I think the point that is trying to be made is that the taking out of this particular group will simply result in a small hole in the overall problem, which will quickly be filled by another existing group, or a new group.
Why wouldn't you want to make a stand? Besides, at that point, a simple 'no' and walk out the door works. It's very unlikely they'll physically stop you. This is, after all, Canada.
Next time, look around, especially at the ceiling, near the corners, spot the security cameras, demand to see the footage about you, and demand that they erase it in front of you. If they refuse, walk away with your phone, and photos still undeleted.
Or, say 'no.' Ask to see the manager. Then use the cell phone to dial 911 and tell them you're being held against your will.
I believe her beef at this point was Raytheon's original refusal to send a medical technician on that flight, not the date of the flight itself
What would be the point? Again, these flights are dangerous. Is her condition sufficiently unstable or life threatening that an extra 12 hours in flight without a medical tech would be a problem? Or is it better to not have an extra body on the plane?
Assuming that all contractual obligations have been met, you've exchanged your work for their money. If you no longer wish to exchange your work for their money, that's no problem. Rest assured, if they no longer wanted to exchange their money for your work, they'd have no problem terminating that little arrangement.
Besides, there are ways of arranging for exclusivity. In many fields, they're codified. Retainers, tenure, whatever. If they wanted to keep you for a fixed amount of time, they'd have entered into contractual negotiations with you.
If you want to leave, leave. Just make sure you follow the legal and standard practices; two weeks notice or whatever it is across the pond.
Well, if OP is planning on doing 'bulk uploads,' he's either using some sort of standardized markup language, or no markup at all, so that argument doesn't really apply.
Out of curiosity, why would you need to be able to download your own reviews? Do you use some sort of destructive uploading software that erases your local copy as you upload it? Like something out of a good old fashioned cyberpunk story?
Ten years ago, I bought a P4, 1.7 ghz, 512 megs RAMBUS, several thousand dollars. Last weekend, I bought a laptop with a 4 core i5 processor for four hundred dollars. My work laptop has eight cores, i7. So yeah, today it takes a massive server. In five years, it takes a high end desktop. In ten years, it's standard beans.
Well, quite honestly, that itty bitty amount of explosives on a public bus would kill 'a few innocent people.' Detonate on a busy highway, and you'd likely have a death toll comperable to blowing up a passenger airplane. Shall we now have mandatory searches of bus passengers?
Nobody disputes that C came after UNIX. UNIX, however, was rewritten in C, specifically to demonstrate that an OS could, in fact, be written in a compiled language, and could be portable between computers.
Unix was written in C, but not just to prove that it could be done. I'm open to correction, though.
Consider yourself corrected.
The original Unix operating system was written in assembler, and the applications in a mix of assembler and an interpreted language called B, which had the virtue that it was small enough to run on the PDP-7. But B was not powerful enough for systems programming, so Dennis Ritchie added data types and structures to it. The resulting C language evolved from B beginning in 1971; in 1973 Thompson and Ritchie finally succeeded in rewriting Unix in their new language. This was quite an audacious move; at the time, system programming was done in assembler in order to extract maximum performance from the hardware, and the very concept of a portable operating system was barely a gleam in anyone's eye. As late as 1979, Ritchie could write: âoeIt seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software that in turn follows from its expression in high-level languagesâ, in the knowledge that this was a point that still needed making.
Well, unfortunately, if Microsoft builds something into it's OS, it's anticompetitive. Regardless of the presence of the exact same feature, as a basic, 'why the hell wouldn't this be built in' staple of other major operating systems.
What about actual ballot voting? "Use your smartphone to video yourself filling out the ballot with the cadidates I like, and I'll be watching from outside the booth to make sure you drop it in the ballot box without spoiling it and getting another."
Even a few years ago, hell, probably still, for all I know, there was the DX8 path, the DX9 path, the openGL-nvidia path, the openGL-ATI path, and so on.
Or fifteen years ago, when part of the setup was picking exactly the correct video mode (hope your monitor and card support VESA 2.0 modes) and sound card, down to IRQ and DMA settings....
Nintendo used many wonderful techniques to combat shovelware during the NES and SNES days. They worked wonderfully. They were also a major factor in Nintendo then losing the market to Sony in the N64/PSX days.
RMS can say whatever he wants. Can you post the relevant portion of the GPL which differentiates between physical media distribution and downloaded distribution?
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I think the point that is trying to be made is that the taking out of this particular group will simply result in a small hole in the overall problem, which will quickly be filled by another existing group, or a new group.
Browsers aren't a 'market' these days, any more than a TCP/IP stack is a 'market'.
You're not talking about Open Source. You're talking about Public Domain.
And your library has a record of all the books checked out under your account.
Why wouldn't you want to make a stand? Besides, at that point, a simple 'no' and walk out the door works. It's very unlikely they'll physically stop you. This is, after all, Canada.
Or, say 'no.' Ask to see the manager. Then use the cell phone to dial 911 and tell them you're being held against your will.
What would be the point? Again, these flights are dangerous. Is her condition sufficiently unstable or life threatening that an extra 12 hours in flight without a medical tech would be a problem? Or is it better to not have an extra body on the plane?
Assuming that all contractual obligations have been met, you've exchanged your work for their money. If you no longer wish to exchange your work for their money, that's no problem. Rest assured, if they no longer wanted to exchange their money for your work, they'd have no problem terminating that little arrangement.
Besides, there are ways of arranging for exclusivity. In many fields, they're codified. Retainers, tenure, whatever. If they wanted to keep you for a fixed amount of time, they'd have entered into contractual negotiations with you.
If you want to leave, leave. Just make sure you follow the legal and standard practices; two weeks notice or whatever it is across the pond.
Well, if OP is planning on doing 'bulk uploads,' he's either using some sort of standardized markup language, or no markup at all, so that argument doesn't really apply.
Out of curiosity, why would you need to be able to download your own reviews? Do you use some sort of destructive uploading software that erases your local copy as you upload it? Like something out of a good old fashioned cyberpunk story?
The only 'innovative' thing on that list is the Internet, and it was devloped by DARPA.
Ten years ago, I bought a P4, 1.7 ghz, 512 megs RAMBUS, several thousand dollars. Last weekend, I bought a laptop with a 4 core i5 processor for four hundred dollars. My work laptop has eight cores, i7. So yeah, today it takes a massive server. In five years, it takes a high end desktop. In ten years, it's standard beans.
Well, quite honestly, that itty bitty amount of explosives on a public bus would kill 'a few innocent people.' Detonate on a busy highway, and you'd likely have a death toll comperable to blowing up a passenger airplane. Shall we now have mandatory searches of bus passengers?
Nobody disputes that C came after UNIX. UNIX, however, was rewritten in C, specifically to demonstrate that an OS could, in fact, be written in a compiled language, and could be portable between computers.
Consider yourself corrected.
Well, unfortunately, if Microsoft builds something into it's OS, it's anticompetitive. Regardless of the presence of the exact same feature, as a basic, 'why the hell wouldn't this be built in' staple of other major operating systems.
From the website:
Provisional specification
blah
blah
1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
blah
If this thing will run XBMC and play MKV files, I'll be on it like white on rice.
What about actual ballot voting? "Use your smartphone to video yourself filling out the ballot with the cadidates I like, and I'll be watching from outside the booth to make sure you drop it in the ballot box without spoiling it and getting another."
Don't all the same objections apply to mail-in ballots?
Bah. If we can file our taxes electronically, we can vote electronically.
He can need a car all he wants. If he's not willing to follow basic safety rules, he shouldn't get to drive one.
Even a few years ago, hell, probably still, for all I know, there was the DX8 path, the DX9 path, the openGL-nvidia path, the openGL-ATI path, and so on.
Or fifteen years ago, when part of the setup was picking exactly the correct video mode (hope your monitor and card support VESA 2.0 modes) and sound card, down to IRQ and DMA settings....
Let me Google that for you.
Nintendo used many wonderful techniques to combat shovelware during the NES and SNES days. They worked wonderfully. They were also a major factor in Nintendo then losing the market to Sony in the N64/PSX days.
RMS can say whatever he wants. Can you post the relevant portion of the GPL which differentiates between physical media distribution and downloaded distribution?