Comparing Apples to Porches wasn't an argument, it was speculation. The number of clones sold vs. Macs sold when the license was available might be the basis of an argument.
I turned down a job offer 2 months ago because the contract had a very broad non-compete clause which said I wouldn't be allowed to work within 12 months of leaving for anyone in any industry in which the company had a business interest. The company? AOL Time Warner.
I also had a problem with the proprietary rights clause which meant that everything I did on company property or with company resources would be copyright AOL. Sexy emails to my wife, scribbles on a notepad.. anything subject to copyright wouldn't belong to me. Why do people accept this? Isn't it enough to say that any work I do within the scope of my job responsibilities belongs to them and leave the rest to me?
this isn't the way to hurt NPR. your pledges go to member stations, who have little to do with (and often oppose) the position NPR took on low power FM.
Redistribution of wealth by the government for the benefit of the public is not a major issue facing the United States; one of our greatest problems is redistribution of wealth by the government for <a href="http://votenader.org/issues/corp_welfare.ht<nobr>m<wbr></wbr></nobr> l">private profit</a>.
So the question becomes, what can we do to help maintain and improve our position in a world which is increasingly hostile towards us?
Perhaps instead of trying to improve our position (is it really in danger?) we could try to address some reasons why the rest of the world is increasingly hostile towards the US. In The Political Economy of Terrorism, Kendall Clark's response to the perceived threat of terrorism and the recent National Commission on Terrorism report, Clark writes:
"In fact, the solution to terrorism is elegantly simple, though certainly practically impossible to implement without sustained and intense social struggle. The only realistic way to reduce the terrorist threat is to remake American foreign policy according to just and humane principles. Terrorism against the U.S. -- which is already exceptionally unusual -- would be all but imperceptible if American foreign policy were just and humane. But there's the rub: foreign policy cannot be either just or humane as long as U.S. corporations and elites, through their agents in government, will do anything to maintain the U.S. Empire. In other words, if you want to reduce terrorism globally, dismantle the American Empire. The burden of Empire is terrorism. For as long as U.S. corporations and elites fight to maintain their global Empire, there will be people around the world -- largely, if history is any guide, though not exclusively, people of color -- who object, often violently, to being made to pay the price and bear the burdens of that Empire."
Since they sent a certified letter, it sounds like they were just trying to cover their ass. They probably don't care one way or another whether some spammer abuses your box as long as they aren't held responsible.
Look at the 40s and 50s. They had rooms full of *typists* for pete's sake. People whose only job was to type up what people wanted to communicate. Those jobs are now all gone, replaced with jobs that *must* be more productive. And the modern economy sucked in all the cheap labor from welfare reform *without* having those people sit in a room typing.
those typists didn't just type, they knew how to compose business & personal letters, invoices and reports. corporations have the same people today, only instead of a typewriter, they're expected to be proficient in the use of the microsoft office suite -- as well as typing things for people, they compose spreadsheets, charts & graphs, and presentations. it's basically the same thing.
Perhaps rather than writing angry letters to Fuji TV and threatening a boycott, (as one slashdot reader suggested,) we should instead take a cue from apogee and offer them a ride on the cluetrain, so to speak. Apogee has developed a license agreement laying out strict rules under which fan sites can use Apogee trademarks -- perhaps the reader remembers when this came up on slashdot a few days ago. While the Apogee license in its current form is admittedly problematic, the concept seems pretty groundbreaking. Fuji TV doesn't need to issue half a dozen cease and desist letters to protect its rights, it can simply issue terms under which fan sites may or may not use Fuji TV property... hopefully the terms will tend toward allowing fan sites the freedom to celebrate their object of admiration, while protecting the rights of the trademark owners to conrol how those marks are used.
This situation reminds me of the best observation I heard about the whole Napster/Offspring situation -- if Napster were really cool, like Offspring had hoped, they would have sent Offspring a licensing agreement rather than a cease and desist as well.
no need to yank the power cord.. you can open that thing while it's running. or start it up while it's open to see if your new hardware is recognized etc. pretty wonderful.
The preference should be clearly displayed in the comment header, so that scavenging journalists who repurpose/. content for other publications will know upfront whether they are allowed to quote each comment, and whether they are required to provide attribution if they choose to do so, etc.
whoever marked this comment 'funny' is remarkably naive. i suppose journalism is objective, capitalism is a system of free markets, and the united states is a free country too.
as far as i understand, when something is declared beta, that just means no new features are being added and that development efforts are focused on fixing bugs. is it really inconceivable that mozilla can reach this point 25 days from now? and what does that have to do with stability? final candidates ought to be stable, not betas.
Shortly I found a 'secret' document which detailed what you had to do in order to get each star, and tediously repeated the tasks until I had all the stars. (Or all but one...I think the document was from HSC and didn't detail the last star, but just hinted.)
Isn't it okay if they just document the fact that the symbol/logo is trademarked by so-and-so corporation/individual?
in a situation like this there is no unobtrusive yet prominent place to put a notice like that (it would need to be visible at all times that the apple was, not just tucked away in a readme somewhere), and without such a notice the theme gives the impression that it was endorsed, or worse designed by apple.
intellectual property, like most other kinds of property, feels unnatural to me, but it's hard to argue that apple doesn't have a reasonably legitimate interest here.
this is exactly the situation i've found.. big companies are remarkably inefficient. and it is pretty frustrating to spend most of your day trying to strike a balance between looking busy and just surfing or chatting or whatever. especially when you don't know whose ass is on the line, you, your 'project manager,' your agency, etc.
As near as I can tell, DOS attacks happen *all the time*, literally. Most of them are the work of 14 year old script kiddies who haven't yet figured out how to masturbate. So far there have been two, count em, which have been of any interest at all, IMO: this one, (not because Yahoo! is such a Net institution) and that etoy/Etoys situation. The etoy-inspired DOS on Etoys was interesting because it was sophisticated and inclusive, allowing for grassroots participation. This one is interesting because somehow (I'm assuming this is the first time, pls correct me if I'm wrong) the FBI has taken an interest. I wonder why? My take is that the DOS woke them up to the fact that the Big Boys on the Net, the corporate interests who send their kids to private school and put boats in their driveways, are as vulnerable as any other site -- and thus the Net-fueled economy which must be protected at all costs is vulnerable too. "They" being the Man, of course... you know what I mean.
Considering that the hero of the open source movement Eric Raymond has an essay on his Web site exemplifying the threatened white male mentality, I'm certainly not surprised to see it in evidence on slashdot.
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Comparing Apples to Porches wasn't an argument, it was speculation. The number of clones sold vs. Macs sold when the license was available might be the basis of an argument.
It's just a 1x1 gif from the Xtreme tracker service.
Boo!
They know which nationalities courier what drugs.
The color of someone's skin or sound of their accent must never constitute probable cause.
I turned down a job offer 2 months ago because the contract had a very broad non-compete clause which said I wouldn't be allowed to work within 12 months of leaving for anyone in any industry in which the company had a business interest. The company? AOL Time Warner.
I also had a problem with the proprietary rights clause which meant that everything I did on company property or with company resources would be copyright AOL. Sexy emails to my wife, scribbles on a notepad.. anything subject to copyright wouldn't belong to me. Why do people accept this? Isn't it enough to say that any work I do within the scope of my job responsibilities belongs to them and leave the rest to me?
this isn't the way to hurt NPR. your pledges go to member stations, who have little to do with (and often oppose) the position NPR took on low power FM.
what a disgusting misogynistic comment. you ought to be ashamed.
Redistribution of wealth by the government for the benefit of the public is not a major issue facing the United States; one of our greatest problems is redistribution of wealth by the government for <a href="http://votenader.org/issues/corp_welfare.ht<nobr>m<wbr></wbr></nobr> l">private profit</a>.
when did Mac IE 5.5 come out?
hah hah hahahahahahaahahahaahahahahaha hahahahahahah aha hahahaha hah ah ah. ah ahaah. hah heh. ahem.
So the question becomes, what can we do to help maintain and improve our position in a world which is increasingly hostile towards us?
Perhaps instead of trying to improve our position (is it really in danger?) we could try to address some reasons why the rest of the world is increasingly hostile towards the US. In The Political Economy of Terrorism, Kendall Clark's response to the perceived threat of terrorism and the recent National Commission on Terrorism report, Clark writes:
"In fact, the solution to terrorism is elegantly simple, though certainly practically impossible to implement without sustained and intense social struggle. The only realistic way to reduce the terrorist threat is to remake American foreign policy according to just and humane principles. Terrorism against the U.S. -- which is already exceptionally unusual -- would be all but imperceptible if American foreign policy were just and humane. But there's the rub: foreign policy cannot be either just or humane as long as U.S. corporations and elites, through their agents in government, will do anything to maintain the U.S. Empire. In other words, if you want to reduce terrorism globally, dismantle the American Empire. The burden of Empire is terrorism. For as long as U.S. corporations and elites fight to maintain their global Empire, there will be people around the world -- largely, if history is any guide, though not exclusively, people of color -- who object, often violently, to being made to pay the price and bear the burdens of that Empire."
Since they sent a certified letter, it sounds like they were just trying to cover their ass. They probably don't care one way or another whether some spammer abuses your box as long as they aren't held responsible.
Look at the 40s and 50s. They had rooms full of *typists* for pete's sake. People whose only job was to type up what people wanted to communicate. Those jobs are now all gone, replaced with jobs that *must* be more productive. And the modern economy sucked in all the cheap labor from welfare reform *without* having those people sit in a room typing.
those typists didn't just type, they knew how to compose business & personal letters, invoices and reports. corporations have the same people today, only instead of a typewriter, they're expected to be proficient in the use of the microsoft office suite -- as well as typing things for people, they compose spreadsheets, charts & graphs, and presentations. it's basically the same thing.
Perhaps rather than writing angry letters to Fuji TV and threatening a boycott, (as one slashdot reader suggested,) we should instead take a cue from apogee and offer them a ride on the cluetrain, so to speak. Apogee has developed a license agreement laying out strict rules under which fan sites can use Apogee trademarks -- perhaps the reader remembers when this came up on slashdot a few days ago. While the Apogee license in its current form is admittedly problematic, the concept seems pretty groundbreaking. Fuji TV doesn't need to issue half a dozen cease and desist letters to protect its rights, it can simply issue terms under which fan sites may or may not use Fuji TV property... hopefully the terms will tend toward allowing fan sites the freedom to celebrate their object of admiration, while protecting the rights of the trademark owners to conrol how those marks are used.
This situation reminds me of the best observation I heard about the whole Napster/Offspring situation -- if Napster were really cool, like Offspring had hoped, they would have sent Offspring a licensing agreement rather than a cease and desist as well.
that's an absurd estimte... the difference can't be more than $800 or so.
no need to yank the power cord.. you can open that thing while it's running. or start it up while it's open to see if your new hardware is recognized etc. pretty wonderful.
The preference should be clearly displayed in the comment header, so that scavenging journalists who repurpose /. content for other publications will know upfront whether they are allowed to quote each comment, and whether they are required to provide attribution if they choose to do so, etc.
whoever marked this comment 'funny' is remarkably naive. i suppose journalism is objective, capitalism is a system of free markets, and the united states is a free country too.
as far as i understand, when something is declared beta, that just means no new features are being added and that development efforts are focused on fixing bugs. is it really inconceivable that mozilla can reach this point 25 days from now? and what does that have to do with stability? final candidates ought to be stable, not betas.
Shortly I found a 'secret' document which detailed what you had to do in order to get each star, and tediously repeated the tasks until I had all the stars. (Or all but one...I think the document was from HSC and didn't detail the last star, but just hinted.)
I still don't have that damned last star...
in a situation like this there is no unobtrusive yet prominent place to put a notice like that (it would need to be visible at all times that the apple was, not just tucked away in a readme somewhere), and without such a notice the theme gives the impression that it was endorsed, or worse designed by apple.
intellectual property, like most other kinds of property, feels unnatural to me, but it's hard to argue that apple doesn't have a reasonably legitimate interest here.
this is exactly the situation i've found.. big companies are remarkably inefficient. and it is pretty frustrating to spend most of your day trying to strike a balance between looking busy and just surfing or chatting or whatever. especially when you don't know whose ass is on the line, you, your 'project manager,' your agency, etc.
As near as I can tell, DOS attacks happen *all the time*, literally. Most of them are the work of 14 year old script kiddies who haven't yet figured out how to masturbate. So far there have been two, count em, which have been of any interest at all, IMO: this one, (not because Yahoo! is such a Net institution) and that etoy/Etoys situation. The etoy-inspired DOS on Etoys was interesting because it was sophisticated and inclusive, allowing for grassroots participation. This one is interesting because somehow (I'm assuming this is the first time, pls correct me if I'm wrong) the FBI has taken an interest. I wonder why? My take is that the DOS woke them up to the fact that the Big Boys on the Net, the corporate interests who send their kids to private school and put boats in their driveways, are as vulnerable as any other site -- and thus the Net-fueled economy which must be protected at all costs is vulnerable too. "They" being the Man, of course... you know what I mean.
.02 or so. I could be wrong.
That's just
Considering that the hero of the open source movement Eric Raymond has an essay on his Web site exemplifying the threatened white male mentality, I'm certainly not surprised to see it in evidence on slashdot.