And those two are just in the fucking near by area. I'm not going to disclose who I work for but I promise you that the organization does indeed provide it's employees with ample opportunity to invent and patent their inventions.
Here's a cup of reading comprehension genius - read page 2 of that UNC policy and tell me who the patents are OWNED BY.
...every invention or discovery or part thereof that results from research or other activities carried out at a constituent institution...shall be property of the constituent institution
Know what that means? All the patents gotten by UNC students and profs are owned by UNC. Sheesh, and they say that the degrees from those ACC schools are watered down. Don't Duke and UNC teach reading anymore? OF COURSE they let you do work that leads to patents, and apply for patents, but YOU DON'T OWN THE RIGHTS. Which was my point, if you choose to read it. Yes, lots of grad students have patents from their work. Some derive (usually) small royalties from them. However, I still maintain I've never seen a University that, as standard policy, allows students (or even profs, for that matter) to patent work derived from their position in the university and keep full rights. This has been the case since the 50's when there were some famous cases related to that, a few involving some very lucrative catalyst patents. Since then, universities have wised up, and they make their inventors sign away the rights as a precondition of working or studying there.
NCSU has a chancellor that writes open letters to the students telling them to "respect the DMCA" and NCSU's stance on student's intellectual property is to take it away from them and claim it belongs to the university. This one instance does not make NCSU grand or great and I will not applaud them until they do the right thing elsewhere within the University as well. Before anyone responds with "That's how it is in real life" or some other bullshit answer I encourage you to go look around at both employers and other universities practices in regards to employee/student developed IP. Most universities have started giving that IP to the students and do not keep it for themselves as NCSU does.
I'm pretty sure you're absolutely full of shit. Most Universities (and all that I've been a part of), and pretty much every company on the planet require grad students/employees to sign over rights to what you create. If you're talking undergrad - where you pay the university - that might be different, but unlikely even then if you developed that IP with university property. For grad work, where the university pays you, the university keeps the rights. Sometimes there's a royalty sharing agreement, but you don't get to negotiate it.
As for companies, if you find one that lets you keep IP that you create as an employee, stay there. I've never seen such a company.
How the hell is Doubleclick worth so much money? I mean.. are that many people clicking ads?
If that's your question, the relevant one would be how Google is worth so much more than even that, since clicking ads is their entire revenue stream too (give or take 0.1%).
But I have not bothered to read the full article and I still understood they were talking about virtualization. In fact the only person who has mentioned dual booting thus far is you. Maybe you confused the two but I haven't got the impression anyone else did and I certainly didn't so as far slashdot goes it isn't that bad. (Dupes are ten a penny here, with a UID that low you should have noticed by now)
Others have pointed out bootcamp as well. I'm sure the OP's point is that, given the existence of bootcamp and the fact that this restriction applies to non-Mac VMs as well, that the summary is completely deceptive as this has nothing to do with Macs. He's making the assumption that since this erroneous story has been reported approximately 27 times over the last few months that it must be an intentional FUD campaign.
That's one possibility. Personally I subscribe to the theory of never ascribing to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. In this case, Zonk is a fucking retard.
As long as the compression and packetization process is reversible, it won't be a problem. Naturally, that digitization will have to be such that the reconstructed waveform is within tolerance for fax machines.
If the big telcos start doing a bunch of lossy compression on lines their customers expect to be clean, expect riots.
No way - you're telling me that doing a Digital-Analog-Digital-Compress-Uncompress-Analog- Digital cycle might have deleterious effects? Whodathunk it! I mean come on - you can't take a digital signal running on an analog carrier, digitize it using another service, *compress* it with huge loss, and expect it to come out looking even reasonably coherent. You'd have to be an idiot to have any expectation that would work.
$7 - $10 for something that looks like it came out of my PVR150 and then got compressed is absurd. A large portion of the available DVD's already sell for that price or less. Apple doesn't have to deal with the physical limitations that Target, Blockbuster & Walmart have to live with. There's no excuse for their product being more expensive at a given quality le
New, popular movies are not available for $7. That goes for $15-$20. Charging 1/3 to 1/2 of that will find a substantial market; it's probably not for you (or me), but that will sell if they did it.
Do note that $7 is much less than they're currently selling for.
Uhh, you are all correct. Volcanoes tend to either cool or warm the earth. For example Mount Pinatuba cooled the earth by 3 degrees over a multi year period.
In other words, 1) Yes, it's true that a single volcanic eruption can put out more greenhouse gases than man does. 2) It's also true that man outputs, on average, much more than volcanoes. This is reconciled by the fact that big ass volcanoes don't erupt every year, but when they do, they have an extreme effect on the climate.
Except that "commercial activity" implies trading virtual content for real-world money. The article (hell, even the summary) goes out of its way to point out that as long as a transaction involving real-world money isn't involved, no tax would be assessed.
Remind me to link to a definition of "facetious" for you next time.
What I think needs to happen, is Apple needs to find a way of letting people download video for a particular device. Unlike with audio, where most people will listen to the same track on their iPod and through their home stereo (which makes me think that a lot of people must be near-deaf, but I digress), people aren't going to do the same thing with video. They want high-def content for their HDTV, which means a different file from the quick-downloading version for their iPod.
Might find a scary slippery slope on that one, it's too close to what the MPAA wants (separate license for each device). If done right, the HD lightly compressed version would cost more than the iPod version, but would come in a format that contained the iPod version as well.
Seems fair if good HD quality copies of movies cost near $20 since you're getting better-than-DVD quality, whereas the crappy looking iPod versions were around $7-$10.
You're suggesting (seriously?) that you don't expect Vista to show up on more than 2% of desktops? I would like some of whatever it is you smoked this afternoon.
I think OP was being hyperbolic. Point is sound, though - you think 2K and 98 had a slowing effect on XP uptake, I'd say XP will slow Vista much worse.
It's shed light on the ridiculousness of software patents
On the contrary, it's shown that the system, slow as it is, at least works reasonably. They abandoned the lame-o patent claims long ago when it became clear they weren't winning them. Not to mention which, no software patents were never declared invalid in this case; rather, it simply became clear that SCO's interpretation of the licenses was retarded. In that sense, the patent claims were a matter of contract law, which was what was in fact disputed. Since then, this has become purlely a copyright case, and they're obviously losing that too.
and brought clarity to copyright law.
I don't know what's been clarified, other than the fact that there isn't any SCO-owned code in Linux save what they put there and has since been removed. Copyright law has always been clear with regard to this case: don't copy what isn't yours. Problem is (for SCO), IBM didn't.
Additionally it's shown that there are companies who are willing to stand up for Free Software, even at great expense.
I'd be wary - IBM is standing up for themselves. When they start filing amicus briefs in cases they're not involved in, that don't impact them directly, then I'll agree with that. Are they?
Ryanair has announced that their entire fleet is being fitted with equipment to allow calls on board. Ryanair don't fly to the USA (yet!) but it does raise the question as to whether the FCC would have jurisdiction over a non-US airline.
If they're over US airspace, have a feeling they do.
If you need to be that smart to use the OS, something is wrong.
More to the point, if you need to be that smart to use the OS, wouldn't you rather use an OS that puts those smarts to use through powerful tools like shell scripting, built-in command-line accessible compilers, and more? I thought the whole point of using Windows was that anyone can use it. Tell somebody's grandma that she should debug her drivers, you know?
Only the person who knows hitting left shift (IIRC) at exactly the right moment would have any idea.
Or someone who pays attention to how much space they have on their hard drive. I can't remember - do linux partitions show up as unformatted drives in Windows now?
Hey, there's nothing wrong with a little hyperbole - but when you use "5 hours" and "10 minutes" in the same sentence to describe the same flight, it just doesn't work.
Well, if you *want* to be a pedant, it does still work as I put it. Let's apply a Poisson distribution to this problem and effectively treat it as a queue. If we have a 5 hour flight, I'm in audible range (for loud cell calls) of 100 people, and my friend has an average of 10 minutes or less between cell calls, and he's representative of all people on the plane, then 1) how many actual minutes of cell-free do I have on the flight? and 2) how many annoying conversations and I hearing at once? Answers: 1) not many; and 2) a lot. That's the point of the 10 minutes/5 hours part. The shorter the duration of his time between calls, the more miserable my 5 hour flight.
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Now here is a cup of STFU:h /copyright/PatentAndCopyrightPolicies.pdf
http://intranet.northcarolina.edu/docs/aa/researc
http://www.provost.duke.edu/pdfs/IntelProp.pdf
And those two are just in the fucking near by area. I'm not going to disclose who I work for but I promise you that the organization does indeed provide it's employees with ample opportunity to invent and patent their inventions.
Here's a cup of reading comprehension genius - read page 2 of that UNC policy and tell me who the patents are OWNED BY.
Know what that means? All the patents gotten by UNC students and profs are owned by UNC. Sheesh, and they say that the degrees from those ACC schools are watered down. Don't Duke and UNC teach reading anymore? OF COURSE they let you do work that leads to patents, and apply for patents, but YOU DON'T OWN THE RIGHTS. Which was my point, if you choose to read it. Yes, lots of grad students have patents from their work. Some derive (usually) small royalties from them. However, I still maintain I've never seen a University that, as standard policy, allows students (or even profs, for that matter) to patent work derived from their position in the university and keep full rights. This has been the case since the 50's when there were some famous cases related to that, a few involving some very lucrative catalyst patents. Since then, universities have wised up, and they make their inventors sign away the rights as a precondition of working or studying there.
NCSU has a chancellor that writes open letters to the students telling them to "respect the DMCA" and NCSU's stance on student's intellectual property is to take it away from them and claim it belongs to the university. This one instance does not make NCSU grand or great and I will not applaud them until they do the right thing elsewhere within the University as well. Before anyone responds with "That's how it is in real life" or some other bullshit answer I encourage you to go look around at both employers and other universities practices in regards to employee/student developed IP. Most universities have started giving that IP to the students and do not keep it for themselves as NCSU does.
I'm pretty sure you're absolutely full of shit. Most Universities (and all that I've been a part of), and pretty much every company on the planet require grad students/employees to sign over rights to what you create. If you're talking undergrad - where you pay the university - that might be different, but unlikely even then if you developed that IP with university property. For grad work, where the university pays you, the university keeps the rights. Sometimes there's a royalty sharing agreement, but you don't get to negotiate it.
As for companies, if you find one that lets you keep IP that you create as an employee, stay there. I've never seen such a company.
How the hell is Doubleclick worth so much money? I mean.. are that many people clicking ads?
If that's your question, the relevant one would be how Google is worth so much more than even that, since clicking ads is their entire revenue stream too (give or take 0.1%).
"The statistics for Canadians show a slightly greater number of male users."
THis is compensated by a surprising number of sheep.
But I have not bothered to read the full article and I still understood they were talking about virtualization. In fact the only person who has mentioned dual booting thus far is you. Maybe you confused the two but I haven't got the impression anyone else did and I certainly didn't so as far slashdot goes it isn't that bad. (Dupes are ten a penny here, with a UID that low you should have noticed by now)
Others have pointed out bootcamp as well. I'm sure the OP's point is that, given the existence of bootcamp and the fact that this restriction applies to non-Mac VMs as well, that the summary is completely deceptive as this has nothing to do with Macs. He's making the assumption that since this erroneous story has been reported approximately 27 times over the last few months that it must be an intentional FUD campaign.
That's one possibility. Personally I subscribe to the theory of never ascribing to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. In this case, Zonk is a fucking retard.
As long as the compression and packetization process is reversible, it won't be a problem. Naturally, that digitization will have to be such that the reconstructed waveform is within tolerance for fax machines. If the big telcos start doing a bunch of lossy compression on lines their customers expect to be clean, expect riots.
I wish I could just pass out when my wife asks me some stupid question that I don't want to answer.
On a related note, it's astounding how poor my hearing has gotten in the last couple of years.
No way - you're telling me that doing a Digital-Analog-Digital-Compress-Uncompress-Analog- Digital cycle might have deleterious effects? Whodathunk it! I mean come on - you can't take a digital signal running on an analog carrier, digitize it using another service, *compress* it with huge loss, and expect it to come out looking even reasonably coherent. You'd have to be an idiot to have any expectation that would work.
When your business model depends upon litigation, and you have no one else to sue. What do you expect to happen?
Do like the new Coke Zero commercials and sue yourself. I see them suing Canopy and Caldera. Watch the hilarity ensue.
How about the possibility he may have also invented the transistor? As mentioned in the article, I don't know what else a triode would be.
$7 - $10 for something that looks like it came out of my PVR150 and then got compressed is absurd. A large portion of the available DVD's already sell for that price or less. Apple doesn't have to deal with the physical limitations that Target, Blockbuster & Walmart have to live with. There's no excuse for their product being more expensive at a given quality le
New, popular movies are not available for $7. That goes for $15-$20. Charging 1/3 to 1/2 of that will find a substantial market; it's probably not for you (or me), but that will sell if they did it.
Do note that $7 is much less than they're currently selling for.
Uhh, you are all correct. Volcanoes tend to either cool or warm the earth. For example Mount Pinatuba cooled the earth by 3 degrees over a multi year period.
In other words, 1) Yes, it's true that a single volcanic eruption can put out more greenhouse gases than man does. 2) It's also true that man outputs, on average, much more than volcanoes. This is reconciled by the fact that big ass volcanoes don't erupt every year, but when they do, they have an extreme effect on the climate.
Except that "commercial activity" implies trading virtual content for real-world money. The article (hell, even the summary) goes out of its way to point out that as long as a transaction involving real-world money isn't involved, no tax would be assessed.
Remind me to link to a definition of "facetious" for you next time.
What I think needs to happen, is Apple needs to find a way of letting people download video for a particular device. Unlike with audio, where most people will listen to the same track on their iPod and through their home stereo (which makes me think that a lot of people must be near-deaf, but I digress), people aren't going to do the same thing with video. They want high-def content for their HDTV, which means a different file from the quick-downloading version for their iPod.
Might find a scary slippery slope on that one, it's too close to what the MPAA wants (separate license for each device). If done right, the HD lightly compressed version would cost more than the iPod version, but would come in a format that contained the iPod version as well.
Seems fair if good HD quality copies of movies cost near $20 since you're getting better-than-DVD quality, whereas the crappy looking iPod versions were around $7-$10.
The bottom line is that commercial activity that occurs in virtual worlds should be taxed the same as in the real world. BULLSHIT
As long as the taxes are payable in virtual currency, I'm OK with it.
The issue with video quality that they have is that Apple only sells videos in 640x480
Beyond that, it's heavily compressed 640x480, correct?
"On the Wired site, Clive Thompson has up an article
Is this Jack's non-evil brother who derives a healthy, cathartic enjoyment of occasionally playing violent video games?
You're suggesting (seriously?) that you don't expect Vista to show up on more than 2% of desktops? I would like some of whatever it is you smoked this afternoon.
I think OP was being hyperbolic. Point is sound, though - you think 2K and 98 had a slowing effect on XP uptake, I'd say XP will slow Vista much worse.
It's shed light on the ridiculousness of software patents
On the contrary, it's shown that the system, slow as it is, at least works reasonably. They abandoned the lame-o patent claims long ago when it became clear they weren't winning them. Not to mention which, no software patents were never declared invalid in this case; rather, it simply became clear that SCO's interpretation of the licenses was retarded. In that sense, the patent claims were a matter of contract law, which was what was in fact disputed. Since then, this has become purlely a copyright case, and they're obviously losing that too.
and brought clarity to copyright law.
I don't know what's been clarified, other than the fact that there isn't any SCO-owned code in Linux save what they put there and has since been removed. Copyright law has always been clear with regard to this case: don't copy what isn't yours. Problem is (for SCO), IBM didn't.
Additionally it's shown that there are companies who are willing to stand up for Free Software, even at great expense.
I'd be wary - IBM is standing up for themselves. When they start filing amicus briefs in cases they're not involved in, that don't impact them directly, then I'll agree with that. Are they?
Ryanair has announced that their entire fleet is being fitted with equipment to allow calls on board. Ryanair don't fly to the USA (yet!) but it does raise the question as to whether the FCC would have jurisdiction over a non-US airline.
If they're over US airspace, have a feeling they do.
If you need to be that smart to use the OS, something is wrong.
More to the point, if you need to be that smart to use the OS, wouldn't you rather use an OS that puts those smarts to use through powerful tools like shell scripting, built-in command-line accessible compilers, and more? I thought the whole point of using Windows was that anyone can use it. Tell somebody's grandma that she should debug her drivers, you know?
Only the person who knows hitting left shift (IIRC) at exactly the right moment would have any idea.
Or someone who pays attention to how much space they have on their hard drive. I can't remember - do linux partitions show up as unformatted drives in Windows now?
Hey, there's nothing wrong with a little hyperbole - but when you use "5 hours" and "10 minutes" in the same sentence to describe the same flight, it just doesn't work.
Well, if you *want* to be a pedant, it does still work as I put it. Let's apply a Poisson distribution to this problem and effectively treat it as a queue. If we have a 5 hour flight, I'm in audible range (for loud cell calls) of 100 people, and my friend has an average of 10 minutes or less between cell calls, and he's representative of all people on the plane, then 1) how many actual minutes of cell-free do I have on the flight? and 2) how many annoying conversations and I hearing at once? Answers: 1) not many; and 2) a lot. That's the point of the 10 minutes/5 hours part. The shorter the duration of his time between calls, the more miserable my 5 hour flight.
If you're going to go pedant, make sure you win!
Way to overanalyze there, pedant. Bet you're fun at parties.
Nah man, it's easier to tell other people what they should be doing than to do it yourself.
Kind of like how Al Gore's house uses as much electricity as a small city?
Incidently, the guy you mention who helped out with the drought kicks ass.