If "promoting copyright infringement" was a crime, then all broadband providers would be shut down long ago.
You seem to be confusing promoting with enabling. Here in the UK every broadband advert I've seen that boasts of how quickly you can download music, movies, etc has a small print disclaimer reminding people that they need the copyright holder's permission to do so.
Uh, no - expose a conductor to a changing magnetic field and you generate an electric current within the conductor (which will need to be part of a circuit for the current to flow, etc).
In other words, just waving a magnet around achieves nothing without a conductor there in which to generate the current.
As far as I'm concerned, bona fide means "real, not false". There's also a plural form that has some kind of "good faith" meaning, but that appears to be legal jargon.
I understand the argument (and for what it's worth I agree that copyright terms should be far shorter than they currently are), but can you really think of that many creative people who have actually done that?
Just as with society in general, it is the duty of every member of a group to speak out against unacceptable behaviour by its members. It most certainly is his job to step in and say "enough"; that doesn't mean that he thinks the woman/women affected need him to protect them. The entire point of grouping together is to help one another; that applies just as much to solving problems like this as it does to solving technical problems (or whatever else the primary focus of the group is).
In the wake of the BSE/vCJD scare, can you really blame them?
(I say "them" as although I'm a European, I'm not scared of GMO food - as others have pointed out though, I am worried about the attendant patent-abuse issues)
Horses for courses; personally I'm not about to cancel my cable subscription, but I never watch sport (literally never, absolutely none of it interests me in the slightest).
I wonder if that's because your gadget-loving friends already have PCs, consoles, etc to connect to the TV that handle that functionality, and if "normal" people might be keener on them.
That said I *think* my TV has some kind of smart functionality built-in, but I've not investigated it as my Blu-ray player does, so I just use that...
I tend towards a more cynical or pragmatic attitude when it comes to parting with my or the public's money
Never mind money, I tend to be sceptical when someone is claiming such a radical departure from accepted scientific knowledge. That doesn't automatically make it a con (huge advances are made in surprising directions from time to time after all), but extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof - and so far, I've not seen that proof.
That'll be because your time at work earns them more than the 3% they gave you - specifically, that losing 5 days of your time costs them much more than that 3%. You're making the classic mistake of seeing your time as being worth what you're paid for it, but it's worth much much more than that to your employer. For example, at my company I'm charged out at a daily rate anywhere between 3x and 5x what I'm paid (depending on the project). (That's just direct, chargeable rate of course, and ignores the occasional help given to other people that saves them time, and thus saves the company money.)
I can't speak for anyone else, but I've been browsing/. at +5 for years. Occasionally I'll delve deeper into a thread, to see the context, but my experience is that once an article has attracted a couple of hundred comments or so almost anything below about +3 isn't worth reading.
In my experience, it's the guy who gets the job done at least tolerably well, but makes pretty damn sure that everyone knows about it. This is generally done subtly, e.g. by just chatting to the right people in the kitchen/by the watercooler/in the pub after work, but it generally ensures that they're considered above and beyond the guy who does the job even better but keeps his head down, his mouth shut and consequently doesn't get noticed at all.
That's not to disagree with your main point, that in general embarrassing your boss is a bad idea.
My laptop (an HP Pavilion) is heading towards 6 years old and while it has some cosmetic damage (and the built-in mic hasn't worked in years) it's still perfectly serviceable. If yours aren't lasting then, as others have said, you're buying the wrong ones.
I've not read the book but I seem to remember being told (during a lecture - I have a degree in Physics) that he wasn't nominated for Relativity because (at the time) it was too controversial; that may well correspond to "not yet fully verified/accepted".
Does it decrease if you buy your own phone straight out?
I can't speak for the situation in the US, but here in the UK you can get SIM-only contracts that are generally substantially cheaper than SIM-and-phone ones. But no, once your contract is up your tariff doesn't automatically get better; however threatening to leave can have that affect.
And the ability to just switch it off and watch/do something less boring instead if it turns out to be a pile of crap without feeling like you've wasted a bunch of money and time is pretty sweet too.
Well for me, the major benefit of my HTC Desire over an iPhone is not having to use iTunes - or indeed any other third party application. It presents as a mass storage device, so I just copy files over with the method of my choice.
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If "promoting copyright infringement" was a crime, then all broadband providers would be shut down long ago.
You seem to be confusing promoting with enabling. Here in the UK every broadband advert I've seen that boasts of how quickly you can download music, movies, etc has a small print disclaimer reminding people that they need the copyright holder's permission to do so.
And visitors, and people doing business in the US (e.g. that have servers hosted there), etc.
Uh, no - expose a conductor to a changing magnetic field and you generate an electric current within the conductor (which will need to be part of a circuit for the current to flow, etc).
In other words, just waving a magnet around achieves nothing without a conductor there in which to generate the current.
there are still differences between playing loud music all night, waterboarding and flaying
While I'm not actually disagreeing with you, prolonged sleep deprivation is more than an inconvenience and can potentially be fatal.
Congratulations on getting an Informative mod for utter rubbish.
As far as I'm concerned, bona fide means "real, not false". There's also a plural form that has some kind of "good faith" meaning, but that appears to be legal jargon.
I understand the argument (and for what it's worth I agree that copyright terms should be far shorter than they currently are), but can you really think of that many creative people who have actually done that?
Just as with society in general, it is the duty of every member of a group to speak out against unacceptable behaviour by its members. It most certainly is his job to step in and say "enough"; that doesn't mean that he thinks the woman/women affected need him to protect them. The entire point of grouping together is to help one another; that applies just as much to solving problems like this as it does to solving technical problems (or whatever else the primary focus of the group is).
In the wake of the BSE/vCJD scare, can you really blame them?
(I say "them" as although I'm a European, I'm not scared of GMO food - as others have pointed out though, I am worried about the attendant patent-abuse issues)
Horses for courses; personally I'm not about to cancel my cable subscription, but I never watch sport (literally never, absolutely none of it interests me in the slightest).
I wonder if that's because your gadget-loving friends already have PCs, consoles, etc to connect to the TV that handle that functionality, and if "normal" people might be keener on them.
That said I *think* my TV has some kind of smart functionality built-in, but I've not investigated it as my Blu-ray player does, so I just use that...
I believe that he's implying that the cost is going up because of increased demand due to all the thefts.
I tend towards a more cynical or pragmatic attitude when it comes to parting with my or the public's money
Never mind money, I tend to be sceptical when someone is claiming such a radical departure from accepted scientific knowledge. That doesn't automatically make it a con (huge advances are made in surprising directions from time to time after all), but extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof - and so far, I've not seen that proof.
That'll be because your time at work earns them more than the 3% they gave you - specifically, that losing 5 days of your time costs them much more than that 3%. You're making the classic mistake of seeing your time as being worth what you're paid for it, but it's worth much much more than that to your employer. For example, at my company I'm charged out at a daily rate anywhere between 3x and 5x what I'm paid (depending on the project). (That's just direct, chargeable rate of course, and ignores the occasional help given to other people that saves them time, and thus saves the company money.)
Yes, that was rather his point.
He didn't say he doesn't have a firewall, he said he doesn't run AV software.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I've been browsing /. at +5 for years. Occasionally I'll delve deeper into a thread, to see the context, but my experience is that once an article has attracted a couple of hundred comments or so almost anything below about +3 isn't worth reading.
While this is true, the chances of acceptance are minute; many people dislike playing games they have no realistic chance of winning.
In my experience, it's the guy who gets the job done at least tolerably well, but makes pretty damn sure that everyone knows about it. This is generally done subtly, e.g. by just chatting to the right people in the kitchen/by the watercooler/in the pub after work, but it generally ensures that they're considered above and beyond the guy who does the job even better but keeps his head down, his mouth shut and consequently doesn't get noticed at all.
That's not to disagree with your main point, that in general embarrassing your boss is a bad idea.
My laptop (an HP Pavilion) is heading towards 6 years old and while it has some cosmetic damage (and the built-in mic hasn't worked in years) it's still perfectly serviceable. If yours aren't lasting then, as others have said, you're buying the wrong ones.
"Propriety" is also a word. Not the one he meant, but it's not inconceivable that it was an auto-correct/spell check error.
I've not read the book but I seem to remember being told (during a lecture - I have a degree in Physics) that he wasn't nominated for Relativity because (at the time) it was too controversial; that may well correspond to "not yet fully verified/accepted".
Does it decrease if you buy your own phone straight out?
I can't speak for the situation in the US, but here in the UK you can get SIM-only contracts that are generally substantially cheaper than SIM-and-phone ones. But no, once your contract is up your tariff doesn't automatically get better; however threatening to leave can have that affect.
And the ability to just switch it off and watch/do something less boring instead if it turns out to be a pile of crap without feeling like you've wasted a bunch of money and time is pretty sweet too.
Well for me, the major benefit of my HTC Desire over an iPhone is not having to use iTunes - or indeed any other third party application. It presents as a mass storage device, so I just copy files over with the method of my choice.