Well, I hate do disagree with you, but I must. Here is Southern Caifornia, there's not a better bookstore than Borders.
Walden Books and Super Crown are garbage and have little or no selection.
Barnes & Noble and its Automation BookStar are much better, but really nothing beats a Borders for size or selection. Specifically their computer section is superior to any other bookstore other than a technical bookstore. The one by my house used to be a supermarket and I love the fact that it is all on one floor. Most of the BNs around here are 2 or even 3 floors, and so everybody ends up crowding around the bottom floor.
Lawyers don't go around memorizing books of law. Memorization is for doctors. Lawyers learn a way of thinking. Any logical programmer type is already 90% of the way there. Go to any law school or college book store and pick up the "Nutshell" book on the particular subject you're focusing on. That is a good start. Much of law research today is done through large volumes of books, but rather through large databases storing every existing case. Go to one of these databases (warning, it can be pricy) and pull every case related to what you are looking for. The success of your research will be based mostly on the skill of your queries (hmm, I think any techie could run circles around a lawyer here). Read all the cases, look for a precedent that favors you, win the case, and home for dinner in time for your mom to tuck you in. All geeks do still live with their mother right?:)
Good luck, and remember don't ever back down, even if you aren't sure. One thing you always have to remember is that nothing is black and white in the courtroom. Everything is in shades of gray and if you can convince someone you are 51% right, then you'll probably win.
What we need is are free basic law classes offered for all techies. This is the only way we can truly protect ourselves in this day and age. Speaking as some who has gone to law school, but is not a lawyer, I can say it is VERY useful to understand the law. I no longer live in "fear" of a lawsuit. In fact, If I get sued, I get excited because I know I'm going to make them PAY. Pay through a counter lawsuit, pay through legal fees, pay through wasted time. Nothing is more dangerous to a large corporation then a sharp individual who stands up to them and says, "Bring it on! Bring it on more!" It will keep their legal fees mounting, it will make them sweat. The bigger their room full of lawyers, the more sympathy "David" gets and the harder "Goliath" falls in the end.
Stand up for your rights! Stand up for your rights!! Don't be afraid of Big Corporations! Tell them to go fuck themselves and then study the laws yourself because YOU really fucking do more than them or their fucking lawyers!
There was once a man interviewed on ABC News whose job is to count up every single ad visible in every second of NASCAR televised racing, along with the duration of visible time. He then punches this in a spreadsheet and uses calculations to both valuate and evaluate the money worth of each ad spot.
Jesus, I think this guy classifies for the potentital worst job on earth; Second perhaps only to Rosie O'Donalds Dietitian.
essentially, they are saying taht it's clients who've set up proxy servers incorrectly, and that they will be more aggresive in helping customers fix mis-configured proxy servers.
Anything to shift the blame to anyone other than themselves!
The particular company I was referring to was "Celera", but the name was eluding me at the time I was writing that response. They are the ones closest to breaking down the entire genome.
Yes, what I was indirectly saying in the response was that perhaps it is bad that the company patents the stuff, but worse if the company withholds stuff to the public. There's no reason they can't recoup their investment by simply being the first to develop whatever inventions/products/breakthroughs naturally come out of this new information.
Say for instance if some company develops out of this a product which allows humans to live forever, then sure that company should be able to patent that product.
However if this "immortality" pill is not invented in our lifetime because "Celera" is keeping the information as proprietary Corporate Trade Secrets, then that, my friend, is nothing less than a CRIME against humanity!
Well, then you are certainly qualified to comment on it, now aren't you.
Well, that doesn't stop around 90% of the posters on slashdot either.
God gave it to us as open-source, although no one has yet to reverse engineer the encryption.
This statement was obviously not meant to be taken seriously.
#1 - There is no God. #2 - If there was a God, he is definitely a closed-source type of guy and probably would hang out with the Bill Gates of the world. "See that tree of knowledge." God said. "Do not eat the Apple on it!" Yeah Right!
Hrm, someone hasn't been paying attention. In order for a patent to be a patent, it has to be public knowledge. The whole idea behind patents is to expand human knowledge by making it easier for a company to have a limited time monopoly on there discovery of invention, as opposed to trying to keep it trade secret.
Guess what, the company doing this privately is patenting 1000s of things when they had agreed to patent only 100s; they are not sharing any of their research with any public institutions; and it is entirely possible that there are many things they discover about that human genome that they don't patent, but keep privately as "Trade Secrets".
Thank you for creating technology the sole purpose of witch is to cheat money from the stupid, and then having the audacity to claim the moral high ground.
If you clicked on that site you would see: #1 - No banner ads or other advertising site #2 - That it is not a real casino, but rather a "for fun" casino #3 - That it is a hobby site that I work on for fun. #4 - That even if it was a "real" casino that allowed "real" wagers, I don't see how that makes a damn bit of difference in regards to my comment. I do not take a moral high ground; I am not the least bit religious and I hate religious hypocrisy and corporate darwinism equally.
Me, I keep thinking about Lucy, Charlie Brown, and the football, but maybe I'm just a cynic.
Now I'm really depressed we won't be seeing any more of Lucy, Charlie Brown, or the football. Our kids kids probably won't have even heard of Charlie Brown.
Anyway, back on topic. I think this is great news long overdue. The government really needs to try to keep their hand off of the internet. This is a self-policing non-meatspace and their troublesome meddling just hinders progress.
My favorite line Peanuts line... "Get that out of my ass, Charlie Brown!" yells Snoopy.
I must admit first of all that I didn't actually read the article. I looked at it, but then decided that I didn't quit law school for nothing:) Anyways, my feelings are strong on this subject. Flat out, companies should NOT be able to patent our DNA. DNA is should be part of the public domain. God gave it to us as open-source, although no one has yet to reverse engineer the encryption. The human gonome project will have a profound affect on mankind. It is not something that we as a species can afford to allow to be locked away as Corporate Trade Secrets. Some day, the very existence of the species may depend upon this knowledge being as common and easily available as a Gideon Bible.
I hope this isn't a bad, bad sign of of things to come. There is NOTHING that Linux needs more right now than state of the art development tools. If we want to get killer programs ported/written for Linux, then we need development tools. The fact that Metroworks doesn't believe the market supports their product is a strong statement indeed! CLI is great for kernel programming and such, but 90% of applications out there (non-system and utility apps) that normal users actually use to handle day-to-day work need applications written with GUIs. It is a well-known and obvious fact that it is much easier to pick up a Gui app than a CLI app. We need Metroworks; we need borland, we need everybody to port their best development stuff over to Linux because nothing else moves forward without it!
Didn't know they were still in business. Weren't they the ones that came up with the Wizardry series? Guess they couldn't really keep up with the state of the art. Wouldn't it be cool though if they released the entire wizardry series as open-source?
For all the unbelievable progress we have made with computers, we are as far away from creating a HAL as our primitive ancestors were from using bones as weapons.
They will be the people that purchased PERL. There's a sucker born every minute. Both PERL and LINX would be great stocks to short. I might just do that; talk about a sure thing. Hell, I should have done that with VA. It has dropped like from 290 to 150 hasn't it?
You forgot about what is probably the most valuable thing they own: the linuxone.com domain name. It's probably worth at least a couple thousand bucks, right?
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AOL and Time-Warner wouldn't just be creating another media company, but an information nation. This company would be much larger in cultural influence and economic power than most countries on the earth.
This guy is really talking out of his ass. Cultural influence? My sister, my parents and my uncle use AOL. It is pretty sad, because I hate AOL. But I put all of them on AOL. Why? Because being totally computer illiterate, that is all they can handle. They use it maybe a couple times a day to check stocks, etc. This is hardly what I would call a culture. They really don't know what the fuck to do with it. If I don't set a web site to their "favorites", they'll never find it again. AOL is hardly creating a culture, expect maybe a culture of morons and computer illiterate people or maybe in the end, a culture of people that hate AOL
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Don't worry. Not even AOL is dumb enough to fuck with this show, probably the GREATEST series ever created on tv. But then again, the analogy of AOL to the Mafia is pretty much right on, if not a little unflattering to the mafia.
I sure would feel weird about bringing a "Songboy" with me while I went on my jog during lunch break. Imagine what girls in the weight room will think when they see you with one of these...
"What's that?" the pretty brunette doing sit-ups asks flirtatiously. "This? This is my Songboy!" I reply smoothly.... Needless to say, you know how that encounter ended up.
At $99 it is an add-on that's twice the price of the original product. Probably not gonna do too well, me thinks!
This is a publicity/marketing stunt for USABancShares.com in the same vein as Planet Hollywood and other such ventures. Looks like it is working well as there is now a Slashdot article covering it and god knows how much other coverage it is getting in the media. I imagine you will be seeing this on ET and all the other entertainment news shows. Anything works better than banner ads I guess.
I just thought of Bose because they market those tiny little cube speakers that supposedly sound great for their size. I don't think I would actually buy a pair of Bose speakers because they seem like a ripoff. Oh well, hey, what do you recommend for a television surround sound system since we are on the topic?
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Well, I hate do disagree with you, but I must. Here is Southern Caifornia, there's not a better bookstore than Borders.
Walden Books and Super Crown are garbage and have little or no selection.
Barnes & Noble and its Automation BookStar are much better, but really nothing beats a Borders for size or selection. Specifically their computer section is superior to any other bookstore other than a technical bookstore. The one by my house used to be a supermarket and I love the fact that it is all on one floor. Most of the BNs around here are 2 or even 3 floors, and so everybody ends up crowding around the bottom floor.
They all suck.
Ok, now let's work on making a real browser. Maybe we could outsource the IE team, I heard they are worried about their stock these days.
Lawyers don't go around memorizing books of law. Memorization is for doctors. Lawyers learn a way of thinking. Any logical programmer type is already 90% of the way there. Go to any law school or college book store and pick up the "Nutshell" book on the particular subject you're focusing on. That is a good start. Much of law research today is done through large volumes of books, but rather through large databases storing every existing case. Go to one of these databases (warning, it can be pricy) and pull every case related to what you are looking for. The success of your research will be based mostly on the skill of your queries (hmm, I think any techie could run circles around a lawyer here). Read all the cases, look for a precedent that favors you, win the case, and home for dinner in time for your mom to tuck you in. All geeks do still live with their mother right? :)
Good luck, and remember don't ever back down, even if you aren't sure. One thing you always have to remember is that nothing is black and white in the courtroom. Everything is in shades of gray and if you can convince someone you are 51% right, then you'll probably win.
What we need is are free basic law classes offered for all techies. This is the only way we can truly protect ourselves in this day and age. Speaking as some who has gone to law school, but is not a lawyer, I can say it is VERY useful to understand the law. I no longer live in "fear" of a lawsuit. In fact, If I get sued, I get excited because I know I'm going to make them PAY. Pay through a counter lawsuit, pay through legal fees, pay through wasted time. Nothing is more dangerous to a large corporation then a sharp individual who stands up to them and says, "Bring it on! Bring it on more!" It will keep their legal fees mounting, it will make them sweat. The bigger their room full of lawyers, the more sympathy "David" gets and the harder "Goliath" falls in the end.
Stand up for your rights! Stand up for your rights!! Don't be afraid of Big Corporations! Tell them to go fuck themselves and then study the laws yourself because YOU really fucking do more than them or their fucking lawyers!
There was once a man interviewed on ABC News whose job is to count up every single ad visible in every second of NASCAR televised racing, along with the duration of visible time. He then punches this in a spreadsheet and uses calculations to both valuate and evaluate the money worth of each ad spot.
Jesus, I think this guy classifies for the potentital worst job on earth; Second perhaps only to Rosie O'Donalds Dietitian.
above says it all!
Interesting comment. Please give us more details or give us a link because I find learning about these old companies to be incredibly fascinating!
essentially, they are saying taht it's clients who've set up proxy servers incorrectly, and that they will be more aggresive in helping customers fix mis-configured proxy servers.
Anything to shift the blame to anyone other than themselves!
When I'm talking about "humanity" I'm really talking about 'me' personally :)
"I don't wanna die! I don't wanna die!"
What famous video game does that quote come from?br>
The particular company I was referring to was "Celera", but the name was eluding me at the time I was writing that response. They are the ones closest to breaking down the entire genome.
Yes, what I was indirectly saying in the response was that perhaps it is bad that the company patents the stuff, but worse if the company withholds stuff to the public. There's no reason they can't recoup their investment by simply being the first to develop whatever inventions/products/breakthroughs naturally come out of this new information.
Say for instance if some company develops out of this a product which allows humans to live forever, then sure that company should be able to patent that product.
However if this "immortality" pill is not invented in our lifetime because "Celera" is keeping the information as proprietary Corporate Trade Secrets, then that, my friend, is nothing less than a CRIME against humanity!
Well, then you are certainly qualified to comment on it, now aren't you.
Well, that doesn't stop around 90% of the posters on slashdot either.
God gave it to us as open-source, although no one has yet to reverse engineer the encryption.
This statement was obviously not meant to be taken seriously.
#1 - There is no God.
#2 - If there was a God, he is definitely a closed-source type of guy and probably would hang out with the Bill Gates of the world. "See that tree of knowledge." God said. "Do not eat the Apple on it!" Yeah Right!
Hrm, someone hasn't been paying attention. In order for a patent to be a patent, it has to be public knowledge. The whole idea behind patents is to expand human knowledge by making it easier for a company to have a limited time monopoly on there discovery of invention, as opposed to trying to keep it trade secret.
Guess what, the company doing this privately is patenting 1000s of things when they had agreed to patent only 100s; they are not sharing any of their research with any public institutions; and it is entirely possible that there are many things they discover about that human genome that they don't patent, but keep privately as "Trade Secrets".
Thank you for creating technology the sole purpose of witch is to cheat money from the stupid, and then having the audacity to claim the moral high ground.
If you clicked on that site you would see:
#1 - No banner ads or other advertising site
#2 - That it is not a real casino, but rather a "for fun" casino
#3 - That it is a hobby site that I work on for fun.
#4 - That even if it was a "real" casino that allowed "real" wagers, I don't see how that makes a damn bit of difference in regards to my comment. I do not take a moral high ground; I am not the least bit religious and I hate religious hypocrisy and corporate darwinism equally.
Me, I keep thinking about Lucy, Charlie Brown, and the football, but maybe I'm just a cynic.
Now I'm really depressed we won't be seeing any more of Lucy, Charlie Brown, or the football. Our kids kids probably won't have even heard of Charlie Brown.
Anyway, back on topic. I think this is great news long overdue. The government really needs to try to keep their hand off of the internet. This is a self-policing non-meatspace and their troublesome meddling just hinders progress.
My favorite line Peanuts line... "Get that out of my ass, Charlie Brown!" yells Snoopy.
I must admit first of all that I didn't actually read the article. I looked at it, but then decided that I didn't quit law school for nothing :) Anyways, my feelings are strong on this subject. Flat out, companies should NOT be able to patent our DNA. DNA is should be part of the public domain. God gave it to us as open-source, although no one has yet to reverse engineer the encryption. The human gonome project will have a profound affect on mankind. It is not something that we as a species can afford to allow to be locked away as Corporate Trade Secrets. Some day, the very existence of the species may depend upon this knowledge being as common and easily available as a Gideon Bible.
I hope this isn't a bad, bad sign of of things to come. There is NOTHING that Linux needs more right now than state of the art development tools. If we want to get killer programs ported/written for Linux, then we need development tools. The fact that Metroworks doesn't believe the market supports their product is a strong statement indeed! CLI is great for kernel programming and such, but 90% of applications out there (non-system and utility apps) that normal users actually use to handle day-to-day work need applications written with GUIs. It is a well-known and obvious fact that it is much easier to pick up a Gui app than a CLI app. We need Metroworks; we need borland, we need everybody to port their best development stuff over to Linux because nothing else moves forward without it!
Didn't know they were still in business. Weren't they the ones that came up with the Wizardry series? Guess they couldn't really keep up with the state of the art. Wouldn't it be cool though if they released the entire wizardry series as open-source?
For all the unbelievable progress we have made with computers, we are as far away from creating a HAL as our primitive ancestors were from using bones as weapons.
They will be the people that purchased PERL. There's a sucker born every minute. Both PERL and LINX would be great stocks to short. I might just do that; talk about a sure thing. Hell, I should have done that with VA. It has dropped like from 290 to 150 hasn't it?
You forgot about what is probably the most valuable thing they own: the linuxone.com domain name. It's probably worth at least a couple thousand bucks, right?
AOL and Time-Warner wouldn't just be creating another media company, but an information nation. This company would be much larger in cultural influence and economic power than most countries on the earth.
This guy is really talking out of his ass. Cultural influence? My sister, my parents and my uncle use AOL. It is pretty sad, because I hate AOL. But I put all of them on AOL. Why? Because being totally computer illiterate, that is all they can handle. They use it maybe a couple times a day to check stocks, etc. This is hardly what I would call a culture. They really don't know what the fuck to do with it. If I don't set a web site to their "favorites", they'll never find it again. AOL is hardly creating a culture, expect maybe a culture of morons and computer illiterate people or maybe in the end, a culture of people that hate AOL
Don't worry. Not even AOL is dumb enough to fuck with this show, probably the GREATEST series ever created on tv. But then again, the analogy of AOL to the Mafia is pretty much right on, if not a little unflattering to the mafia.
I don't know. I think "Songgirl" would have been better than "Songboy". I can see the marketing now.
Castrate your GameBoy today with the new "Songgirl" add-on (or should we say clip-off).
I sure would feel weird about bringing a "Songboy" with me while I went on my jog during lunch break. Imagine what girls in the weight room will think when they see you with one of these...
... Needless to say, you know how that encounter ended up.
"What's that?" the pretty brunette doing sit-ups asks flirtatiously. "This? This is my Songboy!" I reply smoothly.
At $99 it is an add-on that's twice the price of the original product. Probably not gonna do too well, me thinks!
This is a publicity/marketing stunt for USABancShares.com in the same vein as Planet Hollywood and other such ventures. Looks like it is working well as there is now a Slashdot article covering it and god knows how much other coverage it is getting in the media. I imagine you will be seeing this on ET and all the other entertainment news shows. Anything works better than banner ads I guess.
Yeah, I hate that. I do that sometimes and always seem to regret it :)
I just thought of Bose because they market those tiny little cube speakers that supposedly sound great for their size. I don't think I would actually buy a pair of Bose speakers because they seem like a ripoff. Oh well, hey, what do you recommend for a television surround sound system since we are on the topic?