What about all space debris floating around up there?
I read an article a few years ago about a proposal for the space station. Testing apparently indicates that this kind of inflatable capsule is more resistant to debris than a traditional hard capsule.
Further reading (should've known better:) indicates that I stand corrected. In this case the "license" is probably just to serve as a reminder or scare people.
Surely if I have the right to use something, without needing an explicit licence, then the "few rare software products that come with a licence to install copies on more than one computer" are providing me with rights I already have...
You can use the original copy on the disks you purchased any way you want....as long as you do not copy them to a computer (other than for making a single backup:). In copying it to the computer you are violating copyright law. So there is an included license in the software that allows you to do this for one computer at a time.
But see, the laws don't exactly overlap and that's why the previous analogies are a little off. It's not just that it is illegal to make a backup copy if in doing so it defeats a copy protection scheme. Even if the court would uphold that right (which it probably would) it is also illegal for a company to sell a product capable of doing so.
The situation we're currently in is one where people have a right but companies are forbidden from selling the products that allow people to exercise that right.
Just deliberately misspelling words to evade filters shows that the spammer is aware their actions are harrassment, and not a free speech issue at all.
If a spammer sends me 50 emails on the same subject it is still harrassment even if my filter correctly places them in the junk folder. If a spammer sends me a single email with funky wording it would not be harrassment. It might violate spam laws, but it wouldn't be harrassment.
So if I stand outside your window at 2AM with a bullhorn, shouting "Vote for John Kerry!", you'll just have to deal with it?
No. Just like sending me 50 emails selling the same thing after I have asked you to stop. Standing outside my window at 2am shouting would be considered harrassment. I am not sure if it would be legal to shout it once! I guess that depends on the local ordinances.
But, seriously, if you don't want to receive email at 2am just don't login. I mean, duh!:)
One more law would actually help. If we can get spammers declared terrorists or enemy combatants then we can just have the delta force swoop in and make them disappear. That might put a dent in spam.
The perfect solution would be to encode each email address using a one way hash. No email address could then be retrieved using it.
Yeah, because no one has ever found out passwords that were encoding using a one-way encryption by doing something like encrypting the entire dictionary and looking for matches....or something....
No one has a right to advertise their political opinions, products, etc. by sending me email about them. The fact that filtering solutions exist doesn't confer that right upon anyone, either.
Well, right now they do have that right. They have the right to do it by speaking (shouting), sending physical mail, or sending electronic mails.
Did you notice that the federal do-not-call phone system excludes certain things that were on your list?
To do it right, they'd either distribute a list of MD5 hashes, or setup a system where the spammers sent their list and the feds told them which ones were ok to spam.
True. But if the latter were implemented wouldn't a spammer just send a file containing millions of *possible* email addresses? Then the US government would send them a list of the addresses not in their records. Taking the difference between the two lists would provide you with a list of the valid addresses.
OS X can't be truly spatial. It's possible to have the same folder open twice with the windows in two different locations. OS X uses some complicated algorithm to determine where it will open next time (and what size the window will be).
I think there is more at stake here than just writing efficient applications. For one thing, writing proper multi-threaded code often requires thinking at the assembly level. Many of my coworkers who are all high-level-language-only programmer types couldn't understand (until I explained it) how the Double-Checked-Locking Java example was broken.
Music ads are probably cheaper. The radio station may want to have 50 minutes of music per hour (for example). So they sell 8 minutes of ads, have 2 minutes of talking and 50 minutes of music. Except, with this new format, they can sell 8 minutes of ads, have 2 minutes of talking, sell 15 minutes of music ads, and have 35 minutes of regular programmed music.
Point is, selling music doesn't have to be done in lieu of normal ad sales. This is above and beyond normal ad sales because it still allows a station to claim 'X minutes of music per hour'
I think the service economy thing is a little overblown. The definition of service is a little too vague to be meaningful IMO.
Working as a contractor at a factory? Service position Working to manufacture non-physical goods (like computer programs)? Service position
We have certainly moved away from certain kinds of manufacturing jobs because of the efficiencies of modernization and the loss of our comparative advantage. But the way people talk about it you'd think we're all working at Wal-Mart (when, in reality, Wal-Mart only employs a percent or two of the working public:)
Excuse me but zero jobs should be lost to overseas workers. You know why? Because companies that do this should be taxed to hell and back for doing it. Make it so fucking unattractive that the companies will NEVER even consider a foreign worker cheaper than a US native.
What kind of shoes do you wear? What kind of electronics do you buy? Do you currently own anything that is considerably cheaper because it was made overseas?
I'll bet you just sat there quietly not saying a word, enjoying your cheap foreign manufactured goods. Enjoyed it, that is, until they came for your job...
I was discussing this issue the other day with some coworkers. I pointed out that this kind of thing has always gone on, just on a smaller scale. But if a plant or an office closes, does it really matter to the people laid off if the jobs move to Kentucky or to Bangalore? This isn't a new story. It just involves nations now instead of cities and states.
The economic realities are that we can either be isolationist and lose our economy - because you can't ignored the realities of comparative advantage - or we can learn to swim with the tide.
Jobs are always going to be lost. The important thing is to work hard to create more jobs than we're losing.
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/123,102, filed Mar. 5, 1999, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference
The important date isn't March 6, 2000 but March 5, 1999. A provisional application is a rough application filed without claims. When an application claims priority from a provisional (it has 1 year but it can roll to the next business day if 1 year falls on a weekend) it gets that filing date.
Ok, when did you first have the idea? Did you have it prior to March 6, 2000? If not, you're out of luck. If so, how much earlier? Obviously if the patent was filed on that date Microsoft had been working on this for some time. And how many other people had this idea at that time? Just you? Or almost everyone?
The way the patent system works for obviousness determinations is that the skills in the art present in a typical practitioner at the time of filing are what matters.
The fact that MS has a monopoly has no beering on wether WMP is installed on a PC sold with Windows. MS made windows so they include WMP with it. This would be true if they had a monopoly or not.
I understand your point and perhaps I should have worded it better. However, in one sense what you say is not entirely true. Companies without a monopoly that are facing stiff competition are often more willing to work with the companies on which they rely.
So if Windows had 30% marketshare and the largest seller of PCs approached MS and wanted to ship windows, but without the media player, don't you think MS would try to accomodate?
The fact is, as a monopoly you don't have to accomodate. The monopoly gives them the leverage to dictate terms.
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What about all space debris floating around up there?
I read an article a few years ago about a proposal for the space station. Testing apparently indicates that this kind of inflatable capsule is more resistant to debris than a traditional hard capsule.
Further reading (should've known better :) indicates that I stand corrected. In this case the "license" is probably just to serve as a reminder or scare people.
Surely if I have the right to use something, without needing an explicit licence, then the "few rare software products that come with a licence to install copies on more than one computer" are providing me with rights I already have...
:). In copying it to the computer you are violating copyright law. So there is an included license in the software that allows you to do this for one computer at a time.
You can use the original copy on the disks you purchased any way you want....as long as you do not copy them to a computer (other than for making a single backup
But see, the laws don't exactly overlap and that's why the previous analogies are a little off. It's not just that it is illegal to make a backup copy if in doing so it defeats a copy protection scheme. Even if the court would uphold that right (which it probably would) it is also illegal for a company to sell a product capable of doing so.
The situation we're currently in is one where people have a right but companies are forbidden from selling the products that allow people to exercise that right.
Just deliberately misspelling words to evade filters shows that the spammer is aware their actions are harrassment, and not a free speech issue at all.
If a spammer sends me 50 emails on the same subject it is still harrassment even if my filter correctly places them in the junk folder. If a spammer sends me a single email with funky wording it would not be harrassment. It might violate spam laws, but it wouldn't be harrassment.
So if I stand outside your window at 2AM with a bullhorn, shouting "Vote for John Kerry!", you'll just have to deal with it?
:)
No. Just like sending me 50 emails selling the same thing after I have asked you to stop. Standing outside my window at 2am shouting would be considered harrassment. I am not sure if it would be legal to shout it once! I guess that depends on the local ordinances.
But, seriously, if you don't want to receive email at 2am just don't login. I mean, duh!
One more law would actually help. If we can get spammers declared terrorists or enemy combatants then we can just have the delta force swoop in and make them disappear. That might put a dent in spam.
The perfect solution would be to encode each email address using a one way hash. No email address could then be retrieved using it.
Yeah, because no one has ever found out passwords that were encoding using a one-way encryption by doing something like encrypting the entire dictionary and looking for matches....or something....
No one has a right to advertise their political opinions, products, etc. by sending me email about them. The fact that filtering solutions exist doesn't confer that right upon anyone, either.
Well, right now they do have that right. They have the right to do it by speaking (shouting), sending physical mail, or sending electronic mails.
Did you notice that the federal do-not-call phone system excludes certain things that were on your list?
To do it right, they'd either distribute a list of MD5 hashes, or setup a system where the spammers sent their list and the feds told them which ones were ok to spam.
True. But if the latter were implemented wouldn't a spammer just send a file containing millions of *possible* email addresses? Then the US government would send them a list of the addresses not in their records. Taking the difference between the two lists would provide you with a list of the valid addresses.
Wouldn't a national registry just provide a place for spammers to get real, valid email addresses to spam?
Where did the internet go? It's broken!
yahoo
google
msn searchs
all gone....
Thanks. I actually write this stuff for a living, I just don't know what it's called most of the time :)
I am really excited about their new DHTML-enabled interface. I just can't read mail without links that change colors when you hover over them!!!
OS X can't be truly spatial. It's possible to have the same folder open twice with the windows in two different locations. OS X uses some complicated algorithm to determine where it will open next time (and what size the window will be).
In Java that's not guaranteed to work. The Java spec does not require that it work on any architecture.
I think there is more at stake here than just writing efficient applications. For one thing, writing proper multi-threaded code often requires thinking at the assembly level. Many of my coworkers who are all high-level-language-only programmer types couldn't understand (until I explained it) how the Double-Checked-Locking Java example was broken.
Music ads are probably cheaper. The radio station may want to have 50 minutes of music per hour (for example). So they sell 8 minutes of ads, have 2 minutes of talking and 50 minutes of music. Except, with this new format, they can sell 8 minutes of ads, have 2 minutes of talking, sell 15 minutes of music ads, and have 35 minutes of regular programmed music.
Point is, selling music doesn't have to be done in lieu of normal ad sales. This is above and beyond normal ad sales because it still allows a station to claim 'X minutes of music per hour'
It just means that in the future we'll still be stuck dealing with legacy systems!
This sounds like what Tom Cruise was doing in Minority Report with those fancy computer gloves.
I think the service economy thing is a little overblown. The definition of service is a little too vague to be meaningful IMO.
:)
Working as a contractor at a factory? Service position
Working to manufacture non-physical goods (like computer programs)? Service position
We have certainly moved away from certain kinds of manufacturing jobs because of the efficiencies of modernization and the loss of our comparative advantage. But the way people talk about it you'd think we're all working at Wal-Mart (when, in reality, Wal-Mart only employs a percent or two of the working public
Excuse me but zero jobs should be lost to overseas workers. You know why? Because companies that do this should be taxed to hell and back for doing it. Make it so fucking unattractive that the companies will NEVER even consider a foreign worker cheaper than a US native.
What kind of shoes do you wear? What kind of electronics do you buy? Do you currently own anything that is considerably cheaper because it was made overseas?
I'll bet you just sat there quietly not saying a word, enjoying your cheap foreign manufactured goods. Enjoyed it, that is, until they came for your job...
I was discussing this issue the other day with some coworkers. I pointed out that this kind of thing has always gone on, just on a smaller scale. But if a plant or an office closes, does it really matter to the people laid off if the jobs move to Kentucky or to Bangalore? This isn't a new story. It just involves nations now instead of cities and states.
The economic realities are that we can either be isolationist and lose our economy - because you can't ignored the realities of comparative advantage - or we can learn to swim with the tide.
Jobs are always going to be lost. The important thing is to work hard to create more jobs than we're losing.
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This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/123,102, filed Mar. 5, 1999, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference
The important date isn't March 6, 2000 but March 5, 1999. A provisional application is a rough application filed without claims. When an application claims priority from a provisional (it has 1 year but it can roll to the next business day if 1 year falls on a weekend) it gets that filing date.
Ok, when did you first have the idea? Did you have it prior to March 6, 2000? If not, you're out of luck. If so, how much earlier? Obviously if the patent was filed on that date Microsoft had been working on this for some time. And how many other people had this idea at that time? Just you? Or almost everyone?
The way the patent system works for obviousness determinations is that the skills in the art present in a typical practitioner at the time of filing are what matters.
The fact that MS has a monopoly has no beering on wether WMP is installed on a PC sold with Windows. MS made windows so they include WMP with it. This would be true if they had a monopoly or not.
I understand your point and perhaps I should have worded it better. However, in one sense what you say is not entirely true. Companies without a monopoly that are facing stiff competition are often more willing to work with the companies on which they rely.
So if Windows had 30% marketshare and the largest seller of PCs approached MS and wanted to ship windows, but without the media player, don't you think MS would try to accomodate?
The fact is, as a monopoly you don't have to accomodate. The monopoly gives them the leverage to dictate terms.