will turn out to be $828.99 for the 128 MB unit, and $868.99 for the 256 MB unit, once SCO adds their licencing fees for IP they've discovered embedded in the MP3 players...
and if you thought that on-line chatting was going to adversely effect the vocabulary, spelling, and grammar of today's youth, just wait and see what typing in Morse will do to them!
4. Anything I make with my own computer is my property, and you cannot use if in any form.
of course, if it has no form, the vendor has my express permission to use it...
By clicking on AGREE, you agree never to ask me anything more than once.
Except for deletion requests, which you must ask me about at least three or four times, just to prevent me from being a butthead, and deleting the known univer [CARRIER LOST]
The poster has this one spot-on. While working at a company a number of years ago, designing a system which allowed mobile devices to connect to a local PC, just in order to do an archiving data dump, I found that we could only allow up to 10 distinct devices to ftp to the PC. (That's ten distinct devices, not ten concurrent devices, btw.)
To be able to do so, we'd have had to upgrade to a server version of the product. We'd have had to upgrade around 600 PCs across the US, not to mention the licensing costs.
Don't know how it all hashed out in the end, although we decided at the time to dump the functionality rather than hand over our wallets.
And thanks to me, they get a killer deal on shipping due to a little known program known as consignment shipping via UPS so they pay less than half of what they normally would pay
well, don't pad yourself on the back too vigorously; UPS and FedEx both discount heavily to high-volume shippers, especially to knock the other out of large accounts. The question to ask is really why you were paying a whole 50% of list shipping price?!?!?!
Amen! How in the world can the opponents of DRM and the DMCA expect to be taken seriously, with names like these?
sure, they're funny...in an immature, "Porky's" kind of way.
in the meantime, your average Joe Sixpack, if he's sufficiently well informed to recognize the issues, sees this, and thinks, "just a bunch of immature geeks". unfortunately, the anti-DRM, anti-DMCA will get painted with the same brush...
hmm... i thought that, in order for an excerpt of a song to be considered fair use, it had to be a clip of less than ten seconds.
IANAL, of course, but as i recall, that's how commercials get away with using tunes... they either use a clip that's less than 10 seconds, or they change *just* enough of the tune that it isn't considered to be identical to the original.
Now, the only reason I'd guess that cell companies, et al, don't just ignore the RIAA on this one is that this is enough of a cost-free cash cow that it's a whole lot cheaper to pay than fight...
"If MS is forced to remove any and all DRM code, they'll just issue a hotfix that'll remove it."
hmm.. this is the same Microsoft that couldn't even imagine that a browser could be separated from an OS? that was unable to figure out which binaries were IE and which were OS?
Gee... so, if they'd be able to do it vis-a-vis DRM, but not web browsing... do ya think they weren't acting in good faith during the trial?
Re:Some interesting quotes about the flick...
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Women have so little to do here that they serve almost as plot-device flight attendants, offering a trough of Diet Coke to refresh the geek-magnet story.
you know, revisionism really, really torques me...
Tolkien meant LotR to be, among other things, a mythos for Great Britain. That being the case, his treatment of women reflected their role in pre-Christian times. Ya know, as much as some folks might dislike this depiction, it's accurate to historical accounts! Hey -- if the reviewer wants a strong, independent woman, s/he should read RotK, or talk to someone who has! Eowyn rocks! Besides, didn't the reviewer catch the theme that there's more to her than meets the eye in TTT? geez...
I'm not sure that you could even put a price 'in your own words'. Perhaps a script to change the 'offending' price into words, such as, "Thirteen dollars and twenty-seven cents". But that is plain dumb.
i think what you're missing is the original poster's comparison between copyrightable works (e.g., Tolkien's Lord of the Rings) and non-infringing uses (e.g., a copy of the Cliff's notes of the same).
although the cliff's notes tell the entire story, and discuss the themes (i.e., ideas) within, they don't use the expression of the story (i.e., the exact text) in a non-infringing way.
in the same way, if we allow that the circular is copyrightable, then it's the expression of the prices (e.g., layout, design, etc) that's copyrightable.
i would argue that a large portion of what's copyrightable in the circular is not the prices themselves. so, if one publishes only the prices and the item names (and serial numbers) from various circulars, then what we have here is an index / compilation, which, if i remember correctly is a non-infringing use of copyrightable material. (of course, ianal..)
of course, if you try to beat me with your evil, nasty bludgeon, but I take it from you and give you a coupla whacks with it... it's still an evil, nasty bludgeon.
I'd call it "giving walmart a taste of their own medicine", and they deserve it, given how they abused an already heinous law...
as others have pointed out, you're under no obligation to buy the service
you're buying more than the listings -- having the service means that the TiVo can pick and choose when to record for you (you only want new episodes of The Practice? cool.. you want every episode of Friends that NBC runs this year? ok...)
and, there's a healthy TiVo hacker community, which, if not explicitly supported by TiVo, is at least openly tolerated. Since the TiVo is Linux-based, folks have (1) added TiVo's to their home computer networks, (2) created add-on functionality (on-screen Caller ID, web-based remote programming access to the TiVo, mail, etc) and (3) produced HOWTO guides to upgrading TiVo disk capacity.
I'd say that the community, although smallish, is quite vibrant!
disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with TiVo, other than being a satisfied owner of an AT&T Series 2 Tivo...
You're a fucking idiot. I have a Masters with a focus on databases and storage technology.
And yes, you blooming idiot
wow... i so get it now. I mean, I was totally oblivious to your point, but then you called me a fucking idiot, and now it's all clear!
p.s., thanks for clearing up what I missed in grad school. apparently, your school taught that when someone disagrees with you, you wave your degree around vigorously, and then use ad hominem attacks. so, so effective.
p.p.s., btw, i started re-arguing the point, but ya know what? Forget it. Yeah -- you're right. I concede. Now take your degree and your attitude, and go back to your sandbox, like a good little boy...
Since you mention that you love your AT&T phone, I just had to throw my $0.02 in...
I've been a subscriber to AT&T for about 6 years now. I travel between Pittsburgh and Houston a lot. Pittsburgh's AT&T reception has traditionally been better.
However, over the past year or so, reception has really been in the crapper. Can't place calls, connected calls get dropped, cutovers into others' conversations, it's been a mess. And don't even ask how bad it's been in Houston!
I have a Nokia 8260, with which I'm largely happy. (My first died on a trip to Canada almost two years ago, but the replacement has been a trooper.)
I'm now curious... given that you love your reception, and you're GSM/GPRS, i wonder if it's a network thing? The 8260 is TDMA, so hmm...
Would anyone out there know how AT&T's TDMA and GSM/GPRS networks compare, relative to each other with respect to signal strength? I have to admit, I'm pretty uninformed about the topic in general, and with respect to AT&T in particular.
It would be interesting to note, though, given that all my friends with AT&T cell service are complaining as bitterly as I, regarding cell coverage...
She's not mad because she was without an email address; in fact, she had already changed email providers.
so, even though the email was sent to her old address (in which case you gotta ask -- did she use an old resume? did she even give out her new address?), she's mad that the old ISP didn't bounce the email?
in other words, she's suing because she would've wanted the potential employer to notice the bounced email, and try to contact her to find out her new address???
I have a Masters in Computer Science... There's no such thing (as "kernel level SQL data"). SQL data is stored in tables. You use queries to get at it. Period.
I appreciate that you have a Masters in CS. I have a Bachelor's in CS. (What does that prove, btw?)
Let's add one point that you managed to skip over, in your analysis: SQL data is stored in tables. You need authority to the tables in order to make any sense of the data. You use queries to get at it. Period.
ok... so, if you don't have access to the tables without permission from the OS (and you better believe that only a Microsoft OS will have permission), then you have two choices: (1) break the authentication scheme, or (2) translate the raw bits of a proprietary DB.
so, if I'm MS, I give up my stranglehold on the Word format, replacing it with a stranglehold on the authentication to query via SQL. In other words, you have play by my rules to have the right to use queries to get at data. Period.
that being the case, what's your point, then?
Meantime, from AARP...
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in other news, AARP met the creator of the Lego Segway as he was walking to work, carrying signs and protesting his creation.
"Lego was meant for the rumpus room, not the sidewalk!", complained an unidentified senior.
Another protested, "Hey! The sidewalks are already dangerous enough what with those dang newfangled bicycles! If you add Lego Segways, I could get killed!"
Among the signs noted at the protest was one proclaiming, "Lego Segways at 11 MPH will injure me!"
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of course, if it has no form, the vendor has my express permission to use it...
By clicking on AGREE, you agree never to ask me anything more than once.
Except for deletion requests, which you must ask me about at least three or four times, just to prevent me from being a butthead, and deleting the known univer [CARRIER LOST]
*sigh* ... there's one in every crowd, isn't there...?
To be able to do so, we'd have had to upgrade to a server version of the product. We'd have had to upgrade around 600 PCs across the US, not to mention the licensing costs.
Don't know how it all hashed out in the end, although we decided at the time to dump the functionality rather than hand over our wallets.
well, don't pad yourself on the back too vigorously; UPS and FedEx both discount heavily to high-volume shippers, especially to knock the other out of large accounts. The question to ask is really why you were paying a whole 50% of list shipping price?!?!?!
sure, they're funny...in an immature, "Porky's" kind of way.
in the meantime, your average Joe Sixpack, if he's sufficiently well informed to recognize the issues, sees this, and thinks, "just a bunch of immature geeks". unfortunately, the anti-DRM, anti-DMCA will get painted with the same brush...
IANAL, of course, but as i recall, that's how commercials get away with using tunes ... they either use a clip that's less than 10 seconds, or they change *just* enough of the tune that it isn't considered to be identical to the original.
Now, the only reason I'd guess that cell companies, et al, don't just ignore the RIAA on this one is that this is enough of a cost-free cash cow that it's a whole lot cheaper to pay than fight...
of course, I'm silly that way...
"If MS is forced to remove any and all DRM code, they'll just issue a hotfix that'll remove it."
hmm.. this is the same Microsoft that couldn't even imagine that a browser could be separated from an OS? that was unable to figure out which binaries were IE and which were OS?
Gee... so, if they'd be able to do it vis-a-vis DRM, but not web browsing... do ya think they weren't acting in good faith during the trial?
Tolkien meant LotR to be, among other things, a mythos for Great Britain. That being the case, his treatment of women reflected their role in pre-Christian times. Ya know, as much as some folks might dislike this depiction, it's accurate to historical accounts! Hey -- if the reviewer wants a strong, independent woman, s/he should read RotK, or talk to someone who has! Eowyn rocks! Besides, didn't the reviewer catch the theme that there's more to her than meets the eye in TTT? geez...
of course, during the battle, i loved the "fiery" one that jumped "head"-first into the flood...
does anyone know if that was a manual thing, or some of that "individual actor AI" stuff that was touted wrt the battle scenes?
i think what you're missing is the original poster's comparison between copyrightable works (e.g., Tolkien's Lord of the Rings) and non-infringing uses (e.g., a copy of the Cliff's notes of the same).
although the cliff's notes tell the entire story, and discuss the themes (i.e., ideas) within, they don't use the expression of the story (i.e., the exact text) in a non-infringing way.
in the same way, if we allow that the circular is copyrightable, then it's the expression of the prices (e.g., layout, design, etc) that's copyrightable.
i would argue that a large portion of what's copyrightable in the circular is not the prices themselves. so, if one publishes only the prices and the item names (and serial numbers) from various circulars, then what we have here is an index / compilation, which, if i remember correctly is a non-infringing use of copyrightable material. (of course, ianal..)
of course, if you try to beat me with your evil, nasty bludgeon, but I take it from you and give you a coupla whacks with it... it's still an evil, nasty bludgeon.
I'd call it "giving walmart a taste of their own medicine", and they deserve it, given how they abused an already heinous law...
"I emplore you to study this document for all of its merits."
other than the misspelling, though, it's a well thought-out and well written letter...
and, if i recall correctly, i saw a post on the tivo community board, in which a guy detailed how to get into the series 2.
and, yeah, i agree... the Advert Age article smacks of "oh, those damn horseless carriages!" ludditism (sp?) ...
- and, there's a healthy TiVo hacker community, which, if not explicitly supported by TiVo, is at least openly tolerated. Since the TiVo is Linux-based, folks have (1) added TiVo's to their home computer networks, (2) created add-on functionality (on-screen Caller ID, web-based remote programming access to the TiVo, mail, etc) and (3) produced HOWTO guides to upgrading TiVo disk capacity.
I'd say that the community, although smallish, is quite vibrant!disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with TiVo, other than being a satisfied owner of an AT&T Series 2 Tivo ...
wow... i so get it now. I mean, I was totally oblivious to your point, but then you called me a fucking idiot, and now it's all clear!
p.s., thanks for clearing up what I missed in grad school. apparently, your school taught that when someone disagrees with you, you wave your degree around vigorously, and then use ad hominem attacks. so, so effective.
p.p.s., btw, i started re-arguing the point, but ya know what? Forget it. Yeah -- you're right. I concede. Now take your degree and your attitude, and go back to your sandbox, like a good little boy...
I've been a subscriber to AT&T for about 6 years now. I travel between Pittsburgh and Houston a lot. Pittsburgh's AT&T reception has traditionally been better.
However, over the past year or so, reception has really been in the crapper. Can't place calls, connected calls get dropped, cutovers into others' conversations, it's been a mess. And don't even ask how bad it's been in Houston!
I have a Nokia 8260, with which I'm largely happy. (My first died on a trip to Canada almost two years ago, but the replacement has been a trooper.)
I'm now curious ... given that you love your reception, and you're GSM/GPRS, i wonder if it's a network thing? The 8260 is TDMA, so hmm...
Would anyone out there know how AT&T's TDMA and GSM/GPRS networks compare, relative to each other with respect to signal strength? I have to admit, I'm pretty uninformed about the topic in general, and with respect to AT&T in particular.
It would be interesting to note, though, given that all my friends with AT&T cell service are complaining as bitterly as I, regarding cell coverage...
so, even though the email was sent to her old address (in which case you gotta ask -- did she use an old resume? did she even give out her new address?), she's mad that the old ISP didn't bounce the email?
in other words, she's suing because she would've wanted the potential employer to notice the bounced email, and try to contact her to find out her new address???
Sorry... that just doesn't cut it...
I have a Masters in Computer Science... There's no such thing (as "kernel level SQL data"). SQL data is stored in tables. You use queries to get at it. Period.
I appreciate that you have a Masters in CS. I have a Bachelor's in CS. (What does that prove, btw?)
Let's add one point that you managed to skip over, in your analysis: SQL data is stored in tables. You need authority to the tables in order to make any sense of the data. You use queries to get at it. Period.
ok ... so, if you don't have access to the tables without permission from the OS (and you better believe that only a Microsoft OS will have permission), then you have two choices: (1) break the authentication scheme, or (2) translate the raw bits of a proprietary DB.
so, if I'm MS, I give up my stranglehold on the Word format, replacing it with a stranglehold on the authentication to query via SQL. In other words, you have play by my rules to have the right to use queries to get at data. Period.
that being the case, what's your point, then?
"Lego was meant for the rumpus room, not the sidewalk!", complained an unidentified senior.
Another protested, "Hey! The sidewalks are already dangerous enough what with those dang newfangled bicycles! If you add Lego Segways, I could get killed!"
Among the signs noted at the protest was one proclaiming, "Lego Segways at 11 MPH will injure me!"