I wonder if they are legal because of the the DVD-R media tax in Canada. If I remember correctly in Canada media is taxed to pay for piracy. If you are selling DVD-r and have paid the copy fee then maybe it is legal?
Actually the Japanese made a lot of mistakes. 1. They underestimated the value of survivability. The Zero was faster then the F4F, it could out climb it, and it could out turn it. However the F4F was able to match the zero in combat because it was rugged and the US developed tactics that optimized its advantages in diving and survivability. The F4F, F6F, F4U and the P40 where all very rugged and had a good chance of coming home even it they where all shot up. The same could be said of the Japanese carriers. The Japanese where sure that they had put the Yorktown out of action for a year at the battle of the Coral Sea. They where then sure they sank it twice at Midway. They finally sank it with a submarine attack while it was under tow after the battle of Midway. 2. The Japanese Navy and Army seemed to fight with each other as much as they did the US. The US has had some brain dead inter-service fights but when the war started they would at least copperate a little. The Japanese couldn't seem to get even that far. 3. The Japanese failed to develop one of the most crucial technologies of the war, radar. 4. The Japanese never used there submarines effectively. They also where lacking in anti-submarine warfare.
Don't forget Japans record of really expensive and mediocre combat aircraft. The FSX has been a pretty big failure. Japan doesn't want to buy the F22 they want to MAKE the F22. They want a technology transfer which the US has done in the past with the F15 and other defense systems. The problem is Japan has a history of leaking that technology.
You have never dealt with payroll trying to model global weather systems is easy compared to payroll. Payroll isn't bound by the laws of physics or logic. It is instead bound by the rules of accounting. Not only that when you model weather if you are off by one or two percent nobody gets too upset. With payroll it is a very different story.
Yea but Perl... Sorry I have coded in Perl and my hat is off to you for writing an Accounting system in Perl. I think I would choose perl to implement an accounting system right before I would choose Assembly or Forth. Integrating with LedgerSMB is probably the best solution but if you are moving the accounting logic into the database couldn't you write the POS client in any language? Maybe C#, C++, Python, or Ruby? I do favor C++ myself for ease of deployment.
I never said it was perfect. I think that that with the current state of the art in hardware to even think that cluster parallel program and smp parallel are the same problem. My experience is limited to multithreaded applications but I have always felt that most programs are at least somewhat parallel in nature. I love threads and I love writing threaded applications. Most of the problems I have run into have been when I have had to incorporate other peoples code into my own programs or when I fail to design for treading from the start. I think that trying to make parallel programing transparent is a bad idea. Making it easier is needed but I would like to see multi-threaded programming to be seen as a programming model and not as a tacked on after thought.
You are right up to a point. I would worry about a forced upgrade. What if that box dies. You may have a Windows 98 disk floating around that you could install on a new machine but then you may not have driver support. Will the software run on an XP machine? Just with the security upgrades alone I would have recommended upgrading to at least Windows 2k a long time ago for any mission critical system.
Mainly because running any mission critical application on an unsupported OS scares me. What if you need to upgrade the hardware? Also you better not have it hooked up to the Internet ever! It would be best practice to not have your POS systems hooked to the Internet but that doesn't mean that people follow best practices.
Some good advice but I would suggest. What accounting system are you going to use? One of the benefits of a POS is integrating it with your accounting system. Here is at least one to look at. http://www.phppointofsale.com/ I am not a big fan of POS as a web based application but this one is pretty mature. A simple POS system is an easy project. Adding things like credit card processing makes it a lot more complex.
I am interested in this as well. Along with what kind of load balancing "if any" is involved. How many hits a day , bandwidth used. Yes it in in the FAQ but has it changed since then?
"It isn't just a genetic predisposition. There is a proven link between obesity and type 2. " Did you think that you have the link backwards? Yes people that get type 2 do often have trouble with weight. Ever think that the genetic predisposition might just cause that problem with it also contributes to that tendency to be over weight? BTW it isn't just being over weight. It is a specific body type that get is. People that tend to put on weight all over don't seem to get type 2. People that put weight on around the middle do! Yes it is a genetic predispositions. With a very good diet and exercise if you have that disposition you may put it off until old age or maybe never. But there are many genetic issues that can helped by lifestyle changes and not just diabetes. That is why it is a predisposition. Depending on the gene load it may be treatable with just diet and exersice or it may not be. But to blame it on gulttiony is ignorant and cruel.
"You may wish to do something about that, e.g. learning about the subjects you're talking about before you next open your mouth. Up to you, of course." I think you should take you own advice. Publishing Romeo and Juliet isn't prevented by copyright law. Preventing the AUTHOR of something from publishing would be restricting freedom of expresion. Or in the case of Romeo and Juliet preventing anyone from publishing it would be since it is now considered in the public domain. Your comment about the quote is also foolish. Quotation is allowed under copyright law as fair use. With the exceptions of the Disney term expansion and the DMCA additions copyright law is in fact a fair balance of protections for the creators and benefits for the users.
But I will simply state the obvious for you again. Scanning a book into a PDF file and posting that book on a website is not freedom of expression. Posting a Rip of a copyrighted movie on the Internet is not freedom of expression. Uploading MP3s of someone work without their permission is not freedom of expression. And doing so is no different ethically than violating the GPL.
Trying to wrap it the the flag of freedom is an act of hypocrisy. Trying to hide it behind intellectual arrogance doesn't help.
"The is a reason Type 2 diabetes almost exclusively occurs in gluttonous people" Notice you said ALMOST. BTW almost exclusively is an oxymoron. It is exclusive or it isn't Type 2 diabetes is a genetic predisposition. There is a woman at my office that eats like a pig and just never gains weight. She is by all deffion gluttonous but will never get type 2 diabetes. That is a gentleman in my office that weighs almost 400 lbs and doesn't have type II. I do have type II and yes I do have to work at keeping my weight down. But my doctor was shocked that I had it when it was discovered. I was ridding my bike 10 miles a day, had been a vegiterain for two years and was only 35 years old. I think you will find that people attribute type II diabetes to the sin of gluttony are exclusively arrogant and ignorant.
"Then you must not agree with the right of free speech and press. After all, copyright consists of prohibiting people from exercising those rights when they repeat what someone else has created. They cannot both be natural rights. As it happens, the former is, the latter is not. That doesn't mean that copyright shouldn't exist, but that it needn't necessarily exist and that it may be subject to change." Not at all that is a red hearing. Freedom of speech is really freedom of expression. One doesn't express themselves through plagiarism. And even under copyright law use for saytair and reporting in the press is protected by the law. Freedom of the Press can not be a natural right. Since the whole concept of a press is a human construct that is relatively modern. Freedom of the press is nothing but an institution extension of freedom of expression. And No uploading a pdf of a book or pirating a DVD is not freedom of speech.
"But he can advocate in favor of his views on copyright law (which is not a branch of property law, and not even related), and should he be successful, he can get those laws changed accordingly. Authors do not have a right to copyrights, or to particular forms of copyright law, after all. We happen to have these laws, but nothing says that we must. Nor, aside from a couple of exceptions, does anything say that if we choose to have them, that they must be a certain way." He does but he will have to get them changed in multiable countries since the US signed the Berne Convention.
"Authors do not have a right to copyrights, or to particular forms of copyright law, after all. We happen to have these laws, but nothing says that we must. Nor, aside from a couple of exceptions, does anything say that if we choose to have them, that they must be a certain way." No Authors do have a right to copyrights because they have been granted those rights by copyright law. How else do you define rights? Maybe some certain unalienable human rights? I do happen to agree with that but I feel that one of those rights is to some right to profit and control that which you create. Many differnt nantions seem to believe the same thing and have even made it an international agreement.
"If I make a video, write a book, or compose a song my main goal is to be creative and there is nothing that I want more than for people to see/read/listen to my artwork. At this end, I am satisfied if a pirate makes a copy of my work (using Sony's definition: "steals it") and then exposes himself to it. If this happens, I have accomplished my goal of spreading my art." Notice how you keep using the term "I". That is your right to release your work however you want to. But others have the same right. You do not have the right force them to release their work under your idea any more than they have the right to force you to DRM what you create and charge for it. The author is Jerry Pournelle. I disagree with him on the idea that DRM can ever work but I do understand his frustration about seeing people posting his work on a website and then getting ad revenue from that website! It is no different than someone using selling a product containing GPL code and not following the GPL rules.
Same here but I think I just didn't notice a place to sign up. Besides I could always comment as an AC. Wish I had signed up a year or two sooner. I might have been down in the four digits.
But if I plant a tree in my yard you don't have the right to take the fruit even if I don't eat it myself. And don't even bring up being hungery or starving since you will not die without free movies or music, It takes time to write a book, song, or movie. That book, song, or movie is the authors property. You should own what you create. You have the right to do do what you want with your property. It is no different than the FSF and GPL code. It is their code and you do not have the right to remove the license or to do a lot of other things with it. If you don't like GPL code then don't use it. If you don't like copyrighted books then don't read them.
Spoken like someone that doesn't program for a living but does have 500 gigabytes of movies and music that they have liberated. So then you think it is okay to ignore the GPL? It is a copyright just like any other copyright. What harm does it do to strip out the license, or to just ignore it all together? It isn't like the author should have any rights to what people do with what they create. Baloney. You want free stuff. Everybody wants free stuff. But to wrap up ignoring the owners copyright with some flowery justification is just that, justification and hypocrisy . You don't like the license a book is published under then don't read it. Just like the FSF would tell you that if you think closed source software is wrong then don't use it. At no time has RMS or the FSF told anyone to pirate Windows. If you don't like normal copyrighted books then only read those published under creative commons. You don't like the copyright of music then only listen to bands that release their music for free. You do not have the right to force people agree with your views of property law.
Yes Radiohead is doing an interesting experiment. However I know of at least one author that does feel that he is being ripped off. Radiohead has the right to do with there music what they want to. But pirates are NOT a an amazing distribution stream. The Internet is, bit torrent is, pirates are thieves.
I wonder if this will have a cascade effect. How many games for the PS3 plan on using the UT3 engine and will they be delayed as well? Since the PC version is on track I would guess that it is an engine performance issue and not a content issue... In other words it looks as if the Cell programming model is bitting back.
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I wonder if they are legal because of the the DVD-R media tax in Canada.
If I remember correctly in Canada media is taxed to pay for piracy. If you are selling DVD-r and have paid the copy fee then maybe it is legal?
Actually the Japanese made a lot of mistakes.
1. They underestimated the value of survivability. The Zero was faster then the F4F, it could out climb it, and it could out turn it. However the F4F was able to match the zero in combat because it was rugged and the US developed tactics that optimized its advantages in diving and survivability. The F4F, F6F, F4U and the P40 where all very rugged and had a good chance of coming home even it they where all shot up. The same could be said of the Japanese carriers. The Japanese where sure that they had put the Yorktown out of action for a year at the battle of the Coral Sea. They where then sure they sank it twice at Midway. They finally sank it with a submarine attack while it was under tow after the battle of Midway.
2. The Japanese Navy and Army seemed to fight with each other as much as they did the US. The US has had some brain dead inter-service fights but when the war started they would at least copperate a little. The Japanese couldn't seem to get even that far.
3. The Japanese failed to develop one of the most crucial technologies of the war, radar.
4. The Japanese never used there submarines effectively. They also where lacking in anti-submarine warfare.
Don't forget Japans record of really expensive and mediocre combat aircraft. The FSX has been a pretty big failure.
Japan doesn't want to buy the F22 they want to MAKE the F22. They want a technology transfer which the US has done in the past with the F15 and other defense systems. The problem is Japan has a history of leaking that technology.
You have never dealt with payroll trying to model global weather systems is easy compared to payroll. Payroll isn't bound by the laws of physics or logic. It is instead bound by the rules of accounting.
Not only that when you model weather if you are off by one or two percent nobody gets too upset. With payroll it is a very different story.
Yea but Perl... Sorry I have coded in Perl and my hat is off to you for writing an Accounting system in Perl. I think I would choose perl to implement an accounting system right before I would choose Assembly or Forth.
Integrating with LedgerSMB is probably the best solution but if you are moving the accounting logic into the database couldn't you write the POS client in any language? Maybe C#, C++, Python, or Ruby? I do favor C++ myself for ease of deployment.
I see no mention of them so I would have to guess no :(
I never said it was perfect. I think that that with the current state of the art in hardware to even think that cluster parallel program and smp parallel are the same problem. My experience is limited to multithreaded applications but I have always felt that most programs are at least somewhat parallel in nature. I love threads and I love writing threaded applications. Most of the problems I have run into have been when I have had to incorporate other peoples code into my own programs or when I fail to design for treading from the start.
I think that trying to make parallel programing transparent is a bad idea. Making it easier is needed but I would like to see multi-threaded programming to be seen as a programming model and not as a tacked on after thought.
You are right up to a point. I would worry about a forced upgrade. What if that box dies. You may have a Windows 98 disk floating around that you could install on a new machine but then you may not have driver support. Will the software run on an XP machine?
Just with the security upgrades alone I would have recommended upgrading to at least Windows 2k a long time ago for any mission critical system.
Mainly because running any mission critical application on an unsupported OS scares me. What if you need to upgrade the hardware? Also you better not have it hooked up to the Internet ever! It would be best practice to not have your POS systems hooked to the Internet but that doesn't mean that people follow best practices.
Some good advice but I would suggest.
What accounting system are you going to use?
One of the benefits of a POS is integrating it with your accounting system.
Here is at least one to look at. http://www.phppointofsale.com/
I am not a big fan of POS as a web based application but this one is pretty mature.
A simple POS system is an easy project. Adding things like credit card processing makes it a lot more complex.
I have seen almost no POS systems running Vista.
What scares the daylights out of me is that I see a good number of them running 98 and even 95!
I am interested in this as well. Along with what kind of load balancing "if any" is involved. How many hits a day , bandwidth used. Yes it in in the FAQ but has it changed since then?
"It isn't just a genetic predisposition. There is a proven link between obesity and type 2. "
Did you think that you have the link backwards?
Yes people that get type 2 do often have trouble with weight. Ever think that the genetic predisposition might just cause that problem with it also contributes to that tendency to be over weight? BTW it isn't just being over weight. It is a specific body type that get is. People that tend to put on weight all over don't seem to get type 2. People that put weight on around the middle do!
Yes it is a genetic predispositions. With a very good diet and exercise if you have that disposition you may put it off until old age or maybe never. But there are many genetic issues that can helped by lifestyle changes and not just diabetes. That is why it is a predisposition. Depending on the gene load it may be treatable with just diet and exersice or it may not be.
But to blame it on gulttiony is ignorant and cruel.
"You may wish to do something about that, e.g. learning about the subjects you're talking about before you next open your mouth. Up to you, of course."
I think you should take you own advice.
Publishing Romeo and Juliet isn't prevented by copyright law. Preventing the AUTHOR of something from publishing would be restricting freedom of expresion. Or in the case of Romeo and Juliet preventing anyone from publishing it would be since it is now considered in the public domain. Your comment about the quote is also foolish. Quotation is allowed under copyright law as fair use. With the exceptions of the Disney term expansion and the DMCA additions copyright law is in fact a fair balance of protections for the creators and benefits for the users.
But I will simply state the obvious for you again.
Scanning a book into a PDF file and posting that book on a website is not freedom of expression.
Posting a Rip of a copyrighted movie on the Internet is not freedom of expression.
Uploading MP3s of someone work without their permission is not freedom of expression.
And doing so is no different ethically than violating the GPL.
Trying to wrap it the the flag of freedom is an act of hypocrisy. Trying to hide it behind intellectual arrogance doesn't help.
"The is a reason Type 2 diabetes almost exclusively occurs in gluttonous people"
Notice you said ALMOST.
BTW almost exclusively is an oxymoron.
It is exclusive or it isn't
Type 2 diabetes is a genetic predisposition. There is a woman at my office that eats like a pig and just never gains weight. She is by all deffion gluttonous but will never get type 2 diabetes. That is a gentleman in my office that weighs almost 400 lbs and doesn't have type II. I do have type II and yes I do have to work at keeping my weight down. But my doctor was shocked that I had it when it was discovered. I was ridding my bike 10 miles a day, had been a vegiterain for two years and was only 35 years old.
I think you will find that people attribute type II diabetes to the sin of gluttony are exclusively arrogant and ignorant.
"Then you must not agree with the right of free speech and press. After all, copyright consists of prohibiting people from exercising those rights when they repeat what someone else has created. They cannot both be natural rights. As it happens, the former is, the latter is not. That doesn't mean that copyright shouldn't exist, but that it needn't necessarily exist and that it may be subject to change."
Not at all that is a red hearing.
Freedom of speech is really freedom of expression. One doesn't express themselves through plagiarism. And even under copyright law use for saytair and reporting in the press is protected by the law.
Freedom of the Press can not be a natural right. Since the whole concept of a press is a human construct that is relatively modern. Freedom of the press is nothing but an institution extension of freedom of expression.
And No uploading a pdf of a book or pirating a DVD is not freedom of speech.
"But he can advocate in favor of his views on copyright law (which is not a branch of property law, and not even related), and should he be successful, he can get those laws changed accordingly. Authors do not have a right to copyrights, or to particular forms of copyright law, after all. We happen to have these laws, but nothing says that we must. Nor, aside from a couple of exceptions, does anything say that if we choose to have them, that they must be a certain way."
He does but he will have to get them changed in multiable countries since the US signed the Berne Convention.
"Authors do not have a right to copyrights, or to particular forms of copyright law, after all. We happen to have these laws, but nothing says that we must. Nor, aside from a couple of exceptions, does anything say that if we choose to have them, that they must be a certain way."
No Authors do have a right to copyrights because they have been granted those rights by copyright law. How else do you define rights? Maybe some certain unalienable human rights? I do happen to agree with that but I feel that one of those rights is to some right to profit and control that which you create. Many differnt nantions seem to believe the same thing and have even made it an international agreement.
"If I make a video, write a book, or compose a song my main goal is to be creative and there is nothing that I want more than for people to see/read/listen to my artwork. At this end, I am satisfied if a pirate makes a copy of my work (using Sony's definition: "steals it") and then exposes himself to it. If this happens, I have accomplished my goal of spreading my art."
Notice how you keep using the term "I".
That is your right to release your work however you want to. But others have the same right. You do not have the right force them to release their work under your idea any more than they have the right to force you to DRM what you create and charge for it.
The author is Jerry Pournelle. I disagree with him on the idea that DRM can ever work but I do understand his frustration about seeing people posting his work on a website and then getting ad revenue from that website! It is no different than someone using selling a product containing GPL code and not following the GPL rules.
Same here but I think I just didn't notice a place to sign up. Besides I could always comment as an AC.
Wish I had signed up a year or two sooner. I might have been down in the four digits.
But if I plant a tree in my yard you don't have the right to take the fruit even if I don't eat it myself. And don't even bring up being hungery or starving since you will not die without free movies or music,
It takes time to write a book, song, or movie. That book, song, or movie is the authors property. You should own what you create. You have the right to do do what you want with your property. It is no different than the FSF and GPL code. It is their code and you do not have the right to remove the license or to do a lot of other things with it. If you don't like GPL code then don't use it. If you don't like copyrighted books then don't read them.
Spoken like someone that doesn't program for a living but does have 500 gigabytes of movies and music that they have liberated.
So then you think it is okay to ignore the GPL? It is a copyright just like any other copyright. What harm does it do to strip out the license, or to just ignore it all together? It isn't like the author should have any rights to what people do with what they create.
Baloney. You want free stuff. Everybody wants free stuff. But to wrap up ignoring the owners copyright with some flowery justification is just that, justification and hypocrisy .
You don't like the license a book is published under then don't read it. Just like the FSF would tell you that if you think closed source software is wrong then don't use it.
At no time has RMS or the FSF told anyone to pirate Windows. If you don't like normal copyrighted books then only read those published under creative commons. You don't like the copyright of music then only listen to bands that release their music for free.
You do not have the right to force people agree with your views of property law.
Yes Radiohead is doing an interesting experiment. However I know of at least one author that does feel that he is being ripped off. Radiohead has the right to do with there music what they want to. But pirates are NOT a an amazing distribution stream. The Internet is, bit torrent is, pirates are thieves.
Ohhh...
I am so scared. Please just because you hate it when facts mess up your view of reality don't get all huffy.
I wonder if this will have a cascade effect. How many games for the PS3 plan on using the UT3 engine and will they be delayed as well?
Since the PC version is on track I would guess that it is an engine performance issue and not a content issue...
In other words it looks as if the Cell programming model is bitting back.
You have never had a streaming video connection break up over network congestion? You are then the only one on the planet.