The problem is relatively easy to fix, though. All students should know how to do this, and I teach as many how to as I can. Fuck the "monitoring" they do, this isn't China.
Did you to a lawyer about the risks you and the students are taking?
Their parents and guardians?
The ones who will be in no very forgiving mood when their kids miss graduation?
Did you talk to your wife?
Ever hear the phrase "Jail Bait?"
Mucking around with minors and the law is dangerous:
"Twenty-seven year old geek arrested as ringleader in local high school kiddie porn bust."
The school locks down its system to avoid even the remote possibility of being tainted by stories like this.
As long as it isn't covered by a dreaded software patent, you should be fine. Software patents need to die in a fire.
The gamer-geek will be pursuing other game assets which may be independently licensed and legally protected: character designs and props, background art, music and audio effects, story, script, dialog, vocal performance, and so on.
I've heard music composed and performed for the LucasArts adventures used in Disney television animation.
Considering how laptops have become fair game for involuntary search and seizure at US borders, I think putting your 'important stuff' on a microSD card inside a hollow coin is probably a good idea.
It's a brain-dead stupid idea.
The border guard has a gallows sense of humor.
If some mischance, your Johnson Smith spy tech toy is discovered, you had better be prepared for what comes next.
Why do authors often give names to chapters in their books, if they never intend on having chapters published individually?
The chapter head is a teaser and a bookmark.
It urges the reader to continue on. But allows him a much-needed time-out.
Back in the day - and it wasn't so very long ago, really - novel-length stories were often first published in serial installments in newspaper and magazines like the old Saturday Evening Post.
Changing an Amazon Fulfilled Order Before It Ships
Most orders you place on Amazon.com enter the shipping process very quickly so we can get your items to you as soon as possible. Orders already in the shipping process cannot be modified.
You can update your unshipped orders by visiting the Order section in Your Account and then clicking the Change button next to each item you wish to modify (billing address, shipping address, payment method, gift options, etc.).
To edit an order from the Order Summary in Your Account:
1. Click the Your Account link at the top of any Amazon.com page or visit it directly at www.amazon.com/your-account. 2. Visit the Order Summary for the order you wish to change. Note: Orders that have entered the shipping process cannot be modified. 3. Follow the on-screen instructions to update the desired information.Reviewing and Changing Orders
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I was searching for Tom Clancy's HAWX on Amazon and scrolled down to the used section to check prices but misclicked and hit one click order. Now I can't cancel it because it won't show up in recent orders. What do I do now?
I'm a big fan of free broadband WiFi provided by neighborhood associations, local business alliances, charities, etc, etc, etc - but not by an overgrown mafia organization with a monopoly on violent force!
The geek out-of-doors is truly a babe in the woods.
The neighborhood association can be far tougher and more relentless in its demands for conformity than any governmental agency you are ever likely to encounter.
The real Mafias of this world begin with control of the street.
They see themselves - and want to be seen by others - as an extended family or clan. More Russian than Russia. That gives them legitimacy and power a gun cannot buy.
It's not that Windows shouldn't exist its just that overall it is unhealthy for the market to have such a dominant player. Great for making money but not great for following what customers actually want instead of given.
The economies of scale in building for the dominant x86 Windows platform are enormous.
It's quite impossible to think of a useful configuration - from the MIL-STD laptop for the Outback to the Extreme Gamer's Special - that isn't readily available off-the-shelf, at something close to a mass-market price.
Windows is a commercial OS with solidly middle class roots.
There is room here for both Corel Draw and Inkscape. Scribus and Serif and MS Publisher. I don't think the geek will ever quite grasp what a relief it can be to tune out the over-heated rhetoric of free and open source.
I'll be happy to take care of any of your clients that are foolish enough to want their websites to look and function similarly across all major browsers. Viva la revolucion!
and what of the client who wants to differentiate his site by offering tech that has emerged and evolved outside the standards, like Flash?
the wheels of the gods grind slowly.
there is nothing to stop some new or unexpected entrant - from unleashing the next must-have plug-in.
the plug-in that is well on its way to 98% penetration of the market before the standards committee can nail down proposals that first saw the light of day over five to ten years ago.
Let's not kid ourselves. Apple isn't trying to pull people away from Flash because they're big-hearted. They're pulling people away from Flash because they want to be the gateway to Internet content, via the sweet deal with MPEG LA (who owns the H.264 patent) that will keep other players--especially open source software--out of the market.
"Following is a list of licensors of patents included in the AVC Patent Portfolio License:"
Apple.
Followed by - in alphabetical order - about twenty or so of the biggest names in tech.
Fujitsu. Hitachi. Microsoft. Mitsubishi. NTT. Panasonic. Philips. Samsung. Siemens. Sony. Toshiba. You get the idea. AVC/H.264 Licensors
There are 768 corporate licensees for H.264. Heavyweights, damn near all of them.
The US Constitution [1789] establised the operational limits and structure of the federal government. The framers were dead against trying to make policy decisions and legislation for future generations:
The Congress shall have Power...] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
This is all the Constitution has to say about intellectual property rights.
A simple demo game written on a Fedora system runs perfectly on Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, Mint, Arch, and a few dozen others, but nobody paid for a press conference.
Yeah, well, that's part of the problem, isn't it?
It's only a slight exaggeration to suggest that the Linux distros that have money, visibility and marketing muscle don't do gaming - or don't do gaming particularly well. PulseAudio fixes and workarounds
If I buy a bible, I don't own the original Lindisfarne Gospels Yes, actually you do. At least where I live they are public domain. You might not own the particular translation or interpretation of said gospels but you do own the core concepts.
However, if you try leaving the British Library with the eighth century manuscript in your cart, you are going to meet with some resistance.
Neither will it be trivially easy to get permission to read or scan the Gospels.
Public domain does not translate into unconditional access to or possession of primary sources.
but...maybe...Nesson's got a better case on appeal...and maybe the judgments and punishments will be used to support his central argument that the punishment is out of proportion to the damages for a civil case.
and maybe the appellate court judges will be thinking about the miseries inflicted on one of their own. the cavalier attitude the defendant displayed in court.
statutory damages exist precisely because some folks think they are above the law. it wouldn't be the first time the geek has been tripped up by his own arrogance.
DRM doesn't expire with a copyright, meaning that once a protected work falls into the public domain, people won't be able to use the work according to their rights under copyright law.
The expiration of copyright has never guaranteed you access or rights to the use of primary sources.
Manuscripts. Master disks or prints.
Owner and their heirs can keep these in vaults for all eternity if they choose.
Which is where the million-dollar first editions of Batman and Superman are headed.
The expiration of copyright has never meant that restoration and re-distribution would be cheap or easy.
"Steamboat Willie," for example, was released on unstable nitrate stock with synchronized sound on a phonograph record.
The VitaPhone system of that era used 16" disks recorded at 33 1/3 RPM, with the player mechanically linked to the projector.
Material of that sort can't be crowd-sourced. You need a lab, you need technicians. You need the Eastman House, MoMA or the Library of Congress.
Services is strategically a Microsoft shop and when talking to staff / customers we are to support this strategy. I no longer want to see comments promoting other Operating Systems.'
The last thing the boss wants to hear is that you have been lobbying staff and clients to push your own agenda - whatever that may be.
You talk to him. You work through channels - or you keep your big mouth shut.
if you don't like the default Ubuntu which is in your words for "drooling idiots," you are more than free to use one of the 400 Linux distros, one of the ~10 top DEs or the thousands of themes out there.
Collectively, those 400 Linux distros haven't been able to gain a solid hold on 1% of the global desktop
It is not realistic to ask anyone to test drive 400 distros, 10 DEs and 15,000 themes.
Unbuntu is one of a bare handful of distros that has visibility - brand-name product on the shelves - in the home and SOHO markets.
That translates - or should translate - into audio, video and wireless support that is fully competitive with OSX or Windows, a definable market for Linux PC gaming.
Meaningful incentives to port other consumer-oriented apps and services.
Slashdot Mirror
The problem is relatively easy to fix, though. All students should know how to do this, and I teach as many how to as I can. Fuck the "monitoring" they do, this isn't China.
Did you to a lawyer about the risks you and the students are taking?
Their parents and guardians?
The ones who will be in no very forgiving mood when their kids miss graduation?
Did you talk to your wife?
Ever hear the phrase "Jail Bait?"
Mucking around with minors and the law is dangerous:
"Twenty-seven year old geek arrested as ringleader in local high school kiddie porn bust."
The school locks down its system to avoid even the remote possibility of being tainted by stories like this.
As long as it isn't covered by a dreaded software patent, you should be fine. Software patents need to die in a fire.
The gamer-geek will be pursuing other game assets which may be independently licensed and legally protected: character designs and props, background art, music and audio effects, story, script, dialog, vocal performance, and so on.
I've heard music composed and performed for the LucasArts adventures used in Disney television animation.
Considering how laptops have become fair game for involuntary search and seizure at US borders, I think putting your 'important stuff' on a microSD card inside a hollow coin is probably a good idea.
It's a brain-dead stupid idea.
The border guard has a gallows sense of humor.
If some mischance, your Johnson Smith spy tech toy is discovered, you had better be prepared for what comes next.
Why do authors often give names to chapters in their books, if they never intend on having chapters published individually?
The chapter head is a teaser and a bookmark.
It urges the reader to continue on. But allows him a much-needed time-out.
Back in the day - and it wasn't so very long ago, really - novel-length stories were often first published in serial installments in newspaper and magazines like the old Saturday Evening Post.
From the Amazon.site:
Changing an Amazon Fulfilled Order Before It Ships
Most orders you place on Amazon.com enter the shipping process very quickly so we can get your items to you as soon as possible. Orders already in the shipping process cannot be modified.
You can update your unshipped orders by visiting the Order section in Your Account and then clicking the Change button next to each item you wish to modify (billing address, shipping address, payment method, gift options, etc.).
To edit an order from the Order Summary in Your Account:
1. Click the Your Account link at the top of any Amazon.com page or visit it directly at www.amazon.com/your-account.
2. Visit the Order Summary for the order you wish to change. Note: Orders that have entered the shipping process cannot be modified.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions to update the desired information. Reviewing and Changing Orders
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I was searching for Tom Clancy's HAWX on Amazon and scrolled down to the used section to check prices but misclicked and hit one click order. Now I can't cancel it because it won't show up in recent orders. What do I do now?
The payment did not clear yet.
Wait for the payment to clear and it will show up in your recent purchases where you can cancel the order. I accidentally selected "one click order" on Amazon and now can't cancel? [Yahoo Answers]
I'm a big fan of free broadband WiFi provided by neighborhood associations, local business alliances, charities, etc, etc, etc - but not by an overgrown mafia organization with a monopoly on violent force!
The geek out-of-doors is truly a babe in the woods.
The neighborhood association can be far tougher and more relentless in its demands for conformity than any governmental agency you are ever likely to encounter.
The real Mafias of this world begin with control of the street.
They see themselves - and want to be seen by others - as an extended family or clan. More Russian than Russia. That gives them legitimacy and power a gun cannot buy.
It's not that Windows shouldn't exist its just that overall it is unhealthy for the market to have such a dominant player. Great for making money but not great for following what customers actually want instead of given.
The economies of scale in building for the dominant x86 Windows platform are enormous.
Walmart.com offers the Win 7 PC in about 150 flavors priced from $300-$1000. Toshiba 16" Satellite A505-S6040 Laptop PC with Intel Core i7-720QM Processor & Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium
It's quite impossible to think of a useful configuration - from the MIL-STD laptop for the Outback to the Extreme Gamer's Special - that isn't readily available off-the-shelf, at something close to a mass-market price.
Windows is a commercial OS with solidly middle class roots.
There is room here for both Corel Draw and Inkscape. Scribus and Serif and MS Publisher. I don't think the geek will ever quite grasp what a relief it can be to tune out the over-heated rhetoric of free and open source.
I'll be happy to take care of any of your clients that are foolish enough to want their websites to look and function similarly across all major browsers. Viva la revolucion!
and what of the client who wants to differentiate his site by offering tech that has emerged and evolved outside the standards, like Flash?
the wheels of the gods grind slowly.
there is nothing to stop some new or unexpected entrant - from unleashing the next must-have plug-in.
the plug-in that is well on its way to 98% penetration of the market before the standards committee can nail down proposals that first saw the light of day over five to ten years ago.
Download.com has it all. Programs of every description.
Open Source. Closed Source. Free Ware. Trialware. Inkscape is there.
It's a painless way to survey pretty much everything worthwhile that is out there - and infinitely more accessible than SourceForge.
File Hippo has much narrower, utilitarian focus, but the essential apps are there. File Hippo's update checker is quick and reliable.
Let's not kid ourselves. Apple isn't trying to pull people away from Flash because they're big-hearted. They're pulling people away from Flash because they want to be the gateway to Internet content, via the sweet deal with MPEG LA (who owns the H.264 patent) that will keep other players--especially open source software--out of the market.
"Following is a list of licensors of patents included in the AVC Patent Portfolio License:"
Apple.
Followed by - in alphabetical order - about twenty or so of the biggest names in tech.
Fujitsu. Hitachi. Microsoft. Mitsubishi. NTT. Panasonic. Philips. Samsung. Siemens. Sony. Toshiba. You get the idea. AVC/H.264 Licensors
There are 768 corporate licensees for H.264. Heavyweights, damn near all of them.
AVC/H.264 Licensees
Canonical is on board. Japan is on board. China is on board. 3M. HBO. Honeywell. Lockheed Martin. Nikon. Nintendo....
Considering that it originated from the US and the US Constitution is quite specific on what "copyright type" things are ment to do.
The Statute of Anne was adopted in 1709.
The US Constitution [1789] establised the operational limits and structure of the federal government. The framers were dead against trying to make policy decisions and legislation for future generations:
The Congress shall have Power...] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
This is all the Constitution has to say about intellectual property rights.
A simple demo game written on a Fedora system runs perfectly on Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, Mint, Arch, and a few dozen others, but nobody paid for a press conference.
Yeah, well, that's part of the problem, isn't it?
It's only a slight exaggeration to suggest that the Linux distros that have money, visibility and marketing muscle don't do gaming - or don't do gaming particularly well. PulseAudio fixes and workarounds
The problem I see with content creators using this new canvas is that it subtracts from the freedom of the reader's imagination.
Generations of readers have found value in Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, and hundreds of other greater and lessor known illustrators.
Illustration enriches and enlarges your own visual imagination, your intellectual vocabulary, if you will.
If I buy a bible, I don't own the original Lindisfarne Gospels
Yes, actually you do. At least where I live they are public domain. You might not own the particular translation or interpretation of said gospels but you do own the core concepts.
However, if you try leaving the British Library with the eighth century manuscript in your cart, you are going to meet with some resistance.
Neither will it be trivially easy to get permission to read or scan the Gospels.
Public domain does not translate into unconditional access to or possession of primary sources.
This is a dictatorship with deep financial troubles. The reasons they give for seizing valuable equipment don't bear deep inspection.
Venezuela wrote forgave Haiti $295 million in oil-related debt. South America leaders hold Haiti aid summit
It's unlikely that Chavez has forgotten or forgiven Mercenaries 2. Video game simulating invasion of Venezuela raises ire of Chavez allies
There have been other irritants in the Tom Clancy lie: Venezuela [As a Video Game Setting]
but...maybe...Nesson's got a better case on appeal...and maybe the judgments and punishments will be used to support his central argument that the punishment is out of proportion to the damages for a civil case.
and maybe the appellate court judges will be thinking about the miseries inflicted on one of their own. the cavalier attitude the defendant displayed in court.
statutory damages exist precisely because some folks think they are above the law. it wouldn't be the first time the geek has been tripped up by his own arrogance.
DRM doesn't expire with a copyright, meaning that once a protected work falls into the public domain, people won't be able to use the work according to their rights under copyright law.
The expiration of copyright has never guaranteed you access or rights to the use of primary sources.
Manuscripts. Master disks or prints.
Owner and their heirs can keep these in vaults for all eternity if they choose.
Which is where the million-dollar first editions of Batman and Superman are headed.
The expiration of copyright has never meant that restoration and re-distribution would be cheap or easy.
"Steamboat Willie," for example, was released on unstable nitrate stock with synchronized sound on a phonograph record.
The VitaPhone system of that era used 16" disks recorded at 33 1/3 RPM, with the player mechanically linked to the projector.
Material of that sort can't be crowd-sourced. You need a lab, you need technicians. You need the Eastman House, MoMA or the Library of Congress.
Nesson must have been paid handsomely by the RIAA to throw the case and set a precedent favorable to the RIAA.
When you are shopping for a trial attorney do you chose:
A. The State U graduate who has spent a lifetime in the trenches.
Or
B. The Harvard Prof who hasn't seen action in fifteen years and arrives with the FSF and a German Om-Pa-Pa band in tow.
However, it always indicates that java needs updating when it does not which I know because I check.
Do you check for older JAVA installations that may still be resident on your system?
We can manage all those patches for them!
Secunia PSI is free and has about 2.3 million users.
But by Secunia's own estimates, most users would score a respectable 85% or so without their update scanner.
Services is strategically a Microsoft shop and when talking to staff / customers we are to support this strategy. I no longer want to see comments promoting other Operating Systems.'
The last thing the boss wants to hear is that you have been lobbying staff and clients to push your own agenda - whatever that may be.
You talk to him. You work through channels - or you keep your big mouth shut.
Regardless of operating system, the defaults last just long enough for me to figure out how to change them to what I like.
In the work place, not everyone gets to change the defaults.
They were drawn by Shuttleworth's secretary in GIMP.
You laugh - but asking a user to design icons and controls would be a step in the right direction.
if you don't like the default Ubuntu which is in your words for "drooling idiots," you are more than free to use one of the 400 Linux distros, one of the ~10 top DEs or the thousands of themes out there.
Collectively, those 400 Linux distros haven't been able to gain a solid hold on 1% of the global desktop
It is not realistic to ask anyone to test drive 400 distros, 10 DEs and 15,000 themes.
Unbuntu is one of a bare handful of distros that has visibility - brand-name product on the shelves - in the home and SOHO markets.
That translates - or should translate - into audio, video and wireless support that is fully competitive with OSX or Windows, a definable market for Linux PC gaming.
Meaningful incentives to port other consumer-oriented apps and services.
Top Operating System Share Trend
Shocked at that statement. I have three environments, KDE, Gnome, and Windows.
You do realize how exceptional that makes you?
OSX and Windows own 99% of the desktop because they are shaped by the needs values of the 99.9% of users who are not geeks.