Terms? There's no agreement between the users of a website and that website, no matter what Google says. Google may be able to prevent commercial use of the images because that would violate their statutory rights under the copyright act, but they can't just invent any old set of terms and successfully claim that by using their web site you've agreed to them, any more than Fox can dictate the terms of your television-watching to you.
Downloading a Warez copy: Violation of copyright, 5 years and $100,000 or thereabouts, assuming a first offense.
Swinging by Best Buy and stealing a copy: Shoplifting, probably a fine in the thousands of dollars and a year in jail or less, for a first offense.
Hacking XP Home to turn it into XP Pro: DMCA violation. MAYBE. Without the equivalent to the NET act (which makes receipt of pirated software itself "financial gain"), no jail time.
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyers and didn't even look this stuff up; penalties have likely increased.
I don't think Dell charges people using OS X more (I just bought a Dell and when I was looking up prices I used both OS X and WinXP machines at different times).
However, they do charge differently depending on the path you use to get something. They might have one ad on their site for an "OUTRAGEOUS DEAL" and another which screams "$100 rebate" -- both will let you configure the same system, but for different (sometimes VERY different) prices.
For instance, the same Dimension 3000 system from Dell Small Business is now available for $479 or $767 depending on how you get there.
No lying involved. Dell's "small business site" is for companies with as few as one employee. A person doing business as a sole proprietorship technically qualifies.
I don't think Dell is being deceptive, though. They just have different departments managing the promotions for small business and home, which probably don't coordinate things all that well.
Sites which actually give different prices depending on whether your referrer is a price-comparison site, now that's pretty deceptive.
Since shortly after such CDs will be released, StupidSoft BurnEasy(tm) v1.2 (which can rip and burn them without problems) will be released, and available to anyone who can use the net, the "benefit" is at most a few days of reduced copying for the first few CDs to come out in the new format. I don't see any DRM scheme having a cost lower than that.
They've got two sets of figures. When they're pushing for reducing the blood alcohol limit, they tell you you can have a couple of beers and you'll be fine. Once they've gotten the laws passed, they tell you that one drink (that is, a real drink, not the 12 oz of 3.2 beer they were using earlier) is enough to put you over the limit.
...would have blamed it on a roommate, parent, sibling, or other person who might have plausibly had access to the machine the inquiry was made on.
Extra points if the person it was blamed on died of an accident or "natural causes" in the interim -- then the candidate is not only a good MBA candidate, but likely headed into politics after that.
Does Iomega actually have this technology? Or is it just something they are hoping some other company will (independently) develop so they can reap the royalties?
Each birth has a particular probability of being a boy or a girl; no such strategy can change that over the long run.
Your two-family example is simply quantization error. Consider N families, all of whom follow your strategy -- one or two kids, depending on if the first is a boy. If (for the sake of argument), the probability of any given birth being a boy is 1/2, then N/2 families will have one boy, N/4 will have one boy and one girl, and N/4 will have two girls. That results in 3N/4 boys, and 3N/4 girls, a sex ratio of 1:1 just as we started with.
You're forgetting the trademark winner-takes-all-act, a.k.a the Trademark Anti-dilution Act of 1996. That says that if a mark is considered "famous", it pre-empts all commercial usage in ALL fields of endeavor. There's pretty much nothing good about this law, but it is the law.
What you fail to realize is that the MPAA, RIAA, BSA, etc. have near-total control over the channels by which copyright law is changed. Their advantages are insurmountable. Trying to change a law which they support is like Pee Wee Herman trying to win a barehanded fight with Mike Tyson. So when you suggest "changing the law", you're suggesting an impossible course of action.
You present the choices as 1) STFU and Obey The law 2) Change the law through the accepted channels for doing so 3) Violate the law
and suggest 3) is undesirable. But because 2) is impossible, by opposing 3) you're supporting 1).
There's certainly a market for software developers in embedded systems. But embedded-systems companies don't want people with mostly desktop and/or server application experience. They want other embedded-systems people. The specificity of job requirements nowadays makes moving from one part of the field to another ridiculously difficult.
That's when the specificity isn't just a way of making sure the job requirements fit exactly one person (with an H1B) of course.
No, you aren't just looking for a basic understanding of software development principles: "We are seeking C++ developers to join our C++/Java graphics toolkit development team. You should be a skilled software developer with extensive knowledge of Java or C++. You should have a good understanding of Object-Oriented design and development techniques. Tools in your repertoire should include a working knowledge of design patterns and UML. You should be a self-motivated professional who understands that a successful software project requires sharing knowledge and experience with other developers. Your written documentation should be precise and concise. "
First, you're asking for experience in specific languages. But since they're the two most populat, that's probably OK. Second, you're expecting your candidates to have knowledge of a _particular_ software development methodology (UML). I've been working in the field for 13 years and none of the projects I've worked on have used UML. Then you scare off good developers with the whole "self-motivated professional" (if they were, they wouldn't want to be an _employee_) and the emphasis on documentation.
Then, to top it off, you ask for only 2 years of experience, which to any job seeker means you're not looking to pay much. OF COURSE you're not finding developers. And your ad is actually not anywhere near the worst of them.
Aww, poor copyright holders. They used their power over legislators to tighten their grip on copyrights, but now those rights are effectively slipping through their fingers.
Bingo. It's just another scheme to allow the sellers control of that which they have already sold. I'm not sure what RFID adds, except a veneer of extra evil.
"Apparently it is OK to record TV as long as your aren't sharing it."
Uhh, no. If you were to ask the MPAA, they might say something like
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.".
Why?
"However, if you are an advertiser who has paid $280,000 a minute to advertise, he feels a very large pain in his stomach as well as in his checkbook because it destroys the reason for free television, the erasure, the blotting out, the fast forwarding..."
Of course, the MPAA famously lost that battle. But they never gave up; expect Betamax to be overturned within the year.
Actually, the US _IS_ a land of "papers, please". At one time it wasn't. In the near future, Americans will watch old movies depicting WWII-era Germany and wonder while the filmmaker made such a big point of showing the checkpoints.
RFID identity cards? So you can identify anyone carrying the card (which will be everyone, as you'll need it to do just about anything) at a distance, without him knowing he's been scanned? 20th Century totalitarians had wet dreams about that sort of thing.
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Err, no, while the Lisa GUI certainly borrows elements from the Xerox, it is quite distinct. Pull-down menus, overlapping windows...
Terms? There's no agreement between the users of a website and that website, no matter what Google says. Google may be able to prevent commercial use of the images because that would violate their statutory rights under the copyright act, but they can't just invent any old set of terms and successfully claim that by using their web site you've agreed to them, any more than Fox can dictate the terms of your television-watching to you.
Downloading a Warez copy: Violation of copyright, 5 years and $100,000 or thereabouts, assuming a first offense.
Swinging by Best Buy and stealing a copy: Shoplifting, probably a fine in the thousands of dollars and a year in jail or less, for a first offense.
Hacking XP Home to turn it into XP Pro: DMCA violation. MAYBE. Without the equivalent to the NET act (which makes receipt of pirated software itself "financial gain"), no jail time.
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyers and didn't even look this stuff up; penalties have likely increased.
I don't think Dell charges people using OS X more (I just bought a Dell and when I was looking up prices I used both OS X and WinXP machines at different times).
However, they do charge differently depending on the path you use to get something. They might have one ad on their site for an "OUTRAGEOUS DEAL" and another which screams "$100 rebate" -- both will let you configure the same system, but for different (sometimes VERY different) prices.
For instance, the same Dimension 3000 system from Dell Small Business is now available for $479 or $767 depending on how you get there.
No lying involved. Dell's "small business site" is for companies with as few as one employee. A person doing business as a sole proprietorship technically qualifies.
I don't think Dell is being deceptive, though. They just have different departments managing the promotions for small business and home, which probably don't coordinate things all that well.
Sites which actually give different prices depending on whether your referrer is a price-comparison site, now that's pretty deceptive.
Since shortly after such CDs will be released, StupidSoft BurnEasy(tm) v1.2 (which can rip and burn them without problems) will be released, and available to anyone who can use the net, the "benefit" is at most a few days of reduced copying for the first few CDs to come out in the new format. I don't see any DRM scheme having a cost lower than that.
They've got two sets of figures. When they're pushing for reducing the blood alcohol limit, they tell you you can have a couple of beers and you'll be fine. Once they've gotten the laws passed, they tell you that one drink (that is, a real drink, not the 12 oz of 3.2 beer they were using earlier) is enough to put you over the limit.
...would have blamed it on a roommate, parent, sibling, or other person who might have plausibly had access to the machine the inquiry was made on.
Extra points if the person it was blamed on died of an accident or "natural causes" in the interim -- then the candidate is not only a good MBA candidate, but likely headed into politics after that.
Stuff and nonsense. It's well known that Star Wars was stolen from Akira Kurosawa's _The Hidden Fortress_, not _Dune_.
Does Iomega actually have this technology? Or is it just something they are hoping some other company will (independently) develop so they can reap the royalties?
Each birth has a particular probability of being a boy or a girl; no such strategy can change that over the long run.
Your two-family example is simply quantization error. Consider N families, all of whom follow your strategy -- one or two kids, depending on if the first is a boy. If (for the sake of argument), the probability of any given birth being a boy is 1/2, then N/2 families will have one boy, N/4 will have one boy and one girl, and N/4 will have two girls. That results in 3N/4 boys, and 3N/4 girls, a sex ratio of 1:1 just as we started with.
Sorry; no strategy like "stop after the first boy" can affect the sex ratio of births.
Is it possible to buy short into an IPO?
You're forgetting the trademark winner-takes-all-act, a.k.a the Trademark Anti-dilution Act of 1996. That says that if a mark is considered "famous", it pre-empts all commercial usage in ALL fields of endeavor. There's pretty much nothing good about this law, but it is the law.
What you fail to realize is that the MPAA, RIAA, BSA, etc. have near-total control over the channels by which copyright law is changed. Their advantages are insurmountable. Trying to change a law which they support is like Pee Wee Herman trying to win a barehanded fight with Mike Tyson. So when you suggest "changing the law", you're suggesting an impossible course of action.
You present the choices as
1) STFU and Obey The law
2) Change the law through the accepted channels for doing so
3) Violate the law
and suggest 3) is undesirable. But because 2) is impossible, by opposing 3) you're supporting 1).
There's certainly a market for software developers in embedded systems. But embedded-systems companies don't want people with mostly desktop and/or server application experience. They want other embedded-systems people. The specificity of job requirements nowadays makes moving from one part of the field to another ridiculously difficult. That's when the specificity isn't just a way of making sure the job requirements fit exactly one person (with an H1B) of course.
No, you aren't just looking for a basic understanding of software development principles: "We are seeking C++ developers to join our C++/Java graphics toolkit development team. You should be a skilled software developer with extensive knowledge of Java or C++. You should have a good understanding of Object-Oriented design and development techniques. Tools in your repertoire should include a working knowledge of design patterns and UML. You should be a self-motivated professional who understands that a successful software project requires sharing knowledge and experience with other developers. Your written documentation should be precise and concise. "
First, you're asking for experience in specific languages. But since they're the two most populat, that's probably OK. Second, you're expecting your candidates to have knowledge of a _particular_ software development methodology (UML). I've been working in the field for 13 years and none of the projects I've worked on have used UML. Then you scare off good developers with the whole "self-motivated professional" (if they were, they wouldn't want to be an _employee_) and the emphasis on documentation.
Then, to top it off, you ask for only 2 years of experience, which to any job seeker means you're not looking to pay much. OF COURSE you're not finding developers. And your ad is actually not anywhere near the worst of them.
How do you get a job cracking license keys?
Without doing the illegal (having companies pay you for cracked keys) or the unethical (working on making the keys more secure)?
Aww, poor copyright holders. They used their power over legislators to tighten their grip on copyrights, but now those rights are effectively slipping through their fingers.
Since CSIRO didn't invent OFDM (it was invented in the 1960s), if they are claiming everything using OFDM, they're out of line.
I noticed you didn't mention fuel delivery. I think it's easier to get a CS degree than to get a carbeurator working right.
Bingo. It's just another scheme to allow the sellers control of that which they have already sold. I'm not sure what RFID adds, except a veneer of extra evil.
"Apparently it is OK to record TV as long as your aren't sharing it."
Uhh, no. If you were to ask the MPAA, they might say something like
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.".
Why?
"However, if you are an advertiser who has paid $280,000 a minute to advertise, he feels a very large pain in his stomach as well as in his checkbook because it destroys the reason for free television, the erasure, the blotting out, the fast forwarding..."
Of course, the MPAA famously lost that battle. But they never gave up; expect Betamax to be overturned within the year.
Actually, the US _IS_ a land of "papers, please". At one time it wasn't. In the near future, Americans will watch old movies depicting WWII-era Germany and wonder while the filmmaker made such a big point of showing the checkpoints.
RFID identity cards? So you can identify anyone carrying the card (which will be everyone, as you'll need it to do just about anything) at a distance, without him knowing he's been scanned? 20th Century totalitarians had wet dreams about that sort of thing.
It's not the magnitude of the UID which counts, but the number of significant digits.