If you're broadcasting a music on radio or TV programmes to members of staff or public you need an entertainments licence.
Can I just say that this is absolutely ridiculous, especially for small offices. I could see an argument for when you're broadcasting all over an office or factory floor of 20+ people. The fact that you need one to broadcast to yourself if you work from home alone is absolutely absurd and surely not in the spirit of the law. This just demeans and diminishes the valid arguments for copyright enforcement.
Hmm, are there members of the public there? She only mentions her employees and the horses.
Otherwise every work place that has a radio - factories, offices, etc, will have to pay a fee.
Of course that's what this self-appointed copyright police agency would like people to believe. I'd like to see what the actual legal stance was though.
Presumably it would have background notifications with the next version of the OS - I just don't know if that would be 'real time' enough for receiving skype phone calls.
(works on Linux computers I have. Works on Macs. Windows, that's a crapshoot, even with a full Intel-only CPU, chipset, etc and no dodgy hardware to interfere).
You need to work with Windows in a corporate environment.
I'm not kidding when I say that it can take 5 to 10 minutes for a computer to boot up from cold to usable desktop, once it does all the stuff that has been dumped on it. If that includes the time it takes for Outlook and Office to start up as well...
FFS the cost to a company is apparently less than two hours (less than one hour for most of us) wages for the person using the computer, PER YEAR. Given the unpaid overtime most IT people do...
Making it work out of the box on all hardware released in the past three years would be a better start. I know things like X.org are getting graphics drivers from AMD, etc, even before the hardware is released now, but other companies aren't there. Linux is great to install and set up until something doesn't work, or something isn't mature (e.g., VirtualBox on Linux requiring the manual set up of tap0 interfaces - might be fixed now). This might mean having a set of hardware that is "Linux Certified" by an independent team as not only just working on Linux, but working in a usable, trouble-shootable manner by a normal person.
As for the cloud, as long as someone makes a "Corporate Cloud Data Centre" Linux server install out of the box with all the stuff that the cloud needs, with a front-end that a corporation can use, with proper features that people need in business like seamless contact management, meeting arrangement, calendaring, email, and so on, stuff that Outlook gets right despite its appallingness in every other way... oh, I know there are people that get it, and there are those that can't see.
That's for an emergency stop. Are you advocated such rapid braking as normal every-junction behaviour?
Please think about how long it takes you to slow down from 30 to stop on a normal road in a controlled, safe (and petrol efficient even) manner. It's about 3-5 seconds or 40-50 yards (the latter is a guess, I haven't got a tape measure out or done some maths!).
I agree. A viable option has now been banned because the owners and implementers decided to game the system to gain money.
Quite rightly too.
In my opinion yellow times should be enforced in the traffic light hardware as a function of speed limit, not as a configurable time. That speed limit can be printed on evidence photographs (indeed all the recent traffic light timings could be put on that - "went red 3.5 seconds ago" etc). If the speed limit is set wrongly in the system, that's easy to argue against in court.
You are on a section of road with a 30mph speed limit. Like everyone else, you are driving 35mph. All of you are surveilled.
It's 30 for a reason (as the TV advert says). Hitting someone at 35 greatly increases the chance they will be killed vs. hitting them at 30.
If your quote was "You are on a section of road with a 70mph speed limit. Like everyone else, you are driving 80mph. All of you are fined." then fine. Motorways in the UK were designed for 100mph use for the most part, back when cars were total shit without modern road handling.
The creeping menace in the UK is average speed cameras. The real menace is lorries overtaking in heavy traffic causing other vehicles to sharply slow down from 75 to 55, but cameras can't catch this, so it's ignored. Never mind tailgating, weaving, dangerous driving (that's not speeding), etc.
I don't think you should be doing an emergency stop in the normal course of driving down a street.
Safely stopping in a controlled manner takes longer. That's it. If you're driving at 35mph and you're within 50 yards of the light as it turns yellow, you drive through because you can't stop safely in time.
Red light cameras should be about stopping the people who go through on red after the other lights have turned green. There's usually a delay to allow for late yellows to get through because that's simply safer even if the driver is taking liberties.
A common sense attitude is usually all that is required. Sadly when revenue raising gets involved, people will game the system as in this case. The punishment for that is having the system banned.
If they had failed, a dozen other companies would have risen to offer the same services, but in competition with each other. There would have been a short period of pain - the birds that nest in the tree would have been put out, the apes that ate its fruit would have to look elsewhere, etc, but it would have been okay.
Sometimes the old trees in the forest get rotten and need to fall, so that the new saplings can flourish.
Yes, I was thinking the same. You (very simply) need:
* existing file: foo.bar
Transaction One: Write foo_tmp.bar and sync Transaction Two: Delete foo.bar, rename foo_tmp.bar to foo.bar and sync
For desktop applications you should sacrifice performance in order to ensure that the transactions are committed. I'd go as far as requiring implicit filesystem syncs within 5 seconds of the last call. IIRC the problem with ext4 was that it thought that leaving data unwritten for minutes was okay (presumably because of high read load, but if that's streaming data then the application should have a buffer so it's safe to interrupt to write some data every so often). In addition in low-battery or power failure (via UPS) situations all writes should be synced because power loss is an imminent possibility.
As for applications that write transient temporary files for later use, they could be using a ram drive (even the Amiga had these in 1985).
"Microsoft said it was reviewing TomTom's filing and that it remains committed to a licensing solution and has been for more than a year."
Well until you have licensed you're in a quandary - you can't release, or you can but eventually you'll be sued. If TomTom doesn't want to license, and that's their right, then you are out of luck.
So you try and find some patent in your own portfolio that they might be infringing (even if it's a bit of a shady patent) to try and force them to license. "committed to a licensing solution" in this case simply means corporate bullying and threats ("committed to getting what we want for the least possible money"). With Don Ballmer at the head.
How about Apple got fucked over by SOX already and are just being anal about it all?
How about the fact it's free for iPhone users anyway? (subscription based accounting)
How about the fact that the iPod Touch still works as you desired it to work without buying the update?
How about the fact that $10 is pocket change?
How about the fact that if 20% of iPod Touch users update, that's $26m dollars added to Apple's bank account for free? Except that developing that software isn't free and has a cost, and if you want to gain that functionality then paying for it seems reasonably fair to me.
Business apps are written in.NET, Visual BASIC and Java.
Maintained applications would get recompiled - Microsoft would surely provide an easy means to compile to the new architecture! Apple managed it with far less resources. Twice.
It would be a risk, but on a five year plan... maybe not.
It appears from the snippet of Intel-AMD agreement posted that I've seen (at Tech Report, in comments) that The Foundry Company is perfectly fine under the agreement, as AMD has a certain share of the company, and it formed from AMD's assets.
So Intel might be playing with fire. They lose this, they've just lost x86-64 - and Itanium is dead due to minimal investment in the past 5 years, and this year is when 64-bit x86 will hit the common desktop with Windows 7. More likely that AMD would get that license really loosened if they won and a bunch of money, but you know, if they're backed by ballsy Arabs...
It basically means that no police officer can use sarcasm in their off-duty hours.
Clearly the facebook status was sarcastic, and really shouldn't have been an issue in this case where the facts should speak for themselves. Did the guy have a weapon? Did he have a reason to be holding that weapon?
The MySpace status was probably a poor choice, but again I don't think you could use a statement made off hours against someone's professional conduct. It's severely restricting the rights of the cop to free expression.
Bah. Maybe all computers should come with a single-cell battery, for a couple of minutes of backup power.
As soon as power fails to the system and it resorts to battery, all calls to write() should also call fsync(), even if that slows the system down.
Never mind an option that implicitly calls fsync() if it hasn't been called in the past 3 seconds, for a minimal performance hit. If you have a specific application that doesn't want fsync() then you can disable that feature, but clearly on a consumer box, no UPS, potentially dodgy hardware and drivers, it makes sense. 150 seconds without a sync, just dumping into a buffer for writing... sheesh.
In addition this is just one misinformed father saying something, it's not as if the government are considering it. The fact is that independent studies repeatedly show no link between video games and real life violence.
The problem is that this information will never reach the government to counteract the emotional appeals.
How long for 40,000 users to never click on that link you pushed to them, or even notice it is there.
How long for your corporate IE6 installs to get trashed?
I thought with Linux you just maintained your own software package repository, and pointed the user's package managers at that, so that they get the updates automatically.
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If you're broadcasting a music on radio or TV programmes to members of staff or public you need an entertainments licence.
Can I just say that this is absolutely ridiculous, especially for small offices. I could see an argument for when you're broadcasting all over an office or factory floor of 20+ people. The fact that you need one to broadcast to yourself if you work from home alone is absolutely absurd and surely not in the spirit of the law. This just demeans and diminishes the valid arguments for copyright enforcement.
Hmm, are there members of the public there? She only mentions her employees and the horses.
Otherwise every work place that has a radio - factories, offices, etc, will have to pay a fee.
Of course that's what this self-appointed copyright police agency would like people to believe. I'd like to see what the actual legal stance was though.
Presumably it would have background notifications with the next version of the OS - I just don't know if that would be 'real time' enough for receiving skype phone calls.
Not quite right.
Intel Win:
AMD loses its license but Intel can keep theirs.
AMD Win:
AMD keeps their license, but Intel loses theirs.
Reality:
These are just childish posturings prior to rewriting licensing agreements.
Never worked on this Dell laptop I have at work.
(works on Linux computers I have. Works on Macs. Windows, that's a crapshoot, even with a full Intel-only CPU, chipset, etc and no dodgy hardware to interfere).
You need to work with Windows in a corporate environment.
I'm not kidding when I say that it can take 5 to 10 minutes for a computer to boot up from cold to usable desktop, once it does all the stuff that has been dumped on it. If that includes the time it takes for Outlook and Office to start up as well...
FFS the cost to a company is apparently less than two hours (less than one hour for most of us) wages for the person using the computer, PER YEAR. Given the unpaid overtime most IT people do ...
Making it work out of the box on all hardware released in the past three years would be a better start. I know things like X.org are getting graphics drivers from AMD, etc, even before the hardware is released now, but other companies aren't there. Linux is great to install and set up until something doesn't work, or something isn't mature (e.g., VirtualBox on Linux requiring the manual set up of tap0 interfaces - might be fixed now). This might mean having a set of hardware that is "Linux Certified" by an independent team as not only just working on Linux, but working in a usable, trouble-shootable manner by a normal person.
As for the cloud, as long as someone makes a "Corporate Cloud Data Centre" Linux server install out of the box with all the stuff that the cloud needs, with a front-end that a corporation can use, with proper features that people need in business like seamless contact management, meeting arrangement, calendaring, email, and so on, stuff that Outlook gets right despite its appallingness in every other way ... oh, I know there are people that get it, and there are those that can't see.
That's for an emergency stop. Are you advocated such rapid braking as normal every-junction behaviour?
Please think about how long it takes you to slow down from 30 to stop on a normal road in a controlled, safe (and petrol efficient even) manner. It's about 3-5 seconds or 40-50 yards (the latter is a guess, I haven't got a tape measure out or done some maths!).
I agree. A viable option has now been banned because the owners and implementers decided to game the system to gain money.
Quite rightly too.
In my opinion yellow times should be enforced in the traffic light hardware as a function of speed limit, not as a configurable time. That speed limit can be printed on evidence photographs (indeed all the recent traffic light timings could be put on that - "went red 3.5 seconds ago" etc). If the speed limit is set wrongly in the system, that's easy to argue against in court.
I agree with your general points, but
You are on a section of road with a 30mph speed limit. Like everyone else, you are driving 35mph. All of you are surveilled.
It's 30 for a reason (as the TV advert says). Hitting someone at 35 greatly increases the chance they will be killed vs. hitting them at 30.
If your quote was "You are on a section of road with a 70mph speed limit. Like everyone else, you are driving 80mph. All of you are fined." then fine. Motorways in the UK were designed for 100mph use for the most part, back when cars were total shit without modern road handling.
The creeping menace in the UK is average speed cameras. The real menace is lorries overtaking in heavy traffic causing other vehicles to sharply slow down from 75 to 55, but cameras can't catch this, so it's ignored. Never mind tailgating, weaving, dangerous driving (that's not speeding), etc.
I don't think you should be doing an emergency stop in the normal course of driving down a street.
Safely stopping in a controlled manner takes longer. That's it. If you're driving at 35mph and you're within 50 yards of the light as it turns yellow, you drive through because you can't stop safely in time.
Red light cameras should be about stopping the people who go through on red after the other lights have turned green. There's usually a delay to allow for late yellows to get through because that's simply safer even if the driver is taking liberties.
A common sense attitude is usually all that is required. Sadly when revenue raising gets involved, people will game the system as in this case. The punishment for that is having the system banned.
The HP drivers default to Letter though, regardless of your computer's locale settings.
If they had failed, a dozen other companies would have risen to offer the same services, but in competition with each other. There would have been a short period of pain - the birds that nest in the tree would have been put out, the apes that ate its fruit would have to look elsewhere, etc, but it would have been okay.
Sometimes the old trees in the forest get rotten and need to fall, so that the new saplings can flourish.
Hey, at least it's not a car analogy.
Yes, I was thinking the same. You (very simply) need:
* existing file: foo.bar
Transaction One: Write foo_tmp.bar and sync
Transaction Two: Delete foo.bar, rename foo_tmp.bar to foo.bar and sync
For desktop applications you should sacrifice performance in order to ensure that the transactions are committed. I'd go as far as requiring implicit filesystem syncs within 5 seconds of the last call. IIRC the problem with ext4 was that it thought that leaving data unwritten for minutes was okay (presumably because of high read load, but if that's streaming data then the application should have a buffer so it's safe to interrupt to write some data every so often). In addition in low-battery or power failure (via UPS) situations all writes should be synced because power loss is an imminent possibility.
As for applications that write transient temporary files for later use, they could be using a ram drive (even the Amiga had these in 1985).
"Microsoft said it was reviewing TomTom's filing and that it remains committed to a licensing solution and has been for more than a year."
Well until you have licensed you're in a quandary - you can't release, or you can but eventually you'll be sued. If TomTom doesn't want to license, and that's their right, then you are out of luck.
So you try and find some patent in your own portfolio that they might be infringing (even if it's a bit of a shady patent) to try and force them to license. "committed to a licensing solution" in this case simply means corporate bullying and threats ("committed to getting what we want for the least possible money"). With Don Ballmer at the head.
Hmm, so counterfeit t-shirts (music bands, etc) somehow don't include copyrighted imagery on them?
How about Apple got fucked over by SOX already and are just being anal about it all?
How about the fact it's free for iPhone users anyway? (subscription based accounting)
How about the fact that the iPod Touch still works as you desired it to work without buying the update?
How about the fact that $10 is pocket change?
How about the fact that if 20% of iPod Touch users update, that's $26m dollars added to Apple's bank account for free? Except that developing that software isn't free and has a cost, and if you want to gain that functionality then paying for it seems reasonably fair to me.
Every?
Business apps are written in .NET, Visual BASIC and Java.
Maintained applications would get recompiled - Microsoft would surely provide an easy means to compile to the new architecture! Apple managed it with far less resources. Twice.
It would be a risk, but on a five year plan ... maybe not.
There's a lot at stake.
It appears from the snippet of Intel-AMD agreement posted that I've seen (at Tech Report, in comments) that The Foundry Company is perfectly fine under the agreement, as AMD has a certain share of the company, and it formed from AMD's assets.
So Intel might be playing with fire. They lose this, they've just lost x86-64 - and Itanium is dead due to minimal investment in the past 5 years, and this year is when 64-bit x86 will hit the common desktop with Windows 7. More likely that AMD would get that license really loosened if they won and a bunch of money, but you know, if they're backed by ballsy Arabs...
If AMD lose, Intel could have all sorts of fun.
PDT - is that Pre-Download Tension?
I'm sure it's building up here. Some geeks might have to take the afternoon off work because of it.
It basically means that no police officer can use sarcasm in their off-duty hours.
Clearly the facebook status was sarcastic, and really shouldn't have been an issue in this case where the facts should speak for themselves. Did the guy have a weapon? Did he have a reason to be holding that weapon?
The MySpace status was probably a poor choice, but again I don't think you could use a statement made off hours against someone's professional conduct. It's severely restricting the rights of the cop to free expression.
Bah. Maybe all computers should come with a single-cell battery, for a couple of minutes of backup power.
As soon as power fails to the system and it resorts to battery, all calls to write() should also call fsync(), even if that slows the system down.
Never mind an option that implicitly calls fsync() if it hasn't been called in the past 3 seconds, for a minimal performance hit. If you have a specific application that doesn't want fsync() then you can disable that feature, but clearly on a consumer box, no UPS, potentially dodgy hardware and drivers, it makes sense. 150 seconds without a sync, just dumping into a buffer for writing ... sheesh.
In addition this is just one misinformed father saying something, it's not as if the government are considering it. The fact is that independent studies repeatedly show no link between video games and real life violence.
The problem is that this information will never reach the government to counteract the emotional appeals.
How long for 40,000 users to never click on that link you pushed to them, or even notice it is there.
How long for your corporate IE6 installs to get trashed?
I thought with Linux you just maintained your own software package repository, and pointed the user's package managers at that, so that they get the updates automatically.