Except, it's more like someone bought some milk and then magically made more, free duplicates of that milk and gave it away to neighbors. But now the grocery store doesn't get your money. And then they claim to be doing it in the interests of the dairy farms, but (not so secretly) aren't really giving much of the money for the milk to the farms and sure aren't giving any of the lawsuit money to the farms.
All I'm really trying to say is that there's no theft involved. It's just copyright infringement.
As far as the keyboard, it's one of my favorite parts. Not having used any type of small-form-factor keyboard extensively, after 5 minutes, I was typing far faster than I ever had on a blackberry-style device (which I've played with for similar short periods of time).
The important part of all this is the REVENUE SHARING part. Most of the Internet radio stations make no money. Take 15% (or whatever) of my revenue. It's still 0. The revenue sharing option is (if nothing changes) going away. This is what kills all the smaller stations. I'm sure some stations actually make money and want to do the other options (which increased dramatically), but I really think it's the revenue sharing part that was going to kill most of the stations.
yeah, but half the resizing options are two-step processes. I want to make the top of a window higher? Move the window up. Straight up - not perfect with the mouse? Gotta get it where you want it horizontally again. Now, drop the bottom down. Better move your mouse peftectly down. What? You didn't go straight down? Now you get to line it up horizontally on the right side now.
It would be more properly stated that all code that EXPLICITLY says "GPLv2 or later" permits use with future versions of the GPL. However, whether most code says this or not, I wouldn't speculate.
Also, most of the code that looks like that, when new versions are released, will begin to say "GPLv3 or later". If you're still relying on GPLv2, you'll be stuck at the license-fork point and won't be able to use new features in that code.
I don't release any of my code with the "or later" bit, because I don't know if I'll agree with what comes later.
Oh, and Linux doesn't have the "or later" bit in it, either.
I'm guessing you can be (successfully) sued for being a "company people go to to find out if someone is a sex offender" and giving out bad information -- I'm just not sure it's libel anymore.
The company that runs the database 'told' myspace this lady was a sex offender via a 'written' document. It was acted upon showing a belief in the 'document'.
I put all the words in quotes because I believe this to be libel and not slander, even though the 'written-ness' of the falsehood is questionable.
You can't deduct what you would have been paid. It's really pretty simple to understand.
Say you worked 10 hours for a non-profit doing something you would normally be paid $50/hr for doing professionally. If they paid you for it, you'd have $500, but you haven't donated anything. If you then donate that $500 back to them, that $500 is then tax deductible, leaving you net-0.
Public Letter: I hope the public will read this entire letter. There has been alot of confusion regarding the copy protection of the program called Display Eater. It is described here in:
There exists two illegal cd-keys that can be used to register the program without paying for it. When Display Eater detects these keys, it would delete your home directory.
However, this is not the case in reality. The whole purpose was to create a scare campaign. You can download, the file linked from the main page, which is now down(the link is still intact), and check it for yourself. It has http://reversecode.com/index.html
It was my hope that by creating a scare campaign, I could stop wasting time writing copy protection routines to be broken over and over. But, I was wrong, it backfired. People started buying multiple keys, which I never intended, and in the beginning when the protection was in place, people who did not even know they had committed piracy or what piracy was were left in the dark. Legitimate users started fearing the program, which I never imagined.
A reporter called me today, and suggested that I make it free, and then have users pay for support. Or open source the program. I will consider all of these. -Reza
I haven't used either program, but I read most of the review, especially the part about performance.. but their test hardware was a macbook pro and a g5. Neither one of those can have a particularly stellar video card. They don't specify the g5's video card, but I'm guessing it's as out of date as the machine. and the x1600 in the macbook pro isn't a screamer.
I'd be interested to see what a system with a 7950 or (if/when they're supported) an 8800 would do with aperture. All this talk about how fast video cards are these days at doing things other than playing games intrigues me. I think aperture may have gotten it right. Those if Lightroom supports multi-core well, then it'll probably do ok going forward, as well.
When questioned on why PS3s were sitting on store shelves instead of on entertainment center shelves, Tretton responded with "If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than a few minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it." He continues, "I can get any retail buyer on the phone with you and get them to verify that not a single retail location in America where there's a PlayStation 3 on the shelf for sale. They've all been sold in a matter of minutes."
In 1903 the Norwegian inventor Aegidus Elling became the first person to successfully construct a gas turbine engine which produced more power than it required to operate
Wow, really?!? In the last 104 years we haven't been able to reproduce a system which produces more power than it takes to operate.
Those guys must have been really smart. Maybe it was a cold fusion gas turbine engine.
The *IDEA* of the post was to say that a ps3 is nowhere near as powerful as a PC with a modern graphics card in it. PS3 can only push 1080p and it's not clear if it's even doing that in Oblivion.
Also, my computer can do a LOT more than a PS3. I can play games, serve web pages, and RUN ANY PROGRAM THAT I WANT ON IT.
I can even WRITE programs for it. For free. Without being sanctioned by Sony.
Yes, it's more expensive, but the point was that the PS3 graphics aren't comparing to PC graphics because the PS3 displays to a TV, not a high-resolution monitor.
I have had 3 people who have PhD's, they are all Jr. programmers who I'd say really are not that worth it.
If you have PhD's programming for you, then you aren't a very good manager.
PhD's are good for focused research and creating leads for people skilled in programming.
You don't get a PhD in "coding". You get a PhD in things like Information Retrieval or Distributed Systems. You then use these people to come up with ideas and create and invent systems for others to program.
In my mind, half of a PhD is learning what you're focusing, the other part is honing the fine art of "how to learn." That's what PhD's do for you - they make the people around them more productive by providing insight and ideas, not final products.
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Except, it's more like someone bought some milk and then magically made more, free duplicates of that milk and gave it away to neighbors. But now the grocery store doesn't get your money. And then they claim to be doing it in the interests of the dairy farms, but (not so secretly) aren't really giving much of the money for the milk to the farms and sure aren't giving any of the lawsuit money to the farms.
All I'm really trying to say is that there's no theft involved. It's just copyright infringement.
blog posting said the guy who does the videos is out for a week and a half, but they will be posting it - presumably to their website.
Dude. Come on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_reseller
both mine activated fine at about 7pm pacific.
As far as the keyboard, it's one of my favorite parts. Not having used any type of small-form-factor keyboard extensively, after 5 minutes, I was typing far faster than I ever had on a blackberry-style device (which I've played with for similar short periods of time).
When did 'uptodate' become a word?
Oh that's right. It's not. Try 'up-to-date'.
The important part of all this is the REVENUE SHARING part. Most of the Internet radio stations make no money. Take 15% (or whatever) of my revenue. It's still 0. The revenue sharing option is (if nothing changes) going away. This is what kills all the smaller stations. I'm sure some stations actually make money and want to do the other options (which increased dramatically), but I really think it's the revenue sharing part that was going to kill most of the stations.
yeah, but half the resizing options are two-step processes. I want to make the top of a window higher? Move the window up. Straight up - not perfect with the mouse? Gotta get it where you want it horizontally again. Now, drop the bottom down. Better move your mouse peftectly down. What? You didn't go straight down? Now you get to line it up horizontally on the right side now.
PITA.
It would be more properly stated that all code that EXPLICITLY says "GPLv2 or later" permits use with future versions of the GPL. However, whether most code says this or not, I wouldn't speculate.
Also, most of the code that looks like that, when new versions are released, will begin to say "GPLv3 or later". If you're still relying on GPLv2, you'll be stuck at the license-fork point and won't be able to use new features in that code.
I don't release any of my code with the "or later" bit, because I don't know if I'll agree with what comes later.
Oh, and Linux doesn't have the "or later" bit in it, either.
Fair enough.
I'm guessing you can be (successfully) sued for being a "company people go to to find out if someone is a sex offender" and giving out bad information -- I'm just not sure it's libel anymore.
Dude, quit whining. No one with 22 years of engineering experience is that angsty or insecure. And your own company? Yeah, right.
Next thing you'll reply to this saying "You'll never work for me."
Grow up.
Sorry for OT, I just hate this "I'm going to pretend I'm all important" response comments.
The company that runs the database 'told' myspace this lady was a sex offender via a 'written' document. It was acted upon showing a belief in the 'document'.
I put all the words in quotes because I believe this to be libel and not slander, even though the 'written-ness' of the falsehood is questionable.
I don't know if there's been any slander, but it's definitely libel. It's 'written' in a database somewhere and in the email she received.
No, no. You'll be able to fast forward through the content. Just not the commercials :)
So it's ok. Remember that. It's ok.
You can't deduct what you would have been paid. It's really pretty simple to understand.
Say you worked 10 hours for a non-profit doing something you would normally be paid $50/hr for doing professionally. If they paid you for it, you'd have $500, but you haven't donated anything. If you then donate that $500 back to them, that $500 is then tax deductible, leaving you net-0.
That's called volunteer work.
HEAR HEAR!
It would be a trademark. If it was patented, only HP and their licensees would be able to do it and we'd still be able to call it pretexting.
Embarassingly far down in the document, there's a funny "hear-o"
A. A search on KaZaA can "prop you will gate" from one supernode to another.
I'm guessing he said "propogate"..
Public Letter:
I hope the public will read this entire letter.
There has been alot of confusion regarding the copy protection of the program called Display Eater.
It is described here in:
There exists two illegal cd-keys that can be used to register the program without paying for it. When Display Eater detects these keys, it would delete your home directory.
However, this is not the case in reality. The whole purpose was to create a scare campaign. You can download, the file linked from the main page, which is now down(the link is still intact), and check it for yourself. It has http://reversecode.com/index.html
It was my hope that by creating a scare campaign, I could stop wasting time writing copy protection routines to be broken over and over. But, I was wrong, it backfired.
People started buying multiple keys, which I never intended, and in the beginning when the protection was in place, people who did not even know they had committed piracy or what piracy was were left in the dark. Legitimate users started fearing the program, which I never imagined.
A reporter called me today, and suggested that I make it free, and then have users pay for support. Or open source the program. I will consider all of these. -Reza
I haven't used either program, but I read most of the review, especially the part about performance.. but their test hardware was a macbook pro and a g5. Neither one of those can have a particularly stellar video card. They don't specify the g5's video card, but I'm guessing it's as out of date as the machine. and the x1600 in the macbook pro isn't a screamer.
I'd be interested to see what a system with a 7950 or (if/when they're supported) an 8800 would do with aperture. All this talk about how fast video cards are these days at doing things other than playing games intrigues me. I think aperture may have gotten it right. Those if Lightroom supports multi-core well, then it'll probably do ok going forward, as well.
Don't buy 2gb sticks, get 4 1gb sticks. It's a lot cheaper. Don't even bother looking at 4gb sticks.
When questioned on why PS3s were sitting on store shelves instead of on entertainment center shelves, Tretton responded with "If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than a few minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it." He continues, "I can get any retail buyer on the phone with you and get them to verify that not a single retail location in America where there's a PlayStation 3 on the shelf for sale. They've all been sold in a matter of minutes."
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/02/10
In 1903 the Norwegian inventor Aegidus Elling became the first person to successfully construct a gas turbine engine which produced more power than it required to operate
Wow, really?!? In the last 104 years we haven't been able to reproduce a system which produces more power than it takes to operate.
Those guys must have been really smart. Maybe it was a cold fusion gas turbine engine.
Thermodynamics be damned.
The *IDEA* of the post was to say that a ps3 is nowhere near as powerful as a PC with a modern graphics card in it. PS3 can only push 1080p and it's not clear if it's even doing that in Oblivion.
Also, my computer can do a LOT more than a PS3. I can play games, serve web pages, and RUN ANY PROGRAM THAT I WANT ON IT.
I can even WRITE programs for it. For free. Without being sanctioned by Sony.
Yes, it's more expensive, but the point was that the PS3 graphics aren't comparing to PC graphics because the PS3 displays to a TV, not a high-resolution monitor.
The PS3 can push Oblivion at 2560x1600? Wow.
My nVidia 8800gtx can, too (in XP, not Vista, mind you).
Yep, they're just about even.
*NOT*
I have had 3 people who have PhD's, they are all Jr. programmers who I'd say really are not that worth it.
If you have PhD's programming for you, then you aren't a very good manager.
PhD's are good for focused research and creating leads for people skilled in programming.
You don't get a PhD in "coding". You get a PhD in things like Information Retrieval or Distributed Systems. You then use these people to come up with ideas and create and invent systems for others to program.
In my mind, half of a PhD is learning what you're focusing, the other part is honing the fine art of "how to learn." That's what PhD's do for you - they make the people around them more productive by providing insight and ideas, not final products.