How does 'have' indicate action in the past? Are you holding or
posessing an action...
Yes. That is what it means. This is called the perfect tense and
indicates an experience or a past action with a result in the present.
In this sense it may still be "held."
For example, "I went to Egypt" and "I have gone to Egypt" say about the
same thing, but the latter draws attention to the experience or
accomplishment of going to Egypt, which I still have.
Better would be a separate stack for return addresses and frame pointers.
Still not unbreakable though. For example, function pointers could be overwritten.
Make them earn their passage by doing some programming along the way. Set up the food dispensers so that if you don't work, you don't eat. That will keep them occupied!
I propose that there be a period for public comment before the final
issuing of patents. Patent candidates would be posted on the web and
after a period of time the Patent Office would decide if their decision
merits further consideration.
The patent examiner does not have to investigate every claim. I think
that anyone qualified to be a patent examiner could make a quick and
fair summary judgment from the whole body of public comments as to
whether further consideration is appropriate. The idea is not to
eliminate every patent that could be denied for
prior art but to prevent stupid desicions.
There is a large amount of precious minerals
on the Earth.
There is no shortage of precious minerals on Earth, especially in the
oceans. Mining them is simply a matter of cost.
It does not have to cost a great amount to prohibit mining. If a
mineral is worth $1.00 per pound and it cost $1.01 per pound to mine,
then the cost of mining is prohibitive.
So, the question is not the feasibility of space mining, but whether it
would cost more to mine, say, gold on the moon than to extract it from
sea water.
They are better, Ballmer suggests, because Microsoft developers have their rears (presumably their jobs) on the line.
We need to stop saying that "Microsoft" products suck and start saying that Steve Ballmer's products suck. Ballmer's software is buggy and Ballmer's garbage is costing us tens of billions of dollars in lost productivity each year.
... we tax Internet connections and CD/DVD burners a small amount... The problem is how to decide which artists should get the money...
WRONG! The problem is weasles like you think you have a right to steal my money for something I don't use or want. What gives you the gaul to think you have a right to tax my ISP use or computer equipment. DON"T TELL ME IT"S ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT!
There has always been a vanity publishing market for creators who are more interested in deseminating their work than profits. But, their numbers have been limited by the cost of publication.
So, in a sense, the internet is just micropayments applied to the vanity publishing market, the cost of publishing brought so low that everyone can vanity publish.
Windows Update works by adding an entry into the system registry every time it installs a patch. When users log on to the update tool, it scans their registry and offers them list of patches that have not yet been installed. [From the ZDNet article]
I'm curious. Does the registry entry include any security, or can any exploit set the registry to deceptively indicate that the host is already protected.
I suggest you use a social security number of more than 16 digits and a mother's maiden name of at least 12 characters - and change them monthly, because those are what your bank is probably using as a password for telephone transactions.
Kinkos' here allow you to connect your own laptop for internet access and printing. They convieniently provide floppy's with drivers for their printers, sitting out on the tables.
Anyone could infect these floppys. Who would be dumb enough to install from them?
... then you know that this is not going to get any traction here. Sure, there are the few folk who fought for ten years to keep that chicken murdering Colonel from moving into town, but the overall political climate here is not amiable to this.
What it does do instead is take a lot of
credible science out of the courtroom and force jurors to decide on
feeling rather than scientific findings.
This sort of claim is made over and over, but there seems to be a dearth
of actual examples given of "credible
science"
that is being excluded. I would like to see examples put on
the table. Let's see what the damage really is.
Industry leaders also contend that none of this will stifle
innovation.
What the Industry Leaders mean is that the Industry Leaders will
not be stifled. The rest of the industry should just not worry their
little heads. It will all be done for us by those who know best.
a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a
translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization,
motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment,
condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast,
transformed, or adapted
If recast, transformed, or adapted are to be taken as the most
general definition of derivation, then it is difficult to see how
adding a module of new functionality to a work makes the module a
derivative of that work. In what sense does that recast, transform,
or adapt the original work?
Consider a hypothetical case : two works A and B and an independently
developed module X that can be added to both A or B. If X is
added to A on Monday it becomes a derivative of A and adding it to B on
Tuesday is a copyright infringment against the owners of A. But if that
same X is added to B on Monday it becomes a derivative of B and adding
it to A on Tuesday is a copyright infringment against the owners of
B. This turns any reasonable meaning of derivative on
its head!
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How does 'have' indicate action in the past? Are you holding or posessing an action...
Yes. That is what it means. This is called the perfect tense and indicates an experience or a past action with a result in the present. In this sense it may still be "held."
For example, "I went to Egypt" and "I have gone to Egypt" say about the same thing, but the latter draws attention to the experience or accomplishment of going to Egypt, which I still have.
Gentlemen do not read each other's email
...let's just say the Jimmy Carter is uniquely capable to perform missions vitally important to the war on terror...
Thats a statement I thought I'd never see!
Better would be a separate stack for return addresses and frame pointers. Still not unbreakable though. For example, function pointers could be overwritten.
Make them earn their passage by doing some programming along the way. Set up the food dispensers so that if you don't work, you don't eat. That will keep them occupied!
...any fame is good fame, right??
As long as the Tribune spells its own name right.
I propose that there be a period for public comment before the final issuing of patents. Patent candidates would be posted on the web and after a period of time the Patent Office would decide if their decision merits further consideration.
The patent examiner does not have to investigate every claim. I think that anyone qualified to be a patent examiner could make a quick and fair summary judgment from the whole body of public comments as to whether further consideration is appropriate. The idea is not to eliminate every patent that could be denied for prior art but to prevent stupid desicions.
Aucsmith's logic assumes that the only exploits that count are by morons who try to infect every machine on the planet.
The bright and industrious hackers like to keep a low profile.
There is a large amount of precious minerals on the Earth.
There is no shortage of precious minerals on Earth, especially in the oceans. Mining them is simply a matter of cost.
It does not have to cost a great amount to prohibit mining. If a mineral is worth $1.00 per pound and it cost $1.01 per pound to mine, then the cost of mining is prohibitive.
So, the question is not the feasibility of space mining, but whether it would cost more to mine, say, gold on the moon than to extract it from sea water.
We need to stop saying that "Microsoft" products suck and start saying that Steve Ballmer's products suck. Ballmer's software is buggy and Ballmer's garbage is costing us tens of billions of dollars in lost productivity each year.
Isn't that what SCO uses for it's code presentations?
... we tax Internet connections and CD/DVD burners a small amount ... The problem is how to decide which artists should get the money...
WRONG! The problem is weasles like you think you have a right to steal
my money for something I don't use or want. What gives you the gaul to
think you have a right to tax my ISP use or computer equipment. DON"T
TELL ME IT"S ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT!
There has always been a vanity publishing market for creators who are more interested in deseminating their work than profits. But, their numbers have been limited by the cost of publication.
So, in a sense, the internet is just micropayments applied to the vanity publishing market, the cost of publishing brought so low that everyone can vanity publish.
So what is the possible reason for this?
/sarc
Whats the problem? SCO owns Linux. They are using SCO
Unix.
I'm curious. Does the registry entry include any security, or can any exploit set the registry to deceptively indicate that the host is already protected.
I suggest you use a social security number of more than 16 digits and a mother's maiden name of at least 12 characters - and change them monthly, because those are what your bank is probably using as a password for telephone transactions.
Maybe the boxes should include a short computer literacy test and a warning:
Also, in both cases, the ones who don't do it are the ones who end up whining the most.
Nothing better for easy reading but comprehensive coverage.
Volume 1 - Motion, Sound, and Heat
Volume 2 - Light, Magnetism, and Electricity
Volume 3 - The Electron, Proton, and Neutron
Anyone could infect these floppys. Who would be dumb enough to install from them?
... then you know that this is not going to get any traction here. Sure, there are the few folk who fought for ten years to keep that chicken murdering Colonel from moving into town, but the overall political climate here is not amiable to this.
What it does do instead is take a lot of credible science out of the courtroom and force jurors to decide on feeling rather than scientific findings.
This sort of claim is made over and over, but there seems to be a dearth of actual examples given of "credible science" that is being excluded. I would like to see examples put on the table. Let's see what the damage really is.
Industry leaders also contend that none of this will stifle innovation.
What the Industry Leaders mean is that the Industry Leaders will not be stifled. The rest of the industry should just not worry their little heads. It will all be done for us by those who know best.
You can get there from here (no reg required)
If recast, transformed, or adapted are to be taken as the most general definition of derivation, then it is difficult to see how adding a module of new functionality to a work makes the module a derivative of that work. In what sense does that recast, transform, or adapt the original work?Consider a hypothetical case : two works A and B and an independently developed module X that can be added to both A or B. If X is added to A on Monday it becomes a derivative of A and adding it to B on Tuesday is a copyright infringment against the owners of A. But if that same X is added to B on Monday it becomes a derivative of B and adding it to A on Tuesday is a copyright infringment against the owners of B. This turns any reasonable meaning of derivative on its head!