I've been saying this about Cleveland for a couple years now. Not only is the real estate cheap, but I figured that about 6 months out of the year, your A/C costs would be about nil. Just pump in air from the outside.
In fact, if you could figure out a way to sell the heat generated by the computers to nearby buildings, you might make a tidy side-sum to help defray the power costs:)
I thought that the introduction of "Short Round" in the Indiana Jones trilogy was not all that. There was a scene or two that made me groan, but for the most part, I thought he was pretty humorous for adults and children alike. Now, whether a director could get away with that kind of racial stereotyping (without hiding it under and alien's mask, that is) today is questionable.
It seems to me that a combination of the two approaches might be the best idea. Although the mesh mode is a great idea in concept, it still needs a way to get out to the greater part of the internet. Enter the kiosk: this could stand as a sort of hub or gateway to the internet for the mesh network, allowing the $100 laptops to reach those services. I don't know if that type of cooperation would be possible, but we can hope.
As regards medical supplies and the like: there is no doubt that this money could be used for other things. I do not venture an opinion as to which is right or better; everyone has their own agenda and beliefs. I suppose the idea behind the computers is education. Many experts think that education is really the only long-term solution to these over-populated countries and that through education we can begin to turn the overwhelming tide. Just throwing money at the problem is not a solution, but that is what is done at first (in the form of drugs and/or laptops) and then the hope is that some sort of training or education will come along with it and remain long after. I wish them all luck
I suppose the fad aspect will be determined by how useful the content generated by the users is. With Myspace, the content is necessarily fad-based, because the site revolves around music: a pretty fad-oriented industry. Take another social networking site: Yelp and the content is somewhat different. It is focused on store and restaurant reviews. Still somewhat fad-based, but the information is perhaps a bit longer-lasting than that for a local band. And maybe more useful for travel.
Basically, it depends on the content generated and how useful it is going forward, I would expect.
I am really impressed with that professor's students who want to transcribe her words. In my (law) classes, most people with laptops either browse the internet or play solitaire. I use my laptop for notes and rarely (but admittedly sometimes) use the internet to check my e-mail or look up a case i haven't read.
I think the professor should have the ability to not allow laptops. I wish they also had the ability to turn off the wireless internet in their classrooms, but that's not really feasible at my school.
I don't know. This is a good analogy and at first blush it would seem that because the user/web-surfer/whatever is downloading a greatly reduced version of the original when using images.google.com.
However, in Harper and Row v. Nation Enterprises, the court rules that a magazine's appropriation of a part of President Gerald Ford's upcoming memoirs, even though the excerpts were only very small parts of the work as a whole, and those types of excerpts (such as reviewers use when reviewing book) would otherwise be considered Fair Use.
The court looked at Fair Use as an implied consent doctrine and asked whether the owner would have consented to the use. Well, an owner would not consent to use that basically preempts his work because the reduced copy cuts "to the heart" of the original. If the court views the thumbnails as basically taking the place of the original in many instances, and satisfying the users' curiosity as to the original, then they just might decide that Google has infringed upon Perfect 10's copyright.
I think Apple is already doing this. They may not be running specific ads saying that they offer better security than Windows (at least, I have never seen any) but I am always hearing about how Mac never gets any viruses, exploits, etc from friends, reporters, Mac salesman... It may be underground marketing, but it is still marketing.
Decisions from another district are called "persuasive authority". This means that the lawyers can bring the decision before the court to help persuade the judge to follow that decision, but the judge has no obligation to do so.
Precedent is only when the court you are currently in has made a decision on-point, or when the circuit court (that's the next level up, assuming this gets appealed) in your jurisdiction has made an on-point decision.
When two circuits are in opposition, that is when the Supreme Court will likely accept a case to hear and make their final decision.
The study doesn't mention that the gamers are also much more prone to driving as if they were in the video game. So, while the driving against oncoming traffic might not be the result of cell phone distraction and was an intentional tactical move, the fact of the matter is the car is still in the wrong lane!
When I left my last tech job, I let them know months in advance that I was planning on going to law school. I worked up until the day I left, with all my access and passwords intact.
I think the rapport you have with your supervisors will have as much of an impact as anything else. I see no problem with the policy that the OP's company had and followed wrt his departure. I worked for a very paranoid company and was paid to act that way, however, my leaving did not trigger that kind of paranoia, even though we might have acted differently towards another employee that had come in from an acquired company or one that had not been there as long.
The situation depends just as much as the policy, imho.
For the most part, the EFF argues policy when they go before the judge. It is very difficult to take the stance that EFF does and say, to this effect: "Even though Eric Corley/Grokster/etc violated the statute, it does not stand to reason that this party should be at fault because the very nature of the statute is wrong." Or something to that effect.
The EFF takes the most difficult side and tries to prevail. Even if they are not successful in the courts, they are certainly successful at raising awareness. Furthermore, there is no "public defender" for copyright cases. If you violate someone's copyright, you are paying for your own lawyer. The ACLU is not going to jump in, so your only chance at a defense is to spend out-of-pocket, or get an organization like the EFF to back you up. Even if you do pay money for a lawyer, much of his work has been done by the EFF, which results in lower fees for the client
I do not think the EFF has outlived its usefulness.
Back in the day, Ken Lay, CEO of Enron, used to tout Enron's internal policy of always taking the moral high ground and that all its employees exhibited the highest ethical standards, even going so far as to say that Enron set the bar when it came to business ethics.
Shocking to think that we cannot always trust what the heads of corporations tell us.
Well, then you should be using writer.google.com and calendar.google.com and uploading other info into base.google.com along with gmail. That's where your information should be!
It's not there yet? Well, it will be. Seriously, I think these are reasons that you are a "power user". Most computer users do not think of doing these sorts of things with their data.
Agreed, but I think that applications in the corporate environment are heading toward (back to?) a server-based environment. Look at Outlook Web Access (OWA). This app, combined with IE is so good that it feels like you are using Outlook. Yes, you are missing the "offline" mode which can be important for power users, but for the most part, this does not matter to the other users.
Actually, I see this as the best way for the Linux Corporate Desktop to make its inroads. Continue making Evolution & thunderbird, sure, but focus heavily on Mono and other cool server-side technologies to make really nice web-based applications for e-mail, contacts, and scheduling. I think that if you make the desktop a little less important, Linux becomes a much more attractive option to some companies.
I think you are right about that. The smartest thing Sony did was to pull those CDs off the shelves. I think any court would look at this and say they acted reasonably upon learning of the problems with the software loaded on the CDs they distribute.
I have not heard of any company being held liable or a court finding a duty that the company should check the software for these types of license violations. In fact, I would expect that the contract Sony signed with First4Internet included a representation by F4I that F4I's software was free and clear of any license restrictions. Therefore, if Sony were to be found liable for distributing this software, they would be able to send that right on back to F4I due to breach of contract.
IANAL, but I want to be!
I understand that the FCC is probably the only recourse for the aggrieved party [poor little Logan Airport], however, has the FCC not essentially said that it does not interfere in matters for wifi and other unlicensed bands? I thought that by making it unlicensed, they essentially do not apportion spectrum or rule in matters of its use.
Seems like a matter for nuisance law, rather than the FCC, which would be much more fun and allow for comparisons to pig farms and "noxious vapors".
I've been using Project Steve Guttenberg primarily because it was the only one I could find at the time that didn't require a database backend' my 486 which was fine for serving static webpages just couldn't handle that load. I never did find any others that did not require a database of some sort. I don't see the need for it when it's just a personal weblog. A site like/. of course needs one, but when I'm posting maybe 10-15 posts/month, and very few people are looking in the archives, it just didn't seem worth it.
Great comparison, but the stats make the Lindows machine look more powerful than the iBook. Care to explain why you would use the iBook for your productivity machine?
Then again, I need a much less powerful machine to be productive. I find the more powerful the machine, the more I want to see how the latest games perform, maybe that's your point.
Yeah, Netbank rocks. Been using Mozilla with it for quite a while and I don't have any problems. Plus, Moz will remember the nasty account number for me, whereas IE will not.
Lessig has some good commentary on this in his blog. Basically, he says that if you follow the argument of the New Democrats, then proprietary code should not be allowed either, and only code that goes straight to the Public Domain should be sanctioned by the government, as it could then be used by anyone.
Since they give away a lot in the trailer that would be a spoiler if most everyone (on/.) hadn't read the books already. I'm telling people not to watch it if they haven't seen the movie, since it spoils some surprises.
and I agree that Yoda needs this kind of ability. Although, being so short could be an advantage. It would be much more difficult to protect ones legs, but yoda, so quick, could protect all his body. Then, when the opponent least expects it, Yoda could hurl himself upwards and take the mutha out!
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I've been saying this about Cleveland for a couple years now. Not only is the real estate cheap, but I figured that about 6 months out of the year, your A/C costs would be about nil. Just pump in air from the outside.
:)
In fact, if you could figure out a way to sell the heat generated by the computers to nearby buildings, you might make a tidy side-sum to help defray the power costs
I thought that the introduction of "Short Round" in the Indiana Jones trilogy was not all that. There was a scene or two that made me groan, but for the most part, I thought he was pretty humorous for adults and children alike.
Now, whether a director could get away with that kind of racial stereotyping (without hiding it under and alien's mask, that is) today is questionable.
It seems to me that a combination of the two approaches might be the best idea. Although the mesh mode is a great idea in concept, it still needs a way to get out to the greater part of the internet. Enter the kiosk: this could stand as a sort of hub or gateway to the internet for the mesh network, allowing the $100 laptops to reach those services. I don't know if that type of cooperation would be possible, but we can hope.
As regards medical supplies and the like: there is no doubt that this money could be used for other things. I do not venture an opinion as to which is right or better; everyone has their own agenda and beliefs. I suppose the idea behind the computers is education. Many experts think that education is really the only long-term solution to these over-populated countries and that through education we can begin to turn the overwhelming tide. Just throwing money at the problem is not a solution, but that is what is done at first (in the form of drugs and/or laptops) and then the hope is that some sort of training or education will come along with it and remain long after. I wish them all luck
I suppose the fad aspect will be determined by how useful the content generated by the users is. With Myspace, the content is necessarily fad-based, because the site revolves around music: a pretty fad-oriented industry.
Take another social networking site: Yelp and the content is somewhat different. It is focused on store and restaurant reviews. Still somewhat fad-based, but the information is perhaps a bit longer-lasting than that for a local band. And maybe more useful for travel.
Basically, it depends on the content generated and how useful it is going forward, I would expect.
I am really impressed with that professor's students who want to transcribe her words. In my (law) classes, most people with laptops either browse the internet or play solitaire. I use my laptop for notes and rarely (but admittedly sometimes) use the internet to check my e-mail or look up a case i haven't read.
I think the professor should have the ability to not allow laptops. I wish they also had the ability to turn off the wireless internet in their classrooms, but that's not really feasible at my school.
I don't know. This is a good analogy and at first blush it would seem that because the user/web-surfer/whatever is downloading a greatly reduced version of the original when using images.google.com. However, in Harper and Row v. Nation Enterprises, the court rules that a magazine's appropriation of a part of President Gerald Ford's upcoming memoirs, even though the excerpts were only very small parts of the work as a whole, and those types of excerpts (such as reviewers use when reviewing book) would otherwise be considered Fair Use. The court looked at Fair Use as an implied consent doctrine and asked whether the owner would have consented to the use. Well, an owner would not consent to use that basically preempts his work because the reduced copy cuts "to the heart" of the original. If the court views the thumbnails as basically taking the place of the original in many instances, and satisfying the users' curiosity as to the original, then they just might decide that Google has infringed upon Perfect 10's copyright.
I think Apple is already doing this. They may not be running specific ads saying that they offer better security than Windows (at least, I have never seen any) but I am always hearing about how Mac never gets any viruses, exploits, etc from friends, reporters, Mac salesman...
It may be underground marketing, but it is still marketing.
Decisions from another district are called "persuasive authority". This means that the lawyers can bring the decision before the court to help persuade the judge to follow that decision, but the judge has no obligation to do so.
Precedent is only when the court you are currently in has made a decision on-point, or when the circuit court (that's the next level up, assuming this gets appealed) in your jurisdiction has made an on-point decision.
When two circuits are in opposition, that is when the Supreme Court will likely accept a case to hear and make their final decision.
The study doesn't mention that the gamers are also much more prone to driving as if they were in the video game. So, while the driving against oncoming traffic might not be the result of cell phone distraction and was an intentional tactical move, the fact of the matter is the car is still in the wrong lane!
When I left my last tech job, I let them know months in advance that I was planning on going to law school. I worked up until the day I left, with all my access and passwords intact.
I think the rapport you have with your supervisors will have as much of an impact as anything else. I see no problem with the policy that the OP's company had and followed wrt his departure. I worked for a very paranoid company and was paid to act that way, however, my leaving did not trigger that kind of paranoia, even though we might have acted differently towards another employee that had come in from an acquired company or one that had not been there as long.
The situation depends just as much as the policy, imho.
For the most part, the EFF argues policy when they go before the judge. It is very difficult to take the stance that EFF does and say, to this effect: "Even though Eric Corley/Grokster/etc violated the statute, it does not stand to reason that this party should be at fault because the very nature of the statute is wrong." Or something to that effect.
The EFF takes the most difficult side and tries to prevail. Even if they are not successful in the courts, they are certainly successful at raising awareness. Furthermore, there is no "public defender" for copyright cases. If you violate someone's copyright, you are paying for your own lawyer. The ACLU is not going to jump in, so your only chance at a defense is to spend out-of-pocket, or get an organization like the EFF to back you up. Even if you do pay money for a lawyer, much of his work has been done by the EFF, which results in lower fees for the client
I do not think the EFF has outlived its usefulness.
Back in the day, Ken Lay, CEO of Enron, used to tout Enron's internal policy of always taking the moral high ground and that all its employees exhibited the highest ethical standards, even going so far as to say that Enron set the bar when it came to business ethics. Shocking to think that we cannot always trust what the heads of corporations tell us.
Well, then you should be using writer.google.com and calendar.google.com and uploading other info into base.google.com along with gmail. That's where your information should be!
It's not there yet? Well, it will be. Seriously, I think these are reasons that you are a "power user". Most computer users do not think of doing these sorts of things with their data.
Agreed, but I think that applications in the corporate environment are heading toward (back to?) a server-based environment. Look at Outlook Web Access (OWA). This app, combined with IE is so good that it feels like you are using Outlook. Yes, you are missing the "offline" mode which can be important for power users, but for the most part, this does not matter to the other users.
Actually, I see this as the best way for the Linux Corporate Desktop to make its inroads. Continue making Evolution & thunderbird, sure, but focus heavily on Mono and other cool server-side technologies to make really nice web-based applications for e-mail, contacts, and scheduling. I think that if you make the desktop a little less important, Linux becomes a much more attractive option to some companies.
I have not heard of any company being held liable or a court finding a duty that the company should check the software for these types of license violations. In fact, I would expect that the contract Sony signed with First4Internet included a representation by F4I that F4I's software was free and clear of any license restrictions. Therefore, if Sony were to be found liable for distributing this software, they would be able to send that right on back to F4I due to breach of contract. IANAL, but I want to be!
I understand that the FCC is probably the only recourse for the aggrieved party [poor little Logan Airport], however, has the FCC not essentially said that it does not interfere in matters for wifi and other unlicensed bands? I thought that by making it unlicensed, they essentially do not apportion spectrum or rule in matters of its use.
Seems like a matter for nuisance law, rather than the FCC, which would be much more fun and allow for comparisons to pig farms and "noxious vapors".
It wouldn't be up to a judge; it would be up to a jury
I've been using Project Steve Guttenberg primarily because it was the only one I could find at the time that didn't require a database backend' my 486 which was fine for serving static webpages just couldn't handle that load. /. of course needs one, but when I'm posting maybe 10-15 posts/month, and very few people are looking in the archives, it just didn't seem worth it.
I never did find any others that did not require a database of some sort. I don't see the need for it when it's just a personal weblog. A site like
Great comparison, but the stats make the Lindows machine look more powerful than the iBook. Care to explain why you would use the iBook for your productivity machine?
Then again, I need a much less powerful machine to be productive. I find the more powerful the machine, the more I want to see how the latest games perform, maybe that's your point.
But we may be crushing the bandwidth. I'm having problems on mirror1 already. Then again, maybe the web servers are those old SPARC stations.
Yeah, Netbank rocks. Been using Mozilla with it for quite a while and I don't have any problems. Plus, Moz will remember the nasty account number for me, whereas IE will not.
go H-town!!
K
Lessig has some good commentary on this in his blog. Basically, he says that if you follow the argument of the New Democrats, then proprietary code should not be allowed either, and only code that goes straight to the Public Domain should be sanctioned by the government, as it could then be used by anyone.
Interesting
Since they give away a lot in the trailer that would be a spoiler if most everyone (on /.) hadn't read the books already.
I'm telling people not to watch it if they haven't seen the movie, since it spoils some surprises.
K
Yup, it's in the deleted scenes, what a riot. I wonder how these phones will dial? With the toungue like in Hedwig? Could be embarrassing.
:)
"compensate for his low stature"
and I agree that Yoda needs this kind of ability. Although, being so short could be an advantage. It would be much more difficult to protect ones legs, but yoda, so quick, could protect all his body. Then, when the opponent least expects it, Yoda could hurl himself upwards and take the mutha out!