I agree completely regarding the time between patent filling and development. With respect to the validity of the suit I was speaking in technical terms irrespective of what the courts think. There have been more then a few patents suits that should have been thrown out.
Apple used a very different block character recognition system in the Newton. I believe the first Pilots came out in 1996. The year is the earliest copyright I can find on my Pilot 5000.
The selection of what goes on the list is a "creative process." The authors of the blacklists don't claim copyright of the urls in the same way that I don't claim copyright of the words used to type this post. This is not unusual. I can compile a list of places I like to eat and copyright the list. This prevents other people from taking my list and publishing it without my permission.
Simple: we can tweak the hell out of Linux drivers, we can't under Windows. The former is insteresting and some would say fun. The latter is boring, and infuriateing when it dosen't work because there is nothing we can do about it.
Emacs does this. ctrl-x 2 I think. And if you use the framebuffer with a matrox card you can get a lovely 44x148 (or better) text console (in graphics mode) which is great for displaying two files side by side.
Of course Emacs is not a text browser or editor. It is an operating environment:-)
It wasn't so much so that the pegans could say they were converted, but rather for the missionaries to claim that the "heathen" celebration was really a Christian celebration. The Christmas tree comes directly from the pegan tradition.
In my country, the army will pay your way through university in exchange for a few years of service. It is not a free ride, but it is financially attractive. Especially attractive to smart people who can't afford university without going heavily into dept.
The fix list link was a direct copy of the email Alan Cox sent to the linux-kernel mailing list. At the bottom you will read:
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
I am an experienced Linux user, and I would love to see a review like ShadowLion proposes. I don't have time to try out every distrobution. I use Debian and it, like Slackware, was given a 6 rating. The review gave Debian points for its huge package collection but it lost out for its apearent lack of newbie documentation, and its confusing installation. There was no mention of its excellent packageing system or maintainability. Nor was there any mention that the version reviewed, Debian 2.1r2 (slink), is a year old and dosen't have much of the more recent software found in other distrobutions. There are all points that should be objectively covered. There is no reason why a review can't cover topics for both newbies and experienced users.
CITY TV dosen't care who rebroadcasts their stuff because they are really a Toronto only station and don't make much money off cable subscriptions or advertising from non-Toronto markets. This is ofcourse completely different to how CBC, CTV, and Global operate.
Marketing claims that the rear colision thing is to avoid running into loved ones and other things in your driveway. I always wondered how long it would be before there was a court case because a lazy induhvidual backed up without looking relying completely on the back up sensor.
I like the idea of an IR scope for night driving. However, I am concerned that some lazy goon will use it exclusively and not as an enhancement to normal light and night time driving. Stupid people amaze me.
My TV dosen't have RCA inputs either. To get around this, I bought a little box from Radio Shack that takes an RCA input and converts it to channel 3 or 4. Cost $30 I think. It was labled as a TV adapter for console gameing stations.
And as for the last bit about the *BSDs being "too late", the BSD kernel codebase has been around for a lot longer than the Linux kernel...
Correct. However before the first free/open source BSD could get going it get held up by legal disputes over AT&T code in the BSD source preventing free distribution. By the time that got straightened out Linux was already out and had gained considerable support from kernel hackers. In that sense *BSD was "too late." I once found this story burried on the FreeBSD web site and I am probably missing some details.
I use OpenBSD on a Sparc (SS2:-) and Debian/Linux on an AMDx86. I like both and am becomming more and more impressed with OpenBSD. I find OpenBSD to sometimes be confusing, but I wouldn't say non-intuitve. Off the top of my head: what is tun0 and tun1 and some of the other interfaces from a `ifconfig -a` ? Also, there is lots of documentation, but sometimes I feel that I am missing something. I find that the docs are well geared towards the long time sys-admins and not first time users. I find the whole system feels that way. I will also admit that I prefer GNU style command line parameters.
I have been waiting for the past week and a bit to install 2.6 on a new (to me) Sparc10. Knowing it would be ready for Dec 1, I schedueled my whole day as being in "meetings.":-)
It is ironic really. Slashdot condems law enforcement and others when they falsely accuse someone making that person's life hell. Yet the story editors often falsely accuse others when posting new articules.
I like Slashdot. I just wish a little more thought went into the headlines.
I see that there is already a similar database for the US.
In the US, Acxiom has established what it claims is the world's largest database, which holds personal details on 95 per cent of all US households, or some 330 million people.
Coperations should be allowed to compile and use demographics. I am not a big fan of them as they tend to produce bland, for-almost-everyone, overmarketed products. But I don't really care. However when a company can access a database with lots of detailed information on a specific individuals or familys that is going too far. The company probably needs some information to conduct bussiness with me, but they don't need to know everything.
Stuff like this just pisses me off. I put some effort into trying to protect my privacy. I put effort into protecting my privacy and not doing something that could be seen as fraud and breaking the law. However, if companies no longer wish to honour my request for privacy, why should I honour their request for correct personal information?
Anyone know where I can get a good set of fake IDs?
You are correct about a minor acting in good faith. It is not law, but is common practice. "Common practice" means a lot in English Common Law as many of the laws aren't written down. In this case the law will generally look the other way. However if there is any damage caused, even if the minor was acting in good faith, then you have all sorts of trouble. The law was designed to protect against minors entering contracts that they could not fullfill. Under the Canadian Contract law minors cannot make purchases over $50. I have never heard of that being enforced. However whenever a contract is signed, say a damage waiver for paintball, the parent's or legal gaurdian's signature is required.
Basically Corel feels that it must include this clause under Canadian Law.
wow! someone actually gets it. In this case the clause is from Candian contract law. You can't enter into any form of a contract with minors. The EULA would probably be illegal without it.
And I don't think its for you to say how much power is needed for a particular application.
I appologise for not being more clear. For the target market as per promo material, at that time (1996), the Origin 200 was overpowered. There just wasn't that much bandwidth to begin with, and people were still mostly serving out static pages. These machines were more powerfull then what/. was running untill recently. I was part of a few sales pitches from SGI. They had no idea what they were selling and were pushing these machines as general web servers. The kind of servers that are single PIIs now.
SGI just had no idea what to do with these Origin 200s and "WEB" was the latest buzz word.
It is not until you mentioned it that I remember how much I despised watching the clock when I was paid hourly. Timesheets will always be annoying, but watching the clock sucked. I dosen't help when the manager feels that every minute must be spent "producing."
Now I am salaried. I go to work, get the job(s) done and on time. Some weeks I work late, others I go home early. No one really cares how many hours I work as long as I do my work. I still ask for overtime hours if needed (long projects with little time), but I don't mind occasionly putting in a few hours unclaimed. I often do work late if the project is interesting.
If you want to give your workers a reason to stick around after hours then reward them for getting the job done quickly and well, not for being there.
There nothing like the little benefits to keep workers happy and productive. This includes recognition for a job well done.
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I agree completely regarding the time between patent filling and development. With respect to the validity of the suit I was speaking in technical terms irrespective of what the courts think. There have been more then a few patents suits that should have been thrown out.
Apple used a very different block character recognition system in the Newton. I believe the first Pilots came out in 1996. The year is the earliest copyright I can find on my Pilot 5000.
I think Xerox may have a valid suit.
The selection of what goes on the list is a "creative process." The authors of the blacklists don't claim copyright of the urls in the same way that I don't claim copyright of the words used to type this post. This is not unusual. I can compile a list of places I like to eat and copyright the list. This prevents other people from taking my list and publishing it without my permission.
Simple: we can tweak the hell out of Linux drivers, we can't under Windows. The former is insteresting and some would say fun. The latter is boring, and infuriateing when it dosen't work because there is nothing we can do about it.
Dosen't Pine have a pop mode built in?
1) I've not yet seen framecapable text browsers
Emacs does this. ctrl-x 2 I think. And if you use the framebuffer with a matrox card you can get a lovely 44x148 (or better) text console (in graphics mode) which is great for displaying two files side by side.
Of course Emacs is not a text browser or editor. It is an operating environment :-)
It wasn't so much so that the pegans could say they were converted, but rather for the missionaries to claim that the "heathen" celebration was really a Christian celebration. The Christmas tree comes directly from the pegan tradition.
In my country, the army will pay your way through university in exchange for a few years of service. It is not a free ride, but it is financially attractive. Especially attractive to smart people who can't afford university without going heavily into dept.
The fix list link was a direct copy of the email Alan Cox sent to the linux-kernel mailing list. At the bottom you will read:
I trust you can figure out the rest.In Canada there is:
- www.chapters.ca
- www.indigo.ca
Once all the shipping, exchange rate, and duty is added in both are typically less expensive then Amazon anyway.I am an experienced Linux user, and I would love to see a review like ShadowLion proposes. I don't have time to try out every distrobution. I use Debian and it, like Slackware, was given a 6 rating. The review gave Debian points for its huge package collection but it lost out for its apearent lack of newbie documentation, and its confusing installation. There was no mention of its excellent packageing system or maintainability. Nor was there any mention that the version reviewed, Debian 2.1r2 (slink), is a year old and dosen't have much of the more recent software found in other distrobutions. There are all points that should be objectively covered. There is no reason why a review can't cover topics for both newbies and experienced users.
Other then the really stupid subject line, good post. You demonstrate the problem rather clearly.
CITY TV dosen't care who rebroadcasts their stuff because they are really a Toronto only station and don't make much money off cable subscriptions or advertising from non-Toronto markets. This is ofcourse completely different to how CBC, CTV, and Global operate.
Marketing claims that the rear colision thing is to avoid running into loved ones and other things in your driveway. I always wondered how long it would be before there was a court case because a lazy induhvidual backed up without looking relying completely on the back up sensor.
I like the idea of an IR scope for night driving. However, I am concerned that some lazy goon will use it exclusively and not as an enhancement to normal light and night time driving. Stupid people amaze me.
My TV dosen't have RCA inputs either. To get around this, I bought a little box from Radio Shack that takes an RCA input and converts it to channel 3 or 4. Cost $30 I think. It was labled as a TV adapter for console gameing stations.
And as for the last bit about the *BSDs being "too late", the BSD kernel codebase has been around for a lot longer than the Linux kernel...
Correct. However before the first free/open source BSD could get going it get held up by legal disputes over AT&T code in the BSD source preventing free distribution. By the time that got straightened out Linux was already out and had gained considerable support from kernel hackers. In that sense *BSD was "too late." I once found this story burried on the FreeBSD web site and I am probably missing some details.
I use OpenBSD on a Sparc (SS2 :-) and Debian/Linux on an AMDx86. I like both and am becomming more and more impressed with OpenBSD. I find OpenBSD to sometimes be confusing, but I wouldn't say non-intuitve. Off the top of my head: what is tun0 and tun1 and some of the other interfaces from a `ifconfig -a` ? Also, there is lots of documentation, but sometimes I feel that I am missing something. I find that the docs are well geared towards the long time sys-admins and not first time users. I find the whole system feels that way. I will also admit that I prefer GNU style command line parameters.
I have been waiting for the past week and a bit to install 2.6 on a new (to me) Sparc10. Knowing it would be ready for Dec 1, I schedueled my whole day as being in "meetings." :-)
It is ironic really. Slashdot condems law enforcement and others when they falsely accuse someone making that person's life hell. Yet the story editors often falsely accuse others when posting new articules.
I like Slashdot. I just wish a little more thought went into the headlines.
that case kicks ass!
I really should get off my duff and do "something" to (some of) my case(s).
I see that there is already a similar database for the US.
Coperations should be allowed to compile and use demographics. I am not a big fan of them as they tend to produce bland, for-almost-everyone, overmarketed products. But I don't really care. However when a company can access a database with lots of detailed information on a specific individuals or familys that is going too far. The company probably needs some information to conduct bussiness with me, but they don't need to know everything.
Stuff like this just pisses me off. I put some effort into trying to protect my privacy. I put effort into protecting my privacy and not doing something that could be seen as fraud and breaking the law. However, if companies no longer wish to honour my request for privacy, why should I honour their request for correct personal information?
Anyone know where I can get a good set of fake IDs?
You are correct about a minor acting in good faith. It is not law, but is common practice. "Common practice" means a lot in English Common Law as many of the laws aren't written down. In this case the law will generally look the other way. However if there is any damage caused, even if the minor was acting in good faith, then you have all sorts of trouble. The law was designed to protect against minors entering contracts that they could not fullfill. Under the Canadian Contract law minors cannot make purchases over $50. I have never heard of that being enforced. However whenever a contract is signed, say a damage waiver for paintball, the parent's or legal gaurdian's signature is required.
Basically Corel feels that it must include this clause under Canadian Law.
wow! someone actually gets it. In this case the clause is from Candian contract law. You can't enter into any form of a contract with minors. The EULA would probably be illegal without it.
Correct. It is Canadian contract law. The licence would be illegal without it.
And I don't think its for you to say how much power is needed for a particular application.
I appologise for not being more clear. For the target market as per promo material, at that time (1996), the Origin 200 was overpowered. There just wasn't that much bandwidth to begin with, and people were still mostly serving out static pages. These machines were more powerfull then what /. was running untill recently. I was part of a few sales pitches from SGI. They had no idea what they were selling and were pushing these machines as general web servers. The kind of servers that are single PIIs now.
SGI just had no idea what to do with these Origin 200s and "WEB" was the latest buzz word.
It is not until you mentioned it that I remember how much I despised watching the clock when I was paid hourly. Timesheets will always be annoying, but watching the clock sucked. I dosen't help when the manager feels that every minute must be spent "producing."
Now I am salaried. I go to work, get the job(s) done and on time. Some weeks I work late, others I go home early. No one really cares how many hours I work as long as I do my work. I still ask for overtime hours if needed (long projects with little time), but I don't mind occasionly putting in a few hours unclaimed. I often do work late if the project is interesting.
If you want to give your workers a reason to stick around after hours then reward them for getting the job done quickly and well, not for being there.
There nothing like the little benefits to keep workers happy and productive. This includes recognition for a job well done.