It's possible to do this legally, but probably not worth the effort.
The model you would probably need is to have the company hold onto the physical CD while the MP3 version is in the database. Combine that with an interface that only allows one employee to access music from a given CD at a time, and you should be legal.
Of course, this is all a grey area, and what's legal and what won't get you sued are probably two entirely different things. I would suggest doing everything you can to avoid giving the appearance that the company endorses any use copyrighted digital media files. Think, "Don't ask, don't tell."
Your best defense against having a lawsuit filed (which may be more of a concern than winning in the end) is to not get noticed.
how will they find the restrictions to be annoying? To them they're not restrictions. They're not capabilities taken away from TiVo. They're improvments to regular TV.
I think you're wrong. People will notice that they can't record everything. They'll notice if they can't keep shows longer than a week (I suspect there will be a limit, just a guess). They'll think of all the things that would make the service better. Those are the things that will make them more receptive to buying a ReplayTV.
The main challenge facing TiVo's marketing department is not dealing with the competition from ReplayTV and the likes, but is instead getting people to understand what they're really offering and how useful it is. Mystro TV means that there will be a lot more marketing pushing the idea of consumer control of TV viewing, and that helps everyone in the market. And once consumers are looking at one system, many will want to compare with the alternatives and see what's best for them.
This is good for ReplayTV and TiVo. Very few people will avoid buying one of their units because the new service is available. Just the opposite--more consumers will be exposed to just how much more control they can have over their TV viewing. And once people see how much better it can be, they'll be more receptive to getting a ReplayTV or TiVo, because they'll understand why they want one (because the restricitions on the AOL service will be annoying).
Most of the time a serial console is fine. However, if you're running x86 hardware, I'm not aware of any BIOS that supports a serial console, so you're hosed if you need to do something before you get your kernel running.
I suppose that this is a good reason to look into one of the open source BIOS projects. (On the other hand, I'm under the impression that those projects aren't ready for serious use yet.)
I've seen a 1U pull-out tray that has a LCD, keyboard, and mouse. I think they're expensive, and you'll have to pay for an extra 1U (if that's how they charge). Still, it may be cheaper than a monitor.
A quick Google on: keyboard mouse lcd 1u revealed several such solutions. It looks like they cost on the order of $3000.
With prices like that, you're probably better off bringing a monitor in with you when you need to use it.
Yeah, I should have remembered that when I posted my comment. However, Dell probably has an agreement to cover how the printer supplies will be marketed. Also, in the long run Dell might not just be rebadging someone else's printer.
This is good news for Dell. They'll be selling their own printers in about a month, and anything that makes other manufacturers look bad will help them gain marketshare. What will be interesting is to see how Dell plays in the ink cartridge business. Will they try to be like everyone else, or will they try to do to ink prices what they've done to PC prices?
I remember hearing that Star Trek (the original series) would have gone into obscurity had it not completed a third season. At least at that time, that provided the minimum number of episodes to support syndication.
I'm not sure what the magic number is now, and there are exceptions, thanks to specialty cable channels. You can watch the one season of "Highlander: The Raven" on the SciFi Channel. You can watch the half season of "Dilbert" on Comedy Central. But for regular shows syndicated to independent broadcast stations (or for air during non-network time), I'm guessing they want a minimum of 80 or 100 episodes to avoid repeating them too often.
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In particular, of books and authors that have influenced you, are there any that stand out from new or underrated authors?
So previously, a vulnerability in one piece of software would allow the whole system to crash or otherwise be compromised. Now a vulnerability in one of two pieces of software will allow part of the system to be compromised. If the only risk were lack of service, this would be a good thing. However, the risk also includes providing malicious service. I could see some people wanting to redirect all DNS querries so that the result would point to some site of questionable virtue. Doing so may have just been made easier.
The FCC allows unlicensed low-power FM broadcasts without a license. This is how drive-in movie theaters usually work--you listen using your car's sound system. I'm sure someone here can post the exact limits the FCC imposes on such broadcasts, but they're certainly much more generous than this device would require.
At work, we use CVS, and our build tools guru has it set up so the checkins fail unless we've build without errors first. The testing isn't integrated (it can't be, as we're cross-compiling for an embedded system), and you can break the build by doing a partial checking or with bad interaction between different checkins, but for the most part it works really well.
It seems like common sense for most projects to refuse to allow checkins without building first, and that's the sort of policy that can have a fairly effective mechanism for enforcement.
Most garage sales are exempt from sales taxes. Each state has its own rules, but in general if your sale is temporary and under some dollar amount, you are exempt.
The problem at eBay is that many of the sellers are businesses doing it year round for significant revenue. They aren't exempt, except that they are doing business in states where they have no physical presence.
Only in court are you innocent until proven guilty. In the media, your innocence or guilt is determined by whatever sounds best. Sure, the media often tosses in "alleged" in every-other sentence as insurance against lawsuits, but everyone knows that when the media uses the word, "alleged," they mean "guilty but not yet convicted in court."
My company uses VPN for home access, and they pay for my connection. They used to provide an ISDN line to my home, and I never saw a bill. A few years ago, they switched to using VPN, and now we can file expense reports for our home Internet access (up to some dollar limit). Most people get cable or DSL.
Of course, the employees who qualify to expense their connections are the same ones that are given pagers and are expected to deal with urgent problems promptly during off hours. (They also provide company computers for home use.)
Remember, one big difference between an employee and a contractor is that the company provides the tools necessary to do the job for employees. If VPN access from home is necessary for employees to do their jobs, then the company should pay for it. If it's an optional thing, then the employee can pay for it if he wants to.
I don't quite follow you. While it's true that -3 * -8 2/3 is 26, that's rather meaningless. -60 * -8 2/3 is 520.
Now if you could use your analogy between Earth temperature differences between polar and American regions, then the calculation would be more like this: -3 to 26 is a difference of 29, so instead of -60 at the Martian south pole, we can expect -31 at some American landing site. Of course, if we had picked the average summer temperature in Mecca, that would suggest we could find a better landing site on Mars where it would be warmer.
So all these calculations are bunk, or I'm totally confused.
Speaking of taxes that fly in the face of logic, Massachusetts has instituted a tax on perscriptions. Each perscription costs you an extra $1.30 or so on top of your insurance co-pay.
They call taxes on things that government wants to discourage (like tobacco and alcohol) sin taxes. I guess that makes these virtue taxes.
So instead of the Big Crunch, we get Heat Death. The universe is slowly cooling, and will eventually cool to absolute zero (killing all life), or so the theory goes.
I don't think that there is any reputable theory that doesn't have a "killing all life" at some point in the very distant future.
Be careful what you outlaw. If the law is too broad, it could easily be used to prohibit not only headers in email messages, but in connecting to a web server. How would you like to have it be illegal to lie about what browser you're using? Or refuse to send a referer?
The computers can only do so much. If you've got external load forces ripping your wing off, how exactly is a computer going to compensate for this? It's not like they could fly inverted or something. Perhaps this answer is a completely heat shielded vehicle so extreme maneuvers like this become possible, but even that's asking for trouble?
I mostly agree. It could probably only give them a few extra seconds, and that wouldn't have helped here. However, if it could have gotten them far enough to where they could have bailed out, it would have been a big win. In a different situation where the dammage was less severe, that might be able to make a difference.
Technically, Columbia wasn't in space when the problem occured, so the insurance should cover it as if an airplane engine had fallen off during flight and crashed into the building.
Of course, you mentioned that they hired a lawyer, so they're doing the right thing.
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It's possible to do this legally, but probably not worth the effort.
The model you would probably need is to have the company hold onto the physical CD while the MP3 version is in the database. Combine that with an interface that only allows one employee to access music from a given CD at a time, and you should be legal.
Of course, this is all a grey area, and what's legal and what won't get you sued are probably two entirely different things. I would suggest doing everything you can to avoid giving the appearance that the company endorses any use copyrighted digital media files. Think, "Don't ask, don't tell."
Your best defense against having a lawsuit filed (which may be more of a concern than winning in the end) is to not get noticed.
You need an electric monk to believe things for you now.
This looks like something many parents would impose on their children, especially if they got fed up with problems with traditional censorware.
how will they find the restrictions to be annoying? To them they're not restrictions. They're not capabilities taken away from TiVo. They're improvments to regular TV.
I think you're wrong. People will notice that they can't record everything. They'll notice if they can't keep shows longer than a week (I suspect there will be a limit, just a guess). They'll think of all the things that would make the service better. Those are the things that will make them more receptive to buying a ReplayTV.
The main challenge facing TiVo's marketing department is not dealing with the competition from ReplayTV and the likes, but is instead getting people to understand what they're really offering and how useful it is. Mystro TV means that there will be a lot more marketing pushing the idea of consumer control of TV viewing, and that helps everyone in the market. And once consumers are looking at one system, many will want to compare with the alternatives and see what's best for them.
This is good for ReplayTV and TiVo. Very few people will avoid buying one of their units because the new service is available. Just the opposite--more consumers will be exposed to just how much more control they can have over their TV viewing. And once people see how much better it can be, they'll be more receptive to getting a ReplayTV or TiVo, because they'll understand why they want one (because the restricitions on the AOL service will be annoying).
Most of the time a serial console is fine. However, if you're running x86 hardware, I'm not aware of any BIOS that supports a serial console, so you're hosed if you need to do something before you get your kernel running.
I suppose that this is a good reason to look into one of the open source BIOS projects. (On the other hand, I'm under the impression that those projects aren't ready for serious use yet.)
I've seen a 1U pull-out tray that has a LCD, keyboard, and mouse. I think they're expensive, and you'll have to pay for an extra 1U (if that's how they charge). Still, it may be cheaper than a monitor.
A quick Google on: keyboard mouse lcd 1u
revealed several such solutions. It looks like they cost on the order of $3000.
With prices like that, you're probably better off bringing a monitor in with you when you need to use it.
Yeah, I should have remembered that when I posted my comment. However, Dell probably has an agreement to cover how the printer supplies will be marketed. Also, in the long run Dell might not just be rebadging someone else's printer.
This is good news for Dell. They'll be selling their own printers in about a month, and anything that makes other manufacturers look bad will help them gain marketshare. What will be interesting is to see how Dell plays in the ink cartridge business. Will they try to be like everyone else, or will they try to do to ink prices what they've done to PC prices?
No, the French will just delay enacting the ban for an additional four months while they investigate the problem further.
I remember hearing that Star Trek (the original series) would have gone into obscurity had it not completed a third season. At least at that time, that provided the minimum number of episodes to support syndication.
I'm not sure what the magic number is now, and there are exceptions, thanks to specialty cable channels. You can watch the one season of "Highlander: The Raven" on the SciFi Channel. You can watch the half season of "Dilbert" on Comedy Central. But for regular shows syndicated to independent broadcast stations (or for air during non-network time), I'm guessing they want a minimum of 80 or 100 episodes to avoid repeating them too often.
In particular, of books and authors that have influenced you, are there any that stand out from new or underrated authors?
So previously, a vulnerability in one piece of software would allow the whole system to crash or otherwise be compromised. Now a vulnerability in one of two pieces of software will allow part of the system to be compromised. If the only risk were lack of service, this would be a good thing. However, the risk also includes providing malicious service. I could see some people wanting to redirect all DNS querries so that the result would point to some site of questionable virtue. Doing so may have just been made easier.
The FCC allows unlicensed low-power FM broadcasts without a license. This is how drive-in movie theaters usually work--you listen using your car's sound system. I'm sure someone here can post the exact limits the FCC imposes on such broadcasts, but they're certainly much more generous than this device would require.
At work, we use CVS, and our build tools guru has it set up so the checkins fail unless we've build without errors first. The testing isn't integrated (it can't be, as we're cross-compiling for an embedded system), and you can break the build by doing a partial checking or with bad interaction between different checkins, but for the most part it works really well.
It seems like common sense for most projects to refuse to allow checkins without building first, and that's the sort of policy that can have a fairly effective mechanism for enforcement.
Most garage sales are exempt from sales taxes. Each state has its own rules, but in general if your sale is temporary and under some dollar amount, you are exempt.
The problem at eBay is that many of the sellers are businesses doing it year round for significant revenue. They aren't exempt, except that they are doing business in states where they have no physical presence.
Only in court are you innocent until proven guilty. In the media, your innocence or guilt is determined by whatever sounds best. Sure, the media often tosses in "alleged" in every-other sentence as insurance against lawsuits, but everyone knows that when the media uses the word, "alleged," they mean "guilty but not yet convicted in court."
My company uses VPN for home access, and they pay for my connection. They used to provide an ISDN line to my home, and I never saw a bill. A few years ago, they switched to using VPN, and now we can file expense reports for our home Internet access (up to some dollar limit). Most people get cable or DSL.
Of course, the employees who qualify to expense their connections are the same ones that are given pagers and are expected to deal with urgent problems promptly during off hours. (They also provide company computers for home use.)
Remember, one big difference between an employee and a contractor is that the company provides the tools necessary to do the job for employees. If VPN access from home is necessary for employees to do their jobs, then the company should pay for it. If it's an optional thing, then the employee can pay for it if he wants to.
I don't quite follow you. While it's true that -3 * -8 2/3 is 26, that's rather meaningless. -60 * -8 2/3 is 520.
Now if you could use your analogy between Earth temperature differences between polar and American regions, then the calculation would be more like this: -3 to 26 is a difference of 29, so instead of -60 at the Martian south pole, we can expect -31 at some American landing site. Of course, if we had picked the average summer temperature in Mecca, that would suggest we could find a better landing site on Mars where it would be warmer.
So all these calculations are bunk, or I'm totally confused.
What about using the Java front-end for the Gnu Compiler Collection?
(I'm not a Java developer, but I was under the impression that it, also, was another choice besides Sun's and IBM's.)
Speaking of taxes that fly in the face of logic, Massachusetts has instituted a tax on perscriptions. Each perscription costs you an extra $1.30 or so on top of your insurance co-pay.
They call taxes on things that government wants to discourage (like tobacco and alcohol) sin taxes. I guess that makes these virtue taxes.
So instead of the Big Crunch, we get Heat Death. The universe is slowly cooling, and will eventually cool to absolute zero (killing all life), or so the theory goes.
I don't think that there is any reputable theory that doesn't have a "killing all life" at some point in the very distant future.
Be careful what you outlaw. If the law is too broad, it could easily be used to prohibit not only headers in email messages, but in connecting to a web server. How would you like to have it be illegal to lie about what browser you're using? Or refuse to send a referer?
The computers can only do so much. If you've got external load forces ripping your wing off, how exactly is a computer going to compensate for this? It's not like they could fly inverted or something. Perhaps this answer is a completely heat shielded vehicle so extreme maneuvers like this become possible, but even that's asking for trouble?
I mostly agree. It could probably only give them a few extra seconds, and that wouldn't have helped here. However, if it could have gotten them far enough to where they could have bailed out, it would have been a big win. In a different situation where the dammage was less severe, that might be able to make a difference.
Technically, Columbia wasn't in space when the problem occured, so the insurance should cover it as if an airplane engine had fallen off during flight and crashed into the building.
Of course, you mentioned that they hired a lawyer, so they're doing the right thing.