that's funny. two of the first three search results for "Office" are Microsoft Office. I guess you should really know what you're talking about before flaming.
Yes, I am fully aware of this. We studied Speaker in my literature of the fantastic class, and hell, Alvin Maker is a fictionalized retelling of the life of Joseph Smith. But the point I was trying to make is that in the beginning, I.E. Ender's Game, Songmaster, Seventh Son, Even the Speaker Trilogy to a certain extent, (ok probably not by the time we got to Children of the mind) the religious message was not overt. He wasn't Preaching. Now, he is. Be it Crystal City(the last extant book in Alvin Maker) where he gets all hoighty toighty about religion, or Shadow of the Giant, where he uses the book as a pulpit for his "Geopolitical views", his later work is not up to the same standard that won him the Hugo and Nebula awards two years running. When the story starts to suffer because of the message, then the message needs to go. Or at least be reworded.
the guy's a great author.
No, he was a great author. Now he just uses his novels to force his own political/religious ideology down his readers' throats. After reading his last two offerings, Crystal City and Shadow of the Giant, I vowed that I would never read anything he wrote ever again. After reading the blatant anti-muslim sentiments in Shadow of the Giant, I had to go take a shower, because I felt filthy from reading that trash.
Now, I know that All his previous novels included bias from his mormon upbringing, but at least it used to be subtle. Now, he feels that he has to smash us over the head with it, and I'm rather sick of it. Card has metamorphosed from a truly awesome scifi writer, into a lazy hack who only writes for the money, and I for one will not be further supporting him until he can prove to me that he still knows how to write a decent story.
stop setting up straw men. Your analogy is bullshit. I downloaded the movie. I watched the movie. I still went and saw it in the theatre twice. Then my hard drive crashed, and I had to restore my computer. So I no longer have it.
They didn't lose a dime of income from me for having downloaded the movie before release. Therefore your analogy with the chairs is incorrect.
thanks for the clarification. I was always led to believe that it was equivalent to a software license. But as you said. I don't have to sign any type of contract, or accept a eula, therefore, it can't be equivalent.
I can't afford a desktop LCD monitor and,
so why didn't you go with a 2.0 Ghz athlon, 512Mb Ram and a 100Gb Hard Drive and spend the savings on a LCD Monitor?
NB: the exclusive right to distribute doesn't IMHO extend to a right to conrol use after first sale, but everyone arguing "We haven't taken anything from them!" is always demanding to go beyond use and into making and distributing copies to people who don't already own the song so I've no sympathy for 'em there.
You don't own the song. In a perfect world, the artist owns the song. more often, the RIAA Owns the song. All you own is a little plastic disk with a coded burn mark. you are granted a license to decode that mark for purpose of playing back the encoded song, but you are not granted any other rights to said song.
IANAL either, however, this is my understanding.
Wrong. people who use the term google in everyday speech wrt search, are still talking about the actual company Google. If people were merely referring to any search engine as google, then yes, their trademark would no longer stand up in court.
For precedents, see Yo-yo, kleenex, and Xerox. Duncan used to hold the copyright on the word yo-yo, so other manufacturers had to use the term return top or up and down top. This is no longer the case. kleenex in most people's mind refers to any tissue and not just Kleenex brand. Also, Most people use the term xerox to mean any copy machine. Not just xerox brand.
I used altavista right up until they started being a portal. What I liked about them, was that the page didn't take 3 hours to load on my 28800 baud modem. when that changed, I moved to google, and that is still the feature I like best about them, even though I now have a cable connection. There's something to be said for negative space, and google understands that.
So what you can do is flag all your resume replies with the label "employers" and then search for that flag. Still better if you ask me. But, then again, I suppose you didn't.
who needs to sort their mail anymore? With GMail's search feature, I can find anything I'm looking for a hell of a lot faster than when my mail was sorted. Plus, with 2GB of remote storage, I'll never have to delete another message, and the ever so annoying hard drive crashes don't trouble me at all.
I wasn't given the false promise I'd be more likely to receive mod points.
really. i've only ever meta-moderated twice, yet as of about 2 weeks ago, I get mod points about every three days.
OJ was later found civilly liable for his wife's death, based on evidence that for whatever reason was not available during his criminal trial. I think that is a telling fact right there.
I've recently switched over to Suse 9 from windows because I was tired of the way my 1Ghz processor was always maxed out no matter what version of windows i was using. Windows hogs resources like the US hoards nuclear weapons. The biggest problem i've found with linux in as much as usability is installs. The average user knows nothing about programming and therefore compiling source. I dont have a problem with having to make source files, what i have a problem with is dependancies not adding up. I was trying to install logjam, a client that allows me to post to my blog, but to install that I needed to install gtk+ toolkit, which required half a dozen other dependencies, which in turn required several more dependancies, one of which(Xft) I couldnt find despite about 20 hrs of internet search time. I finally had to give up on ever getting logjam installed because i couldn't find Xft. until this problem is rectified, you wont be seeing grandma and grandpa using linux
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his name is Inigo, not Indigo.
that's funny. two of the first three search results for "Office" are Microsoft Office. I guess you should really know what you're talking about before flaming.
Yes, I am fully aware of this. We studied Speaker in my literature of the fantastic class, and hell, Alvin Maker is a fictionalized retelling of the life of Joseph Smith. But the point I was trying to make is that in the beginning, I.E. Ender's Game, Songmaster, Seventh Son, Even the Speaker Trilogy to a certain extent, (ok probably not by the time we got to Children of the mind) the religious message was not overt. He wasn't Preaching. Now, he is. Be it Crystal City(the last extant book in Alvin Maker) where he gets all hoighty toighty about religion, or Shadow of the Giant, where he uses the book as a pulpit for his "Geopolitical views", his later work is not up to the same standard that won him the Hugo and Nebula awards two years running. When the story starts to suffer because of the message, then the message needs to go. Or at least be reworded.
the guy's a great author. No, he was a great author. Now he just uses his novels to force his own political/religious ideology down his readers' throats. After reading his last two offerings, Crystal City and Shadow of the Giant, I vowed that I would never read anything he wrote ever again. After reading the blatant anti-muslim sentiments in Shadow of the Giant, I had to go take a shower, because I felt filthy from reading that trash. Now, I know that All his previous novels included bias from his mormon upbringing, but at least it used to be subtle. Now, he feels that he has to smash us over the head with it, and I'm rather sick of it. Card has metamorphosed from a truly awesome scifi writer, into a lazy hack who only writes for the money, and I for one will not be further supporting him until he can prove to me that he still knows how to write a decent story.
stop setting up straw men. Your analogy is bullshit. I downloaded the movie. I watched the movie. I still went and saw it in the theatre twice. Then my hard drive crashed, and I had to restore my computer. So I no longer have it. They didn't lose a dime of income from me for having downloaded the movie before release. Therefore your analogy with the chairs is incorrect.
thanks for the clarification. I was always led to believe that it was equivalent to a software license. But as you said. I don't have to sign any type of contract, or accept a eula, therefore, it can't be equivalent.
I can't afford a desktop LCD monitor and, so why didn't you go with a 2.0 Ghz athlon, 512Mb Ram and a 100Gb Hard Drive and spend the savings on a LCD Monitor?
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. -Inigo Montoya The Princess Bride
NB: the exclusive right to distribute doesn't IMHO extend to a right to conrol use after first sale, but everyone arguing "We haven't taken anything from them!" is always demanding to go beyond use and into making and distributing copies to people who don't already own the song so I've no sympathy for 'em there. You don't own the song. In a perfect world, the artist owns the song. more often, the RIAA Owns the song. All you own is a little plastic disk with a coded burn mark. you are granted a license to decode that mark for purpose of playing back the encoded song, but you are not granted any other rights to said song.
especially since he's been working with the Ultimate story line for Spiderman itself. Consistency is nice.
but... Denise Richards... it can't be all bad, can it?
IANAL either, however, this is my understanding. Wrong. people who use the term google in everyday speech wrt search, are still talking about the actual company Google. If people were merely referring to any search engine as google, then yes, their trademark would no longer stand up in court. For precedents, see Yo-yo, kleenex, and Xerox. Duncan used to hold the copyright on the word yo-yo, so other manufacturers had to use the term return top or up and down top. This is no longer the case. kleenex in most people's mind refers to any tissue and not just Kleenex brand. Also, Most people use the term xerox to mean any copy machine. Not just xerox brand.
I used altavista right up until they started being a portal. What I liked about them, was that the page didn't take 3 hours to load on my 28800 baud modem. when that changed, I moved to google, and that is still the feature I like best about them, even though I now have a cable connection. There's something to be said for negative space, and google understands that.
So what you can do is flag all your resume replies with the label "employers" and then search for that flag. Still better if you ask me. But, then again, I suppose you didn't.
who needs to sort their mail anymore? With GMail's search feature, I can find anything I'm looking for a hell of a lot faster than when my mail was sorted. Plus, with 2GB of remote storage, I'll never have to delete another message, and the ever so annoying hard drive crashes don't trouble me at all.
will adblock not get rid of them? I haven't found much that adblock won't kill.
HAH!!! Slashdot finally slashdotted itself :)
I really dislike the new heading font.
I wasn't given the false promise I'd be more likely to receive mod points. really. i've only ever meta-moderated twice, yet as of about 2 weeks ago, I get mod points about every three days.
most eulas have a clause stating that by your installation and use of the program you have accepted it.
my brother plays the old pokemon games on his ds all the time.
what does an end user need with the linux trademark?
OJ was later found civilly liable for his wife's death, based on evidence that for whatever reason was not available during his criminal trial. I think that is a telling fact right there.
the hubble cannot take decent quality pictures of earth because it is too close
I've recently switched over to Suse 9 from windows because I was tired of the way my 1Ghz processor was always maxed out no matter what version of windows i was using. Windows hogs resources like the US hoards nuclear weapons. The biggest problem i've found with linux in as much as usability is installs. The average user knows nothing about programming and therefore compiling source. I dont have a problem with having to make source files, what i have a problem with is dependancies not adding up. I was trying to install logjam, a client that allows me to post to my blog, but to install that I needed to install gtk+ toolkit, which required half a dozen other dependencies, which in turn required several more dependancies, one of which(Xft) I couldnt find despite about 20 hrs of internet search time. I finally had to give up on ever getting logjam installed because i couldn't find Xft. until this problem is rectified, you wont be seeing grandma and grandpa using linux