You think that, but you should note that this is an appellate decision: JMRI actually lost the first time!
Granted, if you read the original court's decision it's obvious that the judge didn't understand the issue at all -- which is not necessarily the judge's fault, as JMRI's case wasn't argued very competently in my opinion -- but it still happened.
It's not even just that: Katzer also went and got patents over the concepts expressed in JMRI, which were only granted because he failed to disclose JMRI's prior art to the patent office, and then sued the JMRI people for infringement of their own code!
The open source guys didn't even start this; Katzer did. He brought it upon himself!
JMRI has a long and detailed page describing what happened. I highly recommend everyone reading it; it's amazing how brazenly this prick Katzer (and his lawyer) tried to rip everybody off.
IANAL-- It's stronger copyright law - but for 'our' side I guess.
On the contrary, the issue being decided here is copyright law. To say that the Artistic License is "stronger than copyright law" makes no sense, as it relies on copyright law for its enforcement. In essence, the court ruled that the Artistic License works the same way as the GPL (even though the GPL makes it explicit and the Artistic License doesn't):
You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program. Ancillary propagation of a covered work occurring solely as a consequence of using peer-to-peer transmission to receive a copy likewise does not require acceptance. However, nothing other than this License grants you permission to propagate or modify any covered work. These actions infringe copyright if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or propagating a covered work, you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so.
(GPL version 3, section 9; emphasis mine)
The argument made by the emphasized text is the same argument that the JMRI people made here (and that the judge agreed with).
is a legal distinction made between license for personal use vs. license for redistribution?
A distinction should be made, since personal use doesn't require a license to begin with. Think about it: when's the last time you had to agree to an EULA to read a book you bought, or wear a shirt you bought, or listen to a CD you bought, or watch a movie you bought, or even played a (console-based) video game you bought? These things are no different than using software you bought.
I don't think of religion as an 'outcrop' of science, I think of it as pre-formalised science. It is far more productive to educate people on the philosophy and methods of science (as opposed to the pile of factoids approach you find at most schools), and let them come to their own religious conclusions.
The way I see it, if you were drawing a Venn diagram then the circles for science and religion would not overlap, but both would be entirely encompassed by the circle representing philosophy.
Once you learn to smoke meat you can keep it a much longer time.
Smoking is not cooking. Although you may happen to cook and smoke meat at the same time (as when barbecuing), smoked meats (like bacon and salmon) are still considered to be raw. In fact, one of the tricky parts of smoking is to make sure the smoke has cooled off enough before it reaches the meat so that it doesn't cook it.
I don't know if cooking *really* brings anything extra to preserving meat. Drying meat surely predates cooking, though cooking before drying might make the whole process faster, and help it stay good longer... But probably not a dramatic improvement.
I can't think of a single method of preserving meat that involves cooking it first. (Well, except freezing leftovers, but that doesn't count.)
But movies like Shrek, Toy Story, Monsters, Inc, and many many others proves that just because a movies is targeted at kids doesn't mean it can't also be made enjoyable for adults.
Just because a movie is animated doesn't mean it's targeted to kids. Take Antz for example -- I can't imagine a normal kid even understanding the story, let alone liking it.
Had he had a properly organized lab in the garage, he probably would have been OK, they're a lot stricter about what you can store in the house itself.
The garage is for storing cars. The basement is exactly where a lab is supposed to be!
Whoop-de-fucking-do! So are lots of the things normal people keep under their kitchen sink, or in the red container on the shelf next to their lawnmower, or any number of other places!
his qualifications sound like a hobbyist not a professional
So what? Are hobbies illegal now?! Exactly who the fuck do you think you are, to dictate what hobbies are acceptable?!
I don't know about you but I'm not sure I'd want a hobbyist with an extremely large amount of potentially explosive material (stored improperly) doing "experiments" next door to me and my family.
Translation: "Waah! Waah! Think of the children! I'm a damn, sniveling coward so I'm gonna whine and cry until the nanny government stamps out all that evil, dangerous LIBERTY AND FREEDOM!"
But not more expensive than the equivalent laptop plus the reasonably-large Intuos that you'd have to buy with it.
most tablets don't have a high res screen
So what? Most non-tablets don't either. And some tablets do: the Lenovo X61 tablet, for example, has a 12.1" 1400x1050 screen (with a pixel density of 144.6 DPI, compared to the 133.2 DPI of this W700's screen) and costs half what this monstrosity does.
Obviously this is a figment of my imagination, then.
But seriously, the answer is that it depends on the technology used. The pressure-sensitive screens (as on most PDAs) obviously wouldn't be all that durable, but some technologies (such as the Wacom one) allow the screen to be protected by a glass sheet. Scratching is not a problem because the tip of the stylus is made out of a softer material, so you replace the stylus tip when it wears out instead of replacing the screen.
Incidentally, I own a Thinkpad X60 Tablet that's about a year and a half old now, and wear has not been a problem. And although it does get fingerprints, those aren't a problem either.
but it doesn't seem much of a stretch to have a digitiser that *can* respond to a finger tip.
The problem with that is that the type of digitizers that respond to fingers use an entirely different technology. So if you do that, you're trying to pack two different technologies into the same pad, which would obviously increase the price. And then you'd end up with two different sensors in the same place, which would conflict: you'd be getting input from the pen, and you'd also be getting input from the side of the user's hand resting on the pad. It just wouldn't work well.
Of course, all this ignores the fact that this whole concept is stupid to contemplate anyway, because the digitizer belongs on the damn screen to begin with!
What it is, is a retarded, mutated Tablet PC. I mean seriously, who the fuck would be stupid enough to buy one of these instead of a Tablet PC, which have much bigger digitizers and don't have a weird separation between the surface you draw on and where the graphics actually appear?!
The digitizer requires a stylus. It doesn't respond to pressure or capacitance, and thus can't be used with just a finger. Therefore, just a digitizer would be inconvenient, but a digitizer and a clit mouse (the pointing device traditionally found on Thinkpads) would work fine.
So where would you put the Wacom on this laptop...
Oh I don't know, on the screen, maybe? You know, like a normal Tablet PC, which is exactly what this is except that Tablet PCs have bigger digitizers and work better because the strokes appear where the user actually drew them.
I mean really, what kind of idiot would want this?! It's like getting a really tiny Intuos when you could have had a nice big Cintiq for less!
why is nobody mentioning that "Georgia", "North Ossetia", "South Ossetia", "Chechnia" were just administrative districts of Soviet Union, with as much ethnic/national relevance as Vermont has in US ?
If they are merely administrative districts, then they have less national relevance than Vermont in the US. Vermont is a State, and has a certain amount of sovereignty of its own (see also: "Federalism").
I just negotiate a high enough bill rate to cover my time off when I want it
You're not answering the question I asked:
Assuming you were being paid as if you were a W-2 employee...
In other words, if the nominal salary, benefits, hours, etc. were exactly the same, why would you want to be a 1099 contractor instead of a W-2 employee?
(I ask this because a lot of people -- perhaps even the majority of 1099 workers -- are presented the employment terms as if they were going to be hired as a W-2 employee, get told "oh, by the way, you'll officially be a 1099 contractor" as an afterthought, and don't understand the implications.)
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Exactly: it isn't one!
Yep, this is a fairly serious bug in those software's installers. I keep meaning to file it on OO.o's tracker...
You think that, but you should note that this is an appellate decision: JMRI actually lost the first time!
Granted, if you read the original court's decision it's obvious that the judge didn't understand the issue at all -- which is not necessarily the judge's fault, as JMRI's case wasn't argued very competently in my opinion -- but it still happened.
It's not even just that: Katzer also went and got patents over the concepts expressed in JMRI, which were only granted because he failed to disclose JMRI's prior art to the patent office, and then sued the JMRI people for infringement of their own code!
The open source guys didn't even start this; Katzer did. He brought it upon himself!
JMRI has a long and detailed page describing what happened. I highly recommend everyone reading it; it's amazing how brazenly this prick Katzer (and his lawyer) tried to rip everybody off.
On the contrary, the issue being decided here is copyright law. To say that the Artistic License is "stronger than copyright law" makes no sense, as it relies on copyright law for its enforcement. In essence, the court ruled that the Artistic License works the same way as the GPL (even though the GPL makes it explicit and the Artistic License doesn't):
(GPL version 3, section 9; emphasis mine)
The argument made by the emphasized text is the same argument that the JMRI people made here (and that the judge agreed with).
A distinction should be made, since personal use doesn't require a license to begin with. Think about it: when's the last time you had to agree to an EULA to read a book you bought, or wear a shirt you bought, or listen to a CD you bought, or watch a movie you bought, or even played a (console-based) video game you bought? These things are no different than using software you bought.
The way I see it, if you were drawing a Venn diagram then the circles for science and religion would not overlap, but both would be entirely encompassed by the circle representing philosophy.
Smoking is not cooking. Although you may happen to cook and smoke meat at the same time (as when barbecuing), smoked meats (like bacon and salmon) are still considered to be raw. In fact, one of the tricky parts of smoking is to make sure the smoke has cooled off enough before it reaches the meat so that it doesn't cook it.
I can't think of a single method of preserving meat that involves cooking it first. (Well, except freezing leftovers, but that doesn't count.)
Just because a movie is animated doesn't mean it's targeted to kids. Take Antz for example -- I can't imagine a normal kid even understanding the story, let alone liking it.
Everybody has a "bigass vat" in their home! I happen to most often use mine to boil pasta in. Do I have to fucking label my pasta now?!
The garage is for storing cars. The basement is exactly where a lab is supposed to be!
The only trouble is, lab glassware is a little expensive compared to crap from IKEA or Wal-Mart.
I'm pretty sure the Georgians tried this once already, in Splinter Cell...
Whoop-de-fucking-do! So are lots of the things normal people keep under their kitchen sink, or in the red container on the shelf next to their lawnmower, or any number of other places!
So what? Are hobbies illegal now?! Exactly who the fuck do you think you are, to dictate what hobbies are acceptable?!
Translation: "Waah! Waah! Think of the children! I'm a damn, sniveling coward so I'm gonna whine and cry until the nanny government stamps out all that evil, dangerous LIBERTY AND FREEDOM!"
It is a long-standing American tradition to run home-based businesses, invent things in home workshops, etc.
In other words, fuck off and die, you fascist!
But not more expensive than the equivalent laptop plus the reasonably-large Intuos that you'd have to buy with it.
So what? Most non-tablets don't either. And some tablets do: the Lenovo X61 tablet, for example, has a 12.1" 1400x1050 screen (with a pixel density of 144.6 DPI, compared to the 133.2 DPI of this W700's screen) and costs half what this monstrosity does.
Obviously this is a figment of my imagination, then.
But seriously, the answer is that it depends on the technology used. The pressure-sensitive screens (as on most PDAs) obviously wouldn't be all that durable, but some technologies (such as the Wacom one) allow the screen to be protected by a glass sheet. Scratching is not a problem because the tip of the stylus is made out of a softer material, so you replace the stylus tip when it wears out instead of replacing the screen.
Incidentally, I own a Thinkpad X60 Tablet that's about a year and a half old now, and wear has not been a problem. And although it does get fingerprints, those aren't a problem either.
Here's a tip: Tablet PCs are no more expensive than an equivalent laptop and separate Intuos, and a heck of a lot cheaper than a desktop and a Cintiq.
The problem with that is that the type of digitizers that respond to fingers use an entirely different technology. So if you do that, you're trying to pack two different technologies into the same pad, which would obviously increase the price. And then you'd end up with two different sensors in the same place, which would conflict: you'd be getting input from the pen, and you'd also be getting input from the side of the user's hand resting on the pad. It just wouldn't work well.
Of course, all this ignores the fact that this whole concept is stupid to contemplate anyway, because the digitizer belongs on the damn screen to begin with!
What it is, is a retarded, mutated Tablet PC. I mean seriously, who the fuck would be stupid enough to buy one of these instead of a Tablet PC, which have much bigger digitizers and don't have a weird separation between the surface you draw on and where the graphics actually appear?!
The digitizer requires a stylus. It doesn't respond to pressure or capacitance, and thus can't be used with just a finger. Therefore, just a digitizer would be inconvenient, but a digitizer and a clit mouse (the pointing device traditionally found on Thinkpads) would work fine.
Oh I don't know, on the screen, maybe? You know, like a normal Tablet PC, which is exactly what this is except that Tablet PCs have bigger digitizers and work better because the strokes appear where the user actually drew them.
I mean really, what kind of idiot would want this?! It's like getting a really tiny Intuos when you could have had a nice big Cintiq for less!
In Soviet Russia, Sherman marches from the sea!
If they are merely administrative districts, then they have less national relevance than Vermont in the US. Vermont is a State, and has a certain amount of sovereignty of its own (see also: "Federalism").
You're not answering the question I asked:
In other words, if the nominal salary, benefits, hours, etc. were exactly the same, why would you want to be a 1099 contractor instead of a W-2 employee?
(I ask this because a lot of people -- perhaps even the majority of 1099 workers -- are presented the employment terms as if they were going to be hired as a W-2 employee, get told "oh, by the way, you'll officially be a 1099 contractor" as an afterthought, and don't understand the implications.)