Someday you'll be in the real world and you'll get the call that your mission-critical project that just deployed crashed/wedged/can't restore it's database. Someone is loosing thousands of dollars an hour and you have to jump on a plane and fix it in the middle of the night. On that plane flight, you'll realize that the exam wasn't such a big deal after all, and you'll handle the current problem OK as well. Just suck it up and do it. That's what we all have to do...
A total non-event. Just shows that the most mindless gadget or add-in can be news if it's within the open-source/free-software/free-copyright paradigm.
Non-disclosure detailing exactly who can see your source code and requiring them to maintain due diligence in keeping it secret. Non-compete so that your customer won't create a product and use it to compete against you. Binary license so that you know how many copies of your code they are using and what they pay for them. Hold-harmless so you won't get sued for faulty modifications they might make.
Well, there's price fixing and there's getting a conviction on a price-fixing charge. From what I know and can tell, it seems highly unlikely that Micron could be convicted on a price-fixing charge. I'm pretty sure that for a conviction, there has to be a specific agreement to maintain a specific price between 2 or more parties. Not just "We want them to lower the prices".
That whistleblower protection has been abused by employees. It's not uncommon for an employee catching wind of an upcoming termination to either fabricate or amplify some alledged wrongdoing then invoke whistleblower protection to save his/her ass.
How a company could fsk itself more or harder. First the totally bogas licensing restriction of Ghost, the last good product they made, and now this. Sad.
My experience, and I've had a technician's license for about 15 years, is that nowdays most amateur radio operators just want to talk. There's very little interest in electronics, building your own rigs and antennas and any sort of technical stuff. Most amateurs either want to talk or contest, things which aren't particularly interesting to most hardcore geeks.
I was hoping for something tasty like a memory leak. Something that would gradually bring your machine to a crawl over a 2 hour period. Pissed-off users rebooting all day and not knowing why. Wailing and teeth-gnashing at Microsoft. Now that would have been worth the read...
Stains:
Mr. President, we haven't been able to reach Premier Kissov in the Kremlin. They say they don't know where he is, and he won't be back for another two hours.
DeSadeski:
Try B86543 Moscow.
Stains:
Yes sir.
DeSadeski:
You would never have found him through his office, Mr. President. Our Premier is a man of the people, but he is also... a man, if you follow my meaning.
In No Highway in the Sky. Very dated, very classic, but also very much worth the effort to watch. The book of nearly the same name (No Highway) was written by Nevil Shute, himself a real engineer and it very much worth the read.
Program an 029? Correct me if I'm wrong, but since an 029 is a keypunch, you must have meant 'write a program on an 029'. Either that or you're a poser. And yes, I did.
A better question would be "Are there cancer resistant humans and we don't know about it?"
I know that that there are no cancers on my mother's side of the family despite heavy smoking , coal mining and high-risk lifestyles. Perhaps there is cancer resistant strains of humans and we just don't know about it.
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To the best of my knowledge, and I am definitely not a lawyer, the 2nd amendment has never been *definitively* settled as a right for citizens to own firearms. My understanding is that both sides have potentially so much to lose with a clear cut ruling that it's never been heard.
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I think you could make an interesting court case on the premise that patents are a *constitutional* right, at least in the US and therefore there should be no charge. What other constitutional rights does an individual have that he/she has to pay to exercise?
The old "washing machine" hard drives of the 70's had logic to power up one at a time starting with unit zero. Sequencing power on modern drives is even easier and no doubt they do it.
onnectivity is unreliable. We can't assume that we are able to connect to the service back-end at any given instant. Thus, the basic functionality of the DVR should work whether connected or not, transparently to the viewer. As a corollary, we could not build in a dependency on network bandwidth available to the DVR. All data transfer, including eventually video, would be handled through download.
Not true. More than once I've been up at 4 AM and noticed the Tivo had gone into record, reeling in a commercial hawking an upgraded Tivo box or someone else's product or service. Tivo regularly buys airtime early in the morning to broadcast and reel in their own program material.
Concerning subscriptions. To read the article, one would think that the only way you could ever purchase a Tivo would be with a recurring subscription fee. The reality is that *many* of us bought series one Tivo's with a lifetime fee. The lifetime fee was, by far, the best value for the consumer and is no longer offered.
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Someday you'll be in the real world and you'll get the call that your mission-critical project that just deployed crashed/wedged/can't restore it's database. Someone is loosing thousands of dollars an hour and you have to jump on a plane and fix it in the middle of the night. On that plane flight, you'll realize that the exam wasn't such a big deal after all, and you'll handle the current problem OK as well. Just suck it up and do it. That's what we all have to do...
A total non-event. Just shows that the most mindless gadget or add-in can be news if it's within the open-source/free-software/free-copyright paradigm.
"I have a bad feeling about this..."
Replace California with the new title of "People's Republik of Washington State"
Non-disclosure detailing exactly who can see your source code and requiring them to maintain due diligence in keeping it secret. Non-compete so that your customer won't create a product and use it to compete against you. Binary license so that you know how many copies of your code they are using and what they pay for them. Hold-harmless so you won't get sued for faulty modifications they might make.
As you said, you need a good IP lawyer.
Well, there's price fixing and there's getting a conviction on a price-fixing charge. From what I know and can tell, it seems highly unlikely that Micron could be convicted on a price-fixing charge. I'm pretty sure that for a conviction, there has to be a specific agreement to maintain a specific price between 2 or more parties. Not just "We want them to lower the prices".
That whistleblower protection has been abused by employees. It's not uncommon for an employee catching wind of an upcoming termination to either fabricate or amplify some alledged wrongdoing then invoke whistleblower protection to save his/her ass.
We had to 0wn the machine in order to secure it.
How a company could fsk itself more or harder. First the totally bogas licensing restriction of Ghost, the last good product they made, and now this. Sad.
My experience, and I've had a technician's license for about 15 years, is that nowdays most amateur radio operators just want to talk. There's very little interest in electronics, building your own rigs and antennas and any sort of technical stuff. Most amateurs either want to talk or contest, things which aren't particularly interesting to most hardcore geeks.
I was hoping for something tasty like a memory leak. Something that would gradually bring your machine to a crawl over a 2 hour period. Pissed-off users rebooting all day and not knowing why. Wailing and teeth-gnashing at Microsoft. Now that would have been worth the read...
Stains: Mr. President, we haven't been able to reach Premier Kissov in the Kremlin. They say they don't know where he is, and he won't be back for another two hours. DeSadeski: Try B86543 Moscow. Stains: Yes sir. DeSadeski: You would never have found him through his office, Mr. President. Our Premier is a man of the people, but he is also... a man, if you follow my meaning.
In No Highway in the Sky . Very dated, very classic, but also very much worth the effort to watch. The book of nearly the same name ( No Highway ) was written by Nevil Shute, himself a real engineer and it very much worth the read.
I thought the European Commission on Human Rights protected against double jeopardy. And no, Alex, I won't take Brussels for $200.
Program an 029? Correct me if I'm wrong, but since an 029 is a keypunch, you must have meant 'write a program on an 029'. Either that or you're a poser. And yes, I did.
Damn straight he's not that old. I don't even want to hear about "old computers" unless they have core memory or better yet, a drum.
A better question would be "Are there cancer resistant humans and we don't know about it?"
I know that that there are no cancers on my mother's side of the family despite heavy smoking , coal mining and high-risk lifestyles. Perhaps there is cancer resistant strains of humans and we just don't know about it.
To the best of my knowledge, and I am definitely not a lawyer, the 2nd amendment has never been *definitively* settled as a right for citizens to own firearms. My understanding is that both sides have potentially so much to lose with a clear cut ruling that it's never been heard.
I think you could make an interesting court case on the premise that patents are a *constitutional* right, at least in the US and therefore there should be no charge. What other constitutional rights does an individual have that he/she has to pay to exercise?
The old "washing machine" hard drives of the 70's had logic to power up one at a time starting with unit zero. Sequencing power on modern drives is even easier and no doubt they do it.
Everyone's at church/temple.
Westchester County has outlawed all glass and china dishware, knives and pencils longer than 2 inches and water over the temperature of 120 degrees F.
Here's a typical log entry of Tivo programming to be captured:
Wed 5/3 5:00 am KSPX Teleworld Paid Program No Episode Title
onnectivity is unreliable. We can't assume that we are able to connect to the service back-end at any given instant. Thus, the basic functionality of the DVR should work whether connected or not, transparently to the viewer. As a corollary, we could not build in a dependency on network bandwidth available to the DVR. All data transfer, including eventually video, would be handled through download.
Not true. More than once I've been up at 4 AM and noticed the Tivo had gone into record, reeling in a commercial hawking an upgraded Tivo box or someone else's product or service. Tivo regularly buys airtime early in the morning to broadcast and reel in their own program material.
Concerning subscriptions. To read the article, one would think that the only way you could ever purchase a Tivo would be with a recurring subscription fee. The reality is that *many* of us bought series one Tivo's with a lifetime fee. The lifetime fee was, by far, the best value for the consumer and is no longer offered.