And even a "license" button would still cause a sale. License is just a fancy word for either a renting contract or a sales contract. The actual terms of the contract make clear if it's a sale or a rent.
No. Actually no. The ECJ has decided that "being licensed" is just another word for "being sold". And all the terms valid for a sale apply.
No creative wording will change that.
In the EU, you either rent out a good (and then you are responsible to keep the good in shape and fit for use), or you sell it (then the first sale doctrin applies). There is no "it's just licensed".
Laws strike down any license or contract. A law will always supersede what's in a contract or license. If the law for instance states that no truck driver is allowed to drive more than 4 hrs without at least 30 min pause, then no work contract can force a truck driver to drive 8 hrs without stopping (even though trucking companies seems to be under the impression that they can do anyway).
I don't want a middle initial. It was completely useless, if it weren't for filling out forms designed by stupid data collectors.
My father's three names are those of his grandfather, his father and this own given name. Reversing the order of the names to fit into a form is pointless, dropping one is pointless too, and accepting his grandfather's name as his own for the sake of some silly database is too.
It gets worse if you have people whose names don't follow the "a name consists of exactly one word" rule. What's your rule to convert Antonio dell'Acqua into an email address?
There is a problem with the middle initial, if you have a branch in a country where middle initials are not very common, or in this case, if the university has many students from countries where most people don't have a middle initial. For instance, in my family, most people don't have a second given name and thus no middle initial at all, and my father's name has two front initials before his given name.
But I've seen a kind of "artificial" middle initial, where the first John Smith gets the email address john.smith@organisation.tld, the second becomes john.a.smith@organisation.tld, the third one john.b.smith@organisation.tld etc.pp.
We should negotiate trade agreements individually on a nation by nation basis (there is only about 400 after all our government is already BIG enough to read everyone e-mail so that should not be an issue).
You know what then will happen? All the other nations will form a common body for the sake of negotiations with the U.S., and the U.S. will be forced to sign the same treaty with everyone. You get the WTO again, but without the leverage of being a member.
Yes, he set up a computer to perform the downloads. Yes, this was violating the terms on which he was on campus and getting access to JSTOR. But he didn't steal, and that's what I was correcting.
If he actually stole something out of the closet, he would have gotten an one year sentence, and be done with it. But he was charged with 25+ years of prison and an US$1 mio fine. And that's where things go out of hand. And that's why some people are upset. It's like shooting people for spraying walls.
That's exactly what I use Perl for. Turning Excels whose data has to be sanitized first into lists fed into other programs. Creating batches of config files on the fly that are quite similar to each other and differ only on some parameters which I read from a list. Converting config files from one product into config files for another, which will replace the first one etc.pp.
Backend stuff that will be never seen by a user or a customer anyway.
He didn't steal. Not even in the copyright sense of words. He violated the Terms of Use. He had the right to download from JSTOR. What he didn't had was the right to use scripts to download from JSTOR. He used scripts that unattended downloaded documents from JSTOR, so he violated the Terms of Use.
As mentioned on Slashdot before, Bob Gordon argues that there have been three Industrial Revolutions, the Steam Revolution in the late 18th century, the Electrical and Car Revolution at the turn of the 20th century and the Data Revolution since the 1950ies. Differently than the first two, which yielded immense productivity and wealth increases, the Data Revolution is not living up to its promises yet, though we have many of its aspects already in place, data processing power is at everyone's[*] disposal, a world wide communication network lets you reach a big part of the world population[*] for nearly zero cost, a tremendous source of information is readily available to everyone[*].
[*] everyone either living in the Northwestern hemisphere or being wealthy and influencial enough.
1) Do you agree with Bob Gordon's notion?
2a) If yes, why is that, and will it change in the near future?
2b) If no, where do you see the great increase in productivity and wealth, Bob Gordon is missing?
As soon as the devices don't report home anymore, someone will go look for them.
So EMP is just the very loud sound of "Here I am going to start illegal logging".
If you don't want to notice anyone and still cut down trees, don't tamper with the signal!
I beg to differ. I was using 1280x1024 in 1991, and in 1999 I bought a CRT monitor which could display 1600x1200, which I was using until the CRT broke about 10 years later.
NAT64 is not too bad, and it puts the problems to the right side. If the IPv4 side complains that they run into problems because of those many connections from the same IP, they know they have to move to IPv6.
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And even a "license" button would still cause a sale. License is just a fancy word for either a renting contract or a sales contract. The actual terms of the contract make clear if it's a sale or a rent.
No. Actually no. The ECJ has decided that "being licensed" is just another word for "being sold". And all the terms valid for a sale apply. No creative wording will change that. In the EU, you either rent out a good (and then you are responsible to keep the good in shape and fit for use), or you sell it (then the first sale doctrin applies). There is no "it's just licensed".
Laws strike down any license or contract. A law will always supersede what's in a contract or license. If the law for instance states that no truck driver is allowed to drive more than 4 hrs without at least 30 min pause, then no work contract can force a truck driver to drive 8 hrs without stopping (even though trucking companies seems to be under the impression that they can do anyway).
I don't want a middle initial. It was completely useless, if it weren't for filling out forms designed by stupid data collectors.
My father's three names are those of his grandfather, his father and this own given name. Reversing the order of the names to fit into a form is pointless, dropping one is pointless too, and accepting his grandfather's name as his own for the sake of some silly database is too.
It gets worse if you have people whose names don't follow the "a name consists of exactly one word" rule. What's your rule to convert Antonio dell'Acqua into an email address?
There is a problem with the middle initial, if you have a branch in a country where middle initials are not very common, or in this case, if the university has many students from countries where most people don't have a middle initial. For instance, in my family, most people don't have a second given name and thus no middle initial at all, and my father's name has two front initials before his given name.
But I've seen a kind of "artificial" middle initial, where the first John Smith gets the email address john.smith@organisation.tld, the second becomes john.a.smith@organisation.tld, the third one john.b.smith@organisation.tld etc.pp.
He was.
It's in the link to Bob Gordons article.
We should negotiate trade agreements individually on a nation by nation basis (there is only about 400 after all our government is already BIG enough to read everyone e-mail so that should not be an issue).
You know what then will happen? All the other nations will form a common body for the sake of negotiations with the U.S., and the U.S. will be forced to sign the same treaty with everyone. You get the WTO again, but without the leverage of being a member.
The editor being M-x vi-mode?
Yes, he set up a computer to perform the downloads. Yes, this was violating the terms on which he was on campus and getting access to JSTOR. But he didn't steal, and that's what I was correcting. If he actually stole something out of the closet, he would have gotten an one year sentence, and be done with it. But he was charged with 25+ years of prison and an US$1 mio fine. And that's where things go out of hand. And that's why some people are upset. It's like shooting people for spraying walls.
That's exactly what I use Perl for. Turning Excels whose data has to be sanitized first into lists fed into other programs. Creating batches of config files on the fly that are quite similar to each other and differ only on some parameters which I read from a list. Converting config files from one product into config files for another, which will replace the first one etc.pp.
Backend stuff that will be never seen by a user or a customer anyway.
They don't use the Practical Extract and Report Language (PERL) anymore? (If you ever wondered what perl stands for.)
He didn't steal. Not even in the copyright sense of words. He violated the Terms of Use. He had the right to download from JSTOR. What he didn't had was the right to use scripts to download from JSTOR. He used scripts that unattended downloaded documents from JSTOR, so he violated the Terms of Use.
Yes, because we don't. Productivity increases in the last two decades were the lowest since 150 years.
As mentioned on Slashdot before, Bob Gordon argues that there have been three Industrial Revolutions, the Steam Revolution in the late 18th century, the Electrical and Car Revolution at the turn of the 20th century and the Data Revolution since the 1950ies. Differently than the first two, which yielded immense productivity and wealth increases, the Data Revolution is not living up to its promises yet, though we have many of its aspects already in place, data processing power is at everyone's[*] disposal, a world wide communication network lets you reach a big part of the world population[*] for nearly zero cost, a tremendous source of information is readily available to everyone[*].
[*] everyone either living in the Northwestern hemisphere or being wealthy and influencial enough.
1) Do you agree with Bob Gordon's notion?
2a) If yes, why is that, and will it change in the near future?
2b) If no, where do you see the great increase in productivity and wealth, Bob Gordon is missing?
As soon as the devices don't report home anymore, someone will go look for them. So EMP is just the very loud sound of "Here I am going to start illegal logging".
If you don't want to notice anyone and still cut down trees, don't tamper with the signal!
I beg to differ. I was using 1280x1024 in 1991, and in 1999 I bought a CRT monitor which could display 1600x1200, which I was using until the CRT broke about 10 years later.
paux is the plural of pal. In french, words ending in -al have the plural form -aux.
Not in french.
paux is the plural form of pal, which means prick.
For the french impaired: faux paux means false pricks.
And they only hold that trademark for food and beverages. Gaymer's car parts would be completely unaffected by the existance of Gaymer's cidre.
Lingo faux paux are just as bad as fashion faux paux after all! Sometimes even worse!
q.e.d.
NAT64 is not too bad, and it puts the problems to the right side. If the IPv4 side complains that they run into problems because of those many connections from the same IP, they know they have to move to IPv6.
You know, irony is not easily understood online.