Re:If you think that is evil
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Google's Evil NDA
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And yes, IAAL in CA deals with this type of law,
So tell me L in CA - I'm curious... In Canada we have certain constitutional rights protected under the charter. On of those rights is the right to a trial - I understand that the right to trial is also Constitutionally protected in the US also. I read further down this thread that people have waved their rights on Wall Street to have all their legal proceedings run by quasi-judicial councils instead on the NASD...
Does your employer in the US have the right to force upon you as a term of employment anything that violates statute - either by Congress or the State government? I know in Canada, I was asked by an employer to waive my rights under the Employment Standards act in order to continue employment. I refused and took up the matter with our labour board. They were quite clear that contract law can never in Canada trump a law enacted by an Act of the House of Commons or even an act by our Provincial Legislature. Is that the case in the US too?
Digg won't get sued if there's no creditable lawsuit.
Perhaps a number can't be considered intellctual property... Why should the owners of Digg be forced to incur legal costs in order to stand up on this issue? Fighting this can be VERY expensive - will Stallman and the FSF be there to save them?
Let's not allow Microsoft to dilute the meaning of the terms "cross platform"
As opposed to Sun? Only recently do we have a JRE for FreeBSD that's supported. Only recently does Adobe make a Flash client for Linux. Adobe still has yet to make a flash client for 64 bit windows.
Vendors do it all the time - dilute the meaning of cross platform. What they really mean is "cross platform where it suits us".
I'll bet you that U.S. government is one of the least corrupt governments you can find.
In Canada, our politicians at least are not open whores to lobby groups like Congressmen are. They're still whores, but not so blatant about it.
How about some spending limits on campaign donations? A government vote shouldn't be up for sale to the highest bidder. That's anti-democratic and anti-american...
Take Ad block plug for Firefox. It works on OS X, Windows, and Linux.
Off the top of my head I don't know how you would acheive the same thing in IE, Safari, or Camino. From what I understand adblocking is standard in Camino, but point made nonetheless...
Microsoft Excel would be a good target too, as multiple worksheets are tabs also.
As well, many Windows properties windows have a tabbed interface.
It's been around since Windows 3.1... Quite likely longer.
There should be patent laws that are similar to trademark laws. If you don't enforce your patent you should lose it.
Re:Enlighten me
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Beginning Ruby
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OT, but I find a lot of people blur the distinction - they have only heard of Ruby in the context of Ruby on Rails, which is great, but Ruby itself is a fantastic language for all sorts of scripting - a better Perl than Perl, a better Python than Python...
Nothing wrong with spending on national defence. Participating in a war in Afghanistan is not, IMO defence as we were never an Afghan target until we involved ourselves.
National Defence is important to protect our borders. We have the money and investing in military is a good thing
Second, if "CD" is a trademark, then selling a CD-like device as-if it were a CD can violate the trademark, and the trademark holder can pursue a remedy against the misrepresenter
What's troublesome here is that Sony and Phillips that established the red book standard. Now if Sony holds that trademark, along with Phillips, it might be a bit tricky for Sony to sue themselves.
That's why the market should be deathly afraid of a Blue-Ray DVD victory. It'll mean that Sony will control the standard and move it around as it suits Sony. Amongst other reasons that is. It might certainly be [slightly] more superior than HD-DVD, although who's eyes can tell?
Companies that deal in illegal gambling, drugs, slavery, or other outlaw activities are a wholly different matter.
Comparing online gambling to slavery and drugs is silly. If the government was a purporter of drugs and close the market to anyone else then it'd be the same.
As one person I know said, if the US govt was into furniture, Ikea would be their biggest target.
Your point is lost when you compare online gambling to drugs and slavery.
Because MS is bad for the IT industry. It should be the goal of every sane and rational IT worker to topple MS from it's perch.
That's a pretty arguable excuse. Microsoft's a target because of their market share. Sounds like you have a hate-on for them.
There's a whole sub industry that's been created BECAUSE of Microsoft. I've seen companies charge $100 for spyware cleanup... In fact it's pretty easy to argue that Windows 95 and 98 brought home computing to the masses...
And Google has no problem dealing with despicable regimes, like China and Uzbekistan Kazakhstan friend of all except Uzbekistan, They very nosey people with bone in their brain.
Because microsoft is out to make it as hard as possible to use anything other than their products.
And who isn't out to maximize revenues? Can hardly blame Microsoft. Exchange is their server using their protocols, and Outlook is their product. Why the hell should they be expected to open up access to Exchange? Because a few developers are grumpy and don't like Outlook?
If inter-operability was an issue, companies wouldn't use Exchange/Outlook... The fact is they use it because it just works.
Do you assume that keeping the data locally will protect it from government subpoena?
Absolutely. If you're not in the US it absolutely is the issue. Any online gambling company will want that. As well as any company that doesn't want the Patriot Act or any other bullshit civil rights infringing law invading their privacy.
and you decide you want to ignore the teacher's book and read your creationist book instead, and use that as the basis for your science papers.
You've just said the same thing the GP did. The GP asked if he was reading fiction...
Honestly there's nothing with citing Wikipedia. Encyclopedia's are subject to peer review, as is Wikipedia. I actually place more value in Wikipedia's articles as they are normally more recent and up-to-date than encyclopedia articles.
What a smart person would do is cite the same references Wikipedia does instead.
Difference is when a virus DOES affect my box, it only affects my box. Should someone take out gmail or yahoo mail then exactly how many people are screwed?
Yeah dude, that's the answer... Why not take it one step further and have them write a bash script while they're at it? Or maybe some Perl? Ruby? C? Assembly?
Seriously, that may work for you, but it's still pretty sucky to have to do that...
I agree with GP - what if I have a screenshot on my clipboard that I want to paste? Or some files in my clipboard?
It's much slower to do all the work to create a zip file with all the crap you want than it is to just drag and drop or copy and paste.
when I buy a DVD, 99 times out of 100, I have no interest in the extras and commentary.
Yeah but then you'd miss some really funny things like the waxing scene from 40 Year Old Virgin... The outtakes on that scene were worth the expense of buying the DVD from the Previously Viewed section at my video store...
Nintendo seems to be a big fan of the family style game, so we'll probably buy their systems for the kids
Sure you won't find Postal on their systems but Call of Duty 3 is still a pretty violent game...
For older kids though I prefer the Rainbow Six covert style of games where kids don't think they're omnipotent... Those covert games teach them that a bullet will kill, not just decrease your health a bit which you'll recover later on...
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And yes, IAAL in CA deals with this type of law,
So tell me L in CA - I'm curious... In Canada we have certain constitutional rights protected under the charter. On of those rights is the right to a trial - I understand that the right to trial is also Constitutionally protected in the US also. I read further down this thread that people have waved their rights on Wall Street to have all their legal proceedings run by quasi-judicial councils instead on the NASD...
Does your employer in the US have the right to force upon you as a term of employment anything that violates statute - either by Congress or the State government? I know in Canada, I was asked by an employer to waive my rights under the Employment Standards act in order to continue employment. I refused and took up the matter with our labour board. They were quite clear that contract law can never in Canada trump a law enacted by an Act of the House of Commons or even an act by our Provincial Legislature. Is that the case in the US too?
Oh there's advertising? Haven't seen an ad since adblock came out ;)
Digg won't get sued if there's no creditable lawsuit.
Perhaps a number can't be considered intellctual property... Why should the owners of Digg be forced to incur legal costs in order to stand up on this issue? Fighting this can be VERY expensive - will Stallman and the FSF be there to save them?
Let's not allow Microsoft to dilute the meaning of the terms "cross platform"
As opposed to Sun? Only recently do we have a JRE for FreeBSD that's supported. Only recently does Adobe make a Flash client for Linux. Adobe still has yet to make a flash client for 64 bit windows.
Vendors do it all the time - dilute the meaning of cross platform. What they really mean is "cross platform where it suits us".
I'll bet you that U.S. government is one of the least corrupt governments you can find.
In Canada, our politicians at least are not open whores to lobby groups like Congressmen are. They're still whores, but not so blatant about it.
How about some spending limits on campaign donations? A government vote shouldn't be up for sale to the highest bidder. That's anti-democratic and anti-american...
Off the top of my head I don't know how you would acheive the same thing in IE, Safari, or Camino. From what I understand adblocking is standard in Camino, but point made nonetheless...
Microsoft Excel would be a good target too, as multiple worksheets are tabs also.
As well, many Windows properties windows have a tabbed interface.
It's been around since Windows 3.1... Quite likely longer.
There should be patent laws that are similar to trademark laws. If you don't enforce your patent you should lose it.
OT, but I find a lot of people blur the distinction - they have only heard of Ruby in the context of Ruby on Rails, which is great, but Ruby itself is a fantastic language for all sorts of scripting - a better Perl than Perl, a better Python than Python...
Nothing wrong with spending on national defence. Participating in a war in Afghanistan is not, IMO defence as we were never an Afghan target until we involved ourselves.
National Defence is important to protect our borders. We have the money and investing in military is a good thing
In some regions the presents are attributed to Jesus himself instead of any Santa Claus.
;)
Why not? Believing in one is just as silly as believing in the other
Second, if "CD" is a trademark, then selling a CD-like device as-if it were a CD can violate the trademark, and the trademark holder can pursue a remedy against the misrepresenter
What's troublesome here is that Sony and Phillips that established the red book standard. Now if Sony holds that trademark, along with Phillips, it might be a bit tricky for Sony to sue themselves.
That's why the market should be deathly afraid of a Blue-Ray DVD victory. It'll mean that Sony will control the standard and move it around as it suits Sony. Amongst other reasons that is. It might certainly be [slightly] more superior than HD-DVD, although who's eyes can tell?
Companies that deal in illegal gambling, drugs, slavery, or other outlaw activities are a wholly different matter.
Comparing online gambling to slavery and drugs is silly. If the government was a purporter of drugs and close the market to anyone else then it'd be the same.
As one person I know said, if the US govt was into furniture, Ikea would be their biggest target.
Your point is lost when you compare online gambling to drugs and slavery.
Because MS is bad for the IT industry. It should be the goal of every sane and rational IT worker to topple MS from it's perch.
That's a pretty arguable excuse. Microsoft's a target because of their market share. Sounds like you have a hate-on for them.
There's a whole sub industry that's been created BECAUSE of Microsoft. I've seen companies charge $100 for spyware cleanup... In fact it's pretty easy to argue that Windows 95 and 98 brought home computing to the masses...
Because microsoft is out to make it as hard as possible to use anything other than their products.
And who isn't out to maximize revenues? Can hardly blame Microsoft. Exchange is their server using their protocols, and Outlook is their product. Why the hell should they be expected to open up access to Exchange? Because a few developers are grumpy and don't like Outlook?
If inter-operability was an issue, companies wouldn't use Exchange/Outlook... The fact is they use it because it just works.
Do you assume that keeping the data locally will protect it from government subpoena?
Absolutely. If you're not in the US it absolutely is the issue. Any online gambling company will want that. As well as any company that doesn't want the Patriot Act or any other bullshit civil rights infringing law invading their privacy.
Your language dictates capitalization of class names, methods, and variables? Whatever that language is, I don't think I like it.
:)
I like it better than the language that says hash variables start with %, arrays with @ and scalar values with $
But mostly I like it better than languages that use rem or ' as the comment indicator
It'd more like be:
:)
testers.grep(/^richard$/i).each { |tester| tester.delete }
Althogh this isn't exact either
and you decide you want to ignore the teacher's book and read your creationist book instead, and use that as the basis for your science papers.
You've just said the same thing the GP did. The GP asked if he was reading fiction...
Honestly there's nothing with citing Wikipedia. Encyclopedia's are subject to peer review, as is Wikipedia. I actually place more value in Wikipedia's articles as they are normally more recent and up-to-date than encyclopedia articles.
What a smart person would do is cite the same references Wikipedia does instead.
Well, sure, if you're only looking at Nickelback songs.
Or "theory of a deadman" or "default"
I think they should merge and call themselves Theory of a Nickelfault
=D
I'd like to see you try that with a web client!
Difference is when a virus DOES affect my box, it only affects my box. Should someone take out gmail or yahoo mail then exactly how many people are screwed?
Try opening a command line and
Yeah dude, that's the answer... Why not take it one step further and have them write a bash script while they're at it? Or maybe some Perl? Ruby? C? Assembly?
Seriously, that may work for you, but it's still pretty sucky to have to do that...
I agree with GP - what if I have a screenshot on my clipboard that I want to paste? Or some files in my clipboard?
It's much slower to do all the work to create a zip file with all the crap you want than it is to just drag and drop or copy and paste.
when I buy a DVD, 99 times out of 100, I have no interest in the extras and commentary.
Yeah but then you'd miss some really funny things like the waxing scene from 40 Year Old Virgin... The outtakes on that scene were worth the expense of buying the DVD from the Previously Viewed section at my video store...
Nintendo seems to be a big fan of the family style game, so we'll probably buy their systems for the kids
Sure you won't find Postal on their systems but Call of Duty 3 is still a pretty violent game...
For older kids though I prefer the Rainbow Six covert style of games where kids don't think they're omnipotent... Those covert games teach them that a bullet will kill, not just decrease your health a bit which you'll recover later on...
I loled
That was funnier than the mods have given you credit for...