You're getting ripped, they're only $5 here in Nashville. I bought T2, Running Man, Popeye, hell, about 5 of them last week. They're honestly competing with blockbuster at this point. And I don't mean blockbuster's sales.
Gene Simmons really needs to ask himself if he ever made that much money off that many album sales. I'm not saying KISS didn't sell a lot and make a lot of money, but given the number of sales and the time period, there's no way. The record company would still be telling Radiohead that the CD tanked they would barely be able to pay back their advance.
Seriously, ask a lawyer, not slashdot. I highly doubt a contract like that is enforceable (seriously, they own work you create for your next employer?) but I would talk to a lawyer. And I wouldn't even think of signing it.
One difference is that I went from recommending SUSE as a commercial Linux option to customers and other contacts to recommending that they avoid it. Note that I don't "not recommend it", I "anti-recommend it". If it were just me, no big deal. But I'd bet I'm not the only one out there. I now recommend either Ubuntu or Red Hat (for those who are running other commercial software that depends on RH). I really think Novell made a dumb decision...
Beyond Fair Use reform, Sohn advocates punishing copyright holders who 'knowingly or recklessly' send out false takedown notices
Last I looked, those were already sworn to be true under penalty of perjury. We just need to enforce it. One time. Some slimy RIAA lawyer sitting in jail for a couple of days would completely change the way it's done now.
While these changes sound good, the copyright industries have congress in their pockets, and congressmen/women openly go to them for "advice" on copyright issues. Until that changes, you can talk all you want, they won't hear you (unless you come up with cash).
As I've said before, they are cheap given the influence that you can buy. It costs just a few hundred thousand dollars to turn a congressman into your own remote-controlled robot that'll say and do what you want. The CEA needs to figure that out.
I get calls from surveys all the time, and I sometimes participate if I have a few minutes. All of them have been legit, and legitimate surveyors *are* allowed to call you (along with charities and politicians).
If they call, just demand to be placed on their do not call list, simple as that.
The real problem that I'm having is telemarketers who shamelessly break the law and use caller id blocking and such. And I noticed that the FTC didn't go after any of them.
Actually, I'm let down by this action, as most of the companies that they went after this time called people after those people had filled out a contact form including a phone number. What am I missing? I didn't even know that was illegal. Looks like they went after the low-hanging fruit to get a press release.
NC Attorney General Roy Cooper has single-handedly done more than the FTC. Google him if you don't believe me.
I have been unable to use Google maps for months now on Comcast. I have called them, but, you can guess how that went. Yahoo maps and Mapquest work fine, but on Google I get about half the tiles filled in before it stops. And I mean it stops. It ends up looking like a checkerboard. Occassionally it will finish a couple of minutes later, but typically it never does.
This problem has been going on since long before 9/11 - it's unrelated. Radley Balko has been doing the bulk of the work in exposing it, but it's more than one man can do.
In fall of 1999, I was working on "patsgold.com". They were getting some orders, and I noticed that there were a lot of repeat customers. I came up with the idea to allow people to set up their account such that items added to their cart would automatically be submitted as an order an hour or two after the last item was dropped into the cart. That way, they would have time to go back and remove something that they didn't want, and at the same time, it would be unlikely that it would create multiple orders where only one would do.
It was one-click shopping.
Right before I started implementation, a story came out about Amazon's new patent for one-click shopping. At the time, I had never even looked at amazon.com, I came up with the idea independently of anybody else's implementation. But I was unable to use the idea because Amazon had run down and suckered the USPTO into giving them a patent.
Far from spurring innovation, this patent killed it.
No, if you think it's lame you ignore it and move on. I seem to have picked up a "friend" or two who follow me around and hit troll on about half my postings.
You open source free software kiddies might want to step back and watch some *real* innovation going on! We're calling it FasTcGI" over here in the Windows world. Well, take a look at it, I'm sure you're all hankering to just rip it off and use it with your oh-so-wonderful "apatchY" web server.
Never mind that one keeps a family in the US employed
Is there really someone left in the US who believes that people are unemployed because of production moving overseas? We are at full employment; people aren't starving here, just doing non-manufacturing jobs. It's okay.
Do you wonder why Americans and the "free world" are threatened with terrorist activity?
I used to, then I listened to Osama bin Laden. We are threatened because we are "infidels". We don't make women wear head coverings, we allow them to drive, be educated, and leave the house without a male relative or husband by their side. We don't torture and kill gays. We have scantily clad women in our movies. We drink alcohol.
That's what the terrorist says. Were you saying something? And should I care what you think, or what Osama bin Laden thinks?
(Since you're likely clueless, here's the clue: I'll believe bin Laden.)
I personally feel safer about Iran having a nuclear program than I do about the US having one.
Then you're an idiot. I suppose you believe there are no gays in Iran, also?
It looks like a breadboard to anybody involved with electronics. Explosives have electronics attached to something that goes boom. Unless they thought her boobs were filled with plastic explosives there's really not much there.
You didn't read closely. She was carrying playdoh in her hand. When I read this, I just can't take sides. Yeah, I think the cops overreacted. But it's just mind-numbingly stupid to carry a circuit board with wires attached to playdoh into an airport. She just can't be stupid, she's going to MIT, so I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and say she wasn't thinking that day. From what I've seen, I can certainly understand why a normal person would have thought it was a bomb.
Of course, here's the other problem they seem to have up in that area. After you determine that it's not a bomb, the show's over. Seriously. There's no need to make up some big offense for something like this. Everybody goes home and she hopefully will put a little more thought into her clothing before going to the airport again. This isn't a criminal offense.
1. A Microsoft shill 2. A complete mouth-breathing idiot
Seriously. There were very few people who fell for this. You read Groklaw, so it should have been obvious that there was something to what everybody was saying.
The only people who really feel hard for this were you, Enderle, Maureen O'Gara, and, of course, the Didiot. Of those three, we know that at least the Didiot's company gets paid for "research" by Microsoft, and she even appeared in a video on their web site, and of course Maureen worked for a pro-Microsoft fake news site. I don't know about Enderle. But the point is that there was money to be made.
So, if you're not a shill, that leaves "idiot". Take your pick, buddy, I'd rather not be either one. But then, I review the facts heavily before taking sides in a case like this.
Unfortunately, it is vastly different in one key aspect: NTP has at least 10 times the cash to throw at this that SCO had. Also, NTP has no other money-losing departments to support, this is it.
As I said back when RIM settled, the only thing worse than a patent troll is a patent troll with $600M in the bank. This is why.
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You're getting ripped, they're only $5 here in Nashville. I bought T2, Running Man, Popeye, hell, about 5 of them last week. They're honestly competing with blockbuster at this point. And I don't mean blockbuster's sales.
Gene Simmons really needs to ask himself if he ever made that much money off that many album sales. I'm not saying KISS didn't sell a lot and make a lot of money, but given the number of sales and the time period, there's no way. The record company would still be telling Radiohead that the CD tanked they would barely be able to pay back their advance.
til I can run this under mame?
Seriously, ask a lawyer, not slashdot. I highly doubt a contract like that is enforceable (seriously, they own work you create for your next employer?) but I would talk to a lawyer. And I wouldn't even think of signing it.
One difference is that I went from recommending SUSE as a commercial Linux option to customers and other contacts to recommending that they avoid it. Note that I don't "not recommend it", I "anti-recommend it". If it were just me, no big deal. But I'd bet I'm not the only one out there. I now recommend either Ubuntu or Red Hat (for those who are running other commercial software that depends on RH). I really think Novell made a dumb decision...
Last I looked, those were already sworn to be true under penalty of perjury. We just need to enforce it. One time. Some slimy RIAA lawyer sitting in jail for a couple of days would completely change the way it's done now.
While these changes sound good, the copyright industries have congress in their pockets, and congressmen/women openly go to them for "advice" on copyright issues. Until that changes, you can talk all you want, they won't hear you (unless you come up with cash).
As I've said before, they are cheap given the influence that you can buy. It costs just a few hundred thousand dollars to turn a congressman into your own remote-controlled robot that'll say and do what you want. The CEA needs to figure that out.
I get calls from surveys all the time, and I sometimes participate if I have a few minutes. All of them have been legit, and legitimate surveyors *are* allowed to call you (along with charities and politicians).
If they call, just demand to be placed on their do not call list, simple as that.
The real problem that I'm having is telemarketers who shamelessly break the law and use caller id blocking and such. And I noticed that the FTC didn't go after any of them.
Actually, I'm let down by this action, as most of the companies that they went after this time called people after those people had filled out a contact form including a phone number. What am I missing? I didn't even know that was illegal. Looks like they went after the low-hanging fruit to get a press release.
NC Attorney General Roy Cooper has single-handedly done more than the FTC. Google him if you don't believe me.
Isn't that supposed to be "seing"?
[duck/run]
No, this problem exists in all browsers that I have tried (IE 6, IE 7, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Konqueror). It's not a browser issue.
I have been unable to use Google maps for months now on Comcast. I have called them, but, you can guess how that went. Yahoo maps and Mapquest work fine, but on Google I get about half the tiles filled in before it stops. And I mean it stops. It ends up looking like a checkerboard. Occassionally it will finish a couple of minutes later, but typically it never does.
Getting Comcast to fix it seems unlikely.
This problem has been going on since long before 9/11 - it's unrelated. Radley Balko has been doing the bulk of the work in exposing it, but it's more than one man can do.
In fall of 1999, I was working on "patsgold.com". They were getting some orders, and I noticed that there were a lot of repeat customers. I came up with the idea to allow people to set up their account such that items added to their cart would automatically be submitted as an order an hour or two after the last item was dropped into the cart. That way, they would have time to go back and remove something that they didn't want, and at the same time, it would be unlikely that it would create multiple orders where only one would do.
It was one-click shopping.
Right before I started implementation, a story came out about Amazon's new patent for one-click shopping. At the time, I had never even looked at amazon.com, I came up with the idea independently of anybody else's implementation. But I was unable to use the idea because Amazon had run down and suckered the USPTO into giving them a patent.
Far from spurring innovation, this patent killed it.
There's no surprise involved. Cockroaches don't like light, and the internet is a great way to shine it on them.
No, if you think it's lame you ignore it and move on. I seem to have picked up a "friend" or two who follow me around and hit troll on about half my postings.
Impressive, jokes are now modded as "troll". Could you folks not figure that one out?
You open source free software kiddies might want to step back and watch some *real* innovation going on! We're calling it FasTcGI" over here in the Windows world. Well, take a look at it, I'm sure you're all hankering to just rip it off and use it with your oh-so-wonderful "apatchY" web server.
Huh? It's, what?
Nevermind....
Dude, we're still trying to get people to read the linked article. Let's not get too crazy.
Is there really someone left in the US who believes that people are unemployed because of production moving overseas? We are at full employment; people aren't starving here, just doing non-manufacturing jobs. It's okay.
I used to, then I listened to Osama bin Laden. We are threatened because we are "infidels". We don't make women wear head coverings, we allow them to drive, be educated, and leave the house without a male relative or husband by their side. We don't torture and kill gays. We have scantily clad women in our movies. We drink alcohol.
That's what the terrorist says. Were you saying something? And should I care what you think, or what Osama bin Laden thinks?
(Since you're likely clueless, here's the clue: I'll believe bin Laden.)
Then you're an idiot. I suppose you believe there are no gays in Iran, also?
I seem to have picked up a friend at some point who marks many of my comments "flamebait". Look through my history for more.
You're one of these two things:
1. A Microsoft shill
2. A complete mouth-breathing idiot
Seriously. There were very few people who fell for this. You read Groklaw, so it should have been obvious that there was something to what everybody was saying.
The only people who really feel hard for this were you, Enderle, Maureen O'Gara, and, of course, the Didiot. Of those three, we know that at least the Didiot's company gets paid for "research" by Microsoft, and she even appeared in a video on their web site, and of course Maureen worked for a pro-Microsoft fake news site. I don't know about Enderle. But the point is that there was money to be made.
So, if you're not a shill, that leaves "idiot". Take your pick, buddy, I'd rather not be either one. But then, I review the facts heavily before taking sides in a case like this.
Moore's 2nd law is that Moore's 1st law is going to come to an end in about 10 years. Always.
It's already been tried.
Unfortunately, it is vastly different in one key aspect: NTP has at least 10 times the cash to throw at this that SCO had. Also, NTP has no other money-losing departments to support, this is it.
As I said back when RIM settled, the only thing worse than a patent troll is a patent troll with $600M in the bank. This is why.
Didn't you get the memo? Goto's are bad. Use a loop structure instead.
Do it up in Ruby and create some Jail class from which you can create jail objects. Okay, I'm going to stop.