You can't have it both ways. You either hate software patents in all cases or you don't, no matter who the defendant is.
Actually, I can! As long as we have software patents, I would love to see SCO get hammered with them, but I think we need to really look back and see WTF we're doing with them, and revamp the system.
In short: "I want to change the system, but I want as much good to come out of the flawed system that we have now."
I might suggest if your looking for american geekness that you might try out the Air and Space Museum in McMinville OR
For your planning of your trip, I recommend that you see the Northwest between the months of July and September inclusive. You'll stay much dryer that way.
While you're out west, and as long as you're backpacking, I would recommend seeing some of the natural beauty of this area too. The 3 sisters wilderness is one of my favorites, but Mt. Hood is fun and close to Portland. Mt. St. Helens is a fun place if you have any interest in volcanos, great visitors center. Then head up and visit the Olympic State Park in WA, and Mt. Rainier before hitting Seattle.
Now, I try to avoid using either label to describe my own political leanings
That's why I call myself a 'radical reactionary.' Call yourself that to someone with any Poly Sci background, and watch their reaction...
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Apple has some remote display stuff too, but I've never used it.
Apple Remote Desktop is nice, but it is a Mac-only product. You need a Mac to administer it, and the client only runs on Macs. It has features that VNC doesn't have (like dragging a package to a computer and having it install automagically). We just got it where I work, and we use it to administer our xServe, and will start using it on all our production Macs.
waste of anything except the time you're going to waste trying to make a DVD solution workable.
Unless you already have a CD/DVD disk changer, and would like to hook it up occasionally to rip cds to the RAID HDs. Yes, this isn't what the poster mentioned, but it's an application.
I have no problem with someone talking about the difference and using the proper terms, but the "jump over everyone who says 'theft' or 'stealing' in IP issues" we see here on/. is a bit old. It's a web-based board, cut some slack if someone doesn't want to be anal.
Food doesn't. Six billion people eat a lot. We can make wonderful efficient use of urban space.
Okay, put everyone in one huge city the size of, say, all of Europe. Now, we have N. and S. America, Asia, Africa, and Australia to grow food in. If we also get hyrdoponics up, we'd have food closer in too. You'd have a few smaller cities to house the farmers, etc on the other contentents - and it also insures the survival of the race if something happens to an entire continent.
Yes, but this bill makes it illegal to share *your* chocolate bar.
While the headline may say so, my quick reading of the bill doesn't point that way. It's just saying "If you violate copyright, you're in trouble, but if you violate copyright by putting it online, then you're in double trouble!"
If you have a music (or other copyrighted work) file, and you didn't buy it, technically you stole it.
No, technically you violated the copyright which is distinct from stealing as far as the law is concerned.
If you really want to get technical about the current US law, then yes, the current US law does not call it stealing. However, theft also has a broader, non-legally-technical, useage. The following is a snippet of Roman law:
6. It is theft, not only when anyone takes away a thing belonging to another, in order to appropriate it, but generally when anyone deals with the property of another contrary to the wishes of its owner. (Gai. iii. 195; D. xlvii. 2. 54. pr.; The Institutes of Justinian, pg. 403.)
And the Oxford English Dictionary gives the following:
To take or appropriate dishonestly (anything belonging to another, whether material or immaterial).
So, why cant we just admit that none of us are lawers in a courtroom, just people posting on a web site, and let normal useage of words go?
As much as we might hate AOL for littering the physical world with their signup CDs
Actually, my wife an I use all of those AOL CDs for coasters. Put them in the microwave for a second or two and they get a cool cracked effect - she's eventually going to paint them, and maybe even mount them.
And, no, we didn't learn this from Martha Stewart.
popup-blocking is no longer a killer feature, IMHO.
Almost every person I've shown tabed browsing too has moved to Mozilla/Firebird/Something other than IE that allows tabs. Besides, if you're going to download a popup blocker, then you're already downloading something, and you might as well download a browser that does more and does it better.
Most probable scenario: Since SCO refuses to disclose the alleged infringing code, a jude would most likely rule the code in question has no monetary value, so SCO doesn't get any royalties, but it still has to be removed by a set date.
Um... if SCO refuses to disclose the code, and the judge then orders it to be removed, then how can anyone remove it without first being told what code to remove?
By "true anglo-saxon," I presume you mean Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England prior to the Norman conquest of 1066.
Even then the language had a lot of contact with the 'native' Celtic, and had gotten a lot of words from there. I was talking about what the Anglo-Saxon prior to the migration to England (which actually would probably be two very similar dialects of the same language)
I fail to comprehend the contents of brief, non-recondite Anglo-saxon articles
I don't understand any Anglo-saxon. I do know english, however. I also am learning other dead languages, but not Anglo-saxon. Do we even have anything written in true Anglo-saxon?
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But the whole point with this question type is that the answer you get depend very much on what assumptions you make.
This would actually be a very interesting question to bring up in a classroom environment, then. You could see what the different students think is the right answer, then have them justify it, and bring up a good discussion on assumptions, reasoning, etc.
Unfortunately, it would require thinking, and the educational system doesn't like having kids think, just repeat things memorized for the test.
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As for the contest(sic) you mentioned, I'm not aware of any such contests.
Really, it's quite famous. Check out the results for the last several at The Perl Journal.
Easy. CHeck SCO source for code.
Yes, but that wouldn't prove that SCO didn't take it from Linux and then put it into their codebase. They can change their internal dates, etc.
My family has a copy of the manifest of the ship that brought one of my ancestors over to America. They had more beer than water.
You can't have it both ways. You either hate software patents in all cases or you don't, no matter who the defendant is.
Actually, I can! As long as we have software patents, I would love to see SCO get hammered with them, but I think we need to really look back and see WTF we're doing with them, and revamp the system.
In short: "I want to change the system, but I want as much good to come out of the flawed system that we have now."
No, no! It rains from October to JUNE! Not MAY!
Sigh... everyone knows it rains from October to July 5th. (It has to sprinkle on the fireworks)
I might suggest if your looking for american geekness that you might try out the Air and Space Museum in McMinville OR
For your planning of your trip, I recommend that you see the Northwest between the months of July and September inclusive. You'll stay much dryer that way.
While you're out west, and as long as you're backpacking, I would recommend seeing some of the natural beauty of this area too. The 3 sisters wilderness is one of my favorites, but Mt. Hood is fun and close to Portland. Mt. St. Helens is a fun place if you have any interest in volcanos, great visitors center. Then head up and visit the Olympic State Park in WA, and Mt. Rainier before hitting Seattle.
Lots more this way!
Oh, wait. We don't have any professional sports in this state (Well, we have the Blazers, but they hardly count).
Yes, most of the Blazers player's have seemed very non-professional this last year.
I heard that Portland is in the running to get the Expos, however.
Caffeine free..... You mean free as in beer?
No, this is slashdot, so it's free as in speach.
Now, I try to avoid using either label to describe my own political leanings
That's why I call myself a 'radical reactionary.' Call yourself that to someone with any Poly Sci background, and watch their reaction...
Apple has some remote display stuff too, but I've never used it.
Apple Remote Desktop is nice, but it is a Mac-only product. You need a Mac to administer it, and the client only runs on Macs. It has features that VNC doesn't have (like dragging a package to a computer and having it install automagically). We just got it where I work, and we use it to administer our xServe, and will start using it on all our production Macs.
If you come pick it up, I'd just about give you ours.
Where would that be? I'd pick it up in no time!
waste of anything except the time you're going to waste trying to make a DVD solution workable.
Unless you already have a CD/DVD disk changer, and would like to hook it up occasionally to rip cds to the RAID HDs. Yes, this isn't what the poster mentioned, but it's an application.
I have no problem with someone talking about the difference and using the proper terms, but the "jump over everyone who says 'theft' or 'stealing' in IP issues" we see here on /. is a bit old. It's a web-based board, cut some slack if someone doesn't want to be anal.
Food doesn't. Six billion people eat a lot. We can make wonderful efficient use of urban space.
Okay, put everyone in one huge city the size of, say, all of Europe. Now, we have N. and S. America, Asia, Africa, and Australia to grow food in. If we also get hyrdoponics up, we'd have food closer in too. You'd have a few smaller cities to house the farmers, etc on the other contentents - and it also insures the survival of the race if something happens to an entire continent.
Yes, but this bill makes it illegal to share *your* chocolate bar.
While the headline may say so, my quick reading of the bill doesn't point that way. It's just saying "If you violate copyright, you're in trouble, but if you violate copyright by putting it online, then you're in double trouble!"
No, technically you violated the copyright which is distinct from stealing as far as the law is concerned.
If you really want to get technical about the current US law, then yes, the current US law does not call it stealing. However, theft also has a broader, non-legally-technical, useage. The following is a snippet of Roman law:
And the Oxford English Dictionary gives the following:
So, why cant we just admit that none of us are lawers in a courtroom, just people posting on a web site, and let normal useage of words go?
I'm sorry, but until the GIMP gets good CMYK suppport with at least ICC profiles and CMYK conversion tables, it won't be a contender for prepress.
It won't be a contender for prepress in, for example, a magazine. It will be a contender for prepress in a newsletter. IMHO
As much as we might hate AOL for littering the physical world with their signup CDs
Actually, my wife an I use all of those AOL CDs for coasters. Put them in the microwave for a second or two and they get a cool cracked effect - she's eventually going to paint them, and maybe even mount them.
And, no, we didn't learn this from Martha Stewart.
If I could find one radio station that didn't have a playlist that I could figure out, entirely, after listening for three hours, I could die happy.
Find a local Jazz or Classical station. I don't think you could determine their playlist out in 3 hours, as they always play lots of different pieces.
popup-blocking is no longer a killer feature, IMHO.
Almost every person I've shown tabed browsing too has moved to Mozilla/Firebird/Something other than IE that allows tabs. Besides, if you're going to download a popup blocker, then you're already downloading something, and you might as well download a browser that does more and does it better.
Most probable scenario:
Since SCO refuses to disclose the alleged infringing code, a jude would most likely rule the code in question has no monetary value, so SCO doesn't get any royalties, but it still has to be removed by a set date.
Um... if SCO refuses to disclose the code, and the judge then orders it to be removed, then how can anyone remove it without first being told what code to remove?
By "true anglo-saxon," I presume you mean Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England prior to the Norman conquest of 1066.
Even then the language had a lot of contact with the 'native' Celtic, and had gotten a lot of words from there. I was talking about what the Anglo-Saxon prior to the migration to England (which actually would probably be two very similar dialects of the same language)
I fail to comprehend the contents of brief, non-recondite Anglo-saxon articles
I don't understand any Anglo-saxon. I do know english, however. I also am learning other dead languages, but not Anglo-saxon. Do we even have anything written in true Anglo-saxon?
But the whole point with this question type is that the answer you get depend very much on what assumptions you make.
This would actually be a very interesting question to bring up in a classroom environment, then. You could see what the different students think is the right answer, then have them justify it, and bring up a good discussion on assumptions, reasoning, etc.
Unfortunately, it would require thinking, and the educational system doesn't like having kids think, just repeat things memorized for the test.