Trouble with trademarks is that if you don't protect them, you could lose them.
That means that BitTorrent may find itself having to choose between suing the makers of an Open Source BT client or giving up their mark. Which will they choose?
I'm running a network of about 8 machines, all running Outlook 2003, none of my users are administrators, and Outlook works (as well as it ever does, anyway) for all of them.
What's the difference between a company with 100,000 shares at $100 a piece, and a company with 1,000,000 shared at $10 a piece, and a company with 10,000 shares at $1,000 apiece.
Especially when brokers will be happy to sell you fractional shares in amounts as small as 0.001 shares.
That's why share price isn't very important. Google's over 400 per share. But they could split 10-for-1 and be only $40 per share, and it would be no different.
Hell, Buffett's company is on the order of $90,000 per share. That doesn't mean he runs the biggest, most profitable company. Just that he's been in business for ages and doesn't split shares ever.
As we learn more about how our bodies work, we'll inevitably discover that the overwhelming majority (if not the entirety) of a persons actions are at least heavily influenced by, if not outright controlled by, various physical and biological factors.
But that doesn't mean that we should say that, since there's a biological predisposition to behaving in a certain way, that personal responsibility isn't important. The fact that certain people have to work harder than others to remain thin or healthy doesn't mean that they should just give up and not bother trying.
What if we discover that there's a certain combination of brain chemistry and other factors (maybe even a virus?) that imparts an overpowering urge to maim and butcher others... would we decide that, perhaps we should all just feel sorry for the poor unfortunate murderer, and be understanding about his uncontrollable urges, and just try to help him get by? Maybe try and pass new laws preventing people from discriminating against those with... umm... "bloodlust inhibition deficiencies" Or should we decide that, whatever the cause, this person is a danger to others and needs to be removed from society? (not necessarily advocating any particular method of removal -- locking them up inside a "hospital" they can't leave is still removal from society...)
At some point, it really doesn't matter what the actual biological causes are... we have to act as though people are actually capable of controlling their actions.
No, I'm not sure... it's just what I remember reading somewhere... so, I'll go look it up...
I appear to have been mistaken. Only works that were created after the passage of the Copyright Act of 1976, and first published after January 1st, 1978 are automatically protected even without a copyright notice being present. Works published before January 1st, 1978 are protected only either after the copyright is registered OR after the first edition bearing a proper copyright notice is published.
Only copyright *extensions* were made retroactive, and it turns out that there are a few works published since Mickey Mouse that have expired... because works created certain years did actually require eventual copyright renewals to be filed.
I would argue that raw market capitalization, while the most convenient and easy to calculate, is not anything resembling the best measurement of a companies "size"
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I owned an nVidia "Personal Cinema" version back when they were calling it that...
It was essentially a GeForce 2MX with the TV Tuner / Video-In-Video-Out additions... At the time, it sucked horribly... couldn't record in *any* format without either chopping resolution to 352x240 OR dropping frames periodically... worse, though, the frame dropping would be in 5-10 frame spurts... get 250 consecutive frames, then lose the next 8...
This wasn't entirely the card's fault... but I had such troubles with the drivers getting the thing to work at all that I still blame the driver as the likely biggest factor...
It even supposedly had a hardware MPEG-1 encoder on the board... I never could get that to work...
A friend owned the very first All-In-Wonder Radeon. He loved it.
I've heard plenty of ATi users who have stories like my nVidia story, but I don't even know of anyone else who has an nVidia GPU + TV Tuner set... so take one pair of anecdotes for what they're worth...
Now, until recently, ATi drivers were total shit. I mean hell, my Radeon 8500LE was so bad I had to return it (BSOD within 15 minutes of launching any DirectX-based game. Usually the crash was in ati.sys, sometimes the driver just broke the Windows memory manager, and then I'd get BSODs in things like ntfs.sys. Returned the card, bought a GeForce 4, and my problems went away... (well, actually that's when my overheating problems began, but that's an altogether different problem).
However, I do really like my ATi X800XT. The driver no longer completely sucks. (I can still cause a BSOD from time to time -- but only if I have two or more DirectX games running simultaneously... since the BSOD is accompanied by really awful sounds from the speakers, I suspect that it involves a conflict of some sort between video and audio drivers, but I've dug nowhere near deeply enough to know if I'm right -- just a suspicion at this point...
"because I lack the ability to understand an evolutionary system of a grand scale, I have therefore conclusive proof that God must have created the world... After all, everything too complicated for me to understand is just God's miracles"
I guess if you're going to rstab/rbludgeon/rimpale someone it's a good idea to encrypt the stabbiness? Less chance of interception?
Though, it seems like that would make it easier to find the source of the rstab once you compromise the target machine (such as when the cops come a-looking)
Actually, according to yesterday's Wall Street Journal (I haven't got a subscription, and can't remember the name of the site that makes it so you don't need one...) there was an article entitled Trial-less Lawyers that talked about how legal firms were actually trying very *very* hard to find ways to donate their junior lawyers time in cases that would likely involve actual courtroom time, because there are so [comparatively] few civil trials these days...
So, I suspect for something like this, there would be some reasonable availability of free-or-discounted legal help.
Also, once an attorney agrees to work pro bono on a case, he generally sees it through to the end.
I actually did see one the other day... but that was a hardware issue as you said...
Stupid SONY laptop likes to BSOD on shutdown...
I haven't had a non-hardware related BSOD since I installed Windows 2000 RC2 in 1999. I have seen the following BSODs since then:
Dell Dimension Desktops BSOD on shutdown with some Netgear NICs. (Known issue with hardware)
Inaccessable Boot Device on some new SCSI/SATA controller trying to run the boot drive without a driver installed
SONY laptop BSOD on shutdown occasionally for unknown reason (current theory relates to either the water I spilled on the laptop a few months back, or possibly the overheating problems the machine has from time to time)
That's it, and between machines I admin at work and machines I own, I've been running 8-10ish Windows boxes...
That is, your album appearing on racks in all the major music stores, and possibly advertised in those stores little ad-magazines that they stick in the Sunday paper.
5 years ago, this was invaluable. You could never afford to stamp enough CDs, nor could you make enough connections to have copies of your album in stores across the country.
Now that a certain reasonable percentage of music is bought online (I've no idea the percentage, but it's not 0 anymore), phyiscal distribution isn't *as* important. Over time, it will become less and less important as the physical music stores become less important. I don't know that we'll ever completely eliminate the need for real music stores and real music CDs, but it will soon be possible to have a huge hit without having CDs in any major retailers -- there will be enough people using the online music stores, and possibly direct-order CDs, to reach critical mass. And at that point, you'll have the resources to produce CDs and acquire good placement in stores without the labels.
Because shrink-wrapped software is not produced as a work-for-hire -- and works for hire are one of the explicit exceptions to an author owning copyright.
making novel uses of existing technology is "innovation"
creating new technology is "invention"
Sometimes people use "innovation" to mean creating new technology. I don't know whether this is an acceptable use of the word or not, but either way, taking existing technology and applying it in a new way is most definitely innovative.
that's weird. it took me 2 minutes to learn to use the iPod interface, and now I love it.
I have no trouble getting a song to play. Once I decide what I want to hear it takes about 5-10 seconds, depending on how far I have to scroll...
I much prefer this to one of those many-microscopic-button dealies...
Now... if someone made an MP3 player in landscape-layout, with a big screen, a few buttons and a real honest-to-goodness D-PAD, it might be awesome... (think like a PSP/GBA) though, with a D-Pad it's hard to do accelleration... but, if it was a pretty stiff d-pad, and pressing harder meant scrolling faster... I dunno... it could be done... but everything else I've ever used on the market totally sucked...
I mean, look at that iriver thing people keep linking to...
all these really tiny, sharply angled buttons that would be painful/difficult to press-and-hold... and you can't vary the speed... either it does continuous-accelleration, or it's constant speed. With the iPod, you want faster? scroll faster!
stupid iriver... a ~9 sq. in. area for buttons, and they make them freakin 2mm wide! look at all that wasted space that could be used for a decent UI!
I don't think the iPod UI is ideal. I think it's far from it. But I've yet to see the MP3 player with an interface even half as usable.
somehow, Reagan was the "greatest conservative" of all time...
He was very conservative in is tripling of the national debt...
I swear, if we keep conserving like this, we'll be broke!
National Debt before Reagan: $1,000,000,000,000 National Debt after Reagan: $3,300,000,000,000
Then, of course, was nutjob liberal crazy-ass socialist Clinton:
National Debt before Clinton:$4,400,000,000,000 National Debt after Clinton:$5,600,000,000,000
Then, the latest "great conservative" "best-since-Reagan" president
National Debt before Bush II:$5,600,000,000,000 National Debt today:$8,000,000,000,000
And Bush still has three years left. At the current rate, we'll pick up about another $1,500,000,000,000 before he leaves office, putting us at about $9.5 trillion.
So, the liberals tax us to death and then spend all our money on crap. The conservatives, on the other hand, don't tax us much at all -- and then spend *even more* than the liberals.
Compared with a current budget of $2.2 trillion dollars, that means that interest payments will increase by about 55% to about 15% of the total annual budget! At some point, we'll stop having any money for anything except interest payments -- you'll notice I didn't include any principle payments here -- because that seems not to have a line-item on the budget. But then, why pay off the debt, when you can just incur more!
That graph claims that Bush has showed great restraint, decreasing "non-security" spending. Who decides what's security? Is throwing a big $25,000,000 party a "security expense" just because the Dept. of Homeland Security "paid" the bill?
v 1: to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail" [syn: pry, prize, lever, jimmy] 2: make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him" [syn: pry] 3: regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity" [syn: respect, esteem, value, prize] [ant: disrespect]
As unique as Apple's Cinema display might be in the world of 19" to 21" flat panel displays, it shares the same LG.Philips panel as the Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW. There happens to be only a single panel manufacturer capable/willing to mass produce wide screen, high resolution flat panel displays for the PC market. Since these two displays are so similar, we thought it only necessary to review both side by side.
So, to a certain extent, I was right -- the panel itself is identical. They use different frames (obviously), different firmware, and different backlights, and possibly other different components, but the actual panel is identical.
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Trouble with trademarks is that if you don't protect them, you could lose them.
That means that BitTorrent may find itself having to choose between suing the makers of an Open Source BT client or giving up their mark. Which will they choose?
I call BS.
I'm running a network of about 8 machines, all running Outlook 2003, none of my users are administrators, and Outlook works (as well as it ever does, anyway) for all of them.
What's the difference between a company with 100,000 shares at $100 a piece, and a company with 1,000,000 shared at $10 a piece, and a company with 10,000 shares at $1,000 apiece.
Especially when brokers will be happy to sell you fractional shares in amounts as small as 0.001 shares.
That's why share price isn't very important. Google's over 400 per share. But they could split 10-for-1 and be only $40 per share, and it would be no different.
Hell, Buffett's company is on the order of $90,000 per share. That doesn't mean he runs the biggest, most profitable company. Just that he's been in business for ages and doesn't split shares ever.
Here's the trouble, though...
As we learn more about how our bodies work, we'll inevitably discover that the overwhelming majority (if not the entirety) of a persons actions are at least heavily influenced by, if not outright controlled by, various physical and biological factors.
But that doesn't mean that we should say that, since there's a biological predisposition to behaving in a certain way, that personal responsibility isn't important. The fact that certain people have to work harder than others to remain thin or healthy doesn't mean that they should just give up and not bother trying.
What if we discover that there's a certain combination of brain chemistry and other factors (maybe even a virus?) that imparts an overpowering urge to maim and butcher others... would we decide that, perhaps we should all just feel sorry for the poor unfortunate murderer, and be understanding about his uncontrollable urges, and just try to help him get by? Maybe try and pass new laws preventing people from discriminating against those with... umm... "bloodlust inhibition deficiencies" Or should we decide that, whatever the cause, this person is a danger to others and needs to be removed from society? (not necessarily advocating any particular method of removal -- locking them up inside a "hospital" they can't leave is still removal from society...)
At some point, it really doesn't matter what the actual biological causes are... we have to act as though people are actually capable of controlling their actions.
No, I'm not sure... it's just what I remember reading somewhere... so, I'll go look it up...
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I appear to have been mistaken. Only works that were created after the passage of the Copyright Act of 1976, and first published after January 1st, 1978 are automatically protected even without a copyright notice being present. Works published before January 1st, 1978 are protected only either after the copyright is registered OR after the first edition bearing a proper copyright notice is published.
Only copyright *extensions* were made retroactive, and it turns out that there are a few works published since Mickey Mouse that have expired... because works created certain years did actually require eventual copyright renewals to be filed.
all this according to: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ22.html#automa
Yes, that is more recent, but it was made retroactive, so that it currently applies to all works created since the first Mickey Mouse movie.
I would argue that raw market capitalization, while the most convenient and easy to calculate, is not anything resembling the best measurement of a companies "size"
I owned an nVidia "Personal Cinema" version back when they were calling it that...
It was essentially a GeForce 2MX with the TV Tuner / Video-In-Video-Out additions... At the time, it sucked horribly... couldn't record in *any* format without either chopping resolution to 352x240 OR dropping frames periodically... worse, though, the frame dropping would be in 5-10 frame spurts... get 250 consecutive frames, then lose the next 8...
This wasn't entirely the card's fault... but I had such troubles with the drivers getting the thing to work at all that I still blame the driver as the likely biggest factor...
It even supposedly had a hardware MPEG-1 encoder on the board... I never could get that to work...
A friend owned the very first All-In-Wonder Radeon. He loved it.
I've heard plenty of ATi users who have stories like my nVidia story, but I don't even know of anyone else who has an nVidia GPU + TV Tuner set... so take one pair of anecdotes for what they're worth...
Now, until recently, ATi drivers were total shit. I mean hell, my Radeon 8500LE was so bad I had to return it (BSOD within 15 minutes of launching any DirectX-based game. Usually the crash was in ati.sys, sometimes the driver just broke the Windows memory manager, and then I'd get BSODs in things like ntfs.sys. Returned the card, bought a GeForce 4, and my problems went away... (well, actually that's when my overheating problems began, but that's an altogether different problem).
However, I do really like my ATi X800XT. The driver no longer completely sucks. (I can still cause a BSOD from time to time -- but only if I have two or more DirectX games running simultaneously... since the BSOD is accompanied by really awful sounds from the speakers, I suspect that it involves a conflict of some sort between video and audio drivers, but I've dug nowhere near deeply enough to know if I'm right -- just a suspicion at this point...
I suppose I could allow you to do such a thing...
for a price...
No... not really... go ahead, quote me.
"because I lack the ability to understand an evolutionary system of a grand scale, I have therefore conclusive proof that God must have created the world... After all, everything too complicated for me to understand is just God's miracles"
Why couldn't an arrangement of this sort work in the future?
go look at Sarb-Ox. He might be exaggerating slightly, but he's got the basic idea.
I guess if you're going to rstab/rbludgeon/rimpale someone it's a good idea to encrypt the stabbiness? Less chance of interception?
Though, it seems like that would make it easier to find the source of the rstab once you compromise the target machine (such as when the cops come a-looking)
Actually, according to yesterday's Wall Street Journal (I haven't got a subscription, and can't remember the name of the site that makes it so you don't need one...) there was an article entitled Trial-less Lawyers that talked about how legal firms were actually trying very *very* hard to find ways to donate their junior lawyers time in cases that would likely involve actual courtroom time, because there are so [comparatively] few civil trials these days...
So, I suspect for something like this, there would be some reasonable availability of free-or-discounted legal help.
Also, once an attorney agrees to work pro bono on a case, he generally sees it through to the end.
because we all know that there are no TLDs except for .com and .net
I actually did see one the other day... but that was a hardware issue as you said...
Stupid SONY laptop likes to BSOD on shutdown...
I haven't had a non-hardware related BSOD since I installed Windows 2000 RC2 in 1999.
I have seen the following BSODs since then:
Dell Dimension Desktops BSOD on shutdown with some Netgear NICs. (Known issue with hardware)
Inaccessable Boot Device on some new SCSI/SATA controller trying to run the boot drive without a driver installed
SONY laptop BSOD on shutdown occasionally for unknown reason (current theory relates to either the water I spilled on the laptop a few months back, or possibly the overheating problems the machine has from time to time)
That's it, and between machines I admin at work and machines I own, I've been running 8-10ish Windows boxes...
You are getting distribution as well.
That is, your album appearing on racks in all the major music stores, and possibly advertised in those stores little ad-magazines that they stick in the Sunday paper.
5 years ago, this was invaluable. You could never afford to stamp enough CDs, nor could you make enough connections to have copies of your album in stores across the country.
Now that a certain reasonable percentage of music is bought online (I've no idea the percentage, but it's not 0 anymore), phyiscal distribution isn't *as* important. Over time, it will become less and less important as the physical music stores become less important. I don't know that we'll ever completely eliminate the need for real music stores and real music CDs, but it will soon be possible to have a huge hit without having CDs in any major retailers -- there will be enough people using the online music stores, and possibly direct-order CDs, to reach critical mass. And at that point, you'll have the resources to produce CDs and acquire good placement in stores without the labels.
Because shrink-wrapped software is not produced as a work-for-hire -- and works for hire are one of the explicit exceptions to an author owning copyright.
Damn but I wish I had mod points... That's... awesome!
Because it's *so* apt...
making novel uses of existing technology is "innovation"
creating new technology is "invention"
Sometimes people use "innovation" to mean creating new technology. I don't know whether this is an acceptable use of the word or not, but either way, taking existing technology and applying it in a new way is most definitely innovative.
The patent is almost certainly *not* on the recipe, as recipes are not patentable.
However, the manufacturing process very well might be patentable. That method sounds like a complex and non-obvious use of factory equipment.
that's weird. it took me 2 minutes to learn to use the iPod interface, and now I love it.
I have no trouble getting a song to play. Once I decide what I want to hear it takes about 5-10 seconds, depending on how far I have to scroll...
I much prefer this to one of those many-microscopic-button dealies...
Now... if someone made an MP3 player in landscape-layout, with a big screen, a few buttons and a real honest-to-goodness D-PAD, it might be awesome... (think like a PSP/GBA) though, with a D-Pad it's hard to do accelleration... but, if it was a pretty stiff d-pad, and pressing harder meant scrolling faster... I dunno... it could be done... but everything else I've ever used on the market totally sucked...
I mean, look at that iriver thing people keep linking to...
all these really tiny, sharply angled buttons that would be painful/difficult to press-and-hold... and you can't vary the speed... either it does continuous-accelleration, or it's constant speed. With the iPod, you want faster? scroll faster!
stupid iriver... a ~9 sq. in. area for buttons, and they make them freakin 2mm wide! look at all that wasted space that could be used for a decent UI!
I don't think the iPod UI is ideal. I think it's far from it. But I've yet to see the MP3 player with an interface even half as usable.
somehow, Reagan was the "greatest conservative" of all time...
:$8,000,000,000,000
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He was very conservative in is tripling of the national debt...
I swear, if we keep conserving like this, we'll be broke!
National Debt before Reagan: $1,000,000,000,000
National Debt after Reagan: $3,300,000,000,000
Then, of course, was nutjob liberal crazy-ass socialist Clinton:
National Debt before Clinton:$4,400,000,000,000
National Debt after Clinton:$5,600,000,000,000
Then, the latest "great conservative" "best-since-Reagan" president
National Debt before Bush II:$5,600,000,000,000
National Debt today
And Bush still has three years left. At the current rate, we'll pick up about another $1,500,000,000,000 before he leaves office, putting us at about $9.5 trillion.
So, the liberals tax us to death and then spend all our money on crap. The conservatives, on the other hand, don't tax us much at all -- and then spend *even more* than the liberals.
The problem is, just the interest on our debt $174 billion/year. By 2010, the estimate is over $310 billion. And that estimate is done by the white house.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2006/table
Compared with a current budget of $2.2 trillion dollars, that means that interest payments will increase by about 55% to about 15% of the total annual budget! At some point, we'll stop having any money for anything except interest payments -- you'll notice I didn't include any principle payments here -- because that seems not to have a line-item on the budget. But then, why pay off the debt, when you can just incur more!
meanwhile: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2006/image
That graph claims that Bush has showed great restraint, decreasing "non-security" spending. Who decides what's security? Is throwing a big $25,000,000 party a "security expense" just because the Dept. of Homeland Security "paid" the bill?
From Dictionary.com
prise
v 1: to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail" [syn: pry, prize, lever, jimmy] 2: make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him" [syn: pry] 3: regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity" [syn: respect, esteem, value, prize] [ant: disrespect]
That word can mean what he wanted it to mean.
From the article:
As unique as Apple's Cinema display might be in the world of 19" to 21" flat panel displays, it shares the same LG.Philips panel as the Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW. There happens to be only a single panel manufacturer capable/willing to mass produce wide screen, high resolution flat panel displays for the PC market. Since these two displays are so similar, we thought it only necessary to review both side by side.
So, to a certain extent, I was right -- the panel itself is identical. They use different frames (obviously), different firmware, and different backlights, and possibly other different components, but the actual panel is identical.