In effect, a lease is no different than a long-term rental from Avis . ..
Who will even restrict you in the uses to which you can put the car and the states in which you may operate it. If you find their terms to restricting you can always check out Hertz or Enterprise.
. ..when I buy a box in a store containing software, despite the fact I get a "bill of sale" for the transaction, I was sold nothing, and I bought nothing?
You bought property. You may do with that property as you wish. If you'd read previous posts I've made on the subject you'd know that I advocate only purchasing music CDs as property and eschewing licensed files. Owning that property does not imply ownership of the intellectual property embeded in that property, or even license to use.
You did not, however, address the meat of my last post; perhaps because I phrased it as a dry witticism. I not do not find the law reasonable.
As for Microsoft I already consider their behavior with regards to XP not merely unreasonable, but abusive. They certainly aren't going to regain me as a willing customer by putting even more sand in the Vaseline.
For entertainment purposes I might well continue to drive the '64 1/2 Ford Mustang now and again, but for new cars on which I actually have to depend I think I'll turn to a Scandinavian manufacturer. Boxy, but good.
You do not have a license on your car; although there are many involved. The manufacturer has and retains all relevant licenses. You acquire none. If you copy intellectual property embodied in the car without obtaining a license from the rights holder you will be in violation of the law.
I was trying to nudge you in the direction of realizing on your own that your premise is incorrect. It's usually much more effective than simply saying "You're wrong."
Which is really important, since most cell phones last way more than five years.
Well, why should they? They get too ugly to be seen before that.
The market for this phone is not case modders who buy a new iPod every year. It's people still getting useful work out of beige P-IIs while listening to a "stereo" through their AR-4 speakers.
What has been your efforts in attracting developers to this position?
People who want me; ask me. I do not read boards looking for work. I turn work down.
As a side issure I'll also point out that top programmers aren't going to responded to a call for a Senior Java Developer. That's like expecting to get a top carpenter responding to a call for framers.
.. how come it's hard to find coders who are motivated and know what they're doing?
There aren't any.
The ones who are motivated don't know what they're doing and the ones that know what they're doing can be found in a dark corner of the machine room banging their heads against the wall.
This is also false. Climatology is also actually a multidisciplanarian field; relying in part on the disciplines of anthropology and biology for gathering its evidence.
It is also false argument that scientists from one field cannot criticise the work of scientist in another field. Sciences overlap and math is math. I've always found it interesting that many climatologists reject critcism of their statistical methods by statisticians, because the statisticians are not climatologists.
Any high school student has the right challange my assertions that gravity is an accelerative force. In fact, I demand that my students make every attempt to gather data on their own in order to disprove the allegation.
There is no authority in science. Only data.
People who have no training in a subject, and refuse to submit their work to peer review (instead publishing cheap paperbacks) should be ignored.
Well, there ya go. You have eliminated almost the entire field of climatology in one swell foop.
. ..let's remember that Crichton is not a scientist. ..
Well, yes, actually, he is. Anthropology, medicine and biology; having done post doctoral research at the Salk Institute. Note that much of his literary output has some form of biology involved.
Now, what are your qualifications to judge his qualifications?
That is exactly right, but people do not understand statistics, so they do not understand this.
It isn't even a question of either one being right or wrong, they are simply data samples. There is variation in all data samples. If multiple tests show the same results one must inherently strongly suspect that some form of error/bias has crept into the process. Someone is fooling themselves (see n-rays or Martian canali), or us.
What one expects of multiple tests is that they form a cluster of results.
Where results are marginal they will cluster around the null point, but our current cultural bias for "positive" results and general health neurosis means that it is only the positive results that draw attention/get taken seriously, even after the expected negative results supporting a null effect come to light.
Deep in our cultural hearts we want fat people to suffer for their sins of gluttony. Since we can no longer sic the old style demons on them, we will produce new ones.
Statistical analysis, however, is only applicable to situations in which we are ignorant of causes and only allows us to make predictions about the group. They mean little or nothing at all when applied to individuals; and the more we know about that individual the less they apply, because we are not ignorant about that individual.
Give me a random sample of 1000 people and can I tell you with fair accuracy how many will die of a heart attack in the next 10 years, but not which ones.
There is only one area where Americans, as a culture, are more neurotic than they are about hair and fat - sexuality, particularly male sexuality; and its secondary characteristics.
Expect a slew of studies showing marginal (or outright doofey) results showing that American men are either girly men or violent rapists.
Some "researchers" will "show" and believe both at that same time. These people are not scientists, they are nutballs; they need treatment, not grants.
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I'll bet you don't own a TV either.
I'm watching one right now. Shame that it's something by Jerry Bruckheimer on. It's very stylish.
You'll never catch me on that Intartubes thingy though.
KFG
People keep using that word . . .
KFG
In effect, a lease is no different than a long-term rental from Avis . . .
.when I buy a box in a store containing software, despite the fact I get a "bill of sale" for the transaction, I was sold nothing, and I bought nothing?
Who will even restrict you in the uses to which you can put the car and the states in which you may operate it. If you find their terms to restricting you can always check out Hertz or Enterprise.
. .
You bought property. You may do with that property as you wish. If you'd read previous posts I've made on the subject you'd know that I advocate only purchasing music CDs as property and eschewing licensed files. Owning that property does not imply ownership of the intellectual property embeded in that property, or even license to use.
You did not, however, address the meat of my last post; perhaps because I phrased it as a dry witticism. I not do not find the law reasonable.
As for Microsoft I already consider their behavior with regards to XP not merely unreasonable, but abusive. They certainly aren't going to regain me as a willing customer by putting even more sand in the Vaseline.
For entertainment purposes I might well continue to drive the '64 1/2 Ford Mustang now and again, but for new cars on which I actually have to depend I think I'll turn to a Scandinavian manufacturer. Boxy, but good.
KFG
. . .but it takes a real geek to get a signal with nothing but a can of Pringles and toothpick.
Yeah, that's a decent problem, but really only because the potato isn't fresh.
KFG
When I own a car, I can change the muffler without telling Ford.
.
However, if you lease the car from Ford you become liable for restoring it to its original condition.
Do you think it would be reasonable. .
I thought we were talking about law.
KFG
You do not have a license on your car; although there are many involved. The manufacturer has and retains all relevant licenses. You acquire none. If you copy intellectual property embodied in the car without obtaining a license from the rights holder you will be in violation of the law.
What you have on your car is a title.
KFG
I was trying to nudge you in the direction of realizing on your own that your premise is incorrect. It's usually much more effective than simply saying "You're wrong."
But, You're wrong.
KFG
Therefore the issue is moot, since there are no software patents.
KFG
Programmers are spending too much time designing shnuggly-wuggly GUI's. . .
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Hey, but at least they're stylish:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203529&
KFG
There generally are real-world components and ramifications to the thing . . .
And those are what you patent.
KFG
. . .your worried the the object in your hand, that can only be seen by others if they're standing right next to you, doesn't look cool?
I don't use a cell phone.
It's usually rude, often dangerous, they don't last more than five years and they're "stylish;" i.e., ugly and unusable.
KFG
. . .daddy RIAA will get really grumpy.
In a civil case you can be compelled to testify against yourself. The FBI does not have to sieze evidence. You have to provide it upon request.
KFG
Well it's no nevermind to me if you like to do that on a dead, ugly phone.
KFG
Which is really important, since most cell phones last way more than five years.
Well, why should they? They get too ugly to be seen before that.
The market for this phone is not case modders who buy a new iPod every year. It's people still getting useful work out of beige P-IIs while listening to a "stereo" through their AR-4 speakers.
KFG
. . .making it . . . stylish.
i.e., ugly in five years.
KFG
Tab Running Tab With Tab Scissosrs Tab. Drink it or the kitten dies
KFG
Linus can't fool me, there is no Sanity Claus.
KFG
What has been your efforts in attracting developers to this position?
People who want me; ask me. I do not read boards looking for work. I turn work down.
As a side issure I'll also point out that top programmers aren't going to responded to a call for a Senior Java Developer. That's like expecting to get a top carpenter responding to a call for framers.
KFG
.. how come it's hard to find coders who are motivated and know what they're doing?
There aren't any.
The ones who are motivated don't know what they're doing and the ones that know what they're doing can be found in a dark corner of the machine room banging their heads against the wall.
KFG
I wonder what other companies do this?
Within a margin of error and including the weasel phrase "to one degree or another," I hereby include a complete list of such companies:
1. All of them
Disclaimer: Naivete has been harmed in the production of this story. Thank God we still have the Easter Bunny.
KFG
How do you not have an interface?
If it's useless; although you can still load it up with chrome and tailfins if you'd like.
KFG
Yet he has no training in climatology.
This is also false. Climatology is also actually a multidisciplanarian field; relying in part on the disciplines of anthropology and biology for gathering its evidence.
It is also false argument that scientists from one field cannot criticise the work of scientist in another field. Sciences overlap and math is math. I've always found it interesting that many climatologists reject critcism of their statistical methods by statisticians, because the statisticians are not climatologists.
Any high school student has the right challange my assertions that gravity is an accelerative force. In fact, I demand that my students make every attempt to gather data on their own in order to disprove the allegation.
There is no authority in science. Only data.
People who have no training in a subject, and refuse to submit their work to peer review (instead publishing cheap paperbacks) should be ignored.
Well, there ya go. You have eliminated almost the entire field of climatology in one swell foop.
KFG
. . .let's remember that Crichton is not a scientist. . .
Well, yes, actually, he is. Anthropology, medicine and biology; having done post doctoral research at the Salk Institute. Note that much of his literary output has some form of biology involved.
Now, what are your qualifications to judge his qualifications?
KFG
You don't suppose that this is a signal that such behavior won't be looked on kindly by the Greek authorities? The most effective censor is yourself.
KFG
That is exactly right, but people do not understand statistics, so they do not understand this.
It isn't even a question of either one being right or wrong, they are simply data samples. There is variation in all data samples. If multiple tests show the same results one must inherently strongly suspect that some form of error/bias has crept into the process. Someone is fooling themselves (see n-rays or Martian canali), or us.
What one expects of multiple tests is that they form a cluster of results.
Where results are marginal they will cluster around the null point, but our current cultural bias for "positive" results and general health neurosis means that it is only the positive results that draw attention/get taken seriously, even after the expected negative results supporting a null effect come to light.
Deep in our cultural hearts we want fat people to suffer for their sins of gluttony. Since we can no longer sic the old style demons on them, we will produce new ones.
Statistical analysis, however, is only applicable to situations in which we are ignorant of causes and only allows us to make predictions about the group. They mean little or nothing at all when applied to individuals; and the more we know about that individual the less they apply, because we are not ignorant about that individual.
Give me a random sample of 1000 people and can I tell you with fair accuracy how many will die of a heart attack in the next 10 years, but not which ones.
There is only one area where Americans, as a culture, are more neurotic than they are about hair and fat - sexuality, particularly male sexuality; and its secondary characteristics.
Expect a slew of studies showing marginal (or outright doofey) results showing that American men are either girly men or violent rapists.
Some "researchers" will "show" and believe both at that same time. These people are not scientists, they are nutballs; they need treatment, not grants.
KFG