You own the copyright on the translation (unless otherwise agreed to in the contract for the translation),
This has some interesting effects when you're dealing with older works. If a piece of literature is originally in a foreign language but old enough to be copyright-free, the translations may recent enough to be copyrighted. So, for example, the original works of Goethe are free to distribute, but any translations done within the last few decades are not. (Although, in his case, several translations are also old enough to redistribute.)
Do we even NEED the NSA? Does it do more for us than it does to us? And how could we ever possibly find out for sure?
This question is kind of like asking, "Do we even need the President's Cabinet?" Because the Cabinet doesn't work for the citizens of the USA, except in a technical taxpayer-dollars kind of way -- they work for the President, collecting information and advising on policy to him and him alone. They have no responsibility to the average citizen, nor are they any use to them. Their information and advice is for the chief executive.
Similarly, the NSA's function is nominally to protect America's secrets -- but really, it's to protect the American government's secrets. That government holds the data, collects the intelligence, operates the military, builds the equipment, etc. etc. Personally speaking, the NSA doesn't do jack for me. Their job is to serve the government and its offices.
The NSA isn't responsible to me because I don't vote for them, anymore than I vote for the President's cabinet. If I find out the NSA (or FBI or CIA) is doing something I don't like, then the only thing I can do is get the word out through the free press and vote out the elected officers who made it possible for those organizations to do so.
This is not a bad thing, mind you. I have enough trouble deciding which representatives, judges, councilmembers, etc. I ought to vote for on the local, state and federal levels every year. I don't need to vote for the NSA, too.
Of course, anyone who wants to develop Office-like business software or any kind of web browser for Windows faces the same uphill battle. When the OS manufacturer makes non-OS software, they enjoy unparalleled integration with the rest of the system and anyone else comes in four to six months behind the development curve.
It's sad that third parties stop developing Mac software because Apple's doing it better, but it's no more fatal -- to businesses or to consumers -- than it has been on Windows. When Microsoft took over the Windows office software market, developers either died or moved onto a different software niche. Same happens on Mac OS. Such is business.
I''''m of the opinion that Warthog''''s review is more imaginative than anyone else''''s. However, he''''s in need of a good editor, or maybe just needing a keyboard where it''''s possible to clean the sticky punctuation keys.
A better option (well, IMO) you can get off-brand cartridges for many printers online, and inkfinder.com is my site of choice for tracking the best prices. Last time I got twelve cartridges for my Epson C80, three of each color, for about $65 shipped -- about the cost of two black Epson-brand cartridges at Office Depot.
In the corporate environments where I've been working, Microsoft servers, browsers and email remain the status quo.
As a web developer, I use Mozilla because it's stricter about standards, and pages that render well in Moz almost always look the same in IE, while the reverse isn't true. One coworker gives me a (humorous) hard time about my refusal to use Microsoft FrontPage or IE when our company is unquestionably "a Microsoft shop".
Seems like there's no businesses -- certainly not incorporated ones -- want to hire experts in free software like Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL and Mozilla when 2kServer, IIS, SQL Server and IE are what all the other big companies are using first. Mozilla's got an uphill battle, and it knows it.
No, just thousands of years. We haven't had peace in the Middle East since the Jews' original Exodus from Egypt. (This is, of course, ignoring the gaping hole in your statement where you presume all terrorists were, are and will be connected to the Middle East.)
The problem is that Joe Consumer visiting his local PC Slut retailer has no way to know what artificial restrictions Lexmark has placed on the ink refills
IMO, anyone buying computer hardware gets what they deserve if they don't take the time to read the plethora or reviews available. CNet.com, for example, points out that while Lexmark printers are among the cheapest, their ink cartridges have the highest cost per page by a considerable margin.
That turned me off to them right away, and instead I bought a relatively inexpensive Epson color inkjet that accepts off-brand cartridges I find at inkfinder.com, at a price of about $65 for 3 of each color. Can't beat that with a stick.
Almost like David vs. Goliath, except in this case, David has two broken arms, no legs, 3 gunshot wounds center mass, and massive blunt trauma to the head. And Goliath is a hungry T-Rex.
A T-Rex relies on motion to identify possible meat sources. Your David would be completely immobile. (Of course, after a good Slashdotting, so it the average web server.)
JOHN Q. SPAMMER: Hey, can I buy about 100,000 email addresses from your database? ONLINE RETAILER: Sorry, we have a strict privacy policy that says we don't sell customer information. JQS: C'mon, I'll give you a penny per ten. That's $100. OLR: Our users are not for sale. JQS: $250. I'm cutting my own throat here. OLR: Well... our bandwidth bills were $360 last year.... JQS: $350, then. Final offer. OLR: But, our privacy policy.... JQS: Yeah, yeah. Tell you what, I'll give you the list back in a month. And I won't keep any backup copies. Promise. OLR: Whew, glad that clears my conscience.
I mean, we've had to bet the company many times on big technological advances.
This is true enough; the latest big MS strategy is unquestionably.NET, and they are essentially the company on that (well, that and the next version of Office) by making it the core of all their latest server offerings.
The fallacy is confusing "bet the company on" with "innovated the technology for"..NET, for all it's glory and marketing, is a hyperextension of what Java originally promised. Microsoft may have a lot of money in R&D, but they rarely push the envelope -- at least not before someone else has shown it can be pushed.
And you have to ask yourselves, does anyone need more proof that Linux is as capable as any other operating platform out there?
Depending on what you want to use it for -- business workstation? Graphics workstation? Graphics rendering? Consumer desktop? Internet server? Data server?
Argument-wise, using Linux in one particular setting for one particular task is no proof that it's equally suited for every other setting and task.
The fax sharing and abilities are worth the price of the upgrade.
Well heck, if that's all people want, they may as well save $100 and buy Page Sender instead, which offers a few more features besides. Got it, use it, love it.
As was pointed out to me in the recent Netscape 7.1 story, Mozilla 1.4 final is the same code as Mozilla RC3. (Check the "about:" page to see the idential release date.) So if you have RC3 installed, you can safely leave it there without worrying about major changes.
I believe the article said that he gave subscribers to his email list the chance to opt out, and honored their wishes consistently. Which is more than I can say for the typical spammer. I think that alone is the significant difference.
I've just installed the 1.4 version on their FTP site, and clicking About Mozilla says that it's the 2003/06/24 build. Which means either that it hasn't been updated since RC3 at all, or that they haven't actually placed the 2003/06/30 final build in that ftp directory.
...for one thing, you can choose to install it without the mail/news or IRC chat client at all, cutting down on the size. Don't use the email, you don't need the Palm sync -- but those who do might appreciate it.
If you get the browser, then you still get Composer with it at minimum. If you want a browser only, then feel free to contribute to the development of Mozilla Firebird, which is even more streamlined than the browser-only install.
Chill out, the Moz developers know that bloat is a common complaint, and they're doing what they can about it. But one thing at a time, since every feature you don't want is one some other user can't live without.
To the average user netscape and IE are the only two browsers in existence.
...And that's exactly why this is a good thing. If your Joe Surfer coworker or family member is complaining about, say, popup ads in IE, and you tell them about Mozilla, you have to explain what it is and why it's good and where they can get it, and then they'll forget the URL two minutes later anyway. Where if you tell them Netscape.com has the latest version of their browser and a built-in AIM client, they'll actually perk up and listen. You can educate them about the value of Mozilla later on when they're a little more savvy.
I thought Ritalin was only used to treat ADHD in children, in that their response to amphetamines is different than that of adults. It slows them down instead of winding them up.
Nope, Ritalin (and its generic equivalent) is used to treat ADD and ADHD in adults just as well as children -- although it's not the only drug used to do so. In a nutshell, the effect of the drug is to increase dopamine in the brain, improving one's ability to concentrate on a single thing at a time. In some individuals (adult and child both), the effect is hyperactivity; in some it's the opposite. Often you'll see the syndrome written as AD/HD to underscore this fact.
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Patent pending, 2003, All rights reserved
You can't patent the method of First Post! After all, I've already patented the method of Second Post, making your method a clearly derivative work.
A writer of lyrical rhythms
Encountered a creative schism
When those who spoke terse
Demanded his verse
Lose its sesquipedalianisms.
You own the copyright on the translation (unless otherwise agreed to in the contract for the translation),
This has some interesting effects when you're dealing with older works. If a piece of literature is originally in a foreign language but old enough to be copyright-free, the translations may recent enough to be copyrighted. So, for example, the original works of Goethe are free to distribute, but any translations done within the last few decades are not. (Although, in his case, several translations are also old enough to redistribute.)
Do we even NEED the NSA? Does it do more for us than it does to us? And how could we ever possibly find out for sure?
This question is kind of like asking, "Do we even need the President's Cabinet?" Because the Cabinet doesn't work for the citizens of the USA, except in a technical taxpayer-dollars kind of way -- they work for the President, collecting information and advising on policy to him and him alone. They have no responsibility to the average citizen, nor are they any use to them. Their information and advice is for the chief executive.
Similarly, the NSA's function is nominally to protect America's secrets -- but really, it's to protect the American government's secrets. That government holds the data, collects the intelligence, operates the military, builds the equipment, etc. etc. Personally speaking, the NSA doesn't do jack for me. Their job is to serve the government and its offices.
The NSA isn't responsible to me because I don't vote for them, anymore than I vote for the President's cabinet. If I find out the NSA (or FBI or CIA) is doing something I don't like, then the only thing I can do is get the word out through the free press and vote out the elected officers who made it possible for those organizations to do so.
This is not a bad thing, mind you. I have enough trouble deciding which representatives, judges, councilmembers, etc. I ought to vote for on the local, state and federal levels every year. I don't need to vote for the NSA, too.
Microsoft drops Mac IE development as Safari reaches 1.0
Of course, anyone who wants to develop Office-like business software or any kind of web browser for Windows faces the same uphill battle. When the OS manufacturer makes non-OS software, they enjoy unparalleled integration with the rest of the system and anyone else comes in four to six months behind the development curve.
It's sad that third parties stop developing Mac software because Apple's doing it better, but it's no more fatal -- to businesses or to consumers -- than it has been on Windows. When Microsoft took over the Windows office software market, developers either died or moved onto a different software niche. Same happens on Mac OS. Such is business.
I''''m of the opinion that Warthog''''s review is more imaginative than anyone else''''s. However, he''''s in need of a good editor, or maybe just needing a keyboard where it''''s possible to clean the sticky punctuation keys.
A better option (well, IMO) you can get off-brand cartridges for many printers online, and inkfinder.com is my site of choice for tracking the best prices. Last time I got twelve cartridges for my Epson C80, three of each color, for about $65 shipped -- about the cost of two black Epson-brand cartridges at Office Depot.
In the corporate environments where I've been working, Microsoft servers, browsers and email remain the status quo.
As a web developer, I use Mozilla because it's stricter about standards, and pages that render well in Moz almost always look the same in IE, while the reverse isn't true. One coworker gives me a (humorous) hard time about my refusal to use Microsoft FrontPage or IE when our company is unquestionably "a Microsoft shop".
Seems like there's no businesses -- certainly not incorporated ones -- want to hire experts in free software like Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL and Mozilla when 2kServer, IIS, SQL Server and IE are what all the other big companies are using first. Mozilla's got an uphill battle, and it knows it.
and it doesn't cost millions of dollars.
No, just thousands of years. We haven't had peace in the Middle East since the Jews' original Exodus from Egypt. (This is, of course, ignoring the gaping hole in your statement where you presume all terrorists were, are and will be connected to the Middle East.)
The problem is that Joe Consumer visiting his local PC Slut retailer has no way to know what artificial restrictions Lexmark has placed on the ink refills
IMO, anyone buying computer hardware gets what they deserve if they don't take the time to read the plethora or reviews available. CNet.com, for example, points out that while Lexmark printers are among the cheapest, their ink cartridges have the highest cost per page by a considerable margin.
That turned me off to them right away, and instead I bought a relatively inexpensive Epson color inkjet that accepts off-brand cartridges I find at inkfinder.com, at a price of about $65 for 3 of each color. Can't beat that with a stick.
Almost like David vs. Goliath, except in this case, David has two broken arms, no legs, 3 gunshot wounds center mass, and massive blunt trauma to the head. And Goliath is a hungry T-Rex.
A T-Rex relies on motion to identify possible meat sources. Your David would be completely immobile. (Of course, after a good Slashdotting, so it the average web server.)
Apparently you can find them for sale, albeit in limited quantities, here (as well as on eBay, natch).
There's a site all about the thing at www.modelm.org, but I can't get to the server right now, so here's a Google cache instead.
The Post may get upset at the loss of ad revenue, but I'm sure the webmaster is pleased at the loss of Slashdotting. Fair's fair.
JOHN Q. SPAMMER: Hey, can I buy about 100,000 email addresses from your database?
ONLINE RETAILER: Sorry, we have a strict privacy policy that says we don't sell customer information.
JQS: C'mon, I'll give you a penny per ten. That's $100.
OLR: Our users are not for sale.
JQS: $250. I'm cutting my own throat here.
OLR: Well... our bandwidth bills were $360 last year....
JQS: $350, then. Final offer.
OLR: But, our privacy policy....
JQS: Yeah, yeah. Tell you what, I'll give you the list back in a month. And I won't keep any backup copies. Promise.
OLR: Whew, glad that clears my conscience.
I mean, we've had to bet the company many times on big technological advances.
.NET, and they are essentially the company on that (well, that and the next version of Office) by making it the core of all their latest server offerings.
.NET, for all it's glory and marketing, is a hyperextension of what Java originally promised. Microsoft may have a lot of money in R&D, but they rarely push the envelope -- at least not before someone else has shown it can be pushed.
This is true enough; the latest big MS strategy is unquestionably
The fallacy is confusing "bet the company on" with "innovated the technology for".
And you have to ask yourselves, does anyone need more proof that Linux is as capable as any other operating platform out there?
Depending on what you want to use it for -- business workstation? Graphics workstation? Graphics rendering? Consumer desktop? Internet server? Data server?
Argument-wise, using Linux in one particular setting for one particular task is no proof that it's equally suited for every other setting and task.
It was supposed to be for apps that emulate or interface with real-world devices.
Like an iPod?
The fax sharing and abilities are worth the price of the upgrade.
Well heck, if that's all people want, they may as well save $100 and buy Page Sender instead, which offers a few more features besides. Got it, use it, love it.
As was pointed out to me in the recent Netscape 7.1 story, Mozilla 1.4 final is the same code as Mozilla RC3. (Check the "about:" page to see the idential release date.) So if you have RC3 installed, you can safely leave it there without worrying about major changes.
I believe the article said that he gave subscribers to his email list the chance to opt out, and honored their wishes consistently. Which is more than I can say for the typical spammer. I think that alone is the significant difference.
I've just installed the 1.4 version on their FTP site, and clicking About Mozilla says that it's the 2003/06/24 build. Which means either that it hasn't been updated since RC3 at all, or that they haven't actually placed the 2003/06/30 final build in that ftp directory.
...for one thing, you can choose to install it without the mail/news or IRC chat client at all, cutting down on the size. Don't use the email, you don't need the Palm sync -- but those who do might appreciate it.
If you get the browser, then you still get Composer with it at minimum. If you want a browser only, then feel free to contribute to the development of Mozilla Firebird, which is even more streamlined than the browser-only install.
Chill out, the Moz developers know that bloat is a common complaint, and they're doing what they can about it. But one thing at a time, since every feature you don't want is one some other user can't live without.
I thought Ritalin was only used to treat ADHD in children, in that their response to amphetamines is different than that of adults. It slows them down instead of winding them up.
Nope, Ritalin (and its generic equivalent) is used to treat ADD and ADHD in adults just as well as children -- although it's not the only drug used to do so. In a nutshell, the effect of the drug is to increase dopamine in the brain, improving one's ability to concentrate on a single thing at a time. In some individuals (adult and child both), the effect is hyperactivity; in some it's the opposite. Often you'll see the syndrome written as AD/HD to underscore this fact.