Y does something bad to X X sues Y Y agrees to pay X say $1m as part of the lawsuit Y can't comment forever If X talks then X violated the agreement and Y can sue them for breach of contract. Since quite often the statue of limitations has run out on the original bad act, X could end up deeply underwater.
OK that's an interesting point. The problem here is that the claim is copyright violation not libel. That is the plantiff is claiming the information is true not false. AFAIK true information cannot be libelous.
Not quite sure about that. We have contracts, in particular law suit settlements that quite frequent impose severe penalties for disclosure even to the courts. There are people who have refused to answer questions under oath for fear of violating a settlement like this.
Well my issue is First Amendment. Courts are not permitted to take illegal action in an injunction. For example they can issue an injunction preventing you from mowing your lawn they can't burn your house down.
And it probably wasn't a permanent injunction, I agree but think that is irrelevant. The judge should still be off the bench.
The judge is the one violating the first amendment here. The court order by itself. The company in this case may have requested the court's assistance but it never should have been granted on first amendment grounds.
How is this not clear cut first amendment? A collection of websites expresses a political opinion. A potentially tort-able act, distributing a copyrighted document occurred. That doesn't give the courts the right to issue a blanket cease publication order.
Assuming the Computer World story is correct Judge James Hurley should be removed from the bench. I want to post this here for comment, since I live in NJ and thus have a state Senator that has oversight.
Sure. The worst offenders are probably the LaTeX people who think copyright allows for all sorts of trademark protection. But I think we agree they are the exceptions and the majority (vast majority) of/.ers oppose restrictions on dynamic linking.
Actually I'd say that in general when GPL software has attempted to defend prohibitions against dynamic linking the/. crowd has been opposed as well. In general the/. crowd is fairly hostile to most restrictions placed upon derived works whether GPL or commercial licensed.
tentime # a ten time uses a tenths of a second counter
long int clicks # clicks represent the tenths tentime -> out = clicks tentime -> seconds = round (div (clicks,10) + ((mod(clicks,10) > 4 ? 1 : 0)...
That's a general problem of creating a hierarchy without listening to the people below them. As a technical architect is that I say something that draws strenuous disagreement than either I'm expressing myself poorly or dead wrong and I'm not moving forward till I figure out which.
By 'computer', the author could have easily included the system libraries that are actually doing all the rounding and overflows instead of implementing arbitrary precision in software.
Everyone defending the way 'computers' is used in this article, and conflating it with 'processor' is a complete idiot.
This is a programmers blog. We don't conflate that sorts of things. If a program is using the wrong library that's not a problem with "computers sucking at math" but a problem with "programmers not understanding arithmetic libraries very well". The topic of computer arithmetic and the issues with various representation is covered standard in undergraduate programming classes. In other words these problems happened because:
1) They picked the wrong programmers 2) The didn't do QC 3) They didn't have test libraries that tested their systems correctly.
etc...
Computers don't suck at math. Nurses can do 98% of what a doctor does and for most of it more quickly than the doctor. It is that other 2% which is the difference between the doctor's education and the nurse's.
One small problem is that HFS+ sits on top of HFS and thinks like block allocations fall apart after 1TB. Apple has to switch filesystems. While the problems aren't severe at 2TB or 4TB at 50TB they are going to devastating.
Sure it still exists but it poorly supported by many ISPs and most internet users have never heard of it. It has become a minor part of the internet communications infrastructure.
I notice your low user number so I'll assume you were also around in the 2.0 days. I'll agree that I can't think of any latency problems I had in the mid 1990s but.... how would I even compare? Entirely different application architectures, entirely different GUIs, entirely different X. I'm not sure how I would be able to know.
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It is the other way around.
Y does something bad to X
X sues Y
Y agrees to pay X say $1m as part of the lawsuit Y can't comment forever
If X talks then X violated the agreement and Y can sue them for breach of contract. Since quite often the statue of limitations has run out on the original bad act, X could end up deeply underwater.
Good example, EULAs should require prior disclosure.
OK that's an interesting point. The problem here is that the claim is copyright violation not libel. That is the plantiff is claiming the information is true not false. AFAIK true information cannot be libelous.
Not quite sure about that. We have contracts, in particular law suit settlements that quite frequent impose severe penalties for disclosure even to the courts. There are people who have refused to answer questions under oath for fear of violating a settlement like this.
Yeah I can live with that. Certainly no right to privacy.
Well my issue is First Amendment. Courts are not permitted to take illegal action in an injunction. For example they can issue an injunction preventing you from mowing your lawn they can't burn your house down.
And it probably wasn't a permanent injunction, I agree but think that is irrelevant. The judge should still be off the bench.
Probably the contract is a New Jersey contract. Employment contracts are almost always signed in a particular state.
The judge is the one violating the first amendment here. The court order by itself. The company in this case may have requested the court's assistance but it never should have been granted on first amendment grounds.
Excellent policy. Makes sense, contracts should be public documents in all cases.
How is this not clear cut first amendment? A collection of websites expresses a political opinion. A potentially tort-able act, distributing a copyrighted document occurred. That doesn't give the courts the right to issue a blanket cease publication order.
Assuming the Computer World story is correct Judge James Hurley should be removed from the bench. I want to post this here for comment, since I live in NJ and thus have a state Senator that has oversight.
Sure. The worst offenders are probably the LaTeX people who think copyright allows for all sorts of trademark protection. But I think we agree they are the exceptions and the majority (vast majority) of /.ers oppose restrictions on dynamic linking.
Actually I'd say that in general when GPL software has attempted to defend prohibitions against dynamic linking the /. crowd has been opposed as well. In general the /. crowd is fairly hostile to most restrictions placed upon derived works whether GPL or commercial licensed.
That's the basic idea of object oriented program.
tentime # a ten time uses a tenths of a second counter ...
long int clicks # clicks represent the tenths
tentime -> out = clicks
tentime -> seconds = round (div (clicks,10) + ((mod(clicks,10) > 4 ? 1 : 0)
There is another solution, arbitrary precision systems. There you get the safety of fixed and floating combined in exchange for lots of speed.
That's a general problem of creating a hierarchy without listening to the people below them. As a technical architect is that I say something that draws strenuous disagreement than either I'm expressing myself poorly or dead wrong and I'm not moving forward till I figure out which.
This is a programmers blog. We don't conflate that sorts of things. If a program is using the wrong library that's not a problem with "computers sucking at math" but a problem with "programmers not understanding arithmetic libraries very well". The topic of computer arithmetic and the issues with various representation is covered standard in undergraduate programming classes. In other words these problems happened because:
1) They picked the wrong programmers
2) The didn't do QC
3) They didn't have test libraries that tested their systems correctly.
etc...
Computers don't suck at math. Nurses can do 98% of what a doctor does and for most of it more quickly than the doctor. It is that other 2% which is the difference between the doctor's education and the nurse's.
I do it on google docs all time time. Phone + real time changes:
-- OK I basically agree with your tables except I'd change A to B
or with code review:
-- I highlighted the lines I had questions about, and then comments get added live
One small problem is that HFS+ sits on top of HFS and thinks like block allocations fall apart after 1TB. Apple has to switch filesystems. While the problems aren't severe at 2TB or 4TB at 50TB they are going to devastating.
Sure it still exists but it poorly supported by many ISPs and most internet users have never heard of it. It has become a minor part of the internet communications infrastructure.
So the call is for a collaboration / communication system which works like email but can pull in large groups that has an open standard.
Sounds like a call to bring back and update Usenet.
Do you have any evidence for this? The Mac users I know talk about the advantages of the mac not about the advantages of elitist culture.
This idea that Mac users are buying an image is simply nonsense. They are buying a feature set:
Quicktime as an OS level data format
Unix
OSX's level of integration
Ease of authoring with iApps
or whatever.
They have them:
1) Used market
2) Mac Mini
3) Apple TV
4) Educational iMac
If by "low end" you mean a low end desktop unit, then that is targeting a different group of people and that would effect the brand.
Pick one of three:
1) Cutting edge
2) Great customer service
3) Low margins high volume
I notice your low user number so I'll assume you were also around in the 2.0 days. I'll agree that I can't think of any latency problems I had in the mid 1990s but.... how would I even compare? Entirely different application architectures, entirely different GUIs, entirely different X. I'm not sure how I would be able to know.
Where?
http://www.journeyed.com/item/Adobe/Creative+Suite+Production+Premium/100965835