In my little world though, Linux is inconsequential.
Its effect may be invisible to you, but Linux Desktop is not inconsequential.
If it had been inconsequential, your workplace would have been forced to migrate to Windows Vista and that's what you would be using at work right now (certainly not Windows XP, even if Windows XP would still have worked flawlessly for you).
You could say I'm speculating, and you'd be right, desktop workstations are really not my area of expertise. I can only tell you that I used to pay $10,000 for a license of Windows SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition, but when Microsoft felt threatened by many of the cheaper "free" open source database solutions out there, even if they were a bear to use, Microsoft cut their price down to something like $300 and just called it the SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition (without any loss of functionality or any loss to any of its wizards as compared to their previous "Standard Edition").
I thought you went to college to get an education, not a job.
Obviously, this is what some of the rich entitled Americans tell their kids.
What is the rest of the World supposed to do? Follow the American model? Stop paying for higher education? In any case, you can't power a new emerging economy on Art History and Psychology alone, even if you could afford it.
As a democratic country, they can agree to not wanting to have criticism of the royal family, can they not?
Thailand is a constitutional monarchy first, and a democracy second. Their parliamentary system does not reign supreme over the monarch, but the monarch does reign supreme over their parliamentary system.
In other words as a democracy, they never got to decide on that question of talking freely about the royals. That question was decided for them long ago, long before Thailand became more parliamentary and more democratic in the first place.
With that in mind - test yourself on how devoted you really are to the concept of democracy. If you think that there are limits to what a democracy can democratically decide to do - who gets to set those limits?
Nice try, but your point just doesn't apply in this case. A better example demonstrating your point would be a democratic country which legalizes the oppression and the slavery of a minority of its own population. I think we can all agree that a Majority can be just as tyrannical as an individual (thought, that is generally more an exception to the rule, than the rule itself).
Fear not as an American, you'll get to experience moving McDonald shops, moving gas stations, and moving porta-potties long before you'll ever get to experience high speed rail.
...text messages [...] wearing unacceptable clothing to a business meeting, cutting off others during conversation, prolonged monologues, and even how one nods one's head in agreement, shakes one's head indicating disagreement, and makes hand gestures."
How can they tell I'm doing all these things through text messaging? Are the tattle-tells going to use sms to tell on me?
They don't like "prolonged monologues", but they also don't like others "to cut them off"?
wearing dark glasses in a video conference..., makes hand gestures.
The sight-impaired, the hearing-impaired, and the Italians are going to have a field day with this one.
Did you complain? And did you get that charge erased? Don't let them think you're an easy mark, otherwise they'll just find another way to over-charge you for no reason.
You must not be from around here. In the free world, mineral rights trumps national sovereignty and private property. In other words, it doesn't matter who owns what, as long as we can take it by force and defend it by force. It's ours for the taking.
I don't think he's lying. According to Wired, apparently the guy behind the company is very good at inventing underwater machinery that brings dead people home. Now never mind that the dead person he wanted to bring home is a close friend who died while wearing his re-breather, another invention of his, but that's besides the point. If this incident proves anything, it's that at least he's serious about exploration (serious enough to put other people's lives on the line, which is what you'd need for space exploration).
Or it could be because the Chinese government shut down one of its suppliers. If their shipment schedule slips because of that, they'll have to report it to the press and to their shareholders.
Also, it could just be that the Chinese government could shut down more factories if these problems aren't addressed. At the very least, Apple should try to select suppliers that are not going to get shut down, or if they risk getting shut down, Apple should try to get them up to code as soon as possible. After all, the holiday shopping season is just around the corner.
And if Apple can't meet Market demand for its products, it's just going to leave money on the table for its competitors to grab.
Yes personally, I get tired of seeing licenses that make no warranty, no guarantees, and that want no liability, should their software fail. This is kind of a no-brainer for me, especially for free or consumer-level software.
I would also add that a company must provide the old EULA, the new EULA, and also an exact diff of any changes they make to it.
And that should a contract/EULA contain a clause that's illegal, or unenforceable, or for instance against fair use, at the time it was written, that the entire EULA becomes null and void (and that this would cause prejudice to the party who wrote the EULA in the first place).
This last idea would dovetail nicely with your idea. By making it legally riskier for companies to write complicated EULAs, then those companies would naturally gravitate to having no EULAs, or simpler standard EULAs instead.
For what it's worth, someone is still studying the truck drivers that go through ports at least, and those seem to be the hardest hit by back-scatter X-ray scanners. Some truckers can get their entire cargo and truck scanned (themselves included) up to ten times a day.
And those scanners seem to be lot more powerful than the ones at the airport because they don't just see through clothes, they see through steel and cargo containers. Also many truckers are independent, this means many have to pay for their own health insurance (or go without).
Intel had to agree to give Rambus the ability to block shipments of Intel processors if Rambus felt Intel was not promoting RDRAM sufficiently
I really wonder if this clause was indeed based on Rambus feelings, rather than hard quantifiable objective numbers.
For instance, it would have been easy to say part of the deal is that Intel needs to spend 4 million dollars by the end of Q4 on advertising our RDRAM, otherwise the penalty is that you give us the right to stop your chip shipments.
Obviously, no one should ever agree to a legal piece of paper that accepts punitive damages that are based purely on the other person's/corporation's elusive feelings.
On second thought, if I had the software for doing that, I'd offer it as a paid service online, but then I'd pretend I had a thousand low wage workers in India printing out each little strip of paper and reassembling it painstakingly by hand. This way I could count each worker as a separate contractor on my invoices and charge a corresponding large commission for each.
I'm not sure copyright would give you the protection you'd want. Copyrighting an algorithm is almost impossible, depending on which national legal jurisdiction you're in. And patenting could be expensive, and that too is not full-proof either (especially for a little guy like myself).
Personally, I'd offer this as a paid service online, and I'd let whichever government had jurisdiction over me -- buy me out (before they just confiscate it away from me without proper compensation).
It looks just like a raccoon to me. The PETA site refers to it as a raccoon dog. What's the difference between a raccoon dog and a raccoon anyway? Skinning them alive does seem like a cruel process. I would much prefer that they skinned them once they were already dead. I can't really side against PETA, as much as I dislike them, on this.
The judge just needs to say that the cloud-service is responsible for copyright infringement if it doesn't allow the user to permanently delete a copy of a song he re-sold. Then, that functionality will be created in no-time I'm sure.
Besides, it's kind of ridiculous that this functionality doesn't exist already. There are many legitimate reasons why music/movies/books/apps have to be easily removable by the person who paid for it from a cloud-backup.
I'm sure the many amateur patent lawyers that visit Slashdot will tear apart these patents with their expert analysis.
Why not? A non-lawyer essentially killed the Amazon one-click patent, while many other thousands of lawyers didn't.
Google memos show that they were aware of Android's patent issues and chose to ignore them.
Did you take an actual look at the patents in question? I know it's normal on Slashdot to comment on an article without going any further, but come on !
It's already opt-in. To have a working hotspot, you don't need to broadcast your SSID continually. You can enter it manually, or you can just broadcast it for 30 seconds. The only reason it's on is because of the convenience it provides.
For Sci-fi, I recommend 'Escape Pod'. It's a great podcast series with over 300 podcasts, with a new one appearing every week, and it's completely free.
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In my little world though, Linux is inconsequential.
Its effect may be invisible to you, but Linux Desktop is not inconsequential.
If it had been inconsequential, your workplace would have been forced to migrate to Windows Vista and that's what you would be using at work right now (certainly not Windows XP, even if Windows XP would still have worked flawlessly for you).
You could say I'm speculating, and you'd be right, desktop workstations are really not my area of expertise. I can only tell you that I used to pay $10,000 for a license of Windows SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition, but when Microsoft felt threatened by many of the cheaper "free" open source database solutions out there, even if they were a bear to use, Microsoft cut their price down to something like $300 and just called it the SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition (without any loss of functionality or any loss to any of its wizards as compared to their previous "Standard Edition").
I thought you went to college to get an education, not a job.
Obviously, this is what some of the rich entitled Americans tell their kids.
What is the rest of the World supposed to do? Follow the American model? Stop paying for higher education? In any case, you can't power a new emerging economy on Art History and Psychology alone, even if you could afford it.
As a democratic country, they can agree to not wanting to have criticism of the royal family, can they not?
Thailand is a constitutional monarchy first, and a democracy second. Their parliamentary system does not reign supreme over the monarch, but the monarch does reign supreme over their parliamentary system.
In other words as a democracy, they never got to decide on that question of talking freely about the royals. That question was decided for them long ago, long before Thailand became more parliamentary and more democratic in the first place.
With that in mind - test yourself on how devoted you really are to the concept of democracy. If you think that there are limits to what a democracy can democratically decide to do - who gets to set those limits?
Nice try, but your point just doesn't apply in this case. A better example demonstrating your point would be a democratic country which legalizes the oppression and the slavery of a minority of its own population. I think we can all agree that a Majority can be just as tyrannical as an individual (thought, that is generally more an exception to the rule, than the rule itself).
Fear not as an American, you'll get to experience moving McDonald shops, moving gas stations, and moving porta-potties long before you'll ever get to experience high speed rail.
Besides, the aspect ratio would be slightly different if that were the case, but in this case it is not.
...text messages [...] wearing unacceptable clothing to a business meeting, cutting off others during conversation, prolonged monologues, and even how one nods one's head in agreement, shakes one's head indicating disagreement, and makes hand gestures."
How can they tell I'm doing all these things through text messaging? Are the tattle-tells going to use sms to tell on me?
They don't like "prolonged monologues", but they also don't like others "to cut them off"?
wearing dark glasses in a video conference..., makes hand gestures.
The sight-impaired, the hearing-impaired, and the Italians are going to have a field day with this one.
What is color management?
Did you complain? And did you get that charge erased? Don't let them think you're an easy mark, otherwise they'll just find another way to over-charge you for no reason.
...but a good price to deter squatters and bulk buyer speculators
I vote that we move all ecommerce and technical sites to .xxx since they do seem to have better quality control.
You must not be from around here. In the free world, mineral rights trumps national sovereignty and private property. In other words, it doesn't matter who owns what, as long as we can take it by force and defend it by force. It's ours for the taking.
I don't think he's lying. According to Wired, apparently the guy behind the company is very good at inventing underwater machinery that brings dead people home. Now never mind that the dead person he wanted to bring home is a close friend who died while wearing his re-breather, another invention of his, but that's besides the point. If this incident proves anything, it's that at least he's serious about exploration (serious enough to put other people's lives on the line, which is what you'd need for space exploration).
If you're holding any IBM stock right now, it's probably time to sell it.
I think the WTO needs to get involved.
If the US blocks any web sites, the European governments should just block sites like Amazon or Ebay.
Or it could be because the Chinese government shut down one of its suppliers. If their shipment schedule slips because of that, they'll have to report it to the press and to their shareholders.
Also, it could just be that the Chinese government could shut down more factories if these problems aren't addressed. At the very least, Apple should try to select suppliers that are not going to get shut down, or if they risk getting shut down, Apple should try to get them up to code as soon as possible. After all, the holiday shopping season is just around the corner.
And if Apple can't meet Market demand for its products, it's just going to leave money on the table for its competitors to grab.
Yes personally, I get tired of seeing licenses that make no warranty, no guarantees, and that want no liability, should their software fail. This is kind of a no-brainer for me, especially for free or consumer-level software.
I would also add that a company must provide the old EULA, the new EULA, and also an exact diff of any changes they make to it.
And that should a contract/EULA contain a clause that's illegal, or unenforceable, or for instance against fair use, at the time it was written, that the entire EULA becomes null and void (and that this would cause prejudice to the party who wrote the EULA in the first place).
This last idea would dovetail nicely with your idea. By making it legally riskier for companies to write complicated EULAs, then those companies would naturally gravitate to having no EULAs, or simpler standard EULAs instead.
Routinely ignored.
As it should be, the people who were going to rip off your open source code are going to rip it off whether it's in a click-through format, or not.
By putting in a click-through format, you're just slowing down everybody.
For what it's worth, someone is still studying the truck drivers that go through ports at least, and those seem to be the hardest hit by back-scatter X-ray scanners. Some truckers can get their entire cargo and truck scanned (themselves included) up to ten times a day.
And those scanners seem to be lot more powerful than the ones at the airport because they don't just see through clothes, they see through steel and cargo containers. Also many truckers are independent, this means many have to pay for their own health insurance (or go without).
Intel had to agree to give Rambus the ability to block shipments of Intel processors if Rambus felt Intel was not promoting RDRAM sufficiently
I really wonder if this clause was indeed based on Rambus feelings, rather than hard quantifiable objective numbers.
For instance, it would have been easy to say part of the deal is that Intel needs to spend 4 million dollars by the end of Q4 on advertising our RDRAM, otherwise the penalty is that you give us the right to stop your chip shipments.
Obviously, no one should ever agree to a legal piece of paper that accepts punitive damages that are based purely on the other person's/corporation's elusive feelings.
On second thought, if I had the software for doing that, I'd offer it as a paid service online, but then I'd pretend I had a thousand low wage workers in India printing out each little strip of paper and reassembling it painstakingly by hand. This way I could count each worker as a separate contractor on my invoices and charge a corresponding large commission for each.
I'm not sure copyright would give you the protection you'd want. Copyrighting an algorithm is almost impossible, depending on which national legal jurisdiction you're in. And patenting could be expensive, and that too is not full-proof either (especially for a little guy like myself).
Personally, I'd offer this as a paid service online, and I'd let whichever government had jurisdiction over me -- buy me out (before they just confiscate it away from me without proper compensation).
It looks just like a raccoon to me. The PETA site refers to it as a raccoon dog. What's the difference between a raccoon dog and a raccoon anyway? Skinning them alive does seem like a cruel process. I would much prefer that they skinned them once they were already dead. I can't really side against PETA, as much as I dislike them, on this.
The judge just needs to say that the cloud-service is responsible for copyright infringement if it doesn't allow the user to permanently delete a copy of a song he re-sold. Then, that functionality will be created in no-time I'm sure.
Besides, it's kind of ridiculous that this functionality doesn't exist already. There are many legitimate reasons why music/movies/books/apps have to be easily removable by the person who paid for it from a cloud-backup.
I'm sure the many amateur patent lawyers that visit Slashdot will tear apart these patents with their expert analysis.
Why not? A non-lawyer essentially killed the Amazon one-click patent, while many other thousands of lawyers didn't.
Google memos show that they were aware of Android's patent issues and chose to ignore them.
Did you take an actual look at the patents in question? I know it's normal on Slashdot to comment on an article without going any further, but come on !
It's already opt-in. To have a working hotspot, you don't need to broadcast your SSID continually. You can enter it manually, or you can just broadcast it for 30 seconds. The only reason it's on is because of the convenience it provides.
For Sci-fi, I recommend 'Escape Pod'. It's a great podcast series with over 300 podcasts, with a new one appearing every week, and it's completely free.