For one thing they could dispute the ISP's records that ID'ed them. If they actually do own the album (license) for the music, there is the fair use angle. The ISP's record might be correct but somebody must be using the defendant's WiFi. I do not believe that the RIAA has been able to get the defendants' hard drives as evidence. The whole thing is a preponderance of evidence thing, the RIAA would not have to PROVE that you did it, but then you also do not have to prove that you didn't do it. The defense does have to make the judge or jury believe that the defense is stronger than the RIAA's offense. Even if a defendant does lose, there is no guarantee that the defendant will have to pay anywhere near as much as the RIAA is attempting to get. I would like to see a crack whore or trailer trash redneck get sued and then go to court representing themselves with no more defense than "I didn't do it your honor". This would put the judge in an interesting situation.
Software patents are turning the USPO into a laughing stock. I can understand the USPO not being able to thoroughly examine patents for some esoteric science. Sudo is not an esoteric science. If the USPO is going to issue software patents they should have somebody who knows something about software. This sort of patent should have been caught by anybody who has any knowlege of Unix-like operating systems.
You make it sound like scientists are acting just like all of the other totally clueless shitheads that have their sytems infected and used for god-knows-what. The only difference between the domestic shitheads and the Antartic shitheads is that these lusers made the news because they are in Antartica. AND to top it all off, you seem to be defending this totally assinine behavior.
It could simply be that culturally they don't have any need to care about anything more than three. The other people that they normally interact with also see anything more than three as being "many" and don't care about absolute numbers. If a culture that has ten different words for ten different types of mud, would they think us culturally retarded because culturally we don't discern ten different types of mud? Meteorologists define several types of cloud formations, should most people be considered deficient because they just call clouds "clouds".
Two reasons: SCOX is a lightly traded stock and SCO has set aside money to buy SCOX stock in order to make the price do what SCO wants it to do. Lightly traded stocks have weird fluctuations because the low volumes do not dampen any wierd moves. SCO has an incentive to buy stock at times to make it look like bad news, was good news for SCO stock. I wonder if on the day that SCO loses the IBM suit, if SCO will buy stock to prop up it's price.
I have cut Kensington cables with standard Leatherman tools wirecutting pliers. Didn't even nick the pliers. The cut was pretty easy even though it was a bit messy.
That is exactly what Canopy wanted IBM to do, and IBM didn't take the bait. TO me it looks like (and sounds like) Canopy was trying to cash out of a bad investment and had SCO create an opportunity to persuade a large company to buy out SCO. Canopy/SCO's gambit didn't work. Why should IBM allow a pipsqeak Unix/litigation company to bully them? It appears that Canopy bet SCO in a bluff atempting to get IBM to buy them out, and Canopy lost the gamble. Now Canopy and SCO are attempting to follow through on their bluff in an attempt to mitigate their losses.
I am not so sure that their clustering software was done by SCO, it sounds like it may be Veritas HA cluster software.
A Single Server License costs $2,999 (per node). Assuming that you want a two node cluster, you will be required to purchase 2 licenses. SCO has bundles available.
The review seemed to be pretty vanilla, clued, thorough software review. The writer only looked only at the software that he was asked to review. Yeah, the review looked favorable -- as almost all software reviews do unless the software is total crap; reviewers tend to write about the good things. The part that I found really interesting was the level of detail (and the big numbers) included in the pricing information, most reviews show rather sketchy and incomplete pricing details. SCO prices everything ala-carte and seems to be going for the "we already got you by the balls" customers. What I took from the review was that the software is not necessarily crap but that you are going to pay for the privelege of using it.
Thanks for posting the clarification here and at PocketPCTools. It sounds like you guys have a big process problem. Why is there no clarification or mention on the eweek.com site?
Greater bandwidth is available at 2.4 and 5.8 GHz than is available at 900 MHz. With the bandwidth requirements for WiFi and the high usage in some ares, bandwidth is a much greater advantage than wall penetration. In practice, reduced wall penetration does not seem to be a major problem for 2.4 GHz. If there actually is reduced wall penetration at 2.4 GHz or 5.8 GHz, that attribute could actually be considered an advantage as it would tend to reduce interference and could improve security.
I would not be surprised if his sense of morality IS broken. I have seen people who get into upper management totally lose all sense of perspective in terms of morality (and reality).
I wonder if this loss of morality at upper management levels has any relationship to motivational propoganda such as exhorations to WIN, no matter what. Employers' motivational propganda used to emphasize "win/win" strategies, now it seems that employers' motivational propoganda exhort employees to WIN, no matter what it takes (unless you have to spend money).
Another change that I have noticed was the employers used to try to give all customers good service, now it seems that employers seem to give most customers mediocre service and to kiss the ass of the top handful of customers. It used to be after an outage that upper management would ask operations how many customers were affected and how long they were affected, now it seems that upper management only cares about how badly the top two or three customers were affected.
You need to use a projector that you didn't get at a store that uses smiley faces in their advertising.
I suspect that a decent projector that would be OK for this use would cost at least a couple thousand dollars (US) and a good one would probably cost over ten grand.
Going to a sleep specialist is a very good idea for someone who has sleep problems. Getting medicated to be more "normal" is not a good thing. Mood altering drugs or sleeping pills should be the last resort for chronic sleep problems. If I went to a sleep clinic and the first thing that the doctor wanted to try was medication, I would be finding a different doctor -- real fast. Some things, like strep throat, need medication; some things may be better treated with less invasive methods. Western medical doctors and western patients have developed an expectation that any ailment requires a prescription medication, and in the worst cases, an _operation_. Western medications have their uses; meditation, stress reducing techniques, proper nutrition, and other traditional techniques also have their uses; the trick is to find a doctor who knows when to use each of these tools.
I suspect that the author is correct in using the term e-book "consumer" instead of e-book "reader". Music publishers, movie studios, and book publishers have stopped caring about people listening to, watching, or reading their products. Listeners, watchers and readers do not necessarily purchase the music, movie, or book that they are enjoying; they could be borrowing it or it may have been passed on to them. Publishers prefer that people be consumers, as the term infers that each person purchased the copy that they enjoying. Consumers do not borrow items or accept items from other people, they buy their own items.
If SCO is any example of this, it appears that although SCO's actions may have some small amount of a chilling effect on OSS, SCO is losing this battle.
The Girl Scouts have a web page about this:
http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_central/music /
and somebody is saying that ASCAP was forced to back off:
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Performa nce+rights+organisation
Looks to me like if one car malfunctions, then the whole thing crashes. The degree of spectacularity is dependant upon the speed of the cars and how close the distance is between cars. Brings to mind pictures of 100 car pileups.
and finding it unlocked.
Leaving the door unlocked is a bad thing. It is an even worse thing to leave a door open when the things that could get stolen belong to other people.
Damn, now somebody is going to have to write a program so that they can process all of their pictures so that their pictures can be plausibly deniable. Maybe not, as most people that I know edit, crop, convert, or resize picture files when they export them from their camera.
I didn't really see anybody embracing the robots as a way to reduce the number of librarians that are employed. If these robots were intended to do some of the work of IT professionals, I suspect that the discussion would be very similar in tone. Given time, it may be possible that librarians and IT professionals may have some reason to worry that a robot may take their jobs, that day is not here. Unlike the robots that assemble widgets, the repetitive manual work that these library robots could do is library drudge work. Much of the work that librarians perform requires creativity and intelligence. Also, in some libraries, this drudge work is not actually done by librarians.
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For one thing they could dispute the ISP's records that ID'ed them. If they actually do own the album (license) for the music, there is the fair use angle. The ISP's record might be correct but somebody must be using the defendant's WiFi. I do not believe that the RIAA has been able to get the defendants' hard drives as evidence. The whole thing is a preponderance of evidence thing, the RIAA would not have to PROVE that you did it, but then you also do not have to prove that you didn't do it. The defense does have to make the judge or jury believe that the defense is stronger than the RIAA's offense. Even if a defendant does lose, there is no guarantee that the defendant will have to pay anywhere near as much as the RIAA is attempting to get. I would like to see a crack whore or trailer trash redneck get sued and then go to court representing themselves with no more defense than "I didn't do it your honor". This would put the judge in an interesting situation.
Software patents are turning the USPO into a laughing stock. I can understand the USPO not being able to thoroughly examine patents for some esoteric science. Sudo is not an esoteric science. If the USPO is going to issue software patents they should have somebody who knows something about software. This sort of patent should have been caught by anybody who has any knowlege of Unix-like operating systems.
You make it sound like scientists are acting just like all of the other totally clueless shitheads that have their sytems infected and used for god-knows-what. The only difference between the domestic shitheads and the Antartic shitheads is that these lusers made the news because they are in Antartica. AND to top it all off, you seem to be defending this totally assinine behavior.
It could simply be that culturally they don't have any need to care about anything more than three. The other people that they normally interact with also see anything more than three as being "many" and don't care about absolute numbers. If a culture that has ten different words for ten different types of mud, would they think us culturally retarded because culturally we don't discern ten different types of mud? Meteorologists define several types of cloud formations, should most people be considered deficient because they just call clouds "clouds".
Uhhhh, so that they can change the logos and make it AOL friendly?
Two reasons: SCOX is a lightly traded stock and SCO has set aside money to buy SCOX stock in order to make the price do what SCO wants it to do. Lightly traded stocks have weird fluctuations because the low volumes do not dampen any wierd moves. SCO has an incentive to buy stock at times to make it look like bad news, was good news for SCO stock. I wonder if on the day that SCO loses the IBM suit, if SCO will buy stock to prop up it's price.
I have cut Kensington cables with standard Leatherman tools wirecutting pliers. Didn't even nick the pliers. The cut was pretty easy even though it was a bit messy.
That is exactly what Canopy wanted IBM to do, and IBM didn't take the bait. TO me it looks like (and sounds like) Canopy was trying to cash out of a bad investment and had SCO create an opportunity to persuade a large company to buy out SCO. Canopy/SCO's gambit didn't work. Why should IBM allow a pipsqeak Unix/litigation company to bully them? It appears that Canopy bet SCO in a bluff atempting to get IBM to buy them out, and Canopy lost the gamble. Now Canopy and SCO are attempting to follow through on their bluff in an attempt to mitigate their losses.
I believe there will be two types of buyers:
1.) Legacy users. These people are wishing
that they could migrate, but for some
reason can't migrate at the present time.
2.) MBA graduates who see the established
SCO brand name and the traditional
pricing to be indicative of a superior
quality product.
I believe that many Type 2 buyers quickly become Type 1 users.
I am not so sure that their clustering software was done by SCO, it sounds like it may be Veritas HA cluster software.
A Single Server License costs $2,999 (per node). Assuming that you want a two node cluster, you will be required to purchase 2 licenses. SCO has bundles available.
The review seemed to be pretty vanilla, clued, thorough software review. The writer only looked only at the software that he was asked to review. Yeah, the review looked favorable -- as almost all software reviews do unless the software is total crap; reviewers tend to write about the good things. The part that I found really interesting was the level of detail (and the big numbers) included in the pricing information, most reviews show rather sketchy and incomplete pricing details. SCO prices everything ala-carte and seems to be going for the "we already got you by the balls" customers. What I took from the review was that the software is not necessarily crap but that you are going to pay for the privelege of using it.
Thanks for posting the clarification here and at PocketPCTools. It sounds like you guys have a big process problem. Why is there no clarification or mention on the eweek.com site?
Greater bandwidth is available at 2.4 and 5.8 GHz than is available at 900 MHz. With the bandwidth requirements for WiFi and the high usage in some ares, bandwidth is a much greater advantage than wall penetration. In practice, reduced wall penetration does not seem to be a major problem for 2.4 GHz. If there actually is reduced wall penetration at 2.4 GHz or 5.8 GHz, that attribute could actually be considered an advantage as it would tend to reduce interference and could improve security.
Do you honestly believe that a talking paperclip is less evil than the FreeBSD Daemon?
I would not be surprised if his sense of morality IS broken. I have seen people who get into upper management totally lose all sense of perspective in terms of morality (and reality).
I wonder if this loss of morality at upper management levels has any relationship to motivational propoganda such as exhorations to WIN, no matter what. Employers' motivational propganda used to emphasize "win/win" strategies, now it seems that employers' motivational propoganda exhort employees to WIN, no matter what it takes (unless you have to spend money).
Another change that I have noticed was the employers used to try to give all customers good service, now it seems that employers seem to give most customers mediocre service and to kiss the ass of the top handful of customers. It used to be after an outage that upper management would ask operations how many customers were affected and how long they were affected, now it seems that upper management only cares about how badly the top two or three customers were affected.
You need to use a projector that you didn't get at a store that uses smiley faces in their advertising.
I suspect that a decent projector that would be OK for this use would cost at least a couple thousand dollars (US) and a good one would probably cost over ten grand.
Going to a sleep specialist is a very good idea for someone who has sleep problems. Getting medicated to be more "normal" is not a good thing. Mood altering drugs or sleeping pills should be the last resort for chronic sleep problems. If I went to a sleep clinic and the first thing that the doctor wanted to try was medication, I would be finding a different doctor -- real fast. Some things, like strep throat, need medication; some things may be better treated with less invasive methods. Western medical doctors and western patients have developed an expectation that any ailment requires a prescription medication, and in the worst cases, an _operation_. Western medications have their uses; meditation, stress reducing techniques, proper nutrition, and other traditional techniques also have their uses; the trick is to find a doctor who knows when to use each of these tools.
I suspect that the author is correct in using the term e-book "consumer" instead of e-book "reader". Music publishers, movie studios, and book publishers have stopped caring about people listening to, watching, or reading their products. Listeners, watchers and readers do not necessarily purchase the music, movie, or book that they are enjoying; they could be borrowing it or it may have been passed on to them. Publishers prefer that people be consumers, as the term infers that each person purchased the copy that they enjoying. Consumers do not borrow items or accept items from other people, they buy their own items.
If SCO is any example of this, it appears that although SCO's actions may have some small amount of a chilling effect on OSS, SCO is losing this battle.
I think that Mozilla amd Firefox have the ability to use search engines other than Google. Change the option: Navigator Internet Search
The Girl Scouts have a web page about this: http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_central/music /
and somebody is saying that ASCAP was forced to back off:
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Performa nce+rights+organisation
Looks to me like if one car malfunctions, then the whole thing crashes. The degree of spectacularity is dependant upon the speed of the cars and how close the distance is between cars. Brings to mind pictures of 100 car pileups.
and finding it unlocked. Leaving the door unlocked is a bad thing. It is an even worse thing to leave a door open when the things that could get stolen belong to other people.
Damn, now somebody is going to have to write a program so that they can process all of their pictures so that their pictures can be plausibly deniable. Maybe not, as most people that I know edit, crop, convert, or resize picture files when they export them from their camera.
I didn't really see anybody embracing the robots as a way to reduce the number of librarians that are employed. If these robots were intended to do some of the work of IT professionals, I suspect that the discussion would be very similar in tone. Given time, it may be possible that librarians and IT professionals may have some reason to worry that a robot may take their jobs, that day is not here. Unlike the robots that assemble widgets, the repetitive manual work that these library robots could do is library drudge work. Much of the work that librarians perform requires creativity and intelligence. Also, in some libraries, this drudge work is not actually done by librarians.