Perhaps I am misunderstanding what they mean by "web service" here -- but it sounds like they want the application on their server and the user is always a client. I don't know if I trust the MS server with that much access to my data.
Even if it's a pure web service, why do you assume that you are required to use Microsoft's server? Ever hear of an intranet where you run your own web apps?
Shit, when I went to university just about every lecture was automatically recorded at a central location, for any lecture hall which was equipped with the A/V equipment. It was routine that if you missed a class or just wanted to listen to the lecture again that you could go and pick up a tape. Whatever is so strange about it?
Read this article: http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfu_news/archives/sfunew s06240416.html -- they've developed a system for automatically recording all lectures and, if the prof approves, immediately making the lectures available over the web in WMV/MP3 format on a password protected site.
"After all, if you're on the dark side, the entire mass of the earth should be shielding you (ever so slightly) from the gravitational pull of the sun."
No it shouldn't. The dark side of the moon is frequently illuminated by sunlight; it's only "dark" in the sense that it's the side that faces away from the earth, so we can't see it from here. It doesn't mean that the sun never shines on it.
Er... read that again. What he's saying is that if the Earth is shielding you from the Sun, then the dark side of the moon is dark in both the figurative and literal sense.
In other news, the IOC is suing Intel for its Pentium with MMX. They claim that the MMX technology is really the roman numeral for 2010 and infringes upon their copyright.
This lead the early greek philosopher Parmenides (7th cent. BC) to the conclusion that vacuum did not exist, because something could not 'be' without being something, and vacuum is nothing. Thus, vacuum was an impossibility.
Vacuum in space may be reasonably empty of matter, but is it empty of everything? Energy, for example? It's interesting when you consider that current theory (at least to my knowledge, I may be wrong) is that there is an outer bound to the universe -- the universe isn't infinitely big. So it would seem that Parmenides might be correct after all. That which is outside the universe doesn't contain any matter, energy, etc. so it doesn't exist.
Give the people what they want. If there's a market for the exact same game in a better engine, then it will be popular. If it's not there, perhaps the developers will work on totally new content. Not many people complain that the Scrabble being sold today is exactly the same as the one they played as a kid.
Okay, but how is that going to be enforced? I could go out and get a spamming server from China tomorrow, ssh into the machine, and setup a bulk email run. It would be untraceable back to me. Even if my ISP is Earthlink, how are they to know that my ssh connection resulted in spam being sent out from China? So the colonblow5000.com website, hosted in China, isn't in violation of any of the Chinese hosting company's terms of service, since the hosting company would be spammer friendly.
Spammers are stupid, but they're not going to sign up for hosting with Earthlink when there are many readily available spam-friendly operations willing to take their money and relay spam for them.
The Terms of Service the website owners agree to when they sign up for hosting with the ISP says they can and the courts have to recognize valid contracts agreed to by two parties. I can't imagine too many ISPs (though I'm sure there are few out there) who don't have a clause in the TOS that says you can't spam.
There are many ISPs who happily allow spammers to host their sites and send spam from their connections. There's no signed agreement between an ISP in China and the various ISPs in the UK as to what traffic they do and do not allow, so what contract would be broken here? If a Chinese spammer sends Viagra emails to a UK user, whose Terms of Service is applicable? The "anything goes" TOS from China?
An interesting thought: is the memory actually wiped after it gets recycled from the last person, or do they simply reset the index? If they don't wipe it fully, it may be possible to undelete the files and recover the last user's pictures from the device.
Of course, in this case Disposable == Recyclable. Or do you really think they simply pitch the 2 megapixel CCD sensor, LCD display, internal memory, camera body, etc. in the garbage after you bring it in?
Right, and what happens when someone who really does want to purchase a year's supply of "Colon Blow 5000" sues them because the ISPs implementing the block are preventing them from accessing the site? Unless it's backed by a law saying that the spam is illegal (thereby making the block legal) I don't see this as holding up in court. Obviously people *do* buy these stupid products, so this is ripe for a lawsuit from the spammers.
Not only that, but this additional price was not disclosed until I have already given them my initial $60, and in many cases cannot get it back because I broke some seal on the package?
If you disagree with the EULA, you can return it for a refund. Good luck getting that refund from the store, however. You may need to ship the Doom 3 box back to Activision (the distributor) and request a refund from them. At the very least, Activision is required by their own agreement to provide a refund to you, even if you have to take them to court for it.:)
And many of the commercials on TV say "Own it now" etc.. or "Own it now on video and dvd" in the case of movies etc, so by their own admission you now own it having purchased it.
As compared to many video game sites which say "Pwn them now!" instead.
BTW, congratulations on post #10,000,000. And +5 as well!
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Until then you need to get it via automatic update or an external installer. However these external installers are somewhat harder to come by than previously, as Microsoft has shut many of them down - which is a shame since they were very fast torrents. Oh well.
Yes, those external installers are very hard to come by indeed! But hopefully downloading directly from Microsoft's gigabit backbone qualifies as being fast enough for ya.
I'd say that if two or more bodies are obriting around each other, which in turn are orbiting around a stellar body, then the largest one is a planet, and the smaller one(s) is/are a moon.
So according to your definition, Epsilon Lyrae with its pair of stars orbiting another pair of stars, one of those stars is a planet and the smaller star is a moon.
And what does that have to do with this article? Nothing in the summary mentions Unisys currently going after GIF patent usage in Open Source. You should read it as:
how Unisys 'planned to make amends for its [former] use of GIF patents against open source projects'
Why should you be allowed to use his code, and not give anything back?
Perhaps you didn't read what he wrote:
"If I want to make my source avaliable, I don't give a rat's ass what people do with it."
In other words, that particular person is absolutely fine with you using his code and not giving anything back. The same is true of all the BSD, MIT, etc. licensed applications out there -- those who wrote them obviously felt fine giving it away and not expecting anything back. Why should anyone want to force you to give something back? Many people put out free websites and don't expect anything back. If you happen to read one, are you filled with guilt that you are not contributing back? Should you feel deeply ashamed for having benefitted without giving back? Is non-GPL a sin which produces guilt?
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Perhaps I am misunderstanding what they mean by "web service" here -- but it sounds like they want the application on their server and the user is always a client. I don't know if I trust the MS server with that much access to my data.
Even if it's a pure web service, why do you assume that you are required to use Microsoft's server? Ever hear of an intranet where you run your own web apps?
Shit, when I went to university just about every lecture was automatically recorded at a central location, for any lecture hall which was equipped with the A/V equipment. It was routine that if you missed a class or just wanted to listen to the lecture again that you could go and pick up a tape. Whatever is so strange about it?
w s06240416.html -- they've developed a system for automatically recording all lectures and, if the prof approves, immediately making the lectures available over the web in WMV/MP3 format on a password protected site.
Read this article: http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfu_news/archives/sfune
"After all, if you're on the dark side, the entire mass of the earth should be shielding you (ever so slightly) from the gravitational pull of the sun."
No it shouldn't. The dark side of the moon is frequently illuminated by sunlight; it's only "dark" in the sense that it's the side that faces away from the earth, so we can't see it from here. It doesn't mean that the sun never shines on it.
Er... read that again. What he's saying is that if the Earth is shielding you from the Sun, then the dark side of the moon is dark in both the figurative and literal sense.
In other news, the IOC is suing Intel for its Pentium with MMX. They claim that the MMX technology is really the roman numeral for 2010 and infringes upon their copyright.
This lead the early greek philosopher Parmenides (7th cent. BC) to the conclusion that vacuum did not exist, because something could not 'be' without being something, and vacuum is nothing. Thus, vacuum was an impossibility.
Vacuum in space may be reasonably empty of matter, but is it empty of everything? Energy, for example? It's interesting when you consider that current theory (at least to my knowledge, I may be wrong) is that there is an outer bound to the universe -- the universe isn't infinitely big. So it would seem that Parmenides might be correct after all. That which is outside the universe doesn't contain any matter, energy, etc. so it doesn't exist.
Irconceivable!!
Give the people what they want. If there's a market for the exact same game in a better engine, then it will be popular. If it's not there, perhaps the developers will work on totally new content. Not many people complain that the Scrabble being sold today is exactly the same as the one they played as a kid.
Okay, but how is that going to be enforced? I could go out and get a spamming server from China tomorrow, ssh into the machine, and setup a bulk email run. It would be untraceable back to me. Even if my ISP is Earthlink, how are they to know that my ssh connection resulted in spam being sent out from China? So the colonblow5000.com website, hosted in China, isn't in violation of any of the Chinese hosting company's terms of service, since the hosting company would be spammer friendly.
Spammers are stupid, but they're not going to sign up for hosting with Earthlink when there are many readily available spam-friendly operations willing to take their money and relay spam for them.
The Terms of Service the website owners agree to when they sign up for hosting with the ISP says they can and the courts have to recognize valid contracts agreed to by two parties. I can't imagine too many ISPs (though I'm sure there are few out there) who don't have a clause in the TOS that says you can't spam.
There are many ISPs who happily allow spammers to host their sites and send spam from their connections. There's no signed agreement between an ISP in China and the various ISPs in the UK as to what traffic they do and do not allow, so what contract would be broken here? If a Chinese spammer sends Viagra emails to a UK user, whose Terms of Service is applicable? The "anything goes" TOS from China?
"It took an act of Congress and a blessing of God (to get the license)."
And people around here are always complaining about how big business gets the government to make overly restrictive laws.
Of course, God has been making Bush enact overly restrictive laws for quite some time now.
An interesting thought: is the memory actually wiped after it gets recycled from the last person, or do they simply reset the index? If they don't wipe it fully, it may be possible to undelete the files and recover the last user's pictures from the device.
Of course, in this case Disposable == Recyclable. Or do you really think they simply pitch the 2 megapixel CCD sensor, LCD display, internal memory, camera body, etc. in the garbage after you bring it in?
... some idiot's desire to purchase "Colon Blow 5000" is irrelevant to the issue (which is that ColonBlow5000.com is in breach of contract)
Which contract is that?
Withdrawal of UBE Spam Site -- WUSS.
Right, and what happens when someone who really does want to purchase a year's supply of "Colon Blow 5000" sues them because the ISPs implementing the block are preventing them from accessing the site? Unless it's backed by a law saying that the spam is illegal (thereby making the block legal) I don't see this as holding up in court. Obviously people *do* buy these stupid products, so this is ripe for a lawsuit from the spammers.
... to "1 million opt-in UK addresses".
BTW: how gullible can you get? A single opt-in list with about 5% of the Internet-connected population on it? Wow.
Wow, indeed! The internet has only 20 million users?
Not only that, but this additional price was not disclosed until I have already given them my initial $60, and in many cases cannot get it back because I broke some seal on the package?
:)
If you disagree with the EULA, you can return it for a refund. Good luck getting that refund from the store, however. You may need to ship the Doom 3 box back to Activision (the distributor) and request a refund from them. At the very least, Activision is required by their own agreement to provide a refund to you, even if you have to take them to court for it.
And many of the commercials on TV say "Own it now" etc.. or "Own it now on video and dvd" in the case of movies etc, so by their own admission you now own it having purchased it.
As compared to many video game sites which say "Pwn them now!" instead.
BTW, congratulations on post #10,000,000. And +5 as well!
Until then you need to get it via automatic update or an external installer. However these external installers are somewhat harder to come by than previously, as Microsoft has shut many of them down - which is a shame since they were very fast torrents. Oh well.
Yes, those external installers are very hard to come by indeed! But hopefully downloading directly from Microsoft's gigabit backbone qualifies as being fast enough for ya.
I'd say that if two or more bodies are obriting around each other, which in turn are orbiting around a stellar body, then the largest one is a planet, and the smaller one(s) is/are a moon.
So according to your definition, Epsilon Lyrae with its pair of stars orbiting another pair of stars, one of those stars is a planet and the smaller star is a moon.
Okay, so how many Libraries of Congress would that be?
They can vote?
Ask Diebold.
And what does that have to do with this article? Nothing in the summary mentions Unisys currently going after GIF patent usage in Open Source. You should read it as:
how Unisys 'planned to make amends for its [former] use of GIF patents against open source projects'
Why should you be allowed to use his code, and not give anything back?
Perhaps you didn't read what he wrote:
"If I want to make my source avaliable, I don't give a rat's ass what people do with it."
In other words, that particular person is absolutely fine with you using his code and not giving anything back. The same is true of all the BSD, MIT, etc. licensed applications out there -- those who wrote them obviously felt fine giving it away and not expecting anything back. Why should anyone want to force you to give something back? Many people put out free websites and don't expect anything back. If you happen to read one, are you filled with guilt that you are not contributing back? Should you feel deeply ashamed for having benefitted without giving back? Is non-GPL a sin which produces guilt?