Really? Thats funny. Humans did it for hundreds of thousands of years, but suddenly "you just can't do that anymore". Perhaps, what you meant to say was, you can't run a small family farm and make a fortune today. Well, that makes a bit more sense. But then, farming was never about making fortunes and doing big business. It was about growing what you needed, selling what you didn't to the local community, and living.
You weren't born on a farm. You were born in an agricultural factory. The kind that destroyed the opportunity for regular families to farm a plot of land and make a living on their own.
Sun isn't in their "death throes". You may not understand or have relevant experience in the high end server market, and that is ok. However, don't assume that Sun is dying based on your lack of personal relevance and observation there.
Indeed, if Sun were on a death march, it would still be irrelevant as Tadpole is a 3rd party manufacturer. Tadpole is not Sun Microsystems. Tadpole has been manufacturing Sparc based laptops for years now. This is not a strategy, or anything new for that matter. Tadpole is operating in the same manner that they have been for years. The SparcBooks occupy a well funded and important niche of engineers, systems administrators, government contracts, and likely other roles I am not familiar with.
The information was published on a public web server. What you intended is meaningless. If I store $100 in a crack in the sidewalk and somebody comes along and takes it, my "intentions" are meaningless. Oh, but your honour, I *intended* for that $100 to be safe and secure!
My actions are what counts, and guess what? My actions made it public.
Its a goddamned public server people. There is nothing else to be said. Lets have someone advocate responsibility for once.
Yes, because we all know how very difficult and expensive it is to wait until the morning the report is supposed to be published to publish it, or employ HTTP Authentication. Are their IT staff kindergardeners or something? An 8 year old could set up http authentication.
Wrong. You've had several of your published but unpublicized directories found. Once its on the webserver and capable of being served to the public, its published.
Of course, nobody mentions that the UN estimates over 250,000 children (thats just children) have died in, or because of, US bombings and Sanctions against Iraq.
Yeah! We Rock! We Rule! Go US! Those children had it coming!
You already centralized your keys. You have a keyring. If you lose your keyring, you're hosed. You should probably keep a key in your shoe, your pocket, your underpants, your buttcrack, your hat...
Only 1500? What are you running, a 90mhz 486? If a measly 1500 simultanious connections is burning your server, you have a lot to learn about designing high performance servers and webapps.
Yes, don't try any more. You've done as good as you're going to do. This is it. Anything more and you're selling your soul. Quit while you're ahead. Be content with what you've got. How dare you dream that you could possibly do more, be better, go on to even bigger and more grand feats. You ought to be ashamed.
What's so difficult to remember or say about "Ogg". Heck, Ogg and Ug were the vocabulary staples of the cavemen. If it was good enough for cavemen, its good enough for you!
Next time Micheal, try reading your own link before making foolish statements like "glass is not a liquid". This is from your link, verbatim.
"Conclusion There is no clear answer to the question "Is glass solid or liquid?". In terms of molecular dynamics and thermodynamics it is possible to justify various different views that it is a highly viscous liquid, an amorphous solid, or simply that glass is another state of matter which is neither liquid nor solid. The difference is semantic."
This is standard practice in many industries. They did not copy it and pawn it off as their own 100% creation. Hell, it was one piece of a rather *large* report. It was a reproduction. In fact, I would go so far as to say it was a derivative work. Oops, now I just added an entire area of copyright law which says they *can* use it for non-commercial uses. And this is definately a non-commercial use. There is no profit in a project like this. Yes, the scientists get paid, but not profit. They get paid to provide their service. There is a subtle and yet oh so important difference between the two.
I think the big bruha here is that everyone is gettig worked up about $50 million dollars. How dare they "make" money without reimbursing the artist! Except you don't seem to realize that nobody is "making" money here. In the world of academic research, nobody gets rich. That money will be directly used for experiments, grad students at minimum wage, and a precious few scientists at the school. And it will be gone much faster than anyone wants.
Don't just throw the word plagarism around willy nilly. With graphic arts, any art really, this kind of thing is a grey area. If I take a piece of music, make some hefty changes, and put it out myself, it becomes an "arrangement". Plagarism would be if she dropped it on a flat bed scanner and used the entire picture. This kind of attitude that a reproduction means you must automatically reimburse the artist is deadly.
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Really? Thats funny. Humans did it for hundreds of thousands of years, but suddenly "you just can't do that anymore". Perhaps, what you meant to say was, you can't run a small family farm and make a fortune today. Well, that makes a bit more sense. But then, farming was never about making fortunes and doing big business. It was about growing what you needed, selling what you didn't to the local community, and living.
You weren't born on a farm. You were born in an agricultural factory. The kind that destroyed the opportunity for regular families to farm a plot of land and make a living on their own.
Sun isn't in their "death throes". You may not understand or have relevant experience in the high end server market, and that is ok. However, don't assume that Sun is dying based on your lack of personal relevance and observation there.
Indeed, if Sun were on a death march, it would still be irrelevant as Tadpole is a 3rd party manufacturer. Tadpole is not Sun Microsystems. Tadpole has been manufacturing Sparc based laptops for years now. This is not a strategy, or anything new for that matter. Tadpole is operating in the same manner that they have been for years. The SparcBooks occupy a well funded and important niche of engineers, systems administrators, government contracts, and likely other roles I am not familiar with.
Then Intentia shouldn't have published false documents, should they? But they didn't, so your point is irrelevant.
And you can't have insider trading when the information you're basing your on is public.
Clearly this *does* matter.
The information was published on a public web server. What you intended is meaningless. If I store $100 in a crack in the sidewalk and somebody comes along and takes it, my "intentions" are meaningless. Oh, but your honour, I *intended* for that $100 to be safe and secure!
My actions are what counts, and guess what? My actions made it public.
Its a goddamned public server people. There is nothing else to be said. Lets have someone advocate responsibility for once.
Yes, because we all know how very difficult and expensive it is to wait until the morning the report is supposed to be published to publish it, or employ HTTP Authentication. Are their IT staff kindergardeners or something? An 8 year old could set up http authentication.
Wrong. You've had several of your published but unpublicized directories found. Once its on the webserver and capable of being served to the public, its published.
Hence the term "publish to the webserver".
Perhaps you missed the part...
with the BOMBS. We have just as much blood on our hands as Saddam does, and we are NOT rightous.
The day our citizens forget or deny that is the day our country becomes nothing but another imperialistic blight on the face of this planet.
Poor Europe. No wonder they think we're nuts.
First the US gives Iraq $8 billion and shiny new Weapons. Then Iraq uses them to wage war. Then the US decides it has to wage war against Iraq.
Of course, nobody mentions that the UN estimates over 250,000 children (thats just children) have died in, or because of, US bombings and Sanctions against Iraq.
Yeah! We Rock! We Rule! Go US! Those children had it coming!
Not delisting indie artists will bring in the RIAA hounds? Well isn't that cute...
You already centralized your keys. You have a keyring. If you lose your keyring, you're hosed. You should probably keep a key in your shoe, your pocket, your underpants, your buttcrack, your hat...
And you have how many keyrings? ;)
yes, because as we all known "Error 500" means "Network Congestion".
Yes, because as we all know "Error 500" and "Too many connections to the database" are caused by Network Congestion.
Only 1500? What are you running, a 90mhz 486? If a measly 1500 simultanious connections is burning your server, you have a lot to learn about designing high performance servers and webapps.
How many PINs do you have? (2)
How many computer authentication usernames and passwords do you have? (28)
Do we see the problem here yet?
So when will you start designing and manufacturing hardware similar in function to the Digi001? ;)
Never used OS X, eh? Poor boy. You don't know what you're missing. =)
Yes, don't try any more.
You've done as good as you're going to do.
This is it. Anything more and you're selling your soul. Quit while you're ahead. Be content with what you've got. How dare you dream that you could possibly do more, be better, go on to even bigger and more grand feats. You ought to be ashamed.
Please excuse my country-mates. They probably haven't had their ritalin today. =)
What's so difficult to remember or say about "Ogg". Heck, Ogg and Ug were the vocabulary staples of the cavemen. If it was good enough for cavemen, its good enough for you!
Neither. Or both. Read and comprehend my friend.
Next time Micheal, try reading your own link before making foolish statements like "glass is not a liquid". This is from your link, verbatim.
"Conclusion
There is no clear answer to the question "Is glass solid or liquid?". In terms of molecular dynamics and thermodynamics it is possible to justify various different views that it is a highly viscous liquid, an amorphous solid, or simply that glass is another state of matter which is neither liquid nor solid. The difference is semantic."
This is standard practice in many industries. They did not copy it and pawn it off as their own 100% creation. Hell, it was one piece of a rather *large* report. It was a reproduction. In fact, I would go so far as to say it was a derivative work. Oops, now I just added an entire area of copyright law which says they *can* use it for non-commercial uses. And this is definately a non-commercial use. There is no profit in a project like this. Yes, the scientists get paid, but not profit. They get paid to provide their service. There is a subtle and yet oh so important difference between the two.
I think the big bruha here is that everyone is gettig worked up about $50 million dollars. How dare they "make" money without reimbursing the artist! Except you don't seem to realize that nobody is "making" money here. In the world of academic research, nobody gets rich. That money will be directly used for experiments, grad students at minimum wage, and a precious few scientists at the school. And it will be gone much faster than anyone wants.
Don't just throw the word plagarism around willy nilly. With graphic arts, any art really, this kind of thing is a grey area. If I take a piece of music, make some hefty changes, and put it out myself, it becomes an "arrangement". Plagarism would be if she dropped it on a flat bed scanner and used the entire picture. This kind of attitude that a reproduction means you must automatically reimburse the artist is deadly.
If that were the case, it would be a copy. Not a replication. These are the meanings of the terms as they're used in art and publishing circles.