If you had read the headline, the appeals court sided with M$. There is no reason for this to go any futher now.
I can't believe that it would even have to go to the appeals court. To force any company (even M$) to include someone else's propriatary code is foolish.
Why not just get General Motors to start putting Porsche engines in their cars. SSDD
it would be Veritest. After reading the PDF myself, they draw their own conclusions that the G5 outperforms the two Dell machines they tested it against.
So how would Apple be at fault for saying they have the fastest CPU benchmarks based on independent testing? Unless of course "a very stupid man decided to take the large stack of money."
In repsonse to your first question, for a digital camera to rival the higest quality analog cameras (I'm speaking either Canon or Nikon here), you're going to be looking at one of the new 11 MegaPixel cameras that have just recently been released.
Expect to pay a nice price for them. IIRC, they start around $5000 USD
...they've been working on a different approach specifically with PDAs. The technique uses spacial orientation for scrolling and zooming to give a peephole view of a larger picture.
Here's a link to the main researcher's website incluiding papers, videos and posters.
After reading the instructions for obtaining a license, this piece caught my attention.
These licenses permit hobbyists and enthusiasts to have access to the source code of these historic releases, for personal and non-commercial use, and to share experiences and code updates with other authorized individuals having corresponding licenses.
So let's say everyone who has worked on Linux obtained these licenses. Wouldn't this allow them to freely share the code with each other. Question is, can IBM's contributions to Linux be classified as non-commercial use?
Also, does this cover the "infringing code" that SCO claims IBM copied?
From reading the article, it seems there are several factors contributing to the problems in Bhutan.
1. The citizen's have let the programming they view influence them far too greatly:
"Every week, the letters page carries columns of worried correspondence: 'Dear Editor, TV is very bad for our country... it controls our minds... and makes [us] crazy. The enemy is right here with us in our own living room. People behave like the actors, and are now anxious, greedy and discontent.'"
Yes, I realize that what we view in the world affects who we are, but to solely blame television is ignorant. I was instilled with morals/values at a very early age (as I'm sure most people are), which gave me a very clear sense of right and wrong. I watch plenty of television that contains violence, sex and coarse language, but I'm not out raping and pillaging.
2. The goverment dropped the ball as far as legislating what content was allowed to be broadcast:
"There is no film classification board or TV watershed in force here, no regulations about media ownership. Companies such as Star TV are free to broadcast whatever they want. Only three years after the introduction of cable did the government announce that a media act would be drafted."
Some people are just naturally aggressive or have mental disorders that cause them to lash out against society. Yes, television is probably partly responsible, but not fully. Another interesting section of the article:
"'Yes, we are seeing some different types of crime, but that just reflects the fact that our society is changing in many ways. A culture as rich and sophisticated as ours can survive trash on TV and people are quite capable of turning off the rubbish.'"
It would seem that maybe it's not the amount of crime that's increased (though I'm sure it has somewhat), but instead that the types of crimes being commited have changed. One section says that marijuana (which grows like weeds there) is now being smoked. This is probably because before television, they never knew it could be smoked. Ignorance is bliss!
...that Windows only comes with VBScript and JScript. The languages are secondary to the ability to program well.
Something my professors have always stressed to me is "The right tool for the right job." It's a good thing that we now have a choice in which languages we can use. But what hasn't changed much is good programming practices.
Teach a kid how to be a good coder and he/she will be able to figure out for themself what language(s) they like and dislike. Much better than forcing specific languages on them (i.e. MS shipping VS.Net with Windows).
They will be able to google a plethera of resources specific to the given task at hand and recommendations on the best approach.
This is just another example of a legitimate tool (like a hammer) which has "evil" uses (like a hammer) being struck down based solely on the fact that is has "evil" uses.
There is a saying.. Don't blame the hammer (or in this case, the hammer's creator) for being a hammer; blame the person stupid enough to crack open his friend's head with it.
It's unfortunate he settled so quickly instead of trying to get some backing from say the EFF or some other similar organization. I would love to have a nice search engine for my university's network.
"...and my attempts to shut it off only caused other nozzles to splash me as if I were in a penitentiary riot. (Hilton's plan to install a voice-activated control could be just the solution.) Another surprise: Despite all the high-end design, the shower lacks a soap dish."
So that's how all those riots start. Someone drops the soap from not having a dish to put it in! Another of life's age old mysteries solved.
Novell agrees, but can't substantiate ammendment?
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From the article:
Even SCO challenger Novell seems to concur, in part, with SCO's interpretation, though Novell said it doesn't have a copy of the amendment in its files and still takes issue with SCO's actions against Linux users.
So Novell agrees that the information in this ammendment appears to be legit, but they can't verify that this ammendment actually occurred because they don't have a copy of it themselves?
Could it be that SCO happened to "create" this ammendment and then convienently "find it in a filing cabinet" ?
An interesting point. With University students, namely engineers, they are required to take at least one, sometimes several ethics courses designed to encourage responsible practices later on in their careers.
Hopefully, something similar will be put in place for these highschool students, though it may not be as effective due to the generally lower level of maturity.
IIRC, at the time that WASTE was developed, Nullsoft was owned by AOL/Time Warner. This would mean that anything created by employees of Nullsoft had to be cleared with AOL.
Therefore, it couldn't be produced under the GPL unless AOL said so. Most employment contracts specifically state that any thing or idea created, conceived, developed, etc. while employeed becomes property of the employeer (in this case, AOL/Time Warner)
Kent: Mr. Simpson, how do you respond to the charges that petty
vandalism such as graffiti is down eighty percent, while heavy
sack-beatings are up a shocking nine hundred percent?
Homer: Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent.
Forfty percent of all people know that.
Just because they shouldn't play them doesn't mean there should be a law against the sale of these games to minors.
Here in Canada, it is perfectly legal to show full frontal nudity, explicit language, and graphic violence after 9:00 pm. Hell, some of the movie channels that come with regular cable (not PPV) even show nudity before this... Thinks back to a recent airing of Blade Runner
At the young age of 15, I sat down in the middle of the day with my Dad and some of his buddies and watched the Outer Limits (the episode where Alyssa Milano gets naked). He obviously believed I was old enough to view such content.
He didn't, however, think that at age 8, I was old enough to be looking at his Playboys.
But this also goes against the spirit of competition as it grants you a monopoly on said design/creation.
The whole point of there being a 50 year limit is to allow the creator time enough to collect profit and then pass the design/creation on to the public where anyone and everyone can use it freely.
What DeCSS allows you to do is watch a DVD on hardware which hasn't been blessed by the DVD-CCA.
Exactly. Breaking into a car is circumventing protection methods, in this case, a car lock. Stealing the car is something completely different.
However, fair use comes into play when the object in question (DVD, car) is your own property. The analogy is correct, there are just certain circumstances in which it holds a slightly different meaning.
Mr. Lockyer seems to be confusing the act of Burglary with that of Circumvention. DeCSS is not a tool for stealing or copying DVDs, but a tool for decoding a DVD for use in a DVD player, i.e. one created for Linux.
This would be like accusing someone who breaks into a car, but doesn't take anything, of grand theft auto. I think Mr. Lockyer needs to spend a few more years in Law School or at least read over the criminal legislation.
I would have to disagree with this. If you compare Earth and Mars, you will find that the two planets are quite similar in respect to being able to support simple life forms.
If Mars were very different from Earth, then this would be more of a comfort since the possibility of planets with the ability to support life all of a sudden doubles (from simply Earth-like planets to Earth- and Mars-like planets).
Even taking into consideration the sheer magnitude of the universe and the number of planets within it, a very small percentage are Earth-like. Most are more like Jupiter, huge gas giants. Having more planets to choose from is much more comforting than finding life on a planet similar to a planet known to support life.
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Didn't Microsoft just recently step up it's Anti-spam efforts as pointed out in this previous story
Maybe they're "selling weapons to both sides" by backing a pro-spamming bill so they can have stronger reasons to step up their anti-spam behaviour?
Just exactly how will they know nothing illegal is happening if they won't be looking?
If you had read the headline, the appeals court sided with M$. There is no reason for this to go any futher now.
I can't believe that it would even have to go to the appeals court. To force any company (even M$) to include someone else's propriatary code is foolish.
Why not just get General Motors to start putting Porsche engines in their cars. SSDD
it would be Veritest. After reading the PDF myself, they draw their own conclusions that the G5 outperforms the two Dell machines they tested it against.
So how would Apple be at fault for saying they have the fastest CPU benchmarks based on independent testing? Unless of course "a very stupid man decided to take the large stack of money."
Solid State Electronics Laboratory for the smallest balls known to exist!
In repsonse to your first question, for a digital camera to rival the higest quality analog cameras (I'm speaking either Canon or Nikon here), you're going to be looking at one of the new 11 MegaPixel cameras that have just recently been released.
Expect to pay a nice price for them. IIRC, they start around $5000 USD
...they've been working on a different approach specifically with PDAs. The technique uses spacial orientation for scrolling and zooming to give a peephole view of a larger picture.
Here's a link to the main researcher's website incluiding papers, videos and posters.
After reading the instructions for obtaining a license, this piece caught my attention.
So let's say everyone who has worked on Linux obtained these licenses. Wouldn't this allow them to freely share the code with each other. Question is, can IBM's contributions to Linux be classified as non-commercial use?
Also, does this cover the "infringing code" that SCO claims IBM copied?
... if I posted a link to a response located in /dev/null ? Does that conform with the letter of the law?
From reading the article, it seems there are several factors contributing to the problems in Bhutan.
1. The citizen's have let the programming they view influence them far too greatly:
Yes, I realize that what we view in the world affects who we are, but to solely blame television is ignorant. I was instilled with morals/values at a very early age (as I'm sure most people are), which gave me a very clear sense of right and wrong. I watch plenty of television that contains violence, sex and coarse language, but I'm not out raping and pillaging.
2. The goverment dropped the ball as far as legislating what content was allowed to be broadcast:
Some people are just naturally aggressive or have mental disorders that cause them to lash out against society. Yes, television is probably partly responsible, but not fully. Another interesting section of the article:
It would seem that maybe it's not the amount of crime that's increased (though I'm sure it has somewhat), but instead that the types of crimes being commited have changed. One section says that marijuana (which grows like weeds there) is now being smoked. This is probably because before television, they never knew it could be smoked. Ignorance is bliss!
...that Windows only comes with VBScript and JScript. The languages are secondary to the ability to program well.
Something my professors have always stressed to me is "The right tool for the right job." It's a good thing that we now have a choice in which languages we can use. But what hasn't changed much is good programming practices.
Teach a kid how to be a good coder and he/she will be able to figure out for themself what language(s) they like and dislike. Much better than forcing specific languages on them (i.e. MS shipping VS.Net with Windows).
They will be able to google a plethera of resources specific to the given task at hand and recommendations on the best approach.
This is just another example of a legitimate tool (like a hammer) which has "evil" uses (like a hammer) being struck down based solely on the fact that is has "evil" uses.
There is a saying.. Don't blame the hammer (or in this case, the hammer's creator) for being a hammer; blame the person stupid enough to crack open his friend's head with it.
It's unfortunate he settled so quickly instead of trying to get some backing from say the EFF or some other similar organization. I would love to have a nice search engine for my university's network.
"...and my attempts to shut it off only caused other nozzles to splash me as if I were in a penitentiary riot. (Hilton's plan to install a voice-activated control could be just the solution.) Another surprise: Despite all the high-end design, the shower lacks a soap dish."
So that's how all those riots start. Someone drops the soap from not having a dish to put it in!
Another of life's age old mysteries solved.
From the article:
So Novell agrees that the information in this ammendment appears to be legit, but they can't verify that this ammendment actually occurred because they don't have a copy of it themselves?
Could it be that SCO happened to "create" this ammendment and then convienently "find it in a filing cabinet" ?
An interesting point. With University students, namely engineers, they are required to take at least one, sometimes several ethics courses designed to encourage responsible practices later on in their careers.
Hopefully, something similar will be put in place for these highschool students, though it may not be as effective due to the generally lower level of maturity.
Actually, if you listen carefully during the episode, he actually does say "Forfty"
IIRC, at the time that WASTE was developed, Nullsoft was owned by AOL/Time Warner. This would mean that anything created by employees of Nullsoft had to be cleared with AOL.
Therefore, it couldn't be produced under the GPL unless AOL said so. Most employment contracts specifically state that any thing or idea created, conceived, developed, etc. while employeed becomes property of the employeer (in this case, AOL/Time Warner)
Kent: Mr. Simpson, how do you respond to the charges that petty vandalism such as graffiti is down eighty percent, while heavy sack-beatings are up a shocking nine hundred percent?
Homer: Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forfty percent of all people know that.
Homer the Vigilante
Just because they shouldn't play them doesn't mean there should be a law against the sale of these games to minors.
Here in Canada, it is perfectly legal to show full frontal nudity, explicit language, and graphic violence after 9:00 pm. Hell, some of the movie channels that come with regular cable (not PPV) even show nudity before this... Thinks back to a recent airing of Blade Runner
At the young age of 15, I sat down in the middle of the day with my Dad and some of his buddies and watched the Outer Limits (the episode where Alyssa Milano gets naked). He obviously believed I was old enough to view such content.
He didn't, however, think that at age 8, I was old enough to be looking at his Playboys.
But this also goes against the spirit of competition as it grants you a monopoly on said design/creation.
The whole point of there being a 50 year limit is to allow the creator time enough to collect profit and then pass the design/creation on to the public where anyone and everyone can use it freely.
It depends on which colour theory you are using.
In one case, Yellow + Blue = Green (Subtractive.
In the other, it's not true as green is a primary colour. Red + Green = Yellow.
...leaving both hands free while searching for pr0n.
What DeCSS allows you to do is watch a DVD on hardware which hasn't been blessed by the DVD-CCA.
Exactly. Breaking into a car is circumventing protection methods, in this case, a car lock. Stealing the car is something completely different.
However, fair use comes into play when the object in question (DVD, car) is your own property. The analogy is correct, there are just certain circumstances in which it holds a slightly different meaning.
Mr. Lockyer seems to be confusing the act of Burglary with that of Circumvention. DeCSS is not a tool for stealing or copying DVDs, but a tool for decoding a DVD for use in a DVD player, i.e. one created for Linux.
This would be like accusing someone who breaks into a car, but doesn't take anything, of grand theft auto. I think Mr. Lockyer needs to spend a few more years in Law School or at least read over the criminal legislation.
I would have to disagree with this. If you compare Earth and Mars, you will find that the two planets are quite similar in respect to being able to support simple life forms.
If Mars were very different from Earth, then this would be more of a comfort since the possibility of planets with the ability to support life all of a sudden doubles (from simply Earth-like planets to Earth- and Mars-like planets).
Even taking into consideration the sheer magnitude of the universe and the number of planets within it, a very small percentage are Earth-like. Most are more like Jupiter, huge gas giants. Having more planets to choose from is much more comforting than finding life on a planet similar to a planet known to support life.