"Quality" as ambiguous. What I consider "quality" is different from what you consider "quality".
It's not just three, either; it is ALL of the non-functional requirements. At most two of them can be fully optimized in any engineererd system. In practice, the design of a system will be governed by the relative priorities of the non-functional requirements.
The set of non-functional requirements is very large, but you should recognize some of these:
Cost
Schedule
Documentation
Internationalization/Localization
Fault Tolerance
Maintainability
Scalability
Expandability
Extensibility
Durability
Availability
Manageability
Recoverability
Mental exercise: Choose any two from the above list, then explore how choosing any other item from the list would require a compromise to either of the first two chosen.
It makes me wonder why we as the most advanced and technologically superior country, have failed to capture Osama bin Laden yet yet continues to direct operations against us 4 years later and US$350 billion spent and counting.
Because he knows enough to not use a cell phone!
What happens to logical reasoning when one gets to the White House?
Since when did logical reasoning have anything to do with the White House?
Although my Linux host would often recognize the camera and load its drivers first, so I would have to force the driver to unload. Then the windows visitor could use the webcam just fine!
question for the supreme court: do you really believe the the copyright of the bay city rollers first album is more deserving of legal protection than a human life?
Perhaps the Court believes that the RIGHT to control the distribution of one's own artistic works is as deserving of protection as the RIGHT to bear arms.
The President has no role in amending the Constitution. Neither do the courts. Congress may play a role if it chooses by proposing amendments. Only the states may change the Constitution.
One of those statements in the list (A system tends to oppose it's own purpose) seems to be a re-wording of Le Chatelier's Principle, who died in the 1930's. Who violated who's copyright?
Rewording does not violate a copyright.
Bach and Mozart produced far more music and worked far harder then the Beatles ever did, for basically nothing by todays standards.Yes, but compared against the standards of 2,000 years ago, they lived much more comfortably. Are you saying we should base contemporary laws on arbitrary standards of the past?
Sure, since we are talking about arbitrary periods of the past (try 200-300 years) and examples of the extremes (Bach had an incredible sponsor; Mozart died very young and very poor).
For that matter, care to explain how copyright affected Bach and Mozart? I believe they got no benefit from it at all, and society has benefited tremendously as a result. In fact, had copyright been in place in Bach's time I suspect he would have produced far far less than he did. Mozart didn't live long enough to garner any real benefit.
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15%, huh? Seems plausible to me, but would you mind citing your source?
Looking over the excerpts provided above, I see no clause indicating that posting/submitting your own copyrighted content gives AOL any ability whatsoever to use your material. The clause provided indicates only that you will not violate anybody else's copyright.
Did I miss something here? Should I have seen the full TOS?
True, although said offending U.S. citizen would have to be careful not to travel to U.K. jurisdiction for the rest of his or her life. Like how the DeBeers execs do not dare step on U.S. soil because of their racketeering convictions.
This is about a corporation, not an individual. This is particularly unnerving for multi-national corporations who do have a presence in multiple countries. Just ask Yahoo about French senstivities! What one branch of a corporation does in one country could have serious consequences in another national jurisdiction. This is most pertinent to journalism since the reporting of opinions and facts are certain to offend someone somewhere.
On the up side, this may help clean up some of the dirty and sloppy reporting behaviors we have seen lately. On the down side, it may result in corporations enforcing censorship far stricter than the law would -- even could -- allow. That's how to subvert freedom of the press: fear.
I made just such a CD for myself nearly 3 years ago so that I could have cygwin (particularly SSH), emacs, CVS, Java, and Mozilla with me wherever I happened to be, such as in the classroom. The fun part was getting the autorun feature to properly set up the paths. I also made use of the TMP variable as the directory where I could write to the local disk when needed. I suppose what I really should do is establish a RAM disk.
I have recently even been considering migrating to a DVD so I can install the full cygwin installation along with Firefox and plugins; music and video players and rippers; some USB device drivers for my camera, MP3 players, voice recorder, and smart media scanner; and if I can figure it out also the synchronization software for my phone and PDA so I am not tied to a single machine!
I suppose you could add games, too., as if I had time for such things. Hm... the CD emulator with the CD images... I could perhaps include a few of my favorite classics!
A populist movement of the scope you describe would almost certainly result in a populist-dominated government seizing control of the corporations. Welcome to Socialism.
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"Quality" as ambiguous. What I consider "quality" is different from what you consider "quality".
It's not just three, either; it is ALL of the non-functional requirements. At most two of them can be fully optimized in any engineererd system. In practice, the design of a system will be governed by the relative priorities of the non-functional requirements.
The set of non-functional requirements is very large, but you should recognize some of these:
Mental exercise: Choose any two from the above list, then explore how choosing any other item from the list would require a compromise to either of the first two chosen.
So, what "ability"s do you want to have today? ;)
So two wrongs really DO make a right!
Because he knows enough to not use a cell phone!
What happens to logical reasoning when one gets to the White House?
Since when did logical reasoning have anything to do with the White House?
Although my Linux host would often recognize the camera and load its drivers first, so I would have to force the driver to unload. Then the windows visitor could use the webcam just fine!
Perhaps the Court believes that the RIGHT to control the distribution of one's own artistic works is as deserving of protection as the RIGHT to bear arms.
The President has no role in amending the Constitution. Neither do the courts. Congress may play a role if it chooses by proposing amendments. Only the states may change the Constitution.
One of those statements in the list (A system tends to oppose it's own purpose) seems to be a re-wording of Le Chatelier's Principle, who died in the 1930's. Who violated who's copyright? Rewording does not violate a copyright.
Sure, since we are talking about arbitrary periods of the past (try 200-300 years) and examples of the extremes (Bach had an incredible sponsor; Mozart died very young and very poor).
For that matter, care to explain how copyright affected Bach and Mozart? I believe they got no benefit from it at all, and society has benefited tremendously as a result. In fact, had copyright been in place in Bach's time I suspect he would have produced far far less than he did. Mozart didn't live long enough to garner any real benefit.
15%, huh? Seems plausible to me, but would you mind citing your source?
I better post this now since there will probably never be another opportunity to post this and still be ON TOPIC!
My Master's thesis compared Simplex Method algorithms. I can almost remember the many nights I fell asleep (quickly) reading the research material.
Just give me an operating system that won't crash.
Did I miss something here? Should I have seen the full TOS?
This is about a corporation, not an individual. This is particularly unnerving for multi-national corporations who do have a presence in multiple countries. Just ask Yahoo about French senstivities! What one branch of a corporation does in one country could have serious consequences in another national jurisdiction. This is most pertinent to journalism since the reporting of opinions and facts are certain to offend someone somewhere.
On the up side, this may help clean up some of the dirty and sloppy reporting behaviors we have seen lately. On the down side, it may result in corporations enforcing censorship far stricter than the law would -- even could -- allow. That's how to subvert freedom of the press: fear.
Sun could use the help!
I made just such a CD for myself nearly 3 years ago so that I could have cygwin (particularly SSH), emacs, CVS, Java, and Mozilla with me wherever I happened to be, such as in the classroom. The fun part was getting the autorun feature to properly set up the paths. I also made use of the TMP variable as the directory where I could write to the local disk when needed. I suppose what I really should do is establish a RAM disk.
I have recently even been considering migrating to a DVD so I can install the full cygwin installation along with Firefox and plugins; music and video players and rippers; some USB device drivers for my camera, MP3 players, voice recorder, and smart media scanner; and if I can figure it out also the synchronization software for my phone and PDA so I am not tied to a single machine!
I suppose you could add games, too., as if I had time for such things. Hm... the CD emulator with the CD images... I could perhaps include a few of my favorite classics!
You do realize you are reinforcing the analogy, don't you?
Arg! Because of one little "l" at the end! Sheesh, even copy and paste isn't safe anymore!
Let's try it again, shall we?
How many politicians do you know that are really in office for the income??
But isn't glass a liquid, too?
I do a bit of web site design and hosting on the side, more than enough to keep me too close to the computer on my off hours.
To get away from that, I also make a bit doing, speaking, or teaching hypnosis. No worries about outsourcing there!
What does a machine have to be able to do before it can be called a computer?
Compute!
Or perhaps the People might learn how thin is their illusion of privacy.
Or perhaps -- just perhaps -- someone is afraid it would actually succeed! I wonder... who might that be?
Perhaps.
A populist movement of the scope you describe would almost certainly result in a populist-dominated government seizing control of the corporations. Welcome to Socialism.
Is that what you want?
Oh? What about law? Precedents? Politics? Personal beliefs?
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