And I quote: "Many aspects of the patent system put small businesses and individuals at a distinct disadvantage. For instance, the cost of defending oneself in a patent lawsuit is, on average, $ 2 - 4M. PUBPAT offers pro bono and reduced fee patent legal services to assist economically disadvantaged businesses and individuals in mitigating the harm caused by wrongly issued patents and unsound patent policy."
I once bought a Sony Network Walkman - one of my bigger mistakes.
ATRAC exists to facilitate DRM - you can only "check out" your songs to the player a limited number of times before you need to check them in to allow you to check them out again.
If that sounds confusing, it is because it is confusing.
Don't buy Sony music players - it appears the record label has too much power over the people who make the consumer electronics.
What's even more funny is that Sony, who have the music and build consumer electronics, and are consequently in a much better position are *not* providing the end-to-end solution that Apple is (or at least are nowhere as successful as Apple is).
And now that the link is on slashdot, the admins at the NY Times will wonder why AlQuaida suddenly is their biggest partner! Picture their faces when they run their log analysis tool...
_proprietary_ seminar?
So Columbia Law School charges for its seminars. The idea is that the hot shot lawyers who want to attend pay big bucks to attend the seminar. I am sure that if you are a law student, you can attend for free if you ask the organizer politely.
The logic was, you owned the browser, you owned the 'net. And although you could make the case that IE won the war, how does IE being the most popular browser translate into money for MS when they give it away for free? I didn't understand it then, and I don't understand it now.
Being the most popular browser on the net means that you can add your own extensions to it, and a lot of people designing websites will cater towards that. If you don't release IE for other platforms, people who don't use your OS won't be able to use the websites that have IE specific content. That's a way of giving people incentives to use IE and your OS.
I have been pissed of lots of times, trying to use IE-specific websites (banks seem to like to do this especially) with a different browser, and it didn't work.
I called E-trade to see whether they would allow shorting of SCO:
E-trade only wants to short stocks for you if they are reasonably liquid, i. e. it is easy to find a seller whenever you want to buy (buyer when you want to sell).
If the company is too small and there aren't many shares being traded, and the stock is illiquid, prices that you might get might be a little weird. Also it is easy for people to manipulate the market in that stock. You are particularly vulnerable to the market being manipulated if you are short (see e. g. Short Squeeze).
E-trade is reluctant to short SCO on your behalf, as it is a relatively small company, and the stock is relatively illiquid. With a market capitalization of around 180M it is borderline, really.
You've GOT to be kidding. Last time I compiled OO it took up 3 GB of disk space for temporary files, and it ran overnight. And yes, that was on a Gentoo box. I guess that's what you get for trying to be a Real Geek (TM): Hah! Install binaries? That's nothing! When I was a lad, we used to live in a septic tank and COMPILE OUR OWN SOFTWARE - it took years, and we were happy!.
The average user wants to do everything grandma wants to do, but they also want to be able to install or upgrade software and hardware *easily*.
There are lots of package management tools out there that make installing software on most distros very easy (emerge, apt-get, red-carpet etc). Most of them have nice GUI front-ends as well, allowing you to point-click-install.
In you calculation, who is getting the other 80% of the extra $20,000 a year? It's the former student.
Since people gain a lot from going to university, wouldn't it be fair for them to pay for at least part of their education?
Dependencies are hard to handle with RPMs - no doubt about that.
But there are tools out there that help you deal with dependencies - like Gentoo's emerge and Debian's apt-get that are meant to solve *exactly* this sort of problem.
The problem you are describing is only really an issue with some of the older distros.
From groklaw (about half way down the page):
PJ: One thing I think some have missed is that SCO decided not long ago to pay its directors and key execs in stock instead of cash, either exclusively in cash or in addition to cash. I did put that info on the blog. So at least some of the activity is probably just folks cashing in to get paid so they can pay the mortgage.
Given that the amounts are relatively small, what you are pointing out is more likely to be related to paying the rent and less likely to be related to pump and dump.
Slashdot Mirror
What, like these guys?
And I quote: "Many aspects of the patent system put small businesses and individuals at a distinct disadvantage. For instance, the cost of defending oneself in a patent lawsuit is, on average, $ 2 - 4M. PUBPAT offers pro bono and reduced fee patent legal services to assist economically disadvantaged businesses and individuals in mitigating the harm caused by wrongly issued patents and unsound patent policy."I once bought a Sony Network Walkman - one of my bigger mistakes.
ATRAC exists to facilitate DRM - you can only "check out" your songs to the player a limited number of times before you need to check them in to allow you to check them out again.
If that sounds confusing, it is because it is confusing.
Don't buy Sony music players - it appears the record label has too much power over the people who make the consumer electronics.
What's even more funny is that Sony, who have the music and build consumer electronics, and are consequently in a much better position are *not* providing the end-to-end solution that Apple is (or at least are nowhere as successful as Apple is).
And now that the link is on slashdot, the admins at the NY Times will wonder why AlQuaida suddenly is their biggest partner! Picture their faces when they run their log analysis tool...
Forbes have probably figured out by now that they get a huge amount of click-throughs from slashdot every time they write something good about SCO.
Good for advertising revenue!
_proprietary_ seminar?
So Columbia Law School charges for its seminars. The idea is that the hot shot lawyers who want to attend pay big bucks to attend the seminar. I am sure that if you are a law student, you can attend for free if you ask the organizer politely.
The logic was, you owned the browser, you owned the 'net. And although you could make the case that IE won the war, how does IE being the most popular browser translate into money for MS when they give it away for free? I didn't understand it then, and I don't understand it now.
Being the most popular browser on the net means that you can add your own extensions to it, and a lot of people designing websites will cater towards that. If you don't release IE for other platforms, people who don't use your OS won't be able to use the websites that have IE specific content. That's a way of giving people incentives to use IE and your OS.
I have been pissed of lots of times, trying to use IE-specific websites (banks seem to like to do this especially) with a different browser, and it didn't work.
I called E-trade to see whether they would allow shorting of SCO:
E-trade only wants to short stocks for you if they are reasonably liquid, i. e. it is easy to find a seller whenever you want to buy (buyer when you want to sell).
If the company is too small and there aren't many shares being traded, and the stock is illiquid, prices that you might get might be a little weird. Also it is easy for people to manipulate the market in that stock. You are particularly vulnerable to the market being manipulated if you are short (see e. g. Short Squeeze).
E-trade is reluctant to short SCO on your behalf, as it is a relatively small company, and the stock is relatively illiquid. With a market capitalization of around 180M it is borderline, really.
kde.org already slashdotted?
Enemy of the State (1998)
I think it was a biologist who had a camera set up for monitoring ducks. Also, it wasn't a wireless camera, but otherwise this is your story.
Openoffice:a quick compile on my Gentoo box???
You've GOT to be kidding. Last time I compiled OO it took up 3 GB of disk space for temporary files, and it ran overnight. And yes, that was on a Gentoo box. I guess that's what you get for trying to be a Real Geek (TM):
Hah! Install binaries? That's nothing! When I was a lad, we used to live in a septic tank and COMPILE OUR OWN SOFTWARE - it took years, and we were happy!.
Next time, I am getting the binary...
The average user wants to do everything grandma wants to do, but they also want to be able to install or upgrade software and hardware *easily*. There are lots of package management tools out there that make installing software on most distros very easy (emerge, apt-get, red-carpet etc). Most of them have nice GUI front-ends as well, allowing you to point-click-install.
The Coffee Cam was bought by the German magazine SPIEGEL-ONLINE, and was put up on their page for a while. They still have it in their virtual museum
In you calculation, who is getting the other 80% of the extra $20,000 a year? It's the former student. Since people gain a lot from going to university, wouldn't it be fair for them to pay for at least part of their education?
Dependencies are hard to handle with RPMs - no doubt about that. But there are tools out there that help you deal with dependencies - like Gentoo's emerge and Debian's apt-get that are meant to solve *exactly* this sort of problem. The problem you are describing is only really an issue with some of the older distros.
From groklaw (about half way down the page): PJ: One thing I think some have missed is that SCO decided not long ago to pay its directors and key execs in stock instead of cash, either exclusively in cash or in addition to cash. I did put that info on the blog. So at least some of the activity is probably just folks cashing in to get paid so they can pay the mortgage. Given that the amounts are relatively small, what you are pointing out is more likely to be related to paying the rent and less likely to be related to pump and dump.