Last I checked, the ENTIRE COUNTRY of the USA is a "Free Speech Zone" by dint of the 1st Ammendment of the Constitution. Or has the Constitution been declared illegal by the corps?
I tend to agree with your assessment. However, I wonder what they would do if, say, the lead developers of Sendmail arrived. They certainly aren't people of "no standing" with regards to email!
Yes, I know alternatives such as Qmail and Postfix are out there, but Sendmail is pretty much the standard MTA.
That's assuming the editors are paying attention. Given dupes and the horrid IT color scheme (with LOTS of complaints and no action taken), it's likely they are not. I'll consider getting a subscription IF these types of issues are resolved. Until then, why bother?
You don't have to buy anything to upgrade from Windows 2k to Windows XP. The license for XP is the same as for 2k. That is why you can legally "downgrade" an XP machine to 2k w/o purchasing a 2k license. It also works the other way around, going from 2k to XP.
The Mosaic browser, the original web client, would be a good example.
Slight ammendment: Mosaic was the first GRAPHICAL web client. I'm thinking Lynx was the first text-based web client (it's entirely possible that I'm mistaken).
Altitude is already part of the GPS coordinates, at least on the unit's I've used. Granted, it's been a few years and they were the military PLUGRs.
Direction is much harder to include. You need to have a magnetic compass and level added to the camera. The compass gets you magnetic north; using the latitude(sp?) and longitude portions of the GPS coordinates, you can get the magnetic declination for that location, and now you have true north and the direction the camera is pointing.
The level tells you what angle the camera is from the horizon (obviously). Add this information to the direction pointed, and you're in business.
It all comes down to keeping control of the country/society. There is more "common" crime than "white collar" crime; therefore you punish the common criminals more severly to keep the commoners in line, and make a show out of punishing the white collar criminals. Always bear in mind there are a LOT more people who make $100k.
Why not have the alarm wired to trip an aerosol can full of something that smells aweful? I would recommend something (relatively) harmless such as sulfur dioxide (rotten eggs smell). A joke supply shop also would have stuff in the category of "harmless but annoying". Make sure you keep it in this category or else you open yourself to legal liability.
I can say this is not the way to go. You want to use a standard, well-known accounting package. If you roll-your-own, you have a lot of accouting rules that HAVE to be followed (else the auditors have a field day at your expense). A plus of a standard accounting package is that you might higher someone who already has experience with that package. At work, we're using Solomon IV with FRx for accounting (proprietary, Windows only), but it's well known and we haven't had any problems using it. Setting it up is a pain, but once it's set up, you can forget about it.
I can think of one group who will be less than pleased about a city-wide wireless network: hospitals. They have a fit when someone has a cell phone turned on and they're inside the hospital. Never mind if the person isn't talking on the phone, just that it's turned on gets them annoyed. Now introduce a wireless network they can't block without spending lots of $$$, and how do you think they'll feel?
I read the article, and I have to agree this is probably a valid lawsuit. This is purely contract law, not copyrights or patents. The contract the manufacturers signed said they would not produce or sell devices that could be used for copying DVDs. The manufacturers didn't hold up their end of the deal. Yeah, it stinks, but that's the way it is.
Except, when you include the PC stuff, it becomes an obvious extension of stuff that has existed for PCs for several years. As an example: Battle.net from Blizzard. (Let's take this obvious idea, add the phrase "on (the Internet|a computer|a gaming console)", and get a patent!)
I can't answer the second one, but I know the answer to the first. If encryption is turned on by default, it's almost gauranteed to cause problems getting it to work correctly. The person who bought it is going to call tech support for the company, increasing their cost. Cost, being the bottom line, is why security is disabled by default.
I know of one. I'm the network admin for a retail college book store. We use a version of Palms that have a barcode scanner and 802.11b to help with inventory. Granted, they are a bit pricier than consumer models, at about $1500 a pop.
Of course they would recommend a BDSesque license. It legally allows another company to sell the compiled application without disclosing any source (that's the "business-friendly" part). The strength of the open source community is that changes get pushed back to the original source, and then can be merged with the main code branch instead of everyone having to maintain lists of patches to apply.
Therein lies the dilema: Develop applications in closed source, keeping the code details a secret, and sell them for a profit vs. develop open source applications, where the software is basically free, and make money from selling services related to the open source software.
I'm not advocating either choice, just saying that what the choices boil down to.
I've always thought a solution to the lack of organ donors was relatively simple. Currently, by default no-one is an organ donor. It's something you have to choose to be, normally when you renew your driver's license.
The solution I would propose is to change the default to be that everyone is an organ donor. There would be a chance to opt-out of being an organ donor, similar to being given the choice when renewing one's driver's license. I know there are people who would object to being an organ donor (due to personal or religious beliefs), and that is why there is the "opt-out" part described above.
Last time I checked, >90% of the market share is not "a very small market". The duty of the company is to make money, standards or not. Right now, DirectX is the de facto standard for graphics, OpenGL or not.
OK, so this idea doesn't qualify. It was conceived 12 years BEFORE he started working for DSC. If you try to do the retroactive argument, the court will throw it out. After all, a NDA for Company A is worthless if you are hired by Company B and they retroactively claim ownership of the work you did while employed for Company A.
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Last I checked, the ENTIRE COUNTRY of the USA is a "Free Speech Zone" by dint of the 1st Ammendment of the Constitution. Or has the Constitution been declared illegal by the corps?
I tend to agree with your assessment. However, I wonder what they would do if, say, the lead developers of Sendmail arrived. They certainly aren't people of "no standing" with regards to email!
Yes, I know alternatives such as Qmail and Postfix are out there, but Sendmail is pretty much the standard MTA.
That's assuming the editors are paying attention. Given dupes and the horrid IT color scheme (with LOTS of complaints and no action taken), it's likely they are not. I'll consider getting a subscription IF these types of issues are resolved. Until then, why bother?
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You don't have to buy anything to upgrade from Windows 2k to Windows XP. The license for XP is the same as for 2k. That is why you can legally "downgrade" an XP machine to 2k w/o purchasing a 2k license. It also works the other way around, going from 2k to XP.
Direction is much harder to include. You need to have a magnetic compass and level added to the camera. The compass gets you magnetic north; using the latitude(sp?) and longitude portions of the GPS coordinates, you can get the magnetic declination for that location, and now you have true north and the direction the camera is pointing.
The level tells you what angle the camera is from the horizon (obviously). Add this information to the direction pointed, and you're in business.
It all comes down to keeping control of the country/society. There is more "common" crime than "white collar" crime; therefore you punish the common criminals more severly to keep the commoners in line, and make a show out of punishing the white collar criminals. Always bear in mind there are a LOT more people who make $100k.
I don't think "a hot summer day" is something most of us think of when we think of Antartica.
Why not have the alarm wired to trip an aerosol can full of something that smells aweful? I would recommend something (relatively) harmless such as sulfur dioxide (rotten eggs smell). A joke supply shop also would have stuff in the category of "harmless but annoying". Make sure you keep it in this category or else you open yourself to legal liability.
I can say this is not the way to go. You want to use a standard, well-known accounting package. If you roll-your-own, you have a lot of accouting rules that HAVE to be followed (else the auditors have a field day at your expense). A plus of a standard accounting package is that you might higher someone who already has experience with that package. At work, we're using Solomon IV with FRx for accounting (proprietary, Windows only), but it's well known and we haven't had any problems using it. Setting it up is a pain, but once it's set up, you can forget about it.
I can think of one group who will be less than pleased about a city-wide wireless network: hospitals. They have a fit when someone has a cell phone turned on and they're inside the hospital. Never mind if the person isn't talking on the phone, just that it's turned on gets them annoyed. Now introduce a wireless network they can't block without spending lots of $$$, and how do you think they'll feel?
Anyone else see potential for April Fool's Day? Just make sure it will only run once and delete itself afterwards...
I read the article, and I have to agree this is probably a valid lawsuit. This is purely contract law, not copyrights or patents. The contract the manufacturers signed said they would not produce or sell devices that could be used for copying DVDs. The manufacturers didn't hold up their end of the deal. Yeah, it stinks, but that's the way it is.
Forgot a third choice: Public Domain.
Except, when you include the PC stuff, it becomes an obvious extension of stuff that has existed for PCs for several years. As an example: Battle.net from Blizzard. (Let's take this obvious idea, add the phrase "on (the Internet|a computer|a gaming console)", and get a patent!)
I can't answer the second one, but I know the answer to the first. If encryption is turned on by default, it's almost gauranteed to cause problems getting it to work correctly. The person who bought it is going to call tech support for the company, increasing their cost. Cost, being the bottom line, is why security is disabled by default.
If it was solar powered, I think the wind would have a heyday with this. It's not flying, just being blown around by the wind....
I know of one. I'm the network admin for a retail college book store. We use a version of Palms that have a barcode scanner and 802.11b to help with inventory. Granted, they are a bit pricier than consumer models, at about $1500 a pop.
Therein lies the dilema: Develop applications in closed source, keeping the code details a secret, and sell them for a profit vs. develop open source applications, where the software is basically free, and make money from selling services related to the open source software.
I'm not advocating either choice, just saying that what the choices boil down to.
I've always thought a solution to the lack of organ donors was relatively simple. Currently, by default no-one is an organ donor. It's something you have to choose to be, normally when you renew your driver's license.
The solution I would propose is to change the default to be that everyone is an organ donor. There would be a chance to opt-out of being an organ donor, similar to being given the choice when renewing one's driver's license. I know there are people who would object to being an organ donor (due to personal or religious beliefs), and that is why there is the "opt-out" part described above.
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Last time I checked, >90% of the market share is not "a very small market". The duty of the company is to make money, standards or not. Right now, DirectX is the de facto standard for graphics, OpenGL or not.
At least patents are limited to 20 years, so we'll see it about the time the technology of CDs and DVDs is obsolete...
That confirms it! WHen I first saw the Windows XP desktop, I thought to myself that it looked like a Mickey Mouse job!
OK, so this idea doesn't qualify. It was conceived 12 years BEFORE he started working for DSC. If you try to do the retroactive argument, the court will throw it out. After all, a NDA for Company A is worthless if you are hired by Company B and they retroactively claim ownership of the work you did while employed for Company A.