The defendant is an individual, a consumer. She is not a business. She sought no profit from her acts. The myriad of copyright cases cited by Plaintiffs and the Government, in which courts upheld large statutory damages awards far above the minimum, have limited relevance in this case. All of the cited cases involve corporate or business defendants and seek to deter future illegal commercial conduct. The parties point to no case in which large statutory damages were applied to a party who did not infringe in search of commercial gain.
The term "piracy" has been misused on individuals. An individual may be guilty of theft, like a shoplifter, but it's not piracy. Someone that takes an item without paying for it is very different than a rogue company selling unauthorized copies of another company's product. The RIAA treats individuals like profit-seeking organizations, and until now they've been successful. It's refreshing to see a judge recognize the distinction. I believe most critics of the RIAA would be a little more sympathetic to their position if they were pursuing misdemeanor charges for stealing $0.99 songs.
I'll reserve my judgment until I see this reported in a better source. This article is written so poorly I suspect the author has no idea what his misstatement implies. If FairPoint is planning to block major webmail sites, the Rutland Herald missed out on a huge story. They seem to be the only news source with this information.
Look at what other sites are reporting about this deal. "In Maine, regulators have alerted FairPoint that it will be scrutinized more closely than probably any other utility in the state's history." If true, the details will come to light quickly as this hits the major news outlets.
Cygnus Systems (not to be confused with the Cygwin guys) doesn't appear to produce any commercial software. They look like some kind of software/hardware reseller, providing some business application develop services at best. They applied for this patent in 2001, where's the product they were trying to protect? It's one thing to abuse the system to fight off competition, but registering vague patents with no intention of implementing them is patent trolling at its worst.
Sure, they can retool to make anything, but the Big Three's problem is not the product they manufacture. If they produced things more efficiently than other manufacturers, they could leverage their processes, work force, and facilities to compete. But they don't have a competitive advantage in those areas, in fact, those are their weaknesses. US automakers should learn to make cars better in a modern global market instead of applying their poor model in other sectors.
Yeah, if he's saying the other ingredients are benign but would be banned in an attempt to keep cooking oil out of Gaza, he probably subscribes to the water fuel and herbs newsletter.
If your intent is to criticize Palestine's leadership, please qualify "they" as such (and I wholeheartedly agree). If you're suggesting the citizens of Gaza are bloodthirsty maniacs that choose to kill Jews over security and food, you're completely off-base. Palestinians may be misguided and exploited by their government, but like all people, they want personal and economic security. It's not productive for either side of the Arab-Israeli conflict to label each other maniacs and devils.
He refused to reveal the exact substances used, fearing that they will not be allowed into the Gaza Strip.
I'm not sure if he's full of it, or if his process uses substances just as objectionable to border security as cooking gas. Let's face it, Israel will figure out what the secret ingredients are, so I'm not sure what this is going solve. Maybe he's just trying to protect his invention until it's in production.
Now you're just being ignorant. Revolution #9 was released on The White Album
Ok, now it's on;) Obviously we're both Beatles fans, and I think we're worse off because there aren't live performances available from their creative peak. I would love to hear how songs like Tomorrow Never Knows would have sounded stripped of the studio effects. Audiences in the late 60's would have been much different than the screaming throngs of teenage girls they played to pre-Revolver. Of course, they may not have been able to produce as many albums in that short period if they were touring. But being able to make a lot of money on record sales allowed them to spend so much time in the studio.
I believe the biggest problem with multi-core development is a lack of maturity in the tools and libraries available. Taking advantage of multiple cores requires a lot of thread management code, which is great for highly optimized applications but deters run-of-the-mill business and user app developers. There was a recent opinion piece in Dr Dobbs discussing the benefits a concurrency platforms I found interesting. The article is clearly promoting the author's company (Clik Arts), but I agree with his argument that the complexities of multi-core development need to be handled in a framework and not applications.
Personally, I think bonuses make sense for organizations and employees. For the organization, it's discretionary compensation that doesn't compound like an annual percentage raise, and provides incentive for a relatively low cost to salary ratio. For employees, a Christmas bonus is free money when money is tight and makes them feel like they're reaping the benefits of the company's success. Of course, employees will begin to feel like it's an entitlement over time, but amid layoffs and economic gloom I suspect most people understand cutbacks in bonuses.
"If you don't really know why they stopped touring, why not say so instead of speculating?"
No speculation, the band didn't tour and amassed fortunes on record sales. They had the luxury of not touring when screaming teenagers became annoying. A handful of songs may not have been possible live (Revolution #9 or something), but their music was performed live by their contemporaries in the late 1960's. They could have done it if they enjoyed playing in front of large crowds or needed the extra money.
You would be surprised how well heavily layered, complex music translates live. I saw Radiohead this summer and was amazed by their ability to perform songs that seemed impossible to replicate on stage. They didn't just lip-sync and strum along to pre-recorded tracks either, and overall, I enjoyed the live renditions more than the studio versions.
Other bands that produce heavily edited music, like Gnarls Barkley, the Roots, Beck, and Nine Inch Nails, have had success as live performers. I read how GirlTalk, a one-man "mash-up" artist, is performing alone with a laptop and selling a lot tickets.
I think the Beatles didn't tour after Revolver because they didn't have to, they were able to make a fortune on record sales. That may have been a short-lived era in popular music, but it shouldn't mean the end of creative music.
Even if you could go to ford, most web users will continue to enter the site name right into the browser's search box. It's not just a matter of laziness or the inability to type a URL. You have far less risk of inadvertently visiting a domain squatter's pop-up and porn riddled site, you see other sites that may be of interest (if you're buying a Ford, a Consumer Report review may be more useful than the corporate site), and most search engines recognize common spelling errors. Sure, people game page ranks and pay for placement, but it beats keying in URLs.
Every summer, the companies hired hundreds of college students to fan out across the countryside, hawking the latest series of travel, documentary, educational, comic, burlesque, or "sentimental" views.
Apparently things haven't changed much in the last 100 years.
That's funny, I was going to say the same thing until I realized that I honestly didn't know that. It turns out a league is 4 km (in the modern metric system at least). Even in Journey to the Center of the Earth they didn't go nearly that deep.
Agreed. And what's the purpose of that image? I'd say it was the most useless image I've seen on a Slashdot article, but that honor goes to the artificial Christmas tree on an article about a guy who made a pyramid looking thing out of old hard drives.
Slashdot is owned by SourceForge, Inc (formerly VA Linux), an Internet media company that owns several sites like Linux.com, Freshmeat, and Thinkgeek. It's a publicly traded company with a CEO, SEC filings, and NASDAQ ticker symbol. SourceForge doesn't seem like a heartless corporation to me, they've done a lot of great things for the open source community and have generally stuck to their values, but as a public company they need to satisfy their investors (as seen in a recent management change).
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Thankfully that article was printed in the tongue-in-cheek tabloid Weekly World News. Honestly though, comparing botnets to WMDs is just about as outrageous.
Really, Transact SQL, identity columns, and bit data types export to Oracle? I've always had to translate them to PL/SQL, sequences, and numbers.
Yay, I win.
I'm not defending MySQL's performance or stability, I just wanted to point out that with InnoDB it's ACID compliant. I use Oracle and postgreSQL for all of my "enterprise" applications, though mostly because PL/SQL ports to postgreSQL pretty well. We've been on 8.0 for a few years now and I'm very happy with it. The only use I have for Oracle now is the data warehouse (tied to Oracle Warehouse Builder) and Oracle applications (Financials, third party apps).
Thanks for the explanation, the Wikipedia link I posted was a little light on detail. I should have used a more informative link. Maybe I'll read the links I post in the future:)
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The term "piracy" has been misused on individuals. An individual may be guilty of theft, like a shoplifter, but it's not piracy. Someone that takes an item without paying for it is very different than a rogue company selling unauthorized copies of another company's product. The RIAA treats individuals like profit-seeking organizations, and until now they've been successful. It's refreshing to see a judge recognize the distinction. I believe most critics of the RIAA would be a little more sympathetic to their position if they were pursuing misdemeanor charges for stealing $0.99 songs.
I'll reserve my judgment until I see this reported in a better source. This article is written so poorly I suspect the author has no idea what his misstatement implies. If FairPoint is planning to block major webmail sites, the Rutland Herald missed out on a huge story. They seem to be the only news source with this information.
Look at what other sites are reporting about this deal. "In Maine, regulators have alerted FairPoint that it will be scrutinized more closely than probably any other utility in the state's history." If true, the details will come to light quickly as this hits the major news outlets.
Cygnus Systems (not to be confused with the Cygwin guys) doesn't appear to produce any commercial software. They look like some kind of software/hardware reseller, providing some business application develop services at best. They applied for this patent in 2001, where's the product they were trying to protect? It's one thing to abuse the system to fight off competition, but registering vague patents with no intention of implementing them is patent trolling at its worst.
Sure, they can retool to make anything, but the Big Three's problem is not the product they manufacture. If they produced things more efficiently than other manufacturers, they could leverage their processes, work force, and facilities to compete. But they don't have a competitive advantage in those areas, in fact, those are their weaknesses. US automakers should learn to make cars better in a modern global market instead of applying their poor model in other sectors.
Yeah, if he's saying the other ingredients are benign but would be banned in an attempt to keep cooking oil out of Gaza, he probably subscribes to the water fuel and herbs newsletter.
If your intent is to criticize Palestine's leadership, please qualify "they" as such (and I wholeheartedly agree). If you're suggesting the citizens of Gaza are bloodthirsty maniacs that choose to kill Jews over security and food, you're completely off-base. Palestinians may be misguided and exploited by their government, but like all people, they want personal and economic security. It's not productive for either side of the Arab-Israeli conflict to label each other maniacs and devils.
I'm not sure if he's full of it, or if his process uses substances just as objectionable to border security as cooking gas. Let's face it, Israel will figure out what the secret ingredients are, so I'm not sure what this is going solve. Maybe he's just trying to protect his invention until it's in production.
Ok, now it's on ;) Obviously we're both Beatles fans, and I think we're worse off because there aren't live performances available from their creative peak. I would love to hear how songs like Tomorrow Never Knows would have sounded stripped of the studio effects. Audiences in the late 60's would have been much different than the screaming throngs of teenage girls they played to pre-Revolver. Of course, they may not have been able to produce as many albums in that short period if they were touring. But being able to make a lot of money on record sales allowed them to spend so much time in the studio.
I believe the biggest problem with multi-core development is a lack of maturity in the tools and libraries available. Taking advantage of multiple cores requires a lot of thread management code, which is great for highly optimized applications but deters run-of-the-mill business and user app developers. There was a recent opinion piece in Dr Dobbs discussing the benefits a concurrency platforms I found interesting. The article is clearly promoting the author's company (Clik Arts), but I agree with his argument that the complexities of multi-core development need to be handled in a framework and not applications.
Personally, I think bonuses make sense for organizations and employees. For the organization, it's discretionary compensation that doesn't compound like an annual percentage raise, and provides incentive for a relatively low cost to salary ratio. For employees, a Christmas bonus is free money when money is tight and makes them feel like they're reaping the benefits of the company's success. Of course, employees will begin to feel like it's an entitlement over time, but amid layoffs and economic gloom I suspect most people understand cutbacks in bonuses.
"If you don't really know why they stopped touring, why not say so instead of speculating?"
No speculation, the band didn't tour and amassed fortunes on record sales. They had the luxury of not touring when screaming teenagers became annoying. A handful of songs may not have been possible live (Revolution #9 or something), but their music was performed live by their contemporaries in the late 1960's. They could have done it if they enjoyed playing in front of large crowds or needed the extra money.
You would be surprised how well heavily layered, complex music translates live. I saw Radiohead this summer and was amazed by their ability to perform songs that seemed impossible to replicate on stage. They didn't just lip-sync and strum along to pre-recorded tracks either, and overall, I enjoyed the live renditions more than the studio versions.
Other bands that produce heavily edited music, like Gnarls Barkley, the Roots, Beck, and Nine Inch Nails, have had success as live performers. I read how GirlTalk, a one-man "mash-up" artist, is performing alone with a laptop and selling a lot tickets.
I think the Beatles didn't tour after Revolver because they didn't have to, they were able to make a fortune on record sales. That may have been a short-lived era in popular music, but it shouldn't mean the end of creative music.
Even if you could go to ford, most web users will continue to enter the site name right into the browser's search box. It's not just a matter of laziness or the inability to type a URL. You have far less risk of inadvertently visiting a domain squatter's pop-up and porn riddled site, you see other sites that may be of interest (if you're buying a Ford, a Consumer Report review may be more useful than the corporate site), and most search engines recognize common spelling errors. Sure, people game page ranks and pay for placement, but it beats keying in URLs.
Apparently things haven't changed much in the last 100 years.
That's funny, I was going to say the same thing until I realized that I honestly didn't know that. It turns out a league is 4 km (in the modern metric system at least). Even in Journey to the Center of the Earth they didn't go nearly that deep.
Agreed. And what's the purpose of that image? I'd say it was the most useless image I've seen on a Slashdot article, but that honor goes to the artificial Christmas tree on an article about a guy who made a pyramid looking thing out of old hard drives.
Slashdot is owned by SourceForge, Inc (formerly VA Linux), an Internet media company that owns several sites like Linux.com, Freshmeat, and Thinkgeek. It's a publicly traded company with a CEO, SEC filings, and NASDAQ ticker symbol. SourceForge doesn't seem like a heartless corporation to me, they've done a lot of great things for the open source community and have generally stuck to their values, but as a public company they need to satisfy their investors (as seen in a recent management change).
Thankfully that article was printed in the tongue-in-cheek tabloid Weekly World News. Honestly though, comparing botnets to WMDs is just about as outrageous.
Really, Transact SQL, identity columns, and bit data types export to Oracle? I've always had to translate them to PL/SQL, sequences, and numbers. Yay, I win.
I'm not defending MySQL's performance or stability, I just wanted to point out that with InnoDB it's ACID compliant. I use Oracle and postgreSQL for all of my "enterprise" applications, though mostly because PL/SQL ports to postgreSQL pretty well. We've been on 8.0 for a few years now and I'm very happy with it. The only use I have for Oracle now is the data warehouse (tied to Oracle Warehouse Builder) and Oracle applications (Financials, third party apps).
If you consider InnoDB part of MySQL, then it has supported ACID compliant transactions for a while now.
Why yes, there is an iSQL, though it's a command-line client tool for MS SQL. But it does meet all of your criteria.
Touché :)
Thanks for the explanation, the Wikipedia link I posted was a little light on detail. I should have used a more informative link. Maybe I'll read the links I post in the future :)
Hey, you left off one Ian MacKaye's three tenets of the straight edge lifestyle! Or is the third one simply implied on slashdot :)