Ebay has a group of people set aside to review auctions for legality. They have the power to pull any auction that they deem is illegal or immoral in some way.
I read an article about out it a while back, for I can't for the life of me remember where.. possible wired.
The "team" is only a couple of people. They do most of their work based off of tips given by people viewing auctions. They'll get an e-mail that say something like "This auction is illegal", and they review that auction.
I'm guessing Yahoo dosen't yet have a group like this, or possibly they just haven't been doing a very good job.
Mattel could change the code slightly and release it closed-source.
Besides the obvious fact that Mattel would have no real reason to want to do this, dosen't the GPL prevent just this type of thing from happening? All derivitive works also fall under the GPL. I think you're confusing it with the Artistic License (I believe), or several other licenses out there.
They weren't trying to "trick" anyone. You can go to Radioshack and buy a cellphone for a penny. You could probably do something rather creative with that cellphone if it wasn't for the contract you had to sign to use their service.
The only difference here was that they didn't make people sign the contract. They didn't think that someone would come up with a way to use the machine without them.
When I was growing up, my family had no medical insurance for quite some time. Eventually my mother recieved a promotion to supervisor at her job, and medical insurance was one of the perks she started recieving.
Not even a month after the medical insurance started, my sister was brought into the hospital for some tests. Turns out she had Lukemia.
2 years later she was finally done with the chemo, but still had to do regular (monthly) tests with her doctor.
Grand total of all of this... Most likely several hundred thousand dollars. We paid probably a couple thousand at the most.
You're right, medical insurance really is a gamble on if you're going to need it, but the money you're gambling with is nothing compared to what you could have to pay.
I'm not quite certain how to do it in a chat script, but if you're using X, there are several utilities you can download that will do this for you. Just go to freshmeat, and search for PPP. Otherwise, if you have KDE, KPPP is pretty good.
In his defense, it sounds like each collectors edition contains a signed copy, which means one signature for each copy sold... Which means signing their names more than once.
You're using a specific example of something that is very graphically enhanced. Do you think Bob's Couch-o-Rama cares that if the commercial was a lower quality when you learned that Loveseats were half off?
Not all commercials have fine details that will be missed by a lower quality signal. I got the gist of the Mountain Dew commercial with the Cheetah when I saw an online version of it.
You also have to realise that people who are watching things online like this are going to realise that the quality would be sub-par, and would not hold it against the advertisor.
If they did, I'm sure advertisers would have found a way to block anybody with bad reception on their television by now.
Online eyeballs aren't worth as much as television eyeballs and online pulls people away from television."
This assumes that the people who are watching online would have watched on TV otherwise. This clearly would not be the case if the person watching is outside the broadcasting range of the television station, and not even definite if the person is within range. Not everyone has a television by their computer, and if they're at the computer watching television, chances are there is something that they're working on that requires them to be on the PC.
I think they they have reasons to want to restrict this, but it's not due to the advertisers losing eyeballs.
MSDN is the Microsoft Developer Network. A linux comparison wouldn't really go to newbies who can't connect their box to the next. It would go more to developers. possibly CDs full of the newest IDEs or programming tools.
I think you're referring to Redhat's Xconfigurator.. I've only used XF86setup once, but I remember it already being in X, compared to Xconfigurator, which was a python script.
There was a chart with the results of a third-party stress test, which showed that the average uptime for Windows 95 was 2.5 days, NT 4 was 5.4 days, and Windows 2000 was 90 days (and counting...the test machine was still running)
You mean all the windows 2000 servers were still running, don't you? I'm assuming they're not finding the "average uptime" by counting how long one machine stays up...
This sunday I was at work. I don't mean this in the normal I went to work on sunday. I mean this in the Saturday night I went to work, and Monday morning I went home sense.
It seems like this is all I do anymore. Not that I mind of course. I love this stuff. Although I do get a hard time from my boss at times becomes I come in late. I generally work from 3pm or so (sometimes earlier) until 2 or 3 in the morning.
When I'm at home, I'm usually working on stuff from home. I'm oncall 24 hours a day. I'd have to say that I work 60-70 hours a week. At least. And that's just the time I'm physcially in the office.
The thing you have to realise is I don't do this for the money. I'm on salary. I do it because I want to. I get to deal with things I would never otherwise deal with. I'm constantly learning new things.
I guess you missed that part. DeCSS decrypts the movie (obviously), which can allow you to save it on a local file, and distribute it to anyone you'd like. That's the whole basis for the DeCSS trial. No one cares that it was created so people who own DVD Movies can watch it on their computer. They care that it could be used to help pirate movies.
Actually, CDR is a perfect point to make. Phillips/Magnavox ADVERTISES their CD Burners as being for making mix cds. Now maybe they mean for people to keep the copies themselves, but you know that they will then be distributed to their friends.
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That's actually functionality of the window manager, not Gnome. Were you running Gnome with WindowMaker, Enlightenment, or something completely different?
If you're using Enlightenment (Default for most systems using gnome), It can be set that way, but only using the ENLIGHTENMENT configuration tool, not the gnome one.
I noticed that as well, but I figured they might have taken some of the enlightenment code or design when they created it.
If it's a desktop though, I might have to give it a try. I don't really like Gnome or KDE very much. I'll probably just stick with enlightenment alone, but I'll at least give this a shot.
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HA! I'm the king of nutty boston driving. I shall race you down mass ave. Just give me a place and a time!
Uhm.
Yeah.
Ebay has a group of people set aside to review auctions for legality. They have the power to pull any auction that they deem is illegal or immoral in some way.
I read an article about out it a while back, for I can't for the life of me remember where.. possible wired.
The "team" is only a couple of people. They do most of their work based off of tips given by people viewing auctions. They'll get an e-mail that say something like "This auction is illegal", and they review that auction.
I'm guessing Yahoo dosen't yet have a group like this, or possibly they just haven't been doing a very good job.
Mattel could change the code slightly and release it closed-source.
Besides the obvious fact that Mattel would have no real reason to want to do this, dosen't the GPL prevent just this type of thing from happening? All derivitive works also fall under the GPL. I think you're confusing it with the Artistic License (I believe), or several other licenses out there.
They weren't trying to "trick" anyone. You can go to Radioshack and buy a cellphone for a penny. You could probably do something rather creative with that cellphone if it wasn't for the contract you had to sign to use their service.
The only difference here was that they didn't make people sign the contract. They didn't think that someone would come up with a way to use the machine without them.
They said "Security needs to be built into the architecture of the operating system."
Last time I checked, apache is not an operating system. I'm not saying I'm agreeing with them, but the point you made was moot.
When I was growing up, my family had no medical insurance for quite some time. Eventually my mother recieved a promotion to supervisor at her job, and medical insurance was one of the perks she started recieving.
Not even a month after the medical insurance started, my sister was brought into the hospital for some tests. Turns out she had Lukemia.
2 years later she was finally done with the chemo, but still had to do regular (monthly) tests with her doctor.
Grand total of all of this... Most likely several hundred thousand dollars. We paid probably a couple thousand at the most.
You're right, medical insurance really is a gamble on if you're going to need it, but the money you're gambling with is nothing compared to what you could have to pay.
I'm not quite certain how to do it in a chat script, but if you're using X, there are several utilities you can download that will do this for you. Just go to freshmeat, and search for PPP. Otherwise, if you have KDE, KPPP is pretty good.
In his defense, it sounds like each collectors edition contains a signed copy, which means one signature for each copy sold... Which means signing their names more than once.
You make it sound like it's one signature.
You're using a specific example of something that is very graphically enhanced. Do you think Bob's Couch-o-Rama cares that if the commercial was a lower quality when you learned that Loveseats were half off?
Not all commercials have fine details that will be missed by a lower quality signal. I got the gist of the Mountain Dew commercial with the Cheetah when I saw an online version of it.
You also have to realise that people who are watching things online like this are going to realise that the quality would be sub-par, and would not hold it against the advertisor.
If they did, I'm sure advertisers would have found a way to block anybody with bad reception on their television by now.
Online eyeballs aren't worth as much as television eyeballs and online pulls people away from television."
This assumes that the people who are watching online would have watched on TV otherwise. This clearly would not be the case if the person watching is outside the broadcasting range of the television station, and not even definite if the person is within range. Not everyone has a television by their computer, and if they're at the computer watching television, chances are there is something that they're working on that requires them to be on the PC.
I think they they have reasons to want to restrict this, but it's not due to the advertisers losing eyeballs.
MSDN is the Microsoft Developer Network. A linux comparison wouldn't really go to newbies who can't connect their box to the next. It would go more to developers. possibly CDs full of the newest IDEs or programming tools.
I think you're referring to Redhat's Xconfigurator.. I've only used XF86setup once, but I remember it already being in X, compared to Xconfigurator, which was a python script.
There was a chart with the results of a third-party stress test, which showed that the average uptime for Windows 95 was 2.5 days, NT 4 was 5.4 days, and Windows 2000 was 90 days (and counting...the test machine was still running)
You mean all the windows 2000 servers were still running, don't you? I'm assuming they're not finding the "average uptime" by counting how long one machine stays up...
This sunday I was at work.
I don't mean this in the normal I went to work on sunday. I mean this in the Saturday night I went to work, and Monday morning I went home sense.
It seems like this is all I do anymore. Not that I mind of course. I love this stuff. Although I do get a hard time from my boss at times becomes I come in late. I generally work from 3pm or so (sometimes earlier) until 2 or 3 in the morning.
When I'm at home, I'm usually working on stuff from home. I'm oncall 24 hours a day. I'd have to say that I work 60-70 hours a week. At least. And that's just the time I'm physcially in the office.
The thing you have to realise is I don't do this for the money. I'm on salary. I do it because I want to. I get to deal with things I would never otherwise deal with. I'm constantly learning new things.
I wouldn't change it for anything
Now THAT I enjoyed :)
Just one slight issue with that theory. You're not paying for the software itself.. You're paying for the license to use it.
If you throw away the license, you throw away your right to use it.
I guess you missed that part.
DeCSS decrypts the movie (obviously), which can allow you to save it on a local file, and distribute it to anyone you'd like. That's the whole basis for the DeCSS trial. No one cares that it was created so people who own DVD Movies can watch it on their computer. They care that it could be used to help pirate movies.
Actually, CDR is a perfect point to make. Phillips/Magnavox ADVERTISES their CD Burners as being for making mix cds. Now maybe they mean for people to keep the copies themselves, but you know that they will then be distributed to their friends.
That's actually functionality of the window manager, not Gnome. Were you running Gnome with WindowMaker, Enlightenment, or something completely different?
If you're using Enlightenment (Default for most systems using gnome), It can be set that way, but only using the ENLIGHTENMENT configuration tool, not the gnome one.
Yeah, I know.. I tried to moderate it down, but I had already posted on this topic.
DOH!
I noticed that as well, but I figured they might have taken some of the enlightenment code or design when they created it.
If it's a desktop though, I might have to give it a try. I don't really like Gnome or KDE very much. I'll probably just stick with enlightenment alone, but I'll at least give this a shot.
Is it a desktop or a window manager? (competing with gnome/kde or enlightenment/windowmaker)
Well, I see 11/9/44.. You're assuming that it's 1944? Why not 2044? It's closer after all :)
Ahh.. I remember the days of copy con :)
Creating batch files, hoping I didn't make a typo. That's the way to live.