If there is something wrong the copyright holder should go after the uploader not the site.
The T&C is a contract between the site and the uploader, so the normal way for the US courts to process this is:
Whiner files suit against the site. The site produces their records showing that the uploader agreed to this stuff. The whiner files a motion to extend the suit to include the uploader; the judge accepts it. The site files a motion of dismissal on the grounds that they've done their part; the claims against the site are dismissed, and the suit continues against the uploader.
Yes, this is very roundabout, inefficient, and involves a lot of extra billable hours for lawyers. Lawyers love that kind of stuff.
...or at least that's how it worked before the DMCA safe harbor provisions came around.
I'm sure I could go into more detail by doing a little research, but in short: GRUB is intended to be more generic than LILO and thus runs on more OSes and platforms. The developers probably got disgusted with dealing with LILO, SILO, PALO, boot0, etc... on different machines.
In theory, Windows could run that long, but there are too many ifs that prevent it: 1. If no drivers crash. 2. If there are no security updates requiring a reboot.
There are probably more, but those two alone prevent that long an uptime.;) Heck #2 alone does!
Of course, in the U.S. there is no parliament, so Google can't be biased based on the left-wing right-wing political scale. Is that clear?
"The term originates from the French Revolution, when liberal deputies from the Third Estate generally sat to the left of the president's chair, a habit which began in the Estates General of 1789." -- Right-wing Politics, Wikipedia.
I'm not saying that Wikipedia is always right, but... "Viewed from the dais, the Senate chamber has the Republicans seated to the left and the Democrats to the right of the center aisle." -- U.S. Capitol Virtual Tour: The Senate Chamber. In other words, from the viewpoint of the desks themselves: Republicans are on the right, Democrats are on the left.
(Side Note: I didn't find any information on how the parties are split in the lower house... er... House of Representatives.)
Trademark Law also has a fair use doctrine, which includes using trademarks nominatively. Otherwise you'd see Coke and Pepsi suing each other whenever one of them put out an ad comparing the two.
When's the last time you saw Coke or Pepsi mention the other by name in a television advertisement?
Actually, didn't we (Congress, actually) say that gambling with coins and paper money is acceptable but gambling using electronic transfers is illegal? It's just as illegal to bet online if the gambling site is located in California as it is if the gambling site is in Italy.
I'll admit, I haven't read the text of the bill, but that was the intent of it.
I hate to say it, but you really need to yell at your college for sticking with VS2003. VS2005 is available from MSDNAA, which is what I assume you meant by "partnered with MS through MSDN."
However, schools choose on an individual basis which software packages are available.
It used to be a lot shorter time between major releases... something like 2-3 years. 95 -> 98 -> ME (2000) -> XP (2001) or NT 3.5 (94) -> NT 4.0 (96) -> 2000 -> XP (2001). That's if you count XP as a major new version, as it was 2000 with a graphical facelift and some feature ideas stolen from ME.
Vista was the exception, namely because MS couldn't get what they wanted to add to work properly, and ended up with something only marginally better (some would even say worse) than we already had.
The typical SysV-style shutdown starts by serially running a number of shutdown scripts, then sending all remaining processes the TERM signal, then KILLing any processes that are still running a few seconds later.
You don't know what processes are going to do when you send them the TERM signal. I know at least one program that doesn't actually terminate, choosing instead to save its files.
Secondly, the better motherboard manufacturers (MSI, Asus, Gigabyte) have included recovery methods for a few years now, either in the form of a dual Flash chips, or a built-in mini-BIOS of sorts, that can read an image from a floppy disk and flash the BIOS, even if you otherwise can't boot.
The latter method is outdated now, because it makes the naive assumption that you have a floppy disk drive.
Same deal with Apache choking on virtual domains... one at a time... if the name server isn't answering. All those "wait X seconds for Y to happen" things can really add up.
That's why the Apache group tells you how to avoid that. If you specify an IP on the VirtualHost line and include a ServerName (and optionally ServerAlias) line inside the VirtualHost block, Apache doesn't need to do forward or reverse DNS lookups when it starts.
Everyone already believes that sidewalk vendors with bootleg copies are doing something illegal. What the RIAA wants to do is make sure that fair-use is ended and the first step in doing that is continuing to attack their customer base via the court system.
How is file sharing over Kazaa "fair-use?" It fails the three major criteria for fair-use (I omitted the part about nature of the work, as it doesn't make sense in this context):
"the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;" Sharing music with others for free
"the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole;" Near-perfect copies of entire songs/albums
"the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work." Eliminates the need to buy CDs (except for audiophiles, and even then, there's FLAC and APE)
Yes, US copyright law needs to be updated for the digital era, but making electronic transfers fair-use isn't going to fly.
To be fair to the court, Acer could have told the court exactly how much they paid for each of these programs rather than paying retail on all of them.
"10 years ago, the operating system was only 5% of the price of the PC.
When additional software, in fact the bare essentials for running a functional desktop are shipped with Windows, this figure for bundled software reaches to over 50% of the total cost of a new PC, as evidenced by the Acer court case."
The breakdown of the Acer case was "135.20 euros for Windows XP Home, 60 euros for Microsoft Works, 40.99 euros for PowerDVD, 38.66 euros for Norton Antivirus and 37 euros for NTI CD Maker."
On my Windows machine, I use free software for all of the above, except Windows itself. NONE of those outside of Windows itself are "bare essentials for running a functional desktop."
I also suspect that's the full price for a non-OEM Windows XP Home install, as it's considerly more than the System Builders version (£59.99 or about 86.97 EUR), considerly less than the 52% cited.
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According to the RTFA, it was three missed votes, two of which would have passed had at least 50% voted.
Actually, given that SC34 is a subcommittee of JTC1, can't the main JTC1 committee vote to evict them?
title is also an attribute and that's probably the sense he meant it in, considering that it was paired with alt.
No, he's saying that not one of them heard the obvious oo in ooCalc when he pronounced it. Maybe he needs to move somewhere with good boots and books.
I'm sure I could go into more detail by doing a little research, but in short:
GRUB is intended to be more generic than LILO and thus runs on more OSes and platforms. The developers probably got disgusted with dealing with LILO, SILO, PALO, boot0, etc... on different machines.
In theory, Windows could run that long, but there are too many ifs that prevent it:
;) Heck #2 alone does!
1. If no drivers crash.
2. If there are no security updates requiring a reboot.
There are probably more, but those two alone prevent that long an uptime.
"The term originates from the French Revolution, when liberal deputies from the Third Estate generally sat to the left of the president's chair, a habit which began in the Estates General of 1789." -- Right-wing Politics, Wikipedia.
I'm not saying that Wikipedia is always right, but... "Viewed from the dais, the Senate chamber has the Republicans seated to the left and the Democrats to the right of the center aisle." -- U.S. Capitol Virtual Tour: The Senate Chamber. In other words, from the viewpoint of the desks themselves: Republicans are on the right, Democrats are on the left.
(Side Note: I didn't find any information on how the parties are split in the lower house... er... House of Representatives.)
When's the last time you saw Coke or Pepsi mention the other by name in a television advertisement?
How do you plan on regulating companies that lie outside of your legal jurasdiction?
Ask the WTO to do it? The catch is, that only would apply to WTO member nations.
Actually, didn't we (Congress, actually) say that gambling with coins and paper money is acceptable but gambling using electronic transfers is illegal? It's just as illegal to bet online if the gambling site is located in California as it is if the gambling site is in Italy.
I'll admit, I haven't read the text of the bill, but that was the intent of it.
Before I forget, though, VS2005 to my knowledge, doesn't support .NET 1.1, only 2.0.
I hate to say it, but you really need to yell at your college for sticking with VS2003. VS2005 is available from MSDNAA, which is what I assume you meant by "partnered with MS through MSDN."
However, schools choose on an individual basis which software packages are available.
It used to be a lot shorter time between major releases... something like 2-3 years. 95 -> 98 -> ME (2000) -> XP (2001) or NT 3.5 (94) -> NT 4.0 (96) -> 2000 -> XP (2001). That's if you count XP as a major new version, as it was 2000 with a graphical facelift and some feature ideas stolen from ME.
Vista was the exception, namely because MS couldn't get what they wanted to add to work properly, and ended up with something only marginally better (some would even say worse) than we already had.
Darn, you found it before anyone could make a porn joke.
The typical SysV-style shutdown starts by serially running a number of shutdown scripts, then sending all remaining processes the TERM signal, then KILLing any processes that are still running a few seconds later.
You don't know what processes are going to do when you send them the TERM signal. I know at least one program that doesn't actually terminate, choosing instead to save its files.
The OS waits for all services to do their cleanup (such as closing open files), as well as writing any delayed writes to disk.
The latter method is outdated now, because it makes the naive assumption that you have a floppy disk drive.
That's why the Apache group tells you how to avoid that. If you specify an IP on the VirtualHost line and include a ServerName (and optionally ServerAlias) line inside the VirtualHost block, Apache doesn't need to do forward or reverse DNS lookups when it starts.
If you ever manage to find it, tell me where!
I can think of several of my posts I wish I could have deleted, sometimes within 5 minutes of posting them.
A couple of notes:
1. This case is called Capitol Records v Thomas for a reason.
2. She already owned all the music in question on CD.
How is file sharing over Kazaa "fair-use?" It fails the three major criteria for fair-use (I omitted the part about nature of the work, as it doesn't make sense in this context):
Sharing music with others for free
Near-perfect copies of entire songs/albums
Eliminates the need to buy CDs (except for audiophiles, and even then, there's FLAC and APE)
Yes, US copyright law needs to be updated for the digital era, but making electronic transfers fair-use isn't going to fly.
She was sued for distributing files, not downloading them.
To be fair to the court, Acer could have told the court exactly how much they paid for each of these programs rather than paying retail on all of them.
See if you spot the bait and switch:
"10 years ago, the operating system was only 5% of the price of the PC.
When additional software, in fact the bare essentials for running a functional desktop are shipped with Windows, this figure for bundled software reaches to over 50% of the total cost of a new PC, as evidenced by the Acer court case."
The breakdown of the Acer case was "135.20 euros for Windows XP Home, 60 euros for Microsoft Works, 40.99 euros for PowerDVD, 38.66 euros for Norton Antivirus and 37 euros for NTI CD Maker."
On my Windows machine, I use free software for all of the above, except Windows itself. NONE of those outside of Windows itself are "bare essentials for running a functional desktop."
I also suspect that's the full price for a non-OEM Windows XP Home install, as it's considerly more than the System Builders version (£59.99 or about 86.97 EUR), considerly less than the 52% cited.