I'm not sure why you need new sentencing guidelines for old crimes (theft, extortion, fraud, embezelment, etc...) committed using new technology. Why is a crime different because a computer is involved?
if we explicitly allow anyone to make consumables for printers, I think we'll very quickly start to see the actual cost of printers reflected in their price.
One thing we'd see is innovation directed towards lowering the cost of the printer like we saw in the mid and late 80s back in the age of dot matrix. At one point you could get a decent 24 pint (top of the line quality) printer with sheet feeder, tractor feed (which still rocks for code), envelope handling for $129 and ribbons were $10.00 if you bought genuine Epson or whatever... Plus addig the legal fees from Lexmark's chip shenanagan and the outrageous pace of new and unimproved models (My new HP takes the same ink cartridge/print head as my four year old one and has a curvy case instead of a rectangular one) pad the cost of printer supplies anyway...
Why do you assume the homemaker (no quotes needed) is the wife?
Like it or not, men rarely are awarded custody of children. There's no assumption here. In fact if MOST women were not the de facto homemaker, MORE women would be in CS and Engineering. The point I was trying to make was this: If CS, Engineering and other "project" oriented jobs didn't have ridiculous hours, little guarantee of future employment and 24x7 on call, more women would be willing to work in the industry. BTW - posting anonymously isn't necessary for the kind of comment you made.
Why do you assume the high school girls are avoiding the AP exam in high school because it might someday interfere with childbearing?
I didn't say anything about high school girls at all in my post. But I don't think high school girls run in fear of tests because they can bear children... I think they run from CS and engineering because it's a lousy job that doesn't fit the lifestyle they envision having when they grow up.
It seems to be that guys being jerks lie behind all three.
I am absolutely SICK AND TIRED of buying a printer for, say $99.00 and having to pay $33.95 for a tank of color and $29.95 for a tank of black. (Stuff the comments about "that's just the business model" -- company store scams aren't a business model, they are a racket) Just make the damn cartridges refillable already.
As far as toners and laser printer parts that have predefined failure points, it's a total rip off. Why can't the printer business just make the best damn printer they can, and sell me on quality and the economy of operating their stuff. I don't care about how hi-tech your cartridges are. I don't even care that by replacing my printhead with the cartridge, I get optimum print quality. I want to replace the print head WHEN IT WEARS OUT. I don't want to buy a $250 developer unit when the one I had worked fine on page 10,499 and the engine clicks over to 10,500 pages. I want to replace "consumable" and worn out parts when they are expended!
Finally, $30 for 2.8ML of black ink is a rip off. I can get a gallon of ink for $5.00. Toner - my god that stuff is cheap when bulk packaged outside the combo drum/developer cartridge.
Lexmark: drop the lawsuit. I know you all just want to rip your captive customers off, but can't you figure out how to make money by say MAKING A BETTER PRINTER!????
BTW: I have a Lexmark inkjet. Great print quality BUT it costs $.33/page because the cartridges cost $60 and last 200 pages. My favorite feature is the "clean the printhead" option... It never fails to take 10-20 pages of life out of a cartridge and it NEVER works the first time I use it, forcing me to run the self-clean again and waste another 20 pages of ink!
I want a decent color printer that I can print for $.10 per page. And no chips, counters or hermetically sealed, kevlar-armored, heat treated steel covered unrefillable cartridges!
Mod me for being a pig.. but CS, Engineering and other "technical" fields have some serious issues if you are a single parent or the "homemaker" in home where both parents work. Why? Obscene hours, being on call (Jim, the server's down) and the lack of job stability make any project oriented job difficult for women who want to or are mothers. Hell, it's hard for us Dads...
Two years from now we will read: In other news US Appealate Court has rescinded the decision of RIAA v. Kazaa stating that the trial court had no jursidiction to hear the case. RIAA will appeal to the supreme court...
Seriously, about MySQL: yes, that's why I said heavy duty databases
If MS SQL Server is lumped in with Oracle, DB2 by the industry... We gotta count MySQL:) It's actually behind some pretty substantial databases and works well... it just doesn't have the features that appeal database experts...
Regarding Latex and groff : a history professor can use Mozilla. Can he use Latex?
If he's been published prior to 1993, yes. If we are forced to look at only GUI software, you are right that Open Source is lacking - probably more so because of software patents and the like owned by Adobe, MS, and the rest of the publishing software business. That said, I'd love to see an open source graphics package that has the capabilities of (mac people, go easy on me here) Corel Draw.
I wouldn't be very interested in media player. I wouldn't want the current license and DRM crap on my linux box. And as far as security goes, it's a rootkit that's waiting to happen.
Open source failures*: Directory Servers, Calendaring/Groupware servers, Office software, desktop publishing tools, graphics/prepress tools (the Gimp isn't a prepress tool), message queueing systems, heavy duty databases (despite SAP/DB).
This isn't fair at all. MySQL is a wild success so far as user community goes. While calendaring/groupware servers haven't taken off, there are a plethora of open source web-based groupwares that have done quite well. So fare as desktop publishing goes, or actually, typesetting and layout, try on LaTex and groff which have been around virtually forever. I'm not sure at all what you mean by messaging as you cited sendmail as success and then the category it lives in as a failure.
Finally, you cite office software as a failure. I'm not sure what the definition of success and failure is, but I suspect from how arbitrary you lump categories of software togather, I'd guess you standard is if you like a package or not. Reality is there are many, many very good OpenSource apps that fall in the "office" category. None of them have the market share of say MS Office, but then again, no closed-source, proprietary application do either.
You are hopelessly shortsighted and must live at home.
Cute. So I'll answer in kind: Like most people, I live at my home. My wife, kids and cat live here, too.
If you had a million to invest, would you choose a genetic research project where you would lose it all?
I would not invest in anything where there is a 100% chance of loosing it all. So what's your point? How do genetic patents produce cures anyway? Genetic patents gridlock real applied science by locking up the genome and the methods used to manipulate genetic material for the next 25 years...
You have no compassion for the sick if you would bankrupt research into cures.
What's a human life worth, in Euros, please? I believe the discovery of a cure should be rewarded, but not at the expense of human lives. Nor do I think discovering something that occurs in nature is novel or an original invention.
Also, contrary to rumors, there were new machines building on where Apple is still as strong, if not stronger, than the PC world: the laptop market
Apple's laptops are cool. But there are tier two PC makers that sell more laptops than Apple does. Apple consistently leads most surveys (IDG, PCDATA, etc...) in RETAIL sales, but consistently is in the bottom three of the top ten in total laptop sales. Why? Because corporate PCs are not sold through retail, where labels like IBM and Fujitsu are weak and names like Sony and Apple are hot. Personally, I'd rather have a mac than a PC, though.
I don't care if it's character based, but it would be cool if the IRS did a tax application that was simply self-calculating and linked so the totals from worksheet forms carry over to the tax form.
I don't need FinanceChick and TaxDude giving me video advice. I just need the instructions, the forms, and a way to save while I go out back and beat up on the shed, woodpile or a bear when I get to the "Your income tax due (or your refund)" line...
But here, the poster is complimenting getting a free ride on the work of others.
Genetic patents are patently ridiculous because they almost always involve discovering prior art and patenting it or the process used to observe it. Generally, genetic patents are not novel or new in any way. They are akin to patenting basic algorithms being applied to basic operations - for instance, building a b-tree to store and retrieve strings in one patent and integers in another.
Congrats to Ontario for seeing genetic patents for the farce they are. I could care less about the profits of a few would-be monopolists over the lives of even one or two people. Save the people, have compassion on the sick, and most importantly, don't value money over the lives of the poor. You could be poor one day.
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BTW 9/11 was not the result of a lack of information problem. They had all the information they needed to stop it.
This is way off topic... but I'll bite:
9/11 was the result of an act of cowardice by religous kooks bent on trying to impose thier faith on the rest of the world. Fortunately, they will not get to fly an airplane again.
The BSA serves a legitimate purpose... I just wish their tactics were less severe. I wish they would invest in teaching software producers how to value and price their products as much as the enforcement of license compliance.
Incidentally, I've been a part of BSA enforcements before... and they treat the consumer much more fairly then they have to. At the end of the day, I'm just glad open source is gaining some momentum and the BSA will be unnecessary.
O'Connor's ruling is a signal, and hopefully one that will be heeded: the CCA's case is on shaky ground. The case has a fatal jurisdiction problem, and the Supremes would likely not even get into the merits of the case... they would be more concerned with the jurisdiction precident...
Consumers do not represent the majority of the computer market. Best Buy is irrelevent and Quicken and Reader Rabit rarely find themselves used outside of homes and micro-businesses.
In the end, this consolidation will serve only to preserve the media industry and the telecom industry so it can prepare for the coming of age of low frequency ultra wideband radio technology. LF UWB is a carrierless peer-to-peer technology which has the potential to break the last mile barrier. Imagine you little wireless ethernet access point with a 150 mile range. I don't think this will be good for cable companies and the local phone company.
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Who does AMD see as it's customer? Is it end users or computer manufacturers? Do end users care about DRM? What about computer manufacturers?
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I'm not sure why you need new sentencing guidelines for old crimes (theft, extortion, fraud, embezelment, etc...) committed using new technology. Why is a crime different because a computer is involved?
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Like it or not, men rarely are awarded custody of children. There's no assumption here. In fact if MOST women were not the de facto homemaker, MORE women would be in CS and Engineering. The point I was trying to make was this: If CS, Engineering and other "project" oriented jobs didn't have ridiculous hours, little guarantee of future employment and 24x7 on call, more women would be willing to work in the industry. BTW - posting anonymously isn't necessary for the kind of comment you made.
I didn't say anything about high school girls at all in my post. But I don't think high school girls run in fear of tests because they can bear children... I think they run from CS and engineering because it's a lousy job that doesn't fit the lifestyle they envision having when they grow up.
This is a troll.
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I'd do it in a heartbeat. I would gladly pay more for a printer if I wasn't paying $60 per round of cartridges. Hell, I'd pay $500 for the printer!
Warning: Rant Follows, Sorry in advance:
I am absolutely SICK AND TIRED of buying a printer for, say $99.00 and having to pay $33.95 for a tank of color and $29.95 for a tank of black. (Stuff the comments about "that's just the business model" -- company store scams aren't a business model, they are a racket) Just make the damn cartridges refillable already.
As far as toners and laser printer parts that have predefined failure points, it's a total rip off. Why can't the printer business just make the best damn printer they can, and sell me on quality and the economy of operating their stuff. I don't care about how hi-tech your cartridges are. I don't even care that by replacing my printhead with the cartridge, I get optimum print quality. I want to replace the print head WHEN IT WEARS OUT. I don't want to buy a $250 developer unit when the one I had worked fine on page 10,499 and the engine clicks over to 10,500 pages. I want to replace "consumable" and worn out parts when they are expended!
Finally, $30 for 2.8ML of black ink is a rip off. I can get a gallon of ink for $5.00. Toner - my god that stuff is cheap when bulk packaged outside the combo drum/developer cartridge.
Lexmark: drop the lawsuit. I know you all just want to rip your captive customers off, but can't you figure out how to make money by say MAKING A BETTER PRINTER!????
BTW: I have a Lexmark inkjet. Great print quality BUT it costs $.33/page because the cartridges cost $60 and last 200 pages. My favorite feature is the "clean the printhead" option... It never fails to take 10-20 pages of life out of a cartridge and it NEVER works the first time I use it, forcing me to run the self-clean again and waste another 20 pages of ink!
I want a decent color printer that I can print for $.10 per page. And no chips, counters or hermetically sealed, kevlar-armored, heat treated steel covered unrefillable cartridges!
Mod me for being a pig.. but CS, Engineering and other "technical" fields have some serious issues if you are a single parent or the "homemaker" in home where both parents work. Why? Obscene hours, being on call (Jim, the server's down) and the lack of job stability make any project oriented job difficult for women who want to or are mothers. Hell, it's hard for us Dads...
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Two years from now we will read: In other news US Appealate Court has rescinded the decision of RIAA v. Kazaa stating that the trial court had no jursidiction to hear the case. RIAA will appeal to the supreme court...
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I want my flying car! 70% efficient solar cells would be useful to charge the battery, though...
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If he's been published prior to 1993, yes. If we are forced to look at only GUI software, you are right that Open Source is lacking - probably more so because of software patents and the like owned by Adobe, MS, and the rest of the publishing software business. That said, I'd love to see an open source graphics package that has the capabilities of (mac people, go easy on me here) Corel Draw.
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I wouldn't be very interested in media player. I wouldn't want the current license and DRM crap on my linux box. And as far as security goes, it's a rootkit that's waiting to happen.
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Finally, you cite office software as a failure. I'm not sure what the definition of success and failure is, but I suspect from how arbitrary you lump categories of software togather, I'd guess you standard is if you like a package or not. Reality is there are many, many very good OpenSource apps that fall in the "office" category. None of them have the market share of say MS Office, but then again, no closed-source, proprietary application do either.
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I would not invest in anything where there is a 100% chance of loosing it all. So what's your point? How do genetic patents produce cures anyway? Genetic patents gridlock real applied science by locking up the genome and the methods used to manipulate genetic material for the next 25 years...
What's a human life worth, in Euros, please? I believe the discovery of a cure should be rewarded, but not at the expense of human lives. Nor do I think discovering something that occurs in nature is novel or an original invention.
$G
Apple's laptops are cool. But there are tier two PC makers that sell more laptops than Apple does. Apple consistently leads most surveys (IDG, PCDATA, etc...) in RETAIL sales, but consistently is in the bottom three of the top ten in total laptop sales. Why? Because corporate PCs are not sold through retail, where labels like IBM and Fujitsu are weak and names like Sony and Apple are hot.
Personally, I'd rather have a mac than a PC, though.
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I don't care if it's character based, but it would be cool if the IRS did a tax application that was simply self-calculating and linked so the totals from worksheet forms carry over to the tax form.
I don't need FinanceChick and TaxDude giving me video advice. I just need the instructions, the forms, and a way to save while I go out back and beat up on the shed, woodpile or a bear when I get to the "Your income tax due (or your refund)" line...
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Genetic patents are patently ridiculous because they almost always involve discovering prior art and patenting it or the process used to observe it. Generally, genetic patents are not novel or new in any way. They are akin to patenting basic algorithms being applied to basic operations - for instance, building a b-tree to store and retrieve strings in one patent and integers in another.
Congrats to Ontario for seeing genetic patents for the farce they are. I could care less about the profits of a few would-be monopolists over the lives of even one or two people. Save the people, have compassion on the sick, and most importantly, don't value money over the lives of the poor. You could be poor one day.
$G
This is way off topic... but I'll bite:
9/11 was the result of an act of cowardice by religous kooks bent on trying to impose thier faith on the rest of the world. Fortunately, they will not get to fly an airplane again.
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How many times have we heard: "If the content providers out there would put stuff up that is worth paying for, I'd pay."
Who has got sites out there worth paying $10 for anyway? And then how do you market it so the can kick the tires?
The BSA serves a legitimate purpose... I just wish their tactics were less severe. I wish they would invest in teaching software producers how to value and price their products as much as the enforcement of license compliance.
Incidentally, I've been a part of BSA enforcements before... and they treat the consumer much more fairly then they have to. At the end of the day, I'm just glad open source is gaining some momentum and the BSA will be unnecessary.
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O'Connor's ruling is a signal, and hopefully one that will be heeded: the CCA's case is on shaky ground. The case has a fatal jurisdiction problem, and the Supremes would likely not even get into the merits of the case... they would be more concerned with the jurisdiction precident...
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Consumers do not represent the majority of the computer market. Best Buy is irrelevent and Quicken and Reader Rabit rarely find themselves used outside of homes and micro-businesses.
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In the end, this consolidation will serve only to preserve the media industry and the telecom industry so it can prepare for the coming of age of low frequency ultra wideband radio technology. LF UWB is a carrierless peer-to-peer technology which has the potential to break the last mile barrier. Imagine you little wireless ethernet access point with a 150 mile range. I don't think this will be good for cable companies and the local phone company.
Of course, this all could just be an evil plot.
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