The Australian government's assertion that the list of airports, runways and tower frequencies was subject to international copyright was used as a flimsy excuse for the US NGA to block all public access to the DAFIF, a database of information about airports worldwide that had been publicly available since the mid 1970s.
Wanna bet that even if the Aussie high court rules reasonably the NGA will still try to keep everything secret?
The NGA is the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency - used to be the Defense Mapping Agency before 911 made having "Intelligence" in agency names made it easier to get funding from Congress.
HP is running from the Itanic as fast as they reasonably can. What remains unclear is whether they are piss off enough at Intel to go Opteron, or if they're going to keep using Intel x86 (and EM64T, or whatever it's called)
The appropriate action is to ignore the letter. In 1980 I was Editor-In-Chief of Infoworld. We got a letter from Exxon's corporate lawyers. At the time Exxon owned Zilog who made the Z-80.. the hot microprocessor chip of the day. The letter took exception to InfoWorld running ads for the Turbo-Z compiler, and asked us to refuse to accept advertising for any product with a Z in the name!
We did the only rational thing... we published their letter and made fun of the request in print.
Companies have to defend their trademarks or they risk losing them, but most trademark lawyers stop at a single notification letter unless it really is in infringing use of the name. The Word Spy usage isn't.
The CNN article pointed out the problem... The Segway guys "had not made contributions to politicians". That's the way Detriot does it. That's the way the MPAA and the RIAA do it. There's really no excuse for not playing by the rules and buying a politician of your own... what with the cost of a congressperson or senator being the lowest it has been in decades.
Ok... let's start by correcting some misinformation here.
The StudyPro Computer does have a magnesium case. The Mg is painted a silver color that approximates the color of the magnesium itself to minimize the visibility of scratches. These machines take a beating in everyday use. If you think that any metal machine is indestructable, then you haven't seen enough pictures of car crashes or train wrecks.
The flash system in the first-generation StudyPro was 40 MB not 32 MB. That evolved to 48 MB and current generation StudyPros are available in 64 and 128 MB versions. Flash is a reliable disk replacement in harsh environments where hard disks just won't survive.
The cost number you have given is misleading as well. That $1500 isn't the cost of a StudyPro. $1500 to $2000 is the cost of a "student seat" in a NetSchools-equipped school. That includes a Study-Pro for each student, a standard commercial notebook computer for every teacher, a printer in every classroom., the high-speed wireless networking infrastructure in every classroom as well as in cafeterias and libraries, network switches and routers, and a hefty server to run the whole system. It also includes teacher training that starts months before the first StudyPro is delivered, and after-installation support for both the netowork itself as well as consulting to help teachers integrate the net into their lesson plans. The StudyPro is just the most visible component of the NetSchools implementation.
Richard A. Milewski Chief Technology Officer NetSchools Corporation
The Apple Airport BaseStation works fine with the Lucent Cards. Rumor has it that the BaseStation is SNMP aware. Has anyone found a MIB for the BaseStation?
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The Australian government's assertion that the list of airports, runways and tower frequencies was subject to international copyright was used as a flimsy excuse for the US NGA to block all public access to the DAFIF, a database of information about airports worldwide that had been publicly available since the mid 1970s.
Wanna bet that even if the Aussie high court rules reasonably the NGA will still try to keep everything secret?
The NGA is the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency - used to be the Defense Mapping Agency before 911 made having "Intelligence" in agency names made it easier to get funding from Congress.
HP is running from the Itanic as fast as they reasonably can. What remains unclear is whether they are piss off enough at Intel to go Opteron, or if they're going to keep using Intel x86 (and EM64T, or whatever it's called)
The appropriate action is to ignore the letter. In 1980 I was Editor-In-Chief of Infoworld. We got a letter from Exxon's corporate lawyers. At the time Exxon owned Zilog who made the Z-80.. the hot microprocessor chip of the day. The letter took exception to InfoWorld running ads for the Turbo-Z compiler, and asked us to refuse to accept advertising for any product with a Z in the name!
We did the only rational thing... we published their letter and made fun of the request in print.
Companies have to defend their trademarks or they risk losing them, but most trademark lawyers stop at a single notification letter unless it really is in infringing use of the name. The Word Spy usage isn't.
The CNN article pointed out the problem... The Segway guys "had not made contributions to politicians". That's the way Detriot does it. That's the way the MPAA and the RIAA do it. There's really no excuse for not playing by the rules and buying a politician of your own... what with the cost of a congressperson or senator being the lowest it has been in decades.
Ok... let's start by correcting some misinformation here.
The StudyPro Computer does have a magnesium case . The Mg is painted a silver color that approximates the color of the magnesium itself to minimize the visibility of scratches. These machines take a beating in everyday use. If you think that any metal machine is indestructable, then you haven't seen enough pictures of car crashes or train wrecks.
The flash system in the first-generation StudyPro was 40 MB not 32 MB. That evolved to 48 MB and current generation StudyPros are available in 64 and 128 MB versions. Flash is a reliable disk replacement in harsh environments where hard disks just won't survive.
The cost number you have given is misleading as well. That $1500 isn't the cost of a StudyPro. $1500 to $2000 is the cost of a "student seat" in a NetSchools-equipped school. That includes a Study-Pro for each student, a standard commercial notebook computer for every teacher, a printer in every classroom., the high-speed wireless networking infrastructure in every classroom as well as in cafeterias and libraries, network switches and routers, and a hefty server to run the whole system. It also includes teacher training that starts months before the first StudyPro is delivered, and after-installation support for both the netowork itself as well as consulting to help teachers integrate the net into their lesson plans. The StudyPro is just the most visible component of the NetSchools implementation.
Richard A. Milewski
Chief Technology Officer
NetSchools Corporation
The Apple Airport BaseStation works fine with the Lucent Cards. Rumor has it that the BaseStation is SNMP aware. Has anyone found a MIB for the BaseStation?