W>> we will also introduce American values.
cv> Whether we want them or not.
Who's "we", kemosabe? The actual people who live in other countries generally like American values. If they didn't, American "cultural imperialism" wouldn't be nearly as effective as it is. People in other countries tend to pick and choose which American values they adopt, but even that is part of the American value system.
Not too surprising, though they're awfully scarce here in the SF Bay Area. There are plenty of libertarian Republicans and tolerant conservatives, even though they're currently a minority in the Republican Party. A gay person who likes the idea of keeping more if his income, or a strong national defense, or less bureaucratic regulation of life in general, would be a natural conservative, especially since gay men tend to have higher total and disposable incomes than straight men. It's only the Christian moralizing that keeps them away from the Republican party.
When all trade tariffs are removed, the race goes to the country with the lowest wages and worst labor laws.
This is complete and utter bullshit. We already have mostly free trade - the minimal tarrifs on most goods aren't much of a barrier. However, we don't see the auto industry decamping for Brazil or Indonesia; we don't see the computer industry moving to Mexico (or even Alabama, where there are no trade barriers with the rest of the US), etc. Why? Because productivity determines wage levels. American (and west European and Japanese) workers are paid better than those in most of the rest of the world because their labor creates more value than other workers.
In any given industry, the race goes to whichever workers are most productive relative to their wages. The skill levels, capital investment and infrastructure that the auto industry requires to successfully make cars ensure that automaking will remain confined to rich and middle-income countries; while some parts of the clothing industry will continue to migrate to the lowest labor areas as the infrastructure and capital requirements aren't nearly as high.
For a country to improve its wage levels, it needs more capital investment in its industries and its infrastructure, and more education and training for its workers.
For all the candidates, except George W and AlGore:
Since we seem to be moving towards a hereditary monarchy/aristocracy in this country, what qualities of your parents and your bloodline in general makes you uniquely qualified to become president and populate various political offices with your descendants unto the third generation or so?
If you had read the article, you'd have found out that the US has declared a few N.H.Ms in other countries, primarily some European battlefields. I don't know how the politics or legalities of that works out, but I'd bet that the U.S. offers to help pay for maintenance of the site.
Meanwhile, the UN won't declare a "World Heritage Site" unless it's first a national monument, and knowing the ways of the UN, it would be easier to get Congress to declare Tranquility Base a national monument than it would be to get the UN to change its rule. Ultimately, the UN should have an exemption for sites in international territory, so that sites in Antarctica, on the ocean floor, and on the moon can be declared World Heritage Sites without the necessity of getting a national government to overstep its jurisdiction.
Logically, this should be the case--it's a simple cost-benefit analysis. If the rate of catching the criminals stays the same, you can increase the "cost" by making a harsher penalty. The flaw in this reasoning is that the criminal isn't doing a cost-benefit analysis for something like breaking windows--after all, what's the real benefit? For that matter, people who break windows are generally unable to imagine consequences anyway.
Not true. Malicious vadalism tends not to occur in public view, which proves that the vandals have some understanding of the risk levels involved. While imagining the consequences may be a bit fuzzy, even anti-social types do recognize levels of severity of punishment, and are able to relatively accurately assess risks.
The real benefit is that it's fun, if you're of the right mindset.
If they think that slight color shifts are a problem, they need to standardize everyone else's: browsers, OSs, graphics cards, monitors, viewing conditions, and eyes. Enjoy.
That's exactly what the friendly folk at Microsoft are trying to do.
I mean how is a kid going to prove how old he is IF he doesn't have a license? Cary his/her birth certificate all the time?
California issues a state ID that looks a whole lot like a driveres license, but isn't one. There is no age limit that I know of to get one. I never got one, because kids under 16 didn't need ID much back in the 70s and early 80s. My wife did have one, because she didn't get a driver's license until she was 25.
First of all, licenses matter. To programmers they matter directly--which code can you reuse and who can reuse your code. To non-programmers they matter indirectly--which products get which features, when and how compatible. Second of all, I seriously doubt RMS has a list of software vendors that he consults and then goes out to badger them into using the GPL (or a compatible license). More likely, Python went to him to see if they were GPL-compat. He said "no" which is entirely his choice. Furthermore, Python acknowledged that it was his choice by the very act of asking.
It is certainly RMS's choice to say "The Python License is not compatible with the GPL". However, his saying so does not necessarily make it true. The issue is whether a GPL program can be linked with Python, and whether the requirement of the Python License that disputes are governed under the laws of Virginia prevents such use.
If you write a program which you want to GPL, and it uses Python, there is a way out; RMS explains how in a section on the Qt license in his article Various Licenses and Comments about Them. If you are creating a Linux distribution, or even a large software collection which includes Python and GPL software, you're ok:
In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.
Third, this causes no problems to the FSF, the Python people or the general public. It's only a problem for groups like Debian that want to distribute A) only GPL and GPL-compatible software and B) Python.
This isn't quite true - if I write a program which incorporates the Python interpreter, or pieces of it, and want to (or have to) use the GPL, then I have that problem. I'm not sure if I can legally distribute a work under the GPL plus the statement:
This License Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in all respects by the law of the State of Virginia, excluding conflict of law provisions.
I understand why CNRI included that statement; I'm not clear on why that becomes a significant problem with respect to the GPL, or if it indeed is.
The point of the minimum wage law is to prevent people being not able to earn enough money to live.
But the effect of the minimum wage law is to prevent immigrants, teenagers, and poor people trying to escape welfare from getting established in the labor market.
unformed wrote: almost every organization that is a volunteer organization offers some sort of perks, and much of it should be expected...
The problem is that AOL is not a volunteer orgranization, and isn't organized as one in the eyes of the tax authorities. It's a for-profit corporation, and therefore, people doing work for it are generally either employees or contractors. On the legalities, I think AOL will get hammered, even though it doesn't deserve to be.
Perhaps AOL could get together with some educational institution and make its volunteer positions "internships", so it doesn't have to pay for them?
Seriously, how can you copyright a website layout? Anyone ever notice all gaming related websites(like UGO) look EXACTLY the same, with the trendy left-side navigation in a really small font?
Layout, and visual design in general, are trademarkable, not copyrightable. If a magazine or website were to come up with a visually unique layout, it could trademark the "look and feel".
Borrowing someone's layout would not generally be a copyright violation, unless the underlying (copyrighted) code was taken without permission. In the case of automatically generated code, it would depend on the status of the program which generated the code. If I write a program which automatically creates web pages, I could conceivably copyright the HTML template my program uses. Of course, that would make my software unusable by anyone but me, since anyone else using it would be generating web pages to which I owned the copyright, unless copyright law has an exception covering that.
It seems that the only potential copyright violations are in the images and possibly any javascript on the pages.
The real issue isn't the money. $1 000 000 might help Bristol, but won't make a difference to Microsoft, or to its business practices. A better verdict would be one which required Microsoft to live up to its promises, and provide to Bristol the license at issue. The "damages" could be to require MS to provide the license for free.
Money can't fix everything. Courts can require actions other than mailing of checks. Making people (and corporations) live up to their promises will generally do more than letting people buy their way out of them.
oh - and the "running scared" nonsense comes from this quote in the article:
The judge likened the Unix threat to that of Netscape Communications Corp.'s Internet browser
The judge is wrong, unix is a different kind of threat to MS; but it does justify Cmdr Taco saying "running scared", since that was running scared of Netscape.
I guess I'll gland some Active and get back to work....
Oh no! Microsoft is going to get its products into our bodies, too! They'll probably buy out the developer of the genes for improving eyesight, just so they can get the name Visual, too.
Explain to your employees what you've said - any mail going out with @mycompany.com exposes the company to liability, etc. Encourage them to keep the company name off personal business.
Maybe also as part of your employment contract, make the employee indemnify the company against personal unauthorized actions which expose the company to liability, and explain this in interviews and when the employees start.
If you explain to people why you have certain restrictions, and the explanation is reasonable, they're much more likely to comply with them.
Paper documents do have a life span. The life of computer information and printed word depend on the cultural change.
The computer culture changes quite rapidly where as printed word culture changes slowly. Both cultures have documents that are unreadable (such as those stored on 10" floppies or ancient scrolls)
While it's true that books deteriorate and language changes, those processes make books unreadable in a timescale longer than a human lifespan. Very few people at age 70 can't read a book they read in their teens, unless they've gone blind or senile or the book has gotten wet or been otherwise improperly stored. However, many of us have computer files from 10 years ago which are not readable by the computers and software we actually have now, even though the magnetic medium is undamaged.
For someone in a professional school, their textbooks are an asset which will remain useful throughout their professional career, if they can continue to read them. VitalBook doesn't offer that assurance, paper texts do.
What about a computer?The VitalBook version for the 2000-2001 academic year is fully-developed on the Apple Macintosh. You must have an Apple PowerBook for this application.
Ouch. Even though financial aid covers the cost, being locked into Apple would suck.
What does the VitalBook cost? For year one, the cost to the Class of 2004 is $600. If you continue in the program beyond year one, it will cost $1,200 annually (cost for the remaining three years is $3,600). Plus the cost of the PowerBook
What if I decide I don't like the VitalBook? First of all, the
VitalBook has been extensively pilot tested and a beta-version was out
for some time before the application was completed - that means, we don't
believe you won't like it!
"Come the revolution, you'll all have strawberries and cream, and you'll like it!" This attitude bothers me enough, that if I was actually interested in going to dental school, I'd drop NYU from consideration for trying to force use fo the "vitalbook".
What happens in 2020, when the dentist who bought the VitalBook is trying to look something up, and his 2000 PowerBook dies, and his 2018 PowerBook isn't backwards-compatible with the VitalBook software? Books are always readable, unless they physically rot. Can you read those old MSWord 1.0 documents on 5-1/4 floppies anymore? Paper will never die, even if it stops being made from dead trees, because there is no technology beyond written language required to read it.
I just tried out Altavista's Raging.com to find the url for the Scottish Highland Games in Pleasanton, California next weekend. On Google, the actual site is the 4th listing. On Raging.com the site is listed 45th! I also didn't see a "search within results" link. I think Raging.com has a ways to go before it's a replacement for Google.
Of course, this is one data point, but it's still a pretty bad failure for a random search. (I'm emailing a friend about the event.) It's also disappointing that Google has 3 listings within directories above the actual website - I don't think that would have happened a few months ago.
I remember seeing a t-shirt at Berkeley with the black cube NeXT logo, except that it read "NeVr".
The t-shirt came from Apple and was being worn by a student who had interned there. If your product is late enough (and hyped enough) for vaporware parody t-shirts to appear, you've got a problem.
My question is, why were they doing this? Why would juggernauts like Sony and Warner Brothers do a damn thing to help out small stores at the expense of huge business partners like Wal-Mart? What was in it for them?
Because business "partners" like Wal-Mart are too powerful for Sony and WB's taste. Mom'n'Pop have to take the prices that the record companies charge; Wal-Mart can tell Sony how much they're willing to pay, and cut off a significant amount of their sales by not accepting a higher price.
Does the slashdot editorial staff give any warning to sites they're about to feature, maybe giving them a chance to put up a mirror? Some sites are pretty immune to the Slashdot Effect, but lots aren't. Andover may even want to look into providing mirror space, maybe with an andover ad (like geocities or xoom), as a possible way of reducing the disruption of the Slashdot effect.
Stereotypes don't exist in a vacuum. If Mac Freaks(tm) didn't buy the latest'n'greatest from Apple pretty much every time there was a new release, Apple would have been bankrupt years ago. Mac fans upgrade almost as instinctually as corporate IT departments upgrade their MS Office. After all, the new Apple slogan is "Think Different", not "Think Independently".
Slashdot Mirror
cv> Whether we want them or not.
Who's "we", kemosabe? The actual people who live in other countries generally like American values. If they didn't, American "cultural imperialism" wouldn't be nearly as effective as it is. People in other countries tend to pick and choose which American values they adopt, but even that is part of the American value system.
Not too surprising, though they're awfully scarce here in the SF Bay Area. There are plenty of libertarian Republicans and tolerant conservatives, even though they're currently a minority in the Republican Party. A gay person who likes the idea of keeping more if his income, or a strong national defense, or less bureaucratic regulation of life in general, would be a natural conservative, especially since gay men tend to have higher total and disposable incomes than straight men. It's only the Christian moralizing that keeps them away from the Republican party.
This is complete and utter bullshit. We already have mostly free trade - the minimal tarrifs on most goods aren't much of a barrier. However, we don't see the auto industry decamping for Brazil or Indonesia; we don't see the computer industry moving to Mexico (or even Alabama, where there are no trade barriers with the rest of the US), etc. Why? Because productivity determines wage levels. American (and west European and Japanese) workers are paid better than those in most of the rest of the world because their labor creates more value than other workers.
In any given industry, the race goes to whichever workers are most productive relative to their wages. The skill levels, capital investment and infrastructure that the auto industry requires to successfully make cars ensure that automaking will remain confined to rich and middle-income countries; while some parts of the clothing industry will continue to migrate to the lowest labor areas as the infrastructure and capital requirements aren't nearly as high.
For a country to improve its wage levels, it needs more capital investment in its industries and its infrastructure, and more education and training for its workers.
need moderation point: "+/- 0 Atrocious Pun"
For all the candidates, except George W and AlGore: Since we seem to be moving towards a hereditary monarchy/aristocracy in this country, what qualities of your parents and your bloodline in general makes you uniquely qualified to become president and populate various political offices with your descendants unto the third generation or so?
It's for keeping your kids (or spouse) out of your pr0n collection - make them build their own.
If you had read the article, you'd have found out that the US has declared a few N.H.Ms in other countries, primarily some European battlefields. I don't know how the politics or legalities of that works out, but I'd bet that the U.S. offers to help pay for maintenance of the site. Meanwhile, the UN won't declare a "World Heritage Site" unless it's first a national monument, and knowing the ways of the UN, it would be easier to get Congress to declare Tranquility Base a national monument than it would be to get the UN to change its rule. Ultimately, the UN should have an exemption for sites in international territory, so that sites in Antarctica, on the ocean floor, and on the moon can be declared World Heritage Sites without the necessity of getting a national government to overstep its jurisdiction.
Not true. Malicious vadalism tends not to occur in public view, which proves that the vandals have some understanding of the risk levels involved. While imagining the consequences may be a bit fuzzy, even anti-social types do recognize levels of severity of punishment, and are able to relatively accurately assess risks.
The real benefit is that it's fun, if you're of the right mindset.
That's exactly what the friendly folk at Microsoft are trying to do.
Fuzzy heatsinks. Lots of nanotubes, splaying out a bit to transfer the heat to the air. Like a layer of velvet.
California issues a state ID that looks a whole lot like a driveres license, but isn't one. There is no age limit that I know of to get one. I never got one, because kids under 16 didn't need ID much back in the 70s and early 80s. My wife did have one, because she didn't get a driver's license until she was 25.
Second of all, I seriously doubt RMS has a list of software vendors that he consults and then goes out to badger them into using the GPL (or a compatible license). More likely, Python went to him to see if they were GPL-compat. He said "no" which is entirely his choice. Furthermore, Python acknowledged that it was his choice by the very act of asking.
It is certainly RMS's choice to say "The Python License is not compatible with the GPL". However, his saying so does not necessarily make it true. The issue is whether a GPL program can be linked with Python, and whether the requirement of the Python License that disputes are governed under the laws of Virginia prevents such use.
If you write a program which you want to GPL, and it uses Python, there is a way out; RMS explains how in a section on the Qt license in his article Various Licenses and Comments about Them. If you are creating a Linux distribution, or even a large software collection which includes Python and GPL software, you're ok:
Third, this causes no problems to the FSF, the Python people or the general public. It's only a problem for groups like Debian that want to distribute A) only GPL and GPL-compatible software and B) Python.
This isn't quite true - if I write a program which incorporates the Python interpreter, or pieces of it, and want to (or have to) use the GPL, then I have that problem. I'm not sure if I can legally distribute a work under the GPL plus the statement:
I understand why CNRI included that statement; I'm not clear on why that becomes a significant problem with respect to the GPL, or if it indeed is.But the effect of the minimum wage law is to prevent immigrants, teenagers, and poor people trying to escape welfare from getting established in the labor market.
unformed wrote: almost every organization that is a volunteer organization offers some sort of perks, and much of it should be expected...
The problem is that AOL is not a volunteer orgranization, and isn't organized as one in the eyes of the tax authorities. It's a for-profit corporation, and therefore, people doing work for it are generally either employees or contractors. On the legalities, I think AOL will get hammered, even though it doesn't deserve to be.
Perhaps AOL could get together with some educational institution and make its volunteer positions "internships", so it doesn't have to pay for them?
Layout, and visual design in general, are trademarkable, not copyrightable. If a magazine or website were to come up with a visually unique layout, it could trademark the "look and feel".
Borrowing someone's layout would not generally be a copyright violation, unless the underlying (copyrighted) code was taken without permission. In the case of automatically generated code, it would depend on the status of the program which generated the code. If I write a program which automatically creates web pages, I could conceivably copyright the HTML template my program uses. Of course, that would make my software unusable by anyone but me, since anyone else using it would be generating web pages to which I owned the copyright, unless copyright law has an exception covering that.
It seems that the only potential copyright violations are in the images and possibly any javascript on the pages.
Money can't fix everything. Courts can require actions other than mailing of checks. Making people (and corporations) live up to their promises will generally do more than letting people buy their way out of them.
oh - and the "running scared" nonsense comes from this quote in the article:
The judge is wrong, unix is a different kind of threat to MS; but it does justify Cmdr Taco saying "running scared", since that was running scared of Netscape.
Oh no! Microsoft is going to get its products into our bodies, too! They'll probably buy out the developer of the genes for improving eyesight, just so they can get the name Visual, too.
Explain to your employees what you've said - any mail going out with @mycompany.com exposes the company to liability, etc. Encourage them to keep the company name off personal business. Maybe also as part of your employment contract, make the employee indemnify the company against personal unauthorized actions which expose the company to liability, and explain this in interviews and when the employees start. If you explain to people why you have certain restrictions, and the explanation is reasonable, they're much more likely to comply with them.
Paper documents do have a life span.
The life of computer information and printed word depend on the cultural change.
The computer culture changes quite rapidly where as printed word culture changes slowly.
Both cultures have documents that are unreadable (such as those stored on 10" floppies or ancient scrolls)
While it's true that books deteriorate and language changes, those processes make books unreadable in a timescale longer than a human lifespan. Very few people at age 70 can't read a book they read in their teens, unless they've gone blind or senile or the book has gotten wet or been otherwise improperly stored. However, many of us have computer files from 10 years ago which are not readable by the computers and software we actually have now, even though the magnetic medium is undamaged.
For someone in a professional school, their textbooks are an asset which will remain useful throughout their professional career, if they can continue to read them. VitalBook doesn't offer that assurance, paper texts do.
Ouch. Even though financial aid covers the cost, being locked into Apple would suck.
What does the VitalBook cost? For year one, the cost to the Class of 2004 is $600. If you continue in the program beyond year one, it will cost $1,200 annually (cost for the remaining three years is $3,600). Plus the cost of the PowerBook
What if I decide I don't like the VitalBook? First of all, the VitalBook has been extensively pilot tested and a beta-version was out for some time before the application was completed - that means, we don't believe you won't like it!
"Come the revolution, you'll all have strawberries and cream, and you'll like it!" This attitude bothers me enough, that if I was actually interested in going to dental school, I'd drop NYU from consideration for trying to force use fo the "vitalbook".
What happens in 2020, when the dentist who bought the VitalBook is trying to look something up, and his 2000 PowerBook dies, and his 2018 PowerBook isn't backwards-compatible with the VitalBook software? Books are always readable, unless they physically rot. Can you read those old MSWord 1.0 documents on 5-1/4 floppies anymore? Paper will never die, even if it stops being made from dead trees, because there is no technology beyond written language required to read it.
Of course, this is one data point, but it's still a pretty bad failure for a random search. (I'm emailing a friend about the event.) It's also disappointing that Google has 3 listings within directories above the actual website - I don't think that would have happened a few months ago.
Ruby?
I remember seeing a t-shirt at Berkeley with the black cube NeXT logo, except that it read "NeVr". The t-shirt came from Apple and was being worn by a student who had interned there. If your product is late enough (and hyped enough) for vaporware parody t-shirts to appear, you've got a problem.
Because business "partners" like Wal-Mart are too powerful for Sony and WB's taste. Mom'n'Pop have to take the prices that the record companies charge; Wal-Mart can tell Sony how much they're willing to pay, and cut off a significant amount of their sales by not accepting a higher price.
Does the slashdot editorial staff give any warning to sites they're about to feature, maybe giving them a chance to put up a mirror? Some sites are pretty immune to the Slashdot Effect, but lots aren't. Andover may even want to look into providing mirror space, maybe with an andover ad (like geocities or xoom), as a possible way of reducing the disruption of the Slashdot effect.
Stereotypes don't exist in a vacuum. If Mac Freaks(tm) didn't buy the latest'n'greatest from Apple pretty much every time there was a new release, Apple would have been bankrupt years ago. Mac fans upgrade almost as instinctually as corporate IT departments upgrade their MS Office. After all, the new Apple slogan is "Think Different", not "Think Independently".