Telecommuting jobs work the best when you don't need to be physically colocated to be productive. If face to face (or face to robot) is really that necessary, and telephone or videocam conversations don't cut it (I'm presuming a webcam for cube-to-remote-cube talking to add those all important hand gestures), you should be actually going to work rather than staying at home.
Oh, and for those who might point out that Halifax is too far from Ontario, might I suggest either (a) finding a new home closer to your job or (b) finding a new job closer to your home. If those are impossible, perhaps (c) finding a new line of work should be a consideration. Remember, there's no god-given right to work in your preferred field, where you want to live, at a compensation rate you find appealing. Life is, as your parents told you many times, not fair.
(FWIW, I chose "where to live" and "money that is accpetable" over "ideal career" and I'm darned happy with it. Low crime, 1 mile commute, good schools, low cost of living and beautiful scenery seemed a good trade for designing buildings instead of space experiments.)
Lawrence Ulrich seems to think that automakers should make a highly expensive clean-burning vehicles on their own and sell them at a loss, perhaps so they can go out of business in two or three years. Actually, I believe the US automakers are trying something along those lines, just without the "clean-burning" bit.
Don't feel bad. I figured A440 was below middle for years. The only time we tuned to A440 was in the wind ensemble or symphony. I played horn, so we usually tried to con the conductor into giving us an F which would be open C on both F and Bb sides of the instrument. It wasn't until I was goofing around on the a piano one day during symphony practice and realized that (1) the oboe wasn't even close to the piano and (2) I'd been thinking an ocatave off for years. Not that it mattered - I dropped keyboard as an early teen, and since I don't sight-transpose and the horn is a fifth off of the actual pitch, the only thing I'm good at is relative pitches.
If I buy a stolen stereo, and make the seller sign a statement that it isn't stolen, that doesn't change the fact that I am no longer the owner of said stereo after it is taken into evidence. If you illegally record a conversation, then sell that tape - claiming it was legally obtained - it doesn't change the fact that it cannot be used as part of a prosecution (I'm not sure about civil law, to be honest, but I suspect illegally obtained evidence is not admissible in most cases).
All they've done is tried to prevent themselves from getting countersued, or to have a scapegoat when the countersuit occurs.
I'm curious - if you download a song of P2P, and the source claims they own distribution rights, is it okay to keep the song and redistribute it, and would you be immune from an RIAA lawsuit with said readme.txt in hand?
In writing, Virginia Tech or VT (use the former if you're worried about confusing us with Vermont).
In speech, VT (Vee Tee), Tech, or Virginia Tech, please. Not "Vah Tech", please (yes, it even bugs me when Jim Rome says it). How often to you call Georgia Tech "Jah Tech", or Virginia the "Vah Caveliers"?
"Provided that such use constitutes 'fair use' under copyright law, or is otherwise permitted by applicable law, you may copy, distribute, prepare derivative works, reproduce, introduce into an electronic retrieval system, perform, and transmit portions of this publication."
But I suspect any watered down language would take the negative approach to remain in good standing with the law...
"You may not copy, distribute, prepare derivative works, reproduce, introduce into an electronic retrieval system, perform, or transmit any portion of this publication unless such use constitutes 'fair use' under copyright law, or is otherwise explicitly permitted by law."
And, for good measure, (and if there's time or screen space), they'll add "Any intent to apply or exercise of fair use rights shall be sumbitted in writing to the content license holder prior to such use, and approval or denial shall be determined at the sole discresion of the content holder except as determined in a court of law."
The FSF is not in the exclusive paid service of a group of for-profit corporations. That's the real point of the motion - this is collusion by a group of corporations. The FSF would likely be classified as a watch-dog group, like the ACLU. The distinction is one which is difficult to codify into law succinctly, but has clear moral differences. That's one of the key problems with laws - they attempt to codify behaviors into a language which is unable to accurately depict intent.
Luckily I'm a small shop, so when one of my guys is sick, I tell them to go home and not to come back until they're feeling well. If they don't have sick leave, I'll cover it to keep the office healthy. Then again, I'm not on much of a critical path for human services (Oh my god, who's going to design that building if we're not around!). I can afford to lose one of my employees for a week - losing the whole staff would put a crimp in the company finances (to put it mildly).
Actually, I read it as allowing such circumvention for fair use "rights". To prohibit such circumvention would affect the rights of the enduser by limiting aformentioned rights relative to non-encrypted content. It doesn't change the fact that you, apparently, need to be an expert in DRM, encryption, cracking techniques, and coding, along with having adequate computational resouces to apply such knowledge just to excercise said rights...but they're there for the taking!
No, what he has is a communal office for independent consultants. They get paid by the job, but he runs the show - bringing in work and doling it out. It's a bigger-company with individual talents - good to keep clients happy (we have lots of support), but you get targeted experts. He makes money herding the cats. The pay thing is just to keep the government happy.
Slackers and tight-wads don't want to work for him, because there's no entitlement there. No room to slack, because if you do you don't make enough to eat. For those who really like to control their own destinies, but don't like to put up with withholding, government forms, tax regulations, accounting, and the like it's the perfect solution.
No, a judge can require a content owner to provide a key to the data, if such a key exists. Since you are using the data real-time, the key does exist.
The critical factor here is the transitory nature of the use of RAM. The way to get around this is to write the data to paper once, then write it to a hard drive, bit for bit, until the drive fills up. also log the reduction in performance during such a write. If you want to make a point, choose a TB of data and write it to 20GB hard drives, just for emphasis. Take both sets to the judge and ask for relief, as the documentation onus and the reduction in performance is tantamount to destroying their business.
I've always read the DMCA to say "you can't break encryption, except for fair use, and nobody can help you do it". Sort of like allowing a builder to put a lock on all the rooms in the house, and the law allowing you to enter any room you like, since it's your house, but then outlawing locksmiths and any books, videos, or lockpicking tools.
Broadband service is, quite honestly, an effectivly necessary tool for most modern offices (esp. home offices). Sure you can get by with dialup, but then again the mail would be fine if you didn't have a phone, and there's nothing keeping you from doing very well without grid power or computers (even for most programming - I learned assembly and machine language on a 6502 with mostly a pencil and paper). Of course, you won't be competitive with anyone who has those things.
Actually, you'd be surprised how may addresses fall into the wrong hands. I had unique address for a long time, and gave them up about 1 year ago in favor of spam blocking. You see, even the most "reputable" places I dealt with (including the state, one of my banking institutions, and a very-high end CAD software house) somehow managed to leak out those addresses. When contacted, they claimed either that they never shared such information, or shared that information only with preferred business partners. I've given up caring, and now just ratchet up spamassassin.
No, there are lots of women who might be good candidates for the US presidency. The problem with Sen. Clinton is that she is both devisive and vindictive. She is the type of leader which, when faced with poor morale, would suggest fiting the whole staff and replacing them with new people with better attitudes. She is very tight with _her_ industry people, and will hold closed door meetings to determine what is best for their profits. Sound familiar? It should, because we have it right now, just without tits, and with a better sense of humor.
She will tear this country apart. That's why I won't vote for her, and in 20 years I've only ever voted for Democrats for the presidency. I think she has some good ideas, but I'm certain she will screw up whatever she lays hands on. She's not a good leader, and leadership is the first quality a president should have.
...we all need to have calibrated room lighting in order to get the proper colors to show up. No blue with that 60w incandescent!
Which brings me to...how does this work with fluorescent lighting? If you're using partial reflectivity, human eyes get the proper fractions of the constituents of the phosphors. If you're using interferometry, wouldn't you end up with huge dropouts in the visible spectrum?
Which, in this case, would not apply. Ex post facto is typically only applied to criminal law and governmental regulations (changing the law after a zoning approval, for example - which is typically seen as a contract between the govt and the developer, not really a law).
A new regulation which outlaws prepayment penalties in contracts means that that language is effectively null and void - which is why practically all good contracts include a severability clause.
What do you think would happen if every cable co in the US dropped ESPN, and the cause was a Federal regulation? If the feds stand their ground, ESPN will re-negotiate. Do you think their margins are large enough to withstand two months without revenue (advertisers don't pay for channels which don't get transmitted)?
If bundling is illegal, and they require bundling, then the end up with zero viewership and zero revenue. The networks do it because they _can_ - the FCC can tell them that they can't.
Funny...I could drop every other non-OTA channel if I could just get ESPN. The only interesting programming to watch real-time is sports, and everything else is on DVD or usenet.
The problem is that there are 18 different (ATSC) acceptable formats, and the result was years of delay and tons of poor products. I don't have any problems with sports on film, and that's only 24fps. Interlacing is a crutch of television technology, and the inabilityof 1950s technology to get horizontal refresh rates high enough to do progressive scanning. The problem is that the FCC decided to let the decision made by someone else - and the result has been two decades of poor results.
I'd prefer they chose 1080p/60 back in the 90s, but I'd be just as happy with 720p/30 or 720p/60. I can't tell the difference on my 125" projection setup, to be honest, though there are those with larger screens and better eyes who can do so - especially when they watch their favorite test patterns. Still, there is absolutly no reason for interlaced video today - it's not how the cameras work anymore, and there is sufficient horsepower in dedicated chips to decode 60 frames per second. Higher frame rates are nice, but not at the expense of the deinterlacing gymnastics that has to be done on the back end.
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...maybe it's not a good job for a telecommuter.
Telecommuting jobs work the best when you don't need to be physically colocated to be productive. If face to face (or face to robot) is really that necessary, and telephone or videocam conversations don't cut it (I'm presuming a webcam for cube-to-remote-cube talking to add those all important hand gestures), you should be actually going to work rather than staying at home.
Oh, and for those who might point out that Halifax is too far from Ontario, might I suggest either (a) finding a new home closer to your job or (b) finding a new job closer to your home. If those are impossible, perhaps (c) finding a new line of work should be a consideration. Remember, there's no god-given right to work in your preferred field, where you want to live, at a compensation rate you find appealing. Life is, as your parents told you many times, not fair.
(FWIW, I chose "where to live" and "money that is accpetable" over "ideal career" and I'm darned happy with it. Low crime, 1 mile commute, good schools, low cost of living and beautiful scenery seemed a good trade for designing buildings instead of space experiments.)
Don't feel bad. I figured A440 was below middle for years. The only time we tuned to A440 was in the wind ensemble or symphony. I played horn, so we usually tried to con the conductor into giving us an F which would be open C on both F and Bb sides of the instrument. It wasn't until I was goofing around on the a piano one day during symphony practice and realized that (1) the oboe wasn't even close to the piano and (2) I'd been thinking an ocatave off for years. Not that it mattered - I dropped keyboard as an early teen, and since I don't sight-transpose and the horn is a fifth off of the actual pitch, the only thing I'm good at is relative pitches.
Or your second C would really only be 1000hz!
(actually, I believe middle C is 256hz, as A440 occurs in the second space of the treble clef)
If I buy a stolen stereo, and make the seller sign a statement that it isn't stolen, that doesn't change the fact that I am no longer the owner of said stereo after it is taken into evidence. If you illegally record a conversation, then sell that tape - claiming it was legally obtained - it doesn't change the fact that it cannot be used as part of a prosecution (I'm not sure about civil law, to be honest, but I suspect illegally obtained evidence is not admissible in most cases).
All they've done is tried to prevent themselves from getting countersued, or to have a scapegoat when the countersuit occurs.
I'm curious - if you download a song of P2P, and the source claims they own distribution rights, is it okay to keep the song and redistribute it, and would you be immune from an RIAA lawsuit with said readme.txt in hand?
Could we all get the name straight?
In writing, Virginia Tech or VT (use the former if you're worried about confusing us with Vermont).
In speech, VT (Vee Tee), Tech, or Virginia Tech, please. Not "Vah Tech", please (yes, it even bugs me when Jim Rome says it). How often to you call Georgia Tech "Jah Tech", or Virginia the "Vah Caveliers"?
Sorry, off topic, I know.
Think of the children...
I call (read 'em and weep)
Well, you could say...
"Provided that such use constitutes 'fair use' under copyright law, or is otherwise permitted by applicable law, you may copy, distribute, prepare derivative works, reproduce, introduce into an electronic retrieval system, perform, and transmit portions of this publication."
But I suspect any watered down language would take the negative approach to remain in good standing with the law...
"You may not copy, distribute, prepare derivative works, reproduce, introduce into an electronic retrieval system, perform, or transmit any portion of this publication unless such use constitutes 'fair use' under copyright law, or is otherwise explicitly permitted by law."
And, for good measure, (and if there's time or screen space), they'll add "Any intent to apply or exercise of fair use rights shall be sumbitted in writing to the content license holder prior to such use, and approval or denial shall be determined at the sole discresion of the content holder except as determined in a court of law."
See, now wasn't that easy?
The FSF is not in the exclusive paid service of a group of for-profit corporations. That's the real point of the motion - this is collusion by a group of corporations. The FSF would likely be classified as a watch-dog group, like the ACLU. The distinction is one which is difficult to codify into law succinctly, but has clear moral differences. That's one of the key problems with laws - they attempt to codify behaviors into a language which is unable to accurately depict intent.
Luckily I'm a small shop, so when one of my guys is sick, I tell them to go home and not to come back until they're feeling well. If they don't have sick leave, I'll cover it to keep the office healthy. Then again, I'm not on much of a critical path for human services (Oh my god, who's going to design that building if we're not around!). I can afford to lose one of my employees for a week - losing the whole staff would put a crimp in the company finances (to put it mildly).
Actually, I read it as allowing such circumvention for fair use "rights". To prohibit such circumvention would affect the rights of the enduser by limiting aformentioned rights relative to non-encrypted content. It doesn't change the fact that you, apparently, need to be an expert in DRM, encryption, cracking techniques, and coding, along with having adequate computational resouces to apply such knowledge just to excercise said rights...but they're there for the taking!
No, what he has is a communal office for independent consultants. They get paid by the job, but he runs the show - bringing in work and doling it out. It's a bigger-company with individual talents - good to keep clients happy (we have lots of support), but you get targeted experts. He makes money herding the cats. The pay thing is just to keep the government happy.
Slackers and tight-wads don't want to work for him, because there's no entitlement there. No room to slack, because if you do you don't make enough to eat. For those who really like to control their own destinies, but don't like to put up with withholding, government forms, tax regulations, accounting, and the like it's the perfect solution.
No, a judge can require a content owner to provide a key to the data, if such a key exists. Since you are using the data real-time, the key does exist.
The critical factor here is the transitory nature of the use of RAM. The way to get around this is to write the data to paper once, then write it to a hard drive, bit for bit, until the drive fills up. also log the reduction in performance during such a write. If you want to make a point, choose a TB of data and write it to 20GB hard drives, just for emphasis. Take both sets to the judge and ask for relief, as the documentation onus and the reduction in performance is tantamount to destroying their business.
I've always read the DMCA to say "you can't break encryption, except for fair use, and nobody can help you do it". Sort of like allowing a builder to put a lock on all the rooms in the house, and the law allowing you to enter any room you like, since it's your house, but then outlawing locksmiths and any books, videos, or lockpicking tools.
Broadband service is, quite honestly, an effectivly necessary tool for most modern offices (esp. home offices). Sure you can get by with dialup, but then again the mail would be fine if you didn't have a phone, and there's nothing keeping you from doing very well without grid power or computers (even for most programming - I learned assembly and machine language on a 6502 with mostly a pencil and paper). Of course, you won't be competitive with anyone who has those things.
...and something about god killing a puppy, I think.
Actually, you'd be surprised how may addresses fall into the wrong hands. I had unique address for a long time, and gave them up about 1 year ago in favor of spam blocking. You see, even the most "reputable" places I dealt with (including the state, one of my banking institutions, and a very-high end CAD software house) somehow managed to leak out those addresses. When contacted, they claimed either that they never shared such information, or shared that information only with preferred business partners. I've given up caring, and now just ratchet up spamassassin.
No, there are lots of women who might be good candidates for the US presidency. The problem with Sen. Clinton is that she is both devisive and vindictive. She is the type of leader which, when faced with poor morale, would suggest fiting the whole staff and replacing them with new people with better attitudes. She is very tight with _her_ industry people, and will hold closed door meetings to determine what is best for their profits. Sound familiar? It should, because we have it right now, just without tits, and with a better sense of humor.
She will tear this country apart. That's why I won't vote for her, and in 20 years I've only ever voted for Democrats for the presidency. I think she has some good ideas, but I'm certain she will screw up whatever she lays hands on. She's not a good leader, and leadership is the first quality a president should have.
I just checked and my damned junk mail filter put that email in the trash!
...under the weight of poor trading imbalances. That's got to count for something, right?
...we all need to have calibrated room lighting in order to get the proper colors to show up. No blue with that 60w incandescent!
Which brings me to...how does this work with fluorescent lighting? If you're using partial reflectivity, human eyes get the proper fractions of the constituents of the phosphors. If you're using interferometry, wouldn't you end up with huge dropouts in the visible spectrum?
Which, in this case, would not apply. Ex post facto is typically only applied to criminal law and governmental regulations (changing the law after a zoning approval, for example - which is typically seen as a contract between the govt and the developer, not really a law).
A new regulation which outlaws prepayment penalties in contracts means that that language is effectively null and void - which is why practically all good contracts include a severability clause.
What do you think would happen if every cable co in the US dropped ESPN, and the cause was a Federal regulation? If the feds stand their ground, ESPN will re-negotiate. Do you think their margins are large enough to withstand two months without revenue (advertisers don't pay for channels which don't get transmitted)?
If bundling is illegal, and they require bundling, then the end up with zero viewership and zero revenue. The networks do it because they _can_ - the FCC can tell them that they can't.
It's really not that hard.
Funny...I could drop every other non-OTA channel if I could just get ESPN. The only interesting programming to watch real-time is sports, and everything else is on DVD or usenet.
The problem is that there are 18 different (ATSC) acceptable formats, and the result was years of delay and tons of poor products. I don't have any problems with sports on film, and that's only 24fps. Interlacing is a crutch of television technology, and the inabilityof 1950s technology to get horizontal refresh rates high enough to do progressive scanning. The problem is that the FCC decided to let the decision made by someone else - and the result has been two decades of poor results.
I'd prefer they chose 1080p/60 back in the 90s, but I'd be just as happy with 720p/30 or 720p/60. I can't tell the difference on my 125" projection setup, to be honest, though there are those with larger screens and better eyes who can do so - especially when they watch their favorite test patterns. Still, there is absolutly no reason for interlaced video today - it's not how the cameras work anymore, and there is sufficient horsepower in dedicated chips to decode 60 frames per second. Higher frame rates are nice, but not at the expense of the deinterlacing gymnastics that has to be done on the back end.