Oh, I almost forgot: if I'm not mistaken, folder sharing from inside VMware doesn't require any network access. So it works even if you turn of the network interfaces on the guest OS.
Mostly that it doesn't require you to configure folder sharing in the host OS. You enable folder sharing in the VM, and you don't have to add any additional services on the host.
Of course, if you're using desktop product (like VMWare Server) you can always do host-only networking and limit your shares to the host-only interfaces. But that's a little more work.
Also - it's been a long time since I bought a copy of Windows XP, but I seem to recall that the "manual" it came with was basically a "Getting Started" guide, maybe 50 pages long or so, with big, easily-readable text on small pages. I don't really see that as much of an improvement over what Apple supplies.
Speaking as someone who was occasionally called upon to assist in the administration of a Blackboard server, I can tell you that we hated it too.
The group where I worked was a network operations center for several universities, and because the Blackboard server admins were puzzled by slow performance - "almost certainly a network problem," they told us - we agreed to let them keep the server with us. That was convenient, because the next time it was slow, I was in a unique position to explain to them the consequences of having a system load of higher than 5 on a single processor box.
I'm 25 now, I still play video games, and I played the original Duke Nukem 3D, along with other classics such as Doom I & II, zork, and all those old Sierra adventure games.
You know, it's funny - for a while, I played Duke 3d heavily. Before that, of course, I'd played Doom, and Doom 2, and Wolf 3d... Then Quake came out, and QuakeWorld, and all that good stuff, and I played them obsessively. Then I figured, "Hey, why not give Shadow Warrior a try?" (For those who don't remember, Shadow Warrior was a sprite-based 3d shooter - like Duke Nukem with throwing stars. It was also quite bad.)
I discovered that playing SW for longer than a few minutes gave me a horrible sense of motion sickness. And then a couple weeks ago, "Marathon: Durandal" was released on XBox Live. Downloaded it, started it, and felt like hurling in 5 minutes. It's ridiculous - I can't play any of those sprite-based FPS games anymore.
Thanks a ton, id Software. You quite literally ruined me for sprite based games. Assholes.;)
(post script: I'm 34, and have been married now for ten years. Last night I played a little Call of Duty 4, and a little Burnout Paradise.)
A few years ago, I saw a web page which I thought was funny and cool (no, don't bother asking, that was hundreds of beers ago), so I went to forward the URL to a friend. The e-mail consisted of the direction "Dude, fear this," followed by a URL.
Unfortunately, my friend shared a first name with my oddest and most annoying client, and it was some time before I could convince the client that I'd sent the message to him in error.
You may now mock me for having sent the e-mail in error, or for using the phrase "Dude, fear this" unironically in a communication to a friend.
No, music bought from the iTunes store is DRM laden. The device isn't laden with DRM at all.
Actually, even that may be going too far these days.
You can also download iTunes Plus songs for the new, lower price of just 99. These songs feature higher-quality, 256-Kbps AAC encoding -- twice the standard bit rate -- and no DRM (digital rights management). With one million indie tracks just added, there's up to 2 million iTunes Plus songs to choose from and play on any iPod, other digital music players, and an unlimited number of computers. For no extra charge. - from the iTunes Music Store page.
The iPhone (and I assume the Touch), have the headphone jack slightly recessed the plug won't work, unless it is straight with no excess rubber/plastic around the plug.
Possibly an incorrect assumption. (I have no firsthand experience, though, so don't take my word for it.)
Exactly. It's hard to argue with such explicitly incontrovertible facts as "she's so hungry for power that she can taste it," unless of course it's with the "nanny nanny boo boo" counter. Or perhaps the Chewbacca defense? I've never had much luck with that one.
Wait a second. You're accusing me of using "a single hit piece" to justify my dislike of Ron Paul, based on... that post by Justin Raimondo? He predicated virtually the entire bit on willful malice on the part of Reason and The New Republic (neither of which I generally have much time for), and tries to simultaneously justify Paul's publication with the claim that the comments were taken out of context while noting that Paul himself has repudiated them. As for the "false dilemma," the guy is fucking posing for pictures, and accepting cash donations from folks like Don Black. As in, this Don Black.
It's one thing to say that stuff went out under your name that you don't agree with. It's another when it happens for a period of ten years, you pick up endorsements from the leader of white power groups, accept cash donations from them, and pose for pictures with them and their kids. I mean, a couple racist comments and you're just an asshole, but sooner or later people start taking it personally, y'know?
It's right up there with the "Barack Obama is a closet fundamentalist Muslim who will institute Sharia law in America if elected!" bullshit that's been circulating. That little meme wouldn't have the traction it does if he didn't have a "funny" name. Likewise, it's really just too easy to take an old white social conservative guy from Texas and put a white hood on his head.
You know, if Barack Obama had published a newsletter called "The Obama Report" which said things like "The Americans will come to rue their infidel ways when we launch the intifada from downtown Chicago," I could see how that analogy might make sense. But since that didn't happen, and the thing with Paul did, I'm going to suggest you reconsider your analogy.
I think that's a tic people use to keep it straight between Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton. Pity it can have the effect of a diminutive, because I suspect it's not deliberate for a lot of people.
Don't count on it. I'm a bit of a political junkie, so maybe I just see more of it than a lot of people, but even on the most "mainstream left" of political discussion sites there has been a fair amount of bashing the two democratic rivals. From my perspective, it's been mostly Obama supporters who hate HRC, although there's certainly a good deal of the reverse.
From my perspective, I'd vote for either one, although I'm not terribly fond of HRC's record on Iraq, and I'm not terribly fond of candidates who put a message of "I'm the only person who can bring us together" out there like Obama has. Personally, I'm content to let them duke it out in the primaries and then give whichever one wins my vote in November.
To win a suit for malicious prosecution, the plaintiff must prove four elements: (1) that the original case was terminated in favor of the plaintiff, (2) that the defendant played an active role in the original case, (3) that the defendant did not have probable cause or reasonable grounds to support the original case, and (4) that the defendant initiated or continued the initial case with an improper purpose. Each of these elements presents a challenge to the plaintiff.
#4 sounds like it would be incredibly difficult to prove. I think the only chance the plaintiff would have would be to assert that RIAA was prosecuting the case for the purpose of inspiring fear in other potential targets of litigation, even in the face of evidence suggesting the plaintiff's innocence in the original suit.
Yeah, but to the best of my knowledge MSIE doesn't customize the content of that page any way, or communicate with an external server before rendering it - it just prints the pretty message.
Or maybe it does, but the customization is like, subtle, man.
Hee. Every time someone says "it's always in the last place you look," I feel a mild compulsion to ask why you'd keep looking if you had already found it. I think your formulation is funnier.:)
To give Mass Effect its due, its pacing and story was better than plenty of "name" flicks out there (you listening to me, Sunshine? I had such high hopes...). But to suggest that it's better than, say, There Will Be Blood... I mean, c'mon now.
Copyright only exists for writing that is "creative" in nature.
The text of a legal document sets forth a demand, a contract, etc. The writing is not creative, it is just a listing of facts or positions. I was told this by one of the top partners at WSGW (top legal firm in Silicon Valley) when he advised me to copy another company's contract. The formatting of the contract (e.g. the forms you can buy at a stationer's store or download pdfs online) is creative layout - you can't just photocopy the contract and use it as that is a copyright infringement. But if you want to make your own form with a different layout and using the exact same words, that is perfectly legal.
IANAL.
But you (or your lawyer friend) is simplifying things rather a lot. Documents that are not considered "creative" can absolutely be subject to copyright. Take, for example, the following notes from the US Copyright Office on "Who May Claim Copyright":
In the case of works made for hire, the employer and not the employee is considered to be the author. Section 101 of the copyright law defines a "work made for hire" as:
1.
a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or
2.
a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as:
* a contribution to a collective work
* a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work
* a translation
* a supplementary work
* a compilation
* an instructional text
* a test
* answer material for a test
* an atlas
No idea how something like this applies to a legal document - if I'm a reporter, and a company issues a Cease & Desist on me in connection to a story I'm writing, may I cite Fair Use in order to quote it for journalistic purposes? - but it certainly seems to make the issue a bit less cut and dried than your summary.
But then again... a few weeks ago I was involved in a phone call with one of our clients. They're a huge client for us, to a degree that they can significantly influence the future direction of our product by complaining loud enough, and our first client to use some new "high-availability" features we're gradually rolling out.
In the course of our conversation, one of the client's guys essentially pooped on a large part of our product roadmap, basically because it involved a load balancer. And when we asked why, he said, "Because nobody in the world has been able to demonstrate a working, network-based load balancing solution."
And that's it. Seriously. As if the entire notion of network based load balancing was a hoax perpetrated on the IT industry, and Google and Yahoo were just having a laugh on us while relying on plain old round-robin DNS or something. I mean, this client has two whole nodes to load balance, and that's clearly out of the reach of, say, F5...
What's absolutely hilarious about this are the number of replies to this article complaining about "clueless" Judges who "don't understand the issues" and aren't prepared to "read the evidence" right in front of them. Uh-hum. Because all you guys did, right?
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Oh, I almost forgot: if I'm not mistaken, folder sharing from inside VMware doesn't require any network access. So it works even if you turn of the network interfaces on the guest OS.
Mostly that it doesn't require you to configure folder sharing in the host OS. You enable folder sharing in the VM, and you don't have to add any additional services on the host.
Of course, if you're using desktop product (like VMWare Server) you can always do host-only networking and limit your shares to the host-only interfaces. But that's a little more work.
Seriously.
Also - it's been a long time since I bought a copy of Windows XP, but I seem to recall that the "manual" it came with was basically a "Getting Started" guide, maybe 50 pages long or so, with big, easily-readable text on small pages. I don't really see that as much of an improvement over what Apple supplies.
Speaking as someone who was occasionally called upon to assist in the administration of a Blackboard server, I can tell you that we hated it too.
The group where I worked was a network operations center for several universities, and because the Blackboard server admins were puzzled by slow performance - "almost certainly a network problem," they told us - we agreed to let them keep the server with us. That was convenient, because the next time it was slow, I was in a unique position to explain to them the consequences of having a system load of higher than 5 on a single processor box.
Really? Huh - maybe I have to rethink blaming id Software. Could just be that we're old fogies. ;)
You know, it's funny - for a while, I played Duke 3d heavily. Before that, of course, I'd played Doom, and Doom 2, and Wolf 3d... Then Quake came out, and QuakeWorld, and all that good stuff, and I played them obsessively. Then I figured, "Hey, why not give Shadow Warrior a try?" (For those who don't remember, Shadow Warrior was a sprite-based 3d shooter - like Duke Nukem with throwing stars. It was also quite bad.)
I discovered that playing SW for longer than a few minutes gave me a horrible sense of motion sickness. And then a couple weeks ago, "Marathon: Durandal" was released on XBox Live. Downloaded it, started it, and felt like hurling in 5 minutes. It's ridiculous - I can't play any of those sprite-based FPS games anymore.
Thanks a ton, id Software. You quite literally ruined me for sprite based games. Assholes.
(post script: I'm 34, and have been married now for ten years. Last night I played a little Call of Duty 4, and a little Burnout Paradise.)
A few years ago, I saw a web page which I thought was funny and cool (no, don't bother asking, that was hundreds of beers ago), so I went to forward the URL to a friend. The e-mail consisted of the direction "Dude, fear this," followed by a URL.
Unfortunately, my friend shared a first name with my oddest and most annoying client, and it was some time before I could convince the client that I'd sent the message to him in error.
You may now mock me for having sent the e-mail in error, or for using the phrase "Dude, fear this" unironically in a communication to a friend.
Actually, even that may be going too far these days.
I make it a personal rule never to trust anyone named Sammy.
Possibly an incorrect assumption. (I have no firsthand experience, though, so don't take my word for it.)
Exactly. It's hard to argue with such explicitly incontrovertible facts as "she's so hungry for power that she can taste it," unless of course it's with the "nanny nanny boo boo" counter. Or perhaps the Chewbacca defense? I've never had much luck with that one.
It's one thing to say that stuff went out under your name that you don't agree with. It's another when it happens for a period of ten years, you pick up endorsements from the leader of white power groups, accept cash donations from them, and pose for pictures with them and their kids. I mean, a couple racist comments and you're just an asshole, but sooner or later people start taking it personally, y'know?
You know, if Barack Obama had published a newsletter called "The Obama Report" which said things like "The Americans will come to rue their infidel ways when we launch the intifada from downtown Chicago," I could see how that analogy might make sense. But since that didn't happen, and the thing with Paul did, I'm going to suggest you reconsider your analogy.
I rest my case.
Plus, and I know that I'm going to draw the ire of all the Rondroids here, but it's not like Paul doesn't have some other problems as a candidate...
I think that's a tic people use to keep it straight between Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton. Pity it can have the effect of a diminutive, because I suspect it's not deliberate for a lot of people.
Don't count on it. I'm a bit of a political junkie, so maybe I just see more of it than a lot of people, but even on the most "mainstream left" of political discussion sites there has been a fair amount of bashing the two democratic rivals. From my perspective, it's been mostly Obama supporters who hate HRC, although there's certainly a good deal of the reverse.
From my perspective, I'd vote for either one, although I'm not terribly fond of HRC's record on Iraq, and I'm not terribly fond of candidates who put a message of "I'm the only person who can bring us together" out there like Obama has. Personally, I'm content to let them duke it out in the primaries and then give whichever one wins my vote in November.
#4 sounds like it would be incredibly difficult to prove. I think the only chance the plaintiff would have would be to assert that RIAA was prosecuting the case for the purpose of inspiring fear in other potential targets of litigation, even in the face of evidence suggesting the plaintiff's innocence in the original suit.
Anyone else have any ideas?
WhudItellya? Subtle.
(Honestly, I knew that at some point, but spaced it. Thanks for pointing it out.)
Yeah, but to the best of my knowledge MSIE doesn't customize the content of that page any way, or communicate with an external server before rendering it - it just prints the pretty message.
:) )
Or maybe it does, but the customization is like, subtle, man.
(Warning: I haven't read TFA either.
Hee. Every time someone says "it's always in the last place you look," I feel a mild compulsion to ask why you'd keep looking if you had already found it. I think your formulation is funnier. :)
To give Mass Effect its due, its pacing and story was better than plenty of "name" flicks out there (you listening to me, Sunshine? I had such high hopes...). But to suggest that it's better than, say, There Will Be Blood... I mean, c'mon now.
IANAL.
But you (or your lawyer friend) is simplifying things rather a lot. Documents that are not considered "creative" can absolutely be subject to copyright. Take, for example, the following notes from the US Copyright Office on "Who May Claim Copyright":
No idea how something like this applies to a legal document - if I'm a reporter, and a company issues a Cease & Desist on me in connection to a story I'm writing, may I cite Fair Use in order to quote it for journalistic purposes? - but it certainly seems to make the issue a bit less cut and dried than your summary.
I know, that's what I thought.
But then again... a few weeks ago I was involved in a phone call with one of our clients. They're a huge client for us, to a degree that they can significantly influence the future direction of our product by complaining loud enough, and our first client to use some new "high-availability" features we're gradually rolling out.
In the course of our conversation, one of the client's guys essentially pooped on a large part of our product roadmap, basically because it involved a load balancer. And when we asked why, he said, "Because nobody in the world has been able to demonstrate a working, network-based load balancing solution."
And that's it. Seriously. As if the entire notion of network based load balancing was a hoax perpetrated on the IT industry, and Google and Yahoo were just having a laugh on us while relying on plain old round-robin DNS or something. I mean, this client has two whole nodes to load balance, and that's clearly out of the reach of, say, F5...
(Okay. Tangent. Sorry.)
I forced myself to read that block quote in its entirety, and now I regret the decision. I think I just lost about 10 IQ points.
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