Since granted patents are public, we shall see as the paperwork progresses whether or not Microsoft has filed any. Which has the same effect as Lucky Green's attempts, and therefore is probably quite welcome to him.
You don't get the right kind of sensors with the standard kit. And nobody said you didn't have to pay for your Mindstorms kit....
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That's ludicrous. A bump or a slope is just a distortion of the 2D surface that the wheels are riding along. It doesn't CLAIM to navigate 3D space anyway. (And the video of it following a line is pretty impressive).
Posting this in the US would not be a violatiuon of theDMCA except if you used some ludicrously tortured logic.
They are posting information about ways to break the security of Linux. That sounds an awful lot like a DMCA violation under the same parts that were used to threaten Professor Felten, and indict Skylarov. The only difference is that Linux is not an asset of the entertainment industries....
I'd say that the drug laws in particular seem like a prime example of conservatives more than liberals supporting laws that "protect people from themselves."
BTW it's worth noting, if the statement hadn't started with "all you liberals", I wouldn't have responded. I am absolutely in agreement with the dictate for people to grow up and take responsibility for themselves and hold others accountable for their own lives as well. I just don't think it's a liberal/conservative issue. Liberals tend to fail in particular areas (gun control etc.) and conservatives tend to fail in different particular areas (drug laws etc.).
An A/C wrote: Already subscribed to SysAdmin, so what good did that do me?
If you didn't get an extension to your SA subscription to honor what was left of your original TPJ subscription, that's Jon's fault? Seems more like SA's fault, especially given what idiots they've been about other things with that transition.
If you *did* get an extension, what the hell are you bitching about? You got something for your money. Maybe it wasn't what you wanted (I know it wasn't what I wanted), but it was what TPJ could arrange for. C'est la Vie. Don't want to subscribe to the new attempt at TPJ? Don't then, I'm not really concerned about your activity, but don't pretend TPJ screwed you with intent.
I'm thinking you didn't pursue your money very far then. The original subscriptions were honored by the transition to TPJ as a section of SysAdmin. Quite honestly, the transition sucked for a number of reasons, and that's why the partnership ended up failing. But the original subscriptions were honored for anyone Jon could track down (which basically means anyone who bothered to email him asking what the deal was).
Where precisely did you see that ad? Can't say I've seen it myself.
As far as I can tell you're working on more strawmen. Just like the first poster I responded to, which was the MAIN point I was making--it is a fact that the ADA is about access. It is not anything like a fact that the ADA would force anyone to hire a firefighter without arms. Making up arguments that don't exist is known as building strawmen and that is what's wrong here. You have a beef with a real application of the ADA that you think is wrong? Cite it. That's a real argument against it. Quit making up BS arguments against it.
As for arguments for...the point is that all people have a right to participate in society. If society is set up so that it inherently excludes some segment of people because of 1) active discrimination or 2) passive exclusion, those people have the right to try and get that exclusion corrected. And that's what the ADA is.
Is the ADA perfect? No. Does the ADA get abused? Just like any other legislation, of course--in a land of a billion lawyers, every loophole in every place it can get someone some bit of advantage gets used. But I think we're better off with it than without. I have deaf friends who I would never have met if it weren't for the access they recieve at the behest of the ADA.
Nothing in the ADA mandates the more ridiculous strawman arguments used against it, and the only thing that causes the excessive abuses that really do occur is lawyering, not regular people, and not the legislation itself.
Feel free to argue that it ought to be corrected to prevent the abuses, or to cite real abuses. But until you do, I'm going to assume you're just against it as a matter of conservative ideology rather than actual investigation (i.e. you buy the strawman arguments yourself).
I wouldn't hire a waiter with Tourette's, and I wouldn't hire a waiter who was just clumsy.
I wouldn't hire a teacher who was mentally retarded, and I wouldn't hire a teacher who was just plain dumb.
I wouldn't hire a firefighter who was too weak to lift a hose, and I wouldn't hire a firefighter with no arms.
Of course the fallacy of the argument is that the ADA doesn't require you to do any of these things either. But don't let the facts stand in the way of a great emotional argument.
Hey swordgeek: good to see you have buddies (or your own other account) that can mod down anyone who disagrees with you, or publically calls you on your hot air. I fully expect this one to get modded down too, so sad. Whereas my other replies were serious, not trolls or flamebait as you've seen fit to mod them, this one really is flamebait. You're a fucking moron.
a typical service contract (not just from Sun, from ANYONE!) prohibits adding to or modifying the equipment without Sun's approval. This qualifies.
Your assertion that it qualifies doesn't make it so. The equipment has not been modified. The rack has not been modified. Nothing done to the rack has any significant effect on airflow or heat characteristics. Unless you can point out some specific picayune phrasing that you think this violates, I'd say you're full of hot air.
BTW, you might want to talk to company lawyers before spouting on public forums about your opinion of customer's responsibilities for major outages.
Pay no attention to the fool who thinks this violates a contract, until he points out the specific contract clauses that it violates. For the record, I work for Sun providing support too, and can't think of any reason I'd have a problem with this unless the machines specifically started having real problems (if we could trace the problems to the lights, it'd be "remove the lights or no service", but we'd have to prove the lights were a problem first, and I can't think of how they really would be).
I work for Sun providing service too. Think hard: the customer did nothing to break the integrity of the rack, or the system itself. What exactly did they do that you allege violates the contract? Not a damn thing that I can see.
I do service contract support for Sun gear, and on the high end stuff they (sun) would definitly have the option of walking away from one of these things on a service call. Personally, I know I'd be tempted to do so.
Did you even visit the link? He glued some lights inside the doors of the rack. Whoopty. Not gonna affect serviceability one iota.
Most of the local musicians I know are more than happy to share MP3's. If someone likes one song they hear as an MP3, they're likely to go looking for more, probably on CD. CD certainly is a lot more convenient for much of the world that's not geeks who spend all their time in front of their hard drives....
Out of his ass, apparently. I don't know what life is like in Fritz's district, but around here there definitely is an availability problem. Out of a dozen close coworkers, about 3 of us have broadband available to us. And this is in Metropolitan Chicago, not BFE.
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Since granted patents are public, we shall see as the paperwork progresses whether or not Microsoft has filed any. Which has the same effect as Lucky Green's attempts, and therefore is probably quite welcome to him.
You don't get the right kind of sensors with the standard kit. And nobody said you didn't have to pay for your Mindstorms kit....
That's ludicrous. A bump or a slope is just a distortion of the 2D surface that the wheels are riding along. It doesn't CLAIM to navigate 3D space anyway. (And the video of it following a line is pretty impressive).
nah, THIS is the definitive DARPA reference of this age.
They are posting information about ways to break the security of Linux. That sounds an awful lot like a DMCA violation under the same parts that were used to threaten Professor Felten, and indict Skylarov. The only difference is that Linux is not an asset of the entertainment industries....
Why thank you :)
I'd say that the drug laws in particular seem like a prime example of conservatives more than liberals supporting laws that "protect people from themselves."
Libertarians I know don't specifically single out Liberals for chastisement.
BTW it's worth noting, if the statement hadn't started with "all you liberals", I wouldn't have responded. I am absolutely in agreement with the dictate for people to grow up and take responsibility for themselves and hold others accountable for their own lives as well. I just don't think it's a liberal/conservative issue. Liberals tend to fail in particular areas (gun control etc.) and conservatives tend to fail in different particular areas (drug laws etc.).
As opposed to the conservatives who just want to lock you up for any mistake unless you're the governor's daughter?
Already subscribed to SysAdmin, so what good did that do me?
If you didn't get an extension to your SA subscription to honor what was left of your original TPJ subscription, that's Jon's fault? Seems more like SA's fault, especially given what idiots they've been about other things with that transition.
If you *did* get an extension, what the hell are you bitching about? You got something for your money. Maybe it wasn't what you wanted (I know it wasn't what I wanted), but it was what TPJ could arrange for. C'est la Vie. Don't want to subscribe to the new attempt at TPJ? Don't then, I'm not really concerned about your activity, but don't pretend TPJ screwed you with intent.
I'm thinking you didn't pursue your money very far then. The original subscriptions were honored by the transition to TPJ as a section of SysAdmin. Quite honestly, the transition sucked for a number of reasons, and that's why the partnership ended up failing. But the original subscriptions were honored for anyone Jon could track down (which basically means anyone who bothered to email him asking what the deal was).
As far as I can tell you're working on more strawmen. Just like the first poster I responded to, which was the MAIN point I was making--it is a fact that the ADA is about access. It is not anything like a fact that the ADA would force anyone to hire a firefighter without arms. Making up arguments that don't exist is known as building strawmen and that is what's wrong here. You have a beef with a real application of the ADA that you think is wrong? Cite it. That's a real argument against it. Quit making up BS arguments against it.
As for arguments for...the point is that all people have a right to participate in society. If society is set up so that it inherently excludes some segment of people because of 1) active discrimination or 2) passive exclusion, those people have the right to try and get that exclusion corrected. And that's what the ADA is.
Is the ADA perfect? No. Does the ADA get abused? Just like any other legislation, of course--in a land of a billion lawyers, every loophole in every place it can get someone some bit of advantage gets used. But I think we're better off with it than without. I have deaf friends who I would never have met if it weren't for the access they recieve at the behest of the ADA.
Nothing in the ADA mandates the more ridiculous strawman arguments used against it, and the only thing that causes the excessive abuses that really do occur is lawyering, not regular people, and not the legislation itself.
Feel free to argue that it ought to be corrected to prevent the abuses, or to cite real abuses. But until you do, I'm going to assume you're just against it as a matter of conservative ideology rather than actual investigation (i.e. you buy the strawman arguments yourself).
Because of course, we all get our legal advice from cartoons.
I wouldn't hire a teacher who was mentally retarded, and I wouldn't hire a teacher who was just plain dumb.
I wouldn't hire a firefighter who was too weak to lift a hose, and I wouldn't hire a firefighter with no arms.
Of course the fallacy of the argument is that the ADA doesn't require you to do any of these things either. But don't let the facts stand in the way of a great emotional argument.
Sounds just like any other SLAPP suit. Who's to blame? The lawyers, not the ADA. (for the record, I think the 90 day thing sounds like a great idea)
Hey swordgeek: good to see you have buddies (or your own other account) that can mod down anyone who disagrees with you, or publically calls you on your hot air. I fully expect this one to get modded down too, so sad. Whereas my other replies were serious, not trolls or flamebait as you've seen fit to mod them, this one really is flamebait. You're a fucking moron.
Your assertion that it qualifies doesn't make it so. The equipment has not been modified. The rack has not been modified. Nothing done to the rack has any significant effect on airflow or heat characteristics. Unless you can point out some specific picayune phrasing that you think this violates, I'd say you're full of hot air.
BTW, you might want to talk to company lawyers before spouting on public forums about your opinion of customer's responsibilities for major outages.
Pay no attention to the fool who thinks this violates a contract, until he points out the specific contract clauses that it violates. For the record, I work for Sun providing support too, and can't think of any reason I'd have a problem with this unless the machines specifically started having real problems (if we could trace the problems to the lights, it'd be "remove the lights or no service", but we'd have to prove the lights were a problem first, and I can't think of how they really would be).
I work for Sun providing service too. Think hard: the customer did nothing to break the integrity of the rack, or the system itself. What exactly did they do that you allege violates the contract? Not a damn thing that I can see.
Did you even visit the link? He glued some lights inside the doors of the rack. Whoopty. Not gonna affect serviceability one iota.
The version I bought (probably a few revs back, it was a couple years ago) made my machine even more unstable than Windows normally is. Caveat Emptor.
Most of the local musicians I know are more than happy to share MP3's. If someone likes one song they hear as an MP3, they're likely to go looking for more, probably on CD. CD certainly is a lot more convenient for much of the world that's not geeks who spend all their time in front of their hard drives....
He must have a hell of a broadband connection.....
Out of his ass, apparently. I don't know what life is like in Fritz's district, but around here there definitely is an availability problem. Out of a dozen close coworkers, about 3 of us have broadband available to us. And this is in Metropolitan Chicago, not BFE.