When I first saw the title, I thought Merrill Lynch started to make predictions about male prostitution prices.
"Merrill Lynch Predicts $200 a Wii"
Though I heard a little boy jumping up and down and whinning to his mother in the store: "I want a Wii! I want a Wii!" Then the thought occurred to me and I started to wonder if that "boy" is really a girl.
So, if I got an extra external hard drive for it, would that count as a "Wii enhancement"?
Here, you are violating different laws. (Note, I am not a lawyer, but it makes sense this way.) All a license mean, is that a privilege is to be conferred to you by making an exception to an existing restriction. If the restriction is not there in the first place, there are no exceptions that can be made as you already have the rights.
Think of a license this way: You are prohibited from driving on the road. A license is given to you, which means you are excempt from the restriction. But you are not prohibited from walking on the street, so granting you a license for walking on the street doesn't work, because there is nothing to excempt you from. A license is supposed to define what you are allowed to do that you normally cannot do because of some other rules. The restrictions in the license saying you may not copy, redistribute, etc. does not come from the license, it comes from the copyright laws. All the license is doing is that it is telling you that the ability to copy, redistribute, etc. is not part of the EULA. If they left out that part and said, you may only, all inclusively, use the software on one computer and that ownership is not transferred, and say nothing else in the EULA, you still cannot copy the software because copyright laws prevail as the author has not make an exception to you via a license.
So, to come back to your arguement, the doctrine of first sale of copyright law specifically says that you MAY resell the license, granting permission and that it is not restricted. So a license cannot add restrictions, but only remove one. And since the copyright law does not provide such a restriction, they can't take away rights you hold.
A driver license on the otherhand, you violate laws regarding fraud, which I am fairly certain it is legally restricted in the first place. Remember, the EULA does not trump any laws of the land, it is only to conferr additional rights that is conferrable, but they can't use an EULA to take away your rights. Otherwise, someone can write an EULA that gives users the right to use the software and in exchange take the user's right to breathe (or something like that).
Typing this is sure slow on this Voda703. But this browser is so bare that what are you going to exploit?
But if they have A/V for cel phones, what is next? WinPhone AutoUpdate? I can see it now, in the middle of a 911 or $6mil business call: "Your phone has been updated, the phone must be rebooted now to continue."
The Peoples Republic of China, DOES have a constitution, just not like the U.S. or most westernized countries. As you can see here they do have a constitution: http://www.usconstitution.net/china.html
It is just written in a way where there are less guarantees of freedom, and more government controls. But then, this is all a technicality.
From my experience (and I could remember this wrong, as I haven't touched IPSEC for over 5 years), the IPSEC protocol in the way as-is wouldn't work well with BitTorrent because it requires a PKI infrastructure so that the two ends can authenticate and exchange keys before the actual communications. And a PKI isn't easy to setup, and will require a central CA to handle all the certs.
Furthermore, IPSEC, by its old protocol has NAT transversal problems as in it cannot do NAT. And even the IPSEC with the NAT option, I think it is called IPSEC NAT-T, still requires the encrypting certificate to have a name matching the IP of the computer. Hence, requiring a static IP on the computer and/or the public interface on the router. Furthermore, it would cause problems if the two computers on both ends have the exact same IP in the private network (192.168.0.5 or something) as that would lead to interesting conflicts.
IPSEC isn't design for such a use like BitTorrent, it is more for securing the communications on a MANAGED local network, or a VPN, or a tunnel through the internet between networks, so that no one can sniff your data or spoof the destination/source computer. I believe in this case, IPSEC is the wrench while BitTorrent is the phillips screw; wrong tool for the wrong problem.
On NTFS formatted filesystems, you can use the ACL to default set it so that all files saved will not have the "Execute File" permission. You just deselect "Allow" for the line that says "Traverse Folder / Execute File" for the "CREATOR OWNER" entry and "Apply onto" "Files Only" for the scope and allow propagation down.
Or, you can go into your Group Policy Object (Local Computer or Domain) and by default in your Software Restrictions Policy disallow execution unless they were in areas of the file system you designate, I.E.: "Program Files" folder. And if I remember correctly, saved files from current versions of IM programs are saved in "My Documents" outside of the "Program Files" folder by default.
Appel is not at fault for the nature of the battery or the diminishing length of the batter life, they are being sued for lying about it in their advertisement, they are sued for false advertising. I have received the settlement forms and it explained that: they were sued for claiming that the battery can sustain this amount of life for this many charges that were exaggerated from its true performance, and hence was sued.
So, no, it isn't about how Apple made the battery, but rather what they said the battery could do that was not true. When I or someone else finds the paper, I'll post verbatim the text.
made up on the spot? And with such broad generalizations and lack of details of the percentages, it is 75% likely that it is made up, just like the 95% of all statistics. Not to include, 93% of all statistical studies do not include the actual number to back the 84% of the statistics that are made up on the spot.
Did I mention that 99% of all statistics are made up?
Back in the days (according to one of my friend's grand parent), the IRS *DID* do people's taxes, but suddenly they stopped. Then that was where companies like H&R block offered to do taxes because the IRS didn't want to do it.
Until the mid-'50s, the Internal Revenue Service had actually filled out tax returns at no charge for anyone who went to their local IRS office. Errors were common, however, and when people complained, the IRS began eliminating the service. The Blochs' first ad appeared at the same time that Kansas Citians were discovering the IRS would no longer do their tax returns.
So if it went national, it would mean a return to the old days. The IRS and taxpayers created them, and now there is no turning back. I guess we are regretting it huh?
The reason why laptop *appears* to have battery capacity gauges that don't like being left on A/C power for a couple of months is not the gauge, it is the battery.
Lithium Ion batteries works poorly in constant full charge conditions and in hot temperatures. Their effectiveness degrades in heat and constant full charge. And guess what? A constant plugged in laptop has BOTH! Heat from the computer and full charge all the time. So a laptop left plugged in for months will kill the battery fast with the heat it generates and the constant charge of the battery.
Mobile, Embedded, Professional, Home, Starter, Handheld, Server Web, Server Standard, Server Enterprise (2003), Server DataCenter, Server Small Business, Tablet, Media Center, Server Advanced (2000), and.... XBox. Almost forgot X-Box.
I was once told by someone whom work in the video/audio media industry that one of the major factors that determine whether a type of media is a success or not is whether the media is "porn" friendly.
When Pioneer made Laser Discs (LD), their "license" prohibited porn to be made on them, resulting in the flop of the format. VHS on the other hand had plenty, and DVDs are even friendlier with their "multi-angle" option (that surprisingly many people do not know about).
If the porn industry picks a format, you know that one will be the winner.
In the Senate Version of the bill (Summary here), the entire section of Title VII is struck out and dropped. This Title VII is the title that contained the Read-ID act.
The House version of the bill on the other hand, included that section. (Summary here)
And to verify what I know about the process briefly here.
If you make no gross income (not net) on the use of the copyright material it is fair use.
Just the fact that you do not collect even a dime off of the work in any way, shape, or form, incidentially, or coincidentally, would be enough to stem off any abuses against the author whom is trying to make a living off their work.
In order to copy a movie, you need to spend money on buying the blank DVDs, and then spend time and resources on it. So just the fact that you can't collect money off of it is a good enough "punishment" to cut off the serious "piracy". The petty "piracy" is due to the unreasonable price the *AA are trying to make. And the serious "piracy" that really does the damage is for profit, so this would seperate it sufficiently.
Some roads are built with concrete as the foundation and asphalt is then laid on top. On some surfaces, the concrete is necessary to give the road strength for soft ground like areas where it is more sand like or is soft.
Also roads that carry heavy trucks tend to have such a concrete base (if not plain concrete). Bridges must be concrete, but asphalt can be laid on top to make it "quieter". When they lay concrete or asphalt or both, the engineers decide based on environmental factors also, not just cost or because it is nice.
Another major factor is distance to a major city or repair point. If a particular stretch of road is heavily traveled and is far from a city, concrete might be better as the constant repair costs of asphalt might prove to be expensive, compared to a one time fix.
It would be SIGNIFICANTLY more helpful if they gave a "ratio" WITH the raw data rather than just raw numbers, especially with such disproportionate base population.
What would be also more interesting to note is the PRICE of broadband and speed there compared to the HOUSEHOLD INCOME. For example (that I know): In the U.S., broadband prices are about $15 to $30 for 1.5Mbps down and 256kbps up. In Japan, it is $10 to $20 for 10Mbps down and 1Mbps up, sometimes with better deals! Why? Population density! Cheaper to bring fat pipes over short distances to lots of people to disaggregate the cost.
And then when you compare that to the household income of someone in Tokyo versus say Los Angeles, their internet cost is pocket change! (Though Tokyo's demand/standard of living is higher.)
When doing such comparative statistics, you gotta make sure the numbers aren't affected by some other third factor, in this case, a significantly larger base population and higher density.
What other things would be interesting, would be a ratio of clients to servers. I am willing to bet that the U.S. has a higher server ratio than China.
A company infamous for crashing is going to help a car company NOT crash!? Sounds like the blind is leading someone who can see just fine.
The reason why cars crash is due to driver error (be it the person in said Ford or otherwise). How about better driver training and less annoying distractions from clippy over there.
Or maybe Microsoft wants to make crashes more acceptable so that they don't have to fix their software.
The last time I took an international flight and landed for a stop in VANCOUVER, I crossed through UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IMMIGRATION! The last time I checked, Vancouver was on the CANADIAN SIDE of the border! So unless the Canadians decided to change their seal to an American Eagle and had George W. Bush as their President on the wall, I was definitely crossing U.S. borders in VANCOUVER which is a CANADIAN CITY!
I find that rather dumb, because we already treat any entry in to the U.S. OR Canada as one border and not two, why bother wasting tax dollars on the border in between when it should have been done already on the Canadian side since we are doing that already? Because apparently, jurisdiction between Canada and the U.S. didn't matter.
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Lasers? Shields? Protection from missiles and rockets? Sounds like something from the Reagan era, does Strategic Defense Initiative sound familiar?
Maybe this is the DoD's ploy to circumvent the treaties with the Russians banning the development of SDI.
When I first saw the title, I thought Merrill Lynch started to make predictions about male prostitution prices.
"Merrill Lynch Predicts $200 a Wii"
Though I heard a little boy jumping up and down and whinning to his mother in the store: "I want a Wii! I want a Wii!"
Then the thought occurred to me and I started to wonder if that "boy" is really a girl.
So, if I got an extra external hard drive for it, would that count as a "Wii enhancement"?
If I remember correctly, the sad face: :-(
is already trade marked by Despair Inc.
http://www.despair.com/frownonthis.html
And it is already registered. So I don't see why one can't register a trade mark from the smily face.
Here, you are violating different laws. (Note, I am not a lawyer, but it makes sense this way.) All a license mean, is that a privilege is to be conferred to you by making an exception to an existing restriction. If the restriction is not there in the first place, there are no exceptions that can be made as you already have the rights.
Think of a license this way: You are prohibited from driving on the road. A license is given to you, which means you are excempt from the restriction. But you are not prohibited from walking on the street, so granting you a license for walking on the street doesn't work, because there is nothing to excempt you from. A license is supposed to define what you are allowed to do that you normally cannot do because of some other rules. The restrictions in the license saying you may not copy, redistribute, etc. does not come from the license, it comes from the copyright laws. All the license is doing is that it is telling you that the ability to copy, redistribute, etc. is not part of the EULA. If they left out that part and said, you may only, all inclusively, use the software on one computer and that ownership is not transferred, and say nothing else in the EULA, you still cannot copy the software because copyright laws prevail as the author has not make an exception to you via a license.
So, to come back to your arguement, the doctrine of first sale of copyright law specifically says that you MAY resell the license, granting permission and that it is not restricted. So a license cannot add restrictions, but only remove one. And since the copyright law does not provide such a restriction, they can't take away rights you hold.
A driver license on the otherhand, you violate laws regarding fraud, which I am fairly certain it is legally restricted in the first place. Remember, the EULA does not trump any laws of the land, it is only to conferr additional rights that is conferrable, but they can't use an EULA to take away your rights. Otherwise, someone can write an EULA that gives users the right to use the software and in exchange take the user's right to breathe (or something like that).
Typing this is sure slow on this Voda703. But this browser is so bare that what are you going to exploit?
But if they have A/V for cel phones, what is next? WinPhone AutoUpdate? I can see it now, in the middle of a 911 or $6mil business call: "Your phone has been updated, the phone must be rebooted now to continue."
The Peoples Republic of China, DOES have a constitution, just not like the U.S. or most westernized countries. As you can see here they do have a constitution: http://www.usconstitution.net/china.html
It is just written in a way where there are less guarantees of freedom, and more government controls. But then, this is all a technicality.
From my experience (and I could remember this wrong, as I haven't touched IPSEC for over 5 years), the IPSEC protocol in the way as-is wouldn't work well with BitTorrent because it requires a PKI infrastructure so that the two ends can authenticate and exchange keys before the actual communications. And a PKI isn't easy to setup, and will require a central CA to handle all the certs.
Furthermore, IPSEC, by its old protocol has NAT transversal problems as in it cannot do NAT. And even the IPSEC with the NAT option, I think it is called IPSEC NAT-T, still requires the encrypting certificate to have a name matching the IP of the computer. Hence, requiring a static IP on the computer and/or the public interface on the router. Furthermore, it would cause problems if the two computers on both ends have the exact same IP in the private network (192.168.0.5 or something) as that would lead to interesting conflicts.
IPSEC isn't design for such a use like BitTorrent, it is more for securing the communications on a MANAGED local network, or a VPN, or a tunnel through the internet between networks, so that no one can sniff your data or spoof the destination/source computer. I believe in this case, IPSEC is the wrench while BitTorrent is the phillips screw; wrong tool for the wrong problem.
If they simply converted to Kelvins before doing the percentage..... but then, were they smart enough to use how many Kelvins?
On NTFS formatted filesystems, you can use the ACL to default set it so that all files saved will not have the "Execute File" permission. You just deselect "Allow" for the line that says "Traverse Folder / Execute File" for the "CREATOR OWNER" entry and "Apply onto" "Files Only" for the scope and allow propagation down.
Or, you can go into your Group Policy Object (Local Computer or Domain) and by default in your Software Restrictions Policy disallow execution unless they were in areas of the file system you designate, I.E.: "Program Files" folder. And if I remember correctly, saved files from current versions of IM programs are saved in "My Documents" outside of the "Program Files" folder by default.
Appel is not at fault for the nature of the battery or the diminishing length of the batter life, they are being sued for lying about it in their advertisement, they are sued for false advertising. I have received the settlement forms and it explained that: they were sued for claiming that the battery can sustain this amount of life for this many charges that were exaggerated from its true performance, and hence was sued.
So, no, it isn't about how Apple made the battery, but rather what they said the battery could do that was not true. When I or someone else finds the paper, I'll post verbatim the text.
Maybe you should read up briefly on the domains they specified in the CISSP Exams, maybe that will give you some leads.
Sony has their own music store, that is why you do not see any music that is distributed or produced by Sony.
The Sony online music has been around for a long time before even there was discussion about iTunes Japan.
http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/
With a TTL of 52, your request would time out before the reply actually came back. Unless it was a TTL of 52 days or some larger increment.
made up on the spot? And with such broad generalizations and lack of details of the percentages, it is 75% likely that it is made up, just like the 95% of all statistics. Not to include, 93% of all statistical studies do not include the actual number to back the 84% of the statistics that are made up on the spot.
Did I mention that 99% of all statistics are made up?
Even the H&R Block history says so:
So if it went national, it would mean a return to the old days. The IRS and taxpayers created them, and now there is no turning back. I guess we are regretting it huh?
The reason why laptop *appears* to have battery capacity gauges that don't like being left on A/C power for a couple of months is not the gauge, it is the battery.
Lithium Ion batteries works poorly in constant full charge conditions and in hot temperatures. Their effectiveness degrades in heat and constant full charge. And guess what? A constant plugged in laptop has BOTH! Heat from the computer and full charge all the time. So a laptop left plugged in for months will kill the battery fast with the heat it generates and the constant charge of the battery.
Read here: http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm
Mobile, Embedded, Professional, Home, Starter, Handheld, Server Web, Server Standard, Server Enterprise (2003), Server DataCenter, Server Small Business, Tablet, Media Center, Server Advanced (2000), and.... XBox. Almost forgot X-Box.
Is that all, or are there more fragments?
I was once told by someone whom work in the video/audio media industry that one of the major factors that determine whether a type of media is a success or not is whether the media is "porn" friendly. When Pioneer made Laser Discs (LD), their "license" prohibited porn to be made on them, resulting in the flop of the format. VHS on the other hand had plenty, and DVDs are even friendlier with their "multi-angle" option (that surprisingly many people do not know about). If the porn industry picks a format, you know that one will be the winner.
In the Senate Version of the bill (Summary here), the entire section of Title VII is struck out and dropped. This Title VII is the title that contained the Read-ID act.
The House version of the bill on the other hand, included that section. (Summary here)
And to verify what I know about the process briefly here.
Then when the conference report came in, that section was put back, and approved by the Senate. And the actual text about driver licenses and the beginning of the whole part.
Because the Senate already passed the conference version.... it looks like doomsday for those whom are worried about this.
If you make no gross income (not net) on the use of the copyright material it is fair use.
Just the fact that you do not collect even a dime off of the work in any way, shape, or form, incidentially, or coincidentally, would be enough to stem off any abuses against the author whom is trying to make a living off their work.
In order to copy a movie, you need to spend money on buying the blank DVDs, and then spend time and resources on it. So just the fact that you can't collect money off of it is a good enough "punishment" to cut off the serious "piracy". The petty "piracy" is due to the unreasonable price the *AA are trying to make. And the serious "piracy" that really does the damage is for profit, so this would seperate it sufficiently.
Some roads are built with concrete as the foundation and asphalt is then laid on top. On some surfaces, the concrete is necessary to give the road strength for soft ground like areas where it is more sand like or is soft. Also roads that carry heavy trucks tend to have such a concrete base (if not plain concrete). Bridges must be concrete, but asphalt can be laid on top to make it "quieter". When they lay concrete or asphalt or both, the engineers decide based on environmental factors also, not just cost or because it is nice. Another major factor is distance to a major city or repair point. If a particular stretch of road is heavily traveled and is far from a city, concrete might be better as the constant repair costs of asphalt might prove to be expensive, compared to a one time fix.
Nah, if I'll do it if they offered a Golden PSP with the game "Heaven versus Hell".
It would be SIGNIFICANTLY more helpful if they gave a "ratio" WITH the raw data rather than just raw numbers, especially with such disproportionate base population.
What would be also more interesting to note is the PRICE of broadband and speed there compared to the HOUSEHOLD INCOME. For example (that I know): In the U.S., broadband prices are about $15 to $30 for 1.5Mbps down and 256kbps up. In Japan, it is $10 to $20 for 10Mbps down and 1Mbps up, sometimes with better deals! Why? Population density! Cheaper to bring fat pipes over short distances to lots of people to disaggregate the cost.
And then when you compare that to the household income of someone in Tokyo versus say Los Angeles, their internet cost is pocket change! (Though Tokyo's demand/standard of living is higher.)
When doing such comparative statistics, you gotta make sure the numbers aren't affected by some other third factor, in this case, a significantly larger base population and higher density.
What other things would be interesting, would be a ratio of clients to servers. I am willing to bet that the U.S. has a higher server ratio than China.
A company infamous for crashing is going to help a car company NOT crash!? Sounds like the blind is leading someone who can see just fine.
The reason why cars crash is due to driver error (be it the person in said Ford or otherwise). How about better driver training and less annoying distractions from clippy over there.
Or maybe Microsoft wants to make crashes more acceptable so that they don't have to fix their software.
The last time I took an international flight and landed for a stop in VANCOUVER, I crossed through UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IMMIGRATION! The last time I checked, Vancouver was on the CANADIAN SIDE of the border! So unless the Canadians decided to change their seal to an American Eagle and had George W. Bush as their President on the wall, I was definitely crossing U.S. borders in VANCOUVER which is a CANADIAN CITY!
I find that rather dumb, because we already treat any entry in to the U.S. OR Canada as one border and not two, why bother wasting tax dollars on the border in between when it should have been done already on the Canadian side since we are doing that already? Because apparently, jurisdiction between Canada and the U.S. didn't matter.