My company will pay for a second phone line for people who are on technical call after hours. If you don't have a phone, they will pay up to $25 a month for you to get a phone. I have a cable modem, but no phone. They will *not* pay you $25 to cover cable modem access. I wonder if I can use this as my first "phone"....
I don't know if you were being serious or being funny, but I'm gonna talk to my boss tomorrow and see if I can get reimbursed for this....
No doubt. I've got about nine gigs of music that I've downloaded off the net which I don't give a flip about. If that partition crapped out, big deal. I definitely wouldn't want to pay for it. I've got around eight gigs of stuff downloaded from mp3.com and sxsw which is free, so I don't have to pay for it. I've also got about four gigs of music I care deeply about. I own CDs for almost all of those tracks, so I don't have to pay for that. I've got about 300 megs of stuff that I'd *consider* paying for if I could pay $0.25 per five minutes of tunes. Typical users, when given the choice between paying and not, will typically choose not. If forced to choose between pay for the music you listen to and don't listen to music at all, my informal survey of friends says most people would rather not listen. Which is why digital radio and anything paybased the big guys come up with is doomed for failure.
The actual physical structure itself must be an identifiable trademark for this to ever happen, and then I'd imagine that the filmmakers were just being polite. Even when the building in question is a recognizable trademark, permission does not necessarily have to be granted in order for the likeness of the structure to be used. Check out this article.
Could you provide a cite backing up what you said? I'd be interested to read more, but must admit that I'm skeptical of your claim.
I see that now. I went back and actually read the GPL and LGPL (the short forms, admittedly). I was under the mistaken impression that the product had to be sold. Distribution is enough.
I thought Lindows was L-GPL? And as far as the selling thing is concerned there was a recent lawsuit against a certain software company which alleged that they were selling a web browser for $0.00 in order to gain a market advantage. Even though Lindows is open source, wouldn't the same argument apply?
This seems rather foul and underhanded. People are already committed to using SOAP and WSDL. *Now* Microsoft and IBM announce that this (and attaching techs) aren't royalty free, well, that smacks too much of "Here, kid, your first two hits are free."
If MS and IBM decide to enforce RAND, a lot of businesses are gonna just smile and take it you-know-where. I thought the W3C only proposed royalty free standards?
Banks are big and have lots of money; they can afford to rewrite entire apps to avoid licensing fees (or, more likely, just pony up the money).
I work for a small hospital. We barely have enough programmers to do new development on cool stuff like allowing doctors to review patient records using WiFi enabled PC tablets. We certainly can't afford to revamp all of our apps to avoid patent liabilities.
If my CIO gets wind of this, I can easily imagine him requiring all new software development to be run through the legal department to insure we don't use anything possibly proprietary.
So, you were the guy giving the billy bob jimmy jack line?
I have lived in Huntsville over fifteen years and have never experienced this before. An hour out into the county, perhaps, but not in Huntsville. Huntsville is listed as a "Top 10" place to live if you're a programmer. Aside from the plethora of idiots making knee-jerk comments about the place, Huntsville is an awesome place to live.
Yeah, no doubt. I keep seeing people complain about ads in the middle of the page. I see them at the top banner, but never in the middle of the article. What are they talking about? Maybe I've got proxomitron to filter out that size of ad....
I *like* not getting local news. Watching the news from Portland (i live in alabama) helps me get away from the stress at home. They're not kidding anyone; it's entertainment, not news. And, if we're really honest with ourselves, it's almost always not really stuff that matters.
I first read the Chronicles of Amber in the 3rd grade. I did a book report on it. And one of those shoebox things (diorama?) My diorama was from the cover of the first (second?) book: Corwin, sword in one hand, bloody severed head of talking shadow cat in the other hand.
I can remember being puzzled why my third grade teacher kept asking me if anyone had tried to touch me in an uncomfortable way....
Seeing as I live in the United States, I'm visiting a web site in the United States, mr PineGreen certainly could have violated the DMCA by providing me with instructions on how to circumvent the copy protection.
Don't think he could be arrested for doing something outside of the United States which might have violated the DMCA? Ask Elcomsoft. The world is not the USA, but quite a bit of the world who could be effected by this does, at some point in their lives, visit the US.
Morality has no place in America. We are a capitalist society.
Rather, since we are a capitalistic society, he who has the money dictates the morales. Those with the money, the corporations, have morals; its just that those morals don't really care about joe sixpack (aside from viewing him as a natural resource).
Proxomitron is the sole reason I do all of my home web surfing from my windows box. Junkbuster is nice, but proxomitron is amazing. I'm really surprised that there's not already something equivalent in the linux world. It seems like an awfully big scratch waiting to be itched....
No doubt for the same reason that a person complaining about a post being offtopic can be modded Insightful +1 (twice). Did ya really need to use your +1 score bonus to vent?
Businessess don't look to the long run because manager's bonuses are tied to quarterly profits.
My company recently wanted to set up an in-house paging system. We decided to save some bucks and roll our own system using *nix. Our only specified requirement that was not met was that we spend a bit more and get pagers with better reception (lots of concrete where we are).
The pagers had to be purchased using the operations budget for Plant Operations. The director of Plant Operations has one of his quarterly bonuses tied directly to fundage left over in that pot at the end of the quarter. Guess who decided to buy $2.95 refurb numeric-only pagers? Our paging system doesn't work now cuz we went with cheap pagers. We're (the company) are now paying more to revamp the system in the long run than we would have in the short run if we had went with the pricier pagers in the first place. Guess who doesn't care cuz he's already got his bonus?
Laws applied retroactively generally do not remove rights. The Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act extends rights.
Even so, the original poster would have been more correct to say that acts committed in the past cannot retroactively be made illegal. If posting to slashdot were made illegal tomorrow, you couldn't be found guilty for having posted yesterday.
What? Scratch that, reverse that. The article mentions specifically (you did read the article, didn't you?) More Fast and Furious: Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture. This is not exactly what I'd call a likely platinum album. Charlie Pride: A Tribute to Jim Reeves wasn't exactly a chart buster either (to be honest, i'm not much of a country fan, which would explain why I had, up until the flap over the copy protection, never heard of Charlie Pride nor Jim Reeves).
The firing shots are indeed being made on albums that aren't going to be big chart busters. The labels can point to these albums and say "See! We've been doing this for a long time and it didn't hurt sales so that proves customer acceptance!"
Besides, for this person, english could be a second language. Imagine how you would feel if you were a beginner at German or French, and someone made fun of you. The internet is an international medium, you should keep that in mind
So, wait, Cmdr Taco is French? That would explain a lot....
If you wanted to mask the fact that you were using 5ROT13 instead of 3ROT13, you could XOR the message after each application of ROT13. How would you write that? 5XORROT13? Looks like something my old admin would have thought was a swell password....
*You* read the notice on orbz.org. They have a "very nice lawyer working pro bono". Last time I checked, that means he's working for free. So, again, what legal expense?
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My company will pay for a second phone line for people who are on technical call after hours. If you don't have a phone, they will pay up to $25 a month for you to get a phone. I have a cable modem, but no phone. They will *not* pay you $25 to cover cable modem access. I wonder if I can use this as my first "phone"....
I don't know if you were being serious or being funny, but I'm gonna talk to my boss tomorrow and see if I can get reimbursed for this....
Ack. Not to follow up to my own post or anything, but the link should have been to: sxsw.
No doubt. I've got about nine gigs of music that I've downloaded off the net which I don't give a flip about. If that partition crapped out, big deal. I definitely wouldn't want to pay for it.
I've got around eight gigs of stuff downloaded from mp3.com and sxsw which is free, so I don't have to pay for it. I've also got about four gigs of music I care deeply about. I own CDs for almost all of those tracks, so I don't have to pay for that.
I've got about 300 megs of stuff that I'd *consider* paying for if I could pay $0.25 per five minutes of tunes.
Typical users, when given the choice between paying and not, will typically choose not.
If forced to choose between pay for the music you listen to and don't listen to music at all, my informal survey of friends says most people would rather not listen. Which is why digital radio and anything paybased the big guys come up with is doomed for failure.
The actual physical structure itself must be an identifiable trademark for this to ever happen, and then I'd imagine that the filmmakers were just being polite. Even when the building in question is a recognizable trademark, permission does not necessarily have to be granted in order for the likeness of the structure to be used. Check out this article.
Could you provide a cite backing up what you said? I'd be interested to read more, but must admit that I'm skeptical of your claim.
I see that now. I went back and actually read the GPL and LGPL (the short forms, admittedly). I was under the mistaken impression that the product had to be sold. Distribution is enough.
I thought Lindows was L-GPL? And as far as the selling thing is concerned there was a recent lawsuit against a certain software company which alleged that they were selling a web browser for $0.00 in order to gain a market advantage. Even though Lindows is open source, wouldn't the same argument apply?
This seems rather foul and underhanded. People are already committed to using SOAP and WSDL. *Now* Microsoft and IBM announce that this (and attaching techs) aren't royalty free, well, that smacks too much of "Here, kid, your first two hits are free."
If MS and IBM decide to enforce RAND, a lot of businesses are gonna just smile and take it you-know-where. I thought the W3C only proposed royalty free standards?
Banks are big and have lots of money; they can afford to rewrite entire apps to avoid licensing fees (or, more likely, just pony up the money).
I work for a small hospital. We barely have enough programmers to do new development on cool stuff like allowing doctors to review patient records using WiFi enabled PC tablets. We certainly can't afford to revamp all of our apps to avoid patent liabilities.
If my CIO gets wind of this, I can easily imagine him requiring all new software development to be run through the legal department to insure we don't use anything possibly proprietary.
So, you were the guy giving the billy bob jimmy jack line?
I have lived in Huntsville over fifteen years and have never experienced this before. An hour out into the county, perhaps, but not in Huntsville. Huntsville is listed as a "Top 10" place to live if you're a programmer.
Aside from the plethora of idiots making knee-jerk comments about the place, Huntsville is an awesome place to live.
Yeah, no doubt. I keep seeing people complain about ads in the middle of the page. I see them at the top banner, but never in the middle of the article. What are they talking about? Maybe I've got proxomitron to filter out that size of ad....
Me too. I tend to stop at Trumps of Doom, however.
I *like* not getting local news. Watching the news from Portland (i live in alabama) helps me get away from the stress at home. They're not kidding anyone; it's entertainment, not news. And, if we're really honest with ourselves, it's almost always not really stuff that matters.
I first read the Chronicles of Amber in the 3rd grade. I did a book report on it. And one of those shoebox things (diorama?) My diorama was from the cover of the first (second?) book: Corwin, sword in one hand, bloody severed head of talking shadow cat in the other hand.
I can remember being puzzled why my third grade teacher kept asking me if anyone had tried to touch me in an uncomfortable way....
Seeing as I live in the United States, I'm visiting a web site in the United States, mr PineGreen certainly could have violated the DMCA by providing me with instructions on how to circumvent the copy protection.
Don't think he could be arrested for doing something outside of the United States which might have violated the DMCA? Ask
Elcomsoft.
The world is not the USA, but quite a bit of the world who could be effected by this does, at some point in their lives, visit the US.
Morality has no place in America. We are a capitalist society.
Rather, since we are a capitalistic society, he who has the money dictates the morales. Those with the money, the corporations, have morals; its just that those morals don't really care about joe sixpack (aside from viewing him as a natural resource).
Proxomitron is the sole reason I do all of my home web surfing from my windows box. Junkbuster is nice, but proxomitron is amazing. I'm really surprised that there's not already something equivalent in the linux world. It seems like an awfully big scratch waiting to be itched....
No doubt for the same reason that a person complaining about a post being offtopic can be modded Insightful +1 (twice).
Did ya really need to use your +1 score bonus to vent?
Businessess don't look to the long run because manager's bonuses are tied to quarterly profits.
My company recently wanted to set up an in-house paging system. We decided to save some bucks and roll our own system using *nix. Our only specified requirement that was not met was that we spend a bit more and get pagers with better reception (lots of concrete where we are).
The pagers had to be purchased using the operations budget for Plant Operations.
The director of Plant Operations has one of his quarterly bonuses tied directly to fundage left over in that pot at the end of the quarter.
Guess who decided to buy $2.95 refurb numeric-only pagers?
Our paging system doesn't work now cuz we went with cheap pagers.
We're (the company) are now paying more to revamp the system in the long run than we would have in the short run if we had went with the pricier pagers in the first place.
Guess who doesn't care cuz he's already got his bonus?
Laws applied retroactively generally do not remove rights. The Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act extends rights.
Even so, the original poster would have been more correct to say that acts committed in the past cannot retroactively be made illegal. If posting to slashdot were made illegal tomorrow, you couldn't be found guilty for having posted yesterday.
Keep in mind that these contributions are hard monies.
"Play by our rules and we'll run issue ads and give tons more in soft money."
Yes, but my manager seems to think that messiness equates to productivity, so I'm more than happy to leave my desk in a state of mess.
Now if only I could convince my girlfriend of the virtues of me having a messy house....
What? Scratch that, reverse that.
The article mentions specifically (you did read the article, didn't you?) More Fast and Furious: Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture. This is not exactly what I'd call a likely platinum album. Charlie Pride: A Tribute to Jim Reeves wasn't exactly a chart buster either (to be honest, i'm not much of a country fan, which would explain why I had, up until the flap over the copy protection, never heard of Charlie Pride nor Jim Reeves).
The firing shots are indeed being made on albums that aren't going to be big chart busters. The labels can point to these albums and say "See! We've been doing this for a long time and it didn't hurt sales so that proves customer acceptance!"
So, wait, Cmdr Taco is French? That would explain a lot....
If you wanted to mask the fact that you were using 5ROT13 instead of 3ROT13, you could XOR the message after each application of ROT13. How would you write that?
5XORROT13?
Looks like something my old admin would have thought was a swell password....
*You* read the notice on orbz.org. They have a "very nice lawyer working pro bono". Last time I checked, that means he's working for free. So, again, what legal expense?