"Most embarrassingly for Viacom, court documents revealed in in March that at the same time that it was suing Google and YouTube, Viacom was itself uploading its content in secret and trying to make it look stolen - so that people would be more interested in it.
One excerpt from the documents filed by YouTube was particularly notable for the embarrassment caused: "Viacom's efforts to disguise its promotional use of YouTube worked so well that even its own employees could not keep track of everything it was posting or leaving up on the site. As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself."
The SAP license includes most (but not all) source code, and you can change it - but the change is logged,and if it is a change to a SAP supplied program, this can affect support arrangements.
Basically, it lets you change what you wish, but you are responsible for your own changes (don't screw things up and then expect the supplier to fix a problem you caused!).
I thing Oracle do the same with their ERP products.
You might have a look at some of these licences, as they might give you some ideas of what to, and what not to consider,
Jim
And in Soviet Russia, if the government banned a book, movie or game, and you managed to get pirate copies for yourself, we would all cheer you on.
The government wouldn't let you buy it, so if you managed to get a copy, who cared if you hadn't paid for it - often even the author and publisher would be cheering you on, for valuing their creation!
But if the author and publisher won't sell it to you, everyone thinks you are a criminal if you manage to get a copy?
Sounds like Valve can actually think, which is more than many rights owners and enforcers.
Probably not. But they have been known colloquially as Queerarse for at least 20 years, mostly due to the reputation of their male flight attendants.
Jim
Umm... the attitude sensor was a Northrop Grumman part, used in some Airbus models (2 A330 models, and A340) and "some other non-Airbus" aircraft. So it doesn't sound like an Airbus problem - it may even also be a Boeing problem!
And it sounds like a software problem, not a Queerarse maintenance issue, for once!
But what happened to quadruplex-redundant FBW - are only the flight control computers truly quadruplex redundant?
It sounds like a single point of failure in a design which should have considerable redundancy.
Jim
No, they didn't "waive", or even wave their dubiously legal actions about.
HP hid quite a lot. They consulted lawyers becuse they doubted the legality of their actions. They then did their best to hide their actions, despite claiming they were mostly legal - check their more recent SEC filings.
The board member who was chair of the *governance* committee resigned over HPs actions, and HP did not report anything other than his resignation - despite their legal obligations, and despite his requests - so he reported it himself.
"A single ship-to address in the purchasing module".
Total rubbish. This is hust worng, incorrect and ridiculous. I know nothing of Peoplesoft and not much about Oracle, but I know SAP, and - no problem. How many do you want, and how do you want them determined. By purchasing group? By organisational unit? By user? I have done all three, and others - and it isn't hard, or wildly customised. And you can change the ship to address based on whatever criteria you want, so long as it has room for an address. If the addresses are there, perhaps $2-3,000, from scratch or modifying an existing system. And SAP might be good, but I doubt Oracle and PeopleSoft can't do pretty well.
- IBM urgently writing a 'clean' kernel, when they don't know what is tainted?
- Novell releasing NetWare as GPL? Who would migrate to NetWare simply because Linux was no longer an option?
Both of these silly suggestions imply people want to run Linux for its kernel - whereas most people have limited interest in the kernel, but want an OS to let them run applications.
The information on indemnification wasn't bad, but the legal advice is essentially "Stop and think - accidents can happen to you". FUD
Get into a field where your existing skills are rare and useful. Clinic Management software? Pharmaceutical software? Something where your existing skills let you understand the needs of customers, or where you can communicate well with customers - and branch out from there.
Not sure about maps, but whole west side, from Belconnen area to Tuggeranong. Major damage was in Tuggie suburbs, very much south, but one chunk in Belconnen, middle north of Canberra. About 25% of Canberra was on alert to stay and fight or evacuate at one time. about 100,000 acres of Namadgi burnt out at this stage. Probably will be bad tomorrow, and the weather doesn't look good in the forecastable future (ie no respite for 1-2 weeks). Tomorrow and Tuesday may be bad, next weeekend doesn't look good.
No one can stop a fire on a hot day with a strong wind - but you can save your house as it roars past. Usually you get fair warning of bad days
The warning was not there.
More importantly, the fire service didn't pick the weather - and then they and the government panicked... They stuffed up, got scared, panicked, and got lucky when the wind dropped. Every one makes mistakes. That is what happened on Saturday. If everyone had done everything right, we still would have ended up with one or two dead - the situation was just too bad - but the mistakes cost a couple of lives too.
I wasn't thinking of the rally areas - more the areas in Namadgi where they decided to let the fires burn out - which was fine so long as there was no wind!
But expecting fire access roads in that country is a bit of an ask - I think you are right re population
That question has been debated for over a century.
"A good sheep paddock, spoilt" was a very early comment.
But Brasilia, Washington, and a dzen other cities have the same origins, and various problems.
The best quote I have heard was a French prime minister visiting New Delhi in the 20's or 30's, and asked what he thought of it (the various cities of Delhi have been built/rebuilt about 6-9 times)
"Magnificent - this will make the best ruin of them all"
Almost as funny as Afganistan, definately funnier than the last Gulf war, probably not in the league of the next one. But how do you think it compares with a small car accident in your home town?
It sounds like the visitor centre, the admin building, and (possibly) the student accomodation aren't too bad. The telescopes are history, as are the workshops. The telescopes will probably never be replaced.
I feel sorry for anyone burnt out, but sorrier for someone with accomodation and no job.
Yeah, body temperature is about 37point (98.4 F?)something, so one poster clearly lives somewhere damn cold, and is a reptile.
But the original post re rain is incorrect- It has rained many times in the last 9 months, just not much and not often.
Main problem is long drought, fuel build up (eucalypts drop bits everywhere), and any day in a dry spell when you get heat and wind, somone will die. If it blows 60-80km/h (*0.61 to get mph) nothing wil stop a fire in eucalypts in summer. Nothing at all. Once you get enough smoke and ash the 144KV power lines start arcing from the carbon. You get fireballs from hill to hill from the eucalypt oil.
All you can do is get inside the house until the firefront passes and then get out and put fires out. If you don't have too much fuel around the house, it works. If every bit of dead gum and other flammables surround the house, get out before the fire gets there.
Given there were 250-450 firefighters at the start, they would have been squashed!...12 trucks city fire service on duty, plus more later, plus heaps of CFS
But yeah, they stuffed it up, no warning for a lot of people, then the fire service and ACT Govt panicked. Not smooth at all.
Especially when you combine this with poor access roads, poor or non-existant reading of weather reports, and just as icing, add in Radiata plantations, which just explode on a hot day with a big wind.
Slashdot Mirror
From the Guardian...
"Most embarrassingly for Viacom, court documents revealed in in March that at the same time that it was suing Google and YouTube, Viacom was itself uploading its content in secret and trying to make it look stolen - so that people would be more interested in it.
One excerpt from the documents filed by YouTube was particularly notable for the embarrassment caused: "Viacom's efforts to disguise its promotional use of YouTube worked so well that even its own employees could not keep track of everything it was posting or leaving up on the site. As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/23/youtube-wins-viacom-lawsuit
So Viacom were being pretty dodgy about IP in the first place, then complaining!
The SAP license includes most (but not all) source code, and you can change it - but the change is logged,and if it is a change to a SAP supplied program, this can affect support arrangements. Basically, it lets you change what you wish, but you are responsible for your own changes (don't screw things up and then expect the supplier to fix a problem you caused!). I thing Oracle do the same with their ERP products. You might have a look at some of these licences, as they might give you some ideas of what to, and what not to consider, Jim
And in Soviet Russia, if the government banned a book, movie or game, and you managed to get pirate copies for yourself, we would all cheer you on.
The government wouldn't let you buy it, so if you managed to get a copy, who cared if you hadn't paid for it - often even the author and publisher would be cheering you on, for valuing their creation!
But if the author and publisher won't sell it to you, everyone thinks you are a criminal if you manage to get a copy?
Sounds like Valve can actually think, which is more than many rights owners and enforcers.
Probably not. But they have been known colloquially as Queerarse for at least 20 years, mostly due to the reputation of their male flight attendants. Jim
Umm... the attitude sensor was a Northrop Grumman part, used in some Airbus models (2 A330 models, and A340) and "some other non-Airbus" aircraft. So it doesn't sound like an Airbus problem - it may even also be a Boeing problem! And it sounds like a software problem, not a Queerarse maintenance issue, for once! But what happened to quadruplex-redundant FBW - are only the flight control computers truly quadruplex redundant? It sounds like a single point of failure in a design which should have considerable redundancy. Jim
No, they didn't "waive", or even wave their dubiously legal actions about.
t ml
HP hid quite a lot. They consulted lawyers becuse they doubted the legality of their actions. They then did their best to hide their actions, despite claiming they were mostly legal - check their more recent SEC filings.
The board member who was chair of the *governance* committee resigned over HPs actions, and HP did not report anything other than his resignation - despite their legal obligations, and despite his requests - so he reported it himself.
Check out his letters here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0905061hp1.h
not pretty
"A single ship-to address in the purchasing module". Total rubbish. This is hust worng, incorrect and ridiculous. I know nothing of Peoplesoft and not much about Oracle, but I know SAP, and - no problem. How many do you want, and how do you want them determined. By purchasing group? By organisational unit? By user? I have done all three, and others - and it isn't hard, or wildly customised. And you can change the ship to address based on whatever criteria you want, so long as it has room for an address. If the addresses are there, perhaps $2-3,000, from scratch or modifying an existing system. And SAP might be good, but I doubt Oracle and PeopleSoft can't do pretty well.
- IBM urgently writing a 'clean' kernel, when they don't know what is tainted?
- Novell releasing NetWare as GPL? Who would migrate to NetWare simply because Linux was no longer an option?
Both of these silly suggestions imply people want to run Linux for its kernel - whereas most people have limited interest in the kernel, but want an OS to let them run applications.
The information on indemnification wasn't bad, but the legal advice is essentially "Stop and think - accidents can happen to you". FUD
Get into a field where your existing skills are rare and useful. Clinic Management software? Pharmaceutical software? Something where your existing skills let you understand the needs of customers, or where you can communicate well with customers - and branch out from there.
Not sure about maps, but whole west side, from Belconnen area to Tuggeranong. Major damage was in Tuggie suburbs, very much south, but one chunk in Belconnen, middle north of Canberra. About 25% of Canberra was on alert to stay and fight or evacuate at one time. about 100,000 acres of Namadgi burnt out at this stage.
Probably will be bad tomorrow, and the weather doesn't look good in the forecastable future (ie no respite for 1-2 weeks). Tomorrow and Tuesday may be bad, next weeekend doesn't look good.
So, to put the matter simply, Mt Stromlo was destroyed by Dubya's psychological problems?
Or did I miss something?
The major problem was - NO BLOODY WARNING!
No one can stop a fire on a hot day with a strong wind - but you can save your house as it roars past. Usually you get fair warning of bad days
The warning was not there.
More importantly, the fire service didn't pick the weather - and then they and the government panicked... They stuffed up, got scared, panicked, and got lucky when the wind dropped. Every one makes mistakes. That is what happened on Saturday. If everyone had done everything right, we still would have ended up with one or two dead - the situation was just too bad - but the mistakes cost a couple of lives too.
Yes
I wasn't thinking of the rally areas - more the areas in Namadgi where they decided to let the fires burn out - which was fine so long as there was no wind!
But expecting fire access roads in that country is a bit of an ask - I think you are right re population
That question has been debated for over a century.
"A good sheep paddock, spoilt" was a very early comment.
But Brasilia, Washington, and a dzen other cities have the same origins, and various problems.
The best quote I have heard was a French prime minister visiting New Delhi in the 20's or 30's, and asked what he thought of it (the various cities of Delhi have been built/rebuilt about 6-9 times)
"Magnificent - this will make the best ruin of them all"
Yes, but it is bloody dangerous. And it is insane in a strong wind.
Better late than never. Too late now if you had waited.
Its all a matter of timing.....
Thanks, very funny.
Almost as funny as Afganistan, definately funnier than the last Gulf war, probably not in the league of the next one. But how do you think it compares with a small car accident in your home town?
Yes. It is boring and sterile. But less crime, I think, we just got bushfires instead.
How many australians said that on 9th September 2001?
best wishes,
a foreign bigot
It sounds like the visitor centre, the admin building, and (possibly) the student accomodation aren't too bad. The telescopes are history, as are the workshops. The telescopes will probably never be replaced.
I feel sorry for anyone burnt out, but sorrier for someone with accomodation and no job.
Yeah, body temperature is about 37point (98.4 F?)something, so one poster clearly lives somewhere damn cold, and is a reptile.
But the original post re rain is incorrect- It has rained many times in the last 9 months, just not much and not often.
Main problem is long drought, fuel build up (eucalypts drop bits everywhere), and any day in a dry spell when you get heat and wind, somone will die. If it blows 60-80km/h (*0.61 to get mph) nothing wil stop a fire in eucalypts in summer.
Nothing at all. Once you get enough smoke and ash the 144KV power lines start arcing from the carbon. You get fireballs from hill to hill from the eucalypt oil.
All you can do is get inside the house until the firefront passes and then get out and put fires out. If you don't have too much fuel around the house, it works. If every bit of dead gum and other flammables surround the house, get out before the fire gets there.
This is not rocket science
Given there were 250-450 firefighters at the start, they would have been squashed! ...12 trucks city fire service on duty, plus more later, plus heaps of CFS
But yeah, they stuffed it up, no warning for a lot of people, then the fire service and ACT Govt panicked. Not smooth at all.
Especially when you combine this with poor access roads, poor or non-existant reading of weather reports, and just as icing, add in Radiata plantations, which just explode on a hot day with a big wind.
not happy, JAN