I suggest a finely crafted nam-shub that will turn them all into jargon-spewing corporate zombies*. That should take care of any free will problems they might have.
*Aircraft carrier may be required. Some restrictions apply.
Well, I gotta get back to work...ne mi ba se fa no li sa ba fu
Yeah, but can you retroactively add to the contract? That is, when they signed on (for their scholarships), was that restriction there, or anything remotely resembling it
At least back when I was in school (5 years or so ago now), my scholorships were renewed on a semester-by-semester basis, and I'd have to fill out a sort of mini application each semester to continue getting my funds.
My guess is they just new added legalese to the form, and while they can't retroactively make students comply right now, they can certainly prevent them from getting future money.
It looks like the poster is looking for a full schematic capture > PCB layout program similar to Orcad or Protel. PCB only does layout editing.
As far as I know, nothing exists that isn't seriously buggy/lacking features. It's really the one application I use at work that keeps me on Windows (we use Protel SE).
What does that have to do with anything? Do bad locks make it less of a crime to break in to a house?
It does matter - an above poster made a joke about ROT26 encrytption, but it actually is a decent illustration of the problem. Because of the vagueness of the DMCA, both in letter and in spirit, it's left to the courts to decide what constitutes an effective prevention. John Everyman doesn't have the resources to defend himself from MPAA lawsuits, so it becomes a club to bludgeon people into conforming with what the *AAs want.
The DMCA says nothing about fair use (except for the reverse engineering clause if I recall).
The DMCA makes it illegal to break copyright protection mechanisms. If the movie was NOT protected, and it probably wasn't, then the DMCA does not come into play in any way.
The copyright infringment bit is still possible, but fair use does come into play there.
That's really the perversion of the DMCA - any copyright protection mechanism, pretty much regardless of how poorly implemented, trumps fair use rights.
The link to the settlement article in the old thread is gone so I can't say for sure, but it depends on the settlement. In all likelihood it was a "Okay, we'll give you X dollars if we get a liscence to all your technologies and you go away" type deal, in which case Microsoft pretty much gets screwed, since all they have are liscence rights to a patent that's been invalidated.
But it really does depend on the conditions of the settlement.
What if my Apocalypse battleship slipped into a different dimension where the speed of light is slower, and it would take me another 200 years to move my finger to the 'OFF' switch 2cm away just to come back again.
Or worse yet, due to a great miscalculation in size, the entire battlefleet could be swallowed by a small dog.
Unless of course you don't care about any of that stuff.
I own both a PS2 and an Xbox, and the Xbox gathers dust simply because the PS2 delivers a lot more quality single-player games than the Xbox does. I had a Live subscription for a while and didn't use it that much.
I guess the appeal of having 12 year olds tell me how teh ghey you are is lost on some people.
This is tax money we are talking about here. Why should the residents of New Jersey, the students of that school district, and to a lesser extent, the entire nation (some federal money trickles down to school districts), pay for the oppressive actions of a few idiot administrators?
I disagree - I think the taxpayers are the perfect candidates to pay this fine.
After all, they voted the school board into office.
I doubt it. GPL or GPL-compatible philosophy is basically "you can do whatever you want with the source"
That's not really true - Do What You Want with the source code is a BSD philosophy. GPL is more of an All Software Should Be Open Source philosophy and it trys to enforce that.
Tried it on my work computer - here's what it does:
1) Looks for filesharing programs, and redflags them. 2) Looks for shared folders of the filesharing programs. 3) Searches the hard drive for *any* media files
That's it. Basically, the program flags pretty much any media files of any format as "suspicious", and it's up to the user to determine if they were acquired illegally or not. It also makes a big ruckus about any illegal activity taking place on your PC being your responsiblity.
My ISP has a 5 GB/month upload+download limit as well - it seems to be more or less the norm around here (I live near Kansas City). They charge $5 per GB after that.
So hopefully we'll get a ton more games (yay!... games are a wasteland on the Mac)
I tend to think the reason games are a wasteland on the Mac is a DirectX vs. OpenGL type of thing - You certainly don't see a lot of games on Linux, and it's the same architecture.
I guess you could do the whole WINE thing, but that doesn't really count.
Which is exactly why I've never understood why you do the even numbers. If you have the answers available, you can check your work and see that it's right.
Most of the stuff I remember really having an "ah ha!" moment on in math classes was where the answer was available to me, but mine didn't agree and I had to figure out why
The Patriot Act has gotten so much bad press and negative publicity that anyone that cares the slightest bit about civil rights won't hold a grudge
Unfortuneately, I'm fairly sure the people who would care about this and not hold a grudge are hopelessly in the minority compared to the people who would be swayed by political adds saying "My opponent voted against the PATRIOT act, and therefore hates freedom."
It's not really a matter of Red vs Blue, it's more a matter of city vs country.
Kansas and most of the other red states have a lot of rural population, and as a result tend to have a lot more conservative voters.
Don't ask me why that is, but it seems to be the way of things.
And this is your choice, and more power to you if you want to educate your children.
However,
Intelligent Design is NOT a scientific theory, it is a theological theory. There is no such thing as "Both Theories of Evolution" because there is only one theory of evolution appropriate for teaching in a science class.
If kids want to learn about ID in theology class, fine, but it is not science and shouldn't be treated as such.
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I suggest a finely crafted nam-shub that will turn them all into jargon-spewing corporate zombies*. That should take care of any free will problems they might have. *Aircraft carrier may be required. Some restrictions apply. Well, I gotta get back to work...ne mi ba se fa no li sa ba fu
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You've got stars in your eyes!
With a Scantron style system, at least you can go back and count the ballots by hand.
The electronic scanning simply speeds up the process.
It looks like the poster is looking for a full schematic capture > PCB layout program similar to Orcad or Protel. PCB only does layout editing.
As far as I know, nothing exists that isn't seriously buggy/lacking features. It's really the one application I use at work that keeps me on Windows (we use Protel SE).
The difference is you could *totally* take down a Gibson with one of these puppies.
It does matter - an above poster made a joke about ROT26 encrytption, but it actually is a decent illustration of the problem. Because of the vagueness of the DMCA, both in letter and in spirit, it's left to the courts to decide what constitutes an effective prevention. John Everyman doesn't have the resources to defend himself from MPAA lawsuits, so it becomes a club to bludgeon people into conforming with what the *AAs want.
The DMCA says nothing about fair use (except for the reverse engineering clause if I recall).
The DMCA makes it illegal to break copyright protection mechanisms. If the movie was NOT protected, and it probably wasn't, then the DMCA does not come into play in any way.
The copyright infringment bit is still possible, but fair use does come into play there.
That's really the perversion of the DMCA - any copyright protection mechanism, pretty much regardless of how poorly implemented, trumps fair use rights.
The link to the settlement article in the old thread is gone so I can't say for sure, but it depends on the settlement. In all likelihood it was a "Okay, we'll give you X dollars if we get a liscence to all your technologies and you go away" type deal, in which case Microsoft pretty much gets screwed, since all they have are liscence rights to a patent that's been invalidated. But it really does depend on the conditions of the settlement.
Or worse yet, due to a great miscalculation in size, the entire battlefleet could be swallowed by a small dog.
Unless of course you don't care about any of that stuff. I own both a PS2 and an Xbox, and the Xbox gathers dust simply because the PS2 delivers a lot more quality single-player games than the Xbox does. I had a Live subscription for a while and didn't use it that much. I guess the appeal of having 12 year olds tell me how teh ghey you are is lost on some people.
I disagree - I think the taxpayers are the perfect candidates to pay this fine.
After all, they voted the school board into office.
That's not really true - Do What You Want with the source code is a BSD philosophy. GPL is more of an All Software Should Be Open Source philosophy and it trys to enforce that.
Tried it on my work computer - here's what it does:
1) Looks for filesharing programs, and redflags them.
2) Looks for shared folders of the filesharing programs.
3) Searches the hard drive for *any* media files
That's it. Basically, the program flags pretty much any media files of any format as "suspicious", and it's up to the user to determine if they were acquired illegally or not. It also makes a big ruckus about any illegal activity taking place on your PC being your responsiblity.
This is a FUD device, plain and simple.
Ironically, shouldn't that be "they speak English poorly"?
I'm sorry, Kaylee is where the real hotness is.
Did you see her getting down next to the engine in the flashback episode? Good god man!
To sum up:
River - Too freaky
Inara - Too high-maintenance
Kaylee - Double-dipalicious
My ISP has a 5 GB/month upload+download limit as well - it seems to be more or less the norm around here (I live near Kansas City). They charge $5 per GB after that.
Hey - did you send me like 20 emails this morning?
I tend to think the reason games are a wasteland on the Mac is a DirectX vs. OpenGL type of thing - You certainly don't see a lot of games on Linux, and it's the same architecture.
I guess you could do the whole WINE thing, but that doesn't really count.
Which is exactly why I've never understood why you do the even numbers. If you have the answers available, you can check your work and see that it's right.
Most of the stuff I remember really having an "ah ha!" moment on in math classes was where the answer was available to me, but mine didn't agree and I had to figure out why
In that case, I'd have to argue that /. is a total sausage fest.
Not that we didn't already know that...
Unfortuneately, I'm fairly sure the people who would care about this and not hold a grudge are hopelessly in the minority compared to the people who would be swayed by political adds saying "My opponent voted against the PATRIOT act, and therefore hates freedom."
It's not really a matter of Red vs Blue, it's more a matter of city vs country. Kansas and most of the other red states have a lot of rural population, and as a result tend to have a lot more conservative voters. Don't ask me why that is, but it seems to be the way of things.
And this is your choice, and more power to you if you want to educate your children.
However,
Intelligent Design is NOT a scientific theory, it is a theological theory. There is no such thing as "Both Theories of Evolution" because there is only one theory of evolution appropriate for teaching in a science class.
If kids want to learn about ID in theology class, fine, but it is not science and shouldn't be treated as such.