That's indeed a shame. There are people in any group who claim to be members or supporters of that group, but don't act accordingly (the infamous hypocrites). They are found in religions, companies, politics, and even the Open Source community. Of course, nobody can claim to be perfect, everyone makes mistakes. I personally think that free service calls under some circumstances could just be considered charitable, as long as the owner was not doing it at the expense of others in the business, and you were still paid your due wages. Just as I hope people don't think of obnoxious script kiddies as representing the Linux and Open Source/Free Software communities, I hope that you can appreciate that the one is not necessarily an example of the many in this case as well.
Utah? So they're mormons. No wonder they're uptight pricks.
I won't even dignify this uninformed, prejudiced statement with a response. Oh, wait...
Actually, Mormons aren't supposed to be that way. The other day I was wondering if the SCO dudes were, because if they are, they're not behaving that way.
I've contributed a minor correction or two to Wikipedia, mostly missing or misplaced punctuation. It's really pretty cool how anybody can modify the articles. It records the IP address of the person making the modification too, so if somebody puts something they shouldn't, well... Heheh.
Or how about C? Basic's syntax is so different from other languages, and it's somewhat more "forgiving." Languages that have block separators like {} tend to encourage proper formatting, and it's probably easier for beginners to see a program's logic flow just by looking at the indentation of the blocks.
Perverts are a minority. The idea that catering to a higher standard of decency will cause business failure is a myth the pr0n freaks like to trot out. If the market "forces" self-censorship, then that's what the market wants. Anyone who wants sleaze or scum can go to an adult store. They'll have no problem competing with Wal-Mart, because they're in a different market. I dream of a world where those intelligent enough to live above their animal instincts can be unbothered by those preferring to wallow in the mire of filth.
Another myth is that Wal-mart is only for fat dimwits. Wal-mart is a good place to buy lots of things cheap, especially where there were no local small-time shops to begin with.
(v) the transmission or retransmission is licensed by the copyright owner of the work so publicly performed or displayed;
Here's the catch. The work must be licensed by the copyright owner. This seems to be a contradiction. Who has to have the license, and what kind of license must it be?
Make them register their MAC address before they get an IP address. Have a server that watches for traffic from mismatched addresses, then go talk to the person who sent the mismatched traffic about their IP. That will only work if those boxes try to contact that server, they send an ARP request that gets broadcast across all switches, or you're using only hubs/repeaters (bad idea).
Not everyone who lives in a rural area lives a rural lifestyle. I'm surrounded by lettuce, onion, and carrot fields, and pastures. I'm a computer programmer. Why do I live out here? Because a 5000 square foot home costs $200,000 to build. The home I live in would cost over a million dollars in California. This way I have more money saved in the bank, and I can afford more enjoyable activites.
High speed Internet access is a necessity for me, and e-mail is the primary means of communication for a lot of people around here as far as distant friends and relatives are concerned.
Bzzt. Ten points deducted from slashdot_commentator for bringing in unrelated subject matter. The issue of Reagan's cronies is unrelated to the issue being debated, which is still unrelated to TIA (The subject of the article).
Parent poster never mentioned Reagan's cronies. Perhaps he was equally outraged then. I personally was too young then to be paying attention to politics, so I don't know what happened (They don't teach it in school, at least not the school I attended).
Note to moderators: there is no need to moderate me off topic; see the OT: in the subject line.
Wow! This post looks a lot like a grammar post I made just the other day regarding "a" vs. "an" but I didn't write it! Amazing how two different people trying to do the same thing come up with similar ways of doing it, isn't it?
In a more limited language, like a programming language, I'd say similarities are far more likely.
There is a difference: the code is already public. They can't change that fact. What SCO should do is say, "stop distributing lines 30-110 of fork.c as they belong to us." In the case of someone stealing the formula for a cola drink, they wouldn't likely represent it as their own invention. The analogy holds for simple trade secret cases, but there is a lot more background here that needs to be considered.
While most of the electronics in the monitor are inactive when the monitor is unplugged, there are large capacitors that can keep a charge in the high voltage transformer. The most dangerous area in the monitor is the big fat cable that goes from the front of the CRT down to the transformer, followed by the power supply itself.
If you don't have a discharge probe, use a screwdriver with a plastic handle, with a thick cable going to ground, under the rubber cup touching the cable and the CRT. Don't touch any metal.
That can't possibly be a true story, unless he was from Clearfield, Utah, where grades are based on how important you are to the football team. I'm glad I'm out of high school.
They're being given a public resource for practically next to nothing (relatively speaking). They should have to operate by some kind of standard requiring them to better serve the public in exchange for this public resource. They can use the other 8mbits of the stream to broadcast two 704x480i streams at satellite quality, or one stream at DVD quality.
6 HD channels with the bandwidth of the Analog channel right?
No. HDTV requires a 40MHz IF, analog NTSC needs something like 5 or 6 MHz (can't remember). This is because an HDTV bitstream can be up to ~20mbits/s. HDTV needs more bandwidth, but it's worth it. I think that if the spectrum is given to digital broadcasting, they should be forced to have a minimum 10mbit stream at a minimum resolution of 1280x720P, not like the local Fox and WB affiliates that only broadcast at 704x480i.
How many ways are there to misspell "Invalid IOCTL for device" or "Not a typewriter?" Both are descritpions of ENOTTY, and chances are, those comments following those descriptions will be identical, as the text description of an error is pretty well standard across all platforms.
In some states, like California, even if your contract says that, it is a right you cannot waive. That section of the contract is void. If you do have a spark of creativity and want to quit, talk to a lawyer. She/he will probably assure you of your legal standing if your company decides to come after you. Usually the law says they can only claim your ideas if they're on company paid time, or directly related to the company's business at the time of the idea's conception. The law was even directly quoted in the last employment contract I signed.
If your state is different, please let me know, so I don't end up taking a job there. My ideas are mine. The ideas I intentionally come up with for the company are the company's. They can't own my thoughts, even if it came to my head while I was on a soda break or something, as long as I don't use their equipment to do anything about it.
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That's indeed a shame. There are people in any group who claim to be members or supporters of that group, but don't act accordingly (the infamous hypocrites). They are found in religions, companies, politics, and even the Open Source community. Of course, nobody can claim to be perfect, everyone makes mistakes. I personally think that free service calls under some circumstances could just be considered charitable, as long as the owner was not doing it at the expense of others in the business, and you were still paid your due wages. Just as I hope people don't think of obnoxious script kiddies as representing the Linux and Open Source/Free Software communities, I hope that you can appreciate that the one is not necessarily an example of the many in this case as well.
Utah? So they're mormons. No wonder they're uptight pricks.
I won't even dignify this uninformed, prejudiced statement with a response. Oh, wait...
Actually, Mormons aren't supposed to be that way. The other day I was wondering if the SCO dudes were, because if they are, they're not behaving that way.
Where does that leave Ferarri, Porsche, Rolls Royce, Lexus, Saturn, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Honda, ... ?
But, there's a chance the fly is carrying a disease, and bites you. Then you have malaria.
Dude... I hope you have insurance on that. If you're not exaggerating, your music collection is 1/4 the price of a starter house! At least $30000!
I've contributed a minor correction or two to Wikipedia, mostly missing or misplaced punctuation. It's really pretty cool how anybody can modify the articles. It records the IP address of the person making the modification too, so if somebody puts something they shouldn't, well... Heheh.
I have Sprint wireless and I get 7mbit at 158400 feet! Too bad my upload's only 160 kbit.
Or how about C? Basic's syntax is so different from other languages, and it's somewhat more "forgiving." Languages that have block separators like {} tend to encourage proper formatting, and it's probably easier for beginners to see a program's logic flow just by looking at the indentation of the blocks.
Perverts are a minority. The idea that catering to a higher standard of decency will cause business failure is a myth the pr0n freaks like to trot out. If the market "forces" self-censorship, then that's what the market wants. Anyone who wants sleaze or scum can go to an adult store. They'll have no problem competing with Wal-Mart, because they're in a different market. I dream of a world where those intelligent enough to live above their animal instincts can be unbothered by those preferring to wallow in the mire of filth.
Another myth is that Wal-mart is only for fat dimwits. Wal-mart is a good place to buy lots of things cheap, especially where there were no local small-time shops to begin with.
I don't live in a 5000 square foot house. I live in a 3500 square foot house. Every room is used fully.
Here's the catch. The work must be licensed by the copyright owner. This seems to be a contradiction. Who has to have the license, and what kind of license must it be?
After hearing that term I may never want to game again...
Make them register their MAC address before they get an IP address. Have a server that watches for traffic from mismatched addresses, then go talk to the person who sent the mismatched traffic about their IP. That will only work if those boxes try to contact that server, they send an ARP request that gets broadcast across all switches, or you're using only hubs/repeaters (bad idea).
leg caught in a thresher
Not everyone who lives in a rural area lives a rural lifestyle. I'm surrounded by lettuce, onion, and carrot fields, and pastures. I'm a computer programmer. Why do I live out here? Because a 5000 square foot home costs $200,000 to build. The home I live in would cost over a million dollars in California. This way I have more money saved in the bank, and I can afford more enjoyable activites.
High speed Internet access is a necessity for me, and e-mail is the primary means of communication for a lot of people around here as far as distant friends and relatives are concerned.
Bzzt. Ten points deducted from slashdot_commentator for bringing in unrelated subject matter. The issue of Reagan's cronies is unrelated to the issue being debated, which is still unrelated to TIA (The subject of the article).
Parent poster never mentioned Reagan's cronies. Perhaps he was equally outraged then. I personally was too young then to be paying attention to politics, so I don't know what happened (They don't teach it in school, at least not the school I attended).
Note to moderators: there is no need to moderate me off topic; see the OT: in the subject line.
Wow! This post looks a lot like a grammar post I made just the other day regarding "a" vs. "an" but I didn't write it! Amazing how two different people trying to do the same thing come up with similar ways of doing it, isn't it?
In a more limited language, like a programming language, I'd say similarities are far more likely.
There is a difference: the code is already public. They can't change that fact. What SCO should do is say, "stop distributing lines 30-110 of fork.c as they belong to us." In the case of someone stealing the formula for a cola drink, they wouldn't likely represent it as their own invention. The analogy holds for simple trade secret cases, but there is a lot more background here that needs to be considered.
Unplug it!...it can't send 5 amps through you.
While most of the electronics in the monitor are inactive when the monitor is unplugged, there are large capacitors that can keep a charge in the high voltage transformer. The most dangerous area in the monitor is the big fat cable that goes from the front of the CRT down to the transformer, followed by the power supply itself.
If you don't have a discharge probe, use a screwdriver with a plastic handle, with a thick cable going to ground, under the rubber cup touching the cable and the CRT. Don't touch any metal.
That can't possibly be a true story, unless he was from Clearfield, Utah, where grades are based on how important you are to the football team. I'm glad I'm out of high school.
They're being given a public resource for practically next to nothing (relatively speaking). They should have to operate by some kind of standard requiring them to better serve the public in exchange for this public resource. They can use the other 8mbits of the stream to broadcast two 704x480i streams at satellite quality, or one stream at DVD quality.
LPFM is only available to noncommercial entities and public safety organizations, not individuals.
6 HD channels with the bandwidth of the Analog channel right?
No. HDTV requires a 40MHz IF, analog NTSC needs something like 5 or 6 MHz (can't remember). This is because an HDTV bitstream can be up to ~20mbits/s. HDTV needs more bandwidth, but it's worth it. I think that if the spectrum is given to digital broadcasting, they should be forced to have a minimum 10mbit stream at a minimum resolution of 1280x720P, not like the local Fox and WB affiliates that only broadcast at 704x480i.
--- Mod me up, or I'll throw my Xbox at you.
Hey, I didn't mod you up! Throw your Xbox at me! I could use one! Don't be surprised when I start running with it instead of throwing it back!
Does it have a mod chip?
How many ways are there to misspell "Invalid IOCTL for device" or "Not a typewriter?" Both are descritpions of ENOTTY, and chances are, those comments following those descriptions will be identical, as the text description of an error is pretty well standard across all platforms.
In some states, like California, even if your contract says that, it is a right you cannot waive. That section of the contract is void. If you do have a spark of creativity and want to quit, talk to a lawyer. She/he will probably assure you of your legal standing if your company decides to come after you. Usually the law says they can only claim your ideas if they're on company paid time, or directly related to the company's business at the time of the idea's conception. The law was even directly quoted in the last employment contract I signed.
If your state is different, please let me know, so I don't end up taking a job there. My ideas are mine. The ideas I intentionally come up with for the company are the company's. They can't own my thoughts, even if it came to my head while I was on a soda break or something, as long as I don't use their equipment to do anything about it.