Not really the point:) I was referring to the parent post's: Copyrighted material is never intended to be downloaded from the internet without the permission of the copyright owner.:)
I don't recall it showing the charging icon, but if you leave it plugged in to the USB overnight (with less than a full charge on the device) you should come back and see a mostly full charge.
Got a link to verify that? I assumed they were ditching the T|E line and just keeping it with a numbering scheme. In that case, the T|5 would be the fifth Tungsten, although the T|3 is (I believe) the fourth.
Consider yourself corrected. I have a USB 2.0 "Hi Speed" (or whatever the 480mbps port is) port connected to the sync cable that came with my T|E. It trickle-charges just fine. I've only ever connected it to the power cable once, and that was when I was on a trip and didn't have my computer with me.
Of course, it's entirely possible that some of the cables shipped with this line allowed for the charge and some didn't. I/do/ know that my cable syncs extremely slowly if I transfer large files (such as moving ogg files to the SD card in the T|E). Maybe if you have a USB2.0 cable it won't trickle-charge, but with a USB1.1 cable it will?
The T2/T3 had a very nasty hardware design (bug|feature). A large enough number of forum posts came across detailing the fact that after opening/closing the slider, the digitizer would be way, way off (meaning that taps would be offset). Recalibration every time this happened was the only solution other than sending the unit back and hoping for one that didn't have this problem. After the T2, I assumed they would find some way to correct the problem on the T3. Nope, it has the same issue.
In that regard, the non-slider design of the T5 seems to be an upgrade. Hopefully it won't have the dreadful digitizer problems that the T2/T2 had, although the inability to reduce the size certainly is a drawback.
What concerns me is the flash memory. Isn't this going to reduce the life of the handheld, as eventually it will become corrupt/unwritable?
But in the event of a recount, where does the vote go? There's a notation for every candidate, it's just shifted down one. People who are going to vote for Bush would probably recognize the problem (since their notation is missing) and vote for the topmost one, which is correct for Bush. People voting for Kerry would not even look for the place to vote for Bush and would just mark the topmost one because it looks like it goes to Kerry.
It's pretty simple.. the US legal system is so convoluted and full of holes and tricks that if you don't know and use every one of them, you're liable to lose. Big corporations hire and retain huge legal teams just to use every trick in the book to screw the opposition. When the opposition is another corporation using the same tactics, then it's mostly fair. When it's an individual who can only hire an individual lawyer who basically has to take on an entire law firm, it becomes difficult if not impossible to keep up. One example I've read about (to give you specifics) is the sheer number of motions that the corporation's lawyers can file. With a large pool of legal secretaries at their disposal, they can literally file more motions than your lawyer can respond to in a 24 hour day. The court will lose patience, claiming that you aren't responding in a timely manner, and can pass summary judgement against you.
It's pretty much entirely a failing of the US courts, but it's an example of one of the dirty tricks they can pull. If they decide to sue you, you might have a decent chance if the ground was even. Unfortunately, the ground is not even, which is why so many people jump when they are told to.
Also, keep in mind that the population of the wealthiest country in the world doesn't hold 90% of the wealth. The upper 1% of the population of the US (leaders of major corporations, etc.) hold 95% of the wealth. The rest of us, while generally better off than people in most countries, still aren't up to battling anyone in that top 1%.
Two points: 1) You have to actively search out trademark infringement to really be covered. You can't just bury your head in the sand and claim to have "not noticed" that one.
2) What if they don't comply with the C&D? Now you're looking at a costly legal battle, and you probably don't have the resources to fuel it.
Trademarks have to be actively defended or else they are diluted and may be declared null. At best, I think, this would mean that anyone could use the name freely (maybe that's the point) but I imagine that a trademark might be awarded to someone else. IANAL. I'm just JADEd with regard to US IP laws.
I think that's the point. Nader takes votes away from the Democratic candidate, so Democrats want him to be removed because it gives more votes to Kerry. On the other hand, a Republican would be more likely to want Nader on the ballot since it makes it more likely that Bush will win re-election. So the AC's post indicated that the original poster was Republican because they think that third party candidates are important, despite (my thoughts) the fact that no third party candidate stands a chance in our system.
As I said, though, emerge world will not maintain those settings meaning I have to keep track of what I've compiled with different defaults and recompiles those after emerge world. There's gotta be a better way.
I've seen benchmarks. On current processors, there was not as much difference as on older ones. I've always preferred using Gentoo with -Os because, in theory, it should decrease load times on slower hard disks. I haven't done any comparisons, though.
One thing I would like is if you could modify the optimizations based on the package without editing the ebuild. Most things I'd like to have optimized for size, but things like mencoder and similar cpu intensive tasks could potentially benefit from optimizing for speed. Is there an easy way to do this that doesn't involve editing/etc/make.conf (since the next time you make world after that, things get funky)
If you're not going to read the article, at LEAST read a few of the higher-moderated comments. For the umpteenth time, everyone receives the patches at the same time. The premium subscribers just get advance notice about what the patch contains.
I'm telling you right now that there is at lease one critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer that can allow arbitrary code to run on your computer.
Are you going to stop using it? Particularly if your job/income requires it?
On the other hand, you really can't blame them for assuming that you were trying to defraud them. I bet they get this sort of thing a lot, and it's a damn shame that they don't check the returns more carefully. Of course, that's why I like tamper-proof seals on things. That way you can be relatively sure that no one has had the device before you. I never by "open box" electronics for this very reason--the stores just can't test everything and often are so swamped that they overlook little things, and it's very easy to get screwed.
The Phishing test is skewed towards guessing an email is legitimate because you can't view the links. In a real e-mail program, you could see where the link allegedly points, but on their site, the links and where they point has been disabled. Useless, to me.
Furthermore, in the majority of states the law is smart enough to add an exception for people in close age, i.e. in many states the age of consent is 16, or two years younger than you are, so if you turn 16 and your willing girlfriend is still only 15, you're alright.
Which is kind of silly, isn't it, if the age of consent laws are in place so that people who may not have the maturity to make their decisions have those decisions made for them. In other words, little Johnny (15) isn't mature enough to decide to have sex, so Sally (older than he is by 4 years) has to be the mature one and not have sex sith him. Being within 2 years of the person's age doesn't make the younger one more able to make the decsion.
Ignoring your nitpicks, because while some of them are technically accurate, you are only using them to make yourself look right in the argument, while the spirit of the words holds true regardless.
As for the last bit: As for your final argument, yes, that would be true, but no one could make you pay for the privelege to access that software. If you wanted to work on it, no one could legally keep you away from it. There would also be no recourse if your lab assistant distributed the source of your binaries to the world. In any case, the effect would probably be somewhat similar to the GPL if not exactly like the Free BSD Licence. No one would be able to tell you what you could not access.
The effect would be nothing like the GPL. Your premise seems to rely on the idea that without a legal backing, you can't force someone to buy software. That's pretty inaccurate. Without legal backing, software producers who want to force you to pay for software just have to rely on technical means: activation (ala Microsoft), periodic phoning home, etc. would all prevent the majority of people from pirating. Even if somewhere down the line the software was cracked, I suspect that most people wouldn't crack it, and future versions would employ other methods to prevent the cracking. There would always be a limited period of time in which you could make someone pay for the privilege of accessing your software. But even that isn't the point of the GPL, is it? Right now, under copyright law, there are instances of people offering code under non-gpl compatible licenses. And the moderately extreme GPLists seem to come out in droves to denounce that software. Imagine how people would react to closed-source derivations of GPL'd software if copyright was magically deleted from the civil and criminal codes tomorrow. I daresay people would still be upset, despite your assertion that it would be "similar to the GPL".
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Apparently not, as I managed to read it three times and quote it and still miss that clause.
Man it's been a long day, my apologies.
Not really the point :) I was referring to the parent post's: :)
Copyrighted material is never intended to be downloaded from the internet without the permission of the copyright owner.
Isn't Linux copyrighted? Isn't that why the GPL works?
I don't recall it showing the charging icon, but if you leave it plugged in to the USB overnight (with less than a full charge on the device) you should come back and see a mostly full charge.
Got a link to verify that?
I assumed they were ditching the T|E line and just keeping it with a numbering scheme. In that case, the T|5 would be the fifth Tungsten, although the T|3 is (I believe) the fourth.
Consider yourself corrected.
/do/ know that my cable syncs extremely slowly if I transfer large files (such as moving ogg files to the SD card in the T|E). Maybe if you have a USB2.0 cable it won't trickle-charge, but with a USB1.1 cable it will?
I have a USB 2.0 "Hi Speed" (or whatever the 480mbps port is) port connected to the sync cable that came with my T|E. It trickle-charges just fine. I've only ever connected it to the power cable once, and that was when I was on a trip and didn't have my computer with me.
Of course, it's entirely possible that some of the cables shipped with this line allowed for the charge and some didn't. I
The T2/T3 had a very nasty hardware design (bug|feature). A large enough number of forum posts came across detailing the fact that after opening/closing the slider, the digitizer would be way, way off (meaning that taps would be offset). Recalibration every time this happened was the only solution other than sending the unit back and hoping for one that didn't have this problem. After the T2, I assumed they would find some way to correct the problem on the T3. Nope, it has the same issue.
In that regard, the non-slider design of the T5 seems to be an upgrade. Hopefully it won't have the dreadful digitizer problems that the T2/T2 had, although the inability to reduce the size certainly is a drawback.
What concerns me is the flash memory. Isn't this going to reduce the life of the handheld, as eventually it will become corrupt/unwritable?
When discussing whether or not there is some "conspiracy", yes, it does in fact matter.
But in the event of a recount, where does the vote go? There's a notation for every candidate, it's just shifted down one. People who are going to vote for Bush would probably recognize the problem (since their notation is missing) and vote for the topmost one, which is correct for Bush. People voting for Kerry would not even look for the place to vote for Bush and would just mark the topmost one because it looks like it goes to Kerry.
And Phantasy Star Online (eps 1-2) has a bit of a security flaw in it. And it's non-flashable.
Of course, Nintendo didn't write the game. Nevertheless, it's a concern.
That's actually a good question. What if the method for sharing doesn't give the option of publishing an e-mail address? Like BitTorrent?
It's pretty simple.. the US legal system is so convoluted and full of holes and tricks that if you don't know and use every one of them, you're liable to lose. Big corporations hire and retain huge legal teams just to use every trick in the book to screw the opposition. When the opposition is another corporation using the same tactics, then it's mostly fair. When it's an individual who can only hire an individual lawyer who basically has to take on an entire law firm, it becomes difficult if not impossible to keep up. One example I've read about (to give you specifics) is the sheer number of motions that the corporation's lawyers can file. With a large pool of legal secretaries at their disposal, they can literally file more motions than your lawyer can respond to in a 24 hour day. The court will lose patience, claiming that you aren't responding in a timely manner, and can pass summary judgement against you.
It's pretty much entirely a failing of the US courts, but it's an example of one of the dirty tricks they can pull. If they decide to sue you, you might have a decent chance if the ground was even. Unfortunately, the ground is not even, which is why so many people jump when they are told to.
Also, keep in mind that the population of the wealthiest country in the world doesn't hold 90% of the wealth. The upper 1% of the population of the US (leaders of major corporations, etc.) hold 95% of the wealth. The rest of us, while generally better off than people in most countries, still aren't up to battling anyone in that top 1%.
Two points:
1) You have to actively search out trademark infringement to really be covered. You can't just bury your head in the sand and claim to have "not noticed" that one.
2) What if they don't comply with the C&D? Now you're looking at a costly legal battle, and you probably don't have the resources to fuel it.
Trademarks have to be actively defended or else they are diluted and may be declared null. At best, I think, this would mean that anyone could use the name freely (maybe that's the point) but I imagine that a trademark might be awarded to someone else. IANAL. I'm just JADEd with regard to US IP laws.
I think that's the point. Nader takes votes away from the Democratic candidate, so Democrats want him to be removed because it gives more votes to Kerry. On the other hand, a Republican would be more likely to want Nader on the ballot since it makes it more likely that Bush will win re-election. So the AC's post indicated that the original poster was Republican because they think that third party candidates are important, despite (my thoughts) the fact that no third party candidate stands a chance in our system.
As I said, though, emerge world will not maintain those settings meaning I have to keep track of what I've compiled with different defaults and recompiles those after emerge world. There's gotta be a better way.
I've seen benchmarks. On current processors, there was not as much difference as on older ones. I've always preferred using Gentoo with -Os because, in theory, it should decrease load times on slower hard disks. I haven't done any comparisons, though.
/etc/make.conf (since the next time you make world after that, things get funky)
One thing I would like is if you could modify the optimizations based on the package without editing the ebuild. Most things I'd like to have optimized for size, but things like mencoder and similar cpu intensive tasks could potentially benefit from optimizing for speed. Is there an easy way to do this that doesn't involve editing
If you're not going to read the article, at LEAST read a few of the higher-moderated comments. For the umpteenth time, everyone receives the patches at the same time. The premium subscribers just get advance notice about what the patch contains.
I'm telling you right now that there is at lease one critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer that can allow arbitrary code to run on your computer.
Are you going to stop using it? Particularly if your job/income requires it?
On the other hand, you really can't blame them for assuming that you were trying to defraud them. I bet they get this sort of thing a lot, and it's a damn shame that they don't check the returns more carefully.
Of course, that's why I like tamper-proof seals on things. That way you can be relatively sure that no one has had the device before you. I never by "open box" electronics for this very reason--the stores just can't test everything and often are so swamped that they overlook little things, and it's very easy to get screwed.
# It looks likely that either low earth or middle earth orbiting satellite systems will have a major competitive advantage over geostationary systems.
/that's/ how Sauran saw everything....
So
The Phishing test is skewed towards guessing an email is legitimate because you can't view the links. In a real e-mail program, you could see where the link allegedly points, but on their site, the links and where they point has been disabled. Useless, to me.
And remind me again, why is the RIAA evil? Is it because they are protecting their intellectual property?
Furthermore, in the majority of states the law is smart enough to add an exception for people in close age, i.e. in many states the age of consent is 16, or two years younger than you are, so if you turn 16 and your willing girlfriend is still only 15, you're alright.
Which is kind of silly, isn't it, if the age of consent laws are in place so that people who may not have the maturity to make their decisions have those decisions made for them. In other words, little Johnny (15) isn't mature enough to decide to have sex, so Sally (older than he is by 4 years) has to be the mature one and not have sex sith him. Being within 2 years of the person's age doesn't make the younger one more able to make the decsion.
Ignoring your nitpicks, because while some of them are technically accurate, you are only using them to make yourself look right in the argument, while the spirit of the words holds true regardless.
As for the last bit:
As for your final argument, yes, that would be true, but no one could make you pay for the privelege to access that software. If you wanted to work on it, no one could legally keep you away from it. There would also be no recourse if your lab assistant distributed the source of your binaries to the world. In any case, the effect would probably be somewhat similar to the GPL if not exactly like the Free BSD Licence. No one would be able to tell you what you could not access.
The effect would be nothing like the GPL. Your premise seems to rely on the idea that without a legal backing, you can't force someone to buy software. That's pretty inaccurate. Without legal backing, software producers who want to force you to pay for software just have to rely on technical means: activation (ala Microsoft), periodic phoning home, etc. would all prevent the majority of people from pirating. Even if somewhere down the line the software was cracked, I suspect that most people wouldn't crack it, and future versions would employ other methods to prevent the cracking. There would always be a limited period of time in which you could make someone pay for the privilege of accessing your software. But even that isn't the point of the GPL, is it?
Right now, under copyright law, there are instances of people offering code under non-gpl compatible licenses. And the moderately extreme GPLists seem to come out in droves to denounce that software. Imagine how people would react to closed-source derivations of GPL'd software if copyright was magically deleted from the civil and criminal codes tomorrow. I daresay people would still be upset, despite your assertion that it would be "similar to the GPL".