I don't know if this article is a dupe, but the problem is.
If you don't remember the WinModem problem, this might seem absurd. This has been a problem for a long time. It never really went away. People just started using networks connected to telephone supplied DSL modems, cable modems, or cheap external USB modems, and forgot about the problem.
As someone else already pointed out, you are correct on both accounts.
There are a lot of euphamisms in this country for getting fired/layed off.
If we race for pink slips, I might take your pink slip, or win your pink slip. This is making a historical reference to the title for the vehicles being on pink pieces of paper.
Getting a pink slip to indicate you got fired is a reference to having "a little someting extra in your paycheck" (another euphamism that could refer to the pink slip, or a bonus) which was quite often literally pink. This was again done to avoid confrontation.
The whole reason why MS bowed to this incredibly bad patent, was in their own interest.
It is obvious to everyone that Eolas doesn't have a legitamate patent. But MS couldn't afford to beat them in court. If MS won, then it would illegitamize most of MS's patent portfolio of similarly bad patents.
This type of wording in any contract should be illegal. A contract has to offer something to both parties. If one party reserves the right to change what he is offering, with not stipulation, then what is to stop that party from taking your money, and not giving you anything? Nothing.
Large corporations use this tactic to handle Unions, and contract negotiations. They offer health benefits to the retirees until death, with the "subject to change" clause, the unions vote the contract in, the companies get back to production, and change what they give the retirees. It has happened all the time.
I don't know how this type of language has ever stood the test of a good contract attorney attacking it.
You are thinking too literally, too small. Sure you can go buy an NES today, but how many actually still exist. Sure you can buy adapters, but they are going to become increasingly hard to find. No one is still producing NES originals. There is a finite number of antiquated machines. If someone was to start cloning those, then they are no longer finite. And might there be any benefit to produce a clone with current video output?
The whole idea is that Nintendo has something to possibly fear. If they can get even a small gain in new system sales by keeping these clones at bay, they are better off finacially. This isn't about what will obviously happen, it is about what might happen, and what benefits the company financially.
Too summarize, there is no benefit to Nintendo to allow clones. There might be a benefit to not allow them. If the potential benefit to Nintendo outways the cost to fight them, then they will probably fight.
There is real money concerns, that is a given. How much of a real threat is the question.
They will lose money off the hardware sales of cloned systems if they are trying to integrate a classic gaming interface in their new system.
Yes, the basic idea in the story is only about their old hardware, but you don't need an imagination to see the money.
If I have a ton of legal roms laying around, and CompanyA makes a clone console for $20, and CompanyN makes a new console that plays everything under the sun, plus my old legal roms, but charges $300, which will I buy. That depends on if I want to play new stuff or just my old stuff. If the clone machine exists, and I am not really into new games, then the $20 clone is in my living room without a second thought. If it isn't available to me, I will be more inclined to buy the new system. They haven't forced me to buy it, mind you, and they know I probably won't. But if there is a $20 alternative, I definitely won't.
Now, actually using some imagination, I can take that a step further. Now I might be inclinde to buy new games. I have the new system, I might as well buy some games for it to see how much better it is.
This won't happen a lot, but if it happens more than it costs to keep people from cloning the NES, then it is worth it. How many 35+ people have old NES cartridges, and have no inclination to buy a new console.
What doesn't the unix shell do that you are proposing here?
I am honestly confused by your original post. I can pipe all day long. I can pipe into any application that accepts command line input, or redirect into any application that takes a file on the command line.
If you get rid of the excel part, what other features of your pipe line are missing?
Not being argumentative, I just didn't understand what you were excited about in your original post (and you missed the AC button).
This "In Other News" is finally one that is more on point than just funny.
This is exactly what Bruce is saying, "We shouldn't use code signing to identify the author, because it won't completely harden our system (which it wasn't meant to do)."
To bad there isn't a extra mod for painfully obvious ideas that no body see because of the verbage surrounding it.
Would I hire a person that never had a job in the field, just because he was MCSE? No
Would I hire a guy that had several years experience admining an MS network? Possibly.
Would I hire a guy that that had several years experience, and the MCSE? Almost certainly, and he'd get paid more than the guy above.
I can't stand people that only know how to use tools, and don't understand the basics of networking. I also can't stand all theory, and no knowledge of tools. I want both in my employees.
You can't really get empahtic about "Hey, let's do nothing about this irrelevant article."
So the only thing people see are the emphatic posts. What the GP doesn't realize is that the people that always compain about not having stem cell research aren't going to be the same people that complain about ethics in other genetic research, and vice versa.
It is easy to forget sometimes that there are individuals on this site, and despite all appearances to the contrary, there isn't a single group think here.
Your statment is uneducated, mean, and just selfish.
He chooses to work road construction, so you should be able to speed and try to kill him? He has signed up to be part of your carnival game?
Backing up several steps in logic, and in the thread, driving is a priveledge. We can't all just drive how, and where we want. As soon as those orange barrels, barricades, and other markers go up, it becomes his "office", and
YOU KNOW WHAT A WORK SITE IS FOR
The state is kind enough to allow you to drive through his site legally. You do not have a right to be there.
You hit someone in an Illinois construction zone you are going to jail, not just fined, and rightly so. Just because you think it is a highway doesn't mean the speed limit is as high as it used to be.
The fact that they can tell how many are being deleted, and state that they are for tracking pretty much indicates that they are not incorrectly associated with spyware, doesn't it?
To me that sort of defines spyware. It might be low tech, there might be better out there, but they are spying on us.
I am not new here, and I have never downloaded a torrent, the software, or would even know where to start (other than using/. to find a discussion with some info).
Still old news. So old that a tour guide was telling me about it 2 years ago. The university in Hawaii has evidently been doing this. The irrigation was an interesting side effect.
Not to mention all the other people that have actually experienced similar setups that have already posted.
"If you want to fix it tomorrow, buy something else."
Note the lack of "don't" in the statement. Even in context of the question, that whole statment is open for interpretation, and not a clear endorsement for Apple.
Buy something other than what? What he is obviously endorsing:"'Should we buy an Apple?' 'Sure, if you want crap buy something else [Apple].'"
Something other than the question; "'Should we buy an Apple?' 'If you want to fix it tomorrow, buy something else [other than an Apple].'"
They are both reasonable interpretations of the quote.
Having a crowbar in your posession half a block from a house that was just broken into with a crowbar becomes relevant to the states case, and is no longer simple coincidence.
It can't be supressed as evidence. That is all, nothing to see here.
What they will try to do is, not villify him for having the software, but show that he encrypted pictures with it because he KNEW they were illegal. It shows his INTENT. If he has nudies that aren't illegal and unencrypted, and nudies that are illegal, and are encrypted, then he can't say that he didn't realize they were illegal, his actions show he had at least a suspision.
Anyone that has a webbrowser has encryption software if it supports SSL or TLS. He is not being punished for having PGP. His use of PGP indicates he new something was wrong. It isn't a single piece of evidence to hang him with, but piece of a puzzle.
No, Vader destroys Sideous and himself in one selfless act. Vader does fulfill the prophecy, and destroys the Sith, bringing balance back to the force. Luke was almost dead when this happened, and without Vader's interference, would have died.
Anakin was the one.
And how does removing half the force bring balance? With Lukes "less stuffy" ethic, he practices both light and dark side, and through one set of monks that embrace everything, there is balance.
It is a 3.5 hour movie. It has 1.5 hours of light sabre fights,.5 hours of bad interpersonal dialogue, and.5 hours of interesting story.
As to the effects, the effects I enjoyed the most were the call backs to EP IV. When Jimmy Smits walks down the exact same hallway that we first see Darth Vader come walking down in EP IV, I got a huge smile on my face. The big plastic buttons everywhere, it was great.
I enjoyed the movie immensely, but find it incredibly easy to be critical of it.
(the fact that I got a refill on my 5 gallon bucket of soda didn't help my impression of it being long)
I was going to make a cynical joke about simply reading the man pages or the other fine documention, as a joke.
You actually say that, with a straight face, and get modded informative. That in and of itself is funny.
That being said, I hope I get my wire frame Puff shirt. I ordered it several weeks ago, before I realized it was a pre-order. The anticipation is killing me.
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I don't know if this article is a dupe, but the problem is.
If you don't remember the WinModem problem, this might seem absurd. This has been a problem for a long time. It never really went away. People just started using networks connected to telephone supplied DSL modems, cable modems, or cheap external USB modems, and forgot about the problem.
As someone else already pointed out, you are correct on both accounts.
There are a lot of euphamisms in this country for getting fired/layed off.
If we race for pink slips, I might take your pink slip, or win your pink slip. This is making a historical reference to the title for the vehicles being on pink pieces of paper.
Getting a pink slip to indicate you got fired is a reference to having "a little someting extra in your paycheck" (another euphamism that could refer to the pink slip, or a bonus) which was quite often literally pink. This was again done to avoid confrontation.
The whole reason why MS bowed to this incredibly bad patent, was in their own interest.
It is obvious to everyone that Eolas doesn't have a legitamate patent. But MS couldn't afford to beat them in court. If MS won, then it would illegitamize most of MS's patent portfolio of similarly bad patents.
Just a thought.
This type of wording in any contract should be illegal. A contract has to offer something to both parties. If one party reserves the right to change what he is offering, with not stipulation, then what is to stop that party from taking your money, and not giving you anything? Nothing.
Large corporations use this tactic to handle Unions, and contract negotiations. They offer health benefits to the retirees until death, with the "subject to change" clause, the unions vote the contract in, the companies get back to production, and change what they give the retirees. It has happened all the time.
I don't know how this type of language has ever stood the test of a good contract attorney attacking it.
You are thinking too literally, too small. Sure you can go buy an NES today, but how many actually still exist. Sure you can buy adapters, but they are going to become increasingly hard to find. No one is still producing NES originals. There is a finite number of antiquated machines. If someone was to start cloning those, then they are no longer finite. And might there be any benefit to produce a clone with current video output?
The whole idea is that Nintendo has something to possibly fear. If they can get even a small gain in new system sales by keeping these clones at bay, they are better off finacially. This isn't about what will obviously happen, it is about what might happen, and what benefits the company financially.
Too summarize, there is no benefit to Nintendo to allow clones. There might be a benefit to not allow them. If the potential benefit to Nintendo outways the cost to fight them, then they will probably fight.
There is real money concerns, that is a given. How much of a real threat is the question.
They will lose money off the hardware sales of cloned systems if they are trying to integrate a classic gaming interface in their new system.
Yes, the basic idea in the story is only about their old hardware, but you don't need an imagination to see the money.
If I have a ton of legal roms laying around, and CompanyA makes a clone console for $20, and CompanyN makes a new console that plays everything under the sun, plus my old legal roms, but charges $300, which will I buy. That depends on if I want to play new stuff or just my old stuff. If the clone machine exists, and I am not really into new games, then the $20 clone is in my living room without a second thought. If it isn't available to me, I will be more inclined to buy the new system. They haven't forced me to buy it, mind you, and they know I probably won't. But if there is a $20 alternative, I definitely won't.
Now, actually using some imagination, I can take that a step further. Now I might be inclinde to buy new games. I have the new system, I might as well buy some games for it to see how much better it is.
This won't happen a lot, but if it happens more than it costs to keep people from cloning the NES, then it is worth it. How many 35+ people have old NES cartridges, and have no inclination to buy a new console.
You don't see his point? What is your point?
What doesn't the unix shell do that you are proposing here?
I am honestly confused by your original post. I can pipe all day long. I can pipe into any application that accepts command line input, or redirect into any application that takes a file on the command line.
If you get rid of the excel part, what other features of your pipe line are missing?
Not being argumentative, I just didn't understand what you were excited about in your original post (and you missed the AC button).
Just because the GPL3 comes out, doesn't mean you can't license your software with the GPL2.
It also doesn't mean you can't use software that was originally released under the GPL2.
Only license your software with the GPL2, and only use software licensed under GPL2, it really is that simple.
And if you don't understand why you'd use either, and are only taking some pundit's word for it, you shouldn't be licensing software.
This "In Other News" is finally one that is more on point than just funny.
This is exactly what Bruce is saying, "We shouldn't use code signing to identify the author, because it won't completely harden our system (which it wasn't meant to do)."
To bad there isn't a extra mod for painfully obvious ideas that no body see because of the verbage surrounding it.
Would I hire a person that never had a job in the field, just because he was MCSE? No
Would I hire a guy that had several years experience admining an MS network? Possibly.
Would I hire a guy that that had several years experience, and the MCSE? Almost certainly, and he'd get paid more than the guy above.
I can't stand people that only know how to use tools, and don't understand the basics of networking. I also can't stand all theory, and no knowledge of tools. I want both in my employees.
You can't really get empahtic about "Hey, let's do nothing about this irrelevant article."
So the only thing people see are the emphatic posts. What the GP doesn't realize is that the people that always compain about not having stem cell research aren't going to be the same people that complain about ethics in other genetic research, and vice versa.
It is easy to forget sometimes that there are individuals on this site, and despite all appearances to the contrary, there isn't a single group think here.
Close, maybe, but not one mind.
Or at least a:
#!/bin/bash
Your statment is uneducated, mean, and just selfish.
He chooses to work road construction, so you should be able to speed and try to kill him? He has signed up to be part of your carnival game?
Backing up several steps in logic, and in the thread, driving is a priveledge. We can't all just drive how, and where we want. As soon as those orange barrels, barricades, and other markers go up, it becomes his "office", and
YOU KNOW WHAT A WORK SITE IS FOR
The state is kind enough to allow you to drive through his site legally. You do not have a right to be there.
You hit someone in an Illinois construction zone you are going to jail, not just fined, and rightly so. Just because you think it is a highway doesn't mean the speed limit is as high as it used to be.
The fact that they can tell how many are being deleted, and state that they are for tracking pretty much indicates that they are not incorrectly associated with spyware, doesn't it?
To me that sort of defines spyware. It might be low tech, there might be better out there, but they are spying on us.
I am not new here, and I have never downloaded a torrent, the software, or would even know where to start (other than using /. to find a discussion with some info).
/. users who don't use Linux.
There are even some
Just so long as he doesn't jump off the Tallahatchie bridge.
Monsanto might already have a patent on that seed, and almost definitely on backing up seeds.
Still old news. So old that a tour guide was telling me about it 2 years ago. The university in Hawaii has evidently been doing this. The irrigation was an interesting side effect.
Not to mention all the other people that have actually experienced similar setups that have already posted.
The quote is:
:"'Should we buy an Apple?' 'Sure, if you want crap buy something else [Apple].'"
"If you want to fix it tomorrow, buy something else."
Note the lack of "don't" in the statement. Even in context of the question, that whole statment is open for interpretation, and not a clear endorsement for Apple.
Buy something other than what? What he is obviously endorsing
Something other than the question; "'Should we buy an Apple?' 'If you want to fix it tomorrow, buy something else [other than an Apple].'"
They are both reasonable interpretations of the quote.
Owning a crowbar is not illegal.
Having a crowbar in your posession isn't illegal.
Having a crowbar in your posession half a block from a house that was just broken into with a crowbar becomes relevant to the states case, and is no longer simple coincidence.
It can't be supressed as evidence. That is all, nothing to see here.
What they will try to do is, not villify him for having the software, but show that he encrypted pictures with it because he KNEW they were illegal. It shows his INTENT. If he has nudies that aren't illegal and unencrypted, and nudies that are illegal, and are encrypted, then he can't say that he didn't realize they were illegal, his actions show he had at least a suspision.
Anyone that has a webbrowser has encryption software if it supports SSL or TLS. He is not being punished for having PGP. His use of PGP indicates he new something was wrong. It isn't a single piece of evidence to hang him with, but piece of a puzzle.
No, Vader destroys Sideous and himself in one selfless act. Vader does fulfill the prophecy, and destroys the Sith, bringing balance back to the force. Luke was almost dead when this happened, and without Vader's interference, would have died.
Anakin was the one.
And how does removing half the force bring balance? With Lukes "less stuffy" ethic, he practices both light and dark side, and through one set of monks that embrace everything, there is balance.
You do have a point here.
Puppets will always look more real than Jar-jar.
I think the special effects in the first three were absolutely brilliant. The puppetry, the makeup, the suits.
I understand that paying someone to render a whole army of whatever Jar-Jar was cost less than 1 suit, and it's operator, but they looked better.
It is a 3.5 hour movie. It has 1.5 hours of light sabre fights, .5 hours of bad interpersonal dialogue, and .5 hours of interesting story.
As to the effects, the effects I enjoyed the most were the call backs to EP IV. When Jimmy Smits walks down the exact same hallway that we first see Darth Vader come walking down in EP IV, I got a huge smile on my face. The big plastic buttons everywhere, it was great.
I enjoyed the movie immensely, but find it incredibly easy to be critical of it.
(the fact that I got a refill on my 5 gallon bucket of soda didn't help my impression of it being long)
I was going to make a cynical joke about simply reading the man pages or the other fine documention, as a joke.
You actually say that, with a straight face, and get modded informative. That in and of itself is funny.
That being said, I hope I get my wire frame Puff shirt. I ordered it several weeks ago, before I realized it was a pre-order. The anticipation is killing me.
They do this to their competition all the time, what are you thinking.
1) and 2) I don't have to admit I am weak to not want to fight you. The easiest way to not fight you is to kill you befoe you get in the ring.
3) If they suddenly stop offering support for it, or start charging $200 per call, it isn't going to confuse anybody, they will run back to MS.