I agree with you totally that the progress of studio technology has diminished the importance of traditional music writing skills.
And what's with this new trend of having instruments play accompaniment during mass? The human voice used to be considered the only instrument worthy to Sing to God with, not like these new-fangled lutes and ophecleides...
the CCAGW isn't exactly calling Linux a monopoly, but rather the government of Massachussets.
The people of Massachusetts shouldn't be tied to a single, monopolistic government! They should be able to choose from three or four concurrent, competing governments!
One would have every right to expect the cops to have at least asked for some evidence that an actual crime was committed!
If I walk up to you on an empty street and punch you in the face, then run away, are you going to call for the police to pursue me? After all, there's no evidence that I committed a crime, except your word. In fact, there's no evidence that a crime was committed at all -- you could have gotten that bruised jaw some other way.
Gang-bangers that shoot people dead in the street can get better treatment!
OH, BULLSHIT! Show me a case where a murderer plead guilty and got away with just a fine and community service, or else your hyperbole is as groundless and irrational as you think the police and judicial actions seem to be.
considering how many poor technology decisions I've seen handed down by the Judiciary lately I feel justified in my opinion.
Maybe you should stop using Slashdot as a primary source for legal news. In fact, maybe you shouldn't read the news at all -- do you think that the 20 times where a judicial decision is technically sound gets anywhere near as much coverage as the one time it's shaky?
It is no longer enough to simply understand the Law: one must have a good grasp of scientific and engineering principles as well
Judges might have to preside over a malpractice suit someday, so better make it mandatory for judges to have gone through medical school. Oh, and they should be licensed auto mechanics, airline pilots, and accountants too. Never know when they might need to be experts in THOSE fields, too. And we probably ought to make them kill a guy so they'll have the expertise required to preside over a murder trial, yeah.
The sad truth is that merely being accused of a crime in this country is punitive in and of itself.
The sad truth is that this is and has been true of every culture in human history. It's not a defect of the American legal system, it's a defect of Human Nature.
This isn't a permanent change to your computer it's a way to get the best performance for your games.
Still, it's nothing new. Ten years ago most DOS games ran optimally (or sometimes ONLY) if you booted up used bare-bones CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT that enabled high memory and not much else. Fifteen years ago, games were often booted from floppy disk running their own tiny bootstrap OS instead of loading through PC/MS-DOS.
This is either a step backwards, or another iteration of "everything old is new again". Or both.
I can understand that many companies would rather pay a headhunter to do preliminary screening than do it themslves, but when the fees can easily reach five digits, is it really worth it?
If a company hires on average one new person per month, there's a good chance it would be cheaper to create and staff an internal HR position that does what the headhunters do.
It's somewhat reassuring to know that only 1/1000th of one percent of the p2p using public aren't stupid enough to completely open themselves up to litigation.
Yeah, those 800 people are a LOT dumber than the millions of P2P users who only MOSTLY open themselves up to litigation!
Anyone who trades copyrighted materials on P2P networks are open to litigation. Signing up for the RIAA "amnesty" list didn't do anything but make it easier for them to find out who you are.
[Hitler's] act included (among other things) a ban on demonstrations, limited freedom of the press, and the right to be arrested without a warrant or evidence to support a crime being committed.
You know what other historical leader enacted rules such as those? President Abraham Lincoln, when he suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.
(But hey, at least neither Lincoln nor Hitler gave Senator Palpatine free reign to build an army of clones...)
The problem is that they are offering to file the claims for the user when the details of the settlement say the user must file the claim themselves.
IANAL, but is such a term allowable in the settlement? Consider a Microsoft customer with a physical disability who cannot perform the task of filing a claim on his own, or another user who lacks the language proficiency to file her claim. They are eligible to receive a settlement, but to disallow them the help of a third party in submitting a claim would be discriminatory.
And if those people can authorize someone else to submit their claim for them, why can't everybody?
On this point, I don't see any real difference between Lindows filing your Microsoft settlement claim for you and H&R Block filing your income taxes for you. (I don't intend this post to argue the merits of any of the other points raised by Microsoft, which may be entirely valid.)
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I laughed at my buddy a few years back when he said that the U.N. could fly over your house and scan it to see how much money is in it. Now that is a reality.
It is?
Right now I'm laughing at you AND your buddy.
Who says that "advanced" criminals in the future won't develop a "super RFID scanner" and scan all of the houses in a neighborhood and "see" what goodies are in each house to try to figure out which house to rob.
Me, for one. Any criminal smart enough to build or procure such an unlikely device is in all likelihood not going to bother with burgling houses.
If the guy down the street who works for a Ford dealership tells me that he thinks Fords suck I too would have to be a moron to believe that was the official position of his employer.
Whether or not that might be legal grounds for firing said employee is another issue.
If I ran that Ford dealership, you can guarantee I would fire that guy or at least chew him out for telling you he thought Fords suck. No employer would be happy about an employee whose behavior undermines its ability to conduct business, whether that behavior involves personal opinions or not.
you'd think that the RIAA would have a hard time finding bands willing to sign contracts
Why? It's not like the record company is being upfront and telling the bands that they probably won't ever see any of the money from their CD sales. Even if they did, though, the company is also promising to make the band famous -- to many people, that's at least as important as the money.
And yet, high-end versions of Office 2003 are going to have XML support. So whether they WANT an XML file format or not, they're getting pressure from the market to deliver one. They're not so important that they can afford to make a product that doesn't meet enterprise customer's needs.
"Please note that we will be inspecting your cable outlets on Monday with your landlords permission, please move all furniture out of the way."
I don't know if it's the same everywhere, but where I live the cable company only owns the cable lines until they enter the building where you live. The internal wiring is the homeowner's to do whatever he or she wants with.
As an apartment renter, you need to know that Comcast has no right to enter your apartment without your permission, and your landlord has no right to grant permission on your behalf unless the entry is for essential maintenance. Given that Comcast's maintenance responsiblities end at the outside wall of the building, it's doubtful they have a legitimate case to 'inspect' your outlets.
If they continue to give you grief about this, research your local tenant laws and speak to a lawyer if necessary.
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That's why the RIAA has roving team of "detectives" whose job is to scour neigboorhoods to find "clandestine" (that is, "homemade") recording studios
They do?
Or are you just lying?
I agree with you totally that the progress of studio technology has diminished the importance of traditional music writing skills.
And what's with this new trend of having instruments play accompaniment during mass? The human voice used to be considered the only instrument worthy to Sing to God with, not like these new-fangled lutes and ophecleides...
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a Gregorian monk
I've got FIVE used computers (2 Intel, 3 RISC) here that I use to make me money
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Piss off, Spammer.
the CCAGW isn't exactly calling Linux a monopoly, but rather the government of Massachussets.
The people of Massachusetts shouldn't be tied to a single, monopolistic government! They should be able to choose from three or four concurrent, competing governments!
One would have every right to expect the cops to have at least asked for some evidence that an actual crime was committed!
If I walk up to you on an empty street and punch you in the face, then run away, are you going to call for the police to pursue me? After all, there's no evidence that I committed a crime, except your word. In fact, there's no evidence that a crime was committed at all -- you could have gotten that bruised jaw some other way.
Gang-bangers that shoot people dead in the street can get better treatment!
OH, BULLSHIT! Show me a case where a murderer plead guilty and got away with just a fine and community service, or else your hyperbole is as groundless and irrational as you think the police and judicial actions seem to be.
considering how many poor technology decisions I've seen handed down by the Judiciary lately I feel justified in my opinion.
Maybe you should stop using Slashdot as a primary source for legal news. In fact, maybe you shouldn't read the news at all -- do you think that the 20 times where a judicial decision is technically sound gets anywhere near as much coverage as the one time it's shaky?
It is no longer enough to simply understand the Law: one must have a good grasp of scientific and engineering principles as well
Judges might have to preside over a malpractice suit someday, so better make it mandatory for judges to have gone through medical school. Oh, and they should be licensed auto mechanics, airline pilots, and accountants too. Never know when they might need to be experts in THOSE fields, too. And we probably ought to make them kill a guy so they'll have the expertise required to preside over a murder trial, yeah.
The sad truth is that merely being accused of a crime in this country is punitive in and of itself.
The sad truth is that this is and has been true of every culture in human history. It's not a defect of the American legal system, it's a defect of Human Nature.
The evening "News" is so corporate owned and supported that I don't really consider it a reliable source for information.
Do you believe that any significant source of news on the Internet ISN'T just as beholden to corporate masters?
(OSDN is the parent company of Slashdot.)
This isn't a permanent change to your computer it's a way to get the best performance for your games.
Still, it's nothing new. Ten years ago most DOS games ran optimally (or sometimes ONLY) if you booted up used bare-bones CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT that enabled high memory and not much else. Fifteen years ago, games were often booted from floppy disk running their own tiny bootstrap OS instead of loading through PC/MS-DOS.
This is either a step backwards, or another iteration of "everything old is new again". Or both.
I can understand that many companies would rather pay a headhunter to do preliminary screening than do it themslves, but when the fees can easily reach five digits, is it really worth it?
If a company hires on average one new person per month, there's a good chance it would be cheaper to create and staff an internal HR position that does what the headhunters do.
after my suggestion he should press "control alt del" went silent for a moment, then told me he only had one hand.
The right-hand Ctrl and Alt keys are within reach of the Del key. It's a bit awkward, but it should be.
[SysRq] doesn't get much use anymore, though.
Well, it shares a keycap with 'PrntScrn', so some people still press it.
When was the last time anyone used its neighbors 'Scroll Lock' and 'Pause/Break', though?
Sure, but it's still copyright infringement to rip a library-owned CD for your unlimited personal use.
It's somewhat reassuring to know that only 1/1000th of one percent of the p2p using public aren't stupid enough to completely open themselves up to litigation.
Yeah, those 800 people are a LOT dumber than the millions of P2P users who only MOSTLY open themselves up to litigation!
Anyone who trades copyrighted materials on P2P networks are open to litigation. Signing up for the RIAA "amnesty" list didn't do anything but make it easier for them to find out who you are.
[Hitler's] act included (among other things) a ban on demonstrations, limited freedom of the press, and the right to be arrested without a warrant or evidence to support a crime being committed.
You know what other historical leader enacted rules such as those? President Abraham Lincoln, when he suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.
(But hey, at least neither Lincoln nor Hitler gave Senator Palpatine free reign to build an army of clones...)
The problem is that they are offering to file the claims for the user when the details of the settlement say the user must file the claim themselves.
IANAL, but is such a term allowable in the settlement? Consider a Microsoft customer with a physical disability who cannot perform the task of filing a claim on his own, or another user who lacks the language proficiency to file her claim. They are eligible to receive a settlement, but to disallow them the help of a third party in submitting a claim would be discriminatory.
And if those people can authorize someone else to submit their claim for them, why can't everybody?
On this point, I don't see any real difference between Lindows filing your Microsoft settlement claim for you and H&R Block filing your income taxes for you. (I don't intend this post to argue the merits of any of the other points raised by Microsoft, which may be entirely valid.)
I laughed at my buddy a few years back when he said that the U.N. could fly over your house and scan it to see how much money is in it. Now that is a reality.
It is?
Right now I'm laughing at you AND your buddy.
Who says that "advanced" criminals in the future won't develop a "super RFID scanner" and scan all of the houses in a neighborhood and "see" what goodies are in each house to try to figure out which house to rob.
Me, for one. Any criminal smart enough to build or procure such an unlikely device is in all likelihood not going to bother with burgling houses.
These are being marketed as tools for the elderly and others, as an untippable, safe alternative to a wheelchair.
They are?
It has become ethical to do business unethically and it is proudly taught that way in our so called finest Universities.
WTF are you talking about? Any legitimate MBA program has a course in Ethics as part of its core curriculum.
And even if they didn't, tacit ignorance of ethical issues would still be a far cry from active promotion of unethical behavior...
If the guy down the street who works for a Ford dealership tells me that he thinks Fords suck I too would have to be a moron to believe that was the official position of his employer.
Whether or not that might be legal grounds for firing said employee is another issue.
If I ran that Ford dealership, you can guarantee I would fire that guy or at least chew him out for telling you he thought Fords suck. No employer would be happy about an employee whose behavior undermines its ability to conduct business, whether that behavior involves personal opinions or not.
you'd think that the RIAA would have a hard time finding bands willing to sign contracts
Why? It's not like the record company is being upfront and telling the bands that they probably won't ever see any of the money from their CD sales. Even if they did, though, the company is also promising to make the band famous -- to many people, that's at least as important as the money.
Yeah, but the computer code has to eventually compile. :-)
.com before :) .com, .exe... whatever. They both have to compile. :)
It's obvious you never worked for a
Does CSV have a transformation language (XSLT)?
sed
Does CSV have an easy to use parser & object model (SAX, DOM)?
awk
Does CSV have an in document addressing language (XPATH)?
perl
Does CSV have a standard way of supporting hierarchical data?
Okay, I'll give you that one.
MS won't stand for an XML file format
And yet, high-end versions of Office 2003 are going to have XML support. So whether they WANT an XML file format or not, they're getting pressure from the market to deliver one. They're not so important that they can afford to make a product that doesn't meet enterprise customer's needs.
When I pay my monthly internet bill, I'm not paying for an average download speed, I'm paying for a MAXIMUM download speed.
Uh, you might want to re-read the fine print on the next bill you pay.
I doubt that any guarantees about download speeds -- average, maximum, or even minimum -- are expressed or implied anywhere in your service contract.
"Please note that we will be inspecting your cable outlets on Monday with your landlords permission, please move all furniture out of the way."
I don't know if it's the same everywhere, but where I live the cable company only owns the cable lines until they enter the building where you live. The internal wiring is the homeowner's to do whatever he or she wants with.
As an apartment renter, you need to know that Comcast has no right to enter your apartment without your permission, and your landlord has no right to grant permission on your behalf unless the entry is for essential maintenance. Given that Comcast's maintenance responsiblities end at the outside wall of the building, it's doubtful they have a legitimate case to 'inspect' your outlets.
If they continue to give you grief about this, research your local tenant laws and speak to a lawyer if necessary.
What you call "broadband" I call a poor quality, overpriced, asymmetric leecher link.
I call it "I can download from the Internet at the same rate as a full T1 for 1/4 of the monthly cost". YMMV.
Fiber to the curb should be here, and it should be cheap.
So buy a spool of fiber and a backhoe and start your own telecoms company.
What's with the childish sense of entitlement you're expressing?