"Whoever came up with this intellectual property stuff anyway?"
Lawyers - when they had one of their annual "How can we make even more money than we do now?" meetings. But seriously it dates back to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act in the UK and for the latest developments in intellectual property there's WIPO.
And for those people who don't know what o-volving refers to hopefully this sentence will help out :
"Among the many novel features to enhance the use of storage space were what Fuller called O-volving shelf containers, which were mounted on a continuous chain system behind a partition whereby the equivalent of an 18ft stack of shelves could be rotated electrically until the desired shelf levelled with the access hatch."
Yes - I remember reading a story about a person who lived in a round house getting a wall to wall wardrobe. They were told it'd take only two days - ended up taking two weeks!
If you read that seriously it's you who should get a life. Some company's have morals, some respect the law, some realise that making money in the short term isn't necessarily linked to long-term growth. "Any coporate stragegy involved making as much money as possible" - oh so Enron and all the other companies that go bust were doing that were they? There are plenty of businesses run just because the person likes what they're doing and not because they're purely interested in profits!
" It can be built relatively cheaply with environmentally friendly materials." - the same problem we had. The government built a lot of council high-rise flats from re-inforced concrete in the 60s. Now a lot of them are crumbling too.
I agree - I can think of far worse nightmare scenarios than - our company ordered a computer and it arrived on it side. On the "it might be important to their business point" there was a cse years ago in the UK of a company that successfully won an insurance claim for loss of business with the Royal Mail for millions of pounds because a few CDs came snapped in two & unusuable.
So you don't mind if we refer to Microsoft as the evil empire, a convicted monopolist or any other derogatory but true term as long as it's correctly spelt? So what new term are you going to coin to replace M$ then? Personally I think it's a very good way of summing up their corporate strategy.;o)
"using standard gasification techniques that involve heat and pressure. But further hydrogen is then produced by also breaking down the methane and water, says Bhattacharya, with the aid of a nanocrystalline catalyst." - I think they must've read the first sentence of this quote then written their comment but not the second.
Can't the same techniques that prevent people deep-linking to pictures be applied here? Geocities has a script running that prevents people following deep-links to certain files because they end up paying for the bandwidth and don't receive advertising revenue for it.
detect peopke who..." distribute copyrighted information? " - this is illegal already and needs no further legislation. The music companies have already resulted in the takedown of many sites already. What's needed is not better legislation but better detection. However this is difficult as sometimes copyrighted information is under permission to be used. Efforts seem to concentrate more on high profile things like software piracy and music piracy than things like websites copying bits of content from each other without permission.
Most geeks I know aren't interested in politics. Having said that I have been out this evening delivering political leaflets - but maybe I'm the exception! Politics just doesn't fit the loner mentality. Neither does doing something because "the party" says so - even though you disagree with it. This politician is in a minority in that they're particularly well informed on technology issues.
But isn't the script modifying the software therefore breaking the rules anyway? As to stickers on CDs - what if the person's blind and can't see the EULA or the sticker?
"However, I'm not in the habit of downloading music from the Web." - I mean seriously - even if they did do this do you think they'd admit it in an interview?
Well whenever I check the World Service on BBC's website I get "This programme can not be broadcast over the web due to copyright restrictions" - so they might as well have silence!
Well yes - sometimes I do post when I'm half asleep. However in this case I knew about StarOffice running on Win32 - I was referring to other Office packages for Linux.
Fox probably got a lot of complaints about Futurama's more adult content. Well to those people I say - 1) it's only a cartoon
2) well what do you expect when one of the characters is a beer-swilling kleptomaniac robot and
3) The obligatory bite my shiny metal ass.:)
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"Whoever came up with this intellectual property stuff anyway?"
Lawyers - when they had one of their annual "How can we make even more money than we do now?" meetings. But seriously it dates back to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act in the UK and for the latest developments in intellectual property there's WIPO.
And for those people who don't know what o-volving refers to hopefully this sentence will help out : "Among the many novel features to enhance the use of storage space were what Fuller called O-volving shelf containers, which were mounted on a continuous chain system behind a partition whereby the equivalent of an 18ft stack of shelves could be rotated electrically until the desired shelf levelled with the access hatch."
Yes - I remember reading a story about a person who lived in a round house getting a wall to wall wardrobe. They were told it'd take only two days - ended up taking two weeks!
If you read that seriously it's you who should get a life. Some company's have morals, some respect the law, some realise that making money in the short term isn't necessarily linked to long-term growth. "Any coporate stragegy involved making as much money as possible" - oh so Enron and all the other companies that go bust were doing that were they? There are plenty of businesses run just because the person likes what they're doing and not because they're purely interested in profits!
Most people that PC = computer - doesn't necessarily mean they're right though!
" It can be built relatively cheaply with environmentally friendly materials." - the same problem we had. The government built a lot of council high-rise flats from re-inforced concrete in the 60s. Now a lot of them are crumbling too.
I agree - I can think of far worse nightmare scenarios than - our company ordered a computer and it arrived on it side. On the "it might be important to their business point" there was a cse years ago in the UK of a company that successfully won an insurance claim for loss of business with the Royal Mail for millions of pounds because a few CDs came snapped in two & unusuable.
So you don't mind if we refer to Microsoft as the evil empire, a convicted monopolist or any other derogatory but true term as long as it's correctly spelt? So what new term are you going to coin to replace M$ then? Personally I think it's a very good way of summing up their corporate strategy. ;o)
The same in Opera too. The reason it comes up with that page is because it has cookies 19 times in the page, in the description of the page etc etc.
Not wanting to out-geek you here but it's spelt Ferengi - spelling tips for Star Trek fans.
"using standard gasification techniques that involve heat and pressure. But further hydrogen is then produced by also breaking down the methane and water, says Bhattacharya, with the aid of a nanocrystalline catalyst." - I think they must've read the first sentence of this quote then written their comment but not the second.
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He's right you know!
sounds like a plot from Pinky & The Brain's efforts to take over the world!
Can't the same techniques that prevent people deep-linking to pictures be applied here? Geocities has a script running that prevents people following deep-links to certain files because they end up paying for the bandwidth and don't receive advertising revenue for it.
detect peopke who..." distribute copyrighted information? " - this is illegal already and needs no further legislation. The music companies have already resulted in the takedown of many sites already. What's needed is not better legislation but better detection. However this is difficult as sometimes copyrighted information is under permission to be used. Efforts seem to concentrate more on high profile things like software piracy and music piracy than things like websites copying bits of content from each other without permission.
Most geeks I know aren't interested in politics. Having said that I have been out this evening delivering political leaflets - but maybe I'm the exception! Politics just doesn't fit the loner mentality. Neither does doing something because "the party" says so - even though you disagree with it. This politician is in a minority in that they're particularly well informed on technology issues.
But isn't the script modifying the software therefore breaking the rules anyway? As to stickers on CDs - what if the person's blind and can't see the EULA or the sticker?
It would put up the price though. The people who buy these machines usually have the techonology to burn their own Linux CDs anyway.
"However, I'm not in the habit of downloading music from the Web." - I mean seriously - even if they did do this do you think they'd admit it in an interview?
If you do anything we don't like or you don't say you're actively supporting us - you're supporting the terrorists!
Well whenever I check the World Service on BBC's website I get "This programme can not be broadcast over the web due to copyright restrictions" - so they might as well have silence!
Well yes - sometimes I do post when I'm half asleep. However in this case I knew about StarOffice running on Win32 - I was referring to other Office packages for Linux.
Fox probably got a lot of complaints about Futurama's more adult content. Well to those people I say - 1) it's only a cartoon :)
2) well what do you expect when one of the characters is a beer-swilling kleptomaniac robot and 3) The obligatory bite my shiny metal ass.
Think I've read it before - but I'll bookmark and read it tomorrow. Good Night!
What's DRM stand for (and yes I have read your article but I still am no closer to finding out)?