My memory recalls that
the Dewey Decimal system costs money.
A simple approach would be to physically sort by ISBN and and just enter ISBN, title, author, and physical location in your favorite database/spreadsheet software. You may find it lowers the risk or impact of bad data. It is not too complex. The work you do to collect the information may be useful in subsequent efforts.
What you have described is closer to free (libre) sofware, not open source. Copyleft protected software is about enforcing the liberty of software users. Take a look at the definition . I belive others (not the FSF) have suggested using patents licenses to require all implementations to be free (as in speech).
Patents are ultimatly a bargin between the public and an inventor. When the public isn't getting a good deal, it is time to go back to the table. Where is my buy one congress critter get one free coupon?
Your final answer is correct but your first number is wrong.
1995-1980+1=16years of comics
16*365=5824 comics
5824 comics * (2 days/ 7 comics) = 1664 days
That many days is closer to 4.5 years.
First responsibility is yourself. Register (you or a responsible employee) as an agent of copyright. Registering limits an ISP's liability right off the bat (punitive type liability). There is a U.S goverment web page with a form and $30 dollar fee. It might even be a good way to find the addresses of others in your situation. (Your local *.edu might helpful.)
If you create new and unique contact information for this copyright registry, they you safely suspect all claims of copyright sent to any other address.
If the claim is bogus, that might be actionable. When I get just such a nastygram it says:
Also pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we hereby state, under
penalty of perjury, that we are authorized to act on behalf of the owners of th
e exclusive rights being infringed as set forth in this notification.
Talk to a lawyer about how to use this to your advantage.
Secondly, let the customer know that someone is out to get them. Also remind them (in a friendly, non email way) that copyright infringment is against your AUP and just isn't cool. Parody is cool. So is political speech. You and another reasonable person should be able to make a determination that infringement has taken place.
Revenge goes with lime green jello. Lime green jello is cold too.
I think irony is served with a merlot that has a little umbrella in it.
But I agree with the parent. Lexus, the car company, and Lexis-Nexus, the lawy resource, seemed to work it out. Microsoft windows will have to go the way of Microsoft Excel.
Microsoft was sued in 1985 by Manufacturers Hanover Trust that had finacial software called Excel. So Microsoft ended up being required to market "Microsoft Excel". Google told me so. Gates has it in his book somewhere.
The next thing you know, other important infrastructure will be regulated, like roads. I won't be able to drive my homemade jet powered CR2 on america's highway system.
And the "Man" will make us get drivers certificates cause too many drunk people were driving.
Next will come rules against making my own white lighting.
(sarcasm, sarcasm, sarcasm)
Only in the US are criminals assumed to be innocent. Even then, this is only if the crime isn't related to terrorism or drugs. Then the gov can forever seize rights and property without due process.
The FSF strives to create the same situation as you are describing. The FSF wants free software to be the best. If it is the best then people will use it because it is the best tool for the job.
Take a look at the FSF Web site. They go into this subject quite deeply. The perspective is a little different. They expand on how using non-free software enslaves the users.
Contention #1. Your prospective of IBM's mainframe stuff is from a PC user's view point. This isn't wrong. Just a little incomplete.
IBM seems to be trying to make sure there is a branching out of the software that can run on their mainframes. There is already plenty of software due to a nice margin in that market. Computer Associates is cleaning up. But broader support is a great way to expand market share.
IBM is trying to make sure that they can "save you a bundle". (like from the "All of our assets are gone!" commercial)
They are not the only ones doing this. Apple (and Next) did this by creating a BSD environment on top of a (Mach) kernal. This allows you to run all your favorite programs from BSD and the BSD ports programs.
More apps and broader platform support is the result of R&D.
Contention #2 Open Office was the open source version of Star Office.
This is true. Some of the code wasn't theirs to relicense. If you don't own it, you can't go giving it away as your own. (GPL relies on the copyrights of the owner.) I remember reading (in slashdot) that it was things like printing functionality that was missing in Open Office for this reason. They removed these bits and rereleased their own code under a new license and (to reduce confusion) a new name.
Contention #3 Let us not worry what MS is saying to congress.
People with ballots should pay attention to what people with check books say to the people with bigger check books. Otherwise Sentor Disney will screw us all over.
Like the toast submarine sandwich commercial that aired during the superbowl.
I always like when TV interviews "discover" that troops can guess the age of MREs by the expiration date of included chocolate bars and candy.
Check it out.
Hear, hear!
Computers (or anything else connected to a network) should be actively maintained by someone who knows what they are doing. Of course the network admins would not want more port scanning eating at the bandwidth (or anything making their lives more difficult than it has to be).
Some orgs have a policy of disconnecting misbehaving computers and charging (interdepartmentally) for reconnection (AKA lart).
(sic)
And Sony cds will blow up nonSony hardware (just like MS changing the API drastically), making for a larger market. Sony will have another opportunity to sell you thier hardware.
It's a Law, not a business policy.
silly. It is business policy to buy congress members to pass "laws".
Of course real people use angry calls, boycotts and general heckeling (and other form of consumer disobedience) against the companies that bought those laws.
Courts for sale! Freash piping hot Courts for sale!
Not only does afghanastan not use the internet, but they are well within their rights to decide (as a people) not to use it.
I'm sure the Amish would agree.
Taxes are used by many of the nations of the world. Each nation decides for itself how to collect them.
Silly person. Who would want a one world government. Oh wait. Are you one of those people.
Well I can tell you this. In America, we like our apple pie hot and steamy and our government slow and lathargic.
I heard this on NPR. The scientist said that this (the newly understood control mechanism) is similar to the way the male body controls penis erections. One of the ways Viagra works is to make the control chemicals more effective.
Bob Dole with a glow in the dark schlong running after Brittney Spears. How is that for scary imagery.
The article explains how they expect to stay afloat. The post was modded down because the "discussion" was shorter than the sig. If the question was accompanied by some guesses to the viablilty of what was proposed in the article. If I didn't post I could have modded your guesses up.
Personally, I do believe that their strength has been their software expertise that sets them apart from the crowd. I would rather see another strong software company that is sheilded from the razor thin margins in the personal computer hardware industry. Remember IBM has pulled out of the retail PC. That market is tough.
Their hardware installation has been a problem domain where their designers have created interesting solutions.
I agree that smalltalk should be the first language covered in a four year college level CS or Comp Eng track. It was designed to show how OO would work.
I also think that CS majors should be exposed to most of the languages that have been used through the ages. FORTRAN, BASIC, Pascal and the like will give perspective on what they are supposed to learn. The amount and timing of that exposure is certainly debatable.
I know that a historical perspective on why core files are called core certainly indicated opened my eyes to how there is hard to get rid of cruft even in a fast paced young disipline like computer science.
At the last ORA open source conference, I talked to the jabber folks. Initially, I couldn't get past the instant messaging part of Jabber. I kept thinking, "Oh this is a great way for teenage girls to pass notes." The booth guy was ready to strangle me the third time I said, "So basically this is Instant Messaging." The IM isn't the best part of Jabber.
The best part is the idea of a presence engine. This thing knows that you are online. It can aggregate and integrate IM servers. The XML could be modified to store other arbitrary properties. It could do the same thing for letting music stream to the computer you are on (regardless of location). There is a real potential for all sorts of applications other than IM (Think GPS or the mythical badges you wear at bill gates house that lets the house change background music or art according to your tastes.)
IMO, that is what is the cool about Jabber, an XML (and therefore more easily extended) presence engine.
Think how this could be used with X10. (Frankly I'm still excited about the fact that my programable thermostat wakes me up with heat better than the alarm clock does with sound.)
c) more people ask for (and as a result get) this provision because there is an organized movement. The request is planned and thought out. Planning impresses bosses. Mindless ranting does not impress. Capitalist equilibrium stays dandy.
That sounds great, talking about 'freedom,' but if you actually read the GPL, in effect, you could sell only one copy of your software, and
everyone else could just copy it. I know that's not the intent of the GPL, but that's the net effect.
It sounds great that you are taking about companies, but that isn't what the topic is. It is about having the freedom to do what you want on your own time. If you company has a provision in an employment contract that you can't travel faster than 15mph, how will you get around in a reasonable amount of time? How will you insure that you aren't taken greater than 15mph by an ambulance?
The point is that companies are currently asking for employees to give them stuff. The documents that are being discussed are about organized requests for that freedom to go back to the employees. Sounds alot like trying to organize a four day work week. It doesn't not sound like changing the business model of companies.
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My memory recalls that the Dewey Decimal system costs money.
A simple approach would be to physically sort by ISBN and and just enter ISBN, title, author, and physical location in your favorite database/spreadsheet software. You may find it lowers the risk or impact of bad data. It is not too complex. The work you do to collect the information may be useful in subsequent efforts.
What you have described is closer to free (libre) sofware, not open source. Copyleft protected software is about enforcing the liberty of software users. Take a look at the definition . I belive others (not the FSF) have suggested using patents licenses to require all implementations to be free (as in speech).
Patents are ultimatly a bargin between the public and an inventor. When the public isn't getting a good deal, it is time to go back to the table. Where is my buy one congress critter get one free coupon?
TheYour final answer is correct but your first number is wrong.
1995-1980+1=16years of comics
16*365=5824 comics
5824 comics * (2 days/ 7 comics) = 1664 days
That many days is closer to 4.5 years.
First responsibility is yourself. Register (you or a responsible employee) as an agent of copyright. Registering limits an ISP's liability right off the bat (punitive type liability). There is a U.S goverment web page with a form and $30 dollar fee. It might even be a good way to find the addresses of others in your situation. (Your local *.edu might helpful.)
If you create new and unique contact information for this copyright registry, they you safely suspect all claims of copyright sent to any other address.
If the claim is bogus, that might be actionable. When I get just such a nastygram it says:
Talk to a lawyer about how to use this to your advantage.Secondly, let the customer know that someone is out to get them. Also remind them (in a friendly, non email way) that copyright infringment is against your AUP and just isn't cool. Parody is cool. So is political speech. You and another reasonable person should be able to make a determination that infringement has taken place.
Revenge goes with lime green jello. Lime green jello is cold too.
I think irony is served with a merlot that has a little umbrella in it.
But I agree with the parent. Lexus, the car company, and Lexis-Nexus, the lawy resource, seemed to work it out. Microsoft windows will have to go the way of Microsoft Excel.
Microsoft was sued in 1985 by Manufacturers Hanover Trust that had finacial software called Excel. So Microsoft ended up being required to market "Microsoft Excel". Google told me so. Gates has it in his book somewhere.
The next thing you know, other important infrastructure will be regulated, like roads. I won't be able to drive my homemade jet powered CR2 on america's highway system. And the "Man" will make us get drivers certificates cause too many drunk people were driving. Next will come rules against making my own white lighting. (sarcasm, sarcasm, sarcasm)
Only in the US are criminals assumed to be innocent. Even then, this is only if the crime isn't related to terrorism or drugs. Then the gov can forever seize rights and property without due process.
God bless the GOP.
The FSF strives to create the same situation as you are describing. The FSF wants free software to be the best. If it is the best then people will use it because it is the best tool for the job.
Take a look at the FSF Web site. They go into this subject quite deeply. The perspective is a little different. They expand on how using non-free software enslaves the users.
Contention #1. Your prospective of IBM's mainframe stuff is from a PC user's view point. This isn't wrong. Just a little incomplete.
IBM seems to be trying to make sure there is a branching out of the software that can run on their mainframes. There is already plenty of software due to a nice margin in that market. Computer Associates is cleaning up. But broader support is a great way to expand market share.
IBM is trying to make sure that they can "save you a bundle". (like from the "All of our assets are gone!" commercial)
They are not the only ones doing this. Apple (and Next) did this by creating a BSD environment on top of a (Mach) kernal. This allows you to run all your favorite programs from BSD and the BSD ports programs.
More apps and broader platform support is the result of R&D.
Contention #2 Open Office was the open source version of Star Office.
This is true. Some of the code wasn't theirs to relicense. If you don't own it, you can't go giving it away as your own. (GPL relies on the copyrights of the owner.) I remember reading (in slashdot) that it was things like printing functionality that was missing in Open Office for this reason. They removed these bits and rereleased their own code under a new license and (to reduce confusion) a new name.
Contention #3 Let us not worry what MS is saying to congress.
People with ballots should pay attention to what people with check books say to the people with bigger check books. Otherwise Sentor Disney will screw us all over.
Like the toast submarine sandwich commercial that aired during the superbowl. I always like when TV interviews "discover" that troops can guess the age of MREs by the expiration date of included chocolate bars and candy. Check it out.
Computers (or anything else connected to a network) should be actively maintained by someone who knows what they are doing.
Of course the network admins would not want more port scanning eating at the bandwidth (or anything making their lives more difficult than it has to be).
Some orgs have a policy of disconnecting misbehaving computers and charging (interdepartmentally) for reconnection (AKA lart).
When I think of security, I think of pants. How can you be secure wearing a kilt. I mean sure sensitive areas are somewhat hidden, but not secured.
If using a product exposes holes as big as a kilt will then I want to know. Then I can change clothes or avoid windy sidewalks.
Definition of security thru obscurity: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/secur ity-through-obscurity.html
Sig?Senior Citizens read Slashdot
There is a "clearification" by the original email author. Check it out by clicking "Next Message" in the original article or
t /011023.html
http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2001-Augus
I think that this narritive and background were needed before the public relation email address was paraded around.
(sic) And Sony cds will blow up nonSony hardware (just like MS changing the API drastically), making for a larger market. Sony will have another opportunity to sell you thier hardware.
It's a Law, not a business policy. silly. It is business policy to buy congress members to pass "laws".
Of course real people use angry calls, boycotts and general heckeling (and other form of consumer disobedience) against the companies that bought those laws.
Courts for sale! Freash piping hot Courts for sale!
Taxes are used by many of the nations of the world. Each nation decides for itself how to collect them.
Silly person. Who would want a one world government. Oh wait. Are you one of those people.
Well I can tell you this. In America, we like our apple pie hot and steamy and our government slow and lathargic.
One of the ways Viagra works is to make the control chemicals more effective.
Bob Dole with a glow in the dark schlong running after Brittney Spears. How is that for scary imagery.
As they say in france, "BoooYah!".
Personally, I do believe that their strength has been their software expertise that sets them apart from the crowd. I would rather see another strong software company that is sheilded from the razor thin margins in the personal computer hardware industry. Remember IBM has pulled out of the retail PC. That market is tough.
Their hardware installation has been a problem domain where their designers have created interesting solutions.
I agree that smalltalk should be the first language covered in a four year college level CS or Comp Eng track. It was designed to show how OO would work.
I also think that CS majors should be exposed to most of the languages that have been used through the ages. FORTRAN, BASIC, Pascal and the like will give perspective on what they are supposed to learn. The amount and timing of that exposure is certainly debatable.
I know that a historical perspective on why core files are called core certainly indicated opened my eyes to how there is hard to get rid of cruft even in a fast paced young disipline like computer science.
Or have a rod implanted in your ass as a spinal buttress.
Really though, chiropractors can help sometimes. You have to treat your back like you would your genitals.
Don't wear polyester (or sandpaper) underwear.
Don't slouch. Stretch before strenous activity (like plugging in your computer or sex).
The best part is the idea of a presence engine. This thing knows that you are online. It can aggregate and integrate IM servers. The XML could be modified to store other arbitrary properties. It could do the same thing for letting music stream to the computer you are on (regardless of location). There is a real potential for all sorts of applications other than IM (Think GPS or the mythical badges you wear at bill gates house that lets the house change background music or art according to your tastes.)
IMO, that is what is the cool about Jabber, an XML (and therefore more easily extended) presence engine.
Think how this could be used with X10. (Frankly I'm still excited about the fact that my programable thermostat wakes me up with heat better than the alarm clock does with sound.)
Messerschmidts! Messerschmidts?
Buddy, I got your Messerschmidts right here, and here.
I think that the answer is:
c) more people ask for (and as a result get) this provision because there is an organized movement. The request is planned and thought out. Planning impresses bosses. Mindless ranting does not impress. Capitalist equilibrium stays dandy.
That sounds great, talking about 'freedom,' but if you actually read the GPL, in effect, you could sell only one copy of your software, and everyone else could just copy it. I know that's not the intent of the GPL, but that's the net effect.
It sounds great that you are taking about companies, but that isn't what the topic is. It is about having the freedom to do what you want on your own time. If you company has a provision in an employment contract that you can't travel faster than 15mph, how will you get around in a reasonable amount of time? How will you insure that you aren't taken greater than 15mph by an ambulance?
The point is that companies are currently asking for employees to give them stuff. The documents that are being discussed are about organized requests for that freedom to go back to the employees. Sounds alot like trying to organize a four day work week. It doesn't not sound like changing the business model of companies.