buying a device to read a book as opposed to just buying the paper book and not having to worry about charging it up before making a coast-to-coast flight.
that's if you're even allowed to switch it on these days...
I have a Palm Zire 71... read a lot of e-books on it... the display is a heck of a lot better than that on my old M105... I'm still waiting for a cheap practical large display device though...
the only thing that worries me about companys deciding to close down selling e-books is that of books that have been locked against a user's particular device ID... how are those customers going to be able to change ID's so that they can enjoy their books on devices they purchase later???
At least with Mobipocket, I'm expecting them to have long term confidence in e-books considering their primary product is a book reader.. but my long term worry is if they fold leaving me without the means to transfer the books I've purchased against one palm device to another replacement device. It would leave me having to use dodgy hacking tools in order to frig the device ID of the new device in order to carry on using my existing books and software.
And what if i grow tired of one book and want to sell it to another palm user??? Surely I should be able to simply transfer ownership???
>THE UK GOVERNMENT has announced plans to keep an electronic file on every child in England in a range of new child protection measures announced by prime minister Tony Bliar.
>The children's files together with their unique e-number will be managed by local authorities in a "local information hub". The file will contain the name, address and date of birth of each child, together with the name of the school attended and whether the child is known to such agencies as the police, social services or educational welfare. Where multiple agencies are involved the file will denote which one profesional will have overall reponsibilty
Yet again... launched to "protect" the children... and yet another place where incorrect information can have devastating consequences for the parents of a child if a mistake is made during data entry...
Teacher notices bruises on child's torso... entry in database... social services could now be investigating for child abuse when it could have been a simple injury from a fall... but the reason might not have been entered later after investigation by the teacher however that entry will be there forever... Same child misses school several days in a row for a perfectly valid reason some months later... yet again social services could put 2 and 2 together later on and make 5...
What's the bet's they'll try and fly this kite by saying "the innocent have nothing to fear"??? If there's anything to go by from previous cases... the innocent have everything to fear when social services get it in their minds that there could be abuse when there isn't...
Hmmm... better make sure the window is shut next time I sing in the bath... wouldn't want to be hit with a performing rights violation for an unauthorised public performance...
"And on Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing to look into the connection between file-swapping services and pornography, called by its chairman, Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican of Utah."
ahhh... the SCO connection... I see now... it's all falling into place... I wonder if SCO will claim they have IP in p2p technology??? threaten legal action unless punters cough up for a license...
The only _positive_ Be innovation left is their indexed "live query" filesystem.
Isn't something just like this that's going to be the basis of Longhorn's file system. Yet another Microsoft "innovation"???, and yet another headache for OSS developers to provide file system support for for OSes like Linux... What's the bets MS will have got this heavily patented and DRMed to shut Linux out from ever being able to duel boot on Longhorn PCs.
In war, these cheats obviously aren't going to be available
In war... there is no "god key"... The whole point of the MILES system is to show junior and senior commanders that their decisions WILL get their own people killed and that they should concentrate on making decisions that minimise their own casualties while still getting the job done...
War is not fair when done right... the opponent isn't supposed to get a chance to return fire.
The rules in war are only there to minimise the unneccesary suffering of casualties, captives and the non-combatant civilian population.
My definition of "active" mirror is one in which the mirror is continuously driven by means of servo feedback loops etc. during the imaging process. (Commonly used on Earth to compensate for atmospheric disturbances in the light path through Earth's atmosphere during the exposure.) I have no problems with one which is merely active during a calibration phase to compensate for shifting of fittings during launch. I do though, see absolutely no requirement for a continuous focusing feedback loop when out of the atmosphere...
IANAL, but you don't have a right to distribute... unless specifically granted to you in the terms under which you purchased the copyrighted work...
The only work that you legally have the right to distribute without having to purchase a right, is original work which you personally have composed or work that is in the public domain (either by having expired into it or by being specifically placed into it) or work that has copyleft on it and you are complying with those copyleft terms.
If you make your legal personal copy as permitted under section 1... you are not permitted to put it up for distribution at all. It doesn't matter if you claim that you are only putting it up on p2p for the benefit of those who've already got the CD but don't have a ripper or the time... you are still in breach of section 2 (b) and 2 (c)
Stocking old hardware will not work for long when they start creating websites that do a BIOS check before letting you browse... and when they make the ISPs do a BIOS check as part of the user authentication when you go online...well that's it... "Game Over"...
At this rate there really will be two internets... the corporate dominated "Western" one and the rest of the world. "Where do you want to go today???"
that website's got an original brochure for it. 12 mph water... 75 mph land. Anyway, UK waterways have got rigidly enforced speed limits. Even right down to 3 mph and enforced with radar guns... so that 30 mph gig would have trouble keeping down to the limit...:)
This "new" one is just one in a long line of press releases from marketing people who haven't looked into the history of the concept... mind you this new one does look cool...
why would you need an active focusing mirror when there's no atmosphere and the targets are all at infinity???
It's an "engineering" image made just to check that the machine is awake and working. It's got a full shakedown scheduled for it during which I would expect them to actually "calibrate" the optics.
Once (and if) Apple gets their iTunes music store over to windows, and into international markets we will slowly begin to see the CD market go the way of the horse and buggy.
This guy's having a go at selling on what he's "bought" from iTunes. Claiming that the doctrine of "First Sale" allows him to sell it on. (www.theinquirer.net)
I did have an electric typewriter... but I was driving it with the word processing program...:) meant I could save my documents and rework them later with only minor changes. Later on, with the QL and its office software suite, I was able to do mailmerges easily as well. All helped running the club I was secretary for.
Re-usable content my dear boy... re-usable content... can you re-use your content for different display devices very quickly and easily??? Stuff I write for aircraft manuals has to be displayable not only on the computer screen in Hypertext CDrom format and printed page as a bound book but also on the little monitor in the plane for the pilot/ground-crew to use as a diagnostics check list where the challenge response tags get used to drive the diagnostic software. All from the same text file just using different "edd" files describing the display device. SGML done to AECMA 1000D... ain't it wonderful. Try the same tricks in ms-word... no chance. Makes it a heck of a lot easier to do ammendments to things as well. You only have to change that item in one place and it's automatically changed for everything when the ammended data set is issued.
Slashdot Mirror
that's if you're even allowed to switch it on these days...
I have a Palm Zire 71... read a lot of e-books on it... the display is a heck of a lot better than that on my old M105... I'm still waiting for a cheap practical large display device though...
the only thing that worries me about companys deciding to close down selling e-books is that of books that have been locked against a user's particular device ID... how are those customers going to be able to change ID's so that they can enjoy their books on devices they purchase later???
At least with Mobipocket, I'm expecting them to have long term confidence in e-books considering their primary product is a book reader.. but my long term worry is if they fold leaving me without the means to transfer the books I've purchased against one palm device to another replacement device. It would leave me having to use dodgy hacking tools in order to frig the device ID of the new device in order to carry on using my existing books and software.
And what if i grow tired of one book and want to sell it to another palm user??? Surely I should be able to simply transfer ownership???
www.theinquirer.net
>THE UK GOVERNMENT has announced plans to keep an electronic file on every child in England in a range of new child protection measures announced by prime minister Tony Bliar.
>The children's files together with their unique e-number will be managed by local authorities in a "local information hub". The file will contain the name, address and date of birth of each child, together with the name of the school attended and whether the child is known to such agencies as the police, social services or educational welfare. Where multiple agencies are involved the file will denote which one profesional will have overall reponsibilty
Yet again... launched to "protect" the children... and yet another place where incorrect information can have devastating consequences for the parents of a child if a mistake is made during data entry...
Teacher notices bruises on child's torso... entry in database... social services could now be investigating for child abuse when it could have been a simple injury from a fall... but the reason might not have been entered later after investigation by the teacher however that entry will be there forever... Same child misses school several days in a row for a perfectly valid reason some months later... yet again social services could put 2 and 2 together later on and make 5...
What's the bet's they'll try and fly this kite by saying "the innocent have nothing to fear"??? If there's anything to go by from previous cases... the innocent have everything to fear when social services get it in their minds that there could be abuse when there isn't...
Hmmm... better make sure the window is shut next time I sing in the bath... wouldn't want to be hit with a performing rights violation for an unauthorised public performance...
What exactly does it give you?
Lars Wirzenius took them, but there isn't a date or location given. The date on the original files in
ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/Linux/doc/PEOPLE
is 25th Feb 1993. So anytime before then.
At least he doesn't dance and sweat profusely... or have a mugshot
Deity alone knows what they'll do with the file name "Animal Farm.txt"... no renaming required... and "Little Women"??? "Puss in Boots"???
ahhh... the SCO connection... I see now... it's all falling into place... I wonder if SCO will claim they have IP in p2p technology??? threaten legal action unless punters cough up for a license...
they're pretty close to the line sometimes with their suggestive moves etc...
Next thing you know... Microsoft will be trying a similar trick to get Linux servers shut down cos they can be used to serve pron...
RIAA gets 17 comments almost immediately... obviously FreeBSD just isn't "hot" in here anymore...
never mind... wait a few months for it to come down a bit in price and ... you never know... some nice people may have ported a Linux to it :)
Imagine a Beowulf.... never mind... I like the idea of a wireless lan of them playing neverwinter nights together...
Isn't something just like this that's going to be the basis of Longhorn's file system. Yet another Microsoft "innovation"???, and yet another headache for OSS developers to provide file system support for for OSes like Linux... What's the bets MS will have got this heavily patented and DRMed to shut Linux out from ever being able to duel boot on Longhorn PCs.
In war... there is no "god key"...
The whole point of the MILES system is to show junior and senior commanders that their decisions WILL get their own people killed and that they should concentrate on making decisions that minimise their own casualties while still getting the job done...
War is not fair when done right... the opponent isn't supposed to get a chance to return fire.
The rules in war are only there to minimise the unneccesary suffering of casualties, captives and the non-combatant civilian population.
Business, however, should be fair
I thought that there wasn't enough of a market to keep this stuff alive still. Happily, it seems I'm wrong.
My definition of "active" mirror is one in which the mirror is continuously driven by means of servo feedback loops etc. during the imaging process. (Commonly used on Earth to compensate for atmospheric disturbances in the light path through Earth's atmosphere during the exposure.) I have no problems with one which is merely active during a calibration phase to compensate for shifting of fittings during launch. I do though, see absolutely no requirement for a continuous focusing feedback loop when out of the atmosphere...
The only work that you legally have the right to distribute without having to purchase a right, is original work which you personally have composed or work that is in the public domain (either by having expired into it or by being specifically placed into it) or work that has copyleft on it and you are complying with those copyleft terms.
If you make your legal personal copy as permitted under section 1... you are not permitted to put it up for distribution at all. It doesn't matter if you claim that you are only putting it up on p2p for the benefit of those who've already got the CD but don't have a ripper or the time... you are still in breach of section 2 (b) and 2 (c)
At this rate there really will be two internets... the corporate dominated "Western" one and the rest of the world.
"Where do you want to go today???"
that website's got an original brochure for it. 12 mph water... 75 mph land. Anyway, UK waterways have got rigidly enforced speed limits. Even right down to 3 mph and enforced with radar guns... so that 30 mph gig would have trouble keeping down to the limit... :)
We've got one of these amphibious cars that tootles up and down our river every so often already...
www.amphicar.com
This "new" one is just one in a long line of press releases from marketing people who haven't looked into the history of the concept... mind you this new one does look cool...
It's an "engineering" image made just to check that the machine is awake and working. It's got a full shakedown scheduled for it during which I would expect them to actually "calibrate" the optics.
HTH
This guy's having a go at selling on what he's "bought" from iTunes. Claiming that the doctrine of "First Sale" allows him to sell it on. (www.theinquirer.net)
:)
This one could be interesting as well...
pay tax before they collect the money???
I did have an electric typewriter... but I was driving it with the word processing program... :) meant I could save my documents and rework them later with only minor changes. Later on, with the QL and its office software suite, I was able to do mailmerges easily as well. All helped running the club I was secretary for.
The "a" tag... ta very much...
Re-usable content my dear boy... re-usable content... can you re-use your content for different display devices very quickly and easily??? Stuff I write for aircraft manuals has to be displayable not only on the computer screen in Hypertext CDrom format and printed page as a bound book but also on the little monitor in the plane for the pilot/ground-crew to use as a diagnostics check list where the challenge response tags get used to drive the diagnostic software. All from the same text file just using different "edd" files describing the display device. SGML done to AECMA 1000D... ain't it wonderful. Try the same tricks in ms-word... no chance. Makes it a heck of a lot easier to do ammendments to things as well. You only have to change that item in one place and it's automatically changed for everything when the ammended data set is issued.