The EU Commission is currently suggesting wilful infringment of any IP right (includes patents) should be criminalized
You have answered your own question. The judge's decision does NOT make refilling a cartridge a crime. All it does is acknowledge the legal validity of the EULA. There is no criminal penalty incurred as a result.
This sort of restriction on use as the result of a contract is nothing new; in fact it is quite common in many areas and doesn't require a patent in any case. Look at all the restrictions in EULAs for software - and in many cases the software is not patented, while in others it is. There are EULAs in both cases.
The entire article is bogus in every respect - it proposes that the judge's decision criminalizes something where it does not, it proposes that the concept of a EULA restricting post-purchase uses is something new when it clearly is not, and that EULAs granting patent rights are something new when clearly they are not.
The only thing at all novel here is the application of these licenses to ink jet cartridges.
It has to be the worst form of intellectual dishonesty to post a story that is as misleading and erroneous as this. If makes Fox news look 'Fair and Balanced' by comparison.
In rural parts of the States, it's not uncommon to live in a town of a few hundred residents, over 50 miles from the next one.
Yes, but the number of people living in those areas is a pretty small part of the overall population. Over the past 70 years the US has made the transition from an agricultural to urban society.
The real thing that needs to happen is to stop making the roads bigger and instead invest in mass transit. That is already happening in some areas at least around NY because there is just no way to cram more cars into Manhattan.
As far as decisions to tax gasoline at punative rates one really has to question the overall wisdom of trying to do social engineering via taxation. That sort of approach is *always* less efficient than letting market forces decide what action gets taken. Sure, the result is more economic chaos, but out of that chaos usually comes solutions much better than any government planner could envision simply because many many more ideas get tested.
If we have a problem with a low levee along the Snohomish River, we budget for it and fix it ourselves.
Looks like there is plenty of federal involvement to me.
The Snohomish River flood control plan listed as a USDA project with a $2.7 million dollar FEDERAL budget? And there are documents describing dredging operations by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Do we know for sure that 98% of the money that's given to his organization goes anywhere but his televangelism?
If he is falsifying financial reports he has to file I imagine that he would have been exposed a long time ago given the number of people who are out for his hide.
There are plenty of perfectly legitimate religous charities on that list, and in fact religous charities generally have a better track record of keeping expenses and working capital at minimal levels than institutional charities.
For example, Operation Blessing has a fund raising and admin expense level of 2%. The American Red Cross level is about 8%.
So do the research on your charities for sure, there are plenty of online resources for that. And don't let cynics like slaker here dissuade you from donating to help those who really need help in what is probably the greatest natural disaster this country has ever seen.
I haven't optimized my displays yet - I have 3 that I use, a 19" CRT, a 21", and a 20" LCD. From your description I guess I am going to end up making the LCD my primary display.
I hate to think how much power my home theater draws. Just the subwoofer is rated at 900 watts.
Wouldn't this begin to suggest that you could use Flash to create truly platform agnostic web-distributable applications?
I work for a company that delivers Flash based thick web applications. Unfortunately we have found that there are some pretty severe limitations in using Flash this way. Some of the worst are that Flash is not multi-threaded, and that there are no automated testing tools. Also, if you are approaching Flash from a programming background you will find the IDE is oriented towards animators rather than programmers. We also have concerns that Flash is not all that robust compared to other cross platform solutions, and that there is a history of limited support of the Flash player outside of Windows. For example even today there is no player for 64 bit Linux.
Flash Remoting applications are also pretty non-performant over WANs - fortunately what we do is aimed at intranets; I doubt if the stuff we deliver would be acceptable at all over the general internet.
My internet gateway, and my file server (both running Linux). I recently upgraded both from old P3 machines, which suck 30W each just for the CPU, as you mention.
One of the reasons I dumped the idea of running an internet gateway on a PC was the power consumption. I now run a gateway appliance that draws about 5 watts. For my file server up antil recently I was running a dual P2 400 that drew 60 watts idle (with one HD spinning). My experience is that HD's draw about 7 watts per spindle to keep them spinning.
Recently I decided that the P2-2 wasn't giving me enough compute power for some of the jobs I needed to run, so I decided to upgrade - knowing that the result would be an increase in power consumption. After looking at a lot of reviews I decided to try an Athlon X2 4400 on an Asus SLI AN8 Premium with a low end ATI video card (the ATIs draw less power than the NVidias). After tweaking a bit I got the power consumption down to 85 watts idle with one spindle running. The low power modes cut the CPU down to 1 GHz which is where the system runs unless it needs to do something really comuot intensive. I think that the 25 watts additional is pretty worthwhile given the vastly greater (x10 at least) compute power available with this system. The problem with a lot of these low end options is that the power per unit of work isn't that great even though the total power consuption is low.
It is quite possible over time I might get a few more watts squeezed out of the system by tweeaking the fans, voltages, etc.
I've been using the Kill-a-Watt wattmeter which is available from a lot of internet outlets for $30 or so and seems to work quite well for the money.
One thing I haven't sorted out yet is what the power consumption of RAM is. My old machine had.75GB, the new one is at 2GB.
The problem is that IT employers suck. They want somebody with guru level knowledge of arcane obsolete systems to be available at the drop of a hat. Training some generalist, no matter how good his aptitude is out of the question.
Going to the movies can be a fun social experience, and there can be a potential positive from sitting in a crowd enjoying a good film.
But the bar is higher now because people can afford to put together a really nice HDTV based home theater that will remove a lot of the need to go to the movies and void the hassle - lines, cell phones, etc. Plus YOU get the control the schedule, and adjust the sound/picture to your tastes.
And I agree with the assesment that film quality is down. Where are the compelling films? Lord of the Rings trilogy raised the bar very high, and nothing has been close since. Get to work out there in Hollywood and make some good films.
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"Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime?"
The EU Commission is currently suggesting wilful infringment of any IP right (includes patents) should be criminalized
You have answered your own question. The judge's decision does NOT make refilling a cartridge a crime. All it does is acknowledge the legal validity of the EULA. There is no criminal penalty incurred as a result.
This sort of restriction on use as the result of a contract is nothing new; in fact it is quite common in many areas and doesn't require a patent in any case. Look at all the restrictions in EULAs for software - and in many cases the software is not patented, while in others it is. There are EULAs in both cases.
The entire article is bogus in every respect - it proposes that the judge's decision criminalizes something where it does not, it proposes that the concept of a EULA restricting post-purchase uses is something new when it clearly is not, and that EULAs granting patent rights are something new when clearly they are not.
The only thing at all novel here is the application of these licenses to ink jet cartridges.
The first hack is for the player to always report A-OK. Then you are good to go.
It has to be the worst form of intellectual dishonesty to post a story that is as misleading and erroneous as this. If makes Fox news look 'Fair and Balanced' by comparison.
In rural parts of the States, it's not uncommon to live in a town of a few hundred residents, over 50 miles from the next one.
Yes, but the number of people living in those areas is a pretty small part of the overall population. Over the past 70 years the US has made the transition from an agricultural to urban society.
The real thing that needs to happen is to stop making the roads bigger and instead invest in mass transit. That is already happening in some areas at least around NY because there is just no way to cram more cars into Manhattan.
As far as decisions to tax gasoline at punative rates one really has to question the overall wisdom of trying to do social engineering via taxation. That sort of approach is *always* less efficient than letting market forces decide what action gets taken. Sure, the result is more economic chaos, but out of that chaos usually comes solutions much better than any government planner could envision simply because many many more ideas get tested.
It's scary nobody confessed having a pack of condom in his/her bag.
Geeks don't get laid.
These new things don't offer anything over DVD other than theoretically better picture
25% of all TVs sold today are HD. That is a pretty big and rapidly growing market.
Can you imagine how much Blu-Ray blanks will cost?
When the first DVD blanks were introduced they were $20 a pop. Just chill out a bit, they will come down.
I was at Fry's the other day and I looked at DL blank media. FIFTY DOLLARS for 15 blanks.
15 blanks at 9 GB per blank is 135 GB for $50. Seems very competitive to the price of a hard drive to me.
If we have a problem with a low levee along the Snohomish River, we budget for it and fix it ourselves.
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Looks like there is plenty of federal involvement to me.
The Snohomish River flood control plan listed as a USDA project with a $2.7 million dollar FEDERAL budget? And there are documents describing dredging operations by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.
http://www.nws.usace.army.mil/ct/ebs/Solicitation
http://www.wa.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/RDT/RDT-pro
Web Kiosks? Are you kidding? How are they going to work underwater and without power?
Setting aside for a moment the question of whether the Federal government should be in the business of providing intra-state flood control,
That comment RIGHT THERE immediately and completely discredits anything else you have to say.
Do we know for sure that 98% of the money that's given to his organization goes anywhere but his televangelism?
If he is falsifying financial reports he has to file I imagine that he would have been exposed a long time ago given the number of people who are out for his hide.
Keep that in mind when you open your wallet.
There are plenty of perfectly legitimate religous charities on that list, and in fact religous charities generally have a better track record of keeping expenses and working capital at minimal levels than institutional charities.
For example, Operation Blessing has a fund raising and admin expense level of 2%. The American Red Cross level is about 8%.
So do the research on your charities for sure, there are plenty of online resources for that. And don't let cynics like slaker here dissuade you from donating to help those who really need help in what is probably the greatest natural disaster this country has ever seen.
The causes of both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases is unknown.
Am I the only person who has thought that this could mean more and more years of life for senile people?
Well, the question is how do peaople become senile? Isn't it often due to progressive deteriation of the rest of the body?
Will it remove disable all the plugins that were installed without my permission, including Genuine Advantage?
The Dutch are on the North Sea which has a pretty fierce reputation of its own.
90% of America is well above sea level. As far as levees and pumps, well the Dutch seem to get by using that.
seeing as it's all swamp now
That is no change from the past.
I ditched my 21" CRT for a 19" LCD.
I haven't optimized my displays yet - I have 3 that I use, a 19" CRT, a 21", and a 20" LCD. From your description I guess I am going to end up making the LCD my primary display.
I hate to think how much power my home theater draws. Just the subwoofer is rated at 900 watts.
Wouldn't this begin to suggest that you could use Flash to create truly platform agnostic web-distributable applications?
I work for a company that delivers Flash based thick web applications. Unfortunately we have found that there are some pretty severe limitations in using Flash this way. Some of the worst are that Flash is not multi-threaded, and that there are no automated testing tools. Also, if you are approaching Flash from a programming background you will find the IDE is oriented towards animators rather than programmers. We also have concerns that Flash is not all that robust compared to other cross platform solutions, and that there is a history of limited support of the Flash player outside of Windows. For example even today there is no player for 64 bit Linux.
Flash Remoting applications are also pretty non-performant over WANs - fortunately what we do is aimed at intranets; I doubt if the stuff we deliver would be acceptable at all over the general internet.
My internet gateway, and my file server (both running Linux). I recently upgraded both from old P3 machines, which suck 30W each just for the CPU, as you mention.
.75GB, the new one is at 2GB.
One of the reasons I dumped the idea of running an internet gateway on a PC was the power consumption. I now run a gateway appliance that draws about 5 watts. For my file server up antil recently I was running a dual P2 400 that drew 60 watts idle (with one HD spinning). My experience is that HD's draw about 7 watts per spindle to keep them spinning.
Recently I decided that the P2-2 wasn't giving me enough compute power for some of the jobs I needed to run, so I decided to upgrade - knowing that the result would be an increase in power consumption. After looking at a lot of reviews I decided to try an Athlon X2 4400 on an Asus SLI AN8 Premium with a low end ATI video card (the ATIs draw less power than the NVidias). After tweaking a bit I got the power consumption down to 85 watts idle with one spindle running. The low power modes cut the CPU down to 1 GHz which is where the system runs unless it needs to do something really comuot intensive. I think that the 25 watts additional is pretty worthwhile given the vastly greater (x10 at least) compute power available with this system. The problem with a lot of these low end options is that the power per unit of work isn't that great even though the total power consuption is low.
It is quite possible over time I might get a few more watts squeezed out of the system by tweeaking the fans, voltages, etc.
I've been using the Kill-a-Watt wattmeter which is available from a lot of internet outlets for $30 or so and seems to work quite well for the money.
One thing I haven't sorted out yet is what the power consumption of RAM is. My old machine had
Or is it that people in IT generally suck???
The problem is that IT employers suck. They want somebody with guru level knowledge of arcane obsolete systems to be available at the drop of a hat. Training some generalist, no matter how good his aptitude is out of the question.
AIs running on the latest generation of hardware taking care of their parents and grandparents so to speak.
We will assimilate you.
Going to the movies can be a fun social experience, and there can be a potential positive from sitting in a crowd enjoying a good film.
But the bar is higher now because people can afford to put together a really nice HDTV based home theater that will remove a lot of the need to go to the movies and void the hassle - lines, cell phones, etc. Plus YOU get the control the schedule, and adjust the sound/picture to your tastes.
And I agree with the assesment that film quality is down. Where are the compelling films? Lord of the Rings trilogy raised the bar very high, and nothing has been close since. Get to work out there in Hollywood and make some good films.
Why? I dont think any popular open source distro is lacking mirrors...
Not everybody has broadband, and many times the mirrors are jammed when a major new release comes out.