no, not like you are used to today. there were no ide cdrom drives. there were scsi drives, and it's possible there were bootable cdrom disks that were used in scsi drives-i doubt it though.
did you see his specs with the cdrom drive. i was there was a reason he couldnt find prices for cdrom drives were just getting popular. most of the computers built in 91 didnt have cdrom drives because most applications, i cannot think of many besides groliers, came on floppy disk. the drives that did exsist either had scsi interfaces, or other propritary interfaces from companies like panasonic, sony (had at least two different ones i remember), matsushita.
But in 1991, such video cards [with tv out] weren't so common. Or were they?
IOW, you don't have to be 21 to serve alcohol, just to drink it.
in the places where i have lived this is incorrect. in arkansas and pensylvania you have to be 21+ to sell/serve alcohol. i've even seen cashiers get people over 18 to sell cigarettes to patrons.
hell i thought the hd was trying to become pregnant. perhaps it was having fertiltiy problems, but i personally think 5gb is too young for a hd to have children.
actually i think a more appropriate analogy would be:
- showup for the interview - presented with nda - either:
o sign nda and and proceed with interview
o decline nda and leave
with software: - buy the software - presented with eula - either:
o agree to eula and use software
o decline eula and try to take it back and get
a refund
since, in most cases, you agree to eula before you actually get to use the software.
while i agree that it will be hard to get stores to take the software back, it's been done. this is the basis for the windows refund day. i personally dont think eulas should be considered legal if they refuse to take back the software after it was opened-since you had to open it in order to agree to the terms.
Nonono, this ruling goes more towards saying that you can't sign away your basic rights, which in this case would be the right of free speech.
dont you do this when you sign an nondiscolsure agreement (NDA)? say i interview with a company and i have to sign an nda. then i've effectivley signed away my rights to talk about anything they put in the nda--isnt this how it works?
well in the us, the constitution gives authors control over their works for a "limited time". the reasoning being that people will make money off of these works for a "limited time" and contribute more art to society. eventually copyrights would expire and the work would go into the public domain. by removing this "limited time" (artists life + 70 year effectivly does this), this removes the incentive for the corporation and socitey doesnt benifit.
think of what life would be like if works would have never gone into the public domain: there would be no free access to the works like shakespeare, poe, bible, bach, beethoven, puccini. as a consequence disney wouldnt have been able to make things like snow white, the jungle book, peter pan, etc. people take these things for granted, but a world where nothing enters the public domain would be a very depressing one.
another issue has nothing to do with mickey. many works are essentially abandoned. they are sitting on bookshelves not being read and will disappear. eldred wants to take many old works, transcribe them into digitial form, and make them available to a new generation of readers. these works are making no money for the copyright holders, and in many cases the copyright holders are unknown. under the current copyright laws, these will never enter the public domain -- all this to protect mickey.
i'm sorry but a corporations desire to earn money does not trump the constitution in my opinion. it's sad the justices dont think in the same manner.
ok, so you exploit a buffer overflow in xmms, then what? how many people are running xmms as root? i'm kinda slow, so bare with my ignorance. how does a buffer overlflow in xmms give a "normal" user the ability to infect the operating system? how does one write a worm to infect multiple operating systems on multiple platforms efficiently? this sounds a bit hokey to me.
If one group is selling their product below the actual cost of production then there are real problems.
so what is the _cost_ of a piece of software? after paying for the initial development of an encoder/decoder then you have maintainance, support and enhancement costs. i didnt see any estimates for these costs in the article. it would be nice of the mpeg4-la folks to provide this information so we could determine for ourselves if ms is dumping.
say for example the costs associated with maintainance/support/new features is 5 cents per encoder and decoder then ms isnt dumping if they sell them both for 25 cents. the mpeg folks could easily match the price and make 150% profit.
now if the costs above cost 25 cents per sale then it would be dumping.
i realize that by dropping the prices more people would use the software, and this would change the costs per sale. until the mpeg folks provide us with more than accusations, we really cannot make these.
it could be that because of ms's infrastructure they can produce things cheaper. in this case i would say that the mpeg folks either need to adapt or move on.
when i was an undergrad i would repair computers while in school and during the summers. i graduated and was doing repair work at a friends business the summer befor grad scool. one of the customers asked me if i was a+ certified, and i said i had no idea what he was talking about. i had actually never heard of it. he asked my boss why i wasnt certified, and my boss told him that it really wasnt necessary. the guy seemed shocked, but i explained that i wouldnt have time for certification since i'd been busy getting my chemical engineering degree.
i really dont know what they teach people at the a+ places. i learned everything i knew/know from expirence, thought i'm sure i dont know everything. however i can troubleshoot problems, and build computers rather easily.
since my screwups would hardly result in death or injury, i dont think this kind of certification is necessary. when people bring their computers in, they are informed to backup everything they might want. that is if it's possible-some times the boxes dont boot. i've come close, but i've never lost a customers data due to my own neglegance. if the hd sounds like an electric shaver, then it's out of my hands.
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exactly what i was thinking, except i thought it was a toshiba dolphin for some reason. still, its hardly an innovation. i guess allen took his billions and had people search on ebay till they found something cool, declaried searching a valid innovation, and recreated what they found.
your clever attempt at humor was not wasted apon me my indian friend. most people probably pay little attention to the headlines since they are normally sensationalistic and incorrect.
i work with the local indypendent media center and our solution was to not log the ip addresses. the logs are still useful for diagnosing problems, but without the ip addresses they are useless for finding people.
when i view slashdot, i view the stripped down version. most of the graphics and stuff are gone, just the stories. as a result the polls also dont show up. i wonder how many of the people who come to slashdot and use linux do so in a similar manner.
i was referring more to the article stating that 2600 was "distributing" decss when they were in actuality just "linking" to it-at least that is what i remembered. if the article was incorrect, i was going to drop the author a line.
Neither the Bunner nor the Pavlovich case is related to the
against 2600 magazine, which invoked the Digital Millennium
Act to prevent the magazine from distributing DeCSS on its W
say my parents comes here from the mexico and give birth to me. what exactly makes me more special than my parents?
the fact that you were born here means you've led a fairly privileged life. people in this country grow up with many more opportunities that most of the people coming here for grad school. the fact that those bourn into privilege didnt take advantage of it and are less qualified than their foreign counterparts is enough evidence to give the foreigners the positions. rewards should be given based on merit and not birthright. you know thats why we left the kings on the other side of the pond.
and i can tell you that until the recession hit, not many americans wanted to go to grad school. people were mostly interested in the fast money and had no interest in research. now that the economy sucks, we are getting more applicants than ever from the us.
the schools policy is to take americans over foreigners, so that should make you happy. i personally dont agree with this policy. there are many people from foreign countries that are more qualified and will do better research than an american student who is hanging out for a couple years while the job market gets better.
i hate to tell you this, but you probably are not a native american. if you are then ignore what follows. most of what made this country a success is a result of hard working peoples from other countries. most of the people here are not natives any more than a recently nationalized indian. it is the diversity immigration brought that made us strong and successful. if you want to send them home then you should be willing to return to your homeland.
ok you stated: Communication the most basic skill required to effectively work. Period.
your interpretation is not what he said. he was very explicit when it came to his communication. if we cannot depend on the words that were typed, how can we depend on interpretations based on those words?
I would insist that my employees speak English natively or speak it well enough that I can't tell they are not native speakers.
to me this is pretty clear. if the speech of an employee has accents, british equivalents, etc. it is not enough for this guy. to me these are evidence that they are not native speakers. perhaps you would not consider these as indicators, but i would think you are lying to yourself.
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no, not like you are used to today. there were no ide cdrom drives. there were scsi drives, and it's possible there were bootable cdrom disks that were used in scsi drives-i doubt it though.
they used to come in bundles cdrom+soundcard. they would typically only work together.
did you see his specs with the cdrom drive. i was there was a reason he couldnt find prices for cdrom drives were just getting popular. most of the computers built in 91 didnt have cdrom drives because most applications, i cannot think of many besides groliers, came on floppy disk. the drives that did exsist either had scsi interfaces, or other propritary interfaces from companies like panasonic, sony (had at least two different ones i remember), matsushita.
But in 1991, such video cards [with tv out] weren't so common. Or were they?
incase he is still wondering: no they were not.
i agree. i think this dork made this crap up.
IOW, you don't have to be 21 to serve alcohol, just to drink it.
in the places where i have lived this is incorrect. in arkansas and pensylvania you have to be 21+ to sell/serve alcohol. i've even seen cashiers get people over 18 to sell cigarettes to patrons.
encrypt your traffic by use rsync over ssh.
hell i thought the hd was trying to become pregnant. perhaps it was having fertiltiy problems, but i personally think 5gb is too young for a hd to have children.
actually i think a more appropriate analogy would be:
- showup for the interview
- presented with nda
- either:
o sign nda and and proceed with interview
o decline nda and leave
with software:
- buy the software
- presented with eula
- either:
o agree to eula and use software
o decline eula and try to take it back and get
a refund
since, in most cases, you agree to eula before you actually get to use the software.
while i agree that it will be hard to get stores to take the software back, it's been done. this is the basis for the windows refund day. i personally dont think eulas should be considered legal if they refuse to take back the software after it was opened-since you had to open it in order to agree to the terms.
is this your opinion, or is there something substantiating it? dont take this the wrong way, i would just like a reference or something.
Nonono, this ruling goes more towards saying that you can't sign away your basic rights, which in this case would be the right of free speech.
dont you do this when you sign an nondiscolsure agreement (NDA)? say i interview with a company and i have to sign an nda. then i've effectivley signed away my rights to talk about anything they put in the nda--isnt this how it works?
well in the us, the constitution gives authors control over their works for a "limited time". the reasoning being that people will make money off of these works for a "limited time" and contribute more art to society. eventually copyrights would expire and the work would go into the public domain. by removing this "limited time" (artists life + 70 year effectivly does this), this removes the incentive for the corporation and socitey doesnt benifit.
think of what life would be like if works would have never gone into the public domain: there would be no free access to the works like shakespeare, poe, bible, bach, beethoven, puccini. as a consequence disney wouldnt have been able to make things like snow white, the jungle book, peter pan, etc. people take these things for granted, but a world where nothing enters the public domain would be a very depressing one.
another issue has nothing to do with mickey. many works are essentially abandoned. they are sitting on bookshelves not being read and will disappear. eldred wants to take many old works, transcribe them into digitial form, and make them available to a new generation of readers. these works are making no money for the copyright holders, and in many cases the copyright holders are unknown. under the current copyright laws, these will never enter the public domain -- all this to protect mickey.
i'm sorry but a corporations desire to earn money does not trump the constitution in my opinion. it's sad the justices dont think in the same manner.
ok, so you exploit a buffer overflow in xmms, then what? how many people are running xmms as root? i'm kinda slow, so bare with my ignorance. how does a buffer overlflow in xmms give a "normal" user the ability to infect the operating system? how does one write a worm to infect multiple operating systems on multiple platforms efficiently? this sounds a bit hokey to me.
If one group is selling their product below the actual cost of production then there are real problems.
so what is the _cost_ of a piece of software? after paying for the initial development of an encoder/decoder then you have maintainance, support and enhancement costs. i didnt see any estimates for these costs in the article. it would be nice of the mpeg4-la folks to provide this information so we could determine for ourselves if ms is dumping.
say for example the costs associated with maintainance/support/new features is 5 cents per encoder and decoder then ms isnt dumping if they sell them both for 25 cents. the mpeg folks could easily match the price and make 150% profit.
now if the costs above cost 25 cents per sale then it would be dumping.
i realize that by dropping the prices more people would use the software, and this would change the costs per sale. until the mpeg folks provide us with more than accusations, we really cannot make these.
it could be that because of ms's infrastructure they can produce things cheaper. in this case i would say that the mpeg folks either need to adapt or move on.
when i was an undergrad i would repair computers while in school and during the summers. i graduated and was doing repair work at a friends business the summer befor grad scool. one of the customers asked me if i was a+ certified, and i said i had no idea what he was talking about. i had actually never heard of it. he asked my boss why i wasnt certified, and my boss told him that it really wasnt necessary. the guy seemed shocked, but i explained that i wouldnt have time for certification since i'd been busy getting my chemical engineering degree.
i really dont know what they teach people at the a+ places. i learned everything i knew/know from expirence, thought i'm sure i dont know everything. however i can troubleshoot problems, and build computers rather easily.
since my screwups would hardly result in death or injury, i dont think this kind of certification is necessary. when people bring their computers in, they are informed to backup everything they might want. that is if it's possible-some times the boxes dont boot. i've come close, but i've never lost a customers data due to my own neglegance. if the hd sounds like an electric shaver, then it's out of my hands.
exactly what i was thinking, except i thought it was a toshiba dolphin for some reason. still, its hardly an innovation. i guess allen took his billions and had people search on ebay till they found something cool, declaried searching a valid innovation, and recreated what they found.
your clever attempt at humor was not wasted apon me my indian friend. most people probably pay little attention to the headlines since they are normally sensationalistic and incorrect.
:).
fwiw i thought your post was funny
i couldnt agree with you more. a good overview of our involvement in iraq can be found at the washington post.
good point. i hadnt thought of that...
''Oh wait, they want it on disk? Do they want it in Word or PDF format? :) ''
.60 quality. then the doj will submit the logs to distributed proofing to get them in ascii format.
jpegs baby with
i work with the local indypendent media center and our solution was to not log the ip addresses. the logs are still useful for diagnosing problems, but without the ip addresses they are useless for finding people.
when i view slashdot, i view the stripped down version. most of the graphics and stuff are gone, just the stories. as a result the polls also dont show up. i wonder how many of the people who come to slashdot and use linux do so in a similar manner.
i was referring more to the article stating that 2600 was "distributing" decss when they were in actuality just "linking" to it-at least that is what i remembered. if the article was incorrect, i was going to drop the author a line.
from the article
Neither the Bunner nor the Pavlovich case is related to the
against 2600 magazine, which invoked the Digital Millennium
Act to prevent the magazine from distributing DeCSS on its W
wasnt the 2600 case about linking to the source?
say my parents comes here from the mexico and give birth to me. what exactly makes me more special than my parents?
the fact that you were born here means you've led a fairly privileged life. people in this country grow up with many more opportunities that most of the people coming here for grad school. the fact that those bourn into privilege didnt take advantage of it and are less qualified than their foreign counterparts is enough evidence to give the foreigners the positions. rewards should be
given based on merit and not birthright. you know thats why we left the kings on the other side of the pond.
and i can tell you that until the recession hit, not many americans wanted to go to grad school. people were mostly interested in the fast money and had no interest in research. now that the economy sucks, we are getting more applicants than ever from the us.
the schools policy is to take americans over foreigners, so that should make you happy. i personally dont agree with this policy. there are many people from foreign countries that are more qualified and will do better research than an american student who is hanging out for a couple years while the job market gets better.
i hate to tell you this, but you probably are not a native american. if you are then ignore what follows. most of what made this country a success is a result of hard working peoples from other countries. most of the people here are not natives any more than a recently nationalized indian. it is the diversity immigration brought that made us strong and successful. if you want to send them home then you should be willing to return to your homeland.
ok you stated:
Communication the most basic skill required to effectively work. Period.
your interpretation is not what he said. he was very explicit when it came to his communication. if we cannot depend on the words that were typed, how can we depend on interpretations based on those words?
I would insist that my employees speak English natively or speak it well enough that I can't tell they are not native speakers.
to me this is pretty clear. if the speech of an employee has accents, british equivalents, etc. it is not enough for this guy. to me these are evidence that they are not native speakers. perhaps you would not consider these as indicators, but i would think you are lying to yourself.