Due to FDA regs, you can only make two kinds of TV advertising for pharmaceuticals that aren't sold over-the-counter. You can either make a vague ad that uses the tag about "see your doctor about...", that tries to imply what the drug is for; or a seriously specific ad that says what it's for, but also lists the side effects.
On one side, you have things like Levitra, which airs during football games, and shows a guy throwing a football through the hole on a tire swing...repeatedly. With his wife smiling and clearly pleased. Does anyone NOT know what this is for?:-)
On the other, you have things like last year's ads for Propecia, which briefly stated that how it was for combating hair loss in men, but then had to follow it with lines like "women who are pregnant or who MIGHT be pregnant should avoid handling broken tablets", and had to mention the "risk of certain sexual side effects". Supposedly, the manufacturers were rather confused why their multi-million dollar ad campaign wasn't going well.
I don't attribute it to the whole community. It is, however, unquestionably a common attitude amongst Slashdot posters.
No, it's at best an attitude amongst Slashdot posters who post to RIAA-related threads.
All discussion forums tend to be reactionary, and Slashdot is no exception. Whatever the topic is, the people most inclined to post are the people who are against it. So, one set of people tend to post when the topic is the RIAA; another set post when the topic is the GPL. Neither is representative of the entire community, or even of "Slashdot posters".
BTW, IBM's first personal computer was also an APL (and/or BASIC, depending on options) machine. The IBM 5100, built in tape drive and tiny screen, your choice of hardwired APL and/or BASIC.
I remember my father bringing home the 5110, basically the same computer as the 5100. You switched between the BASIC and APL modes using a big switch on the front. Got to love a 50-pound, 32k portable.
I learned how to program on that baby. Those were the days.
It is not unreasonable: if I sing "happy birthday" on the air, I have to pay copyright fees. So if I rewrite someone's code in another language (or even the same language), why do copyright fees not apply?
And yet if you sing the public domain "Good Morning To You", which uses for all intents and purposes the exact same melody, you don't need to worry about copyright fees. These are two songs which share the same "fundamental structure", but are considered vastly different works.
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Just in case anyone's wondering, yes, the professor Robert Morris mentioned in the article is in fact the same Robert Morris who wrote the 1988 Internet Worm.
More to the point, it's Slashdot, where arguing from ignorance is a way of life. Slashdot: where the words "I am not a lawyer" are inevitably followed by "but..."
However, I still think they need to checksum every line, not every 5 lines.
Way too many false positives. If both sources have a line like:
i++;
(and they will), you're going to get a match. Checksuming a block of code eliminates stupid false positives. 5 might be too large, but 1 is definitely too small.
Basically by subsidizing the site, you're giving money to the RIAA.
No, you're giving money to him. The RIAA already has its money -- their bottom line doesn't change a bit if you send cash to this kid.
Had he had some cojones and stood up to the bully I'd happily contribute to his legal fund. This however.. no.
He's a freshman at a respected engineering school. He should be focusing on grades, classes, and all those other things that he's spending lots of money to do. His focus should not be on legal wrangling and press spin.
This is what settlements are for -- so you can put lawyers behind you while you concentrate on what's really important in your life.
This is another example of a company that is willing to cooperate, but has had a few snags in their plans. They've said they're going to post the code online (which they don't have to do) so lets see if they do.
Indeed. A quick google search of "opentv gpl" finds that developers have been requesting the source code since March of 2001, to no avail. At some point, it begins to look less and less like a misunderstanding and more and more like a willful violation.
I've used this tool, and it does indeed work fine. But the showstopper for me is its inability to merge branches over. I would probably have moved our lab's repository over to subversion already if I didn't have to worry about losing all of the commits on the branches.
It's kinda OT, but is it even possible to run a non-interactive 'apt-get upgrade'??
Add a line like "Frontend: noninteractive" to your/etc/debconf.conf. That will cause it to ask no questions, and just use the defaults whenever possible, and sending mail to root if there's a useful message.
[Re: OSX] Great, they have finalled ported it to x86?
Hey, lots of people have ported Darwin over to x86, and much of the NeXTSTEP underpinnings were running on x86 when Apple first started working on the project.
Since we're postulating a world where Microsoft ceased to exist, it shouldn't be hard to imagine Apple porting it's OS back to x86 and renegotiating NeXT's old OEM deals for shipping the OS.
Galeon is one of several packages that is being removed from Woody when it goes stable due to packaging problems. You can see the list in the link at the top of the article.
So galeon isn't being removed from woody while it's still the testing distribution. But when woody goes stable, galeon will be left back as part of the next testing distribution.
Derivative, certainly, since it's meant to be a retelling of La Boheme. Why you think it's derived from Cabaret is beyond me. I can think of lots of similar musicals, but Cabaret? You must have gotten confused since they both have showgirls.
As much as I love Java, Swing is definately shit. [...] Like JTree and JTable... They are very tedious and complex to use.
I disagree. JTree and JTable are really well-designed for the MVC paradigm, and you can subclass all the pieces more or less independently of each other. The more I work with them, the more impressed I am. Granted, the docs are mostly horrendous (and leads far too many people to shoehorn their data into a clunky DefaultTreeModel), but the design is far from shit.
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Due to FDA regs, you can only make two kinds of TV advertising for pharmaceuticals that aren't sold over-the-counter. You can either make a vague ad that uses the tag about "see your doctor about...", that tries to imply what the drug is for; or a seriously specific ad that says what it's for, but also lists the side effects.
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On one side, you have things like Levitra, which airs during football games, and shows a guy throwing a football through the hole on a tire swing...repeatedly. With his wife smiling and clearly pleased. Does anyone NOT know what this is for?
On the other, you have things like last year's ads for Propecia, which briefly stated that how it was for combating hair loss in men, but then had to follow it with lines like "women who are pregnant or who MIGHT be pregnant should avoid handling broken tablets", and had to mention the "risk of certain sexual side effects". Supposedly, the manufacturers were rather confused why their multi-million dollar ad campaign wasn't going well.
Seems to me that they do see this as a problem worth addressing; they already have a fix.
All discussion forums tend to be reactionary, and Slashdot is no exception. Whatever the topic is, the people most inclined to post are the people who are against it. So, one set of people tend to post when the topic is the RIAA; another set post when the topic is the GPL. Neither is representative of the entire community, or even of "Slashdot posters".
I learned how to program on that baby. Those were the days.
Just in case anyone's wondering, yes, the professor Robert Morris mentioned in the article is in fact the same Robert Morris who wrote the 1988 Internet Worm.
More to the point, it's Slashdot, where arguing from ignorance is a way of life. Slashdot: where the words "I am not a lawyer" are inevitably followed by "but..."
i++;
(and they will), you're going to get a match. Checksuming a block of code eliminates stupid false positives. 5 might be too large, but 1 is definitely too small.This is what settlements are for -- so you can put lawyers behind you while you concentrate on what's really important in your life.
Probably nothing. Heck, the USA elected one to the presidency...twice.
I've used this tool, and it does indeed work fine. But the showstopper for me is its inability to merge branches over. I would probably have moved our lab's repository over to subversion already if I didn't have to worry about losing all of the commits on the branches.
You know, if you're going to quote Tom Lehrer, you can at least say you're quoting Tom Lehrer.
Indeed. And Thankyou. Thankyouverymuch.
Is there a "blatantly lifted from another source without attribution" moderation?
Hey, lots of people have ported Darwin over to x86, and much of the NeXTSTEP underpinnings were running on x86 when Apple first started working on the project.
Since we're postulating a world where Microsoft ceased to exist, it shouldn't be hard to imagine Apple porting it's OS back to x86 and renegotiating NeXT's old OEM deals for shipping the OS.
Galeon is one of several packages that is being removed from Woody when it goes stable due to packaging problems. You can see the list in the link at the top of the article.
So galeon isn't being removed from woody while it's still the testing distribution. But when woody goes stable, galeon will be left back as part of the next testing distribution.
/usr/bin/apt-get -qq -o=APT::Clean-Installed=off autoclean
to get rid of all the old packages that aren't available anywhere.Or maybe (int) 22 / (int) 7.
Um, they didn't forget about it at all. The entire splash page is dedicated to a diatribe on that subject.
Derivative, certainly, since it's meant to be a retelling of La Boheme. Why you think it's derived from Cabaret is beyond me. I can think of lots of similar musicals, but Cabaret? You must have gotten confused since they both have showgirls.
Come back when they actually do something to him.