There is nothing unsafe about a defensive nuclear missle.
The problem is, you can turn a defensive nuke into an offensive nuke just by changing the adjective. Do you trust the sanity of the leaders in the U.S. not to do that?
you have to recognize that so long as the majority of the US is against it
Is this even true though? I'd wager that most people who have more information about marijuana than the anti-drug propaganda forced on us through the DARE program and films like 'Reefer Madness' would not be opposed to legalization.
Problem is, no one's going to speak up and admit to this, lest they be lumped in with the burnouts and radical NORML members, who insist that all textiles should be made out of hemp...
It would be an absolute nightmare (even more than it already is) for the US to have pot illegal and for Canada to have it legal.
To get an idea of what that would be like, imagine if Cuban cigars were legal in Canada, but illegal in the Unites States. Oh wait!
when CDs first came out, their outrageous price versus cassettes was justified by the fact that there were only 2 stamping plants in operation. Why didn't they ever go down in price?
Didn't they?
I rarely pay more than $14 for a CD in the year 2003. That's less than the first waves of compact discs went for in the early 1980s -- not even taking into account the past 20 years' worth of devaluation of the dollar due to inflation.
They have a free version there with limited functions. I wonder if anyone in the music industry has tried to crack it.
What good would it do? Surely the freely downloadable version doesn't have all the same features as the 5-figure pro version, just hidden away behind a software lock. To keep downloads small (and their bandwidth bills low), they almost certainly do a clean compile of the software without even including the code for the unused functions.
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The band gets a certain amount of money from the record company to pay for recording costs.
This is true, if by "gets" you mean "is loaned".
If a band can save money on the production of their album, then they have less debt to the record company, and start making a profit off their work sooner. What's wrong with that?
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ProTools doesn't run itself, not even in the $15,000 version. If too much music is coming out that's over-compressed, sterile, and voice-tuned to hell, then it's the fault of the person sitting at the console -- not the tool.
Oh. I thought you said SYBIAN leadership, which made me start thinking of how this high-speed train technology could lead to the development of better, faster vibrators...
if 5000 professionals who are effected by this in the USA were to file claims in small claims court of say, $1000, then SCO would have to simultaneously defend 5000 cases, or risk losing $5 million in damages.
(IANAL, but...)
It can't cost them that much to file 5000 motions for summary dismissal. Especially since they'll ask for recovery of legal expenses too.
[letting this go to court] might be the end of SCO, but it will be very costly in terms of PR for IBM as well.
How so? Maybe my sense of perspective is skewed from reading too much Slashdot, but it seems like IBM is widely respected and SCO widely reviled in the Linux community as well as the IT community at large.
This stinks... If you thought the Microsoft tax was bad, get ready for the RIAA tax!
The beauty of these 'taxes' is that if you don't use Microsoft products, or don't illegally share music, you don't have to pay them!
RIAA went after the file-sharing services, and Slashdot complained that it's the users themselves who are responsible for infringing on copyright. So RIAA goes after the users themselves, and Slashdot complains about this too...?
They will appeal and appeal and appeal until they can buy the right judge, then they'll win.
No, they won't. In civil cases at least, you can't just appeal a verdict because you don't like the ruling and want a 'do-over'. You need to present a reason why the first court case was flawed.
If the RIAA can't come up with anything plausible, the request for an appeal will be denied. I expect the first appeal request will be granted, just in the interest of fairness, but if they lose that one I don't expect another one to happen.
If they capitulate and pay the damn licensing fee to SBC then precedent will be set
Nope... if they capitulate, then they're settling out-of-court, and no legal precedent goes onto the books for them to refer to later.
The bastards still end up with a wab of cash they can use to bankroll more frivolous patent lawsuit filings, but getting one company to cave doesn't strengthen their legal case against any other company.
I don't have much faith in allowing lawmakers to fix the situation, either. When they make laws while in a reactionary state of mind, we end up with poor legislation like the PATRIOT Act.
The author is intentionally implementing the feature in question.
No, the author is putting in some <frame> tags and specifying window targets for some of their hyperlinks. It's the code in the browser that determines how those tags are actually implemented
Patents are designed to cover implementations, not concepts. (Let's not rehash the same arguments that patent law is currently abused beyond its intent -- we've all gone through that already.)
So unless there's an algorithm described in the patent that the webmaster used somehow, I don't see how this patent is applicable.
now if only MySQL or PosgreSQL can get the reputation that Oracle has
You mean 'being run by a privacy-hating megalomaniac like Larry Ellison'?
Open source RDBMS's are good solutions for many, perhaps even most, problems. But there are still some situations where I'd want to stick with Oracle's strength and maturity and not take chances.
Not the death of it, really just the next step in its evolution.
VOD killing off DVDs? Not in my lifetime. The DVD market is barely out of its toddler phase, it's way too early to know with any certainty what will end up replacing it, or when.
Remember, if you think streaming video will kill off hard-media video, then you must also believe that MP3 sharing is killing of the CD market. Are you an RIAA supporter?
You look at all the shit that's gone horribly wrong with the WWW and how fundamentally worse it is compared to 10 years ago
What in fuck's name are you ranting about? Ten years ago there was no Google, no Amazon, no Yahoo, no Slashdot, no NOTHING on the web. Vast, VAST amounts of information are available on your home computer now that 10 years ago would have required at the very least a trip to the library, and probably a lot more work than that to find what you were looking for.
To suggest that there was been no progress on the world wide web in the last decade is foolish. To suggest that there has actually been REGRESSION is ABSURD.
I didn't say Novell was insecure, though. In fact, I said it was secure!
And on top of that, you think 'obsolete' just means 'old' -- it doesn't, it means 'old, unused, and replaced with something better'. Has lowercase-u unix been entirely replaced with something better?
Spectrum analysis is not enough to tell you what a musical track sounds like.
No, but you can use it to compare the original waveform to the compressed waveform, and take a delta to get a quantitative answer to the question of how much the signal has been degraded.
IOW, it tells you how ACCURATELY the sound was reproduced, but not how WELL it was reproduced.
You can only promise the sky and deliver dirt so many times before even a moron with too much money and not enough brains will wise up and stop giving you cash.
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There is nothing unsafe about a defensive nuclear missle.
The problem is, you can turn a defensive nuke into an offensive nuke just by changing the adjective. Do you trust the sanity of the leaders in the U.S. not to do that?
you have to recognize that so long as the majority of the US is against it
Is this even true though? I'd wager that most people who have more information about marijuana than the anti-drug propaganda forced on us through the DARE program and films like 'Reefer Madness' would not be opposed to legalization.
Problem is, no one's going to speak up and admit to this, lest they be lumped in with the burnouts and radical NORML members, who insist that all textiles should be made out of hemp...
It would be an absolute nightmare (even more than it already is) for the US to have pot illegal and for Canada to have it legal.
To get an idea of what that would be like, imagine if Cuban cigars were legal in Canada, but illegal in the Unites States. Oh wait!
This is a blatant attempt to scare potential customers of the distros, and/or impugns the reputations of the distros and Linus.
Only if their allegations are false.
More importantly, only if they KNOW their allegations are false but they make them anyway.
when CDs first came out, their outrageous price versus cassettes was justified by the fact that there were only 2 stamping plants in operation. Why didn't they ever go down in price?
Didn't they?
I rarely pay more than $14 for a CD in the year 2003. That's less than the first waves of compact discs went for in the early 1980s -- not even taking into account the past 20 years' worth of devaluation of the dollar due to inflation.
They have a free version there with limited functions. I wonder if anyone in the music industry has tried to crack it.
What good would it do? Surely the freely downloadable version doesn't have all the same features as the 5-figure pro version, just hidden away behind a software lock. To keep downloads small (and their bandwidth bills low), they almost certainly do a clean compile of the software without even including the code for the unused functions.
The band gets a certain amount of money from the record company to pay for recording costs.
This is true, if by "gets" you mean "is loaned".
If a band can save money on the production of their album, then they have less debt to the record company, and start making a profit off their work sooner. What's wrong with that?
ProTools doesn't run itself, not even in the $15,000 version. If too much music is coming out that's over-compressed, sterile, and voice-tuned to hell, then it's the fault of the person sitting at the console -- not the tool.
Signs of nervousness in the Syrian leadership
Oh. I thought you said SYBIAN leadership, which made me start thinking of how this high-speed train technology could lead to the development of better, faster vibrators...
if 5000 professionals who are effected by this in the USA were to file claims in small claims court of say, $1000, then SCO would have to simultaneously defend 5000 cases, or risk losing $5 million in damages.
(IANAL, but...)
It can't cost them that much to file 5000 motions for summary dismissal. Especially since they'll ask for recovery of legal expenses too.
[letting this go to court] might be the end of SCO, but it will be very costly in terms of PR for IBM as well.
How so? Maybe my sense of perspective is skewed from reading too much Slashdot, but it seems like IBM is widely respected and SCO widely reviled in the Linux community as well as the IT community at large.
This stinks... If you thought the Microsoft tax was bad, get ready for the RIAA tax!
The beauty of these 'taxes' is that if you don't use Microsoft products, or don't illegally share music, you don't have to pay them!
RIAA went after the file-sharing services, and Slashdot complained that it's the users themselves who are responsible for infringing on copyright. So RIAA goes after the users themselves, and Slashdot complains about this too...?
The RIAA should focus their attention on concerts and other activities where they present their artists.
Umm, why? Concerts are not RECORDINGS. There's no 'C' in 'RIAA'...
They will appeal and appeal and appeal until they can buy the right judge, then they'll win.
No, they won't. In civil cases at least, you can't just appeal a verdict because you don't like the ruling and want a 'do-over'. You need to present a reason why the first court case was flawed.
If the RIAA can't come up with anything plausible, the request for an appeal will be denied. I expect the first appeal request will be granted, just in the interest of fairness, but if they lose that one I don't expect another one to happen.
One of the requirements of owning a patent is that you promptly and vigorously act to protect your rights. If you wait, you lose your patent rights.
No, no, NO. That's TRADEMARKS.
Please check your facts before posting nonsense to Slashdot. I always do!
If they capitulate and pay the damn licensing fee to SBC then precedent will be set
Nope... if they capitulate, then they're settling out-of-court, and no legal precedent goes onto the books for them to refer to later.
The bastards still end up with a wab of cash they can use to bankroll more frivolous patent lawsuit filings, but getting one company to cave doesn't strengthen their legal case against any other company.
I don't have much faith in allowing lawmakers to fix the situation, either. When they make laws while in a reactionary state of mind, we end up with poor legislation like the PATRIOT Act.
The author is intentionally implementing the feature in question.
No, the author is putting in some <frame> tags and specifying window targets for some of their hyperlinks. It's the code in the browser that determines how those tags are actually implemented
Patents are designed to cover implementations, not concepts. (Let's not rehash the same arguments that patent law is currently abused beyond its intent -- we've all gone through that already.)
So unless there's an algorithm described in the patent that the webmaster used somehow, I don't see how this patent is applicable.
now if only MySQL or PosgreSQL can get the reputation that Oracle has
You mean 'being run by a privacy-hating megalomaniac like Larry Ellison'?
Open source RDBMS's are good solutions for many, perhaps even most, problems. But there are still some situations where I'd want to stick with Oracle's strength and maturity and not take chances.
I already have an embedded technology called EYE which allows me to locate nearby taxicabs...
If anything, VOD is the death of Pay per View
Not the death of it, really just the next step in its evolution.
VOD killing off DVDs? Not in my lifetime. The DVD market is barely out of its toddler phase, it's way too early to know with any certainty what will end up replacing it, or when.
Remember, if you think streaming video will kill off hard-media video, then you must also believe that MP3 sharing is killing of the CD market. Are you an RIAA supporter?
You look at all the shit that's gone horribly wrong with the WWW and how fundamentally worse it is compared to 10 years ago
What in fuck's name are you ranting about? Ten years ago there was no Google, no Amazon, no Yahoo, no Slashdot, no NOTHING on the web. Vast, VAST amounts of information are available on your home computer now that 10 years ago would have required at the very least a trip to the library, and probably a lot more work than that to find what you were looking for.
To suggest that there was been no progress on the world wide web in the last decade is foolish. To suggest that there has actually been REGRESSION is ABSURD.
I didn't say Novell was insecure, though. In fact, I said it was secure!
And on top of that, you think 'obsolete' just means 'old' -- it doesn't, it means 'old, unused, and replaced with something better'. Has lowercase-u unix been entirely replaced with something better?
Spectrum analysis is not enough to tell you what a musical track sounds like.
No, but you can use it to compare the original waveform to the compressed waveform, and take a delta to get a quantitative answer to the question of how much the signal has been degraded.
IOW, it tells you how ACCURATELY the sound was reproduced, but not how WELL it was reproduced.
You can only promise the sky and deliver dirt so many times before even a moron with too much money and not enough brains will wise up and stop giving you cash.
Yet somehow, salon.com is still solvent...
Certainly the unemployed fledgeling DBA who never gets interviewed does not love the bust.
Certainly there's not much innovation that can be attributed to a fledgling DBA.
Our network is Novell, our e-mail is groupwise, and we don't use Cisco products.
Aaah yes... "Security through obsolescence".