Successful actors have a lot more time and opportunity to study a topic if they so wish. I'm not saying that either of those to have done so, but compared to the rest of us working plebeians they certainly have more opportunity. For example, I'd listen to what Angelina Jolie has to say about Cambodia - she's spent considerable amount of time there working with local aid groups and the government and even has Cambodian citizenship. Simply being a doctor and being in outer space really doesn't lend this guy all that much credibility. He doesn't claim to have seen these aliens, and being a doctor and astronaut working for nasa is more than a full time job.
This happens mostly in 'small fry' operations, not so much @ higher levels (take AMD's new CEO: The man's @ least got some hands-on & degrees in this field, & hopefully does a LOT better job than "Mr. Ruinz" did @ AMD,
Right, because Otellini is a master IC designer!
The only amount of technical knowledge a good manager needs is the ability to pay attention and understand when the smart people who report to him tell him what's important in their fields of expertise. The industry is rife with examples of the peter principle, and moving engineers into management jobs is the #1 cause.
What do you expect from a nation founded by thieves and other criminals? Hell, you guys made region-locked DVD players against the law, clearly your entire justice system is in league with teh pirates.
i apologize for offending you with my need for plausability
And I apologize to you for giving you the benefit of the doubt. Your love of authority has been well established in prior posts, I should have known better.
Without kiddie porn a whole new "evil that must be stopped at all costs" would need to be invented.
Don't worry, they are already preparing one - eating disorders. Everybody wants to stop the forums where people talk about bulemia because it makes girls kill themselves and of course being obese is huge drag on socialized medical services. So, jail the fat people and save the skinny ones.
then there is sitting in a holding cell, still protecting your turf... from the guys you are supposed to be protecting it for
the guy is over the deep end, he is criminally culpable for denying access to the people he built the network for
What if he is right? What if all the other network admins are incompetent buffoons? He's in jail, they aren't. Everything is operating just fine as is. So he hands over the keys to the kingdom and the buffoons buffalax it up like he knows they will. Where do you think blame is going to be placed for that? The guy in jail who must have booby-trapped the network, or the team-players who did the best they could to avert certain disaster caused by this domestic computer terrorist?
Because I read the trades before, during and after initial release of banias and watched as Intel dropped out of the gigahertz race, completely re-writing their nda'd but widely leaked cpu roadmap to focus on yonah.
I'd hesitate to call that luck, let alone "really, really, really lucky". It sounds like terrific teamwork by engineering, production and management.
No, it was luck. That entire line of development was more of a skunkworks operation rather than the Official Direction. It was only when AMD's threat became reality and they started shipping products which Intel's Official Direction could not compete with that Intel scrambled around and found this little bit of great engineering that it had previously overlooked before. If the guys in israel hadn't been autonomous enough to be able to do their own thing for laptops, Intel would have had no where to start from in catching up with AMD.
Tell that to your kindapped and then murdered children when you are sitting their with your wife and crying over their grave, good job. Step off the zealot box and accept that reality isn't what we want it to be - it is what it is
This is at least the third time you've mentioned your fear of having your children kidnapped. In one post, you even mentioned how you have indoctrinated your kids with that fear by making them watch the news. Seems to me that given just how incredibly rare stranger kidnapping is in this country - only ~100 cases per year nationwide (and of that only ~50 end in death) - you are the one on the zealot box with your own private version of reality.
it is other people whom I know, first hand, will take a thread (such as this) and respond without actually understanding and that can cause harm that she doesn't need as well as far worse things.
WTF? Did you really just accuse people who criticize you on slashdot of being child molesters? Your risk assessments are way, way out of whack.
Who here would expect Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft to NOT do anything if a competitor suddenly started to sell compatible systems or even just emulators for their own systems?
This is not a relativistic complaint - sure, they would probably all do it, and they would all be just as wrong deserving of scorn.
Also, don't be two-faced about this: you don't like it when companies don't follow GPL and other similar licenses, but when it's Apple or Microsoft, why wouldn't they be allowed to do the same?
You must not be gnu here. GNU and most other free software licenses turn the intent of copyright around - the intent of copyright is to restrict freedoms of the end user. The GPL is hack of copyright to make it do exactly the reverse - increase the freedom of the end user. There is no contradiction between supporting more freedom for the end user and bitching that apple is trying to restrict the freedoms of end users.
Remember that Apple sells systems, not computers. This may be an alien concept to kids today, but at the beginning, all companies were selling computer+OS systems and they were all proprietary (Apple II, Mac, Atari ST, Amiga, CoCo2+OS9, C64+GeOS, etc).
Your definition of 'at the beginning' is woefully short-sighted.
Looks like Japan is making it much more affordable. Might even be possible to live on a small island in the boonies of SE asia and still get verizon fios level speeds. Excellent way to outsource.
Title IX (roughly) requires equal spending on resources for men as for women. So if you don't have as much women as men, spend the extra money per woman on them directly. Buy them clothes, perfume, jewlery, shoes, er... But seriously, make more scholarships available to women. I guarantee you that a free-ride for a BSc versus having to pay all the way for a BA in psychology will pick up enough women to make a difference, give it a few matriculation-graduation cycles and the headcounts will start to equalize until there is no extra money per woman to hand out as scholarships. Its not like anyone is thinking this needs to go into effect full-force overnight.
Except it is wrong. The text of the law in question says:
it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided: (1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner
There is nothing in there about being subject to a terms of service or any other way for the software vendor to demote the right of the owner of a copy to load it into RAM. If you own a copy you can load it into ram in order to use it - no take backs, no deauthorizations.
Seems kind of funny that the article reports the DA is "tightlipped" about his motive. Makes me wonder if he is 'disgruntled' for a reason that would embarrass the agency if it got out.
Also pretty funny that they go into great detail about his salary, which seems kind of low to me for the area or at least average. Sounds like they are trying to make him seem unsympathetic in the public eye.
So instead we pander to your assertion that OpenGL would be teh mores awsum! if Microsoft hadn't 'forced' DirectX onto the market?
No, that is YOUR assertion. My assertion is simply that MS has the power to force it on video card makers to do just about whatever they want, regardless of quality or duplication of effort.
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Successful actors have a lot more time and opportunity to study a topic if they so wish. I'm not saying that either of those to have done so, but compared to the rest of us working plebeians they certainly have more opportunity. For example, I'd listen to what Angelina Jolie has to say about Cambodia - she's spent considerable amount of time there working with local aid groups and the government and even has Cambodian citizenship. Simply being a doctor and being in outer space really doesn't lend this guy all that much credibility. He doesn't claim to have seen these aliens, and being a doctor and astronaut working for nasa is more than a full time job.
Who pays $20 for a CD? Hell $11 is over-priced for a CD to begin with, much less a lossy mp3 copy with no physical backup.
The reason it was known as the Library GPL
It's not. The LGPL is the Lesser GPL because its requirements on distributors are less than that of the full GPL.
This happens mostly in 'small fry' operations, not so much @ higher levels (take AMD's new CEO: The man's @ least got some hands-on & degrees in this field, & hopefully does a LOT better job than "Mr. Ruinz" did @ AMD,
Right, because Otellini is a master IC designer!
The only amount of technical knowledge a good manager needs is the ability to pay attention and understand when the smart people who report to him tell him what's important in their fields of expertise. The industry is rife with examples of the peter principle, and moving engineers into management jobs is the #1 cause.
I hope that the Chineese government has enough Egg Foo Young on their face to cause them to loose face to the whole world.
Unlikely, as egg foo young is an american dish.
The idea that the FBI is part of some conspiracy to get slave labor is absurd.
That does not mean they aren't just a bunch of "useful idiots" though.
Everything, I suppose, but your nic.
Since presumably he is not a member of the government, "radical transparency" does not apply to his identity.
In Australia...
What do you expect from a nation founded by thieves and other criminals?
Hell, you guys made region-locked DVD players against the law, clearly your entire justice system is in league with teh pirates.
Well damn! The let-downs just keep coming...
i apologize for offending you with my need for plausability
And I apologize to you for giving you the benefit of the doubt.
Your love of authority has been well established in prior posts, I should have known better.
are you lampooning how a paranoid schizophrenic thinks or are you actually also a paranoid schizophrenic?
What part of "what if he's right" do you fail to understand? Are you so binary that you are unable to comprehend a third option?
Without kiddie porn a whole new "evil that must be stopped at all costs" would need to be invented.
Don't worry, they are already preparing one - eating disorders. Everybody wants to stop the forums where people talk about bulemia because it makes girls kill themselves and of course being obese is huge drag on socialized medical services. So, jail the fat people and save the skinny ones.
then there is sitting in a holding cell, still protecting your turf... from the guys you are supposed to be protecting it for
the guy is over the deep end, he is criminally culpable for denying access to the people he built the network for
What if he is right? What if all the other network admins are incompetent buffoons? He's in jail, they aren't. Everything is operating just fine as is. So he hands over the keys to the kingdom and the buffoons buffalax it up like he knows they will. Where do you think blame is going to be placed for that? The guy in jail who must have booby-trapped the network, or the team-players who did the best they could to avert certain disaster caused by this domestic computer terrorist?
And you know this.... how?
Because I read the trades before, during and after initial release of banias and watched as Intel dropped out of the gigahertz race, completely re-writing their nda'd but widely leaked cpu roadmap to focus on yonah.
I'd hesitate to call that luck, let alone "really, really, really lucky". It sounds like terrific teamwork by engineering, production and management.
No, it was luck. That entire line of development was more of a skunkworks operation rather than the Official Direction. It was only when AMD's threat became reality and they started shipping products which Intel's Official Direction could not compete with that Intel scrambled around and found this little bit of great engineering that it had previously overlooked before. If the guys in israel hadn't been autonomous enough to be able to do their own thing for laptops, Intel would have had no where to start from in catching up with AMD.
Tell that to your kindapped and then murdered children when you are sitting their with your wife and crying over their grave, good job. Step off the zealot box and accept that reality isn't what we want it to be - it is what it is
This is at least the third time you've mentioned your fear of having your children kidnapped. In one post, you even mentioned how you have indoctrinated your kids with that fear by making them watch the news. Seems to me that given just how incredibly rare stranger kidnapping is in this country - only ~100 cases per year nationwide (and of that only ~50 end in death) - you are the one on the zealot box with your own private version of reality.
it is other people whom I know, first hand, will take a thread (such as this) and respond without actually understanding and that can cause harm that she doesn't need as well as far worse things.
WTF? Did you really just accuse people who criticize you on slashdot of being child molesters?
Your risk assessments are way, way out of whack.
I thought this was going to be the first fuel-cell based laptop.
Especially after reading how a fuel-cell the size of a regular battery can operate a cell phone for 2,700 hours of talk-time.
Who here would expect Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft to NOT do anything if a competitor suddenly started to sell compatible systems or even just emulators for their own systems?
This is not a relativistic complaint - sure, they would probably all do it, and they would all be just as wrong deserving of scorn.
Also, don't be two-faced about this: you don't like it when companies don't follow GPL and other similar licenses, but when it's Apple or Microsoft, why wouldn't they be allowed to do the same?
You must not be gnu here. GNU and most other free software licenses turn the intent of copyright around - the intent of copyright is to restrict freedoms of the end user. The GPL is hack of copyright to make it do exactly the reverse - increase the freedom of the end user. There is no contradiction between supporting more freedom for the end user and bitching that apple is trying to restrict the freedoms of end users.
Remember that Apple sells systems, not computers. This may be an alien concept to kids today, but at the beginning, all companies were selling computer+OS systems and they were all proprietary (Apple II, Mac, Atari ST, Amiga, CoCo2+OS9, C64+GeOS, etc).
Your definition of 'at the beginning' is woefully short-sighted.
Looks like Japan is making it much more affordable. Might even be possible to live on a small island in the boonies of SE asia and still get verizon fios level speeds. Excellent way to outsource.
Except that the court(s) found that the USER is not the OWNER of the software. They are licensees.
They ARE an "owner of a COPY" which is what the law specifically says.
Title IX (roughly) requires equal spending on resources for men as for women.
So if you don't have as much women as men, spend the extra money per woman on them directly. Buy them clothes, perfume, jewlery, shoes, er... But seriously, make more scholarships available to women. I guarantee you that a free-ride for a BSc versus having to pay all the way for a BA in psychology will pick up enough women to make a difference, give it a few matriculation-graduation cycles and the headcounts will start to equalize until there is no extra money per woman to hand out as scholarships.
Its not like anyone is thinking this needs to go into effect full-force overnight.
Except it is wrong. The text of the law in question says:
it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner
There is nothing in there about being subject to a terms of service or any other way for the software vendor to demote the right of the owner of a copy to load it into RAM. If you own a copy you can load it into ram in order to use it - no take backs, no deauthorizations.
Seems kind of funny that the article reports the DA is "tightlipped" about his motive. Makes me wonder if he is 'disgruntled' for a reason that would embarrass the agency if it got out.
Also pretty funny that they go into great detail about his salary, which seems kind of low to me for the area or at least average. Sounds like they are trying to make him seem unsympathetic in the public eye.
So instead we pander to your assertion that OpenGL would be teh mores awsum! if Microsoft hadn't 'forced' DirectX onto the market?
No, that is YOUR assertion. My assertion is simply that MS has the power to force it on video card makers to do just about whatever they want, regardless of quality or duplication of effort.