At least the big news companies can be sued for libel/slander if caught outright lying.
Technically you wouldn't be able to sue over libel/slander unless they "fabricated" a news story about you. But regardless you're going to have a really hard time beating any major corporation in a law suit.
These two reporters (http://www.foxbghsuit.com
) tried to sue Fox News over a falsified news story. They had a good case too, but Fox won in the end.
How? The appeals court decided that "lying" in a news story, technically isn't against the law.
About the only one happy about the situation is Osama Bin Laden;
You forgot Halliburton, Bechtel, the Carlyle Group and all the other ass holes who have made billions off this debacle.
How many hundreds of billions of dollars have US tax payers spent on this war so far? You realize that this money hasn't just disappeared. Someone's getting rich.
Because they are naturally occuring the proteins take adavantage of evolution to keep up with the bacteria they protect against. The life cycle of a human mother is much longer than that of bacteria, so over dependance on the proteins may still cause problems. That's probably why we only get the protein as babies, when we need it most.
With rice the life cycle is much shorter, however I'm not sure how GE'd rice would be able to directly take advantage of evolution... instead development will be directed and refined by the human growers. Maybe they can do a better job than nature.
I don't see how it would be possible to get locked into using a specific search engine the way it is with OS's or Office App's.
Maybe I'm missing something.... Could they build some sort of indexing technology directly into IIS allowing those websites to get indexed better and faster? But, somehow that doesn't seem very feasible.
"It's not just an annoying bug, it makes the tool unusable for collaboration in heterogenous environments (i.e., unless you can mandate consistent use of OO.o, you shouldn't allow it to be used, and really, there's no way to mandate its use with MSO being the de facto standard.)"
I think you've got this backwards... It's MS Office that's unusable in heterogenous enviornments.
"The government's purpose is not to provide you with cheap utilities."
I disagree. With out affordable electricity, for example, our economy and way of life would completely collapse. Doesn't the government have some responsiblitiy to make sure that doesn't happen.
Railway, postal, highways...All of these services are vital to the economy, the workings of the government, the military and almost everybody who lives here.
And I would add to the list: telecommunication networks, energy networks, hospitals, schools, etc...
Isn't it the responsibility of the government to insure that there are affordable, well run, easily accessible versions of all these services, even if it means creating government owned entities.
"Researchers at the University of New Mexico, lead by C. Jeff Brinker and Doug Smith, and at other institutions have become increasingly successful at eliminating the supercritical drying step used in aerogel production by chemically modifying the surface of the gel prior to drying. This work lead to the founding of Nanopore to commercialize lower-cost aerogels."...
A few years later, Kistler left the College of the Pacific and took a position with Monsanto Corp. Shortly thereafter, Monsanto began marketing a product known simply as "aerogel". Monsanto's Aerogel was a granular silica material. Little is known about the processing conditions used to make this material, but it is assumed that its production followed Kistler's procedures. Monsanto's Aerogel was used as an additive or a thixotropic agent in cosmetics and toothpastes. Very little new work on aerogels occurred throughout the next three decades. Eventually, in the 1960s, the development of inexpensive "fumed" silica undercut the market for aerogel, and Monsanto ceased production.
--- source
I don't think a 20 Gig hardrive is adequate for any file server even if it was to be used by only one person who doesn't store video or music. How much of that is already used by the OS and pre-installed applications?
A friend of mine had a GPS Unit in Chile, and he said it didn't work the entire time he was there, but in the United States it worked fine. This was several years ago.
Is there less coverage in the Southern Hemisphere?
From what I've seen OO has quite a few linking to data source type features. I haven't actually used them so I can't verify that they work but judging from my cursory glances they seemed fairly robust. You can also use XSL transformations to create OO documents from an XML datasource.
One feature that I use all the time that MSOffice doesn't support is "export as PDF". It's great especially for invoices and other documents that I don't really want other people to modify anyway.
I've been using OO for about three months and so far it fills my needs quite well. In some cases I like the word processor better than Word. Excel is harder to match in terms of ease of use and feature set.
And if Sun doesn't want to add the feature... then switch vendors. That's the beauty of open source, zero vendor lock-in and you get the exact feature set you want. It's such a no brainer, especially for governments and other large organizations.
After just a few major countries switch over (China, Brazil, Isreal, etc...) then the amount of money spent on developing the Open Source projects will dwarf what any single organization can match, even microsoft. That's when we'll start seeing the network effect in affect, and the beggining of the end of proprietary software for all but the most specialized applications.
My Step-Father just finished installing solar panels on their roof and it more than covers all the power needs for the whole house. They don't have any natural gas lines either so everything is electric. And my mom has a Kiln that she uses once a week (That's a huge power consumer)
So solar power is completely feasable, at least for powering residential buildings. It's not that cheap though, it might take 30 or more years for the panels to pay for them selves at current energy prices. But if the panels where mass produced the price would go down.
A few advantages are that the panels never break or wear out, since they don't have any moving parts. Also, you get credited for power you put back into the grid. The peak rate time just happens to be daytime when your at work and not using power at home, thus maximising the amount of credit you can get.
It works pretty well for my parents and will definately start paying off for them when they retire. Rising residential energy prices will be one less thing for them to worry about.
The only social issue caused by THC, is the fact that our prisons are over flowing with otherwise law abiding citizens convicted of growing or selling it.
A friend of mine is studing for her phd in jurisprudence, which is like a law degree but instead of studing the application of law you study the philosophy behind it. Anyway one day I asked her what she thought of open source and if they ever talked about it in any of her classes. She had no idea what I was talking about. She hadn't heard of Linux either. Her roomate, another law student, had a vague idea that Linux was something for the computer.
Two law students at UC Berkeley who had never heard of open source or Linux in 2003. It blew my mind.
SCO doesn't really want people to pay the license fee.
The licensing fee is just a propaganda trick to drive up stock prices and to strengthen their monetary claim against IBM. SCO can't seriously believe anyone is stupid enough to actually pay. However there are a lot of stupid people out there. So, when calls started coming in asking about this licensing fee, SCO realized that they weren't equipped to deal with accepting fees. So the new policy is to say that they're only accepting money from corporations large enough to make it worth their time.
I am a little disappointed in iTMS's selection actually. Maybe I'm missing something but, No Chemical Brothers or Leftfield, and what about the best New Order album Substance, and Bjork's Vespertine or Homogenic
These aren't exactly small artists, and I had been hoping to buy some of the more obscure stuff.:(
Hopefully it just takes time for them to build up their catalog.
A guy at my girlfriend's art school was making a "Trailer Trash Barbie" doll and selling them in local stores. Definitely a parody and well with in "Fair Use" law, right? I agree but that didn't stop Matel from sueing the pants off of him. Sure he might have won if he had years and thousands of dollars to spend in court.
The same thing happened to a friend who had a Peanuts parody in his Zine and another friend of a friend who was making and selling McVegan t-shirts. I'm sure this goes on all the time.
I don't know where the lines between "fair use" and infringement fall. But it has been my experience that most corporations are quite skilled at bending the laws through the use of agressive lawyers and exessive amounts of money.
I don't think it's right that we can't use common trademarks in films and video games with out permission. I don't even know if it's illegal. I just know that it's common practice not too. Of course, If you feel you have a right to use Pepsi's trademark no matter what they sat, I tend to agree and fully support you. Just don't be suprised when they take legal action against you.
It's the logo's that are trademarked not the actual products. So let me correct myself. Pepsi would have a hard time keeping you from drinking a pepsi in your movie, but you better not show their logo.
Paid placement works at least as well as other forms of advertisement. What they're paying for is brand recognition. The more times you see Pepsi Cola, the more you're going to think about Pepsi Cola, and the more you think about Pepsi Cola the more your going to buy Pepsi cola. Most people don't think advertising affects them, but those are the people that usually get affected the most. The truth is that most people don't think a whole lot, especially about what soft drinks they buy.
Advertising is huge bussiness. I'm not sure on the exact numbers but in the US alone it's in the high billions and it's been growing exponentially. It's hard to estimate just how effective ads are but it seems like it must be working for someone. So given that traditional advertising works my guess is paid placement works even better.
Think about it, what changes your perception of a brand more? Seeing the brand's logo in traditional advertising that you probably would rather not see and have trained your self to tune out to a certain degree. Versus seeing the brand used in your favorite movie/tv show/video game that you have chosen to watch and most likely enjoy.
On your second point, I don't think Pepsi would let you use their product in a movie unless you get permission. I doubt they would make you pay for the privelege of using their brand but if they don't want you to use it, they will instantly sick their lawyers on you.
That's why you always see generic products in older movies. These days they use real products because it's a chance to make more money through product placement. You will notice a lot of new movies have these awkward product beauty shots. Personally they drive me crazy.
Now for an interesting story:
In the days before Hollywood discovered the wonders of Product Placement the makers of the movie ET wanted to use M&M's in their movie. The candy had a fairly important role in the movie, but Mars candy wouldn't allow the use of their brand. Reluctantly, Steven Spielburg and company decided on a lesser known candy Reese's pieces. With in months of the release of the movie, Reese's Pieces sales began to sky rocket. And that is how Paid Product Placement was born.
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At least the big news companies can be sued for libel/slander if caught outright lying.
Technically you wouldn't be able to sue over libel/slander unless they "fabricated" a news story about you. But regardless you're going to have a really hard time beating any major corporation in a law suit.
These two reporters (http://www.foxbghsuit.com ) tried to sue Fox News over a falsified news story. They had a good case too, but Fox won in the end. How? The appeals court decided that "lying" in a news story, technically isn't against the law.
About the only one happy about the situation is Osama Bin Laden;
You forgot Halliburton, Bechtel, the Carlyle Group and all the other ass holes who have made billions off this debacle.
How many hundreds of billions of dollars have US tax payers spent on this war so far? You realize that this money hasn't just disappeared. Someone's getting rich.
Seems like cross pollenization is inevitable, especially if they grow these strains outside and in mass quanities.
I seriously hope some major effort is going into risk assesment.
Because they are naturally occuring the proteins take adavantage of evolution to keep up with the bacteria they protect against. The life cycle of a human mother is much longer than that of bacteria, so over dependance on the proteins may still cause problems. That's probably why we only get the protein as babies, when we need it most.
With rice the life cycle is much shorter, however I'm not sure how GE'd rice would be able to directly take advantage of evolution... instead development will be directed and refined by the human growers. Maybe they can do a better job than nature.
I don't see how it would be possible to get locked into using a specific search engine the way it is with OS's or Office App's.
Maybe I'm missing something.... Could they build some sort of indexing technology directly into IIS allowing those websites to get indexed better and faster? But, somehow that doesn't seem very feasible.
"It's not just an annoying bug, it makes the tool unusable for collaboration in heterogenous environments (i.e., unless you can mandate consistent use of OO.o, you shouldn't allow it to be used, and really, there's no way to mandate its use with MSO being the de facto standard.)"
I think you've got this backwards... It's MS Office that's unusable in heterogenous enviornments.
"The government's purpose is not to provide you with cheap utilities."
I disagree. With out affordable electricity, for example, our economy and way of life would completely collapse. Doesn't the government have some responsiblitiy to make sure that doesn't happen.
Railway, postal, highways...All of these services are vital to the economy, the workings of the government, the military and almost everybody who lives here.
And I would add to the list: telecommunication networks, energy networks, hospitals, schools, etc...
Isn't it the responsibility of the government to insure that there are affordable, well run, easily accessible versions of all these services, even if it means creating government owned entities.
That just sounds like your friend has a crappy phone company which incidentally happens to be a municipal service.
There are well run municiple phone and cable services out there. (and poorly run commercial one)
check out http://www.sanbrunocable.com
"Researchers at the University of New Mexico, lead by C. Jeff Brinker and Doug Smith, and at other institutions have become increasingly successful at eliminating the supercritical drying step used in aerogel production by chemically modifying the surface of the gel prior to drying. This work lead to the founding of Nanopore to commercialize lower-cost aerogels." ...
A few years later, Kistler left the College of the Pacific and took a position with Monsanto Corp. Shortly thereafter, Monsanto began marketing a product known simply as "aerogel". Monsanto's Aerogel was a granular silica material. Little is known about the processing conditions used to make this material, but it is assumed that its production followed Kistler's procedures. Monsanto's Aerogel was used as an additive or a thixotropic agent in cosmetics and toothpastes. Very little new work on aerogels occurred throughout the next three decades. Eventually, in the 1960s, the development of inexpensive "fumed" silica undercut the market for aerogel, and Monsanto ceased production.
--- source
I don't think a 20 Gig hardrive is adequate for any file server even if it was to be used by only one person who doesn't store video or music. How much of that is already used by the OS and pre-installed applications?
A friend of mine had a GPS Unit in Chile, and he said it didn't work the entire time he was there, but in the United States it worked fine. This was several years ago.
Is there less coverage in the Southern Hemisphere?
From what I've seen OO has quite a few linking to data source type features. I haven't actually used them so I can't verify that they work but judging from my cursory glances they seemed fairly robust. You can also use XSL transformations to create OO documents from an XML datasource.
One feature that I use all the time that MSOffice doesn't support is "export as PDF". It's great especially for invoices and other documents that I don't really want other people to modify anyway.
I've been using OO for about three months and so far it fills my needs quite well. In some cases I like the word processor better than Word. Excel is harder to match in terms of ease of use and feature set.
And if Sun doesn't want to add the feature... then switch vendors. That's the beauty of open source, zero vendor lock-in and you get the exact feature set you want. It's such a no brainer, especially for governments and other large organizations.
After just a few major countries switch over (China, Brazil, Isreal, etc...) then the amount of money spent on developing the Open Source projects will dwarf what any single organization can match, even microsoft. That's when we'll start seeing the network effect in affect, and the beggining of the end of proprietary software for all but the most specialized applications.
I could just be a dreaming but it seems feasible.
My Step-Father just finished installing solar panels on their roof and it more than covers all the power needs for the whole house. They don't have any natural gas lines either so everything is electric. And my mom has a Kiln that she uses once a week (That's a huge power consumer)
So solar power is completely feasable, at least for powering residential buildings. It's not that cheap though, it might take 30 or more years for the panels to pay for them selves at current energy prices. But if the panels where mass produced the price would go down.
A few advantages are that the panels never break or wear out, since they don't have any moving parts. Also, you get credited for power you put back into the grid. The peak rate time just happens to be daytime when your at work and not using power at home, thus maximising the amount of credit you can get.
It works pretty well for my parents and will definately start paying off for them when they retire. Rising residential energy prices will be one less thing for them to worry about.
The only social issue caused by THC, is the fact that our prisons are over flowing with otherwise law abiding citizens convicted of growing or selling it.
A friend of mine is studing for her phd in jurisprudence, which is like a law degree but instead of studing the application of law you study the philosophy behind it. Anyway one day I asked her what she thought of open source and if they ever talked about it in any of her classes. She had no idea what I was talking about. She hadn't heard of Linux either. Her roomate, another law student, had a vague idea that Linux was something for the computer.
Two law students at UC Berkeley who had never heard of open source or Linux in 2003. It blew my mind.
So the question is, When will the stock start going down? It will eventually, unless they win the case against IBM which seems highly unlikely.
SCO doesn't really want people to pay the license fee.
The licensing fee is just a propaganda trick to drive up stock prices and to strengthen their monetary claim against IBM. SCO can't seriously believe anyone is stupid enough to actually pay. However there are a lot of stupid people out there. So, when calls started coming in asking about this licensing fee, SCO realized that they weren't equipped to deal with accepting fees. So the new policy is to say that they're only accepting money from corporations large enough to make it worth their time.
That's my guess.
> Why you shouldn't take investment advice from Slashdot.
short sell.
I am a little disappointed in iTMS's selection actually. Maybe I'm missing something but, No
:(
Chemical Brothers or Leftfield, and what about the best New Order album Substance, and Bjork's Vespertine or Homogenic
These aren't exactly small artists, and I had been hoping to buy some of the more obscure stuff.
Hopefully it just takes time for them to build up their catalog.
A guy at my girlfriend's art school was making a "Trailer Trash Barbie" doll and selling them in local stores. Definitely a parody and well with in "Fair Use" law, right? I agree but that didn't stop Matel from sueing the pants off of him. Sure he might have won if he had years and thousands of dollars to spend in court.
The same thing happened to a friend who had a Peanuts parody in his Zine and another friend of a friend who was making and selling McVegan t-shirts. I'm sure this goes on all the time.
I don't know where the lines between "fair use" and infringement fall. But it has been my experience that most corporations are quite skilled at bending the laws through the use of agressive lawyers and exessive amounts of money.
I don't think it's right that we can't use common trademarks in films and video games with out permission. I don't even know if it's illegal. I just know that it's common practice not too. Of course, If you feel you have a right to use Pepsi's trademark no matter what they sat, I tend to agree and fully support you. Just don't be suprised when they take legal action against you.
-ishmael
It's the logo's that are trademarked not the actual products. So let me correct myself. Pepsi would have a hard time keeping you from drinking a pepsi in your movie, but you better not show their logo.
Paid placement works at least as well as other forms of advertisement. What they're paying for is brand recognition. The more times you see Pepsi Cola, the more you're going to think about Pepsi Cola, and the more you think about Pepsi Cola the more your going to buy Pepsi cola. Most people don't think advertising affects them, but those are the people that usually get affected the most. The truth is that most people don't think a whole lot, especially about what soft drinks they buy.
Advertising is huge bussiness. I'm not sure on the exact numbers but in the US alone it's in the high billions and it's been growing exponentially. It's hard to estimate just how effective ads are but it seems like it must be working for someone. So given that traditional advertising works my guess is paid placement works even better.
Think about it, what changes your perception of a brand more? Seeing the brand's logo in traditional advertising that you probably would rather not see and have trained your self to tune out to a certain degree. Versus seeing the brand used in your favorite movie/tv show/video game that you have chosen to watch and most likely enjoy.
On your second point, I don't think Pepsi would let you use their product in a movie unless you get permission. I doubt they would make you pay for the privelege of using their brand but if they don't want you to use it, they will instantly sick their lawyers on you.
That's why you always see generic products in older movies. These days they use real products because it's a chance to make more money through product placement. You will notice a lot of new movies have these awkward product beauty shots. Personally they drive me crazy.
Now for an interesting story:
In the days before Hollywood discovered the wonders of Product Placement the makers of the movie ET wanted to use M&M's in their movie. The candy had a fairly important role in the movie, but Mars candy wouldn't allow the use of their brand. Reluctantly, Steven Spielburg and company decided on a lesser known candy Reese's pieces. With in months of the release of the movie, Reese's Pieces sales began to sky rocket. And that is how Paid Product Placement was born.
-ishmael