Tech's doing pretty well in gadget land, but internet IPO's at least need a game plan nowadays. Interesting to note that much of the success is coming out of the non western markets, with samsung making a splash especially, this also reflects the fact that other than Google, much of the US is in danger of being a has-been, especially with the irresponsibility of government fiscal policy being a constant worry in the background.
Given that, I wonder where Europe is in all of this?
the fuzzy legality comes when you attach to an antenna that provides some radiating distance beyond the stated limits.
Additionally, FM receivers have wider bandwidth so effectively capture all of that 75 khz so I don't see how you're saying a signal with wider channel width somehow "travels shorter distances."
one of my favorite service calls was an accountant who complained that a journal entry screen was flashing. It turns out he dropped a cookie crumb in the keyboard and the return key was jammed thus queueing up repeated "postings."
It really is rediculous all around. Bill neglects to carefully consider that the GPL and other open source licenses are simply gifts of intellectual property to the community at large. In no way does the GPL or BSD licenses "disrespect" commercial licenses, they just offer a better value than the commercial licenses, ie., our software is our gift to you.
The major shortcoming with linux for me is the lack of some hardware support. Now of course the counter argument is that its the hardware vendors fault and I can agree with that, however it doesn't change the fact that in some cases Windows gets better hardware support.
Really, you'd be hard pressed to find real history making musicmakers in the top earners category, more likely they're good looking or otherwise freakishly entertaining.
In this instance, "success" is a funny measure IMO. For instance, part of that 3 percent will be artists like Brittany Spears who are measureably successful in extracting dollars from purchasing budgets but who are notably less successful in producing music that I can actually appreciate.
I'd hazard a guess that throughout history some of the musicians deemed most successful in producing great music may have been less able to accumulate dollars.
The deal is still made, the Gov't made the deal with the people to protect copyright.
Now this means that a company can choose to withhold a product from distribution and there are valid reasons to do this. For instance, Microsoft wants people to buy their latest version of software so thats why they may elect not to distribute previous versions, especially as the previous versions may not be cost effective to support.
This is true. I've seen some disasterous cases of folks trashed because of prescribed drugs for depression. The only difference is that illegal drug dealers don't contribute to politicians.
The definition of "unauthorized sharing" must look like publishing without permission. Copyright on an intellectual work lets the copyright owner decide who publishes or distributes the work. Sharing of disk directories amounts to publishing their contents. All P2P file sharing systems depend on publishing files to be effective.
There are a few directions that I feel the law could go here.
The law could determine that restricting unauthorized publishing of digital media is contrary to the public good. In my opinion, at least US law doesn't seem to be going that way, any takedown notices are still effective against traditional net publishing (websites, etc), so I'd bet that at least in the US, policing the unauthorized publishing of digital media will still get protection.
P2P getting the smackdown. I think its a pretty close call here, plenty of legislative support for this. I say thats a bad call because efficient cheap publication has the potential to make everyone a content distributer, and cheap digital production tools makes everyone a content maker, and this really is starting to show results on the internet nowadays, regardless of talent levels;-)
Anonymous P2P getting the smackdown. This one is the wildcard, and I've always seen this as the end game and an ultimate danger to an unrestricted internet. Networks like Freenet, Mute (does that thing even work?) and others really throw a wrench into internet accountability. I've always viewed the current P2P arguments as the obvious preliminary battles leading up to a referendum on universal open internet connectivity, with big media desiring a consumer only version of the internet and restricting programming tools to licensed, regulated practitioners of software development.
I've got to agree here. I use office quite a bit, and each release since office 97 have stunk just a little bit more. Office 2003 is a pretty buggy version with no new features useful to me, but in todays Microsoft centric environment there is some pressure to keep current with software, so I just accept my lot and find the workarounds if possible.
you left out my favorite language, "toggle switches". Sure its not as popular anymore with the advent of keyboards, but it makes a heck of a showing on google still.
The one referenced is particularily worrisome in my opinion, because simply visitting a website can indeed do an 'alias in my account' or whatever else the injected code would want to do. Most likely, the code would simply be a shell or something useful like that. The ugly code could come later.
An 'rm -rf *' would be safe for me, it'd only zap my user dir and important stuff would be backed up. Someone using my system remotely would be more worrisome.
Or even do a "websurfer" account. Of course the same goes for doing a "websurfer" account on windows.
Still, I remember helping family with a new XP install, it was a very laborious process trying to convince them of the utility of using an unprivileged account for day to day usage but eventually they seemed to accept it just to shut me up, and still use the unprivileged account for day to day use.
If you can't trust your employees, then you shouldn't be giving them so much access in the first place.
Security is standard practice almost everywhere. Rarely do you see everyone have administrative rights for everything, heck, where I work I ask that my account be specifically non-admin (so I can get a little bit of protection from shoot-self-in-foot-itus).
If you think you have to trust your employees entirely, you should visit your company's accounting department and discuss "checks and balances," and why cashiers have to count their drawer at the beginning of each shift.
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Given that, I wonder where Europe is in all of this?
Additionally, FM receivers have wider bandwidth so effectively capture all of that 75 khz so I don't see how you're saying a signal with wider channel width somehow "travels shorter distances."
one of my favorite service calls was an accountant who complained that a journal entry screen was flashing. It turns out he dropped a cookie crumb in the keyboard and the return key was jammed thus queueing up repeated "postings."
It really is rediculous all around. Bill neglects to carefully consider that the GPL and other open source licenses are simply gifts of intellectual property to the community at large. In no way does the GPL or BSD licenses "disrespect" commercial licenses, they just offer a better value than the commercial licenses, ie., our software is our gift to you.
The major shortcoming with linux for me is the lack of some hardware support. Now of course the counter argument is that its the hardware vendors fault and I can agree with that, however it doesn't change the fact that in some cases Windows gets better hardware support.
Don't forget, when sizing up XP's kernel you have to add in IE and media player 10.
I used to use "talk".
Really, you'd be hard pressed to find real history making musicmakers in the top earners category, more likely they're good looking or otherwise freakishly entertaining.
I'd hazard a guess that throughout history some of the musicians deemed most successful in producing great music may have been less able to accumulate dollars.
Thats right, I want my GPL car, house and food. My GF needs to be under a BSD license tho.
this allowed me to get a job at the best convenience store in the state. Highly recommended!
Now this means that a company can choose to withhold a product from distribution and there are valid reasons to do this. For instance, Microsoft wants people to buy their latest version of software so thats why they may elect not to distribute previous versions, especially as the previous versions may not be cost effective to support.
Absolutely! Once again Afghanistan opium is flowing. Hurray for freedom!
From what I've read, when the Grateful Dead quit touring, a large network of lsd distribution disappeared.
This is true. I've seen some disasterous cases of folks trashed because of prescribed drugs for depression. The only difference is that illegal drug dealers don't contribute to politicians.
The definition of "unauthorized sharing" must look like publishing without permission. Copyright on an intellectual work lets the copyright owner decide who publishes or distributes the work. Sharing of disk directories amounts to publishing their contents. All P2P file sharing systems depend on publishing files to be effective.
There are a few directions that I feel the law could go here.
I've got to agree here. I use office quite a bit, and each release since office 97 have stunk just a little bit more. Office 2003 is a pretty buggy version with no new features useful to me, but in todays Microsoft centric environment there is some pressure to keep current with software, so I just accept my lot and find the workarounds if possible.
Murder victims have little effect on corporate contributions.
take it easy on him, its tough to read slashdot on a braille display system.
you left out my favorite language, "toggle switches". Sure its not as popular anymore with the advent of keyboards, but it makes a heck of a showing on google still.
(Theres like a thousand versions of that out there.)
An 'rm -rf *' would be safe for me, it'd only zap my user dir and important stuff would be backed up. Someone using my system remotely would be more worrisome.
Don't forget, linux isn't immune to bugs either.
Still, I remember helping family with a new XP install, it was a very laborious process trying to convince them of the utility of using an unprivileged account for day to day usage but eventually they seemed to accept it just to shut me up, and still use the unprivileged account for day to day use.
Security is standard practice almost everywhere. Rarely do you see everyone have administrative rights for everything, heck, where I work I ask that my account be specifically non-admin (so I can get a little bit of protection from shoot-self-in-foot-itus).
If you think you have to trust your employees entirely, you should visit your company's accounting department and discuss "checks and balances," and why cashiers have to count their drawer at the beginning of each shift.