Ah, the French. They are always very 'proud' of their cyclists. So prideful that they actually will destroy somebody's career in order to have a 'frenchman' win or at the top.
As a Linux/Mac user I would say ANY software is horrible on Windows. The issue with Windows is that the programmer has to draw all the GUI theming stuff themselves (buttons, sliders, windows,...) and that can be done for good or for bad. On Mac OS X and Gnome/KDE - if you follow the guidelines - any theme will work with your program, the buttons will be concise.
Windows GUI programming is like a webpage where you have to write all the HTML/CSS yourself. Linux/Mac GUI programming is like a webpage based on Drupal where you get all the HTML/CSS predefined and you're pretty stupid if you roll your own.
Ya know in the olden days, when I was young (love saying that) we didn't have hardware that configured itself so it would work on all platforms. We had to put in settings with jumpers and do low-level disk formats through the BIOS or a boot-floppy and WE LIKED IT (seriously).
These days all ya new-fangled hardware doesn't have to worry about being a master or a slave, getting 5V or 3.3V to the PCI bus or RAM modules, CPU multipliers on the motherboard.
I would simply do the same - get a jumper on the back of the drive that says 512 or 4k - we left it on 512 for ya because we assume you numbnuts still use Windows (XP) but if you want performance and use anything but DOS or WinDOS feel free to switch it. You can then reformat the drive.
Well, I have one of those cheap UPS'es and although my Mac and router keeps running on power failure, sometimes the cable modem and DVR (rentals from cable company) crap out and either reboots or needs to be reset. YMMV depending on what elco the power supplies have built-in (if any) but I wouldn't recommend it for any 'critical' usage.
20ms (about a full cycle on 50/60Hz nets) is plenty to mess up a bunch of electronics. Especially cheap power supplies don't sustain those brown-outs well.
It's called outsourcing, contractors and management.
I work at a University that has recently outsourced their student e-mail to GMail. The University IT group has really bad management. There is a CIO, 3 Vice Presidents and 5 directors for an IT group roughly 300 people with 70% of them being contractors. Each group within the IT group (Exchange, Unix, NT, Mail, Helpdesk, Networking...) has their own 1 or 2 managers.
Of course when it's time to look for a solution, the contractors love to propose their 'appliances' and 'do-it-all software' with 'vendors' and 'partners' because their contracting companies are being sponsored by those companies. That's why we have Exchange with Quest Extensions ($25000/server for a piece of software that only SHOWS the flow of e-mail on a pretty screen), NetApp storage at $5/GB/year, PeopleSoft, Microsoft SMS/WSUS with Quest Extensions (so you can attempt to use WSUS on a Mac bound to Active Directory and Novell Linux bound to Active Directory - Solaris and Debian what's that), some random companies DHCP server appliances - $2500 for a piece of hardware that only does DHCP based on the open source dhcpd, a paid version of SysLog (the actual open source syslog-ng software) with licensing based on logs per hour.
Management thinks that this is normal and the way to do business. Of course their overhead is so large that hardly anybody uses their services as it is cheaper to get your own sysadmin and invest in hardware. So University IT supports about 20 of the smallest departments - those that are too small to pay for a single sysadmin, they need about 200 people to do that job (the other 100 are in networking, server admins and telephone)
If you plan on submitting something anonymous, you should know what you're doing. Even if you go low-tech, there are things like handwriting analysis, printers that either intentionally or unintentionally code a unique signature in images, private investigators, cell phone tower data and satellites that could track you down. It's also up to the one publishing the information to make sure all data that could potentially identify their source has been stripped.
You say: You explicitly note that actual damages would be higher, but suggest that they be the subject of further proof. Statutory damages under 17 USC 504 do not require proof of actual damages. Rather, the plaintiff merely has to show infringement and opt for statutory damages, and the defendant may show proof of actual damages to mitigate the statutory damages. Neither Tenenbaum nor Thomas ever showed proof of actual damages.
17 USC 504 says an award of statutory damages for all infringements involved in the action, with respect to any one work, for which any one infringer is liable individually, or for which any two or more infringers are liable jointly and severally, in a sum of not less than $750 or more than $30,000 as the court considers just.
$30000 * 24 = $720,000 is the maximum punishment. And that would be 'just' if the infringer willfully and profitably distributed those works. And it's not like she distributed the master or gold records, only a derived, low-quality version of the songs without covers etc. It's not like the songs have a large retail value either. Paintings, books, photos and other works have much higher values, are much more unique and are also protected under copyright law (which is where such high damages would be more 'just').
But lawyering aside, this case has the same merits as losing a CD you just bought on the street. Somebody else picks it up so you are now liable for 'distributing' a copyrighted work.
I thought MediaSentry evidence had become inadmissible but that's a job for those lawyers and a well-educated judge to see that a screenshot of a random IP address list is not really considered evidence.
Michael Jackson purchased the distribution rights. He did not buy 200 Beatles songs for $47 million. Thomas did not attempt to sell or distribute distribution rights. The media itself is not viable for mass-distribution with the eye on profitability in any sense of the word.
every person who advocates, teaches, advises or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States
Emphasis added. Who has to register:
- Anyone who runs for President or another political office. - Anyone who votes - Anyone who has a religion/spirituality based in Millenarianism/Revelationism (according to Wikipedia):
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University
Branch Davidians
Dulcinianism
Earth changes
Fifth Monarchy Men
The Heaven's Gate cult
Hojjatieh
The Native American Ghost Dance
Jehovah's Witnesses
Joachimites
Judaism
The Living Church of God
Lord Our Righteousness Church
The Lord's Resistance Army
Millerism
Nostradamus
Plymouth Brethren
Rastafari movement
Shakers
Taiping Rebellion
The Turner Diaries
Yellow Turbans
2012 Doomsday Prediction
No, I don't see nothing wrong with this new law. It's very constitutional.
a) It's not a criminal trial but a civil matter. In that case, these cases can keep being tried until all parties run out of money or interest in the case. Even if one party is out of money, the other party can keep it going until THEY run out of money. There is only one decision that can stop re-trials and that brings us to b.
b) The judges have so far ruled that the cases be dismissed WITHOUT PREJUDICE. That means, as long as the courts keep ruling this, the cases can be brought on again. This is off course profitable for the judge as they keep having jobs paid for by taxpayers. This is also good for the wealthier parties as they can just keep going until the other side runs out of money which brings us to c
c) The judges have not ruled against the cases to be unconstitutional. Judges are really afraid of ruling on constitutional matters it seems as their interpretation will be used as a precedent for all sorts of cases in the future in those courts and lower courts. The only court that can actually rule something to be definitively constitutional is the Supreme Court but since they are so 'overworked' to bring cases to that level is expensive and is usually reserved for more important cases like those that involve the first amendment etc.
Not really, the only reason the US wasted billions of dollars is because of bureaucracy (later years) and initial research (earlier years). If the PRC doesn't have to do the research, that takes a big chunk away and then if the bureaucracy is replaced with a set of people that hardly get paid for the work, you save another few billions.
Since the iPad runs the same OS that iPhone and iPod Touch uses, the correct answers are:
Can you save and transfer documents to the iPad?
As demonstrated during the keynote - yes.
Does the iPad support Microsoft Exchange email?
It's already in the iPhone OS
Does the iPad support VPN and configuration management?
It's already in the iPhone OS
Can you use media services other than iTunes on the iPad?
Write an app for it and you can. There are already a bunch of apps that do (iHeartRadio, Pandora,...)
Can the iPad be used for videoconferencing?
There seems to be no camera in this revision (probably the next will) but as the keynote said, there will be an upgrade kit for camera's.
Will the iPad's internal storage be upgradable?
There's different storage versions for a reason. Need more space? Buy the larger version (again, in case you have bought the smaller one).
Will the iPad allow multiple apps to run simultaneously?
No - again, it runs the iPhone OS on somewhat more powerful hardware but multiple apps running simultaneously would adversely impact the performance. I don't see the need for it - the framework and SDK give good examples on how to save state and hooks to use when your apps quit, there is also a server-side push notification system you can use for free.
Will Apple allow the use of Flash on the iPad?
As Steve Jobs said after the keynote, Adobe doesn't have a reason to be on the iPad except to suck out it's batteries and build yet another buggy client that is widely exploitable. Use HTML5 instead.
I thought that Hubble was totally cancelled - there won't be any more repairs or enhancements made. So the parent is correct that 'due to budget crunches' the only place a shuttle would go is the ISS and the only reason the ISS is there is to dock a shuttle.
Not necessarily. Somebody can take a picture of the Eiffel Tower or another piece of 'art' (the French would disagree on my definition of art though) and sell that picture for profit and/or have copyright on that picture. However if you paint another wall the same as the graffiti-artist did on the original wall or you make it look like or claim that your picture is the original art then you could run into copyright issues.
Fox is 100% bull (opinion pieces by neo-fascist extremists) and 0% news, and it's also billed news. Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report give better news in an hour than CNN does in a day.
Not necessarily. You can change your rental apartment (given you stick to local building codes) any way you want it. However when you return it, it has to be in the same state it was than when it was leased to you. A contract may restrict you further (especially if you're in an apartment complex) and usually does.
I don't know what you mean with a 'gaming phone' but the iPhone does a pretty good job playing games. It has OpenGL 2.0 and a fast enough processor to play a bunch of games incl. high-end like Spore, Need for Speed etc.
What you should ask is: why has nobody made a great game for a phone and the answer is obvious: the devices are too small (you don't want to walk around with an iPad-sized phone), they don't support any type of controller (see yourself walking around with an Xbox controller or keyboard/mouse?) and even if they did, it would be useless anywhere but at home where you're much better off with a continuously connected computer/console.
There are some great gaming devices out there like the Nintendo DS or PSP but they're way too big and heavy to be considered a viable phone. They're in the category of portable game - when you're on a trip in the car/bus/train or laying in a bed/couch, not portable as in put it in your pocket and nobody notices.
What we're waiting for is a screen that is able to fold/roll out to a viable size (12") or project in thin air like those old 3D laser movie shows.
You're being sarcastic right? No? In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Unless you find a place to drive your car with no losses at all (no heat loss, no rolling resistance, no wind resistance) you are not going to get a perpetual motion car.
That's why I buy such stuff with VISA/MasterCard. Ah, you don't want to return my money - hope you like the chargeback fees. Usually my credit card issuer doesn't give me any beef about it.
Where "Additional Content" will quickly turn into spam, ads for viagra and other stuff we never wanted as GP mentions. Eventually some company will figure out how to push pop-ups through and before you know it you'll be having to 'complete this offer' to play the music you bought.
Sure it's a good idea, but why not embed it like iTunes LP instead of having it linked to an online ad server?
Because lawyering is not like a professional job. It would be similar to you being a contractor saying, I'll do the kitchen for $10,000. Then as you are working, another contractor working on the bathroom keeps bothering you with long rants, letters and introducing other customers (witnesses). They also keep taking away your hardware to use on their own project and object to the customer that you're using certain tools. Even when you're finished (for good or for bad) either the customer or the other contractor can take you to other jobs at other locations (appealing) all for the same price?
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He's a politician. What do you expect - he's probably both?
Ah, the French. They are always very 'proud' of their cyclists. So prideful that they actually will destroy somebody's career in order to have a 'frenchman' win or at the top.
As a Linux/Mac user I would say ANY software is horrible on Windows. The issue with Windows is that the programmer has to draw all the GUI theming stuff themselves (buttons, sliders, windows, ...) and that can be done for good or for bad. On Mac OS X and Gnome/KDE - if you follow the guidelines - any theme will work with your program, the buttons will be concise.
Windows GUI programming is like a webpage where you have to write all the HTML/CSS yourself.
Linux/Mac GUI programming is like a webpage based on Drupal where you get all the HTML/CSS predefined and you're pretty stupid if you roll your own.
Ya know in the olden days, when I was young (love saying that) we didn't have hardware that configured itself so it would work on all platforms. We had to put in settings with jumpers and do low-level disk formats through the BIOS or a boot-floppy and WE LIKED IT (seriously).
These days all ya new-fangled hardware doesn't have to worry about being a master or a slave, getting 5V or 3.3V to the PCI bus or RAM modules, CPU multipliers on the motherboard.
I would simply do the same - get a jumper on the back of the drive that says 512 or 4k - we left it on 512 for ya because we assume you numbnuts still use Windows (XP) but if you want performance and use anything but DOS or WinDOS feel free to switch it. You can then reformat the drive.
Well, I have one of those cheap UPS'es and although my Mac and router keeps running on power failure, sometimes the cable modem and DVR (rentals from cable company) crap out and either reboots or needs to be reset. YMMV depending on what elco the power supplies have built-in (if any) but I wouldn't recommend it for any 'critical' usage.
20ms (about a full cycle on 50/60Hz nets) is plenty to mess up a bunch of electronics. Especially cheap power supplies don't sustain those brown-outs well.
It's called outsourcing, contractors and management.
I work at a University that has recently outsourced their student e-mail to GMail. The University IT group has really bad management. There is a CIO, 3 Vice Presidents and 5 directors for an IT group roughly 300 people with 70% of them being contractors. Each group within the IT group (Exchange, Unix, NT, Mail, Helpdesk, Networking...) has their own 1 or 2 managers.
Of course when it's time to look for a solution, the contractors love to propose their 'appliances' and 'do-it-all software' with 'vendors' and 'partners' because their contracting companies are being sponsored by those companies. That's why we have Exchange with Quest Extensions ($25000/server for a piece of software that only SHOWS the flow of e-mail on a pretty screen), NetApp storage at $5/GB/year, PeopleSoft, Microsoft SMS/WSUS with Quest Extensions (so you can attempt to use WSUS on a Mac bound to Active Directory and Novell Linux bound to Active Directory - Solaris and Debian what's that), some random companies DHCP server appliances - $2500 for a piece of hardware that only does DHCP based on the open source dhcpd, a paid version of SysLog (the actual open source syslog-ng software) with licensing based on logs per hour.
Management thinks that this is normal and the way to do business. Of course their overhead is so large that hardly anybody uses their services as it is cheaper to get your own sysadmin and invest in hardware. So University IT supports about 20 of the smallest departments - those that are too small to pay for a single sysadmin, they need about 200 people to do that job (the other 100 are in networking, server admins and telephone)
If you plan on submitting something anonymous, you should know what you're doing. Even if you go low-tech, there are things like handwriting analysis, printers that either intentionally or unintentionally code a unique signature in images, private investigators, cell phone tower data and satellites that could track you down. It's also up to the one publishing the information to make sure all data that could potentially identify their source has been stripped.
You say: You explicitly note that actual damages would be higher, but suggest that they be the subject of further proof. Statutory damages under 17 USC 504 do not require proof of actual damages. Rather, the plaintiff merely has to show infringement and opt for statutory damages, and the defendant may show proof of actual damages to mitigate the statutory damages. Neither Tenenbaum nor Thomas ever showed proof of actual damages.
17 USC 504 says an award of statutory damages for all infringements involved in the action, with respect to any one work, for which any one infringer is liable individually, or for which any two or more infringers are liable jointly and severally, in a sum of not less than $750 or more than $30,000 as the court considers just.
$30000 * 24 = $720,000 is the maximum punishment. And that would be 'just' if the infringer willfully and profitably distributed those works. And it's not like she distributed the master or gold records, only a derived, low-quality version of the songs without covers etc. It's not like the songs have a large retail value either. Paintings, books, photos and other works have much higher values, are much more unique and are also protected under copyright law (which is where such high damages would be more 'just').
But lawyering aside, this case has the same merits as losing a CD you just bought on the street. Somebody else picks it up so you are now liable for 'distributing' a copyrighted work.
I thought MediaSentry evidence had become inadmissible but that's a job for those lawyers and a well-educated judge to see that a screenshot of a random IP address list is not really considered evidence.
Michael Jackson purchased the distribution rights. He did not buy 200 Beatles songs for $47 million. Thomas did not attempt to sell or distribute distribution rights. The media itself is not viable for mass-distribution with the eye on profitability in any sense of the word.
every person who advocates, teaches, advises or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States
Emphasis added. Who has to register:
- Anyone who runs for President or another political office.
- Anyone who votes
- Anyone who has a religion/spirituality based in Millenarianism/Revelationism (according to Wikipedia):
Branch Davidians
Dulcinianism
Earth changes
Fifth Monarchy Men
The Heaven's Gate cult
Hojjatieh
The Native American Ghost Dance
Jehovah's Witnesses
Joachimites
Judaism
The Living Church of God
Lord Our Righteousness Church
The Lord's Resistance Army
Millerism
Nostradamus
Plymouth Brethren
Rastafari movement
Shakers
Taiping Rebellion
The Turner Diaries
Yellow Turbans
2012 Doomsday Prediction
No, I don't see nothing wrong with this new law. It's very constitutional.
a) It's not a criminal trial but a civil matter. In that case, these cases can keep being tried until all parties run out of money or interest in the case. Even if one party is out of money, the other party can keep it going until THEY run out of money. There is only one decision that can stop re-trials and that brings us to b.
b) The judges have so far ruled that the cases be dismissed WITHOUT PREJUDICE. That means, as long as the courts keep ruling this, the cases can be brought on again. This is off course profitable for the judge as they keep having jobs paid for by taxpayers. This is also good for the wealthier parties as they can just keep going until the other side runs out of money which brings us to c
c) The judges have not ruled against the cases to be unconstitutional. Judges are really afraid of ruling on constitutional matters it seems as their interpretation will be used as a precedent for all sorts of cases in the future in those courts and lower courts. The only court that can actually rule something to be definitively constitutional is the Supreme Court but since they are so 'overworked' to bring cases to that level is expensive and is usually reserved for more important cases like those that involve the first amendment etc.
Not really, the only reason the US wasted billions of dollars is because of bureaucracy (later years) and initial research (earlier years). If the PRC doesn't have to do the research, that takes a big chunk away and then if the bureaucracy is replaced with a set of people that hardly get paid for the work, you save another few billions.
Since the iPad runs the same OS that iPhone and iPod Touch uses, the correct answers are:
Can you save and transfer documents to the iPad?
As demonstrated during the keynote - yes.
Does the iPad support Microsoft Exchange email?
It's already in the iPhone OS
Does the iPad support VPN and configuration management?
It's already in the iPhone OS
Can you use media services other than iTunes on the iPad?
Write an app for it and you can. There are already a bunch of apps that do (iHeartRadio, Pandora, ...)
Can the iPad be used for videoconferencing?
There seems to be no camera in this revision (probably the next will) but as the keynote said, there will be an upgrade kit for camera's.
Will the iPad's internal storage be upgradable?
There's different storage versions for a reason. Need more space? Buy the larger version (again, in case you have bought the smaller one).
Will the iPad allow multiple apps to run simultaneously?
No - again, it runs the iPhone OS on somewhat more powerful hardware but multiple apps running simultaneously would adversely impact the performance. I don't see the need for it - the framework and SDK give good examples on how to save state and hooks to use when your apps quit, there is also a server-side push notification system you can use for free.
Will Apple allow the use of Flash on the iPad?
As Steve Jobs said after the keynote, Adobe doesn't have a reason to be on the iPad except to suck out it's batteries and build yet another buggy client that is widely exploitable. Use HTML5 instead.
Don't worry, almost all classic DeLorean's have rotted away and we're still waiting on non-Newtonian Physicists to invent a Flux Capacitor.
I thought that Hubble was totally cancelled - there won't be any more repairs or enhancements made. So the parent is correct that 'due to budget crunches' the only place a shuttle would go is the ISS and the only reason the ISS is there is to dock a shuttle.
Not necessarily. Somebody can take a picture of the Eiffel Tower or another piece of 'art' (the French would disagree on my definition of art though) and sell that picture for profit and/or have copyright on that picture. However if you paint another wall the same as the graffiti-artist did on the original wall or you make it look like or claim that your picture is the original art then you could run into copyright issues.
Legacy code from the MSN network somewhere late 90's.
On another note - I was on the MSN network before that and I have 120+ friends in XBox Live now.
Fox is 100% bull (opinion pieces by neo-fascist extremists) and 0% news, and it's also billed news. Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report give better news in an hour than CNN does in a day.
Not necessarily. You can change your rental apartment (given you stick to local building codes) any way you want it. However when you return it, it has to be in the same state it was than when it was leased to you. A contract may restrict you further (especially if you're in an apartment complex) and usually does.
I don't know what you mean with a 'gaming phone' but the iPhone does a pretty good job playing games. It has OpenGL 2.0 and a fast enough processor to play a bunch of games incl. high-end like Spore, Need for Speed etc.
What you should ask is: why has nobody made a great game for a phone and the answer is obvious: the devices are too small (you don't want to walk around with an iPad-sized phone), they don't support any type of controller (see yourself walking around with an Xbox controller or keyboard/mouse?) and even if they did, it would be useless anywhere but at home where you're much better off with a continuously connected computer/console.
There are some great gaming devices out there like the Nintendo DS or PSP but they're way too big and heavy to be considered a viable phone. They're in the category of portable game - when you're on a trip in the car/bus/train or laying in a bed/couch, not portable as in put it in your pocket and nobody notices.
What we're waiting for is a screen that is able to fold/roll out to a viable size (12") or project in thin air like those old 3D laser movie shows.
You're being sarcastic right? No? In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Unless you find a place to drive your car with no losses at all (no heat loss, no rolling resistance, no wind resistance) you are not going to get a perpetual motion car.
I believe it's trying to use your EFI firmware 'partition' as an install base.
1. Run "regedit"
2. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup]
3. New - String value
4. Name it "BootDir" and set its value to "C:\"
-- funny that Windows needs a (manual) setting to know where it itself is installed.
That's why I buy such stuff with VISA/MasterCard. Ah, you don't want to return my money - hope you like the chargeback fees. Usually my credit card issuer doesn't give me any beef about it.
Where "Additional Content" will quickly turn into spam, ads for viagra and other stuff we never wanted as GP mentions. Eventually some company will figure out how to push pop-ups through and before you know it you'll be having to 'complete this offer' to play the music you bought.
Sure it's a good idea, but why not embed it like iTunes LP instead of having it linked to an online ad server?
Because lawyering is not like a professional job. It would be similar to you being a contractor saying, I'll do the kitchen for $10,000. Then as you are working, another contractor working on the bathroom keeps bothering you with long rants, letters and introducing other customers (witnesses). They also keep taking away your hardware to use on their own project and object to the customer that you're using certain tools. Even when you're finished (for good or for bad) either the customer or the other contractor can take you to other jobs at other locations (appealing) all for the same price?