Okay, maybe you are supposed to use it that way... No idea why. It doesn't work too well if you do. Fine for grouping similar books for indexing though.
Doesn't mean that everyone should want it. Yeah, sure, the interent is ghreat and revolutionary. I love it for all sorts of things. This does not mean everyone else will love it. If people see it and like it, then encourage them to use it. If people see it and don't see the point, it doesn't make them wrong. They just like to do things their own way. We shouldn't force our ways onto other people.
Just about all advances will either put people out of jobs (e.g. automated factories), or increase human laziness (e.g. cars, TV). Odd that that seems to be the ultimate aim of advancement, but there you go....
Surely the point of the DDS is simply that books are arranged in a consistent order, and books on the same topic are next to each other. You're not meant to try to work out the number. You look up the book you're after in a file card system, or on a computer. This gives a Dewey Decimal number. You can then find the books with that number on the shelves fairly simply using a simple search. That's all it does, and it does it adequately.
Of course, the LoC system is a lot more logical (it doesn't stick books on computers next to books on parapsychology, for example). Switching does mean reclassifying and resorting every single book in a library though.
You can certainly trademark "Dewey Decimal System". What the hotel is doing is using the same system for its room numbers, and naming them according to the subject that is referenced by that number.
I guess the point is that a person who came to their Web site and looked at the way the hotel is promoted and marketed could think they were passing themselves off as connected with the owner of the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
S3 cant compete for the low end because in most respects it doesn't exist anymore.
Yes it does. In - as you said - onboard graphics. It's quite a good market if you have a decent market share, and VIA (the owners of S3) have a pretty good chunk of it.
Yes, but it does provide an analogy. If everyone starts saying ounces when they mean fluid ounces, can you sue someone for selling a denser liquid in ounces of weight?
The idea of taxing what Florida was talking about taxing was and still is quite silly.
Yes, but it's Florida's right to be silly
How would you tax an email from the UK? How would you tax an email from Washington state, if Washington state already has a tax on email? Whose tax takes precedence? Does that email then get taxed per state it routes through?
Depends. Do they tax per email sent, or email received. If they both decide to tax differently then emails in one diretion get taxed twice, and in the other direction, not at all.
Could that mean to send an email to Grandma in Florida you could end up spending something like 5 dollars in overall taxes just for it to get to Grandma? (This is assuming that each state between where you are and Florida has an email tax law written loosely enough to attach a tax on all email that routes through the state.)
In much the same way as you could have to pay $110 in income tax if you earn $100. It could happen, bhut isn't going to because states tend not to levy taxes that people can't pay. However, since there would be no way of enforcing a tax on someone out of state, the most logical thing would be for the state governemnts to tax network providers. Since they charge for use of their networks, it hardly seems unfair that a state government should be allowed to tax a business operating in that state. Since at least 3 businesses are responsible for getting an email from one person to another, why shouldn't they all be taxed?
It is about taxing per bit transfered over your network, whether connected to the Internet or not. It is about taxing each and every email you send out. It is NOT about sales tax.
Which makes it even more of a per state issue.
In either case it would be highly destructive to the Florida economy and any other state that persues such a course of action without getting the rest of the states to add the same exact tax across the board.
So it's now the responsibility of the federal governemtn to stop state governments from making bad decisions? Why do we bother with states at all if thet's the case?
You'd rather shift the money making from CDs to concerts, turning music distribution into a loss leader?
What makes you think this is the only viable mechanism? There may well be a way to allow a certain amount of file sharing without completely destroying CD sales. Sure, a lot of people say they want copyright law abolished, but most people are reasonable, and will accept a compromise whereby they can get some free music.
File sharing will eventually be dealt with, one way or another, whether it is eliminated or legalised, I have no idea. We just have to wait for whoever has the solution.
Interesting poiint, but I don't think that Warcraft is a particularly good analogy. A computer game is an artistic work, whereas a booking system is entirly functional. So instead, how about we look at something that is not an artistic work, and is essentially purely functional, but in a different domain - for example a physics text book.
Many physics text books will cover the same subject. They'll have been written after the author has read other books on the same subject, and may even have a similar chapter structure. The information contained will be the same, most of the diagrams will be the same. The difference is that the actual text is different and that the diagrams are not direct copies. Would it be a copyright infringemt? I don't think so.
So, what if I were to take a physics text book, and decided to read a chapter, then rewrite in my own words, and do this for the entire book? Would that be copyright infringement? If I wrote the original book, I'd certainly think so.
So, the question must be not whether they appear similar, but whether the second work is actually sufficiently strongly based on the first for it to be a copyright infringement.
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with my Automated Bead Array Computational Unit System. This can be made much more cheaply, the batteries alst forever, and it never crashes!
I'm really pissed off with cunts like you whose answer for everything is: "if you don't like it, leave". That's not a fucking answer.
True, but in this case, it may be a valid solution to the problem. Sure, it would be best to talk to people and explain that its a stupid system, and try to work out a way around it, but Personally, in that situation, if talking failed, I'd be checking the job market.
Most places I've seen flex time requires core hours (typically something like 10am-4pm). Most places I know don't care though, as long as you put your hours in. Quibling over precise times when someon'e putting in more than their contracted hours does not lead to a motivated workforce.
Is he vaccinated against all possible illnesses, including the latest strain of the common cold? No? Well, he was clearly negligent, and has resulted in you being off work for at least a week, when you could have worked 42 hours plus 126 hours overtime at triple rate, and may well have receied a promotion and a 1000% pay rise as a result of doing al that extra time, so he owes you roughly 100 times your week's salary, plus a little extra for pain and suffering.
You'll need representation. Here's my card. Right now I'm suing the driver of an ambulance that reversed over me as I was chasing it.
Are people being reckless by not installing the latest patches? Would a fine make them more likely to keep up to date? Personally, I think the answers are "No", and "no", but some other people come up with interesting alternative ideas.
I mean really - telnet is perfectly secure unless you use a direct connection. Use of a quantum tunnelling encryption layer and probabilistic key generation means you get the maturity of telnet with a greater level of security (I'm talking non-recursive factorial strenth here).
ssh is just for losers who can't set up teransparent network layering.
I mean, of course they have. A motion to dismiss is just part of the dance. It's typically the first reaction of a legal team to a legal threat. I'm pretty certain its the first thing that IBM did as well.
It's often a long shot, but if granted, it will save SCO a lot of time and money.
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It's nowhere near as bad. There are greater restrictions on large donations to political parties.
Okay, maybe you are supposed to use it that way... No idea why. It doesn't work too well if you do. Fine for grouping similar books for indexing though.
Doesn't mean that everyone should want it. Yeah, sure, the interent is ghreat and revolutionary. I love it for all sorts of things. This does not mean everyone else will love it. If people see it and like it, then encourage them to use it. If people see it and don't see the point, it doesn't make them wrong. They just like to do things their own way. We shouldn't force our ways onto other people.
Just about all advances will either put people out of jobs (e.g. automated factories), or increase human laziness (e.g. cars, TV). Odd that that seems to be the ultimate aim of advancement, but there you go....
Surely the point of the DDS is simply that books are arranged in a consistent order, and books on the same topic are next to each other. You're not meant to try to work out the number. You look up the book you're after in a file card system, or on a computer. This gives a Dewey Decimal number. You can then find the books with that number on the shelves fairly simply using a simple search. That's all it does, and it does it adequately.
Of course, the LoC system is a lot more logical (it doesn't stick books on computers next to books on parapsychology, for example). Switching does mean reclassifying and resorting every single book in a library though.
You can certainly trademark "Dewey Decimal System". What the hotel is doing is using the same system for its room numbers, and naming them according to the subject that is referenced by that number.
I guess the point is that a person who came to their Web site and looked at the way the hotel is promoted and marketed could think they were passing themselves off as connected with the owner of the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
S3 cant compete for the low end because in most respects it doesn't exist anymore.
Yes it does. In - as you said - onboard graphics. It's quite a good market if you have a decent market share, and VIA (the owners of S3) have a pretty good chunk of it.
On a morning when I'm receiving the latest windows virus in my inbox every five minutes I feel very comfortable with this.
You should be safe. Perhaps "stripped down" will mean that Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and IIS are not installed.
Obviously (for anyone that can conver from metric to english units)
Umm.. this is nitpicking I know, but an English pint is about 0.568 litres. (20 fl Oz. for some weird reason), and a gallon is 8 of these.
Yes, but it does provide an analogy. If everyone starts saying ounces when they mean fluid ounces, can you sue someone for selling a denser liquid in ounces of weight?
Kilo/Mega/Giga has only ever meant anything else in the RAM industry. NEtwork speeds and hard disk sizes have always used SI.
The idea of taxing what Florida was talking about taxing was and still is quite silly.
Yes, but it's Florida's right to be silly
How would you tax an email from the UK? How would you tax an email from Washington state, if Washington state already has a tax on email? Whose tax takes precedence? Does that email then get taxed per state it routes through?
Depends. Do they tax per email sent, or email received. If they both decide to tax differently then emails in one diretion get taxed twice, and in the other direction, not at all.
Could that mean to send an email to Grandma in Florida you could end up spending something like 5 dollars in overall taxes just for it to get to Grandma? (This is assuming that each state between where you are and Florida has an email tax law written loosely enough to attach a tax on all email that routes through the state.)
In much the same way as you could have to pay $110 in income tax if you earn $100. It could happen, bhut isn't going to because states tend not to levy taxes that people can't pay. However, since there would be no way of enforcing a tax on someone out of state, the most logical thing would be for the state governemnts to tax network providers. Since they charge for use of their networks, it hardly seems unfair that a state government should be allowed to tax a business operating in that state. Since at least 3 businesses are responsible for getting an email from one person to another, why shouldn't they all be taxed?
It is about taxing per bit transfered over your network, whether connected to the Internet or not. It is about taxing each and every email you send out. It is NOT about sales tax.
Which makes it even more of a per state issue.
In either case it would be highly destructive to the Florida economy and any other state that persues such a course of action without getting the rest of the states to add the same exact tax across the board.
So it's now the responsibility of the federal governemtn to stop state governments from making bad decisions? Why do we bother with states at all if thet's the case?
Just where does the federal government get the idea that it should start regulating state commerce?
You'd rather shift the money making from CDs to concerts, turning music distribution into a loss leader?
What makes you think this is the only viable mechanism? There may well be a way to allow a certain amount of file sharing without completely destroying CD sales. Sure, a lot of people say they want copyright law abolished, but most people are reasonable, and will accept a compromise whereby they can get some free music.
File sharing will eventually be dealt with, one way or another, whether it is eliminated or legalised, I have no idea. We just have to wait for whoever has the solution.
Interesting poiint, but I don't think that Warcraft is a particularly good analogy. A computer game is an artistic work, whereas a booking system is entirly functional. So instead, how about we look at something that is not an artistic work, and is essentially purely functional, but in a different domain - for example a physics text book.
Many physics text books will cover the same subject. They'll have been written after the author has read other books on the same subject, and may even have a similar chapter structure. The information contained will be the same, most of the diagrams will be the same. The difference is that the actual text is different and that the diagrams are not direct copies. Would it be a copyright infringemt? I don't think so.
So, what if I were to take a physics text book, and decided to read a chapter, then rewrite in my own words, and do this for the entire book? Would that be copyright infringement? If I wrote the original book, I'd certainly think so.
So, the question must be not whether they appear similar, but whether the second work is actually sufficiently strongly based on the first for it to be a copyright infringement.
with my Automated Bead Array Computational Unit System. This can be made much more cheaply, the batteries alst forever, and it never crashes!
I'm really pissed off with cunts like you whose answer for everything is: "if you don't like it, leave". That's not a fucking answer.
True, but in this case, it may be a valid solution to the problem. Sure, it would be best to talk to people and explain that its a stupid system, and try to work out a way around it, but Personally, in that situation, if talking failed, I'd be checking the job market.
Most places I've seen flex time requires core hours (typically something like 10am-4pm). Most places I know don't care though, as long as you put your hours in. Quibling over precise times when someon'e putting in more than their contracted hours does not lead to a motivated workforce.
Yes!
Is he vaccinated against all possible illnesses, including the latest strain of the common cold? No? Well, he was clearly negligent, and has resulted in you being off work for at least a week, when you could have worked 42 hours plus 126 hours overtime at triple rate, and may well have receied a promotion and a 1000% pay rise as a result of doing al that extra time, so he owes you roughly 100 times your week's salary, plus a little extra for pain and suffering.
You'll need representation. Here's my card. Right now I'm suing the driver of an ambulance that reversed over me as I was chasing it.
He is opening up the debate.
Are people being reckless by not installing the latest patches? Would a fine make them more likely to keep up to date? Personally, I think the answers are "No", and "no", but some other people come up with interesting alternative ideas.
I said "teransparent". What the hell is "transparent network layering?"
I mean really - telnet is perfectly secure unless you use a direct connection. Use of a quantum tunnelling encryption layer and probabilistic key generation means you get the maturity of telnet with a greater level of security (I'm talking non-recursive factorial strenth here).
ssh is just for losers who can't set up teransparent network layering.
I mean, of course they have. A motion to dismiss is just part of the dance. It's typically the first reaction of a legal team to a legal threat. I'm pretty certain its the first thing that IBM did as well.
It's often a long shot, but if granted, it will save SCO a lot of time and money.
The terrible use of colour and fonts is due to the desire to use corporate colouring and fonts in the interface rather than ones that work well on TV.
You would have thought they might have considered choosing corporate fonts and colours that look good on TV wouldn't you?