No, because then they're not as elite anymore because Apple is all mainstream. An analogy:
It's like when that band is followed by shaggy-haired, goateed art school graduates in faux homeless clothing, but then the band becomes popular and all the shaggy-haired goateed art school graduates in faux homeless clothing get mad because they "sold out."
Only instead of a band it's Apple.
And instead of shaggy-haired, goateed art school graduates in faux homeless clothing, it's...well it's still shaggy-haired, goateed art school graduates in faux homeless clothing, don't really need to analogize that part.
Yeah, but ITT grads tend to gravitate towards jobs where hands-on work is far more important than theory. I think the for-profit technical schools serve a valuable niche, or could if they weren't almost universally overpriced to the point where they're not worth it for anyone.
Most kids fresh with a degree assume they know just about all there is to know about that field.
Huh? That hasn't been my experience. Most fresh-faced college graduates in my experience tend to be extremely nervous and well-aware of their lack of experience.
Right. In contrast to the known humility of GNU, FSF and RMS.
Yet (a) they actually did start back in the olden days, and have done a tremendous amount, and (b) get called out as arrogant all the time. Arrogance is a little easier to take from someone who actually is almost as good/important/influential as they claim to be.
It was designed to "mainstream" Open Source by encouraging businesses to open source their stuff. At a time when businesses were scrambling to make sense of this whole Internet thing, the OSI came along and tried to convince them that open source was a big part of embracing the Internet.
Yep, I always looked at it as the process by which big-L Libertarians try to reconcile their advocacy of free software with their obsessive love of money. Never really gelled.
The thing that always bothered me about OSI was the pomposity. They come out late in the game, years after the creation of the open source process, after Linux, Apache, etc. are all mature, and then have tried to take credit for basically everything open source since. Then have the nerve to frequently post on slashdot how horrible it is that they're not recognized for their tremendous accomplishments, and that anyone who is skeptical of OSI's claims is just completely ignorant of the history of the organization.
Hmmm, interesting, but this was way later; the implication of TFA seems to be that Copernicus was persecuted like Galileo, rather than being a high-ranking churchman himself who was well-respected in the Church during his lifetime and given a Catholic burial.
The fact is that it doesn't matter how big the settlement per class member is. If the fee is 25%-33%, the lawyer will ALWAYS get 25%-33%. It doesn't matter if each class member gets $250 or $250,000.
Actually I'm a class action lawyer, so yes, I've seen the results of class actions. Cases like this are generally contingency cases, where the fee is based on a percentage of the amount won. This is typically 25%-33%. So, for those cases where you have a million class members and a 10 million judgment, yep they're probably going to get a $50 coupon while the lawyer could possibly pull in 2-3 million, depending on how much work he or she put into the case. But if each class member is winning $10,000, that's a different story. The class members are going to get most of that money.
It sounds to me like people just want to get some more money... however the only people who will win this lawsuit are the lawyers..
How do you figure? Let's say they succeed and get $10,000 per person affected. What percentage of that do you think the lawyers can get? I'm honestly curious, people on slashdot have a very distorted view of how class action lawsuits work.
I agree with your first sentence. As to your second sentence, the NYC subways don't support cell phone service, and they're the only real subways anyway.
This is unconscionable and fills me with deep, passionate rage. I can't believe a company followed a nonstandard numbering convention for one of their releases. That's the most evil think I've ever heard and it heralds the downfall of modern society.
Well, if the copyright term was shorter, the copy in the vault may not have degraded by the time copyright expired. And then you could release that vault copy into the wild.
Only the owner of the copy (the previous copyright holder) is under no obligation to release it at all. I think that's happened a lot as well, and is probably the main reason these early works have degraded.
Except that was written in 1994 -- which misses discussion of the amendments made in 1995 onward which actually address this.
Only my original statutory interpretation was based on the current text of the CRA and section 1818, and the material language addressed by the memo I linked to is still there. If you have any actual law supporting the idea that a CRA substantial noncompliance rating gets you civil penalties then why not link to it?
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FINALLY an actually funny Ballmer chair joke. It's only taken a few years.
Or this.
i guess if it makes the fanbois happy...
No, because then they're not as elite anymore because Apple is all mainstream. An analogy:
It's like when that band is followed by shaggy-haired, goateed art school graduates in faux homeless clothing, but then the band becomes popular and all the shaggy-haired goateed art school graduates in faux homeless clothing get mad because they "sold out."
Only instead of a band it's Apple.
And instead of shaggy-haired, goateed art school graduates in faux homeless clothing, it's...well it's still shaggy-haired, goateed art school graduates in faux homeless clothing, don't really need to analogize that part.
Yeah, but ITT grads tend to gravitate towards jobs where hands-on work is far more important than theory. I think the for-profit technical schools serve a valuable niche, or could if they weren't almost universally overpriced to the point where they're not worth it for anyone.
Most kids fresh with a degree assume they know just about all there is to know about that field.
Huh? That hasn't been my experience. Most fresh-faced college graduates in my experience tend to be extremely nervous and well-aware of their lack of experience.
Why not? Do you think they rootkitted the OLED?
The horrible acting, however, was.
Right. In contrast to the known humility of GNU, FSF and RMS.
Yet (a) they actually did start back in the olden days, and have done a tremendous amount, and (b) get called out as arrogant all the time. Arrogance is a little easier to take from someone who actually is almost as good/important/influential as they claim to be.
It was designed to "mainstream" Open Source by encouraging businesses to open source their stuff. At a time when businesses were scrambling to make sense of this whole Internet thing, the OSI came along and tried to convince them that open source was a big part of embracing the Internet.
Yep, I always looked at it as the process by which big-L Libertarians try to reconcile their advocacy of free software with their obsessive love of money. Never really gelled.
The thing that always bothered me about OSI was the pomposity. They come out late in the game, years after the creation of the open source process, after Linux, Apache, etc. are all mature, and then have tried to take credit for basically everything open source since. Then have the nerve to frequently post on slashdot how horrible it is that they're not recognized for their tremendous accomplishments, and that anyone who is skeptical of OSI's claims is just completely ignorant of the history of the organization.
Disclosure: I own a Mac and and Audi.
And a sufficient supply of black turtlenecks I'm sure.
Hmmm, interesting, but this was way later; the implication of TFA seems to be that Copernicus was persecuted like Galileo, rather than being a high-ranking churchman himself who was well-respected in the Church during his lifetime and given a Catholic burial.
Mikolaj Kopernik, AKA Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical,
Do we have a cite for this?
You're actually arguing that the solution to a leaking well is to make the hole bigger?
They're holding themselves to the same standard the average person would.
Well that's not the standard of care they're supposed to follow.
So I have to go to proprietary software to run my killbots?
The fact is that it doesn't matter how big the settlement per class member is. If the fee is 25%-33%, the lawyer will ALWAYS get 25%-33%. It doesn't matter if each class member gets $250 or $250,000.
Exactly. What's the problem with that?
Actually I'm a class action lawyer, so yes, I've seen the results of class actions. Cases like this are generally contingency cases, where the fee is based on a percentage of the amount won. This is typically 25%-33%. So, for those cases where you have a million class members and a 10 million judgment, yep they're probably going to get a $50 coupon while the lawyer could possibly pull in 2-3 million, depending on how much work he or she put into the case. But if each class member is winning $10,000, that's a different story. The class members are going to get most of that money.
It sounds to me like people just want to get some more money... however the only people who will win this lawsuit are the lawyers..
How do you figure? Let's say they succeed and get $10,000 per person affected. What percentage of that do you think the lawyers can get? I'm honestly curious, people on slashdot have a very distorted view of how class action lawsuits work.
I agree with your first sentence. As to your second sentence, the NYC subways don't support cell phone service, and they're the only real subways anyway.
I think the animal adjectives should have to reflect the actual Ubuntu release, like Unstable Urchin, or Dependency-Breaking Duck.
This is unconscionable and fills me with deep, passionate rage. I can't believe a company followed a nonstandard numbering convention for one of their releases. That's the most evil think I've ever heard and it heralds the downfall of modern society.
And I've never heard of black duck eggs, so I can believe it...
Well, if the copyright term was shorter, the copy in the vault may not have degraded by the time copyright expired. And then you could release that vault copy into the wild.
Only the owner of the copy (the previous copyright holder) is under no obligation to release it at all. I think that's happened a lot as well, and is probably the main reason these early works have degraded.
Except that was written in 1994 -- which misses discussion of the amendments made in 1995 onward which actually address this.
Only my original statutory interpretation was based on the current text of the CRA and section 1818, and the material language addressed by the memo I linked to is still there. If you have any actual law supporting the idea that a CRA substantial noncompliance rating gets you civil penalties then why not link to it?