I think you are right in that what it is trying to say is that even if you distribute in executable form only you do not have to pay an extra license (i.e. not open source). Unfortunately as far as I can see (IANAL) it does actually manage to exclude you from distributing any source files written in the IDE.
I suspect the problem is a lawyer who has been told to rewrite it to allow a certain scenario and has managed to muck up an existing right. It should say something like "in executable form with or without any source code".
On a similar point when Chernobyl 'sprung a leak' I was at university at Aberdeen (in Scotland). Some high ups in one of the departments decided to take one of their geiger counters outside the department and check the radiation levels (being built of granite the background in Aberdeen is about 4x UK norm).
When they got out they switched on the detector and the needle nailed itself to the top of the meter. It was not until they were back inside (a transition that occurred very quickly indeed) that they noticed they had not a Geiger-Muller tube (for detecting radioactive particles) in the detector but a scintillation detector which counts very weak light pulses. History does not record exactly how stupid they felt.
By placing the drivers in hardware they also make it a lot harder for people to bypass the regioning on the player. This is I imagine quite important to Sony as they were not best loved of the MPAA when it was discovered you could bypass the regioning on a Japanese PS2 by pressing buttons on the handset.
I imagine as people learn to program PS2's and reverse engineer the DVD drivers it would be possible to write your own region switchable drivers. By placing the drivers in the hardware this is more difficult if not impossible.
In the main I do not expect to actually get my news from Slashdot (though I must admit there are a number of things I see first here). Rather Slashdot is about providing a forum for the discussion of these pieces of news.
If the article does not appear the instance the news hits the web then that's not a problem. After all there are times when such news is repudiated or modified by other sources shortly after its release. Slashdot only post a handful of stories any day and they want to wait long enough to be sure that the item is worth posting and not just a flash in the pan.
The problem is that unless you know they are applying for the patent then you cannot challenge with prior art before the patent is granted. Challenging a faulty patent is probably more expensive than applying for it yourself before anyone else. Also if you don't use it then it is unlikely to be challenged and so appears on your company's books as an asset
to want to say anything good about the Redmond Empire but if this patent is fairly closely linked to the Windows system (as references to the registry seem to imply) then this may be more of a protective patent to prevent others from patenting the idea and either charging excessive licensing fees or preventing anyone else from using the ideas at all.
If they hold the patent (even if it can be considered invalid) then no-one else should be able to get such a patent. This prevents them from having to mount an expensive patent challenge. However if they start to try and use this patent to restrict others from using the same method then that would be bad.
In another example the real problem with the Amazon case was not necessarily the patent itself (which prevented anyone else from getting it and using it against them). The problem was when Amazon started to use it as a commercial weapon against their competitors.
I heard that 5 hours of footage were shot, but no film is ever made with the intention of using everything that was filmed.
The source for this is a book called "The Making of Dune" (by Ed Naha). It stated that David Lynch's first cut of the film was about 5 hours long. The first cut of any film is normally quite long but this was meant to be a fairly tight cut. Some of the extra footage can be removed by tightening scenes and removing padding and unnecessary sub plots. But to reduce the film to the studio's required length a lot more had to be sacrificed.
This happens a lot and the discarded footage is the source material for a lot of the Special Editions such as Aliens and Abyss. Though I believe the extra footage for CE3K was specially filmed.
Another memory of this book is that after the first screening of test footage of the sandworms all the men came out feeling inadequate and they realised they were going to have to be very careful about how they filmed the worms in future.
IIRC David Lynch's original cut of the Movie was some 5 hours long. In order to get it down to the final length they removed entire subplots. I don't know anything of this "Director's Cut" but suspect it restores some of this material.
In particular they removed the subplot involving Paul having to kill a Fremen (Jamis?), when they meet some Fremen while escaping, in order to gain acceptance. He then takes responsibility for his widow and children (who become in effect his bodyguards). This explains the two young boys seen in amongst the groups of Fremen around Paul later in the movie.
There was a story at the time that an editor or some such from the book company that published Dune in the US was invited to a preview of the film. Apparently his main comment at the end of the showing was a muttered "It didn't rain at the end of the book!".
When I visited DC (some time ago) I was told that each state was asked to send statues of two famous people from their state to be displayed in Washington (I think Congress thought the pigeons didn't have enough targets).
Florida considered Air Conditioning to be so important that one of their statues was of the inventor of Air Conditioning (I can't remember his name).
I notice that this is a translated item and I wonder if the original was an April fool or some such.
To get an idea of just how different Rambus and SDRAM are inside you could take a look at "Dissecting Rambus" on Tom's Hardware Guide. A lot of the argument of this and the followup "Rambus Revisited" is why would you want Rambus anyway. Avoid spending the extra money and wait for DDR SDRAM.
18 months with no restart for my Psion 5. Rebuilt the ThinkPad about 6 time in the same period (that's what I get for using Win9X - we'll see how long Win2K lasts).
As moderators seem to be taking this seriously I'm going to repeat the points I made to this post elsewhere.
I browse at 0 because some very relevant and interesting points are made by AC (and sometimes some items are moderated down for bizarre reasons). I am however very glad that moderators are removing the particularly poor items. I do not browse at -1 in order to avoid what is down there. In fact it is interesting to reflect that the only people who could see your post were those who do browse at 0 and so defeat your argument as to why AC comments should not be moderated down.
I would be interested to know what the percentages are for the various default browsing levels. After that comment that most people browse at at least 1.
As I understand it the moderators themselves don't have to moderate at 0 (I've never moderated so don't know for sure). So only logged in users who normally browse at 0 (unless they set their browse level specifically down to 0 when moderating) are seeing these posts to moderate them.
I would say that your comment about how you claim to meta moderate shows that you have a poor grasp of the function of the 0 and the -1 levels. After all if -1 weren't there to collect the dross it would always appear at 0. Do you maybe not approve of the -1 level at all?
It's interesting that you posted this as AC because if you are posting at 0 simply to make a visiblity point then why didn't you include your ID in the post?
Note to Rob:
I will now show my ignorance by asking exactly what meta-moderation is and who engages in it. Also if someone who does it apparently without regard to the item that was moderated (apart from whether or not it was posted by AC) is qualified to do it.
I browse at 0 because some very relevant and interesting points are made by AC (and sometimes some items are moderated down for bizarre reasons). I am however very glad that moderators are removing the particularly poor items. I do not browse at -1 to avoid what is down there. In fact it is interesting to reflect that the only people who can see your post are those who do browse at 0 and so defeat your argument as to why AC comments should not be moderated down.
I would be interested to know what the percentages are for the various default browsing levels. After that comment that most people browse at at least 1.
As I understand it the moderators themselves don't have to moderate at 0 (I've never moderated so don't know for sure). So only logged in users who normally browse at 0 (unless they set their browse level specifically down to 0 when moderating) are seeing these posts to moderate them.
I would say that your comment about how you meta moderate shows that you have a poor grasp of the function of the 0 and the -1 levels. After all if -1 weren't there to collect the dross it would always appear. Do you maybe not approve of the -1 level at all?
It's interesting that you posted this as AC because if you are posting at 0 simply to make a visiblity point then why didn't you include your ID?
There were three script writers on Brazil: Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown. Charles McKeown is a British actor who has appeared in several of Gilliam's movies and also cowrote The Adventures of Baron Munchausen with Gilliam.
Source code in electronic form (on disk etc.) is not exempt which is the reason that PGP had to go through the process of printing it, exporting it, and OCRing it.
This is why Applied Cryptography's source CD is not shipped with the book as it would be illegal to export the CD without a license (but not the book containing the same information printed out).
Publications are exempt
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Funnily enough the law that makes it illegal to export encryption hardware/software explicitly exempts publications (books, magazines, and academic papers) from the restriction.
This led to the strange operation by which the international version of PGP used to be created. The current US version's code listing was printed out on paper and this was legally exported. It was then OCRed back into electronic form and then manually examined to correct any OCR mistakes. This could then be compiled to create the non-US version.
According to the Product information on the Manufacturer's Website Linux is already an option as the operating system. It is just iBuyPower who do not seem to be offereing all the options (There is also a DVD).
This is only a very bare bones system unit. The expansion unit gives it exchangeable disk drives but you need to provide your own keyboard, monitor, and mouse (unless unlike me you like touch pads). This means that it is a very portable computer as long as you have all the peripherals at each end.
Also it seems to me that it is missing one or two items. I would have expected a 100baseT RJ45 socket for networking at least, and possibly a modem. I realise that these are possible through the USB but networking and/or on-line access are essentials these days and it is strange they are not part of the core product.
I would guess that the reason they only asked for the removal of the transcripts is because they are copyright material (in effect the script of the show) and as such can be tightly controlled. This is also the reason they can ask for the removal of copyright images from the shows as well.
In terms of fan fiction it is only the trademark rules that could be used and unless there is money being made or the mark is being diluted etc. there is no easy way to demand that it be removed as the copyright actually resides with the fan writers. They cannot however exploit it financially without permission from the trademark owners.
The standard disclaimer you mention actually specifically prevents what they have done from being interpreted as an attempt to gain some right to the marks in question. If this were not there then the lawyers would have a case for demanding either the removal of the material or obtaining such an undertaking.
Of course a solar panel isn't much use in an environment in which the Sun can sometimes be considered a myth used to inspire hope in the general populous. Though I guess if it opened out to the size of a football pitch it might manage to get enough power from the ambient light.
I used to live in Scotland and am now in Southern England so I guess I'm moving in the correct direction (but my feet may get wet if I continue).
As far as Lyons and their LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) computers go there is actually a LEO Computers Society for people who worked for LEO Computers Ltd. or worked with LEO Computers.
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I suspect the problem is a lawyer who has been told to rewrite it to allow a certain scenario and has managed to muck up an existing right. It should say something like "in executable form with or without any source code".
On a similar point when Chernobyl 'sprung a leak' I was at university at Aberdeen (in Scotland). Some high ups in one of the departments decided to take one of their geiger counters outside the department and check the radiation levels (being built of granite the background in Aberdeen is about 4x UK norm).
When they got out they switched on the detector and the needle nailed itself to the top of the meter. It was not until they were back inside (a transition that occurred very quickly indeed) that they noticed they had not a Geiger-Muller tube (for detecting radioactive particles) in the detector but a scintillation detector which counts very weak light pulses. History does not record exactly how stupid they felt.
By placing the drivers in hardware they also make it a lot harder for people to bypass the regioning on the player. This is I imagine quite important to Sony as they were not best loved of the MPAA when it was discovered you could bypass the regioning on a Japanese PS2 by pressing buttons on the handset.
I imagine as people learn to program PS2's and reverse engineer the DVD drivers it would be possible to write your own region switchable drivers. By placing the drivers in the hardware this is more difficult if not impossible.
In the main I do not expect to actually get my news from Slashdot (though I must admit there are a number of things I see first here). Rather Slashdot is about providing a forum for the discussion of these pieces of news.
If the article does not appear the instance the news hits the web then that's not a problem. After all there are times when such news is repudiated or modified by other sources shortly after its release. Slashdot only post a handful of stories any day and they want to wait long enough to be sure that the item is worth posting and not just a flash in the pan.
The problem is that unless you know they are applying for the patent then you cannot challenge with prior art before the patent is granted. Challenging a faulty patent is probably more expensive than applying for it yourself before anyone else. Also if you don't use it then it is unlikely to be challenged and so appears on your company's books as an asset
to want to say anything good about the Redmond Empire but if this patent is fairly closely linked to the Windows system (as references to the registry seem to imply) then this may be more of a protective patent to prevent others from patenting the idea and either charging excessive licensing fees or preventing anyone else from using the ideas at all.
If they hold the patent (even if it can be considered invalid) then no-one else should be able to get such a patent. This prevents them from having to mount an expensive patent challenge. However if they start to try and use this patent to restrict others from using the same method then that would be bad.
In another example the real problem with the Amazon case was not necessarily the patent itself (which prevented anyone else from getting it and using it against them). The problem was when Amazon started to use it as a commercial weapon against their competitors.
I heard that 5 hours of footage were shot, but no film is ever made with the intention of using everything that was filmed.
The source for this is a book called "The Making of Dune" (by Ed Naha). It stated that David Lynch's first cut of the film was about 5 hours long. The first cut of any film is normally quite long but this was meant to be a fairly tight cut. Some of the extra footage can be removed by tightening scenes and removing padding and unnecessary sub plots. But to reduce the film to the studio's required length a lot more had to be sacrificed.
This happens a lot and the discarded footage is the source material for a lot of the Special Editions such as Aliens and Abyss. Though I believe the extra footage for CE3K was specially filmed.
Another memory of this book is that after the first screening of test footage of the sandworms all the men came out feeling inadequate and they realised they were going to have to be very careful about how they filmed the worms in future.
Vorkosigan Saga - by Lois McMaster Bujold
Honor Harrington - by David Weber
I am told that the Seafort Saga by David Feintuch is also good but have not had a chance to read it yet.
IIRC David Lynch's original cut of the Movie was some 5 hours long. In order to get it down to the final length they removed entire subplots. I don't know anything of this "Director's Cut" but suspect it restores some of this material.
In particular they removed the subplot involving Paul having to kill a Fremen (Jamis?), when they meet some Fremen while escaping, in order to gain acceptance. He then takes responsibility for his widow and children (who become in effect his bodyguards). This explains the two young boys seen in amongst the groups of Fremen around Paul later in the movie.
There was a story at the time that an editor or some such from the book company that published Dune in the US was invited to a preview of the film. Apparently his main comment at the end of the showing was a muttered "It didn't rain at the end of the book!".
When I visited DC (some time ago) I was told that each state was asked to send statues of two famous people from their state to be displayed in Washington (I think Congress thought the pigeons didn't have enough targets).
Florida considered Air Conditioning to be so important that one of their statues was of the inventor of Air Conditioning (I can't remember his name).
I notice that this is a translated item and I wonder if the original was an April fool or some such.
To get an idea of just how different Rambus and SDRAM are inside you could take a look at "Dissecting Rambus" on Tom's Hardware Guide. A lot of the argument of this and the followup "Rambus Revisited" is why would you want Rambus anyway. Avoid spending the extra money and wait for DDR SDRAM.
18 months with no restart for my Psion 5. Rebuilt the ThinkPad about 6 time in the same period (that's what I get for using Win9X - we'll see how long Win2K lasts).
As moderators seem to be taking this seriously I'm going to repeat the points I made to this post elsewhere.
I browse at 0 because some very relevant and interesting points are made by AC (and sometimes some items are moderated down for bizarre reasons). I am however very glad that moderators are removing the particularly poor items. I do not browse at -1 in order to avoid what is down there. In fact it is interesting to reflect that the only people who could see your post were those who do browse at 0 and so defeat your argument as to why AC comments should not be moderated down.
I would be interested to know what the percentages are for the various default browsing levels. After that comment that most people browse at at least 1.
As I understand it the moderators themselves don't have to moderate at 0 (I've never moderated so don't know for sure). So only logged in users who normally browse at 0 (unless they set their browse level specifically down to 0 when moderating) are seeing these posts to moderate them.
I would say that your comment about how you claim to meta moderate shows that you have a poor grasp of the function of the 0 and the -1 levels. After all if -1 weren't there to collect the dross it would always appear at 0. Do you maybe not approve of the -1 level at all?
It's interesting that you posted this as AC because if you are posting at 0 simply to make a visiblity point then why didn't you include your ID in the post?
Note to Rob:
I will now show my ignorance by asking exactly what meta-moderation is and who engages in it. Also if someone who does it apparently without regard to the item that was moderated (apart from whether or not it was posted by AC) is qualified to do it.
I browse at 0 because some very relevant and interesting points are made by AC (and sometimes some items are moderated down for bizarre reasons). I am however very glad that moderators are removing the particularly poor items. I do not browse at -1 to avoid what is down there. In fact it is interesting to reflect that the only people who can see your post are those who do browse at 0 and so defeat your argument as to why AC comments should not be moderated down.
I would be interested to know what the percentages are for the various default browsing levels. After that comment that most people browse at at least 1.
As I understand it the moderators themselves don't have to moderate at 0 (I've never moderated so don't know for sure). So only logged in users who normally browse at 0 (unless they set their browse level specifically down to 0 when moderating) are seeing these posts to moderate them.
I would say that your comment about how you meta moderate shows that you have a poor grasp of the function of the 0 and the -1 levels. After all if -1 weren't there to collect the dross it would always appear. Do you maybe not approve of the -1 level at all?
It's interesting that you posted this as AC because if you are posting at 0 simply to make a visiblity point then why didn't you include your ID?
There were three script writers on Brazil: Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown. Charles McKeown is a British actor who has appeared in several of Gilliam's movies and also cowrote The Adventures of Baron Munchausen with Gilliam.
As an interesting aside Tom Stoppard is listed by IMDB as an uncredited writer on Indiana Jones and the last Crusade
Source code in electronic form (on disk etc.) is not exempt which is the reason that PGP had to go through the process of printing it, exporting it, and OCRing it.
This is why Applied Cryptography's source CD is not shipped with the book as it would be illegal to export the CD without a license (but not the book containing the same information printed out).
Funnily enough the law that makes it illegal to export encryption hardware/software explicitly exempts publications (books, magazines, and academic papers) from the restriction.
This led to the strange operation by which the international version of PGP used to be created. The current US version's code listing was printed out on paper and this was legally exported. It was then OCRed back into electronic form and then manually examined to correct any OCR mistakes. This could then be compiled to create the non-US version.
According to the Product information on the Manufacturer's Website Linux is already an option as the operating system. It is just iBuyPower who do not seem to be offereing all the options (There is also a DVD).
This is only a very bare bones system unit. The expansion unit gives it exchangeable disk drives but you need to provide your own keyboard, monitor, and mouse (unless unlike me you like touch pads). This means that it is a very portable computer as long as you have all the peripherals at each end.
Also it seems to me that it is missing one or two items. I would have expected a 100baseT RJ45 socket for networking at least, and possibly a modem. I realise that these are possible through the USB but networking and/or on-line access are essentials these days and it is strange they are not part of the core product.
The correct link for the site you posted is Here. Previewing and checking these is a really good idea.
I would guess that the reason they only asked for the removal of the transcripts is because they are copyright material (in effect the script of the show) and as such can be tightly controlled. This is also the reason they can ask for the removal of copyright images from the shows as well.
In terms of fan fiction it is only the trademark rules that could be used and unless there is money being made or the mark is being diluted etc. there is no easy way to demand that it be removed as the copyright actually resides with the fan writers. They cannot however exploit it financially without permission from the trademark owners.
The standard disclaimer you mention actually specifically prevents what they have done from being interpreted as an attempt to gain some right to the marks in question. If this were not there then the lawyers would have a case for demanding either the removal of the material or obtaining such an undertaking.
At the end of each episode it says: "to Be continued"
The 'B' is blue and the 'e' is red (I think the colours are that way round). These are the case and colour of those letters in the old BeOS logo.
Of course a solar panel isn't much use in an environment in which the Sun can sometimes be considered a myth used to inspire hope in the general populous. Though I guess if it opened out to the size of a football pitch it might manage to get enough power from the ambient light.
I used to live in Scotland and am now in Southern England so I guess I'm moving in the correct direction (but my feet may get wet if I continue).
As far as Lyons and their LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) computers go there is actually a LEO Computers Society for people who worked for LEO Computers Ltd. or worked with LEO Computers.