I bought 4 IBM model M keyboards on Ebay 10 years ago, and fully intend to keep using them until I can get a neural implant.Buy quality, and buy it once.Buy crap, buy it new every year.
Well the complicate issue is that copyrights aren't meant to inhibit a person's right to distribute things. Whether or not something is distributed may be legally meaningful, but what the laws are really meant to inhibit is copying (and therefore also the creation of derivative work).
I agree that it seems like a strange thing these days, when digital copying is so simple. We copy things all the time without thinking of it, so the idea that making copies would be the illegal thing seems crazy. But if you
I would say that in item 4, since you're getting a special deal in consideration of contracting the service for a set time, it's understandable that you have to keep up your end and pay the monthly minimum for the duration of the contract. There remains no legitimate reason to lock the phone. If I want to never use a service I have contracted for and pay for it anyway, that's my problem, not theirs. They generally charge a "cancellation fee" for early termination, I presume that covers the real cost of the
Your point is not without its validity; but it should be noted that there are many cases where a series of ostensibly free choices adds up to an effectively unfree result. Take a look, for example, at the infiltration of mandatory binding arbitration clauses into virtually all areas of consumer banking and finance. In principle, those are all free voluntary contractual relationships; but in practice, they all pretty much say the same thing, and it isn't good.
I suspect that the various flavors of high-tech
Thanks, but what I was getting at was that as a kid with my kid perspective I really loved and enjoyed those games. Nowadays I wouldn't bother, the old JRPG dungeon crawl linear plot same combat system (however tweaked) is too same old, same old. (I'm excluding stuff like Skies of Arcadia which actually has an original and different combat system)
IMHO, Deus Ex is an all-around better game. It has flaws, to be sure, but I think that SS2 had more. Deus Ex also brings a lot to the table that SS2 doesn't even try to
"The article only asserts that hairs were found with "wavy bands of scales" which suggest modern primates. Human hairs closest resemble these hairs, so it's possible that they come from an early human species."As opposed to some other earliest primate.
It's not too geeky, it's too PATHETIC. If you need a microcontroller running at 14Mhz and C code to blink some heart shaped LEDs, you should just turn in nerd card now. It's like using an anvil to hammer a picture hanging nail. If you can't create that card with a 555 and a couple resistors, I wouldn't be surprised to see your Valentine laugh in your face and go off with a real He-Man who writes assembly. Christ! A 14Mhz microcontroller... if you're gonna use that, the damn card better access the internet or play NES games at least.
The patent mentions "a device" in Apple's case. Its sufficient broadly worded to not tie it explicitly to software.A more pertinent question: Can you patent a dance step?
>...to support the idea of adopting open data standards and/or Open Source software in order to contain IT expenses (by reducing licensing costs). I think it might get a better reception if you invert the argument: don't present adopting open source/standards as the target; present saving money as the target, and open source/standards as the method.>...supporting open standards by not locking in to long term software contracts to unlock the stranglehold that proprietary software may have on the department IT budget. Same here. Make the objective to unlock the stranglehold and free up dependencies...by using open source/standards.In half a life in state-funded IT managment, I have found that most public-service IT managers and local government administrators are woefully undereducated in software selection, and either a) have never heard of FOSS, b) think it has something to do with downloading viruses from bulletin-boards, or c) simply aren't bothered one way or the other unless it saves money or makes life easier. A very, very small number are on kickbacks from suppliers, but you shouldn't work for them.There are a gazillion other benefits, but try to present them as serendipitous by-products of using open source/standards, not as ends in themselves. The immediate end is saving money (or its equivalent).However, before you do so, make sure you aren't making a noose for your own neck. Sometimes a department or agency which saves real money finds that this is treated as evidence that they don't need any more resources ever again. It's sometimes better to use the move to FOSS as a way to free up money to do things you said were impossible unless you got extra funding.Good luck, and please let us know how you got on. Post the document if that is permitted.
First of all, it's not treasonous to employ people from another country. Well, let's think of a corollary, shall we?If you're in war, and you find yourself in a trench, during a cease fire, with an enemy soldier, is it treason to offer him some of your chocolate bar?What if there are two soldiers? Still not treason?How about supplying an entire regiment with food and supplies?How about sharing a beer with a known Russian spy? That should be OK, right? How about information you got of a non-important nature (
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How does one automate an opinion piece?
I once got a +5 Informative for that crap. Since then I like to test the mods with it.
to make Mr.Hefner blush.
Now, Itanium is pretty much relegated to the high end niche that Alpha occupied before it was canned.
Well the complicate issue is that copyrights aren't meant to inhibit a person's right to distribute things. Whether or not something is distributed may be legally meaningful, but what the laws are really meant to inhibit is copying (and therefore also the creation of derivative work). I agree that it seems like a strange thing these days, when digital copying is so simple. We copy things all the time without thinking of it, so the idea that making copies would be the illegal thing seems crazy. But if you
You broke rule #1 and #2 *glare* granted... this is /.
Happy 1234567890-day!
I would say that in item 4, since you're getting a special deal in consideration of contracting the service for a set time, it's understandable that you have to keep up your end and pay the monthly minimum for the duration of the contract. There remains no legitimate reason to lock the phone. If I want to never use a service I have contracted for and pay for it anyway, that's my problem, not theirs. They generally charge a "cancellation fee" for early termination, I presume that covers the real cost of the
IMHO, Deus Ex is an all-around better game. It has flaws, to be sure, but I think that SS2 had more. Deus Ex also brings a lot to the table that SS2 doesn't even try to
"The article only asserts that hairs were found with "wavy bands of scales" which suggest modern primates. Human hairs closest resemble these hairs, so it's possible that they come from an early human species."As opposed to some other earliest primate.
Well, this is Slashdot, after all. If I didn't put in the flying chairs meme, somebody else would have.
It's not too geeky, it's too PATHETIC. If you need a microcontroller running at 14Mhz and C code to blink some heart shaped LEDs, you should just turn in nerd card now. It's like using an anvil to hammer a picture hanging nail. If you can't create that card with a 555 and a couple resistors, I wouldn't be surprised to see your Valentine laugh in your face and go off with a real He-Man who writes assembly. Christ! A 14Mhz microcontroller... if you're gonna use that, the damn card better access the internet or play NES games at least.
4 digits isn't very secure, since 4^4 yields only 256 possible combinations
Yeah, no joke. I watched a few episodes of Trek and a lot of MacGuyver ages ago... was it in an unmarked "beta" or something?
The patent mentions "a device" in Apple's case. Its sufficient broadly worded to not tie it explicitly to software.A more pertinent question: Can you patent a dance step?
You can always fill it out with Sphereland.
First of all, it's not treasonous to employ people from another country. Well, let's think of a corollary, shall we?If you're in war, and you find yourself in a trench, during a cease fire, with an enemy soldier, is it treason to offer him some of your chocolate bar?What if there are two soldiers? Still not treason?How about supplying an entire regiment with food and supplies?How about sharing a beer with a known Russian spy? That should be OK, right? How about information you got of a non-important nature (
Speaking for myself, none of my cats were ever bullied at school.
this was meant to be a reply to the 'Nano Tubes?!?!?!' thread