As the customer believes the sales person has the authority, and the sales person IS representing the company, the company has to fire and sue their employee.
The customer is not liable, unless they knowingly colluded with the sales person for the cheap car. (ie: knew the sales person was not authorized).
SCO's distribution of Linux; if it contains proprietary code; is a violation of Copyright and the GPL.
If the dispute was strictly between SCO and IBM then SCO, violating IBM's copyright after IBM inserted SCO proprietary code into it would probably come out as a wash in court. But, SCO didn't violate IBM's copyright, SCO violated the Linux copyright; all the contributors, etc, by releasing a compilation of code which is (by their own words) tainted.
Note: Whether or not there is tainted code in Linux I believe SCO has violated the GPL/Copyright. They did so by their own beliefe that they distributed code (after the fact) they believed was tainted. Whether or not it actually is.
I hate to promot the paranoia, but using GPS for guidance is just 'handy'. There are dozens of alternatives.
One could design and build a receiver which could determine the direction to 2 FM radio towers and use them for guidance. It could easily be accurate enough for a terrorist strike.
They made it virtually impossible on the Series2. (Wish I had known, I would have bought one off e-bay insted then. I was counting on being able to modify it enough to put guide data into it every week. (I'm in Canada)).
For a machine running Linux the Series2s are a tought nut to crack. The boot PROM checks that the kernel it is attempting to load has been signed by Tivo, then the Kernal & it's associated ram disk image determine if the Tivo files have been messed with and restore them if they have. And Then it it reboots (if it had to replace files) and tries to run again.
I previously hacked my Tivo, I was able to forecably set the Channels/Descriptions on my Tivo to match my cable provider, but I didn't get guide data into the system. So, until I figure out how to get into a Series2 running version 4 (HMO) of the OS I'm stuck using it as an advanced VCR.
And it still kicks ass.
No swapping tapes. Ability to watch a recording without interfering with an in progress recording. The ability to browse through the list of recordings (even without titles... channel/time is almost enough)[Tivo should have added an option to NAME manual recordings... oh well.]. No need to 'rewind' a tape. No chance of hitting the end of the tape when recording a large batch of stuff. (The Tivo pops up a nice warning...).
I bought the Home Media Option because I was interested in playing MP3s in my living room anyway. I was using a laptop for it, but it was a pain in the ass. Buying an Audiotron was an option, but I don't need more remotes, and, why spend that much money (on an Audiotron) when the Tivo can now do basicly the same thing.
Between the TV producer who doesn't watch TV, and you claiming to not watch TV but direct a couple of cable telivision shows I think that explains why TV does suck as much as it does.
Those of us with Digital cable are restricted to watching either what is being recorded on digital cable, or watching regular cable.
(Ok, it can get even more complicated, you could have it record regular cable for some channels, and digital cable for others, then you can watch the 'other' channels when your recording something.....
Better to just have stuff worth watching on the tivo.
Their additional $100 charge for the Home Media Option is a bit expensive for what you get; but better than spending 3-400 on another standalone unit for the living room (aka Audiotron). (Wish the Tivo had digital audio out... they should add that option via USB...)
Unlike the hacked hardware strewn all over my apartment, the Tivo 'just works'. It is easy enough to use that I've considered picking one up for my parents.
I considered purchasing some satelite images at one point in time; unfortunatly they are way too pricy for an individual. But, it is CHEAP if you have an absolute NEED for the images.
You can buy images on the open market of almost anywhere in the world. Ironicly enough, images of the U.S. are easier to find and aquire for cheap than anywhere else in the world.
(Yes, the data may be filtered if key locations are of interest. think Area 51 for instance. Although there are images released from there as well.).
Cheap data is always mosaic, but if your willing to pay you can get the original source images and their time & date.
I think the problem is the Programmer responsible for the code is often the one reviewing the bug report at the first level. They shouldn't in many cases because they take it personally.
Have someone knowledgable review it, re-write the report as necessary, prove the bug actually exists by replicating it and have the programmer fix it then. By this point the programmer repsonisble for fixing it should be getting just the relevent facts, not the heat/politics of the report itself.
I had the pleasure of arguing what a view was with an Business/Systems Analyst of a company I worked for previously. He kept swearing up and down that Views were basicly stored indexs of query results.
Our boss had to straighten him out on it.
But hey, I was just the 'programmer' on the project.
The main problem is the majority of programmers on Slashdot prefer to program ad-hoc. It's hard to write Ad-Hoc code when you use a structured database (of any kind).
They much prefer solutions like the Prevalant(sp?) database mentioned a few weeks ago as it can more readily support designing on the fly.
For the sake of discussion lets assume the moon is entirly made of iron. (I have no idea what the composition is, at all, or at the surface...)
Why not simply mine all the iron or into big blocks and have them drop out of orbit and land in your own backyard...
Ok, ok, I know, if you spread it all the way acorss North America it would be potentially deadly (I'd say we lucked out with the space shuttle.. while the astronauts died they, thankfully, didn't take a bunch of people on the ground.)
I think the real question is, what would it take to orbit 50 tons of iron ore, and what would it take to de-orbit it with maximum recovery of material. Keeping in mind that nobody will care, atleast for a while, if the odd ton or 2 evaporates during re-entry.
Writing to sector 0 (as an example) contains risks. I'm not going to risk my computer for a $30 program to file my taxes. (While writing to sector 0, or any other reserved area may have, may only cause a corrupt disk I'm the one who has to fix the damn thing if they break it, if that means I spend timing fixing my computer, instead of working (I often work from home) then it's costing me a lot more than their program is worth.)
Such systems are generally used for software with siginificantly higher price point (a few hundred, if not thousand) and generally a much higher payoff than a single tax return.
I can tell you that if it screwed up a computer system of anyone I know they (Intuit) would never sell a product to people I know again.
Just because I can script something in an hour doesn't mean I can provide it to end users as a solution for them.
Most of the development effort in an application has little to do with the required process and data manipulation, but everything to do with user interface to it.
I've plugged a scanner (radio) into my soundcard and listened to the sound from both the computer speakers, and the speakers in the scanner, there was no noticable delay.
Once you start adding processing on top of it though there will be.
check Slashdot for the story, but forget about the security offered by garage door openers.
Atleast 1 brand has a reset sequence which resets an internal counter and would make it quite easy to duplicate the required signal to open the garage door.
Take the datastream required for 1 channel for 1 minute, multiply by the number of channels.
Lets see, an 80Hr TIVO is an 80G harddrive and stores 80hrs (aprox) at the worst video setting. For simplicity we will assume 1Gigabyte per hour. (A little off since an 80hr tivo has less than 80gigabytes of storage for tv programs.. but close enough).
So, 1 minute of video for 1 channel is 16Megabytes. So, 1 minute of 60 channels is 1Gigabyte, and you want atleast 30 minutes of all channels, so 30Gigabytes.
Assuming you have the bandwidth to/from the harddrive to shove 30Gigabytes of data to it in 30 minutes without dropping a frame your set.. doubt you'll actually have any bandwidth to read back a data stream from that though.
(Oh, and no, you can't store the datastream in LESS space as you would then be losing parts of the datastream. You also couldn't compress the RF data using a lossy algorithm as you'd lose necessary data. So, you'd either have to store the entire datastream and compress with it a lossless compression algorithm or recover the 60 datastreams and store them. Its likely the 60 data streams combined would be LESS storage than even a compressed full datastream...
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As the customer believes the sales person has the authority, and the sales person IS representing the company, the company has to fire and sue their employee.
The customer is not liable, unless they knowingly colluded with the sales person for the cheap car. (ie: knew the sales person was not authorized).
SCO's distribution of Linux; if it contains proprietary code; is a violation of Copyright and the GPL.
If the dispute was strictly between SCO and IBM then SCO, violating IBM's copyright after IBM inserted SCO proprietary code into it would probably come out as a wash in court. But, SCO didn't violate IBM's copyright, SCO violated the Linux copyright; all the contributors, etc, by releasing a compilation of code which is (by their own words) tainted.
Note: Whether or not there is tainted code in Linux I believe SCO has violated the GPL/Copyright. They did so by their own beliefe that they distributed code (after the fact) they believed was tainted. Whether or not it actually is.
IANAL
Would you know what someone was using?
Could use GPS...
could use FM transmitters.
could use air navigation beacons
could use an intertial guidance system which is calibrated at the begining of a flight.
or, could use all the above.
The problem with terrorists is they are allowed to be sloppy.
Even a failure has some level of success init. (Short of being caught before any damage occurs at all).
Sure, label it an R/C plane and your done with it...
scary, isn't it?
I hate to promot the paranoia, but using GPS for guidance is just 'handy'. There are dozens of alternatives.
One could design and build a receiver which could determine the direction to 2 FM radio towers and use them for guidance. It could easily be accurate enough for a terrorist strike.
Germany did something very similar in WWII.
I am frustrated when watching movies in the Theater because, for the first while, I notice the flicker.
15-20 minutes into the movie I don't notice it any longer, as I get distracted by the story, my brain adjusts, whatever.
I've talked to friends who don't even notice. (While sitting in the seat next to me at the theater, so position isn't the issue).
Some people are just more sensitive to certain visual effects.
They made it virtually impossible on the Series2. (Wish I had known, I would have bought one off e-bay insted then. I was counting on being able to modify it enough to put guide data into it every week. (I'm in Canada)).
For a machine running Linux the Series2s are a tought nut to crack. The boot PROM checks that the kernel it is attempting to load has been signed by Tivo, then the Kernal & it's associated ram disk image determine if the Tivo files have been messed with and restore them if they have. And Then it it reboots (if it had to replace files) and tries to run again.
I previously hacked my Tivo, I was able to forecably set the Channels/Descriptions on my Tivo to match my cable provider, but I didn't get guide data into the system. So, until I figure out how to get into a Series2 running version 4 (HMO) of the OS I'm stuck using it as an advanced VCR.
And it still kicks ass.
No swapping tapes. Ability to watch a recording without interfering with an in progress recording. The ability to browse through the list of recordings (even without titles... channel/time is almost enough)[Tivo should have added an option to NAME manual recordings... oh well.].
No need to 'rewind' a tape. No chance of hitting the end of the tape when recording a large batch of stuff. (The Tivo pops up a nice warning...).
I bought the Home Media Option because I was interested in playing MP3s in my living room anyway. I was using a laptop for it, but it was a pain in the ass. Buying an Audiotron was an option, but I don't need more remotes, and, why spend that much money (on an Audiotron) when the Tivo can now do basicly the same thing.
Between the TV producer who doesn't watch TV, and you claiming to not watch TV but direct a couple of cable telivision shows I think that explains why TV does suck as much as it does.
On the other hand, it sucks less with a Tivo.
No.
You can watch any live channel on Regular Cable.
Those of us with Digital cable are restricted to watching either what is being recorded on digital cable, or watching regular cable.
(Ok, it can get even more complicated, you could have it record regular cable for some channels, and digital cable for others, then you can watch the 'other' channels when your recording something.....
Better to just have stuff worth watching on the tivo.
The only problem with the Tivo is the price.
Their additional $100 charge for the Home Media Option is a bit expensive for what you get; but better than spending 3-400 on another standalone unit for the living room (aka Audiotron). (Wish the Tivo had digital audio out... they should add that option via USB...)
Unlike the hacked hardware strewn all over my apartment, the Tivo 'just works'. It is easy enough to use that I've considered picking one up for my parents.
I considered purchasing some satelite images at one point in time; unfortunatly they are way too pricy for an individual. But, it is CHEAP if you have an absolute NEED for the images.
You can buy images on the open market of almost anywhere in the world. Ironicly enough, images of the U.S. are easier to find and aquire for cheap than anywhere else in the world.
(Yes, the data may be filtered if key locations are of interest. think Area 51 for instance. Although there are images released from there as well.).
Cheap data is always mosaic, but if your willing to pay you can get the original source images and their time & date.
I think the problem is the Programmer responsible for the code is often the one reviewing the bug report at the first level. They shouldn't in many cases because they take it personally.
Have someone knowledgable review it, re-write the report as necessary, prove the bug actually exists by replicating it and have the programmer fix it then. By this point the programmer repsonisble for fixing it should be getting just the relevent facts, not the heat/politics of the report itself.
No. :)
Wanting to work for people I didn't have to correct had everything to do with it.
If you aren't using any indexes whats the point of using MySQL???
I had the pleasure of arguing what a view was with an Business/Systems Analyst of a company I worked for previously. He kept swearing up and down that Views were basicly stored indexs of query results.
Our boss had to straighten him out on it.
But hey, I was just the 'programmer' on the project.
The main problem is the majority of programmers on Slashdot prefer to program ad-hoc. It's hard to write Ad-Hoc code when you use a structured database (of any kind).
They much prefer solutions like the Prevalant(sp?) database mentioned a few weeks ago as it can more readily support designing on the fly.
A company which releases a product with a abckdoor, even if they INTENDED to remove may still be held liable for it's exploit.
Companies intend to produce cars without safty hazards.. but if they rush it out the door they are still liable for them.
control of fusion would NOT make them any friends in the middle east.
The Middle East only has power as long as petroleum is a major source of energy, the day it is not they are financially doomed for 50-100 years.
For the sake of discussion lets assume the moon is entirly made of iron. (I have no idea what the composition is, at all, or at the surface...)
Why not simply mine all the iron or into big blocks and have them drop out of orbit and land in your own backyard...
Ok, ok, I know, if you spread it all the way acorss North America it would be potentially deadly (I'd say we lucked out with the space shuttle.. while the astronauts died they, thankfully, didn't take a bunch of people on the ground.)
I think the real question is, what would it take to orbit 50 tons of iron ore, and what would it take to de-orbit it with maximum recovery of material. Keeping in mind that nobody will care, atleast for a while, if the odd ton or 2 evaporates during re-entry.
I do not understand why companies take this risk.
Writing to sector 0 (as an example) contains risks. I'm not going to risk my computer for a $30 program to file my taxes. (While writing to sector 0, or any other reserved area may have, may only cause a corrupt disk I'm the one who has to fix the damn thing if they break it, if that means I spend timing fixing my computer, instead of working (I often work from home) then it's costing me a lot more than their program is worth.)
Such systems are generally used for software with siginificantly higher price point (a few hundred, if not thousand) and generally a much higher payoff than a single tax return.
I can tell you that if it screwed up a computer system of anyone I know they (Intuit) would never sell a product to people I know again.
They are called Junior Programmers.
Just because I can script something in an hour doesn't mean I can provide it to end users as a solution for them.
Most of the development effort in an application has little to do with the required process and data manipulation, but everything to do with user interface to it.
I've plugged a scanner (radio) into my soundcard and listened to the sound from both the computer speakers, and the speakers in the scanner, there was no noticable delay.
Once you start adding processing on top of it though there will be.
check Slashdot for the story, but forget about the security offered by garage door openers.
Atleast 1 brand has a reset sequence which resets an internal counter and would make it quite easy to duplicate the required signal to open the garage door.
ah well.
Take the datastream required for 1 channel for 1 minute, multiply by the number of channels.
Lets see, an 80Hr TIVO is an 80G harddrive and stores 80hrs (aprox) at the worst video setting. For simplicity we will assume 1Gigabyte per hour. (A little off since an 80hr tivo has less than 80gigabytes of storage for tv programs.. but close enough).
So, 1 minute of video for 1 channel is 16Megabytes. So, 1 minute of 60 channels is 1Gigabyte, and you want atleast 30 minutes of all channels, so 30Gigabytes.
Assuming you have the bandwidth to/from the harddrive to shove 30Gigabytes of data to it in 30 minutes without dropping a frame your set.. doubt you'll actually have any bandwidth to read back a data stream from that though.
(Oh, and no, you can't store the datastream in LESS space as you would then be losing parts of the datastream. You also couldn't compress the RF data using a lossy algorithm as you'd lose necessary data. So, you'd either have to store the entire datastream and compress with it a lossless compression algorithm or recover the 60 datastreams and store them. Its likely the 60 data streams combined would be LESS storage than even a compressed full datastream...
Oh well, a few years down the road...