I have no opposition to this at all... because they're PRISONERS.
Ever heard of a legal principal called, "innocent until PROVEN guilty"? Part of proving someone guilty involves ensuring they can discuss their case freely with their legal counsel. I cannot mount an effective defense if every word I say can be monitored and brought out in court (and out of context, to boot).
There's no reason manufacturers would want to ship dual-booting systems. The machines that Dell sells go to people who are buying on "Steve"'s recommendation. The people buying at Best Buy are buying on the sales drone's recommendation, and since they can't seem to get anything right, I suspect you won't find them recommending Linux.
Xerox isn't a software company (at least they weren't at the time). They're a copier company. We could all be driving Xerox computers in a paperless office, but the world didn't work out that way.
As they should. That's the whole idea of a patent. Why would a company spend millions (billions?) developing a new technology if they had to give it away? And patents eventually expire. In the mean time, the details of the process become public information, theoretically spurring on further development by third parties (and unlike the GPL, derivative works are not protected by the original patent).
About a half dozen lawyers spent weeks at a time in the period leading up to the trial in 1998 wading through through many thousands of pages of printed electronic documents. "It was a lot of paper," said one former government lawyer who worked on the case.
Which explains a lot about why litigation is so expensive!:) What I find humorous, being in the jury pool for our county's Superior Court, is that we (as a society) can afford to pay a half dozen lawyers to sit around poring over printed e-mails, but can't afford to validate parking for jurors. Assuming you can prove the validity of your evidence, I can see how a method to automate this would be very attractive.
Any out of office program worth its salt *must* check for this. It's an obvious failure point. Similarly, any MTA should check for mail being routed in a loop (ie. A@B autoforwarding to B@C which autoforwards to C@D and so on until F@G forwards it back to A@B).
If only software engineering really involved engineering. Sigh.
Macs have been used in medical imaging for years. When I was on my internship, I worked with a guy who worked at Seimens and all their work was Mac based.
I don't want to use my work machine to get a new job.
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I was recently exploring a change of job opportunity. Most people I talked to said, "Send me your resume in Word format." Even for a Linux sysadmin position. At one point, I told the recruiter, "I don't have access to Microsoft Office but I have my resume in HTML form which you can load in Word with no trouble." His (her?) response was, "Well, you can hardly call yourself a professional if you don't use Office, now can you?" and the conversation dropped.
Another place sent me a job application form in Excel. I tried loading it in StarOffice and it sort of loaded, but I couldn't actually fill it out -- the StarOffice loader choked on protected fields and so on.
ps. I'm still half-heartedly looking for work. My resume can be seen here.
Suppose I want to put the book (or whatever) on my palmtop that doesn't have their decryption program. I have the key, and fair use says I can do that, but DMCA says I can't. That is the issue. Similarly, suppose I upgrade to Windows Wince (XP) and there isn't a Windows Wince reader. Fair uses says I should be able to extract the work to an unencrypted form so I can do that. Not a use without a key, agreed, but I would argue that's not the point.
My ISP doesn't carry any newsgroups. This is the basic reason they cited for not carrying newsgroups: only a very small percentage of users will use them, and those users will each only use a small percentage of the groups. They said it didn't make sense for them to download gigabytes of data, only to have a few dozen meg actually get used. I use a third party Usenet server now.
Now my ISP is a fairly small local ISP. It seems to me that a large, nationwide ISP might have a different situation. I don't actually know, however.
Fair use is entrenched in the concepts behind copyright. It's a concept which makes copyright good for society and not a special protection for the authors of a work.
The first bit is reserved for a system/user mode flag. The kernel can have 2GB and user mode programs can have 2GB. You can tune some versions of Windows to give you 3GB user mode RAM.
The Velocity Engine can work on up to 128 bits at a time. What it's actually doing is SIMD work on chunks of data (4 chunks of 32-bit data). A lot like MMX instructions on Pentiums.
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I prefer a command line. It's the primary reason I use Linux.
Delphi is a great environment. You can even download a demo from www.borland.com.
Win 9x let's you cancel out of the password dialog anyway.
On the other hand, RMS seems to want to claim all the credit himself...
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Of course this is the guy who insists we should call Linux "GNU/Linux".
I have no opposition to this at all... because they're PRISONERS.
Ever heard of a legal principal called, "innocent until PROVEN guilty"? Part of proving someone guilty involves ensuring they can discuss their case freely with their legal counsel. I cannot mount an effective defense if every word I say can be monitored and brought out in court (and out of context, to boot).
I really wonder if we might not be better of throwing the physics textbooks out of the window and starting over again.
All of science involves constant revision. Get used to it.
There's no reason manufacturers would want to ship dual-booting systems. The machines that Dell sells go to people who are buying on "Steve"'s recommendation. The people buying at Best Buy are buying on the sales drone's recommendation, and since they can't seem to get anything right, I suspect you won't find them recommending Linux.
Can't you just use mod_gzip (or whatever IIS's equivalent is) to compress the files over the wire?
This anti-intellectual attitude is the reason that science coverage is so brainless.
Or.... Scinece coverage is so brainless it leads to an anti-intellectual attitude.
Xerox isn't a software company (at least they weren't at the time). They're a copier company. We could all be driving Xerox computers in a paperless office, but the world didn't work out that way.
Or, kill *all* the people, since it's basically only people who are causing environmental problems.
Reminds me of a Mad Magazine ® mini-poster: "Fight the population explosion! Support your local war!"
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As they should. That's the whole idea of a patent. Why would a company spend millions (billions?) developing a new technology if they had to give it away? And patents eventually expire. In the mean time, the details of the process become public information, theoretically spurring on further development by third parties (and unlike the GPL, derivative works are not protected by the original patent).
About a half dozen lawyers spent weeks at a time in the period leading up to the trial in 1998 wading through through many thousands of pages of printed electronic documents. "It was a lot of paper," said one former government lawyer who worked on the case.
Which explains a lot about why litigation is so expensive! :) What I find humorous, being in the jury pool for our county's Superior Court, is that we (as a society) can afford to pay a half dozen lawyers to sit around poring over printed e-mails, but can't afford to validate parking for jurors. Assuming you can prove the validity of your evidence, I can see how a method to automate this would be very attractive.
Sure. That's why we have defense laywers as well.
Waiting for my 20 seconds to expire....
Any out of office program worth its salt *must* check for this. It's an obvious failure point. Similarly, any MTA should check for mail being routed in a loop (ie. A@B autoforwarding to B@C which autoforwards to C@D and so on until F@G forwards it back to A@B).
If only software engineering really involved engineering. Sigh.
Macs have been used in medical imaging for years. When I was on my internship, I worked with a guy who worked at Seimens and all their work was Mac based.
I don't want to use my work machine to get a new job.
I was recently exploring a change of job opportunity. Most people I talked to said, "Send me your resume in Word format." Even for a Linux sysadmin position. At one point, I told the recruiter, "I don't have access to Microsoft Office but I have my resume in HTML form which you can load in Word with no trouble." His (her?) response was, "Well, you can hardly call yourself a professional if you don't use Office, now can you?" and the conversation dropped.
Another place sent me a job application form in Excel. I tried loading it in StarOffice and it sort of loaded, but I couldn't actually fill it out -- the StarOffice loader choked on protected fields and so on.
ps. I'm still half-heartedly looking for work. My resume can be seen here.
Suppose I want to put the book (or whatever) on my palmtop that doesn't have their decryption program. I have the key, and fair use says I can do that, but DMCA says I can't. That is the issue. Similarly, suppose I upgrade to Windows Wince (XP) and there isn't a Windows Wince reader. Fair uses says I should be able to extract the work to an unencrypted form so I can do that. Not a use without a key, agreed, but I would argue that's not the point.
My ISP doesn't carry any newsgroups. This is the basic reason they cited for not carrying newsgroups: only a very small percentage of users will use them, and those users will each only use a small percentage of the groups. They said it didn't make sense for them to download gigabytes of data, only to have a few dozen meg actually get used. I use a third party Usenet server now.
Now my ISP is a fairly small local ISP. It seems to me that a large, nationwide ISP might have a different situation. I don't actually know, however.
This seems pretty straightforward to me.
Fair use is entrenched in the concepts behind copyright. It's a concept which makes copyright good for society and not a special protection for the authors of a work.
The first bit is reserved for a system/user mode flag. The kernel can have 2GB and user mode programs can have 2GB. You can tune some versions of Windows to give you 3GB user mode RAM.
The Velocity Engine can work on up to 128 bits at a time. What it's actually doing is SIMD work on chunks of data (4 chunks of 32-bit data). A lot like MMX instructions on Pentiums.