That worked fine until Britain changed the length of patents to 100 years, to protect some key industries. The net result was that the British industry stalled while Germany (a nation of scofflaws that ignored British IP rights) went from an agarian society to an industrial one.
Interesting analysis. In the Internet Age, pirates are the scofflaws. I don't really see the pirate groups -- be they p2p sharing teens or whole countries of software pirates -- having much effect at all on the state of IP affairs.
Sun's trying to move from a hardware company to a service provider. Just look at all the software products and services they have to offer right now.
See, I thought the only problem was that their services were really terrible. I can't tell you how many time their tech has had to be taught by my tech how to fix Sun hardware. Of course 1 in 5 boxes we get new from Sun are DOA, so the hardware's not all that either.
Same thing happened to me near the end of Man on the Moon. Given the film, I figured that was just how it ended, and left. Didn't find out for several months that it was just a film glitch.
Most consultants I have dealt with were carpetbaggers. It's the nature of the job...you come in, you recommend the setup you've recommended for the last fifteen jobs, and you leave before the dust settles.
Most consultants have no idea what they are talking about. It's hard to come into someone's office as if you have answers when you don't. Honest consultants are looking for a good answer. If you provide them with one, they will advocate your answer to your PHB. Use this knowledge carefully...
I always thought that the scientific view would be to let the results of solid research speak for themselves.
Scientists are people, they decide what to research based on what interested them, or their agenda. We don't get to hear why this group decided on this topic. When the "creationists" publish their "results", it also has an agenda.
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You might try looking at OpenAFS. It has many of the properties that you're wishing for above.
Democracy is all about accountability. The reason democracy doesn't quite work is because that principle is not fulfilled. When the majority of the citizens don't know what their government is doing, then you get them signing strange purple kitten treaties.
And with the majority of the press controlled by a handful of multi-national mega-corps, are you surprised that it doesn't work? Face it, it's much easier to make money when the gov'ment is your tool.
What a wacky nut this guy is. Reminds me why I hate sales people, particularly crazy used car salesmen cum M$ Sales.
The question is, who's going out and pushing Linux like this? In my experience, sysadmins "sell" Linux in their organizations, not an external sales force. Unfortuntely, it's often the case that an external "expert" is more respected than any member of staff.
Careful what you wish for. Do you really want to establish a precedence that sez all software developers are libel for the worms others create? I'm guessing you don't write much code.
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Interesting analysis. In the Internet Age, pirates are the scofflaws. I don't really see the pirate groups -- be they p2p sharing teens or whole countries of software pirates -- having much effect at all on the state of IP affairs.
See, I thought the only problem was that their services were really terrible. I can't tell you how many time their tech has had to be taught by my tech how to fix Sun hardware. Of course 1 in 5 boxes we get new from Sun are DOA, so the hardware's not all that either.
Here ya go!
I want that shirt. ThinkGeek?
Same thing happened to me near the end of Man on the Moon. Given the film, I figured that was just how it ended, and left. Didn't find out for several months that it was just a film glitch.
Most consultants have no idea what they are talking about. It's hard to come into someone's office as if you have answers when you don't. Honest consultants are looking for a good answer. If you provide them with one, they will advocate your answer to your PHB. Use this knowledge carefully...
Scientists are people, they decide what to research based on what interested them, or their agenda. We don't get to hear why this group decided on this topic. When the "creationists" publish their "results", it also has an agenda.
You might try looking at OpenAFS. It has many of the properties that you're wishing for above.
You don't like Dipshit Suzanne?
What a wacky nut this guy is. Reminds me why I hate sales people, particularly crazy used car salesmen cum M$ Sales.
The question is, who's going out and pushing Linux like this? In my experience, sysadmins "sell" Linux in their organizations, not an external sales force. Unfortuntely, it's often the case that an external "expert" is more respected than any member of staff.
Careful what you wish for. Do you really want to establish a precedence that sez all software developers are libel for the worms others create? I'm guessing you don't write much code.
:w
Ok, my prompt is
usually-hostname:;
I use csh. When you triple click a command like
foo:; date
and paste, csh treats everything left of the ';'
as a goto label, and the ';' as a null command.
Thus, "date" gets executed. Nice in an XTerm.
:wes
Um, can it do 640 by 480?