In the US you can also be sued for libel even if you say something true, believe it or not, if they can prove you said it merely to hurt their reputation. That was the basis of more than one lawsuit I have heard of brought by trade groups. I don't remember the details but I think a beef producers association sued the Oprah show for comments she made and I remember another unrelated case involving a fruit or apple growers association. A better example though would be if I told my ex-wife's fiance that she had caught genital warts by screwing around while we were married. Even if I could prove it, a court would probably conclude that the telling was done maliciously.
I wish I had a nickel for every PowerPoint presentation I've suffered through that was created to cover the fact that the speaker had nothing of value to say.
Amen, Brother! Powerpoint is nothing but a coloring book for executives. It lets them pretend they are busy. It lets everyone who needs to suck up pretend that they are good at something. "Wow, great presentation John! How'd you make that golf cart drive across the screen pulling the next slide with it? That really kept it interesting. I guess that's why you make the big bucks, big guy."
That is generally my take on it too. That KDE is more polished and more eye-candyish but I think the Gnome crew excels at user-friendliness. Time and again, I have tried to find how to do something in KDE and had trouble, but in Gnome it just seems more like Windows. Not necessarily better but at least more familiar.
The fact that they have Gnome developers in house would certainly help in integrating their apps and utils with Gnome but another good reason for doing so is that other enterprise players are already there. (Redhat/Solaris) So it's actually more of a convergence, and the standardization should result in less uncertainty in the minds of potential adopters.
By standardizing on a default management interface and adhering to LSB 3.0, the enterprise developers are cooperating in a way that should benefit all of them by capturing mindshare and marketshare.
Mountain Dew is in no way similar to Pepsi. Drawing a parallel between the two is absolutely ridiculous. Mountain Dew is gathered by hand only from the freshest clover leaves in the unspoiled Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. It was the official drink of the original olympic games. It is versatile. It can substitute for blood plasma during emergencies or natural disasters. Pepsi, however, is nothing but sugar water with brown food coloring.
A company that stays in business does what is necessary to keep costs down. If you read the article:
The GNOME interface is going to become the default interface on both the SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) and Novell Linux Desktop line.
All that is happening is that the distributions they are pushing to corporations will use Gnome as the default. Big deal. SuSE Personal/Professional/whatever will continue as normal.
So if I were to photocopy a page out of a textbook and give it to students would I be a) infringing the patent b) violating copyright c) both?
A textbook wouldn't have a storyline so the answer could not be (a) or (c). However, whether you are violating (b) depends on whether the page you photocopied was from a textbook printed on paper or an electronic book which displays text encoded digitally. In the first case, the old and established Fair Use Act covers this and no violation has occured. In the second case, the DMCA comes into play and you would be subject to penalties on par with those for second degree murder.
I doubt it. Computing and Robotics will be so reliable in twenty years that the cost of having a surgeon physically standing by for every operation will likely be considered wasteful. Technicians can stablilize a patient in the (very) unlikely event that a communications/power/robotic system goes down as well as all redundant backups of that system. Then repairs take place or a qualified surgeon travels from somewhere else.
EMT's do not have the knowledge to save a person if a procedure goes horribly wrong. One scenario which you ignored is the inexperienced surgeon (not an EMT) actually being guided by an experienced surgeon somewhere else.
No. Surgical Technician (or whatever they will be called) is actually what I was referring to. I just don't know what to call them. They can be guided remotely if communications are up or they can stablize the patient until he can be transported or someone qualified arrives. Technicians may not be allowed to operate today but when the HMO's see that they can make higher profits without losing so many patients that Congress would have to act, it will happen.
No not totally serious. The second sentence you quoted was meant as droll humor. I disagree that robotic surgery will always need surgeons physically present. I would bet that within two decades a typical surgery will be performed by a team of low paid surgical specialists in the developing world with only a couple of emergency medical technicians actually standing with the patient. And those technicians will feel lucky they have their jobs because they make four dollars an hour more than the greeter over at Wal-mart.
I don't think you understood what I was suggesting. I think eventually surgeries will be performed by doctors but they will be doctors in third world countries where they work for the equivalent of a few dollars an hour. It will be the end of one more high paying profession in the US and contribute toward the slow decline of our economy. I fully expect to someday meet a former medical doctor working at Wal-mart as a greeter, and like all Wal-mart employees he will do his shopping at Wal-mart because that is all he can afford. First the agriculteral jobs disappeared. But they told us it's all right there are lots of manufacturing jobs. Then all the manufacturing jobs disappeard. But they told us it's all right because there are lots of service jobs. Now the service jobs are disappearing. Is it still all right because now we can do jobs involving creativity? We can all be starving artists and romance novelists and paid shills?
When Lokisoft first started distributing through the channel, CompUSA had their titles on the shelves. The problem was that they mixed them in with all the windows titles so you had to look closely at the box to see which OS it was for. Months later they no longer carried Linux software except for OS distributions like Redhat and SuSE. When I asked about it, I was told there were too many returns on the Linux software 'people decided they didn't like it,' I was told. I should have bitchslapped the guy for lying to me. It was obvious that people were buying the Linux versions accidentally only to find out that it wouldn't run on their windows pc and causing the high returns rate. CompUSA lost my favor that day. Now unless it is an urgent need I drive way out of my way to a MicroCenter which has always been much more sensitive to the needs of penguinistas.
Agent Johnson: Honey, I'm home! By the way, I'm supposed to tell you that your phone was accidently tapped during one of our terrorism investigations. It's all taken care of now though. There is absolutely no trace of your transcripts left. I took care of that myself so you don't worry about it. Oh, and that guy you were talking to about meeting at a hotel while I'm at work next Thursday... He won't be able to make it. He commited suicide.
I kid. You make a good point. Many folks who consider themselves techno-literate seem to think that the computing world is defined by wintel pc's and that everything else is a stunted offshoot of that. I hate to think what kind of genesis story these people would come up with if we had an apocalypse and had to start over: 'In the beginning was the IBM PC and it was good. But the most powerful of the gods, the one called Gates became jealous of the PC and slew it and its body became the Earth and its storage became the oceans and the rivers. And in this new age the Blue Screen covered the whole of the heavens bringing Death to the wicked and uninterupted employment to the community college dropouts. And it was good...'
They ended up mating thirty-three times that day. It was so funny, because he kept that celery in his hand the whole time and never got a chance to eat it. At the end of the day he came inside and passed out with that sorry wilted stalk still clenched in his fist.
Thirty three times and he still wouldn't give her a bite of his celery...
Meanwhile, somewhere among the hairless apes, there is a male who has taken a female to dinner thirty three times and never even gotten to second base. Proof that the universe is in perfect balance.
Maybe its a bad thing it was pointed at Microsoft. By putting up a lame defense, ensuring that Eolas would win, now Microsoft can buy Eolas for a billion or so and use the now affirmed patent against everyone else. I wonder if the patent can be challenged again when it is aimed at someone new by a new owner.
How about when Gilligan got hit in the mouth accidently and his filling became a radio and the Professor tried to turn it into a transmitter to get them off the island?
As a result of the early release, Episode III only managed to earn $380 million at the box office.
Yeah, Instead of $350 Million.
Hoaglin is charged with one felony count of uploading the movie onto the Internet.
If someone is fan enough to pay to see the movie at a theater they won't be satisfied by some poor quality divx scrunched down to fit on a Cd. They will still pay to see it on a huge screen with a great sound system even if the line is a mile long with people dressed like Darth Maul and Yoda camped out at the ticket window.
Are there any bots out there that are designed to shoot people? I'm constantly hearing about designs for them, but I've never heard of them being put to use.
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As other people have said here, if the data is important it will be preserved.
You are not answering the question posed in which the information was purposely kept secret to protect the family fortune. And even if we were talking about the preservation of widely distributed information in general, you have not considered the possibility of an event which could disrupt civilization globally such as a large asteroid impact, a supervolocano eruption, runaway greenhouse effect, nuclear winter, etc.
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes. One of the worst movies I've ever seen even though I loved it as a kid.
In the US you can also be sued for libel even if you say something true, believe it or not, if they can prove you said it merely to hurt their reputation. That was the basis of more than one lawsuit I have heard of brought by trade groups. I don't remember the details but I think a beef producers association sued the Oprah show for comments she made and I remember another unrelated case involving a fruit or apple growers association. A better example though would be if I told my ex-wife's fiance that she had caught genital warts by screwing around while we were married. Even if I could prove it, a court would probably conclude that the telling was done maliciously.
Amen, Brother! Powerpoint is nothing but a coloring book for executives. It lets them pretend they are busy. It lets everyone who needs to suck up pretend that they are good at something. "Wow, great presentation John! How'd you make that golf cart drive across the screen pulling the next slide with it? That really kept it interesting. I guess that's why you make the big bucks, big guy."
That is generally my take on it too. That KDE is more polished and more eye-candyish but I think the Gnome crew excels at user-friendliness. Time and again, I have tried to find how to do something in KDE and had trouble, but in Gnome it just seems more like Windows. Not necessarily better but at least more familiar.
The fact that they have Gnome developers in house would certainly help in integrating their apps and utils with Gnome but another good reason for doing so is that other enterprise players are already there. (Redhat/Solaris) So it's actually more of a convergence, and the standardization should result in less uncertainty in the minds of potential adopters.
By standardizing on a default management interface and adhering to LSB 3.0, the enterprise developers are cooperating in a way that should benefit all of them by capturing mindshare and marketshare.
Mountain Dew is in no way similar to Pepsi. Drawing a parallel between the two is absolutely ridiculous. Mountain Dew is gathered by hand only from the freshest clover leaves in the unspoiled Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. It was the official drink of the original olympic games. It is versatile. It can substitute for blood plasma during emergencies or natural disasters. Pepsi, however, is nothing but sugar water with brown food coloring.
The GNOME interface is going to become the default interface on both the SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) and Novell Linux Desktop line.
All that is happening is that the distributions they are pushing to corporations will use Gnome as the default. Big deal. SuSE Personal/Professional/whatever will continue as normal.
Why did this remind me so much of Silicon Graphics?
A textbook wouldn't have a storyline so the answer could not be (a) or (c). However, whether you are violating (b) depends on whether the page you photocopied was from a textbook printed on paper or an electronic book which displays text encoded digitally. In the first case, the old and established Fair Use Act covers this and no violation has occured. In the second case, the DMCA comes into play and you would be subject to penalties on par with those for second degree murder.
I doubt it. Computing and Robotics will be so reliable in twenty years that the cost of having a surgeon physically standing by for every operation will likely be considered wasteful. Technicians can stablilize a patient in the (very) unlikely event that a communications/power/robotic system goes down as well as all redundant backups of that system. Then repairs take place or a qualified surgeon travels from somewhere else.
EMT's do not have the knowledge to save a person if a procedure goes horribly wrong. One scenario which you ignored is the inexperienced surgeon (not an EMT) actually being guided by an experienced surgeon somewhere else.
No. Surgical Technician (or whatever they will be called) is actually what I was referring to. I just don't know what to call them. They can be guided remotely if communications are up or they can stablize the patient until he can be transported or someone qualified arrives. Technicians may not be allowed to operate today but when the HMO's see that they can make higher profits without losing so many patients that Congress would have to act, it will happen.
Cause that industry can afford to pay big bucks and they only have one storyline:
Knock knock!
Who is it?
Pizza Delivery!/Copier Repairman!/Pool Cleaner!
Bow-chicka-bow-bow
No not totally serious. The second sentence you quoted was meant as droll humor. I disagree that robotic surgery will always need surgeons physically present. I would bet that within two decades a typical surgery will be performed by a team of low paid surgical specialists in the developing world with only a couple of emergency medical technicians actually standing with the patient. And those technicians will feel lucky they have their jobs because they make four dollars an hour more than the greeter over at Wal-mart.
I don't think you understood what I was suggesting. I think eventually surgeries will be performed by doctors but they will be doctors in third world countries where they work for the equivalent of a few dollars an hour. It will be the end of one more high paying profession in the US and contribute toward the slow decline of our economy. I fully expect to someday meet a former medical doctor working at Wal-mart as a greeter, and like all Wal-mart employees he will do his shopping at Wal-mart because that is all he can afford. First the agriculteral jobs disappeared. But they told us it's all right there are lots of manufacturing jobs. Then all the manufacturing jobs disappeard. But they told us it's all right because there are lots of service jobs. Now the service jobs are disappearing. Is it still all right because now we can do jobs involving creativity? We can all be starving artists and romance novelists and paid shills?
I bet it won't be long before they use it as a replacement for the 6-figure surgeon. Let the medical outsourcing begin!
When Lokisoft first started distributing through the channel, CompUSA had their titles on the shelves. The problem was that they mixed them in with all the windows titles so you had to look closely at the box to see which OS it was for. Months later they no longer carried Linux software except for OS distributions like Redhat and SuSE. When I asked about it, I was told there were too many returns on the Linux software 'people decided they didn't like it,' I was told. I should have bitchslapped the guy for lying to me. It was obvious that people were buying the Linux versions accidentally only to find out that it wouldn't run on their windows pc and causing the high returns rate. CompUSA lost my favor that day. Now unless it is an urgent need I drive way out of my way to a MicroCenter which has always been much more sensitive to the needs of penguinistas.
I wonder how long it would take a hypersonic vehicle then, like an hour and a half?
They are now doing business under an assumed name, selling software at low low prices out of the trunk of their car?
Agent Johnson: Honey, I'm home! By the way, I'm supposed to tell you that your phone was accidently tapped during one of our terrorism investigations. It's all taken care of now though. There is absolutely no trace of your transcripts left. I took care of that myself so you don't worry about it. Oh, and that guy you were talking to about meeting at a hotel while I'm at work next Thursday... He won't be able to make it. He commited suicide.
I kid. You make a good point. Many folks who consider themselves techno-literate seem to think that the computing world is defined by wintel pc's and that everything else is a stunted offshoot of that. I hate to think what kind of genesis story these people would come up with if we had an apocalypse and had to start over: 'In the beginning was the IBM PC and it was good. But the most powerful of the gods, the one called Gates became jealous of the PC and slew it and its body became the Earth and its storage became the oceans and the rivers. And in this new age the Blue Screen covered the whole of the heavens bringing Death to the wicked and uninterupted employment to the community college dropouts. And it was good...'
Thirty three times and he still wouldn't give her a bite of his celery... Meanwhile, somewhere among the hairless apes, there is a male who has taken a female to dinner thirty three times and never even gotten to second base. Proof that the universe is in perfect balance.
Maybe its a bad thing it was pointed at Microsoft. By putting up a lame defense, ensuring that Eolas would win, now Microsoft can buy Eolas for a billion or so and use the now affirmed patent against everyone else. I wonder if the patent can be challenged again when it is aimed at someone new by a new owner.
How about when Gilligan got hit in the mouth accidently and his filling became a radio and the Professor tried to turn it into a transmitter to get them off the island?
Yeah, Instead of $350 Million.
Hoaglin is charged with one felony count of uploading the movie onto the Internet.
If someone is fan enough to pay to see the movie at a theater they won't be satisfied by some poor quality divx scrunched down to fit on a Cd. They will still pay to see it on a huge screen with a great sound system even if the line is a mile long with people dressed like Darth Maul and Yoda camped out at the ticket window.
Well, there was Boilerplate
You are not answering the question posed in which the information was purposely kept secret to protect the family fortune. And even if we were talking about the preservation of widely distributed information in general, you have not considered the possibility of an event which could disrupt civilization globally such as a large asteroid impact, a supervolocano eruption, runaway greenhouse effect, nuclear winter, etc.
ATRAC? I didn't buy one because I thought the salesman was trying to sell me an 8-Track!