local telecom.
They only offer 1.5 in the area (though we actually *get* 1.5 which was a surprise)
The screwed up part is that even with my roommate's 50% discount for working for said telecom, we only save 10/month over Comcast. Gotta love the 'must have a long distance contract' fine print in the ads.
Most of those examples had the distinct advantage of being *cheap*. This is one of the most important qualities out there if you want your product to be ubiquitous.
In fact, Microsoft gained its market share, largely by being cheaper than the alternatives, the rash of IBM clone machines guaranteed that DOS hardware looked more attractive.
Software, however, is a special economic scenario, once the market became mostly saturated with one OS, the software was all written for one OS, and the hardware was all designed for one OS, which meant that Microsoft now gets to be the more expensive option (usually), and even in cases where the quality is clearly lower (not always of course), it ends up being used simply because it is the application that is the entire point of having the computer.
Given that the older crowd is more likely not to have a technology background going by the article, I wouldn't be as sure. Product isn't everything, but how well can you do if you don't have a good product when you don't already have connections for the company?
Actually, it seems to be exactly the opposite. Right now if you don't register with the copyright office you can only sue for reasonable fees (IE, whatever you feel you should have been payed for your work, assuming a judge/jury agrees what you're asking is reasonable).
This orphaned works bill wouldn't change that at all, rather, only registered works would be affected, and, if the rights holder is not reasonably available, the work effectively becomes unregistered.
This still really only benefits big business though, or at least small businesses that are fairly successful. The theoretical Youtube poster from the article couldn't afford even the most ridiculous cursory search for a rights holder (the minimum traditionally acceptable is, I believe, to put an ad in a newspaper 5 weeks running).
All of the problems you mention happened because some nitwit set access up instead of IT (or else IT is full of nitwits). If wireless isn't in the budget, you don't trust users to keep security keys secret, or you simply don't want just any machine connecting to the network, then fine. But whining about implementation issues that only occur when somebody who doesn't know what they're doing sets it up just makes you look incompetent.
Please provide an explanation of why you think that statement contains anything other than "I'm right and you're wrong." Free will is not magic, simply an acknowledgment that we are (semi) autonomous agents.
Well, I am anyway, the rest of you may or may not be robots.
If Microsoft had opened up the specs for the docx and other new file formats for ISO approval, and documented them in an implementable fashion, then I (and I think, pretty much anybody who wants an office suite that can compete with Microsoft), would be thrilled. Hell, I *was* thrilled when I first heard about it.
Microsoft did not do this though, Microsoft gave us 6000 pages of an unimplementable spec, which refers to information that is not publicly available. There are serious legal questions as to whether the 'patent promise' holds any water as well, meaning that implementing the spec could cause problems for open source products. On top of it all the flagship OOXML product, Microsoft Office, does not currently appear to be following the OOXML spec properly. This is only going to get worse as ISO working committees refine the spec to fix the implementation problems Microsoft put into it.
The end result of this is that we are left with a ISO spec that has no real world implementation at all. The only thing I can really hope comes out of this is Microsoft gets hit with a fraud charge for claiming office is ISO compliant when is truth it is not.
Except in this case you're requiring the plaintiff to show that the evidence is valid. You're argument breaks down because this isn't a criminal case of course, but even if it was, it's not unusual at all for a evidence to get thrown out because the prosecutor can't document chain of custody.
As far as prosecuting Media Sentry for illegal investigation, then yes, the state has to provide evidence instead of the other way around. But it is possible to verify the validity of an IP address through various means. It just takes more than the 15 minutes media sentry typically spends on it. (See the expert testimony against media sentry's identification methods).
You don't get more speed, you do get more power. How useful this is depends largely on if you're software supports multi threading. Most of the software I run doesn't, the software that does, wouldn't be runnable at all without multicore.
Multicore is also useful if you need an entire core devoted to running bloated background processes.
I'd point out that Office still qualifies as a huge positive point in MS's favor right now, since people seem to have bought into the upgrade cycle, and even if you didn't, the price schemes are high enough with the 2007 version to ensure you put down at least a couple hundred on a new computer if you insist or get forced into using the Microsoft product. This may change of course, but you'd have to pound it into the heads of the PHBs that the cheaper option isn't worse first.
Losses and competition in the OS department aren't a huge deal in the short term. (best I can tell, they lost 1-2% marketshare, a lot of those they still got payed for), but yeah, mobiles may kill them monopoly wise if more countries start to go the way Japan has.
I don't think we necessarily know if their are smaller planets in this new system. I'm not sure the exact limitations, but while there have been small (smaller than earth even) objects detected, they seem to only be detected in systems with no significantly larger objects present. This suggests to me that having a big object interferes with detecting a nearby small one.
" Or you get malware that starts up in your.bash_profile and sits around waiting for you to run sudo. Once you do, in almost every Linux distribution or BSD OS that I've seen, you get about 5 minutes where sudo can be run without entering a password."
Don't use sudo.
"the only thing that not being an administrator gets you is that it's harder for malware to hide"
This one is a big deal actually, I've seen a lot of Windows machines that are completely infested with stuff the crappy antivirus can't see, easy malware detection would make things much nicer for end users who buy don't get that there are good AVs and crap AVs, or who are naive enough to believe their OEM gave them a good one.
It's very very hard not to make money off of POD if you sell at least one copy. The nice bit about POD is that there's no up front cost (just the printers cut). Of course 'profit' in this case may mean a few dollars. POD is a bad choice if at all possible to avoid though, prices are much higher, and you have zero chance at all to get into retail. Biggest thing I've seen POD used for where its a first choice, is stuff that's meant for person to person distribution. Textbooks, instruction manuals, things where you just need 50 or less for employees/students/friends.
Self published can mean a lot more money (there are webcomic authors who make a living partly off of self published books). But you get into risks and predatory companies.
And if maybe, just maybe, you're capable of thinking on more than one dimension, you won't feel it necessary to describe everyone who is capable of having thoughts that weren't put there by a preacher or a news anchor or a politician in terms of 'left' and 'right'
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Google is (last I checked) the only search engine that tells you if your search results have been censored.
It's a very small victory, but it's still something the people of China didn't have before.
I also point out that Google tried for years to get the ability to have uncensored searches, they fought, and lost, and while they may not have accomplished much, it wouldn't accomplish anything at all to pull out of China now.
Funnily enough I do live about 300 feet from the local telecom.
They only offer 1.5 in the area (though we actually *get* 1.5 which was a surprise)
The screwed up part is that even with my roommate's 50% discount for working for said telecom, we only save 10/month over Comcast. Gotta love the 'must have a long distance contract' fine print in the ads.
Most of those examples had the distinct advantage of being *cheap*. This is one of the most important qualities out there if you want your product to be ubiquitous.
In fact, Microsoft gained its market share, largely by being cheaper than the alternatives, the rash of IBM clone machines guaranteed that DOS hardware looked more attractive.
Software, however, is a special economic scenario, once the market became mostly saturated with one OS, the software was all written for one OS, and the hardware was all designed for one OS, which meant that Microsoft now gets to be the more expensive option (usually), and even in cases where the quality is clearly lower (not always of course), it ends up being used simply because it is the application that is the entire point of having the computer.
Are yu saying surface has no instructions whatsoever built in?
Between that and Microsoft's need for special effects in order to show it to people, I'm sure everyone will be using it real soon.
Do I get an out if my Bank has no physical presence outside of my state?
Given that the older crowd is more likely not to have a technology background going by the article, I wouldn't be as sure. Product isn't everything, but how well can you do if you don't have a good product when you don't already have connections for the company?
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Actually, it seems to be exactly the opposite. Right now if you don't register with the copyright office you can only sue for reasonable fees (IE, whatever you feel you should have been payed for your work, assuming a judge/jury agrees what you're asking is reasonable).
This orphaned works bill wouldn't change that at all, rather, only registered works would be affected, and, if the rights holder is not reasonably available, the work effectively becomes unregistered.
This still really only benefits big business though, or at least small businesses that are fairly successful. The theoretical Youtube poster from the article couldn't afford even the most ridiculous cursory search for a rights holder (the minimum traditionally acceptable is, I believe, to put an ad in a newspaper 5 weeks running).
Oh come off it, I hate Microsoft as much as anyone else, but even if the complaint was valid, ths isn't a page for bashing MS.
This is a page for bashing seagate.
Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't using su instead of sudo fix the sudo problem much easier?
All of the problems you mention happened because some nitwit set access up instead of IT (or else IT is full of nitwits). If wireless isn't in the budget, you don't trust users to keep security keys secret, or you simply don't want just any machine connecting to the network, then fine. But whining about implementation issues that only occur when somebody who doesn't know what they're doing sets it up just makes you look incompetent.
Please provide an explanation of why you think that statement contains anything other than "I'm right and you're wrong." Free will is not magic, simply an acknowledgment that we are (semi) autonomous agents.
Well, I am anyway, the rest of you may or may not be robots.
The idea that physical forces control us is silly unless you believe in dualism, we *are* those physical forces.
If Microsoft had opened up the specs for the docx and other new file formats for ISO approval, and documented them in an implementable fashion, then I (and I think, pretty much anybody who wants an office suite that can compete with Microsoft), would be thrilled. Hell, I *was* thrilled when I first heard about it.
Microsoft did not do this though, Microsoft gave us 6000 pages of an unimplementable spec, which refers to information that is not publicly available. There are serious legal questions as to whether the 'patent promise' holds any water as well, meaning that implementing the spec could cause problems for open source products. On top of it all the flagship OOXML product, Microsoft Office, does not currently appear to be following the OOXML spec properly. This is only going to get worse as ISO working committees refine the spec to fix the implementation problems Microsoft put into it.
The end result of this is that we are left with a ISO spec that has no real world implementation at all. The only thing I can really hope comes out of this is Microsoft gets hit with a fraud charge for claiming office is ISO compliant when is truth it is not.
Iran is the logical endpoint for black market F-14 parts actually, since Iran owns actual F-14s, and needs parts for maintenance.
So they only used terms that were used by people who got encouraged to try to kill themselves.
There's no bias here at all it seems.
If Comcast could kill routers on the customers end they'd do it in a heartbeat.
Except in this case you're requiring the plaintiff to show that the evidence is valid. You're argument breaks down because this isn't a criminal case of course, but even if it was, it's not unusual at all for a evidence to get thrown out because the prosecutor can't document chain of custody.
As far as prosecuting Media Sentry for illegal investigation, then yes, the state has to provide evidence instead of the other way around. But it is possible to verify the validity of an IP address through various means. It just takes more than the 15 minutes media sentry typically spends on it. (See the expert testimony against media sentry's identification methods).
You don't get more speed, you do get more power. How useful this is depends largely on if you're software supports multi threading. Most of the software I run doesn't, the software that does, wouldn't be runnable at all without multicore.
Multicore is also useful if you need an entire core devoted to running bloated background processes.
I'd point out that Office still qualifies as a huge positive point in MS's favor right now, since people seem to have bought into the upgrade cycle, and even if you didn't, the price schemes are high enough with the 2007 version to ensure you put down at least a couple hundred on a new computer if you insist or get forced into using the Microsoft product. This may change of course, but you'd have to pound it into the heads of the PHBs that the cheaper option isn't worse first.
Losses and competition in the OS department aren't a huge deal in the short term. (best I can tell, they lost 1-2% marketshare, a lot of those they still got payed for), but yeah, mobiles may kill them monopoly wise if more countries start to go the way Japan has.
I don't think we necessarily know if their are smaller planets in this new system. I'm not sure the exact limitations, but while there have been small (smaller than earth even) objects detected, they seem to only be detected in systems with no significantly larger objects present. This suggests to me that having a big object interferes with detecting a nearby small one.
" Or you get malware that starts up in your .bash_profile and sits around waiting for you to run sudo. Once you do, in almost every Linux distribution or BSD OS that I've seen, you get about 5 minutes where sudo can be run without entering a password."
Don't use sudo.
"the only thing that not being an administrator gets you is that it's harder for malware to hide"
This one is a big deal actually, I've seen a lot of Windows machines that are completely infested with stuff the crappy antivirus can't see, easy malware detection would make things much nicer for end users who buy don't get that there are good AVs and crap AVs, or who are naive enough to believe their OEM gave them a good one.
It's very very hard not to make money off of POD if you sell at least one copy. The nice bit about POD is that there's no up front cost (just the printers cut). Of course 'profit' in this case may mean a few dollars. POD is a bad choice if at all possible to avoid though, prices are much higher, and you have zero chance at all to get into retail. Biggest thing I've seen POD used for where its a first choice, is stuff that's meant for person to person distribution. Textbooks, instruction manuals, things where you just need 50 or less for employees/students/friends.
Self published can mean a lot more money (there are webcomic authors who make a living partly off of self published books). But you get into risks and predatory companies.
And if maybe, just maybe, you're capable of thinking on more than one dimension, you won't feel it necessary to describe everyone who is capable of having thoughts that weren't put there by a preacher or a news anchor or a politician in terms of 'left' and 'right'
Add me to the list when you do.