It's like peanut butter! Crunchy, smooth, extra crunchy, what choices!
(With apologies to Bill Watterson. I would have linked to the appropriate Calvin and Hobbes strip, but I can't find it online. I can't scan it because my scanner and books are packed for moving, and I don't even know where in the books it is.)
It might be possible to sue for false advertisements and recover damages that way. My torts book is packed away so I can't see exactly what's necessary for that or what damages you can claim, but that's an idea.
It very well could help. If enought people switched to downloading things from Kazaa to this in-house network, it would actually probably substantially lighten the load where it counts: the connection from the on campus network to the rest of the world.
(It sounds like this will just be within the university.)
In campus network is much, much, much cheaper than the backbone out to the Internet. (For example, CMU has gigabit. So downloading within the campus would be almost free.) You increase the total exchange, but decrease the volume of transfer at the bottleneck.
While I don't necessarily disagree with you on this particular issue (I waffle back and forth on the worth of such a program), there are good reasons to charge more than just those who use it. It's how almost everything works.
For instance, I go to PSU. There are organized activities each weekend night (LateNight Penn State) to try to get people to not go out and get drunk. Probably only a small fraction of students take advantage of it on a regular basis, yet the cost is subsidized by everyone.
A lot of people don't use computers much, either on their dorm connection or in the lab. Yet they pay the technology fee as much as everyone else.
I don't go to the gym, yet I help subsidize its costs, so those who do want to use it can pay only a small fee.
Granted, all of these cases are substantially different from the above in that the funds are being used within the campus, but I do think that it would be possible to argue that the value of having such a service outweighs the drawbacks of making everyone pay.
I know Penn State has Napster servers on the campus network that has either 90% of the media on them or serves 90% of requests, I forget which.
It's conceivable that enough people would switch from downloading stuff from Kazaa to Napster to actually save on bandwidth use where it counts, namely the backbone from the school network out into the real world.
In a related story - fencing is fun, safe, and you should try it
I fully agree.
(choose foil though - it's the thinking man's weapon:)
Here I would vote epee. Though I've spent my time almost exclusively on foil, this is what seems to be the most popular weapon for beginners to be trained on, so have only gotten the chance to use an epee once.
I think it's partially that I never liked right of way. Mostly because it's impossible to judge.
But I'm not a saber fan. Either as a participant or a spectator. I've seen matches, and from even my point of view it looks mostly like the two combatants run at each other, wave their sabre in the air, hope to hit the other player, then the judge calls a point for one side or a simul. There isn't much back and forth jostling for position.
In an olympics in the early 20th century, a fencer was killed when a blade broke, and the remaining part of the blade went through the mask and into the opponents head.
I've had a small amount of fencing lessons here at PSU (a semester or of doing the club, not very seriously, a few years back, and then I just finished a semester long course), and I think that the head coach here may have witnessed this event, if it is what the other poster links to. (I can't be sure, it's possible that the tragedy was just mentioned, but I do remember hearing that he saw this.) Truely a sad story...
"Well, considering how many people dropped Hotmail like a bad habit as soon as gmail came out, I think that there's a good change a Google IM program might have the same effect."
On the other hand, dropping Hotmail just involves telling everyone your new email address. Not necessarily a trivial task, but they can still talk to you.
If people are to change to another IM protocol, it will very possibly have to be able to talk to AIM at least to start. Otherwise it'll be difficult to get the critical mass of people to transfer.
In short: Change of email is a personal decision; you don't need to force others to change with you. Change of IM is the opposite; for the most part, for other people to talk to you, they need to change too.
What IBM is arguing is that SCO's "GPL sucks" (and maybe other actions; have to wait for the full pleading to be sure exactly what they are saying) statements constitute a "renouncement" and a "disclaming" of the GPL and a statement that SCO is rejecting the terms therein. Without the permissions granted by the GPL, SCO has no rights to distribute the portions of IBM's code in Linux, apart from those granted by the fair use doctrine.
Furthermore, they are probably going to argue that SCO's addition of terms to the GPL (you can't distribute this) and failure to include the GPL with their distributions are a material breach of the GPL. They say this also means that they have rejected the GPL.
So, in fact, IBM's complaint isn't so much that SCO has breached the GPL, it's that SCO is infringing IBM's copyrights. The issue of the GPL is actually only incidental to this claim, and brought up because IBM needs to show why it dosen't grant SCO the permission to do what it does.
Without the GPL, copyright law will still apply. You won't be able to create derivative works, arguably even for yourself, you won't be able to distribute, etc.
Serious answer: Pontiac probably won't be able to do anything about it. The changes to Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox were because other software had that name. Any trademark in cars Pontiac has over Sunbird won't extend to software.
Glib answer: When someone releases Sunsomething as a plugin
Apparently so, considering they are only two programs.
(OT note: anyone know if it's possible to disable the ctrl+w shortcut in Mozilla? I use the Dvorak keyboard, on which w is right next to v, so I fairly regularily close the window instead of pasting... it's quite annoying)
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Nono... you're missing a few releases.
1) This upcoming release of the OT 2) A future release, with all six movies, with the further edits to bring them in line with a single storyline and patch up some holes 3) A bunch of years after that, a "Special Edition" of the above 4) Finally, the originals
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From what I hear, the Library of Congress has on, and Lucas tried everything he could think of to get them to replace it with the Special Edition and they wouldn't.
Have no clue if that's true or not; info from a Fark post.;-)
Rheingold is worried that established companies with business models that are threatened by these new technologies could 'quash such nascent innovations as file-sharing -- and potentially put the U.S. at risk of falling behind the rest of the world.'
The easy solution? Make the rest of the world quash innovations such as file-sharing too.
(Sadly, this seems to be too common the attitude, and seems to work somewhat...)
Seriously, I mainly use the right-click to open links in a new page, to make up for the fact that no browser seems to handle the "back" button very well.
According to this Register article, it's not like MS made SP2 come out of the blue. App vendors have had plenty of time to start thinking about the changes they might need to make.
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It's like peanut butter! Crunchy, smooth, extra crunchy, what choices!
(With apologies to Bill Watterson. I would have linked to the appropriate Calvin and Hobbes strip, but I can't find it online. I can't scan it because my scanner and books are packed for moving, and I don't even know where in the books it is.)
It might be possible to sue for false advertisements and recover damages that way. My torts book is packed away so I can't see exactly what's necessary for that or what damages you can claim, but that's an idea.
It very well could help. If enought people switched to downloading things from Kazaa to this in-house network, it would actually probably substantially lighten the load where it counts: the connection from the on campus network to the rest of the world.
(It sounds like this will just be within the university.)
In campus network is much, much, much cheaper than the backbone out to the Internet. (For example, CMU has gigabit. So downloading within the campus would be almost free.) You increase the total exchange, but decrease the volume of transfer at the bottleneck.
While I don't necessarily disagree with you on this particular issue (I waffle back and forth on the worth of such a program), there are good reasons to charge more than just those who use it. It's how almost everything works.
For instance, I go to PSU. There are organized activities each weekend night (LateNight Penn State) to try to get people to not go out and get drunk. Probably only a small fraction of students take advantage of it on a regular basis, yet the cost is subsidized by everyone.
A lot of people don't use computers much, either on their dorm connection or in the lab. Yet they pay the technology fee as much as everyone else.
I don't go to the gym, yet I help subsidize its costs, so those who do want to use it can pay only a small fee.
Granted, all of these cases are substantially different from the above in that the funds are being used within the campus, but I do think that it would be possible to argue that the value of having such a service outweighs the drawbacks of making everyone pay.
I know Penn State has Napster servers on the campus network that has either 90% of the media on them or serves 90% of requests, I forget which.
It's conceivable that enough people would switch from downloading stuff from Kazaa to Napster to actually save on bandwidth use where it counts, namely the backbone from the school network out into the real world.
In a related story - fencing is fun, safe, and you should try it
:)
I fully agree.
(choose foil though - it's the thinking man's weapon
Here I would vote epee. Though I've spent my time almost exclusively on foil, this is what seems to be the most popular weapon for beginners to be trained on, so have only gotten the chance to use an epee once.
I think it's partially that I never liked right of way. Mostly because it's impossible to judge.
But I'm not a saber fan. Either as a participant or a spectator. I've seen matches, and from even my point of view it looks mostly like the two combatants run at each other, wave their sabre in the air, hope to hit the other player, then the judge calls a point for one side or a simul. There isn't much back and forth jostling for position.
In an olympics in the early 20th century, a fencer was killed when a blade broke, and the remaining part of the blade went through the mask and into the opponents head.
I've had a small amount of fencing lessons here at PSU (a semester or of doing the club, not very seriously, a few years back, and then I just finished a semester long course), and I think that the head coach here may have witnessed this event, if it is what the other poster links to. (I can't be sure, it's possible that the tragedy was just mentioned, but I do remember hearing that he saw this.) Truely a sad story...
Tell that to this guy...
(To be fair, it's unusual. By insurance rates, fencing is actually one of the safest sports from what I've heard.)
... if Google can stay ahead of AOL in closing off the gateways. You can be sure AOL won't take too kindly to that.
"Well, considering how many people dropped Hotmail like a bad habit as soon as gmail came out, I think that there's a good change a Google IM program might have the same effect."
On the other hand, dropping Hotmail just involves telling everyone your new email address. Not necessarily a trivial task, but they can still talk to you.
If people are to change to another IM protocol, it will very possibly have to be able to talk to AIM at least to start. Otherwise it'll be difficult to get the critical mass of people to transfer.
In short:
Change of email is a personal decision; you don't need to force others to change with you.
Change of IM is the opposite; for the most part, for other people to talk to you, they need to change too.
Nooooooo... it was such a good story, why'd you have to 'va' and ruin it...
Stuff doesn't decompose in landfills anyway. You can dig through landfills and find perfectly readable newspapers from the 60s.
I think you're misunderstanding somewhat.
What IBM is arguing is that SCO's "GPL sucks" (and maybe other actions; have to wait for the full pleading to be sure exactly what they are saying) statements constitute a "renouncement" and a "disclaming" of the GPL and a statement that SCO is rejecting the terms therein. Without the permissions granted by the GPL, SCO has no rights to distribute the portions of IBM's code in Linux, apart from those granted by the fair use doctrine.
Furthermore, they are probably going to argue that SCO's addition of terms to the GPL (you can't distribute this) and failure to include the GPL with their distributions are a material breach of the GPL. They say this also means that they have rejected the GPL.
So, in fact, IBM's complaint isn't so much that SCO has breached the GPL, it's that SCO is infringing IBM's copyrights. The issue of the GPL is actually only incidental to this claim, and brought up because IBM needs to show why it dosen't grant SCO the permission to do what it does.
You and killjoe are both flat out wrong here.
Without the GPL, copyright law will still apply. You won't be able to create derivative works, arguably even for yourself, you won't be able to distribute, etc.
Yeah, I set it to ctrl f11 or something.
Anyway, thank you thank you thank you thank you, that will be a lifesaver.
Or at least a postsaver.
Serious answer: Pontiac probably won't be able to do anything about it. The changes to Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox were because other software had that name. Any trademark in cars Pontiac has over Sunbird won't extend to software.
Glib answer: When someone releases Sunsomething as a plugin
I'm totally confused now.
Apparently so, considering they are only two programs.
(OT note: anyone know if it's possible to disable the ctrl+w shortcut in Mozilla? I use the Dvorak keyboard, on which w is right next to v, so I fairly regularily close the window instead of pasting... it's quite annoying)
Nono... you're missing a few releases.
1) This upcoming release of the OT
2) A future release, with all six movies, with the further edits to bring them in line with a single storyline and patch up some holes
3) A bunch of years after that, a "Special Edition" of the above
4) Finally, the originals
From what I hear, the Library of Congress has on, and Lucas tried everything he could think of to get them to replace it with the Special Edition and they wouldn't.
;-)
Have no clue if that's true or not; info from a Fark post.
Rheingold is worried that established companies with business models that are threatened by these new technologies could 'quash such nascent innovations as file-sharing -- and potentially put the U.S. at risk of falling behind the rest of the world.'
The easy solution? Make the rest of the world quash innovations such as file-sharing too.
(Sadly, this seems to be too common the attitude, and seems to work somewhat...)
Ctrl-click in Mozilla. Shift-click saves link as, and opens in a new window in IE.
Seriously, I mainly use the right-click to open links in a new page, to make up for the fact that no browser seems to handle the "back" button very well.
Shift-click
It went Phoenix, Firebird, Firefox.
And may a recommend the firesomething plugin?
Or follow the freaking instructions to turn of the firewall...
/.er, but really, don't you think you're being just a little too cynical about this?
Really, I hate MS as much as the next
According to this Register article, it's not like MS made SP2 come out of the blue. App vendors have had plenty of time to start thinking about the changes they might need to make.