Understand that I am not laughing at the position Microsoft has put you in, but I find this incredibly ironic.
Here Microsoft daily flings FUD at the likes of Linux.
- "Linux|Open Source. You just don't know where it's been."
- "Sure, we'll indemnify OUR users."
- Ballmer: "Linux is stealing our IP. We might sue."
And yet, when push comes to shove who is getting screwed this time? Developers using MICROSOFT's products.
Try getting the equivalent of a State of the Union address, for instance, without being POTUS
You can, and you can't.
If you represent one of the two main parties in the US, and are the opposition party to the current POTUS, the networks typically provide time to air your "opposing viewpoint" (excessive hyperbole in your response notwithstanding).
If you do not meet the criteria of Blue or Red party, then you are SOL. Buy air time.
As an aside, incumbents do have other privileges and they are not limited to the resident of the White House. Check into the "franking" privileges of members of both halves of Congress. Free postage as long as you are "informing" your "constituents" of your good works in Congress. This of course allows some leeway in the definition of "informing" (rhymes with campaigning) and "constituents" (even the ones in NH and IA).
Okay. here's the first half of your request. That download page has links to five mirrors. "Me too"s and more extensive details to follow as soon as the servers (wiki and forums) recover from the onslaught of traffic.
Shocker! Bill thinks this is a bad idea. Raise your hand if you're surprised.
What he's really saying is this:
"Hey, this has the potential for bringing computer use to a large population that cannot afford the current solution model. Microsoft is not part of this answer! Worse, Linux IS part of it. I better crank out some FUD or this idea may catch on elsewhere.
First off, 'poor people need broadband and a proper machine to run it on...' Yeah, that sounds good! Now, what else..."
Judging from the level of thought put into your commentary, I would say that you are a high school student. And not one of the brighter ones in your class either.
Unfortunately, I'm not even sure where to begin to help you.
such licenses shall include prohibitions against unauthorized copying and redistribution of transmitted content...
That phrase unauthorized copying pops-up several times in the text of the bill. There is however no definition of what constitutes "unauthorized copy". Absent that definition, it would seem difficult to evaluate what we're getting here.
You're absolutely right. Nothing ever improves. There are no advances in science or engineering these days....cellular telephony, multi-core CPUs, MRIs, laser eye surgery, hybrid autos, C60, nanotechnology...
Pfft! Apparently you didn't see Independence Day! The answer to step number 2 (determine instruction set for system) is intuitively obvious: use a Mac laptop with it's built-in Universal uCode Translator.
Therefore the steps should read:
1) Use Mac laptop 2) Send malicious code 3) Infect universe (and profit)
On the face, it does indeed sound like a violation of DMCA:
Krause left the programs, which were designed to manage client information, on Titleserv's servers when he quit working for the company. He placed locks on the code and stipulated that Titleserv could run--but not alter--the programs, prompting a lawsuit from the company, which claimed it needed to make code tweaks in order to fix bugs and to perform other "routine" functions. Company employees ultimately picked the locks and made the changes they said they needed.
The developer locked the code and left specific instructions (EULA anyone?) that it was not to be edited. The company defeated the copy protection and violated the EULA.
IANAL but it would seem to me that this case might open the door for a defeat of DMCA. The case itself was not about the merits of DMCA so there was no impact on the law.
I also wonder about the impact of this case on EULAs. Apparently the code would require a recompile to add users or business functions. Hrmm... I want the functionality in WinXP Pro (strictly hypothetical) but I have XP Home. Guess I can ignore the EULA now?
Don't count on this story being about greed either. We've only heard one side of the story. Having nothing to compare that to there is no way to know the accuracy of that version.
Though it wasn't the other party in question ("Frank"), someone did speak up for him. Look for the poster hatrisc in earlier replies. He claims that Frank is recoding the site.
Again, who knows what the truth is but it doesn't make any sense to be adamant about your position (over someone elses) when there are insufficient facts at hand.
I've come to expect dupes, glaring ommissions, and outright falsehoods from Slashdot, but up until now it had resisted posting blatantly partisan rhetoric.
You've got to be kidding. Slashdot has been blatantly partisan for years. Because it was leaning in a direction you agree with you obviously either missed it or ignored it.
So when a similar light-on-the-facts, misleading headline article appears to say something equally heinous about Republicans, that's okay. But if it happens to Democrats that constitutes a conspiracy?
Staying more on topic, I'd like to know why ANYONE in Congress is allowed to attach a rider that doesn't have a thing to do with the original bill. Congress would have to change their rules to prevent it, but both major parties apparently are addicted to this sort of nonsense.
Let's see. NASA gets it. You and the president seem to be a bit behind though. Let me deliver a quick refresher here.... followed by two paragraphs of non sequiturs and other pointless blather.
Try sticking to the facts. They're at least relevant. Use of the presidential seal is covered by US Federal Law. Being cool, satirical, running amok shouting "freedom of speech", and knocking a politician is not going to cut it when there are specific applicable laws for the use the this and other seals. The Onion didn't adhere to the law. Period, end of discussion.
Well, until the iPod Apple had a long history of introducing 'new' gadgets, which were basically stylised rehashes of PC equipment. Even the Ipod isn't an innovation, but its a slickly packaged device whose usability trumped its competitors.
The list of products Apple has produced where there was no comparable example, if any at all, is so long that I'm astonished you would say that. For simplicity, I'll give just three examples that existed for Apple users long before anything like them was seen in the PC world:
- Plug and play. Take it out of the box, plug it in and it works.
- The PDA. Long before Palm, Compaq, HP, Dell or anyone else had one there was the Newton.
- The Laser Printer. Apple came out with the LaserWriter for business printing long before such a thing was available from anyone else (HP, Dell, Brother, Lexmark, etc).
On the other hand, I could also give you plenty of instances where we've been treated to mindless rehashes of Apple's work that's treated by the PC press as innovative.
You take very nice photographs (judging from your site), but you're knowledge of the computer industry is limited.
It's not the only one: I watched with great sadness as people whom I know to have given very generously to things like the tsunami appeal openly refused to donate anything in the aftermath of Katrina, such was their loathing for the current state of affairs across the pond. Outside the US, the tragedy that hundreds of people died and countless thousands were displaced isn't what registers with a lot of people any more; they just see the mighty US get what they thought it had coming.
And yet, any time that the US does not contribute to someone else's woe in an amount commensurate with the sum total of all others it is then denounced as some kind of piker.
Every time this thread comes up, half a million zealots start claiming the US created the Internet, Arpanet, Ethernet, TCP/IP came from where?
War for oil Gee, we're getting oil from Iraq? When did that start? If you want to talk about profiting from Iraq's oil, perhaps you should speak to Mr Annan.
refusing to submit political and military leaders for internationally-recognised war trials Say, what?
supporting dubious regimes in other nations... Like Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Russia and Japan?
the list goes on, and none of it's pretty. Amen Brother Pot. Amen.
I mean seriously, Shakespeare was great, but would we want to have saved every piece of parchment he scribbled on? "Oh look, here's the backdrop of the setting which hung outside the prop window on his One-Act play which only showed one night and then closed because it sucked!"
First off, your example is not going to make your argument. IF such a thing from Shakespeare existed, I have no doubt that collectors would pay through the nose for it. Sotheby's would make a small fortune from the auction comission alone.
However Nick Park noted that, "in light of other tragedies, today isn't a big deal". I would have thought they had reused some of the props (like the insides of Wallace's house). Instead, they state that each was "purpose built" for their respective films.
These planes are going to be traveling at multiple times the speed of sound. Which means they can't race over populated areas because the sonic booms would disturb, shock and in some cases injur the inhabitants.
Say what? What spec are you reading? From the official website:
The first-generation of Mark-1 X-Racers will reach maximum speeds of more than 320 mph.
What exactly is the speed of sound? Let's consider today's conditions in Las Vegas, Nevada: 85F, 11% humidity. That would equate to 780 mph.
So the jets in question are doing less than half the speed of sound. Definitely not Mach 3.
IANAL, but item 21 in the countersuit sounds interesting:
21. The record company plaintiffs employed MediaSentry as their agent to break into Ms. Andersen's personal computer (and those of tens of thousands of other people) to secretly spy on and steal information or remove files. MediaSentry did not have Ms. Andersen's permission to inspect, copy, or remove private computer files. If MediaSentry accessed her private computer, it did so illegally and secretly. In fact, Ms. Andersen was unaware that the trespass occurred until well after she was anonymously sued.
Couldn't that be construed as a violation of DMCA? And while we're at it, who gave MediaSentry the authority to conduct an electronic wiretap?
I sincerely hope that Ms. Andersen's countersuit is successful and MediaSentry is forced out of business as a result of the damages awarded.
Rheostats used rotational motion to control things like radio tuning, volume, and the like.
Rheostats are simply variable resistors. They're also called "potentiometers" or "trimming potentiometers" (aka trimpot). It just happens that this particular instance used rotary action. They also come in linear variaties. As such, the real answer here is that the rheostat was part of the tuning circuit in this instance.
My dad worked for Bourns in the early 1960s. They still make the gutsbehind the frequency thumbwheel. Judging from the pictures, Bourns hasn't noticably changed their product design in the last 40 years.:)
Slashdot Mirror
Understand that I am not laughing at the position Microsoft has put you in, but I find this incredibly ironic.
Here Microsoft daily flings FUD at the likes of Linux.
- "Linux|Open Source. You just don't know where it's been."
- "Sure, we'll indemnify OUR users."
- Ballmer: "Linux is stealing our IP. We might sue."
And yet, when push comes to shove who is getting screwed this time? Developers using MICROSOFT's products.
Try getting the equivalent of a State of the Union address, for instance, without being POTUS
You can, and you can't.
If you represent one of the two main parties in the US, and are the opposition party to the current POTUS, the networks typically provide time to air your "opposing viewpoint" (excessive hyperbole in your response notwithstanding).
If you do not meet the criteria of Blue or Red party, then you are SOL. Buy air time.
As an aside, incumbents do have other privileges and they are not limited to the resident of the White House. Check into the "franking" privileges of members of both halves of Congress. Free postage as long as you are "informing" your "constituents" of your good works in Congress. This of course allows some leeway in the definition of "informing" (rhymes with campaigning) and "constituents" (even the ones in NH and IA).
And people think that Steve Jobs operates a reality distortion field!
...and you'll certainly stop finding.
How did this guy get that high up in an IBM research org?
Okay. here's the first half of your request. That download page has links to five mirrors. "Me too"s and more extensive details to follow as soon as the servers (wiki and forums) recover from the onslaught of traffic.
Shocker! Bill thinks this is a bad idea. Raise your hand if you're surprised.
What he's really saying is this:
"Hey, this has the potential for bringing computer use to a large population that cannot afford the current solution model. Microsoft is not part of this answer! Worse, Linux IS part of it. I better crank out some FUD or this idea may catch on elsewhere.
First off, 'poor people need broadband and a proper machine to run it on...' Yeah, that sounds good! Now, what else..."
Judging from the level of thought put into your commentary, I would say that you are a high school student. And not one of the brighter ones in your class either.
Unfortunately, I'm not even sure where to begin to help you.
such licenses shall include prohibitions against unauthorized copying and redistribution of transmitted content ...
That phrase unauthorized copying pops-up several times in the text of the bill. There is however no definition of what constitutes "unauthorized copy". Absent that definition, it would seem difficult to evaluate what we're getting here.
You're absolutely right. Nothing ever improves. There are no advances in science or engineering these days. ...cellular telephony, multi-core CPUs, MRIs, laser eye surgery, hybrid autos, C60, nanotechnology...
nothing changes.
It's just marketing BS. Bleh!
Pfft! Apparently you didn't see Independence Day! The answer to step number 2 (determine instruction set for system) is intuitively obvious: use a Mac laptop with it's built-in Universal uCode Translator.
Therefore the steps should read:
1) Use Mac laptop
2) Send malicious code
3) Infect universe (and profit)
On the face, it does indeed sound like a violation of DMCA:
Krause left the programs, which were designed to manage client information, on Titleserv's servers when he quit working for the company. He placed locks on the code and stipulated that Titleserv could run--but not alter--the programs, prompting a lawsuit from the company, which claimed it needed to make code tweaks in order to fix bugs and to perform other "routine" functions. Company employees ultimately picked the locks and made the changes they said they needed.
The developer locked the code and left specific instructions (EULA anyone?) that it was not to be edited. The company defeated the copy protection and violated the EULA.
IANAL but it would seem to me that this case might open the door for a defeat of DMCA. The case itself was not about the merits of DMCA so there was no impact on the law.
I also wonder about the impact of this case on EULAs. Apparently the code would require a recompile to add users or business functions. Hrmm... I want the functionality in WinXP Pro (strictly hypothetical) but I have XP Home. Guess I can ignore the EULA now?
Don't count on this story being about greed either. We've only heard one side of the story. Having nothing to compare that to there is no way to know the accuracy of that version.
Though it wasn't the other party in question ("Frank"), someone did speak up for him. Look for the poster hatrisc in earlier replies. He claims that Frank is recoding the site.
Again, who knows what the truth is but it doesn't make any sense to be adamant about your position (over someone elses) when there are insufficient facts at hand.
I rolled down the hill in 71 and 72 for the local race. It was a blast. I often wondered why we only got to go once a year.
I've come to expect dupes, glaring ommissions, and outright falsehoods from Slashdot, but up until now it had resisted posting blatantly partisan rhetoric.
You've got to be kidding. Slashdot has been blatantly partisan for years. Because it was leaning in a direction you agree with you obviously either missed it or ignored it.
So when a similar light-on-the-facts, misleading headline article appears to say something equally heinous about Republicans, that's okay. But if it happens to Democrats that constitutes a conspiracy?
Staying more on topic, I'd like to know why ANYONE in Congress is allowed to attach a rider that doesn't have a thing to do with the original bill. Congress would have to change their rules to prevent it, but both major parties apparently are addicted to this sort of nonsense.
Let's see. NASA gets it. You and the president seem to be a bit behind though. Let me deliver a quick refresher here. ... followed by two paragraphs of non sequiturs and other pointless blather.
Try sticking to the facts. They're at least relevant. Use of the presidential seal is covered by US Federal Law. Being cool, satirical, running amok shouting "freedom of speech", and knocking a politician is not going to cut it when there are specific applicable laws for the use the this and other seals. The Onion didn't adhere to the law. Period, end of discussion.
In short, you are the one who doesn't "get it".
Well, until the iPod Apple had a long history of introducing 'new' gadgets, which were basically stylised rehashes of PC equipment. Even the Ipod isn't an innovation, but its a slickly packaged device whose usability trumped its competitors.
The list of products Apple has produced where there was no comparable example, if any at all, is so long that I'm astonished you would say that. For simplicity, I'll give just three examples that existed for Apple users long before anything like them was seen in the PC world:
- Plug and play. Take it out of the box, plug it in and it works.
- The PDA. Long before Palm, Compaq, HP, Dell or anyone else had one there was the Newton.
- The Laser Printer. Apple came out with the LaserWriter for business printing long before such a thing was available from anyone else (HP, Dell, Brother, Lexmark, etc).
On the other hand, I could also give you plenty of instances where we've been treated to mindless rehashes of Apple's work that's treated by the PC press as innovative.
You take very nice photographs (judging from your site), but you're knowledge of the computer industry is limited.
Architosh has a forum thread on this very topic which you might find interesting. Start here.
Aside from that, will IMSI TurboCAD 3D or Ashlar-Vellum meet your needs?
'm an engineer, and I simply can't invest in a computer that won't run modeling/simulation software like CATIA and Solidworks.
You do realize that Solidworks is available for OS X, right?
It's not the only one: I watched with great sadness as people whom I know to have given very generously to things like the tsunami appeal openly refused to donate anything in the aftermath of Katrina, such was their loathing for the current state of affairs across the pond. Outside the US, the tragedy that hundreds of people died and countless thousands were displaced isn't what registers with a lot of people any more; they just see the mighty US get what they thought it had coming.
And yet, any time that the US does not contribute to someone else's woe in an amount commensurate with the sum total of all others it is then denounced as some kind of piker.
Every time this thread comes up, half a million zealots start claiming the US created the Internet,
Arpanet, Ethernet, TCP/IP came from where?
War for oil
Gee, we're getting oil from Iraq? When did that start? If you want to talk about profiting from Iraq's oil, perhaps you should speak to Mr Annan.
refusing to submit political and military leaders for internationally-recognised war trials
Say, what?
supporting dubious regimes in other nations...
Like Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Russia and Japan?
the list goes on, and none of it's pretty.
Amen Brother Pot. Amen.
Wow, that's deep.
You don't know sh*t about the problem, so it MUST be what ever BS idea pops into your head.
Then you get modded as "insightful" by equally simple-minded moderators.
Amazing.
I mean seriously, Shakespeare was great, but would we want to have saved every piece of parchment he scribbled on? "Oh look, here's the backdrop of the setting which hung outside the prop window on his One-Act play which only showed one night and then closed because it sucked!"
First off, your example is not going to make your argument. IF such a thing from Shakespeare existed, I have no doubt that collectors would pay through the nose for it. Sotheby's would make a small fortune from the auction comission alone.
However Nick Park noted that, "in light of other tragedies, today isn't a big deal". I would have thought they had reused some of the props (like the insides of Wallace's house). Instead, they state that each was "purpose built" for their respective films.
Say what? What spec are you reading? From the official website:
What exactly is the speed of sound? Let's consider today's conditions in Las Vegas, Nevada: 85F, 11% humidity. That would equate to 780 mph.
So the jets in question are doing less than half the speed of sound. Definitely not Mach 3.
Couldn't that be construed as a violation of DMCA? And while we're at it, who gave MediaSentry the authority to conduct an electronic wiretap?
I sincerely hope that Ms. Andersen's countersuit is successful and MediaSentry is forced out of business as a result of the damages awarded.
Rheostats used rotational motion to control things like radio tuning, volume, and the like.
:)
Rheostats are simply variable resistors. They're also called "potentiometers" or "trimming potentiometers" (aka trimpot). It just happens that this particular instance used rotary action. They also come in linear variaties. As such, the real answer here is that the rheostat was part of the tuning circuit in this instance.
My dad worked for Bourns in the early 1960s. They still make the guts behind the frequency thumbwheel. Judging from the pictures, Bourns hasn't noticably changed their product design in the last 40 years.