Then let me help. One name; StarOffice. It supports all MS-Office formats, it's free and aviable on most platforms (including Windows.)
Er... not "hard" documents. Word documents with tables don't load right, for instance. Neither do Excel documents with graphics and things like cell protection. This was a huge issue when I was applying for a Linux job through a head hunter. I mentioned I didn't have access to Office and was informed, "I don't know how you can call yourself a professional if you don't have Office." I bailed on the headhunter (and am still looking for work, halfheartedly).
I *tried* to avoid upgrading to IE 5. I liked IE 4 and was happy with it and didn't want the extra bloat of IE 5.
I couldn't do it. Every time I turned around, something from Microsoft was installing IE 5 on my (wife's) machine (mine runs Linux and has endured over 200 infection attempts from the various Code Red variations ).
Much as I like to blame Microsoft for stuff, I have a 4 digit Be developer number: I was a Be developer when they were still building the BeBox. I've never gotten the OS to run on any of my machines. I did actualy get it installed once, but it only ran in grays at 640x480, and who wants that?
I have all my favorite CD's ripped to MP3's and loaded on my laptop so I can listen to any of my CD's anywhere I have my laptop without having to carry all my CD's with me (in fact, since my laptop lacks a CD-ROM, I save myself carrying an extra device).
This is fair use. I bought the CD. I'm converting the music to another form for my personal use and convenience. I do not share my MP3's. I do not get MP3's from other people. I am personally quite offended by the notion that I'm guilty just because some people break the law.
<ot>I went through the same thing when I was engaged and people assumed I was sleeping with my fiance - just because that's a rampant behavior in my society doesn't mean I engage in it. I am in individual responsible for my own actions and not a slave of my cultural environment</ot>
Seems to me if they strike the word "affects" that it becomes pretty innocuous.
I'd say, "Oh, they'd never enforce these stupid scenarios," but I keep hearing about kids getting thrown out of school for carrying pocket knives under a weapons zero tolerance policy....
Lincoln suspended it briefly during the civil war (a rebellion) in a couple specific instances (some people he was sure were involved in the rebellion but couldn't prove -- the consitution gives the government the ability during a national crisis such as a rebellion or invasion to suspend the normal right). That has no bearing today; it's critical part of due process. It's not like a light bulb that someone can turn off and forget to turn on.
Agreed. When I moved to this city, I intentionally chose an apartment close to a bus stop (no light rail or anything), with the intention that I'd ride the bus to work every morning and not have to mess with parking, etc. The plan was that my family would get by with one car and more than pay for the bus from what we saved on gas, maintenance, insurance, etc.
It took about 15 minutes to drive downtown, but busses only ran on a 75 minute cycle, so in order to be downtown by 8:00 am, I had to catch a 6:50am bus, ride 15 minutes, then kill time down town. Same thing in the evening: I got off work at 5:00, but couldn't catch a bus home until closer to 6:00. That was WAY too much time to waste waiting on a bus. I bought the car and haven't ridden the bus since.
The funny part is that when the new city administration took over, they decided to address low ridership on the bus system. Rather than doing something silly like running more routes (smaller busses, more routes, quicker times, would help), and especially more routes in the poor areas, they reduced runs to the poor areas (citing security concerns!), and renamed the system. Pitiful.
I just renewed my enom registration, and besides having a new, spiffier front end than they had last year when I originally got it, they've dropped the price from $35/year to $19.95/year (at least on renewals). That's registration, and name service. Also mail forwarding if you'd like.
I use Enom.com. They're not the cheapest, but I get nervous using the lowest bidder.:) They have done a great job for me; they provide my DNS, etc. which is a big plus.
The main problem is oversubscription. When I got my DSL line, I had really good performance at first. Then the company got aquired by another company that got aquired by another company that got aqcuired by a huge national ISP.
Each time, my "hops" to the backbone increased (by the time I left them, I was 9 hops and an average of 70ms before I even hit the backbone!), and my throughput plummetted.
One day my throughput dropped to ~ 1 K/sec, much slower than my modem used to provide. I contacted the ISP and once I finally got up to someone who knew something, I found out that the national ISP had brought a new bank of modems on line between me and their main office. They planned to get me up to 128kbps (twice 56k speeds) in 6-8 weeks.
I found another ISP and have not had any problems since.
If the law firm took it upon itself to send the letter, why should ANYBODY pay? If Adobe asked them to send it, then they were working for Adobe, and Adobe should pay (though might be able to sue to get it back from the KIllu..oops... people as costs of defending their trademark.
But if, as it sounds, the law firm sent the letter out of the blue, I fail to see why they think they should get paid.
Heck, I could send people letters, then demand they pay me for it!:)
Fair use, as I understand it (and I'm not a lawyer), is more of a general principal to protect the consumer from an over-reaching copyright system.
In general, if what you want to do can be naturally assumed to be the intent, it's fair use. Also, in general, if you have the right to use a copyrighted work, you also have the write to put it in a different form for your convenience (so you can copy LP's to tape to listen on your walkman). Academic study is also generally considered fair use (which is why libraries have photocopiers even though everything in there is copyrighted).
This doesn't imply any responsibility on the part of the copyright holder to make that easy for you, however. Just that they can't sue you into bankruptcy for making a copy of that article you're using as part of your term paper research.
I don't know as it'd really be false advertising. At the time, they intended to provide the service free for life, and they were simply unable to fulfil that intent.
If I truly intend to build a 150mpg car, and I get investors to joing me, then I'm unable to do it, I've not committed fraud, for instance. If I get investors to spend money on a 150mpg car I have no plan to even attempt to build, that's a different matter.
So the question comes down to this: is Canada Post (or whoever) contractually obligated to continue the service indefinitely for free? You'd have to read the terms of service and/or contract to know.
I've never heard of a cold brew (and growing up in Kenya, you'd think I'd know a thing or two about coffee, you'd be wrong of course, but you'd think...). Do you then heat the coffee when you want to drink it, or do you drink it cold (like making cold-brew iced tea).
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Right, but everything else about *these* chips is the same.
Yeah. On the other hand, the judge is aware that this issue doesn't involve a street thug.
Then let me help. One name; StarOffice. It supports all MS-Office formats, it's free and aviable on most platforms (including Windows.)
Er... not "hard" documents. Word documents with tables don't load right, for instance. Neither do Excel documents with graphics and things like cell protection. This was a huge issue when I was applying for a Linux job through a head hunter. I mentioned I didn't have access to Office and was informed, "I don't know how you can call yourself a professional if you don't have Office." I bailed on the headhunter (and am still looking for work, halfheartedly).
I *tried* to avoid upgrading to IE 5. I liked IE 4 and was happy with it and didn't want the extra bloat of IE 5.
I couldn't do it. Every time I turned around, something from Microsoft was installing IE 5 on my (wife's) machine (mine runs Linux and has endured over 200 infection attempts from the various Code Red variations ).
Much as I like to blame Microsoft for stuff, I have a 4 digit Be developer number: I was a Be developer when they were still building the BeBox. I've never gotten the OS to run on any of my machines. I did actualy get it installed once, but it only ran in grays at 640x480, and who wants that?
When you start thinking, "Wow. That's only an $18 million debt; that's not so bad" you KNOW there's a problem.
It's a medical imaging device, and therefore part of the FDA's realm (like a drug, though I guess you could call it like food, if you'd like).
If I had a [unit of currency] for every time someone said to me, "Kenya. Isn't that in South Africa?" I'd be reading Slashdot from a Sony Viao. :)
Bravo!
I have all my favorite CD's ripped to MP3's and loaded on my laptop so I can listen to any of my CD's anywhere I have my laptop without having to carry all my CD's with me (in fact, since my laptop lacks a CD-ROM, I save myself carrying an extra device).
This is fair use. I bought the CD. I'm converting the music to another form for my personal use and convenience. I do not share my MP3's. I do not get MP3's from other people. I am personally quite offended by the notion that I'm guilty just because some people break the law.
<ot>I went through the same thing when I was engaged and people assumed I was sleeping with my fiance - just because that's a rampant behavior in my society doesn't mean I engage in it. I am in individual responsible for my own actions and not a slave of my cultural environment</ot>
Seems to me if they strike the word "affects" that it becomes pretty innocuous.
I'd say, "Oh, they'd never enforce these stupid scenarios," but I keep hearing about kids getting thrown out of school for carrying pocket knives under a weapons zero tolerance policy....
No, it's just old news. Of course, most /. readers are smart enough not to be running IIS anyway, so....
Lincoln suspended it briefly during the civil war (a rebellion) in a couple specific instances (some people he was sure were involved in the rebellion but couldn't prove -- the consitution gives the government the ability during a national crisis such as a rebellion or invasion to suspend the normal right).
That has no bearing today; it's critical part of due process. It's not like a light bulb that someone can turn off and forget to turn on.
Um. It didn't create a sonic boom at 100-200mph. It made a sonic boom louder than that and slowed down to 100-200mph before hitting the ground.
Agreed. When I moved to this city, I intentionally chose an apartment close to a bus stop (no light rail or anything), with the intention that I'd ride the bus to work every morning and not have to mess with parking, etc. The plan was that my family would get by with one car and more than pay for the bus from what we saved on gas, maintenance, insurance, etc.
It took about 15 minutes to drive downtown, but busses only ran on a 75 minute cycle, so in order to be downtown by 8:00 am, I had to catch a 6:50am bus, ride 15 minutes, then kill time down town. Same thing in the evening: I got off work at 5:00, but couldn't catch a bus home until closer to 6:00. That was WAY too much time to waste waiting on a bus. I bought the car and haven't ridden the bus since.
The funny part is that when the new city administration took over, they decided to address low ridership on the bus system. Rather than doing something silly like running more routes (smaller busses, more routes, quicker times, would help), and especially more routes in the poor areas, they reduced runs to the poor areas (citing security concerns!), and renamed the system.
Pitiful.
How 'bout a right to keep and bear arms? Bare arms are, in fact, short sleeved shirts.
Actually, at most you change the password for the things you normally use. The obscure sites you registered for and have forgotten about....
I just renewed my enom registration, and besides having a new, spiffier front end than they had last year when I originally got it, they've dropped the price from $35/year to $19.95/year (at least on renewals). That's registration, and name service. Also mail forwarding if you'd like.
I use Enom.com. They're not the cheapest, but I get nervous using the lowest bidder. :) They have done a great job for me; they provide my DNS, etc. which is a big plus.
The main problem is oversubscription. When I got my DSL line, I had really good performance at first. Then the company got aquired by another company that got aquired by another company that got aqcuired by a huge national ISP.
Each time, my "hops" to the backbone increased (by the time I left them, I was 9 hops and an average of 70ms before I even hit the backbone!), and my throughput plummetted.
One day my throughput dropped to ~ 1 K/sec, much slower than my modem used to provide. I contacted the ISP and once I finally got up to someone who knew something, I found out that the national ISP had brought a new bank of modems on line between me and their main office. They planned to get me up to 128kbps (twice 56k speeds) in 6-8 weeks.
I found another ISP and have not had any problems since.
Ack! I was gonna use the XOR encryption and hide behind DMCA to jail anybody who tried to crack it!
Maybe I'm stupid.
:)
If the law firm took it upon itself to send the letter, why should ANYBODY pay? If Adobe asked them to send it, then they were working for Adobe, and Adobe should pay (though might be able to sue to get it back from the KIllu..oops... people as costs of defending their trademark.
But if, as it sounds, the law firm sent the letter out of the blue, I fail to see why they think they should get paid.
Heck, I could send people letters, then demand they pay me for it!
Fair use, as I understand it (and I'm not a lawyer), is more of a general principal to protect the consumer from an over-reaching copyright system.
In general, if what you want to do can be naturally assumed to be the intent, it's fair use. Also, in general, if you have the right to use a copyrighted work, you also have the write to put it in a different form for your convenience (so you can copy LP's to tape to listen on your walkman). Academic study is also generally considered fair use (which is why libraries have photocopiers even though everything in there is copyrighted).
This doesn't imply any responsibility on the part of the copyright holder to make that easy for you, however. Just that they can't sue you into bankruptcy for making a copy of that article you're using as part of your term paper research.
Agreed.
We went to the moon by ourselves, but we need everyone else to help us stay in orbit. How sad.
I don't know as it'd really be false advertising. At the time, they intended to provide the service free for life, and they were simply unable to fulfil that intent.
If I truly intend to build a 150mpg car, and I get investors to joing me, then I'm unable to do it, I've not committed fraud, for instance. If I get investors to spend money on a 150mpg car I have no plan to even attempt to build, that's a different matter.
So the question comes down to this: is Canada Post (or whoever) contractually obligated to continue the service indefinitely for free? You'd have to read the terms of service and/or contract to know.
I've never heard of a cold brew (and growing up in Kenya, you'd think I'd know a thing or two about coffee, you'd be wrong of course, but you'd think...). Do you then heat the coffee when you want to drink it, or do you drink it cold (like making cold-brew iced tea).