We've heard that trite saying, but I was referring to the hardware industry in general.
It'd be easy for diagnostics for companies if they didn't have to rely on the user or Windows. Western Digital had some sort of DOS program on a DOS boot disk. It just gives a general clean environment in which a user can diagnose hardware problems for purposes of RMA and "idiot user" configurations.
Hate to burst your bubble, but companies are amoral. They have one sole priority: making money for their shareholders.
If that means selling high quality computers at good prices, they will do it. That also means, if theres a need from another country to do XYZ job for gobs of money, so be it.
It is our choice of customers to choose who or who not to associate with.
Very true. When I was in high school, there was a argument between the school board and the teacher contracts. In our Senior economics class, we asked why the teachers union wouldn't strike. Our teacher gave some lame reason to the effect "We care for the students even if we aren't paid". Uh-huh, sure. What it really comes down to is that they WILL be paid, and are guaranteed a headcount.
However, your argument of 'if they actually KNOW the subject'... they do not. Most teachers are graduates of a 4 year teaching degree, and not of that specific subject. Tell me, how much would a babysitter who reads lesson plans cost? That's what we really have.
In my opinion, I had about 2 good teachers. One was a biology teacher. He taught 2-4 classes. His 'side' job was farmer.. I think he had something on the lines of 10k acres. The other was a math teacher who wrote books in his spare time. Teaching was the one of the few guaranteed sources of income to take on book writing.
No, the point stands why they cannot use a starting distro (Damn Small Linux), boot up either X or console and run programs within a known good toolset. Memtest86 does something similar to this, as it requires no OS support.
--5 watts into an omni is definitely enough to get to the ISS, it's been done.
I'll have to look into it. I understood it was much tougher than that, due to doppler shift.
---Back in 1993 when I got my ticket and very first radio (a Heath HW2P handheld that I believe only did 2 watts out on battery), I also got a Kantronics KPC-3 packet TNC and hand-built a cable to go from it to the handheld radio. I hooked up a twinlead J-pole antenna and hung it inside the patio door of my second-floor apartment, then waited for the Mir space station to come over. I did a quick "c r0mir" and was shocked to see a connection established to the packet BBS on the station! That definitely started it all.
I've contacted one of the packet sats a while back on field day, but that was using a 25 degree (not quite sure, was borrowed) parabola mounted on an rv using 2m/70cm.
However, due to my area, not many satellites pass overhead.. Bad locale, I guess
XP Professional was on many of the laptop configs. Just ask your salesmen if it wasnt. I just got the crappy Vista (home basic... whatever) and installed XP Pro and Ubuntu after fixing the partition map.
I think the only place NOT to recommend XP are the touchscreen models, as Vista has better touchscreen support.
There's no sane reason to take away someones way to make money.
The only response to that is by a non-compete reversal: If the company deems that you are too valuable, they SHOULD pay you to not work. After all, it is a contract, which means for a certain loss, there almost always is the opposite gain in another way.
It really comes down to this: Lump it or leave it.
US patent laws aren't the only patent laws. We're talking about TRIPS passed within the UN, put in power in 1995. Along with that are the financial powerhouses of the World Bank and IMF.
Look at how frantic the EU is about GMO's. It would make sense for Africa to accept much of what EU says.
The case you refer to is the African Golden Rice. There were about 70 patent rights locked between 32 companies and universities. Along with that were the Bag Agreements (seed EULAs... Material Transfer Agreements). When seed was sent over to Africa, if they had used them, they would have been bound by MTAs and owed patent rights. If they refused to pay for the patents, they would have been sanctioned by World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
They instead did the proper thing and burned the seed and waited for the 32 groups to settle it themselves. hey did, after they agreed to transfer a non-profit version of a license to Astra-Zeneca so that Africa would not be in violation.
Source: Gepts, Paul."Who owns biodiversity, and how should the owners be compensated?" Plant Physiology 134 (2004): 1295-1307. 28 Jan. 2004
stay off my side? I agree with that LimeWire is saying, and I like LimeWire, but their business model is based off illegally downloading music, for the most part. I don't feel like I want this business model fighting fo rour rights. It doesn't give legitimacy to our side.
--I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
I'd argue that they are the overseers of how governments, corporations, and groups in general run.
Still, Ghandi's other quote --- "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is gravely important that you do it." I take to heart..
I strive to be like one of the best unknown people... the Unknown Rebel.
Reading the text and the picture still makes my eyes mist up. No matter how big they are, and how small you are, you can still make a difference. I think that sentiment is what is missing in the US today...
What would you call a person who isn't an athiest, deist or any other religious type person?
Athiests seem to have a fervent bent on hating religion. I dont hate them. Agnostics seem to want to believe in something, but not sure??? They seem similar to mystics of sorts. And you have the different religions.. they leave me alone, I leave them alone.
I just dont care. I dont hate, like, or anything in between. Dont-care-ism? I really have no clue.
Its sort of like sports to non-sports people... SportsDude: Who do you want to win: Colts or Patriots? Person: I dont care. Just turn the damn thing off.
In terms of the US copyright act of 1974, for or non-profit status means nothing.
The key here is unknown infringement - 200$ per or known willing infringement - 150000$ per.
These are the statutory damages inflicted by that dated copyright law, and the basis of challenging unconstitutionality the recent case Ray Beckerman has via UMG v. Lindor.
I was able to glean the sales figures of ICO through the world They are as follows...
USA (09/26/01) - 250,000 units Japan (12/06/01) - 160,000 units Asia (01/13/02) - 20,000 units South Korea (02/22/02) - 20,000 units Europe (03/20/02) - 200,000 units
If we use the RIAA standard of 750$ per infringement, the payment for the US alone is 187.5 million$. Worldwide infringements would be in the ballpark of 487.5 million- almost a half of a billion dollars.
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They start doing that, and Ill start wiring my desktops with thermite.
Its amazing how much rust and Al powder a "DVD drive" can hold.
You're a little hostile, aren't you?
We've heard that trite saying, but I was referring to the hardware industry in general.
It'd be easy for diagnostics for companies if they didn't have to rely on the user or Windows. Western Digital had some sort of DOS program on a DOS boot disk. It just gives a general clean environment in which a user can diagnose hardware problems for purposes of RMA and "idiot user" configurations.
So IBM's bad? Later on, IBM will be good, eh?
Hate to burst your bubble, but companies are amoral. They have one sole priority: making money for their shareholders.
If that means selling high quality computers at good prices, they will do it. That also means, if theres a need from another country to do XYZ job for gobs of money, so be it.
It is our choice of customers to choose who or who not to associate with.
---They could work another job.
Very true. When I was in high school, there was a argument between the school board and the teacher contracts. In our Senior economics class, we asked why the teachers union wouldn't strike. Our teacher gave some lame reason to the effect "We care for the students even if we aren't paid". Uh-huh, sure. What it really comes down to is that they WILL be paid, and are guaranteed a headcount.
However, your argument of 'if they actually KNOW the subject'... they do not. Most teachers are graduates of a 4 year teaching degree, and not of that specific subject. Tell me, how much would a babysitter who reads lesson plans cost? That's what we really have.
In my opinion, I had about 2 good teachers. One was a biology teacher. He taught 2-4 classes. His 'side' job was farmer.. I think he had something on the lines of 10k acres. The other was a math teacher who wrote books in his spare time. Teaching was the one of the few guaranteed sources of income to take on book writing.
No, the point stands why they cannot use a starting distro (Damn Small Linux), boot up either X or console and run programs within a known good toolset. Memtest86 does something similar to this, as it requires no OS support.
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Cause it SOUNDS like OpenOffice XML.
OO = Open Office
OOXML =! Open Office XML
--5 watts into an omni is definitely enough to get to the ISS, it's been done.
I'll have to look into it. I understood it was much tougher than that, due to doppler shift.
---Back in 1993 when I got my ticket and very first radio (a Heath HW2P handheld that I believe only did 2 watts out on battery), I also got a Kantronics KPC-3 packet TNC and hand-built a cable to go from it to the handheld radio. I hooked up a twinlead J-pole antenna and hung it inside the patio door of my second-floor apartment, then waited for the Mir space station to come over. I did a quick "c r0mir" and was shocked to see a connection established to the packet BBS on the station! That definitely started it all.
I've contacted one of the packet sats a while back on field day, but that was using a 25 degree (not quite sure, was borrowed) parabola mounted on an rv using 2m/70cm.
However, due to my area, not many satellites pass overhead.. Bad locale, I guess
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Then it's Gitmo for you!
Everything except public domain and governmental reports will be filtered?
By definition, all text, pictures, and video have copyright applied to them at the moment of creation.
I just bought a Thinkpad in the last 3 months.
XP Professional was on many of the laptop configs. Just ask your salesmen if it wasnt. I just got the crappy Vista (home basic... whatever) and installed XP Pro and Ubuntu after fixing the partition map.
I think the only place NOT to recommend XP are the touchscreen models, as Vista has better touchscreen support.
There's no sane reason to take away someones way to make money.
The only response to that is by a non-compete reversal: If the company deems that you are too valuable, they SHOULD pay you to not work. After all, it is a contract, which means for a certain loss, there almost always is the opposite gain in another way.
It really comes down to this: Lump it or leave it.
Of course. Cited as tentative proof is the jStor link as seen from Google scholar.
Article name: Isoimmunization against Human Chorionic Gonadotropin with Conjugates of Processed beta-Subunit of the Hormone and Tetanus Toxoid
After reading that article, it's enough proof for me.
Let me now if you want the PDFs. I can email them to you (due to paper-payola, you may not be able to read it).
Hmm. 5W eh? What was his PEP?
If I did 1 degree beamwidth, I could get some pretty impressive distances too. He probably wasn't doing 5W on an omni.
Also, EME these days is done over the internet to coordinate times. Also required is a computer with cw detector through the sound card.
US patent laws aren't the only patent laws. We're talking about TRIPS passed within the UN, put in power in 1995. Along with that are the financial powerhouses of the World Bank and IMF.
Look at how frantic the EU is about GMO's. It would make sense for Africa to accept much of what EU says.
Then what is hGC doing in there?
The link between b-hGC and hGC immunoresponse is known to be abortive in fertile females.
It was never so simple.
The case you refer to is the African Golden Rice. There were about 70 patent rights locked between 32 companies and universities. Along with that were the Bag Agreements (seed EULAs... Material Transfer Agreements). When seed was sent over to Africa, if they had used them, they would have been bound by MTAs and owed patent rights. If they refused to pay for the patents, they would have been sanctioned by World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
They instead did the proper thing and burned the seed and waited for the 32 groups to settle it themselves. hey did, after they agreed to transfer a non-profit version of a license to Astra-Zeneca so that Africa would not be in violation.
Source: Gepts, Paul."Who owns biodiversity, and how should the owners be compensated?" Plant Physiology 134 (2004): 1295-1307. 28 Jan. 2004
stay off my side? I agree with that LimeWire is saying, and I like LimeWire, but their business model is based off illegally downloading music, for the most part. I don't feel like I want this business model fighting fo rour rights. It doesn't give legitimacy to our side.
--I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
I'd argue that they are the overseers of how governments, corporations, and groups in general run.
Still, Ghandi's other quote --- "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is gravely important that you do it." I take to heart..
I strive to be like one of the best unknown people... the Unknown Rebel.
Reading the text and the picture still makes my eyes mist up. No matter how big they are, and how small you are, you can still make a difference. I think that sentiment is what is missing in the US today...
Better than that (im the same age, for what it matters), I just dont use the popular social networks.
I'm available on Usenet. That right there cuts down on the stupidity of social networking sites.
What would you call a person who isn't an athiest, deist or any other religious type person?
Athiests seem to have a fervent bent on hating religion. I dont hate them.
Agnostics seem to want to believe in something, but not sure??? They seem similar to mystics of sorts.
And you have the different religions.. they leave me alone, I leave them alone.
I just dont care. I dont hate, like, or anything in between. Dont-care-ism? I really have no clue.
Its sort of like sports to non-sports people...
SportsDude: Who do you want to win: Colts or Patriots?
Person: I dont care. Just turn the damn thing off.
In response, one of the YouTube videos that was aired on the Repblican National Debate: here.
In terms of the US copyright act of 1974, for or non-profit status means nothing.
The key here is unknown infringement - 200$ per or known willing infringement - 150000$ per.
These are the statutory damages inflicted by that dated copyright law, and the basis of challenging unconstitutionality the recent case Ray Beckerman has via UMG v. Lindor.
I was able to glean the sales figures of ICO through the world They are as follows...
USA (09/26/01) - 250,000 units
Japan (12/06/01) - 160,000 units
Asia (01/13/02) - 20,000 units
South Korea (02/22/02) - 20,000 units
Europe (03/20/02) - 200,000 units
If we use the RIAA standard of 750$ per infringement, the payment for the US alone is 187.5 million$. Worldwide infringements would be in the ballpark of 487.5 million- almost a half of a billion dollars.
Oh.. grumble grrr rawr.... I thought it was the Open Office XML...
Damn microsoft.
I stand, erm sit, corrected.
If Im being an idiot, I'd use an ad hominem attack and berate your spelling.
;)
But your point's are valid. My bitching on spelling is just bitching