The BSA is not hear to make the market more dynamic, they are hear to make more profits for their sponsering organisations.
Remember that every piece of viral, comunistic, open source software used is one less sale.
Also if you have a competitor who gives his software away for free it forces you to develop new products / inovations, RnD costs money, therefor less profit.
Time Warner cable is debuting a set-top box with a PVR. But, there is no commercial skipping available. That's right, you can time-shift the West Wing, but you cannot hit the fast-forward button. There isn't one.
Thats all right. I'll just go and do what I allways do juring the commertials, I'll go get a drink or sumthing
Untill they can leagaly strap me into my poatery appretion... oops TV appreation chair. I'm a free person.
If I kill someone by hitting them over a kead with a palm piolt, is it any different from hacking there car and causing there breaks to fail, or just cutting the break cable..
No it's no diffrent. However the palm piolt does not come with a promis that this can't be done. Where as mots hacked networks are aledged to be unbreakable
You are of cause correct in this. However there have been times in the recent past where a Dutchman would have recived a medal from the UK for derailing a German train. (See WW2 for examples)
The thing is though; if we let juges get away with banning links in this case what will happen next. Will I suddenly find that I'm not allowd to link to an anti Microsoft site, because they use this case as a president on banning linking and combine it with some week law on defomation.
Its time we reminded the rulers that they rule at our sufference and don't rule to make us suffer.
1) The linked to articals where about derailing Nuclea Waste Trains, not passenger trains
2) Would you rather have ppl discusing how to do this with out killing any one, or just let the carnage begin
3) The links where to the main page of the site, not the artical. So this now means that in the Netherlands you can not link to anywhere that may link to these articals. I hope Google.nl is watching
As a manager I get very tired of hearing about the programmers, sysadmins, etc. complaining that such-and-such can't be done, or otherwise blocking progress. Much more often than not things that "can't be done" just require a re-statement of the problem and some creative application of simple ideas
When a techie says it can't be done. 9 times out of 10 (s)he means it can't be done under the current constraints. Thease break down into time/features/money.
If you can vary the constraints then you will find that most objections will dissapier.
As the EULA probably says you only leased the program, I'd return the faulty disk to the company with a stamped self addressed envalope and a writable CD and a covering letter to the effect that you would like them to copy onto the CD sufficent SW to be able to continue using their program.
It means that I havent got the foggiest idea what I'm talking about:-)
OTOH It means that I give up some of my fredome, ie the fredome to take a gun and shoot who the hell I want, to the government as they have the right to protect the population at large.
How ever in exercising that right the Government also has the responcibility of stopping other people from being able to do the same to me.
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The BSA is not hear to make the market more dynamic, they are hear to make more profits for their sponsering organisations.
Remember that every piece of viral, comunistic, open source software used is one less sale.
Also if you have a competitor who gives his software away for free it forces you to develop new products / inovations, RnD costs money, therefor less profit.
Time Warner cable is debuting a set-top box with a PVR. But, there is no commercial skipping available. That's right, you can time-shift the West Wing, but you cannot hit the fast-forward button. There isn't one. ... oops TV appreation chair. I'm a free person.
Thats all right. I'll just go and do what I allways do juring the commertials, I'll go get a drink or sumthing
Untill they can leagaly strap me into my poatery appretion
If I kill someone by hitting them over a kead with a palm piolt, is it any different from hacking there car and causing there breaks to fail, or just cutting the break cable..
No it's no diffrent. However the palm piolt does not come with a promis that this can't be done. Where as mots hacked networks are aledged to be unbreakable
But the FBI will be there, or at least the recrutment ppl :-)
I feel like a broken record.
Surely in this day and age you should feel like a copy protected CD
Yes, except Percy was 'the prostitute dressed up in leather'
I hope they haven't watched the Black Adder TV show recently.
Who can forget the baby eating bishiop of Bath & Wells
and I distintly rember an episode where a nun confesses to liking the 'hesen under things'
Of cause they may not complain as this was all CofE
Net Craft will provide that info if you are willing to pay them.
Thats where they make most of their income.
I'm in the market. An possitions going at your place.
I know Perl and Apache, XML and SQL.
My last job change, c 9 months ago, I got 3 job interviews by having 'Perl Hacker' as the job discription of the job I'd just left.
This was not made up, this was what that Co. called my job.
It was the word 'Hacker' that got my foot through the interviewers door.
Of cause I don't know how many interviews I lost.
PS I don't have a Degree either.
Voltair also wrote this
"If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all."
It was Voltair.
You are of cause correct in this. However there have been times in the recent past where a Dutchman would have recived a medal from the UK for derailing a German train. (See WW2 for examples)
The thing is though; if we let juges get away with banning links in this case what will happen next. Will I suddenly find that I'm not allowd to link to an anti Microsoft site, because they use this case as a president on banning linking and combine it with some week law on defomation.
Its time we reminded the rulers that they rule at our sufference and don't rule to make us suffer.
A few points.
1) The linked to articals where about derailing Nuclea Waste Trains, not passenger trains
2) Would you rather have ppl discusing how to do this with out killing any one, or just let the carnage begin
3) The links where to the main page of the site, not the artical. So this now means that in the Netherlands you can not link to anywhere that may link to these articals. I hope Google.nl is watching
When a techie says it can't be done. 9 times out of 10 (s)he means it can't be done under the current constraints. Thease break down into time/features/money.
If you can vary the constraints then you will find that most objections will dissapier.
As the EULA probably says you only leased the program, I'd return the faulty disk to the company with a stamped self addressed envalope and a writable CD and a covering letter to the effect that you would like them to copy onto the CD sufficent SW to be able to continue using their program.
I have had only one joub that offered me a counter offer, which I took. The Company went bancrupt 2 months later and I was out of a job.
This probably wont happen to you, but you have to ask yourself why your last pay rise wasn't 50% if the you company is prepared to offer you this now.
Thank you for that, I haddent realised this.
A little on the workings of the UK Parliment.
A Statuary Order, does not need to be debated to become law, it just "neads to be layn befor the House for seven days".
What this gobadygook actual means is, as long as its in the Commons Libary for a week and nobody chalanges it it will become law.
Sir,
We have noted that you have quoted from the Official Secrets act.
The quote, being the title of the act, is a vialation of sed act, and just as sone as we get the Statuature order passed we will be after you.
Yours
Major
London
Do you think now would be a good time to ask Nelson Mandela to campain agains apartide hear in the UK
It means that I havent got the foggiest idea what I'm talking about :-)
OTOH
It means that I give up some of my fredome, ie the fredome to take a gun and shoot who the hell I want, to the government as they have the right to protect the population at large.
How ever in exercising that right the Government also has the responcibility of stopping other people from being able to do the same to me.
The Goverment, any government, should be geven the right to protect others from me; and the responcibility to protect me from others.
Hell no. Without Celine Dion CD's the RIAA would have no way of testing their coppy protection stuff.
.... :)
Oh wait
UK Law :- If its true then it's not Libel
:-)
This allows me to say the following
"George W Bush is a 2 dimenitonal carracter who takes orders from a sock"
UK citizens who watch 2DTV will know what I'm talking about.
However, I've probably blown any chance of seeing my brother in the US this year