To always avoid any phrase with (g/G)od in it is to promote atheism. I do feel that these lawsuits are tactics by atheists to promote atheism in an indirect way.
I agree with all your points, however, this case is not about removing all references to God(s), but about whether or not a law requiring students to acknowedge the existance of God is constitutional.
A law requiring students to recite "God does not exist." each day would be equally unconstitutional.
First, this is what patents are for. Either the "neat solution" is:
1. Patented, in which case, you probably can't use it without licencing the patent, or
2. the "neat solution" is trade secret, in which case your probably fine unless
3. your employee has signed a contract which prevents them from divulging this information under these circumstances.
Something which wasn't mentioned is whether or not the employee worked for a competing company. They are likely to care a lot more about specific knowldge the employee took with him. If you're concerned, you probably want to run this past your companies legal representitives.
AFAIK, there is "Congressional Immunity". Consider the following situation: There is a bill in [house|senate] which will, if passed, fund a large public works project in Virginia. It looks like this bill will fail by only a small margin, one or two votes. After a fund-raising dinner the night before the vote, several [representitives|senators] opposing the bill are arrested, by local police in Virginia, on charges or drunk and disorderly conduct, solicitation, or similar charges. The congressmen are held for twelve hours while the vote takes place, then released due to a lack of evidence.
The U.S. has few problems of this type because there are checks such as congressional immunity. Sure, there are those who abuse the system, but that comes with any right or freedom.
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I have used netflix for the last six months, and have been generally happy with the service. The only negative is that since my credit card expires this month, they won't send me any discs until my new new card arrives and I can enter the new card. This sucks because 1.) I get no movies and 2.) I'm still paying for the service.
Yes, although a lot of it can be trimmed down. You mentioned for example the need for a bootloader. The BIOS allows the bootloader to perform its task without specific knowledge of the hardware. For example, grub uses BIOS functions to do much of its work, such as dealing with disks. Without this, grub would need specific knowedge of various chipsets and interface protocols.
I have two splitters (~3dB for each 2-way split) between the cable entry and the cable modem, and have had no connectivity problems. Of course, I'm not out in the sticks, and I only signed up for the 256Kb service, so YMMV...
The light output of a incandescent bulb is related to the temperature of the filiment. This temperature varies very little over a cycle, so the flicker is not perceptable.
Call me an E.E. geek, but I wonder if anyone knows the details behind the anti-flicker electronics the previous post mentioned?
"43. A process of transmitting a video signal over a communication link (17) in accordance with claim 42 including the step of superimposing each component of said composite video signal onto one said reference tone having a frequency of between -40Hz and 3600 Hz."
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but there is not such thing as a negative frequency. (the -40 and 3600Hz bit dosen't seem to be relative to another frequency) This should have been a dead giveaway that there needed to be some serious investigation into the patent.
Except that in most cases, the buyer is able to review the HOA agreement before the sale. Try opening the package to read the EULA (if printed) or installing the software on a demo computer (if not) before you buy.
It seems to me that the quickest way to defeat this sort of thing would be to 'F' a lot of sites which aren't (and don't appear) to be doing anything. Additionally, I wonder how hard it would be to fake the information? It seems like it would be pretty easy to fake a submission. If the capture included the sites domain name and IP, that could easily be spoofed by appropriate an appropriate hosts entry and ip-address change.
This type of system seems very vaunerable to false reports of every type.
"what would happen if an indestructible sandwich travelling at very high speed were to meet another indestructible sandwich travelling at the same speed ??"
"No one bitches about KDE ( via konq) and Gnome (via nautilus) embedding web code into the file managers."
Since you have the right to modify the source, you could either remove Konqueror from KDE, optionally writting a replacement, or strip Konqueror of its unwanted functionality. Even if one of the OEM's found a way to do either of the above with IE, Microsoft would have likely revoked their licence for doing it.
Yeah, while 150MB implies quite a bit of boat, it's really no worse than other distributions. Since I have the RAM available, most of my programs are set to hoard as much as possible for cache. I could probably trim that 150MB of RAM down quite a bit. My guess is that Gentoo will run no worse than other distributions on 64MB of ram, possibly better if you do some research and tweak the optimizations for a K6.
Right now, running X, KDE, Mozilla, and a few other goodies, I'm using about 150MB of RAM, so the RAM requirements are not out of line with other distributions. Having extra RAM for file caching, though, is very benifitial when compiling. As far as the install, it took a evenings to get everything installed on a Celeron 533 w/640MB ram.
Gentoo and modems are a known problem. The portage system has the ability to build/use binary packages. At some future point, once the portage system itself becomes a little more mature, I wouldn't be surprised if binaries of common packages are offered.
"(and I'm sure gentoo's program doesnt support resuming)"
It can use wget, prozilla, or lukemftp out of the box, but you can use any downloader you want; just set FETCHCOMMAND appropriatly.
"And what's really funny is that just yesterday, Slashdot posts article: "Time Warner to Charge Extra for Over-Quota Bandwidth". Yeah, these go together real well.... Reeeeal well."
I doubt even the most compulsive upgrader will never approach the quota due to gentoo. The source packages that I've downloaded over the past three months take up 1.5G. At 500M per month, I doubt the quotas will be a problem. Modem use, however, is a problem.
One of the 13 available kernels is a 2.4.19pre? patched with XFS and other goodies. If you don't want bleeding edge, various other kernels are availible, including 2.4.4 and a couple of 2.2's for those who want more stable proved kernels.
It depends on the image, and what you care about. If you want lossless compression of non-photographic images (line-art, diagrams, many icons, etc.) PNG is the way to go. If you want lossy compression of photographic images, JPEG is probably the way to go. Use the wrong tool for the job and you will almost always get a larger file.
I don't think that it is the TV station's responsibity if someone else illegally retransmitts their signal, but that's not the real issue anyway. Local stations are not complaining that their signals are being illegally rebroadcast, but that other affiliate station's signals are availible in their coverage area.
Think of this:
The Podunk Register carries stories from the various wire services. Disgusted by the low quality of the Podunk Register, many people in Podunk subscribe to news papers from larger near-by cities. These news papers also carry wire stories. The Podunk Register, seeing a loss in circulation and ad revinue, asserts that they should be the only paper allowed to provide wire stories to readers in the greater Podunk area. The Podunk Register and other small newspapers successfully lobby congress for a law granting them the right to bar other news-papers form their areas.
Very few T.V. stations mind if their signals are retransmitted outside their service area because more viewers == greater ad revinue. Its actually the reverse: T.V. station do not want the viewers in their coverage area to be able to receive outside stations, because some viewes may prefer the outside stations and stop watching the local station.
Very simply, I would like to see Microsoft follow established standards, and publish full, open specifications for the products which can't or don't follow established standards. Microsoft can certainly publish whatever software they want, but in the interest of their customers, painless interoperability would be nice.
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You need a decent connection to install Gentoo, because that is when you will do most of your downloading. It is doable to maintain a Gentoo system over a modem line because you should only need to do a long download when a package like kde or gnome bumps up in revision.
There is talk on the webpage and on irc about selling cd's with the up-do-date portage tree and packages within the next few weeks.
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To always avoid any phrase with (g/G)od in it is to promote atheism. I do feel that these lawsuits are tactics by atheists to promote atheism in an indirect way.
I agree with all your points, however, this case is not about removing all references to God(s), but about whether or not a law requiring students to acknowedge the existance of God is constitutional.
A law requiring students to recite "God does not exist." each day would be equally unconstitutional.
IANAL (or an expert in anything stated below).
First, this is what patents are for. Either the "neat solution" is:
1. Patented, in which case, you probably can't use it without licencing the patent, or
2. the "neat solution" is trade secret, in which case your probably fine unless
3. your employee has signed a contract which prevents them from divulging this information under these circumstances.
Something which wasn't mentioned is whether or not the employee worked for a competing company. They are likely to care a lot more about specific knowldge the employee took with him. If you're concerned, you probably want to run this past your companies legal representitives.
AFAIK, there is "Congressional Immunity". Consider the following situation: There is a bill in [house|senate] which will, if passed, fund a large public works project in Virginia. It looks like this bill will fail by only a small margin, one or two votes. After a fund-raising dinner the night before the vote, several [representitives|senators] opposing the bill are arrested, by local police in Virginia, on charges or drunk and disorderly conduct, solicitation, or similar charges. The congressmen are held for twelve hours while the vote takes place, then released due to a lack of evidence.
The U.S. has few problems of this type because there are checks such as congressional immunity. Sure, there are those who abuse the system, but that comes with any right or freedom.
I have used netflix for the last six months, and have been generally happy with the service. The only negative is that since my credit card expires this month, they won't send me any discs until my new new card arrives and I can enter the new card. This sucks because 1.) I get no movies and 2.) I'm still paying for the service.
Yes, although a lot of it can be trimmed down. You mentioned for example the need for a bootloader. The BIOS allows the bootloader to perform its task without specific knowledge of the hardware. For example, grub uses BIOS functions to do much of its work, such as dealing with disks. Without this, grub would need specific knowedge of various chipsets and interface protocols.
I have two splitters (~3dB for each 2-way split) between the cable entry and the cable modem, and have had no connectivity problems. Of course, I'm not out in the sticks, and I only signed up for the 256Kb service, so YMMV...
"Um, and you're saying that incandescents don't?"
The light output of a incandescent bulb is related to the temperature of the filiment. This temperature varies very little over a cycle, so the flicker is not perceptable.
Call me an E.E. geek, but I wonder if anyone knows the details behind the anti-flicker electronics the previous post mentioned?
From the patent:
"43. A process of transmitting a video signal over a communication link (17) in accordance with claim 42 including the step of superimposing each component of said composite video signal onto one said reference tone having a frequency of between -40Hz and 3600 Hz."
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but there is not such thing as a negative frequency. (the -40 and 3600Hz bit dosen't seem to be relative to another frequency) This should have been a dead giveaway that there needed to be some serious investigation into the patent.
Except that in most cases, the buyer is able to review the HOA agreement before the sale. Try opening the package to read the EULA (if printed) or installing the software on a demo computer (if not) before you buy.
Many places in the U.S. you can be fined for not shoveling your sidewalk, although it is rarely enforced.
It seems to me that the quickest way to defeat this sort of thing would be to 'F' a lot of sites which aren't (and don't appear) to be doing anything. Additionally, I wonder how hard it would be to fake the information? It seems like it would be pretty easy to fake a submission. If the capture included the sites domain name and IP, that could easily be spoofed by appropriate an appropriate hosts entry and ip-address change.
This type of system seems very vaunerable to false reports of every type.
"What the hell is Best Buy?"
Best Buy is an electronics chain store in the U.S.
"what would happen if an indestructible sandwich travelling at very high speed were to meet another indestructible sandwich travelling at the same speed ??"
Boing.
"No one bitches about KDE ( via konq) and Gnome (via nautilus) embedding web code into the file managers."
Since you have the right to modify the source, you could either remove Konqueror from KDE, optionally writting a replacement, or strip Konqueror of its unwanted functionality. Even if one of the OEM's found a way to do either of the above with IE, Microsoft would have likely revoked their licence for doing it.
Yeah, while 150MB implies quite a bit of boat, it's really no worse than other distributions. Since I have the RAM available, most of my programs are set to hoard as much as possible for cache. I could probably trim that 150MB of RAM down quite a bit. My guess is that Gentoo will run no worse than other distributions on 64MB of ram, possibly better if you do some research and tweak the optimizations for a K6.
If the source package will compile cleany with icc, I would think portage would automagically use it by setting CC=/path/to/icc.
Right now, running X, KDE, Mozilla, and a few other goodies, I'm using about 150MB of RAM, so the RAM requirements are not out of line with other distributions. Having extra RAM for file caching, though, is very benifitial when compiling. As far as the install, it took a evenings to get everything installed on a Celeron 533 w/640MB ram.
Gentoo and modems are a known problem. The portage system has the ability to build/use binary packages. At some future point, once the portage system itself becomes a little more mature, I wouldn't be surprised if binaries of common packages are offered.
"(and I'm sure gentoo's program doesnt support resuming)"
It can use wget, prozilla, or lukemftp out of the box, but you can use any downloader you want; just set FETCHCOMMAND appropriatly.
"And what's really funny is that just yesterday, Slashdot posts article: "Time Warner to Charge Extra for Over-Quota Bandwidth". Yeah, these go together real well.... Reeeeal well."
I doubt even the most compulsive upgrader will never approach the quota due to gentoo. The source packages that I've downloaded over the past three months take up 1.5G. At 500M per month, I doubt the quotas will be a problem. Modem use, however, is a problem.
One of the 13 available kernels is a 2.4.19pre? patched with XFS and other goodies. If you don't want bleeding edge, various other kernels are availible, including 2.4.4 and a couple of 2.2's for those who want more stable proved kernels.
It depends on the image, and what you care about. If you want lossless compression of non-photographic images (line-art, diagrams, many icons, etc.) PNG is the way to go. If you want lossy compression of photographic images, JPEG is probably the way to go. Use the wrong tool for the job and you will almost always get a larger file.
I don't think that it is the TV station's responsibity if someone else illegally retransmitts their signal, but that's not the real issue anyway. Local stations are not complaining that their signals are being illegally rebroadcast, but that other affiliate station's signals are availible in their coverage area.
Think of this: The Podunk Register carries stories from the various wire services. Disgusted by the low quality of the Podunk Register, many people in Podunk subscribe to news papers from larger near-by cities. These news papers also carry wire stories. The Podunk Register, seeing a loss in circulation and ad revinue, asserts that they should be the only paper allowed to provide wire stories to readers in the greater Podunk area. The Podunk Register and other small newspapers successfully lobby congress for a law granting them the right to bar other news-papers form their areas.
Very few T.V. stations mind if their signals are retransmitted outside their service area because more viewers == greater ad revinue. Its actually the reverse: T.V. station do not want the viewers in their coverage area to be able to receive outside stations, because some viewes may prefer the outside stations and stop watching the local station.
Very simply, I would like to see Microsoft follow established standards, and publish full, open specifications for the products which can't or don't follow established standards. Microsoft can certainly publish whatever software they want, but in the interest of their customers, painless interoperability would be nice.
You need a decent connection to install Gentoo, because that is when you will do most of your downloading. It is doable to maintain a Gentoo system over a modem line because you should only need to do a long download when a package like kde or gnome bumps up in revision.
There is talk on the webpage and on irc about selling cd's with the up-do-date portage tree and packages within the next few weeks.