If you really want to be legal you must contact the entity/ies with ownership rights to decide whether you can use a different format of the book for your own personal use.
Doing it en masse, you might get sued. For example, if you were to buy tons of the actual used books and then sell the corresponding ebook you downloaded instead of those you bought (even if you disposed of the physical books). The owner of the rights to the book would probably not like that and could argue you were selling a derivative product and violating copyright.
However, there would be little to no repercussion for just using a different format of the the book provided it was done in sufficently small quantity.
The smackdown started with third-world country exam standards, then old tenured U.S. public school teacher exam standards. If they defeat UK chemistry exam standards they'll go on to the main multidiciplinary showdown against Chinese math exam standards!
This is light compared to what is ahead. No one should be surprised substantial cuts will likely be made to NASA's funding. The budget for at least the next 4-8 years will be targeted at improving the economy, education, energy, and health care- not anything that might have been saved if Washington were more interested in funding the military and NASA. Contact your senators and house representatives in Washington and let them know how you feel if there is a NASA program you love that you don't want cut.
Agreed! The XO isn't just any other laptop, because it supports mesh networking. Even though that isn't very useful now (meshing probably even really won't help the kids that much), and some people probably consider it last year's news, supporting the XO means more people thinking about mesh, and more computers for kids that could use them. So support the XO!
"but CEO Jonathan Schwartz contends users will be more inclined to try open-source products such as MySQL, OpenSolaris and Sun's GlassFish application server during a time of economic stress."
So, during a time of economic stress people will just be crawling over themselves to pay for MySQL, OpenSolaris, and GlassFish when the reason they would use those during such a time would be that they are free?
A lot of us are still very enthusiastic about classic games. For example: see AtariAge, DigitPress RetroGaming Roundtable, ClassicGaming, etc. There is a community out there alive and well with fans of every type of classic gaming console, old computer, and classic game. And don't forget to do a Google Blog Search for your favorite classic console (atari 2600) or old computer (Apple II) (get the feed...). Classic gamers are buying news products like the Classic USB Joystick Controller (Atari 2600-style) and in the past few years there were a flood of products like the Atari Flashback 2, C64 TV Games, a bunch of Jakks TV games, etc. The classic gaming market will always be around, but I think it will change and update as we get older where newer "old" systems get a chance for the spotlight.
Almost all OSes get slower as they grow, but processing speed gets faster, and in the end, it will even out. You can count on this trend continuing to happen at least until AI gets to the point where computers can get smart enough to redesign and reimplement their OS to be more efficient. However, at that point SkyNet becomes self-aware, and you'll need to contact John Connor via a ham radio.
If you don't agree with your boss, and your boss's boss (if you have one) is unlikely to care, then find another job, whilst working on what your boss asked you to do. You'll likely be happier somewhere else if your boss is that much of a tool. Note though that a lot of (usually small) business can be in the grey area, so you are likely to run into similar (although maybe a little more "grey") situations in the future.
"No way is a whole group of non-clones going to all be motivated by getting their own console at work."
Agreed. I personally would think that anyone who tried to pull off such a stunt should be and will be fired. It would be acceptable to have a shared game area, but not have each employee have their own console.
The Pentagon just called them robots to make it easier to explain why: * They look like robots * They have that robot sounding voice ("EXTERMINATE... EXTERMINATE...") * They secretly used all of the bailout money to create a Dalek communication device (so that whenever they want to find someone, they just contact the Daleks and thell them whoever they are looking for is the Time Lord...)
While it's true from the standpoint of "if we were to write this now how much would it cost to pay developers, etc.", which I know was the point of the report, that just doesn't equate to anything substantial on its own.
Really great things don't necessarily require a lot of code (think JUnit and other similar libraries), and there are a lot of projects and products that had a *ton* of money spent on development that were flops or not so great. While it's true that an OS is obviously a lot more complex than a Java unit testing framework, it doesn't mean that an OS that has 1/2 as many lines of code would be of any less worth than Fedora. I'm not knocking Fedora, but I just think that this whole report is just going down the absolute wrong road, and it scares me to think that anyone in the Linux community would even think it worthwhile to post this kind of stuff. It just makes me think that people have lost their way from the "path of enlightenment".
Slashdot Mirror
10 cls
20 print "yep, this still sucks"
30 end
Subscription music services.
it will become much more fashionable
If you really want to be legal you must contact the entity/ies with ownership rights to decide whether you can use a different format of the book for your own personal use.
Doing it en masse, you might get sued. For example, if you were to buy tons of the actual used books and then sell the corresponding ebook you downloaded instead of those you bought (even if you disposed of the physical books). The owner of the rights to the book would probably not like that and could argue you were selling a derivative product and violating copyright.
However, there would be little to no repercussion for just using a different format of the the book provided it was done in sufficently small quantity.
The smackdown started with third-world country exam standards, then old tenured U.S. public school teacher exam standards. If they defeat UK chemistry exam standards they'll go on to the main multidiciplinary showdown against Chinese math exam standards!
I'm eating a Twinkie
This is light compared to what is ahead. No one should be surprised substantial cuts will likely be made to NASA's funding. The budget for at least the next 4-8 years will be targeted at improving the economy, education, energy, and health care- not anything that might have been saved if Washington were more interested in funding the military and NASA. Contact your senators and house representatives in Washington and let them know how you feel if there is a NASA program you love that you don't want cut.
Apple? No way. This is just a simplistic legal defense IMO.
Agreed! The XO isn't just any other laptop, because it supports mesh networking. Even though that isn't very useful now (meshing probably even really won't help the kids that much), and some people probably consider it last year's news, supporting the XO means more people thinking about mesh, and more computers for kids that could use them. So support the XO!
(never mind the fact that I'm writing this using my Slashdot pseudonym...)
Seriously though, don't be afraid. Fear is the mind killer.
Sun's approval rating drops by 15% - 18% today.
"but CEO Jonathan Schwartz contends users will be more inclined to try open-source products such as MySQL, OpenSolaris and Sun's GlassFish application server during a time of economic stress."
So, during a time of economic stress people will just be crawling over themselves to pay for MySQL, OpenSolaris, and GlassFish when the reason they would use those during such a time would be that they are free?
Smokey says "Only YOU can prevent huge frickin' weaponized lasers!"
The secret is the Mr Fusion Home Energy Reactor! Just throw some banana skins and beer cans into it and you're off!
But I wish they did!
A lot of us are still very enthusiastic about classic games. For example: see AtariAge, DigitPress RetroGaming Roundtable, ClassicGaming, etc. There is a community out there alive and well with fans of every type of classic gaming console, old computer, and classic game. And don't forget to do a Google Blog Search for your favorite classic console (atari 2600) or old computer (Apple II) (get the feed...). Classic gamers are buying news products like the Classic USB Joystick Controller (Atari 2600-style) and in the past few years there were a flood of products like the Atari Flashback 2, C64 TV Games, a bunch of Jakks TV games, etc. The classic gaming market will always be around, but I think it will change and update as we get older where newer "old" systems get a chance for the spotlight.
How do they get the eggs inside those shells anyway? I smell a hoax.
Mauve is making a comeback.
Almost all OSes get slower as they grow, but processing speed gets faster, and in the end, it will even out. You can count on this trend continuing to happen at least until AI gets to the point where computers can get smart enough to redesign and reimplement their OS to be more efficient. However, at that point SkyNet becomes self-aware, and you'll need to contact John Connor via a ham radio.
If you don't agree with your boss, and your boss's boss (if you have one) is unlikely to care, then find another job, whilst working on what your boss asked you to do. You'll likely be happier somewhere else if your boss is that much of a tool. Note though that a lot of (usually small) business can be in the grey area, so you are likely to run into similar (although maybe a little more "grey") situations in the future.
"No way is a whole group of non-clones going to all be motivated by getting their own console at work."
Agreed. I personally would think that anyone who tried to pull off such a stunt should be and will be fired. It would be acceptable to have a shared game area, but not have each employee have their own console.
The Pentagon just called them robots to make it easier to explain why:
* They look like robots
* They have that robot sounding voice ("EXTERMINATE... EXTERMINATE...")
* They secretly used all of the bailout money to create a Dalek communication device (so that whenever they want to find someone, they just contact the Daleks and thell them whoever they are looking for is the Time Lord...)
he wants his Daleks back.
More code does not equal actual worth.
While it's true from the standpoint of "if we were to write this now how much would it cost to pay developers, etc.", which I know was the point of the report, that just doesn't equate to anything substantial on its own.
Really great things don't necessarily require a lot of code (think JUnit and other similar libraries), and there are a lot of projects and products that had a *ton* of money spent on development that were flops or not so great. While it's true that an OS is obviously a lot more complex than a Java unit testing framework, it doesn't mean that an OS that has 1/2 as many lines of code would be of any less worth than Fedora. I'm not knocking Fedora, but I just think that this whole report is just going down the absolute wrong road, and it scares me to think that anyone in the Linux community would even think it worthwhile to post this kind of stuff. It just makes me think that people have lost their way from the "path of enlightenment".
Whoops, I meant games. But seriously... I have absolutely no interest in social games. And I'm a former gamer. So score one for the opposing team.
Son, get your shovel. Let's go dig up some votes!