I think the attitued is more along the lines of: Why use Flash when the company behind 99% of your user's machines may intentionally start breaking it?
Ummm... you could always get U.S. citizenship, get your trucking license, and find a job hauling toxic waste. It's only a step away from getting U.S. citizenship and taking some flying lessons.
"Terrorists are very patient, have many sympathizers and are well funded. Their organizers are pretty smart too, even if their footsoldiers are rather dumb."
Wait a minute... has the U.S. ever actually captured a terrorist? Except for the locals like the Unibomber, the sniper fellow and the Oklahoma city bomber? I don't think the U.S. is qualified to create a profile of what a terrorist is like.
I don't think any of the measures the U.S. has put in place would have stopped or captured any terrorists. Except maybe the boxcutter thing.
Lots of innocent people have been jailed though, a couple countries invaded and countless people killed. I'm not sure what that's about.
For the networks, the customers are the advertisers, not the viewers.
Admittedly, viewership is important to the advertisers, but a well targeted audience and programming which cannot be considered truely offensive, controversial or hurtful to the customers is more important to the networks.
Fear of losing customers (i.e. the advertisers) will make the decisions about what is truely offensive, controversial or hurtful more extreme.
So what if the viewership halves but the advertisers find out that people can't skip commercials, even when recorded? This new T.V. may be an overwhelming success, and of course competing mediums will be stifled because of the revenues it generates for big business.
Of course all of this is just idle pesimisitc reasoning without a stitch of research or data, and absolutely no experience.
It used to be the case that the tech support is more involved with the MS boxes. I'm not sure if it is still true these days.
Apache/Linux as a webserver is pretty straightforward for anyone who's developed in the environment at all, while a MS solution looks very different remotely than locally, it involves a bit of re-learning and hence support.
As for margins, there's always the cult-of-efficiency arguments of "the more efficient a system is, the less people you need to keep it running", the less you can charge and the more customers you can gain... so while the MS boxes may or may not make a greater profit, they cost more and cover more paycheques. Depending on the motives of the business, it can be a good thing or a bad thing.
Well yeah, but he didn't pay attention to the fact that while spoiled ballots are counted, they're lumped in with the people who put multiple X's, forget to actually put in an X, or find some other way to mess up putting an X next to a name.
So his statement would be interpreted as something along the lines of: we had over 200 votes in the ballot box, 1 person didn't know how to put an X next to a name.
I would agree with you if there was a none-of-the-above box, unfortunately there isn't much of a way to make such a political statement.
... on that note, some regions had pseudo-bogus counsillors with completely messed up platforms which effectively were "I'd rather vote for somebody who promises to raise taxes to gold plate the streets than for one of the other liars" boxes.
I think that's why the ballots are black with white text... it's really hard to do anything but put text somewhere in one of those little white circles.
I ran a polling station and hand counted ballots in some election, I don't recall which one, and as I recall, there was only one 'spoiled' ballot, and that was spoiled intentionally by some student who was insistant that it was a political statement.
There are other things like, you initial the back of the ballot and make sure that the ballot which goes into the box is initialed. You also have members of various parties sticking around to observe the vote... they keep eachother honest and keep the people running the booths honest.
It's all pretty dull. The only thing Canada needs is proportional representation so that we can have a multi-minority government deadlocked on issues rather than a majority government which was elected for the sole purpose of keeping the bigger twits out of office.
I always figured that Man pages should have a URL reference to comments so that if you're stuck on something you can just read the modded up thread on "But I'm trying to do this with an NCC1701-H!" or "Does anyone have an example?"
Then if the URL is introduced in a standard fashion, a specialized man page reader could show the comments.
After five years or so, the author could then pick out the good questions and touch up the information.
In any other market, unchecked piracy would be called "market dumping"
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Aside from saying "I agree", which I do, the review started with such promise. The idea of trying to learn something about the kinds of social forces which spark real innovation is an interesting idea...
Until the review described the book as a race/sex list of the "top individual contributors" of mankind. That stuff is just fodder for the white supremicists.
On the topic of the parent post, what shocks me about Southern Ontario thinking is the way developments work. Being that you're from Southern Ontario, you've certainly heard of the Oak-ridges Moriane project. 6000 houses are being built. WTF?!
Skip the environmentally sensitive aspects of the moriane, but think of this: 6000 houses means at least 15,000 people. They're building a town but will they build the infrastrucutre???
Hell no.
They'll just put 2-car garages on the front of the houses, pave the driveways, install garage door openers, and widen the roads into the city.
They'll create a couple stripmalls with big movie theatres, a Wal-Mart might appear and a bunch of schools will be put in of course.
Done.
It's weird to build a town in one fell swoop. It's weirder to not hook it up with public transit. Most of Southern Ontario is built that way.
Stronger urban planning would hook it up to a rail system express to the major working areas of the city. Include condominum developments for a higher-density around the railstation.
I'm strongly of the opinion that the -- let's rezone growing fields up into the most lucrative form of housing -- kind of city planning is nothing but municipal and provincial corruption. There are big bucks in development.
Slightly more correct is that you can not only resell, redistribute, burn, eat or sodomize copyrighted material such as books, tapes, CDs, newspapers and so forth, but you can pay people to haul it away too!
What I of course meant to say was that you can't copy then redistribute those copies of a copyrighted work without the permission of the author.
Whereas these guys will probably argue that they never actually sold the product, they just 'licensed it out' under some terms which happen to prevent copying.
I've seen that quote before and I interpreted it as a clause which makes "copying software" onto your HDD legal (because the softawre needs to be "installed"), and copying it into RAM for execution legal.
Software can get away with what it does while the woodworking tool cannot because software is considered both a copyrightable work and a patentable invention. You can't redistribute copyrighted works without the author's permission.
These dovetail jig-making-jig people need a patent to protect themselves... They can terminate a license with a licensee, and sue them up the wazoo, but I don't think there is anything they can do about the tools they produced and distributed.
The "Click to remove me" links are not all that effective. People tend to forget that the other way Spammers verify your email address is with HTML email containing foreign image tags.
E.g. <img src="http://10.0.0.9/images/9879287493?email=blah@ nothere.not">
The Canopy group already has a stake in Troll Tech. You don't have to "own" a company to exert influence. Troll Tech doesn't have to stop developing QT to freeze all native commercial development under KDE dead in its tracks... it just has to raise the price.
What if Canopy were to fund a SCO Unix port of QT and KDE, and use KDE as their premiere Desktop Environment? Affordable for commercial use only on SCO Unix?
My point is NOT the particulars, only that such commercial control over a free environment is possible.
Also think about it from a practical perspective: Many apps are small twiddly hacks. If somebody wants to write a hack in KDE, and use any company time or intellectual property, then they have to jump through hoops to get corporate legal to give it the o.k., or they have to explain to their employer why they need a $2k purchase approval to be able to write a hack.
On the other hand, they could just not use KDE.
Knowing this, why should anyone in a commercial world bother learning how to develop for KDE? They know they won't get approval to do anything with it. And if QT is tough to bring in through the corporate back door, then why bother bringing in KDE?
(Silly arguments of using a non-native toolkit aside)
Shouldn't the onus be on the Trademark holder to defend their trademark? e.g. if Apple records doesn't like Apple computer putting up the iPod site when people search for "Apple" then Google would be required to say "this is too close for us to call. We're taking out the text ad until we see a written agreement from both parties"
On the other hand, if searching for "Ford" brings up a Chevrolet text ad, big deal... as long as Ford doesn't say "Hey Google, that's our trademark and we don't want it used that way!"
The idea that anyone could know the marketplace and trademarks of the whole of industry is absurd.
I'm not a lawyer either, but if you fill out a signature "N/A", there may be an argument that you intentionally "voided" it.
Also... you have to find the person who signed it. That won't be easy.
IMHO, there is little to gain from a case like this short of vengence. A few sternly worded letters might get their attention and partially resolve the matter.
Personally though, I would just send the letters myself, the second letter would cc the federal police, Visa, and maybe the media.
Ultimately, it would be my own stupid mistake for leaving my personal information in a public place. I'd feel lucky that nobody changed the card mailing address to a local P.O. box.
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On the other hand, the same thing could be said about telephones.
Telemarketers aren't quite as bad as "Pay me $XXX and I'll stop calling"
I think the attitued is more along the lines of: Why use Flash when the company behind 99% of your user's machines may intentionally start breaking it?
Ummm... you could always get U.S. citizenship, get your trucking license, and find a job hauling toxic waste. It's only a step away from getting U.S. citizenship and taking some flying lessons.
"Terrorists are very patient, have many sympathizers and are well funded. Their organizers are pretty smart too, even if their footsoldiers are rather dumb."
Wait a minute... has the U.S. ever actually captured a terrorist? Except for the locals like the Unibomber, the sniper fellow and the Oklahoma city bomber? I don't think the U.S. is qualified to create a profile of what a terrorist is like.
I don't think any of the measures the U.S. has put in place would have stopped or captured any terrorists. Except maybe the boxcutter thing.
Lots of innocent people have been jailed though, a couple countries invaded and countless people killed. I'm not sure what that's about.
I'd want a personal hand-signed cheque from Bill Gates for $35. Hey, he's not the CEO, but he's the founder and all that rot.
And hey, by not cashing it, it might mess up the accounting systems as Bill waits for his $35 expense to be processed. :-)
For the networks, the customers are the advertisers, not the viewers.
Admittedly, viewership is important to the advertisers, but a well targeted audience and programming which cannot be considered truely offensive, controversial or hurtful to the customers is more important to the networks.
Fear of losing customers (i.e. the advertisers) will make the decisions about what is truely offensive, controversial or hurtful more extreme.
So what if the viewership halves but the advertisers find out that people can't skip commercials, even when recorded? This new T.V. may be an overwhelming success, and of course competing mediums will be stifled because of the revenues it generates for big business.
Of course all of this is just idle pesimisitc reasoning without a stitch of research or data, and absolutely no experience.
It used to be the case that the tech support is more involved with the MS boxes. I'm not sure if it is still true these days.
Apache/Linux as a webserver is pretty straightforward for anyone who's developed in the environment at all, while a MS solution looks very different remotely than locally, it involves a bit of re-learning and hence support.
As for margins, there's always the cult-of-efficiency arguments of "the more efficient a system is, the less people you need to keep it running", the less you can charge and the more customers you can gain... so while the MS boxes may or may not make a greater profit, they cost more and cover more paycheques. Depending on the motives of the business, it can be a good thing or a bad thing.
Well yeah, but he didn't pay attention to the fact that while spoiled ballots are counted, they're lumped in with the people who put multiple X's, forget to actually put in an X, or find some other way to mess up putting an X next to a name.
So his statement would be interpreted as something along the lines of: we had over 200 votes in the ballot box, 1 person didn't know how to put an X next to a name.
I would agree with you if there was a none-of-the-above box, unfortunately there isn't much of a way to make such a political statement.
... on that note, some regions had pseudo-bogus counsillors with completely messed up platforms which effectively were "I'd rather vote for somebody who promises to raise taxes to gold plate the streets than for one of the other liars" boxes.
If it compiles, ship it!
I think that's why the ballots are black with white text... it's really hard to do anything but put text somewhere in one of those little white circles.
I ran a polling station and hand counted ballots in some election, I don't recall which one, and as I recall, there was only one 'spoiled' ballot, and that was spoiled intentionally by some student who was insistant that it was a political statement.
There are other things like, you initial the back of the ballot and make sure that the ballot which goes into the box is initialed. You also have members of various parties sticking around to observe the vote... they keep eachother honest and keep the people running the booths honest.
It's all pretty dull. The only thing Canada needs is proportional representation so that we can have a multi-minority government deadlocked on issues rather than a majority government which was elected for the sole purpose of keeping the bigger twits out of office.
I always figured that Man pages should have a URL reference to comments so that if you're stuck on something you can just read the modded up thread on "But I'm trying to do this with an NCC1701-H!" or "Does anyone have an example?"
Then if the URL is introduced in a standard fashion, a specialized man page reader could show the comments.
After five years or so, the author could then pick out the good questions and touch up the information.
Linus is a trademark holder and a copyright holder of the contributions he's made to Linux.
The trademark aspect doesn't enter it unless Linus has a problem with SCO using the name "Linux".
By posting that message, you're a Slashdotter.
Make up your mind about copyrights!
In any other market, unchecked piracy would be called "market dumping"
Aside from saying "I agree", which I do, the review started with such promise. The idea of trying to learn something about the kinds of social forces which spark real innovation is an interesting idea...
Until the review described the book as a race/sex list of the "top individual contributors" of mankind. That stuff is just fodder for the white supremicists.
But it could just be a bad review.
A flag?
Conformist!
The glider's left or the viewer's left?
On the topic of the parent post, what shocks me about Southern Ontario thinking is the way developments work. Being that you're from Southern Ontario, you've certainly heard of the Oak-ridges Moriane project. 6000 houses are being built. WTF?!
Skip the environmentally sensitive aspects of the moriane, but think of this: 6000 houses means at least 15,000 people. They're building a town but will they build the infrastrucutre???
Hell no.
They'll just put 2-car garages on the front of the houses, pave the driveways, install garage door openers, and widen the roads into the city.
They'll create a couple stripmalls with big movie theatres, a Wal-Mart might appear and a bunch of schools will be put in of course.
Done.
It's weird to build a town in one fell swoop. It's weirder to not hook it up with public transit. Most of Southern Ontario is built that way.
Stronger urban planning would hook it up to a rail system express to the major working areas of the city. Include condominum developments for a higher-density around the railstation.
I'm strongly of the opinion that the -- let's rezone growing fields up into the most lucrative form of housing -- kind of city planning is nothing but municipal and provincial corruption. There are big bucks in development.
No, we're both wrong!
Slightly more correct is that you can not only resell, redistribute, burn, eat or sodomize copyrighted material such as books, tapes, CDs, newspapers and so forth, but you can pay people to haul it away too!
What I of course meant to say was that you can't copy then redistribute those copies of a copyrighted work without the permission of the author.
Whereas these guys will probably argue that they never actually sold the product, they just 'licensed it out' under some terms which happen to prevent copying.
I've seen that quote before and I interpreted it as a clause which makes "copying software" onto your HDD legal (because the softawre needs to be "installed"), and copying it into RAM for execution legal.
Software can get away with what it does while the woodworking tool cannot because software is considered both a copyrightable work and a patentable invention. You can't redistribute copyrighted works without the author's permission.
These dovetail jig-making-jig people need a patent to protect themselves... They can terminate a license with a licensee, and sue them up the wazoo, but I don't think there is anything they can do about the tools they produced and distributed.
Create a Favourite to your local bookmark.html. Then you can get to your Netscape bookmarks from IE.
The "Click to remove me" links are not all that effective. People tend to forget that the other way Spammers verify your email address is with HTML email containing foreign image tags.
E.g. <img src="http://10.0.0.9/images/9879287493?email=blah@ nothere.not">
And never forget about incidental pollution not related to burning... like the occasional oil spill.
The Canopy group already has a stake in Troll Tech. You don't have to "own" a company to exert influence. Troll Tech doesn't have to stop developing QT to freeze all native commercial development under KDE dead in its tracks... it just has to raise the price.
What if Canopy were to fund a SCO Unix port of QT and KDE, and use KDE as their premiere Desktop Environment? Affordable for commercial use only on SCO Unix?
My point is NOT the particulars, only that such commercial control over a free environment is possible.
Also think about it from a practical perspective: Many apps are small twiddly hacks. If somebody wants to write a hack in KDE, and use any company time or intellectual property, then they have to jump through hoops to get corporate legal to give it the o.k., or they have to explain to their employer why they need a $2k purchase approval to be able to write a hack.
On the other hand, they could just not use KDE.
Knowing this, why should anyone in a commercial world bother learning how to develop for KDE? They know they won't get approval to do anything with it. And if QT is tough to bring in through the corporate back door, then why bother bringing in KDE?
(Silly arguments of using a non-native toolkit aside)
Shouldn't the onus be on the Trademark holder to defend their trademark? e.g. if Apple records doesn't like Apple computer putting up the iPod site when people search for "Apple" then Google would be required to say "this is too close for us to call. We're taking out the text ad until we see a written agreement from both parties"
On the other hand, if searching for "Ford" brings up a Chevrolet text ad, big deal... as long as Ford doesn't say "Hey Google, that's our trademark and we don't want it used that way!"
The idea that anyone could know the marketplace and trademarks of the whole of industry is absurd.
Search results are sacred of course.
I'm not a lawyer either, but if you fill out a signature "N/A", there may be an argument that you intentionally "voided" it.
Also... you have to find the person who signed it. That won't be easy.
IMHO, there is little to gain from a case like this short of vengence. A few sternly worded letters might get their attention and partially resolve the matter.
Personally though, I would just send the letters myself, the second letter would cc the federal police, Visa, and maybe the media.
Ultimately, it would be my own stupid mistake for leaving my personal information in a public place. I'd feel lucky that nobody changed the card mailing address to a local P.O. box.