I expect that this rumour came from the young liberals or some such astroturfers, it is unlikely Ruddock is that switched on this one time. The sad fact is that we get this provision, along with the DMCA (which is new here) along with other pearls, all as a part of the [Not Quite So] Free Imperialism^H^H^H^H^H^HTrade Agreement. So while it's great to come out of the stone age with respect to fair use, when was the last time you heard of anyone being prosecuted for recording TV or radio or making tapes for the car from CD's for personal use? So excuse me if I am less than enthusiastic about being able to do it "legally". To some greater extent an unenforced law does not exist.
Citizen's Initiated Referendum, where the citizens make the decisions by referendum. Compulsory Citizenship classes in schools. At least one free Media outlet funded by gov, but not answerable in any way to it - only to the citizens. Personal accountability for politicians and corporations.
The sad/ironic thing is the US constitution and bill of rights already do an excellent job of defining a reasonable and free society. I believe a good quick fix would be to lower the legal status of the corporation to below that of the individual. Triple bottom line (financial, environmental and social) accounting would help tremendously, if there was a real way to implement it.
The same reason you need a 64bit cpu or fancy 3D card or 4G of memory or an iPod or an BMW Beetle (yes I know) to put the iPod in. If you cant see the need then I guess they don't mean you. After all, despite their poor handling many corvettes & vipers are sold every year.
Don't knock it until you've tried it. For instance I've tried the M3 BMW and I know they don't mean me.
...And basically twice as fast (hard). The Pirus does 0-60 in 9.8sec. Economy and emissions are one (good) thing and the merit of a renewable fuel source is self evident, but where on earth does one get a reasonably priced production car that does 0-60 in FOUR seconds.Sure 7 Liters at $50k+ will do it (pity neither corner "at all")
Even if it used twice the fuel of a normal car, as long as the sticker price is reasonable (less than the almighty WRX) the petrol (soy) heads will be lining up in droves.
First and foremost - A happy worker is a Productive worker.
You know you are right, every smoker in the world smokes solely to annoy you personally. I can see given the opportunity, you would make a great micro-manager.
I have been managing for many many years now, and I assure you if you treat your employees as adults and not children, they will behave like adults (inspired and grateful come to mind).
Multiplayer LAN games have been a staple of staff motivation since doom 1 (and esp C&C). My crew can have a game of whatever they like when ever they like - for as long as they like. You may scoff but they all love working here and all work at least 40 hrs of productive work a week as well as personal interests like O/S projects, etc.
Another key is fair and direct appraisal, criticism and (most importantly) appreciation.
I have an improvement for you to get the other 1%. Your main problem is you are over estimating the audience. The 1% comes from an over complication of the inputs.
and further and perhaps more importantly there's time delay. In order for the wave to be present at your ear at the exact same time as the anti-phase wave, the ant-phase must be calculated and delivered in real time. The only real way to do this today is with an analog amplifier because dealing with the signal digitally introduces delay (eg: A/D) which cannot be compensated for (in that, the event is over before the anti-phase signal is produced.
KDE sure has the hat for absolutley longest build time. It takes my humble 1Ghz PC nearly 5 days to build the KDE suite - nearly 2 for gnome... I avoid anything KDE for this reason alone....
Personally I would have thought that IBM was big enough that a company wide migration to linux would have enough clout with the people who write Notes to port and support a native Linux client? Who are these fools behind such ignorances?
History based strategy games like Rome Total War, have taught me all I know about Roman/Greek history - Ok its not much, but previously I cared not to know, now I do... pitty games cant learn me to spell...
If it's such a success then why are these issues still popping up? If we had an old fashion, all paper and pencil ballot, even with recounts, we would be completely finnished by now. If it is not a method of istitutional corruption - why is it so easy now? I thought eVoting was supposed to fix these "problems", not make them worse.
yep sure did, but I was not trying to dissagree rather remind them of the software licencing misconception and that their only real option is not to buy into it, as they eluded to.
I agree entrirely about not being able to play offline. Unfortunately there are two options, one legal and one not - legal: don't buy (licence) it. Illegal: see previous nocd cracks etc.
That's the way it goes when the rights of the few outweigh the rights of the many.
If "I'm not buying it" occurs on mass then the publishers will have to change their tune.
"Who is Valve to say that I, a customer who shelled out $55+ for their game, can not play it until they say so, even though they already have my money and I have their software?"
You do realise, I know you do - you're just choosing to ignore it, sowftware is licenced (generally) and not sold. You are sold the right to use it. You aggree to their conditions to use their software. Sometimes at the end of this agreement you are supposed to destroy the software, install media and documentation. If you don't like that then don't use it. I don't like it as much as the next guy, but that's how it is.
Free software can have provision for you to own it, try that instead....
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I expect that this rumour came from the young liberals or some such astroturfers, it is unlikely Ruddock is that switched on this one time. The sad fact is that we get this provision, along with the DMCA (which is new here) along with other pearls, all as a part of the [Not Quite So] Free Imperialism^H^H^H^H^H^HTrade Agreement. So while it's great to come out of the stone age with respect to fair use, when was the last time you heard of anyone being prosecuted for recording TV or radio or making tapes for the car from CD's for personal use? So excuse me if I am less than enthusiastic about being able to do it "legally". To some greater extent an unenforced law does not exist.
My dad taught me to play light-sabers with wee (sound effect and all) and I in turn taught my son. It's a tradition 'round here.
The sad/ironic thing is the US constitution and bill of rights already do an excellent job of defining a reasonable and free society. I believe a good quick fix would be to lower the legal status of the corporation to below that of the individual. Triple bottom line (financial, environmental and social) accounting would help tremendously, if there was a real way to implement it.
Don't knock it until you've tried it. For instance I've tried the M3 BMW and I know they don't mean me.
Even if it used twice the fuel of a normal car, as long as the sticker price is reasonable (less than the almighty WRX) the petrol (soy) heads will be lining up in droves.
First and foremost - A happy worker is a Productive worker.
You know you are right, every smoker in the world smokes solely to annoy you personally. I can see given the opportunity, you would make a great micro-manager.
I have been managing for many many years now, and I assure you if you treat your employees as adults and not children, they will behave like adults (inspired and grateful come to mind).
Multiplayer LAN games have been a staple of staff motivation since doom 1 (and esp C&C). My crew can have a game of whatever they like when ever they like - for as long as they like. You may scoff but they all love working here and all work at least 40 hrs of productive work a week as well as personal interests like O/S projects, etc.
Another key is fair and direct appraisal, criticism and (most importantly) appreciation.
With out empathy you are nothing to nobody.
I say, It's just not cricket! *cough*
I think the technical term for that is "Motion Aid". Just thinking about Java does it for me.... ooop excuse me, I'll be back in 10.....
POPULARITY = MARKETING_BUDGET/10 * FREQUENCY_OF_PAYED_FOR_PLAY_AIRTIME_ON_FREE_TO_AIR _MEDIA;
If the units are dollars and Hz I guess then POPULARITY is a measure of [sic. how much the] dollar-hertz.
and further and perhaps more importantly there's time delay. In order for the wave to be present at your ear at the exact same time as the anti-phase wave, the ant-phase must be calculated and delivered in real time. The only real way to do this today is with an analog amplifier because dealing with the signal digitally introduces delay (eg: A/D) which cannot be compensated for (in that, the event is over before the anti-phase signal is produced.
All the "ban" served to do here was increase the cost and time taken to do it (if you were having it done for you).
Simply, "Follow your Bliss."
2. Eat printed code.
3. Wait 12-24 hours.
4. Collect the word docs at "the other end".
The perfect "barbie" filter if you will. 8)
In the real world, where men don't read womens mags, guys like this are called Whipped...
per consumer, not in total...
Unless people are downloading gigs from ITMS etc. - daily - then I can't see how this is anything more than wishful thinking (or reverse FUD?)
KDE sure has the hat for absolutley longest build time. It takes my humble 1Ghz PC nearly 5 days to build the KDE suite - nearly 2 for gnome... I avoid anything KDE for this reason alone....
I Bet Microsoft.
History based strategy games like Rome Total War, have taught me all I know about Roman/Greek history - Ok its not much, but previously I cared not to know, now I do... pitty games cant learn me to spell...
If it's such a success then why are these issues still popping up? If we had an old fashion, all paper and pencil ballot, even with recounts, we would be completely finnished by now. If it is not a method of istitutional corruption - why is it so easy now? I thought eVoting was supposed to fix these "problems", not make them worse.
yep sure did, but I was not trying to dissagree rather remind them of the software licencing misconception and that their only real option is not to buy into it, as they eluded to.
IANAL but the provision you reference states "once you own..." but as I said you may not be buying it after all, so the provision would not count?
That's the way it goes when the rights of the few outweigh the rights of the many.
If "I'm not buying it" occurs on mass then the publishers will have to change their tune.
You do realise, I know you do - you're just choosing to ignore it, sowftware is licenced (generally) and not sold. You are sold the right to use it. You aggree to their conditions to use their software. Sometimes at the end of this agreement you are supposed to destroy the software, install media and documentation. If you don't like that then don't use it. I don't like it as much as the next guy, but that's how it is.
Free software can have provision for you to own it, try that instead....