And while I'm on it, can someone who is a lawyer tell me if we have a right to fair use or is it merely a thing that we've enjoyed because copyright holders couldn't ever get such a firm grip on it enough to effectively control it?
Sorry, IANAL, however, from http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107:
" 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use38
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include-
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors."
There's lot's more on there, reading, for the use of.
Assuming the document that I just copied that paragraph from hasn't been put into the 'public domain' then my act of copying for illustrative purposes here could be considered fair use.
However, even from that paragraph (let alone the rest of the document) it's pretty much up to someone's opinion of whether a bunch of contributing factors add up to infringement.
It's somewhat different here in the UK but moving ever closer to the DMCA situation with the European copyright directive.:(
Weeeelll, Slowaris may not be they best designed OS in history but it does have a huge foothold in the commercial/financial sectors. IBM'd have to swallow a large backlash from people that'd made a deliberate move from AS/400 to Sun but they could cope with it. The only other thing they'd have to worry about is the Monopolies commision / Anti-trust.
In terms of Sparc? No, the current technology isn't all that exciting but the roadmap Sun have told customers about is interesting and if IBM don't have the technology to equal it they might be interested in buying. IBM, though, have been far in front of just about anyone else in terms of hardware for quite some time.
In terms of storage? I'd suggest that if the Compaq/HP thing goes through and HP find that Storageworks is too big a lump to swallow (there are lots and lots of really big companies using said disks) they might shed it to market. Colleagues and I have have speculated that IBM might happily swallow that chunk to give itself some high end storage (in versastor) now that Sun's umped into bed with Hitachi (which as a sun admin I'm happy about, I looked at hitachi storage a few months ago and it rocked!).
Lots of 'ifs':)
$0.02
Not only can they be partitioned by system board (so long as a system board has a CPU, memory and access to disk it can be made a domain) but, assuming it follows e10k functionality, you can 'blacklist' any component if it starts mis-behaving and it won't be used again until you say it's OK. Unlike 'redlisting' (ask your friendly sun bod about that...)
This appeared in New Scientist on the 31st May.
From the article: "Pavel Cheben of the National Research Council in Ottawa and Maria Calvo of Complutense University in Madrid suspended photosensitive chemicals in porous silica glass to form a 1-centimetre cube which can store a hundred times more data than a DVD."
The photo-sensitive chemical is a photo-polymer and the "glass" is used to provide structure. I don't know how long the data lasts before the liquid nature of glass ditorts it, but...
The size mentioned in the NS article is a little different from the/. one: "In tests, the pair have now successfully stored and retrieved data. In theory, they say, a 1-centimetre cube of the material should store 6 million megabits (6 terabits) of data. And because data pages are read all in one go, rather than as a sequential stream of bits, they can be read a hundred times faster than from a DVD."
That certainly makes it look good for most forms of storage, eventually:) Something to watch, anyway...
Too each his own, what can I say? I have a horrible sinking feeling that books will become unfashionable and only purchased in dingy stores full of literature geeks, but... *shrug* I won't mind being a lit. geek as well as a math, physics and tech geek;)
I actually like reading books and the fact that the battery won't run out on the train journey home from work:) I don't mind when I've rested too long on one wrist and I'm walking round the house like an egyptian for a few minutes. I suppose that I'm lucky in that if I run out of book shelf space I've enough room to build more:)
I do keep an index of my books, a precis and who I've lent 'em to on one of my boxes at home but I don't read the things there.
As I say, I think books will increasingly become electronic, you'll increasingly probably not have to pay for specific books as publishing co-operatives are set-up by other lit. geeks and your content provider buys a bulk license so you get it with your service:)
None of this is bad, particularly. Some of it very good (especially the co-op publishers, I like that idea; anybody know of one?). In fact the only bad thing is that I seem to be currently unable to finish a sentence without using duff punctuation }:^)
What about if (assuming we've agreed on open publication under something like the GFDL) papers are published is a slashdot style peer-review and commentary with a kinda freshmeat style archive? In addition to moderators moderating comments every commenter would be able to mod the paper.
Yes it might be a nightmare in terms of mods, meta-mods and meta-meta-mods but over all you could end up with a system whereby you'd know what the general feeling about the quality of your work and perhaps some useful proof-reading. The site could be cited as editor, perhaps.
This is by no means more than a half-baked idea of mine, merely a point of discussion perhaps...
BSY
I must admit that I'd rather be sent a 'reset' gobbledy-gook password than a 'clear-text' of my old one... That, at least, would allow me to change my password back....
The most important thing to learn from a first language is coding style. *grin* You can code dirty later, but you should know how to code clean.
Most languages have a similar underlying way of looking at the world. Once you've got that you can twig another languages syntax easier, because you know what you're looking for, IMO. £0.02
more accurate, and more inciteful, then anything in the "mainstream" media.
Yes, and insightful too...
No criticism meant here./. articles can easily be both. Whether that was on purpose or not it was an insightful comment.:) Just being a pedant, ignore me.
Actually I'd have to hope that a particular comment would be moderated down if it wasn't of a worth equal to that of your alignment. The Alignment should, I think, be seen as an initial guideline to the quality of the poster; not to the quality of the posting. If you see a high alignment on your homepage you should take it as a compliment and not as an easy ride to getting your posts read. If I have an off day and post a (or several) duff posts I would expect to see those posts decrease in score (assuming the moderators are on the ball) and if I'm a regular poster (not that I am) it should affect my alignment little. If I don't post often then it's unlikely that the alignment is all that important to me.
Not knowing the US political campaign laws (and admitedly not knowing the UK ones either all too well), wouldn't this proclude any politician from campaigning from an OSD compliant stand-point?
There are always zealots in any forum that deals with a radical sociological change and the 'free' software/open source/linux community is just such a forum. It's something to beware of how ever (as indicated by the subject...) personal prejudice run both ways the talkback article the post refers to has a reply which might put that in perspective: http://www.zdnet.com/talkback/22_33604_139914.ht ml
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Sorry, IANAL, however, from http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107:
" 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use38
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include-
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors."
There's lot's more on there, reading, for the use of.
Assuming the document that I just copied that paragraph from hasn't been put into the 'public domain' then my act of copying for illustrative purposes here could be considered fair use.
However, even from that paragraph (let alone the rest of the document) it's pretty much up to someone's opinion of whether a bunch of contributing factors add up to infringement.
It's somewhat different here in the UK but moving ever closer to the DMCA situation with the European copyright directive. :(
I agree that market cap is more useful for this kind of comparison. However, the point still is made; perhaps even more starkly.:)
In terms of Sparc? No, the current technology isn't all that exciting but the roadmap Sun have told customers about is interesting and if IBM don't have the technology to equal it they might be interested in buying. IBM, though, have been far in front of just about anyone else in terms of hardware for quite some time.
In terms of storage? I'd suggest that if the Compaq/HP thing goes through and HP find that Storageworks is too big a lump to swallow (there are lots and lots of really big companies using said disks) they might shed it to market. Colleagues and I have have speculated that IBM might happily swallow that chunk to give itself some high end storage (in versastor) now that Sun's umped into bed with Hitachi (which as a sun admin I'm happy about, I looked at hitachi storage a few months ago and it rocked!).
Lots of 'ifs'
$0.02
K
Center plane, please ;)
Not only can they be partitioned by system board (so long as a system board has a CPU, memory and access to disk it can be made a domain) but, assuming it follows e10k functionality, you can 'blacklist' any component if it starts mis-behaving and it won't be used again until you say it's OK. Unlike 'redlisting' (ask your friendly sun bod about that...)
I'm obviously not as big a fan as I thought...
What was the sixth?
...at El Reg
This appeared in New Scientist on the 31st May. /. one: "In tests, the pair have now successfully stored and retrieved data. In theory, they say, a 1-centimetre cube of the material should store 6 million megabits (6 terabits) of data. And because data pages are read all in one go, rather than as a sequential stream of bits, they can be read a hundred times faster than from a DVD." :) Something to watch, anyway...
From the article: "Pavel Cheben of the National Research Council in Ottawa and Maria Calvo of Complutense University in Madrid suspended photosensitive chemicals in porous silica glass to form a 1-centimetre cube which can store a hundred times more data than a DVD."
The photo-sensitive chemical is a photo-polymer and the "glass" is used to provide structure.
I don't know how long the data lasts before the liquid nature of glass ditorts it, but... The size mentioned in the NS article is a little different from the
That certainly makes it look good for most forms of storage, eventually
I actually like reading books and the fact that the battery won't run out on the train journey home from work :) I don't mind when I've rested too long on one wrist and I'm walking round the house like an egyptian for a few minutes. I suppose that I'm lucky in that if I run out of book shelf space I've enough room to build more :)
I do keep an index of my books, a precis and who I've lent 'em to on one of my boxes at home but I don't read the things there. As I say, I think books will increasingly become electronic, you'll increasingly probably not have to pay for specific books as publishing co-operatives are set-up by other lit. geeks and your content provider buys a bulk license so you get it with your service :)
None of this is bad, particularly. Some of it very good (especially the co-op publishers, I like that idea; anybody know of one?). In fact the only bad thing is that I seem to be currently unable to finish a sentence without using duff punctuation }:^)
KT
In addition to moderators moderating comments every commenter would be able to mod the paper.
Yes it might be a nightmare in terms of mods, meta-mods and meta-meta-mods but over all you could end up with a system whereby you'd know what the general feeling about the quality of your work and perhaps some useful proof-reading. The site could be cited as editor, perhaps.
This is by no means more than a half-baked idea of mine, merely a point of discussion perhaps...
BSY
rc definition at FOLDOC. :)
I know which I'd rather put money on...
That, at least, would allow me to change my password back....
K
and SMB don't forget SMB...
Are you calling Alan Cox a newbie? Hence the ;^)
1 inch = 2.54 cm
The most important thing to learn from a first language is coding style. *grin* You can code dirty later, but you should know how to code clean.
Most languages have a similar underlying way of looking at the world. Once you've got that you can twig another languages syntax easier, because you know what you're looking for, IMO.
£0.02
Yes, and insightful too...
No criticism meant here. /. articles can easily be both. Whether that was on purpose or not it was an insightful comment. :) Just being a pedant, ignore me.
And how much worse it must be then to be third poster...
Except that they do offer the ability to set up an anonNNNNN account.
Actually I'd have to hope that a particular comment would be moderated down if it wasn't of a worth equal to that of your alignment. The Alignment should, I think, be seen as an initial guideline to the quality of the poster; not to the quality of the posting.
If you see a high alignment on your homepage you should take it as a compliment and not as an easy ride to getting your posts read.
If I have an off day and post a (or several) duff posts I would expect to see those posts decrease in score (assuming the moderators are on the ball) and if I'm a regular poster (not that I am) it should affect my alignment little. If I don't post often then it's unlikely that the alignment is all that important to me.
Just my opinion.
And just under the 'insert you spam list here' list there is a dear little link entitled:
"Your privacy is a priority at algore2000.com."
*shrug*
Not knowing the US political campaign laws (and admitedly not knowing the UK ones either all too well), wouldn't this proclude any politician from campaigning from an OSD compliant stand-point?
It's back up.....
There are always zealots in any forum that deals with a radical sociological change and the 'free' software/open source/linux community is just such a forum.t ml
It's something to beware of how ever (as indicated by the subject...) personal prejudice run both ways the talkback article the post refers to has a reply which might put that in perspective:
http://www.zdnet.com/talkback/22_33604_139914.h
Ta!
And, of course, we all think that much more of Roy for being philosophical about it... *grin*
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, they are quick to anger and have no need for subtlety.