have to admit - seconded. That and we get our political news from comedy shows...
This Hour has 22 minutes. - okay kinda leftist
Royal Canadian Air Farce - whatever and they frequently (or used to?) get political faces on lampooning themselves. I particularily miss Preston Manning as he was hilarious (as well as being the leader of the Reform Party, a party that used to think Bush was left wing) (okay that's overdoing it. I think they'd find him a little too right too. or maybe about right)
whadoiknow. I listen to the radio and not watch TV. The only station I ever knew to run a show that violated every broadcasting rule they could find (Brand X) and STILL took a year and a half to be cancelled. And then replaced with basically the same show toned down a little. (Definitely Not The Opera).
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whatever. My arts background and amateur sports and music haven't been all that much of a benefit to me.
I don't have a degree. Therefore I have to publish.
That's all there is to it.
I've been looking for serious work for 10 years now. If the town I finally moved away from out of shear luck actually had a university program, I might
have a degree by now. I've been stuck working bottom-end jobs and low-pay high-pressure jobs for that entire period. I also almost completed an arts diploma as at least the local college had that.
Now if I could get enough work to actually afford to finish it I might have a chance.
*gleah*
I'd still like that CS/math degree too. I enjoyed CS/math a lot more than most of the arts (English primarily) program.
All I can figure is my presentation skills are so incredibly poor noone will look at me twice.
This movie (mostly written by Douglas Adams) looks to be different from the TV series, radioplay, books, and yes, the classic videogame...
I liked the text adventure game (also written by Douglas Adams). I wonder how much of it made it into the movie?
In case all of y'all wondered yes I bought it many years ago. It was a pure text game with a WILD plot. Reading, watching and listening to everything gave hints - but most of the game required being in a bizzare headspace to get anywhere. Or read the help...
Anyhoo, it's still out there and playable thanks to text adventure proggies. I know I last played it by copying from the 5 1/4" disc to one my linux beasties *g*
Of the ten items on the list - most have perfectly proper reasons for existing. Most aren't bugs. Actually IMHO none of them are bugs. Just some of them poor design issues....
eg: computers losing when power down: You've got a choice. Fast data access... versus slow but reliable. People take the former. Therefore lots of caches throughout the system - and unless the entire system can handle a power failure well, keeping the data can cause more damage than otherwise. IS solveable. That's what UPS's and secondary batteries on laptops are for. Software fix is unreliable and prone to corruption thanks to things like hard drive cache aborts.
The entire list reads like a joke - or like someone's pet peaves being rewritten into an "important" story. Study the issues before claiming it a bug.
No shortage of prior art on any of it. At a guess, though, SAIL labs circa 1970s for the voice support and late-1960s MIT for the rest thanks to spacewars.
That for the most part predates Nintendo so overturning these shouldn't be a problem.
If anyone out there's read "Shockwave Rider" this story reminds me of "Hearing Aid" - a service where people can phone in and gripe and have someone listen... but not answer. An amazing service really...
debian-unstable's had the packages for a while.
Works for everything I've tried... have to admit I haven't tried that much yet, but so far so good. Works nicely with apache2 last I tried.
That's been my life for the last few years.
Whether with public projects or with private... it seems hard to get support of any kind from anyone in any community.
I've scraped through the last two years working for a company due to go out any minute because it beat dealing with creditors from the last time folks abandoned a project I was on left me holding all the cards.
I hope things work out better for this project. One thing I can say for certain is it sounds a whole pile more useful than just about anything I've worked on *wry grin*
Old high school I went to (North Peace in Fort St John) had a moderately succesful theater going for a few years. Took the profits from one of the tours and bought pro theater grade wireless. No idea where to find info on the system they used but it worked (and still works) for them.
Anyways, from what research I've dug through, caffein (and coffee in particular) is a more-or-less direct cause of hypoglycemia. Well it boosts sugar uptake and sugar processing in the body. That tremendous up (followed by big crash). Of course, having more coffee makes the "up" last longer and the "down" result in a good night's sleep... whatever.
Anyways, to me it implies that coffee and whatever cause the opposite of diabetes... and in combination with an unhealthy diet (like doughnuts... *yum*) can cause diabetes anyways.
Since such software is routinely available and frequently installed... this is the most likey reason I can see.
The only necessary (probably hidden) thing here is that the company handling the software would be reporting it to the FBI in this case... probably on the request of the owner of the laptop.
okay thank you all for the clarification. In addition to not being familiar with US law btw, I'm in a different country... anyways, from what I can tell from the responses:
- sufficient evidence is needed, not complete evidence
- it IS British common law based. (incidentally, I was under the impression otherwise)
- evidence should be provided by the "accusor"
- SCO can do this, but they shouldn't be able to get away with it.
summary: Don't be surprised if IBM responds sometime soon in such a way SCO has to reply with SOME kind of evidence.
I'm not going to make any assumptions beyond that.
Thank y'all
IANAL and I'm not a US citizen. Anyways, now I'm not up on US law to ANY respect but from what I remember from the last time I saw was that
US law in a civil trial does not operate under British code - basically it's not assumed that the defender is innocent until proven guilty.
What this means in a civil trial is that proof can come from either party and that usually only sufficient evidence has to exist for an infraction rather than
complete proof of infraction.
Basically - SCO can do this.
It's up to the judge on whether they can get away with it though.
Civil trials do not work under the same rules as criminal trials.
Actually I suspect (not sure) but they work under the Napoleonic code (guilty until proven innocent) which is the code a lot of US law is based on - or perhaps vice versa as (IIRC) a number of US founders were involved in Napoleon's government...
Well, I just choose not to use such sites - they lose my 'business' permanently. (I generally don't buy online to begin with)
After all, I (currently) run ZERO microsoft products. As to whether or not it affects their antitrust agreements? That's a good question -- one best answered by lawyers. If this is specifically a microsoft-owned site not specifically OS-oriented (such as the Microsoft Update Site which IMHO it makes sense to make IE-specific) then perhaps it's a violation. Microsoft wrapping their browser into the OS is a violation of their antitrust but that's another story and they've already had their wrists lightly dampened with wet paper towel for it.
quick rant - IE is not on everyone's computers folks. Try not to assume too hard that it is. (end of quick rant)
Well, if I could do voice over IP with my family I'd be a whole pile happier... It costs me anywhere up to $120/mo in long distance fees normally and my cell company doesn't offer much (anything really) in long distance plans...
If I could route calls through my home station I'd be happier *g*. (hint: QuickNet:)
Of course I'd be even happier if I didn't have to pay land line costs at all (DSL) but the alternative (cable) was too buggy, slow and the billing was... surreal...
More freedom for US equals good.
It's a nice looking chip for embedded work from the details of it.
but the freedom thing is good for everyone (particularily outside the US) as the US is threating all kinds of nasty protectionist tactics. Hard to trust these days.
No I'm not in the US.
were around before napster ever appeared. they'll be here long after the RIAA has gone bankrupt offending it's customer base - both public and musicians.
This is just a stupid cry for attention from the newsies.
What's with all the networks inventing new 'crimes' anyways? I thought that was decided by the law creation folks (whatever names they go by) and not the big-bellied lobbyists?
(getting tired of those stupid 'satellite hacking' commercials up here in Canada. Last I checked reverse engineering and monitoring of PUBLIC broadcasts (such as satellite) was for the most part legal in Canada. Not that I care - I don't watch any TV)
Our legal system wouldn't let a monstrosity like the DCMA survive from what I know. Ah well...
all of these are -explicitely- covered in the Canadian copyright code. Whether or not that's a good thing is another story entirely.
IANAL btw. Just have read both the code and the official versions meant for copyright holders... available at any fine business development agency.
Timeshifting? Don't know that term
Backups for personal perpose - a single copy (of software) is allowed for backup perpose.. (I suspect there's a lot more clarification for dealing with such things as site backups:)
Copying CDs? As of recently, copyright fee paid on purchase of CDs for burning, regardless of intended purchase. Unless sold, most copying is allowed. Of course CDs are more expensive because of this... Specifically music, movies. NOT software. That's covered seperately.
Making copies for a friend? Videotape, audiotape, audio CD - all okay. Just don't sell it. See the "fee paid on purchase of media".
Fair use says explicitely that copying for backup purposes okay and usually that only one copy can be in use at a time. Seperate situation.
Photocopying? An excerpt for review or inclusion in another body of work is acceptable. There's specific limits on all of these - and intended use is important. Don't ask me for more details *wry grin*
now IANAL but I'm a proud Canadian.
I also remember there's explicit restrictions in our laws that would prevent the creation of a DCMA (or whatever) here. At least not without some truely careful wording. And it still probably wouldn't survive the first court challenge... who knows though.
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have to admit - seconded. That and we get our political news from comedy shows...
This Hour has 22 minutes. - okay kinda leftist
Royal Canadian Air Farce - whatever and they frequently (or used to?) get political faces on lampooning themselves. I particularily miss Preston Manning as he was hilarious (as well as being the leader of the Reform Party, a party that used to think Bush was left wing) (okay that's overdoing it. I think they'd find him a little too right too. or maybe about right)
whadoiknow. I listen to the radio and not watch TV. The only station I ever knew to run a show that violated every broadcasting rule they could find (Brand X) and STILL took a year and a half to be cancelled. And then replaced with basically the same show toned down a little. (Definitely Not The Opera).
I don't have a degree. Therefore I have to publish.
That's all there is to it.
I've been looking for serious work for 10 years now. If the town I finally moved away from out of shear luck actually had a university program, I might have a degree by now. I've been stuck working bottom-end jobs and low-pay high-pressure jobs for that entire period. I also almost completed an arts diploma as at least the local college had that. Now if I could get enough work to actually afford to finish it I might have a chance.
*gleah*
I'd still like that CS/math degree too. I enjoyed CS/math a lot more than most of the arts (English primarily) program. All I can figure is my presentation skills are so incredibly poor noone will look at me twice.
I liked the text adventure game (also written by Douglas Adams). I wonder how much of it made it into the movie?
In case all of y'all wondered yes I bought it many years ago. It was a pure text game with a WILD plot. Reading, watching and listening to everything gave hints - but most of the game required being in a bizzare headspace to get anywhere. Or read the help...
Anyhoo, it's still out there and playable thanks to text adventure proggies. I know I last played it by copying from the 5 1/4" disc to one my linux beasties *g*
Ta!
Of the ten items on the list - most have perfectly proper reasons for existing. Most aren't bugs.
Actually IMHO none of them are bugs.
Just some of them poor design issues....
eg: computers losing when power down:
You've got a choice. Fast data access... versus slow but reliable. People take the former. Therefore lots of caches throughout the system - and unless the entire system can handle a power failure well, keeping the data can cause more damage than otherwise.
IS solveable. That's what UPS's and secondary batteries on laptops are for. Software fix is unreliable and prone to corruption thanks to things like hard drive cache aborts.
The entire list reads like a joke - or like someone's pet peaves being rewritten into an "important" story. Study the issues before claiming it a bug.
NOT happy. Complete waste of my time.
No shortage of prior art on any of it. At a guess, though, SAIL labs circa 1970s for the voice support and late-1960s MIT for the rest thanks to spacewars. That for the most part predates Nintendo so overturning these shouldn't be a problem.
If anyone out there's read "Shockwave Rider" this story reminds me of "Hearing Aid" - a service where people can phone in and gripe and have someone listen... but not answer.
An amazing service really...
debian-unstable's had the packages for a while. Works for everything I've tried... have to admit I haven't tried that much yet, but so far so good. Works nicely with apache2 last I tried.
That's been my life for the last few years.
Whether with public projects or with private... it seems hard to get support of any kind from anyone in any community.
I've scraped through the last two years working for a company due to go out any minute because it beat dealing with creditors from the last time folks abandoned a project I was on left me holding all the cards.
I hope things work out better for this project. One thing I can say for certain is it sounds a whole pile more useful than just about anything I've worked on *wry grin*
Well, KDE's had them for a while.
But the videogame Abuse had them - considerably before Apple released that 'feature'.
Perhaps that counts?
Old high school I went to (North Peace in Fort St John) had a moderately succesful theater going for a few years.
Took the profits from one of the tours and bought pro theater grade wireless. No idea where to find info on the system they used but it worked (and still works) for them.
Good luck! There's always a way...
Anyways, from what research I've dug through, caffein (and coffee in particular) is a more-or-less direct cause of hypoglycemia. Well it boosts sugar uptake and sugar processing in the body. That tremendous up (followed by big crash). Of course, having more coffee makes the "up" last longer and the "down" result in a good night's sleep... whatever.
Anyways, to me it implies that coffee and whatever cause the opposite of diabetes... and in combination with an unhealthy diet (like doughnuts... *yum*) can cause diabetes anyways.
Since such software is routinely available and frequently installed... this is the most likey reason I can see.
The only necessary (probably hidden) thing here is that the company handling the software would be reporting it to the FBI in this case... probably on the request of the owner of the laptop.
okay thank you all for the clarification. In addition to not being familiar with US law btw, I'm in a different country... anyways, from what I can tell from the responses:
- sufficient evidence is needed, not complete evidence
- it IS British common law based. (incidentally, I was under the impression otherwise)
- evidence should be provided by the "accusor"
- SCO can do this, but they shouldn't be able to get away with it.
summary: Don't be surprised if IBM responds sometime soon in such a way SCO has to reply with SOME kind of evidence.
I'm not going to make any assumptions beyond that.
Thank y'all
IANAL and I'm not a US citizen. Anyways, now I'm not up on US law to ANY respect but from what I remember from the last time I saw was that US law in a civil trial does not operate under British code - basically it's not assumed that the defender is innocent until proven guilty.
What this means in a civil trial is that proof can come from either party and that usually only sufficient evidence has to exist for an infraction rather than complete proof of infraction.
Basically - SCO can do this.
It's up to the judge on whether they can get away with it though.
Civil trials do not work under the same rules as criminal trials.
Actually I suspect (not sure) but they work under the Napoleonic code (guilty until proven innocent) which is the code a lot of US law is based on - or perhaps vice versa as (IIRC) a number of US founders were involved in Napoleon's government...
Well, I just choose not to use such sites - they lose my 'business' permanently. (I generally don't buy online to begin with)
After all, I (currently) run ZERO microsoft products. As to whether or not it affects their antitrust agreements? That's a good question -- one best answered by lawyers. If this is specifically a microsoft-owned site not specifically OS-oriented (such as the Microsoft Update Site which IMHO it makes sense to make IE-specific) then perhaps it's a violation. Microsoft wrapping their browser into the OS is a violation of their antitrust but that's another story and they've already had their wrists lightly dampened with wet paper towel for it.
quick rant - IE is not on everyone's computers folks. Try not to assume too hard that it is. (end of quick rant)
Well, if I could do voice over IP with my family I'd be a whole pile happier... It costs me anywhere up to $120/mo in long distance fees normally and my cell company doesn't offer much (anything really) in long distance plans... If I could route calls through my home station I'd be happier *g*. (hint: QuickNet :)
Of course I'd be even happier if I didn't have to pay land line costs at all (DSL) but the alternative (cable) was too buggy, slow and the billing was ... surreal...
It's a nice looking chip for embedded work from the details of it.
but the freedom thing is good for everyone (particularily outside the US) as the US is threating all kinds of nasty protectionist tactics. Hard to trust these days.
No I'm not in the US.
they'll be here long after the RIAA has gone bankrupt offending it's customer base - both public and musicians.
This is just a stupid cry for attention from the newsies.
What's with all the networks inventing new 'crimes' anyways? I thought that was decided by the law creation folks (whatever names they go by) and not the big-bellied lobbyists?
(getting tired of those stupid 'satellite hacking' commercials up here in Canada. Last I checked reverse engineering and monitoring of PUBLIC broadcasts (such as satellite) was for the most part legal in Canada. Not that I care - I don't watch any TV)
Our legal system wouldn't let a monstrosity like the DCMA survive from what I know. Ah well...
IANAL btw. Just have read both the code and the official versions meant for copyright holders... available at any fine business development agency.
Timeshifting? Don't know that term Backups for personal perpose - a single copy (of software) is allowed for backup perpose.. (I suspect there's a lot more clarification for dealing with such things as site backups :)
Copying CDs? As of recently, copyright fee paid on purchase of CDs for burning, regardless of intended purchase. Unless sold, most copying is allowed. Of course CDs are more expensive because of this... Specifically music, movies. NOT software. That's covered seperately.
Making copies for a friend? Videotape, audiotape, audio CD - all okay. Just don't sell it. See the "fee paid on purchase of media". Fair use says explicitely that copying for backup purposes okay and usually that only one copy can be in use at a time. Seperate situation.
Photocopying? An excerpt for review or inclusion in another body of work is acceptable. There's specific limits on all of these - and intended use is important. Don't ask me for more details *wry grin*
now IANAL but I'm a proud Canadian. I also remember there's explicit restrictions in our laws that would prevent the creation of a DCMA (or whatever) here. At least not without some truely careful wording. And it still probably wouldn't survive the first court challenge... who knows though.