This is an interesting angle. The Construction section at the bottom of the agreement says that if a court finds section 3.3, 3.5 or 3.7 to be unenforceable, then then entire agreement is null and void.
So if the court says they can't do 3.3, which is the IPR impairing license section, then they can't license it at all, according to their own agreement.:)
While I agree with you in part, the part of about using all the funky keystrokes that boost your productivity, I disagree that at GUI version of VIM is less useful.
For one, the support for native GNOME (in the case of GVIM) and KDE (in the case of KVIM) clipboards, without having to go into the xterm window and keep on marking a "screenful" at a time and then scroll, mark another screenful, scroll, etc....with GVIM and KVIM, you can copy these to the clipboard easily like any other GUI editor.
If KVIM is anything like GVIM, it will have native support for KDE printing functionality, something non-existant in a console vim.
The fact that, as someone mentioned, it is a KPART means that other applications can use it. So, for instance, Konqueror could KVIM for the little text editor window that I'm typing in right now and I'd get full Vi-style editing functionality, something that would ROCK if you ask me personally.:)
Also, adding the menus and buttons give you useful stuff like File Open dialogs. Typing in a long pathname on ':e ' command line is a REAL royal PITA. I'd rather just point and click, thank you.
I was under the impression that the "loser pays" model is not implemented in North America.
Sure. Here in the US, in certain types of liability cases, if you sue someone or some company for damages due to liability and you LOSE, then the judge can (at said judges discretion) make you pay the defendant's attorney fees. It is intended as a deterrent to prevent nuisance lawsuits.
I'm asking if they could present a case and get it to court. Thoughts?
Sure. As any lawyer will point out to you, you can sue anybody for anything. You might be liable for their attorney's fees if you lose, but you can sue anyone for anything and even make it to court.
But seriously, I am happy that LOTR-FOTR is being released in a four-hour version. I really like the idea of DVD-directors cuts. I'm pretty confident FOTR would have made a lot more money if it had only been 2 hours long, because it could be shown five times a day per screen, rather than three. There is a lot of pressure on studios to avoid long movies. They want people to pay and free their seats as fast as possible. DVD releases are not under that same pressure, so I think we will see more "unshortened" versions of movies.
As you pointed out, DVD releases aren't under the same pressure. The bulk of the money being made from movies is no longer ticket sales. It's video sales (VHS and DVD) and merchandising (get your Frodo Baggins(TM) Action Figure (TM) Today! Only from Hasbro(R)!) that make the big $$$ today, especially for high-budget summer blockbusters like LOTR: FOTR.
NIS will work well. You can also use LDAP or Kerberos. Furthermore, you could run Samba on all your Unix boxes, setup one of them as a PDC, and make all the passwords sync between the PDC and the local passwords.
General Motors (my former employer) uses NIS. They have a mixed environment with Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, and Windows 2000 boxes. They have everything tied to the NIS servers so that your login on your Windows 2000 EC2K box is the same as your Solaris CEe seat.
Testing on animals and humans is the only valid research methodology for some things, cloning included.
Exactly. Get the technology as close to perfection as possible on *animals* as possible, which is what I said.
And like I said, no one would even sponsor a drug for testing on humans if 149 out of 150 animals that it was tested on died as a result, and the ones that lived suffered from premature ageing and arthritis. It would be unimaginable.
In most countries, you have to prove that a drug will work on animals, or at least in some other way prove that it will work on humans without harming them before you can go around drug testing on humans. The same would hold true for any medical technology, including cloning.
Of course there are technological problems (most notably the large amount of cloning attempts needed to perform one successful clone) with the procedure but as scientists continue to do research these problems will be resolved eventually.
It is these technological issues, and nothing else in your post, that, IMHO causes ethical issues with creating human clones.
There's the high failure rate, the health problems that existing non-human clones, such as Dolly, have experienced such as premature ageing and arthritis.
Are we ready to push cloning to humans when it has proved dangerous to both the health of the child and the mother? No, I don't think so.
No one would be hot to trot to push out a new cholesterol lowering drug (for instance) if it caused 149 out of 150 of its users to die, and those that did live experienced arthritis and premature ageing. We would say go back to the drawing board and refine your drug until you get it right!
And that's what I'm saying... we need to get this technology right before we try it out on humans. Just because we CAN do a thing doesn't mean we SHOULD do a thing, especially if its something that hasn't been perfected yet.
Did you read the article? It's just a PC running Linux. As it says on the website, you can build one yourself. The software is all open source. If you wanted, you could put Samba AND nfs for all it matters. Want to make it have a webserver, too? Just add Apache. Want it to have ftp capability? Add proftpd. The machine as built uses VNC, so you can remote control this thing from any PC that can run VNC (that includes Windows and a whole sling of 'Nix platforms, including Linux).
Give the guy a break, he's just put together some hardware and software and hacked it together with a LCD to make an appliance.
Writing at 55 wpm???? Yeah, maybe if you don't want to be able to *READ* it afterwards!!!:)
You're right...it means nothing.
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You may not be familiar with SMTP servers like sendmail, postfix, etc. Mails that are sent from clients go into a queue. In the case of larger ISPs with many many users, the mail servers handle quite a bit of mail, so messages may sit in queue for longer.
The order that they are sent out of the queue in is determined by settings set by the administrator. Some SMTP servers are actually setup so that small-sized messages get priority over bigger messages. Since most e-mails are small, your larger messages with attachments may sit in the queue longer, waiting for a bunch of smaller messages to be sent.
This queueing depends on the mostly on the *senders* mail server. The receivers mail server will generally put messages from the receive queue into the users mailboxes in the order they came in, but not always.
Have your mail client display all headers...these show where the mail was along its route and typically have date/time stamps on them. This will help you determine where the hold up is (on the sender's mail server, on your mail server, etc.) Look for the length of time between timestamps. If one is unusually longer than the rest, that's where the hold up is. I'm not saying it's not Carnivore, but what you describe is a fairly common occurrence.
After all, it's not your fault they didn't read it
Actually it can be. I don't know how US law works, but over here in the UK the basic principle is that there must be some "meeting of minds": both sides must understand the same things about the agreement. The writing is evidence about what was agreed, but it is not absolute.
Yep. The law is the same here. Contract law in the U.S. is in fact based on English common law (I'm sure you weren't surprised!:)
Basically, if you don't point out the changes you make to the contract, they can claim they didn't know about the changes. Therefore, there is no meeting of the minds about those specific provisions. However, in some states, this can cause the entire contract to be null and void...some states add to contract law by saying if there is no meeting of the minds about specific provisions, then there is no meeting of the minds about the entire contract...I'm not sure if such laws would apply to employment agreements, but if you pursue this tack, definitely consult an attorney!
I believe Apple will take over the desktop -- not Linux.
How? OS X only runs on expensive, proprietary hardware. Until OS X runs on cheap commodity hardware, forget about it.
Remember Apple has the largest Unix user base right now with OS X. Linux on the desktop is a non-starter vs. OS X
Show me the statistics that prove this. Most people who say this are counting every single Macintosh owner as an OS X users. This is simply not true. Most of the Macs that are shipping even today dual boot OS 9 and OS X. Many Mac users I have talked to never go into OS X...they use OS 9 or 8.x or even in some cases 7.x.
Decent competition in the office suite community? Name ONE reason anyone would switch from MS Office. ONE. And don't say cost, because as we all know Office comes free on PCs.:-P
With support like that from the biggest companies in the world, who needs enemies?
I'll make a prediction right now...Do I have to say it? Oh, I guess I do...
AOL/TW will buy Red Hat. They're looking to break free of Microsoft, especially since Microsoft basically screwed them over with XP. They will finally make good on a Mozilla/AOL client, they will release versions for Linux and Windows and continue with the strategy that Linux is the cheapest way to get AOL into every household in America.
People buying computers just to get on the Internet (there's still a lot of those) will buy Linux machines (without really knowing why) that have AOL installed on them. Microsoft will slowly lose their grip on the consumer desktop market...
They'll continue to own the commercial market until the same twits who insist on the use of Windows in the commercial market because it "looks just like what i've got at home" will have Linux at home, and then they'll want that because it "looks just like what I've got at home."
Boom, Microsoft's stranglehold on the desktop fails, Linux takes over and utopia finally sets in.
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What's that old quote about MS? "Window's ain't done till Lotus don't run?"
No. It's "DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run."
This is an interesting angle. The Construction section at the bottom of the agreement says that if a court finds section 3.3, 3.5 or 3.7 to be unenforceable, then then entire agreement is null and void.
:)
So if the court says they can't do 3.3, which is the IPR impairing license section, then they can't license it at all, according to their own agreement.
This is cool stuff, but what hasn't been said is that as long as operating systems and applications leak memory, there will be a need for reboots.
:-P Who needs reboots? :) And the 69 days is only because I had to put a new hard drive in it due to running out of space on the old one. :)
You must be a Microsoft user.
Some of us don't have that problem.
[surak@tuxedo surak]$ uptime
9:23am up 69 days, 15:33, 3 users, load average: 0.89, 0.87, 1.10
[surak@rtuxedo surak]$ uname
Linux
See?
While I agree with you in part, the part of about using all the funky keystrokes that boost your productivity, I disagree that at GUI version of VIM is less useful.
:)
For one, the support for native GNOME (in the case of GVIM) and KDE (in the case of KVIM) clipboards, without having to go into the xterm window and keep on marking a "screenful" at a time and then scroll, mark another screenful, scroll, etc....with GVIM and KVIM, you can copy these to the clipboard easily like any other GUI editor.
If KVIM is anything like GVIM, it will have native support for KDE printing functionality, something non-existant in a console vim.
The fact that, as someone mentioned, it is a KPART means that other applications can use it. So, for instance, Konqueror could KVIM for the little text editor window that I'm typing in right now and I'd get full Vi-style editing functionality, something that would ROCK if you ask me personally.
Also, adding the menus and buttons give you useful stuff like File Open dialogs. Typing in a long pathname on ':e ' command line is a REAL royal PITA. I'd rather just point and click, thank you.
I was under the impression that the "loser pays" model is not implemented in North America.
Sure. Here in the US, in certain types of liability cases, if you sue someone or some company for damages due to liability and you LOSE, then the judge can (at said judges discretion) make you pay the defendant's attorney fees. It is intended as a deterrent to prevent nuisance lawsuits.
I'm asking if they could present a case and get it to court. Thoughts?
Sure. As any lawyer will point out to you, you can sue anybody for anything. You might be liable for their attorney's fees if you lose, but you can sue anyone for anything and even make it to court.
Errmm... Holiday Blockbusters.... Sorry. :(
I think it's time the antivirus companies step up to the plate for the average consumer,
:-P
And add Internet Explorer to their database of standard virus types that can be cleaned (removed)?
Mythical Man Month???
A little wine with my dinner so I'm the grape ape!
This is a Planet of the Apes reference in case nobody noticed.
But seriously, I am happy that LOTR-FOTR is being released in a four-hour version. I really like the idea of DVD-directors cuts. I'm pretty confident FOTR would have made a lot more money if it had only been 2 hours long, because it could be shown five times a day per screen, rather than three. There is a lot of pressure on studios to avoid long movies. They want people to pay and free their seats as fast as possible. DVD releases are not under that same pressure, so I think we will see more "unshortened" versions of movies.
As you pointed out, DVD releases aren't under the same pressure. The bulk of the money being made from movies is no longer ticket sales. It's video sales (VHS and DVD) and merchandising (get your Frodo Baggins(TM) Action Figure (TM) Today! Only from Hasbro(R)!) that make the big $$$ today, especially for high-budget summer blockbusters like LOTR: FOTR.
NIS will work well. You can also use LDAP or Kerberos. Furthermore, you could run Samba on all your Unix boxes, setup one of them as a PDC, and make all the passwords sync between the PDC and the local passwords.
General Motors (my former employer) uses NIS. They have a mixed environment with Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, and Windows 2000 boxes. They have everything tied to the NIS servers so that your login on your Windows 2000 EC2K box is the same as your Solaris CEe seat.
Testing on animals and humans is the only valid
research methodology for some things, cloning included.
Exactly. Get the technology as close to perfection as possible on *animals* as possible, which is what I said.
And like I said, no one would even sponsor a drug for testing on humans if 149 out of 150 animals that it was tested on died as a result, and the ones that lived suffered from premature ageing and arthritis. It would be unimaginable.
In most countries, you have to prove that a drug will work on animals, or at least in some other way prove that it will work on humans without harming them before you can go around drug testing on humans. The same would hold true for any medical technology, including cloning.
Of course there are technological problems (most notably the large amount of cloning attempts needed to perform one successful clone) with the procedure but as scientists continue to do research these problems will be resolved eventually.
It is these technological issues, and nothing else in your post, that, IMHO causes ethical issues with creating human clones.
There's the high failure rate, the health problems that existing non-human clones, such as Dolly, have experienced such as premature ageing and arthritis.
Are we ready to push cloning to humans when it has proved dangerous to both the health of the child and the mother? No, I don't think so.
No one would be hot to trot to push out a new cholesterol lowering drug (for instance) if it caused 149 out of 150 of its users to die, and those that did live experienced arthritis and premature ageing. We would say go back to the drawing board and refine your drug until you get it right!
And that's what I'm saying... we need to get this technology right before we try it out on humans. Just because we CAN do a thing doesn't mean we SHOULD do a thing, especially if its something that hasn't been perfected yet.
Errmmm...yes, but weren't those REPTILES, not MAMMALS? :)
Did you read the article? It's just a PC running Linux. As it says on the website, you can build one yourself. The software is all open source. If you wanted, you could put Samba AND nfs for all it matters. Want to make it have a webserver, too? Just add Apache. Want it to have ftp capability? Add proftpd. The machine as built uses VNC, so you can remote control this thing from any PC that can run VNC (that includes Windows and a whole sling of 'Nix platforms, including Linux).
Give the guy a break, he's just put together some hardware and software and hacked it together with a LCD to make an appliance.
Writing at 55 wpm???? Yeah, maybe if you don't want to be able to *READ* it afterwards!!! :)
You may not be familiar with SMTP servers like sendmail, postfix, etc. Mails that are sent from clients go into a queue. In the case of larger ISPs with many many users, the mail servers handle quite a bit of mail, so messages may sit in queue for longer.
The order that they are sent out of the queue in is determined by settings set by the administrator. Some SMTP servers are actually setup so that small-sized messages get priority over bigger messages. Since most e-mails are small, your larger messages with attachments may sit in the queue longer, waiting for a bunch of smaller messages to be sent.
This queueing depends on the mostly on the *senders* mail server. The receivers mail server will generally put messages from the receive queue into the users mailboxes in the order they came in, but not always.
Have your mail client display all headers...these show where the mail was along its route and typically have date/time stamps on them. This will help you determine where the hold up is (on the sender's mail server, on your mail server, etc.) Look for the length of time between timestamps. If one is unusually longer than the rest, that's where the hold up is. I'm not saying it's not Carnivore, but what you describe is a fairly common occurrence.
What this guys seems to be looking for is a really efficient implementation of XWindows.
You mean like this?
:)
FINER (Friends Is Not ER)
:-P
After all, it's not your fault they didn't read it
:)
Actually it can be. I don't know how US law works, but over here in the UK the basic principle is that there must be some "meeting of minds": both sides must understand the same things about the agreement. The writing is evidence about what was agreed, but it is not absolute.
Yep. The law is the same here. Contract law in the U.S. is in fact based on English common law (I'm sure you weren't surprised!
Basically, if you don't point out the changes you make to the contract, they can claim they didn't know about the changes. Therefore, there is no meeting of the minds about those specific provisions. However, in some states, this can cause the entire contract to be null and void...some states add to contract law by saying if there is no meeting of the minds about specific provisions, then there is no meeting of the minds about the entire contract...I'm not sure if such laws would apply to employment agreements, but if you pursue this tack, definitely consult an attorney!
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I believe Apple will take over the desktop -- not Linux.
How? OS X only runs on expensive, proprietary hardware. Until OS X runs on cheap commodity hardware, forget about it.
Remember Apple has the largest Unix user base right now with OS X. Linux on the desktop is a non-starter vs. OS X
Show me the statistics that prove this. Most people who say this are counting every single Macintosh owner as an OS X users. This is simply not true. Most of the Macs that are shipping even today dual boot OS 9 and OS X. Many Mac users I have talked to never go into OS X...they use OS 9 or 8.x or even in some cases 7.x.
Decent competition in the office suite community? Name ONE reason anyone would switch from MS Office. ONE. And don't say cost, because as we all know Office comes free on PCs. :-P
With support like that from the biggest companies in the world, who needs enemies?
:-P
I'll make a prediction right now...Do I have to say it? Oh, I guess I do...
AOL/TW will buy Red Hat. They're looking to break free of Microsoft, especially since Microsoft basically screwed them over with XP. They will finally make good on a Mozilla/AOL client, they will release versions for Linux and Windows and continue with the strategy that Linux is the cheapest way to get AOL into every household in America.
People buying computers just to get on the Internet (there's still a lot of those) will buy Linux machines (without really knowing why) that have AOL installed on them. Microsoft will slowly lose their grip on the consumer desktop market...
They'll continue to own the commercial market until the same twits who insist on the use of Windows in the commercial market because it "looks just like what i've got at home" will have Linux at home, and then they'll want that because it "looks just like what I've got at home."
Boom, Microsoft's stranglehold on the desktop fails, Linux takes over and utopia finally sets in.
Whatcha think? Too far fetched?
Alright...so I was basically stoned off my ass when I posted that. What's your point? :-P