The laptop will carry Esperanto teaching utilities
Tell me how Esperanto, insignificant in world trade and commerce, the arts and sciences, gives third-world kids a leg-up in a world where English is the first or second language of two billion people.
Six years is a long time. I read about real criminals--wife beaters, sex offenders, recidivist criminals who have committed multiple crimes--getting comparable time. Don't get me wrong, this guy is a criminal but six years for a nonviolent crime? That seems like a zealous prosecutor who knew this would get a lot of press.
In the American federal system, almost all violent crimes are prosecuted in the state courts and only the the most far-reaching of economic crimes in the federal courts.
Federal jurisdiction in kidnapping, murder, etc., scarcely existed before Prohibition.
Poters here seem offended whenever the white-collar criminal gets more than his wrists slapped.
But it's the violent offender entering the federal system who does the hard time.
Where business goes, the home will follow. If we can push GNU/Linux to the corporate desktop, conquering the home desktop will be easy.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. This is 2006 not 1980. The PC in the home is overwealmingly media and game oriented, on-line community oriented. mySpace. YouTube. WOW.
Fully half of Apple's revenues can be traced back to iTunes and the iPod.
If more businesses started using GNU/Linux for office workstations it would drive people to start using it at home as well.
Firefox and OpenOffice.org had appriximately zero visibility before being ported to Windows.
Why should anyone bother to switch to Linux when every significant F/OSS office application is ported to Windows or begins as a native Windows app?
the media conglomerates have no influence (and in fact negative influence!) when it comes to the corporate desktop
The locked-down corporate desktrop is precisely why users seek alternatives at home. Linux risks gaining a reputation as the authoritarian, top-down, my way or the highway, OS on earth.
Dell's Back-To-School Special was an XP Home system with a one-year warranty, Word Perfect, a printer and a monitor. $279. Home users aren't systen builders in the numbers which matter. OEM Windows is for all practical purposes free in this market. Talk of the "Microsoft Tax" wins you nothing but blank stares. Vista isn't likely to change things much, since it will be seen in the context of an upgrade to a "true" multimedia PC or high end gaming system. .
Sooner or later, someone is going to start bombing these companies
most of us can deal with a civil suit without going postal. you set up a payment schedule and accept the settlement as you would any other unexpected expense. life goes on. no bombings. no headlnes.
I should say the courts shouldn't be in the business of punishing "could have"s
In civil law decisions are based simply on the weight of the evidence, on what seems reasonably plausible and not what is dead certain.
The biggest mistake a defendant can make in a civil cae ts to build his case on a house of cards. To pile contingency upon contingency until the judge and jury are ready to rebel.
Otherwise you end up with a situation like this, where people are punished very severely for crimes that are so trivial that the authorities do not usually bother to investigate them.
The crime here is destruction of evidence and possible perjury: erase the files and lie about it to the judge. This takes you out of the realm of civil law and into the realm of criminal law in a very big way.
If they were to be fair, I think they should charge with $1 for each Mp3, since that's what it would cost her to buy them through iTunes (or maybe $2, or $10, since she could make copies, but nothing near $150,000), and the costs of the trial.
Would you care to apply your rule to the uploader who is feeding unlicensed content to the tens of millions of potential downloaders using BT and the P2P nets?
The amount to be calculated based on some judge-made rule or statutory formula.
The typical RIAA settlement runs about $3500. Probably not far distant form your own "reasonable" assessment $2 to $10 a file.
It would have been so much easier had her computer simply been "stolen".
Did your report the theft? File an isurance claims? Have you been seen, perhaps photographed, using that "stolen" PC. IMs, MySpace, Skype? Foling a false report to the police is worth at least a misdeameanor, perjury is a felony charge. Compounding stupidity with reckleesness makes sense only only on Slashdot.
Seriously, are we THAT dependent? I mean, no offense, but I dont feel a need to have a remote control to wipe my ass.
We grow older. In time even the simplest of things become more difficult. The paperless, self-cleaning, toilet begins to look pretty good when the alternative is "assisted living" or nursing home care.
If it can be demonstrated that the current law is HAMPERING the progress of science, would that not make overreaching patent law unconstitutional?
The federal courts only accept cases which can be framed within the very narrow confines of an ordinary legal action. They do not hold open-ended legislative hearings and they do not make economic policy.
It is called "Separation of Powers" and it means that the Congress and the Eescutive get to decide the terms and conditions for granting a patent.
I'm glad Microsoft is finally introducing a product in this space, because they're the company I look to for reliable and secure software
MIcosoft is the company consumers will look to for a nicely integrated, on-stop, solution.
Bundle a generous amount of off-line storage into the Windows Live! security package. Sell it for $50 a year with a three-seat license for home use. Profit.
I mean, why would you need to waste bandwidth to pull in and work on files, when you can plug in a USB thumb drive with all your files in, or that spare 20 gig 2.5" drive, or a portable 3.5" drive
"The dog ate my homework." Seriously. You need a backup plan to protect your data from simple stupidity, ordinary household accidents, and disasters like Katrina. Media-rated fire safes are expensive.
Not necessarily, my aunt is on dialup and until recently she'd been patching herself up on SP1 because downloading a 290MB service pack just wasn't feasible
At the risk of sounding redundant:
1 The 300 MB download is for system administrators and others who need the SP in all possible configurations.
2 Windows Update downloads all necessary components in the background. This shouldn't be a problem even over a dial-up connection.
3 Service Packs are available on CD, for a nominal S&H charge.
Sony is still on track to have 4 million PS3s by year end
Sony {has} yet to start PS3 production (august 22). But it still expects to have product in the stores in time for the Christmas shopping season? Which in the states begins with Halloween. October 31st.
You must not have seen this movie in theatres. It was an incredible experience. The entire audience was into it, and this movie will be lost if you do not see it with a good audience.
Last week's TIME described the revival of the Drive-In Theater.
SOaP sounds perfect for the mobile drive-in, Geek-street theater. You'll need a portable DVD player, projector and perhaps a low-power FM transmitter to make this idea work.
---and a touch of common sense about licensing for public performance.
Bill Gates would be serving his fourth year in prison.
The legal sysetm tried hard but garbage trucks full of money trump the internet
Anti-Trust sentiment in the states is notoriously short-lived. Keep Microsoft whole: Gallup poll (May 10, 2000) While capitalist hardball remains the American spectator sport.
There's a great deal of over-estimation of the number and influence levels of 'internet people.' Seriously. If all the net-based hype refelected reality then: Bill Gates would be serving his fourth year in prison. John Kerry would be president. Richard Stallman would be on television. Churches would fold up because of lack of interest. Anime would be everywhere. Star Trek would have its own cable channel. Or two. etc. The net isn't reality. Now Hollywood knows this.
We are ten years past the time when "Internet Person" could be defined by the interests and obsessions of the Geek.
Perhaps you'll care to explain to us... iPod. Biro. Excel. Lotus 123. Apache. Eclipse. Napster. American Express.
American Express. Founded 1850. Wells, Fargo, the Butterfield Stage. Money Orders 1882, Travelers Checks 1891. Travel Agencies 1915. Charge Cards 1958 Do you see a pattern forming here?
It hasn't worked for printers even though everyone is aware that desktop inkjets and laserjets are a rip off. You can pick up a 8-10 year old office laser printer for only about double the price of a new cheapo laser printer
Will that 10 year old laserjet print 20ppm, at a resolution of 600-1200 dpi, ship with !6 MB of RAM, USB and Ethernet, drivers for Windows and Linux, and sell for $230?
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Tell me how Esperanto, insignificant in world trade and commerce, the arts and sciences, gives third-world kids a leg-up in a world where English is the first or second language of two billion people.
In the American federal system, almost all violent crimes are prosecuted in the state courts and only the the most far-reaching of economic crimes in the federal courts.
Federal jurisdiction in kidnapping, murder, etc., scarcely existed before Prohibition.
Poters here seem offended whenever the white-collar criminal gets more than his wrists slapped.
But it's the violent offender entering the federal system who does the hard time.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. This is 2006 not 1980. The PC in the home is overwealmingly media and game oriented, on-line community oriented. mySpace. YouTube. WOW.
Fully half of Apple's revenues can be traced back to iTunes and the iPod.
If more businesses started using GNU/Linux for office workstations it would drive people to start using it at home as well.
Firefox and OpenOffice.org had appriximately zero visibility before being ported to Windows.
Why should anyone bother to switch to Linux when every significant F/OSS office application is ported to Windows or begins as a native Windows app?
the media conglomerates have no influence (and in fact negative influence!) when it comes to the corporate desktop
The locked-down corporate desktrop is precisely why users seek alternatives at home. Linux risks gaining a reputation as the authoritarian, top-down, my way or the highway, OS on earth.
You joke, but to me, a keyboard sounds like a damn good idea.
Dell's Back-To-School Special was an XP Home system with a one-year warranty, Word Perfect, a printer and a monitor. $279. Home users aren't systen builders in the numbers which matter. OEM Windows is for all practical purposes free in this market. Talk of the "Microsoft Tax" wins you nothing but blank stares. Vista isn't likely to change things much, since it will be seen in the context of an upgrade to a "true" multimedia PC or high end gaming system. .
most of us can deal with a civil suit without going postal. you set up a payment schedule and accept the settlement as you would any other unexpected expense. life goes on. no bombings. no headlnes.
No. But if you are trying to persuade a judge that records under subpoena have suddenly gone missing you had better be able to back up your story.
In civil law decisions are based simply on the weight of the evidence, on what seems reasonably plausible and not what is dead certain.
The biggest mistake a defendant can make in a civil cae ts to build his case on a house of cards. To pile contingency upon contingency until the judge and jury are ready to rebel.
The crime here is destruction of evidence and possible perjury: erase the files and lie about it to the judge. This takes you out of the realm of civil law and into the realm of criminal law in a very big way.
Would you care to apply your rule to the uploader who is feeding unlicensed content to the tens of millions of potential downloaders using BT and the P2P nets?
The amount to be calculated based on some judge-made rule or statutory formula.
The typical RIAA settlement runs about $3500. Probably not far distant form your own "reasonable" assessment $2 to $10 a file.
Did your report the theft? File an isurance claims? Have you been seen, perhaps photographed, using that "stolen" PC. IMs, MySpace, Skype? Foling a false report to the police is worth at least a misdeameanor, perjury is a felony charge. Compounding stupidity with reckleesness makes sense only only on Slashdot.
We grow older. In time even the simplest of things become more difficult. The paperless, self-cleaning, toilet begins to look pretty good when the alternative is "assisted living" or nursing home care.
Tell me how a movie producer who licenses/purchases the use of stock footage from the Smithsonian becomes an "untrusted third party."
The federal courts only accept cases which can be framed within the very narrow confines of an ordinary legal action. They do not hold open-ended legislative hearings and they do not make economic policy.
It is called "Separation of Powers" and it means that the Congress and the Eescutive get to decide the terms and conditions for granting a patent.
MIcosoft is the company consumers will look to for a nicely integrated, on-stop, solution.
Bundle a generous amount of off-line storage into the Windows Live! security package. Sell it for $50 a year with a three-seat license for home use. Profit.
"The dog ate my homework." Seriously. You need a backup plan to protect your data from simple stupidity, ordinary household accidents, and disasters like Katrina. Media-rated fire safes are expensive.
At the risk of sounding redundant:
1 The 300 MB download is for system administrators and others who need the SP in all possible configurations.
2 Windows Update downloads all necessary components in the background. This shouldn't be a problem even over a dial-up connection.
3 Service Packs are available on CD, for a nominal S&H charge.
Sony {has} yet to start PS3 production (august 22). But it still expects to have product in the stores in time for the Christmas shopping season? Which in the states begins with Halloween. October 31st.
Last week's TIME described the revival of the Drive-In Theater.
SOaP sounds perfect for the mobile drive-in, Geek-street theater. You'll need a portable DVD player, projector and perhaps a low-power FM transmitter to make this idea work.
---and a touch of common sense about licensing for public performance.
The legal sysetm tried hard but garbage trucks full of money trump the internet
Anti-Trust sentiment in the states is notoriously short-lived. Keep Microsoft whole: Gallup poll (May 10, 2000) While capitalist hardball remains the American spectator sport.
We are ten years past the time when "Internet Person" could be defined by the interests and obsessions of the Geek.
American Express. Founded 1850. Wells, Fargo, the Butterfield Stage. Money Orders 1882, Travelers Checks 1891. Travel Agencies 1915. Charge Cards 1958 Do you see a pattern forming here?
I think it would be more accurate to say that heroin was prescribed for patients with intractable pain that could not be relieved by morphine.
Will that 10 year old laserjet print 20ppm, at a resolution of 600-1200 dpi, ship with !6 MB of RAM, USB and Ethernet, drivers for Windows and Linux, and sell for $230?
Samsung ML-2251N Monochrome Laser Printer
How many tv sets had so much as a composite video input when Beta was in its prime?