Of course, his opinion on this seems utterly pointless to me. The man is a physicist, specializing in solid-state and quantum physics. He's no more qualified to analyze the science behind climate change than an electrical engineer is to build a bridge.
Have you somehow missed the irony of your statement? I have no idea what your qualifications are to make that observation but they are undoubtedly less than the person you are criticizing. More to the point, none of us here have the qualifications to make a detailed assessment of the methodologies involved in examining projected climate change; we're all taking this on faith one way or another. Kind of smells like religion on both sides of the aisle to me which undoubtedly explains the religious zeal of those opining on this topic.
Cuba is a communist dictatorship from the old school. If Fidel says Microsoft's copyrights and patents are null and void in Cuba, that's the law in Cuba. If Fidel says your an enemy of the people, you're going to die or spend a long time in a Cuban prison. That's the way dictatorships work.
KDE was adamantly clear that KDE 4.0 was not a 'user' release, but was solely for third party developers to actually get involved and start porting, and to make a difference.
Well, here's the original release announcement for KDE 4.0:
If he did it, he didn't do it by himself. He did it with the aid of a Democratic Congress in passing the requested retroactive immunity legislation and IIRC our president-elect voted for that law as well. Democrat or Republican, big money from big telcos talks very loud. Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.
This is a default judgment against a foreign entity which undoubtedly is nothing more than an empty shell corporation with no assets. There is a reason they didn't bother to come and defend this action - the judgment is uncollectable. Talk about your pyrrhic victories.
According to wikipedia Faulun Gong "has five sets of meditation exercises and seeks to develop practitioners' hearts and character according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance". What evil bastards they must be. Apparently nobody cared about them until 1999 when 10,000 memebers staged a silent protest outside Party headquarters protesting beatings and arrests in Tianjin.
Most companies lease or rent for tax reasons, at least in the US. Capital goods like cars and equipment have to be depreciated under US tax law. That means if you buy a car for your company, the expense incurred cannot be deducted against your taxable income in the year that you incur the expense. Rather, you can only deduct the amount the asset decreases in value each year according to rather unfavorable depreciation schedules set by the government. If you lease the same item, all your lease payments are immediately deductible against your taxable income as an operating expense. This is the main attraction for leasing capital goods and is the basis for the commercial leasing industry in the US.
Off the shelf software like MS Office is not considered a capital good which must be depreciated. Rather, such software can be "expensed", i.e. the entire cost of the software can be deducted in the year it is incurred. As such there is no tax incentive to lease/rent software.
That is incorrect on so many levels, I don't know where to start. First, there is no overarching "US law" regulating the admissibility in evidence of fax signed documents. That would be a matter for the rules of evidence in each of the fifty States. In general, a fax would have the same legal status as any other copy and the admissibility of any copy would be determined by whether or not you could authenticate the copy as an accurate copy of the original. When you have only a copy, there is always the potential of a dispute about authenticity, i.e. whether or not the copy is accurate. When you have an originally signed document, the only thing that can usually be disputed is the authenticity of the signature which is generally easier to resolve. The fax enjoys no special legal status in any jurisdiction that I'm aware of.
I've got some news for you too - you are going to get old and die as well. And, oh yes, almost forgot - those kids you plan on having some day - after busting your ass to feed and clothe and educate your children for 25 years of your life, they will grow up to hate and resent you and wish you were dead. You will also have to listen to their brain splitting lack of logic as they complain about how much harder they have it and how "It's not fair". This routine pretty much runs like clockwork in every generation so I though you might want to know what's in store for you. Have a nice day.
If you want to deduct your donation in the US, the organization must be certified by the IRS as a qualified nonprofit organization. This is commonly referred to as 501(c)(3) certification after the IRS regulation that deals with nonprofits. An organization known as Software in the Public Interest(SPI) is a certified 501(c)(3) orgnaiztion that was primarily set up to fund the Debian project but also gives to many oother free software projects:
I am reproducing the following rant as a public service to save everyone a lot of typing
Mac Rant by John Watts, UK
Macs are overpriced underspec'd poncey toys for people with too much money. Macs are great value for money - you couldn't get the same spec for the same money elsewhere. OSX is great Windows is shit. Windows is great OSX is shit. 2GB is nowhere near enough memory these days. 2GB might not be enough for Vista but Macs run fine with it. OSX copied Vista. Vista copied OSX. Some boring shit about the finer points of Intel processor technology that's the equivalent of showing everyone how big your willy is except nobody is interested whatever. OSX is shit and Windows is shit; I run Ubuntu blah blah blah. I hate Steve Jobs he eats babies. Bill Gates eats the babies and their mothers. I run Cock-Rot Linux and it's the best in the world and I don't know why everyone uses Ubuntu when you can do everything using Vi and the terminal feature of my obscure mobile phone (which nobody ever rings 'cause I've got no friends). Some other boring comment about processors from someone who wants to show the world that his willy is bigger than the other processor posters (okay, one person read the whole post). Apple hardware is overpriced I hate anyone with an iPhone. Actually BSD is much better than Linux or Windows or OSX, that's why such a large percentage of people have it installed on their home machines. Doh, didn't you know that OSX is Unix and runs BSD. Actually it's not Unix 'cause Apple won't pay for the certification. Yes it is. No it's not. Fanboi something. Don't you know the whole fan-boy thing is old and so juvenille, just like your spelling. I still use a Lisa and it does everything I need it to. I use a Commodore 64 with a hard-drive and it's better than the Lisa. I don't know what I'm talking about and haven't read the article but I'm going to chip in with something irrelevant and wrong anyway. OSX sucks. OSX rocks. Bootcamp. DRM. iTunes. Steve Jobs is on first name terms with Satan. Bill Gates is Satan. I've got an iPhone and I love it. It really pisses me off that Apple has to put i in front of everything. Something about PPC versus Intel. Something completely without evidence comparing Apples and Oranges (pun intentional) proving PPC is and always will be better than x86. Something completely without evidence comparing Apples and Oranges proving x86 is and always will be better than PPC. GPL. Google. Linux. QNX. My Dad's harder than your Dad. My Nan's harder than your nan. Something anti-American. Angry riposte proving anti-American point. Thoughtful welll thought out riposte clearly disproving anti-American point that nobody will ever read because there's so much uninformed chaff above it.
If someone slipped in a virus into some OSS program (especially easy if they distribute it as a binary), how long, if ever, would it be before anyone caught it? Less than three months according to the article.
The main problem with EULA enforcement is it is a contract and contract law applies, including the need to prove actual damages. Exactly how are you going to prove any actual monetary damages because some guy is using your application in some arguably unauthorized way? In contrast, with copyright infringement draconian monetary damages are automatically awarded by statute upon a showing of infringement.
You are exactly right. I'd just like to add that the bankruptcy court lifted the automatic stay thus allowing the Novell case to go forward for the sole purpose of liquidating Novell's claim. All other issues regarding Novell's claim have been reserved by the bankruptcy court. In particular, the issue of whether SCO held the licensing revenue in trust for Novell is going to be solely determined by the bankruptcy court. If Novell loses the trust argument, they'll just be another general unsecured creditor and will likely receive only pennies on the dollar for their claim against SCO.
The only thing missing is the ability to make a profitable business from selling a desktop OS. This has never been about lack of functionality and the article makes it clear that the only objection is the lack of profit in this market for even excellently functioning linux desktop OSes that try to compete with MS's offerings. This is nothing new for RH; it's been their position since 2005 to stick with the server products.
It's not that female signals are unclear. Their signals are emblematic of their internal ambivalence about the nature and extent of their sexual interest. Overlay this with most women's need to validate their own sexual desirability by eliciting male attention even where they have no interest in the guy and the scene is set for a lot of miscommunication.
However, all the years of work in IT and high-tech startups have taught me that the best innovation one can achieve is a more simplified interface.Technology with more features and thus more complex interface is thus not truly innovative in my book. You must be a gnome developer.
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That's "The Pen Is Mightier" and you know it.
Have you somehow missed the irony of your statement? I have no idea what your qualifications are to make that observation but they are undoubtedly less than the person you are criticizing. More to the point, none of us here have the qualifications to make a detailed assessment of the methodologies involved in examining projected climate change; we're all taking this on faith one way or another. Kind of smells like religion on both sides of the aisle to me which undoubtedly explains the religious zeal of those opining on this topic.
Better yet, choose to remain silent but deadly.
Cuba is a communist dictatorship from the old school. If Fidel says Microsoft's copyrights and patents are null and void in Cuba, that's the law in Cuba. If Fidel says your an enemy of the people, you're going to die or spend a long time in a Cuban prison. That's the way dictatorships work.
KDE was adamantly clear that KDE 4.0 was not a 'user' release, but was solely for third party developers to actually get involved and start porting, and to make a difference.
Well, here's the original release announcement for KDE 4.0:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.0/
Now can we please stop with this revisionist history.
If he did it, he didn't do it by himself. He did it with the aid of a Democratic Congress in passing the requested retroactive immunity legislation and IIRC our president-elect voted for that law as well. Democrat or Republican, big money from big telcos talks very loud. Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.
This is a default judgment against a foreign entity which undoubtedly is nothing more than an empty shell corporation with no assets. There is a reason they didn't bother to come and defend this action - the judgment is uncollectable. Talk about your pyrrhic victories.
that the organisms they are going to treat have a whole lot of organic chemistry going on inside them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong
According to wikipedia Faulun Gong "has five sets of meditation exercises and seeks to develop practitioners' hearts and character according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance". What evil bastards they must be. Apparently nobody cared about them until 1999 when 10,000 memebers staged a silent protest outside Party headquarters protesting beatings and arrests in Tianjin.
Off the shelf software like MS Office is not considered a capital good which must be depreciated. Rather, such software can be "expensed", i.e. the entire cost of the software can be deducted in the year it is incurred. As such there is no tax incentive to lease/rent software.
450 posts till we get a Balmer joke!! Slashdot, I don't even know who you are anymore.
That is incorrect on so many levels, I don't know where to start. First, there is no overarching "US law" regulating the admissibility in evidence of fax signed documents. That would be a matter for the rules of evidence in each of the fifty States. In general, a fax would have the same legal status as any other copy and the admissibility of any copy would be determined by whether or not you could authenticate the copy as an accurate copy of the original. When you have only a copy, there is always the potential of a dispute about authenticity, i.e. whether or not the copy is accurate. When you have an originally signed document, the only thing that can usually be disputed is the authenticity of the signature which is generally easier to resolve. The fax enjoys no special legal status in any jurisdiction that I'm aware of.
I've got some news for you too - you are going to get old and die as well. And, oh yes, almost forgot - those kids you plan on having some day - after busting your ass to feed and clothe and educate your children for 25 years of your life, they will grow up to hate and resent you and wish you were dead. You will also have to listen to their brain splitting lack of logic as they complain about how much harder they have it and how "It's not fair". This routine pretty much runs like clockwork in every generation so I though you might want to know what's in store for you. Have a nice day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_in_the_Public_Interest
Macs are overpriced underspec'd poncey toys for people with too much money. Macs are great value for money - you couldn't get the same spec for the same money elsewhere. OSX is great Windows is shit. Windows is great OSX is shit. 2GB is nowhere near enough memory these days. 2GB might not be enough for Vista but Macs run fine with it. OSX copied Vista. Vista copied OSX. Some boring shit about the finer points of Intel processor technology that's the equivalent of showing everyone how big your willy is except nobody is interested whatever. OSX is shit and Windows is shit; I run Ubuntu blah blah blah. I hate Steve Jobs he eats babies. Bill Gates eats the babies and their mothers. I run Cock-Rot Linux and it's the best in the world and I don't know why everyone uses Ubuntu when you can do everything using Vi and the terminal feature of my obscure mobile phone (which nobody ever rings 'cause I've got no friends). Some other boring comment about processors from someone who wants to show the world that his willy is bigger than the other processor posters (okay, one person read the whole post). Apple hardware is overpriced I hate anyone with an iPhone. Actually BSD is much better than Linux or Windows or OSX, that's why such a large percentage of people have it installed on their home machines. Doh, didn't you know that OSX is Unix and runs BSD. Actually it's not Unix 'cause Apple won't pay for the certification. Yes it is. No it's not. Fanboi something. Don't you know the whole fan-boy thing is old and so juvenille, just like your spelling. I still use a Lisa and it does everything I need it to. I use a Commodore 64 with a hard-drive and it's better than the Lisa. I don't know what I'm talking about and haven't read the article but I'm going to chip in with something irrelevant and wrong anyway. OSX sucks. OSX rocks. Bootcamp. DRM. iTunes. Steve Jobs is on first name terms with Satan. Bill Gates is Satan. I've got an iPhone and I love it. It really pisses me off that Apple has to put i in front of everything. Something about PPC versus Intel. Something completely without evidence comparing Apples and Oranges (pun intentional) proving PPC is and always will be better than x86. Something completely without evidence comparing Apples and Oranges proving x86 is and always will be better than PPC. GPL. Google. Linux. QNX. My Dad's harder than your Dad. My Nan's harder than your nan. Something anti-American. Angry riposte proving anti-American point. Thoughtful welll thought out riposte clearly disproving anti-American point that nobody will ever read because there's so much uninformed chaff above it.
That's wonderful. And I can find the source code where?? Anybody have a link?
They'll just file bankruptcy and get on with their life. Happens every day. The Republicans have not yet managed to revive debtors prison.
Zepto?? What happened to Harpo, Chico and Groucho???
"F5" is a measure on the Fujita scale for tornado instensity; it has nothing to do with hurricanes or measuring hurricane intensity.
The main problem with EULA enforcement is it is a contract and contract law applies, including the need to prove actual damages. Exactly how are you going to prove any actual monetary damages because some guy is using your application in some arguably unauthorized way? In contrast, with copyright infringement draconian monetary damages are automatically awarded by statute upon a showing of infringement.
You are exactly right. I'd just like to add that the bankruptcy court lifted the automatic stay thus allowing the Novell case to go forward for the sole purpose of liquidating Novell's claim. All other issues regarding Novell's claim have been reserved by the bankruptcy court. In particular, the issue of whether SCO held the licensing revenue in trust for Novell is going to be solely determined by the bankruptcy court. If Novell loses the trust argument, they'll just be another general unsecured creditor and will likely receive only pennies on the dollar for their claim against SCO.
The only thing missing is the ability to make a profitable business from selling a desktop OS. This has never been about lack of functionality and the article makes it clear that the only objection is the lack of profit in this market for even excellently functioning linux desktop OSes that try to compete with MS's offerings. This is nothing new for RH; it's been their position since 2005 to stick with the server products.
It's not that female signals are unclear. Their signals are emblematic of their internal ambivalence about the nature and extent of their sexual interest. Overlay this with most women's need to validate their own sexual desirability by eliciting male attention even where they have no interest in the guy and the scene is set for a lot of miscommunication.