Umm unless there is some radical new technologies ive neverheard of, generally concrete pilings that holdup structures don't do a lot of moving around. Unless you are, of course, being sarcastic.. which would need a/sarcasm tag:)
I dont have any first hand experience here but as i have seen on tv.. supposedly the newest generation of mills are much quieter than the old ones. I ilke to know more.
I recall seeing Cronkite on tv complaining about this and that he was worried that the whales were going to run into the pilinings for the windmills. Of course I thought whales had echo navigation like dolphins, so im confused how they are gonna run headlong into them.
Well by your examples and yoru statement that implies that TV has nothing to do with the issue and that all of this crime there was bound to happen anyway. Thus what I implied. TV is no the problem.
As I recall back in the 19th century (before fingerprints) Scotland yard was using an 'identification' scheme in which they measured all of these esoteric face measurements under the auspices that no 2 people had the exact same set. Well they did and someone got caught and turned out he didn't commit the crime. And that scheme was shot down.
Intelligent adults are supposed to be able to know how to temper thier actions. Blaming the TV by claming they are mimicing the TV donest say much for ones opinion of the people themselvs.
Well assuming they havent showed IBM the code (which is likely because then thath 'alleged' infringing would be known to everyone so it could get pulled), SCO is making demands in bad-faith. I think IBM should be able to get an injunction out of a court. Assuming they care.
Why do we need secret anti-spam investigations? A nice public anti-spam might put the fear of god into these scum. Besides a nice public inquiry would help avoid those nasty backroom negotations that would let them off with a fine and keep spamming.
I have to agree. If you ask someone who know to pick 'unix' out of a line-up they will pick it everytime, regardless of which vendor it came from. Of course OS X looks so unlike 'unix' as its known unless you knew the casual person would never be able to tell. So I guess OS X is unix in desktop clothing:)
The fact that they sell those items you list in no way revokes the fact that walmart has infact done removing, banning, and censoring. That in no way proves me wrong. You would have to instead prove walmart has *never* done those things.
Well as we have seen Walmart has a long and unbroken track record of removing/banning/censoring things too non-consertative/too non-christian/too non-'patrotic'/too 'contreversial' for their perceived vanilla brain dead store-goers. It will remain to be seen what they actually make available.
There has always been the 'bird on a wire' dance going on be the "protection of their work" and the "assertion of our fair use" However common sense is no longer part of the equation. Anyone who is being honest can distinguish between theft of a work and common personal use. I'll be more than happy to discuss any alleged grey areas. Big media has been distorting reality like crazy. Claming priacy is rampant and yet they make money hand over fist, and spend it like its of no value. While all the time saying they are going broke in the process. If you recall teh *videotape* was suppsoe to cause the collapse of the media industry. So for fortune tellers they suck.
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PSI had a similar problem. As I understand from a former employee they had soem gung ho iguana VP that bought up everythign in sight, fired all the local staff and then none of their imported people could run anything. And as you see they died an undignified death. Both PSI C&W were in the 'expand at all costs' mode of the 90's well after that wasnt gong to work.
1) well then said app wont be running on any current OS I can think of. Reimplementing low level data storage routines is plain stupid, especially for a high level app like a word processor. (i can hear the grumbling 'but that was just an example you are too literal.. etc)
2) This argument is older than dirt and way too contrived. If a user is inputting records into a database its not code. Besides interpreted basic (as its a structured high level programming language the 'data' is already defined. Besides if the govt. is writing apps in interpreted basic you better ph33r f0r y0ur l1f3!
3) This is the whole point of the exercise, to write your data on purpose such that you document its output. In addition indexes to a database *could* be made user friendly, but since they are ephemeral anyway and are rebuilt and updated as needed and not generally data that is input by a user for long term data storage its kidna falls outside of the bounds here.
4) Well this is forcing the govt. to document their data structures that contain data that is not internal to the govt. And since ostensibly we all own the dat that the govt. has we can tell them (ideally) to do whatever we want.
Admittedly i read the 'bill' a bit quickly, but there is one problem (which seems to be partially addressed later on) is that all data be in human readable format. Well this is good for string data. However I very much suspect there are going to be number formats that are much better stored in their binary format. Now as I recall from college COBOL's strategy as to have everything stored as string data with (interesting) defining headers. As I also recall this was to help portable between COBOL and other foreign (computer wise) data retrieval systems, like when data was passed around on tapes.
This is all well and good, but you trade off portability for parsing overhead. Of course CPU time is way cheap as to compared to yesteryear. However you will end up with people's nutjob parsing routines, I mean hell CPUs and calculator software still get shipped making math mistakes. Reading in data in any of the standard int and float storage formats is cheaper and you don't have to worry about joe-bob desk jockey hosing up an import routing and your tax bill being 100x too large.
Now as most of us who have been thru a proper programming class know there are routines for these kinda things.. but again beware of joe-bob who wants to do it 'better' or whatever. Perhaps along with open data one needs to define a data import stadard?
There are 2 things running into each other here. 'IP' and abandoment. The federal case law on this is quite clear, ifyou throw somethign in the trash and someoen picks it out you can't claim they stole it from you. Once you toss it its considered abandonment. By throwing it away you have made the intention clear that you want to give it up. Which is why you threw it out right? This is why reporters can go thru your trash, you have no expectation of privacy on abandoned items.
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well the thing to remember there is that supernovae get really big an spew lots of hot gas before they explode and form a total sucking black hole.
Well I dont know if its CUPS or MacOS X but i'll tell you taht im still not happy with printer sharing. Regardless of numerous attempts i was unable to get my windows box to printer to my HP all in one printer connected to my mac. Ideally these things should be as easy as 1) share printer with protocol 2) print.
Of course im willing to concede that perhaps printing to cups printer with win98 isnt likely to work well.
Now there is an idea, have your MS product keys tied to your address, so when the DMCA jackbooted thugs paid by the BSA come they wont accidentally explode a concussion granade in the face of the lady next door.
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Umm unless there is some radical new technologies ive neverheard of, generally concrete pilings that holdup structures don't do a lot of moving around. Unless you are, of course, being sarcastic.. which would need a /sarcasm tag :)
I dont have any first hand experience here but as i have seen on tv.. supposedly the newest generation of mills are much quieter than the old ones. I ilke to know more.
I recall seeing Cronkite on tv complaining about this and that he was worried that the whales were going to run into the pilinings for the windmills. Of course I thought whales had echo navigation like dolphins, so im confused how they are gonna run headlong into them.
Well by your examples and yoru statement that implies that TV has nothing to do with the issue and that all of this crime there was bound to happen anyway. Thus what I implied. TV is no the problem.
As I recall back in the 19th century (before fingerprints) Scotland yard was using an 'identification' scheme in which they measured all of these esoteric face measurements under the auspices that no 2 people had the exact same set. Well they did and someone got caught and turned out he didn't commit the crime. And that scheme was shot down.
Intelligent adults are supposed to be able to know how to temper thier actions. Blaming the TV by claming they are mimicing the TV donest say much for ones opinion of the people themselvs.
whats worse is that you *can* hurt someone driving the legal speed limit :)
Well assuming they havent showed IBM the code (which is likely because then thath 'alleged' infringing would be known to everyone so it could get pulled), SCO is making demands in bad-faith. I think IBM should be able to get an injunction out of a court. Assuming they care.
Why do we need secret anti-spam investigations? A nice public anti-spam might put the fear of god into these scum. Besides a nice public inquiry would help avoid those nasty backroom negotations that would let them off with a fine and keep spamming.
I have to agree. If you ask someone who know to pick 'unix' out of a line-up they will pick it everytime, regardless of which vendor it came from. Of course OS X looks so unlike 'unix' as its known unless you knew the casual person would never be able to tell. So I guess OS X is unix in desktop clothing:)
The fact that they sell those items you list in no way revokes the fact that walmart has infact done removing, banning, and censoring. That in no way proves me wrong. You would have to instead prove walmart has *never* done those things.
it's just that Americans in general are vanilla brain dead store goers
I fear that may be the most insightful and most true part of the whole thing.
you are obivioulsy much to self important to worry about anyone outside of your preception of 'middle of the road'
All I can ask is to get a copy of this corporate decency standards handbook. I'd bet it would be an intresting read.
Well as we have seen Walmart has a long and unbroken track record of removing/banning/censoring things too non-consertative/too non-christian/too non-'patrotic'/too 'contreversial' for their perceived vanilla brain dead store-goers. It will remain to be seen what they actually make available.
Rememember, Steve may be a psycho, but hes*our* psycho.
There has always been the 'bird on a wire' dance going on be the "protection of their work" and the "assertion of our fair use" However common sense is no longer part of the equation. Anyone who is being honest can distinguish between theft of a work and common personal use. I'll be more than happy to discuss any alleged grey areas. Big media has been distorting reality like crazy. Claming priacy is rampant and yet they make money hand over fist, and spend it like its of no value. While all the time saying they are going broke in the process. If you recall teh *videotape* was suppsoe to cause the collapse of the media industry. So for fortune tellers they suck.
PSI had a similar problem. As I understand from a former employee they had soem gung ho iguana VP that bought up everythign in sight, fired all the local staff and then none of their imported people could run anything. And as you see they died an undignified death. Both PSI C&W were in the 'expand at all costs' mode of the 90's well after that wasnt gong to work.
*foom*
1) well then said app wont be running on any current OS I can think of. Reimplementing low level data storage routines is plain stupid, especially for a high level app like a word processor. (i can hear the grumbling 'but that was just an example you are too literal.. etc)
2) This argument is older than dirt and way too contrived. If a user is inputting records into a database its not code. Besides interpreted basic (as its a structured high level programming language the 'data' is already defined. Besides if the govt. is writing apps in interpreted basic you better ph33r f0r y0ur l1f3!
3) This is the whole point of the exercise, to write your data on purpose such that you document its output. In addition indexes to a database *could* be made user friendly, but since they are ephemeral anyway and are rebuilt and updated as needed and not generally data that is input by a user for long term data storage its kidna falls outside of the bounds here.
4) Well this is forcing the govt. to document their data structures that contain data that is not internal to the govt. And since ostensibly we all own the dat that the govt. has we can tell them (ideally) to do whatever we want.
Admittedly i read the 'bill' a bit quickly, but there is one problem (which seems to be partially addressed later on) is that all data be in human readable format. Well this is good for string data. However I very much suspect there are going to be number formats that are much better stored in their binary format. Now as I recall from college COBOL's strategy as to have everything stored as string data with (interesting) defining headers. As I also recall this was to help portable between COBOL and other foreign (computer wise) data retrieval systems, like when data was passed around on tapes.
This is all well and good, but you trade off portability for parsing overhead. Of course CPU time is way cheap as to compared to yesteryear. However you will end up with people's nutjob parsing routines, I mean hell CPUs and calculator software still get shipped making math mistakes. Reading in data in any of the standard int and float storage formats is cheaper and you don't have to worry about joe-bob desk jockey hosing up an import routing and your tax bill being 100x too large.
Now as most of us who have been thru a proper programming class know there are routines for these kinda things.. but again beware of joe-bob who wants to do it 'better' or whatever. Perhaps along with open data one needs to define a data import stadard?
There are 2 things running into each other here. 'IP' and abandoment. The federal case law on this is quite clear, ifyou throw somethign in the trash and someoen picks it out you can't claim they stole it from you. Once you toss it its considered abandonment. By throwing it away you have made the intention clear that you want to give it up. Which is why you threw it out right? This is why reporters can go thru your trash, you have no expectation of privacy on abandoned items.
well the thing to remember there is that supernovae get really big an spew lots of hot gas before they explode and form a total sucking black hole.
Well I dont know if its CUPS or MacOS X but i'll tell you taht im still not happy with printer sharing. Regardless of numerous attempts i was unable to get my windows box to printer to my HP all in one printer connected to my mac. Ideally these things should be as easy as 1) share printer with protocol 2) print.
Of course im willing to concede that perhaps printing to cups printer with win98 isnt likely to work well.
geez youd think giving money back to the working poor would also be eaiser than invading 2 nations in 2 years? But look George Bush does it.
Now there is an idea, have your MS product keys tied to your address, so when the DMCA jackbooted thugs paid by the BSA come they wont accidentally explode a concussion granade in the face of the lady next door.