My site just turned 11 - it went on line in its infant form 9/9/1992 piggy-backing on PARC's server at Xerox. I was an 'old timer' on the web before they ever went live. Ah Cern, NCSA and Mosaic (0.4 alpha) on a VAX running BSD unix. Text only - no graphics but we were live. I've had several homes since then and changed domain names 4 times. Gawd... I got 4 hits my first year and was estatic. There were only about a dozen live sites in 1992.
There are a lot of positions available that pay very good - maybe better than at an IT company. The position requires you to do more than a single task and that makes you more valuable in the long run. You have a small IT staff but a lot of work. You're move valuable there than in a shop like at a telco. There's a whole lot of companies out there that needs top IT people to support their specialized industries and these jobs are all here in the USA.
Re:Can we use the law against them and sue them?
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You better have more money than the RIAA if you plan to go to court and fight them. Just a thought. Also, in the District Court of NY, the music industry has NEVER lost a copyright case they get transferred to that court. Gee, I wonder why they try and get all cases there.
Let me get this straight. Micro$oft repeatedly says in the press they are all for paying for intellectual property (patent rights) and they pay SCO millions of dollars for a technology they don't want or need. But, Micro$oft will spend millions of dollars to fight Eolas Technologies for a technology that everybody wants. What's wrong with this picture???
Enterprise database solutions are quite varied. Is it a data warehouse or something financial or ???
You pick the right tool for the job. I've seen massive databases on Sun Enterprise E-6500s and Oracle do a LOT if the database is properly configured. But one structure doesn't work for all applications. Do you use stored procedures? Do you index? Do you require triple replication to reindex one system have a backup and a live production system? Do you need remote fail-safe operation? These types of questions need to be answered before you settle into one solution.
I own a trademark and the way it goes is that a registered trademark () is established for a product category or categories. Thus, I can have a trademark for FORD but it can't apply to anything that Ford Motor Company has. Thus I could produce FORD photo paper or such and be OK. What one would need to establish is what categories the trademark Apple (from Apple Records) applies to. If Apple Records never requested the categories for equipment that plays music, then Apple Computers may be able to win.
The interpretation of the Registered Trademark document by the courts will be what determines the outcome of the case.
Just curious but has the Apple label put out anything in the past xx years? I haven't seen anything by them since the Beatles broke up. Apparently somebody still has the name but what are they doing now?
I'm 100% in favor of the Artists, Songwriters, and such getting paid just I expect to get paid for what I do. I am NOT in favor of the lawyers and trade groups being paid for what the Artists and Songwriters produce unless they pay them themselves.
Something interesting thing to consider... The RIAA is NOT the copyright holder -- the labels are. The RIAA is a trade organization. So, under what authority does the RIAA have to subpoena the information in the first place. DMCA explicitly gives this right ONLY to the actual copyright holder.
As for all the studies, surveys and such about the decline in CD sales...
The arguments about the economy, bad stuff being produced, CDs being over priced and such have been rejected multiple times by the RIAA. The decline in sales is ONLY DUE TO PIRACY. Ask them. The RIAA never lies.
"Definition - Terrorist: adj : characteristic of an entity that employs terror (especially as a political weapon); "terrorist activity" n : a radical who employs terror as a political weapon. The use of random attacks to instill fear and uncertainty on a society or group. This pretty much describes the RIAA and its tactics. 12-year old girl in a housing project, NY single mother, 71 year old grandfather on fixed income, and others that aren't the core of the problem. What about this war on terrorism I keep hearing about?
All that money that is supposed to go to the artists is actually going to lawyers. The RIAA has found a sure way to spend ALL of that money. Now that others are getting into the game and suing the RIAA, its a sure bet that royalty payments (what's left after administration, legal, operating and other expenses are paid) will decline faster than CD sales. The RIAA is a house of lawyers and you can bet they'll make sure they find a way to pocket most, if not all, of the money they get.
The RIAA says it doesn't know the age of anybody it subpoenas but they do know the percentage of adults that are the problem. How do they know the percentage of adults if they don't know any of the ages of the "pirates"?
Remember that the constitutionality of these subpoenas hasn't even gone to court for a determination yet. What happens if the courts rule the subpoenas are NOT constitutional? How much will the RIAA be sued for and who's royalty payments are going to pay for that?
According to the RIAA, since their terror campaign started, downloads have fallen over 15% yet CD sales have dropped almost double that. They still claim that the additional drop in sales is due to an "Increase in illegal downloads." Maybe they should take some courses -- logic 101, business 101 and math 101.
Why did the RIAA refuse to negotiate with the P2P software vendors so that they could profit from downloads rather than just whining about how bad they are and spending millions of dollars in subpoenas, litigation and press coverage?
It is interesting that it is the record lables who own the copyright to the label's own material and NOT the RIAA. DMCA allows the copyright owner to proceed in this manner. How is it then that the RIAA can do this when they're not the actual copyright owner? Interesting question.
From the referenced article:
"We're trying to let people know they may get caught, therefore they should not engage in this behavior," Sherman said. "Yes, there are going to be some kids caught in this, but you'd be surprised at how many adults are engaged in this activity."
And... From the earlier article:
Asked if the association knew Brianna was 12 when it decided to sue her, Weiss answered, "We don't have any personal information on any of the individuals."
So, they know about people being adults but they don't know about people being children. Ah... Ya right.
I've been over the net today (including/.) and I've seen many places where the general consensus is that people are basically outraged that the RIAA would go after a 12-year old. Society can accept some things but for the most part, children are off limits for this sort of thing. The media may play this up which would be bad news for the RIAA PR department
I've coded a lot for major global 1000 corporations on Sun platforms. Enterprise for a printing environment of over 1000 high-volume printers using a variety of input systems and databases. Time to code and debug was about 2 weeks. A network management solution for another global enterprise - about a month. An X11 application utilizing everything from vax to commodores running a nation-wide application - about 9 man months.
I wouldn't even try to do projects of this magnitude on a windoze environment. Use the right tool for the job.
Since the courts have yet to make any determination in any of the cases, the validity of the licenses remains up in the air. So, why would any company, entity or person buy a license for something they may not need a license for? Better yet, why doesn't the Gartner Group or the media every point out this simple fact clearly?
The net should be open but services should not be turned on by default. Users should be able to securely use any service that they require for the purpose that they determine they need. The net is a tool and how a person uses that tool depends upon the task they have to perform. One size doesn't fit all.
As more people get broadband and permanent connections to the network, they should also consider security however, many people are not computer literate (i.e., don't read/.) and wrongly assume that when they get their cable modem or whatever, that it too is as secure as their Windows box that's never been upgraded.
A whole lot of home PC users should read this file before they connect to the net full time -- all the time. Advanced users that we see here shouldn't need this information and many will disagree with the tools I've selected but these are easy to install, available for almost all Windows versions and help the beginning user.
If Microsoft would just turn off everything and let the other guy turn it on when required, things would be a lot safer.
The RIAA recently announced that on-line piracy has further decreased sales in the music industry however, the RIAA continues to ignore other factors such as the current economy, many bad releases, escalating prices and many people boycotting their tactics.
The reality of the consumer market may finally be setting in. According to some comments, the consumer is tired of being ripped off. CDs cost considerably less to produce and distribute than their LP albums of the past yet prices continue to be almost double what the LPs cost consumers. The lies about the costs to produce CDs are well known to a majority of consumers to be just that -- lies.
Maybe the labels are finally listening to their customers and possibly, other labels will do the same and follow Universal's lead with more reasonable pricing. Much like trends in airline tickets, once one of the majors makes a price adjustment, the trend for all the airlines also go in the same direction.
The major labels have been accused of price fixing many times however, they have never been found to be doing anything wrong. As prices of one label went up, others also went up but the rise in prices has always been attributed to other market driven forces. If the other labels also reduce prices, then the arguments of the past will have been proven to be false. It is unknown how this will impact smaller and independent labels."
SCO must pay order money
Germany SCO must pay 10,000 Euros of order money. Basis for the decision of the district court Munich I is a provisional disposal of the enterprise of Taranto and the LinuxTags against SCO. Then the enterprise may not state, Linux contains illegally acquired spiritual property of SCO. SCO on his homepage should have offended against it, which is why Taranto had applied for an order procedure in June. { Order procedure applies}
The court reproaches according to a communication of the Tarent GmbH SCO " with careless behavior " at the company of her proficient homepage. There the assertion also should go after the provisional disposal have been to read that " the final users who use the software Linux can be made responsible " for protection injuries of the spiritual property by SCO.
Taranto lawyer Till Jager sees himself in the decision of the court confirmed that the assertions of SCO are to be considered as " massive business-damaging statements " which concern an " extremely sensitive area ". With unproven assertions a business with the fear is done at the expenses of third parties. At the moment with Germany SCO nobody is to be reached for a statement; to the application for an order procedure Hans Bayer, manager of Germany SCO stressed, already at the beginning of June towards c't: " Our intention was to hold back us correspondent. " The offense against the provisional disposal has not happened intentionally.
Redfield Gunsight used to have a whole area in their factory of black-widown spiders. They farmed them and valued them very much. If a spider was missing, they would issue an alert to locate the spider and return it to its home.
The web from the black-widow spider was used to make the cross-hairs in their scopes. During the prime of their business, Redfield scopes were some of the very best ever made. All thanks to the silk from the black-widow spider farm.
All should file an on-line complaint to the SEC
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http://www.sec.gov/complaint/cf942sec9570.htm is the form to use. If we flood their mailbox with these what happens.
It only took a week for the SEC to go after Martha Stewart - why so long for Darl?
The question is about money! IF M$ can get the patent, then they can charge everybody who does anything remotely similar a license fee. Kind of like SCO going after everybody. M$ doesn't have a very clean record in this regard.
Everybody with evidence of prior art, regardless of what country its in, should send the patent office a note pointing to the prior art. Just be nice with your language if you want to make an impact!
Commissioner for Patents
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
Reference: U.S. Patent Application 20030125927
At least, it will let them know they're being watched and maybe get them to scratch their heads a bit. Lots of dander there you know:)
Well, Socrates (Arsenal, Inc), PROMT and others have had IM translation for some time. The Socrates/ARS web site even has one that works with MSN! I've been using another package for over two years. This sounds fishy to me. We use IM translation with AIM, ICQ and MSN all the time. Reading the Patent Application, I don't see anything that isn't prior art here.
Socrates (Arsenal, Inc), PROMT and others have had IM translation for some time. The Socrates/ARS web site even has one that works with MSN! I've been using another package for over two years. This sounds fishy to me. We use IM translation with AIM, ICQ and MSN all the time. Reading the Patent Application, I don't see anything that isn't prior art here.
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My site just turned 11 - it went on line in its infant form 9/9/1992 piggy-backing on PARC's server at Xerox. I was an 'old timer' on the web before they ever went live. Ah Cern, NCSA and Mosaic (0.4 alpha) on a VAX running BSD unix. Text only - no graphics but we were live. I've had several homes since then and changed domain names 4 times. Gawd... I got 4 hits my first year and was estatic. There were only about a dozen live sites in 1992.
There are a lot of positions available that pay very good - maybe better than at an IT company. The position requires you to do more than a single task and that makes you more valuable in the long run. You have a small IT staff but a lot of work. You're move valuable there than in a shop like at a telco. There's a whole lot of companies out there that needs top IT people to support their specialized industries and these jobs are all here in the USA.
You better have more money than the RIAA if you plan to go to court and fight them. Just a thought. Also, in the District Court of NY, the music industry has NEVER lost a copyright case they get transferred to that court. Gee, I wonder why they try and get all cases there.
Let me get this straight. Micro$oft repeatedly says in the press they are all for paying for intellectual property (patent rights) and they pay SCO millions of dollars for a technology they don't want or need. But, Micro$oft will spend millions of dollars to fight Eolas Technologies for a technology that everybody wants. What's wrong with this picture???
Enterprise database solutions are quite varied. Is it a data warehouse or something financial or ???
You pick the right tool for the job. I've seen massive databases on Sun Enterprise E-6500s and Oracle do a LOT if the database is properly configured. But one structure doesn't work for all applications. Do you use stored procedures? Do you index? Do you require triple replication to reindex one system have a backup and a live production system? Do you need remote fail-safe operation? These types of questions need to be answered before you settle into one solution.
I own a trademark and the way it goes is that a registered trademark () is established for a product category or categories. Thus, I can have a trademark for FORD but it can't apply to anything that Ford Motor Company has. Thus I could produce FORD photo paper or such and be OK. What one would need to establish is what categories the trademark Apple (from Apple Records) applies to. If Apple Records never requested the categories for equipment that plays music, then Apple Computers may be able to win.
The interpretation of the Registered Trademark document by the courts will be what determines the outcome of the case.
Just curious but has the Apple label put out anything in the past xx years? I haven't seen anything by them since the Beatles broke up. Apparently somebody still has the name but what are they doing now?
I'm 100% in favor of the Artists, Songwriters, and such getting paid just I expect to get paid for what I do. I am NOT in favor of the lawyers and trade groups being paid for what the Artists and Songwriters produce unless they pay them themselves. Something interesting thing to consider... The RIAA is NOT the copyright holder -- the labels are. The RIAA is a trade organization. So, under what authority does the RIAA have to subpoena the information in the first place. DMCA explicitly gives this right ONLY to the actual copyright holder. As for all the studies, surveys and such about the decline in CD sales... The arguments about the economy, bad stuff being produced, CDs being over priced and such have been rejected multiple times by the RIAA. The decline in sales is ONLY DUE TO PIRACY. Ask them. The RIAA never lies. "Definition - Terrorist: adj : characteristic of an entity that employs terror (especially as a political weapon); "terrorist activity" n : a radical who employs terror as a political weapon. The use of random attacks to instill fear and uncertainty on a society or group. This pretty much describes the RIAA and its tactics. 12-year old girl in a housing project, NY single mother, 71 year old grandfather on fixed income, and others that aren't the core of the problem. What about this war on terrorism I keep hearing about? All that money that is supposed to go to the artists is actually going to lawyers. The RIAA has found a sure way to spend ALL of that money. Now that others are getting into the game and suing the RIAA, its a sure bet that royalty payments (what's left after administration, legal, operating and other expenses are paid) will decline faster than CD sales. The RIAA is a house of lawyers and you can bet they'll make sure they find a way to pocket most, if not all, of the money they get. The RIAA says it doesn't know the age of anybody it subpoenas but they do know the percentage of adults that are the problem. How do they know the percentage of adults if they don't know any of the ages of the "pirates"? Remember that the constitutionality of these subpoenas hasn't even gone to court for a determination yet. What happens if the courts rule the subpoenas are NOT constitutional? How much will the RIAA be sued for and who's royalty payments are going to pay for that? According to the RIAA, since their terror campaign started, downloads have fallen over 15% yet CD sales have dropped almost double that. They still claim that the additional drop in sales is due to an "Increase in illegal downloads." Maybe they should take some courses -- logic 101, business 101 and math 101. Why did the RIAA refuse to negotiate with the P2P software vendors so that they could profit from downloads rather than just whining about how bad they are and spending millions of dollars in subpoenas, litigation and press coverage?
It is interesting that it is the record lables who own the copyright to the label's own material and NOT the RIAA. DMCA allows the copyright owner to proceed in this manner. How is it then that the RIAA can do this when they're not the actual copyright owner? Interesting question.
From the referenced article: "We're trying to let people know they may get caught, therefore they should not engage in this behavior," Sherman said. "Yes, there are going to be some kids caught in this, but you'd be surprised at how many adults are engaged in this activity." And... From the earlier article: Asked if the association knew Brianna was 12 when it decided to sue her, Weiss answered, "We don't have any personal information on any of the individuals." So, they know about people being adults but they don't know about people being children. Ah... Ya right.
I've been over the net today (including /.) and I've seen many places where the general consensus is that people are basically outraged that the RIAA would go after a 12-year old. Society can accept some things but for the most part, children are off limits for this sort of thing. The media may play this up which would be bad news for the RIAA PR department
I've coded a lot for major global 1000 corporations on Sun platforms. Enterprise for a printing environment of over 1000 high-volume printers using a variety of input systems and databases. Time to code and debug was about 2 weeks. A network management solution for another global enterprise - about a month. An X11 application utilizing everything from vax to commodores running a nation-wide application - about 9 man months. I wouldn't even try to do projects of this magnitude on a windoze environment. Use the right tool for the job.
Since the courts have yet to make any determination in any of the cases, the validity of the licenses remains up in the air. So, why would any company, entity or person buy a license for something they may not need a license for? Better yet, why doesn't the Gartner Group or the media every point out this simple fact clearly?
The net should be open but services should not be turned on by default. Users should be able to securely use any service that they require for the purpose that they determine they need. The net is a tool and how a person uses that tool depends upon the task they have to perform. One size doesn't fit all. As more people get broadband and permanent connections to the network, they should also consider security however, many people are not computer literate (i.e., don't read /.) and wrongly assume that when they get their cable modem or whatever, that it too is as secure as their Windows box that's never been upgraded.
A whole lot of home PC users should read this file before they connect to the net full time -- all the time. Advanced users that we see here shouldn't need this information and many will disagree with the tools I've selected but these are easy to install, available for almost all Windows versions and help the beginning user.
If Microsoft would just turn off everything and let the other guy turn it on when required, things would be a lot safer.
The RIAA recently announced that on-line piracy has further decreased sales in the music industry however, the RIAA continues to ignore other factors such as the current economy, many bad releases, escalating prices and many people boycotting their tactics. The reality of the consumer market may finally be setting in. According to some comments, the consumer is tired of being ripped off. CDs cost considerably less to produce and distribute than their LP albums of the past yet prices continue to be almost double what the LPs cost consumers. The lies about the costs to produce CDs are well known to a majority of consumers to be just that -- lies. Maybe the labels are finally listening to their customers and possibly, other labels will do the same and follow Universal's lead with more reasonable pricing. Much like trends in airline tickets, once one of the majors makes a price adjustment, the trend for all the airlines also go in the same direction. The major labels have been accused of price fixing many times however, they have never been found to be doing anything wrong. As prices of one label went up, others also went up but the rise in prices has always been attributed to other market driven forces. If the other labels also reduce prices, then the arguments of the past will have been proven to be false. It is unknown how this will impact smaller and independent labels."
SCO must pay order money Germany SCO must pay 10,000 Euros of order money. Basis for the decision of the district court Munich I is a provisional disposal of the enterprise of Taranto and the LinuxTags against SCO. Then the enterprise may not state, Linux contains illegally acquired spiritual property of SCO. SCO on his homepage should have offended against it, which is why Taranto had applied for an order procedure in June. { Order procedure applies} The court reproaches according to a communication of the Tarent GmbH SCO " with careless behavior " at the company of her proficient homepage. There the assertion also should go after the provisional disposal have been to read that " the final users who use the software Linux can be made responsible " for protection injuries of the spiritual property by SCO. Taranto lawyer Till Jager sees himself in the decision of the court confirmed that the assertions of SCO are to be considered as " massive business-damaging statements " which concern an " extremely sensitive area ". With unproven assertions a business with the fear is done at the expenses of third parties. At the moment with Germany SCO nobody is to be reached for a statement; to the application for an order procedure Hans Bayer, manager of Germany SCO stressed, already at the beginning of June towards c't: " Our intention was to hold back us correspondent. " The offense against the provisional disposal has not happened intentionally.
Redfield Gunsight used to have a whole area in their factory of black-widown spiders. They farmed them and valued them very much. If a spider was missing, they would issue an alert to locate the spider and return it to its home.
The web from the black-widow spider was used to make the cross-hairs in their scopes. During the prime of their business, Redfield scopes were some of the very best ever made. All thanks to the silk from the black-widow spider farm.
http://www.sec.gov/complaint/cf942sec9570.htm is the form to use. If we flood their mailbox with these what happens. It only took a week for the SEC to go after Martha Stewart - why so long for Darl?
The question is about money! IF M$ can get the patent, then they can charge everybody who does anything remotely similar a license fee. Kind of like SCO going after everybody. M$ doesn't have a very clean record in this regard.
Everybody with evidence of prior art, regardless of what country its in, should send the patent office a note pointing to the prior art. Just be nice with your language if you want to make an impact! Commissioner for Patents P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria, VA 22313-1450 Reference: U.S. Patent Application 20030125927 At least, it will let them know they're being watched and maybe get them to scratch their heads a bit. Lots of dander there you know :)
Well, Socrates (Arsenal, Inc), PROMT and others have had IM translation for some time. The Socrates/ARS web site even has one that works with MSN! I've been using another package for over two years. This sounds fishy to me. We use IM translation with AIM, ICQ and MSN all the time. Reading the Patent Application, I don't see anything that isn't prior art here.
Socrates (Arsenal, Inc), PROMT and others have had IM translation for some time. The Socrates/ARS web site even has one that works with MSN! I've been using another package for over two years. This sounds fishy to me. We use IM translation with AIM, ICQ and MSN all the time. Reading the Patent Application, I don't see anything that isn't prior art here.