I think you'll find that eminent domain is the sole perogative of government not private industry. That said, government can clearly exercise it on behalf of a company for 'essential' services. If a telco is running cable across your land you should absolutely be getting rent and your permission sought. Radio spectrum is another matter.
Usually the only stuff crossing your property is supplying your property with services.
I didn't say that Chuck Norris paid taxes, I just said he gets letters of apology from the IRS. Heck, he gets letters of apology from ME, not that I've done anything to upset him, I'm just being prudent.
I have plenty of problems with Bill Gates, but I applaud his charitable giving. However, I can't accept your accusation of humility: it is called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation after all, not AFAIK (Aid For Africa In Kind) or something more anonymous. And, anyone who has listen to NPR knows that BMGF is a regular sponsor. There's no humility here: this is about Bill's image. On the other hand, that's fine with me, I don't doubt that he's doing some good at the same time.
At the time that these people lived, neither the United States nor the United Kingdom existed.
I would suggest that the reason we hear more about slavery in the US is partly because it is still felt. The grandchildren of slaves are still living. The impact of slavery on the sociopolitics of the African American is a paramount concern.
Of course research is done on African and Islamic slavery. The real question is, how aware are you of ANY historical research from those regions ? The ethnocentrism of the west is by no means limited to the subject of slavery. I don't think that it is necessarily a conspiracy to paint the US in the worst possible light.
That's why Intel has tried to sue the pants off AMD and has failed. Clean room reverse engineering is a technique that DOES permit invasive inspection of decompiled binaries and has been upheld as legal and legitimate, in possibly the most famous example of reverse engineering in moderm computing: the IBM/Compaq BIOS case.
Well, I don't agree with all of the Wikipedia entry, nor do I agree with your comment implying the necessity of decompilation.
However, if we're going to take Wikipedia to be gospel, then let's read all of it, including:
The Samba software, which allows systems that are not running Microsoft Windows systems to share files with systems that are, is a classic example of software reverse engineering, since the Samba project had to reverse-engineer unpublished information about how Windows file sharing worked, so that non-Windows computers could emulate it. The WINE project does the same thing for the Windows API, and OpenOffice.org is one party doing this for the Microsoft Office file formats. [emphasis mine]
I have no idea if the WINE engineers have disassembled (or as you say decompiled) Windows binaries or not. My point remains that this is not the determining factor in deciding if it is reverse engineering or not: meaning that disassembly is not necessarily a feature of reverse engineering.
This is an acquisition financed with stock. A has bought B. A's board can do pretty much anything they want with B. They can run it as a seperate operating entity or not. Heck, they can run the Disney Postroom as a seperate operating entity if they want. Financially the same holds true. What changes is that PIXAR is legally no longer a seperate legal entity. It no longer has independent reporting responsibilities to the SEC for instance. Otherwise, Disney can run it financially as it chooses. Disney's CEO will have as much power over the PIXAR business unit as the board of Disney gives him, and he would hardly be CEO if PIXAR did not report to him, that's pretty much the definition of the role: "the buck stops here".
In itself it isn't. However, many companies have no single shareholder holding much more than that percentage. What 7% gives you is the loudest independent voice on the board and the right to make the phone calls to the other investors.
Indeed, typical large companies with long histories will not have any single investor with anthing approaching 50%.
I've no idea if job wants the CEO position, in fact I expect he doesn't, but if he did he's in a great position to persuade other shareholders. 7% of a huge company like Disney is a bucketload of influence.
Yeah, 'cos that actually happened when Connectix released VirtualPC.
For my use case: need to run VisualStudio. VirtualPC on my PowerBook beats the pants off every Windows laptop my company has supplied me with. I use Mac native apps for everything else...OK I admit it, by "Mac native apps for everything else," I really mean "emacs for everything else."
Besides, Apple itself releases Windows software. I suspect that they are making the judgement that this only encourages people to switch to Mac, not from.
OK, I gotta bite. M&S is famous for two things: its underwear and not having changing rooms.
It is axiomatic that all middle class British women buy their underwear in M&S.
With regard to not having changing rooms, if you'll indulge me with a further cliche: "I used to have a girlfriend who worked for M&S, she wouldn't let me try it on."
colour is easy Hmm, British spelling but clearly not familiar with the state of vehicles on British roads right now: thanks to the weather they are all various shades of dirty grey.
The professional format you seem to refer to, is called BetaCAM. Well, if yoy are going to nit-pick you are strictly correct. However, machanically and visually, BetaMax and BetaCam are identical. The difference is in the formulation of the magnetic substrate, which as you say, permits higher bandwidth, and improves the life of the tape and tape heads. For various reasons I don't recommend doing it, but BetaCAM tapes will work in BetaMax machines and vice versa. I mistyped: for 'finds' read 'kinds'. Which I think covers the point you make that they may not be precisely simlar. There were further developments of the Beta family: DigiBeta etc...
Thanks for reminding me of Hi-8. That too was huge in its time. I certainly have a ton of Hi-8 video somewhere depicting my children's early years. And, it wasn't terribly closed either. There were Hi-8 camcorders from companies besides Sony, and a wide range of manufacturers produced Hi-8 tapes.
Sony/Philips developed the CD format. I think we can call that an umitigated success. Also, in Asia and to some extent continental Europe, MD is very popular. Finally, granted Betamax failed as a consumer format. However, as a professional standard it has made SONY bucketloads of cash. It's fair to say that the last 20 years of television were created and edited on various finds of Betamax tapes and machines.
And memory stick ? Why do people bitch about memory stick and not SD, or MMC or compact flash ? I own devices that use each of these formats: why is it only SONY's fault that the market is fragmented and non-interoperable ?
For the most part true enough, but those protocols were written in the English language, so I'm afraid we Brits still win out. Invent your own language and then perhaps you'll have a valid point.
Quite wrong. One side would be Monday, the other side Wednesday. This is an exclusive property of the International Dateline alone, not other meridians or borders.
Its taken a long time for windows drives to get to the point where most of them are pretty stable and reliable, and hardware comes with Windows drives that these days usually just work. If Apple were to release OS X for generic PCs, they would have lots of catching up to do here, all the nice just works stuff of the Mac would be lost.
I'm guessing you mean drivers. Given the greater number of devices you can connect to a 'PC' I agree with you that any attempt to support that wide range would probably come at some cost to stability. However, it's the job of the peripheral vendor to write the drivers, not Apple.
On the otherhand, I've written drivers for OSX and for Win2k/XP. IOKit - Apple's driver API is vastly superior and coupled with the mach/BSD architecture it is harder to make some of the mistakes you can make under WDM. A case in point was a port I did from Win2k to OSX. The port itself fixed boatloads of bugs in the Windows driver.
Amusingly enough, the gist of estoppel, is that you can't encourage or permit someone to take certain actions, and then bring suit against them on the basis that that action was illegal or in breach of contract.
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I think you'll find that eminent domain is the sole perogative of government not private industry. That said, government can clearly exercise it on behalf of a company for 'essential' services. If a telco is running cable across your land you should absolutely be getting rent and your permission sought. Radio spectrum is another matter.
Usually the only stuff crossing your property is supplying your property with services.
I didn't say that Chuck Norris paid taxes, I just said he gets letters of apology from the IRS. Heck, he gets letters of apology from ME, not that I've done anything to upset him, I'm just being prudent.
It has to be. Even Bill Gates does not get letters of apology from the IRS. No fricking way. Never happened. Chuck Norris on the other hand...
I have plenty of problems with Bill Gates, but I applaud his charitable giving. However, I can't accept your accusation of humility: it is called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation after all, not AFAIK (Aid For Africa In Kind) or something more anonymous. And, anyone who has listen to NPR knows that BMGF is a regular sponsor. There's no humility here: this is about Bill's image. On the other hand, that's fine with me, I don't doubt that he's doing some good at the same time.
At the time that these people lived, neither the United States nor the United Kingdom existed.
I would suggest that the reason we hear more about slavery in the US is partly because it is still felt. The grandchildren of slaves are still living. The impact of slavery on the sociopolitics of the African American is a paramount concern.
Of course research is done on African and Islamic slavery. The real question is, how aware are you of ANY historical research from those regions ?
The ethnocentrism of the west is by no means limited to the subject of slavery. I don't think that it is necessarily a conspiracy to paint the US in the worst possible light.
NOT ILLEGAL ! (per se)
That's why Intel has tried to sue the pants off AMD and has failed. Clean room reverse engineering is a technique that DOES permit invasive inspection of decompiled binaries and has been upheld as legal and legitimate, in possibly the most famous example of reverse engineering in moderm computing: the IBM/Compaq BIOS case.
in lieu of mod points: "Well said sir!"
Well, I don't agree with all of the Wikipedia entry, nor do I agree with your comment implying the necessity of decompilation.
However, if we're going to take Wikipedia to be gospel, then let's read all of it, including:
The Samba software, which allows systems that are not running Microsoft Windows systems to share files with systems that are, is a classic example of software reverse engineering, since the Samba project had to reverse-engineer unpublished information about how Windows file sharing worked, so that non-Windows computers could emulate it. The WINE project does the same thing for the Windows API, and OpenOffice.org is one party doing this for the Microsoft Office file formats. [emphasis mine]
I have no idea if the WINE engineers have disassembled (or as you say decompiled) Windows binaries or not. My point remains that this is not the determining factor in deciding if it is reverse engineering or not: meaning that disassembly is not necessarily a feature of reverse engineering.
WINE implements the FUNCTIONALITY of the Windows API. It merely provides the same API.
The implementation is by no means 'published' and therein lies the reverse engineering.
Reverse engineering does not necessarily mean disassembly or anything remotely dark-hattish.
A guided tour of the contents of my 10 year old daughter's bedroom would easily explain why Disney is valued at $50B.
Nonsense.
This is an acquisition financed with stock. A has bought B. A's board can do pretty much anything they want with B. They can run it as a seperate operating entity or not. Heck, they can run the Disney Postroom as a seperate operating entity if they want. Financially the same holds true. What changes is that PIXAR is legally no longer a seperate legal entity. It no longer has independent reporting responsibilities to the SEC for instance. Otherwise, Disney can run it financially as it chooses. Disney's CEO will have as much power over the PIXAR business unit as the board of Disney gives him, and he would hardly be CEO if PIXAR did not report to him, that's pretty much the definition of the role: "the buck stops here".
In itself it isn't. However, many companies have no single shareholder holding much more than that percentage. What 7% gives you is the loudest independent voice on the board and the right to make the phone calls to the other investors.
Indeed, typical large companies with long histories will not have any single investor with anthing approaching 50%.
I've no idea if job wants the CEO position, in fact I expect he doesn't, but if he did he's in a great position to persuade other shareholders. 7% of a huge company like Disney is a bucketload of influence.
Yeah, 'cos that actually happened when Connectix released VirtualPC.
For my use case: need to run VisualStudio. VirtualPC on my PowerBook beats the pants off every Windows laptop my company has supplied me with. I use Mac native apps for everything else...OK I admit it, by "Mac native apps for everything else," I really mean "emacs for everything else."
Besides, Apple itself releases Windows software. I suspect that they are making the judgement that this only encourages people to switch to Mac, not from.
Oh, and before the pedants start, yes, I know M&S does have changing rooms now.
OK, I gotta bite. M&S is famous for two things: its underwear and not having changing rooms.
It is axiomatic that all middle class British women buy their underwear in M&S.
With regard to not having changing rooms, if you'll indulge me with a further cliche:
"I used to have a girlfriend who worked for M&S, she wouldn't let me try it on."
Rotating number plates are standard MI5 issue I expect:
http://members.aol.com/cotsmm/cotspg4.html
As always, the British Intelligence services are one step ahead of the criminals...erm..30 years ahead I suppose.
colour is easy
Hmm, British spelling but clearly not familiar with the state of vehicles on British roads right now:
thanks to the weather they are all various shades of dirty grey.
Perhaps you live on the Isles of Scilly ?
If I could get an apple flavored penis, I'd buy it.
Well, I've seen fruit flavoured condoms for sale in the loos of many pubs...probably a safer alternative
The professional format you seem to refer to, is called BetaCAM.
Well, if yoy are going to nit-pick you are strictly correct. However, machanically and visually, BetaMax and BetaCam are identical. The difference is in the formulation of the magnetic substrate, which as you say, permits higher bandwidth, and improves the life of the tape and tape heads. For various reasons I don't recommend doing it, but BetaCAM tapes will work in BetaMax machines and vice versa. I mistyped: for 'finds' read 'kinds'. Which I think covers the point you make that they may not be precisely simlar. There were further developments of the Beta family: DigiBeta etc...
Thanks for reminding me of Hi-8. That too was huge in its time. I certainly have a ton of Hi-8 video somewhere depicting my children's early years. And, it wasn't terribly closed either. There were Hi-8 camcorders from companies besides Sony, and a wide range of manufacturers produced Hi-8 tapes.
Sony/Philips developed the CD format. I think we can call that an umitigated success. Also, in Asia and to some extent continental Europe, MD is very popular.
Finally, granted Betamax failed as a consumer format. However, as a professional standard it has made SONY bucketloads of cash. It's fair to say that the last 20 years of television were created and edited on various finds of Betamax tapes and machines.
And memory stick ? Why do people bitch about memory stick and not SD, or MMC or compact flash ? I own devices that use each of these formats: why is it only SONY's fault that the market is fragmented and non-interoperable ?
For the most part true enough, but those protocols were written in the English language, so I'm afraid we Brits still win out. Invent your own language and then perhaps you'll have a valid point.
Quite wrong. One side would be Monday, the other side Wednesday. This is an exclusive property of the International Dateline alone, not other meridians or borders.
Well, I guess it is time to kill DNS alltogether. Precisely, let Google do all our resolution instead.
Its taken a long time for windows drives to get to the point where most of them are pretty stable and reliable, and hardware comes with Windows drives that these days usually just work. If Apple were to release OS X for generic PCs, they would have lots of catching up to do here, all the nice just works stuff of the Mac would be lost.
I'm guessing you mean drivers. Given the greater number of devices you can connect to a 'PC' I agree with you that any attempt to support that wide range would probably come at some cost to stability. However, it's the job of the peripheral vendor to write the drivers, not Apple.
On the otherhand, I've written drivers for OSX and for Win2k/XP.
IOKit - Apple's driver API is vastly superior and coupled with the mach/BSD architecture it is harder to make some of the mistakes you can make under WDM. A case in point was a port I did from Win2k to OSX. The port itself fixed boatloads of bugs in the Windows driver.
There are better definitions available: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2 coff=1&client=safari&rls=en&biw=1151&q=define%3A+e stoppel&btnG=Search
Amusingly enough, the gist of estoppel, is that you can't encourage or permit someone to take certain actions, and then bring suit against them on the basis that that action was illegal or in breach of contract.