The Glassbook bit which has been talked about here in the past, and clairified. Read Aloud is to tell the software not to allow voice synths to read the content aloud.
Look at the automotive industry. It's full of people who do menial tasks like machining brake pistons. And yet, their unions are so strong that they get paid $35/hr+ - for minimum wage work!
I don't know. Can you build a car?
I should ask, what does it take to have a good life in Toronto? What is the cost of living? How many hours would it take to earn at mininum wage to pay for an house? Apartment? Food? Bills?
I think unions have a way to go to improve their image and their fuctions in a high-tech world, but they fought the good fight back in the 1800s for everyone to which I'm grateful.
And for a good reason. This ruling touches greatly on academic freedoms, and as such they will band together to make sure that their position is heard and defended. This will end up in the Supreme Court, and which way it will goes I don't want to hazard a guess. (Bush's appointments would follow the Consitution more closely than those that Gore would have appointed - thus more likely to rule agaist the MPAA (knock-on-wood)).
So, then let's wait and see. Mr Katz, would you be willing to return to your predictions say every year and see what has and what has not been done on this list?
My own predictions are that Bush will blow too much into defensive spending, not enough in education, California will be a major topic as that state continues to meltdown annd effects the rest of the nation, and the leadership that we've enjoyed on the world stage will face some serious challages (how's that for being vague!).
They will enable it first, and then go to court, in which they will loose. Then they'll either turn off the bit, or replace the hardware.
Now my question is, who the hell are these people, and when will Slashdot interview them?
Well the one bed room is a bit of a strech, but sharing an apartment is common. And the travel too and from their district is overed by their office funds.
If sites start putting in full ads before and after content, it should be pointed out that we're paying for the download of the ads. Might be fine if your on an unmetered system, but this still imposes an extra cost to the users.
If they're going to try to use the TV metaphor here, then it should be pointed out that technically TV is free (just raise an antenna to get a signal), were as this strikes me more of the junk fax type thing.
One idea better would to turn off those functions which do the popup windows for a given site.
That way you can fine tune your preferances to a given site.
A long time ago, I was at Greenbrier's Radio observitory and saw a VCR sitting in a rack. I asked what it was doing, and the guy replied that it was for recording data from the scope.
"Hm?" I said.
It turns out that they had sitting in the back of some 286 PC a card which would output digital signal over RCA cables and feed them to a VCR, which they would then mail the tape to Califoria. Damn cheap too.
Now why hasn't anyone out there made a standard 'backup' device akin to a VCR or Super 8 is beyond me.
Is this even relevant?
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I mean, if no one bothers to read the damn EULA in the first place, and we all do what we want with the code (hack it, reverse engineer it, pirate, use the CD as a Frisbee), then why in the world do we get upset about it?
Sure some company could get heavy handed with some poor user, but I bet the out pouring of bad publisity would cool any action fast. Case in point: Censorware.
Frankly the whole software industry needs to have an attack of common sense, which regrettably is lacking.
We met, and I took your photo for my brother who is a huge fan of yours. Well the photo didn't come out, so can we do it over again?
No, seriously. Back in '92 in Morgantown, WV. when you were playing at Underground Railroad (aka The Dry House, 123 Plesent Street, or what ever its called today).
Accually, how do you keep creative? After so many years of preforming, and making music, how do you two wake up in the morning and say "I've got this great idea for a song" and jot it down somewhere. Must be quite the challange.
Works in France, formerly in Germany for Siemens. I can say that she is quite well payed for her work, enjoys her job, and loves the time away from the office (holidays!).
A few things to consider: If you earn over $75,000 USD you will have to pay American Taxes as well as the taxes of the country that you are living in.
Visas: You will need a sponser anywhere in the EU, and the paperwork will take upto a month to process.
Payment: Is the job payed in EU, Franc, Pounds, or in dollars? Currencies change value, so watch out.
Housing: Did you know that quite a few apartments do not come with a kitchen? Renting can be quite the adventure!
Family: Relocating your family can be quite hard to do, and cause all kinds of stress. Also, what if there is a fmaily emergency back on this side of the Atlantic?
In all, please write back if you do make the jump and let us know how it's going!
To the Honorable Judges, I write to you as part of this legal brief as a citizen who has seen many of the Rights that I have enjoyed and used while growing up be held hostage in the call for a profit.
Learning is essential to our nation to grow and be the beacon of light that attracts the best and the brightest, we need the right to Fair Use regardless of the data format, regardless of the encryption, and regardless of what the corporations think.
The citizens have the unquestionable right to decode and decrypt any part or whole of any data to use in the Fair Use doctrine.
Allow me to make my point using this example:
NYU College of Dentistry has made it voluntary that students not buy the books as books, but to buy the books on a DVD ROM. The DVD is time sensitive, which costs $600 for one year of use. After which you will need to update your license to continue access to the books. You cannot print from this book, and notes taken will have to be kept elsewhere.
Now please look at your library of law books. Many of these volumes are old, and outdated to some degree or another, but the knowledge within is still valid, still readily accessible. A 25-year-old book can still be read, shared, and learned from.
Now imagine if all of those books were on a computer database that required you to pay a yearly fee to access (Westlaw not withstanding), what would happen if you could not access an important piece of information?
This is what we are fighting agaist. The naked profitism under the guese of protecting the copyright holder.
Content should not be allowed to be licensed. If the Content is in the form of software, it should not be allowed to be encrypted, and if encrypted, it should not be illegal to decrypt by any means.
Fair Use is deeply tied to the First Amendment, and need to have all the protections granted to it by the courts.
Car jack me? Sure, you just have to figure out the root password, and I could always have a deamon which shuts down the car in 30 seconds if you don't know the ultra secret password.
That's a rather scary idea there. So some guy with a gun gets only 30 seconds up the street from you... I think I rather not have him return my way after the car stalls. LoJack and a cell phone to call the police is what I'd rather have.
Okay, so who's rule of law shall govern the Intnernet?
This is not about France telling Yahoo what to do!
This is about every country that has different laws and different standards on the books. Some places it's legal to buy drugs, in other countries you might get the death sentence; which country's laws prevail when the world is your market place?
How do you keep everything in perpective?
This has been hashed out a few times here and in other places; Does anyone have a link to what was said then?
A large number of other comment seem to agree with me, as well as my own personal experance in doing a 1000+ rollout.
I can point out that Seimens used to use Unix system for everyone world wide, which was a single Sun server- they replaced the whole thing with an Exchange farm and have had many, many headaches from the process.
Any process will have hidden costs, downtime, and lost productivity - for what? What feature does Exchange have over what they are currectly using?
And, I am not saying that Exchange is a bad thing either. If it is used as the default from the beginning, or if there are statigic reason to change then by all means, change.
As for me being disgruntled? ha. I don't work as a consultant, 'cause I know how to do the work.
Employes to run the Exchange servers full time: $50,000 yr x 2
Number of Exchange Servers needed for 1000 users: 12 @ $5000 ea.
Cost of conversion: $$$
Cost of software: $$$$$
First Outlook virus: $$$$$$$
Cost of late night / weekends ruined bc of a server issue: Priceless.
It just doesn't make sense from my point of view, (and no I'm not 100% anti-MS) when you have a machine which already does the job. Is there just a feature that they want (calender maybe?), or do they think that Exchange is a truely better package?
I'd place together a detailed report on the cost advanges of the current system vs Exchange, including training of employees, operations, install, etc. Point out that the current system is free, accessible, etc and the move to Exchange should fail.
If they really push their side, point out Lovebug, and the other viruses.
But don't come across as 'This is an MS product, and like hell we will install it and run it.'
The differance is in case of a server / backplane daughterboard. You've seen the PC cases that have twenty slots for cards? (Go look at pricewatch if not!), well, what was suggested is an excellent idea. As far as IRQs and the like, the PDF gives no details, but I'd suppect that the cards could do one of three things: Doesn't need the IRQ, shares an IRQ[1], or requires an IRQ. If the first two then any number of cards can be used (limited by space), the third would be braindead for large operations.
[1] Terratec had an ISA soundcard which would share the IRQ between soundcards, so you could have as many as eight of these in your machine.
ceavte, I have not yet read any of the links, just replying to what has been said here already.
With that out of the way, what this idea strikes me as, is a return to the mainframe days. The appications run an a server (mainframe), and you access the program via a web broswer (dumb terminal). Now this statement is an old one, as a few people over at Infoworld have been making this point for sometime.
I think the best way for this to fly is if a company has these 'app-dot-nets' running in side the company. I would not, and companies would not feel safe having a third party holding onto my data.
If this allows me to do my Excel spredsheet on a Linux box, Mac system, or even an OS/2 box, great, but if it ties into Windows then why bother?
So, if I spam via third party gateways I'm fine.
Doesn't that break the law as in unauthorized use of computer equipment? So if your email gateway is being used as a spam host, sue.
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The Glassbook bit which has been talked about here in the past, and clairified. Read Aloud is to tell the software not to allow voice synths to read the content aloud.
Look at the automotive industry. It's full of people who do menial tasks like machining brake pistons. And yet, their unions are so strong that they get paid $35/hr+ - for minimum wage work!
I don't know. Can you build a car?
I should ask, what does it take to have a good life in Toronto? What is the cost of living? How many hours would it take to earn at mininum wage to pay for an house? Apartment? Food? Bills?
I think unions have a way to go to improve their image and their fuctions in a high-tech world, but they fought the good fight back in the 1800s for everyone to which I'm grateful.
WTF? I have never heard of a union forcing someone from not being promoted out of the union ranks.
details please.
And for a good reason. This ruling touches greatly on academic freedoms, and as such they will band together to make sure that their position is heard and defended.
This will end up in the Supreme Court, and which way it will goes I don't want to hazard a guess. (Bush's appointments would follow the Consitution more closely than those that Gore would have appointed - thus more likely to rule agaist the MPAA (knock-on-wood)).
So, then let's wait and see.
Mr Katz, would you be willing to return to your predictions say every year and see what has and what has not been done on this list?
My own predictions are that Bush will blow too much into defensive spending, not enough in education, California will be a major topic as that state continues to meltdown annd effects the rest of the nation, and the leadership that we've enjoyed on the world stage will face some serious challages (how's that for being vague!).
I don't know if I'd want something that can retain a static charge anywhere near my PC hardware.
They will enable it first, and then go to court, in which they will loose. Then they'll either turn off the bit, or replace the hardware.
Now my question is, who the hell are these people, and when will Slashdot interview them?
Well the one bed room is a bit of a strech, but sharing an apartment is common. And the travel too and from their district is overed by their office funds.
If sites start putting in full ads before and after content, it should be pointed out that we're paying for the download of the ads. Might be fine if your on an unmetered system, but this still imposes an extra cost to the users.
If they're going to try to use the TV metaphor here, then it should be pointed out that technically TV is free (just raise an antenna to get a signal), were as this strikes me more of the junk fax type thing.
One idea better would to turn off those functions which do the popup windows for a given site.
That way you can fine tune your preferances to a given site.
Now only if that crazy guy in the wheel chair would stop tring to salute Hitler all the time, we could really get some work done.
What's it like working for Larry Ellison?
A long time ago, I was at Greenbrier's Radio observitory and saw a VCR sitting in a rack. I asked what it was doing, and the guy replied that it was for recording data from the scope.
"Hm?" I said.
It turns out that they had sitting in the back of some 286 PC a card which would output digital signal over RCA cables and feed them to a VCR, which they would then mail the tape to Califoria. Damn cheap too.
Now why hasn't anyone out there made a standard 'backup' device akin to a VCR or Super 8 is beyond me.
I mean, if no one bothers to read the damn EULA in the first place, and we all do what we want with the code (hack it, reverse engineer it, pirate, use the CD as a Frisbee), then why in the world do we get upset about it?
Sure some company could get heavy handed with some poor user, but I bet the out pouring of bad publisity would cool any action fast. Case in point: Censorware.
Frankly the whole software industry needs to have an attack of common sense, which regrettably is lacking.
No, seriously. Back in '92 in Morgantown, WV. when you were playing at Underground Railroad (aka The Dry House, 123 Plesent Street, or what ever its called today).
Accually, how do you keep creative? After so many years of preforming, and making music, how do you two wake up in the morning and say "I've got this great idea for a song" and jot it down somewhere. Must be quite the challange.
Business cards, letter head, speed dial numbers, fax machines, tag lines, will need to be changed as well. Oy ve.
Works in France, formerly in Germany for Siemens. I can say that she is quite well payed for her work, enjoys her job, and loves the time away from the office (holidays!).
A few things to consider: If you earn over $75,000 USD you will have to pay American Taxes as well as the taxes of the country that you are living in.
Visas: You will need a sponser anywhere in the EU, and the paperwork will take upto a month to process.
Payment: Is the job payed in EU, Franc, Pounds, or in dollars? Currencies change value, so watch out.
Housing: Did you know that quite a few apartments do not come with a kitchen? Renting can be quite the adventure!
Family: Relocating your family can be quite hard to do, and cause all kinds of stress. Also, what if there is a fmaily emergency back on this side of the Atlantic?
In all, please write back if you do make the jump and let us know how it's going!
Learning is essential to our nation to grow and be the beacon of light that attracts the best and the brightest, we need the right to Fair Use regardless of the data format, regardless of the encryption, and regardless of what the corporations think.
The citizens have the unquestionable right to decode and decrypt any part or whole of any data to use in the Fair Use doctrine.
Allow me to make my point using this example: NYU College of Dentistry has made it voluntary that students not buy the books as books, but to buy the books on a DVD ROM. The DVD is time sensitive, which costs $600 for one year of use. After which you will need to update your license to continue access to the books. You cannot print from this book, and notes taken will have to be kept elsewhere.
Now please look at your library of law books. Many of these volumes are old, and outdated to some degree or another, but the knowledge within is still valid, still readily accessible. A 25-year-old book can still be read, shared, and learned from.
Now imagine if all of those books were on a computer database that required you to pay a yearly fee to access (Westlaw not withstanding), what would happen if you could not access an important piece of information?
This is what we are fighting agaist. The naked profitism under the guese of protecting the copyright holder.
Content should not be allowed to be licensed. If the Content is in the form of software, it should not be allowed to be encrypted, and if encrypted, it should not be illegal to decrypt by any means. Fair Use is deeply tied to the First Amendment, and need to have all the protections granted to it by the courts.
Thank you.
That's a rather scary idea there. So some guy with a gun gets only 30 seconds up the street from you... I think I rather not have him return my way after the car stalls. LoJack and a cell phone to call the police is what I'd rather have.
Okay, so who's rule of law shall govern the Intnernet?
This is not about France telling Yahoo what to do! This is about every country that has different laws and different standards on the books. Some places it's legal to buy drugs, in other countries you might get the death sentence; which country's laws prevail when the world is your market place?
How do you keep everything in perpective?
This has been hashed out a few times here and in other places; Does anyone have a link to what was said then?
A large number of other comment seem to agree with me, as well as my own personal experance in doing a 1000+ rollout.
I can point out that Seimens used to use Unix system for everyone world wide, which was a single Sun server- they replaced the whole thing with an Exchange farm and have had many, many headaches from the process.
Any process will have hidden costs, downtime, and lost productivity - for what? What feature does Exchange have over what they are currectly using?
And, I am not saying that Exchange is a bad thing either. If it is used as the default from the beginning, or if there are statigic reason to change then by all means, change.
As for me being disgruntled? ha. I don't work as a consultant, 'cause I know how to do the work.
- Employes to run the Exchange servers full time: $50,000 yr x 2
- Number of Exchange Servers needed for 1000 users: 12 @ $5000 ea.
- Cost of conversion: $$$
- Cost of software: $$$$$
- First Outlook virus: $$$$$$$
- Cost of late night / weekends ruined bc of a server issue: Priceless.
It just doesn't make sense from my point of view, (and no I'm not 100% anti-MS) when you have a machine which already does the job. Is there just a feature that they want (calender maybe?), or do they think that Exchange is a truely better package?I'd place together a detailed report on the cost advanges of the current system vs Exchange, including training of employees, operations, install, etc. Point out that the current system is free, accessible, etc and the move to Exchange should fail.
If they really push their side, point out Lovebug, and the other viruses.
But don't come across as 'This is an MS product, and like hell we will install it and run it.'
The differance is in case of a server / backplane daughterboard. You've seen the PC cases that have twenty slots for cards? (Go look at pricewatch if not!), well, what was suggested is an excellent idea. As far as IRQs and the like, the PDF gives no details, but I'd suppect that the cards could do one of three things: Doesn't need the IRQ, shares an IRQ[1], or requires an IRQ. If the first two then any number of cards can be used (limited by space), the third would be braindead for large operations.
[1] Terratec had an ISA soundcard which would share the IRQ between soundcards, so you could have as many as eight of these in your machine.
With that out of the way, what this idea strikes me as, is a return to the mainframe days. The appications run an a server (mainframe), and you access the program via a web broswer (dumb terminal). Now this statement is an old one, as a few people over at Infoworld have been making this point for sometime.
I think the best way for this to fly is if a company has these 'app-dot-nets' running in side the company. I would not, and companies would not feel safe having a third party holding onto my data.
If this allows me to do my Excel spredsheet on a Linux box, Mac system, or even an OS/2 box, great, but if it ties into Windows then why bother?
So, if I spam via third party gateways I'm fine. Doesn't that break the law as in unauthorized use of computer equipment? So if your email gateway is being used as a spam host, sue.