Between $130 and $150 million dollars, depending on what happened to the $20 million that seems to have "vanished" between the refitting company and the folks who ordered the plane.
Which is fine when you work for a big bank. Leverage and all that kind of thing. But what about a small bank (or whatever)? "This is how it is, Mack. Take it or leave it." A smaller outfit may not be able to "leave it" and remain in business and the supplier will know that and take full advantage.
The VCR was the best thing that ever happened to Hollywood.
And the worst thing that ever happened to movie theatres. The "useful life" of a film is shorter than ever. Back when VCR's were new, there was a big kerfuffle from the theatre owners when some of the movie companies released material on video that was less than ten years old! Now, most videos come out in 6 to eight months, and that window is getting smaller all the time.
For the networks to keep the viewing totals up for the major advertising bucks they want
That's not the point. The number of people watching the show != the number of people watching the commercials if you allow the program to be recorded for later viewing. THAT is what the networks are worried about; whether you watch it now or later is irrelevant as long as you watch the commercials too, but once you have the show recordd you can skip the commercials and there goes their revenue stream.
Consider the difference between "hobby" and "business". I can write software for free and for fun and release it for others to use if they want. Or I can write software and hope that lots and lots of people will send me $10. The first method is a hobby, the second is a business (and all of the baggage associated with it).
"I wrote this software and only two people sent me $10." You still have to pay income tax on the $20 you got, just the same as if you had sold fifty thousand copies at $15,000 each.
That's why there could be both Apple Records & Apple Computer
Interesting example that you chose there.
It happens that Apple Records went after Apple Computer way back when over their name. Apple Computer ultimately agreed that they would not make music machines and stay out of the music business to avoid trademark confusion.
Of course after that the Mac gained sound capability. That's why one of the "stock" Macintosh sounds is called SOSUME.
I think it would only be responsible for any company that could piss off the government or a mega-corp to keep their client list in a destructable fashion
Actually, that would have to be a "destructed" fashion. That it, non-existent.
If you have information in a "destructable fashion" and receive a subpoena for said information, you can't destroy then destroy it. Contempt of court and all of that good stuff.
In fact, I don't know of any other word that could be used in it's place.
"Box". "Activity Session". "Function Screen". "Individual Program Area". Any of those would probably do.
Not that it matters, of course. But there are other words that could have been used. The point, I guess, is that the alternate words were NOT used, and "window" was chosen and has entered into common use.
Microsoft is a criminal company, and has been proven to be such in a court of law.
Microsoft has some extremely unsavory (to say the least) business practices and some of their actions can be legitimately compared to a type of computer Mafia.
By using their products you are tacitly condoning their actions and doing business with a criminal.
There, how's that for an "ethical" anti-Microsoft stand?
I remember reading some time ago about a book of truly random numbers that was published some years ago (before computers, I think). They used invoice numbers off of the "spike" in some large warehouse to compile the list of random numbers.
Ah, so reading someone's diary is less of a privacy invasion than listening in on their telephone calls?
Indeed. This short article was just posted at http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSWeirdNews0201/04_diary-cp.html
Diary entry detailing car theft is woman's undoing
STRATFORD, Ont. (CP) -- A woman has learned that recording your crimes in a diary isn't a good idea.
The 37-year-old's entry into her diary detailing plans to steal a vehicle backfired when police who came to her apartment saw the open book.
"Guess I'll get ready to see what kind of car I can grab today," police quoted the entry as saying. "Hopefully one with lots of gas and extra cash for gas."
While investigating a report of a vehicle break-in on Monday, police followed fresh footprints in the snow to the woman's apartment, said Insp. John Hagarty.
The woman answered the door in her pyjamas and asked the officers if she could have time to get dressed, said Hagarty.
While the officers waited for the woman to change, they noticed an open diary on the kitchen table.
In an entry written shortly before the officers arrived, the woman stated: "Well so much for that idea. I got caught getting out of a woman's truck, she freaked."
The woman was arrested and the diary was confiscated as evidence.
Police have not released her name or the specific charges she faces.
He probably looked at a web page that had your email address included on it at some point in time. Then the virus grabbed your address out of his IE cache.
The way to actually trace who leaks a document of this type is to use what is called a "canary trap".
Send the message to all of your people, but make each one slightly different. An extra comma, a changed word or re-arranged sentence, or whatever. Then sit back and wait for the leak. Compare the leaked document to the list of documents sent out, and whichever one matches, that's your leak.
I use Gnumeric to keep all of my businesses books on. Mind you, it's not a particularly complex task - Revenue, expenses, payroll and that's it. Each on its own spreadsheet.
If you're wondering what business, I own and operate a theatre.
I also use Kword for my modest word processing needs. I would like to use AbiWord, but have never managed to make it print properly to my Canon BJ250 printer - the letters always come out squashed together.
I've now put this on my to-do-list. I want to find this out for sure.
RIAA: "Hey Charlie, this copy protection isn't hurting our CD sales at all. Look at these sales figures - demographics indicate that even computer professionals are buying this CD. We can copy protect our entire catalogue with no ill effect on sales."
I can make a damn good first-generation analog copy of a digital work. Subsequent copies of that first-generation copy can be identical to the first generation, if I record to digital media. It's not like videotape where the 100th generation was a snowstorm, and the tape itself had a limited useful lifespan.
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Between $130 and $150 million dollars, depending on what happened to the $20 million that seems to have "vanished" between the refitting company and the folks who ordered the plane.
According to the article, anyway.
Which is fine when you work for a big bank. Leverage and all that kind of thing. But what about a small bank (or whatever)? "This is how it is, Mack. Take it or leave it." A smaller outfit may not be able to "leave it" and remain in business and the supplier will know that and take full advantage.
The VCR was the best thing that ever happened to Hollywood.
And the worst thing that ever happened to movie theatres. The "useful life" of a film is shorter than ever. Back when VCR's were new, there was a big kerfuffle from the theatre owners when some of the movie companies released material on video that was less than ten years old! Now, most videos come out in 6 to eight months, and that window is getting smaller all the time.
For the networks to keep the viewing totals up for the major advertising bucks they want
That's not the point. The number of people watching the show != the number of people watching the commercials if you allow the program to be recorded for later viewing. THAT is what the networks are worried about; whether you watch it now or later is irrelevant as long as you watch the commercials too, but once you have the show recordd you can skip the commercials and there goes their revenue stream.
The only situation where the requirement makes sense
is where someone has an "out-of-region DVD" that they want to play; the official Windows players all do that handy region-checking thing, I think.
provided that Joe Consumer uses Windows.
Joe Consumer does use Windows. At least, the average teenybopper purchasing the new Nsync or Britney Spears or whatever.
Sad but true. And unfortunately, this playback ability will likely take a lot of the wind out of the mass-protest that would otherwise occur.
Presumably because the $10 bought perfection.
Correct.
The $10 put you into "business".
I don't get it.
Consider the difference between "hobby" and "business". I can write software for free and for fun and release it for others to use if they want. Or I can write software and hope that lots and lots of people will send me $10. The first method is a hobby, the second is a business (and all of the baggage associated with it).
"I wrote this software and only two people sent me $10." You still have to pay income tax on the $20 you got, just the same as if you had sold fifty thousand copies at $15,000 each.
there has been a plain-X11 version of a similar thing
http://fsv.sourceforge.net
That's why there could be both Apple Records & Apple Computer
Interesting example that you chose there.
It happens that Apple Records went after Apple Computer way back when over their name. Apple Computer ultimately agreed that they would not make music machines and stay out of the music business to avoid trademark confusion.
Of course after that the Mac gained sound capability. That's why one of the "stock" Macintosh sounds is called SOSUME.
Bookstores forced to tell who bought what,
Yup.
mailing list subscribers revealed
Yup.
I think it would only be responsible for any company that could piss off the government or a mega-corp to keep their client list in a destructable fashion
Actually, that would have to be a "destructed" fashion. That it, non-existent.
If you have information in a "destructable fashion" and receive a subpoena for said information, you can't destroy then destroy it. Contempt of court and all of that good stuff.
It is not illegal to have a monopoly.
It is illegal to use that monopoly to do "bad things".
MS has been found guilty of doing some of those "bad things" through abuse of their monopoly. The monopoly itself is not illegal.
In fact, I don't know of any other word that could be used in it's place.
"Box". "Activity Session". "Function Screen". "Individual Program Area". Any of those would probably do.
Not that it matters, of course. But there are other words that could have been used. The point, I guess, is that the alternate words were NOT used, and "window" was chosen and has entered into common use.
Microsoft is a criminal company, and has been proven to be such in a court of law.
Microsoft has some extremely unsavory (to say the least) business practices and some of their actions can be legitimately compared to a type of computer Mafia.
By using their products you are tacitly condoning their actions and doing business with a criminal.
There, how's that for an "ethical" anti-Microsoft stand?
Capital gains (income from sale of shares) is also taxed at a much lower rate than dividend income.
So did I. Hmm... I guess we're both dating ourselves here.
Sigh...
Actually, sourcerer is the name of a disassembler for the Commodore 64 and, I think, Apple II. I remember using it back when...
I remember reading some time ago about a book of truly random numbers that was published some years ago (before computers, I think). They used invoice numbers off of the "spike" in some large warehouse to compile the list of random numbers.
If you're "up to something" then you get a laptop and store the laptop in a secure safe when it's not in your immediate possession.
That should take care of things nicely, I would think.
Ah, so reading someone's diary is less of a privacy invasion than listening in on their telephone calls?
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Indeed. This short article was just posted at http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSWeirdNews0201/04_diary-c
Diary entry detailing car theft is woman's undoing
STRATFORD, Ont. (CP) -- A woman has learned that recording your crimes in a diary isn't a good idea.
The 37-year-old's entry into her diary detailing plans to steal a vehicle backfired when police who came to her apartment saw the open book.
"Guess I'll get ready to see what kind of car I can grab today," police quoted the entry as saying. "Hopefully one with lots of gas and extra cash for gas."
While investigating a report of a vehicle break-in on Monday, police followed fresh footprints in the snow to the woman's apartment, said Insp. John Hagarty.
The woman answered the door in her pyjamas and asked the officers if she could have time to get dressed, said Hagarty.
While the officers waited for the woman to change, they noticed an open diary on the kitchen table.
In an entry written shortly before the officers arrived, the woman stated: "Well so much for that idea. I got caught getting out of a woman's truck, she freaked."
The woman was arrested and the diary was confiscated as evidence.
Police have not released her name or the specific charges she faces.
Never found out why he had my email address.
He probably looked at a web page that had your email address included on it at some point in time. Then the virus grabbed your address out of his IE cache.
The way to actually trace who leaks a document of this type is to use what is called a "canary trap".
Send the message to all of your people, but make each one slightly different. An extra comma, a changed word or re-arranged sentence, or whatever. Then sit back and wait for the leak. Compare the leaked document to the list of documents sent out, and whichever one matches, that's your leak.
I use Gnumeric to keep all of my businesses books on. Mind you, it's not a particularly complex task - Revenue, expenses, payroll and that's it. Each on its own spreadsheet.
If you're wondering what business, I own and operate a theatre.
I also use Kword for my modest word processing needs. I would like to use AbiWord, but have never managed to make it print properly to my Canon BJ250 printer - the letters always come out squashed together.
I've now put this on my to-do-list. I want to find this out for sure.
RIAA: "Hey Charlie, this copy protection isn't hurting our CD sales at all. Look at these sales figures - demographics indicate that even computer professionals are buying this CD. We can copy protect our entire catalogue with no ill effect on sales."
I don't understand the difference here.
I can make a damn good first-generation analog copy of a digital work. Subsequent copies of that first-generation copy can be identical to the first generation, if I record to digital media. It's not like videotape where the 100th generation was a snowstorm, and the tape itself had a limited useful lifespan.
it was never possible to put a videotape into a computer.
Alpha Micro AM1000 computers are backed up onto VHS video tape.