The new ticker at I think CNN or MSNBC headlined this story this morning however that stated that it was for "downloading" music. The downloader aren't doing anything illegal. The people that share the files are the only ones that could be charge with copyright violation.
Well it would never even get that far. Any online music service that wants to distribute mainstream (non-indy) music would have to negotiate with members of the RIAA in order to get the right to distribute the content. The RIAA members disallow non-DRM formats right from the start.
No No, Mozilla will be alive and well, first off Mozilla was an open source license. Second the Mozilla Foundation was created and AOL gave them a nice $2M gift to get started. They are are a separate legal entity. Mozilla is now independent of AOL. As for the future of xmms and winamp well who knows. However I think (IANAL) the "look" of winamp would be a trademark and not a copyright. If a trademark is not defended then you lose the trademark. Since xmms has been out for a few years now no worries.
If yahoo and google and the likes what to do this today, they can. At the third tier level. What wrong with yournamehere.yahoo.com or yournamehere.google.com.
How does moving a file using the command line rather then dragging and dropping it in a GUI encourage "understanding of ways in which a computer interprets commands"?
Feedback and the ambigousness of GUIs. "Did the drag and drop copy the file or move the file?" It depends. "Did it move my program or create a fucking shortcut for it in the new folder?" Not sure where you holding the shift key. The slowness of GUI also contributes to it too. How many time have you clicked on the X to close a windows when it doesn't close right away?
With a command line you type move or copy and then the computer does it. Many command are simple. If it fails it comes back with an error
If America was ever cut off from the world I bet you'd see your spam increase in volume. While this report shows that America leads in sending spam @ 60% I bet receiving spam is likely closer to 80% for the US. Without the US to suck up the majority of the spam, the spammers would be setting their sites on the rest of the world.
Please explain how how downloading nmap a second time gives SCO a new license to NMAP. The GPL license is all or nothing. You don't have three license for SCO software like you would 3 licenses for Windows 98. The GPL states that if you violate the terms of the GPL license you (as in a legal entity, human or corporation) lose your license to distribute said GPLed software.
Hey there's geek dialect I haven't heard in a while. 77 Ford Bronco, NP431 w/granny low, twin-stick shifter for Dana 20 xfer case, 23 gallon gas tank, 351W, 3" suspension lift, 33x12.5 Goodyears. Soon to have custom bumper, rool cage, 4 point seat belts, custom dash, rhinolined interior, etc.
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For some companies that service niche markets like ours does this is not the case. We have less than 10 full time tech support people but the average experience they have working for this company is likely 5-6 years. The difference is that customers pay (a lot actually) for the support but are happy to pay it. Also the tech support people here are actually paid reasonable salaries. While this model works for niche markets I don't think it would work for larger markets like say Dell laptop support, expect to continue getting crappy support there.
And thats about the only time. Every Professional job that I have ever landed has been due to personal contact working at the company that I was going to. However back in 2002 I found myself laid off and almost every professional contact that I had was also laid off or working for a company with a hiring freeze. At this point, Monster and those like it was my only resource (recruiters were worthless). I found a job at Monster at a local company. Sent my resume in with the others. Then went one step further, called up ex-coworkers and found that I knew someone there. Talked to that person and that got me the job. But I never would have know about the job if it had not been for Monster.
My company makes software for niche markets in the telcommunication industry. Our product extends the features of existing hardware that our customer would already own. Its a small enough niche that we have virtually no competition. That is also due to the fact that there is very little growth in our niche market. Even though I'm an advocate of opensource, I think if we opensourced our software we would lose more customers than we would gain. In the case of our customers, they likely would not care that it is open source, they would only care that it didn't cost them money anymore. If we had competitors and were in a growing market we could opensource our software and leaverage that as an asset over our closed source competitors.
I it was Antec that recently put out a power supply tester. It basically an LED and a few resistors with a harness for like $15 or $25 (I forget). You still need a multimeter to test it but if you get you +/-12V and +/-5V while underload you should have a good power supply. I haven't personally used it yet but I plan to pick one up at some point.
We're at an interesting pass here about C# on non windows platforms. Our product is written in C (wahoo) and has running on SCO Openserver (grrr). We are in the process of kicking SCO's punk ass to the curb (wahoo) by porting our product to Windows 2000 (grrr) in the next release. Some of the new features were done in C# (grrr) but, the core code is still standard library C (wahoo). While some of our customers want our product on windows, others want it on a unix platform. Linux does seem like the best choice to port to next and the existance of Mono and dotGNU also help but we are very uneasy about using either one in case microsoft all of the sudden kills them or is they are never adopted as mainsream and it could scare some customers that we use it. The C# is necessary because our product interacts with another company's product that is exculsively a windows product. Java has been sorta tried in the past with poor results.
Good point, How many people use the OEM of windows that came with their computer? I'm sure this number is easily over 50%. That man in the middle is any computer manufacturer. "But Dell/HP/Gateway would never do that to us!" Really, seeing how they are manufactured in places like China and India, which lead the world in pirated software, do you really trust them? To put it more bluntly... do you trust China to manufacture computers that are to be used in the US Department of Defense??!?!
Still no good. Cops take picture with special write once card download to photoshop -> add in gun -> copy modified image to new write once card -> turn in new write once card as evidence. Even with an external audit system there's no why to be sure. Yes I know you said md5sum but where in the chain of custody does it get recorded?
Buying stock that is already public doesn't create and jobs and is not really investing. It really doesn't help the economy. Sticking the money in a bank account does help somewhat bacause thats more money that banks can lend startup companies. Only investing in new companies or existing companies that release new shares is really investing.
Thats why a said a cold and not rectal cancer. The common cold is often something that people get over quickly and often don't even miss work. The whole point of my arguement was that information that should be private will be abused if not kept private.
If you don't think so here's another abuse of information...
If park your car properly between the lines in a public parking spot get out of the car and walk into a store. Then along comes a drunk driver and smashes into your car. Police are call and a claim is file with the DDer's insurance company since it his fault. Then it comes time to renew your insurance, "oh your were involved in an accident according to yor driving record, you loss your safe driver discount" "wasn't my fault" "Doesn't matter, oh yeah and the state mandates that your have to keep paying us, muuhahaha!!" This can happen because of abuse of privacy.
Only with bitches like you willing to give up there rights. Imagine a world where because went to the Doctor last week because of a cold results in being preemtively fired from your job so You compnay does have to pay out for sick days! That the type of the world we will live in if no one fought for privacy rights.
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The new ticker at I think CNN or MSNBC headlined this story this morning however that stated that it was for "downloading" music. The downloader aren't doing anything illegal. The people that share the files are the only ones that could be charge with copyright violation.
Well it would never even get that far. Any online music service that wants to distribute mainstream (non-indy) music would have to negotiate with members of the RIAA in order to get the right to distribute the content. The RIAA members disallow non-DRM formats right from the start.
No No, Mozilla will be alive and well, first off Mozilla was an open source license. Second the Mozilla Foundation was created and AOL gave them a nice $2M gift to get started. They are are a separate legal entity. Mozilla is now independent of AOL. As for the future of xmms and winamp well who knows. However I think (IANAL) the "look" of winamp would be a trademark and not a copyright. If a trademark is not defended then you lose the trademark. Since xmms has been out for a few years now no worries.
funnier if you s/argue/pound on/
If yahoo and google and the likes what to do this today, they can. At the third tier level. What wrong with yournamehere.yahoo.com or yournamehere.google.com.
Linus own the trademark Linux, I don't see that holding back the spread of the linux code
Good luck making a customer install it so they can run your wicked cool install script :(
How does moving a file using the command line rather then dragging and dropping it in a GUI encourage "understanding of ways in which a computer interprets commands"?
Feedback and the ambigousness of GUIs. "Did the drag and drop copy the file or move the file?" It depends. "Did it move my program or create a fucking shortcut for it in the new folder?" Not sure where you holding the shift key. The slowness of GUI also contributes to it too. How many time have you clicked on the X to close a windows when it doesn't close right away?
With a command line you type move or copy and then the computer does it. Many command are simple. If it fails it comes back with an error
Maybe we will see this soon. I recall someone sueing the RIAA under rackettering laws recently
In my experience the offical stores are staffed by moron with the same level of knowledge as the JoeBob's cell phone shack workers.
If America was ever cut off from the world I bet you'd see your spam increase in volume. While this report shows that America leads in sending spam @ 60% I bet receiving spam is likely closer to 80% for the US. Without the US to suck up the majority of the spam, the spammers would be setting their sites on the rest of the world.
Please explain how how downloading nmap a second time gives SCO a new license to NMAP. The GPL license is all or nothing. You don't have three license for SCO software like you would 3 licenses for Windows 98. The GPL states that if you violate the terms of the GPL license you (as in a legal entity, human or corporation) lose your license to distribute said GPLed software.
Hey there's geek dialect I haven't heard in a while. 77 Ford Bronco, NP431 w/granny low, twin-stick shifter for Dana 20 xfer case, 23 gallon gas tank, 351W, 3" suspension lift, 33x12.5 Goodyears. Soon to have custom bumper, rool cage, 4 point seat belts, custom dash, rhinolined interior, etc.
For some companies that service niche markets like ours does this is not the case. We have less than 10 full time tech support people but the average experience they have working for this company is likely 5-6 years. The difference is that customers pay (a lot actually) for the support but are happy to pay it. Also the tech support people here are actually paid reasonable salaries. While this model works for niche markets I don't think it would work for larger markets like say Dell laptop support, expect to continue getting crappy support there.
And thats about the only time. Every Professional job that I have ever landed has been due to personal contact working at the company that I was going to. However back in 2002 I found myself laid off and almost every professional contact that I had was also laid off or working for a company with a hiring freeze. At this point, Monster and those like it was my only resource (recruiters were worthless). I found a job at Monster at a local company. Sent my resume in with the others. Then went one step further, called up ex-coworkers and found that I knew someone there. Talked to that person and that got me the job. But I never would have know about the job if it had not been for Monster.
Bad example. VA linux is really just a hardware distributor. Take a look at how Redhat has done for a more accurate picture. RHAT vs. MSFT
My company makes software for niche markets in the telcommunication industry. Our product extends the features of existing hardware that our customer would already own. Its a small enough niche that we have virtually no competition. That is also due to the fact that there is very little growth in our niche market. Even though I'm an advocate of opensource, I think if we opensourced our software we would lose more customers than we would gain. In the case of our customers, they likely would not care that it is open source, they would only care that it didn't cost them money anymore. If we had competitors and were in a growing market we could opensource our software and leaverage that as an asset over our closed source competitors.
I it was Antec that recently put out a power supply tester. It basically an LED and a few resistors with a harness for like $15 or $25 (I forget). You still need a multimeter to test it but if you get you +/-12V and +/-5V while underload you should have a good power supply. I haven't personally used it yet but I plan to pick one up at some point.
We're at an interesting pass here about C# on non windows platforms. Our product is written in C (wahoo) and has running on SCO Openserver (grrr). We are in the process of kicking SCO's punk ass to the curb (wahoo) by porting our product to Windows 2000 (grrr) in the next release. Some of the new features were done in C# (grrr) but, the core code is still standard library C (wahoo). While some of our customers want our product on windows, others want it on a unix platform. Linux does seem like the best choice to port to next and the existance of Mono and dotGNU also help but we are very uneasy about using either one in case microsoft all of the sudden kills them or is they are never adopted as mainsream and it could scare some customers that we use it. The C# is necessary because our product interacts with another company's product that is exculsively a windows product. Java has been sorta tried in the past with poor results.
Good point, How many people use the OEM of windows that came with their computer? I'm sure this number is easily over 50%. That man in the middle is any computer manufacturer. "But Dell/HP/Gateway would never do that to us!" Really, seeing how they are manufactured in places like China and India, which lead the world in pirated software, do you really trust them? To put it more bluntly... do you trust China to manufacture computers that are to be used in the US Department of Defense??!?!
Still no good. Cops take picture with special write once card download to photoshop -> add in gun -> copy modified image to new write once card -> turn in new write once card as evidence. Even with an external audit system there's no why to be sure. Yes I know you said md5sum but where in the chain of custody does it get recorded?
Buying stock that is already public doesn't create and jobs and is not really investing. It really doesn't help the economy. Sticking the money in a bank account does help somewhat bacause thats more money that banks can lend startup companies. Only investing in new companies or existing companies that release new shares is really investing.
Thats why a said a cold and not rectal cancer. The common cold is often something that people get over quickly and often don't even miss work. The whole point of my arguement was that information that should be private will be abused if not kept private.
If you don't think so here's another abuse of information...
If park your car properly between the lines in a public parking spot get out of the car and walk into a store. Then along comes a drunk driver and smashes into your car. Police are call and a claim is file with the DDer's insurance company since it his fault. Then it comes time to renew your insurance, "oh your were involved in an accident according to yor driving record, you loss your safe driver discount" "wasn't my fault" "Doesn't matter, oh yeah and the state mandates that your have to keep paying us, muuhahaha!!" This can happen because of abuse of privacy.
Time to update that sig, SCOX is down almost 30% since the begaining of the year and will likely continue to fall.
Only with bitches like you willing to give up there rights. Imagine a world where because went to the Doctor last week because of a cold results in being preemtively fired from your job so You compnay does have to pay out for sick days! That the type of the world we will live in if no one fought for privacy rights.