Yup. Obviously, they also own copyrights around any pictures THEY took.
It's like celebrities -- you can't go around selling copies of Jessica Simpson's latest album, but if you see her on the street, you can take a picture and sell it to The Star, or OK, or any other tabloid.
If we treat this as a moral or ethical issue, we can reasonably argue that we should let people learn, the hard way, how to be responsible for their own finances, especially in an environment where the actual exposure is relatively minimal (the person they covered lost $144 in this scam, and she apparently made all that money by doing things she liked doing on Second Life anyway -- we're not talking about not being able to pay rent here).
But it's not a moral or ethical issue -- it's a commercial issue. If Linden Labs wants to encourage people to treat Lindenbucks as real money -- and clearly, they do because otherwise they wouldn't set up an exchange rate to the real deal -- then they've got to deal with what is essentially a threat to their profitability. If they don't set up a system where it's safe to exchange money for other tangible goods (and stocks or CDs are tangible), then, in fact, people will learn to protect themselves -- by not transacting with their money and essentially putting their virtual dollars under their virtual mattresses. This is not an outcome that is ideal for Linden Labs -- which is why, regardless of ethics, morality, or "think about the children (or stupid people)!", they should do something to create some sort of reliable, authenticated commerce system that allows for these activities -- out of sheer self interest.
I remember seeing the original hype around the knobs. At the time, there were in fact claims being made that the beech knobs, and the specific way they were made, had a notable impact on the quality of the sound your sound system outputted. Ah, found the link:
--- They are custom made with beech wood and bronze where the bronze is used as the insert to mount to the stem of the volume pot. The beech wood is coated several times with C37 lacquer for best sound as pointed out by Dieter Ennemoser. How can this make a difference??? Well, hearing is believing as we always say. The sound becomes much more open and free flowing with a nice improvement in resolution. Dynamics are better and overall naturalness is improved. Here is a test for all you Silver Rock owners. Try removing the bakelite knobs and listen. You will be shocked by this! The signature knobs will have an even greater effect really amazing! The point here is the micro vibrations created by the volume pots and knobs find their way into the delicate signal path and cause degradation (Bad vibrations equal bad sound). With the signature knobs micro vibrations from the C37 concept of wood, bronze and the lacquer itself compensate for the volume pots and provide (Good Vibrations) our ear/brain combination like to hear way better sound!!" ---
Leaving aside for the moment the fact that VISOR is a fictional instrument, I'll note that we're not talking about the same technology at all -- VISOR transmits images, potentially unaltered, directly to the optic nerve via jacks. These goggles just do image manipulation and present the altered images to the eyes. They'd be of zero use for completely blind people.
The store may not come away unscathed, but it's likely the police officer (really, his department since it's likely a law suit would be against the department rather than against the individual officer) is likely covered.
Barring a specific law against requiring to show driver's license (and the person in this case has so far found an absence of a law requiring showing the ID, not a law specifying you do not have to show ID), an argument could be made that if a police officer is investigating a potential crime, they have the right to ask for identification from relevant parties.
Now, I'm not saying "an argument could be made" in the sense of "I'm a layman and I'm just talking shit" here -- I'm saying that in the sense of "an argument's already been made to the Supreme Court, and they said it was reasonable." In other words, there's already case law, determined at the highest levels, saying it's reasonable to ask for ID, and it's reasonable to convict someone of impeding the police for refusing to show ID. See HIIBEL v. SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF NEVADA -- http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-5554.ZS.h tml
Oh, good point. Dish Network doesn't in fact use utility easements. This is a good argument in favor of considering not making Dish Network comply with the CableCard standard.
Oh, wait, the CableCard mandate applies only to CABLE companies already.
Folks, I mean no offense here, but there's a huge assumption that this is the way all IT organizations work. That assumption is false. My guys, for example, are now on-call one week out of five; most weeks nothing happens; when it happens, it's typically about 10-15 minutes of work ("CPU failed" "Oh, fine, reboot with the CPU offlined. Deal with it in the morning." That's the kind of stuff we'll be giving the NOC soon anyway). and they get paid for those weeks they're on-call. Other weeks, our typical load is about 40 hours. Not theoretically, but as in "those who come in at 10 typically leave at about 7". It's not hard to run a sane organization, if you've got sane management.
I don't know about you, but back when I was an engineer, having my manager there over my shoulder made me wonder if he doubts my ability to deliver for him. My guys know that they can call me 24x7 if they need anything from me; they also know that my intention is to staff and plan so emergencies don't make them always have to do 24x7 duty. They don't need me watching over their shoulder asking "is it fixed yet? is it fixed yet?" to know I support them.
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Actually, management loves for people to work from home. They just don't like it being the way people work during the day.
(The distinction is actually important -- I've only worked in one IT shop where remote access was tightly managed and most IT people didn't have it. If you work 8-10 hours a day on-site, mgmt doesn't have a problem with you going home and working again -- it's just that it's a bonus).
The two -- enterprise and consumer -- are not necessarily mutually exclusive. You're right, of course, that "high-end stuff" and "best price for desktops we put on corporate drone desktops" are mutually-exclusive (though one would wonder if Apple can figure out how to leverage what it's doing in the high-end market to also deliver lower-end stuff -- isn't that partially what the Mini's about?).
But I'll give you an example -- I work for a very large staffing company (10K corporate employees, 100K-350K temps/contractors, etc). I manage the UNIX server side of the house. Desktop-wise, we're all Windows (including my unfortunate UNIX sysadmins:( ). Except that we have a bunch of ye olde creative people who use Macs. We recognize these people's value and we aren't inclined to mess with it by forcing them to use another platform, so we support Macs.
Our challenge is that we do not (yet) have a holistic vision as to how we'll support Macs -- who does Tier 3 support? How do we do file services (I hear Macs still prefer AFP, and it's easier to use for them than SMB/NFS)? At this point, it's pretty lame -- we have one technician who's doing all the Mac support, and she's both incredibly busy and doesn't quite have the enterprise support she needs -- we're working on that. And to most quickly deal with her users' file server needs, we just got her an XServe.
Apple is poised to make more inroads in our corporation, I think. Certainly, my group is on the verge of officially taking responsibility for how we use their products. Will it mean we wholesale replace everyone's $200 desktop with a Mac? Of course not. But I'll bet you we'll see moderate, steady gains in mindshare in our environment. Especially once our engineers start totting MBPs around:)
Mentioning a number doesn't have to be to your disadvantage. I usually shy away from it, but in this current position I named a number -- about 5% more than what I actually wanted -- as the bottom of my range, and that's what I ended up getting offered (plus a 10% annual bonus). You just have to be liberal.
(And this is for work for a major staffing company).
These complaints -- these phones are too complex, they're not lifestyle enough, they should be pretty and focus on phone calls -- look to me like they're based in the assumption that everyone uses their phone like the authors do. This is clearly not the case.
I've got a relatively early Nokia Symbian phone -- 7610. I've been enjoying using it for about two years now. I like that I can track mileage and manage my calendar on it -- it's critical to my success as a manager (yes, manager. I know, I know, four-letter word).
I'm looking to switch now to the Nokia E70 because of its full keyboard, because I'm working for a company where all your mail is piped into your Blackberry (and the E70 claims to be able to pretend to be a Blackberry), and I want to be able to manage my email and calendar on my phone and have this information pushed to my desktop and other people in the enterprise.
Look, I don't mind simple, elegant phones. The razr is one of the prettiest phones I've ever seen, and if I just wanted to make phone calls, it'd probably be the one I'd consider (but probably not get -- Nokia's traditional/series 40 menus feel much saner to me than Motorola's, and I hate clamshells). These complicated Symbian devices are *NOT* a good fit for people who are in the market for something they can use to make phone calls. I suspect that's one of the reasons why Nokia's starting to refer to them as mobile computers. But they're a great fit for someone like me, who doesn't want to drag his laptop everywhere he goes, and who doesn't want a separate PDA.
I don't know about the author, but I've installed Windows three times this year on Dell laptops; no reinstall was required due to Windows issues -- Two involved hard drive death/upgrade, one involved a new laptop and me not liking to depend on the default OEM installation.
All these installations went flawlessly -- including USB support (though maybe not 2.0 prior to SP2 -- who cares?). Installing Windows (and, by the way, this is from a generic Windows install CD, not Dell's own thing) was trivially easy. Basically: A) Get a copy of the drivers for the wireless card; B) Install Windows C) Install wireless driver D) Download all drivers from Dell site after telling them what my service tag was; each driver's installation was a double-click affair; E) Update Windows with SP2 and other updates
Now, it took a while -- about 4-6 hours in each case -- but that was mostly time spent while stuff was happening, not actual work.
I love UNIX, and I use it at home on my server, but "argh! windows is really hard to install!" is not really something I think we can defend very well. Problems will happen every once in a while, mind you, but not that often.
Compare that to the FC6 install I did yesterday, about six times, because I kept getting a stack trace because I did something the FC6 people hadn't expected me to do. That's not "I have to modify my wireless settings," that's FC6 telling me "oops, found a bug. Why don't you tell someone?" Thanks, guys!
Look, we do the "you gave it to them, they can do what you want with it" dance here when it comes to search engines every once in a while, and we do the "you gave it to them and you can reasonably expect they'll safeguard it" dance here when it comes to financial institutions every once in a while. In the end, it's all about disclosure -- sure, you're giving your info to SEs, but you should be able to make that decision based on some information about what they'll do with it, and "whatever we damn well like" isn't good enough.
No, it's releasing at a rate faster than Windows. There's a difference. release == improvement is a Microsoft fallacy, and using it subjects you to their licensing terms.
I've personally experienced cases where I was looking for a remix of a song and the only place it was available was the DJ's page on MySpace. Go figure...
As of 1996, the US at least is using only self-destructing mines everywhere except for in some training situation and the Korean Peninsula. These new mines typically have a 4hr to 15 day lifespan.
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Nanomicrons? Is that 10^-15?
I think you're wrong about the tabloid angle -- do you really think the paparazzi have some sort of consent from their subjects?
Yup. Obviously, they also own copyrights around any pictures THEY took.
It's like celebrities -- you can't go around selling copies of Jessica Simpson's latest album, but if you see her on the street, you can take a picture and sell it to The Star, or OK, or any other tabloid.
Hardly.
If we treat this as a moral or ethical issue, we can reasonably argue that we should let people learn, the hard way, how to be responsible for their own finances, especially in an environment where the actual exposure is relatively minimal (the person they covered lost $144 in this scam, and she apparently made all that money by doing things she liked doing on Second Life anyway -- we're not talking about not being able to pay rent here).
But it's not a moral or ethical issue -- it's a commercial issue. If Linden Labs wants to encourage people to treat Lindenbucks as real money -- and clearly, they do because otherwise they wouldn't set up an exchange rate to the real deal -- then they've got to deal with what is essentially a threat to their profitability. If they don't set up a system where it's safe to exchange money for other tangible goods (and stocks or CDs are tangible), then, in fact, people will learn to protect themselves -- by not transacting with their money and essentially putting their virtual dollars under their virtual mattresses. This is not an outcome that is ideal for Linden Labs -- which is why, regardless of ethics, morality, or "think about the children (or stupid people)!", they should do something to create some sort of reliable, authenticated commerce system that allows for these activities -- out of sheer self interest.
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You're right, there's a missing context.
I remember seeing the original hype around the knobs. At the time, there were in fact claims being made that the beech knobs, and the specific way they were made, had a notable impact on the quality of the sound your sound system outputted. Ah, found the link:
---
They are custom made with beech wood and bronze where the bronze is used as the insert to mount to the stem of the volume pot. The beech wood is coated several times with C37 lacquer for best sound as pointed out by Dieter Ennemoser. How can this make a difference??? Well, hearing is believing as we always say. The sound becomes much more open and free flowing with a nice improvement in resolution. Dynamics are better and overall naturalness is improved. Here is a test for all you Silver Rock owners. Try removing the bakelite knobs and listen. You will be shocked by this! The signature knobs will have an even greater effect really amazing! The point here is the micro vibrations created by the volume pots and knobs find their way into the delicate signal path and cause degradation (Bad vibrations equal bad sound). With the signature knobs micro vibrations from the C37 concept of wood, bronze and the lacquer itself compensate for the volume pots and provide (Good Vibrations) our ear/brain combination like to hear way better sound!!"
---
See http://www.bostonaudiosociety.org/past_pres_msg/06-11_pres_msg.htm
Yeah. It was copyright infringement, not theft. As noted in RIAA-related threads, no theft occurred.
Dude, you didn't even have to read the FA, it was in the summary! The issue was that the routers weren't shaping UDP.
Leaving aside for the moment the fact that VISOR is a fictional instrument, I'll note that we're not talking about the same technology at all -- VISOR transmits images, potentially unaltered, directly to the optic nerve via jacks. These goggles just do image manipulation and present the altered images to the eyes. They'd be of zero use for completely blind people.
The store may not come away unscathed, but it's likely the police officer (really, his department since it's likely a law suit would be against the department rather than against the individual officer) is likely covered.
h tml
Barring a specific law against requiring to show driver's license (and the person in this case has so far found an absence of a law requiring showing the ID, not a law specifying you do not have to show ID), an argument could be made that if a police officer is investigating a potential crime, they have the right to ask for identification from relevant parties.
Now, I'm not saying "an argument could be made" in the sense of "I'm a layman and I'm just talking shit" here -- I'm saying that in the sense of "an argument's already been made to the Supreme Court, and they said it was reasonable." In other words, there's already case law, determined at the highest levels, saying it's reasonable to ask for ID, and it's reasonable to convict someone of impeding the police for refusing to show ID. See HIIBEL v. SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF NEVADA -- http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-5554.ZS.
Oh, good point. Dish Network doesn't in fact use utility easements. This is a good argument in favor of considering not making Dish Network comply with the CableCard standard.
Oh, wait, the CableCard mandate applies only to CABLE companies already.
Folks, I mean no offense here, but there's a huge assumption that this is the way all IT organizations work. That assumption is false. My guys, for example, are now on-call one week out of five; most weeks nothing happens; when it happens, it's typically about 10-15 minutes of work ("CPU failed" "Oh, fine, reboot with the CPU offlined. Deal with it in the morning." That's the kind of stuff we'll be giving the NOC soon anyway). and they get paid for those weeks they're on-call. Other weeks, our typical load is about 40 hours. Not theoretically, but as in "those who come in at 10 typically leave at about 7". It's not hard to run a sane organization, if you've got sane management.
I don't know about you, but back when I was an engineer, having my manager there over my shoulder made me wonder if he doubts my ability to deliver for him. My guys know that they can call me 24x7 if they need anything from me; they also know that my intention is to staff and plan so emergencies don't make them always have to do 24x7 duty. They don't need me watching over their shoulder asking "is it fixed yet? is it fixed yet?" to know I support them.
Actually, management loves for people to work from home. They just don't like it being the way people work during the day.
(The distinction is actually important -- I've only worked in one IT shop where remote access was tightly managed and most IT people didn't have it. If you work 8-10 hours a day on-site, mgmt doesn't have a problem with you going home and working again -- it's just that it's a bonus).
Speaking as the guy who gets nosuchuser@nosuchdomain.com email (I'm serious), I can empathize with the hypothetical tenants of that address :)
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The two -- enterprise and consumer -- are not necessarily mutually exclusive. You're right, of course, that "high-end stuff" and "best price for desktops we put on corporate drone desktops" are mutually-exclusive (though one would wonder if Apple can figure out how to leverage what it's doing in the high-end market to also deliver lower-end stuff -- isn't that partially what the Mini's about?).
:( ). Except that we have a bunch of ye olde creative people who use Macs. We recognize these people's value and we aren't inclined to mess with it by forcing them to use another platform, so we support Macs.
:)
But I'll give you an example -- I work for a very large staffing company (10K corporate employees, 100K-350K temps/contractors, etc). I manage the UNIX server side of the house. Desktop-wise, we're all Windows (including my unfortunate UNIX sysadmins
Our challenge is that we do not (yet) have a holistic vision as to how we'll support Macs -- who does Tier 3 support? How do we do file services (I hear Macs still prefer AFP, and it's easier to use for them than SMB/NFS)? At this point, it's pretty lame -- we have one technician who's doing all the Mac support, and she's both incredibly busy and doesn't quite have the enterprise support she needs -- we're working on that. And to most quickly deal with her users' file server needs, we just got her an XServe.
Apple is poised to make more inroads in our corporation, I think. Certainly, my group is on the verge of officially taking responsibility for how we use their products. Will it mean we wholesale replace everyone's $200 desktop with a Mac? Of course not. But I'll bet you we'll see moderate, steady gains in mindshare in our environment. Especially once our engineers start totting MBPs around
Mentioning a number doesn't have to be to your disadvantage. I usually shy away from it, but in this current position I named a number -- about 5% more than what I actually wanted -- as the bottom of my range, and that's what I ended up getting offered (plus a 10% annual bonus). You just have to be liberal.
(And this is for work for a major staffing company).
These complaints -- these phones are too complex, they're not lifestyle enough, they should be pretty and focus on phone calls -- look to me like they're based in the assumption that everyone uses their phone like the authors do. This is clearly not the case.
I've got a relatively early Nokia Symbian phone -- 7610. I've been enjoying using it for about two years now. I like that I can track mileage and manage my calendar on it -- it's critical to my success as a manager (yes, manager. I know, I know, four-letter word).
I'm looking to switch now to the Nokia E70 because of its full keyboard, because I'm working for a company where all your mail is piped into your Blackberry (and the E70 claims to be able to pretend to be a Blackberry), and I want to be able to manage my email and calendar on my phone and have this information pushed to my desktop and other people in the enterprise.
Look, I don't mind simple, elegant phones. The razr is one of the prettiest phones I've ever seen, and if I just wanted to make phone calls, it'd probably be the one I'd consider (but probably not get -- Nokia's traditional/series 40 menus feel much saner to me than Motorola's, and I hate clamshells). These complicated Symbian devices are *NOT* a good fit for people who are in the market for something they can use to make phone calls. I suspect that's one of the reasons why Nokia's starting to refer to them as mobile computers. But they're a great fit for someone like me, who doesn't want to drag his laptop everywhere he goes, and who doesn't want a separate PDA.
I hope the judge doesn't give them the time of day!
I don't know about the author, but I've installed Windows three times this year on Dell laptops; no reinstall was required due to Windows issues -- Two involved hard drive death/upgrade, one involved a new laptop and me not liking to depend on the default OEM installation.
All these installations went flawlessly -- including USB support (though maybe not 2.0 prior to SP2 -- who cares?). Installing Windows (and, by the way, this is from a generic Windows install CD, not Dell's own thing) was trivially easy. Basically:
A) Get a copy of the drivers for the wireless card;
B) Install Windows
C) Install wireless driver
D) Download all drivers from Dell site after telling them what my service tag was; each driver's installation was a double-click affair;
E) Update Windows with SP2 and other updates
Now, it took a while -- about 4-6 hours in each case -- but that was mostly time spent while stuff was happening, not actual work.
I love UNIX, and I use it at home on my server, but "argh! windows is really hard to install!" is not really something I think we can defend very well. Problems will happen every once in a while, mind you, but not that often.
Compare that to the FC6 install I did yesterday, about six times, because I kept getting a stack trace because I did something the FC6 people hadn't expected me to do. That's not "I have to modify my wireless settings," that's FC6 telling me "oops, found a bug. Why don't you tell someone?" Thanks, guys!
Look, we do the "you gave it to them, they can do what you want with it" dance here when it comes to search engines every once in a while, and we do the "you gave it to them and you can reasonably expect they'll safeguard it" dance here when it comes to financial institutions every once in a while. In the end, it's all about disclosure -- sure, you're giving your info to SEs, but you should be able to make that decision based on some information about what they'll do with it, and "whatever we damn well like" isn't good enough.
No, it's releasing at a rate faster than Windows. There's a difference. release == improvement is a Microsoft fallacy, and using it subjects you to their licensing terms.
I've personally experienced cases where I was looking for a remix of a song and the only place it was available was the DJ's page on MySpace. Go figure...
Congratulations, we have real progress!
As of 1996, the US at least is using only self-destructing mines everywhere except for in some training situation and the Korean Peninsula. These new mines typically have a 4hr to 15 day lifespan.
For more information about our mine arsenal, check out
http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/mines.htm