Convenience, impulse shopping, advance availability, special features... I can think of a number of ways the CD can be marketed to make it desirable. Albums this inexpensive via download would certainly take a slice out of things, but would likely not kill the entire market for pre-pressed discs.
I would suggest that damages be equal to the amount of money taken in via the sale of CherryOS, and if the product is registered (probably not), then it would be treble damages. Add attorney fees on top of that. MXS's violations of the GPL make his gains illicit, and so the ill-gotten gains should be turned over to the copyright holders.
Not that I'm a legal scholar, but within my understanding of the law, it seems this is about the furthest they could get, not to mention a reasonable (to me) line of thought for the courts to follow.
That's only if you install OSX. You can also install various other PPC-based OSes through it. I believe Yellow Dog, at the very least, runs more or less properly in PearPC.
NDAs have been upheld by the courts. Look for the case of Elizabeth Coady, who signed a lifetime NDA when she signed on to work for Harpo, Inc, the company that Oprah Winfrey uses to run her show. She lost both at the trial and appellate levels on that count, and chose not to press on to the Supreme Court, so the verdict and opinion stand as precedent.
Yes, you can sign away your First Amendment rights in certain cases, and yes, NDAs are generally valid.
It tells you upfront when you install it that it will upload certain information (the sites you visit) to Google. You have to make the choice when installing it of what version to use -- there is no default for whether Advanced Settings are turned on or off -- and Google clearly spells it out.
Spyware does not clearly spell out what it's doing, or what it does with the information, or even that it is being installed. Big difference.
It finds files by content, and much faster than does the Windows search. Without indexing on, Windows must search every file individually. With the caching on, it's somewhat faster, but still abysmally slow compared to Google's search. There were some very painful limitations until now, particularly the lack of PDF searches. I'm hoping that there will be some ability to customize the searches somewhat further to allow for searching straight text files like.c,.h, or.php.
Google's search utility uses a variant of their own caching technology to make searches much faster. The new plug-in technology will allow someone to make add-ons for searching code.
I'm hoping that they updated the caching mechanism, as IIRC it didn't remove documents that you had moved or deleted. While this is handy sometimes for retrieving accidentally lost information, it does present a bit of a problem in that sometimes you really *want* that information gone.
That was about it, IIRC. Maybe there will be a plug-in for it so that if it is still around, there will be an add-on to allow full updates.
No one is arguing whether there is a growth in the average worldwide temperature. That's been established numerous times. The planet is, IIRC, ~0.7C warmer than it was ~100 years ago. That's not questioned.
What is questioned is the cause. Man-made chemicals? Naturally-released chemicals? Increased solar output? Cosmic rays? Natural planetary cycles?
That's where the research is being conducted. What is causing it, will it continue in a detrimental fashion, and if so, can it be stopped?
Untrue. Most reactor leaks are very survivable. Even when someone gets radiation sickness to the point of symptoms showing, there are treatments that can result in a high survival rate.
In any case, the badges are routinely reviewed for traces of scant activity so that leaks can be addressed more quickly. A weld can weaken and become thin enough to allow through more radiation, for example, than would the normal thickness of the metal. It may not be enough to cause damage, but it may be enough for badges and other meters to pick up and provide warning.
No, they bring in the musicians for the social graces.
This is an eternal quandary, though. If the NSA can't break it easily, then it's considered good. But if the NSA says they approve of it, then it's considered suspicious at best. However, the NSA has to approve of most (all?) of the encryption standards used within the government, and much of the government cannot be trusted to not open their yap at some point, so they have to provide a list of algorithms that they not only approve of, but which are theoretically extremely difficult or impossible to break, even by allies, some of whom have their own incredibly gifted cryptography labs.
A paint fleck that hit one of the windows on the Challenger left a quarter-inch-deep pit. Numerous other points have been hit by space debris, though usually at glancing angles so it's not as readily apparent or damaging. Every so often, the ISS crew have heard pings from tiny debris or perhaps micrometeoroids bouncing off of the hull.
I find it interesting that there are two frontpage Slashdot articles in a row that discuss what happens when a non-engineer (and someone who never had any real connections with engineering at that) is put in charge of engineers.
"Unaffordable, unrealistic, and unachievable"? Maybe the financing would have been problematic, but the latter two are virtually never a problem for engineers left to do their work. The robotics would have to be adapted, yes, but that's not an impossible job.
This is the kind of thing I was hoping to see when O'Keefe left -- evidence of the sheer incompetence that was the upper echelons of NASA management. The minute I heard O'Keefe's line of "faster, better, cheaper" without the appropriate follow-up words "pick two," I knew that NASA was in trouble. Here's hoping that another disconnected bean counter doesn't end up in O'Keefe's old chair.
The FCC is provided certain authority to exercise controls over broadcast and telecommunications media. This is provided by Congress in an effort to provide some level of regulation in the public interest. Members of the FCC are appointed by the president and approved by the Senate. They enforce limits on what can be said based on Congressional approval and court decisions.
Note that the opinions of even "predictable" members of the commissioners can be unpredictable. Powell recently said that he does not believe that the FCC has or should have the authority to regulate cable or satellite TV and radio. Despite being accused of being in the pocket of the companies over which he holds power, he has also come out in favor of time-shifting (once he got a TiVo), something that has rankled the heads of some media companies. Predicting what the FCC is going to do is like predicting how the Supreme Court will rule: you can get close most of the time, but you can never quite be sure.
Not sure about the UK, but in Canada and mainland Europe, much of the population is on at least one prescription medication, often anti-depressants. I've seen estimates suggesting that within the next decade or so, nearly half of the population of the industrialized nations will be on various prescription meds to deal with stress, weight, cholesterol, diabetes, and/or cancer, among other things. I've not had a prescription for anything in probably seven years, and not for anything more than antibiotics in... well, I'm not sure I've ever had anything other than antibiotics prescribed. I've even been lucky enough to avoid even painkillers, except for the occasional local anaesthetic at the dentist and once when I broke my arm as a child.
However, what is an issue is the cost here, since that's not regulated. While some drug manufacturers are correct in saying that the research costs justify the final prices, some others aren't, and huge advertising budgets don't help. (I would like to go back to the days when the drug manufacturers weren't advertising everything everywhere. It at least seemed much quieter then.) Many people will go looking for medications at a lesser cost, not realizing that they may be getting lower-quality illegal imports, sugar pills, or even unknowns. Some people will do this because they want to try Viagra or Cialis but are too embarrassed to talk to their own doctor about it because they suspect that they'll get turned down.
Bzzt. Wrong. It's set in Newport Beach, CA, which is in Orange County, not LA County. It's about 45 minutes to two hours away (depending on driver and traffic).
That's what I said the first time I heard the name of the show, and I live in the very same Orange County in which the show is set. Because of the people my brothers hang out with, I know people from a fairly wide age and geographic range, and prior to this show coming along, no one I knew had ever heard of, let alone used, the term "the O.C." to refer to the area. We'd sometimes say we were "in OC," or "heading back to OC," but putting that particular article in front of it was completely new to us.
Now I have to add people to my hit-list when they use it, much like the people who continue to use "shock and awe" (over-used) or "WMD" (it's NBC, BCNR, or unconventional weapons, people).
Maybe I should quote a couple of things I said, for it appears that you missed them.
For the most part, I've supported those actions, and I'm grateful for the results -- Iraq (both times), Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Libya, Lebanon, and a lot of others.
I favor Teddy Roosevelt's proverb to speak softly and carry a big stick. There's no need to yell at other countries, because we have the muscle to back the words, as many have discovered to their detriment.
I'm not backtracking at all. There are warlike nations -- the US, Britain, France, and much of the Middle East come to mind. Then there are peacelike nations -- Switzerland, Sweden, and a handful of other nations around the globe are in that group. The rest fall in between, either having been under the thumb of a dictator, gone through a civil war, or participated in conflicts only sporadically.
There's a difference between being warmongering and being warlike. Warmongers go to war for the sheer purpose of war, often to force a political, ideological, or religious structure on others. Warlike nations are more likely than some other countries to accept the use of force as a viable method to accomplish goals, which can include noble purposes, but usually will attempt to use other means to avoid the situation. The US most often goes to war to (at least nominally) protect allies or those under subjugation who have no other way out, or for a long time to stop unchecked aggression -- see WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and the first Iraq War for that.
If you pop around and read some of my other political posts, you'll see that I am not the standard far-left, anti-conservative, Republican-hating, isolationist non-American Slashdotter. I tend to be a somewhat conservative realist as I watch what my governments -- meaning the ones in Sacramento, CA, and Washington, DC -- do to stumble over blaming the other party for society's ills. In the meantime, I try to look at things with a clear head and an open mind, and try to not jump to conclusions.
Flying that high would require you be above 50,000 feet, which for anything shorter than a few hundred miles would make for an uncomfortably sharp ascent/descent. In addition, pressurized cabins are required above 10,000 feet, and that adds to complexity, cost, and weight of the craft.
Better would be to set up contained traffic lanes, where you would exist with normal traffic between 6000 and 10,000 feet before taking an 'offramp' of sorts to land at these alternate airports.
Not a bad concept, though prohibitively expensive to set up. If you could figure out that part, you might be able to pull it off.
Those problems are wide-ranging enough to justify having the pilot and copilot inside, because the potential problems with remote-control are too numerous to risk. However, pilots who have ridden along in auto-landing tests have reported that they strongly disliked the experience, because they felt that they had a lack of control of the situation.
The US Navy and Air Force will likely be the first to have fully automated craft. Right now, the unmanned drones are mostly automated, and I think they handle take-off and landing on their own, with override capabilities on the part of the ground crew. The next generation of combat-capable craft, which will probably include fighters, will have a man in the loop for targeting and for emergency landing situations (and maybe not even that part), but that's about it.
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Convenience, impulse shopping, advance availability, special features... I can think of a number of ways the CD can be marketed to make it desirable. Albums this inexpensive via download would certainly take a slice out of things, but would likely not kill the entire market for pre-pressed discs.
I would suggest that damages be equal to the amount of money taken in via the sale of CherryOS, and if the product is registered (probably not), then it would be treble damages. Add attorney fees on top of that. MXS's violations of the GPL make his gains illicit, and so the ill-gotten gains should be turned over to the copyright holders.
Not that I'm a legal scholar, but within my understanding of the law, it seems this is about the furthest they could get, not to mention a reasonable (to me) line of thought for the courts to follow.
That's only if you install OSX. You can also install various other PPC-based OSes through it. I believe Yellow Dog, at the very least, runs more or less properly in PearPC.
NDAs have been upheld by the courts. Look for the case of Elizabeth Coady, who signed a lifetime NDA when she signed on to work for Harpo, Inc, the company that Oprah Winfrey uses to run her show. She lost both at the trial and appellate levels on that count, and chose not to press on to the Supreme Court, so the verdict and opinion stand as precedent.
Yes, you can sign away your First Amendment rights in certain cases, and yes, NDAs are generally valid.
Google makes a network search appliance that may solve this little dilemma for you.
It tells you upfront when you install it that it will upload certain information (the sites you visit) to Google. You have to make the choice when installing it of what version to use -- there is no default for whether Advanced Settings are turned on or off -- and Google clearly spells it out.
Spyware does not clearly spell out what it's doing, or what it does with the information, or even that it is being installed. Big difference.
It finds files by content, and much faster than does the Windows search. Without indexing on, Windows must search every file individually. With the caching on, it's somewhat faster, but still abysmally slow compared to Google's search. There were some very painful limitations until now, particularly the lack of PDF searches. I'm hoping that there will be some ability to customize the searches somewhat further to allow for searching straight text files like .c, .h, or .php.
Google's search utility uses a variant of their own caching technology to make searches much faster. The new plug-in technology will allow someone to make add-ons for searching code.
I'm hoping that they updated the caching mechanism, as IIRC it didn't remove documents that you had moved or deleted. While this is handy sometimes for retrieving accidentally lost information, it does present a bit of a problem in that sometimes you really *want* that information gone.
That was about it, IIRC. Maybe there will be a plug-in for it so that if it is still around, there will be an add-on to allow full updates.
Some people object to the information that the toolbar uploads to Google in exchange for using the advanced features.
No one is arguing whether there is a growth in the average worldwide temperature. That's been established numerous times. The planet is, IIRC, ~0.7C warmer than it was ~100 years ago. That's not questioned.
What is questioned is the cause. Man-made chemicals? Naturally-released chemicals? Increased solar output? Cosmic rays? Natural planetary cycles?
That's where the research is being conducted. What is causing it, will it continue in a detrimental fashion, and if so, can it be stopped?
Brain/ONS cancer incidence rates in the US dropped by 0.9% from 1997 to 2001.
Untrue. Most reactor leaks are very survivable. Even when someone gets radiation sickness to the point of symptoms showing, there are treatments that can result in a high survival rate.
In any case, the badges are routinely reviewed for traces of scant activity so that leaks can be addressed more quickly. A weld can weaken and become thin enough to allow through more radiation, for example, than would the normal thickness of the metal. It may not be enough to cause damage, but it may be enough for badges and other meters to pick up and provide warning.
No, they bring in the musicians for the social graces.
This is an eternal quandary, though. If the NSA can't break it easily, then it's considered good. But if the NSA says they approve of it, then it's considered suspicious at best. However, the NSA has to approve of most (all?) of the encryption standards used within the government, and much of the government cannot be trusted to not open their yap at some point, so they have to provide a list of algorithms that they not only approve of, but which are theoretically extremely difficult or impossible to break, even by allies, some of whom have their own incredibly gifted cryptography labs.
What do you do? What do you do?
A paint fleck that hit one of the windows on the Challenger left a quarter-inch-deep pit. Numerous other points have been hit by space debris, though usually at glancing angles so it's not as readily apparent or damaging. Every so often, the ISS crew have heard pings from tiny debris or perhaps micrometeoroids bouncing off of the hull.
I find it interesting that there are two frontpage Slashdot articles in a row that discuss what happens when a non-engineer (and someone who never had any real connections with engineering at that) is put in charge of engineers.
"Unaffordable, unrealistic, and unachievable"? Maybe the financing would have been problematic, but the latter two are virtually never a problem for engineers left to do their work. The robotics would have to be adapted, yes, but that's not an impossible job.
This is the kind of thing I was hoping to see when O'Keefe left -- evidence of the sheer incompetence that was the upper echelons of NASA management. The minute I heard O'Keefe's line of "faster, better, cheaper" without the appropriate follow-up words "pick two," I knew that NASA was in trouble. Here's hoping that another disconnected bean counter doesn't end up in O'Keefe's old chair.
The FCC is provided certain authority to exercise controls over broadcast and telecommunications media. This is provided by Congress in an effort to provide some level of regulation in the public interest. Members of the FCC are appointed by the president and approved by the Senate. They enforce limits on what can be said based on Congressional approval and court decisions.
Note that the opinions of even "predictable" members of the commissioners can be unpredictable. Powell recently said that he does not believe that the FCC has or should have the authority to regulate cable or satellite TV and radio. Despite being accused of being in the pocket of the companies over which he holds power, he has also come out in favor of time-shifting (once he got a TiVo), something that has rankled the heads of some media companies. Predicting what the FCC is going to do is like predicting how the Supreme Court will rule: you can get close most of the time, but you can never quite be sure.
Re: Prescription medicine:
Not sure about the UK, but in Canada and mainland Europe, much of the population is on at least one prescription medication, often anti-depressants. I've seen estimates suggesting that within the next decade or so, nearly half of the population of the industrialized nations will be on various prescription meds to deal with stress, weight, cholesterol, diabetes, and/or cancer, among other things. I've not had a prescription for anything in probably seven years, and not for anything more than antibiotics in... well, I'm not sure I've ever had anything other than antibiotics prescribed. I've even been lucky enough to avoid even painkillers, except for the occasional local anaesthetic at the dentist and once when I broke my arm as a child.
However, what is an issue is the cost here, since that's not regulated. While some drug manufacturers are correct in saying that the research costs justify the final prices, some others aren't, and huge advertising budgets don't help. (I would like to go back to the days when the drug manufacturers weren't advertising everything everywhere. It at least seemed much quieter then.) Many people will go looking for medications at a lesser cost, not realizing that they may be getting lower-quality illegal imports, sugar pills, or even unknowns. Some people will do this because they want to try Viagra or Cialis but are too embarrassed to talk to their own doctor about it because they suspect that they'll get turned down.
X-Files was filmed in British Columbia, but was set all over the country. Where it's filmed is not where it's set.
:)
Therefore, bzzzt, you're still wrong.
Bzzt. Wrong. It's set in Newport Beach, CA, which is in Orange County, not LA County. It's about 45 minutes to two hours away (depending on driver and traffic).
That's what I said the first time I heard the name of the show, and I live in the very same Orange County in which the show is set. Because of the people my brothers hang out with, I know people from a fairly wide age and geographic range, and prior to this show coming along, no one I knew had ever heard of, let alone used, the term "the O.C." to refer to the area. We'd sometimes say we were "in OC," or "heading back to OC," but putting that particular article in front of it was completely new to us.
Now I have to add people to my hit-list when they use it, much like the people who continue to use "shock and awe" (over-used) or "WMD" (it's NBC, BCNR, or unconventional weapons, people).
Internal budgets probably still mattered. Movie marketing execs have to justify their budgets, and the TV ad execs need to reach their sales quotas.
On-topickness? :)
Maybe I should quote a couple of things I said, for it appears that you missed them.
For the most part, I've supported those actions, and I'm grateful for the results -- Iraq (both times), Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Libya, Lebanon, and a lot of others.
I favor Teddy Roosevelt's proverb to speak softly and carry a big stick. There's no need to yell at other countries, because we have the muscle to back the words, as many have discovered to their detriment.
I'm not backtracking at all. There are warlike nations -- the US, Britain, France, and much of the Middle East come to mind. Then there are peacelike nations -- Switzerland, Sweden, and a handful of other nations around the globe are in that group. The rest fall in between, either having been under the thumb of a dictator, gone through a civil war, or participated in conflicts only sporadically.
There's a difference between being warmongering and being warlike. Warmongers go to war for the sheer purpose of war, often to force a political, ideological, or religious structure on others. Warlike nations are more likely than some other countries to accept the use of force as a viable method to accomplish goals, which can include noble purposes, but usually will attempt to use other means to avoid the situation. The US most often goes to war to (at least nominally) protect allies or those under subjugation who have no other way out, or for a long time to stop unchecked aggression -- see WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and the first Iraq War for that.
If you pop around and read some of my other political posts, you'll see that I am not the standard far-left, anti-conservative, Republican-hating, isolationist non-American Slashdotter. I tend to be a somewhat conservative realist as I watch what my governments -- meaning the ones in Sacramento, CA, and Washington, DC -- do to stumble over blaming the other party for society's ills. In the meantime, I try to look at things with a clear head and an open mind, and try to not jump to conclusions.
Flying that high would require you be above 50,000 feet, which for anything shorter than a few hundred miles would make for an uncomfortably sharp ascent/descent. In addition, pressurized cabins are required above 10,000 feet, and that adds to complexity, cost, and weight of the craft.
Better would be to set up contained traffic lanes, where you would exist with normal traffic between 6000 and 10,000 feet before taking an 'offramp' of sorts to land at these alternate airports.
Not a bad concept, though prohibitively expensive to set up. If you could figure out that part, you might be able to pull it off.
Those problems are wide-ranging enough to justify having the pilot and copilot inside, because the potential problems with remote-control are too numerous to risk. However, pilots who have ridden along in auto-landing tests have reported that they strongly disliked the experience, because they felt that they had a lack of control of the situation.
The US Navy and Air Force will likely be the first to have fully automated craft. Right now, the unmanned drones are mostly automated, and I think they handle take-off and landing on their own, with override capabilities on the part of the ground crew. The next generation of combat-capable craft, which will probably include fighters, will have a man in the loop for targeting and for emergency landing situations (and maybe not even that part), but that's about it.