One has to wonder, will 'Monkey' Ballmer and his gang of miscreants reply to this.
Why should they bother?
Firefox gets a single two page B/W spread in the Times. Big whoop.
Windows XP has been featured in holiday adds and thick four-color supplements distributed nationwide since October, paid for by Dell, Wal-Mart and counteless others. If holiday sales are good, Microsoft will see another fifteen million, seventeen million, systems added to XP's installed base by Christmas.
Firefox doesn't rate a mention from our local custom builder, the one who can scrape together enough money to place a seasonal add in the throwaway shopping papers.
I have said this before, but I think it bears repeating: an advocacy add in the Times is a form of vanity press publishing. You are preaching to the choir while the congregation is out shopping.
I doubt the manual method of navigation has been tested for a good few years now
Sailors, meaning those who spend their working lives at sea, are by nature conservative. They haven't forgotten how to use a compass, a clock, a ship's log, a sextant. There are legacy systems like Loran still in service. The ones who will get in trouble are the small boaters who only know GPS.
"Contributory neligence" may limit your recovery in a ordinary civil suit for damages. It has nothing whatever to do with criminal responsibility. The thief and only the thief goes to jail.
My concern with open source applications under Windows is the quality. From what I've seen, the open source applications were ported..I can imagine Windows users saying, "If this is open source, I don't see what the big deal is."
I don't care think about how many times I've trolled Sourceforge looking for something new and interesting, only to find I had a native Windows app that did the job better and was more attractive and easier to use. Pay-as-you-go or Free-as-in-beer is fine by me.
Why should OSS care about market share? As long as it has enough critical mass to attract a talented and vibrant development community, I can't think of a single reason.
Money. Sun invested at lot in Star Office. The Moz Foundation began with $2 million from AOL.
But most open source projects limp along on budgets that wouldn't keep an undergrad alive on a diet of Ramen Noodles and Jolt Cola. Daddy Warbucks wants to see a significant return on his investment, even (or more likely, especially) when it is a charitable gift, and market share is something he understands.
I'd say that downloading and viewing paedophilic pictures is rather different to actually abusing a child. It would take a certain leap to jump from images on a screen to real life.
You have already made a dangerous disconnect from the reality that the children in the pictures are real and abused. To put it even more plainly, you have come to accept the abuse that provides your sexual gratification.
If after viewing 1,000, 10,000, 50,000, hard-core images you can no longer feel or imagine a child's pain and suffering, what have you become and what are you likely to do?
Would a court tell a convicted forger that he was prohibited from using pen and paper?
Probably not, but under the terms of his release, a forger might be placed under restrictions to avoid temptation. He isn't to handle commercial paper or process legal documents.
It's not meant to be practical. It's put in place so that if you're caught again doing something illegal on the Internet they can nail you on breaking the ban and give you a heavier sentence.
It also means you can be hauled back into the slammer to serve out your full time on the first offense.
My point is that, when you're given a speeding ticket, it's given with the understanding that you've JUST BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF SPEEDING, else you wouldn't have gotten the ticket in the first place.
What the cop has is "probable cause" that a crime has been committed.
In accepting the appearance ticket, the driver agrees to pay the fine or present his defense in court, waiving his rights to any preliminary hearing, but avoiding a formal arrest and a trip to the pokey.
Under American law, the "presumption of innocence" means the burden of proof is on the prosecution when and if your case goes to trial, an arrest requires only "probable cause."
While in custody you have the right to humane treatment, the right to remain silent and the right to contact a lawyer, a family member, or the like for help. But that is pretty much the limit.
I don't think it has ever been engraved in stone that you have an absolute right to use a telephone, no matter what the charge against you. There are other, perhaps more trustworthy, means of communication.
I suspect the police would be allowed some discretion here.
I see new releases, A-list titles in wide-screen format, selling at my suburban corner drugstore for $25, boxed sets discounted to $40, Blade Runner, the director's cut, in the bargain bin, at $8. Tell me why I should care about Region X pricing.
the BitTorrent trackers will just migrate to places like Russia and China, where there are no intellectual property laws to speak of
The intellectual property law of China is modeled on that of it's major trading partners, including the United States, which should surprise no one. Laws and Regulations Does it ever occur to anyone on Slashdot that China might want to protect the market for it's own cultural exports?
Business models that rely on the sale of information are doomed...they essentially rake in mountains of cash for doing nothing except copying digital media, which is now practically free
Distribution is not production. Production is not free. The Lord of the Rings trilogy cost $273 million. You could, of course, settle for The Mousetrap, as it is staged and performed in high school.
BitTorrent downloads, all forms of digital media, are "free" only if you have a middle-class income or higher or your media fix is being subsidized by the Bank of Mom & Dad. Media-capable PCs cost money, Broadband costs money. Surcharges for Gigabyte downloads costs money. The theatrical experience in the home costs money.
"The point which Raedts did not consider enough is that many landless farm-laborers in those times actually were very young (age 7 to 14). In the rural society of the 13th century children left the house of their parents very early, usually when they were able to work (at about age 7). This is particularly true for poor families...Therefore, the evidence that poor farm-workers of both sexes made up a big part of the so-called "Children's Crusade'' does not disprove the notion that the movement included a noticeable, even prevalent, group of very young people (under age 14)...We have similar problems concerning many other, sometimes mysterious, migrations under the probable participation of children in the Middle Ages, for instance the crusades of the pastors in France in 1251 and 1320."
Bias and innaccuracy reflected clearly in arguments on the talk page still beat bias on behalf of a corporation, because it is clearly visible to anyone with interest.
This assumes the talk page attracts readers with greater knowledge and detachment. The self-selected contributors to a Wiki form a corporation of their own and there is no reason to assume they are free of institutional biases.
Some pages may be victims of controversy, but the vast majority presend the most coherent and well balanced information available on the Internet.
Whenever I read a sweeping generalization like this, my first instinct is to demand proof.
If Links draws users into the Help systen and adds a welcome touch of color and animation on the desktop then she has done her job and done it well. The only ones still cracking jokes about Clippy are Geeks.
And often times new editions come out long after the death of the author with bullshit editorial changes in order to claim a new copyright
You can't casually dismiss the modern editions of classic texts published by Penquin Books, The Library of America, etc., which are a pleasure to read and more respectful to their sources than the 19th century editions typical of Project Gutenberg.
Not as faulty as letting a convicted monopoly persist.
In the real world civil suits usually end in settlements that leave both parties more or less where they began. There is compensation for damages, but life goes on.
It is a waste of time to dwell upon an argument that fundamentally leads nowhere.
in their corporate world (that is the opposite of real life)
The corporate world is real life to those who must live within it. If you approach your clients as the arrrogant outsider who thinks he has all the right answers, you are going to meet resistance.
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FACT: websites with free content that force readers to surrender their details end up collecting garbage information, and also annoy said readers who end up reading some other website with similar content.
The NYT has my real e-mail address and in return I find real NYT news content in my in-box each morning, something I want and need. I suspect that is true of most of those who register.
The tinfoil hat market being what it is this days, I doubt the Times worries much about the Slashdot demographic.
What's obviously missing is not having to register at nytimes! Come on guys, how hard of a concept is that?
I have no objection to registration at a newspaper that I began reading when I was ten years old and costs $5+ locally for the Sunday edition, when you can find it.
So wait...what exactly is the legal definition of blind here?
Blind persons whose visual acuity, as determined by competent authority, is 20/200 or less in the better eye with correcting lenses, or whose widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees. That All May Read
Other physically handicapped persons are eligible as follows:
Persons whose visual disability, with correction and regardless of optical measurement, is certified by competent authority as preventing the reading of standard printed material
Persons certified by competent authority as unable to read or unable to use standard printed material as a result of physical limitations.
Persons certified by competent authority as having a reading disability resulting from organic dysfunction and of sufficient severity to prevent their reading printed material in a normal manner.
______
Distribution of audio books and players to the blind began in 1934. Players were custom-made wind-up phonographs and radio-phonographs, books were recorded at 33 1/3 RPM. Distribution has never been in a consumer-audio format. The last flexible-disk audio books were recorded at 8 1/3 RPM.
It's a pretty safe bet that when your alternative energy project goes on line oil will be cheap enough to bankrupt you. OPEC has never been able to maintain a stable price.
Hydro power sites have been exhausted, much of the desert wild lost in the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam has been restored by the drought.
XP's installed base grows by the millions each month, not by ten million a month, surely, but not so very far behind that number, either. XP has by one estimate 60% of the world market, among your friends and family, I would suspect that percentage to be much, much higher. Internet Explorer is a moving target and you have to run very fast just to keep from falling further behind.
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Why should they bother?
Firefox gets a single two page B/W spread in the Times. Big whoop.
Windows XP has been featured in holiday adds and thick four-color supplements distributed nationwide since October, paid for by Dell, Wal-Mart and counteless others. If holiday sales are good, Microsoft will see another fifteen million, seventeen million, systems added to XP's installed base by Christmas.
Firefox doesn't rate a mention from our local custom builder, the one who can scrape together enough money to place a seasonal add in the throwaway shopping papers.
I have said this before, but I think it bears repeating: an advocacy add in the Times is a form of vanity press publishing. You are preaching to the choir while the congregation is out shopping.
Sailors, meaning those who spend their working lives at sea, are by nature conservative. They haven't forgotten how to use a compass, a clock, a ship's log, a sextant. There are legacy systems like Loran still in service.
The ones who will get in trouble are the small boaters who only know GPS.
"Contributory neligence" may limit your recovery in a ordinary civil suit for damages. It has nothing whatever to do with criminal responsibility. The thief and only the thief goes to jail.
Not at the level where Quickbook lives.
I don't care think about how many times I've trolled Sourceforge looking for something new and interesting, only to find I had a native Windows app that did the job better and was more attractive and easier to use.
Pay-as-you-go or Free-as-in-beer is fine by me.
Money. Sun invested at lot in Star Office. The Moz Foundation began with $2 million from AOL.
But most open source projects limp along on budgets that wouldn't keep an undergrad alive on a diet of Ramen Noodles and Jolt Cola. Daddy Warbucks wants to see a significant return on his investment, even (or more likely, especially) when it is a charitable gift, and market share is something he understands.
You have already made a dangerous disconnect from the reality that the children in the pictures are real and abused. To put it even more plainly, you have come to accept the abuse that provides your sexual gratification.
If after viewing 1,000, 10,000, 50,000, hard-core images you can no longer feel or imagine a child's pain and suffering, what have you become and what are you likely to do?
Probably not, but under the terms of his release, a forger might be placed under restrictions to avoid temptation. He isn't to handle commercial paper or process legal documents.
It also means you can be hauled back into the slammer to serve out your full time on the first offense.
What the cop has is "probable cause" that a crime has been committed.
In accepting the appearance ticket, the driver agrees to pay the fine or present his defense in court, waiving his rights to any preliminary hearing, but avoiding a formal arrest and a trip to the pokey.
While in custody you have the right to humane treatment, the right to remain silent and the right to contact a lawyer, a family member, or the like for help. But that is pretty much the limit.
I don't think it has ever been engraved in stone that you have an absolute right to use a telephone, no matter what the charge against you. There are other, perhaps more trustworthy, means of communication.
I suspect the police would be allowed some discretion here.
I see new releases, A-list titles in wide-screen format, selling at my suburban corner drugstore for $25, boxed sets discounted to $40, Blade Runner, the director's cut, in the bargain bin, at $8. Tell me why I should care about Region X pricing.
In business, the word customers is usually associated with the word paying.
The intellectual property law of China is modeled on that of it's major trading partners, including the United States, which should surprise no one. Laws and Regulations Does it ever occur to anyone on Slashdot that China might want to protect the market for it's own cultural exports?
Business models that rely on the sale of information are doomed...they essentially rake in mountains of cash for doing nothing except copying digital media, which is now practically free
Distribution is not production. Production is not free. The Lord of the Rings trilogy cost $273 million. You could, of course, settle for The Mousetrap, as it is staged and performed in high school.
BitTorrent downloads, all forms of digital media, are "free" only if you have a middle-class income or higher or your media fix is being subsidized by the Bank of Mom & Dad. Media-capable PCs cost money, Broadband costs money. Surcharges for Gigabyte downloads costs money. The theatrical experience in the home costs money.
Did The Children's Crusade Of 1212 Really Consist Of Children? Problems Of Writing Childhood History (The Digital Archive of Psychohistory)
This assumes the talk page attracts readers with greater knowledge and detachment. The self-selected contributors to a Wiki form a corporation of their own and there is no reason to assume they are free of institutional biases.
Some pages may be victims of controversy, but the vast majority presend the most coherent and well balanced information available on the Internet.
Whenever I read a sweeping generalization like this, my first instinct is to demand proof.
If Links draws users into the Help systen and adds a welcome touch of color and animation on the desktop then she has done her job and done it well. The only ones still cracking jokes about Clippy are Geeks.
You can't casually dismiss the modern editions of classic texts published by Penquin Books, The Library of America, etc., which are a pleasure to read and more respectful to their sources than the 19th century editions typical of Project Gutenberg.
In the real world civil suits usually end in settlements that leave both parties more or less where they began. There is compensation for damages, but life goes on.
It is a waste of time to dwell upon an argument that fundamentally leads nowhere.
The corporate world is real life to those who must live within it. If you approach your clients as the arrrogant outsider who thinks he has all the right answers, you are going to meet resistance.
The NYT has my real e-mail address and in return I find real NYT news content in my in-box each morning, something I want and need. I suspect that is true of most of those who register.
The tinfoil hat market being what it is this days, I doubt the Times worries much about the Slashdot demographic.
I have no objection to registration at a newspaper that I began reading when I was ten years old and costs $5+ locally for the Sunday edition, when you can find it.
Blind persons whose visual acuity, as determined by competent authority, is 20/200 or less in the better eye with correcting lenses, or whose widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees.
That All May Read
Other physically handicapped persons are eligible as follows:
Persons whose visual disability, with correction and regardless of optical measurement, is certified by competent authority as preventing the reading of standard printed material
Persons certified by competent authority as unable to read or unable to use standard printed material as a result of physical limitations.
Persons certified by competent authority as having a reading disability resulting from organic dysfunction and of sufficient severity to prevent their reading printed material in a normal manner.
______
Distribution of audio books and players to the blind began in 1934.
Players were custom-made wind-up phonographs and radio-phonographs, books were recorded at 33 1/3 RPM. Distribution has never been in a consumer-audio format. The last flexible-disk audio books were recorded at 8 1/3 RPM.
It's a pretty safe bet that when your alternative energy project goes on line oil will be cheap enough to bankrupt you. OPEC has never been able to maintain a stable price. Hydro power sites have been exhausted, much of the desert wild lost in the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam has been restored by the drought.
XP's installed base grows by the millions each month, not by ten million a month, surely, but not so very far behind that number, either. XP has by one estimate 60% of the world market, among your friends and family, I would suspect that percentage to be much, much higher. Internet Explorer is a moving target and you have to run very fast just to keep from falling further behind.