Blame the scientists. They dazzled us with their fancy fossils, their radiocarbon dating and their tens of thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles.
I laughed out loud, even though I'm alone in the room. No joke.
Okay, sorry about the troll comment. What I see as the major difference here is that the infringer in this case is a corporation trying to make money off it. This offers two main differences:
First, whatever the outcome of the lawsuit, it shouldn't personally bankrupt anyone, just the corporation, which is a legal entity constructed for just such a reason: to legally protect individual members.
Second, they are trying to sell this software, not just use it. The standards for compliance on GPL software are very, very easy to comply with, much more so than music or mp3s.
Come on, I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but that comparison is misleading.
In this case, the people responsible for this are selling the product of another, not just using it for their own collection (which they would be all right with).
It would be a different situation if the RIAA were, for example, suing people who burn pirated music and sell it.
Nah, I doubt it. Currently, the "battery" most power plants use when they have a surplus is a reservoir. Water is pumped up from below during surplus times, then let fall back through a turbine during peak times. Can't beat the cost, and recharge cycles are determined only by the climate.
Close, but I don't think that's it. I believe that Linux got its name by being short for Linus' Minix, since he was making a MINIX clone, as he thought Minix was too limited in its usage. (It was, seeing as it was intended as a teaching tool). UNIX compatibility came after the fact.
...this book does not give you a specific distro for installation. Instead, Marcel chose to include a branded copy of Knoppix, the CD-bootable Linux
No specific distro? Knoppix is a specific distro (based on Debian) which can be installed on a hard drive! Last I heard, all you had to do was type knx-hdinstall at a prompt, but that may have changed since I used it.
...Given the sheer number of spurious lawsuits I've been seeing on here, this comes as a great relief to me that one large one is being thrown out of court. Thank you, US justice system!
You should fight piracy by making what you sell higher quality, so that anything you could easily pirate would be a cheap knockoff of what you can give them for a fee. This would be almost a shareware-like system, where you could get a crippled version for free, and, if you like it, pay money for the high quality, full version.
This would make piracy tolerable, since it would be more of a "try-before-you-buy" sort of system.
I'm confused. If the plugin is ~700K, and the Firefox installer for Windows is ~4.6M, then how in the hell can the standalone Sunbird be ~8M, more over 3 megabytes more than the browser and plugin combined?
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When I used to work at a major computer retailer, there was a similar deal with Compuserve. Basically, you have to pay with a credit card, check, or some other method that allows financial tracking in order to get the benefits, or provide a SSN to let the store do a credit check. This provides a solid lock on who you ARE, not an address or anything else. You really can't fake that without breaking some major laws and stealing someone else's identity.
There is a quote here in the press release that set off my BS detector:
...it was erroneously reported that Plume had asked its attorney to attempt to buy the website Katie.com...
There were no rumors of offers to buy the website. What kind of shameless PR technique is this to cover up the fact that they asked for its donation? I think asking for (demanding) its donation is worse than offering to buy, and this strikes me as a particularly unscrupulous statement by their PR department.
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I laughed out loud, even though I'm alone in the room. No joke.
First, whatever the outcome of the lawsuit, it shouldn't personally bankrupt anyone, just the corporation, which is a legal entity constructed for just such a reason: to legally protect individual members.
Second, they are trying to sell this software, not just use it. The standards for compliance on GPL software are very, very easy to comply with, much more so than music or mp3s.
In this case, the people responsible for this are selling the product of another, not just using it for their own collection (which they would be all right with).
It would be a different situation if the RIAA were, for example, suing people who burn pirated music and sell it.
Nah, I doubt it. Currently, the "battery" most power plants use when they have a surplus is a reservoir. Water is pumped up from below during surplus times, then let fall back through a turbine during peak times. Can't beat the cost, and recharge cycles are determined only by the climate.
Close, but I don't think that's it. I believe that Linux got its name by being short for Linus' Minix, since he was making a MINIX clone, as he thought Minix was too limited in its usage. (It was, seeing as it was intended as a teaching tool). UNIX compatibility came after the fact.
No, I think that should read "Includes THE dead parrot joke."
Corporate American e-mail can't read?
....A beowulf cluster of.... holy crap!
...this book does not give you a specific distro for installation. Instead, Marcel chose to include a branded copy of Knoppix, the CD-bootable Linux
No specific distro? Knoppix is a specific distro (based on Debian) which can be installed on a hard drive! Last I heard, all you had to do was type knx-hdinstall at a prompt, but that may have changed since I used it.
...I just drink copious amounts of Jagermeister. Works like a charm, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper.
This has to be the largest number of posts EVER in response to a post that has exactly FOUR ORIGINAL LETTERS.
...Given the sheer number of spurious lawsuits I've been seeing on here, this comes as a great relief to me that one large one is being thrown out of court. Thank you, US justice system!
Boy, I don't get to say that too often....
You should fight piracy by making what you sell higher quality, so that anything you could easily pirate would be a cheap knockoff of what you can give them for a fee. This would be almost a shareware-like system, where you could get a crippled version for free, and, if you like it, pay money for the high quality, full version.
This would make piracy tolerable, since it would be more of a "try-before-you-buy" sort of system.
My mother is a nurse. This will NEVER be as cheap, or as realistic, as having the students practice on each other, like she did in medical school.
Sorry, GAIM has already been taken :)
I'm confused. If the plugin is ~700K, and the Firefox installer for Windows is ~4.6M, then how in the hell can the standalone Sunbird be ~8M, more over 3 megabytes more than the browser and plugin combined?
"Pricing for the ES47 and ES80 systems with the new 1.15GHz EV7 will start at $29,200 and $49,300, respectively."
Holy crap! And here I was, thinking that the Xeon servers were expensive!
And so the astroturfing begins..... :)
When I used to work at a major computer retailer, there was a similar deal with Compuserve. Basically, you have to pay with a credit card, check, or some other method that allows financial tracking in order to get the benefits, or provide a SSN to let the store do a credit check. This provides a solid lock on who you ARE, not an address or anything else. You really can't fake that without breaking some major laws and stealing someone else's identity.
Heh, I invoke Godwin's law! First mention of the Nazis!
There is a quote here in the press release that set off my BS detector:
...it was erroneously reported that Plume had asked its attorney to attempt to buy the website Katie.com...
There were no rumors of offers to buy the website. What kind of shameless PR technique is this to cover up the fact that they asked for its donation? I think asking for (demanding) its donation is worse than offering to buy, and this strikes me as a particularly unscrupulous statement by their PR department.
...has been to turn offices into a signal-proof "Faraday cage", by lining the walls with aluminium foil
Oops, I meant "aluminum-foil" jokes
... For an endless barrage of "tin-foil" jokes.
They want to get it right the first time
First time? This is Service Pack 2. They missed "get it right the first time" by two revisions!
HA! This is a duplicate!
Oh, wait, it was delayed again?!