Wrong. In some cases the Artists have said they WANTED to put their music on Napster. And, in many cases the label did NOT hold the exclusive right. The problem is, the Artists were told they would be dropped if they made the music available through napster. (Check Offspring for one group who had to make deals for stuff they OWNED already).
There is a reason industrial PC's are so expensive. They are designed for harsh enviornments. I would strongly recommend one. They are hideously expensive compared to your standard PC though.
Remember, it is your ass on the line when the PC fails because the environment is too harsh for it.
practically rip apart the car? No. They get to rip apart the car, IF THEY CHOOSE.
The best part? You have no legal recourse.
I personally have not had significant problems, but I am very aware of people who have. (Either because they are a minority, or, because they weren't too bright about the situation, or the officer had a bad day).
While being very late to catch a plane I had a security guard ask to search through my bagage on a domestic flight. I *could* have said no. I wouldn't have traveled anywhere, but I *could* have said no.
That right doesn't even exist when traveling through customs.
Actually I'm not. Why? Because the conflict exists in webspace, how many companies fight it out for a specific email address? I can only think of 1. McDonalds.
Mostly they fight it out over the address so they can have www.xxx.com. And I do mean the popup window should appear for ANY request to that domain. (even to send e-mail).
The point is that if the functionality is added conflicts are not a major issue, and instead you can have a proliferation of TLDs and less concern over conflicts. (Which, preferably, would never happen).
Forget e-mail, why? Email address are, and can be anything. While some people might fight for whatever@wherever.com, fact is that 90% of the fight is for www.whatever.com.
Namespace collision *is* the problem. Even if we add an infinit number of TLD people will still want xyz.com.
I'm sitting here thinking about the problem, and I've decided that for my Internet use it would be acceptable for a Pop-up window to appear asking me which Root server should be primary for a given site (only to appear when a conflict exists between the root servers).
For instance, if cnn.news was resolved twice, once by ICANN, and once by otherDNS (ficticious) then I could simply choose from a popup which site I want, and depending on it's importants it could cache the results for the session, or flag it permanently.
(Please check any and all interviews with Aurthur C. Clark to verify that).
2001 isn't about HAL either. He has a significant role in it, but it isn't about HAL, it is about space exploration, technology, and peoples perceptions.
Hell, in 2001 and 2010 HAL is generally treated rather compasionatly considering he is an artificual life form.
Authur C. Clark has, in general, a positive view on Technology. As for society, well thats another debate.
As for Electrical fires, the amount of power used in a typical U.S. home, in comparison to a typical U.K. home would probably level out the statistics. (Is Aluminum wiring even allowed anymore? scary)
Your in a Fantasy World if you think you can do this yourself and still protect yourself.
I detest the need for lawyers for many things, but in this case you do not have a significant choice. If you do not have a correct and completely valid NDA it isn't worth the peice of paper it is printed on.
That only leaves trust.
I was screwed out of a dream job several years ago by a close friend. It happens. And when it comes to business many people, most businessmen, believe anything is fair game. It's just Business.
A book does not state that you have the right to read it.
Why? Because it is assumed/understood that is the intent.
As such, it would not be inconceivable for a court to grant that Source Code is used to make changes. Not simply to be read. So, providing the source code without stating that it cannot be modified might allow for it.
Redistribution of those modifications is up for grabs though...
millions? you wish, it cost BILLIONS to cancel those helicopters. It cost aproximately the same as it would have to have them built and delivered. (not kidding). And we need some to replace the few we have left. (before they all crash into the ocean)
If it is only every once in a while, why not use CD-R? Seriously, aside from the first backup you probably will not have to backup a large amount of data. Depends on your usage of course, but if once a month or so is acceptable for backups then I doubt there are significant amounts of data which change every day, or month.
You should consider what it would take to plan the backups in such a way as to catagorize the CD-R's. Perhaps, after having a logical plan it will actually make more sense to do it that way anyway.
(A backup of the installed os, a backup of the user structure, etc.)
Even better... I read through a significant amount of the Canadian Copyright regulations. It seems it is illegal for me to buy used books in the United States and Import them into Canada.
There are simularities between open Source and Napster. Both are a response to a commodity being artificially restricted.
Microsoft doesn't sell custom software, they sell Commodity software. But, they try to avoid the commodity trend, that is, supply causes the price to drop as it increases. So, they keep producing new versions with useless features. They now are stuck trying to figure out how to charge money for something people don't need, new features. (and avoid fixing the problems they create in the process).
The Music industry artificially sets prices high, while the costs associated with mass production are so low they could produce far in exceess of world demand. They shuffle the exceess profits into their advertising/promotion machines which consume money but don't add value to very much.
Both these companies are now dealing with the invisible hand... it is a direct result of them, and their industries trying to maximize profits, when anyone and their dog can now compete with them.
Within 5 years another industry will be hit by the same problem. Which industry? Dimond mining. There are very, very strong indications that man-made dimonds are, or will be a perfect match for natural dominds. And we all know the monopoly in that industry won't be happy...
I've finally fixed my account. I have a couple of simple filters and, believe it or not, they deal with 98% of spam today.
When was the last time you actually received spam with *YOUR* email address in the To: header?
It's been months for me, instead my name appears in 'Apparently-to' or some other crap... I toss all of those. Anything that isn't directed to me, either via To, Cc is tossed into a pile. I sift through it once in a while and delete 99.9% of it as trash. I've found 2 messages in there by mistake.
That does mean you have to specificly filter any mailing lists your on to go to the correct group, but I don't know about you, but I want that stuff sorted anyway.
That patent was filed in 1999 according to whats there. There is *NO* way that patent is valid, I implemented a program in Java to create the CD ID more than 3 years ago. If they published the information before 1998 they are screwed, they have 1 year after publication in the U.S. to file the patent. (in most countries the publication would invalidate the application immediately.)
Except for the fact that this particular band already suffers from interference produced by electric motors at about the power level. As such, the noise floor has already been raised significantly. Except distance deals well with this now. So, based on similar power levels it should not cause more interference than running a Razor.
This does mean the power level of such devices would have to be strictly controlled. But it means there could be no reasonable expectation of unusual interference to pre-existing services.
Even a large array of them within a small area should not create significantly more interference than a manufacturing plant with a large number of eletrical motors.
Please produce an essay outlining the current rate of land usage for producing soybeans. Please produce a map outlining the area whith the highest rate of increased land usage.
And where you done, please explain how this does not impact the rainforests.
I haven't used LaTeX, but I can agree with you that a text based solution is quite workable.
I've used text based reports in a variety of enviornments, with, and without ReportGenerators in the sequence and straight text is always flexable. You can readily convert it to a format which is what the end users want. (PDF is very nice for 'laser like' output. It looks exactly like it will print. The viewer is easily integrated into the browser, and the viewer is free. (major bonus if the website is publicly accessable).
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THe record companies have tried to making selling used CDs illegal.
Next time they might succeed.
Remember, it is your ass on the line when the PC fails because the environment is too harsh for it.
The best part? You have no legal recourse.
I personally have not had significant problems, but I am very aware of people who have. (Either because they are a minority, or, because they weren't too bright about the situation, or the officer had a bad day).
While being very late to catch a plane I had a security guard ask to search through my bagage on a domestic flight. I *could* have said no. I wouldn't have traveled anywhere, but I *could* have said no.
That right doesn't even exist when traveling through customs.
Mostly they fight it out over the address so they can have www.xxx.com. And I do mean the popup window should appear for ANY request to that domain. (even to send e-mail).
The point is that if the functionality is added conflicts are not a major issue, and instead you can have a proliferation of TLDs and less concern over conflicts. (Which, preferably, would never happen).
Namespace collision *is* the problem. Even if we add an infinit number of TLD people will still want xyz.com.
For instance, if cnn.news was resolved twice, once by ICANN, and once by otherDNS (ficticious) then I could simply choose from a popup which site I want, and depending on it's importants it could cache the results for the session, or flag it permanently.
2001 wasn't, and isn't about IBM.
(Please check any and all interviews with Aurthur C. Clark to verify that).
2001 isn't about HAL either. He has a significant role in it, but it isn't about HAL, it is about space exploration, technology, and peoples perceptions.
Hell, in 2001 and 2010 HAL is generally treated rather compasionatly considering he is an artificual life form.
Authur C. Clark has, in general, a positive view on Technology. As for society, well thats another debate.
The U.S. will rape and pillage Canada for power, they don't need it from Europe
higher amperage does.
As for Electrical fires, the amount of power used in a typical U.S. home, in comparison to a typical U.K. home would probably level out the statistics. (Is Aluminum wiring even allowed anymore? scary)
I detest the need for lawyers for many things, but in this case you do not have a significant choice. If you do not have a correct and completely valid NDA it isn't worth the peice of paper it is printed on.
That only leaves trust.
I was screwed out of a dream job several years ago by a close friend. It happens. And when it comes to business many people, most businessmen, believe anything is fair game. It's just Business.
Why? Because it is assumed/understood that is the intent.
As such, it would not be inconceivable for a court to grant that Source Code is used to make changes. Not simply to be read. So, providing the source code without stating that it cannot be modified might allow for it.
Redistribution of those modifications is up for grabs though...
millions? you wish, it cost BILLIONS to cancel those helicopters. It cost aproximately the same as it would have to have them built and delivered. (not kidding). And we need some to replace the few we have left. (before they all crash into the ocean)
If it is only every once in a while, why not use CD-R? Seriously, aside from the first backup you probably will not have to backup a large amount of data. Depends on your usage of course, but if once a month or so is acceptable for backups then I doubt there are significant amounts of data which change every day, or month.
You should consider what it would take to plan the backups in such a way as to catagorize the CD-R's. Perhaps, after having a logical plan it will actually make more sense to do it that way anyway.
(A backup of the installed os, a backup of the user structure, etc.)
It is a violation of copyright.
Except for one thing....
It only applies to textbooks.
There are simularities between open Source and Napster. Both are a response to a commodity being artificially restricted.
Microsoft doesn't sell custom software, they sell Commodity software. But, they try to avoid the commodity trend, that is, supply causes the price to drop as it increases. So, they keep producing new versions with useless features. They now are stuck trying to figure out how to charge money for something people don't need, new features. (and avoid fixing the problems they create in the process).
The Music industry artificially sets prices high, while the costs associated with mass production are so low they could produce far in exceess of world demand. They shuffle the exceess profits into their advertising/promotion machines which consume money but don't add value to very much.
Both these companies are now dealing with the invisible hand... it is a direct result of them, and their industries trying to maximize profits, when anyone and their dog can now compete with them.
Within 5 years another industry will be hit by the same problem. Which industry? Dimond mining. There are very, very strong indications that man-made dimonds are, or will be a perfect match for natural dominds. And we all know the monopoly in that industry won't be happy...
Instead of having communications only the government could listen in on, we have communications everybody and their dog can listen in on.
And this is a good thing?!
At what point is it no longer Linux, or Unix?
Especially if you ship across the border.
UPS hasn't got a clue.
When was the last time you actually received spam with *YOUR* email address in the To: header?
It's been months for me, instead my name appears in 'Apparently-to' or some other crap... I toss all of those. Anything that isn't directed to me, either via To, Cc is tossed into a pile. I sift through it once in a while and delete 99.9% of it as trash. I've found 2 messages in there by mistake.
That does mean you have to specificly filter any mailing lists your on to go to the correct group, but I don't know about you, but I want that stuff sorted anyway.
If move to TINI If not in To or Cc file in trash
Simple.
That patent was filed in 1999 according to whats there. There is *NO* way that patent is valid, I implemented a program in Java to create the CD ID more than 3 years ago. If they published the information before 1998 they are screwed, they have 1 year after publication in the U.S. to file the patent. (in most countries the publication would invalidate the application immediately.)
This does mean the power level of such devices would have to be strictly controlled. But it means there could be no reasonable expectation of unusual interference to pre-existing services.
Even a large array of them within a small area should not create significantly more interference than a manufacturing plant with a large number of eletrical motors.
And where you done, please explain how this does not impact the rainforests.
I've used text based reports in a variety of enviornments, with, and without ReportGenerators in the sequence and straight text is always flexable. You can readily convert it to a format which is what the end users want. (PDF is very nice for 'laser like' output. It looks exactly like it will print. The viewer is easily integrated into the browser, and the viewer is free. (major bonus if the website is publicly accessable).