The library posts full books, while the catalog has the first 100 or so pages (or chapters) in a book, to allow you to properly evaluate it without having to buy it.
As to authors: John Ringo David Weber David Drake Eric Flint
If they ask you to "Accept" a 40 page long list of rules and rights you are relinquishing, it is not illegal -- its just lazy of you to scroll through it
all haphazardly and click "Agree!" You don't need their product, so close the window and say screw it. Follow up with a letter to their
management, and if enough people complain, maybe things will change
BS.
It damn well should be illegal to force me to agree to a new or additional EULA for _PATCHES_ to an operating system I've already purchased and agree to that EULA.
And before you tell me I don't _need_ that or that I don't _have_ to install it, I do need and have to install it, if I'm to protect myself and my clients from data loss/theft/etc.
Microsoft security patches for 98 SE include a EULA with a ban against posting.net benchmarks... That part didn't exist in the original EULA I agreed to, so why should it be legal to force me to agree to new terms of a contract in order to get what I originally purchased to work properly in the first place! That's criminal in my opinion, if it's not already it damn well should be.
Yeah yeah, off topic... sorry folks, but conversation drift happens and is generally considered a good thing in conversations held by most of the world.
Start putting prices on spammer's heads. 1 Billion might not be nearly enough to get them all, but it might make that "cost of doing business" a bit more expensive than "it's free."
And forget buying the island... I want an aircraft carrior... Start taking on refugees... Teach them some gibberish to say to reporters.
So you're telling me that technology that can be found in an arcade (Police 911, the boxing game, etc.) that track my movements and map them to effects and movement on the screen costs 100K? Without shielding, magnets, sensors that are on me? Granted, it's not room size, but it's also not a controlled enviroment.
So what, if they're not a little green toad waving a suped up flash light, they couldn't possibly want to teach?
Amusing how this crowd can worship some swamp dwelling crusty old puppet as a great and mystical teacher, but when really people want to be teachers they're failures and can't hack it in the real world.
Bah. Grow up, kid.
Moderators: Flaming for effect is often a valid tactic in debate... Sometimes only a clue-by-four can get someone to realize what a jackass they're being.
Disclaimer: Not a teacher. Don't want to be a teacher. But married to a teacher.
The administration on a local level isn't really concerned about the kids. They're usually ex-teachers, with little to no management skills or training, and the most biased, loud, and nasty crowd of people to be responsible to (parents). They could give a rats ass about whether the teachers really understand computers, or fake it, UNLESS the parents decide that's the #1 issue for the day. Then, for that day, and only that day, they make a big to-do about computers and teacher levels, make gradiose sweeping gestures that will solve all the parents problems, when in reality the teachers just have to take one more cirtification, on thier own time, with thier own money, that usually set up by the school, the district or state as a lowest-bidder contract, with a real world value level of zero.
News for you slashdotters... Teachers don't work 8-9 hours a day. It's 10-14 hour days, each day, often working weekends, YEAR ROUND. Sure, they get _TWO_ months off in the summer, where they're required, to keep thier job (not get more money like our IT certs do for us), to take classes, week long seminars, get thier 2nd or 3rd masters, etc. etc. etc.
Enough ranting... I had a teacher in high school, Mr. Spradlin, my computer programming teacher, whom was constantly surpased by his students. He loved it. He had us teach him (and the rest of the class) those things we had found out. He encouraged, even demanded, that we learn on our own. Then taught us how to do so. He gave me the skills I really needed, not the esoteric fly-by-night knowledge of the day. How useful are my basic, qbasic, and pascal skills today, that knowledge I would have (and did) learned in school? Not very. But I use the skill of self-education every single day.
From the CNET article:
"Executives from the RIAA said that Kazaa, Sharman and the other parties were simply trying to evade judgment by shifting corporate assets between different companies.
'They're playing an international shell game, trying to make a mockery of the judicial process,' said Matt Oppenheim, senior vice president for the RIAA."
As opposed to the [RI/MP]AA who are playing an international monopoly game, trying to get both boardwalk (congress) and parkplace (the judicial system), bankrupting the other players through "rent." At least in the board game monopoly, you have a chance to roll and move past your opponents hotel traps.
In contract negotiations, it's possible to strike through sections, rewrite sections, and add your own sections...
I wonder, if you changed a EULA on the disk, to something more appropriate, then clicked "I agree" to the changed EULA that is displayed, what the courts would do with that.
This is, assuming, that there's no "encryption method" employed to hide the EULA, or they'd nail you with the DCMA.
As to trying to get a refund, what if you stopped payment on your credit card, for the purchase of the software? Having threatened to do that before to a manager when he refused to give me a full refund or exchange for a defective product (TV, didn't work, they claimed I improperly installed it, thus making it my negligence), I know it's an effective negotiation tool with a store.
Slashdot Mirror
whatever the hell passes for luxury flooring these days.
Peasants. Same as it's always been.
???
X: punch in mouth
Y: People who use shoddy logic
Z: Because you feel they're in the wrong
Not a particularly well thought comment, eh?
You just described my job!
Only I don't get the USB-pen, and they wanted it yesterday!
www.baen.com
and
www.baen.com/library
The library posts full books, while the catalog has the first 100 or so pages (or chapters) in a book, to allow you to properly evaluate it without having to buy it.
As to authors:
John Ringo
David Weber
David Drake
Eric Flint
Check them out at baen!
BS.
It damn well should be illegal to force me to agree to a new or additional EULA for _PATCHES_ to an operating system I've already purchased and agree to that EULA.
And before you tell me I don't _need_ that or that I don't _have_ to install it, I do need and have to install it, if I'm to protect myself and my clients from data loss/theft/etc.
Microsoft security patches for 98 SE include a EULA with a ban against posting
Yeah yeah, off topic... sorry folks, but conversation drift happens and is generally considered a good thing in conversations held by most of the world.
Jester.
Standard Disclaimer: IANAL
Could fixing someone else's critically broken system fall under this? Especially if instead of fixing, you break it worse?
We don't want our best and brightest to believe that the easiest way to get ahead is to steal or hurt other people.
So we should kill all the CEO's and Lawyers in the world?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=40147&cid=4281 516
"!= Slashdot idealized sysadmin"
And thank $DEITY for that! We really don't want 1000's of BOFH's running around the world... Oh the humanity of it...
Jesterr
That was just the signal light of the Vogon destruction fleet getting ready to demolish the earth to make way for a hyper-space on-ramp.
Don't panic...
Jesterr
Wow wrong parse on this one...
"He provides an excellent lay."
One must be careful in ones choice of words and grammer.
Jester
This sounds suspiciously familiar to me...
Hrm... I'm remembering something about "PC Compatable" or some such... Where would I have heard that before...
Seems to me I remember that helping to bring down a fairly large corporation or two...
Jester
Start putting prices on spammer's heads. 1 Billion might not be nearly enough to get them all, but it might make that "cost of doing business" a bit more expensive than "it's free."
And forget buying the island... I want an aircraft carrior... Start taking on refugees... Teach them some gibberish to say to reporters.
So you're telling me that technology that can be found in an arcade (Police 911, the boxing game, etc.) that track my movements and map them to effects and movement on the screen costs 100K? Without shielding, magnets, sensors that are on me? Granted, it's not room size, but it's also not a controlled enviroment.
Jester.
And those who can't teach: Manage.
So what, if they're not a little green toad waving a suped up flash light, they couldn't possibly want to teach?
Amusing how this crowd can worship some swamp dwelling crusty old puppet as a great and mystical teacher, but when really people want to be teachers they're failures and can't hack it in the real world.
Bah. Grow up, kid.
Moderators: Flaming for effect is often a valid tactic in debate... Sometimes only a clue-by-four can get someone to realize what a jackass they're being.
is the system, the administration and above.
Disclaimer: Not a teacher. Don't want to be a teacher. But married to a teacher.
The administration on a local level isn't really concerned about the kids. They're usually ex-teachers, with little to no management skills or training, and the most biased, loud, and nasty crowd of people to be responsible to (parents). They could give a rats ass about whether the teachers really understand computers, or fake it, UNLESS the parents decide that's the #1 issue for the day. Then, for that day, and only that day, they make a big to-do about computers and teacher levels, make gradiose sweeping gestures that will solve all the parents problems, when in reality the teachers just have to take one more cirtification, on thier own time, with thier own money, that usually set up by the school, the district or state as a lowest-bidder contract, with a real world value level of zero.
News for you slashdotters... Teachers don't work 8-9 hours a day. It's 10-14 hour days, each day, often working weekends, YEAR ROUND. Sure, they get _TWO_ months off in the summer, where they're required, to keep thier job (not get more money like our IT certs do for us), to take classes, week long seminars, get thier 2nd or 3rd masters, etc. etc. etc.
Enough ranting... I had a teacher in high school, Mr. Spradlin, my computer programming teacher, whom was constantly surpased by his students. He loved it. He had us teach him (and the rest of the class) those things we had found out. He encouraged, even demanded, that we learn on our own. Then taught us how to do so. He gave me the skills I really needed, not the esoteric fly-by-night knowledge of the day. How useful are my basic, qbasic, and pascal skills today, that knowledge I would have (and did) learned in school? Not very. But I use the skill of self-education every single day.
(Thanks Sprad!)
50 commercials a day? That's what, 1 maybe 2 commercial breaks?
From the CNET article:
"Executives from the RIAA said that Kazaa, Sharman and the other parties were simply trying to evade judgment by shifting corporate assets between different companies.
'They're playing an international shell game, trying to make a mockery of the judicial process,' said Matt Oppenheim, senior vice president for the RIAA."
As opposed to the [RI/MP]AA who are playing an international monopoly game, trying to get both boardwalk (congress) and parkplace (the judicial system), bankrupting the other players through "rent." At least in the board game monopoly, you have a chance to roll and move past your opponents hotel traps.
In contract negotiations, it's possible to strike through sections, rewrite sections, and add your own sections...
I wonder, if you changed a EULA on the disk, to something more appropriate, then clicked "I agree" to the changed EULA that is displayed, what the courts would do with that.
This is, assuming, that there's no "encryption method" employed to hide the EULA, or they'd nail you with the DCMA.
As to trying to get a refund, what if you stopped payment on your credit card, for the purchase of the software? Having threatened to do that before to a manager when he refused to give me a full refund or exchange for a defective product (TV, didn't work, they claimed I improperly installed it, thus making it my negligence), I know it's an effective negotiation tool with a store.
Jesterr.